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A sporting round up with two greats – George Foreman and Eddie Jordan gone and the IOC (Olympic Committee) facing the fall-out from a questionable election result.

George Foreman, 10 January 1949, 9.15pm Marshall, Texas, was a heavyweight boxing champion and Olympic gold medallist who in his career had 76 wins and only five losses, one of them  against Muhammad Ali. After retiring he became a minister as well as a successful businessman leaving behind $300 million (£236.24m), mostly from his trademark George Foreman Grill. He had five wives, 12 children and 15 grandchildren.

 He had a confident, lucky Sun Jupiter in Capricorn in his sporting 5^th house square Neptune, alongside an assertive 5th house Mars in Aquarius widely opposition Pluto. He had Uranus in his 10^th hinting at an unconventional career and it opposed a 4^th house Venus square his Sun/Moon midpoint – one reason for his multiple marriages, the first four very short lived. His Gemini Moon was conjunct his Midheaven suiting him for a public career.

Eddie Jordan, 30 March 1948, Dublin, Ireland, no birth time, the legendary Formula 1 team owner, has also died. He started life as a racer before turning his attention to team ownership.

 He had a go-ahead Aries Sun, catching this month’s Solar Eclipse, opposition Neptune; with an adventurous Uranus opposition Jupiter (Moon) in Sagittarius. Plus an ultra-determined Pluto, Saturn, Mars in Leo. A fiery, entrepreneurial chart, attracted to excitement and risk, as well as doggedly enduring and stubborn.

  Aries always seems fitting for a racing car enthusiast.

 The International Olympic Committee, 23 June 1894 Lausanne Switzerland has elected a new president in Kirsty Coventry, a Zimbabwean gold medallist and sports cabinet minister in the government of Zim President Mnangagwa (widely known as “The Crocodile”). Seb Coe lost heavily which has produced sharp reactions and not all sour grapes.

 Marina Hyde lets fly in the Guardian: “Coe’s decisive loss yet again confirms of the IOC that you can’t win as an outsider in an insider’s race. It’s not that he’s an unknown quantity, more that he’s a known quantity. They certainly can’t be risking a new broom, after all, just as they couldn’t risk looking too hard into a quite staggering array of vote-buying/bribery/corruption/doping/political/sportwashing scandals down the decades. Once you realise that the one thing sport’s biggest wigs really hate is a sporting chance, it all becomes so much easier to understand.”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/21/ioc-kirsty-coventry-sebastian-coe-olympic-politics

  The IOC will not enjoy tr Neptune Saturn in Aries conjunct its Mars and square its Cancer Sun from this month right through 2026. With a grind-to-a-halt Solar Arc Pluto conjunct the Saturn in 2026 as well.

Sebastian Coe, 29 September 1956, has his Libra Sun conjunct the IOC South Node – so maybe he reminds them of their failure to strive for progress. His relationship chart with the IOC is explosive and aggravated so he would have wakened it up – and attracted hostility.

 Kirsty Coventry, 16 September 1983, in contrast has an IOC relationship chart dominated by controlling Pluto so she may not deviate too far from the party line.

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A fire which knocked out power to Heathrow Airport, the busiest airport in Europe, has raised questions about how well infrastructure is protected in the UK, whether from accidental damage or from deliberate sabotage.

 What is clear is it fits the pattern of the Solar Arc Uranus conjunct the UK 8^th house Mars drawing ever closer. See previous post: Oil Tanker crash – UK 8th house red alert 11th March 2025.

  The fire broke out at a sub-station close to Heathrow just after 11 pm on Thursday 20 March; with Jupiter on the cusp of the 8^th opposition Moon which sounds overly-amiable. Saturn, North Node, Neptune, Scheat in the 4^th trine a 9^th house Mars is more descriptive.

  Heathrow started as a small airfield and evidently the first experimental flight took off on 25 November 1930 when Uranus was a 11 degrees Aries, catching the up and coming Aries Solar Eclipse later this month.

 Conspiracy theorists have raced to blame Russia since it fits a pattern and Starmer has been vocal in his support for Ukraine. But as yet there is no proof of anything subversive.

