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 just finished reading a science fiction novel by Robert Charles Wilson (one of my favorite S.F. authors) called “The Affinities.” The novel has been around for a while, but I thought that its premise had relevance to astrology. In the novel Wilson proposes a future in which scientific personality analysis is able to divide a portion of the population into “types” which he calls “Affinities.” As these Affinities grew in membership, they formed networks of cooperation until members rarely had to deal with anyone outside their own Affinity.
The Affinities range from the “Hets”, who are hierarchal in the extreme (Capricorns, obviously) to “Taus” who are empathetic, adaptable and smoked a lot of weed (Pisces, right?) I immediately began to consider what would happen if we did the same thing with Sun signs, if we allowed people with the same Sun sign to form their own, autonomous Affinities in which they could be themselves without interference from other signs. Here’s my estimation of how that would work.
This last New Moon (July 12) was not nearly as “mixed” as I expected. (Click here to see the article and chart.) I expected the Grand Trine in that chart to produce something positive, but the only good news that seems to have come out of this cycle was the trade deal with Europe that emerged in its final days. That deal promises to shut down the tariffs that Trump had threatened to put on European products, but there are still a lot of details to be worked out.
The opposition of Pluto to the Sun and Moon in the July 12 chart obviously refers to the Helsinki summit. The “power play” that I had expected turned out to be the way Putin overwhelmed our president and got him to say exactly what he wanted him to say. The multiple excuses and attempts to rewrite the event by the White House will never remove the chill we all felt at seeing the President of the United States so clearly under the power of a foreign leader.
I was also wrong about the scandal that I foresaw. I had said that maybe Trump would not be involved for a change. Instead, he (or at least his voice on one of tapes taken from Michael Cohen’s office) was the central character. The tape seems to establish that Trump was aware of and helped orchestrate the quashing of Karen McDougal’s story of her affair with him. The tape does not appear to implicate Trump in anything illegal. It’s just proves that the president is a liar, which at this point is like proving water is wet.
A couple or three weeks ago I saw a headline that announced that “Trump is Winning.” I didn’t read the article, but I knew what the writer was talking about. The economy was going strong, unemployment was down, he was going to get a second Supreme Court pick and, despite nationwide protests, his “zero tolerance” program at the Mexican border was holding firm. Of course, I also knew that the “lucky” aspect in his secondary progressed chart that was behind this string of good fortune was beginning to separate, (click here to see the article on that subject) and his winning streak wasn’t going to last.
Still, I’m a little surprised at how quickly things have gone south for our president. The secondary progressed aspect I was talking about is separating but at a slow rate. It won’t be a full degree away from exact (the range of effectiveness I typically uses for these aspects) until next summer. So, I decided to take another look at Trump’s chart to see what going on right now.
I thought I would take a break from watching Republicans struggle to paper over the gaping hole that that the Trump/Putin summit left in US credibility and talk a little about how astrology works. I’ve been looking at the horoscope of Joni Mitchell and studying her sudden rise to fame in the late 1960s.
First of all, Mitchell’s chart is all about in Water signs. (Click on Joni Mitchell to see the horoscope.) She has the Sun in Scorpio, the Moon in Pisces and Cancer rising, a Water sign trifecta. This is a personality awash in emotion. Her Pisces Moon is positioned near her Midheaven,opposite her Venus which is at the bottom of the chart on her I.C. A prominently placed Moon often conveys popularity, while an angular Venus is typically associated with physical beauty. For a performer, there couldn’t be a better combination.
But not so fast. Both Mitchell’s Venus and Moon are involved in a T-square with Saturn and Mars. Both these planets are considered malifics. (That’s “bad news” in astrology-speak.) To make matters worse Saturn is in the 12th House of confinement and secrets. In terms of character, this T-square would describe a person who is mistrustful, critical and likely to have difficulty maintaining relationships. In terms of career, it would certainly guarantee some speedbump on the road to success.
