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 thus far avoided commenting on the shooting at Marjory Stonement Douglas High School for a couple of reasons. First of all it sometimes seems to me that our incessant discussion of these events becomes, at least in the minds of some deranged people, a means of celebrating them. Somewhere there’s a lonely and terribly unhappy person (almost certainly male and most likely white)listening to all the coverage of the Parkland shooting and thinking about what a rush it would be to become suddenly famous.
The second reason I’ve not commented on this latest atrocity is the fact that I’m not sure what astrology has to say about it. If I had a horoscope of the perpetrator I could certainly map the aspects that led him to this fateful decision. I have done this for other shooters. But in every case, the decision to kill has been made by that person. There is no aspect or astrological placement that makes someone a murderer. This is something you have to choose.
The last Full Moon came with all the bells and whistles. It was blue, it was super, it was a lunar eclipse, but it didn’t carry much oomph when it came to aspects. (Click here to see "Following the Moon: Jan. 31, 2018)The events of last two weeks have been evidence of that. The much hyped Nunes memo turned out to be a nothing-burger that impressed no one outside the Fox News crowd. Congress passed a budget, which is exactly what they are supposed to do. And the Rob Porter scandal has just provided further proof (as if we needed any) of the dysfunction and mendacity of this White House.
Tomorrow’s New Moon also comes with a lot of bells and whistles, but these bells and whistles are of an entirely different order. It will be a partial eclipse, with the Sun and Moon at 27 degrees of Aquarius. This is a significant degree of the zodiac. First of all it is almost directly opposite the degree (28 degrees of Leo) of the big eclipse we had last August. It is also conjunct the Moon in the Sibly chart for the United States and opposite both Donald Trump’s Mars (at 26 degrees of Leo) and his Ascendant (at 29 degrees of Leo).
Some combinations of the Sun and Moon work well together. Others do not, and there are occasions when this failure to work together can be problematic. I found an example of this in a recent article the "Atlantic" by Luke O’Brien. The article profiled the alt-right blogger and fascist agitator, Andrew Anglin.
Anglin represents the younger generation of alt-right enthusiasts. His website, The Daily Stormer, became a magnet for disaffected youngsters, predominately males. It was a place where a white guy could kick back and insult blacks, women, Hispanics, Jews and anyone perceived as being weak or “politically correct” with impunity. However, Anglin took this hate talk one step farther, publishing the contact information of individuals and institutions he didn’t like and asking his minions to inundate these targets with insulting emails, threatening phone calls and computer viruses.
We don’t have a time of birth for Andrew Anglin and his place of birth is also not stated, though it was most likely Columbus, Ohio where he grew up and his family still lives. (Click on Andrew Anglin to see the chart.) The first thing we notice with this chart is that Anglin is a Leo by Sun sign with the Moon in Cancer.
There can be no doubt that, as a performer, David Bowie went to extremes. With the Moon in theatrical Leo, (Click on David Bowie to see his chart.) Bowie spent the early years of his career exhibited this extreme behavior through different personas. For a while he was Ziggy Stardust, the androgyne avatar of glam rock. And then he was the Thin White Duke, part alien, part Nazi.
At the same time, during the 1970s, Bowie was utterly consumed with the rock-and-roll lifestyle. He was constantly on the move, shifting his residence from London, to New York, to Los Angeles to Berlin. His promiscuity was legendary and involved both women and men. And he fueled all this activity with large doses of cocaine.
An astrologer who encountered Bowie during these years would have been hard pressed to explain how it was that a Sun sign Capricorn, which Bowie was, could be living such a madcap, anything-goes lifestyle. After all, Capricorns are supposed to sensible, practical and down-to-earth. They are the workaholics of the zodiac, and typically don’t have time to waste on pointless hedonism.
