Astrology of Today’s News

Billionaire Elon Musk made history this week when his SpaceX company sent Falcon Heavy, the most powerful rocket on Earth, up into space, with a Tesla car strapped on as payload. The intention is for Falcon Heavy to carry humans into space, though there are no plans at present for crewed missions to the Moon or Mars. The car, having been set free, is now drifting away from earth, having overshot the intended Mars orbit and will end up in the asteroid belt. Two out of the three rockets landed safely back on earth, the third malfunctioned and self-destructed as it hit the ocean at 500 mph.

The launch was at 3.45pm 6 February 2018 Merritt island, Florida, which puts innovative Uranus in the 10^th. There’s nothing too remarkable about the chart, apart from an adventurous Mars in Sagittarius in the flamboyant 5^th, but it’s blocked in a semi-square to Pluto and square the Uranus/Pluto midpoint, which Ebertin describes as fanatical and accident-prone. And the Sun is conjunct the Neptune/Pluto midpoint which can hint at confusion and strange ideas.

Back down on earth Musk’s electric car company Tesla has reported the largest losses to date as they struggle with production problems. He looks to be in a fairly discouraging year with tr Saturn opposition his Cancer Sun and square his Uranus; with a shocking-collision or setback Solar Arc Mars square his Sun as well. His luck will turn brighter in 2019 with tr Uranus opposition his Jupiter/Uranus midpoint though Neptune is trailing around until 2020 bringing a fair few disappointments. Where he kicks into a much better gear is around 2022/23 when tr Pluto is sextile his Jupiter and square his Jupiter/Pluto midpoint. So a ways to go.

With the third wreck in a week, questions are being asked about the US passenger rail service Amtrak. It is a quasi-public corporation though run for profit. On this occasion a high-speed train broke apart as it raced north toward Penn Station at 125 mph. There were no injuries, unlike Sunday when two workers were killed in a collision with a freight train. Four days earlier, an Amtrak train carrying Republican members of Congress hit a garbage truck, killing one person. In December an Amtrak train on an inaugural run derailed on a turn, killing three and injuring scores.

The first service for Amtrak left on 1 May 1971 at 12.05 am New York. That chart is certainly on high alert with more accident-prone influences to come. Tr Uranus is moving towards the IC in late March, squaring the Moon at the same time, then squaring Mars which is even more risky in April, and again late in the year.

Passengers say they are now terrified of using the service, not surprisingly.

Christopher Steele is the ex-MI6 agent caught in the middle of the furore over alleged Russian manipulation of the 2016 election. A long-time and trusted intelligence worker, he in the past had worked for both UK and US governments after leaving the service to go private. An ex-head of MI6 said he was the ‘go to person on Russia for information on the commercial sector’; and he led the British inquiry into the mysterious 2006 death in London of Alexander Litvinenko, a former KGB official and Putin critic, who died of deliberate radiation poisoning.

Steele’s sources had told him the Kremlin held damaging information about Trump’s personal and financial dealings which could be used as leverage were he ever to be elected. What complicates his story is that he was hired by the Democratic Party and Clinton campaign. Devin Nunes’ line is that Steele was politically biased against Trump, though his high-level friends say his alarm was not political, more that his professional background in MI6 impelled him to pass on what could be vital information to an ally.

Born on 24 June 1964 in Aden, Yemen, (five days after Boris Johnson), he is a Sun Cancer exactly conjunct his North Node, so keyed into the zeitgeist; with a Sagittarius Moon. He has Saturn opposition Uranus Pluto square Mars in Gemini – so used to challenging and fast-moving situations with risk attached. There are now lawsuits being filed against him by certain of those named in his dossier and he certainly looks very stressed ahead. Tr Pluto has been in a catastrophic square to his Mars/Saturn midpoint through 2017 and this year; with a series of major jolts as his T square of Saturn, Mars, Uranus, Pluto has moved by Solar Arc to catch tr Uranus hard aspects in 2017, with a final hit in March/April this year – and beyond. If anything 2019/2020 could be as bad with tr Neptune square his Sun/Mars and Mars/Node; and tr Pluto opposes his Mars/Pluto midpoint.

Not only is he unpopular with Trump and certain sections of the GOP, he’ll also be persona non-grata with Putin – and the Kremlin has a very long reach when it comes to dealing with troublesome people.

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Quentin Tarantino, renowned for his brutally violent movies, torture as entertainment, many of them made with Harvey Weinstein – Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Django Unchained – is under fire for coercing Uma Thurman to perform a dangerous driving stunt, which led to a car crash. And is now in more trouble for defending Roman Polanski in a 2003 Howard Stern interview that has resurfaced online. He said Polanski’s 13-year-old victim “wanted to have it and dated the guy. He had sex with a minor. That’s not rape.” Even Stern choked on that and argued back.

