all is not quite what it seems…
There has been so much hype about Pluto in Aquarius being the takeover or domination of AI, because Aquarius is said to rule technology. But what was not considered was the effect of Saturn the traditional ruler of Aquarius. Saturn, drawing a limit, making boundaries, stopping the fun or Pluto potentially blowing a hole in things. This is the chart for Pluto’s ingress in the USA notice Mars at 4’20 Leo in the 4th house, trine the North Node at 5’8 Aries in the 12th house. These degrees will turn up again and again.
There have been several court cases against Meta. On Friday March 20th , a court in Los Angeles ruled that Meta was,
‘found liable for deliberately designing addictive products that hooked a young user and led to her being harmed, a jury ruled on Wednesday. Jurors found the tech companies to be both negligent and having failed to provide adequate warnings about the potential dangers of their products.’ Guardian newspaper [Dara Kerr March 25th 2026]
They were fined the relatively small amount (to their wallets) of $6m Meta to pay 70% and You Tube 30%. But, this has been seen as the ‘tobacco moment for big tech’ another court in New Mexico fined Meta $375 million.
‘the jury found the company misled consumers about the safety of its platforms and enabled harm, including child sexual exploitation, against its users.‘ (Guardian op. cit.)
There are many more lawsuits in a consolidated group of cases in the pipeline including TikTok and the cumulative effect may well be substantial. What of the people concerned?
Notice Zuckerberg has Chiron at 2’21 Gemini. Uranus has recently passed over it and is heading for his North Node and then to oppose his natal Uranus in 2028. Lilith at 7’20 Aries has had a visit from Saturn and Saturn has made the first of three transits to his IC. All of which suggest chickens coming home to roost (Saturn) and shocks and surprises (Uranus). Uranus rules his intercepted second house of money, these fines might just be the beginning of money shocks.
This is the chart for the IPO (the first public offering of shares in a company). Notice the Moon at 2′ 41 Taurus, Pluto has already transited it not to return. Pluto retrogrades back to 3’04 in October 2026. Pluto it doesn’t get to square the MC at 7’49 Taurus until March 2028, but then it will be moving to oppose all the Taurus planets in the tenth house. Saturn conjuncted the Uranus on April 16th when Meta shut down the Messenger app which may be the first of the upsets. Also interesting is the South Node at 5’04 Gemini which Uranus gets to on August 3rd this year. The South Node is the past, Uranus the planet of revolution and rules the seventh cusp of open enemies. Unexpected, big changes are doubtless afoot, both in the short and long term.
Interestingly, the chart for the name change to Meta has similarities.
Notice the Moon Saturn opposition at 5’3 and 7’8 Leo/Aquarius on the cusp of the 2nd and 8th houses picking up the Pluto transit. More interesting is the North Node at 2’0 Gemini which is opposite the North Node in the IPO chart. Uranus hit this on the 31st of May which may related to the court case below which might herald another shake up.
Meta faces another lawsuit. ‘A class-action lawsuit from major publishers and authors accusing it of using pirated books and articles to train its Llama AI without permission. The complaint, filed May 5–6, 2026, in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, names Meta and CEO Mark Zuckerberg as defendants was brought by Hachette publishers’1.
Other tech bro troubles include Peter Thiel’s Palantir. We don’t have birth time for him, so the chart is set for 12.00. I wonder if his Moon is in early Aquarius, which would fit his present problems. Also note his Saturn at 8’20 Aries, conjunct Lilith at 10’40. Saturn will be opposing his Sun in April next year and his North Node in July 2027.
The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has blocked a £50 million deal between the Met Police and Palantir. The Mayor argued that the deal was a “clear and serious breach” of procurement rules. Scotland Yard was accused of negotiating with only one supplier, with no evidence of “demonstrated value for money”.2
This follows pressure brought to bear by the public to ban Palantir and remove it from the NHS, the Ministry of Defence, the Financial Conduct Authority, and other police forces across Britain. Palantir provides data analysis and intelligence services to ICE in the US and the IDF in Israel, providing mass surveillance, predictive policing, and supporting military operations.
