Fashionable Grace Mugabe of Zimbabwe

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Mrs. Mugabe has a lot of fire and earth in chart, making her hot tempered and appearance conscious, but as they are all in her twelfth house, that may not be such a good thing when her 93 year old husband, President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, reposes, particularly as Pluto is opposite Saturn in the sixth.  Reading a back issue of the New York Review of Book, April 8th issue, this is not a wild statement:

The former president and his wife [after the military coup that deposed him]  had just departed for Southeast Asia, and the heavy security surrounding the estate had been drawn down. Under the terms of his resignation, Mugabe had been guaranteed a life of comfort: a $10 million “golden handshake,” his Mercedes Pullman Guard limo, immunity from prosecution, and a  promise that no attempt would be made to seize his assets. But it would soon become clear that Mugabe was not willing to go quietly.

Few people I talked to believed that Mugabe himself was in danger, but none could offer the same assurances about Grace. Given the animosity that the family had stirred up during decades of theft, violence, and misrule, many Zimbabweans predicted that upon the death of her husband, she would waste no time to flee into a life in exile whether she was president or no. “She’s not safe here,” said Shaw. “She would be stoned if she set foot in town.”  NYBooks,  Joshua Hammer.

Both that T-Square and her Yod point to the Jupiter in the ninth house of travel, education and higher calling, making that point very important in her chart.

For her Yod, 21 Gemini is a sign of indulgence in foods, drink and sex.  Diamond JimBrady also had this degree though for his sun and like Mrs. Mugabe the railroad tycoon was not well loved.    For Mrs. Mugabe it suggests that her love of travel is her method of receiving a higher education (she went to China for a degree in Leadership and was cited last year as smuggling ivory there for repayment) and how she overcomes the provincialism of her homeland.

She is not much of a team player and needs to develop a more inclusive personality that allows her expansive mind to stretch out and grow even further.  This would also be a good vehicle for her to teach others about her political philosophy beyond shopping.  It would also help her gain respect for people as individuals, that right now she is struggles with accepting.  But rehabilitating herself would be one thing, the greater question is whether Grace could rehabilitate her and her family’s image.

Aerial view of CBD, looking northeast, Harare, Zimbabwe

                                         Fixed Star Bellatrix & Grace

Gemini 21 is also the point of Bellatrix, an unfortunate fixed star. President Theodore Roosevelt also had his Jupiter aspect the star  albeit in a different house, look at this point for more,  but Bellatrix has a greater effect on women than it does men being a female star.  Astrologer Thomas Hood (c. 1590) claimed that “women born under this star shall have mighty tongues”, and that seems to fit Mrs. Mugabe well as she goes around Zimbabwe campaigning for the presidency in the next election against the incumbent president Emmerson Mnangagwa — her husband is of course not running.  Bellatrix is also close to the m.c. (midheaven)  fueling her aspirations for the top post, but not in aspect and despite her husband’s 2014 appointment to the  head of the ZANU–PF ( Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front ) women’s wing we do not see her going any higher.

Instead Bellatrix is  opposite the Asteroid Lie, that could be hinting more at how Grace got herself into this mess, and her crocidile tears after Mugabe’s forced resignation, than the reports on the election.¹

Lie has another unfortunate aspect, this time a square to the Asteroid Niobe (or Rachel for those of a Biblical inclination¹)  while her Ascendant at 23.53 Virgo is conjunct the Asteroid Africa and square the Asteroid Germania, perhaps for all the South Africans of German descent that reside in her native country that she most likely resented.

Her Locomotive Temperament Type, does not like to lose, so despite her latest foray with the police about beating up twenty-year-old Gabriella Engels while  visiting the Mugabes’ sons Robert and Chatunga at a hotel in S. Africa, we doubt this will sideline her for long.

                  What’s Grace’s line?

Her Line of Vitality (moon aspecting sun) is quintile.  For her creative expression is outwardly driven, shown by array of beautiful dresses.  She derives great strength from her apparel and they truly mimic her inward demeanor.  This is supported by the Fixed Star Regulus conjunct her Venus on the twelfth house cusp.

Her Line of Social Significance (jupiter aspecting saturn)  is missing telling us that she is not very emotional disciplined and has great problems with public restraint.  The current episode with Miss Engels demonstrates this as do other attacks against the papparazzi she has made previously.

Her Line of Efficiency, (Mars to Venus) is semisquare, telling us that she tends to bully people into getting what she wants.

And finally her Line of Self-Determination is missing, telling us that she has to rely on others to get where she wants to go and what she wants to attain.  Considering her Line of Efficiency, that could be problematic.

The Zimbabwe General Election must be held in the winter sign of Leo, from 23rd of July to 21st of August.  Results are reported from the capital of Harare.  How that will turn out for her seems based on the latter date does not seem to be providential — nothing seems in the chart below to be in her favour —  but we will check back and see for certain.

Footnotes:

1. “A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.” the Gospel of Matthew, iixx.

   

   1. The mythology of Niobe, the daughter of the Tantalus,  is from Homer’s Iliad. She had six sons and six daughters and boasted of her progenitive superiority to the Titan Leto, who had only two children.  Alas Leto’s children were the twin deities Apollo and Artemis and as  punishment for her pride against their defamed mother, Apollo killed all Niobe’s sons, and Artemis killed all her daughters. Niobe returned to her Phrygian home, where she was turned into a rock on Mount Sipylus ( now called Yamanlar Dağı in northeast of Izmir, Turkey formerly Anatolia, Greece that was the motherland of Phyrgians), that “weeps” when the snow melts.  The picture of the rock above is quite evocative.

      

   2. Grace Mugabe was married to Stanley Goreraza when she had her daughter, Bona. It was publicly acknowledged that this was Mugabe’s daughter despite that he also was married to a woman that Zimbabweans adored and called the “the First Mother.”   Her next child, was named Robert Mugabe jr and she was still married to Goreraza.  Then Mrs. Mugabe died of kidney failure and the Goreraza’s divorced.  Grace and Robert sr. had a lavish wedding three months after the first Mother’s repose and then shortly afterward their third child,Chatunga Bellamine was born.  Mugabe’s only child previous to the Grace liaison died as a child.