Jitters in the financial world have sent the ‘fear gauge’ surging to highest level since early stages of pandemic. A global stock sell-off gathered pace with concern of a recession in the USA, the world’s biggest economy. Japanese, Asian and European markets suffered sharp declines in response.
This is a quick skip through the main charts – which I don’t keep an eye on generally so don’t know how reliable the start dates are in terms of registering events. But all seem to show more than usual levels of aggravation and setbacks now and through 2025 – which would mirror the signs of tensions rising on global central banks, especially the US Federal Reserve in 2025 when tr Neptune and Saturn move into Aries. (See post July 24 2024 Global finance – rising debt.)
New York Stock Exchange, 17 May 1792, 7.53am, Sun at 27 Taurus square Pluto at 23 Aquarius will be rocked and jangled by tr Uranus hard aspects right through until early 2026.
Dow Jones, 26 May 1896, 9.11am NY, has an uncertain and worrisome SA Saturn as well as tr Saturn in hard aspect to its Neptune his year into early 2025. With its financial Venus in Taurus also rattled into March 2025.
NASDAQ, 8 February 1971 9am, NY, has a shock and upsets coming into spring/summer 2025 with SA Sun opposition Uranus. With high anxiety in 2026/27 from tr Uranus opposition the Neptune.
S&P 500, 4 March 1957, also looks in line for a shock impact in 2025 from SA Sun conjunct Mars; plus a disruptive tr Uranus square Pluto from mid 2025 into 2026. Plus a confused, devastated tr Pluto square Neptune in 2024/25.
FTSE first trade, 3 January 1984 – upsets late December to mid March 2025 with tr Uranus square the Sun. A confidence dampening SA Saturn conjunct Jupiter through 2025 and grinding pressure from tr Pluto square the Pluto (conjunct Mars).
The Nikkei, 7 September 1950, upsets now into 2025 plus extreme difficulty getting forward traction.
It parallels earlier thoughts about an economic/financial slow down and challenges till 2026 clears.
Add on: Toronto Stock Exchange, 25 October 1861, has Neptune at 29 Pisces which is undergoing a Return until early 2026; with SA Neptune square the financial Venus at the moment. Neptune not being helpful around money matters. In addition it is under stress in 2024/25 from tr Pluto square its Taurus Sun. With high anxiety in 2026 from SA Neptune square Uranus and pressures continuing thereafter. Much the same as elsewhere.
Amsterdam Stock Exchange, 20 March 1602 presumably JC – showing same signs as elsewhere through next three years.
The major companies which have been holding the market up – Alphabet, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Nvidia, Tesla, Meta, MacDonalds – are all showing a rocky ride right through till 2027.
Oddly the Inauguration 2025 is not showing up much financially if it goes ahead as normal.
Exuberant US sprint star Noah Lyles won the Olympic 100m title by five-thousandths of a second and gives every appearance of becoming the new Usain Bolt in the eyes of the media. He is a professional track and field sprinter who competes in the 60, 100 and 200 metres; a two-time Olympic medalist and six-time world champion.
He was born 18 July 1997 in Gainesville, Florida with athlete parents and has a Sun Cancer opposition Neptune in Capricorn square Saturn in Aries which in turn is opposition Mars. A wonderful mix of Neptunian vision coupled with a disciplined Mars Saturn and self-reliant Saturn in Aries. His Sun is in an out of element trine to Pluto in Sagittarius. His Jupiter in mid decan Aquarius is in an upbeat, enthusiastic trine to Mars.
His chart is not too similar to Usain Bolt’s, 21 August 1986, who is a late Sun Leo in an out of element square to Saturn in Sagittarius and trine Neptune; with an adventurous Jupiter square Uranus and a publicity-attracting Mars Neptune.
But both share strong global superstar 22nd harmonics. And an ultra-determined 16H.
ADD ON: UK’s Keely Hodgkinson won gold in the women’s 800m with what one commentator described as a mix of “brilliance and bloody-mindedness.” To date she has only won silver but remarked three months back: “I would like to be one of the [most] decorated British athletes by the time I’m done.”
