Astrology of Today’s News

Jordan Peterson, the controversial Canadian psychology professor who became a love-hate figure for his anti-political correctness views, condemnation of academic “safe spaces” and his refusal to use transgender preferred pronouns, has a new book coming soon. At one point he was described as an “icon of white supremacy and hate speech.”

   In a publicity interview he described his recent spiral into drug addiction and suicidal thoughts, having become hooked on benzodiazepines prescribed to counter a violent reaction to a cranky diet and anxiety over his wife’s cancer. Along the way he was misdiagnosed as a schizophrenic. He then underwent a Russian treatment that put him into an induced coma for eight days to clear his system of drugs.

  Born 12 June 1962 2.49am Edmonton, Canada, he has a complicated and highly charged chart. He has a 2^nd house Gemini Sun and Mercury square Jupiter in Pisces opposition a grandstanding Pluto in the 5^th – keen on money, pushily-confident with Jupiter opposition Pluto and highly strung with a focal point Mercury.  Such a Mercury will make him scattered with a fairly disorganised mind.

   He also has a talented Air Grand Trine of Saturn in Aquarius in his 10^th trine a Libra Moon trine Mercury so is custom-built as a communicator but it adds to the pressures on his over-active mind which easily gets over-stimulated.

  Plus he has Mars in Taurus in the 12^th opposition Neptune square Saturn opposition a ‘leadership’ Leo North Node, which is stubborn to the nth degree, keen on publicity, will tend to attract angry reactions and is quite neurotic.

  His 6^th house of health holds both Neptune and his Moon so not messing around with his health will be crucial, which includes weirdo diets. His emotional state will also affect his physical health more than most.

  His Progressed Mars was conjunct his Sun around the time he was in his Russian coma and emerged unable to walk or remember; and at the same time his Progressed Mercury was conjunct his Uranus.

   Tr Neptune will square his Sun this year for a less than energetic phase with certain plans not working out; and tr Pluto is now just into his 10^th house, staying for many years, which suggests a long search for a new direction in life. Th is year tr Saturn square tr Uranus will batter his Mars and Neptune as well as Saturn this year along the way of his Second Saturn Return.

  He may have passed his moment.

Pic: Gage Skidmore.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the progressive Democratic Congresswoman, has been describing her fear of being killed in the January 6th Capitol invasion and how it triggered an earlier trauma in her life when she was sexually assaulted.

  She hit back at conservative Republicans like Ted Cruz for denying what she described as their responsibility for the storming of the Capitol complex, which left five people dead.

   Born 13 October 1989 at 11.50am Bronx, New York (from memory), she has an assertive and fiery Sun and Mars in Libra with her Mars on the focal point of a pro-active and restless Cardinal T Square to Jupiter in Cancer opposition Neptune Saturn (Uranus) in Capricorn and an Aries Moon. With such an emphasised/afflicted Mars in square to Saturn Neptune she’s more than likely to have run into abusive situations in her life.

  And tr Saturn moving through the nadir of her First Quadrant at the moment is likely to bring up old unresolved psychological issues to be faced and healed.

  There was nothing too dramatic showing on her chart over January 6^th, apart from a couple of confused, uncertain and stuck Saturn hard aspects to a couple of her midpoints; and a run of Neptunian transits through the year which will make her more emotional and vulnerable than usual.

  Both Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley, being Capricorn will trigger her highly strung and reforming triple conjunction. Cruz’s Uranus is conjunct her Mars and Hawley’s Pluto conjunct her Sun so both will make her agitated and feel crowded or manipulated.  Both also have crossovers with her Pluto – Cruz with his Mars conjunct causing aggravation and power struggles; and Hawley’s Saturn being in opposition so he’ll continually try to block her.

  She’s not at her most successful through this phase of several years and hasn’t the best of relationships with either Biden or Kamala Harris (see previous post November 10 2020.) But she has decades ahead of her so will come into her own at some point in the future.  

