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Joe Biden’s honeymoon period is over before he sets foot in the White House, with a spotlight being shone on his son Hunter Biden’s finances, with a tax investigation under way and hints of a probe into possible money laundering and foreign ties. Joe’s brother James is also involved in a hospital business which is under criminal investigation.  There is no suggestion that Joe Biden is implicated but the issues could be a constant distraction through his presidency until resolved.

  The previous October 30 2020 post below has the detail but it would certainly explain the fraught influences on the Joe/Hunter relationship chart, picking up from late January 2021 and running for two years. Tr Pluto will conjunct the composite Mars, which will make both feel trapped and angry as well as frustrated in the extreme. Tr Neptune is also square the composite Mercury in February and again late year into early 2022, for miscommunications and evasions. And Hunter is none too popular with Jill Biden either.

  Hunter’s chart indicates that late 2021 into and across 2022 is his nadir with jolts, high-tension, shocks and a sense of panicky failure.

  It’s not that previous presidents haven’t had their family embarassments to contend with – Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, George Bush etc. Even our Maggie Thatcher’s son Mark. But on top of the pyramids of problems an incoming president has to face and this one in particular, it will be one straw too many. And it will stick Joe Biden between a rock and a hard place since he’ll no doubt wish to reassert the Justice Department and AG’s independence from the White House to wipe out the damage caused by Trump and William Barr’s finagling.

Post October 30 2020.

Joe Biden’s errant son Hunter continues to be the focus of right-wing attacks with a dodgy New York Post piece, disclaimed even by its own reporters – and complaints that the media are avoiding covering the story of an alleged laptop containing incriminating files for partisan reasons. A recent Republican Senate report found that his lucrative work at a Ukrainian energy firm while his father was vice-president was “problematic” and “awkward”, but found no evidence that US foreign policy was influenced. The BBC comments: “It does however detail the breadth of his connections to questionable foreign interests and business leaders in Ukraine and China – creating “criminal financial, counterintelligence and extortion concerns”. It suggests Joe Biden’s son was profiting from his family name – a potential conflict of interest that is unsavoury but not unusual in Washington’s corridors of power.”

  Hunter has a known history of drink and drug abuse.

  Born 4 February 1970, he is a charming Sun Venus in Aquarius, with an up and down Jupiter in Scorpio opposition Saturn in Taurus; and a volatile and reckless Mars in Aries opposition Uranus. He was injured when two years old along with his brother Beau in a car crash which killed his mother and sister. In the aftermath Joe Biden, then a young Senator, travelled home daily ninety minutes each way from Washington to ensure he was there for them.

   Despite a recent gushing WPost piece about Joe’s unconditional love for his son, it is not that easy a relationship. Hunter’s Neptune is conjunct Joe’s Sun, Venus so his father will find him elusive, evasive and slippery – perhaps the drug problem also fits here. Hunter’s Saturn is conjunct Joe’s Taurus Moon for a defensive barrier. More troublesome Hunter’s Pluto sits in Joe’s 10^th which does give him a capacity for damaging Joe’s reputation and /or involving him in political and profession intrigues. Hunter’s Uranus is also in Joe’s 10^th which could be destabilizing.

  Their relationship chart does have an affectionate and close composite Sun Venus trine Pluto and Jupiter. But there’s also a hard-edged and aggravated composite Mars trine Saturn and a Neptune square Mars, both of which suggest differing agendas and lack of mutual support on one side or the other.

   What will be interesting to watch out for, astrologically speaking, is tr Pluto conjunct the composite Mars from late January 2021 onwards for two years. In the event of Biden winning, junior may well find himself hemmed in and fuming about it. If Joe loses then Hunter might get part of the blame. But one way or another it won’t all be sunshine and roses for two years ahead.

Kay Burley, a front-line Sky presenter, born a week after Coronation Street, celebrated her birthday at a restaurant a week early and ran into a furore about breaking covid restrictions. She now appears to be off air until January, she says on vacation, though other party attendees have also been taken off their normal slots.

 Born 17 December 1960, no birth time, she’s a New Moon Sagittarius with her Sun trine Uranus (which rules television) and her Moon Mercury in an intense square to Pluto. Her Pluto is in a confident trine to Jupiter in Capricorn, which in turn is conjunct Saturn in a hard-edged opposition to Mars. She’s known for being outspoken and a tough interviewer.

