Stars Over Washington's Top 10 Posts of 2023!

As 2023 comes to a close and a new dawn beckons in January 2024, here for your consideration are links counting down Stars Over Washington's Top 10 Posts of 2023 as of December 25, 2023:

10. Astrology: The Bundle of Donald Trump revealing Trump's progressed planets which are now grouped in a concentrated Bundle shape of a dictator - clumped together into his progressed 12th house of Large Institutions such as hospitals and/or prisons. Italy's ill-fated Mussolini was born this way, Trump has "evolved" into it.

9. Social Security, Saturn, and the 118th Congress showing the current Pluto-opposite-Pluto's titanic power struggle now affecting multiple areas of society where power and control are at issue.

8. Astrology of the McKinley Assassination published in September 2023 upon the occasion of the crime's 122nd anniversary - America's third after Lincoln and Garfield - and all heralding a forceful change of direction in US Politics. Purposefully so.

7. 118th Congress: Jupiter and Algol Rise which occurred that morning at 10:00 am est as congress members prepared for 118th's opening session at noon. Furious Algol expanded suggests that tempers must have flared!

6. Jack Smith's 7 North Eclipse in 2023 which has repeated for him this very year with its themes of lust and hidden passion as he investigates and prosecutes the orange insurrectionist for disrupting a constitutionally mandated proceeding that leads to our nation's traditional peaceful transfer of power.

5. 2023 Eclipses yet a bit of Cosmic Relief. Much deserved!

4. May 2023's Fixed Grand Square: Mars-Pluto-Jupiter showing rigid stand-offs within the current democracy vs fascism struggle for domination.

3. Ron DeSantis: Sun Virgo-Moon Aquarius revealing his personality blend to be that of a lost soul with the vibes of an alien! If you've noticed his creepy grimace of a smile, you know what I mean.

2. The Jupiter-Uranus Conjunction of 2024 which forms approximately every 14 years along with a mixture of optimism, scientific and other types of break-throughs, and a potential for zealous one-sided attitudes.

And SO'W's Most Popular Post of 2023 Is:

1. Election Day 2024: What Does the Venus Cycle Say? Because a pivot point has been reached and the entire world is concerned about the society-altering outcome of Election 2024, yes?

The Question Is: Will We the People allow ourselves to be plunged back into the animalism, primal violence, and brutality of 1930s/1940s Nazism, or shall we move forward into a brighter future with Pluto in Aquarius and quirky Uranus, the rebel, soon leaving the intolerant, possessive sign of Taurus and heading toward versatile Gemini in 2025?

And finally, as SO'W approaches 4 million page views, my warm Thanks go to all readers who continue supporting this Open Letter to my friends. Happy New Year to All! Love, Jude Cowell, as always a partisan for democracy and the common good.

August 30, 2020 Current Conditions: Saturn-Neptune

An Unsealed Letter Within An Unsealed Letter

Since Stars Over Washington is basically an unsealed letter, and because current conditions in the US are dire, I've decided to copy/paste this morning's reply to a thoughtful reader's comments which were posted in October 2019, pre-Covid. In part my reply concerns which US Horoscope to use and why I must continue to use the US chart with Saturn-Neptune at Midheaven. However, please know that the following words are not for the faint of heart nor for the overly fretful or sensitive so please Do Not Read if this describes you, dear reader:

August 30, 2020, I'm just now replying, and we're embroiled in the covid pandemic, as you know zeebling. Depopulation and 'purification' of humanity are well underway and the 'reset economic agenda' is being implemented (with most of us out of the way). Meanwhile the Davos Forum has been rescheduled from January 2021 to Summer 2021 - allegedly due to covid concerns - and this places the 'reset' Forum under the prophetic 5 North Solar eclipse of 2021 rather than the difficult 4 South of December 2020. And as you say, the Inauguration 2021 Horoscope is aggressive and destructive with the Mars-Uranus conjunction rising. Riots and upheavals in US streets show the success of social tinkering efforts to ignite a race war and with a religious war simmering on the back burner. All that I'd fretted over these last several years of SO'W fusses is appearing in front of our eyes.

