#FISHER, MICHAEL WHAT UP HOLLYWOOD?

First we have #Carrie Fisher with a massive heart attack at the age of 60 that may translate into her breathing via respirators -- unable to breathe on her own. Even if she lives, the prognosis might not be good.

She's a great writer, just finished a new book, "The Princess Diarist." I love her sense of humor, but it isn't a secret that she has had her shares of ups and down with drugs using them, no doubt, as a coping device. She's a Libra Sun/Mercury. Mars in Pisces. This is where you find serious drug addiction -- Pisces. It makes you very vulnerable. Her Moon is exalted in Taurus. Venus/Jupiter/Pluto conjunct in Virgo opposing Mars. The natal Venus/Jupiter makes one indulgent and can make a mother/daughter relationship that is too close. (Debbie lives next door.) And with Pluto there, it all becomes very serious with the need for control on both sides.

Currently she has predictive Venus sitting on natal Saturn. Saturn can always be illness, Venus usually points to the people you love or the people who don't love you -- a lack of love. It can cause grief and suffering and scrutiny of what you believe you should have but don't. It's a melancholy aspect. Prior to this aspect she had predictive Venus square natal Pluto. It's another aspect that can make you take a look at your life and not like what you see. It causes extreme sensitivity. So for years now, and I don't think this was one of her strengths anyway, Carrie has been her own worst enemy. Her heart attacked her -- massively. Carrie Fisher has never truly believed that people love her. Let's hope she makes it through this and finds out how wrong she was.

#George Michael is a young-ish recording superstar who died too soon. Christmas 2016. Age 53. No one was expecting it. But I think we're going to see that both these people thought drugs were getting them through their pain only to find out it's very hard on your internal organs. Likely for George, he was also suffering from an illness. But again an illness that would have allowed him to live longer if he had taken more care.

George is a sensitive Cancer with Venus/Mercury in Gemini. His Moon is in the show-biz sign of Leo. Mars is in the exacting sign of Virgo. Predictive Venus also caused him to recently reconnect with the love of his life. Hard to believe, but he just moved out of an exalted period with Jupiter protecting him. It was during this time that he also had predictive Venus opposition Saturn conjunct his Moon which unfortunately continued after Jupiter. We're looking again at sensitivities that overwhelm the soul. It's hard enough being a feeling person. Then when these kinds of aspects come in, if someone like George hasn't done the work and toughened up, it becomes too much. Actually this can happen to any of us, but creative people are especially vulnerable.

There is a lesson here. Shortcuts are just that. They shortcut the current pain, but do they also take people away that have so much more to contribute.

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UPDATE: Carrie Fisher died on December 27 at 8:55am. She says of her latest book, “It was sad because I was so insecure, and it’s very raw and obviously I didn’t expect anyone — including myself, I suppose later on — to read it.”