   Her Sun is conjunct this month’s Sagittarius Solar Arc throwing up a crisis, which may run on through 2021 with the Eclipses continuing in Gemini and Sagittarius until late year.

  She’ll have as many ups as she has downs in 2021 with two Jupiter midpoints bringing her luck and success; and two Mars midpoints bringing major aggravations. Her Mercury/Pluto midpoint is also active in 2021/22 so she’ll be in argumentative mood.

Farmers in India have shut down swathes of the country’s transport, shops and markets as they ramped up their protests against new agriculture laws which they say will only help large corporations. Agriculture employs more than 40% of India’s workforce and is an industry plagued by poverty, underdevelopment and suffering. India has one of the highest rates of farmer suicides in the world. Over 450 farmer’s unions and organisations supported the nationwide strike on Tuesday. One leader said the protests were the culmination of “40 years of anger and disenchantment at a broken system that has bankrupted farmers, destroyed food security and led to an ecological crisis in India.”

  The India 15 August 1947 midnight chart has Saturn Pluto in Leo on the IC and Venus Sun in Leo in the 4^th, which area of the chart traditionally rules agriculture and farming and a country’s roots. The economically-challenging and jangled tr Uranus square tr Saturn of 2021 will shake up the India Saturn Pluto and in 2022 the Venus Sun – so farming will continue to be a foreground issue with high tensions erupting. Domestic discontent is rife at the moment with tr Saturn just off the opposition to the India Cancer Moon and the Solar Arc Moon conjunct a discontented Neptune. Tr Uranus is moving to square the India Mercury from late this month through January 2021 which will bring outbursts of strong opinions.

  The India Midheaven at 14 degrees Aquarius is also in the line of fire of tr Uranus in square from the 12^th and tr Saturn in opposition so there will be a tussle to decide what direction the country should take as plans are knocked off track. The disruptive and unsettled domestic mood will continue with the Solar Arc Midheaven square the India Moon in late 2021/22 and then the Solar Arc deprived/hardship Saturn Pluto will square the Moon in 2022/23. So there will be considerable aggravation and protests for several years ahead.

  Narendra Modi’s Term chart, 30 May 2019 7.04pm Delhi, had an over-hopeful, impractical and unrealistic Mercury opposition Jupiter squaring and focussing onto a 4^th house Neptune – tr Neptune will bring the aspects to exact from February 2021 onwards for a year, so it’s be dither and drift time.

  If his birthdate is accurate at 17 September 1950 then tr Neptune will oppose his Virgo Sun, Mercury, Saturn throughout 2021 making for a panicky, undermining and uncertain time.  

 “The nation that destroys its soil, destroys itself.” – Franklin D Roosevelt,

Coronation Street, the world’s longest running TV soap opera celebrates 60 years on air this week. In February of this year it aired its 10,000th episode. Noted for its depiction of a down-to-earth, working-class community, combined with light-hearted humour and strong characters, it has become imbedded in British culture and although down from its early stratospheric ratings of 20 million or so still tops the ratings.

   The first episode aired 9 December 1960 7.30pm from Manchester, which produced an attention-grabbing and colourful Sagittarius Sun in the entertaining 5^th house. There was a Jupiter Saturn conjunction in Capricorn in a confident and gritty opposition to Mars in Cancer which tied into Pluto conjunct the North Node in Virgo.

  There’s no indication of it grinding to a halt but late 2021 will be mired in confusion and disappointment when the Solar Arc Pluto is conjunct the Neptune; and even before then the Solar Arc Mars square the Sun will create a setback or two in about six months’ time.

  Actor William Roache, now 88, is still featuring as Ken Barlow in the series as he has since the start. Born 25 April 1932 7.30am Ilkeston, England, he was educated in a Steiner School in his freemason grandfather’s garden and Roache appears to be a proficient astrologer himself. He was charged in 2013 with under-age historic rape and five counts of indecent assault and found not guilty on all charges.

  He has an Earth Grand Trine of a Taurus Sun trine an 8^th house Capricorn Moon trine Neptune. His Sun is on the focal point of a Fixed T Square to Jupiter in Leo opposition Midheaven Saturn in Aquarius, so he’ll be stubborn; and up and down in mood.  His Earth Grand Trine will give him talent though also a tendency to get stuck in the same comfortable rut. He also has a volatile Uranus, Mars, Mercury in Aries square Pluto, so will not always be good at compromise or fitting in.

