News just broke about Bill and Melinda Gates divorcing after 27 years of marriage and it sent shockwaves around the world. They seemed like a solid couple, and have been very much in the public eye, mainly for their charity foundation.
No scandals, no rumours. So what happened?
I'm posting his natal and hers, which unfortunately does not have a known time of birth, in a synastry chart, plus the composite of the relationship and progressed composite to shed light on "why now"?
He is a scorpio sun with an out of sign conjunction wth Neptune, and a square to Uranus sitting on his ascendent. This describes him as a male figure. A dreamer, maybe not very practical, but very intense, and also rebellious and unreliable because of his unpredictable changes of course. Chiron on his descendent completes a T-square of these important planets. Of course, we would expect a man who has been the wealthiest self-made man in the world to have something unique in his chart. He also has mars/mercury conjunction giving him a good mind but making him a little sharp, impatient and irritable.The conjunction falls near his IC, so we would expect his family life to suffer from this.
His moon in self-oriented independent Aries opposes mars, and makes him moody to say the least.
Moon also rules his ascendent, and of course symbolises the women he is attracted to.
And these tense inner energies are all coated over by his comfy cancer ascendent
So who knew? The Bill Gates who looks publicly like a gentle teddy bear is really a grizzly bear!
Unfortunate we don't have Melinda's ascendent, but we know she has a leo sun that squares her Jupiter. This describes the men in her life. But Leo square Jupiter has little in common with Bill's chart!
She also has a close Venus/mars conjunction which gives her sexual energy, in cancer also ties her closely to family values, but this conjunction falls in Bill's 12th house. So her sexual expression towards him is expressed in a hidden way, not openly, and probably the sexual element before marriage was a hidden strong magnetic force that drew them together.
This is heightened by the fact that her conjunction is in a close square to his moon/mars opposition. So even though she apparently doesn't have "mars" qualities as a woman, she unconsciously triggers his desire for the female side of her, and provoking a sexual expression.
Mars square mars can be literally a War of the Roses in a marriage, the two are pulling in different directions and interacting in a way of continuous provocation.
They ignite each other. Her Venus in the equation can help coat things over with gentle loving care, but she won't always be tuned into that energy to smooth things over.
What we do see as a helping hand is his Jupiter on her sun, he will give way to her often out of generosity. But he also has powerful pluto there, so it is a type of velvet glove that he uses to exert his authority, but in a kind way.
His disciplinary Saturn almost exactly squares her sun, making not a few demands on her.
Notice where her sun lies, in his 2nd. Which happens to be the money house of one of the richest men on the planet! Her ego is tied into that money. And he squares her on it, from his 5th house. He will use their children to keep her in her place.
We can't be sure of where her moon is without knowing her birth time, the chart I did is for noon, and it puts moon at the end of scorpio. Given his moon/mars opposition that seeks a "mars" woman, the odds are that her moon is in reality in scorpio, and if it is early enough it conjuncts his Venus, which would form a close tie and go a long long way towards softening the harsh aspects we saw earlier.
In the composite chart that shows the nature of the relationship, we shouldn't be surprised to see a mars/uranus conjunction. These two really went at it behind the closed doors! And the conjunction opposes Chiron that symbolises the suffering they must have both gone through all these years.
To add further fuel to the conjunction, transformational pluto is not far away.
Venus trine Saturn tells us why they lasted so long.
And the sun/mercury represents the image we have of them, intellectually aligned and on the same track mentally.
So why now? It's been 27 years, why not just go on.
Looking at the progressed composite, moon is just about conjunct Neptune of divorce. Keeping in mind her moon could be slightly different from the noon chart posted, it still indicates why now. Mercury exactly squares pluto, just blowing up mentally. And Saturn/jupiter are in opposition.
And progressed composite sun at the end of its sign is about to change, showing the change in the relationship, from a marriage state to singles.
And Uranus is exactly in the degree of the nodes, showing an inevitable divorce.
The couple is worth countless billions, and there was no prenuptial agreement. We will see how the money works out, with her sun in his money house, conjunct his pluto/jupiter but square Saturn. One hand reaching out while the other pulls back!
This is a perfect example of how difficult it is to judge a couple from the outside, appearances can be very deceptive.
