Gwyneth’s Saturn & Pluto Trip

Like many, I initially thought the Gwyneth Paltrow court footage was a teaser for Season Four of Succession. From her stealth-wealth wardrobe and languid “I lost half a day skiing” response to cross-examination to radiologists testifying about wine-tasting, it was, well, telegenic.

But it was essentially a live-streamed Saturn transit with a plutonic sub-plot. Saturn in Pisces is currently – tangibly – conjunct Paltrow’s Pisces Ascendant. You can see it in her less fluffy demeanor and an array of outfits that could easily be spun off as a separate “Saturnwear” line.

Even her much critiqued aviator glasses are hyper-Saturn – they were invented by John Macready, an accomplished test pilot (Libra with Mars-Saturn in Leo) who wanted zero fog, zero distractions and perfect visibility in high latitudes.

While arguably a fantastically successful purveyor of fog herself, Paltrow has flown through snark storms for years now. She regularly attracts ridicule for the extravagant products she sells via her Goop brand, her shaman, children’s names, use of the term ‘conscious uncoupling’ to describe her divorce and more.

More nuanced attacks accuse her of commodifying spirituality or appropriating the ‘self-care’ concept for capitalist gain. “Gwyneth glows like a radioactive swan” said Lindy West, in an account of her day at a Goop Wellness summit.

Full disclosure: I don’t own a jade vagina egg or have any interest in Goop guff but isn’t it time pundits stopped referring to interests like “macrobiotics” or “shamanism” and “astrology” as fringe weirdness? They may not be center but they’re way past the periphery.

Gwyneth Paltrow’s unapologetic stance is very Pisces Rising – whatever she’s accused of, she just sort of flows on from it without explanation. In a departure from her norm, she was in a Utah court going after a retired optometrist for clearly symbolic damages of $1. This is where the plutonic sub-plot comes in.

In 2019, as Saturn and Pluto converged on her North Node in Capricorn, Paltrow was sued over a 2016 ski accident in which her and the litigant – Cancerian Terry Sanderson – collided. The court has just ruled – essentially – that he skiied into her and was on a money grab due to her celebrity.

Spookily, these two have mutual Saturn-Nodes synastry. His Saturn is on Paltrow’s South Node and her Saturn is on Sanderson’s South Node. On the day of the ski incident, the Sun and Neptune were exact on her Ascendant and opposing his Mars in Virgo. It gets weirder…

The Neptune factor indicates both may have been distracted – entranced – when this incident occurred. The classic, old-school take on that Saturn synastry is that Sanderson did some form of wrong to Paltrow in a previous life – the Jyotish astrologers of India would probably say he’d incurred a “karmic penalty.”

Additionally, I doubt any astrologer would recommend legal action against a person whose Saturn was conjunct your North Node unless you were supremely sure of your ground. And one of the classic textbook definitions of someone’s Mars on your Descendant – is that they could take legal action against you. It’s wild.

Sanderson filed the lawsuit when Saturn and Pluto were conjunct on Gwyneth’s North Node and his South Node, unwittingly becoming a catalyst for next-era Gwyneth.

So really it’s not surprising that this saga ended with her whisking out of the courtroom in her Saturnwear, stopping to whisper a Cersei Lannister-like “I wish you well” in his ear. Was it a hex? Did she actually say ‘hell’? No, I think it’s just Vibe Control – a public disavowing of negative energy and a high net-worth individual’s way of saying ‘thank you and fuq off.’

Nobody feels sorry for Gwyneth but she has pushed an important precedent and helped to discourage such cases in the future – many are bought against people far less resourced than she is.

She is a Sun-Pluto conjunct – in Libra – but it’s been in abeyance over the Pluto in Capricorn/Goop era. Pluto in Aquarius is just beginning to activate it and over the next few decades, Pluto will beneficially activate practically everything in her astro-chart.

Could this entirely strange episode have somehow led her to view everything from a different vantage point? She started Goop in September 2008, at the beginning of Pluto in Capricorn but this is a fresh era and her emerging Sun-Pluto self could seek something different.

Imagine if, for example, she diverted some of her undoubted influence and coin toward clean water or East Palestine? If so, who would begrudge her an additional layer of tourmaline or meteoric iron in the filtration process?

Thoughts?