Jupiter in Cancer - Nest Eggs & Freedom from Family Patterns

Actress Lorraine Bracco has Jupiter in Cancer
As psychiatrist Dr Jennifer Melfi her client is 'Father of the Soprano Family & Mafia'
who endures continual unravellings and 'family crisis'.

For one year only Jupiter, the Joy Bringer of the universe, comes to stay and wants to scatter his goodies around in the water sign of Cancer the Crab. From the 26th June 2013 until the 16th July 2014 Jupiter, the planet of abundance and prosperity will want to boost any Cancer energy it can find. Yes, Jupiter is in Cancer, the Cardinal Water sign where it is comfortable and secure in its exaltation.  Like Santa Claus and his family on holiday, showing their compassion and sharing out their good fortune and abundance.

'The Wizard of Omaha' American Business Magnate Warren Buffett has Jupiter in Cancer
One of the world's wealthiest people, estimated worth US$62 billion in 2008 he is also a philanthropist promising to give away 99% of his fortune. He has pledged to give the Bill & Melanie Gates foundation about 10 million shares of his company, the first year's donation of 500,000 shares were about US$1.5 billion. The Foundation aims are to enhance healthcare and reduce extreme poverty globally and to expand educational opportunities and access to information technology in the US. He auctioned a
'golden ticket' an all you can eat tour of his See's Candy factory in California ending
14th August 2013

The last time Jupiter,  was in this position was back in mid July 2001 right on until August 2002. Throw your memory back to that time, memory is a very Cancer activity and get in touch, another Cancer activity, with the main events of that time for you. 

Grandpa Wen' China's Ex Premier Wen Jiabao has Jupiter in Cancer
According to Wikileaks he was thinking about divorcing his wife because he was 'disgusted' by her using his name to get huge huge diamond trade commissions. His mother owns investments in Insurance worth $120 million and the New York Times has shown his relatives accruing financial assets worth at least US$2.7 billion and a family empire during his time as China's Leader, building Olympic stadiums including the 'Birds Nest'. 

Ironically Wen Jiabao had tried instate the 'Sunshine' law, which requires government officials to release their financial information to the public and address corruption being seen as a cultural imperative.
('计划生育好处 Family Planning Has Many Advantages')

The point of the exercise is to try to get a feel, very Cancer again, so get a feel for the main threads and issues and remember the rewards and lessons of that time in your life. This will help you to navigate your way with Jupiter during this current stay with the Crab for this coming year. 

'Father of the South African Nation' Nelson Mandela has Jupiter in Cancer
 Known as 'Madiba' (his family tribe name) he was admitted to hospital on the 8th June 2013 with a recurring lung infection that worsened and he spent his 95th birthday in hospital in critical condition. Looking back to the 25th July 2001, he was in hospital then being successfully treated for prostrate cancer.

For example, if you learnt to let go of what you believed to be a tight emotional bond back then, in order to attain greater freedom, it may well be that this year a similar, connecting theme may be activated. Release is a Jupiter keyword, you may find that you experience your own particular Jupiter in Cancer release, depending on where you are Cancer attuned in your personal birth chart. Jupiter E-X-P-A-N-D-S whatever it touches.

'Father of the Digital Revolution' Steve Jobs has Jupiter in Cancer
'Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me' 
Although Jobs earned only $1 a year as Apple CEO he had Apple shares worth $2.1 billion, shares in Disney, with acquisition of Pixar, worth $4.4 billion. His estimated wealth in 2010 was $8.3 billion. Looking back to Jupiter in Cancer in 2001 it seemed that Jobs had incurred taxable income of $20,000,000 that he did not report and that Apple overstated its earnings by that same amount. Jobs potentially faced a number of criminal charges and civil penalties. In 2013 US Senators are again investigating apparent further Apple tax evasions with Apple's apparent 'loop-holes' in tax with 'subsidiaries in Cork, Ireland, declaring huge profits but paying very little tax. Apple Operations International, a holding company there showed a $30 billion profit over 4 years but paid no tax as it is an unlimited company it does not have to file accounts. In 
July 2013 Samsung was ordered to pay Apple $1.05 billion for copying key aspects of the iPhone & iPad...

