| Direct Station of Venus
Exalted in Pisces
by Robert Blaschke
 Robert
Blaschke, in practice since 1979 and founder of Earthwalk School of
Astrology in February 1992 chart, is an internationally respected full-time professional
consulting, lecturing and teaching astrologer. He is the author of the critically
acclaimed Astrology: A Language of Life series: Volume I - Progressions, Volume
II - Sabian Aspect Orbs, Volume III - A Handbook for the Self-Employed Astrologer,
Volume IV - Relationship Analysis and Volume V - Holographic Transits. nativity
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With the the opening words to “I Dreamed a Dream” from Les Miserables,
an underdog Scottish singer with the voice of an angel has captivated the world. …
I dreamed a dream in time gone by
When hope was high
And life worth living
I
dreamed that love would never die
I dreamed that God would be forgiving … …
Then I was young and unafraid
When dreams were made and used
And wasted
There
was no ransom to be paid
No song unsung
No wine untasted… With
last year’s ingress of Pluto into Capricorn, a global economic crisis engulfed
humanity and plunged the world into despair. Millions of unemployed have lost
health-care benefits. Millions more are behind on mortgage payments. Hundreds
of thousands have lost their homes to bank foreclosures. Staggering credit card
debt for those who have lived beyond their means will never be repaid. Banks have
gone into insolvency or are barely surviving on taxpayer bailouts from the government. Such
a desolate and hopeless landscape in which the world finds itself! The recent
retrograde Venus in detriment in Aries had millions of people holding their heads
in sorrow as they pondered depleted investment or retirement accounts decimated
by the stock market crash of last fall. Each evening, the nightly news would be
watched to find any glimmers of hope for a resuscitated economy or good news on
the job front. On Saturday, April 11, retrograde Venus made her ingress
back into Pisces, sign of her exaltation. She would be stationing direct the next
week on April 17 in the final degree of the zodiac, once again to ingress back
into her detriment in Aries on April 24 at the Taurus New Moon. The world yearned
for 13 days of relief as Venus stationed in her exalted sign in the most karmic
degree of the zodiac. … But the tigers come at night
With their
voices soft as thunder
As they tear your hopes apart
As they turn your dreams
to shame … 
That
Saturday night, on the Britain’s Got Talent TV show, a homely 48-year-old
spinster named Susan Magdalen Boyle, microphone in hand, fearlessly took the stage
and faced the sneers of the judges and the audience. Ian Youngs, entertainment
reporter for the BBC News, wrote: “Last Saturday, viewers saw Boyle,
with double chin, unkempt hair, frumpy appearance and eccentric demeanour, step
onto the talent show stage and proclaim her dream of being a professional singer.
The judges rolled their eyes and the audience pulled incredulous faces. Onlookers,
on set and at home, were rubbing their hands at the prospect of another hopeless,
deluded loser being crushed by a withering Simon Cowell insult. Then she opened
her mouth and sang I Dreamed A Dream from Les Miserables. Her voice confounded
all expectations — the judges’ eyes bulged, the crowd went wild and
Boyle became an instant star.” Over the next week, a YouTube video
of her performance was viewed more than 30 million times by people around the
world; many were brought to tears by the operatic beauty of her soaring voice
as their hearts were pierced by her angelic presence. … And still
I dream he’ll come to me
And we will live our lives together
But there
are dreams that cannot be
And there are storms
We cannot weather … During
her backstage comments, Ms. Boyle revealed that she lived alone in her village
of Blackburn with her cat, Pebbles. She also stated that she had never been married;
indeed, she said she had never even been kissed by a man. Her natal Venus is retrograde
in Aries and square Saturn — one’s heart aches for the barren existence
she has had to endure. It was also revealed that she is the youngest child of
nine from a Roman Catholic family and that she had cared for her ailing mother
until she passed away in 2007 at the age of 91. Susan had always aspired to be
a singer, and her mother had encouraged her to audition for that British TV talent
show. … I had a dream my life would be
So different from this
hell I’m living
So different now from what it seems
Now life has killed
The
dream I dreamed … To what can an astrologer attribute the sudden
fame and global acclaim for Ms. Boyle? Surely, her nativity must contain a hidden
seed that has now borne fruit. (1) 
For
each of us, there is a powerful degree in the zodiac that remains charged, or
filled with life-giving power, throughout our earthly existence. This degree is
that of our prenatal solar eclipse. Susan Boyle’s prenatal eclipse occurred
on February 15, 1961 at 26° Aquarius. Remarkably, now that she has become
a worldwide symbol for the hope and faith required to never give up on one’s
dream, we see that the upcoming conjunction of Jupiter and Neptune in late May,
itself an alignment of hope and transcendence, will fall precisely on Ms. Boyle’s
prenatal solar eclipse. We may ask, “What about all of the other souls
born in 1961 with this degree as their prenatal eclipse?” (2) At the time
of Ms. Boyle’s birth, 15° Aquarius culminated on the Midheaven. Since
the meridian of the nativity moves one degree each four minutes of clock time,
a person’s MC is rather unique and can only occur once a day for a few minutes.
Astrologers know that 15° of the fixed signs are the “power degrees”
of the zodiac, and Aquarius is the sign that rules radio and television broadcasting. When
the prenatal solar eclipse is calculated for Susan Boyle’s place of birth,
the 20th degree of Pisces is rising, and the Galactic Center degree in 26°
Sagittarius is culminating. From Charubel’s The Degrees of the Zodiac Symbolized,
(3) we find the all-important rising degree symbol for 20° Pisces to be: An
angel blowing a trumpet. Denotes one whose office
will be to publish to the world some important message: a message having a bearing
on the social or spiritual condition of mankind. A preacher, a lecturer, or some
popular person.
It has been speculated that Susan Boyle
will win the TV talent show and go on to become an international singing sensation
with a multimillion-pound recording contract. Having been born at the Full Moon
with an exalted Sun, and with Pluto conjunct her North Node, her life purpose
is to become a powerful and transformational human being. Pluto stationed on her
Descendant in 2007–08 and is now above her natal horizon for the first time
in her life, so she is on her way to living her purpose. Just when the world
needed it most, an innocent and guileless soul with the voice of an angel stepped
onto the stage of life and lifted millions of weary spirits up to higher ground.
With each tear shed upon listening to her moving rendition of “I Dreamed
A Dream” from Les Miserables, one more human being was immersed in the healing
waters of a stationary direct Venus exalted in Pisces. May every middle-aged
woman afraid that her age would keep her from realizing her dreams be inspired
by the courage of Susan Boyle. At the time of her exact progressed Mars–Jupiter
opposition, she has become a blood transfusion for those who have been drained
of hope. … I dreamed a dream in time gone by
When hope was high
And
life worth living
I dreamed that love would never die
I dreamed that God
would be forgiving … Notes: (1) Birth data are from Ms. Caroline
Gerard of The Scottish Astrological Association, who obtained the birth certificate
from the records office of the Scottish New Register House. The sole entry for
Blackburn, Scotland listed in many astrology software atlases shows the incorrect
latitude and longitude for a Blackburn in Aberdeenshire, not for the correct second
Blackburn in West Lothian. Susan Boyle, April 1, 1961; 9:50 a.m. GMD; Blackburn
(West Lothian), Scotland (55°N52’, 03°W38’). (2) It should
also be pointed out that the new U.S. president, Barack Obama, born August 4,
1961, has the same prenatal solar eclipse as Ms. Boyle. (3) First published
in 1898 and now out of print. © 2009 Robert P. Blaschke | 
