Larry Ellison, a giant of the tech world, co-founder of Oracle, now doubling his fortune via AI, is expanding in a worrisome fashion along with his son David into buying vast expanses of the US media – from TikTok’s US assets, to Paramount, preparing bid for Warner Brothers Discovery as well as HBO and CNN, a combination that would create one of the biggest media giants in the US. All backed by Trump and his regulatory loyalist Brendan Carr.
“The Ellison duo taking over both CBS and CNN, as well as controlling a major social media network like TikTok, would be dangerous for democracy. And given their closeness to the Trump regime, that seems to be the point,” the media watch group FAIR warned recently.
An erstwhile supporter of Bill Clinton, Ellison senior has been moving rightwards politically over recent years. Trump praised the elder Ellison earlier this year as “an amazing man and amazing business person”.
In addition Ellison Snr is one of the largest donors to the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI); £52 million in 2023 with promise of another £163 million, according to the Guardian. ‘Matched with interviews, they revealed an organisation unusually close to the British government, holding regular meetings with ministers in which they push policy recommendations that serve Oracle’s interests.’
Oracle appears to be in line for the new digital ID cards and has expressed interest in data from the NHS.
Multiple staff working for TBI during the Ellison cash injection speak of a sea change in culture towards pushing aggressive tech solutions which caused unrest amongst staff from humanitarian and development backgrounds. “It’s hard to get across just how deeply connected the two [organisations] are,” a former TBI staffer said.
Ellison Snr in 2017 donated $16.6 million to the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces and his contribution to funding an archaeological excavation project in East Jerusalem has attracted criticism from Palestinians and Israeli peace activists and some archaeologists. A 2019 lawsuit accusing Ellison and others of conspiring to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from Israeli-occupied territories, committing war crimes, and funding genocide was dismissed in early 2024. He appears to be close to Netanyahu.
Born 17 August 1944, New York, Larry Ellison is a Sun and Moon in Leo with a stellium in Virgo ranging from a Jupiter Venus conjunction to Mercury Mars conjunction at the other end. His Uranus in Gemini is trine Neptune sextile Pluto; and squares Jupiter Venus. It’s a chart that needs a birth time to make sense. But one of the key factors will be his Jupiter in Virgo which is conjunct his Neptune/Pluto midpoint. Neptune Pluto can have supernatural overtones but it is also associated with megalomania = inordinate ambition.
His Solar Arc Jupiter is square his Sun now; tr Uranus will square his Jupiter in 26/27; and his Solar Arc Uranus is conjunct his Jupiter by 2027; with a lucky tr Uranus square his Sun/Jupiter across this winter – so he’s on a roll. Not everything ahead is plain sailing since his midpoints and a couple of Solar Arcs do indicate some calamities, career setbacks and the like moving into 2026/27 but his pluses almost certainly outweigh his minuses.
His relationship chart with the USA is an eye-opener with a composite Sun, Jupiter, Venus, Mars square Pluto conjunction, hinting at great enthusiasm which will be tested in coming years with tr Pluto opposing the composite Sun, Jupiter, Venus, Mars. I couldn’t even begin to imagine what that will result in.
Ellison’s relationship with the UK has a tussle-for-the-upper-hand composite Jupiter square Pluto which can start as a ‘together-we-can-be-successful’ push but often ends in rancour. With a defensive composite Sun square Saturn which will be under pressure in the next few years.
Ellison Snr’s relationship with Blair will be less than harmonious moving ahead with a high-tension tr Uranus quare the composite Saturn over this winter plus tr Saturn square the composite Uranus Venus. And worse a disappointing tr Saturn Neptune square the composite Sun in 2026/27. So not all happy campers together.
ADD ON: Oracle, founded 16 June 1977, has a communicative, multi-tasking Gemini stellium of New Moon, Jupiter, Mercury trine Pluto plus an enthusiastic, ultra-determined and can-be-autocratic Mars Venus in Taurus opposition Uranus square Saturn in Leo.
There are hints that 2027 will be a crunch year with setbacks from Solar Arc Sun conjunct its Saturn; a collision type feeling from Solar Arc Mars conjunct its Sun; sudden changes from Solar Arc Uranus opposition its Sun and a road-blocked tr Pluto square the Mars in 2027/28.
Ellison has also been buying himself into Oxford over the years, with scholarships, a new tech institute and, most recently, buying a famous old Oxford pub!
Re: His relationship chart with the USA is an eye-opener:
1. Makes me think how enlightening it could be to do one’s synastry w one’s own country.
2. Please show the Ellison/USA chart.
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I see the USA chart. Thrown by the London, England marker.
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Thanks for this! Larry Ellison hasn’t really been on my radar before I was forced to use an Oracle Cloud ERP at my latest job. I can tell you all, this program would not be used anywhere were it not for the dominant market position it has gained simply by coming from an American based company. Total 2004 experience, both with the architecture and connectivity.
Therefore, I might be a bit prejudiced, but I have long suspected the AI bubble will burst, too, at least for American companies.
Overall, I would expect a pushback on some of the technology and communication proposals to come fairly soon – Uranus went retrograde September 6th, and will reenter Taurus November 9th. I think the pushback Disney got for taking Jimmy Kimmel off air was one of the many instances. Ellison’s Jupiter/Venus will be hit by a tr. square in March and July 2027. This will, almost certainly, see him loose a couple of hundred billions of his net worth. Poor fellow!
Rwanda evidently has had bad experiences with Oracle and said much the same.
Isn’t there going to be a massive astro aspect around 2030-2032 where a lot of tech companies could be severely regulated or collapse because those aspects look catastrophic for many of the big six, or whatever they are nicknamed? I was hoping it was going to reign Ellison in too.
I hope we move towards a future where being a billionaire is no longer even allowed. Oligarchy seems to bring out the absolute worst in people and seems deeply dangerous to hold that much power which destabilises entire countries. Aristotle called such people perverse. I’m not against people making mega millions but billions is a big no when people are struggling to put food on the table and keep a roof over their heads or keep themselves warm while working three jobs due to these men manipulating politics to their benefit.
I am really happy Marjorie, on Larry Ellison’s analysis. A few months ago on one of your articles about AI, I did predict that Larry will become the richest man on planet earth, he will pass Elon Musk. He is definitely on a roll for many years to come. His hiccups might only be caused by his association with Donald Trump, I think he should have learned from Elon Musk, Michael Cohen and others. There is a always a price to pay for hanging with scammers and fraudsters. Don’t mix business and politics, it’s either you are a businessman or a politician, or you will have conflict of interest. Donald Trump has a history of falsifying financial records. Also taking over CNN, Paramount and others will create a monopoly. And we all know it’s Donald Trump’s mission to grab power, and censorship. He wants to control everything and everyone including journalists, to write what he wants in newspapers.
Oracle Health oversees the Veteran’s Administration’s records. They have been for several years and was renewed back in May according to VA News; https://news.va.gov/140212/va-continues-partnership-with-oracle-health-to-deploy-federal-electronic-health-record/
It is better to avoid speculation. Archeology / Palestinians/ money .. there is enough about him without speculation. To undarstand the archeology speculation I read a long article in American scientific that strangely enough complain about less research on Canaanite that Palestinians trying to say that they are connected to with very little factual background.