March 2025 Eclipse meets 2008 Lehman Bros Crash Full Moon

by Jude Cowell, partisan for America

The other day, when we looked at the Virgo Lunar Eclipse of March 14, 2025, I had yet to remember that the eclipse forms a cosmic time link to the Lehman Brothers Collapse Full Moon of September 15, 2008 which was a climax of the financial collapse within the Bush-Cheney-Wall-Street Heist (via subprime mortgages), America's last big financial crash (as of this typing).

Now as you may or may not know, Full Moons can behave toward earthly events much as a Lunar Eclipse can do - uncovering, revealing, or leaking information or secrets - and leading to scandals that can change the course of events.

Thing is, as you can see in the two images shown below, the Full Moon of September 15, 2008 (the day that venerable Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy) manifested @22Pis54 while the March 14, 2025 Lunar Eclipse occurs oppposite @23Vir56 and this cosmic switheroo may be considered a culmination of sorts occurring across the Virgo-Pisces victim-savior polarity or axis. Or, a timing mechanism if nothing else.

So with the shady, scofflaw financial activities of late (and manipulative Pluto in Aquarius = "tech bros" - leading a ruthless Locomotive pattern), plus, the March 14, 2025 deadline for America's Y2025 funding to be successfully dealt with, the cosmic synchronicity between 2008 and 2025 via Sun and Moon, and the fact that eclipse cycles resonate with historical events in that "rhyming" sort of way, this comparison may be significant for those who care to take a look.

For it's quite possible that the Crash of 2008 will pale by comparison once these trumpian saboteurs are done raiding and looting America:

Significant is the T-Square from 2008 pointing toward Pluto @28Sag30 and the Ascendant in the 2025 Eclipse Horoscope (DC) which brings up 2008 Pluto with both planet and point as apex of the Full Moon 2008 and the 2025 Lunar Eclipse. Reading them as a midpoint picture we have potentials for: startling new plans; drastic measures for self-protection (Munkasey); deception; discontent (Tyl); biased attitudes and changed circumstances lead to a critical stage of development, or, separation from others (R. Ebertin).

Other events in September 2008 include the first election of Barack Obama, the Beijing Olympics (attended by Dubya Bush), Pluto began his plod through Capricorn, and the devastation of Hurricane Ike. And here's my 2008 post on my WordPress blog concerning the August 2008 Solar and Lunar Eclipses that influenced the whole shebang: Lunar Eclipse August 16, 2008: Market Paranoia? Well, yes. It was. And now in 2025, once again, we have greedy social meddlers interfering with the US economy and oppressing the lives and the budgets of the American people.

March 14 Lunar Eclipse times FY2025 Funding Deadline

By Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good

As you've probably heard, Congress' March 14, 2025 Funding Deadline Nears and failing to pass an agreement for FY2025 (Fiscal Year 2025) will result in a partial government shutdown and the threat of low income housing and other vital federal programs being blocked. Republicans' are using threats of homelessness, hunger, and illness to hold the American people hostage - and America's enemies are very pleased.

Now as you know, this anti-societal disruption is spotlighted by Mr. T's Executive Order (EO) to freeze federal spending and his subsequent memo of January 27, 2025. Thankfully, his dullheaded EO was rescinded, yet the chaos continues, thanks to this Uranian chaos-creator who's behaving as if he's a monarch on steroids and unconcerned about the consequences of his actions.

Of course, miracles have happened before and fiscal issues may be successfully worked out before the deadline of doom.

But if Congress fails to enact a final FY2025 spending bill in time it will cause mandatory, across-the-board spending cuts known as "sequestration." These draconian requirements you may remember from November 2011 and the so-called "Super Congress" set up to take an axe to US expenditures - the economy of the richest nation in the world, as we're constantly reminded. And so the looting and theft in Washington is ongoing now because that's where most of the money is.

