Warren Buffett, the mega-successful investor referred to as the “Oracle” or “Sage” of Omaha and “the single most influential investor of all time – ” the Isaac Newton of investing” is retiring at 94. He has accumulated a massive fortune reckoned at US $168.2 billion, making him the sixth-richest individual in the world and is noted for his frugality, pledging to give away 99 percent of his fortune to philanthropic causes. The man tasked with the impossible job of replacing him is Greg Abel and commentators say it will take investors years to know whether he has the same talent and can come close to matching Buffett’s returns.
Buffett born 30 August 1930, a few days after Sean Connery, has a creative Sun Neptune in Virgo and probably a Sagittarius Moon. That apart his chart is awash with Cardinal planets giving him an overdose of initiative and restlessness. He has a confident and lucky Jupiter Pluto in Cancer square Uranus North Node in Aries opposition a financial Venus; with a disciplined, unsentimental Saturn in Capricorn opposition Mars in Cancer square Mercury.
With tr Neptune Saturn starting to move in hard aspect to his Mars Saturn Mercury T square his decision to give up may be partly age and partly a sense that the times are a changing radically. He will also want to step back as tr Uranus also is aiming to square his Neptune and Sun in the next two/three years. His Solar Arc Pluto is exactly conjunct his South Node at the moment which may be another prompt to put the brakes on his forward gear.
Greg Abel, 1 June 1962, a Sun, maybe Moon in Gemini has only one Cardinal planet and the rest are Fixed and Mutable so the exact opposite of Buffett. Abel does have a confident, lucky Jupiter opposition Pluto square his Sun (Moon) with a Fixed Grand Cross of Neptune opposition Mars square Saturn opposition North Node – both flexible and enduring. He looks unsettled at the moment with tr Uranus square his Uranus with a challenging tr Pluto square his Mars through this year; his Solar Arc Saturn square Neptune hitting his financial Venus now; plus his Solar Arc Sun conjunct his North Node for his moment of destiny.
Abel takes over at an unstable time which will not make it easier ahead with some panics and disappointments cropping up on his midpoints in 2026/27 and worse in 2029 with his Solar Arc Pluto conjunct his Neptune and square his Saturn.
An article out today on his unusual love life. https://medium.com/crows-feet/the-lesson-of-warren-buffetts-unconventional-love-life-017816373f81
His older sister, Doris Buffett, was a generous woman, who gave her fortune away through The Sunshine Lady Foundation. She was born February 12, 1928 (same days as my mom) and died in 2020.
Doris did not get along with her mother, who was hard on her, and easier on Warren. She also did not have any insight into making money or reading people, having married 4 times. She lost all her money in 1987 to an unscrupulous financial manager whom she trusted. Warren would not bail her out. The money that Doris gave away came in the form of Berkshire stock, after her mother died. Over time, Warren became much more generous a person because of her. He had the utmost admiration for Doris. She was an amazing lady and they were very close.
I have always admired Buffet. He could have lived like a king many times over, but chose instead to maintain a relatively modest lifestyle, perhaps owing to his Sun-Neptune conjunction in Virgo, which would also give him a bit of a Pisces vibe, and perhaps with them both, a quiet sense of humility. His drive and competitive edge clearly came through his cardinal planets though, particularly that T-Square.
I honestly believe he approached wealth accumulation more as a hobby for which he was passionate and skilled for, something similarly echoed in Bill Gates and Mark Cuban, rather than a dark obsession, which seems far more the modus operandi of the likes of Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
Astrodatabank gives Buffett born in Omaha, Nebraska not Omaha, New England.
Do you have Buffets partner Charlie Munger,horosope. And have you reviewed their partnership. It seems to me there must have been some great chemistry.
Thought about asking the same!
I wonder what was his temper like, what was his personality. And if someone knows what motivated him to accumulate such wealth inexhaustibly until he was this old. Maybe just the addictive thrill of it, but was there something else as well?
Tragically, Neptune in Capricorn and Pluto in Capricorn generation and maybe Saggitarius generation has been idealised and projected as wealthy while the means and their backgrounds-hardly from rags to riches…most of them r now exposed as accumulating by corruption and scrupulous means…I am not socialist nor am permitted to speak ill of wealth by my Saggitarian mother but if youth can’t turn to experienced old hands in mass hysterical and rapidly changing times…then the fault lies in fame propagated to make more pennies
V r entering new age, times not seen by living generations before and in such times when experienced and legends should be guide-them escaping proves the tags were all to fool masses …
These r mass hysteria times as saturn and Neptune both are in Aries the sign of new birth and both planets rule money though handling ia different-opposite nearly.
And maybe the Sun conjunct Neptune – I already said this could mean a father (Sun) vanishes (Neptune) in some way; I haven’t studied Warren’s biography – gave him the prophetic ability, the ability to sense the atmosphere and see where the future is going.
I’m maybe struggling a bit with the immense wealth. In his case the lord of his 2nd house, income, is the domiciled Saturn, in the 1st.
Buffett’s father was a stockbroker who later became a Congressman. According to “Giving it All Away,” a book about his sister Doris Buffett, Warren was entrepreneurial by age three, constantly thinking up schemes on how to make money. Everyone respected Howard Buffett, the father, who was a pillar of the community.
I guess that domiciled Venus in upper culmination, presiding over everything else, helped.
In his case, it also rules the fifth house, of speculation and gambling.
Day before my Dad…and when I dowsed dad a similar time to Warren. My chart for 12:25 on the 26 the October 1960 had very similar placements for sun Neptune mercury venus, Saturn mars even if different signs.