The Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe

by Jude Cowell

Actually, there are multiple mysteries associated with Edgar Allan Poe. His tragic and untimely death at age 40 is but one. His is an unsolved cold case but we can consider astrological influences of his life and death so let's do that.

Poe: Inventor of Detective Fiction, Father of American Mystery Writers

Born on January 19, 1809 in Boston, there are various birth times proposed for author, poet, editor, and critic Edgar Allan Poe but below you see Poe's natal horoscope using the Starkman-rectified time of 2:52:54 LMT with 25Sco24 rising.

And yes, Scorpio does seem to be an appropriate Ascendant considering Poe's obsessive interests in writing tales of mystery, murder, crime, and gothic horror, along with the sign's Mars-Pluto association, a planetary pair which can contain a streak of violence if the conditions are right and the characters are so inclined - with force being an operative feature of the pair's powerful arsenal. Plus, the Scorpio connection with death and other 8th house matters mustn't be overlooked.

Poe natal (inner); Poe Death (outer):

First, let's direct our attention to a few factors such as wounding/wounded Chiron in Scorpio conjunct natal Ascendant (physical body). Voting planet Mercury @8Scorpio conjuncts his natal North Node (a karmic indicator; a meeting) while Mercury to natal Uranus suggests dealing with larger societal issues such as elections but with a quirky or unusual flavor to communications.

Also significant is the victim-savior axis of Virgo-Pisces and Poe's quadruple line-up in Pisces (9-17 degrees) opposed by transit Venus and Jupiter, both money planets. Chart-ruler Venus exactly opposes Poe's natal Venus which suggests a time of hostile disagreements and differing perspectives. And transit Jupiter opposing his Pluto more than hints at manipulation and a contest of wills by powerful, wealthy entities - perhaps including the politicians they enable.

Meanwhile, transit Neptune, planet of deception, subversion, and drunkenness conjuncts the separative South Node suggesting intrigue and loss within the Collective at that time. Additionally, Poe's natal Uranus-North-Node conjunction in 12th house denotes a connection with politics and/or radical reactionaries, plus, the 12th house of Secret Deals lends itself easily to politics. Then we can look toward his natal 8th cusp for Moon and Mars which snug around it at the time of his death, and indicate quarrels and angry emotional outbursts. Was a fiance somehow connected to his ending? Some sources have mentioned his fiance's mother who disapprved of Mr. Poe as her daughter's intended. Or so I've read. This may be only a rumor.

A Difficult Life of Loss and Grief

Now you're likely aware that E.A. Poe's life had been full of deaths - starting early on for he became an orphan at age 2. And fatal diseases such as tuberculosis were rampant in the 19th century, as we know. In fact, TB took away his wife Virginia on January 30, 1847.

As for Solar and Lunar Eclipses prior to his death, a Total 14 North Solar Eclipse on August 18, 1849 @25Leo06:13 is very telling. 14N themes include confusion, delusion, unexpected financial happenings, unrequited love, despair, a draining of energy - and a "peculiar turn of events" (B. Brady). Then on September 2, 1849, a Lunar Eclipse @10Pis04 landed directly upon Poe's natal Moon with physical implications - and across his natal MC-IC axis in his rectified chart (a clue that its timing may be accurate).

In addition, Edgar Allan Poe was born under the auspices of a 9 New North Solar Eclipse @25Sco38:21 - conjunct his Ascendant (was the eclipse a timer for rectification? More factors must connect as well) - with themes of sudden physical events and accidents, even violence (B. Brady). Its conjunction with (the speculative) natal Ascendant suggests potentials for discord in relationships and possibly physical congenital defects - and the 9NN caution to keep an eye out for safety is seriously undermined by overindulgence with alcoholic beverages - to dull the pain of his grievous losses, no doubt.

Edgar Allan Poe died at 5:00 am LMT in a Baltimore hospital on October 7, 1849 after being found in the street on October 3, 1849 - wearing another man's clothes. This lends a clue to the couping theory since victimized voters changed outfits so that they could vote multiple times in sneaky fashion. Then were elections being held in Baltimore, MD in 1849? Oh yes: on October 3rd, the day he was found in the street.

Yet we should mention that as an outspoken literary critic, making enemies could occur. In fact, a professional rival named Griswold held a grudge against Edgar and proceeded to damage Poe's reputation for years after his death. But the name that Poe cried out on the night before he died was "Reynolds," yet no person by that name has ever been discovered. Not so far, anyway. Perhaps a search in the politics of the era would dredge up a suspect.

