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Known around Hollywood as “Psycho Kilmer”, the actor Val is trying to burnish his reputation with a documentary culled from 800 hours of home video footage and premiering to rave reviews at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. His reputation as ‘difficult to work’ with shot his problematic reputation above such as Marlon Brando, Edward Norton, Russell Crowe and Steven Seagal. Not even his super-successful movies – The Doors, Top Gun and Batman Forever – could persuade directors who worked with him to ever repeat the experience.

  Industry commentators remark: “he never quite cracked the code of interacting with other people” and describe him as “a personality not exactly on speaking terms with self-awareness.” The documentary appears to indicate not much has changed.

He was born 31 December 1959 7.58am Los Angeles and brought up in the Christian Science faith which has been his guiding light since his career took a nose dive and he latterly contracted throat cancer which means he now speaks through a voice box. 

   He does have a tricky chart with an 8^th house Pluto trine a 12^th house Sun Saturn in Capricorn, sextiling Neptune Midheaven in Scorpio. Pluto in the 8^th would provide an unconscious ability to project an influential aura but in trine to a 12^th house Sun Saturn it is also depressive and locked in. The hidden houses wouldn’t make gaining insight easier. That trine focuses onto a filmic and religious Neptune in his 9^th conjunct his Midheaven so he would push aside any questioning of himself by focusing on his creative visions and spiritual beliefs.  His Moon also squares Neptune which wouldn’t help with insight either as Neptune fogs up his perspective.

  His seductive 10^th house Venus in Scorpio is in a needs-space square to Uranus which in turn is in an adventurous trine to Jupiter, Mars, Mercury in Sagittarius – all of which would lift him out of his gloomier tendencies from time to time.

  His recent years have been understandably challenging with his Solar Arc Neptune conjunct his Sun, Saturn; his Solar Arc Mars opposition his Uranus and tr Neptune trailing in square to his Sagittarius planets. It doesn’t look much easier ahead but he has the support of his children and his faith and will no doubt appreciate the attention at Cannes.

A hawkish Japan has said publicly for the first time it would join the USA in defending Taiwan were China to invade in an irritated response to China’s expansionist policies in the region. The prospect of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan has long been regarded as the potential trigger for a superpower conflict. Most foreign governments, including Japan, acknowledge that Taiwan is a sovereign part of China but insist that reunification must take place without force, something Beijing refuses to rule out. Taiwan is a prosperous democracy and has been self-governing since Chinese nationalist forces fled there after their defeat by the communists in 1949.

  What is intriguing – astrologically – is that the First Sino-Japan War of 1894 started with Uranus at 11 degrees Scorpio and the Second War in 1937 started with Uranus at 12 degrees Taurus. Which is where Uranus is this year and rattled by the tr Saturn square so no surprises the rhetoric is heating up. That rattles up the China 1912 Saturn in Taurus and the Japan Taurus Ascendant square Saturn in Leo.

The other triggers appear to revolve around the China 1912 Uranus at 28 Capricorn square the North Node at 28 Aries.  The Second Sino-Japan War in 1927 started with tr Pluto in opposition to the China Uranus, which is what will pick up from March next year, on and off till late 2023.

  The three Taiwan Strait crises of 1954, 1958 and 1995 – all have activity around the China North/South Node axis at 28 Aries/Libra and squaring onto the China Uranus at 28 Capricorn – which will be under pressure in 2022/23.

  The Japan/China 1912 relationship chart is aggravated this year especially from mid August onwards for a few months and with intense arguments in 2022/23. And in swampy, uncertain territory until Neptune clears Pisces mid decade.

  The China/USA relationship chart, always in a state of tension with a composite Sun opposition Pluto, will be most affected in 2023/24 when tr Pluto opposes the composite Saturn.   

  Tensions will rise undoubtedly with all these sensitive spots being triggered. But it’s difficult to see the US getting dragged into another messy conflict when all the weight of public and political opinion is to avoid them.

