For almost half a century Phil Spector has been a major figure in the music industry, and as the reports keep telling us, he’s particularly famous for his ‘wall of sound’, that he pioneered in the 1960s.
He worked with many of the great names in music, for example John Lennon and Tina Turner, and he would seem to have been in a charmed position. Yet on a psychological level all was not well, and he developed an unhealthy relationship with guns.
On February 3 2003, the Aries actress Lana Clarkson was shot dead in his presence. Six years later, on April 13 2009, Phil Spector was convicted of her second degree murder, and on May 29 2009 he was sentenced to a minimum period of nineteen years in prison.
What went wrong?
Phil Spector is a Capricorn, born on December 26 1939. The fact that his Sun is in Capricorn tells us little. Capricorns have a reputation for being hard-working and for devoting themselves to a task with everything they’ve got… which isn’t the same as being a killer.
Yet his Sun is in the Eighth House, a sector of the chart that’s very brooding, that’s often associated with death.
And this Sun is making a ninety-degree aspect to Jupiter, the planet of exaggeration and excess.
We therefore get the image of powerful feelings getting exaggerated. He might have been able to express this through his music – Jupiter is BIG, after all, and what’s bigger than a wall of sound? Unfortunately there were other, more dangerous ways that he expressed himself, a situation not helped by the fact that he was born around the time of a Full Moon.
Phil Spector also had Mars making an 180-degree aspect to Neptune. Mars is the planet of dynanism and energy, Neptune is the planet of fantasy and confusion. Additionally, Neptune has an association with alcohol and drugs. At times Phil Spector didn’t know how to channel his energy, so guns were something he should have stayed away from, particularly when drunk – as he apparently was, when he shot Lana Clarkson.
His victim was born on April 5 1962, just after a New Moon. Being an Aries she liked to make quick decisions and I’m sure that she valued her freedom. However she did have Mars in Pisces, like the man who eventually killer her.
Although Phil Spector and Lana Clarkson had only just met, their chemistry would have immediately activated. Having Mars in the same sign would have created the possibility of an argument, and Phil Spector’s Saturn in Aries could have clashed with Lana Clarkson’s Sun in Aries – she might have felt that he was restricting her freedom.
As for Phil Spector’s feelings, it’s worth noting that at the time of the killing Mars was close to his descendant. This makes me believe that the murder verdict was wrong – voluntary manslaughter would have been more reasonable.
The descendant is ‘the other’. Phil Spector, who was drunk, perceive a threat, or an insult, and reacted to it. I doubt very much that he intended to kill his victim. So in a sense Lana Clarkson was the wrong person, at the wrong time, at the wrong place.
But how could Lana Clarkson, that happy-go-lucky child of a New Moon, possibly have known what she was getting herself into? It’s not as if she had a doctorate in clinical psychology. Maybe it was just fate. She had done as much as she could in her short life, and there were better opportunities in a new incarnation.
Copyright © 2009 Archie Dunlop
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