Aretha Louise Franklin
The Queen of
Soul died Aug 16 2018, exactly 41 years
to the day we lost the King of Rock and
Roll, Elvis
Presley. Franklin got her start at the age 12 in her
father’s
church, she was a soloist with his traveling
ministry. Born in Memphis, raised in Detroit, she was a
mother to two sons by the age of 14. Until her last day
she remained a fiercely private person, unshakable in
her faith. She won 18 Grammies and was the first
woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame. Her hits like Respect and Natural Woman made
her the “Queen”. Behind all of this was a person
hiding
insecurities as told in the book RESPECT
co-authored
by David Ritz. A look at her birth order will give us the
answers.
Aretha’s Double Birth Order
To find her
birth order we must look at all her siblings
that lived with her while she was
growing up.
LaVaughn
Cavanaugh Franklin 12-24-1935 1/Only
(half-brother
by her mother)
4 year Gap
Emma Varnice
Franklin Garrett 3-13-1938 2/1
Cecil L.
Franklin 3-31-1940 3/2
Aretha Louise Franklin 3-25-1942 4/3
Carolyn Ann Franklin 5-? -1944 5/4
All the
Franklin children have Double Birth orders. This
makes for a very interesting
family group. Those with
Double birth orders will show characteristics of both
of
their birth orders at random times. This would have
been an interesting household to say the least. Aretha
had a 4/3 Double birth order. We can now unmask
her
personality as we look at each of these birth orders.
The Three Birth Order
The third
born is the child that has a keen sense of all
the people around them. Religion
in all its forms are
a magnet for this person. They are creative and
intuitive,
The Three has a world view and the need to
reach all people. She reached a
wider audience while
preforming for American Presidents and Pope Francis.
Creative and artistic, Aretha was a self-taught pianist
and her voice was truly
a gift. By age seven she could
play a
song perfectly on the piano, after hearing it
once. Three's are sensitive
to others and are easily
hurt but try not to show it. Laughing on the outside
but crying on the inside is a way to hide their pain.
Aretha put the best
possible light on her failed
marriages and her life. Her singing touched millions
and she gave each
song a deeper meaning with her
touch of soul. This birth order is open to all the
possibilities of life and her addictions to sex, alcohol,
drugs and food some of which were obvious. Aretha
certainly had a food addiction and was a compulsive
eater. Seen in her photos, her weight fluctuated
throughout her life. Her husband Ted White, also her
manager introduced her to reefers and wine. She quit
smoking in 1992 but her younger
sister Carolyn
Franklin said, “She felt she was not good enough as a
singer, pretty enough as a woman, and not devoted
enough as a mother”. She could not maintain a
relationship with another woman, always seeing them
as competition.
Her compulsive spending left her with
a lot of unpaid bills. The largest debt was to Saks Fifth
Avenue for $262,000
dollars.
The Fourth Birth Order
The Fourth
born is the true baby in the family.
This is
true even if there are younger siblings. Each birth
order has
its own strategy and the strategy of the first
child begins again with child
number five. The baby in
the family can be loud to call attention to themselves
and will act impulsively to a perceived personal attack.
She once threw a tantrum when Beyoncé
described
Tina Turner as “The Queen”. Throughout her life she
tortured her
sisters, brother, and producers and
managers showing both rage and jealousies. Educated
by older siblings the Fourth born can be forgetful and
outspoken, even as
children they are not intimidated
by adults. Aretha was the only child in her
family not
graduate high-school. She dropped out of school in
her sophomore year. The Fourth born wants to be
taken care of and can be the comedian in the family.
Her father was her “rock” when
things went bad with
her marriages, she always returned home to him. To
the public she wanted to present an image of an ideal
marriage but too ended. After
she got control of her
drinking she still didn’t show up for concert dates and
had to pay the venues for her no shows. This problem
and the costs of taking
care of her father who was in a
coma for six years after being shot by an
intruder,
made keeping money a constant problem. After he
died and her marriages
all failed she keep firing
almost everyone who worked for her. In her mind she
lived a fantasy life. In the end she died without a will.
She never got back to her attorney, the number four
leaves the details to others.
Cancer 2010
True to her belief
in faith, she told the Associated
Press in 2013 that she had received a
“absolutely
miraculous” healing after she was diagnosed with an
illness. While talking to her old friend Smokey
Robinson she said that doctors are not very
well
acquainted with faith healing. In 2017 talking with the
Chicago Sun-Times she
said, “Faith is very important,
it certainly has sustained me to this day.” It
was
pancreatic cancer that led to her death. Her privacy
about her illness is
all in keeping with her number
Three birth order, again laughing on the outside,
crying on the inside.
The Combined 4/3 Birth Order
Seeing
Aretha through the characteristics of her two
birth orders gives us a truer
understanding of her
motivation and how she dealt with her insecurities. If
nothing else, her talent and life gave her
R-E-S-P-E-C-T.
To learn
more about Double Birth orders, you can find
the information in my book. Life’s
Fingerprint: How
Birth Order Affects Your Path Throughout Life by
Dr. Robert V.V. Hurst. You can reach me through our
audio copy of the book through audible. Just mention
this blog and I will send
you the code. A limited
number exsist.
