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Bernie Madoff - American Criminal and Financier

Bernie Madoff

This is the birth chart for Bernard Lawrence "Bernie" Madoff, an American financial criminal and financier who was the admitted mastermind of the largest known Ponzi scheme in history, worth an estimated $65 billion. 

In 2023, a Netflix docuseries detailing his rise and fall was released. Compare his chart to the previously shared birth chart of Sam Bankman Fried. Compare his chart to the previously shared birth chart of Sam Bankman Fried.

Venus (Networking, Finance), the ruler of the 10th House (Career, Public Recognition) is afflicted by the presence of the malefic Mars, ruler of the 9th House (Law). Both Venus and Mars are afflicted by the square with Jupiter who is in the 7th House (Open Conflicts). Moon, ruler of the 12th House (Secret Enemies, Troubles, Confinement) also partakes in this configuration. This is from the perspective of Bernie Madoff's 10th House (Career). If we look from the perspective of his 1st House (Self), Sun as the ruler is also similarly affected.

Bernie Madoff Horoscope

He was arrested on December 2008 and pleaded guilty in March 2009. It was during his North Node active period (2008 - 2011). His North Node in his birth chart is afflicted, similarly, by Venus, Mars and Jupiter.

However, in the birth charts of both Sam Bankman Fried and Bernie Madoff, do know that these astrological configurations mentioned so far are just a small piece of a bigger puzzle. Beyond what was said, there are other important  pieces of the puzzle. For example, how Finances, Speculation, Investments, Fraud are judged from the birth chart. Venus, as natural signification of Finance, is not enough. From a horoscopic astrology perspective, understanding of the character, inclinations, career choice and current active planetary influences needs to be assessed together before making any judgements.

Sam Bankman-Fried : Legal Troubles

Sam Bankman Fried
Let's look at this birth chart, in particular, focusing on the career and the factors influencing the native, i.e., the person associated with the birth chart. Taurus rises and Venus, ruler of the 1st House (Self), is in the 10th House (Career, Public Image, Recognition). Often, where the ruler of 1st House is can tell us what particular areas of our life we are focusing on, what we value and hold significance to, or what are being emphasized.
 
Sam Bankman Fried Horoscope

In this chart, the pursuit of career and recognition is being emphasized for this person, in particular, relating to means of networking and financial operations (Venus). Venus is with Saturn and Mars in the 10th House, both malefics. From this, it is evident that Saturn and Mars will bring troubles to Venus, which is his Self, Career and Public Image. Saturn is the ruler of the 9th House (Legal), Mars is both the ruler of the 7th House (Open Conflicts) and 12th House (Secret Enemies, Troubles, Confinement). In addition, both Venus and Mars are contrary to 'Hayyiz', an unfavorable astrological condition.

This is the birth chart for Sam Bankman-Fried. Once hailed as the poster boy for cryptocurrency, he was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison on March 2024, for fraud and conspiracy to launder money. In his birth chart, Venus's influences come to the foreground between 2021 and 2023, the period of FTX's troubles and collapse.

Sam Bankman-Fried rose to fame as the co-founder of FTX, a major cryptocurrency exchange, and was dubbed the "world's richest 29-year-old" by Forbes when his net worth reached an impressive US$22.5 billion in 2021. However, FTX collapsed in November 2022 and a month later, he was arrested and subsequently found guilty by the jury for seven counts of fraud and conspiracy related to defrauding customers and investors of FTX on November 2023.

In fact, Temasek Holdings, the state-owned investment firm of Singapore, as one of FTX's investors, wrote down its entire investment of US$275 million in view of FTX's collapse.
 
Image of Sam Bankman-Fried is by Cointelegraph [CC BY 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons