Natal 12th house moon ruling the 4th house of home, family, roots.
Moon squares venus in the 2nd (finances) of the 4th, opposing saturn. Poverty.
“As a child her family was very poor.
The family was impoverished and lived in a three-bedroom cold-water flat at Blekingegatan No. 32. They raised their three children in a working-class district regarded as the city’s slum. Garbo later recalled:
It was eternally grey—those long winter’s nights. My father would be sitting in a corner, scribbling figures on a newspaper. On the other side of the room, my mother is repairing ragged old clothes, sighing. We children would be talking in very low voices, or just sitting silently. We were filled with anxiety, as if there were danger in the air. Such evenings are unforgettable for a sensitive girl, but also for a girl like me. Where we lived, all the houses and apartments looked alike, their ugliness matched by everything surrounding us.
Natal moon rules the 3rd of early learning, Neptune in the 3rd.
“Garbo was a shy daydreamer as a child…She disliked school and preferred to play alone”
Natal 7th house ruler jupiter conjunct ascendent. Literally speaking through the partner. Mars in 7th sextile creative venus in the 5th, and sextile saturn in 11th of friends.
She starred in three silent films with the leading man John Gilbert About their first movie, Flesh and the Devil (1926), silent film expert Kevin Brownlow states that “she gave a more erotic performance than Hollywood had ever seen.”Their on-screen chemistry soon translated into an off-camera romance, and by the end of the production, they began living together. The film also marked a turning point in Garbo’s career. Vieira wrote: “Audiences were mesmerized by her beauty and titillated by her love scenes with Gilbert. She was a sensation.”
Ascendent ruler mercury in the 5th of creative expression, square the ascendent.
Film historian and critic David Denby argues that Garbo introduced a subtlety of expression to the art of silent acting and that its effect on audiences cannot be exaggerated. She “lowers her head to look calculating or flutters her lips,” he says. “Her face darkens with a slight tightening around the eyes and mouth; she registers a passing idea with a contraction of her brows or a drooping of her lids. Worlds turned on her movements.”
She prohibited visitors—including the studio brass—from her sets and demanded that black flats or screens surround her to prevent extras and technicians from watching her. When asked about these eccentric requirements, she said: “If I am by myself, my face will do things I cannot do with it otherwise.”
Sun in 6th of work exactly squares the 2nd cusp of earnings, intercepted scorpio in 6th co-ruled by pluto near the 2nd cusp.
Jupiter, ruler of 8th of sexual expression conjunct ascendent, square ascendent ruler mercury in 5th of love affairs.
in Queen Christina (1933), her salary would be increased to $300,000 per film. … (as leading man) Garbo preferred her former co-star and lover John Gilbert. … Queen Christina became … the highest-grossing film of the year. The movie, however, met with controversy upon its release; censors objected to the scenes in which Garbo disguised herself as a man and kissed a female co-star
Venus in 5th opposing saturn of old age.
Garbo also worried about her age. “Time leaves traces on our small faces and bodies. It’s not the same anymore, being able to pull it off.”
Moon in 12th
From the early days of her career, Garbo avoided industry social functions, preferring to spend her time alone or with friends.
Midheaven ruler saturn exactly conjunct South Node in 11th.
She never signed autographs or answered fan mail, and rarely gave interviews. Nor did she ever appear at Oscar ceremonies, even when she was nominated. Her aversion to publicity and the press was undeniably genuine.
Picky virgo sun and mercury, 12th house moon in wide opposition to natal sun.
In an interview in 1928, she explained that her desire for privacy began when she was a child, stating, “As early as I can remember, I have wanted to be alone. I’ve always been moody. I detest crowds, I don’t like many people…In 1937, in a letter to her friend, Austrian actress and writer Salka Viertel, she wrote: “I go nowhere, see no one… It is hard and sad to be alone, but sometimes it’s even more difficult to be with someone…”
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She was routinely referred to by the press as the “Swedish Sphinx”.
Neptune in 3rd
She is closely associated with a line from Grand Hotel, one which the American Film Institute in 2005 voted the 30th-most memorable movie quote of all time,”I want to be alone; I just want to be alone.” The theme was a running gag in her movies that began during the silent period. According to a 1955 piece in LIFE magazine, Garbo explained that she’d said: “I want to be let alone”, not “I want to be alone”.
Venus in Leo
After starring in Torrent (1926), she became known as “the Art Deco Diva” She favored men’s shoes and clothes and her style has been described as “trench coat, simple shoes, shirts, cigarette pants, slouch hat and big sunglasses. Garbo has been credited with popularizing the “slouchy hat.”
In 1977, Garbo wrote to Frederick Sands: “I am forever running away from something or somebody”… “Unconsciously I have always known that I was not destined for real and lasting happiness.”
Mars in 7th house.
Garbo never married, had no children, and lived alone for most of her adult life. Her most famous romance was with her frequent MGM co-star John Gilbert, with whom she lived intermittently in 1926 and 1927.
7th house ruler conjunct ascendent of personal expression.
Soon after their romance began, Gilbert began helping her develop acting skills on the set and teaching her how to behave like a star, socialize at parties, and deal with studio bosses.
Uranus in 8th of sex.
Recent biographers and others have speculated that because it can be assumed she had intimate relationships with women as well as men, Garbo was bisexual, possibly even “predominantly lesbian“. In 1927, Garbo was introduced to stage and screen actress Lilyan Tashman, and they may have had an affair, according to some writers. Silent film star Louise Brooks stated that she and Garbo had a brief liaison the following year.
In 1931, Garbo befriended the writer and acknowledged lesbian Mercedes de Acosta, whom she met through Salka Viertel, and, according to Garbo’s and de Acosta’s biographers, began a sporadic and volatile romance.
