Solunars by Aldebaran Sidereal Academy

(Aug 29, 2011)

It doesn't take an astrologer to deduce that Steve Jobs' resignation this week as CEO of Apple was a clue that his recent health problems were accelerating. (He did specifically say that he was unable to continue in the job.) But an astrologer can appreciate the way the universe is communicating about the events in his life.

Jobs recently had a progressed New Moon (and, in 5 months, that Moon will cross his Descendant). His progressed Eastpoint is about half a degree shy of his progressed Saturn.

But, for timing, his Sidereal Lunar Return was right on the button. Here's his current SLR for Cupertino:
The implications are clear enough from this, but become even clearer when we look at the SLR as a mundoscope:
His Pisces Moon (in the same degree as Bill Gates' Moon, btw) seems to have been the culprit for his pancreatic cancer. (See Pavarotti and others - I've nearly always seen this with a Virgo-Pisces, and especially Pisces, placement.)

We wish him well in whatever comes next.

I meant that in every case I've ever seen and can remember of death from pancreatic cancer, the natal horoscope had a luminary in Virgo or Pisces, usually Pisces.

That's not the same, of course, as saying that every Pisces luminary will have pancreatic cancer!

The aspects above are in the current lunar return, not the birth chart.

(Oct 6, 2011)

I don't have a time yet for Steve Jobs' death yesterday (October 5, 2011), though the press announcements started circulating between 4:00 and 5:00 PM. It obviously was sooner and, functionally, we might use noon.

August 29 Demi-Solar had natal Saturn setting, transiting Mercury on the Nadir.

September 13 SLR had natal Saturn minutes from the MC and transiting Mars about 2° below the Descendant in mundo.

September 27 Demi-SLR had natal sun 8' from the IC and natal Saturn rising.

Natal Saturn was, for him, the consistent presence in all of these charts. (Same with his Kinetic Lunar Return. The Demi-KLR had progressed Mars on the Midheaven instead.)

Jim Eshelman wrote:I don't have a time yet for Steve Jobs' death yesterday (October 5, 2011), though the press announcements started circulating between 4:00 and 5:00 PM. It obviously was sooner and, functionally, we might use noon.

The death time was eventually released as 3:00 PM. The formal cause of death was respiratory arrest.