Astrology of Today’s News

The AI stock panic is receding after the launch of China’s DeepSeek, a less capital-intensive artificial intelligence model, resulted in a one day rout. Nvidia and Oracle Stocks have rebounded.

DeepSeek was launched sometime in May 2023 (wiki) which would give it a Taurus Sun conjunct Uranus and Mars in Cancer opposition Pluto (at zero degrees Aquarius) square Jupiter – well-suited to the tech innovation market and a confident, lucky bulldozer of an energy.

 The Nasdaq, 8 February 1971 9am New York, was always due a significant jolt this year with the Solar Arc Sun opposition the Uranus. Its over-hopeful (prone to crashes) Jupiter Neptune conjunction which had moved to conjunct the Midheaven by Solar Arc at the 2000 dotcom bubble bust, is due for a shake up in 2026/27 when tr Uranus will oppose the Neptune Jupiter. In 2000 as well there was a tr Jupiter square tr Neptune – which is back this year in June just after several of the main players’ charts are being shaken up the previous month. The Nasdaq’s Pluto in final degree Virgo is also being spotlighted by the eclipses through 2025.

 One of the main US AI players Sam Altman, 22 April 1985 5am Chicago (memory) has been complimentary about DeepSeek but is not having a great year with his Moon Mars in Taurus opposition Saturn in Scorpio being upended by tr Uranus hard aspects in May 2025 and again over late year into 2026. Plus a challenging, heavily pressured tr Pluto square his Taurus Sun opposition Pluto through 2025/26. Into 2027 he has a deflating SA Neptune conjunct his Jupiter.

Nvidia, 5 April 1993, has a tough-minded Saturn in 27 Aquarius square Pluto in 25 Scorpio which is in a state of tumultuous upheaval all this year with tr Uranus hard aspects starting in April/May and again late year.

 The CEO Jensen Huang, 17 February 1963, Taipei, is also showing stress in May 2025 and again later in the year as tr Uranus is square his Sun in Aquarius.

 Larry Ellison of Oracle, 17 August 1944, a Sun Leo with a Virgo stellium square Uranus looks jolted in March/April this year but is heading for a confident 2026.

Mark Zuckerburg, 14 May 1984 2.39pm NY, also jolted and jangled this March/April with tr Uranus conjunct his Taurus Sun; and is not too enchanted with tr Saturn square his Neptune mid year onwards. He’s heading for a downer in 2027 with SA Mars conjunct his Neptune but thereafter is reinventing himself with a surge of confidence a year later.

[I would have to confess not ever having got my head round AI and its implications.  But obviously a Pluto in Aquarius innovation which will stay.]

Denmark is pushing back against Trump’s claim that he can defend Greenland better than they can and is alarmed as he is refusing to rule out military action to forcibly take the territory from them and is threatening targeted tariffs unless he gets his way. The US already has the sole military base in Greenland, in the north of the island. He had a ‘fiery and confrontational’ discussion with Danish PM Mette Frederiksen a few days ago.

  Mette Fredriksen, 19 November 1977 Aalborg, Denmark, is a determined Sun Scorpio with a Pisces Moon. Her Sun squares Trump’s bombastic Mars in Leo and her volatile and rebellious Uranus in Scorpio square Mars in Leo clashes with his Pluto in Leo – a high-octane, aggravated chemistry.

 Her relationship chart with him is riddled with dislike from a composite Mars Saturn conjunction in a suspicious, ego-clashing square to Neptune; plus a controlling composite Sun conjunct Pluto on one side and a needs-space Uranus on the other.  Throughout 2025 the Eclipses will jolt the composite Mercury and tr Uranus will begin several years of upheaval as it squares the Uranus, then Uranus/Pluto midpoint, then Pluto throughout his term.  

  Denmark, 5 June 1849 12.15pm Copenhagen, Denmark, is looking discouraged with Trump through until early March 2025; with more clashes as tr Uranus moves into Gemini in July 2025 and starts to square the composite Saturn in the relationship chart running on into 2026.

