

In case you’re unfamliar with him, here is Alex Jones’s wikipedia page (opens in another tab). So we can see he was born 11 February 1974 in Dallas, Texas, USA, and is a radio show host and has three websites dedicated to stories revolving around conspiracy theories. Alex’s thinking was influenced by the book None Dare Call It Conspiracy and by the John Birch society people that participated in discussions at his home as he grew up.

First, we look at the more obvious astrological factors based on a noon time since the rest of his birth data have not been made public. Here is a chart set for noon:

Sun conjunct Jupiter, both square Mars

Notice (green lines) the close conjunction of Sun and Jupiter in Aquarius, both square to Mars. Sun and Jupiter in Aquarius is a socially aware person with a sweeping view of life. Their interests are definitely not narrow, and the person has lots of friends, most likely from all kinds of backgrounds. Sun conjunct Jupiter is itself an expansive aspect and the person tends to spread their energies rather broadly. Aquarius is the group/global thinking mode. So with Sun and Jupiter in Aquarius there is a strong tendency to seek out teams, audiences, to favor group communication, and to have a global view of life and humanity. Sun in Aquarius is at its zenith from its natural place in Leo, so the energies and ego are invested in the group mind, group causes, societal agendas.

Sun-Jupiter square Mars indicates an energetic, likely egoistic, stubborn, relentless person full of ambition and competitive tendencies. These dynamics drive the person to take risks and to push past the point where others would give up or let caution take over. That is true even with Mars in Taurus, a cautious and placid mode of expression, but with Sun’s conjunction to Jupiter feeding the drive and ambition of Mars, it is stronger and persistent.

Moon conjunct Uranus

No matter what the time of birth, Moon and Uranus are conjunct. The question is how closely? I plan to address that in another article showing a rectification of his chart.

The Lunar principle of the inner emotional life/domestic life is fused with the Uranian trans-personal principle of the higher mind/psychic. So there is a lot he internalizes about the world in general and his feeling reactions are to some degree characterized by spontaneous reactions and free-form responses.

Moon conjunct Uranus is an aspect that indicates a dislike of restrictions or conformity and a tendency for at least occasional extremes of emotional expression due to a highly tuned or high strung emotional nature. People with this aspect can be very individualist, yet very alert to matters of group dynamics that others miss. So they tend to be non-conformists who feel different from others or feel compelled to show independence from societal and/or familial expectations and patterns.

Saturn’s trine to Uranus (black line) suggests some constructive know-how at work in this development of Uranus’s higher intelligence/group mind abilities. With Saturn in Gemini and Uranus in Libra, abilities with communication and social dynamics would be expected. That means the ability to wield influence given that Moon is near enough Uranus to be considered part of this configuration.

Mercury square Neptune

Notice (blue lines) the pretty tight square between Mercury and Neptune. That is an aspect of intellectual searching, curiosity, but also tendencies for anxiety and confusion. With Mercury in Pisces and Neptune in Sagittarius, it is the big picture, the sweeping or prophetic view that matters. These signs add more tendencies for idealism, and blowing things out of proportion. The imagination tends to create floating anxiety if not regularly engaged in a creative expression in which facts matter less than subjective personal perception. This allows someone to be potentially poetic, but will tend to be bored by facts, correctness and categorical information. It is the big picture that matters and how they see it, because with Mercury in Pisces and Neptune in Sagittarius, the square aspect between them shows perception is broad, tends to be scattered, conflate issues, and needs to be guided by a distinct ideal or objective to maintain clarity of focus.

Grand Trine in air signs

Notice (black lines) the big grand trine between Sun-Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus. This indicates someone who naturally expects their reach to grow, has talent in networking and social connections, with a sense of how to build on those towards some ideal or a more interesting life. People with these air grand trines don’t like mundane work lives or clock-in/clock-out jobs. They like to be moving among people, making connections, standing out, being known. There is quite a lot of natural ability and great potential in social dynamics, exchange of ideas, and communications with this configuration.

