The article below first appeared in the July/August edition of Infinity Astrological Magazine
When Sun-Uranus meets Sun-Uranus
Sun Conjunct Venus in Aquarius Trine Pluto in Libra and
Square Uranus in Scorpio, aptly describes
Amal Clooney’s profession as a barrister and activist specialising in
human rights law. It also describes the non-conformist, the reformer and the
need to live a just and honest life.
Amal’s husband, actor/producer/director George Clooney,
also has Sun Square Uranus; Sun in Taurus Conjunct Mercury and Uranus in Leo.
For both of them, Sun Square Uranus highlights the need
for freedom to pursue their personal goals. It’s probably as well that they married later in life, when Clooney was 53 and Amal
37. Those with strong Uranus aspects to their personal planets often find that
long lasting partnerships arrive later in life, when they can better understand
and assert their uniqueness and have developed a lifestyle to suit their need
for independence.
It was her first marriage, but
George had a short first marriage in the late 1980s. It’s a classic commitment
phobe aspect and Clooney’s bachelor status became iconic when he made bets that
he wouldn’t marry again. It’s not known whether he coughed up the $100,000 he
allegedly owed to the likes of Michelle
Pfeiffer and Nicole Kidman
when he married Amal, losing his bet.
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Because Amal has all the beauty and glamour of a
Hollywood starlet, it’s easy to forget that this is an unconventional pairing.
Oxford educated barristers don’t tend to marry triple A list celebrities and
big name movie stars mostly pair with others within their Hollywood clique. However,
for this Sun-Uranus pair, coming from different worlds may have been part of
the attraction. She’s British-born of Lebanese descent and has been tipped for
a future seat in the British House of Lords and he’s carved his career in the escapist
world of the silver screen.
And what was also refreshingly unconventional (and a lovely reflection of Amal’s Sun-Venus Square Uranus) was that on
social media people were not asking how Amal managed to bag Hollywood’s most
eligible bachelor, but how Clooney managed to convince this independent,
educated, accomplished woman to be his wife.
Like Amal, Clooney is also known for
his humanitarian work and political activism - he has Jupiter (his MC ruler) in
early Aquarius Conjunct Moon and Saturn in late Capricorn across the 11th
and 12th Houses. These are Conjunct Amal’s Mercury at 28 Capricorn,
denoting a strong urge to connect and share a common sense of purpose, to deal
with serious issues.
George’s chart dominance in Earth (Sun, Moon, Mercury,
Saturn, Pluto, North Node) with a decent blast of Fire, brings spirited and
optimistic pragmatism to Amal’s idealistic chart, dominated by planets in Air
(Sun, Venus, Jupiter, Pluto, North Node) and Moon in Sagittarius, likely
Conjunct her Neptune and George’s MC in justice-oriented Sagittarius. After
they married, they set up The Clooney Foundation for Justice, “fighting for the
rights of individuals unfairly targeted by oppressive governments.”1 Their Foundation, supporting the civil
rights of the underdog, is also an apt expression of Sun Square Uranus.
As a couple, it seems the Sun shines out of them. Indeed, see how they
shone recently at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, with George’s
megawatt smile (still deserving of the nickname ‘Gorgeous George’) and Amal’s
dress and hat the colour of high summer sunshine. As well as the attraction of
Sun Square Sun by synastry, Amal’s Neptune (and Moon in a noon chart – we don’t
have a birth time) on George’s MC, adds to the idea of the glamorous fairy tale
romance for a public hungry for idealised happy endings.
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Together, their charts form a powerful Fixed Grand Cross consisting of
George’s Sun and Mercury in Taurus and Uranus in Leo and Amal’s Uranus in
Scorpio and Sun and Venus in Aquarius.
The four fixed signs are about attachment and desire, loyalty, commitment
and resistance to change. Where Taurus is about physical security and sensuality,
Scorpio is about deeper emotional bonds and desires. When fixed signs are
dominant, secure relationships are valued, but with Uranus in the mix, it’s
possible that during the lifetime rejection has been suffered and/or that the
native has been the one doing the rejecting. Leo is about the development of
the ego through putting oneself at the centre of things, through exuding, (at
best) warmth and generosity. However, the Leo dynamic often comes with
excessive pride. Its Opposite sign, Aquarius, teaches detachment from the ego
to allow service to humanity, but there can be a stubborn belief
that one’s ideas and values are
the only way and a perverse attitude of superiority, even as it proclaims
equality for all.
Double Uranus in this Cross potentially brings contrariness
and lack of willingness to cooperate. If they’re a true team, on the same side,
however, this couple can be a force to be reckoned with, with an energising
belief that it’s us against the world
or perhaps more likely, because of the power bestowed by their fame and wealth,
the belief that it’s up to us to change
the world.
This strong fixity invites them to direct their energy into causes and
projects with real conviction. It promises that, with sustained effort, ideals
and ideas can be converted into tangible action which can make a real
difference in the world. Something they can take pride in.
This Fixed Grand Cross is bound to be a strong
signature for their private relationship. It provides structure, support,
stability and a desire to work at the relationship, to hold it all together.
This aspect pattern in synastry can also denote a couple stuck in their
problems, recycling the same issues again and again, persistently. And if they
do get stuck in a Fixed Cross rut, with Uranus so prominent, it will at least
be an unconventional rut.
With security likely to be important to the couple,
their choice of UK home on an island in the river Thames feels like a perfect retreat
for the Pisces Rising actor and his Mars in Cancer wife.
We would hope that their relationship allows them to
fulfil the needs of their Moons. Clooney’s Moon in Capricorn suggests he takes
his emotional life seriously and needs to be respected by those he loves and
love only those he respects, particularly as it’s Conjunct Saturn. For all his
charm, his love is not a love given easily or flippantly. Amal’s Moon in
Sagittarius is more adventurous, supporting her Sun-Venus Square Uranus and
well suited to her career as an international lawyer as well as to the
jet-setting lifestyle that goes hand in hand with marriage to ‘Gorgeous George’.
© Mandi Lockley
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