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!
Now that the Democratic primary has settled down to a two person race (sorry Tulsi Gabbard) I thought it was time to look at the astrological situation for the two candidates left standing: Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden. Unfortunately, I can’t do a completely balanced matchup because we don’t have a birth time for Bernie Sanders. I recently did a speculative chart for Sanders based on how well he was doing in the early primaries. I will be using that chart, but it is purely speculative.
We do have a time of birth for Joe Biden, though I think it might be off by a few minutes. (Click here to the article in which I discuss this. Click here to see a chart done with his recorded time.) At the moment, as you might guess from his performance yesterday, Biden is getting some astrological love in the form of a nice sextile from transiting Jupiter to his natal Mercury. Sextiles are not life-changing aspects, but they do bring us good news and, sometimes, a bit of luck. In mid-May Jupiter will almost sextile Biden’s Sun before it goes retrograde. It will sextile his natal Mercury again in September.
I got some things right and some things wrong in my analysis of the New Moon for Feb. 23. (Click here to see the article and the chart.) I thought we would have new scandal involving the entertainment industry. Instead we got the resolution of an old scandal, with Harvey Weinstein being sentenced. I was correct in saying that the field of Democratic candidates would be greatly narrowed though, with both Saturn and Pluto in "old" Capricorn, I should have guessed it would be the two old, white men who survived.
I saw nothing about the Corona virus in the New Moon chart. That’s not surprising. This is a worldwide crisis and I'm doing these charts for Washington D.C, So far, the U.S. has not been hit as hard as many other nations. I did predict that it would be a good two weeks for the administration. It could have been, but Donald Trump’s personal horoscope (which is not doing so well right now) got in the way. His remarks about the virus have undercut the government’s attempt of present a calm and authoritative response to the crisis.
I more or less foresaw Pete Buttigieg’s withdrawal from the Democratic primary race, but I was totally taken by surprise by Amy Klobuchar’s decision to suspend her campaign. I had expected Tuesday to be a good day for her. Of course, it might have still been a good day for Klobuchar. It isn’t all about winning delegates. I said that Klobuchar would be getting “good news.” That might have come to her in a hint or maybe even a promise from the Biden campaign. It might have sounded something like “Biden/Klobuchar 2020.”
Other than that, my predictions about Super Tuesday were pretty much on the money. (Click on Super Tuesday to see the article and the charts.) Mike Bloomberg was judged by Saturn crossing his Descendant and the judgement was a resounding “No.” It was sort of a judgement of the American electorate as well. Apparently, getting elected in this country isn’t just a matter of how much money you spend. Other qualities are required. That’s a refreshing notion.
So far the race for the Democratic presidential nomination has featured several shifts. In Iowa, it was Buttigieg who impressed. In Vermont and Nevada, it was Bernie Sanders. This weekend in South Carolina it was Joe Biden’s turn. However, the number of actual delegates these candidates won in those states was relatively small. Tomorrow that all changes. Fourteen states will hold primaries and the person who comes out the winner here could be well on his or her way to getting the nomination.
Let’s look at what’s happening the horoscopes of the six top contenders. (Click on the names of the candidates to see the horoscopes)
Joe Biden – Biden enters Super Tuesday with some momentum and some positive aspects. Transiting Jupiter is sextile his natal Mercury and transiting Mars will be sextile his natal Mars. However, the best news for Biden, and the astrology behind his big win in South Carolina, comes from positive aspects in his secondary progressed chart. His progressed Mercury is opposed to his Jupiter and his progressed Moon is square his natal Moon. These are hard aspects but they involve positive planets and I think they will help Biden come out a winner on Tuesday. The problem in his chart, as I’ve said before, the transit of Neptune across his I.C. This is going to cast a shadow over his candidacy all year.
