Conservative pundit and columnist Andrew Breitbart died some days ago at the age of 43. Most people would say he was an extremely outspoken ultra-conservative and Tea Party activist. Although his exact time of birth in Los Angeles on February 1st, 1969, is not yet known to us Star Gazers, his Moon was plus or minus a few degrees opposite Mercury, showing an imbalance of some kind between feelings and emotions (Moon) and Mercury, the mental ruler. If you’re not deeply involved with astrological parlance, let’s try that again: The Moon, which is the traditional ruler of emotions and feelings, is almost exactly opposite, that is, opposed to, the location of his planet Mercury, which is the planet that rules the mind and the perceptions. A see-saw attempt at balance between these opposed forces occurs, but the clear thought ought to emanate from strong Mercury positions is missing here. When we look at successful charts in which a task was done well, whether they be of craftsmen or statesmen, generals or geniuses, Mercury is more often in a positive, “easy” aspect to Moon. Otherwise the mind, however strong, is tormented by so many ups and downs and question marks, that the person who has such an aspect often seems to not be seeing things quite straight. The waxing and waning Moon cycles would have had a changeable effect on Breitbart’s basic mental state and the opinions he transmitted at such times, than they would have had on a less Mercury-challenged guy.
His Sun in independent Aquarius squares his Mars in angry and impatient Scorpio. Sun square Mars is one of the signs of a hothead! I usually don’t see too many Sun-square-Mars people in my counselling sessions because often they feel they have more knowledge, backed up by aggressive self-confidence, than anyone else. This is the kind of guy capable of going to war because he wants to kill people, and of coming home (or staying home), to brutalize his wife or his children. The anger and frustration in a Sun-square-Mars is hard to imagine for someone who doesn’t have that kind of militaristic fetish.
His Mars. the macho planet, makes only one aspect. His Neptune, the planet of ideals and delusions, makes four.
Jupiter conjuct Uranus is one of his strongest aspects; the planet of righteousness is joined to the planet of anarchic, spontaneous nuttiness. Genius comes with Uranus, but with Jupiter next to it, it takes itself and its mission too seriously. This is the kind of guy who can imagine himself Pope or Dictator.
His most confused and bizarre planet in his natal chart is Venus, the planet of love. His Venus, in the very last degree of Pisces, a position where it is the weakest, opposes Uranus, Pluto, and Jupiter. The Jupiter aspect shows overindulgence. In the last minutes of Pisces, I’d say Breitbart was at least a social drinker, if not a self-destructive drinker. Opposed to Pluto, Venus shows difficult if not horrible issues dealing with his personal life at any early age. He may have suffered in some way since childhood with an aspect like that. But the worse of these is probably Venus opposition Uranus, because it shows an unsteady, questionable, erratic, changeable, love life. He is simply attracted by too many people, and he is not always attracted by women. Work by various astrologers over the past 20 years has indicated that someone with a Venus-Uranus aspect in their chart is often, if not always, ambiguously sexed. Sure, you say, Breitbart left behind a wife and four children. But it doesn’t seem he spent as much time with them as other men his age. We hear of him tromping around to bars and clubs in various cities in his political travels. How did his wife and four children fit into that kind of life? No. He must have had reasons to leave his family behind and go out seeking other friendships. The very night he died, he’d met some new folks and had drinks with them in a tavern.
Breitbart supported, helped, and served on a governing board of a gay group of Republicans, GOProud. The story is quite complex. There is no obvious reason why Breitbart, as a committed Republican, would have taken this outspoken stand which is so keenly opposed to the spirit of the far Right Wing — the Religious Right — of the Republic party. But looking at his quirky and slightly unbalanced aspects, such as Moon opposition Mercury, noted above, makes it clear that he did not have a balanced mind. I am not necessarily saying he was insane — you just shouldn’t believe a guy whose thoughts and feelings are so confused. How could someone stand with and even lead a gay group when gays are blasted from nearly every right-wing pulpit? Or, perhaps the question is: How could someone who stands by and identifies with the gay cause — be a champion of the ultra-right? Gays are told they are going to go to HELL by hundreds of right wing pastors all across the Bible Belt. For Andrew Breitbart to be able to be BOTH an ultra-right Republican AND Gay — and be married and have children — calls back to that Moon opposition Mercury again, a card that I would link with THE MOON CARD of the familiar Waite-Rider-Smith Tarot deck… the dog and wolf, and crayfish, looking up at the dominant Full Moon in the deep night sky… symbolic of a confusion of thoughts and feelings… the STARS say — THAT was Andrew Breitbart!
Unless it turns out that Breitbart was born quite late in the day, in the evening of February 1st, 1969, then he was born with a Grand Trine between Moon, Neptune, and Venus. This is a “good luck” aspect which makes it almost too easy for him to achieve many of his dreams, including his dreams of family and friendships. But it also made him a social maven, it made him have to entertain far and wide during his travels. Grand Trines often weaken the personality because too much is taken for granted. It is a sign of luck in family life, relationships, entertaining, luxuries. It is not helpful when it comes to waging bitter culture wars replete with name-calling and stab-in-the-back manoeuvres.
Going back over the highlights of his career, I could not believe the stuff he had to say about Ted Kennedy right after Kennedy died. It is SO nasty… should I repeat it here? I will give you a link and then quote Breitbart as well:
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2009/08/26/57997/breitbart-kennedy-twitter/?mobile=nc — it’s there on display.
Right after he heard Kennedy had died, Breitbart began a series of tweets in which he said: “Rest in Chappaquiddick”, and then, over the next 3 hours, called him a “villain“, a“bastard’, a “big-ass motherf*#^)#“, a “prick” and a “special pile of human excrement.”
Andrew Breitbart found, and used, savagely degrading epithets to say as a Memoriam to someone who’d spent the best part of 50 years in the U.S. Senate. I wouldn’t think anyone other than an enemy of what the United States has done for the common man over the past century… raising the standard of living of the working man, cutting back work hours from 70 or 60 to 40 hours per week… making the lives of its most vulnerable citizens more secure through Social Security, Medicare, and other improvements that make the minds and emotions of those libertarians and right-wingers that oppose them look petty, jealous, hateful of the lower classes — even when they, as they often are, are in the lower classes themselves… would have torn into Ted Kennedy like Andrew Breitbart did. There is no doubt Breitbart, just as other hyenas, did or would have reproached F.D. Roosevelt, reproving Woodrow Wilson, but never admitting that if they had lived in the 1930′s they would have been isolationists who would have kept us out of the war against Germany and Japan until it might have been too late to defeat them. Rich isolationist plotters who wanted to control the United States in those days, the same way the industrialists of the German Ruhr supported Hitler in his rise to power.
I didn’t see ANY indications in Breithart’s transits over his natal chart that this was a moment when his heart would give out and he would die, all of a sudden, without previous symptoms, without any visits to the hospital… Dead at 43! What happened? In the Astrological column, “Stars over Washington”, the author has some strange things to say about Breitbart’s death, and hopefully will fill-in-the-blanks sometime soon. He said:
asking if anyone involved [in] the investigation is looking for a tiny puncture wound or for an untraceable toxin in his bloodstream
I’m sad that Breitbart had to die — so young, and so confused about what justice is and who really wields justice versus injustice and bigotry. He died far from the best and highest ideals that he could have opted to support, and the bountiful blessings of home life, as seen as potential, in his birth chart. Yes, I am very sorry that Breitbart had to die… But if someone shortened his life with a secret formula, a tiny needle, a noxious drink, a poisoned condom, or whatever — I would try and try again to find words to express sorrow at his early departure, hopefully words that are less ugly and vindictive than what Breitbart had to say about Ted Kennedy.
