ICE deaths – Trump bad answer to right questions ++ Alex Pretti revised DOB

50 thoughts on “ICE deaths – Trump bad answer to right questions ++ Alex Pretti revised DOB”

1. Thanks Marjorie. Words fail, hearts sink.

   I noticed that the ICE Saturn 22 Gemini, opposing Pluto 19 Sagittarius, and Mars 27 Sagittarius, connects with Donald Trump’s natal Sun 22 Gemini, opposing Moon 21 Sagittarius – while the ICE Mars trines his natal Leo Mars and Ascendant. That seems like quite a layered connection, with aggressive fiery energy yet what about the Saturn conjunct DJT’s natal Sun? Authority, yes, but also limitations? And Pluto aligning with his natal Moon seems brooding, fateful and intense.

   22 Gemini is the home of fixed star El Nath, the tip of the Bull’s Horn in Taurus. It is associated with success by various sources, and also weapons which, according to Brady, can manifest as sharp words, as well as literal weapons. At 22 Sagittarius there’s Ras Alhague, alpha star of Ophiuchus, the Snake Charmer. This star represents an eternal struggle, and is associated with Saturn, and also toxins, drugs, and poisons. The struggle between man and serpent is eternal, waged with equal strength. Neither can “win”.

   Another connection between ICE, Trump, and the The FIFA World Cup opening game appears. It is in Mexico on the 11th June, with a 20 Gemini Sun, and the New Moon at 24 Gemini on the 15th. First game in the US is on Friday 12th June in Los Angeles. USA vs Paraguay.

   And regarding the Winter Olympics in Italy and the apparent presence of ICE (yes, I know!) – it’s interesting to see that Italy, 10th June 1946 was ‘born’ only four days before DJT. It’s Sun is 19 Gemini, conjunct Uranus 17, and Nodes 20 Gemini. The MC is 28 Leo – linking with DJT’s Ascendant and Mars (Notice Me writ large there).

   Late Leo – Trump’s Asc, Mars – will be energised by the upcoming Solar Eclipse at 29 Aquarius, square Uranus in Taurus. Also in line for the Eclipse are the ICE Uranus, 29 Aquarius. And the 29 Aquarius Sun for Italian Unification, 18 February, 1861.

   • What do you think these positions/aspects mean, Jane?

     We, the vast majority of Americans who oppose Trump — he’s now hemorrhaging support, with polls showing him now at 39.1 percent, possibly a tipping point, with little support for his Greenland and Venezuela land grabs and declining support for his violent immigration crackdown and other policies– are simply exhausted from the viciousness, cruelty and chaos. We’re looking for some signs that this might end sooner rather than later. But we’re ready to take to the streets and fight back, seeing the Minneapolis resistance as a heroic model.

     • Hi Nicole – sending much empathy! I try (very hard) to see disruptive Trump as part of a bigger picture, in which old certainties unravel to make way for something new. In that scenario, we might have to time travel into the future to see how this current unreal chaos serves a larger, better purpose. I notice how Trump attacks our familiar global ‘landmarks’ such as the UN, NATO, and the WHO which were all – like the EU – born in response to the horrors of the Second World War. I agree it is all alarming. I tend to think Mark Carney is right about things being “ruptured”, and that the old world order is not coming back. We can strive to create something new, as they did after 1945, but that will take time, effort, and great care obviously.

       With the astro I posted about I suspect more chaos around those major sporting events. Perhaps they will act as lenses to focus on what’s happening not only in the USA, but our world in general? Trump appears to be symbolically linked to ICE, and both the Winter Olympics and FIFA World Cup events. And the Solar Eclipse in February is probably having an effect now, beforehand, and will be triggered at various times later in the year including July when the Moon’s Nodes enter Aquarius, close to the US 4th July Moon – the public. A new direction emerges? Since the US Moon is in Aquarius, the phrase “we, the people” suggests – being optimistic – the positive face of Aquarian energy – all of us, rather than just individuals.

2. Any astrological connection between the January 6th insurrection and the Siege of Minneapolis?

3. @Candy, with respect, while I understand your anger and frustration, your indiscriminate blame of all Americans is both unfair and uninformed. You really don’t know what you’re talking about, and taking pot shots from across the Atlantic doesn’t put you in a good position to judge.

   I’ll just address a couple of your assertions.

   = I note Americans further down the thread trying to do the whole Dems v Republicans stuff. It’s all their fault! Like the rest of the world cares.

