Astrology of Today’s News

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Kellyanne Conway has resigned from the White House to spend more time with her teenage family. Her husband George has also withdrawn from his anti-Trump lobbying. It was always an extremely odd set up with his regular, pungent attacks on her boss.

She was never that easy a fit with Trump since her Saturn in Pisces opposition Uranus Pluto squares his Sun and Moon and her Mars squares his Saturn. Their relationship chart shows considerable strain and aggravation over the New Year to late January 2021.

Her relationship with her husband George is stressed exactly now; and she’s not looking that happy on her own chart from late this month till late November, feeling trapped and frustrated. Her Solar Arc Sun is opposing her Uranus now which would indicate a sudden change and she should have a lucky break in 2021 with her Solar Arc Jupiter conjunct her Uranus; though she’s into a run of swampy Neptunian transits for two or three years ahead which are generally not supportive of ego-directed ambitions.

Trump has also been having problems with his elder sister Maryanne Trump Barry, whose secretly recorded comments about her brother being an unprincipled phoney, a liar, cruel and a cheat who had someone else sit his exams for him have hit the headlines. She didn’t attend their brother Robert’s White House funeral.

Born 5 April 1937, she’s a Sun Mercury in Aries square Jupiter in Capricorn opposition Pluto so not short of chutzpah or pushy confidence. Her Saturn in Pisces square Donald’s Sun and Moon so she will always have been critical with her Pluto conjunct his Saturn Venus; and her Uranus in Taurus square his Pluto – so despite her earlier protestations of being a supporter she is a disruptive force in his life.

Gawd the man is a bore. He’s drilled his way into people’s skulls as an ongoing obsession. It is a talent of sorts I suppose.

Sean Connery, recently voted the best James Bond ever, is 90 years old, in retirement but still golfing happily at his home in the Bahamas.  Born 25 August 1930 6.05 pm Edinburgh, Scotland, he has had an astonishing journey from a poor background, his mother a cleaner and his father a factory worker. He joined the navy briefly in his late teens but was invalided out with a duodenal ulcer, took up modelling and body building, tried a variety of menial jobs and eventually ended up working backstage in the theatre. From which all else followed via stage and serious TV drama (Shakespeare, Eugene O’Neill et al) and films, until his breakthrough role in Bond when he turned thirty.

He was always ambivalent about the Bond movies regarding them as his lesser achievements and with a career which includes an Oscar for The Untouchables with highly-acclaimed performances in The Man Who Would Be King, Marnie, The Name of the Rose, Indiana Jones and the Hunt For Red October he has a point.

He has a private, intense 8^th house Sun Neptune in Virgo, which is not uncommon amongst mega-film stars who have an innate (and unco9nscious) capacity to project an aura. His 9^th house Virgo Moon hints at a love of travel and wish to live abroad. A 9^th house Venus points to marriages with foreigners – his first wife Diane Cilento was Australian and his second Micheline Roquebrune is French-Moroccan.

What marks his chart out as different is the abundance of Cardinal signs which provide initiative, restlessness, an inclination to try, try, try again and keep moving. He has a powerfully confident Jupiter Pluto in his 7^th squaring onto Venus in Libra opposition a 3^rd house Uranus with Saturn in Capricorn on his Ascendant.

His 3^rd house Uranus will make him outspoken and his Mercury in critical Virgo squaring onto a short-tempered Saturn opposition Mars even more so. He’s famed for his impatience with timewasters and those he disagrees with; and his focal point Pluto will make him intolerant as well.  Highly talented, complicated and not always an easy temperament.

Only after his retirement from filming did his first wife Diane Cilento open up about a violent episode in their marriage when he punched her and left her unconscious during the filming of The Hill; and related tales of his tight-fistedness with money and generally ‘unreconstructed’ notion of a woman’s place in a marriage.  Given that she was a free-spirited Sun Uranus in Aries square Pluto, it was never going to be an old-fashioned Victorian-style marriage. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-400436/Yes-Connery-em-did-em-beat-unconscious.html

His chart certainly indicates anger issues as well as a strong need to control and be dominant.

But as so often with glaring temperamental flaws goes talent.

His creative 5th, 7^th and actor’s 15^th harmonics, as well as his leaving-a-legacy-for-history 17H and superstar 22H Harmonics are well aspected.