For an intense look, including videos, of Breitbart carrying on with some harsh and controversial talk — including “Civil War” and “American Military” talk that some might view as dangerous, and a possible ‘lead’ in trying to figure out why he died so young: here’s a link: http://www.towleroad.com/2011/09/when-liberals-call-him-gay-andrew-breitbart-fantasizes-about-civil-war-video.html That site is not my ‘cup of tea‘, but getting information is worth going to wherever you have to go to get it. A video of Breitbart wanting to bring-on a Civil War is worth it!
Best. ——-Ed Augusts
This continues a sporadic series of charts of famous names, both in today’s news, and of historical interest.
Let us start with Vladimir Putin, who was very recently, and not surprisingly, elected to the office of President of Russia. I think this link will take you to the link I’ve been using to view and analyze the chart: http://www.astrotheme.com/portraits/9x8Nb4T2Pvmp.htm
What do we see? SUN in the House of Friendship and Associations, so he is well-connected. He does certainly have friends in powerful places. His Sun is conjunct Saturn by only 3-1/2 degrees. This is THE marker of a very serious mind. The realist. The dogmatist, perhaps, because Sun conjunction Saturn represses the best of feelings and the most sensual of feelings: It is not usually a happy combo, Putin is nothing at all like his predecessor, Boris Yeltsin, who knew how to have a few vodkas once in awhile. Putin is about as exciting with this Sun-conjunction-Saturn as an old photograph of Woodrow Wilson or Calvin Coolidge. You wonder if the man knows how to have fun. Ah, where he gets FUN is through power. Sun conjunction Saturn is a strict father, the “Father of his Country” who, in this case, makes the rules and punishes the bad little boys and girls who want to have too much freedom. Well, he WAS the head of the KGB, after all!
PLUTOCRACY and POWER cry out in his chart… Pluto. which is Plutocracy itself, is at the very Midheaven, so matters of control and influence, as well as forecasting that his may well somehow involve the very rich, the heart of an empire, the Plutocracy and Oligarchy of Russia… dominate his chart and affect his success… which is exactly what has evolved for Putin and Russia over these past two decades.
Here is how Stephanie Clement defines the Pluto conjunction Midheaven aspect on her site, Sky View Zone: Please note, she was writing how this aspect works for the millions who have it, not just one individual, which, in fact, through its overarching quality, helps validate it, to even the skeptical mind. Because how many people do you know that have an abundance of these following qualities? :
Through sheer force of will, this conjunction inclines one to seek a mission in life and to fulfill it. As the ego consciousness is focused on life’s mission, personal power is mobilized to attain success, to organize one’s life and to express personal authority. Any misuse or misdirection of personal power can lead to disasters. Power out of control is like a race car without a conscious driver, dangerous in the extreme. This conjunction indicates power, authority, fame and attainment of recognition.
Venus is in the First House, in Scorpio. He exudes a boyish charm that is completely different than all his predecessors in power. He is like the ‘blond-haired boy’, the ladies must think he is really something, as Venus Rising makes for popularity, attractiveness, and in Scorpio, an undeniable sensuality, even if is kept under wraps.
But even more weight can be given to the following powerful elements: Putin has 3 planets in the 12th House of Secrets, Mysteries, Skeletons-in-the-Closet, and Self-Undoing. The 3 planets, Saturn, Neptune and Mercury, are the most significant thing in his chart; his Mercury-Neptune conjunction makes him good at his hunches. He has a nearly mystical ability to see through things as well as use his imagination most effectively. So in some ways, he could be, but really is not, a visionary, a true “reformer”. What keeps this energy dark and with an implacably practical, efficient aura, is that Mercury is also conjunct with Saturn, and Saturn is Neptune’s polar opposite. It shreds away layers of mysticism and obfuscation as if they were the layers of an onion. Perhaps Putin fights a battle sometimes between hard-line conservatism (Saturn) and the reformist energy within him, (Neptune), but the fact they are in 12th, means their energy is mostly behind-the-scenes, unmasking his opponents, dethroning his adversaries. Wasn’t Vlad in charge of the Soviet Secret Police? Secrets are the heart and soul of the 12th House, so he has a perfect chart for that kind of job. With his mystic Neptune, he has psychic flashes. For decades as he climbed the rungs of success within the KGB, he must have surprised his mentors and superiors with the way he was able to envision things through the eyes of the enemy. Russia has always had sinister leaders, and Putin is part of this grand continuing succession of subtlety and sneakiness. His planets prove it. The fact the 12th House consists of secrets means there must indeed be many “skeletons in his closet”, but the 12th House is zipped so tight, we may not find out for 50 years what they are or were!
Putin must also have overwhelmed his mentors with his dynamic energy, a “macho male” energy, but not a necessarily nefarious or violent energy. It could be said that Mars rules for the GOOD cause in Putin’s chart, and that therefore he will grab the stick at the right end, NOT make enemies, NOT enter into self-destructive power struggles… He is a survivor partly because he is such a hard worker! His MARS makes NO “bad” or hard aspect to any planet. His Mars is in a nice sextile to Mercury, giving him an admirable ability to communicate smoothly and with the right jargon, the right “line”, to suit her purposes and soothe his listeners. Mars is also in a trine to the Midheaven, to Pluto, and to Lilith. The Mars-Pluto trine is a wonderful thing, it gets a man where he wants to go when factionalism and struggles of any kind appear. Here is part of a definition of Mars-trine-Pluto from “Cafe’Astrology.com”, as good a source as any. The aspect definition was, like the previous aspect, written for anyone (in tens of millions!) who has this aspect, it was NOT written with Putin’s chart in mind, and yet, you see, it rings true:
You are usually decisive, and often unwavering, once committed… You possess a fascinating and commanding aura… You employ strategy when you are going after something, and you are very talented at this, saving time and energy… perfectly capable of outwitting others as a natural psychologist… The spiritual lesson is to learn moderation… to learn to be more like one of the pack instead of always being the leader.
Thank You, Cafe’ Astrology.
Why does he perceive his enemies to be the true revolutionaries, the reformers, of Russia? Even though during the most liberal progressive years after the breakup of the U.S.S.R., Putin swam at the head of the pack of fish? It is because all three of his 12th House planets square planet Uranus, the planet of anarchy, reform, and revolution, Putin is not a revolutionary, he is the antithesis of a revolution — he is Law and Order, as symbolized by Saturn. Saturn’s natural function is put down anarchy. Putin is in power when Muslim terrorists kill hundreds of Russian civilians. Putin is in power when revolts break out in distant Russian provinces. Saturn is quite repressive, in Putin’s chart, at the noxious presence of anarchistic, overly-democratic Uranus in the 9th House, the House of Education. One of Putin’s pet peeves must be the overly-liberal professors and academics whom, he must feel, are leading their students and proteges into wayward paths. The media are not his friends, either, because they thrive on the 9th House radicalization of the academics, as well as bring strains of unseemly entertainment to Russia. Putin is an enemy of anything radica;. although his chart is smart enough and adaptive enough, to roll with the punches so that he was NOT purged in the democratic revolution that swept the Soviet Union away. Somehow he was able to maintain and even strengthen his position. It is because he can use the Uranian energy when he wants to. He RULES it, in this chart. But when the smoke clears, there’s Putin, in a balancing act between the goal of a democratic Russia and an oligarchy of plutocrats and ex-Soviet strongmen.
