Trump unhinged – when will the elastic snap? ++ Nero chart ++ TACO as markets fall ++ Kent State shootings and Vietnam: Pluto on Leo North Node ++ Stephen Miller = Caligula

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1. Politics aside, purely from the human point of view, Donald Trump has Mercury square Chiron (sandwiched between Neptune and Jupiter). Mercury square Chiron indicates someone who struggles with communication and self-expression, and feels bad about his or her lack of ability in this area. Throw in his Neptune for confusion and muddle + Jupiter for inflation and bombastic indiscretion, seems to fit DT perfectly.
   Right now Mars by progression conjuncts that sandwich of his for aggression and assertiveness in communicating, at the same time as Pluto by progression sextiles it, which might suggest a not entirely unhappy outcome, but I don’t know.

2. Second person murdered in Minnesota by ICE. After reading the WH response on this, I have a strong feeling we will have several States threatening seceding by the end of the year. A possible Civil War? Great work, Heritage Foundation and Stephen Miller!

   • Hello Solaia- Cali, WA and Oregon could be a powerhouse of a bloc. I think the USA will break apart but it might take a couple of decades. American democracy died on 1/6/21. The insurrectionists urinated and defecated in the halls of Congress. And of course, much worse, police officers were attacked and killed. Mike Pence miraculously survived even though hand Imade gallows were erected for him. Democracy died that day because no arrests were made EVEN THOUGH the insurrectionists were committing crimes on live TV, in real time. And the ring leader was not arrested that day or the next morning, as well. Curious how upcoming Aries action will impact that horrible day’s chart…

     • Typo. —hand made is correct word.

     • Methinks the insurrectionists need to be the ones deported. You can’t convince me they don’t pose a greater risk than illegal immigrants at this point. One year after they were pardoned, at least one third have been arrested for various other crimes.

3. I think it might be interesting for Marjorie to do an article focusing on the USA’s Mars going retrograde by progression as this will be the background theme for a lot of US geopolitical approaches for most of this century. It’s interesting that it retrogrades all the way back by progression to where it was at the start of Libra in WW2 before it goes forward again.

4. Thanks Marjorie – the link between Stephen Miller and Nero’s uncle Caligula is fascinating. As are the symbolic links between the USA and Ancient Rome, as suggested by Gore Vidal in a number of works. Back in 2004 he gave an interview about his book Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia.

   “In his latest book, Gore Vidal writes that “Not since the 1846 attack on Mexico in order to seize California has an American government been so nakedly predatory.” He describes the current president as being like “a man in one of those dreams who knows he is safe in bed and so can commit any crime he likes in his voluptuous dream. No one can stop him.” democracynow.org

   Vidal was referring to President G W Bush in that interview. The Mexico-America War began in April 1846, when Saturn was conjunct Neptune, exact at 27 Aquarius (close to USA Moon) that month. And here comes February’s Solar Eclipse at 29 Aquarius square Uranus 27 Taurus to, perhaps, strike a chord with the population (Moon) again?

   • Regarding Caligula, Miller and Trump, Suetonius (who was a bit of a hack, it has to be said) writes about Caligula’s sensitivity over his premature hair loss, how he forbade anyone from looking down on him due to his sparse crown and made it a capital offence to do so. Despite his hair loss, Caligula had thick body hair, so no one was to say the word ‘goat’ in his presence. Moreover, Suetonius goes on to describe Caligula’s appearance: ‘… his face was naturally grim and ugly, and he contrived to make it even more savage by practising all kinds of awful and terrifying expressions in a mirror’. Caligula demanded that he be worshipped as a god, had a golden statue of himself made and installed it in a shrine and every day, the statue was clothed in whatever robes the Emperor was wearing. There are much fewer surviving examples of Caligula’s bust, due to the fact that after his assassination, his statues were destroyed and vandalised. His German guard slaughtered anyone they suspected of conspiring against their boss, in the immediate aftermath of the assassination. Caligula favoured Germanic bodyguards because their height, blonde colouring and ferocity gave them a certain physical advantage and presence, they were not involved with Roman politics and because they were considered extremely loyal. They were known as ‘Germani corporis custodes’.

     I understand one of Miller’s nicknames is ‘Peewee German’.

     • Virgoflake I recently re watched the magnificent BBC production of I Claudius in which among many superb performances John Hurt was Caligula. One of the scariest things you will ever see on screen. The series was a major influence on David Chase and the Sooranos. Well worth digging out.

       • It’s one of my most beloved adaptations in BBC television history, Gamal. I’ve watched it many times. It’s one of the main reasons I became fascinated by ancient history and in particular, Roman and Greek as a teenager. How can anyone forget John Hurt in the role of Caligula? The line: ‘Uncle….I have become a god’ is forever etched into my memory bank! Didn’t know “I Claudius” influenced “The Sopranos”, though.

         • A fellow fan….Yay! Sopranos story lines evolved in similar fashion to I Claudius. It’s also why Chase named Tony’s mother Livia… a wee tribute…

5. It took some doing, but I tracked down precise times for the UN resolution in New York authorizing a Board of Peace. I also got a close time for the signing of Trump’s version in Davos. The info is as follows:

   https://…..news.un.org/en/…..story/2025/11/1166391
   A side panel shows an announcement on X with the vote tally – TIME: 2:06 pm (New York)

   https:….. //press.un.org/…..en/sc_live (this is the text shown on the UN site by scrolling to find the date of the vote)
   Nov 17, 2025 02:08 PM
   Security Council authorizes stabilization force in Gaza, adopting resolution 2803 (2025)
   The Security Council today adopted a resolution authorizing a Board of Peace and an International Stabilization Force in Gaza, as outlined in the United States “Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict”.
   The text, adopted as resolution 2802 (2025), passed with 13 votes in favour to none against, with 2 abstentions (China, Russian Federation).
   The Plan’s first phase establishes a fragile ceasefire, the release of hostages and detainees, partial Israel Defense Forces (IDF) withdrawal and increased aid.
   The second phase calls for Hamas to disarm, further IDF withdrawal, International Stabilization Force deployment and an interim technocratic government under the Board of Peace before eventual Palestinian Authority control.

   Per the UN site, the voting started:
   Nov 17, 2025 01:58 PM
   Members vote on proposal authorizing stabilization force, governance body in Gaza

   Thus, it looks like 2:06 PM (14:06) in New York would be the most accurate time for the UN vote to have concluded. This was posted a couple of minutes earlier than the 2:08 news item.

   ———–
   As for Trump’s signing of his own version of the Board of Peace, I could not find a time stamp. The best source I found comes from a couple of screenshots of the signing itself, which happened to include a signor’s arms with a watch face.

   Assuming the man’s watch was set for Davos time, it showed approximately 12:30 pm, January 22, 2026.

   Note, a slightly later news item on NPR confirms the post-noon time frame (allowing time for the item to be written & posted):
   https:… //www…. npr.org/2026/01/22/g-s1-106799/board-of-peace-gaza-trump
   Trump signs Board of Peace charter at Davos as allies split on Gaza plan
   JANUARY 22, 2026 1:45 PM ET
   By Willem Marx

   …………
   That’s it for the 2 charts. Note that Trump’s document is NOT the same as the UN’s. There are various articles online that highlight the differences. Perhaps best to treat the signings as similar but separate or competing agreements.

