An elemental shift from Earth Water to Air Fire in 2025 and beyond will pose challenges for the USA’s stellium in Cancer. Cancer dislikes letting go, tends to airbrush the past, gets overly defensive when criticized, tends to be conservative and traditional in outlook and views detached Aquarius as a liberally-minded rebel and a threat to family togetherness.
In Sun sign astrology, Pluto into Aquarius will be moving through Cancer’s 8th house of economy and finances. Saturn Neptune in Aries through Cancer’s 10th house of direction in life and reputation. Uranus into Gemini through Cancer’s 12th house. A time of introspection with the hope of a significant emotional adjustment vis a vis priorities will be the hint of the planets and almost certainly ignored initially by Trump and co. Although this is a superficial astro-analysis it is backed up by economic problems flagging up in other charts
On the USA 4 July 1776 11am Philadelphia chart, having just emerged from the Pluto Return, two key influences stand out.
Firstly: the Solar Arc Saturn which was conjunct the USA Mars a few months back which brought a shock and a collision-like experience will move on to square the US Neptune exact in 9 months which will bring an uncertain mood and confusion of considerable proportions. Then the Solar Arc Sun will square the US Mars in 16 months and square the US Neptune into 2027. So an extended period of crisis and a gamechanger in terms of historical direction. When two key configurations in a chart collide by Solar Arc it is a time at the crossroads when events compel a change of direction.
Secondly: Neptune in Aries will square the USA financial Venus from July 2025 and by 2026 tr Saturn conjunct tr Neptune will square the Venus and Jupiter in Cancer; and tr Saturn will square the USA Sun. Neptune is usually undermining when it comes to finances so high hopes may be dented; more so by 2026 when downbeat Saturn joins in.
Jupiter moving into Cancer from July 2025 to June 2026 will offset certain problems, giving a mood lift at times. Though the Jupiter square Saturn seesaw will continue in operation until mid 2026 with its good news, bad news modus operandi.
Tr Uranus moving into Gemini after mid 2025 won’t reach the USA Uranus Return until 2027 which is when tr Pluto is opposition the Leo North Node – the latter may sound obscure but it is a sensitive trigger point for the USA’s ambitions to be seen as the world’s superpower.
The USA Federal Reserve chart, 16 November 1914 9am Washington, DC, will be rattled later this month to mid March 2025 with tr Uranus opposition his Scorpio Sun. But it is tr Neptune Saturn moving into Aries and squaring the Saturn Pluto at one degree Cancer from May 2025 onwards, on and off into 2026 which will cause major concerns. Followed by a debilitating Solar Arc Neptune conjunct the Fed Res Sun in 2026 along with an insecure tr Uranus opposition the Fed Res Mars. An economically worrisome and challenging time.
The Supreme Court, 2 February 1790 New York, will catch a couple of lucky breaks (whatever that means) when tr Uranus squares the Mars Jupiter from April 2025 on and off until early 2026. Where it hits a fork in the road will be late 2026 with the Solar Arc Uranus conjunct the yod focal planet Venus. Into 2027 tr Pluto will oppose the Uranus for a major upheaval. The pressure for change will continue into the next decade with tr Uranus conjunct the Venus focal point at the same time as tr Pluto is conjunct the SCOTUS Sun and Pluto picking up in 2032 running to 2035. This will bring a deconstruction and hopefully a reconstruction though against huge resistance since the SCOTUS chart is very Fixed.
The 2025 Inauguration chart of January 20 with Sun Pluto in the 10th opposition Mars on the IC does suggest an over controlling administration and a discontented citizenry. The 6th house Moon will put an emphasis on health especially the health support systems with positive advances from Moon trine Jupiter and negative ones from Moon inconjunct Saturn. There is a publicity attracting Neptune trine Mars which sextiles onto a 1st house Uranus hinting at an unreasonable desire for personal freedom without moderation or common sense. Unpredictability will be the hallmark of the Trump Term Mark 11.
The administration will run into road blocks later in 2025 as the Solar Arc Sun closes the conjunction to Pluto to exact; and late in 2026 with an unpopular SA Saturn conjunct the Neptune.
The imponderable is Trump who has an astonishing capacity to absorb punishment and a lethal diet and keep marching on. He has one more tr Uranus square his Mars late April to mid May 2025 which can accompany shocks or health issues in the elderly. The previous one flagged up his near shooting. He is also awash with undermining, confused Neptune from his SA Neptune conjunct his Moon within months and then opposition his Sun throughout 2026.
Anecdotally from discussions with friendly colleagues and neighbors, the sense is that, unfortunately, it might take another ‘revolution’ to effect change (whatever that means, and we can only hope it will be peaceful, tho one side, now in control, has repeatedly shown it is not and has been heavily arming itself precisely with the expectation of future confrontations, and unwilling to give up power).
