Astrology of Today’s News

The Trump volcano gives an occasional belch about returning to the political arena but there must be more going on with his finances than is obvious in public given his astrology. The case against the Trump Organization and former CFO Weisselberg in the criminal tax fraud case is expected to hit court in the fall of 2022 but does not include the boss man himself.

  Trump is suing his niece Mary for and the New York Times over a 2018 article detailing allegations that he “participated in dubious tax schemes … including instances of outright fraud” involving money from his father. But litigation is his knee-jerk, distract-and-deflect response when trouble looms.

  His Solar Arc Saturn is exactly conjunct his 2^nd house Neptune now which will invoke great uncertainty and paranoia . His Progressed Moon is also poised on the cusp of his financial 2^nd house in preparation for a worrisome two-year stint ahead trying to shore up his security.

  Tr Neptune is in an undermining square to his Sagittarius Moon and Gemini Sun through till January 2023 for a lacklustre phase; and picking up several of his midpoints – lowering his confidence and potential for success.

  Tr Pluto is making him feel unloved as well as trapped and frustrated is it opposes his Venus/Saturn midpoint and his Sun/Mars midpoint till late this November and then ramps up his emotional responses in December.   

  His controlling, power-hungry 12^th house Pluto is also getting rattled by the tr Saturn square tr Uranus from mid December right through till early February 2022. With worse to come when he hits a towering wall of problems late 2022/early 23 when his Solar Arc is in a catastrophic square to his Pluto at the same time as his Solar Arc Pluto squares his Saturn which will be depressing and tough-going.

Nothing much is going right for him – no doubt more will emerge in time.

Problems are mounting for the Biden Administration over the next two months to add to the calamities of August. His approval ratings are underwater over his handling of the pandemic, Afghanistan, immigration and the economy. And all is not well in his strategy for getting his booster plan through, with September 27 being one moment of truth for its progress.

  The Inauguration chart, has the confidence-denting tr Saturn conjunct Jupiter throughout this month until the 29^th and repeating 23 October to November 16. Picking up from September 30 to October 22 is tr Saturn square Mars Uranus which points to setbacks, delays, high levels of insecurity, irritation and tension.

  His personal chart is also under considerable pressure with his do-or-die-determined and prodigiously stubborn Mars in Scorpio square Pluto being battered by tr Saturn square tr Uranus in hard aspect.  Tr Saturn has been opposing his Pluto this month and again late October to mid November. And in many ways more damaging his Mars is being upended by tr Uranus in opposition from 30 October to 24 November.

   He’ll make a confident push to get back on track through December with tr Pluto opposition his Jupiter but it will be a rocky ride especially with the Lunar Eclipse in late November triggering his Sun Venus in Scorpio.

Despite smirking smiles at the meet with Boris Johnson in New York and banter about vaccinations, Jair Bolsonaro is not as confident as he appears. His attempt to rabble-rouse the mob in Brazil to bully the country’s Supreme Court into submission appears to have been a failure. He aimed to do ‘a Trump’ and mobilise grassroots supporters to intimidate judges who are investigating himself and cronies for spreading fake news, indulging in anti-democratic actions and are also focusing their attention on his sons.  He is sinking in the polls over the pandemic mishandling and hemmed in politically. Though he’s down, not out at the moment.  

  His swearing-in chart, 1 January 2019 4.50pm would suggests early 2022 onwards when tr Pluto squares the Uranus is when his administration will start to rock on its perch. And that extends through 2023 as well.

 His personal chart, 21 March 1955 2.45 pm San Paulo, Brazil, is mired in confusion and devastation from early 2022 to late 2023; with a long run of explosive jolts and jangles which start with tr Uranus conjunct his 10^th house Mars from June 2022 onwards and continue on a life-changing ride squaring his Venus and opposing his Saturn in 2023 and then upending his Pluto in 2024. Nothing will be the same after that. 2023 may be the peak of his problems – or the nadir.

See previous post Brazil April 1 2021.

Princess Beatrice had her first baby, a girl, on 18th September at 11.42pm in London. It’s her husband Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi’s second child.

  She has a private, home-loving 4^th house Virgo Sun opposition a 10^th house Neptune so may well follow her mother’s charitable direction. Mars close to her Sun suggests an argumentative or overly busy home life. A Pisces Moon in the 9^th along with Jupiter suggests a love of books and foreign travel with the probability of living abroad at some point. She has Pluto in the 7^th making for intense close relationships. But she’ll also be ambivalent about her romantic life with a fun-loving and seductive 5^th house Venus in Scorpio in a wayward opposition to Uranus and squaring onto a defensive 8^th house Saturn. She may settle later than most to a committed partnership.

