Heather Mills, one time wife of Paul McCartney (briefly), has been complaining loudly about the collapse of her vegan food company which has gone into administration. She is blaming everything from corporate greed to mismanagement to gaslighting influencers supporting the meat and dairy industry.  There has been a fall in the sale of vegan products after an early surge with only 1-2% of the population being vegan and many put off by the price, taste and suspicion of additives in non-meat products. The plant based market will still be substantial but too many firms rushed in creating a bubble which has burst. Rebranding may help stressing sustainable and healthy rather than vegan or vegetarian.

  Heather Mills was born 12 January 1968 in London with a possible 8.04 am birth time which fits with what is known of her life to date. She had a fractured childhood and a track record as a compulsive liar according to wiki – which is worth reading; lost a leg in a traffic accident and continued modelling with a prosthetic limb. Her marriage to McCartney was fractious, produced a daughter and lasted four years.

  This birth time puts an upfront, ambitious Capricorn Sun on her Ascendant trine an 8^th house Pluto Uranus in Virgo and sextile Neptune on her Scorpio Midheaven. Not short of ambition she will be opportunistic with Jupiter opposition a 2^nd house Mars which squared onto Venus in Sagittarius opposition Moon in Gemini in her entertaining 5^th house. Quite a whirlwind.

  Her Uranus Pluto at the moment has moved to conjunct her Neptune and her SA Neptune her Sun so a life-changing crisis. Plus tr Saturn damping her enthusiasm as it is conjunct her 2^nd house Mars and opposition her Jupiter this year into next.

  Her VBites company, founded 20 May 1993, did not kick off on the most auspicious of moments with a Taurus Sun Moon opposition Pluto square Saturn so it was always going to be an uphill struggle though also enduring.  Tr Neptune is in hard aspect to that T square in its Solar Arc positions.

 Another with a relatively similar chart (birth times being accurate) is lingerie-queen Baroness Michelle Mone. She is presently being sued by the UK government for £122m plus costs for “breach of contract and unjust enrichment”. This follows a Guardian investigation which reported that she and her children had secretly received £29 million of profits to an offshore trust from government personal protective equipment (PPE) contracts, which she had lobbied for during the COVID-19 pandemic.  She has issued regrets about not being clearer initially in her evidence but basically denies everything.

  She was born 8 October 1971 4.55pm Glasgow, Scotland and has an 8^th house Pluto as well as a Libra Sun conjunct Uranus and Mercury and Venus all in Libra in the 8^th. She has an assertive and stubborn Mars North Node in Aquarius on her Ascendant; and a Jupiter Neptune conjunction in Sagittarius opposition Saturn Moon in Gemini. A heavily populated strong, secretive, erratic 8^th house of business finances and a flurry of Mutable planets – both fixed and hyperactive.

  Tr Saturn at present heading into the nadir of her 1^st quadrant is not a successful time either for ambitions or for money and that lingers for several years to come.  Along the way of this year and next it will also dent her super-optimism as it squares her Jupiter Neptune opposition Saturn Moon.

  An invasion of the undead, ghosts from a hair-raising past, appears to be upon us. Trump is riding high in the polls and Boris is being mooted for a triumphant return along with a jungle jubilant Nigel Farage.

  Although Boris according to one set of inside murmurs is happy earning gzillions and staying out of the front line for now. Tr Saturn is wending round his Mars, Saturn, Uranus, Pluto T square until March 2024 which will be downbeat and coincides with his Saturn Return – maybe a sliver of maturity will emerge. Following that he has an undermining and not ego-supportive tr Neptune square his Sun Venus in Gemini from April 2024 on and off till March 2025. He has one lucky blip in May 2024 but that coincides with another failed-plans influence – so ups and downs. In general 2024 to 2026 end looks like a discouraging slog.

  His standing with the Tory Party (apart from a few right wingers) is on a downward slide; and ditto with the UK.

 Nigel Farage, 3 April 1964 4.30pm Farnborough, England, has been buoyed up recently by tr Pluto square his Jupiter but that is now gone. Jupiter will move across his midheaven from mid 2024 for a year which is generally successful but that apart he looks stuck, facing setbacks and nothing else positive for three years or so ahead.