How fare the fervid Brexiteers? As negotiations teeter on the brink of – yes, no, maybe and why don’t we postpone the agony by stretching the deadline – it seemed worth looking at Rees Mogg, Liam Fox and the Tory ERG leading members (European Research Group which despite its name is virulently anti-EU and does no fact-finding investigations).

  The ERG was launched appropriately enough in July 1993 (no date) on the exact can-be-fanatical Uranus Neptune conjunction in Capricorn; with Saturn in Aquarius in an unyielding square to Pluto.

  I’ll skip much of the predictive astro-explanations since there are too many charts. But Rees Mogg, a flighty Sun, Mercury in Gemini opposition Mars in Sagittarius maybe square a Virgo Moon with Pluto Uranus Jupiter also in Virgo, is certainly being rattled up by the present Eclipses especially his Mars, so insecurity and bad-temper running high. Plus he has a seriously stuck Saturn Pluto Solar Arc around now. 2021 will be up and down with his influence receding but perhaps his finances prospering since his finance house deals off-shore.  2022 looks like a dead-halt setback which appears on the charts of several of his political BFFs.

  Mark Francois, 14 August 1965, a vague/slippery Leo Sun square Neptune, with a Mutable T Square of six of his planets is another scattergun. He looks deeply frustrated, blocked and enraged from February 2021 onwards for two years with tr Pluto square his Mars; plus he has a sprinkling of Neptunian disappointments moving ahead.

  Steve Baker, 6 June 1971, a Sun Gemini is panicking until late this December, jangled across New Year, is up and down in 2021 and hits a catastrophic road block come 2022 courtesy of three unhelpful Solar Arcs.

Liam Fox, 22 September 1961, a Sun Virgo trine Saturn Jupiter in Capricorn, looks furious and fit to explode across this month and through January; with career losses through from January 2021 to late 2022; and his nadir is again 2022.

  Daniel Hannan,1 September 1971, a journalist and early ERG member, A Sun Venus in Virgo square Saturn in Gemini opposition Neptune – yet another jitterbug – is similarly being rattled up by the eclipses, especially the recent Lunar on his Saturn, bringing a reality check. He’s also panicking wildly through this month; and being tossed hither and thither by aggravations and setbacks in 2021.

  Relationships between all of the above and Boris look discontented and aggravated in 2021 – which may or may not mean much.

  Not sure what this all adds up to except that none of them look in a celebratory mood now – and several will be holding their head in their hands in 2022.

Add On: David Jones MP is Deputy Chairman of ERG, has held several Tory ministerial posts and is on the advisory board advisory board of Leave Means Leave. He’s also on the board of Eco Central, a climate change denial group, which uses Facebook adverts to spread false and misleading information. He voted against same-sex marriage and against Marcus Rashford’s scheme to off free school meals to poor kids in holiday periods.

 Born 22 March 1952, he has his Sun in Aries with Mercury, Jupiter also in Aries in a confident trine to Pluto and oppo9sition Saturn Neptune; with his Pluto in a hostile, angry and determined square to Mars in Scorpio. His Pluto may oppose an Aquarius Moon squaring onto Mars; and his Sun squares Uranus. Quite a ratchet, contrary and awkward-squad personality. The Mars square Pluto is often found in shock-jocks charts or members of the tribe who are AGAINST whatever. They need a focus for their hatred.

  Anyways, not an amiable bloke. He’s not remotely happy ahead either, with a fraught February 2021 raising his blood pressure to dangerous levels and that runs on and off till late 2022. Plus considerable disappointments through February to June 2021 and beyond into 2022.

Jerrold Post, a psychological profiler for the CIA, whose expertise about the mental illness of foreign leaders made him much in demand in the White House, has died. Latterly he published “Dangerous Charisma” on Trump defying the APA’s ‘Goldwater Rule’ about publishing analytical critiques of individuals without their consent.

  Born 8 February 1934 in Connecticut, he put himself through Yale and Harvard and went onto an action-packed life marrying his triple passions of psychiatry, history and politics. In his spare time he was an accomplished improvisational jazz pianist and a competitive backgammon player. After his stint at the CIA, he founded a consulting firm that specialized in industrial espionage and counterterrorism, lectured as a professor at George Washington University, wrote 14 books and saw patients in a private practice. His daughter said he “was kind of a whirling dervish. . . . He was the kind of person who would think, ‘There are 24 hours in a day. Can we fill 23 of them?”

