Maggie Lindemann

Maggie Lindemann had a pop hit with Pretty Girl and then turned to pop punk, which is a harder move than it sounds: the second audience is suspicious of anybody who arrived through the first.

She was born in Dallas on 21 July 1998 with four planets grouped in Cancer: the Sun, the Moon, Venus and Mars, with the Sun on the final degree of the sign. Cancer builds identity around belonging and defends it faster than the threat warrants. Having both lights plus taste and drive inside it makes a chart almost entirely about protection, and five of her ten planets are in water with a single one in earth.

The chart is unusually locked. There are two yods, both holding Saturn and Pluto, and a T-square across the Sun, Saturn and Neptune. Saturn and Pluto at the base of both yods means restriction and concentrated force generate the same unresolvable tension twice. Her Moon sits eight minutes of arc from an awkward angle to Pluto, the nearest thing to exact in her chart: emotional life pressed directly on by the heaviest planet available, with no comfortable outlet anywhere in the arrangement. A teenager with a hit single and that configuration has a great deal to put somewhere and nowhere obvious to put it.

Venus makes easy contact with Saturn under two thirds of a degree, which is the one steadying thing here, and the Sun makes a flowing angle to Jupiter. Those two are why the pop punk records sound built rather than thrown.

A genre change from pop to something louder is a reasonable thing to do with a chart like this. Four planets in Cancer want to be protected and a Moon pinned by Pluto has a great deal to put somewhere, and pop punk is a form built precisely for the combination of needing shelter and needing volume.