Let's start digging into the election.
It is hard to be totally objective with things like this and because astrology is nothing more than a language of archetypes and patterns - OBJECTIVITY is crucial.
We are always prone to seeing what we are looking for, and so finding that the astrology meets our expectations. We have to be CAREFUL.
I do not feel about Trump the way I did eight years ago/have come to appreciate him a bit and see Harris as a kind of Trojan Horse - we don't know what we are getting - so maybe I can be as objective as anyone. The only candidate who talked about the issues I care most about is out of the race. Somehow, and I am shocking myself with this - I don't have a dog in this fight.
We know the candidates have the karma - cause and effect results of their actions/words and thoughts - to get to the places they are in, or they wouldn't be in them. The election has already had multiple twists and turns. Both candidates have shown their current tendencies for experiencing "lucky breaks" and the polling looks to be very close (according to news sources, that, yes, have been unreliable in the past, but seem to match the 50/50 split I see in yard signs around town this year).
The United States is a Jupiter ruled country and Jupiter is currently backtracking through Gemini. Donald Trump is a Gemini Sun/North Node/Uranus and Kamala Harris is a Gemini Ascendent/North Node. The United States has a Cancer Sun - born on the 4th of July - and Mars is going back and forth through defensive Cancer (the home/land/United States) and fiery Leo (the king/the ego/the home of the United States North Node) BRINGING THE WAR HOME during the lead up to the election, through the election cycle and for some months after the election. Whether this "bringing the war home" thing is all about the election, or there is something else to this, we don't know yet.
Two days before the election Mars will oppose Pluto while both planets square Juno. This is explosive. We have talked about this before and we will talk about this again. It is not a 'one and done' opposition either.
Pluto has returned to Capricorn to finish up the United States Pluto return and wounded healer Chiron is also back to his July 1776 position. Having a Pluto return and a Chiron return and about to have a Uranus return all at the same time does not sound easy for the United States.
In fact, it sounds like a sh*tshow.
Election Day does not look like it settles anything.
This is not so much about who is going to win, although we will look at that, as it is about WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN. And, I have said before that we can't really KNOW what is going to happen. That's not how life on planet Earth actually works, so we are kind of playing a losing game when we try, but, well, we will try anyway :)
When Kamala Harris first showed up as Biden's running mate, her chart (and, maybe especially, its connections to Trump's chart) - honestly, just blew me away.
I thought I was looking at the future President of the United States. I knew, that like Trump, she would likely also be terribly divisive and I knew with her strong Saturn tightly conjunct the United States Moon (the people) she would not come to office in any usual way. No one wants Saturn on their Moon! I thought Biden's health - Pisces on his IC for what seemed to be forever last summer - would necessitate him stepping down and she would take over, and, in a way this did happen, but in another way it didn't. Of course it still could happen if Biden were to step down before January 20th, 2025, so I guess we will look at Biden's chart when we get to Harris's.
But for now, let's start our analysis of the United States election with Trump.
Trump may be the strongest man alive. If he even is a man. I am #kidding #not kidding. I could write a book about Trump's astrology. When Trump stood up during that first assassination attempt and raised his fist in the air while saying FIGHT, it was an iconic American moment. I thought he had just won the election, even though I knew from the astrology that he had not just won the election.
I have said before that Trump's transits on Election Day look VERY GOOD. Actually, I would say they look excellent.
And although his progressed chart and his solar return chart are not as strong, we have to keep in mind he has had these same charts through multiple court wins/reversals and failed assassination attempts. So, yes, they are weaker, but they haven't stopped him from winning. His progressed chart in 2016 had a Balsamic Moon, not known as a time for 'winning' anything, and, yet, win he did.
On Election Day, Trump has a retrograde (re-peating old luck) Jupiter - the planet of good luck and blessings - exact on his North Node of Fate. He has transiting Venus exact on his natal Moon. Trump's Moon ('the people' in a mundane chart) is already very powerful since he was born on a Lunar Eclipse Full Moon. So, both benevolent planets are making important aspects with his natal energies.
Something like this is EXACTLY what you would want going on if you were in a contest.
If everyone voted on election day, and if the Moon wasn't void when the polls opened on November 5th unleashing the potential for something unexpected or even for nothing to come of the day's events - I think Trump would win this election easily.
