Sometimes it helps to have a famous person or two to paint the
picture of mid life, and as of this writing we see a good example of a person
just beginning to deal with mid-life, prior to the Saturn opposition, Whitney
Houston.  The country has followed Whitney through some of her problems.
She has a Venus/ Sun conjunction in Leo, which is all the sweetness and light
that she is able to radiate on stage. Not just an act, but an obvious inner
glow; however she also has Saturn conjunct her part of fortune opposite in
Aquarius. That part of her chart is the demographic handling which she is
subject to as she is marketed and handled, not so differently than Elvis. Ask
Whitney Houston about being a superstar and having a mid life crisis. She has a
fascinating, power packed chart, with overwhelming superstar stuff, Jupiter in
Aries and the Leo, however also has a little old Mars in Libra, the nice
guy/gal, passive/aggressive Mars, allowing herself to be pushed around by agents
and allegedly her mate. She is just beginning to deal with all of these
problems, and again is right on target, time and insight wise; with the
substance abuse coming to a head in the past three years, (between age 38 and
41) Let’s look at one of the first indicators of MLC that I found publicly.
  “Singing sensation Whitney Houston infuriated Burt
Bacharach at
rehearsals for the 2000 Academy Awards - by singing the wrong song. The
singer is currently clean after spending March in rehabilitation for drug
addiction, but four years ago she was reportedly not so sober. In Steve Pond's forthcoming book, The Big Show: High Times And Dirty
Dealings Backstage At The Academy Awards, which exposes a host of Oscar
secrets, Pond reveals Houston's performance technique angered
Bacharach. In the tome, Pond writes, "Houston's voice was shaky, she seemed
  distracted and jittery, and her attitude was casual, almost defiant." Despite
Bacharach, the musical director of the 2000 Oscars, playing "Over the Rainbow"
on the piano, Houstonbegan singing "The Way We Were." Pond
continues, "Finally, Bacharach (at wit's end) slumped over the piano, (putting)
his head down on the keys." Producer Lili
Zanuck cancelled Houston's appearance at the ceremony, explaining, "We didn't want to work for six months for this to be a show about how f**ked-up Whitney Houston was." 8
 As I have been writing this, she actually just walked away from
treatment, and is supposedly doing it all at home. Now as of this
update, Whitney
is now on her Jupiter opposition, as well as a Mars return, and apparently is
getting worse, appearing as emaciated, as well as rumors of her death. The
Jupiter opposition has stretched her to the max undoubtedly, and hers being in
Aries still contains that dilemma of an extra amount of pride and autonomy,
parts of her that have served her well in other parts of her life, not, however
at this time. As of December
17, 2004 we see this: “Singer Whitney Houston has walked away unscathed after crashing her sports car into a bus near her home in Georgia. Houston clipped a bus
while pulling out of a shopping centre parking lot in Alpharetta at 5pm Wednesday after misjudging how much room she had. The bus was left with barely a scratch, but the right bumper of Houston's Porsche was damaged. Officers cited the 41-year-old singer for the minor offense of failure to yield while entering a roadway…” 9  
From astrology’s standpoint, it is doubtful that her transition is done. It doesn’t
appear in the story that she was under any influence of mind altering
substances, and let’s just hope it was a "bad brake day". Whitney is coming up
to her Saturn opposition, which does not take place until September 2006. Right
now she was claiming a comeback from all of her drug problems, and back in
treatment spring of 2005.  I for
one would not like to see her burned out, even on over performing, much less
mishandling and/or drugs.