That Aquarian Girl

How sad that it is her passing that prompts me to check out the fascinating astro of Ms Helen Gurley Brown. Even if you loathe Cosmo mag for anarcha-feminist reasons, you would agree that it was revolutionary in its day, yes?  She also did a LOT to invent and popularize the notion that to be a single, career-ist woman was not just respectable but actually desirable.  See Sex & The Single Girl – the book that got her so many letters from avid readers, she turned it into a magazine.

So some astro notes; She was Aquarius – Sun + Mercury Retrograde – and Saggo Rising. So super-revoltionary and then with a throbbing little Moon-Mars in Scorpio conjunction trine Venus-Lilith in Pisces. So you know, she probably really meant all those blowjob tips quite sincerely.

But to me, the key to her chart is that Saturn-Midheaven-North Node in Libra conjunction. She came from achingly humble beginnings, with (I think) a crippled sister and ill mother to support via her limited means. HGB described herself as a “mouseburger” – someone without obvious looks, brains or family background to trade off, who had to survive via sheer ingenuity and hard work.  It all fits, yes?