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 can’t say that I’m a fan of Britney Spears’ music but I did include a chapter about her in my book “Saturn Cycles: Mapping the Changes in Your Life.” Shortly after I finished that book and sent it off the publisher, Spears had her famous head-shaving breakdown. I’ve always regreted that I was unable to include the monumental changes in her life that followed that incident in the book.
Those changes included being put under a conservatorship in 2009 with her father serving as Spears’ legal guardian. Since then, Spears has thrived, at least as far as her career is concerned. She’s released several albums, all of which have been gobbled up by her legion of fans, and she has had a concert residence in Las Vegas. In the process, Spears has made millions of dollars. Of course, she also made millions of dollars for her father and other people involved in the conservatorship. (Click on Britney Spears to see the chart.)
Yesterday Mitch McConnell led Republicans in the Senate (most of them anyway) in the acquittal of Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial. Then, in a speech on the floor of the Senate, McConnell essential proclaimed that Trump was guilty of all the crimes of which he had been accused, and that he had not voted for the impeachment because of a technicality. That may sound a little crazy, but you do crazy things when you’re in love.
On the day that Trump supporters invaded the Capitol Building, Uranus was square Mitch McConnell’s natal Venus. (Click here to see a chart done for noon on Mitch McConnell’s date of birth.) This aspect often describes sudden and shocking events involving relationships or a loved one. Mitch McConnell loves the Senate. It is his “house.” He plays its arcane rules like a master musician and, a least for the last ten years, he has had absolute control over what happens within it walls.
On Jan. 9 McConnell watched as his beloved Senate Chamber was defiled by a bunch of rubes waving Trump flags and like any lover (and like any emotional Pisces) Mitch got mad. He wasted no time in calling out President Trump and expressing outrage at his actions. At first it seemed that McConnell might even be onboard with the House’s effort to impeach Donald Trump but Pisces folks are prone to changing their minds.
We’ve gotten through another two weeks without a second insurrection. This is something I predicted in my analysis of the Full Moon chart for Jan. 28. (Click here to see the article and the chart.) On the other hand, I was wrong about good news about the economy. Of course, considering the grip that COVID 19 still has on the country, the absence of bad news might be considered good.
I was worried about the emphasis on the Eighth House in this Full Moon chart. The Eighth has to do with our debts, both financial and emotional. The financial part might be described by the COVID-relief bill that is working its way through congress. Though it’s badly needed, it will certainly increase the national debt.
The emotional part of this debt often involves obsessive thinking and sublimated anger. This was presented to us during this lunation period by the controversy involving congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, who proposed that threatening people’s lives was an example of free speech. That kind of thinking is feeding the Eighth House rage of a lot of people in the country.
This is an excerpt from my newest book, “Behind the Horoscope.” The book covers the house placements of the Sun and the Moon. It can be purchased from this website, Llewellyn Publications and from Amazon.
Chapter One The Sun in the First House
Everybody loves a sunrise, that fantastic light show the Sun gives us as it approaches the eastern horizon every morning. The milky grey of the dawn is slowly transformed into a natural masterpiece of pink, violet, and gold. There is great hope in a sunrise, and that hope is at the bottom of every interpretation of the Sun in the First House.
The identification of the First House as a place of power within the horoscope has been with us since ancient times. The First House is an angular house. Its starting point is one of the most important points in the chart: the Ascendant. The linking of the Sun, the ultimate source of life, to this crucial angle has to promise great things.
So it is that people born at or a couple of hours before dawn seem to have won the astrological lottery. Just read what the texts have to say about the placement of the Sun in the First House. Some of the authors seem positively giddy, rolling out phrases like “strong will, abundant vitality, and intense self-awareness” or “great initiative and powers of leadership.
