Melania Trump’s ‘I Really Don’t Care, Do U?’ jacket on a border immigrant visit is mystifying if seen as a reflection of contempt for immigrant children. Her track record suggests she dresses deliberately, on occasion pointedly aimed at Trump. Remember the pink Gucci pussy bow shirt after Trump’s ‘grab them by the ..’ comments surfaced in 2016. And her Hillary Clinton/#metoo white trouser suit for the State of Union address after the Stormy Daniels’ furore erupted, and she refused to travel with her husband to the event. She started an anti-bullying campaign, refused to move to DC for her son’s sake. She may have signed the contract to put up with Trump for the duration but she’s not above getting subtle and not so subtle digs in.

Her Taurus Sun opposition Jupiter in Scorpio is getting rattled by tr Uranus from mid May this year till early 2020 which could be seen as a bid for freedom and independence. Though it kicked off with her kidney hospital procedure when tr Uranus was also square her Mars/Pluto midpoint which suggests it was more serious than was claimed. And that fairly catastrophic influence runs on and off into early 2019.

This year is mixed for her with jolting and discouraging tr Saturn opposition her Uranus and square her Moon, plus confused and sticky transits to midpoints; with some light relief in September/October; but a truly difficult 2019/2020 with major setbacks, frustrations and aggravation.

Her relationship with Trump hit a major collision over his election and in 2017; is having to accommodate a major adjustment from this July as tr Uranus trines the composite Pluto, and that runs into 2019. With a definite hint of power struggles between them in 2019/2020 as well as high anxiety and uncertainty.

Her relationship with Ivanka, never good at the best of times, is at daggers drawn at the moment, with escalating tensions through this year.

She must have known what she was doing when she lashed herself to Trump’s mast in 2005 – with a vulgarly over-ostentatious wedding. The wedding chart unsurprisingly has a bitterly angry, power-struggling, submit/dominate Mars Pluto conjunction and a grandiose Jupiter camouflaging a good deal of unhappiness. The wedding chart is sailing through especially troubled waters in 2019, worse in 2020.

My money would be on her trolling her errant spouse.

India hasn’t been immune from the nationalist xenophobia which has shaken several European countries and the US in recent times. The Prime Minister Narendra Modi was elected in 2014 on a vision for economic growth, good governance, and reforms with his Hindu supremacy beliefs kept low key. But since then there has been growing intolerance of the fifth of the population who are Muslim or other faiths, undermining India’s previous status as a secular, multi-cultural country.

Not all of his economic policies have been a success, with some of its meteoric rise slowing, though it’s still in better shape than most and in 10 years, forecasters predict that India’s economy will be third-largest in the world, behind the USA and China.

Modi’s birthdate is questionable but he was sworn in on 26 May 2014 at 6.13pm in New Delhi, which does give a fearsomely determined, violent and ruthless, as well as crises-ridden chart with a Cardinal Grand Cross of Mars opposition Uranus square Pluto opposition Jupiter.  Despite some economic setbacks he remains popular in the polls.

Next year’s election due April/May sees mixed fortunes on his Term chart with the tr Saturn Pluto opposing the Jupiter, but it’s a generally lucky chart and will get a boost from Solar Arc Pluto opposing Jupiter the year after.

India gained independence on 15 August 1947 on the Saturn Pluto in Leo conjunction so it will be tuned into the Saturn Pluto mood up and coming in 2019 – normally a sign amongst other things of repression of religious minorities.

What is worrisome is that the Progressed Mars is moving to conjunct the India Pluto and Saturn over the coming year – and Mars Pluto Saturn was around for the very bloody partition of India and Pakistan after the August independence with many hundreds of thousands killed and 14 million peoples displaced. So it could get unpleasant with the over-heated rhetoric and violence likely to escalate.

