Why Michael Jackson Hated the Man in the Mirror
Michael Jackson was a classic Virgo. His life, from the very start, was dedicated to serving up a constant source of catharsis for those of us that watched him dance and sing. He gave every single ounce of his energy to perfecting his art and then sending it out for public consumption. Over the last few days everyone has been talking about his precision, his work-ethic, his drive, his perfectionism. Barry Gordy, the head of Motown, remarked on Larry King that of all the Jackson Five, Michael was the most focused -- even as the youngest, he was always "studying" everything around him, trying to get it right. With his sun (life force) conjunct Pluto (fear, darkness) in his fourth house of home, his father Joseph was the demon patriarch who drove Michael to work as hard as he did, or face a beating. He literally had to dance for his dinner, or he'd be blamed for his father's failings. The immense guilt and responsibility Michael felt as an innocent child was transmuted into his relentless drive to get it right, and his drive to be the King of Pop. You don't manifest what Michael did without wanting it more than anything else in the world. The truth behind Michael's Plutonian, Virgoan striving is that he probably did it all to please his father. The unconscious is a powerful force and Michael, with his Plutonian signature, was completely driven by its longings. If it is indeed true that MJ sexually abused young boys, one can lay the blame directly at his father's feet.
Although his birth time is disputed, the Gemini rising chart seems the most accurate. Gemini is the sign of youth, the Puer Aeternus, of ambiguous sexuality, of never wanting to grow up, Peter Pan complexes, media savvy, trends, and a wiry, flexible body type. His ascendant is most evident in the videos that he made for the 1979 record Off the Wall. Check out "Rock with You", where his costume of silver sequins, with vertical stripes on his pants looks almost court jesterish, perfectly fitting the Gemini rising persona. In "Don't Stop Til You Get Enough" he wears a tux, floating over a moving background of stars like a sprite. MJ bought the Neverland Ranch during his Saturn return -- an overt admission that he never wanted to grow up. This was also around the time that things started to shift for Michael after his career apotheosis with Thriller in 1983. (Note the lyrics to "Thriller" - "It's close to midnight, and something evil's lurking in the dark." This is a deeply Plutonian line.) During his Saturn return he let his freak flag fly, practically giving the finger to the media while at the same time courting it. He was rumored to attempt to buy the bones of the Elephant Man, and his addiction to plastic surgery began. When his SR was almost exact, Bad was released. People found it rather hilarious that this gentle-voiced shy singer would be compelled to tell the world that he was "Bad" as if he was trying to compete with gangsta rappers. But what he was really saying was that inside, he felt like he was a bad boy -- probably because that's what his father told him over and over again, no matter how hard he tried. "Man in the Mirror", one of the most popular tracks on that record, is in many ways an acknowledgement that Michael understood what the universe wanted for him.
The lyrics include these lines:
As I, Turn Up The Collar On My
Favourite Winter Coat
This Wind Is Blowin' My Mind
I'm Starting With The Man In
The Mirror
I'm Asking Him To Change
His Ways
And No Message Could Have
Been Any Clearer
If You Wanna Make The World
A Better Place
(If You Wanna Make The
World A Better Place)
Take A Look At Yourself, And
Then Make A Change
Everyone in their Saturn return needs to heed these words if he or she wants to survive the transition and thrive. For Michael, the Saturn return was the beginning of a downward spiral that ended in his death. Because he could not find any kind of real, personal one-to-one love in his life due to a warped sexuality and damaged trust, Michael turned to the love of his fans for succor. In the months before his death, transiting Saturn was opposing his moon, squaring his natal Saturn and opposing his ascendant. These on their own are not signatures for death, but most certainly signs of exhaustion, depression, alienation, and desperation. And in the end, as he prepared for a comeback, Michael finally succumbed to all those challenges. The quintessential Virgo can finally rest; may he do so in peace.
Although his birth time is disputed, the Gemini rising chart seems the most accurate. Gemini is the sign of youth, the Puer Aeternus, of ambiguous sexuality, of never wanting to grow up, Peter Pan complexes, media savvy, trends, and a wiry, flexible body type. His ascendant is most evident in the videos that he made for the 1979 record Off the Wall. Check out "Rock with You", where his costume of silver sequins, with vertical stripes on his pants looks almost court jesterish, perfectly fitting the Gemini rising persona. In "Don't Stop Til You Get Enough" he wears a tux, floating over a moving background of stars like a sprite. MJ bought the Neverland Ranch during his Saturn return -- an overt admission that he never wanted to grow up. This was also around the time that things started to shift for Michael after his career apotheosis with Thriller in 1983. (Note the lyrics to "Thriller" - "It's close to midnight, and something evil's lurking in the dark." This is a deeply Plutonian line.) During his Saturn return he let his freak flag fly, practically giving the finger to the media while at the same time courting it. He was rumored to attempt to buy the bones of the Elephant Man, and his addiction to plastic surgery began. When his SR was almost exact, Bad was released. People found it rather hilarious that this gentle-voiced shy singer would be compelled to tell the world that he was "Bad" as if he was trying to compete with gangsta rappers. But what he was really saying was that inside, he felt like he was a bad boy -- probably because that's what his father told him over and over again, no matter how hard he tried. "Man in the Mirror", one of the most popular tracks on that record, is in many ways an acknowledgement that Michael understood what the universe wanted for him.
