Friend, Foe, or Frenemy?

here may be no better words to hear than “you’ve got a friend!” We each have our own friendship needs, wants, and desires, but when it all comes down to it, the best kind of friend to have is someone who fills a space in your life that no one else could fill. Though every sign relates to one idea of friendship or another, astrologically it is Aquarius that traditionally governs the general concept of friendship. No wonder then that it was Carole King, with her Sun in Aquarius, who wrote the hit song “You’ve Got a Friend,” a track on her famous 1971 album According to her birth certificate, as reported on , King was born on February 9, 1942, at 11:42 p.m. Eastern War Time, in Brooklyn, New York. Her Sun, Mercury, and Venus are all in Aquarius, giving her the overall personality, mindset and drive of the Aquarian. King wrote this song from her heart, and once said in an interview that she felt it came from the most “pure inspiration” she had ever received, and she also said that she wrote the song in response to James Taylor’s 1970 song, “Fire and Rain,” which contains the mournful refrain, “I’ve seen lonely times when I could not find a friend.” Taylor was born March 12, 1948, at 5:06 p.m. EST in Boston, Massachusetts, and his Mercury at 25 Aquarius is conjunct King’s Sun and Mercury pairing at 20 Aquarius, so there is something to be