Nov 17: Israel Regardie & Lauren Hutton

[Jim Eshelman]

Regardie, Israel. Nov 17, 1907, 6:10AM GMT, London, England (A).
Hutton, Lauren. Nov 17, 1943, 10:45 PM EWT, Charleston, SC (AA).

Regardie lived for decades in Studio City, CA where he had exalted Jupiter moderately angular. He then retired to Sedona, AZ where he supported himself in comfort using divination (geomancy) to play the stock market - and where he had Jupiter even closer to the angle. As Astro.com quotes, I'm the source of the data: He gave it to me over the phone (but not as early as 3/79 that they say) when he asked me to do a year of astro work for him.

[Jim Eshelman]

Lauren Hutton not only mostly created the idea of a "super model," she has continued to pioneer changing the public concept of a beautiful woman. Despite her abundant, evident beauty (and her natural "you can take my picture" rising Moon in Cancer - a Class 2 angularity that never quite hit the "pin-up girl" level with her), her chart, like her crafted look, has played to the rough and unpolished.

This is reflected in the relative absence of any important Venus themes in her chart. For a woman who defined female beauty for so long, Venus is away from angles and luminaries, under the earth, in her Fall - the most important connections being the "outside normal bounds" close aspects to Uranus and Pluto. I think more importantly, though, her Scorpio Sun normally produces women who are described (facially) as "mannish," or at least coarse-looking and rough-hewn by 20th century standards. Think the older Bo Derek, or Linda Tripp, or even Tina Turner at any age. - This btw is one example of Sidereal astrology shining: It is a total fit for Sun in Mars' constellation and not fitting at all the theory of Tropical Sagittarius.

I think her basic temperament and her life-path have been shown especially by this Scorpio Sun combined with the pronouncedly "don't give a damn" foreground Moon-Pluto conjunction - which, mundanely, is almost partile. Sun square Jupiter doesn't hurt for success.

Her chart is an interesting study of dignities and debilities, one of the better examples of these sign-placements not meaning "better vs. worse" - she has a mostly debilited chart and yet experienced enormous success. Rather, a planet in its detriment or fall simply is combining with an energy opposite its own, which sometimes can impede the planet's function but usually only makes it atypical, showing that it goes against the grain. In a chart already wired to go against the grain of convention, this is not a problem at all. Besides the dignified rising Cancer Moon, Hutton also has Venus in Virgo (fall), Mars in Taurus (detriment), Uranus in Taurus (it's always tempting to treat this as a fall), and Neptune in Virgo (detriment). Imagine, a Venus-Neptune conjunction in Virgo, exactly opposite the constellation in which they share dignity.