Every day, I like to look at celebrity birthdays and post some on Facebook and Twitter. We all love looking for aspects of ourselves in the personality of a celebrity who shares our birthday, right? Today, September 21, I noticed a trend of excellence in thinking and communication skills. Next, I pulled one of my favorite books off the shelf, Love Cards by Robert Camp, and found the card for September 21. Camp assigns a title to each card, which I have found amazingly accurate in summarizing each card’s personality. I had to laugh when I saw that September 21 is the Three of Clubs, the card that Camp calls “The Writer’s Card.”
A wildly popular and successful writer who was born today is a prime example of the Three of Clubs. In Camp’s fate card system, all three are very creative and imaginative and clubs rule communication. Stephen King is truly a king in his chosen field. I must admit that although I am a voracious reader, I have only read a small portion of his prolific literary offerings because his writing makes me bite my nails and sit on the edge of my seat. It may take me a few days to shake off the discomfort that reading his novels generates in me. When I looked at his birth chart today, a lot of things immediately jumped out at me that made me think, “Oh, of course,” and I’ll share a few with you. So much is obvious to indicate his unique talent and remarkable career that it’s hard to know where to start.
Writing ability and a fertile imagination that can spin a good story can often be found in an occupied third house within the natal chart. The Sun, Venus and Neptune are all in King’s third house, indicating that he likes to write and enjoys it as naturally as a duck to water. Neptune in the third is conjunct Mercury, the planet of communication, in your fourth house of origin. The fourth house is also the seat of the soul and the psychological foundation of a person. His Mercury is in Libra, the air sign that contemplates the polarities of self versus other and examines the myriad aspects of human interaction. Venus, Neptune, Mercury are all in Libra, but their Sun is one degree late Virgo. The earthy influence and detail-oriented nature of a Virgo Sun help you bring together the many thoughts and impressions that Libra influences generate and distill them into a cohesive story. Libra’s energy can also help you lead the reader in one direction and then another. Appearances can definitely be deceiving and things are not what you think they are, is another way of translating King’s Mercury/Neptune conjunction.
Another house to examine for signs of creative ability is the fifth. Here, the King’s Moon in adventurer Sagittarius is sextile Mercury. He literally loves to write. Writing is an emotional release for him and possibly more of an escape than a work assignment. His Moon in the fifth also opposes Uranus in the eleventh house of friends and groups. The eleventh house is his audience and Uranus is a planet with an electrical and erratic influence. King amazes his audience with his genius ability to generate disturbing emotions as his stories unfold. Some, like me, may find the emotions aroused by their work too uncomfortable. However, there are other aspects that allow you to be well received and get away with pushing the limits. One of these is Moon in fifth trine Saturn/Pluto in dramatic Leo in the first house of self. Saturn rules mortality, longevity, pain, suffering, and sadness. Some Saturn archetypes are Father Time and The Grim Reaper. Pluto can be power, fear, death and transformation, resurrection, Hades, Hell, everything dark, disturbing, taboo, hidden and repressed. Leo rules the fifth house of creativity where the King’s Moon sits, so the supportive flow of lunar energy into Saturn/Pluto in the first makes it a dramatic presenter of exciting and disturbing emotions having to do with fear, pain and death. King also has Jupiter in the fruitful water sign of Scorpio in the fifth, semi-sextile with his Sun in the third, indicating that his creativity and his writing can be prolific and profitable. However, with Jupiter square Saturn/Pluto in the former, success may not have been easy. The usual persistence, persistence and hard work got him to where he is now. Scorpio rules the metaphysical, the paranormal, and the supernatural. Another aspect that makes his work appeal to many is the King’s Jupiter in Scorpio in the fifth trine Mars in the sensitive Cancer in the twelfth house of the subconscious and the collective of society. I suspect King can feel the fear in his body as long as he believes it in his writing. I wonder: does his hair stand on end, does he get goosebumps, does he have to step away from his writing and walk a bit before he can rework the perfect words that will give his readers goosebumps? ? It’s possible that he gets some of the ideas of actual nightmares from him and I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that some of his best writing takes place in the early morning, when thoughts naturally turn to whatever he lurks in the closet or under. bed. Above all, he understands the part of us that he likes to be afraid of and approaches that part like a good understanding friend. We must like how Stephen King scares us because we bought a LOT of his books!
To top off his chart, King has the initiative fire sign of Aries in his midheaven. He is a pioneer in his genre and stands out above others in his field. I’ve read novels based solely on the fact that I saw a Stephen King endorsement on the cover. His reputation and fame as a writer are such that he has a following of devoted readers, and deservedly so. Stephen King’s life path, as indicated by his Lunar North Node in Taurus in the eleventh house of his birth chart, is to bring something material and tangible to the masses. King lacks strong enough influence in the 9th house of publishing to warrant his books being printed, but his industrious and stubborn Lunar North Node in Taurus combined with his powerfully determined Saturn/Pluto in Leo regal refuses to be ignored. His attitude toward publishing his early stories may well have been: “Where there’s a will, there’s a way.” His Lunar North Node in Taurus in his eleventh house and his Jupiter in Scorpio in the fifth house are feminine and fruitful, helping King produce a wealth of work for his valued readers.