Lulu, the Scottish singer, with a six decade career behind her has a new memoir out called If Only You Knew. In it she owns up to a secret drinking habit which sent her into rehab in her sixties.
Born 3 November 1948 1.30am Lennoxstown, Scotland, she shot to fame as a 15 year old from a rough tenement family home with an alcoholic and violent father, onto the international music and film scene, mixing with the Beatles, Elton John and the like. She has been married twice, first to Maurice Gibb and then hairdresser John Frieda.
She explains how she wanted to be Miss Perfect and kept anything out of sight that might blemish her career. She took to heart her mother’s instruction not to ‘air her dirty linen in public’. She does have a secretive and determined 3rd house Scorpio Sun and a keep-a-tidy-image Saturn in Virgo close to her Ascendant. In addition she has a 4th house Sagittarius Moon which has a tendency to be sunny-side-up as far as outsiders (and indeed some insiders) are concerned.
Hints of a violent father come from a 4th house Mars trine a 12th house Pluto – both in hidden houses. Her Moon is sextile a charming Venus in Libra and square Saturn hinting at affection for a disciplinarian mother.
When she finally realised she needed help around the age of 60 tr Pluto was heading for Capricorn and conjunct her 4th house Jupiter before opposing her 10th house Uranus as she turned her life around.
Her North Node in Taurus also suggests that – with insight and self-awareness – peace eventually comes after a fairly tumultuous life.
At the moment her Solar Arc Pluto, dragged out of the hidden 12th house, is conjunct her South Node as she opens up about her problems, rooted in past trauma.
Just reading the BBC article and she says she opened up to her family and got sobered in 2013. Transit Saturn would have been on or around her Sun that year.
Here is Lulu’s confessional biwheel about her alcoholism and PTSD, post traumatic stress
disorder. 12th House, rehab is activated along with tr Saturn, r6, health, at the
Aries Point, public disclosure, of secrets, 8th House.
11th House of group therapy, Alcoholics Anonymout also shows activation.
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Sagittarius Moon as its shadow side has as its traits
– restlessness – always chasing the next horizon, unable to feel at home where they are
– denial: refusal to sit with painful emotions, covers wounds with jokes
– dogmatism: turns beliefs into rigid truths
– being emotionally irresponsible: runs away from commitments, seeks freedom at the expense of emotional accountability
– escapism through excess: food, alcohol, spending, travel, spiritualism as escape hatches; more, more, more instead of addressing what’s lacking inside
– being insensitively honest: blunt, speaks without thinking of consequences
– inflated self-image: Moon is inner needs, in Sagittarius it can create a need to feel special, chosen, or wise – this can turn into arrogance, condescension, or self-righteousness.
“She explains how she wanted to be Miss Perfect and kept anything out of sight that might blemish her career. She took to heart her mother’s instruction not to ‘air her dirty linen in public’.”
Virgo Saturn on the ascendant.