Born 3 March 2002, she has a Sun and Venus in Pisces both square Pluto which in turn opposes Saturn. She has the tough-minded Saturn Pluto boosting her Pisces Sun – and continues the Neptunian theme amongst top athletes (like gymnast Simone Biles and swimmer Kathy Ledecky). She has an intense Scorpio Moon which may be square Neptune and for an early morning birth opposition Mars in Taurus; and her Moon is also probably trine Jupiter in Cancer.
At the moment her Solar Arc Sun is square her Jupiter.
She also has a marked total-determination 16H and global star 22H.
Justin Bieber fans immersed in the febrile world of celebrity gossip are torn between delirious joy at his impending fatherhood and concern over rumours of problems in his marriage to Hailey Baldwin.
None of which matter a jot outside the Bieber homepad but are a distraction from horrors elsewhere or US politics.
He was born 1 March 1994 12.56am Stratford, Ontario (time from biography). In recent years he has admitted to mental health struggles and drug addiction as well as a variety of physical health issues which have caused him to stop touring for a while.
According to the Daily Mail, not always a reliable source, ‘Hailey has taken complete control over him. He has lost his identity, creative drive and he is uninspired.’ Last year he sold the rights to his song back catalog, which is unusual given his young age.
He is a Sun Pisces trine a 12th house Jupiter in Scorpio, with a 4th house Veus in Pisces trine Pluto in Scorpio on his Ascendant.
Hailey Bieber, 22 November 1996 Tucson, AZ, does seem to be a powerful force in his life with her determined Sun Pluto in Sagittarius conjunct his Ascendant, so she will be keen to control his image. Her Sun Pluto are in a tough, unyielding trine to Saturn in Aries which falls in his 4th. Her ambitious Mars is conjunct his Midheaven which will see her as a driving force. Her Jupiter falls in his financial 2nd. It did always seem an odd match though her Venus in Libra does chime with his Libra Moon.
Their relationship chart has a highly strung, needs-space composite Sun, Neptune, Uranus conjunction; and a truly difficult composite Mars Pluto which suggests a power imbalance leading to resentment. That latter will be elbowed seriously as tr Uranus moves into Gemini to oppose first Pluto from mid 2025 and then the composite Mars in 2026/27.
His own chart if the time is accurate has tr Uranus about to move across his Descendant into his 7th from 2025 onwards suggesting he needs space in close relationships and won’t appreciate being crowded or controlled. His Sun/Moon midpoint will also be squared by tr Saturn and tr Neptune in 2026.
The IOC (Olympic Committee) has got itself in a tangle over DSD boxers whom they deem female without a check yet are banned elsewhere in the sport. DSD means difference of sexual development, appearing female at birth but with male chromosomes and more importantly internal testes which produce testosterone at normal male levels at puberty so they develop the strength, muscle mass, height and power of other men. A simple quick cheek swab with a cotton bud reveals the biological sex and is added to an athlete’s permanent record. Anti-doping tests are far more intrusive and can happen any time. Female athletes have voted overwhelmingly in favour of such a test but the IOC has ignored their wishes.
In other arenas there is a ban on any athlete who transitioned after male puberty from the women’s category and DSD males are required to reduce testosterone levels.
Ironically the IOC, 23 June 1894, for an organization rumoured to be sexist and misogynistic is a Sun Cancer, with a Moon hovering between Aquarius and Pisces. It unbelievably apparently banned women from ski jumping until 2014 on the grounds it might damage their wombs. The IOC started off as a gentleman’s club for amateurs and has struggled to cope with Russian and Chinese state-sponsored athletes circumventing the ideal of the amateur, never mind the drug problem.
