Sagittarius profile: Sinead O'Connor - The Torment
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On 26 July 2023 it was announced that Sinead had died - subsequent to another very challenging period after the suicide of her 17 year old son in 2022.
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| Sinead described son Dylan as "the one person who loved me unconditionally" |
For millions of fans Sinead represented not only a very powerful talent in the music industry but also a representative of the lifelong challenges faced by all who have suffered the severe wounding of childhood abuse.
The transit of Pluto in late Capricorn became sustained since early 2022 - creating a very stressful angle to Sinead's 26 Libra Moon -which is natally semisextile her Neptune-Mercury in Scorpio. This pairing is trined to the deeply sensitive water combination of Chiron-Saturn in Pisces.
Intense pressure on her very fragile emotional stability would have ensued after the shock of losing her son.
Returning to London early July after a long absence Sinead appeared to be full of plans for reviving her career.
The buildup of Cardinal energy by mid July 2023 saw Sun in Cancer intensify in opposition to Pluto - adding to the load of emotional pain inherent in the Scorpio and Pisces water factors in Sinead's chart.
Overwhelm
Original 2016 Post
It's hard to overlook Sinead as a charismatic performer, with a great voice and a tortured soul.
She has also come into public awareness because of her beliefs regarding social injustice, religion,her personal angst around family relationships.
With considerable family dysfunction and personal trauma pre-dating her music career, Sinead then experienced further pain in her relationships with partners and the children born of those unions.
So three significant strands can be identified:
Family relationships
Musical-writing-singing abilities
Beliefs
From this 3 keywords matched to their sign & planet energies
Family = cardinal energy Cancer-Capricorn-Aries-Libra & Moon Saturn, Mars, Venus
Music = cardinal energy primarily Libra and Venus
Beliefs - mutable energy -Sagittarius, Pisces
Sinead’s chart shows in the red triangles a highly significant T-square pattern that puts the personality under extreme pressure.
Three pairings of energy loop together within a narrow positional range involving 3 mutable signs:
Sun and Venus meet at 19 Sagittarius
Sun-Venus are stressed by Chiron-Saturn at 23 Pisces
Chiron-Saturn oppose Pluto-Uranus at 22 Virgo
Pluto-Uranus stress Sun-Venus
So here you have a major loop of mental pressure activated in the 19-23 degrees in the mutable signs – emphasised anytime any current planet is transiting that degree range – which is a common and repeated event in some instances. The Sun does it four times a year – mid March, mid June, mid September and mid December. The Moon does it four times a month.
But it is the outer planets that hold the most capacity to cause crisis – the energies triggered will be significant for Sinead throughout her lifetime when Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune or Pluto and the asteroid Chiron transit through 19-23 degrees of any of the four mutable signs Gemini Sagittarius,Virgo, Pisces ( the wider range from 18-24 degrees will be alive in terms of triggering power)
For this reason the period April 2015-April 2017 when Chiron progresses then retrogrades in the range 18-24 Pisces marks a particularly demanding period for Sinead.
This is yet anothr occasion when multiple psychological complexes involving woundedness and pain are activated concerning personal relationships (Venus) sense of self (Sun), limitations and control (Saturn), disempowerment (Pluto), individual expression & injustice (Uranus)
But each time in her life that this same intense pressure is applied, she is being urged to find a way out, a way through, a way beyond.
It's not intended as a punishment regime or a torture - it is a powerful collection of energetic forces urging her to find resolution through discovering new solutions, new behaviours, new choices.
But there is even more in the picture due to the connections made by Mercury and Neptune to the major mutable pattern.
Mercury and Neptune were at her birth in the fixed water sign Scorpio and in the mutable water sign Pisces location of the chart = double emotional depth, intensity = a flooding of the thoughts and the mind making clarity and reason hard to find - so a different part or function of the mind is asking to be utilised: the spiritual level of consciousness.
Faith, belief and spirituality
Neptune and Pisces spiritualise the mind, making religion, faith very much a mental preoccupation for Sinead –though a stressful matter due to the other demanding pattern of planets that feeds into this issue: faith and religion for her are beset by the pain of restriction, issues of disempowerment, loss of freedom.
To be raised in association with the rigors of Catholic thought has been fraught with difficulty, distress but she has the rebellious spirit drawn from the Uranus influence and being born a Sagittarian has its gifts.
The Sagittarian has a mission to explore widely the potentials of the physical, mental and spiritual – so a pathway through sport, exercise, study, travel and belief is a natural progression over a lifetime, to acquire broad experience, knowledge, wisdom and ultimately – to practice of a set of morals, ethics or beliefs about life or the nature of our existence – coming to terms with what it means to be human within a larger cosmos.
This recognition of personal place within the whole can come under the faith-based religions such as Christianity or Islam or under the philosophy based beliefs such as Buddhism.
Sinead obviously has considerable karma with the realm of Catholicism but a reorientation and reclaiming of her spirituality in a more personally appropriate form is not beyond the realm of possibilities for her.
Saturn is the force that keeps her in traditional relationship to the mindset of Catholicism –but she has that most rebellious energy, Uranus opposing Saturn.
Pluto the transformational force is conjuncting Uranus and also opposing Saturn – giving Sinead an amazing potential to overthrow the patriarchal (Saturnian) religious domination that tortures her mind.
And make no mistake, this is a battle for the mind and in recent years the rebellion of youth has given way to high profile indicators of much mental distress.
[the mutable signs are always about the way a person’s mind works but it is a battle she can take control of, utilising the most potent pairing of planets available –Uranus and Pluto – to transition her from victim to empowered person.
read more on the mind signs -Gemini Sagittarius Virgo Pisces
read more on the mind signs -Gemini Sagittarius Virgo Pisces
In the meantime, Saturn’s 2016-2017 transit through Sagittarius will provide further major challenges she has to win in order to survive. She has to replace her original spiritual base with new foundations, building something more personalised and more relevant, to usurp and transcend the damage done to her spiritual consciousness as a result of her involvement with Catholicism.
Fundamentally the challenge issued when personal responses arise during a Saturn experience, is to grow up, mature, act like an adult – but for a person suffering post traumatic stress disorder from emotional and physical abuse within her own family, developmental delays are automatic – the ideal progression from child to adult does not occur within the usual parameters of typical life stages. Inadequate, neglectful or damaging forms of parenting create real life impediments –and Sinead is a clear example with this as she struggles herself as a mother.
Libra is the energy often found connected to people with musical talents –as instrumentalists or singers.
Libra is connected to balance and harmony - so these qualities not only apply to music, they also operate in the other territory of Venus -personal relationships.
Sinead has Moon and Mars in Libra – Mars made very prominent at the top of the chart and the Libran planet Venus is prominent in the big energy pattern outlined above, and due to the location that shows influences in the early weeks of her life.
The Sun and Venus show she was exposed to very influential creative and musical experiences as a very young infant - as well as very challenging atmospheres related to family relationships, the Church, beliefs, faith and how connected all these influences are regarding her need for self transformation and for spiritual growth.
Shining as a performer, appreciated by large audiences is a necessary healing experience for Sinead to offset the torment of her personal struggles.
Here Sinead performs a very spiritualised version of the Bernie Taupin song "Sacrifice"
made popular by Elton John
In 2010 with the BBC Concert Orchestra Sinead performed her biggest hit - from 1990, 20 years prior - Nothing Compares to You -written by Prince. This version has so much life engrained in it compared to her original
Troy 1987 video - written by Sinead references the classic Pluto transformational iconography of the Phoenix and the flames
