I'm doing research on Gothicism & Astrology. So far I've been able to go through over 50 charts of authors, actors, directors, designers, musicians, etc. and I am noticing that it's Saturn, not Pluto, that keeps coming up as the dominant influence.
Mary Shelley, Baudelaire, Lovecraft, Lugosi, Lynch, Argento, McQueen, Manson, Bjork, Anne Rice, Sylvia Plath, Tim Burton, etc.
The dominant signature many of them carry is not Pluto, it's Saturn.
Many Saturn-ruled ASC, Saturn on the ASC or aspecting the chart ruler, Saturn in the 1H, Sun in Capricorn/Aquarius, Saturn-Pluto aspects, or tight Sun-Saturn - describes 76% of the sample. Three out of every four gothic figures in the dataset thus far are, structurally, Saturnian before they are anything else.
It makes sense once you ask yourself: "Which planet is gothic culture about?"
Gothic is fundamentally about the non-departure of the past. The haunted house has stopped time. The vampire cannot die. Frankenstein's monster is mortality reversed rather than transcended. Gothic media returns obsessively to ruined castles, ancestral curses, hereditary secrets, family crypts, inherited madness, the past that refuses to be over. It is not the texture of transformation; it is the texture of preservation, of what time will not let go of. It is Saturn's territory at it's core.
Interestingly enough, in older English usage, "Saturnine" originally came from the astrological influence of Saturn: coldness, darkness, melancholy, severity, isolation, contemplation, age, decay, fatalism, and intellectual depth. A "saturnine person" was often imagined as possessing many of the traits that would later become central to gothic aesthetics.
I'm hoping I can get at least 100-150+ charts done and post my findings in an in-depth post. 🖤
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