Marjorie 
Merry crackers and festive fun to those who are celebrating en famille. For those who are not, enjoy a relaxing feet-up. In the past many of my best end-of-the-year memories are sitting peacefully in front of the TV/fire and reflecting how great it was not to be tangled up in family tensions.
All the best for 2026 – a year when the new era finally gets together. More to follow
Marjorie
Russell Brand, broadcaster, comedian and actor, who was baptized in the River Thames last year proclaiming it was an opportunity to leave the past behind, has been charged with two further offences including one count of rape and a charge of sexual assault relating to two women. He has previously pleaded not guilty to five charges including two counts of rape, two counts of sexual assault and one count of indecent assault in relation to four women. He is due in court on 20 January 2026 in relation to the two new charges with a trial set to start on 16 June 2026 for the five original charges.
Born 4 June 1975, 12.07 am (from memory) Basildon, England, (same as Angelina Jolie) he had a fractured childhood with his parents separating when he was months old, his mother developing cancer, a teenage drug problem and his father taking him to visit prostitutes. He rose to fame as a stand-up comedian and became a household name as host of TV shows like Big Brother’s Big Mouth with his own radio programmes. He went on to establish a Hollywood career, starring in films like Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Get Him To The Greek.
His conversion to Christianity follows a long spiritual trail through Buddhism, transcendental meditation, and the Hare Krishna movement.
He has a Gemini Sun at the end of his 4th house/cusp of his performing 5th opposition a 10th house Neptune which is creative and musical but also contains the seeds of both drug addiction and a search for spiritual meaning. His Aries Moon conjunct Mars in his financial 2nd house opposes an 8th house Pluto which is emotionally super-intense, quite toxic, hinting, like David Walliams, at intergenerational issues around mother and women in general. His over exuberant Mars Jupiter in Aries is square an unhappy Saturn in Cancer putting his mood on a roller coaster of highs and lows.
His Venus in Cancer on his Descendant square Uranus opposition his ‘wounded’ Chiron adds another layer of unpredictability to his emotional life. A North Node in Sagittarius like his Neptune hints at the need to reach out for a higher purpose.
At the moment tr Pluto is crossing his Ascendant and tr Uranus is conjunct his IC – so massive changes coming to his image and self-awareness as well as the foundations of his life. Pressured and turbulent. Tr Neptune will conjunct his Moon from July 2026 onwards for an unsettling emotional period especially where women are concerned, extending into 2027 when tr Neptune opposes his Pluto for maximum confusion. He is at a low ebb in his life with tr Saturn moving through his 2nd house, the nadir of his First Quadrant – so a time for inner reflection rather than outer success.
Moon Mars and 8th house – not a great mix.
Chris Rea, English rock and blues singer-songwriter known for his distinctive gravelly voice and slide guitar playing and for Driving Home for Christmas has died. He preferred to see himself as “an ordinary bloke from the grass roots, with a craggy, lived-in face, singing about life”.
He was born 4 March 1951 in Middlesborough and what leaps out of his chart is a mix of hardship with rolling crises alongside soaring confidence and good luck. Throughout his life he had serious health problems with pancreatic cancer in his thirties leaving him with diabetes, with further bouts of cancer and a debilitating stroke ten years ago. He died within three months of two of his six siblings.
He had a musical Pisces Sun conjunct Jupiter; and a Capricorn/Aquarius Moon. His enthusiastic, upbeat Jupiter was on the focal point of a yod inconjunct an ambitious Pluto sextile Neptune, giving him the ability to make his mark on the culture as well as attracting good fortune. But he also had Mars and Venus in Aries opposition Saturn square Uranus in Cancer. The Uranus would give him an uncompromising temperament and the ability to innovate but Mars Saturn would bring considerable setbacks along the way. Two starkly opposing energies.
Neptune, planet of bliss and brutality, creativity and duplicity, is nearing the final stretches of its fourteen year home run in its own sign Pisces. Previous such phases oversaw great epic poetry from several cultures – Persian, Tamil, Hindi, Provencal Troubadours, T’ang Dynasty, German; as well as the establishment of major hospitals. Mathematics also figured – Fibonacci and Isaac Newton were both at their peak under a Neptune in Pisces. Exploration flourished – Livingstone (Pisces) discovered the Victoria Falls and Richard Burton (Pisces) Lake Tanganyika under Neptune in Pisces; and the first European to explore the Atlantic coast of the USA did so under a previous Neptune in Pisces; at the same time as Peru was discovered by a Spanish explorer. The first Thomas Cook travel tour was a Neptune in Pisces occurrence. Religion featured heavily with key events in Christian, Muslim and Buddhist history.