The IOC Cancer Sun squares Mars in Aries both of which will be undermined and buffeted by tr Neptune Saturn moving into Aries in 2025/26. Tr Saturn is exactly now squaring the Jupiter damping their confidence. By late 2025 the SA Pluto is conjunct the Saturn. They have a rough road ahead until after 2026. At which points the Solar Arc Sun will conjunct the Uranus for more disruptions in 2027.
Thomas Bach, President of the IOC, a foil fencer and former gold medallist, in office since 2013, has got himself in a tangle over the boxers. Born 29 December 1953, he is a Sun Capricorn sextile a hard-edged Mars Saturn in Scorpio. He’s having an unsettled and undermining year with his SA Neptune conjunct his Sun and tr Uranus square his Pluto into early 2025 after which he runs into a serious setback with SA Pluto conjunct his Saturn in later 2025.
There are always crises running with the Olympics whether over corruptions during the bidding process, drugs or wars so he’ll be well used to ructions. But he and the IOC are certainly none too happy.
UK social unrest in the form of violent rioting is expected to continue as far-right groups show no sign of pulling back after the stabbing and death of three children at Southport. Misleading social media blamed immigrants and Nigel Farage is doing little to calm tempers.
Tommy Robinson, 27 November 1982, is chief rouble-rouser, a defiant, rebellious Sun Uranus in Sagittarius, with an unpleasant, ruthless Saturn Pluto in Libra square Mars in Capricorn. Mark Collett, 3 October 1980, is another far-right leader with Saturn, Sun and Pluto spread out through Libra, and a volatile Mars Uranus in Scorpio square Venus, sextile Jupiter.
Two things struck me about the UK chart vis a vis the above. The yod of Uranus sextile Jupiter inconjunct Pluto is being activated this year and next by tr Pluto opposition the Jupiter (often accompanying sporting success as per the Olympics) and tr Pluto trine the Uranus on the other leg of the yod bringing upheavals and disruptions (and a change of government). The unsettled mood will become more so in 2026, maybe even before in 2025, as tr Uranus into Gemini is trine the UK Uranus and by 2026 is in a full blown, table-turning square the UK focal point Pluto. And that does not take into account the Solar Arc Uranus moving through the UK 8th exactly conjunct the deeply buried Mars now and staying on the same degree till September 2025 which will detonate subterranean forces of anger and aggravation (and a fight for control).
Tommy Robinson’s Sun Uranus in Sagittarius is square the UK Pluto so he will be keen to upset the status quo.
Mark Collett, a neo-Nazi sympathizer, has his Saturn in Libra conjunct the UK’s Uranus, which could suggest a dislike of tolerance. But what is intriguing is that his Uranus Mars in Scorpio, and Tommy Robinson’s Jupiter in Scorpio, as well as the original blackshirt, Oswald Moseley, 16 November 1896, with his Scorpio Sun, Uranus, Saturn at almost the same degree – all clash with the UK 11th house Saturn.
The 11th house represents the legislature and House of Commons, but more significantly the country’s long term hopes, wishes and ideals. The UK’s Solar Arc North Node is exactly square the 11th house UK Saturn now – so in one sense there is an ongoing fight for the country’s soul and identity ahead. Tr Uranus is in a jolting square to the UK Saturn for a final time late this December to mid March and elbowing Robinson and particularly Collett’s charts at the same time. All pointing to mounting concerns about the UK’s future path as a society.
There are, of course, periodic phases of disruptions so this is nothing new though it feels shocking.
Looking back to Uranus in Sagittarius squaring the UK Pluto in 1982 when there was also a war-associated Saturn Pluto in place – the Falklands War was running and the Israeli ambassador was shot in London which provoked the 1982 Lebanon War. In terms of local internal UK unrest, Welsh workers bombed a water HQ. The Northern Ireland troubles were wreaking havoc with Hyde Park and Regents Park bombings by the Provisional IRA. On Greenham Common the Women’s Peace Camp was making their presence felt.
