Davy Crockett (August 17, 1786 – March 6, 1836)

American myth-making was at its finest when the legend of Davy Crockett was written. The coonskin hat was a nice touch, especially since Walt Disney focused us on that feature. We all wanted our parents to buy us one. But was he all that the stories made him out to be? I wonder.

His birth chart is on several astrology sites, but they all have the same birth time, 1:30 pm, although this is unverified. Here’s what it looks like:

That Saturn/Pluto conjunction in his early childhood, as suggested by the video, may be where his headstrong nature came from. At the tender age of 12, Crockett was indentured out to work as a cowboy. That will, more-or-less, be represented by Jupiter in Taurus. But by 25 (the position of the Moon in the 7th House) he had become popular probably from his self-promotion as a frontiersman.

This is my way of advising you that his birth time may be ‘close enough for jazz’, as they say.

The Uranus in Cancer position of the 8th House (of Death) may be the hint that his death was quick.

A lot of men died on the day that Santa Anna defeated the American defenders of The Alamo in 1836. Davy Crockett was amongst them. Did he die in hand=to=hand combat, or was he executed after surrender? We may never know, but the battle’s end chart suggests in battle, since Pluto is conjunct the event Ascendant in Aries. There is one inconjunct linking Jupiter and Neptune, with only 1° difference.

Jupiter Inconjunct Neptune

You are probably an idealist with very vivid dreams about how you want your life to be, and at certain times of your life you will follow those dreams with all your energy. But sometimes these idealistic dreams will let you down, because you are not concerned enough with what is real and possible.

Robert Hand Planets in Youth (1977) page 269

Whatever happened, Davy Crockett’s legend was born and he lives on in our collective memory forever.

He’s still King of the Wild Frontier.