The Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe

by Jude Cowell

Actually, there are multiple mysteries associated with Edgar Allan Poe. His tragic and untimely death at age 40 is but one. His is an unsolved cold case but we can consider astrological influences of his life and death so let's do that.

Poe: Inventor of Detective Fiction, Father of American Mystery Writers

Born on January 19, 1809 in Boston, there are various birth times proposed for author, poet, editor, and critic Edgar Allan Poe but below you see Poe's natal horoscope using the Starkman-rectified time of 2:52:54 LMT with 25Sco24 rising.

And yes, Scorpio does seem to be an appropriate Ascendant considering Poe's obsessive interests in writing tales of mystery, murder, crime, and gothic horror, along with the sign's Mars-Pluto association, a planetary pair which can contain a streak of violence if the conditions are right and the characters are so inclined - with force being an operative feature of the pair's powerful arsenal. Plus, the Scorpio connection with death and other 8th house matters mustn't be overlooked.

Poe natal (inner); Poe Death (outer):

First, let's direct our attention to a few factors such as wounding/wounded Chiron in Scorpio conjunct natal Ascendant (physical body). Voting planet Mercury @8Scorpio conjuncts his natal North Node (a karmic indicator; a meeting) while Mercury to natal Uranus suggests dealing with larger societal issues such as elections but with a quirky or unusual flavor to communications.

Also significant is the victim-savior axis of Virgo-Pisces and Poe's quadruple line-up in Pisces (9-17 degrees) opposed by transit Venus and Jupiter, both money planets. Chart-ruler Venus exactly opposes Poe's natal Venus which suggests a time of hostile disagreements and differing perspectives. And transit Jupiter opposing his Pluto more than hints at manipulation and a contest of wills by powerful, wealthy entities - perhaps including the politicians they enable.

Meanwhile, transit Neptune, planet of deception, subversion, and drunkenness conjuncts the separative South Node suggesting intrigue and loss within the Collective at that time. Additionally, Poe's natal Uranus-North-Node conjunction in 12th house denotes a connection with politics and/or radical reactionaries, plus, the 12th house of Secret Deals lends itself easily to politics. Then we can look toward his natal 8th cusp for Moon and Mars which snug around it at the time of his death, and indicate quarrels and angry emotional outbursts. Was a fiance somehow connected to his ending? Some sources have mentioned his fiance's mother who disapprved of Mr. Poe as her daughter's intended. Or so I've read. This may be only a rumor.

A Difficult Life of Loss and Grief

Now you're likely aware that E.A. Poe's life had been full of deaths - starting early on for he became an orphan at age 2. And fatal diseases such as tuberculosis were rampant in the 19th century, as we know. In fact, TB took away his wife Virginia on January 30, 1847.

As for Solar and Lunar Eclipses prior to his death, a Total 14 North Solar Eclipse on August 18, 1849 @25Leo06:13 is very telling. 14N themes include confusion, delusion, unexpected financial happenings, unrequited love, despair, a draining of energy - and a "peculiar turn of events" (B. Brady). Then on September 2, 1849, a Lunar Eclipse @10Pis04 landed directly upon Poe's natal Moon with physical implications - and across his natal MC-IC axis in his rectified chart (a clue that its timing may be accurate).

In addition, Edgar Allan Poe was born under the auspices of a 9 New North Solar Eclipse @25Sco38:21 - conjunct his Ascendant (was the eclipse a timer for rectification? More factors must connect as well) - with themes of sudden physical events and accidents, even violence (B. Brady). Its conjunction with (the speculative) natal Ascendant suggests potentials for discord in relationships and possibly physical congenital defects - and the 9NN caution to keep an eye out for safety is seriously undermined by overindulgence with alcoholic beverages - to dull the pain of his grievous losses, no doubt.

Edgar Allan Poe died at 5:00 am LMT in a Baltimore hospital on October 7, 1849 after being found in the street on October 3, 1849 - wearing another man's clothes. This lends a clue to the couping theory since victimized voters changed outfits so that they could vote multiple times in sneaky fashion. Then were elections being held in Baltimore, MD in 1849? Oh yes: on October 3rd, the day he was found in the street.

