US Solar Return 2023 Horoscope with Mars Rising

We the People in 2023 Are Not Helpless!

by Jude Cowell

With violence signified by various expressions around the horoscope, below is the not-so-splendid Solar Return 2023 Horoscope for America which this year arrives on July 5, 2023. This particular version of a US Solar Return 2023 issues from America's July 4, 1776 Horoscope set for 5:09 pm LMT Philadelphia, PA - cuss'ed of me, I know, but I continue to appreciate the 1776 chart's MC-IC axis at Cardinal World Points of 00Aries-Libra - plus, problematic Neptune now approaches the significant Aries Point by transit, initially at the end of March 2025 into late January 2026 but Neptune's sign change to Aries will be felt earlier than 2025 by sensitive folk:

Obviously, with SR Sun in 11th house, Groups and Associations will be prominent focuses of leadership in 2023, and as you can see, there's a crisis-laden, crossroads-reaching YOD pattern in the chart with its base formed by the transiting Neptune-Pluto sextile (the Organized Crime/Global Underworld Criminal Networks of energies which include drugs and other forms of illegal trafficking, plus, the occult, mysticism, and in some cases, religion, possibly of a bizarre nature.

Considering the trio as a midpoint picture - and noting that the inconjuncts to Mars from Neptune and Pluto suggest health concerns, fanciful notions, and/or workaholism as well, we have SR Mars at apex which is made additionally significant by the fact that this position echoes Trump's natal Mars rising (26Leo46). Herr T's 2023 Mars Return perfects on July 4, 2023 at 11:59:45 pm est, and the Neptune-to-Mars inconjunct shows in his Mars Return 2023 as does an off-and-on square from radical Uranus in Taurus to his Mars, with the unstable, even perilous conditions such as this square implies.

Midpoint picture penned on the above chart: Neptune-Pluto = Mars: use of violence to achieve one's dreams; (M. Munkasey); used as a tool for other people's interests (R. Ebertin); rejection of actions due to misunderstandings (N. Tyl).

And so in America's Solar Return 2023 Horoscope, multiple nuggets of information are penned on and around the chart for the curious reader, yet unfortunately, I'm compelled to note that the Return's prior Solar Eclipse in the 7 North Saros Series (deep passion; "blood" lust) is a repetition of the 'Fascism Rising Eclipse' of February 1933 @5Pis28 conjoined in 2023 by this Saturn Rx @6Pis57 = 'those with responsibility to carry out the thematic imperatives of 7 North. As you see, the Eclipse conjuncts the 8th cusp when US Solar Return 2023 is set for Washington DC, and, as noted in previous posts, qualifies as Adolf's Birthday Eclipse of April 20, 2023.

Astraea (Justice) at Midheaven: a Worthy Objective

Check out the Midheaven ('MC'; the goal) in the horoscope, above, for it holds midpoints: Mars-Saturn (bereavement; death - R. Ebertin) and the T-Square of Saturn-ASC = MC: a slow start with many restrictions; personal guarantees are kept and fulfilled (Munkasey). Are these Squeaker of the House Kevin McCarthy's promises to the far-reich whose votes he needed? Well, Kevin is one of the more visible tools active in the GOP's totalitarian to-do list to collapse and conquer our country. Additionally, the Sun-Chiron midpoint nestles at MC, too, which suggests a quest that reaches for social transformation.

Fascism's Favorite Political Tool: Violence

So! For a bit of historical context, a previous event timed by the 7 North 'Fascism Rising' Eclipse of 1933 is the Nazi Book Burning of May 10, 1933 (horoscope shown) with transit Mars in Virgo opposing the 7 North Eclipse ('tug-of-war'; physical intensity); also opposing the 1933 Eclipse is transit Neptune Rx @7Virgo suggesting deceit, lack of objectivity, and self-delusion (R. Lineman). Will Republicans reach the burning books stage after banning them? See Rawstory's report, DeSantis-backed book-banning panel is becoming a slow-moving 'trainswreck'.