His astrocartography is also interesting – relocating to Los Angeles puts his super confident Pluto Jupiter on the Midheaven; and New York (and Bahamas) puts his Sun Neptune on the Midheaven. America is his destiny. And now that I think of it his Jupiter is conjunct the USA Sun which makes sense.

Photo: Stuart Crawford.

The USA Supreme Court is moving into testing times with a potentially disputed election result looming as well as Trump tax returns and other related lawsuits likely heading their way.

The SCOTUS  Neptune Mars square is under heavy and devastating pressure from tr Pluto square Neptune now till late October; and then tr Pluto moves to an angry, blocked, challenging opposition to the SCOTUS Mars over New Year till late January 2021. With a dread-filled, uncertain, worrisome tr Neptune conjunct the SCOTUS Saturn from early October to late January 2021. And a few jolts from tr Uranus square the SCOTUS Uranus late October to late November across the election.

The relationship chart between the Supreme Court and Trump is heavily stressed and aggravated exactly now with tr Uranus square the composite Mars till late this September, undermined through September –  and much much worse in 2021 from late April 2021 onwards as tr Uranus returns to square the composite Mars and then squares the composite Sun and is conjunct the composite Pluto. That will be toxic, hostile and seriously nasty.

John Roberts, the Chief Justice, will have his hands full ahead with an extremely busy and complicated chart. Tr Uranus is square his Uranus/Pluto midpoint now till late September which suggests a radical change and excitement; with an emotionally unsettled tr Neptune square Venus until next week. His September will have successes and some concerns. Where he gets into gear will be late November to late January 2021 with tr Pluto opposition his Jupiter and then Jupiter/Uranus midpoint, which will see him making a confident push, knowing his objectives clearly.  December 21^st to early February 2021 tr Uranus will square his Aquarius Sun for more excitement and change.

So it may well be that he and SCOTUS are pulled into the election.

PS The chart for SCOTUS, 24 September 1789, is when the act which established it came into force.

Normal People was a highly lauded coming-of-age romance TV drama series based on a book by Irish author Sally Rooney. The two lead actors Daisy Edgar Jones and Paul Mescal were singled out as having remarkable chemistry.

He was born 2 February 1996 and she 24 May 1998.

Both are fairly intense personalities. She is an ultra-determined, controlling and ambitious Sun Mars in Gemini opposition Pluto trine Neptune; with a Taurus Moon and Venus Saturn conjunct in Aries.

He is a contrary and stubborn Sun Mars in Aquarius with a Cancer Moon a Venus Saturn conjunct in Pisces.

On the face of it, there’s a fair amount of friction between them with her Uranus conjunct his Sun, her Neptune conjunct his Uranus and his Mars square her Mercury. Though her Jupiter is conjunct his Venus Saturn so she’d be positive-minded when he was gloomy.

But the relationship chart, while not remotely easy, is a different story. There’s a composite Venus, Sun, Mars, Saturn conjunction trine Pluto, sextile Uranus. Sun Venus is affectionate and Venus Mars is passionate; trine Pluto would bring a strong pull of attraction or control; sextile Uranus would bring a spark. Saturn is the oddity in the mix – good for work but quite perverse added into those affectionate planets, suggesting an edge of almost cruelty. Mars Saturn is unfair, one-sided. Wouldn’t do for a long term commitment, for sure.

Both have Saturn Venus conjunctions in their personal chart which suggests an emotional neediness which can go one of two ways – either shutting off feelings altogether or into sexual acting out. There would be a potent chemistry for the production but not necessarily healthy away from work.

The Brexit negotiations are following the standard EU script of doom, disaster, never-going-to-agree. So it’s tempting to see this week’s impasse ‘as the usual diplomatic dancing in the darkness before dawn breaks on a deal’, in the words of Tim Shipman of The Times. Yet the Tory true-believer insiders appear to be sanguine about the prospect of a no-deal, with Michael Gove evidently spending the bulk of his time preparing for just such.

Michel Barnier, the EU negotiator, 9 January 1951 4.40 pm La Tronche, France, looks a touch overwrought now through to late September with tr Uranus opposition his Venus/Pluto midpoint; and if birth time is exactly accurate, then has a disappointing/failure tr Neptune conjunct his Midheaven from early October to late January 2021.

