Astrology of Today’s News

Jerry Lee Lewis, the rock’n’roll pioneer whose frenetic, raucous music and chaotic personal life scandalised the older post-war generation, has died aged 87. He was idolised by the pop stars of the day and responded by pouring contempt on their success and insisting he was the king, greater even than Elvis.

  He said: “We only got one life to live. I know what I am. I’m a rompin’, stompin’, piano playing sonofabitch. A mean sonofabitch. But a great sonofabitch.”

 He was born 29 September 1935 at 3pm Ferriday, Louisiana and raised in rural poverty on the borders of the Mississippi river. His family attended the Assembly of God church, and spoke in tongues. His cousin Jimmy Swaggart sang with Lewis during their childhoods and would go on to become one of America’s most famous Television evangelists (felled by sex scandals). All of his life Lewis struggled with a profound conflict between Old Testament notions of faith and temptation – as he went on to live a life marred by drunkenness, drug addiction, womanising and seven marriages.

  His biographer wrote of his life: “havoc inevitably reigns: in-laws go mad or become accident statistics, offspring die horrible, mangled deaths, wives drown or suffer inexplicable fatal overdoses … record people are terrorized, audiences verbally and physically attacked, promoters bankrupted, journalists threatened with broken bottles … while The Killer just keeps on rocking”.

  His career stalled after it emerged he had married a 13 year old second cousin, which was not thought odd in the milieu of his upbringing and he was unrepentant, eventually clawing his way back to the top as king of Country & Western.

  Like many old rock’n’rollers it is a miracle he survived with a crippling drug habit in the 1960s and rampant alcohol consumption causing a near fatal stomach rupture in the 1980s, in and out of rehab and a stroke in 2019.

  He had an intense, deeply buried 8^th house Libra Sun on the focal point of a Yod to Saturn in Pisces sextile Uranus in Taurus. This would give him problems with his ego – too much and too little, so he’d swing between self-doubt and then overdo the overwhelming self-confidence with a tendency to abuse his dominance.

  His Pluto was strongly aspected in square to Moon and Mercury and trine a lucky, successful Jupiter on his Midheaven – emotionally possessive, dogmatic in his opinions and pushily self-assured.

  Plus an ambitious and scattergun Mars in Sagittarius in his career 10th in a hard-edged, not-always-kind square to Saturn opposition Venus – no surprises his emotional life was a constant war zone. His Mars was also sextile his Sun and in a showbizzy square to an 8^th house musical Neptune. Such a Mutable Mars would give him high-levels of dynamic energy and nervous tension but would tend to send him off in a frenzy of impatience.

  He certainly changed the course of musical history in an extraordinary way.

Prince Harry’s pact with the devil – media and money – is creaking towards a crescendo with every indication that he will regret selling his gripes for fame, fortune and vindication. Apart from anything else tedium is setting in and were it not for the damage his personal wrecking mission could cause to the monarchy few would care – in the UK at any rate.

 It is thought that hopes he would tone down the approaching Netflix documentary and his memoir aimed for January have been overblown. Commercial considerations will no doubt have dictated that sensationalism trumps decency. In titling his book ‘Spare’ he’s walking in Princess Margaret’s footsteps – born to immense wealth, privilege and status with an array of choices 99.99% of the population could not dream of, they whine about having to walk behind a sibling.

  His own chart has this week’s Solar Eclipse in Scorpio conjunct his Pluto for a transform or stagnate choice; with his Solar Arc Sun also conjunct his Pluto now for a frozen-to-the-spot few months. The November Lunar Eclipse is also catching his Midheaven and Saturn in Scorpio for a sharp reality check and a crisis of direction.

  Late this October to early January tr Neptune will oppose his Sun for a discontented and discouraging run; with a separated-from-family and feeling under-supported tr Saturn square his Taurus Moon across this Christmas. Nothing that looks like a singing and dancing success.

