Of Ancient and Future Purges

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good

With purges of non-believers awaiting threatened implementation in the US, and the involvement of the Catholic Church a given (exs: Opus Dei; anti-abortion laws no matter who suffers or dies: the persecution of women and families), this post is a limited consideration of certain historical horoscopes for a daring reader such as yourself.

Re: 1478-1834-1929-2001-2019-2025

For hundreds of years, the Spanish Inquisition, requested by Catholic monarchs King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I, persecuted and tortured people in order to strengthen their hold on power. Begun under the auspices of an obsessive 3 North Solar Eclipse, the brutal activities of 1478 were intended to purge those who preferred their own religions rather than bowing down to the Pope in Rome once Pope Sixtus IV issued a papal bull giving authority to inquisitors who would commit the atrocities. (Actually, the first Spanish Inquisition tribunal became active in Seville in 1480, so follow the above link to read more on the topic, if you wish.)

Meanwhile, this post displays a dual image of the November 1, 1478 Horoscope (lower left) along with the official ending Horoscope of the Spanish Inquisition July 15, 1834 (upper right) for your consideration; the following charts are set for 12:00 pm Rome, Italy:

Below, a second image, a bi-wheel, displays the July 29, 1478 chart of the 3 North Solar Eclipse (@14Leo31; inner) surrounded by the Vatican City State Horoscope of June 7, 1929 (Campion #384; outer). As we see, there are planetary contacts between the events - what I tend to label "cosmic time links":

Significantly, the Vatican City State of 1929 was established under the influence of a May 9th 3 North Eclipse - @18Tau07. Eclipses in Taurus tend to emphasize bullheadedness and inflexibility along with the more negative traits of greed and intolerance (R. Lineman).

Planetary Contacts: 1929 to 1478

First up: 1929 Mars conjunct the 3 North Eclipse of 1478 (violent tendencies; headstrong impulses; rushing into activities without considering ultimate consequences or the karmic implications). We could even count 1929 Jupiter opposing 1478 Neptune for it identifies the brutal purging campaign of 1478 and beyond as a fantastic scheme of fanaticism and distortion of confidential information with a bizarre religious component. Sounds like maga politics circa now, doesn't it?

3 North: 1478-1929-2001 (and July 2019 @11Cancer)

Further information is found within 3 North's themes: obsessive energy; news that transforms a situation; young people may be involved; large plans are wanted but don't get carried away (paraphrasing B. Brady). Perhaps you recognize 3 North as 9/11/01's Eclipse Series when the Bush-Cheney regime got carried away and deceitfully led our country to invasion, war, and torture (ex: the notorious Abu Ghraib prison) - and theirs were misdirected energies that missed the mark! (a tendency of the US 1776 Mars-Neptune square: fog of war).

So with aggressive Mars in ego-prone Leo, the primary link between the events of 1478 and 2001 is torture which met with little more success in 2001 than in 1478. Yet a degradation of society, a lifting up of lies and deception, and an increase of fear and paranoia in society here and abroad were certainly outcomes to my way of thinking. In the US going into 2025, similar conditions will follow with the degradation of American society - and of the US Presidency and Government - their obvious goals - plus, the promised purging of non-believers via their authoritarian Project 2025 agenda. As you know, cult membership is demanded.

Another planetary contact is that Vatican City State's 1929 Jupiter @28Tau49 is basically a Jupiter Return to 1478 Jupiter, a time when rewards are expected as a new 12-year cycle begins - here Jupiter is in Taurus (the bull - like Ferdinand!), a sign of financial interests, greed, and grubbing for gains. The love of money is the root of all evil - and the 1478 Inquisition's Jupiter Return occurred on June 4, 1929 with two aspects to 1929 Jupiter: a Jupiter-Saturn inconjunct (rigid, legalistic, fearful of competition - A. Epstein), and a Moon-Jupiter trine (attaining higher knowledge; contentment; a ray of hope - A.E.)

In closing, we should also note the Vatican City State's Neptune @28Leo48 nearing 1478 Mercury Rx @00Vir32. This transit signifies potentials for deception, an inability to grasp reality, living in fantasy worlds, confusion, and strange or mysterious conditions.

Well, there's a look at ancient and future purges as We the People face threats of persecution, loss, and hardship, as the wealthy Mr. Musk describes it. So if you made it to the end of this dreary post, my Thanks! Yet our circumstances wouldn't seem nearly as dreary if a mobbed-up criminal weren't about to re-enter and re-soil the White House. You may not agree with this, but there it is. jc

Senate Majority Leader John Thune

As the 119th Congress opened on January 3, 2025, Republican John Thune assumed the office of Senate Majority Leader, the Mitch McConnell era having ended, as will the Biden era at noon on January 20, 2025.