Not much springs to mind that is similar in the recent past but it may need the perspective of distance to extract positive highlights.
In mythology there are pointers to creativity, one of Neptune’s talents. Pegasus, the winged horse, symbol of the soaring imagination, was born when Medusa was beheaded and he/it was set free. Throughout Neptune’s story there is always this paradox – revelling in brutality of the bloodiest variety in order to set free the ideal. An eternal war between the physical world and the spirit.
Christianity, despite its love and tolerance motif, has at its heart an image of gruesome torture and the acute physical suffering of a forsaken son. Neptune has a dissolving action so physical dismemberment is part of his lexicon. And in certain modes Neptune is anti-life. This ‘vale of tears’ was the old Christian outlook for getting through a life of suffering and mishaps, until the happy land beyond St Peter’s Gates is reached.
Neptune, the god, ruled the watery oceans and waged war on Athena, who ruled the land. As an act of aggression he raped Medusa (then a beauty) in Athena’s temple, in revenge for which Athena turned her ugly and banished her to the far wildernesses. His domain, the sea can be cruel, cold, changeable, liable to brew up into storms and is capable of chipping away relentlessly at rocky land until it collapses.
In astrology, religion and spirituality comes under its domain. The atrocities perpetrated in the Crusades, the Inquisition, the Protestant versus Roman Catholic battle waging for six centuries, the Islamic Shia-Sunni split, the Muslim v Jewish conflict ongoing, throws a different slant on Neptune, the spiritual dreamer. The all-encompassing other-worldly vision can obliterate everything that is human and display and insensitivity that is chilling.
Merged with other planets Neptune can be a powerful force and not always for the good. Neptune Pluto is scandal prone and megalomaniac, as well as innovative. Neptune Uranus can be fanatical as well as inspired. Neptune Saturn is associated with epidemics, paranoia, mental instability as well as social reform. Neptune Jupiter rules high-finance, bankers and con-men gurus.
Neptune together with Saturn at the moment and through 2026 are polar opposites. Saturn rules the earthly material world, the body, organizations, rules and regulations, practicality, sanity. Neptune undermines our security in the real world, dissolves the boundary between what is fact and what is fiction. It also affects the body so difficult to diagnose illnesses and epidemics occur. On a positive note it also undermines the patriarchy so women’s rights come to the fore with social reforms moving up the agenda.
Random Neptunian oddities:
Top athletes who need exceptional physical endurance often have strong Neptune aspects to their Suns. Successful businessmen and explorers are often Pisces, which is ruled by Neptune. The Nazi doctor Josef Mengele was a Pisces Sun trine Neptune. John Gacy, who raped and killed at least 33 teenage boys, was a New Moon in Pisces opposition Neptune. Not always what is expected.
Another intriguing astro-pattern: When Neptune changes sign (every 15 years or so) an iconic female figure dies – Princess Diana, Grace Kelly, Nathalie Wood, Sharon Tate, Judy Garland in previous transitional times of Neptune leaving a sign.
1901: Neptune leaving Gemini – Queen Victoria dies.
1915: Neptune leaving Cancer – Mary Baker Eddy and Emily Davidson (suffragette who suicided by horse at the Derby). Florence Nightingale also died with Neptune in late Cancer (1911)
1929: Neptune leaving Leo – Emmeline Pankhurst (the great suffragette), Ellen Terry, Isadora Duncan.
1943 – Neptune leaving Virgo – aviator Amy Johnson, writer Beatrix Potter.
1957 – Neptune leaving Libra – Laura Wilder (Little House on the Prairie), scientist Irene Curie
1968 – Neptune leaving Scorpio – Helen Keller, Enid Blyton, Dorothy Parker, Vivien Leigh, Judy Garland, Little Mo, Sonja Henie, Gypsy Rose Lee, Sharon Tate.
1983 – Neptune leaving Sagittarius – Nathalie Wood, Anita Loos (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), Anna Freud, Ingrid Bergman, Grace Kelly, Gloria Swanson, Ethel Merman, Lillian Hellman, Indira Gandhi.
