The tech gods are battling it out in the rarefied altitudes of the fabricated brain-game giving Zeus a run for his money in the hubris stakes.
The bitter rivalry between Elon Musk and Sam Altman over OpenAI heads to trial in California. The case will feature some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley, and its outcome could affect the course of the AI boom. Musk alleges that Altman, OpenAI’s CEO, broke the company’s founding agreement by restructuring the company and converting much of it to a for-profit enterprise. Altman and OpenAI counter that Musk is essentially a sore loser.
The case also carries sizable stakes for OpenAI, which is expected to go public later this year at about a $1tn valuation.
Altman, 22 April 1985 5am Chicago, Illinois, is an ultra-determined Sun Taurus (trine Neptune) opposition Pluto; with an even more rigorous, hard-ass Mars Moon in Taurus opposition Saturn in Scorpio. Birth time being accurate, he has his Solar Arc Midheaven squaring his Mars opposition Saturn now and in 2027 which hints at a considerable setback.
Musk, 28 June 1971 7.30 am Pretoria, South Africa, however does not look like racing off to wave the victor’s wreath, Tr Uranus will rattle his Neptune opposition Saturn from now into 2027 for jolts, jangles and panics; in 2027 as well tr Neptune moves to an undermining square to his Cancer Sun; with a grind-to-a-halt and spit-teeth frustration in late 2027/28 as his Solar Arc Pluto squares his Mars.
Elsewhere Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir has issued a manifesto championing US military dominance and of AI weapons, implying some cultures are inferior to others, described as ‘ramblings of a supervillain.’ The post exhorted the US to reinstate a military draft, saying that “free and democratic societies” need “hard power” in order to prevail. It also predicted a future dominated by autonomous weapons.
This is the latest pronouncement from Karp, which appear to indicate he views himself as not simply the head of a software company, but a pundit with important insights into the future of civilisation. In an interview with CNBC in early March, he suggested that AI would “disrupt” the power of “highly educated, often female voters who vote mostly Democrat”, and instead empower “vocationally trained, working-class, often male, working-class voters”.
It led to criticism from several MPs, who said that it raised yet more questions about the UK’s contracts with the company, including a £330m contract with the NHS, and deals with the police and Ministry of Defence.
“Palantir’s manifesto, which embraces AI state surveillance of citizens along with national service in the USA, is either a parody of a RoboCop film, or a disturbing narcissistic rant from an arrogant organisation,” said Martin Wrigley, a Liberal Democrat MP who is a member of the commons science and technology select committee.
Karp, 2 October 1967 New York, has a Libra Sun opposition Saturn in Aries with the innovative Uranus Pluto (Moon) conjunction in Virgo square Mars – again super-determined and ruthless. Plus a flamboyant Jupiter in Leo in a high-finance, over-optimistic square to Neptune. The ground will turn swampy under his feet from 2028 onwards with tr Neptune conjunct his Saturn and opposition his Sun with a devastating/confused 2029 as his SA Pluto is conjunct his Neptune.
Along the same timeline, Palantir, 6 May 2003, looks jammed up in 2028 with tr Pluto square its Mars, moving through an opposition to its Jupiter and then a conjunction with its Neptune in 2031/32 – that looks like an over confident push which may not end well.
In astrology Uranus, the lightning god, has a reputation as a disrupter – for good as a liberator and innovator when faced with overdue reforms, not so great when in a contrarian mood as it rocks the boat out of sheer mischief. Usually cast in a favourable light by astrologers who will have it prominently in their charts, it shares with Mercury a trickster quality making it difficult to determine in advance whether the effect of Uranian influences will be progressive or chaotic. Defiance and lawlessness are in its repertory.
Family and close personal relationships are not made easier by the presence of Uranus with its dislike of compromise, lack of adaptability and insistence on protecting individuality and independence over cooperation. Connected to the nervous system, it leads to a highly-strung temperament, prone to impulsive actions. Strongly Uranian types can come across as selfish and obstinate. They demand partners be just as independent as themselves, so relationships can drift apart since there is no real engagement. Often underlying the detachment or the ‘I’ll jump back and leave first’ is a fear of abandonment. They pre-empt what they see as the inevitable by baling out in advance. Uranus in hard aspect to Sun or Moon suggests parents who were erratic, unpredictable, didn’t relate well and fostered a forced independence on the child.