Roll back one to Uranus in early Virgo opposition the UK Pluto from mid 1962 to mid 1963:
There were race riots in the Midlands. In London a crowd assaults the rally of the right-wing Union Movement of Sir Oswald Mosley. 70,000 protesters arrive in London, having marched 50 miles (80 km) from Aldermaston to demonstrate against nuclear weapons. The Bristol Omnibus Company refuse to employ Black or Asian bus crews and a boycott of them lasts for 4 months.
Unruly and violent or otherwise demonstrations are clearly not a new thing. But it could get bumpy ahead – as well as confusing as the 2025/26 tr Neptune Saturn in Aries oppose the UK Uranus on one leg of the yod.
All of which suggests a major fate-driven transition onto a new track, not settling until 2026 is out of the way. Yod transitions tend to come from outside events, not willed decisions.
Israel’s deadly strike against the Hamas leader Ismael Haniyeh in Teheran and a top Hezbollah leader in Beirut has world leaders holding their breath for what comes next. Their deaths coincide with the swearing in of the new Iranian prime minister Massoud Pezeshkian two days ago, replacing Ebrahim Raisi who was killed in a helicopter crash.
The ultimate power in Iran lies with the Supreme Leader, but the swearing in chart may indicate events on the ground. 30 July 2024 at 1pm Teheran. That gives a showy 10th house Sun and Venus in Leo but with a deeply buried Uranus (Algol) plus an exact Moon Mars conjunction and Jupiter in the 8th. Pluto is conjunct the IC trine Moon Mars which suggests grumbling discontent amongst the population, all kept well under wraps. There’s not much indication of ructions on this chart. 2026/27 look the high stress years from his personal chart, 29 September 1954. (These dates are from wiki so not always reliable.)
Hamas is struggling with its ruthless Mars Pluto conjunction moving by Solar Arc to close the conjunction to the Sun and then Saturn from 2025 to 2027, which could see the end of them, at least in their present form. Tr Saturn is adding discouragement exactly now and throughout 2025. 2025 also has SA Mars conjunct Sun which will be a significant setback, with worse by 2027.
Ismail Haniyeh, 29 January 1962, reckoned more moderate than Sinwar, had been trying to broker a peace deal in Qatar. A Sun, Saturn, Venus in Aquarius square Neptune (Moon) in Scorpio, he was on the receiving end of the destructive tr Pluto conjunct his Mars/Saturn midpoint exactly now.
Yahya Sinwar, 29 October 1962, the Hamas leader inside Gaza, an unpleasant Sun Neptune in Scorpio square Mars in Leo opposition Saturn, is looking rattled at the moment and emotionally knocked off balance.
Hezbollah’s reaction to the death of one of their leaders is key, more so even than Iran who have shown reluctance at being drawn into a full blown conflict with Israel. Hezbollah 16 February 1985, has an Aquarius Sun square Saturn in Scorpio, both at 27 degrees, being shaken severely by tr Uranus from next week, August 9 to late September and again next spring. Hezbollah’s relationship with Israel has a composite Sun catching this October’s Solar Eclipse exactly in opposition which points to a crisis. With more disruptions late December to mid March 2025 when tr Uranus is conjunct the composite Venus at the same time as tr Uranus is conjunct the Israel’s 8th house Sun.
And on it goes. But this August/September does look unsettled in the extreme.
See also previous posts:
Iran Israel – tit for tat, fear of what next ++ Iranian leaders. 14th April 2024
Israel v Iran – an escalating crisis ++ possible USA involvement? 2nd April 2024
Huw Edwards, one of the nation’s most admired broadcasters, who announced the death of Queen Elizabeth 11 and fronted coverage of Charles’ Coronation as well as elections is now facing a prison sentence for pleading guilty to possessing child sexual abuse material of the most serious kind. He stepped down last year with mental health problems facing allegations involving a teenager and sex photos which were not deemed criminal but certainly inappropriate.
Born 18 August 1961 Bridgend, Wales, no birth time, he is married (now separated) with five children and was an active church goer.
