Former footballer Rio Ferdinand, now a TV pundit, is to marry again after his first wife died tragically of cancer in 2015 leaving behind three children. His subsequent book and documentary Being a Mum and Dad were widely praised for his honesty about his emotional turmoil at the loss. His new fiancé, proposed to on a Dubai rooftop and headlined in the Daily Mail, is Kate Wright, a former reality soap star with a bikini-filled Instagram.
He was born 7 November 1978 in London and took classes while growing up in gymnastics, theatre and ballet as well as football. During his long career on the field he came to be regarded by many to be one of England’s greatest ever players. Though he did have a few tabloid controversies along the way (see wiki).
He’s got a strong chart with Sun, Venus, Uranus in Scorpio – an intensely charming maverick; that squares onto a confident Jupiter in flamboyant Leo perhaps opposition an Aquarius Moon.
His wife-to-be, born 3 June 1991, is a Sun Gemini with an Aquarius Moon, Jupiter also in Leo and Venus in late Cancer.
Gemini and Scorpio aren’t an intuitively easy match though he’s betwixt and between having an Aquarius Moon as she has which will help, as will her Venus in home-loving Cancer. They have strong Saturn crossovers – her Saturn maybe conjunct his Moon and certainly opposition his Jupiter; and his Saturn square her Sun – duty and career will come first. The relationship chart has a close-knit composite Sun sextile Pluto and square Saturn; with an exciting but needs-space Venus square Uranus; and an only-one-can-win Neptune square Mars. She’s already given up her career to look after his children. Won’t all be a walk in the park.
Crikey, my chart is a bit similar to Rio’s, though my Jupiter is in Cancer. I was told many years ago that Moon in Aquarius is the placement of the stepmother. It hasn’t happened to me, though my mother did die young from a long illness and I had younger siblings, so more responsibility than usual for sure. My heart is still broken for them, not having as much time with her as I had, even worse now that I have my own children.
a Gemini sun venus mercury Capricorn rising moon saturn neptune Pisces mars female is better suited with which sun-rising-moon combo? please no cappy and gemini men!
This looks like my family, actually. My father has all that Scorpio, and lost first wife (my mother) early on. He has Gemini and Leo, as well. His second wife has heavy Aquarius/Leo signature. My brother (their kid), Gemini, Aquarius and Scorpio, with generational Capricorn. Quite frankly, the family dynamics has been hardest for me, mostly because my stepmother did not have means to deal with a traumatized kid. She is not intuitively emphatetic, and while she is smart, there just wasn’t the kind of discussion on childhood trauma there’s now back in the 1980’s. So, she didn’t understand my moods. That said, father and stepmother have been together for almost 35 years now.
I’m oddly similar having had a Gemini Sun Venus and Aquarius Moon stepmother from an early age who was not awash with empathy. And a Libra father with Cancer/Scorpio emotional planets which is a fairly conflicted mix. Family dynamics are fascinating if hard to live with at times.