Plutonian Power Points Sept and Nov 2024

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good

Prior to Election 2024 on November 5th, there are two more exact contacts made by transit Pluto in opposition to its own position in 1937, 1938, and 1939. Generationally, these Pluto vs Pluto oppositions symbolize the titanic Plutonian power struggle for ultimate control in which America and the world are now engaged - for the US, a culmination point will be reached at the November 5, 2024 Election, and if democracy falls in America, it will fall across the globe. Plus, as you know, the Leo-Aquarius polarity is known as the Self-Will axis. So which mass social movement is stronger - democracy or fascism? There can be no compromise here - and psycho gnatzies never cooperate.

And yet dear reader, I must agree with you, that it's simplistic to place the bulk of the current political and societal stand-off upon the shoulders of little old Pluto, planet of primal violence, criminal activities, and destruction - yet once the dust settles Mr. Invisible can also lead to transformation and regeneration. Therefore, other cosmic factors besides Pluto's influence must apply to these matters including the ongoing influences of America's first-ever Pluto Return/s in 2022, and the recent Neptune-opposite-1776-Neptune transit of persecution (across the victim-savior Virgo-Pisces axis) and ideological erosion from fact-based Virgo to woo-woo Pisces. Meanwhile, the fact that the combined energies of the Neptune-Pluto duo represent the criminal element in society with too much influence, and potentials for drugs, religion, subversion, intrigue, and occult issues.

Pluto vs Pluto: Karma Comes to Call

Now when in Sun-ruled Leo, Pluto tends toward forcefulness, exercising one's power potential, speculation, and/or extraordinary achevements in a particular field of endeavor. Nowadays in Aquarius, Pluto exhibits an urge to reform, a wealth of plans, advancement aided by others, exaggerated hopes and plans, and/or a strong communal sense (R. Ebertin). It's the communal sense in society that seems highly valuable to me at this period in history, yet by Election 2024, Pluto will have retrograded back to 29 Capricorn, a placement which Reinhold Ebertin has labeled "the dictator." And if fascists manage to take over our country, all forms of communal sense will be ended by their bizarre anti-societal agenda.

A further complication at Election 2024 - Mars will oppose Election Day Pluto with transit Mars @00Leo20 forming a Mars-to-Pluto Conjunction of heavy-handed force indicating militarism and the barbarians' "win at any cost" determination and cut-thro*t methods of competition. This chart shows a Mars-Pluto-with-more-Mars condition indicating people who exhibit short-fuse tempers and a need to further hide their activities from others (M. Munkasey). Like criminals do.

Then facing facts, we already know that reactionary "Republicans" are threatening violence if Tr*mp doesn't "win" in 2024, and the belligerent Mars-Pluto opposition is a cosmic picture of the GOP's strong-armed intentions (backed by a global fascist movement), along with the aggression of Mars opposing Mars in November.

Bi-Wheels: 2024 Pluto Opposes 1939 Pluto #4 and #5:

Democracy vs Fascism: Good vs Evil

And so, America's upcoming presidential and down-ballot elections in November represent the pivotal crossroad, a turning point, for our country that years ago I had read were prognosticated to be a time of a major societal shift away from democratic elections. The fact that convicted felon candidate Tr*mp recently promised his followers in a speech that 2024 will be the last US election that his "Christians" will ever have to vote in suggests that someone backing this degraded demagogue knows about the prognostication, or may be behind its promotion all along - and they've been planning for years that Election 2024 will be America's last on the way to dictatorship. For one thing, the orange dictator wanna-be is expected to be shoehorned into place and ready to implement the brutal purging of America on "Day One". We know this because The Heritage Foundation says so through their draconian Project 2025 agenda - roaring like a dragon as a "Christian Nationalist" country - and a scant veil for Catholicism.

