Roman Abramovitch, the Russian-Israeli billionaire, close to Putin, has had his UK visa delayed because of the push against Russian money; and is acquiring Israeli citizenship. He is best known in the UK as owner of Chelsea Football Club and his £1bn revamp of Chelsea’s stadium has been put on hold indefinitely which isn’t surprising.
Born 24 October 1966, Saratov, Russia he is a Sun Scorpio which is getting the tr Uranus opposition at the moment, bringing unexpected and unwelcome surprises. He’s also got his Solar Arc Sun around the square to his Uranus, for more of the same, so quite a jolting upheaval. With his Solar Arc Sun square his Saturn in 2019/2020 for a discouraging setback – and a tranche of disappointing, disastrous and loss-making Neptune transits to three Mars and one Jupiter midpoint till late 2019. Plus a ‘collision’ Solar Arc Mars conjunct his Sun in about a year’s time. So his life will be going through considerable turmoil.
Like the UK he has Jupiter in Leo and Neptune in Scorpio, so he wasn’t a bad fit. Though his Mars in Virgo does oppose the UK Pluto for a bitter power struggle. The relationship chart has a business-like composite Sun Mercury Pluto opposition Saturn, which is quite a locked-together connection. Though this year does look bad-tempered, blocked with some light relief from July onwards.
If the UK tosses out all the Russian money in London, it’ll go broke.
London has always been a magnet to the ultra high net worth for ages (even going back to the 19th century with the Rothschilds etc) and there is vast differences in wealth between the highest and the lowest. I think the most striking difference though in London today is when you go into the various ‘villages’ and see how uniform their high streets are no individualism just chains and estate agents. Sorry complete digression from astrology for which I apologise
“If the UK tosses out all the Russian money in London, it’ll go broke.”
Or it might go normal again like it was in the 90’s? It’s a soulless place now with grotesque poverty and inequality; garish gold plated cars in Knightsbridge while children go hungry in fire trap tower blocks. The young are leaving in droves to other cities (yes, even Salisbury). Premier league football is just as soulless too.
Sorry flippant thought. In the 1980s/90s it was Arab money. London has always been a honey trap for foreign wealth, not all of it clean.
The French have a wonderful slang term for money-laundering – saucissonage – which literally means salami-slicing, or reducing piecemeal. I like to think of it as turning large chunks of meat into mince and repackaging it.
Maybe not “always”, but after Brittish Empire fell in the 1950’s and 1960’s, I guess. There’s obviously still lot of Arab Money in London real estates market, because of the religious preferences.
But I talked with someone who grew up in London in the 1980’s literally two hours ago, and she said it was incredible how you could have millionaires at one end of the street and squatters in another. It seems there’s much less of that anymore. She didn’t describe it as a “soulful” environment, though, just stressful.
Sorry I didn’t mean to come across as jumping on your last sentence. It’s something I’ve read a lot about Russian money and then there is my visit last week close to what was Grenfell, which has brought up a lot of thoughts and feelings I’ve had for a while – (and I thought I was over tr Pluto opp IC, obviously not)
Good point about Arab money, I grew up not a million miles from Maida Vale in the 80’s. A friend of our family was directly affected by the Homes for Votes scandal (reminds me, what happened to Shirley Porter?), so I know it wasn’t all rosy in the 80’s and 90’s, perhaps it was the beginning. However, the effect of this money feels very different in it’s scale and those effects seem have rippled out to all zones. Previously zones 3 and up seemed to stay the same no matter what was going on in the centre, now many of these areas are unrecognisable; I’m thinking about one very ordinary town in zone 4 where every almost building has been replaced with high rise in a few short years, I know someone who still lives there and is in the early stages of dementia. It’s not even the Oligarchs themselves, it’s the greed that their money has sparked in so many politicians.
I suppose what I mean by soul is community. London is distorted, dysfunctional and socially broke now. I think the French have it right, the city is just the sausage factory before it hits the British Virgin Islands, leaving nothing but a hollowed out bubble.