Charlie Chaplin was born within days of Adolf Hitler so will have certain similar markers on his chart. What does the loveable little tramp have in common with a murderous monster?

There are different ways of living out a chart’s energy and while it’s not a concept I’m comfortable with it can be partly explained in terms of the evolution of the soul that incarnates into that particular chart – more primitive or more advanced. There is also a mysterious ‘something’ which the astrology doesn’t pinpoint which will raise one individual to prominence and leave another in obscurity. There are likely to be several born with Picasso’s birth chart who may well have been creative but they never became world famous.

But in this particular example there may be more temperamental similarities than the public image suggests, with the caveat that Chaplin’s birth date wasn’t recorded – reckoned to be around April 16 1889. So it’s likely that Chaplin had a late Aries Sun to Hitler’s Taurus Sun, born 20 April 1889, which would make a difference. However they both almost certainly shared the earthy, sexually-driven, insensitive  Venus Mars in Taurus in a cruel/heartless square to Saturn in wannabe-important Leo.

Peter Ackroyd’s biography of Chaplin draws a few parallels – both men had drunken fathers and nervous mothers. There were patterns of madness and illegitimacy in the family tree. They were short and sported an identical moustache. They had marked histrionic skills, each man ‘appealing to millions of people with an almost mesmeric magic’. They were despotic towards underlings.

That Chaplin was a monster isn’t in doubt. He was a predatory sex offender, constantly bedding underage girls and had a frighteningly out-of-control temper. The sweetness of his screen image wasn’t borne out in the reality of his life. One assistant director described him as ‘a tyrannical, wounding, authoritative, mean, despotic man.’ His fourth wife Oona, who was nearly thirty six years younger than him, took to drink to escape his rages.

Chaplin did have an unthinkable childhood bouncing between an insane mother, the workhouse and home for destitute children and when his mother was despatched to the lunatic asylum suffering from the effects of untreated syphilis, he was handed over to his alcoholic father who died two years later of cirrhosis. A Dickensian nightmare. Instead of crushing him it seemed to have developed a megalomaniac desire to become famous – which he duly did.

Hitler’s childhood wasn’t as gothic though he did clash with his father. He also followed his dream with astonishing self-belief given his background.

Brazil’s rainforest is being burnt at an increasingly worrying rate, up 84% on last year, as the new Government under Jair Bolsonaro has made it clear their sympathies are with loggers rather than the indigenous groups who live in the forest. Farmers are clearing land for crop fields and cattle ranches because the new regime is keen to open up the region to economic activity. After an international outcry Bolsonaro ludicrously blamed NGOs for setting the fires.

He took over as President on 1 January 2019 at 4.50pm which puts Sun, Saturn, Pluto in the 8^th suggesting dirty-dealings in secret as well as major financial problems. Plus a slippery and ineffectual Neptune in the 10^th.

Born 21 March 1955,2.45pm Sao Paulo, Brazil, he’s a former Army officer, infamous for his racist, homophobic and misogynistic remarks and has a brutal and unbudgeable chart with Mars in Taurus opposition Saturn square Pluto opposition Moon Venus in Aquarius. He will be fairly impervious to pressure.   Though financial considerations may pull him back to some degree if international pressure keeps up.

See previous post January 2 2019.

Batshit crazy was one description of Trump after his latest series of unhinged ramblings. The Guardian remarked that his impromptu speech on the White House driveway had “swept away all previous Trumpian benchmarks for incoherence, self-aggrandizement, prevarication and rancor in a presidency that has seemed before to veer loosely along the rails of reason but may never have come quite so close to spectacularly jumping the tracks.”

His Messiah complex reached new heights with the ‘I am the Chosen One’ as he referred to himself as the King of Israel; he insulted the Danish PM, denied starting a trade war with China, praised Putin, blamed everyone in sight for anything that was going wrong and generally flew in the face of rational facts and reality. In a subsequent speech he was also slurring words badly even relatively simple ones.

The 25th Amendment hashtag went viral – Presidents unfit for office. Andrew Johnson, POTUS 1865 to 1869, was cited, whose impeachment related his “intemperate, inflammatory and scandalous harangues.” Though his chart, 29 December 1808, is not remotely similar to Trump’s with a pushily confident Jupiter Pluto in Pisces and a Capricorn Sun in an aggressive square to Mars.

Trump’s Solar Return for this year from June onwards does have Saturn Pluto in the 10^th which does point to a complete career roadblock and damage to reputation, especially since it is in an infuriated and trapped opposition to a 4^th house Mars and Mercury; plus a head-in-the-clouds Sun opposition Jupiter square a 12^th house Neptune. So completely boxed in and retreating off into fantasyland would be one reasonable interpretation.

His Term chart is now swimming around in a sea of unpopularity and confusion with tr Neptune conjunct the Venus until late September, which can have financial implications as well in a mundane chart. From August 25^th tr Pluto returns to square the Uranus which will make for more instability until mid November. And the Solar Arc Pluto will square the Uranus exactly in six months’ time. So it’s not beyond the bounds of possibility that he topples off his perch.

