DC Horoscope: Vernal Equinox 2020

January 26, 2020: Spring 2020 approaches in the Northern Hemisphere and in case you've missed it, an excellent video from Secrets of the Universe is Astronomy Calendar 2020 which provides a Timeline of 2020 astronomical events including supermoons (a term coined by master astrologer Richard Nolle of AstroPro fame), the Halloween 'blue moon', the year's meteor showers, equinoxes, solstices, and 2020's Solar and Lunar Eclipses (those disruptive 'wild card' 'cosmic blinks' earthlings feared in ancient times).

DC Horoscope: Vernal Equinox 2020 Washington DC USA

As you know, a Vernal or Spring, (aka, Aries Ingress) Equinox Horoscope is 'good for' an entire year so let's briefly consider the upcoming season and its horoscope set for Washington DC in an attempt to glean via a 'common good lens' any Political Astrology clues concerning the year. However, we should note that until March 19, 2020 at 11:49:35 am edt, the Spring Equinox 2019 Horoscope remains in force with its Virgo Moon rising.

March 19, 2020 11:49:35 am est Washington DC is an Hour of the Sun; Sun conjunct Aries Point in 4th house of the Homeland, Real Estate, Domestic Scene with the Sun posited on one side of the 4/10 Security axis. Voicing We the People's desire for freedom and equality, Moon @13AQ32 in 3rd house of Communications conjoins transiting Icarus, an asteroid/archetype which is sometimes associated with assassination and always with 'flying too high'. And as always, the Aries Point is a Cardinal World Point of manifestation so global influences are involved which include potential conditions of anarchy, rebellion, and resistance.

Rising, yet possibly of no influence in Washington DC, is a Southern Hemisphere star Agena (Beta Centauri: 'the pain of learning'; 'sacrifices'). I mention because the star is rising.

Curiously, ASC 24Sco46 = Trump's natal IC (Endings--will he 'go back where he came from'? "25Scorpio" = "An X-Ray"). As you know, intense, brooding Scorpio is ruled by Mars and co-ruled by the power-craving planet of stealth, Pluto, 'god' of the Underworld, hidden wealth, and string-pulling. Therefore, the criminal underworld/syndicate, gangsterism, and battles for control and supremacy are suggested. Meanwhile, secrets will continue to be revealed, sometimes for the sake of revenge. In 2nd house, the 3 South Prenatal Solar Eclipse of December 26, 2019 ('traumatic transformation; and/or ending relationships'--Brady) continues to haunt society for here we see 3 South @4Cap06 entering the 2020 cosmic picture by way of the separative South Node @4Cap30. Opposite are North Node conjunct America's Venus-Jupiter-Sun Cancer trio in the Corporate 8th house which implicates matters of finance, investments, debt and credit, corporate power, and our POTUS Sun of leadership (July 4, 1776).

Suggestive of how things will proceed during Spring 2020

Chart-ruler Mars (in 2nd house of the National Treasury, Earning Ability, and Values including currency issues) applies three times: 1. conjunct Jupiter 0A10 (expansive or exaggerated conditions, large plans and projects); 2. conjunct Pluto 2A04 (a fated task, jealousy, revenge, a large project, forging weapons of war); 3. conjunct Saturn 7A15 (obstacles limit progress, timing issues, work associated with authority, giving more credit than is due, and positively--improvements in finances and/or social status). These are some of the potential outcomes in relation to 2nd house Mars as chart-ruler of the Spring Equinox 2020 Horoscope set for Washington DC.

Well, this is my brief consideration of the horoscope with its sparseness most likely necessitating a future update or second post. You'll spy other factors in the chart so please leave your on-topic comments with this post and Share if you care to encourage more such SO'W efforts! jc

January 25, 2020: Republicans Rebut for Trump

So this morning at 10:00 am est in Washington DC, Trump's Senate impeachment Trial continues and it's the turn of the Republicans to rebut charges against their dear leader made by senators of the Democratic persuasion for three days this week. Not that all Republicans in the chamber have listened to the arguments for Trump's conviction and removal from office, nor even remained silent in their seats as the rules dictate.

But today is a new day and I'm looking at today's 10:00 am horoscope on Capitol Hill with its Ascendant @3Ari56 and wounded Chiron rising @2Ari16. Apparently some measure of wounding has been suffered from the Democrats' arguments if only to Trump's massive yet oversensitive ego.

