Denise Robertson, the much beloved agony aunt of ITV’s This Morning for nearly 30 years has died, aged 83.
Born 9 June 1932, she had an extraordinary, tough and prolific life. She wrote two dozen novels, appeared regularly on radio, wrote for magazines, organized a trust to provide work for the long-term unemployed, was on the local council, drove for Meals on Wheels, chaired a local physically handicapped club.
Her father lost his business so she had an uncertain, poor childhood, and although bright didn’t go to university, won a BBC TV play competition, then lost her mother, sister and first husband in quick succession. Her second husband’s business collapsed so she wrote herself out of debt with Mills and Boon novels.
She was a Sun Mercury in Gemini which was sextile an enthusiastic Jupiter (Moon) in Leo on one side and sextile Uranus in Aries on the other. A good communicator and multi-tasker, willing to take risks and lucky. Her Mars in Taurus was sextile Venus Pluto in Cancer and square Jupiter so despite seeing the dark side of life, she could rise above it and shine.
Her victim/helper 12th Harmonic not surprisingly was very strong, focussing on Mercury and Chiron.
