\nAssange has previously been a thorn in the side of the Australian government. True to his maverick tendencies, Assange formed a hacker group at the age of 16 called \u201cThe International Subversives\u201d. A few years later he was arrested for amongst other things hacking into the Pentagon, but was released with a fine on condition of good behavior. The fact that his father left before he was born, and subsequent stepfathers also abandoned his mother, and that he had moved 30 times up to this point were seen as mitigating circumstances. His disruptive childhood indicates just how \u201csubversive\u201d the Sun in the 8th square Uranus can be.<\/p>\n
Assange refers to his birth time as around 3 pm which gives an Ascendant in Sagittarius, which seems appropriate for a man who has travelled widely and receive so much international recognition on the one hand and opprobrium on the other.<\/p>\n
Freedom and Totalitarianism<\/strong> “\u2026 our greatest tool for emancipation, (which) has been transformed into the most dangerous facilitator of totalitarianism we have ever seen\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n This concern with totalitarianism is reflected by the strongest aspect in his horoscope \u2013 Jupiter retrograde in Scorpio sextile Pluto within 8 minutes of arc. The Saturn\/Neptune opposition keys into this sextile, which probably evokes a great need to reveal deception by fair means or foul.<\/p>\n WikiLeaks and the 2016 Election<\/strong> \u201cHillary lacks judgement and will push the United States into endless, stupid wars which spread terrorism. …\u00a0she certainly should not become president of the United States.”<\/em>[<\/sup><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n It should perhaps be mentioned though, that he also said that choosing between Trump and Clinton is like choosing between cholera and gonorrhea, so Assange was not a supporter of Trump either. Nevertheless, he was a willing dupe of Russian Intelligence during the 2016 election, who selectively supplied WikiLeaks with the mails which compromised the Democratic Party (and supplied none compromising other parties.) Assange freely admitted that the WikiLeaks website received information related to the Democratic Party and Clinton political campaign, but never received any information on Trump, and therefore \u201ccould not publish what they did not have\u201d. (Note 1.)<\/p>\n Echoes of Watergate<\/strong> Rape and Molestation Charge<\/strong> The alleged sexual episodes took place in late 2010, when Assange was invited to stay the night. He has portrayed one of the women, who he is accused of raping, as someone who virtually stalked him, which fits nicely with the Venus\/Pluto imagery. Anglo-Swedish astrologer Mark Beal, who has access to the birth dates of the women concerned, points out that this woman has a Mars\/Venus conjunction in Leo opposing his Mars\u2026 so there was plenty of attraction there. (The other woman had Venus conjoining his Mars!)<\/p>\n The Progressed Mars\/Venus opposition Working in Isolation For those interested in harmonic horoscopes, Assange\u2019s Moon conjoins Mars, Saturn and Mercury in the 7th harmonic, which suggests he can discipline himself to do the work he needs to do, as long as there are open communication channels. And with Mercury at 24 Cancer \u2013 yes, exactly the position of US Mercury \u2013 in trine to Jupiter in Scorpio, he works well and fluidly, streaming all those secrets, which were never intended to see the light of day, onto the international arena. Nothing will stop him doing that; he is good at it and he does not care what the consequences are, because the big picture as he sees it, is that enemy forces are manipulating truth and illegally gathering information.<\/p>\n![\"Julian](\"https:\/\/www.astrowow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Assange-1.png\")
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\nJulian Assange: July 3, 1971. 15.00 Townsville, Australia AS 1.59 SG<\/em><\/p>\n
\nNeptune conjoins the Ascendant and Saturn in Gemini exactly conjoins the Descendant, so Assange channels the rare 35-year Saturn\/Neptune opposition, which evokes a profound sense of isolation coupled with the feeling of being in a world opposed by authority figures who manipulate channels of communication. Of the Internet, he has said it is:<\/p>\n
\nAssange \u2013 as editor-in-chief of the whistleblower website WikiLeaks<\/em> \u2013 is himself a master manipulator of secret information. He has admitted to intentionally disrupting Hillary Clinton\u2019s campaign with a timed trickle of embarrassing emails from Clinton herself as well as her closest advisors, basically sucking the oxygen out of her presidency bid right up to the last days of the election. Clinton, who Assange claims advocated his indictment for treason, was considered by him to be a personal enemy, and in February 2016 he wrote:<\/p>\n
\nIt is quite possible that we have not heard the last concerning the Russian hack on the Democratic Party during the course of 2015 and 2016. The resemblance to Watergate is striking, although this time the break-in was virtual rather than physical, and the documents stolen of far greater volume. Watergate escalated during the trine between Saturn and Uranus, which is a 45-year cycle that repeats in 2017-2018. Clearly Trump is not going to instigate an investigation, but Congress might.<\/p>\n
\nOn the subject of gonorrhea, it is an unusually sexualized metaphor to use for Hillary Clinton, and as such reflects the most difficult and unconscious influence in his horoscope, which is Venus square Pluto straddling the 8th and 11th house cusps respectively. This aspect is his Achilles Heel, and it is no coincidence that his current exile in the Ecuadorian embassy in London is the result of sexual molestation claims by two<\/em> Swedish women (he has Venus in Gemini), whose beds he shared. Venus also conjoins Ceres, which is like a mother\/daughter complex, and both have a strong aversion to Pluto (who, as Hades, swept the daughter of Demeter, Persephone, into the Underworld, where he ravished her.)<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>It is interesting to note that Assange\u2019s Venus has progressed in 2010 to 14 Leo just before conjoining his South Node, whilst his progressed Mars had retrograded to 16 Aquarius, going on to oppose Venus on the nodal axis over the subsequent two years. It was in this period that Assange left Sweden to be subsequently arrested in London and finally in 2012 seek asylum in the Ecuador embassy. This extraordinary planetary combination indicates the fated nature of these unfortunate sexual encounters, evoked by the opposition by progression of Venus with his rather cold and remote Mars. Probably, the conjunction of Mars with the Node in Aquarius, which at the time of writing is completely exact to the minute of arc, indicates the sanctuary this cyber warrior has found in the untouchable status of a foreign embassy.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>That Assange has now spent four years in a small self-contained area of the Ecuador embassy in London comes as no surprise considering his chart, which has the Moon in fall and intercepted in the 12th House. It\u2019s a prison cell of sorts, but for someone who travels in the hidden corners of cyberspace, it\u2019s a life.<\/p>\n