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!
In my analysis of the Full Moon chart for Oct. 28 (click here to see the article and the chart) I promised a lot of noise. We certainly got that with three Trumps, Eric, Donald Jr. and Donald Sr., testifying in the business fraud case against the Trump organization. Things got loud, particularly when Don Sr. took the stand, but we won’t know if anything will come from it until the judge makes his ruling.
Since the Second and Eighth Houses, both of which have financial associations, were emphasized in the Full Moon chart I expected the news to focus on the economy. Of course, the fraud case against the Trump organization is a financial matter. Also, the deadline for a budget agreement is nearing and Republicans in the House have been mulling over different proposals. The new Speaker of the House put forth a new one yesterday which seems to be a compromise of a compromise but its fate is yet to be determined.
The emphasis on finance continues with the New Moon chart for Nov. 13. (Click on New Moon to see the chart.) We have the Sun and Moon in the Second House. However, the situation in this chart is more explosive than what we saw with the last lunation. Here we have the Sun and Moon in a close conjunction with Mars and opposed to Uranus in the Eighth.
Back in January, I predicted that the last few months of 2023 were going to be rough for President Biden. (Click here to see that article.) Then in Sept. I noted that Uranus seemed to be making trouble for both Joe Biden and his son, Hunter. Now we’re into November. The opposition by transiting Uranus to Biden's natal Mercury has just passed it point of exactitude and the problems seem to be piling up for Biden. (Click onJoe Biden to see Biden’s horoscope.)
The problems for Biden escalated on Oct. 7 when Hamas attacked Israel. Like the invasion of Ukraine by Russia in 2021, this event had all the earmarks of Uranus. It was sudden, shocking and it completely shattered the tense but relatively peaceful status quo that had existed between Israelis and the Palestinians in Gaza. When Putin invaded Ukraine Uranus was opposite Biden’s Mars. On Oct. 7 Uranus had just moved retrograde within a degree of an opposition to his natal Mercury.
In my last article I pointed out how Saturn Cycle aspects were active in the horoscopes of Kevin McCarthy and Mike Johnson when Johnson replaced McCarthy as Speaker of the House. However, it appears that these two congressmen are not the only ones being picked on by Saturn. Just as transiting Saturn was conjuncting its position in McCarthy’s chart and squaring its position in Johnson’s, it was also opposed to the natal position of Saturn in the chart of Donald Trump Jr. (Click on Donald Trump Jr. to see the chart.)
Saturn Cycle aspects are usually important markers in the rise and fall of a person’s position relative to the world and the opinion of their peers. McCarthy’s Saturn Cycle transit represented a fall from grace, while Johnson’s represented an advance. What this transit means to Donald Trump Jr. remains to be seen, though it doesn’t look all that good at the moment.
Saturn’s transits to its natal place have always been considered important. They constituted one of the Saturn Cycles. In my book on Saturn Cycle transits I point out that these aspects can sometimes represent a lifting up of your worldly ambitions and sometimes a slipping down. Last month’s struggle by Republicans in the House of Representatives to find a Speaker gave us an example of both these possibilities.
We will start out with Kevin McCarthy (click here to see his chart). McCarthy was elected to the House in 2007 and he had methodically worked his way up through various leadership positions until he seemed the natural choice to take the Speaker’s gavel when Republicans achieved a majority in Jan. 2021. However, his nomination was blocked by hardcore conservatives who doubted the purity of McCarthy’s Republicanism. (After all, McCarthy had actually complained when Trump supporters invaded the Capitol Building on Jan. 6.)
McCarthy eventually achieved the Speakership but his hold on the position was tenuous. When he agreed to a temporary funding bill in order to keep the federal government from shutting down, his fate was decided. He was removed as Speaker. At that time transiting Saturn was moving retrograde about two and a half degree away from a conjunction to McCarthy’s natal Saturn. The aspect had been exact in Sept. 2023.
