Ray J

Ray J had a hit with One Wish and a reality television career alongside it, which the record puts in that order and which is the right order for reading the chart.

He was born at McComb, in Mississippi, on 17 January 1981 with six of his ten planets in air and a single one each in fire and water. Air is the element of exchange, comparison and circulation. A chart that airy, with almost nothing that asserts or absorbs, belongs to somebody who is comfortable being discussed, which is a prerequisite for the second half of that career and not at all the same thing as wanting fame.

Jupiter sits conjunct Saturn half a degree apart, both in Libra, with Pluto in the same group. Those two meet roughly every twenty years, so everybody born near it carries it, but having it this tight and sitting with Pluto in the sign of other people is specific: expansion and limit fused, in the sign of the audience, with force underneath. It is the aspect of somebody who cannot grow without immediately being told what it costs.

Mercury is in hard contact with Neptune four minutes of arc from exact, the tightest thing in the chart. Speech tied to the planet of image and illusion: a person whose words and whose public picture are not separable, which is the condition of a reality television career whether anybody chose it or not.

His Moon is at the end of Gemini or the start of Cancer, undetermined, and makes easy contact with Pluto either way: whichever it is, the feeling has real force behind it and a reality television career gave it nowhere private to be.

His Jupiter return came in October 2016, at thirty five. On a chart where Jupiter is welded to Saturn, a year of expansion arrives with the bill attached, which the pattern of the career bears out.