DC Horoscope: Summer Solstice 2025

by Jude Cowell, partisan for common decency

DC Horoscope: Summer Solstice 2025 June 20, 2025 10:42:13 pm EDT Washington DC shown, below:

ASC 4AQ28 rises with Pluto @3AQ20 Rx, planet of purges, transformation, power, spying, manipulation, death, and obscene wealth: Pluto/ASC uses power to try to remake circumstances; MC (The Goal) @25Sco24 conjunct Mr. T's natal IC; radical reactionary Uranus at a critical 29th degree of Taurus conjunct the chart's IC (Endings; Domestic Scene); Solstice Sun 00Can00:00 in 5th house of risk-taking with Jupiter @2Can33, the sign of Jupiter's exaltation:

With Aquarius rising, Saturn and Uranus are prominent this Summer and are engaged in a fortunate sextile (60 degrees) aspect of original ideas that may be practically applied. Reliability is notable and good advice forthcoming with which constructive solutions can be found. However, since political ability may also be involved with the sextile, its positive indications may or may not relate to the current administration because chaos and disruption are their aims, and destruction not construction must come first.

Therefore, it could be others who step in to use the positive energies of the Saturn-Uranus sextile of Summer 2025; improvement in the Middle East cannot be ruled out.

Meanwhile, Solstice Pluto sextiles Neptune in a YOD pattern (crisis; turning point; special task; karmic opportunity) which points toward 7th house Mars @2Vir06; as a midpoint picture the trio suggests potentials such as being used a tool for someone else's interests; a lack of resistance or stamina; and/or succumbing to external powers (R. Ebertin).

Plus as you know, hot-natured Mars in Virgo can be an exploitative placement and/or may have scientific connections or interests. One might think of Mars-directed space launches, for one thing, and the volatile Mars-Uranus square would support launches especially if explosive acts of violence and/or accidents can be ruled out or thwarted.

Then back on Earth, due to the current political and social climate in US society in which certain actors have threatened to impose "hardship" conditions upon our population, we might wish to consider a second sextile as a base of a YOD pattern and its potentials: Pluto sextile Saturn = Mars: the necessity to fight for one's existence; ruthlessness; brutal assaults; maltreatment (R.E.). And I don't have to mention here who has expressed out loud the threat of hardship in this, the richest nation in the world. Of note is the thievery and looting that come with such a threat - as usual, in a society rife with inequality theirs is a rob the poor to give to the rich scenario.

Now often with YOD patterns, a timing element is involved (here, for Mars to act?), plus, health implications may be indicated via the inconjuncts. One possibility is the disruption to health insurance coverage that many folks are already facing, myself included. (If you use them, check out the Sabian Symbols in the chart for more information.)

Then last but not least is the Moon @00Tau29, the position of President Biden's natal Moon. His Lunar Return Horoscope for June 20, 2025 (11:30:41 pm edt) is basically the same chart you see here with the same cuspal signs and aspects to his Taurean Moon - sextiles, a trine, but with one clunker: a square from Pluto which echoes the Moon-Pluto square in his natal chart. This personalizes the Summer Solstice 2025 Horoscope for President Biden and may relate in part to his activities during the Israeli-Palestine hostage crisis, or to a health issue that may be heart-related ("Saturn-Uranus" = heart block - R. Ebertin). Hopefully not, but Pluto square natal Moon does suggest a health issue for him or a surgical procedure during the month of June - and squares denote blockages or obstacles - and there's priestly Chiron nearby as well! Still, Mr. Biden enjoys the cadillac of heathcare, we're told, so that's a significant benefit.

Now in closing, here are a few notes concerning the cosmic weather of the day and thus of Summer 2025 using the Solstice's Sun Cancer-Moon Taurus blend of energies, a pragmatic Water-Earth combination with Lunar-Venusian influences:

Fussy; retains subjective prejudices; tendency toward laziness and stubbornness; values are rooted in the past; shrewd in business; strategic. Perhaps you'll agree that there are Images for Integration (conscious Sun + unconscious Moon) which may apply to the current gaggle in charge:

"A flourishing family business" and "A family photo album."

(For more details see Sun-Sign-Moon Sign, Charles and Suzi Harvey #ad).

Grimmace for the camera!

Donald Trump's Bacchian September 2019!

Early September Trump Tweets About Dorian and Other Stuff

Now you don't need me to tell you of recent news stories about Hurricane Dorian, Alabama, Trump's recent flubs and his dumb lies meant to cover his flubs. Meanwhile, beginning the first of September, a certain transiting asteroid, Bacchus, became prominent by traveling in tandem with Mercury exalted in its own sign of discriminating Virgo, and representing such things as communications (exs: speech, tweets, drawing lines with Sharpies, and the telling of lies). And as you know, Virgo is also the sign of The Critic which describes Trump but also describes the boatload of criticism he has received for his latest distraction from other news items he finds personally embarrassing or in some political way, inconvenient (exs: finking out on his trip to Poland, sending Pence in his stead, and Pence's stay at Trump's hotel in Ireland). With so many laws to break playing POTUS, how can Trump ever find the time!

Once his tweeted Weather Forecasts began, we can note that the Sun-Mars conjunction occurred on September 2, 2019 @9Vir41, the position of the 19 North Solar Eclipse of September 1, 2016--the Prenatal Eclipse of both Election 2016 and Inauguration 2017 which occurred opposite deceptive Neptune but which called for 'realism, truth-tackling, coming down to earth, and seeing an old situation for what it really is' (Brady). This continues to be excruciating for the public as Trump's lies, head-fakes, and fraudulent actions and behaviors pile up and up thanks in part to deceitful Neptune in secretive, scandal-prone Pisces gumming up the works, undermining the truth...and continuing to conjoin and thus disguise America's progressed POTUS Sun now floating about in mid-Pisces. In other words, Neptune gives Trump 'cover' as they like to say in politics.

And so the schedule of transiting Bacchus extends through the month for on September 3rd Bacchus picked up a second traveling partner, Mars in Virgo, and naturally when Mercury and Mars combine energies there are often political opinions of a forceful nature to accidentally or purposefully unnerve the populace and/or annoy an audience. Of course, other planetary transits and factors are influencing current events now as well but our focus today is on fatty grub Bacchus.

Then on September 4th, with Trump still Dorian-tweeting, the Sun caught up and added its bright rays of public attention upon Bacchus, an ancient 'god' and cult-leader associated with 'the outsider' and one of the primary asteroid-archetypes I have previously suggested as an astrological significator for Donald Trump, calling him a Bacchus figure (see his image, above).

Now it may be that the current kerfuffle over Trump's Dorian tempest imaginings will settle down or be superseded by a new flub or scandal soon--or, things won't settle down until transiting Bacchus is left behind without a planetary limelight under which to cavort. However, Bacchus keeps the Sun's attention from now and through the 30 degrees of Libra, then loses the limelight as the Sun enters Scorpio on or about October 23rd leaving Bacchus behind in late Libra.

Whew! You'd think that even self-indulgent Bacchus would need a break from his revels before that. Wouldn't you?