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I have been remiss. I’ve been looking at the partial horoscope of Paul Manafort for a while now and focusing on the transiting aspects. I never considered his secondary progressed chart. I don’t often look at secondary progressions for horoscopes without a time of birth because the position of the secondary progressed Moon, a primary factor, can’t be known. However, when I read of about Manafort’s plea agreement I decided to take a peek, and all I can say now is, “Bingo!”
When I was just looking at the current transits for Paul Manafort, all I could see was the movement of transiting Mars into a sextile aspect with his natal Mercury. It is also quincunx his natal Saturn. These are aspects indicative of a let’s-get-serious mood, but they lack the power that I would have expected to see considering the importance of the deal Manafort struck today.
The looming probability that Donald Trump’s second Supreme Court pick, Brett Kavanaugh, will be confirmed sometime during the next two weeks has got me thinking about his horoscope. We don’t have a time of birth for Kavanaugh, of course, but we can do a chart for noon on his date of birth. (Click on Brett Kavanaugh to see the chart.)
Kavanaugh is an Aquarius by Sun sign. I’ve heard it said that Aquarians tend to be liberals, but there are many prominent examples of staunchly conservative Sun sign Aquarian (Ronald Reagan, Paul Ryan and Sarah Palin.) What unites Aquarius people is not their politics. It is their firm and unbending devotion to their ideals and principles and their tendency to view the world from the context of those principles.
I said that the Aug. 26 Full Moon predicted a period when the important stuff would be happening behind closed doors. (Click here to see the article and the chart.) What I didn’t expect was that we would be getting a sneak peak behind those closed doors. Both Bob Woodward’s new book and the anonymous op ed published in the New York Times gave us long and alarming look into the inner working of the Trump administration.
Since the Woodward used sources he will not identify, and we don’t know who wrote the op-ed, they both fit nicely into the Twelfth House symbolism of secrecy. Also, the person who wrote the “Times” piece is technically a servant, and that fits into the symbolism of the Sixth House (In the Full Moon chart, the Sun is in the Twelfth and the Moon is in the Sixth.) The strength of Neptune in the Full Moon chart turned out to have less to do with its traditional meaning (water) and more with the meaning that it has invariably taken on in the era or Trump (scandal.) The square between Pluto and Venus obviously refers to the way in which Republicans are trying to bully the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh through the Senate.
I’m still perplexed about the Grand Trine that dominates this chart. I don’t see it as being reflected in the behavior of the President or the dominant events of the lunation period. However, I did get one thing right. I said that the quiet of this two-week period would be disrupted on Sept. 6 when Saturn turned direct (heading for an opposition to Trump’s Mercury). Excerpts from Woodward’s book and the New York Times op-ed both came out on the 5th, and the fallout began on the 6th.
One reason I like using secondary progressions is because they put the natal horoscope in motion. Once you understand the rationale behind this technique, the one year for each day's of a planets movement,the progressed chart can tell you remarkable stories of upcoming triumphs and challenges. A good example of this is the horoscope of the writer Mary Shelley.
Mary Shelley’s horoscope (click on Mary Shelley to see the chart) describes a relatively conservative personality. Her Sun is in practical Virgo and she has Cancer rising with restrictive Saturn in the First House. The fact that her Moon is in Sagittarius and trine her Mars does provide a capacity for taking risks and acting on impulse, but the fact that Mars is also in Virgo would seem to put limits on this kind of behavior.
However, from the point of view of secondary progression, the position of Mars is like a loaded gun. It is near the I.C., which gives the planet extra strength. More important, it is placed just a few degrees away from her Sun and Uranus. The average daily motion of Mars is around 45 minutes of the arc. At this rate we would expect secondary progressed Mars to conjunct Shelley's natal Sun at around age four or five, and Uranus at age 16.
