US Constitution's Jupiter Return May 19, 2025

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good

For my Friday end-of-the-week post today, here's a bi-wheel showing a certain Historical Horoscope of 1787 surrounded by the upcoming Jupiter Return to the US Constitution Horoscope of September 17, 1787 with 5th house Jupiter @25Gem22 ("26 Gemini" = "Winter Frost in the Woods" - see lower right corner for brief details).

Now I agree with you that too many astro-notes are squooshed upon the charts, and if my ink levels weren't low, I'd add an unmarked bi-wheel to this post. Perhaps I'll do this later if it would be useful to anyone. Meanwhile:

Constitutional Crises and a "YOD" with Uranus-NN's Radical Political Reforms

No, it's not a traditional YOD pattern of crisis with North Node and Midheaven involved with only one planet - chaotic, zealous, disruptive Uranus. But we can still read it as a midpoint picture of radical change with outlet for its intense energies of social reform (Uran-NN sextile) at the Public Status/Career Point.

Also notable is the double emphasis on the Mercury-Pluto midpoint (total surveillance; keen judgment) in both charts: conjunct Midheaven (MC) in 1787, and conjunct North Node in 2025. Details for the curious reader are written in the center of the chart and lower left corner.

Now as you know, a planetary return emphasizes the original aspects to and from the returning planet. However in this case, I've listed the 2025 aspects to Jupiter on the right side of the chart: trine Moon, square Saturn and North Node, sextile Chiron.

One reason is that I believe the 2025 aspects to Jupiter are more prominent because in the 1787 chart, Jupiter @25Gem22 is unaspected (see below). This condition suggests that the judgment function of Jupiter is limited (in changeable Gemini: likely describes the Court's pros vs cons tendency during deliberations).

However, the 10th house Moon in Jupiter-ruled Sagittarius lends support to Jupiter's higher qualities (ex: The Hierophant; the Judge - but leaving religion out of it!) while the expansive planet's 5th house position allows uplift via the principled idealism of The Enlightenment that we have come to expect from this document's higher principles - and these are precisely what the document's enemies are determined to destroy.

Moon-to-Saturn and Mars-to-Pluto

So besides Jupiter's activities on May 19, 2025, there are at least three major transits to the document's first house Pluto and Saturn, plus, to its IC: Moon conjunct 1787 Saturn (brief notes are listed - but add strategy, direction, and depression and/or oppression), transit Mars in 7th house @14Leo52 opposite 1787 Pluto which identifies potentials for contests of wills, assaults and other hostile actions - and describes the ego-based male personages engaging in such behavior against the power of the US Constitution.

Uranus to IC: Turbulence, Turmoil, Unrest

Then there's transit Uranus conjunct US Constitution's 1787 Immum Coeli (IC), the Foundation Point of the 1787 horoscope and document. Obviously, this is a foundation-shaking transit when unpredictablity, instability, and disruption of principles (and judgment!) are all that can be reliably predicted. We should also add that it's actually on May 14, 2025 that the Uranus transit to IC became exact and is the third of three conjunctions to 1787's IC - the first conjunction occurred on August 13, 2024 and the second on September 20, 2024 so we may wish to use the denial-acceptance-resolution method of analysis for this difficult transit. Yes, it has happened in past years, but this time, malicious enemies of America are in charge and doing all the damage they can.

As for the Constitution's current Jupiter Return, operative until May 19, 2025, it perfected on June 5, 2013 with Jupiter unaspected, as noted above.

What's a prominent event of 2013? My vote is for The Second Inauguration of Barack Obama.

And finally for your weekend, there's the fighter jet being named after you-know-who: the F-47 - with a double meaning that most people across the globe can really appreciate, if you know what I mean!

March 15, 2025 Government Shut Down Horoscope

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good

Senate passed the poisonous bill, shut down averted. Here's the horoscope anyway:

For my Friday end-of-the-week effort, here's a quick posting of a DC Horoscope showing the Republicans' latest Government Shut Down effective Saturday March 15, 2025 at 12:01 am edt:

A major factor is that money planet Jupiter is unaspected in the chart which suggests the planet's typical buoyancy and uplifting ability is detached from the other planets (actors) and from the situation so that a weighted down effect is noticed.

Another negative potential is that Jupiter's traditional judging function is missing-in-action as congressional politicians of the non-governing persuasion once again behave recklessly and carelessly toward our country and our people, thus adding to our problems rather than solving them.

Black Tuesday 1929's Jupiter Return Mar 28, 2025

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good, Daughter of the Revolution

On Saturday March 29, 2025, the future of the US economy and government, and the lives of the American people, are dependent upon events and outcomes manipulated by bad faith actors, both foreign and domestic.

With a continuing resolution barely passed in Congress this week in lieu of an actual 2025 budget, a government shut-down is apparently avoided if the Senate agrees, and if so then US financials can simmer along until September 30, 2025, the traditional end of the financial year, interference with markets by the White House's daft tariffs notwithstanding.

Soon we'll discuss more about September 2025 which contains two Eclipses - a Lunar Eclipse on September 7th @15Pisces, and a Solar Eclipse on September 21st @29Virgo in the accident-prone 9 New North Saros Series - which basically amounts to an Autumn Equinox 2025 Eclipse that will hold sway until Winter Solstice 2025.

