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 inauguration of a new president is typically a boring affair. Everybody dresses up, stands outside on what is invariably a brutally cold day and waits for a couple of dudes (always dudes for some reason) to recite the same lines that have been recited for the last 150 years. Then everyone applauds and runs off to find some place warm.
The inauguration of Joe Biden, however, promises to be anything but boring. Since it will be occurring just a couple of weeks after angry Trumpites occupied the Capitol Building, there are credible expectations of disruptive and even violent demonstrations in Washington and elsewhere around the country.
I wish I could tell you that the horoscope for Jan. 20 contradicts those expectations but, in fact, it strongly reaffirms them.
I had hoped that the fact that the square between Mars and Pluto in the Full Moon chart for Dec. 29 indicated that the aspect and the mayhem it can bring was on the wane. (Click here to see that article and the chart) but no such luck. The last gasp of that violent aspect turned out to be the dominant factor for this lunation period.
Even though the invasion of the Capitol has gotten all the attention, the important thing is that the transfer of power has proceeded. Even Donald Trump has now admitted that Joe Biden will be the next President of the United States. That was clearly described by the Full Moon chart, with the Moon in the Tenth House and both the Sun and Moon aspecting Uranus. It just took a failed insurrection to get us there.
In a previous post I discussed the opposition to Donald Trump’s natal Venus by transiting Pluto. However, in order the get a complete picture of what President Trump is going through right now we need to look at his secondary progressed chart. (Click here to see a double chart with Trump’s natal horoscope in the center and his secondary progressed chart for Jan. 2021 on the outside.)
The first thing I noticed in this chart is that Trump’s secondary progressed Moon is square his natal Sun, his Moon and the Nodes of his Moon. This marks this period as a transition point for President Trump, which it obviously is. However, it isn’t just about changing jobs. This is a transition on several different levels, intellectual, emotional and spiritual.
If Donald Trump were a more spiritually aware person, this would be the most important aspect in this chart, but there’s very little evidence of that. (Standing in front of a church and awkwardly holding up a bible doesn’t cut it.) Therefore, we have to move on something that has been going on his Trump’s horoscope since his birth.
Following the order of their commander and chief, protestors have taken over the Capitol Building of the United States, forcing members of Congress to flee to their offices and stopping the final certification of the results of the 2020 election. These folks apparently think that they’ve accomplished something historic, but what they’ve really done is demonstrate the efficacy of the Sibly Chart for the United States.
In the Sibly Chart, Mercury is opposed to Pluto (click here to see that chart). Currently transiting Pluto (at 24 degrees 23 minutes of Capricorn) is almost exactly opposite the Sibly Mercury while transiting Mercury (at 27 degrees 18 minutes) is almost exactly conjunct the Sibly Pluto. Here we have a unique situation in which the transiting aspects reiterates the natal aspects.
The natal opposition between Mercury and Pluto in the U.S.chart can be interpreted in various ways. Mercury has to do with the flow of communication and intellect. The opposition to Pluto blocks this flow and creates an intellectual stalemate in which real debate and discussion is impossible.
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