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.)