So Lehman Brothers have gone bankrupt, which on the surface seems surprising. With a Taurus like Dick Fuld at your helm, how can anything go wrong? Taureans are supposed to be sensible, down to earth people, who have a good grasp of the material world.
However one has to remember that Taureans can be very stubborn. Once they’ve decided on a course of action, they find find it difficult to pull back. And sometimes their lack of a Plan B can have serious consequences.
Dick Fuld was born on April 26 1946, exactly forty years before the Chernobyl accident, on April 26 1986. He spent some time in the Air Force, but his military career came to an end when he got into a fight with his commanding officer. We can see this in his horoscope – his Sun in Taurus is making a stressful, 90-degree aspect to Mars in Leo. Mars is the planet of aggression, and in a conflict situation he might find it difficult to stand down.
Fuld’s Sun is also aspecting Pluto, and he therefore has it at right-angles to the Mars-Pluto midpoint. German astrologer Reinhold Ebertin wrote about this combination as follows:
A hard-working person, the ability to work till collapse or complete breakdown. Injury, accident, violent measures, an upset or shock caused through the intervention of Higher Power.
Higher power? Maybe he didn’t have a choice? Maybe he was Destiny’s fall-guy, whose special role was to lead a global financial institution off a cliff?
I also notice that Fuld has his Venus in Taurus conjunct the most dreaded star of them all, Caput Algol, the head of the demon. This star is associated with stangulation, decapitation and general calamity. And it threatens misfortune not just to the person who is unfortunate enough to have it highlighted in their horoscope, but also to the people around them. For example, to the people working under them.