In 2011, the Republicans' sleight-of-hand arrived with the 14 North Solar Eclipse of November 25th; in fact I labeled it the "Sequester Eclipse" at the time, with its Themes of despair, unexpected financial happenings, and a peculiar turn of events (B. Brady). Well, if current sleights-of-hand (aka, raiding and looting) of the US Treasury Department by technocrats of a Plutocratic persuasion aren't considered peculiar, I don't know what ought to be.

Meanwhile, the March 14, 2025 date is significant for a cosmic reason: it's the day of a Lunar Eclipse - a full moon which times the culmination, fulfillment, and/or total awareness phase of Luna's journey around Earth - and also involves relationships. Whether this Cosmos-to-Earth synchronicity will bring positive or negative outcomes is up for grabs.

And naturally, when a full moon is a Lunar Eclipse, potentials are added for inconvenient facts and/or secrets to be uncovered or leaked. Additionally, emotional upsets or shocks may occur, for all eclipses are Uranian "wild cards" in that disruptive kind of way similar to radical Uranus - sometimes behaving as a "bolt from the blue" via sudden realizations, unorthodox activities and/or extremist actions.

Then as we both know, the Virgo-Pisces (victim-savior) polarity is Mutable, changeable, fluctuating, unstable, and unpredictable. However, the Lunar Eclipse's Sun Pisces-Moon Virgo blend of energies can provide positive vibes such as the ability and willingness to look any question from all angles (The Harveys) and this bodes well for practical solutions which work best when motives favor common good initiatives.

And so above is the DC Horoscope of the Lunar Eclipse @23Virgo56 - conjunct US 1776 Neptune (22:25) and square US 1776 Mars (21-22Gemini). In other words, the Lunar Eclipse (in Virgo, sign of health, employment and facts, we should add) activates America's problematic Mars-Neptune square of July 1776 with all the foggy conditions, misdirected energies, and/or inspiration the aspect implies. Plus, strange or cruel impulses may be in evidence via obsessive individuals along with rationalizations and perilous situations that go undetected for a while - until they surface.

Midpoints pictures form and are listed beneath the bi-wheel image, below, which displays the 119th Congress Horoscope (inner) surrounded by the Virgo Lunar Eclipse Chart of March 14, 2025 @23Vir56:

Midpoint Pictures: Any, All, or None may apply and can be activated by Transit or Progression

Mars-Neptune= Moon: added apprehension to struggles with deceptive or misleading activities; fluctuating anger toward visions.

Mars-Neptune = Sun: added effectiveness to the impact of deception or illusion; holy or divine ideas are forced upon others (M. Munkasey).

Reinhold Ebertin adds potentials for: crooks, discontent, weak or little vitality, lack of willpower, undermining of health; nervous weakness, feelings of inferiority, sensitivity, sick or moody women, and again - infection.

Aspects between the Lunar Eclipse of March 14, 2025 and the 119th Congress include:

Ideas and opinions are criticized, false promises, misinformation is spread; conflicting opinions, annoying distractions, projects are not completed on time, plans are subject to last minute changes, items and papers are lost or misplaced, mechanical failures, unexpected changes in domestic scenes; people stand up for their principles, opportunities to fight for freedom, creative ideas and solutions are proposed; intolerance and opinionation alienate others through pomposity and/or self-righteousness, success is flaunted, showing optimism about the wrong people while belittling those who deserve respect, people are more interested in shocking others, playing devil's advocate, and overturning conservative or traditional ideas, using gossip or slander to undermine others, relationship and communication problems.

In closing, please note that this is a time of the transiting Neptune-North-Node ("NN") duo, a marker for anti-societal attitudes, lack of community spirit, wrong judgments, disappointment, and the tendency to deceive and expoit others. Their exact conjunction occurs tomorrow, February 7, 2025, at 1:09 am est @28Pis09 - right between tr Venus and Saturn. Here's the conjunction's DC Horoscope with potentials for: wrong liaisons, loss through associations, separations via deceit and untruthfulness, and/or emotional pain caused by a partner (R. Ebertin).