   From the point of view of this side of the Atlantic, you are equally to blame. I’m sure the Canadians agree. We’re fed-up of all of you.=

   Well, what you characterize as “the point of view from this side of Atlantic” is objectively incorrect, and the Canadians’ agreement, or not, makes no difference as to its truth.

   Americans live in a two-party political system that affects literally every aspect of our lives, and “the whole Dems v Republicans stuff” is at the crux of that, and is the reason we’re in this situation. It is emphatically NOT “all our fault.” We live in a country that has been systematically gamed by elites, over the course of many years, to functionally disenfranchise the majority of adults who want to live in a modern western democracy.

   Until very, very recently, changing this system on a national level was next to impossible for anyone who wasn’t both politically powerful and wealthy beyond the dreams of Croesus. A mass movement that incorporates “the whole Dem v Republicans stuff” is literally the only hope we have of changing the federal system. That has only very recently become possible, for the first time since perhaps the 1960s and ‘70s.

   =Only in the US is tribal loyalty to the party stronger than loyalty to the country.=

   Seriously? Do they teach history in your schools? Have you heard of the Congo? South Africa? The Middle East? The Balkans? The world wars, all of which were started on your side of the Atlantic? Russia vs. Ukraine?

   Closer to you—how do you explain Brexit, or the rise of right-wing populism in both the UK and the European mainland? Is everyone in the UK—from the Westminster elites, to those working in the City, to young London urbanites, to immigrants, to the Little Englanders in the countryside, just confining ourselves to England alone—living in harmonious bliss, drawn together by a common love of Crown and country? Give me a break. Look around you: tribalism is the human condition. We’re not unique in this.

   =People criticise the Tories in the UK – but they put Liz Truss to the sword after just 49 days.=

   You have a parliamentary system which allows for that sort of rapid response. We don’t—not because we’re all a bunch of idiots, but because the system was deliberately created that way. The Founders saw what they considered to be the dangerous concentration of power inherent in the British system, and designed a scheme that forced compromise, preserved the rights of minority actors, and slowed down change. Don’t blame us–we didn’t create it. It’s annoying as hell, but until recently, it worked fairly well. (And don’t ask why we can’t reconfigure the current system on a dime; just the process of amending the Constitution is glacial. Nobody has that kind of time.)

   And as for Liz Truss herself–there were only 250 MPs voting, and it =still= took five ballots before they landed on her as their leader. Fueled by her unique brand of manic narcissism, she made an idiot of herself and nearly destroyed your economy (Kwasi Kwarteng, remember?), in less than two months–and it still took the Tories nearly that long to ditch her, even though they had the tools to do so from Day One.

   =The Canadian Liberals removed Trudeau to save their country. =

   No, they ousted him to improve their chances of winning the April election, since he had become so unpopular. Even so, they only barely pulled the fat out of the fire at the last minute thanks to an anti-Trump backlash–until the last weeks before the election, it looked like the trumpian populist Pierre Poilievre was going to win. And even with an assist from anti-Trump sentiment, the Liberals =still= weren’t able to form a majority government.

   (I also note, from today’s news, that after all of Canada’s recent troubles with the U.S., Canadian separatists are alleged to have met with Trump officials recently. So much for Canadian “unity.”)

   Your angry comparisons, while understandable (I suppose), are off the mark for another reason. Our country is huge, with a huge population (and I’m not just talking about our waistlines). Ca. 340 million people live in the United States–nearly twice the population of Western Europe and a full 75 percent of that of the entire EU. We are divided into 50 semi-autonomous states spread across 3.8 million square miles (not counting 5 inhabited territories and the District of Columbia).

   Setting aside the fact that a unified national response to =anything= is not really the norm in either Canada or the UK, either, comparing the U.S. to either country is like comparing apples to doorknobs. The population of Canada is roughly equivalent to that of California, and is, if anything, less diverse; Canada’s economy is certainly smaller. (Only the U.S., China, Germany, and Japan have GDPs that exceed California’s.)

   The entire population of the UK is roughly the same as that of only five blue states combined–California (home to L.A.), Oregon (Portland), Illinois (Chicago), Minnesota (Minneapolis), and Massachusetts (Boston).

