Deep state, fake news and #metoo are being bandied about in the increasingly heated debate about what Jim Jordan, Republican congressman in Ohio knew about widespread sexual abuse by a team doctor when he was assistant wrestling coach at the university. First he flatly denied knowing anything, then he said he might have heard locker room rumours – to date nine former wrestlers and a former coach said they knew and three allege Jordan knew and did nothing. He and his supporters claim he’s being smeared because he has been grilling federal investigators, probing alleged collusion by the Trump campaign with the Russians and has been put forward as a potential speaker by the House Freedom Caucus if the GOP retain the majority.
I caught a few headlines and didn’t read further since it seemed like an internal US political brouhaha. But having been asked, I had a look, and does he have an interesting chart?
Jordan was born 17 February 1964 – three days after John Gotti Jnr, (the convicted former mobster’s son), six days after Sarah Palin and 7 days after Glen Beck (right-wing conspiracy theorist jock.) All of them have similar charts – a ferociously hard-edged and aggressive Sun Mars Saturn in Aquarius with Neptune in Scorpio in square. Plus a Yod of Neptune sextile Pluto inconjunct Jupiter (Moon) in Aries. An apex Jupiter can have an effect on social affairs but tends to be undone by self-aggrandisement. He has another Yod of Mercury in Aquarius sextile Venus in Aries inconjunct Uranus – can be a trailblazer but is also divisive and tends to cause rifts.
His apex Uranus has moved by Solar Arc to catch the tr Uranus opposition, shaking it up at the moment and into early 2019; and his Sun, Mars, Saturn has moved to catch the tr Pluto square this year and on till 2021.He looks unnerved as of this month; but will be in better spirits (in a minor way) in 2019/2020.
John Cleese, the Monty Python comedian, appears to have lost his sense of humour about the UK and is baling out to live in the Caribbean. He said he had become disappointed over the “lying and triviality” of UK newspapers; and the standard of debate around Brexit which he was for. He always was a grump and has spent relatively little time in the country, so it’ll hardly make a difference.
Born 27 October 1939 3.15am Weston Super Mare, England, he has a Scorpio Sun square Pluto, which suited him for the role of uptight and bitter Basil in Fawlty Towers. His Mercury Venus also in obsessive Scorpio oppose Uranus and square Mars in contrary Aquarius, which will give him a penchant for speaking sharply, getting volcanically angry and leading a complicated romantic life. His Aries Moon is conjunct Saturn in his 8th with Saturn opposition a Libra North Node square Pluto – emotionally bleak. Saturn squares his Sun/Moon midpoint so close relationships will always have been difficult for him – he’s now on his fourth marriage.
Tr Saturn and tr Pluto are both moving through his 4th house of home and family so a move was likely. And with tr Uranus now opposition his Sun and square his Pluto for the next few months he will have the urge to cut the chains that bind and throw everything up in the air. Tr Pluto is also trine his Uranus for more upheavals.
Relocating his chart to the Caribbean puts Jupiter on his midheaven, so he’ll feel respected and admired there; with a fun-loving Venus Mercury in the 5th. Though whether he’ll turn from being a tortured soul to a happy man is questionable.
His creative 7th harmonic is strongly aspected – describing a seeking soul who needs peace, also a perfectionist; can be too sceptical, critical, sarcastic, cold, self-centred.
His 13th harmonic is also notable, which was the case for Peter Sellers – genius and breaking with the orthodox. In Cleese’s case it has a malcontent Pluto as well as luck and talent.
Kylie Jenner, half-sister to the KKK phenomenon and daughter of Kris and Caitlyn Jenner, is reckoned at 20 years of age to have made nearly one billion dollars in three years running her cosmetic company. Trumping Mark Zuckerberg, who became a billionaire aged 23. She posts selfies with her cosmetics almost hourly to her 110 million Instagram followers and millions more on Snapchat; plus the 16.4 million who follow her company directly, or the 25.6 million Twitter fans. friends. And she had a baby earlier this year.
Born 10 August 1997 5.25 pm Los Angeles, she has an intense Leo Sun in the business-finances 8th house in an expansive opposition to lucky Jupiter in her personal-finances 2nd square an ambitious, good-in-the-public-eye 10th house Scorpio Moon. Fixed energy is good at accumulating, not so great at letting go. She’s also got an assertively-ambitious Mars on her midheaven in a hard-driving opposition to Saturn in self-reliant Aries in a showbizzy square to Neptune. She’s got initiative and sticking power.
