The Billionaire Conjunction That Millions of Us Share
A handful of billionaires have Jupiter conjunct Pluto in their charts. So do a few hundred million other people, most of whom are not billionaires.
The pattern hiding in billionaire charts
Comb through the charts of the very rich and you will find patterns. Several have Jupiter conjunct Pluto, an aspect that astrology ties to concentrated power and expansion. It is the kind of coincidence that makes you sit up. Is this the placement that mints fortunes?
It is not rare
No, because it is not rare. Jupiter and Pluto meet about every twelve and a half years, and with an 8 degree orb the conjunction sits in the charts of everyone born in the months around each meeting. Run the app's ephemeris across every day from 1925 to 2024 and that is about 4.5 percent of them. That is on the order of hundreds of millions of people. If it made you a billionaire, the streets would be full of them. They are not.
The base-rate trap
This is a base-rate problem, the same one that trips up most "successful people all have X" claims. Billionaires are a rounding error of the population. A generational aspect is shared by a huge chunk of everyone alive in that age band. Put those two facts together and the overlap you found is exactly what you would expect from chance. You will always be able to pick a few billionaires who have the aspect, because you can pick a few of anything who have a placement one person in twenty or so carries.
Astrology can spot a correlation. What it cannot do is survive the base rate, and causation is the thing that dies first. The aspect marks a generation. Whether anyone in that generation builds a fortune comes down to capital, timing, obsession, and luck, in roughly that order.
What you actually share
If you share the billionaire conjunction, what you actually share is a birth decade with a few hundred million strangers. That can be a fine lens for how your generation relates to power and money. It is not a personal forecast and it is not a reason to size a bet. Read the placement as a description of a mood you were born into. Then make the decision yourself, on the numbers in front of you.
Sources: the 4.5 percent is our own count, every day from 1925 to 2024 with the app's ephemeris and an 8 degree orb (3 percent at 5 degrees, 5.6 at 10). Jupiter's 11.86-year orbit and Pluto's 248-year one, which give the twelve and a half years between meetings, are from Wikipedia's entries on Jupiter and Pluto; the 8 billion people from world population.