Political swings to the right are always a risk for the USA’s Social Security and Medicare systems. Guaranteeing a safety net for the disadvantaged, accepted unquestioningly in Europe, appears to be an anathema to a certain type of Republican.
The Social Security Administration was set up on 14 August 1935 by Franklin D. Roosevelt. The Leo Sun and Mercury are catching the downbeat tr Saturn opposition this year and the disruptive tr Uranus square in 2023 – which does suggest some tensions and changes. There could be a major overhaul in 2026 with tr Pluto square the Uranus.
Medicare was set up in 1965 on 30 July, another Leo, and is on high alert and edgy over coming months with tr Uranus opposition the Neptune; with a major shock and jolt coming sometime this year from Solar Arc Mars square the Uranus and worse by 2024 with a dead-halt Solar Arc Mars square the Pluto.
The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), 23 March 2010 looks to be under immense pressure with a frustrating, trapped tr Pluto opposition Mars in 2024/25. With an undermining tr Neptune Saturn conjunct the Sun in 2025 and square the Pluto and Moon by 2027. That looks to be a damaging run from 2024 to 2027.
PS. I am not that familiar with the US system so this is just from the foundation charts themselves.
Marjorie Taylor Greene (MTG) the far-right Congresswoman and white supremacist, and antisemitic conspiracy theorist, has spread around her delusions over QAnon, Pizzagate, mass shootings, the alleged killings perpetrated by the Clinton family, and the 9/11 attacks. Before running for Congress, she supported calls to execute prominent Democratic politicians, including Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and has equated the Democratic Party with Nazis and compared COVID-19 safety measures to the persecution of Jews during the Holocaust. In January 2022, her personal Twitter account was permanently suspended for posting COVID-19 vaccine misinformation; and during the Ukraine invasion she has promoted Russian propaganda and praised Vladimir Putin.
She has repeatedly and falsely claimed that Trump won the 2020 election in a landslide victory that was stolen from him and is rumoured to be his running mate for a 2024 bid. She is up for re-election in 2022.
Born 27 May 1974 she is a Sun Gemini opposition Neptune trine Pluto – stratospherically ambitious. She has a tough Saturn Mercury in a fanatical square to Pluto and an explosive, incendiary Venus opposition Uranus square Mars in Cancer. Her enthusiasm looks squelched until mid this November with tr Saturn square her Mars/Jupiter midpoint and she has a dashed-hopes tr Pluto conjunct her Jupiter/Neptune midpoint running now till December. 2023 and 2024 don’t look great for her either with tr Pluto square her Mars/Neptune midpoint with disappointments extending into 2025.
Her relationship with Trump is a mystery since her combustible Mars is conjunct his Saturn with her Uranus square; and her (probably) Leo Moon is conjunct hid Mars. Though there is a connection of sorts from her North Node conjunct his South Node and Moon. And their relationship chart is fairly well tied together which will help though it is facing a few disasters until this December with a downhill slide thereafter.
A previous post: JULY 8 2021
Marjorie Taylor Greene is not only addicted to offensive, over-heated rhetoric but also to a warped Trumpian cum Nazi tactic of turning herself and her ilk into victims. She recently was forced to apologize for suggesting that mask mandates were similar to the Holocaust; and promptly went on to compare medical personnel offering vaccinations to Nazi brownshirts forcing prisoners to undergo experiments.
The House of Representatives which she only joined this January, voted to remove her from all committee roles on February 4, 2021, in response to her incendiary and violent statements. She will run for re-election in 2022.
Born 27 May 1974 in Georgia, USA, she is a Sun Gemini opposition Neptune trine Pluto; with a volatile and over-loaded Mars in excitable Cancer on the point of a T Square to Venus opposition Uranus; and a hard-edged, unyielding Saturn square Pluto. Tr Pluto is still exerting maximum pressure on her Martian T Square being square the Venus and Uranus till the end of this year. The December Sagittarius Solar Eclipse will oppose her Sun for a crisis of direction in which she may be forced to rethink her plans. She’s also got a Neptunian failure or two and in genera high hopes not producing results through till late 2022.