Northern Ireland is feeling the cold and turbulent wind of Brexit more than most with community tensions rising and border staff at ports now withdrawn because of safety fears from paramilitary threats. The Good Friday Agreement so critical to peace could be in jeopardy.

  A combination of Boris Johnson’s indifference to the implications of Brexit and triumphalist lies, exacerbated by Ursula von der Leyen’s recent crass actions over vaccines have stoked fuel on the fire of local feeling.  A councillor said: “This is the sad reality of those who imposed terms on Northern Ireland without the consent of the delicate community balance which exists here. The protocol was bound to end in tears and here we have society’s structure falling apart.”

Since 1 January, traders in Northern Ireland have been subjected to a litany of checks on goods and food being sold from Great Britain. Haulage firms have hiked prices by 12 per cent this week and hospitals, schools and prisons have warned of looming problems obtaining food. People are having to pay additional costs to bring food in to Northern Ireland and they are going to be passed onto some of the lowest-paid people in the UK.

  The Good Friday Agreement was signed on 10 April 1998 at 5pm in Belfast bringing closure, albeit fragile, to the Troubles which had plagued Northern Ireland for three decades and brought terrorist attacks on the UK mainland.

  It has a starkly difficult and violent, though suppressed 8^th house Sun, Saturn, Mars in Aries. This has been under strain for some years but tensions mounted sharply after the shock of Brexit in 2016 when tr Uranus in Aries was moving across those planets. And the pressure hasn’t lifted since with tr Pluto moving in square.

  Tr Pluto is now square the Mars/Saturn midpoint for this month, and that crises-ridden influence with the additional of high-risk and angry tr Pluto square the Sun/Mars midpoint return from July till the New Year. From early 2022 through till late 2023 tr Pluto will square the Mars which will be aggravating in the extreme.

  Relations between the North and the South will deteriorate sharply from this June, on and off till January 2023 with tr Neptune conjunct the composite Mars and opposition the composite Saturn. With a chill and separation in 2022 from tr Saturn conjunct the composite Sun. And 2023/24 is showing a sharp divergence as well with tr Uranus square the composite Sun. That’s from the Ireland 1949 and Northern Ireland December 7^th 1922 charts.

  For more detail: see previous post: September 17 2020.

  The only ray of sunshine is that Joe Biden may step in and bring down the heavy hand about fixing the problem.

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Pious sentiments about ‘democratising finance’ and sticking it to the rich guys may come badly unstuck for small chat-room investors who sent share prices soaring recently for a moribund Gameshop and lacklustre AMC theatre group. In the process they cost short-sellers a small fortune, before moving on to send the price of silver soaring to its highest level in a decade.

None of the moves had much to do with underlying economic fundamentals which left analysts fearing a sharp reversal for investors similar to the dot-com craze tanking in 2001 and the housing market collapsed in 2008.

  On Monday, shares in GameStop, the struggling retailer championed by Reddit investors declined by 30 percent, sliced in half from their peak but still over 1,000 percent higher than where they began the year. One broker said “It’s pump and dump in a totally new, viral format and there are huge risks that need to be looked at right now.” He said it had the markings of a market mania that historically ends in big losses for small traders.

  Robinhood, a financial services company, whose game-like approach facilitated much of the rise in GameStop and AMC shares, then had to pull back sharply sparking off criticism. Robinhood may struggle to hold on to its outsider identity as it is forced to play by the rules, industry participants say.

Elizabeth Warren sounded a note of caution. “We actually don’t know who all the players are in all this — whether there’s big money on both sides.”

  Robinhood was founded 18 April 2013 in California by Vlad Tenev, a Bulgarian-American, and Baiju Bhatt, an Indian-American. It has a fiery, adventurous, pro-active and go-getting Sun Mars in Aries; with an excitable Uranus Mercury also in Aries square Pluto amplifying its innovative, not to say disruptive streak in bucking the status quo. There’s also a more materialistic Venus in Taurus opposition Saturn in Scorpio, so making money will be in its DNA.

