Each generation has a particular mark that is represented by the zodiac sign of the outer planets of Neptune and Pluto. Baby Boomers were the generation that paired a Libra Neptune with a Leo Pluto. Both planets rule the water zodiac signs. They represent karma from a past age.
A Libra Neptune is drifting on a sea of love. The Neptunian oceanic all-mother embraces the native and an ancient fantasy of love, justice and marriage animates the soul. The fly in the ointment is that shortcomings of love aren’t in the fantasy. Reality meets fantasy and the shipwreck occurs. Babyboomers weren’t known for their long lasting, faithful marriages. The nasty, contested divorce combined all the themes in a Neptunian shipwreck. Pluto represents the karma of generational blessings and curses. Pluto is often the grandmother/grandfather but also the grandchild. It represents a potent weapon in the arsenal of the generation. The Libra Pluto generation which could be called marriage destruction is instead known for its lengthy marriages. Libra Plutos saw the destruction of marriage when their parents and friends’ parents went through numerous divorces but lived out the rebirth of marriage. The Leo Pluto generation was known for its amazing creativity and individual expression. The seminal year of 1984 represented a peak in the music and the entire age had innumerable famous artists, actors, writers and musicians.
Kevin Costner is a famous actor of the Baby Boomer generation. He starred in various films but his most famous roles are about the American West. He is attracted to Americana. He also has two rancorous divorces. At a time when most elite families guard their wealth and privacy by using private judges and settling divorces completely out of the public eye, Kevin Costner managed to have a fairly nasty divorce play out in 2023 decades after most Boomers had completed their last public divorce shipwreck.
Kevin Costner and his second wife, Christine Baumgartner, had some chance meetings before they met again and pursued a relationship. There is a 19 year age gap between them. He dated her for years before she broke up with him because she wanted to have children. It is reported that they had numerous misses before they were able to connect. Christine’s nodal path is tied into Costners private and public life. Her nodal path rulers are conjunct and trine to Costner’s Libra Neptune. His Sun-Neptune square focus onto his Sagittarius Venus creating a reverse Thor’s Hammer. This is a strong astrological tool that causes events to happen.
As she grew older she advanced down her nodal path and it led directly to Costner’s private life represented by his Imum Coeli. He was the Gemini Saturn conjunct her south node. His storytelling and career, his Midheaven, were the weight keeping her from growing. Her retrograde Mercury and Jupiter are in Aquarius. The divorce triggered her to attempt to consume his wealth, his Sagittarius Ceres and his home, Imum Coeli. Astrology can be very literal. Her own wealth, Aquarius Ceres, is conjunct his Aquarius Mercury. Her wealth was her marriage. While she was married to him, she was the Aquarius Juno.
They were married in Aspen Colorado on his ranch. The chart most likely opened in Capricorn with a Sun in Libra, a Cancer Saturn, and probable Aquarius Moon. Kevin Costner married in the expectation of fathering a family, Cancer Saturn, while his wife had her eye on independence, Aquarius Moon. The tightest aspect between their two charts is his Sagittarius Ceres conjunct her north node by 3 minutes. The next closest is their Mars sextile Mars by 6 minutes. That is echoed in the wedding chart which placed the marriage Virgo Ceres conjunct Costner’s Ascendant. The marriage Virgo Ceres is square Costner’s Sagittarius Ceres.
The nodes represent the place to which you are accumulating raw material, north node, and the place you are producing goods, south node. She was uniquely positioned to present herself as his Libra Neptune fantasy. She wanted children and had the goods with regard to storytelling. Gemini Saturn. Gemini south node. She also had some talent at accumulating new raw material. Her nodal rulers worked together to spin his fantasy. Grand Air Trine between her Gemini Saturn, her Aquarius Mercury-Jupiter conjunction and his Libra Neptune. Since Ceres is so important to her story, she may be a Taurus Ascendant or have a strong second house.
For almost twenty years, the marriage bargain held. Ultimately, Ceres is about your own personal wealth. Although you may allow another use of your wealth it is yours alone. That is the truth Christine learned when she attempted to gain some of that wealth. It was his and remained his. She had grown his family by three more children and added to his wealth. But she terminated her access to it once she ended the marriage bargain. Her own Aquarius Ceres has been increased by his logical mind and storytelling, his Aquarius Mercury. She may yet find she has received more than she expected.