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Niarchos built the first ships able to transport large quantities of oil, earning millions of dollars as the global demand for his ships grew.
Capricorn Moon children has a powerful instinct of fame and it is usually apparently the fact they are usually very ambitious since young age, they tend to worry about the future more than the majority and find in adults a magical presence of authority and discipline, projecting in them their own industrial emotional nature. They are natural entrepreneurs.
Niarchos knew it better, and was the one who threw the net on the market and became a magnate in the family, from rich to multi-billionaire. Amidst the Great Depression, this man turned to be one of the world’s most innovative and successful 20th century businessmen.
Stavros for many years used to be the owner of one of the largest privately owned tanker fleets in the world, consisting of an estimated 80 ships, and had once owned a personal fortune which was estimated to be some four billion dollars.
Realize this ambitious men was born during a Full Moon in Capricorn, meaning he had Sun in Cancer – the opposite sign.
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“Stavros Spyros Niarchos (Greek: Σταύρος Σπύρος Νιάρχος, Greek pronunciation: [ˈstavros ˈspiros ‘ɲarxos]; 3 July 1909 – 16 April 1996) was a multi-billionaire Greek shipping tycoon. Starting in 1952, he had the world’s biggest supertankers built for his fleet. Propelled by both the Suez Crisis and an increasing demand for oil, he and rival Aristotle Onassis became giants in global petroleum shipping. Niarchos was also a noted thoroughbred horse breeder and racer, several times the leading owner and number one on the French breed list.”
Unfortunately, the time of his birth is unclear, but the website astrodatabank has a clue (classified as “C”) but doesn’t know the origin of source and I will stick to that. According to them, the magnate was born on the third day of July in 1909 at 12:51 pm in Athens, Greece:
If his birth time is right, Stavros had an almost total reversed chart of the natural order of things, which was projected as a very motivated person; the Moon is detriment in Capricorn, Jupiter is detriment (in Virgo), Saturn is at fall in Aries, all of his houses are opposite beginning from the rising sign in Libra when Aries, the opposite sign of Libra is the organic ruler of the 1st house etc. Whoa! This was a men that wouldn’t had never been stuck in life, not to mention the cardinal cross, where cardinal signs of action (Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn) form the cardinal angles of the chart.
Born already in a rich and wealthy family, his parents had origins in Lakonia and had just relocated to Greece (3 months before Stavros was born) from the United States where they were naturalized and had owned a department store in Buffalo, New York. Niarchos graduated from the Varvakios School and the Law School of Athens. In 1929, he started working in his uncles’ gristmill and soon exhibited his talent in business administration. During this period, Stavros was involved with merchant for goods convincing its great profits that could be obtained if the firm possessed vessels involved, that is, if they obtained their own private ships, once he recognized the substantial transportation expense in importing wheat:
The only sextile direct Jupiter could make in his life by primary direction was when Stavros was at the age of 20 – in the year of 1929. Jupiter is the ruler of 3rd house of relatives (Sagittarius on the cusp) in Niarchos’s radix, and the house is in terms with Mercury, then this was an easy case to investigate, the year when the man began working with his uncle. We simple moved his Jupiter to the next sign, making the closest next aspect it could have had after the natal square had completed earlier in life (in both direct and converse directions)
The Moon-Uranus conjunction also has had a touch in his ‘visions’ of the future and its needs. Uranus is future-oriented as well as Saturn, Capricorn and Aquarius, but Uranus foretells the future by generalized insights and quick perception of reality than the ordinary Mercury’s perception of the reality of now, Uranus and Aquarius foresee what is next and want to be there at all cost. Uranus is the planet of friends and it sits in his 3rd house of relatives.
Capricorn fears the future, it needs somehow a proof that the future exits! They worry and are in constant concern about where they will be at in 5 to 10 years from today, from yesterday, from the whole life. Realize this ambitious men was born during a Full Moon in Capricorn, meaning he had Sun in Cancer – the opposite sign. The Moon is detriment in the sign of cold-to-feel Capricorn, as it lies in a sign it is opposite the sign she rules, that is again, Cancer. The Full Moon proposes the 3rd of communication and transportation would be very luminous as well as the 9th house of the international land where the Sun occupies, a men who knew how to use his knowledge to literally execute his own dreams.
Niarchos was a naval officer in the Greek Navy during World War II, during which time part of the trade fleet he had developed with his uncle was destroyed once the Allied Forces leased his first vessel.
