Miranda July

Her chart puts five planets in air signs, two in fire, two in earth and a single one in water. Air works out what it thinks by making something of it, and the element that would sit with how any of it feels is nearly absent. July directs, writes novels and makes performance work, and the record gives all three without ranking them.

The Sun sits at twenty seven degrees of Aquarius with Jupiter a degree and a half behind it, and the Moon answers from Sagittarius. Aquarius stands outside the arrangement it finds and describes it from there; Sagittarius heads out and does the thing. For somebody whose work moves between three forms that each have their own professional furniture, having identity and the planet of scale together in the sign that refuses a category is as direct a reading as this project offers.

Two grand trines run through this chart and both hold Saturn and Uranus, one closing with the Sun and the other with Jupiter. Saturn makes easy contact with Uranus at under a quarter of a degree, limit and the break in easy agreement, which is an uncommon pairing to find agreeing at all. Mercury makes an easy skill of its contact with Mars at a fifth. Saturn, Uranus and Pluto were all facing backwards at her birth. For an artist who works in three forms, a discipline and a break that agree rather than fight is the equipment that makes all three possible.

Jupiter stood again on its Aquarius birth degree on 28 November 2021, at forty seven. Aquarius wants to know what was made outside the usual categories, and three laps precede it. In a record that names a film, a novel and performance work in one line, outside the usual categories is where all of it sits. Two grand trines sharing limit and the break is the structure to keep: a chart that can hold a discipline and break a form without either giving way.