Wyclef Jean

Five planets of the ten sit in air signs, four in earth, one in water and not one in fire. Air works out how a thing is put together and earth keeps at it; the element that would start something out of sheer appetite is missing altogether. Jean is a Haitian rapper, the record names the Fugees, and it also names a run for the presidency of Haiti, which is an unusual second entry on a musician's line.

The Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Uranus all sit in Libra, five planets across twenty four degrees of the sign that will not hold a position without also holding its opposite. That is half the chart in one sign. The Moon and Mars sit together in Capricorn, which is the only part of this arrangement that simply decides and proceeds, and a political run needs that pairing far more than the Libra group would allow on its own. For a musician who stood for election, the decisive pair in Capricorn is the half of the chart that did the campaigning.

Mercury lies at an awkward angle to Saturn at a sixth of a degree, the tightest contact here, so speech is permanently slightly out of true with the planet of limit. Mercury also sits conjunct Uranus at nine tenths, which puts it next to the planet that refuses the expected arrangement. Mars sits square Jupiter at over four fifths. Saturn alone was retrograde at his birth. In a rapper, speech slightly out of true with the planet of limit is an asset rather than a fault, and the job gets done with it rather than against it.

Jupiter closed a full circuit on its Libra birth degree on 8 August 2017, at forty seven. Libra never settles one side of a question without raising the other, so what it asks is what got reconciled rather than how far the thing travelled, and three circuits come before it. The campaign the record names fell inside the most recent of them. A Moon conjunct Mars in Capricorn, alone against five planets in Libra, is the part of this chart that stops it weighing and acts, and both of the careers the record names needed it.