Yet Trump's Republican lackeys are up for the expected task of playing to an audience of One who is, I have heard, in 'The Residence' today and will be watching with great interest, no doubt, to see if any of his compromised minions in the Senate are destined to have their heads (symbolically, I'm sure!) on pikes, thanks to their vengeful boss and his mob leanings.

Of course, another implication of Chiron rising is a defense full of 'poor brave president' sentiments of persecution and martyr-like tendencies. Behind-the-scenes in the 12th house of Politics and Karma are the Venus-Neptune pair in sacrificial Pisces suggesting to me, if not to you, that a form of adoration is running in the background, at least for some of the participants. How genuine is up to the owners of such ill-placed slavishness yet I wonder--how would you or I fare under direct, real-time threat of a vicious Trump?

Meanwhile, in the 11th house of Groups and Associations are the recently separating Sun and Moon after their New Moon rendezvous of January 24th @4AQ22 (4:42 pm est). Now it's Sun 5AQ05 and Moon 13AQ18 with Luna applying to arguing Mercury 15AQ07, the Angel Point. However, I must doubt that the 'better angels of our natures' will make cameos in the Senate Hart Building today if indeed they ever have in support of America's finest aspirations. No, today is about defending the indefensible, the impeached criminal watching from the White House as a 10th house overflows with the heavyweight trio in Saturn-ruled Capricorn, Jupiter (12:16), Pluto (23:12), and Saturn (24:18). South Node @8Cap17 joins in as well suggesting a dependence upon past behavior and conduct that solved problems at that time but are no longer suitable for present circumstances. Opposite in 4th house, North Node continues to point toward Donald Trump's natal Mercury (8Can51) with its trade, commerce, lies, schemes, gossip, insults, and theft sensibilities and denoting Trump's location in 'The Residence' of the White House and fully expecting to be rhetorically defended by his cowed team players with fireworks, brilliance, and whatever it takes to 'win' the day and give him an appearance of exoneration.

Yet with erratic Uranus @2Tau44 first to rise in 1st house, some disruption or unexpected event may occur of a whimsical Trumpian quality for his 10th house Uranus in Gemini is Uranian Trump's guiding planet and we know how he prefers to rule by chaos--to shake things up. This suggests the pressure cooker his Republican defenders are simmering in and never more visibly than today and over the next few days as Mr. Indefensible pulls their strings upon pain of retaliation.

Primarily it will be chart-ruler Mars @15Sag02 in the 9th house of Legal Affairs leading the happy fight and the BOWL shape of planets tilting across the Public Status-Career Point of the Midheaven (2Cap09) and applying once to a square with watery Neptune (rationalizations over logic).

Rounding up for Mars's Sabian Symbol we have "16Sag": "Sea Gulls Watching a Ship" and I suspect that ship is Donald Trump being anxiously watched by his minions for signs of approval!

Trump's Impeachment Will End in One of Two Ways - Thom Hartmann

January 25, 2020: Thom Hartmann says that, based on Trump's many tweets coming back from Davos, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are now "officially in the cross hairs of the Trump administration," the lousy kleptocrats (I added the lousy kleptocrats to what Thom said--SO'W is my grousing place):

Horoscopes: Schiff's Final Argument Start and End

January 24, 2020: below is a bi-wheel of the start of House Manager Adam Schiff's final argument this evening at 7:48 pm est and the end of his rhetoric at 8:55 pm est by my pc's time stamps. There are many factors of interest in both charts but like Rep. Schiff, I'm tired. No, really. So please enlarge the image if you wish to read a few of my study notes which are not complete by any means because I wanted to post these charts to Stars Over Washington asap--only the Moon changes degrees and Sabian Symbols (see lower right).

And yes, I plan to check out what the Republicans have to say for themselves, petulance and all, which begins tomorrow, Saturday January 25, 2020 at 10:00 am, as announced. Yet one must suppose it will take the Republican orators, lawyers, politicians, and whatevs, a while to get situated to the task at hand. Covering Trump's wide patootie will be a mighty huge job, I just hope the 'lawyer lawsuits' crowd is up to it for their sakes, or it is to be feared that America's bridges will be full of Trump's wrathful revenge:

Note: the symbol of the final degree "7AQ" = "A Child Born of an Eggshell" which I mused could refer to the fellow in the Oval Office (the Venusian egg-shaped office.)