Tarantino, born 27 March 1963, sadly no birth time, was brought up by his divorced mother who allowed him to watch adult-content movies when young. He’s a Sun Mercury in Aries in a high-energy trine to a flamboyant Mars in Leo; with a cool Saturn Venus in Aquarius; a Taurus Moon probably trine Uranus Pluto in Virgo. It’s a chart that really needs a birth time to make sense. Tr Saturn is square his Mercury Sun at the moment and throughout this year, which will be downbeat. But that apart there’s not much showing.

Another Hollywood giant about to topple.

Tom Brady, the American football quarterback, is by his own admission a bad loser and after the New England Patriot’s Super Bowl loss wasn’t on his most gracious form. He’s had a sterling career and now 40 must be thinking of packing up his boots.

Born 3 August 1977 11.48am San Mateo, California, he is a Sun Leo conjunct Saturn also in Leo – both of which need the adulation of the winner’s podium. He’s got a talented chart with a three-quarter Grand Sextile, formed from an inspirational, attention-demanding Fire Grand Trine of an Aries Moon trine Neptune trine Sun. That ties into Mars in Gemini trine Pluto sextile Sun Saturn, which is tough-minded. With Mars in a glamorous opposition to Neptune square Mercury in Virgo; and his Moon in an intense opposition to a 12^th house Pluto square Venus. He looks quite a personality, though not a shrinking violet by a million miles.

Neptune is slowing creeping towards his 6^th house which could suggest either health issues or the wish to turn his energy towards philanthropic issues. Neptune in the 6^th is not usually good for ego-centred ambitions.

He’s married to model Gisele Bundchen, 20 July 1980 5pm Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, who is a Cancer Sun square a 10^th house Pluto with an intense Scorpio Moon also in her 10^th. That must be a tempestuous relationship with his Pluto conjunct her MC and his Uranus conjunct her Moon; and her Pluto conjunct his Ascendant and her Mars conjunct his Pluto. Their relationship chart has a super-charged composite Sun Jupiter Mars Mercury conjunction for high energy, good fortune and some arguments; and the composite Mars Mercury square Uranus will also make for some heated moments. She’s a Water Sun and Moon while he’s a Fire Sun and Moon – a boiling combination.

Sharp drops and volatility in the global stock markets are being blamed on fears about the withdrawal of the stimulus which artificially kept economies afloat in recent times; and to correct an overpriced market. Though, as ever, the markets don’t bear much relation to the health of the real economy, which at present seems reasonably sound.

Stock market charts are notoriously difficult predictors but for what it’s worth. The NY Stock Exchange, 17 May 1792 11.30am has tr Uranus is a jolting conjunction to its Saturn in Aries and opposition its Neptune in March/April, which will raise neurosis to new peaks. Those these influences were also around last year; this is the final hit. The Lunar Eclipse was triggering the Uranus; and the mid February Solar Eclipse will be conjunct the NYSE Pluto – a tense time.

The FTSE First Trade, 3 Jan 1984 10am London, has tr Uranus exactly on the insecure, overly excitable opposition to its Mars, again a final hit of what was around in 2017. With a depressed tr Saturn conjunct the Mercury, moving to conjunct the New Moon from Jan 2019.

The US Federal Reserve Bank chart, 16 Nov 1914 9 am Washington, DC, is in for an edgy time giving the new chair Jerome Powell a short or non-existent honeymoon period. From mid May tr Uranus will make a highly-strung, nervy square to the ResB Neptune; and within seven months (if not before) there is a Solar Arc Uranus opposition the ResB Sun which will be a considerable shock and forced change of direction.

Powell, 4 Feb 1953, is a Sun Mercury in Aquarius opposition Pluto, square Jupiter and trine Moon Neptune (Saturn) in Libra; with a Yod of Saturn sextile Pluto inconjunct Mars in Pisces. It’s a heavyweight chart, though he could be fairly impulsive with a Yod focal point Mars. His Solar Arc Pluto is conjunct his Saturn through this year which will put him under considerable pressure; with tr Uranus opposition his Saturn in April for a few weeks of even higher tension than usual.

He’s not a harmonious fit with Trump since his Mars squares Trump’s Sun and Moon; and his Pluto is conjunct Trump’s Mars in Leo, so there will be scratchy moments.

On the USA chart tr Saturn is opposition Jupiter at the moment, returning twice before the autumn, and opposing the USA Venus, and then moving to oppose the Cancer Sun in 2019. That needn’t all be financial but it might point towards some economic hard news. The USA is also heading for a Nodal Return this June, which does suggest a need for a re-think about general direction and national purpose. The Nodal Return is a staging point in an individual or a country’s destiny and being in Leo, it does suggest that global leadership qualities are what need to be boosted.

