Kurt Cobain: Tragedy on the 6/12 Axis

Kurt Cobain would have been 39 today. His astrological chart is depicted at left. In honor of his considerable talent and his all-too-brief life, here's the intro to an article I wrote some years ago on the astrological placements describing his suicide (link to the full piece below):

There's been a lot of speculation about Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain since he shot himself in the head on April 5, 1994. While millions of fans mourned for his untimely self-inflicted loss, many people sneered at his death as a "copout" just as they'd sneered at his career as a "sellout." Still others persist in the absurd theory that his death was some kind of conspiracy orchestrated by his wife Courtney Love (as IF her public behavior suggests that of a fiendishly calculating criminal mastermind...) None of this does Kurt's situation justice, as a look at his birth chart, and his progressions and transits at the time of his death, reveals all too clearly....[More]

Read on for the complete analysis of his chart.