Bannon a man of all places
Bannon is almost mythic. He was a Navy SEAL, an investment banker with Goldman Sachs, a Hollywood filmmaker, producer of many Seinfeld episodes, which he owns, Breitbart publisher and now a senior advisor for President Donald J. Trump.
After a few years at Goldman Sachs, Bannon, in 1990, launched his boutique investment bank, Bannon, and Company and helped Huffington Post go IPO. In between Goldman and being bought out by Societe Generale, he ran Biosphere II after its initial failure because scientists had created a glut of organic material like peat and compost in the soil inside the domes that set off an explosive growth of oxygen-eating bacteria. Bannon was integral to rekeying focus on how to balance that bacteria, so the Biosphere project could be sustainable and successful.
From there, he became an executive producer of several big hit movies ranging from the Oscar-nominated “Titus,” starring Anthony Hopkins, to the Cold War documentary “In the Face of Evil,” and underwrote many of the early episodes of Seinfeld.
Investing new media
He met Andrew Breitbart when the latter, also a resident of Southern California, was launching his eponymous news website in the early 2000s. The two joined forces, and the networked Bannon provided office space and investors.
Following Breitbart’s sudden death on March 01 2012 in LA, from heart failure at age 43, Bannon took over as executive chairman of the website and oversaw its relaunch. Today, Breitbart News draws about 21 million unique visitors per month and has podcasts on itunes. It was a central web force in generating animosity toward House Speaker John Boehner, driving the Speaker from office. When Bannon joined Trump’s White House, Boehner focused his wrath on the two bemoaning Bannon’s mistreatment.
The Chart
There is no known birth time for Mr. Bannon’s birth date of November 27, 1953, in Norfolk Virginia, so we have rectified it to 10:59 AM that is 02.07 Aquarius the essential lord of which is Jupiter & Pluto.¹ It has a poignant symbol of a “Deserter from the Navy” that Marc Jones writes “symbolises his independence carried to the point of rebellion for the sake of the immediate liberation of the spirit.” But on a deeper level, the Ascendant falling in the Twelfth House suggests that Bannon undermines his own success — perhaps pushing it too far.
He is a bucket with a Jupiter handle, making him an experience junkie who captures activities that have started by others and then brings them to consummation. Jupiter is dignified by term giving his handle extra prominence and as it is a semisextile away from the Lord of his Chart makes it and Uranus work in tandem in seeing and capturing opportunities almost preternaturally 1 Or at least Rob Reiner thinks so about Bannon’s capitalization of Seinfeld.
Another rarity he has, is his Unaspected Saturn in the Ninth House suggesting that he decides on imporant issues in an all or nothing manner, when he senses that his aim isin peril. Click here to read more about Bannon & Unaspected Planets.
His 03 Aquarius Ascendant suggests he is an extreme individualist, with a disregard of the consequences and constraints of the societal polemic on his actions. This makes him a demanding personality that “does not flourish into responsible action”¹ until the native gets his “wake up call.” That call would literally be his separated Moon, ruled by the Archangel Gabriel, and exact to fixed star Regulus at 28 Leo, that called him out of his selfish stupor.
Leo 28 is a tree felled and sawed and a symbol of employment of the lesser for the greater good and the individuals ability to rise in a crisis to the center of attention by pressing forward the functions and necessities valuable to overall life. The Keyword is Immediacy and suggests positivitely man’s enthusiastic emphasis to mobilize those around him, but negatively tells of popular disregard by of other’s lack of vision.
On the other side of the “gap” is Bannon’s Mars at 16 Libra “a boat landing washed away” that heralds the sudden awakening which from the many accounts online — there is no written biography of him — suggest happened about thirteen years ago when he became a born-again Roman Catholic thanks to the efforts of actor-evangelist James Patrick Caviezel.
A stellium of planets dominates
The Uranian literary society is the semi-sextile to his Pluto / Moon conjunction in his seventh house. This agreement between the three planets is not to Bannon’s advantage; chances are his partners have a hard time living up to his expectations, and he is far too critical and exacting for their peace of mind. Perhaps this aspect is the reasons for his two acrimonious divorces.
That sextile in the partnership house brings us back to the Part of Fortune of the Autumnal Leaf and the square his Sun at 06 Sagittarius for a continuing game of cricket. Like Sir Donald the great batsman himself, Mr. Bannon learns from his mistakes as squares are strict teachers that force the native to do their work otherwise boxing them into a Sisyphean world of endless sorrow. Alas not everyone shows sportsmanship in losing or the willingness to learn from them, but Bannon can.
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Footnotes:
The Morinus House System, proposed by Morin De Villefranche, a seventeenth-century astrologer, the astrological houses are divided equally onto the equator thus separating the Rising Sign from the Rising Degree. Australian astrologer David Cope fixed that problem with his Meridian system. Both systems can be used in any latitude unlike the Porphyry, Placidus, Koch and Regiomontus. See our article on House systems for more including an example chart of Wendell Willkie here.
Thus the ascendant is not always either on the cusp of the first house or in the first house and two, there are not any intercepted houses. Author Tracy Porter from a post in 1996, likes intercepted houses and writes about their value here; we disagree and have dropped them mostly.
Footnotes:
- 1Or at least Rob Reiner thinks so about Bannon’s capitalization of Seinfeld.