Placido Domingo, one of the most celebrated figures in opera, as a singer, conductor and director, still attracts sell-out concerts round the globe at 78 and has sung in than 4,000-plus performances, more than any opera singer in history. Now he’s attracted sexual harassment charges from eight singers and a dancer who said he tried to pressure them into sexual relationships by dangling jobs and sometimes punishing them professionally when they refused his advances. Needless to say he denies all and says anything that happened was consensual. He has been married since 1962 to his second wife.

He was born 21 January 1941 at 10pm in Madrid, Spain (9 days before Dick Cheney so there are certain similarities in their charts). Domingo has a Sun Mercury in Aquarius in the performing and party-loving 5^th house in opposition to Pluto square Saturn Jupiter in Taurus in his 8^th house. He’s a heavyweight personality and fairly controlling with an earthy streak from the Taurus planets especially falling in his 8^th house. He also has a Scorpio Moon opposition Uranus; his Mars in an ultra-determined trine to Pluto; and his Venus in earthy Capricorn is trine Saturn Jupiter.

He certainly wouldn’t like anyone thwarting his wishes with such a strong Pluto; and the Scorpio Moon plus Jupiter Saturn in Taurus in the 8^th will give him a sensual streak.

Pic: Klaus Dolle

A gem of showbiz bizarre as Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth separate after a few months of marriage. Their rep said: ‘They still remain dedicated parents to all of their animals they share while lovingly taking this time apart.’ And added, “Ever-evolving, changing as partners and individuals, they have decided this is what’s best while they both focus on themselves and careers.’ Yay.

She’s a stratospherically successful singer/songwriter and actress who first got together with Liam, an Australian actor, in 2009 and they had an on/off and on again liaison over the years while she described herself as pansexual and gender fluid.

She was born 23 November 1992 4.19 pm Nashville, Tennessee, with a singer father -and has a 7^th house Sagittarius Sun trine Mars in late Cancer in the outspoken 3^rd. She has Jupiter in charming Libra in the performing 5^th in a successful trine to her midheaven and well-organised Saturn in Aquarius. Her Venus deeply buried in the 8^th is conjunct unpredictable and experimental Uranus and elusive Neptune; and her intense Scorpio Moon is made doubly so with a conjunction to possessive Pluto. Her North Node falls in her 7^th so close relationships are not her strength. Definitely a complicated emotional life.

Liam Hemsworth, 13 January 1990, Melbourne, AU, is part of the triple conjunction in Capricorn with Uranus, Neptune, Mercury, Saturn and his Sun in a stellium there – very earthy, somewhat chaotic and changeable. His Leo Moon is probably trine his Mars in Sagittarius; his Venus in Aquarius is unaspected.

The mystery is what drew them together in the first place. His Venus does trine her Jupiter and opposes her Mars for a superficial and fairly sparky connection. But his Uranus, Neptune and Saturn conjunct her Venus which isn’t too sympatico. And falling in her 8^th it would stir up deep and not altogether comfortable feelings. An odd tie.

His Mars is conjunct her 7^th house Sagittarius North Node and her Saturn is conjunct his Aquarius North Node – so a karmic connection with tough lessons to learn.

Their relationship chart does have a morale-boosting composite Sun trine Jupiter and a hint of passion from Venus sextile Pluto; but it also has a volatile, argumentative Mars square Uranus and Mars in an irritable trine to Saturn; plus an ego-clashing and only-one-can-win Mars square Neptune. Not the stuff that dreams are made of.

Actress Helen McCrory has been doing the media interview rounds for Peaky Blinders return, season five. The highly popular and darkly violent television drama about Birmingham gypsy gangsters from the 1920s and 1930s features her as the matriarch Polly Sheldon. Her gravelly voice, sassy and menacing manner suit her for the role – and indeed reflect her own maverick attitude to life.

She was born 17 August 1968 with a diplomat father and travelled with her two siblings and parents on a peripatetic few years from Paris, Tanzania, Norway to Madagascar, finally ending up at boarding school. She graduated from Drama school and hasn’t stopped working since, walking straight into a job at the National Theatre followed by 10 years alternating between there and the Donmar and is a notoriously enthusiastic party-goer. In 2003 she acted with Damian Lewis (Brody in Homeland and Bobby Axelrod in Billions), had a coup de foudre and been married ever since with two children.

She has a Sun and Mars in entertaining, fiery Leo with her Sun in a creative square to Neptune and a sensible trine to Saturn in forced-to-be-self-reliant Aries. She’s got a charmingly indulgent Venus Jupiter in hard-working Virgo square a restless Gemini Moon. Most notably she has a tricky Yod of Neptune sextile Uranus Pluto inconjunct Saturn. That’s a tricky Yod to handle well since it requires maturity, self-discipline and control otherwise it turns self-defeating.