Her Solar Arc Sun is conjunct her Mars probably mid 2022 which will produce a collision of sorts and is not good news, followed by Solar Arc Neptune in a paralysed, panicky square to her Uranus also in 2022 and then Venus in 2023.
She probably is enamoured of Hitler since his mesmeric Neptune Pluto in Gemini is conjunct her Sun and oddly enough both have Uranus in Libra. The relationship chart has a passionately connected composite Pluto opposition Jupiter square Venus
With Trump, it’s trickier to see where the love comes from with his Saturn conjunct her focal point Mars; though her Sun falls in his 10th and her Leo Moon is probably attracted to all the fake glitter. Though their relationship chart again has a passionate Sun Venus square Pluto which will be rattled up by this December’s Solar Eclipse.
Giorgia Meloni has made history as Italy’s first female prime minister at the head of the country’s most right-wing government since World War Two. Her Brothers of Italy party with neo-fascist origins is leader of a ruling coalition with Berlusconi’s Forza Italia party and Matteo Salvini’s League. They have made reducing immigration a key policy, which includes increasing repatriations, targeting charity ships that rescue migrants and calling for a naval blockade of North Africa.
Although aligned with Hungary’s Orban, she has toned down criticism of the EU with Italy’s chronically ill economy needing millions of euros from the Brussels’ coffers.
Where she may have problems is with junior coalition partner Sylvio Berlusconi in a sulk because he is not top dog and reportedly called Meloni “domineering, arrogant and offensive”. He also paraded his friendship with Putin and landed blame on Zelensky for the Ukraine invasion. In contrast Meloni has reassured Western allies over the country’s pro-NATO stance and its support for Ukraine.
She was sworn in on 22 October 2022 in Rome at around 9.30am (I think, any definite times welcome). This gives a pressured Sun Venus square Pluto with Pluto in an aggravated, argumentative quincunx to an 8th house Mars – debt problems? What looks least helpful apart from the divisive Uranus square Saturn is a vague, disillusioned and indecisive Virgo Moon opposition Neptune square Mars. Which won’t get any easier as the Solar Arc Neptune closes the square to Mars by 2024 for failed plans and panic.
Meloni’s elevation was never going to sit comfortably with misogynist dinosaur Berlusconi – his karma catching up with him? With his Pluto opposing her Capricorn Sun, he’ll be compelled to put her down.
Their relationship chart is an eye-opener with a power-struggling, oneupmanship composite Pluto opposition Jupiter square Sun opposition Saturn – chained together and resenting it, a constant churn. 2023 could split them apart with tr Saturn in Pisces square the Sun, conjunct Jupiter and opposition Pluto. Though he could also be knocked out by health problems, since he had major heart surgery in 2016 and a battle with coronavirus.
Her own personal chart, 15 January 1977 6pm Rome, will have some luck in 2023 with tr Uranus conjunct her 10th house Jupiter from June onwards and Jupiter moving across her 10th from 2023 till mid 2024 will give her career a boost.
Absolute power has been claimed by Chinese President Xi Jinping as his rulership has been extended for a third five year term. It breaks the precedent set after Mao’s demise to limit the power of any one individual leader. Despite being the son of a relatively liberal father and having seen his family punished through the insanities of the 1960s/1970s Cultural Revolution, he has steadily built himself up as a Stalinist strongman, shored up the authority of the Communist party and cultivated a personality cult, combining repression and surveillance at home with aggression abroad.
His 3rd Term chart, 23 October 2022 5.08pm Beijing, has dictatorship written all over it with a 10th house controlling Pluto square Sun and Pluto in a ruthless quincunx to Mars. His Mars is in a publicity-attracting but not always decisive square to Neptune; and there’s an inflexible Saturn in Aquarius in a conflicted square to Uranus.
