Till Lindemann

Four of the ten sit in earth signs and one in fire, plus three in water and a further two in air. Earth builds and keeps and almost nothing here simply ignites. Lindemann sings for Rammstein and trained as a competitive swimmer, which are two disciplines that look nothing alike and are both built the same way: years of unglamorous repetition before anybody watches, and then a performance measured in seconds.

The Sun sits at thirteen degrees of Capricorn, the sign of the long programme and the obligation met whether or not anyone is checking. Competitive swimming at a serious level is mostly early mornings in a pool with nobody present, and a stage act built on precision and spectacle is the same discipline pointed outward. A Capricorn Sun does not experience either of those as a sacrifice; it experiences them as the price, which it had already agreed to pay.

Venus makes a quintile to Saturn at a quarter of a degree, the tightest contact in the chart, which is a knack for structure rather than a fight with it: what he values and what restricts him work together. Nothing in the chart forms a yod, a T-square or a grand trine, so none of this is held inside a bracing pattern and the aspects simply stand. Mars, Uranus and Pluto were retrograde.

Jupiter met its own starting point in Pisces on 11 February 2022, at fifty nine, two months after Saturn had closed its own circuit. Pisces dissolves an edge rather than holding one, which is an awkward sign for the planet that measures how far a thing has travelled and a fitting one for a performer whose stage persona has never had a clear boundary with the person. Five laps of the planet precede it, and the band had already been running for most of the last three of them.