The Declinations: Parallels and Contra-parallels

Sun parallel Venus and Jupiter

Notice (purple dots) Sun parallel Venus and Jupiter at 13-14° south, and all those contra-parallel Pluto at 13° north. Sun-Venus-Jupiter in parallel indicate that he can be very charming, social, know how to flatter or gift his way into others’ good graces, that he can be generous and indulgent of himself and his loved ones.

… Contra-parallel Pluto

Pluto is power and intensity, and contra-parallel Sun and Jupiter, you expect relational dynamics to show a lot of drama at times. Because there is such personality and charm with Sun, Venus, Jupiter (self) in parallel aspect, Pluto being contra-parallel these (like an opposition) puts ‘others’ into the position of Pluto or the power of others. This is a dynamic strongly suggestive of a tendency for ego battles, drama, potential struggles involving big ideas (Jupiter), and the ‘other’ who is perceived to have power (Pluto).

Mars contra-parallel Neptune

This aspect alone indicates a rather over-active imagination that needs a creative outlet, but added to Mercury square Neptune we can call it a wild and dangerous imagination. This does not mean that we use aspects in the birth chart to say someone cannot be truthful, but that things tend to get blown out of proportion mentally, that Alex has tendencies to be dramatic and speculative. This is just fine in the arts and entertainment where it belongs, but can be detrimental when consistency with facts and where truthfulness and accountability are expected.

In fact, with Alex’s Sun-Jupiter conjunction square Mars there was already a tendency for drama and for force of personality as a way to get noticed and create waves. With Sun and Jupiter together the attention is on the ‘big’ stuff, the broad sweeping view, and what is dramatic and attention getting. There is some idealism implied there, but with Mars square Sun and Jupiter, it is more ego and action oriented with enough ambition for two people. So he likes to make waves and keep making them.

The competitive tendencies I described were certainly pursued when he was in high school and played football. Now they seem more oriented at other media, other public personalities, and in his business interests with his websites and what he sells there to keep them going.

The importance of Mercury square Neptune in his rising media presence

Here are the transits to his birth planets for the day he went into Bohemian Grove to get the footage of the Cremation of Care ritual that became part of his breakout film (Dark Secrets: Inside Bohemian Grove, 2000). Pluto was in transit conjunct his natal Neptune, which made it square his Mercury. The transit of Pluto conjunct or parallel natal Neptune is ordinarily a period in which one undergoes a transformation of worldview, coming into new perceptions and ideals based on a new understanding of how one fits into the larger social and spiritual world. That certainly seems to fit here, but with the addition of Pluto square natal Mercury there is more force involved upon the conscious thinking and intentions.

I underlined the North Node position, because in my view that event seems to have been a moment of destiny for him that I think hits a main point in his birth chart.

Journalist Jon Ronson was there at Bohemian Grove and had interactions with Alex. They both filmed events there, but Ronson had a conversation with Alex that is quite telling. He said, “Alex, you know that what you’re saying about Bohemian Grove isn’t true, you’re playing with fire here.” Alex responded, “Yeah, but I’m not gonna tell my listeners that.” (youtu.be/3rP81EC2iZI – 8:30 in) So there was a strong drive to dramatize, to over-play the event to satisfy and expand an audience longing for globalist conspiracies drenched in descriptions of evil. The film that resulted presents Alex in all kinds of casual interactions on his way to California, chatting with other journalists there, and Alex spending lots of time using lots of adjectives to persuade his audience how to think about the footage they’re about to see.

Uranus transit conjunct natal Sun-Jupiter

This transit is a period of revolution of one’s identity and personal energies, which we would expect to be dramatic with Jupiter involved. Uranus is the planet of tele-everything: television, tele-communications, the higher mind, the so-called occult, and the drive to know. It has the reputation for triggering rebellion and tendencies for extremes, to go outside the boundaries of convention with one’s aims. That certainly happened by even exploring the goings-on of Bohemian Grove.

Then the events of 9/11/2001 came along, with that Uranus transit still active and Pluto’s transit still within conjunction to natal Neptune and square to natal Mercury:

From that point on, Alex gained greater notoriety with appearances on late night radio on programs like Coast to Coast AM and eventually on the worldwide web.

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