Sinéad O'Connor

Fire and water take three of her ten planets each, with two apiece in earth and air, and five of the ten are mutable. The chart holds two T-squares, both running through Venus and Saturn, one closing with Uranus and one with Pluto. Jupiter was the only retrograde planet. The record says O'Connor tore up a photograph of the Pope on live television in 1992 to protest at child abuse in the Church, was blacklisted for it, and was proved right about the substance a decade later.

Saturn sits in easy contact with Neptune at just over a quarter of a degree, and the reading is imagination made durable: artists who finish things, and faith that survives scrutiny. The second clause is that record almost word for word. Somebody made a claim on live television, was blacklisted for making it, and the claim held: that is a faith which survived scrutiny in the plainest available sense, and the scrutiny was professional ruin rather than argument.

It is worth being exact about what that is. Saturn and Neptune held that angle for everybody born across a stretch of years, and the reading was written for the angle rather than for a person, so the fit is a coincidence of wording and not a finding. What belongs to her is Venus, which sits in three of the six closest contacts and is a corner of both T-squares. Venus square Saturn at fifteen hundredths of a degree is the tightest of them: warmth meeting a wall, feeling unworthy, and withholding first in order not to be refused. In a singer whose record is one televised act and a decade of waiting to be believed, that distinction is the whole of what this chart can offer.

Venus also sits in quiet contact with Neptune at four tenths of a degree, compassionate love and a real gift for beauty, colour and music, which in a singer is the cheapest fit available and is named here because the orb is tight. Saturn sits in direct opposition to Uranus at just over a degree, order against revolt, which a reader will want to be about a Church and a photograph and which is another slow pair. Her Moon sits on the twenty ninth degree of Libra at noon with Scorpio still possible, so it is left out, and two of the three tightest transits on the day she died go with it. She died in London on 26 July 2023, at fifty six. Uranus stood in direct opposition to her natal Neptune at under a fifth of a degree. The Moon was at its first quarter and fifty five per cent lit.