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 have to admit that I was taken by surprise by the current escalation of tension between the U.S. and North Korea. Concerns about North Korea’s nuclear capability and Kim Jong Un’s mental capabilities have been simmering on the back burner for years. Now those concerns seem ready to boil over into nuclear war.
As astrologers often do when they’re taken off guard, I went running to my computer to see what transit I might have missed. It didn’t take me long to find it. Since the beginning of July transiting Uranus has been in a semi-square with transiting Neptune. Actually, the test firing of an ICBM by North Korea, the event that started this crisis, came the day before this aspect was within a degree.
A semi-square is a rather obscure aspect. It is a 45 degree connection between two planets, essentially half a square. I often use the semi-square in natal horoscopes, particularly when it occurs within a system of more powerful aspects. However, I don't usually consider it important with regard to current events, but this semi-square is different.
It’s called a working vacation, but that could be said of the entirety of Trump’s term in office thus far, though very little seems to be actually “working”. Nonetheless, the timing of the President’s vacation is good.. With both Congress and the President out of Washington, it would seem that nothing important is going to happen in the U.S. government during the our season of disruptive eclipses.
So it would seem, anyway, but eclipses are quirky. A lot of astrologers believe that it’s not necessarily the moment of the eclipse that triggers trouble, it’s when other planets pass over the degree of the zodiac where the eclipse occurred days, weeks or even months afterwards.
There’s a new sheriff in the White House. Gen. John Kelly, a former Marine has taken over as Trump’s Chief of Staff. Kelly has already asserted himself in a big way by ousting Anthony Scaramucci last week. Many feel that he will become the stabilizing force that this administration so desperately needs.
A partial horoscope for General Kelly, one without his time of birth, reveals little other than the fact that he is a Sun sign Taurus. (Click on John Kelly to see the chart.) Much depends on the precise placement of his Pisces Moon, and we can’t know that without a time of birth. It seems likely that, given his profession, Kelly was born around noon with his Moon opposed to Mars, but we can’t be sure of that.
What is more interesting is a double chart with Donald Trump’s in the center and Kelly’s noon chart around the outside. (Click here to see that chart.) The first thing you notice here is that Kelly’s Sun and Mercury are both near Trump’s Midheaven. Mercury is also sextile Trump’s Venus. There is a definite affinity between Trump and Kelly, and Trump sees Kelly as someone who can help his public image.
The White House is beginning to resemble the Big Brother House. Every week a new “house guest” is evicted. First it was Sean Spicer, then Reince Priebus and now Anthony Scaramucci. The only difference is that we don’t have camera’s showing us all the behind-the-scenes backstabbing, as well as the torturous contests imposed on the “guests” by their “Big Brother”.
Of all of these evicted staff members, Anthony Scaramucci was easily the most colorful. We don’t have a time of birth for Scarammucci but just a chart done for noon on his birthday shows the source of this colorful personality. (Click on Anthony Scaramucci to see the chart.) Both the Sun and in Mercury are square Jupiter in this horoscope. If he was born close to noon or before, Scaramucci would also have the Moon opposed to Jupiter.
