Glenn Close has won the SAG Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role for The Wife pitching up her hopes for the Oscars which she has never won despite many nominations.
Born 19 March 1947 2.12 pm Greenwich, Connecticut, she has an intense 8th house Pisces Sun and a talented Air Grand Trine of Uranus trine Neptune trine Venus in Aquarius. Exactly now tr Jupiter is opposing her Uranus for a lucky break and a morale boost. Unfortunately that will have moved on by late February and the only two transits she has then aren’t helpful. Though tr Jupiter will continue through her 5th house boosting her presence in the spotlight all year into 2020 and there’s a good deal ahead for her.
If she doesn’t make it this year then her best bets looks around 2022/23 when tr Pluto is sextile her Jupiter and conjunct her Sun/Jupiter midpoint.
For a fuller run down on her chart and life see post September 23 2018.
Is there method in Rudi Giuliani’s madness? Or has he become “a shell of himself talking gibberish” according to one political strategist, who mourns the passing of a once serious man. Giuliani was renowned as the fearless prosecutor who took down the mafia, the mayor who cleaned up a crime-ridden New York and the hero of 9/11. But ever since he joined Trump’s legal team he has been leaping in with both feet on cable TV to push the president deeper into jeopardy on various topics – payments to Stormy Daniels in violation of campaign finances rules and Russian collusion for two. And then promptly having to backtrack when his remarks raised eyebrows.
Born 28 May 1944 2.30pm New York, he’s fairly similar to Trump with an erratic, scattered Sun Uranus in Gemini but in his case it’s pulled together in a mini Grand Trine to Neptune, sextiling a formidable Mars Pluto conjunction in Leo. So he’s not short of courage or relentless determination. His Mars Pluto is also square an 8th house Mercury in Taurus so he’s got trenchant opinions which he’ll fire off aggressively.
His torrid love life will come not just from a wayward Gemini Sun but also an indulgent Venus in Taurus square a flamboyant Jupiter Moon in Leo which will also make him a publicity junkie.
This year will upset his applecart with tr Neptune opposing his Sun/Saturn midpoint in April, which Ebertin describes as ‘a mental, emotional or physical crisis’ and that is at the same time as a loss-making tr Pluto opposition his Jupiter/Saturn midpoint which often affects careers negatively. With high insecurity and considerable jolts in May onwards as tr Uranus squares his focal point Mars Pluto on and off for the rest of the year.
It’s not that sensible a connection for Trump since Giuliani’s Saturn is conjunct Trump’s Sun which will have a dampening affect. Their relationship chart which has an overly confident composite Sun Uranus square Jupiter is on a disappointing downhill slide at the moment, worsening through February, more so in May onwards.
UK actor Richard E Grant has received his first ever nomination for an Oscar for best supporting actor for his performance alongside Melissa McCarthy in Can You Ever Forgive Me? He’s had a quixotic career, constantly in work but moving across the genres. He says he intends to enjoy the LA feste since he says everyone knows that Green Book’s Mahershala Ali will win in his category. But for all that he looks fairly chipper.
Born 5 May 1957 in Swaziland he grew up in southern Africa before relocating to London in his mid twenties. He’s a Sun, Mercury, Venus in Taurus with his Venus in a charming square to Pluto and sociable trine to Jupiter in Virgo. Over the Oscars tr Pluto will be exactly trine his Jupiter which will boost his confidence and attract success. Though perhaps being nominated will be enough reward for him and lead onto other work.
Olivia Colman, 30 January 1974, is nominated for Best Actress for The Favourite, having already won a Golden Globe for the role. She’s definitely on a roll with her Solar Arc Pluto square her Jupiter still in effect from last year; and Solar Arc Jupiter opposition her Pluto in 2019.
She’s a Sun, Jupiter, Mercury in Aquarius onto an Air Grand Trine to Saturn and Uranus – intelligent, chatty, detached. She’s also got tr Uranus square her Venus over the Oscars so a time of high emotional excitement.
Bryan Singer, director of the very successful Freddie Mercury bio-pic Bohemian Rhapsody until he was fired just before the end of shooting, has been the subject of an expose by The Atlantic alleging sexual misconduct that has haunted him throughout his career. See url below. Over the past two decades his movies have earned over $3 billion, so no surprises the industry is reluctant to sideline him.
Singer was born 17 September 1965, the same day as the Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, and a week after Bashar Assad of Syria. He is a Sun Virgo, with chaotic Uranus Mercury Pluto in Virgo opposition Saturn in Pisces probably square a Gemini Moon, and sextile Mars Neptune in Scorpio. He also has Venus in Scorpio.
