Seattle is the target of Trump and the far-right’s ire with claims the “radical left” has “taken over” the city when a police-free autonomous zone was set up by protesters after demonstrations over police brutality and systemic racism. The president said he had offered to come in and settle the matter within an hour or so. In response the Seattle mayor told him to “go back to your bunker.”
Seattle, incorporated 2 December 1869, has a long history of radical action stretching back to the Seattle General Strike of 1919 which brought the city to a halt as well as later historic protests.
The city chart itself has a stellium in outspoken Sagittarius with Mercury, probably Moon, Sun, Saturn there with Sun Saturn trine Neptune. Saturn Neptune is concerned with betterment of society and Sun Neptune will tend to the idealistic as well as the creative. Not surprisingly it has a long musical tradition, being the birthplace of Jimi Hendrix, and its vibrant jazz scene nurtured the early careers of Ray Charles, Quincy Jones, Ernestine Anderson, and others.
There’s also a super/pushily-confident Jupiter Pluto in materialistic Taurus in an innovative sextile to Uranus – fitting for a city renowned for being the gateway to the Klondike Gold Rush, and hosting a thriving shipbuilding, then aircraft industry and finally, courtesy of local Bill Gates, an even more prosperous technology sector.
The General Strike of 6 February 1919 happened with a tr Pluto Jupiter conjunction in Cancer which was in an explosive opposition to the Seattle Mars in Capricorn; and the tr North Node exactly conjunct the Seattle Sagittarius Sun.
Even more massive protests followed the Kent State University shooting when national guard shot 13 unarmed students, killing four, on 4 May 1970 during a peace rally against the expansion of the Vietnam War into Cambodia. The massacre led to a mass walkout of 4 million students in colleges across the USA. Tr Saturn was conjunct the Seattle Jupiter, moving to conjunct the Seattle Pluto in the aftermath, for a massive dip in local confidence. Tr Uranus was retrograding back to form an explosive square to the Seattle Mars; and the tr Node was square the Seattle Sun, with tr Mars in opposition to the Sun.
More recently on 30 November 1999, anti-globalisation protests against the World Trade Organisation Conference became known as the Battle of Seattle as 40,000 protesters gathered. At that point the economically unstable tr Saturn in Taurus square tr Uranus was in hard aspect to the Seattle Jupiter Pluto; and tr Pluto was conjunct the Seattle Sun. The cost to the city was considerable with the police chief resigning in the aftermath.
This year tr Neptune is squaring the Seattle Sun in a lacklustre run till late January 2021. The Solar Arc Sun will conjunct the Jupiter late in 2021 for a surge of confidence and success. Though before then the Solar Arc Neptune will square the Seattle Saturn for a period of uncertainty.
Not Donald Trump’s ideal location – especially with the Seattle Jupiter Pluto square his Pluto for a tussle of Pluto’s jostling for the upper hand; Seattle’s can-be-self-righteous Saturn conjunct Trump’s Moon and opposition his Sun and in a high-tension opposition to his Uranus; and Seattle’s rebellious, reforming Uranus conjunct Trump’s conservative Saturn. He won’t be retiring there for sure.
Idaho is more his kind of State.
Why is that, Lily? I’ve travled to Coeur d’Alene a lot for business;nothing strikes me as Trumpian unless I need to be further East of the Divide. Thanks
Trump and his team appear to be trying to make a particular point with these particular choices of locations?? Symbolically?? I could be off but …..!
Seattle also has the worst weather in the country with rain all year except July and August. A very depressing place to be in winter. Washington State has no state income tax which makes it quite a magnet for capitalists like Gates and Bezos, and the state has some of the greatest income inequality in the country. It has a huge homelessness problem. (As for Kent State — 4 unarmed students were killed and 9 were injured. Just horrible that the National Guard would do that.)
There remains a very strong and active KKK presence and the area is known as the Northern Bible Belt. The weather wasn’t that bad in the 1980’s when I moved here but I have to say the solid, continuous cloud cover from September until July make it very depressing. Forget about seeing the northern lights. A few years ago there was so much continuous rainfall that fruit and row crops in eastern Washngton were a total loss. Vitamin D supplements are required for many folk but the “self-righteous” ignore the warnings and soldier on. The locals actually complain about the sunshine as tho it were “a blight”. 😉
The locals are a very fixed minded populace, and don;t easily (if ever) accept transplants from other regions unless there is something in it for the heavily-tatooed folk. They will actively drive away some industries.
Agree that Trump won’t touch down here for either a cuppa crafted coffee or a specialty beer. Even to visit the now nearly-empty Boeing factories.