Mark Acklom – a Gemini swindler

 

A fugitive conman and fraudster on the UK’s Most Wanted list has been finally convicted and jailed for five years and eight months at Bristol Crown Court yesterday. Mark Acklom had victims in three countries; put his father £110,000 in debt and stole £200,000 from his brothers. He had a long criminal history and is believed to have posted as an MI6 agent and banker to swindle a widow out of nearly £1 million of her savings during a year-long affair in 2012.

From an earlier July 3 2018 post:

Born 1 June 1973 in London, he started his crime spree early at 16 stealing his father’s American Express card and posing as a stockbroker to commit a £1m fraud that included obtaining a £446,168 mortgage on a house and hiring private jets. The judge described him as “utterly selfish and completely ruthless” and gave him four years in juvenile detention; and his poor parents had to sell their house to pay back his debts. Since then he’s been in prison three times in Spain. He is married with two daughters.

He has five planets in Gemini – Sun, Moon, Saturn, Venus and Mercury, and while it isn’t true of all Geminis, there is a decidedly shifty and slippery streak in some. His Sun is in an expansive trine to Jupiter, an evasive opposition to Neptune and is widely trine Pluto, for a hint of delusions of grandeur. His Saturn, Venus, Mercury are trine an innovative Uranus and in a risk-taking square to Mars in Pisces.

It a predominantly Air sign chart, so emotionally detached with an over-active mind that needs constant stimulation; and little sense of his physical needs so times of rest are crucial – prison must have given him a chance to recharge though I can’t imagine Spanish jails are exactly a spa.

His ‘creative’ 7th Harmonic is strong and entrepreneurial, though it can also point to mental imbalance. His 9H is very marked which is pleasure-seeking and common amongst fraudsters (Madoff, Ponzi etc). His self-defeating, highs-and-lows, wheel of fortune 10H is also heavily aspected. But the most notable is his 12H which is odd since it is supposed to be the victim/healer harmonic, neither of which seem to apply in his case. He sacrificed others to his greed rather than the other way round.

Five years doesn’t sound a long enough sentence and presumably will be out in under three for good behaviour. Though he looks very off balance and uncertain in 2021/22/23 with tr Neptune square his Ssturn, then Venus and Mercury.

Damian Hurley – not your standard upbringing

Damian Hurley renowned for being close to his mother model Liz Hurley has been giving a nod to her most famous Versace outfit with a fashion publicity pic of himself in a suit with huge safety pins. He followed it up by an Instagram outing of him in a provocative pose with his long flowing, androgynous hair down his bare back looking creepily like her.

He was born 4 April 2002 at 12.22pm London with his father American businessman Steve Bing initially denying paternity until it was proven. Damian recently fought through the courts to be included in his grandfather Peter Bing’s family trust as a grandchild and won. He was brought up partly with stepfather Indian tycoon Aruun Nayar and then Australian cricketer Shane Warne; and has as godfathers Hugh Grant, David Beckham, Elton John. A thoroughly showbiz baby.

He has an ambitious and suited-to-a-public-career 10th house Sun Mercury in Aries with a charming and fashionable Venus in Taurus also in his 10th as well as an ultra-determined Mars in Taurus. A full 10th house does suggest identification at least with mother’s ambitions if not with her appearance. His Sun is emphasised being on the point of a T Square to Jupiter opposition a Capricorn Moon and being on the focal point of a mini-Grand Trine of a 7th house Neptune trine Saturn in Gemini in the 11th – so  ego-centric,  confident to over-confident, inclined towards older friends; and has difficulty making friends and committed relationships. An attention-demanding, grandstanding Pluto in the performing 5th is in a bleak, stubborn opposition to Saturn. A Moon Jupiter mother tends to feed sweeties rather than emotional sustenance, so it’s superficial  nurturing.

He enjoys his own company with Jupiter in the 12th and will be a maverick with an 8th house Uranus square his Mars, so dislikes compromise. It’s a chart with potential for a showy career but finding a fulfilling personal life may be trickier.

It’s not, surprisingly, that close a match with his mother, 10 June 1965, since her Uranus Pluto squares his Saturn opposition Pluto, with her Mars square his Pluto – so rough edges and power struggles for the upper hand in there. Her Scorpio Moon opposes his Venus which will give an affectionate link; though her Neptune opposition his Mars could suggest ego-clashes and conflicting ambitions.

Their relationship chart is fairly stark with a composite Saturn opposition Pluto square Mars – and that is definitely difficult, bringing a simmering cauldron of anger issues; with a head-in-the-clouds and over-hopeful Jupiter opposition Neptune and a needs-space composite Venus opposition Uranus (Moon).

