Raquel Welch RIP

[Jim Eshelman]

September 5, 1940, 2:04 PM CST, Chicago, IL (AA)

Few people could exemplify the glorious, adamant, proud, raw beauty of Leo-Libra luminaries like the late Raquel Welch, who died yesterday (2/15/2023) at her home in Los Angeles, age 82, from an unspecified "short illness."

She died with transiting Pluto opposite her Venus within a degree, Uranus conjunct her Saturn with Saturn square her Uranus, and Saturn recently entered Aquarius confronting her Leo Sun and planets by sign (but not yet by degree). The final timing transit appears to have been Mars' square to natal Sun after recently squaring her Mars.

I don't know if she was in town for her birthday. If so, her SSR had transiting Mars precisely setting and Neptune near IC, with a partile Moon-Pluto conjunction wherever she was. (Mars-Neptune were in mundane square, with both Mars and Neptune closely aspecting their natal positions.

Progressed Mars was 12' from conjunction with natal Moon (and recently conjoined by progressed Moon, which had moved on out of orb a month ago). Of some passing interest is that tertiary Saturn was 13' from natal Descendant.

Her February 12 SLR had nothing closely angular unless you count natal Eris 19' from Descendant. But the one noteworthy foreground aspect was transiting Neptune opposite natal Neptune less than 2 degrees and an intriguing transiting Moon square natal Pluto 01' in mundo.

For final timing, yesterday her SNQ Descendant was squeezed between transiting Sun and Saturn, that were in partile conjunction (and square her natal Uranus). The secondary progressions (including SNQ angles pegged this so well, I'm inclined to think the death an incident more than an accident, i.e., arising from something innate and inborn reaching its natural conclusion.

[SteveS]

RIP
Jim wrote:

I don't know if she was in town for her birthday. If so, her SSR had transiting Mars precisely setting and Neptune near IC, with a partile Moon-Pluto conjunction wherever she was. (Mars-Neptune were in mundane square, with both Mars and Neptune closely aspecting their natal positions.

I would bet she was "in town for her birthday."