Cancerians are also very much prone to hiding their heads in the sand and denying reality. Most humans, and Americans in particular, don’t react and do the necessary, hard thing until the situation is dire and they have no choice but to (eg global warming). Which is what the years to come sound like. I hope this is the upside to the dark times that lie ahead for the US.
The inauguration chart’s first house does seem to reflect Trump, as the president and ego, with Uranus, Jupiter and Algol. Most people would like to think karma exists, and that it may act within one’s lifetime, but so far this does not seem to apply to Trump in the least, not for lack of trying from the forces of good and justice. (Although some of his non-familial entourage have paid the price, often for blind loyalty).
Given that his antecedents didn’t live a saintly life, I can’t help but wonder whether anyone will even be punished for the sons of the fathers … and ponder about injustice and the nature of evil. He is enough to shake the faith among the most optimistic of us…
Everyone has their favorite chart for countries. I’m a fan of the Sibley chart for the U.S. and the events of 9/11 confirmed my belief in it since the Saturn/Pluto opposition in Gemini/Sag straddled the ascendant/descendant. When I first noticed it was going to happen, I predicted an interruption in U.S. air travel, but I didn’t see how it was going to happen.
Of course, moving houses around with a different time of birth for the U.S. doesn’t change your predictions here, which are greatly appreciated. But the U.S. with a Virgo ascendant doesn’t work for me. The Sag rising of Sibley embodies the myth of the Marlboro man, the cowboy and the Manifest Destiny of the pioneer.
Your points about the Saturn/Neptune conjunction in early Aries also apply to the world charts with a January 1 birthdate — incorporation of New York City’s five boroughs, the Euro, etc. (I believe in wide orbs!) Thanks as always for your insights!
@Monica Starr, I agree on Sibley working the best due to Sadgittarius rising and some house positions. But these are things we are allowed and have discussed over the years. Very few countries have a undisputable and undistrupted birth chart. I happen to live in one of the rare examples – Finland was declared independent through a Parliamentary voting process, and we have the minutes of that vote. The de facto independence was also promptly acknowledge by most of the international community.
There has not been much publicity in the UK about the fact that Melania Trump will apparently not be moving into the White House in January, but rather staying in New York, where her 18 year old son is going to University. If true, I think she may be the only ‘First Lady’ not to live in the White House. A crushing indictment of Donald Trump and far from the best way to start his four year term.
Ken, I believe that has not changed much since this past year. Not such a big deal, esp w/r/t Drompf.
Hi Marjorie, gm
Just wondering how you would interpret t.Saturn and Neptune in early April square NN at 2 Cancer also please?
Much thanks
My apologies, dear Marjorie,
I did not reply with any astrological
aspect information. I do so appreciate
your most thoughtful and well informed
subjects that you present to us here.
I read and follow all western astrology,
I have personally used my own natal
chart to make significant life changes
of my own. I have just been in this
horrendous emotional funk as of late,
I have Pisces Moon at 10’46 conjunct
Chiron at 13’51, transiting Saturn has
hit me hard, I am sick of it all already.
Sometimes when I speak to people
in my surrounding community here
in Texas, I get so dismayed. Then
I see your column, and want to cry
because a journalist, reporter and
astrologer in Scotland knows more
about reality here, then all these people
I am surrounded by. It’s enough to
make me want to bang my head against the wall.
Ignorance is so not bliss.
Just to tell you are not alone… i feel just like you…
I fight every day to mantain my mental health with all crazyness i see in this world… really tuff times!
Be strong, i’m trying to be too.
Trump never wanted to govern, he just wanted to win. Now that he’s won I think he’ll start to relax and that Neptune will take hold — he’ll be floating around as the PTSD of the shooting kicks in. I don’t care who you are, you can’t run from the after-effects of incoming gunfire. I know, I’ve been shot at several times. Sooner or later the body reacts.
From a CNN article touching on Xi and his focus on rooting out bad elements.
“Once all of their real competitors are gone, a dictator can never think to themselves: ‘Oh well, all the threats are gone. I can just relax.’ Because they always think that new threats could emerge, including from people who once were very close to them. This happens over and over again,” he said.
As a result, the dictator is always looking for increasingly subtle signs that someone is plotting against them, said Shih, the author of “Coalitions of the Weak,” which examines Mao’s hold on power in the late stage of his life. “
I agree with this assessment, larryc and Lizzie.
But to the contrary of your assertion that he will relax, Lizzie, Trump is a narcissist. He will never relax. They simply aren’t wired as normal people are.