Yet we should mention that as an outspoken literary critic, making enemies could occur. In fact, a professional rival named Griswold held a grudge against Edgar and proceeded to damage Poe's reputation for years after his death. But the name that Poe cried out on the night before he died was "Reynolds," yet no person by that name has ever been discovered. Not so far, anyway. Perhaps a search in the politics of the era would dredge up a suspect.

And so in closing, R.I.P. Mr. Poe is definitely in order.

However, if you wish for more information, a handy Wiki bio page is available here, and the Biography channel provides a 43-minute documentary, Tragic Life of Edgar Allan Poe which may interest you.

Now in case you're wondering, the reason this post is published to Stars Over Washington is that Poe's mysterious death could likely relate to the practice of couping as noted above, a tactic used to capture and force a voter to cast multiple ballots for a certain candidate; injury, even murder, of the victim often followed.

And within the tragic mystery of Edgar Allan Poe, I believe it did.

March 14 Lunar Eclipse times FY2025 Funding Deadline

By Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good

As you've probably heard, Congress' March 14, 2025 Funding Deadline Nears and failing to pass an agreement for FY2025 (Fiscal Year 2025) will result in a partial government shutdown and the threat of low income housing and other vital federal programs being blocked. Republicans' are using threats of homelessness, hunger, and illness to hold the American people hostage - and America's enemies are very pleased.

Now as you know, this anti-societal disruption is spotlighted by Mr. T's Executive Order (EO) to freeze federal spending and his subsequent memo of January 27, 2025. Thankfully, his dullheaded EO was rescinded, yet the chaos continues, thanks to this Uranian chaos-creator who's behaving as if he's a monarch on steroids and unconcerned about the consequences of his actions.

Of course, miracles have happened before and fiscal issues may be successfully worked out before the deadline of doom.

But if Congress fails to enact a final FY2025 spending bill in time it will cause mandatory, across-the-board spending cuts known as "sequestration." These draconian requirements you may remember from November 2011 and the so-called "Super Congress" set up to take an axe to US expenditures - the economy of the richest nation in the world, as we're constantly reminded. And so the looting and theft in Washington is ongoing now because that's where most of the money is.

In 2011, the Republicans' sleight-of-hand arrived with the 14 North Solar Eclipse of November 25th; in fact I labeled it the "Sequester Eclipse" at the time, with its Themes of despair, unexpected financial happenings, and a peculiar turn of events (B. Brady). Well, if current sleights-of-hand (aka, raiding and looting) of the US Treasury Department by technocrats of a Plutocratic persuasion aren't considered peculiar, I don't know what ought to be.

Meanwhile, the March 14, 2025 date is significant for a cosmic reason: it's the day of a Lunar Eclipse - a full moon which times the culmination, fulfillment, and/or total awareness phase of Luna's journey around Earth - and also involves relationships. Whether this Cosmos-to-Earth synchronicity will bring positive or negative outcomes is up for grabs.

And naturally, when a full moon is a Lunar Eclipse, potentials are added for inconvenient facts and/or secrets to be uncovered or leaked. Additionally, emotional upsets or shocks may occur, for all eclipses are Uranian "wild cards" in that disruptive kind of way similar to radical Uranus - sometimes behaving as a "bolt from the blue" via sudden realizations, unorthodox activities and/or extremist actions.

Then as we both know, the Virgo-Pisces (victim-savior) polarity is Mutable, changeable, fluctuating, unstable, and unpredictable. However, the Lunar Eclipse's Sun Pisces-Moon Virgo blend of energies can provide positive vibes such as the ability and willingness to look any question from all angles (The Harveys) and this bodes well for practical solutions which work best when motives favor common good initiatives.

And so above is the DC Horoscope of the Lunar Eclipse @23Virgo56 - conjunct US 1776 Neptune (22:25) and square US 1776 Mars (21-22Gemini). In other words, the Lunar Eclipse (in Virgo, sign of health, employment and facts, we should add) activates America's problematic Mars-Neptune square of July 1776 with all the foggy conditions, misdirected energies, and/or inspiration the aspect implies. Plus, strange or cruel impulses may be in evidence via obsessive individuals along with rationalizations and perilous situations that go undetected for a while - until they surface.