Feeling released and freed up from family, your past, family patterns, your roots or home  must be the most highlighted sensitive spot in the Jupiter in Cancer signature.

If Jupiter is passing through your 12th house, for example, your family may ‘disappear’ to the other side of the world and while this could be a positive, hopeful move for all concerned, there will also be a feeling of loss. If it passes through your 8th house then your family members could release a load of their possessions your way or family legacies may prove very beneficial.

Prince George Alexander Louis of Cambridge has Jupiter in Cancer
The latest addition to the House of Windsor and third in line of succession to the throne
of 16 commonwealth nations.
Duke & Duchess of Cambridge's Son - Father & Sun in Cancer

On an impersonal, cultural level, Jupiter's entry into Cancer will therefore herald the notion of family, mothering, nurturing but also nation, citizenship and belonging and bring it all to the forefront, massively. Water will always be an issue for the Blue Planet.

'Father of Fracking' George Phydias Mitchell has Jupiter in Cancer

Billionaire oilman/philanthropist, born to a Greek goatherd in the US, died aged 94 on the 26th July 2013. Until Mitchell's breakthrough in the 1990's, it was deemed too expensive to collect gas from shale. After a couple of decades of trial and error, Mitchell discovered that sand, water and chemicals blasted into rock formations at high pressure, hydraulic fracturing, also known as 'fracking', could free the trapped gas which could then be collected and stored. Environmentalists are concerned that 'fracking' will pollute groundwater and cause unknown long term environmental problems.

Venus in Cancer - Big Old Family Line

Wherever we go we will be confronted at some level with messages about these Cancer issues. Go with it, sense your way through, float on the tidal wave of emotions washing over you, don’t fight it. We are ‘supposed’ to be feeling things very deeply for this next year, we are ‘supposed’ to expand our ideas of families, home, and our imaginations. Jupiter reaches out to our souls, it wants to touch the soul's boundaries to see where it actually lies.

 Astrologer Reverend Pamela Crane has Jupiter in Cancer
Author of Draconic Astrology, an ancient system using the Moon's true nodes create a chart that informs, indicates soul purpose and higher principles that we can aspire to working in conjunction with our birth chart

Whilst in Cancer we would be wise to listen to our soulful urgings to nurture, sooth and care, even if the care is for ourselves. We should listen to the Moon,the various phases of the Moon and our own Moon styles and needs. 

'Father of Modern Yoga' B.K.S. Iyengar has Jupiter in Cancer

Credited with making 15th century Hatha yoga accessible to the West he does not like the 'brand' Iyengar yoga,  associated with the use of blocks, bolsters and straps and shunned by the purists, insisting that he has just made his own contribution to this ancient soulful tradition. 

There is a strange and uplifting journey for all of us who trust to let go and begin. Calling all Cancerians! This is our time, these are our people, we come to you…welcome us with open arms and lets all expand and grow with our loved ones but also in our own ways. Set sail and soar with the tides and surf the stars.

Singer/Songwriter/Producer frontman of the Family Stone Sly Stone has Jupiter in Cancer

Always with family members in band,  in the past he signed over royalties to pay for past drug habits, in June 2013 still facing, IRS and management & record company claims. His financial problems forced him to live in a camper that he parks in the street but still records music a laptop. Back in 2001 he was awarded the R&B Foundation Pioneer Award.'I like my small camper, I just do not want to return to a fixed home. I cannot stand being in one place. I must keep moving.'
credits: the Economist & the guardian & chinadaily & new york times

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Jupiter in Gemini Unbound - Talking to the Neighbours

President of South Korea Lee Myung-bak has Jupiter in Gemini. Because of his direct policy towards North Korea he has been used for 'target practice' in the North Korea military. He has been open to foreign policy hosting the G-20 summit in Seoul. North Korea remains technically 'at war' with the US and South Korea, with no peace treaty, only an Amnesty.On the 5th February 2013 North Korea, appears to be getting ready to conduct a nuclear test, on the 12th February 2013. Despite UN sanctions a video was posted on its official website Uriminzokkiri, showing a US city resembling New York engulfed in flames after a missile attack. The bizarre footage, shown as a 'dream' sequence with a 'We are the World' soundtrack and a 
re-unified Korea rules out any current 'talks'. 

