Vince Gill

Five of the ten sit in fire signs and only one each in air and water, with three in earth. Fire asserts and earth keeps; the elements that would analyse a thing or get swamped by it are both nearly absent. Gill has twenty two Grammys and is on record for one of the best tenor voices in his genre, which is an unusual pairing of industry recognition and a plain description of an instrument.

The Sun sits at twenty three degrees of Aries with Venus half a degree away, identity and what he values fused together in the sign that moves first. For a singer, having the planet of taste welded to the identity means the voice and the person are not separable, which is more or less the definition of a tenor who is known for the sound rather than for any particular song. The Moon is in Virgo at noon or Libra later.

Mars makes a quintile to Pluto at under a sixth of a degree, an easy skill with concentrated force, and stands at a hard angle to Neptune at under a quarter. Nothing in the chart forms a yod, a T-square or a grand trine, so none of this is braced into a shape. Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto were all retrograde at his birth, which faces the whole heavy end of the chart inward. For a singer known for an instrument rather than a song, an unbraced chart means nothing ever forced the voice into one shape.

Saturn came round to the Sagittarius degree it had set out from on 28 October 2016, at fifty nine, eleven weeks after Jupiter closed its own lap. That is a second Saturn return, and the second asks the harder question: not what was built, but whether it still earns its upkeep. Twenty two Grammys is a reasonably firm answer to put in front of that question. Sagittarius, the sign it was asked in, is the one least inclined to treat an answer like that as a reason to stop.