Astro-Interview: Domino Kirke – She Gives Good Sun-Neptune
So i saw this cool piece on Domino Kirke and immediately decided I had to astro-interview her. She’s a musician whose latest album The Guard is totes Neptunian and haunting-in-a-good-way AND a New York doula (birth attendant) with an apparently cult following…she is single mother to a three year old named Cassius – giving birth to him was what sent her zooming into doula world. (Her sister, fyi, is Jemima Kirke off Girls and she comes from this fascinating dynasty that includes drummer dad Simon Kirke and the Leo supermod Alice Dellal)
Domino sounded SO HAUTE SAGG – rad, candid, cosmically breezy that i emailed her….I think she’s kind of noble.
She lists her inspirations as: Motherhood. The South. Quick, old love. Writing lullabies for my son. Divorce. Grief. Losing my voice, finding it again, and why I lost it in the first place. She is Sun-Neptune in Saggo, Aquarius Rising & Moon-Lilith in Capricorn.
Mystic: You’re a mother, you’re writing a book, composing songs, touring to promo an album, helping mothers give birth, running a business…BUT would you agree that there is a kind of split archetype between women who are creative and women who are mothers, it’s not official but the idea is that motherhood = good, nurturing but not an artiste and creative chicks have to be a bit (a lot?) mad…you need a free bird lifestyle to be a she-creator???
Domino: I always felt forced to pick a side…yes. I was a musician all my life. It’s how I thought I’d make my mark in the world from a very young age… That being said, I always had a very primal urge to serve and protect new mothers and their infants, and mothers to be. I had a heightened intuition around small children and families. I understood strangers family dynamics upon first glance. You could chalk it up to a past life spill over, or me having a child of my own and being do moved by my own birth that I decided to start attending other people’s, but the truth is that my birth was pretty horrendous, and I would’ve given anything to get as far from that experience as possible in hind sight… The bottom line here is that I just feel like I finally gave myself permission to let it all in! It’s all me, been me from the gate. I grew up very boxed in, with ” arranged marriages” to people and places all over the place, but i have to say, the one thing my folks taught me in all that, which has served me greatly as a doula and a single mum, is how to drop whatever you’re doing in that moment and show up for someone else…every nook and cranny of my soul feels fully expressed now days and my music is finally as full as her belly.
Mystic: You’re Aquarius Rising (exactly the same degree as me!) which means you would always have felt slightly alien like as a child, you have almost a nursery taste in food (left to your own devices), like egomaniacal men & can’t stand to wear anything that feels like clutter…2006 would have been like a massive tug of war within your psyche but also – later you realise – the making of you. Does this resonate??
Domino: Lady! You got me to a T!!? not bad…I love egomanical men!!! I hate turtle necks, lip stick and sunglasses… As a child i felt very “truth seeky”… always alone, and slightly uncomfortable in groups. I definitely parented my parents, so always weirdly knew i’d be a young mother… 2006 ruined me, and woke my ass up all at once. i like mac n cheese, and canned peas and carrots… so yes, you’ll find me often just eating my kids left overs while standing up at the counter.
Mystic: You have the Sun conjunct Neptune in Sagittarius & in the Career sector; this is like a medium-type energy, amazing for intuitive flow, music & actually living from your instincts, which a lot of people pay lip service to but it is VERY hard to actually do. Psychic much? Do you have an active spiritual practice or set of beliefs that sustain you? Super lucid dreaming??
Domino: I can tune into most people and situations (being on the subway is no fun for me;) and its EXHAUSTING! “First thought – best thought” tends to be my mantra, which has worked out very well for me with laboring mamas… and in hindsight, with life in general.i had a run in with an old flame a few months ago… brought up so much, had to shut it back down, cuz man was that distracting! Back on track now… thank god.
Mystic: My fave song on your new album is White Light – I always think of white light as what you invoke for protection against the dark – what is your version of it in this song?
Domino: Its funny you should ask about “White Light”… it was written about my first love… we weren’t able to be with each other until i was in my early 20′s, but we met when i was 8 and it was over for me… he was the one i’d compare all to. He died 3 yrs ago of a heroin overdose, and the song is about “feeling” him after… Also, it’s about how i knew it would be the last time i ever see him after i saw him this one day on the street…
Mystic: You have Moon in Capricorn exact conjunct Lilith – the first wife of Adam…Do you know the story? Also known as the Dark Moon Goddess or even the Bitch Goddess, this is like an affinity with the shadow aspects of womanhood – you would actually be just as good with other aspects of gynae as you are with birth…miscarriage or even the chosen loss of a termination. Moon-Lilith in Capricorn is also the redeemer of so called fallen women. I don’t mean that you’re secretly a bitch (lol) but that there is some witch energy there, something about reclaiming the abandoned women, the whore archetype…
Domino: Reclaiming the “abandoned women”… um, ya, a lot of my clients are single or teenage. I’m attracted to broken women on the edge.
