Ken Burns and The American Revolution

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good

Below you see the "first shot" Horoscope of the American Revolution (center) surrounded by the August 2, 2027 Solar Eclipse in the difficult 11 South Saros Series, the same "system failure/reforms needed" Series that lit the spark of the Revolution which then proceeded to fulfill 11 South themes with "any blocks may be tragically or violently removed" (B. Brady):

And here's a link to the natal horoscope of Ken Burns, documentary film-maker extraordinaire, as we await the premiere of his 6-part American Revolution documentary on PBS scheduled for November 16, 2025. Watch the trailer for inspiration.

Ken Burns: A Few Astro-Notes

Born July 29, 1953 in Brooklyn, NY, the steamy Fire-Water Sun Leo-Moon Pisces blend of Ken Burns is a super creative combination of energies as is his Saturn-Neptune Conjunction in Libra (1953). Plus, his Mercury-Mars Conjunction @30Capricorn falls upon the "A Daughter of the Revolution" degree. Perhaps his maternal ancestors served?

And so I'm looking forward to the premiere of Ken Burns' upcoming documentary. Unless the grumpy, anti-American fasc*sts of Washington DC can figure out how to stop the film being aired - and that, with 2027's 11 South Eclipse @9Leo55 landing directly upon Mr. T's fatality-infused 12th house midpoint picture of Pluto = Mars-Saturn. Besides destruction, included in the word picture's potentials: intervention of a higher power.

Plus, we must note that the Eclipse contains double Pluto influence with transit Pluto opposing the 11 South Eclipse of August 2, 2027 and this lowers the level of primal violence to animalism - which is as low as humanity can go, imho. Of course, we see that transit Pluto nears opposition to Mr. T's natal Pluto which is more of a societal or generational indicator of one great power pitted against another and the cutthroat competition that comes with it.

Then taking a closer look at the powerful Eclipse-Pluto conjunction influencing Mr. T in Summer 2027 is revealing as well. Negatively it signifies karmic setbacks such as criminal activities, primal violence, gang wars, and r*pes - and as we know, the Mars-Saturn midpoint is known as the death axis (R. Ebertin).

Meanwhile, the conjunction's positive potential suggests a charismatic leader of the masses. Now if only America could find one of those - one who wasn't determined to destroy America and We the People with it.

Epstein Survivors' Presser 9.3.25: a Horoscope

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good

Tomorrow September 3, 2025, a press conference is scheduled for survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's abuse to speak out. Below you see the DC Horoscope set for 10:30 am edt (last I heard, it's to begin then) with chart-ruler Venus conjunct Mr. T's 12th house natal Pluto (10Leo02) which conjoins his destructive, enraged Mars-Saturn midpoint, a cosmic picture of death and fury which we've discussed multiple times here on SO'W:

"DJT" = some of Tr*mp's natal placements sprinkled around the chart to show contacts from the September 3rd presser's planets.

With transit Venus conjunct his natal Pluto, Mr. T will be desperate to control events including this presser, and with transit Venus conjunct his Mars-Saturn axis (potential for high blood pressure), recent suggestions of his illness may be true, plus, frigid feelings and feeling unsupported and unloved are probable for the blighter.

Meanwhile, chart-ruler Venus (females in the very visible 10th house) makes no applying aspects to other planets which may suggest that the September 3rd presser will be rescheduled, somehow delayed, or will not make the splash with the public that organizers hope for.

If held, the presser will make for a nice Welcome Back! for Maga congress members returning from their long vote-avoiding vacation.

Then additionally, message-bearer Mercury in early Virgo (sign of the Virgin) is apex of a YOD pattern with the sex-trafficking duo of Neptune-Pluto at its base so expressions of karma for the perpetrators may be noticed during tomorrow's speeches, or, the YOD may simply symbolize the survivors' karmic opportunity to broadcast the messages that Mercury in shy Virgo intend to do.

Then as you see, a T-Square forms between the Moon-Jupiter opposition (trusting the wrong people, believing their promises) pointing toward desire-prone Mars (17Lib36) which sits upon Tr*mp's natal Jupiter, and thus is emphasized as a taboo-breaker in his natal chart. As a midpoint picture we find potentials for rash ideas, harsh opinions, a need to be heard, but also a striving for success. (R. Ebertin; M. Munkasey).

Well, I hope all goes well for the ladies tomorrow, and as always, Thanks for reading! jc

Related posts include Those Epstein Mysteries.