   Plus, you in the UK inhabit a space that is roughly the size of Oregon. We are spread out across ca. 3.8 million square miles. And while Canada has roughly the same amount of land as the U.S. does, about 90 percent of its much smaller population of 39 million is concentrated within 100 miles of the U.S.-Canada border. Based on math alone, it’s much easier to get you all pulling together in the same direction.

   And yet, aside from the recent unified response to Trump’s sabre-rattling, when was the last time all Canadians agreed about anything? How about all the EU member states? The whole UK?

   Just taking the UK as an example, where, exactly, is your unified commitment to right action and social justice, an area in which you feel us–every single one of us, apparently–to be so lacking? Sad to say, there are more than a few areas in which the UK falls short, but I’ll only mention one: the mystifying apathy of the British government and population with regard to the grooming gangs outrage (e.g., Rotherham), which went on for decades and has been widely known since the mid-2010s. You’ve had at least one government inquiry and a “national audit” as recently as last year, but so far, only a few dozen of the perpetrators have even been prosecuted, little has apparently been done to punish the local officials who permitted and even facilitated this horror, and much less has been accomplished for the girls who survived. Where is your outrage? Why aren’t you all marching in the streets to bring justice to the victims?

   No, from what I can tell, you’re mostly disliking the Starmer government, being outraged by the Trump administration (understandably), and griping about the high cost of living—also understandably, since your economy has never recovered from the self-inflicted wound of Brexit. That’s when you’re not watching the royal family.

   Or at least, that’s how it appears from this side of the Atlantic. Is it possible I may be oversimplifying?

   So, please back off. We’re in the fight of our lives over here, not only for ourselves, but also to protect the rest of the world, as much as possible, from what we have become.

   The only way out for us is through–using a combination of mass protest and political action. Rectifying that is literally the ONLY thing that might possibly allow us to yank ourselves back from a complete descent into fascism, and from becoming an even greater threat to the rest of the world than we already are. I would think you’d be glad some of us are trying.

   Please do whatever you can to rein in the United States, whether it’s boycotting U.S. products, shunning tourism here, lodging protests, or whatever. But please spare us your ill-conceived criticisms and incoherent attacks. I guarantee that if we don’t win “the whole Dems v Republicans stuff,” you’ll become even more fed up than already are.

   • All countries have their idiosyncrasies. Two things spring to mind vis a vis the USA.
     Firstly the obsession with elections. No sooner is the presidential over than the next mid-terms become a fixation. Maybe it is to do with the system but it does get a touch tedious.
     Secondly is a hyper-sensitivity to criticism – maybe a Cancerian thing. No one likes being criticized but always blanking it out or indulging in whataboutery as a distraction does not lead to self-knowledge or productive change. The US is hardly alone – I gave up on the ScotNats who went into fanatical hate mode if anything other than adulation came their way. But politics is not a football match with devoted fan club support.
     One problem amongst many others at the moment is, to use Solai’s description – Trump soaks up all the oxygen in the news room and that in itself is seriously tedious. Blaming all Americans for his existence is obviously unfair though I did used to gibber irritatedly about the idiots this side of the Atlantic who voted in Boris Johnson whose track record was a paler version of Trump.
     Everyone is over stretched at the moment and wading through thick fog in terms of what comes next. And Trump’s modus operandi and psychological dysfunction (almost a kind of hysteria) of stirring up chaos in all directions to grab attention and cover over failures does nothing to calm anyone’s nerves.
     Politics in the UK is a driverless train crash at the moment so it hardly does to criticize the Democrats or even the decent Republicans for not stepping up to defend their democracy. But it is still true that there is a calamitous lack of real leadership ability – which extends to Biden in 2024 and Harris, neither anyways as damaging as Trump but hardly inspiring.
     Trump will go at some point as George W Bush eventually did – who raised my blood pressure to def con levels over Iraq – and after him we got Obama, who was not perfect but such a relief of calm.
     We can only hope the stars get their act together soon.

     • @Marjorie and other knowledgeable astrologers, one thing we’ve all commented on is the lack of competent leadership in the US, UK and some other countries — though I think Canada was fortunate to find the right leader at the right time.

       During past major crises “the right leaders” arose in the US and UK to provide often inspirational and effective leadership; I’m thinking, e.g., Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill during WWII and Abraham Lincoln during the US Civil War.

       Yet I’m not seeing that type of leadership emerging, except perhaps in Canada with Carney.

       Are there any astrological markers indicating the rise or presence of strong leadership for a country, or, alternatively, the absence of good leadership or, as in the case of Trump, destructive leadership?

