Travis Barker

Travis Barker drums for Blink-182 and survived a plane crash, which the record keeps and which is the fact the rest of this has to sit beside.

He was born at Fontana on 14 November 1975 with not one planet in earth. Earth is the element of the body, materials and the thing that holds still, and its complete absence in a chart belonging to somebody whose entire craft is physical is the first surprise here. What he has instead is four planets in fire and four in water: assertion and feeling, with nothing in between to steady either. The Sun, Mercury and Uranus group together in Scorpio, so identity, speech and the planet of sudden reversal all sit in the sign that does nothing by halves.

The chart's structure is a T-square across his Moon, Venus and Mars, with the Moon directly opposite Venus under a degree. Feeling against affection, with drive pulling at right angles and nowhere for any of it to settle. An Aries Moon already arrives at full volume and leaves fast; set against Venus and harassed by Mars, it describes an emotional life lived at a pitch that does not modulate.

Saturn squares Uranus by a degree, which is the rule against the thing that breaks it, and both are retrograde along with Mars. Three reversed planets in a chart this volatile give it an inward, private counter-current that the public version does not show.

A man with no earth in his chart surviving something that should have killed him is not a reading anybody can make respectable, and this page will not try. What the chart does say is that there was never any ballast in it: nothing here was ever going to approach anything cautiously, before or after.

His Jupiter return came in March 2023, at forty seven. On a chart with four planets in fire and nothing in earth, a year that offers more does not arrive as a question.