A Presidential Election in 2028?

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good

As you know, America is scheduled to hold a presidential election on November 7, 2028 which should result in an Inauguration 2029 ceremony (Saturday; horoscope shown) for an elected president to take the Oath of Office to preserve, protect, and defend the US Constitution (see the document's May 2025 Jupiter Return).

Yet as we know, our Constitution has been under heavy threat from multiple authoritarian forces and criminal networks aligned against democracy, self-rule, rule of law, the traditional checks and balances of a three-branched government, and the Age of Enlightenment principles of our country's founding in order to prevent Election 2028 and Inauguration 2029 from successfully occurring or completing or, causing results to be distrusted by voters as shown by the dynamic T-Square of Mercury-Saturn = Pluto and the midpoint picture the trio forms (notated, right side). The applicable Solar Eclipse of influence (12 South Saros Series) is also listed, lower right corner.

Meanwhile, the socially-tinkering wealthy power elite monarchists adore the people's insecurity and paranoia over the many problems they have purposefully created for the sake of the societal chaos and disruption (Uranus) which makes implementing a One World Government easier for them - a ruling regime that they can fashion and control - aka, the "NWO." And obviously, enlightenment principles are what GOP/Maga types have urged Americans to avoid because they're "woke," and which can cause certain crimes to come to light more easily.

Please Note that theirs is a draconian totalitarian agenda (Project 2025, a part of it) that's been planned for centuries - for it's the existential good vs evil conflict being played out on Planet Earth in front of the entire Universe. Now I know you may not want to accept this, but there it is, dear reader. Feel free to ignore it, as you wish.

So! With gracious plenty of my study notes penned on, here's the DC Horoscope of US Election 2028 (November 7) set for noon for a general view. You'll see in the upper right corner a note that Election Day Venus in Libra favors the incumbent (but exceptions have occurred in past elections.) You may want to adjust the chart's hour and location as you prefer:

Now here's an excerpt from a previous president's quote concerning tyranny:

"Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day. But a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers (administrations), too plainly proves a deliberate systematic plan of reducing us to slavery." - Thomas Jefferson.

For more quotes concerning the NWO here's a web page of interest.

Then in closing, here's a handy list of Solar and Lunar Eclipses of 2026 and 2027.

Thanks for reading! These are dreary topics, I know, but monsters must be faced in order to vanquish them, and vanquish them we must. jc

Winter Solstice 2025 Horoscope

by Jude Cowell, partisan for democracy

Just for you, here's the DC Horoscope of Winter Solstice 2025:

From August New Moon to September 2025 Eclipses

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good

Recently on SO'W we discussed A New Moon for Ghislaine @00Virgo which conjoined fixed star Regulus. As you can see in its Horoscope, the August 23, 2025 New Moon and royal Regulus were both apex of a crisis-laden YOD, a pattern that can contain health implications, a turning point, and/or a karmic opportunity. Turns out that after her discussion with Tr*mp lawyer Todd Blanche in July, Maxwell was relocated to a more comfy prison in Texas where she can freely roam.

If you wish, see Todd Blanche meets with Ghislaine Maxwell.

Because fortunately for her, Maxwell's natal Uranus, planet of freedom and independence, was also apex of the two pairs of sextiled planets at the base of the August 23rd YOD: Saturn-Pluto and Neptune-Pluto. Of course, this is the case because Saturn and Neptune are very close together (00-2 Aries) as they align to meet in Great Conjunction on February 20, 2026 at Aries Point (chart shown).

Horoscopes: Eclipses and Lunations August into September 2025

On the dual image, below, with astro-notes penned on, you'll find brief potentials of the complex YOD pattern when read as midpoint pictures and activated by Saturn-Pluto (cruelty; hardship; violence) and Neptune-Pluto (Organized crime - you know, like child sex trafficking rings, drug importation, distribution and sales, plus, other subversive activities and intrigues such as being kidnapped off US streets and deported - without due process):

Then here's the 9 New South Solar Eclipse in health sign Virgo (worries surface about health and/or paperwork - Brady) at a critical 29th degree which perfects hours prior to Autumn Equinox 2025.