Nostalgically, see Horoscopes: Power Couple Biden and McConnell.

Now the US Congress will be a Thune-Tr*mp affair full of seditionists and malcontents - you know the ones. Clunkers into the works of Congress are already being lobbed by the Orange Uranian who is said to be hugely miffed that flags will be at half-mast on Inauguration Day due to the recent death of President Jimmy Carter at age 100. Plus, he's extremely sour over his January 10th sentencing by Judge Merchan.

And so with the Thune era now begun, I have two horoscopes for you. Both belong to John Thune: the first chart has my study notes squooshed on and includes the aspect grid, and the second is free of scribbles. Both charts are set for noon in lieu of a known birth hour for Baby John.

Obviously, it's too soon to know if the Saturnian Senator Thune has adjusted his conservative attitude and preference for logic enough to get along with his quirky Uranian overlord, so we'll have to see as their relationshp "blossoms". Optimistically, John Thune says he'll help Trump understand what's "realistic in the Senate"! As if the woolly-headed Mr. T's Mercury-Neptune square of fantasy and delusion has any interest in reality!

Yet despite their differences, they do share a mission for gaining as much wealth as possible:

John Thune: Uranus Opposes Chiron

In closing here's a post from way back in 2005 describing Chiron-Uranus Types in Government that you may find useful. Written during the neocon Bush-Cheney era of bad decisions, I believe that its potentials apply now more than ever. After all, it took many years of bad decisions in Washington to bring America to this hazardous point and, as we now see, the overthrow of a government is a decades-long endeavor, is it not?

And as we look ahead, there's a glimmer of hope for our wounded country via the November 3, 2026 Midterms (DC Horoscope/s shown for the daring and the curious!) Because a determined focus on the Midterm Elections of 2026 provides us with a chance to make it through the haze of kleptocratic oligarchy and put a crimp in their fasc*st anti-American style of non-governance.

Feb 2025: Meeting with Gassy Neptune

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good

On February 7, 2025, a transiting conjunction of societal significance occurs between nebulous, gaslighting Neptune of the masses and the media - still floating within its own sign of watery Pisces - and the serpentine North Node of the Moon which relates to public contacts, publicity, and future direction. As you see, they meet @28Pis09 in 4th house when the horoscope is set for the White House, Washington DC. And yes, that's royal Regulus (the kingmaker star that brings success yet cautions against taking revenge) conjunct the aspirational Midheaven of Public Status:

As a pair, Neptune-North-Node (Neptune-NN) represents a variety of potential expressions such as:

"A lack of community or team spirit; peculiar or strange conduct in communal life; unreliability; inclination to exploit, deceive, and cheat other people; anti-social behavior; anti-social elements in society" (R. Ebertin).

Round up the conjunction's degree to the critical "29 Pisces" and its Sabian Symbol is instructive: "A Prism"; Keyword: VALIDATION; positive expression: exceptional accomplishment through judgment of unusual accuracy; negative (shadow side/unconscious - jc) expression: fatuous pride of intellect (Marc Edmund Jones). On one level, this may be a reference to the confirmation process to staff the new "administration" of kleptocrats. They're a doozy of a bunch.

Then additionally, there's a complicating factor involved: Neptune-NN conjuncts transit Uranus-Pluto, the revolutionary pair wanting to collapse the old order and establish a new one (RE). This anti-societal goal has been made abundantly clear. Yet some citizens seem to think that the way these fascists plan to go about it via Project 2025's purging agenda of loss and hardship - is a "good" thing! Then Neptune's subversive machinations have been effective over millions of the population.

Well, I already know my opinion of which groups of political operatives, their current enablers, and social meddlers and funders are represented by the descriptions via Neptune-NN combined with zealous Uranus-Pluto, so I'll leave it for You, dear reader, to decide for yourself!

Meanwhile, it may interest a reader of two that on February 7, 2025, the day's breezy double air Sun Aquarius-Moon Gemini blend of conscious and unconscious energies repeats the personality blend of patriot and Founding Father Thomas Paine so let's close this post for now with one of Paine's more famous quotes that to me echoes the current state of life in America as a New Year begins:

"The sublime and the ridculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately."

Emphasis on the ridiculous.

DC Horoscope: Spring Equinox 2025

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the commmon good

Recently we took a look at an overview of Year 2024 via the year's four Equinox and Solstice Horoscopes set for Washington DC. Actually, the Winter Solstice 2024 Horoscope is operative until the Sun reaches Aries Point on March 20, 2025 as you see, below - plus, all Spring Equinox charts are "good for" the entire year, as is always the case.