Jupiter is not really suited to staying still or come to think of it, Jupiter is not really keen on any restriction of movement at all. Jupiter's tastes will always run towards freedom and unbounded liberty. Sometimes it just doesn't know when to stop, just look at the number of moons it has produced as neighbours - four Galilean Moons for a start, plus 67 other confirmed moons on top of about 16 provisionals. In the vast darkness of time and space Jupiter has gathered a group together and the more the merrier it seems.

Jupiter's four largest moon neighbours, the Galilean satellites, named after Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei, who observed them in 1610. The German astronomer Simon Marius also claimed to have discovered the moons around the same time but he did not publish his Mundus lovialis, Jupiter observations before Galileo. The Moons Io, Europe, Ganymede and Callisto, each distinctive worlds in their own right, are names he gave them. NASA solar system exploration.  

This planet of ‘reach’ and often 'over-reach' has been rather hampered and ham-strung since 6th October, 2012. In effect, Jupiter's orbit has been held back from its forward momentum because it has been going through it's Retrograde phase, appearing to 'go backwards'. On 29th January, 2013 Jupiter started to shake off these reins of restriction and by the 3rd February, 2013 will have galloped off and away into a more energetic forward motion. 

Just before being able to shake off the curfews completely though, Jupiter will become 'Stationary' and will only slowly start to gather and gain speed. In fact, much like a train sitting in the station, a stationary planet has a chance to take a long hard look at the surrounding scenery. There is now an opportunity to catch every detail before it all begins to blur again once the station is left behind, momentum is gained and movement continues a-pace. While stationary we have a chance to really look, feel and understand the train station of ‘Jupiter-unter-Gemini’. Sitting at this junction point, gives us time to examine our options and fully appreciate our surroundings. Willingly or unwilling we are having to really take in the qualities and detail of this area of Jupiter scenery, the uphill and down-dale of our ideas, visions, faith, hope and beliefs.

Turkish Prime Minister Recept Tayyip Erdogan has Jupiter in Gemini
has to negotiate with the Kurds, the Armenians, the Greeks, the Cypriots, the US, the Syrians, the EU, the Israelis and all the other Islamic states. On the 5th February 2013 he criticised the EU for granting membership to south Cyprus, allied and economically linked to bankrupt Greece. The need to establish a
bi-zonal, bi-communal federation in Cyprus between the internationally recognised Greek south and the 'illegal' occupied Turkish north of the island over 38 years ago, intensifies as natural gas wealth is at stake. The trillions of cubic feet of gas lies in Cypriot, Israeli and Lebanese waters and the obvious customer is Turkey, who import nearly all their energy. Talks hampered by the tense politics of the Middle East continue.

Jupiter/Thor/Zeus in Gemini will shift its attention to the Water sign of Cancer in the summer around the 26th June, 2013. Until then, the thunderbolts, rumblings and shakings from the sky will be coming from the Air space of the Twins. Jupiter, the great benefic, naturally rules the sign of Sagittarius and here in Gemini, the polar opposite sign, it is said to be in its detriment as it also is in Virgo, both Mercury ruled. However, in spite of the polarity, Sagittarius and Gemini have a lot in common, it is just the thrust and emphasis may differ. Jupiter's love of expansion will want to focus on just about everything with Gemini's influence but it is communications of all kinds, including technology and information and learning, that will be key. 'Knowledge is Power' say the Twins of Zeus, 'You better believe it' says the Archer - broadcasting that in any language. 

