Horoscope: Hush Money Trial Apr 2024

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good

Update: Going after Judge Marchan's daughter again may be what stalls the trial date as per Mercury Rx while an appeal is heard. Original post begins here:

Below you see two images of what is scheduled to be the Trump Hush Money Trial, aka, Election Interference Trial, Manhattan, NY, set by Judge Juan Marchan for Monday April 15, 2024. I'm using a start time for jury selection of 9:30 am edt which may or may not need adjusting. The first chart has my scribbled study notes messily penned on, the second horoscope is sans scribbles.

A few factors worth mentioning include:

In 11th house, chart-ruler Mercury is retrograde ('Rx') which suggests delays (yet Judge Marchan is against delays hence the April 15th trial date), and conjuncts the trial's Prenatal Solar Eclipse, the April 8th 8 North @19Ari24 of dreams and visions which falls within Trump's natal 8th house opposite his natal Jupiter stationary. This opposition identifies ethical lapses and immorality. Additionally, legal eagle planet Saturn @15Pis10 in 10th house conjuncts crisis star Achernar (risk of rapid endings) along with testy Mars and confused Neptune in late Pisces. Check Saturn as apex planet of a midpoint picture, highlighted in blue.

Then Mercury's Rx condition suggests review, revision, and testimonies perhaps previously heard; plus, in Aries Mercury may bring exaggeration and criticism into the courtroom.

How Things Will Proceed via Chart-ruler Mercury

Chart-and-Trial-Ruler Mercury applies to conjunction with Venus at a critical degree of Aries (will Stormy Daniels testify?); Mercury also conjoins Chiron, a good placement for business negotiations, and for disseminating information in general; obviously, news and reporting are suggested although Chiron may include a blindspot condition.

Then on or about April 25th, Mercury will station conjunct the Hush Money Trial's North Node of public contact so perhaps a decision and/or an announcement will occur soon after. If the April 15th date holds steady, that is. Given Trump's serial habit of delaying justice, we'll see if changes are made.

Meanwhile, the 25 Gemini Ascendant ruled by Mercury brings up Trump's "Prez Bid New Moon" of June 16, 2015 which is penned on the chart, while Pluto @2AQ02 in 7th house leads a BOWL shape of planets indicating advocacy of a cause or a mission. Then as you see, Astraea, asteroid of Justice, @15Can23 conjuncts the 2nd cusp of Money, Possessions, and Values, while Tisiphone, asteroid of retaliation, rises at 9:30 am edt:

T-Square: Moon-Pluto = Sun: "far-reaching plans" (N. Tyl)

Significantly, powerful Pluto afflicts the Sun-Moon square, opposing Moon and squaring Sun. Potentials are for pursuit of unreasonable desires, retribution is sought, the domestic scene and family members are under threat or feeling threatened, strong emotions are expressed, someone is dealing with a loss of power and influence through an unstable power structure, and/or there are setbacks in ambitions through overblown ego problems (R. Ebertin). Now I wonder whose ego is the most overblown of all?

Chart #2: April 15, 2024 Horoscope unmarked:

In closing, here are a few details on the April 15th Hush Money Trial's steamy fire-water Sun Aries-Moon Cancer blend of conscious and unconscious energies: a volatile, self-centered, impulsive, clannish combination. Quickly sizing up situations is a talent as is smooth-talking, but handling personal criticism is very difficult. In fact, one of the blend's Images for Integration provided by the Harveys may manage to take the hush money trial by storm:

"A child in a fit of petulent fury runs away from home."

Now Trump does tend to storm out of courtrooms, this we know, but hopefully, this isn't a cosmic picture of a flight risk from justice!

The Eclipse That Brought Us D. Trump

Neptune: Veils, Lies, Illusion, Subterfuge, Fraud, Theft

by Jude Cowell, partisan for democracy

As you may remember, the June 16, 2015 "prez bid" announcement of Mr. Trump at Trump Tower NY occurred under the auspices of the Spring Equinox 2015 Eclipse @29Pisces27 in the 17 South Saros Series. This eclipse has been discussed here previously, yet I mention it today because transit Neptune will conjunct the eclipse five times in total, casting a gauzy veil of confusion and chaos over 17 South results (Trump!) unless those of a more realistic persuasion keep promoting the facts everywhere possible. The eyes on the prize is democracy and a decent country to live in rather than the gnatzie-style hel*scape envisioned by the vengeful orange narcissist.

Now a major part of "the facts" must involve Neptune conjunct the Eclipse with its "sheep following a leader into the abyss" vibe (he's their pied piper) and the cultish behavior still affecting any remaining dregs of Trump voters, bless their hearts. Meanwhile, 17 South themes include sudden success in group matters and relationships and good news (B. Brady), so obviously Trump benefited from thematic input when he "won" the 2016 Election with help from hidden foreign enablers and domestic fasc*sm-lovers, many of them corporatists.

Transit Neptune Reaches the 17 South Eclipse of 2015 on the following five dates, so the contagious death cult of personality must continue to be guarded against by all but the most depraved among us:

May 20, 2024; August 14, 2024; March 15, 2025; November 23, 2025; December 27, 2025.