  This year they will be seriously jolted from mid to late March with tr Uranus opposing its Saturn. But it’s 2022/23 when they will run into the buffers as tr Pluto squares their Mars and Sun to bring them to a grinding halt. With Solar Arc Sun Mars opposing the Saturn in 2023 as well.

It’s not that the finance big boys don’t need a serious sorting out but this could end in tears.

Myanmar has returned to its dark days of military oppression with the army seizing power, claiming that recent elections giving an 83% victory to Aung San Suu Kyi’s party and trouncing their own party were fraudulent. They have installed their commander-in-chief as leader and detained senior politicians. The country was ruled by the military from 1962 to 2011, and the transition to democracy thereafter still guaranteed three important ministries and 25 per cent of parliament for army appointees.

  Aung San Suu Kyi, daughter of the Father of the nation, became a heroine in the west during her 15 years of house arrest, showered with the Nobel and other medals. But her reputation was irreparably tarnished when she gradually returned to power as the de facto leader, by her unwillingness to condemn the atrocities and genocide waged by the army against the Rohingya minority in the country’s west. Her submission to the military in other areas as well brought concerns that she was legitimising their control.

  Myanmar was founded as Burma at a time set by astrologers as propitious, on 4 January 1948 at 4.20am Rangoon. The unyielding Saturn Pluto in Leo was in place with Saturn square a Taurus North Node; and a Capricorn Sun trine Mars and in a vague square to Neptune Moon. It’s difficult to see what the astrologers thought they were picking apart from Jupiter on the Ascendant.

  The country chart has a deadlocked and possibly violent Solar Arc Mars square Saturn this year; a disruptive and shocking Solar Arc Uranus conjunct Mars as well; and an undermining tr Neptune square its 7^th house Uranus.  Co-operation with the international community has never been the country’s strong point with Uranus in the 7th, and there is already condemnation from the White House and the EU about the coup. There’s also a tr Uranus square the Myanmar Pluto  from mid this year which could point to a rebellious backlash as the younger generation react against oppression. Tr Uranus also squares and tr Saturn is conjunct the country’s financial Venus so there may be sanctions and shortages as a result.

  Aung San Suu Kyi, 19 June 1945, is yet another Sun Gemini with Uranus close by and both square Jupiter in Virgo. She’s also got an intense, stubborn and not-exactly-compassionate Venus Mars in Taurus square Pluto.

  At the moment she has her Progressed Mars conjunct her Sun for a distinct shock and it stays in effect for months to come. This year also the tr Uranus in Taurus square tr Saturn in Aquarius is rattling her Pluto and Venus for a major and scary upheaval over coming months; with a run of disastrous and undermining Neptune transits in hard aspect to her Jupiter now, then her Sun/Uranus and Mars/Pluto, moving on to square her Sun in 2023. Then she has a downbeat and stuck Solar Arc Saturn square her Sun in 2024. Nothing that looks too cheerful ahead.  

‘Tis the season clearly for actresses to air their grievances about not being treated as they’d like. The latest is Katherine Heigl, formerly of Gray’s Anatomy, who dissed her chances by turning down an Emmy nomination on the basis she hadn’t been given good enough material and left the show two years later. Then complained her role in a Seth Rogen movie was ‘sexist’ when presumably she had read the script before signing. Having built up a reputation for being difficult she says she was then effectively blacklisted.

   Her abrupt and very public dismissal of the 2008 Best Supporting Actress Emmy nomination was considered a “swipe” at Grey’s Anatomy producers for cutting back her role. It was so bizarre and such a slap in the face for the producers it’s a miracle she wasn’t removed instantly.

  Born 24 November 1978, she’s a Sun Sagittarius with a showbizzy Mars, Neptune and Mercury in Sagittarius square Saturn (Moon) in Virgo. A Mars square Saturn is scratchy, on a short fuse and with Neptune in the middle veers towards the neurotic/paranoid.