 Richard Tice, right-wing Reform Party CEO, 13 September 1964, is another destabilising Uranus Pluto in Virgo (plus Mercury and Sun) opposition Saturn with a Sagittarius Moon. He has all of Boris’s scattered, windmill-in-a-storm tendencies. He also has Boris’s over-hopeful, prone to bad judgement Jupiter in Taurus opposition Neptune. Saturn will damp his ardour over the next eight months and though he will get a maybe-lift from tr Uranus conjunct his Jupiter in mid 2024 that will tug on his Neptune which could upset his optimistic showboat.

See June 11 2023  Conservative Party.

Javier Milei was sworn in as Argentina’s new president yesterday vowing to lead his country out of decades of “decadence and decline” but said its punishing economic crisis would intensify over the coming months.

Milei – a mercurial former TV celebrity known as El Loco or the Madman – compared his shock election with the start of the Soviet Union’s collapse. Far-right associates including Jair Bolsonaro and Viktor Orbán, were in attendance as well as Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Milei has called Putin a dangerous leader and appears to be positioning Argentina as Ukraine’s biggest Latin American ally.

The swearing in was 11.56am on December 10^th according to a local astrologer. This gives a fiery Sun Mars in Sagittarius in the 10^th so certainly loud and outspoken. But the Sun square an indecisive Neptune is not a progressive aspect for an administration. Pluto in the 11^th sits midway between an 8^th house Scorpio Moon trine Neptune – super ambitious. The Pluto is further emphasised sitting on the focal point of a T square to the Moon’s Node. The 11^th house refers to government institutions and long term hopes. Pluto does represent transformation but can also involve over-control. Venus in an indulgent, superficial opposition to Jupiter will ooze charm but may prove expensive. The Moon opposition Uranus hints at a restive population. The 12^th house Saturn a lack of realism or get-a-grip practicality.

 See previous post for details November 20 2023.

 There was nothing in the previous post to suggest he would swoop in on Marvel wings to accomplish a miraculous transformation.

Lady Sarah Chatto, the daughter of Princess Margaret and Queen Elizabeth’s only niece, has managed to stay under the radar despite being a Royal family fixture and on parade at key events. She had a close relationship with Charles growing up, was a bridesmaid for Princess Anne and Mark Phillips wedding and again at the Charles Diana nuptials and is godmother to  Prince Harry and Lady Louise Windsor.

 Her upbringing was less restrictive because of her father the photographer Anthony Armstrong Jones. She and her brother David attended Bedales, a co-educational school tilted towards arts and crafts and she graduated onto art schools, spending two years in India with her father when he was production photographer for the 1984 film, A Passage to India. Which was where she met her husband Daniel Chatto. He is an actor turned artist from a theatrical family and they have two children. She continues to work as an artist, painting expressive landscapes.

  Born 1 May 1964 6.20 am London, she has a friendly 11^th house Sun, Mercury, Jupiter in Taurus, one reason she was close to Queen Elizabeth, another Taurus. In her case her Taurus Planets are in an Earth Grand Trine to a Capricorn Moon on her Descendant trine Uranus Pluto in Virgo in her 4^th. The last element is indicative of her stormy childhood home with her parents’ fractious marriage which eventually split where she was 12. Her Grand Trine is formed into three talented Kites with Uranus Pluto opposition a 10^th house well-organised Saturn which will see her increasingly respected the older she gets. Her Moon opposes her North Node in Cancer on her Ascendant with a suggestion that she has struggled to build a strong sense of identity but could be all the more helpful as a result. Out of her experiences others could benefit. Her Sun opposes Neptune in her creative 5^th house.

 Her father Anthony Armstrong Jones, 7 March 1930 6.15 am London was a key influence on her chosen career with his Sun Venus in Pisces falling in her 10^th and his Mercury Mars in Aquarius being conjunct her Midheaven.