   • Thanks. Have replaced the chart – Neptune Scheat on the Ascendant square Midheaven does not look like a long lasting entity .

     • I drew up a chart for the Davos 12.30 signing for the BoP and it was interesting – seemed to look quite positive but the top-down nature of it was indicated with a Sun/Mercury/Venus/Mars/Pluto stellium in Aquarius on the midheaven (which reflects the nature of its introduction). These placements were trine Uranus in Taurus on the Ascendant and both sextiled onto a Saturn Neptune conjunction in late Pisces. The Moon in Pisces had a trine to Jupiter in Cancer.

       Two things to note. One, I can’t help but think that for something like this to truly replace the UN as Trump seems to intend it to, it would be more effective at doing so if the Saturn Neptune conjunction were in Aries (new beginnings) rather than in the last few degrees of Pisces (endings). For a new venture you’d surely want the former. Secondly, the Nodes were direct which is a placement with not much written about it but which seems to tie into some sort of karmic realisation (this is very vague; research has not revealed much).

       Not sure what to make of this (if the chart is accurate). I wonder if the results of this venture might be an eventual reaction to the UN’s problems by a transformation and rebuilding of the UN along new lines so it doesn’t get undermined by this kind of thing.

       • Maybe not long lasting, but in the world of crockery a broken plate is rather hard to mend. This, imo, is an astonishing event: it looks to me like Trump is aiming to supercede the UN. He has effectively divided the UN into the leaders who were standing behind him at the Davos signing and the rest of the UN countries who didn’t (and presumably were not invited). Was this part of Project 2025 all along (don’t know)?

         Trump and the countries who are willing to follow him, such as Argentina, make up quite a renegade bunch. And the others such as UK, France, Germany, Canada etc. are left to scramble and figure out what’s next. China and Russia abstained from voting at the original UN BOP on November 17, which means they ‘let’ Trump do it. Did they know what was coming? So, whatever, this would make 4 competing factions – US, the EU group, China and Russia. Which in turn could align with eachother and the ASEAN & BRIC countries in due course, including the Middle East. Meanwhile Palestine is high and dry as Trump’s BOP doesn’t even mention them, unlike the original BOP. Is this the new/old world order we’re seeing? China and Russia must be laughing in their beers, waiting for the Western world to tear itself apart (sorry, not a cheerful thought).

         The split in the US is also reflected in the chart for the 2 BOP events – there is a big YOD between the Saturn/Neptune side vis a vis the Uranus side, focused on the earlier BOP Moon. Effectively, Trump has split the UN. I presume his effort is reflected in the Uranus side of the YOD (which is still retrograde), but the other side has gone direct since November. 29 degrees is one powerful number – but 1 degree is start all over time. Wild stuff.

         • The rupture between the UN and the US really happened in the Bush years with the invasion of Iraq where the US basically told the UN to go screw themselves. It got patched up under Obama and Biden but Trump’s actions are basically a cruder continuation of the same concept.

           The move to a more multipolar world was I think going to happen anyway, regardless of whether Trump was in power or not. Mars going retrograde by progression in the US natal chart definitely means America taking a step back from global affairs.

6. If you look at the chart for 5th nov 2024 (the day Americans made their decision to elect Trump), Pluto was at 29 Cap 47 opposite Mars at 0 Leo 30. So it WAS a Pluto return event, with the added aggression of Mars.

   The other interesting thing is the US was experiencing it’s Chiron return at the same time – it was at 20 Aries 14. In the natal US chart, Chiron is at 20 Aries 8.

   In the Sibley US chart, Chiron falls in the fourth house.

   So is this whole thing about some sort of wound in the homeland, or sense of the homeland? Perhaps transforming it by grabbing new territory?

   The Sibley chart has IC at 1 Aries 10 – so the Saturn-Neptune conj in Feb will activate it. Homeland dissolving/changing?

   Trump’s Jan 2025 inauguration chart has Mars conj the IC. So the boundaries of the homeland changing violently? Or internal conflict/civil war?

7. That was meant to be a response to Virgoflake’s post at 1:44 pm.

8. Here’s hoping.
   Yesterday, Farage admitted Antarctic ice is receding and that was why Trump should have Greenland. I don’t think that’s been picked up by the press, though.

   • Trump’s latest insult against UK and other allied troops has gone down like a lead balloon, and thus Farage’s loyalty to his orange overlord does not endear him to the nation on that sacrosanct issue. It’s never a good idea to wed yourself to someone as volatile as Trump and I don’t think it reflects well on Farage’s political judgment.

9. Trump has long been critical of and despised the UN. This ‘Board of Peace’ has little to do with Gaza and much to do with further weakening the UN and setting up a parallel organisation. A closer look at the UN’s chart might be quite illuminating.

10. Thanks Hugh, enlightening, informative and balanced as usual.
    On the Brexit/EU split – in 2016 there was a Saturn square Neptune which was only a passing trifle. What was more pointed was tr Pluto in Capricorn square the 7th house UK Aries North Node, following on from tr Uranus conjunct the UK North Node in the two years before. An Aries North Node suggests a drive to be independent which in the 7th sits in conflict with a need to cooperate in partnership. The transiting Uranus square Pluto upended the previous situation – and as with many revolutions brought a fair amount of chaos in its wake.
    Where the USA is concerned what resonated for me at 9/11 was the USA’s North Node at 6 degrees Leo, an indication of leadership abilities, which then had tr Neptune in Aquarius exactly conjunct the South Node denting US pride severely. In the two disastrous years following with the Afghan war and then the Iraq attack the Solar Arc Neptune was square the North/South Node with the SA North Node square the US Mars. By 2003 the SA Mars was conjunct the South Node. So a huge amount of heavy activity around the nodal axis, pummelling USA exceptionalism.
    Why this is important is that tr Pluto will oppose the USA North Node from late February 2027 on and of till late 2028 and across the November 2028 election. It will be significant for the soul of America.
    It could indicate a tendency to double up on familiar and controlling behaviours with an equal and opposite pressure to let go of old, destructive, or outworn habits. One astrologer suggests it can be connected to a phase of purging old power structures.
    For an individual, a Leo North Node is about standing alone and learning not to indulge in feeling sorrow for oneself. Difficulties include a lack of control. The Aquarius South Node perhaps indicates a fear of sliding back into team and group efforts like the UN, NATO and will provoke a dislike of the EU – since it pulls away from the Great-I-Am Leo North Node. Needs admiration, though can spend latter year alone.

    • The Pluto-opp-NN transit next year is sitting neatly atop the Uranus return on the Sibley chart, too.

    • Thanks Marjorie.

      My personal view is that if Trump was just an historical aberration then he would not have got elected twice, particularly as his his second term did not immediately follow the first term which is what usually happens with US Presidents. It suggests there is some deeper process being worked out in US politics and society which is what the astrology is indicating.

      Still at least the US has not had to endure the revolving door of leaders that has afflicted the UK with 6 Prime Ministers in 10 years with the number possibly rising to 7 if Starmer is ousted by the Labour party which is possible. What is remarkable is that only one of these leaders, Sunak, was removed at a General Election. All the rest have been removed by internal coups leading to resignations. At least the US gets regular elections. Here in Britain politicians increasingly seem to be looking at ways of cancelling them. The UK is now really suffering from a lack of a written constitution.