Her Solar Arc Mars has been rattling her Yod as it is conjunct her Uranus this year and tr Pluto will move to square her Saturn in a couple of years’ time. Both of which will shift her onto a new trajectory and not without some considerable effort.

Her relationship with Damian Lewis is a match of two opposing Suns with his Aquarius Sun across from her Leo Sun. But his (probably) Virgo Moon will conjunct her Venus which also chimes with his Capricorn Venus which works well as does his Jupiter opposition her Moon; with his Mars in a sparky, adventurous square to her Venus Jupiter. There are no birth times but I’d have expected slightly more of a merging of planets frankly.

Their relationship chart has a creative though evasive composite Sun Neptune; with an enduring though cool composite Venus sextile Saturn; a volatile and argumentative composite Mars Uranus; and (maybe) a reassuring composite Moon square Jupiter. It’s probably as well they spend a fair amount of time apart with conflicting career demands.

Jeffrey Epstein has died in an apparent suicide in prison in New York. Given that he was on suicide watch from a previous attempt last week, it’ll set the conspiracy theorists off on a rampage of speculation. But he did have the cornered and defeated Solar Arc Mars square his Pluto on his chart this year which can crop up for suicides; plus a raft of Neptunian sinkers. See post 7 July 2019.

No one else has been charged and all the high profile names dragged into the spotlight deny robustly any involvement in his underage sex crimes and trafficking. Of those at the top of the list Ghislaine Maxwell looks most upbeat at the moment with a confident and lucky tr Pluto conjunct her Sun/Jupiter till late this month and returning in November for a few weeks. But she’ll run into a catastrophic tr Uranus opposition her Mars/Pluto late September into October and repeating in early 2020. With a trapped and scary tr Pluto square her Mars/Node from January 2020 on and off till late 2021 and a seriously disruptive and high-risk Solar Arc Mars opposition her Uranus late 2020/21. See post July 8 2019

Prince Andrew looks to be facing disaster at the moment till late this month and again November/December with considerable challenges to his reputation and direction in life and career from early 2020 through 2021. See post July 12 2019.

Bill Clinton, who is also facing the prospect of a Monica Lewinsky expose, looks panicky and uncertain at the moment with tr Neptune square his Solar Arc Mars; his Solar Arc Moon is in a depressing conjunction to his Saturn, exact within a few weeks; and he has a seriously disruptive and high-tension tr Uranus square his Saturn late December into February 2020 as the same time as tr Uranus opposes Hillary’s Scorpio Sun. Birth time of 8.51 am being accurate he also has an undermining tr Neptune opposition his Solar Arc Midheaven this year and then tr Neptune in a highly-strung square to his Uranus in 2021.

Alan Dershowitz, whose denials have been more vociferous than most, looks muddled at the moment till late year but doesn’t face major headaches until 2021 when he has a couple of loss-making, disastrous influences.

It’s not possible to say how any of the above connect to Epstein and they may reflect other events ongoing in each of the individuals lives. But Ghislaine Maxwell certainly isn’t going to sail into the sunset in a contented glow.

What is truly extraordinary is how slippery, deeply corrupt Epstein – ‘without a moral compass’ – managed to slide out from under any official or even media scrutiny over four decades. He started as a teacher without any college qualifications, became a financial adviser without any obvious experience or qualifications. Recently businessman Leslie Wexner who years ago gave Epstein power of attorney over his money because he trusted him admitted that Epstein “misappropriated” more than $46 million of his wealth. Yet Wexner did nothing when the theft was discovered.

And below is detail of Epstein’s involvement in a Ponzi scheme which ripped money from ordinary people and further expanded his wealth. His partner got 18 years inside and Epstein got?? – off scot free. Nothing ever stuck – he had his own magic shield. NB: Sex offenders are often financial crooks as well.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/final-evasion-for-30-years-prosecutors-and-victims-tried-to-hold-jeffrey-epstein-to-account-at-every-turn-he-slipped-away/2019/08/10/30bc947a-bb8a-11e9-a091-6a96e67d9cce_story.html

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A fugitive conman and fraudster on the UK’s Most Wanted list has been finally convicted and jailed for five years and eight months at Bristol Crown Court yesterday. Mark Acklom had victims in three countries; put his father £110,000 in debt and stole £200,000 from his brothers. He had a long criminal history and is believed to have posted as an MI6 agent and banker to swindle a widow out of nearly £1 million of her savings during a year-long affair in 2012.

