“To use the world well, to be able
to stop wasting it and our time in it, we need to relearn our being in it.”
Ursula
le Guin, from Late in the Day
We learn that we are neither devils nor divines…
Maya Angelou, from A Brave and Startling Truth
As natural disasters often do, Hurricane
Florence has summoned the highest, most compassionate impulses in the American
people, and I’ve been happily reminded that yes, we can work together for the sake of a greater good. We are a
resilient people, aren’t we? One storm-battered, elderly woman was pictured
wading through waist-deep water to reach a rescue helicopter, using two canes as support!
Our deepest sympathies go to grieving families, of course—Florence has wreaked tragedy, as well. The sheer
enormity of Florence has been a bitter wake-up call for them—as it should be
for all of us.
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Florence has engulfed the entire Eastern Seaboard in its enormity. |
Those who study outer planet
astrology know that the powerhouse planets orbiting beyond Saturn in our local
solar system—Uranus, Neptune, Pluto—wield great
influence along multiple dimensions, both personal and collective. Climate is
one of those dimensions, and in what can seem like eerie ways, storms do mirror the overall political, social,
economic tone of the times, also covered
by these cosmic heavies.
Consider this: we’ve been
experiencing an oppressively stagnant period in politics and society lately—in between
elections, getting nothing of any value done and chomping at the bit to move on. True, the Stock Market keeps bloating--with Jupiter in watery Scorpio, how could it not? And with this same energy, reinforced and amplified by the ultimate water planet, Neptune in Pisces, is it any surprise that Florence is notable for the sheer massive volume of water it is dumping on everyone?
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Florence could dump 18 trillion gallons! |
In the political dimension, White House scandal and chaos seems to be the order of the day, but we’re not
in a position to do anything about it
quite yet--it just keeps raining emotion-laden tweets on us! Astrologically, it’s been a stuffy season of retrogrades and heaviness,
as well: something big is about to break,
it seems, if it would just get to it. Don't look now, but something big has broken, right along with Florence!
Perhaps you, like me, have felt
suspended in some kind of D.C. Limbo, waiting for the Mueller investigation to
bring its final findings.
In other words, the long-anticipated
D.C. storm “clouds” have had plenty of time to gather strength and mass from
the troublingly warm “oceans” of information and suspicion that simply take time (so much time) to process…until at last they make “landfall” and all
hell breaks loose.
That’s basically what we’ve seen over
the past week: as Florence inched slowly onto the North Carolina coast, in D.C.
(landfall
was reported at 7:15 a.m. on September 14th), major events also “landed”
to roil Trump’s White House. First, on September 11th, veteran
journalist Bob Woodward released his much-anticipated exposé of White House
chaos, entitled Fear: Trump in the White House; then,
on the 14th, Trump’s former campaign head Paul Manafort pled guilty
to two counts of conspiracy related to his work as a lobbyist for
Kremlin-linked Ukrainian politicians.
Significantly, this plea
deal requires Manafort to “cooperate fully and truthfully” with the Mueller
investigation. It’s too early to know what, if anything, Manafort can offer the
investigation, but most commentators say that Mueller wouldn’t agree to a plea
deal if there wasn’t something. During
Manafort’s first trial on financial crimes (8 guilty counts there), Trump had
tweet-praised him for not “flipping”
against him…that was then, this is now. As we’ll see, there’s a hurricane-force
“storm” gathering in transits to Trump’s chart, as well.
The
fading line between personal and collective
The multi-dimensional impact of our
outer planetary heavies is key here: taken together, these energies are to our individual minds and souls what cyberspace is to an individual computer: a fertile, energy/data-rich
matrix from which we create, nourish and sustain our lives. We could spend a lot of
time on this point, but I think it will become more clear as we go.