 Clashing with the formidable and super-successful Shonda Rimes, 13 January 1970, producer of Gray’s Anatomy and more recently Bridgerton, was never going to end well with Rimes’ ultra-determined Mars in Pisces opposition Pluto clashing with Heigl’s Sagittarius planets.

  Heigl has a few rays of Jupiterian sunshine this year but is running towards a Plutonic blockage in 2022.

  The other actress in recent times who spoke out about being written off as difficult is Janet Hubert, who starred in the first three seasons of The Fresh Prince of Bel Air with Will Smith until she left and later blamed him for having spoken out against her. Though in subsequent interviews she admitted she was going through a difficult personal time which affected her behaviour with a new baby and unemployed husband, which no one knew.

  Born 13 January 1956 in Chicago, she’s a Sun Capricorn with an intense Venus in Aquarius opposition Pluto Jupiter square Mars in Scorpio and Saturn in Sagittarius. And that is heavyweight – with again a Mars Saturn theme but amplified with Pluto involved as well.

   Poor-victim-me isn’t a good look for women aiming to be taken seriously as equal and independent. The first step to self-awareness is owning your actions and your mouth.  

There are calls for far-right GOP Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene to be removed for her extremist views. She was described as a gun-obsessed racist who has spread gruesome conspiracy theories about a Satan-worshipping cult and mocked the deaths of schoolchildren in the Parkland school shooting. Her past social media posts indicated support for executing Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton and echoed conspiracy theories that California wildfires were caused by a ‘Jewish space’ laser from space triggered by a group of Democratic politicians and companies for financial gain.

  Lauren Boebert, another newly ordained Rep Congresswoman, appears cut from the same cloth as a ‘fast-talking, gun-toting tavern owner’, who relishes her reputation as a provocative and disruptive force. Both Greene and Boebert have appeared with white supremacists, and Boebert has prior connections to anti-government extremists in groups involved in the events of January. 6. Both have endorsed QAnon conspiracies. They have refused to wear masks and Boebert attempted to violate House prohibitions on carrying firearms on the floor of the chamber. Boebert also appeared to revel in the insurrection as it was happening, tweeting about Pelosi’s location and proclaiming earlier in the day, “Today is 1776,” suggesting the possibility of an armed revolt.

  Greene, 27 May 1974, is a Sun Gemini opposition Neptune trine Pluto – so driven by heady ambitions. In addition she has a super-charged Mars in Cancer on the focal point of a Uranus opposition Venus in Aries – making her volatile, disruptive, drawn to high-adrenaline situations.  Oddly her Mars in Cancer is conjunct Trump’s Saturn which isn’t a great interface though her relationship chart with him has a friendly, affectionate Sun Venus in a controlling square to Pluto, so she will be drawn to him – as she continues to campaign against the results of the election.  Though her bond with him will going through an exceptionally bumpy phase this February and March with tr Uranus opposition the composite Neptune and square the Mars.

  Her own chart show 2020 as being one of devastation and confusion, despite her Congress win, with hitches, glitches and swamps continuing through this year and the next two.

 Boebert, 15 December 1986, has her Sun Uranus conjunct in Sagittarius with Saturn Mercury also in Sagittarius, a Gemini Moon across the zodiac probably squaring onto Mars Jupiter in Pisces, and an intense (manipulative) Pluto Venus in Scorpio trine Mars Jupiter.  She’s quite a whirlwind of rebellious impulses, wildly outspoken with so much Sagittarius; fuelled by anger and self-righteousness – Mars Jupiter on the focal point of a T Square tends to see itself as a holy crusader.  Like Greene she was not a happy camper in late 2020 from road-blocked Solar Arcs. Her way ahead looks even less certain than Greene’s with tr Neptune square her Uranus and Sun through this year and next; with catastrophic, crises-attracting tr Pluto conjunct her Mars/Saturn in 2022/23. She’s not winning too many arguments.

  Her relationship chart with Trump isn’t as cosy as Greene’s – with, in her case, a composite needs-space Sun Uranus in a trapped opposition to Pluto, Mercury Venus – and that connection is sinking below the water line through 2021/22/23.

