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!
When the President released the money to fund Biden’s transition team several days ago, I felt that that was as close as we would ever get to a concession speech from Donald Trump. Despite this move, and in the face of repeated failures to establish proof of impropriety in the November election and several unproductive recounts, the President has continued to claim that he was cheated out of a victory.
That claim took a major blow a couple of days ago when Attorney General William Barr announced that the Dept. of Justice had no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the November election. Coming from the same guy who misquoted the Mueller report and had just appointed a special prosecutor to continue the (so far) hopeless investigation into the FBI’s investigation of Russian interference in 2016, this was a turn of events that sent Trump’s minions scrambling.
Of course, what’s of interest to astrologers is the fact that Barr’s announcement came on the day after a Full Moon. The Full Moon is supposed to bring us the completion of things. It’s rarely that simple and Barr’s statement is not going to have much effect on those true believers convinced that Democrats stole the 2020 election. Still, there is a certain degree of closure in it.
I thought that the placement of the Sun and Moon near the I.C. of the New Moon chart for Nov. 15 (click here to see the article and the chart) indicated a significant event would occur. It did. Even though President Trump hasn’t stop claiming victory and his hopeless legal assault on the vote continues, the fact that he released the transition funds was a big step toward the peaceful transfer of power which has been the great miracle of our democratic system since its inception.
I also predicted that the opposition to Mercury in that chart by Uranus would bring us a shocking court decision. Even though it wasn’t really surprising, the ruling by the Supreme Court to override New York’s ban on religious gatherings shows us that this new, conservative Supreme Court will put the principles laid out in the Constitution above science and human life. Whether you think that’s a good thing or a bad thing, it is something we are going to have to live with for the next several decades.
I had hoped that the positive aspect between the three planets in Capricorn and the Sun and Moon in the Nov. 15 chart indicated a let up in the surge of COVID-19 cases. No such luck. Instead, this sextile seems to have produced an increase in public complacency which, in turn, led to way too many people traveling to be with (and spread illness to) relatives and loved ones across the country.
Yesterday, Donald Trump put on his big boy pants and freed the transition money that will allow the Biden team to move forward with their preparation to take over the White House. This happened just as transiting Jupiter moved within a one degree orb of an opposition to Trump’s natal Venus. I had expected this change in attitude to take a bit longer, but I did predict that a shift would come with Jupiter moved into this opposition aspect.
Of course, Trump has been liberating himself from the job of being President for a while now. He more or less skipped the G7 meeting and has been spending the majority of his time on the golf course. What the Jupiter aspect brings him is a more open view of future. It is a future in which he still owns the Republican Party and can continue to exert tremendous power without onerous duties of the presidency.
Last January I gave a lecture to my local astrology group on what we had to look forward to in 2020. Since everything I had read from other astrologers was so negative, I decided to find something positive to say. At first, it didn’t seem likely. And then I took a longer view. I used that longer view in my lecture and then wrote it up as an article that appears in the latest issue of The Mountain Astrologer.
During 2020 transiting Saturn and Pluto were opposite Mercury in the Sibly chart for the U.S. (Click on Sibly to see the chart.) Since this opposition involved the Second and Eighth Houses, both of which deal with finance, a lot of astrologers were predicting a serious economic downturn. (No one that I recall was predicting a pandemic, but predictions are as dependent on the imagination of the astrologer as they are the astrology.)
In the Sibly chart, natal Mercury is opposite natal Pluto. I decided that, instead of just looking that just the aspects to Mercury, I would consider the aspects to the Sibly Mercury and the Sibly Pluto as a unit. I looked back at American history to see what had happened previously during the periods when aspect like these were taking place. What I found was actually rather encouraging.
