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!
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has been in the news a lot lately, and that’s the way he wants it. For a guy seeking to position himself as a possible presidential nominee in 2024, getting your name "out there" is always good. Of course It’s also important that you present a strong, uncompromising image. In his opposition to pretty much anything said by health care experts with regard to COVID-19, DeSantis has been remarkably uncompromising.
Now DeSantis is fighting with school officials in his own state over his order forbidding them from requiring students to wear masks. They say masks are the only thing that can keep the delta variant from spreading through their schools like wildfire. He says that if they would just go along with him and pretend that the pandemic is over everything will be just fine.
We don’t have a time of birth for Ron DeSantis so I’ve done a horoscope for noon on his date of birth. (Click on Ron DeSantis to see that chart.) It is interesting that he is a Virgo by Sun sign. Virgos are typically practical and quick to adapt to changing situations. However, DeSantis’ Moon is Fixed Aquarius. Aquarius has a bad habit of placing principles before reality.
In my article on the Full Moon on July 23 (click here to see the article and the chart) I predicted that our attention would be diverted from the reemergence of the pandemic by some sort of scandal. The allegations of sexual harassment against New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and the State Justice Department’s findings on that matter certainly fit that bill. We also had the Olympics and the controversy surrounding Simone Biles’ withdrawal from key events. There have been plenty of Neptunian diversions during this lunation cycle even as the infection rate of COVID-19 continued to grow.
I was wrong about one thing. I didn’t see much hope that the trine by Neptune on the Ascendant of the Full Moon chart to Mercury would bring us a positive change. In fact, there has been a rise in the number of people getting vaccinated. It may be too little too late, but it is something. Meanwhile, the opposition between Mercury and Pluto in that chart brought more obstruction from Republican governors and lawmakers who seem to feel that health care is secondary to politics.
We don’t have a time of birth for Andrew Cuomo. (Click on Cuomo to see a chart done for noon on his date of birth.) For this reason I was not all that surprised when I looked at his chart back in February, when the investigation by the New York State Attorney General into allegations of sexual harassment began and saw no “big” aspects. Without a time of birth we are deprived of several important pieces of information about Cuomo’s horoscope. Without those missing pieces no real judgment of the chart can be made.
Today the Attorney General’s office released findings of multiple incidents of sexual harassment from multiple women. The situation with Cuomo’s partial natal charge does reflect this development, at least somewhat. Transiting Mars is conjunct his natal Pluto, an aspect that typically brings us a day or so when we feel overwhelmed. Also, the Sun is conjunct his natal Uranus, an aspect that often brings surprising revelations and a disruption of our preconceptions. However, without a heavier, long-term aspect to back them up, the influence of these relatively short-term aspects should have been minimal.
That was definitely not the case, with everyone from his many accusers to the President of the United States crying for Cuomo to resign. Obviously, there are other transits at work here involving factors we can’t see in a partial horoscope, like the Ascendant, Midheaven or the precise placement of the Moon. However, we do get a clue about what’s going on when we look at the secondary progressions to Cuomo’s partial chart.
Every astrological indicator, every sign, planet, house, etc., can have multiple meanings. However, no factor in the horoscope can match the range of differences that we see with Neptune. Neptune is often related with profound spiritual insights but it is just as often associated with escapist trash. A transit by this planet might, on the one hand, promise awesome flights of imagination and creativity and on the other cruel deceptions.
Recently we’ve seen some rather dramatic demonstrations of this range of possibilities. A few day ago I wrote about the influence transiting Neptune was having on Simone Biles as it closed in on a conjunction with her natal Sun. I described how Neptune can dissolve the boundaries of self, opening up the ego to doubt and uncertainty. That Neptunian doubt caused Biles to pull out of several competitions in the Tokyo Olympics.
Then Biles encountered another face of Neptune. It is often difficult to explain to other people why we do what we do when Neptune is active in our charts. It’s personal. It’s psychological. Often, it’s spiritual and it doesn’t lend itself to a clear, rational description. Some people decided that Biles’ explanation for her decision to withdraw was just a cover for cowardness and a lack of will. Being misunderstood and having our actions misjudged is also a feature of Neptune.
