Frank Sinatra

Frank Sinatra turned a song into a confession and a swagger into an art form, the voice that critics would later call the greatest of the twentieth century. Born in Hoboken to Italian immigrants on 12 December 1915, he carried both his Sun and his Ascendant in Sagittarius, a double dose of the Jupiter-ruled explorer whose whole clock was set to freedom, movement and larger-than-life presence. That is the mask you could not miss in a crowd, the jovial, restless charmer with the signature grin, forever on the go from the swing bands to Vegas to his own label, Reprise. His Sun sits in the twelfth house, the unknowable house of spirit and the collective unconscious, where the light dissolves into something psychic and haunted; you hear it in the lonely small-hours records, the saloon songs that feel like a soul left bare.

His Moon in Pisces is the sponge of a moon, the ultimate empath with divine-level imagination, and that is the true secret of the phrasing, the way he seemed to feel every lyric from the inside. Placed in the second house of worth and security, his peace of mind rose and fell like the tides, tied to money, to standing, to the value he inherited. From "From Here to Eternity" to "New York, New York", Ole Blue Eyes remained the Chairman of the Board: freedom, feeling, and a wound turned into music.