Add to this the fact that the 29th degree of any sign is a critical point which possibly brings crisis conditions and/or rash actions, plus, 29 Pisces+ conjuncts the Cardinal World Point of 00Aries00 which can symbolize a timely reset in global society, or at the least, it heralds the start of our seasonal New Year at Spring Equinox, which this year, carries a Moon-Pluto Opposition signature showing that we're awash with expressions of deep feelings and emotional upsets floating about in the atmosphere along with potentials for violent actions, sorry to say. And so impressionable folk can pick up feelings swirling within their environments which are not actually theirs unless they know how to take steps to block them out. If they want to block them out, that is. And we must calmly assist them however we can.

So above is a dual view of two 17 South horoscopes for your consideration. Lower left is the initial 17 South of September 1, 1095 @14Vir19, and upper right is the Spring Equinox 17 South of March 20, 2015 @29Pis27 - conjunct the star of extreme misfortune, Scheat. So basically, this is what Trump in the White House brought the United States of America: the extreme misfortune of radical political operatives, and now he threatens a blo*dbath for the country and has already threatened "American carnage" back in January 2017.

Cosmic Time Links Knit Together Eclipses with History

These things tie in to what I believe Herr T thinks will be a carrying out of the 7 North themes of (blood-) "lust," the solar eclipse that manifested on April 20, 2023 @30Aries. This is the degree of warrior planet Mars during his J6 coup attempt - ongoing - and which conjoined the natal Sun of Herr Adolf (the Austrian psychopath's "birthday eclipse"), the serial murder*r who's Trump's mentor from the past, and whose plan for global domination agent orange hopes to fulfill as he and his comrades attempt to run roughshod over the American people, destroying and plundering as they go.

Significantly, 7 North is also the Eclipse Series which brought our country the Civil War conflagration of death and destruction. And it's quite a cosmic time link, I call it, and definitely a blo*dbath. This helps explain why on J6, a Confederate flag was carried into the Capitol Building, and, with the 7N eclipse conjunct the Sun in the American Revolution Horoscope, why we heard J6 insurrectionists and others mouthing words like "Civil War," "1776," and "American Revolution." It could be that someone uses astrological principles for timing purposes. After all, the Reagans did.

Now if you wish, check out the Horoscope of the upcoming 119th Congress with its karmic display of transit North Node conjunct the Aries Point. And if a massive, overwhelming Blue Tsunami of Voters fails to turn out this November 5th, we'll have only ourselves to blame for letting down future generations including our children and grandchildren.

Rounded up, 29Pis27 becomes "30 Pisces": "The Great Stone Face" in Sabian Symbols, and the final degree of the Zodiac. Here's my depiction of this symbol, Temple of the Great Stone Face:

Devin Nunes outed for his Russian ties

Official portrait: Devin Nunes in happier days

Are Dark Deeds Ever Really Hidden?

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good

When astro-notes concerning Republican Devin Nunes were published here in 2018, the fact of his involvement with the Russian propaganda campaign on Trump's behalf was suspected by some folks such as myself. Well today, Lev Parnas testified in a "Maga" House hearing revealing the complicity of Senator Ron Johnson - and former Representive Devin Nunes as Russian agents.

Once again, getting "dirt" on Joe Biden in order to "smear" his reputation and character just isn't working out as planned for Trumpist Republicans in Congress, most likely because there isn't any. Besides, who in US politics could possibly compare with arch villain Trump's level of skullduggery and disloyalty? Why, Donald is known as agent orange in some quarters!

Devin Nunes Center Stage: Peep-Eye!

Below is the Russian operative's natal data along with a few of the current planetary contacts that stand out in my estimation, although you certainly may discover more:

Devin Nunes October 1, 1973 7:07 am pdt Tulare, California; RR: AA; Moon @7Sag13 conjunct Neptune; ASC 10Lib23 where the 8 South Eclipse will land on October 2, 2024 with its themes of "loss, separation, sad partings"; possible "overstrain and/or physical injury" (B. Brady). Therefore, caution is advised!

However, the most current wild card of the Universe has to be the May 25, 2024 Lunar Eclipse @5Libra for it casts its revealing spotlight upon Mr. Nunes' natal Pluto (4Lib26) and brings his natal Sun (8Lib15) into the picture with the Sun-Pluto pair known for craving power and control. You'll remember that Trump's natal 2nd house Neptune will be lit up like a pinball machine by this Lunar Eclipse on Monday. And apparently the natal Pluto of Devin Nunes along with it. Interesting how their Neptune-Pluto connection showcases the organized crime duo of Neptune-Pluto.

Then there's Nunes' natal Chiron @19Ari05 which reveals that his Chiron Return is actually a five-fer. The first Return occurred June 7, 2023, the second on September 7, 2023, and the third conjunction soon occurs on April 3, 2024; this is his closest return to the visionary 8 North Great American Eclipse of April 8, 2024 @19Ari24 conjunct transit Chiron (also @19Ari24) which basically is his Chiron Return #3 of 5 - so his Chiron is eclipsed.

