Siouxsie Sioux

Siouxsie Sioux sang for the Banshees, and the look and the voice between them did more to shape what followed than the records are usually credited with.

She was born at Southwark, in south London, on 27 May 1957 with the Sun in Gemini and the Moon in Taurus. Gemini is quick, verbal and interested in the double meaning; a Taurus Moon needs the physical basics in place and is the steadiest placement the Moon has. That pairing is less dramatic than the public image and it is the reason the career lasted: the presentation was Gemini and the engine was Taurus.

The chart carries two yods and both of them hold Mars and Saturn. A yod is a tension with no natural resolution, and having the same pair of planets, drive and restriction, at the base of both means the chart generates the same unresolvable pressure twice over. Her Moon and Mercury each make an awkward angle to Saturn, under a degree in one case. Feeling and speech both pressed on by the planet of limit, which in a singer produces a delivery that sounds withheld even at full volume.

Venus makes a creative angle to Pluto and a hard one to Uranus, both a little over a degree. Taste with force behind it and taste against the sudden break: between them they are a fair technical account of somebody who invented a visual language and then refused to repeat it.

Her Saturn return at fifty nine fell in September 2016, two months after Jupiter reached its own starting degree. The pair whose argument runs through both yods finished a lap within weeks of each other, which on this chart is the closest thing to a conclusion it was ever going to offer. Forty years of other singers doing a version of what she arrived at first is the part no chart predicted and no chart needs to.