Like flies stuck in what Matthew Parris memorably described as a tar pit, UK politicians are making a total horlicks of the Brexit negotiations. Paralysed by an inability to agree amongst themselves, they and the whole farrago are arousing amused contempt in Brussels, where the overlords just sit back and say NON every so often. Businesses are already baling out in all directions to Ireland, the Netherlands, Eastern Europe.  Guy Verhofstadt, the European Parliament chief negotiator said there would have to be a definitive plan by this October, to be ratified by the leaving date of March 2019; and it would take the full two year transition period thereafter to work out trading details which could well drag on for decades.

The dates fit a scenario on the UK chart with a major financial shock, high anxiety provoking hasty misplaced decisions in 2021 with tr Uranus conjunct the 8^th house Mars; followed by several very rough years culminating in panics, confusion and more financial shocks in 2023/2024 with Solar Arc Sun square the 2^nd house Neptune, Solar Arc MC square Neptune and Solar Arc Uranus conjunct Mars.

The 29 March 2019 leaving date occurs on the bleak Saturn Pluto conjunction in last decan Capricorn; with an aggravated Pluto trine Mars; and a head-in-the-clouds, over-hopeful Jupiter square Neptune. The end of the transition, presumably late March 2021, has tr Saturn in Aquarius square the UK 8^th house (business finances) Mars; in a teeth-gritted trine to Mars and a jolting square to Uranus, so again not wealth-generating influences.

The UK joining the EEC chart, 1 January 1973 12 am, is muddled and panicky in 2018/2019 with a considerable upheaval from February 2019 till late 2020 with tr Pluto square the Uranus.

The UK/EU relationship chart reflects much the same muddle, disappointment and trudge through thick mud till late 2019.

The problem from an astrological point of view is that it isn’t a total divorce, more a rearrangement of agreements (if they ever happen).  The relationship chart is a fairly controlling one so stepping back to renegotiate was never going to be easy with Pluto in the 8^th square a 12^th Uranus and a 4^th house Sun.

The Theresa May government chart, 9 June 2017 12.35pm London is sagging (further?) in the early months of 2019 pre-the cut off date with tr Saturn square Jupiter and conjunct Pluto; and hitting the skids from May 2019 onwards as tr Neptune squares the Sun and Moon. It may not mean finito but it’s certainly not an uproarious success. At that point the Solar Arc Moon is opposing the UK 11th house Saturn  so the populace are going to be mightily out of sorts with politicians and the legislature.

Jacinda Ardern, PM of New Zealand, had her first baby today at 4.45pm in Auckland.  Her daughter is a last gasp Gemini Sun only a few hours away from being a Cancer. She has a 10^th house Libra Moon so may well consider following her mother’s footsteps into some kind of public career. Though she’ll be rebellious and quite a maverick with Uranus in her performing 5^th house square Venus North Node in Leo opposition Mars in Aquarius. She’ll be stubborn, very much a law-unto-herself romantically as well as in whatever way she chooses to present herself.

Her Moon squares Saturn, indicative of an overly dutiful mother, and also trines Mars, so there will be some tantrums. Her Pluto opposes Mercury in Cancer for an intense and forceful way of expressing herself. Neptune is in her 4^th in a self-protective, healing Water Grand Trine to Jupiter in Scorpio and Mercury, formed into a Kite by Mercury opposition Pluto making Pluto in her financial 2^nd the driving planet. She will be talented, lucky and influential. Though Neptune in her 4^th suggests she’ll feel her identity is very wrapped up in the family.

Her Gemini Sun chimes with her mother’s Venus in Gemini; her Venus in Leo with her mother’s Leo Sun; and her Jupiter falls on her mother’s Ascendant boosting her image. Though the crossover Moon aspects are less great with baby’s Libra Moon conjunct her mother’s Mars Pluto; and baby’s Saturn conjunct her mother’s ambitious Capricorn Moon.

Their relationship chart is affectionate with a composite Sun, Venus, Mercury in a practical trine to Saturn; though there’s an aggravated composite Mars Pluto sextile Uranus Neptune. Fitting a young baby into a high-powered political schedule won’t be easy and will leave its mark.

