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For an aide-memoire of Trump’s star-crossed path of the moment, here’s a rerun of an earlier post. The Total Solar Eclipse in Sagittarius tomorrow, the day of the Electoral College is conjunct Trump’s Moon and opposition his Sun.  It is also opposition the USA Mars in Gemini so will bring a combative mood with arguments flaring and compromise won’t be the mood of the country.   

  Where Trump is concerned, an Eclipse conjunct his Moon will test the foundations on which his life has been built with his public image coming under scrutiny. If he’s not standing on solid ground and is hanging on to old habit patterns it could all crumble to dust. An Eclipse opposition his Sun indicates a major turning point and crisis, which will force him to face that he is not always right. If he fights the need for change it will leave him kicking and screaming.    

  Trump’s chart detail: Tr Pluto from November 20^th till December 26^th will oppose his Mars/Node for trapped and enraging setbacks, with the discouraging uphill-slog of tr Pluto opposing his Saturn at the same time. Then 26 December to 27 January he has more tantrum-inducing aggravations from tr Pluto opposition his Sun/Mars midpoint; his poisonous-rhetoric and lying Mercury/Pluto; and his wounded Venus/Saturn midpoint. He’ll be like a cornered cobra.  His Solar Arc Saturn will also within weeks be on the degree of the conjunction to his 2^nd house Neptune, a harbinger of the financial meltdown to come later in 2021.

  Joe Biden, birth time being accurate, loses one of his two panicked Neptune transits to separate Mars midpoints after November 20^th.  The other trails on until 26^th January. He’ll experience an upheaval from tr Uranus square his Pluto from 18^th November to 19 December which can go either way – as with Netanyahu into power – or it will bring a rocky ride.  He looks marginally upbeat with tr Pluto trine his Mercury/Jupiter midpoint November 20^th to December 26^th. And very definitely looking enthusiastic and confident from January 26^th to late February with tr Pluto opposition his Jupiter; and that successful phase rolls on through till August with tr Pluto trine his Sun/Jupiter and Venus/Jupiter, plus tr Uranus square his Jupiter/Node across mid year and on. Whatever happens he looks in better spirits in 2021/22 with the exception of an insecure tr Uranus opposition his Mars late May on and off for a year.

This Solar Eclipse is in a Saros Series that Bernadette Brady says has a strong emotional intensity and acute frustration, a sense of fatedness and not being in control. Avoid rash action until it settles down.

  December does look extremely fraught and bad-tempered in general for everyone with the final Mars in Aries square Pluto running to the 23^rd, which won’t be fun. Mars moves out of its long stint in Aries where it has been causing havoc for some months on January 6^th. But just to be un-useful it moves into Taurus and immediately rattles up Mercury in Aquarius, squares Saturn and is conjunct Uranus so January won’t be a peaceful month.

The USA chart and Eclipses: The Lunar Eclipse on 30 November at 8 degrees Gemini Moon/Sagittarius Sun will collide with the USA’s Uranus in Gemini which may spring a few surprises, spark off a few rebellions and wild claims. Mishandled Uranus on an Eclipse can limit freedom, though there is the potential for taking a new road. That Lunar Eclipse in addition to having the see-saw Full Moon also has a Uranus opposition Uranus and a frustrated Mars square Pluto – so the divisiveness of recent times won’t have settled much.

   Apart from the Eclipses the USA chart also has a blocked tr Saturn conjunct Pluto November 14^th to 26^th which will be discouraging. Tr Uranus square the Leo Node 21 December to 8 February 2021, which may be more significant than it sounds since the US ‘leadership’ Leo Node does get rattled easily, viz tr Neptune in opposition for 9/11.

  There’s also a return of the toxic-rhetoric and hostile-debate tr Pluto opposition the USA Mercury 26 December to 27 January 2021 (repeating later in the year).

Will Trump refuse to leave the White House? Given his past record anything is possible,

Trump and Failure: Past experience of how Trump faces losing battles are scary and instructive. Chicago Trump Hotel ran into huge debts in 2008, which for most would have meant ruin. But he counter-sued the lender Deutsche Bank for “predatory lending practices” and sought $3 billion in damages. He was then forgiven $270 million worth of debt.

 In 1973 he slammed back at the US government over its charges that Trump’s rental properties had racial discriminatory practices and counter-sued them for $100 million. Two years later it was settled in private with an agreement that the Trump properties change their practices.

He follows Roy Cohn, his early mentor’s diktat – Attack, Don’t Settle, Never Apologize.

In the unlikely event of him fleeing abroad or more likely starting up financial/business connections abroad his astro-cartography indicates:

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil has his Sun Midheaven line directly through it – President Bolsonaro might come in handy.

Otherwise the Middle East is reasonably good with Jupiter in his 10th there and much secret goings on from the 8th with Pluto, Venus, Saturn there. More the Gulf States than Saudi Arabia. But his super success Jupiter Midheaven line goes through Kazakhstan (Prince Andrew’s chums) and Uzbekistan.

Trump won’t be too cosy with Mohamed bin Salman of Saudi in 2021 and even Jared is facing a few hiccups there after mid year.

See post November 1 2020.

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The Brexit lies are coming into sharp focus – the “oven-ready” EU trade deal; the “absolutely zero” chances of no deal; and the “totally and utterly absurd” prospect of EU tariffs on British goods – as the possibility of a UK/EU détente appears to be receding straight off the edge of a cliff.

  It hasn’t been lost on EU leaders that Boris made his name and reputation in his early journalistic days in Brussels telling whoppers on an industrial scale in bashing EU institutions. No doubt bored with the minutiae he discovered that punting colourful and most often false stories produced an amazing effect on the Tory Party. He said later “it gave me this rather weird sense of power.“ He likened it to “chucking rocks over the garden wall” with the sound of broken glass echoing back from an enlivened English right wing.  

