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’ve been seeing Steve Bullock’s name on lists of likely Democratic candidates for 2020 for a long time, so his announcement was like the other shoe dropping. He’s the popular Democratic governor of a the heavily Republican state of Montana. He has a history of fighting big business and corporate money in politics. Generally, he’s considered a centrist but his positions on such issues as abortion, gay marriage and campaign finance pass the liberal smell test.
Bullock’s horoscope has ambition written all over it. (Click on Steve Bullock to see a chart done for noon on his date of birth.) He’s an Aries by Sun sign with the Moon in Capricorn, two energetic, goal-oriented signs. On top of that, his Sun is conjunct Mars, the ruler of Aries, and both the Sun and Mars are sextile Jupiter, the planet of expansion and thinking big. Of course, Bullock’s Sun is also quincunx Neptune, the planet of both mystical visions and delusional aspirations.
Doing a horoscope for a country can be tricky. There are scores of horoscopes proposed for the United States. The chart I typically use is called the Sibly Chart. I’ve checked it against important dates in US history and it performs fairly well, but it’s not perfect. (Click here to see the Sibly US chart.)
The horoscope I’m using for China is done for noon on the date that Mao Zedong declared the People’s Republic of China (click here to see the chart,) but I have seen other charts set for other dates. Also, the chart is done for noon because I don’t know the precise time.
What’s interesting about these two charts is that back in Jan. 2019, when trade talks between China and the United States began, transiting Saturn had just passed an opposition to the Sun in the Sibly chart At around the same time, Saturn was also square Neptune in the chart for China, while transiting Pluto was conjunct China’s Jupiter. In this approximate chart, Jupiter is in the Second House of finance.
The field of contenders for the Democratic nomination has become so crowded that we’ve had a couple of prospective candidates back away. However, Colorado Senator Michael Bennet is a Sagittarian by Sun sign, and where other people fear to tread, Sagittarians go gleefully. (Click on Michael Bennet to see a chart done for noon on his date of birth.)
Bennet has served in the Senate since 2009. Before that he worked for an investment company, though his interest in politics is long standing. Over the years, Bennet has worked on the campaigns of several Democrats. His views lean toward the center and, in terms of his generational placement, Bennet is from the Neptune in Scorpio, Pluto in Virgo group. (Click here to see my article on the generational breakdown of the Democratic candidates.)
On May 2, when Bennet announced this candidacy, transiting Jupiter was on the South Node of the Moon in his natal chart. This might be taken to indicate that Bennet is fulfilling some karmic purpose by throwing his hat into the ring. However, it’s going to take a lot of positive karma make up for Bennet’s lack of name recognition outside his home state.
I think I pretty much nailed it in my assessment of the Full Moon for Apr. 19. (Click here to see the article and the chart.) I said it was a sneaky chart and William Barr has apparently taken on the role of the sneak. First his “summary” of the Mueller Report turned out to be a symphony of understatement, then he danced around the truth in a congressional hearing and finally refused to show up before congress at all. As I predicted, we have “some hopping mad Democrats.”
The thing I got wrong was the quincunx/sextile arrangement of Venus to the Sun and Moon. I thought this would bring us bad economic news. Instead the news on the economy was surprisingly good for the first quarter. Predicting a quincunx aspects is always tricky. They tend toward the quirky. Also, this plays into the beneficial Jupiter transit in Donald Trump’s natal chart, since he’s getting most of the credit.
Another thing that surprised me was amount of violence that made the news, with the shooter at UNCC, the attack on a Synagogue in California and seven dead in Tennessee. Of course, this is America and shooting people and getting shot is kind of our thing, but I should have picked up on Pluto on the Midheaven of that Full Moon chart as an indicator of increased prejudice and violence.
