by Jude Cowell, partisan for democracy and the common good
No longer exalted in the Scales of Justice sign of Libra, America's legal-eagle planet Saturn symbolically progressed a few years ago into Scorpio, a transformative placement for the status quo, law-and-order planet.
Then last August, when we discussed how US Saturn Turned Rx by Progression in January 1997 during Republicans' "vast right-wing conspiracy" attacks against Democratic President Bill Clinton, it seems apparent to me that America's credibility, authenticity, and authority in the world were harmed.
Whether the US public back then agreed with the Republican or the Democratic side of the issues, damage was done to our nation's position on the world stage. However, this was but one step of many on the ladder toward the destruction of our democratic Republic, the US Constitution, and the presidency (not that ladies' man Bill's actions did the Executive Branch any favors by succumbing to Monica's crush).
In 2025 Things Have Escalated Downward
Perhaps allowing a convicted felon with a criminal reputation into the Oval Office - not once but twice - has been the Republican Party's idea all along. After all, the GOP did change identity around the time of the party's three-fer Neptune Return (1854 to 2017/18 = Tr*mp again) to mid-Pisces, as their underhanded "win at any cost" tactics increased, you may remember. What a handy dandy way to discredit America and our often-touted White House of Masonic Lodge fame!
So now, in this my 20th year of writing Stars Over Washington, I sadly suspect that all my fussing about what's being done to America is no longer needed because the worst has happened and we clearly see before our eyes and recognize the saboteurs of our country and our lives by their unconstitutional actions, do we not?
For as you've heard, anti-societal members of the House passed Tr*mp's death-dealing bill (did pal Put*n write it?) by One Vote: 215-214 along party lines on Thursday morning (5/22/25 6:56 am edt), and you know which political party is to blame as House members return home next week for their ill-deserved break. Much hiding from their constituents will likely take place by the we*sely cow*rds.
Two Images: House Passes Bill May 22, 2025 6:56 am edt and the same chart with astro-notes penned on:
So will the US Senate make changes to the (Orwellian named) "big beautiful bill" and pass it into law? This remains to be seen but one suspects that Republican senators will cave to "The Big Picture" which is what I believe the GOP/Heritage Foundation's purge agenda is part of - and we can see this through a certain transit of power-mad Pluto in 2017:
1993 Uranus-Neptune Conjunction/s = transit Pluto 2017 (Tr*mp's Year One):
"The big picture commands a certain course of action which must be followed, very little option to do otherwise" (N. Tyl, Solar Arcs #ad).
If this reads to you like the infamous mobster slogan, "an offer they can't refuse," then we're on the same page, dear reader - threats against Congress members are highly motivational. Meanwhile, many fussy posts have appeared on SO'W through the years concerning the Underworld/Organized Crime duo Neptune-Pluto; fyi the pair's midpoint is now @3Pisces by transit.
Now let's close with the three Saturn Return dates to the US Saturn Turns Rx by Progression chart's position of legal eagle Saturn (@1Ari31) which also signifies the Republicans' restriction of a Democratic president named Bill in 1997 - and prosecuting attorney Ken Starr, too:
1. June 20, 2025; 2. August 4, 2025; and 3. February 27, 2026 - one week after the Great Conjunction of societal duo Saturn and Neptune, as a pair symbolizing our social safety net programs and the weak-ill-poor folks aided by them - the Americans that Naz* Republicans hate so fervently - just like those Herr Adolf 'dispensed with' in Germany.
Previously on SO'W a Related Post: Saturn-Neptune and The Weakening of America.
Alternate timings may be found in a variety of sources; adjust the 6:56 am edt chart/s as you like. jc
