Its aspects are speculative without a birth time, but it may be conjoined with Jupiter. Walt has the Moon in Scorpio, also in the sign of its fall. Cancer and a life of crime have provided that motivation for Walt, and over time he’s become an accomplished and convincing liar. With Mercury sextile Neptune, he has “a gift for fiction ” but the sextile is an aspect that needs a strong motivation in order to become useful. He repeatedly crafts ingenious plans to extract himself from tight situations. In a chart with a number of planets in their fall or detriment, Mercury and Saturn trine in the signs of their rulership point to Walt’s core strength: his intellect. Walt’s scientific brilliance is symbolized by Mercury conjoined Pluto and trine Saturn. With Venus in such a tight conjunction with Pluto (and Moon in Scorpio), Walter has demonstrated this tendency by selling his interest in Gray Matter for a paltry $5,000 because he was angry at his partners, and later turning down their offer to pay his medical bills. Donna Cunningham has said that Pluto will lead us to “fail for spite”. But he has also struggled to make ends meet while underemployed as a high school chemistry teacher and working part-time at a car wash, and he’s had a hard time holding on to his money. Walter came very close to achieving enormous wealth with the company he co-founded, Gray Matter technologies (now worth billions), and then as a meth kingpin who personally amassed as much as $80M. Pluto is the planet of great wealth, but also of dramatic loss. Venus, the planet of money and relationships, is in the sign of its fall and retrograde, and very tightly conjoined with Pluto. Mars is very weak by sign and Saturn is in its strongest sign it’s telling that he has overcome his feeling of weakness and powerlessness by identifying with the qualities of his very strong Saturn in Capricorn (“I’m in the empire business.”) Mars square Saturn is sometimes called an “impotence” aspect not that it necessarily points to literal, physical impotence, but for a man it could suggest a lack of confidence in his power and manhood. The primary symbols of masculine confidence in his chart don’t receive much support the Sun is aspected only by the Moon and does not apply to any other planets, and Mars in Libra is in its fall and square Saturn. As the series has progressed, however, it’s become increasingly clear that ego and hubris play at least as much of a role in his decision. Walt’s decision to begin manufacturing methamphetamine was triggered by a diagnosis of inoperable cancer and the desire to leave behind enough money to support his family. Quality and a strict adherence to procedure, formula, and cleanliness are important keys to Walt’s superior product. Not surprisingly for a guy who has distinguished himself by manufacturing the purest product in the marketplace, Walter’s chart has a stellium of Sun, Mercury, Venus, and Pluto in Virgo. Nothing I’ve written here should be interpreted as an indictment of anyone/everyone who has any of these placements or aspects in their own charts! High standards and weakness But this isn’t even in the neighborhood of a proper rectification – even I only have so many hours in the day to devote to decoding Walter White!Īnother note: I’m interpreting this chart in light of what we already know about a fictional character who has chosen to behave very, very badly. to place the Virgo stellium in the 8th house with Neptune on the Midheaven (career as a drug lord) and Capricorn rising (ambition). But really, we have no clue where Walter was born. I arbitrarily chose Los Angeles as Walt’s birthplace we know he attended graduate school at Cal Tech in Pasadena and that in order to visit his mother – who presumably still lives in the area where he grew up – he travels by plane ( Four Days Out) so he’s unlikely to have been born in Albuquerque, where the series takes place. Though we have no idea how this date was chosen by the writers or the show’s creator, Vince Gilligan, I wondered whether the astrology of the date might reflect the characteristics of the show’s protagonist.įirst, a note: The chart I’m using here is based on a speculative time and location. Like so many viewers, I’ve gone from being a fan of the series Breaking Bad to, in its final season, becoming borderline obsessed with the transformation of mild-mannered high school chemistry teacher Walter White into the murderous kingpin of a methamphetamine empire.Īccording to his divorce papers, seen in the episode M á s, Walter Hartwell White was born on September 7, 1959.
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