George Soros, billionaire, philanthropist and a pro-active campaigner for democracy arouses strong reactions. Some applaud his fight against apartheid, his support for the LGBT community, for opponents of communist regimes, for persecuted minorities like the Roma and for freedom of expression and human rights. Others, especially right-wingers, nationalists and populists call him a “globalist criminal mastermind”. Now the UK Telegraph has run a heated piece, by Theresa May’s ousted sidekick Nick Timothy, accusing him of trying to fund a Brexit reversal.
Born 12 August 1930 in Budapest, he survived the Holocaust and came to the US, building up a fortune through investments. He’s a Sun Leo in an innovative trine to Uranus, sextiling onto a pro-active Mars in Gemini. But what marks his chart out as a go-getter is the tough-minded Saturn in Capricorn opposition Jupiter (Pluto) in Cancer square Uranus of the Depression generation, some of whom rose to be movers and shakers.
He is notorious for being ‘the man who broke the Bank of England’ in 1992 by taking short positions against the pound over the ERM debacle, and making himself billions in the process.
His chart is certainly keyed into the UK’s with his Pluto exactly conjunct the UK 10th house Moon, giving him the urge to take control, with his Jupiter conjunct the MC and opposition the UK Sun. His Uranus is in the UK 7th conjunct the UK Aries North Node, so he’s either divisive or he spurs the country on to new opportunities. Probably more the former since his focal point Mars opposes the UK Mercury; and his Leo Sun is square the UK 2nd house Neptune, so not trusted especially where finances are concerned.
The UK/Soros relationship chart is strained and aggravated with a composite Sun Saturn inconjunct Mars – and that’s just the basic chemistry. From March there’ll be a tussle going on to see who’ll have the upper hand; with a blowout of tension in very late April/early May, repeating into 2019 with tr Uranus opposition the composite Sun Saturn.
At his age it’s difficult to tell what effect the influences will have. But if he’s still standing, 2019 looks deflating and less bullish with tr Saturn opposing his Jupiter Pluto and square is Uranus.