Adding complexity to his April Chiron Return will be a Moon-Pluto Conjunction @1AQ+ which conjuncts his natal Jupiter @2AQ18. This could possibly bring him some luck, or at least it may suggest a way out of an uncomfortable situation. Or not. Instead, it could indicate a cosmic light shone upon certain financial issues (Jupiter), a secret child or an affair, and/or involvement with violent actions such as the J6 coup attempt. Either way, deep emotions are certain to be expressed to and/or by him. Having a Chiron-Uranus opposition, facing deep emotions realistically is not one of his skills, nor is honoring the ideals of others with whom he disagrees.

Then the fourth conjunction of Chiron-to-his-Chiron perfects on December 15, 2024, with his final Chiron Return coming on January 12, 2025. Whew! Quite an extended period of time, so it seems that Mr. Nunes has multiple lessons to learn from his natal Chiron in Aries, restless maverick with a yen for power that he is.

So! These are the soon-coming planetary contacts I see for Mr. Devin Nunes. What fall-out will occur from today's hearing on Capitol Hill and the testimony of Lev Parnas remains to be seen and I'm certain political pundits will inform us. That is, unless Republicans somehow manage to cover it up or spin it to their satisfaction with an election coming up.

Besides, one ace up their anti-American sleeves is that everyone knows how short the memories of US voters can be.

But hold on: because Crooks and Liars has this: Lev Parnas' Testimony Blows the Biden Impeachment Out of the Water!

Mar 2024 Eclipse: Trump Liquidation Sale!

The Pied Piper Now Plays an Off-Key Tune

by Jude Cowell, partisan for democracy

Caught without enough funds to pay the New York piper, it's being reported that AG Letitia James is prepared to seize his assets, perhaps as soon as Monday March 25, 2024. As podcaster David Feldman reports in this short, it's a Liquidation Sale, the one a majority of Americans have been waiting for! Of course, if a huge loan comes through to rescue the orange knave from yet another jam, being deeply indebted to a foreign entity is a very bad look for a presidential candidate. But a successful businessman he is not.

Monday March 25, 2024 Lunar Eclipse w/ Study Notes

Now previously, we've discussed the March 2024 Lunar Eclipse thinking it was the date that one of Trump's trials would begin, but as usual, the fraudster's lawyers managed to delay the legal proceedings. Above check out the Libra Eclipse Horoscope, freshly notated and set for Manhattan, NY where I assume the liquidation process will begin. And since all eclipses time eventful periods, high-profile liquidation of a well-known criminal's assets may be one of them.

So let's not fret, lovers of democracy! For if today's news reports are accurate, NY AG Letitia James will soon arrive at a Trump property of her choice with padlocks in her briefcase to begin the process that the caution of Trump's Regulus rising has warned of: that if taking revenge is not avoided, all gains will be taken away - ill-gotten gains very much included. Will this be a sad buh-bye, to a certain golden toilet? Well, he could file for bankruptcy over the weekend but if so, it won't protect him from the Russian maf*a he owes money to. Will they spring for loaning him more? In his time of economic need, he's called back into his orbit financial fixer Paul Manafort who knows where the big money lurks.

Are There Secrets Behind the Cosmic Curtain?

So as you know, all Lunar Eclipses are full moons and both kinds of lunations tend to reveal or uncover hidden things, inconvenient facts, and/or secrets. It can also be a time of wacky or criminal behavior, and it's the total awareness/culmination phase of the Moon, plus, relationships are often under scrutiny of a Lunar Eclipse. As noted, this one @5Lib07 shines directly upon Trump's 2nd house Neptune, planet of fraud and deception in the House of Possessions.

And actually, Tr*mp's gaslighting Neptune is part of a trio with wounded Chiron, the blindspot, and his stationary Jupiter at the "Two Men Placed Under Arrest" degree which suggests that Mr. MoneyBags (Jupiter) has landed himself in trouble with The Law. That's Jupiter-Neptune the pair of speculation, grand schemes, fraud, overblown religious promotions, scandals, and/or political conflicts. He does it all!

Related and also discussed in a previous post is The Magical Thinking of Jupiter-Neptune with an astro-focus on the orange scourge, if you're curious. And who do you think plays the role of The Pied Piper of New York?

So despite it all, many of us will be on liquidation watch starting Monday when Trump's natal Neptune in Libra, sign of the Scales of Justice, becomes the next target of the Cosmos as a lunar wild card of the Universe spotlights and reveals events on Earth - for some more than others.

Homeland Security Department: Erosion

Homeland Security an Entity of Revenge

by Jude Cowell

Several moons ago on Jude's Threshold, my WordPress blog, I published a Homeland Security Department Horoscope set for November 25, 2002 1:44 pm est Washington DC with 27Pis29 rising. Since then I've discovered an alternate timing for the entity in my files of 1:46 pm est with 28Pis19 rising and 29Sag05 at Goal Point ('MC', at "The Pope Blessing the Faithful" degree). Any reader having more accurate data, please leave it in a comment with this post, and thanks!

