Over the last week, the UK press have been obsessed about the antics of Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand. Jonathan Ross is a TV critic and chat show host, who has a three year, eighteen million pound contract with the BBC. Russell Brand is a cutting-edge comedian, very famous in the UK, and increasingly making a name for himself in the US.
Scorpio Jonathan Ross and Gemini Russell Brand were on a radio show, in which they had arranged to ring up Aries actor Andrew Sachs – who played the Spanish waiter Manuel in Fawlty Towers. Sachs wasn’t around to take the call, so Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand left message on his answering machine, that contained obscene content. Specifically, they talked about Brand’s sexual relationship with Andrew Sachs’ granddaughter.
Andrew Sachs, who is seventy-eight, is someone who is much respected in the UK, and he was therefore a poor choice of target. As a result of the uproar, Russell Brand has resigned from the radio show, and Jonathan Ross has been suspended for twelve weeks without pay.
Jonathan Ross, who was born on November 17 1960, has his Sun in Scorpio making a stressful, ninety-degree aspect to Uranus. Uranus is the planet of shocks and upsets, so it would make sense that he at times likes to be controversial. However the overall chart doesn’t make a lot of sense to me – I don’t know his time of birth, and I don’t know much about him as a person.
However Jonathan Ross, on the face of it, is a serious Scorpio. He doesn’t just have the the Sun in this sign, but also Mercury and Neptune. And he almost certainly has the Moon here, unless he was born before 2.53 am. Here’s a man who values his privacy, with particular reference to his family. He also has a good understanding of ongoing trends – so when anticipating what the public wants, he’ll usually get it right. I suppose that explains his television success – he can be a mirror to popular taste.
Russell Brand’s horoscope is more straightforward. Born on June 4 1975, he has the Sun and Mercury in quick-witted Gemini, and he has the Moon, Mars and Jupiter in Aries. This latter sign tends to act first and think later, and it complements Gemini very nicely. Verbally assertive, also very spontaneous.
In terms of chemistry, it seems likely, in the final analysis, that Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand haven’t been very good for each other, at least in a career sense. In the astrological jargon, there’s a lot of ‘Mars-Saturn synastry’.
Mars and Saturn are two malefic influences, and Brand’s Mars in Aries is making a stressful aspect to Ross’s Saturn in Cancer. Likewise Ross’s Mars in Cancer is conjunct Brand’s Saturn. The end result could be frustrating, for both of them!
Saturn represents limits and boundaries, and this planet has a cycle of just under thirty years. And the two celebrities were born fourteen and a half years apart – which is a half-cycle. Ross’s Saturn is at fifteen degrees of Capricorn, Brand’s Saturn is in the opposite sign, at seventeen degrees Cancer. Saturn is about restriction and limitation, and perhaps they were short-circuiting each other’s boundaries.
Interestingly, Andrew Sachs was born just over thirty years before Jonathan Ross, on April 7 1930. His Saturn is at twelve degrees Capricorn, very close to Jonathan Ross’s own Saturn. Saturn is often seen as the planet of Karma, and perhaps Andrew Sachs had a role to play in the unfolding of Jonathan Ross’s destiny.
However the real meaning of the incident might be collective rather than individual. Pluto has been moving through Sagittarius since the mid-1990s, and during this time we’ve seen reality TV and ‘in your face’ comedy. Indeed, the more outrageous the better! Put plainly, the sign Sagittarius, often associated with outrageous humour, has been massively emphasised.
Yet everything comes to an end, and Pluto is on the verge of moving from Sagittarius to Capricorn – the transition happens at the end of November. Pluto will remain in Capricorn until the early 2020s, and it’s a time that’s going more conservative, and perhaps more respectful. The antics of Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand, and the powerful backlash they created, are a sure sign that things are changing. Perhaps one of the last gasps of Pluto in Sagittarius, as an age of moderation and restraint beckons.
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