Sondra Locke, actress/director and one-time companion of Clint Eastwood, from whom she split acrimoniously with a substantial palimony suit and tell-all memoir, has died.
She was born 28 May 1944 in Tennessee with her father disappearing before her birth. Her first film role earned her an Oscar nomination but she did little work thereafter until hired for a Clint Eastwood movie. They got together and Eastwood paid for a house for her husband, a gay childhood friend to whom she remained married throughout. She acted in six films with Eastwood; and after the split was promised a directing deal with Warner Bros as part of the palimony suit but no films were agreed and back to court she went.
She was a Sun Uranus in Gemini conjunct Venus in last degree Taurus; with a fiercely determined and angry Mars Pluto in Leo with Pluto square her Mercury in Taurus, so she’d be argumentative and stubborn.
It was an odd match with Eastwood, 31 May 1930 5.35pm San Francisco, since her Sun Uranus was conjunct his 7th house Sun, so she would be a disruptive influence demanding an unconventional relationship; her can-be-hostile Mars Pluto was conjunct his Leo Moon; and her Saturn was conjunct his 8th house Jupiter which would put a damper on intimacy as well as bring up money issues.
Their relationship chart had a passionate composite Sun, Mars, Venus; and a power-couple Jupiter Pluto conjunction, though that can turn into a struggle for the upper hand when the glitter wears off.
Both were Geminis, both with Moon in Leo, both with Mercury in Taurus.
Eastwood was a renowned womaniser with various children born from different liaisons and she was evidently distraught when she discovered he’d been two timing her especially since she’d had two abortions early in their relationship. According to the Times obituary: “Throughout the break-up Eastwood, who denied many of her allegations, said little, his most loquacious comment being: “I have done nothing but try to help her, and no good deed goes unpunished.” He was part of the early 1930s generation with Saturn opposition Pluto squaring onto Uranus in Aries – tough, unyielding, a maverick and a rebel.
Only in Hollywood could you demand a house for your husband out of a palimony suit with another man. Not sure I’m too sympathetic towards her. She got the roles and then got vengeful.