Suzanne Collins

Three of her ten planets sit in fire signs and three in air, with two apiece in earth and water, and five of the ten are mutable against a single cardinal one. Nothing is scarce, but almost nothing here starts on its own account either. The record gives Collins The Hunger Games, after fifteen years writing children's television.

The Sun sits at eighteen degrees of Leo with Mercury on the last sixteen minutes of the same sign and Uranus on the first two minutes of Virgo, so speech and the planet of the unexpected sit a third of a degree apart across a sign boundary. That contact reads as fast, original thinking: insight arriving whole rather than by steps, and impatience with anything explained slowly. The Moon answers from Sagittarius at eleven, needing room and quick to move past a bad mood. For a writer the record moves from children of television to a novel, speech welded to the unexpected across a sign boundary is the placement to keep.

Mars sits in hard contact with Saturn six hundredths of a degree from exact, the closest pairing in the chart, and the reading is drive meeting refusal: effort that keeps running into obstruction until it turns into either resentment or real competence. For a record that puts fifteen years of other people's television before the book the record names, there is no contact here that fits better. A T-square holds the Moon, Jupiter and Pluto with no outlet, and the Moon sits square Jupiter at a third of a degree inside it. Jupiter and Saturn were both retrograde on the day.

Jupiter came the whole way round to its Pisces starting point on 14 February 2022, at fifty nine, three months after Saturn had closed its own second lap, and four circuits precede it. Pisces draws no line of its own, so a return there asks what carried over from one thing into the next, which for a writer whose fifteen years of television preceded the novels is the exact question. Effort six hundredths of a degree from refusal, in a record built on a long wait, is what this chart comes down to.