See previous post October 1 2020

Marjorie Taylor Greene is not only addicted to offensive, over-heated rhetoric but also to a warped Trumpian cum Nazi tactic of turning herself and her ilk into victims. She recently was forced to apologize for suggesting that mask mandates were similar to the Holocaust; and promptly went on to compare medical personnel offering vaccinations to Nazi brownshirts forcing prisoners to undergo experiments.  

   The House of Representatives which she only joined this January, voted to remove her from all committee roles on February 4, 2021, in response to her incendiary and violent statements. She will run for re-election in 2022.

  Born 27 May 1974 in Georgia, USA, she is a Sun Gemini opposition Neptune trine Pluto; with a volatile and over-loaded Mars in excitable Cancer on the point of a T Square to Venus opposition Uranus; and a hard-edged, unyielding Saturn square Pluto. Tr Pluto is still exerting maximum pressure on her Martian T Square being square the Venus and Uranus till the end of this year – so her cat on a hot tin roof performance will keep going for a while. 

The December Sagittarius Solar Eclipse will oppose her Sun for a crisis of direction in which she may be forced to rethink her plans. She’s also got a Neptunian failure or two late this year and in general her high hopes won’t be producing results with swampy influences till late 2022.

  Her Solar Arc Sun is conjunct her Mars probably mid or later in 2022 which will produce a collision of sorts and is not good news, followed by Solar Arc Neptune in a paralysed, panicky square to her Uranus also in 2022 and then Venus in 2023.

  She probably is enamoured of Hitler since his mesmeric Neptune Pluto in Gemini is conjunct her Sun and oddly enough both have Uranus in Libra. The relationship chart has a passionately connected composite Pluto opposition Jupiter square Venus

  With Trump, it’s trickier to see where the love comes from with his Saturn conjunct her focal point Mars; though her Sun falls in his 10^th and her Leo Moon is probably attracted to all the fake glitter. Their relationship chart again has a passionate Sun Venus square Pluto which will be rattled up by this December’s Solar Eclipse.

Roger Federer says he does not know if he will play at Wimbledon again after losing in the quarter-finals with a final set 6-0 loss. Now nearly 40, he’s had a sterling tennis career winning his first grand Slam at 21 and over his career 20 in all, a record shared with Rafael Nadal. He dominated the 2000s with Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic, (both 5/6 years younger) – the ‘big three’ – but was less successful in the 2010s until his knee surgery in 2016 after which he won three more Grand Slam singles titles over the next two years. He is routinely one of the highest-paid athletes in any sport with $100 million in endorsement income in 2020.

  Born 8 August 1981 8.40 am Bale, Switzerland, he has a 12^th house Leo Sun Mercury trine Neptune and sextile Pluto in his 6^th so he’ll be super-powered by an ambitious streak. He was born four days after Meghan Markle and has her volatile Mars in Cancer square Jupiter Saturn in Libra. He lacked emotional self-control as a junior but calmed down as he matured. He has Uranus Moon in Scorpio in his 3^rd so would have a defiant streak though he is very controlled with a Scorpio Moon and an emphasised Pluto.

   His Gemini Midheaven is catching the upcoming December Solar Eclipse in Sagittarius which will pose crucial questions for his career direction; and the late November Taurus Lunar Eclipse will oppose his Uranus so there will be a few disruptions and upsets.

  Exactly now till early October he looks slightly paralysed with sticky midpoint transits; and there are hints of a turnaround in his life with tr Pluto sextile his Uranus this year and next. He won’t disappear even if he does retire though any transition will be difficult, making him irritable and frustrated in 2022 to 2024.

The only other point of note is his Solar Arc Neptune moving to conjunct his South Node later next year which could be a hint of retiring from his leadership positions of the past.   

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Haitian president Jovenel Moise has been shot dead in an attack in his home which left his wife wounded. His time in office since 2017 has seen him face accusations of corruption and money laundering ($3 million) and there have been violent anti-government protests recently, including a previous attempt to kill him.