  Her mother Princess Margaret, 21 August 1930 9.22pm Glamis, Scotland, was a trickier relationship with Princess Margaret’s Neptune and Leo Sun being in opposition to Sarah’s Saturn in the 10^th and worse Margaret’s attention-demanding and controlling 5^th house Moon Pluto in Cancer being square Sarah’s Mars.

  Lady Sarah does look in a hard working, responsible phase with Saturn moving through her 10^th at the moment and her upper quadrant for some years ahead into the early 2030s. And her SA Moon is just into her 10^th house of career and reputation also for years to come for similar.

An astro-oddity popped up this week when I realised that Chelsea Manning, the Iraq War whistleblower, was born three days after Hamas was founded and both have charts with a notable Scorpio Sagittarius theme. Which is remarkably similar to Seung Hui Cho, the Virginia Tech mass shooter who shot himself in 2007 before he could be captured.

 Manning is being interviewed by Louis Theroux for a six part series of in-depth celeb reveal-alls. Except that Manning appeared not to be open to the same connectedness as the others and clearly disliked any talks of Assange or Snowden whom he regarded, according to a reviewer, as making him a bit player on the stage.

  His sister told the court-martial that both their parents were alcoholics, and that their mother drank continually while pregnant with Chelsea. There was a suggestion that his facial features showed signs of fetal alcohol syndrome. He was neglected through childhood, small for his age and bullied at school as effeminate; and was present when his mother attempted suicide.

  In 2010, having worked as a US army intelligence analyst he leaked a vast trove of classified information to the WikiLeaks, videos, embassy cables and war logs, and was originally sentenced to 35 years in jail, spending years subsequently most  in solitary confinement. Inside, she attempted suicide twice and transitioned from Bradley to Chelsea and was released by President Obama shortly before he left office in 2017.

  She has a Sagittarius Sun conjunct Uranus, Saturn, Mercury – knowledgeable from Sagittarius, low-self-esteem though also self-righteous from Saturn in Sagittarius, autocratic from Saturn Uranus though also inventive and progressive, irritable prone to outbursts.

  Sitting just before those fiery Mutable, scattered planets she has a Mars Pluto conjunction in Scorpio with the Moon close by – which fairly describes a destructive mother who would feel beyond unsafe. Mars Pluto can also give courage and the ability to cope in crisis situations.

  Hamas founded three days before has the same Scorpio Sagittarius concentration though with a Virgo/Libra Moon. The most negative end of Mars Pluto, especially in Scorpio is ruthless brutality. Fight without quarter, do-or-die-determined. The struggle is for power. Often associated with rape when it has the upper hand or victimhood when it does not.

 Seung Hui Cho, the Virginia Tech killer, born in Seoul, South Korea, 18 January 1984, also had Mars in Scorpio conjunct Pluto with Saturn in Scorpio as well and Uranus, Venus, Jupiter, Neptune spread out through Sagittarius – and a Capricorn Sun. He killed 32 and wounded 17 in the deadliest US school shooting ever (so far).  He seemed to have been mentally disturbed from early on and was diagnosed at school with severe anxiety disorder, selective mutism and depression, which led to him being bullied. He appeared to have problems connecting.

  Both Manning and Hamas are in for a significant crisis in the near future as their Solar Arc Mars Pluto starts to cross their Sagittarius planets. Both seem edgy and tense at the moment with tr Neptune square Uranus in Sagittarius but the key lifechanging moments will come around 2025.  [Assuming the Hamas date is sound.]

  Always interesting to see how roughly the same energies can play out differently though with certain similarities as well. Scorpio Sagittarius is certainly a difficult combination to balance.

Add On: Another Mars Pluto in Scorpio is Ronan Farrow, son of Mia, born 19 December 1987 10.49am New York, who has his power-packed, penetrating (and vengeful?) Mars Pluto in the 9^th house of communication and publishing with a stellium in Sagittarius from Moon, Midheaven, through Saturn, Mercury, Uranus and Sun all ranged through his career 10^th. He was always destined to make his mark with devastating effect.

  He was around during his mother’s affair with Woody Allen who has a Sagittarius Sun and Mars in Capricorn opposition Pluto which would make him scary and Ronan’s has taken aim at him as well over his sister’s allegations.

