On 9 October 2026, Carly Rae Jepsen released Day and Night (Continued). According to uDiscover, the new edition adds eight songs, split between a day side and a night side.
This article doesn't review those songs or say what they mean. What it does is set her own past description of how she builds a record next to a symbolic reading of her birth chart, and keep the two clearly apart.
Bright songs, other registers
In a 2019 NPR interview with David Greene and Kevin Tidmarsh, about her album Dedicated, Jepsen talked about her craft in a way that's still useful. It's seven years old and describes that record, not the new one. Paraphrased:
- She chose both kinds of song. For Dedicated, she picked euphoric, light songs and more intimate material, rather than one mood all the way through.
- Patterns catch her attention. She described curiosity about recurring patterns in relationships as a spark for songwriting.
- She likes not being fixed. She said she enjoys moving beyond a single fixed idea of what pop is, or of who she is.
The interesting tension is that pop is often heard as one feeling at a time: happy song, sad song. Her account suggests something else. A bright, danceable track can sit on the same record as a quieter, more intimate one, and the same curiosity can drive both. An upbeat surface doesn't have to mean a single emotional register underneath, and nobody needs to analyse a new record to recognise that as a craft choice.
The new edition's day-and-night framing makes the question timely. Its songs, though, aren't the evidence here; her own description of past choices is.
The chart, and how it was checked
What's on record: Carly Rae Jepsen was born on 21 November 1985 in Mission, British Columbia, Canada. No birth time is on record.
Without a time, there's no Rising sign and no houses. Lunara sampled her birth day at 25 times across the Mission local day and kept only placements and contacts that held at every sample. Contacts use a fixed set of limits: 8° for a conjunction or opposition, 6° for a square or trine, and 4° for a sextile.
What held all day:
- Sun in Scorpio, in its last degree, about a degree before Sagittarius. It stayed in Scorpio for the whole day. That's simply where it was, not a "cusp" blend.
- Sun beside Saturn, which sits just across the line in early Sagittarius, about one to one and a half degrees away.
- Mercury in Sagittarius, retrograde, within about three degrees of Uranus and opposite Chiron.
- Venus in Scorpio, at about 15°.
- Mars in Libra, at about 15–16°, in a sextile to Uranus.
What didn't: the Moon was in Pisces until about 4:42 p.m. local time and in Aries after that. Without a birth time, her Moon sign is unknown: either is possible, and we don't pick one.
Symbolic lens: three contacts
This section is interpretation, not evidence. Her chart didn't choose her songs, and it doesn't explain her records.
The Sun with Saturn. Scorpio is traditionally read as depth and intensity. Saturn is craft, structure and patience. A Sun joined closely to Saturn is often read as seriousness about the work, whatever its surface looks like. Set beside her account of placing light songs next to intimate ones, that's a fair symbolic image: care underneath brightness. It isn't a cause.
Mercury with Uranus, opposite Chiron. Mercury is the planet of words and ideas, and retrograde it's often read as thinking that returns to the same material. Uranus, close beside it, is the symbol of the sudden new angle. Chiron, opposite, is the modern symbol of a sensitive point that becomes a skill. Together they describe a mind that circles a pattern until it sees something new in it. That sits alongside, without explaining, her description of recurring patterns as a songwriting spark.
Mars in Libra, sextile Uranus. Mars in Libra is read as drive shaped by balance, collaboration and taste. An easy link to Uranus adds openness to experiment. One reading is effort that enjoys trying a new shape, which echoes, symbolically, her stated pleasure in not being fixed to one idea of pop.
Two honest notes. The Saturn contact crosses a sign line, which is why it's described as a contact rather than "Sun and Saturn in the same sign". And the open Moon isn't evidence of anything: we're not reading "Pisces or Aries" as proof of two moods.
Your turn: two registers in one thing
Try this with something you're making or something you love:
- Name the surface. In one line, say what it sounds or looks like at first: bright, calm, upbeat, plain.
- Name what's underneath. In another line, say what it's actually dealing with. It may be the same, or something quite different.
- Notice the gap. If there is one, ask whether it makes the thing stronger or weaker.
- Look for your pattern. Is there a situation you keep returning to in your work or your notes? Write down one new question about it.
None of that needs astrology. If you want to see your own chart alongside it, look at where your Mercury is, and whether anything in your chart links your Sun to Saturn.
Explore further
Her full date-only profile is at Carly Rae Jepsen's natal chart, with the same limits on birth time.
To look at your own placements, calculate your free birth chart. Add a birth time and city only if you know them.
If you'd like a written interpretation of your own chart afterwards, there's an optional paid personal birth chart reading. It's automated, covers one person's natal chart, and isn't a forecast. What's included and the price are shown before you buy.
Text written with AI assistance. Release details are paraphrased from uDiscover (9 October 2026); craft details from NPR (15 May 2019). Lunara did not listen to or review the new songs. Positions come from a calculation Lunara saved for this article; no birth time was used.