The house that Uranus falls in is always where the individual wants to go against the grain. Uranus in the 6th dislikes the corporate team world, so prefers to go freelance. Uranus in the 9th veers towards alternative philosophies or ideas. In the 7th dislikes conventional relationships, opts for open marriages or constant travelling; in the 8th has a leaning towards experimenting in sex; in the 4th rarely stays living in the same house for long. Whatever everyone else wants, Uranus wants something different.
Its negative manifestations can be damaging. Located in the 10th house it appears in Trump’s chart and Joseph McCarthy’s, exhibiting its ability to cause division and spread disruption; and murderers Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer, intent on lawless lifestyle. The other counter-intuitive Uranian type is Prince Andrew who has it in his 1st house on the focal point of a yod inconjunct Saturn and an 8th house Mercury. No poster boy for progressive causes, he defiantly walks his own road in contrarian fashion, is intolerant of convention.
Uranus shares with Aquarius of which it is co-ruler that odd paradox of being both the epitome of tolerance and dictatorially stubborn. Ideas can be prized above empathy, on occasion leaning towards an obsessive ideology that reduces human beings to a secondary concern. It significantly appears in a considerable number of fascist and extreme right-wingers amongst its number.
The outsider, the troublemaker, the flag-waver for freedom at all costs, more than anything Uranus wants to stand out from the crowd even if seen as a maverick and an oddball. It doesn’t care what others think, isn’t one of the crowd, so it can think out of the box and lead the way into the future. Uranus hates barriers, boundaries, cages of any variety and will rattle the bars until they collapse.
The myth of Ouranos, the sky god, married to Gaia, the earth mother, is telling. He rejected one or more of his children for being earthly and gross, so another son, Kronos (Saturn), at the behest of his mother, castrated his father. The sky-god’s blood fell on the earth, producing the avenging Erinyes and the Gigantes (Giants) leading to an eternal war between the sky (= ideas and ideals) and the earth (= the flesh, practicalities, money and the limits of time.)
The sky god rules the Uranian/Aquarian inclination towards ideas, scientific knowledge. Matters up-in-the-head (in the sky) comes at a significant cost in terms of the physical body. There is something against-the-biology about Uranus, in contrast to his earthy, prolific wife. Which, if the myths hold true, causes great anger (the Furies) and suffering (liver also = anger). Consciousness, ruled by Uranus, was a splitting away from the animal kingdom, the key factor which separates human beings from nature.
What is intriguing is that many of the ‘sexperts’, who studied and wrote about human sexuality were Aquarius – Havelock Ellis, Alex Comfort, Germaine Greer, Betty Friedan, Helen Gurley Brown and Rabelaisian writers like Lord Byron, William Burroughs, Robert Burns. Some plunged happily into the experience but the impression left is that a detached interest in sex was part of the equation.
Detachment is a key word for Uranus/Aquarius, which has a dislike of jealousy or possessiveness, since it brings with it a fear of being corralled and tied down.
The other myth about Uranus is Prometheus, an immortal god seen as the champion of mankind who defied his Olympian brothers by taking fire from them and gifting it to humanity to allow for developments in technology and knowledge. For this he was punished, bound to a rock, and an eagle (symbol of king god Zeus) was sent to eat his liver, the seat of human emotions. His liver would grow back overnight, only to be eaten again the next day in an ongoing cycle. In true Uranian spirit, Prometheus split from his arrogant brother gods to benefit the formerly powerless, but at a physical and emotional cost to himself.
Uranus rules television (as opposed to Neptune ruling film) and rules IT/computers/the internet. Television was an early form of digitalisation which seems to strike a chord with Uranus, as does the here-today-gone-tomorrow feel of much television. The social networking world suits Uranus admirably since it gives a sense of connection with a wide circle of friends without the hassle of messy, face-to-face engagements.
Rock musicians often have Uranus in the performing 5th house, so it promotes a quirky, anti-authoritarian, highly individualistic creativity which is not great art, but appeals to the young at heart. Where high artistic ability comes is when Uranus is tied into visionary Neptune. Historically religious art was connected to Uranus Neptune, which is an inspirational mix.
In a personal chart conjunctions or hard aspects to other planets ramp up the volatility of Uranus.
Uranus Mars is explosive, literally in conflicts, and reckless in personal behaviour. It leads to over-reactions since sudden events threaten to dent self-esteem and leads to macho gestures in response.