Meanwhile, 'HoSec' operations began on March 1, 2003 with the agency created in "response" to the attacks of September 11, 2001. This is the reason the subtitle of this post is Entity of Revenge. But it was misguided revenge as it turned out since invading Afghanistan and then Iraq showed bad aim by the Bush-Cheney administration - and America's foggy, misdirected 1776 Mars-Neptune square of erroneous inspiration was utilized once again. Even our attackers on 9/11/01 had better aim than Dubya, at least in part, with one plane going down in Pennsylvania, thanks to the actions of its courageous passengers.

Shady Neptune in Secretive Pisces

Now anyone keeping up with the path of nebulous Neptune through its own sign of oceanic Pisces knows that today's position of the gaseous giant is @27Pis24. Therefore, a Neptune-to-Ascendant transit is in progress (and has been for some time) for the Homeland Security Department. This relates to our country's national security, and to its weakened condition brought along by classified and other documents purloined, shared, and probably sold to the highest bidder by the orange denizen of Mar-a-Lago. So on one level, Neptune-to-Ascendant is symbolic of our society's current condition of susceptibility to negative forces of subversion, deception, and fraud, both internally and externally.

Then you may have seen a Rolling Stone headline in July 2023 that Maga Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene, Will Sit on the Homeland Security Committee, flame-throwing conspiracy buff, non-legislating, QAnon supporter as she is. Here's a previous post concerning Ms. Greene and her Prenatal Solar Eclipse. No birth time is known for my fellow Georgian, last I checked, so this is all I've bothered posting about her nibs.

Potentials of Transit Neptune to Ascendant Include:

Gradual erosion of image, weakened trust, difficulty maintaining position or status; sense of helplessness, confusion, mystery; failure for unknown reasons; impracticality; loss of reality; lack of stamina; used as a tool for selfish interests; can identify crooks, liars, and insincere people (J. Skalka).

Now above you see a list of the November 25, 2002 midpoint pictures and their potential expressions to provide a view of the planetary energies of the day and the entity. Also listed is the Solar Eclipse of influence, the 4 North and its themes of restriction, illusion, and misjudgment. Please enlarge the image to read the rest.

Previously appearing on SO'W: The Conspiracy Party and Its Neptune Return to mid-Pisces - to the extent that there's anything left of the GOP now that Herr T has had his way eroding it into a death cult of personality.

Moral of the story: Vote Blue on November 5, 2024.

A Foreign Crime Network Afflicts America

by Jude Cowell, partisan for democracy and the common good

When I recently heard investigative journalist and Trump expert David Cay Johnston say that there are two groups of oligarchs in Russia and the one behind Vladimir Putin possesses extreme wealth enough to interfere with any government in the world, I immediately thought of previous SO'W posts featuring the organized crime duo, Neptune-Pluto, and how their current energies began operating via three times in Mercury-ruled Gemini (7-9 degrees) by Conjunction in the years 1891 and 1892.

Obviously, their conjunctions occurred during The Gilded Age (appr 1869-1896) which includes a decade often called The Gay Nineties. Not so gay, however, because a disruptive financial event occurred a la the robber barons, their bankers, and railroad moguls known as the Panic of 1893 which created an economic depression in the US that only improved in or about 1897.

These dates I mention because the Great Conjunction/s of the manic, obsessive, crime-prone Neptune-Pluto pairing landed upon America's 1776 Uranus (9Gem55), planet of radical politics, forming a midpoint picture with potentials such as:

"The propensity for adventurous, mystical, supernatural experiences; unusual catastrophes, and/or peculiar discoveries" (R. Ebertin). Noel Tyl adds, "possibly aberrant behavior, adventurous ego thrusts, disruption to gain recognition, courage, and/or making waves to get to shore.

Then from Michael Munkasey we have:

"Unusual means to escape from or change reality; rebellion against artificial supports or pursuits; impersonal attitudes about any destructive or anti-social activities; and/or tendencies to go to extremes with drugs." (ex: Adderall?)

So, dear reader, if any of these potentials sound like a certain political party interfering with the US government and committing crimes in our day, then we're on the same page. The Republican Party's recent Neptune Return has not been kind to their reputation for trustworthiness, or for their continued existence as a political party. For as you know, a take-over of the GOP has occurred under the eroding, subversive energies of fraudulent, gaslighting Neptune in mid-Pisces, as in 1854, the party's founding year. The party has become a death cult of personality, modeled upon the gnatzie death cult of the 1930s and 40s, and during a Neptune opposing US Neptune transit across the Virgo-Pisces victim-savior axis, while the US Pluto Return has chimed in with its transformative energies, for good or ill.

Recommended: America and the Neptune-Pluto Cycle of Crime and Fantasy.

We could even use mundane Pluto's position in late Capricorn (the dictator) alone as a symbol of the foreign meddlers affecting our government, timed in part by the US Pluto Return/s, then the planet's transition into Aquarius as a signal for the manipulative, wealthy actor's shift of power potential where it does its work in total secrecy in the sign of Universalism (R. Ebertin).

