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!
Right now the situation with Donald Trump’s horoscope is pretty bad. Transiting Pluto has moved to within two degrees an opposition to his natal Saturn and transiting Saturn is fast approaching its own opposition to that planet, as well as a conjunction to transiting Pluto. Obviously, the impeachment process is causing Trump to feel a lot of pressure, as witnessed by the crazy letter he sent to Nancy Pelosi yesterday.
However, we all know how the impeachment process is going to play out. The House will vote to impeach and then, as quietly and quickly as possible, McConnell and the Republicans in the Senate will dismiss the action. The only question is how the 45 to 50 percent of the American people who want to see the President removed from office will react to this power play.
What’s not so certain is what’s going to happen with another possible check on the President’s power. The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case regarding both the subpoena by the House of Representatives of Trump’s financial records and Don McGahn, Trump’s attorney during the Mueller investigation. The court’s decision on these matters will have important ramifications on the oversight powers of congress. It’s hard to exercise oversight of a president if he or she can simply ignore your request for information.
The big aspect that has so many astrologers on edge right now is the approaching conjunction of transiting Saturn with transiting Pluto. Some would say that we are already seeing the influence of that aspect and I don’t necessarily disagree with them. However, the aspect won’t be exact until Jan. 11, 2020.
When I’m trying to figure out how an aspect is going to work, I like to go back and look that what happened previously when the aspect was exact. What follows is a summary of what I learned from this research.
Since 1800 Saturn and Pluto have been in an angular aspect (conjunction, square or opposition) a total of 26 times. The majority of these transits coincided with a major, world-shaking event. However, the influence of these transits are not limited to one country. It is spread across the world. These events are also spread across the world.
I predicted that the New Moon for Nov. 26 would be explosive. (Click here to see the article and the chart). However, it wasn’t really explosions that we saw as much as a drumbeat, as the House continued its march toward the impeachment of Donald Trump. The Judiciary Committee had its hearings and articles of impeachment were drafted. These are momentous events, though the fact that they have been expected for weeks makes them seem less so.
The Uranian surprise we got was a report from the Inspector General of the Dept. of Justice establishing that the FBI’s investigation of the Trump 2016 campaign was valid and justified. The report admitted that there were mistakes made but the Inspector General found no evidence of bias against Donald Trump. This debunks a longstanding claim by Trump and his supporters that his campaign was illegally “spied upon” by the “deep state”.
The strong placement of Mars in the Nov. 26 chart indicated violence and multiple shootings made the news during this period, including a possible terrorist attack in Pensacola, Florida and a planned attack of a Jewish deli in New Jersey. Thankfully, the loss of life was not as horrific as we have seen in past events, though if you or one of your loved ones is the person being shot that is not likely to be comforting.
Though this is supposed to be the time of year when everyone is focused on Christmas, a lot of astrologers are much more concerned with what might happen after Christmas, and I don’t mean a New Year’s Eve party. They are looking at the aspects that are lining up in January, some with gleeful anticipation, some with nervous dread and most with a combination of both.
In January transiting Saturn will align with transiting Pluto. The aspect will be exact on January 11 but it will be within a one degree orb for most of that month. Usually, aspects between slow moving planets like Saturn and Pluto have three hits or more but this aspect will only be exact this one time. This could be seen as lessening the impact of the aspect. It could also be seen as making this contact even more intense.
The history of aspects between Saturn and Pluto is not good. During the first weeks of World War I, Saturn and Pluto were conjunct. During the first few weeks of World War II, Saturn and Pluto were square. On Sept. 11, 2001 Saturn and Pluto were opposed (off by four degrees, but still ominous). There have been other aspects between Saturn and Pluto that did not result in war or a major terrorist attack, but the aspect is generally accompanied by an increase in international tension.
