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THE DEATH OF GIANNI VERSACE
BY JACKIE SLEVIN
data: Gianni Versace
December 2, 1946
6:45 am MET
Reggio De Calabria, Italy
38N06
15E39
The newpaper headlines on July 15th sent shock waves aaround the globe: Gianni Versace
was shot to death outside his home in Miami, Florida. A world class fashion designer, he
dressed the most celebrated people of our time. His styles ran the gamut from the
exquisite $30,000 gowns of Princess Di through the cartoon clothing of Elton John. His
murder was a senseless tragedy perpretrated by an equally senseless serial killer named
Andrew Cuanen, who was found dead on a houseboat in Miami a few days later.
Cuanen's death was judged a suicide, as he was only too aware that he was the target of a
nation wide manhunt of the FBI. As astrologers, we all know the axiom "As above, so
below." Could murder have been foretold from Versace's horoscope? Let's take a look.
Versace was born and raised in Calabra, Italy, so it was only right and fitting that I contact
the capo de tutti capi of data collectors, Lois Rodden, for his birth information. Lois
supplied the data, but explained that it was unconfirmed, and thus dirty data. It was taken
from an Italian magazine, not a birth certificate. Italian data collector Grazia Bordoni was
in the process of obtaining confirmation of Versace's birth record as Lois and I spoke, but
time did not permit me to wait for Grazia's results, as this article had to meet its deadline.
Therefore, Versace's chart may be incorrect. Yet his dirty data time of birth makes his
horoscope very close to a solar chart, so onward and downward.
With his Sun and Ascendant in Sagittarius, Versace would be a free-roaming, adventurous
type with a desire for truth and expansion. He once said "I think it's the responsibility of a
designer to try to break rules and barriers. I'm a little like Marco Polo, going around and
mixing cultures."1 Here are the words of a typical archer with his arrow to the mark. He
was describing himself astrologically without even knowing it. Then again, maybe he did
know it, because as any student of astrology knows, a double Sagittarian is no stranger to
knowledge. Neither was Versace. Indeed, his appetite for knowledge was so great that
he maintained five libraries and employed a full-time librarian to manage them. As soon as
he would arrive at his New York home on 64th street, he would immediately contact
colleagues and together they would attend galleries, museums, and art studios. His
T-square to the Moon in Pisces in the third house is indicative of someone who
internalizes information. Ingrid Sischy, editor of Interview magazine, once remarked "He
was more than a collector of art, he was a blotter for art, absorbing it, contemplating it
and sometimes bringing the colors or ideas into his consciousness."2 The Moon in the
third house also tells of someone who needs their siblings around them, and Versace lived
out this symbolism to a T. (Pun intended)! His brother Santo and sister Donatella helped
him start his designing house in 1978. Santo is now the President of the House of Versace
and Donatella serves as Creative Director. As children, their playground was their mother
Franca's dress-making studio, complete with no less than 45 full-time seamstresses. Why
fret and worry about what you're going to be when you grow up? Versasce never needed
to with a T-square to the Moon in Pisces. Mother and family tradition established an
emotional environment in which creativity flourished - and continues to this day. His
family was his business and his business was his family. The two never separated. Notice
that the Moon, so strongly placed in this chart, rules the eighth house of big business and
wealth. Versace's estate is estimated at 807 million dollars, with 130 boutiques
worldwide. Also note that the eighth house rules death and sexuality, and it was issues
with sexuality that led to Versace's death. Versace's progressed Moon at 24 Capricorn
does not shed much light on his demise. Neither, for that matter, do the transits.
Transiting Uranus at 7 Aquarius applies to oppose his Saturn in the eighth.
Transiting Jupiter at 20 Aquarius squares his natal Mercury which rules his tenth
house of career and his seventh house of "others", or open enemies.
Transiting Mars had just passed over a conjunction to his Neptune, which rules his
fourth house, or the end of the matter
Transiting Saturn made a Yod. Natal Mercury sextiles the Midheaven and transiting
Saturn at 20 Aries at Versace's fifth house cusp formed an inconjunct aspect to both
Mercury and the Midheaven. The Yod is an aspect that is also known as the "Hand of
God," when priorities become rearranged in an eerie, fated manner. . The fifth house
is also linked to sexuality as an expression of love.
Transiting North Node was exactly conjunct his natal Midheaven.
The only transit listed above that could remotely point to death is the conjunction of
transiting Mars to natal Neptune, with Neptune ruling Versace's fourth house. This small
window on the subject does not satisfy me, so let's look further.
The pre-natal lunations are eclipses are inserted in every chart I interpret. Versace's
pre-natal full Moon was at 16 Taurus, conjunct his sixth house cusp of work and health.
His artistic, sensual work certainly placed him in the spotlight. His pre-natal new Moon
was at 0 Scorpio conjunct his natal Chiron, which would highlight Versace's potential in
to be a respected expert, a notorious free-thinker, and someone who was noted for living
outside the mainstream. It could also shed some ambiguity about his sexuality. Such
pre-natal lunations would lead one to think that Versace clung fiercely to his own ideas
about health, regeneration and learning (remember the libraries). His pre-natal solar
eclipse was 0 Sagittarius in his twelfth house. Transiting Pluto made a station on this
degree on August 10, 1996. It would be very interesting to know what he was doing on
this date, as behind the scenes activities could have had serious consequences later on.
Versace's pre-natal lunar eclipse was 6 Cancer, conjunct his eighth house cusp of shared
resources, wealth, death and, once again, sexuality. On July 4, 1997, just eleven days
before he was murdered on his own doorstep, a new Moon at 12 Cancer conjoined
Versace's pre-natal eclipse conjunct his eighth house cusp! Eureka! The Universe
highlighted a hidden trigger point in Versace's chart. The dark night of the Moon brought
the curtain down for Gianni Versace less than two weeks later. Most unfortunately, the
trigger was pulled with deadly results.
Never undestimate the power of the Moon. Her lunations and eclipses, pre-natal or
otherwise, are never randomly placed.
Ciao, Gianni. Till we meet again.
Copyright 1997. Jackie Slevin. All rights reserved. |