      • It would seem to me (and to many others) that the US constitution is rapidly becoming not fit for purpose. The path Trump is now walking is the one the Constitution was supposed to block.

    • Interesting that Pluto would have transited over the US’s South node during the earlier years of the American War of Independence when the country was being established. During WW2 it transited over the US North Node as America stepped up to play the role its chart was saying it was destined to. Now Pluto is back where it was during the late 18th century which is possibly (among other interpretations) suggesting the need to ‘re-found’ America structurally and energetically to lay the groundwork for the cycle to build up again.

11. There are some intriguing resonances between DJT’s natal chart and that of notorious Roman Emperor Nero. Their natal Suns are opposite one another – 14th June and 15th December AD37 (JC).

    Amongst other things, I noticed that Trump has Sun conjunct Nodes conjunct Uranus in Gemini (born to disrupt), opposing his fiery Moon. Nero had Sun conjunct Mars conjunct Pluto, all sitting on his 22 Sagittarius Ascendant (power mad?) – which aligns with Trump’s natal Moon. Nero’s own Moon was in Leo. Trump’s Leo Mars is conjunct his ascendant, so perhaps less of a megalomaniac than Nero since Pluto isn’t there. The Trump Mars is trine Nero’s Mars, 25 Sagittarius. A flaming conflagration – which Nero actually witnessed in Ancient Rome while he, allegedly, sang as he viewed the destruction.

    Nero had Venus, 22 Capricorn, trine 26 Virgo Saturn.
    Trump has Venus, 25 Cancer, conjunct Saturn at 25 Cancer. Both had transactional relationships with women, and for Nero men too. Their mothers feature prominently in their personal stories too – Nero’s ambitious mother was Agrippina, sister of Caligula. Trump is very attached to his own mother’s birthplace, Scotland.

    And worth mentioning Nero’s spectacular, extravagant Domus Aurea or Golden House, huge, filled with ivory and gold leaf, and including an enormous statue of himself! DJT might have felt very much at home in such a palace.

    • Thank you very much for the details on Nero, Jane.

      Both Nero and Trump do seem to delight in giving themselves honours. Is there any astrological trait that would point to that?

      To give a bit of a background to others not familiar with Rome, the Colosseum is so called because it stood next to a colossal statue of Nero posing as the sun god (so, in a way, similar to the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the seven wonders of the world).

      After the great Fire of Rome, Nero had a large palace built where the Colosseum is now, with the statue of himself at the entrance. Under following emperors, that palace was torn down and an amphitheatre was built there under the Flavian emperors, hence its alternate name of the Flavian Amphitheatre.

      As an aside, if anybody plans to visit Rome, look at the building/temple on the hill next to the Colosseum. Hadrian had two temples built back-to-back there, to Venus (Amor/love) and Roma, the spirit of Rome, which is also Amor spelt backwards. So the whole temple complex was a clever wordplay.

      If there are echoes of Nero in Trump, I wonder what the fate of the White House and the various Trump Towers will be after Trump leaves office.

      • My first thought when I saw the plans for Trump’s ballroom was of Nero’s Domus Aurea taking up a huge space of central Rome, and its eventual stripping for building materials and demolition within a decade to be replaced by the Colosseum.

      • I saw a wonderful exhibition about Nero just before the Covid lockdowns here in the UK. Such a mix of deranged, malicious, and yet loved music and sport.

        In another little astro curiousity, the mothers of Nero and Trump are also opposite signs. Agrippina, 6 November, 15AD (JC) and Mary Anne Trump, 10 May, 1912. Agrippina has Mars square Uranus, and Venus square her Jupiter/Neptune conjunction in Sagittarius. Mary Anne has Venus square Uranus, and Mars conjunct Neptune in ‘maternal’ Cancer. Can’t help wondering if this suggests both of them were restless, perhaps erratic mothers, or hard to pin down in some way. Maybe they just wanted more freedom than their circumstances allowed.

12. For an astrological reference, Board of Peace signing ceremony took place January 22nd 2026, around 12:00 CET. It’s a surprisingly harmonious chart, with a prominent 10th house, as one would expect with a midday chart.

    That said, it seems this is essentially another Trump scam. In Parliamentary Democracies, a membership would require a parliamentary vote, and it’s hard to see any European parliament voting for it due to presence of Russia. It’s even doubtful if this holds in the US – apparently, joining an International treaty requires 2/3 approval in the Senate, so Democrats could have few detectors in an upcoming vote, given Rand Paul would vote with them. Interesting to see the comments once the US wakes up. Most importantly, the permanent membership fee of 1 billion US$ might get some of signatories, most importantly Milei and Orbán, into trouble internally.

    I don’t mind these skies for the ongoing Zelensky meeting, though.

    • I suspect the Board of Peace is not meant to be a place for states to interact with each other, like the UN, but for individual leaders to interact with each other in their personal capacity, like monarchs of old. So it is reasonably possible that it may not require ratification by member-states.

      Essentially Trump is trying to resurrect the modern equivalent of the Concert of Europe of the 19th century.

      • @Unmystic Mom, interestingly, this was announce it in an event that has often been described as modern Concert of Europe. WEF has long history, but the founder Klaus Schwab was forced to resign last year due to misconduct allegations, including sexual and workplace harassment. For a more intimate event, there’s Bildenberg Club that Schwab also was involved in.

        More realistically, Trump has never been able to manage his projects, and his inner circle only shines reflective light, so I don’t see this going any further that Trump’s Washington Executive Branch, which is, interestingly, co-owned by DJT jr. and two of Steve Witkoff’s sons. It’s selling access, and will cease to exists when DJT expires.

13. He has played everyone for suckers. It is not that at last he saw reason and agreed to what the Greenlanders wanted. He planned it this way when he copied the British Cyprus deal where Britain’s bases are sovereign leaving the rest of the country intact. Each Greenlander gets a million. I am not sure whether that is in dollars, Euros or pounds. And there is some minerals deal to be worked out later.

    And the reason that it was planned, Because he and his cohorts celebrated last night with a cake in the shape of Greenland with American flags. I am glad that it is over, but it certainly has left a sour taste in my mouth. And I won’t be surprised in years to come, that Greenland becomes US property. I don’t think they should have accepted the money. Accepting it, makes it seem like Trump has bought it. At least it does to me.

    • But where is the money going to come from? I doubt the Congress will approve this. And, with Europeans and the Japanese dumping US Treasury bonds, the US is headed for a financial crisis, with other countries no longer willing to prop up the house of cards that US finances have become and worsened radically under Trump.

    • @Linda, I don’t know where you got the idea of every Greenlandic person getting a million? It is not in the proposal according to any reporting I’ve seen.

      In addition, the whole question of making proposed US bases US territory a là Cyprus is not something that Secretary General of NATO can decide on without hearing Greenland and Denmark, and this has been made clear by both of them. Same goes to selling mineral rights (which would be extremely difficult and costly to put in use given they are under ice layer that can be as thick as a mile).

      Real negotiations apparently start in June, most likely with very different vibes.

      • It was just what Trump said. I have since heard that the deal that was done, was with Nato and not Greenland or Denmark. The man is completely demented!

14. I think it is correct to focus on the craziness but not because he is actually crazy. He is just built that way. We think it’s crazy behaviour but he doesn’t see it that way – for him it is normal to change his mind. Because to him sticking to one opinion or making a firm conclusion is not necessary to function. Trump’s chart really is odd as to the complex forces in it.