I’d think there might be problems when her star fades and his rises.

Pic Instagram.

Lisa Marie Presley – a toxic legacy to carry

 

Lisa Marie Presley, only daughter of Elvis and his sole heir apparently owes nearly half a million dollars in back taxes. She’s had a tricky two or three years with her fourth marriage collapsing in 2016 and leaving Scientology.

She was born 1 February 1968 5.01 pm Memphis, Tennessee, was married first to a musician, then to Michael Jackson, then actor Nicholas Cage and finally guitarist and music producer Michael Lockwood – with two children each from the first and last of these; and has admitted to an opioid addiction.

She does have a tricky chart with an Aquarius Sun in her 7th which will be why she’s always opted for the security of a relationship. But it’s the 8th house Moon Mars in Pisces opposition Uranus Pluto in Virgo and trine Neptune in her 4th which will give her most problems. It’ll create a good deal of inner chaos and significant challenges handling money. Emotionally as well her gilded life left a good deal to be desired – not only is her sensitive Moon in constant turmoil from Mars, Uranus, Pluto and Neptune; her Venus in Capricorn squares Saturn giving her problems with self-esteem and making her feel unloveable.

It would seem extraordinary that with that amount of money she should have cash flow problems but she does have tr Neptune now moving through her 8th house of joint finances, making a panicky-failure conjunction to her Mars now and moving on to an undermining conjunction to her Moon and then an opposition to her Pluto in the next two or three years. So there will be some sinking moments, especially in 2021 when her Solar Arc Mars makes a ‘shocking’ square to her Sun.

All the money in the world and it doesn’t help.

UK economy – worst fall since the crash

 

The UK economy moved into a sharp contraction after the Brexit stockpiling boost wore off with the pound sinking further against the dollar and euro; and UK growth having the worst showing since 2012 with the worst fall since the financial crisis in 2009.

The UK 1801 chart has tr Uranus just across the cusp and into the UK 8th house which is a classic for business finance volatility and it remains in that state until 2027, with particular turbulence from mid 2021 for a year as tr Uranus is conjunct the 8th house Mars; and again in 2024 when Solar Arc Uranus is conjunct the Mars. It’s not necessarily a complete disaster just major swings up and down.

The Bank of England chart, 27 July 1694 JC 10 am London, shows similar fluctuations – is ploughing through heavy seas until later this month and then picks up heart into September. Then down again and in a complete upheaval over the New Year with tr Uranus square the Pluto, but bouncing up again in April and May/June 2020 and on and off in patches into 2021.

Gerard Lyons, 31 March 1961, who is evidently Boris’s favourite economist and a possibility as replacement at the Bank of England, is a sunny optimist like his boss. He admits to an economic shock if there’s a no-deal but says the economy will recover from the ‘short-term’ disruption. He’s not looking quite so chipper through later this month and through most of September and October to mid November with catastrophes tripping him up; is panicked and nerve-stretched additionally over the end of October. He’ll get his mojo back and be firing on all cylinders across the New Year but there’ll be more sink-holes of some magnitude before mid 2020.

Sajid Javid, the Chancellor, is also hiccupping his way along though with less Jupiterian uplift so more down.

Mitch McConnell – upset by name calling

 

Mitch McConnell, the Senate Majority Leader, has been rattled by the nickname ‘Moscow Mitch’ and then ‘Massacre Mitch’ for his single-handed blocking of stronger election security measures after Russia’s interference in 2016; and his refusal to tighten gun laws. Then he broke his shoulder – not a great week.

He was born 20 February 1942 Alabama sadly no time, and is a Sun Pisces with a heavyweight, tough-minded and unsentimental Mars Moon Saturn Uranus in Taurus trine Neptune; plus Mercury Venus in Aquarius opposition Pluto probably square a Taurus Moon. Incredibly Fixed, stubborn, enduring.

He’s taking a fair battering this year and exactly now with tr Pluto trine his Mars; and then moving to trine his Saturn continuing throughout 2020, which is pushing boulders uphill and not exactly light-hearted and happy. He’s also got the accident-prone tr Pluto trine his Mars/Saturn midpoint now and returning later in the year. Pressures won’t ease in 2020 with various major jolts and jangles from June onwards with tr Uranus square his Solar Arc Mars and then Solar Arc Saturn – which could be health related or major setbacks. Over the election itself he has the tr Jupiter Pluto conjunction trine his Saturn and tr Saturn trine his Uranus – neither of which are ecstatic nor are they devastatingly bad. Though what comes next won’t please him with a highly stressed December; and badly sagging morale and plans collapsing late January 2021 just after the Inauguration and running off and on till late 2022.