Taking Heed: 1934 Solar Eclipses Repeat in 2024

Then significantly, and as part of my ongoing effort to forewarn my fellow American voters, 2024 identifies a period when the two solar eclipses from 1934 will repeat: first from the 8 North Series (as The Great American Eclipse of April 8, 2024 @19Ari24: vivid dreams, visions, insights), and the second eclipse from the 8 South Series repeating October 2, 2024 @10Libra (loss, separation; possible physical injury-B. Brady). Adding complexity to the history-rhymes situation is the fact that 8 South is the Series which will affect Election 2024 and Inauguration 2025. And in 1934, 8 North manifested on February 14th @25Aquarius ("A Butterfly with the Right Wing More Perfectly Formed," - make that reich-wing: the fulfilment of Herr Adolf's "vision," as Maga-ites hope), and 8 South occurred on August 10th @17Leo01. For historical 1934, we're talking Herr Adolf, the Austrian psycopath, coming to power. Be forewarned is the point.

Meanwhile, our 1776 Uranus in Gemini is known as America's "totem planet" of revolution, rebellion, and anarchy, and my belief is that we can update US Uranus in order to identify the current crop of zealots, anarchists, and anti-democratic Utopian idealists on one level by the fact that we watched them on TV acting out during the J6 coup attempt of 2021 - and some of them currently "serve" in the US House of Representatives as "Maga" politicians, in Congress only to disrupt, gum up the works, and thereby please their Uranian taskmaster, Herr Trump.

Probably the dumbest thing is, in our founding days America rebelled against a tyrannical monarch, but these days, robot-brained Utopian zealots demand the restoration of a tyrannical monarch in the wide-girthed form of you-know-who. Ludicrously, the regressive malcontents have it backwards, whether for money, belief in a twisted ideology, and/or from heavy-handed intimidation manipulating them. Plus, thr*atening family members often does the trick as can blackmail against those hiding compromising secrets. Pluto knows a lot about secrets and how to use them.

And so in closing this fussy post, and along the lines of an international organized crime syndicate intensely working to change reality and radically reform the US government into a dictatorship, here's a recent segment from the Thom Hartmann Show:

For more info on the Neptune-Pluto relationship in our Solar System, here's a less than 5-minute video Pluto Neptune Orbit intersection. Will they collide?

Plus, a final astrological note: we can use Cupido to represent Corporatism, The Syndicate and/or The Family, and which reveals a potent blend of business, crime, and religion.

And for more astro-details see: The Combination of Stellar Influences, Reinhold Ebertin; Solar Arcs, Noel Tyl; Midpoints: Unleashing the Power of the Planets, Michael Munkasey; also see Predictive Astrology by Bernadette Brady. #ad

Old Nazi morphs into US Secret Agent

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SecretAgent.jpg by Joseph Conrad

Astro-Notes: An Old Nazi's Personality Blend

by Jude Cowell

Now this may not be news to you, dear reader, but Klaus Barbie, head of Germany's Gestapo (secret police) from 1942 to 1944, died of cancer on September 25, 1991 in Lyon, France, the place where he'd earned his title during WWII as The Butcher of Lyon. After the war, the US made him an intelligence officer and used Barbie for gathering whatever it was he gathered. For after all, what better opportunity could a world class murderer expect after a war ends than a new life perpetrating whatever he perpetrates best?

Now Nikolaus Barbie's reputation for torture and brutality preceded him and were enough of a work reference for US intelligence big wigs to give "Klaus" a free pass and a new life in Bolivia so that Washington could learn his methods. Was FBI Director J. Edgar in on the scheme, one imagines, or did other agencies benefit?

Well, somehow Herr Barbie's secret-keeping skills and work ethic of torture and barbarism may not have been the only reasons he was spirited away from European areas of devastation, willfully destroyed by villains such as Klaus Barbie. Apparently, the US government prized his anti-communists efforts enough to aid his escape which avoided an arrest warrant. Here he is now:

Section de recherche de la Gendarmerie nationale de Lyon, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Now agent Barbie was born October 25, 1913 7:00 am MET in Godesburg, Germany (RR: AA), so if you wish, grab a peek at the natal horoscope and planets of Klaus Barbie where you'll see his Water-Earth Sun Scorpio-Moon Virgo personality blend which suggests a strong mind, a sense of duty, and a generous helping of arrogance that will not be bullied. Notable leanings include narrow-mindedness and an assumption that if he can think them up, he's entitled to rewrite the rules to suit himself.

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

Then speaking of spycraft, back in the day I saw guitarist-singer Johnny Rivers play a college concert. Here he is with his 1966 hit, Secret Agent Man which was also a TV show theme starring British actor Patrick McGoohan (Sun Pisces-Moon AQ or Pisces; 1928-2009).

Haiti: Chaos and Crisis 2024

Transit Saturn 2024 Hits Haiti's Pluto-Moon Opposition

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the commmon good

Currently in Haiti, we find the stressful Saturn-Pluto duo affecting the Virgo-Pisces victim-savior axis as its leader resigns, cowers in Puerto Rico, and fears of widespread violence overtake the victimized population.

For details, see msn's Violence, Politics, and Hunger in Haiti. As you know, the chaos has simmered since the catastrophic 7.0 earthquake of January 12, 2010 which devastated Haiti and its people, and placed the island's national debt under global scrutiny. See Naomi Klein warns on Haiti disaster capitalism, a vintage post that also contains notes on the founding 1804 Horoscope of Haiti.