 With or without an attack on national territory, relations between the UK and Russia are seriously strained. The UK/Russia 1991 relationship chart does have an explosive tr Uranus exactly square the Mars at the moment and increasing chill from tr Saturn square Venus Sun in coming weeks.  The UK/Russia 1917 relationship chart is equally separated, worse in 26/27.

 Keir Starmer, 2 September 1962, is under huge pressure at the moment – though there are local UK political challenges to his policies ongoing, as well as the global situation. His Solar Arc Sun Pluto is now sitting exactly on top of his Neptune which hints at confusion if not devastation of a significant order. His Solar Arc North Node is at 10 degrees Libra catching this Aries Solar Eclipse so it is a critical turning point for him.

 His relationship chart with Putin (assuming 1952 birth date) is heading into catastrophic territory from the final days of this month with more turbulence to come from this August into 2026.

  His relationship with Trump is being upended exactly now with serious frustrations and aggravations returning later this year.

The Saros Series of this Aries Solar Eclipse on the 29^th (in effect before and for several months after) did point to violence, accidents and a generally stressed time. See previous post: Eclipses, Sun & Moon 2025. 24th February 2025.

Turner and Constable were two landscape artists of genius, born within a year of each other, whom art history has been keen to see as rivals. Though they had different subject matter, backgrounds and temperaments and both have gone down as world class talents so any confected conflict is an irrelevance. Turner is best known for his skyscapes and Constable for his idyllic country scenes leading Frank Auerbach to say: “There isn’t a Turner that doesn’t somehow fly and there isn’t a Constable that doesn’t burrow.”

Turner, born 23 April 1775 1.10 am (unverified) London, was the son of a barber and for him painting “represented freedom and upward mobility”.

 A Sun Taurus inconjunct Saturn in Libra, he had an Earth Grand Trine of Neptune in Virgo trine Pluto trine Jupiter in Taurus, with Pluto inconjunct Mars in Leo. He had an Aquarius Moon probably and was evidently known as a ‘bit of a card’ and a practical joker as befits his Moon and two quincunxes.

John Constable, 11 June 1776 Colchester, England, had a  “comfortable, privileged” upbringing as son of a Suffolk mill owner. He was a Sun Gemini with an Aries Moon, with his Pluto trine Neptune and inconjunct Jupiter. Plus an enthusiastic Venus Mars in Gemini. He was never as rich as Turner, and had to wait till he was 52 to put “RA” after his name. Initially there was little demand for paintings of the British countryside until the French awarded him a gold medal and he became known as “the father” of French landscape painting.

   Their relationship chart had a friendly composite Sun Venus conjunction in an ambitious trine to Pluto and to Neptune; with a irritable composite Saturn square Mars. Not a disaster but the circumstances of their talents and the hothouse art scene would create tensions.

  In a way it is odd that Turner was attracted to the wide open skies being a Sun Taurus with an Earthy Grand Trine. While Constable with his Gemini stellium and Aries Moon was drawn to nature and the earth.

 

Neptune may finally be showing its hand as Donald Trump’s miscalculations begin to undermine his bellicose platform. The Nobel Peace prize recedes into the distance as Netanyahu and Putin both short circuit his promise of instant settlements of conflicts and the economy creaks under the boomerang effect of tariffs.

  On  a 10.54  am birth time in his personal chart tr Neptune is now entering his 8^th house for many years to come, starting off with a conjunction to the shipwrecker Scheat, usually not a harbinger of financial luck or mental clarity. Even without the birth time, his Solar Arc Neptune is conjunct his Moon now and moving on to oppose his Sun in 2026. Swampy, unrealistic, much confusion, disappointments.

  His relationship with key players all point to late April as a crisis point. That is when tr Uranus is square his Mars in Leo for a final time. But it is also rattling his relationship chart with the Supreme Court and with Chief Justice John Roberts who has already issued a rare statement to say attacks on judicial branch of government are not ‘appropriate’. There will be a run up of differences and attacks through earlier April as well – so perhaps too little too late the Justices are standing up for the rule of law and the constitution. Relations won’t improve late year and through 206/27, all being equal, they will worsen considerably.

