{"id":8272,"date":"2011-10-06T05:37:49","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T10:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/astrologicalmusings\/?p=8272"},"modified":"2011-10-06T05:37:49","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T10:37:49","slug":"rip-steve-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/astrologicalmusings\/blog\/rip-steve-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Steve Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"Steve<\/a>Steve Jobs, former head of Apple Computing, died yesterday after battling pancreatic cancer since 2004. \u00a0He was 56 years old.<\/p>\n

I profiled Mr. Jobs back in 2009:<\/p>\n

Jobs has an interesting chart<\/a> with the Sun in Pisces. Pisces is the sign of spirituality and transcending the boundaries of ordinary physical reality. \u00a0Pisces types are typically creative, inspirational, easygoing and meditative with a thirst for a spiritual experience. \u00a0They are also emotional and can be quite sensitive. \u00a0After dropping out of college, Jobs spent some time in 1974 backpacking through India, studying meditation and experimenting with psychedelic drugs.<\/p>\n

Jupiter (optimism and confidence) is conjunct Uranus (innovation and radical behavior) in Jobs\u2019 chart, signifying a person with a deeply restless nature, but also an innate ability to innovate and create. \u00a0Mars (the planet that defines how we assert our will and express our aggressive instinct) in his chart is in Aries, the sign which it rules. \u00a0That is an extremely forceful place for Mars to be; yet Jobs is a sensitive and easygoing Pisces.<\/p>\n

Mars is afflicted in his chart: it is opposed by Neptune, the ruler of Pisces and a very watery planet \u2013 you know what happens when you pour a bucket of water (Neptune) over fire (Mars), the fire is likely to go out. \u00a0Mars is also in a challenging aspect to the Jupiter\/Uranus combination, which shows that Jobs can have a very short fuse, but he may not, with his strongly Piscean nature, be able to release that fiery expression very easily.<\/p>\n

It is said of Steve Jobs that he makes his own rules, which we can see in the Mars (drive) square to Jupiter\/Uranus (radical behavior), and that is can be a temperamental manager which we can see in the Mars in Aries aggression opposed by Neptune\u2019s martyrdom and dislike of conflict.<\/p>\n

I have found that what I call \u201cMars problems\u201d are very common in the charts of people with health problems. \u00a0When the aggressive instinct (which includes our ability to express our needs, to assert ourselves, and to express anger appropriately) is blocked, that fire energy is left without an appropriate outlet and often discharges within the body\u2019s energy system, leading to a variety of health problems.<\/p>\n

Since 2004 when Jobs first had a \u201cneuroendocrine\u201d tumor in the pancreas removed, he has had a series of planetary transits affecting this Mars complex in his chart. \u00a0First transiting Chiron (wounding and healing) ran across all of the planets in the complex beginning in June of 2003 (the tumor was discovered in October of that year). \u00a0Then Saturn (hardship and disappointment) in 2004 and 2005 (the tumor was removed in July of 2004 after a 9-month battle to find an alternative solution), accompanied by Uranus (radical and restless change) which transited the Ascendant and Sun in Jobs\u2019s chart, stirring the emotional pot and creating the need to alter the status quo. \u00a0The combination of Uranus restlessness and Saturn restriction can evoke a frustration that implodes into the physical body if not properly expressed outwardly.<\/p>\n

Mr. Jobs announced his retirement from Apple on August 24, 2011. \u00a0It\u2019s interesting that at this time he had just had a Progressed New Moon, where the Sun and Moon conjoin in the progressed chart, a few weeks prior to the announcement. \u00a0Any New Moon configuration in the birthchart or progressed chart \u00a0is usually a dramatic period of renewal with a new focus. \u00a0 In addition, transiting Pluto, planet of death and renewal, made a harmonious sextile to his natal Sun which likely served as an aid to the transition that was to come.<\/p>\n

I find death charts very interesting because we rarely find what we expect. \u00a0We are accustomed to thinking of the more challenging aspects of Pluto and Saturn as the planets of death because they bring such dramatic and sometimes terrible experiences into our lives, but death is not always a terrible thing. \u00a0We often find Jupiter present in its role as the Great Liberator, and in Mr. Jobs\u2019 chart we find several significant and harmonious planetary cycles.<\/p>\n

On the day of Mr. Jobs\u2019 death transiting Chiron, the planet that brings old wounds to the surface so that they can be healed and and released, was in an exact harmonious sextile to his progressed Sun, providing the ultimate release from pain and illness. \u00a0In addition, transiting Neptune (planet of creativity and spiritual transcendence) was in an exact harmonious trine to Neptune in the chart. \u00a0I hope that this powerful Neptunian influence aided Mr. Jobs in a \u201cgood death\u201d \u2013 a transcendence from form into non-form with a minimum of fear and stress.<\/p>\n

Mr. Jobs was not only an inspiring leader, but he evidently possessed a deep and rare wisdom. \u00a0I\u2019d like to leave you with this quote that I used in a Sunday Inspiration post<\/a> earlier this year:<\/p>\n

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\u201cRemembering that I\u2019ll be dead soon is the most important tool I\u2019ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything \u2014 all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure \u2013 these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cYour time is limited, so don\u2019t waste it living someone else\u2019s life. Don\u2019t be trapped by dogma \u2014 which is living with the results of other people\u2019s thinking. Don\u2019t let the noise of others\u2019 opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Steve Jobs, commencement address, Stanford University 2005.<\/p>\n

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