Music Monday Birthday ~ Grace Slick

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GRACE SLICK!









Grace Slick joined the rock band The Great Society in 1965; she later became lead vocalist for Jefferson Airplane. Through the next 20 years, Grace was part of several incarnations of the band, including The Jefferson Starship; several solo albums followed. Grace retired from the music scene in 1989 to concentrate on a new career in the visual arts.


There were a few dramas and encounters with The Law during Grace's years on the music scene.

Grace Slick, the elegantly wasted lead singer of Jefferson Airplane, spent the better part of the 1960's and 1970's belting out powerful anthems like "Somebody to Love" and "White Rabbit." The archetype of the outrageous female rock star, Slick was comfortable naked on stage, took drugs, made plans to dose Richard Nixon with LSD on a trip to the White House, got arrested a few dozen times and went through rehab a few dozen times.
From a piece by ALEX KUCZYNSKI.

Born 30 October 1939 in Evanston Illinois at 7.37am (Astrodatabank)




Grace Slick's natal chart has Sun, Venus, Mercury and ascendant in Scorpio. Uranus exactly opposes Venus, from Taurus, but Uranus also harmoniously trines Neptune in Virgo. Moon's in Gemini. A lot of dark and heavy Scorpio intensity, passion and determination is present, yet it's lightened by a sociable and versatile Gemini Moon.

Uranus trining Neptune and opposing Venus, with Neptune sextiling Venus puts a kind of two-way pull on Venus, delicate planet of the arts. Unruly Uranus was almost certainly involved in the daredevil antics resulting in those early brushes with the law. Neptune (planet of creativity and imagination) makes helpful links to Venus and Uranus, and connects to Ms Slick's musical talent as well as her painting.

There's some potential sharpness and antagonism coming from a couple of aspects: Mars in Aquarius in square (90 degree) aspect to Aquarius' modern ruler, Uranus; and Saturn in Aries in quincunx (150 degree scratchy aspect) to Mercury in Scorpio.

I suspect that Grace Slick has mellowed and matured - she's deep into her 70s now. She has no doubt learned to control and use her challenging natal aspects, putting them to good use in her art.


LIVERPOOL LENNON by Grace Slick




JOLLY ROCKER by Grace Slick



HER MISTRESS' VOICE by Grace Slick



JANIS WOOD NYMPH by Grace Slick