  The emphasised Saturn in the 8^th also points to a significant and not altogether warm-hearted grandparent. She arrives just as Prince Andrew’s woes are mounting which must be giving Princess Beatrice a good deal of concern.

  A crunch point may be coming soon in his legal standoff over the Guiffre lawsuit – with October for him looking insecure and rattled, with more downers into November. The point to watch is mid November to mid December when his relationship with his mother is at an all-time low. December will also be a high-stress and trapped month for his sort-of-ex Sarah Ferguson.

The howls of gallic outrage from Emmanuel Macron over the political humiliation of being excluded from the Aukusa pact with the knock-on economic damage of a cancelled multi-billion submarine contract, are causing wry amusement elsewhere. There was already disquiet in Washington about EU investment agreements with China and the gas pipeline deal with Russia; and there has been continuing resentment about lack of EU financial commitment to NATO. So there’s more than a smidgeon of hypocrisy about the indignation.

  And as Nick Timothy points out in the Telegraph, ‘Aukus is not a “new Nato”. There is no collective security clause, tying Britain into conflict in particular circumstances. The treaty is about capabilities, and pooling expertise that would otherwise have remained secret. If China attacks Taiwan, the treaty would not force Britain to become a belligerent.’

   Joe Biden clashes badly with Macron at an astro-level  – his determined (and ruthless) Mars in Scorpio square Pluto sits on top of Macron’s Uranus in Scorpio square Mars in Leo which is a volcano waiting to blow. But this would not be a decision based on personality issues since Biden gets on just as badly with Boris Johnson, despite all present purrs to the contrary.

   Biden’s relations with the EU will bump along until 2024 when they may blow up into a major disagreement.

  France itself is facing a tough few years ahead – but is hardly alone in that. The Eclipse shift into Taurus/Scorpio from this November’s Lunar will rattle up its revolutionary and vengeful Mars in Scorpio and Midheaven. Repeating with the May 2022 Lunar Eclipse in Taurus. The October 2022 Solar Eclipse in Scorpio will oppose the France Saturn for another sharp reality check and a double dose of problems to resolve.

  2022/23 will also be bedevilled by a devastatingly confused tr Pluto square Neptune. There’s also a financially blocked Solar Arc Pluto conjunct the France Venus after mid 2022.

  In 2023/24 tr Pluto will square the Saturn for hardship, financial cutbacks and a dreary slog; and there’s a lacklustre tr Neptune opposition the Virgo Sun come 2024. By 2025 it’ll start to bounce again in confidence and enthusiasm with tr Pluto square the Jupiter.

  The central bank of France, 18 January 1800, will be under severe pressure in 2022/23 with tr Pluto conjunct the Sun, deconstructing the old and hoping the new arises out of the ashes. There’s an enthusiasm-deflating tr Neptune square the Jupiter right through till early 2023; with high anxiety in 2022 as well from tr Saturn square tr Uranus hitting on the Neptune. Then another dose of panic and possibly misjudgements in 2023/2024 from tr Neptune opposition the Uranus.

  Nearer the time I’ll look at the French elections due April/May 2022 but from memory Xavier Bertrand’s chart looked reasonably hopeful.

Jimmy Greaves, a much-loved English footballer who was a prolific goal-scorer has died aged 81. He started playing professional football at 17, semi-retired at 30 after a successful career, but returned despite suffering from alcoholism to play until he was 40. In his later years he had a broadcasting career as well as several business interests.

  He was born 20 February 1940 with a Pisces Sun and a Cancer Moon. His Sun was sextile Saturn in self-reliant Aries and Mars in early Taurus both of which squared Pluto – he had a backbone of titanium and will-power to match. His upbeat Jupiter Venus in Aries was also in a confident/successful trine to Pluto. 

  A curious hybrid of imaginative and ultra-determined, enthusiastic and depressive.

Clive Sinclair, the inventor of the UK’s first mass-market home computer has died. Despite his great successes, his long career was a triumph of perseverance over repeated failure.  On occasion his inventions were before their time. In the 1980s he conjured up the C5, an electric three-wheeler, which proved a commercial disaster and later an e-bike, but they anticipated a trend that is now becoming commonplace.

  He was born 30 July 1940 in Richmond, England (no birth time), into a family of engineers, excelled at maths at school but did not go to university. He had an incredibly obstinate chart with a Sun Pluto conjunction in Leo with his Sun and Mars in Leo square Jupiter Saturn in Taurus and his Mars square Uranus in Taurus – dogged determination would be ingrained in his DNA. He had the creative Uranus trine Neptune of his generation and in his case it sextiled onto Mercury in Cancer – so he would have ‘eureka’ moments of insight. Sitting amongst all this enduring Fixed planets was a jitterbug Moon and Venus in Gemini which would keep him constantly on the move.