    Mostly people focus on his 29 degree Leo Ascendant (with fixed stars, etc.) conjunct Mars, as well as his wide Mercury &Saturn &Venus/Jupiter square. They give a person a lot of energy, aggression, ambition and greed (esp. Mars square MC in Taurus), along with old fashioned good luck (Jupiter trine Sun/Uranus). However, I think there should be much more attention on his Moon, which gives the instability and the apparent craziness.

    His Moon is at 21 Sagittarius opposite his Sun at (almost) 23 Gemini. So his emotions are pretty much always going to fight his ego, back and forth. That is a fundamental source of instabilty and desire for attention as both planets are in mutable signs in angle houses. Usually such a person’s freedom and adventure seeking Moon would lose out in a contest to the highly verbal and quick witted Sun. He may be losing it, but he is still fast on the draw and it causes him no embarassment to change his mind because he is built to dodge and weave – that is what an important opposition makes a person do unless there is an anchor somewhere else.

    Trump’s Sun is in Gemini the 10th and the Moon in Sag. in the 4th, both important angles, with fixed signs Taurus on the 10th and Scorpio on the 4th cusp. Which says the planets are mutable, but the birth houses are locked in. That is an inner conflict right there, and the planets are fairly evenly matched that way. The difference comes in the Sun and Moon rulers.

    The Sun’s ruler (Mercury) is in the 11th in Cancer (water sign ruled by the Moon). The 11th house ruler (29 Gemini on cusp) is a mix of Mercury and Venus, which is also in Cancer, conjunct Saturn, 2 earth planets . Mercury finds itself kind of drowning in feelings in a water sign. Logic doesn’t go far in a pool of emotion, but with 2 earth planets in the mix it would feel strongly that it is ‘right’. Also, the sign of Cancer is intercepted in the 11th house. It doesn’t get direct, full expression unless it filters decisions through the planets resident in the house, along with the Moon’s aspects. However, the Moon’s ruler, Jupiter is retrograde in Libra, conjunct troublesome Chiron and Juno (asteroid of the wife).

    The 4th house, in which the Moon is located, has secretive Scorpio on the cusp. Aggressive Mars rules Scorpio and is sitting on the Ascendant, but square the Midheaven (career). Mars makes the Moon’s emotional life difficult with anger and frustration when a person does not get his own way. Also, the Sag. Moon’s ruler is retrograde, which implies reversals, but to for more emphasis and unpredictability, Jupiter is trine Uranus, the planet of upsets. In that way, both Moon and Jupiter work to make Trump more jumpy and unpredictable, while keeping his home life private (Scorpio on the 4th). Upsets must be a way of life for such a Moon, but with the Mars, there is also pushy toughness and power games.

    The Sun gets an easier time of it, but due to the natal Moon opposition, there would be a constant flipping back and forth between those poles. Trump must have always been temperamental and difficult to figure out for people in his life. But for him, it’s ok – he LIVES that way. It’s normal to change his mind. He doesn’t really have a foundation for a reliable personality. His core self image is the Leo Ascendant and the Mars conjunction there, which is what people on the outside can see, but the way he operates day to do would be to flip back and forth between his Sun/Moon poles (with Uranus thrown in for extra instability). In such a dynamic, he would feel perfectly natural switching sides whenever it suits him. He would not see it as a disadvantage.

    Now add the pressure of the job to his short attention span, plus normal physical aging and a family history on his father’s side of dementia, and you have a recipe for a person who won’t stick to anything solid unless threatened. And on that front, the big fixed Leo ego, just doesn’t feel like doing anything strenuous mentally, but will stick to his guns right or wrong. There is a lot of instability, but maybe he is not crazy in a clinical sense.

    Finally, note that his natal Moon has no less than 5 precise major aspects:
    Moon sextile Chiron/Jupiter Rx in the 2nd of wealth, on the cusp of the 3rd of (untrustworthy/Chiron) friends;
    Moon trine Mars/Ascendant;
    Moon inconjunct Venus/Saturn in the 11th of associates;
    Moon opposite Sun and Uranus.

    I can’t imagine what inner conflicts and insecurities that hyped up Moon must have caused over almost 80 years. I imagine his overconfident, brash Sun must have hidden all the troubles of his childhood, and now he carries on being his crazy/normal self. With Leo on the Ascendant, he won’t be changing to please anyone. I’d almost feel sorry for his plight, except for the pain he is causing the whole planet.

    • I agree, the middle class and poor people are the ones who are suffering the most from his craziness. US economy is struggling from his illegal tarrifs, grocery prices are high but those who are close to him like billionaires are getting richer and richer. The gap between the poor and rich is getting wider everyday.

    • @SweetGrapes, amazing analysis! I agree with you on how Moon is such an overlooked element in readings of public figures, because it gets unjustly confined to private sphere. What I’ve found too, however, is that it’s always fundamental in explaining motivation.

      Regarding DJT’s Sun/Moon opposition, it’s worth mentioning that according to Mary L. Trump, Fred Trump was abusive towards his family, including Mary Trump. A pattern DJT has followed.

      • The moon and its aspects are pretty much the first thing I look at in a chart – always have done since reading one of the Richard Idemon books. As you suggest, it is the emotional needs and if they are unacknowledged they will cause the person to always be wanting something because they think happiness is an outside job

        • @Gnarly Dude, this also fits my personal theory of outer planet transits to Moon being ultimately more significant than outer planet transits to Sun. Transits to Sun test the outer motivation, transits to Moon the inner motivation.

          An interesting example from current news: Usha Vance, whose Moon is at 29′ Virgo and thus directly hit by Saturn/Neptune. The end of 1st trimester is a conventional time many younger women announce pregnancies, the risk for 2nd trimester or later fetal loss heightens significatively at 40. Therefore I think Saturn/Neptune pressure to her Moon has played a role in her decision.

          • I’ve been thinking about this and cannot give any concise answer to discussions on the moon; other than it provides out personal (you use the word inner) motivation; as opposed to doing what others expect (outer motivation). Which is the Cancer vs Capricorn axis and it’s interesting that in Trump’s chart his Moon in Sag is inconjunct to Saturn in Cancer (moon’s home) and an inconjunct is unsettling for anyone.

            Adding to SweetGrapes’ commentary on Trump flipping between his Sun and Moon. In his first presidency, his daughter Ivanka was involved. She too has a late Sag Moon and therefore she would have picked up this end of his personal opposition thereby allowing him to focus on the Gemini end.

      • The Moon also refers to the public. In politician’s charts it often reflects popularity or dips therein depending on the aspects.

    • I think this is bang-on ! I don’t think he is crazy at all nor losing his marbles either. But I do think he is a crazy maker. Curious about the fourth house – because Melania is quite hidden there – or you could argue, a very private home life.

    • With so much information to understand how DT operates why can’t we seem to effectively oppose him. Like if you know how it functions you should understand how to break it. Or is it more necessary to understand the cult of maga and break them? Is his power personal or afforded to him by his sycophants?

      • My MAGA mother will only leave him if there’s proof he SA’d boys and men. And even then, very begrudgingly. We can’t convince these folks. It’s a cult and these folks are lost.

