Superbillionaires - Extreme Wealth

[Jim Eshelman]

This morning, Wall Street Journal published a list of the 24 people on Earth known to be "superbillionaires," which is defined as having at least $50 billion.

I have birthdates on all 24. (Conventional references only had a year for Zhong Shanshan, so I checked the Chinese AI DeepSeek, which gave me his full birth date of December 16, 1954, in Hangshou, China.)

I only have birth times on seven of them: Elong Musk, Bernard Arnault, Warren Buffett, S. Robson Walton, Bill Gates, Michael Bloomberg, and Francoise Bettencourt-Meyers. This means we have little information on angularity; sometimes a Moon sign is fuzzy (I listed Sergey Brin as a Taurus Moon, but I bet he was born in the first third of the day and has it in Aries); and, most importantly, this deprives us of mundane aspects. - The charts for which we do have times reinforce how important the mundane aspects can be; but we go with what we have and look to see if we can learn something.

This shouldn't be taken simply as a list of wealthy people (or even super-wealthy people). They have much more in common. Most of them are entrepreneurs, especially in the tech sector (the number of inheritors of wealth, or innovators in other industries, is small). Several factors that emerge are more likely indicators of personal ambition and executive leadership than wealth per se. Especially among the aspects, there are several interesting findings.

[Jim Eshelman]

Luminary signs mostly do not distinguish these people from those of lesser wealth. The one striking stand-out is Moon in Sagittarius, which stands strongly above the rest of the Moon signs. (Each sign should have about two examples, with one-to-three being as statistically normal as can be.)

Possibly the shortage of Virgo luminaries is interesting (which would be due to Virgo not getting terribly excited about wealth in and of itself). For Sun, we have only an heir (her heir brother being the only Taurus), and for Moon we have none at all.

Mostly - other than that Moon in Sagittarius stand-out - luminary signs are more useful for distinguishing the personal style and, often, the specific industry of each superbillionaire. For example, one can note Mark Zuckerberg, the only Libra Moon, as defining social media; the tech-heavy leaning of Aquarius Suns, with Michael Bloomberg (Aquarius-Capricorn) specifically identified with bring technical analysis to finance; the flamboyant Leo Moon personalities of Elon Musk and Steve Ballmer and booming lion-sized egos of Larry Ellison, Sergey Brtin, and Warren Buffett; and so forth (researching each of them individually might be fun).

Sun in the Constellations
Tau (1) - James Walton
Gem (3) - Elon Musk, Francoise Bettencourt-Meyers, Gautam Adani
Can (0) -
Leo (3) - Lawrence Ellison, Sergey Brin, Warren Buffett
Vir (1) - Alice Walton
Lib (3) - S. Robson Walton, Bill Gates, Charles Koch
Sco (0) -
Sag (2) - Jeff Bezos, Zhong Shanshan
Cap (0) -
Aqu (4) - Bernard Arnault, Jensen Huang, Michael Bloomberg, Michael Dell
Pis (4) - Steven Ballmer, Amancio Ortega, Lawrence Page, Julia Koch
Ari (3) - Mark Zuckerberg, Mukesh Ambani, Prajogo Pangestu

Quadruplicities are fairly even at Hub 8, Spoke 10 , Rim 6.
In triplicities, the Egalitarian (Air, 10) and Imperial (Fire, 8) signs heavily outweigh the Fertile (Earth, 2) and Enigma (Water, 4) signs.

Moon in the Constellations
Tau (3) - Sergey Brin, James Walton, Amancio Ortega
Gem (1) - Francoise Bettencourt-Meyers
Can (2) - Lawrence Ellison, Julia Koch
Leo (3) - Elon Musk, Steven Ballmer, Zhong Shanshan
Vir (0) -
Lib (1) - Mark Zuckerberg
Sco (3) - Warren Buffett, Jensen Huang, Michael Dell
Sag (5) - Jeff Bezos, Lawrence Page, Mukesh Ambani, Charles Koch, Prajogo Pangestu
Cap (1) - Michael Bloomberg
Aqu (2) - S. Robson Walton, Gautam Adani
Pis (2) - Alice Walton, Bill Gates
Ari (1) - Bernard Arnault

Quadruplicities aren't even, but their variances aren't great: Hub 11, Spoke 8, Rim 5 has no statistically significant examples. Similarly, triplicities are not unusual, although the Sagittarius extreme artificially boosts Imperial signs (despite average Leo and negligible Aries).

[Jim Eshelman]

With only seven timed births, we can't rely on anything we might draw from angularity counts. The only thing that catches my attention is that none of the seven had an angular Jupiter. This could mean nothing, or might mean something.

