Lee Miller (April 23, 1907 – July 21, 1977)

There’s a new Sky film out. It’s frankly an unglamourized look at the work of a model-turned-photojournalist during World War II. Having Kate Winslet play the lead role is probably an inspired choice, as she has a beautiful strength to her own persona. Here’s a preview:

Here’s the Real Lee Miller

The story behind the story is just as complicated as it can be, due to the fact that her father initiated her into being a photography model at a young age. Will it show up in her birth chart? I wonder.

That’s a pretty strong Cosmic Cross in her chart. The Mars/Uranus connection happens between the ages of 4 and 5. Hmm. The position of the Sun at age 40 seems significant, since the war would have been over by then, and her photos from Germany would have become world famous on the pages of Vogue.

Her modelling career probably came to an end at age 25 (where Mercury sits in her chart). She became a photographer instead. Both of those are involved with inconjuncts.

Sun Inconjunct Ascendant

Your relationships with other people can be very intense. While you are young, they may be quite difficult, because you feel that others will accept you only if you deny yourself in some way. Or you may constantly feel you should put off doing what you want in order to do what you have to do. Usually your ideas about what you have to do come from the people around you. Also, contacts with other people will frequently force you to make serious, major psychological changes. Difficulties in your relationships with friends and family are signs of profound internal changes.

Planets in Youth (page 97) by Robert Hand (1977)

Moon Inconjunct Mercury

It may be hard for you to put your feelings into words, because your emotions are so different from your intellect. Of course, there is nothing really strange about your feelings, but that part of your mind is quite different from the reasoning part. In fact it would be very unfortunate if you decided to listen only to your reason, because your intuition and imagination, both of which are more related to the Moon, can be of great assistance to you. They can tell you much about the world that your reasoning mind cannot.

Ibid (page 116)