A Difficult Astrological Picture of Harsh Events

Now a Moon-Pluto opposition tends to attract violence and crime unless it can be used positively as a deep well of creativity. Yet there are now both positive and negative transits to Haiti's 1804 planets. Consider the following bi-wheel which is based on the February 1, 2024 transit of karmic Saturn, planet of restriction and limitation (ex: starvation, deprivation, fear) hitting Haiti's 1804 Pluto opposing its Virgo Moon, a picture of mental and emotional suffering. The bi-wheel provides an astro-snapshot of that and other planetary contacts ongoing and upcoming; my study notes are messily penned on for the curious reader.

Horoscopes: Haiti January 1, 1804 Gonaives 12:00 pm LMT (inner; Campion #146) and Transit Saturn Conjunct Haiti's Pluto-Moon Opposition February 1, 2024 Gonaives, Haiti:

Naturally, we tend to associate societal "chaos" with disruptive planet Uranus, now in earthy Taurus; shown in the bi-wheel is transit Uranus in Haiti's 2nd house of Money and Possessions aligning to oppose Haiti's 8th house Neptune @25Sco05--the House of Debt and Credit. So currently, Haiti suffers Uranian trouble on the financial Taurus-Scorpio axis of control and manipulation. This stressful transit will be exact three times with the first opposition coming on June 17, 2024, the second on November 20, 2024, and the third in 2025. Uranus opposing Neptune: fraud, illusion, and even masked marauders.

Now I realize that posting this bi-wheel today does absolutely nothing for the good people of Haiti, and so I offer my heartfelt prayers for their safety and for the strength to make it through yet another devastating crisis as larger forces battle one another for governmental, political, and financial control of their country. For like the good people of Ukraine and Gaza, the Haitian people deserve much better than they're getting.

Spring Equinox 2024: Moon-Pluto

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good

This post is a second look at the Spring Equinox 2024 Horoscope, again set for Washington DC. Unlisted is the Vertex ('VX') of fated encounters which falls at a Cardinal World Point of Manifestation: 00Can11 in the 8th house of the chart which qualifies as a cosmic time link with the 4 North Solar Eclipse @00Can21 on June 21, 2020 with themes of "restriction; restraint; illusion; separation; misjudging strength or the situation' (B. Brady).

Obviously, year 2020 is prominent for America in particular because it ended with the 4 South Electoral College Vote Eclipse of December 14, 2020 @23Sagittarius (near Trump's natal Moon/SN) with its "strong emotions over finances and/or relationships; sudden urge to end unions; blocked emotions; sense of fatedness; events beyond control; avoid rash action" (paraphrasing B.Brady). And as we know, these frustrated energies gave rise to "The Big Lie."

So as you see for year 2024, there's a prominent, emotional Moon-Pluto opposition (astro-notes penned on the chart, upper center) with Pluto @1AQ39 in 3rd house leading a BOWL shape (advocating for a cause along with Altair, the eagle star of empire) while combative Mars @27AQ46 conjuncts the IC of Domestic Scene and suggesting the quarrels, anger, and a potential for violent acts which Campaign 2024 could bring - but no one needs Astrology to tell them these possibilities:

Now for astrologers who use a late afternoon horoscope for America (July 4, 1776), Mars @26AQ46 conjuncts US Moon in late Aquarius which adds another level of belligerence and aggression to the Spring 2024 Moon-Pluto picture. Plus, as you know, a Spring Equinox Horoscope may be utilized for an entire year but also for a quarter of a year with the Summer Solstice 2024 Horoscope "taking over" in June. Yet obviously, an overview of both charts, plus, Autumn EQ and Winter Solstice will provide the broadest picture of an entire year into the next.

As an example, society has continued to operate under the auspices of the Winter Solstice 2023 Horoscope since last December and will continue to do so until the above March 19th horoscope "takes over" the reins, so to speak. Well, planetary positions do morph into one another don't they, as round and round they go, cycles within cycles.

Then last but not least, the above foundational position of warrior planet Mars diametrically opposes the natal Mars @26Leo46 and rising of Mr. Trump and reveals a year of hitting his head against a brick wall (due to irrational/unreasonable desires, as echoed above in my the Moon-Pluto opposition notes), with his ideas, plans, and aggressive actions meeting the equally determined forces arrayed against him.

And all under the influence of the 7 South Solar Eclipse which manifested on October 14, 2023 @21Lib07 with themes of "crisis," or, "a huge obstacle suddenly clears" with everything seeming to "move at great speed" (B. Brady) - and in Libra, the sign of the Scales of Justice.

January 3, 2025: 119th Congress opens

If All Goes Well on Capitol Hill

by Jude Cowell

Will the clownish, do-nothing, stunt-prone atmosphere of the current 118th Congress' Maga-led House fade away into the dustbin of history, yet with its sorry effects lingering on? Of late, there is an odor in the air, as perhaps you agree.

