Glenn Greenwald is the journalist who revealed (or perhaps more accurately re-revealed) details of NSA surveillance practices, the PRISM program, and other tid-bits of leaked information last week. He said on Sunday that there is yet more to come. It's getting hard to keep up! He now, probably wisely, is a resident of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Did I say "hard to keep up"? I'd barely finished drafting this post yesterday, before discovering that the identity of the person who leaked information to Mr Greenwald had been revealed: Edward Snowden, a 29-year old former CIA technical assistant and current (?) employee of Booz Allen Hamilton. Mr Snowden is reported to be in Hong Kong at present.
Relevant Guardian article.
There ought to be astrological red flags of some kind showing in Glenn Greenwald's natal chart just now, being the agent, if not the source, of these revelations. I couldn't find anything on his chart online, so had my software do its thing on a 12 noon version with his birth data as provided by Wikipedia:
born 6 March 1967 in Queens, New York.
Without time of birth we cannot know exact position of Moon and the ascending sign and degree. Born before 10PM Moon would be in late Capricorn, between 10 PM and midnight in early Aquarius.
I'm not trying to interpret Mr Greenwald's personality here, simply looking for any indication that this particular span of time we're in has significant markers via transiting planets conjoining, or aspecting, any of his natal planets.
Transiting Uranus (eccentric planet of the unexpected) now at 11 Aries is just two degrees from his natal Venus -that has to be significant. Such a conjunction will happen usually just once in a lifetime, as Uranus takes around 84 years to circle the signs.
Transiting Saturn (planet of structure, law and limitation) is conjunct natal Mars in Scorpio - that could be a warning sign for the journalist perhaps?
Transiting Neptune (planet of illusion/delusion, mystery) is close enough (5*) to natal Mercury in Pisces to be considered conjoined - Mercury is planet of communication, and as Greenwald's profession is in communication, that has to be especially significant.
Even more significantly though, there's a trine between Neptune and Saturn currently formed, almost exact, in the sky (at 5 degrees of Pisces and Scorpio respectively). That aspect is linking to Greenwald's natal Mars at 3 Scorpio. This trine is fairly rare, and long-lasting due to the slow movement of both planets: Saturn's orbit of the Sun takes around 29 years, and Neptune around 165 years. A trine between these two planets last occurred in 2001/2, but then the planets were in Air signs, Aquarius and Gemini, now they are in Water signs. Oddly, Air signs would seem a better match to what we're seeing just now, based on journalism and communication, which are more in the province of Air than Water. However, unless Moon and/or ascendant were in Air sign(s) at his birth, Glenn Greenwald has no natal planet/point in Air, which has to be quite unusual for a journalist or writer, I suspect. In astrology the element of Water relates, in one way or another, to emotional matters, in the case of Scorpio there's an added element of secrecy and some potential darkness. This trine, tickling Greenwald's natal Mars in Scorpio where Mars is comfortably at home, dynamic, unadulterated, could almost represent a personal vendetta being triggered....though I'm not convinced that's the case.
There are definite markers here, but I haven't untangled them to my own satisfaction quite - any offers? .... The story isn't over yet either!