       Thanks for your insight.

   • @AI22, great analysis of the situation. I generally agree, and am looking forward to participating in the next protests. My husband and I find ourselves constantly asking what we can do personally to change/improve the situation, as are our friends and colleagues at the two Democratic Clubs we belong to in San Diego, which sits on the Mexican border (I’m actually posting now from Tijuana, where we go regularly).

4. It is sad to see that so many still believe that this is about immigration.
   “First they came for” ?
   I hope you all know the rest of the poem. Obviously the FT has an agenda similar to Farage and loves fat farcright donations.You will find sooner than the Americans did that immigration status will not save you from authoritarianism and the UK goose stepping into far right rule will not save its economy nor social fabric. Apologies for the absence of astrology.

5. Thank you for the helpful FT reference to shed light on why we need Donald Trump. Your ongoing coverage of astrological aspects affecting Trump and his entourage is also helpful and appreciated. If not for you, would be hard to make sense of it all.

6. Regarding the US boarder policy, I suggest watching “One Battle After Another”. Not only is Sean Penn’s character Colonel Lockjaw very “Bovinesque”, but the racist secret society Christmas Adventurers Lockjaw seeks to enter very much describes the attitudes towards undocumented immigrants many Americans have. In one scene, Christmas Adventurers leadership tells Lockjaw should halt his raids in a “sanctuary city”, because a member has a factory employing immigrants he seeks to deport. This an obvious reference to a very real issue in the US: The economy depends on cheap workforce without any real protection, therefore neither party has been willing to genuinely fix the issue. Neptune in Aries will break this status quo, the 19th passage saw the rise of worker’s movement, and we are very likely going to have a version of this also in the 21st century.

   • Yes and the feds never target the employers —the white collar businesses/owners. Those people could be fined/face penalties, but no—never happens.

7. On Facebook last night was a truly inspiring post from the native Atzecs dancing for Alex. He must be a huge catalyst for America in some way astrologically. Also the video of Alex making his last journey from the hospital where he worked. They say the good die young.

8. Alex Pretti had Mars square Saturn within 1 degree. Activated by the Saturn-Neptune conj in late Pisces. Mars-Saturn strikes again.

   I note Americans further down the thread trying to do the whole Dems v Republicans stuff. It’s all their fault! Like the rest of the world cares.

   From the point of view of this side of the Atlantic, you are equally to blame. I’m sure the Canadians agree. We’re fed-up of all of you.

   Why did you allow that selfish old man Biden to continue to try for re-election? He should have announced in Dec 2023 that he wasn’t running again – that would have allowed a proper primary for his succesor.

   Instead the Dems lied about his fitness for office, covered up about him not having a cabinet meeting in over a year (!), and waited till his dementia got exposed in a debate. Poor Kamala picking up the pieces – she didn’t stand a chance as she had only four months campaigning before the election. Especially as she was squeamish about criticising Biden.

   Why did the Dems do this? Why did they put Biden’s ego above their nation? No point whining now when they clearly didn’t care when it mattered.

   People criticise the Tories in the UK – but they put Liz Truss to the sword after just 49 days. Even though there were seductive arguments for pretending nothing was wrong Biden-style…

   • In my personal opinion, I think the current USA issues stem from the long-term degradation of our education system starting with No Child Left Behind, which mainly focused on teaching children how to take bubble tests. Consequently many children lost their curiosity and did not develop critical thinking skills. Then in combination with the Internet and its unreliable information, we now have an electorate that can be quite gullible.

     Not saying that illegal immigrants is not an issue for the USA; however in light of all the fear mongering very little is discussed about the huge economic impact a mass deportation of undocumented workers (in agriculture, construction, hospitality, etc…) will have on the US’s GDP and tax revenues. And as a side note, there have been studies showing that undocumented workers have a much lower rate of committing violent crimes than the American population.

     Sorry not to have any astrology in my post….

     • From outside, it looks like the issue is that Americans identify more with their political tribe than with their nation.

       The Canadian Liberals removed Trudeau to save their country. Boris got dumped by the Tories over a 10 minute birthday party featuring a pathetic Victoria Sponge Cake. Australian Labour and Australian Liberals regularly defenestrate non-performing leaders.

       Only in the US is tribal loyalty to the party stronger than loyalty to the country. The Dems could have forced Biden to step down in Dec 2023. The Republicans could force Trump out now. But they won’t. Party uber alles.