His vision of protecting the Old Guard from destruction at the hands of anarchy and liberal reform must include having no generosity or understanding at all for radical clerics of what he must see as dangerous religions. During his rule, the Muslim extremists in Russia’s southern provinces did not get gentle treatment. If only Putin and American leaders could see they have a joint long term mission to preserve the West, which includes Russia, from extremists who send their children as bombs to kill civilians. and threaten mass destruction. But this “man of secrets”, 12th House Putin, is so shrewd, he plays his cards so close to his vest, nobody knows his real thoughts on the matter.
But the chart makes it look as if, in Putin’s mind, anything that smacks of an uprising needs to be quashed. This extreme need for “law and order”, even at the behest of violence and suppression, can be seen lately (February, 2012), in Putin’s (i.e., Russia’s) support of the repressive regime in Syria. I think it is obvious from the chart that Putin would rather see some tens of thousands of “Arab Spring” demonstrators silenced, even at the cost of their lives, than let an ally like Syria go down the same path that Libya and Egypt have gone. Putin sees much better bedfellows in dictators than in fundamentalist clerics and nutcases, as we are seeing in Iran and other nearby countries. Stability = Saturn, and that’s what is driving him… the urge toward stability rather than possible future disaster, such as some time in the future when a wall of Muslim countries will stand right up to Russia’s soft underbelly.
A hint of the possibility of his Saturn-Uranus aspect being useful in his career, and to his nation, is part of the definition of the aspect by skyscript.co.uk :
….When usefully employed it can provide the means to stabilize explosive environments as well as conquer and destroy destructive and inhibitive situations.
Well, that’s what the head of the KGB must do… and the head of Russia, as well. In most unevolved individuals, it would not be possible to use this aspect in a positive way. The positive MARS aspects in Putin’s chart reinforce the fact that he could use even the Saturn-Uranus square energy in a way that helps stabilize things. Unfortunately, his recent unflagging support of the Syrian dictatorship, which is, as I am writing, shelling its own people, shows that he may go a little too far in the Saturn-direction, which is regardless of human life and sensitivity. If he could grapple with this side of his nature, and overcome worst side of the 12th House planets, and go with the strong Mars energy, and his Mercury-Mars ability to communicate well, he could overcome those parts of his being that are repressive.
Was the election which just occurred in Russia an honest election? That depends on your definition of honest. The KGB definition may be different from ours. Putin’s chart, with its awesome combination of Pluto at the Midheaven, a valiant Mars, but a problematic Saturn-Uranus aspect and a secretive 12th House, make it clear that Putin would exert as much behind-the-scenes control as he possibly could, but in as unobtrusive way as possible, to achieve his goals.
Putin had a tough year. For more than six months he was plagued with Saturn transits going through that very House of Secrets, the House of Self-Undoing. Judging by all the recent election protests, he just barely did make through this past year! As Saturn criss-crossed, through both direct motion and retrogradation, his Sun, Saturn, Neptune and Mercury up to three times in six months, the transit indicates he just barely survived. It was an ordeal. The loss of much public esteem was noxious. His current situation of being trapped in a policy that favors Syria’s ruthless despot does not bode well. Putin doesn’t want to stick out like a sore thumb in the media of world opinion. He has not fully ‘made it’, by the way, Saturn is only 5 degrees away from conjuncting Putin’s Rising Degree. It is months away, but when it does so, his career may be in jeopardy. He has too much Mars energy in his chart to have as cool a head as he should have, in his esteemed position at the head of the Russian Federation.
Just as Czar Nicholas and his family had Rasputin, the mystic monk, assisting in the “spiritual” realm, so, too, Vladimir Putin needs to have an astrologer, helping him attain the best side of his vision for a good future, more clearly. and with a minimum of repression and a maximum of freedom. They are in his chart… if he would use them!
Best, ———-Ed Augusts
Hi, I am writing this late afternoon on Friday, December 9th. Anyone who has been “out and about” today may well have noticed the fact that some of the “crazies” have come out into the open, that people are driving more aggressively, and that odd moods are striking people today! This is ALL ABOUT the Full Moon which occurs tonight. It is linked with the Eclipse which is also happening, early tomorrow morning!
The Moon is in Gemini, and the Sun in Sagittarius. People who have any planets in from about the 14th to 22nd degree of Sagittarius, Gemini, Virgo, or Pisces will be most affected, since such planets conjunct, oppose, or square the axis of the Full Moon. Those with planets from the 11th to 25th degree will also be somewhat affected, but not with nearly the same wallop!
I have planets in range of the above axis, and already today: I thought I lost my cell cell phone and actually drove to buy a new one, but at the last moment discovered where it had gone; a big misunderstanding happened at a fast food restaurant between a guy with some coupons and the staff; about 30 minutes later, a fight broke-out behind my shop between a couple of women in a car and some young teenagers; there were 5 people screaming at each other! About an hour later, a woman. like some lost soul, wandered down the sidewalk calling a boy’s name, looking for her lost boy. When I asked her if she’d called the police, she said, “No, they won’t do anything! Daaaaa-vid!” She wandered away, in a daze, screaming her child’s name. A client of mine has a mother who is on meds, and the mother became very angry and disruptive today and kept yelling at her daughter. Then the daughter. in turn, became so frustrated, that she picked a fight with me over almost nothing, and called and started complaining at me… I gave her back, tit-for-tat, because it was the Full Moon, and I wasn’t ready to stay mum or play Mr. Nice Guy. I have never had a difference of opinion with this woman… I looked at her Natal Chart (she is a Virgo), and she has a Mercury-Neptune square in the 14th to 17th degrees of Virgo–Gemini, which shows her mind can go into a strange mood at times, and these were ‘brushed’ by both the Sun and Moon today, in 3 different ways: A conjunction, a square, and an opposition. So the transiting Moon, coming up to form the Full Moon and the Eclipse tonight and overnight, effected BOTH OUR CHARTS in a negative way — so we had a fight, an unheard-of thing, since we’ve been civil to each other for … three years!
In addition, I have heard squealing tires and honking horns more than usual on the roadway outside, as well. A client said last night that she was going to make some Vietnamese Soup for me, for lunch, and I was thrilled; but then disappeared and I couldn’t get her on the phone! I 
had two weird calls, also, from phone numbers I didn’t recognize.
It’s just been a WACKY day, here! The only people whom I’ve talked which WHO ARE JUST FINE are the ones who have stayed home and not got involved in any controversies, because ordinary conversations can descend into differences of opinion on days like this!
