Tori Kelly

Fire and air take three of her ten planets each, with two apiece in earth and water, so nothing in this chart is scarce. The record gives Kelly a YouTube start and then a Grammy for a gospel record.

The Sun sits at twenty three degrees of Sagittarius with Mercury on the third degree of the sign, both in the one built around the pursuit of something larger. Venus and Saturn sit together in Aquarius, which stands outside the arrangement it finds, and Uranus and Neptune sit together in Capricorn. Her Moon sits at twenty seven degrees of Leo at noon, close enough to the next sign that it may have reached Virgo, so the private half could be either wanting the room or finding a task to settle itself with. For a singer whose record begins with self publishing, a Sun in the declaring sign over a Moon on a boundary is the structure to start from.

Mercury is tied to both Saturn and Neptune. It sits a fifth of a turn from Saturn at just under four tenths of a degree, which is structured thinking without strain, and in mild friction with Neptune at just under a third, thinking that gets misty. A mind both organised and prone to believing the better version of events is a fair description of somebody who published her own work before anybody commissioned it. The Sun sits a fifth of the circle from Jupiter at just over half a degree, growth without much friction, and in quiet contact with Pluto at just under one. Mars alone was retrograde.

Saturn came back to its Aquarius birth degree on 25 January 2022, at twenty nine, a first return and the account coming due. Aquarius sits outside the ordinary arrangement, so the question it puts is which parts of the twenties were chosen rather than handed over, and for a record that begins with self publishing and ends with an institutional award, that is almost too exact a question. Speech tied to both organisation and haze, in a singer who built an audience before a label did, is the fact to keep.