Jerry Lee Lewis......"Put on Your High Heel Sneakers"

 

 

 

from Wikipedia:

 

He married Jane Mitcham, his second wife, 23 days before his divorce from his first wife was final.

Lewis' turbulent personal life was hidden from the public until a 1958 British tour, when reporters learned about the twenty-three year old star's third wife, Myra Gale Brown, who also happened to be his thirteen-year-old second cousin twice removed. The publicity caused an uproar and the tour was cancelled after only three concerts

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Drug addiction and personal tragedies

Although he was always a heavy drinker who often combined his sprees with raucous, even violent behavior, he increasingly became plagued by alcohol and drug problems after Myra divorced him in 1970. Tragedy struck when Lewis' 19-year-old son, Jerry Lee Lewis Jr., was killed in a car accident in 1973. During the 1960s, his second son, Steve Allen Lewis, drowned in a swimming pool accident. He also has a daughter, Phoebe Lewis, who is a singer and musician, and for the past few years has been her father's manager. Lewis' own erratic behavior during the 1970s led to his being hospitalized in 1981 after nearly dying from bleeding stomach ulcers. Again addicted to drugs, Lewis checked himself into the Betty Ford Clinic.

While celebrating his 41st birthday in 1976, Lewis accidentally shot and injured his bass player, Butch Owens. According to Lewis' own account, he had been playing around and didn't realize the gun was loaded. Owens himself stated that Lewis was trying to shoot at an empty cola bottle and he was simply hit by the ricochet.

A few weeks later, on November 23, Lewis, still drinking heavily, was involved in another gun-related incident at Elvis Presley's Graceland residence. Lewis had been invited by Presley, but security was unaware of the visit. Lewis, displaying a gun given to him by a local sheriff on the dashboard of his car, was questioned as to his motives for bringing the weapon. He sarcastically replied, "I'm not here to kill Elvis if that's what you're worried about," but the guard remained suspicious.

 

The very public downfall of his cousin, television evangelist Jimmy Swaggart, resulted in more adverse publicity to an already troubled family. Swaggart is also a piano player, as is another cousin, country music star Mickey Gilley. All three listened to the same music when they were growing up and frequented Haney's Big House, the Ferriday club that featured black blues acts. Lewis and Swaggart have had a complex relationship over the years.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Lee_Lewis

 

Note: I'm surprised that they didn't put any mention of the scandalous Bonnie Lee Bakeley(murdered by Robert Blake the actor of the Baretta series).......her husband.

She said Jerry Lee Lewis fathered one of her children, (prior to Blake)

She was a known con artist (scamming with pornography over the internet of photos of herself)

But yet no mention here on Wikipedia of this "relationship" which may or may not have produced a daughter.

Wikipedia's link is mostly admiring and showing him receiving constant tributes & awards........unlike this link:

http://www.nndb.com/people/867/000023798/

Lewis's brother was killed by a drunk driver in front of the family's house when he was eight. His gave his firstborn son a Jeep for his 19th birthday, and the boy was killed when he wrecked it. His second son drowned at three. In 1979, the IRS confiscated many of Lewis's possessions in lieu of payment for back taxes. He was married six times, divorced four times and widowed twice (both times under conditions some saw as suspicious). During and between his marriages, there were countless groupies waiting for Lewis backstage, in the parking lot, or even coming to his house. Among them was Bonny Lee Bakley, who later married actor Robert Blake and met an untimely death.

Lewis accidentally shot his bass player in the chest (he miraculously recovered). He totaled his Rolls Royce and walked away with barely a scratch. Before Presley's death, Lewis was arrested at Graceland, waving a gun and telling a security guard he was there to kill Presley. He once estimated he had spent $500,000 on Demerol while addicted to the painkillers. Lewis often referred to the Beatles as "that English band", and was jealous of the fame accorded Presley. "I was glad [when Presley died]", he once said. "Just another one out of the way. I mean, Elvis this, Elvis that. All we hear is Elvis. What the shit did Elvis do except take dope that I couldn't get ahold of?"

 

His Natal Chart next:

 

 

 His shows were -- and still are -- amazing. He would kick his piano stool out of the way, play the piano while standing up, dancing, making suggestive motions at the audience, flapping his tongue between lyrics. He would bang the piano's keys with his feet, with his fists. Legend has it he once lit a Steinway on fire at the conclusion of "Great Balls of Fire".

Father: Elmo Lewis, Sr. (convicted moonshiner, d. Jul-1979)
Mother: Mamie Ethel Lewis (d. 1970)
Sister: Linda Gail Lewis (singer, b. 18-Jul-1947)
Brother: Elmo Lewis, Jr. (killed by drunk driver)
Sister: Frankie Jean Lewis Terrell (curator, Jerry Lee Lewis Museum, b. 1944)
Wife: Dorothy Barton (preacher's daughter, m. 21-Feb-1952, div. 8-Oct-1953)
Wife: Jane Mitchum (m. 15-Sep-1953, sep. 1957, div. May-1958)
Son: Jerry Lee Lewis, Jr. (b. 15-Sep-1953, d. 13-Nov-1973 car accident)
Son: Ronnie Guy Lewis (drummer, "Suzie Q", b. 16-Mar-1956)
Wife: Myra Gail Brown (Lewis' cousin, b. 1944, m. 12-Dec-1957, sep. Dec-1970, div. May-1971)
Son: Steve Allen Lewis (b. 27-Feb-1959, d. Apr-1962 drowning)
Daughter: Phoebe Allen Lewis (b. 1963)
Wife: Jaren Elizabeth Gunn Pate (m. 1971, div. Dec-1973, d. Jun-1982 drowning)
Wife: Shawn Michelle Stevens (m. 7-Jun-1983, d. 22-Aug-1983 methadone overdose)
Wife: Kerrie McCarver (m. 24-Apr-1984, div. 2004)
Son: Jerry Lee Lewis III (b. 28-Jan-1987)
Girlfriend: Bonny Lee Bakley (groupie)
Daughter: Jeri Lee Lewis (b. 28-Jul-1993, with Bakley)