His relationship chart with the USA is back at teeth-gritting stage from late January 2020, on and off till late year. But even before then from mid November there’ll be a fair few hiccups running into mid December; and again in February 2020.

The Republican Party who appear incapable of facing up to the problem they foisted on the country will be more exercised about their huge headache in 2020 from early on, their concerns mounting as campaigning goes on. They are pretty locked into him and a separation would not be easy, bar inescapable health issues.

Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State, is looking more than somewhat agitated about him late December into January 2020; and at breaking point come May 2020 onwards.

The next six months will clearly be critical and could be the make or break phase.

Martin Scorsese’s mob epic, The Irishman, his most expensive movie so far, about the crossover between organized crime and American politics, is due out late September. It’s the 9^th feature on which Scorsese and Robert De Niro have worked together – Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull Goodfellas, Cape Fear, Casino etc; and also stars Al Pacino and Joe Pesci. Financed by Netflix, it is caught up in the streaming wars, since cinema chains are insisting on a three-month theatrical run while Netflix want it over exclusively onto their channel sooner.

Scorsese, 17 November 1942 12.24 am New York, has a charming and private 4^th house Sun Venus in Scorpio trine a 7^th house Pisces Moon trine Jupiter in Cancer – a healing, creative Water Grand Trine. He’s also got a much darker Mars in Scorpio square Pluto where his fascination for crime and violence will come from. He has a well-organized and innovative Uranus Saturn in Gemini in his 10^th trine a filmic Neptune.

Regarded as one of the most influential film makers of the 20^th century he does have a strongly aspected leaving-a-legacy 17^th Harmonic and a superstar 22H; as well as creative 5 and 7^th harmonics.

Robert De Niro 17 August 1943 3 am New York, has his entertaining Leo Sun conjunct Scorsese’s Ascendant and both have Pisces Moons, with De Niro’s ambitious Mars in Taurus falling in Scorsese’s 10^th opposition his Sun Venus – it’s a high-octane partnership.

De Niro looks energised over the premiere and at the moment with Solar Arc Mars conjunct his Jupiter; though also unsettled with a disruptive Solar Arc Uranus conjunct his Sun. Like Scorsese his chart shows early 2020 as more upbeat and successful so the movie may gain traction once it has streamed for a few weeks.

Al Pacino, 25 April 1940 11.02 am New York, a heavyweight Sun Saturn in Taurus with a Sagittarius Moon looks jangled and jolted before, during and after the premiere with tr Uranus conjunct his Sun and Saturn; and will be in much better fettle from late January 2020 onwards as tr Pluto is square his Jupiter.

Joe Pesci, 9 February 1943 11.45 am New Jersey, an Aquarius with an Aries Moon and a gung-ho Mars in Capricorn opposition Jupiter, was hauled out of semi-retirement after much pleading to do the movie. With a late Capricorn Midheaven about to collect tr Saturn and Jupiter, it doesn’t look like he’ll be bowing out again too soon.

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Escape to the Chateau isn’t quite the Truman Show but it’s a documentary series that followed Dick Strawbridge and Angie Adoree through their three-year renovation of a 45 room French castle, which hadn’t been lived in for forty years. Running water, heating and electricity had to be installed in time for their wedding and they continued after to build an events and wedding business there.

He’s an ex-Army officer, engineer and environmentalist, born 3 September 1959 in Burma; while she runs a Vintage fashion/hospitality business, born 7 April 1978.

He has his Sun, Moon, Pluto and two other planets in Virgo so is very earthy and meticulous; while she has her Sun, Moon and Mercury in Aries, so is fiery and inspirational. Aries and Virgo are not an intuitively good mix. But both are New Moon babies so relatively self-sufficient; he has a controlling Sun Pluto, while she has a Sun opposition Pluto; both have their Saturn in aspect to the other’s Jupiter which is probably a balancing factor; and both have their Venus in an earth sign. So in a way they have markedly similar character traits despite being different sun signs which will help them understand each other.

Their relationship chart has a well-integrated composite Sun in a sensible and enduring trine to Saturn and dynamic sextile to Mars; as well as being in a possessive square to Pluto; and an affectionate conjunction to Venus. Depending on birth times it’s also possible that there is a composite New Moon which makes for a complementary relationship in which both feel more whole when together.

Janey Godley, the extraordinarily successful Scots comedienne is wowing them at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year with her political satire though continuing to crack jokes about her abuse as a child, the murder of her mother and marriage into a gangster family. She has a sell-out tour round the UK coming.