  In his last book he described Trump as a destructive charismatic leader with the traits of a classic narcissist — such as grandiosity, lack of empathy, hypersensitivity to criticism and no constraints of conscience. And he probed Trump’s symbiotic relationship with his followers, and theirs with him. “The dangerous, destructive charismatic leader polarizes and identifies an outside enemy and pulls his followers together by manipulating their common feelings of victimization,” he said in a recent interview.

  He had his Sun and Saturn conjunct in Aquarius, descriptive of his scientific prowess and interest; both were trine/sextile Jupiter and Uranus for a confident and risk-taking temperament. He also had a powerfully aspected Pluto on the focal point of a Cardinal T Square to Jupiter opposition Uranus. Such a Pluto can give penetrating insight, a researcher who plumbs the depths with a knack of turning up knowledge that is before its time and thus runs into resistance. Good in crises situations and drawn to power figures.

  His North Node was in Aquarius exactly conjunct his Sun which finds its metier in pursuing a humanitarian cause with vigour.

  An interesting man though like many Plutonic personalities did not get the acclaim he should have in his lifetime.

Sydney Powell, the former prosecutor and now attorney who has been out-Trumping Trump in wild claims of election fraud is still on the rampage spouting QAnon and other crazed theories despite having been officially cut loose by the White House. She’s now unnerving even Republicans like Newt Gingrich with her request for voters to abstain in the Georgia runoff election in January, based on conspiracy theories that the communists will overturn it anyway.

  Born 1 May 1955 in North Carolina, she was respected as a young prosecutor and lawyer but somewhere along the way she flipped.

  She’s a Sun Taurus with Mercury also in Taurus opposition Saturn in obsessive Scorpio square Pluto in Leo. A focal point Pluto tends to have a one-tracked mind, endless staying power, and a desperate need to control. With Mercury involved and in a fixed sign she’s stubborn to the nth degree and also underneath all the hot air got a depressive streak.

   Her very central Mercury square Pluto will also incline her towards what Ebertin describes as ‘fraudulent misrepresentation’ and he also associates it with demagogues and plagiarists. My impression of Mercury Pluto is that it puts excessive pressure on the thinking function which can be at risk of collapse so it invokes a desperation to prop up a shaky mental edifice. Fending off any threat to the rigid mindset from dissenting opinions becomes a life or death battle. That’s the extreme version. In moderation it can give penetrating insight but there is always a driving and defensive need to control everyone else’s thinking.    

   She’s also got a lucky Jupiter Uranus square Neptune, trine Saturn. Uranus square Neptune can be fanatical. Her Uranus Jupiter hook into the USA Mercury opposition Pluto so she will have a knack of exacerbating the worst of the country’s tendency to manic and paranoid thinking.

  Her relationship with Trump is love all the way with a composite Sun Venus in a lucky and amiable square to Jupiter; with Mercury trine Neptune sextile Jupiter adding a layer of illusion and delusion to the warmly supportive feelings.

  Her focal point Pluto is conjunct his Mars which could have been hostile, but she clearly decided if you can’t beat him, join him, so she has subsumed her relentless drive to control any narrative in his favour. Her Taurus Sun is exactly square his Pluto which again could be a struggle for dominance but instead he’s got her hooked.

  She’s disappointed in her connection with Trump throughout 2021 with tr Neptune opposing the composite Saturn. Her own chart will be shaken by tr Uranus conjunct her Sun from mid year with tr Saturn square her Sun – so she’ll be buffeted around.

Emmanuel Macron appears to have thrown a spanner in the works as the Brexit negotiations crawl painfully to the witching hour. [Or not as the case may be since there’s a suggestion that a No Deal is being seen as a perhaps-temporary phase to teach le Rosbifs a sharp lesson about the economic and logistical nightmare of a summary exit without agreement.]

  Anyways in the context of the present stand-off, which I confess I glaze over as it lurches from ‘definite deal within days’ to ‘no agreement ever’, Macron has back tracked and tightened his stance on fishing agreements and state aid, saying he’ll do nothing that cuts across French interests. To the dismay of the Irish, who will be tangled up in border issues and Angela Merkel, with German carmakers in mind, who clearly wants a deal before she exits the political stage.

   Macron with a raft of domestic disturbances to quell may well be trying to embellish his credentials at home, fighting for the Brittany fishermen, although paying them compensation would overcome the problem with less fuss, since the sums of money in macroeconomic terms are small. And there’s a suggestion that a NO Deal might suit him only too well since it would persuade many financial service businesses to move from London to Paris.

