Heidi Heitkamp, a Junior Senator from the pro-Trump state of North Dakota is described as a centrist Democrat, though she’s voted often for Trump policies, is pro-NRA and pro-bank deregulation. She was formerly an Attorney General and Tax Commissioner.

She’ll have a problem whichever she votes on the Kavanaugh confirmation. She’s one of the most vulnerable Democrats in the midterms and risks alienating conservative voters if she goes against Kavanaugh’s confirmation; and voting for him would bring a backlash among her core supporters.

Born 30 October 1955 in Breckenridge, Minnesota, she arrived two days after Bill Gates, so has that formidably strong and confident Jupiter Pluto in Leo square Venus Saturn in Scorpio. Her Scorpio Sun is square Uranus so she’s a maverick and will go her own way.

Kavanaugh’s Neptune square Aquarius Sun is at odds with her Saturn Venus and Jupiter Pluto – so she’ll find him slippery, less than rigorous in his approach. His head-in-the-clouds, overly-confident and indulgent Jupiter in Taurus opposition Neptune will also jar with her more conscientious Saturn in Scorpio.

[Her chart on inner wheel; Kavanaugh’s on outer. I’m still struggling with Janus 5 update and haven’t had time to sort out the settings.]

 

Their relationship chart is good and bad – with a friendly composite Sun Venus in a needs-space trine to Uranus; and a very wobbly, blow-hot blow-cold Saturn opposition Jupiter in a wide square to Mars. That focal point composite Mars is getting the tr Saturn square exactly now till mid month which does look aggravated, irritable and blocked.

She does look alarmed and under pressure at the moment with her Mars/Saturn midpoint getting the tr Uranus opposition so she’ll know she’s stuck between a rock and a hard place.  And she certainly doesn’t look on a winning streak over the midterms with tr Pluto square her Mars/Neptune which is generally a no-no for elections.  December/January 2019 look edgy and discouraged with frustrations through 2019/2020; but also a resurgence of her confidence at the same time.

She might just vote against him and take the consequences.

    

 

Warnings of a possible financial meltdown in the world economy are mounting with the IMF being the latest to raise alerts that all the reforms needed to protect the system have not been put in place. Global debt levels are well above those pre-the 2008 crash. They pointed to the growth of global banks such as JP Morgan and the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China which are now of a size that is too-big-to-fail and beyond anything around in 2008.

See previous post: Pluto in Capricorn – lessons not learnt. September 22 2018.

Last night’s BBC documentary on RBS: ‘The Bank That Nearly Broke Britain’ was timely. When the RBS management’s overwheening arrogance and cavalier disregard of caution sent the bank (the largest in the world at that point) into near bankruptcy in 2008, the Treasury had to step in with taxpayers’ money to save the country.

RBS, 31 May 1727 JC, at that point, had their autocratic Saturn square Uranus moved by Solar Arc to collide with their natal Mars in stubborn, acquisitive Taurus; with tr Neptune in a panicky-failure square to Mars as well. The economically-unstable tr Saturn opposition tr Uranus was also square the RBS Gemini Sun. So even their formidably resistant Mars in Taurus buckled.

The Industrial & Commercial Bank of China, 1 January 1984, has its Mars at 24 degrees Libra under exceptionally heavy pressure from the Saturn Pluto conjunction in square in 2020/2021. With bumps, glitches and disasters this December/January 2019 from tr Uranus opposition Mars/Pluto midpoint and the catastrophic tr Uranus opposition the Mars/Saturn midpoint from late May 2019 onwards for a year.

There are two charts for JP Morgan – 17 April 1837 and 31 December 2000.  The earlier chart has a panicky-failure Solar Arc Mars conjunct Neptune in 2019 and major-setback Solar Arc Saturn square Mars in 2020. The later chart has tr Uranus opposition its Mars from late May 2019 on and off till 2020; plus a grind-to-a-halt with ferociously-difficult-conditions Solar Arc Saturn opposition Pluto late 2019; and a major-setback Solar Arc Mars opposition Saturn in 2020, along with a tough-slog tr Pluto trine Saturn in 2020/2021.

