Sara Bareilles

Earth claims four of her ten planets, fire three, water two and air a single one. Earth builds steadily and the element that would stand back and discuss it is nearly absent. Bareilles sings, and the record names her as the composer of the musical Waitress, which is writing for other people's voices as well as her own.

The Sun sits at fifteen degrees of Sagittarius and the Moon at four of Leo, both fire signs in easy contact, while Mars, Jupiter and Saturn group across nineteen degrees of Virgo. Sagittarius goes out and tells the story; Leo wants the room; Virgo corrects the detail. For somebody who writes a score as well as performing it, the fire pair is the half that carries a song and the Virgo group is the half that gets the arrangement right.

Nothing in this chart sits inside nine tenths of a degree of exact, which makes it a loose birth with no single pressure point in it. The Moon stands at a strained angle to Neptune at just under a degree, the closest thing here, and Jupiter makes an easy skill of its contact with Uranus at just over one. Nothing in this chart was in retrograde motion on the day she was born.

Jupiter closed a full circuit on its Virgo birth degree on 25 September 2015, when she was thirty five. Virgo is interested in the making rather than the reception, and two circuits precede it. For a composer whose record names a stage musical rather than a chart position, the making is the right measure. Three planets gathered in Virgo, in a chart with no retrogrades and no tight aspect anywhere, is the structure of somebody who works carefully and without visible strain. Her Moon sits on the fourth degree of Leo at noon, with the sign before it still possible, Cancer, which puts the private half between wanting the room and keeping what is in it. For a composer who also performs, either reading fits the record.