The lyrics include these lines:
As I, Turn Up The Collar On My
Favourite Winter Coat
This Wind Is Blowin' My Mind
I'm Starting With The Man In
The Mirror
I'm Asking Him To Change
His Ways
And No Message Could Have
Been Any Clearer
If You Wanna Make The World
A Better Place
(If You Wanna Make The
World A Better Place)
Take A Look At Yourself, And
Then Make A Change
Everyone in their Saturn return needs to heed these words if he or she wants to survive the transition and thrive. For Michael, the Saturn return was the beginning of a downward spiral that ended in his death. Because he could not find any kind of real, personal one-to-one love in his life due to a warped sexuality and damaged trust, Michael turned to the love of his fans for succor. In the months before his death, transiting Saturn was opposing his moon, squaring his natal Saturn and opposing his ascendant. These on their own are not signatures for death, but most certainly signs of exhaustion, depression, alienation, and desperation. And in the end, as he prepared for a comeback, Michael finally succumbed to all those challenges. The quintessential Virgo can finally rest; may he do so in peace.
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posted by Stefanie at
9:33 AM
6 Comments:
very moving
there were many reasons why MJ could have hated the man in the mirror. One you negate to mention is the incultrated underlining stink of racism. Living in CA and working in a industry that promoted the closer you were to looking white or passing, the more you were accepted. Lets be clear, he came at a time that racial bias behavior was widely and openly practiced. Also, the music industry requires that you constantly reinvent yourself to avoid being pegion holed to just little michicael which was happening. A shrewed business. Yes he wanted to gain acceptance in the world who did not see black people as an accepted race of people and a race of people that were not allow to error as humans. As part of he cultural indurance he was always faced with yea you did this but I bet you cant do that. The rules constantly changing the rules due to racist behavior as usual. Being constantly disilusioned by adults and not being able to beat the game. There were just too many to fight against his one lonely self. No my friend you cannot just blame his father. there are many people in our culture and society that can share in the blame. In saying all of that, I must remind you that in the divine order of things, he came to the earthly flesh to complete what he has done. If he has not complete his mission he will return again and again until the work is done. one blessing we can assure is he was vendicated regarding the charge of child molestation releasing that Karma from his Aura and life tablet as well as his life as an abused individual from the hands of his father. Upon his return his father and mankind will owe him. May he retun with Gods grace and mercy to those that have inflicted harm towards him, his soul and spirit. love and light
thank you for these comments, the first I have read that affirm my gut feelings, that the abuse he suffered as a child shaped his life in ways the public cannot
seem to comprehend or acknowledge. but I also feel he strove to find a spirituality that would allow him to transform all that into a fire that burned with an amazing light and joy that blessed us all - he had Saturn in Sag, I think - like me - and I also believe in the end he was able to refuse to inflict the abuse he had suffered on others. that and the light he shed on and for us all with his art will inspire us forever. wish you would write more about this, esp. explain what you meant with the comment that "if he did molest, the blame can be placed squarely at the feet of his father"?
thanks for your post and for your book too
Hi Anonymous Saturn In Sag friend --
When I said that blame can be placed at his father's feet I meant that if MJ did indeed suffer the disease of pedophilia, then his father's abuse is to blame. This is a purely subjective opinion of course, but since abused children often become abusers, it should be considered. And we don't know the truth -- only MJ and the ones that accused him of those crimes know the truth. I too believe that despite his failings, real or imagined, he was a great soul who came to earth to teach all of us a light shines within us too. He was able to transmute that light into art that made each of us feel like we, too, had music inside of us. And that's what he'll always be remembered for. Thanks for your comment!
Thanks Stefanie for your reply! if you are interested, the transcripts of the MJ trial have been published in a book called "Michael Jackson Conspiracy" by Aphrodite Jones. The title comes from the names of the charges - Jones has published seven books, one of which was made into the film Boys Don't Cry. I invite you to read the court transcripts and learn what actually went on in the courtroom (not the media) - and why the jury found MJ not guilty on all fourteen counts. What's amazing is how he did survive and how he was able to transform his suffering into art, I have no doubt his life depended on it. Be well, and thanks again, sag in saturn.
Thanks for that information, Saturn in Sag! I want to clarify my position on MJ. I am not saying that he committed the crimes he was accused of -- I am merely saying that the truth is we don't know if it happened, even if he was acquitted. A legal acquittal simply means there was enough evidence to prove innocence to a jury of peers -- nothing more. And we must remember that MJ was accused of a similar act in the early 90s, but he settled out of court. In most cases of pedophilia, the abuser is a deeply troubled, scarred individual who desperately needs psychological treatment. I believe that it's clear that MJ was deeply troubled -- he was beaten by his father, had no privacy, and spent his life trying to live up to an outsized ideal that no human could possibly achieve. He was addicted to plastic surgery, and as we've found out in recent weeks, addicted to a myriad of drugs. This poor man was very sick, albeit very exceptionally talented and special. He was also kind, generous and charitable, and he deserves great credit for that. But the bottom line is that we will never know for sure if he indeed abused little boys sexually, no matter what the court papers revealed. Even if he didn't touch these children in a sexual way, an adult man should understand that sleeping in a bed with a child that is not your own is extremely inappropriate. Poor, confused Michael did not seem to understand this fact. This on its own is an indication that he was mentally unstable, despite all his gifts and the transformative light he shined on all of us. And I'd like to reiterate that whatever sickness Michael lived with, his father is to blame. I see this in his chart and his biography - including interviews with Michael himself.
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