Astrology of Today’s News

An epic tale of revenge is coming to a head in Scotland which encapsulates every cliché uttered on the subject.

‘While seeking revenge, dig two graves – one for yourself.’

‘Revenge is its own executioner.’

‘Revenge… is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.’

  It’s also a classic textbook example of a Plutonic relationship gone toes up. Not only have Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon, former First Minister and former protegee become First Minister, damaged if not destroyed themselves in the process of a botched series of attacks and cover ups. They’ve also possibly/probably put paid to any hopes of a Yes vote if any Scottish independence referendum ever came round and have torn apart their beloved SNP party when they were at it.  Just astonishing.

   Previous posts give the detail: 23 February 2021 and January 13 2021. This is additional thoughts.

  What’s intriguing about both birth charts is – amongst other things – the Nodal axis being keyed up. Salmond has his Solar Arc North Node conjunct his Midheaven exactly and his Solar Arc Neptune conjunct his natal Capricorn North Node. As well as a trapped, enraging Solar Arc Mars (conjunct Algol) square his Pluto; and tr Neptune conjunct his 10^th house Mars, then Moon/Mars midpoint and Pisces Moon over the next three years.

 Sturgeon has her Progressed Mars exactly conjunct her Virgo South Node now to the minute of a degree (one sixtieth). Plus her Solar Arc Moon opposition her Pluto and her Solar Arc Uranus exactly square her Midheaven. Tr Pluto is also in the grinding-breakdown phase of a two year opposition to her Cancer Sun, moving on to oppose her Sun/Mars midpoint and then her Mars in 2023/24 which will be completely logjammed and frustrating for her. She does have tr Pluto square her Jupiter in 2022/23 so she will attempt to push ahead nonetheless but it won’t outweigh the more blocked influences.

  Salmond’s Pluto is conjunct Sturgeon’s Midheaven and he did foster her progress early on when he was in power. But his Pluto is also square her slippery Neptune and stubborn Saturn in Taurus.  And more troublesome her determined Pluto opposes his Mars Moon which was always going to end in bitterness.

  Their relationship chart has a composite Pluto Jupiter conjunct the Ascendant – so together they made a go-ahead power couple; and there is a friendly composite Sun Venus in a workmanlike sextile to Saturn. But as ever when the forward momentum slowed and togetherness became a thing of the past, the Pluto energy turned inwards and it became a struggle for the upper hand; and the resentment bred by the one-sided composite Mars square Pluto surfaced as Sturgeon stepped into the top seat.

  The composite Mars, just to continue the spooky astro-coincidences, is exactly conjunct the destructive Fixed Star Algol. While they were together plotting to destroy the Scotland/England Union that Mars was focused on their main objective. But when the balance shifted, it started to destroy the relationship itself.

   Both SNP charts, 14 December 1933 and 7 April 1934, indicate disappointment and a seismic disruption over the next three years in one case; and an upheaval if not total collapse of the old structure in 2021/22 extending into road blocks in 2023.  

  Nicola Sturgeon may resign or may brass-neck it out, but her Term chart, 12 May 2016 9.35am has the destabilising Solar Arc Pluto square Uranus, exact in coming two months, which is heading into the May elections. And it has the Solar Arc Saturn exactly square the North Node now, which won’t bring cheer.

   Who’s have thought it?  I can’t say I was ever in favour of splitting the UK up into bits, though I understood the antipathy to the London political louts. But if ever there was an example of hubris and bitterness bringing the ceiling down on their own heads this is it.  

Pluto, lord of the underworld, is bringer of passion, possessiveness and jealousy. Overseer of five of the seven deadly sins  –  pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust – it has two primal urges. One is transformation and the other is power, drives which are frequently at war with one another. When Pluto is a strong element in a relationship it can initially arouse intense feelings of certainty, even ‘fatedness’, of a togetherness that is meant to be. Such bonds can have a transformative effect on both partners, but the tendency in the longer term is for one partner to want to be in control as top dog and it then descends into a bitter tussle for supremacy (or one partner remains resentfully tramped underfoot.) Splitting a Plutonic relationship, when one partner has had enough, is a long, messy, bitter battle with resentments and blame sprayed around.

  All of which is a prelude to the Angelina Jolie/Brad Pitt and Johnny Depp/Amber Heard all-too-public mud-slinging contests. While not wishing to take sides on who did or didn’t do what, it’s worth noting that an underlying theme in both is money, another of Pluto’s territories.

  Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie separated and divorced in 2016, acquired legal single status 2019 but there is still an ongoing legal fight for custody and financial arrangements, with allegations from her this month of domestic violence. She has changed lawyers along the way, one retiring when the fight became ‘venomous and nasty.’

  The Jolie/Pitt relationship chart has a classic composite Sun opposition Pluto and a hostile Pluto inconjunct Mars; with Mars square Neptune, which last hints at an ego-clash of the only-one-can-win variety. If one succeeds the other loses. Jolie has her do-or-die determined Pluto in Pitt’s 10^th house so she would want to change him/be in control. Her aggravated and no doubt aggravating Moon Mars in Aries falls in his 4^th house of home and domestic affairs. 

  It was undoubtedly a ‘transformational’ relationship for him since they got together when tr Pluto was conjunct his Sagittarius Sun and they split when freedom-loving Uranus was square his Moon Venus in Capricorn. She made the decision but it offered him a way out.

  One of the adopted children Maddox, a Cambodian orphan with Jolie since her Bob Thornton days, was born (if accurate) 5 August 2001, and intends to give evidence in court on Jolie’s side. He has a truly difficult Mars Pluto in Sagittarius opposition Saturn which falls exactly on Pitt’s Ascendant/Descendant axis so it would be a fractious relationship, largely stemming from Maddox’s early damage. Though it also collides with Jolie’s Gemini Sun – but kids in split relationships often pick sides and don’t budge.

  The Jolie/Pitt saga is likely to drag on for several years yet with tr Neptune opposition the Pluto until late 2023.  

  The Depp/Heard coming together was Plutonic from another angle, with her exceptionally stubborn and controlling Taurus Sun opposition Pluto falling on his Midheaven and IC. Not that he’s anyone’s idea of a dream partner with a volcanic Pluto Mars Uranus in Virgo and his Pluto square a Gemini Sun.

  Their war of accusations and counter allegations continues in court with his appeal against his failed libel case about domestic assaults, claiming she did not hand over all of her $5 million divorce settlement to charity as she had promised. He’s fighting for his career and money-making potential which has taken a substantial hit since it all became public.  

  Their relationship chart does have an affectionate composite Sun Venus conjunction; but there’s also a chained-together and resentful Saturn square Pluto; and a wide power-struggling Pluto opposition Jupiter.

  What would we do without celebrities and Royals to keep us entertained with their running soap operas?  

‘Staggeringly blunt rhetoric’ has marked Joe Biden’s first forays into foreign policy which have seen relations with both China and Russia sink to lows not see in decades. Biden dubbed Vladimir Putin ‘a killer’ this week and the first high level meeting with Chinese diplomats indicated the USA would raise concerns over actions by China “in Xinjiang (Uighurs), Hong Kong, Taiwan, cyber-attacks on the United States and economic coercion of our allies”.

  Analysts say with no mutually binding arms control agreements now we are back to a situation similar to the one preceding the Cuban missile crisis. Some say it is the advent of a “second nuclear age”; more dangerous and unpredictable than the first with more states capable of building a bomb. Cyberwarfare is also a concern since it allows one power to seize control of another’s nuclear arsenal without firing a shot. As is the development of new technologies making possible the execution of extremely accurate nuclear strikes. ‘These factors have lowered the psychological barrier for using nuclear arms.’ The two nuclear superpowers are Russia, with approximately 4,300 warheads, and the US, with an estimated 3,800 warheads.

   Joe Biden’s astrocartography puts his Mars/Descendant line through Moscow and Iran; and his super-confident, power-struggling Jupiter and Pluto Ascendant lines are triggered over Beijing. They will be his militant hot-spots at least for argument and ramped up rhetoric.

Every American president in recent times who volunteered or was pulled into military activity did so on a world zone through which one of their four Mars lines ran. For Roosevelt it was Pearl Harbor; for Harry Truman, Japan and Korea; for Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Ford, it was Vietnam; for Jimmy Carter, Iran. Margaret Thatcher’s Mars on the midheaven (the key Mars line) runs straight through the Falkland Islands, where Britain declared war after the Argentinian invasion in 1982. George W Bush’s Mars Midheaven line was through Afghanistan.