Just keep in mind, as we go through Trump's chart, that we still haven't looked at Harris's chart and the United States chart. The Inauguration Day chart, for example, looks pretty anemic for Trump. So, what is going to happen between Election Day and Inauguration Day?
Maybe the real story is THERE.
And remember the Moon is void (not making contact with any planet) as the polls open on Election Day. Traditionally things started on a Void Moon lead nowhere. 'Nothing comes of things' or things turn around on us in unexpected ways because the Void Moon creates this kind of blank slate.
Asteroid Apollo will be on Trump's natal Jupiter and here is where, fittingly I think, after calling Trump LIT, I am going to pull the Sun God Apollo into this story.
(I add asteroids when they are supporting a story the chart is already telling and then only when there is a really tight orb, 1 degree or less, mostly in a conjunction or opposition or if the natal chart gives specific asteroids prominence then I will look at them for transits, etc. We will look at some specific asteroids like Whitehouse and Victory in part III)
When Trump selected Vance as his running mate, I took a quick look at Vance's chart. His chart is similar to Trump's chart. I thought maybe a little too similar. I thought he didn't really add anything. I thought that when Kamala Harris became Trump's challenger that Trump would switch out Vance.
But, now looking at Vance's chart more closely I can see how wrong I was about this and him.
Now, I am going to conflate a couple Gods here because Apollo and Helios have been conflated over time in mythology and human memory. Apollo has become known as the Sun God/chariot driver who pulled the Sun from dawn into dusk across the heavens. If we keep in mind what myths actually represent/are - the ancient language of archetypes (the stories that connect us by re-tracing the shared pathways of our collective unconscious, there are parts of us/our DNA that remembers, and so reacts, to these stories) - the way things are remembered are just as important if not more important than the way things actually happened. The physical asteroids themselves being discovered, when we are ready to work with them, and then synchronistically named (just as we are all synchronistically named).
We talked about Apollo and his (who was actually Helios's) son Phaeton HERE.
This post was back in June 2023 during a New Moon in Gemini that was conjunct Trump's Sun and Vance's midheaven (which, of course, are exactly conjunct each other), but I didn't know that back then. Something almost surely started between them at that time/was set into motion on some level. The ruler of that Gemini New Moon was Mercury and Mercury was conjunct asteroid Phaeton.
I will recap Phaeton's story here -
Phaeton's mythology story goes something like this - born of the sea-nymph Clymene and the son God Apollo (Helios), Phaeton grew up never knowing his father, being teased by peers regarding his father-less upbringing, but with his mother telling him of his famous paternity. Phaeton finally tracks down Apollo to confirm his heritage and Apollo says, something, like, "yes, Luke, I am your father" without the "Luke" part (and no dramatic Star Wars music). Phaeton asks Apollo for some kind of proof to bring back to his local frenemies - he couldn't just snap a quick pic for Facebook in those days. Apollo promises to give him whatever he wants, and Phaeton wants to drive Apollo's chariot for the day. Cruise across the sky for all his buds to see. Apollo sensing big trouble ahead begs him to reconsider. Phaeton refuses, and, the promise being unbreakable, Apollo turns over the reins to his inexperienced son.
Things go OK for a New York minute and then, the fiery steeds, sensing no God at the helm, crash across the sky, flying dangerously close to the Earth (scorching the land and creating the Sahara desert) until Jupiter (Zeus) begged by Gaia (Earth) to intervene, tosses a thunderbolt, and Phaeton crashes from the sky to his death.
If we add Apollo, Phaeton and Zeus to Trump and Vance's charts it kind of blows my mind.
Of course, my head is full of pollen, or, my daughter tells me 'ragweed' right now, so maybe easily blown. And maybe blown is a good thing although I am picturing what will be left of myself as something like a dandelion after a powerful wish has gotten hold of it.
