OK, so this posting is late, and one edition of Shrink Rap wasn't posted about here, the reason being that.......I didn't watch it. No offence but Gene Simmons doesn't interest me. I set up the articles to write about Tony Curtis and Kathleen Turner, and then didn't get round to watching the programmes..... whoops..... but since then I've caught up with them on 4od (Channel 4's 'on demand' service, which is useful but not very well executed at all).

So, to the edition with the American actor Tony Curtis. First of all, here's his birthchart. I've no idea of the birthtime's accuracy - common sense always suggests that rounded times such as on the hour should be treated with a great deal of caution, so I'm not setting much store by the Cancerian Ascendant etc:-

In the programme Tony talked about the pain of losing his brother when young, and the abusiveness of his mother. He discussed his illness, his addictive use of drugs and alcohol, his looks, and his sexual relationships.

Not sure what to make of his interview really. I'm not sure he was very in touch with himself, and it seemed like he couldn't help but to act 'Tony Curtis' rather than just express his character naturally. Then again, why would someone agree to go on a programme such as this, but to promote something, even if only themselves?  I'm just not really sure that the real person turned up at all, for whatever reason/s that might be.

Certainly, if a person wanted therapy, this programme isn't intended to be it, and why, if you wanted to undergo therapy, would you want it filmed and broadcasted? So everyone's motivation for being interviewed is open to question from the start..... and yet never, of course, questioned during the programme.

I think his chart is quite disconnected. The planets are scattered around the wheel, making no real shape, design, or pattern, and that in itself is, by definition, the nature of it and hence of the personality it reflects. The Sun in Gemini can indicate a tendency to a scattered self - or rather, selves - in any case, as if the self is by nature a trickster and mercurial, unable and unwilling to be pinned down even by oneself, and the Sun's lack of aspects shows a core 'I' that is difficult to connect to, and yet which, paradoxically, can burn strongly when it does come out to play.

The Sun's sesquiquadrate with the Moon shows someone not at ease with themselves, someone who has to struggle with issues before becoming comfortable in their own skin. If the birthtime is within a few hours of being accurate, then the Moon is definitely in Libra, and the Sun-Moon Air Sign duet can reflect a person who talks and socially interacts well, but is not necessarily at ease with going a bit deeper. The Moon is also in trine to Venus, which is in Gemini along with the Sun, so there is an Airiness here where the self is reflected back through others based on appearances, and favourable feedback. In Tony's case, that centred on his physical appearance, rather than the surface expressions of his personality or intellect for instance, and so there are elements of the narcissistic wound.

The Sun's other aspect is a semisextile with Pluto. That shows an ambivalence about deeper emotions and experiences that trigger becoming acquainted with depth. This aspect also shows how his glory (Sun) was always linked with Plutonic issues: the death of his brothers, the hatred he grew up around, the jealousies of his appearance and the sense of threat created, and so on. An aspect like this requires a depth that Gemini and Libra just do not possess and are ill-equipped to develop. A person can go into very painful territory. During the interview this was discussed as 'courting death'.

The Sun's parans with fixed stars show Tony's other topics of discussion: his constant battling through life:-

Solar parans:

    Rising when Aculeus is Setting
        A person who grows in strength through attacks or difficulties. A battler
    Rising when Acumen is Setting
        Personal attacks on one’s credibility
    Rising when Arcturus is Setting
        A pathfinder, to break new ground
    Rising when Alphard is On Nadir
        A person of strong passions who can become angry, violent or aggressive
    On Nadir when Regulus is Setting
        To receive honours and awards, provided one avoids matters of vengeance