Nick Cave, the Australian musician, writer and actor, frontman for the rock band the Bad Seeds, has a new album out and has been talking of the transformative effect that grief and the death of two of his sons brought about. One son died in 2015 in a cliff accident after taking LSD for the first time and the other who was schizophrenic died two years ago.
Cave’s music is ‘characterised by emotional intensity, a wide variety of influences and lyrical obsessions with death, religion, love, and violence’. He says the losses he has suffered pulled him out of his selfish egotism and made him more religious.
Born 22 September 1957 12.20pm (?) Warracknabeat, Victoria, Australia, he has a packed 10th house with a hard-working exact Virgo Sun and Mars conjunction plus a lucky Jupiter in Libra and Neptune Venus in Scorpio. He has a far-travelled and philosophical Moon Mercury in Virgo in his 9th with Pluto on the cusp in a tough-minded square to Saturn. His South Node in Taurus falls in his 5th house of children. His wayward 8th house Uranus opposition Chiron is square his Venus and trine his Saturn.
His chart is all upper hemisphere focusing his energy towards work and the outside world, though he has had four children from three marriages.
Neptune in his 10th suits a musical career and three Virgo planets in his 9th house will give him an interest in belief systems, religious and otherwise.
When his son died in 2015 in an accident tr Pluto was sitting on Nick Cave’s Ascendant opposition Mars on his Descendant. Pluto moving through the 1st house does bring self-knowledge and forced self-awareness over a longish period. At that point his Solar Arc Neptune was square his Sun Mars and Midheaven giving him a tremendous shock.
When his second son died in 2022 tr Pluto in Capricorn was trine his Sun Mars in Virgo; and tr Neptune was approaching the opposition to his Sun Mars – so an equally undermining event for him.
He has been very public about the dramatic difference these two losses made to him at a deeply personal level – so it is interesting to see tr Pluto moving through his 1st – I remember it as one of the most useful transits I ever had.
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