So here we are again, folks.

For as you know, America's current gaggle of fascist and nazi enthusiasts are repeating certain behaviors and activities of Adolf's era such as book banning if not burning which mimick rituals similar to Civil War reenactments intended to keep the 'spirit' alive by keeping the public stirred up on behalf of violence and insurrection (as if these are "normal" behaviors - but they're not, they're psychotic). Those of us who refuse to join the Republicans' smash-and-grab movement against the US government should be fearful, so the GOP thinks.

However, there is another alternative: challenge all their tactics with the help of congressional Democrats and the Biden White House because congressional Republicans are deadbeats who intend to stiff the American people but continue paying Chinese banks, and this extortionary blackmail must be figured out by June 5th, last I heard. In fact, we hit the debt ceiling this very day, as reported by CNN. Hopefully, Democrats in the Senate along with the White House can stop the GOP recklessness with the economy, domestic and foreign. And if we look back at the 2011 downgrade of America's credit rating caused by the Republican Party in order to force their agenda upon us, we find another YOD of crisis in the GOP's Secondary Progressed Chart of July 29, 2011 which points toward the party's SP Ascendant @28Gemini, the degree of Bankruptcy. At the base of the YOD are Mercury-Jupiter, a pair that can indicate fraud. Plus, everyone knows that a lot of theft is made possible during chaotic times such as those of 2011 and 2023.

Yet We're Not Helpless in This Fight!

Because meanwhile, it is abundantly clear that a large majority of the American people reject the establishment of fascist or nazi government in America because for one thing, America is Not Germany, Russia, or Hungary! So if there truly is safety in numbers, it helps to remember that A Fascist Plot in America Has Failed Before and will do so again despite the increase of violent tactics by the far-right and other mentally unstable, delusional,gaslit folk intended to cow the American people, make Herr T proud, and seed a sense of inevitability concerning the far-right's thuggish, underhanded, deceitful machinations for the sake of grabbing power, control - and the mega-bucks that come with them.

And so I beseech you, dear reader, whatever you and yours can do to promote democracy in America, the time is now!

For more on such topics, you may wish to check out a previously published post from 2020: Fascism Rising Eclipse of 1933 Repeats in 2023.

Putin: Ukraine 2022 vs Hitler: Poland 1939

February 2022 Invasion Echoes Poland 1939

by Jude Cowell

Recently, comparisons have been made by talking heads between Herr Hitler's brutal invasion, bombing, and take-over of Poland from September 1, 1939 to October 6, 1939, his 'September Campaign', and the February 24, 2022 invasion and bombing of Ukraine by Russian 'president' Vladimir Putin, a man with dreams of global dictatorship - just as Hitler had.

So naturally, worries about a world war starting are now on steroids thanks to Putin's power-grab of Ukraine and his nuclear threats, for as you know, Hitler's action against Poland sparked World War II. And synchronistically, the take-over of Poland and WWII (September 1, 1939 Danzig, Poland) both fall under the influences of the same Solar Eclipse, the 13 South Eclipse of April 19, 1939 @28Ari43 which is displayed, below, with astro-notes penned on including the fact that the Eclipse hit very near Herr Hitler's natal Sun (00Taurus), his 'trigger point of violence', and death-dealer Pluto at a critical-crisis 29th degree of Capricorn (conjunct America's current progressed position of Pluto) squares the Solar Eclipse indicating ruthless behavior, torture, and other criminal offences.

