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!
I said that the Aug. 26 Full Moon predicted a period when the important stuff would be happening behind closed doors. (Click here to see the article and the chart.) What I didn’t expect was that we would be getting a sneak peak behind those closed doors. Both Bob Woodward’s new book and the anonymous op ed published in the New York Times gave us long and alarming look into the inner working of the Trump administration.
Since the Woodward used sources he will not identify, and we don’t know who wrote the op-ed, they both fit nicely into the Twelfth House symbolism of secrecy. Also, the person who wrote the “Times” piece is technically a servant, and that fits into the symbolism of the Sixth House (In the Full Moon chart, the Sun is in the Twelfth and the Moon is in the Sixth.) The strength of Neptune in the Full Moon chart turned out to have less to do with its traditional meaning (water) and more with the meaning that it has invariably taken on in the era or Trump (scandal.) The square between Pluto and Venus obviously refers to the way in which Republicans are trying to bully the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh through the Senate.
I’m still perplexed about the Grand Trine that dominates this chart. I don’t see it as being reflected in the behavior of the President or the dominant events of the lunation period. However, I did get one thing right. I said that the quiet of this two-week period would be disrupted on Sept. 6 when Saturn turned direct (heading for an opposition to Trump’s Mercury). Excerpts from Woodward’s book and the New York Times op-ed both came out on the 5th, and the fallout began on the 6th.
One reason I like using secondary progressions is because they put the natal horoscope in motion. Once you understand the rationale behind this technique, the one year for each day's of a planets movement,the progressed chart can tell you remarkable stories of upcoming triumphs and challenges. A good example of this is the horoscope of the writer Mary Shelley.
Mary Shelley’s horoscope (click on Mary Shelley to see the chart) describes a relatively conservative personality. Her Sun is in practical Virgo and she has Cancer rising with restrictive Saturn in the First House. The fact that her Moon is in Sagittarius and trine her Mars does provide a capacity for taking risks and acting on impulse, but the fact that Mars is also in Virgo would seem to put limits on this kind of behavior.
However, from the point of view of secondary progression, the position of Mars is like a loaded gun. It is near the I.C., which gives the planet extra strength. More important, it is placed just a few degrees away from her Sun and Uranus. The average daily motion of Mars is around 45 minutes of the arc. At this rate we would expect secondary progressed Mars to conjunct Shelley's natal Sun at around age four or five, and Uranus at age 16.
I just finished reading a book titled “The Brink: President Reagan and the Nuclear War Scare of 1983” by Marc Ambinder. I was aware of this event but Ambinder provides a detailed, blow-by-blow account and delves deep into the technicalities and politics of nuclear readiness in the 1980s.
In Nov. 1983 the United States, along with its NATO allies conducted war games in Europe and around the world. This was a regular exercise, but the recent introduction of a new generation of nuclear armed missiles into Europe by the US and the belligerent rhetoric of President Reagan had put the Soviets on edge. There was a growing belief on both sides that a nuclear war could be winnable, but only by the side that struck first. The scale of the 1983 war games convinced many in the Russian government and military that such a first strike was imminent, and they rushed to ready a devastating response.
I have to admit that, since I’m not a Catholic, I don’t typically pay a lot of attention to the ups and downs of the Catholic Church. When it comes to the sex scandals that have rocked the Church for the past twenty years, I simply recall something a friend once told me: “When you put religion up against sex, sex almost always wins.”
Nonetheless, like many people with liberal tendencies, I saw the election of Pope Francis as a positive sign. Francis seemed primed to bring back a concern for humility and service to the Catholic religion, as well as a more progressive attitude. Unfortunately, now it appears that Francis may himself be dragged down into mud of the sexual abuse scandal, with a former Vatican official accusing the Pope of aiding in the cover up of one of the errant priests.
A friend who describes herself as a “recovering Catholic” recently made me aware of how important this accusation is the Church and the people, in and out, whose lives it has marked. So, I decided to look at Pope Francis’ chart, and what I saw was not comforting. (Click on Pope Francis to see the chart.)
