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Kurt Cobain
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Kurt Cobain - Voice and Victim of the Collective.
by Erin Sullivan |
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Natal Promise
The Uranus/Pluto conjunction in 1966 and 1967 was the celestial dynamic that coincided with a global cultural and social revolution, active over a period of a couple years, but forever changing the world from post-war conservatism. Though the radicalization of consciousness was most immediately apparent in North American universities and youth culture, through their music, style and consciousness, within two years following the conjunction this historical phenomenon became global.
The active participants in that cultural revolution of the mid nineteen-sixties, were the post-war babies, now called the Baby Boomers, the majority of whom were born immediate after the Second World War and had the Saturn Pluto conjunction - many with Mars therein - in their horoscopes.
The most dramatic and forceful focal point of the mid nineteen-sixties revolution was activated by the transit of Saturn moving into opposition to this powerful conjunction. The individuals born with UR/PL conjunct came in with the imperative to blow the last of the superficiality off the surface of society. Whether or not "society" wanted or liked this, is quite beside the point. Clearly it was needed, or it would not have happened.
All individuals who take it upon themselves, consciously or unconsciously, to live out the drama of the heavenly imperative, have profoundly disturbing aspects in their natal charts. How they are able to translate those aspects depends on myriad circumstance.
Since we are looking at a "collective aspect" - that is, one that is long term, involving planets that are both personal and global in their agency - it is important to realize that only a few people will be activators of the conjunction when they come of age. The most active revolutionaries - whether that is in literature, consciousness, or inventions - have aspects in their charts that set them apart from the general mass of people.
They are born to live out life in ways which take consummate courage, consciousness and are often fated to have major confrontations with the status quo.
The planets Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, though deeply personal in transits to natal charts, causing people to look more deeply into heir hidden parts, thus are "evolutionary" in individual development, are primarily motivators for large groups and cultures to undergo massive reorganization and transformation.
When an individual is born with one of the cultural collective aspects in a personal placement in his or her chart, he or she is called to take on the responsibility as well as the supervision of cultural revolution. People who have the 1947-48 aspects of Mars/Saturn/Pluto, for example, in personal configurations such as conjunct their Sun or Moon, or on any one of the angles; or secondarily, implicated into the Gestalt of their horoscope in certain houses, such as the fourth and the first, then we have a signature of an individual whose process of self-becoming is tied directly into social and global movements.
Kurt Cobain was born to ask serious questions to which there are no satisfactory answers. With that, his "symptoms" of collective disease, killed him. I have several clients who have the "same" chart, in that they have monumental collective aspects in personal points of their natal charts, such as the Uranus/Saturn in Gemini and Taurus, or the MA/SA/PL of the mid-forties, and then this one, the one that Kurt carried on his ascendant/descendant axis.
There is no way to predict how an individual will carry a collective aspect. This is information that astrology does not have privy to. The element of fate and destiny is so entwined in the individual's soul, that astrology can only define the astrology, and the soul and individual must find its way to work with it.
When one is born with even one of the outer planets on his or her angles, or conjunct or in hard aspect to a personal planet, then their task on earth is exceptional and difficult. The most sensitive place for an outer planet, or combination of those to be found, is on the ascendant, because not only does that place describes the conditions surrounding the birth itself, but also is the place in which one imprints the collective environment into his or her personal receptive zone. Thus, setting a predisposition to view the world through those "eyes", and have the world project that aspect onto the persona of that person.
Kurt's ascendant, with Pluto Uranus on it, talks about existential questions that simply must be pondered, and that he would have been aware from the first breath that he was "selected" to take on a major role in his culture as a spokesperson for cultural angst. The fact that he endured a chaotic and non supportive childhood is not helpful at all, and indeed, all heroic births are marked by immediate threat to the life, and an endangered childhood, followed by various tests and trials - very often to "find their father". In a more modern context, the hero seeks to find his authority, authenticity and be author of his own destiny in the eyes of the archetypal "father" - society.
The most shocking and sad part of his childhood is the Victorian concept that children should be "seen and not heard". Unfortunately for many parents, little boy's behavior is over demanding. There is nothing to suggest that Kurt was any of the diagnosed popular acronyms of today - ADD, ADAD, hyperactive or anything. Nothing more than a typical boy with vast amounts of energy, living in an imaginary world of heroes and dragons - and they drugged him. Ritalin is the single most psychoactively destructive drug to a child's developing neurology and cognitive mind.
