Aretha Franklin, the “Queen of Soul”, one of the best selling artists of all time, appears to be getting hospice care at home having been ill for a number of years, though she was still performing late last year.
She was born 25 March 1942 10.30pm Memphis Tennessee to a well-known itinerant preacher father who was known for his “ million-dollar voice” and a musical mother. Her parents separated and her mother died when she was 10 at which point she started singing gospel and accompanied her father on his gospel-caravan tours, having many musical performers either caring for her, like Mahalia Jackson, or visiting their home. She had her first child at 12 by a school friend, her second at fourteen and had two more in her 20s, and has been married twice.
She has a go-ahead Aries Sun in her performing 5th house trine Pluto; with her Venus in Aquarius square Uranus Saturn in Taurus in her 7th – so not an easy emotional life, with an abusive first marriage. Her Cancer Moon in the religious 9th is trine Mercury in musical Pisces. And she has a T Square of Mercury opposition North Node square an 8th house Jupiter Mars in Gemini – she wouldn’t ever be short of enthusiasm and good luck. Her Uranus is in a creative trine to Neptune.
Tr Neptune has been moving round her T square over the past two years which would lower her energy; and her Solar Arc Mars was square her Saturn last year and now moving towards the square to her Uranus, which would bring considerable stress.
Her musical, artistic 7th Harmonic is particularly strongly aspected with a New Moon in Taurus, a lucky Earth Grand Trine and a life-of-pain-and-anger Mars Pluto.
A lovely lady who has lived a full life and then some.
Her powerful and passionate songs are amongst the earliest musical memories impacting as a pre-school child. Music plays a massive role in my life. I’m sad at her passing.
She’s gone but she will have everlasting life through her music. May she rest in peace!
I can’t stress enough that she isn’t blessed only with an ashtonishing voice, but truly rare muscianship. Her times, even when improvising, are metronome exact. You can clearly hear this comparing her version of R.E.S.P.E.C.T to that by Otis Redding. Now, I love Otis, but she owns this song due to timing. She is up there with the best jazz muscians in this, really. Astrologically, it shows with Venus square Uranus/Saturn. Uranus contacts to personal planets are ubiquous for jazz muscians. I guess Uranus/Venus in particular could be found in dancers (a famous Uranus/Venus native Lady Di loved dancing, didn’t she?), too, but jazz muscian charts are those I’ve looked up, and Uranus is everywhere on them.