Taken together, these planets are to
our individual biological beings what
the human genome is to our species—the
endlessly creative fabric of existence, uniquely woven into each individual by heritage,
chance or choice (genetic engineering?) and animated by the inexplicable force
of Life itself. We are biologically both electromagnetic (Uranus) and
watery/hormonal (Neptune) creatures, and we are connected by virtue of our genetics
and survival instincts (Pluto) to Humanity (at large and in more local
relationships) and the natural world.
I would argue that when the outer
planets dominate the astrological landscape (as they certainly do now),
individual priorities tend to take a back seat to the sheer survival needs of
our families, communities, and our Species-at-large. Along these lines, climate
change is the perfect, illustrative “storm,” gathering force and trying, with manifestations
like Florence, to get our attention.
Yet, despite all this, we dare to
challenge earth-bound mortality in both uplifting (spirituality) and terrifying
ways (climate change denial and/or inertia), because these outer planetary
forces tease us with transcendent possibilities and magical thinking.
This past week, however, our cosmic
“heavies” seemed far less focused on transcendence and far more intent on slapping
us upside our figurative heads and saying, “pay
attention…you may think you’re
not involved in what’s happening out
there (in D.C., along the North Carolina coast, in juvenile immigrant
detention centers, and so on)…but you
are.”
As sordid as the task may seem, “paying
attention” means trying to understand not only
the better angels of Uranus,
Neptune and Pluto, but their corrupt, lesser angels as well. Consider the dominant
themes in this past week’s news: from Mueller’s Russia probe, seedy criminality
for the sake of power and/or a buck; from immigration news, mean-spirited cruelty by the powerful towards “the
least of these” (Power and money? Racism?); from environmental news, willful EPA
ignorance about the pressing, legitimate needs of humanity and the planet we
depend on. I’m aware that there are alternative perspectives on all these
issues, but however you view them, the outer planets are working overtime and
people are suffering the consequences.
Yes, there are millions of
righteous, compassionate Americans doing the right thing with integrity and
grace—some of them are even in D.C.—however, Mueller’s many indictments
suggests that the D.C. “Swamp” is throbbing with new life since Trump came to
town.
It’s no wonder that the weather reflects
the prevailing hostile and oppressively dragged out tone—outer planetary
energies have their say in the natural world, which is more and more clearly
dependent upon decisions made in the man-made one.
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The EPA is struggling to remain relevant, when we need them more than ever. |
We’ve seen how the weather mirrors
our politics in the way that scientists who have been nearly begging the Trump administration to pay
attention to the fateful path we’re on with the environment and climate change
are treated like mythical Cassandras—doomed
to have their accurate predictions ignored and disbelieved. It’s a classical
power play: if the facts aren’t on your side, shut up those who deal in facts. Neptune’s
(Pisces) long square transit to Saturn (Sagittarius) prior to and
during the 2016 election certainly empowered this trend, and has caused us to
lose very precious time in the fight against climate change.
Like Cassandra, scientists often
refuse to tell the Big Guy (Zeus/Trump?) what he wants to hear, and we’re all
paying the price in one way or another: water and air quality are threatened;
extreme fire seasons ravage the western states more intensely every year;
warming, rising oceans spawn more and more extreme hurricanes, and so much
more. Priorities and economics being what they are, it’s taking longer and
longer to recover from such disasters, too: ask those still recovering from
Harvey and Maria.
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The morning after Maria struck in 2017. |
In fact, Trump’s self-centered
obsession with Maria’s death count kind of says it all: he just doesn’t get what’s at stake here and worse, he
doesn’t seem to want to. If we judge
by his tweets and thin-skinned defensiveness, it seems that to him, disaster-recovery
and humanitarian aid efforts simply represent pots of money that he can plunder
for other purposes. In what logical (and even slightly compassionate) universe
would transferring funding from FEMA
to feed ICE make sense?
I do understand how our collective
approach to these issues can be reduced like a toxic sauce into dollars and
cents, however: every year more of our
tax dollars are siphoned into disaster recovery,
when they could be used to create a
sustainable, clean energy economy for the generations to come. An interesting CNN
feature this past week pointed to how many people have been spared the worst
ravages of Hurricane Florence because scientists have developed much more
accurate predictive technologies. Even a few decades ago, hundreds, perhaps thousands more
people would have died in these storms than they do today.