Mystic: And you have Venus on your South Node (past lives) so ALL your romantic relationships are karmic…
Domino: I really do believe that everyone I’ve known romantically i’ve known before…i always felt like i was playing out old stories with lovers… which is why i spent most of my 20′s heart broken.. .it was like “ugh! i have to lose you AGAIN!” I feel like i’m constantly re enacting. Hmmm.
Images: Skye Parrott Domino Kirke The Guard download here
I don’t think she can be Pluto in Capricorn.
I too have sun conjunct neptune and capricorn moon in the 9th, but my conjunction is in Scorpio… which I believe inoculates me from the whole tattoo thing. And Saturn and the Sun are both sitting right on that Neptune today! I’m sort of useless.
lol thank you, i corrected that – i had in my mind how Pluto is currently ON that Lilith-Moon
Loved the article!
LOVED IT!
GREAT stuff! I love it when awesome people get personal. We all struggle with things, the sooner we share it, the wiser we all become.
thank you – if enuf people like this, i will do more of these. Often when i read interviews with awesome people, i hunger for more of THIS sort of info AND of course it is a great way to see astrology and magic in action. She is SO Sun-Neptune in Sagg/Aqua Rising/ Moon-Lilith in Capricorn.
Yes please do! That was so insightful and interesting, 100 times more so than a sad rag interview.
Yes please to more astro interviews – it makes astro and the peeps you interview more real – all because you ask really great questions.
Chiming in, yes please more, this was really great, totally inspirational, what a great, good woman. I love that it was just a strong instinct to contact her too.
I agree – great interview with an interesting tuned in woman!
i liked reading the original interview, then yours. I enjoy seeing the same person but in different responses. I always think the questions people ask each other are important. Your questions stand out in juxtaposition to the standard journo qs, and her responses show much about astro.
So interesting, the Moon-Lilith conjunction. And in the earthwitch sign.
Please do more of these, Mystic! So interesting!
loved it
also, love her SWEET outfits!!!!! ive been loving these astro fash conversations here too
More! More! More! Please! Love this, MM.
The onlly thing I would suggest is you post the chart as well (but that’s just the astrologer in me talking).
Brilliant interview! Love how REAL it feels, like we’re there with her, sharing in such an open way.
You have to make this kind of interview a regular feature of the blog!! Bravo!
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Love it Mystic, your intelligent astro woo-woo psychic-ness, your turn of phrase, and matter a fact way with the esoteric.
More More More !!
Way to go you amazing woman you !
I dig Kimmys suggestion re posting the chart too. x
Yes… gorgeous interview mm… and I think Domino was very generous… what a gorgeous interesting woman….I love the idea of just deciding to be all of me… I like that as a gemini I have a lot of contradictions, and I recently had this sense of freedom by just realising I could be all of it… and there is still more finding its way out slowly…. imagine having a supermod mum though that’d give you a bit of a head start!
Mystic, I enjoyed reading this! If you do decide to post more of these that will be great! xo!!
Ooooh! I just bought the album
Beautiful!
I really enjoyed this Mystic. I think regular Astro Interviews are a good idea!
Me too, so dreamy! Swoon….
mystic you should totally start interviewing people, the more you get the more it will become a thing, get momentum and then it will be even easier to get interviews
Yes, I’d definitely welcome this being a ‘thing’ on MM.
I was just saying to a friend today that I just love interviews with great artists and historical figures. They have their own work out there, and then you have the interview, and it’s a different country (psychologically speaking).
Totally agree!
Gosh, she is amazing. So aware and unflinchingly real, but sensitive, I love this. People like Domino (love the name too) totally inspire me with their fearlessness and self-acceptance. Particularly when – if – I meet people like this, their directness and expression shines a light on the parts of me that I am still (!) hiding from and help me to see that yes, it’s cool, unfailingly / determinedly / unapologetically following my own mind and instincts is OK and definitely for the best.
It also helps that I LOVE saggitarians.
