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 once had a friend to bragged to me that, in her younger days, she always had a steady boyfriend by December. That assured her of a nice Christmas present, a date on New Year’s Eve and flowers other gifts on Valentine’s Day. After Valentine’s Day, however, she typically started looking for reasons the breakup with her beau. Summer vacation was coming up and having a swain in tow cut down her chances for an exciting summertime romance.
By the time I met this woman (a Sun sign Virgo, by the way) she was happily married. However, I can’t help but wonder if there are still some young people who take this utilitarian approach to relationships. Then, of course, I began to wonder how different signs would approach that kind of post-Valentine’s Day breakup. So, I made a list.
As I have pointed out several times, the partial (done without a time of birth) horoscope for Bernie Sanders makes no sense to me. Right now, Pluto is square his Venus and his Mars. Last month, when Saturn aligned with Pluto, both were square these planets in Sanders’ chart. Pluto will remain square his Mars for the rest of the year. With all this going against him, how is it that Sanders’ presidential campaign is doing so well?
The answer has to be that there is something else going on that we can’t see in the partial horoscope. We could solve this mystery if we had a time of birth. Unfortunately, Bernie Sanders’ birth certificate does not include a time of birth and the times that have been offered are based on hearsay and conjecture. A couple of weeks ago I had some fun building a speculative horoscope for Pete Buttigieg that explained his rise in the polls. It seems that I have no choice but to try the same thing for Bernie Sanders.
Compatibility Study: Scarlet Johansson and Colin Jost
To get away from the politics for a bit and into the mood for Valentine’s day. I decided to pick a couple in the news and look at their astrological compatibility. There are several notable couples out there to choose from, but for pure “cuteness” none tops Scarlet Johansson and Colin Jost. (Click on Johansson/Jost to see a double chart with Johansson's horoscope done for noon in the middle and Jost’s done for noon on the outside.)
There are several levels to judging compatibility. The first is determining how the signs occupied by the personal “planets” in the two charts work together. Johansson is a Sagittarius by Sun sign while Jost is a Cancer. Typically, this is not a good combination. Sagittarians tend to be a little rough and tumble for sensitive Cancers. His Moon in Libra is also somewhat at odds with her Moon in Scorpio. He’s not going to always be able to deal with depth of her emotions.
However, when we reverse the equation and compare Sun signs to Moon signs, things look better. Jost’s Cancer Sun finds comfort in Johansson’s Scorpio Moon, while her Sagittarius Sun has the kind of playfulness and openness to new ideas that will naturally attract Jost’s Libra Moon.
The last New Moon chart was extremely active (click here to see the article and the chart) and we’ve had an incredible active two weeks. However, as I predicted, all that excitement sort of fizzled when Republicans in the Senate did the thing that everyone expected them to do and acquitted President Trump without calling witnesses. As I said, the aspects in that New Moon chart described people fighting to maintain their delusions.
I also predicted that we would have some Uranian surprises and we did. First there was the leaked material from John Bolton’s upcoming book. Here we had a person was “in the room” when the Ukrainian caper went down and was ready to tell all. This created excitement for a while. People living in a pre-2016 reality couldn’t see how the Senate could pass up hearing from such a witness, but they did.
The second Uranian surprise occurred when Iowa held their caucus. There’s nothing Uranus loves more than fiddling with our tech, and the Iowan got a full dose of that. A lot people saw this as a momentous event but, as we begin to experiment with ways to avoid having our voting system hacked, these snafus are bound to crop up. Let’s just hope that we have a better handle on the process by the time we get to November.
