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!
The last New Moon chart was extremely active (click here to see the article and the chart) and we’ve had an incredible active two weeks. However, as I predicted, all that excitement sort of fizzled when Republicans in the Senate did the thing that everyone expected them to do and acquitted President Trump without calling witnesses. As I said, the aspects in that New Moon chart described people fighting to maintain their delusions.
I also predicted that we would have some Uranian surprises and we did. First there was the leaked material from John Bolton’s upcoming book. Here we had a person was “in the room” when the Ukrainian caper went down and was ready to tell all. This created excitement for a while. People living in a pre-2016 reality couldn’t see how the Senate could pass up hearing from such a witness, but they did.
The second Uranian surprise occurred when Iowa held their caucus. There’s nothing Uranus loves more than fiddling with our tech, and the Iowan got a full dose of that. A lot people saw this as a momentous event but, as we begin to experiment with ways to avoid having our voting system hacked, these snafus are bound to crop up. Let’s just hope that we have a better handle on the process by the time we get to November.
Pete Buttigieg’s strong showing in the Iowa caucuses surprised a lot of people, including me. In my predictions about the caucuses (click here to see that article) I was pretty much on the money for every candidate except Mayor Pete. (And Michael Bennet, who I thought would show some life but clearly didn’t.) That got me to take another look at the partial horoscope (done without a time of birth) we have for Buttigieg.
I had thought that having transiting Saturn square his natal Pluto and transiting Pluto square his natal Saturn would sink Buttigieg’s chances on Monday. He also had a transiting Jupiter square his natal Mars on caucuses day and the Sun trine his Mars, but I didn’t think that these aspects would give him the help he needed to overcome these two very negative, long term squares.
When I looked at the chart again I noticed that Uranus in Taurus is currently forming a quincunx aspect to Buttigieg’s natal Uranus. This is not a very important aspect, but I also noticed that in the noon chart Buttigieg’s Moon is on the last degree of Scorpio, not far from his natal Uranus. A quincunx from transiting Uranus to a person’s natal Uranus might not be much, but a quincunx to both Uranus and the Moon could signal the kind of surprising turn events we saw on Monday.
We’re coming up on the time of year when everyone with a political mindset is focused on Iowa, where the first step toward choosing the Democratic nominee will be taken. I thought it might be fun to rundown the transits on Feb.3 (the day of fhe caucuses) for the top Democratic candidates. Click on the candidates name to see his or her chart.
Joe Biden – Right now Neptune, which will be crossing Biden’s natal I.C. throughout this year, has temporarily pulled back from that position. This aspect will make it difficult for Biden to define himself clearly to voters, but at present I don’t think that’s going to be a problem. Instead, Biden has transiting Saturn opposed to his natal Jupiter. I think that this could cut into Biden’s popular appeal and hurt him in these caucuses.
Bernie Sanders – Sanders has been surging recently and, since we do not have a complete horoscope for him, I’m not sure why. On caucus day Mars will be sextile Bernie’s Venus. I think this means that he will have at least a moderately good showing. However, Pluto is currently square his Mars. Another health crisis could be on the horizon.
I don’t know if John Bolton ever gave himself a superhero name as a child (or as an adult) but he's beginning to take on superhero attributes among the opponents of President Trump. Thanks to some teasers from his upcoming book that somehow found their way to “The New York Times,” it now appears that Bolton might something crucial to say about the Ukraine matter. His testimony, if it is ever allowed to happen, could turn out to be the Trump Kryptonite that Democrats have been hoping for.
When I wrote about Bolton back in November (click here to see the article) I said that the aspects impacting his chart at that time would incline him toward caution but by January, when Pluto moved within a degree of a square to his natal Venus, he might be in the mood for a little revenge. When Bolton left his job as National Security Adviser back in September, President Trump couldn’t resist throwing a little shade his way. What Trump didn’t realize was getting the last word in an argument with a Scorpio isn’t just difficult, it’s dangerous.