1998 – Neptune leaving Capricorn – Princess Diana, Mother Theresa, Ella Fitzgerald, Ginger Rogers, Lana Turner, Evelyn Laye, Dorothy Lamour, Claudette Colbert, Marguerite Duras, Patricia Highsmith, Mary Leakey.
2011 – Liz Taylor, Amy Winehouse, Jane Russell, Whitney Houston, Lauren Bacall, Esther Williams, Zsa Zsa Gabor.
2025 Jane Goodall, Virginia Giuffre, Cecile Richards, Diane Keaton, Marianne Faithfull, June Lockhart, Roberta Flack.
Christianity is the world’s leading religion with Islam a close second. Both beliefs came into effect during the 2000- year Age of Pisces. Jesus, whom adherents see as the Son of God who rose from the dead after his crucifixion and was the messiah (Christ) prophesied in the Old Testament. He was born supposedly around the turn of the new millenia, with the bright star guiding the wise men to his birth being taken by some as the Jupiter Saturn conjunction of 7 BC. But there are a legion of differing dates suggested for his birth.
What is true of Jesus is not only did he become the figurehead for an enduring religion, he was also at the time a social activist which was the reason the authorities put him to death by. The 25 December 01 BC which is one suggested birth date did have a close revolutionary Pluto in Virgo opposition Uranus in Pisces square a Capricorn Sun conjunct North Node. Which makes sense of him as a rebel leader with a strong father motif in his life.
The earlier date selected because of the Jupiter Saturn conjunction in Pisces of 7 BC in late February/early March has a Uranus in Pisces opposition Pluto as well as the Jupiter Saturn conjunction. But all is speculation since there were no written records and Jesus’s life has almost certainly been mythologised to fit in with earlier beliefs.
Islam also rose out of Piscean times with the birth of Mohammed in 570 CE only a decade before the triple conjunction of Saturn–Uranus–Pluto in Pisces square Neptune; and declared himself the leader of Islam in 622 CE under the Saturn–Uranus–Neptune conjunction in Virgo.
Carl Jung was fascinated by the symbolism of Pisces, for the Age of Pisces, coinciding with Christ’s birth. He makes the point that Pisces is associated mythologically with two hostile brothers – Christ and the anti-Christ, the spirit versus the flesh – the glyph has two fishes swimming in opposite directions. The early Gnostic Christians believed that Lucifer (the anti-Christ) created the body and the material world; and God/Christ created the soul. Life’s journey was about rescuing the soul from its leaden overcoat of the flesh.
Pisces represents the ideal as well as the shadow, eternally at war, both inextricably linked. The central motif for Christianity is one of torture in the crucifixion which is also part of Pisces’ story – dismemberment, mortification of the flesh. Risking all for the sake of heavenly redemption – which fits into the Muslim ideology as well.
When it goes wrong and the Pisces/Neptune energy leans too heavily towards the shadow, inhumane cruelty surfaces. Individuation, Jung believed, was only accomplished when you both contradictory sides are owned.
Global demographics:
Christianity (28.8%)
Islam (25.6%)
Hinduism (14.9%)
Buddhism (4.10%)
Into the age of Aquarius: the great epochs explained
Astrology’s perspective on the universe takes into account the fact that our view of the constellations shifts as the Earth tilts backwards infinitesimally slowly in the heavens. Every 2000 years approximately, the line drawn through the centre of the Earth moves into a different sign. Hence we are moving into the much vaunted Age of Aquarius, one of the great epochs, and out of the Age of Pisces which started around the time of the birth of Christ. Each of these epochs coincides with a different stage of development of mankind. Though since the constellations have no start and finish line, no accurate date can be established, but somewhere across the next century we leave Pisces to enter Aquarius.
The age of Leo: 10,000–8000bc
Leo, symbolized by the Lion, ruled by the Sun, is courageous, artistic, family-centred, giving out warmth. This is the age of the hunter-gatherer, and the dawn of agriculture, with the cultivation of wild cereals. Animals are not yet domesticated so wild flocks are rounded up to provide sustenance and for breeding. It is also the end of the last Ice Age. Rock paintings record early man’s need to create a lasting record of his presence.