  The relationship charts between the USA and Russia 1917 and 1991 suggest that the real deterioration and aggravation will come in 2022/23/24; with ripples of unease and some disruption from mid this year onwards. It does coincide with Putin’s 4^th Term chart flagging up danger signs – this year with a frustrated/enraged tr Pluto conjunct the Mars and worse by 2023 with Solar Arc Pluto conjunct the Mars and major instability then as well. He’ll be feeling cornered both domestically and globally – and desperate leaders can lash out. 

   There’s no confirmed birth date for Putin, but the 7 October 1952 date does appear to make sense in relation to Trump with a controlling composite Sun Pluto. And in relation to Biden there are major jolts and jangles from the middle of this year.

   China may be more of a war of words and commercial pressure. Biden’s relations with Xi Jinping will continue to be uneasy and undermining until 2023.  The relationship charts between the USA and China 1912 and 1949 likewise show disappointment and dissatisfaction this year with 2023/24 looking more strained.

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Deb Haaland has been sworn in as Secretary of the Interior, the first Native American to serve as a Cabinet secretary. Her remit covers the management of over 500 million acres of public land, much of which was once seized from indigenous people. It also houses the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), which services the 574 federally recognised Native tribes – as well as the 1.9 million American Indians and Alaska Natives – in the country.

  Born 2 December 1960 in Arizona, she is an enrolled member of the Laguna Pueblo of New Mexico. Her mother, a Native American, served in the US Navy and her father, was a Norwegian Minnesotan in the Marine Corps who fought in Vietnam. As a military child Deb Haaland moved frequently, became a single mother, eventually did an Indian Law degree in her forties and worked as a campaign volunteer for John Kerry and Barack Obama.

   She’s a Sun Sagittarius opposition a Gemini Moon and in a determined square to Pluto North Node. With a talented Half Grand Sextile off a hard-edged. Disciplined and courageous Mars opposition Saturn (Jupiter) sextile/trine Neptune and Pluto. Plus an outspoken Mercury in Scorpio square Uranus, trine Mars and sextile Saturn Venus so she won’t be shy about making her opinion heard.

  It won’t all be plain sailing (never is) but she will be singularly confused within a few months with her Solar Arc Pluto conjunct her Neptune – and will have a fair few battles to fight as well as swamps to wade through with some broken promises or plans not working out along the way.

  She was sworn in on Tuesday evening (no firm time), took over next day and was officially sworn in by Kamala Harris this morning at 10.30am. Whichever is the correct one, all have the Sun Venus Neptune conjunction which is charming, idealistic but maybe indecisive. There is a tough-minded Saturn trine Mars which will help and and up and down Saturn square Uranus. Not all plain sailing.

PS Additional thought.  Women who have Sun Pluto in their charts often don’t come into their power until their forties, I’ve noticed in the past. They grow up feeling they have no choices and it may be the mid-life crisis of 38-42 years old which includes the tr Pluto square the natal Pluto which frees them up to be themselves.

   Dom Cummings, the evil gremlin is back, Dt Strangelove as the devil-in-a-box popped up at a Parliamentary Committee on Science this week, despite having zero scientific credentials in his CV. He was as welcome as Tony Blair sticking his head above the parapet to test whether his unpopularity had receded and ducking before the rotting cabbages caught him.

   Denying both the oxygen of publicity is a Promethean punishment, an eternal agony which cannot be borne, so they will intrude at intervals whether wished for or not. And Cummings clearly has an addiction to what one commentator described as ‘drive-by shooting’ as he lets off a blast of coruscating invective about one poor sod or another, in this instance the hapless Health Secretary Matt Hancock.

  The only real point of interest in Cummings’ reappearance is what comes next since he has a cataclysmic tr Neptune square his Mars/Pluto midpoint picking up 21^st of this month running to mid April, and again September to mid October and mid January to mid February 2022. That could be personal but it does coincide with the undermining tr Neptune squaring the Sun on Boris’s Government chart. It is also marked up as a swampy patch on the Cummings/Boris relationship chart with tr Neptune opposing the composite Pluto; and on the Cummings/UK relationship chart with tr Neptune square the composite Sun. And that is followed by another dip in Boris’s popularity in the country from this June. His recent vaccine poll boost is clearly fading fast.

  It never does to join too many dots together but there could be something brewing politically – whether old skeletons tumbling out of cupboards or whatever.  Cummings will be in full flood from early 2022 for two years thereafter so it clearly won’t be anything that slows his progress to the outer edges of the universe and beyond to enlighten the turnip-headed peasants. More’s the pity.