However, while Niarchos was serving in the Greek Navy, the allied forces chartered his first ship, which was later destroyed during the war. After receiving a $2 million reimbursement for his sunken vessels and a total of 16 Liberty vessels gifted to him by the American administration, Niarchos’s finances recovered, allowing him to convince his relatives to further reinvest in big tankers – remember that Mercury also rules over close relatives. He proved to be right.
Pluto is a generational planet that affects a whole generation, and Niarchos was that generation where the oldest people behind the WWII shared the same ‘plutonic’ energy, Pluto in the sign of two faced Gemini. Natal Mars was square Pluto – conducting obsessions
Stavros had Mercury conjunction Pluto in Gemini, a configuration that assures individuals privileged of the power of speech, in other words, a person that truly knows how to convince, or better yet, in his case, someone who knew what the transportation market (Mercury) would later need to survive (Pluto). Also, Mercury is the ruler of relatives close to the person, like an uncle, which was his case.
His emotional satisfaction lied on the 3rd house of close relatives. His uncles had a great part in the final cycle (Full Moon) of his life involving emotional security from this area of the chart, Stavros convinced his uncles to master and own a private squad, assuring them the action could bring millions more.
Curious event in his life that had happened years later: As the website snf.org writes, Niarchos participated in the Allied operations in Normandy and was awarded, among other distinguished service medals, the Commander of the Order of the Phoenix in 1977, the Royal Order of King George I, and the Royal House Order of SS George and Constantine.
In 1956, the Suez Crisis caused a crisis in the Suez Canal, increasing as a consequence the demand for those large tonnage ships that Niarchos had built 4 years earlier. The business flourished and he became a billionaire. Stavros face was illustrated on the Time magazine cover of August 6th, 1956:
Now, if we take promissor Saturn and direct it in the Zodiac to the opposition of Jupiter Direct, then we have the exact year of when, Niarchos and the uncle became billionaires. In this case, it was necessary to use the Regiomontanus method of direction (circle) and the dynamic Key utilizing the true solar equatorial Arc (birthday). We must have in mind that primary directions has nothing to do with personal abilities or psychological attributions like modern astrology – this is plain and simple meaning that can be quite literal when in judgment and active. In such case that was of Niarchos and his uncle, was that through Stavros’s Saturn direction to Jupiter that made all the difference in the world, his global contribution, where success (Saturn) and wealthiness (Jupiter) came by as combination. Jupiter is know for the power of expansion, abundance and is known as the largest. This is the only opposition of Saturn to Jupiter Direct (in the Zodiac) possible in his life on planet Earth by Primary Direction, changing status and financial condition for good.
Stavros’s natal Jupiter was located in the 11th house of huge business and large quantities of money from big corporations, and it was also at joy in such house. Saturn is ruler of 4th house of fresh starts and the family. Natal Saturn is square Venus, a combination usually seem in charts of tycoons.
Stavros created the largest private fleet in the globe and was therefore globally nicknamed as The Golden Greek. The nickname is usually seemed as a personal status of the person brought to the light of the public attention, that is astrologically, the 10th house, the place of our reputation.The ruler of his 10th house is the Moon, and the Moon is… well you know, full! Luminous while reflecting the golden rays of the Sun. The Sun opposite Moon in his chart is the aspect most exact in his chart. Remembering again, his uncles (Moon in the 3rd house) had a great role in it as well, they also assured all their future (Uranus) financial status, once the Moon conjunct Uranus in Capricorn, the business-minded sign of the Zodiac.
Again, this was a great men full of ambition. Mars in Pisces was soft yes, but it was what gave him permission to go after the open sea, very Pisces indeed! Pisces and Neptune govern over the immensity of the ocean, different from the beaches that Cancer rules, or from those deep mysterious dark lakes without movement that Scorpio rules and enjoys. Mars in Pisces means: “seek for the high seas, the unknown! built your own ship, your own way to the oceans my brave man!”. So he did it. Mars in Pisces was part of his T-mutable square where Mercury and Pluto are at the apex of it, meaning that his will and desires (Mars), his higher aspirations and need to expand (Jupiter) were all stimulated by his intellect and perception of reality (Mercury) and deep survival instinct (Pluto). Mercury rules the area of transportation while Pluto virtues a person with powerful resources.