Now, with 2024 slipping through the cosmic hour glass, it's time to consider the Spring Equinox 2025 Horoscope as a stand-alone chart, then as a Transit chart to the Inauguration 2025 Horoscope which times the Oath of Office that will usher in to the White House the chaos crew of Mr. T - along with all the theft, embezzling, money laundering, slight-of-hand, and bankruptcy our National Treasury (2nd hou$e) can withstand - assuming that it can:

And here's a bi-wheel with Inauguration 2025 (center) surrounded by the Spring Equinox 2025 Horoscope outer:

NOTE: This may be my last SO'W post until certain changes are made in my office area. Thanks to a generous Santa, the installation of a new piece of equipment will interrupt internet service for a day or three but hopefully the outage won't last very long - and then yours truly will be happy as a puppy with two tails!

In closing, I wish to Thank You So Much for all the viewing of charts and reading of my SO'W posts this year! This is lonely work and readers' comments and observations in the Stars Over Washington Reports FB group have been insightful and very encouraging! jc

A Lunar Eclipse and The First Crusade

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good

An ancient tale is told that one of my 25th great-grandfathers, Hugues I "Magnus", Comte de Vermandois (House of Capet) joined the First Crusade to the Holy Land (1096-1099) due to the influence of a Total Lunar Eclipse. This eclipse manifested on February 11, 1096 @28Leo09:06 (Saros 99) with the Moon conjunct Zosma (the victim or the savior star). We would naturally expect the lunar eclipse degree (28/29 Leo) to contact Angles or planets in Hugues I's natal chart but I have only his birth year of 1057. See his Wikipedia bio page linked above, for more details.

So because our software can, let's have a brief look at the Horoscope of the Lunar Eclipse that influenced a certain French count to join the First Crusade and become one of the leaders of the mission to claim the tomb of Christ - but with a fabled lack of personal success. In fact, it's said that when Hugues I returned to France after the First Crusade, he was scorned.

Yet not giving up, Hugues I tried again by joining the Crusade of 1101 during which he succumbed to an arrow wound in his knee passing away on October 18, 1101 in Tarsus, Turkey. Is it odd that my Gr-Grandpapa Hugues I floated up to my attention this year when I'm dealing with an injured knee that needs replacement surgery? Maybe.

A Visionary With Inner Strength Carried Away By Adventure! (Sun AQ-Moon Leo)

Below: Lunar Eclipse @28Leo:09:06 February 11, 1096 Vermand, Picardie, France; 3Cap16 rising; astro-notes are penned on the chart for the curious:

Actually, The Crusades have been featured in SO'W posts previously: Will the Tr*mp Administration Bring On the New Crusades? (Thom Hartmann video w/ guest Jeff Sharlet, author of The Family) and Eclipse of The Crusades to the Holy Land. Spoiler Alert and a Clue: The 17 South Saros Series of The Crusades is the same Eclipse Series that brought America the June 16, 2015 "prez bid" announcement (to a paid audience) at Tr*mp Tower on the morning of a New Moon in Gemini @24Gem07 - conjunct combative Mars, of course.

The Gipper and The Nipper!

by Jude Cowell, partisan for democracy and the common good

Below you see a dual chart image of two natal horoscopes for The Gipper and for a guy I'll call, The Nipper. Both charts may be off a bit in the birth timing department though the charts are the generally accepted versions for both, last I heard.

Plus, "off a bit" poses no problem for this particular post because our subject is the Jupiter in Scorpio of both men of wealth, one born in 1911, the other fellow in 1971 - and both of them are what some would call, money grubbers due to their shared focus on the materialistic acquisition of extreme wealth and possessions. This is a function of moneybags planet Jupiter in the corporate Big Business sign of Scorpio - with expansive Jupiter also being a political planet, often with guru and/or broadcasting interests, along with a huge appetite for more:

The primary aspects to their natal Jupiters are penned on and highlighted in green along with a few general traits concerning the Jupiter in Scorpio placement. Additionally, you'll note mentions that both men have quirky Mercury-Uranus contacts: conjunct in 1911 and square in 1971. Both fellows have Jupiter-Saturn indicators (expansion vs restriction issues) via The Nipper's opposition in 1971 and The Gipper's Jupiter-South Node Conjunction in 1911.

In closing, we should also note that aspects, House position, and other factors affect or mitigate the meaning of any planetary placement; therefore, the aspect information you see here obviously is influential upon Jupiter which tends to expand the energies of any planet it touches, for better or for worse.

Here's further reading involving Jupiterian proportionality: In the Realms of Jupiter: Mike Johnson, a post containing links to other such assessment$ of certain politicians and their enablers. After all, "Game Birds Feathering Their Nests" describes the Washington game since America's 1776 Jupiter, does it not?