  His election was marred initially by allegations of massive fraud and were further postponed by Hurricane Matthew battering the country, killing hundreds and causing extensive damage, with Haiti still dependent on international aid since the devastating 2010 earthquake. According to the UN World Food Programme, two and half million Haitians live in poverty, most live on less than $3 a day.

  Born 26 June 1968 he was an enthusiastic Sun, Mars, Venus in Cancer with his Moon also in Cancer. He also had that peculiarly awkward Saturnine Yod shared with Marine Le Pen of Pluto Uranus in Virgo sextile Neptune inconjunct Saturn in Aries. It requires maturity and self-discipline to get the best out of it and promises a harsh karmic payback for mistakes.  

  Tr Pluto is now within a degree approaching the final square to Saturn so the pressure from the fates would be building.  The tr Saturn square tr Uranus were also colliding with his Mars/Pluto and Mars/Uranus midpoints at the moment which are both harbingers of catastrophe and high risk.

  His Term chart (another zero political experience businessman) had a Trumpian-Administration overly confident Jupiter Uranus Pluto T Square. It has been wobbling perilously for some time with the unstable Uranus Pluto square closing to exact last year and tr Pluto squaring the Solar Arc this year.

 Haiti, 1 January 1804, has had a complicated history being colonised by the Spanish, then the French, then invaded by the USA and in recent times riven by political instability – 32 coups since independence in 1804 – plus rolling corruption and natural disasters. Despite its tourism industry, Haiti is one of the poorest countries in the Americas, with poor infrastructure, lack of health care, lack of education and high unemployment.

  The 1804 chart has a Half Grand Sextile of Sun Mars in Capricorn sextile Jupiter in Scorpio and sextile Pluto square Saturn, trine Moon – a curious mix of money-minded and unfair.

  When the 12 January 2010 earthquake hit which killed a reported quarter of a million people with 1.5 million left homeless, tr Pluto was exactly conjunct the Haiti Mars with tr Saturn in square. The Capricorn Solar Eclipse three days later had Jupiter Neptune on the IC for Haiti; and the Lunar Eclipse of 31 December had Mars on the IC and Pluto, Venus, Sun in the 8^th square Saturn.

  The Mars in Leo opposition Saturn square Uranus of the moment is certainly making its explosive presence felt.

Dutch investigative reporter Peter de Vries known for his focus on the criminal underworld has been seriously wounded in a shooting in Amsterdam. He is renowned for his work on exposing mobsters and drug lords and helping police solve a number of high-profile cases.  

  He was involved in the case of the kidnapping of beer magnate Freddy Heineken by one of the Netherland’s most notorious gangsters Willem Holleeder now doing a life sentence for five murders. Holleeder was also convicted of making threats against de Vries. The movie Kidnapping with Anthony Hopkins was based on de Vries’s novel.  He also won an Emmy for a TV show about Natalee Holloway, a US teenager who disappeared on the Caribbean island of Aruba in 2005.

 Recently he has been acting as an adviser to Nabil B, a former gang member testifying against alleged drug lord, Ridouan Taghi, presently on trial for murder and drug trafficking. Nabil B’s former lawyer was assassinated in 2019.

  Peter de Vries was born 14 November 1956 8.22pm (unverified) Aalsmeer, Netherlands, and is a Sun Mercury in Scorpio trine Mars in Pisces. Scorpio is often a good researching sign and known as good at foraging in the gutter to find nuggets of gold. They don’t mind walking on the dark side, indeed are curious about runs below the surface and will get their hands dirty if the end result merits it.

  Mars in Pisces is traditionally thought of as less courageous/assertive Martian than other sign placings, but skipping through a few mafia journalists’ charts, some of whom lost their lives exposing crime, two out of the four I looked at had Mars in Pisces – Paolo Borrometti and Jan Kuciak.

   De Vries’ Mars is also in an adventurous opposition to Jupiter so he would aim for a lively, challenging lifestyle.