  Trump is also mightily unnerved by Netanyahu or by the situation created by Netanyahu’s continued onslaught of Gaza. With sharp words at the moment; upheavals and turmoil through April there will be an explosive finish in late April into early May this year.

  His relationship with Putin, who appears to be dancing rings round him, will be aggravated by events late April and much much worse in May with high-tension leading to explosive outbursts and major panic as dangerous consequences overtake the best laid plans.

  His Inauguration chart is also highlighting late April into May as loss-making, confused and insecure. With a mental meltdown mid June into early July.

  Jerome Powell, Federal Reserve chair, like Roberts has a slippery, evasive, distrustful relationship chart with Trump – with anxiety mounting through May between them as the Fed Reserve chart also shows stress and confusion.

  No great conclusions standing on the sidelines except to point up the timeline.  If it were not so important and so damaging, there would be an eerie fascination watching the coach-crash of events unfurling.

Simon Tisdall in the Guardian:

“If Robert K Merton, the founding father of American sociology, were alive today, he’d be fascinated by the Donald Trump phenomenon. Scarcely more than 50 days into his second presidential term, hapless Trump provides daily proofs of Merton’s universal “law of unintended consequences”.

Rooted in ignorance, error, wilful blindness and self-defeating prediction, Trump’s rash actions produce contradictory, harmful and often opposite results to those he says he wants. The ensuing chaos characterises what may become the briefest honeymoon in White House history.

Boomeranging US tariffs – which are to American prosperity what the Titanic was to ocean travel – are the tip of the unintended consequences iceberg. Defiant foreign retaliation has brought stock market crashes and inflation fears – the exact opposite of what Trump promised voters.”

ADD ON: Trump’s latest bizarre offering in the Ukraine peace process as Putin ignores his promise that attacks on infrastructure will stop is that the USA take over nuclear power in Ukraine. Specifically the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station, the largest nuclear power plant in Europe and among the 10 largest in the world which has been in Russian-occupied territory, near the front line since 2022.

What is worrisome is that Zaporizhzhia, 1 April 1980, not only has an Aries Sun in line of this month’s Aries Solar Eclipse and autumn’s Libra Solar Eclipse for a major crisis. More ominous than that is its Mars at 26 degrees Leo on the focal point of a T square to Venus opposition Uranus – which is being badly rattled through April, peaking in an explosive jolt late April into May. Trump’s meddling is only likely to make things worse.

  Zaporizhzhia’s year ahead will also be marked by a collision from the Solar Arc Sun square Mars in six months and a Solar Arc Mars opposition the Sun on the same degree mid to late 2026 into 2027. And nothing settling down well into 2026.

Paul Gauguin, the French artist renowned for his Tahitian paintings has had his image restored in a new book, based on recently discovered material. Condemned until recently as a French colonialist who spread syphilis to underage girls in the South Seas, it now emerges he never suffered from the disease and was much revered in Polynesia both by the girls he married and the local community for his fight against the corrupt French authorities.

 He was born 7 June 1848 10 am Paris, amidst the tumult of Europe’s revolutionary year but was brought up in Peru where his journalist father (later imprisoned for the attempted murder of his mother) took the family.  Back in France Gauguin began his career in banking and started painting in his spare time, mentored by Pissarro. When he was in his thirties he moved to Tahiti, then a French colony. During his time there he controversially married three adolescent Tahitian girls with whom he later fathered children.

 Doctors have concluded his health problems did not stem from syphilis, but from eczema and erysipelas, aggravated by infected bites of the Simulium buissoni fly.

  He had a strong belief in equality between the sexes, much influenced by a grandmother who was a fierce fighter for women’s rights and much admired by Karl Marx. Gauguin cherished her writings and actively encouraged the women in his circle, including his wife, to find fulfilment through independence.

  He fell foul of the French authorities after he exposed the corruption and injustice of local French officials and pleaded for fairer taxation and treatment for the Indigenous people. He was sentenced to three months in prison on a charge which on re-examination proved his accusations to be correct but only a few months after his death.