I would suggest caution and patience, to the point that, even though it is Friday night — if you DON’T have to go out, tonight… you might really have a much safer and happier night just staying at home! Tomorrow is the DAY AFTER the Full Moon — and the Eclipse will start wearing-off as soon as it is over, except for those few who have planerts VERY close to the actual degrees of the Eclipse; for them, the effects of the event will linger — in those areas of their lives, as are shown on their charts – for an entire month and more — until the next Eclipse, in fact! x———–Ed
I have just been looking at natal charts for Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood, and it is hard to believe this wasn’t an on-and-off battle for mental and physical domination. with Natalie clearly being the winner throughout their time together. Ah, well! “Some like it rough!” as they say…
Natalie’s July 20, 1938 chart is AMAZING! Who would have thought that the thoughtful little girl in “Miracle on 34th Street“, (1947), would be having simultaneous affairs with Nicholas Ray and Dennis Hopper, as well as Elvis Presley, within 9 or 10 years, although it is not known if Elvis got to “twang” her guitar strings. Hopper and Ray surely did. She was called “rebellious” at that time, dating significantly older men. Ray, her director in “Rebel Without a Cause” (1957) is reported in several biographies to have taken her virginity. She was “HOT”, she had the burning fire of the SUN in close conjunction with the RED planet MARS, and the intense powerhouse planet, PLUTO. These three are in 27, 28, and 29 degrees. respectively, of Cancer, and they all closely square her MOON, meaning her emotional highs and lows must have been off the Richter scale, both demanding as well as responsive. Her needs were such, that a variety of men, almost all of them quite a bit older than herself, dated her. Hopper confirmed that she had dated homosexual (Perry Mason star) Raymond Burr, 21 years older than she. and that they’d looked just like a ‘couple’. Burr would have just made “Godzilla” at that time. In fact, she dated several gay male actors and ‘supported’ a gay screenwriter while he worked on a script. So, this was an open-minded lady who surrounded herself with a wealth of personalities… almost all of whom were men. Surely SHE was in FULL control of them, AND her love life… the planetary aspects in her chart definitely confirm that
Somehow Robert Wagner walked into all this, and even though their charts cannot be said to be compatible, Wagner must have fallen — HARD!! He was born February 10, 1930. Many of the events of their life together seem fairly benign at first glance. They met in 1956, married in 1957. in what was announced as “the most glittering union of the 20th century”. Their charts. however, are NOT auspicious together, and soon after their glittering marriage took place, Wagner and Woods’ careers began waffling and wobbling. Living a bit beyond their means in Beverly Hills, they DID NOT prosper, Within a year or two of marriage, Wagner lost his contract at Warner Brothers and Woods was suspended for 14 months because she refused to film a picture in England. They languished, and filed for divorce in 1962, but remarried in 1970, despite intervening marriages for both… Despite having children together, the remarriage was a categorical mistake. Sure, Wagner loved her, but they just weren’t all that lucky together, as the Final Act of their lives together proved. Wagner’s Mercury and Mars were SO afflicted by an opposition by Natalie’s powerful Sun-Mars-Pluto conjunction, — it could NOT have made for a good, clear, positive exchange of ideas, much less cemented their life together. They must have “run over each other’ with repeated serious conflicts and “tests of strength”. I would not have thought that two people with so many ‘tough’ aspects between them would have stayed together…. but love is an anchor that sinks into the mud of blind passion as well as sentimentality.
Her second marriage to Wagner ended in her drowning off Catalina on November 29, 1981. Her natal Mars conjunction Pluto and Sun, square Moon, argues for a possible destructive end to her intensely-lived life; this is not a lady who was likely to die of old age in her bed… but that doesn’t mean a murder occurred. Her emotional highs and lows must have been SO intense, that a plunge into the ocean to swim away some of her blahs, or in some fit of pique, is both likely and understandable. Ah! I see now why her mother reported that a gypsy had told her she would drown… Natalie’s Sun-Mars-Pluto, which are so energetic and dangerous are in the last degrees of Cancer, a Water sign. In the last analysis, the element of water played its role. The proximate cause was that she’d been drinking heavily on the night of her death. Here, things get very tangled in roots and weeds and underwater obstructions… She was on the boat with both the boat’s pilot, Wagner, and another man… a man of mystery… an outsider to California, an outsider to Robert Wagner, who seems to form one corner of a “triangle”…
That’s why I am now looking at Christopher Walken’s chart. (Born: March 31, 1943). He was on the boat that night, as well. Walken, 13 years younger than Wagner… five years younger than Natalie Wood. Christopher and Natalie had been working on a movie in North Carolina and Natalie had insisted that he fly back with her to California. How that went over with Robert Wagner can only be surmised. Walken’s Sun and Mercury are, in synastry (chart comparison), in very hostile aspect to Wagner’s Uranus and Saturn, but he doesn’t appear to have been any kind of threat to Natalie. It was Walken who received the negativity, not Wagner. Walken could not have made any impact on Wagner through polite dinner conversation and the like. Wagner must have been furious at his mere presence. It looks to me as if Walker could have been drawn into an argument with Wagner. The rest… is a mystery… for now! I haven’t looked at the transits of November, 1981 yet!
I’m not here to dish out any ‘dirt’, THAT happened when 22-yr old Sara Leal’s Us Weekly interview of her sexual encounter with Ashton Kutcher in the Hard Rock Hotel in San Diego hit the Internet and got back to Demi Moore. (Link at the bottom!)
I’ve got to tell you this — right here: Kutcher was doomed in San Diego. His natal chart compares very badly with San Diego (see below!). If this dalliance had occurred in Hollywood or San Francisco, he and Demi would still be together, but it was the San Diego ‘energy’ that BLEW this marriage for him. Sara Leal contends Ashton told her and other girls (who were soon to have naked hot tub times with Ashton) that he was separated from his wife, Demi Moore. Leal implies that if she knew he was lying, she wouldn’t have had sex with him… she might not even have gotten into the hot tub naked with him! This over-the-top tattling, on September 24, Demi Moore’s 6th Anniversary of her marriage to Kutcher, no less, led to Demi ditching her overactive spouse… ‘..with great sadness and heavy heart.” And to show her support of “certain values and vows that I hold sacred.”
Now let’s look beneath the circus side-show trappings of two top American movie and TV stars, at the astrological underpinnings. Maybe we can get to the bottom of their troubles!
Demi is quite a character, according to the “Stars” at her birth! She was born November 11, 1962, 2:16 p.m. in Roswell, N.M. As you may know, Scorpio can be a very highly-sexed, proud, intense, possessive, and jealous sign. And the 8th House is the house of sex and regeneration, which often includes matters about the start and end of life. Demi was born with Mercury, Neptune, Sun and Venus all in Scorpio — and all in the 8th House.
Mercury 11.02 Scorpio, Neptune 13.26 Scorpio, Sun 19.00 Scorpio, Venus 20.32 Scorpio. That’s a LOT of Scorpio! A heavily tenanted 8th House Scorpio can bring about early brushes with mysterious deaths, and in Demi’s case, it was the self inflicted death of her long-term stepfather, on the eve of her 16th birthday. I have read that story, but have not found any speculation as to the why’s and wherefore’s of this tragedy, but Demi must certainly have an interest in the occult, in the subject of Life after Death, and this meaning of the 8th House could well be seen in Ghost (1990). which I believe was so highly believable, and such a big money-maker, at least partly because of Demi’s powerful 8th House connection, which also enabled her to come off very powerfully as the grieving, haunted widow… Demi’s Venus conjunction Neptune in that house — her ability to play a part, and project her feelings so well… was also invoked. In retrospect, she may have done extremely well with mystic and occult tales, as well as mysteries — another aspect of Plutonian Scorpio! Maybe she will do more films in these genres now, as sex roles are naturally less appropriate for someone of her maturity.