  The birth time looks feasible with his Sun Mercury in his attention-grabbing and entertaining 5^th house along with serious, well-informed Saturn in Sagittarius which is in turn in an unyielding square to Pluto.  Pluto in the 3^rd also points to an inclination to dig way below the surface. His 10^th house Aries Moon suits a go-ahead public career.

  His Solar Arc Mars and Solar Arc Midheaven are in the vicinity of the destructive Fixed star Algol at the moment; tr Neptune through this year has been in an undermining conjunction to his Mars and several of his Mars midpoints are heavily stressed by Pluto and Neptune transits as well, so all in all not a great time.

Afghanistan, the “graveyard of empires” is taking another lurch with the US withdrawal. The Taliban, removed from power in 2001, now controls half the country causing alarm in China and Russia. Motives are mixed since neither of the eastern superpowers want an upsurge in Islamic terrorism, or an outflow of narcotics or a surge of refugees across their borders and have an eye to future trade possibilities. China wants access to Afghanistan’s reserves of rare earths and precious metals, and Pakistan backed by China seeks to block Indian influence. Russia fears a power vacuum on its southern doorstep as well as all the above

  All are agreed including the west that internal stability is a priority but it will be difficult for any of the main Asian players to avoid getting dragged into domestic Afghan conflicts in the face of a civil war that could threaten the region.

   Modern Afghanistan, 19 August 1919 12 am Kabul, has a long and turbulent history stretching back 50,000 years with constant invasions since recorded history took note – the ancient Greeks, Alexander the Great, the Mongols, the Mughals, the British, the Soviet Union and after 9/11 the USA.  Nowadays the country is deemed to have high levels of terrorism, poverty, child malnutrition, and corruption.

  The 1919 chart has a Fixed Grand Square giving it extraordinary endurance and resistance to change. But since it involves a prominent Uranus on the Midheaven opposition the Leo Sun and Saturn in Virgo square a Taurus Moon opposition a Scorpio North Node the main constant is rolling upheavals.  The Afghan Uranus is further highlighted being on the focal point of a Yod giving a wilful, rebellious, contrary national temperament, which can breed lawlessness and intolerance.

  There’s nothing to suggest the relentless turmoil of Afghanistan’s history will calm down anytime soon. Tr Pluto will be in a high-risk, brutal, frustrating opposition to the Afghanistan Mars from early 2022 to late 2023; and then tr Uranus will rattle its way round the Fixed Grand Cross from 2023 first in square to Mercury, then the Sun, conjunct the Moon in 2024 and square Uranus in 2025 – all of which will be jolting, jangling and upsetting.

  This November’s Lunar Eclipse in Taurus will be exactly conjunct the Afghan Moon which will test the country’s foundations and bring back the past, as well as unsettling the population and triggering the Afghan North Node in Scorpio – none of which looks helpful.

  Relations between Russia and Afghanistan will be strained if the relationship chart is anything to go by until 2024 though there may be a re-set in 2023 which could go either way. Relations with China are likely to move into a radically new phase from now onwards with tr Uranus squaring the composite Pluto, but it will be stop start into 2022; with nothing much thereafter until after mid decade when it deteriorates.

See previous posts: April 14 2021

On the 2001 War – post March 1 2020.

Chile is now officially embarking on writing a new constitution to replace the 1980 Pinochet one which is blamed for the deep social inequalities that gave rise to deadly protests in 2019. Following the upsurge of public anger, a referendum voted in a 155-member body, to craft a new Magna Carta for the country. Independent and centre-left parties gained, traditional parties lost and the right with just 20 percent, will have no veto.

 The previous constitution promoted private enterprise in all sectors of the economy in a country ranked as one of the most unequal among advanced economies. It has the highest per capita income and the third-most multimillionaires in Latin America. The leader of the new drafting committee is a female university professor from the majority indigenous Mapuche people who had been unacknowledged in the past. There were violent protests during her election as marchers outside met heavily armed police.

