A fun spin on serious cosmic stuff! Wendell C. Perry has 40 years experience studying astrology and how it impacts personalities & relationships. He's written two books & published articles in astrology magazines. He's happy to share this website so that you, too, can have fun with astrology to help you in everyday life!
How do you define a bad day? Maybe you have a fender-bender in the parking lot at Costco, or your boss is in a bad mood and unloads it on you? Well, try this one on for size. First an internationally known environmentalist burns you on Twitter and then, while the whole world is tittering about how you were publicly unmanned by a teenager, your home is raided by armed police officers and you are arrested for sex trafficking. If you’ve got something that tops that, frankly, I’m not sure I want to hear about it.
Of course, as many people might already realize, I talking about Andrew Tate III, the former kick-boxing champion and current web-personality noted for his right-wing opinions and rampant misogyny. What was happening in Tate’s horoscope today (click Andrew Tate to see a horoscope done for noon on his date of birth) was that Mars was moving retrograde (and therefore slowly) opposite his natal Sun and possibly his natal Moon as well. A couple of weeks ago I wrote about congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene getting caught in a Mars moment. Her issues, however, seem trivial compared to what Tate’s Mars moment has brought him.
In the FTM article for the Full Moon on Dec. 7 (click here to see the article and the chart.) I said that we would find reasons to worry and cuss during this past lunation period. For many Americans that reason has been the weather, with severe weather events hitting and continuing to hit several parts of the country. If you were intent on traveling during this holiday season, then you had even more reason to cuss, since these events and other factors created chaos in airports and on highways.
I also said that there would be a dramatic event involving a person in a position of power. It turned to be a person who used to hold a position of power. The Jan. 6 committee’s announcement that it was referring criminal charges to the Dept. of Justice for Donald Trump wasn’t a surprise, but it was still a powerful blow and a good illustration of what can happen when the Moon is conjunct Mars in the Tenth House.
The New Moon chart for Dec. 23 is one that changes significantly depending on which house system you use. The one I’m using for this chart places all the emphasis on the Second House. The Second House has to do with money and resources and, in a lunation chart, that usually signals economic concerns. (Click on New Moon to see the chart.)
When you’re an astrologer there are moments when you have to drop everything and run to your computer to see what’s going on in a person’s horoscope. When I heard about Donald Trump releasing trading cards picturing himself is various heroic guises and charging people $99.00 each for them, that was one of those moments.
These trading cards aren’t even “cards.” Their NFT’s, computer generated images that you buy with bitcoin. First of all, Trump is saying that these cards are a “limited edition.” How can that term apply that is something digital? Push a button and you have ten thousand more. Secondly, is the typical Trump supporter heavily into NFTs and digital currency? I may be making an egregious generalization here, but the Trumpers that I know are not.
But enough about the cards. What about the horoscope. I knew that transiting Neptune was currently making a square to Trump’s natal Sun. This is why he has suffered so many reversals in the courts recently. What made today special, however, was the passage of the transiting Sun in Sagittarius opposite his natal Sun and square transiting Neptune. (Click here to see Donald Trump’s chart with the transits.) What we saw today was a transit of longer duration (Neptune square the Sun) being triggered into extraordinary activity by a quicker transit (Sun oppose natal Sun). This gives you an extra dose fo Sun inspired ego and Neptunian craziness.
We’ve all had our Mars moments. Those are the moments when you feel impelled to lash out in a violent or extreme way even as your rational mind is shouting, “You’re going to regret that!” They generally happen when transiting Mars is making a significant aspect to something in your natal chart. So, you say things you shouldn’t, or you break things that you’ll later have to fix or, if you’re Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green, you advocate a violent takeover of the government of the United States.
I’m, of course, referring to remarks the Congresswoman Greene made at a meeting of the Young Republicans a couple of days ago. At that time transiting Mars was square her natal Jupiter, the planet of bounty, expansion and foot-in-mouth disease. Jupiter always say “yes,” even to the most bizarre notions, and saying yes to Mars can often put you in the middle of a Mars moment.
It doesn’t help that Mars is emphasized in Greene’s natal chart. (Click on Marjorie Taylor Greene to see a horoscope done for noon on her date of birth.) It is poorly placed by sign in Cancer but square to both Venus and Uranus. Without a time of birth it is hard to know what role this T-square plays in Greene’s chart, but it does reveal a passionate nature and a less than stable emotional life.
