Trump may be pirouetting on past campaign utterances but his new Attorney General Jeff Sessions is holding fast to hard-line policies – pressing pause on implementing police reforms, withdrawing Obama-era protections for transgender students in public schools; ramping up the rhetoric about illegal immigrants, which could see the system collapse under the weight of prosecutions; and giving a benign wave to private prison contractors who see a glorious profit ahead.

The intriguing question is how does Stephen Bannon’s fall from grace and perhaps exit in the not too distant future impact on Sessions, who was his mentor? Together they promoted many of the ideas, white nationalist and other, on Breitbart which proved a winning formula for Trump – until he started to ditch some of them.

Sessions relationship chart with Trump is under a chill till early May with tr Saturn square the composite Sun and Mercury, then moving on to square the composite Venus and repeating those on and off till later this year. With serious jolts and aggravation in 2018 as tr Uranus squares the composite Saturn and opposes Mars.

Neither Jared or Ivanka Kushner are comfortable with Sessions.

He looks bullish at times through 2017/18 with tr Pluto sextile his Jupiter; despite a tranche of discouraging Saturn transits to midpoints this year; and a definite cataclysm this month with tr Uranus opposition his Mars/Pluto. But where he strikes really rough seas will be in 2018/19 as tr Pluto squares his Sun/Saturn and Mars/Saturn midpoints, which will see him cornered and enfuriated. Plus tr Saturn conjunct his Sun and Mars and then square his Neptune. He won’t be so ebullient by that time.

Aung San Suu Kyi has proved a disappointment to her international admirers, hopeful of a new era of democracy, human rights and respect for minorities, when she took over as de facto political leader of Myanmar. Her significant failure has been to speak out against the army killing of Rohingya Muslims which amounts according to observers to a crime against humanity, a genocide. Her attitude was described by the NY Times as a ‘cowardly stance.’ The immense authority retained by the military does mean she has limited power over what happens in conflict areas. But she has gone further than stay silent and is trying to discredit the Rohingya victims of rape, accusing human rights groups and foreign journalists of exaggerations and fabrications.

Recent elections have seen a slide in her party’s popularity amid a deluge of bad press pointing to the slow pace of changes and over-centralisation of power. Foreign investment is set to plunge 30%. Those who know her say she inspires both devotion and fear – ‘charming and charismatic, as well as sharp and authoritarian. very keen to be the sole decision-make.’ ‘In meetings, she is dismissive, dictatorial – in some cases, belittling. The government has become ‘so centralised, there is complete fear of her’.

Born 19 June 1945 in Rangoon, she is a Sun Gemini with Uranus also in Gemini, both square Jupiter in Virgo. What hardens her chart is Mars Venus in Taurus square Pluto. She looks confident in 2017/18 with tr Pluto trine her Jupiter; though tr Saturn opposing her Sun will give her a few downers this year. Where she starts to get really unsettled will be in 2019 as tr Uranus is conjunct her Mars, moving onto square her Pluto, which will upset her applecart; with tr Neptune opposition her Jupiter in 2020.

The Myanmar (Burma) chart, 4 Jan 1948 4.20am Rangoon, does have a mutinous population this year with feelings running her as tr Pluto continues to square the Moon; and tr Neptune opposing the MC moving into the 4^th, also indicates confusion about direction and internal uncertainty in the years ahead. Tr Neptune will square the Myanmar Jupiter in 2018 for a period of financial disappointment running till late 2019. And with tr Saturn running down through the first quadrant, aiming for the 2^nd house of finances come 2018 onwards for two years, it won’t be a quick economic turnaround.

She’s certainly still hemmed in by the military but is clearly anti-Muslim and not the shining hope of the liberals who supported her through her years of house arrest.

Iraq, under Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, is still trying to sort out the chaos following on from the botched aftermath of the 2003 US attack; get economic and political reforms in place; root out corruption, especially in the army; and fight off ISIL. After al-Abadi’s March Washington meet with Donald Trump he left heartened by promises of increased support. US senators said there needs to be more power-sharing with the Sunnis and progress in resolving tensions with the Kurds, with both of which al-Abadi seems to be making some headway against resistance.

His term started on 8 September 2014 with a Virgo Sun in a practical sextile to Saturn in Scorpio; with Saturn in a military/ultra-determined conjunction to Mars. This year and next tr Pluto sextiles the Saturn for an uphill struggle; with disappointments and weakness in 2018/19 with tr Neptune opposition the Sun.