The whole lack of empathy thing and inability to feel it plays into his horrible behavior towards everyone, and the root of it is in a severely damaged sense of self and the deep fear of their inadequacies being exposed for all to see. His fear of being a loser is legendary, but he can never rest even after a big win like on 5 Nov. Like a shot in the arm from a drug, the high is only temporary, and the crash greater.
I do agree with you, Lizzie on the notion that he has zero interest in governing. But he will most certainly seek to extract maximum positional advantage from being President again, and a lot of lay people in America were dumb enough to believe that granting him a second chance will somehow benefit them too. Just like an abused spouse runs back into the arms of her abuser after he love bombs her. It never works out.
I think he will also focus on his retribution and vengeance.
Any astrological signs of his overreach and failure? (Hope, hope!)
I think there will be enormous pushback, especially when prices start rising again because of his tariffs and deportations and people start to wake up.
A couple days ago, someone
in my local FB community page,
asked for a recommendation for
affordable nursing home care for
their loved one who suffers from
dementia. I replied to the post,
explaining that I have a friend
who placed his invalid wife in
a nursing home recently. In the
U.S., Medicare does not pay for
nursing home care. For as long
as I have been an adult ( I am
61 yrs. old), Medicaid ends up
paying for nursing home care.
Medicaid is considered the insurer
of last resort, which means that
all other means must be exhausted
before Medicaid can be approved and
billed. In Texas, our governor rejected
Medicaid expansion, so basic Medicaid
rules require the person they cover
have no more than 2 thousand dollars
income a month, or they are automatically
not approved. A nursing home administrator
will accept a client, the focus then becomes
spending down all available financial resources
until the person is ‘poor’ enough to qualify
for Medicaid. Then the nursing home claims
any social security payment, in addition to
billing Medicaid. Because private healthcare
insurance in the U.S. is for profit, they sell
Long Term Care insurance, but it can be
expensive. Medicaid is by far the largest
payer of nursing home care, despite Medicaid
existing for the economically disadvantaged.
So, eldercare attorneys, knowing that most
people are automatically declined for Medicaid,
now charge a minimum fee of $ 4,000. in
order to apply the person for Medicaid, because
these eldercare attorneys know how to get
the approval. In other words, it is a big
financial money grab set up. Medicaid does
NOT want to approve the individual, basically
they are forced to do so by a lawyer, or a
nursing home administrator with know how.
I ended my explanation to this person with,
“Until access to healthcare is considered a
personal right, this will unfortunately never
change”.
One of those gun totin’ “Mah Gunzzz”
gun extremists replied to me, “Healthcare
is not a right….slavery was abolished long
ago”. I was dumbfounded. I googled,
found out that there are so many people
who equate access to healthcare without
insurance as enslaving, or forcing the health
care professional to provide healthcare.
This argument makes zero sense to me.
Why is it, then that a healthcare insurer
has the ‘right’ to charge premiums for care,
only to deny the care, despite selling basically
access or promise from the insurer to pay
the provider for the healthcare rendered?
As far as slavery, doctors calling the insurers,
begging for permission to administer lifesaving
healthcare, that itself is so called slavery.
It’s just that in the U.S. now, we have devolved
into corporate owned/operated/controlled and
we are no longer a democracy, in my humble
opinion. But by all means, yes, your loved one
with dementia may not be able to get Medicaid,
but they sure as heck can go out and buy a gun.
In fact, they can buy as many guns as they
want. No questions asked.
I guess not many will be willingly migrating to TX.
Yet many right-wingers from California willingly are moving to Texas, while sensible moderates and liberals are leaving Texas, even returning or moving to California.
CNN, for WIW, was listing the top ten countries amenable to Americans looking to leave. The focus was “rich americans” but that’s a phrase debatable.
Good morning. What are the indications of boots on the ground in defense of “something American”?
Was this touched upon in an earlier post? Thanks.
I live in Tyler, Texas, located almost
equal distance from Dallas to Shreveport,
La. Historically a very well to do, and
one of the most politically conservative
areas of the huge state of Texas. Our
state and local governments prioritize
religious fundamentals, unfairly and
unjustly. Iron fist style governing
with extreme prejudice, delivered with
a smack of religious fundamentalism.
Lately, several young women of child
bearing age, from all back rounds of
life, have told me that they fear they
will never have a child, despite wanting
to have children eventually. They tell me
this, because Texas, and now the U.S.
as a whole, has made the reality of
parenting so terrifying. Childcare is
extremely difficult to find, and costs a
small fortune. Where I live, people are
still paid $ 10.25/ hr. with no healthcare
insurance offered from their employer.
Rents are unaffordable, people need
multiple room mates to pay rent.
Those who sell anything necessary
charge prohibitively high amounts,
we are financially fleeced at every turn.