General Eclipse Notes are listed (in Earth signs, in 8th house, planetary aspects to the Eclipse) and sprinkled about the chart including Sun-Pluto (swellings!) and, at the bottom edge of the horoscope you'll find health-related potentials for heart neurosis (Sun-Uranus) and Moon-Uranus' prostate diseases (R. Ebertin):

For Further Reading try Finances, Currency, and the September 2025 Eclipse. Or, for a bit of US History with your Astrology, you might check out Astro-Notes on America's Saturn-Neptune Cycle.

Thanks for your attention to this matter! jc

Never Appease Bullies!

by Jude Cowell, partisan for democracy

Appeasing a bully is like paying a blackmailer: they always want more. jc

After the so-called "Alaska Summit" recently between supplicant D. Tr*mp and Russia's dictator V. Put*n, some pundits have called the photo op for the Russian dictator "appeasement" which recalls the historical appeasement of A. Hitler by Britain's PM Neville Chamberlain. Needless to say, comparisons between the two events are being made.

Yet this limited Monday post isn't the time or place to delve into details of how PM Chamberlain returned to the UK with the Munich Agreement (signed September 30, 1938) which ceded part of Czechoslovakia to aggressive Germany. Meanwhile, Tr*mp apparently is ready to hand aggressive Put*n part or parts of Ukraine (as if they're Donny J's to give - perhaps it's symbolic).

So let's take a look at Neville Chamberlain's natal chart and a bi-wheel with his Prenatal Eclipse (PE = 15 South; themes are listed) surrounded by a noon horoscope of the Munich Agreement of 1938 (noting that Czechoslovakia was left out of the to-do just as the Put*n-Tr*mp "Alaska Summit" left Ukraine out of the "diplomatic" picture).

Gracious plenty astro-notes are squooshed upon the charts for the curious reader including a few 1938 to 1869 midpoint pictures, plus, we find that DJT's natal Neptune horns in at the Sun-MC point (wrong objectives; apathy) in 4th house:

In closing, I should add that the 12 South 1938 Solar Eclipse of the Munich Agreement is not shown on the chart but it would be in 11th house @7Gemini conjunct US 1776 Uranus.

Astro-Note: Campion's The Book of World Horoscopes (#ad) contains 6 horoscopes for Czechoslovakia (from #076, October 18, 1918 to #080, the Czech Republic January 1, 1993 during the Uranus-Neptune Conjunctions of 1993). Basically, this provides us with a Timeline of History via horoscopes. jc

Governor Gavin Newsom says, "Wake Up, America!"

by Jude Cowell, partisan for democracy

With recent pushback efforts by California Governor Gavin Newsom against Republican redistricting in Texas, let's compare the Governor's natal chart with that of Inauguration 2029. Coming soon to SO'W will be comparisons of Midterms 2026 and Election 2028 planets in relation to Governor Newsom's horoscope, so stay turned.

A Call for Action to Save Democracy!

Significantly, the Governor of California says, Wake Up, America! And perhaps you've heard today that Governor Newsom is calling for California to hold a special election this November 4th with the redistricting of California on the ballot - named the "Election Rigging Response Act." That's unless Texas Republicans stop their redistricting efforts to skew elections their way, and their way only. Now I don't know about you, dear reader, but I wouldn't trust a fasc*st GOPer as far as I could throw him/her. And I can't.

Yet fortunately for the purpose of this post, the AA-rated natal horoscope of your favorite Governor Gavin Christopher Newsom is available for viewing if you have yet to do so. Plus, you can see his natal chart here (outer) surrounding the Inauguration 2029 Horoscope (because why not?):

Hopefully, you can make out at least some of my scribbles because it's nearing 5:00 pm and this post has taken hours to prepare and publish. In other words, I'm wumped out, dear reader! And it's been a long week for all of us. Yet I must add two more notes:

1. Watch for August 24, 2025 when transit Jupiter first squares Newsom's natal Libra Sun (7:22:28 am PDT), then opposes his natal Capricorn Moon (9:51:37 am PDT) which activates in some way his natal Sun-Moon square of restlessness, conscious will vs unconscious habit patterns, and possible relationship issues. Newsom's parents divorced in 1972, yet his lawyer-then-judge Father (Libra Sun) and worked-multiple-jobs Mother (Capricorn Moon: he and his sister lived with her) could also be involved with expansive Jupiter improving or inflating issues, possibly in the realms of reputation and/or finances. I imagine Republicans are casting about for some issue to inflate, spin, and undermine Governor Newsom with, don't you?

