John Singleton, the movie director, has died at the tragically young age of 51 from a stroke. His debut film Boyz n the Hood (1991) brought him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director (and screenplay writer), which made him at 24, the first African American and youngest person to have ever been nominated for that award. The film is now regarded as a landmark in contemporary US cinema for bringing black experience to the screen, as well as introducing Cuba Gooding Jnr and Regina King, and having a chart topping sound track. Most recently Singleton co-created the tv crime drama Snowfall.
Born 6 January 1968 in Los Angeles, he was a Sun Mercury in Capricorn with his Sun widely trine Jupiter in Virgo and widely square Saturn in forced-to-be-self-reliant Aries. He had a stubbornly determined Mars in Aquarius in a showbiz square to Neptune and inconjunct Uranus (conjunct Pluto) in Virgo. He ran on high octane fuel and would find relaxation tricky. In 1991 when he hit the heights with his first effort his Solar Arc Jupiter was conjunct his Uranus for a surge of confidence.
There’s a fair amount of Mars activity in his chart from Solar Arcs and Progressions which would mount up the pressure.
Solar eclipse in Jan. 2019 coincided with personal solar return: a “fateful” year, NOT business as usual. Transit Saturn stationary retrograde on natal Mercury at time of stroke / death: pressure / stoppage in nervous system. Transit Pluto already crossed / recrossed natal Mercury in past year: more stress.
A tragedy that Singleton didn’t survive this very challenging period.