Further reading includes Technocracy Is the Real Threat.

Horoscope: El Salvadore

by Jude Cowell

Amidst printer-scanner malfunctioning this afternoon, I managed to print and save an image of El Salvadore's 1821 Horoscope, Campion #94.

The country is in the news because of its offer of prison cells but I don't want to type anymore about the difficult circumstances, not today anyway. Here's the chart in case anyone should require it:

Robber Plutocrats vs USA 2025

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good

Having run out of time to type a bunch concerning the following bi-wheel of horoscopes, I'm publishing the image anyway replete with astro-notes squooshed on which hopefully you can make out. The point is, Pluto-Chiron = Plutocracy and Plutocrats such as the Gang of Robbers who've taken control of our government.

Therefore, the inner horoscope shows the Pluto-Chiron Conjunction of 1999 @12Gemini; outer is the March 10, 2025 transit chart when tr Pluto @3AQ07 exactly conjuncts Plutocracy 1999's Neptune which in part describes the titanic power struggle ongoing in the realms of politics, finances, religion, and on the physical plane. Pluto-Chiron also contains potentials for exploitation and primal violence. We must be clear about the low caliber of people we're dealing with - not a choir boy among them.

Pluto-Chiron's "12Gemini" = "A Flag That Turns Into An Eagle That Crows" which for me relates to the US flag, the eagle as an American symbol, but also a symbol of both the Roman and German Empires. Other entities have used it as well and a simple search will turn them up for anyone who is interested - including The Confederacy of the 1860s now rising again.

This conjunction by Pluto describes an onging conflict with March 10, 2025 merely the first of five conjunctions to Plutocracy's Neptune (3AQ07). The rest are: 2. July 1, 2025; 3. January 13, 2026; 4. October 1, 2026; 5. October 30, 2026.

We can add erosion of, or the illusion of, power, confusion, and life shifts and changes to the Pluto-to-Neptune transit, plus, we know that the Neptune-Pluto duo symbolizes Underworld or Organized Crime Networks and their inherent lawlessness. Underneath their criminal acts and societal disruption lies a spiritual and moral battle for control of our minds. Resist!

Now other Sabian Symbols of note are penned on the above image and we should mention that the 1999 Moon conjoins Mr. T's natal Jupiter stationary in his 2nd house of Earning Ability, Possessions, and Values. "19 Libra": "A Gang of Robbers In Hiding." Except that, as we all can see, they're not in hiding anymore.

"When one with honeyed words but evil mind persuades the mob, great woes befall the state." - Euripides, his play Orestes first presented in 408 B.C.E.

17 South Eclipse of the Klan

Eclipse of the KKK in the 17 South Saros Series occurred on December 22, 1870 at the critical Cardinal World Point of manifestation of 00Cap30 conjunct Saturn @00Cap52. of interest as well is 1870 Eclipse Jupiter Rx @20Gem10 soon to become a Jupiter Return.

And here's a view of Tr*mp's "Prez Bid" Spring Equinox 2015 Eclipse also in the 17 South Saros Series. Born under a 17 South Eclipse: Ayn Rand, IRAN, the German Empire (Jan 1, 1871), Newt Gingrich,

DC Horoscope: Summer Solstice 2025

by Jude Cowell, partisan for common decency

DC Horoscope: Summer Solstice 2025 June 20, 2025 10:42:13 pm EDT Washington DC shown, below:

ASC 4AQ28 rises with Pluto @3AQ20 Rx, planet of purges, transformation, power, spying, manipulation, death, and obscene wealth: Pluto/ASC uses power to try to remake circumstances; MC (The Goal) @25Sco24 conjunct Mr. T's natal IC; radical reactionary Uranus at a critical 29th degree of Taurus conjunct the chart's IC (Endings; Domestic Scene); Solstice Sun 00Can00:00 in 5th house of risk-taking with Jupiter @2Can33, the sign of Jupiter's exaltation:

With Aquarius rising, Saturn and Uranus are prominent this Summer and are engaged in a fortunate sextile (60 degrees) aspect of original ideas that may be practically applied. Reliability is notable and good advice forthcoming with which constructive solutions can be found. However, since political ability may also be involved with the sextile, its positive indications may or may not relate to the current administration because chaos and disruption are their aims, and destruction not construction must come first.

