The ever-young Kate Bush is sixty today, a birthday she shares with novelist Emily Bronte (200 years ago) who inspired her first hit ‘Wuthering Heights’ which shot her to prominence as a 19 year old. A singer-songwriter, musician, dancer and record producer her music is eclectic, experimental, idiosyncratic and theatrical. Over the years she has released 25 top singles – The Man with the Child in his Eyes, Babooshka, Don’t Give up – and ten studio albums. Reclusive and enigmatic she never sold out to the commercial market and still became a significant influence for many who followed her unique and dramatic musical style.
Born 30 July 1958, she is, surprisingly, a Sun Leo conjunct a maverick Uranus squaring onto a steady Mars in Taurus opposition Neptune perhaps square an Aquarius Moon. Her Sun must be in one of the hidden houses. Her Mars does trine Pluto and Mercury in Virgo which will give her an intensity and may contribute to her reserved approach to public display. Her Venus in home-loving and creative Cancer is trine her Neptune and sextile Pluto Mercury and Mars so she has passion and flair. For sure her Neptune is powerfully aspected.
Really interesting, I serendipitously stumbled your site reading about Paul Manafort and was thrilled find your writing on the incomparable Kate Bush. To me she’ll always stand far above any other contemporary musicians. There are other geniuses, like Prince, but the music of Kate Bush moves me like no other. Thanks.
Thanks, Marjorie! What a amazing talent. Interesting year for talent since Madonna, Michael Jackson, and Prince were also born within a few months of each other in 1958, although Prince’s Pluto was in late Leo while Madonna, Kate and Michael had Pluto in Virgo. The ladies have outlasted the guys.