Screen and stage actress, singer and dancer Debbie Reynolds has died, a day after her daughter Carrie Fisher, of a stroke aged 84. She had a bright, bubbly image which hit the big time when she was 19 in Singing in the Rain and she went on to have a long and enduring career in films, television and on Broadway. Though her emotional life was a train wreck. Her first husband Eddie Fisher left her for a newly-widowed Elizabeth Taylor, when Debbie, already unhappy in the marriage, was pregnant with her second child. Her next husband gambled away her fortune and was serially unfaithful; and she went bankrupt after her third marriage ended.
Born 1 April 1932 5.49pm El Paso, Texas, she had a 7th house Sun Uranus Mercury in Aries which squared onto a 10th house Pluto – so she was very contradictory in relationships, needing support and independence at the same time; would be controlling and possessive while staging rebellions and insisting on freedom.
Her Aquarius Moon in the performing 5th was opposition Neptune and square an 8th house Venus in Taurus. The 8th house often appears in movie stars’ charts and appears to have the ability to project an aura for the public. Doris Day, another effervescent blonde actress, had Venus in the 8th; and with a disastrous marriage track record much like Debbie Reynolds, she also shared a 7th house Aries Sun square a 10th house Pluto.
Debbie Reynolds’ relationship with her daughter Carrie went through phases of separation, was turned into an acidly funny book and movie in Postcards from the Edge, but ultimately grew close. Debbie’s Venus in Taurus was conjunct Carrie’s Moon so there would be a streak of real affection; but Debbie’s controlling Pluto was conjunct Carrie’s Descendant and trine Carrie’s Mars; and Carrie’s Pluto was opposition Debbie’s Moon – so there would be aggravations and power struggles.
Their relationship chart had a similarly complicated mix with an affectionate composite Sun opposition Venus; and a muddled composite Moon which was opposition a vague Neptune, square a defensive and cool Saturn, trine possessive Pluto, and sextile needs-space Uranus.
Debbie recently had been living through a very challenging phase with the tr Uranus square tr Pluto in hard aspect to her Sun; with tr Uranus opposition her Pluto and square her Uranus; and tr Neptune moving into her 6h house of health.
Thanks, Marjorie. Very interesting.
If any movie captured Debbie Reynold’s Aries spirit, it was “The Unsinkable Molly Brown.” When she made that film she had just come through a devastating scandal re husband Eddie Fisher, who left her with two babies and ran off with Liz Taylor. She won an Oscar nomination for her performance. Her comeback was true to form. Aries always bounce back.
Debbie’s Venus and Carrie’s moon were both conjunct the wicked Algol – curious what that meant for them?
Algol can be destructive. Debbie Reynolds had her 8th house Venus conjunct. 8th house rules intimate relationships and joint finances. Her first husband betrayed her in a much-headlined fling, then marriage with Liz Taylor. Her second and third husbands wrecked her finances.
Carrie Fisher had Algol conjunct her Taurus Moon in the 4th. 4th = home, childhood, father, roots. Her father baled when she was 2 years old, and she was always clear how damaging a Hollywood upbringing was. Plus she lived through her mother’s subsequent disastrous marriages.
Sounds like the relationship I currently have with my mid point Libra daughter but then I have Pluto on the Ascendant (Leo) opposite Venus in Aqua so I can be a cold, overbearing bxxxc .. so she tells me. This was a very enlightening post on personal astro level.