Billie Eilish: from girl to woman under Juno
by Christina Rodenbeck
Eilish performing in November 2019 at Corona Capital
Source: Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
Eilish is a child star, born on 18 December 2001 at 11:30 a.m. in Los Angeles, California (see her chart here). Her meteoric rise began on 18 November 2015 when she released her song Ocean Eyes on SoundCloud. It was an overnight sensation, catapulting her into the arms of a publicist, an A&R company, a stylist and a deal with Chanel. Before she’d released her second single, Eilish had become a marketing package. She was just 13.
Her brand has gone from strength to strength since then. Also, her music has been met with both critical and popular acclaim.
The date of her first single’s release saw a lunar return and Jupiter on her Descendant opposed by Chiron a degree from her Ascendant. It was the year of her Saturn opposition, often a turning point in a young life. But clearly the most important planet for Eilish has been Neptune, the god of music, glamour and fashion. The song Ocean Eyes is a homage to the Lord of the Sea himself. On the day of its release, Neptune was making a conjunction to her natal Mars at 7° Pisces, and semi-sextiling himself. The latter can a surprisingly important aspect for the slow-moving outer planets.
On 29 March 2019, Eilish released her first album – When We All Fall Asleep – with Jupiter in Sagittarius on her MC and Neptune on her Ascendant. Another homage to the planet of dreams and dreamers.
Since the beginning, Eilish carefully cultivated a distinct aesthetic, wearing colourful, baggy clothes and clompy shoes, dying her hair wacky colours and sporting crazy sunglasses. Her look was kooky, eccentric, playful, borrowing heavily from hip hop street gear.
If somebody starts wearing something a certain way, I'll wear the complete opposite of that. I've always worn what I wanted to and always said what I wanted to say. I'm super, super out there. I try to dress this much above crazy. I like to be remembered, so I like to look memorable.
Eilish said this in 2017.
Billie Eilish on Vogue Taiwan, originally released on November 27, 2019 on Teen Vogue's YouTube channel, reposted by VOGUE Taiwan on April 7, 2021.
Source: Vogue Taiwan, CC BY 3.0
The magazine came out on 2 May 2021. This is the year of her nodal return, of course, but the same is true for most 19-year-olds. On that day, there were three significant transits to her chart. The North Node was just approaching her Saturn in Gemini. The planet of ambition, maturing and being a bit boring was getting a tickle.
The really intriguing transit was that of Juno, the Queen of Olympus, an asteroid one would certainly associate with adult women rather than girls. Juno was exactly on Eilish’s MC at 22° and it was receiving a square from transiting Neptune in Pisces in Eilish’s 1st house. Voilà, a change of image (Neptune) into a woman (Juno) taking control of her sexuality.
Which set me thinking about other child stars who have come out as ‘women’. Miley Cyrus (born 23 November 1992, 4:19 a.m., in Nashville, Tennessee) immediately springs to mind. She transformed from Hannah Montana, the cute girl next door, to sexpot seemingly overnight. The significant date was the release of her single We Can’t Stop when she sprang her new look on the world. Juno had just crossed the MC and was transiting her 10th house.
Britney Spears (born 2 December 1981, 1:30 a.m., in McComb, Mississippi) had a slightly different transition. She was a teenage sex symbol already. Her early singles like Oops, I Did It Again played up a saucy schoolgirl image. She memorably wore a school uniform as she sang Hit Me Baby One More Time. Perhaps it’s not insignificant that she was born with a sexy conjunction of Black Moon Lilith and the Sun. But critics agree that her ‘coming of age’ album Britney showed an even raunchier side. The first single from that – and the revelation of her all-grown-up sex symbol image – was released on 25 September 2001. Juno was not on the MC, but just exiting the 10th house at 3° Leo sextile tr Sun in Libra on the Ascendant – and making a partile trine to Spears’ natal Juno at 3° Sagittarius. Spears’ natal Juno forms part of a huge stellium in Sagittarius and makes a conjunction to Mercury, the communicator.
So, I thought I’d look at the queen of all knicker-sporting lady singers, Madonna of the Coned Bra (born 16 August 1958, 7:05 a.m., in Bay City, Michigan). Madonna has a powerful Juno-Pluto-Mercury conjunction in her 12th house. Juno is at 0° Virgo, so maybe it’s no coincidence that her song Like a Virgin was what made her a superstar.
In fact, that second album, also called Like A Virgin, was the first to feature Madonna in a corset. It was released on 12 November 1984. Juno was at 23° Virgo in the 1st house, having traversed the whole of Madonna’s stellium since August. In fact, you can see that at 26° Virgo, Juno would have just crossed the midpoint between Madonna’s Sun and her lucky Jupiter-North Node conjunction.
In case you’re wondering, the mother of all sirens, Mae West (born 17 August 1892, 10:30 p.m., in Brooklyn (Kings County), New York), a woman who made it her business to be in control of her own sexuality, was born under a conjunction of Venus and Juno in Cancer, the sign that rules, among other things, breasts, in the house of communications.
Will Eilish remain corseted and rubber-gloved? I doubt it. This is probably just a transitional phase before she finds her Sagittarian-Piscean groove again and goes back to freedom and colours.
Image sources:
2019 Corona Capital: Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
2021 Vogue Taiwan: Vogue Taiwan, CC BY 3.0
Published by: The Astrological Journal, Jul/Aug 2021
Author:
Christina Rodenbeck has been writing The Oxford Astrologer since 2010. She is a practicing astrologer with clients all over the world from Tasmania to Brazil, Newcastle to New Delhi. She's studied astrology her whole life, and she's been casting and reading charts since the 1990s. She writes a regular column on fashion in The Astrological Journal, and on the zeitgeist in Infinity Astrology Magazine. She also gives regular lectures for The Oxford Astrology Group, The Astrological Lodge in London and Aquarius Severne. Website: oxfordastrologer.com.
© Christina Rodenbeck, 2021