He’s certainly not in a successful phase of his life with tr Saturn now heading below his Ascendant into his lower-profile First Quadrant for several years ahead, so his arrogance may be shivering in anticipation leading to desperate reactions. Though tr Jupiter will help to keep him buoyant through 2021. He does have the Eclipses now and across 2021 rattling his Sagittarius planets, bringing more than several crises.

   He also has the high-tension and jolting tr Uranus square tr Saturn hitting his uncompromising volatile Mars in Leo square Uranus in 2021 from late spring onwards as well. With a couple of disruptive Solar Arcs in 2022. His Term chart has the destabilising tr Pluto square Uranus from next February for two years, so he’s in for a rocky ride.

  Tr Saturn will be causing chilly differences between Macron and several EU leaders including Merkel, Mark Rutte of the Netherlands, and Coveney, the Irish foreign minister as well as the Irish premier before it exits Capricorn later this month. So the aggravated, trapped, road-blocked tr Mars square tr Pluto running into the 23^rd of this month may well see this impasse run on. Macron’s relationship with Boris Johnson isn’t good at the best of times with a power-struggling composite Sun opposition Pluto and that’s also under a damp cloud.

  Boris himself is at the mercy of the Eclipses this month and through 2021 with his Sun, Venus, Mercury in Gemini all getting rattled.

  France and the UK have always been at odds through centuries with a hostile composite Sun square Mars Pluto in the relationship chart so no surprises that this should be the stumbling block. But oddly the France/Germany relationship chart is under even more stress this month and ahead. And Macron’s interface with the EU is looking bleak and discouraged over late this December and through January, and onto late 2021, so whatever he’s doing isn’t making him popular.

 Add on: Boris and the EU Commission President, Ursula von Leyen, are trying to break the deadlock though her hands will be tied since the French could exert a veto on anything she proposes.

She’s no pushover in any event with a do-or-die determined Mars in Gemini square Pluto in Virgo, which coincidentally mirrors and collides with Boris’s Mars in Gemini square Pluto Uranus opposition Saturn – so neither will be inclined to retreat.  Her seemingly easy going Jupiter Neptune in Scorpio is conjunct his Moon which may help slightly but her Saturn in Sagittarius opposes his Mercury for a defensive interface on top of all the extras.

  Their relationship chart has a needs-space, differing-agendas composite Sun Uranus conjunction and the hostile, power-struggling Mars square Pluto, so not sympatico.

A plague on both their houses – it’s not easy to work out who is worse. The pillocks in the UK government v protectionist Macron.

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Ugur Sahin who along with his wife is credited with developing the new Covid vaccine for his German company BioNTech in coordination with Pfizer, hopes it will get life back to normal by next winter. He’s a billionaire entrepreneur and physician oncologist of Turkish origin who came to Europe as a four year old.

He was born 19 September 1965 and is a Sun Virgo in a confident square to Jupiter; a super determined Venus and Neptune, Mars in Scorpio; and most significantly his Sun and Mercury conjunct the Uranus Pluto conjunction in Virgo.  Uranus Pluto is a ground-breaker and trailblazer and in Virgo, it was guaranteed to push back the frontiers in medicine.

   Obviously there are other vaccine developers but his is the prominent name at present.

  Looking back over the history of vaccination, starting with Edward Jenner, 17 May 1749 GC Berkeley, England, who pioneered the concept of vaccination and developed the world’s first – the smallpox vaccine – he was a Sun, Mercury, Venus in Taurus opposition Saturn in an innovative, experimental and self-willed square to Uranus in Aquarius; with his Uranus inconjunct Neptune.

   Then there was microbiologist Louis Pasteur, 27 December 1822 2am Dole, France, Uranus who had his Sun, Neptune, Venus, Uranus all conjunct in Capricorn.

  In the 20^th Century American virologist Jonas Salk, 28 October 1914 7.30 am New York, was amongst the first to develop the polio vaccine. He had a marked Neptune opposition Uranus square a Scorpio Sun.  Uranus is known as the torchbearer shining a light on new paths and Uranus Neptune is inspired, brings ‘eureka’ like epiphanies leading to new discoveries.  

  Salk like Sahin had the ultra-determined Mars in Scorpio so perseverance and the never-say-die spirit helps. Pasteur had similar with his Pluto sextile Mars.