       • Yes, what you’re saying is a serious problem, but in my opinion the root of the issue goes much deeper. Why do we have these destructive partisan politics that are only causing the USA to implode?

         • Yes, great comments as to destructive politics and political tribes, but missing the key part, which is structural.The difference between the UK, AU & CA and the USA is that USA does not have a parliamentary government. The USA has no official leader of the opposition. In the USA the LEADER of the party in power (president) cannot be deposed by a party vote or a mutiny easily. While the government is sitting in the USA (4 years), only extraordinary measures could take down the president and that has only happened once in almost 250 years, when Nixon resigned voluntarily.

           In the other 3, the leader can fall any time, a new leader can come up and leave the party structure intact. Meanwhile the leader of the opposition is in a position to challenge the ruling leader (which, say, Newsom is in no position to do in the USA). The popular vote inevitably ties in to the picture in all democratic systems, but unlike the USA, the specific party leadership in power in the parliamentary systems can change much more easily than in the USA. Both have advantages and disadvantages, but the USA is built to preserve the presidency above all and not designed to ever replace him in any given 4 year term without virtual revolution to take him (or her?) down.

       • you are immensely ill informed or are here to start trouble
         Marjorie please remove this person they have nothing useful to add here

         • with reply to candy
           not you sweet grapes who i admire

     • About the education system — for decades Republicans have dumbed down the public education system, especially in the South and red states, forcing public schools to post the Ten Commandments and teach creationism and other fundamentalist Christian precepts while diverting tax dollars to fund private, charter and Christian schools. The ever more right-wing conservative Catholic-dominated Supreme Court has enabled the destruction of the public school system. The net result is an increasingly ignorant, compliant population supporting extreme candidates like Trump.

       I totally agree the political and party system in the US is broken — but only one party, the Republican Party taken over by Trump, has done its best to destroy democracy and install a tinpot dictator and authoritarianism. Don’t blame Biden and the Democrats for that. I agree he shouldn’t have run for a second term and there should be a mechanism to prevent the too-old and infirm from running for office.

       Unfortunately the Founders of the US did not create a flexible federal government system that can respond to crises and simply remove bad or incompetent actors quickly, as in the parliamentary system. At the state and local levels in many cases there’s a recall process to enable voters to remove unfit elected officials. That doesn’t exist at the federal level.

       The US Constitution needs an overhaul, but, heretofore, most efforts to hold a constitutional convention have come from the extreme right, seeking to impose their ideology and Christian fundamentalism on the entire population.

       Apologies for the lack of astrology.

       • thank you
         even without astrology this very accurate

       • “Don’t blame Biden and the Democrats for that.”

         It’s the ultimate arrogance to put forward a candidate with dementia, and then when voters object, to blame their “lack of education”.

         Here is George Orwell writing in his novel ‘1984’: “The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. His heart sank as he thought of the enormous power arrayed against him, the ease with which any Party intellectual would overthrow him in debate, the subtle arguments which he would not be able to understand, much less answer. And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right.”

         You haven’t yet realised that the whole of the USA has descended into an Orwellian dystopia because you are still defending parts of it. There is no helping you till you get it.

         • we know candy
           please stop with the opinions

         • Actually, Candy, we do know it and, living amidst the devastating chaos, we are doing our best to remedy the situation, but change is slow in our governmental system. We toonare extremely frustrated and angry.

           It actually was the party leadership and grassroots Democrats who forced Biden to withdraw from his reelection campaign, though admittedly too late. In the US political structure it’s tough to resist the power of incumbency without a major revolt, which almost guarantees a lost election. (See Teddy Kennedy’s challenge to Jimmy Carter, splitting the party and ensuring Carter’s 1980 loss to the destructive “Saint Ronnie” Reagan.)

           But I don’t think you really want a dose of political reality or an explanation of how things work in practice from someone who has worked in the political trenches for decades.

           The question I have for you, Candy, is what are YOU doing to improve matters for your own country and community?

   • I can understand the anger at complacency and weakness of response among more progressive leaders.
     However- it’s the extreme right wingers across the world who are committing all the murders, lies, racism and injustices, and who are abusing power, and it’s certain sectors of the media who are enabling that. Wouldn’t it be more realistic to direct our anger and activism towards them?

     • Progressive? Really? Are there any?