Two things stand out in his chart – one is a flamboyant, attention-seeking and willful collections of Sun, Uranus, North Node and Mercury in Leo inconjunct Jupiter Saturn conjunct in Capricorn. The other is a Scorpio Moon maybe conjunct Neptune trine Venus in Cancer sextile Pluto.
His Leo planets would tend him towards arrogance and a chart-dominating quincunx suggests an unease within his personality which he was never able to resolve. He’d be constantly shifting and adjusting and never finding inner peace. Jupiter Saturn can also carry, for a few, a tendency to fly too high and then find themselves cut down as Saturn, who punishes transgressions steps in to take a scythe Jupiter’s vainglory.
His intensely passionate Scorpio Moon conjunct Neptune trine Venus would send him chasing fantasies – not necessarily in the direction of children, (though houses might add to the story) but he would certainly be emotionally unrealistic and never satisfied.
At the moment the explosive tr Uranus Algol of July/August are squaring his Sun, Uranus and North Node – so shaking up his position on a pedestal. With tr Pluto in a trapped trine to his Mars at the moment and again late year.
His Solar Arc Pluto is also in a devastating conjunction to his Neptune exactly now.
The BBC is coming in for flack, having paid his exorbitant salary (with pay rise) over the past year, despite knowing about these charges. His interface with the BBC is Neptunian with his Leo Sun conjunct the BBC Neptune and his Neptune conjunct the BBC Mercury – dream weavers united but not always realistic or straightforward.
His relationship chart with the BBC is odd – a bad-tempered, one-side composite Mars Saturn in a high-tension opposition to Uranus sextile/trine Sun, Mercury and Pluto – very tied together but a simmering cauldron of undercurrents of resentment and disagreement.
It has also given rise to comment that the BBC appear to be rife with predators – Jimmy Savile, Rolf Harris amongst past examples. The BBC chart now that I look closely at it, in addition to a Scorpio Sun, Mercury, Jupiter in the entertaining 4th and a stubborn Mars in Aquarius and defiant Uranus in Pisces in the 10th, also has an afflicted Pluto. Its Pluto in Cancer is on the focal point of a yod inconjunct Mars sextile Venus, giving it a tendency to misuse power and presumably block out criticism until a scandal blows up dragging secrets out. The Solar Arc South Node is conjunct its Pluto at the moment -which is obscure enough but a hint that sliding back into old bad behaviour patterns of stonewalling won’t pay off.
Saturn weighs heavily in two headline crime stories. Jeremy Bamber in prison for shooting five members of his family since 1985 could be freed after allegations of police malpractice. He says the incident was a murder-suicide carried out by his sister, who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia. His girlfriend of the time said he had been planning the killings for more than a year. He has Sun, Saturn conjunct in Capricorn in his 8th.
The other is William Calley, the only US soldier convicted for the My Lai massacre in Vietnam, a Sun Saturn in Gemini who has just died.
Bamber, born 13 January 1961 2.09 pm London, had a packed, intense and deeply secretive 8th house with Mercury, Sun, Saturn and Jupiter there. He also had a living-in-his-own-bubble Water Grand Trine of Mars in Cancer in his 1st trine a charming 10th house Venus in Pisces trine Neptune in Scorpio, formed into a Kite by Venus opposition Pluto North Node in his 4th – making controlling Pluto the driving planet, magnifying his tendency to live in his own reality and be compelled to control his domestic and family environment. More so since his Venus opposition Pluto squared onto an excitable Sagittarius Moon. He also had unsettled Uranus in his family 4th inconjunct his Sun, Saturn, Mercury in Capricorn.
When the shooting occurred his Solar Arc Neptune was conjunct his Moon, his SA Mars was just past the opposition to his 8th house Mercury and tr Pluto was trine his Mars – emotionally undermining, angry, aggravated for a shattering event, whether instigated by him or not.
