Astrology and Serena Williams
Blog Monday August 31, Sun in Virgo, Moon in Capricorn
Astrologers read news stories with a different perspective than the rest of the world.
Where everybody else sees only the events and the figures involved, we see the signature of one particular planet.
In the fascinating story of Serena Williams’ comeback – after an almighty freefall from the tennis stratosphere to being ranked 140th in the world – it’s all about Pluto, the planet of truth, transformation – and comebacks.
Most are familiar with the Williams sisters’ amazing saga of being raised by parents who weren’t just encouraging, but believed tennis was the route out of South Los Angeles’ grim and deadly ghetto, of Compton.
Their power, skills at their sport and accompanying habit of winning Grand Slam prizes and netting the accompanying millions, plus their glamour and zest for life endeared them not just to tennis enthusiasts, but to the world.
This alone is a Pluto tale, for if ever any parents transformed the destiny of their offspring, it’s Mr & Mrs Williams.
Then Pluto appeared in their life in its darker guise, as the deity of death. On September 14, 2003, Yetunde Price, the girls’ elder sister, who also acted at their assistant, was killed by a drive-by shooting in Compton.
Serena pretended she was coping.
But Pluto’s about truth the results of those unacknowledged feelings emerged and gradually she withdrew, from tennis, from the world. She began comfort eating, devouring her favorite donuts.
While Venus Willams, her older sister and frequent tennis rival, found other ways of dealing with the blow, Serena had to make a voyage into Pluto’s realm, the mythic Hades, when death is faced and – in her case – defeated.
It took time, therapy and a visit to Africa’s slave trading sites (also symbolised by Pluto) for Serena to find her way back. And when she did, she’d experienced the inner and outer transformation that is Pluto’s signature.
This creates a fearlessness.
And will probably also mean those tennis fans watching her at the US Open over the coming weeks will notice something different.
Very different.
Serena Williams is no longer merely a tennis champion.
She’s now a somebody who’s faced one life’s worst traumas, has taken the journey dealing with such dark challenges requires and returned to life healed – and reborn.
Shelley von Strunckel
PS for those interested in planetary side of this, Serena is a Libra, with five planets in that sign, including Pluto. At present Pluto is forming a challenging aspect, an astrological square, to her Sun.
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