The Bi-lateral relationship between India and Pakistan is even more difficult after 65 years over the Kashmir border disputes. At the beginning of 2013 soldiers in both armies died in clashes along the
 Line of Control (LoC). Both governments blamed each other for provoking the clashes and India accused the Pakistani military of beheading one of its soldiers. 'You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist' said assassinated Prime Minister Indira Ghandi Jupiter in Gemini.
Current Indian Minister of Home Affairs Sushilkumar Shinde also with Jupiter in Gemini had to defend the consequences of his careless use of words 'Hindu terrorism' to describe protests, his aides stating 'sometimes it happens that some words come out of the mouth of an individual inadvertently.' 6th February 2013. 

Jupiter in Gemini may just continue with more meetings, conferences and an ongoing general war of words now it has a forward impetus. Quite possibly we may also have been 'seeing double', dealing with two things at the same time and may continue to do so, which may be a good or a bad thing. Events, ideas, or situations may rarely come as a single item they most probably appear in duplicate. 

The 47th Super Bowl in New Orleans with Jupiter in Gemini on the 3rd February 2013 was between the
Baltimore Ravens & the San Francisco 49'ers but the frenzied media attention centred on the Harbaugh Brothers who faced each other as coaches in what was being called, the 'HarBowl'. There was also an unprecedented 34 minute electrical outage during the game with one half of the Superdome lit and the other in darkness. This was the first Super Bowl to be held in New Orleans since the Superdome had been used as a horrific makeshift shelter for over 20,000 people after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Sandy Hook Elementary School, recovering from their own tragedy, sang America the Beautiful.

Since the Jupiter retrograde started, our ideas, projects and visions may have had to take a bit of a back seat. They were most likely compelled to give way to much more dominant and insistent voices such as ‘all very well but will you really pay the mortgage on that income’ or ‘yes we all would want to give up our job and go live on an island paradise but what about your pension’ and so on and so on. Perhaps now some of those ideas will begin to trickle back into your psyche. Obviously some of those earlier, shelved plans will definitely have needed some re-working during Jupiter's Retrograde phase and that can only be for the good. Maybe now with time and a re-re-look you may discover that a couple of them, Jupiter-en-Twins does do it 2 by 2, may just hold water. Quite possibly even further testing may be needed when you want to launch any of them into the ocean during the Jupiter in Cancer times. Hmm, yet possibly there is a brief glimmer of hope, a smidgen of a rise in passion, a flash of optimism and a mere soupcon of a rise in belief. 'So, what if I took my original idea, pimped it up a bit and then put it out there, ha! that may just work this time, it is worth a shot.'

After a 'war' of over 50 years historic Peace Talks are continuing between FARC rebels
and the Colombian Government, 4th February 2013. Since FARC's guerrilla war began in the 1960's millions have been displaced and tens of thousands have been killed. Over its history, drug-funded FARC has held dozens of ordinary citizens hostage as well as police officers, soldiers, politicians and for 6 years, French-Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt. An untold number of people have simply disappeared. One of the negotiators for FARC in Havana is, Tanja Nijmeijer who has Jupiter in Gemini, a Dutch graduate English teacher, born near the German border, her romantic relationship with FARC leader Mono Joy's nephew and her ideal of 'social justice' made her important to FARC. Her life is in danger as she wrote of her continuing disillusionment with the FARC leadership motives, in her diary.

Jupiter has been in the highly social sign of Gemini from the 11th June, 2012 and will be there until the 25th June, 2013. If Jupiter in Gemini in your birth chart then Jupiter has returned to the place it occupied when you were born and this period of time is also your very own Jupiter Return. Jupiter 'returns' about every 12 years and when it does this time is traditionally seen as a 'lucky' time, a 'happy' time, 'an expansive time' when you have the chance to re-align your life direction towards your interests and passions in order to gain more meaning and pleasure or just open yourself up to more opportunities.

