First, the good news: As shown above, Nicole looked like a pretty pretty princess
in her wedding gown, and Keith's highlights were just fabulous.
The buzzkill planet Saturn is one that should never be at
the forefront of a wedding chart, as it connotes hardship and pessimism. But
at 6:30 PM in Sydney on the 25th, Capricorn is on the Ascendant, meaning its
ruling planet, Saturn, rules the entire wedding chart. To make matters worse,
Saturn is located in the 7th house of partnership, which is the sweet spot
of a wedding chart. This is as close as it comes to the ultimate dealbreaker
for a wedding chart.
Positive aspects to Saturn could perhaps mitigate its negative
influence in the chart, but instead, we find Saturn aspects that exacerbate
the suckfest. Saturn is conjunct Mars, the planet of aggression (and
also of passion, which will be dampened by its proximity to repressive Saturn),
and opposite Chiron, the planetoid that rules wounding. Jupiter forms
a T-square (three-way square) with Saturn and Chiron, suggesting that hurt
feelings will be blown out of proportion. {Source}
The five minutes' difference with the 6:25 time does not help matters. The
strong Saturn influence that is considered to be death to a wedding chart is
still very much in effect, with Capricorn rising and Saturn in the 7th house
of partnership.
Also, so appalled was I by Saturn that I failed to pick up on yet another
horrific vale-of-tears variable in my earlier post. I noted that the Moon in
the wedding chart conjuncts Nicole's Sun, which at least is a nice aspect that
speaks to the marriage gratifying her ego needs. But what I didn't remark on
is that the Moon is void of course in the wedding chart. As with the Saturn
rulership and 7th-house placement, this is something that any astrologer picking
a wedding horoscope would do anything to avoid, even if it meant holding the
ceremony at 3 AM.
When the Moon is void, it means it has made all the aspects it is going to
make before entering a new sign. Endeavors begun during the void Moon typically
come to nothing; the energy one puts in seems to go nowhere. Put it this way:
The one thing you want to do during the void Moon is mail in your tax
forms, the thought being that you won't get audited during a window of time
when actions go nowhere. Does that sound like the kind of vibe that is conducive
to forming a life partnership?
Furthermore, the fact that the wedding took place at the very last gasp of
its lunar cycle, right before the New Moon (good for starting new projects and
initiatives) in family-oriented Cancer, does not bode well for Nic and Keith
settling down. As opposed to the excitement of beginnings symbolized by the
New Moon, the waning Moon is a time for endings and wrapping things up. The
fact that the Moon rules the Cancer Sun of the wedding chart means that its
weakened state bodes extremely unwell for their marriage. The double whammy
of the Moon being void-of-course and in its final quarter adds up to this marriage
practically being over before it starts. Oh yeah, and the Moon opposes Pluto,
foreshadowing power struggles to come.
I have made no secret of the fact that I do not like Nic and Keith together.
But I want to stress that this is not because I wish ill toward either of them
individually; rather, I want everyone to be happy, and I just get a vibe that
the two of them do not work as a couple. The fact that the wedding chart Sun
and Moon are conjunct Nicole's Sun, yet are completely debilitated by the Moon's
void status, suggests that Nic might even be aware of the invalidity of the
relationship, yet is pushing forward anyway in order to gratify her own ego.
The ambitious Capricorn Ascendant and the Mars-Saturn conjunction in the 7th house of partnerships speak
to a certain dogged determination in pursuing the relationship as if it were
a career goal...or perhaps a move designed to cast one or both of their careers
in a better light.
To paraphrase Van Halen during their sucky, lyrically redundant era, only time
will tell if Nicole and Keith will stand the test of time. (Seriously, they
filed for creative bankruptcy after David Lee Roth left, but don't get
me started.) Perhaps the determination to rush or force a commitment shown by
Mars-Saturn in the 7th house has to do with Nicole's biological clock. (Her
reps deny rumors that she is pregnant, saying a nice Catholic girl like Nicole
wouldn't get knocked up before the wedding, which presumably means she and Keith
did not have premarital sex since Catholics also forbid birth control.)
Related:
• Did Nicole and Keith Pick the Wrong Wedding Date? (6/9/06)
• Nicole and Keith: What Are They Hiding? (5/18/06)
• Nicole Kidman Uses the F Word (5/17/06)
• Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban: Heading for a Wedding or a Breakup? (3/13/06)
• Update: Nicole and Keith's Scorpio Connection (2/18/06)
• Never Mind Keith -- Can Nicole Commit? (2/07/06)
*P.S. Obligatory time controversy: God, why can't celebrities have all
their milestones in America? I'm so sick of looking up time zones in friggin'
Sydney and Namibia! Anyway, after due-diligence research, I feel compelled to
acknowledge the invariable conflicting reports about timing and explain my judgment
call regarding sources. While at least one report claims that "a peal of bells
signaled the end of the candle-lit ceremony 90 minutes after Kidman arrived
at 5:30 p.m. local time" {Source},
other Australian outlets, including this
report as well as this
one with a very detailed timeline, corroborate the 6:25PM moment of truth:
"At 5pm, they flipped the switches on the fairy lights in the trees outside
the chapel, all the way up the curved driveway, creating a romantic path to
the church door. When Kidman approached and saw thousands of people waiting
for her, she rolled down the window, put her fingers through and waved.... And
at 6.25pm, the chapel bells rang and the couple were married." {Source}
I've gone with the Aussie reports because they were closer to the source, more
detailed and there appeared to be more reports overall with this timeline. Please
email me or post a comment if you have evidence to the contrary.
I
just adore Amy Sedaris, admire her ability to be so creative and moonlight
baking cupcakes, and I can't wait for the Strangers with Candy movie,
so I thought I would share her funny and ironically insightful remarks about
astrology, which she shared with Onion offshoot the AV Club:
A brand-new feature has been added to CelebAstroBlogy. Now you can post all
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