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  Date / Time: 6/4/2009 1:38 AM UTC

  Susan Boyle and the 11th House: The Dream That Comes to Pass
  

  SUSAN BOYLE AND THE 11^TH HOUSE :

  THE DREAM THAT COMES TO PASS

   

   

  For those of you who didn't know - I despise American Idol and any of its offshoots.  Being a trained opera singer who had a professional singing career, I don't have much interest in something pop culture bothers to look at for more than a minute with its ADD attention span and then insists in a very hysterical manner that THIS is "good singing".  For those of you who find fault with my opinion, please pick up a microphone (or better yet don't use a microphone at all as those of us who are classically trained do), and sing in front of an audience of more than 20 people for more than 3 minutes and then get back to me if you would care to argue the point a bit more.
  
  With that said, it's no surprise that I missed the broadcast when Susan Boyle made her television debut on April 11th, 2009.   After that evening, a number of my viewers approached me asking if I had seen or heard her; it wasn't until I saw my Scorpio best friend did I come to find out the piece that Ms. Boyle chose to make her mark on the world with her voice.  Her song choice alone made me extremely curious - "I dreamed a dream" from Les Miserables.  
  
  Les Miserables and particularly "I dreamed a dream" emote feelings that are ANYTHING but uplifting or dare I say toe-tapping.  The musical is based on Victor Hugo's novel which tells of the doomed fate of a group of poor French revolutionaries at the turn of the 19th century.  "I dreamed a dream" is sung by a woman named Fantine right before she cuts off all of her hair and enters a life of prostitution.  With the last words of the song "Now life has killed the dream I dream." Fantine admits and acknowledges her unjust destiny - not exactly something you would say as having "a good beat and you can dance to it!".  Nor something that audiences in the midst of a world recession would want to even listen to! All the more eyebrow raising to discover that THIS is the song Susan Boyle auditioned with????  After reviewing her natal chart, there could not have been a more perfect choice.)  Here is the link to view the chart itself.
  
  

  I will focus on 4 major features of Susan Boyle's chart:  Her stellium in the 11th house, her grand trine in water, her chart being triple cardinal, and lastly her Jupiter, Uranus and Venus placements.
  
  As we shall see in many ways, the number 11 and the concept of dreams has much to do with the birth chart of Susan Boyle. She has a stellium which means 3 or more planets in the 11th house - her Sun at the 11th degree of Aries, Mercury in Pisces and Venus in Aries.  The 11th house is a curious house in itself.  On a rudimentary level it is the house of friends, groups and of humanity at large, on a more esoteric level it is the house of the future and of hopes, wishes and dreams. When a person is born with their Sun and Mercury in the 11th house, much of who they are (Sun) and what they have to say (Mercury) are on a level for all of society to hear or take note of as well as that person's entire self (Sun) can speak (Mercury) to every different level of humanity, be it groups of young/old/rich or poor. Venus' placement in the 11th is just as, if not more significant as the Sun and Mercury's and will be discussed later.  Most importantly the future of a person born with their Sun, Mercury and Venus in the 11th is based on their following of a "dream" no matter how distant it may be at the time of their birth.  
  
  If we look at the chart from far back, the first thing that stands out is a perfect blue triangle - this is known as a grand trine.  A grand trine is when 3 planets are placed in each of the 3 signs of 1 of the 4 elements and are in perfect harmony or trine each other.  Susan Boyle's grand trine is in the element of water and involves Mars in Cancer in the 1st house, Neptune in Scorpio in the 6th house, and Mercury in Pisces in the 11th.  A person born with a grand trine in water has a dual sided gift with sympathy and empathy.  That person can not only be sympathetic and empathic to anyone that approaches them with an emotional problem or issue but can draw sympathy or empathy from others towards them! Take that emotionally charged energy along with the planets of her grand trine into a formula and apply that to a piece like "I dreamed a dream" and you have magic on stage!

  
  Mars in Cancer in the 1st  - Indication of a person who must work for or most of their actions are in service to their parents or family and identifies their overall self with these actions.  Ms. Boyle has spent her entire life in her home village of Blackburn Scotland and took care of her parents until their deaths.  Scotland by the way is a Cancerian country, so her actions in themselves spoke to the Scottish people as whole!  By her Mars placement, Susan could easily emote a sense of someone acting out of sheer caring or a basic belief system when singing "I dreamed a dream."
  
