Harper Lee – a success she never wanted

Harper Lee, author of Kill the Mockingbird, has died just a few months after her only other novel, a prequel – Go Set A Watchman – was discovered and published.

Mockingbird brought her a Pulitzer and stratospheric success to which she responded by retiring into obscurity and never writing another. Almost as if the success was too much to tolerate.

She was born 28 April 1926 5.25pm Monroeville, Alabama, to a lawyer father who inspired her to write her novel about racism in the courtroom in the Deep South.  She had a 7th house Taurus Sun sparsely aspected except for a sextile to a 9th house Pluto. Her chart is dominated by a creative and self-protective Water Grand Trine of Venus Uranus in Pisces trine Moon Saturn in Scorpio trine a Cancer MC and North Node. And a Fixed T Square of Neptune opposition Mars Jupiter in Aquarius square a focal point Moon Saturn in Scorpio.

Water Grand Trine individuals can be detached from reality, preferring to stay within their inner fantasy world; and a heavily aspect Moon Saturn in private Scorpio would also have difficulty coming to terms with global adulation.

Her 7th Harmonic was strong which I always associate with a flash of genius rather than a constant flow of inspiration. But she also had a notable writers’ 21H.

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