Two feisty Mars Jupiter Libran women are in the news today. First is Carole Cadwalldr, the Observer/Guardian journalist, who has won the Foreign Press Association media award for her reporting on the links between Cambridge Analytica, the UK’s pro-Brexit campaigners and Donald Trump presidential election team. This on top of several previous awards, including the Orwell journalism prize.
Born 10 October 1969 in Wales, she has an exact Sun Jupiter in Libra – confident, communicative – and square Mars in Capricorn, adding high-octane fuel to her pronouncements. Her Uranus and probably Mercury and Moon are in Libra; with her Mercury in a forcefully persuasive conjunction with Pluto, which is excellent for deep research.
All that go-getting impulsiveness can have its uses since it has the energy and initiative to start new projects and take the risks needed to achieve success. Though it can over step the mark at times with too much enthusiasm and too little forethought.
The other – sadly – is Baroness Trumpington, a grande dame of the House of Lords who has died at 96. Born 23 October 1922, she had a similar last degree Sun Jupiter conjunction square Mars in Capricorn; with her Mercury Saturn in Libra square Pluto, so not one to hold back when making her opinions known.
The Telegraph obituary says: ‘Built to last, forthright and formidable, Jean Trumpington made up for any lack of intellectual brilliance with a capacity for hard work combined with down-to-earth common sense and an engaging habit of telling jokes against herself.’
She grew up in an upper-class family, worked in Bletchley Park during WW11, married a schoolmaster and worked in local politics. She was a stately six foot tall with a deep voice matured by cigarettes which she smoked from aged 10 to 79.
Stories about her are legion and funny if you read her obits in the Guardian and Telegraph.
Maggie Thatcher also has a Mars in Libra square Jupiter tied into Pluto – so it clearly gets you places.
Others with Mars Jupiter squares are/were: Henry VIII Of England, Helmut Kohl, Julia Gillard, Indira Gandhi, Marie Curie, Edwin Hubble, Brad Pitt, Robin Williams, Gwyneth Paltrow, Diane Keaton, Kathy Bates, Burt Reynolds, Mae West, Johnny Carson, Robbie Williams, Duke Ellington, Nat King Cole, Chuck Berry, Madeleine’ McCann’s Abduction. The last of these highlights Mars Jupiter’s opportunistic side and was tied into Uranus for a sudden shock as well.