Madonna is in the news again over the adoption of a child in Malawi.
She is receiving criticism that the reason she has been approved is because of her celebrity status and money.
Local human rights groups suggest that the adoption is akin to human trafficking and Save The Children has accused the star of staging a puppy parade.
As an astrologer this is fascinating, why is it that someone who has donated millions of dollars and is supporting an orphanage at the brunt of so much criticism? The answer is in her chart.
Madonna has 4 planets in her twelfth house, this is considered a very bad placement and indicates suffering, whether self imposed or from circumstances you become the victim of.
The way around the twelfth house suffering is through service towards others.
In a nut shell her chart indicates that in order to find fulfillment in life she will need to be needed.
Finding a way to serve and help others who are less fortunate is her ticket out of suffering and into a fulfilled life.
There is a strong spiritual pull and direction that her higher self or soul is requesting of her.
She has heeded the call with her quest into the Kabala.
Madonna's ruler of her fifth house of children is Saturn in Sagittarius (symbol of foreign countries) in the forth house.
This signature symbolizes children from a foreign country, and also the forth house is the house of home and family.
Her destiny is to reside in a foreign country and would have been predicted from birth.
It is part of her path to live overseas and that her children would be connected somehow with another country.
Transiting Saturn is squaring her Saturn, triggering issues around her home and children, all will be settled and resolved by mid July when Saturn again crosses over that point.
Neptune is opposing her Sun, her spirit is seeking the ideal, this is a very creative influence if used properly, if not it can indicate that there is something that she is not seeing clearly or that someone has not been totally up front and honest with her.
Coupled with an influence that is happening with her money planet she needs to be careful not to be deceived in a business deal.
This influence began May 2008 and will continue until November 2009.
Pluto is squaring Madonna's progressed Venus, death and rebirth in her relationships is this transits influence.
Pluto Venus also indicates the desire to bring into her life more of what is important to her and what she loves.
Her relationships will be undergoing change in 2010.
Jupiter is favoring Madonna in 2009 and she will be able to have something that she longs for.
Madonna's chart indicates that she lost children in a prior life to a tragic death, and that there is a fear of losing her children this life.
An astrologer would say that her need to save children stems from this prior life.
Her support of the orphanage in Malawi and her adoption of children are fulfilling a need and heartfelt pain that she incarnated with in this lifetime.
Indeed the fact that she is famous and financially successful was the necessary step to fulfill a greater mission.
Her spirit incarnated with the desire and passion to never be in a position where she would lose her child to starvation and poverty and evil, (as in her last life) and that she would be powerful enough to be able to save them.
My interpretation of her chart is that as she was dying is her previous incarnation her emotional body was filled with so much heartbreak, angst, and pain over seeing her children starved and murdered that the power of that emotion led her on the path of fame and fortune to be in a position to avenge her grief.