Peter Gabriel

Air takes five of his ten planets, earth three, and a single one apiece fire and water, with five of the ten cardinal and only one mutable. Six of the ten were retrograde at his birth, which is the entire slow half plus Venus and Mars. The record names Gabriel the founding singer of Genesis and a solo artist since, credits him with the WOMAD festival and Real World Records, and gives Chobham in Surrey as his birthplace.

Jupiter is in three of the six closest contacts and it is the centre of this chart. It sits directly opposite Pluto at a tenth of a degree, which is ambition and force colliding, and growth pursued past the point where it is good for anybody. It sits in easy contact with Neptune at under half a degree, generous imagination, vision and a real ability to inspire other people. And it sits in hard contact with Uranus at half a degree, growth that arrives disruptively and costs stability. In a record naming a band, a solo career, a festival and a label, scale wired three separate ways is the structure to start from.

The Sun, Venus and Jupiter fill twenty degrees of Aquarius, the sign built on not being told, and the Moon answers from Capricorn at twelve, where a feeling asks what the thing cost before it asks anything else. Both lights are certain here. Mercury sits on the last degree and a half of Capricorn and Uranus on the first degree of Cancer. A singer who left a band and then started a festival and a label has the argument between the unusual and the counted running through both halves of his record.

Jupiter came back to its Aquarius birth degree on 1 March 2021, at seventy one, and five laps precede it. Aquarius takes its reading from whatever did not follow the usual pattern, which for somebody who left a band and then built two institutions is a question with three separate answers. Six retrograde planets with Jupiter in three of the tightest contacts is what this chart is: almost all of it faces inward, and the one thing pointing outward is scale.