March 2025 Cosmic Lunations

Meanwhile, the Virgo Lunar Eclipse perfects this Friday (March 14th) at 2:54:37 am EDT, a Total Eclipse and so-called "blood moon" due to its reddish color. Inconvenient facts, secrets, and scandals are nearly certain to be uncovered, and synchronistically, the Lunar Eclipse lands upon the Full Moon that timed the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy filing in September 2008 and could possibly "activate" certain energies of a karmic nature. At the least, it's a cosmic spotlight cast upon the Virgo-Pisces victim-savior polarity. But will historical events rhyme or echo from 2008 forward to 2025? Perhaps, yet there is another possibility that could echo from way back in 1929:

Black Tuesday 1929's Jupiter in Mercury-Ruled Gemini

A potential echo because the third of three Jupiter Returns to the infamous Black Tuesday Crash Horoscope of 1929 occurs with corporate-banking-moneybags planet Jupiter @15Gem25 conjunct royal star Rigel in 1929. Of course, mundane Jupiter can also wear other hats besides financier, such as politician, broadcaster, preacher or guru. Or perhaps a Wall Street mogul, a Rockefeller, and/or a Treasury Secretary could be appropriate in the role:

Isn't It Always About The Gold? For Tr*mp It Is

Above you see a marked-up bi-wheel of Black Tuesday October 29, 1929 (inner timed by the Sun culminating @6Scorpio = "A Gold Rush") surrounded by the 1929 Crash's third of three Jupiter Return Horoscopes perfecting on March 28, 2025 at 5:05:45 am EDT (return dates one and two are listed lower left corner). And of course, the Jupiter Return to its 1929 position has occurred about 7 times through the decades but this time it occurs the day prior to the 9 New North Solar Eclipse.

With expansive Jupiter, an abundance of communications, trades, and deals are suggested along with the Geminian tendencies of multiplicity, superficiality, and duplicity.

Now as you see, both charts are set for New York, New York for obvious reasons, and manipulative wealth hoarder Pluto in early Aquarius (M*sk and his "tech bros" plus their bosses) leads a BOWL shape of planets signifying a mission or a cause - here, to sabotage and hollow out our country, heist all they can, and beggar our populace so that yet another obscenely massive tax cut for the wealthy can be finagled into corrupted pockets - and during the Tr*mpian chaos, a new form of government can be more easily installed against the will of The People.

In other words, America is to be removed from global leadership and control handed over to certain foreign nations whose names in this post shall remain unmentioned.

Now in closing, I agree with you that it's all very dreary so naturally a Thank You For Reading is in order! jc

A related post with DC Horoscopes: Cosmic Blinks: 2025's "Wild Card" Eclipses of 2025. And if you're up for it, here's a previous post sans edits concerning the Republican Party and what then were their future plans for the American people: the misery of the masses. If any dear reader didn't believe it possible then, surely their draconian objectives are obvious now.

Jupiter Direct Feb 4, 2025!

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good

On October 9, 2024, transit Jupiter, the planet of banking, politics, military, corporatism, broadcasting, and religion, turned retrograde ("Rx") @21Gem20, stationing directly upon America's 1776 Mars while squaring 1776 Neptune in Virgo. This activation of our foggy Mars-Neptune square of rationalization brought our country a period of good fortune for some folks but increased or expanded illusions for others, plus, a need for us all to avoid those promoting "the big picture" - one of too good to be true proportions. Overconfidence was a potential for overblown Jupiterian personalities followed by disappointment for those who fell for impractical schemes.

Now it's time for transit Jupiter to turn Direct which occurs on February 4, 2025 @11Gem16, the degree of Jupiter in July 2024. As you see, the Sabian Symbols for Jupiter's Rx and Direct degrees (12 Gemini and 22Gemini) are penned on the chart, below.

Then out of his own shadow at the end of April 2025 and timing the end of Mr. T's "first 100 days," Jupiter then begins moving forward with fewer encumbrances, and heads toward the Cardinal World Point of 00Cancer00, about a day after transit Mercury reaches the same Cardinal degree; on a good day the Mercury-Jupiter duo symbolizes common sense and good intellect, but may also denote fraud, boastfulness, fantasies and/or negligence.

So below are two images:

Jupiter Rx 2024 and Jupiter Direct 2025 - specifically, October 9, 2024 (lower left) and February 4, 2025 (upper right) with both charts set for Washington DC as usual:

And here are the same two horoscopes overstuffed with study notes for the curious:

Please note above that "February 5" should be February 4, 2025.

Therefore, an energy shift within Jupiterian realms (as listed, above) will be felt in society as Jupiter leaves Mercury-ruled Gemini and enters Moon-ruled Cancer, America's sign of Jupiter in 1776, and the sign of Jupiter's exaltation. Here are brief notes on the two placements of Jupiter within the massive planet's 11.6-year orbit around the tropical Zodiac:

Jupiter in airy Gemini: first, a note: Jupiter @11Gem47 is the sign and degree of Mitch McConnell's natal Jupiter = his Jupiter Return. In Gemini, Jupiter can possess broad yet superficial knowledge; skillful communications aid within fields such as politics and education. This is where Jupiter is in detriment because Gemini opposes Jupiter's natural sign of Sagittarius, yet Jupiter's money-making ability is not impaired in Gemini and often involves professional communications. That Jupiter's time in Gemini since May 2024 relates to the current crop of "tech bros" becoming prominent in politics I'll leave for you to decide, dear reader.

