George Michael is dead at age 53. Among many other things, he was the only occasional stand-in for Freddy Mercury that made the slightest sense or dent. Time to dedicate today to "something special, something sacred."
NOTE TO 2016: Please take a break for the holidays. In fact, take the rest of the year off. You've worked hard enough, thank you very much. (Seriously, thanks for reminding us that, "If we have faith in each other then we can be strong." We might need that one.)
Oh, uh, back to the 'strology.
Michael's birth certificate has no time on it. According to his business office, he was born June 25, 1963, 6:00 AM, Finchley, England.
A Gemini-Cancer with a close Mars-Pluto square square his Mercury-Venus conjunction, Moon closely opposite Saturn, and the Mars-Pluto foreground (Pluto closest), he was a powerful force in music for decades. At the moment I'm chuckling at the irony of some of his best known titles in comparison to his chart, "Faith" for a Gemini Sun and "Father Figure" for a Cancer Moon opposite Saturn in Capricorn, for example. His emotional and personal force and charisma are all over the chart. Not ironically, his foreground Mars-Pluto conjunction is, well, "Wham!"
(PS - I missed Jupiter closely square Asc.)
He reportedly "died peacefully" around family and friends. I don't have hard facts on his health and the results of his blood tests, but with several years of recurring pneumonia, spiking temperatures, and negligible resistance to viruses, I have my own theories about the matter.
