Kelly Clarkson was born April 24, 1982 in Burleson, Texas. She came to fame as the first ever winner of American Idol and has since sold over 25 million albums. She has three Grammy Awards, four American Music Awards and two Academy of Country Music Awards. She is currently a coach on The Voice and hosts her own talk show The Kelly Clarkson Show. She is married to Brandon Blackstock and has two children as well as two step children.
As she does not have a time of birth we will be looking at her chart using the Moon as her ascendant. Let’s take a look and see what we can see in her chart.
Kelly’s Moon, which we are using as her Ascendant, is in her first house of Aries. With her Moon she also has the Sun and Mercury. With the Moon and Sun in the same sign we see she was born just after a new Moon. Sun in her first house can make her bold and strong-willed. It can make her adventuresome and warmhearted. She can be bossy, impulsive and short-tempered with the Sun’s influence in her first house. The Sun is exalted in Aries making her a leader, a sharp thinker and capable of achieving fame. Mercury is also in her first house of Aries making her adaptable, a quick problem solver and someone who enjoys music and dancing. She can be a good speaker with a sense of humor but needs to be cautious of being overly critical of others or becoming a micro-manager. With all these in Aries, she may sometimes have trouble sleeping. Mercury rules her third house and being in the first she can be successful through her own efforts and benefits from music and acting. She can be skilled at sales, promotion and writing.
Her third house is Gemini. She has Rahu here. Rahu is one of the nodes of the Moon. Rahu here can make her very clever and creative. She can have an off-beat sense of humor. This can cause diseases that are hard to diagnose. She has talked about managing an autoimmune condition and thyroid condition. She has the ability to make her own way in life. This can make her a writer, musician and salesperson. She can be a successful risk taker and may take a bizarre approach.
Her sixth house, Virgo, has Mars and Saturn. Mars here allows her to get results quickly and she doesn’t want to waste time. She has a fast-problem-solving ability and is self-reliant. She can have an overactive mind and can be impatient. She is service oriented and focused. She can be good with structured activities. For her things get better after some experience. She can have dealings with land or build out properties. She can have a lot of energy and leadership abilities. She needs to watch out for being taking advantage of by others or those who are claiming to help her. She will persevere to the end on whatever she chooses. She has the ruler of her first house in her sixth house which can make her good with animals as well as giving her a strong capacity to deal with adversity. She is energetic and a hard worker. She will need to be cautious to not get so eager or aggressive about opportunities that she ends up ruining them unintentionally. The ruler of her first house, Mars, is in the lunar mansion of Uttara Phalguni giving her the ability to associate with people in power and the ability to get financial benefit from them. She is very friendly and likeable. She may at times be sad or angry under a “happy smile”. The ruler of her tenth, Saturn, is in the lunar mansion Chitra which gives her skills in business and she is motivated by opportunities outside her place of her birth. She is well dressed and may be drawn to more serious topics like philosophy and social thought. Mars and Saturn in conjunction with each other makes her very high energy and she will do better with a lot of activity and movement.
Her seventh house, Libra, has Jupiter. This gives her a love of art and beauty and the ability to gain through business and art. She can be overly indulgent at times but that is something she can manage. The seventh house is partnerships and marriage and with Jupiter here she can deal well with people and is able to attract a good partner. It gives her an artistic capacity. Being married can bring her advantages but she and her husband may do better if they have the ability to take time to themselves to recoup and reset. Jupiter being in the lunar mansion of Swati gives Kelly the ability to think of the needs of others. She is more intelligent than she appears and she can use this to her advantage as others may underestimate her. She needs to be alert that she doesn’t let others take advantage of her.
In her ninth house, Sagittarius, is Ketu (the other node of the Moon.) This can give her sudden positive turns in her fortune. But Ketu can also represent loss and in her ninth house of the father it is no surprise her father left at a young age. The placement of Ketu in the ninth gives that hard relationship with the father whether its full loss, through divorce or death, or an up-and-down relationship. On its positive side it does give Kelly an adaptable perspective on life. She can find herself traveling frequently throughout her life. We will look at transits below to see what was happening around the time of her father’s death.
Last but not least. Venus is in her eleventh house of Aquarius. This allows her to make money through artistic enterprises. She is well connected socially and is well liked by influential individuals. She is creative and inventive. She is a dependable friend and may have a love of more mature individuals. This also shows she would marry someone older than her. Her husband Brandon is six years older than her. She has the ruler of her second house in her eleventh house. This connects her money houses giving her good finances and plenty of opportunities and good breaks throughout her life. She always seems to have some chance to make money. Her cash flow comes from her face or voice as the second house represents our voice. Venus also rules her seventh house and placed in the eleventh her husband may contribute to opportunities and to the development of good cash flow. Business activities with people of influence can bring her more opportunities. Venus ruling her partner is in the lunar mansion of Purva Bhadrapada giving indications she could marry into a wealthy family. She has good logical skills and has the ability to “read” people.
Let’s take a look at a couple of her big life events to see what the transits were doing and how they triggered the event.
On September 4, 2002 Kelly won the first season of American Idol, which catapulted her to success. At this time Jupiter was transiting her fourth house of Cancer and sending its energy by opposition to her tenth house of career. This expanded her career. Rahu, which is expansive was in her seventh house of partnerships, conjunct her natal Jupiter, and sending its energy to her eleventh house of great gains. Upon her win she won a record contract with RCA Records. Transiting Saturn was conjunct her natal Saturn in her sixth house of work. She was willing to use discipline to work hard to achieve her goals. At this time, she was in her Moon Maha Dasha and Jupiter Bhukti or sub dasha. This also ignited her Jupiter even more. Transiting Mercury was exalted at its exact degree of exaltation at the time of her win and Mercury rules communication and the mass media, like television.
She married Brandon Blackstock on October 20, 2013. At this time transiting Jupiter was sending its energy to her seventh house of marriage and her natal Jupiter. Transiting Jupiter was also sending its energy to her natal Venus in her eleventh house to the exact degree. Transiting Saturn and Rahu were in her seventh house of marriage. With both transiting Jupiter and Saturn giving energy to her seventh house of marriage creating a point of manifestation to get married. Rahu was there expanding all the feelings. She was in Maha Dasha Mars and bhukti Mercury. Her natal Mercury sends its energy to her seventh house by opposition and on the day of her wedding transiting Mercury was in her seventh house in exact opposition to her natal Mercury at 24 degrees.
While Kelly has never mentioned the exact day of her estranged father’s death we know it was sometime around January of 2019 based off interviews she has given. At this time transiting Saturn was in her ninth house of the father in Sagittarius. Saturn can be death. It was approaching her natal Ketu which is loss. Transiting Sun was within a degree of Ketu and the Sun is an indicator of the father. Transiting Jupiter which rules her ninth house of the father was in the eight house of death. When we rotate the chart to look at her father through her chart with these transits we see that transiting Ketu was, in what would be, his second house. The second house is a killer house and Ketu being loss shows that.
It will be interesting to watch where Kelly goes next. As she will have the ability to manifest more in her career the end of 2020 to beginning of 2021 as Jupiter and Saturn will both be transiting her tenth house of career creating a point of manifestation. Saturn brings the discipline and Jupiter brings the positive ideas and expansion. She will also have transiting Rahu in her second house of the voice and sending its energy to her tenth house at this time. Lots to look forward to for her.