2021/2022 has the economically unstable tr Saturn square tr Uranus in place. So the economic scrunch is likely to be a long drawn out affair after the Saturn Pluto conjunction has moved on in 2020 – right up to the final days of Pluto in Capricorn in 2023/24.

  

 

Lindsay Lohan appears to be in trouble again after posting a video of herself trying to remove children from homeless people whom she said were ‘traffickers’ which ended up in a punch up. Her life has been a catalogue of successes and mishaps since she moved from child star to teen idol to an adult multi-tasker in singing, acting, fashion designing and business ventures plus visits to rehab and brushes with the law.

Born 2 July 1986 New York with an unverified time of 4am, she’s a Sun Cancer opposition Neptune and trine Pluto – such Sun Neptune Pluto aspects are often seen amongst those who reach starry heights and/or notoriety. She has lucky Jupiter in Pisces in her 10^th (on this birth time) on the focal point of a Taurus Moon trine Mars in Capricorn on the cusp of the 8^th, which might make sense of her erratic moods and inability to handle drink. Alcohol doesn’t mix with Moon Mars.

And a Yod of Jupiter sextile Mars inconjunct Venus in flamboyant Leo, which will make her feel awkward and out of place on social occasions.  Her Mercury in Leo is square Pluto, trine Saturn and inconjunct Neptune, all of which will add to mental stress.

She has a strong actress’s 15^th Harmonic; and very marked though stressed creative 5^th and 7^th harmonics.

This year she’s had tr Pluto conjunct her Mars which is heavy-duty, depressing and enraging, with another exact hit this November to mid December. Plus a Solar Arc Saturn conjunct Neptune which will have increased her neurosis; alongside a discouraging Solar Arc Pluto conjunct her Saturn. With tr Saturn making another hard aspect to her Sun opposition Neptune before the New Year – so not her easiest time.

    

 

Chuck Grassley and Lindsey Graham are leading Republicans pushing hard for Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court.

Grassley, 17 September 1933, Iowa is chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee with a reputation as curmudgeonly. Graham, 9 July 1955 SC, put himself forward as a presidential candidate in 2015, dropped out, supported Jeb Bush, then Ted Cruz and has finally flipped to be a strong Trump supporter; he found Christine Ford’s testimony ‘unconvincing.’

Graham has a Cancer Sun trine Saturn in Scorpio; with a volatile Uranus Mars also in Cancer in a can-be-fanatical and publicity-seeking square to Neptune. His Neptune is in a Half Grand Sextile trine Mercury in Gemini, sextiling onto Pluto –  and North Node trine Pluto, sextile Neptune – ambitious, persuasive, also elusive/evasive.

Grassley is a Sun Virgo sextile Pluto and inconjunct Uranus; with his irascible streak coming from a vengeful Mars in Scorpio square Saturn in Aquarius. Mis Mercury in Virgo is on the focal point of a Yod to Uranus sextile an Aquarius North Node – which will make him intelligent, a communicator but also scattered.

Both of them have shocking or stuck Solar Arcs in 2019 though Grassley is knocking on age-wise so it may not all be political setbacks. Both look to be facing a reality check around mid this November.

There are no birth times so timing could be marginally out.

As far as Kavanaugh is concerned there’s a stuck patch showing up in early November – in both the above charts and in their relationship charts with Kavanaugh himself. Neither look personally attacked to Kavanaugh, more tied in by circumstances to ram through the confirmation before the mid terms.

Mitch McConnell, Senate Majority Leader since 2015 and ‘obstructionist’ over Obama’s pick for the Supreme Court, was born 20 February 1942. He is a Sun Pisces with a heavyweight, hard-edged, enduring and staggeringly stubborn collection of Uranus, Saturn, Mars in Taurus. His Sun is in an unco-operative square to Uranus; and his triple conjunction is trine Neptune; with a Venus in Aquarius opposition Pluto perhaps square a Taurus Moon. Not a man for budging in the face of Armageddon.

