Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon, is in a sad tangle with his family. His adult children claim he is in cognitive decline due to dementia; while he is counter-suing them for elder exploitation and fraud, accusing them of “slander” for suggesting he has Alzheimer’s. His suit accuses them of interfering in his personal emotional relationships and forbidding him to marry; while they have suggested that his legal action against them is the product of an unnamed third party, not their father.
He was born 20 January 1930 2.17pm Glen Ridge, New Jersey, with a career military father. His mother committed suicide the year before his Moon landing, as her father had done before; and Aldrin said he inherited his depressive problems leading to his well-publicised alcoholism from her.
He has an intense, talented and challenging chart, with an influential and secretive 8th house Sun Mercury in Aquarius in a lucky trine a 12th house Jupiter in Gemini; a practical and determined Earth Grand Trine of Saturn in Capricorn in his 7th trine Neptune in the 4th trine North Node in Taurus. His Mars in Capricorn on the cusp of the 8th is in a do-or-die determined opposition to Pluto square a maverick Uranus in the 10th and also squaring onto a focal point Moon in Libra in the entertaining 5th house which also rules children.
None of his emotional planets or placings are easy. Saturn in the 7th makes for tricky one-to-one relationships and he’s had three marriages. His Moon especially aspecting Mars Pluto will have brought aggravated and angst-ridden family relations. A Taurus North Node often attracts difficult battles over money.
Tr Pluto is now on the cusp of his 8th house of joint finances where it will stay probably for the remainder of his life. This is often a time of being trapped by circumstances which are out of the individual’s control and ongoing tussles over money. Tr Pluto is also squaring his Moon this year for family and children problems.
He’s not had a remotely easy life despite his iconic status and extraordinary achievement and it’s such a shame he can’t find peace at this late stage, whatever the rights or wrongs of this gruesome court wrangle. He’s going in for a competency assessment this week.
Pic: Gage Sidmore