blennus said:
Easy life? Hardly. In some respects I’ve been very fortunate. I’ve never lacked in the area of physical needs, as well as in schooling and education. However considering that I’ve almost died a few times, been run over by a car, gotten in a horrific divorce, not to mention that my father was a physically abusive alcoholic and I was the one in the family that received the brunt of his wrath…
I would NEVER have mentioned this if you had not brought it up. People look at a grand trine and think it gives you a free pass through life. I have repeatedly claimed that semisextiles are difficult, just as difficult as inconjuncts.
I see, for inconjuncts: Venus/Jupiter, Mars/Saturn, Moon/Uranus. I use a cut-off at 2 degrees.
Semisextiles: Uranus both ways, to Pluto and to Neptune, and it's personal because the midpoint, Uranus, is inconjunct the Moon. I'm not mentioning oppositions or squares. Those are obvious. The first thing I thought about was abuse, and thank God it wasn't worse than it was.
It's also true that you have some wonderful, supportive aspects. Like most survivors, your chart is both very difficult (hard aspects) and very supportive (easy ones).
I just wanted to point this out, not to you, but to other people who are learning—the danger of seeing trines and sextiles and making assumptions!
But now to this, which is really why I'm writing:
Back on topic, I looked up the birth chart of Luciano Pavarotti and found some interesting points.
I find this incredibly ironic. As I began reading this thread, long before reaching this post, I decided to do the same investigation and actually charted him myself before I saw that you had posted about him.
There is nothing that tells me that someone has a great voice, but I do believe that both Neptune and Uranus are very, very important for people who are highly creative. When there is a strong aspect from Uranus to Mercury, even a very hard one, original thinking is stressed, and that is terribly important for anyone who is an artist (or could be), and Neptune/Mercury I strongly believe shows creative talent, all the things that go beyond logic, so important to music.
Finally, one other element I've been studying with great intensity is Pallas. You have Pallas quintile Uranus, yet another part of the puzzle.
Have you sung professionally or for audiences? Do you feel you COULD if you wanted to, if you haven't?
Gaer