His birthdate (unverified) is 25 April 1952 which would make him a Sun Taurus opposition Mars in Scorpio, with Mars square Pluto – so not short of grit or courage; with a reformist Uranus in Cancer square Saturn opposition Mercury in Aries. If accurate, this year and next look confused with tr Pluto square his Neptune; and jolted in 2019.

The Iraq, 23 Aug 1921 6am Baghdad, chart looks emotionally intense and wound up in 2017/18 with tr Pluto opposition Venus; and an unsettled population with tr Uranus square the Solar Arc Moon. This August’s Leo Solar Eclipse is also conjunct the Iraq Sun Mercury which may flare up a crisis. It’s a time at a cross roads for the country where significant decisions will be made which will have an impact on the road ahead. To date al-Abadi has been leaning towards Putin and Russia for help in quelling ISIL, but that relationship looks less settled ahead. As indeed does the USA/Iraq relationship which looks blocked and angry in Sept/Oct this year and heavily disrupted by 2019/2020.

Where there may be more confidence economically and otherwise is by 2019 when tr Pluto is trine the Iraq Jupiter for two years, though it’ll be one step forwards one step backwards since tr Pluto then moves on to trine the Iraq Saturn in 2020/21.

The poet Sylvia Plath became a feminist icon after her suicide in 1963 with much vitriol being aimed at her then separated husband Ted Hughes, who had left her for another woman. For years he remained a hate figure; and his resurrection in recent years came as a relief to their daughter who said she was appalled at the way in which outsiders took over her mother’s story and made judgements.

Now letters have surfaced from Plath to her therapist in which she alleges that Hughes beat her two days before she miscarried their second child and that he wanted her dead. As well as a suspicion that she had just been rejected by another man after a brief liaison just before her death.

Neither were easy personalities. Plath, 27 Oct 1932 2.10pm Boston, Massachusetts, was a manic depressive (bi-polar), with an 8^th house Scorpio Sun square Saturn; with Saturn in a bleak opposition to Pluto squaring onto an unpredictable Uranus. Her Mercury in Scorpio squared onto Mars in Leo and trined Pluto so she wouldn’t hold back in getting her point of view across. She had attempted suicide several times in her life, at least once before she met Hughes; and in the months before her death had been on a creative high, writing most of the poems on which her reputation is based; then she sank into another depression.

Hughes, 17 Aug 1930 1.12am Mytholmroyd, Eng, had a 4^th house Leo Sun trine Uranus, sextile Mars in Gemini; and a Cardinal Grand Cross of Venus in Libra opposition Uranus square Jupiter opposition Saturn. His Taurus Moon was square his Sun. Highly restless, with a life of revolving crisis especially in his emotional relationships, certainly volatile.

His Saturn was in his 7^th suggesting close relationships would require effort and responsibility and perhaps also an indication of his attraction to depressive partners. His second wife also committed suicide.

Plath’s Mars was conjunct his Sun for a fiery attraction and arguments; her Libra Moon was conjunct his Venus for affection and nurturing; his Moon trined her Jupiter also for support. So there were positives.

But their relationship chart was beyond difficult with a volcano of rage, unpredictability and fight for control with a composite Mars Pluto Moon; with Mars Pluto opposition Saturn square Uranus opposition Mercury. Plus a highly affectionate composite Sun Venus. A stark example of can’t-live-with-them, can’t-live-without-them. Her Uranus opposed her Sun/Moon midpoint and his Saturn opposed his Sun/Moon so marriage was not a state which either found easy.

Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, who from his initial ‘alternative-facts’ gaffe set himself up as another Comical Ali (Saddam Hussein’s Information Minister), has put his foot in it again. His off-the-cuff comment that Assad was worse than Hitler, since the latter never chemical bombed his own people, has caused a storm of protest. To be sure Hitler didn’t, as in World War 1, spread gas around the battlefields, but hydrogen cyanide (Zyklon B) killed millions of Jews, many of the German, in the concentration camp gas chambers.

