Understanding Alex Jones: Astrology Behind His Outrage

                                                      We know little about Mr. Alexander Emerick Jones, which is rather wild for such a loud-mouthed radio host.

He is famous for his site InfoWars, which BigNewsNetworks, claims he will lose, and the $1.5 billion dollar fine he was handed as a staggering punishment by a Connecticut court for free speech because he claims the 2012 Sandy Hook elementary school shooting was a hoax. This has caused him to sell many of his assets, so naturally I wondered what drove him to persist in these comments, knowing full well the litigious climate we are in.

Of course , to no one’s surprise, he jumped on the bandwagon, calling Covid a hoax too.

The Astrological Alex

Jones was born on February 11, 1974 in Dallas, Texas. He has grand trine in earth (the Moon to Pluto to mercury) , telling us he is very good at using general fears to arouse the public.   

As his planetary pattern ¹ Jones called them originally temperament types {/mfn] is a Locomotive  with an open east side that tells us that no matter how he tries, he cannot take control of his life, as outside forces are always using their resources against him.

Naturally, this cause Jones no amount of consternation having to rely on his Neptune 01 in Sagittarius  (“the Grand Army of the Republic’s campfire”) for his news analysis and thus his insights of how best to parlay that for his audience (see the gold circles on the chart).

Uranus in the second house shows that his disregard for his own resources and obligations causes him to act more wildly to make headlines and attract viewers which, of course works (Neptune sextile Uranus in third) but then causes more legal disputes (Neptune trine Mars in the eighth). It is no doubt a destructive cycle to get into.

Thus while I have no real birth time for Mr Jones, I feel that Virgo 11 (“a boy moulded in his mother’s aspiration for him.”

This maybe true as Demeter (an asteroid typically shown to represent the mother) is a semi-sextile away from his Ascendant and conjunct Uranus at 07 Libra. It fits him well.

He seems to have a mutable personality: he is very people reliant and Pluto in the first house endows him with a magnetic & dramatic personality. 

Uranus opposite the Moon makes him a lighting rod for issues he wants to understand and clarify by making them “hot buttons” and arousing people’s emotions.

This is not an unusual ploy in journalism, historically it has been called yellow dog journalism as when the papers roused up the Republic and gave us the Spanish American War or on the radio “shock jock” radio for which Joe Pyne is credited, but where Howard Stern and Don Imus made the fortunes .

It’s actually comical, the stereotypes, the off colour jokes (Jones insults Jews constantly but it seems his first wife Kelly was one), the wild insinuations that the audience enjoys and makes a byword or secret code, like the late Bob Grant did with late Governor Mario Cuomo (father of Andrew) with his famous, or infamous depending upon your politics, salute and his March of the Gavones.

In New York City, Bob Grant single handedly destroyed Mario Cuomo’s career in New York State and beyond, with a great Italian Salute in his March of the Gavones. He was too was taken off the air for a while,  but eventually he came back, albeit on a different station. The New Yorker magazine gives the contra view here though they do half heartedly admit Grant was hilarious, but then his style changed over the years from the early 60s and the Good Guys on WMCA to drive hour on WABC the then top radio station in America..

                                      The Infowars Man

Back to Alex who with his InfoWars. His aggressive talk, Mars in the eighth opposite Uranus in the second, falls into that group which fits his most outrageous comment that Sandy Hook Connecticut was a put up job or his comment that Senator Cruz’s father was part of the Cuban mafia gang that killed Kennedy and then left conveniently for Canada where Teddy was born.

Not much has been academically studied on the ascendancy of the shock jock which is rather unfortunate for like this article states “they have racist parodies, vulgar jokes, and outrageous political statements” that blur the boundaries of real and speculation, but with newspapers recounting that Jennifer Aniston is either pregnant or remarrying Brad Pitt, is Jones alone? Is there a line where someone cannot go? And if so where does the First Amendment end and Orwell’s Big Brother begin?  Of course, companies can create a line but that treads very close to fascism.

The First Amendment guarantees freedoms concerning religion, expression, assembly, and the right to petition.  It forbids Congress from both promoting one religion over others and also restricting an individual’s religious practices.  Congress cannot restrict the press or the rights of individuals to speak freely because it guarantees freedom of expression. It also guarantees the right of citizens to assemble peaceably and to petition their government.   ——– Cornell University Legal Institute.

There are no bombs being thrown, no World Trade Towers being blown up or dubious marches being spearheaded, though January 6th is always good for some “serious” outrage. I is a way of listeners blowing off steam and celebrating their particular rancor while Big Media salutes Big Business (Apple is now the richest company in history FWIW) and gives us sanctimonious lies that free trade is good for us while using prison labour in China. 

                               The Jones Outrage

Alex’s mode of outrage (Moon and Saturn in Taurus but in different houses) is so seemingly illogical (Saturn square Venus in Aquarius) that throws his opponents off for a response, so they just go to a friendly judge and sue. That he has made lots of money doing it also upsets his opponents. Forbes, no longer owned by the Forbes family btw, has a long article on how many houses Jones owns and so can pay off these outrageous claims. Every dollar Alex  makes them, reminds everyone else they did not and with Jupiter in the second house shows Jones is making buckyoo dollars.  Since it is in Scorpio, there is some serious jealousy on that account. 

That idea is not as wild as one would suppose as it is  supported by the transiting Ascendant  of his Twitter post on August 10th only a Semi-sextile away from the natal, &  so highlighting an inauspicious association between the two i.e. take away his money you take away his voice.  The Mercury-Sun conjunction in the sixth house support that idea as well, and there is no doubt, this is a watershed event in Jones’s career.

You can read about his competitors, it would seem we have done plenty of them, Anderson Cooper, Laura Ingraham, Milo Yiannopolous and Rachel Maddow. Each one will tell you that the other  is a fool, and if they have a good tune, and you can dance to it, so much the better . Chances are Jones will be back.

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Footnotes

1. Joy Elizabeth Hayes & Sharon Zechowski (2014) Shock Jocks and Their Legacy: Introduction, Journal of Radio & Audio Media, 21:2, 199-201, DOI: 10.1080/19376529.2014.950142
2.  We originally said that Jones was a Splash but have since corrected that to a lost Locomotive.

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Tags: Alex Jones, Bob Grant talk show host, Locomotive Pattern, March of the Gavones, Mario Cuomo, No to Low Conjunctions