From an earlier July 3 2018 post:

Born 1 June 1973 in London, he started his crime spree early at 16 stealing his father’s American Express card and posing as a stockbroker to commit a £1m fraud that included obtaining a £446,168 mortgage on a house and hiring private jets. The judge described him as “utterly selfish and completely ruthless” and gave him four years in juvenile detention; and his poor parents had to sell their house to pay back his debts. Since then he’s been in prison three times in Spain. He is married with two daughters.

He has five planets in Gemini – Sun, Moon, Saturn, Venus and Mercury, and while it isn’t true of all Geminis, there is a decidedly shifty and slippery streak in some. His Sun is in an expansive trine to Jupiter, an evasive opposition to Neptune and is widely trine Pluto, for a hint of delusions of grandeur. His Saturn, Venus, Mercury are trine an innovative Uranus and in a risk-taking square to Mars in Pisces.

It a predominantly Air sign chart, so emotionally detached with an over-active mind that needs constant stimulation; and little sense of his physical needs so times of rest are crucial – prison must have given him a chance to recharge though I can’t imagine Spanish jails are exactly a spa.

His ‘creative’ 7^th Harmonic is strong and entrepreneurial, though it can also point to mental imbalance. His 9H is very marked which is pleasure-seeking and common amongst fraudsters (Madoff, Ponzi etc). His self-defeating, highs-and-lows, wheel of fortune 10H is also heavily aspected. But the most notable is his 12H which is odd since it is supposed to be the victim/healer harmonic, neither of which seem to apply in his case. He sacrificed others to his greed rather than the other way round.

Five years doesn’t sound a long enough sentence and presumably will be out in under three for good behaviour. Though he looks very off balance and uncertain in 2021/22/23 with tr Neptune square his Ssturn, then Venus and Mercury.

Damian Hurley renowned for being close to his mother model Liz Hurley has been giving a nod to her most famous Versace outfit with a fashion publicity pic of himself in a suit with huge safety pins. He followed it up by an Instagram outing of him in a provocative pose with his long flowing, androgynous hair down his bare back looking creepily like her.

He was born 4 April 2002 at 12.22pm London with his father American businessman Steve Bing initially denying paternity until it was proven. Damian recently fought through the courts to be included in his grandfather Peter Bing’s family trust as a grandchild and won. He was brought up partly with stepfather Indian tycoon Aruun Nayar and then Australian cricketer Shane Warne; and has as godfathers Hugh Grant, David Beckham, Elton John. A thoroughly showbiz baby.

He has an ambitious and suited-to-a-public-career 10^th house Sun Mercury in Aries with a charming and fashionable Venus in Taurus also in his 10^th as well as an ultra-determined Mars in Taurus. A full 10^th house does suggest identification at least with mother’s ambitions if not with her appearance. His Sun is emphasised being on the point of a T Square to Jupiter opposition a Capricorn Moon and being on the focal point of a mini-Grand Trine of a 7^th house Neptune trine Saturn in Gemini in the 11^th – so  ego-centric,  confident to over-confident, inclined towards older friends; and has difficulty making friends and committed relationships. An attention-demanding, grandstanding Pluto in the performing 5^th is in a bleak, stubborn opposition to Saturn. A Moon Jupiter mother tends to feed sweeties rather than emotional sustenance, so it’s superficial  nurturing.

He enjoys his own company with Jupiter in the 12^th and will be a maverick with an 8^th house Uranus square his Mars, so dislikes compromise. It’s a chart with potential for a showy career but finding a fulfilling personal life may be trickier.

It’s not, surprisingly, that close a match with his mother, 10 June 1965, since her Uranus Pluto squares his Saturn opposition Pluto, with her Mars square his Pluto – so rough edges and power struggles for the upper hand in there. Her Scorpio Moon opposes his Venus which will give an affectionate link; though her Neptune opposition his Mars could suggest ego-clashes and conflicting ambitions.

Their relationship chart is fairly stark with a composite Saturn opposition Pluto square Mars – and that is definitely difficult, bringing a simmering cauldron of anger issues; with a head-in-the-clouds and over-hopeful Jupiter opposition Neptune and a needs-space composite Venus opposition Uranus (Moon).

I’d think there might be problems when her star fades and his rises.

Pic Instagram.

Lisa Marie Presley, only daughter of Elvis and his sole heir apparently owes nearly half a million dollars in back taxes. She’s had a tricky two or three years with her fourth marriage collapsing in 2016 and leaving Scientology.