 He had a 10^th house Gemini Sun square Saturn in Pisces on the cusp of his 8^th  – perhaps a hint of a strong grandmother. His 10^th house creative Venus in Gemini was square a Virgo Moon (on his late Leo Ascendant) opposition Neptune in his 7^th. His relationship to women/mother was idealized, confused and the choice of younger partners/brides though normal for the times would also be driven by his Moon Venus = the sexualized mother. The revolutionary year of his birth with its Uranus Pluto in Aries was square Mars in Leo and Jupiter in Cancer – so he would be inclined to fight against authority figures. It also describes an explosive father.

 Relocating his chart to Polynesia puts the Sun on his IC, so very much where he felt at home; though a 6^th house Moon hinted that it might be less helpful on the health front.

Add On: Gauguin had a brief but famously ‘intense and turbulent friendship’ with Vincent van Gogh, which ended with the mentally unstable Van Gogh cutting off his ear as an over-reaction to being abandoned by his idol and mentor.  Although they went in different directions they continued to write each other letters up to van Gogh’s suicide in an insane asylum at age 39.

Van Gogh, 30 March 1853 11am Zundert, Netherlands, had an exceptionally bunched chart with seven planets in his career 10^th house. They ranged from an overly-excitable Mars Venus conjunction in Pisces which squared onto Jupiter Moon in Sagittarius opposition North Node in a hurricane-force Mutable T square. Plus an early degree Aries Sun and a later degree Mercury in Aries in a mentally over-loaded conjunction to Pluto which was conjunct Uranus. Although five years younger than Gauguin he was also marked by the revolutionary, status-quo-upending Uranus Pluto conjunction.

 Van Gogh’s Pluto was square Gauguin’s afflicted Mars in Leo so it was never going to end well. Gauguin’s Saturn in Pisces was also conjunct Van Gogh’s hyper-active Mars Venus in Pisces for another friction point.

  When the ear-cutting incident occurred as Gauguin left Arles, Van Gogh’s Solar Arc Mars was less than a degree over the conjunction to his Pluto for extreme frustration and rage; his Solar Arc Saturn was in a depressed opposition to his Moon; tr Neptune in Gemini was in a confused conjunction to his SA Mercury – and he was one his Jupiter Return.

https://www.biography.com/artists/van-gogh-paul-gauguin-ear

Grayson Perry, the transvestite potter, whose ceramic vases and tapestries have earned him acclaim and prizes has an extensive exhibition about to open in London. He is well known for cross-dressing, as well as his observations of the contemporary arts scene, and for dissecting British “prejudices, fashions and foibles”. There is a strong autobiographical element in his work, in which images of Perry as “Claire”, his female alter-ego, and “Alan Measles”, his childhood teddy bear, often appear.

  He was born into a working-class family, his father leaving when he was four after discovering his mother was having an affair with a milkman, whom she later married and who Perry has claimed was violent. During an unhappy childhood moving between his parents he created a fantasy world based around his teddy in order to cope with his sense of anxiety. He became estranged from his mother and stepfather in his adult life. He is married to author and psychotherapist Philippa Perry and they have one daughter.

 Being provocative, breaking taboos and setting out to shock appears to be one of his driving delights. He was recently ennobled by the Prince of Wales wearing a taffeta dress. He has a 12^th house Aries Sun on the focal point of a yod inconjunct Neptune sextile Pluto, with his Sun square Jupiter – a curious mix of under confident about his identity and over-the-top. His Aquarius Moon which will love to shock is conjunct a forceful, stubborn Mars in Aquarius opposition Uranus in his creative 5^th house so he will have an explosive desire to stir up startled reactions.

   His Pluto is also in his attention-demanding 5^th house in an Earth Grand Trine to a Taurus Ascendant trine Jupiter, with Pluto opposition Venus in Pisces.

  Last but not least he has Saturn in Capricorn in his 10^th giving him a work ethic and the discipline to hold his wilder tendencies in check.

