Why Is Carl Icahn Such a B?

This is a guy I don't get. Carl Icahn. He makes Zillions of Dollars by wrecking companies. If he were to chose to take out evil Companies that harm people I would think he was a hero. But he doesn't. He picks Companies he can make money off of. Essentially, he looks for a weakness in the Corporate World and then picks it to shreds. So, essentially he's a Buzzard and a Bottom Fisher. He's a wrecking ball for businesses kind of in the same manner that Osama bin Laden is.

Now Icahn's going after Yahoo. He's bought a bunch of shares and tried to intimidate Yahoo into selling to Microsoft. On Monday he's settled for a membership on Yahoo's Board of Directors. According to the show I heard on NPR last night, when Icahn comes on the Board of your Company he's there to wreck the company. He will get Microsoft to buy Yahoo and to destroy it. He calls himself an Activist. But he's no Robin Hood Activist. He's just a Greedy Mother Fucker who's showing off "because he can".

Carl Icahn
b. Feb. 16, 1936 Rockaway Beach, NY

Sun 27 Aquarius; Moon Scorpio or Sagittarius; NN 11 Capricorn

Icahn's Sun is in Aquarius which can be a very emotionally detached sign. Aquarius sees things from a distance. If Icahn's Sun is in Sagittarius one can see someone who's sights are set very far into the distance. Also someone who is very independent and believes very strongly in his own opinions. If Icahn's Moon is in Scorpio then there's a deep emotional motivation that he's working through. Scorpio would make him more of a Strategist, lone wolf type of character. It's pretty interesting how the Capricorn North Node seems to funnel these energies into the Corporate World. Capricorn rules God and the Devil. Capricorn rules the Corporate World. Capricorn rules Ambition. Capricorn can push a person to be successful so that even a person with no real skills can become a great success. I suppose as an ex philosophy major in college and chess player, Icahn sees himself as being a constructive disturbance, sort of a Psychic Demolition Derby Queen. Only thing is he's not working on the spiritual realm. He's simply been given the gifts to know how to manipulate things at that level. (jerk)

Icahn's Sun is unaspected by Ptolomaic Aspect. So his Ego is big. I'm sure he keeps trying to reassure himself that he means well because most Aquarius Suns do. Deep down he probably wonders why he doesn't give a shit and is probably insecure about it, but mostly he probably just doesn't give a shit. (For years my Uncle was completely broken up over the money he lost on TWA).

Icahn was born during heavy outer planet activity. As I said before his Sun is doing its own thing out in Aquarius. But his inner planets are busy hooking up the outer planets who in turn are hooking up with each other. He'd be good at Demo because he'd know exactly where to reach in and pull the plug, like a set of dominoes. For one, the Inners are in Outer Planetary Signs. For Two, they are in aspect to Outer Planets themselves. Mars in Pisces opposes Neptune and squares Jupiter. Mercury in Aquarius and Venus in Capricorn both oppose Pluto.

Icahn was born during an Saturn-Neptune opposition between Pisces (Saturn) and Virgo (Virgo) which shows that he understands the martyr complex. He was born into the Depression and he's very aware of that. Weird way of showing it that's for sure. It seems that every time Uranus trips off this opposition he pulls some new extra obnoxious stunts. In 1968 he started his own Corporate Raider business (Uranus in Virgo). in 1985 he launched his famous hostile takeover of TWA (Uranus in Sagittarius). Now with Uranus in Pisces, 2008, he's taking over Yahoo.

Icahn also has a wide square between Uranus in Taurus and Pluto in Cancer that expands out into a t-square with Mercury in Aquarius. And he has another big t-square with apex Jupiter in Sagittarius squaring Mars in Pisces opposing Neptune in Virgo. That explains how he attaches such a Circus to everything he does. Also explains his aggressive manipulative strategies. Mars and Jupiter together explains his interest in thoroughbred horses.

So the Money thing. Why's he so good at it? Without looking at his full chart I can't say. For one, he's got Jupiter in its own lucky happy go lucky sign of Sagittarius. And then, just from looking at his planets it seems that he's just got a sense of how the World works on a very big level and a hunter's desire to kill at that level. The Inner Planets are in the Outer most signs and the Outer Planets are in heavy aspects with each other.

The biggee, Pluto, in Icahn's chart aspects every planet except Neptune. So power and financial investments, other people's money, and working behind the scenes is a big part of his life. Pluto opposes the two planets that rule the Markets, Mercury and Venus, so power plays in the Markets are automatic for him. Icahn has Pluto squares Uranus, so he likes to rebel, stir things up, move the furniture around, turn CEO's into his pawns.

I began to wonder about the Centaurs in his chart. I do remember that they often show up in the charts of rapists. Rapist, Corporate Raider, what's the difference? As I said before this is no Robin Hood, but he does have a following. Turns out Nessus is the big Astro rapist indicator so that's a no-go.

But, the interpretations for Pholus are actually very interesting with relation to Icahn's chart. Eric Francis assigns the phrase "Small cause, big effect." Transits of Pholus are very prominent in key times in Icahn's career.

Natally Pholus is conjunct Icahn's North Node in Capricorn (within a degree). It was conjunct his natal Sun in 1968 when he started Corporate Raiding. In 1985 (TWA takeover) it was conjunct Icahn's natal Uranus along with prog. Mars. Right now it is in Sagittarius and could be conjunct his Moon (so don't know about that one).

Here's Astrodienst's description of Pholus. Pretty interesting description compared with Icahn's personality. Remember that Icahn has a Saturn-Neptune opposition in his chart that seems to activate in the financial when touched by t.Uranus. Pholus is to Saturn-Neptune what Chiron is to Saturn-Uranus:

The outer extremes of Pholus' path cross the orbits of both Saturn and Neptune. Just as Chiron is considered an astrological key to Saturn and Uranus, so Pholus is a key to Neptune. His average distance from the Sun is a little greater than that of Uranus, a complete revolution takes 92 years. In myth, Pholus guards the centaurs' vines, the wine from these being the actual cause for the battle between Hercules and the Centaurs. Like Chiron, Pholus becomes embroiled in the battle by chance, and dies due to a tragic coincidence - while curiously inspecting one of Hercules' poisoned arrows, he is mortally wounded.

According to first astrological observations, Pholus gives unusual ability in a particular area, or unexpected results, due to a gift for experiment. Pholus' transits over the main axes of a chart, often mark radical and unexpected change, hinted at by his sudden and unexpected death in the myth.

The Wikipedia article is interesting as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pholus_(astrology).

I don't have time to look at Jerry Yang's chart. I do remember that he's somewhere close to going through his Neptune square which is a drag. But, hehehe, Icahn's about to have t. Neptune pass on to his Sun. That's gonna be like trying to do business while an unbelievably beautiful woman wiggling her veils in front of his face. Wish I could be a fly on the wall in that room.

According to Wikipedia, Icahn's opposing Barack Obama. Warren Buffett is supporting Obama. I wonder what kind of a relationship those two have, Icahn and Buffett, that is.