 The Denmark/USA relationship chart is showing an undermining phase through February to early March 2025 as tr Neptune squares the composite Sun, followed by tr Saturn square the composite Sun on and off into early 2026.  

 Whatever happens tensions won’t recede any time soon.  Tr Uranus moving into Gemini in July this year appears to be a trigger point on several of the charts including Greenland 1 May 1979 which has its Solar Arc Mars opposition Pluto at 2 and 1 degree Mutable signs at the moment getting rattled in 2025/26/27. The Greenland/Denmark relationship chart will go through a tumultuous phase this year into early 2026 with tr Uranus conjunct the composite Sun – which may be the independence referendum leaning towards a split.

 But Greenland’s relations with Trump will also be upended with tr Uranus conjunct the composite Sun Venus from August 2025 onwards for several years thereafter.  There may be a measure of interest in what the USA could offer but that is mixed in with suspicion and doubt.

Pic: The Emperor’s New Clothes, fairy tale by Danish Hans Christian Andersen

The gulf between Trump’s hopes of deporting 11 million undocumented immigrants lies and the reality on the ground with ‘enormous financial, legal and logistical hurdles at every step of the process’ plus an economic hit for the USA means his inflammatory rhetoric may not move the gauge much.  Biden deported 271,484 unauthorised immigrants, a 10-year high, more than in Trump’s first term. One immigration analyst said “The numbers are not likely to be dramatically greater [than they are now], at least for a while.” It is reckoned removing 11 million would take more than 10 years and cost almost $1tn.    

ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) founded 1 March 2003, has a hard chart with Saturn in Gemini opposition Pluto Mats in Sagittarius, a Pisces Sun, and Uranus Moon, Mercury in last decan Aquarius. It looks seriously rattled throughout 2025 till early 2026 with tr Saturn square the Mars which tr Neptune is square now exactly till early February 2025 over this initial panic. Tr Uranus is also square the Uranus on and off through this year into 2026 as well.

 The ICE/Trump relationship chart looks locked into bitter arguments throughout this year as well with tr Pluto square the composite Mercury, Sun.

 Colombia like several South American countries had a messy start around the early 19^th century so there are various possible charts. Nick Campion settled on 17 December 1819 Angostura, which has a tricky Sun Uranus Neptune in Sagittarius square Saturn Pluto in Pisces which tr Saturn is moving in hard aspect to throughout 2025.

  Relations between Colombia and Trump look rattled and discouraged early this year; with tensions erupting in late March/April – with major upheavals in 2026.  The Colombia/USA relationship chart is highly unsettled this year but much worse in 2026/27 with tr Neptune Saturn in hard aspect to the composite Sun square Saturn.

The most contested of Trump’s nominees – so far – Pete Hegseth has been confirmed as secretary of defense. A former Fox News personality and rightwing commentator who has said women should not serve in combat roles, recommended the military purge generals and faced allegations of sexual assault and alcoholism, made it through after a tie-breaking vote from Vice-president JD Vance.

Every Senate Democrat voted against his confirmation along with three Republican senators – Mitch McConnell, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski.

He was born 6 Jun 1980 8.20pm Minneapolis, Minnesota, with a 7^th house Gemini Sun square Saturn in Virgo, trine a 10^th house Pluto opposition Neptune – an odd muddle of super-ambitious, dependent on a partner, controlling, low self-esteem and indecisive and confused. He has a 7^th house Venus in Gemini square a Pisces Moon conjunct his IC from the 3^rd giving him a taste for the ladies with variety in mind.  Mars Jupiter in the 9th – excitable utterances, overstated opinions.  

It is a tough job even for a competent operator and he is running into a series of Neptunian disappointments, muddles and undermining circumstances as tr Neptune squares his Venus and is conjunct his Moon throughout 2025; plus tr Neptune square his Midheaven from July 2025 onwards joined by tr Saturn in 2926 which look like major career setbacks. Even before then tr Neptune opposes his Mars/Pluto midpoint from April onwards for a major catastrophe with other dips through the year from tr Pluto square his Mars/Neptune.