He’s facing a momentous struggle ahead to overcome considerable obstacles with tr Pluto square the Term Sun and Venus through 2023 until late 2024; a panicky-failure tr Neptune square Mars in 2023; and worse by 2025/6 when the tr Neptune Saturn conjunction in Aries are in a confidence and enthusiasm-denting conjunction with the Term Jupiter.
The China economy is already ailing amid greater state meddling and the fallout from Covid, there is domestic discontent over the handling of the pandemic, and tensions with the west have been rising for years over trade and the treatment of Uyghurs as well as worries about military expansion in the South China Sea, Hong Kong and ramped up threats against Taiwan.
The Term chart echoes themes on his personal chart, 15 June 1953, with an undermining tr Neptune square his Sun this year into 2023, and worsening as tr Neptune squares his Sun/Mars midpoint and finally makes a failure-ridden square to his Mars at zero Cancer in 2025/26. Plus a disruptive tr Uranus opposition his emphasised Pluto in Leo in 2023.
The China 1 January 1912 chart has the same Pluto focal point Yod as the UK, in this case inconjunct Uranus sextile Venus. The Pluto will be undermined by tr Neptune square from May 2023 to late 2024 which could undermine China’s global influence. Certainly things are changing with tr Pluto conjunct the Uranus in 2022/23 so there could be a potential for disruption and rebellion; with shocks and jolts in 2024 with tr Uranus conjunct the Mars and opposition Venus. There may be an over confident drive for power and influence in 2024 which could well backfire.
Behind every comedy there’s often a tragedy. Matthew Perry, the wisecracking Chandler of Friends, the most popular TV show of all time, has revealed all about his relentless addiction problems over decades. It saw him in and out of 15 rehabs and almost killed him in 2018 when his colon burst due to the overuse of opioid drugs, putting him in a coma for two weeks with a 2% survival chance and required a colostomy bag for nine months. During one low point during Friends he was taking 55 tablets of Vicodin each day and his weight dropped to 58kg (9st 1oz).
He was born 19 August 1969 4.47am North Adams, Massachusetts, with an actor father and a journalist mother who split before his first birthday. He has an entertaining Leo Sun in his upfront 1st house square a filmic and escapist Neptune in the 4th; with an intensely emotional Scorpio Moon also in his 4th opposition a hard-working 10th house Saturn in Taurus. And Venus in sensitive, self-protective Cancer in his 12th.
His childhood does not look to have been emotionally supportive with a Saturn-afflicted Moon, a hidden Venus and missing a strong male role model for a father. His Sun and Neptune are both in hard aspect to the destructive Mars/Saturn midpoint which would create setbacks for him. His Sun/Moon midpoint is conjunct Uranus so finding a stable one-to-one relationship would never be easy for him.
When Friends launched on 22 September 1994, he said he had been praying fervently to be famous, only later to discover it did not solve any of his problems. At that point tr Pluto was conjunct his 4th house Neptune which would have a devastating effect before moving to square his Sun the following year as his life changed out of all recognition. Tr Neptune and Uranus were also hovering over the opposition to his Venus.
When he hit rock bottom in June 2018 tr Uranus just into Taurus was conjunct his Midheaven for a sudden change of direction; and tr Pluto in his 6th house of health was opposing his 12th house Venus. His Solar Arc Neptune was also hovering on the cusp of his 6th. His Progressed Moon was conjunct his Sun a month or so after he was hospitalised for an internal rebirth. And his Solar Arc Jupiter was wending its way towards a conjunction with his Neptune in the aftermath as he struggled towards a new life.
His 12th house Venus in Cancer and 4th house Neptune in Scorpio do appear to be the triggers for his problems.
Saturn has made a full cycle since Friends launched in 1994 as his memoir Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing is coming out. It won’t be easy for him but tr Jupiter going through his 10th at the moment bringing attention and praise will help and tr Saturn moving upwards in his chart for the next decade will give him resilience.