There are some recent videos of them and you can see their body language clearly expressing their emotional separation.
Mars square mars can be quite lethal.
No scandals, no rumours. So what happened?
I'm posting his natal and hers, which unfortunately does not have a known time of birth, in a synastry chart, plus the composite of the relationship and progressed composite to shed light on "why now"?
He is a scorpio sun with an out of sign conjunction wth Neptune, and a square to Uranus sitting on his ascendent. This describes him as a male figure. A dreamer, maybe not very practical, but very intense, and also rebellious and unreliable because of his unpredictable changes of course. Chiron on his descendent completes a T-square of these important planets. Of course, we would expect a man who has been the wealthiest self-made man in the world to have something unique in his chart. He also has mars/mercury conjunction giving him a good mind but making him a little sharp, impatient and irritable.The conjunction falls near his IC, so we would expect his family life to suffer from this.
His moon in self-oriented independent Aries opposes mars, and makes him moody to say the least.
Moon also rules his ascendent, and of course symbolises the women he is attracted to.
And these tense inner energies are all coated over by his comfy cancer ascendent
So who knew? The Bill Gates who looks publicly like a gentle teddy bear is really a grizzly bear!
Unfortunate we don't have Melinda's ascendent, but we know she has a leo sun that squares her Jupiter. This describes the men in her life. But Leo square Jupiter has little in common with Bill's chart!
She also has a close Venus/mars conjunction which gives her sexual energy, in cancer also ties her closely to family values, but this conjunction falls in Bill's 12th house. So her sexual expression towards him is expressed in a hidden way, not openly, and probably the sexual element before marriage was a hidden strong magnetic force that drew them together.
This is heightened by the fact that her conjunction is in a close square to his moon/mars opposition. So even though she apparently doesn't have "mars" qualities as a woman, she unconsciously triggers his desire for the female side of her, and provoking a sexual expression.
Mars square mars can be literally a War of the Roses in a marriage, the two are pulling in different directions and interacting in a way of continuous provocation.
They ignite each other. Her Venus in the equation can help coat things over with gentle loving care, but she won't always be tuned into that energy to smooth things over.
What we do see as a helping hand is his Jupiter on her sun, he will give way to her often out of generosity. But he also has powerful pluto there, so it is a type of velvet glove that he uses to exert his authority, but in a kind way.
His disciplinary Saturn almost exactly squares her sun, making not a few demands on her.
Notice where her sun lies, in his 2nd. Which happens to be the money house of one of the richest men on the planet! Her ego is tied into that money. And he squares her on it, from his 5th house. He will use their children to keep her in her place.
We can't be sure of where her moon is without knowing her birth time, the chart I did is for noon, and it puts moon at the end of scorpio. Given his moon/mars opposition that seeks a "mars" woman, the odds are that her moon is in reality in scorpio, and if it is early enough it conjuncts his Venus, which would form a close tie and go a long long way towards softening the harsh aspects we saw earlier.
In the composite chart that shows the nature of the relationship, we shouldn't be surprised to see a mars/uranus conjunction. These two really went at it behind the closed doors! And the conjunction opposes Chiron that symbolises the suffering they must have both gone through all these years.
To add further fuel to the conjunction, transformational pluto is not far away.
Venus trine Saturn tells us why they lasted so long.
And the sun/mercury represents the image we have of them, intellectually aligned and on the same track mentally.
So why now? It's been 27 years, why not just go on.
Looking at the progressed composite, moon is just about conjunct Neptune of divorce. Keeping in mind her moon could be slightly different from the noon chart posted, it still indicates why now. Mercury exactly squares pluto, just blowing up mentally. And Saturn/jupiter are in opposition.
And progressed composite sun at the end of its sign is about to change, showing the change in the relationship, from a marriage state to singles.
And Uranus is exactly in the degree of the nodes, showing an inevitable divorce.
The couple is worth countless billions, and there was no prenuptial agreement. We will see how the money works out, with her sun in his money house, conjunct his pluto/jupiter but square Saturn. One hand reaching out while the other pulls back!
This is a perfect example of how difficult it is to judge a couple from the outside, appearances can be very deceptive.
There are some recent videos of them and you can see their body language clearly expressing their emotional separation.
Mars square mars can be quite lethal.