This happy development does not let
us off the long-term hook, however: our focus still needs to shift to preventing climate disasters rather than
mitigating their damage, and I would argue that this involves making better use
of the prevailing astrological “winds.” Why dance on the edge of disaster every
hurricane season, every fire season, and so on, when insight and preventive
measures are within reach? Environmental regulations, for instance, work for their intended purposes, and we
could be a better, healthier society for the trouble.
Of course, these regulations are
toothless if economic policies and practices don’t support their goals—again, this is where outer planetary energies
weigh in. There’s been an ongoing tug-o-war between Technology (Uranus)
and the natural resource-based industries underpinning our economy (Neptune-Pluto,
i.e., the fossil fuel and nuclear energy industries) for decades, and until these three are brought
more into synch behind the goal of long-term planetary sustainability, the
environment is going to go from bad to worse to unlivable.
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From Science Alert: 16 nuclear reactors are located in the path of Florence! |
For instance: if consumers are
punished with outlandish costs for the environmentally-friendly products they
purchase, and if the public infrastructures necessary for a clean energy
economy simply don’t get built because of politics, we’ll be stuck in climate
change Limbo. At some point, Limbo gives way to cascading destruction (we’re
seeing hints of that with Florence), and we don’t want to go there.
Of course we might wonder why, in a
time characterized by so much
corruption and chaos on multiple fronts, it makes sense to focus on the
environment so intently. Again, think
about the many dimensions of life impacted by Uranus, Neptune and Pluto: natural/biological, socio-political,
economic, technological. In other words, Power
as it is wielded on the “meta” level—not always visible or transparent, but
calling the shots from behind the scenes.
Congress presumably doesn’t hate the American public or wish it
harm, but by infusing its health care policies with corporate ethics, it ends
up privileging corporate profits over people. Does Congress intend to kill people? No, but people
die, nonetheless. Remaining “once removed” from the people they know they will
end up hurting is a bureaucratic art that combines Uranus’s technocratic
detachment, Neptune’s obfuscation and denial, and Pluto’s jaded “survival of
the fittest” perspective.
Molding these energies to a more humanistic agenda is
no small task, but we have to hope it can be done.
Power
and policies
As simplistic as this may seem, perhaps
the “litmus test” for a sound, healthy society is its policies impacting the
environment. This is because Big Money and the government power it purchases
determines where our focus and priorities are as a society. While public
policies—or key decisions such as the one to participate in the Paris Climate
Accord or not—are crafted with Jupiter’s and Saturn’s assistance, their tone
and focus depend upon how the energies of Uranus, Neptune and Pluto are deployed
by those we entrust with power.
Are we following our higher impulses with today’s policies, or falling back on lesser instincts and practices? Unfortunately for our children’s
futures, the latter approach is today’s norm. If a regulation hampers corporate
operations in any way, it’s deemed by the Trump administration to be
destructive and “burdensome.” The precarious balance of power between corporate
priorities and the health and welfare of the American people—which has always
existed—seems fatally undermined under his sway.
Not only are the American people physically endangered by Trump’s
regulatory rollbacks, but our national moral standing as a world leader is
equally compromised. Here’s one stark
illustration: instead of leading the way with the Paris Climate Accord and helping
nations that are experiencing climate-related economic hardships to build
sustainable irrigation and agriculture systems, or perhaps industries that will
work for their displaced populations (to make mass migrations unnecessary), we’re busy slamming shut
our borders and turning our immigration system into a quasi-police state that
runs roughshod over desperate families.
In the process we’re shunning
responsibility for the very real damage our developed, carbon-gushing economy
has done to the atmosphere over the centuries, and we’re routinely violating the international right that people have to seek asylum in
emergency situations. Everywhere we look
there are examples like this, in which mean-spiritedness, greed and irrational
short-sightedness are prevailing over compassionate, common sense solutions. Our
cosmic lesser angels are hard at work, indeed.