And so I beg to differ with them because personally, I have American heritage, too - ancestors from Jamestown and Plymouth Colonies, the American Revolution, and more - and I say No Fascism Allowed in America. Zilch! Additionally, my uncles didn't fight Nazis in WWII for such barbarism and sabotage to be America's fate. And yes, a step down from global leadership for the US can make sense but We the People do not have to jump into a fascist abyss with these perverted weirdos and their cult followers who mistakenly think they know what they're doing if they vote "Republican" on November 5th.

So, the two dates coming up that transit Pluto @00AQ00:00 in 2024 opposes its own position of 00Leo00:00 in 1939 (Nazi days) are: September 1, 2024 and November 19, 2024, as shown in the two bi-wheels, above. Chronologially, Election 2024 falls between the two dates - so here you see horoscopes of the 4th and 5th 1939 Pluto to 00Leo00:00 (inner) surrounded by the 4th and 5th Pluto to 00AQ00:00 in September and November 2024. Obviously, other planetary contacts should be considered for more information. Edit: #5 horoscope is mistakenly labeled as #4. September 1st is #5. jc

In closing, a question: do you know that American democracy was targeted in 1971?

A Harris-Trump Debate? As if!

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good

UPDATE July 28, 2024: VP Harris announces that she will attend the September 10th debate whether Tru*p shows up or not. Do proceed, Madam VP!

Original post begins here:

Our recent consideration of the Biden-Trump Debate included horoscopes of both the first (catastrophic) debate held on June 27, 2024, plus, the proposed debate of September 10, 2024. But conditions "on the ground" have changed, as you know, so now it's VP Kamala Harris who will likely be the Democratic presidential nominee rather than Joe Biden, our sitting president until Inauguration 2025.

Then you also know that the previously scheduled second debate in September has apparently been backed out of by Mr. Trump. Many folks assume that his reticence is due to fear of VP Kamala Harris and her debating skill, and naturally VP Harris will have to become the official presidential nominee for the Democratic Party by then - by August 7th, actually, last I heard.

Anyway, I thought it might interest some readers to have a stand-alone Debate Horoscope set for September 10, 2024 9:00 pm edt New York City, in case the Harris-Trump throwdown should actually occur. The planetary aspect grid is included with the chart which has my study notes messily penned on, and considering the Mutable Grand Cross present that evening, a Debate on September 10th was never a reliably scheduled event no matter who agreed to show up:

Mercury-Pluto Out-Of-Bounds vs Mercury-Pluto in Mutual Reception

For the sake of comparison, here's a bi-wheel with Trump natal (inner) and VP Kamala Harris natal (outer), plus, a few astro-notes are added. The Mercury-Pluto duo demands new perspectives and communicates them - more easily for VP Harris, but another interesting factor is that the old fella was born with the dark, destructive midpoint picture of Mars-Saturn = Pluto, while VP Harris was born with the much lighter Mars-Saturn = Jupiter which improves her concentration toward reaching goals; and as you see, there are other contacts between them as well:

Gov. JB Pritzker was asked if Harris has contacted him to be VP nominee - clip

In this interview, JB Pritzker, Governor of Illinois since January 19, 2019, releases some basic truth about JD Vance, Trump's "Mini-Me" VP pick who, thanks to Vance's awkward rhetoric and harsh anti-abortion views, now seems to be considered a buyer's remorse selection - whose selection was insisted upon by financier Peter Thiel.

From the Wikipedia bio page of JB Pritzker we find that baby JB was born in Palo Alto, California on January 19, 1965, and that his family owns the Hyatt Hotel chain. As we see, 1965 was during the Great Conjunction/s of Uranus and Pluto, an inventive, tech-savvy, restless, even rebellious, combination.

The earliest that JB Pritzker's Sun and Moon positions clock in on his birthday (12:00 am PST) are Sun @29Cap02 where transit Pluto, planet of power, wealth, and regeneration, hangs about these days, and Moon @23Leo53. Their latest positions (11:59 pm PST) are Sun @00AQ03 conjunct US Inaugural Sun, and Moon @8Vir33. Within financial realms, Gov. Pritzker was born during a Jupiter-Neptune opposition phase across the financial Taurus-Scorpio axis which naturally resonates with his family's lucrative business empire.

