“We ignore the gods and fill our minds with trash.” Rainer Maria Rilke.
Starting with a mea culpa for a plunge into the rancid world of reality shows and tabloid hysteria. The Kardashians are practically in the rear view mirror, with the Beckham/Peltz family feud stepping in as the daily-rag top delight. Followed closely on this side of the Atlantic by the Katie Price circus.
For those mercifully ignorant, she is a former topless model, surgically impaired after endless cosmetic procedures, twice bankrupt, with a grubby, pig’s breakfast lifestyle and an addiction to publicity. The rest of the cast for this tawdry drama are her daughter, a sweet, sad 18 year old Princess Tiaamii (Andre), her father Peter, divorced husband of Katie, and two other divorced husbands, Alex Reid and Kieran Hayler.
The Princess Diaries have just launched on TV – the 18 year old’s attempt to make sense of her over-exposed life and boost her influencer profile, which by all accounts is dull and melancholy. Mama has taken a hissy fit and spouted off about being banned from sharing the spotlight, with all three ex-husbands now vowing to spill the beans singly and cooperatively on her past misbehaviour and untruths.
The poor teenager stuck in the middle, under the custody of father but fond of her mother despite the running embarrassment, was born 29 June 2007 at 8.49am London and has a cool, sophisticated Venus Saturn in Leo conjunction on her Ascendant opposition Neptune on her Descendant. Her ever-optimistic Sagittarius Moon is conjunct Pluto in her attention-seeking 5th trine Saturn Venus and square an 8th house Uranus = an all-over-the-place, unpredictable mother both possessive and defensive/not there. Princess also sadly has a mother-oriented Cancer Sun with Mars in Taurus conjunct her midheaven as she follows mama’s ambitions career-wise though in a less gawdy, exhibitionist way. She also has Jupiter in her 4th a hint of the support she got from her steadier, calmer father.
Katie Price, 22 May 1978, no birth time but maybe 7.30am with Jupiter Venus in Cancer on her Ascendant. She has a Gemini Sun with a Scorpio Moon and Uranus square an angry, hard-edged Mars Saturn conjunct in Leo. She has spoken of being abused sexually as a 7 year old and car jacked and raped while filming in Africa in 2018. On both those occasions her Mars Saturn conjunction was being triggered. She has had innumerable relationships and (I think) seven children, including one severely disabled.
Her Mars Saturn in Leo conjunction falls on her daughter’s Venus Saturn Ascendant and opposition Neptune – so she will crash into Princess T’s life when the youngster is trying to attract attention for herself. There will be affection with Katie’s Jupiter Venus conjunct Princess’s Sun Mercury but definitely more minuses than pluses.
Her father on the other hand, Peter Andre, has a Pisces Sun which falls in the Princess’s 7th house of partnership along with Venus for an easy supportive bond.
Princess’s relationship chart with her mother has a competitive Sun Mars conjunction; with a chained-together and resenting it Saturn square Pluto; an emotionally troubled composite Venus opposition Uranus Neptune; and a stressed composite yod onto the Sun.
Just another messy, tragic family as fodder for the public need for sensationalism.
Juvenal’s edict to quell the masses by giving them ‘bread and circuses’ still holds good.
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“People may trash me, but at least they’re talking about me.” Laura Loomer.
“Trash has given us an appetite for art.” Pauline Kael
ADD ON: The older brother of the sad Princess Tia, is rapper Junior Andre, born 13 June 2005 10.05 am London, who has, according to reports, distanced himself from his mother and the running dramas around her life and relationships. Like her, he is a Sun Gemini but her Mars Saturn in Leo falls on his Ascendant – as it does with his sister – so mama threatens to overshadow everything. Also like his sister Katie’s unsettled Uranus falls in his domestic/family 4th. And her South Node is conjunct his 8th house Mars – so her impulsive, self-centered and less evolved actions trigger his buried anger.
Just checked. The parent I was referring to has Mercury conjunct Mars in Capricorn (exact same degree)
Does anybody remember the court case, when Katie Price ignored a Judge’s order to not leave the country during a bankruptcy hearing, and she went to Turkey anyway? On her return, she was found in contempt of court and made to serve some sort of sentence.
I think he was also referring to all the chaos in the world, stories of corrupt elites, general what-was-once-yucky is full-on going on and being maybe even welcome and championed. But maybe I am just inferring what he wasn’t implying.
In any case, maybe if we also let dirt happen and wash everywhere with loads of it and we had no against-it attitudes and judgment and looked at from high above as lowly and low-class, maybe it would be less enticing for people. Wouldn’t be so much of a forbidden fruit.
What was it that one Italian card-reader said the other day when I was watching his video on YouTube: something like we are in this era where there is so much rubbish around, but that in order for it to be cleaned up, it first needs to be seen and spotlight shone upon it, and then people will become aware of it, see what was going under the carpet and the dirt will be washed away. Hopefully. Something like that. We are in an era where the unconscious dirt becomes conscious and gets dug out and into above-the-surface to be examined and dealt with.
That sounds overly optimistic.
We thought the same about Trump but more people embraced all of negative personality traits the second than the first and now they are not happy with him even though Trump was a well-known quantity.
Up to our necks in visible rubbish sounds accurate.
Only a great catastrophe will force us to change our ways. I think it’s coming because we asked for it.
Andre, You are a great gloom merchant but I would be grateful if you would tone it down. One thing writing a book about the past 2000 years taught me was that ’twas ever thus. Humanity does not change much and the same issues are just as apparent in the old Greek tragedies from aeons ago.
Andre, your response makes me wonder what does your chart looks like to facilitate such a comment. Where is this coming from?
Ha. I read Andre’s post with a nod. I’m a gloom merchant too! A tendency picked up from one of my parents. They have a lot of Capricorn and Water in their chart, but no fire (except Pluto in Leo). I’d be interested in the astrological markers too.