And so in closing, R.I.P. Mr. Poe is definitely in order.

However, if you wish for more information, a handy Wiki bio page is available here, and the Biography channel provides a 43-minute documentary, Tragic Life of Edgar Allan Poe which may interest you.

Now in case you're wondering, the reason this post is published to Stars Over Washington is that Poe's mysterious death could likely relate to the practice of couping as noted above, a tactic used to capture and force a voter to cast multiple ballots for a certain candidate; injury, even murder, of the victim often followed.

And within the tragic mystery of Edgar Allan Poe, I believe it did.

White House Attacks Jerome Powell and The Fed!

1913 US newspaper clipping, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Within the history of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 we find that President Woodrow Wilson signed the Act into law on the very day it passed the US Senate: December 23, 1913. That day, most Congress members were hurrying out the door for Christmas break so there were none to object to the bill's passage and enactment.

And I suppose that the Federal Reserve Act has stood America in fairly good stead ever since, and yet has kept the unfair "balance" of inequality quite well in the economic royalists' haves vs have-nots game of power and control. For as we know, silly elites equate having wealth with being intelligent and worthy to rule over the rest of us!

So now, 112 years have passed and someone of the meddling class has cued the thieves, embezzlers, and foreign raiders to yank around the US economy, decimate our National Treasury, and hollow out the lives and lifestyles of the American people - with the goal of removing the US from its perch as global leader and the US dollar from its accustomed status as reserve currency. So I suppose that We the People are no longer the corporate class' cash cow anymore. Apparently, they're done with us - like a badly written Ayn Rand novel!

And yet so far, Fed Chair Jerome Powell has resisted lowering interest rates as the albatross in the White House has demanded and this creates an additional economic drama to go along with the blighter's current tariffs turbulence in the markets, on Main Street USA with higher prices, and across the planet.

Of course, a failure to recognize the separation of the Federal Reserve System and the executive branch of government is at the base of White House demands so with this His Grabbiness creates even more anxiety as we watch Mr. Powell fend off the erosion of his power to act independently.

Okay, I'll quit fussing for now and close with a previously published, messily marked-up bi-wheel of The Fed 1913 Horoscope surrounded by the Scorpio Lunar Eclipse of May 5, 2023 chart which "eclipsed" The Fed's 1913 Scorpio Moon, a fighting spirit placement for Luna. This eclipse was basically a Lunar Return for The Fed, thereby increasing intuition concerning how to deal with issues:

Finances, Currency, and the Sept 2025 Eclipse

by Jude Cowell, partisan for democracy and the common good

Remember when we took a look at the Lehman Brothers Crash Full Moon of September 2008 across the Virgo-Pisces victim-savior axis and how the March 14, 2025 Lunar Eclipse landed upon and perhaps stimulated it by degree? As we know, secrets and inconvenient facts are difficult to keep hidden under the influential rays of a Lunar Eclipse!

Well, considering how the US economy is being weakened under the Tr*mp regime, and the US dollar as reserve currency is under threat, let's take a look at the September Solar Eclipse which may be categorized as an Autumn Equinox 2025 Solar Eclipse at the critical, impulsive 29th degree of Virgo because the eclipse perfects a day prior to the Equinox (see upper right corner for details); a karmic YOD pattern of crisis is also present pointing toward the 9th house Mars at a 29th degree:

Visible in the chart are the social safety net duo of planets opposing the Eclipse:

Saturn which indicates those who refuse to own up to their responsibilities and place blame on anyone but themselves, and Neptune (conjunct Aries Point) suggesting the tiresome stand-off between reality vs fantasy, delusion and self-delusion, and the chaos and confusion such twisted conditions activate and made worse by bad faith actors, cultists, anarchists, and saboteurs, both foreign and domestic.

My astro-notes are penned on the chart for the curious reader, and here are the Themes of all 9 New South Solar Eclipses:

9 New South: long-term worries surface concerning health and/or loved ones; issues regarding paperwork or communications; worrisome news with a sense of destiny or fatedness attached; and/or responsibilities with paperwork come home to roost; initial 9NS July 19, 1917 @25Can51 (conjunct US 1776 Mercury = logic required for best results); 9NS is the Prenatal Eclipse Series of Charles Koch.

9NS Eclipses also occurred in the years 1917, 1935, 1953, 1971, 1989, 2007, (2025), and next in 2043.

