I wanted to keep this story for Sagittarius season but it blew up in the collective sooner. It is a personal disclosure of romantic misery which fits well with the spirit of Halloween and with Scorpio season. So Britney Spears released her memoir last week and with it, the collective was made aware of some pretty shocking revelations. For some years now, Britney has been struggling in her personal & professional life due to a conservatorship which has taken control of her life and forced her into situations that caused her a lot of pain. People were aware of the restrictions but I guess no one could understand the intense emotions created by this situation, experienced on a personal level. Keep in mind that Britney is a Sagittarius Sun and the worse thing you could do to a Sagittarius is to block their freedom. Not only that but her Sun is conjunct her natal Lilith (The Wild Feminine), Mercury and Uranus, increasing exponentially her need for space, independence and the resistance to fight the status quo.
And to add to this energy of ‘fencing her in, would be her worst nightmare’, Britney also has an independent Aquarius Moon, placed in the loveable 5th house. Britney is ultimately, emotionally invested in her creative work and her public – she is a performer at heart and caging her into a conservatorship would be the equivalent to a slow death of her inner light & talent. Moreover, with a Mars in Virgo in the 12th house, she lacks the necessary energy to properly defend herself in this lifetime, as planets in the 12th house usually ‘win’ by letting go, and exercise their power when the person is made vulnerable and powerless. She needs to rely on God and other mysterious forces – like the collective 🙂 – to defend and protect her. And the most touching part of this whole story, is just how loyal and supportive her fans have been through her personal ordeal.
But why are we hearing about her feelings so late, considering this has been going on for years? Well, because time is a key component in the painful story of Britney’s life, who has been in the grips of one of the most difficult and traumatic transits of a person’s life since 2008, that being the transit of Pluto (the planet of death and rebirth) over her natal Venus in the karmic sign of Capricorn. Capricorn is ruled by Saturn, and this planet is associated in astrology with limits, heaviness, karma, time and punishment. So when the planet of limits meets the planet of the underworld and they both camp over your natal Venus (describing your capacity to love, earn money and feel worthy of affection) then you get Britney’s conservatorship. I wrote about Britney’s chart in a previous post, in which I discussed the energy of having Pluto on the Ascendant/the1st House, but now after the release of her book I pulled up her chart again and noticed some really interesting things.
For one, Britney also has her South Node (our past life stories) perfectly conjunct her Venus, which makes for a very karmic energy in an individual life’ as it describes paying back old karmic debts through romantic relationships, using money to meditate connections with soulmates and having to negotiate your sense of self-worth in this lifetime. In addition, the transit of Pluto conjunct her Venus has been squaring her natal Pluto in Libra conjunct the Ascendant, bringing up a tug of war in her life, and numerous power plays in which her Venus energy has been destroyed and rebuilt, over and over again. I can’t even begin to imagine the super-human strength you need to have in such a case, but also the fears and worries she may have privately went through. Saturn, the ruler of Capricorn brings fear wherever it touches in our charts as not only was her Sagittarius Sun blocked from exerting her freedom and natural optimism but also her natal Pluto had to keep silent about the abuses for fear of being separated from that and those whom she loved for good. Pluto brings life-and-death types of experiences, criminal threats, terror and a deep sense of powerlessness, when it is challenged in a person’s chart. And Britney’s natal Pluto in Libra conjunct her Ascendant – which has been so supported by a beautiful sextile aspect during the Pluto in Sagittarius transit era, that is when she became a global star – was brought down into murky power plays when Pluto started transiting Capricorn back in 2008.
However, the fears she had to overcome ended up strengthening her and I think that with the publication of this memoir we see that Britney has finally realized that it is better to live alone than surrounded by loved ones who disturb your inner peace, use you for money and constantly betray you. Her father, her sister, her mother, her ‘baby daddy’, her soon to be ex-husband, all of them took something from her without giving her the respect and love she deserves. The love she mostly got was from those she wasn’t physically closer to, her public and fans, who continued to be on her side and to support her liberation (see the content under #freeBritney). I think that was the most touching thing about this story which carefully resembles the myth of Persephone being dragged into the underworld by Pluto.
I also need to bring up Justin Timberlake’s chart, the person whose public image will undoubtedly & irrevocably be transformed by Britney’s memoir. In the book, sources say that Britney describes how she became pregnant with Justin’s child and that after finding out, he more or less forced her to give up the baby because he was not ready to become a father. She apparently describes the pain she endured as she had to have a home abortion to keep everything as secret as possible. An adjacent piece of news that emerged from this, is that a couple of years following this event, Justin did have a child ‘out of wedlock’, a daughter called Iris Timberlake which he is also keeping secret. So what is happening in this man’s astrology, that all of Justin’s secrets seem to be spilling out at the seams? Well, Pluto again!
