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 expected that the last New Moon (click here to see the article and the chart) would give us one, big Uranian explosion. Instead, we got so many explosions that no single one stood out. First the Democrats released transcripts of their closed-door hearing and announced a date for the beginning of public hearings. Republicans responded by refusing to read the transcripts and waving around a variety of distractions, including continued complaints about the process and far out conspiracy theories.
Along with all this noise regarding impeachment we had off-year elections that seemed to show a weakening in President Trump’s appeal. Also, there was a court ruling that established that the Trump family charity was bogus and ordered the Trumps to pay 2 million in restitution. In a normal world, those would have been big explosions. In the Trump world, they just become part of the background music.
The thing that most concerned me about the New Moon chart was the placement of Mars on the I.C. This indicated violence and possibly war. Thankfully, we did not see the kind of violent event that I had feared nor did we go to war. I credit the square to Mars by Saturn in that chart for containing that planet’s violent potential. Instead, it manifested in the ever increasing division between pro-Trump and anti-Trump Americans.
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.