Distressing developments like this
don’t happen in an abstract vacuum, of course: individual people whose charts resonate strongly with these outer planetary “angels”
carry their energies in their very natures—in the way they choose to interact
with others and society, and in the ways they wield whatever power and influence
they possess. Such natures tend to be tumultuous and/or extraordinary—and such
individuals often express these energies unconsciously.
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Surfers loved the waves Florence brought in with her. |
As we’ve seen repeatedly over his
presidency, Trump’s nature surfs on the outer planetary “waves,” and not
surprisingly, he’s attracted a cadre of individuals with similar inclinations—many
of whom are now indicted or have been convicted by Mueller’s Russia probe. When
all this is said and done, there will be some very interesting research
projects ripe for exploration!
So even though it’s become an
increasingly dreary chart to contemplate, for the sake of understanding the
ways in which personal and collective planets can interact in human behavior to
such dramatic effect, Trump’s nativity is worth revisiting. In combination with
the transiting cycles now in force, his chart reads like a cautionary tale on
the pitfalls of such personal/collective connections. These connections can be very difficult to
integrate into any personality, and as we’ve seen with his approach to the
presidency, the results can be intensely destructive to others.
Please note that I have no interest
in “psychologizing” Trump here; the point here will be to explore how the outer
planets Uranus, Neptune and Pluto function within his nativity and between
his chart and a significant recent event chart. There are “chords” in his
nature that are being plucked more intensely than usual these days, and there
are astrological reasons for that.
So let’s briefly consider his chart
against the release chart for Fear: Trump
in the White House, by Bob Woodward. I’m
not attempting to “prove” or
“disprove” anything alleged in Woodward’s book here, but I chose this
significant moment in time to represent the many pressures roiling Trump and
his administration these days. An exact time for a national book release is
elusive: at what time on 9/11/2018 were books officially available online, for
instance? What do we do about the phenomenal “pre-orders?”
So, to find a happy medium, I’ve cast the Release chart for dawn, September 11,
2018, in Washington, D.C.
Before we get to the biwheel,
however, let’s take a quick peek at the release chart, shown below on its own,
for the sake of angles and house placements (Chart #1); Biwheel #1 (incorporating
Trump’s nativity) follows on below.
Chart
#1: Woodward Fear release,
September 11, 2018, 6:46 a.m. (dawn, DST), Washington, D.C. Tropical Equal Houses, True Node.
Just a couple quick observations. Note
the interesting angular (or angular house) placements: a rising Virgo
Sun, opposed by Pisces Neptune and a demanding 4th
house Capricorn Saturn square 7th house Aries Chiron. This
book release may end up being tough on its author, Bob Woodward—his Aries
Sun-Eris (warrior reputation, identity) will certainly come under fire
(see his chart here),
even if he reaps many rewards in the process (Capricorn Saturn trines his natal
Taurus Venus).
The Sun-Neptune opposition
described above leaves some information open to speculation, unfortunately; as
meticulous as Woodward’s research is said to be, the undermining “fake news”
legions will still find leverage points to exploit. If they don’t “find” them,
they’ll invent them!
Indeed, Release
Mercury/Sun (midpoint, Virgo) pretty exactly opposes Release
Neptune, which empowers those who would weaken the book’s message and
impact, at the same time it inspires others. From the day it swam into watery
Pisces, Neptune has been the nemesis to anyone hoping to nail down a
firm, truthful narrative.
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Yes, indeed. |
Conventional wisdom says that “truth
is power,” however Trump has clearly turned that old saw on its head. Instead,
he’s built his power base by loudly and persistently undermining even the possibility of knowing the truth. One of
the oddest things about this approach is that, even when he’s correct in
claiming some positive achievement, he exaggerates and ends up lying (usually
about how his achievement is so much
better than any past president’s), as
though the truth itself—even when it’s flattering to him—is the enemy. As we’ll see, this speaks to Neptune
transiting his natal 7th house.
