Thom Yorke Birth Chart

The Sun at about 14° Libra opposes the North Node at 10° Aries, within about four to five degrees all day, so it sits close to the South Node. Modern astrologers read the South Node as familiar ground and the North Node as a direction that has to be worked toward; a Libra Sun near the South Node is interpreted as an easy instinct for balance and response, set against a pull toward something more self-directed and Aries-like.

Uranus, at 1° Libra, opposes Chiron at 0° Aries almost exactly. That opposition belongs to everyone born in the autumn of 1968, so it is background rather than personal.

Mercury is retrograde all day and sits right on the boundary between two signs: at 0° Scorpio for almost the whole day, then back into the last degree of Libra just before midnight. Its sign therefore depends on the clock. A Scorpio Mercury is read as probing and unsentimental, a Libra Mercury as weighing and diplomatic; this reading names both and does not choose.

Either way, Mercury makes a near-exact quincunx to Chiron at 0° Aries, an awkward angle traditionally read as a recurring adjustment around a sensitive point. A retrograde Mercury at a sign boundary is interpreted as a mind that revisits and reframes rather than settling on a first answer. This describes chart symbolism, not anyone’s actual working method.

Venus at about 13° Scorpio sextiles Mars at 10° Virgo within about three to three and a half degrees, and Mars makes a close quincunx to the North Node. Venus in Scorpio is read as intense, selective taste; Mars in Virgo as precise, methodical effort. The sextile is interpreted as those two cooperating: strong preferences put to careful use. Jupiter and Pluto are joined at 22–23° Virgo, a conjunction shared by everyone born in 1968.

The Moon is left open: an Aries Moon would be read as quick and direct, a Taurus Moon as steady and slow to change. As public context only: Wikipedia describes Thom Yorke as an English musician, the singer and main songwriter of Radiohead, and the XL Recordings page for AMOK lists him as a member of Atoms for Peace. The chart does not explain that work.