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 controversy over the newly seated congresswoman from Georgia is somewhat reminiscent of the negative attention given some of the young and very opinionated females who joined the congress after the 2018 election. The difference is that none of those democratic congresswomen were advocating the execution of their fellow members of congress.
Of course, considering where the Republican Party is right now, adding your “amen” to a chorus calling for the murder of certain liberal politicians is not such an egregious offense. After all, it’s several steps below inciting a mob to break into the Capitol and few members of the GOP seem to have been offended by that turn of events. Still, I thought it might interesting to look at what’s happening in Greene’s horoscope right now.
It looks like I got my wish. In my analysis of the New Moon chart for Jan. 13 (Click here to see the article and the chart) I expressed hope that the trine by Venus to Mars and Uranus would drain away some of the rage represented by the conjunction of those two planets. Apparently it did. Instead of Mars and Uranus blowing things up at Joe Biden’s Inauguration, we got the peaceful transfer of power promised by Pluto’s conjunction to the Sun and Moon in the New Moon chart.
Of course, the anger is still out there. We saw it mostly in the way the Republican Party has turned on its own during this lunation cycle. Republicans who don’t believe the fantasy of election fraud and who dare blame the storming of the Capitol on Donald Trump are being censured and ostracized by the hardcore Trumpites. There is even talk of Trump forming a third party.
The obvious answer to that question would seem to be a resounding “no.” Trump still controls a large portion of the Republican Party and his endorsement are still going to sought after by ambitious politicians. Even without Twitter, he can still get the word out to his followers through various conservative “news” outlets and, barring an impeachment verdict by the Senate, Trump still is a possible candidate for the presidency in 2024 (when he will the same age as Biden is now.)
However, when I look at the aspects that are going to be hitting Donald Trump’s horoscope in 2021, I have to wonder. It isn’t just that his aspects for this year are challenging, which they are. They are also aspects that are likely to bring out those qualities of Trump’s character that made his last few weeks in office such a national embarrassment.
Today we saw what we hope will be the beginning of a new era. There were stirring renditions of patriotic songs, the momentous swearing in of our first female Vice President and, finally, the oath of office given to our new President, Joseph Biden. It all very emotional and inspiring, except to astrologers who were jumping up and down screaming at their TVs, “But the Moon is void of course!”
Void of course means that the Moon will not make a traditional aspect (conjunction, sextile, square, trine or opposition) to a planet before it enters a new sign. Void of course Moons happen all the time but they don’t often last more than a few hours. Generally speaking, it is not advisable to make a major purchase or begin a new project under a void of course.
It's not that we astrologer don’t have reason to be suspicious of an inauguration taking place under a void of course Moon. Since the inauguration date was moved from March 4 to Jan. 20 in 1937, there have been three presidents who took the oath of office under a void of course Moon: John Kennedy in 1961, Richard Nixon in 1973 and Bill Clinton in 1997. Two of these presidents did not complete their terms in office and the third was impeached.