Eclipse info: Brady's Predictive Astrology #ad

Thanks a bunch for reading! jc

Black Tuesday 1929's Jupiter Return Mar 28, 2025

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good, Daughter of the Revolution

On Saturday March 29, 2025, the future of the US economy and government, and the lives of the American people, are dependent upon events and outcomes manipulated by bad faith actors, both foreign and domestic.

With a continuing resolution barely passed in Congress this week in lieu of an actual 2025 budget, a government shut-down is apparently avoided if the Senate agrees, and if so then US financials can simmer along until September 30, 2025, the traditional end of the financial year, interference with markets by the White House's daft tariffs notwithstanding.

Soon we'll discuss more about September 2025 which contains two Eclipses - a Lunar Eclipse on September 7th @15Pisces, and a Solar Eclipse on September 21st @29Virgo in the accident-prone 9 New North Saros Series - which basically amounts to an Autumn Equinox 2025 Eclipse that will hold sway until Winter Solstice 2025.

March 2025 Cosmic Lunations

Meanwhile, the Virgo Lunar Eclipse perfects this Friday (March 14th) at 2:54:37 am EDT, a Total Eclipse and so-called "blood moon" due to its reddish color. Inconvenient facts, secrets, and scandals are nearly certain to be uncovered, and synchronistically, the Lunar Eclipse lands upon the Full Moon that timed the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy filing in September 2008 and could possibly "activate" certain energies of a karmic nature. At the least, it's a cosmic spotlight cast upon the Virgo-Pisces victim-savior polarity. But will historical events rhyme or echo from 2008 forward to 2025? Perhaps, yet there is another possibility that could echo from way back in 1929:

Black Tuesday 1929's Jupiter in Mercury-Ruled Gemini

A potential echo because the third of three Jupiter Returns to the infamous Black Tuesday Crash Horoscope of 1929 occurs with corporate-banking-moneybags planet Jupiter @15Gem25 conjunct royal star Rigel in 1929. Of course, mundane Jupiter can also wear other hats besides financier, such as politician, broadcaster, preacher or guru. Or perhaps a Wall Street mogul, a Rockefeller, and/or a Treasury Secretary could be appropriate in the role:

Isn't It Always About The Gold? For Tr*mp It Is

Above you see a marked-up bi-wheel of Black Tuesday October 29, 1929 (inner timed by the Sun culminating @6Scorpio = "A Gold Rush") surrounded by the 1929 Crash's third of three Jupiter Return Horoscopes perfecting on March 28, 2025 at 5:05:45 am EDT (return dates one and two are listed lower left corner). And of course, the Jupiter Return to its 1929 position has occurred about 7 times through the decades but this time it occurs the day prior to the 9 New North Solar Eclipse.

With expansive Jupiter, an abundance of communications, trades, and deals are suggested along with the Geminian tendencies of multiplicity, superficiality, and duplicity.

Now as you see, both charts are set for New York, New York for obvious reasons, and manipulative wealth hoarder Pluto in early Aquarius (M*sk and his "tech bros" plus their bosses) leads a BOWL shape of planets signifying a mission or a cause - here, to sabotage and hollow out our country, heist all they can, and beggar our populace so that yet another obscenely massive tax cut for the wealthy can be finagled into corrupted pockets - and during the Tr*mpian chaos, a new form of government can be more easily installed against the will of The People.

In other words, America is to be removed from global leadership and control handed over to certain foreign nations whose names in this post shall remain unmentioned.

Now in closing, I agree with you that it's all very dreary so naturally a Thank You For Reading is in order! jc

A related post with DC Horoscopes: Cosmic Blinks: 2025's "Wild Card" Eclipses of 2025. And if you're up for it, here's a previous post sans edits concerning the Republican Party and what then were their future plans for the American people: the misery of the masses. If any dear reader didn't believe it possible then, surely their draconian objectives are obvious now.

Eclipses of 2026 and 2027

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good, Daughter of the American Revolution

Here's a handy list of the Solar and Lunar Eclipses of 2026 and 2027 along with solar themes. As you see, only three eclipses are Total, the most influential sort of eclipse in the bunch: the Virgo Lunar Eclipse of March 3, 2026 (first lunar eclipse of the year), the 10 South Solar Eclipse, and the Solar Eclipse of August 2, 2027 in the difficult 11 South Saros Series. Details follow:

Note: Blank space is left in case the image is printed and space for writing notes is needed.

Solar Eclipse Themes of 2026/2027

10 North @28AQ49:43: Emphasis on communications; frustrating or inhibiting events via news, paperwork, or a young person; may feel tired and drained; take things one at a time for best results. "29AQ": "Butterfly Emerging From a Chrysalis."

