Colette's Zi Wei Dou Shu chart
French novelist (Gigi) · born January 28, 1873 in Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye, France
The French writer best known in the English-speaking world for the novella Gigi. Her Life Palace is an Empty Palace, read through Tai Yang (De) and Ju Men (Miao) in the opposite palace.
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A reporter who wrote from what she saw
Colette taught herself to be a reporter, writing about social trends, theatre, fashion and film. She said: "You have to see and not invent, you have to touch, not imagine." Over her writing career she published more than 1200 articles in newspapers, magazines and journals. Her Life Palace is an Empty Palace, read through Ju Men (Miao) in the opposite palace. Ju Men stands for the mouth and speech, and is often read as work such as commentary and reporting, where views are expressed by speaking and writing. Her reporting can be read alongside it.
Source ↗Literary editor in 1914
In 1910 Colette published La Vagabonde, about women's independence in a male society; in December that year she began a regular column for Le Matin, and in 1914 she was named the paper's literary editor. In the Decade Luck for nominal ages 34–43 (1905–1914), the decade's Life Palace moves to her Children Palace, which holds Zi Wei (Wang) with Hua Quan (Transformation of Power). Hua Quan stands for taking the lead, which fits her taking the editor's chair.
Source ↗Writing her mother Sido into her books
Colette's mother was nicknamed Sido. La Naissance du jour (1928) uses the character of her mother, Sido, to meditate on age and the renunciation of love; in 1929 she published Sido, of which Janet Flanner wrote, "It... has no plot, and yet tells of three lives all that should be known". Her chart shows Wen Qu (Wang) in the Parents Palace. The Parents Palace stands for parents, and Wen Qu is the star of literary talent, which lines up with her writing her mother into her work.
Source ↗Life Palace
Colette's Life Palace has no main star (an Empty Palace); it borrows Tai Yang from the opposite palace. Xingge's name for this persona: The Traveler. With the Metal 4 Bureau, that makes the Metal 4 · Empty Palace type among Xingge's 75.
Birth-year transformations
The stem of Colette's birth year transforms four stars:
Birth data
Local time 1873-01-28 22:00, from Astro-Databank, Rodden rating AA (birth certificate or record). In true solar time at the birthplace that is 21:47, the Hai hour.
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