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 verdict is in on President Trump’s visit to Dayton, Ohio and El Paso, Texas, the two cities struck by mass shootings this week, is in and it is not good. After what was reported to be a positive visit to Dayton, the President lashed out via twitter (where else) at Dayton’s mayor and Senator Sherrod. Then, in El Paso, victims still in the hospital refused to talk to him and two people who had already been released were brought back for the photo op. Through it all, Trump has complained about press coverage and categorically denied that his rhetoric has anything to do with these violent acts.
In the President’s defense, empathy is not typically a strength for Sun sign Geminis, particularly those with Leo rising and Venus conjunct Saturn. I doubt that anyone with a similar horoscope would have been totally at ease in such circumstances. What makes Trump’s situation worse is the fact that he has Mars conjunct his Ascendant. He gets mad, and that Martian anger flows directly through his thumps and into the twittersphere. (Click on Donald Trump to see his horoscope.)
Right now, transiting Mars is in Leo getting ready to pass over both Trump’s natal Mars and his Ascendant. This tells us that the President’s anger is only going to increase in the coming days. (The aspects will continue through next week.) And he has so much to be angry about. Half the country is calling him a racist, China has decided to play hardball, Kim Jong Un has proved to be a very bad friend and people are leaving his administration in droves.
I mentioned the shooting in El Paso to the clerk as I was checking-out at Wal-Mart today. She glanced furtively toward the front door and told me she was scared. Mass murders have become a fixture of American society during the past few years. We’ve seen them in churches, schools and various workplaces. However, this one seems to have people feeling particularly nervous. Perhaps that’s because Wal-Mart is such ubiquitous part of American life (except for the very wealthy) that it lets us know that we are all potential targets.
That got me thinking about Saturn. Right now Saturn is moving into retrograde into a square aspect to Saturn in the Sibly horoscope for the United States. In fact, every horoscope for the US charted for July 4, 1776 would be currently having this transit. When transiting Saturn squares it’s own place in the natal chart of a person, it signals a turning point, a decisive moment in which the decisions that the person makes and the actions he or she undertakes have major, long term consequences.
My reading of the Full Moon chart for July 16 (click here to see that article and the chart) was completely off target. I felt that the concentration on the Second and Eighth Houses in that chart would bring us big trouble in the financial markets. However, even though there are continuing signs that the economy is slowing, there was no major upset. In fact, all the big stories of the past two weeks — North Korean missile tests, the heat wave, issues at the Mexican border and the Mueller testimony — seemed to pass without causing more than a tiny ripple in the public consciousness.
My mistake was seeing the placement of Jupiter on the Ascendant in that Full Moon chart as a separate factor from the stressful aspects tied to the Sun and Moon. Instead, guided by optimistic Jupiter, the American people let the worrisome event of the past two weeks pass with what can only be called benign neglect. Who cares if North Korea has restarted it’s nuclear program, or about Iran’s continued belligerence, or further evidence of global warming, or the fact that the Mueller Report reveals multiple instances in which President Trump attempted to obstruct justice? It’ll all be okay in the end. Right?
This section of the second round of the Democratic Debate will be starting just a few hours before the New Moon becomes exact and the energy of that New Moon will pervade the proceedings. This should make all of the contenders a little sharper and more alert, but it is also going to exaggerate emotions and exacerbate vulnerabilities. The candidates who best able to focus on their message and not be distracted by this excess emotionality will be the ones who come out winners.
The good news for astrologers is that we have complete horoscopes for six of the ten candidate in part two of this round. They are Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, Andrew Yang, Julian Castro and Bill de Blasio. For Kirsten Gillibrand, Tulsi Gabbard, Jay Inslee and Michael Bennet I will be using charts do for noon on their date of birth. If you click on the name you can see a previous article on the candidate and his or her horoscope.
