Happy Birthday Aquarius! Spotlight On...Yoko Ono!

  Hello all! I hope you all had beautiful Valentine's Days or if you hate Valentine's Day I hope you were able to successfully ignore it completely and do your own thing!  And speaking of doing your own thing, Happy Birthday Yoko Ono! Yoko Ono is a Japanese Artist and Peace Activist who lives in New York City. Her late husband John Lennon once referred to her as "The world's most unknown artist. Everybody knows her name, but nobody knows what she does." Yoko Ono was born on February 18, 1933 at 8:30PM. Her family was very well to do, but for a time after the Srecond World War they had to seek refuge in a remote mountain village. Yoko and her family were on foot for most of that journey, and were forced to barter their possessions for food. It was during this time that Yoko began to identify as an "Outsider."  This feeling only intensified years later when she relocated to New York State to be closer to her family who had preceded her there. Her family was excited that she was planning to attend Sarah Lawrence College, but dismayed by the bohemian lifestyle she was cultivating in the city, and that was only the beginning.

  In many ways Yoko Ono is a textbook Aquarian. She goes her own way, like I said before. People tend to have strong feelings about her, some positive, some negative. As we know, Aquarius is ruled by eccentric Uranus. A look at Yoko's chart shows Uranus falls in her Seventh House of Partnerships. Not surprisingly, a person with this placement is going to have a non-traditional approach to relationships. This is intensified by the fact that Uranus is Sextile the Moon in her chart. This angle tends to make a person attracted to unique individuals and it also creates a need for freedom and autonomy in a relationship. Yoko Ono was married twice before her prominent marriage to Beatle John Lennon, first to composer Toshi Ichiyanagi, and later to jazz musician Anthony Cox. Her marriage to John Lennon was famously unorthodox. They met at the Indica Gallery in London in 1967 and regularly corresponded after that. They spent a passionate weekend together in 1968, recording what would become the Two Virgins album. The couple officially married on March 20, 1969, but in 1973 spent over a year apart, each seeing other people.

  Yoko Ono's Rising Sign is Libra and this is no surprise. People with Libra on the Ascendant want to create peace and beauty wherever they go. Ono's more austere sculptures also have a very Libran feel. Libra is ruled by the Planet Venus, making Venus her chart ruler. Venus is also Trine her Ascendant and Sextile her Moon. These angles tend to make a person very sensitive to beauty and also bestow the individual with artistic ability. An individual with a Venus this prominent also rends to be a very loving partner.

Yoko Ono's Moon is in Sagittarius, Which tends to make a person very freethinking and philosophical. This may also account for her autobiographical approach to her art and music. Interestingly, she has more hard aspects to her Moon than any other planet. Her Moon is Square Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, and Neptune. These challenging influences are going to make an individual who at times is not completely in control of their emotions and may struggle with their mental health at times. Yoko Ono was hospitalized for clinical depression between her first and second marriages and has spoken openly about the benefits of therapy, particularly hypnotherapy. The Moon is also the Planet that rules motherhood and Yoko has experienced struggles with that as well. In 1971, her second husband, Anthony Cox disappeared with their then eight year old daughter,  Kyoko. He was a member of a pseudo-Christian religious organization that was actually a cult, and it would be over a decade before Yoko would see her daughter again. In 1975, when their son, Sean was born, Yoko and John dedicated themselves to being parents and didn't work for the first five years of their son's life.

  Yoko Ono has experienced many extremes in her life: Wealth to poverty and back, relative obscurity to world famous, she has been the target of racism and sexism and accused of breaking of the Beatles, (About that, seriously you guys, the Beatles broke up the Beatles, and guess what? It wasn't the end of the world, let's move on.) but she has emerged from the ashes to become a popular recording artist who tours the world promoting peace. To better understand how one could experience such highs and lows, we need to take a look at Lord Pluto, the Planet of Transformation. Pluto falls in her Tenth House. The Tenth House is the house of honors. Planets that fall there give us a clue as to what our greatest achievements can be. Pluto in the Tenth House bestows the gifts of leadership and also a powerful need to change the world. Pluto in the Tenth House can bestow the gift of removing any obstacle. This influence can make your triumphs more public, but the flipside of that is that your personal tragedies are shared with the world as well. In her chart, Pluto is also Sextile Jupiter the Planet of Gifts. This bestows the individual with a strong personal code of ethics and a spiritual responsibility to leave the world better than you found it.

  Last month, when we looked at David Sedaris' chart, we learned that he has four Retrograde Planets. People with three or more tend to stand out from the crowd and maybe even come across as a little peculiar. Yoko Ono has five Retrograde Planets in her chart. She never quite fit in with her traditional family, and her chosen mode of expression is all about rule breaking. I didn't intentionally profile two people in a row with this rather unusual influence in their charts. I guess I just love freaks? In any case, I hope you have a beautiful eighty first Birthday, Yoko Ono, you are a gift and a treasure to us all. Namaste.