His relationship with Trump, which has been relatively calm to date will hit a chilly and stormy patch from February 2020 onwards with tr Saturn square the composite Sun, then Venus and tr Uranus square the composite Pluto from May turning their connection upside down. The Saturn freeze and separation repeats through the year returning for the final time mid November 2020. Whether that is McConnell being beset by health issues or other political distractions since he’s up for re-election in 2020 isn’t clear.

Queen Elizabeth and her PM of the day – the odd couple * +

Queen Elizabeth 11 has seen prime ministers come and go in her 67 year reign – 14 in all including the present one. She sees them weekly for an entirely private meeting and little emerges of her personal likes and dislikes, apart from this time round Boris blowing off his mouth after their first meeting which would not go down well.

Maggie Thatcher she got on with better than credited though it wasn’t a BFF match. There was a composite Sun opposition Venus and a chained-together by circumstances Saturn Pluto. Harold Wilson surprisingly was a favourite as was John Major, both with Sun Venus conjunction in their relationship charts with her.

Winston Churchill her first PM was a tight relationship since she was just learning the ropes – they had a composite enthusiastic Mars Jupiter opposition an idealistic Neptune and controlling Pluto. Tony Blair she didn’t take to with a really stuck, chilly composite Sun opposition Saturn square Pluto.

Nicola Sturgeon’s relationship with her is eexy-peexy with a friendly Sun Venus though trine an illusory Neptune; an aggravated Moon opposition Mars and a chained-together Saturn opposition Pluto – it will be seriously ruffled from June 2020 onwards with tr Uranus opposition the composite Sun and then conjunct the Mars. Alex Salmond she’d find tricky and evasive, keen on gaining the upper hand and erratic.

Her astro with Boris is fairly gruesome with a hostile composite Mars trine Pluto, in a constantly-changing sextile to Uranus; with a delusional Jupiter opposition Neptune. She almost certainly has to pull rank to keep him in place. Plus a ratchety, bad-tempered composite Mars square Saturn. It looks very nerve-stretched and confused between them from late this October effectively through till late January 2020 as tr Neptune squares the composite Uranus.

But whatever her reservations about Boris, her interface with Republican Corbyn not suprisingly is worse with a differing-agenda composite Sun, Uranus, Mercury in a slippery trine to Neptune; and an aggravated Mars opposition Saturn.

Corbyn’s immoveable Mars in Taurus sits on her IC opposition her Saturn in Scorpio and Midheaven and square her Aquarius and Leo planets so not a happy combination.

Boris’s chaotic Uranus Pluto falls in her 8th opposition her Venus which is conjunct his Saturn – so he’s emotionally an unsettling influence for her. And his Cancer Midheaven is exactly conjunct her 6th house Pluto – which can do one of two things. If he listens she could help him improve his methods and approach; otherwise it’ll be a power struggle.

Her Coronation chart, 2 June 1953 11am, did look unnerved over the Brexit vote and result with tr Saturn exactly opposition the Sun and tr Neptune square; and tr Pluto exactly opposition the Coronation Uranus. Last year and this year it’s been moving through tough times with discouragement and confusion as tr Pluto squared Saturn Neptune. It’s in a further slump late October through till late January 2020 with tr Neptune square the Sun/Mars midpoint and sliding further morale-wise in 2021 with tr Neptune square the Mars and Mercury; with an emotional upset from tr Uranus square the Moon. But that may not all be Brexit, given her age.

Boris & Dom Brexit – pots and kettles

 

This is a stumble in the dark since I have zero idea of what’s happening in the near future. Britain is being hurtled along by a manic fantasist and a Machiavellian aide – neither of whom was actually elected by the people – in their helter skelter, do-or-die dash to be rid of the unelected Brussels technocrats. There’s a hint of Trumpian logic in that.

The 31st October has an aggravated, bad-tempered and frustrated Mars in Libra square Saturn and Pluto and a freedom-seeking Sun opposition Uranus; plus a head-in-the-clouds, over-hopeful Jupiter square Neptune. Whether it actually is a split isn’t clear.

Most of the panicky failure influences affecting the Boris crew come mid November onwards. So perhaps Brussels blinks and puts off the evil hour for another few months, at which point the PM and cronies realise what a hole they’ve dug for themselves. Or maybe we crash out and the lorries start backing up from Dover to London as Brussels and France set out on a payback mission. Or maybe there’s a snap election and BJ loses; or he loses a vote of confidence and retreats into a bunker refusing to budge. The possibilities are legion.