Not an easy personality, that’s for sure, and emotionally all over the place. Over the years various allegations have been made against him from underage boys (see wiki) which were dismissed but have revived with the Spacey scandal erupting.
Tr Neptune has been undermining his Uranus, Mercury, Pluto through last year and this; but more significantly his Solar Arc Sun has moved to conjunct his Neptune now and then his Mars in a year’s time – the first of which will weaken and compromise him; and the second usually brings a collision of sorts. So instead of victims being buried beneath a tsunami of denials, it’ll be his turn to sink below the surface.
A peaceful activist for women’s rights is still imprisoned in Saudi Arabia along with nine other women who say they have endured torture. Loujain Al-Hathoul campaigned for years to allow women the right to drive. The Crown Prince Bin Salman was applauded by the west when he granted women such rights but shortly beforehand he mystifyingly had her and other campaigners rearrested. “She said she had been held in solitary confinement, beaten, waterboarded, given electric shocks, sexually harassed and threatened with rape and murder. She was shaking uncontrollably, unable to hold her grip, to walk or sit normally,” said her sister, Alia al-Hathloul.
Born 31 July 1989, she’s an ultra-determined Sun Leo square Pluto in Scorpio; with the triple conjunction of Uranus, Saturn, Neptune in Capricorn which can have a focus on improving society and bringing in reforms.
Her Pluto is conjunct the Saudi Arabia 10th house North Node and Midheaven in vengeful Scorpio and squares the Saudi Mars in uncompromising Aquarius – so she will pose a threat to the country’s archaic attitudes.
Her chart also clashes with MBS’s controlling Fixed Grand Cross of Jupiter opposition Venus square Pluto opposition Taurus North Node; and their relationship chart has an argumentative, competitive composite Sun Mars conjunction.
She’s looking at a low ebb at the moment with her Solar Arc Neptune opposing her Sun with Solar Arc Saturn following behind in a year’s time. She will get some cheer from a couple of transits to Jupiter midpoints this month and in July but on the whole looks very discouraged.
Mind you even if international pressure forced her release from prison (unlikely) she’d still be a broken woman for a long time after these experiences.
“Loujain’s abuse exemplifies the methods of Saudi thuggish and lawless leadership, hellbent on exacting sadistic vengeance against any citizen who dares to think freely,” Sarah Leah Whitson of Human Rights Watch said.
The Saudi Arabia Sun, Saturn, Jupiter in Capricorn will get pounded by the tr Saturn Pluto conjunction over the next couple of years which might crush some of their arrogance; and tr Neptune is moving round their Mutable T Square involving the Moon from this year till the mid 2020s which might – or might not – see an end to their mediaeval attitudes to women.
Michel Legrand, the French composer, who won three Oscars during a career spanning more than half a century, has died. He first won for The Windmills of Your Mind from The Thomas Crown Affair, and again for his music for Summer of ’42, and Yentl. He worked with everyone who was anyone in the music business, popular as well as jazz and latterly in classical music writing a piano concerto and a ballet. He was indefatigable and had been scheduled to hold concerts in Paris in April.
Born 24 February 1932 12.21 pm Paris, France (astrotheme) with a composer father who left when he was young and a mother herself the daughter of a conductor, he turned to music very young. He refused to go to school and taught himself to write music while left alone at home.
He was a Sun and midheaven in Pisces opposition Neptune so well-suited to a musical and filmic career; with flamboyant Jupiter in Leo in an adventurous trine to Uranus Venus in Aries. His Venus Uranus also squared Pluto, so he’d be constantly seeking change and excitement both emotionally and creatively.
Michael Jackson’s legacy will never be the same again say film critics who sat through Leaving Neverland, a gruelling four-hour documentary about sexual abuse allegations against the late King of Pop at the Sundance Festival. It features interviews from two men and their families, who detail “a portrait of sustained exploitation and deception, documenting the power of celebrity that allowed a revered figure to infiltrate the lives of starstruck children and their parents”. They talk of being made to watch hardcore porn and given alcohol aged seven, were persuaded women were evil; and as they grew older were replaced as the ‘special ones’ by younger boys. The Michael Jackson estate is shrieking blue murder and denying everything, calling it character assassination and pointing to the not-proven trials that were held.
It would have to be said I thought this argument had been categorically proven beyond all reasonable doubt years ago. Clearly not.
Jackson was born 29 August 1958 in Gary, Indiana with various birth times though 11.43pm is feasible with a scary-father 4th house Sun Pluto in Virgo – given the stories of his childhood with an abusive father. He had a 10th house musical Moon in Pisces in an emotionally chilly square to Saturn in defensive Sagittarius. With a sensual and determined Mars in Taurus in a none-too-sensitive square to Venus Mercury in Leo And an entertaining Jupiter in the 5th which is also the house ruling of children.