Her get-it-together 5th harmonic is strongly aspected tying in fashionable Venus Jupiter to Mars and Neptune; and both Sun and Moon to innovative Uranus. Her creative 7H is entrepreneurial and fairly ruthless.
For all her success she doesn’t look overly happy at the moment with an emotionally uptight Solar Arc Moon conjunct Pluto and a ‘shock’ Solar Arc Mars square Sun, both exact in coming months. Though alternatively it could be as her financially-loaded Fixed T Square moves by Solar Arc to connect with her influencer Pluto in the 11th that’s what shot her up Forbes’ rankings. Whichever it’s certainly a hugely significant time in her life.
It does look hard going over the next three or four years with some setbacks and losses, so perhaps keeping up the relentless pace will tell – or fashions will change. Maybe also a baby will slow her down and with tr Saturn moving below her Capricorn Ascendant she’ll want more private time and less public profile for a few years ahead.
Targeting Germany has become a Trump delight as he complains about too many German cars on US streets; the cost of US troops based there; making false claims that crime is spiking in Germany because of immigration and relishes seeing “the people of Germany … turning against their leadership.” Now he’s turned his divide-and-rule tactics onto the German-Russian gas pipeline, as well as NATO spending.
Germany derives under 20% of its energy from gas of which 60-70% comes from Russia, the rest from Norway; their use of gas will go up in future as they reduce dependence on coal and cut out nuclear altogether. Poland and other eastern European countries strongly object to the Russia pipeline since they see it as running the risk of destabilising their region and giving Russia too much influence. Stage two of the pipeline project would allow Russia to cut off gas supplies to Ukraine and disrupt many east European countries, while preserving Germany’s energy supply.
Part of Trump’s German bugbear may be Merkel’s obvious distaste for his policies plus his mother issues being triggered by a stalwart Mutti. Though, heaven knows, he should be grateful to Deutsche Bank who hauled him out of financial trouble when he was blacklisted on Wall Street in the 1990s. Which may or may not become part of the Mueller investigation since Russian money laundering landed the bank in the soup with the US Justice Department.
What will make a significant difference is Trump’s Pluto Midheaven running directly through Germany, which will bring out his desire to dominate, sneer, put down and equally will run him into resistance and resentment. That’s true for most of Europe and the UK but Germany is on the bullseye, especially Frankfurt where Deutsche Bank is situated. The Pluto MC line is usually regarded as risky either physically or in terms of undermining reputation – interesting to see if the money angle (more below) is his downfall (should it occur).
There’s also hugely difficult chemistry between himself and Merkel personally with her 8th house Sun Uranus in Cancer conjunct his Saturn Venus; and her determined Pluto conjunct his Mars.
His relationship chart with her is no better than his with Germany (1871) with strongly aspected Uranus (= no compromise) in both. November/December this year look like lowering the temperature still further.
Trump’s Pluto Descendant runs through China making for a hostile relationship and struggle for the upper hand; and his successful Jupiter midheaven line runs through – no surprise – Russia, to the east of Moscow. Below isn’t astrological but gives context.
There have been a couple of media pieces this week (URLs below) on his past business links with Russians over several decades. From Politico: “The litany of direct and indirect contacts with the Kremlin exceeds all possible exculpatory explanations. It is impossible to see the total picture and reach the conclusion that there is an innocent explanation behind it all. There’s simply too much to explain away.”
A Financial Times investigation into the Trump Toronto quotes a former Trump Organisation executive as saying “Donald doesn’t do due diligence.” So no checks would have been done in the post-Soviet rush to stash money abroad. Where Russia is concerned oligarchs, mobsters and the Kremlin are all intertwined and the likelihood of Putin having compromising information means he won’t even have to issue orders. Trump will proactively be doing whatever he believes will keep him in Putin’s good graces.
The general view is that Putin didn’t directly plan to put Trump in the White House, nor did Trump expect to win which is why there’s been such a panic to cover tracks. And one day his DC vacation will end and he’ll want to keep his family’s business model intact for the what-comes-after. Follow the money.