Physical speed, agility, flexibility and movement can be just as important as speed of mental processing and communication. Jupiter in Gemini can sometimes seem like speaking from both sides of the mouth and saying different things, at the same time and both things being valid. 
Some Jupiter in Gemini's are often good at both, simply viewing their skills as just two sides of the same coin. Spinning..call.. heads or tails..aah.  Two sides of the current Euro coin are Germany and France, next door neighbours who have historically on more than one occasion been involved in tragic, brutal war with one another yet now in modern Europe they appear to be holding on to the idea of peace and unity above all else. On the 22nd January 2013, with Jupiter in Gemini both countries celebrated their friendship and alliance by marking the 50th Anniversary of the Elysee Treaty, a timely celebration of bi-lateral relations between the two countries. Interestingly both the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel and the French President, Francois Hollande have their Jupiter's in Cancer, the next sign to step up to the main stage. 
                                                                 German Chancellor Helmut Kohl has Jupiter in Gemini seen as the Father of German re-unification and with French President Mitterrand formulated the Maastricht Treaty leading to the European Union. 
The song 'Göttingen' by Barbara Monique is said to have oddly contributed more to German-French reconciliation than any speech of any politician. 

A French singer of Jewish descent Barbara (real name Monique Serf) was born under a Paris sky
with Jupiter in Gemini

With Jupiter in Gemini chatting to the neighbours, bi-lateral agreements or bi-partisan reconciliations will hopefully bring mutual benefits. We may or may not be able to choose who lives next-door to us or how they may live but we can choose how we can find accord, reach compromises, increase our understanding and develop cordial relationships with those than come into our orbit.

credits: nasa & finland's ovi & BBC News & topfoto & wikepedia & getty images & guardian & channel 4 

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Rogue Traders & Wall Street Wolves - Adoboli/Leeson/Belfort

Ewan McGregor as Nick Leeson in Rogue Trader

On 20th November, 2012 Kweku Adoboli was convicted of the biggest fraud in British history and sentenced to 7 years imprisonment. Adoboli is the latest rogue trader 'to go feral', bloodshot eyes firmly fixed on a computer screen long into the night praying for a miracle. The Swiss global financial giant UBS's U.K investment banking arm was taken to the brink of collapse by this out of control, inexperienced City trader who was recklessly trying to recoup the losses he had incurred by using precious little financial rigour, insurance or safety nets. 

Kweku Adoboli 'wept copiously' during his testimony, 20th November, 2012

This was no ordinary financial deception, this was a chaotic play with money as if it were a board game of Monopoly. Money was being badly juggled with on a enormous scale. UBS money was being shuffled about frantically for two to three years in 'off the books' trading. However, this was real money, in real time, figuring out at £7 billion at one point and ending up as a final loss of £1.5 billion in the courts. His actions also cost some of his fellow traders their jobs, accounted for the resignation of the Chief Executive and the wipe out of £2.7bn ($4.5bn) from UBS share prices. The Judge, on delivering the sentence said that he found Kweku Adoboli to be 'profoundly unselfconscious of his failings'. 
From Adoboli's date and place of birth, a ‘flat chart’ (no birth time), there is a very descriptive picture in place, especially the telling planetary configuration of the T-square involving Mars, Jupiter, possibly the Moon, Sun and Uranus.

Kweku Adoboli Astrology birth chart (source wikipedia/BBC News flat pm)

The Sun is in the sign of the ‘The Trickster’ or ‘The Trader’, namely Gemini. This solar Gemini, the slight-of-hand sign is placed on the critical zero degree. Planets at zero appear to be fresh out of the trap and as such express themselves in a raw, uninhibited, undiluted and unmodified way. It is as if the ‘owner’ of that energy is unsure how to steer all that power, rather like a toddler at the wheel of a Ferrari. The prosecutors had seen Adoboli as an out of control gambler that did not use the financial safety procedures and requirements. One, Sasha Wass told Adoboli that he was an 'accomplished liar; after his explanations on the recorded phone call with the UBS accountant who later also got his reluctant e-mail. 

