Kanye West, the most successful rapper of the 21st Century, seems to have gone off the rails again, causing outrage among fellow musicians and civil rights activists by implying black people were to blame for their enslavement. In an interview he said: ‘Slavery – for 400 years? That sounds like a choice. It’s like we’re mentally in prison.”
He’s had a history of instability including one psychotic break with hallucinations and paranoia, suicidal impulses and opioid addictions; and has recently declared his love for Donald Trump.
Born 8 June 1977 Atlanta, Georgia with an unverified time of 8.45am, his mother was an English Professor and his father who left the family when Kanye was three was a former Black Panther. He spent some of his childhood in China where his mother was teaching. And is now married to Kim Kardashian with three children.
He’s a Sun Jupiter in Gemini opposition Neptune square a Pisces Moon; with his Sun Jupiter also trine Pluto and sextile Saturn in self-important Leo. The Neptune Pluto contact is often seen in mega-successful charts, having a hint of megalomania about it. But that Mutable T Square is very finely balanced mentally – and is being undermined by tr Neptune conjunct his Moon exactly now and squaring his Jupiter, Sun/Jupiter midpoint this year, then Sun in 2019. So perhaps loosening his grip on reality. His determined and passionately enthusiastic Venus Mars in Taurus opposition Uranus is also getting the elbow from tr Uranus conjunct Mars in June and Venus in July, repeating into 2019. So he’ll be all over the place.
Will.I.Am, the musician and actor, has been leading the backlash saying it “one of the most ignorant statements that anybody who came from the hood could ever say about their ancestors”. Born 15 March 1975 1.16 am, Los Angeles, he was a founder of hip hop group The Black Eyed Peas, has made solo albums and is a music producer. He also has a Sun Jupiter conjunction, in his case in Pisces with a fiery Moon Venus in Aries in his performing 5th house; an influential Pluto in the 10th square Saturn in the 8th; and in a mini-Grand Trine trine to Mars, sextiling onto musical Neptune on his Sagittarius Ascendant. Talented and tough.
Kanye’s Saturn opposes his Mars so there will be a gritty interface.
Hoping (for his family’s sake) he gets back on his meds.
Just read he’s prescribed to take 3 doses a day, but Mr. West has only taken 3 dosages during a week….huge red flag for further manic episodes and psychotic breaks. So, little wonder he’s behaving this way.
If we could only get a doctor, incapable of being corrupted, to diagnose and medicate trump.
Thanks Marjorie, what an interesting contrast between the two charts. The exact same heavyweight planets below the horizon in Kanye’s chart that are above the horizon in Will.I.Am’s.
Not only that but « choice » is antinomic to everything that « slavery » is.
I have a big Neptune too, I could be one of those potential celeb that never was (trying to make my chart interesting here, while making you laugh) and I would love to have your take on one big question in my life. Possible? Thanks.
Now he’s complaining that no one wants to hear “new things”.