Marjorie Orr

Author: Marjorie. Date: 05 Jul 2010

Another Cardinal Grand Square of a very definite variety on the angles belonged to Simon Bolivar, regarded in Latin America as a hero, visionary, revolutionary and liberator. In the early Nineteenth Century he led Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru and Venezuela to independence, and helped lay the foundations for democratic ideology in most of Hispanic America. He was highly educated and enlightened, a supporter of the American and French Revolutions and staunchly anti-slavery.
Born on 24 July 1783 at 10pm in Caracas, Venezuela, he had a fractured childhood with his military father dying when he was three and his mother when he was nine.
He was a 5th house Sun Leo so flamboyant and quite a showman with his Sun in a determined opposition to Pluto. But it is his Saturn in Capricorn conjunct his Midheaven opposition Uranus Mercury in Cancer on the nadir/IC square Mars in Aries conjunct his Ascendant opposition Neptune conjunct his Descendant which really defines his life.
Saturn in Capricorn hints at a difficult early life and conjunct his Midheaven would make him a good organiser, suited to executive power. His courageous and reckless Mars in Aries on his Asc would make him forceful and square Uranus no stranger to danger and keen to take risks. Visionary Neptune added into the Grand Square would focus his energies towards fulfilling his dream. Though with that mix of planets he could also have turned out rather nasty. His communicative 3rd house Gemini Moon squared onto a Venus in Virgo opposition Pisces North Node - again hinting at his need to be fulfilled through public service and acclaim.
He's also got an Earth Grand Trine of Jupiter trine Venus trine Chiron in Taurus. With his Chiron in a tight sextile to his Pisces North Node so again his faith in his actions proved a healing source.
He also has a Mystic Rectangle - two sextiles, two oppositions and two trines. Mars sextile Pluto and Neptune sextile Sun; with Sun opp Pluto and Neptune opp Mars; and Neptune trine Pluto and Sun trine Mars. This configuration is not easy to handle since the oppositions tend to send the individual one to one extreme or the other. But he clearly found a way of balancing them to work together.
What an interesting chart.

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