Roger Hodgson (March 31, 1950)

This man was born six weeks after me. Artistically, he’s leaps and bounds ahead of me. I’ve been a fan ever since the 1979 release of the album “Breakfast in America”.

As this song implies, he’s been on a spiritual quest for knowledge and understanding his whole life.

To me, it’s amazing how different a birth chart can look with the passage of six weeks. His life’s lessons are demonstrated by the two very important inconjuncts in his chart.

Moon Inconjunct Mars

Until you learn to handle your feelings, you are likely to get angry easily, have temper tantrums and be touchy about what is yours and what is not. You may feel you have to defend yourself against imagined threats. The problem here is that you are likely to become too emotionally involved with ideas, opinions and even objects without knowing it until someone threatens them. Then you react as if you were being personally threatened or attacked. You have to realize that it is possible to change your opinions and attitudes without damaging your worth as a person.

Planets in Youth (page 122) by Robert Hand (1977)

Venus Inconjunct Saturn

You need and want love, but you may not be able to get it easily. You may feel that your parents, teachers or other persons in authority make demands of you that you must fulfill before they will give you any love and support. If that is true, it is unfortunate, because you deserve respect and love as much as anyone. Although everyone must fulfill certain social demands, this should not be the condition for being loved. If this demand is carried to an extreme in your case, you will become cold-hearted and unable to love others even when you want to. You may also feel that you cannot indulge yourself in any pleasure or even love.

Planets in Youth (page 198) by Robert Hand (1977)

In 1984, Roger Hodgson released a solo album called “In the Eye of the Storm”. That was the moment when I realized he was the genius behind Supertramp. Here is the opening track: the video is a little grainy, but you’ll get the point, I’m sure.

He’s a man after my own heart.