Midpoints pictures form and are listed beneath the bi-wheel image, below, which displays the 119th Congress Horoscope (inner) surrounded by the Virgo Lunar Eclipse Chart of March 14, 2025 @23Vir56:

Midpoint Pictures: Any, All, or None may apply and can be activated by Transit or Progression

Mars-Neptune= Moon: added apprehension to struggles with deceptive or misleading activities; fluctuating anger toward visions.

Mars-Neptune = Sun: added effectiveness to the impact of deception or illusion; holy or divine ideas are forced upon others (M. Munkasey).

Reinhold Ebertin adds potentials for: crooks, discontent, weak or little vitality, lack of willpower, undermining of health; nervous weakness, feelings of inferiority, sensitivity, sick or moody women, and again - infection.

Aspects between the Lunar Eclipse of March 14, 2025 and the 119th Congress include:

Ideas and opinions are criticized, false promises, misinformation is spread; conflicting opinions, annoying distractions, projects are not completed on time, plans are subject to last minute changes, items and papers are lost or misplaced, mechanical failures, unexpected changes in domestic scenes; people stand up for their principles, opportunities to fight for freedom, creative ideas and solutions are proposed; intolerance and opinionation alienate others through pomposity and/or self-righteousness, success is flaunted, showing optimism about the wrong people while belittling those who deserve respect, people are more interested in shocking others, playing devil's advocate, and overturning conservative or traditional ideas, using gossip or slander to undermine others, relationship and communication problems.

In closing, please note that this is a time of the transiting Neptune-North-Node ("NN") duo, a marker for anti-societal attitudes, lack of community spirit, wrong judgments, disappointment, and the tendency to deceive and expoit others. Their exact conjunction occurs tomorrow, February 7, 2025, at 1:09 am est @28Pis09 - right between tr Venus and Saturn. Here's the conjunction's DC Horoscope with potentials for: wrong liaisons, loss through associations, separations via deceit and untruthfulness, and/or emotional pain caused by a partner (R. Ebertin).

Further reading includes Technocracy Is the Real Threat.

Panama and the Panama Canal

unknown artist for New York Times, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Panama Horoscope plus The Canal

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good

Panama gained independence from Columbia on November 3, 1903 under the influence of a Total 14 North Solar Eclipse @27Virgo - as you see, conjunct Venus. This indicates that fairness and cooperation bring best results while the negative expression is materialism. Chart-ruler Venus in level-headed Virgo applies once - to a beneficial trine with Saturn so stability has been the case for Panama so far. It remains to be seen what mischief Mr. T. can stir up. Plus, we know that other planets and aspects will have input as well through transits and progressions.

Because by now you've heard that Mr. T. has threatened to "take back" the Panama Canal by force if necessary for what he says are economic and national security reasons (the same with "purchasing" Greenland).

The US gave up control of the Canal in 1999 as per The Carter-Torrijos Treaty signed September 7, 1977, so naturally Mr. T is determined to lie about it and undo any accomplishment of President Carter that he can. Much depends on who's pulling Mr. T.'s strings over Panama and they must have their own reasons for doing so. Simply making trouble for America is one typical, basic motive of our enemies, as it turns out.

And then there's this: M. T. Is Wrong: Jimmy Carter Didn't Lose Due to Panama Canal. What a tiresome four years it will be keeping up with everything Mr.T. is wrong about. However, we've all had four years' worth of experience, haven't we?

Elon Musk's Personality Blend

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good

My suspicion is that by now, any astrologer with an interest in US Politics has likely glanced at the B-rated natal horoscope of Elon Musk, and although I've tried to avoid it, now I have as well. After all, richest-man-in-the-world Mr. Musk could very well be the figure symbolized by wealthy Pluto in the Inauguration 2025 Horoscope's 10th house of Career and Leadership (in co-rulership?) with the Inaugural Sun (POTUS).

As we see by his natal horoscope shown below, Baby Musk was born June 28, 1971 at 7:30 am EET in Pretoria, South Africa with Sun @5Can53 (conjunct US 1776 Jupiter) and Moon @8Vir15. His Mercury @14Cancer rises at Ascendant with Sirius (The Scorcher) and Canopus, the star of old age. His is a Water-Earth blend detailed below the chart with Moon (Cancer)/Mercury (Virgo) influences.

