The character of Marcia Brady is, for generations of Americans, an archetype of the all-American golden girl. The sweet, perfect girl next door who all the boys aspire to make their own. It came as a bit of a shocker then, that the real life Marcia, Maureen McCormick struggled for years with drug addiction and used to trade sex for coke.

McCormick wrote in her recently released autobiography, “As a teenager, I had no idea that few people are everything they present to the outside world. Yet there I was, hiding the reality of my life behind the unreal perfection of Marcia Brady. … No one suspected the fear that gnawed at me even as I lent my voice to the chorus of Bradys singing, `It’s a Sunshine Day.”

At the same time Marcia decided to write her book, she was undergoing her Chiron return, the last of the major mid-life transits and a very important transit in the astrological progression. The Chiron return happens when we are about 51. It is the time when we confront our demons once and for all and create a more truthful and honest relationship with reality. It is around this time when many people decide that their remaining years will be lived on their own terms, and not on the lies that they have been repressing. This can be a very liberating experience. When we have demons, others have power over us as we will always have the fear of being exposed for who we really are. The Chiron return promotes setting those demons free and taking control and power back.

As Marcia said recently, “It took most of my life, countless mistakes and decades of pain and suffering to reach this point of equanimity and acceptance.” This is truly the purpose of the Chiron return.

This entry was posted by astrology detective on Monday, October 27th, 2008 at 2:18 pm and is filed under popwatch . You can trackback from your own site.