BARBARA WALTERS SURGERY CRISIS

I see this a lot. People who have never been sick a day in their lives and then a major illness. My philosophy is that those little illnesses we get, get rid of negative energy instead of letting it build to a crescendo.

This is the case with Barbara Walters who has never missed a day of work. (If someone tells you they have not missed a day of work -- watch for a serious illness -- kind of like when someone tells you how happy their marriage is.)  She has a very negative chart today, the day of her open heart surgery. She says she has known about this for some time. I hope it hasn't been over a year, because, if so, she picked the wrong time to have the surgery.

Libra Barbara with Libra rising and two other Libra planets, Mars and Mercury want people to like them and rarely will be anything but polite. But we know with that Libra Mars (passive agressive), she gets her digs in very subtly. Her dirty little secret is that she did not like her father with Mars conjunct her Sun and Pluto squaring them both. This means that gentle and kind Barbara is much more angry at men than she ever let on.

Her Moon in Gemini makes her very intelligent. Pluto in Cancer in her 10th House of Career and a focal planet has helped her move into a very high position in life. And Barbara has used it wisely. Pluto is power and power can be abused. Venus in Leo put her in the spotlight.

I'm a little surprised at her other focal planet which is mutable Neptune. Neptune people are the crazy, out-of-control people of the universe. Also very creative. But Barbara doesn't show those characteristics. She seems very down-to-earth. But apparently one of the things that has allowed her to work in show business for all these years is her ability to not see the things that she doesn't like. And, again, she is using this aspect well.

Today Barbara has progressed Mars inconjunct Pluto. I don't like this simply because it is Pluto. Inconjuncts are the least of the aspects. Her progressed Sun is opposition her Moon. Since the Moon is your feelings, this will leave her emotionally debilitated. Her progressed Saturn has moved out-of-sign and her progressed Mercury are square her Sun. These are not  good progressions for health problems. The Sun is you and Saturn is health and Mercury is communication and a square is the worst aspect. And her progressed Venus (beauty) is opposition her progressed Jupiter (too much) so she may get left with a nasty scar.

Xtrology is predicting that Barbara Walters does not return to work. We may not see Barbara on television again. At the age of 81, this is quite a lot of negativity to overcome. The transiting Pluto is five degrees today which is opposition her natal Pluto (this happens to everyone at age 84). Because Barbara has Libra planets, a Cancer planet and an Aries planet, Pluto in Capricorn creates a Grand Square in her chart.