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Trump is about to back away from his policy of separating children from immigrant parents, not out of sentiment but because the backlash from lawmakers, activists, religious leaders and former first ladies was too great.

His Term chart does have an 8^th house emotionally-damped-down Saturn in an unkind and can-be-downright-cruel square to Mars. The Term Scorpio Moon is exactly square the Mars/Saturn midpoint so women and children will come into the Mars Saturn line of fire. There’s also a focal point Pluto squaring onto Uranus and Jupiter, which is control-freaky, contemptuous of those deemed weaker or inferior (amongst other things).

Trump’s Solar Arc Uranus is now exact exact on the conjunction to his Mars for another explosive scandal – in an endless line so long it’s tricky to keep up.  His Saturn on his birth chart is conjunct his Sun/Mars midpoint and his Pluto conjunct his Mars/Saturn – so it’s a repeating pattern of a) love of the military/shock and awe as long as he’s not actually involved personally; and b) a harsh streak of cruelty in his character as well as a tendency to attract disasters.

What the furore made me think of, and it’s not a good augury for 2019, is the repressive Saturn Pluto conjunction up and coming. It tramps all over weakness and causes hardship and deprivation. A survival of the fittest obstacle course.

Stephen Miller, a senior policy advisor, is deemed to have been the driving force behind the immigration debacle. Born 23 August 1985 4.53pm Santa Monica, CA, he’s a serious control-freak and driven by frankly unbalanced views. He has an 8^th house Mars and Sun with his Sun trine a 12^th house Neptune trine IC, formed into a Kite by IC opposition Pluto MC. His Sun is square his Neptune/Pluto midpoint which may be helpful for psychics and visionaries but not for politicians.

He looks confident enough for a while ahead but tr Uranus opposing his Pluto from July onwards may rock his boat and he’s in some turmoil through 2019 and heading into a lower profile phase from late 2019.

His relationship chart with Trump is being undermined by tr Neptune right through the rest of this year and some of next. Trump hates backing off and since he’s never to blame and will at some point down the road be looking for a scapegoat.

Kevin Spacey will be on show for the first time since allegations of his sexual misbehaviour got him fired from House of Cards and replaced in Ridley Scott’s All the Money in the World. The Billionaire Boys Club shot mainly in 2016 will go on limited release, presumably to recoup some cash with the Indie distributor Vertical Entertainment claiming the rest of the cast and crew shouldn’t be penalised because of Stacey. They are the company behind Travolta’s Gotti which recently scored a dire 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, so not their year.

The Billionaire Boys Club is about a group of wealthy Los Angeles boys in 1980s and their get-rich-quick Ponzi scheme. Spacey’s character, an investor and con-man, ends up murdered, so at least he won’t be cast as the hero.

Principal photography started on December 7 2015 with a nervy, downbeat Sun Saturn conjunction square Neptune which isn’t encouraging. Worse is an explosive and blocked, frustrating, crisis-attracting Mars opposition Uranus square Pluto so progress was never going to be a straight line.

There’s doubt about whether Spacey was born on 26^th July 1959 or early on the 27^th. When the allegations first surfaced last October Uranus was at 26 Aries which might suggest he has a late Aries Moon (from a birth time of circa 8.05pm on the 26th)  with a tr Uranus conjunct Moon describing the  emotional shock of his plummet from grace; and on that time a Solar Arc MC catching the tr Pluto conjunction, which again is often disgrace and a fall from status. But these are guesstimates.

What is certain is that he has Mars Pluto in Virgo in a harsh trine to Saturn trine his Moon, formed into a Kite by Moon opposition Neptune. He evidently had a brutal childhood and all that negative energy has been focussed onto filmic Neptune which would be his saviour. Though it clearly didn’t sort out his predatory behaviour. This birth time would also put lucky, respected Jupiter (which he was for his talent) on his midheaven.

He looks fraught through this year with tr Uranus trine his Pluto and next year his Mars; with an all-systems-change, extremely nervy tr Uranus square his Leo Sun and opposition his Neptune also in 2019. But he also has a confident and successful tr Pluto sextile his Jupiter from early 2019 through 2020 which could suggest a partial recovery though its difficult to see how and I’m not sure if court cases are pending.

