Rosanne Cash is about to come out with her memoir, titled Composed. Published by Viking, it will be in stores Tuesday. The book tells the story of her evolution as an artist and songwriter, and fulfills her lifelong desire to write and publish. In my experience, musicians write slowly and thoughtfully. The 240-page project took her 10 years, during most of which Uranus was transiting her house of writing. Her charts suggest that this is a lot more than a book coming out — it’s the birth of a new phase of her career and indeed her life work.
Rosanne is a Planet Waves subscriber, and generously offered to do an audio interview for our readers. And, with her blessings, we have her chart for you to consider. As you might expect, this is an Aries Point chart — take a look at the 4th and 10th house cusps, those dark, nearly vertical lines. They go right through the Aries Point, which illustrates her connection to something much larger than herself.
These angles are getting lots of action right now — in particular, she has Saturn going right across her midheaven in early Libra. Remembering that what we call the ‘Aries’ Point covers the early degrees of Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn, that means that she’s picking up energy from all four of those directions (many planets involved — you know them all by now, Pluto, Uranus, Jupiter, Saturn and others), and due to Saturn’s presence, it’s focused on her career angle — the 10th house.
Saturn loves the 10th house; it has a Midas touch there. And Saturn is a very happy camper in Libra. I’m sure you’ve never heard anyone describe Saturn as a happy camper anywhere, but there you go, I just did. And over the next few days, Venus goes right over her midheaven (10th house cusp) and will still be strong and active when the book is officially released Tuesday.
One fascinating thing about Rosanne’s work right now — as you will hear in the audio segment — is that she’s delving into the preservation of historical American music. These are her worldly origins, as she grew up in the epicenter of the musical scene in the 50s and 60s — but she’s going deeper, into the roots of American musical traditions. This reminds me of Pluto in Capricorn, which I’ve characterized as everything old being new again.