In honour of Sag season, I feel drawn to examine the charts of one of my favourite Sagittarians- Britney Spears. This is also done at the recommendation of one of my great friends- a fellow astrologer, Lauren Breazeale (check her out at https://www.zephyrastrology.com/)!
I hope I do not get slated as being superficial for loving a pop singer this much. I am merely a child of the eighties, who was aged 13 when Britney came out with her debut album. This stuff is nostalgia for me, happy nostalgia, reminding me of those first stolen vodka cruisers and the kind of dancing where you forget yourself and know you’re looking absolutely *beautiful* up there with dozens of other beautiful people- music so loud you can’t think, all you can do is *feel* how beautiful you are, and dance.
Does that sound rather Venusian? It should, when it comes to Britney. Let’s have a look at her chart.
As you can see, she is a first decan Libra Rising, with Saturn and Pluto in the ascendant. At first glance, that is indeed a strongly Venusian chart- but what takes it up a notch is the presence of Venus conjunct her South Node in the fourth house, exactly square to Pluto in the first house. The South Node is like a raging tumult of energy, something like a black hole. As it represents our comfort zone and our most well-developed talent, it is something we tend to rely upon dysfunctionally, at the expense of challenging ourselves.
The ruler of the ascendant on the South Node represents someone with an enormous talent, who nevertheless tends to stay stuck- trapped in that place, despite having a need and an urge to break free!
This is highly significant in the context of her life. Britney Spears, as many of my readers will know, is being held under a conservatorship due to concerns around her mental health. This conservatorship is largely operated by her father, and other male members of her family. It is said that this is being done for her own good, but there is a lot of discontent about this happening. The #freebritney movement is alive and well and happening, given so many others of my generation have the same fondness for Britney as I do. There is concern that she is being held against her will, in order to gain the benefit of her hard-earned cash.
The South Node in this chart is in the fourth house, in Capricorn. The ruler of her South Node is Saturn, and it is in the first house (ruled by Aries). I read this as a strong inbuilt need for security in the home, as represented by the male parental figure. Venus’s square to Pluto and to Saturn represents the tremendous internal and external battle between this individual and repressive forces that are dealt to her from outside- that she has also internalised. This does look to me like an instance in which the home and the family are a prison this person cannot escape from.
The ruler of her north node represents an area of her life where she can find liberation and a place for growth- we see this here in her Moon in the fifth house in Aquarius. Through being a mother to her own children, through being creative and expressive, she finds herself able to expand her mind and her soul despite the limits placed upon her, those limits that she has been programmed to accept.
Her Saturn/Uranus ruled moon brings us back to her ascendant which connects us to her Mars in the 12th house in Virgo. This forms a tight square to Neptune in the third house. This is the chart of a phenomally gifted dancer and singer, no two ways about it. Mars/Neptune blesses those who have it with a artistry in how they move their bodies- and a third house stellium including Uranus, Mercury, the Sun and Neptune definitely places a critical, positive emphasis on the individual’s voice. Saturn and Pluto in the first gift Spears with the ability to put her nose to the grindstone and make a real career out of this talent.
Mars in the 12th house, especially in a woman’s chart, can represent hidden male enemies- and in a Libra Rising chart, this will often indicate that there is a lot of drug use and hidden nastiness going on between the person with the placement and their spouse. Spears has been infamous for her unfortunate marriages.
As for emotional instability, I am not finding much of that in this chart- although I do find some evidence for *mental* instability, which I will go into shortly. Spears does have a strong Saturnian influence on her Moon in Aquarius, with the trine from Saturn and her South Node in the fourth house in Capricorn- and the fact that the Moon in Aquarius is in fact co-ruled by Saturn. There is a tendency for this person to subdue themselves, and to allow themselves to be subdued by others emotionally. There can be a tendency to put feelings as such to one side and find their expression in that devoted motherhood and those works of art she creates. The Moon in Aquarius can be very hard-working and self-denying, finding peace in doing things in a way that seem morally correct to them. This person would be a very conscientious mother. The fact that her ex-husband has sole guardianship of her children will be the thing that is killing her the most.
The potential for mental instability is in her Uranus at a critical degree in the third house conjunct her Mercury in Sagittarius, which is also conjunct her Sun in Sagittarius. With Neptune in the third house as well, this is definitely someone who can express themselves artistically (as I have already noted)- with great genius. However, this comes at the cost of a high amount of nervous energy that feeds into her fifth house Moon as well. This is actually the chart of someone who is highly intelligent, but can be almost too intelligent and overly wrapped up in their own perspective. Funnily enough, I would state this to be an almost textbook third house for someone with moderate Asperger’s or ADHD. Britney has had some issues with drug use, and I would see this as an attempt to self-medicate her own brilliance and highly intuitive/ creative nervousness.
I see the greatest clue to Britney’s pain in Chiron in Taurus in the eighth house, which draws me back to her Jupiter in Scorpio in the second house. This wound is all about immense, tainted wealth that is not really hers, that has become enmeshed with people close to her. Why is Britney not free? It’s not because she’s crazy. Follow the money.
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