William Calley, 8 Jun 1943 6.12pm Miami, Florida, became the public face and only scapegoat for a Vietnam War atrocity, in which American troops killed hundreds of unarmed South Vietnamese men, women and children and gang raped some. Initially it was covered up and only after Seymour Hersh, the journalist exposed the details was a court martial held. Calley had an uninspiring background and became a junior officer with minimal vetting. His company sustained heavy losses in the early months of 1968, losing men to sniper fire, land mines and booby traps. Under orders to flush out Viet Cong, he and his men destroyed a village, searching for guerrillas and sympathizers. They shot and bayoneted women, children and elderly men. An Army investigation later concluded that 347 men, women and children had been killed. A Vietnamese estimate placed the death toll at 504.
The WP writes: “Calley polarized Americans who variously deemed him a war criminal or a scapegoat, a mass murderer or an inexperienced officer made to take the fall for the actions of his superiors. Defenders argued that he had been forced into a brutal conflict with an often invisible enemy, then blamed for the horrors of the war.” He was convicted of murdering at least 22 noncombatants and sentenced to life at hard labor. His life sentence was reduced to 20 years, then 10 years. Ultimately he served three years, most of it under house arrest, and disappeared into obscurity thereafter.
He was a Sun Saturn in Gemini on the cusp of the 8th sextile North Node, Moon, Chiron in Leo. His Mars in pro-active Aries was in a can-be-ruthless trine to an intensely emotional Pluto Venus in Leo. His Neptune was in final degree Virgo. When the My Lai massacre occurred on 16 March 1968, tr Uranus was conjunct his Neptune and his SA Uranus square his Neptune – so his nerves would be shredded and his judgement awry.
His Solar Arc Saturn was exactly square his Mars, triggering his ruthless streak, with tr Saturn just over the conjunction to his Mars – both of which point to a high-risk and volatile phase of his life. And notably tr Jupiter was conjunct his Midheaven and his SA Pluto sending his confidence and desire for power into overdrive.
No great conclusions except that a strong Saturn is supposed to bring benefits in the latter stages of life which does not seem to have happened.
Guilt always clings to Saturn – retribution for wrongs committed. There is a Saturnine rule about sticking to the straight and narrow since transgressions will be found out – Saturn ruling laws and ethics in society.
Sun Saturn suggests a father who dumps guilt on his son because of his own failings. So the son is hyper-sensitive to any suggestion of not coming up to expectations. And with an 8th house Sun that is compounded by intergenerational pressures.
Feeling guilty does not prove any wrong doing but it may be has a tendency to attract situations where accusations will be made, accurate or not. Which in both Bamber and Calley may have been compounded by having Chiron conjunct their respective Midheavens – which emphasizes their sense of failure in not coming up to parental expectations. Calley was swayed by his superiors which does not exonerate him but he may have been more suggestible than most. Bamber who knows?
NB. All militaries have had their shameful episodes- Brits in Kenya, India and elsewhere. The French in Algeria. Germany, Belgium etc etc. But My Lai did, like Abu Ghraib, undermine the American tendency to project a holier-than-though image.
Add On: The My Lai massacre occurred on 16 March 1968 near Quang-Ngai, Vietnam, when tr Pluto was exactly square the USA Mars and tr Saturn in Aries was square the US Sun. A sobering moment.
Hugh Clowers Thompson was an army aviator who went in with colleagues and stopped the massacre, rescuing some who were left alive, and was initially given a medal but then vilified when he blew the army cover up and tried to get the truth into the open. He was eventually recognized by Bill Clinton with the Soldier’s Medal in 1998. He suffered PTSD and alcoholism in later years.
Born 15 April 1943 in Atlanta, Georgia, he was a Sun Aries square Jupiter in Cancer and sextile Mars in uncompromising Aquarius; with a Fixed T Square of Chiron, North Node, maybe Moon in Leo opposition Mars square Venus in Taurus. With a pulled together, influential Pluto on the focal point of a Neptune trine Uranus Saturn. Very determined when he got going.
When he stumbled into the My Lai massacre his Solar Arc Pluto was opposition his Mars, with tr Jupiter conjunct his SA Pluto giving him the courage to stand up to authorities.