Uranus Saturn – can be autocratic, ‘do as I do not as I say’. In good aspect it can merge the best of the old with the best of the new.
Uranus Neptune – can be fanatical, hanging onto beliefs despite incontrovertible evidence. Associated with earthquakes. And with religious art.
Uranus Pluto – revolutions and rebellions which can sweep away outdated regimes and situations. But can also lead to chaos and anarchy if stability is not established after the upheaval.
Uranus Chiron – brings a desire for freedom, to experiment and kick aside limitations not just in individual life but out in the broader culture.
From a previous post on Moon Uranus Mothers.
Uranus constantly seeking excitement, adventure and perpetual change sits at cross purposes to the Moon which yearns for stability, security, sameness and protection. Babies appreciate routine, not a roller coaster ride.
Moon Uranus types tend to have had an unusual, unstable or broken domestic and family life growing up, sometimes with frequent changes of residence. For some their mother neglected them out of boredom with child-raising; or were odd, absent, or emotionally detached. As a result the child learns to shut off their emotions and as a consequence develops a rebellious and contrarian approach.
The positive outcome is a strong intuition, original imagination and resourcefulness but it tends to go alongside erratic emotional impulses, sudden changes of mood and a tendency towards odd or eccentric, strongly independent behaviour. Settling to long-term emotional commitments isn’t easy. Boredom can be a problem, since there’s a need for constant excitement and also a difficulty with compromise. Uranus demands freedom of emotional expression and kicks against any attempts by others to restrict or manipulate feelings.
The classic Moon Uranus is Princess Diana whose mother Frances Shand Kyd was a bolter and left her children and Diana when she was six. Diana had an Aquarius Moon opposition Uranus and found difficulty settling to a long term relationship.
Amanda Knox, tried and found innocent ultimately of the murder of Meredith Kercher, was the product of a broken home and brought up for a while by a resourceful single mother. She has a Moon conjunct Uranus and Saturn. Her mother said she had ‘always been a unique girl. A lot of kids want to conform, but she was always just who she is and never worried about it.” Her odd, unempathic reaction at Meredith’s death was what first aroused police suspicion.
Gordon Ramsay, the Scottish chef, a Moon Uranus Pluto conjunction in the 4th opposition Saturn, described his early life as “hopelessly itinerant” with his family moving constantly owing to the failures of his father, an occasionally violent alcoholic. The Moon rules childhood as well as mother.
Chernobyl, forty years on, remains the worst and most expensive nuclear disaster in history. Complicated technical reasons were given for the meltdown but a drama series on Sky points firmly who was really responsible for the disaster — ‘the rotten, rotting Soviet state.’
‘It presents a view of politics where ideology is unassailable and allegiance to the motherland is more important than the lives of thousands. As scientists piped up about the gravity of the radiation situation and were shouted down as if they were insolent schoolboys telling lies, you also began to realise how little you knew about this disaster.’ “Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later that debt is paid. That is how an RBMK reactor explodes: lies.”
A catastrophe of this magnitude is usually the portent to history-changing events to follow and sure enough three years later the USSR collapsed.
The Chernobyl blowout occurred on 26 April 1986 at 1.23 AM with a 4th house Taurus Sun conjunct the North Node opposition a 10th house Pluto, trine/sextile Neptune in Capricorn. A major blockage from Sun Pluto in fixed signs channels its intensity through an unstable Neptune. The Sun was conjunct Sedna, the myth of betrayal. The wounded Chiron was in the 6th house of health and opposition Saturn conjunct Antares, the heart of the Scorpion.
Astrology King: Saturn conjunct Antares: Materialistic, dishonest through circumstances created by the environment, many failures, hampered by relatives, unfavourable for domestic matters, much sickness to and sorrow from children.
The Scorpio Moon was opposition Venus conjunct the destructive Algol square Nessus, which last rules risks and danger. Uranus was on the Ascendant for sudden, unpredictable change.
The Lunar Eclipse two days before located to Moscow puts the disruptive Uranus on the IC hinting at the shifting foundations to come.
Transiting Pluto at 5 degrees Scorpio over the Chernobyl meltdown, had from early 1986 started a two year square to the Russia 1917 Neptune, hinting at the devastation facing the Soviet state in the three years following until its collapse in late 1989.
