A discussion of the Inner and Outer Charts for Jimi Hendrix follows below. This is from my book where the focus is on the Cradle Figure, but there is some focus on an overview of his charts. Here are the Inner and Outer Charts:
Inner Chart:
Outer Chart:
Sadly, Jimi Hendrix, as with Janis Joplin, did not live long enough to figure out how to resolve his personal issues and conflicts so to be able to understand and rise above his own self-undoing. He was able to create and demonstrate his unique musical talents. He was unique in his lyrics and style, both musical and with clothes. Widely recognized as one of the most creative and influential musicians of the 20th century, he pioneered the explosive possibilities of the electric guitar. Hendrix’s innovative style of combining fuzz, feedback and controlled distortion created a new musical form. Because he was unable to read music, it is nothing short of remarkable that his meteoric rise in music took place in just four short years.
The Cradle aspect figure consists of the Sun/Mercury/Venus Stellium opposite Uranus (conjunct to Saturn) in the Existence 6th/12th Axis in the mentally and physically expressive signs of Gemini & Sagittarius. The opposition makes trines and sextiles to the two points with all blue aspects, one holding Moon/Jupiter and the other Neptune. We have all three Ego planets residing in this aspect figure and eight of the ten planets. Pluto ties into the figure with a trine and sextile. Only Mars, which is unaspected, is not directly involved. That unaspected Mars showed itself very strongly, however, both in his energized creation and rendition of music and in his reactions to drugs and alcohol.
The opposition can create tension and conflict. Jimi saw himself as unique with Uranus in Gemini in the 6th house. He also sought originality in his use of his hands and mind creating unusual types of sound and music. Those Gemini planets are ruled by Mercury, which opposes them. That Mercury is conjunct the Sun. The Sun Stellium in Sagittarius in the 12th house is a very creative and skillful person who can use time in isolation (in his private world) to envision and construct beautifully aesthetic music that describes his mental, emotional and physical sense of self in its creative manifestation. It is also one who can want to hide his fiery nature and Jimi grew up in a tough situation which, to his credit, he did not let effect his outer world. He did, however have bottled up tension, which came out when he was drinking or using drugs, but otherwise he was able to utilize the stability offered by the structure and demonstrate the ample talents and creative abilities he possessed with his Neptune and Moon/Jupiter placements. The personal conflicts caused by his early life experiences, and the attempt to rise above his early negative life, show the focus of the upper hemisphere. He wanted to be free, interested primarily in finding his place in his professional outer life. He also found comfort in drugs and alcohol as forms of escape. The two blue only corners Neptune & Moon/Jupiter are points of enjoyment, talent and substance. Both the use of drugs and alcohol and his talent and creativity are possible outlets for these planets in this situation. He was able to harness the amplified emotional need to express his feelings as shown by Moon at home in Cancer in the 8th house of deep emotional substance made bigger by the presence of Jupiter. And Neptune offered additional sensitivity and heightened perception to his creative expression.
The blue aspected planets show clearly in his music specifically, offering talent and substance to the creative expression of his mental sense of self (Sun) combined with the structure of his creativity (Saturn). This shows his enjoyment and willingness to live within the upper hemisphere individuality that he created. Neptune is clearly bringing inspiration and imagination into his work and the Moon, as dispositor of the chart, conjunct expansive Jupiter, also carried strong emotional content into the work. He seemed to find either resolution of existence on the work level or acceptance of the music as an escape. I think that he found connection to the Collective with his music, finding resolution with that part of the Cradle experience.
As is always a possibility with the Cradle in the upper hemisphere, especially with no access points to the empty hemisphere, he was not grounded and had no roots. I was not able to find bio on how he actually dealt with the public and what his comfort level might have been on a day-to-day basis but, his comfort would be in his individuality and the public person and career thus created, not in the arms of the realities found outside that Cradle. He really had no family, no place to call home. On the personal level of existence, therefore, it seems that the overly emotional Moon would succumb to the Mars ruled 4th house’s unresolved anger and disappointment, the lack of connection to any roots or family history. In this case Neptune only inflamed the sense of negative self-images when drugs were involved. That unaspected Mars was a powerhouse when being used positively but explosive when untamed negatively.
He had a learning triangle in his Outer Chart with the AC tied to Neptune and the Moon which shows how he was asked to learn how to change his personal image or presentation in order to present to the world his reigning emotional needs amplified by his Neptunian mystic and glamor. He was comfortable with these changes.
Some quotes that fit what is discussed above are:
From “Biography.com: He had a difficult childhood, sometimes living in the care of relatives or acquaintances. His mother, Lucille, was only 17 years old when Hendrix was born. She had a stormy relationship with his father, Al, and eventually left the family after the couple had two more children together, sons Leon and Joseph. Hendrix would only see his mother sporadically before her death in 1958. In many ways, music became a sanctuary for Hendrix.From Wikipedia: After returning from service, Al (his father) reunited with Lucille, but his inability to find steady work left the family impoverished. They both struggled with alcohol, and often fought when intoxicated. The violence sometimes drove Hendrix to withdraw and hide in a closet in their home. A shy and sensitive boy, he was deeply affected by his life experiences. When Hendrix drank to excess or mixed drugs with alcohol, often he became angry and violent. His friend Herbie Worthington said Hendrix “simply turned into a bastard” when he drank. According to friend Sharon Lawrence, liquor “set off a bottled-up anger, a destructive fury he almost never displayed otherwise”.