I think the fact that these 24 people have over $50 billion to their name suggests that, while they are pretty darn good at acquiring money, they are even better at keeping it. Of the personal finance people, I would expect them to be Mars (competition) and Saturn (retention) types than Jupiter types (acquiring), though there obviously has to be a lot of Jupiter going around, too. It would, of course, be great to have birth times on all of them.

[Jim Eshelman]

Unsurprisingly (based on previous work), the most interesting figures are in the aspects. Here are all the Class 1 major aspects (including major hard mundane aspects for the seven timed charts). Remember that the Moon aspects are a little fuzzy because, for 70% of the charts, we only have noon positions of Moon.

• 11 - Venus-Saturn
• 8 - Venus-Pluto
• 7 - Moon-Sun, Venus-Neptune, Saturn-Neptune
• 6 - Jupiter-Neptune
• 5 - Moon-Mercury, Moon-Mars, Moon-Uranus, Moon-Pluto, Mercury-Mars, Mercury-Saturn, Mercury-Pluto, Venus-Mars, Mars-Saturn, Jupiter-Saturn
• 4 - Moon-Venus, Sun-Mars, Sun-Saturn, Sun-Neptune, Mars-Jupiter, Jupiter-Uranus, Jupiter-Pluto
• 3 - Moon-Jupiter, Moon-Saturn, Moon-Neptune, Sun-Mercury, Sun-Jupiter, Sun-Uranus, Sun-Pluto, Mars-Uranus, Mars-Pluto, Saturn-Uranus
• 2 - Sun-Venus, Mercury-Venus, Mercury-Jupiter, Venus-Jupiter, Saturn-Pluto
• 1 - Mercury-Uranus, Mercury-Neptune, Venus-Uranus, Mars-Neptune

Most obvious is that Venus-Saturn aspects stand out as the one truly outstanding aspect - exactly as I have seen in earlier studies of particularly wealthy people. If even one more person in this list has a mundane Venus-Saturn aspect, then at least half of these 24 people have it, which is a shockingly high number. In the book-in-progress, I wrote of this aspect:

Venus-Saturn is the most common aspect for great wealth. For example, close Venus-Saturn conjunctions, oppositions, and squares (the most distinctive for great wealth, whether earned or inherited) occurred at the births of Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Warren Buffet, Oprah Winfrey, Jacqueline Onassis, John D. Rockefeller, Thomas Edison, Donald Trump, several heirs and heiresses (including monarchs and royal and aristocratic heirs), and many of the wealthiest of earlier eras – plus the predictable slew of wealthy celebrities. Adding close trines and sextiles, we find Steve Jobs, Cecil Rhodes, Julio Gallo, Grace Kelly, Eva Peron, more notable royals and other heirs to wealth, and, especially, more celebrities, often of considerable celebration and dazzle.

Why is this aspect consistent with wealth? In addition to expressing commonly as an afflicted Venus, the combination also shows an auspiciously aspected Saturn. Where Jupiter-Saturn acts in part as an affliction to Jupiter (a financial planet), Venus has nothing to do with money per se. Venus-Saturn favorably aspects Saturn with-out afflicting a money-themed planet.

In many cases, practical circumstances are consistent with the more common interpretations of Venus-Saturn: Success and wealth may come at a high personal cost, though this is not inevitable. Once wealth is attained, Venus-Saturn has a prudence (a spirit of sacrifice) that is likely to retain it.

Equally interesting is that Jupiter-Pluto aspects are entirely ordinary. This is another aspect that historically has shown significant wealth, but it doesn't seem to distinguish the superbillionaire category. I suspect their wealth is as roller-coaster as lesser billionaires (being heavily entrenched in the stock market), but I suppose they don't cycle in and out of their extreme wealth noticeably. For most characteristics of the aspect, I would have expected a stronger showing, but didn't get it. Those few with it include three soft aspects (Elon Musk, Sergey Brin, and Charles Koch) and Bill Gates' conjunction.

Interestingly, Venus-Pluto comes next. This wasn't evident in earlier studies. Tropical astrologers would love to see this, I think, because it implies a 2nd-8th House axis in their model. I don't think that's the real reason, of course. When I see Venus-Saturn and Venus-Pluto as the two top aspects, I have to first think about the personal cost in emotional happiness. (I'm sure this much money brings a lot of happiness, but one has to ask also about the personal cost.) I don't know the details of married life for most of these figures, but it might be worth looking at that.

Seven Moon-Sun aspects probably are about their executive standing, personal ambition, wielding of power, etc. more than wealth per se. This list includes Musk, Arnault, Brin, Buffet, Ambani, Koch - and Jim Walton, a possible exception, who AFAIK is not heavily involved in running Walmart.

