Michael Wolff, who has lit a fuse under Trump with his Fire and Fury expose, is known as a ‘provocateur and media polemicist’ with a liking for stirring up arguments and is not above adding his own creative touches to his tales and inventing quotes. Not all of what he writes can be taken as gospel, however appealing the juicier titbits are.
Born 27 August 1953, he is, as befits a sort of journalist, a Sun Virgo. But what drives his chart is a ruthlessly determined, angry and flamboyant Mars Pluto Mercury in Leo, sextile expansive Jupiter on one side and Saturn Neptune on the other. When push comes to shove, he’ll bulldoze his way ahead.
This looks a year of high excitement, lots of publicity and some major disruptions for him. His Solar Arc Mars is conjunct his Neptune and square his Uranus, around now – which will certainly draw him into the public eye, though he may be quaking in his boots with trepidation since Mars Uranus can be insecure. February looks bullishly confident. In March tr Pluto will start to oppose his Uranus and square his Neptune from late month which looks confused, devastated and a complete turnaround in his life. That will run on through 2019, when he’s up against all manner of obstacles. April looks very jangled but also confident at the same time. These Uranus influences can go either way, perhaps tipping him into the history books as the man who brought down a president; or collapsing his life as it stands at present. It certainly won’t be the same by the end of this year.
His Pluto Mercury is conjunct Trump’s Mars, so a mighty clash of personalities – mind you they don’t seem that different. Wolff’s Uranus is conjunct Trump’s Saturn with Wolff’s Neptune Saturn square – so he homes in on Trump’s fear of being unloved. Their relationship chart does have a friendly composite Sun Venus, but that is being blown to smithereens come March/April this year. More pointedly it also has a megaton composite Pluto Jupiter Mars – plenty of scope for one-upmanship games in there.
This was always going to be Trump’s month from hell, running on from December, with tr Uranus whipping up a storm as it crashes into his Sun/Mars, Mercury/Pluto and Venus/Saturn midpoints – 1) impulsive, over-excited, overtaxing strength; (2) fanatical, great mental strain; 3) emotional stress, acute loneliness. Mercury/Pluto especially is usually highlighted when there are huge psychological pressures bearing down.
His Progressed Moon is now in his 12th house, always an introspective and can-be-discouraging time especially for those with no insight into themselves. It will be conjunct his 12th house Pluto in less than a month, bringing dark thoughts and a sense of being humiliated and trapped; and the Progressed Moon stays in his 12th for another 18 months.
Also building up a head of steam for him are two Solar Arcs – Solar Arc Uranus conjunct his Mars, exact in less than six months’ time and Solar Arc Mercury square his Uranus in about 7 months. Both of those will put considerable strain on his self-esteem, perhaps to breaking point, given what we can see at the moment; and could trigger early. He’s likely to continue to be intemperate, hot-headed and determined to prove its machismo by wild actions – unless he’s stopped by colleagues or Mother Nature.