Tina Turner began her career as a member of Ike Turner Revue. Allegations of abuse surfaced after the split with Ike. Tina raised four son's with her husband, but she reported being isolated and abused during their marriage together. The cost of maintaining Ike's cocaine habit and his serious infidelities took their toll on her over the years. Tina Turner stayed in this abusive relationship with Ike for 16 long years. After one brutal beating she finally left him in the dust.

“Sometimes you’ve got to let everything go – purge yourself,” says Tina Turner. “If you are unhappy with anything . . . whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you’ll find that when you’re free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.”

Triggering Transits

Transiting Jupiter was conjunct natal Uranus in the 10th house. Both planets represent our need for freedom, expansion and change, both crave to be free from restraints. There were new (Uranus)possibilities (Jupiter) which Tina could sense opening up for her, and the transit held a lot of excitement about the future. When Jupiter and Uranus meet, it often signals a time of both growth (Jupiter) and progression (Uranus) and represents a powerful sense of moving forward. This prevailing, optimistic attitude about the future, encouraged her to discover unlived possibilities.

Another important trigger was transiting Saturn conjunct Pluto in the 12th house. An aspect that Tina has natally (Saturn square Pluto). In the most extreme circumstances it can lead to obsessive-control, domination and misuse of power. I t was under this transit when her most severe beating occurred. Transiting Saturn moving through the 12th house representing a time of clearing old baggage. According to psychological astrology, planets in the 12th house operate on a hidden level, are unlived and often unexpressed. The 12th house also shows what is passed down through the family.

According to Tracy Marks in Your Secret Self (Pluto in 12th House)

Sexual urges, passions and resentments and hatred from the past may all fester within you, threatening to overcome self control and overwhelm consciousness. Because of the accumulated emotional charge of such energies and their threat to sense of self, you may not be able to discover the constructive power source, the aliveness, the regenerative and healing capabilities, and the inner strength which they can provide you once acknowledged, worked through and integrated. Sometimes, a 12th house Pluto indicates a history of physical or emotional abuse. Unable to assert your power, you developed behavior patterns which expressed your powerlessness.

Transiting Uranus was approaching a conjunction to her I.C (lowest point in chart) and, represented a new sense of freedom (Uranus)in her personal life (4th). Lyn Birkbeck (Instant Astrologer) phrases this opposition by calling it: "A once-in-a-lifetime start of a new "Inner Freedom Cycle". Transiting Uranus also trined Mars in the 7th house of relationships. It shows a need to assert the self and push forward, signalling freedom from oppression.