  His get-it-together 5^th harmonic was strong as was his leaving-a-legacy 17H.

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The weird and macabre tale of multimillionaire real estate heir Robert Durst has come to a fitting end with a murder conviction for the killing of a long-time friend Susan Berman twenty years ago, who was about to tell police she helped him cover up the killing of his wife Kathy. He is suspected of doing away with three people over forty years but managed to evade justice until giving an ill-considered interview to a documentary The Jinx, which produced enough evidence to nail him. He has never been charged in the disappearance of his wife and was acquitted of violent death of a roommate in Texas, where he was living under cover. He admitted dismembering the victim’s body and tossing it out to sea.

  During the trial, prosecutors painted a portrait of a rich narcissist who didn’t think the laws applied to him and ruthlessly disposed of people who stood in his way.

  He was born 12 April 1943 in New York and said he witnessed his mother falling off a roof when he was seven though the family dispute this. A psychiatrist diagnosed him as possibly schizophrenic. Over the years he travelled under dozens of aliases and at one point owned seven Alaskan Malamute dogs all of which disappeared in mysterious circumstances which a relative suggested was him practising killing his wife.

  He is a Sun Aries in an expansive square to Jupiter, perhaps Moon in Cancer. What is striking is his Mars in obstinate, contrary Aquarius opposition North Node square Venus in Taurus closely conjunct the destructive Fixed star Algol.  Venus square Mars tends to be insensitive to the needs of others. He also had Pluto on the focal point of a mini-Grand Trine to Neptune trine Uranus Saturn in Gemini – controlling, inventive, autocratic.

  A birth time would be illuminating. But on his harmonics – the serial killer 18H is not especially marked.  But the 7H is which can be mentally unstable. Also significant are his ‘gaining immortality’ 17H; ‘destructive’ 16H; and rise-and-fall 10H.

  What is also pertinent is that his long time friend Susan Berman, a mobster’s daughter, born 18 May 1945, had her Taurus Sun conjunct Algol and conjunct his Venus – so she attracted the full brunt of his dangerous affection. And his second wife Kathy, 15 June 1952, had her North Node exactly conjunct his South Node and her Pluto was conjunct his North Node.

Fur and feathers are flying with the surprise announcement of a secretly-negotiated USA, Australia, UK deal to sell nuclear powered submarines to Australia. The French are upset since it scuppers a $66 billion contract to sell diesel-submarines to Australia. The Chinese have their nose out of joint since it is widely seen as an effort to counter their influence in the contested South China Sea.

   The AUKUS pact was announced in Canberra at 10.37am on 16 September 2021 (I’m not sure whether this was the original tri-partite Biden/Morrison/Johnson announcement) – but whichever came first there is a lacklustre, indecisive Sun opposition Neptune which isn’t too inspiring though it is balanced by a controlling Sun trine Moon Pluto. The next two years will be the testing time as the Solar Arc Neptune moves to close the opposition to exact.

  What is clear from all the charts – China 1912 and China 1949, USA, UK, Australia and France – is that the real problems will emerge in 2023/2024. And that occurs right across all the relationships between each of them. There will be rumblings of discontent and disillusionment before then but that is when it peaks. With the exception of France/UK who will squabble throughout, as is their way, which may be over other bones of contention.

Add On: It may be coincidental but picking up from an older post about the charts of US and UK warships – USS Abraham Lincoln, Gerald Ford, Milwaukee and HMS Queen Elizabeth and Prince of Wales – all look rattled in 2023/24. So there may be more obvious tensions than usual which doesn’t mean outright conflict but it could be sabre-rattling and responses. The two key Australian warships HMAS Canberra and Adelaide also look to be moving through a similar, highly disruptive patch.

Add On/2: The Australia USA relationship chart in essence is Plutonic, which suggests closeness though also perhaps one-sided control and dominance with a tendency for provoking oneupmanship battles with a composite Pluto opposition Sun and Jupiter as well as trine Mars. Where relations will be rattled most severely will be in 2024/25 when tr Pluto in Aquarius opposes the Mars and tr Uranus opposes the composite Saturn – which could be facing a fraught situation together, or ructions caused by a change-over Presidency.

  The USA/UK relationship may hit problems next year though that could be for different reasons. Biden and Johnson do not get on to put it mildly with hostility and suspicion writ large on their relationship chart.

As a further throwaway addendum – China is not a success region on Biden’s astrocartography, assuming an accurate birth time.