{"id":1398,"date":"2012-11-26T16:38:16","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T21:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.navamsa.com\/?p=1398"},"modified":"2012-11-27T09:17:01","modified_gmt":"2012-11-27T14:17:01","slug":"taylor-swift-teardrops-on-my-guitar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.navamsa.com\/?p=1398","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift: Teardrops on my Guitar"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Has Taylor Swift embraced an unstable love life just to inspire more “Teardrops-On-My-Guitar” songs? Is this art imitating life, or life imitating astrology?<\/p>\n

In a recent interview, Swift admitted she falls in love quickly, but also insisted she was not in a hurry, at age 22, to get married and have kids. \u00e2\u0080\u009cI think every girl\u00e2\u0080\u0099s dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.\u00e2\u0080\u009d Ironically, despite her tendency to leap before she looks, Swift isn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t sure she\u00e2\u0080\u0099s ever been in love.<\/p>\n

Can astrology shed some light on these contradictions by analysing relationships in her birth chart?<\/p>\n

Taylor Swift was born December 13th, 1989, at 8:46 PM in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania. (Chart data courtesy of astrotheme.com) Note: all planetary positions as per the sidereal zodiac.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Venus sits in Swift\u00e2\u0080\u0099s seventh house of relationships, so you\u00e2\u0080\u0099d think that\u00e2\u0080\u0099d be a good thing. After all, Venus is the karaka<\/em> (significator) of love and pleasure. And the seventh house is the home of The Significant Other<\/em>. One plus one makes two-getherness, right?<\/p>\n

Nope. The classic texts of Vedic astrology call this karako bhavo nashto<\/em>, a condition where in fact it\u00e2\u0080\u0099s best not to have all your eggs in one basket, because one blow to that basket could break all your eggs.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>So Venus in her seventh house \u00e2\u0080\u0093 what seems to promise romantic bliss \u00e2\u0080\u0093 is actually a set-up for a fall, because the Rahu-Ketu axis destabilizes both the planet and the house associated with relationships.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>When that happens to Swift, she finds catharsis by singing her heart out in music. It pains her, but it pays, because in an angular house, Venus can still deliver the good stuff.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Rahu in the seventh has\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>directional strength\u00c2\u00a0that makes it potent. Because of its power to cause eclipses, the Rahu-Ketu axis is associated with unusual and unpredictable people and circumstances. That can mean experimental, unconventional or downright quirky alliances.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Taylor\u00e2\u0080\u0099s love life flickers bright and dark \u00e2\u0080\u0093 people coming out of nowhere, and just as quickly returning to never-gonna-make-up-again land. Joe Jonas, Taylor Lautner, John Mayer, Jake Gyllenhaal… Stop the boy-go-round, I wanna get off.<\/em><\/p>\n

Swift has Capricorn in the seventh. Its lord Saturn is in the sixth, one of the dussthanas<\/em>, or houses of destruction. (The others are the eighth and twelfth, and mildly, the third.) The sixth house is especially bad for relationships because it\u00e2\u0080\u0099s in the twelfth house \u00e2\u0080\u0093 as counted from the seventh. That makes it misery-making for partnerships as well.<\/p>\n

Her ascendant lord Moon occupies the twelfth house. This is another dussthana<\/em> for her, implying self-undoing, and also one from the seventh house of the partner. Her Moon in the twelfth enjoys a full-on aspect with seventh lord Saturn in the sixth. That initiates contact with potential mates, but involves relationships that can be confrontational and erosive.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Her Gemini Moon is twitchy \u00e2\u0080\u0093 emotionally and sexually. Its close association with a bright (retrograde) Jupiter gives her luck, abundance, generosity, a spiritual boost and wisdom with age. But Moon is afflicted by Saturn from the sixth and Mars from the fifth \u00e2\u0080\u0093 and there\u00e2\u0080\u0099s the itch that can\u00e2\u0080\u0099t be scratched.<\/p>\n

Moon afflicted by both Mars and Saturn is a \u00e2\u0080\u0098passion player\u00e2\u0080\u0099, someone who\u00e2\u0080\u0099s amorous. The twelfth house \u00e2\u0080\u0093 pleasures of the bed \u00e2\u0080\u0093 suggests the playing field. Venus afflicted by Rahu-Ketu can be very adventurous in relationships. \u00e2\u0080\u0098Don\u00e2\u0080\u0099t knock it until you\u00e2\u0080\u0099ve tried it\u00e2\u0080\u0099 could be a song title.<\/p>\n

Will Swift ever settle down in a stable marriage? 2020\u00e2\u0080\u0099s looking good, when Saturn will transit its own seventh house. Furthermore, from October 2020 to May 2022, she\u00e2\u0080\u0099ll be in the bhukti<\/em> (minor period) of ascendant lord Moon during the dasha<\/em> (major period) of seventh lord Saturn.<\/p>\n

Aside from bringing together the Self and the Significant Other, via these two ruling planets that mutually aspect each other, this period will fully arouse her passions in a relationship that may well raise eyebrows.<\/p>\n

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Since Moon is in a nakshatra<\/em> of Rahu, the Moon sub-period will deliver the goods for Rahu. Passionate Rahu sits in the seventh with Venus, invoking love relationship, and probably marriage, albeit of an unusual character.<\/p>\n

Will that be the end of her “I-Knew-You-Were-Trouble” songs? Probably not. Venus in the seventh is karako bhavo nashto<\/em>, after all, and it is still destabilized by Rahu, creating a combo that is both erratic and erotic.<\/p>\n

Beware the seven-year-itch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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