   His relationship with Trump will be downbeat throughout the year with tr Saturn opposition the composite Jupiter and explosive in 2026 as tr Uranus lights a touch paper in square to their already fractious composite Mars Uranus conjunction.

 Hegseth is even less popular with the USA – that relationship chart is blocked and aggravated throughout 2025 with tr Pluto opposition the composite Mars; and undercut by tr Neptune square Venus an opposition Saturn from before mid 2025 into and through 2026. There is no love lost therein the first place and less as time goes on.

Stelliums are formed by having three planets or more in the same sign or house. They concentrate amplified energy on the traits of that sign or house and often give an intense and singular focus to life.

 They don’t always bestow genius but it is a fair analogy since persons with great ability in one specific arena often have notable lacks in other areas of their lives. Great pluses often go along with equally great minuses. Memo – you can’t have it all.

  People often worry about having houses with no planets – but a chart with planets in all 12 houses (impossible anyway) would produce such a thinly scattered personality, with too many directions of interests that it would not be helpful.

Personalities in the news with stelliums interestingly enough are Blake Lively with five planets in Virgo in her 1^st – and wow that is a full-on personality. The first house is to do with identity and image which she approaches in a highly Virgoan way – earthy, practical, critical, opinionated.

She is facing up to Justin Baldoni over sexual harassment issues and he is giving as good as he gets. He has four planets in intense, emotional Scorpio (three in is financial second house) – money will be a great motivator but in addition Scorpio takes badly to being attacked and will rarely give up without a fight back.

Leo di Caprio also has a stellium of three Scorpio planets which rules money and sex  in his 2^nd house – wealthy with a constantly revolving romantic life.

 Another Virgo stellium is Jada Pinkett Smith, 18 September 1971 12.38 pm Baltimore, Maryland, with Mercury, Moon, Sun, Pluto, three in her 10^th and one in 9^th – very career and outer oriented.

  This is similar to having an upper hemisphere chart where the focus is on work and outer activities rather than personal and subjective ones. A left hand chart will be more independent. A right hand chart will be more relationship-oriented.

[Sorry best I can do for now – in a scramble – all astro comments or personal examples welcome]

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Venus, goddess of love and beauty, ruler of artistic refinement, social skills and all things sweet and nice, has a darker under-side when lust, greed, laziness and insincerity take precedence.

  Mythology has a variety of  associations relating the Roman Venus and her Greek counterpart Aphrodite to pleasure, passion, procreation, fertility, prosperity, and victory. Hesiod writes that Aphrodite arose from the sea out of the foam produced by Uranus’s genitals, which his son Cronus had severed and thrown into the sea. In one tale Aphrodite was married to Hephaestus (Vulkan), the god of fire, blacksmiths and metalworking. He worked tirelessly while she played, partied and was frequently unfaithful.

  Cupid is supposed to be the son of Venus and Mars, the god of war.

 Venereal diseases from the Middle English “relating to sexual intercourse” or “sexual love.”

 Though oddly the first known temple to Venus was supposedly funded by fines imposed on Roman women for sexual misdemeanours.

Aphrodite’s major symbols include seashells, myrtles, roses, doves, sparrows, and swans. The cult of Aphrodite was derived from the Phoenician goddess Astarte and the Semitic goddess Ishtar, whose cult was based on the Sumerian cult of Inanna. Aphrodite was worshipped as a warrior goddess and in some places known as the patron goddess of prostitutes.

  In astrology not surprisingly Venus figures largely in charts from the arena of fashion (often with Jupiter in aspect = surface appearances matter) and design, as well as in public relations for the Venusian skill of accentuating the positive, putting sparkle on the surface (lipstick on a pig) and airbrushing out of sight unpleasantness and difficulties.

   Courtesans and the sexually promiscuous also figure largely with Venus in hard aspect to chilly Saturn (which sounds counter-intuitive but is a pattern); passionate and manipulative Pluto; revved-up Mars; and rebellious Uranus.

