Campaigning journalist, newsreader, writer, radio and television broadcaster, Ludovic Kennedy, who died this weekend, was born into relative privilege and spent his life confidently promoting justice and compassion. He helped to end the death sentence in the UK and promoted voluntary euthanasia. Known for his pursuit of justice in cases of miscarriage thereof, he was often controversial and ahead of the pack. He once said:
"I became committed to revealing hidden truths, and propelled, compelled, by a very heady feeling of excitement"
He spoke his chart well, and lived it with at least outward success. In his chart there is a Kite formation - like a Grand Trine but with an extra planet on one of the midpoints. It has Grand Trine part involves the Sun in Scorpio, the Moon in Pisces, and Pluto in Cancer, which places Pluto on the all-important Sun/Moon midpoint (i.e. the half-way point between the Sun and the Moon). The extra planet is Saturn in Virgo. This is the signature of someone indefatigably digging into mysterious circumstances, and into matters of life and death, searching for redemption of the innocent, rediscovering hope when it was lost. The houses involved are the 1st, 4th, 8th, and 10th, indicating personal expression, end of life, death, career, and society at large.
His Mercury in Sagittarius in square aspect with Uranus is iconoclastic and truth-seeking, as is his Moon conjunct Uranus (the latter cast into prominence by virtue of its being located at the IC). Mars conjunct Saturn in Virgo is the hard-worker par excellence, as well as another signature of being drawn to death-related issues. His Jupiter conjunct Neptune in Leo in the 9th house indicates compassionate justice, but also great confidence and a sense of entitlement to do whatever he wanted to do.