Sun conjunction Venus in Scorpio in the 8th, both in conjunction with Neptune, makes for a beautiful woman whose sexuality as well as beauty is richly recognized and rewarded. Neptune with Venus makes her sensitive, attractive, and creative. She may well become famous for her beauty with this rich combination of aspects, but she also has a vulnerability to being used and disappointed by those whom she has trusted. SHE’S IN TROUBLE IF SHE FALLS IN LOVE! A lot of women out there. and not just Scorpios, can relate to THAT! Guys won’t come out of the woodwork, attracted to her MIND. They will want what they see, guys are like that. If she falls in love with such a lout, the tender house-of-cards is destined to fall.
The 8th House, as the house of sexuality is and was a place where sex is a something Demi feels comfortable with. My God, I just looked at dozens of photos of her from films such as Striptease and other outings via Google. What a beauty! The 8th House disguises her vulnerabilities and makes her look harder, tougher, than she is. But she has had no problem with displaying nudity over the decades, starting soon after her 16th birthday, in a display of open-minded sexuality that is common to women and girls who have THIS many planets in sexy Scorpio. She appeared in a lot of nude photo shoots at various times during career, including the famous ‘pregnant’ nude photo that most of you have probably seen, and culminating in her pole-dancing role in Striptease. She is a very sexual woman, and there’s nothing wrong with that, because it is supported in her chart, again and again; you might as well say — the Hand of God, or Fate, or Karma, or Destiny which makes the planets and Moon whirl around the Sun for billions of years in ever-changing orbits that personally influence us — you can’t blame Demi. You have to credit or blame the INFINITE POWERS. In this case, they made a beautiful woman. They also gave her a powerful Venus-Neptune combo which keeps the sexuality on a fairly high level.. at the level of artistry rather than pure pornography, which a lesser lady might have descended into. Subtleties — from BIRTH!! That’s what the Higher Powers — Destiny — God or Goddess. or a Pantheon of Gods — do. She could hardly have been as good a mother for her three daughters that she was going to have later, if she had plunged into pure pornography, and such is certainly not the case, although Striptease verged on the edge of “X” rather than “R”.
Yes, she does indeed have fantasies about a perfect love and sex life, caused by Neptunian illusions and lofty goals inspiring her mind (Mercury). She is VERY creative, and must have some artistic or musical abilities with this lovely Neptune conjunction of BOTH Venus and Mercury. Mercury and Neptune can be illusional, but they can sometimes be delusional, as well. She may be so captivated by the dream — the illusion — that something basic and realistic escapes her. She may THINK she’s found someone perfect — and then be very surprised to find that her partner has not lived up to her standards.
That’s exactly what happened between Demi and Ashton Kutcher, who was born February 7, 1978, at 12:30 p.m. in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. His Uranus is the only planet in Scorpio in his chart; it is in 16.21 Scorpio, which conjuncts Demi’s whole lineup with planets. Uranus’ influence was first felt as liberating and experimental; stimulating and revolutionary. to Demi. Ashton must have brought her an excitement that she hadn’t felt in years. She also felt he was no “yes” man who wanted her for her money, he was, in fact, a bit hard to pin down. Uranians are fancy-free and variable. She felt he was quite a catch when he did submit to her charms. The attraction was as sudden and exciting as they come. He’d never had sex that good. Later on in a relationship this kind of Uranian pressure can be felt as anarchistic and seperative. Uranian energies are so individualistic that they have a hard time fitting into the confines of a traditional family. She THOUGHT that when married him, that he would know what that meant; but the press has been toying with the phrase “Open Marriage” to describe their union. I don’t see this as at all applying to this marriage from Demi’s point of view. Scorpios do not really want “open marriages”. Only from Ashton’s p.o.v. The whole “open marriage” idea must have come from the radical and progressive Aquarian, Ashton.
It’s not all Ashton’s fault, by any means; Demi’s Saturn is in 5.40 Aquarius, closely conjunct to Ashton’s Mercury, and this is a tough one in marriages, because it means she felt she had much to teach him and get his thinking (especially) organized. She might have fallen into the role of helping him find his own path in life, but she also may have tried to make him think like she did on a variety of issues, political, social, etc. The youth of Mercury is sweet and naive to Saturn, but he surely would have resented her intrusions into his thinking and learning over a period of time. I can hear her telling him “time to grow up, Ashton!” and him replying, “Stop trying to be my mother!”
This is the exact opposite Saturn-action that Demi experienced with her previous husband, and father of all three of her children, Bruce Willis. Again, there was heavy Scorpio action: His Saturn is in 20.53 Scorpio in his chart. Bruce’s Saturn CLOSELY conjuncts Demi’s Sun and Venus. He was like the ultimate father-figure to her, and she was enormously drawn to the power of his authority. Under his teachings, she matured in talent and wisdom. It is a good combination in many respects, especially since the male-female, teacher-student energies were so apt. He could practically play-out one of his macho film-roles with Demi, who would have to ‘take’ whatever he gave her. Eventually, he may have not appreciated her enough, not been able to express his love in a gentle-enough way, or, she may have felt she had simply sat cross-legged before his wisdom too often… enough already! … and they split up. But not before they had three daughters together! I like their chart combination, and I hope they get back together again soon and reminisce about old times. They’re good!
Even so, at some point, Demi had had enough of Bruce’s dominance, and when she eventually (some years later) discovered Ashton, he was as refreshingly different from Bruce Willis as night is from day.
The downfall of the Moore-Kutcher marriage can be seen in Ashton having Mercury, Sun, Moon, Midheaven and Venus all in Aquarius, a sign which ‘squares’ Scorpio, causing tremendous opportunities for media, television (Aquarius), etc., for himself, but various disturbances and upheavals between himself and Demi Moore. This was ALL HIS “open marriage” “free sex”, etc., that typifies this much Aquarian energy. It was brutal to Demi, who could not believe during the course of their marriage, at his unfeeling, unthinking, actions. The recent blow-up could not possibly have been the FIRST such event in their marriage — but it sure was the most publicized, thanks to Sara Leal. Look up the various combinations. I know them by sight, but a student may have to look at each of them to get a real feeling for how separative and negative the two charts are. Try searching: “Sun square Moon synastry” and follow this up with Mercury square Sun, Moon square Moon, etc. (Synastry is the astrological, planet-for-planet comparison of any two people. It’s one of the things I do professionally!) You will find that each search will give you paragraphs of information about why this marriage was doomed.
With this many Aquarius planets, including Sun and Moon, Ashton is totally experimental, totally uninhibited. This is the behavior he allegedly presented to the three girls around the hot tub at the Hard Rock earlier this year, as you can see and hear about in the Leal statement (above). Ashton likes this lack of inhibition so much that he wasn’t looking to have his own children. He is practically too independent to want children at all — which makes me feel Demi’s three daughters must have not been total fans of his… no matter what the publicity folks tell us. I feel very sorry for Demi, because this man has corrupted her life with his antics. He is just not very marriageable, especially to someone as intensely intimate and passionately loyal as Demi, although this totally depends on a chart-by-chart comparison, and blanket statements are never advisable in matters of the heart. I’m sure that “out there” there will be some very well-suited female for Ashton. He needs a lady with 4 planets, including Sun and/or Moon, in Gemini or Libra, who can play some of the same games on him, that he did on Demi. Turn-about is fair play. Everyone meets their match. “Everybody’s somebody’s fool… everyone is somebody’s baby”, as the old song goes. Maybe he should call on Ms. Leal, although she doesn’t seem to have done him any favours with her Us Weekly interview.
