Analysis of Marilyn Monroe's astrological chart

Can the potential to become a myth be spotted in a natal chart? As far as Marilyn Monroe is concerned, we would tend to answer affirmatively. Anyway, her chart wonderfully coincides with the eternal image of the fragile, evanescent star, nevertheless tinged with such an all-pervading femininity that she is its very embodiment.

Her real name was Jean Baker, a little girl who was poor but above all unloved. The actress has a very rich horoscope, quite balanced though with no Earth element, and offset by an emphasized Fixed mode. Despite the family issue, it is obvious that she sought security and durability. The predominance of planets in the Southern hemisphere matches her propensity to make up for her shortcomings – including a considerable lack of self-confidence – through people's opinion. Besides, Saturn alone on the Nadir points to her loneliness, which weighed painfully on her in spite of her loving fans.

Marilyn Monroe has the Sun in Gemini conjunct Mercury. She possesses an innate gift for comedy and a great sense of humour, as her best performances have proved: Some like it hot, The seven years itch, How to marry a millionaire enabled her to play a heroine whose naive freshness, joie de vivre, and even tendency to flirt, are forgivable and become touching, whatever the circumstances might be.

During the shooting of the musical Gentlemen prefer blondes, Marilyn, still almost unknown, was fed up with the special treatment given to Jane Russell, who was then at the peak of her glory and was getting paid ten times more than herself. Monroe was able to find an irrefutable argument to demand a better status, which revealed her talent for repartee and Gemini's business acumen: "Hey, actually, the blonde, it's me!" she claimed.

Later on, once a star, Marilyn made every effort to stick as closely as possible to the personage the public expected her to be. In this regard, we understand the power of her Leo Ascendant and of the fact that Neptune was rising when she was born. The royal sign seems totally relevant, on the one hand, to Hollywood golden age, and on the other hand, to Marilyn herself, since she needed hours to get ready, and since the word "glamour" could have been coined for her, which is very Leo. It is as if the actress believed that her duty was to be the most beautiful and the most unforgettable woman. Platinum blond hair, perfect make-up, figure-hugging dresses, fire red or deadly black, she definitely had not intent to go unnoticed. Today, she remains the icon of the most lucrative star worldwide.

Neptune in an angle, which makes him the first dominant of the natal chart, frequently has a deciding outcome in the life of outstanding personalities. Neptune is Venus' higher octave and symbolises the capacity to create dreams when he is conjunct the Ascendant. Indeed, Marilyn has provided the proof that a star can become immortal.

We must now apply Neptune's influence to the entire configuration, i.e. from his position on the Ascendant, he opposes the Moon and Jupiter, near the Descendant, without overlooking the importance of Saturn squaring the three planets. This pattern reflects a significant component of Monroe's personality: her sense, probably exaggerated, of belonging to her audience, between leniency and wrong ideas about happiness, as well as her ability to take on this role. The contracts she signed with big companies such as the Fox, the ascent she achieved owing to her image as a sex-symbol, her affairs with various stars, including with the most famous of all, John Kennedy, may be the result of this combination activating her relationship axis.

Marilyn's disappointments are mainly caused by Saturn in the 4th House, who is ill-disposed towards the most salient planets. The lack of roots, especially the absence of the father, explains her unquenchable thirst for love as well as the disillusionment towards the end of her life. The periods when Neptune is challenged may explain that she had recourse to medicine and that she was unable to be on time and to accept constraints.

As one talks about Marilyn, one may wonder about the impact of Venus. While the planet is not the first dominant, it is well supported, firstly by the Neptune we have assessed above. Venus is trine Neptune and sextile Jupiter. She is depicted as both generous and very bold. In Aries, she gives a predisposition to fall in love at first sight and to indulge in short-lived affairs, because the need to admire the chosen man, and the thrill of the conquest by itself were prevailing. Once she got back to routine, she had difficulty in remaining an ardent lover...

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Tuesday, June 1, 1926

Los Angeles (CA) (United States)

10°27' Gemini

19°06' Aquarius

13°04' Leo

6°00' Taurus

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Biography of Marilyn Monroe (excerpt)

Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1926 – August 4, 1962) was an American actress. Famous for playing comedic "blonde bombshell" characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s, as well as an emblem of the era's sexual revolution. She was a top-billed actress for a decade, and her films grossed $200 million (equivalent to $2 billion in...

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Interesting transits can be pinpointed at the turning points in her life. For instance, she rose to fame between 1952 and 1953, the year when she was granted her star on the "Walk of Fame", on 26 June. Pluto entered her 1st House in the middle of the '40s; furthermore, he started his conjunction with natal Neptune (the main dominant, and the apex of the T-square involving Jupiter, the Moon, and Saturn, see above). We clearly realise that Pluto's might gives momentum to the popularity process. In 1953, Jupiter transited the natal Sun in Gemini, in exact conjunction on 26 June! In the case of Marilyn, exact aspects herald that a myth is born. Lastly, is it necessary to add that Venus is travelling on the Midheaven on the same date?

Here is an extra example: on 10 Mars 1960, Marilyn received the Golden Globe statuette for best actress in Some like it hot. This time, Pluto still in the 1st House was moving away, but Uranus was reaching the Ascendant. It was Uranus' turn to get ready to activate the above-mentioned pattern led by Neptune! Simultaneously, transiting Venus was forming a conjunction between the Moon and Jupiter in the 7th House. To say the least, Marilyn never disdained her prizes...

On a gloomier note, let's look at the last year of her life, 1962, which did not decrease in intensity, since on the occasion of John Kennedy's birthday, she sang Happy birthday, Mr. President, on 19 May 1962, her last important public appearance. Saturn has begun to oppose the Ascendant (end of the 6th House), a hint of melancholy despite the transit of Mars conjunct Venus describing the eroticism of the situation. In the night from 4 to 5 August, Marilyn was found dead in her house. The ambiguity still surrounding her decease is definitely of Neptunian nature. With the Sun on the Ascendant opposite Saturn in the 6th House, although the aspects are not strikingly exact, they indicate an end occurring against a backdrop of loneliness in front of fame. Mercury, also on Neptune in the 1st House, refers to the way she passed away, the hand on her telephone, as if she had wanted to make a last call that Saturn had stopped...

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^* A planet less than 1° from the next House cusp is considered to be posited in the said House. 2° when the AS and the MC are involved