    High School: (dropped out)

 

Deb I love Jerry Lee Lewis. The movie that depicts his life I have seen to many times to count. And I noticed the thread about Pink, I like her too. Well just checking in, I hope you had a great Thanksgiving!

 

Paula

Hi Paula: Thanks for checking in.......I saw the movie too, only once I think it was on TV one time anyway...

 

His energy was beyond comprehensible...unbelievable and very talented, but he was also quite a mess in some psychological ways when you read the biographies .

 

Anyway, I thought the Chart might reveal a few things.....but only Pluto there in the 6th, may reveal the death of his young son by drowning.

 

I had no idea a wife also died by drowning.......

 

Strange life.

 

Have a Great Christmas to you & your family. & check out the  Elves thread,you might want to make one yourself.

 

Deb.

Mars is Conjunct Antares (the Violent Star)....good for the Military but prone towards inviting violence into the life.

Apparently this fits well, from what I've read of his more violent side....showing up at Elvis house, with a gun, that the Security people needed to call the police to remove him.,and other such episodes.

This (Mars 9Deg.Sagittarius,conj. Antares) would explain this trait in him.

 

I just noticed he has Algol conjunct the I/C.

 

The I/C is the home life , the place of our beginning of life and the place of our ending.....We look at the I/C or 4th house cusp & 4th house to see how the early psychological beginnings were, whether they were upsetting times (Uranus and/or Pluto)....or whether the background was full of love & care (Venus perhaps or Jupiter)

 

In Jerry Lee's case, Uranus in the 3rd House also shows us his manner of communication was unique and different.

Uranus can mean a kind of genius, but in the lower vibrations also depicts upsetness and much turmoil. 

 

The 4th house of early home and mother has Chiron here..the "inner wounding", thus the home life for him will  be full of pain (all the break-ups and the deaths, divorces and separations)certainly must have been felt over the years as very painful experiences in the home (4th)

 

The 6th house, I've not yet grasped as I'd like to.

 

We call it the House of our Health, and the house of Service to Others, but from what I've heard, the 6th house is also a house which can depict sorrow in life.  The Vedics seem to think it's a troublesome place.

Pluto here then, may say more then just about health, as it's between the 5th (lovers & creativity) and the 7th (Marriage & committments)as well as "open enemies"....

 

Yes, I think the 6th has more meaning and symbolizes more here with Pluto.

 

Another "key" to his life and turmoil, would be the South Node in the 6th  house which doesn't show on the wheel, but is always across from the North Node (in this case in the 12th house)

 

To have the South Node near Pluto, is bad. No two ways about it, just as having the SN (conjunct to Saturn), making it two malefics.

Pluto is harsh......SN is also harsh as it is of the past energies, (past lifetimes, and we are supposed to be moving away from the past into the future or the NOW"

 

It's not a close connection , but within 8 degrees, so probably the Pluto in the 6th & the South Node shows us there is kind of a devilment that plagues him....

If you read the biographies posted you see in Wikipeida, he told people when young, that he "plays the devil's music for real".....or rebels against his parent's early church fundamentalism...

 

This is a good depiction of Plutonian energy with South Node .

 

Someone determined to upset the apple cart, someone determined to be bad, just for the sake of being bad.

 

POF (Part of Fortune), 0deg.PISCES - conjunct Saturn.

Again the fortune in the life connected to a Malefic, i.e. Saturn or "Lord of Karma" more appropriately called.

 

to sum up:

 

The difficult life of a driven man known as Jerry Lee Lewis might be seen astrologically by the following driving forces in his psyche:

 

1)ALGOL (a huge force for evil and upset in the life) at the I/C

2)MARS (physical energy) conjunct ANATARES (Military sign)9SAG.

3)Mercury 0Scorpio and the Moon in the Anaretic or 29th Degree of Libra ..........neither position here is optimal for a peaceful and harmonious life

4)JUPITER: 21 deg.Scorpio, (I have this position in Jupiter as well)

and I promise you it lives up to it's reputation.

The reputation for this degree of Scopio, is "A Definite Loss"

 

Now this can be either literal (as it was for me), or symbolic, (as I think it is for Mr. Lewis)

For me, it was the definite loss of a child.,in the 5th house of Children

 

For him, it falls on the 10th house cusp, conjunct the M/C which suggests then, that it is opposing Algol at the I/C

So the "bad effect" is worse then.....quite bad, and the life lived is a testament thus far (all the losses all the divorces and deaths)in one family.(his)

 

His Saturn is Retrograde in the natal......so karmically, he "repeats" the same lessons as before.

Now IF his posiition was 3PISCES intstead of 4Pisces, it would be a dead ringer conjunction with the Fixed Star "Fomalhaut" a Persian royal star known for "making a name which is immortal"

I think this still fits for him, as it did in fact auger an "Immortal Name".......and is only one degree away from the present location of Fomalhaut.

so it's in line.