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Sometimes the ending of an aspect is as important as the aspect itself. By ending I mean the time when the aspecting planet moves far enough away from the aspected planet that its influence wanes and finally goes away. Typically, this transition from “on” to “off” is gradual and it is not easy to pinpoint a moment when the aspect stopped working. It is only in hindsight that the shifts in behavior and attitude become evident.
Take for example the horoscope of Kim Jong-un. Last year I wrote an article about the fact that transiting Pluto was passing over the degree of his natal Sun. (Click here to see the article.) This was during the period when Kim was testing nuclear weapons and missiles and apparent preparing for war with the United States. In the article I pointed out that because Pluto was conjunct in his Sun, Kim felt pressured and under attack. Pluto aspects bring a sense that the world is against us and the only way we can save or free ourselves is through extreme reactions.
By January of 2018 transiting Pluto had moved past Kim’s natal Sun. It was shortly after it separated by a full degree that Kim began reaching out to the South Korean government. These overtures eventually lead to talks between the two Koreas and finally to a summit meeting with Donald Trump. So far Kim has only made promises to eliminate his nuclear arsenal, but there is no doubt that there has been a major change in his attitude.
It is becoming increasing apparent that US foreign policy is being driven by the personality of our president, and by his personal feelings, bad or good, toward different foreign leaders. When Trump was elected we knew we were getting a reality TV show. We thought it would be “The Apprentice.” In fact, it’s turned out to be “The Housewives of Beverly Hills.”
So, after a major drama session with the leaders of the G7 (“You know what you said, Justin.) President Trump scurried to the other side of the world where he met with Kim Jong-un. Trump had previously called Kim “little rocket man” and threatened him with nuclear annihilation, but once their eyes met across that conference table all of that was forgotten. It was “bromance” at first sight and since that meeting Trump has had nothing but good things to say about his new friend.
With this in mind, I decided to do a chart comparison between Trump and Kim. Keep in mind that the year of Kim’s birth has been questioned. The official story is that he was born on Jan. 8, 1983, but one of his aunts claims that the year was actually 1984. I am using 1983. (Click on bromance to see a double chart with Trump’s on the inside and the 1983 partial horoscope for Kim on the outside.
I was getting a little worried about my assessment of the May 29 Full Moon.(Click here to see the article and the chart.) I had predicted a major disruption. Instead we had Roseanne Barr self-destructing via tweet and then Samantha Bee calling the president’s daughter a vulgar name. I had said that during this period we would see people at odds with the restrictions placed on their behavior and both incidents certainly fulfilled that prediction. However, I was looking for an event that would rise above this sort of celebrity chatter.
Meanwhile, though there were a lot of things happening, I didn’t see any of the fireworks I had expected with Mars and Uranus on the angles. We had the deal that let the Chinese phone company, ZTE, out of the doghouse, which the president loved, and congress hated. We had the DOJ siding with states trying to have Obamacare declared unconstitutional and congress taking steps to loosen the fetters that were placed on banks after the 2008 financial collapse. And we had President Trump announcing tariffs on steel and aluminum from both Canada and the European Union. All of this is important stuff, but not the kind of stuff the gets a Mars-and-Uranus response from the American people.
Of course, there were people who were upset by these tariffs, and they were all waiting for President Trump when the arrived at the G7 talks in Quebec last week. This typically stodgy and self-congratulatory meeting turned out to be the “live wire” I had predicted on May 29, and Donald Trump stepped right on it. After this contentious meeting Trump flew off to what he probably expected to be friendlier talks with Kim Jong-un.
Donald Trump is on the verge of what could be the crowning achievement of his administration. On Tuesday he will become the first sitting President of the United States to hold talks with the Supreme Leader of North Korea. If all goes well, this meeting could result in the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and huge step toward world peace. However, given North Korea’s history of breaking agreements, there is some reason to believe that all will not go well.
A lot hinges on the motivation North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un. Kim is known to be a ruthless dictator who kills his enemies (including his brother and his uncle) without remorse, but he has also shown signs of being a pragmatic young man who may be less driven by communist doctrine and history than his predecessors.
Astrologically, Kim is also something of a mystery. Not only do we not have a time of birth for him, there is even controversy about the year in which he was born. The official word is 1983 but there is testimony from his aunt indicating that 1984 is the correct year. I’ve looked at charts for both dates and I’ve decided to go with the 1983 data. (Click on Kim Jong-un to see a chart done for noon on Jan. 8, 1983.)
