David Hockney, the painter, the best liked and most successful despite critics’ misgivings, has died. His 13-room 2017 retrospective at Tate Britain attracted half a million visitors, with more at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York the following year. His 1972 Portrait of an Artist (Pool With Two Figures) sold at auction in New York for $90.3m, the most expensive painting ever sold by a living artist.
His tendency to use garish colours and almost graphic-art techniques upset the traditionalists. But he once said: “People want meaning in life. That’s a desperate need, and images can help. Unfortunately there is within modern art a contempt for people . . . I do want to make a picture that has meaning for a lot of people. I think the idea of making pictures for 25 people in the art world is crazy and ridiculous.”
He always worked as it suited him, no matter what the reception. One review described his work as ‘touching, tender, ribald, raunchy, innovative, annoying.’ Another said ‘Whether or not Hockney is a great artist, he is a great cultural figure.’
Born 9 July 1937, Bradford, England, he was a Sun Mercury in Cancer with Pluto also in Cancer, all three trine a determined Mars in Scorpio; with a rebellious Mars opposition Uranus; and Pluto in a confident/successful opposition to Jupiter in Capricorn. His Sun trine Mars, sextiles onto Neptune which is turn is in a creative trine to Uranus. And he has a self-reliant Saturn in Aries.
Cancer Suns usually have a nose for what the public want and can home into the zeitgeist.
Not surprisingly he as several quintiles and septiles in his chart. His 5th harmonic has a light, bright, passionately enthusiastic Air Grand Trine of Venus Mars linked to the North Node; and an ambitious, influential Pluto Neptune Sun tie up. His 7th Harmonic also veers to the superficial and frivolous with Jupiter and Venus linked together with the North Node. His making-a-mark-on-history 17H is also well aspected with an Air Grand Trine of Saturn Pluto to Venus Mars.
His Saturn in Aries was conjunct Antares suggesting he took his responsibilities seriously and worked non-stop which gave him an outlet for his combative streak. He smoked against advice till the end.
I am occasionally intrigued by numerology and I note that the date of his birth and the date of his death both give the result of 9; a significant number, if you believe its meaning.
Vettius Valens, adds….”for critical illness, count from Lot of Fortune, from Lot of Daimon,
from Lot of Love, and from Lot of Necessity.
Hocknwey was in his 89th year….let 30 degrees, 1 whole sign = 1 year of life.
Hockney was in his 89th year of life. 89 divided by 12 = 7 cycles of his chart
and remainder 5 signs.
Counting friom Lot of fortune, in his 1st House, takes us to his 5th House, no
planet there, take his ruler, Uranus in his 8th House of death, sextile his nSun
and trine his Neptune, 12th….not good.
Lot of Daimon 17Virgo in his 12th…count 5 more houses to his 4th House of endings.
Jupiter is there ruling his 6th of illness….not good.
Lot of Necessity is 14Pi31 in his 6th, count 5 more Houses to his 10th….
life-giving Sun is there but sextiles Neptune in 12th and sextiles Uranus in 8th, both
bad Houses.
Lot of Love is 19Leo49, count 5 more Houses to get to his 3rd House……
nothing there, take the ruler of his 3rd, Jupiter. Mars sextiles Jupiter, ruler
8th of death, not good..
Conclusion: the 89th year of Hockney is not good for his health.
I rectified Hockney’s chart to 12:28:20 pm giving Asc 5Libra, ruler Venus.
Venus and Neptune govern painting/art. His Venus is in 9th, Higer Education in Art
He went to Bradford College of Art, then went to Royal College of Art in London.
Neptune, art, rules his 6th House of work.
From the Age Incidence of Disease Table for age 88, this line runs thru’ the
axis 20 Scorpio/20 TauruAs, and conjuncts his natal Mars, ruler of his 8th of death.
At death his Solar Arc midpoint Mars/Saturn, trines his natal Sun. Also his Solar
Arc midpoint Mars/Uranus sextiles his 6th cusp of illness.
His transiting midpoint Saturn/Neptune exactly squares his 4 cusp of endings.
His trans Saturn/Uranus midpoint trines his natal 4th cusop of endings.
In his photos, his ears are large and prominent. Ears are ruled by Saturn, and
he has Saturn opposed to his Asc, accounting for his large ears.
Neptune in muable Virgo, 12th, sextile his nSun accounts for addictions. He
smoked excessively. Cigarettes are ruled by Neptune, (Mars, Pluto)
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My friend’s husband is a Cancer sun and is a highly successful and respected furniture designer.
I remember a tv documentary about Hockney in his contented older age, where he became enraptured by nature. He was living in California and each day would walk to the cannabis dispensary to buy supplies. He was an institution, a 60s icon. His passing is a great loss to the art world. Jane, my mother passed when Jupiter was conjunct her Pluto in Cancer and her Sagittarius Moon was on the same degree as it was at her birth. A rare event.
VF – sending my condolences and sympathy on the loss of your mother. Jupiter so often seems to indicate our departure from Earth, and I like the notion of expansion that Jupiter symbolises in this respect. Maybe I’m being fanciful, but I imagine the spirit flying free of physical constraints and limitations. Hockney’s love of nature, and ability to ground his Mercury/Neptune visions in his prolific art are a lasting gift for everyone.
Such a life-enhancing character in many ways. A great cultural figure indeed, with endearing (or annoying for some) eccentricities in full view. I see tr Jupiter in Cancer is crossing his Pluto at the moment, signaling his journey into the unknown. I can’t imagine him resting in peace exactly, but wish him well on his new adventure.