At 93 Joan Collins was the belle of the ball at the Cannes Film Festival, strutting her stuff in an eye-catching white ballgown. Still working, she is promoting her latest film opposite Isabella Rossellini, in the upcoming biographical film, The Bitter End. She plays Wallis Simpson in the latter days of her life after the Duke of Windsor died when she fell into the clutches of lawyer Suzanne Blum.
Joan Collins, born 23 May 1933 3am (?) London, with a dance teacher mother and talent agent father, has a sociable, light-hearted Sun Venus in Gemini square an upbeat and showbizzy Neptune, Mars, Jupiter in her 6th. She has an indulgent and hard-working Moon Mercury in Taurus square Saturn; and the generational unsettled and disruptive Uranus in Aries square Pluto.
She has performed throughout a long career starting at 17, with Dynasty being her most notable part and more recently The Royals.
Collins has been married five times, has three children and four grandchildren. She has been married to her fifth husband Percy Gibson, who is 32 years her junior, since 17 February 2002.
She is a good match for Wallis Simpson, 19 June 1898 10.30pm Blue Ridge, PA, who was also a social butterfly Sun Venus in Gemini. Though she in addition had Pluto, Mercury, Neptune also in Gemini – more controlling domestically and quite fey as with most of that Neptune Pluto generation.
When Wallis fell under the control of the malevolent control of the lawyer Suzanne Blum after the Duke’s death, she was frail and eventually succumbed to dementia, living her final years as a recluse. Blum assumed power of attorney, sold her possessions and exploited her. Royal biographer Hugo Vickers called Blum a “Satanic figure … wearing the mantle of good intention to disguise her inner malevolence”.
Blum, 24 November 1898 Niort France, had a stellium in Sagittarius with Sun, Uranus, Saturn, Venus and Mercury sitting in Wallis Simpson’s 10th house and opposing WS’s Pluto, Mercury, Neptune, Sun in Gemini. Wallis Simpson came full circle back to a childhood where she felt restricted and disempowered. Their relationship chart had a horrific Sun Venus Jupiter opposition Mercury square Mars Pluto Neptune. Venus Jupiter for sugary sweetness on the surface and Mars Pluto Neptune for terrifying domination.
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