I just go the date today. The Venus to Pluto square bothers me. Deep down, I think Julian is a family man with strong protective energies,and a basic love for humanity as a whole. His Chiron sits on my Solar degree in Aries, so I view him as a hero. I plan to follow his transits. I did horoscopes for the two “victims” in Sweden, and they are barking up the wrong tree. Julian doesn’t belong in jail.

His transits and progressions aren’t too positive. Progressed Moon square to N Mercury, retro progressed Mars sitting on the NN; yes that transiting Saturn just set off that natal T square, transiting Pluto about to form a grand cross to it in a few ( Pluto opposing the Sun is nothing to sneeze at ), T Jupiter Uranus squaring N Venus, T Chiron Neptune squaring to N Jupiter Neptune ( as the mid life crisis transits begin ), and wonderful little quirky aspects like natal black moon lillith and the vertex in opposition natally now being squared by transiting Pluto. Although knowing a time of birth is always beneficial, with such drama on his own planetary stage and without getting wordy, it looks like he’s bought himself a world of hurt.

Sun Opposite Pluto can also bring an intense “one on one” power play. Julian vs. Swedish legal system ? I don’t see anything major coming from that situation. Jupiter and Uranus squaring natal Venus are annoying,can bring monotony, boredom, some awkward social situations.I am more concerned with negative Mars/Uranus aspects. Transiting Mars going through Capricorn, squaring his natal Uranus in Libra could spell trouble around December 20. Having his house placements would definitely help.Sometimes birth certificates will include the time of birth, but short of asking his mother,Christine what time he was born, I imagine we will have to make the best from what we have.

Notice please that i did not ascribe possible effects to the transits I’ve noted. I believe I also pointed out a T Pluto opposing the Sun, not the other way around. My own experience with clients often varies quite substantially from the usual ascribed affects as detailed by many astrologers with transits of Pluto to the Sun. Rather than a Phoenix rising from the ashes imagery it is often like a blow torched & naked bird struggling to breath through all the noxious fumes. I have usually seen it in its mildest manifestation as some type of identity crisis for the client/querant. At its worst
( not including death ) it could sweep away everything in a life one holds dear. Certainly physical freedom fits into that category, since this is the traditional aspect of conflict with authority, and a period of incarceration as an affect would not be so far fetched.
The T Uranus squaring Venus, aside from a classic manifestation of estranged relationships, especially with Jupiter thrown into the mix adds elements of strange sexual desires. It is not unusual to find Natal aspects with this mix in the chart of gay males ( me included). As a transit and with Jupiter along for the ride, kinky sexual escapades leading to misunderstandings also fits the bill, thank you very much.
Yes you are correct that T Mars will have an impact. When I am trying to be succinct ( not always an easy target ) I avoid dwelling on the transits of the inner planets since the transits themselves last days at the most. However in his case Mars hits a number of triggers. As we speak it is squaring off to natal Pluto and opposing natal Venus which explains the arrest warrant and may lead him to additional legal processes. The Mars Uranus playbill won’t help. A flight attempt is not out of the question. But for me the Martian coup de gras comes with T Mars opposing the Sun along with the Uranian linkage. He needs to watch his back, his front, all the other parts and not turn the ignition on in his car.
Don’t overlook the impact of the P Mars conjuncting the North Node opposing the South Node. This is a karmic ‘life lesson’ that translates into psychological scabble. The Vedics confer the title of ‘the point of self undoing’ to the SN and that aspect has been in play for a bit.
Aspects not mentioned previously include a Progressed Yod set up by the P Moon inconjuncting both N Pluto and N Jupiter. His mindset won’t help his political situation. The T NN inconjucts Saturn, and that Pluto square to Lillith fascinates me since the ‘black moon’ can represent the dark side of guilt, shame, hatred, envy, and vengefulness. This is the not so good inner stuff we keep under wraps. It can manifest as a seedy version of Pan or as an enchantress or a seducer, or just your garden variety sexual misfit.
Yes the time of birth would help but I think there is enough here to justify elements of concern. He isn’t walking away from this scot free.

