Jackie Kennedy – her final beau

Maurice Tempelsman, a diamond trader and latterly escort and friend to Jackie Kennedy has died. She famously said “The first time you marry for love, the second for money and the third for companionship,” although in the last instance the pair never tied the knot.

 Her marriage to JFK lasted ten years until his assassination; and her surprising, publicly unpopular match to Greek shipping mogul Ari Onassis after the shooting of her brother-in-law Robert Kennedy, continued none-too-happily until his death seven years later in 1975. She then returned to New York and lived under the radar until she succumbed to cancer in 1994.

Maurice Tempelsman was a discreet, well-connected businessman, not handsome like JFK or wealthy at the level of Onassis. But he and Jackie had a mutual interest in art, politics and the French language and he became her main financial adviser in 1975, managing her $26 million Onassis inheritance. When she was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, he moved his office into her New York apartment and escorted her to hospital appointments; and was at her bedside when she died in 1994,  remaining close to her two surviving children.

  The relationship charts and synastry of her three attachments are fascinating.

 With JFK, 29 May 1917 3pm Brookline, Massachusetts, there was a composite New Moon conjunct Pluto square Saturn in their relationship chart which points to a more-whole-when-together bonding with the New Moon; close and possessive with Pluto and unambiguously chained-together with Saturn Pluto. A high-octane match (and lifestyle) with a composite Mars trine Uranus – and not always easy.

  His Gemini Sun was conjunct her 7^th house Jupiter which would smooth round rough edges and be a morale boosting combo; and his high-vitality Jupiter Mercury Mars also fell in her 7^th so it would be for her a heady, exciting relationship. His Neptune was conjunct her Sun for the Camelot dream, though at times the reality would fall short. His Virgo Moon conjunct her Mars in her 10th for a few argumentative moments.

 Aristotle Onassis, 20 January 1906 10 am Smyrna, Turkey, whom she married in a panic, concerned for the safety of her children, did have his Jupiter in Taurus, like JFK, in her 7^th house of relationship which would help. And his Sagittarius Moon in her 1^st was trine her Sun which is good. But his Pluto fell in her 8^th conjunct her Venus and opposition her 2^nd house Saturn and square his Mars which hints at intense, dominating streak from his end which was in part compensated for with money which was important to her. But his Saturn and Mars in her 4^th hints at an uncomfortable and aggravated domestic life.

 That relationship chart has cross overs with composite Pluto, Mars and Uranus so echoing a theme of a not-altogether harmonious duo. Plus a yod onto the Sun which also squared Neptune – tied together for good or for ill and ending ultimately in disappointment.

 What is curious (or maybe not) was that Maurice Tempelsman, 26 August 1929, was born only four weeks after her and had relatively similar placings. His Sun Neptune in Virgo was in her 10th for shared artistic interests and his intuitive guiding of her life in her latter days. His Jupiter in Gemini was conjunct her Jupiter, and on the cusp of her financial 8^th house. His steady Taurus Moon fell in her 6^th house of work and health.

 Their relationship chart had a hidden 12^th house composite Sun trine Uranus and Venus square Uranus – so it thrived on discretion and being unorthodox. There was also a composite Mars square Saturn, perhaps indicating a workaholic streak or a need for one partner to suppress their assertiveness to make it work.

 What is worth noting is that she had a Taurus North Node conjunct her Descendant which suggested that close relationships did not come easily to her. And a Taurus Node tends to bring a tumultuous life before (hopefully) settling into calmer older years.