Brash, bombastic, a headline-grabber, lawyer Michael Avenatti is attracting a different sort of publicity these days. From his heady promotion of Stormy Daniels’ hush-money lawsuit with megaphone promises to take Trump down and his tease about running in 2020 himself, he’s now defending himself against criminal charges of attempting to extort millions of dollars from Nike; and unrelated charges in California that he had defrauded a former client and a bank. These could end him up with serious prison time if he’s found guilty.
In typical fashion he’s swearing blind innocence on all counts in media interviews and points to past successes – suing KPMG for audit malpractice, and the company settled for $22 million; winning $80 million from a cemetery accused of overstuffing its plots, and half a billion from the makers of defective surgical gowns. Two of his cases before Ms. Daniels had landed him on “60 Minutes”.
Born 16 February 1971 10.07 pm Sacramento, California, he does have a grandstanding and power-hungry 5th house Aquarius Sun in square to an over-optimistic Jupiter Neptune and inconjunct Pluto. The quincunx will make it tricky for him to handle his need for control in a well-modulated way and the Jupiter Neptune square will lead to over-confidence and delusions of grandeur. He’s also got Saturn in Taurus on the apex of a Yod to Uranus sextile Mars in Sagittarius – such a Saturn suggests a heavy karma and needs real maturity and self-discipline to handle it well. Tr Neptune is tugging away at one leg of the Yod this year in square to his Mars until December which suggests panicky failure. And he has a Fixed T square of an intense Scorpio Moon opposition Saturn square Mercury in Aquarius which will make him hang on stubbornly to his opinions, so he can be wilful, unable to adapt or listen to feedback.
His birth time is sound so tr Pluto opposition his midheaven in 2020/21 is likely to hold good, which can bring down or damage a reputation. Even before then he looks mighty trapped this July/August and November/December with tr Pluto conjunct his Sun/Mars midpoint with various mishaps and nerve-stretching moments at other times as well. He’ll get some cheer after mid 2020.