Burt Bacharach RIP

[Jim Eshelman]

One of the greatest song-writers of all time (I bet nobody here can say they were never touched deeply, or even had their life changed, by one of his songs) died yesterday 2/8/2023 at his home in Los Angeles.

Burt Bacharach was born May 12, 1928, 1:15 AM, in Kansas City, MO (AA). He was an Aries-Capricorn with Moon 2° below Asc in close mundane opposition to a well-aspected Neptune just above Descendant. (It's sooooo easy to show how much Neptune has to do with music, while Moon shows tapping the public's pulse beat.) I wouldn't have guessed the double Rim, especially with an Aries Sun, but I guess that is his raw energy and industriousness over the decades.

However, the Capricorn Moon is no surprise. Musical in its own right, with a focus on song-writing as storytelling (John Lennon, Jon Bon Jovi, and a string of popular singers from the '50s through the '90s including one other Beatle and names like Jett, Spears, Flack, Summer, and Ronstadt), Capricorn Moon also takes easily to jazz, which was the heart of Bacharach's musical roots (recalling another Cap Moon, Chic Corea). Sun square Pluto and octile Uranus singled him out from the rest.

Transiting Uranus squared his Moon this week. Saturn had just begun to oppose his Neptune.

If his last birthday was spent n LA, nothing is super-close to angles in his last SSR, though the foreground aspects include Mars square his Saturn and Saturn to his Moon-Neptune, along with SSR Moon square natal Pluto while opposite solar Venus.

Transiting Pluto was square PSSR Moon.

His February 5 Demi-SLR had transiting Neptune 0°34' above Asc and natal Mars 1°56' below Asc, along with bits of other planets. The closest foreground was Jupiter conjunct his Uranus 0°13' mundo, but the most angular was transiting Neptune conjunct natal Mars.

[SteveS]

, he was a great one.

[Jim Eshelman]

Bacharach's daughter committed suicide January 4, 2017. He lived in Los Angeles at the time.

His December 24 SLR seems to show this superbly, though you can only see it in the mundoscope:

r Saturn on WP-a -0°47'
----------------------------
t Sun on Dsc +1°34'
t Pluto on Dsc +1°42'
t Uranus on MC +5°26'
t Mercury on Dsc +9°03'

-- t Sun-Pluto co 0°08' M
-- t Mercury co r Saturn 2°38' M
-- t Mercury-Pluto co 2°43'

This gives the story. Partile non-foreground aspects add details:
t Moon sq r Venus 0°04' M
t Venus op r Pluto 0°24'
t Pluto sq r Mars 0°53'

[SteveS]

Defintely--he encountered a heavy, heavy burden with these aspects/angularity.

[mikestar13]

The SLR for his daughter's suicide is tragically descriptive, clearly showing intense pain and loss with the non-foreground partiles suggesting involvement of a loved one.

This would have gone unseen without mundane aspects. Listing both in the same chart in a wheel that facilitates sight reading of mundane aspects has been a greater boon than I expected when I designed that into TMSA even before I wrote the first code. When 1.0 is released with the capacity to see parans listed with equal facility, I'm wondering what else we will discover? Parans are an even bigger PITA to hand calculate than mundane aspects, so it was not actually done that often even by people who thought them valuable.

Having a child die before you is a parent's worst nightmare, probably even more so because she died by her own hand. This was already ancient knowledge when Herodotus reported (probably invented) the dialog between Cyrus, king of Persia and the defeated Croesus, king of Lydia, who had initiated the war between them, replying to Cyrus on being queried on why he started the war said "... no man of his own will prefers war to peace, for in peace the sons bury their fathers but in war, the fathers bury their sons."

The tears are flowing as I write, thinking of David, even after twelve and a half years. Though they don't happen as often as a decade ago, they won't stop until I meet him at the gates of heaven. It hurts my heart that Burt had to experience pain like this in the final years of his life.

[Jim Eshelman]

This would have gone unseen without mundane aspects. Listing both in the same chart in a wheel that facilitates sight reading of mundane aspects has been a greater boon than I expected when I designed that into TMSA even before I wrote the first code. When 1.0 is released with the capacity to see parans listed with equal facility, I'm wondering what else we will discover? Parans are an even bigger PITA to hand calculate than mundane aspects, so it was not actually done that often even by people who thought them valuable.

Yes! (On both counts.)

So far TMSA has let us confirm (and deepen our knowledge of) so much that we knew, or thought we knew - and now has become routine daily familiarity, routine working. More to come, I'm sure!

(And yes, Herodotus nailed it.)

[SteveS]

Well put Mike. I tragically lost a sister and witness my father drink himself to insanity inflicting a-lot of pain onto my Mother, all because of the loss of their daughter. For sure—the worst kind of emotional pain for a parent.

And I know what you mean about PITA tracking t. Parans.