Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop appears to have gurgled in a southerly direction with the winds of change blowing. A Pluto in Capricorn creature it started with a newsletter in 2008, was incorporated in the UK in 2011 and went stratospheric. As well as promoting bizarre oddities like vagina eggs, coffee enemas and $15,000 sex toys, it stoked fear about “toxins”, seeding distrust in the medical establishment. A new unauthorized biography suggests she ‘paved the way for the conspiratorial, anti-expert, post-truth thinking now embedded in the White House. Both Paltrow and Robert F Kennedy Jr are fans of raw (unpasteurized) milk.
The biography is none too complimentary portraying Paltrow as “a semi-sociopathic, privileged ice queen who courts people she needs with her charm, only to use and manipulate them for her advantage — and spit them out mercilessly when she’s done.” Though for all her flaws she undoubtedly has her finger on the zeitgeist. Which might give one hope that sanity may start to prevail in the wellness business as she retreats from it.
She was born 27 September 1972 5.25pm Los Angeles, with an actress mother and producer-director father and has a formidably determined and lucky chart. Her 7th house Libra Sun is conjunct a bulldozer Pluto and Mars in late Virgo all square a 10th house Jupiter. Her cool Gemini Moon on her IC is conjunct Saturn and opposition a ‘spiritual’ 9th house Neptune.
6 Air planets including an 8th house Mercury Uranus conjunction in Libra make her a communicator; and her Venus in fashionable Leo in her 6th would have inclined her towards pricey health products. But what she lacks in emotional warmth, she makes up for in self-belief. She told Vanity Fair that fame had felt to her “like a predestined thing” – that she had known her “whole life that this was going to happen”.
When Goop turned into a solid venture post 2008 tr Saturn was rising above her Descendant. Now it has come half cycle to slide below her Ascendant into a lower profile, less successful phase of her life ahead for several years.
With such a strong 7th house – Mars, Pluto, Sun – it is hardly surprising she has at points drawn difficult men into her orbit. She found her professional home in Miramax Films, Harvey Weinstein’s production company, starring in Jane Austen’s Emma, followed by Shakespeare in Love, for which she won an Oscar after Weinstein’s lobbying. Though after #metoo exploded she was one of the first to speak out about him.
Weinstein 19 March 1952 9.45pm New York has a late Pisces Sun with a ferocious and ruthless 1st house Mars in Scorpio square Pluto on his Midheaven. There was a definite money and career connection between them with his Jupiter falling in her 2nd house trine his Pluto MC conjunct her 6th house Venus with both trine her Midheaven. Their relationship chart was awash with Fixed stars with Uranus Alphard opposition Jupiter Chiron square Venus Algol; and composite Moon conjunct Scheat. Pholus North Node were opposite Saturn square Neptune.
The story for public consumption at the moment is that Paltrow is more content than she’s ever been, cooking “boyfriend breakfasts” for her husband, Brad Falchuk, while awaiting the January 2026 release of Marty Supreme, her first film after a seven-year hiatus. An American sports adventure comedy-drama film with Timothée Chalamet it is about a young man with a dream no one respects, who goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness.
I am not so sure her driving ambition will take kindly to tr Saturn sliding through her less successful First Quadrant for several years ahead with tr Saturn Neptune square her Jupiter and opposing her Mars, Pluto and then Sun from now until 2027. Her cast-iron certainty about her destiny will be going through uncertain times; with further emotional jolts as her Solar Arc Uranus opposes her Moon, on the same degree in six months’ time and extending through 2026.
What is astrologically striking is her megaton Pluto which prompts her to hand out contemptuous opinions about others and simultaneously attracts corrosive judgements about herself. Not a women to warm to easily.
A bit laughable to suggest that drinking unpasturized milk is an example of ‘conspiratorial, anti-expert, post-truth thinking’. Humans drank the stuff for millenia before pasturization. The author is reaching !
I’m no fan of Paltrow but as for semi-sociopathic tendencies etc, she’s hardly unique in Hollywood for that.