Therefore, it could be others who step in to use the positive energies of the Saturn-Uranus sextile of Summer 2025; improvement in the Middle East cannot be ruled out.

Meanwhile, Solstice Pluto sextiles Neptune in a YOD pattern (crisis; turning point; special task; karmic opportunity) which points toward 7th house Mars @2Vir06; as a midpoint picture the trio suggests potentials such as being used a tool for someone else's interests; a lack of resistance or stamina; and/or succumbing to external powers (R. Ebertin).

Plus as you know, hot-natured Mars in Virgo can be an exploitative placement and/or may have scientific connections or interests. One might think of Mars-directed space launches, for one thing, and the volatile Mars-Uranus square would support launches especially if explosive acts of violence and/or accidents can be ruled out or thwarted.

Then back on Earth, due to the current political and social climate in US society in which certain actors have threatened to impose "hardship" conditions upon our population, we might wish to consider a second sextile as a base of a YOD pattern and its potentials: Pluto sextile Saturn = Mars: the necessity to fight for one's existence; ruthlessness; brutal assaults; maltreatment (R.E.). And I don't have to mention here who has expressed out loud the threat of hardship in this, the richest nation in the world. Of note is the thievery and looting that come with such a threat - as usual, in a society rife with inequality theirs is a rob the poor to give to the rich scenario.

Now often with YOD patterns, a timing element is involved (here, for Mars to act?), plus, health implications may be indicated via the inconjuncts. One possibility is the disruption to health insurance coverage that many folks are already facing, myself included. (If you use them, check out the Sabian Symbols in the chart for more information.)

Then last but not least is the Moon @00Tau29, the position of President Biden's natal Moon. His Lunar Return Horoscope for June 20, 2025 (11:30:41 pm edt) is basically the same chart you see here with the same cuspal signs and aspects to his Taurean Moon - sextiles, a trine, but with one clunker: a square from Pluto which echoes the Moon-Pluto square in his natal chart. This personalizes the Summer Solstice 2025 Horoscope for President Biden and may relate in part to his activities during the Israeli-Palestine hostage crisis, or to a health issue that may be heart-related ("Saturn-Uranus" = heart block - R. Ebertin). Hopefully not, but Pluto square natal Moon does suggest a health issue for him or a surgical procedure during the month of June - and squares denote blockages or obstacles - and there's priestly Chiron nearby as well! Still, Mr. Biden enjoys the cadillac of heathcare, we're told, so that's a significant benefit.

Now in closing, here are a few notes concerning the cosmic weather of the day and thus of Summer 2025 using the Solstice's Sun Cancer-Moon Taurus blend of energies, a pragmatic Water-Earth combination with Lunar-Venusian influences:

Fussy; retains subjective prejudices; tendency toward laziness and stubbornness; values are rooted in the past; shrewd in business; strategic. Perhaps you'll agree that there are Images for Integration (conscious Sun + unconscious Moon) which may apply to the current gaggle in charge:

"A flourishing family business" and "A family photo album."

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

Grimmace for the camera!

Jupiter Direct Feb 4, 2025!

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good

On October 9, 2024, transit Jupiter, the planet of banking, politics, military, corporatism, broadcasting, and religion, turned retrograde ("Rx") @21Gem20, stationing directly upon America's 1776 Mars while squaring 1776 Neptune in Virgo. This activation of our foggy Mars-Neptune square of rationalization brought our country a period of good fortune for some folks but increased or expanded illusions for others, plus, a need for us all to avoid those promoting "the big picture" - one of too good to be true proportions. Overconfidence was a potential for overblown Jupiterian personalities followed by disappointment for those who fell for impractical schemes.