  Neptune in Scorpio in the 6th - Indication of someone who can find spirituality or a sense of faith in one's daily toil but also of utter disillusionment as well.  Being placed in the sign of Scorpio, taken one way the person dies in the midst of a daily struggle of work and humble service as Fantine does in Les Miserables but on a mystical level, a person can come across as an everyday blue collar worker and literally be rebirthed and transform through something that accompanied their daily work as Susan Boyle did with her singing.
  
  Mercury in Pisces in the 11th - Anyone who has Mercury in the 11th house has "the mark of the purple" meaning that no matter what kind of social status they were born into, they can come across to groups and the public with a dignified and proud bearing.  Mercury rules our speech and how we communicate and when placed in Pisces a person can evoke a sense of pity from others since Pisces is the sign of the downtrodden or the underdog.  How wondrous that the planet which rules the voice is the final part of the grand trine and can bring out such sentiments of tragic sympathy but with a voice of dignified clarity that spoke to many people on many levels as Susan Boyle did with her choice of song being "I dreamed a dream"!
  
  The Sun, Moon and Rising Sign or Ascendant are what I call "The Big Three" or the dominant components of a person's overall personality.  Susan Boyle's Sun, Moon, and Ascendant are all in Cardinal Signs, giving her personality the quality of being "Triple Cardinal".  The cardinal signs (Aries, Libra, Cancer and Capricorn) are signs that are inherently good at starting or beginning things.  Before she sang, Susan Boyle was asked her age and she unabashedly answered "47".  Everything about her entrance on stage, her candid manner of speaking and her vocal attack of singing had a freshness and youthful buoyancy that only a person who was triple cardinal could have, no matter what their age! Susan possessed 3 of the 4 cardinal signs being Aries Sun, Libra Moon, and Cancer rising. On April 11th, transiting Pluto completed the cardinal qualities by being in the very beginning of Capricorn right at the point of Susan's Descendant.  Susan's international debut that night was a first of many indicators of society's need to transform what we view as anything "aging" or "old" with Pluto entering the sign of Capricorn.  The planet of death and transformation was not in Susan's 1st house which would mean that she change her overall self, rather it is on her descendant, meaning that her one on one relationship with how we as the world see her must change.  We can no longer hold on to the notion that someone who is 47 is over the hill and shouldn't even think of trying to BEGIN anything, let alone a singing career!

   

  I would like to isolate 3 of Susan Boyle’s natal planets – Saturn, Jupiter and Venus.  Since her Saturn is within 5 degrees of a cusp it is moved into the 8^th house and is conjunct her Jupiter.  A conjunction is when 2 planets are within close range and it is usually assumed are placed in the same sign, this is not the case with Susan’s Saturn and Jupiter in the 8^th house.  Her Saturn is in its own sign of Capricorn and anyone born with Saturn in the sign that it rules has a delay with time usually with their status or recognition.  It is also the indication of someone who usually lives a life of duty or obligation.  Susan Boyle sang her entire life but did not attempt to have her voice be heard on a major venue until after the death of her parents whom she dutifully cared for most of her adult years.  Thus she did not come to the attention of the public eye until the age of 47.  With that in mind and Saturn now placed in the 8^th house, the formula now reads: a delay with time regarding status or recognition in the area of life regarding transformation or rebirth. Put that in conjunction with Jupiter, the planet of fortune or blessings and placed in the sign of the masses, Aquarius and now the full formula reads: Susan Boyle, through her sense of duty and obligation to her family was greatly delayed with her entrance upon the world stage, but her transformational change in her later years has been a blessing to humanity!

   

  That leaves one last item to be discussed : Susan Boyle’s Venus which is placed in retrograde motion in Aries in the 11^th house.  Venus rules love and beauty and is considered in its detriment when placed in the opposite sign of its rulership, Aries.  When a person is born when Venus is in retrograde motion, they are considered at first glance “unbeautiful” but tend to possess a beauty that is hidden or not as obvious.  Venus retrograde is hard enough for anyone, but even more so for a woman born with this placement.  Women who have their feminine planet placed in the most masculine of signs dare to do their own thing and approach life with a sense of courageous bravery.  All of this is quite apparent with Susan Boyle.  On April 11^th the Sun was shining on her 11^th house Venus.  I enjoy telling clients who are born with Venus located in the 11^th house of dreams that “one of their soul’s deepest wishes or dreams shall come to pass at some point in their lives.”  By singing about dreams themselves, Susan Boyle not only made her dreams come to pass but ushered in a new age of how the world should dream as a whole.)

   

  This message of inspiration brought to you by a person born on the 11^th day of June with his Sun, Mercury and Venus in the 11^th house of dreams.)

   

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