Or better said the fact that Pluto is getting ready to leave Capricorn. As Pluto is nearing Aquarius (a sign it will switch into on the 27th of January of 2024) it will enter a 22 year-long process of dismantling Justin’s personality, or to be more precise it will shed light on his inner darkness and help him get rid of his mask, his inauthentic self. And with a natal Venus in Capricorn this man’s whole career was a mask meant to help him acquire more money and social popularity and prestige. Interesting that Britney’s Venus nestles in a conjunct with Justin’s Venus in Capricorn and that his Sun in Aquarius is in a tight conjunction to her Aquarius Moon, while his Moon in Sagittarius falls on her natal Sun in Sagittarius (Sun-Moon conjunctions are called the marriage aspects in astrology and these two have a double whammy!). But Justin’s Moon is also perfectly conjunct Neptune, making his feelings confusing and with a propensity to ebb and flow, while his proud Leo Ascendant always strives to come out on top in any kind of competitive struggle or personal situation.
I believe that it is this pride which will come to bite him back, as Pluto will begin its transit in Aquarius, approaching his Sun and sitting in opposition to his Ascendant. This means that he will have to transform his work relationships & habits if he wants to continue to attract towards him lucrative business collaborations (and no, I don’t think fleeing to Mexico amid this fiasco is a good PR strategy for him). To make matters epic, Pluto will rattle around his natal South Node in Aquarius and North Node in Leo, the axis of destiny, which is similar to what happened to Britney as she had Pluto in Capricorn disturbing her past life legacy (the South Node in Capricorn) and pushing her into the emotional direction of her destiny (the North Node in Cancer). In some perfectly designed way, I believe this is the karmic payback for what Justin did to Britney (and who knows how many other women in his past).
The problem is that I genuinely think she still loves him, as it is hard to shake off someone who has this great of Sun-Moon and Venus compatibility with you. But the bitter betrayal she had to endure for years has activated Britney’s natal Lilith, and what we are witnessing now is not only the coming back into her power – a power that Pluto usually grants an individual who has survived its crushing might – but also she is being allowed to finally embody the energy of her Sagittarius stellium, that is catching ground and expanding at rapid speed. In the following decades, Britney will continue to grow in popularity and increase in her number of fans (Pluto in Aquarius will sextile her Sagittarius Sun), while Justin will be scorned by the media and analyzed to an obsessive degree (Pluto in Aquarius conjunct his Sun will oppose his Ascendant), but he may cozily retreat into his patriarchal privileges and use sarcastic snaps to defend himself (Pluto will sextile his natal Moon in Sagittarius). I just hope that with so much Pluto energy, whatever happens in both of their careers & lives, that nothing too final or drastic knocks on their front doorstep. With gnarly Pluto & Saturn transits, death is also a possibility.
In this post I do want to celebrate the homecoming of Pluto, and from what it looks like the passing of the Pluto baton, as Britney is released and Justin is just beginning his karmic lessons. Britney’s ongoing spiritualization will now become an emotional one as she is on the cusp of beginning her Pluto conjunct the Moon transit (sidenote: for an interesting case study in Moon-Pluto transits, see Christina’s Ricci romantic relationships in the past 14 years). Britney’s Moon is squared by Chiron in Taurus in the 8th house, so the emotional healing which she will do through how she speaks (Aquarius) may block certain financial resources from coming her way and lead her into litigation territory at worst, or cut her off from financial leeches at best (Chiron in Taurus in the 8th house). But Britney has a powerful trifecta in her 1st house, as her Saturn, Pluto and Jupiter sit very closely one to the other and in the beautiful sign of Libra (well technically her Jupiter is in her 2nd house, very close to the cusp, which is a sign that Britney will always do well financially). With this large number of planets in the house of her identity, her solar consciousness and the opportunities she attracts in her life, so Brittney is here to learn about her own power, by working through personal fears and limitations. With this powerful combination of outer luminaries grouped together, she will receive the greatest success in life, followed by the toughest lessons.
There is a deep survival energy in her chart, amplified by massive amounts of self-belief. Britney also has the mogul aspect, as her Pluto and Jupiter are close to each other and in an angular house, an aspect which describes the attainment of fame, riches and wealth in a person’s life, mostly because the native is endowed with a mindset of abundance. But with Saturn present (even if her Saturn is exalted in beautiful and fair Libra), she is heavily criticized and ignored by those closest to her, and people will continue to try to use her for what she provides for them. Interestingly, her mother’s Sun sign falls in Taurus which is conjunct’s Britney’s Chiron in Taurus, and this means that her relationship to her mother is painful and pushed her into a premature growth, while Britney’s North Node in Cancer is conjunct her father’s Sun in Cancer, which again shows an uncomfortable but also obsessive relationships between the two. In this scenario, boundaries will be essential for the preservation of her mental health and I do hope that after this long trip into the underworld of her relationships, Britney will be better able to say ‘no’ and discover ways to protect the fruits of her labor, her children & herself, fulfilling therefore the unconscious demands of her North Node in Cancer (or a destiny of care, art and protection).
With plutonic love,
Lexi
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