One of my favourite Virgos- Leonard Cohen

Thinking of one of my favourite Virgos- Leonard Cohen. 

It’s odd to have someone I never met hold such a place in my heart, but that’s Leonard. For my 50th birthday a few years back, my husband gifted me a visit to Hydra, where Leonard wrote some of his best work. My mind was full of his poetry and music the entire time we were there. And I was not alone in my quest to find some pieces of Leonard.

One Monday afternoon in the middle of September, searching out his apartment, we encountered 4 other parties looking for the same place. It was not clearly marked so we were all circling around with the directions we had been given by locals, trying to match it up to pictures we had seen. It was pretty comical.... Here's a pic of Harrison and I outside the door to his flat:

He’s been on my mind a lot lately. I wonder what he would have to say about where we are now. What kind of poetry and songs he would write. How long he would sit, blackening the page, throwing away stanza after stanza searching for the right words.

Leonard was his harshest critic- in true Virgo style- and struggled his whole life trying to say something true. Something real. To my mind- he was a blazing success. He saw the world for what it is and tried to explain it to us. 

His Virgo Sun conjunct his Ascendant, meant what you saw was what you got. There was a strong congruence between his social mask and his true nature. Venus was one second away from Neptune in Virgo at the time of his birth. This contact between Neptune and Venus is a signature in many profound artists. And it also makes them have a kind of amnesia for romantic partners once they are in their rear view mirror... They can be brutal that way. His Moon in Pisces, the sign opposite to his Sun, gave him a painful tension between his emotional world and his ego that constantly provoked his plumbing of his inner depths, searching for relief. Mars in Leo motivated him forward, giving him a fiery solo presence on the stage. Mercury and Jupiter in Libra made him think big lofty thoughts about equanimity and justice and the power balance in relationships- both Godly big and I & thou small. And Uranus at 0 degrees of Taurus- a critical degree- vibrated in him a primal wildness as he fully inhabited and celebrated his body and then would try to leave and transcend it. 

What a complex and beautiful man:

I think I'll walk in the ravine this morning listening to his album Thanks for the Dance. Happens to the Heart brings me to tears almost every time.

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