She was born 20 January 1961 with an alcoholic father and a chaotic, debt-prone mother in Glasgow’s East End. She was abused by an uncle throughout her childhood, until she threatened him with a red-hot poker, left school with no qualifications, married at 19 to the son of a local gangster and worked in the family pub where she honed her witty, acerbic chat. Her mother was murdered, she believes, by a violent boyfriend. “I had nits, scabies, we were poor,” she says of her childhood. “I remember eating out of bins and being a teenager with dirty clothes. But I was bright and I loved reading, so I had the chance to escape. And I’m not ashamed of it, because it wasn’t my fault.”

She moved into a stand-up career in her 30s, having abandoned the gangster family.

She is probably an Aquarius Sun with Mercury also in Aquarius, a favourite comedians’ sign; with Jupiter Saturn conjunct in Capricorn giving her strong ideals and a way with money. It’s a chart that really needs a birth time to make sense. But even without it there are three inconjuncts, putting her out of step with her environment – Sun inconjunct Mars in Cancer, Mercury to Pluto and Saturn to Uranus.

Her victim/saviour 12^th Harmonic is notable with an inspirational Grand Trine of Mars, Saturn, Neptune and a Grand Cross of Mars, Venus, Uranus, Mercury – she’s a survivor and a fighter.

Her get-it-together 5H is also strong as is her obsessive 11H.

Dwayne Johnson, mega-successful Fast & Furious blockbusters actor and retired wrestler has married his long-time girl-friend Lauren. They’ve been together since 2007 and have two children, aged 3 and 1.

He was born 2 May 1972 6.02pm San Leandro, California and she was born 8 September 1984 in Massachusetts. He has a partnership-oriented 7^th house Sun Taurus trine an amiable Moon Jupiter in Capricorn with a passionately enthusiastic Venus Mars in Gemini in an ultra-determined (don’t mess with me) square to Pluto. She’s a Virgo Sun with fits well with his earthy Sun and Moon; with her Venus in Libra which goes well with his airy Venus; and she also has Jupiter in Capricorn.

It’s not all seamless since her Saturn in obsessively conscientious Scorpio opposes his Sun; and her excitable Mars Uranus in Sagittarius sits on top of his Neptune opposition Saturn – so she’ll alternately restrain him and stoke him up.

Their relationship chart has an exact possessive composite Sun square Pluto; with the Sun also in a live-wire trine to Uranus and sextile Mars. The latter probably helped by him having an exacting career. There’s a sensible, cool but enduring composite Sun Venus conjunction. The composite Jupiter isn’t much integrated apart from a wide opposition to the Sun.

They picked a Sun Venus conjunction in Leo for the wedding day in sunny Hawaii to make it picture perfect.

The holier-than-thou Mike Pence who sold his soul for a seat near the centre of power has been selected again as Trump’s putative VP for 2020.  Born 7 June 1959 he’s another slippery Gemini like Trump with his Moon in Gemini/Cancer (more probably Cancer given his family-oriented leanings and strong wife); a flashy Venus, Mars and Uranus in Leo in a publicity-loving square to Neptune; and a money-attracting Jupiter in Scorpio in a pushily confident square to Pluto.

His relationship chart with Trump isn’t all sweetness and light with a suppressive composite Mars Pluto with undertones of hostility and resentment from a power imbalance; and an uncertain, distrustful Saturn Neptune in a can-be-fanatical square to Uranus.

From later this month till mid this November their connection will be wreathed in a sea fog of confusion with tr Pluto square the composite Neptune. With further uncertainty and discouragement from Neptunian hard aspects to two Saturn midpoints through this autumn into February 2020. Where it runs into real problems with sinking morale between them is from late March 2020 as tr Neptune starts to square the composite Sun, repeating late August/September and just after the Inauguration. Plus a separating, chilly tr Saturn opposition the composite Venus in March and on and off through the year.

Pence’s own chart does have tr Pluto sextile his Jupiter from February 2020, on and off till late 2021, which is mildly successful and confident; and is there exactly at the Inauguration. Although he has running concurrently tr Pluto square his Saturn/Uranus midpoint which Ebertin describes as ‘harm through force majeure, rebellion, violence or brutality’ which even given Ebertin’s somewhat gothic descriptions doesn’t sound like an all-singing-and-dancing win. Across the election itself he has tr Pluto square his Neptune/Node which hints at a breakdown in relationships; and across the Inauguration he has an irritable tr Saturn square his Mars for a setback; with a neurotic, worrisome tr Saturn square his Neptune immediately after.

There’s not much illuminating from Karen Pence’s chart – she certainly dislikes Trump with her Scorpio Sun Venus (in an immoveable opposition to Mars in Taurus) square Trump’s Mars in Leo; and her self-righteous Saturn in Sagittarius conjunct his Moon and opposition his Sun. Their relationship chart has a bad-tempered composite Mars square Saturn in an explosive conjunction to Uranus. Mind you her relationship to Mike Pence is no cakewalk with a composite unkind, one-sided Mars opposition Saturn square Venus; and a controlling Sun Pluto. Insiders say she wears the trousers.