Interesting Fact I: The Sun in Cancer made him very famous among the woman. He had 5 marriages during his life. The Sun conjunct Neptune in Cancer would project in him as someone perfect for the woman in general, and ‘ideal’ men that all woman of that time would wanted to have as a husband. Of course, all his legacy was also an attraction indicator, and I think he knew that well and used to his favor. He attracted Princesses to woman from important and wealthy families since the beginning. Libra rising in his chart would have favored his good-looking and magnetic attraction even when someone is not seemed as “socially” beautiful, Venus as ruler of the chart inspires popularity among the opposite sex. For multiple marriages we usually see a mutable cross right away, Jupiter on the 1st or 7th, excess of mutable signs, which are things that his chart lacks. Perhaps if he hasn’t been famous and a successful persona, he would have stick to his first wife, perhaps 2 marriages maximum. But this was a men of money, big money, he had everything in his hands already, and Aries on the descendant means he would see relationships more of a challenging game than an actual urge, an area of conquer instead of surrendering to a significant other. Success changes people, as they see more from above than everybody else once they witnessed the world conspiring in favor for themselves in millions multitudes. His natal Venus, the planet of love and marriage was also in Cancer. Stavros was married to Helen Sporides, Melpomene Capparis, Eugenia Livanos, Pamela Churchill (affair), Charlotte Ford, Athina Spencer-Churchill, Princess Firyal of Jordan (rumor) and Princess Maria Gabriella of Savoy (rumor).
Interesting Fact II: 9th house is a place where everything is bigger, larger and better, this is the place of large animals such as horses. According to wikipedia Niarchos was also a noted thoroughbred horse breeder and racer, several times the leading owner and number one on the French breed list. Only in this house, Stavros had 4 planets including the Sun. As wikipedia writes: “Niarchos began investing in thoroughbred horse racing in the early 1950s and won his first stakes race with Pipe of Peace at the Middle Park Stakes. After leaving the business for roughly two decades he came back in the 1970s and eventually put together a highly successful stable of racehorses that competed in France and the United Kingdom. He acquired the Haras de Fresnay-le-Buffard horse breeding farm in Neuvy-au-Houlme, France and Oak Tree Farm in Lexington, Kentucky where in 1984 he bred his most successful horse, Miesque. Niarchos was the leading owner in France twice (1983, 1984) and topped the breeders’ there list three times (1989, 1993, 1994). His prize horses were all trained by François Boutin, whose skill was a vital element of Niarchos’ success in the field.”
Interesting Fact III: Neptune rules over oils. Niarchos had Sun conjunction Neptune in the 9th house of Sagittarius and Jupiter, a conjunction that happens once a year for a few days. People with many planets in this house think big! here we see 2 personal planets (Sun and Mercury) interacting in close relation to 2 outer planets Neptune and Pluto. The Mercury-Pluto conjunction in there also tells me how much such configuration was needed in order for Stavros to seek for his oil’s transportation in real life.
Interesting Fact IV: Libra is rising in his chart, that means Venus rules his astrological chart. Venus is the planet of the arts in general, Libra and Venus people know how to admire the beauty of an art, its aesthetic nature and all things satisfying to the senses. Neptune is the higher octave of Venus, like in music, thus it brings a more tapered energy that is generational. Venus was conjunction his 10th house of public image. In 1956, when already wealthy, Niarchos acquired an important collection of arts actor Edward G. Robinson, and over the years put as one of the world’s major art collections, with over a hundred Impressionist paintings and post-impressionists. In 1989, he obtained the self-portrait of Picasso, “Yo Picasso” for US $ 47,850,000 million, not including Vincent van Gogh’s works, Francisco de Goya, El Greco and Peter Paul Rubens. Stavros was a man that could had everything if simple wanted, the Sun-Neptune can express itself as the realization of dreams to come to life
“The Stavros Niarchos Foundation [(SNF) (www.SNF.org)] is one of the world’s leading private, international philanthropic organizations, making grants to nonprofit organizations in the areas of arts and culture, education, health and sports, and social welfare. Since 1996, the Foundation has committed more than $2.6 billion, through more than 4,000 grants to nonprofit organizations in 124 nations around the world.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stavros_Niarchos
http://www.astro.com/astro-databank/Niarchos,_Stavros_S.
http://www.snf.org/en/about/founder/
www.nytimes.com/1996/04/18/world/stavros-niarchos-greek-shipping-magnate-archrival-onassisis-dead-86.html
http://www.ellines.com/en/myths/13855-a-myth-of-global-shipping/
Astrologer since 2008 – Astrology Publishing, Business, Marketing and Design. Rafael VR is not available for readings at the moment. The author is working on the website construction and its content
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