Add On: Matthew Perry is having to withdraw a trashing of Keanu Reeves in his memoir. In a thoughtless attempt to eulogize River Phoenix, the tragic young actor who died from an overdose, he regretted his death and wondered why Keanu Reeves was still alive. He has since said he is a big Reeves’s fan, “I just chose a random name, my mistake. I apologize. I should have used my own name instead.”
Hmm. Their synastry does suggest a hostile aggravated interface with Perry’s Mars square Reeves’ Pluto Uranus. And the relationship chart has a composite Mars opposition Saturn which is similarly antagonistic. There must be some history in there.
Miriam Margolyes, who left Perry floundering on a TV interview show some years back, has a heavyweight Jupiter, Sun, Uranus, Saturn in Taurus square Mars which would overwhelm Perry’s Leo Sun square Neptune and leave him bewildered.
Both Reeves and Miriam have their Jupiter in Taurus in Perry’s 10th house so perhaps his Leo Sun felt outshone by the confidence of both.
Undead Boris, try-try-again Rishi or fishy Penny Mordaunt is the platter du jour for Tory MPs as they wrestle for the soul of the party in the desperate hope of staving off implosion at the next General Election. Candidates need 100 MP nominations to run which have to be whipped up this week. The right wing may muster up Suella Braverman to stymie the chances of Rishi Sunak getting in.
Boris is a possibility though some centrist MPs say they would resign the Tory whip or defect in protest as they regard him as unacceptable. That would allow Keir Starmer to force a snap election and trigger a Conservative wipeout. A poll today shows the Tories 39 points behind Labour, at their lowest ever rating.
Boris, with a Pandora’s box of multiple Gemini planets including an afflicted Mars, has next week’s Scorpio Solar Eclipse conjunct his Moon which usually brings up the past and scrutiny of public image. If solid foundations have been laid in the past then there is less trouble. If not there can be a crumble-into-dust experience and a need to build better foundations for the future. Donald Trump had this in late 2020.
The Lunar Eclipse in early November in effect now will hit BJ’s over-hopeful, scandal-attracting Neptune opposition Jupiter and will likely lead to a surge in over-confidence. Tr Uranus also returns to bring him down to earth with a bump this December and early in 2023. He does have his Solar Arc Jupiter almost conjunct his Midheaven which is successful so something will go right over the next eighteen months (birth time being accurate) and tr Jupiter moving into his financial 8th from July 2023 onwards for a year suggests a considerable improvement in his finances.
There’s nothing to indicate that his relationship with either the Tory Party or the UK is improving. With the UK there are indications of great alarm across this election and worse in 2023. With the Tories he’s continuing on a downhill slide now till 2024. Which doesn’t mean the right-wing won’t back him but they’ll be damned if they do.
“He was like an undead boomerang. A zomberang.” Devon Monk.
“Something coming back from the dead was almost always bad news. Movies taught me that. For every one Jesus you get a million zombies.” David Wong, John Dies at the End.
Rishi Sunak, an earthy Sun Mercury in Taurus in a sensible trine to Saturn in Virgo, opposition Uranus, does have one triumphant influence with his Solar Arc Pluto square his Jupiter around now. But transits to his midpoints aren’t great – indeed suggest that high hopes get dashed till early December.
His relationship chart with the Tories 1912 hints at the potential for transformation and success though it is blow hot, blow cold combination and doesn’t show much movement until mid 2023 onwards. With the UK – this November looks upbeat and relieved between them; and this December looks a time for radical change. Though if he loses he could well up-sticks and head for California which would fit with a sigh of relief equally as well.
Penny Mordaunt is a New Moon and Venus and Mercury in Pisces mainly square Saturn in Gemini opposition Neptune – another Mutable windmill. There’s nothing much showing on her chart (without a birth time) except for a jangled Saturn/Uranus at the moment until a downbeat Sun/Saturn in January plus Neptunian losses next year. Where she picks up luck and success will be 2024/2025 with tr Pluto conjunct her Jupiter. Her relationship chart with the Tories 1912 hints she could be a driving force for reform; and with the UK looks more hopeful in 2024, though she would attract hostility at the same time.