The age of Cancer: 8000–6000bc
Cancer, symbolized by the crab, ruled by the Moon, is home, family and tribe-oriented, worshipping the Great Mother and the Moon as the fertility providers. This is the age when communities started to gather into protected settlements, with defensive protection against wild animals. In Jericho the people lived in huts made of sun- dried mud, which became a widespread method of construction in the Middle East.
The age of Gemini: 6000–4000bc
Gemini, symbolized by the twins, ruled by Mercury, is the communication planet, restless, versatile, wandering. This is the age of the development of written or drawn communication, starting with cuneiform, pictographs and hieroglyphs. Initially devised for trade and barter, and derived from an earlier token system, writing was increasingly used for administration.
The age of Taurus: 4000–2000bc
Taurus, symbolized by the bull, sign of the farmer, coincided with the start of settled agricultural communities, as the nomads formed together in groups to cultivate the land. Taurus is associated with culture, comfort and security. Its Venusian aspects are seen most clearly in the Egyptian civilization, which by 3500bc was flourishing in cities along the fertile Nile Delta. The great bull sarcophaguses of ancient Egypt are testament to the reverence in which this animal was held.
The age of Aries: 2000bc–ad 0
Aries, the warrior sign, symbolized by the Ram, associated with iron, coincides in the great epochs with the development of metal, which replaced stone and wooden implements and was used for agriculture, household utensils and weapons. The first European states were settled under the flourishing Minoan culture, then the Greek. Aries’ entrepreneurial talents were put to good use: trading increased dramatically. Sporting prowess became the greatest achievement in Greek culture, reflecting Aries’ competitive streak. Bronze technology gave way to iron, with an increase in military activity, which saw the construction of Europe’s massive defensive fortresses.
The age of Pisces: ad 0–2000
An age of artistic and religious inspiration, with the great messiahs—Christ, Mohammed and Buddha—carrying the vision of mankind. Pisces is creative, spiritual, concerned with individual sacrifice for the greater good. Suffering for mankind is one of its traits, witnessed in the Christ myth. The early Jesus cults had the fish as their secret symbol, and the Christian New Testament story concerns itself with fishermen and feeding the multitude. Buddhism is the passive facet of Pisces, caring, opposed to killing, living a good life and aspiring to nirvana, a blissful state removed from earthly suffering. Pisces is connected to realms beyond, so revelations from God come directly to the prophets like Mohammed, who bring those revelations to the people. Pisces’ darker side is orgiastic, devouring, savage, impersonal, inhumane.
The age of Aquarius: 2000–4000
A high-tech, computer crazy age; the information revolution and genetic engineering are but two of the wild scientific developments that would have been unthinkable even 100 years ago. These are just the beginning, though, a pointer to what lies ahead. Aquarius is the sign of knowledge, scientific breakthroughs and discoveries. Man takes on god-like powers, manipulating the environment and our species. What he does runs against biology, so the old gender-specific categories and cultures will no longer hold. A world that George Orwell and Aldous Huxley uncannily foresaw.
Aquarius is detached emotionally, friend rather than family oriented, so the breakdown of the old domestic structures—already in evidence — is part of the picture. Essentially tolerant, and humanitarian, Aquarius appreciates individual differences of culture, custom and creed, so some have spoken of a golden age coming. But Aquarius can be uncompromising in its demand for complete freedom without interference. The old social glue no longer works. What the Prometheus myth, often associated with Aquarius, tells us, however, is that playing with the power of the universe carries with it dangers. There will be a physical price to pay for an over emphasis on the intellect and scientific supremacy. The emotions and the body, split off from natural roots, may rebel.
David Walliams, one of the UK’s most successful children’s authors, with 40 books to his credit that have sold 60 million copies and £100m in sales, widely used in schools and translated into 55 languages has been dropped by his publisher, HarperCollins, for alleged inappropriate behaviour towards young women. He has been a successful TV personality and comedian as well, though in 2022 reports emerged that he had made derogatory remarks about contestants on Britain’s Got Talent, leading to his departure from the programme and a subsequent legal dispute that was settled in 2023.
He was born 20 August 1971 1.45 am Wimbledon, England, and according to a mother writing in the Telegraph the attitude to women in his books “has always been suspect, even unpleasant.” He has seemed “viciously dismissive of many of his female characters, simply because they’re overweight, unattractive or have some degree of power.”
