Four days after the Liberation of Paris on August 25, 1944, American and free French army units paraded down the Champs Élysées. Seventeen days earlier, Micheline Duquennoy and her friend Huguette “Diane” Ferré lied to Diane’s mother about where they were going and abandoning Diane’s child they went to the Nouvel Hotel on Avenue du Bel Air to board a bus taking them to Nancy. The women were collaborators and supporters of Nazi Germany. Micheline was married to a French collaborator who was fighting for Germany but that did not stop her sleeping with a German officer. Micheline didn’t resist she collaborated. Resistance is Saturn. Micheline told her father she wanted the Germans to shoot him as a member of the resistance. Father is Saturn. Micheline was rebelling against Saturn.
From Nancy, she went to Hof, Germany just ahead of the American liberation of Nancy. She then fled to Genoa, Italy and after an affair with an English officer had a son. She then moved and married again. Moved and married a third time. Flouting tradition, she didn’t divorce any of the men. Tradition is Saturn.
Finally, she ran to Australia to the antipode of the world in a sense. Far, far away. The land of Oz. Then abandoning her defense of fascism, her rebellion against authority, according to her daughter she became a recluse who was afraid to get a parking ticket. She died keeping her secret from everyone. When asked, she denied her children the answers and told them it was her business. Both denial and business are Saturn. Something had shifted. Flipping the world over is one way to change your astrology. From running to embracing Saturn. She ran so far she came back around the other side. Sagittarius Sun.
From the basic story, a clear karmic picture begins to form. Although I have not written about it before. The World War II declaration charts show Germany was the Leo Ceres, the United Kingdom was the Leo Pluto and France was the retrograde Taurus Saturn. Micheline is rebelling against Saturn. Resistance. Father. Tradition. And France. Her Aquarius Descendant is ruled by the retrograde Pisces Uranus conjunct Mars in the eighth house.
Pisces is never a sign to start anything under. The retrograde Pisces Uranus conjunct Mars in the eighth. Past, failed rebel soldier in the graveyard or had she buried a soldier in a secret place? Was Micheline a former rebel returned to replay the story again? She was angry at her father and there at the foundation of her chart is a Scorpio Saturn. The foundation of her life was controlling authority. She clearly associated this planet with her father. She projected those expectations on her father and France.
She was a Sagittarius Sun wanting freedom of movement. Sagittarius has the symbol of the arrow wielding centaur. Following the arrow, it is not about the destination but about the journey. Nazi Germany, as the Aries Ceres, appealed to her ideals (trine to Neptune, her ideals) and animated her beliefs (located in her ninth house of religion and belief). The Aries Chiron created a fire Grand Trine in her chart. Her thoughts, her words and thinking and her deep inner wound created the Grand Trine. This was a powerful raging fire that was consuming all in front of her. The fire zodiac signs are about intiation, intiative, and motion. Her movement would be easy but ultimately continue to deal the wound that drove her to run to the end of the earth.
If you go far enough you change your chart. The third house is your hometown. The ninth foreign places. Once you make a foreign place your hometown, you flip the chart. In Australia far from France, she found her chart flipped. The Scorpio Saturn once her foundation was now on her Midheaven. The most public part of the sky. The peak where all can see what is there. It was her secret control, her controlling authority out in the public square for all to see. It was never her father Marcel or France that she was running from, it was herself.
Sagittarius, ruled by Jupiter, is the sign that exposes this. Wherever you go, there you are. Her rebellion had died but she had not released it. From what we know, she never did. This is a difficult karma. Accepting the answer is no. Running to Oz, her Uranus-Mars became the burial of her rebellion and anger in a trove of secrets.