Much the same as Russia is facing in 2027/28 with tr Pluto opposition its Neptune.
King Charles embarking on his state visit with Trump on Monday is facing what is described as “high risk, high stakes and high opportunity” and a tough test given his health. The trip will involve addressing Congress and a state dinner; a visit to the 9/11 Memorial and a reception in New York followed by natural beauty in a national park in Virginia.
In addition to the Middle East imbroglio and Trump’s vengeful attacks on Starmer for his disobedience, tariffs etc, the vexed question of Andrew/Epstein and victims will loom large. The King won’t meet survivors but Camilla will be meeting campaigners against domestic abuse during her engagements.
It’s the first such speech to Congress from a UK monarch since that of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, in 1991. She said then “Some people believe that power grows from the barrel of a gun. “So it can. But history shows that it never grows well, nor for very long. Force, in the end, is sterile. We have gone a better way. Our societies rest on mutual agreement, on contract, and on consensus.” Guarantee Charles’ speech won’t empathise the same points.
Charles has tr Pluto exactly conjunct his Descendant now hinting at intense interactions with everyone he meets; with a high-alert tr Mars exactly on his Midheaven over the visit. The latter could make him impatient or argumentative, though it may also keep him focussed. Tr Jupiter conjunct his Solar Arc Moon as he arrives home on May 2 suggests a huge sigh of relief.
Relocating his chart to Washington gives a steady Taurus Ascendant with a 7th house Sun, suggesting cooperation is a priority. Saturn in the 5th = socialising is hard work. Venus Neptune in the 6th = not high energy. Mars Jupiter in the 8th plus a 12th house Moon and a 4th house Pluto point to much that is suppressed in the way of emotional reactions, kept firmly out of sight.
Charles’s Scorpio Sun is conjunct DT’s IC at the start of his 4th house so he is important in connecting to DT’s roots through his Scottish mother. Charles’ Saturn falls in DT’s 1st house so he will damp down some of his exuberance. At best he might add a hint of gravitas.
Their relationship chart has a sociable, friendly composite Sun Venus Mercury conjunction; with a sparky Mars trine Uranus trine Moon; with Moon square Jupiter. And a chained-together composite Pluto Saturn. Not too tricky and Charles has always had a penchant for the wealthy so there may not be too many rough edges.
Camilla and Melania are a different matter. They are both tough-minded ladies – Melania with a Sun Saturn in Taurus and Camilla with a Saturn Pluto conjunction in Leo. Both have Mars in direct-speaking Gemini and Jupiter in money-magnet Scorpio. Their relationship chart has a hostile/toxic dislike composite Mars square Pluto with an argumentative Sun Mars. It will no doubt be all covered over by saccharine smiles.
Just to add to Charles’ burden, his errant younger son Harry could not resist the urge to upstage and embarrass him with a trip to the Ukraine and a few words of advice for Trump immediately before.
It seems to have upset Camilla more with tr Uranus square her composite Venus with Harry; and William who is beyond furious with his relationship chart with Harry seething under tr Pluto square Mars/Pluto midpoint at the moment and worse to come through this year and 2027.
Charles’ relationship chart with Harry does have a 2 degree Gemini Ascendant so there may be more definitive upheavals from June onwards as tr Uranus moves across into their composite 1st house – which suggests more separation rather than less in the time thereafter.
Harry looks lost at the moment with his Solar Arc Midheaven conjunct his 12th house Neptune – searching for a direction in life and failing to find it. And his relationship with Meghan is heading for a major upheaval from this June onwards with tr Uranus square their composite Sun and opposition Uranus. Both their Sun/Moon midpoints will be under major pressure in 2027 – tr Saturn square his and tr Uranus square hers – so he won’t be finding stability anytime soon.
Uranus moving into Gemini this Sunday is the final piece of the new era jigsaw. All four outer planets are now firmly established on their new track. The move from Water Earth (Pluto Capricorn, Uranus Taurus, Neptune Saturn Pisces) to Air Fire (Pluto Aquarius, Uranus Gemini, Neptune Saturn Aries) is complete.
Stephen Arroyo describes Water Earth, our recent experience, as serious, burdensome, concerned with survival needs, determined and can-be manipulative. Air Fire on the other hand is described as idealistic, positive-thinking, aspiring, optimistic, witty, though not always realistic.