He has a Leo Sun close to Venus and conjunct Alphard (like Bill Clinton) = successful but tripping up through self-defeating actions. His Sun (Venus)is also on the focal point of an out-of-element T square to Neptune Jupiter in his 5th house which rules entertainment and children opposition Saturn. That is quite a statement – ego centric from a focal point Sun, scandal-prone from Jupiter Neptune and creative but neurotic from Neptune opposition Saturn.
He also has an up-in-his-head Air Grand Trine of a deeply-buried and angry 8th house Mars in Aquarius conjunct North Node trine Saturn trine Uranus, formed into a Kite by Mars North Node opposition his Leo Moon. Which is also quite a statement with a fractious and uncompromising collection of Saturn, Mars, Uranus. What stands out is his 8th house Mars in obstinate Aquarius opposition Moon which would give him deep-rooted issues with women, part of a generational pattern in his family.
Plus he has Pluto in his 4th tending to make him emotionally controlling.
At the moment his Progressed Moon is exactly conjunct his Moon and just off the opposition to his 8th house Mars, so highlighting that central not-women-friendly strand of his chart, More to the point tr Pluto is just on the cusp of his 8th staying there for many years to come which is usually financially and emotionally stuck. Plus tr Saturn is in a stuck opposition to his Pluto in late January 2026 with tr Uranus returning to oppose his Neptune in April 2026 and continuing on to rattle up his Saturn in Gemini from July 2026 into 2027. So that driving opposition in his chart tied into a Grand Trine and a T square will be shaken every which way. A life changing phase.
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The shooting of an MIT physics professor at his home two days after two economics students were gunned down at Brown University, Rhode Island has ended with the suspected gunman found dead from self-inflicted gunshot wounds.
The assumption is that the shooter, Carlos Valente, 22 January 1977, Torres Novas, Portugal, had been a fellow student years before of Nuno Loureiro, the professor he killed, but their paths had diverged since then with one successful, the other not. Valente had studied at Brown 25 years ago.
Valente was a Sun Aquarius, with a Saturn in wannabe important Leo in a can-be-autocratic square to Uranus, and a highs-and-lows square to Jupiter. He had a can-be-hostile Mars square Pluto as well as two yods – Mars in Capricorn sextile Venus inconjunct Saturn; and a wide-ish yod of Pluto sextile Neptune inconjunct Jupiter. He would be lacking in self-esteem from Saturn, needing to mature if his actions were not to be self-defeating – and over grandiose with a stressed Jupiter.
He had been through an undermining phase recently with his Solar Arc Neptune conjunct his Sun so his morale would be low. And he may have had his Solar Arc Mars conjunct his Pisces Moon, triggering his anger. The Libra Moon at the Brown University shooting was conjunct his Pluto triggering his Mars square Pluto as well.
Brown University was founded 15 September 1764 in Providence, Rhode Island, with a Virgo Sun and South Node, square Mars in Sagittarius (conjunct Pluto) and trine Saturn in Taurus; plus Mercury opposition Uranus square Jupiter in Cancer. High vitality, high in the rankings and good at producing entrepreneurs.
At the moment it has its Solar Arc Pluto exactly conjunct its Virgo Sun for a shuddering halt, all the more so with Solar Arc Mars following along behind in coming years; and tr Saturn Neptune square the Mars Pluto conjunction through 2026, with SA Neptune conjunct the Saturn in 2027 – the repercussions will be felt for a considerable time ahead. The university Neptune is also catching tr Uranus in square until April 2026; with both Solar Eclipses of 2026 rattling its Neptune as well. So a confused and shaky time. At the shooting tr Mars was also conjunct its natal Mars for an added alert.
The last survivor of the Tulsa Massacre, the single worst incident of racial violence in American history which occurred in 1921, has died aged 111. Viola Ford Fletcher gave evidence to Congress in 2021 on the 100th anniversary of the white supremacist attack on a prosperous Black community known as Black Wall Street, destroying hundreds of Black-owned businesses, churches and homes. 10,000 were left homeless and bodies were tossed into the muddy Arkansas River or dumped into mass graves, making it impossible to count the dead though a figure of 300 has been suggested. She also wrote a memoir Don’t Let Them Bury My Story in which she said she had suffered nightmares every night since she fled as a seven year old with her family, losing everything.