Now it's time for transit Jupiter to turn Direct which occurs on February 4, 2025 @11Gem16, the degree of Jupiter in July 2024. As you see, the Sabian Symbols for Jupiter's Rx and Direct degrees (12 Gemini and 22Gemini) are penned on the chart, below.

Then out of his own shadow at the end of April 2025 and timing the end of Mr. T's "first 100 days," Jupiter then begins moving forward with fewer encumbrances, and heads toward the Cardinal World Point of 00Cancer00, about a day after transit Mercury reaches the same Cardinal degree; on a good day the Mercury-Jupiter duo symbolizes common sense and good intellect, but may also denote fraud, boastfulness, fantasies and/or negligence.

So below are two images:

Jupiter Rx 2024 and Jupiter Direct 2025 - specifically, October 9, 2024 (lower left) and February 4, 2025 (upper right) with both charts set for Washington DC as usual:

And here are the same two horoscopes overstuffed with study notes for the curious:

Please note above that "February 5" should be February 4, 2025.

Therefore, an energy shift within Jupiterian realms (as listed, above) will be felt in society as Jupiter leaves Mercury-ruled Gemini and enters Moon-ruled Cancer, America's sign of Jupiter in 1776, and the sign of Jupiter's exaltation. Here are brief notes on the two placements of Jupiter within the massive planet's 11.6-year orbit around the tropical Zodiac:

Jupiter in airy Gemini: first, a note: Jupiter @11Gem47 is the sign and degree of Mitch McConnell's natal Jupiter = his Jupiter Return. In Gemini, Jupiter can possess broad yet superficial knowledge; skillful communications aid within fields such as politics and education. This is where Jupiter is in detriment because Gemini opposes Jupiter's natural sign of Sagittarius, yet Jupiter's money-making ability is not impaired in Gemini and often involves professional communications. That Jupiter's time in Gemini since May 2024 relates to the current crop of "tech bros" becoming prominent in politics I'll leave for you to decide, dear reader.

Jupiter in watery Cancer: This placement tends toward moral, religious, and philosophical principles which may certainly be on the upswing more than duplicitous Gemini tends to deliver for society. Generosity, charitable causes, and humanitarianism are possibilities as well, and could turn up more often in the news; real estate, agriculture, and the production of food are timely issues so we might wonder in these early days of this White House if supply chain shortages are again to afflict us due to off-kilter political policies based on utopian dreams that have no practical basis - other than to cause chaos and hardship in society. If such tendencies arise out of Washington, other planetary factors beside Jupiter in emotional, tribal, nationalistic Cancer will have to provide stability.

US Solar Return Horoscope 2025

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good

Here are two images of DC Horoscopes of America's Solar Return 2025: one based on the Horoscope of America July 4, 1776 5:09 pm LMT Philadelphia, the other issuing from the "US Powell Horoscope" of July 1, 1776 7:09 pm LMT (first vote; upper right):

Some basic astro-notes are penned on the dual image along with the July 5th date of US Jupiter Return 2025 (lower left corner) with 1776 Jupiter's descriptive Sabian Symbol now perfectly and eagerly expressed by the new administration of looters, thieves, embezzlers, scammers, and money-launderers: "Game Birds Feathering Their Nests."

This Symbol cosmically imprints Year 2025 (until July 2026) as highly significant for our country in the realms of the Sun-Jupiter pairing (leadership-finances/growth; freedom) with simultaneous Returns that nearly replay July 1776 as a cosmic time link.

However, Sun-Jupiter also suggests that there are legal and political conflicts with the law of the land, plus, fanaticism and one-sided views are present (and are ongoing now with Saturn and Neptune squaring US Jupiter) through the efforts of pretentious, arrogant people. Naturally, realistic Saturn's restrictive and legalistic functions, plus, deceptive Neptune's grand schemes and cultish behavior are involved, and the 9 New North Eclipse @9Aries adds intense energies and potentials for accidents and injuries.