Plus she is a musician, and … *sigh* my fingers just aren’t looking at my guitar at the moment. But there’s a grand piano nearby and… aahh yes
She has some chart aspects that interest me – Moon lilith in Cap. I’d like to understand more about lilith conjunctions as I have Jupiter-lilith conjunct in Toro in my 11th and I love gathering my independent-minded, outrageous, tough, intelligent girlfiends together for anything. I seem to collect them as I go through life.
re her doula / gynae aspects, I have an Aqua cousin (8th house sun) who also has moon-mars-mercury conjunct in Aqua, and Cancer rising. She is all about Woman Power and is a total gun obs/gynae surgeon to boot – the rabble rouser who I mentioned once before somewhere. So is it strong moon conjunctions that might boost the tendency for serious ‘womens work’, as it were?
In short, I really like this astro interview. It’s cool to see how you and the interviewee translate various chart aspects.
PS just had a funny insight about 9th house Pisces mercury (what I have) – “Leave no thought behind!”
ie unable to abandon a good idea once I’ve had it. this and the mercury chart ruler means that I have 35 career directions at any one time. I could farm my thoughts and ideas out to people, like food, I’d hate to see them go to waste?!
Got me thinking about Lilith placements too… Mine is at 20 Pisces in the first. The only object in my first house/Asc ….Identifying myself as the ‘other’ woman.?… versus magic/secret/goddess type? hmmmmm
oh and Venus-south node was the other thing that interested me in her chart. for what it’s worth.
I really enjoyed this interview too! What an amazing woman. And I love her sister on the show ‘Girls’.
I have a Sun/Neptune conjunction in Sag myself (7th house).
Would love to see more astro-interviews, Mystic! What a great read.
I love her jumpsuit. That is all.
This is just LUSH MM!
More for sure. Real, honest, authentic. Pisces future experimentation anyone?! xx
My belief is that being a mother and raising a child is a creative process in itself. Every day that I give my son love and nurturing and guidance I feel like I am adding more to his creation and the creative process. I have artiste friends who have no children, and I feel like they secretly look down at me for spending so much time with him, instead of, say, painting. It is so frustrating, I feel like screaming that this piece of art that is being shaped under my direction is sooo much more enduring and meaningful. Why should I care what they think, I don’t know, because, the truth is and I wish everyone would wake up to this, raising a child is creating a work of art, a masterpiece, . .
Good parenting certainly is an art, and an act of love.
But “your children come through you not from you”. There is something intrinsic in a person that makes them who they are, sometimes in spite of parenting.
Do you just “feel like they secretly look down at” you or do they actually look down on you? Why compare the value of art with the worth of a person? So, these are just questions that come from your wording here. It feels like you have to justify yourself as a parent, and i guess i wonder why. Do you need different friends at the moment, who appreciate you for who you are now? Do you sense that they feel you are being an obsessive mother? Sorry for all these qs but there is a strong sense of dissonance here. I guess i’m not sure why you feel raising a child is not valued.
My art comes through me but is not me, too. I may begin with an idea of how I want a thing to look or sound, but the piece always takes on its own life and becomes a work that surprises me in the end. Each of my paintings or writings is its own entity; I created all of them, but none of them are me.
definitely words to live by. parents function as a portal bringing souls into the material realm. while good parenting essential and should be applauded, should parents whose kids grow up o be serial killers be shamed? sometimes it is out of your hands.
you know some of us artist types are just jealous we couldn’t have kids. Some cursed by biology while some like myself cursed by lack of a partner. i wouldn’t take their stinkeye too seriously.
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All valid questions, Millie, and ones I would myself be asking if I was in your shoes. My comment did come out rather whiny and defensive. Yes, you are absolutely right that your children come through you. When people ask, “Did your son’s ability to do X come from you or his dad,” I usually answer, “Well, actually it came from neither; it is just who he is.” And I can quite honestly say that I am not an obsessive mother.
New friends? Perhaps. But I still believe that motherhood as an institution is not as revered as it should be, and the innate creative powers that lie within a mother’s love are not recognized by as many people as it should be. Maybe I should not be so jaded. This big city that I live in is corrosive. Do you see raising a child as still recognized as valued? Hope so.
Might as well throw some astro in here. My NN is in Cancer.
Plenty of people don’t value those who rear children. These people are called fuqwits.
It’s one thing to have one’s own personal views on child bearing/rearing, i.e. “It’s not for me” but those who openly questioning others’ decisions to have a family get my fuqing goat.
It’s a personal choice. Like having anal sex, pink hair, choosing to be vegan, owning a gun, knitting, getting a tattoo, getting plastic surgery, climbing Mt Everest, swimming with sharks, being religious, driving a car, or playing the balalaika.
Hon, honestly it depends who i hang with.
How we value what we do and each other, and i mean our friends and their life choices, is something that i’m really noticing now.
