Last month, Cory Jones, a top editor at Playboy,
went to see its founder Hugh Hefner at the Playboy Mansion. In a wood-paneled
dining room, with Picasso and de Kooning prints on the walls, Mr. Jones
nervously presented a radical suggestion: the magazine, a leader of the
revolution that helped take sex in America from furtive to ubiquitous, should
stop publishing images of naked women. Mr. Hefner, now 89, but still listed as
editor in chief, agreed. As part of a redesign that will be unveiled next
March, the print edition of Playboy will still feature women in provocative
poses. But they will no longer be fully nude.
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Playboy
magazine will stop publishing pictures of fully nude women because the ubiquity
of internet pornography has made such images “passé”, the company’s chief
executive has revealed. So can we detect
this change in the stars? We certainly can. But let us start first with Hugh
Hefner’s horoscope. The data for the horoscope is available at Astro-Databank
with an AA Rodden Rating suggesting that the timing is perfect and can be
relied upon.
Notice that
Hefner has a prominent Sun-Pluto square with Pluto in the 10th
house. This link suggests that his
identity (Sun) is inherently Plutonian.
The Sun is about “vitality” so that if such a person is true to the
Sun-impulse he will be full of life and verve deriving his energy from
everything Plutonian. And in his case, that energy is a fascination with the
taboo subject of sex. With the Sun also trine Neptune, we can see why he chose
to titillate his readers sexual fantasy with pornographic images. Hefner started
Playboy magazine in 1953 when his progressed Ascendant [18li] was within a 1
degree orb to an opposition to his radix
Sun [19ar] so that, astrologically speaking, the timing is perfectly understandable. Now 62
years later, transiting Uranus-Pluto forms a perfect T-square with his radix
Sun-Pluto. Ebertin’s key phrases for
Uranus-Pluto : “The process of transformation.
The collapses of the old order of things, the construction of the new”
are completely applicable here and explain the change that has occurred.
If we are
still in doubt that it is the Uranus-Pluto square that has contributed to this
change, all we need to do is look at his
current solar return chart progressed to October 12, the date of the news. Sure
enough, the Uranus-Pluto square is caught exactly on the angles suggesting that
it is the “prime mover” in this radical change that has occurred.
Finally, a
chart for the October 12 New Moon shows
not only that it is placed exactly opposite Hefner’s radix Sun but also that it anchors the configuration
Venus-Mars (sex and porn) to the transformative Uranus-Pluto square.
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