 See previous Boris Brexit post 5 March 2020; and Dom Cummings November 14 2020.      

Astrology tools: What always attracted me to astrology was that there was no ‘right’ way to do it. Using different methods and calculations different astrologers can end up making accurate interpretations, sometimes shining a light on a different facet of a person/situation.

  My own evolution as an astrologer started as most people’s did reading the standard textbooks and practising. Along the way I added other techniques when the standard ones didn’t tell the whole story.

BUT – key point I never believe everything I am told by accepted authorities. Get the basics right first and then challenge, argue, make up your own mind. Some of the old astrology books have their own slant on specifics and are not 100% right.

   Decide early on which house system to follow and don’t get distracted by didacts who attempt to explain the theoretical underpinnings. I use Koch which is a middle of the road system. If others want to use Placidus or Equal House, that’s great but I’m not budging.

   On chart interpretation – planets in signs and in houses and in aspects throw up around 2500 pieces of information so you have to prioritise. There used to be an excellent pamphlet by Tracy Marks (I think) which had a tick-list. After a while it becomes almost second nature to home in on what ‘feels’ important, so intuition may play a part. I’m drawn to major configurations – planets joined together in groups by Grand Trines, T Squares, Grand Crosses etc – since they dominate a chart.

   It’s crucial to learn to live with contradictions since human beings aren’t robots and can have nice and nasty bits sitting side by side.

Predictions: Transits through houses give a broad context to what is happening. Transits to planets can give useful information but often don’t provide enough. Transits to a major configuration are important since the effect reverberates round all the other planets involved and can involve a period of several years of major challenge. I focus mainly on transits by the four outer planets Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto with an eye on Jupiter. I ignore the inner planet transits as being passing moments.

  Transits to midpoints will fill in many blanks, can be powerful in effect and are indispensable when birth times are questionable or not known and even sometimes when it is. I don’t tend to get hung up on midheaven and ascendant, partly because I often work with charts whose start/birth time is iffy. And even where it is known with reasonable certainty, I’ve seen life changing times which didn’t involve either.  

Secondary Progressions – of the Moon through the houses are illuminating. And when Progressed Mars hard aspects natal planets there is usually a seismic effect. But Progressions, calculated by a day equated to a year after birth, are slow moving with only Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars in play and rarely throwing up aspects so again not enough.

Solar Arc Directions which move the planets by approximately one degree per year are much more informative and have a profound effect when the Solar Arc Planet aspects a natal planet. When a major configuration moves by Solar Arc to connect with another major natal configuration there will be a game changing crisis.

  Solar Returns – I dutifully do and they can sometimes be illuminating but not always and I leave them usually to last on the list.

  My work order is:

Natal/Solar Arc: Pull up natal chart in a two-chart wheel with the Solar Arc Directions on the outer wheel.

Progressions: Check the Progressed positions for Progressed Moon house position and Mars, keeping an eye on Venus conjunct the natal Sun. The latter doesn’t fall in every lifetime but can be a romantic highlight.

Midpoints: Cast a glance down through the midpoints to see which are catching transiting hard aspects – mainly Sun, Mars and Jupiter midpoints, others when necessary.

North Node: When clients come with existential questions, the North Node is worth examining in detail since it encapsulates most of the chart’s meaning.

Harmonics: I came to them late and find them of idiosyncratic interest. They are merely a fancy way of plotting the more minor aspects which you can’t see as easily as squares, oppositions, trines and sextiles. They do seem to work well enough, giving embellished descriptions of differing talents and characteristics.

Books – I mainly used ones which are out-of-print some of them now.  But Margaret Hone is a good beginner start. Then Robert Hand for transits and aspects and relationship charts. Sakoian & Acker for planetary positions and also synastry.  Stephen Arroyo is recommendable. Bil Tierney for configurations – Dynamics of Aspect Analysis. Liz Greene – for many books especially Saturn, good for a psychological slant. Martin Schulman on Moon’s Nodes. David Hamblin on Harmonics, as well as Michael Baigent, Baigent also good for Mundane Astrology. Ebertin for midpoints. Robert Blaschke for Progressions.

  Solar Arcs – I think Noel Tyl wrote a book which I’ve never read. Trial and error is what taught me.

  There are also myriad websites which are helpful – Café Astrology and Bob Marks as well as Dark Pixie come to mind.