Horoscope: Elon Reeve Musk with Astro-Notes that include his Prenatal Eclipse Series ("PE" = 9 New North) which repeats on March 29, 2025 @9Aries; themes are physical events, great physical effort, and potentials for accidents or violence (B. Brady):

Elon Reeve Musk Personality Blend:

Born with a sensitive, pragmatic Water-Earth Sun Cancer-Moon Virgo combination of conscious-unconscious energies, Mr. Musk is analytical, imaginative, shrewd in business, and fussy with a discriminating intellect. A perceptive introvert, he can be difficult to live with due to emotional moodiness, yet tends to be protective of family members. Efficiency and creativity combine in this blend but with suggestions of narrow-mindedness, self-righteousness, and a leaning toward nagging and worry. Additionally, a deep fear of ridicule is present and, as we know, this trait is shared by Mr. Trump. (Sun Sign-Moon Sign, Charles and Suzi Harvey #ad).

Interestingly, Musk's Sun Cancer-Moon Virgo blend itself is shared natally with feminist activist Emmeline Pankhurst (whose Ascendant conjuncts Elon Musk's natal Mars @20Aquarius!) so let's close this post with a quote from Mrs. Pankhurst, words which tragically apply once again as they did in the olden days of the 19th century:

"It was becoming clear to my mind that men regarded women as a servant class in the community, and that women were going to remain in the servant class until they raised themselves out of it."

And so ladies, we fight the battle again.

A Closely Related Post: Astrology of South Africa displaying South Africa's Constitution Horoscope (as timed by Dr. Liz Greene), plus, its 14 North Eclipse Horoscope, the Series into which the country's Constitution came to be. You'll notice that the natal Sun of Elon Musk rises in the Constitution's chart, and that its Pluto conjuncts Musk's natal Jupiter Rx in late Scorpio. You'll also notice that for the US, a 14 North Eclipse occurred on November 25, 2011 as the "Sequestration Eclipse" of austerity measures - as finagled by the so-called "Super Congress."

Astrology of South Africa

by Jude Cowell, partisan for America

Below is a dual image of two horoscopes: South Africa - Constitution (lower left; source Dr. Liz Greene), and the 14 North Solar Eclipse (upper right) in which South Africa became a constitutional entity. 14N themes are listed thereupon and include "a peculiar turn of events; confusion; despair" (B. Brady).

Then upper right corner you'll find a few notes such as the last 14N Eclipse which occurred on November 25, 2011 @2Sag36 and became known in the US as The Sequestration Eclipse when Congress formed a so-called "Super Congress" of chicanery meant to enforce austerity upon the American people in this, the richest country in the world. With their unorthodox way of "cutting the budget", it goes without saying that Republicans (now Libertarians) were behind the sinister push in 2011 just as they are in 2024 into 2025. Subversion then, subversion now.

Meanwhile, for anyone who has yet to notice, austerity and loss (for us, not for the elites) are exactly what the Trump-Musk-Vance trio want to shove upon us with their neo-nazi-style "Project 2025" purging agenda of brutality, suffering, and loss - if these racist Libertarian zealots can muscle their way into power in a few days via the November 5th Election, cheating and threatening as they go. Perhaps we can agree, dear reader, that their cruel fascist absurdities cannot be allowed in America.

Apartheid and Austerity

Please Note: due to my ongoing relocation to a different apartment, my online time since last week has been sparse so pardon me for plopping these two horoscopes here with little more than the astro-notes I've penned on them. Except to say that the charts may be useful to a student or an astrologer or two, and that apartheid South Africa is where Elon Musk ("Leon"!) grew up until the ripe old age of 17 years. Nowadays, as the richest man in the world, as I'm told, he's part of the maga agenda to crash America's economy and global financial systems with it - like "Bond villains"! - ostensibly to destroy the US dollar and thereby institute a crypto-currency system, no matter who gets hurt or who starves to death. For as everyone knows, during times of extreme chaos, massive reforms can be enforced that otherwise could never occur.

Because as I've fussed for years on SO'W, Tr*mp's cult of personality is a death cult echoing how the Nazis in Germany behaved back in the 1930s and 1940s - until the criminals were stopped in their tracks.