Any drug introduced in childhood predisposes that child to more drugs - later if not immediately. Of various kinds. With Neptune in his natal third house, he should never have been given drugs in his early childhood, but rather, a more compassionate understanding. However, with the UR/PL on the ascendant, he was not "made" to be given such a response, but one which was further alienating and isolating.
The hyperactivity of Kurt as a little boy should have been seen individually - and here is where astrology is so very important. We can see in a second, that he was filled with energy, anxiety and very likely, prescient. His level of gut and psychic responsiveness to his environment is likely the cause of his over active behavior. As well as him being the first of the newly emerging Indigo Children, a term that originates in the cosmic spectrum.
At one end of the spectrum is the colour red, at the extreme other end, is violet. Red has a low wave frequency, while indigo/violet is the high frequency wave. Hence the term "indigo child" is about the frequency at which the child's mind vibrates. . . in Kurt's case, as in the case of a majority of children born after 1966, increasing in numbers of children (2002) are operating with an high frequency neurology. This is another intimation that Kurt Cobain was a high powered, visionary and active person in the collective changes in the third millennium.
More small boys than girls demonstrate aggression, inattention, "inappropriate" behavior and are more often badly treated for this behavior. It is really the adults who should be drugged, because the children - unless there truly is a disorder or dysfunction - will prove to be more interesting, more innovative and more contributing to novelty and change as adults. There is a level at which this is normal, and just simply must be understood - men are more difficult to civilize than women, we all know that. But, must they be drugged or beaten into submission - I think not.
In Kurt's chart, his Cancer Moon trine his Sun/Mars midpoint, which is tied into his Mars in Scorpio (creating an operative grand trine in water, which means his emotions are running in a closed circuit, enriching his inner imagination, but not easily externalized) his need for love and sympathy and gentleness, peaceful quiet times filled with reflection, reading, drawing and listening to music. He was coming of age to the music that was so revolutionary in his birth generation. He was born to rebel, since his "reception" to his birth was marked by the UR/PL 180 SA.
His mother's rejection must have gutted him - literally - because his Cancer moon loved his mother, needed her badly, and being sent to his father at age nine, a man who is clearly demonstrated by the Saturn configuration in his chart, was likely the last straw for this boy.
Saturn conjunct Venus in any chart speaks of the ability of the 'wearer' to take more pain than they even know, and accept less than they are worth, virtually starving themselves of love - and with that aspect, in the seventh house, opposite to the UR/PL, it is clearly the father who was the "stoic", the wrestler-jock and "The Man" who said, "you are a wimp".
And, being a bit of a wimp, or rather, a sensitive little boy, he interjected this cultural epithet, taking it in with all the pain of a good Pisces with a Cancer moon. With his soulful eyes, set in a heart rendingly beautiful face, he must have turned the soul of every person he met. But, would he know that? Could he feel the love he received? Apparently not.
After leaving his father, moving to his grandparents in his adolescence, during which the first half-Saturn was transiting his loaded ascendant, conjoining Uranus/Pluto and opposing his sad little Venus/Saturn - he spent time ridiculing jocks, and blowing weed. Makes perfect sense.
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Erin Sullivan,
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Erin Sullivan is one of the brightest lights in contemporary astrology. She has been integral to the growth of today's astrology, having founded many groups, run symposia, taught for over thirty years and presented at international conferences around the world.
She is Canadian born, and has lived in many cultures - in 1989 she moved to London England where she took on the position of Series Editor for Penguin, Arkana's prestigious Contemporary Astrology Series. Her tutoring for the Centre for Psychological Astrology in London gave birth to two of her books: Where in the World?Astro*Carto*Graphy and Relocation, and Venus and Jupiter: Bridging the Ideal and the Real.
Erin returned to North America in 1998, and continued to teach, write and consult with clientele from all nations. Her three other books are published by Samuel Weiser (now RedWheel/Weiser Publications):
The Astrology of Family Dynamics (a best seller)
Saturn in Transit: Boundaris of Mind Body and Soul,
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