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!
A few weeks ago I wrote about the transits that Donald Trump will be experiencing during the next few months (click here to see that article) and how those aspects could represent a major challenge to his presidency. Now I realized that I left one aspect out. That is the quincunx between transiting Saturn and Trump’s natal Saturn. The quincunx is not a major aspect, but when I look at what Trump’s up to right now, it speak volumes.
The reason that this quincunx is important is because it triggers the conjunction of Saturn and Venus in Trump’s natal horoscope. The classic interpretation of this aspect is “trouble with women.” This has, of course, been an issue throughout Trump’s life, particular with women who were not under his direct control. (That is to say a wife, daughter or women bound by a confidentiality agreement.) By triggering this natal aspect, transiting Saturn brought all the ugly implication of Saturn conjunct Venus to the foreground.
Liberals breathed a collective sigh of relief yesterday when Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy did not announce his retirement at the end of the court’s summer session. Rumors that the 80 year-old jurist might step down had the media in a tizzy, since it would have given Donald Trump and his congressional backup band a chance to stock the court with another reliable conservative.
This is not to say that Kennedy is a liberal. He was appointed by Ronald Reagan, cites his party affiliation as Republican and most often votes with the conservative Justices. However, on the key issues of abortion and gay rights, Kennedy has consistently veered away from the Republican Party line. He seems to think that the constitution does grant women control over their own bodies and that it does not favor one sexual preference over another.
In a partial horoscope charted for noon on Kennedy’s birthday (click on Anthony Kennedy to see the horoscope) we find his Sun in the first degree of Leo conjunct Mercury. (The Sun stays in Leo even with an early morning birth, but Mercury would move to the last degree of Cancer.) His Moon is in Libra in this chart, but would be in Virgo if he was born in the morning. I think, considering his profession, a birth time later in the day is more likely. The Moon in Libra not only indicates a deep, emotional concern for justice, but also a need to look at both sides of an issue before making a decision.
If you are not in a state of high anxiety right now, count yourself lucky. That means you are not dependent on Obamacare or Medicaid for your health insurance. The Republican health care bill that is set to be voted on by the Senate next week promises to make major changes to both.
The bill is still far from becoming law. Even if it passes in the Senate, which is by no means a sure thing, it would still have to be justified in committee with the House version. However, with a practiced manipulator like Mitch McConnell at the helm in the Senate, the chances of it making it to committee seem pretty good.
That puts the health care bill back into the court of Paul Ryan, the Speaker of the House. Since we don’t have a complete horoscope for Mitch McConnell, I decided to look at the secondary progressed chart of Ryan. What I saw did not bode well for this health care bill. (Click on Paul Ryan to see a double chart with Ryan’s natal horoscope in the middle and his secondary progression on the outside.)
Back on Memorial Day, when Tiger Woods was arrested on DUI charges transiting Mars was opposed to transiting Saturn. That transit made it a less than stellar Memorial Day weekend for a lot of people, but particularly for Woods, who was found by police asleep in his car. In Woods’ natal chart, transiting Mars was near his Midheaven and transiting Saturn near his I.C. His bad weekend became headline news.(Click here to see a double chart with Woods’ natal chart in the center and a chart for the time of his arrest on the outside.)
What made this more than just a bad weekend for Woods was the fact that Saturn was moving retrograde (backwards relative to the Earth) toward a conjunction with his I.C., one of the crucial passages in a Saturn cycle. When Saturn crosses an angle of the horoscope like the I.C. we are often called upon to account for our mistakes and misjudgments. (I write about this in detail in my book, Saturn Cycles: Mapping the Changes in Your Life.)