Even more so than usual it’s all muddy waters.
Add On: The new leader will be known on the 28th October. See chart above. Not inspiring – a head-in-the-clouds, cloud-cuckoo-land, over-optimistic and financial bubble-bursting Jupiter Neptune in Pisces square Mars in Gemini. Mars due to go retrograde on the 31st until mid January is in a tough, irritable trine to Saturn. Pluto is in an aggravated quincunx to Mars and in a dogmatic, fanatical, hostile-debate square to Mercury in Libra.
Saturn is making the final close aspect to Uranus which has bedevilled the past two years with high-tension, impatience with restrictions and a constant pull between opposites – the forces of progress and the forces intent on holding to the status quo.
If anything it looks less solid than the Truss term. Sigh.
Israel is treading a cautious middle line of neutrality over Ukraine providing “humanitarian aid” and “life-saving defensive equipment” but not weaponry or a defence system like the Iron Dome. They need Russian cooperation to continue air strikes against Iranian-backed forces in neighbouring Syria.
They have also finessed a tacit deal with Hezbollah who gave a discreet nod of acceptance to a U.S.-brokered deal settling a decades-long maritime boundary dispute with Lebanon. The deal opens the way for offshore energy exploration. At the same time it defuses one source of potential conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, who have spent the last decade fighting to help Iran’s allies, notably President Bashar al-Assad of Syria. Hezbollah’s focus is now on rebuilding crisis-ridden Lebanon, with offshore oil and gas seen as the only lifeline to rescue the country from the recent devastating financial meltdown.
The Israel chart is undergoing a Nodal Return at the moment so is considering its options for the way ahead. Their Solar Arc Pluto is sitting on the Ascendant as they make a concerted effort to transform their image.
The months ahead won’t be easy with tr Uranus in a jolting square to the 10th house Saturn in this November and next March; with a downbeat tr Saturn in hard aspect to the Taurus Sun square Mars in Leo in January/February 2023. Plus a nerve-stretched tr Neptune square the Uranus till late 2023 and then in a financially disappointing square to Jupiter in 2024.
But the really heavy pressure – and it will be considerable – will come from tr Uranus conjunct the 8th house Taurus Sun after mid 2023 into 2024, moving on to a risky and self-esteem-denting square to the Israel Mars by 2025. The previous time there were similar influences was 2001 to 2003 when 9/11 led to the Afghanistan and then Iraq invasions and the Middle East was on high alert. The Israel chart also has a dead-halt, cornered Solar Arc Mars square Pluto in 2025 as well.
The Bank of Israel chart also looks to be blocked, deprived and in meltdown in 2025 as well.
No country will be immune from the coming turmoil but some will be more affected than others.
Hitting rock bottom may be the UK’s only hope of sobering up after years of cataclysmic choices in policies and leaders. The UK’s superpower status died after WW11 but the country retained a reputation of gravitas, not least because of Queen Elizabeth 11 for the past seventy years. The Tories have now reduced UK Inc to a global laughing stock with a banana republic government drowning in a shambles of Italian operatic proportions.
What is flagging up on the UK chart exactly now is a crisis of history-changing proportions.
The UK chart has a Yod of Jupiter in Leo sextile Uranus inconjunct Pluto – such a Yod has all of Pluto’s fixated, refuse-to-budge qualities and can be coercive as well as self-destructive. The positive qualities give it the potential to be influential on a global scale, sometimes after a long period in obscurity.
When a configuration like this one moves by Solar Arc Directions to impact key planets on the chart, it triggers a crisis sometimes stretching over several years . With luck and sensible management a breakdown that leads to a breakthrough.