Spicer, 23 Sept 1971,  is a Sun conjunct Pluto, last degree Virgo or Sun zero Libra, with Venus Uranus in Libra and Mercury in Virgo. The Virgo would certainly suit a communicator, but he’s very uptight. His measured Saturn in Gemini opposes a delusional, head-in-the-clouds Neptune Jupiter in Sagittarius so he’ll constantly be pulled between sense and nonsense. And he has an excitable Mars in uncompromising Aquarius trine Uranus Venus.

He does have tr Neptune square his Mars/Uranus midpoint exactly now, and repeating on and off till late 2018. Ebertin, ever florid, describes this as ‘raving madness, a swoon or fainting fit, rage or frenzy.’ Diluting that down to a less dramatic interpretation, he’s not thinking straight and getting rattled. Tr Pluto will trine his Mercury throughout this year so certainly intense discussions; with a downer across the New Year into 2018 as tr Saturn squares his Pluto and Sun. Plus a dead-halt Solar Arc Mars opposition his Pluto Sun in 2018.

Spicer’s Saturn falls in Trump’s 10^th house so he’ll try to bring organisation to DT’s scattered thinking; but it’s not a great combo with Spicer’s Mars opposition DT’s Pluto.

Their relationship chart has a Sun Mercury Uranus square Mars, so they aren’t entirely at ease with each other. There’s pressure on their link now with tr Pluto sextile the composite Mars, and on and off till late 2018. But no indication of a complete rift (without SS’s birth time).

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Boris Johnson, UK Foreign Secretary, isn’t have a good week being labelled as America’s poodle for cancelling his Moscow trip to leave the field clear for Rex Tillerson; then the G7 Summit refused to back his loudly-proclaimed demand to impose further sanctions on Russia for Assad’s CW attack. Though the murmurs are that it was Theresa May’s doing that he was pulled back from his Russia trip. He’s the nearest thing she has to a rival and she’s clearly not keen  for him to be too visible; or indeed keen for him to let fly recklessly into delicate negotiations which would humiliate Putin into hardening his attitude. Finesse not being one of Boris’s strengths.

Theresa May’s Pluto and maybe Virgo Moon are square Boris’s afflicted Mars in Gemini, so it’s not a great combo. Her need to control will trigger his anger. And he is very excitable at the moment, no doubt thinking that Trump’s sudden switch onto a high-octane foreign policy would give him his opening.  He has tr Pluto opposition his Mars/Uranus now until early June, and then square his Mars/Saturn June to mid July – so aggravations piling up.

His relationship chart with Theresa May has a conflicting-agenda composite Sun Uranus conjunction; and a volatile Jupiter opposition Saturn square Mars – all of which are being triggered this year, more so in 2018/19. Their interface looks discouragingly tough going across the summer; with a fight for the upper hand in Sept/Oct and outright hostility next year. His afflicted Mars in a T square to Uranus Pluto opposition Saturn has moved by Solar Arc to pick up transiting Uranus hard aspect from now onwards into 2018, so he’ll be on a white-knuckle roller coaster ride.

Theresa May has the same problem with Boris as Trump has with Bannon – boot them out and they’ll cause even more trouble from the sidelines.

Vogue UK have for the first time ever appointed a male editor, who is also working class, gay and black. Edward Enninful, 21 Feb 1972 (Twitter), has had an extraordinary life and career. He was born in Ghana, moved to the UK as a child with a seamstress mother who gave him a love for fabric and colour, became a model at 16, a fashion director at 18, and has worked with Italian and American Vogue. His 2008 “Black Issue” for Vogue Italia, which featured only black models was so successful Condé Nast was forced to print another 40,000 copies. He is known as an image-maker rather than a journalist, which was exiting editor Alexander Shulman’s background.

If his birth date is accurate, then he is a Sun Mercury in Pisces on the focal point of a mini-Grand Trine to Jupiter in Capricorn trine Mars in Taurus; and on the focal point of a T square to Neptune in a creative opposition to Saturn Moon in Taurus/ Gemini. Pisces is a creative sign, often associated with photographers or film people – more image than words. He also has a tough and intellectual Air Grand Trine of North Node in Aquarius trine Pluto in Libra trine Saturn (Moon). An Aquarius Node is at its best when promoting a cause and he’s keen to end the ‘white-out- of catwalks.

Vogue UK launched in September 1916 when Jupiter was in Taurus which chimes with his Mars in Taurus; and Vogue USA, launched 17 Dec 1892, has North Node in Taurus at his exact Mars degree. – so a dynamic combination.