This Sun is also opposed by Uranus, Lord of the unexpected and master of surprise. This Uranus 'shocker' forms an out-of-sign opposition since it is in 23 degrees of Scorpio. Only a few days before Adoboli’s sentencing there was the Total Eclipse of the Sun at 21 degrees Scorpio, exactly conjoined, his personal Uranus fused with the Eclipse, things would never be the same again for this young man. (Scorpio Solar Eclipse - The Path of Totality). The rising City trader star with the big life style came crashing down to earth in financial chaos despite his big salary and mighty bonuses it was found that he was leaking money all the time and taking out serial payday loans to try and cover his own personal trading losses as well. Before his arrest Adoboli had changed his Facebook status to 'I need a Miracle'. The day he had to confess after being pressed by the UBS accountant Adoboli went to a church near his office to pray.

Adoboli's Sun/Uranus opposition registers his inner restlessness and willful nature, convinced of it’s own ‘Truth’, regardless of what society may think, or say or believe. 

A collegue described him as being 'unfriendly, unpleasant, superior.. with a rule that he should never be asked the same question twice.' This Sun/Uranus line of tension is also aggravated by Mars, Jupiter and possibly the Moon (no birth time), forming a pressuring square aspect to both the Sun and Uranus. His Sun/Uranus opposition is also an indication that for a significant period of his life, Adoboli could have felt like the odd one out. It is possible that he could have felt alienated or even rejected deep down and may have never really felt included. At heart he knew himself to be different. He was born in Ghana, whose annual GDP is £1,000, to a Ghanian U.N official who put him through a £20,000 a year British private education as an overseas boarder and University, where he studied e-commerce and digital business. Recruited by UBS and picked out as a potential 'rising star' he had also come with a need for showy, wild parties and call girls, apparently emulating 'The Wolf Of Wall Street', Jason Belfort.

'The Wolf of Wall Street' and a second book 'Catching the Wolf of Wall Street' are financial trader's, Jordan Belfort own account of his 90's life of drugs, women, yachts, fast cars and earning tens of millions before being sent to prison for defrauding investors. 
                                           
He literally earned thousands of dollars a minute at one point and who then went on binges that ran up $700,000 in hotel bills. His omnipotent and cavalier attitude sank a 170 foot motor yacht, complete with seaplane and helicopter, originally built for Coco Chanel, he overruled the captain and headed into a Mediterranean storm. Belfort has a Grand Trine in Water connecting the Sun, Jupiter and Neptune

Jordan Belfort Astrology birth chart (flat pm)

Grand Trines are an astrological configuration that describes 3 planets all linked together by aspects of 120 degrees. Considered to be 'lucky', mainly they can indicate a spectacular talent but one that is also often prone to misuse. The Grand Trine owner can get so self-absorbed or locked into their own perspective that they can miss or choose to bypass other crucial aspects of life. Whilst having an abundance of gifts these gifts can be squandered, ignored or considered ‘too easy’ to even develop. Consequently, through laziness or sloppiness they can try to take ‘the easy way out’, not wanting to struggle and so progress the aspect. 

Jason Belfort about to hit his own storms

In the water element Jordan Belfort would have an ability to ‘play his hunches’ to intuit or sense the lie of the land, to pick up on themes and grab information as if 'out of nowhere'. Interestingly two of the planets involved in this planetary combination are also 'implicated' in the more challenging T-square aspect possessed by Adoboli, namely the Sun and Jupiter and the other planet in the trio here is Neptune. It is rather like a train going round in a permanent loop refueling at 3 stations, the Sun (his mission, his identity) Jupiter (expansion, amplification, superiority, confidence) and Neptune (yachts, addictions, glamour, fashion, glitz, deception, illusion and delusion). Involved in Adoboli's major configuration, the T-square, is Mars and Uranus (rash action) and shared with his hero Belfort, he also has Mars square Uranus, also conjunct (holding hands) with Venus (love and money).