Charles Sobhraj, known as the Bikini Killer, the Splitting Killer and the Serpent, is a French serial killer of Vietnamese and Indian origin who preyed on Western tourists throughout Southeast Asia during the 1970s as well as having an extensive career as a thief. Reckoned to be a psychopath he’s now finally in a Nepalese prison doing life.
Born 4 April 1944 10pm? Saigon, Vietnam, from a broken home, he started down a criminal path early, was skilled at deception, evasion – ‘a cunning and cultured personality’ – and bribing prison guards to give him a luxurious life during one term inside and allegedly committed at least a dozen murders to sustain his adventurous lifestyle. At one point he was a celebrity in Paris, charging large amounts of money for interviews and film rights; and has been the subject of four books and three documentaries. Overconfidence led to his final downfall in returning to Nepal and getting nabbed.
At first glance his chart doesn’t look overly brutal. He has an attention-seeking 5th house Aries Sun trine Pluto, North Node and Jupiter in Leo – so has self-confidence aplenty and determination. His Neptune in the 10th fitted him for a slippery career as a scam merchant and squaring Mars would give him a taste of publicity and pzazz.
His midpoints are fairly bleak and unfeeling with a hint of violence from Uranus = Mars/Pluto and Pluto = Mars/Uranus. And his Sun and Moon both aspect Saturn and Pluto, so he probably lacked empathy from a tough early start in life. Though psychopaths aren’t just about nurture deficiencies. There has to be a genetic or wiring malfunction which blots out the ability to relate.
His 18th Harmonic, usually aspected with serial killers has Saturn Pluto amplified. His self-destructive 16H and appearing -in-the-history-books 17H are strong. His none-too-well-balanced 7H and obsessive 11H both have afflicted Mars.
He was as much a conman and fraudster as he was a murderer, and the killings seemed to be more a means to an end than for sadistic pleasure. In one case he poisoned his victims – a Neptunian tactic.
The harmonics usually show up a potential for going bad when it isn’t obvious from the natal chart; those plus midpoints.
Tab Hunter, a Hollywood superstar of the 1950s, has died. He was a bronzed, blond pin-up, an all-American, clean-cut youth whom teenage girls swooned over and wanted to take home to mom. At the time, Hunter was having a clandestine relationship with Anthony Perkins (Psycho) and later ballet dancer Rudolph Nureyev. But such was the film business’s homophobia and obsession with carefully polished images, any scandal stories were swept firmly out of sight and he paraded red carpets with Nathalie Wood.
Born 11 July 1931 3am New York, he had an abusive father whom his mother divorced and moved the family to California. He lied about his age and joined the coastguards at 15 but was soon picked up by a talent-spotting agent who had rebranded Rock Hudson, Troy Donahue and Rory Calhoun. He only came out officially in 2005 with an award-winning memoir, despite having lived with his film-producer partner for two decades, who remained at his side for 35 years in all.
Hunter certainly carried the signature of the Depression generation with an almost exact Sun Pluto in Cancer (and Jupiter) opposition Saturn square Uranus in Aries; and had an Earth Grand Trine of Saturn trine a hidden Taurus Moon trine Mars in Virgo, formed into a Kite by the opposition to his Sun Pluto – so destined to be influential, lucky, talented in his way. His father comes across as domineering with a Sun Pluto in bleak aspect to Saturn and erratic Uranus, as well as an angry Mars in the 4th.
Anthony Perkins, 4 April 1932, was the same generation and his Venus in Taurus fell in Hunter’s 12th conjunct his Moon, which fits with a secret relationship. Nureyev, 17 March 1838 was a late Sun Pisces which trined Hunter’s Sun Pluto and they had an affectionate composite Sun Venus in their relationship chart.
Another example of one of the beautiful people who have amazingly strong and stark charts. His birth time is unverified, but if accurate, then his light-hearted Gemini Ascendant was what the public saw. Behind that was a tougher human being with a steely backbone.
Eclipses normally come in twos, a Solar and two weeks before or after a Lunar. This time we’re blessed or cursed with having two Solar Eclipses (New Moons) – July 13 at 21 degrees Cancer and August 11 at 19 degrees Leo; and a Lunar Eclipse (Full Moon) on July 27th at 5 degrees Aquarius.
Both the Solar Eclipses fall in Saros series which according to Bernadette Brady (The Eagle and the Lark) focus on friendships and relationships. The first in July bringing a glum mood about separations or endings but fast action will produce results; and the second in August bringing a potential collapse of plans or lifestyles with a long-term result of transformation and rebuilding. The Eclipse effect often strikes up in advance and lingers for a few months thereafter.