If I had 50 pages, I could go back through the lives of all three major participants mentioned here and see how transits, as well as moves from one city to another, affected them. But I did want to mention that Ashton’s choice of San Diego as a place for a naked hot tub party was not advised by an astrologer! A good astrologer would have pointed him somewhere less dangerous. San Diego (July 16, 1769), features Mercury, the planet of NEWS and publicity, (among other things), in 0.14 Leo, opposing Kutcher’s Mercury and conjunct Kutcher’s Mars. Mars brought about fireworks; and the Mercury opposition guaranteed he would NEVER be able to satisfactorily deny or explain what Leal said happened. Saturn in 22.09 Cancer, in an EXACT quincunx to Ashton’s Venus, his planet of love; Uranus, the planet of surprises. squaring his Mercury and Sun.. it doesn’t stop! His chart and San Diego are REALLY a problem for him. Uranus brings that unexpected ‘turn about’ into his life. Mercury brings the PRESS into his so-called private life. Sara Leal squealed on him, but San Diego set it up!
Kutcher obviously didn’t have an astrologer. Knowing the odds helps you gamble in a way that can make a winner out of you. Kutcher just simply — didn’t know the odds! Neither did Demi Moore, or she would never have married him!
Here’s the Us Weekly sensationalism: http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/sara-leal-i-would-never-have-slept-with-ashton-kutcher-if-i-knew-he-was-happily-married-20111811
Thank You! This is fun! I have to do MORE of these. 4 hours on this one. —–Ed
Steve Jobs passed away on October 5, 2011, and all the intervening time since then has been filled with analysis, praise, and retrospection. I wanted to see this entrepreneurial creative genius for myself, so I visited the natal chart calculated by and published in France’s “www.astrotheme.com“, a database which consists of more than 40,000 celebrity and event charts, the largest in the world, and then reproduced it for myself on Germany’s “www.astro.com“ (formerly Astrodienst), site, making sure planetary and other positions matched. I was able to add and/or confirm positions of some asteroids and other bodies.
Family Life and Early Connections
Steve Jobs had a Syrian father and an American graduate student mother who were not married when Steve was born, although they did marry sometime later. It was a clear case of good fortune for mankind that the birth parents decided to have the baby rather than dispose of it during the pregnancy. Happily, unlike during subsequent decades, abortions were very seldom done in the mid-1950′s when Steve was born – and soon after being born on February 15, 1955, the child was happily adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs of Mountain View, California. The father by blood is shown by SUN in 6th House. Sun in the 6th is a rather obscure position. which was the role of the birth father during Steve’s early life. Sun, also being one’s own resilient, resistant vitality, is somewhat weakened in the 6th House. The 6th House relates to affairs akin to Virgo, the 6th Sign, including work, service, and, unfortunately, health, since health would ultimately be a major concern for Steve. Also, there are very few aspects from Sun to other planets, so the birth father’s energy, the knowledge of father and child, as well as overall strength and length of life, were weakened.
Steve’s home life was not so bad, though, someone came along and gave him what he needed — The North Lunar Node, a karmic point that shows where new lessons would be learned; and Ceres, the ‘Grain Goddess’, asteroid which often proclaims a bountiful harvest, were in the 4th House, the house of the Home, along with Venus, the planet of one’s joys and loves, and fulfilment, such as one’s hobbies. It is apparent his adoptive mother and father were both tolerant and generous to him. Steve’s future inventions — the Apple, the Macintosh, the i-Pad, etc., would serve the needs of families in their homes.
You don’t hear much about Steve’s interactions with his siblings, and this is because of the presence of Saturn, the icy, repressive, emotionally distancing planet which removes siblings from sight if it falls in the 3rd House in a person’s natal chart… which is where it is in Steve’s. He did, however, have one full-blooded sister, who went on to become a novelist, but she was not only younger, but born and raised in the family which put Steve up for adoption, so they were nothing to each other as children. The Jobs did adopt more kids, but they were no real relation to Steve. Thus: Saturn in the 3rd House.
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Expansive, Abundant, Positive and Benevolent
The most elevated planets in Steve’s chart are Jupiter and Uranus in conjunction in Cancer in the 10th House, the home of business and career, and one’s ‘visibility’ in the world — how one is seen by others. Jupiter is expansive, abundant, positive, benevolent. It is a money-maker, and here it is, at birth, in the House of career. Jupiter is not always the greatest boon, it can sometimes show a person to be foolhardy, over-optimistic, and a lavish or impulsive spender. Uranus is brilliant, innovative, independent to the point of revolutionism if not anarchism. Added to Jupiter, it makes for ever more impulse and adventure. It is hard to restrain one who has a Jupiter-Uranus conjunction in a prominent place like the 10th House. It is “Give me Freedom, or Give me Death!’ Together, they are a brilliant combination, showing a progressive intellect always looking for “the new”:
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Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn. –Steve Jobs, quoted in: www.brainyquote.comHe also said:
I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I’ve done that sort of thing in my life, but I’ve always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don’t know why. Because they’re harder. (Ibid)
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He was attracted to ‘the more revolutionary changes’ because his planets reveal him to be a revolutionary– scripted from birth.Travel was an important source of Steve’s education, as Jupiter relates to education abroad. Uranus linked with Jupiter shows that both travel AND education would come under unusual, perhaps sudden, circumstances. Education (Jupiter) would certainly be unconventional (Uranus). This explains his Reed College adventure. He left school after just one semester but continued to audit classes much longer, sleeping on the floors of friend’s lodgings and selling coke cans to make the small change to get meals. But he also learned significantly from his travels to India, where he visited the ashram of a Hindu Guru, but came back to the States with his head shorn, as a Buddhist. How many so-called entrepreneurs have ever done that?
Uranus is THE planet of the unconventional, and so it is no surprise that Steve also took a number of ‘trips’ on L.S.D., each of which was certainly the equivalent of a transoceanic journey into distant and formerly unknown lands. While many would scowl at psychedelic drug use, it is believed by many that, used correctly, it can be a teacher: It can transform and inspire. In one way, then, Steve is one of the first experimenters with L.S.D. whom we know must have used the experience in a fresh, positive, innovative way — because it matches his chart, and because it seems to have helped him stand out in every way from the crowd.
But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business. —Steve Jobs. quoted in: www.brainyquote.com
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Steve Jobs was that “different drummer.”
And that is what he needed to do, to be different, and to ‘beat that drum hard’, to become the icon he did. The Uranian (the inventor, the explorer, the surprising anarchist), is not a bad person (Jupiter is good, helpful, productive and kind!) It is shown in his chart; and it means this applies generally, throughout society. We need geniuses. We need geniuses who work hard. (Steve worked hard! See below!) Such people as this are the Thomas Edisons who gave us the brilliant glare of millions of light bulbs where before, there were whale-oil lanterns in the midst of a lot of darkness. Steve Jobs gave us the same kind of results that Edison did, when we look at all his many patents for a multitude of inventions. Score one for the open-minded, progressive, Uranian explorer.