People i’m drawn to or who give me their time seem to have attitude in common rather than life choices, if that makes sense. So these people do really different things. Some are business owners, some in fashion and retail, some 9-5ers, some p/t professionals, some back to f/t study and of all these peeps there are child-free, families, single ‘rents, blended fams, live-at-home students, whatever. I love hearing about their days, what they do and how they do stuff, and they listen to my tales. I guess what i mean is, there’s less of this sense of a tribe making the same life choices, more a sense of valuing each other.
The bitchy and judgmental people fall away. They are in their own cliques, and noone is good enough who isn’t reinforcing themselves. Then there are the ignorant people. That sounds pretty judgmental and i don’t want to be unkind, but some people have clearly no idea, on a fundamental level. I don’t have any strong feelings about these guys but it is hard to communicate meaningfully, so i just keep it light.
I would like to value those people i’ve just mentioned but in fact it feels like they isolate themselves, as if they just don’t want to know different people or think any different thoughts.
So this is why i asked. You know, WHERE is the resistance? And if it’s real but unexpressed, why is it hidden? The decision to have or not have children, or the state of having or not having (which is sometimes not even a choice) seems to have the power to polarise. I wonder why. I also wonder if it simply because it is such an obvious lifestyle gamechanger, and more subtle intolerances are actually channelled through this.
Were you ever an artist? Did you ever want to be? Do you admire your artist friends’ work?
Are any of the artists family people? Do they want to be? Are they antipathetic, or afraid of that? Do they find it hard to change the timeframe you used to follow before you were a parent?
Sorry, Sagittarian why why why coming out
I genuinely want to know the answers to all these qs…shocking, i know.
me above…you can tell by the verbosity
Not everyone can have a child so art is their child.
My sentiments exactly, Anon! I often describe my son as “my greatest work,” because he is. Because parents shape their children so much, much more than most people realize– not to mention the fact that many of us grow them inside our bodies and know their potential before theyre even born. There’s a dedication to love and creativity, and working through the “blocks”, in good parenting that is so akin to creating Art– but exceeds artful endeavors to the thousand power. So really, even though I liken my motherhood to Art, doing so severely *underestimates* that which is creating a whole, happy Human. Painting is only half of the beauty and creativity that good parenting is!
I did not choose to become a mother till in my 30s, but I’d always been an artist; I’ve lived on both sides. People who do not have children have absolutely No Idea the art and creativity that is good parenting: definitely one of those things that must be experienced to understand. Even if they think they understand, they don’t. I appreciate people who are evolved enough to say, “Hey, I believe this work of yours is incredible: I wouldn’t know. I just paint pictures/write/etc.” Lol But like you, I felt people in my (art) community back away as I became a mother, esp (not parent) women artists, like I sold out or something.
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My sentiments exactly, Anon! I often describe my son as “my greatest work,” because he is. Because parents shape their children so much, much more than most people realize– not to mention the fact that many of us grow them inside our bodies and know their potential before theyre even born. There’s a dedication to love and creativity, and working through the “blocks”, in good parenting that is so akin to creating Art– but exceeds artful endeavors to the thousand power. So really, even though I liken my motherhood to Art, doing so severely *underestimates* that which is creating a whole, happy Human. Painting is only half of the beauty and creativity that good parenting is!
I did not choose to become a mother till in my 30s, but I’d always been an artist; I’ve lived on both sides. People who do not have children have absolutely No Idea the art and creativity that is good parenting: definitely one of those things that must be experienced to understand. Even if they think they understand, they don’t. I appreciate people who are evolved enough to say, “Hey, I believe this work of yours is incredible: I wouldn’t know. I just paint pictures/write/etc.” Lol But like you, I felt people in my (art) community back away as I became a mother, esp (not parent) women artists, like I sold out or wasnt really “into my art” or something. But it’s no different than the corporate or any other world of work, really: women have been historically considered not serious about their work as soon as they decide to have children, and bam we hit the glass ceiling.
Whats grating and hilarious all at the same time is how un-evolved the art world can be when it comes to mysogony and the status quo. For all the creation individuality freedom nonconformist rhetoric that floats around art circles, when artists take you less seriously because you’re dedicated to your children, we may as well be trying to climb some corporate ladder on Wall St.
So, fuq them! You keep on doing your “best work” Anon, and answer to no one. Artists don’t need to explain shit, they only need to keep working
Well yes obviously parenting can be a creative act – was referring more to the pairing of motherhood/birthing career with touring artist/composing as they;re often anti-ethical…
for the record, Mystic, I did not read your words to signify that you did not believe parenting to be a creative act. Your discussion just happened to ping off a part of my creed on the subject.
Sorry to do this – usual respeck and love etc – but do you mean antithetical?
