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!
The Full Moon chart for Nov. 12 struck me as strangely benign considering what was happening in Washington during the past two weeks. (Click here to see that article and the chart.) We heard a lot of testimony that should have shocked everyone but half the nation seems to have ignored it. Republicans in congress held fast to their president’s story that nothing untoward happened and the polls have not shown much movement in public opinion.
As promised, there were rumblings of things going on behind the scenes, such as the connections between the Republican Leader, Devin Nunes, and Rudy Giuliani, and President Trump’s surprise trip to the hospital. Meanwhile, Lindsay Graham’s decision to open an investigation into Joe Biden and his son is loaded with subtext since Graham and Biden have been good friends for years and there is no evidence of impropriety in Biden's dealings with Ukraine or his son.
Essentially, it would seem that Venus square Neptune in this Full Moon chart, along with Neptune trine the Sun and sextile the Moon, has had us all asleep for the past two weeks. We may have had some disturbing dreams of a President of the United States shaking down a foreign leader for dirt on a political rival, but about half of us chose to hide our heads under the covers. That's about to change, because the chart for today’s New Moon is going to be hard to sleep through. (Click here to see the horoscope.)
When transiting Saturn makes a hard aspect to the degree it occupied in your natal horoscope it represents a period in your life in which you will be tested. Choices made during this period tend to end up influencing the rest of your life in a major way. This is particular true when transiting Saturn “returns” to its natal place. This happens just a few times in a person’s life: around age 28, around age 56 and around 84.
For the past couple of weeks we’ve been watching a Saturn Return in action. It has been playing on every major network. In the horoscope of Adam Schiff, Saturn has been crossing his natal Saturn. (Click on Adam Schiff to see a partial horoscope done for noon on his date of birth) We have seen him tested, as he carefully managed the impeachment inquiry. We have seen him mercilessly criticized, mostly by the guy sitting next to him during the hearings, Devin Nunes. And we have seen him doing the thing which, for better or worse, will likely get him into the history books.
So far, the race for the Democratic nomination has been chaotic. We started out with more candidates than we needed. Some of those people have dropped out, only to be replaced by new contenders. Candidates surge for a while and then fade and no one seems able to hold on to the lead. The only thing that is predictable about this race is that the person currently ahead in the polls is going to take plenty of heat in the next debate. For the debate on Nov. 20, that person will be Pete Buttigieg.
In my series of article on these contenders (click here to see the article on Buttigieg) I noted that Mayor Pete was a Capricorn and that Capricorns play the long game. Buttigieg has hung around for a while now, a few steps ahead of pack stuck at one percent in the polls but never close enough the the front to threaten the leaders. Meanwhile, he has impressed people with his intellect and his composure. He has also avoided the temptation swing to the left. Instead, Buttigieg has held to the center with regard to policy.
This also a Capricorn trait. There have been Capricorn revolutionaries but moderation is more typical of this Sun sign. The rule for Capricorn people is practicality and, most of the time, extreme views on either the left or the right are just not practical enough to satisfy this canny, Earth sign. Capricorns don’t care how good a proposal sounds in a manifesto or an impassioned speech. All they want to know is, will it work?
When the original set of contenders for the Democratic nomination for president began their campaigns it looked like Joe Biden had the center lane of the party locked up. His only serious competition was coming from candidates on the left, like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. Recently, however, Biden’s position seems to have weakened, both because his own gaffs and the attention given his son, Hunter. Now we seem to be getting a new crop of contenders who are vying to take Biden’s place as boss of the center.
The most recent of these contenders to enter the race is the former governor of Massachusetts, Deval Patrick. As governor of Massachusetts, Patrick hit all the liberal high spots, including health care and gay marriage, but he also has an extensive background in the corporate world, which will no doubt ease the minds of all those billionaires looking for someone to protect them from Warren and Sanders.
For astrologers, however, what is most important is that we have a birth time for this new contender. (Click on Deval Patrick to see the chart.) It comes with a caveat. Some hospitals in Chicago during the 1950s used daylight savings time and some did not. We’re assuming that Patrick was born in one that did not (which was what was dictated be state law.) That puts Uranus near his Cancer Ascendant and the Sun in his First House.