On a personal level: if you, dear reader, were born with Jupiter in Scorpio, please note that there are many factors affecting Jupiter in your chart, and that the indications within this Political Astrology offering are, as always, on a political and mundane level in order to check out the dealings and personalities of public figures. In other words, this assessment is not intended as a personal reading for anyone. Besides: their life circumstances, aims, and opportunities are quite different from ours, agreed? Jude

Jan 20, 2025: transits to Pentagon planets

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good

When it comes to Inauguration 2025 and the planetary energies operative on that ceremonial day, the ongoing Mars-Pluto opposition is one to be concerned about even though on January 20, 2025, transit Mars Rx will have backed up to @24Can23 (conjunct US 1776 Mercury Rx: a fast pace of life, many communications, verbal combat). Naturally, a Mars-1776 Pluto opposition is aligning which suggests hostile forces and contests of wills and it's an unfavorable time to challenge the status quo, whatever it may be at that time. Naturally, this karmic transit occurs about every two years as activist Mars traverses the last decanate of Moon-ruled Cancer.

Meanwhile, Mars' powerful sparring partner, Pluto @1AQ41 conjuncts the POTUS Sun, creating a planetary pair on Inauguration Day 2025 (also MLK Jr Day!) that indicates governmental devolution in which administrative decentralization takes place down to a lower level, and there can be legal transfers of property from one owner to another. Of course on yet another level, this conjunction could be only a symbol of the transfer of power from one president to another individual - or, with the wealthy Mr. Musk involved, make that individuals - greedy enough to want it all and ignoring all laws that get in their way.

Then as we know, the Mars-Pluto pairing always contains potentials for military and/or police action, and with the two planets set to oppose one another once Mars turns Direct (opposition exact in mid-April, 2025), a challenging situation "awaits in the wings" - and an assault of some kind cannot be ruled out.

Related:The Path of Mars Dec 2024 into Feb 2025.

Inauguration 2025 Transits to Pentagon Planets 1942

And so with all that being said, the purpose of this post is to show the Pentagon Horoscope of April 29, 1942 (timed by its dedication officiated by Freemason FDR) and the planetary transits on Inauguration Day 2025.

In the bi-wheel shown above, we see that transit Neptune @27Pisces opposes 1942 Neptune @27Vir29 Rx (exact on January 12, 2025). This opposition describes current societal conditions of persecutions of personal freedoms, civil rights, (racial persecutions), and religious conflicts - and basically, it times generational clashes of ideologies and beliefs.

Transit Neptune to the Pentagon's 1942 Midheaven (Career; Public Status) suggests potentials for confusion, a murky public image, scandals, notoriety, misdirected motivation, and a need to avoid bad company (it may be too late for that).

Then in the lower right corner of the bi-wheel image you see the five dates that transit Pluto in Aquarius precisely opposes the Pentagon's Pluto in Leo: March 28, 2025; June 11, 2025; January 25, 2026; September 1, 2026; November 27, 2026. This difficult transit marks the years 2025 and 2026 for titanic power struggles for which we don't need Astrology to inform us.

And yes, karma - reaping what's been sown - is part of the Neptune-Pluto oppositional picture for America and for the US military - and remembering that the generational planetary pair identifies multiple factors such as religion, drug trafficking, the occult, spiritualsm, oil and gas issues, but also Underworld Crime elements with influence in society.

Meanwhile, multiple other planetary transits to the Pentagon planets are operative, as we see, and will be in force as the White House's kleptocratic administration of day-drinkers, abusers, and thieves proceeds to cause as much chaos, confusion, loss, separation, theft, and misery as their scheming, anti-societal minds can devise in order to collapse US society and thereby please their foreign and domestic handlers who demand control of the helm of global power.

In closing, here's a related post you may wish to check out: America's Initial Mars-Pluto Cycle.

US Midterm Elections 2026

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good

Details concerning America's 2026 Midterm Elections are easy to find online but what we can't find, at least at this point, is whether or not Midterms 2026 will be held at all. Even so, let's grab a quick look at the Midterms 2026 Horoscope/s set for November 3, 2026 8:00 am EST (lower left) and an 8:00 pm EST chart (upper right) with both horoscopes set for Washington DC.

As you see, voting planet Mercury is Rx which suggests potentials for do-overs, delays, mistakes, recounts, reviews, renunciation, and/or perhaps null and void situations, at the worst:

Mars-Pluto: Police/Military; Upheaval; Chaos; Covert Operations; Assault

The Scorpio Sun (leadership) on November 3, 2024 is apex of a willful midpoint picture: Mars-Pluto, and of course, we both know how active the planetary pair of force and brutality has been in recent years. The picture Mars-Pluto = Sun contains potentials for hardworking efforts; working until collapse; violent measures; accidents or injuries; and/or upsets or shocks caused by the intervention of higher power (R. Ebertin). N. Tyl phrases things a bit differently with: a passionate attack to achieve an objective; intervention of some undeniable force or authority; and/or accident potential.