 His father Charles is downbeat across the New Year with tr Saturn square his Sun and feeling devastated from January 12^th onwards till mid February with tr Pluto square his Mars/Saturn midpoint. His relationship chart with Harry also looks highly stressed in the second half of January.

  His relationship with Camilla is also under a cloud over the January 10^th publication date, worsening through 2023 and more so in 2024.

 The deep freeze with brother William won’t thaw anytime soon. Princess Anne looks unamused by her nephew’s bleatings.

  King Charles looks the most affected and Camilla which will put additional pressure on them running into the coronation.

  Harry really is on a hiding to nothing since his only currency is trash-talking the family to whom he owes his status. Once the public tire of the incessant whining and/or the Royals finally remove his title, it’s difficult to see how he can stay afloat.   

Add On: This storm-in-a-teacup melodrama with tragic overtones sent me back to look at the wedding chart of 19 May 2018. The late Taurus Sun was at 28 degrees which in modern terms is wide of the orb for a conjunction to the destructive Fixed Star Algol, though it would have been acceptable in traditional astrology. More significantly there was an explosive, no-compromise Mars in Aquarius square Uranus.

   Tr Pluto moving into Aquarius from late March 2023 will light a fuse and cause major eruptions for the next three years – as it is square the Uranus and then conjunct the Mars. That could be rancorous either within the marriage or acted out on others or more likely both. It will bring to a head the pressures building up since tr Pluto opposed the Wedding Cancer Moon in 2019.

  Nothing that looks like peace breaking out anytime soon.   

Lost-in-cyberspace Mark Zuckerburg, so focused on the alternative Meta universe he forgot to pay attention to the economic realities of the here and now, has seen FB/Meta shares down 60% from the start of the year, wiping hundreds of billions off the company’s value. Profits have halved, investors and advertisers are pulling back but there’s no indication that Zuckerburg has woken up to face facts.  He’s writing it off as “near-term challenges” and looks to a strengthening in future though many investors fear the company has lost its way.

 The Eclipses are certainly trying to hammer home a message to Zuckerburg,  emphasising that changes need to be made. Whether his four Scorpio and two Taurus planets are capable of listening is another matter. The Solar Eclipse was conjunct his Pluto  which poses a choice between transformation on the one hand and decay/stagnation on the other. Continuing as before won’t be a good idea. The Lunar Eclipse in early November will rattle up his financial/acquisitive Venus in Taurus denting his image, making him feel unloved, and creating emotional upsets. Plus it also hits his congregation of Saturn, Moon and Mars in Scorpio – a bad- tempered time when mistakes boomerang and come home to roost. Plus the ratchety tr Saturn square tr Uranus is also moving across all his Fixed planets this year and throughout 2023 into early 2024.

  He’s tough and never going to be looking for tomorrow’s breakfast but seeing his dream crumble will hurt.

 The Meta rebrand was announced on 28 October 2021 with an early Scorpio Sun also catching this week’s Solar Eclipse for a wake-up crisis and tr Pluto is also in a frustrating, trapped square to the Mars through till late 2023. Heavy pressures will continue in the latter half of this decade with tr Pluto square the Sun and opposition the Saturn.

 Facebook, 4 February 2004, has Mars in Taurus also in line of this week’s eclipse for major conflagrations and arguments. And is on a nodal return.

  All the astro-indications are screaming a need for a radical rethink of future direction.

Add On: Twitter’s IPO chart is also under Eclipse pressure with tr Uranus adding its jolts and jangles as ‘Chief Twit’ Elon Musk steps in as new owner and sacks a raft of top executives. He has hinted at plans to turn Twitter into an “everything app”, perhaps similar to China’s WeChat, which has 1bn users and combines instant messaging, video calls and mobile payments.

 The IPO chart, 7 November 2013, with Mercury at 3 Scorpio and Saturn Sun at 14/15 degrees Scorpio is catching both Eclipses and tr Uranus opposition the Saturn Sun through from this December to March 2023 which will all add up to a high-stress few months.

