It is the birthday of Dame Barbara Cartland, author of approximately 723 books but best known for her romances. I went briefly bats for them when i was about 13, hoovering them up like crisps but they weren’t libidinal enough so i moved on. But apparently, her earlier books were sensationalist & banned et al. She calmed down post Chiron Return, in her early 50s.
Her books had fabulous titles such as The Angel & The Rake, Again The Rapture, Bride To A Brigand, The Lady & The Highwayman + my fave: The Haunted Heart. BTW; if you don’t realise – “rake” is ye olde work for player. Hell knows how that came about. Thoughts?
The Dame was an early adopter of vitamins & health food – zealously recommending ginseng, bee pollen & brewers yeast to television hosts on her frequent media spots. She was step-grand-mother to Princess Diana – another Cancerian – and wore only pink, for her aura. She said of Diana: “The only books Diana ever read were mine and they weren’t awfully good for her.” As a council member, she barracked for the rights of midwives & gypsies. She is one of the best-selling authors of all time.
Her astro? She is a Cancerian Sun, of course and it is conjunct Mercury – classic signifier of the writer & she was certainly prolific. She had Venus in Leo – note opulence, in pic above & my theory is that Venus in Leo just LOVES to develop a Signature Look that sustains them spiritually and which they avidly stick to. True? False?
Moon – i think – in Aries so proto-feminist for sure. And would fight for what she believed in. Jupiter & Saturn conjunct in Cap trine Mars in Virgo so tremendous work ethic even though she could have just settled for being a wife and/or vapid socialite…Weirder, Uranus OPP Pluto – WHAT a generation & Lilith conjunct North Node.
See, in her later career she made all her heroines virgins whom mysterious circumstances lead into having to hang around with handsome sociopathic & promiscuous aristocratic men about to be conquered by her purity – like she is a Unicorn – but in HER life, she went through a rather nasty scandal (infidelity, divorce et al in an age/class where such things very difficult) to be with the man she loved. And she went on tv in her mid-80s or something to boast about how her health methods (cold showers, bee pollen, steak tartare for brek) kept him virile and them both very active.
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