Meanwhile, on a personal level, folks with a Jupiter-Neptune opposition in their natal charts and psyches often engage in social work of some kind (ex: politics) and can be rather absentminded. For best results handling the opposition, Gov. Pritzker may need to guard against a loss of objectivity.

Gov. Pritzker's Prenatal Solar Eclipse

Born into the 2 South Saros Series with its theme of joining an unusual group and gaining a great deal, a 2 South Eclipse repeated on January 5, 2019 @15Capricorn - a mere 9 days prior to his assuming the office of Illinois Governor on January 14th!

For more Eclipse details, see Brady's Predictive Astrology. #ad

VP Harris Courts Gen Z Voters

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good

Hey there! Would you say that Kamala Harris (is the) Gen Z meme queen? Her campaign's appeals to Gen Z members, aka, "Zoomers", are using more modern tactics in an attempt to reach them in their favorite social network lairs, and large numbers of young folks are responding and registering to vote in Election 2024 on November 5th! That merits a huge Hooray! around here.

Because if Democrats can add the Youth Vote to the Righteous Women vote, we'll create a Blue Tsunami on November 5th to drown the fascist Project 2025 agenda with its cruelty and barbarism.

Now as you know, The Gen Z age range is usually said to be those born between 1997 and 2010. This includes those old enough to vote for the very first time in the 2024 Election. This circumstance inspired a look at the Solar and Lunar Eclipses of 2006, the primary year in which 18-year-olds were born.

Significant is the fact that the two Solar Eclipses of 2006 are repeating in 2024, 18.6 years later! It's merely the eclipse cycle, and apart from the themes of the repeating eclipses, it's basically a timing issue because when a Solar Eclipse in a Saros Series that a person was born into repeats (first time for everyone, age 18), it tends to mark a very prominent and active year for that person, and may even signal a personal year to shine!

So below you see a quick (very messy) graphic that lists the Eclipses of 2006 and 2024 with their themes added which "run in the background of society" yet may not have any personal influence at all. One difference is that the 8 South of September 22, 2006 was basically an Autumn Equinox 2006 Eclipse, even though the Sun had not quite reached 00Lib00:00 - but lingered at the very end of Virgo at an impulsive, critical, under-strain 29th degree. (See the events, below, for a Virgoan-digestive health-related incident.)

However, in 2024, 8 South will fall @10Libra and influence both Election 2024 and Inauguration 2025 within Libran and Arian (Aryan?) concerns such as relationships, conflicts, war, diplomacy - and, via the balance of the Libran Scales of Justice - our critical need for fairplay:

Now to put the Gen Z generation into historical context, we can check out US Events of 2006 which lists a variety of positive and negative occurrences. Stand-outs for me include the George W. Bush SOTU Address (his Axis of Evil speech) and the now-unpopular Samuel Alito being sworn in to pontificate on the Supreme Court bench and to subsequently repeal Roe v Wade (talk about loss!) both of which occurred on January 31, 2006.

Then on February 11, VP Dick Cheney accidentally shot his lawyer in the face while quail hunting in southern Texas; and on September 15, 2006, spinach contaminated with E. coli bacteria killed 2 and poisoned over 200 people -- a tragedy close enough to the 8 South Eclipse of 2006 to be affected by 8S themes of loss and separation.

To close, here's a related post since we know that for power-demanding Trumpians, The Cruelty Is the Point.

To Think of Jimmy Carter now

White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

by Jude Cowell, partisan for democracy

As the recent "death" scam against former President Jimmy Carter is now debunked, I'm thinking today of my distant cousin Jimmy Carter (we're both Georgia natives) and his remarkable achievements, not the least of which has been his years of work with Habitat for Humanity.

The former president's Wikipedia bio page gives much information for those who wish details, and here's a link to the natal horoscope of Jimmy (James) Carter in case a reader or two may find it helpful.