Then considering the bad faith actors, saboteurs, spies, and outright crooks involved with the Midterm Elections of 2026, plus, the upcoming fasc*st regime in 2025, and how the balance of power in the US Congress must necessarily shift depending on 2026 election outcomes, let's include the aggressive picture's potentials from Michael Munkasey: effectively forcing ideas and theories upon others; a strong, unyielding will; pushy, demanding people; achievements attained by superior techniques or endurance.

Then when it comes to the Mars-Pluto duo in any situation we must consider their cycle, and the current cycle as I type began with the Mars-Pluto Conjunction of February 14, 2024 @00AQ46 (which echoes the above midpoint picture since this is the position of US Inaugural Sun = POTUS), and the January 27, 2026 Mars-Pluto Conjunction @3AQ34 which will influence the Midterm 2026 Elections.

A Previous Yet Related Post: Pushy Mars-Pluto and US Election 2024.

In closing, here's a Note to my Amazing Patreon subscribers: the two Mars-Pluto Conjunction Horoscopes (2024 and 2026) mentioned in this post make an interesting study and the conjunction charts will be shared soon to the Stars Over Washington Patreon page. Hope to see ya there! jc

For additional midpoint details see: The Combination of Stellar Influences, R. Ebertin; Solar Arcs, N. Tyl; Midpoints: Unleashing the Power of the Planets, M. Munkasey. #ad

Plutocrats Grab White House

Here Come Malignant Plutocrats: Billionaires, Foreign Agents, Zealots

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good

For the purposes of this post, you'll find that the Sabian Symbols in the Jupiter-ruled sign of Sagittarius are instructive particularly within the 10-11-12-13-degree area of the tropical Zodiac because the current Pluto-Chiron Cycle, which began on December 30, 1999 @11Sag22, contains the rounded-up "12Sag" Symbol of "A Flag That Turns Into An Eagle That Crows; Keyword = ADJUSTMENT: positive expression = successful self-establishment through genuine self expression; negative (unconscious/shadow side--jc): idle prejudices and unsubstantiated claims" (The Sabian Symbols in Astrology, M. E. Jones #ad).

Unsubstantiated claims feature within the mass delusion that Americans now writhe under, thanks to about a third of our discontented population. For the right-wing's vast, subversive, gaslighting efforts against the truth, I tend to use the Moon-Neptune pair for obvious reasons to represent the gullible citizens who voted to put Mr T back into power as of Inauguration 2025 - a man that Thom Hartmann referred to today during his Live broadcast as "a pseudo-Nazi fascist."

Yet gullible US voters on November 5, 2024 joined domestic and foreign societal meddlers like Put*n and returned the keys to the most reckless driver of America's helm that we've ever known, with "Plutocrats" and Plutocracy coming along for the "wild" ride to the White House from where they plan to finish looting and collapsing our country and embezzling from our social safety net programs.

Now as you know, the Pluto-Chiron Cycle takes aproximately 60 years to complete and, as noted, the current cycle began on December 30, 1999, so we're about 25 years into it.

Then as a pair, Pluto-Chiron suggests potentials for exploitation, primal violence, oppression, racism, terrorism, and other -isms such as Capitalism, Communism, Socialism, Marxism, Nazism, and so forth. But the pair has deeper implications as we find in Richard Nolle's book, Chiron #ad. (See below).

Here you see the Pluto-Chiron Conjunction that opened the year 2000 - however, it's worth noting that the New Millennium didn't officially begin until January 1, 2001:

And here's the marked-up version:

Meanwhile, as Richard Nolle informs us, Pluto Conjunct Chiron "signals the upswelling of an initially unconscious impetus seeking expression as a historically necessary transmutation." The pair's hard aspects coincide with critical phases during the cycle and denote potentials for resistance, tension, and possibly "fierce conflict" against transmutative efforts. "Mass currents of consciousness" within the Collective Unconscious on the "racial, cellular, molecular, atomic, and subatomic levels of reality" are involved with, and/or are described by, the Pluto-Chiron Cycle.

So you see, above, an unmarked Horoscope showing their 1999 Conjunction, then the same horoscope marked by my study notes. A ruthless Locomotive pattern is shown and led by the Moon @18Lib18 in 10th house which spotlights Luna's conjunction with the stationary Jupiter of taboo-breaker Mr. T in his 2nd hou$e of Money, Earning Ability, Possessions, and Values. So let's close this post with the Sabian Symbol for the Moon-Jupiter duo @19libra: "A Gang of Robbers In Hiding."

And the combined energies of Moon-Jupiter? "Success, material advantages, happiness, foreign contacts" on the positive level. But negatively? We may expect, and have already experienced, "legal and/or religious conflicts, marital differences, disadvantages through squandering or wastefulness" (R. Ebertin).

