Simon Le Bon

Of his ten planets, four sit in water signs, with two apiece in fire, earth and air. Water takes the temperature of a room before deciding anything, and nothing else here is scarce. Le Bon sings, the record names Duran Duran, and it names Rio and A View to a Kill as the two songs his voice is known for.

The Sun, Mercury, Jupiter and Neptune all sit in Scorpio, four planets across fourteen degrees of the sign that gives nothing away, and the Sun sits conjunct Neptune at nine tenths of a degree. Neptune is the planet of image, and a singer whose trade has always included being looked at carries it welded to his identity rather than off in a corner of the chart.

The Sun makes easy contact with Pluto at a quarter of a degree, the tightest contact here, which puts identity on comfortable terms with concentrated force. Venus stands awkwardly against Mars at three fifths, so taste and drive never quite line up, and Venus itself sits on the final fourteen minutes of Libra. Mars alone was retrograde at his birth. For a singer, identity fused to image and at ease with force is the arrangement that makes a front man rather than a vocalist.

Jupiter came the whole way round to its Scorpio starting point on 27 November 2017, at fifty nine, two months after Saturn had closed its own second lap. Scorpio keeps the account to itself, so what it asks is what the thing actually was rather than what it was taken for, and four circuits come before it. In a singer whose record names two songs out of a long catalogue, that distinction is the one the chart is pointing at. A Moon on the second degree of Taurus, barely over from Aries, leaves the private half open between starting and holding.