Well, when the 119th Congress swears in on January 3, 2025, below is the horoscope we get at 12 noon est, if all goes well. How many, if any, Maga and Freedom Caucus malcontents (aka, seditionists) will be sworn in depends on the results of Election 2024 - and whether the Justice Department catches up with congress members complicit in the J6 coup attempt. These topics we've discussed multiple times here on SO'W so let's not repeat it in this brief post as we look ahead to January 3, 2025 events.

Besides, when it comes to taking a congressional Oath of Office, we have cause to wonder what exactly any seditionist could possibly swear to that's in any way aboveboard.

119th Congress Horoscope January 3, 2025

Now as you see in the 119th Congress chart below, the 8 North "Great American Eclipse" of April 8, 2024 @19Ari24 rises with its visions and dreams vibes along with priestly Chiron, the wounded healer - and/or the blindspot. This may refer to "Republican" theocrats so desperate for governmental control, but hopefully it's more of a compassionate indicator than a brutal one - a New Testament Christ rather than an Old Testament authoritarian with a twisted eye-for-an-eye perspective against all humanity - women in particular.

However, the reality is that the 8 South Eclipse of October 2, 2024 @10Lib03 is of the Series in which all three events - Election 2024, the 119th Congress' swearing in, and Inauguration 2025 - occur with 8 South themes of loss and separation (B. Brady) for one side or the other. But isn't that always the case with any competition? One side wins and the other side loses. Personally, I prefer the good guys side rather than the evil bas**rds, and I hope you agree:

And here's an unmarked version of the same 119th Congress Horoscope which may be useful for future reference:

A Related Post: the Inauguration 2025 Horoscope.

Biden SOTU 2024: Bound to Succeed!

A SOTU 2024 Astro-Review

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good

Last night's SOTU Address to a joint session of Congress was delivered in fiery fashion by President Joe Biden who, some pundits say, will get him re-elected. Unlike his past SOTUs, President Biden didn't ask the malcontent Republicans to join him in legislative tasks to boost the country, instead he forcefully called them out on just about every issue they truculently oppose. With satisfaction I can type that Republicans' frilly gnatzie underpants were showing!

SOTU 2024 in Balsamic Lunar Phase: Prophetic

Citing a positive vision for our nation's future, Joe Biden symbolically reached ahead toward the promises of the visionary Great American Eclipse of April 8, 2024 of prophetic dreams, and claimed them to include in his bracing, forward-looking speech. Combative, yes, (his natal Saturn-Uranus conjunction came in handy!) and we can see these facets in midpoint pictures with the North Node of public contact in pioneering Aries at apex; penned on the chart, look for NN = Saturn-Uranus midpoint: combative energy, but also NN = Sun-Jupiter: new plans that feel "bound to succeed" (N. Tyl):

Above: SOTU 2024 9:27 pm est (lower left, Hour of Sun) and SOTU 2024 10:34 pm est (upper right, Hour of Mars); timings used from my phone's time stamp, yours may differ slightly.

Other astro-notes are listed on the charts for the curious including President Biden's natal Mars @12Scorpio rising as he ended his SOTU address--and with transit Jupiter in obstinate, often greedy Taurus opposing his Mars, a challenging opposition that will soon pass from Jupiter's Sabian Symbol word picture: "A Man Handling Baggage."

Well, I'd have to say that last night, Mr. Biden "handled" the dead-weight Republicans very well, those who refuse to govern and only pretend allegiance to America. Yet the quarrels won't end for it's Campaign 2024, after all.

And one, perhaps the major, issue the President has to improve upon is his outward support of Netanyahu's brutality against the Palestinian people and thousands of Michigan voters' recent protest against Biden's public stance--notwithstanding his workings behind the scenes toward a ceasefire in Gaza. See upper right corner for the Nemesis (divine foe) conjunction with Niobe (grieving mothers), both lingering in retrograde, for the Israeli-Palestinian paradox, the inability to forgive leading to endless acts of revenge, has caused strife and suffering in the world for as long as anyone can remember.

A Change of Perspective for Election 2024!

So now it's been confirmed that the Venus Election Cycle may be on the Democrats' side after all. Why? Because with election Venus in Sagittarius, sign of the outsider or stranger, the Venusian forecast is for a rival of the incumbent to be victorious this November, and there have been only a couple of exceptions through the years. But now that it's obvious that it's to be a Biden-Trump match-up and Herr Trump is running as "an incumbent," his Democratic rival is just as likely to win the presidency! Even more likely, if we-the-voters do our parts by turning out in massive numbers to Vote Blue for democracy on November 5, 2024. It's not hyperbole to say that our childrens' futures are on the line - and with women voters, a Biden victory can be assured and, along with House and Senate victories for Democrats, Roe v Wade will be restored along with womens' rights.

So in closing, here's a clear-eyed, plain-spoken, don't-miss podcast episode concerning last night's SOTU 2024 from the excellent David Feldman helpfully giving us The Mop-Up.

More astro-notes can be found in my previous post on Biden's SOTU Address 2024, written before the 9:00 pm start time was announced, and with Spica rising at 9:00 pm--still a symbolic chart for SOTU 2024, but it took several minutes for his glad-handing through the chamber (his old stomping ground) to lead President Biden to the podium where he began to speak at 9:27 pm!