Captain Ernest Medina, 27 August 1936, whom Thompson saw shoot unarmed civilians, was eventually put on trial but cleared along with many others involved, leaving Calley the only one punished. Medina, a Sun Virgo, had a prominent Jupiter on the focal point of a T square and trine his Mars – he was unfairly lucky, where Calley with his strong Saturn became the fall guy.
Add On 2: The judge has lifted restriction on naming the Southport killer who is 17 year old Axel Muganwa Rudakubana, born 7 August 2006, Cardiff Wales. He has extraordinarily enough – in the way of coincidences – an exact Sun Saturn conjunction opposition Neptune.
ADD ON 3: Yet another Sun Saturn conjunction is preoccupying the tabloids as a wealthy footballer’s former mistress and mother of two of his children has been criticised in court for treating him like an “open-ended chequebook”.
Lauryn Goodman, 18 January 1991, in court to claim money for her children is revealed after her daughter’s birth to have demanded a £33,000 lump sum to install air conditioning in her Sussex residence, a new car worth £70,000 every four years, and a £31,200 astroturf football pitch since she hoped her daughter could become a Lioness. The judge criticised her for not having a “good track record of telling the truth”.
She shares a Sun Saturn in Capricorn conjunction with Jeremy Bamber though of a more recent vintage. Her Sun Saturn on Capricorn is trine a determined Mars in Taurus widely opposition Pluto.
Richard Burton, the actor, husband of Liz Taylor, 10 November 1925, was another Sun Saturn in his case in Scorpio which was in a Water Grand Trine to Uranus and Pluto, formed into a Kite by Pluto opposition Jupiter.
The wondrous Simone Biles has recovered from her wobbles at the Tokyo Olympics to triumph in Paris with an astonishing display of gymnastic prowess and grace. A commentator said, “What is gymnastics exactly? Performance art? Hard-edge competitive sport? At one point in her balance beam routine Biles did an insane triple backflip (repeat: on a thin, square bar) like a wheel rolling down an incline, one of those moments where she seems to turn the entire event into something else, movements that are strange, liquid, and basically unlike any other human on the planet.”
This is her fifth gold medal and only the start of her “redemption tour” with more events to come in this Olympics.
In 2021 she pulled out of several events in Tokyo three years ago with the ‘twisties’ – a disorientating mental block; and took two years out before returning last year with the Olympics in her sights.
What is all the more extraordinary about this 4ft 8 inches athlete/dancer is her background.
She was born 14 March 1997 6.02am Columbus, Ohio, with a drug and alcohol addicted mother whose four children went into care. Simone and one sibling were rescued by her grandparents, who despite their modest circumstances indulged her drive to succeed. The two other siblings were taken in by other relatives.
She has a 1st house Sun, Mercury, Venus and South Node in Pisces in her 1st house opposition an assertive Mars in Virgo in her 7th. She also has a talented Half Grand Sextile of Pluto opposition a 3rd house Gemini Moon sextile/trine a self-reliant Saturn in Aries and an adventurous, risk-taking, lucky Jupiter Uranus in Aquarius. His Mars is in a publicity-attracting trine to a final degree Neptune in Capricorn.
Pisces will give her grace and fluidity and with Mars added in a dash of zest. Her Half Grand Sextile is intense with Moon Pluto, gritty and persevering/used to tough conditions with Pluto trine Saturn, with a positive-thinking-streak from Jupiter Uranus. It is worth noting that her Mars is retrograde and will stay that way for another 17 years by progression.
When her mental block occurred at Tokyo tr Neptune in Pisces was conjunct her Sun and worse tr Saturn in Aquarius was conjunct her upbeat Jupiter – both undermining the crucial elements of her success.
A good news story.
Her get-it-together 5th harmonic shows immense ambition. Her ultra-determined 16th harmonic is marked. Her global superstar 22nd harmonic emphasises Jupiter and Uranus.
