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The Dixie
Chicks, country music’s sassy, rockin’ breakout trio, are flying high
on gold and platinum success and numerous awards. Called “the badass queen
pins of country,” by Rolling Stone, they are the freshest
thing to ever turn the country music industry on its ear. Beautiful, independent
and irreverent, with a penchant for shaking up the status quo, The Chicks
do things their way. Astrology gives us clues about their tight friendship,
awesome talent and phenomenal popularity.
Flying
High
Natalie Maines,
Martie Seidel and Emily Robison, two Sun sign Libras and a Leo, respectively,
are a combination of fire and air at its best. With multiple positive
and energizing connections between planets in the fire and air signs reverberating
between their astrological charts, they are inseparable, exuberant partners
and are pure creative inspiration to each other. The extremely strong,
shared Libra-Venus energy lends itself naturally to the beautiful signature
harmonies of the group. The inferno of energy they expend in television
appearances, photo shoots, interviews, pet causes like The World Wildlife
Fund and their own web site—not to mention recording and touring—is exuberant
and boundless.
It’s
A Chick Thing
Two of the
women, Natalie and Martie, were born when Uranus, the ruler of rebels
and the unexpected, was very close to the Sun in airy Libra. The Chicks
tattoo little chicken tracks on their feet for each number one single,
turned an Irish ditty into a country hit and wouldn’t be caught dead looking
like Dolly Parton or Tammy Wynette. They've been teased about their funky
wardrobe and praised for their creative bravery. In an industry where
female vocalists who play their own instruments are pretty rare, talented
Martie and Emily wouldn’t think of trusting someone else with their musical
vision, and as good as they are, nobody’s arguing with them. Other country
music stars like Shania Twain have bucked tradition and been sharply criticized
for it, but old school Nashville indulges the intrepid Chicks like mischievous,
brilliant children, as entertained and bemused by their surprising approach
as the rest of their fans.
Water
Magic
The original
songs they write and the work they select from other songwriters all reflect
their focus on relationships, individuality and personal strength. Even
their album titles, Wide Open Spaces and Fly,
refer to the space and freedom so integral to the happiness of air and
fire signs; but it may very well be the water element in their charts
that bonds them together and gives them their superstar edge.
In their
deepest and most personal perception and expression, the women share the
creative, intuitive signature of the water element. The Dixie Chicks are
inspired and compelled by the tides of their emotions and the all-consuming
need to understand and communicate the truth about the human heart. The
three women are so emotionally and mentally in tune with each other that
their experiences likely border on the psychic; the energies they use
to relate to each other flow and wind around them like their flawless
harmonies.
Deep
in the Heart
In Natalie’s extraordinary chart, we find her security and fears (Saturn),
her opportunities and philosophical leanings (Jupiter) and her style of
communication and thinking (Mercury) all in intuitive, emotional, complimentary
water signs (a wide grand water trine). Her Mercury in Scorpio is particularly
highlighted in her work with her musical partners, and reveals itself
in her powerful, emotional singing, her chin-out, “Don’t Mess With Me”
attitude and her fearless forays into the very heart of love and relationships.
She has a penetrating, investigative mind, a talent for pulling the deeper
meaning out of her experiences and makes decisions based on “gut” feelings.
This
ties her to sisters Martie and Emily in deep and profound ways. Though
the sisters are connected in other ways—a Virgoan work ethic and drive
for musical perfection, among others—twin Scorpio Moons give the siblings
an intense, probing emotional make-up. (Although we do not have an exact
time of birth for the sisters, and therefore it is difficult to tell precisely
where the Moon is, it is likely that they both have Scorpio Moons.) Plumbing
the depths of their souls is something they revel in and simply must do.
The title
track to their latest album, Fly, is a frank, unsentimental
confrontation of the need to let go—a bare-boned, painful lesson we all
learn eventually. In true Scorpio style, This Texas trio is not afraid
to touch where it hurts, and Natalie’s Mercury is here to tell us all
about it. Even the cheeky, controversial “Goodbye Earle,” songwriter Dennis
Linde’s story about two girlfriends murdering an abusive husband, is classically
Scorpionic. Gathering plenty of flack for the seemingly pro-violence lyrics
in that song (some radio stations have refused to play it), the Chicks
insist that they recorded it all in fun; but one can’t help believing
that their attraction to the song goes a little deeper: Printed inside
the Fly CD insert at the end of the lyrics is the statement,
“The Dixie Chicks do not advocate premeditated murder, but love getting
even.”
Whether they’re
weaving pure, aching harmony or belting out raw, go-to-hell country blues,
The Dixie Chicks speak to our hearts. The nature of the receptive, compassionate
water element naturally taps into something collective in our souls, expressing
so much that seems unexpressible, and endearing them to millions. During
their summer North American tour, conditions couldn’t be more favorable
for the Chicks; their future is wide open and the audience is ready to
“Loosen Up Those Chains And Dance.”
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