  Both the IPO and the original Twitter chart, 21 March 2006, like Facebook show up the tr Neptune Saturn conjunction in 2025 as a financially crippling and potential game-changing time. The Brave New World ahead may not suit the social media giants of the past two decades.

 

Rishi Sunak proclaimed integrity and unity as the only way forward after being sworn in by King Charles at around 11.15 am on the 25th. He took office less than an hour before the Solar Eclipse so it was a day of fevered anticipation and might be expected to be a singular term ahead.

  RS’s Term has a charming and friendly New Moon conjunct Venus in the 11^th though with an assertive, argumentative, ideologically-rigid and chilly Air Grand Trine of Mars in the 7^th trine Mercury trine Saturn in Aquarius; with a dogmatic, hostile-debate Mercury square a financial 2^nd house Pluto. What helps marginally is Mars having moved out of the financial 8^th as it was for the Truss Term as she tanked the economy. His PM chart is less weighed down by dirty-dealings-behind the-scenes as it was for BJ’s 2^nd Term which had Saturn Pluto Venus in the 12^th. 

  The Saturn square Uranus guarantees a bumpy ride and a constant tug of war between opposing political views. Panic about failed policies will set in around mid March into April 2023, again from the autumn right through till February 2024 as the Mars is undermined by tr Neptune in square.

  Although in contrast to BJ he seems sane and sensible there are questionmarks about his past judgement. A true believer in Brexit he failed to anticipate the costs and overrated the ease of making up the shortfall elsewhere. Covid fraud also occurred under his remit.

  He is also stepping into a mare’s nest of a mess and restoring economic stability, constitutional rectitude and national morale at a time of global austerity will take the shine off trouncing his peers for a win.

  On his personal chart, this December will rack up his woes with tr Saturn back to square his Mercury, Sun and then Uranus through till mid January. Plus a panicked, failed-plans tr Pluto square his Mars/Neptune midpoint from early in December until mid January, followed by another similar through till mid February, both of which repeat from August 2023 to the New Year. Tr Uranus picks up the high-tension, sudden jolts conjunction to his Sun Mercury from June 2023 on and off till early 2025 – so it’ll be a stormy ride.

  He does have an enthusiastic, go-getting Jupiter Mars conjunction in early Virgo. His Solar Arc Pluto square the Jupiter now gave him a surge of luck to propel him into No 10, and his enthusiastic drive will see him through Solar Arc Pluto square his Mars/Jupiter midpoint in 2023. But what might be his undoing will be the Solar Arc Pluto square his Mars in 2024 which can bring progress to a halt.

  His Cabinet choices have pulled together left and right, friend and foe which makes a change from Truss and BJ’s fans-only selection. There are fewer Mutable scattergun types than before.  Hunt is a Scorpio; Rabb (Deputy PM) is a Pisces; Braverman (Home Secretary) an Aries; Cleverly (Foreign Secy) a Virgo; Wallace (Defence) a Taurus; Zahawi Gemini; Dowden Leo; Barclay (Health) a Taurus, Badenoch a Capricorn, Jenrick (Immigration) a Capricorn, Victoria Prentis (Attorney General) an Aries.

 Braverman is a mistake, having recently blotted her copybook over a personal email issue and only hauled in because of her right-wing ERG ties. Robert Jenrick is also deeply questionable because of past planning scandals. Though now that I look both have immigration on their plate so RS may hope to land the blame on them for failed attempts to crack the impossible problem ahead.

   One theory is he put together a ‘broad church’ to calm early dissension and may well reshuffle down the road.  

