Paul obviously had a soulmate connection with Linda, and that is a tough act
to follow. A British tabloid recently reported that Heather was actually never
happy with Sir Paul:
Well, duh, of course he wants to be in his own cozy little pothead world. Paul's
Sun forms an out-of-sign conjunction to Jupiter in home-and-family-oriented
Cancer, making him more of a homebody than the average Gemini. Dreamy, druggie
Neptune, ruler of the 7th house of partnership, is on the Ascendant, suggesting
that Paul does indeed live in a magical world of his own making with his mate.
And since Neptune is in Virgo, any detail that does not fit in his vision could
indeed be an "irritant." With Neptune-ruled Pisces (drugs and the
blurring of emotional separateness) on the Descendant, or 7th-house cusp, and
the nurturing asteroid Ceres close by, the healthy-hippie vegetarian-meditation
nature of Paul's relationships is plain to see. See
Paul McCartney's birth chart (Astrotheme)
Meanwhile, Heather, as a determined, ambitious Capricorn whose Sun trines powerful
Pluto, is not the type who can just sit around chillaxing. See
Heather Mills McCartney's birth chart (Astrotheme, no birth time)
I'm sure her Venus in Sagittarius sparked an initial opposite-sign attraction
with Paul's four Gemini planets, and her Moon in Gemini may conjunct his Mercury
and/or Sun, a good compatibility indicator. But there are some awkward aspects
between Heather's chart and Paul's, like her Mars squaring his Saturn-Uranus
in Gemini (which could trigger a lot of verbal sparring) and her Chiron in Pisces
squaring his Sun, which might make her get down on him.
Right now, as retrograde Pluto in Sagittarius opposes Paul's Sun almost exactly,
forming a T-square (three planets at 90° angles) with his Virgo Ascendant,
he is going through a time of transformation; while the experience is particularly
acute right now, this is a process that will take a course of years. With Linda
gone, and the marriage he rushed into to fill the void unraveling, Paul has
to figure out who he is as an individual. As a mutable Gemini Sun-Virgo Ascendant,
he is used to having someone to bounce off, but perhaps now for the first time
in his adult life he is being challenged to stand on his own two feet.
Further emphasizing the theme of transformation, Saturn is passing over Paul's
Mars-Pluto conjunction, pruning away what is no longer constructive in his life.
Robert Hand notes in his great astrology reference book Planets
in Transit that "on a material level, this transit often causes financial
problems or other kinds of shortages," and it looks like Heather may take him
for a sweet chunk of his vast fortune. [Source]
Why do I have to keep reminding people about the importance of the pre-nup?!)
Paul is really being challenged now, and will continue to be over the coming
months as Saturn approaches his Moon and Pluto, again, continues to square his
Sun. There are some tough lessons for him to learn now. But without a constant
companion, he has the challenge of looking within and getting to know himself
as he has never done before.
