Kamala Harris’s standing is flagging as she becomes the most unpopular US vice president for decades. She ticks more disapprovals than approvals having not shone in her two assignments of immigration and voting rights. She managed to alienate some Hispanic voters by telling those from central America not to come and equally upset others by not visiting the border sooner. And there are persistent reports of an unhealthy environment in her office with staff morale plummeting.
What is keeping her afloat and did so into the election is tr Pluto trine her Jupiter and that repeats for a final time this December. It is usually successful but can also breed arrogance. Her relationship with Joe Biden is going through a confused, disappointed and unsettled phase with tr Pluto square the composite Neptune again till late this December; and the ratchety tr Uranus square tr Saturn hitting on the composite Sun. There will be some disappointments between them in 2022 and 2023 with tr Neptune square the composite Jupiter.
But she should have a career boost from this New Year throughout 2022 with successful Jupiter moving across her 10th till spring 2023. At the same time she will be under considerable pressure with a challenging must-change tr Pluto square her Libra Sun from early 2022 to late 2023 followed by tr Pluto square her Moon in 2023/24. Also her Progressed Moon will move into her 12th house almost exactly now till mid 2023 which can be discouraging, a time of endings and inner reflection.
She’s probably too unbending, outspoken and over confident for her own good with a Fixed Grand Cross of Mars in Leo in the 3rd in a hard-edged opposition to Saturn square Jupiter in Taurus opposition Neptune. Though she would have assisted Biden in his win with her Jupiter trine his Midheaven and her can-be-charming Venus Pluto conjunction his MC.
From a previous post: May 20 2021:
Kamala Harris has the same uplift as Joe Biden with tr Pluto trine her Jupiter until late this November and tr Jupiter is moving through her 10th till March 2023 which is generally successful. But also like him she runs into more obvious problems from next year onwards when she picks up the challenging tr Pluto square her Libra Sun and her Aries Moon and conjunct her Sun/Moon midpoint. The latter could suggest marital tensions but in a politician it can also point to a popularity dent. But one way and another she’ll be under huge pressure. Plus tr Neptune will square her Ascendant and oppose her Sun/Mars midpoint from April 2022 onwards till late 2023 – which suggests an undermining of her image, low vitality and failed-plans. During this period tr Uranus will make a high-anxiety opposition to her Neptune.
Late 2023 sees a discouraging Solar Arc Saturn opposition her Sun and from April 2024 onwards for two years she picks up another Neptunian sinker to her Sun/Saturn midpoint.
Her Progressed Moon will move through her 12th house from the middle of this year to mid 2023 which is usually a time of endings, inward looking and not too upbeat. Then she’ll experience some uplift as it moves across her Ascendant and that coincides with tr Saturn being conjunct her Midheaven in March 2023 and starting her career peak of eight years thereafter with heavier responsibilities.
We have heard all this before re Hilary Clinton. Same BS. No one would be saying these things if she were male. As far as visiting the border? That was all noise from republicans. No one else cared.
What will the Democrats do if Biden is still around and determined to run for the Presidency again?
To be honest my first impression if Kamala is she seemed hard to warm to. However I do think women politicians have to overcome a fair bit of thinking women are not as good as men and this can give them a hard edge.
I’ve worked on a number of women politicians’ campaigns, as well as on men’s campaigns. The double standard is appalling. Women have to be so much tougher and smarter, yet expect to be examined minutely and criticized for everything they do, wear and say. They are held to a far higher standard few men could meet.
A Fixed Grand Cross is difficult – stubborn to the nth degree, wilful, uncompromising, rigid. It does give extraordinary endurance, but also fosters intolerance and dictatorial attitudes. An accentuated Jupiter won’t help with its air of grandiosity or the sharp-edged Mars opposition Saturn. There is a slight hint of Sarah Palin’s Sun Mars Saturn in Aquarius square Neptune in Harris’s chart.
Women may well have it tougher than men in a highly competitive, overly visible political world and therefore need to have a backbone of titanium to succeed but that doesn’t necessarily make them nicer or easy to get along with. A Fixed Grand Cross is one of extremism and builds up inner anger that either gets expressed or is picked up by those around who react badly against it.
@Marjorie, I also think the US political environment is somehow harder on women than that in most developed countries. This is especially visible in online environment. In fact, it’s interesting if terrifying to see how certain misogynic tropes in politics have spread from the US to Nordic countries in the past few year. For instance, Finland has had two female PMs before Sanna Marin, and the language used to criticize them was very different from that used with Marin, because I think we had a higher tolerance for people, including women, being very matter of fact and goal oriented. We haven’t expected our politicians to be “warm”, whether men or women, but to get things done. But somehow, in netsphere, I’m now reading about these young, leftist female politicians leading current Government being “ice princesses” or similar.
Margaret Thatcher was hard to warm to as well, but she won three general elections, and did so forty years ago when there were hardly any women in politics.
Voters don’t really care about likeability as long as you are competent. The issue with Kamala Harris is that she’s been given a very difficult portfolio (immigration) but possibly without the tools to be able to deal with it effectively. Thatcher was also dealing with very difficult stuff – very high inflation, invasion of the Falklands, unions wanting to use illegal means to topple her. But she was the Prime Minister, which means that unlike Kamala, she had all the tools to deal with her problems, and she did.