He’s had an uphill and frustrating struggle this year with tr Pluto trine his Mars, worsening in 2019/2020 with tr Pluto trine his Saturn and over 2020/21 his Saturn/Uranus midpoint plus a dashed-hopes tr Pluto square his Mars/Neptune also in 2020/21, which will test him even to his limits. But again he’s no spring chicken so that may not all be politics.

He looks considerably unhappy in the final days of this November. And aggravated with Trump in mid December. As does Grassley with Trump at the same period. Grassley looks especially piqued at Trump over the midterms as well and their relationship will be jolted, jangled and confused in 2019 and even more so in 2020.

Graham looks choked at Trump just before or on the mid terms, more so late in this November; and thoroughly unnerved by him in 2020.

Not a happy bunch of campers, that’s for sure.

    

 

Charles Aznavour, one of France’s best known chanteurs has died aged 94.  He composed more than 1000 songs, sold 100 millions records and acted in 80 films. Although regarded as light entertainment his songs dwelt on despair, domestic strife, rape, homosexuality and were on occasion so risqué they were banned from radio play. He always regarded himself as a taboo-breaker.

Born 22 May 1924 12.15 am Paris into a theatrical family of Armenian immigrants, he left school at 9 and started performing. He was helped by Edith Piaf in his twenties, who took him on tour with her in France and to the USA. Despite his diminutive size of just over five foot and his throaty voice, which weren’t deemed promising, he eventually became a global success.

He had an unaspected 4^th house Gemini Sun (often a popular singer’s sign) with an emotionally intense Venus Pluto in Cancer opposition a Capricorn Moon. His musical Neptune unlike his Sun was well integrated in his chart being in a dreamy trine to Jupiter in adventurous Sagittarius, as well as in a showbiz opposition to Mars square Mercury in Taurus and opposition his midheaven.  An unaspectd Sun would make him independent, an island-unto-himself, fairly aloof. His unaspected Saturn would give him a tendency to float through life.

He was giving concerts well into his nineties and intended to go on to 100.

It’s not a notably ambitious chart but his creative 7^th Harmonic (septiles) was strongly aspected; and his ‘super star’ 22^nd also.

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Barbra Streisand is leading a charge “in a war for the soul of America”, issuing her first album since 2005 with the lead single titled ‘Don’t Lie to Me’. In it she aims at “kings and queens, crooks and thieves” who “built towers of bronze and gold”.

In 2016 she wrote about the then-presidential candidate Donald Trump. He is “a narcissist who has shown no regard for anyone but himself. A bigoted and misogynist reality-TV character with no political experience and no qualms about lying loudly and often.”

She’s certainly a forceful enough character to wage war. Born 24 April 1942 5.08 am New York with a musical mother and a father who died when she was one, she grew up in near poverty.  She has a larger-than-life 1^st house Sun, Mercury in Taurus, below an Aries Ascendant, squaring onto a 5^th house Pluto Moon in Leo – so has endurance, is stubborn to the nth degree, very controlling and influential.

She has an accentuated Jupiter in Gemini in the communication 3^rd square the Node opposition Venus in musical Pisces – good at grabbing attention and born to perform. Singers often have Taurus in their charts, since it rules the throat. A flamboyant entertaining 5^th house Moon close to heavyweight Pluto means she packs a punch when it comes to putting herself across. Her Venus in Pisces is also the driving planet from an Earth Grand Trine of North Node trine Mercury trine her midheaven – so custom-built for a singing career.

And intriguingly she also has Saturn Uranus trine Neptune – which is the combination Trump has in his 5^th/10^th/15th Harmonics – so they tap into similar energies in the zeitgeist.

Her Saturn Uranus falls in his 10^th square his flashy Mars in Leo so she could make a difference and will certainly irritate him. With her exuberant, competitive and crusading Mars and Jupiter conjunct his Sun.

