Gwen Stefani

Gwen Stefani was not supposed to be No Doubt's lead singer. Her older brother, Eric, founded the band in Anaheim in 1986 with his friend John Spence, who sang lead, and Gwen joined as a backing vocalist. After Spence's death in December 1987 she took over the front of the stage, and within a decade she was one of the most recognizable women in pop music.

She was born at 2:09 in the afternoon on October 3, 1969, in Fullerton, California, according to her birth certificate. Her Sun is in Libra in the ninth house, joined there by Jupiter and Uranus, also in Libra. Libra is the sign of style, beauty and partnership; Jupiter enlarges whatever it touches and Uranus adds eccentricity and reinvention. The ninth house concerns faraway cultures and wider horizons. A Libra cluster there describes someone whose sense of style borrows freely from the wider world, and Stefani's career has done exactly that, from No Doubt's British-inflected ska to the Harajuku street fashion she celebrated in her solo era.

Her Moon is in Cancer in the seventh house, the area of the chart devoted to partnerships and close relationships. Cancer feels everything deeply and needs emotional security, and in the seventh it ties her inner life to the people she is closest to. No placement in her chart shows up more plainly in her songs. Tragic Kingdom, the 1995 album that broke No Doubt worldwide, was largely about the end of her seven-year relationship with the band's bassist, Tony Kanal, and its biggest hit, "Don't Speak," was a breakup song sung directly about him, with him playing on it. Tragic Kingdom went on to sell millions of copies worldwide.

Capricorn is her rising sign, describing a disciplined, businesslike approach behind the playful image. Stefani built a fashion brand, L.A.M.B., in the early 2000s, and her solo debut, Love. Angel. Music. Baby., produced "Hollaback Girl," which became the first song to sell a million digital downloads in the United States.

Venus in Virgo falls in her eighth house, which deals with intimacy and emotional transformation. Virgo is careful and self-critical, and in the eighth it describes private relationships that go deep and change you. She married Gavin Rossdale of Bush in 2002 and had three sons; the marriage ended in 2016, and she has spoken about how painful and public that divorce was.

Mars in Capricorn sits in the twelfth house, a placement associated with determination kept largely behind the scenes. She kept working through the divorce and turned it into a 2016 album, This Is What the Truth Feels Like.

In 2014 she joined The Voice as a coach, where she met Blake Shelton. They married in Oklahoma in 2021. In 2024, No Doubt reunited to headline Coachella. The Libra Sun keeps reinventing the look; the Cancer Moon in the house of partnership keeps writing the story.