from Nirvana’s seminal album Kurt Cobain’s song “Heart-Shaped Box” is about him being entranced by Love’s vagina during the start of his star-crossed relationship. The female reproductive organs are shaped like a heart if one stands back and squints, and “box” is popular terminology for the area, which a youngster I once babysat for also termed “tater.” However, after listening to Amber Mark’s lovely music,
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What was inside Kurt’s heart-shaped box, which Courtney had given him?
Kurt Cobain developed a plastic-fetus collage that appears on the back cover of In Utero. As a result, the CD was almost banned at K-Mart and Wal-Mart. The fact that the album included a song called “Rape Me” was a stronger justification for Wal-decision Mart’s to remove it. However, Wal-Mart did not ban the song because Kurt Cobain agreed to provide them with a version that was slightly altered on the exterior, with the song “Rape Me” listed as “Waif Me,” and the image on the back being a zoom-in of one small part of the original back cover, making the image of plastic fetuses difficult to tell. According to bassist Krist Novoselic, he told Kurt it wasn’t worth it to pander to Wal-Mart like that, and Kurt answered by saying that Wal-Mart was the only store he could go to as a youngster, and he didn’t want any young fans to be unable to buy their record as a result.
What personality type did Kurt Cobain have?
Kurt, being an INFP, is quiet, idealistic, and adaptable. Kurt prefers to be alone or in small groups, and he is likely to prefer listening to and contemplating while in debates.
Kurt Cobain was a Capricorn, right?
Kurt Cobain had barely turned 27 when he blew his brains out and ‘joined that stupid club,’ as his mother described it. Kurt’s mother may have been referring to the suicide club (to which two of Kurt’s uncles previously belonged), but she could also have been referring to the 27-member club, which includes numerous well-known rock fatalities. When they died, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, and Brian Jones were all 27 years old, and Gram Parsons was only a few weeks away from turning 27.
In astrology, the age of 27 marks the arrival of several significant astrological aspects (*1), which is soon followed by the equally tough period around 29 known as the ‘Saturn Return,’ after which both Gwen Stifani and Goldie have titled albums.
Saturn, the planet of maturity and tough lessons, was confronting Cobain on his 27th birthday, making it extra uncomfortable for him (*2). Kurt had always struggled to cope with Saturn’s transits, which had always coincided with the most difficult times in his life: when his parents divorced (*3), when he was sent to live with his father (*4), and when he was offloaded onto his grandparents (*5) and became a teenage stoner at the age of 14.
Cobain’s incapacity to deal with life’s setbacks is reflected in his horoscope, which defines him as a sensitive man. Cobain was born with his Sun and three other planets in the impressionable, lyrical sign of Pisces, but his birth chart also highlighted the other two water signs, Cancer and Scorpio. Water is the element of emotion and receptivity, and an individual with eight of astrology’s 10 planets in water signs is easily overwhelmed.
It’s a brilliant planetary signature, but it’s also really delicate; Kurt should have been put to a conservatory at the age of seven to be fostered and preserved. Instead, he was given ritanol as a child for being hyperactive, shuffled between parents who didn’t understand or care about him, and presented with trailer park culture in a distant logging town.
From the famous swimming baby on the Teen Spirit cover to imagery like ‘aqua seafoam humiliation,’ Kurt’s horoscope’s water theme was dramatically played out in Nirvana’s music. Kurt’s triangle of water planets made him a prisoner of his own emotions, as he described it on In Utero, “trapped inside a heart-shaped box.” It’s no wonder that Kurt’s life partner, Courtney Love, was born with both the Sun and Moon in the sign of Cancer, matching Kurt’s own Moon in the sign of Cancer theirs was a match made in heaven.
Kurt’s horoscope, on the other hand, was not without merit. The Moon, which represents emotions and the subconscious, is in Cancer, its own sign. This sign also regulates the stomach, and it’s worth noting that Kurt suffered from chronic stomach pain, claiming that he sang “from the stomach.” Mars, the planet of passion, ego, and lust, is in Scorpio, its own sign. However, keep in mind that Mars is the sign of the warrior (Kurt loved guns) and Scorpio is the sign of self-destruction. (*6)
The two slow-moving planets Uranus and Pluto are also highlighted in the chart. These planets, which are far out in the solar system and orbit the Sun in 84 and 248 years, only collide once every 120 years. Sparks fly when they do. The mid-Sixties were a period of turmoil, with a rebellious spirit in the air (just as it had been the last time these two planets met, in 1850). This fiery mix, which ran from 1962 to 1968 and coincided with the birth of psychedelic (when the first group called Nirvana was formed! ), was the catalyst for psychedelia.
It was as if Kurt had to play out the energies of this planetary combination in his own personality because it was just on the horizon at the time of his birth (the all-important’ascendant’). In consequence, he became a figurehead for his generation (the so-called’Generation X’), carrying what Carl Jung referred to as ‘the collective.’ It was a heavy burden to bear, and one with which he struggled, even away from his personal issues.
Kurt Cobain’s final months were marked by a series of challenging planetary patterns. As previously said, the most important was Saturn crossing over his Pisces Sun, while Mars, the planet of impulse and harm, was directly opposing his Pluto/Uranus combination at the time he shot himself in the head.
Does this imply that his death was a result of fate? Not in the least. Astrology (at least, western astrology) emphasizes free will while predicting the planetary ‘weather’ we might expect in our lives. Kurt made a series of poor decisions in the final days and weeks of his life, including dropping out of rehab, returning to his old drug associates in Seattle, and playing with guns. He was the one who made the decisions.
Kurt’s suicide letter alluded to some of the themes in his horoscope, particularly the sensation of being carried away and unable to define boundaries: ‘I can’t seem to get past my irritation, guilt, and empathy for everyone… I simply love people too much, to the point where it makes me sick to my stomach. ‘Jesus guy, the sorrowful, sensitive, unappreciative Pisces!’
*1. At 27, the ‘progressed lunar return’ represents emotional maturity. Another sign of emotional maturity is when the planet Neptune completes one-third of its orbit around the horoscope.
*3 Between August 1974, transiting Saturn conjuncts the natal Moon, and again in February and April 1975.
*6 Natal Mars is exactly trine natal Sun, evoking an unnerving symbol of a bullet (Mars) to the skull (Sun).