Some like Pamela Harriman, 20 March 1920, whose romantic involvements were legendary had her Venus conjunct Uranus in Pisces in a Water Grand trine to Mars in Scorpio and Pluto and opposition Saturn.

  Lady Jane Digby, 3 April 1807, equally renowned for her scandalous love life had her Venus in Taurus opposition Saturn and Uranus, trine Mars, inconjunct Neptune and square Jupiter.

  The Duke of Windsor had his Venus in Taurus conjunct the destructive Fixed star Algol as did Princess Diana.

 John Travolta and Roger Moore whose early marriages were with older wives both had Moon Venus aspects which astrologer Richard Idemon associated with a sexualized mother relationship. Travolta Moon Pisces opposition Moon square Mars.  Roger Moore had a Moon Gemini opposition Saturn square Venus. [Oddly enough Emanuel Macron does not.]

While Venus conjunct Mars can have its positive side is also remarkably frequent amongst those with a less than restrained approach to sex/romance – Jeffrey Epstein, Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton, Ghislaine Maxwell. In addition to ‘passionate enthusiasm’ Ebertin says it can have – ‘a strongly emotional and sexual life with disharmonious tendencies’; ‘in some cases inclination to polygamy.’

   Reynhard Sinaga, named as the world’s worst serial rapist, has an exact Venus Mars conjunction in Pisces square Neptune and inconjunct Pluto. But that is an extreme version.

 An unaspected Venus is self-contained, less sociable, can be single-minded and wobbles between not connecting emotionally and being intense, being undemonstrative yet reacting strongly when personally challenged.

   The main drawback to Venus apart from its rampant sexuality is its need to put an outer sheen on events. So desperate to maintain a harmonious atmosphere and sweep unpleasantness out of sight that it denies reality and comes across as insincere or hypocritical.

 If ever there was a cautionary tale of a Venus twisted by life events and dysfunctional mothering it is Brooke Shields.  She started modelling at 11 months old. Her first big film role, aged 11, was as a girl raised into sex work in Louis Malle’s Pretty Baby. A cover story from a 1977 issue of New York magazine was headlined, “Meet Teri and Brooke Shields: Brooke is 12. She poses nude. Teri is her mother (an alcoholic). She thinks it’s swell.” At 14, she starred in Blue Lagoon, playing a teenager coming of age on a deserted island. She said the director wanted “to sell my sexual awakening”. Amazingly she has turned out married with children and seemingly together.

 Born 31 May 1965 1.45pm Manhattan, NY, she has a Moon Venus conjunction in Gemini conjunct her Midheaven (mother who flaunts her child’s sexuality to promote her career) in a tumultuous, cold-hearted square to  Saturn opposition a ruthless Mars Pluto (Uranus in Virgo).  

Josephine Baker, the American Folie Bergere dancer, who started life as a street kid in segregated Missouri and went on to become a World War II spy for France and resistance fighter as well, later, as a civil rights activist in the USA is the subject of a newly released memoir Fearless and Free. Originally published in 1949 it has been translated into English for the first time.

  Never reconciled to her homeland she found a resting place in the Pantheon, a monument to national heroes. She was the first black woman to receive the honour and will lie alongside  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Victor Hugo and scientists Pierre and Marie Curie.

  Born 3 June 1906 St Louis, Missouri, 11 am (biography?) she never knew her father, started work at 8 as a live-in domestic for white families where she was abused and eventually ran away to marry twice in her teens, at 13 and 15, before moving to Paris. ‘An unaffected exhibitionist and a natural performer’ she became an icon of the city’s Jazz Age in the Roaring Twenties (Neptune in Leo), accentuating many African stereotypes of the colonial time in a banana skirt and little else. She became a French citizen after her marriage in 1937 to Jewish industrialist Jean Lion, a man who suffered from anti-Semitic laws; and at the outbreak of war offered her services to French counter-intelligence services and De Gaulle, working as an informant.  

