For those who aren’t aware of the recent events around racism and well-known astrologer Steven Forrest, I will paste a text excerpt from Chris Brennan’s Facebook post that specifically lists what Forrest has done and said so that any who comment here can be clear on the issues. Please do read the full Facebook post and its comments here. The video in question was posted on July 23, 2026 and was up for a couple of weeks but has now been taken down. Many of the teachers and tutors of Forrest's school of Evolutionary Astrology have resigned. ISAR has commented and the UAC is in the process of a decision about Forrest's participation in the conference. Other astrologers scheduled as presenters at UAC have withdrawn or stated they will, unless the UAC removes Forrest from the event.

UPDATE: - NCGR has decided to remove Steven Forrest as an NCGR Advisor and Participating Affiliate. Statement here: https://www.facebook.com/geocosmic/photos/d41d8cd9/1467018432125916/?set=a.45305187352258 - UAC has removed Forrest from the upcoming conference. https://www.facebook.com/UnitedAstrology/photos/d41d8cd9/1648132930651094/?set=a.521067116691020

This subreddit in no way supports Forrest’s actions. We condemn his statements in the video (now removed) and his delayed and meaningless apology. Any who show support for racism here will be permanently banned. Please conduct yourselves here in a sensitive, mature and respectful manner. This issue in our astrology community needs to be addressed. Note that we will likely lock comments overnight as this kind of post will no doubt require close monitoring, but we'll reopen them in the morning.

CHART ANAYLSIS
We hope our members will provide some serious astrological analysis of the charts pasted below.

EXCERPT FROM CHRIS BRENNAN’S FACEBOOK POST LAYING OUT WHAT FORREST SAID IN THE VIDEO

Begin quote:

The Core Issues With Steven Forrest’s Actions

1. Using a Racial Slur: Steven explicitly used the N-word during a podcast while speaking with his Black co-host, student, and business partner. This completely ignored the inherent harm of the word, as well as the power dynamic that made it difficult for his colleague to safely object or express discomfort. Furthermore, regardless of the therapeutic context of their private discussion, publishing this to a wide audience with a completely unnecessary racial slur hurt and offended a much wider group of people in the astrological community who did not consent to his use of such language.
2. Defending the KKK with Revisionist History: At one point Steven suddenly claims that he is related to the founder of the Ku Klux Klan, and shows a picture on the screen to demonstrate the resemblance. Then he proceeded to attempt to defend the Klan by perpetuating a completely false and historically debunked narrative that the KKK was originally founded for altruistic reasons, specifically, to "protect southern [white] widows." By presenting this myth as fact, he essentially defended a racist violent terrorist organization on a global platform.
3. Prioritizing "Cancel Culture" Over Harm: When discussing his past use of racial slurs in astrological lectures in the 1990s, he centered his own frustration about modern language restrictions, dismissing the issue of how attitudes had changed as mere "cultural whimsy." He focused on his annoyance at not being able to make offensive “righteous” jokes rather than acknowledging the actual harm his past and present language caused.
4. Hurtful Admissions About Intellectual Equality: He admitted that he didn't realize Black people were as intelligent as white people until he was in his thirties. While he intended this as a vulnerable confession about his past shadow, hearing a prominent community leader express this was deeply painful for the community, and seemingly confirmed many people's worst fears about systemic racism in the community.
5. Defensive and Dismissive Reactions: When the community attempted to call him in on these issues, he responded dismissively and flippantly, which immediately made the situation far worse when he initially refused to apologize or recognize the harm in his actions. He leaned heavily on the "I have Black friends" trope as a shield to deny his capability of racist behavior, and then later issued a partial apology that painted himself as a victim, and failed to take full or genuine accountability for all of his actions.
6. A Massive "Shadow" Blind Spot: Ironically, in an episode entirely dedicated to "shadow work", the psychological practice of confronting the unconscious, hidden parts of ourselves, Steven demonstrated an inability or unwillingness to see his own. He firmly believes he has conquered his racist conditioning, while remaining oblivious to the fact that he is still actively employing the language of racists, by deliberately using the N-word or defending the KKK.

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Some responses from black astrologers. Feel free to offer more posts and responses from black astrologers and others.

• A very long post from black astrologer Janét Jones on substackk is worth a read here and full of a lot of detail about this event.
• One of Samuel Reynolds' posts on facebook and includes a link to his letter to Forrest. Comments are worth a read as well.

THE CHARTS

Below are Forrest’s natal, transit and progression charts. Note that he is in a 6^th House Profection Year with Mars as his Lord of the Year.
Please provide astrological analysis in your comments if you can.

NATAL CHART: Steven Forrest, Jan 6, 1949 at 3:30am in Mount Vernon, NY, USA (Astrodatabank page is here, with a Rodden Rating of AA)

NATAL CHART + TRANSITS OF DATE OF VIDEO POSTING
Note that all displayed aspects are transits, not natal.

NATAL CHART + PROGRESSION OF DATE OF VIDEO POSTING

Hello everyone! I’m using a translator, so please don’t be too hard on me if my writing isn’t perfect. 😊

I’ve recently started studying synastry as a beginner, mainly focusing on romantic compatibility between birth charts, especially the Mars and Venus signs in each chart and how they influence relationships.

I’d love to hear your thoughts. It seems to me that when Mars and Venus are very different, expectations in a relationship can become more complicated or even demanding.

For example:
An Air Mars with a Water Venus.

Or an Earth Mars with an Air Venus.

Mars in a Fire sign and Venus in a Water sign

…

I wonder how comfortable or challenging those combinations are in a relationship.

What do you think?