Meanwhile, I've gone back and forth over which US Horoscope to use but considering current events, I'm sticking with the July 4, 1776 5:09 pm LMT Philadelphia chart with its Saturn-Neptune = MC (00Libra) for the planetary pair's potentials for 'illness, suffering, renunciation, distrust, sacrifice, methodical execution of plans, tormenting emotional inhibitions, neuroses or diseases with causes difficult to ascertain' plus 'socialism' and other -isms since most now seem to apply. Oh and there's 10th house Saturn's well known "fall from grace" potential if Saturnian demands have not been answered. As they have not. DC and the Pentagon had their chance at global leadership and imho botched it badly. And as usual it's 'the little guy and gal' who must pay. And all this with our US Pluto Return/s almost exact. I continue to see 1776 Pluto as foreign involvement and of course we know which entities this describes in our era.

Yes, it's a dreary picture of course (playing out now!) but as a Saturnian astrologer I've said before - and realistic people know - that we must face our monsters to have any hope of vanquishing them. And with US Mars Rx by progression since 2006, its energies turned inward, it's going to be a long battle.

Jude

11:35 AM, August 30, 2020 #

Note: Saturn-Neptune potentials: Reinhold Ebertin's The Combination of Stellar Influences.

May 2020: Notice to Readers of Stars Over Washington!

Announcing a New Day for SO'W! Or Is It? What Do *You* Think?

May 17, 2020: After nearly 15 years of freebie content created for the most part by yours truly, Stars Over Washington, my labor of love on behalf of America, now has its very own Patreon account set up for any reader who may wish to encourage a continuance of SO'W posts, plus, perhaps read a bit of special content published there just for you as my schedule permits!

Therefore, after years of domain fees, plus, ink and paper expenditures, my question for you must be:

Shall SO'W be shuttered by October 2020 before it enters its 16th year or should I continue publishing Political Astrology horoscopes and posts into 2021?

Any and all Patreon 'Votes' will be encouraging and very much appreciated!

Jude Cowell

ps: Perhaps you caught a recent post: Stars Over Washington and "An Unsealed Letter"?

Stars Over Washington and "An Unsealed Letter"

By Jude Cowell

May 15, 2020: Lots going on today in US Politics and in other parts of the world but here's a departure for Stars Over Washington: a publish of its Founding Horoscope as you see, below. For one thing, the 15th year of SO'W culminates on October 16, 2020 and a decision must be made as to whether SO'W should be shuttered rather than entering a 16th year of my fusses about how I don't appreciate 'what they've done with the place', the place being my former city of residence, Washington DC. I dissent because I care and believe that at least a few of my Revolutionary War ancestors would approve of my dissents about the disastrous route greedy and weak Washington politicians have taken our Ship of State, not to mention the foreign influences America's Founders dreaded and warned against. For these reasons, SO'W has always offered freebie content, for it's a labor of love for America, my only nag in the race!

Now the following horoscope is set for First Post timestamped 3:30 am edt on October 16, 2005 (6:30 am pdt) with the Sabian Symbol for its Ascendant (What?) @30 Leo = "An Unsealed Letter." Well, yes, it's always been that: a letter to my friends for anyone to read (such is blogging!) and with Regulus rising. At its Base or Foundation ('IC') is "27 Scorpio" = "A Military Band on the March" which tells you that the Bush-Cheney regime of that era and the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, invasions, occupations, and destruction were the basis that impelled me to begin Stars Over Washington. As you see, at Midheaven ('MC') the Why? Point, is fixed star Algol with her rage and fury implications. And let's not mention how these chart angles mimic those of Donald Trump, plus, other contacts to his natal placements may be found for those who care to look:

Read SO'W's First Post if you wish.

So! Did I check planetary positions in order to adjust the chart before I published at 3:30 am? Nope, only afterwards. As you see, not as many of my usual scribbled notes are penned upon the chart but a few factors are added for your convenience, dear reader. And as always, your on-topic comments are welcomed but freeloaders beware: all ads will be deleted, not published. TY! Jude

May 15, 2020 11:16 am edt Raleigh NC USA