Pre-Presentation Material: Janis Joplin
by Alex Trenoweth
Janis Joplin was born on 19 January 1943 at 9:45 AM, Port Arthur Texas. From an early age--and to the annoyance of her family and peers--she lived out her Aquarius ascendant and preferred to live life a little differently. As an unhappy and overweight child, she was familiar with the pain of rejection. "They laughed me out of class, out of town, and out of the state, man," she later revealed to American television host Dick Cavett. Joplin ran away from home at the age of 17, then briefly attended the University of Texas where she studied Art.
It was in her twenties that she began to live out the quintiles in her chart: a 5th house Jupiter quintile an 8th house Neptune both in precise bi-quintile to her ascendant. Joplin had sung in bars throughout the SW United States, often being paid in beer during her University days. In 1966 she joined an established band, Big Brother and the Holding Company and Joplin began gaining recognition for her gut-wrenching performances, most notably at Monterey Music festival in 1967. Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders said of her: "There was something scary in her total delivery .... Her performance was so in your face and electrifying that it really put you right there in the moment. There you were living your nice little life in the suburbs and suddenly there was this train wreck, and it was Janis.
Joplin was the ultimate female blues icon in a generation that rebelled against society and somehow transformed the way we identify our place in it.
About Alex Trenoweth
Alex Trenoweth was born in July 1966 in Michigan, and with the Uranus-Pluto conjunction in her own birth chart, found it very easy to connect with the spirit of the '60's. Originally scheduled to present Jim Morrison for the Club of 27, she changed her mind when she discovered the wonderful synastry between herself and Janis Joplin, most notably their opposite Suns, Janis' Uranus-Saturn conjunction on her ascendant and her Moon on Janis' descendant, N. Node and Chiron.
Of the night of The Club of 27, Alex says, "I perceived this great responsibility to get Janis just right, to set the record straight. There were times as I was presenting Janis that I felt she was next to me, whispering her approval in my ear and there were times I felt somehow I really was her." On July 4, she will present "Gone With the Wind: The Zodiacal Parade" at the Lodge. Alex lives in London with her three children and teaches English and Drama at Raynes Park High School.
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