Melania Trump, born 26 April 1970 in Slovenia (old Yugoslavia), is incredibly different from her husband Donald. He’s Air Fire and very Mutable – so like a hot air balloon and scattered. She very earthy and fixed – with a Sun Saturn in Taurus and Sun opposition Jupiter in Scorpio, with Mercury Venus … Read more
Donald Trump has chosen Mike Pence, Governor of Indiana, as his running mate. He is deemed to have discipline, experience in government, conservative principles and credibility among Christian evangelicals. He crusaded against abortion, gay rights and Planned Parenthood. An early advocate of the Tea Party movement, he is on the far right of … Read more
There’s a thought-provoking piece in the Guardian today by Emily Bell, a digital shining light, which begins with the Mark Twain thought that ‘A lie can travel halfway round the world before the truth is putting on its shoes.’ In the age of viral amplification on the net, that old trope has taken on a … Read more
Donald Trump has parted company with his excitable campaign manager Corey Lewandowski. The seasoned republican strategist Paul Manafort will take over. Manafort, 1 April 1949 Connecticut, has been brought in to focus Trump more on policy than personality, which certainly fits with PM’s Saturn in Virgo sitting on Trump’s Ascendant and conjunct Trump’s … Read more
Where we are at now – with only six months to go. Hallelujah. Hillary has become the first woman Presidential nominee for a major party in USA history. So good on her. Her ferociously Fixed chart with three Scorpio and three Leo planets certainly gives her stamina and endurance. She’s also got tr Pluto … Read more
Paul Ryan, House Speaker and the Republican party’s highest-ranking elected official, has denied reports from the Trump camp that he is ready to endorse The Donald. He may, force majeure, have no option as the nomination seems all but settled, but they do not make a pair of happy campers. Ryan, 29 January 1970 … Read more
It’s certainly an epoch for rank outsiders to sail home as winners. Last July Donald Trump was given a 1% chance of getting the Republican nomination and here we are – the unthinkable has to be thought. The Daily Beast (admittedly biased) said he acted like a loser after the Indiana win, which cemented him … Read more
Bernie Sanders won all three states who were voting on Saturday, giving his campaign heart though he’ll still struggle to make up his delegate deficit. His uplift came with tr Uranus sextile his Jupiter which finishes on April 1st. He starts to look really uneasy from April 20th and especially through May when tr Uranus … Read more
There are lawsuits pending against Donald Trump for his now defunct Trump University (after early complaints renamed hastily as Trump Entrepreneur Initiative). See url: http://goo.gl/Wa2ARv His Solar Return for June 2015 does have Pluto in the 9th which can be legal wrangles as well making him more opinionated than usual. What might upset his applecart … Read more
The Republican Party grandees are gradually coming to realise that they may be saddled with Donald Trump as a candidate, a prospect they’d have keeled over laughing cynically about a few months back. There are two charts for the GOP – 6 July 1854 and 28 February 1854. On both, The GOP Neptune in Pisces … Read more