   • stop already Candy
     seriously
     I’m done Marjorie
     the blaming game and all
     look it’s hard enough to find the truth thru all the lies the government is telling
     thats why we loo for the astrology in all this noise
     and we in the USA are living unpresented times
     PLEASE do not make it worse
     Not that anyone will miss me here
     This should be a place to discuss not blame

9. @Roderick–too true, except that Rs have been preventing rational immigration laws for much longer than that; Bush II tried and was vilified by his own party.

   @Sebastiene–thank you. This “open borders” canard has been used as a pretext by DJT and his R enablers to create the current ICE disaster, and has resulted in quite a few lives lost and many more disrupted or outright destroyed. It’s ridiculous.

   Re taking a firearm to a protest: I’m not sure anyone thinks it’s a particularly good idea, but the administration’s criticism of Alex Pretti’s possession of a gun while exercising his First Amendment rights on Saturday has absolutely zero to do with any rational gun philosophy.In fact, quite the opposite is true–Trump & Co. are total gun-lovers when *their* people are the ones who are armed, and they’re generally opposed to gun-control laws; the only reason they rolled out this excuse was because they were trying to paint Alex Pretti as a “terrorist” and to justify Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller’s lies that he “brandished” a gun on law-enforcement, in a desperate attempt to cover for the murderous ICE goons.

   Yes, I know that large swathes of the rest of the world believe that in a “civilized” country, ordinary citizens wouldn’t have guns, yada yada yada. Whatever. The fact is, though, that in all but five (blue) states, it is perfectly legal for a registered gun owner with a concealed-carry permit to carry a gun at a protest, and Alex Pretti was perfectly following local and state laws in this regard.

   That’s why even the NRA, usually a staunch Republican ally, came out against the administration’s line. It’s just another sign of the trumpies’ ineptitude that Kash Patel, functionally the highest-ranking police official in the country, falsely asserted that Alex Pretti had no “right” to be armed at Saturday’s protest. Just rank incompetence, as well as perfidy.

   • Thanks for all the updates and context. Can someone enlighten me about ‘sanctuary cities’ and how they fit into all of this?

     • “Sanctuary cities,” including my own city of San Diego, California, have laws protecting the undocumented, including prohibitions against local law enforcement from cooperating with federal immigration agencies/law enforcement to arrest and remove unauthorized immigrants who have not committed crimes. Cities/states with sanctuary laws will generally turn over to the feds for deportation undocumented immigrants who have legitimately been convicted of crimes.

       This, IMHO, is another canard and excuse for Trump to hit back at blue cities and states and deprive us of tax dollars we are legitimately owed as congressionally-authorized payments or grants (such as for law enforcement or social services). The irony is that they’re holding back our own tax dollars from us, since blue states subsidize red states by contributing far more in revenue than we ever receive back. Most blue states are net donors, most red states net recipients of taxes. The reality is that most red states would not survive financially without the support of blue states’ funding.

       Happy to respond to any more questions!

       My sense is that we’re reaching a tipping point with the violence perpetrated by ICE/Border Patrol and the two murders. Things won’t improve under Homan, who’s another hard-line anti-immigration thug just with better communication skills and more management experience.

       Even previously apolitical sites, such as a subreddit devoted to videos of people playing their (cooperative) cats as bongo drums, have spoke out and banned any supporters of Trump and ICE violence.

       Is there any astrology supporting a coming shift or opposition to Trump and his policies?

       • Also, I agree with AI22, Roderick, Jaidy and others’ assessment of the situation. The violence is definitely waking people up. My politically active friends, my husband and I recognize that it easily could have been any of us in Renee or Alex’s place, no matter our commitment to non-violence. Those of us who are older have been through this before in the Civil Rights and Vietnam War protests. We understand what’s on the line. We can beat them again as we did before, but there will be more blood on the streets.

       • Nicole,

         I suggest you read
         Sinclair Lewis’ 1936
         novel, “It Can’t
         Happen Here”.

         It is terrifyingly
         prophetic, in its’
         insight into an
         America under a
         dictatorship led by
         President Buzz
         Windrip, the prototype
         for Trump.

         • Thank you! I will look for it. There’s always been a strong dark strain in the US. I personally saw it in the Klan activity in Virginia in the ’60s, my mother saw it in NYC in her college years, with firings of alleged communists, plus the McCartney scares I also experienced as a child.

           I always knew it CAN happen here; I’ve seen too much.