A Closely Related Post: The Saturn-Uranus Cycle of Joe Biden.

A Cosmic Catch-Up with Roe v Wade

Beware: An Ancient Fist of God Packs a Punch

by Jude Cowell

Having been remiss since 2022 concerning the topic of Roe v. Wade and the Supreme Court's announcement overturning it on June 24, 2022, here's a small effort to catch up with the astrology of the two events. Below you see a bi-wheel of the Historic Law: Roe v Wade 1973 Horoscope (inner; RR: AA) and the Roe v Wade overturned horoscope (outer; my time stamp that morning); as you see, the comparison reveals several planetary contacts.

Penned on the charts are the two Solar Eclipses influencing each event: 11 North in 1973 in mid-Capricorn, and 6 North in Taurus in 2022; brief indications of their themes are listed, plus, other astro-notes are sprinkled messily around the charts. I direct your attention to a particular transit of eroding, fraudulent Neptune @29Pis37 (conjunct Nemesis in 1973 - veiled by Neptune--and conjunct the star of misfortune, Scheat at a critical 29th degree) exact on May 29, 2024 when the RvW 1973 Ascendant will receive the gaseous giant for the first time and this begins a period of four more conjunctions of urge-to-merge Neptune to the Roe v Wade ASC on into 2026. Of course, destablizing Neptunian influences have been increasing for some time since transit Neptune was @24Pisces (5-degree orb).

Another significant double contact comes in April 2024 when transit Saturn, then transit Mars, will square 1973's Mars-Saturn opposition and this activates the opposition and suggests applying extreme pressure to complete stalled work and possibly a deficiency in planning (M. Munkasey). And as you know, the Mars-Saturn duo tends toward destructive or harmful energy and risks of death, which is what Republicans are forcing upon American women, pregnant women and girls. Bizarrely, embryoes are now deemed to be children even though a child cannot be frozen as an embryo can. A total lack of logic may be noticed since Republican propaganda skips the brain and aims directly at the emotions - no critical thinking required or sought. And Herr T says he "loves the uneducated," as we know.

Then perhaps this is where the 1973 Roe v Wade Midheaven (The Goal Point) sneaks in: "30Sag" = "The Pope Blessing the Faithful." The negative expression of this degree includes: "A surrender to a lust for power" (M.E. Jones). Wonder who?

So what's my guess? Obviously, a continuance of Republican efforts to take away more of women's access to healthcare such as birth control pills and IVF therapy, plus, the federal abortion ban that Herr Trump is promoting these days. Because the orange albatross is under orders, you know, while grabbing power and control is the basic objective along with continuing plans to sabotage America. Meanwhile, gender and other related issues are involved in their power-grab as well, but they're beyond the scope of this post.

Strong-Armed Paternalism Demands Total Control

Now naturally there are multiple planetary influences from 2022 to 1973 other than the few mentioned in this post, and I'm quite certain that interested parties can locate them. Why, you may already have discovered them! After all, this is only a belated catch-up with the ill fortune of SCOTUS acting against American women as if handmaidism is all we're good for. That's simplisitic, yes, but not being of the Vatican persuasion, the papacy's traditional stance against abortion is their business, their choice, and has always helped to fill church pews, one assumes.

Besides, my firm belief is that you can't legislate morality which must come from inside the individual, not externally. Irrationally, Moses Mike wants to impose his morality on us all and outcomes promise to be much more than difficult.

Thing is, America's traditional separation of church and state is under attack so that theocracy can be forced upon us along with fascism which always uses religion to shove its way into a society. Now before I fuss further I should add a personal note: that all through my life, folks of the Catholic persuasion have been some of the kindest people I've known. But when it comes to the Vatican hierarchy, a hidden fact is that "the church" is what the Roman Empire morphed into once the Empire fell, so if you have a look at the Horoscope of the Roman Empire you'll find that it contains planetary contacts with the horoscopes shown, above. You'll also see a telling Fist of God (aka, Thor's Hammer) pattern pointing unsurprisingly toward lady Venus, planet of goddess archetypes that the church worships via graven images.

And symbolically this forceful, oppressive cosmic pattern from ancient times symbolizes what our current Christian Nationalists and others are attempting to do: shove the force of God behind their oppressive laws in the US in order to muddy the line between man's law and God's law - resulting in the very opposite of the Founding Fathers' enlightened vision for establishing the government of this country.

Then with the third of three Great American Eclipses arriving on April 8, 2024 @19Aries24 conjunct priestly Chiron, its 8 North themes of vivid dreams, visions, intuitive leaps, and insights (B. Brady) could be utilized to lift our thoughts toward a higher direction as Election 2024 nears, with a significant eclipse in Mars-ruled Aries timing a period when competitors can boldly confront circumstances within society by exercising initiative and positive leadership.

So if I were you, dear US reader, I'd vote Blue up and down the ballot on November 5, 2024 if positive leadership is the outcome you prefer for America.

(Note Feb 8, 2024: an edit has been made to correct from "foetus" to "embryo" - mah bad jc.