From \u201cElizabeth\u201d by Alexander Walker:<\/p>\n
\u201cI realize that my whole life is being in motion pictures.\u00a0 For me to quit would be like cutting away the roots of a tree\u2026I\u2019ve made up my mind for myself and I\u2019ll take all the hardship and everything else that comes along.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n (from a note to her mother in her early teens)<\/em><\/p>\n This is the first of an astrobiographical series about the life of Elizabeth Taylor, in which I hope to cover various aspects of her life, such as health, relationships and her work.\u00a0 I am starting with the birthchart.<\/p>\n Film stardom is a province of Sun in Pisces, through its ruling planet\u00a0Neptune, and Elizabeth Taylor was the film star par excellence.\u00a0 She\u00a0also had chronic health conditions, which can sometimes beset Sun in Pisces in difficult aspect.\u00a0 Thirdly, she was outstanding in her\u00a0charity work (also Pisces\/Neptune) in her chosen field of AIDS.<\/p>\n J. Randy Taraborrelli describes in his entertaining biography \u201cElizabeth\u201d some quintessential Piscean traits: \u201cThough she could be tremendously self-absorbed, she could also be a good and loyal friend, especially to the downtrodden and confused people in her life \u2013 as she would demonstrate countless times\u201d.<\/p>\n Moon in Scorpio gave her the ability to feel and portray in-depth\u00a0 emotions, and a penchant for drama.<\/p>\n Mercury in Pisces in her chart is exactly opposite natal Neptune (channelling but also obfuscation) portrays the fact that she would dip in to the\u00a0collective unconscious with her mind and her heart. \u00a0Pisces is one of\u00a0two main signs of acting talent. Leo is the other, home of showmanship\u00a0and drama. Pisces represents the sensitivity and fluidity which allows\u00a0the self, chameleonlike, to almost become the character one is portraying.<\/p>\n Venus is in Aries conjunct Uranus in the house of lovers.\u00a0 One would expect a woman of legendary beauty to have something special going on\u00a0with her Venus. Elizabeth\u2019s Venus in Aries is selfishly demanding in\u00a0love, and is conjoined with Uranus giving her tremendous personal\u00a0social magnetism. \u00a0\u00a0A trine with Jupiter proliferated and magnified all these qualities, social skills and abundant jewels.<\/p>\n Her Ascendant was in Sagittarius exactly sextile Midheaven in Libra, so she was able to combine her lifestyle, character,\u00a0 and career more naturally than most.\u00a0 It was the film with the horse (Sagittarius), \u201cNational Velvet\u201d, which made her famous.\u00a0 She had a lucky Sagittarian streak of being in the right place at the right time, reinforced by the Part of Fortune conjunct Jupiter, though would not be considered lucky in health matters or marriages (these are other stories, for later in the series).\u00a0 The exact sextile of her Ascendant with the Libran Midheaven (persona in the world) shows that she was born to make a career or reputation out of her beauty and artistry, a career which was forged very early on in her life.<\/p>\n She had Saturn in the 2nd<\/sup> House of Finance, which is often found in charts of millionaires who attend to their pennies.\u00a0 That should give hope to those who have that placing natally!\u00a0 But money was more complex for Elizabeth, as she did like to spend freely, and more telling was Pluto in the 8th<\/sup> House of Money and Jewels from Others, which meant that emotionally she invested heavily in those resources, with great rewards.\u00a0 Alexander Walker writes, in his definitive biography \u201cElizabeth\u201d: \u201cMoney was for impulsive spending; that\u2019s what money was for \u2013 though on scenting a bargain, Elizabeth\u2019s face would set hard,\u00a0 her eyes narrow suspiciously and \u2018then she became a pirate, proud of her high art as a chiseller.\u2019 \u201c<\/p>\n In the 3rd house of Siblings and Communication she had Mars, and the Sun with Mercury, stressing the importance of the male principle in her sibling relationship.\u00a0 Her brother Howard was a loyal stabilizing factor in her life.\u00a0 With these planetary placings too, she was forthright in her verbal expression, and to some extent was self-educated.<\/p>\n In the 6th<\/sup> House of Health and Working Conditions she had Chiron (the Wounded Healer) opposing the Moon in the 12th<\/sup> House of Chronic Health, and squaring her Part of Fortune.\u00a0 Her delicate health affected her on a daily basis, as well as working schedules and the lives of fellow employees.\u00a0 She had an extraordinary capacity for battling through these conditions, with Pluto closely sextile her Chiron assisting her recuperative powers.<\/p>\n The 7th<\/sup> House of Marriages is ruled by Gemini, which indicates the multiplicity in this area of life!\u00a0 The stories of her relationships are fascinating, and I hope to devote one Part of this series alone to her relationship with Richard Burton, a legendary union.<\/p>\n She virtually created the mould for that all-encompassing fame and film stardom, which has become an obsession in our society.\u00a0\u00a0 Elizabeth\u2019s life story is extraordinary in that she seemed to live several lives in one.\u00a0 Pisces is the zodiac sign which aims to perfect a round of lives, or even step off the wheel of rebirth.<\/p>\n In Part 2, I aim to record her early life and relationship with her parents, and look at this theme in more detail in relation to her birth chart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From \u201cElizabeth\u201d by Alexander Walker: \u201cI realize that my whole life is being in motion pictures.\u00a0 For me to quit would be like cutting away the roots of a tree\u2026I\u2019ve made up my mind for myself and I\u2019ll take all the hardship and everything else that comes along.\u201d (from a note to her mother in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astrobiography"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lanawooster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lanawooster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lanawooster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lanawooster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lanawooster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lanawooster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lanawooster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lanawooster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lanawooster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}