15. Hello everybody,
    Also very interesting is this article: https://elstas.com/2025/12/10/the-return-composite-chart/
    It’s how to use the Sun solar arc for interprating the situation of President Trump.

    • Thanks. Intriguing. Though slight sag as more brain stretch required to embrace a new concept.

    • Thank you for the link, Ronnie. A very interesting read and technique.

16. Donald Trump reminds me of the late Russian President Boris Yeltsin, Boris Yeltsin was so mad and crazy that at one time he was shown opening book pages with his head. At one point at a military parade he pushed soldiers around. The man was really crazy. I think Trump is on the same path, soon we will see him doing some of these crazy stuff. Looking at Boris Yeltsin birth chart, when he died back in 2007 Pluto was opposing some of his natal planets in Cancer and it was bout to move into Capricorn back in 2008. He had Pluto in Cancer. Some similarities to Donald Trump’s chart, he currently has Pluto in Aquarius in his 6th house of health and about to oppose his natal Pluto in Leo on his 1st house, the first house represent the head. Anyway Trump’s chart still suggest a stressful health currently, though he is keeping it secret, maybe some of the medications he is taking are affecting his mind too. Since he took office there has just been chaos left and right. Some lawmakers are now calling for 25th Amendment to be invoked, he is clearly incompetent to run the country.

    • Tshele – yes, good point. Yeltsin was a man with a huge blown up ego! But he was a raging alcoholic too. Trump is not. See my take above.

      • @SweetGrapes, well, alcoholic dementia is essentially similar to frontotemporal dementia. You see this with Wendy Williams. She was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia and placed under guardianship, but has recovered significantly after spending years at a “sober house”.

        Yeltsin, though, was heavily medicated too after his 1996 heart attacks.

        • Don’t forget that Susie Wiles described Trump as having ‘the personality of an alcoholic’. I thought that was very revealing.

17. I am no fan of the Trump administration but it should perhaps be pointed out that his government did not single handedly create the US government huge debt. The Biden administration issued over $7 billion of new Treasuries during its term. Neither party in US politics has shown much appetite for fiscal prudence.

    With regard to the US moving bond issuance to the short end of the market it should be noted that the Starmer government is doing exactly the same thing as is the European bank. A

    Amid all Trump’s personal ramblings there are two uncomfortable points he makes that are probably true. The first is that the US cannot continue to run a huge current account deficit where it acts as the buyer of last resort for other countries surplus production of goods and services. The second is that the US can no longer afford to underwrite the security of Europe at its own expense. The recent statements of non US politicians such as Mark Carney do at least seem to recognise this situation is unsustainable.

    The other uncomfortable truth is that the Trump administration is not some weird aberration of recent US history but is in fact the inevitable consequence of processes that go back decades before he ever became a political figure.

    Astrologically I think this is a reflection of the way whereby certain cycles in the US natal chart are coming to completion. The Pluto return has already happened and the Uranus return will occur in the next two years. In addition the US progressed Mars is retrograde and will be conjunct the natal Saturn by the 2030s. This all indicates a more inward focused energy and restrictions on the ability to act. This perhaps worth noting Pluto and the North Node were both conjunct the US natal North Node at 6 Leo in early 1944 when the USA became the de facto hegemonic power in the western world at the end phase of the Second World War. In 2027 and 2028 this position will be reversed as the North Node and Pluto will cross the US South Node. The Pluto transit will be particularly powerful as it picks up an exact square to Saturn and a conjunction to Mars in 2028. Lots of issues from the past are going to have to be faced in this period.

    • very insightful, Hugh, thanks

    • I think the energy of a natal Mars going retrograde by progression is difficult for most countries to handle but particularly one as outgoing as the US. I seem to remember that the 1871 chart for Germany had its natal Mars go retrograde by progression over much of the 20th century if not longer, which led to two defeats in world wars when attempting policies of conquest. After this Germany took a less outgoing role on the world stage until reunification which interestingly coincided with the natal Mars of the 1871 chart going direct by progression. Now Germany is one of the lead players in Europe and the EU and increasingly takes a more proactive diplomatic and military role in world affairs.

      Something to consider given the Trump administration’s ideas of conquering parts of the America’s. It may not be the success they assume it will.

      • Can you expand on this please, particularly in regards to the UK? When has Progressed Mars gone retrograde for the UK (both the 1707 and 1801 charts) please?

        • For the 1707 GB and 1801 UK charts Mars will not go retrograde by progression for some centuries yet. Ditto with the 1066 England natal chart which interestingly I think last had its Mars go retrograde by progression during the Tudor era although my maths is a bit rough.

          • Thank you very much.

      • In order to see what can go wrong for a nation during a progressed Mars retrograde one need look no further than the Germany 1871 chart. Its progressed Mars went retrograde in 1910 at 8 Libra just and had tracked back to its natal position at 0 Libra by 1945. In that period Germany fought and lost two catastrophic wars. In the case of Bismarck’s imperial Germany wars of aggression had been both the means by which the original state had been created and then unwound. Germany’s 1871 progressed Mars is now transiting direct over its retrograde shadow but won’t get back to its natal position until 2038 and won’t reach the point it turned retrograde until the 2050.

        I don’t think the USA Mars retrograde will necessarily be as brutal as that of Germany which involved the planet tracking back into over a natal degree which was in a Cardinal World Point at 0 Libra. Germany was a country founded out of conflict with its neighbours which I think influenced how the retrograde was manifested. The USA progressed does, however, involve a significant transit of natal Saturn in Libra and it will end in 2086 when progressed Mars turns direct at 0 Libra which is not only a significant degree but astrologically but also the point the planet occupied in 1941 when the USA entered the Second World War.

        • Hasn’t Mayanmar been undergoing a retrograde Mars for many years? Hence the ongoing military government and civil war.

    • Hugh – Thank you for this. Yes, the past presidents walked so that Trump could win. And I think he may have been the only person, given how close his chart contacts the U.S.’s, to really hold a mirror up to who we are as a nation and force us to take a long hard look at ourselves. Maybe that’s part of the South Node’s job?

      • I meant to say “the other presidents walked so Trump could run.”

    • @Hugh Fowler, insightful, as ever! I agree that there are obvious structural faults in the US political and judicial system Trump is merely a manifestation of. Marjorie has written a lot about Supreme Court, and it’s clear they have become the main enablers in erosion of Rule of Law in the US.

      Politically, I would say the US politicians tend to be too tolerant of the use of brutal force. I am not surprised, after seeing what happened with Iraq in the early 2000’s, but genuinely appalled by the fact that even some Democrats are seriously suggesting funding ICE to “improve training”. Fortunately, dismantling ICE is becoming increasingly popular with the voters who see them acting in their own neighborhoods. I think we might see a Kent State moment (although I am not quite sure of the astrological similarity) with ICE soon.

      • @Solaia, I’ve been expecting a Kent State-type moment, a real massacre of innocent civilians by ICE in Minneapolis or elsewhere. They — unleashed by Trump who sees them as his Gestapo and the vile Kristi Noem and Greg Bovino — are totally out of control.

        It may take a massacre to stop ICE and their overlords.

    • Hugh, you raise perfectly valid points about the US and its economy and politics.

      It is not the US’s point of view that is so distasteful, it is the way it is being communicated by/through Trump.