Add On: Understandably Suella Braverman’s appointment has caused ructions, taking the edge of Sunak’s proclamations about rectitude. She’s a Sun Aries opposition Pluto which is not quite as bad as Priti Patel’s Aries Sun opposition Pluto square Jupiter but heading that way. Her Solar Arc Sun is square her Mars, possibly still to come within months which can signal a considerable setback; and she is into a run of uncertain, panicky Neptune transits undermining her Saturn, then Mars/Pluto midpoint, then Pluto/Node and Jupiter/Pluto throughout 2023 into 2024 – all of which will dent her confidence and standing. Her relationship chart with Sunak shows up similar disappointments and losses from this coming January onwards.   

Haiti has descended to the lowest circle of hell with 150 to 200 gangs warring for control of the capital Port-au-Prince-  with extreme sexual violence against women and children rampant, widespread starvation and outbreaks of cholera. Conditions have become particularly dire in recent months as the gangs have blockaded the country’s fuel terminals. Amid severe food and water shortages, the country’s economy has been paralysed and hospitals forced to close.

The government has requested UN armed forces to help – the president said “the whole country has been taken hostage” – but NGOs warn that foreign military intervention to restore order will only cause more bloodshed. UN missions in Haiti have quelled violence in the past, but it returned once they departed and is not a long term solution.

 UN peacekeepers sent to respond to the 2010 earthquake left behind hundreds of fatherless children and were accused of systematic sexual abuse and exploitation of Haitian women and it introduced a cholera outbreak which killed 10,000 and took nine years to eradicate. The UN apologised for sparking the deadly outbreak but never formally accepted responsibility.

  The Haiti independence chart of 1 January 1804 7.17.am Gonaives, Haiti has a tough, setback and violence-prone Sun Mars in Capricorn square Saturn; with a constantly-changing Sun Mercury square Uranus. There’s also a confident Pluto trine Jupiter in Scorpio sextile Mars Sun, so there is potential there.

  The devastating 2010 earthquake which caused billions in damage and killed nearly a quarter of a million people hit the country hard. That was when transiting Pluto was conjunct the Haiti Mars and square the Haiti Saturn with tr Saturn on its Return and square Mars – catastrophic.

  The present socioeconomic chaos has worsened since  President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated in July 2021 when the Solar Arc Pluto was square the Haiti Sun.

  At the moment the Solar Arc Sun is conjunct the Haiti South Node which seems fitting for a time of hitting rock bottom.

 Tensions will run high through 2023/24 with tr Pluto conjunct the Venus and tr Uranus opposition the Neptune. The one glimmer of hope is tr Pluto square the Jupiter in 2024/25 which could suggest an upsurge in national confidence and a push to regenerate.

  Whatever happens everyone agrees the answer must come from within Haiti and not imposed from the outside.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/18/haiti-un-talks-gangs-hunger-cholera

Today’s Solar Eclipse at 2 degrees Scorpio is in a Saros Series hinting at forceful even manic activity intent on taking power – and huge efforts in group activity. The following Lunar Eclipse at 16 Taurus is likely to be even more powerful with the Eclipsed Full Moon in close aspect to Uranus square Saturn.

 Looking back over previous occurrences of similar 6 South Saros Series Eclipse there were events of considerable magnitude, none falling on the day itself though shortly before or after.  Eclipses are thought to have around six months of influence. To be remembered in all examples there are always other influences in play as well which can make a significant difference.

Solar Eclipse – October 14 2004:

On September 1 – the Beslan school siege and botched hostage rescue with 333 dead in Russia

November 22 – the Orange Revolution in Ukraine erupts after corrupt elections.

26 December – Indian Ocean earthquake/tsunami leaves quarter of a million dead.

Solar Eclipse – October 3 1986:

November – the Iran-Contra leak

Solar Eclipse – 22 September 1968:

August 20 – invasion of Czechoslovakia

September – Arthur Ashe wins US Open and Tet Offensive in Vietnam ends.

October 5 – Irish Troubles start after Derry civil rights march.

Solar Eclipse – 12 September 1950

June 25 – Korean War starts.

