Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman has been whipped off to a supermax high-security prison within hours of being sentenced to life for drug offences after an escape plan was allegedly uncovered. A former drug cartel boss he’s already escaped twice from Mexican prisons where he was serving long sentences for murder and drug trafficking. He exported more drugs to the US than any other trafficker in history; and descriptions of his killing chamber at home and other tales are stomach-churning.
Born 4 April 1957, he’s a Sun Venus in pro-active Aries sextile/trine a hard-edged Mars opposition Saturn, which latter was the old astrological signature for an assassin.
His get-it-together and can-be-dominating 5th Harmonic is strong with a fanatical T Square onto Neptune fittingly enough. His ‘serial-killer’ 18H is marked by a stressed Yod.
Although the Mexican President is unbelievably calling his sentence ‘inhumane’ and he complained his solitary confinement during the trial was ‘torture’, he looks in reasonable form ahead. Confused a touch this year and next and stalled, he also has moments of high confidence with more picking up in 2020/21. He’s been ordered to forfeit nearly $13 billion. If he tucked some of that into the wrong pocket he might well be breathing fresh air at some point down the line.
The only way he gets a relative break is to name names! Facilitators are key to any Kingpin’s success.
Regarding the Mars opposition Saturn – it’s interesting that you say it’s the traditional marker of an assassin – I’ve seen Mars/Saturn crop up with remarkable regularity in the charts of men who experienced their fathers as tyrannical and narcissistic. These men are often really driven and workaholic. Looking at Guzman’s background, it appears that not only did his father physically abuse him as a child, it was through his father that he entered the drug trade.
It’s also very associated with the military since that is a form of socially sanctioned killing. But definitely hints at cruelty in the father. It does engender self-discipline, guts and perseverance so not entirely unhelpful.