Glee TV, which brought the sadly departed Naya Rivera to fame, has picked up chatter about the bad vibes surrounding the mega-successful show, with two previous deaths of cast members. Cory Monteith died of an accidental heroin and alcohol overdose in 2013 and Mark Selling suicided after being arrested in 2018 for child porn offences having already been accused on sexual battery charges. Recently Lea Michele was called out for bad behaviour on set and apologised; and had a strained relationship with Naya. All sounds like tinsel town on steroids – or just more of the same old same old.
Glee was an American musical comedy-drama television series aired by Fox network from 2009 to 2015 with a young ensemble cast, which won multiple awards and sold many million singles and albums on the back of its success.
The pilot was aired 19 May 2009 (no time) which puts a Mercury Sun in Taurus conjunct the destructive Fixed star Algol square Neptune, Chiron, Jupiter in Aquarius. The better side of Jupiter Neptune is a love of music and art, an abundance of good feelings, though it can suggest being easily seduced, overly impressionable – it’s not damaging, just not grounded. Neptune in hard aspect to Mercury Sun is good for music and Jupiter for luck and an over-the-top-quality.
Apart from Algol, the chart itself isn’t too scary. Though the 5th Harmonic is brutal linking Mars Saturn to Mercury Pluto to Neptune Jupiter. 5H can be sensationalist, indulgent, irresponsible. The 10th Harmonic, which suggests a rise and then fall in fortune, is even more so with a deadly Mars Pluto Saturn linked to Neptune – and that is perverse as well as ruinous. The final season was announced after Cory Monteith’s death.
Mark Salling post January 31 2018
Actor/singer Mark Salling, best known for Glee, committed suicide while facing sentencing for gross child pornography charges which would likely have sent him to jail for seven years.
Born 17 August 1982 Dallas Texas, he was a Sun Leo trine Neptune, sextile Pluto Saturn in Libra – creative, flamboyant and hard. He also had an exuberantly determined Mars Jupiter in Scorpio square his Venus in Leo and maybe a Leo Moon; with his Venus (Moon) trine Uranus. Venus square Mars can be insensitive to the needs of partners and he had faced two sexual assault charges previously. Mars in Scorpio can be sexually obsessed and vengeful. It’s not an especially brutal chart but much will depend on houses which we don’t know without a birth time.
He was brought up in a strictly religious home, home-schooled in the early stages. These kinds of inclinations almost always stem from early damage and dysfunction in relation to the primary caregiver.
His midpoints show illusions and delusions with his Sun square his Neptune/Pluto midpoint and his Pluto conjunct his Sun/Neptune – so a huge amount of inner confusion. And tr Uranus had been on the opposition to his Sun/Neptune from early December through this month.
Child pornography, while it appears less heinous than actual abuse, is not a victimless crime. Either he was stuck in a repetition compulsion from his own inner fantasies; or he lacked empathy which can be a Neptunian failing.
Cory Monteith post 14 July 2013:
Cory Monteith, the Canadian actor best known for Glee, who had a drug and substance abuse problem since his teens has been found dead. Born 11 May 1982 in Calgary, Canada, he was a Sun Taurus inconjunct Saturn Pluto so bleak, strained. His Venus in Aries opposed Mars and Saturn and squared onto a Cancer North Node – so again emotionally out of kilter, rather tortured; and a sharp-witted though highly strung Mercury in Gemini opposition Uranus. Plus Mars square Neptune Moon (Sagittarius or Capricorn) so more emotional confusion and aggravation. His parents divorced when he was 7.
His chart has an oddity in that Saturn and Pluto are 8 degrees apart with the Sun exactly inconjunct the midpoint. His Mars Saturn are 16 degrees apart with Venus exactly opposition their midpoint. And Mercury is 8 degrees in opposition to Uranus.
This year tr Pluto and tr Uranus have been hitting on his Mars/Saturn midpoint so it was an accident waiting to happen. Plus tr Uranus is exactly opposition his Mars/Pluto as well at the moment which is very risky.
Thanks Marjorie. As you say, “tinsel town on steroids” – and that comment prompted me to wonder about Hollywood itself. It’s entire history is jam-packed with endless mysterious deaths and scandals. I was curious to see the chart for the very first Hollywood studio – the Nestor Studio on Sunset Boulevard, LA. I think this chart works quite well, and has a story to tell, in part about how the USA ‘sees’ itself, and what constitutes the American Dream.
The Nestor was founded 27th October, 1911. It has Sun, Mercury, and Jupiter in Scorpio, with Venus in Virgo sextile that Jupiter – the money, I think, the extravagance, but also would describe super-sized images of women on screen, and the obsession with beauty both male and female. The USA’s own natal Neptune is 22 Virgo, BML 19 Virgo – both conjunct the Hollywood Venus – a shared fantasy expressed in the movies? The USA Mercury at 24 Cancer is conjunct the Hollywood Neptune at 23 Cancer – connecting with the Hollywood chart’s Uranus (25 Capricorn) opposition Neptune. More pieces of a dream?
Another swoosh of Neptune is also appearing by transit now, just as Hollywood is confused about it’s own identity and future. Plus, Pluto in Capricorn – which has to be all the investors and power brokers of the movie business – is opposing the Hollywood Neptune, and approaching a conjunction with it’s Uranus at 25 Capricorn. A reinvention of some kind would seem inevitable.
There’s Algol again.
Cory’s chart is interesting. How these Hollywood types continue to paint such convincing smiles over so much apparent pain is baffling to me. Guess I’m no actor.
Thanks for this Marjorie