Benjamin Keough, grandson of Elvis and son of Lisa Marie Presley has died of self-inflicted gunshot wounds, aged 27. He grew up in the overheated atmosphere of the most famous celebrity family of all time with a chaotic mother, who married his musician father for five years, then skipped on unbelievably to Michael Jackson, then a two month marriage to Nicholas Cage and finally a 10 year marriage to a music producer, with whom she is now fighting a custody battle for their twin daughters citing child pornography as a reason for denying spousal support.
Benjamin, born 21 October 1992 7.46am Tampa, Florida, was a Sun Libra with a volatile, highly-strung Mars in Cancer opposition the obsessive Uranus Neptune in Capricorn; with his Mars in a frustrated, angry trine to Mercury Pluto in Scorpio which in turn was in an unyielding and can-be-depressive square to a 4th house Saturn. His wannabe-grand Leo Moon was in an emotionally intense and overly controlled square to Pluto Mercury. He would take everything to heart and tend to be pessimistic or even apocalyptic in his outlook.
None of the family have easy charts. Elvis, 8 January 1935 4.35 am Tupelo, MS, died 1977, was a Sun Capricorn square Mars in Libra, opposition an 8th house Pluto square Uranus. His Sun sat on top of Benjamin’s Uranus Neptune opposition Mars – so would be a heavy weight on his grandson’s shoulders. Even more so Elvis’s 8th house Pluto was square Benjamin’s Sun, pulling him deeper into the shadow of the King.
His mother Lisa Marie, has an 8th house Mars Moon in Pisces opposition Pluto Uranus; with a 7th house Sun Aquarius – so emotionally all over the place. His father, with whom she has kept up friendly relations, Danny Keough, 6 November 1964, Chicago, is a Sun Neptune in Scorpio opposition Jupiter in Taurus; plus a tricky Mars opposition Saturn square Mercury in Scorpio – an odd mix of head-in-the-clouds and rigidly dogmatic.
Benjamin at present did look more neurotic, anxious and discouraged than usual with tr Neptune square his Sun/Saturn midpoint and opposition his Mars/Pluto; as well as the disruptive tr Uranus opposition his Sun/Pluto and tr Saturn conjunct his Saturn/Neptune – not on their own enough to tip the balance but added into his high-wire temperament did obviously become too much.
Get well soon, Marjorie and many thanks for all your wonderful astrological insights.
Wishing you a speedy recovery Marjorie
What a terrible tragedy for Lisa Marie and Priscilla.
This is a major psychic wound that will have devasting implications in the future.
what about priscilla presley chart?
Be well!
Suicide is always tragic. In this case more so, because I feel like Benjamin might not have been getting the help he needed growing up because of her mother’s and grandmother’s affiliation to Scientology.
And Marjorie, I too wish a speedy recovery. One can never be too careful with operations on mouth area.
Many thanks for all your kind thoughts. I can’t say I enjoy the visits at all but I do get laughing gas which I’d never had before and its much to be recommended. No aches now but I do look like Dracula’s mother which hopefully will have calmed down by tomorrow. And swilling with pills since the French are great ones for over prescribing.
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When I had my wisdom teeth extracted over 10 years ago I was given an injection, don’t know what, but I didn’t feel a thing while the dentist removed them. My friend had to walk me home and I was smiling all the way! All my usual worries and anxieties and mental head chatter evaporated and I felt so content, like a sense of floating in a gentle energy field but connected to everything, without judgement or analysis, at the same time. Bizarre but beautiful.
I can see why people can get addicted to these kinds of pain opiates. My vice though, is neither drugs, drink or even smoking. I’m the kind of girl who will do a triple somersault faceplant into a huge meat and potato pie followed by a luxurious swim in a tub of Ben & Jerry’s Salted Caramel Ice Cream. And I have the swimsuit to prove it, unfortunately.
Saying that though, speaking of that Saturn in Cancer earlier, Marjorie, I do have to say in the past 10 days I have got my act together regarding my diet and exercise and I’m actually enjoying it. My health was obviously coasting towards dangerous waters but everything this time has ‘clicked’ in my head and I’m actually being pretty serious about getting fit and back into shape. So maybe that’s how the eclipses are working out for me? Can’t complain though!
Wishing you a speedy recovery, Marjorie. Your posts are wonderful and so appreciated.
Thank you Marjorie. Hope you feel better soon, anything to do with dental surgery is so nasty.
Regarding Benjamin, it’ so sad when anyone feels that desperate and can only see one way out. You probably know about the so-called ’27 Club’, which is a long list of artists and musicians who have died aged 27. I wondered if this could chime with the first shadows of the approaching Saturn Return for some of them. I noticed that Benjamin’s IC is 1 Aquarius, with Saturn putting pressure on it in recent months. The horary interpretation of this house as ‘the end of the matter’ seems chilling in light of this news.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/27_Club
Thanks. Every time I typed Bernard it felt off. Brain mush this morning after – yet more – dental surgery a couple of days back. Curses on my Saturn in Cancer hitting the Eclipses. Interminable process.
Ouch! Hope you get better soon. What’s expected from the eclipses hitting Saturn in Cancer as I have it myself?
Well Saturn rules bones and teeth, the rigidities of the body, so that’s part of it. Also facing up to realities and taking responsibilities.
Thanks, Marjorie. I think the latter is happening at the moment for me – although I do go through these existential turns on a regular basis (maybe my emotional Cancer moon ramps it up in cycles though). However, I did wake up this morning like I had slept five rough hours at the bottom of a wheelie bin as I was so stiff and crumpled! I don’t do well with little sleep. Bleurgh!
Hmm, stiffness probably also a side effect. I’ve felt about 100 years old recently, creaking along towards a zimmer frame. But I get so irritated by my body not doing what it’s supposed to I found a decent osteopath and got back exercises – and hey presto – it’s all gone (cross fingers). So Saturn – making an effort – does work positively as well.
Is Bernard a typo? A bit confused.
I always did wonder about him. He just had that same look in his eyes that Kurt Cobain had. Heavy, dejected, sullen, drugged and lost. Such a shame though. He was a ringer for his grandfather.
“He was a ringer for his grandfather.”
Incredibly so. I remember pointing this out to my husband, who has been an Elvis fan since he was 6, some years ago.
I absolutely IDOLIZED Elvis from becoming consciously aware of him as a toddler (I think my first memory was people on the news crying hysterically and showing his funeral procession and clips of his music) to around the age of 16. I had a useless father and step-father when growing up and a pretty cold mother, but in a very strange way Elvis became such an anchor for me when I closed my bedroom door and stayed in my ‘shrine’, listening to his songs or watching his films. He became, in a weird way, like a father figure to me. For a dead guy he was the most reliable, constant male figure in my life!
As a kid when I saw his face in magazines and albums I would light up like a Christmas tree as if he was Santa Claus! I loved him with such a deep intensity in a way a child adores their favourite teddy bear (pun intended!).
I just naturally ‘grew out’ of him for some reason by the time I got to my mid-teens, but I do miss those days of feeling that innocent excitement about him and I am so grateful I had his presence there to make my bleak family life not so grim. I also love the fact he has a legacy of being a really lovely, generous guy. Not many celebrities can claim that rare reputation!