Trump and Vance already have some very strong connections including a very powerful Sun/Pluto conjunction with Trump's 12th house Pluto EXACT on Vance's 12th house Sun. The Pluto person in a situation like this acting like a battery and alternately empowering and draining the Sun/son person. And then the 12th house speaks of a past-life story brought into this life. Trump's rising is 29 Leo, Vance's is 27 Leo. Trump's Mars is conjunct Vance's Venus, both 12th house Leos. Trump has the strong (but maybe also kill or be killed) 22 degree Sun. Vance has a powerful 22 degree (kill or be killed) Mars in Scorpio exact on his IC, so like Trump is also a Mars-y person. Trump's Jupiter is tightly conjunct Vance's Moon -
there is enough going on without adding in any asteroids to complicate things, BUT what happens if we do?
If we look at Trump's natal chart we can see he has asteroid Apollo EXACT on his ascendant - so, yes, besides being Uranus and Mars, Trump is playing Apollo, too, the Sun-God, and, yes, of course he is playing the Sun-God because who else would be :)
Trump also has Zeus exactly on his descendent (other people/partner/open enemies) and he has Phaeton tightly conjunct his midheaven. They form a nice, or we could more appropriately say GNARLY, tight little T-Square with Phaeton at 23 degrees Taurus as the focal point (so, yes, conjunct Algol).
The Apollo, Phaeton, Zeus storyline is baked right into Trump's natal chart/contract.
All the story needs is a little ACTIVATING energy - something to trigger the story to life. Maybe something like Vance's 22 degree MARS in Scorpio to fill in the missing leg and create a Grand Fixed Cross!
I think with Phaeton at the mid-heaven/public house of Trump's chart and the tightly conjunct opposition of Apollo and Zeus on his important angles, he will also stimulate people who pick up on these energies and the potentials here to feel he is dangerous and that he is going to 'crash and burn' the whole thing down, whether this is true or not.
If we look at Vance's chart he not only has a natal Phaeton exactly conjunct Trump's erratic and liberating and powerful Uranus, but Vance's natal North Node of Fate is tightly conjunct the United State natal Phaeton. Destined to play Phaeton for the United States? And his natal Apollo is exactly conjunct the United States Sun.
I mean, I can't make this stuff up.
Well, I could, but I wouldn't :)
(Vance's 7th house Zeus at 14 Pisces is exactly conjunct Harris's 10th house natal Chiron.)
Transiting Phaeton will be back to Vance's natal position on Election Day and transiting Apollo will be at 10 degrees Libra. 10 degrees Libra is that final Eclipse degree from last month, that we talked about HERE. That Eclipse was exact on Trump's natal Ixion - the popular king turned criminal given the second chance by Zeus/Jupiter (you could say the United States) that he later blows. So, transiting Apollo, who remember is Trump here (yes, Trump plays lot of parts, we all do, his are just a bit more PUBLIC) is exactly on Trump's natal Ixion on Election Day. Does this help him? Hurt him? Transiting Zeus will be conjunct Pluto on Election Day, although out of sign, and the transiting North Node will be conjunct the United States natal Zeus. Jupiter (Zeus to the Greeks) will be retrograde, exactly on Trump's natal North Node of Fate.
Jupiter is the king of the Gods, and, played here by the Sag rising UNITED STATES. With both Presidential candidates having 'been here before' and both born with a retrograde Jupiter/old luck, Jupiter's retrograde status isn't very helpful in determining a winner, but exact on Trump's North Node of Fate on Election Day certainly tells us this election is very much about HIM and his destiny.
So, what does all this mean? Will Trump and Vance win? They certainly could. Will they be allowed to serve? Will Vance gain power or become President prematurely? Will the United States crash and burn? Will the United States (Jupiter/Zeus) prevent this from happening or think they are preventing it from happening - either by the people not electing him/them or the 'powers that be' by some more treacherous means.
Well ... I think we will save these questions for Part III because there is another person in this race and her chart is very interesting, too (we will also take a look at Walz, but we don't have his birth time, so we are limited with him).
Harris wasn't born on an Eclipse like Trump was, but she was born on a Full Moon, too, with the North Node of that Moon exact on her ascendent almost to the second which (to my way of thinking with archetypes) makes Kamala Harris a stand-in for the North Node.
The North Node is the point of the Moon's orbit that eclipses out the Sun during a Solar Eclipse. The North Node is the only thing that can eclipse the Sun.
We will look at Kamala Harris's chart in part II and then in part III we'll look at what might happen.
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