Even with all this, Woodward’s book
will wield influence over time: a dignified Mercury rules this chart
from the 12th, conjoined Justice-minded Pallas and it’s
out-of-orb for opposing Neptune. The facts as this book puts
them forth will come out and be
recognized—not without crossing Neptunian waters, but the chances
are good that they will survive the crossing. Release No. Node (Leo) falls
in the 11th house, with Release Mars conjoined So. Node (Aquarius)
in the 5th.
This No. Node conjoins
Woodward’s natal Pluto (Leo) and trines natal Moon (Sagittarius)—
by dint of his seniority as an investigative journalist, he probably felt
compelled to write this book, as a matter of transformational destiny and as a
statement of deep conviction. The
collective is clearly very personal
here.
In many of the pre-release
interviews we’ve seen with Woodward, he’s returned to one key warning: that the
Trump White House is waging a “war on truth.” In these fiery
Leo-Sagittarius dynamics, we can see why he was so compelled to respond.
Woodward is far from the first to make this claim, but he’s gotten the message
out more dramatically than most.
Let’s turn to the Biwheel below to see how Trump’s
nativity works with all this. We’ll focus primarily on ways in which personal and collective (outer) planetary energies interact and play out.
Biwheel
#1: (inner wheel) Donald J.
Trump, June 14, 1946, 10:54 a.m. DST, Jamaica, NY; (outer wheel) Woodward
“Fear” release, September 11, 2018, 6:46 a.m. (dawn, DST), Washington, D.C.. Tropical Equal Houses, True Node.
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Selling out in bookstores everywhere. |
Trump Uranus (Gemini) rules Trump 7th
house (Aquarius) and conjoins Sun-No. Node (Gemini). Trump’s
much-discussed erratic nature is reflected here—not surprisingly, Release
Sun (Virgo) opposite Release NeptuneRx (Pisces) now t-squares Trump Uranus-Sun along
his 1st-7th house axis. What Woodward calls his “war on
truth” is now turned against Trump (this correlates with Manafort’s plea deal,
too), throwing him into a state of confusion. Who are his “loyalists;” who are
his “enemies?” Can he trust anyone?
On another note, more in line with
the assertions made by former Trump
aide Omarosa Manigault Newman, Neptune square Trump’s Sun-Uranus
could raise questions about his mental fitness. Neptune has also been transiting
trine
Trump Mercury (Cancer)—even a trine (especially between water signs)
can cloud or undermine a person’s mental stability with hyper-emotionality. A lot of the troubling reporting about the
White House these days touches upon the excessively volatile emotional tone
Trump inflicts on everyone. His tendency
to feel victimized from all angles—and absolutely not responsible for any of it—also fits here. A favorite theme of
his tweetstorms!
In fact, Neptune has been hovering
in his 7th for years already, but only recently has it begun to square Trump’s Uranus,
so perhaps it’s also not surprising that the NYTimes recently published an anonymous “Op-Ed”
that launched our political “hurricane season” on September 4th with the
following damning assertion: “I work for the president but like-minded colleagues
and I have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.”
The personal/collective nature of a Sun-Uranus
conjunction is obvious, but its difficulty in a natal chart is perhaps
underrated. This would endow Trump with
a detached, Aquarian mind, but without the self-assured, fixed attributes of
Aquarius. It shouldn’t be surprising that Trump acts “unmoored” from any reality
that clashes with his self interests. His long list of documented lies (many in
tweet form) and his tendency to play off of conspiracy-mongering websites
reflects his deep need to create his own media (Uranus) narrative,
whether it’s “true” or not. As a Gemini, the Media probably feels like the air
he breathes, and information that clashes with his self-image simply doesn’t
compute—or, in Uranus’s electrical terms, it’s “static.”