  After the war, she became involved in USA anti-racist politics, fought against segregation during a 1951 performance tour of the US, causing her to be targeted by the FBI, labelled a communist and banned from her homeland for a decade. She spoke at the 1963 March on Washington where Dr Martin Luther King gave his famous “I have a dream” speech. Baker adopted 12 children from all over the world as part of a “Rainbow tribe”, living in a castle in the southwest of France.

  She had five planets in Gemini square Saturn in Pisces – her Sun, Mercury and upbeat Jupiter with her Jupiter conjunct a formidably courageous and attracted-to-danger Mars Pluto conjunction. The Saturn square would give her problems early on with low self-esteem and setbacks but would also instil a work ethic. She emerged from a brutal childhood to become her own woman.

  She also had a creative and idealistic Venus Neptune in Cancer in the signature opposition to Uranus of the time. Significantly she also had a ‘leadership; North Node in Leo so was never destined to spend a life like her mother in poverty.

  Her creative 5^th and especially her musical 7^th Harmonic charts were well aspected. But it was her victim/healer 12^th which is outstandingly strong, linking the Sun and Moon to a revolutionary Uranus Pluto and confident/lucky Jupiter.

Unity Mitford was one of five infamous debutante sisters of the 1930s, who developed an infatuation with Hitler. Her sister Diana, wife of Oswald Mosley of the British Fascist Party, spent the war in an internment camp because of Nazi sympathies. Unity’s diaries of her time in Germany between 1935 and 1939  have been published relating her intimate access to Hitler and she was viewed as his English girlfriend. Her dearest wish, friends said, was to become Mrs Hitler. Rabidly anti-Semitic, she wanted him to conquer the world.

   Her defiant wearing of a swastika badge got her stoned in Hyde Park and arrested and strip-searched in Czechoslovakia. Because of her, the Mosleys and the Duke of Windsor, Hitler was led to believe that the British upper classes would not only align with Nazism but have a popular following.

   At the outbreak of the war, she shot herself in the head from which she never recovered, dying in the UK in 1948.

 Born 8 August 1914 in London as World War 1 broke out, she was an attention-seeking Leo Sun opposition Jupiter, though more significantly she had Mars Venus conjunct in Virgo square Saturn in Gemini and Pluto in Cancer. Mars Venus can be promiscuous and would certainly have made her compulsive in her interests. Square Saturn adds a masochistic streak. Mars Pluto would attract her to powerful and ruthless men. Plus she had delusional Neptune Mercury in Cancer.

  Hitler’s Saturn in Leo was conjunct her Sun and opposition her Jupiter – she attempted to be his cheerleader while he kept her at arm’s length. Her Neptune in Cancer fell close to his Midheaven and square his Taurus Sun – illusions were rife. His manipulative 8^th house Neptune Pluto in Gemini, the subterranean influencer, tugged at her Mars Venus in trine. Her Venus Mars in earthy Virgo may well have been attracted to his Mars Venus in Taurus, unbelievable though it may sound.

  Their relationship chart had a perverse composite Venus, Mars, Saturn conjunction opposition Jupiter hinting at a decidedly one-side relationship with elements of cruelty in it.  There was also a composite Sun conjunct controlling Pluto on one side and illusory Neptune on the other.

 As war approached in 1939 tr Pluto crossed over her Mercury Neptune and tr Saturn in Taurus in square – putting immense pressure on her mental instability. And tr Neptune was square their composite Sun.

  What a weird, unbalanced woman.  Oddly enough Eva Braun, longtime companion and briefly wife of Hitler had her Aquarius Sun in his 4^th opposition his Saturn. His Taurus Sun sat on her Descendant which is good for relationships though her Uranus in square would make for tensions.

 Their relationship chart had a passionate though disruptive composite Venus Mercury opposition Uranus square Pluto; and a moody, changeable Jupiter opposition Saturn Neptune square Sun.

