Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State, has been drawn into the Ukraine impeachment imbroglio with three House committees subpoena-ing him to produce relevant documents within a week. It won’t please him at all. He has stuck himself to Trump for survival reasons but has ambitions beyond him of perhaps a presidential run in future.
It might explain the fairly violent disruption between the pair up and coming from late this December and escalating through 2020. That’s when tr Uranus is conjunct the composite Venus, moving on through hard aspects to the Venus, Saturn, Mars midpoints and then the composite Saturn and then Mars throughout all of 2020. May, June and across the election look exceptionally fraught between them.
Pompeo’s own chart, 30 December 1963 1.32 pm Orange, California, is facing catastrophe mid this October to mid November with tr Uranus square the Mars/Saturn, repeating in March 2020; and career losses from tr Neptune conjunct his Jupiter/Saturn midpoint mid November to mid December. His Capricorn Sun is also in the line of fire this year and early next from the July Cancer Eclipse and the December Capricorn one.
His Term chart as Secy of State, 26 April 2018 2pm Washington, DC, will be road-blocked and bad tempered across this New Year with setbacks from tr Saturn conjunct the Mars Pluto; and before then from mid November to mid December with tr Pluto returning to its natal position conjunct Mars.
That could also indicate repercussions from events in the outside world, not just Trump mayhem.
Pompeo is an evangelical Christian, an adherent to the notion that God promised the land of Israel to the Jews, and that their gathering is foretold in the prophecy of the rapture — the ascent of true believers into the kingdom of God. The rest of us – Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, agnostics, atheists etc – get tossed in the trash can. Pompeo says that the Bible “informs everything I do.” Presumably including Middle East policy.
Kurt Volker, 27 December 1964, a well-respected career diplomat and Ukraine envoy since 2017, has resigned over the furore though he’s still expected to give testimony. He’s a Sun Capricorn which was jangled by the July Cancer Eclipse and the upcoming December one in Capricorn. He also has Mars in Virgo which squares Trump’s Sun and Moon and his Pluto Uranus squares Trump’s 10th house Uranus – so a combative and ratchety interface.
Volker is confused and uncertain now till mid-November with challenges and setbacks into 2020, with greater panics from late February onwards.
ADD ON: The precipitating factor in ensnaring the State Department appears, at least in large part, to be Rudy Giuliani’s doing. Trump’s personal lawyer, a wild card with a motormouth went on television and publicly named State Department officials who were involved which led to Volker’s resignation. Pompeo is reportedly furious with Giuliani but it’s unclear whether he’s had it out with him given his protected status as Trump’s right-hand man.
Pompeo’s relationship chart with Giuliani is a volcanic cauldron of dislike with a composite Saturn opposition Neptune Mars square Uranus which tr Pluto will be hammering at from late January 2020 for two years. Even before then mid this November there’ll be a decided dip between them for four weeks with tr Neptune squares the composite Jupiter. That’s the same phase when Trump’s relationship chart with Giuliani is also moving through swampy times with tr Neptune square the composite Sun.
I always assumed Pompeo’s Evangelical Christianity is polically calculated. His background is more typical of a “Neocon”, but he entered politics when Tea Party was the thing and through Koch Brothers.
But then again, I assumed he was “the smart one” in Trump Administration, there to gain. Reading about dynamics Narcissists create, I was reminded smart people know they can’t “play” a clinical Narcissist.
So, Pompeo isn’t as smart as he thinks.
Honestly? Pence and Pompeo scare me far more than Trump does and I despise Trump. I live among evangelical Christians and they care about two things–protecting embryos (save the embryo, starve/abuse the child) and going to see Jesus. It makes them hardly different than radicalized Muslim terrorists. Fox News and right-wing media outlets plus the whole QAnon bs has radicalized these people to the point that they believe that Democrats are the anti-christ. And obviously, it doesn’t matter to them that Trump is everything the Bible warns them about. They believe Fox News & Trump over and above anything else. I really do want to see what happens in the next month as we get closer to that Pluto-Saturn conjunction.
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I find this simply terrifying. How on earth can educated people believe in this kind of snake oil in this day and age?
Apologies, I was responding to this:
“Pompeo is an evangelical Christian, an adherent to the notion that God promised the land of Israel to the Jews, and that their gathering is foretold in the prophecy of the rapture — the ascent of true believers into the kingdom of God. The rest of us – Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, agnostics, atheists etc – get tossed in the trash can. Pompeo says that the Bible “informs everything I do.” Presumably including Middle East policy.“
I have family members who would cut off body parts and drain their blood into the chalice. Add a few shakes of hot sauce, drink up! Remember the cry “Death to Moby Dick!” from the movie with Gregory Peck?
But methinks Pompeo needs a new set of reading glasses…