If You Don’t Know Me is a docu-bio-pic about American soul singer, the late Teddy Pendergrass, who had a tumultuous life. He came to fame as lead singer with Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, went solo and survived through the gangster-ridden Philadelphia music scene, which saw his manager murdered. He was a larger-than-life, virile personality with a glorious voice and then when he was 32 his life shuddered to a halt after a car crash irreparably damaged his spine and left him quadriplegic. A formidably strong mother and his three children dragged him back from suicide and he continued his solo career from a wheelchair with great success.
Born 26 March 1950 in South Carolina, he was an upfront, pro-active Sun Mercury North Node in Aries in an impulsive opposition to Mars in Libra in a volatile square to Uranus (Moon) in Cancer. Sun Mars Uranus would certainly make him reckless. His Venus in friendly Aquarius was in an indulgent conjunction to Jupiter and a confident opposition to Pluto.
There was surprisingly little happening on his chart at the time of the accident – 18 March 1982 (dates being sound) – when I’d have expected to see major Mars collisions. So presumably it would be the tr Saturn Pluto Mars in Libra hitting his midheaven or Ascendant. The only thing I could find was his Secondary Progressed Mars was exactly conjunct his accident-prone Mars/Saturn midpoint – but that’s fairly obscure and not something I’d have looked for in advance.
Mr Pendergrass has natal Pluto exactly midpoint his natal Uranus and Mars. On the 18th March 1982 he had solar arc Ascendant conjunct his natal Pluto therefore midpoint Uranus / Mars. Solar Arc Saturn was conjunct natal Neptune sextile natal Pluto. Solar arc Pluto was square natal Ceres. Solar arc MC formed a yod with natal Mars / IC and natal Vertex. Solar arc Neptune was square to natal Pluto with solar arc Vertex close to forming a T-square with natal Mars and Uranus. So quite a lot going on that day.
Thanks. There’s no birth time so that was a 12 noon chart so MC and Asc aren’t known.
His car accident is easiily seen on a 90 degree tridial for the date of the accident….March 18, 1982.
Accidents are denoted by Mars-Uranus and on this dial he has Solar Arc Mars-Uranus = Solar Arc MH.
Add the asteroid CARR for car and on the 90 degree dial we get:
Natal CARR = Solar Arc Mars-Uranus = Solar Arc CARR = Transiting CARR
Further proof for illustrating the use of asteroids in describing an event.