Downtown, an original entire city block
of historic buildings, dating from the
1870’s -1900 were demolished, in order
to build a new courthouse. That small
historic street, first platted in the 1840’s
1850’s, now consists of a prison, a high
rise parking garage, and now a soon to
be built new courthouse. Our elected
officials own portfolios from for profit
prisons, in January our Lt. Governor
promises to eradicate legal sales of
hemp products that contain low levels
of THC, in an overt effort ( he claims
he is saving children) to create more
excuses to arrest people. It is akin to
making something like locally brewed
beer illegal, just nonsensical. Our
foster care system for children has
now devolved into warehousing youngsters
removed from their homes, when they
turn 18, they are sent out to the streets
of Houston, Texas where predators wait
outside these facilities, in order to lure
these unfortunate souls. It is a sad fact.
Meanwhile, our so called rainy day fund,
which will never be touched, no matter
what the emergency, is socked away
untouched, I imagine billions of dollars.
It was set up to address state emergencies,
but never touched. Basically hoarded
money not doing anyone but bankers
any help at all.
@Sherry, honestly, it has beat me for a long time how anyone can afford having children in the US. That said, people living in countries with working family policies – affordable childcare and education, tax cuts and/or allowance etc. – are making these same choices.
Some of my relatives live in what’s our very own “Bible Belt” right in the middle of Finland geographically. My aunt is in a village that’s 90 percent Laestadian. This is a mainline Lutheran revivalist movement, where the strictest and largest group bans extramaritial sex and contraception in general, among other things (it used to be no secular music, no dancing, no tv, still no female clergy). Families were big in the 20th century once the maternal and infant healthcare developed, usually 8 children and up. The largest my aunt knows had 18 children. Even my generation still listened to elders, got married in their early-20’s, 8-12 children are not unheard of, and 6 or down are suspect. But the latest generation, born from the 1990’s onwards, are different. Many girls prefer to stay single, and those who marry still want to work (degrees in nursing and teaching, even medicine, have been socially acceptable).
Astrologically, I don’t know what’s the signature, but it might be fixed star Regulus that passing to Virgo in 2011, which was generally seen as bringing “girl power” (worth to note that right now, most Royal houses have a female heir to throne either directly or 2nd in line of succession).
@Solaia – the religion does seem to parallel the lines of orthodox/traditional Catholicism. No birth control, lots of children, young marriage, and a traditional 50% tithe. Yes, 50%. Not clear how families make ends meet.
Prior to my wedding, the Catholic church mandated pre-marital counseling by the church on these very topics. In one class, the speaker was proud to have fathered 15 children while his wife was consigned to the home. In another, the speakers were a married couple (tho their body language spoke of disharmony) talking about “withdrawal” method and sympto-thermic birth control.
Clearly, there were some strong reactions within the audience.
@Sherry, You are not alone. I live less than 1 1/2 hours away from you on the SE edge of the Dallas metroplex. I moved here about 8 yrs ago because the extent of my small family is here. It has been difficult. I arrived just before the 2016 Orange Menace election and here we are again. The really shocking election result to me was the re-election of Cruz considering how painfully obvious his lack of any accomplishment for the people of Texas, no matter what their political party is. There is a fundamentalist church on every corner. There are pockets of sane people here but it is an effort to find them and true to Texas requires driving at least 25-30 miles.
Looking at the DC inauguration chart with a signature “dictator on day one” alignment is wrenching for those of us living in a hub of the attack on democratic principles and ideals.
This is interesting, because I just listened to a very enlightening interview with YLE’s (Finnish public broadcaster) departing correspondent in Washington, Iida Tikka. She mentioned that her theory, which she called “nerdy”, on why the US has become such a divided nation is the lack of working competition legislation. I personally haven’t looked at this closer, but it actually would make sense, in that this is what has allowed likes of Musk, Bezos, and Zuckerberg to accumulate 12 figure properties.
There is, unfortunately nothing to suggest the incoming Administration and Congress will fix the competition law – quite the contrary. There a “privatization” efford that’s really just a barely masked attempt by the “broligarchs” to further increase their wealth. But maybe this is what will turn the brewing discontent to open defiance by the public.
And oh, one place I’d watch for things to come is Javier Milei’s Argentina. Elon Musk has long been a fan, and it seems Trump now is looking at Milei rather than Orbàn, whose public spending is all over the place for an inspiration. Milei has managed in curbing the inflation and National debt of Argentina, but driven more people to poverty. How Argentinians will react to “enduring hardship for some time” (something Musk asked Americans to do in one of the pre-Election podcasts), will likely have a big impact to Trump’s Admin first steps and priorities.
Baltimore, MD here. Luigi went to school nearby and DC is a train ride away.
Oy ve.
Marjorie, thank you for posting on our fractious country. It does help put pieces together, although, I’m inclined to hide under my bed for a number of years.