Chile has been experiencing an amazing series of earthquakes since February 27. Chile’s chart shows that Pluto is opposite Mars (a once-in-248 year transit that can be violently transformative) and Uranus conjunct Pluto, a connection between the two planets most often connected with sudden or dramatic change.

Note: The new moon on March 15 is at 25 Pisces, conjunct Chile’s Pluto and square Chile’s Neptune indicating that the earthquakes will continue to reshape Chile’s coastline. Neptune rules the ocean so the Neptune square may indicate more tsunami damage.

Mourning for Icarus, by Herbert James Draper (1863-1920)
Icarus – Son of Daedalus who dared to fly too near the sun on wings of feathers and wax. Daedalus had been imprisoned by King Minos of Crete within the walls of his own invention, the Labyrinth. But the great craftsman’s genius would not suffer captivity. He made two pairs of wings by adhering feathers to a wooden frame with wax. Giving one pair to his son, he cautioned him that flying too near the sun would cause the wax to melt. But Icarus became ecstatic with the ability to fly and forgot his father’s warning. The feathers came loose and Icarus plunged to his death in the sea.

Rising political star Adam Giambrone announced on February 1, 2010 that he was running for mayor of Toronto. Nine short days later, as a result of a sex scandal, his campaign was over .

Giambrone was first elected to Toronto city council at the age of 26. He is only 32 now but has been seen as popular and very visible, particularly in his role as chairman of the Toronto Transit Commission. It was only a matter of time before he sought higher office.

Giambrone is not married but living with a woman in a long term relationship. When he announced that he was running for mayor, his partner stood proudly by his side.

Unfortunately, one newspaper mistakenly reported that he was married. That prompted an incensed Kristin Lucas, 20, to tell the Toronto Star newspaper that she had been seeing Giambrone for over a year, including several trysts in Giambrone’s office at city hall.

After a few days of trying to wiggle out of the situation, Giambrone admitted that he had had a number of ‘inapropriate relationships’ in the previous year. He had even told Lucas in an e-mail that he was with his live-in partner only for political reasons. “It was important for the campaign,” one text message said.

By The Numbers
Giambrone is an 8 born on an 8 (Destiny, Personality). The 8 is wordly success, ambition, power. The double 8 is almost too strong. One danger of the 8 is that you attract powerful enemies who are ready to leap at the first sign of weakness.

Giambrone is in a 5 Pinnacle with a 3 Challenge so freedom, drama, romance, adventure and curiosity are very much a part of this nine-year period. Perhaps his mistake was believing that he had to present himself as a partner in a stable relationship to get elected.

By The Stars
The only transit currently affecting Giambrone’s chart is Neptune square Jupiter. Neptune has a ‘dissolving’ effect on what it hits and, because of the devastating effect the events of this past week have had on every aspect of Giambrone’s life, I would guess that the sign ruled by Jupiter, Sagittarius, is on is Ascendant or his Mid-heaven.

The big karma’s-gonna-get-you astrological effect comes from his Solar return on his last birthday. Because we don’t know his time of birth, we can’t run a proper return but we can see that, on that day, Saturn was exactly opposite his Sun. Saturn will always tell you exactly where you are and remind you of any short-cuts that you have taken.

The important thing to remember is that Saturn doesn’t say ‘no’ , it says ‘not now’, you’re not ready at this time.

(see also Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie for individual charts, synastry between the two charts and the Composite chart)

Whether or not the relationship between Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie is ‘over’ matters to the rest of us because it is an example of the challenges of relating in this intense time.

We are close to the end of a 24,000 year cycle and it is time to ‘finish’ things, to resolve karmic situations that may have existed for many, many lifetimes. (The cycle ends December 21, 2012)

We aren’t starting new things in this lifetime. We don’t have decades to work through unfamiliar situations. We are drawn to those activities and those individuals we have known before and with whom we have unfinished business. The energy is there for a quick resolution to old and tangled connections. Relationships at this time are intense, immediate and may be short-lived as old conditions are released.

The challenge for Brad and Angelina is that they have six children and there has been nothing in either of their personalities to indicate that they would walk away from these responsibilities. If they cannot relate to each other in a traditional form, they have to construct a relationship that will allow their children to thrive.

RELATIONSHIP CHART

(A Relationship chart is constructed for the mid-point in time and space between the two birth charts. It isn’t as good at describing the nature of the relationship as is the Composite chart but it is excellent for timing events. You can apply transits, progressions and returns to the relationship chart just as you can for your own birth chart.)

The Brangelina Relationship Solar Return has Uranus and Saturn opposite each other at 24 Pisces and 24 Virgo, with 24 Virgo being the location of Pluto in the original relationship chart. This is blasting away old formats and transforming into new. There is an incredible amount of energy in these aspects and the challenge is to direct this energy into constructive channels.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie – Relationship (or Davidson) chart and current Solar Return