Adam Schiff natal w "Trump is dangerous" transits

January 23, 2020: Tonight near the end of House manager Adam Schiff's argument, he spoke passionately including the idea that "Trump is dangerous" and that "right" has to matter. Below is a bi-wheel with Mr. Schiff's natal horoscope in center and tonight's transits for the time I heard him say these things (10:29 pm ET, give or take a minute). Messily marked upon the image are the planetary contacts that pop out most obviously: Uranus to natal Mars, Mars opposite natal Moon, Moon opposite natal Mercury, Saturn opposite natal Mercury. Eagle-eyed readers will find more contacts I'm quite certain and those who missed Schiff's speech may locate it on video, perhaps tomorrow which is the Democrats' last day to present their arguments:

Impeachment Recap: Everything You Need To Know - Thom Hartmann

January 22, 2020: For those who have been living their lives instead of paying attention to the degrading turmoil on Capitol Hill with America's future as a constitutional Republic at stake, here's an insightful recap so far of Trump's Senate Impeachment Trial from progressive broadcaster and author Thom Hartmann:

America, Neptune-Pluto, and Organized Crime

January 22, 2020: Ordinarily the topic of the transpersonal Neptune-Pluto pairing here on Stars Over Washington has had most to do with the Robber Baron Class of the late 1800s and its biological and ideological spawn who continue to bedevil society. But now that organized crime in the form of global and domestic criminal networks and syndicates are running America from the White House, let's consider in this post the planetary pair in its criminal underworld capacities which include drugs (use/abuse, trafficking, etc) and occult practices.

(As implied by the image, the US Federal Reserve as part of the world banking system falls into the syndicate category as well and some would call the big banksters and their operatives a criminal enterprise, perhaps of the fox-guarding-the-hen-house variety and worse. Perhaps you disagree, but there it is. And note that in Astrology, Cupido can signify The Syndicate, The Family, and/or Corporatism with 'The Family' suggesting the Mafia and/or the 'religious' group that focuses on gaining political and worldly power as detailed in Jeff Sharlet's book, The Family and dramatized on Netflix. This group holds the annual 'National Prayer Breakfasts' on Capitol Hill, you know.)

Neptune-Pluto: Mired within Their 492-Year Cycle

Now as you know the current cycle of Neptune and Pluto began with their triple conjunctions of 1891 and 1892--specifically on August 2, 1891 @8Gem38, November 5, 1891 @8Gem19, and April 30, 1892 @7Gem42. As you see, these degrees are within orb of America's natal Uranus (8:55) of July 4, 1776 so a midpoint picture of potentials (any, all or none may apply) is worth our consideration using Ebertin, Munkasey, and Tyl as our sources:

Neptune-Pluto = Uranus: peculiar discoveries; flair for the unusual, mystical, supernatural, and/or adventurous; hyper-sensitive nerves; disruption to gain recognition; adventurous ego thrust; making waves to get to shore; possibly aberrant behavior; courage; adds to impersonal attitudes about any destructive or antisocial activities; emphasizes unusual means to escape from or change reality; rebellion against artificial supports or pursuits; tendency to go to extremes with drugs.

More Neptune-Pluto information can be found in Michael Munkasey's Hegelian Dialectic analysis of the pair (create the chaos then solve it the way you intended in the first place):

"Thesis: creating new ideals for power bases within any enterprise; calls for new measures for protection from natural disasters" (the Green New Deal? jc); "new ideas in waste processing, pollution control, mass medical care, or psychiatry.

Antithesis: controls over centers of political power; organized crime; activities involving plans for mutual destruction; subversion within security agencies; breakdowns in health, medical, or social care."

Other inferences can be made about the pair working together as well: idealism, laxity, merging, vagueness, disappearance, disguise, thievery, loss of Neptune combines with Underworld 'god' of Hades Pluto's tendencies toward extreme wealth, stealth, and death (hidden hand Pluto, the Secret Assassin, the dragon, etc). Both planets are slow-moving and thus karmic in that reap what's been sown kind of way.

