Martha Stewart: From Billionaire to Prison and Back, Read in Her Chart
A billionaire in 1999, in prison in 2004, back on TV in 2005. Scroll: one Saturn runs the whole story.
Her birth chart ID
Martha Stewart
3 August 19411:33 pmJersey City, New Jersey
- ☉︎Sun Leo
- ACRising Scorpio
- ☽︎Moon Sagittarius
Her fall and comeback in 8 dates
Scroll down, the years slide by.
October 1999
Her company goes public. Her shares are worth about a billion dollars.
December 2001
She sells her ImClone shares, one day before bad news drops the stock.
4 June 2003
She is indicted and steps down as CEO.
5 March 2004
Guilty of conspiracy, obstruction and false statements. Never of insider trading.
8 October 2004
She enters the federal prison camp of Alderson, West Virginia.
4 March 2005
She walks out. Five more months at home, with an ankle bracelet.
September 2005
Two TV shows start: The Martha Stewart Show and The Apprentice: Martha Stewart.
Her real chart
Fame, money, and lawsuits.
Scorpio rising
Scorpio rising
Her Sun in Leo sits in the 10th house of career and public image, next to Pluto: a name that becomes a brand.
Her Moon in the 2nd
In Sagittarius, in the house of money. Daily life and home comfort, turned into income.
Her 7th house
Taurus holds Saturn and Uranus. The house of partners, and of open enemies and lawsuits. Remember this Saturn.
The sky around her chart
Saturn walks into her house of law.
4 June 2003
4 June 2003
The day of the indictment, Saturn enters Cancer, her 9th house of law, judges and courts.
8 October 2004
She enters prison: Saturn is near the end of Cancer. It leaves on 17 July 2005, weeks before her house arrest ends.
4 March 2005
She walks out: Pluto, planet of loss and rebirth, arrives on her Moon in her house of money. Exact three times in 2006.
Her real chapters
The chapter of her empire ends five weeks before prison.
Zodiacal releasing cuts a life into chapters, one sign each, counted from the Lot of Spirit, for career. Hers is in Gemini. Scroll to live them.
Virgo, from 1 September 2004. A new chapter does not always start with a party. Sometimes with a closed door.
- 1990The magazine
- 1999Wall Street
- 2003Indicted
- 2004Prison
- 2005Back on TV
Three layers, one prison term
2002 to 2006: watch the clocks meet.
Saturn
In Cancer, her 9th house of law
Profection
Ages 62 and 63: two years ruled by Saturn, her planet of lawsuits
Releasing
Loosing of the bond, then a new chapter
8 October 2004 The sentence, in July 2004, and the prison term, until 4 March 2005, sit where all three meet.
September 2005
2 new TV shows
She is 64. 64 divided by 12 leaves 4, plus 1: a 5th house year, the house of joy and entertainment. In Pisces, the sign of her Lot of Fortune.
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Questions people ask
Why did Martha Stewart go to prison?
She was convicted on 5 March 2004 of conspiracy, obstruction of justice and false statements, linked to her sale of ImClone shares on 27 December 2001. She was not convicted of insider trading. She served five months in a federal prison camp in Alderson, West Virginia, from 8 October 2004 to 4 March 2005, then five months of home confinement.
What is Martha Stewart's rising sign?
Scorpio rising, with the birth time of 1:33 pm on 3 August 1941 in Jersey City. Her Sun in Leo sits in the 10th house of career, her Moon in Sagittarius in the 2nd house of money, and Saturn and Uranus in Taurus in the 7th house of partners and lawsuits.
What does astrology show about Martha Stewart's fall?
Saturn entered Cancer, her 9th house of law, on 4 June 2003, the day she was indicted, and left in July 2005. Her ages 62 and 63 were both profection years ruled by Saturn, which sits in her 7th house of lawsuits. Her career chapter in Leo (zodiacal releasing from Spirit) ended on 1 September 2004, five weeks before prison.
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Photos, Wikimedia Commons: Martha Stewart (Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0); Steve Jobs (Matthew Yohe, CC BY-SA 3.0); Robert Downey Jr. (Philip Romano, CC BY-SA 4.0); Britney Spears (Glenn Francis, CC BY-SA 4.0); Andy Warhol (Bernard Gotfryd, Public domain); Albert Einstein (Oren Jack Turner, Public domain); Cristiano Ronaldo (Bryan Berlin, CC BY-SA 4.0)