This Sun-Uranus conjunction also
turns Trump into a veritable self-promoting “broadcast station,” and his full Moon
personality (Moon in Sagittarius) and belligerent Leo Mars rising at his Ascendant ensures
that he will act with passionate force against any and all critics. It’s easy
to see his aggressive, angry nature here, but who needs a chart? Just read his
morning tweets!
One last important point about the
Aquarian, Sun-Uranus twist to Trump’s nature. Sometimes, amidst the
bluster and angry outbursts, we might miss that whenever natural disaster has
struck in the past two years, he has struggled to respond with any empathy
whatsoever. He’d rather quibble over death statistics in Puerto Rico than concern
himself with the welfare of its inhabitants. This deficit in emotional maturity
may work to his benefit in some quarters, but it comes across as cruel and
heartless overall.
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The sign says it all. |
His immigration policies are
likewise blind to human suffering: under the lead of Attorney General Jeff
Sessions and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, detained children
are basically being used as “bait” for undocumented immigrants who might want
to give them homes. The very concept of immigration has been criminalized to an
extent we’ve rarely seen in our history.
So thousands of children sit in
detention and Trump defies the Courts who say it’s long past time to reunite
them with their families. Aquarius is often implicated in heartless,
authoritarian regimes, and Trump is definitely setting that tone at the top. It
doesn’t help any that Uranus also opposes his natal Moon:
the tone of his relationships with both children and women would be implicated here. Are there ways in which his
official coldness towards immigrant children overlaps with his private attitude
toward family?
It will be interesting to see what he does if Donald, Jr.
becomes caught up in the Mueller investigation. The icy chill between him and wife
Melania is pretty obvious—no loving body
language there!
In the meantime, maybe we should be
grateful that Neptune and Pluto (through the sabotage of
aides) are busy undermining the worst of his tendencies—likely the toxic
Aquarian ones we’ve noted here. Aquarian tendencies can be quite positive, in fact, but not the way Trump is exercising
them. Those aides have raised a sobering thought: things could get worse?
Release Saturn/Pluto (midpoint, Capricorn)
opposes Trump Mercury (Cancer); Release Pluto (Capricorn) opposes Trump
Saturn-Venus (Cancer) and Mercury/Venus (midpoint, Cancer). This is a
real “Sh#t hits the Fan” complex of tense oppositions, a point that’s
reinforced by some of them also falling square Release Eris (Aries). Clearly, Trump feels
overwhelmed with attacks from all sides, especially since his go-to defense for
most everything—lying and prevaricating—just isn’t working for him as well
these days, with Saturn pressing in on his Mercury and working with Pluto
(all Release
points) to undermine his financial security and authority (natal Venus-Saturn).
As we’ve seen, Robert Mueller’s investigation has closed in on some key figures in Trump’s orbit, such as Michael Cohen and Paul
Manafort, and it’s anyone’s guess who will be next.
With Release Saturn/Pluto over
Trump’s 5th house of progeny, we may see the focus turn to Trump,
Jr., yet, if not to Ivanka and Jared Kushner. Trump’s Saturn rules his 6th
(Capricorn) and co-rules his 7th (Aquarius): his health could be
impacted by Pluto’s transiting opposition, but this may just as
well pertain to how his administration has been hollowed out by the loss of
several aides.
One commentator noted that as people leave, they aren’t being
replaced because Trump doesn’t know whom to trust. It’s also conceivable that
more than one Cabinet official will be leaving soon. With the November midterms
around the corner, it’s also feasible that Trump’s very job (6th) could be in danger.
The power structure (Saturn/Pluto)
Trump ran for president within—the Republican Party—may also pose a problem for
him, as they are slowly realizing how toxic their allegiance to him has been.
They’re not admitting to this yet, but it’s possible their Trump loyalty will
wane dramatically after they secure a second Supreme Court justice (also
subject to a “storm” this week). Trying to pass another tax cut in the face of
multi-trillion dollar national debt might be a bridge too far, even for the GOP,
so it may be time to scatter and protect their own.