Jupiter in watery Cancer: This placement tends toward moral, religious, and philosophical principles which may certainly be on the upswing more than duplicitous Gemini tends to deliver for society. Generosity, charitable causes, and humanitarianism are possibilities as well, and could turn up more often in the news; real estate, agriculture, and the production of food are timely issues so we might wonder in these early days of this White House if supply chain shortages are again to afflict us due to off-kilter political policies based on utopian dreams that have no practical basis - other than to cause chaos and hardship in society. If such tendencies arise out of Washington, other planetary factors beside Jupiter in emotional, tribal, nationalistic Cancer will have to provide stability.

Pam Bondi November 17, 1965

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good

From her Wikipedia page we see that Pam Bondi, Mr. T's choice for US Attorney General, entered the earthly flux on November 17, 1965 in Tampa, Florida under the influences of Sun Scorpio-Moon Virgo, a blend of narrowed outlook and a strong sense of duty (The Harveys). Actually, Bondi and Republican Darrell Issa are likely to share political interests and attitudes since Mr. Issa was born with the very same personality blend.

So, here's a noon natal horoscope for Pam Bondi in case it becomes useful to you at some point:

Born during the mid-1960s, Pam Bondi can't help it - she's one of those anarchy-adjacent individuals and not adverse to violent destruction, thanks to her Uranus-Pluto Conjunction. Plus, a Sun-Neptune Conjunction (5-degree orb) identifies her as possibly scandal-prone and self-deluding. What more could the Project 2025 admistration want to figurehead America's tattered legal system? Impressionability is another feature of the Sun-Neptune pairing which spotlights a fantasy component as well.

Then we see Bondi's retrograde Jupiter at a critical 29th degree of Mercury-ruled Gemini, a sign often known for its propensity toward duplicity (ex: the $25,000 campaign donation via a check written by Mr. T - but she defended herself on this matter concerning her office's failure to investigate complaints about Tr*mp "University" and the fraud therein).

Of course, Gemini is also the sign of communications, rhetoric, commerce, trade, meetings, multiplicity, and/or tricksterism. Bondi shares a natal Gemini North Node with Mr. T, potentially denoting many contacts but also inviting superficial contacts of short duration (R. Ebertin). Then with her Capricorn Mars opposing Jupiter, we might expect religious and/or ideological conflicts to surface in public.

Such conflicts could surface this very week because confirmation hearings for Cabinet nominees begin tomorrow. Here's the schedule of hearings so far.

In closing, there's another interesting factoid about Pam Bondi's natal Jupiter - that her next Jupiter Return (aka, 12-year reward cycle) arrives on or about June 9, 2025 which may likely aid her with her bid to join Mr. T's administration as US Attorney General.

But one more thing: a Jupiter Return may provide a similar cosmic boost for health nut RFK Jr whose current Jupiter Return period arrived in August 2024, the first of a three-fer (which didn't help him with his "prez bid") yet there's Jupiterian energy ongoing for him since his third of three returns perfects on April 9, 2025.

A Note to SO'W readers: please share if you care - and my Thanks to those who do! jc

Moon, Jupiter, America 2024

by Jude Cowell, still a partisan for the common good

By now the world knows that Donald Tr*mp has coup'd the White House and will be inaugurated into office (his hand on the Bible? How so? Will it be held upside down?) via the Presidential Oath to protect and defend the US Constitution, the freedom document he plans to toss in a trash bin, our civil rights with it. Only czarish oaths to his nibs will have any meaning for Mr. Tr*mp and for VP Vance who will follow him - Vance, put in position by billionaire Peter Thiel. Members of the billionire class have invested a lot of bucks and have big plans for Mr. Vance.

To astrologers not enthralled to the harsh authoritarian mindset, Be Ready To Defend America even as we look back with sad disbelief at yesterday's election and the November 1st predictive New Moon in Scorpio, sign of betrayal. On a personal note, my uncles who fought Nazis in WWII and my Revolutionary War ancestors who sacrificed, fought, and died to help set up this country are cruelly dishonored, if they could know about this fascist coup. Instead, I must know on their behalves. And so I write SO'W for 18+ years while hoping for a better America.

As for Eclipse Cycles repeating through the years and rhyming via similar historical events, 2024 Eclipses are repeating from 1934 in the 8 North and 8 South Series, the year that Herr Ad*lf became president of Germany, if you get my drift; here's the horoscope with astro-notes penned on:

No, our fight for freedom and democracy isn't over, it's beginning!

Yet with the current fascist ascension, we must expect a time of trouble with wild cards such as El*n Mu*k and B*bby Kenn*dy, Jr lined up to take over various departments of government to kleptocratically ruin and embezzle what they can. That's if faithless Tr*mp keeps his promises to them. Subsequently, a Large Looting will ensue with or without them, so a global financial crash is expected, and the crypto-currency hoax will be favored to undermine the US dollar.

Then another cash cow for thieves will be our social safety net programs, now at risk more than ever before, and this itself will undermine the US economy since consumerism and buying power will be significantly reduced or taken away. Obviously, much suffering will result for seniors and others, and America's enemies will be so proud of their favorite insurrectionist fox back in the hen house where he can commit the American Carnage he threatened on Inauguration Day 2017 (horoscope shown). Plus, as you know, the Catholics on the Supreme Court gave him a pass for criminal acts. Word is, prosecutor Jack Smith has closed his investigations of the orange felon and has packed his bags.

