Karen Carpenter (March 2, 1950 – February 4, 1983)

Ordinarily, I would have left Karen Carpenter to rest in peace. But, then videos of a young woman have surfaced which, astoundingly, have brought her singing voice back to life in this day and age.

The timing of her birth was already on my (new) Kepler 8.0 program. It’s based on her birth certificate. I think we can trust it. First thing to notice is how close to my own birth chart the outer planets are. She was born just three weeks (or so) after me. Here, the Cancer Ascendant is almost exactly conjunct Uranus @ 1° Cancer. That’s interesting. Mars (conjunct the South Node) is inconjunct with the Sun and the Midheaven. That tells me that her life is a continuation of the past, with all its complications.

Sun Inconjunct Mars

It is not good for you to hold your angry feelings in. When you feel angry or resentful, your feelings are quite strong, and if you hold them in, they can turn into sickness or infection. In some cases your feelings can become self-destructive and bring about an accident. If you can focus your anger, express it and let it go, you will never remain angry for very long.

In 1975, she started exhibiting symptoms of anorexia nervosa due to the severe pressures of fame and her complicated family dynamics. She was plagued by the disease for years. She died in 1983 at the age of 32 of heart failure due to complications from anorexia, which was little-known outside celebrity circles at the time, and her death triggered widespread attention and research into eating disorders and body dysmorphia.

Wikipedia

Mars Inconjunct Midheaven

This aspect can mean that you have mixed feelings about all authority figures, including your parents. You may feel that you have to violate the rules laid down by your parents in order to get your way. This is a significant problems, because if it continues into adulthood, you will have great difficulties with employers. Therefore it is very important that your parents teach you how to express your self-assertive drives without going against their teachings.

On its own, Karen’s death chart is fairly insignificant, if you ignore the Pluto opposition to her ‘fatal’ Aries Ascendant. Note also that all of the planets and lights are in the public hemisphere. This was not a private event, in any sense of the word. That’s how we know that she was pronounced dead at 9:51 a.m.

The picture expands when we put her birth and death charts together.

Karen’s natal Part of Fortune is conjunct her ‘fatal’ Jupiter/Uranus conjunction. And her natal Sun is the midpoint between her ‘fatal’ Venus/Mars conjunction. Finally, her ‘fatal’ North Node is conjunct her natal Uranus (and Ascendant conjunction), which we noted above. It was a ‘time to move on’ moment.

Tori Holub

We have no birth details of this individual, not even her birth year, so there is no way I can compare these two women karmically. But the uncanny similarity between their voices is something remarkable.

Some have speculated that it was just Karen’s voice that reincarnated! I have no way to confirm or deny that, but, at another level, it is possible that Toni has a pitch-perfect ability to sing in exactly the same way as the original singer. Check out her YouTube videos and Facebook posts to see what I mean.