This Plutonic Yod has moved by Solar Arc to have the SA Pluto exactly square the UK Sun now for this paralysis of government and arguably a nation stunned by the departure of the Queen’s steadying presence. The legs of the Yod move by Solar Arc to have the SA Uranus conjunct the UK 8th house Mars exact mid 2025 for an almighty economic/financial car-crash of sorts. On this basis the UK should be into calmer waters in three years from now after a stormy passage, hopefully wiser and ready to start down a new path.
Before then the Solar Arc Saturn will oppose the UK Uranus for a high-tension jolt in late 2023. At the moment the 2nd house financial Neptune is catching the tr Saturn square at the moment and tr Uranus opposition through 2023. That does suggest heavy pressure on personal finances but will also contribute to a mood of nerve-jangling confusion. Plus tr Saturn conjunct the UK Pluto throughout 2023 and tr Uranus square the 11th house (legislature) Saturn exact from August 2023 onwards – though that will be in force at the moment since all the UK’s Fixed planets are reverberating in shock which will tug on that Saturn.
So much for the UK. Not fun but the astrology makes sense which is bizarrely reassuring even if it does not promise instant bliss.
Liz Truss’s Term chart does have tr Saturn exactly square the divisive 7th house Uranus now leading to eruptions and crockery-throwing spats. The Fixed Saturn in Aquarius on the focal point of a square to Uranus NN opposition SN lacks adaptability and because it can’t or won’t bend, it will at one point break. But for once a Term chart is not being illuminating.
The Conservative Party 9 May 1912 chart is spot on with the Solar Arc Uranus conjunct the Sun exactly now and rolling on for some months – a thunderbolt strikes. Plus the Scorpio Solar Eclipse late this month opposes their Venus bringing an emotional crisis and a feeling of not being loved. With the November Lunar Eclipse conjunct their Sun for an existential crisis.
Comedian and Late Late presenter James Corden has dented his affable brand by throwing a hissy fit in a New York restaurant, causing the owner to describe him as a “tiny cretin” and “abusive” before banning him. Fulsome apologies followed and the interdict was lifted.
According to the Washington Post this summer, after discovering a hair in his food, Corden demanded in an “extremely nasty” fashion that a new round of drinks appear “this second” and previous rounds be comped. This month, his wife ordered an egg-yolk omelette that arrived with “a little bit of egg white” in it. The kitchen remade the dish, but it emerged with — the horror! — home fries on the side instead of a salad.”.
All of which is a frivolous distraction from real world woes but may do real damage to Corden’s reputation and image, a touch like Ellen DeGeneres who exuded sweetness and kindness until it turned out she was made of snappier stuff.
Corden born 22 August 1978, London, no birth time, is a hard-working Sun Leo conjunct Saturn in Virgo with an impulsive Aries Moon. But where his aggro comes from is a conjunction of Mars, Pluto, Venus in Libra sextile Neptune with Uranus sitting on the midpoint. He can be charming with Venus in Libra but also do-or-die-determined and overly forceful with Mars Pluto.
Ellen Degeneres also has an afflicted Mars which is conjunct Saturn and square Pluto, giving her a short fuse.
Another Mr Nice Guy being fingered for at the moment for misconduct is actor Bill Murray, 21 September 1950. He has a workaholic Sun Saturn in Virgo with a super-determined Mars in Scorpio square Pluto. So no slouch when push comes to shove.
Luvvies acting badly is hardly a surprise but in the present climate tainting a previously saintly image can come very expensive in career terms.
Corden has already said he is stepping back from his Late tv show next year and his recent movie appearances have received negative reviews. His Solar Arcs look seriously blocked ahead with SA Sun conjunct Pluto and SA Pluto square his Sun now-ish and through till 2024. His Jupiter will keep his optimism afloat till late 2023 but he’s not as jovial as before.
Likewise Bill Murray isn’t looking too cheerful with tr Neptune opposition his Saturn and Sun and tr Uranus opposition his Pluto and square his Mars in the next three years.
Mars provides drive, ambition and the courage to aim high and succeed but is not known for tact or sensitivity.