Also yes. It’s the practical aspects you were referring to not the psych aspects? I would never buy into the ‘you can be creative OR you can have kids’, I mean get FUQED whoever thinks that; it’s a belief I would challenge there and then.
Also I would like to challenge the practical side too – I would hate to feel stifled due to having a family and if I ever did have kids it would be under the strict condition that the father provide unquestioning support so I am not the one stuck at home etc or the kids travel with us and have a fab, unusual upbringing (natal 5th house uranus in Scorp might see that one through lol)
hmm, that’s all.
xx
My Leo thoughts, for what it is worth.
- i loved my doula but she looked like a marine, perfect for when you are looking your worst and cussing and don’t want the contrast with someone nurturing and hot to occur to your husband.
- i love Alice Dellal she is how imagine i was in the 90s although i could be hallucinating. It has been a heavy drinking spring. Happy to hear she is a leo. I think coco would approve.
- i would have appreciated some hair tips from domino?
- i found the thing about her ex, meeting him age 8 and all that very moving.
me too, i teared up!
Loved reading this MM. She’s great and it’s a great interview and provoking some good discussion.
Notable Sagi traits straight up, awesome big smile and that pose in the first pic (not that it’s a pose perse..y’know contrived) is Sagi or at least I’m often doing it myself. I think it denotes an openess whilst pondering now. I just do that and hadn’t reflected on it until now. And always smiling….
I’ll have to get her music and have a listen.
Finally I will say.. daughter of Simon Kirke. Excellent choice!
Oh yes, and those shoes were spotted in a shop .. just in time for Mercury rets.. I thought it fitting as he hangs with my Sagi sun
Tho.. I have no intention of buying or wearing them!
i think you already do!
Never!!
But I did a double take when I saw them.. omen like (incoming…) and went back for the pic whilst my friend took a call.. and then whamo I turned around and there was an old colleage from an old job right in front of me! 5 years I reckon since I’ve seen him.. another Sagi!
Sounds like a challenging life with lots of creativity to express.
Excellent Mystic , more . This is inspiring and educational . Great work !
Thank you !
I dream of being a Saggi! I’ve been trying to channel it lately.
I’m feeling you, Domino. Righteous.
Btw, soz Mystic: you were totally right re rx Merc. It’s the squares! Too linear and right-angled, like sticks in my spokes, ya dig? Rock on.
I enjoyed this!
It’s almost like a DIY astro if you have similar astro to the person being interviewed.
I’d love to see more interviews like this and MM you’re quite a good interviewer.
Yes, I agree re DIY astro. x
Oh LOVE this. I love what she is doing with the moon-Lilith exact in Cap. I have that too, plus Eros and Juno more or less conj. (5th house). I don’t have children and am too old now, and I suppose it’s true to say I have repressed that part of me for untold years. Only now I am attempting to reconcile /understand what that big conjunction of the feminine in Cap means in my life and how I might express it. I don’t really know. As I am older I feel more like I am blazing some kind of trail although it is so new and unformed in my life I can’t be more precise than that.
I have always had a weird intuition about other women being pregnant. I have always just known, sometimes even before they knew themselves.
My creative and research work is about marginalised and ‘absent’ women. I feel there is more, though. Can’t explain what. but this post resonated, thanks Mystic.
Also love how she is doing Neptune. I aspire to this kind of Neptunian expression
throw a stone into the future with your un-blazed trail in mind Chrysalis and divine from the ripples what feels right!! I know – at least I think I know – exactly what you mean. Had a realisation a little while ago that there is no job description for what I want to do and I am completely free to make a path, BYO machete, inner compass, binoculars, water bottle and swag. Self-reliance, self-belief, self-love, you can do it. Love xxoo
Love this stuff, Mystic! (Interviews with the Astrology from the Astrologer and the subject on-line with it all.) So-o-o insightful! Yum…. Uhm…. More!
Love it
Goosebump city! Amazing woman, story and article. Thanks for sharing and yes more please, very inspiring to read.
Mystic, do you do natal charts?
Hey i do but i am booked out! I sent an email to subscribers a couple of months ago
Another ‘aye aye’ in support of your charming astro-views MM.
And, Domino is just as lovely as the magnetic JK!!
Great interview.
Maybe my Merc Virgo has missed a fine point? I don’t agree there’s a split between mothers/women who are creative and women who are mothers.
My astro:
Moon in Taurus + Jupiter-Mars in Kataka lady = nurturing and family/mothering focused; Leo Rising +libran sun = creative/artistic work and life; Neptune 5th house.
We are convinced I’ve see this very same form of declaration elsewhere, it needs to be more popular while using public.