Warren Buffett, the mega-successful investor referred to as the “Oracle” or “Sage” of Omaha and “the single most influential investor of all time – ” the Isaac Newton of investing” is retiring at 94. He has accumulated a massive fortune reckoned at US $168.2 billion, making him the sixth-richest individual in the world and is noted for his frugality, pledging to give away 99 percent of his fortune to philanthropic causes. The man tasked with the impossible job of replacing him is Greg Abel and commentators say it will take investors years to know whether he has the same talent and can come close to matching Buffett’s returns.
Buffett born 30 August 1930, a few days after Sean Connery, has a creative Sun Neptune in Virgo and probably a Sagittarius Moon. That apart his chart is awash with Cardinal planets giving him an overdose of initiative and restlessness. He has a confident and lucky Jupiter Pluto in Cancer square Uranus North Node in Aries opposition a financial Venus; with a disciplined, unsentimental Saturn in Capricorn opposition Mars in Cancer square Mercury.
With tr Neptune Saturn starting to move in hard aspect to his Mars Saturn Mercury T square his decision to give up may be partly age and partly a sense that the times are a changing radically. He will also want to step back as tr Uranus also is aiming to square his Neptune and Sun in the next two/three years. His Solar Arc Pluto is exactly conjunct his South Node at the moment which may be another prompt to put the brakes on his forward gear.
Greg Abel, 1 June 1962, a Sun, maybe Moon in Gemini has only one Cardinal planet and the rest are Fixed and Mutable so the exact opposite of Buffett. Abel does have a confident, lucky Jupiter opposition Pluto square his Sun (Moon) with a Fixed Grand Cross of Neptune opposition Mars square Saturn opposition North Node – both flexible and enduring. He looks unsettled at the moment with tr Uranus square his Uranus with a challenging tr Pluto square his Mars through this year; his Solar Arc Saturn square Neptune hitting his financial Venus now; plus his Solar Arc Sun conjunct his North Node for his moment of destiny.
Abel takes over at an unstable time which will not make it easier ahead with some panics and disappointments cropping up on his midpoints in 2026/27 and worse in 2029 with his Solar Arc Pluto conjunct his Neptune and square his Saturn.
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