Super-Abundant Use of Innovative Independence and Brilliance
The combination of these two planets also means that Steve made super-abundant use (Jupiter) of his innovative independence and brilliance. Cancer rules the home, the 4th House. Steve’s 4th House of home, is found in the area of his chart that rules business. He made his business out of his home — his Palo Alto garage, in fact, was the first home to Apple Computer. There is an axis in the chart between Venus and Jupiter, and Venus and Uranus. Hobbies (Venus in the house of the home), related to business. His work that started with his friend and early partner Steve Wozniak, on the game, Atari, led to what was eventually a work + home revolution.Uranus conjunction Jupiter equals “free-and-easy”, and Steve’s informal, conversational style, and lack of stiff formality, helped gain backers and early enthusiasts. As he said:
…Innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we’ve been thinking about a problem. —-Steve Jobs, quoted in: www.brainyquote.com
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Workaholism… and an Asteroid
All the major asteroids have now been proven to have important meaning in natal charts. The asteroid Vesta is just three to three-and-a-half degrees from Steve’s Gemini Midheaven. it is therefore the “most highly elevated” of all the orbs in Steve Job’s chart. I do make use of the most prominent asteroids, but astrologer Cathy Burroughs, who is more familiar with Vesta’s energies than I am, says of this same aspect in someone else’s chart;
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With Vesta on the Midheaven within 3 degrees, throughout the career of the native whose chart we are focusing on, this individual frequently veered toward overwork, often teetering on the brink of workaholism
This tendency has been precisely observed by Steve Job’s most familiar partners and friends.Partners and PassionsSpeaking of partners… His female partners are indicated by his natal Moon in Aries in the 7th house. The women in his life were active and aggressive and passionate; they had a mind of their own. When the mother of his first child, Lisa, felt abandoned by Steve, she went up to Oregon to live on a commune (as shown in “Pirates of Silicon Valley” (1999).
How did he deal with these passionate partners? His passions were intense, quick, yet often, just as quickly over; Venus opposition Uranus made sure of that. The anarchism of planet Uranus made the Venus-beams of love energy confused and confusing. His early relationships were fraught with peril for himself and his loves. The mother of his first child had to subsist on welfare for some years because Steve refused to admit his daughter was his. He had the strange idea that he was sterile, unable to conceive children. This was a bit of an exaggeration because he went on to have several more children after his first daughter, Lisa. He was destined to have children (Mercury in the 5th House, the house of children, including at least one boy), but Mercury squared Saturn (5th to 3rd) in the chart, showing misunderstandings, differences of opinion, and negative attitudes shown toward the children, resulting from the interaction of the children around him when he was growing up (3rd = house of Siblings, as mentioned above).
What kept Steve going, inventing, and throwing himself into his career, was the pivotal presence of Mars, the masterful and powerful energy fulcrum of domination and determination which aspects a number of planets in his chart; among them, a trine to Pluto which astrologers say makes one committed, passionate, and determined. As Cafeastrology.com says of this aspect between birth planets (for anyone, not just Steve Jobs):
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“For you, it’s all or nothing. You are baffled by, and possibly impatient with, others who do things halfway or half-heartedly.”
And that’s exactly what we’ve heard about Steve Jobs… insisting on perfection; firing someone he suspected of shirking or not giving 110% of his energy; pushing his employees to unheard of clock-hours; possessing a commanding and authoritative “aura”. And yet — linked with Neptune, opposed by Neptune, which represents the IDEAL. The same ideal which made him visit India to listen to the pandits and gurus; the same Neptune which drove him to drive those around him at Apple and Pixar to unheard-of dedication and discovery.
Steve Jobs had a 4 degree trine between Mars and Pluto, from Aries to Leo. The greatest inventor of the 19th Century, Thomas Edison, had a 6 degree trine between them, as well.
Desperate Decisions; Nobody Lives Forever… But Why So Young?
Sixth House Sun (health, not the best house for one’s vitality or longevity, as I hinted above) and Eighth House Mars (house of death, sex, regeneration). Moon in the sign ruled by Mars (Aries). Pluto in the 12th, the house of secrets and ‘skeletons in the closet’, perhaps of illnesses that people don’t want to think about, and therefore, don’t get treated properly. All of this points toward Steve NOT living to his 80′s or 90′s. No, he lived until his mid-50′s. Let’s explore why.Mars can lead to a wonderful sex-life, because in the 8th House there is much passion as well as intensity of a high order. It is similar to a Mars in Scorpio or Sun conjunction Mars energy when it comes to sex. But Mars since the most ancient times has been also linked to accidents, battles, (in the 8th House it would mean battles over other people’s money, inheritance and the like… reminiscent of Steve’s fights with his Board of Directors on several occasions. There is also a role which Mars plays in infections and illnesses: it can also lead to physical problems that can lead to dangerous operations. In Steve’s case it was a tumor on his pancreas. There is an exact opposition between Mars and Neptune in his chart; Neptune can be a planet of confusion, possibly deception or more likely, self-deception. Steve’s Mars and Neptune are extremely close by aspect, just a handful of minutes of longitude apart, and it is true that the closer the aspect, the more powerful the meaning thereof. Neptune highlighted in this way, makes for dilemmas having to do with diagnosis, not to mention treatment. Remember the idealism we spoke about in regards to Neptune? In opposition to Mars, it implies a dangerous teeter-totter of a possibly dangerous illness (Mars) and a hope-against-hope that looks to various modalities and treatments. Neptune also show a hard-to-diagnose, hard-to-treat situation. So there is just a lot of difficulty in knowing exactly HOW to handle the pancreatic Cancer and its aftermath.
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Steve Jobs squeezed four or five useful years into his life despite the debilities of the disease and the procedures which attempted to treat it. With Mars the planet of operations, paired with Neptune, a planet of confusion, there was, no matter how rich, how powerful Steve was in life, a confusion (Neptune) about how to go about treating the diseases that afflicted him. Would he even have an operation? (Mars) or would he try some other, more starry-eyed path (Neptune)? If he hesitated in deciding, or if he made the wrong choice in what kind of operation he undertook — the results could be fatal, even if prolonged by the best of care… Even a billionaire has a hard time overcoming the dangers of an 8th House Mars in exact opposition to Neptune. And that’s exactly what’s shown on his chart.
In the end, we can remember Steve Jobs for his public persona. as shown by his 10th House Jupiter and Uranus; and his ingenious addiction to making his work hugely significant and stimulating. (Mars trine Pluto and Vesta conjunct the Midheaven!) Just like Edison, Jobs brought light and excitement to the world which had been a darker, clunkier place before he came onto the scene. One final quote about his faith and vision in the future:
You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. -—Steve Jobs, quoted in www.brainyquote.com.
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I guess I don’t get around very much, because I wasn’t even aware until yesterday that a girl named Meredith Kercher had been murdered, and that another young lady, Amanda Knox, had been convicted of the crime in Perugia, in Italy… held 4 years in prison… and then had her conviction overturned, so that she could return back to the United States. Nor did I knowt that many believed Amanda was innocent and put-up a big storm of protest that she was railroaded into a conviction. All those supporters and family are naturally relieved that she has been released. . A client of mine suggested I have a look at their planets to see if it looked possible that Meredith could have been Amanda’s victim. After viewing the two charts, I would have to say: even though she was released, a cloud of suspicion still hangs over Amanda Knox… it is there, in the stars!
Since I actually know SO FEW details about the case, maybe I can give a unbiased analysis.
