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 know Donald Trump has just finished a “working” vacation at his golf club, but the universe has decided to give him another one. Jupiter has moved into a sextile aspect to his Moon and a trine to his Sun. These aspects will be within a degree for the next two weeks and it could represent a respite from the criticism Trump has suffered since his inflammatory comments on the Charlotte demonstrations.
I say “could” because Jupiter can fool you. Sometimes Jupiter brings you bounty, a period of good fortune and easy living. At other times, however, Jupiter brings you more than enough rope to hang yourself.
Jupiter is great enabler. When under a positive Jupiter aspect we feel good about ourselves and our abilities. Our confidence is peaking and we carry ourselves with just bit more swagger. We expect things to go our way and, for the most part (within the constraints of the natal chart,) they do. The problems come when all of this confidence and good fortune causes us to overreach and try to accomplish things that aren’t meant to be accomplished.
Well, it looks like the Big American Eclipse may have had its first victim. We don’t have a time of birth for Steve Bannon but if he was born in the afternoon his Moon would be close to or maybe even directly on the degree of the eclipse on the 21st. His exit from the Trump administration (voluntary or not) would be an appropriate manifestation of such an aspect. (Click here to see a horoscope for Steve Bannon done for noon.)
What does Bannon’s departure mean to Donald Trump? It’s unlikely to change Trump’s views on race, nativism or international relations. It’s pretty obvious that the President takes most of his advice on these issues from various commentators he sees on Fox News. What Bannon gave to Trump was permission to be just as crazy as he wanted to be.
Poor David Duke. He appeared on television in the midst of the Charlottesville demonstration saying that Donald Trump was his man. A couple of days later Donald seemed to confirm that belief by failing to name the KKK as perpetrator of the violence there. Then Donald broke David’s heart by reading a prepared statement in which he did name the KKK. Then, before David even had a chance to dry his tears, Donald made statements in news conference that gave him hope that their love was not dead. What's a boy to do?
That might sound melodramatic, but Duke is a Cancer by Sun sign, (click on David Duke to see his chart) and Cancer people get emotional about things like this. As far as David Duke is concerned, his relationship with Donald Trump might be the most important relationship in his life. When Trump was elected in November, transiting Saturn was square its natal place in Duke’s chart. This is a “turning point” aspect, and epiphany aspect. Duke no doubt felt that Trump’s victory signaled that white Americans were finally ready for his message.
The shocking events in Charlottesville, Va. have a lot of people wondering what’s happening to this country. I have to admit that I’m one of them. However, being an astrologer I am also curious about what the horoscopes of member of the KKK or the American Nazi Party who descended on that city might look like.
Of course, I don’t have charts for the people who were protesting in Charlottesville, but I do have charts for people I would assume to be like them. One is for Ben Smith, a white supremacist who went on a shooting spree in 1999. (Click on Ben Smith to see the chart.) What struck me about this chart was the trine between Neptune and Mercury and the fact that Saturn is conjunct Smith’s Ascendant (and in an exact semi-sextile to his Mars.)