Kamala Harris has a fixed grand cross, and Thatcher had a cardinal T-square of Pluto opposite Jupiter square the Sun.
It’s too early to write off Kamala Harris based on the Thatcher example. If Kamala displays competence and resolves the immigration issue, she’ll be rewarded by a grateful public regardless of whether they like her or not.
Her Mars/Pluto midpoint in her Natal Chart is opposite her Saturn this may suggest someone who is pretty quick to rile or plays the authority card. She also has Pluto sitting on her Venus/Uranus midpoint in her Natal fourth house. Another indication of someone who is very quick to explode, yet may be charming with it. Sun opposite an Aries moon in 11th house, again points to needing to being No.1 in a crowd. Mercury in Scorpio/6th house, is another indication that she could be explosive. There is a lot of fire/air in her Natal Chart, indicating a quick mercurial temper? I don’t know what others think, however, her Natal Chart looks like one very opinionated lady who doesn’t take kindly to being told that she can’t do something. Interestingly transiting Pluto will be coming up to square her Natal Mercury in Pluto around the 2024 USA election
I also see Sun opp Aries moon in 11th as someone who will often go out in front, like a general, to fight for her friends/groups/communities often at the detriment of her own will, reputation and purpose, possibly becoming too emotionally involved in those causes…so not just someone who needs to be No.1 in a crowd, but that’s just my take on it.
Agree with Troy; Susan Rice would have been terrific. My biggest worry about Harris is that if she has to carry the 2024 ticket, she could really hurt the Democrats’ chances. If Trump is the nominee again, that would be disastrous for the whole world. Look forward to reading your assessment of the 2024 contest, when it’s closer.
Susan Rice had other liabilities as a candidate, including the fact that she’d never run for office and she has a son who’s a big Trumper.
You really don’t want to put a first-time candidate on a national ticket. There’s a huge learning curve in knowing the does and don’ts of running for office and in surviving the scrutiny of media and opposition. I’ve done candidate recruitment and it’s not easy explaining the process.
How do you explain Drompf? “You really don’t want to put a first-time candidate on a national ticket.”
He seems to be an anomaly, according to most political thinkers — note I do not say pundits. He seems to tap into the authoritarian leanings of many in the Republican party and was and is able to exploiting their underlying racism and latent white supremacy, as well as the nativist streak in the country. That’s a simplistic explanation. Or, a flip explanation — the wrong person at the right time.
thanks!
Disagree that Trump taps into authoritarian leanings. It is more the cult of his personality, and people who are into his personality see him as a rugged individualist, and someone who gets things done. George Will tagged Trump as “a weak person’s idea of a strong person.” Kamala Harris is phony according to my friends who are Democratic women from Southern California. Harris’s positions are too fluid to believe she’s a genuine person. She is lucky and she didn’t get where she is because she was the best person for the job. Most people can see through Harris (Gemini ascendant has that two-faced quality), even if they can’t see through Trump (Leo ascendant), and that is why her popularity is plummeting. That said, I can’t stand when people are into the cult of personality in politicians.
I think people forget that Republicans did not want Trump to represent them. They actually fought him in the early stages of campaigning and only relented when they saw his popularity rising. They did not choose him, he chose them and he was not seen as a “true” Republican, for better or worse. Happy to be corrected if I’m wrong.
Seems like she’s stumbling as she gets her sea legs. I hoped she would be Biden’s choice for Attorney General. I have to wonder if the micro-managing autocratic style she may have is regarded the same way if she were a man? Or, are people generally fed up with that kind of managerial style regardless of which gender it comes from? I’m sure she’d learn and happy to hear that in spring 2023 her career starts to take off.
I agree with you Frank. I think the energy, drive and sheer force of will that she used to fulfill her ambitions may have stood her in good stead as she was fighting those battles but now that she’s “won” the next-to-top job, she needs to change gears and adapt her style and skills. Those Pluto transits should help her do that and if she can make the changes required, I think she’ll be prepared for 2024…that’s if she really wants the job, of course.
My guess is that with a stellium in Virgo combined with her fixed grand cross, Harris will have a tendency to micro-manage, always a sure way to arouse discord among staffers.
Oopppsss..doc on Netflix is call “The staircase”.
“Out of topic”..(I don’t know where to post my request/suggestion).
Marjorie,
I don’t know if you can have a look at Michael Peterson chart (“The stairway” doc on Netflix).
It would be interesting!
He is born Oct 22 1943 Nashville Tenessee (no birth time).
Katleen (his wife) Feb 21 1953 Greensboro North Carolina (no birth time)
Dec 9 2001 2:40 am (he call for help) Durham North Carolina.
Moon/Sun Eclipses in Dec 2001
Thanks!
Linda
the big question is that will she be re-elected in 2024
Oh how I wish it was Susan Rice. Such is life.
Her poll numbers aren’t sliding as they’ve never been good in the first place according to the “sensible” polls. Whatever luck she has is what’s apparently saving her as she’s not likeable to the majority. Anybody who payed attention to how her dismal campaign fizzled would not be surprised about internal ramblings with her staff.
If it wasn’t for me buying into decent astrology I’d probably be nervous about 2024.