(2013 Martin Scorsese new film on Belfort with Leonardo di Caprio playing Jordan imbd)

Nick Leeson Astrology birth chart (flat pm) 

Before Adoboli the biggest British banking fraud was committed by another rogue trader Nick Leeson. 

Nick Leeson, broke Barings Bank founded in 1762 subsequently bought by Dutch bank ING for a nominal £1 while Leeson's trading jacket went for thousands on ebay 

He caused the collapse of Barings Bank, then the oldest U.K investment bank by losing £827 million. Nick Leeson also has a Grand Trine in Water, involving Jupiter and Neptune, the third pivot here is Saturn conjunct his Chiron.
                                      
Adoboli's Sun/Uranus inner conflict would have found some release through the square aspect to Mars/Jupiter. His would have discovered his route out of feeling upset and destructive by his alienation could come about by creating an exaggerated, extravagant, overconfident, self-assured persona. The 'Really Big Hot Shot'. Part of this release also included his addiction to gambling, playing the numbers, rolling the dice and testing out his God. Alongside his fraudulent trading life with UBS he was also obsessively 'playing the market' with his private betting account. Mars conjunct Jupiter is one of the classic astrological signatures for the gambler. Such a combination will not easily hear the word ‘No’. It is future orientated, overconfident, and has absolute and total believe in itself. In court one of the prosecutors described Adoboli as a 'narcissistic status-chaser' who tried to to 'claw back his losses with ever more reckless bets'...like most gamblers, he believed he had the magic touch, like most gamblers, when he lost, he caused chaos and disaster to himself and all of those around him.' This could be Mars the risktaker, the initiator, the imperative 'NOW!!' prodding Jupiter the E-X-P-A-N-D-E-R…the stretcher, the planet which sings 'lets-take-it-to-the limit' if there is a limit or 'nothing gonna stop us now' or ever and ever until the end of time. Sure Jupiter will keep on keeping on, that is, until it meets Saturn. In this situation Saturn came looking for Kweku Adoboli dressed in the dark gown of Scorpio. After a two minute phone call, when an subdued, awkard Kweku Adoboli was questioned by a UBS accountant and asked to explain certain strange entries on his trading record everything changed. Adoboli promised to 'come back to you in a few minutes' but walked out of the bank instead. He headed for his £1,000 a week rented loft apartment where he wrote a 'bombshell e-mail' 'I take responsibility for my actions and the shit storm that will now ensue' 

Adoboli is facing 7 years in prison (7 is a Saturn number). Saturn has appeared in the form of a transiting sextile, usually regarded as an ‘easy’ aspect and in fact many believe Adoboli's sentence is a very soft one and much too lenient. He was charged with only two counts of fraud and cleared of four counts of false accounting. Having to do his time may be an imposed opportunity for Mr Adoboli to reflect and reassess his addictive behaviour. His persistent need to roll the dice has cost him his freedom but he has made himself stand out from the crowd by committing the largest fraud in British history and the third largest fraud by a rogue trader of all time. He was also arrested on September 15th, also the 3rd anniversary date of the U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers collapse and just a few days after an independent report called for tighter regulations of British banks in order to stop other potentially catastrophic ‘casino’ banking crimes.
Detective Chief Inspector Stokes of The City of London Police Economic Crime Directorate does not see Adoboli as someone led astray, 'He was the star. He believed he would reach the height at UBS. He is one of the most accomplished fraudsters I have seen in my time in the force. This is not someone who made a mistake. This is someone who has chosen the path he has gone down.' If Kweku Adoboli is giving himself any consolation at this time it may be by remembering that both Nick Leeson and Jordan Belfort are both back in the public arena with box office movies being made about their exploits. Perhaps Kweku Adoboli is wondering who can ghost write his autobiography and which actor he would choose to play out his life on the big screen. 
             
credits: the guardian & nickleeson.com & jordanbelfort.com & sky news & newsecuritylearning.com astrotheme & bbc news & CNN & observer
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