The massacre was sparked by a rumour that a white woman had been assaulted by a young black shoe shiner though she denied it ever happened. After the massacre, ordinances were put in place that prevented residents from rebuilding their homes, and their insurance claims and lawsuits were denied, leaving almost the entire population homeless. Viola would never return to education and was forced to give up on her childhood dream of becoming a nurse.
Viola Ford Fletcher, born 10 May 1914 Lawton, Oklahoma – some references say May 5th but 10th fits best – was a Sun Taurus square Jupiter in Aquarius; with Mercury in Taurus on the focal point of a T square to Mars in Leo opposition Uranus. She would be optimistic and enthusiastic as well as lively and outspoken. With Venus Saturn conjunct in Gemini trine Jupiter Uranus and Pluto in Gemini trine Jupiter. Despite her experiences she did have luck and a positive outlook to keep her moving forward.
The massacre starting at around 10pm 31 May 1921 in Tulsa, OK, had a transiting Mars square tr Saturn prominent which is one signature for assassination. Uranus was also in an opportunistic opposition to Jupiter and explosive square to the Sun (and later) Mars.
The 5th house Sun Mars in Gemini was square Uranus in Pisces in the financial 2nd opposition Jupiter Saturn in Virgo in the 8th. Resentment over a prosperous black community may have been one trigger with such a pronounced 2/8th emphasis. As well as pointing to the damage caused which amounted to the equivalent of $32 million nowadays. 10,000 were left homeless and were never compensated which also fits Chariklo (eternal suffering) in the 4th house. Viola and two other survivors did belatedly get a private donation in 2020 to make up for their wrecked lives.
When the massacre happened Viola had an undermining and panicky tr Neptune conjunct her Solar Arc Mars and the same from her Solar Arc Neptune conjunct her Mars in the aftermath. The transiting destructive Mars square Saturn was impacting on her Saturn and Solar Arc Venus, pulling her away from security and friends. Remarkably little is registering at that point on the USA chart.
Inconceivable and witless even by today’s standards of reality-twisting – the Journal for Medical Ethics no less has printed a 9000 word essay from global academics proclaiming that objections to female genital mutilation are misplaced. It claims that laws banning FGM are “stigmatising” towards migrant communities and global efforts to end FGM are based on “racialised stereotypes” and “western sensationalism”. Neo-colonial is bandied about; with a suggestion that girls who have been forcibly mutilated are being “objectified as victims”.
There has been a furious response from survivors, doctors and midwives outraged that a medical journal would minimise the massively-documented harms FGM causes which they fear could set back decades of progress.
More than 230 million girls and women around the world have had their genitalia mutilated, mostly in Africa, but also in parts of Asia and the Middle East, usually on historic religious or cultural grounds.
It is a barbaric and misogynistic practice aimed to remove sexual pleasure from women (and presumably thereby preventing them from straying from their controlling husband) and usually performed on young girls without anaesthetic.
The Journal of Medical Ethics, founded in 1975 is part of the British Medical Journal Group whose first issue was published on 3 October 1840.
The 1840 chart has a Leo Sun conjunct Alphard (the water serpent brings honours and danger by poisoning) with both conjunct the South Node. The Aquarius North Node will give it a tendency towards activism. There is also a bleak, can-be-cruel Fire Grand Trine of Mars South Node trine Saturn trine Pluto in Aries giving self-confidence and a hint of self-righteousness.
At the moment there is a Solar Arc Jupiter square Mars with Solar Arc Neptune square the Jupiter. Mars Jupiter can be opportunistic, extremist and has a tendency to glorify fighting crusades to gain social approval. Jupiter Neptune is scandal-prone, tending to impractical idealism, lacking in discrimination.
The BMJ midpoints hint at a nerve-stretched and turbulent few months ahead. Which is the least of what they deserve.
It may not be quite as damaging a scandal as the Lancet in 1998 publishing Andrew Wakefield’s article linking the MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) vaccine and autism which set off more than two decades of distorted thinking about vaccines despite his findings being exposed as bogus.
The Lancet, 5 October 1823, like the BMJ has a Libra Sun and Mars in Leo and similarly Jupiter Neptune aspects = purports to be balanced but blows its own trumpet without stopping to double check.
When that scandal blew up their Solar Arc Neptune was square Pluto and their SA Uranus opposing Neptune. So some similarities.