  His Mars square Pluto just revelled in the destruction and allowed him to give full vent to the volcanic reservoir of anger and hatred instilled in him by his childhood that needed an outlet. Quite by chance he tripped into Europe as a target, but frankly it could have been anything. It gave him a vehicle to propel him to prominence and he continued the same tactic shamelessly in the Brexit campaign. The arguments he and others churned out leant heavily on much that had nothing to do with the EU – hospital waiting lists, the dearth of decent jobs, racist tales about foreigners getting free cash, poverty – and rabble-roused the disenfranchised by suggesting leaving the EU would solve all their problems.  

  Boris is in the line of fire from the Solar Eclipse on December 14^th rattling in opposition to his Gemini planets. Like Trump he’s learning with his Gemini Sun in opposition to the Eclipse that he’s not always right, and needs to shake himself into taking a new approach. In opposition to his Venus he’ll feel unloved; and will need to find the tolerance of other viewpoints to be able to compromise. In opposition to his Mercury, he’ll be running around trying to sort out things that have gone off track, getting embroiled in communication muddles, and finding negotiations run into resistance. Again the motto is step back and rethink.

  His Term chart, 13 December 2019, has its Sagittarius Sun conjunct this Total Solar Eclipse which hints at a major crisis, which will leave the collective government kicking and screaming about what’s being done to it. Irrevocable choices are at hand and there’ll be no going back.  The Eclipse effect usually lasts for several months,

  This particular Eclipse is in a Saros series that produces a strongly emotional mood. There is a sense of fatedness and individuals feel they are caught up in situations or relationships beyond their control. This will bring acute frustrations and the advice is to avoid rash actions. It was around before in 2002, 1984, 1966, 1948, 1930, 1912.

   The Boris Term chart in addition has a catastrophic and disastrous tr Neptune square the Mars/Pluto midpoint till late January 2021 with an undermining tr Neptune square the Sun picking up a few weeks later and staying around into 2022. The cabinet won’t be bouncing around raising champagne glasses.

  Boris’s personal chart has the Solar Arc Uranus about to conjunct his Moon within weeks which will bring an emotional or maybe financial shock; and his Solar Arc Midheaven conjunct his Uranus (birth time dependent for exact timing) still has to show its colours for a radical change of career direction.

  When the UK joined the EEC on 1 January 1973 tr Pluto was conjunct the UK Libra Ascendant with Solar Arc Neptune just over the cusp into the 8^th house of business finances; the Solar Arc Pluto was conjunct the legislature 11^th house Saturn; and the Solar Arc Moon conjunct the IC and Sun. It suggested a revisioning of image, a shift in trading with some trepidation, and challenges for parliament.

  This time round the Solar Arc Pluto is conjunct the Ascendant with the Solar Arc Uranus on the cusp and moving into the financial 8^th house; and the Solar Arc North Node conjunct the financial 2^nd house Neptune. There are certain similarities – at least in terms of identity (Ascendant) and financial viability in co-operative commerce (8^th house).

   The die is cast, the deed is done and what comes next will have to be coped with. Though the 2021 economically challenging tr Saturn square tr Uranus colliding with the UK’s 8^th house Mars is not reassuring. All countries will have a troubled period trying to recover from Covid damage, but the UK will have it worse with a double hit from Brexit on top. Tr Uranus will stay in the UK 8^th house until 2027 for a roller-coaster phase of financial ups and downs, made worse by tr Uranus in hard aspect to all four UK Fixed, mainly financial planets – Mars in the 8^th plus Venus in the 5^th, Neptune in the 2^nd and Saturn in the 11^th until 2025. It’ll be a rocky ride.

  Final astro-thought – for now – a commentator remarked on Brexit “Setting up sovereignty as the issue and interpreting the result of the referendum as a mandate for no interference is not the way the world works — unless you want to be North Korea.” It fits into the raging power issues in Boris’s chart and several others in that camp; and indeed reeks of those who are still wallowing in nostalgia for a superpower UK/England that has crumbled into dust long since.  

Barbara Windsor, the bubbly blonde star of nine Carry On films and latterly EastEnders, has died aged 83 of Alzheimer’s for which she campaigned in recent years.

  She was born 6 August 1937 7.35pm (rectified) in the east end of London with a street-seller/barrow boy father and a dressmaker mother who pushed her towards an acting career after she returned from war-time evacuation. She first appeared on stage at 13, was educated at a dance and drama school and joined the Joan Littlewood Theatre Workshop after she left.

   Her private life was every bit as dramatic though darker than her roles. Her first husband Ronnie Knight, was part of the London east end criminal aristocracy, a nightclub owner and a fugitive in Spain, eventually convicted for handling stolen money after a £6 million armed robbery. Before meeting him, she’d had affairs with both the notorious and violent, organised crime lord Kray twins. She went on to marry another twice, had five abortions and said she wasn’t maternal so never wanted children.

  Her chart was anything but frothy and frivolous with a fairly brutal and super ambitious Mars in Scorpio in the 10^th trine Pluto in the 7^th trine Saturn in forced-to-be-self-reliant Aries. With her Pluto in the 7th she would be attracted to controlling, intense and ruthless partners. But her Pluto opposed Jupiter on her Ascendant so she would exude enthusiasm and optimism. She also had a practical and grounded Earth Grand Trine of Jupiter trine Uranus trine an 8^th house super-star Neptune.

  Her entertaining, sparkly Leo New Moon in the 7^th square Uranus added to the contradictions of her personality . She was a free spirit and dependent, rebellious and possessive, earthy and ethereal.

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.