A 4th house Pluto would give him an obsessive need for control in his adult home life.
His superstar 22nd harmonic is strong and creative; but his what-brings-him-pleasure 9H is stark and ruthless.
For some posthumous predictions given the chart reflects his image – tr Uranus is opposing his 5th house Jupiter exactly now, shining a light in hidden places; and tr Pluto is about to trine his Mars from mid February on and off till late 2020 which can be a crushing, humiliating experience. And last but not least tr Neptune is about to conjunct his 10th house Moon within a few weeks, hanging around into 2020 which is undermining where status is concerned.
He certainly had a horrendous childhood, not only being beaten, but also being made to perform as a singing act in strip clubs. And clearly his emotional development got stunted. Which is no excuse for the celebrity mad parents who put their children in harm’s way, nor the general public’s inability to see what’s staring them in the face.
George Clooney has firmly denied rumours that his marriage is to split after tabloid stories emerged about Amal fleeing to Sardinia with their twins after an explosive row. It’s a par for the course with celebrities who according to fan mags are either getting hitched to people they barely know or are constantly on the brink of divorce.
However the explosive row might well be true. Their relationship chart has an exceptionally close and tied together Grand Trine of Sun trine Neptune trine Mars, formed into a Kite by Sun in a possessive opposition to Pluto. Since early December running till early February tr Uranus has been square the Mars on one leg of the composite Grand Trine, which would lift the lid off feelings which had been simmering in a fairly inflammatory way – and shifting the relationship onto a different track in the time ahead.
It’s not an intuitively easy match since she is a Sun Venus in Aquarius with a Sagittarius Moon, while he is a Sun Taurus with a Moon Saturn in Capricorn Moon – she’s emotionally detached and outspoken; while he’s indulgent, practical, probably quite self-centred since Taurus likes life to revolve around their needs and pleasures.
Her Uranus squares his Sun Mercury and her Mars opposes his Saturn Moon, so there will be rough edges and flare ups along the way. His Neptune squares her Sun Venus so he’ll be evasive, not easy to pin down at times.
He does look rattled in February (next month) and the recent Lunar Eclipse fell exactly on his Mars at zero Leo, so it would create both insecurity and bad-temper.
There’s nothing on his personal chart that would suggest a terminal split; or on their wedding chart which has been under a Saturnine cloud recently but that will lift soonish. And their relationship chart while wilting a touch with some disappointment this year with tr Neptune conjunct the composite Venus, should ease up after Uranus moves off the Mars aspect in the first week of next month.
Roger Stone, a political strategist and long-time ally of Trump, has been arrested in Florida, charged with seven counts in the Mueller probe – for obstruction of an official proceeding, five counts of false statements, and one count of witness-tampering.
The charges are linked to an alleged Russian-led hack into the emails of Democratic Party officials and their subsequent release by WikiLeaks in the run up to the 2016 US election. According to BBC’s Anthony Zurcher, ‘The move marks a significant development in this nearly two-year legal drama. For the first time a member of Mr Trump’s inner circle, albeit an informal one, is facing charges directly related to Russian election meddling – the central thrust of the special counsel’s investigation.’
Born 27 August 1952 in Connecticut, Stone is a political lobbyist and consultant having worked for Nixon and Reagan and other Republicans; and is a long-time business associate of Paul Manafort. He is a self-confessed ‘dirty trickster’ and says his MO is ‘Attack, attack, attack—never defend” and “Admit nothing, deny everything, launch counterattack.”
He has a Virgo Sun but his chart is dominated by a fearsome, controlling and opportunistic Fixed Grand Cross of Mars (Moon) in Scorpio opposition Jupiter in Taurus square Pluto opposition North Node in Aquarius – ultra-controlling, not given to social niceties, will cut corners to get what he wants, stubborn to the nth degree and vengeful.
He’s unlikely to roll over and play nice for the authorities and giving in is hardly his style. But for all that despite a bullish front from tr Pluto trine his Jupiter through 2019, he looks disheartened, untypically panicked and facing a run of disastrous setbacks this July and onwards into 2020.
His relationship chart with Trump isn’t as beneficial as their long connection would suggest with a mutually unsupportive composite Mars Neptune conjunction; though that is balanced by an expansive Sun Jupiter. It looks on high alert at the moment till mid-February with tr Uranus square the composite Sun; and stressed from tr Neptune in hard aspect to the composite Mars/Pluto; with some relief in April, but mounting concern in June and on.