Well, that's all I have for you today, dear reader. Please note that if you think posts like this occur easily or in a flash like magic, you're quite mistaken. Truth is, I study much more than I type and publish, so if you'd care to encourage the appearance of more posts such as this, please consider Buying Me a Cup of Coffee! jc

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Mars Leaves His Shadow 2025

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good

When last we met here on SO'W, we discussed The Path of Mars Dec 2024 into Feb 2025 and due to unavoidable interruptions, I had to cut short my typing time, promising to add the third horoscope in the planet's retrograde process, the chart that shows the moment that transit Mars reaches the end of his Shadow period on May 2, 2025 and begins to move ahead unencumbered.

Then the planet of motive, energy, and action in proud Sun-ruled Leo can move forward through tropical Leo and reach his Mars Rising position in the natal horoscope of Mr. T. on June 11, 2025 - very close to his Solar Return 2025.

Shown in the astro-notes penned on the May 2, 2025 Horoscope there are suggestions of decreased value$ (see Venus), speculation, fraud, squandering (see Sun = Jupiter-Neptune), and/or quarrels (Sun = Mars-ASC). These are all things we don't need Astrology to forecast since we've been informed by the predatory perpetrators of Agenda 47 (or the Project 2025 purge, if you prefer) to expect negative consequences from the implementation of their authoritarian policies of austerity and hardship. The crypto-currency Ponzi scheme is said to be an objective as they loot our nation and cause a deep recession or depression.

Obviously, the 8 South Solar Eclipse of October 2, 2024 @10Libra, with its energies running in the background of society, is playing an outsized part in events into 2025 with its themes of loss, partings, and separations (B. Brady).

So below you see a dual image of DC Horoscopes: lower left Mars Rx December 6, 2024 (this very evening as I'm typing) @6Leo10 in 2nd hou$e, and the moment that transit Mars reaches his own Shadow degree on May 2, 2025 (upper right) at the same Rx degree (which is how a shadow period is timed for any planet). Then below the dual image, I'll add a few general notes concerning Mars in Leo:

On the positive side, Mars in Leo tends to act confidently with great self-assurance and with zeal for the work at hand. A spirit of enterprise may be evident along with enthusiastic striving for possessions and wealth; positions of responsibility and power are often sought, and leadership skills shown. Negatively, Mars in Leo tends toward speculation, gambling, taking risks (perhaps foolish ones), and may often exhibit traits such as me-first egoism, unvaunted self-regard, unbounded passion, predatory behavior, and a large appetite.

Note that the Mars 2 Shadow Horoscope of May 2, 2025 with aspect grid is viewable by following the link to The Path of Mars Dec 2024 into Feb 2025 provided, above.

The Path of Mars Dec 2024 into Feb 2025

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good

Transit Mars in Leo turns retrograde ('Rx') on December 6, 2024 within orb of a conjunction with fixed star Asellus, signature of a defiant, aggressive, warlike leader who doesn't hesitate to use brutality and violent measures.

In the Horoscope, below, we find Mars' change of direction in Washington DC occurring in the 2nd house of the National Treasury at 6:33:08 pm est with 11Can27 rising which spotlights the Sabian Symbol (word picture) for "12 Cancer: "A Chinese Woman Nursing a Baby with a Message." Obviously, the US-China relationship is suggested as well as financial dealings and misdealings along with ongoing efforts by foreign actors to undermine America's global leadership via finances and relationships with Allies.

Please Note: You'll find my study notes penned on the Mars Rx chart and on the Mars Direct chart, in part because today has been one of constant disruption within my environment (repair men, mail delivery difficulties, and more) so that this post hasn't gone quite as planned. It's late, and a third Horoscope belongs here but must be added to this post later on, hopefully tomorrow or Friday.

DC Horoscope: December 6, 2024 Mars Rx @6Leo10 conjunct US 1776 North Node (meetings, possible contentiousness); Mars-Pluto opposition energies are fading yet remain memorable for their military, militia, and belligerent power stand-off implications:

Then below you see the Mars Direct Horoscope set for February 23, 2025 with Mars @17Can00 conjunct Midheaven ("MC: Aspirations; Goals") in DC and opposed at IC by the Moon @14Cap30; Sun @5Pis42 conjuncts the 7 North Fascism Rising Eclipse of 1933 so that the current crop of zealots and anarchists fighting against democracy can take a cosmic bow; penned on the chart is the Moon-Mars opposition's favorite slogan: "Don't tred on me" from Revolutionary days, plus, finances and relationships remain part of the Martian picture of 2024 into 2025, as a new administration full of kleptocrats and thieves leads the plundering process:

Of note is an Image for Integration for the Sun Pisces-Moon Capricorn blend on February 23, 2025 which reminds us of supply chain disruptions and high prices if nothing else due to the expected mismanagement by Mr. T's "kleptocrat krew", tariffs and all: "A old freighter chugs toward the port, bringing in the goods" (Sun Sign-Moon Sign, The Harveys #ad). Then as you know, a completely daft tariff war is expected if the collapse of the US economy goes as the saboteurs plan.

