Reports are out that Madonna and Guy Ritchie are headed to the divorce court just a week after her adoption of African baby David Banda was approved.

Madonna married Guy about 7 years ago, when Saturn was transitting her 10th house of public fame and recognition and highest point of her chart. This transit was also about the time Saturn opposed her natal Saturn, a highly significant event, in the sector of home and family. Saturn, moreover, formed a number of favorable aspects during that period to her Sun, Pluto and Uranus indicating she was at the age and maturity to give up some personal control in order create a family. She may have married more for the sake of being married, as a lot of women do, as her Saturn opposition on her fame and family axis probably strengthened feelings that it was lonely at the top. She even admitted in an MTV interview, she “got married for all the wrong reasons”.

Saturn cycles happen every 7 years and indicate the passing of one phase of identity to another. Our first Saturn square occurs at the age we go off to school and leave home for the first time. The first Saturn opposition occurs with the on-start of adolescence and the beginnings of our first romantic experiences. The next Saturn square is about the time we hit 21, becoming legal in the eyes of the law. Our first Saturn return marks the point when we enter into true adulthood and start lives of our own, and can be quite a traumatic event.

Madonna has had Saturn moving through her 12th house over the course of the past few years, hitting many of her own personal planets. Saturn through the 12th house can indicate times when we feel extremely isolated and at the end of an entire 27-year cycle of being. It is not unusual during these times for estrangements to occur, as can be seen by the fact that the couple rarely live together these days. Things that do not survive this process often get cast off when Saturn starts its new cycle by crossing the ascendant, which it is in the process of doing now. Moreover, Saturn’s conjunction of Madonna’s Pluto on her ascendant can mark her extreme need to take back control of her own identity.

Once Saturn crosses the Ascendant in early August, we may see this separation move more into the spotlight and as it hits her Moon in later August, her feelings of depression due to this may come into the spotlight. Madonna’s own square to her natal Saturn in the house of home and family from November through late July of 2009 could signify some major alterations in her domestic life.

Saturn’s transit of the first house is never easy, but it does force us to live life in a more mature manner. An even uneasier element to this situation is that Guy is a Virgo and this is hitting his sign and solar first house as well (which includes 4 planets), indicating he is making new starts and facing difficulties of his own and probably has little patience to be the anchor through some bad times. Domineering Pluto conjunct the marriage asteroid Juno uniting near Madonna’s ascendant makes her quite a controlling spouse, plus this conjunction hits Guy’s natal Mars, alternatively emasculating him as well as pushing him towards constant fighting. Guy may have had enough himself. Saturn through the first house pushes us into a kind of emergency mode where we can barely function, and with both members of the couple dealing with this transit, there is probably little energy left for the other.

Here is an informative article on the state of their relationship.

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