But he’s not remotely in as bad a shape as David Frost, the UK negotiator, who has a catastrophic tr Neptune opposition his Mars/Pluto midpoint from late August to early October, followed by tr Neptune opposition his Mars/Uranus midpoint from early October to late January 2021 which Ebertin with his usual dramatic exaggeration describes as: ‘A fainting fit when overtaxing one’s strength, raving madness, rage, cunning and deceitful.’ Even toning that down to moderate levels it won’t be progressive whether he wants a no-deal or some-deal Brexit.  He’s also got a failed-plans tr Pluto square his Mars/Neptune midpoint from now to late November. He looks frustrated and irritated over the exit at the New Year with tr Pluto trine his Mars – and somewhere along the way of 2020 or 2021 he has a panicky-failure Solar Arc Mars conjunct his Neptune.

His relationship chart with Barnier, who has an unbudgeable 8^th house Mars Moon in Aquarius opposition Pluto is into plate-throwing territory with tr Uranus square the composite Sun and Uranus until late September.

Frost’s relationship with Gove is extremely fraught as well with a frustrated, trapped, impatient tr Pluto square the composite Mars from now till late November; and downbeat across the New Year. None of which sounds like a resounding joint success whichever outcome they were aiming.

Gove’s personal chart is similarly afflicted with tr Pluto square his Mars/Uranus and Uranus/Neptune midpoints now to late November this year, suggesting acute stress, losses and catastrophes; and his troubles won’t lift in 2021 with a nasty sinking feeling from tr Neptune square his Sun/Saturn and Mercury/Saturn midpoints picking up in April and running on and off till late 2022. As he no doubt surveys the proof of the pudding with the Brexit consequences becoming clear.

This would fit with the Boris Government chart indicators – see previous post August 3 2020 – which has a panicky dip from this October onwards. And many pointers on Boris, the Government and Cummings’ charts that suggest 2021 is not going to be a celebratory feste to the joys of UK freedom.

Sorry if that all sounds gloomy but they don’t look like happy campers any of them.

Nick Faldo, the former No 1 pro golfer now a television sports presenter, with a chequered romantic life including three marriages, none of them long-lived, is about to embark on his fourth sprint up the aisle. His bride-to-be Lindsay DeMarco is a former topless dancer, a veteran of the marital stakes with six weddings behind her (one husband twice).

Faldo was born 18 July 1957 3pm Welwyn Garden City, England, and has a much-travelled 9^th house Cancer Sun square an elusive Neptune in the 12^th – Neptune being surprisingly common amongst sportspersons. His Sun is in a lucky sextile to Jupiter in Virgo in the friendly 11^th house. More significantly he has a passionately enthusiastic Venus Mars conjunction in his case in Leo which is a recurring theme of Epstein buddies. Not that there’s any suggestion of under-age, more a revved-up interest in pleasure. His Venus is also conjunct Pluto which is seductive. His Pluto conjunct his Midheaven will make him influential though also controlling.

And last but not least his go-getting Aries Moon in the performing 5^th is in an unpredictable, emotionally changeable trine to Uranus and Saturn, forming an entrepreneurial and attention-demanding Grand Trine.

His fiancée Lindsay DeMarco may – but to be treated with caution since it was only one net source – be born 31 August 1962. This would make her a controlling and chaotic Sun, Pluto and Uranus in Virgo in a confident opposition to Jupiter. According to one ex-husband she is like Trump – ‘everything revolves around her.’  That should be fun with his Pluto on the Midheaven and Leo planets.

Her Venus in Libra is conjunct his Neptune and square his Sun which will brew up a beautiful smokescreen.  The relationship chart has an adventurous (seemed like a great idea at the time) Uranus trine Jupiter though with the composite Uranus close to the Sun they won’t sit comfortably together in a 24/7 box. Both will need space. There’s a superficially sugary-sweet composite Venus trine Jupiter; and a spark of attraction from composite Venus sextile Mars.

Difficult in this day and age to see what the point of walking up the aisle is. Those who don’t learn from the past and all that …….

