Eclipses, the Smoot-Hawley Tariffs - and Trump

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good

Of interest may be today's MSN report Trump has 'botched' his whole tariff plan with a slip of the tongue.

But has he?

Well, as you know, the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 failed to improve the dire economic situation in the US after the "Black Tuesday" Crash of October 29, 1929; notably, the tariffs did not "protect" US farmers and other workers, as was promised. The 1930 Tariff Act was signed into law by President Herbert Hoover on June 17, 1930 under the auspices of a 4 North Solar Eclipse of restraint, restriction, and illusion. See the dual images, below, for additional details.

"Liberation": from our money and savings?

Fast forward to a few days prior to Tr*mp's so-called "Liberation Day" of April 2, 2025 when he announced in the (Venusian) Rose Garden a long list of risky tariffs on imports from countries around the globe (but not on Russia). It turns out that his announcement of tariffs is cosmically imprinted by the third of three Jupiter Returns to the "Black Tuesday" Crash Horoscope of 1929, and this creates a cosmic time link between 1929/1930 financial concerns and those of 2025.

Plus, money bags/corporate Jupiter's return to its 1929 degree (@15Gem25) perfected the day prior to the difficult 9 New North Solar Eclipse @9Aries on March 29, 2025 with themes of accidents or great physical effort (ex: Senator Cory Booker's 25-hour+ marathon speech on the Senate floor).

Shown below are two solar eclipse horoscopes which manifested in two different Saros Series but in the same degree ("8 Taurus"). When this circumstance occurs, the earlier and later eclipse themes may combine, particularly if societal conditions and events warrant it, and their blended themes may 'run in the background of society'. For as we know, history can rhyme with the repetition of similar events resurfacing to be better or more successfully dealt with. Or not! Because all eclipses are karmic "wild cards" and are Uranian in that disruptive, bolt from the blue sort of way.

2 Old North 1892 (upper right) and 4 North of 1930 (lower left):

My astro-notes are penned messily upon the charts for the curious reader.

In 1930: Saturn-Pluto = Uranus: "Brutal efforts to start a new order" (N.Tyl). This planetary trio actually forms a dynamic T-Square with radical reactionary Uranus at critical degree and apex in the 8th house of Shared Resources and Transformation - see their midpoint picture at the bottom of the 1930 chart, highlighted in blue.

Now I'm uncertain how much clearer the current-day saboteurs' motives can be considering the "carnage" being perpetrated upon American society and on the rest of the globe with a worldwide economic crash being feared along with unwanted government reforms. However, there is a bright ray of hope to be found in the 2 Old North Eclipse chart of 1892 and it's due to the fact that 2 Old North happens to be the Prenatal Eclipse ("PE") of tariff-lover Mr. Trump, and its theme extends to us the possibility that, though things seem "glum" at first from the receipt of unfortunate news (the tariffs), fast action can bring positive results. This we can hope for!

Yet realistically, there are too many factors in play to be certain at the moment, but the potential of improvement has assisted the orange fellow all through his charmed life. And yes, with his usual overblown risk-taking tendencies, he promises much increase from these tariffs so all we can do now is wait and see if the glumness everyone feels will lift, or if it tosses us all away.

A Related Post: The Herbert Hoover Inauguration Horoscope of 1929 with Jupiter @7Tau35 - conjunct both the solar eclipse degrees shown, above, and suggesting that potentials for ethical and moral issues are added to the matters at hand.

3 North and 3 South Eclipses Link 1929, 2001, and 2019: PTSD

Every 18.6 Years Eclipse Themes Repeat within Historical Cycles: Events May Rhyme

by Jude Cowell

Significant events of 1929 include the 'Black Tuesday' Financial Crash on Wall Street which occurred under the influence of a 3 North Solar Eclipse (see eclipse themes listed on the chart, below). Yet the 3 South Solar Eclipse of November 1, 1929 was also of influence. Both 3N and 3S eclipse series contain "traumatic" and/or "transformative news" implications and both have heralded difficult events that continue to reverberate through society in our day.

Significant examples of their reverberations include the WTC Attacks of 9/11/01 (via 3 North) and the Electoral College Vote Eclipse of December 14, 2020 @23Sag08 triggering or activating the 3 South Eclipse of December 14, 2001 by degree (23Sag). This combines their themes which include 4 South's "very strong emotional feelings over money and/or relationships; frustration; suddenly ending relationships; a sense of fatedness." You'll recognize these themes via a sore loser politician and his followers acting out in a vain attempt to keep the orange blighter in power.

Then there's 2019 with a 3 North Eclipse @10Cancer landing among our July 4, 1776 planets of identity: Venus, Jupiter, and Sun - Total and arriving near Independence Day 2019 - and with faithless Tr*mp whining the White House, chewing, swallowing, and flushing documents.

And last but not least, is what I call The Covid Eclipse which led society into January 2020 and the coronavirus pandemic, under the influence of the December 2019 3 South Eclipse, and you know what trauma has been wrought within society - here and globally. So perhaps we can agree that 3 South's traumatic influence is ongoing, now with winter approaching and bad actors determined to make keeping warm more difficult for certain people. Abroad, some folks are buying pot bellied stoves with just such warm objectives in mind.

Note: 3 North and 3 South Solar Eclipses also occurred in the years 1911, (1929), 1947, 1965, 1983, (2001), (2019), and 2037/2038, and

Themes are paraphrased from Predictive Astrology by Bernadette Brady. #ad.

1929 'Black Tuesday' Solar Eclipse repeats July 2, 2019

Not to Worry But to Inform

by Jude Cowell

Here you see a re-posting of the DC Horoscopes of the opening of the 116th Congress on January 3, 2019 at noon est, Capitol Hill, Washington DC (inner) with the 3 North July 2, 2019 Solar Eclipse @10Can37 (outer) conjoining the IC of the 116th Congress. Of interest financially is Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's natal Jupiter @18Aries opposing Trump's natal Jupiter @18Libra in rising and setting positions in the chart (denoting their wall-funding stand-off most likely along with the Trump Shutdown, and then $ome), plus, the fact that a 3 North Solar Eclipse @18Taurus preceded the 1929 'Black Tuesday' Crash, with acquisitive Taurus, sign of money, growth, and possessions, snorting like the 'Bull of Wall Street' and an apt symbol of Wall Street greed and gold-worshiping.

Now as you may know, a previous SO'W post displays both DC Horoscopes of the 3 North July 2, 2019 Solar Eclipse @11Cancer and the July 16, 2019 Lunar Eclipse @24Capricorn with wealth-hoarder Pluto in Capricorn ('The Dictator', aka, the 'Underworld Crime Boss' and/or the saboteur of governments) creeping nearby and getting ready for his tryst with karmic Saturn @22Cap46 on January 12, 2020--conjunct the natal Vertex (fated encounters) of Mr. Donald J. Trump.

Will the karmic imperative of 'reaping what was sown' prevail?

3 North themes: news involving a young person and or that transforms a situation; information causes worry or obsessive thinking; large plans are wanted which can be positive but don't get carried away (paraphrasing Brady's 'Predictive Astrology').

For more info, follow the 'July 2019 Eclipses' link for the 3 North Eclipses, one of which was the Prenatal Eclipse ('PE') of 9/11/01 for it perfected as the 2001 Summer Solstice Eclipse @00Cancer, one of the four Cardinal World Points of Manifestation where prominent events tend to happen on the Global Stage.