Election 2024

So! Very badly done, male voters of America - and the Latino voters who pulled up the ladder behind themselves. You succumbed to the influence of the brooding Scorpio Moon of Inauguration 2017, and allowed moneybags Jupiter in duplicitous Gemini Rx and moving back and forth among Tr*mp's 10th house Sun-North-Node-Uranus trio to seduce you and pretend to add to your bottom lines. Good luck with that, you'll need it with the orange grifter back in the White House running roughshod over our society, animated by the revenge on his mind. You assume that you and yours will be spared his wrath but that's yet to be seen. Look up "cut off nose to spite face" in the dictionary and there you'll be.

Plus, even more women can ble*d out in parking lots for lack of health care, chumps.

Yet another factor may be that the traditional apathy of the American people took over and voters stayed home on the sofa so that others could do the lifting. We discussed this in a vintage Jude's Threshold post concerning the unconscious Uranus-Neptune square of July 4, 1776. (Count their positions backward from Neptune @22Virgo to Uranus @9Gemini; the post displays a Scorpio Rising horoscope but the positions of both planets are the same). This hidden square seems to me to be one of multiple astrological indicators influencing yesterday's pivotal situation, and others past, present, and future.

And though it's beyond the scope of this post, we can even look back as far as certain Jamestown Colony conditions of 1619 if we have the time and interest to do so.

Now here's a bit about the Sabian Symbol of the (2017 and) 2025 Scorpio Moon/s:

9 Scorpio+ rounded-up to "10 Scorpio": "A Fellowship Supper Reawakens Unforgettable Ties": "FRATERNITY; negative expression: surrender of individual distinction and exaltation of naive animality" (Jones). However, the "fraternity" may not be the pro-society kind, more like the hooded kind.

Additionally, here are Horoscopes of the Solar and Lunar Eclipses that influenced Election 2024 and which continue to do so. The first perfected in muddle-headed Pisces, then the 8 South Solar Eclipse manifested with its difficult themes of loss, separation, and sad partings (B. Brady). Astrologers warned but not enough voters listened. Or, too many voters are fans of racism, sadism, Plutonian animalism and criminality on steroids, as it turns out.

Meanwhile, a target is on the US Constitution, as you know, so it may be significant that the freedom document's next Jupiter Return occurs in 2025 - on May 19th to be exact. The document's current return period began on June 5, 2013 @25Gem22 - and Jupiter was conjunct South Node (1Can09) in 1787, with mundane Jupiter being the planet of freedom, freedom of movement, a freedom movement, expansion, and exploration. Yes, Election 2024 Jupiter is in Gemini, as noted, but retrograde. This backward condition did not aid the Harris-Walz Campaign with its freedom slogan and campaign song by Beyonce.

Full Disclosure: here's what I posted in the middle of the night after the American Albatross was declared victorious: An America of Stupid, Self-Destructive People. Obviously, I was feeling very fussy. Were you?

A Related "forewarned is forearmed" Post: Orange Albatross Plans an American "Kristallnacht". If you voted for him and a similar monstrosity occurs, you voted for it.

"Brut*l Efforts to Start a New Order"

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good

Through the years of SO'W, we've discussed a variety of Jupiter-related topics yet for me, there's one in particular that rises to the top of my list of past conditions informing and leading to current events as Election 2024 nears and the stakes for our futures are pivotal.

Naturally, this concern is only one of many influences, yet cosmically it can provide a basis for, or a signpost on the way to, the anarchistic take-over energies of modern-day zealots (red cappers; militiamen; lovers of "strong men" dictators) and Utopians (promoters of lawless society and draconian authoritarianism in America).

And so the ravenous spirit now knocks at Washington's door, and cosmically may be observed in large part through the 2020 Great Conjunction of Saturn and Pluto (horoscope linked, below).

At least, in the language of astrologese, the 2012 YOD pattern provides a view of past influences affecting present circumstances for those with ears to listen and eyes to see. But not to fret, dear reader, for speaking or understanding astrologese isn't strictly necessary since astrologers translate cosmic images into English, or into whatever language a reader prefers. It's what we do.

So today, I refer to the Winter Solstice 2012 Horoscope - 12 years ago - with its crisis-laden, crossroads-reaching YOD pattern formed by the 2012 Saturn-Pluto sextile at the pattern's base pointing toward apex JupiterRx @8Gem54 in the 6th house of Health, Work, Service (Military; Civil; Social), and Daily Rounds - and with Jupiter conjunct US 1776 Uranus, planet of zealots, reactionaries, revolutionists, radical reformers, anarchists, zealots, insurrectionists, seditionists, saboteurs, "shock troops," (as Bannon called for) such as those we watched on TV as they stormed Congress on January 6, 2021. Plus, with expansive Jupiter in 6th house, we know there had to be abundant communications in 2012 concerning 6th house - and hidden 12th house - matters.

2012 Jupiter (The General) to US 1776 Uranus (Totem Planet of War)

Potentials of the 2012 Jupiter-to-Uranus transit include: expanded or altered horizons, freedom and independence concerns, unorthodox training courses, instability, unusual travel destinations, and/or heading in a different direction.

Now as you see, the Winter Solstice 2012 chart is set for Washington DC (my old stomping grounds) with apex Jupiter and US 1776 Uranus having the "9 Gemini" Sabian Symbol, "A Quiver Filled With Arrows":

Today (10/07/24), transit Jupiter clocks in @21Gem20 (conjunct US 1776 Mars: an expanded part to play in events) so the Great Benefic's Return to position in the Winter Solstice 2012 chart has already occurred: significantly it perfected on July 4, 2024, America's Independence Day! And Jupiter does prize his independence - to explore and expand, yes?