   There’s a long way between a committee being formed and the enactment but this start chart does have a focal point Uranus in fixed Taurus so will determinedly aim for reforms. The Saturn Mars opposition hints at setbacks, aggravations, a disruptive, explosive quality to proceedings.  The previous 11 September 1980 constitution had a Sun, Jupiter Saturn in Virgo so was oriented towards materialistic ends with a slippery Neptune square.

 Sebastian Pinera, the billionaire president, 1 December 1949 5.30 am Santiago, Chile, is a Sun Sagittarius with an entrepreneurial Fire Grand Trine of Moon trine Pluto trine Mercury in Sagittarius with his Moon opposition Neptune, making Neptune his driving planet. He’s in for a major shock come 2022 when this term finishes as his Solar Arc Uranus will conjunct his 10^th house Mars Saturn in Virgo. And his Term chart, 11 March 2018, is sagging badly this year with tr Neptune conjunct the Pisces Sun and a disruptive tr Pluto square the Uranus in 2021/2022, exacerbated in 2022/23 as the Solar Arc Pluto square the Uranus – revolts, rebellions and fall-off-perch-moments.

  Both the Chile 18 September 1810 and 5 April 1818 charts have undermining Neptunian influences over the next three years – so there will be confusion, indecision and drift over many issues not just this one. The 1810 chart indicates 2023 will be a time of upsets and uprisings.  

  The impact of the pandemic has been considerable with one of the worst outbreaks in the world and the economy experiencing the largest recession in 40 years so the aftermath of that will involve a lengthy recovery.

Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn celebrate an extraordinary 75 years of marriage this week. They knew each other almost from birth, married after the war and survived the rigours of political life, evolving into an equal partnership in his time in the White House, when she expanded the role of the first lady, attending Cabinet meetings, working on mental health and created the Office of the First Lady.

  He only served one term and was reckoned a below average president but his human rights and peace initiatives since have earned him considerable respect.

  He was born 1 October 1924 7 am Plains, Georgia and has a 12^th house Libra Sun with an idealistic Neptune Venus in his career 10^th; and a defensive Saturn in Scorpio in his 1^st. He also has a private, self-protective though healing Water Grand Trine of Pluto trine Uranus trine a Scorpio Moon, formed into a Kite by Uranus in a lively and scattered opposition to Mercury square Jupiter. He clearly has talents but perhaps not the political ‘killer instinct’ needed for top office.

And he was unlucky in the timing of his presidency, with the Inauguration chart being riddled with quincunxes – Mars sextile Venus inconjunct Saturn and Pluto sextile Neptune inconjunct Ascendant. A time of strain and hard lessons, more so than most. When his one term finished tr Pluto was just moving out of a trapped few years in his 12^th in his personal chart so underneath the sense of failure would be great relief.

  Rosalynn, 18 August 1927 6am Plains, Georgia, has a hidden Sun Neptune in Leo; with an adventurous, inspirational though also hidden Fire Grand Trine of Mercury in Leo trine a sensible Saturn in Sagittarius trine an adventurous Uranus Jupiter. Plus an enthusiastic and hard-working Mars Venus in Virgo in her 1^st.

  Her Sun Neptune would chime with his Venus Neptune in the 10^th so she’d be a behind-the-scenes support in his career.  Her Taurus Moon falls in his 7^th which is ideal for partnership support; and his Uranus falls in her 7^th so he’d bring an unconventional relationship into her experience. His Jupiter in her 4^th would be supportive of her domestic life.

  The relationship chart is unsurprisingly well-tied together with a composite Saturn trine Pluto sextiling onto Sun Venus making it an affectionate bond with enough glue to stick through the tough times; with a smoothing-rough-edges, mutually supportive composite Moon Jupiter conjunction. The Mars square Mercury would give rise to arguments. Pluto in the 10^th would make them influential when pulling together as a couple as long as they kept ego-clashes out of the way.

  A reassuring celebration for difficult times.