The clue to Donald Trump’s dysfunctional emotional makeup may lie more with his mother than father. Conventional wisdom has it he takes after Fred, his profiteering, racist, property developer, Lutheran father of German extraction.
Fred, 11 October 1905, did have his Libra Sun conjunct DT’s 2nd house Jupiter and Fred’s Jupiter fell in DT’s 10th, helping him on the road to material success. And admittedly Fred’s Leo North Node was conjunct DT’s Mars Ascendant with Fred’s Saturn in Aquarius in opposition. So he would be uncompromising in his effects to instill a hard-edge into his son’s methods.
But Donald’s relationship with his mother Mary was way more complicated – and given that she was a Sun Saturn in Taurus (like Melania) and in Mary’s case her Sun Saturn fell on Donald’s Midheaven, she deserves a closer look.
Born 10 May 1912 4am Tong, Isle of Lewis, Scotland, in a Gaelic-speaking household, she was the youngest of ten children and first left home at 18, one of tens of thousands of young Scots who left for the U.S. or Canada during this period, having suffered badly the consequences of the Highland Clearances and World War I. Local historians have said properties at the time were “indescribably filthy”, and that families in the area lived austere lives as fishers, farmers and peat diggers. A 2016 account in a Scottish newspaper The National put it, she “started life in America as a dirt-poor servant escaping the even worse poverty of her native land.”
Her religion is described on wiki as Presbyterian (protestant) and that was how Donald was brought up but it is possible she was a Free Presbyterian, which is an even stricter form of fundamentalist Calvinism common on the Scottish Islands. [And a humourless, uncompromising, life-suppressing, fun-denying and damaging force it usually was – which is why many forced to endure a childhood under it abandoned the faith later.]
In addition to Sun, Saturn, Venus in Taurus, Mary Trump also had a late Aquarius Moon trine Pluto in late Gemini. Mary’s Pluto in late Gemini was conjunct Donald’s Gemini Sun and opposition his Moon so she would be a majorly controlling force. Her publicity-attracting Mars Neptune in Cancer was conjunct his Saturn Venus in Cancer – which is a weird crossover. Aggravated, evasive, difficult to pin down, almost perverse.
Melania’s Pluto in late Virgo is also in hard aspect to DT’s Sun and Moon so equally given to controlling tendencies. If Melania had an early morning birth she would also have a late Aquarius Moon though she does seem more like a Capricorn Moon.
Donald’s Moon is 4th house so he would tend to look to his father for security; and his Moon is opposition Uranus, trine Mars and inconjunct Saturn. His mother comes across as angry, erratic, not always available and cold. Which given her harsh background is hardly surprising but not healthy for an young child.
Their relationship chart is not overly distressed though there is a yod of composite Saturn sextile Neptune inconjunct a 7th house Moon with an excitable Mars trine a composite 10th house Uranus. A lunar yod can be emotionally disorganised so he never developed the steadiness which comes from having a reliable early maternal bond. Uranus in the composite 10th hints at a relationship dynamic which set him off on a unique and wayward path. And the composite Uranus square Pluto on the composite Ascendant hints at an inherent pattern in the relationship with his mother which would give him an urge to constantly upend situations when he felt it threatened his image or control.
Both his earlier wives had strongly aspected Saturns. Ivana had a Sun Mars in Pisces opposition Saturn – and Marla Maples, a Scorpio, had Saturn sextile Jupiter inconjunct Uranus Pluto. Cool .
Mary Trump is eeriely alike Melania – or vice versa.
I’d only recently learned about the Scottish migrations while reading fiction, set on the Isle of Lewis of all places, by Peter May, my new (multicultural) favorite author for relaxing reading. His books also state that, compared to Presbyterians, Catholics were thought to have way more fun, which I would never have guessed – the religion as harsh as the land islanders tried to eke a living from. (I was not raised with any religion, so have no real notion of ‘sin’, and certainly none of hell, but instead with a strong sense of personal responsibility and social duty, and, I would like to think, the ability to accept another’s religion)
There is something peculiarly joyless and anti-life about extreme Protestanism who pitch austerity to the limits. The Catholics at least believed in living well – eating, drinking and colourful ceremonies and rituals.
Years ago I made a documentary about St Kilda, the furthest west of the Scottish islands out in the Atlantic (next stop North America) – which had an even harder life than the other islands, and they had an almost pagan set of beliefs to withstand the rigours of an isolated, storm blown existence – until the dratted missionaries turned up, insisted they stopped dancing and singing, went to church three times on Sundays – and leached the life out of them so eventually they all left.
I grew up in Glasgow which was fairly anti-Catholic but I reserve a peculiar dislike for the Calvinists. One is as bad as the other though in a different way.
“Donald’s Moon is 4th house so he would tend to look to his father for security”
Marjorie, did you mean that he would look to his *mother* for security in the sentence above?
I was told that the 4th House, of home and hearth, is the mother’s location on a chart.
As an aside, I have a 4th House Moon too (widely conjunct Pluto in the same sign and house) and I was very close to my mother when young. She was and is a bit of a control freak, but age has mellowed her rough edges.
No there is a difference of opinion but I have always taken 4th as father and 10th as mother
According to the book pictured above (by Granddaughter Mary Trump), his mother was out of commission the first several years of Donald’s life. The narcissistic wounds are quite understandable in this light. She became pregnant shortly after his birth, was sick with a high-risk pregnancy and had great difficulty giving birth to brother Robert. Mary was not expected to live afterwards, staying in the hospital for about a year of his toddlerhood. He was 4 or 5 before she could be present in his life and at that time he was already quite the bully. Maggie Haberman’s book describes him, at age 5, throwing rocks at the head of a 2-year-old boy next door. (I only read parts of these books because the details get disturbing.)
The granddaughter Mary Trump’s book goes into detail on how tough life was in Tong, also. A bright light is that older sister Marianne gave a great deal of financial support back to the community in Tong and they have great affection for her, but no love lost on Donald.
There’s an old saying my dad quoted me once, “Men either marry their mothers or against them.” Fortunately, he was of the latter camp, and our family homelife was good. How good, I never realized until I was an adult. Obviously DT trod the other path.
Born 10 May 1912 4am Tong, Isle of Lewis, Scotland, in a Gaelic-speaking household, she was the youngest of ten children and first left home at 18, one of tens of thousands of young Scots who left for the U.S. or Canada during this period, having suffered badly the consequences of the Highland Clearances and World War I.”
Clearances in 1930? A stretch too far. When the Depression really struck, a little bit later, more people left the US than entered it until WW2 started.
? The consequences of the Highland Clearances in the mid 19th century plus the potato famine
Correction for their composite wheel….composite Sun, 6Ge01, is tightly sextile
Chaos, at 6Pi13. in 12th of sorrow.
Using the asteroid “Chaos” we have the following:
1. In the biwheel comparison chart, Donald’s Chaos 24Pi20, 12th House of sorrow,
is sextile Mary’s Saturn, in her 1st, bossy,.
2. In their composite wheel, composite Sun, 16Ta05 is sextile Chaos, 16Pi13.