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!
I once said, paraphrasing someone much smarter than myself, that astrology doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme. That remark requires a bit of correction. Astrological aspects do repeat themselves. It’s the events that coincide that very often rhyme. We saw an example of that this week when Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s former “fixer”, pled guilty to lying to Congress.
What’s going on in Cohen’s chart (click on Michael Cohen to see a partial chart done for his date of birth) is that Uranus is square his natal Mars. This is an aspect of disruption. Either you become the disrupter or your life is disrupted by some outside force. (Actually, it’s usually a combination of both, but let’s keep it simple.) Cohen’s guilty plea was certainly disruptive. Contradicting statments he had made before Congress, Cohen admitted that Donald Trump was engaged in a big real estate deal with Russia and Vladimir Putin until just before he accepted the nomination.
Just a few weeks ago it seemed that Paul Manafort’s legal issues were settled. In New York he had been convicted of enough fraud and money-laundering charges to keep him in jail for the rest of his life and he had entered a plea deal with the Mueller investigation that seemed to cancel out the charges due to be filed in Washington D.C. However, a few days ago Robert Mueller announced that Manafort had broken the deal by lying to his investigators. Now Manafort is back in the hot seat.
What’s going on in Manafort’s horoscope? (Click here to see a partial horoscope done for noon on Manafort’s date of birth.) Transiting Saturn has moved into a square to his natal Venus and his natal Mars. Saturn aspects to Mars can bring about desperate, self-defeating behavior. It’s like the irresistible force (Mars) meeting the immovable authority (Saturn) only, in this case, the irresistible force is greatly overmatched.
There’s been a lot happening in and around Russia recently. The Russian navy has detained two Ukrainian battle ships near the Crimean peninsula and Russian planes bombed rebel positions in Aleppo. These actions come on top of the sale by Russia to Syria of advanced missiles that can be used against Israel and Trump pulling out of the intermediate-range missile treaty. Seeing all of this, I decided it might be time to revisit the horoscope of Vladimir Putin.
Keep in mind that there are several reasons to doubt this horoscope for Putin (click here to be taken to his page in Astro-Databank to see the chart and read the details) but it’s the best we have for now and it does seem to match what we know about his personality. At the moment there are no major transits impacting this chart, but that changes significantly in 2019.
The period after the New Moon of Nov. 7 turned out to be just as eventful as I expected, and most of the events had to do with the person at the top (as illustrated by the Sun in the Tenth House in that chart.) (Click here to see the article and chart for this New Moon.) From made-up stories about raking forests to prevent forest fires, to waffling on who ordered the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, to recent reports that he wanted the Justice Dept. to arrest Hillary Clinton and James Comey for not being nice to him, President Trump has been all over the news, and not in a good way.
It all has a Neptunian feel and, in the New Moon chart, Neptune was trine the Sun. I predicted that the President’s actions would be characterized by illusion, deception and scandal. We got a little extra scandal recently when it was revealed that the President’s daughter, Ivanka, has been using a private server for government e-mails (ala Hillary Clinton). Of course, since the aspect was a trine these events created a lot of noise but not much action.