Then if curious, you may wish to review Events of 2012.

And for more cosmic information, let's read the planetary trio plus one of 2012 as midpoint pictures of potentials:

Saturn-Pluto = Jupiter: religious and social fanaticism; difficulties caused through illness (R. Ebertin): people with leadership and power to dispense (M. Munkasey); austerity; trouble with authority; trying to save what's left (N. Tyl).

Same picture but substitute US 1776 Uranus in place of 2012 Jupiter and we have:

Brut*l efforts to start a new order; an attack, regardless of potential losses (NT); sudden acts of vi*lence (RE); erratic or uneven use of retaliatory methods; sudden changes or upsets in plans; reforms in the way punishment is given for important crimes (MM).

If only we'd known in 2012 what we know now.

To review the January 12, 2020 Conjunction of Saturn and Pluto in Capricorn try this previous SO'W post. You'll remember that the January 2020 Conjunction of old man Saturn, the devil, with primally viol*nt Pluto, planet of death, spies, the morbidly rich, destruction, and transformation landed directly upon the natal Vertex of a certain predator sporting an orange hue.

And here's a link to another previous post containing all four Cardinal seasonal shifts from Spring to Winter, Year 2024 in a Cosmic Nutshell.

Autumn Equinox 2024: a Venus-Pluto Affair

The Autumn Equinox 2024 Horoscope Contains Election 2024

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good

As you may remember, Aries Ingress 2024, aka, Spring Equinox 2024 began this year with intense Moon-Pluto influences of emotionalism and anger which are affecting the entire year, a pivotal one due to Election 2024. Then a seasonal shift of energies arrives on Sunday September 22, 2024 with Autumn Equinox 2024, another cosmic milestone for the year, aka, Libra Ingress 2024.

This Fall season will carry an intense Venus-Pluto signature with chart-ruler (set for DC) Venus rising at a critical 29th degree of its own sign and squaring power-player Pluto, also at a critical degree of Capricorn in the foundational 4th house. And since Aries Ingresses are operative for an entire year, 2024 has Moon-Pluto vibrations overlaid by Venus-Pluto vibes that hint at concerns over hidden wealth and elements of organized crime.

Now obviously, transformative, manipulative, control freak Pluto is the common denominator here but with a difference: in futuristic Aquarius in the Spring, then back in Saturn-ruled Capricorn for a while - the first position indicating a strong communal sense, while the second is "The Dictator" placement (R. Ebertin) of the old man. However, Venus in Libra values relationships and marriage and can take the limelight gracefully to much public acclaim. Does this sound like anyone you know?

Venus: Happy in Libra

Well, Venus in Libra, in the sign of The Scales of Justice, appears to be a cosmic significator for VP Kamala Harris in this Autumnal chart but will enter Scorpio at 10:38 pm ET. Yet we know that Venus and Pluto contacts tend to constellate around issues of materialism, bankruptcy, sexual affairs, strains in the love life, and/or obsessive romantic involvements, many of which may have an element of fate or karma attached; plus, squares always suggest some measure of blockage, obstacle, or delay to the proceedings yet this may only symbolize the intensity of political competitions in 2024 - or, the purposeful last-minute changes to election rules in states like Georgia. And if election results can be delayed long enough, Republicans will trigger a constitutional crisis as part of their ongoing effort to shoehorn an unfit candidate into the White House.

So! Below you see the pivotally important Autumn Equinox 2024 Horoscope set for Washington DC. You'll notice that chart-ruler Venus also applies to a complex sesqui-square with legal eagle planet Saturn Rx in the 5th house of Risk-Taking, Children, and Romance, and as a minor aspect (135 degrees), may have health connotations along with entangled legal situations. Mention should be made that Saturn Rx @14Pis56 conjuncts the 1854 position of the Republican Party's Neptune, the "grim face of reality" transit.

Yet still one's mind wanders to issues of divorce and other break-ups and separations especially with the 8 South Eclipse @10Libra perfecting on October 2nd with themes of loss, partings, and separation (B. Brady). These separative themes are operative at least until the first Solar Eclipse of 2025: the 9 New North of March 29, 2025 @9Aries. (More on this in a future post.)

Meanwhile, let's add to the Autumnal energies the excitable Moon-Uranus conjunction in the 8th house of sex, the occult, debt and credit, insurance, Shared Resources, and Corporatism - all across the possessive Taurus-$corpio axis:

Now as you see, there are other important placements such as banker-donor-politician-corporatist-broadcaster-guru-minister planet Jupiter in mutable, chatty Gemini as apex planet of a midpoint picture with interesting potentials: Moon-Mars = Jupiter: principles; justified actions; love of truth; honesty; openness; a successful woman (N. Tyl; R. Ebertin). And this with transit Jupiter about to conjunct the natal Ascendant of VP Kamala Harris, a transit of harmony and enthusiasm!

Sun/South Node: Selfish Past Actions Bring Karmic Limitations

Meanwhile, the Autumnal Sun @00Libra00:00, a Cardinal World Point of Manifestation, is in the Behind-the-Scenes 12th house of Karma and Large Institutions, opposed by contagious Neptune Rx and North Node in the 6th house of Health, Employment - and Pets. And considering that we're using the lens of Astrology to peek "under the hood" of Politics, this 6/12 (Victim-Savior) axis suggests a cosmic spotlight searching out the back room actions and antics of our political class - in Congress and within the US Justice System - folks that We the People have a right to expect a work ethic dedicated to serving us by adhering to the principles found in America's freedom documents - the Enlightenment ideals that rank far far above the depravity and degradation of death cult Maga-ite saboteurs and gullible seditionists.