My client sent me a German language astro.com chart from her eyrie in Bavaria. Here’s a link to that chart, if you’d like to follow along: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_geGm51dlG5o/TQ5Xccri_cI/AAAAAAAAJB8/gTzmquIYFoI/s1600/amanda-meredith.gif
I am going to look at the RAW COMPONENTS of the two charts, in comparison with each other. I am not going to rewind the clock and inquire about the murder scene, mutual friends, etc. A straight comparison ought to give us quite a bit information.
The comparison of charts between Amanda Knox and Meredith Kercher is almost diabolical. These are two ladies who made a big mistake in ever becoming friends. I presume they were friends, because their planets work in a kind of parallel way with each other. The potential which I see when comparing the two charts is that Amanda dominated Meredith terribly at times, but Meredith gave back, as good as she got, although she was always more ‘the lady’ than Amanda. SUN in Amanda’s chart was right on Meredith’s MOON, and this typically means that the Sun person leads and the Moon person follows. SATURN in Amanda’s chart weighed down poor Meredith’s MERCURY, showing perhaps that Amanda critiqued and mentored Meredith in some ways, both may also have sought to attack or control her thinking –, almost telling her what to do, where to go, and what to believe. Atr the very least, Amanda had something to TEACH Meredith… that’s what Saturn does, when it is not putting-down poor Mercury’s ideas.
Meredith fell in love easily (Venus conjunction Neptune), Amanda doesn’t fall in love, she mainly just has sex, and very experimentally, often in brief affairs. (Venus conjunction Uranus). She may be bi-sexual, since variety is her spice of life.
Meredith, who. despite being a “live wire” (Mercury conjunction Uranus), was not always understood by others. People with Mercury conjunction Uranus are unpredictable and often make slower people nervous, so she had to look far and wide to find people who could keep up with her. That person was Amanda Knox. Meredith loved music and had great sensitivity, took life and love more seriously than did Amanda.
Meredith got dreamy about mature, possibly well-heeled guys (Venus, Neptune and Sun in Capricorn), whereas Amanda ma have liked them younger and projected a softer, more innocent image than her friend (Venus, Mercury and Sun in Cancer), although that image did not quite match-up to the truth. Amanda liked well-to-do guys (3 planets in the 2nd House, the House of Money and Finance), and showed a certain amount of domesticity more than Meredith dud, Amanda, with those 2nd House planets, may have ‘lucked out’ onto sources of money early in life/ She may have often thought in terms of money, with Venus, the planet of love, in the House of Money.
Amanda’s Mars, the action and anger “male-energy” planet, squares the Mars-Pluto conjunction of Meredith; meanwhile, Mars squares Pluto in Amanda’s chart. They were both tough when it came to what they wanted. Meredith was possessive and possibly aggressive sexually, with Mars and Pluto both in the intense sign of Scorpio; certainly, she would have wanted sex (Mars Pluto conjunction) and control of a man, just as much as the softer, gentler kinds of love (Venus-Neptune conjunction), and Amanda’s planets clashed with Meredith’s in this regard. Sex was going to be rough, and if they were at all actually involved sexually with each other, or in sex scenes involving 3rd parties, then “rough” might be a good word to characterize their activities, but it is not at all certain that they were lovers; but even if they were, they were definitely going to be at cross-purposes and Mars square the other person’s Pluto is a strong sign of a violent clash. as the egos were bound to fight; Mars square Mars shows they were working against each other, and perhaps got relationships with guys crossed-up as well!
Mars squares Jupiter in Amanda’s chart. She laughs and loves and spends money like it is going out of style, so look for a financial motive of some kind if it turns out she was involved in Meredith’s demise, as seems very possible.
Moon conjunction Uranus in Amanda’s chart trines her own natal Jupiter, which is in her 12th House, the house of Secrets, Mysteries, and Self-Undoing. This indicates her fondness for travel abroad should be curbed; 12th House Jupiter means there is danger of all kinds of problems from foreign travel, including, possibly incarceration. But on the other hand, she may travel widely, not choosing to stay in any one place for very long (Moon with Uranus is inconstant), where many new and unexpected things would happen. Jupiter gives her a lot of self-confidence, which exacerbates the Moon-Uranus tendency to do the unexpected, and to have sudden ups and down in feelings about others. This is a mixed situation, because Jupiter is somewhat protective in this aspect with the Moon; she certainly has powerful friends who ‘go to bat’ for her. These friends make her look better than perhaps she is. With Jupiter’s influence encouraging her Moon-Uranus conjunction, I am surprised Amanda didn’t get away with murder, in a foreign country. It seems she was convicted!
Have a look at one of my recent e-books about crime: http://www.edaugusts.com/?page_id=2757
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Melencolia by Albrecht Durer, 1514
Everyone has an Anti-Birthday! It’s the day exactly six months after their birthday. Usually, if a person has a decent-enough chart without major natal complications, the period of 3 or 4 days before the anti-birthday will be felt as a kind of dull, numb, sluggish period. Nothing “bad” has to happen, and it usually doesn’t. But there is a feeling of passivity in the air, a feeling that you’re being pulled along by others.
A client and I had a dinner date. The date came. The client called: “You really want to go out tonight?” It didn’t sound very encouraging. “Not if you don’t want to!”
The next day, we could have gone out again. But that was yesterday. Tucson was hit by a big thunderstorm that even spouted some funnel-clouds! We didn’t even talk on the phone.
Why not? Why didn’t we even talk on the phone? It was their ANTI-BIRTHDAY yesterday! They were sunk in a blue funk and unlikely to even leave the house – and the rainstorm and lightening fit the situation – to a “T’.
WHY do Anti-Birthdays have this effect? The reasons for this are several. If you were born an emotionally responsive Pisces, then the days of Virgo, and the energy of Virgo, the opposite sign, are often too exacting, efficient and wearisome for you. You feel people are extracting things from you during this time, and maybe you just want to be left alone!
But there is an even more astrological reason for feeling a bit “off”, and that is because the Sun, the glowing heart of our personal and planetary system, is coming to a point exactly opposite where it was when one was born. This produces a kind of tidal pull, and some people are bent or swayed at such a time. There may also be a feeling of needing to shift gears, but the response is often one to just relax and watch the world go by. The ball (Sun) is in the other guy’s (opposite sign’s) court, not yours, at this time, and HE (or she) has the ability to whack the ball back at you while you have to be alert and watchful for what’s going to happen next!
I was married to a Sagittarius lady for five years. I’m a Gemini. Gemini and Sagittarius are opposite signs. Whenever the Sun went into Sagittarius in late November, she had a series of good things happen, mostly in her career. But at the same time – I was a spectator, it was hard to participate in the stuff going on when you are in the opposite sign. The opposite situation held true every May and June. The situation is not quite so simplistic, of course; a lto of other factors need to be looked at. If a person is born with a very difficult chart, then it is likely that their ANTI-birthday might give them some positive feelings and events.
There is good news, though! Newton’s Third Law is often misstated as follows: “For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction…” That’s not exactly what Newton said. But in this case, I think such a statement applies to the reality that follows the highs and lows of birthday and anti-birthday.. The days immediately FOLLOWING one’s Anti-Birthday are often filled with a rebound of more positive energy. Almost always, the days right AFTER the Anti-Birthday have something good to be said about them. Positive things may very well happen in these days, 3 or 4 days, anyway, which follow the less energetic, “turning inward” days of the Anti-Birthday. Hey! I’m going out to dinner tonight. You see?
