The Astrology of the Bezos Affair

Body language says it all

A writer at Mashable says: Perhaps the worst line in these alleged sexts is Bezos referring to Sanchez as “alive girl.” “I love you, alive girl,” he reportedly wrote. There are loads of questions to be asked here, but it’s hard to focus on anything but the word “alive.” Why did Jeff B need to specify Sanchez was alive? 

Because of her fire. Mr. Bezos has only Jupiter in Aries as fire in his chart and Ms. Sanchez with Sun conjunct Venus in the fiery sign of Sagittarius is anything but dull. Her Sun and Venus get a lot of oomph because of the square to Pluto. In fact, her Sun is exactly square Pluto which shows up in the career she has built for herself as well as her predilection for dating, marrying and dallying with very powerful men.

The mature beauty described as the “biggest flirt” in high school may not be every one’s cup of tea especially with her current collagen enhanced perpetual half-grin, but she sure lights up Mr. Bezos. Her Juno conjuncts his Mars and her Lilith opposes it: he finds her bewitching.

The Daily Mail writes: 2016 – Sanchez gets her pilot license and launches Black Ops Aviation, her own film aerial production company. The National Enquirer claims this is also when she began her affair with Bezos. With her progressed Mercury at 19 Capricorn approaching his Sun at 21 Capricorn during 2016 that certainly makes sense. The leaked messages reveal that he loves her ideas and talking to her and this conjunction, which was exact in 2018, certainly confirms that. Additionally, her progressed Venus and Juno at 20 Aquarius are moving towards an exact conjunction with his Saturn at 21 degrees of the same sign. I believe him when he says he loves her.

 

Mr. Bezos is going through a time of great change and transformation regarding his sense of self. Transiting Pluto has been approaching his Sun for a while now and made an exact conjunction in April 2018. Pluto will go back and forth over his Sun for the rest of 2019 and finally move on at the end of the year. His impending divorce means he will no longer be tagged as the “richest man in the world.” Additionally, transiting Neptune is very close to his progressed Sun at 17 Pisces. He’s very likely feeling confused and vulnerable and the leaked messages must feel especially wounding at this time.

He will turn 55 on 12 January 2019 and this is an interesting age because it is marked by the second progressed lunar return and the third nodal return. The Moon and the nodes are both important when it comes to relationships and at this age, it’s not surprising to see changes in one’s emotional and relationship life. He met his first wife at his first nodal return and announced their decision to divorce at the second nodal return:  a circle completed, a relationship done. Transiting Saturn close to his south node and a total solar eclipse on near his north node on 2 July 2019 echo what is happening in his personal life.

The 15 Capricorn Solar Partial Eclipse on 6 January 2019 fell exactly on Ms. Sanchez’s Mercury, the ruler of her south node. Her nodal axis is 15 Pisces and Virgo and it’s been under the influence of transiting Neptune for the last few years peaking during mid-2017 onwards. It will keep exerting a strong influence till the end of 2019. But Ms. Sanchez was born with her Venus at 19 Sagittarius, so it continues to influence her relationships and love life till the end of 2021.

 

She was born with Venus square the nodal axis indicating that in this lifetime she needs to focus on Venus issues and get them right. A Sagittarius Venus needs its freedom and perhaps the square from transiting Neptune will help her clarify what she wants when it comes to love. It’s Neptune that points to the clandestine nature of this association with Mr. Bezos and the blaze of scandal that brought it out in the open. The square denotes challenges and this affair (even if it turns into a marriage) may not be all that Ms. Sanchez had hoped for. With Neptune we need to be careful that we are not blinded by the glint of fool’s gold.

 

There is no birth time for any of these people and so it’s hard to say at what degree Patrick Whitesell’s Pisces Moon lies. But his 15 degree Pluto in Virgo and 16 Pisces Chiron fall exactly on his wife’s nodal axis. His Pluto squaring her Venus makes for strong attraction but one marked by power plays, jealousy and control. Tellingly the 6 January 2019 eclipse fell exactly on his 15 Capricorn Juno marking the end of his marriage. Transiting Neptune on his Chiron, opposite his Pluto and possibly affecting his Moon show that he feels hurt, deceived and devastated.

 

The same eclipse squared Mrs. Bezos’ Sun and she too is being affected by transiting Neptune. Her Juno is at 18 Pisces conjunct her North Node at 11 Pisces. With a stellium of five planets in Taurus that includes Venus conjunct Saturn with very possibly the Moon close by, the end of a long marriage must be hard for her. But Uranus moves into Taurus early March 2019 (it made a brief foray in the sign during mid-2018), she will do well if she embraces change.

With his dropping eye and with her desperately young face and plump lips, Mr. Bezos and Ms. Sanchez seem rather vulnerable. They are obviously flawed like all of us and all together so very human. Mr. Whitesell with Moon opposing Pluto and both squaring the nodal axis has learning to do when it comes to trust and control in relationships.  Mrs. Bezos faces the struggle of seeing her identity as a wife dissolving but she’s being given the chance to radically change her life and her views on security. Although the papers talk about the affair, the underlying story is not just about an affair. It’s bigger. It’s about love and trust and betrayal and plain and growing and transformation – it’s a very human story.