Ting Moon-Sun are Saturn-Neptune aspects. This is a paradoxical aspect: Many with it are fairly indifferent to material wealth, though this isn't true of all of them. The one shining excellence of Saturn-Neptune is the ability to bridge the practical and material, to bring real solutions from their imagination (vision); and most of them navigate this really well. Despite the extreme negativity that can come from the aspect, most people more or less "get it right" and make good creative use of it. All but one of these seven aspects is a hard aspect (Warren Buffett being the exception), viz., Musk, Ortega, Huang, heiress Julia Hock, Francoise Bettencourt, and Adani.

Venus-Neptune is less clear. Is this the "they can sell refrigerators to Eskimos" side of the aspect, or something more subtle? We do find a founder of Google on this list, two Walmart heirs, and a Koch heir among others, so perhaps it is the salesmanship; but it can also be something about what their personal lives are actually like. (Again, a surplus of Venus aspects to Saturn, Pluto, and Neptune speak of less than ideal personal lives.)

As we move from the very strongest (most common) aspects, we encounter Jupiter-Neptune next. In the past I have found that, when this brings wealth, it tends to be famous wealth, often old-school massive wealth, in the sense of Getty, Morgan, Rhodes, Hefner, and Musk. (This is aside from the likelihood of wealth from entertainment, including massive success in film.) I suppose it's no surprise that today's uber-rich would be the new generational wealth monopolists. I don't think the occurrence of six Jupiter-Neptune aspects (half hard, half soft) is too important.

The range of three-to-five examples are the average range. I will remark only that nearly all the aspects that occurred five times are consistent with general success in business, especially creative and entrepreneurial business. You can sort these out for yourself, looking aspect to aspect.

Those that occurred only two times are no surprise, being lazy or inattentive. Those that occurred only once share a tendency to be easily distracted and unfocussed, looking at every new thing that comes along. (Mars-Neptune so low was a little surprising until I started to think of it in terms of distractibility and sideline obsessions.)

[Arena]

Well. I looked into this a few years back, and the Jupiter-Pluto aspects were clearly the winners. I might look into this list to see all the aspects thatI took into the equation at the time.

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[Arena]

Elon Musk:
Jup conj Neptune
Jup opp Saturn
Jup sq Mars
Jup sextile Pluto

(Asc conj Mer in Jupiter's exaltation degree in tropical zodiac).

Bernard Arnault:
Jup trine Moon
Jup quinc Uranus
Venus opp Saturn

(Venus exalted in tropical zodiac).

Warren Buffet:
Jup sq Uranus and conj Pluto... wide square to Venus.
Venus conj MC and sq Pluto.

(Jupiter exalted by degree in tropical zodiac).

Rob Watson:
Jup opp Moon
Jup sq Uranus

Venus trine Pluto
Venus sextile Nep

Bill Gates:
Jup partile conj. Pluto
Jup sextile Nep
Jup wide sq Ven&Sat.

Venus conj Saturn.

Michael Bloomberg;
Jup trine Venus, Mer & Moon
Jup sextile Pluto

Ven opp Pluto
Ven trine Nep

Francoise Bettencourt-Meyers:
Jup sextile Mer

[Jim Eshelman]

Since the Jupiter aspects seem to be your focus, here are the Class 1 Jupiter aspects for all of these (the level at which statistical significance tends to drop off in historic major aspects studies) - plus the Venus-Saturn aspects since they own the show.

Elon Musk: Ju-Sa op, Ju-Ne co, Ju-Pl sx
Jeff Bezos: Ve-Sa co
Bernard Arnault: Ve-Sa op
Larry Ellison: Ve-Sa sx, Ju-Sa sx
Mark Zuckerberg: Ve-Ju tr, Ve-Sa op, Ju-Sa sx
Sergey Brin: Ve-Ju tr, Ve-Sa sq, Ma-Ju sq, Ju-Ne sx, Ju-Pl tr
Steve Ballmer: (none)
Warren Buffett: Ve-Sa sq (mundo), Ju-Ur sq
Jim Walton: Ju-Ur op
S. Robson Walton: Mo-Ju op (mundo), Ju-Sa sq (mundo)
Amancio Ortega: Mo-Ju op, Me-Ju sq, Ve-Sa co, Ma-Ju tr
Alice Walton: Mo-Ju sq
Jensen Huang (none)
Bill Gates: Su-Ju sq (mundo), Ve-Sa co, Ju-Sa sx, Ju-Pl co
Michael Bloomberg: (none)
Larry Page: Su-Ju sx, Ju-Ne sx
Mukesh Ambani: Ma-Ju sq
Charles Koch: Ju-Pl tr
Julia Koch: Ve-Sa sq
Francoise Bettencourt-Meyers: Ma-Ju sq (mundo), Ju-Ur sq (mundo)
Gautam Adani: Me-Ju sq, Ve-Sa op, Ju-Ne tr
Michael Dell: Ju-Ne op
Zhong Shanshan: Ve-Sa co, Ju-Ur co, Ju-Ne sq
Prajogo Pangestu: Su-Ju sq