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!
Mike Bloomberg has been flirting with the notion of entering the race for the Democratic presidential nomination for months, so it’s not shocking that he’s now applying to be a candidate in the Alabama primary. Still, it’s not clear exactly what Bloomberg hopes to achieve with this late entry into a race which already has what many people feel is too many candidates.
Bloomberg has both the Sun and Moon, along with Mercury and Venus, in Aquarius. (Click on Mike Bloomberg to see his chart.) In fact, Fixed signs dominate his chart, explaining why he waited until it was almost too late to enter the race. Of course, a late entry is not going to phase a cool Aquarian. Aquarius people get a charge out of doing the unexpected and surprising people.
Back in March 2018, when he was appointed National Security Advisor, I predicted that John Bolton’s relationship with President Donald Trump was likely to be explosive. I wrote this because Bolton’s Mars in Sagittarius is opposite Trump’s Sun and trine the President’s natal Mars. I felt that Bolton would either stoke the President’s bellicose moods or clash with him. Of course, it turned out to be the latter. Bolton was dismissed and then publicly ridiculed by President Trump.
Now, Bolton seems to have an opportunity to get even. He’s been called to testify in the impeachment inquiry. There are reports that Bolton disapproved of the President’s exchange with the President of Ukraine and with the activities of Rudy Giuliani. Democrats in congress would love to have him air these complaints in a public hearing but, so far, Bolton is not jumping at the chance.
Since Mercury goes retrograde tomorrow, on Halloween, I fully expect some child to dress up in a costume with Mercury symbols all over it, walk up to my door backwards and say, “treat of trick.” That would be a great Mercury retrograde gesture and, at my house, that kid would get as much candy as he or she could carry home.
Actually, Mercury Retrograde has become one of the most widely known of astrological terms. A lot people who have little or no idea about what it means will use the expression. This may be because Mercury retrograde makes such a handy excuse. Forgot to pay a bill, lost the shopping list your wife gave you, didn’t do your homework, Mercury retrograde covers it all.
Something else is due to happen Thursday, when Mercury stops its forward motion relative to the Earth and begins to appear from our vantage point to move backwards. The impeachment inquiry will be put to a vote on the floor of the House of Representatives. This is alarming for some astrologers, particularly those who dislike President Trump, because projects begun under a retrograde Mercury have a reputation of not ending well.
In my analysis of the Oct 13 Full Moon chart (click here to see the article and chart) I promised a power struggle over the impeachment process and we’ve certainly seen that, with witnesses coming forward despite orders from the White House not to and the President calling the hearings in the House a “lynching”. On the one hand we have the most damning testimony so far from William Taylor, the U.S. Envoy to Ukraine and the other we have Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney summing up the Presidents defense by telling reporters to “get over it.”
I also predicted extreme behavior. We saw that this week when, in an unprecedented move, a group of House Republicans forced their way into closed-door hearing. This act of civil disobedience accomplished little, but it certainly got a lot of attention. I also predicted that new scandal would immerge. I wonder if this could be the Attorney General’s investigation of the claim that the Trump presidential campaign was somehow compromised by the FBI and some Italian guy. News of this investigation leaked out this week and it seems that, despite the fact that many people consider it an unsubstantiated conspiracy theory, William Barr is determined to pursue it.
The chart of the last Full Moon was quite dramatic and, of course, we’ve witness two weeks of dramatic events. And it looks like the pace in not going to let up. The New Moon Chart for Oct. 27 is just as dramatic and, in some ways, even more explosive. (Click here to see the chart.) Here we have the Sun and Moon in an exact opposition aspect with Uranus. This is a configuration that promise major disruptions to the status quo and shocking developments.