Their relationship chart has a composite Sun trine Neptune, sextile Mars which isn’t overly strong but does suggest an ego-clash. There’s another mini-Trine of Neptune trine Uranus Mercury sextile Pluto and Saturn square Neptune – lots of room in their for tensions and miscommunications.

On her personal chart, 2019 looks an unsettled year of fast-change and upheaval with tr Uranus conjunct her Sun and square Pluto. Tr Neptune conjunct her Venus and then square her Jupiter and Solar Arc MC in 2020 running into early 2021 don’t look overly cheerful – high hopes dashed. Where her relationship chart with Trump really stokes up aggravation is in 2022/23 as tr Pluto opposes the composite Mars.

Her life will alter dramatically through from 2019 to 2021 with tr Uranus hitting on her Sun, Mercury and Moon Pluto, all of them in Fixed signs, so she won’t find the changes easy to negotiate.

She’s been married to James Brolin, 18 July 1940 11.10 am, Los Angeles, for 20 years. He’s a late Sun Cancer opposition a Capricorn Moon; with a megaton Mars Pluto in Leo sitting on her Moon Pluto and square her Sun; with Jupiter Saturn and Uranus in Taurus. He’s as stubborn as she is. Though his Venus in Gemini is conjunct her Mars; and his Cancer Sun suits her Venus in Pisces. That is quite some relationship.

PS: Intriguingly, she’s relatively similar to his mother, Mary – a Sun, Saturn and Venus in Taurus with a Fixed sign Moon. Mind you so is Melania and she hasn’t managed to keep him in check.

  

 

Glenn Close is getting rave reviews for her role in The Wife, co-starring Jonathan Pryce, with hopes she might break her run as most-nominated-but-never-won at the Oscars. Though she has many other awards for Broadway, film and TV performances.

She was born 19 March 1947 2.12 pm Greenwich, Connecticut, with a medical father who worked in the Congo; and when she was 7 her parents became devotees of the Moral Rearmament cult, which trapped her in a restrictive childhood. She and her three other siblings were effectively separated and abandoned to MRA nannies as her mother and father went on pilgrimages round the world, settling the family eventually at the MRA headquarters in Switzerland. Glenn escaped when she was 21 but their fractured upbringing had a devastating effect on her younger sister Jessie who had a tumultuous life subsequently and was diagnosed late as bi-polar. There was a history of schizophrenia and suicide in the family.

Glenn herself has a challenging and difficult chart with an 8^th house Pisces Sun and an 8^th house Mars in Pisces square Uranus. Her Sun does trine a 4^th house Jupiter which is also square her Aquarius Moon which will make it easier for her to be forgiving of her parents, which she seems to be. She has the bleak Pluto Saturn in Leo just above her Leo Ascendant, so although she’s flashy in one way, she comes across as enigmatic and quite forbidding. Her Pluto is doubly emphasised being the driving planet from an Air Grand Trine of Uranus to Neptune to Venus, so she’ll be able to detach herself from difficult feelings but be powerfully persuasive at the same time. Not a lady to be pushed around.

Her 7^th house Moon Venus in Aquarius and 4^th house Jupiter will make her yearn for an affectionate and supportive partnership and home life but she’s been married and divorced four times. Perhaps a result, not only of the other challenges of her chart, but also because her Sun/Moon midpoint is conjunct her volcanic 8^th house Mars.

Her creative 5^th and 7^th Harmonics are strong as is her actress’s 15H.

She shows no signs of slowing down and with tr Pluto conjunct her Mars/Jupiter till late this year she will be on a roll; and her confidence gets an extra lift from tr Jupiter through her 5^th till autumn 2019. She’ll be even more on a high in the early 2020s with tr Pluto sextile her Jupiter and conjunct her Sun/Jupiter midpoint. But she’ll also have a fairly radical change of direction picking up next year as tr Uranus starts to move across her midheaven.