The best tool is practice. Start with those you know since you’ve a better idea of what to expect. Though there will be surprises. Two of my family had charts completely against my expectation. The third was obvious. If people flatly deny what you think their chart says – you may be wrong but more likely it is a blind spot on their part and not a good idea to push too hard but don’t let it dent your self-confidence. Learn to keep your own counsel and wait see – it usually unspools itself at some point.

Greensill Capital, a UK financial services house involved in supply-chain financing has filed for bankruptcy sending out waves of collateral damage to banks such as Credit Suisse, the UK taxpayer and German town councils. Eye-watering sums are involved, Credit Suisse having frozen $1 billion in assets for a hard-to-estimate hit. The FT has calculated there is roughly £1bn exposure for UK taxpayers via Sanjeev Gupta’s steel/hydro-power and smelter group and Greensill, including a Scottish government guarantee. And German town councils are out circa half a million euros.

  Greensill lent money to corporate customers to pay their suppliers. These loans were packaged into funds run by Credit Suisse and sold to investors. The insurance covering the underlying credit allowed investors to treat the funds as almost risk-free. Gupta’s sprawling empire GFG Alliance is now in a precarious position following the collapse of Greensill its main lender, which helped propel GFG’s aggressive international expansion spree that began in 2013.

  David Cameron, the former UK PM, promoted Greensill’s “supply chain finance” initiative, which was used by the NHS in its supply of chemists. However, after the government outsourcing company Carillion collapsed with liabilities of £7 billion, an inquiry report found the scheme allowed it to “prop up its failing business model”, and was “a story of recklessness, hubris and greed, its business model was a relentless dash for cash”.

  Lex Greensill, the Australian who started Greensill in 2011 with his brother, used to boast how he rose from being a sweet potato farmer to become a billionaire banker travelling the globe by private jet, and employing powerful former politicians including Cameron and the former Australian foreign minister Julie Bishop. He is remembered from his Morgan Stanley and Citibank days for his extravagance. Only last year he had hoped to float on the stock market with a $7bn (£5.8bn) valuation. In 2017 he was awarded a CBE for services to the economy in the Queen’s birthday honours. After leaving office, Cameron was signed up as a senior adviser to Greensill and flew around the world promoting the business.

  Lex Greensill, according to an old Companies House document was born 29 December 1976 in Bundaberg, Australia. [Date to be treated with some caution since it depends on the accuracy of the filing. Sanjeev Gupta’s birth date varies between 27 July and 27 September 1971 on different company documents.)

  If this date is accurate and it looks feasible. He has a Capricorn Sun, possibly on the focal point of a Cardinal T Square to an Aries Moon opposition Pluto – ego-centric, controlling, power-hungry. Even more significantly he has a focal point Jupiter in indulgent Taurus in a Fixed T Square to a Venus opposition Saturn in wannabe-important Leo. Fixed signs are acquisitive and more so with Jupiter involved –  immoderate, excessive in expectations, grandiose. Bil Tierney remarks: “ This apex Jupiter seeks expansion and extended control in financial areas or investments, and is prone towards having much faith in its wheeling-and-dealing potential” – with a tendency to over commit.

  His 9^th Harmonic – what gives him pleasure – and often notable amongst the financially greedy, is stratospherically ambitious and ruthlessly determined.   

  If anything 2023 looks even more of a car-crash year than this one, if his birth date is sound.

  His Greensill Capital Management, incorporated 19 April 2012 in London, also has Jupiter in Taurus with a final degree Aries Sun opposition Saturn in Libra. The Saturn is catching the depressing, deprived tr Pluto square this year, the midpoints thereafter and then the Sun. Intriguingly it has echoes of Lex Greensill’s 9^th Harmonic since there is a Grand Trine of Mars trine Pluto trine Sun, with Mars opposition Neptune.

  David Cameron was almost certainly in thrall to Greensill’s power since LG’s Pluto is conjunct Cameron’s Libra Sun.  The relationship chart (dates being sound) hints the fallout may be worse in 2022/23.

  This year Cameron has a morale-denting Solar Arc Neptune square his Sun; with tr Neptune continuing to undermine his Uranus Pluto opposition Saturn making for uncertainty and mounting panic in 2022/23 as tr Neptune is conjunct his Saturn.

