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 last Full Moon, on March 1, gave us a lot to talk about but very little to know. (Click here to see that article and the chart.) Since the Moon was in the 12th House of secrets in that chart, this is what I expected. For example, we had an extension of the Stormy Daniels scandal, with the former porn star hinting that she has photos and video to back up her story. Then there's the departure of two prominent members of the Trump team, leaving a trail of conjectures about why and why now behind them. And we were handed a report from the House Intelligence Committee that was so partisan that it seemed more like a cover-up than an investigation.
There were some postive indicators in the Full Moon chart, including a nice trine to Jupiter by Mecury and Venus, and this brought us some good news. The offer by Kim Jong Un to hold talks with the U.S. on nuclear disarmament was certainly both surprising and encouraging, but it also came with a lot of unknowns. Given the unpredictability of that regime, there are significant questions about North Korea's agenda.
Thankfully, the worst things that I predicted from this Full Moon chart did not happen. I was concerned about the square by Mars to Venus and Mercury.This seems to have manifested in the sexual nature of the Stormy Daniels scandal. (Mars and Venus are related to sex.) I was also alarmed to see Saturn on the IC (when charted for Washington D.C.). I thought that this might be connected to some sort of natural disaster or a blow to the image of the U.S. As it turned out the event this placement can be matched to is President Trump's decision to impose tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum. This decision called into question America's role as an economic leader in the world.
The Stormy Daniels (aka Stephanie Clifford) scandal has come back on Donald Trump like a bad burrito. When I wrote about Clifford and her chart (click on Stephanie Clifford to see the article and the partial horoscope) it looked as if this affair was going to be a bit of salacious gossip that would be forgotten in a few weeks, but recent developments have brought it back into the news, and it all has to do with retrograde planets.
Planets go retrograde when their apparent motion, relative the to orbit of the Earth, is in a backward direction. In my last article on Clifford I noted that transiting Jupiter was conjunct her natal Uranus. This is a wild card aspect and often brings us lucky breaks or puts us in bizarre situations. The bizarre situation that Clifford found herself in in January was being named by a major news outlet as a party in a sex scandal involving the President of the United States.
For a guy who got his law degree from a tiny school on Long Island, Sam Nunberg has managed to make himself a Harvard-sized headache for Donald Trump and company. His interview with several news outlets Monday turned into a coast-to-coast recording of an emotional breakdown, as this low-level operative in the Trump campaign started spewing forth incriminating tidbits and delicious hints as to where the Mueller investigation is going.
Since I was busy with other business Monday and Tuesday, I only got a chance to look at his horoscope today. Of course, we don’t have a time of birth or even a definite place of birth, so I put together a chart done for noon on his birthday for Long Island City. (Click on Sam Nunberg to see the horoscope.) In some ways this is a more “incomplete” chart than most since we can’t even be sure of his Sun sign. (The Sun moved from Gemini to Cancer on the date that Nunberg was born.) However, given the emotional nature of his outburst Monday, I’m willing to bet that his Sun sign is Cancer.
I’m sure no astrologer was surprised to see “The Shape of Water” win the Oscar for best picture last night. After all, the planet Neptune which rules glamor and illusion and is therefore closely associated with the movie industry is in the sign of Pisces. If ever there was a time of a movie with a fishy protagonist, this is it.
Of course, Neptune is the planetary ruler of Pisces, so it is particularly strong in that sign. Because of the time of year in which the Oscar ceremony is held, the Sun is always in Pisces. However, last night the Sun was within a degree of a conjunction with Neptune, doubling the Pisces influence. On top of that, Mercury and Venus (one associated with communication and the other with beauty and romance) were also conjunct in Pisces. Again, if there was ever a night to celebrate a woman’s love affair with a fish-man, this was it.
