Frida Kahlo's Astral Chart

Learn about the life of the artist through the stars and her astrological energies in the following article.

Destiny Marked by the Stars

It was written in the stars: her wound would mark her destiny, but it would also make her an artist. On the date of her birthday, we analyze Frida Kahlo's birth chart.

Frida Kahlo was born in Coyoacán, Mexico City, on July 6, 1907 at 8:30 in the morning. Her astrological chart, with most of the planets positioned in the last quadrant - made up of the 10th, 11th and 12th houses - reveals the essence of an ascended soul, perhaps passing through her last life. 'I joyfully await the exit and hope never to return', once pronounced the artist, who had a predominance of earthly energy in her natal chart. Perhaps that is why, towards the end of her days, lived intensely, sometimes with a sense of confinement in her own physical body, she did not want to know anything more of the Earth..

The Brightness of the Sun in Cancer

The surrealist artist's sun shone in the sign of Cancer, her moon in Taurus just above the Midheaven and her ascendant in Leo, like so many other artists in history.

The Blue House

Frida was born and several times in her life she returned to her home: her family's residence in Coyoacán called La Casa Azul, which eventually became her home with Diego Rivera. This is a work of the renowned architect Juan O'Gorman, transformed into the Frida Kahlo Museum by Rivera after the departure of his beloved.

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The Sensitivity and Beauty of Cancer

Coincidentally, the main astrological house in the artist's astrological chart -the 11th house- was also tinged blue by the water of the sign of Cancer. In addition to the sun, Frida had a stellium in this sign, that is, a grouping of three or more planets. Together with the sun, Jupiter, Neptune, the North Node and Lilith reveal the aroma of a sensitive and intuitive woman, close to her family and her ancestors, and her works prove it.

Maternity and Pain

Her stellium in Cancer exposes motherhood as a major theme in her life. And so it was, although not a very fortunate one. The artist lost three pregnancies and in her work Henry Ford Hospital (1932) we can see illustrated the pain that these miscarriages caused her..

Society and Art

The 11th house represents society. The sun over this house makes people identify themselves in a group or society in order to stand out and shine. This was the case of Kahlo. Through her works, the Mexican demonstrates a sense of belonging to the national art scene, which is visualized in the pre-Columbian and colonial elements. However, she also managed to differentiate herself from it, opting for canvas as a support in the period of the great muralists and developing a distinguished surrealist style, which was recognized by André Breton himself, exponent of this artistic movement..

The Wound That Never Healed

Usually, in an astrological chart reading, after analyzing the sun, the moon and ascendant are presented. But 'usual' is not the word that defines Kahlo nor her natal chart. From an astrological point of view, we could say that Frida was a Chironian woman. Her accident marked her whole life and, in her birth chart, Chiron -or the wound that does not heal- tells us about all the aspects of this trauma.

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A Tragic Accident

On September 17, 1925, Frida, at the age of 18, suffered a serious accident in a wooden bus that collided with a streetcar while she was on her way home. An iron rail pierced her pelvis and few bones in her body were free of fractures. She spent a month in the hospital and eight months immobilized in bed at home. Surviving was a true miracle.

Chiron in the Sixth House

In every birth chart, Chiron symbolizes a wound that never ends to heal and, in Frida's case, it was literal, since after her accident, she suffered from chronic pain and health complications until her last day of life. In the artist's natal chart, Chiron was positioned in the sign of Aquarius in the sixth house. While Aquarius is associated with suddenness, as was Kahlo's accident, the sixth house is related to the body and health, which marked the physical nature of her Chironian injury.

An Artist by Destiny

Frida Kahlo had the ascendant in Leo. This is the ascendant of the artist by destiny, of people who come into the world to shine through their creative talents. The facial features of people with this ascendant tend to be prominent and Kahlo's became iconic.

At the same time, her personality tends to adopt a certain amount of theatricality and it is no coincidence that the painter used to portray herself in various outfits, from male costumes to European dresses and typical Mexican costumes, in order to question social roles through her paintings.

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The Unusual Beauty of Taurus

Frida is not only remembered for her virtuosity in art, but also for her unusual beauty. From astrology, we can say that this was due to her taurine moon. The moon symbolizes our emotional refuge. In Taurus, an earth sign ruled by Venus, it speaks to us of a refuge in the beautiful, of multiple artistic gifts and of a connection with matter through the hands.

The Centered and the Eccentric

In Kahlo's birth chart we see a great opposition, that is, multiple red lines that cross her natal chart and trace a path between the 5th and 11th houses. This opposition represents a duality between the centric and the eccentric; between wanting to belong and at the same time being different. This polarity can be visualized in both Frida's life and work.

The Eternal Romance with Diego Rivera

Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, an eternal romance. Mars and Uranus, hand in hand like the work, The Two Fridas, starred in the fifth house in the artist's birth chart, set with Sagittarian and Capricornian energy. Usually, when a woman likes men, the type she is attracted to can be visualized in the positioning of Mars in her birth chart.

The Fifth House of Romances and Creativity

The 5th house represents romances, and Frida and Diego's love, was like an eternal one. They were married twice, with a divorce in between. Their love was free and passionate. It was also long lasting, something typical in the presence of Capricorn. Both had their lovers, even Diego betrayed her with his own sister Cristina, which was difficult for Frida to forgive.

However, what remained alive in this couple was the fire -characteristic of the fifth house- and the passion they shared for art and its philosophies, associated with the sign of Sagittarius.

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Communication through Art

In Frida's birth chart we see Mercury in Leo in the twelfth house, which reveals the essence of a person who communicated through art in periods of isolation, with an unparalleled gift for expressing what her subconscious mind had to say. Kahlo's works remind us of dreams. The fluid communication between her subconscious and her brush made her a surrealist.

Although she fulfilled all the characteristics to be one, she found surrealists superb and denied being part of this trend, assuring that she did not paint her dreams, but her reality.

The Retreat and the Departure

Frida Kahlo died on July 13, 1954. In the last years of her life, she spent much of her time in a hospital due to spinal complications. In 1954 her right leg was amputated, which caused her severe depression along with Diego Rivera's constant infidelities, which led her to attempt suicide several times. The official cause of her death is listed as a pulmonary embolism, although many suspect it was suicide.

While the ascendant in an astrological chart reveals how we come into the world, the descendant -opposite point- speaks of how we leave it. Frida's descendant was in Aquarius, which indicates the awakening of suspicions and conspiracy theories regarding her cause of death. Today Kahlo's ashes lie in an urn in her beloved Casa Azul.