Boris’s PMship chart has catastrophe and disappointment write large for a few weeks from mid November and is considerably discouraged from January 2020 onwards.

His relationship with aide Dominic Cummings is sagging badly from mid November and is, in any event, hardly a soulmate connection at the best of times with a chaotic Sun Pluto Uranus and a one-sided, irritable Mars Saturn in the relationship chart. They look hemmed in every which way from late August to early November with tr Pluto square the composite Mars/Saturn and Mars/Node midpoints.

Cummings and Gove are at explosion point in late October and very deflated in November/December. Cummings and Carrie Symonds are at cross purposes mid August to mid September; and Cummings’ relationship chart with the UK also flags up this as a panic point.

Boris himself goes into a spasm and a lurch from 22 September to mid October with tr Uranus square his Sun/Pluto midpoint; and he also has tr Neptune square his Mars/Node which Ebertin describes as ‘disappointment, falsehoods, undermining of relationships’. And worse from mid November for four weeks with his career being damaged, losses, disappointment, lack of energy and motivation – a sag and several banana skins. Plus from mid November all the trapped, cornered, stuck influences on various charts return till mid December.

Who knows? We dragged ourselves out of Theresa May’s Neptunian swamp straight into street racing scenario – who crashes first?

See previous post on Dominic Cummings July 24 2019

Any thoughts welcome.

Joan Hickson – a Leo for Agatha Christie’s Virgo

Joan Hickson, the English actress, who brought Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple to life in a long run of celebrated television episodes was born on August 5 1906. She first appeared on stage in an Agatha Christie play in the 1940s and the author wrote to say she hoped one day she would play Miss Marple.

Joan Hickson was an entertaining Sun, North Node, Mars and Mercury in performing Leo with an Aquarius Moon. What would link her into the role was her Venus in Virgo being in an affectionate conjunction to Agathe Christie’s communicative Virgo Sun; and her Mars being in an enthusiastic opposition to Christie’s Jupiter.

Their relationship chart had a passionately exuberant Mars Venus opposition Jupiter and trine a joint-enterprise Pluto Saturn, square the composite North Node – linking their connection to the zeitgeist.

They might not have got on as 24/7 companions since there was a composite Sun square Uranus and it was a business-like rather than a warm connection but good news all the same.

Hiroshima – closure or vengeance

 

The anniversary of Hiroshima comes and goes without mention unless it’s a round figure memorial – this year being the 74th. Nuclear bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the Americans with the agreement of the British on August 6 and 9th 1945 which brought an end to war with Japan and to World War 11. Over 200,000 died instantly and many more in the months following. An ethical debate has raged ever since with some arguing that the forced surrender saved many lives and others that a punitive civilian strike was indefensible.

There are similar arguments about the bombing of Dresden in early 1945 which killed 25,000 civilians and destroyed the city centre. It was carried out by Allied Forces though it is mainly thought of as a British decision.

The Hiroshima bomb was dropped when Uranus was exactly on the midheaven to the minute of a degree with Uranus conjunct Mars in Gemini. That echoes the Mars Uranus in Gemini in the USA 1776 chart which I’ve always thought was the root of a good many problems of violence; and the ludicrous extremes of free speech allowing racist sentiments to be expressed without restraint. And it does link into Trump’s Gemini Sun which sits exactly on the USA Mars with his Uranus close by.

The USA chart in August 1945 was looking jubilant with tr Jupiter conjunct the Ascendant and moving towards squaring the Solar Arc Sun; with a super-confident Solar Arc Jupiter square Neptune also tugging on the USA Mars.

The preceding Cancer Solar Eclipse which was conjunct the USA Sun and Saturn, set for Washington where the decision was no doubt made, had Mars in heavyweight (and vengeful) Taurus conjunct the Midheaven which in turn was conjunct the destructive Fixed Star Algol. Set for Hiroshima it had expansive Jupiter conjunct the Descendant.

The preceding Lunar Eclipse of 26 June 1945 set for Hiroshima had the Capricorn Full Moon exactly conjunct the Midheaven squaring onto Neptune on the Descendant; with a brutal Mars square a grandstanding Pluto in the 5th. The Capricorn Full Moon was oddly conjunct Japan’s Jupiter – continuing the theme of Jupiter’s presence at disasters. Not always the lucky planet.

It’s tempting to blame America’s dark side for Hiroshima but the truth is that superpowers have always acted badly through the centuries and caused massive damage without much thought. Power corrupts.

For those who like minutiae, below is a Hiroshima post from 6 August 2010.

