A messy, possibly vicious custody and divorce trial in London is about to shine a hard light on Middle Eastern attitudes to wives and daughters. Sheikh Maktoum, ruler of Dubai, already under suspicion for kidnapping two daughters who fled for freedom in recent years, is now suing his youngest wife Princess Haya of Jordan who has absconded with their two children to London. She discovered recently (according to the Daily Mail) that sanitised stories about his eldest daughter Latifa who was forcibly captured last year and returned home were obscuring the fact that she was imprisoned when back in Dubai, as her sister had been some years previously.
Sheikh Maktoum is a billionaire racehorse owner who owns various properties in the UK and worldwide. Born 15 July 1949 he is a Sun Cancer opposition Jupiter in materialistic Capricorn – family-oriented, patriotic, lucky with money; with a passionate, possessive and manipulative Venus Pluto in flamboyant Leo. He looks road-blocked at the moment with tr Pluto opposition his Sun till late 2020 and Solar Arc Pluto also square his Sun this year. Then there’s a disastrous-setbacks Solar Arc Mars conjunct his Saturn in about 18 months’ time. By 2022 he has an odd mix of a panicky-failure tr Neptune square his Mars; at the same time as a confident and financially successful tr Pluto conjunct his Jupiter.
Princess Haya, 3 May 1974, the youngest of his six? wives and mother of two of his maybe 23 children, is the daughter of the late King Hussein of Jordan, so well used to a Middle Eastern Royal lifestyle. She’s an Oxford graduate and was a prominent showjumper. She’s a Sun Mercury in Taurus which sits on the focal point of a Jupiter in Pisces trine Mars – adventurous, well-designed for equestrian interests. Her Mars conjunct Saturn in Cancer squares Pluto (Moon) in Libra so she’ll have had tough experiences in her life already – her mother died when she was three in a helicopter crash – and Royal life especially in the Middle East is not without its dangers.
Her Taurus Sun and Mercury square the Sheikh’s Venus Pluto so there would have been a spark of passion initially. Though her Mars Saturn square Pluto colliding with his Uranus Mercury wouldn’t make for easy communication. She would have been submissive – up to a point – but her Uranus squares his Sun, so no surprises that she has staged a rebellion. Their relationship chart has a possessive and controlling composite Pluto square Sun, Mercury and Venus; with a paranoid Saturn square Neptune; and an enthusiastic Jupiter trine Sun. It would have been fine for a while but tr Neptune has been chipping away at the Venus, Pluto and Mercury and now composite Sun so the foundations have been dissolving over the past several years.
She has been stressed over the past two years perhaps when the truth about Latifa became obvious with her Solar Arc Saturn square her Sun. She looks in line for an emotionally significant relationship next year though it could have started already with her Solar Arc Venus moving to conjunct her Sun. And although it’ll be bumpy ahead for two or three years with tr Uranus conjunct her Mercury and Sun, she’s not nearly as unhappy as Latifa, 5 December 1985, who looks undermined as she has done since she was captured with tr Neptune square her Uranus and Sun/Uranus midpoint; and frankly scared and completely trapped with tr Pluto square her Mars in 2020/21.
It’s roll-back-the-clock-for-three-hundred-years as far as the west is concerned. Women and children as property.
Hi Marjorie – enjoying your news reports as ever. I just dropped in to say, though, that the ruler of Dubai is Shaikh Muhammad bin Rashid al-Maktoum. He did have an elder brother called Shaikh Maktoum, who was the previous ruler, but this brother died in 2006.
Yes, his full name is as you say.
I don’t like the look of that Venus/Pluto. She is apparently one of six wives – he exudes a kind of modern Bluebeard look. A cruel face.
The solar eclipse 13 July 2018 with Pluto in opposition was a strong signal that his ways would be shortly called to account. And now the solar eclipse on 2 July hit his natal Mercury: Stand and deliver.
Marjorie, I have Sheikh Maktoum down as born in 1949.
Thanks for that. Lord how I hate wrong dates especially when I’m hot and bad tempered. It was in the file so obviously got changed on wiki somewhere along the years. I should have double checked.