Sun conjunct Pluto might be father (Sun) she feared (Pluto), father from hell, or that made her shiver from horror, if I were to increase the intensity.
Sun conjunct Mars, in its lower vibrations, on the other hand might mean power struggles and conflicts with the father and a father who had war-like personality (or was in the military or police force). It is also an aspect that makes Gwyneth herself strong-willed.
Perhaps it’s the Leo / Libra combo that makes her hard to warm to. Megan Markle has this combination strong in her chart.
Paltrow has north node in Capricorn, so a focus on career would be a strong path for her.
If we profect Harvey’s natal chart, 30 degrees per year, we get his Profected Asc becomes
24Sag19 conj profected Mars, his Ruler of the Orb, at 29Sag18, the Aries Point,
both in his 2nd House of money. The court ruling, Sagittarius will probable cost him money.
One cautionary advice when doing Planetary Hours by computer program.
Solar Fire starts calculating planetary hour at birth when the orb of the Sun
is halfway above the Asc horizon. I use my other 2 programs, Sirius or Janus
for Hour of Birth and planetary hours. These latter programs use sunrise when
the top edge of the Sun meets the horizon.
So sometimes Solar Fire program will have different planetary hours than Sirius
and Janus programs.
What about Harvey Weinstein….does his Lord of the Orb depict his current events?
Weinstein was born during a Moon hour, women. The Chaldean order of planets is
Moon, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury. Let a planetary ruler represent 1
year of life. The hour of birth repeats every 7 years….Harvey is 73 now.
Heres the cycle…..0 Moon, 7, 14, 21, 28…..70 Moon, 71 Saturn, 72 Jupiter, 73 Mars.
So Harvey is ruled now at 73 by a Mars hour. What’s the state of his natal Mars?
Natal Mars, Ruler of his Asc and his 6th of injury is trine his natal Moon, women, in his
natal 9th of court.
His Solar Return Mars at 20Cn conjuncts his natal 9th House cusp, court matters,
and his SR Mars is trine his natal Mars, ruling and conj his Asc.
The current Ruler of the Orb in Harvey’s case gives his state of affairs currently.
I also have a 10th house Jupiter (albeit retrograde). Everything just fell into place career-wise. I was hell-bent on getting ahead…..extremely focused….put in a lot of effort, but doors also automatically opened for me. It felt as if an unseen hand was lifting me higher and higher. Luck in spades.
I also have Jup Rx in house 10. My experience was the opposite despite working like crazy to get a break.
On September, 2024, Saturn moved by Primary Direction to trine her natal Venus.
Lord of the Orb, aka Lord of the Hour
The Lord of the Orb is also associated with the Lord of the Hour of the birth chart, representing the first year of life and assigning each subsequent planetary hour to a corresponding later year of life. This method identifies a planet that shares lordship of the solar return year with the ruler of the profected ascendant. Each subsequent planetary hour after birth rules a corresponding year of life, proviPding a detailed astrological profile of the individual’s life…Thus as we have shown below, Paltrow’s Lord of the Orb, for 52 years is Venus, which is being affected negatively by natal Saturn, trans Saturn, and Solar Return Saturn.
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Lord of the Hour at her birth is Jupiter. The Chaldean order of planets is Jupiter, Mars,
Sun, Venus, Mercury, Moon, Saturn. So every 7 years she would get a Jupiter ruled hour.
0 yrs old, 7, 14, 21,…..49 Jupiter, 50 Mars, 51 Sun, 52 Venus…. She is 52 now an hour
ruled by Venus. How is Venus in her chart now? Well, its in the 6th of work, ruler 8th,
money from other sources. and being aspected by Saturn.. So Saturn is squeezing
her money from other projects. On top of that trans Saturn is below the horizon.
Also in her Solar Return for this year, Venus is receiving a quindecile aspect from
Saturn, her Venus is being squeezed this year.
Bye bye to all Pluto in Capricorn creatures! Such a relief.
Lols. This cracked me up! Bye Bye indeed.