Now my suspicion is that you recognize Trump and Co. and his foreign pals snuggled within many of these potential descriptions and possibilities. And we should note the Solar Eclipse Saros Series containing the last conjunction of Neptune and Pluto on April 30, 1892, for their conjunction occurred a mere 4 days after the Total Eclipse of April 26, 1892 in the 2 Old North series. And curiously, 2 Old North happens to be the Prenatal Eclipse series of Donald Trump which repeated on July 12, 2018 @21Cancer near his natal Saturn and Castor, a star with potentials for fame, loss, crippling of limbs, mental illness, and/or murder (A. Louis). See what Donald was up to and where he was on July 12, 2018 in this handy Timeline and note that also on that date, Robert Mueller indicted 12 Russians for hacking Democrats (to help 'elect' Donald).

And of course you know that Trump's natal Saturn @23Cancer is under stress now from transiting Saturn in Capricorn--opposes his Saturn, in fact, which Saturn, planet of accountability, precisely did on the morning of January 21, 2020--the day his Senate Impeachment Trial got underway. Now so far I haven't heard any obvious mention during senate proceedings of organized crime but my suspicion is that many if not all of our senators have had dealings of one sort or another with underworld figures, foreign and/or domestic--other than dealings with Trump and Co. Oppressive dealings such as blackmail and physical threats, it appears to me.

But what say you--any thoughts come to mind regarding Neptune-Pluto concerns?

Related from 2009 is Robert Scheer's article Wall Street Robber Barons Ride Again included here under the auspices of 'the new boss same as the old boss' adage although admittedly, Trump and Co. have taken the fraud level to a whole new and sinister depth while splashing it in our faces. Also related: The Natal Horoscopes of Capone-Manafort-Trump.

Sources used but relatively unharmed in the creation of this post: Midpoints: Unleashing the Power of the Planets, Michael Munkasey, Solar Arcs, Noel Tyl, The Combination of Stellar Influences, Reinhold Ebertin, and for Castor: Horary Plain and Simple, Anthony Louis.

Jan 21, 2020: it's Saturn vs Natal Saturn Day for Trump!

January 21, 2020: As you see from the new colors, Stars Over Washington is in mourning today and until further notice. Not so much for Donald Trump but for America for We The People are mired within a Saturn-opposite-Saturn phase with him. As you know, the Republican-held Senate has a yacht-load of Trump's misconduct to hide from the public on behalf of their compromised mob-boss-in-chief and his Impeachment Trial gets underway today at 1:00 pm ET on Capitol Hill. Whatever the trial's outcome, foreign operatives have, in a sense, already won against our once proud nation with all three branches of the US government infiltrated and in process of being sabotaged.

Now obviously, the Republican Party is under sway of foreign powers, completely 'bought and paid for' and blackmailed with their own crimes and secrets, so all we have to defend and salvage what's left of our democratic Republic is the Democratic Party. Now Saturn, planet of accountability, is strong in its own sign of Capricorn and is attended by powerful Pluto, also a karmic planet. Both planets are challenging the watery Saturn in tribal Cancer of Donald Trump--and the Saturn opposition is exact this very day. Fated undercurrents swirl beneath us and a titanic power struggle is engaged between global and domestic crime syndicates vs the political class of Washington DC, my former city of residence. Will a few GOP senators heed Saturn's message of accountability and leave the dark side for the light?

In the nearly 15 years of writing SO'W, several times I've typed how I don't appreciate what 'they've' done to the place--meaning politicians, their corporate donors and enablers. And my lack of appreciation was never more true than the authoritarian change of direction figurehead Trump has instigated upon our nation since 2017 and will continue to instigate if he sleazes out of his current pickle and manages to finagle the November 2020 Election into handing him four more years--with lots of help from the usual GOP cheating. After all, he can't "win" without lots of funny business. Yet reluctantly I must admit that Election Day planets look 'good' for Trump which to me means bad for our country--for the entire world, in fact.

So yes, yours truly is one of those Vote Blue No Matter Who types, SO'W is in mourning today, and I pray that fairness triumphs during the Senate Trial so that Donald Trump may finally reap what's he's sown as the natural law of karma requires of everyone born upon this Earth. Plus, timekeeper Saturn says the hour has arrived for glass-chinned Trump to step up and take what's coming to him.