A fleeting astrological titbit, based on marginally dubious birth times but with intriguing coincidences – comes from two UK celebrities, who rose from poor beginnings to success and money and have gone bankrupt twice.
Martine McCutcheon, 14 May 1976 7.40am London, had a tough childhood with little money and a violent, abusive father, became a sit-com actress, then on screen with Hugh Grant in Love Actually, then on stage in My Fair Lady. Despite the headline successes, her career has been patchy and she has gained a reputation for being tricky to work. Now she has been declared bankrupt for the second time.
The other is glamour model Katie Price, 22 May 1978 8.30am (rectified) Brighton, England, who is addicted to cosmetic surgery and has had a chaotic emotional and financial life – also with two bankruptcies.
MM is an acquisitive Sun, Venus, Jupiter South Node in Taurus and KP is Gemini – but there are similarities in that both have a Saturn Mars conjunction in their 2nd house of finances, both have Pluto in the 4th house of childhood, both have Chiron in the 10th, both have Jupiter Venus conjunctions and both have Scorpio Moons opposition their Sun.
Jupiter Venus is frivolous, keen on outer appearance – especially true in Taurus and Cancer for Katie Price. Pluto in the 4th hints at a scary childhood.
Chiron in the 10th hints at childhood issues affecting later ambitions, often leading to an unsettled career. What intrigues me is the Mars Saturn conjunction, signifier of a childhood in which unfairness played a significant role. There was little room for fun or for fulfilling personal needs and wants.
While intuitively I might have assumed Mars Saturn in the 2nd to be disciplined about money, hoarding it to ensure a security that was not there at the start, here it obviously works in a different way. Anger about childhood deprivation is acted out by compensating for lacks by refusing to put limits on spending and temptations. Martine was evidently once quoted as saying: ‘I love nice things – I consider Ralph Lauren sheets to be a necessity, not a luxury – but I’ve known what it’s like to be poor.’ There may also be an eerie sense, courtesy of Freud’s repetition compulsion, of an unconscious pull to getting back to where it all started in an attempt to regain control of a childhood out-of-control situation. Start broke, end broke
An oddity but might have a nugget of truth about it.
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