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Rosie O'Donnell
achieved fame as an actress, comedienne and talk show host, but “the lights
were turned on” in her life when she adopted her son Parker. Rosie’s unabashed
joy in motherhood would lead her to adopt two more infants, welcome a
three-year-old foster child into her growing family and become the nation’s
most visible adoption advocate.
The face
of adoption is changing. Once secretive and private, adoption is out of
the closet, in the news, on the Internet and fashionable. Though Calista
Flockhart’s recent plunge into single motherhood and the sad
plight of the globe trotting twins have once again brought adoption into
our everyday conversations, it is Rosie O’Donnell who has kept it there
by advocating on her daily talk show and facilitating the adoption process
through her non-profit organization, Rosie’s Adoptions.
Resurrecting
the Grandeur of a Full Moon
 The
astrological Moon is representative of emotions, mother, family
and feelings about children. Rosie was born on the day of a Full Moon
in Libra.* Full Moon children often see their mother as magical,
hypnotic and bigger than life. As adults, their mother, the maternal instinct
and children have a powerful pull on their life’s force. Rosie lost her
mother to pancreatic and liver cancer when she was ten, and with her passing
young Rosie was separated from her emotional foundation. Now an adult,
Rosie freely admits, “I was shut off emotionally and spiritually, and
he (Parker) changed my existence.”
Because Rosie’s
Moon is most likely in Libra, the traditional sign of marriage, it would
seem that she might have preferred partnership and a more conventional
family, except for the fact that her Venus, the feminine planet of love
and relationship, is in marriage-shy Aries. This dichotomy reveals that
it may have been Rosie’s natural uncertainty about maturity and commitment
that led her to embrace the unconventionality of a single parent choice.
However, with the adoption of her own children and her involvement with
others, Rosie seems to have found an enlightened way to resurrect her
Full Moon’s powerful maternal instincts without sacrificing the singular
independence of her Sun and Venus in Aries.
Rosie’s
Enterprising and Empathetic Initiative
With her
Sun in the no-holds-barred fire sign of Aries, Rosie’s life revolves around
an independent, high spirited, straight-forward and unapologetic “I’m
here and will do it all right now” philosophy. Clearly, her enthusiastic
support and all-out initiative on behalf of adoption bear the mark of
her Aries Sun, but it is Mars, ruler and planet most associated with Aries,
that supports and defines her Aries initiatives.
Rosie has
Mars, planet of action, conjunct Mercury, planet of communication, in
Pisces, the boundless sign of empathy and compassion. This partnership
suggests that Rosie is an empathetic creature who feels and understands
the loneliness of a motherless child, and her natural instinct is to freely
voice and act on these empathetic feelings. Additionally, expansive
Jupiter in socially idealistic Aquarius is also conjunct Rosie’s Mars. Jupiter’s
involvement significantly amps up the volume and increases the scope of
Rosie’s sympathetic leanings.
Five
Years, Three Adoptions, One Foster Child and More
From award-winning
talk show host to single mother of four, promotion of her favorite charities,
creation of Rosie’s Adoptions, conception and birth of her new monthly
magazine Rosie and her recent stint in the Broadway hit
Seussical the Musical, this Aries sprinter has covered a
great deal of ground in a short period of time. Although the essence of
an Aries Sun is to do it now, its penchant to try to do everything all
at once can often overwhelm the individual’s physical ability to finish
what they start or to hang on for the long haul. This is exaggerated in
Rosie because with her Mars in limitless Pisces sharing Jupiter’s often-inflated
self-confidence, Rosie is predisposed to take on more than she can handle
and to have difficulty knowing when enough is enough.
However,
Rosie is entering a period of time that may prove to be both exhausting
and frustrating. During the next year (June 2001 through March 2002),
as transiting Saturn, the planet of work and responsibility, makes a difficult
90-degree square to Rosie’s Mars and Mercury in Pisces, representing her
seemingly boundless physical and mental energy respectively, Rosie’s normal
pace of action will slow down and her numerous responsibilities could
begin to cause conflict in her life.
Goodbye
Daily Grind
Although
Rosie achieved clout by bringing her friendly banter into American homes
and has successfully used her daily talk show as a platform to further
the causes that are closest to her heart, her current contract expires
in 2002, and she has already said she will leave the show and do adoptions
full time. This seems an appropriate action for an enterprising Aries
mom who freely admits, “I get a rush when I have a baby who’s hard to
place and I find a family that’s overjoyed with the child. It’s definitely
more fulfilling (than the talk show).”
Notes
*Rosie
was born March 21, 1962 in Commack, New York. The Moon entered Libra
at 2:27 am EST and moved to oppose the Sun in Aries at 3:40 am EST. Although
the exact degree of the Moon cannot be determined without the time of birth, it is certain Rosie was born on the day of a Full Moon in Libra.
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