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!
Of all of last year’s contenders for the Democratic nomination for whom we did not have a time of birth (and there were a lot of them) the one that gave me the most trouble, astrologically, was Elizabeth Warren. I struggled to find aspects that explained the surge in her candidacy that we saw in late 2019. The same goes for her disappointing showing in the early primaries in 2020. Of course, without a time of birth, there is much about Warren’s chart that I cannot see and, apparently, it is the stuff I couldn’t see that was calling the shots in Warren’s life during that period.
However, I was right about one thing. This was with regard to her secondary progressed chart. In that chart Warren’s progressed Sun and Saturn are square her natal Mars and Mercury. I wrote back in January 2019 (click here to see that article and Warren’s chart) that this would severely limit her chances of winning the nomination. Secondary progressed aspect tend to function on a personal level, so I had expected a major dip in Warren’s energy level to sabotage her campaign. This did not happen. Instead, these aspects seem to have worked against her on a public level, in her inability to convince Democratic voters that she was the “one”.
Among the women whose names are in the hat from which Joe Biden will chose his running mate is the junior senator from Wisconsin, Tammy Baldwin. Baldwin won her seat in 2012 and became the first openly gay person to be elected to the U.S. Senate. Were she to be Biden’s pick for VP, Baldwin could make history again as our first LBGT Vice President.
We don’t have a time of birth for Baldwin so we will have to use a partial horoscope done for noon on her date of birth. (Click on Tammy Baldwin to see the chart.) The most striking thing about this horoscope is the stellum (astrology talk for big bunch) of planets in Aquarius. Baldwin has her Sun, Venus, Jupiter, Mercury, Mars, and Saturn in that sign. It’s fairly rare to see a six planet stellum in any sign. It’s particularly notable when that sign is Aquarius.
I have to admit that I haven’t been paying a lot of attention to allegations made by Tara Reade about Joe Biden. It’s not that I don’t think that they are important. It’s just that this is just the sort of he-said, she-said, Neptunian scandal that I expected to crop up with Neptune crossing Biden’s I.C. For a while it looked like the dealings by Biden’s son in Ukraine were going to fill that bill, but the Hunter Biden scandal seemed to fizzle after the impeachment hearings. Tara Reade’s allegation that Biden attempted to rape her slipped very neatly into that vacancy.
However, there is something else going on in Biden’s horoscope (click here to see the chart) that is an even better representative of this scandal. Saturn is currently square Biden’s natal Moon. The Moon represents women and it is placed in Biden’s Fifth House which, among other things, has to do with love affairs. I don’t think that what Tara Reade claims happened between her and Biden would ever be characterized as a love affair, but the connection to sex still stands.
Essentially, what we’re seeing is the combination of Saturn’s square to Biden’s Moon and Neptune on his I.C. Previous to this square the major problem for Biden came from his relationship with his son. (The I.C. marks the beginning of the Fourth House of family.) When Saturn entered the picture the emphasis changed to women and sex.
In my analysis of the Apr. 22 New Moon (click here to see the article and the chart) I predicted that we would see more of the same with regard to the argument between those who want a quick reopening of the economy and the medical experts to say that would make the situation with Covid 19 even worse. That debate has certainly continued, with some states rushing to reopen, others continuing to clamp down and the President going back and forth with regard to whose side he is on.
I had expected to see a radical change, either in the international situation or involving the economy, because of the conjunction of the Sun and Moon to Uranus. That didn’t happen. Kim Jong un is apparently not dead and, even though we have the worst unemployment figures since the Great Depression, that was sort of expected.
The most Uranian thing to happen was the decision that Trump announced Tuesday to suspend his Covid 19 task force. That was certainly a surprise but considering this Gemini President’s previous waffling on these issues, there’s no guarantee that he won’t change his mind tomorrow. (I wrote this in the morning. Next time I checked the news, Trump has done exactly that, saying the the task force would remain "indefinitely".)