See Musk says Americans will have to face "hardship" if Trump wins. What self-destructive fools will vote for that? In cosmic terms, "hardship" is a facet of the harsh, compressive Saturn-Pluto pairing of evil which you'll remember met in Great Conjunction on January 12, 2020 @22Cap46 - conjunct the natal Vertex (22:51) of Herr Trump, a point of fated encounters.

Significantly for South Africa, Apartheid legislation was repealed on June 17, 1991 and bi-racial elections were held in April 1994.

Now in closing, you may wish to have a glance at the B-rated natal chart of Elon Reeve Musk, if you haven't already. You'll see his Sun @5Can53 rising with the Ascendant in South Africa's constitutional horoscope, shown above, and his natal Moon @8Virgo opposed by Saturn @9Pisces, the victim-savior axis in the same 1994 chart. Yet knowing little about the erratic fellow born during a Saturn-Neptune opposition (possible criminal tendencies? A. Oken), El*n was about 23 years old in 1994 yet I'm uncertain exactly how or if these contacts matter very much, but there it is. What I do know is that when Saturn opposes natal Moon it's a very depressive, oppressive, melancholy period of time in anyone's life.

Then in addition, if you've never watched the brief video concerning Herr Adolf's vision for world domination known as Germania, it's recommended viewing. Because, you see, total control is what these modern-day barbarians are trying again to accomplish - at the expense of everyone in the world.

14 North's Peculiar Events

Today's Full Moon @2Sag55 and a Fussy Post

by Jude Cowell, partisan for democracy

The history of NAFTA and its replacement, the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) by the Trump administration (in effect July 1, 2020) tells the story of US attempts at establishing a North American "free trade zone" beginning with Ronald Reagan in 1979. Sounds like clearing a path for globalism to me! And perhaps you've heard of 1992 candidate Ross Perot's warning against NAFTA regarding "that giant sucking sound going South" as US jobs chased cheaper labor elsewhere. Obviously, Mr. Perot was correct.

Delusion and A Peculiar Turn of Events

And so NAFTA passed the House on November 17, 1993 (234-200), passed the US Senate on November 20, 1993 (61-38) - and became effective on January 1, 1994 - all under the influence of a 14 North Solar Eclipse @21Sco31:41 (November 13, 1993).

Then for the sake of comparison, 14 North is the Saros Series of the "Sequester Eclipse" of November 25, 2011 @2Sag36:48 - with quirky zealot Uranus Rx conjunct the Aries Point of Global Events, and shady, secretive financial dealings perpetrated by what was dubbed a "Super Congess." So this is the 14 North @2Sag36 that was activated this morning by the Full Moon @2Sag55, and here I am fussing about it all.

Of course, as all solar eclipses are, the 2011 Eclipse was a New Moon so potentially, under the spotlight of today's Full Moon at the same degree, we might soon hear financial news or gain information that in some measure relates to the crisis-ridden sequestration murkiness of 2011's sneakily formed under-the-table "Super Congress" with its restrictive solutions for our debt-ceiling crisis of 2011, or news that involves secret financial dealings.

Other than this fussy post, of course!

Meanwhile, today's Full Moon may likely relate to the ongoing Trump Trial soon to draw to a close in Manhattan, Judge Merchan presiding. Mr. Trump certainly seems to be mired within a debt crisis of his own creation, yes?

So above is a dual image of the 1993 14 North Eclipse (lower left) and the 14 North Eclipse of 2011 (upper right) with the initial 14 North of April 29, 1074 @13Tau54 listed on the right, and the next 14 North listed in the upper right corner.

Then besides the shadiness, peculiarity, and despair of it all, 1993 Jupiter and 2011 Jupiter Rx are in opposition across the financial Taurus-Scorpio axis which signals discontent in the money department sparking a potential for overblown efforts!

For as everyone knows, moderation tends to be the best course rather than overdoing issues and draining one's energy - or emptying the National Treasury.

Q: Is there a prominent historical event that occurred under the influence of a 14 North Eclipse? Why yes, the Valley Forge Encampment of General Washington and Our Exhausted Troops in 1777. Now there's a perfect example of drained energy.

And from 2022, here's an informative Thom Hartmann clip How China Can and Will Use NAFTA Against America.