There are hints of a definite improvement ahead though whether the late French astrologer Andre Barbault’s prediction for ‘the turning point of 2026-2030’ will hold good seems a distant possibility as of now. He looked forward to ‘the awakening of the mysteries of life.’ ‘Four planets – in a triangle with each other – that move as if they wanted to metamorphose the world. We are faced with the possibility of a change such as to make it seem too weak the terms “change” or the same “upheaval” to define the breadth of what could transform the known world.’
The translation from his native French is a touch clunky but he clearly expected a momentous change for the better.
What will get in the way of a golden road ahead is Saturn moving into Taurus in 2028 and in a deprived/hardship/war-mongering square to Pluto for 18 months. By 2030 Saturn is into Gemini and by 2031 is conjunct Uranus, which in previous eras has sometimes led to a peak of enlightenment and justice though it can have other effects as well.
Below from a previous post:
Uranus is the lightning god, trailblazer, promoter of freedom, independence, revolutions, scientific inventions, as well as anarchic chaos. Wary of emotional intimacy, at a personal level it can seem cold, uncooperative, belligerent about compromise which Uranus equates with loss of individuality. Uranus was the sky god married to Gaia the earth mother. He was ultimately castrated by his son Saturn after expressing disgust for his earthy, ugly brood of children. Thus he is deemed to be against the biology.
Uranus fosters intellectual creativity, shines a light on hidden places, acts as a torchbearer into the unknown. But left to run amok can be destructive, collapsing old structures and lacking the inclination to reconstruct better on the far side.
Looking back over the past century plus of Uranus through the signs, which it changes every seven years, year it enters a new sign has coincided with a tranche of firsts in technical and scientific advances which altered the face of our culture – television demonstrations and transmissions, airplane development from the first 40 minute flight to plane bombing, first parachute jumps, and first set-up of commercial airlines, then space travel. In more recent times the internet moved from early computing in the 1955/6 Uranus into Leo, further advances in 1962, Microsoft being founded in 1974 with Uranus just into Scorpio, first computer virus on the next in 1981 when moving into Sagittarius, then 1989 into Capricorn the first commercial internet providers and the WWW.
Delightfully Albert Einstein published his seminal papers which led to a century’s study of theoretical physics the year Uranus moved into Capricorn in 1902.
What is also noticeable skipping down events is how many iconic performers, novels, films emerged/exploded onto the scene in the year Uranus changed sign.
1949 into Cancer: Billy Graham.
1955/56 into Leo: Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, Rogers and Hammerstein at their peak, Doris Day’s most famous hit. First Eurovision Song Contest.
1962 into Virgo: Johnny Carson debut, Rolling Stones debut, Beatles firsts, first ever Bond movie Dr No, Bob Dylan, David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia.
1974 into Scorpio: Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody.
1981 into Sagittarius: film ET
1989 into Capricorn: Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verse controversy.
1995 into Aquarius: Toy Story – first computer generated animated feature.
In the century before as Uranus moved into Gemini Darwin published his Origin of the Species; and Big Ben chimed for the first time in London.
There are also intriguing repeats. Bill Gates was born on the 1955 with Uranus just into Leo and founded Microsoft two later on Uranus just into Scorpio.
The Beatles burst onto the scene in 1962 as Uranus moved into Virgo and made their last public appearance next time round in 1968 when Uranus moved into Libra.
The Vietnam War started in 1955/56 in Leo and finished three Uranus cycles later as it moved into Scorpio in 1975.
The Guildford Four who were imprisoned in 1975 in the UK in a miscarriage of justice for alleged IRA bombings with Uranus just into Scorpio were freed fourteen years later as Uranus moved into Capricorn in 1989.
Revolutions are a key outcome of the Uranian push for freedom at all costs. The Eastern European uprisings of 1989 when the Berlin Wall was collapsed came with Uranus just moving into Capricorn. That year also apartheid in South Africa started to be dismantled. The Arab Spring coincided with Uranus moving into Aries in 2011. The 1968 Uranus into Libra brought the start of the Irish Troubles and the Stonewall riots fighting for gay rights.
The destructive side of Uranus comes out with brutal suppressions as in Tiananmen Square in 1989 (in Capricorn); the Holocaust in 1942/43 (in Gemini); Nazism on the rise and the Night of the Long Knives purge in Germany in 1934 with Uranus moving into Taurus. And the Titanic sank as Uranus moved into Aquarius in 1912.
