We are Family: Art Buchwald

Art Buchwald is an American humorist, and one who views life through a radically different lens. His early childhood lacked stability and security. Art's mother was taken into psychiatric care for paranoid delusions when he was three months old. His father put him into an orphanage when his business failed, but the family were later reunited. However, these difficult times would forever stay with Art. The Moon in the natal chart rules the mother and it doesn't look particularly stressed, it conjuncts Venus in Sagittarius. The the conjunction aspects nothing else in his natal chart. The conjunction is closed off from other aspects of his personality and this may be telling for the little nurturing contact he had with his mother. The Moon in Sagittarius would represent a good sense of humour/upbeat personality. Saturn in Scorpio conjunct M.C (parental house) shows a suspicious and paranoid view of the world. Jupiter is locked away in the 12th house in Capricorn and forms an opposition to Pluto in the 6th house. Art is described as having a dark sense of humour. Jupiter is in fall in Capricorn and the dark opposition to Pluto may be an indication of his suicidal feelings.

Buchwald has been called a troubled man behind a clown's mask. He told acquaintances that his mother had died and he would never visit her in hospital. It is really sad because he has loving feelings somewhere for his mother (Moon-Venus). Saturn in Scorpio is a mistrustful and deeply suspicious planet, it conjuncts the M.C and squares Neptune in the 7th house. Indicating his deep paranoia and depression is inherited from his family and most evidently his mother. Mars, the planet of assertiveness, goals and aggression is in detriment in Libra and it is hidden in the 8th house. The 8th house is deeply rooted in family complexes. Mars is t-squared by Jupiter and Pluto involving all the water houses and this is massive marker for depression and buried rage.