The young heir to the Saudi Arabia throne, Prince Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS) has consolidated his hold on power with a purge of the kingdom’s political and business leadership, detaining 11 princes, four sitting ministers and dozens of ex-ministers.
Surprisingly enough – or maybe not – there are similarities between his chart and that of Louis X1V of France, who pacified the nobles, and became one of the most powerful and absolute of French monarchs, ruling for 72 years.
Louis, 5 September 1638 11.13am St Germain, France and MBS 31 August 1985. Both had/have Virgo Suns backed by a powerfully enduring Fixed planets. Louis had Jupiter in Scorpio square Saturn in Aquarius opposition Venus Moon in Leo. MBS has an even more controlling Pluto in Scorpio opposition Taurus North Node square Jupiter in Aquarius opposition Venus in Leo. Both have Mars in an inspirational Fire sign – Louis in Sagittarius and MBS has his Mars in Leo square an obsessively determined Saturn in Scorpio. MBS has his Virgo Sun square Uranus, so probably more inclined to reform; whereas Louis, although a risk-taker, went for show and flamboyance, as well as power.
MBS’s heavily aspected Pluto is conjunct the Saudi 1902 MC, so he’ll definitely have the ambition to transform the country. If he doesn’t push too hard too fast, since he’s been reckless in the past, certainly in the Yemen war to no good end result. Saudi is heading along a bumpy road until 2020 but should get a major boost then from tr Pluto conjunct Sun Jupiter.
There is no way this psycho has a sag ascendent with Uranus conjunct to his AC.
Cecilia, kudos! Marjorie, thanks for bringing it to life for us with your analysis.
As you know, King Richard ended up suffering horrible abuse by the soldiers who took him down in battle. His reputation was that of an evil king, until somewhat repaired by scholars in the 20th century. His skeleton was found buried under a parking lot. We’ll see how their similar aspects will work out for Putin.
I am surprised that you do not talk about the obvious, Uranus in the first house in Sagittarius. He is a revolutionary and his purpose is to change the KSA, with his Piscean moon he can tap into the zeitgeist of the people.
No birth time for MBS so no idea where Uranus is though is square the Sun.
And then there was a release of Paradise Papers, a cache of documents from an offshore lawfirm Appleby. While motivations for these actions were undoubtably different, it was not a good weekend for Plutocrathy.
A fascinating comparison! They even have facial similarities. Only you could come up with a post so unique.
Really it was Cecilia who came up with the notion. So plaudits to her. Must have a look around at other leaders. Putin has a chart similar to the hunchback King Richard, villain in Shakespeare’s play.