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The U.S. Supreme Court is in the "eye of the storm," too. |
Interchart
Grand Square: Release Saturn (Capricorn)
opposes Trump Mercury (Cancer); this axis squares Trump Neptune (Libra) opposed
Release Chiron-Trump Eris (Aries). Cardinal grand squares are like
pressure-cookers, and this one is no exception, with Trump’s conspiracy mindset
(Mercury-Neptune)
figuring heavily into the mix. The situation feels like a fencing match between
overt and covert forces, and nothing is likely to happen very straightforwardly,
despite the cardinal signs. It feels a lot like the quandary Mueller has been
in, trying to pin Trump down to an actual interview, or even to a list
of written questions.
Interestingly, Trump’s lawyers are the ones opposing a sit-down with Mueller: they don’t
trust Trump to tell the truth and/or keep his cool; it appears he simply can’t
help himself.
In the end, this tension involves
Trump’s mental state (Mercury-Neptune and Leo
Mars,
disposed by his Gemini Sun), and it’s worth
remembering that his Cancer Mercury disposes his Gemini
stellium, discussed above, so Release Saturn’s opposition to this
point radiates through much of his chart, squaring his Neptune and staring down
his tendency to lie with the legal threat of perjury. Interestingly, this Saturn
also trines Trump’s Progressed Sun (2°+Virgo, not shown), so
it may not be that easy to hold him accountable for actual crimes at this time.
The Cosmos keeps on turning, however,
and his shield of plausible deniability may not last forever. Will he take any responsibility in the end? We’ll
have to stay tuned. Neptune is moving into a tighter square with his
Gemini-Sagittarius axis; Saturn and Pluto will continue to
press more closely upon his Cancer points, inconjoining his powerful Leo
Mars after their January, 2020 conjunction at 22°+Capricorn. He has an uncanny way of
deflecting attacks and leaving others to pay for supporting him (just ask
Michael Cohen), however Saturn and Pluto together rarely
miss their mark. Time will tell!
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The collective is achingly personal when disaster strikes. |
Final
thoughts
Maybe we can sum up all of the above
with one hurricane-sized brush stroke: The ways in which outer planets Uranus,
Neptune and Pluto manifest on both personal and collective levels are in full
view this week, and it isn’t pretty. From the loss of property to the loss of
lives, all things personal revert ultimately
to the collective level of the natural world and how we (in our societies and as
individuals) respond to and work with these natural forces. Do we err on the
side of prevention, or push our luck beyond its natural bounds?
The same goes for the political “storms”
pressing in on us right now—and, as we’re seeing so painfully, there are
personal and collective dimensions to everything that happens politically, as
well. One issue remains worth noting in this regard: Trump has a tendency to
conflate his personal security with
our national security, and this
tendency rips a page right out of the Autocrat’s manual.
An “auto”-crat is intent on serving
his/her self interests by oppressing
everyone else to his/her purposes—government by the Leader, for the Leader, full stop. It’s really not hard to
see how this delusional “L’etât c’ést Moi” (“I Am the State”) approach would
serve such a leader—when Trump complains that someone criticizing him is
committing treason, he’s playing the
autocrat and challenging us to figure out what’s wrong with this picture.
Unless
our Constitution has been put through the shredder, the president works for us, not the other way around! He can’t
be expected to please every one of us
(the majority does still rule in a democracy), but our job is not to enable his compulsions, or to make him look
good in the world news, no matter what he
tweets!
Richard Nixon dallied with this
delusion 40-some years ago, as well, but the GOP in his day weren’t buying it.
Raye
Robertson is a practicing astrologer, writer and former educator. A graduate of
the Faculty of Astrological Studies (U.K.), Raye focuses on mundane,
collective-oriented astrology, with a particular interest in current affairs,
culture and media, the astrology of generations, and public concerns such as
education and health. Several of her articles on these topics have been
featured in The Mountain Astrologer and other publications over the years.
She is
also available to read individual charts—contact her at: robertsonraye@gmail.com.
© Raye Robertson 2018. All
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