In 1934, Norma Jeane Mortenson was not called Marylin yet. She was seven years old. In January, she witnessed her mother having a nervous breakdown.

She saw her flailing and screaming until the police arrived.

It was an extreme moment and a turning point. Her mother would be diagnosed with schizophrenia. From then on, after being taken care of for a while by a friend of her mother, Norma Jeane would live in orphanages or with various foster families.

I couldn’t find a more precise date than January 1934 in biographies.

Almost every time I study a biography and there is one of these moments that change everything, I find eclipses winking in very meaningful ways.

Astrologically, in the night of the 30th to 31st of January there was a partial lunar eclipse which was opening the eclipse season.

NB: The position of the Moon on this chart is that of the 31st of January 12am. (Night of the 30th to the 31st) On average, the Moon moves at the speed of one degree every two hours.

A few observations:

First thing: The Sun-Moon opposition was happening just a few degrees from Marylin’s natal Ascendant-Descendant axis. (A lunar eclipse is happening when the moon is full)

Second thing: Transiting Saturn was conjunct with the transiting Sun, and less than two degrees from perfecting a conjunction with her natal Moon.

Second thing and a half: transits are moments of manifestation of what’s present in the natal chart: Marylin’s natal Moon is opposed by Neptune and squared by Saturn, that’s highly challenging.

Second thing and three quarters: a transiting planet brings the energy of its natal placement. Natal Saturn is in the 4th house, in Scorpio, part of the T-square that involves the Moon, and, last but not least, ruler of her South Node in Capricorn.

Third thing: transiting Venus and Mercury were also conjunct with this transiting Saturn on her natal Moon. The quick planets in transits are triggers, the slow planets mean the strong impact. That’s a lot on Saturn.

Fourth thing transiting Mars was on her natal Jupiter.

Since Norma Jeane was two weeks old and until 1933 (5 years old) she had been in the care of a strict and religious foster family: Ida and Wayne Bolender. Her mother was visiting her.

Beyond the time of this crisis, it’s safe to interpret Saturn as meaning restrictions, deprivations and abuse rather than a structuring environment.

(Beware, when looking at the chart, that the symbols of the planets are not placed exactly in alignment with the mark on the exact degree of their position, as it would result in a confusing superimposition. Check the degrees, that’s quite a meeting.)

This eclipse definitely played its role of meaning the end of a chapter and the beginning of what comes next.

And it was only the beginning of the eclipse season…