Kylie Jenner, youngest of the Kardashian clan, a reality star and entrepreneur with a huge social media following, has announced the birth of a daughter. She has been uncharacteristically silent through her pregnancy, saying she needed to be stress-free to prepare ‘for this role of a lifetime’. Though it is suspected she had her nine months filmed for her new spin-off series with her boyfriend and baby-daddy, rapper Travis Scott.

The baby was born on 1 February 2018 at 4.43pm, Los Angeles, which gives a charming and sociable 7^th house Sun Venus in Aquarius in an expansive square to Jupiter in the 4^th. She already at five days old has a lavish $70k wardrobe of clothes which would certainly fit with a wealthy and frivolously fashionable upbringing as those aspects indicate. She’s also got a rebellious/independent-minded Uranus conjunct her midheaven so she will walk her own road. Her 2^nd house Virgo Moon opposes Neptune squaring onto Mars in Sagittarius, suggesting a high-wire, quite fractious temperament, inclined to go off in all directions at once, especially at home and with her mother. Her North Node is in her 1st just below a flashy Leo Ascendant, suggesting problems forming a strong sense of her own identity

Her mother’s Jupiter is conjunct her Sun Venus, so she will be spoilt; though with Kylie’s Pluto conjunct the baby’s Mars and Kylie’s Saturn conjunct the baby’s Uranus, there will be some battles along the way. They don’t have the easiest of relationship charts with a competitive composite Sun Mars square Neptune; a volatile, needs-space Mars trine Uranus; and a communication-blocked Mercury square Saturn.

What a family to be born into. Growing up in a sci-fi wonderland like The Truman Show, where her entire life from day one is turned into a reality show won’t be a cakewalk.

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Uma Thurman, star of Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill, has opened up about an alleged assault by Harvey Weinstein. In an interview with the NY Times she said: “I knew him pretty well before he attacked me,” she said. “This was my champion. He had a chokehold on the type of films and directors that were right for me.” After the incident she confronted him and although she continued to work on his movies, relations were strained. A spokesperson for Weinstein confirmed that “Mr Weinstein acknowledges making a pass at Ms Thurman in England after misreading her signals in Paris. He immediately apologised.”

Born 29 April 1970 1.51pm Boston, Massachusetts, three days after Melania Trump, she has the same sombrely sophisticated Sun Saturn in Taurus with her Sun opposition Jupiter; and Venus Mars in Gemini in an enthusiastic and adventurous trine to Uranus.

Weinstein’s Jupiter and Sun fall in her 8^th, so he’d be good for her financial success; and his Venus is conjunct her Descendant which is well-starred for warm feelings. Though what squelches all of that is his ultra-determined Mars in Scorpio opposing her Mercury and Saturn for a gritty and aggravating interface; and his Pluto in a blocked and controlling square to her Mercury Saturn. His Sun is opposition her Pluto. So a relationship with major issues about power.

Their relationship chart has an affectionate composite Sun Venus conjunction in an expansive square to Jupiter. But it’s a see-saw and highly volatile connection since the composite Sun also squares Saturn (good for business) and trines an explosive, needs-space Mars Uranus conjunction. It would always be finely balanced between good feelings and the other variety.

After 22 years of trying and failing, ex-cricketer Imran Khan could have his best shot at becoming Pakistan’s prime minister as he heads to July’s elections. With a reputation as a former Western playboy, the ex-husband of Jemima Goldsmith, has taken to spirituality and surprisingly emerged as the choice for both the Taliban and many in Pakistan’s powerful spy agency (ISI). If elected he hopes to distance Pakistan from the Western Alliance and possibly move towards China.

His birth date used to be questionable but seems to have settled at 5 October 1952, two days before Vladimir Putin. So he has the same stellium of four planets in Libra – Sun, Saturn, Mercury, Neptune – and a ferociously determined crusading Mars in Sagittarius trine Pluto, sextiling onto Neptune; a can-be-fanatical Neptune square Uranus; and pushily confident Pluto square Jupiter in Taurus tied into a T Square by an Aquarius North Node.

He’ll have planets in different houses than Putin, which may explain his lack of success to date. This birth time of 11.55am is questionable but would put a sporting Jupiter in the 5^th; and a hidden Pluto in the 8^th. Whereas I’ve always imagined Putin with a control-freak Pluto on his midheaven.

During this July and August Khan, does have a successful tr Pluto trine his Jupiter so he will be upbeat; though less so in 2019/2020 with heavily pressured transits to midpoints. And throughout 2018/19 he has the highly confusing tr Pluto square his Neptune.

Pakistan does look to be going through a seismic upheaval in its relations with the USA, picking up from mid May and running through into early 2019 as tr Uranus squares the composite Mercury, Sun; with undermining, disappointing Neptune transits to the composite Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus from 2017 till 2020. With a complete re-set or disruption come 2019/2020 from tr Uranus opposition the composite Pluto.