Other Considerations include: Rising @21Libra is the 7 South Eclipse of October 14, 2023 which shows that crisis-laden 7 South themes remain issues in US society which have not passed for they have yet to be dealt with sufficiently. And for an overview of all four seasonal energy shifts see Year 2024 in a Cosmic Nutshell. If you made it this far, Thanks a bunch for reading! jc

Is Election 2024 a Jupiter Return to Election 2012?

by Jude Cowell, partisan for democracy

Above cameo: Jupiter; thanks to NASA

Knowing that the orbit of planet Jupiter takes close to 12 years to complete, the cyclical return of Jupiter to a certain Zodiacal position takes about that long. And since Election 2012 was the successful re-election of President Barack Obama and VP Joe Biden, Election Year 2024 carries the cosmic imprint of a Jupiter Return to Election Year 2012. By a difference of one day, the 2012 Election was held on November 6th with Jupiter @14Gem33, and as you know, this year the Election is on November 5th with Jupiter Rx @20Gem06.

So we can see that The Jolly One has moved on by about 6 degrees from his 2012 position - similar to the way the American people have moved beyond grumpy old man Trump the frowny sour puss - and forward to the easy laughter and stellar political skills of VP Kamala Harris who believes in a progressive future for our country, not a dark past irrationally revisited under the yoke of a death cult.

For as you know, on November 5th our choice is between young vs old, future vs past, light vs dark, life vs death, folks! And a victorious Kamala Harris as President will need down-ballot victories, too, in both House and Senate in order to correct mistakes and move America toward the future. By Zoom call, VP Harris has accepted the Democrats' nomination and says she will officially accept next week at the DNC 2024, an event which will be cosmically imprinted by an Aquarian Full Moon.

In case you missed it, check out Thom Hartmann's overview of Trump entering his Fat Elvis phase of trying to recapture his faded glory. And of course, "fat" is a Jupiterian descriptor, plus, albatrossian Trump was born under a 2nd hou$e Stationary Jupiter in Libra with its constant refrain of, "it's not fair!," along with a hefty urge to break through boundaries including the boundaries of others.

Now if you wish, refresh yourself with details concerning Election 2012 held, as noted, on November 6, 2012 with Jupiter Rx @14Gem33. In 2024, the Election occurs on November 5, 2024 with Jupiter Rx clocking in @20Gem06.

And if out of curiosity, we search for the 2012 Election's Jupiter Return in 2024 we find three dates: 1. August 1st (yesterday!); 2. December 20, 2024 (see below); and 3. March 22, 2025, about one day after Spring Equinox 2025 (post with horoscope coming soon).

Now obviously, Mercury-ruled Gemini is the fluid Mutable (changeable) sign of communications, trade and commerce, thinking, teaching and learning, voting, decisions, travel, trickery, lies, theft, and a multiplicity of other things, while Jupiter operates in the realms of expansion, generosity, freedom, finances and banking, corporatism, politics, ideology, religion, law, justice, ethics, morality, civil service, and the list goes on.

Yet with transit Jupiter retrograde until October 9, 2024, we should add that today's news concerns what is now a softening of the US economy (ex: jobs numbers are down) as Republican Fed head Jerome Powell keeps interest rates up which continues helping Trump "win" in November. Finagling a recession in the US would make victory more difficult for VP Kamala Harris, but not impossible.

And so when Jupiter lumbers through Gemini - opposite Sagittarius, the sign it rules - we expect versatility, a variety of changes, making lots of contacts and connections, an obliging manner, an emphasis on those with carefree attitudes, but also a potential for superficiality, often a feature of skim-the-surface Gemini.

Then as Campaign 2024 trundles on, we're being "treated" to expansive fibs and fantasies from those who use deception and gaslighting (trickster Mercury ruling duplicitous Gemini) in order to achieve their take-over objectives and this identifies the win-at-any-cost crowd of cheaters and election fixers.

Meanwhile, in the context of the 2012 Election, we know that it was a Blue Wave of Democrats and Independentswho voted to re-elect President Obama and VP Biden so to avoid the tyrannical agenda of radical Republicans in November 2024 into 2025, a Blue Tsunami is needed to wash the dark-visioned saboteurs, including Fat Elvis, out to sea!

In closing, related posts include the Solar and Lunar Eclipses Pre-Election 2024 (that's 8 South, the Saros Series into which Fed head Jerome Powell was born in 1953, so is he one of the anti-democracy operators who works to activate 8 South's themes of loss and separation against the US economy, and thus against American Democracy?

Pertinent for our nation is the January 3rd 119th Congress Horoscope with the North Node of future direction conjunct the Aries Point of World Events.

Then there's the J6 Solar Return 2025 Horoscope which perfects on January 6, 2025, the very day that the US Congress is scheduled to count and certify the 2024 Electoral College Votes as in 2021. Notable is that the Jupiter Return date of December 20, 2024, mentioned above, falls within December 17th when electors vote in the states and December 25th, the latest day that electoral college votes must be received by the President of the Senate and the Archivist as we see listed on the 2024 Electoral College Vote Timeline.

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Singapore in the house! Is Jupiter causing trouble?

