A new biography came out about Karl Lagerfeld. This one is written by his friend, Thomas Middleton, and while it follows the official line Karl was born in 1933, the book supports our rectification about his character and persona.
Read more: New Biography of Karl Lagerfeld: Insights from Thomas MiddletonOur original post on Lagerfeld is here. Another quirk is Lagerfeld gets the same house ascendant, or rising sign, as the founder of the House of Chanel, Madame Chanel: Sagittarius, though of course not in degree.
BTW, if it didn’t work, I would re-rectify Lagerfeld’s chart because, obviously, we missed something. We have had to re-rectify a chart a few times (see Bill Barr, former US Attorney general) because rectifying living or recently dead people is always problematic. That is because the information about them is sketchy: they won’t talk about their past, or what they say is wrong.
In either case, the reasons are similar. People are more astrologically attuned than they care to admit, and thus do not want anyone dissecting their chart. This could be for either privacy or competitive reasons, or vanity — everyone wants to be younger.
This essay was reviewed on 22 December 2025.
