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!
The generation of youngsters born between 1998 and 2012 continue to amaze me. They make up half of the wave of Middle Eastern and African immigrants moving into Europe, and a large proportion of them make this journey on their own, without an adult. A few weeks ago I pointed out on these pages that many people in this generation were opting out of the male/female divide and defining their sexuality as “other”. (Click here to see the article.) And now we have evidence in Russia of this generation’s revolutionary potential.
A recent article in Time magazine describes a growing protest movement in Vladimir Putin’s Russia, and the people spearheading this movement are teenagers, born with Neptune in Aquarius. (Click on "Putin's Children" to see the article from Time.) The object of their ire is the oligarchy that surrounds Putin and the way these privilege few have pillaged the Russian economy to enrich themselves and impoverish everyone else.
I’ve talked a lot about how transiting Saturn is going to impact the horoscope of Donald Trump over the next couple of months. I’d like to now point out how this planet, which is currently moving retrograde (backwards in the sky relative to the Earth) in Sagittarius will influence the chart most commonly used for the United States of America, the so-called Sibley chart.
Around the same time that Saturn will be opposing Trump’s Sun and conjuncting his Moon, Saturn will also be opposite Mars in the Sibley chart. It will actually be within a one degree orb of this opposition for most of July and all of August and all of September. What’s interesting about this is that the last time this aspect occurred in the U.S. chart was in 1987, during the Iran-Contra hearings.
A while back I asked the question, “Is James Comey the Anti-Trump”. (Click here to see the article.) The reason I wrote that was because Comey’s Sun in Sagittarius is almost exactly opposite Trump Sun in Gemini. Today, in testimony in front of a Senate committee, Comey proved that, at least for the time being, that he is indeed the anti-Trump. He poses the most powerful treat to the President we’ve seen so far.
One thing that Comey’s testimony established in my mind is that he was not born in the early morning. His Moon is definitely in Scorpio, which means he must have been born after 8AM. Sun sign Sagittarians can be aggressive, particular when their credibility had been questioned, but the reports of Comey’s testimony have the smell of Scorpio revenge. Also, at the time of the testimony Mars was at two degrees of Cancer, trine the early degrees of Scorpio. Such an aspect would have put Comey in an particularly confrontational mood.
I’ve always been an advocate of Saturn. My feeling is that, in general, Saturn transits give us the lessons in life that we most need. On the one hand they often make clear our shortcomings and misjudgments, on the other they can reward our hard work and sound planning. However, there are instances in which Saturn transits are just plain bad in ways that have nothing to do with our past behavior.
Just a couple of month short of Eleanor Roosevelt’s seventh birthday, Saturn made its first square aspect to it natal place (the first step in this Saturn cycle). During that summer Eleanor’s father Roosevelt went on an alcoholic binge. Both the Roosevelts and Eleanor’s mother’s family belonged to the upper crust of East Coast society so his drinking and odd behavior were doubly distressing. Eleanor’s mother took her children and left her husband to work out his problems on his own.
