NICOLE KIDMAN & KEITH URBAN
Well, that was a bit of a shocker reading the news yesterday that Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban have separated after 20 years together. The attraction and connection between them is powerful, with textbook synastry astrology – his Sun at 1 Scorpio is conjunct Nicole’s Ascendant 6 Scorpio.
Any contact between one person’s Lights (Sun or Moon) and the other person’s Ascendant – Descendant (the me-you Angles) is a big tick for compatibility, and longevity, especially the Moon I’ve noticed over the years of doing charts.
So how has it come unstuck and what’s happening in their charts now? Of course the first thing I looked for were the recent Eclipse degrees by conjunction, opposition or square, especially to the personal planets or the Angles.
NATAL CHART – NICOLE
NATAL CHART – KEITH
| NICOLE | KEITH | |
| Lunar Eclipse 15.32 Pisces | Square Moon 13.43 Sag | Opposite Venus 15.43 Virgo |
| Solar Eclipse 29.05 Virgo | Square Sun 29.00 Gemini | Conjunct Uranus 27.03 Virgo |
| Opposite Chiron 29.46 Pisces | Opposite Chiron 26.05 Pisces |
Relationships that come unstuck under Eclipses are done and dusted. Usually the Eclipse lies at the heart of a long transit, as it does here and also as was illustrated with the Dolly Parton feature a couple of days ago, it often acts as the final moment of truth. This is why lunar activity is so important, she’s the fine timing. With Eclipses, the shadow falls, often in the shape of a third party – as Eclipses are about the dance between the three bodies of the Sun, Moon and the Earth. Note how both of the Eclipses pick up Nicole’s Lights. Double trouble.
At first I was looking at their horoscopes on old software that doesn’t include Chiron. I was surprised that there wasn’t a more obvious current transit going on until I suddenly remembered that. As soon as I saw the natal Chirons it all fell into place, as of course Saturn and Neptune are still going backwards and forwards over those end degrees of Pisces/early degrees Aries.
This is especially wounding for Nicole as her Chiron is conjunct the sad Fixed Star Scheat, and the Eclipse has picked out her natal Sun (man) square Chiron (the wounded healer). It’s well documented that she rescued him (the wounded man) from alcoholism. After just four months of marriage he was in rehab and he credits Nicole with saving his life. It was stated in yesterday’s BBC news that she didn’t want the separation – I think that’s putting it mildly. She must feel totally shipwrecked. She is the one who’s filed for divorce.
With the Lunar Eclipse falling exactly opposite Keith’s Venus I thought at first that the most likely interpretation was a new love. However, am now wondering if old wounds have opened up again, but surely he wouldn’t have fallen off the wagon after all these years of sobriety and health?
Either way, the Solar Eclipse picks up his Uranus, the divorce planet. He also has joyous Jupiter in action, clearing his Ascendant 10 Cancer back in July (they’ve been living apart “since the summer”) and now transiting his Moon in Cancer between now and next May, the same month that his Saturn Return will begin, which again is a textbook transit for the arrival (Jupiter) of a new woman (Moon).
Nicole and Keith are born only four months apart so they have Saturn in the same sign, Keith 7 Aries, Nicole 11 Aries, so they’re approaching their 2nd Saturn Returns, starting in April/May of next year and going on until December for him and March 2027 for her. With Cancer rising, Keith has Capricorn on the Descendant so Saturn is the significator for his partner.
The first Saturn Return in our 29th year is our astrological coming of age, when we face up to growing up, take on responsibilities, make commitments or make crucial decisions. It demands work and effort. It’s hugely common to see getting married, buying first home, having a baby, getting a promotion etc on the Saturn Return agenda.
The second Saturn Return at age 58/59 is just as tough but in different ways. Often it relates to a bereavement, accepting our limitations or making plans for our final years. Or, as in this case, it’s the death of a marriage.
In her progressed chart the story is there in the shape of progressed Venus at 12 Virgo exactly quincunx (blind spot) progressed Saturn at 12 Aries, just separating by 3’ of arc.
Just four months ago he thanked her in an awards speech with “I love you baby”, and the year before in his speech for her AFI award he finished with, “Next year will be 20 years that I’ve been madly in love with you.” Our heads are reeling, what must it be like for them? How devastating ….. 🙁
