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!
Now that the Democratic primary seems to have settled down into a foregone conclusion, I thought it might be interesting to look back at past primaries. One particularly dramatic Democratic race comes to mind. That was the 1987-88 campaign of Gary Hart.
When Gary Hart entered the race for the 1988 Democratic nomination on Apr. 13, 1987, he seemed to have everything going for him. Hart had made a good showing in the 1984 primary, before being defeated by Walter Mondale, so he had name recognition. He was also young and handsome and seemed to be bursting with new ideas. No one was surprised that Hart immediately became the frontrunner for the nomination.
However, there was one problem, and that was the astrology of the situation. (Click on Gary Hart to see the horoscope.) Hart announced his candidacy when transiting Neptune was sitting almost directly on his Midheaven. Neptune can do a lot of wonderful things, but when it comes to politics it typically brings trouble. Neptune obscures boundaries, in particular the boundaries between truth and falsehood and what’s ethical and unethical. When boundaries like these are indefinite, it becomes all too easy to make the wrong decision.
The Coming Recession and the Horoscope for the USA
If you had asked any astrologer two or three years ago what to expect from the passage of Pluto and Saturn through Capricorn in 2019 and 2020, he or she would have probably predicted an economic downturn. Some might have phrased it as a mild recession. Others might have torn their hair and warned of a second Great Depression. Most would have been somewhere in between, but the general picture for the U.S. economy, astrologically speaking, was grim.
The reason for this grim forecast was the fact that Capricorn in the Sibly chart for the U.S. (click on Sibly to see the horoscope) coincides with the Second House of finance and material resources. Saturn represents restriction, while Pluto is associated with powers beyond our control. It seemed obvious that this combination in the Second House would result in economic forces beyond our control restricting the flow of money. That’s more or less the definition of a recession.
The current pandemic caused by the COVID-19 virus is a worldwide problem and we don’t really have a horoscope for the world. However, we do have horoscope for individual countries, including the United States of America. Considering the widening impact of the pandemic in this country and the inconsistent messages coming from some in the current administration, I thought I might be a good idea to look at that chart.
Right now transiting Pluto is within a degree of an opposition aspect to Mercury in the Sibly horoscope for the United States. (Click on Sibly to see the horoscope.) Saturn has just passed a conjunction with Pluto in the Sibly chart. It will turn retrograde in a few months and return to this aspect in August and November of this year. Pluto will remain within a couple of degrees of an opposition to the Sibly Mercury for the rest of this year and for most of 2021. Then, in 2022, it moves on to conjunct natal Pluto in the Sibly chart.
Now that the Democratic primary has settled down to a two person race (sorry Tulsi Gabbard) I thought it was time to look at the astrological situation for the two candidates left standing: Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden. Unfortunately, I can’t do a completely balanced matchup because we don’t have a birth time for Bernie Sanders. I recently did a speculative chart for Sanders based on how well he was doing in the early primaries. I will be using that chart, but it is purely speculative.
We do have a time of birth for Joe Biden, though I think it might be off by a few minutes. (Click here to the article in which I discuss this. Click here to see a chart done with his recorded time.) At the moment, as you might guess from his performance yesterday, Biden is getting some astrological love in the form of a nice sextile from transiting Jupiter to his natal Mercury. Sextiles are not life-changing aspects, but they do bring us good news and, sometimes, a bit of luck. In mid-May Jupiter will almost sextile Biden’s Sun before it goes retrograde. It will sextile his natal Mercury again in September.
