Mother Mary Trump – a key to the chaos

  The clue to Donald Trump’s dysfunctional emotional makeup may lie more with his mother than father. Conventional wisdom has it he takes after Fred, his profiteering, racist, property developer, Lutheran father of German extraction.

  Fred, 11 October 1905, did have his Libra Sun conjunct DT’s 2^nd house Jupiter and Fred’s Jupiter fell in DT’s 10^th, helping him on the road to material success. And admittedly Fred’s Leo North Node was conjunct DT’s Mars Ascendant with Fred’s Saturn in Aquarius in opposition. So he would be uncompromising in his effects to instill a hard-edge into his son’s methods.

   But Donald’s relationship with his mother Mary was way more complicated – and given that she was a Sun Saturn in Taurus (like Melania) and in Mary’s case her Sun Saturn fell on Donald’s Midheaven, she deserves a closer look.

 Born 10 May 1912 4am Tong, Isle of Lewis, Scotland, in a Gaelic-speaking household, she was the youngest of ten children and first left home at 18, one of tens of thousands of young Scots who left for the U.S. or Canada during this period, having suffered badly the consequences of the Highland Clearances and World War I. Local historians have said properties at the time were “indescribably filthy”, and that families in the area lived austere lives as fishers, farmers and peat diggers. A 2016 account in a Scottish newspaper The National put it, she “started life in America as a dirt-poor servant escaping the even worse poverty of her native land.”

 Her religion is described on wiki as Presbyterian (protestant) and that was how Donald was brought up but it is possible she was a Free Presbyterian, which is an even stricter form of fundamentalist Calvinism common on the Scottish Islands. [And a humourless, uncompromising, life-suppressing, fun-denying and damaging force it usually was – which is why many forced to endure a childhood under it abandoned the faith later.]

  In addition to Sun, Saturn, Venus in Taurus, Mary Trump also had a late Aquarius Moon trine Pluto in late Gemini. Mary’s Pluto in late Gemini was conjunct Donald’s Gemini Sun and opposition his Moon so she would be a majorly controlling force. Her publicity-attracting Mars Neptune in Cancer was conjunct his Saturn Venus in Cancer – which is a weird crossover. Aggravated, evasive, difficult to pin down, almost perverse.  

  Melania’s Pluto in late Virgo is also in hard aspect to DT’s Sun and Moon so equally given to controlling tendencies. If Melania had an early morning birth she would also have a late Aquarius Moon though she does seem more like a Capricorn Moon.

  Donald’s Moon is 4^th house so he would tend to look to his father for security; and his Moon is opposition Uranus, trine Mars and inconjunct Saturn. His mother comes across as angry, erratic, not always available and cold. Which given her harsh background is hardly surprising but not healthy for an young child.

  Their relationship chart is not overly distressed though there is a yod of composite Saturn sextile Neptune inconjunct a 7^th house Moon with an excitable Mars trine a composite 10^th house Uranus. A lunar yod can be emotionally disorganised so he never developed the steadiness which comes from having a reliable early maternal bond. Uranus in the composite 10th hints at a relationship dynamic which set him off on a unique and wayward path. And the composite Uranus square Pluto on the composite Ascendant hints at an inherent pattern in the relationship with his mother which would give him an urge to constantly upend situations when he felt it threatened his image or control.

  Both his earlier wives had strongly aspected Saturns. Ivana had a Sun Mars in Pisces opposition Saturn – and Marla Maples, a Scorpio, had Saturn sextile Jupiter inconjunct Uranus Pluto.   Cool .

Mary Trump is eeriely alike Melania – or vice versa.