The US is holding its breath as Trump is inaugurated for the second time with fears that his wild and inflated promises will be followed through. Commentators are divided between downplaying the threat – ‘My counsel would be not to sweat what he says, but judge him by what he does.’ And doing the opposite ‘Nobody should kid themselves that he’s only ever bluffing. Donald Trump is a slob, a cheat, a lawbreaker, a bully, a careless liar, a cheap jingoist and a dangerous politician.’

   Before panicked outrage takes over it is helpful to take a hard look at America’s past – George H Bush actually did invade Panama and toppled the regime of Manuel Noriega. Reagan invaded Grenada, a member of the Commonwealth. There were wars in Indo-China pursued by John F Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, never mind the misbegotten “global war on terror” pursued by George W Bush, Rumsfeld and Cheney. In comparison Trump may not be such an outlier and his previous record might suggest, for all his inflammatory rhetoric, he is not a war monger.

  His Inauguration chart of today is worrisome with a 10th house, control-freak Sun Pluto conjunction – akin to Kim Jong Un’s North Korea leadership chart, 29 December 2011 11.57am P’yonggang, NK,  with its 10^th house Sun Pluto in Capricorn.

 But other strongman dictators did not (where times are available) have Pluto in the 10^th. Al Sisi in Egypt, 8 June 2014 11.18am Cairo, did not. His administration chart has Pluto in the 5^th house which is admittedly strongly aspected being opposition Jupiter square Mars opposition Uranus. The Ayatollah Khameini’s Leadership chart has a Sun square Pluto. Gadaffi’s had Mars square Pluto.

  George W Bush whose first term oversaw 9/11 and the wars on Afghanistan and Iraq had a confused 10^th house Sun Neptune conjunction with admittedly an aggressive, explosive, vengeful Mars in the 7^th square Uranus in the 10th and more significantly even than that a hidden, dirty-dealing 8^th house Moon Pluto conjunction.

 The most recent Joe Biden administration had Pluto conjunct the Midheaven and 10^th house Sun, somewhat similar to this one – plus Jupiter Saturn in the 10^th square Mars Uranus – which looked ominous in advance though all things considered did not prove to be as tumultuous as it looked.

  Below has all been said before and will no doubt be said again ad nauseam – but here is a precis to keep in mind. The USA is labouring under Solar Arc Saturn conjunct its Mars 2024/early 2025) inducing fear and anger; followed by SA Saturn square the US Neptune exact late September 2025 and fading from early 2026 onwards. 2025 also sees tr Uranus square the Moon for an unsettled electorate. And tr Neptune square the financial Venus from mid 2025 onwards and tr Saturn square Neptune in 2026.

 Trump’s chart is both hyped up and mired into confusion. Tr Uranus will make a final square to his Mars late April to mid May 2025 for a shock, anger, insecurity and over-reactions.   This February, mid July to late August and December 2025 look quarrelsome in the extreme with bitter rows ongoing.  Throughout 2025 and 2026 Neptune will be undermining two of his Mercury midpoints and SA Neptune will conjunct his Moon soon and then opposes his Sun in late 2026 – none of which will clarify his thinking or make constructive progress with his plans easy.

  One obscure thought, his Progressed Mars will conjunct the USA’s Saturn in Libra exactly towards fall 2025 which is around the time the SA Saturn squares the US Neptune and when the Inauguration Sun Pluto conjunction is drawing close to exact.

ADD ON: If Trump’s 10.54 am birth time is sound then he also has tr Pluto entering his 6th house of health for years to come which can be pressured; plus tr Neptune into his 8th for financial deceptions/secrets emerging; and tr Uranus conjunct his Midheaven late this March into April which could suggest a jolting change of direction. Plus his Solar Midheaven conjunct his Pluto in the 12th within months which could suggest both an exaggerated push for influence through behind-the-scenes manipulation and a dead-halt since Pluto can have a destructive effect on career plans. But these are all dependent on an accurate birth time.

N.B. (Nota Bene = take notice)  I hate to sound like a nag BUT this is an astrology website, not a fan club or the opposite. Facts are helpful for context. Outraged opinions need to be directed elsewhere or they will be binned. Ranters and ravers will get blocked permanently.