The July Solar eclipse is challenging and blocked as the New Moon opposes Pluto; with a disruptive Mars opposition Node square Uranus. But there’s also a workmanlike Earth Grand Trine of Uranus to Saturn and Venus which may bring some stability and common sense.
The 27 July Lunar eclipse has the Moon conjunct Mars opposition Sun, North Node square Uranus, so is likely to be explosive with sudden shocks and surprises.
The August 11th Solar eclipse has the Leo New Moon square Jupiter and inconjunct Pluto with the overly-excitable and uncompromising Uranus Mars Node T square still in place.
None of which looks peaceful.
The UK’s Moon and the USA Mercury opposition Pluto will catch the July Cancer Eclipse. For the UK since the Moon rules the people and – in the 10th – the country’s rulers (Royal and other), there’s likely to be insecurity, a sense of standing on shifting sand; matters of the past will come back to be dealt with, and the country’s image will be under scrutiny.
For the USA it’ll be an intellectual challenge to review and rethink vehemently held opinions and also to clear out a murky past (Pluto). If that doesn’t occur then stagnation and decay are likely ahead.
The EU will be most affected by the 27th July Lunar Eclipse as it will shake their Fixed Grand Cross of Neptune, Moon, Uranus (and Venus) – mainly situated in financial and future-planning houses.
To watch: Saudi Arabia with its Sun, Jupiter, Saturn in Capricorn will catch the first Solar Eclipse; as will Angela Merkel with her Sun Uranus in Cancer; and Donald Trump with his Venus Saturn in Cancer. Michel Barnier will also be adversely affected as the July Eclipse opposes his Capricorn Sun, ditto Jared Kushner, and for them the challenge is to face up to an ego-blow and let the past go.
Baby-faced singer Justin Bieber has moved on from an on-off relationship with Selena Gomez to become engaged to model Hailey Baldwin. Whether this one will last is questionable.
He has Sun, Saturn and Venus in Pisces; with a Libra Moon square a highly-strung and changeable Uranus Neptune in Capricorn and a ferociously determined Mars in contrary Aquarius square Pluto.
Hailey, 22 November 1996, is a controlled Sun Pluto in Sagittarius in a bleak trine to Saturn in self-reliant Aries; with a late Aries or early Taurus Moon. Her Venus in Libra certainly chimes with his Moon; but her Mars in Virgo opposes his Saturn, Sun and Venus which is gritty; and her Sun Pluto also square his Saturn Sun which is blocking.
Their relationship chart has a truly difficult composite Mars Pluto conjunction which will lead to ferocious power struggles; with an unstable composite Sun, Uranus, Neptune conjunction which is under strain now and for another few years ahead.
He clearly likes strong women since Selena Gomez is a Sun Cancer triune Pluto with her Pluto square Saturn. Their relationship was also Plutonic – can’t live with them, can’t live without them.
After a Reality Show roll of drums, pause with bated breath, Brett Kavanaugh, was announced as the pick for the Supreme Court. Born 12 February 1965 in DC, he has impeccable legal credentials but is a staunch conservative and Roman Catholic, so will swing SCOTUS firmly to the right and raise fears about Roe v Wade as well as Affordable Care. He’ll face a gruelling grilling, likely to be after the recess because of the amount of documentation to be sifted through in the discovery process. And he will face tough questions over his part in Kenneth Starr’s attempt to prosecute Bill Clinton and his later comment that presidents should be exempt from such, amongst other things.
He’s not looking remotely upbeat this month with tr Neptune square his Mars/Saturn midpoint, perhaps because of the level of hostility he’s facing from Democrats. Tr Neptune then opposes his Pluto in August/early September, then opposes his Uranus/Pluto in September/October and opposes his Uranus thereafter. Plus he has his Solar Arc Mars conjunct his Neptune this year which is generally not favourable for ambitions.
His relationship with Trump is an odd mix of enthusiastic and evasive, or based on an illusion leading to disappointment; and will be under strain in 2019/2020.
He’s a Sun Aquarius on the point of a T Square to Jupiter opposition Neptune – high-flying ambitions, not always realistic. Though his Jupiter trine Pluto Uranus will give him luck.