Saturday April 13, 2019 9:10 am edt: Good Morning Singapore! You've been 'visiting' Stars Over Washington a lot the last couple of days. What's up? Well, for one thing I see that Jupiter's April 10th station @24Sagittarius opposes Singapore's natal Jupiter in Gemini. Feeling discontent with wealth or achievement? Is no one impressed with your efforts?

Be patient for this too shall pass!

NASA image: Planet Jupiter

Horoscope and Astro-Notes on Hope Hicks

Update Feb 27, 2018 6:00 pm est: As expected, Miss Hicks refused to spill the beans on Trump today, thank you very much.

News Update Feb 28, 2018 5:30 pm est: Hope Hicks is resigning as WH Director of Communications after admitting yesterday on Capitol Hill that she tells "white lies" for the White House (Trump).

Original post begins here:

A Brief Astrological Overview of Hope Hicks

by Jude Cowell

Tuesday February 27, 2018: This morning White House Director of Communications and longest serving political aide to Donald Trump Hope Hicks is to appear before the House Intelligence Committee concerning alleged Trump campaign involvement in Russian meddling in the November 2016 election. Her appearance was postponed from last month due to the kerfuffle over Steve Bannon's testimony and Mr. Trump should note that the 'attorney-client privilege' hedge is not applicable in the case of Hope Hicks though whether or not she'll actually answer any questions remains to be seen.

The Wikipedia page for Hope Charlotte Hicks provides a few basic details of her life of 29 years but let's take a brief peek at her natal planets and PE. Sans an accurate birth time we'll look at 'noon' on October 21, 1988 Greenwich, Connecticut but with consideration for the 24-hour range of degrees for her Moon and Sun. Naturally her age implies that a Saturn Return may be in play as she or others are held accountable for past actions but we'll see how close the timing is to today's Capitol Hill appearance.

Horoscope: Hope Charlotte Hicks October 21, 1988 'noon' edt Greenwich, CT:

As you see, 1988's weighty trio of planets Uranus-Saturn-Neptune figure strongly in the psyche of Hope Hicks where transit Saturn, the authority and The Establishment, now plods (Saturn today = 7Cap12). On the chart (lower left) are penned the dates that tr Saturn hits natal Neptune: March 6, 2018, May 31, 2018, and November 29, 2018. As you know, this is the 'dream come true' OR 'the grim face of reality' transit and considering her involvement with the Trump Organization and today's Capitol Hill visit, I'd say it's more the latter than the former for Miss Hicks. And note that monetary matters are suggested by this transit. So I would say that 2018 is a Saturn-to-Neptune year for Hope Hicks. However, the amount of Saturnian honesty, realism, and authenticity may negligible from today's House Intell Committee testimony, because for one thing, Miss Hicks was born with a fantasy-prone Mercury-Neptune square as was the truth-challenged Donald Trump! Another of her tendencies toward fact-distortion is revealed by a Neptune-Chiron opposition (0S33) which suggests one for whom the only reality is subjective for she believes that objectivity is an illusion--'there are no facts' (r. Nolle).

Moon-NN, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter Rx, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto

The Moon-North Node connection relates to her role in public relations and communications, and her unaspected Venus (impaired perspectives, lack of evaluation before taking action; a social 'wallflower'??) is in friendly mutual reception with communicating Mercury in the Venus-ruled sign of lovely Libra. As you see, her Syzygy Moon (last lunation prior to birth) @17Lib48 conjoins Mr. Trump's natal Jupiter Station Direct. Financial security is a driving force for Hicks (as for Trump) but hopefully, today's House committee members won't be blinded by the obvious beauty of this lovely Libra! Yet trouble in love matters is also shown in her chart (which won't be discussed here except to note that her Pre-Natal Solar Eclipse manifested on September 11, 1988 @18Vir40 in the 8 South Saros series with themes of loss, separation, and partings (Brady). 8 South last occurred in 2006 and will manifest next in 2024 @10Libra conjunct her natal Mercury.

As for active motivator Mars (00Ari09), you see he is retrograde at Aries Point making the achievement of fame, recognition, and fortune practically a given, plus, Neptune in Capricorn is inspired to attain goals by crooked means if necessary. On the right side of the chart you see Mars in Aries and Venus in Virgo listed. Lower right shows her Jupiter Rx in Gemini so we know she relates to others as a Mercury-ruled Gemini (and behaves as a Sagittarian--Uranus in Sag). And of course, Pluto in Scorpio indicates a talent for exercising subconscious suggestions to others, fanaticism, record achievements (her Mars = AP approves!), and having a share in tragic events (Ebertin) which describes for some people the Trump White House.

Sun Libra-Moon Pisces

Now let's take a peek at her Air-Water Sun Libra-Moon Pisces personality blend for which we don't need an accurate birth time since Sun and Moon remained in their signs for the 24-hour period of October 21, 1988.

This blend reveals one who is creative, adaptable, perceptive (even if her perceptions are off-the-mark with Mercury SQ Neptune), sometimes lazy, and talkative. Yet she is also a good listener who demonstrates non-judgmental empathy for others (which is very good for remaining in your job with the flawed and often-criticized Mr. Trump). Miss Hicks is a dreamy romantic who is capable of genteel diplomacy which she must use for advising her emotionally sensitive boss. Plus, her tendency toward vacillating moods is similar to Trump's moody Gemini-Sagittarius morphing ability on any issue. Her changeable Pisces Moon is difficult to pin down and 'diplomatic' answers (Libra) may be all she offers today's committee. Cautions are: a lack of conviction, indecision at crucial turning points, agreement with various points of view (similar to Trump who agrees with the last opinion he heard expressed), and a tendency to drift into new intimacies once the last one becomes boring.

