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The Difficult Transits Of Kit Harington

Actor Kit Harington, best known as Jon Snow on HBO’s Game Of Thrones, has checked into a wellness retreat to deal with “personal issues,” including alcohol. This comes after a dramatically charged time in his life, having recently ended nearly eight years of work on the fantastically successful show that made him famous.

Can we see the kind of emotional sensitivity that might make Kit prone to the issues he’s seeking treatment for? Even without a time of birth, yes we can. Kit was born December 26, 1986 in Worcester, England. He has a close Sun-Neptune conjunction in his birth chart, sextile Pluto. That combination alone gives the kind of sensitivity that can be useful for an actor but difficult to handle in personal life. His Jupiter-Mars conjunction in Pisces trine Venus in Scorpio adds to this.

When we look at troubling times, we usually see difficult transits to the natal Moon. We don’t know Kit’s time of birth, but the noon chart places his moon at 0 degrees Scorpio. If he was born at that time or later that day, the opposition to his Moon from transiting Uranus in Taurus is the culprit. If he was born earlier in the morning, he would have Moon in late Libra, which means the Saturn-Pluto conjunction is what’s making trouble for him.

In either case, the main issue here seems to be the transiting Jupiter-Neptune square, which is now approaching its second of three exact dates. Transiting Jupiter is conjunct Kit’s Mercury-Uranus conjunction, and transiting Neptune is conjunct his natal Jupiter. Those are the kind of transits that could prove deeply unsettling for anyone.

The good news here is that although the Jupiter-Neptune square can scramble things, it can have a gentle, spiritual, and renewing conclusion. That’s what I’m hoping for in the case of Kit Harington. And may he serve as a reminder that even a King in the North can use a little help now and then.