Month: April 2018

  

 

Controversial views on gender and identity politics have shot an obscure Canadian clinical psychologist and academic to fame. Jordan Peterson, known as ‘the cowboy philosopher’,  has waded into the linguistic morass around the transgender debate and been challenging the orthodoxies of political correctness and the culture of victimhood he believes is sweeping across university campuses in the West. His book is a best-seller; his You Tube videos have 50 million views and his lectures are sell-out. The New York Times describes him as ‘the most influential public intellectual in the Western world.’

He has a special interest in the dangers of totalitarian ideologies and believes that academia is in the grip of an accepted worldview that is doing damage. He believes young men are struggling to find themselves faced with accusations of toxic masculinity; that part of the gender pay gap is because women often opt for jobs which are more agreeable and pay less. His musings tie together self-help edicts with wisdom from Carl Jung, Nietzsche and Dostoesvky. And he rails against the University obsessions with ‘white privilege’, ‘safe spaces,’ ‘institutional racism’, diversity, equity, inclusivity. Never mind the alphabet soup of the multifarious choices of gender pronouns.

[I’ve just discovered – having had to look it up – that I am cisgender, which bizarrely means same gender as my body.]

 

Born 12 June 1962, he is a Sun and Mercury in Gemini trine Saturn in Aquarius probably trine a Libra Moon. Not that dissimilar the Laura Ingraham. He has a strong Mars in Taurus opposition Neptune square Saturn opposition a North Node in Leo, which last can often indicate leadership potential. He’s also got a powerfully and pushily confident Pluto opposition Jupiter square Mercury. He’s got communication written across his chart and he’ll be highly strung with a focal point Mutable Mercury. Though he’s also stubborn and enduring with a Fixed Grand Cross. He has planets in all three Water signs – and an Air/Water chart can be finely balanced between reason and emotion. He does suffer from depression.

His 5^th, 13^th and 17^th Harmonics are all notable – so he might make a few dents in the orthodoxies which so enrage him.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/did-controversial-psychologist-jordan-peterson-become-right/

  

 

Laura Ingraham, a conservative US TV and radio presenter, has taken a week’s vacation after mocking one of the Florida shooting survivors. He retaliated by naming advertisers on her show and suggesting they boycott her. 11 have pulled out so far.

Born 18 June 1963 8.55am Glastonbury Connecticut (no idea of time source) she has previous form. When editor of a college newspaper, she forcibly outed LGBT students to their friends and family after they attended a confidential meeting. She changed her views later watching her gay brother and partner suffering from AIDs. But she’s still far-right, pro-Trump, anti-immigration, anti-same sex marriage.

She has an 11^th house Gemini Sun in trine to a cool, can-be-domineering Saturn in Aquarius; with a startling square of Moon, Mercury, Venus in Gemini square Uranus, Mars, Pluto in Virgo. That is one angry lady with volcanic emotional responses. Mars Pluto types are often haters; many shock jocks and others have hard aspects. Air sign charts can surprisingly sometimes be ideologues and not of a liberal persuasion.

She also has a wide Yod of Neptune in Scorpio sextile Pluto inconjunct Jupiter in Aries. Such a focal point Jupiter can be undone by over-confidence.

At the moment her Solar Arc Saturn is conjunct her Jupiter dampening her enthusiasm. With the exception of one upbeat Jupiter midpoint in 2018/19, she’s got a run of difficulties ahead – major disruptions late this month into May, worse in July and on. With mental strain, obstacles and angst through 2019 to 2021.

If the birth time is sound tr Uranus will conjunct her MC from mid May which could point to a sharp change of forced direction in her career.