 Weinstein has Mars in Scorpio square Pluto so Ronan’s take down of him was all the more courageous.

Mars Pluto can be a victim but can have the courage to face up to perpetrators as well.

A heartthrob with great talent, actor Ryan O’Neal, who has just died, was nominated for an Oscar with the tearjerker Love Story (1970), one of the most successful films of all time. His career did not maintain those starry heights and he became better known for his stormy private life with Farrah Fawcett and his aggressive behaviour on set. His daughter Tatum O’Neal with whom he acted in Paper Moon succumbed to drug addiction later which she blamed on her upbringing, losing her custody of her children with John McEnroe. She was reconciled with her father in recent years.

  Ryan was born 20 April 1941 9.34am Los Angeles, California, with an actress mother and screenwriter father. His 10^th house charming Sun Venus in Taurus and Mercury in Aries designed him for a public career which would bring him attention – and latitude for indulgence as well being Taurus. He had an adventurous, friendly and lucky Jupiter Uranus in Taurus square an Aquarius Moon and trine Neptune on his IC. Certainly inventive and creative with Uranus Neptune but also emotionally erratic. His Neptune was on the focal point of a Yod to Moon sextile Sun Venus making him escapist, a dreamer and emotionally disorganized.  He also had a troublesome 8^th house Mars in Aquarius square his Saturn which would be where his explosive temper came from. An ancestral legacy he never resolved.

  He had been through two marriages before he met Farrah Fawcett for a tempestuous decade plus affair. She was the former star of Charlie’s Angels and wife of O’Neal’s friend, the actor Lee Majors. There were public rows and reconciliations. On one occasion Farrah Fawcett was photographed with two black eyes; she went on to describe O’Neal as “a loud, rowdy son-of-a-bitch”.

  During this period he also punched his teenage son, knocking out two of the boy’s teeth. “I beat up my own kids,” he said. “I am deeply ashamed.” He finally separated from Farrah but was reconciled in 2001 and stayed with her until she died of cancer in 2009.

  Farrah Fawcett, 2 February 1947 3.10pm Corpus Christi, Texas, an all-American beauty at college who graduated into acting, had an explosive and monumentally difficult chart with an 8^th house Sun Mars Mercury in Aquarius opposition Pluto Saturn in Leo. The bubbling volcano inside was hidden from view with a sympathetic Moon in Cancer on her Ascendant and an outgoing Jupiter in Scorpio in her 5^th. To some degree she may have been drawn to Ryan O’Neal because of shared patterns – he also had Mars in the 8^th in Aquarius, Neptune in the 4^th and both had last decan Pisces Midheaven.  But it was never going to be a peaceable connection. Their relationship chart had a hostile, power-struggling composite Mars opposition Pluto and only a frivolous Venus Jupiter to provide light relief.

 Their only child Redmond O’Neal has had a troubled, drug addicted life and was ruled mentally “incompetent” to stand trial in 2019, facing charges of attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon. He was diagnosed with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and antisocial personality disorder. In an interview he said: “It’s not the drugs that have been a problem, it’s the psychological trauma of my entire life. Fighting with my father, being kicked out and living on the streets, going to jail, being embarrassed all the time, just because of who my parents are. I never asked for any of this, I never wanted any attention.”

 Redmond was born 30 January 1985 2.55am Los Angeles,  has a 6^th house Taurus Moon North Node opposition a 12^th house Saturn in Scorpio in a Half Grand Sextile to Jupiter Mercury in Capricorn and Venus Mars in Pisces. His Aquarius Sun conjunct both his parents’ 8^th house Mars won’t have helped; and his over controlled Sun square Pluto echoes his father’s Sun square Pluto. But I have seen more difficult charts and there is a good deal of potential lurking inside him which he clearly hasn’t been able to access.