Eternally optimistic, luck-bringing Jupiter is given a forensic makeover in Liz Greene’s latest book  – By Jove! The Meaning of the Astrological Jupiter.  

  She emphasizes Jupiter is a good deal more enigmatic and less predictable than usually portrayed. At best it brings a connection to a meaningful and greater pattern, faith in the future, the courage to pursue a vision and can foster humour and joy.  

 But a natal Jupiter can also bring a reluctance to take responsibility for personal choices or honouring long term commitments and can lean towards self-aggrandisement and hubris, lack of empathy, gluttony, intolerance and dogmatism.

  There is an extensive trawl through the background mythology surrounding Zeus and his many lovers which throw light on the multi-faceted nature of a planet often given a simplistically positive slant – promiscuous, a chancer, unpredictable, unreliable, not stable, refuses to be bound by rules.

 Jupiter rules both Sagittarius and Pisces, both signs which thrive on connections, one mental and the other emotional. But both are also ‘innately subversive’ and ‘can put vision before reality, belief before logic,  perceived truth before facts.’

  It plays a part not only in religious belief but also in identity politics where individuals come together in a search for a meaningful connection and an identity.

 This is a comprehensive overview of Jupiter in all its manifestations, appearing at death as well as moments of good fortune, with chart interpretations of house positions, its operation in synastry and composite charts. With a final sweep through Jupiter cycles in relation to the other outer planets – Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.

  One thought I will take with me is that when Jupiter transits a natal planet it ‘is given an almighty kick’ which can at times be painful but ultimately can produce a constructive result.

 The other – which may be pertinent at the moment with Trump in full flight and a Jupiter Saturn square in orb and coming exact in mid June – is the necessity to keep a balance or find a middle way between hubris and nemesis.  Jupiter flies high while Saturn its opposite cuts down to earth. The old Roman trope of ‘memento mori’ = remember you are human, is warning which the overly Jupiterian type ignores at their peril.

Published by The Wessex Astrologer: 14 April 2025

By Jove! The Meaning of the Astrological Jupiter

Add On: One example is George Orwell, the writer who wanted children but after failed attempts adopted a child, only for his wife to die nine months later. Instead of letting the adopted child go he stayed devoted to him. His son said: “The thing he wanted most in life was to have children. And now I was his family.”  “My father was devoted to me,” he says. “Absolutely devoted.”

Orwell, 25 June 1903 2.30pm Motihari, India. Has Jupiter in Pisces in bis 5^th house of children on the focal point of a T square to Uranus opposition Pluto. Plus a New Moon Neptune in Cancer.

Electrical carmaker Tesla’s share price has dropped 40% since the start of the year, mainly due to a drop in sales over the past year though founder Elon Musk’s close alliance with Trump is hurting the brand and worries about tariffs affecting supply chains are also part of the problem.

  Tesla, 1 July 2003,  with Saturn, Mercury, Sun all in Cancer, catching the undermining tr Neptune Saturn in Aries square from 2026 through till 2030 does not look successful. Plus tr Uranus square the Uranus Mars in early Pisces in 2026/27 will bring high insecurity. With the Solar Arc Neptune in a high anxiety conjunction to the Mars/Uranus midpoint in 2026 and then in a panicky failure SA Neptune conjunct Mars in 2027. Nothing cheerful ahead, quite the reverse.

 The Tesla IPO 29 June 2010, another Sun Mercury in Cancer opposition Pluto square Uranus Jupiter in Aries is similarly afflicted by tr Neptune conjunct the Uranus and Jupiter from almost now onwards and then square Pluto and finally square the Sun Mercury – making all of the rest of this decade a slide downhill.

  Elon Musk, 28 June 1971 7.30am Pretoria, South Africa, will also be shaken up and discouraged by tr Saturn Neptune in Aries square his Cancer Sun in 2026/27. Even before then tr Uranus will rattle up his Neptune in Sagittarius opposition Saturn from this July onwards for high anxiety and jolting changes. His Pluto is also catching yesterday’s Virgo Lunar Eclipse and the September Solar Eclipse – for a change-or-disintegrate hint. He does have some Jupiterian blips ahead for luck but in general will not look back on this period of his life with much pleasure.