2. Energies and themes running in the background of society and influencing both Election 2028 and Inauguration 2029 are those of the 12 South Solar Eclipse of July 22, 2028 @30Cancer, the "D.A.R." degree.

US Jupiter turns Direct by Progression 2025

Jude Cowell, partisan for democracy

In December 1905, America's 1776 Jupiter exalted @5Cancer56 symbolically turned retrograde (Rx) by progression (SP) @25Can14:52 (based on the July 4, 1776 5:09 pm LMT Philadephia chart; use the chart of your preference and Jupiter's "turning time" will likely be somewhat different). I've previously written a bunch about Jupiter's change of direction in 1905 so I'll not repeat it here.

Suffice to say that a nation's Jupiter relates to ideology, ethics, codified religion - and to banking and finances of the larger kind. Plus, America and Americans have related to others in a Cancerian way - and we still do. Of course, the negative side of Moon-ruled Cancer is the tribalist/nationalist way that Mr. T and his comrades prefer - or that they propagandistically use against us. Jupiter does love to broadcast and persuade.

Upon reflection, Jupiter in Cancer has been a blessing to our nation but now our national and personal resources are being heisted and stolen away, and we're overtaxed via ill-advised tariffs. You know the story: thieves target where the money is.

Then After decades of a Rx Jupiter!

So on July 23, 2025 just passed, the process reversed and US Jupiter symbolically turned Direct by progression @15Can10:57, as you see in the bi-wheel, below; transits for the exact moment surround the SP chart:

Note: on or about August 17/18, 2025, US SP Jupiter @15Can10 will receive a Jupiter Return and a new cycle of Jupiterian activity may be expected since Secondary Progressions tend to express on the physical plane if other astrological indications lend support of a similar nature.

Now in the center of the above bi-wheel, an SP midpoint picture is notated at SP Jupiter's big turn-around moment: Jupiter = SP Venus-Neptune: deceptive financial practices (Munkasey). Yes, we know. Then R. Ebertin adds, to revel in illusions. Yup. It's an ongoing calamity for America. Noel Tyl adds a slightly different vibration to the picture: luxury consciousness and keeping up a good front.

Meanwhile, mundane Jupiter can also wear a Military General's uniform and 15Cancer34 is the Ascendant position in the Pentagon's 1942 Horoscope. Yes, the US Military is a bottomless money pit, as we know, plus, traditionally the CIA's black op budget must be surreptiously funded with oodles of cash. For the sake of national security, you know.

In closing, I'll add that US Jupiter's symbolic change of direction will take some time to express itself more directly, maybe 2 or 3 years, so be advised that patience will be required - even though it seems that money flows easily enough already but only for certain people and projects. Then perhaps that's what will be altered once gasbag Jupiter picks up steam chugging forward: unless the current gang of robbers has stolen all our treasures away by then.

Many Thanks go to my friend Marcia Brilinski for alerting me to Jupiter's change of direction! jc

Ghislaine Maxwell and August 2025's planets

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good

By now everyone knows that convicted sex predator, prison inmate and comrade of Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, has been transferred from prison in Florida to a country club sort of containment center near College Station, Texas where she's free to wander about. Does the nearness of Texas A & M University mean that young folk will be easy to locate for the unrepentent deviant? Hopefully, the entire region has been notified of the sex offender's presence.

Meanwhile, fact-challenged Tr*mp says he knows nothing of the unusual transfer or the strings that were pulled to put her there - even though his attorney Todd Blanche met with Maxwell to discuss what she can do for Donald (my interpretation of their recent meeting (horoscope shown with freedom-loving Uranus @00Gemini conjunct the Goal Point of the chart/meeting).

So as near as I can ascertain, Ghislaine Maxwell left prison in Florida for a comfy stint in Texas on August 1, 2025, hour unknown, so the following bi-wheel shows her AA-rated natal horoscope, center, surrounded by the noon planets of August 1, 2025 set for the town of College Station.

Highlighted in blue is her in-progress Persephone Return (6-8 Pisces); the significance of the asteroid's link to rape and to underworld Pluto cannot be missed, nor can transit Pluto @2AQ24 Rx conjunct her natal EROS (the piercing) and its link to the August 24, 2025 New Moon @2Leo08 (Sun-Moon = Pluto: "changed circumstances lead to critical phases of development, or separation from others" - R. Ebertin):

Dear Reader: If this post is of interest to you, please share if you care! Because spinning my wheels for nothing and no one is very tiresome! jc