Rob Thomas

His chart puts five planets in air signs, three in earth, two in fire and not one in water. Air arranges the thing and works out what to say; the element that would register what any of it costs is missing from the chart entirely. Thomas sang in Matchbox Twenty and the record names Smooth, made with Santana.

The Sun, the Moon and Mercury all sit inside eight degrees of Aquarius, three planets in the sign that stands outside the arrangement and describes it, with the Sun and Moon seven degrees apart. Identity, private feeling and speech all answering to the same detached instinct, and a birth near a new moon, leaves very little distance between the public half and the private one. Saturn sits on the final fifteen minutes of Taurus.

A T-square holds Venus, Jupiter and Pluto with no outlet, and a yod holds Mars, Neptune and Pluto without resolving, so Pluto sits inside both figures. Jupiter sits square that Pluto at just over a fifth of a degree, scale braced against force. Venus makes easy contact with Neptune at a third and the Moon makes an easy skill of its contact with the same planet at a little more. Uranus and Pluto were the pair facing backwards at his birth. In a songwriter, force sitting inside two separate figures is the weight a catalogue gets written against.

Jupiter stood again on its Capricorn birth degree on 8 December 2019, at forty seven. Capricorn counts what was paid for a thing, and three circuits precede it. In a record that names a band and one song made with somebody else, what was paid is the question the sign puts to both. Three planets inside eight degrees of Aquarius, with force at the centre of two separate figures, is the structure to keep from this chart. Having the Sun, Moon and Mercury all in the detached sign means the writing and the feeling and the self all take the same step back, which in a songwriter is both the method and the limit of it. With no water anywhere, nothing here was arrived at by sitting with it.