    

 

The devastating 7.5 magnitude earthquake and tsunami that hit the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, has killed at least 832 people with fears the final death toll could be thousands. The Red Cross estimates that more than 1.6 million people have been affected which it described as a tragedy that “could get much worse”. The previous worst quake and tsunami with 100 foot waves in December 2004 was a 9.1 magnitude which killed nearly 230,000 along the Indian ocean coastline.

Indonesia, 17 August 1945 10 am Jakarta has tr Pluto squaring the 10^th house Saturn and midheaven (and midpoints) now, which is significantly discouraging and creating major challenges. With the July Cancer Eclipse also conjunct both Saturn and MC. That Solar Eclipse located to Palu has Saturn conjunct the IC.

The 2004 quake had Pluto conjunct the Ascendant with the Libra Solar Eclipse in square to the Indonesia Saturn MC.

With tr Pluto continuing to make a hardship-square to the Indonesia Saturn till late this year and tr Neptune squaring the Mars Uranus in Gemini until late 2019, there could be a difficult and long-drawn out aftermath.

    

 

Brand Beckham took another dent with David slithering out of a speeding charge through a technicality, which according to the Daily Mail will botch a much-longed-for knighthood. He’s shrugged off a fair number of scandals over the years and still managed to maintain his ordinary-guy image despite being superstar-wealthy. The sense is the public are starting to sour over the Beckhams’ flagrantly expensive lifestyle and their parading of the kids to ensure the brand stays in the spotlight. David is worth around £350 million which isn’t bad going for a footballer whom Alex Ferguson didn’t reckon world-class. Recently he’s been supporting his sour-faced wife Victoria’s failing fashion line.

Born 2 May 1975 6.17 am London, his chart does indicate a fair amount of pressure on his status, reputation and career in coming years. His Capricorn Moon on his midheaven is catching tr Uranus square for the second time this November and against next February, which could be emotional, but will also affect his standing. Depending on how accurate to the minute his birth time is (biography) he also has tr Pluto moving to conjunct his midheaven around 2022, though it could come before, which often accompanies a fall from grace.

This year and next he also has a panicky, undermining tr Neptune conjunct his 11^th house Mars suggesting uncertainty about future plans. Plus he has a downbeat tr Saturn in hard aspect to his Cardinal T Square of Pluto, Jupiter and Saturn later this year and through 2019. That will give him pause for thought about what comes next.

2019/2020 always did look like a scrunch point for his marriage, see post below. And by 2020/21 he has tr Neptune conjunct his Sun/Moon midpoint which doesn’t necessarily suggest a terminal split more major dissatisfaction and (further) drifting apart. He does look frustrated and trapped in 2019/2020; though being Beckham he’s also got good luck, and confidence, extending into the early 2020s.

Post June 11 2018

Heavy denials about celebrity marriage problems accompanied by lovey-dovey red-carpet cuddles are usually not a good sign. David and Victoria Beckham managed both which did nothing to quell the rumours.

The astrology always pointed to 2018/2019 as a danger point with tr Uranus conjunct first the composite Venus now, then Mercury in July and moving backwards and forwards over these into 2019 when tr Uranus will be conjunct the composite Sun and Mars. That looks exceptionally disruptive. Then tr Pluto will also square the composite Uranus in 2021 so it’ll be a rough ride ahead for several years. They are fairly lashed together because of the commercial brand mirrored in a composite Saturn square Pluto, which aspect is also being weighed down by tr Saturn this year, so a separation wouldn’t be simple.

There’s likely to be separations during all those Uranian firecrackers.   His chart has tr Uranus square his 10^th house Moon through into early 2019 so he will be rethinking his domestic life as well as career direction. And he does look directionless and less than confident about future plans with tr Neptune conjunct his 11^th house Mars in 2018/2019.

Victoria looks under huge pressure around 2020 and just after as tr Pluto squares her Aries Sun opposition Uranus.

My impression is he’s supporting her fashion business which isn’t doing well financially and they have led fairly separate lives.

NB Her birth time is unverified.