 His relationship chart with Trump is odd (assuming birth data is sound). There is a businesslike composite Sun Saturn conjunction being undermined all year by tr Neptune in square. That was in effect late last year, across the Inauguration and beyond, and repeats November to late January 2026.  This month to early July sees tr Pluto square the composite Neptune for maximum confusion about their association (maybe plans not working) – and that repeats on and off till late 2026. From mid 2026, assuming togetherness still holds, tr Uranus will square the composite Pluto for a significant upheaval and that runs into 2027.

 Neptune is doing very odd things both with Trump who is swimming in it this year but showing no signs of sinking yet.

Add On: Spacex, partially owned and founded by Elon Musk on 14 March 2002, is the world’s dominant space launch provider. With Jupiter in early Cancer square Venus (Moon) in early Aries it will be undermined by transiting Saturn Neptune in Aries. With Mercury in Pisces square Saturn in Gemini also taking a fair battering from tr Uranus in Gemini in 2026 and beyond.

 The Spacex/Elon Musk relationship chart also looks less than upbeat from now onwards for two or three years.

  Ditto his relationship with Tesla which is being badly shaken this year, more so in 2026 to 2028.

   The magic mirror of Snow White has been obscured by a box-office denting series of missteps, plunging the children’s favourite into bumpy terrain with controversies over feminism, racism, dwarfism and unbelievably the Israel-Palestine conflict.

  Much appears due to lead actress Rachel Zegler, Golden Globe winner for West Side Story. Admittedly she had to fend off offensive criticism about Snow White being played by a Latina actress, but she did not help herself by launching out onto comments about the story of Snow White and her Prince needing to be brought up to date and made more feminist. And being outspoken in her comments against Trump and pro-Palestine, with Gal Gadot who played the Evil Queen being an Israeli.

The seven dwarfs were also reimagined for the movie, with one actor with dwarfism along with six other non-dwarf actors. That strategy was criticised as being overly politically correct, as well as potentially taking away acting opportunities from the dwarfism community.

  And all this fuss over a children’s fairy tale.  See previous post Grimms fairytales. 1st January 2025.

 Principal Photography for the movie started on 7 March 2022 having been delayed by the pandemic, with a fire damaging the set soon after. Not surprisingly the start chart has an accident-prone, hostile and argumentative Pluto conjunct Mars Venus – so it was always going to be an aggravated production. There is also a Taurus Moon and Uranus square Saturn in Aquarius which also hints at tensions and rifts. 

 Rachel Zegler, 3 May 2001 9.30 am Hackensack, New Jersey (rectified), is a Sun Taurus sextile a Cancer Ascendant inconjunct Pluto on the focal point of the yod – so not a slouch when it comes to throwing her influence around, with a tendency to go to extremes and be overly forceful (coercive) in putting her views across.  Her Mars in outspoken Sagittarius is inconjunct Saturn and square her Moon so she will be inflammatory.

 Tr Neptune and Saturn squaring her Mars through this May and on and off into early 2026 will dent her confidence and bring a few failed plans.  Tr Pluto heading for her 8^th and tr Jupiter moving through her 12^th will hint that taking a backseat for a while might be sensible.

 Her relationship with Disney films, 16 October 1923, who will not be mightily pleased at having their entertainment investment dragged into screeching arguments, is fraught and will be so for a while.

 Gal Gadot, 30 April 1985, is another determined Sun Taurus, even more so with her Sun opposition Pluto and square Jupiter; and her Mars in Gemini on the focal point of a yod inconjunct Pluto sextile Neptune. Her overly-assertive Mars is conjunct Zegler’s Saturn for an undertone of dislike and a definite clash. Their relationship chart has an unbudgeable composite Pluto square Saturn which is being jangled by tr Uranus in hard aspect across the launch publicity and through the year.

  It’s not that the issues are not important. But loading down what should be escapist entertainment from global and political horrors with luvvies demanding a platform is a bit much. Never mind Zegler biting the hand that feeds.