There you'll see that transit Saturn now hangs around with Mr. Carter's natal Uranus (@18Pisces) suggesting restriction of independence; natal Uranus also trines his Pluto (@13Can31 - where transit Hades now tarries) with the trine symbolizing his nuclear scientist work as a Naval officer. A Mercury-Uranus opposition provided him with flashes of ideas and lightening quick insights.

Finding a Decent Man in America

Well, I could go on about his natal chart but suffice to say that Jimmy Carter is often spoken of as a better president than he was thought to be during his one term in the White House and for a few years afterwards - and America's supply of honest, decent men will be one less once he departs.

May comfort, harmony, and his faith be with Mr. Carter all his days.

Gov Josh Shapiro June 20, 1973 (D-PA)

by Jude Cowell, partisan for democracy

As a new generation of US politicians bubbles happily along, we discussed earlier today two Democrats whose names have cycled up into public consciousness as potential VP picks for now-VP Kamala Harris. We looked at the Eclipses of Governor Andy Beshear of Kentucky and Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona.

Another Name Simmering on The VP Hob

Now let's peek at Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro's Solar Eclipse Series with its themes running in the background of his life. As it happens, Baby Shapiro was born on June 20, 1973 - between two eclipses: 11 North on January 4, 1973, and 11 South on June 30, 1973.

As you see, Josh Shapiro was born just within the two-week window of influence prior to the 11 South Eclipse of 1973 so I'll list the themes of both eclipses for your consideration. When this cosmic happenstance occurs, a blending of eclipse themes may be in evidence in the person's life, or, as eclipses in the two Series repeats (every 19.6 years), its themes may take precedence - or alternate.

1973 Eclipses of Josh Shapiro

January 4, 1973 11 North @14Capricorn themes: Suddenly changing groups through ideas or travel; the implied separation can have positive outcomes as greater commitments are made. Last 11N: 2009; next 11N: 2027.

June 30, 1973 11 South @9Cancer themes: A sudden need for reforms as old methods or ideas fail and new systems are needed to deal with events and handle issues; any blocks could be tragically or violently removed. Last 11S: 2009; next 11S: 2027.

Well, there we have it. The eclipses affecting the life of Josh Shapiro are not as lightweight as those of Andy Beshear and Mike Kelly. And of course, it could be that VP Harris will choose someone entirely different from Beshear, Kelly, or Shapiro so when we find out who that brave person is, another post concerning the chosen running mate of Kamala Harris will be necessary to complete the 2024 VP picture.

Now here's the 11 South Solar Eclipse of 2027:

For more eclipse info see Brady's Predictive Astrology #ad.

Astrology of 2 Presidents Stepping Down: 1796 and 2024

by Jude Cowell, partisan for democracy

First, you may wish to check out VP Kamala Harris' first remarks after Biden stepped down from the 2024 campaign.

And perhaps you've seen yesterday's horoscope of the Full Moon @29Capricorn under which President Biden ended his 2024 Campaign while retaining the presidency. And by now you've probably heard multiple comparisons being made between Presidents Biden and Washington - George Washington, The Father of Our Country, and our first executive leader who stepped down from the levers of power via a resignation letter dated September 19, 1796 (see the chart, below). The phrase "gave their all for their country" springs to mind for both men of character, serving until age caught up.

Washington's Farewell Address.

Then notably, George Washington at his first election refused monarchical titles which set the example for all future presidents. Well, if Tr*mp in 2016 got the memo, he must have chewed it up and swallowed it, and would do so again should he get the opportunity.

So here are four Horoscopes concerning these matters; three are in bi-wheel form, the last chart is singular; in order they are:

1. George Washington's natal (inner) surrounded by his resignation letter (September 19, 1796, set for noon):

2. Washington's natal (inner) surrounded by the July 21, 2024 Capricorn Full Moon conjunct Washington's natal Midheaven of Career and Public Status!;

3. VP Kamala Harris natal (inner) surrounded by Biden's Resignation Announced Chart (1:46 pm edt; symbolically set for Washington DC);

And finally:

4. The Biden Resignation Announced Horoscope with 1Sco41 ascending - conjunct the natal Mercury of VP Kamala Harris!