Karl Lagerfeld, born on September the 10th, enjoyed casting a shadow over his year of birth: was it 1933, 1935, or rather, 1938? German medias tried to prove that he was born in 1933 on the basis of his baptismal certificate, for example. However, Karl Lagerfeld argued that he didn't know his own age and stated that his mother changed the year of birth on the register without any given explanation, not even to him.
He thought the truth would never be disclosed, but the stars shall undoubtedly help us to do so.
The general figure seems like a seal: a bowl form stretching from Uranus to Mars, and Saturn as a handle? or a loop? of the chart. Saturn is therefore the most important planet. The mid-point between Uranus and Mars is located at 3°30 Aquarius. On the basis of clockwise direction, Saturn hasn't arrived at this point, so Saturn will rely on the past to reach the modernity of Aquarius. The T square Venus in Libra, providing refinemet and good taste, opposed to Uranus, the originality, and square Pluto, providing a passionate personality trait, seem to describe him very well.
But in which sign is the Moon? Is it trine Jupiter in exil in Virgo? Or at Jupiter in Libra? Who was Karl Lagerfeld's mother?
Karl described his mother as a very beautiful woman with a strong personality, a former lingerie saleswoman, and wearing Haute Couture. She was very educated, spoke several langages, and was also a musician, but was deprived of motherly tenderness.
So, the Moon in Karl Lagerfeld's natal chart is in Gemini, out of bound at 26°21 decline, in conjunction with Chiron, trine Saturn in Aquarius, and trine Jupiter in Libra, and antice Pluto.
KL had interested himself for art since his childhood. As a child, he asked his parents the painting called "The Round Table" by Adolph von Menzel as a gift for Christmas, and his determination to be always well dressed, sound like an ascendant in Taurus, whose master, Venus, is in Libra.
Karl Lagerfeld should be born in the evening between 19:50 PM to 20:55 PM. But, where is Saturn? Which house? House X, master of MC, or house XI?
Young, Karl did not have friends at school. He treated them as slaves. Therefore, we can say that Saturn is in house XI, square Mars in Scorpio, master of VII in the house VII.
The planet anse (French geometric term: an arc segment, from which an object is suspended) Saturn, master of MC, is the highest of the chart, is in domicile in Aquarius, KL will become a pioneer relying on the past and tradition: using the past to reach modernity.
His triple conjunction Sun-Mercury –Neptune, in the house VI, he wants to be useful in working, a lot of inspiration at work, with a big precision, and also, seeking to hide himself, to blur his identity. His Moon, out of bound, gives him a lot of inspiration in several fields. It allows him to reproduce perfectly, to create Fendi clothes for Fendi, and then creating Chanel clothes for Chanel, each time keeping the spirit of the fashion house that he is working for. His opposition Venus-Uranus provides the touch of modernity and elegance.
As a passionate person, he finds his inspiration in books, owning more than 300.000 books, and expresses it in his drawings "To me, drawing is like breathing. One cannot breathe on order, it simply happens".
The december 13th 1949, Karl Lagerfeld joins his mother to a Christian Dior fashion show in Hamburg. She did not like it, but for Karl, it turns to a revelation! Since that day, he knew he wanted to become a fashion designer. In 1953, he arrived in Paris with his mother, and in 1954, a poster in the street draws his attention: the contest organized by the "International Wool Secretariat".
On November the 25th, 1954, in Paris: Day of the contest, and day of new moon in the sky.
Pluto at 26° Lion is in conjunction of south noodles of KL, sextile his Venus and trine his natal Uranus.
the conjunction Uranus-Jupiter at 27° cancer is in his natal Pluto and square his opposition Uranus-Venus.
The new Moon at 2°43 Sagittarius is sextil his natal Jupiter, master of IX, and exactly sextil at the mid-point of the anse (3°30 Aquarius).
Since this moment, Yves Saint Laurent's career will be brilliant (MC in Sagittarius with Jupiter en X in his natal chart), but the career of Karl Lagerfeld (MC saturnien, with Saturn in XI) remains in the shadow and will hold various jobs.
1955: he works for Pierre Balmain, as an assistant, and will stay in the company until 196.
1959: Saturn enters in Capricorn. While working for Balmain, he also becomes Artistic Director of Patou fashion house – Uranus at 3° Leo, at the opposition of the anse mid-point. In that period, he becomes also independant, and create new fashion collections for different couture houses in France and foreign countries.
He became the first freelance man of fashion.
1971: Karl Lagerfeld encounters Jacques de Bascher, his great love, in a club called Le Sept (seven in french) This is the period where Saturn was in Gemini, trine the anse mid-point, and in conjunction of his natal Moon.
In transit, period where Pluto is in his natal Venus, and Saturn in Libra trine of himself.
On January 25th, 1983: 1st Chanel show: Saturn 4° Scorpio, conjunct his DS and square the anse mid-point.
1984: Saturn in Scorpio, square his natal Saturn: he creates his own brand: Karl Lagerfeld, which closed in 1990, when Saturn will be on his MC. In that epoque Karl is more successful when he works for other brands rather than for his own one. It's still too early.
1987: He starts to turn himself towards his new passion: photography. He will later be a great photographer.
1989: Saturn in the sky on his MC: death of Jacques de Bascher.
1999: Saturn in conjunction of his natal Uranus, and then his Ascendant: he opens the library librairie 7L, and a publishing company specialized in art graphics and photos: Studio 7L, at the 7 rue de Lille 75007! The name 7L, oblique reference to the number of the street and the letter L of the name of the street, but also to the letter L of Lagerfeld. In numerology, Lagerfeld =7. It is also the period he began a diet.
Black costum, white collar, ponytail, mittens, white hair, black glasses, refined chains. He becomes mythical. He incorporates his own brand, a global icon, a fashion creator, a photographer, a book seller. He is successful in everything, a "one-man multinational", so he argues.
In Secondary Directions, Saturn is at 10°39 Aquarius, in exact conjunction with his natal Saturn retrograde.
And Uranus is at the exact opposition of his natal Venus.
And his mother? What did she look like? "She had black hair like a raven, so she had very beautiful white hair, which is not my case" This saturnian mother, could she be Karl Lagerfeld's source of inspiration?
Before her death, she destroyed all family pictures, leaving nothing behind her. All this was not relevant, she told her son. Karl planned to destroy all his private belongings in the most discrete way possible before his death, and to have his ashes mixed with the ones of his mother and of Jacques de Bascher in a secrete place.
He died on February the 19th, 2019 at 10.20 am in Neuilly sur Seine, France: a day of full Moon, where Saturn was in his MC and Mars at 3,20° Taurus square the anse (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/anse) mid-point.