Friday, January 2, 2009

The Astrological Strengths and Weaknesses of Bernie Madoff

By Peter Chavell

Success adorned the horoscope of Bernie Madoff. Jupiter in Aquarius and in the 10th house speaks of a person that is socially successful, well informed and imbued with the capacity to enjoy a career of great social prominence. Also, he would be able to project confidence and decisiveness with Mercury in Aries.

In addition, these planets are in Aquarius, Aries and Gemini respectively, giving social status, bold confidence and easy communication. And these are all basic and traditional astrological meanings for these planets and signs.

Bernie Madoff could have been very successful if his focus had been on advising people what not to invest in, where not to put money, what not to do to secure their future. Beside the planet representing money, Venus, we find a point in his horoscope called the South Node.

We also find Jupiter, the planet of success, in Aquarius - the sign of the intelligensia and social status. Yet, in addition to these glowing astrological markers of social success, we find a strong and positive link between Jupiter and Mercury as well as Jupiter and Chiron giving an almost unparalelled capacity for success in the best social context.

For success and large scale investment we look at Jupiter. Unfortunately, Venus has a strong but negative connection with Jupiter - which implies a strong, negative relationship between money and expansion. Yet at the heart of his horoscope we find a core that could either be rotten or through which Bernie Madoff could have shed real and lasting light.

Indeed when he speaks about success his ability to convince is unparalleled. Astrologically, it is no surprise that many people trusted him, and even an astrologer would not want to acknowledge the negative forces at work in his chart because the rest looked so positive.

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