Marianne Faithfull, singer and actress, icon of the Sixties pop counterculture, one time girlfriend of Mick Jagger, has died aged 78. When that affair split, she descended into a drug addiction and homelessness, before reinventing herself with a shattered voice as a great musical interpreter, issuing 13 adventurous albums and became a magnet for film-makers, like Jean Luc Godard and Coppola.
She was born 29 December 1946 12.30 pm London (memory), the daughter of a high-ranking WW11 British army spy and an Austro-Hungarian baroness involved in resistance activities. She left school at 16 to sing folk songs and dabble in acting and was talent spotted by the Rolling Stones manager.
She had a go-ahead, impulsive Sun Mars in Capricorn on the focal point of a yod inconjunct Pluto Saturn in Leo in the performing 5th sextile North Node – full of initiative and courage but lacking common sense and caution. She also notably had a musical and emotionally disorganized Pisces Moon on the focal point of another yod to Saturn Pluto sextile a 6th house Neptune. An 8th house intense Mercury in Sagittarius was in an outspoken, rebellious opposition to Uranus.
She was a curious mix of hard and soft, headstrong and fearful, all capped off by an ultra-charming and seductive Venus Jupiter in Scorpio in her 7th house of relationships.
In 1970 after she ended up on the streets, addicted to heroin, tr Uranus in Libra was square her yod focal point Sun Mars and conjunct her 6th house Neptune – for a catastrophic change in her life. A delicate Neptune in the 6th is the absolutely wrong placing for someone who played fast and loose with her health. She had hepatitis C presumably from heroin injections and anorexia also in the 1970s, breast cancer, arthritis, a back injury, broken hip, pneumonia, COVID-19 which ended up with her in hospital for three weeks.
She wrote three books about her life and in 2011 was awarded the Commandeur of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, one of France’s highest cultural honours.
Her relationship chart with Mick Jagger, 26 July 1943 2.30 am Dartford, England, had an affectionate Sun, Venus opposition Moon though that also squared Saturn – so it would blow hot and cold as career ambitions took precedence. It would also be volatile and one sided with a composite Mars square Uranus and trine Saturn.
Her frivolous, sociable and light-hearted Venus Jupiter in Scorpio opposed his Taurus Moon for good feelings and her Pisces Moon opposed his Venus. His Leo Sun, Jupiter, Pluto conjunct fell in her 4th and would provide for a while a sense of stability and uplift for her can-be-depressive Saturn Pluto.
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