Uranus moving through Gemini as will happen from 2025 to 2032 is likely to have a noticeable impact on the USA since previous occasions coincided with the American Civil War during the 1860s; and the American Revolution in 1775/76; and the previous one to this in 1942/43 came on the back of Pearl Harbour and the USA moving into World War 11. The USA Uranus Return is 2027.
For good or ill and somewhere in between mother is the first relationship in life which stamps an emotional pattern and expectations on the adult life to come.
Mommie Dearest is the latest book from Martin Sebastian Moritz, author of The Mysterious 8th House. Insightful, thought-provoking, filled with compassionate wisdom and illuminated by psychological awareness, it pin-points the Moon’s glide through signs, houses and in aspect, but is far from an astro-cookbook.
The author opens up about his own complicated childhood ferrying between his parents and a great grandmother and ‘aunt’, relating it to his 6th house Aquarius Moon. Victor Olliver in the foreword talks of his sensitive Pisces Moon and close relationship with his mother.
It broadened my understanding as I flicked through friends and family charts as well as my own as he relates how the mother’s temperament and often unfulfilled hopes determine the emotional leanings of the adult child ahead.
Almost half the book is given over to case studies of abusive mothers like Joan Crawford; the Duke of Windsor, product of a cold mother and a sadistic nanny; and Jennette McCurdy with a monstrous stage mother. Adoring mothers – with examples of Cher, Ronan Farrow, Proust and Anderson Cooper. Margaret Thatcher comes under ambivalent mothers. Madonna and Jane Fonda under absent mothers.
The breadth of understanding of the lunar experience in the book is remarkable and makes it a library must-have. I can see me referring to it for years to come.
Slow moving, heavyweight Pluto is now firmly on track to make its influence felt until 2043. Nothing happens instantly with Pluto so the Fixed signs most affected – Taurus (career/life’s direction), Leo (relationships), Scorpio (home/family), Aquarius (personal identity) – are still coming to terms with the changes imposed on their lives since 2024. Other signs pick up milder hints.
Transformation is a word lightly tossed around but in reality is a challenging, on occasion painful process, as old structures are demolished and reduced to ashes before the rebuilding of the new can begin. Pluto demands depth, discarding a superficial approach as trivial and frivolous. He was Lord of the Underworld, ruler of a realm of riches and intense emotional experiences. You have to dig deep to reap his bounty. Those who exist in a half-life of outer appearances find the Plutonic experience the most troubling. Relevant is the myth of Inanna, the Sumerian goddess, who went underground to reconnect with her sister. Her process involved losing all of her finery before she was rescued, not by a knight in shining armour, but by small earth-like creatures. There is nothing glamorous about the Pluto phase.
All signs feel the effect when there is a celestial Pluto aspect as there is this weekend with the pressured Taurus Sun square Pluto and towards the end of May with a risky, frustrated Mars in Taurus square Pluto. Life in general feels stuck, powerless and progress requires perseverance or an acceptance of what cannot be changed immediately. These come around about six times a year in hard aspect to the Sun or Mars so are part and parcel of the weft and warp (fabric) of life.
Pluto through the signs every twenty plus years does have a significant effect on the culture. See list below.
What sparked off this post is that the present Pluto in Aquarius is squaring its 1980s phase in Scorpio in the Thatcher/Reagan era when deregulation of the financial markets took place.
A new book The Asset Class by Hettie O’Brien describes in detail what happens when the state withdraws from key public services and allows private equity to take control. “You don’t know their names, but they own the house you rent. They own your hospitals, nurseries and care homes, the media you consume and the companies you work for”. “They are deeply entangled in our everyday life: in water, energy, housing, care homes, health, trains – services we all depend on.”
She shows how some care homes treat elderly people as “the human equivalent of ATM machines” as fees are siphoned from their housing equity to fund the poor conditions and low wages of exhausted care workers.
In the UK, privatisation was accompanied by regulation but it is often underfunded and ineffective. Nothing changes, because poor services maximise profit and shareholder returns are a higher priority than clean water. O’Brien rightly concludes that this has “rewire[d] the state in service of a wealthy elite”.
It took almost to the end of the last Pluto in Aquarius for the citizens of Paris to revolt against the entitled wealthy and bring them down; and then only because there was a revolutionary Uranus opposition Pluto to spur on the upheaval. There is none such across the next twenty years but it may be (hope!) that the egalitarian drive of Pluto in Aquarius will start to push back against the Gordon Gekkos – fittingly launched into movie stardom a year after the Big Bang.