Solar Eclipse – 31 August 1932

July – Dow Jones hits lowest level of the Depression

July 31 – Nazis become largest party in Reichstag.

September – Soviet famine starts with 5 to 8 million dead, Stalin blamed.

November – hurricane kills 2500 in Cuba.

Solar Eclipse – 21 August 1914

June – Archduke Ferdinand assassinated

July – World War 1 starts.

  Before panic sets it it should be pointed out that in 1914 Pluto was just into Cancer with Saturn rapidly approaching a conjunction. Saturn Pluto is usually around for major wars and isn’t at the moment.

Political swings to the right are always a risk for the USA’s Social Security and Medicare systems. Guaranteeing a safety net for the disadvantaged, accepted unquestioningly in Europe, appears to be an anathema to a certain type of Republican.

 The Social Security Administration was set up on 14 August 1935 by Franklin D. Roosevelt. The Leo Sun and Mercury are catching the downbeat tr Saturn opposition this year and the disruptive tr Uranus square in 2023 – which does suggest some tensions and changes. There could be a major overhaul in 2026 with tr Pluto square the Uranus.

 Medicare was set up in 1965 on 30 July, another Leo, and is on high alert and edgy over coming months with tr Uranus opposition the Neptune; with a major shock and jolt coming sometime this year from Solar Arc Mars square the Uranus and worse by 2024 with a dead-halt Solar Arc Mars square the Pluto.

  The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), 23 March 2010 looks to be under immense pressure with a frustrating, trapped tr Pluto opposition Mars in 2024/25. With an undermining tr Neptune Saturn conjunct the Sun in 2025 and square the Pluto and Moon by 2027. That looks to be a damaging run from 2024 to 2027.

PS. I am not that familiar with the US system so this is just from the foundation charts themselves.  

Marjorie Taylor Greene (MTG) the far-right Congresswoman and white supremacist, and antisemitic conspiracy theorist, has spread around her delusions over QAnon, Pizzagate, mass shootings, the alleged killings perpetrated by the Clinton family, and the 9/11 attacks. Before running for Congress, she supported calls to execute prominent Democratic politicians, including Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and has equated the Democratic Party with Nazis and compared COVID-19 safety measures to the persecution of Jews during the Holocaust. In January 2022, her personal Twitter account was permanently suspended for posting COVID-19 vaccine misinformation; and during the Ukraine invasion she has promoted Russian propaganda and praised Vladimir Putin.

 She has repeatedly and falsely claimed that Trump won the 2020 election in a landslide victory that was stolen from him and is rumoured to be his running mate for a 2024 bid.  She is up for re-election in 2022.

  Born 27 May 1974 she is a Sun Gemini opposition Neptune trine Pluto – stratospherically ambitious. She has a tough Saturn Mercury in a fanatical square to Pluto and an explosive, incendiary Venus opposition Uranus square Mars in Cancer. Her enthusiasm looks squelched until mid this November with tr Saturn square her Mars/Jupiter midpoint and she has a dashed-hopes tr Pluto conjunct her Jupiter/Neptune midpoint running now till December. 2023 and 2024 don’t look great for her either with tr Pluto square her Mars/Neptune midpoint with disappointments extending into 2025.

 Her relationship with Trump is a mystery since her combustible Mars is conjunct his Saturn with her Uranus square; and her (probably) Leo Moon is conjunct hid Mars. Though there is a connection of sorts from her North Node conjunct his South Node and Moon.  And their relationship chart is fairly well tied together which will help though it is facing a few disasters until this December with a downhill slide thereafter.   

A previous post: JULY 8 2021

Marjorie Taylor Greene is not only addicted to offensive, over-heated rhetoric but also to a warped Trumpian cum Nazi tactic of turning herself and her ilk into victims. She recently was forced to apologize for suggesting that mask mandates were similar to the Holocaust; and promptly went on to compare medical personnel offering vaccinations to Nazi brownshirts forcing prisoners to undergo experiments. 