Josh Hawley, 31 December 1979, another GOP troublemaker raising doubts about the election result, is a Sun Capricorn in a hyper-active trine to Mars Jupiter in Virgo. He has Mercury Neptune in Sagittarius and a Gemini Moon. So another whirlwind-in-a-storm personality with so much mutable. He’s in a win-some, lose-some year with disasters late February through March and again mid October to mid January 2022 with tr Neptune opposition his Mars/Saturn midpoint.

A luvvie having a hissy fit is always light relief from the encircling gloom and angst. Except in the following instance it may have resulted in a decent film critic losing his job for no other reason than doing what he was paid for. Dennis Harvey writing for Variety suggested – shock horror – that Carey Mulligan might not have been the best fit for her role in Promising Young Woman, while at the same time commending her performance as “skilful and entertaining.”

  She took umbrage at the thought he was saying she was not hot enough to pull off the role and took that as an inappropriate slur for 2020.

  A talented actress with awards for various performances including Shame, Collateral, Wildlife, The Great Gatsby, she seemed to be suggesting that her looks were not relevant in her profession and should not invite comment. Which is so off the scale for idiocy it hardly bears saying. Both sexes, genders whatever and the myriad inbetweeners, are hired on the basis of their looks.

  Vanity Fair issue an apology for which they should be ashamed and the critic has now spoken out to defend himself.

   My first thought was – she has a fragile ego. And lo and behold she has a Gemini Sun on the focal point of a Yod to Pluto sextile Neptune.  Such a Sun starts off life with low self-esteem, a sense of inferiority and a difficulty establishing a strong sense of identity. But as with all quincunxes, especially Yods, there is a swing between under-confidence and over-confidence – too little will power and then too much.

  This very public intervention evidently coincided with the Oscars run up and hadn’t been mentioned as an issue before. But she may come to regret being advised to air the gripe since she’s running into a panicky, undermining tr Neptune square her Mars from mid March through till mid April just before the Oscars, so there could be a backlash.  She has two very mild Jupiterian influences over April 25^th and the Oscars ceremony, but that’s all. 2022 looks a more upbeat year for her.     

Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission President, is facing calls to resign after a botched handling of the vaccine shortage issue. The EU made the mistake of centralising the order for the entire bloc rather than leaving individual countries to proceed at their own pace and were late to the party. Then when the manufacturers plead production problems in shortfalls on delivery she demanded AstraZeneca stop supplying the UK. A deluge of criticism forced her to U-turn.

   Her Term chart, 1 December 2019 has an explosive Mars opposition Uranus as well as a limp and impractical Sun square Neptune. Tr Saturn has been squaring the Uranus and then the Mars in February; with tr Uranus having a final opposition to the Mars also in February which leads to high insecurity resulting in macho gestures to prop up self-esteem which often backfire. The fireworks will run on.

  Her time as Minister for Defence in Germany was generally regarded as a failure with domestic criticism for her leadership style, reliance on outside consultants, and continued gaps in military readiness. A report for the German Parliament concluded about the military under her administration – “There is neither enough personnel nor material, and often one confronts shortage upon shortage.”

  The domestic consensus was that her party would be happy to see her go to Brussels and Merkel was a cheerleader there for her. Politico.eu remarked, “What the rest of Europe gets out of the bargain is another question.”

  Born 8 October 1958 in Brussels, with a civil servant then politician father, she qualified as a doctor and has seven children. She has a diplomatic and cool Libra Sun Mercury sextile Saturn in Sagittarius; with a do-or-die-determined Mars square Pluto; and a head-in-the-clouds Neptune Jupiter in Scorpio.

   For someone under heavy pressure for a cataclysmic series of mis-steps she has a good deal of upbeat Jupiter sprinkled about through this year, along it would have to be said with some confusion. 2022/23 look more of an uphill struggle with 2024 running both her personal and her EU Admin chart into the buffers.

See previous Posts: July 17 2019 and December 10 2019.