October 16, 2014 is the 160 anniversary of infamous Irish writer and poet Oscar Wilde. Most famous for writing The Picture of Dorian Gray in 1890, he was jailed for homosexuality in Victorian England and his since become a gay icon. Born into a wealthy family his father was Knighted for being a doctor.
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. ” OSCAR WILDE
Oscar Wilde photograph by Napoleon Sarony
He refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays, and incorporated themes of decadence, duplicity, and beauty into his work. He was an avid lecturer on art and modern life.
Oscar is famous for his plays: The Importance of Being Ernest 1895 was a stage hit in London.He wrote Salome in French in Paris but was refused to allowed to perform it as Biblical subjects were forbidden in Victorian England. The famous actress Sarah Bernhardt was in rehearsals to play the lead role. Aubrey Beardsley famous Art Nouveau artist designed it.
Oscar was a brilliant student. He went to Oxford and also became a Master Mason. He was a supreme individualist and aesthete. He lived very fashionably partying to excess. He may have been bi-sexual as he had previous female love interests. He also always wanted to be Catholic.
In 1882 he came to America to promote his poems and to read. The tour lasted a year and was very successful. He married Constance Lloyd in 1884. They had two sons together.She continued to support him financially for most of his life.
He was the editor of Lady’s World Magazine in 1887 in London England.
Wilde believed in art as a redemptive value. “Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. There lies its immense value. For what it seeks is to disturb monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.”
Wilde met Alfred Douglas in 1893 and they has a tumultuous affair. Oscar started to hang out with gay prostitutes who were young working class, blackmailers who were dangerous and thrilling to Wilde.
In May 1895 Wilde was sentenced to two years of hard labour for being a homosexual for enticing younger working class men into a life of degradation and male homosexuality. “The love that dare not speak its name” is what Oscar Wilde is famous for.
Prison broke him physically, financially and spiritually. In reflecting on his life he wrote. ..’.I wanted to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world… And so, indeed, I went out, and so I lived. My only mistake was that I confined myself so exclusively to the trees of what seemed to me the sun-lit side of the garden, and shunned the other side for its shadow and its gloom.”
released in May 1897 he went to live in France. Totally impoverished, he died November 30 1900 after being given a conditional Baptism and the last rites by a Catholic Priest. He was buried in a tomb outside of Paris but his ashes were transferred to another cemetery.
Oscar’s legacy lives on.Lets look at his astrology chart…
Oscar was a Libra with Venus ruling in her own sign. Libra’s are social addicts. They need relationships, beauty, art, refinement,they see both sides of any issue.
Oscar’s MOON was of course in LEO at the 15th and most powerful degree in his 11th house of receiving love, The moon has an Aquarian overtone, he was naturally charismatic, charming, powerful. A rule breaker, revolutionary, STAR, proud, vain, the King, creative, expressive, self indulgent, immature, over the top emotionally. He loved drama.
A 15 degree Virgo ASCENDANT means Oscar was an intellectual, a writer, very perfectionist, hard-working, “salt of the earth” or fascinated with the poor, he dallied with working class men.
Mercury planet of communications is in SEXY SCORPIO in the 3rd {GEMINI} house of communications, writing, short journeys. He was an obsessive thinker about sex, danger, secret liasons, power. Very charismatic personality. Mercury rules his Virgo ascendant and his GEMINI career Mid heaven. A natural intellectual, writer and communicator.
VENUS in Libra is powerful in her home sign in the 2nd house of values, the body, resources. Venus rules flirting, love affairs, the arts, romance, creativity, beauty, good taste socializing. Oscar came from a wealthy family and beautiful aesthetics were his main focus.
MARS is in Sagittarius indicating his spontaneous passions, love of travel, learning, lecturing, being a gypsy. Oscar was a philosopher and he loved to communicate. Mars in the 3rd house of communications he could write very quickly and become inspired easily. He was always curious and naive.
JUPITER at 19 degrees of Capricorn on the 5th house cusp indicates a hard-working person. He accomplished a lot and had much career success at quite a young age. He died at only 46 years of age. Jupiter in Capricorn indicates luck, wisdom, expansion on many peaks.
Oscars chart is very complex with many inconjunct planets in his natal chart. You can see all the dotted green lines forming almost a pentagram.
JUPITER is the YOD or Finger of God point between Saturn in Gemini Retrograde, the highest elevated planet. Saturn is his father, authority figures, men in general, career, structure, obstacles, karma. The Moon in Leo is the other part of the Yod but is also the Finger of God between Jupiter and Neptune Retrograde in Pisces on Oscar’s Descendant. He was an idealist, a dreamer, a person who got caught in his own projections.
SATURN in Gemini indicates a dual nature. Oscar could be the most sophisticated intellectual and intelligent of writers and communicators and also the lowest of the low in relationships. He had his karma cut out for him with Saturn Retrograde at the noon position in his chart. Every authority figure or man he was involved with was someone he came to finish karma with. He was a Peter Pan, an eternal peur, a boy who never wanted to grow up or old just like the Picture of Dorian Gray.
URANUS is also at 15 degrees of Taurus in the 9th house is square to his Leo Moon. A natural rebel, a trouble maker. Uranus in the 9th is revolutionizing and teaching new values through philosophy, lecturing. speaking. He was extremely sensual and breaking societies rules. He did not respect tradition. Uranus square the Moon indicates a fickleness, a changeable temperament. He was unpredictable emotionally. His life was filled with emotional chaos. He was proud and vain and yet mocked society and the ruling class. This was his undoing later in his life.
NEPTUNE in PISCES Retro on the Descendant
Oscar was an imaginative genius but also deluded, debauched, someone who projected his fantasies onto others men and relationships in general. He was a dreamer, an artist, very sensitive, psychic, empathic. He was an addictive personality, and indulged himself sexually to his own detriment with Neptune square Saturn. Neptune was also quincunx the Moon in Leo. He had insatiable appetites.
PLUTO at 2 degrees Taurus Retrograde in the 8th is quincunx Mars in Sagittarius. Pluto is the soul, the unconscious, the shadow. Pluto in Taurus is the SOUL as BODY, being ruled by your body’s sensuality sexuality and desires. For Oscar his soul transformed through the body and sensuality. Oscar’s shadow was consorting with men who were foreign, exotic to him. Ultimately for those Victorian times this was his demise.
His North Node was 22 degrees of Taurus in the 9th house. Oscar’s highest spiritual goals is to embody and teach a philosophy of freedom, higher consciousness, honesty, metaphysics, sensuality arts and justice.
His SOUTH NODE in Scorpio in the 3rd house would imply past lives as a philosopher, a teacher, traveler, someone with secrets, power, who need to be in control. He could have been a powerful, manipulative, very sexual. debauched Roman in past lives. We come into our present life with unconscious memories and impulses from the past. Oscar brought through his intense sexual desire which wasn’t appropriate for Victorian repressive times.
Saturn is also in quincunx to his Scorpio South Node indicating old revenge from former liasons who were out to get him in trouble.
CHIRON in Capricorn quincunxed by the Leo Moon ans Gemini Retrograde Saturn.
He was a wounded healer, His body desires, his vanity and ego were his undermining. It was his karma to fall from grace, to be targetted by the establishment.
His creative works lived on and Oscar Wilde’s name is famous and a guiding light for gays and for artists and for those who challenge societies mores.
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