      Trump’s recent behaviour puts me in mind of a partner who has had a little too much to drink and has come back and assaulted his partner(s). Sure, right now they are in shock and they will do what he wants them to do. But the trust that sustains a relationship is gone. The Hill reports that Congressional leaders will be flying out to Europe to soothe feathers. But we heard the leader of the free world threatening to attack that free world himself. I think the damage will take a lot more than just a few visits or even the change of a president.

      We thought the US had our back. Trump aimed a dagger at said back. And that won’t be easily forgotten.

      As a laugh, it would be funny if Putin decides to make noises about taking back Alaska. I doubt NATO forces will rush there after the wonderful treatment they received from the US.

      I’m going to search this site for articles on the US dollar, but my suspicion is that this kind of action is going to slowly but surely erode the dollar and thereby the US economy, thus completely the job of the Pluto Return.

    • Very informative post – Thank you. It is also worth noting that the USA Constitution Chart has Pluto transiting its Ascendant in 2028 and then transiting its first House until circa 2052. That is a long transition. First in Aquarius until 2043 and then nearly a decade in Pisces. America has been tied to Europe through its New World initial inhabitants and the South America. Pluto can represent death and rebirth. Therefore, perhaps the upcoming Uranus transit, is the break from European and South America? As it starts to become an Established bonifide indigenous population of Anerica – casting away all ties with Northern and Southern lands? The Pluto return my have set the slow stir beneath, which is now surfacing?

      • Helen: Thanks for this comment! I’ll be long gone by the time the US Constitution is done with Pluto transiting its first house. It reminds me that the transit through Pisces is the period I would worry about most. 10 years is a long time for Piscean upheaval. Pisces is ruled by Neptune, as well as expansive, or bloated when negative, Jupiter. Both planets are conducive to overdoing it, potentially going so far as delusional, belief-stretched thinking. The symbol of Pisces is 2 fishes, a dual sign. Dual signs directly involve people in some way (like Gemini the twins, Virgo the maiden holding wheat, and Sagittarius the half horse/half man). By the imagery alone the dual/mutable signs indicate uncertainty, vascillation, indecision or switching sides, none of which favour stability.

        Pisces, like its symbol, has a capacity to swim in opposite directions at the same time, which is definitely disorienting. It is the polar opposite of the materially based, housekeeping and safety oriented, logical, mundane approach embodied by Virgo on the opposite side of the chart.

        It is useful to recall that the ancient Vedic wheel began with Virgo, associated with the cultivation of wheat – and hence civilization itself. On the other hand, Pisces is more like the ancient sea creatures that first crawled onto the land, or the far out universal concepts discussed by Joseph Campbell and other explainers of mysticism. None of which makes you feel comfy and cozy. On the other hand, the old Zodiac ended with Leo, a fixed solitary sign that is not particularly humanistic, but power oriented (along with Taurus, Scorpio and Aquarius). One Lion sitting on a hill does not make civilization tick – the old stories of English kings tell that tale well. Whenever the lion dies, there is chaos until the next conflict or war determines who the new king will be. This could be the Aries future after Trump?

        Anyway, the Constituion in Pisces might reach for the stars or plumb the depths of the unconscious in totally untrackable ways. It brings to mind the purity/decay axis in many religious myths – the polarity of universal mysteries along with the corruption and rot thereof. Dualties are powerful.

        The way I interpret it, Pisces is the realm Margaret Atwood imagines in her famous novel, The Handmaid’s Tale. In those crisis years in Pisces, the Constitution could be stressed severely in a North America torn by religious sects in a serious way. The sects have always been there from the beginning, of course (the Puritans were a sect) and it is not news that the US has been subject to many peaceful vs. armed social movements.

        It is so interesting to note the comments in this post about Kent State. It was the one event I remember like yesterday. I was a student in university and it shocked me that peaceful protesters could be shot by order of the President of The US in cold blood for no useful reason. It certainly set the mood of the times that followed. The US seems always to have had a dualistic view of its citizens – totally free and prosperous on the one hand and enslaved and economically abused on the other. The country seems to be playing that script again under Trump and the extreme right. Long term, it could go either way, but imagine if cults were to become the order of the day for the whole population. That would really “blow your mind”, a la 60’s/70’s thinking, going far beyond mere physical oppression or laissez faire economics. This I do not wish my grandchildren to see!

        But no panic. It’s not like Pluto in Pisces hasn’t happened before. It was last there in 1797-1823 and the world survived the Napoleonic wars, where N wanted to be the emperor of a new Rome. He even crowned himself! Quite a lot like Trump insisting on the Nobel prize. But maybe I’m doing a little too much imagining here! Neptune can carry anybody away and wars may result, but fortunately cooler heads usually prevail (at much cost). I hope the Constitution will survive and will be rebuilt and strengthened sooner than the end of this century – bloodied but unbowed as it says in the poem ‘Invictus’, by W. E. Henley. Time will tell.

    • Aquarius Pluto is destruction and rebirth of groups. NATO. Aries Neptune, dreams of war, dreams of virgin lands. The next century of the new frontier; the Arctic. Trump is a Sun-Uranus. The Uranian actor.

      Interesting to see that many see this through the lens that Greenland is some sort of imperial expansion but, as with Venezuela, it is really a retreat.

      Shoring up the hemisphere in preparation for a retreat from Europe presumably. Trump tells NATO that the US wants Europe to be strong, why? Greenland is a “core strategic goal” of the US. Not Denmark. Not Europe. Not NATO. Stepping back/exiting from NATO. An independent Greenland isn’t in NATO. Try to make Europe get stronger. End the Ukraine conflict. Putting things right before exiting. Warn Carney that Canada isn’t Europe. Bemoan that Canada gets things for free. Inside Fortress Western Hemisphere. Canada and Greenland.

      The Middle East seems to have read the tea leaves and paid for a seat in the lifeboat. Russia is only 50 miles away from the US in the Arctic region. No longer an ocean between us when the ice melts.

      • The progressed Mars in the US natal chart going retrograde for most of this century is certainly reflected in the ‘Fortress America’ attitude of the current US administration right now, but I still think that if this approach is to be successful then trying to do it in an outwardly aggressive way by trying to annex/dominate surrounding countries is not going to work. In some ways the Third Reich was also trying to secure Germany’s position in the European hemisphere by annexing surrounding territories – there was little interest in colonial expansion overseas. The economics of the Third Reich were more along the idea of creating a self-sufficient large trading bloc as well IIRC, with less overseas trade.

        Long before Trump came onto the political scene I noticed in the wake of 9/11 and the slowing down and eventual movement of the US’s progressed Mars into retrograde there seemed to be a lot more obvious rally round the flag attitudes and imagery. Things like Union Pacific Railroad painting the Stars and Stripes on the side of its locomotives in the 2000s in a way that seemed to be trying to tightly hold on to the symbol and which suggested a greater feeling of insecurity behind such actions.

        • A further thought on this. I suppose a healthier way to for a country express such a transit as its natal Mars going retrograde by progression is to focus its energies inward on domestic reform and (sensible, not ICE Gestapo methods) security. I noticed this during the Biden administration, where domestic policy was actually pretty good and progressive successes were scored – Biden seemed to be more willing to enact social reforms than any president since LBJ. It was in foreign policy where things didn’t seem to work as well, with the administration trying to project the same outward strength and influence as the Bush I/Clinton eras had done, but seeming less able to make a difference (for example the inability to get Netanyahu back into line on anything).

