All but three of Jamie Oliver’s restaurants have closed after administrators were called in with massive debts owed to banks and food suppliers, amounting to many millions, some of it personally guaranteed by Oliver. He has blamed rising rents and wage bills, expensive imports and tough times in the trade with other similar chains suffering.
Oliver born 27 May 1975 4.35 pm Essex with pub/restaurant owning parents, is dyslexic, left school at 16 and went on to sell 40 million books, was constantly on TV screens and became the most famous chef in the UK, promoting healthier eating for children in schools. But he was never a businessman and scattered his attention in too many directions as well as leaving the commercial nuts and bolts to others.
He has an ultra-determined 8th house Gemini Sun opposition Neptune, trine Pluto and sextile Mars, so he motors along on high-octane fuel. He’s also got a ferocious Pluto opposition Mars square a Capricorn Moon, doubling up on the emotional intensity and anger that drives his public persona and career.
At the moment his Solar Arc Midheaven is around the square to his vague, 2nd house financial Neptune which makes sense of this collapse. This year’s Eclipses have been bouncing off his Moon as well as his Saturn and will continue to do so until the end of the year and beyond – time for a sharp reality check and chickens coming home to roost.
After a few years ahead of challenges and tensions in his everyday routines with tr Saturn and tr Pluto wading through his 3rd, he looks like moving through an emotional and domestic revamp as both planets move through his 4th house into the 2020s.
He’ll no doubt be back in one form or another since Geminis are good at reinventing themselves and he has seven Cardinal planets so is hugely restless and spilling over with initiative.
Pic: Karl Gabor.
I’d like trace this spectacular failure back to its astrological roots, but if that’s a recent picture of him, I can tell exactly what he spent millions on.
Oh my, I saw a recent photo of JO and he is actually flattered by the picture Marjorie Orr used. The cut-glass jawline is now long gone. His face and body bear witness to the strain and stress he is going through. I should have stuck to the astrology of the matter instead of judging him by the stoned looking younger picture of him. Apologies to JO.
He is definitely the most surprising Capricorn Moon Celebrity I’ve come across! Being a Capricorn Moon myself, I tend to keep track on celebrities to see how they are faring during certain transits, and it had never even crossed my mind to check Jamie Oliver. I knew he is a Gemini Sun, and that he is of Pluto in Libra Generation, but honestly got more of a Cancerian vibe, which is, of course, explained by Venus/Saturn in the sign. But there really are things that are not typical of Capricorn Moon men in his bio – he married his teenage girlfriend, and had his first child relatively young (we still get reruns of his shows where Poppy was a toddler, and she’s now in her late teens).
And, with that Capricorn Moon, I think it’s not impossible for him eventually take hold of his finances. His early shows and cookbooks were incredibly good in getting late Gen Xers and early Millenials to cook. The recipes were generally speaking so much better for an average viewer than anything else we saw. Stick to that, and he can definitely make a comeback.
Maybe Saturn will take him back to his gastro pub roots? His parents ran a lovely old pub with good food, in rural Essex. The Cancer/Capricorn eclipses etc might also represent his family background?
Tr Saturn also opposing his natal Venus and Saturn suggests financial struggles now as well
Solar-arc Pluto on the cusp of the 2nd house – that could be a demolition, or a positive transformation. Pluto also rules that 2nd house, so perhaps something positive is coming. Solar-arc Uranus (revolution) is moving away from his natal Neptune, which rules his 6th house, of his daily job. Solar-arc Mars on the cusp of the 8th house, so a lot of energy beginning to be spent on the money of others.