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I greatly misjudged the importance of Mars in the Full Moon chart for Apr. 6. (Click here to see the chart and the article.) I felt that being weak in the sign of Cancer and trine Saturn would restrain the violent inclinations of Mars. But trine aspects are about flow. They tend to reinforce the status quo, and shooting people you don’t know for no good reason has become the status quo in this country. This lunation period featured a steady drumbeat of such incidents.
The Uranian surprise I mentioned came in the form of the man arrested for releasing secret military documents related to the war in Ukraine. It turned out that the perpetrator was not some nefarious master spy. It was a young U.S. soldier who apparently committed treason in order impress his online gaming buddies. The combination of technology (the guy was an IT specialist) and off-the-wall stupidity plays right along with the mischievous qualities of Uranus.
On the political front, however, things were quieter and in keeping with the influence of Jupiter in that Full Moon chart. There was outcry early in this lunation period when a judge outlawed an abortion pill but a stay on that ruling imposed by the Supreme Court has put that matter in legal limbo for the time being. I attribute this to the square of Pluto to Mercury in the Apr. 6 chart.
In Nov. 2001 a documentary was released titled “Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy.” At first glance, there seems to be something odd about this title. How does a porn star become legendary. However, by 2001 Ron Jeremy had been in the porn business for thirty years. He had appeared in thousands of films and was one of the most recognizable figures in that business. On top of that he was well-liked. He even received a Positive Image Award in 2009.
At the time this documentary released Neptune was nearing a conjunction to Jeremy’s Moon in the First House. (Click here to see the chart.) This seems appropriate. Neptune represents popular culture and the Moon in the First (and conjunct the North Node or the Moon) is an indicator of popularity. But with Neptune there is often more to the story than is being told. In this case, according to court records that were released twenty years later, it seems that in 2001 Jeremy was already beginning to exhibit behavior that would eventually put a very different spin on his legend.
That behavior allegedly included grouping, sexually abusing and raping women. Some of this behavior happened on the job. By 2017, Jeremy’s reputation within the porn industry had become so toxic that he was banned from porn’s yearly convention because of complaints leveled by several actresses. Others such encounters allegedly occurred in bars or at various homes. Unfortunately for Jeremy, the 2017 ban was just the beginning of his troubles. In 2021 he was indicted on 30 counts of sexual abuse involving 25 different women.
If there was a “Believe or Not” museum for astrology one of the prime exhibits would be the one showing how we’ve had three American presidents born, not just in the same generation (baby boom), not just in the say year (1943) but in consecutive months of that year (June, July and Aug). Those presidents were (in order of their birth) Donald Trump, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton. (Click on each name to see the chart.)
There are a few similarity between the charts. Trump was born under a full moon, with the Sun opposed to the Moon, while Bush and Clinton were born under a quarter moon, with the Sun square the Moon (though the aspect in Clinton’s chart is wide). Both Clinton and Trump have Mars conjunct the Ascendant, (but Bush doesn’t). Both Bush and Trump have the Jupiter aspecting the Moon, (but not Clinton). However, overall the differences in the three charts seem to outweigh any similarities, except when it comes to the Nodes of the Moon.
It should come as no surprise that a New Moon chart that had both the Sun and Moon in the first degree of the first sign, conjunct the Midheaven and square Mars would produce an event of unique historical importance. That was the New Moon chart for Mar. 21 (click here to see the article and the chart) and the indictment of former President Donald Trump. A figure of authority (the Sun on the Midheaven) is definitely under attack (Mars).
I had felt that the square to by Mars to the Sun and Moon indicated that there would be a violent reaction to this event. However, so far, the reaction by Trump’s supporters has been relatively mild. The violence came earlier in the lunation period with the school shooting in Nashville. I had said that, since Mars was in the Twelfth House, the source of the violence could “come out of the shadows.” The perpetrator of that crime turned out to be very much a shadowy figure.
The protests the erupted after that shooting and the reaction of the Tennessee legislature to those protests is a very different matter. I had thought that the semi-sextile between Jupiter and Uranus (both in the Tenth House in the house I used for that chart) would be good news for some people in positions of power. Instead it gave us a vengeful and rather petty abuse power by Republican legislators in Tennessee.