   Tatum O’Neal 5 November 1963 3.38 am Los Angeles, was produced from Ryan’s first marriage to actress Joanna Moore who also had addiction problems and lost custody of the children. Tatum  has an intense collection of a Scorpio Sun, Mercury, Neptune all conjunct in her 2^nd house in a creative/neurotic square a 5^th house Saturn in Aquarius. With Venus in final degree Scorpio conjunct Mars in Sagittarius with her Mars being square Uranus Pluto in Virgo in her 10^th . She didn’t have her psychological problems to seek either and that has hints of a troubled pregnancy (with her in utero, from those 12^th house aspects).

 Her Cancer Moon on her Midheaven suited her for a public career and a 7^th house Jupiter would give her confidence and enthusiasm, especially since it sits on the focal point of a yod inconjunct Uranus Pluto sextile Sun, Mercury, Neptune.

  She did reconcile with her father though still appeared to have drug problems and suffered a massive stroke in 2020 from a prescription drug overdose.

  What a family – exhausting even to think about. Unfinished business in all directions, nothing ever got sorted.

Brenda Lee named by Rolling Stone as one of the greatest singers of all time and singles chart-topping phenomenon along with Elvis, The Beatles and Ray Charles is still making waves with her “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree”, recorded in 1958, and now back topping the US Billboard Hot 100 in 2023. It makes her the oldest artist ever to top the chart and 67 years since her first hit aged 12.

 Performing rockabilly, pop, country and Christmas music, she  was given the nickname “Little Miss Dynamite”. Her hits include “Sweet Nothin’s”, “I’m Sorry”, “I Want to Be Wanted”, “Speak to Me Pretty”, “All Alone Am I” and “Losing You”.

  She was born December 11, 1944 3.24 pm in Atlanta, Georgia with an 8^th house Sun in Sagittarius conjunct Mars on the cusp of the 8^th in an excitable opposition to Uranus. Her Sun is square a hard-working, warm-hearted Jupiter in Virgo in her entertaining 5^th house; her creative/musical Neptune is also in her 5^th on the point of a T square to Mercury opposition Saturn. She has a friendly, charming Venus in Aquarius conjunct her Midheaven square an intense Scorpio Moon. Her Moon is square a 4^th house Pluto and trine Saturn. Not the easiest of Moon aspects though her Moon is conjunct her Venus/ Pluto midpoint giving her intense emotional attachments. She has been married for 59 years and not much is known about her husband or her marriage which fits with secretive, self-protective Moon Pluto aspects.

  Her Solar Arc Jupiter is sitting around the midpoint of her Sun and Mars around now giving her a boost. Tr Jupiter is also hovering over her Ascendant, not quite exact but that will also do her brand image no harm at all into 2024. With tr Pluto conjunct her 10^th house Venus in 2023/24. Her Solar Return from December 2023 has Jupiter in the 10^th bringing her luck and attracting success.

The oldies rock on.

The extraordinary life of Benjamin Zephaniah, poet, writer, musician and activist was an inspiration to many as his influence as “the people’s laureate” made him beloved across a wide audience. “Noisy, charismatic, provocative but ultimately thoughtful, Benjamin Zephaniah was not just a poet but a cultural force. As a black British writer, and as a performer at home on stage or TV, he cut a path for others to follow.”

  He was born 15 April 1958 in Birmingham, the son of a Barbadian postman and a Jamaican nurse. He was dyslexic and left school aged 13, unable to read or write. A present of a typewriter encouraged him to become a writer. The poetry he wrote was influenced by the music and poetry of Jamaica and what he called “street politics”. His first performance was in church when he was 11 years old, and by the age of 15, his poetry was already known among Handsworth’s Afro-Caribbean and Asian communities. As a young man, he spent time in borstal and received a criminal record and served a prison sentence for burglary.

 Zephaniah has said that his mission was to fight the dead image of poetry in academia, and to “take [it] everywhere” to people who do not read books, so he turned poetry readings into concert-like performances. In addition to poetry and novels he was also an actor, most notably playing “Jimmy” Jesus in Peaky Blinders between 2013 and 2022. Latterly he spent time in Beijing and studied Mandarin Chinese for over a decade.

  In an interview recently he admitted having been violent to a former partner, confessing to having hit her and coming to regret it in later life.