Meanwhile, stationary Mars Direct @17Cancer squares the greedy, stationary 2nd house Jupiter of Mr. T and this supports the theory some political pundits have proffered that with his Agenda 47 (Project 2025), someone may have bitten off more than he can chew.

Edit December 6, 2024: DC Horoscope Mars to Shadow Degree May 2, 2025:

Mercury Rx and the Midlife Crisis of Kash Patel

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good

When it comes to political nominations and the announcement of them, of note is the current Mercury Retrograde period ("Rx," which began November 25, 2024 @22Sag40 conjunct the natal Moon-South-Node conjunction of Mr. T, his cosmic signature of bad timing, emotional alienation, and lack of popularity - as are his grifter nominations in the views of a majority of the country). This is also a Mercury-opposite-natal-Sun transit for Mr. T which denotes a time of differing opinions, disagreements, and a potential for ego bruising.

Then Mercury, planet of ideas, plans, communications, commerce, tricks, decisions, nominations, and announcements, in retrograde motion suggests withdrawals such as that of Matt Gaetz, and difficulties and/or delays getting nominees through the confirmation process, if not outright rejections (ex: Rick Scott). You'll find a Mercury Rx-Direct-Shadow Tri-Wheel of 2024 into 2025 shown, below.

The point is that a Mercury Rx period is an unfavorable time for decisions, nominations, or announcements which may need to be retracted at some point. Mr. T's nominations for power positions for his favorite grifters and the unsavory seem rather ham-handed to me but of course, thievery, revenge, cruelty, and the collapse of US society and government are their aims, at the command of fascistic enemies of America, both foreign and domestic.

See Kash Patel for FBI Director Faces Senate Blowback.

Unfortunately, the "blowback" may be mainly for public consumption as will other confirmation hearings if they occur.

Now the current Mercurial process turns Direct on December 15, 2024 @6Sag23 but The Messenger planet won't reach, then leave, his/her own shadow until January 2, 2025 (22Sag40) - just in time for the 119th Congress to swear in, such as it is.

If possible, check out the Sabian Symbols or symbols of your choice for the degrees' word pictures of this Sagittarian Mercury Rx period for more information. You can always Google them, if need be.

FBI Director Patel? Weaponization and Revenge Not Law and Order

Here is a 'noon' natal Horoscope for Kash Patel born February 25, 1980 in Garden City, New York; a few astro-notes follow:

As you see, natal Mercury is stationing and about to turn Rx while opposing natal Saturn. Both planets square his Neptune in Sagittarius creating a dynamic T-Square, yet it's Jupiter Rx in Virgo - closely conjunct Mars Rx - that forms a Mutual Reception relationship with Mercury meaning that the two planets are on friendly terms. Together the planetary pair tends toward expansive ideas and plans, and have likely inspired his extensive merchandising and promotional schemes. Plus, some form of misjudgment may possibly occur if perspectives are overly grand - especially considering his Mercury-Neptune square of misperception, deception, fantasy, and lack of discrimination.

This is a cosmic echo of the very same natal aspect regularly used by indiscreet fantasist extraordinaire Mr. T, he of the Big Lie. Therefore, we can expect Mr. Patel to be challenged in the secrets-keeping department - and with the sense of national insecurity this brings.

Then if a dear reader such as yourself happens to be familiar with the natal planets of Mr. T, or even if you're not, you'll notice that there are several contacts between the two men, both positive and negative, even without having an accurate birth time for Kash Patel, as shown in their Synastry Grid, below, and excluding chart Angles and the Moon:

A Grand "Deep State" Conspiracy Theorist

At first, having shared interests and aims, things are on the sympatico side for them, but strong personalities will soon show through tension, friction, differing values (1946 vs 1980), quarrels, plus, both men will be determined to dominate in their relationship and on certain issues. Yet naturally, the power dynamic of boss-underling makes clear who will "win" the battle for domination whether Mr. Patel makes it as Director of the FBI or not.

But if Patel grabs the Director's seat, Mr. T will certainly be pleased, for as Thom Hartmann and others have observed, Mr. Patel will "go after the media" - and after anyone who has criticized authoritarian grudge-holder Mr. T because bright spotlights cast upon criminal roaches can force them to scatter, as we know, so that their criminal sprees, schemes, and plundering might be delayed or interrupted.