She was born 1 February 1968 5.01 pm Memphis, Tennessee, was married first to a musician, then to Michael Jackson, then actor Nicholas Cage and finally guitarist and music producer Michael Lockwood – with two children each from the first and last of these; and has admitted to an opioid addiction.

She does have a tricky chart with an Aquarius Sun in her 7^th which will be why she’s always opted for the security of a relationship. But it’s the 8^th house Moon Mars in Pisces opposition Uranus Pluto in Virgo and trine Neptune in her 4^th which will give her most problems. It’ll create a good deal of inner chaos and significant challenges handling money. Emotionally as well her gilded life left a good deal to be desired – not only is her sensitive Moon in constant turmoil from Mars, Uranus, Pluto and Neptune; her Venus in Capricorn squares Saturn giving her problems with self-esteem and making her feel unloveable.

It would seem extraordinary that with that amount of money she should have cash flow problems but she does have tr Neptune now moving through her 8^th house of joint finances, making a panicky-failure conjunction to her Mars now and moving on to an undermining conjunction to her Moon and then an opposition to her Pluto in the next two or three years. So there will be some sinking moments, especially in 2021 when her Solar Arc Mars makes a ‘shocking’ square to her Sun.

All the money in the world and it doesn’t help.

The UK economy moved into a sharp contraction after the Brexit stockpiling boost wore off with the pound sinking further against the dollar and euro; and UK growth having the worst showing since 2012 with the worst fall since the financial crisis in 2009.

The UK 1801 chart has tr Uranus just across the cusp and into the UK 8^th house which is a classic for business finance volatility and it remains in that state until 2027, with particular turbulence from mid 2021 for a year as tr Uranus is conjunct the 8^th house Mars; and again in 2024 when Solar Arc Uranus is conjunct the Mars. It’s not necessarily a complete disaster just major swings up and down.

The Bank of England chart, 27 July 1694 JC 10 am London, shows similar fluctuations – is ploughing through heavy seas until later this month and then picks up heart into September. Then down again and in a complete upheaval over the New Year with tr Uranus square the Pluto, but bouncing up again in April and May/June 2020 and on and off in patches into 2021.

Gerard Lyons, 31 March 1961, who is evidently Boris’s favourite economist and a possibility as replacement at the Bank of England, is a sunny optimist like his boss. He admits to an economic shock if there’s a no-deal but says the economy will recover from the ‘short-term’ disruption. He’s not looking quite so chipper through later this month and through most of September and October to mid November with catastrophes tripping him up; is panicked and nerve-stretched additionally over the end of October. He’ll get his mojo back and be firing on all cylinders across the New Year but there’ll be more sink-holes of some magnitude before mid 2020.

Sajid Javid, the Chancellor, is also hiccupping his way along though with less Jupiterian uplift so more down.

Mitch McConnell, the Senate Majority Leader, has been rattled by the nickname ‘Moscow Mitch’ and then ‘Massacre Mitch’ for his single-handed blocking of stronger election security measures after Russia’s interference in 2016; and his refusal to tighten gun laws. Then he broke his shoulder – not a great week.

He was born 20 February 1942 Alabama sadly no time, and is a Sun Pisces with a heavyweight, tough-minded and unsentimental Mars Moon Saturn Uranus in Taurus trine Neptune; plus Mercury Venus in Aquarius opposition Pluto probably square a Taurus Moon. Incredibly Fixed, stubborn, enduring.

He’s taking a fair battering this year and exactly now with tr Pluto trine his Mars; and then moving to trine his Saturn continuing throughout 2020, which is pushing boulders uphill and not exactly light-hearted and happy. He’s also got the accident-prone tr Pluto trine his Mars/Saturn midpoint now and returning later in the year. Pressures won’t ease in 2020 with various major jolts and jangles from June onwards with tr Uranus square his Solar Arc Mars and then Solar Arc Saturn – which could be health related or major setbacks. Over the election itself he has the tr Jupiter Pluto conjunction trine his Saturn and tr Saturn trine his Uranus – neither of which are ecstatic nor are they devastatingly bad. Though what comes next won’t please him with a highly stressed December; and badly sagging morale and plans collapsing late January 2021 just after the Inauguration and running off and on till late 2022.

His relationship with Trump, which has been relatively calm to date will hit a chilly and stormy patch from February 2020 onwards with tr Saturn square the composite Sun, then Venus and tr Uranus square the composite Pluto from May turning their connection upside down. The Saturn freeze and separation repeats through the year returning for the final time mid November 2020. Whether that is McConnell being beset by health issues or other political distractions since he’s up for re-election in 2020 isn’t clear.