Yes, Hope Hicks is a 'people-pleaser' as identified by Sun Libra-Moon Pisces who can adapt to almost any situation. Note that his personality blend is shared by some illustrious folk: occultist and sex-maniac Aleister Crowley, former Canadian PM Pierre Trudeau (Justin's father), and famed playwright Eugene O'Neill who informed us that,

"None of us can help the things life has done to us...at last everything comes between you and what you'd like to be, and you have lost your true self forever."

Let's close with the Sun Libra-Moon Pisces curious Image for Integration supplied by the Harvey's Sun-Sign-Moon Sign book:

"The curtain comes down, the actor takes off his mask and, in privacy, looks into his mirror to find himself as a child of six with his imaginary friend."

Well, hopefully Hope won't have to depend on the unreliable, loyalty-demanding Donald Trump for the benefits of true friendship!

In the Realms of Jupiter: Steve Bannon

For basic info on this series of articles, please see the Jupiter profile of Donald Trump.

In the Realms of Jupiter Part 3: Steve Bannon

Born on November 27, 1953 with an Airy Jupiter @23Gem33, Mr. Bannon has had varied careers within Geminian areas such as stock trading, editing, promotion, and publishing. As you know, Mercury-ruled Gemini is a mental sign of communication and has allowed him opportunities to acquire a wide range of marketable skills. Mr. Bannon shares an Airy Jupiter with his advisee Donald Trump whose Jupiter is in Venus-ruled Libra where Jupiter relates to others based on Trump's constant concern with fair play in relationships. Meanwhile, Mr. Bannon's Jupiter in Gemini loves to tell fantastic stories with larger meanings and has the capacity to relate many facts and details into the scene.

But wait! We should be careful here or Steve Bannon's natal Saturn may overtake his Jupiterian energies for dutiful Saturn @4Sco11 is unaspected and thus may function unencumbered and with less difficulty in Saturnian realms (such as management, control, duties, authority) than an aspected Saturn would. In isolation may be his preferred mode of working, plus, the placement suggests an indifference or lack of concern for anything outside his usual sphere of operation. Negatively, self-discipline may be missing from the personality along with a normally functioning conscience.

However, let's not give up on Bannon's natal Jupiter just yet for it leads a BOWL shape in his natal horoscope with the rest of the planets tipping Jupiter's way. Obviously, some level of leadership is suggested here though without a timed birth chart we can't know in which direction the BOWL tips. (My guess would be toward career matters.) Anyway, this emphasizes a prominent natal Jupiter in Gemini which happens to conjoin the Uranus-NN-Sun trio of Donald Trump posited in Trump's very visible 10th house of Career and Public Status. Plus, Bannon's natal Sun @5Sag is ruled by Jupiter which adds more adventurous Sagittarian vibes to his character and intellect; his natal Moon is in either Leo the entertainer, or Virgo the critic and dedicated worker slogging away behind the scenes. My guess? A Virgo Moon. You?

Also of note is the fact that Bannon's natal Jupiter is retrograde, a condition denoting unusual perspectives, odd beliefs, and/or a different set of morals. Here is one who prefers to learn by his own experiences and who tends to plan things well rather than relying on natural luck.

Expansive Jupiter in Curious Gemini: Exploring Unconventional Ideas

One further note is necessary here: natal Pluto @25Leo01 is at Rx Station so power, manipulation, and control are inner issues of transformation which hide in the shadows of a Jupiter-Pluto sextile, an aspect supplying talent in matters of psychological combat. How useful in Politics and in business and financial analysis! And yet the self-reliant Mr. Bannon may find himself facing his losses alone when they come for lack of loyalty from fair weather friends may be an issue for him and he may have made enemies who attempt to sabotage him via rumor or misfortune (Epstein). And it's possible that on November 27, 1953 the Moon conjoined natal Pluto which would indicate an extremely demanding nature--hard to live or deal with, a tyrant in fact. Also note that his natal Pluto conjoins the natal Mars of Donald Trump (@26Leo and rising)--an energizing contact yet possibly explosive.

In addition, his natal Jupiter is engaged in a second aspect, a Jupiter-Neptune trine which may inspire attempts to refine any coarseness within his environment. (My suggestion: the Oval Office please!) Mr. Bannon possesses an inherent understanding of life as shown by this aspect and is concerned with restoring order out of chaos (uh-oh--via a 'new world order'?), a trait that must come in very handily in the crazy quilt Trump White House. Mysticism and occult interests are also shown by the Airy Jupiter-Neptune trine along with a tendency to respond only to certain people who share his interests or his attitudes. And this is rather paradoxical since Bannon's natal Jupiter is posited in communicating, often chatty, ever curious Gemini!

So let's close this Astro-Portrait of Steve Bannon's natal Jupiter in Gemini with a midpoint picture involving Jupiter, one that is in force throughout the day and night of his birth and thus does not depend upon a correctly timed horoscope; any, all, or none of the following suggested potentials may apply and are subject to transits, progressions, and arcs, and may be activated by eclipses, stars, and/or other cosmic events:

Jupiter-Neptune = Pluto 25Leo01 Rx: plans unreasonable beyond measure (Ebertin); self projection out of hand (Tyl); ideas gained from visions to control waste or pollution; condemnation or suppression of occult theories (Munkasey).