New Chart Series--A Gaze at the Chart of the Iconic Architect Frank Lloyd Wright

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I'm returning to reading charts of famous and iconic people. The reason why I choose famous people is to protect the privacy of my astrology clients and because we are already familiar with public figures. The chart series will actually be in a video format and used as a master class on my Locals.com channel, Astrology with Sass.

 

Who Was Frank Lloyd Wright?

As you are mostly likely aware, Frank Lloyd Wright was an American architect who is best known for his designs for Fallingwater (Pennsylvania), the Guggenheim Museum (NYC), and his Prairie Style as well as, organic architecture. He was born in 1867 and he died in 1959 leaving a legacy of buildings and contested opinions in his wake.

Frank was not a stranger to controversy and scandals nor was he a stranger to great tragedies. He rose like a phoenix out of the ashes several times during his lifetime. He survived the Great Depression and pivot his career after designing and building the house built over a water fall in southern Pennsylvania called Fallingwater.

 

 

 

Frank Lloyd Wright was born on June 8, 1867, right after the American Civil War had ended. He was born in Richland Center, Wisconsin and he was raised in the Unitarian faith. His mother chose a career as an architect for Frank when he was a child. Like any good mother, she surrounded Frank with images of buildings and she encouraged this path for young Frank.

Frank attended college where he studied engineering. He dropped out of college and relocated to Chicago where he landed a job working for the master architect Louis Sullivan (who designed the first skyscraper in the US). 

If you would like to learn more about Frank Lloyd Wright, you can find plenty of videos on YouTube and books at your library on the architect.

So, let's delve into the astrology that shaped Frank's life.

Frank was born with a Gemini Sun and a Virgo Moon and a Scorpio Ascendant. Both Gemini and Virgo are the rulers of the planet Mercury. Could we call Frank mercurial? Yes. He was not only good with words, he also chose sharp words when he thought were necessary in getting his point across. He was considered a genius and he seemed to have looked down on people he found less intelligent, mainly in the realm of city planners. 

He harbored scathing opinions and his critics said he was arrogant. What they didn't realize was that Frank shared a different sense of humor than they did. Plus, the Scorpio Ascendant and the Mars in Leo near his Midheaven point, did not win him friends.If you had mentioned the merits of shopping malls and large parking lots, you would have experienced Frank's scathing opinions on both, as an example.

However, the Scorpio Ascendant played roles in Frank's downfalls and his rising from the ashes of disasters (his home Taliesin East burned down twice and one time with his lover and family members). Frank also suffered from the scandal of an extramarital affair he had with a client's wife and then later he married a drug addict (which he divorced). He also rose out of the ashes in a magnificent way during the Great Depression. His third wife came up with the idea of Frank taking on apprentices (who paid him for the experience of learning from a master architect). One of the apprentices asked his father to hire Frank to design a vacation cottage for the family.

 

 

The setting was Bear Run, a rural community 70 miles south of Pittsburgh. The client was the founder of the Kauffman Department Store in Pittsburgh and the end result was the famous home called Fallingwater built on top of a waterfall. Not bad for an architect with a Scorpio Ascendant, his Jupiter in Pisces and his Uranus in Cancer.

The Virgo Moon and Gemini Sun played into perfectionism and also contained a message Frank chose to communicate about living in balance or sustainably on the planet. Frank and his colleagues were the first sustainable architects in the US that eventually influenced the "green" architects of this current era. He believed in building with local materials and creating structures that blended with the earth. What people don't realize about Frank was that he was deeply spiritual and he saw the natural world as his church (Jupiter in Pisces). He was also a practical dreamer because most of what he designed was built.

Frank might not also get credit for his compassionate side which hides behind the veneer of his Sun, Moon and Ascendant. Although most of his clients were wealthy industrialists (in the age of industry), he also built humble housing for the working class and some of his Usonian homes are still standing today although they don't carry humble price tags any longer since they are sought after homes.

A Taurus Triple Conjunction

If we head over to Frank's 6th and 7th natal houses, we find a triple conjunction of Pluto, Venus, and the dwarf planet, Vesta in the sign of the bull (Taurus). Frank didn't only care about living lighter on the earth and building with natural materials (which is what they had during his era), he harbored strong opinions about organic architecture. He wasn't going to budge in the services he offered to humanity and to architecture. He had some fixed ideas with his gaze on beauty (Venus in her own sign). Pluto in Taurus (we now have Uranus in Taurus as I'm writing this article), was someone who was going to transform the ways we lived upon the earth. And he was into his 90s when he died in 1959 which gave him ample time to make his mark on the world. (A strong Taurus placement in the 6th or 1st house in a chart can lead to a long life).

And when we look back at his lasting legacy and the influence he wielded in the realm of architecture and sustainable communities, we see the hand prints of Taurus all over it. Venus also represents women. While on one hand, critics could say that Frank treated his first and second wives poorly (although his second wife was a charlatan and drug addict), he treated women in general with respect, even hiring a woman architect early in his career. Then later accepting women into his apprenticeship program in Wisconsin and Arizona. He also had a harmonious relationship with his third wife who was three decades younger than him but certainly influential on Frank. Venus can represent younger women.

 

Saturn and the Dwarf Planet Ceres Near the Ascendant (AC)

Having Saturn near the Chart Ascendant shares common traits with a Capricorn Ascendant. Frank had defining bone structure and was on the taller side. He also seemed to have experienced robust health despite struggles in his childhood and early adult years (his parents divorce and absentee father). Saturn can rule the father in an astrology chart. It's possible having Saturn near a Scorpio Ascendant caused Frank to resent his father and yet, Frank also left his first wife and children in favor of an affair with a client's wife.

Ceres is a Greco-Roman goddess connected to agriculture and mother nature. She is also associate with the relationship between mothers and daughters. She is the mother of Persephone, another goddess who was abducted by the god, Hades-Pluto and taken to the Underworld. Ceres through the earth into chaos causing the crops to wither and die. When her daughter Persephone was returned to her, she ushered in spring and summer seasons. Ceres is currently seen as a goddess of agriculture and living lightly on the earth.

And in Frank's chart with Ceres near a Scorpio Ascendant (Pluto), we see shades of this Greco-Roman myth playing out. While Frank was not a maiden abducted by a dark lord and shoved into the Underworld, he did experience times of darkness in his lifetime that would have destroyed most humans. And yet, he used these painful losses to pivot his career whether that was designing mansions in Los Angeles that resembled Aztec and Mayan architecture or to design the magical Fallingwater. We might even call him the comeback kid.

Saturn also represents structure but in this case, it mostly represents body structure. Frank definitely had a certain look--tall, thin, with his signature suits, hats and canes, especially in his elder years which is also ruled by Saturn. And Saturn could represent someone with a talent (although that's more with the second house placement) as a designer of structure. It gave him an earthy signature despite his Gemini Sun. A strong Saturn placement leaves a legacy behind which in this case is Frank's public image (even the public image is usually represented by the 10th House, and actual structures).

Conclusion

Although I'm keeping this article on the shorter side, I encourage you to study this chart further and to read biographies of Frank Lloyd Wright.

I've been channeling his spirit for several years and you can find my videos on my Vimeo channel, the Lyra Star Messenger. Yes, I believe Frank had many lifetimes as a master architect on this planet beginning with Atlantis. And I believe he was a star seed as well. He came to the planet with a mission to develop architecture and to help humans return to the natural world in the midst of the Industrial Era.

If you research the Industrial Era and the men of industry, you will realize what an accomplishment that was for that era and Frank's legacy lives on during the Technological Age, when once again, humanity has lost its footing with the natural world.

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