A cautionary tale about never mixing family and business. Scots chef Gordon Ramsay with an international restaurant empire used to have his father-in-law, Chris Hutcheson, as his right hand man. In 2010 Ramsay alleged that £1.4 million had disappeared to finance Hutcheson’s secret life with a hidden other family and additional womanising. Now Hutcheson and his two sons are facing possible prison sentences for hacking into Ramsay’s computer to dig for dirt after the partnership turned sour. Tana Ramsay has split from both her parents. Business rifts are bad enough but add in a tangled mess of family relationships – oof.

Forbes said that last year Ramsay earned as much as Beyonce $54million (£43 million) from his eateries in London, Las Vegas, Versailles, Hong Kong and Singapore; and as producer and star of three hit shows on Fox TV – Hell’s Kitchen, MasterChef and MasterChef Junior, plus merchandising spin offs.

Born 8 Nov 1966 6.05pm Port Glasgow, Scotland, Ramsay had a violent alcoholic father, which is well described with a 4^th house Mars Pluto Uranus Moon in Virgo opposition Saturn in Pisces square his Gemini Ascendant. The tinderbox collection of 4^th house planets have left him a legacy from his father and childhood of a volcanic temper. He also has an intense and attention-grabbing Sun Venus Neptune in Scorpio in the performing 5^th house opposition a Taurus North Node. That Taurus North Node has a tendency to get involved in bitter fights over money.

His wife Tana, 16 Aug 1974 (net sources), is a Sun Leo with her Venus (Moon) in Leo conjunct Gordon’s Jupiter which will smooth over a few rough edges; and her Jupiter falls in his 10^th, so she’ll be good for him ambition and career-wise. But he won’t be remotely an easy man to live with.

Father-in-law Chris Hutcheson, born 14 May 1948 the same day as the country of Israel, (police charge sheet), has a super-stubborn and indulgent Sun Taurus square Mars in Leo; with Saturn Pluto (Moon) also in Leo; and a reckless Jupiter opposition Uranus. His Leo planets all fall in Ramsay’s 4^th house, no doubt evoking his early fears. Hutcheson’s Mars in Leo at the same degree as Trump’s will catch the August Leo Solar Eclipse head on.

It’s not an easy year for Ramsay with tr Saturn square his Uranus Moon on and off till the autumn; with jolts and jangles in 2018; and some financial setbacks in 2019/20/21. The restaurant side of his business has still not broken even and may sag moving towards the Saturn Pluto conjunction.

His poor wife, facing the prospect of her father and two brothers perhaps in prison, is also not looking cheerful with tr Neptune opposition her Mars; and the strain will tell on their relationship.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is off to the lion’s den in Moscow on Wednesday (on present schedule) to tackle the Russians over their support for Syria, but hoping to de-escalate any future confrontation by persuading them to back away from Assad. He’s stopping off at the G7 summit today (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, UK, USA, Japan) and hopefully flying eastwards with international backing for further sanctions as leverage. He is talking tough in advance, saying the Russians have been “incompetent” and bear partial responsibility for the Syria CW attack. And accusing Russia of trying to influence elections in Europe using the same methods it employed in the United States.

Putin, perhaps significantly, has said little, leaving it to PM Dmytry Medvedev and Foreign Minister Sergei Levrov to make threatening noises about the consequences of any further US action in Syria. Tillerson won’t meet Putin this time round.

Tillerson, 23 March 1952, is a tough-minded Sun Aries opposition Saturn square Uranus in Cancer; with a bulldozer Mars in Scorpio square Pluto – so he’s used to high-tension and risky situations. He looks very much on edge in the final days of this month into early May; and trying to cope in an increasingly chaotic and confused situations from mid May to mid July – that may not all be to do with the Russia problem, since there’s a pile up of foreign pressures in NKorea and with Iran who are less than enchanted about the missile strike; never mind trying to keep his bearings within the Trump centrifuge in Washington. He looks to be facing major losses in Sept/Oct which can even sometimes amount to loss of job, though there’s nothing on his relationship chart (without time) with Trump suggesting any split.

Tillerson’s relationship with Medvedev is at deep-freeze all year with tr Saturn opposition the composite Sun; and not much better with Sergei Levrov – with whom there’s major aggravated disruption late this month into early May, repeating later in the year. With Putin, there’s wary suspicion but nothing too obvious till 2018.