Susan Sarandon & Tim Robbins - broken dreams

The separation between Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins, together for 23 years and thought to be a rock solid Hollywood couple, seems to have surprised everyone.

Both have their Suns in charming Libra; both have three planets in intense Scorpio; both are highly ambitious; and both have a Saturnine slant on their relationships. So they really are fairly similar types.

Susan Sarandon (4 Oct 1946 2.25 pm New York) has an 8^{th house Sun Neptune in Libra in the 8th (yet another Neptune in 8th movie star) – so she’s an odd mix of light, airy and profound. She has a strong campaigning 9th house with Mercury in Libra and Jupiter, Mars in Scorpio there. So she throws her passionate enthusiasm into her social activist causes. Her seductively charming Venus in Scorpio is on her midheaven; and her work-oriented Moon in Capricorn is on her Ascendant. She also has the difficult Saturn Pluto in Leo in her 7th suggesting that she’ll be attracted to close relationships which require grit and stamina, are intensely possessive and rather hard work.}

She has her Solar Arc Saturn conjunct her Sun at the moment which is downbeat. Transitting Saturn now in her 8th house till 2011 will make her feel under-supported and tr Pluto into her 12th for years to come will bring up difficult issues to be handled in private. Though she also has her Solar Arc Venus conjunct her Moon at the moment which suggests some positive emotional input.

With her Sun/Moon midpoint which is the marriage significator at 3 degrees Sagittarius she will have been going through a long period of self searching about her marriage really from the late 1990s as first tr Pluto was conjunct her Sun/Moon, then tr Saturn opposed it and then tr Uranus squared into this decade.

Tim Robbins (16 Oct 1958 2.12 am West Covina, CA, USA) her actor, producer, director husband has a money-oriented 2nd house Sun in Libra conj Venus with Mercury, Neptune, Jupiter in Scorpio in the 3rd so he’s also a good and persuasive communicator. He has a competitive, ambitious Mars in Gemini on his midheaven in a highly determined square to Pluto on his Virgo Ascendant. Plus a hard-working-at-home Moon Saturn in Sagittarius trine a 12th house Uranus.

He’s rather downbeat at the moment with his Solar Arc Mercury conjunct his Saturn. Though he would have some kind of an epiphany about his home and family life in 2007/08 as his Progressed Sun was conjunct his Moon making clear to him what he wanted; and then a jolting, impatient Solar Arc Mars square his Sun last year as well.

On their composite relationship chart there’s an affectionate, adventurous Venus Jupiter sextile the composite Moon. But there’s also a power-struggling Mars Pluto sextile a never-quite-sure Sun Neptune Saturn conjunction. The composite Moon is at 4 degrees Capricorn so transitting Saturn is now square that Moon and tr Pluto will conjunct from January 2010 for two years which will bring tensions really out into the open. Though there will be a fair amount of to-ing and fro-ing so it may not be a quick n’ easy split. They may come back together again and then move apart several times.