        • Interesting that progressed retro Mars might be showing the way. I think Americans are and really have always been isolationist. It is part of the American understanding of independence. Being told about ever curious question about another person growing up to; Mind your own business. Curiousity is for things and science not for interest in people. The foreign wars is something almost everyone resents in a very fundamental way. Mark Twain has a quote about this God invented war so Americans would learn geography. Average Americans just aren’t curious or interested in the rest of the world.

          I also agree I don’t think the aggression is helpful to the long term relationship with Greenland but I also understand the feeling that is driving the aggression. It is akin to the feeling you get when you need to get something done but a family member is trying to learn how to do it and it is delaying you while you watch all the fumbling and you need it done. Impatience. Trump has three years left and he has promised to fully construct the Golden Dome before he leaves office.

          This deal is a very bad outcome for Greenland. I’ve never seen an interview where they talk about the militarization of their country. It is always about the economic future of their country. Greenland should really look into the Free States Association that the USA has with other islands before the Dome is in place so they can leverage it for what they really want.

18. @Unmystic Mom–the idea that DJT can somehow “cancel” the midterms is currently popular among doomsayers, but it’s vanishingly unlikely. There is zero provision in the U.S. legal system to declare “martial law” or suspend elections, even when the Insurrection Act is used (and even his complicit Supreme Court has batted down DJT’s attempts to invoke that).

    We don’t actually have national elections, anyway–just local elections for national office–and the system is so fragmented, deliberately so, that anyone who games it has to do it district by district; there is simply no mechanism to somehow capture the entire system at once. After all, there are more than 10,000 election boards and commissions throughout the country; maga simply doesn’t have the resources to tamper with the vote in every jurisdiction. Furthermore, in the event that ICE are deployed to menace blue-state voters, blue-state governors will likely call up the National Guard (i.e., state militas) to assist local law enforcement in protecting voters and securing ballots. (This has already been tested in California local elections.) And Allyn is right: that’s a line the people won’t permit to be crossed, and by the time the midterms roll around, blue-state voters will be willing to crawl through broken glass just to vote against anyone aligned with the Trump regime. He is well and truly hated, and that’s only going to get worse as this year progresses. And he always overreaches.

    More likely than stopping the vote would be the administration trying to prevent the new Congress from being seated on some untested legal pretext. However, that’s already been tried and has failed. Besides, we have enough head-bangers and veterans on the blue side that this would, indeed, likely spark a genuine civil war, so let’s hope that doesn’t happen.

    As far as being a British subject goes–congratulations, I suppose, but please don’t get too complacent. Smugness is certainly not warranted. Brexit was the canary in the coal mine, and it helped bring the likes of Nigel Farage to increasing prominence. There are, no doubt, more like him waiting in the wings. Once the unpopular Labour government is voted out, you will face a political vaccuum that could potentially provide an opening for a demagogue, especially if the monarchy is in transition at the same time, as seems likely given King Charles’ ill health.

    Besides, sorry to break it to you, but the UK is not particularly known as a beacon of tolerance (at least not outside its own borders), and your population, sadly, contains more than enough racists and right-wing reactionaries to potentially allow a trumpian figure to come to power under the right circumstances.

    Save the Schadenfreude and please remain vigilant; our fate isn’t an impossibility for you, it’s a warning. The form of the constitution matters little. After all, 10 years ago, nobody thought this disaster could happen here, either.

19. Marjorie, Trump distancing himself from NATO and the US’s allies has a faint whiff of the UK’s Brexit moment, with the country moving away from its close allies.

    Are there any astrological similarities between Brexit/2014 onwards in the UK and the current environment in the US?

    • They are directly connected and created by the same people. You need to read Carole Cadwalladr’s work. Which reminds me – Marjorie, would you be able to have a look at Carole’s chart?

20. The solar eclipse on 17 February will conjunct the US Congress Mars and the US Moon and opposes Trump’s natal Ascendant and Mars, which suggests something consequential occurring for the US around this time.

    • Key dates to watch will be 5 February, Mercury conjunct eclipse point, then 9 February (Venus), and 28 February (Mars).

    • Not sure how relevant it is, but I noted that Gavin Newsom’s natal Jupiter at 28Leo will also oppose the 17 February solar eclipse. His Jupiter return will not be exact until July 2027.

      He continues to be a thorn in Trump’s side so much so that Trump referenced him at Davos in his speech at the WEF and Newsom, allegedly under pressure from the White House, was banned from a scheduled media talk.

21. Curious to see Stephen Miller there. I wonder sometimes how much Trump is a mouthpiece for all the ambitions of these 40ish year old men.
    But, the minute trump said he wouldn’t use force, I thought he’s gonna use force.

    • Very different circumstances, but Miller reminds me a bit of Grigori Rasputin, the Russian faith-healer who befriended the mysticism prone wife of Czar Nicholas II in Russia. The Czar and his consort, Alexandra, had an only son and successor (in his teens) who had an inherited blood disease, haemophilia. Rasputin supposedly kept the son, Alexei, alive for several years with prayers and potions. For a time Rasputin enjoyed the ultimate power possible for an influencer at court, but was eventually brutally assassinated in 1916 for his hold over the Czarina and her frail son. The Russian Revolution followed and the Czar and his family were murdered by the Bolsheviks in July 1918. Such was the bitter end of the Romanov dynasty in Russia. It is one of the most dramatic of historical events, leading to Stalin and to Putin today. Not saying Miller has that kind of power, but he’s certainly up to no good. Trump saying he won’t use force is a totally unreliable statement.

22. Marjorie, is there anything to indicate that Trump will “shuffle off this mortal coil” soon? For many of us, that is “a consummation devoutly to be wished.”

    Also, most of America has already fallen “out of love” with the … the president. (Sorry–most of the nicknames Americans use to describe him can’t be printed here.) His polling’s in the pits, the vast majority of Americans now believe his administration has been a disaster. Maga’s fractured and the GOP (sadly, now practically the same thing) is divided as well. There’s a large and growing resistance movement, one that at this point easily exceeds the ca. 12 million people, or 3.5 percent of the population, required for a successful mass movement; and that is growing. People are outraged by ICE’s abuses, and the states–sovereign entities within the U.S.–are pushing back.

    Reporting on all this is muted thanks to a captured corporate media; but it is happening nonetheless.

    There are 345 million of us–roughly 76 percent of the population of the EU–and it takes a lot to get us going in the same direction. But we are. I just pray the people can wrest power back from this madman and his pack of incompetent advisers before it’s really, truly too late.

    Any astrology showing Stephen Miller’s imminent downfall? Lord, I hope so.

    • Marjorie had posted this blurb about Stephen (Nosferatu) Miller back in May 2025:

      “He’s not having a great year with three fairly negative solar arcs almost exact. SA Neptune conjunct Jupiter = disappointment, undermining great expectations. SA Saturn conjunct Neptune = uncertain, panicky, the dream is not delivering. SA Pluto conjunct Moon = emotionally fraught, divisive team relationships – which moves onto a period of significant upheaval with SA Midheaven conjunct his Uranus followed by SA Pluto conjunct his Uranus in 2026/27. Tr Uranus will also square his 8th house Virgo Sun with jolts, jangles and sudden surprises from this July into 2026. Through 2026/27 tr Pluto squares his Midheaven which could bring a career meltdown or at the very least intolerable pressure giving way to forced change.”