  He had an inspirational though bleak Fire Grand Trine of pro-active Aries Sun Mercury trine Pluto trine a thoughtful, knowledge-hungry Saturn in Sagittarius. That was formed into two talented Kites by Sun Mercury in an expansive, enthusiastic opposition to Jupiter in Libra and Neptune North Node in Scorpio giving him his irrepressibly upbeat streak. In complete contrast the other Kite was from Pluto opposition Mars and Chiron, stemming from his experiences growing up with prejudice frustrating and infuriating him. He also had a sensitive Pisces Moon and Venus as well as a determined and inventive Uranus square Neptune.

 His creative, get-it-together 5^th harmonic was strong, as well as his creative 7H. His victim/healer 12H was strained and notable, allowing him to channel his anger in productive ways. His leaving-a-legacy for posterity 17th harmonic was his strongest.

One of a kind.

John Lennon was gunned down forty three years ago on 8 December 1980 in New York by mentally disturbed Mark Chapman who also had a hit list including David Bowie, Johnny Carson, Paul McCartney, Ronald Reagan, and Elizabeth Taylor. Having shot Lennon he sat quietly and waited to be arrested. No one has managed to tie down his motive though it appeared to be connected in his psychotic fantasy with Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye.  He is still in prison serving a life sentence with parole being routinely denied every two years since 2000.

  A  new Apple TV+ docuseries, John Lennon: Murder Without a Trial narrated by Kiefer Sutherland looks over the events of that night.

  What was always significant astrologically was that Lennon, born 9 October 1940 6.30pm Liverpool was born on a Jupiter Saturn conjunction in Taurus, made his debut with the Beatles twenty years later on the next Jupiter Saturn and was killed when the next Jupiter Saturn conjunction in Libra was in place.

  When he died tr Neptune was hovering around the opposition to his Solar Arc Jupiter Saturn and the transiting Saturn Jupiter was moving to conjunct his North Node and square his SA Uranus and IC.  

  For most people Jupiter Saturn produces unexceptional effects apart from a need to fulfil ideals in a practical way. But for a few who are raised too high by Jupiter’s expansive drive to attract public adulation they are subsequently cut down by Saturn’s scythe. US Presidents elected under it can often come to a sticky end.

  Lennon’s Chiron was conjunct his Pluto in his performing 5^th house giving him enormous influence but relocated to New York it put his Pluto Chiron in the 8^th house of death and rebirth.

  Mark Chapman, 10 May 1955 7.30pm Fort Worth Texas, had no prior criminal convictions and had just before resigned from a job as a security guard in Hawaii. He was bullied as a child by his father compounding his sense of worthlessness which with a Taurus Sun opposition Saturn square Pluto makes sense. He also had an 8^th house Mars trine Neptune which would give him an underlying reservoir of deep anger and a need to attract publicity and attention. Plus an adventurous  Venus opposition Neptune square Jupiter Uranus in his 9^th house of books and ideals. There’s a terrible split in his chart between his totally battened down Sun, Saturn Pluto and his yearning for a pzazzy life of glamour and excitement – all channeled through Pluto trine Venus, sextile Mars into that underground tank of explosive rage. When he shot Lennon his SA Jupiter Uranus, desperate for excitement was squaring his drab, downbeat Sun opposition Saturn – bringing his life into a destiny changing crisis. His SA Pluto was moving to square his Mars as well with tr Neptune just over the opposition to his Mars, triggering his rage.

  Chapman’s Chiron was conjunct Lennon’s Aquarius Moon and opposition Lennon’s Pluto Chiron. Two unhealable wounds interlocking. Their relationship chart was brutal with a composite Mars Pluto conjunction opposition Saturn square North Node in Scorpio.  

  The other astro of note is Yoko Ono, 18 February 1933 8.30 pm Tokyo, Japan. On her astrocartography Liverpool sits exactly on her Venus Midheaven line which is charmingly apt. Her Chiron at 23 Taurus is conjunct Lennon’s Uranus and also square Chapman’s Pluto for another entanglement.

 Jupiter Saturn – hubris brought low by the gods who brook no rivalry from mere humans.

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