Feb 2025 Lunations: Leo/Pisces

Dual DC Horoscopes: Feb 2025 Lunations

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good

February 12, 2025 (chart with notations shown lower left) brings first a Full Moon @24Leo06 and perhaps uncovers a few inconvenient facts or scandalous secrets (as a Lunar Eclipse often does; plus, a culmination of something planned around the time of the prior New Moon of January 29 @9AQ51).

Additionally, this particular Leo Full Moon lands near the Mars Rising (26Leo) of he-who-shall-not-be-named, and squares zealous Uranus which by transit sits atop the Midheaven of his natal chart suggesting the disruption and chaos he now causes = his goal. Yes, quirky Uranus, planet of Technology, brought sudden change to his career prospects, didn't it?

Image: "Neptune Ascends"

2016 Neptune oppo 19 North Eclipse:

Deception, misunderstandings, discontent (Tyl); plus, cultism, theft, loss, fraud, corruption, lies, gaslighting, self-deception, delusions and illusions, fantasy worlds, propaganda, mass media, the masses, mass immigration, Art-Music-Poetry, creative imagination, spiritual escapism, water events, glamour, chaos, confusion, deceptive schemes, suspicion, spying, drug use (including alcohol), oil, gas, fumes, poisons and toxins, dissolution, disappointment, seduction, scandal, erosion, unreliability, disguises, dreams and visions, uncertainty, insecurity, waste, urge to merge, The Divine Source. You can think of other potentials for nebulous Neptune, I suspect.

Then on February 27, 2025 (chart shown upper right) comes a New Moon @9Pis40 which conjuncts transit Neptune Rx on September 1, 2016 during the 19 North Eclipse of realism, coming down to Earth and tackling the truth - and seeing things for what they really are (B. Brady). The 2016 opposition from deceptive Neptune undermined the truth tackling contained within the 19N eclipse enough to finagle Mr. T. into the Oval Office the first time.

Now he's back with more criming, and the secret planning at the February New Moon in Pisces will culminate or be revealed around the Lunar Eclipse @23Vir57 on March 14, 2025 - and will perfect close to US 1776 Neptune (22:25) which squares our 1776 Mars - which conjuncts his natal Gemini Sun. With a Virgo lunation, we may expect topics such as health and (un)employment to be in the news. Not that we need Astrology to tell us this.

2025 Sun-Moon Square Uranus: sudden developments; intense independence; possible breakup (Tyl); radical insights; potential for violence; stubbornness; dogmatism (Oken).

Now We the People are in worsening conditions as is much of the world, and the February 2025 New Moon in shady Pisces, similar to a disruptive "wild card" Solar Eclipse, may time current events involving deception, gaslighting, and fraud. Not that the "big lie" has ever let up!

The point is, 19 North opposed by Neptune influenced both Election 2016 and Inauguration 2017, its subversive effects linger, and these fuzzy conditions continue to be utilized against America by sinister meddlers, crooks, and wealthy manipulators.

As for the above lunation horoscopes set for DC, you'll notice that multiple planets plus Chiron stand out: Mercury conjunct Ceres (food supply; democracy) at the Full Moon, Mars is OOBs and up to who-knows-what (see lower left corner), Jupiter (traveling with gold-hoarding Midas), Neptune still floating through its own sign of Pisces, and Pluto, leader of a ruthless Locomotive shape of planets; then Pluto leads a BOWL pattern of advocacy of a cause, or having a mission. Tragically, transforming the US government into an authoritarian nightmare while destroying US society come quickly to mind.

And marked on the dual chart and highlighted in blue as the dates of the current US 1776 Chiron Return/s (3x) with the final return perfecting on February 18th - between the February 2025 Full and New Moons. Our Chiron's Sabian Symbol: "A Pugilist Entering the Ring" which can suggest multiple things these days including the belligerent, grudge-holding Mars Rising denizen of the Underworld who's spoiling for a fight.