  The Tories and money!!  Perhaps this is part of Pluto’s final sting-in-the-tail as it exits Capricorn, pulling down one more column in the temple of greed

Add On: From FT March 19th: David Cameron lobbied for Greensill access to Covid-19 loan schemes.
Former UK prime minister urged bigger role for group but Treasury remained reluctant

‘Marvelous’ Marvin Hagler, who has just died at 66, will be remembered as one of the greatest boxing middleweight fighters and one the finest at any weight in any era. He was a tough boxer, described as having a chip of both shoulders and a hard hitter.

 Born on 23 May 1954 5.17am Newark, New Jersey, he grew up fatherless in the ghettoes of Newark, relating more to the wounded birds he helped and his pet turtle. “They were the only friends I could relate to” he once said. “Maybe the only friends I really liked. I was always by myself.”  He dropped out of school at 14, worked in construction and after a beating in a street fight found a boxing gym where he trained.

 He won all but one of his 56 amateur fights and was unbeaten for the first three years of his professional career. He faced racism, notably when he won the World Middleweight title in London in front of a bottle-throwing Brit audience; and faced the dark side of the boxing business. His last fight in 1987 against Sugar Ray Leonard went against him on a judge’s decision that he and many others disputed. He never boxed again and retired fourteen months later with a record of 62 wins, three losses and three draws and moved to Italy to embark on an acting career.

  He had a Taurus Ascendant giving him a weighty persona but his Sun was in airy Gemini in the 1st; and his Mercury, Venus, Jupiter were also in Gemini. Like many overwhelmingly physical individuals he lacked Earth signs with only his Mars in Capricorn. Not what you’d expect. His Mars was in an edgy sextile to an obsessive Saturn in Scorpio. But it isn’t really as brutal or ruthless a chart as his lifestyle and public image suggested. He did have a pivotal Pluto in his 4^th house on the focal point of a mini-Grand Trine to Jupiter Venus trine Neptune, so he would be controlling, determined and ambitious.

  But Sugar Ray Leonard, 17 May 1956 7.58pm Wilmington, North Carolina, has a much more typical chart for a boxer. He had a Taurus Sun opposition Saturn in Scorpio square a super-confident Jupiter Pluto in Leo opposition Mars in Aquarius – Fixed and stubborn to the nth degree, gutsy, used to punishment, taking and giving it.  

Lara Trump has been flirting with the possibility of running for senate in 2022 in North Carolina. Though she’s facing a couple of hurdles before then. One is her father-in-law deflating like a punctured balloon and the Trump family facing myriad image-damaging lawsuits as well as financial woes. The other is her connection with a dog rescue charity that has spent nearly 2 million dollars at various Trump properties over the last several years. IRS filings for the non-profit list Lara Trump as a chairwoman for charity events starting in 2018.

  Esquire writes: “Mixing politics and charity is risky business —- Lara Trump is funneling money into companies that she has a vested interest in. That kind of self-dealing is reflective of the practices of the former Trump Foundation which was forced to shut down after an investigation into the charity by New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood discovered it was engaging in “a shocking pattern of illegality” including “unlawfully coordinating with Mr. Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.”

  Born 12 October 1982, a former TV producer, she has been married to Eric Trump since 2014 and they have two children. She’s a sociable Sun Venus in Libra in a lively sextile to a publicity-attracting Mars Neptune in Sagittarius. With an unbudgeable Saturn Pluto in Libra and a money-magnet Jupiter in Scorpio maybe square a flamboyant Moon in Leo.

   Her life is stalling altogether over the next two years as her Solar Arc Mars makes a discouraging square to her Saturn Pluto this year for a car-crash setback and worse in 2023 with Solar Arc Mars square her Pluto – trapped and scary. On top of that she has tr Pluto in a depressing square to her Saturn and deeply frustrating conjunction to her Solar Arc Mars this year; and tr Pluto is also in a challenging square to her Pluto in 2021/22. Life is changing and not as she wants.  Tr Uranus will provide the odd ray of sunshine as it opposes her Jupiter mid this year but there again tr Saturn squares her Jupiter which will do the reverse. Methinks her political aspirations will have to wait, perhaps for another lifetime.

  Eric Trump, 6 January 1984, is equally completely road-blocked from early 2022 through to late 2023 and beyond with tr Pluto square his Mars, then his Mars/Pluto midpoint and finally his Pluto in 2024.

 Pic: Gage Skidmore.