Barnaby Joyce, Australia’s deputy PM has resigned after an escalating scandal about his affair with his former media adviser, now pregnant, which has broken up his 25 year marriage. Last week, he sparred publicly with Malcolm Turnbull who criticised his “shocking error of judgement” and declared that ministers would be banned from having sex with their staff. He responded by calling the PM “inept”. He is known as outspoken and a battler, once threatening to kill Johnny Depp’s dogs over a quarantine violation.
Born 17 April 1967 in Tamworth, Aus, he’s certainly got a fiery and over confident chart with an Aries Sun opposition Mars in Libra square Jupiter (Moon) in Cancer. Not a shrinking violet. His Sun is also on the focal point of a Yod to Uranus sextile Neptune, so he’ll veer between self-doubt and unmodulated pride. Tr Uranus has been battling its way round his Sun, Mars, Jupiter T Square in recent months, with the final tr Uranus conjunct his Sun putting paid to his chances.
He was never a good mix with Malcolm Turnbull, a dour and bulldozer-ish Sun Saturn Mercury in Scorpio; with Turnbull’s Neptune conjunct Joyce’s Mars and therefore undermining his central T square.