I needed to write down a fast piece on the chart of Russell Model. I’m going to say immediately, that this isn’t a bit about whether or not he did or didn’t do it. That’s one thing for the courts to determine. I’ve adopted him previously and even shared a few his movies at times. Generally I’ve discovered his monologues terribly resonant with present astrology, to the purpose the place I questioned if that was what was informing his narrative. However at different instances, I’ve been turned off by the corporate he retains and sure commentaries that jar with what I perceive to be the reality.  So, I’ve no private curiosity in defending or crucifying him and nor do I wish to discredit the ladies who’ve come ahead as a result of girls are so usually silenced in these sorts of instances. I’m solely within the astrology at work and the way it’s so descriptive of what we see splashed everywhere in the media proper now – and the way it’s a basic story within the vital cultural shifts at work.

For these in different international locations who could not know what has occurred, Russell Model is a comic turned non secular/fact ‘guru’ who has constructed up a large following on-line the place he talks about conspiracy theories and exposes political lies. In fact, there are some truths in there, about manipulation by folks in energy and governmental shenanigans. However Model additionally has a chequered previous, an ex-drug addict and a self-confessed sex-addict. There was distinct unpleasantness in 2008 when he and Jonathan Ross prank-called the late Andrew Sachs and left lewd messages about his granddaughter who was in a relationship with Model on the time. Each Model and Ross have been pressured to resign from the BBC. ‘Sachsgate’, because it got here to be known as was thought of a large invasion of privateness and sadly it prompted a few years estrangement between Sachs and his granddaughter.   Since these days, Model has had a variety of remedy, healed a variety of the problems he grappled with and has labored in the direction of serving to others with addictions, based on the movies he’s made. Nonetheless, just lately, a tv programme known as Dispatches, consisting of years of in-depth investigation, introduced up historic allegations of rape, sexual assault and emotional abuse by Model – occasions that allegedly occurred throughout these hedonistic earlier chapters of his life. I didn’t see this system however know from the papers that there are a number of girls who’ve come ahead, all with corroborating proof. This proof has now been handed to the police. Consequently. Russell’s YouTube has been demonetized, his comedy tour cancelled and he’s entrance web page information all over the place over right here. So, it is a tough sketch of the place he finds himself now and the themes in play.

Now take a look at his chart. It’s alight! The very first thing I discover is his MC on the anaretic diploma of Scorpio. On Model’s YouTube introduction credit, he has what appears to be like wish to be a crow breaking wind! Speak about resonating together with your Midheaven (Scorpio guidelines the bowels!) however I digress. Scorpio is related to intercourse, dependancy and sure, abuse too by way of ruler Pluto. That is the signal related to energy – the having of it in any respect prices. However additionally it is the signal that’s related to the reality, the cosmic detective working it’s means down and all the way down to get to the very bones of the matter. An anaretic diploma tends to work in extremes, it’s risky and unstable- a important diploma. And but additionally a karmic diploma, one which factors us in the direction of evolutionary change at work, the ultimate lesson, the ultimate alternative to resolve all that got here earlier than. It’s a liminal house between this and that, previous and future.

Now take a look at his progressed North Node. It’s now sat, actual to the minute, on his natal Midheaven. It reached this minute on September 11, 2023. By the best way, I ought to have mentioned, there’s some discrepancy with Russell’s chart as he mentioned he was born at midnight. Some folks suppose which will imply he was born on the finish of the day not the start. However I really feel as if this early chart is the one, given the features in play however in fact there’s room for error. Anyway, for this chart, the Progressed North Node is now precisely on his natal Midheaven. The Midheaven is our most public level within the chart – every thing right here comes out. It’s being lauded for being on the prime of your recreation or it’s a very public downfall. The North Node development right here opens the best way for his natal karmic classes to come back into impact.

Now look to his natal IC and the progressed South Node-Ceres conjunction sitting proper there! Wow! That captures my consideration for a lot of causes. Firstly, the truth that all this took place simply as we’ve a Ceres-South Node conjunction by transit. It’s an echo of his progressed chart. And the Ceres-Progressed South Node conjunction on his IC is in fact anaretic. In Taurus, that is the ‘weeping sisters’ diploma – actually resonant with the ladies who’ve described their horrible experiences with him – which all by the best way,  occurred behind closed doorways (the IC). I discover myself pondering of Ceres, how she laid waste to the land after Pluto whisked away her daughter (and in some myths, he raped Proserpina). Ceres’ rage knew no bounds. Right here is the devouring mom, coming to guard her daughter, eviscerating all in her path on the very root of Model’s chart. I’ll now not feed you, says Ceres by bared tooth.

After which we’ve Pluto himself, hanging out on Model’s Ascendant by transit, opposing his progressed Solar to the diploma! The title of the Dispatches programme was ‘In Plain Sight’ (a play on ‘hiding in plain sight’). Right here is the sensation of a dramatic change in picture, a change of identification, publicity, one thing out of his management, vital opposition, powerlessness, highly effective folks forcing a change. Right here is the storm within the public eye – bear in mind Pluto guidelines his anaretic MC that strips every thing again to disclose the fact. Here’s a stroll at midnight, by Pluto’s Underworld caused by others (the opposition). Right here is the highlight on his shadow.

Be aware in his natal chart, he has a Moon-Mars opposition to Pluto. Historically, Mars reverse Pluto can point out violence – both being the perpetrator or being the one which experiences it by the hands of others. Natally, asteroid Grieve opposes Mars too. Asteroid Hel is conjunct his Moon, together with Maja, named after Maia, one of many daughters of the Pleiades (which takes us again to the weeping sisters on his IC diploma). Moon reverse Pluto can converse of emotional manipulation – perpetrator or sufferer. Echo reverse Pluto could effectively recommend, at a soul degree, he has been right here earlier than.

There may be far more I might say concerning the chart, I means I haven’t even talked about his illusive, non secular, potential Jesus-complex natal Solar-Neptune opposition or his disruptive/rebellious 10^th home Uranus sq. his Ascendant-Descendant (he refers to his followers as ‘awakening wonders’ and at all times tells them on the finish of his movies to ‘keep free’!). However I believe that is illustration sufficient of how astrology will be so terribly, even eerily correct in the case of the themes in play. If nothing else, Russell Model appears to vividly inhabit the archetypal tales of his chart. It doesn’t inform us whether or not or not he did what he’s accused of as a result of folks can use the energies of their charts in every kind of the way, positively and negatively and sometimes a mixture of each. Astrology is our path of evolution as souls and the teachings we’re right here to study. Regardless of the fact of the scenario, the starkness of this story in Model’s chart suggests an ongoing lesson in exploring his shadow, the heights and depths that we as human beings can journey to, the darkish and the sunshine. I think about we’ll hear extra every time Pluto sits on that twenty ninth diploma of Capricorn.

Collectively although, this is just one story amongst many, concerning the poisonous behaviour of these in positions of energy, particularly in highly effective establishments such because the BBC and the federal government. Pluto’s ongoing sq. to the transiting Nodes is forcing the purpose for many people that we should face the reality of our previous to clear the best way for a fairer future, one constructed on respect for all, the place everybody can play to their strengths with out worry of abuse or violence from others. Proper now, this story is taking part in out in exposing the obvious variations between how men and women are handled, explicit within the office. It is smart, provided that Venus now guidelines the South Node and Mars the North Node. Pluto in Aquarius is coming, and it’ll change the face of society as we all know it and alter the best way we consider ourselves as human beings. However first we have to let go of the worst of us earlier than we open the best way to the most effective of all we are able to turn out to be.

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