Meanwhile, karmic Saturn @22Aries separates from the Eclipse (6S42) and denotes those with the responsibility to carry out 13 South's themes which are penned at the top of the horoscope, and include sinister energy and an urge to expand as they 'strive toward group endeavors' (B. Brady). Of course, these two planets aspecting the 1939 Eclipse make up the evil pair of Saturn-Pluto which had last met in Conjunction three times from October 1914 to May 19, 1915 (@00Cancer, a Cardinal World Point of Manifestation: World War - not so now). Yet there are Saturn and Pluto again at the Foundation of this Eclipse chart conjunct the IC (22Cap30) which weirdly enough, conjuncts the January 12, 2020 Saturn-Pluto Conjunction which happened to hit the natal Vertex ('VX') of Herr Trump with its 'fated encounters' implications. Now these, plus, other cosmic synchronicities are listed, below, and are not comforting, I know, but there it is.

So see what you can make of the eclipse chart and leave an on-topic comment with this post, if you wish:

Image: World War II 13 South Solar Eclipse @28Ari43; April 19, 1939 5:35:02 pm CET Danzig, Poland

One recent event notated on the horoscope is the 1939 Eclipse's 7th house Vertex of fated encounters @6Tau44 pointing directly at the US Inauguration Day 2021 Mars-Uranus Conjunction - also @6Tau44 (!). Either Universal synchronicity is full of irony, or someone devious plans ahead using astrological principles and placements as timing devices for their activities in the here and now, inspired by, or in tribute to, similar brutalities perpetrated by a long-gone dictator following the voices in his head (as do Putin and Trump). Now I know that many folks realize the similarities without the aid of Astrology, even without seeing white "supremacists" marching on TV and in streets with tiki torches burning as they yell hateful slogans - a global movement toward strong-armed authoritarianism. The recent banning and burning of books is a major clue as well - oh, and add the Moon's position (29Aries) during the Mars-Uranus Conjunction of 2021 for Luna conjoined the 13 South Solar Eclipse degree of 1939, a cosmic picture of completion and/or fulfillment of some sort. Apparently, current-day neo-nazis are simply preening with pride at how hateful, racist, and brutal they are.

Of course, basic factors that all solar eclipses in Mars-ruled Aries indicate are potentials for militancy, belligerence, boldness, and leadership, but when the energies are negatively expressed, these turn to arrogance, aggression, self-willedness, and a headstrong attitude that bodes ill for other people. In fact, the foolhardiness implied tends to cause more problems than it solves. Add to this Eclipse-ruler Mars in Capricorn ('the warrior') leading the planets in a Locomotive shape and we see an indication of a 'ruthlessness executive determined to achieve success at any cost' (whether in Poland or in Ukraine). The Eclipse falling in the 7th house in Danzig denotes pacts and karmic alliances or partnerships.

So do you think that history is rhyming from 1939 to 2022? Or is someone devious purposefully causing current events to 'rhyme' with past events in order to 'complete' a certain psychopath's malevolent agenda? See November 2022 Eclipse hits Austrian Psychopath's Chart which shows yet another example from the 1939 Eclipse horoscope - radical planet of anarchy and zealotry, Uranus @16Tau42 will conjunct the Lunar Eclipse in Taurus conjunct Uranus on the very day of America's 2022 Midterms - with reactionary Uranus conjunct Herr Hitler's natal Venus-Mars Conjunction, a passionate pair that recently met on February 16, 2022 @16Capricorn - the conjunction a repetition or an echoing of Adolf's unhinged energies from the past - when we take current events into consideration. As you know, the Venus-Mars pairing is super-passionate and can at times make quite a spectacle of themselves.

Cosmic Time Links: 1939 to 2022

And of course, comrade Putin's current actions are intended on a sinister level to undermine and collapse America, as you know, in revenge for the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

So! If you can manage it, do check out Astrology King's insightful analysis of Herr Hitler with his Sun conjunct fixed star Mirach in Andromeda and the star's 'chained woman' implications which, to me, relate to the 'strong-armed paternalism' that again threatens the world, no less so than in American politics via Republicans determined to control women's health choices.

And note that this area of the Zodiac will be lit up once again by a Solar Eclipse in April 2023 (30Aries) so as I've asked before in a previous post, Are we once again being haunted by Mirach's Ghost?