Director Christopher Nolan’s latest extravaganza blockbuster, Tenet, a sci-fi spy epic, on a mission to save cinemas from extinction by virus or streaming competition has had wildly polarised reviews. A love it or hate it movie. Five stars in odd places and two stars in others. ‘A dud – a humourless disappointment –  easy to admire, impossible to love.’ “A concrete cornucopia of global chaos and threat, in which humanity’s survival depends on the minor matter of reshaping time and space.“

Nolan has a billion dollar career behind him with a plethora of awards – most notably for The Dark Knight Trilogy and Dunkirk. This one cost it is reckoned over $200 million and will have to stretch to recoup that in crowd-adverse times.

He was born 30 July 1970 in London (no birth time) and is a dynamic Sun Mars in Leo with a creative and stubborn Neptune in Scorpio opposition a money-minded Saturn in Taurus which is sextile/trine Venus Pluto in Virgo.

He’s looking edgy this year with tr Uranus in an excitable and insecure square to his Sun, Mars repeating at the year end; with a loss-making tr Uranus square his Jupiter/Saturn midpoint in September and spring 2021; plus a disappointing tr Neptune opposition his Venus at the moment and again into 2021.

Principal Photography started in various locations in May 2019 when the over hopeful Jupiter square Neptune was in place; as well as the tough Saturn Pluto in Capricorn.

The star John David Washington, born 28 July 1984 in Los Angeles, known for his role in the TV comedy Ballers and for his award-winning performance in BlacKkKlansmen, is the son of actor Denzel Washington.  He is also a Sun Leo, in his case conjunct Moon and Venus also in Leo square a conscientious Saturn in Scorpio. He’s also looking less than ecstatic with tr Uranus opposition his Saturn next month as well as his disaster-prone Mars/Pluto and stuck through late autumn.

The other co-star Robert Pattinson, 13 May 1986 5 am London, of Harry Potter and Twilight fame is a Sun Taurus trine a go-ahead Mars in Capricorn. He has a disappointing tr Neptune square his Venus at the moment and on into 2021.

Not the easiest times for the entertainment business and this hardly sounds like a feel-good attraction.

Steve Bannon, Trump’s former strategist and best-buddy until his publicity seeking fell foul of the boss’s ego, has been arrested and charged with fraud over a fundraising campaign to build a wall on the US-Mexico border. Despite claiming “We Build the Wall” was a volunteer organisation and promising all the $25 million raised would be used for construction, some went sideways to the four in charge to fund their personal lifestyle. They issued “sham invoices and accounts to launder donations and cover up their crimes, showing no regard for the law or the truth” according to the SDNY prosecutor. If found guilty Bannon, US veteran Brian Kolfage and two others could face decades in prison. Trump denies all knowledge and recent contact with Bannon though the fund appeal had a stamp saying ‘Trump Approved’ and Don Trump Jr. visited one section in New Mexico in a year ago.

Bannon, born 27 November 1953, no birth time, is a Sun Sagittarius with a publicity-attracting, showbizzy Mars Neptune in Libra sextile a controlling Pluto, in a can-be-fanatical square to Uranus, and a confident trine to Jupiter in Gemini.

He has a sharp-shock from tr Uranus opposition his Sun/Mars midpoint exactly now alongside the radical-upheaval tr Uranus opposition his Pluto/Node midpoint running till late September, repeating on and off till January 2022; and worse a catastrophic tr Neptune opposition his Mars/Pluto midpoint now until late this month and again repeating through next year till January 2022. 2021 from late January has the car-crash tr Pluto square his Mars/Saturn midpoint as the same time as the devastating tr Pluto square his Neptune, both running till late 2022. He will muster up some of his standard bullish bravado with tr Pluto opposition his Jupiter/Pluto midpoint for the next year but it won’t outweigh the others. With a deep gloom Solar Arc Pluto conjunct his Saturn by 2022.

His partner Brian Kolfage, 21 September 1982, is a late Sun Virgo square a slippery Neptune, with an adventurous Mars Uranus in early Sagittarius conjunct Bannon’s Sun. He’s also got Saturn Pluto in Libra which is under stress from tr Pluto in square for the next two years; plus some calamitous transits to two Mars midpoints in 2021.

Audrey Strauss, the Acting US Attorney for SDNY, who replaced Geoffrey Berman bounced by Trump, has been spearheading this investigation as she did the Ghislaine Maxwell one. See previous post: May 7 2019

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