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The nationwide outrage over the death of George Floyd (along with the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and so many others) has increased the call for Joe Biden to pick a woman of color as his running mate. It has as also brought some names that may have previously been far down on Biden’s list of potential candidates much closer to the top. Among them is Atlanta Mayor, Keisha Lance Bottoms and Florida Congresswoman, Val Demings.
Bottoms has earned praise for her strong reaction to the rioting that erupted in her city shortly after the death of George Floyd. She has also been openly critical of the actions of President Trump with regard to protesters. Demings’ resume includes a long career as a police officer in Orlando, Florida that ended with her being appointed the Chief of Police in that city. This gives her a unique perspective on the unrest that is currently rocking the country.
I have to begin with an apology. I completely misread the square by Mars to the Sun and Moon in my analysis of the May 22 New Moon chart. (Click here to see the article and the chart.) I looked at it in the context of the Covid 19 pandemic and did not fully consider its potential for violence. The placement of the Sun and Moon in the Ninth House of that chart referred to our ideals, not our health, and when those ideals were trashed by the actions of police officers in Minneapolis (and in Louisville and other places across the country), many of us reacted with the outrage of Aries the Warrior.
This is not to say that before the murder of George Floyd, we, as a nation, were living in exact accordance with our ideals. The Ninth House represents the principles toward which we aspire. I think a lot of people had gotten the notion that, since Ferguson, our country had taken some steps toward those Ninth House aspirations. The brutality exhibited by the police officers who arrested Floyd showed us otherwise. That was Mars busting through our ideals. It was also Saturn, which was trine the Sun and Moon in that lunations chart, teaching us a lesson about complacency.
There are moments when events take such a tragic, awful turn that talking about astrology becomes superfluous. The wave of protests that has swept the nation during the past several days has been one of those periods. However, now that our President has finally spoken out about the protests, I find it necessary to examine how his actions and threats match both his horoscope and the horoscope of the United States.
Yesterday, President Trump threatened to send active duty troops into American cities to stop the protests. This has been done before. Troops were used to enforce desegregations during the 1950s and they were sent to Los Angeles during the riots that followed the beating of Rodney King. However, Trump’s approach to this action is somewhat different. He announced his intentions less out of necessity than out of a desire to appear tough.
That’s what got me looking at his horoscope. (Click on Donald Trump to see the chart.) I knew that he is currently undergoing a long opposition aspect by transiting Pluto to his natal Venus and Saturn. On top of that, Jupiter, which is moving retrograde in Capricorn, has just come within a degree of opposing his natal Venus. I had expected this Jupiter aspect to be a positive force in Trump’s life. Instead, it seems to have super-charged the Pluto aspect.
After Donald Trump took office I did a series of articles on the people serving in his administration. Most of those people are long gone. The one guy who remains and is now the longest serving person in the Trump administration is someone I didn’t notice. (In fact, I don’t know if anyone noticed him.) That’s Dan Scavino Jr., whose main job has been managing the President’s social media input.
Scavino managed Trump’s social media accounts during the presidential campaign and the President liked his aggressive no-holds-barred style. Scavino has continued in this job during the Trump presidency and has had a hand in all of the shocking and factually challenged remarks that have sprung from the President’s twitter account during the past three years. Because of these efforts, Scavino was recently promoted to Deputy Chief of Staff.
Scavino is a Capricorn by Sun sign. (Click on Dan Scavino to see a partial horoscope done for noon on his date of birth.) What little we know about him seems to match a Capricornian climb to the top. He started out as Trump’s caddie during a golf tournament. Then, after completing college, he was quickly made the manager of Trump’s golf club. How this led to a job as Trump’s social media tzar is unknown (though Scavino does have a B.A. in communications), but his performance in this job has quietly made the former caddie someone the President cannot do without.