Pluto in Gemini 1882 – 1912.
Cities, skyscrapers Telecommunications. Electrical age starts. Yellow Journalism
Pluto in Cancer 1912 – 1937.
World War 1. Emancipation of women.
Old family values destroyed. Wall Street Crash
The Great Depression
Pluto in Leo 1937 – 1956
Fascism. World War 11
Nuclear bombs. Baby Boomers
Pluto in Virgo 1956 -1971
Medical advances: Polio & measles vaccines. Heart pacemaker
USA Medicare Act.
European Economic Community. Asian flu pandemic
Suez Crisis. Russia invades Hungary
Pluto in Libra 1971 – 1983
Divorce rate jumps. Changing expectations of marriage. Independence women.
USA Equal Rights Legislation. First domestic violence shelters.
Bloody Sunday, Northern Ireland. Watergate.
Munich Olympics massacre.
Pluto in Scorpio 1983 – 1995
Money and sex. Economic shift. Brinks-Mat Gold Robbery.
AIDs and Child Sexual Abuse surfaces. Crack Cocaine.
Indira Gandhi assassinated
Pluto in Sagittarius 1995 – 2008
Globalization, multiculturalism Schengen EU – cross border travel. New media.
Sebrenica Massacre. Oklahoma bombing. Al Quaeda/terrorism. Rabin assassinated
Pluto in Capricorn 2008 – 2023
Economics and Government. Financial crash. Migrant crisis.
Populism & neo-nationalism. Global warming.
Barack Obama elected
Pluto in Aquarius 1532 – 1552
Henry V111 splits with Rome. Roman Catholic versus Protestant schism.
The Michael Jackson biopic has attracted acerbic reviews for its portrayal of him as a 20th-century Jesus who, as a child performer is told by his saintly mother, Katherine that he has been gifted with a “special light” from Jehovah. Soon he will become the embodiment of the Bible verse from Matthew, “Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me.”
Reviewers describe it as “risible” – “an aimless and mendacious portrait” “untethered from reality” “pure and unadulterated bullshit.” “Whitewash’ and ‘ghoulish’”
The film stops in 1988, which is handy as it avoids all that unfortunate child sex abuse material. Which accentuates the biopic’s creepy validation of Jackson’s “adorable” obsession with vulnerable lost boys and cute for ever kids. The Telegraph noted that it “refuses to address the elephant in the room”.”
“This is a frustratingly shallow, inert picture, a kind of cruise-ship entertainment, which can’t quite bring itself to show that Michael was an abuse victim, brutalised by his father and robbed of his childhood.”
“Michael is a Part One that pretends its Part Two doesn’t exist: a structurally complete film that tells only half a story.”
The film unsurprisingly is financially backed by the late superstar’s estate and while his nephew Jaafar Jackson is praised for his performance as Michael as is the music, it is seen as a ‘ghoulish, soulless cash grab’
The fans will probably love it but??
Michael Jackson, 29 August 1958 7.33pm Gary, Indiana, had an over-controlled Sun Pluto conjunction in Virgo, a hint of a dominating father. Though if this birth time is sound then Saturn on his Midheaven square a Pisces Moon and Ascendant, and inconjunct Mars hardly describes a warm and nurturing mother.
Jupiter Neptune in is 8th would give him charisma as well as luck and optimism though has that odd side effect of attracting scandal.
Tr Uranus is moving to square the Pluto on his birth chart from this June onwards and Sun in 2027 so it will be an unsettled phase for his reputation.
His nephew Jaafar, son of Jermaine Jackson, 25 July 1996 Los Angeles, is an entertaining Sun Leo in a highly strung opposition to Uranus and Neptune; with a stressed yod of Pluto (Moon) sextile Neptune inconjunct Mars in Cancer, which will give him driving ambition though problems with moderating his assertion and anger. His Saturn also squares his Mars which is not lucky or patient; and is square his Jupiter so he’ll swing from high to low in mood and the way he progresses through life.
Tr Pluto will continue to oppose his Leo Sun in the second half of this year which will be challenging; and his Solar Arc Pluto will oppose his Mars within a year which will grind him to a halt for a while.
He does not have much in common astrologically with his uncle.
