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Goldman Sachs VP Stole Millions To Pay Poker Debt



A senior Goldman Sachs executive working at the Bengaluru office in India was arrested earlier this week for stealing $5.3 million from the firm to pay down his gambling debts, reported Business Today. The fraud surfaced on September 6 during an internal audit. Ashwani Jhunjhunwala, 36, the firm's vice president, was arrested and will arrive in court in the near term, deputy commissioner of police MN Anucheth told the news agency.


Events on earth are driven by the energies provided by the planets. To better understand these energies, astrologers routinely cast horoscopes for exact planetary aspects. While the effect of these aspects are worldwide in scope, those places where the planets occupy the angles are the ones most affected. At Bangalore, the Mercury-Jupiter square of Sep.6 brings the Mercury-Jupiter-Neptune T-square to a perfect alignment with the meridian. (Compare this news with a similar event of fraud in India [1])

Neptune in astrology is well known as the planet of deception and fraud. Mercury  considered the god of thieves and businessmen was referred to as a trickster…he could be crafty, calculating and false.
About Mercury-Neptune, astrologer Patrick Watson writes:

In astrology, Mercury is the messenger planet of communication, calculation and language, logic and rationality, neutrality and impartiality. Neptune is the illusionist planet of spectacle and fantasy, all that is synthetic and virtual, glitzy and glamorous, dreamlike and nightmarish. Together, their interaction tracks the life cycle, evolution and complex of communal storytelling and irrationality, the verbal and written traditions of myth and imagination, and accompanying departures from accuracy and reality. This cycle is associated with impracticality, delusions, myth-making, tall tales, unreliable narrators, media propaganda, conspiracy theories, distractions, frauds, hoaxes, absurdism, surrealism, nonsense, inspiring or deceptive language. https://patrickwatsonastrology.com/mercury-and-neptune-tall-tales-fantasy-fiction-and-fake-news/

Expansive Jupiter and dreamy Neptune, can fuel our “bohemian rhapsodies”.  But if we tip too far into dishonesty, indulgence & addiction it provides the necessary cosmic checks-and-balances—uncomfortable “medicine” that can heal us if we grasp the lesson.  But more often than not, many choose to ignore the lesson,  hit  “rock bottom” with an addictive or self-defeating pattern and find themselves in  trouble with the law.

We can see how well the foregoing describes the driving force behind the Goldman Sach executive’s  stealing to pay down his gambling debts.

Finally, take a look at the Sabian[2] symbol for Jupiter [16sa] on the Ascendant.

PHASE 256 (SAGITTARIUS 16°): SEA GULLS FLY AROUND A SHIP IN EXPECTATION OF FOOD. 

KEYNOTE: The easily acquired dependence of psychic desires upon the stimulation of social circumstances.

Animals drawn into the circle of what human society produces find it easier to depend on man's handouts than to pursue their usually difficult search for sustenance. The sea gulls here symbolize the more wild and normally untamable energies of the human soul.  Natural instincts feed on the reactions, and often perversions, of the socially conditioned mind-ego.

In the present context, the symbol is hinting at the temptation to commit criminal acts or fraud misusing the high position that society may have placed the individual in.

[1] Indian man caught impersonating 81-year-old to board US flight  https://bit.ly/2m66Cl5

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