Does everyone born in the summer of ’71 have Mars in Aquarius? This guy is a month older than I am and I notice I also have Mars in Aquarius. Interesting to look at this interpretation in that light. Is some of this a generational thing? It would be interesting to look at the motivations of the people who’ve leaked information to him and to see if they’re in the same general age range.

Hi Lynn,
what strikes me in his chart is that it is to a large extent impersonal; he is being worked through by the planets, so to speak.
His frail body makes me think he might have a Gemini Asc.
Thanks,Lynn, for your inspiration, dedication. martine – Geneva

Hi Geneva – thanks for your comment and this is a somewhat impersonal chart, but that impersonality combines with the passion of Scorpio and Pluto. Also be careful about judging ascendants by physical appearance: I have Gemini rising and I have the opposite of a frail body. (I do look younger than my years though.)

@Andrea, Mars is only in a sign for just a little over a month.

Oh, well, there goes that theory. For whatever reason it’s kind of fun for me to see someone that close to me in age stirring things up. I don’t know what to make of his actions. I think he’s done a lot of damage to diplomacy, on the one hand, and on the other hand I revere freedom of the press and the public’s right to know. I hope the guy isn’t guilty of rape. That would be a pity.

Andrea, remember the rape accusation only came out after the first Wikilinks dump about Afghanistan.
Actually I believe that the Powers-That-Be are more worried about Assange’s threat to expose the interal dealings of a major bank.I am sure that any information he would have would include how various governments interacted with the institution also maybe even a paper trail on how the world economy unravelled a couple of years ago.

Thanks for the birth data, Lynn.
I am all over that Saturn in Gemini oppose Neptune in Sag. Is it helpful or just there to muckrake? I don’t know but I can say that I think it is interesting that about one month before Julian was born The Pentagon Papers were released which does speak of the tension between the two planets.

Muckraking IS helpful in and of itself, especially when it’s about politicians and institutions who have not served the public. An argument can probably be made about the ethics of those who leaked the information and whether lives will be put at risk because of some of it, but I think there is a role for this sort of web site and this type of person in the cyber age. It will become ever more rare in the mainstream media in an age when newspapers and broadcast companies are more worried than ever about the bottom line and are firiing journalists right and left.
Nellie Bly was one of my first heroes, along with Woodward and Bernstein. I wonder who his heroes are.

With a Pluto Mercury Mars conjunction in Capricorn coming up soon, this could be a case of “Don’t shoot the Messenger (Assanger!) This is a fitting story for Christmas – being persecuted for telling the truth.

sometimes silence really is golden.

Just wanted to point out for the person who questioned about the influence of Mars in Aquarius, that Mars made a lengthy stay in Aquarius in 1971. Mars entered Aquarius approx. May 5th that year and due to a retrograde period from about July 12 – Sept 10, Mars stayed in Aquarius until about Nov 7th. I realized this when I noticed the placement in Mr. Assange’s chart and remembered that I, too, have Mars in Aquarius although I was born in October of the same year.

Thanks for that clarification DoubleIvy, I confess I did not investigate the question. ::egg on my face::

Why do you hate this country so much?

If you are refering to Lynn, she doesn’t. And that is a really trite comment.
As far as Assange, this is the latest.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101206/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_wikileaks_secret_sites
With this bit of insensitive stupidity, his days are more than likely numbered one way or another.

Chiron, you’re right…this is taking it too far. It’s exciting to me to see an individual take on the behemoths of major superpowers, but this is really outside of any kind of sensibility.

Pretty reckless and dangerous. He’ll definitely be called to account for it, one way or another, judging by the various news coverage.
I hadn’t bothered to look up the bit about Mars in Aquarius either. I did notice that I had retrograde Mars, which I gather is bad. Apparently Assange doesn’t.

After I posted about The Pentagon Papers, the next day I saw John Kerry on Meet The Press and in discussing the wikileaks he said, “This is no Pentagon Papers.”
but one thing I did find curious was apparently stocks rose on BofA today after Julian turned himself into the authorities. The report I saw on CNBC said this was possibly based on Julian’s previous disclosure that he has missives he was going to release that will bring down a bank. There’s the mercury conjunct pluto for the season!

