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!
Two days ago, when the New York Times first reported that Donald Trump Jr. met with a Russian lawyer with ties to the Russian government, Trump Jr. denied that the meeting ever took place. Then he said that he had met with the Russian, but the purpose of the meeting was to discuss a program that would allow families in the U.S. to adopt Russian orphans. Now he says that the real reason was to discuss damaging information that the Russian had on Hillary Clinton.(Apparently two lies to get to something that is close to the truth is the new standard of veracity)
This has put Donald Jr. on the hot seat. From an astrological perspective, this is to be expected. Members of a family unit often have similar configurations in their horoscopes. For example, Ivanka Trump has Venus and Neptune in Sagittarius conjunct her father’s Moon and opposite his Sun. Donald Jr. has Mercury in Sagittarius similarly placed. In fact, the conjunction between Junior’s Mercury and Senior’s Moon are exact. (Click on Donald Trump Jr. to see the chart.)
Today’s meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin promises to be a defining moment in the Trump administration. The President has been turning up his criticism of Russia in prepared speeches, but he still seems unsure about the Russian cyber attack on our election, despite what his intelligence agencies keep telling him. The only thing Trump has to say about the matter is that it was Obama’s fault.
Looking at Trump’s horoscope for today we see transiting Mars moving into a semi-sextile to his Sun and a quincunx to his Moon. These are not powerful aspects, but they do add to the pressure already being placed on his Sun and Moon by transiting Saturn. (For more on that, see my article, DonaldTrump’s Long, Hot Summer.)
This tells me that Trump will be entering the meeting in an aggressive mood. (To which you answer, when is he not in an aggressive mood?) However, because of the nature of the aspects involved he’s going to have trouble finding an effective way of displaying that aggression. Considering what Saturn is currently doing in is chart, he is likely to appear tired and distracted.
Helmut Newton was a photographer famous for his erotically charged fashion shots, but that’s not really the most interesting thing about him. He was also a German Jew born in Berlin in 1920. He entered his teens in Germany just as Adolf Hitler was taking power.
According to Newton’s autobiography, he paid little attention to the politics of the time. He was too busy flirting with girls (even non-Jewish girls) and having a good time. His father lost the button factory that had financed the family’s prosperous lifestyle in 1936, but as far as Helmut was concerned that just saved him from being forced to work there and left him free to follow his true passion, photography.
Then came “Kristallnacht”, the night when Nazi thugs destroyed Jewish business and synagogues all over Germany. Newton’s father was arrested and Helmut was forced to go into hiding for several days. Fortunately for him, his mother took action. She had learned of a man in the Gestapo who might help them. After the heat from Kristallnacht had died down, she took her son to see this German official. The official started in by yelling at them and insulting them, but once they were alone, he told Helmut’s mother how to get her husband out of jail and acquire a passport for her son.
A few weeks ago I wrote about the transits that Donald Trump will be experiencing during the next few months (click here to see that article) and how those aspects could represent a major challenge to his presidency. Now I realized that I left one aspect out. That is the quincunx between transiting Saturn and Trump’s natal Saturn. The quincunx is not a major aspect, but when I look at what Trump’s up to right now, it speak volumes.
The reason that this quincunx is important is because it triggers the conjunction of Saturn and Venus in Trump’s natal horoscope. The classic interpretation of this aspect is “trouble with women.” This has, of course, been an issue throughout Trump’s life, particular with women who were not under his direct control. (That is to say a wife, daughter or women bound by a confidentiality agreement.) By triggering this natal aspect, transiting Saturn brought all the ugly implication of Saturn conjunct Venus to the foreground.
