The Kennedy women – a breed apart

The Kennedy women who either suffered at the hands of the male members of the clan they married into – or to whom they sold their souls in return for money and prestige –  have smatterings of similarities amongst them. 

  Rose, the matriarch, 22 July 1890 11 am Boston, Massachusetts, wife of Joseph, mother of 11 children including JFK and Robert. She had a 10^th house Sun Mercury in Cancer so was designed for a public life; with a fearsome Mars in Sagittarius opposition an 8th house Neptune Pluto in Gemini square a chilly Venus Saturn in Virgo. Made of tempered steel, hard, could be cruel. Her hidden Libra Moon was in an Air Grand Trine to Jupiter in the 4^th trine Neptune Pluto = emotionally cool.

 Her daughter Rosemary, 13 September 1918 7pm Brookline, Massachusetts, who became difficult to handle in her teens, was forcibly lobotomized at her father’s insistence when she was 23. The procedure left her permanently incapacitated and rendered her unable to speak intelligibly.

 She had her highly-strung Virgo Sun conjunct her Descendant square a Sagittarius Moon and North Node, but what was more significant was a 12th house Uranus opposition Saturn in Leo square an 8th house Mars in Scorpio. A disruptive gestation (her mother’s pregnancy with her with Uranus in the 12^th) plus the generational family demons breathing heavily with Mars in the 8^th were guaranteed to cause problems. When she was operated on in 1941 the transiting Saturn in Taurus was opposition her 8th house Mars and tr Uranus in Taurus was square her Uranus and Saturn – so that unstable and afflicted T square was being upended. It was a criminal act.

Eunice Shriver, another daughter of Rose and Joe, founder of the Special Olympics, was close to Rosemary. She had a 10^th house Cancer Sun, Mars, Mercury and Pluto, a pointer to a controlling, angry, ambitious mother (similar to Nathalie Wood’s nightmare of a stage mother). Eunice also had a hard-working Virgo Moon conjunct Saturn; and a reformist Uranus trine Pluto and Mars.

 Kathleen Kennedy Cavendish, 20 February 1920, was the one daughter who did make a break for freedom, though she had a tragically short run. She defied her family and mother to marry an English aristocrat who was – shock horror – Protestant in a civil ceremony attended only by her brother Joe. Both her husband and Joe were killed a few months later in 1944. She then fell in love with another Protestant, who was rich, a gambler and married, only to die with him four years later in a plane crash in the south of France. Because of the scandalous circumstances of her death and JFK’s fledgling political career, the Kennedys wanted little attention paid to her.

  She did have Mars in Scorpio like several other family members but more importantly her Uranus was trine her Pisces Sun and maybe Pisces Moon and was also trine Mars and Pluto in a Water Grand Trine, formed into a Kite by Uranus Sun opposition Saturn – very Uranian. Plus a super-optimistic Neptune Jupiter in Leo square Mars.

 Neither Jackie Kennedy nor Ethel, Robert F’s widow, have charts nearly as difficult. Ethel has a confident Sun Jupiter I Aries in the 2^nd square Pluto with a well-organised Saturn in her 10^th.

 Jackie, had a 10^th house creative Neptune and ambitious Mars, with her Leo Sun in the publishing and far-travelled 9^th house; with a cool, sophisticated (and unloved) Saturn in her 2^nd opposition Venus in her 8^th.

What a nightmare dynastic families are.