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Sagittarian fashion designer Anand Jon facing 67 years in jail
A big story in America has been the conviction of Anand Jon, the Indian-born fashion designer, of a number of sexual offences. The court in California has yet to pass sentence, but apparently he’s facing sixty-seven years in prison, without parole. Which means, if the appeals fail, and there are no pardons or law-changes, that he’ll be about a hundred years old when he’s released.
Having said that, it’s not immediately clear when he’s born. A magazine article shown on his website implies he was born in 1976, and this is confirmed by several sources. However recent articles, relating to his trial and conviction, are suggesting 1973. And given that legal processes are quite good at throwing up accurate birth details, I’m reasonably confident that this is the correct year. As for the precise date, it would appear to be November 28, so he’s coming up for his 35th birthday.
Anand Jon’s conviction is a spectacular fall from grace. He started making his name in the late 1990s, not just through his design talents, but also by hanging out with the right celebrities. And by the beginning of 2007 he was at the peak of his career. Women such as Paris Hilton and Janet Jackson had worn his clothes, and Newsweek had just mentioned him as a talent to watch for that year. Then in March 2007 he was arrested, the charges including rape and assault on a fifteen year old girl.
Looking at Anand Jon’s horoscope, he’s got the Sun in Sagittarius. A man with big and expansive ideas, and like many Sagittarians, he has benefited from travel, at least to begin with - his move from India to the US brought him fame and fortune.
His Sun makes a conjunction to Neptune, the planet of fantasy, delusion and make-belief. This conjunction is great for image-building - creating a powerful name, with style being just as important as substance. The bright lights, the networking, the celebrity circus. However Sun-Neptune conjunctions can be dangerous - those that have them in their chart can sometimes believe their own hype, and can believe that they can play things according to their own rules.
And under his glamorous surface, Anand Jon is someone who is single-mindedly ambitious.
He has both the Moon and Venus in Capricorn. This is a man who knows what he wants, who has a clear understanding of his own interests. Celebrity parties aren’t just for having fun, they’re for meeting the movers and shakers.
Yet the planet Venus helps explain Anand Jon’s current problems. It makes a forty-five degree aspect to Neptune, and this suggests that his relationship with the opposite sex is often confused, that there’s an air of deception.
Anand Jon’s defenders raise doubts about the accuracy of the witness statements - and there were certainly a lot of women who came forward with evidence against him. Or maybe it was a case of him losing touch with reality, and not realising the human and legal implications of what he was doing.
Matters are made worse by Venus making stressful, 90-degree aspects to both Mars and Uranus. Mars and Uranus can be quite a violent combination, and their influence on Venus could be dramatic. Indeed astrologer Reinhold Ebertin wrote of the Venus-Mars-Uranus combination as follows:
A strong passionate excitability. - the desire to enforce love, a sudden stepping up of energy in love matters…
Anand Jon’s Hindu horoscope suggests that we’re dealing with someone with powerful desires, who might suffer greatly through the company he keeps. There are many things he wants, in terms of fame, fortune and perhaps sex, and his desires can sometimes take over, and lead him into a trap. And when Desire climbs into the driving seat, the escalating dangers are often ignored.
Finally, Anand Jon’s trials and tribulations may be part of a wider, collective trend. He’s a Sagittarius, and in less than two weeks Pluto leaves this sign. As I’ve said in other articles, the age of celebrity is coming to an end, and the glamour of fame is fast losing its magic. The celebrity of tomorrow doesn’t just have to be talented, but their conduct must also be above suspicion.
He was born 5:53am in Trivandrum, India on 11/28/1973
the women came forward with powerful claims - not powerful evidence