Skepta

Air holds four of his ten planets, with two apiece in fire, earth and water, and not one of the ten was retrograde at his birth. Nothing in this chart faces the other way. The record calls Skepta an English grime artist, says Konnichiwa won the Mercury Prize, and adds that it was made largely without a major label.

Four planets sit inside eight degrees of Libra: Mercury at eighteen, the Moon at twenty one, Saturn at twenty two and Pluto at twenty six. That is speech, private feeling, limit and concentrated force all gathered in the sign that needs the other party and is genuinely destabilised by conflict. The Sun answers from the end of Virgo at twenty six, which does the thing properly and applies the standard hardest to itself. For a record built on work made outside the usual arrangements, a tight Libra group under a Virgo Sun is the structure to start from.

The Moon sits conjunct Saturn at three quarters of a degree, which reads as feeling kept under control: seriousness, dependability, and the hardest Moon contact in the table as well as the most quietly capable. Jupiter sits in mild friction with Neptune two hundredths of a degree from exact, the closest thing in the chart, faith running ahead of the evidence. Mars sits conjunct Uranus at just over a degree and a half, sudden force and a real dislike of being controlled, with Mars itself on the last twenty five minutes of Scorpio. In a record of an album made without a label, feeling held under that much control is the contact the whole operation ran on.

Jupiter stood again on its Scorpio birth degree on 22 November 2017, at thirty five, and two laps precede it. Scorpio puts no weight on what was announced, which for an album made without a major label behind it is the measure that fits. The prize the record names belongs to that same lap. A Moon welded to Saturn, in a chart with four planets negotiating in Libra and nothing retrograde anywhere, describes somebody who kept the whole operation in his own hands because that is how the chart is wired.