I’m not one to hop onto a bandwagon ordinarily, but I’ve spent years upon years watching Ellen Degeneres lap up applause and adulation while I privately thought “something not quite right about this one”. Which is how I feel about most celebrities, but that’s a rant for another day. Anyone who can be more than comfortable with the fawning applause of the public and happily accept their worshipping praise is someone I can’t relate to easily. She reminds me much of Mother Theresa bowing and nodding to the assembled hordes whilst being described a “living saint”. Let it also be said that I don’t necessarily view any soul as “less than”- we are all here to live our own unique purpose and live out our karma, and Ellen is no different. I will say, however, her eyes are empty and cold and I get nothing off her vibe but anger and self-importance. Ellen Degeneres’ birth chart would no doubt be interesting.
At the time of writing, as you well know, the buzzards are hovering and Ellen is circling the drain. A lot of backed-up vitriol is being shot at her. I believe she is doubly unlucky to be the target of some allegations at this time of Covid, as a lot of individuals are in severe need of someone or something to vent their frustrations upon. However, it can be argued that this particular experience of public exposure is written into her very interesting birth chart- which I will now look at. With a North Node in Aquarius/Scorpio, what illustrates that archetype more perfectly than public torture in front of a baying mob? What else can Ellen Degeneres’ birth chart show us?
Ellen is an Aquarius Sun, Aries Moon and Sagittarius Rising. She has her sun in Aquarius square her North Node in Scorpio/Aquarius and her South Node in Taurus/Leo. She has Neptune conjunct her north node as well, and Jupiter conjunct her Neptune. This is an absolutely fascinating configuration.
The Sun in Aquarius is in detriment, and that square to the Nodes is a very challenging aspect indeed. As Neptune is conjunct the North Node as well, this is a person whose sense of self is very fluid, fragile, somewhat lost. Spirituality will be something she struggles to grasp and understand. Uranus in the eighth house is opposite her Sun and Venus RX as well, which points to cataclysmic changes and losses in life related to secrets, sexuality, hoarded possessions. Her life must be a series of Tower moments that is related to crises around self-worth. However, with her Sun, Venus and Chiron in the second house she actually craves that stability and material abundance. Her South Node in Leo/Taurus pulls her into a comfort zone where she finds a sense of identity in showmanship, adulation, material comfort- but if she pushes to find herself here (which she will do, out of habit) she neglects her higher purpose that is represented by Scorpio/Aquarius, the esoteric trial of “letting go” and finding freedom and identity in ego annhilation. It very much reminds me of King Louis XVI breathing a sigh of relief in Paradise after losing his head on the chopping block. Ellen Degeneres’ birth chart doesn’t indicate she’ll go to the guilliotine, but I think we can all see she’s lost her head a bit.
However, she is a chameleon. An actress needs to be. Venus RX conjunct the Sun can make a person very charming, very nice to look at and secretive about their love affairs and what they truly value. With the Sun and Venus square to Neptune, perhaps the father and home were both lost to them (Ellen was molested by her stepfather). An Aqua Sun/ Sagittarius Rising with Jupiter in the 11th house will find themselves feeling blessed by their friends but with the conjunction to Neptune, all is not what it seems. All is not what it seems with Ellen’s values either, but with Neptune the truth always comes to light and the fog always clears eventually- especially as this conjunction occurs in Scorpio.
With Scorpio/Aquarius we need to look at Mars and Saturn as well, and this chart contains some interesting dynamics when it comes to these two planets. Saturn represents where the person feels some restriction and has inherited some karma, and Ellen has a Saturn/Mars conjunction in her first house. There is some sort of imposed powerlessness, some kind of block that is placed on her understanding of her physical body and also her sexuality. There could be some real sexual problems here and of course I don’t just mean being gay, with Uranus in the 8th there is something outlandishly different perhaps, something difficult to reveal. Something deeply suppressed within Ellen is what actually drives her- with her Moon in Aries affected by this Mars-Saturn conjunction, the control and suppression goes to the core of her being and will largely motivate any explosiveness and ill-willed aggression to others. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if something did come out connecting her to Epstein’s island.
This painful Mars-Saturn stuff is what will put the pressure on the Mars/Saturn (or Scorpio/Aquarius) north node, of course. So what is the mystery of this polarity? With so much of this person’s identity lost between the urge for gilded stability and the urge for freedom and annihilation, what has this soul chosen to learn on its path?
Pluto is in Virgo in the ninth house, the obsession is all about maintaining an image of perfect benevolence. There is a sextile to Jupiter and of course Neptune, where the individual’s spirituality and belief system are dynamically transformed through new information and understanding that challenge and destroy anything that is outworn and rotten.
This one wants to be perfect, because she can’t stand herself and her own internal pain. She can’t be, however, and there has to be an understanding that things will change and things will come into the light. The gutter isn’t forever, neither is the spotlight. Liberation is not found through an avoidance of challenges or being a good person, it is found through the inevitable transformation that comes through great trials of human suffering and human imperfection. She may have stuffed up, but she will find her freedom and her peace regardless.
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