Covid-19 and an Eclipse: "a peculiar turn of events"

March 26, 2020: With the ongoing pandemic in full effect and the isolation and sequestration of people undermining national economies across the globe while stressing out people's health, plus, their personal and work lives, I'm adding here a link to my August 13, 2011 SO'W post of the sinister 14 North Sequestration Eclipse Horoscope (14N: "a peculiar turn of events"; unexpected financial events'--Brady) which perfected on November 25, 2011 @2Sag36--the era of the scam-prone "Super Congress" formed to enforce austerity measures, as I think you remember. Now the post is fairly long and involved so you may wish to skip the text but check out the eclipse horoscope shown twice--in a reasonably unmarked version and another image with my usual scribbled notes.

Also see Zach Carter's Senate Democrats Are Handing Trump the Keys to the Country via the outrageous Stimulus Bill about to be voted on by the House on Friday March 27, 2020 with the vote set for 2:00 pm est, last I heard. You'll recognize shades of the GOP 'tax cut for the rich' corporate welfare bill passed in December 2017, happily signed by plutocrat Trump, "the king of debt." Yes, the 2020 stimulus money may boost our economy to some degree (with $1,200!!?) with more relief packages to follow via Congress but it also has the ability to bankrupt the country as Republicans and their enablers have planned for decades. This is working perfectly for Trump will be the one to provide "oversight" of the money! "Oversight" by a deadbeat con man--what could possibly go wrong? Probably something like withholding stimulus funds from states that don't back him for re-election in 2020, imho.

As for the current Covid-19 pandemic, it's interesting in hindsight that US natal Neptune (23Virgo) rises in the DC 2011 eclipse chart and US natal Mars (22Gemini) conjoins the chart's Midheaven, the Goal Point of any horoscope. This spotlights America's problematic Mars-Neptune square of misguided motivations and actions as well as reflecting the Mars-Neptune duo as a marker for infection and illness. Of course, no one in the public knew in 2011 to expect the current widespread contagion and its ability to ruin lives and finances but here we are 9 years later with "a peculiar turn of events" that includes illness, death, and potential bankruptcy.

Current circumstances are made worse, as noted in a previous post or two, by Trump's natal midpoint picture of Mars-Saturn = (12th house) Pluto: 'death of many people; murder; bodily harm; intervention of a Higher Power'(Ebertin).

For as you know, Mars-Saturn is, among other things, the 'death axis' - and here I shall add something that I've shied away from posting before, something that fixed star users are most likely familiar with already: Trump's natal Midheaven (25Taurus) sports enraged Algol upon it--and in Chinese Astrology the keyphrase for vicious Algol (Tseih She) is "piled up corpses." Just sayin'. And only those not keeping up with coronavirus news can miss the aptness of Algol's message when translated from the Chinese. For in NYC, a makeshift morgue has been set up after 88 people died in one day.

But back to the 14N Sequestration Eclipse Horoscope of 2011 for it shows a Mars-Neptune opposition squaring the Eclipse, the Sun and Moon (a dynamic T-Square). Mars-Neptune = Sun: 'danger of infection; undermining of the health; dissolution of a body'; Moon: danger of infection; sick or moody women; nervous weakness' (Ebertin).

In closing, I'm adding a note on how I came today to focus on the Sequestration Eclipse of 2011--because 14 North is the Prenatal Solar Eclipse ('PE') of New York Governer
Andrew Cuomo ('noon' chart shown) who has taken the lead from can't-handle-the-truth Trump with the governor's clear-eyed public news updates concerning Covid-19 conditions and issues. After all, Trump the sugar-coater has proven that he has no place in this emergency and says he takes no responsibility for his failures.

Looking ahead, we can note that the next manifestation of a 14 North solar eclipse occurs on December 5, 2029 @13Sag45 conjunct what many astrologers view as America's natal Ascendant. Just sayin'.

Please note that although this post contains very difficult topics and Saturnian realism, your shares and on-topic comments are always appreciated for, as you know, we're all in this together! jc

July 2019 and America's First Independence Day 1777

Are you in a celebratory mood this year in spite of Trump towering over Washington DC and interfering with our July 4th traditions? First, you may wish to check out 14 Fantastic Facts about the Fourth of July by David Roos just to capture the flavor of the day which promises to sport the Baby Trump balloon floating over the city!

