Nick Cave and Pluto

Have you ever looked at someone and thought, “This person must have a very strong (planet) in the chart.”?

Well, I have, and as my astrology study deepened, this experience grew. Nick Cave is an excellent example.

I noticed Nick Cave when I dived into Peaky Blinders, the TV show that depicts how a Birmingham Gypsy Mob head came to his rise, suffered, and redeemed himself in life. OK, maybe not so much about redemption, although I prefer to think like this to comfort myself.

The theme song of Peaky Blinders was Cave’s Red Right Hand. The lyrics were his signature dark-energized whispering about the wandering of a tall, handsome man while granting people’s wishes but by no means getting the price when finally revealing his red right hand.

This man was the god of death, with many names in various cultures, but in astrology, Pluto. Cave’s artistic talents have been structured with roots connected to Pluto.

In 1996, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds put on the Murder Ballads album and claimed significant commercial success. According to Wikipedia, murder ballad is a music genre that “relays the details of crimes of passion.” Where the Wild Roses Grow, dueted by Cave and Kylie Minogue in this album, is the impeccable manifestation of that idea.

Cave vocalized a man who believed “all the beauty must die” and took the most beautiful woman’s life with a rock. Minogue reminded me of the innocent Persephone when she sang, “He would be my first man, and with a careful hand, he wiped the tears that ran down my face.”

Can you find anything more Pluto and Persephone than this song?

The data I use is from Astro.com. Cave's moon conjuncts Pluto in the 8th house of Virgo. His mercury sits on the other side of the moon, sandwiching the moon with Pluto. The ruler of his 8th house is his Sun in the 9th house. The sun is in conjunction with his Mideheaven and Mars, the classic ruler of Scorpio and the 8th house.

Cave's Venus conjuncts the north node in the 11th house and has settled in Scorpio. In other words, his sun, moon, Mercury, Venus, and Mars are all connected to this Pluto energy.

Cave is gifted with the Plutonian sensitivity to gauge the world of sexuality, passion, fear, and death. The important thing is that he is willing to dive deep and bring these raw feelings up to the surface. These poetic but substantial artworks serve the world alongside his transformation. While Cave has had his share of ups and downs, he never stopped shapeshifting, which is just Plutonianly inspiring.

*I wrote this piece a day before Cave’s birthday- an utter coincidence.