   The House of Representatives which she only joined this January, voted to remove her from all committee roles on February 4, 2021, in response to her incendiary and violent statements. She will run for re-election in 2022.

  Born 27 May 1974 in Georgia, USA, she is a Sun Gemini opposition Neptune trine Pluto; with a volatile and over-loaded Mars in excitable Cancer on the point of a T Square to Venus opposition Uranus; and a hard-edged, unyielding Saturn square Pluto. Tr Pluto is still exerting maximum pressure on her Martian T Square being square the Venus and Uranus till the end of this year.  The December Sagittarius Solar Eclipse will oppose her Sun for a crisis of direction in which she may be forced to rethink her plans. She’s also got a Neptunian failure or two and in genera high hopes not producing results through till late 2022.

  Her Solar Arc Sun is conjunct her Mars probably mid 2022 which will produce a collision of sorts and is not good news, followed by Solar Arc Neptune in a paralysed, panicky square to her Uranus also in 2022 and then Venus in 2023.

  She probably is enamoured of Hitler since his mesmeric Neptune Pluto in Gemini is conjunct her Sun and oddly enough both have Uranus in Libra. The relationship chart has a passionately connected composite Pluto opposition Jupiter square Venus

  With Trump, it’s trickier to see where the love comes from with his Saturn conjunct her focal point Mars; though her Sun falls in his 10^th and her Leo Moon is probably attracted to all the fake glitter. Though their relationship chart again has a passionate Sun Venus square Pluto which will be rattled up by this December’s Solar Eclipse.

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Giorgia Meloni has made history as Italy’s first female prime minister at the head of the country’s most right-wing government since World War Two. Her Brothers of Italy party with neo-fascist origins is leader of a ruling coalition with Berlusconi’s Forza Italia party and Matteo Salvini’s League. They have made reducing immigration a key policy, which includes increasing repatriations, targeting charity ships that rescue migrants and calling for a naval blockade of North Africa.

 Although aligned with Hungary’s Orban, she has toned down criticism of the EU with Italy’s chronically ill economy needing millions of euros from the Brussels’ coffers.

 Where she may have problems is with junior coalition partner Sylvio Berlusconi in a sulk because he is not top dog and  reportedly called Meloni “domineering, arrogant and offensive”. He also paraded his friendship with Putin and landed blame on Zelensky for the Ukraine invasion. In contrast Meloni has reassured Western allies over the country’s pro-NATO stance and its support for Ukraine.

  She was sworn in on 22 October 2022 in Rome at around 9.30am (I think, any definite times welcome). This gives a pressured Sun Venus square Pluto with Pluto in an aggravated, argumentative quincunx to an 8^th house Mars – debt problems? What looks least helpful apart from the divisive Uranus square Saturn is a vague, disillusioned and indecisive Virgo Moon opposition Neptune square Mars. Which won’t get any easier as the Solar Arc Neptune closes the square to Mars by 2024 for failed plans and panic.

  Meloni’s elevation was never going to sit comfortably with misogynist dinosaur Berlusconi – his karma catching up with him? With his Pluto opposing her Capricorn Sun, he’ll be compelled to put her down.

 Their relationship chart is an eye-opener with a power-struggling, oneupmanship composite Pluto opposition Jupiter square Sun opposition Saturn – chained together and resenting it, a constant churn. 2023 could split them apart with tr Saturn in Pisces square the Sun, conjunct Jupiter and opposition Pluto. Though he could also be knocked out by health problems, since he had major heart surgery in 2016 and a battle with coronavirus.

 Her own personal chart, 15 January 1977 6pm Rome, will have some luck in 2023 with tr Uranus conjunct her 10^th house Jupiter from June onwards and Jupiter moving across her 10^th from 2023 till mid 2024 will give her career a boost.

See previous Meloni post 11 September 2022