The marathon that is the Jerry Springer Show is likely to be coming to an end after 27 years. A controversial show of  exploitation and moral panic, ‘a relentless orgy of humanity’s worst impulses’, ‘bear-baiting’ and ‘mob rule’ it lowered the tone of television and arguably set the stage for where we are now, politically and culturally.

Springer, an ex-politician, always had a hankering after a serious reputation but gave in to the forces of commerce and kept it rolling. Born 13 February 1944 11.45pm London, he has a powerful, influential and angry chart so it clearly fed some of his baser instincts. He has a 4^th house Aquarius Sun in a  confident opposition to a lucky 10^th house Jupiter in flamboyant Leo.

More significantly he has Mercury in Aquarius in an Air Grand Trine to Neptune in Libra trine Uranus (Mars) in Gemini in the 8^th, formed into a Kite by Mercury opposition a 10^th house Pluto North Node in Leo – a communicator par excellence in so far as making his voice heard, giving expression to his volcanic, deep-rooted 8^th house Mars Uranus, with his Pluto elevating him to ringmaster.

The show launched 30 September 1991 at 6pm New York (I think) which gives it again a hugely influential Pluto in Scorpio in the 8^th though that can also be seen as dredging up the worst excesses of human behaviour.  With Uranus Neptune in the 10^th it was always going to arouse fanatical feelings and that squares onto Sun Mars in the 7^th in Libra – with angry relationships spilling over into fist fights and worse on and after the show.

It may trail on with reruns and repeats for a couple of years but will come to a dead halt when the Solar Arc Mars conjuncts the Pluto in about three years time.

The successful rapper XXXTentacion has been shot dead aged 20 in Florida. Born 23 January 1998, as Jahseh Dwayne Onfroy, to Jamaican parents, he had a train-wreck of a life, stabbing a man when he was six to protect his mother, raised by a grandmother, was in constant fights with pupils at school, sent to juvenile detention for gun possession, swore off crime for music there, but was later arrested for robbery and assault with a deadly weapon.

He was a rebellious and stubborn Sun Aquarius conjunct Uranus on the focal point of a mini-Grand Trine to a bleak Saturn in forced-to-be-self-reliant Aries trine Pluto (Moon) in Sagittarius; with an exuberant and might-makes-right Mars Jupiter in Aquarius. His musical Neptune was conjunct his Sun on one side and Venus in ambitious Capricorn on the other.

His Solar Arc mini-Grand Trine of Pluto, Sun, Uranus (and Saturn), had moved by Solar Arc to collide with his Mars Jupiter recently and at the moment so ramping up that over-the-top energy.  Often there is a crisis point when configurations progress to merge with other strong aspects in a chart.

His musical 7^th Harmonic was strong; even more so his ‘victim’ 12^th which was neurotic and overly intense. He certainly didn’t help himself but he didn’t have it easy early on.

Actress Heather Locklear, best known for Dynasty, Melrose Place and Spin City, seems to be in trouble after a spate of drink, drug and domestic violence incidents and suicide threats. She’s now undergoing hospital care.

Born 25 September 1961 5.40 pm Los Angeles, with an ex-army father, she has an unaspected 7^th house Libra Sun which is a curious contradiction making her relationship-dependent, yet she acts like an island-under-herself and will be fairly self-centered. But what’s most notable is her Aries Moon opposition Mars in Libra square Saturn Jupiter in Capricorn – emotionally volatile with a short-fuse, constantly frustrated and feeling held back, tending to swing from optimism to pessimism. She does have Neptune in the 8^th, common among well-known film stars, giving an ability to project an aura.

She’s got a tough road ahead with tr Pluto starting to wend round her Saturn, Moon, Mars in coming years.

Her 10^th Harmonic is challenging and marked – it shows the rise and fall, great highs and often self-defeating actions leading to lows.