           My late mother knew Sinclair Lewis in the ’30s, when he frequented the Miami Beach hotel where she worked.

         • Nicola,

           Sinclair was born
           under the sign
           of Aquarius, who
           are noted for
           their gifts of
           prophecy.

           In the book,
           he foresaw the
           rise of Hitler and
           the anti Communist purges
           in 1950s America.

           Your mother sounds like a
           remarkable woman.

       • Not sure but saturn entering aries for next 3years with Neptune and forming trine with Pluto in Aquarius should show effects ,probably after taking from Mars (now conjunct with Pluto) lord of Aries- for some time; who real boss is ..
         It’s pre eclipse stage as solar in Aquarius next month so again on freedom,humanity etc vs Sun- authorities. and lunar in pisces so on emotions uncontrolled ..

         Well, 2026 theme: eclipses in Aquarius n Leo so authorities vs people is to stay

     • We have sanctuary cities in the UK too, over a hundred, but without the legal paraphernalia and complexity of the US ones.
       In the UK it’s more grassroots with local councils welcoming and housing legal migrants and asylum seekers – at present, at least according to Google

10. Re the FT article: Democrats never advocated “totally open borders”–that’s a giant porkie persistently peddled by Republicans to create (successfully, unfortunately) a years-long wedge political issue with the U.S. electorate. In fact, a new law on border control that was painstakingly negotiated with bipartisan support, toward the end of the Biden administration, was scuttled at the last minute at Trump’s behest (with the help of his lackeys in Congress) because he wanted to run on it during the election.

    The “open borders” nonsense is, and always has been, just that–nonsense; and immigration reform has been a perennial political football, with Republicans too duplicitous, and Democrats heretofore too apathetic, to resolve the issue. The last Republican leader to make a genuine effort in this regard was George W. Bush, and he had to drop it because his own party went into revolt–he would have taken away a means to score political points, you see. Just disgusting cravenness and willingness to play with people’s lives, all around.

    The current, trumpian ICE regime has nothing to do with any genuine belief that immigrants are a threat; it’s simply a means to whip up support from the rabble of bigoted, mouth-breathing, pig-ignorant fools who make up their “base” and want a scapegoat for their own failures, while simultaneously fulfilling the white supremacist/neo-nazi fantasies of such key figures as Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon.

    Trump himself, though a racist, doesn’t believe a bit of it; although, as with everything else, he’s perfectly willing to use the issue as a means of self-promotion, and to distract from whatever horrors are lurking in the Epstein files.

    Anyway, I wish media outlets would cease uncritically repeating maga talking points, such as “totally open borders,” which have little basis in fact. Doing so just adds to the confusion and perpetuates the Big Lie, to the ultimate benefit of white supremacists and their cynical allies. The FT’s not wrong in suggesting that Trump’s ongoing desecration of relationships and institutions is inspiring a new, stronger approach among world leaders that is probably a good thing in the long run; but the advice to Democrats regarding “open borders” is based on a profound misreading of the situation.

    It would be interesting to see the astrology of the World Cup in general, and as it relates to the co-hosts in particular. Much as it pains me to say it, I really hope the rest of the world *does* boycott the events held in the U.S.–not because of the fear-mongering about foreign visitors being in danger (overblown, I’m sure), but because the U.S. needs to be punished in every available way for harboring the Trump administration, especially the red states where some events are being hosted (in the cities of Dallas, Houston, Miami, KC, and Atlanta).

    Alternatively, perhaps foreign tourists could shun the events in red states and only attend the ones in blue states (although who could blame them if they stayed away entirely).

    If I were coming from outside the U.S., I would cancel my tickets (if possible) and only go to events in Canada, as a protest. I hate to see our economy tank even further, but if it helps hasten the end of the current regime while preventing the Trump family and their cronies from profiting from the WC, then so be it.

