Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 1:59 am
Negative mutual reception is interesting, and perhaps planets so posited should have an effect on each other. It seems as though they should, even if certain authorities disagree. One example does not a rule make, but there is one that seems to work well. Janis Joplin had Saturn in Gemini and Jupiter in Cancer. Saturn ruled her Aquarius ASC. Saturn was on the 4th cusp and Jupiter was in the 5th house of pleasure or pleasurable activities. Saturn was in a mundane square to the ASC and disposited her 12th house Mercury. So Saturn seems pretty clearly to indicate depression. Jupiter in exaltation in the 5th seems pretty clearly to indicate excess good times, and it was excess that killed her. The idea is that her depression fueled the excess and the excess fueled the depression. This vicious cycle continued until her untimely death at age 27. This cycle might have been best expressed by Joplin herself. A few weeks before she died Jimi Hendrix was found dead of an overdose. When told, she replied, "Rats, he beat me to it."
There is, of course, more to her and her life than these two planets, but the parts of her life that worked against her most seem to be captured in this negative reception.
Tom
PS I took a look at Joplin's solar return for 1970 after writing the above. The idea is that if Jupiter and Saturn are connected in the natal chart indicating some kind of destructive behavior, that connection will somehow be activated in the solar return for the year of her death. I tried to find out where she was in January 1970 but did not definitely pinpoint it. I may have it though, but I cannot confirm it. I know she ended her relationship with one band in either December 1969 or January 1970. Her drug addiction was bad at that time and she travelled to Brazil in February 1970 to dry out. I found out that she visited friends in Tuchas, New Mexico in 1970 and the chronologies given from the time of her trip to Brazil to her death in October do not seem to allow for time for what appears to be an extended visit. So I used it and I also used her birthplace where I believe her parents still lived, as well as taking a guess that she lived in LA.
The chart that most indicates her death is the one cast for New Mexico, but all charts have a Jupiter in Scorpio - Saturn in Taurus opposition that falls by antiscion fairly close (about 2 degrees) to the natal ASC - DSC axis. Of course this would be true in any chart.
The Tuchas chart and the Port Arthur Texas chart put Saturn, her natal ASC ruler, in the 8th house of the return and Jupiter in the second. Venus rules the natal 8th house and in the return she is combust. Interestingly in the return charts she is in a mutual reception by exaltation with Mars which is the ruler of the return 8th in Texas and NM. This is a reversal of the natal chart where Venus rules the 8th and Mars rules the 2nd.
Now I'm drifting from the point that the natal connection by mutual reception by detriment is activated by the opposition in the return - no matter where she spent it. Of the three return charts the natal and Tuchas, NM charts seem most revealing. LA does not and watch it turn out that she spent her last birthday there.
There is, of course, more to her and her life than these two planets, but the parts of her life that worked against her most seem to be captured in this negative reception.
Tom
PS I took a look at Joplin's solar return for 1970 after writing the above. The idea is that if Jupiter and Saturn are connected in the natal chart indicating some kind of destructive behavior, that connection will somehow be activated in the solar return for the year of her death. I tried to find out where she was in January 1970 but did not definitely pinpoint it. I may have it though, but I cannot confirm it. I know she ended her relationship with one band in either December 1969 or January 1970. Her drug addiction was bad at that time and she travelled to Brazil in February 1970 to dry out. I found out that she visited friends in Tuchas, New Mexico in 1970 and the chronologies given from the time of her trip to Brazil to her death in October do not seem to allow for time for what appears to be an extended visit. So I used it and I also used her birthplace where I believe her parents still lived, as well as taking a guess that she lived in LA.
The chart that most indicates her death is the one cast for New Mexico, but all charts have a Jupiter in Scorpio - Saturn in Taurus opposition that falls by antiscion fairly close (about 2 degrees) to the natal ASC - DSC axis. Of course this would be true in any chart.
The Tuchas chart and the Port Arthur Texas chart put Saturn, her natal ASC ruler, in the 8th house of the return and Jupiter in the second. Venus rules the natal 8th house and in the return she is combust. Interestingly in the return charts she is in a mutual reception by exaltation with Mars which is the ruler of the return 8th in Texas and NM. This is a reversal of the natal chart where Venus rules the 8th and Mars rules the 2nd.
Now I'm drifting from the point that the natal connection by mutual reception by detriment is activated by the opposition in the return - no matter where she spent it. Of the three return charts the natal and Tuchas, NM charts seem most revealing. LA does not and watch it turn out that she spent her last birthday there.
The presumption that one approach can fit all types of charts seems to be something comfortable that we all easily slip into.
If we're describing the personal qualities and abilities of the person, then, yes, we need to allow for that something elusive and unpredictable in each of us. But natal astrology isn't solely about the mind, heart and soul of the chart native. If we're looking for the circumstances of his or her life, such as home, family, money and work, then we can consider the condition of the significators in the more cut-and-dry manner of horary. 