As we see, Patel's natal North Node of destiny conjoins royal star Regulus, the kingmaker, while simultaneously landing upon the natal Ascendant of Mr. T. A fated relationship is indicated, and reveals that the Great American Eclipse of August 21, 2017 landed upon Kash Patel's North Node and must have added to his sense of destiny within their association. And it's significant for Mr. T back in 1980 when he was 34 years old with transit North Node conjunct his Ascendant and his Mars rising - back when he was "creating" his public image.

Kash Patel's 18 South Eclipse @26AQ40

His is a Total 18 South Eclipse February 16, 1980 @26AQ50 (conjunct transit Siva, the creator-destroyer). For those who use a late afternoon July 4, 1776 Moon of We the People in late Aquarius, our mundane Luna was 'eclipsed' by the 1980 Solar Eclipse suggesting psychic awareness but with a potential that skeptics will refuse to learn from past mistakes (R. Lineman). As you know, America now has a bunch of such folks, including in relation to the first election of Mr. Reagan - a president whom some folks continue to idolize despite his destructive economic policies of the greedy 1980s which favored and continue to favor the wealthy class wherever neo-liberalism's "trickle down" policies hold sway.

18 South Themes: endings, partings, separations which may include grief or anguish; yet eventual outcomes can be positive (paraphrasing B. Brady). The last 18 South manifested @19Pisces on March 9, 2016, an eventful year for Kash; the next 18S will occur March 20, 2034 @30Pisces which amounts to a Spring Equinox 2034 Solar Eclipse as was the Spring Equinox 2015 Eclipse that timed Mr. T's prez bid ride down the golden escalator. And both eclipses conjunct the fixed star of extreme misfortune, Scheat.

Meanwhile, the planetary aspects operative during Mr. Patel's Prenatal Eclipse of 1980 reveal traits within the environment into which Baby Kashyap was born:

Uranus square Eclipse: indifference to the needs of humanity, lack of care or concern for society; radical or rebellious activities; Pluto trine Eclipse: spiritually, Kash Patel knows better and was raised with Hindu values; Saturn inconjunct Eclipse: an immature, ne'er-do-well freeloader with hard-to-break habits (R. Lineman says this in her Prenatal Eclipse booklet - I'm only the typist!).

Yet we know that as FBI Director, Mr. Patel should be required to do better in the responsibility department via his own Saturn Rx in fact-based Virgo which opposes his Pisces Mercury ("the world is against me"; refuses to listen to differing opinions - A. Oken), Saturn sextile Uranus (business opportunities via older associates), and Saturn square Neptune (dissatisfaction or confusion over attainments and goals; consolidation of efforts may be difficult; anxious, neurotic; a hard worker yet inefficient; can be self-defeating and involved in scandals). Well, surely he's matured and learned a few lessons by now (she typed optimistically).

Meanwhile, the Uranian Mr. T's habitual unreliability and erratic, impulsive nature that loves to shock and create chaos may become negatives for Mr. Patel and, as previously shown through our past experience, for anyone else attempting to work in the White House under his heftiness as of January 20, 2025 when their draconian Project 2025 purge, aka, American Carnage, begins implementation against the American people.

Transit Uranus Opposing Natal Uranus: Midlife Crisis

Naturally, all transits and progressions to an individual's planets should be considered for a fuller picture, however, a major transit, a first-ever affair, is ongoing for Mr. Patel and was exact in early November 2024. It's transit Uranus @24Taurus (conjunct Mr. T's natal Midheaven of Aspirations, Public Status, and Career) opposing Patel's natal Uranus in Scorpio (conjunct Mr. T's natal IC of Endings).

Everyone has a midlife transit, timed by behavioral planet Uranus, and marking a period of uncharacteristic behavior which can surprise others (ex: the family SUV guy splurges on a red convertible), plus there tends to be generational clashes, and restlessness. Then a new, unusual, or unorthodox phase of life may begin. Notably, Patel's Uranus in Scorpio tends to behave fearlessly and ruthlessly, and can get self and others into dangerous situations (R. Ebertin). We also can note that his Uranus conjunction with Mr. T's natal IC is possibly one of their friction points considering mundane Uranus' tendency to disrupt and/or reform, sometimes irrationally.

Now on the personality level, Mr. Patel's double Water Sun Pisces-Moon Cancer blend reveals him to be ultra-sensitive, moody, and highly imaginative. In closing, here's an appropriate quote by a famous jurist who shares Mr. Patel's natal blend, Justice Earl Warren:

"Many people consider the things which government does for them to be social progress, but they consider the things government does for others as socialism."

Don't they though!

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And if needed, his Wikipedia page contains extensive details concerning Kashyap Patel and his previous public defender and federal prosecutor roles, other legal positions, his loyalist role as handmaiden to Mr. T, as aide to Devin Nunes, his busy merchandising activities via his "K$P" logo, and more.

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Plus, here's an overview of the FBI founded July 26, 1908 which initially began with 10 agents, then reached 34 agents by March 1909.