      At least it gives us a little hope.

      • I find Miller so disturbing as he gives me the full body chills. Hate oozes from him. He reminds me of Goebbels.

        • I knew someone who was his astro twin, even looked similar. Truly, a nasty piece of work.

        • Miller even looks like Goebbels, perhaps his reincarnation?

          • Yes Nicole, or maybe something like the plot from ‘The Boys From Brazil’.

    • For the “muted news,” ICE agents in Minneapolis arrested a five-year-old yesterday on his way home from school. He was sent to a deportation center in Texas.

23. A couple of days ago the BBC had a short clip of Latinos in Houston, Texas, being interviewed about their current views on Trump. I was astonished. Even now, with all this crazy-making and chaos, most of them were absolutely supportive and very positive.

    • Were they well aware that a knock on their door could be forthcoming had they not been supportive when speaking to BBC?

    • In America, there’s always been some hostility between generations of immigrants. The older generations become afraid that the new ones arriving might make them look bad or make them less acceptable – or take their jobs.

24. Firstly, it was suggested on Twitter that Nero may be a better Roman emperor comparison to Trump. Apparently, nero had the 67AD Olympic games rescheduled to fit his visit to Greece. He then participated in them and won quite a few awards, including the race, where his chariot actually crashed out, but he was apparently awarded the race anyway, because he would have won if he had not crashed out!!! That sounds so Trumpian.

    Also from Twitter, it seems that Danish (no surprises there) and Swedish funds have started aggressively divesting from American funds. Now they are a drop in the ocean (one fund had about $100 million, so about 0.0003% of US dollars in circulation, according to Twitter).

    But the US’s strength, the dollar as the world’s reserve currency, could also be its Achilles heel, if the world starts moving away from the dollar.

    Another strength of the US is also that most global financial transaction go through the US (which is what gives the Southern District of New York, where most US financial institutions are located, its legal jurisdictions over financial and other crimes across the world). If the EU manage to launch the digital Euro and give the world an alternative to the US dollar as a liquid reliable currency, that could destabilize the US’s financial situation.

25. Two more things (astrology aside – sorry Marjorie)…

    First, apparently Netanyahu has apparently accepted Trump’s invitation to also be on the “Board of Peace”. I have no words…

    Also, Trump also published an altered image that features the U.S. flag covering parts of North and South America, including Canada, Greenland and Venezuela:
    https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/trump-shares-altered-map-of-us-flag-covering-canada-greenland-and-venezuela/

26. Thanks Marjorie.

    Two thoughts. One is that basically it is not surprising that Trump – who is a personification of the USA’s shadow side – has come about in the time period surrounding the US Pluto Return, which happened when Biden was in office but is the kind of transit that will resonate for a long time.

    Another more worrying observation is that Trump will have Jupiter conjunct his Mars and Ascendant at about the time of the mid term elections which I can’t see as anything but positive for him so maybe people shouldn’t put a lot of hope on those?

    • that is indeed worrying. There has been a lot of speculation about the mid terms, either that they will be fixed, or that they won’t go ahead at all.

      Thanks Marjorie for your analysis.

      • LisaV, if Trump and Republicans try to stop the midterms, I foresee one thing happening.

        I live in Tennessee, and we had such a thing happen on August 1 and 2, 1946 in McMinn County, known locally as the Battle of Athens (there is actually an article on Wikipedia if you are curious.) It involved a state machine that used a corrupt sheriff to overtake the county. Officers would literally pull people of buses that was just going through and charge them for false or ridiculous things so they could get a cut of the court fees these poor people would inevitably pay. There are also instances of officers breaking into houses in the dead of night and dragging citizens out on false charges (sound familiar?).
        In 1946, people got tired of it and put up their own candidate. The election occurred, and the corrupt party did everything they could to stop the election. They shot at least one person in the back, took control of a voting box, and took it to the sheriff’s office to be “counted.”
        But the problem with mistreating people is this. Once you cross that line, the opposed no longer see their abusers as human.
        Basically, the citizens rose up, attacked the jail, and drove the sheriff out. The new sheriff was elected in.
        I would advise everyone to read the article. Not only does it show that numbers and decency wins, but it also demonstrates that the corrupt are often cowards and once they realize that they are at the mercy of people who are tired of being victims, they run with their tail between their legs.
        I invite Marjorie to look up this chart and see if it has any parallels with the ongoing US chart. Because people are looking to the midterms as a beacon of hope. A way to legally take back our power.
        If Trump takes that away, what do you think the majority of Americans will do? Be cowed into silence?
        I don’t think so.
        If Trump was here, I would also advise him to watch the recent movie “Civil War,” which depicts a president during his illegal third term doing many of the same things Trump is doing or is planning to do. He should watch the fate of that president and take warning.
        Eventually, the cord snaps, and people stop caring about their abusers.
        No, I am not saying we should grab our guns. Rather, I am advising Republicans and Trump not to cross that line and make that the people’s last option.

    • It is interesting that when the UK went through its Pluto Return, in the 1950s-60s, we did lose the Suez Canal, but at least we got Churchill, Eden and (Supermac) Macmillan, all of whom were gentlemen.

      I wouldn’t worry too much about the mid-terms. Given that ICE and other federal agents are coming under fire in many Democrat states, I am sure Trump will find a way to declare them “in rebellion” and cancel the elections in just those states, thus giving him a strongly Republican Congress. There is absolutely nothing to worry about.

      I am thankful I am the subject of a King than a citizen of the US, who apparently overthrew their monarchy because they were afraid of absolute rule. Who’d have thought the tables would turn thus.

      • The UK is often mocked for not having a written constitution. But it seems that a written one with its famous checks and balances is not worth much either.

        The US has managed to reduce the whole concept of constitutionalism to a farce. The West Wing and the Veep would have been ridiculed/scorned as impossible if they played the events that are playing out now.

        • @Unmystic Mom – we here in the UK are heading for trouble. Farage and Reform are run by exactly the same fascist lunatics that puppet Trump works for, and that Putin, the AFD and Le Pen all ascribe to. We are in grave danger because of poor governance and complacency and biased media, just the same.

          • To an extent, I think Trump’s OTT antics will drag down the European (including ours) far right as nobody would want to be associated with such a rampant megalomaniac, regardless of whether they agree with his philosophy or not.

            I am particularly interested in the Welsh Senedd elections, because post-Brexit, they will be the first fully-proportional elections anywhere in the UK. UKIP/Brexit Party/Reform/any party led by Farage have traditionally done quite well in any proportional election in the UK. Will that continue to be the case or will Trump’s behaviour cause Reform to fall in the polls?

          • Reform isn’t doing as well as it has been. The chaos of the Trump administration, Farage’s allegiance to Trump and the recent defection of opportunistic Tories has also reportedly upset many Reform voters. I’m not convinced that the trajectory of Reform UK is necessarily upward this year.

          • There have been outrageous and untrue comments made by Trump about NATO troops, in effect, saying they were acting like cowards in Afghanistan following 9/11….where 457 UK troops were killed and hundreds were maimed and/or suffered mentally. Other allies similarly affected. Farage up to now has made no comment. His judgement in backing Trump and cuddling up to Musk must now be an issue. This story not being given much attention in USA.