    • Nailed it. Dems have tried earnestly to pass bipartisan bills for dreams and border- due diligence and correction is called for when reporting. At the last minute it has always been pulled to score political points. I live in St Paul, I would ask anyone anywhere to vote with their dollar, and crush this admin as quickly as possible. I do not want to see Noem or Miller scapegoated for now and brought back later or as if that was the real problem. ICE needs dismantling- its made up of untrained Jan 6th rioter types and they are filmed clapping after Alex was pistol whipped and shot. The depravity is deep and Noem and Miller are just the heads of it. Further, DHS has started a databank of anyone showing up to film- they are taking license plate photos and portrait pics for the data bank labeling them domestic terrorists- Alex P was on the database – ICE broke his rib the week before. So whatever resistance that can be taken, must be taken. Finally, I have seen online some effort to fracture the resistance along the lines of: where was this fight when George Floyd was murdered etc. This country has been depraved for a long time in relation to our guns, treatment of Indigenous Peoples and of course slavery- nothing was done with Sandy Hook, justice for Jan 6th justice was overturned as well- but we need to decide whether we fracture into identity politics or whether we fight together for our country and democratic values. I am incredibly proud of the non violent resistance in MN – it is the only path forward, and the Trump admin hasnt won in trying to convince the American people not to believe their eyes. Mandela, MLK jr and Ghandi showed us it works, we must hold course.

    • What is F.T.?

      • The Financial Times

    • 100%, one of the most craven acts was Republicans blocking Biden’s request for border patrol and control money so they could run on the problems it created.

      Biden and Obama both prioritized deporting violent criminals while upholding American values of offering refuge to those who truly needed it and lawful immigration. These processes cost a lot of money for lawyers and evaluators and repatriation.

      Shooting American citizens has nothing to do with immigration; immigration control has no business shooting American citizens at a protest as their authority is over undocumented immigrants.

      This administration lies so much and has so many people gaslighting the world or trying to that they put out AI videos showing a false Alex attacking law enforcement. In reality, he was holding a phone and helping a woman they had assaulted when they shot him after they took his gun from its holster.

      I’m no fan of guns, but conservatives have been bringing machine guns to public events and protests for decades claiming they have the right to do so. It’s just now that someone they don’t like carried a gun he had a legal permit for that they used it as a pretext for violence.

      These are scary times. He was shot and killed while he was completely peaceful and only trying to help a woman.

      Greg Bovino will go, but so long as Stephen Miller and Donald Trump are in the WH, these sick policies will continue.

11. Republicans have been thawting immigration reform since 2013 when Rubio rejected a Democratic plan.
    In 2024 Republicans refused to vote on a bipartisan immigration bill cowritten by one of the most conservative Republicans because Trump told them not to vote for it, because he wanted to use immigration as an issue in his presidential campaign so don’t blame Democrats because they have attempted solutions over the years.

12. F.T. would do well to not parrot far-right unfounded talking points. In the U.S., we have never had open borders. And with all of that Cancer energy in our nation’s chart, open borders aren’t likely to ever happen. What we have is huge, long borders and 340 million people. And even that didn’t stop Biden and Obama from deporting large numbers of criminal illegal aliens. Biden’s final year saw record deportation numbers. Trump is actually underperforming Biden’s rates despite the spectacle and cruelty, and is detaining more people who don’t have criminal records. There are numbers to back this up.

    Transiting Mars conjunct Pluto has been brutal this time. With Mars now at 4° Aquarius closing in on our natal South Node in the 3rd House, the violence is literally in our streets and neighborhoods. Neptune transiting our I.C. has us knee-deep in martial waters. The question is whether Saturn leaving Pisces next month will help or hurt us when it goes into Aries and becomes the martial trench digger, tallying up the reckoning (like it always does).

    • Great point about crusty Cancer not having open borders!

13. Kristi Noem missing here, she is head of ICE and Homeland Security. From another of your posts, she will have a transit T-square, when Neptune and Saturn soon oppose her natal Pluto at 2 Libra (b. 1971), andwill also square her Venus at 2 Capricon.

14. ICE will also be a big feature at the coming football World Cup co-hosted by America, the biggest single sport event in world sport.

    The idea that many now believe the WC should be relocated away from Caligula’s USA is sobering and shaming. Marjorie could a chart be put up for the tournament?

    Aside from the gross financial gouging facing fans, there is the real and serious prospects of the goon squad killing and maiming fans, either because of the wrong skin colour or just a boisterous beery kind of enthusiasm exhibited by many happy supporters (us Scots in particular…) Deeply depressing.

15. ICE will now be at the Milan Olympics. Milan’s mayor is very much opposed. Anyone know why this is happening? Just a way of T to indicate that ICE is now a worldwide secret police force?? Possible to relocate ICE chart to Milan? Thanks.

    • Agreed, worldwide police force. 1930s all over again after the 1929 crash, now 2008 crash. UK’s new police force for terrorism etc. What a joke that is. Force against the people.