Hi his time of birth is said to be 2.05am…
http://web.archive.org/web/20071020051936/http://iq.org/#Hereyeshadgreatclarity
This is his old blog, gives you insight to his plight for humanity.. you guys seem to have him all wrong

His earlier life was quite communal and gypsy like, attending up to 36 schools and living on islands and with in fairly spiritual communities. His mother seems like a free spirit with much love and respect for her son.

Its all how you perceive it Niki. Granted he is a complicated fellow. However he obviously has decided unto himself that his invasive disruptiveness is somehow pre-sanctioned and self-mandated. Notice his article “Transparency in the cold light of Finland.” Individuals who believe that they are a power unto themselves and the consequences to others be damned aren’t so unique. History is riddled with them. Nothing wrong here. Just a look at the two sides to the coin that most people are.

I notice a few comments here highly critical of Assange. It’s true, many are upset that what he is doing is outside the norm of what many people have been conditioned to think.
But what is he doing? He knows the level of corruption, lies, greed, war, torture, arm-bending that governments and corporations do to innocent people.
The media never reports about things like this. They are part of and owned by the very groups/people who are doing all the bad things in the world.
So it’s only someone like Assange, who isn’t going to bow down to the corrupt and lying, half-truth-telling medias and governments, who is able to get the truth out.
So many people have grown up never questioning the news they hear or the opinion articles, or the editorials they read…which tend to be part of the whole propaganda machine themselves.
Those who see what’s really going on in the world sincerely wish there were more people like Assange with courage and drive to stand up for the innocent and silenced ones.
He may think himself a bit of a hero, but it would be hard for anyone who has come this far in the spotlight not to at least a little bit.
His mission is wholehearted and needed in this deceived world.

@all and supporting Djembe Mokoko,
History will inform future generations of the value of Wikileaks and it’s public warrior/saviour archetype in julien assange. At this moment and at least from my perspective he and the organization he fronts is doing we the people a great service.
I went to the link provided above by Niki (here; http://web.archive.org/web/20071020051936/http://iq.org/#Hereyeshadgreatclarity) and read a large portion of the IQ.org site writings and quotes put together by assange; they resonate with my sense of “what it is to be human” and in my case to be male.
On the basis of the 2:05am 3 July 1971 birth time suggested above gives assange’s horoscope a fixed character, which I share, Aquarius Asc. for me Taurus Asc. for him.. thus he is meeting intensity (Scorpio) in his Dec. and is ultimately Aquarian in his aspiration adjudged by his MC. conj. Vertex 9th house, and with the North Node and Mars in Aquarius in the 10th, thus he is noted publicly stridency in the political realm..
In his IQ.org take the time to read the entry headed “Sat 23 Sep 2006 : William James Sidis” in which he recapitulates studies into the societal maladjustment of the gifted with high literary IQ scores.. their appears to be empirical evidence that many so gifted do not handle their inheritance well within the framework of acceptable society…
…so from a societal perspective young julien might be iconclastic and egocentric, however without these qualities his organization Wikileaks and the current furore would not be troubling this website nor the MSM who wish to keep the masses passive!
And from an astrological perspective the current transit of Pluto through Capricorn is playing out in the Wikileaks saga just as the Pluto transit through my sun sign Sagittarius uncovered the promiscuous and bestial priesthood and their Vatican accomplices preying on the youth of Christ’s church; see “The Case of the Pope” by another notable Australian, Geoffrey Robertson here; http://www.amazon.com/Case-Pope-Vatican-Accountability-Rights
/dp/0241953847
..as in all situations relating to politics, big money and power.. nothing is more of a corrupting influence than power itself.. thus Julien might fail in his self appointed mission.. however my hope is that the Swedish sex scandal is a lesson learned early in his hopefully lengthy journalist career.
in light and peace greg.

I’ve subsequently looked at the alleged time of birth for Assange.. it is leaked to a few Astrologers as 2:05/06 or 08pm.. so an afternoon birth and a Scorpio Ascendant.
url to mountain Astrologer; http://mountainastrologer.com/tma/birth-time-for-julian-assange/comment-page-3
so my comments earlier need revision, however he’s still got fixed angles…
cheers greg.