Thiel has recently, moved his family to Argentina (long a home to escaping Nazis) citing fear of high taxes, political turmoil, and potential global catastrophes. He bought a mansion in Buenos Aires and is considering this relocation as a “Plan B” amid his fears concerning the direction of the United States. Running away in other words from the mess he helps to support.
One more headache for tech bros and AI companies is local resistance to housing these huge data centres, which scoop up water and use huge amounts of electricity. Several projects have been abandoned due to local campaigning. The Telegraph reports the issues,
A data centre hub in Texas –– can use 10 million gallons of water a day to cool and generate power. Outstanding requests have spiraled to 446 gigawatts (GW) by 2033 or five times peak power use for the entire state of Texas today, or 13 times the UK’s average use.
The chart, of the first AI experiment, seventy years ago, picks up the theme. The chart ruler Mercury, is at 4’48 Gemini, which is degree of the Neptune Pluto sextile on July 25th which will be trine/sextile Uranus at 4’56 Gemini. I find the Jupiter Pluto conjunction in Leo interesting, suggesting aggrandisment, hubris, over inflation of ones powers, which I think describes these mega rich tech bros exactly.
Another tech bro in trouble is Sam Altman. The Guardian 1 June 2026, reports:
‘The 83-page suit was brought by Florida’s attorney general, James Uthmeier, and alleges that OpenAI “aggressively marketed” ChatGPT to the public while ignoring safety warnings and possible dangers of the product. “OpenAI and Altman ignored internal and external safety warnings, put children at great risk, and allowed a dangerous product to reach millions of Floridians,” Uthmeier said in a statement.’3
Again, Altman’s chart is picking up the Pluto. It transits square his Ascendant, Sun and Lilith at 0’34, 02’15 and 3’1 Taurus respectively, opposed by Pluto at 3’23 Scorpio. His chart ruler, Venus is a 6’7 Aries, conjunct Fortune and Mercury at 6’19 and 7’51 respectively. Saturn has passed over these but Neptune is headed that way in June 2027. While Uranus hits his Chiron at 5’59 Gemini in May 30th 2027, but comes close to that degree this year before turning retrograde at 5’42 in September 11th 2026. Chiron is in his second house of money, while Uranus rules his eleventh house of friends and large groups, which might suggest the class action lawsuits. At the time of writing Pluto is exactly trine his Chiron at 5’16 Aquarius, and is retrograding back to square his Sun, Ascendant and Lilith.
The lawsuits follows a mass shooting at Florida State University, where two people were killed and six were injured. Chillingly, the shooter had lengthy conversations with the chat bot, asking it things like how many people he should kill to gain national attention, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. ChatGPT responded that three or more people is the “unofficial bar” for widespread media attention. (Guardian).
In the UK this week, it was announced by the UK government that social media sites, Instagram, Tik Tok, Facebook and Snapchat will be banned for 16 year olds and younger.
Arguably, these tech bros do not care about the consequences for ‘the little people’, as long as they make money they are happy. But it may be that the push back has started. I like the idea of Pluto, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus bringing these tech bros back down to earth. They have apparently embraced the Maga doctrines for purely selfish reasons 4 This week, Musk became the first trillionaire after his listing of SpaceX. Of course, this is only the trading value of his shares, which, as we know can go down as well as up. These aspects continue for several years, we have just seen the beginning.
- https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/articles/publishers-and-authors-file-class-action-lawsuit-against-meta-and-zuckerberg-for-willful-copyright-infringement-to-develop-llama-ai-models/
↩︎ - https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/sadiq-khan-blocks-50m-met-police-deal-with-ai-software-firm/ar-AA23Kbc2 ↩︎
- https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/01/florida-lawsuit-openai-sam-altman ↩︎
- https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/08/silicon-valley-meta-maga-politics-nick-clegg ↩︎
Elisabeth Brooke 