Using Astrology in business - how to avoid hiring the wrong CEO
- Sven Carlsson
- Dec 15, 2025
- 4 min read

Here we look at how the hiring of a chief executive went seriously wrong for two companies.
Marissa Mayer was at the helm of Yahoo during a serious downturn for Yahoo; and Martin Winterkorn was the chief executive of Volkswagen when the 2015 emissions scandal came to light, seriously damaging the leading car manufacturing company.
Could knowedge of Magi Astrology have prevented these disasters?
The bad energies in the CACs – Combined Alignment Charts – between the chief executive and the company are typically easy see.
Using astrology to avoid hiring the wrong CEO is fully possible
We also learn that the astrology between the company and the date that executive was hired is most likely going to be bad – the person who’d come to damage company was hired on a day that the company suffered from bad transits, a time when they should have hunkered down, not made any significant changes and just coasted slowly forward.
Marissa Mayer and Yahoo
The day that Marissa Meyer was appointed was a really bad day astrologically.

The day that Marissa was appointed has a Sun-Diana trine, making people believe they were following (female) guidance from a higher realm, but while this energy was lovely, it was surrounded by three really bad energies: Varuna, Sedna and Saturn. So this "day of a good idea" - Sun trine Diana - was severely contaminated. Varuna is a destabilizing and excessive energy, Saturn is mistakes, tragedy and deception - and Sedna, unless you're operating in pristine integrity, can represent lying, enslavement, destruction, taking advantage of weaknesses, and so forth. Even if only one of Varuna, Sedna or Saturn had been in aspect to the Sun-Diana trine, there would have been cause for caution - here we had all three of them and Saturn is also contra-parallel Sedna in the declination, meaning that "deception" - including "self-deception" is right at the top of the menu. This was a day that Yahoo should have hired exactly nobody.
Saturn clashes with key Yahoo planets on the day
Not only was the day itself really bad, but those energies were directly connected to key energies in the Yahoo chart. In order to not crowd the chart below, I have only included the transiting Saturn.

Here we see how Saturn clashes with Yahoo's logic and mindset (Pallas) its finances and creative vision (Neptune) and ways of making money (Midas). The other diffult energies from the chart before are, of course, compounding the issues.
Marissa's Saturn clashes with key Yahoo planets
Finally, we will see how badly Marissa's Saturn interacts with some key Yahoo planets.

Here we see how Marissa's Saturn - in red at the top of the chart - interacts with Yahoo's Mars, Odin, Jupiter, Mercury and Saturn. The clash created by Marissa's Saturn and Yahoo's Jupiter is especially bad - and you will also notice how Yahoo has a Saturn-Jupiter square in its natal chart, this is a powerful vulnerabity that you could say Marissa activated. As in, mistakenly (Saturn) thinking you're progressing (Jupiter). Yahoo's energetic (Mars) leadership (Odin) and success (Jupiter) in scientific (Saturn) communications (Mercury) was badly affected by Marissa's Saturn.
Volkswagen and Martin Winterkorn
Martin Winterkorn resigned as the chief executive of Volkswagen after the emissions scandal came to light. He is facing fraud charges in Germany and the USA. Volkswagen lost significant value following the 2015 emissions scandal, with its stock price dropping by about one-third, the company posting its first major loss in years, and facing billions in costs, fines, and settlements, all while suffering reputational damage and reduced sales. The scandal led to massive financial hits, resignations, and long-term impacts on consumer trust and industry status.
Here, we will see that the energy between Volkswagen's natal chart and that of Winterkorn's was so bad it would not have mattered if he was hired on a good day.
Winterkorn's Lilith with Volkswagen

Winterkorn's Lilith introduced dark energies - could be up to the full potential of "demonic" - into the alignment between Chiron, Sedna and Sappho in the VW chart. Chiron by itself represents the earning abililty, way of making money and public image.
Sedna and Sappho are both problematic, with Sappho representing the potential for neurotic behavior, obsessions and lack of boundaries and bad financial news if connected to a financial planet, which Chiron is. Sedna represents the temptation to seek undue advantage - and under Winterkorn's watch - whether he knew about it or not - the recipe for cooking up the emissions fraud scandal was now complete.
His Lilith had a destructive influence on what should have been Volkswagen’s integrity (Sedna) in business (Chiron) resulting in financial problems (Sappho)
The company - or key people in the company - came up with this hare-brained idea, which resulted in severe financial and image loss for VW.
Winterkorn's Saturn with Volkswagen
Martin Winterkorn's Saturn connected to key planets that had until then represented Volkswagen's leadership in the automobile industry.

His Saturn was a stone in the shoe that unbalanced Volkswagen’s (Sun) dominance (Saturn) and leadership (Oden) in technology (Pallas) – creating the temptation to deceive... (both Saturn involved).
Noteworthy Destruction - the Saturn/Chiron midpoint
In the heliocentric chart, Winterkorn's Saturn/Chiron midpoint aspects Volkswagen's Chiron, Diana and Odin.

In helio, Winterkorn's Saturn/Chiron midpoint aspected Volkswagen’s leadership (Odin) and money-making capacity (Chiron) while disabling the ability to hear guidance from higher realms (Diana), thereby leading to noteworthy devaluation (Saturn/Chiron) of finances and public image. Even if we looked only at this chart, it would be a good way of using astrology to avoid hiring the wrong CEO.



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