The Japanese are today marking the anniversary of the Hiroshima atomic bomb which was dropped on 6 August 1945 at 8.15 am. About 140,000 died then or in the months following and Japan surrendered, bringing an end to World War 11.

The chart for the bombing has sudden-disruption Uranus exactly conjunct the Midheaven set for Hiroshima – to the exact minute of the exact degree. Uranus was also in an explosive conjunction to Mars and both were in a heavy sextile to Sun Pluto in Leo. Mars was exactly sextile Pluto and trine Neptune. Plus there was an emotionally downbeat Moon Saturn in Cancer in the 10th. The exactness of some aspects is interesting and it is a difficult chart. But for all that it doesn’t have that stagger-back quality you’d expect from such a universe-changing event as the Hiroshima bomb. Mind you neither did the 9/11 chart.

Where the 9/11 chart started to make more sense was in the 16th Harmonic which is multiples of the difficult 4 with a Mars square Saturn Uranus and sextile Pluto with Pluto opposition the 16H Midheaven. And that is pretty brutal.

Where the Hiroshima chart looks more menacing is in the 9th Harmonic curiously which is supposedly about happiness but clearly there’s another dimension. The Hiroshima 9H has a Mystic Rectangle of Uranus Midheaven opp Jupiter; and Mars opposition Pluto; with Pluto trine Uranus MC and Jupiter trine Mars. That looks more along the right lines – especially with Saturn widely conjunct Mars. So a mix of explosive Mars Uranus pumped up by Jupiter Pluto’s hyper-mega tendencies. The difficult side of the 9th Harmonic is evidently egotism, easily hurt, quick tempered. Perhaps seeing Hiroshima as payback for Pearl Harbour makes most sense of this Harmonic.

The Hiroshima 11th Harmonic is also strong. The 11H is about a burning, obsessive dream but gone sour it can have very negative consequences as dreams don’t always act out well in reality. This has a Water Grand Trine of Pluto trine Neptune trine Moon Saturn – Sat Pl is bleak; Pl Nep is nuclear and major confusion; Moon Saturn disregards feelings. And an attention-demanding, inventive Fire Grand Trine of Sun trine Mercury trine Jupiter. With another feeling-dampening T square of Moon Saturn opposition Venus square Sun. And a panicky, overly aggressive, self-justifying Mars opposition Neptune square Jupiter.

On the Japan chart in 1945 there was a Solar Arc Mars square Sun which does usually coincide with a major collision of sorts; plus an undermining, panicky Solar Arc Neptune trine their Mars. There was also a Solar Arc Pluto inconjunct their Jupiter which would fit with overpowering confidence backfiring.

Tracking back on the preceding Eclipses:-

The 9 July 1945 Total Solar eclipse in Cancer had Saturn conjunct and it had Jupiter on the Descendant and Uranus on the nadir/IC located to Hiroshima. It also had an expansive Jupiter trine Mars in Taurus sextile New Moon Saturn – so arguably pushing all that inflated Mars Jupiter into an event of great sadness with Saturn in Cancer on the Eclipse. When the bomb was dropped a month later the transiting Moon was just one degree passed the conjunction to the Eclipse – which is relatively often the case as the following Moon appears to trigger the Eclipse chart.

The partial Lunar Eclipse of 25 June 1945 was even more pointed set for Hiroshima with Moon conjunction Midheaven opposition Sun Nadir/IC square Neptune conjunct Descendant. There was nothing visible triggering that though the chart itself is indicative of a time of great panic and confusion – with Eclipse charts having an effect for some months after the event.

The Solar Eclipse of 14 January 1945 is in many ways just as pointed with Uranus on the Ascendant set for Hiroshima with Venus conjunct Midheaven. That Eclipse Uranus also falls exactly on the Japan country chart assuming a mid day start, suggesting a major turning point in Japan’s destiny. When the bombing happened tr Mars was exactly conjunct the Jan 45 Eclipse Uranus and square the Eclipse MC and conjunct the Japan Ascendant.

The 25 Jan 1944 Total Solar Eclipse was exceptionally difficult with Pluto opposing the Eclipsed New Moon in Aquarius. With an Air Grand Trine of the New Moon trine Neptune and trine explosive Uranus Mars. Set for Hiroshima it had Pluto conjunct Midheaven opposition New Moon conjunct nadir/IC – very suggestive of a total blockage, damage to reputation and status. There was no visible trigger on this chart eighteen months later in Aug 1945 except that Neptune had returned to its’ Eclipse position and was back in trine exactly to the Eclipsed New Moon.

Much the same conclusions as before – Eclipses show tantalising glimpses of events to come but we/I still haven’t quite grasped the cipher.