And as most Americans know, the Declaration of Independence, dated July 4, 1776, was first read aloud publicly in Philadelphia's Independence Square on July 8, 1776. The next year, despite the ongoing American Revolution, John Adams called for "bonfires and illuminations" to celebrate our first Independence Day 1777. And if we check out the cosmic weather on that day in July 1777 we find a 14 North Solar Eclipse @13Can10--conjunct the US natal Sun of July 4, 1776. A solar eclipse 'eclipsing' a natal Sun can denote a change of direction in a positive or negative way, a cosmic spotlight cast upon America's leader/s, a few moments of openness to the eternal realms, plus, a chance for karmic progress to be made if events brought by the eclipse are handled correctly. In Moon-ruled Cancer, sign of the homeland, patriotism, and self-protective urges, an eclipse suggests potentials for emotional extremes and attachments, spiritual attunement to situations, and karmic family ties particularly of the maternal persuasion (R. Lineman).

That such things expressed during those trying times under the influence of the 14 North eclipse I have no doubt and they would be personalized for our leaders (1776 Sun). Additionally, an eclipse in Cancer also relates to genealogical research and with transit Mars on July 1, 2019 @29Cancer+, this degree's Sabian Symbol was activated: "30 Cancer" = "A Daughter of the American Revolution" (guilty as charged!). Well, since 1777 our July 4th celebrations are intended to stir the American Spirit within us, right? (the D.A.R. publishes a magazine!) That is, for those who possess such a spirit as certain 'leaders' nowadays do not. In fact one such personage plans to make July 4th 2019 all about his huge ego with new 'Sherman tanks' that haven't been produced in years (will he hallucinate them?) and a pompous military display marching down Pennsylvania Avenue to mass disapproval! Why, it smacks of martial law in DC, my former city of residence, and is completely unacceptable! Not to mention a wasteful extravagance.

Eclipses July 1777 and 2019

Okay, I'll hush for now about empty displays of US might staged by a superficial man desperate to be taken seriously by the world and mention that July 1777 held both a Solar and Lunar Eclipse as does July 2019 - and all four eclipses fall across the Cancer-Capricorn axis. This in a sense creates a sort of cosmic time link between 1777 and 2019 and considering current Washington antics, plus, the dystopian future most people fear is being implemented, one may wonder if July 2019 will in retrospect be a book-end of our national independence. Hopefully not, and of course you may disagree, but there it is.

And so, for your consideration, the following dual horoscopes represent the Total Solar Eclipse (which actually perfected on) July 5 1777 at 7:23:45 pm LMT Philadelphia with 12Cap28 rising and 6Sco35 at Midheaven, and the Lunar Eclipse of July 20, 1777 @27Cap59 conjunct eclipse Pluto Rx (28Cap57) and US natal Pluto Rx (27Cap32) (a cosmic foreshadowing of the RNC 2016 Full Moon conjunct US natal Pluto). Follow the link, above, to view the July 2019 eclipse horoscopes set for DC. Below, some basic chart notes are messily penned on if you'd care to enlarge the image; eclipse themes for the difficult 14 North series are added here as well:

14 North Themes: 'a peculiar turn of events; an acute time of confusion in personal relationships; unexpected happenings in financial matters; possible illness; draining of energy; despair; no important decisions should be made as there is to much confusion and possible delusion to make clear judgments' (Predictive Astrology, B. Brady).

The last 14 North Solar Eclipse manifested on November 25, 2011 @2Sag37 as the Sequestration Eclipse and at least some sequestration provisions remain in force in 2019. Plus, the 2011 14N eclipse was re-activated by the May 21, 2016 Full Moon @1Sag36, a lunation that yokes us to Campaign 2016 issues (with 'sequestration' said to have been a buzzword for 2016 Republican candidates who were lost for words on the topic!) and the continuing travesty, tragedy, and drama that is Donald J. Trump, our pompous-a**-in-chief.

Yet as noted above, a spark of merriment promises to heighten our annual Independence Day celebration on Thursday, made dreary by his nibs, for the 'Baby Trump' balloon will crash Trump's Fourth of July Party as part of Code Pink's 'Trump is a Big Baby Festival'! Now independently speaking, that's what I call something to celebrate!!