10 South @20Leo01:58: Breaking out of a negative situation where no hope can be seen to a positive space with many options; the Cosmos shows the solution which should be taken up without delay. "21Leo": "Chickens Intoxicated."

11 North @17AQ37:37: Suddenly changing groups through ideas or travel; making greater commitments in relationships. "18AQ": "A Man Unmasked."

11 South @9Leo55:02: Old ideas or methods fail; new systems and reforms are needed to deal with events; any blocks could be violently or tragically removed. "10Leo": "Early Morning Dew."

All eclipses are karmic "cosmic blinks" and can interrupt earthly events much as erratic planet Uranus can do, thereby causing sudden changes of direction like a "bolt from the blue." Revelations often surface which may lead to enlightenment and/or scandal, and historical events can be spotlighted as eclipse cycles repeat from past years. For instance, the Solar Eclipses listed here also occurred in the years 1935, 1936, and into 1937 (for those keeping up with neo-naz*-inspired current events).

Across the 5/11 Leo-Aquarius Axis

With Solar Eclipses in Leo there are leadership and authority concerns; self-confidence and vitality are involved; cautions to avoid for best results include the negative traits of Sun-ruled Leo such as egocentricity, pride, pomposity, vainglory, and ostentation for these will stymie karmic progress; parent-child relationships may also be highlighted.

With Solar Eclipses in Aquarius opportunities to change the karmic course of humanity may arise; an open-minded, timely approach is best; the past should be viewed as a key to present needs and may be used as a guide to future development; innovative approaches and novel solutions are most helpful as long as they fit the situations they're directed toward, while whimsical changes and contradictory efforts disrupt karmic progress and worsen conditions; humanitarian groups are highlighted, and karmic links to friends, daughters-in-law and sons-in-law may be in the cosmic spotlight.

For personal information via eclipses, the natal house in which an eclipse falls is instructive concerning the area of life in which an eclipse may have influence; the opposite house can also be involved to a lesser extent.

Aspects from an eclipse to one's natal or progressed planet, if any, are also instructive. A clear example of an influential aspect to a natal planet is the 11 South Eclipse @10Leo which lands upon the natal 12th house Pluto of Mr. Tr*mp suggesting power issues and criminal acts with Pluto the planet of Underworld Syndicates, Hidden Wealth, Spies, and Transformation - and his Mars-Saturn death axis @10Leo is also eclipsed. Plus, 12th house is the house of the Unconscious and relates to secret dealings, large institutions (including hospitals and prisons), Self-Undoing, and Politics.

Now here's a 3-minute video presentation by world traveler Rick Steves:

The Story of Fascism: Hitl*r's Rise to Power.

And if you're curious about historical events rhyming with our era via eclipses, you may wish to see 1935, 1936, and/or 1937.

Eclipse sources: Brady's Predictive Astrology and Rose Lineman's Eclipse pamphlet #ad

Saturn-Neptune: the weakening of America

by Jude Cowell, partisan for America and the common good

The current Saturn-Neptune Cycle began when they conjoined on November 13, 1989 @10Cap22, the third of the karmic planets' three conjunctions in 1989 - all in Saturn-ruled Capricorn. We know that society is under the influence of the third conjunction because the next Saturn-Neptune Conjunction is approaching and will perfect on February 20, 2026 @00Ari45, the Aries Point of World Events. That this karmic Conjunction upon the primary Cardinal Point of 00Ari00 (Summer Solstice Point of the Sun; see the Summer Solstice 2025 Horoscope) must relate to or symbolize the current take-over attempts against various governments by global authoritarian forces seems clear.

Such topics we've discussed previously; for example: Saturn-Neptune Cycles 1989 and 2026.

So today I'm publishing a dual image of our initial Saturn-Neptune Conjunction which times America's Saturn-Neptune Cycle of September 27, 1773 @18Vir42 conjunct detail-oriented Mercury @18Vir50 (lower left) along with the first of three Uranus Returns (upper right) to the 1773 Uranus position @27Tau55 - shown here because it perfects soon on May 28, 2025, and because disruptive, radical Uranus is America's totem planet of war and revolt - energy that can also be used by the uprising of the American people against the heist now in progress by a lawless man and his unelected sidekick who are dismantling, weakening, and undermining (Neptune) the US government and our Constitution (Saturn) into a state (Saturn) of disfunction (Neptune) - not a smaller government - a meaner one:

Please note that this is the 1773 conjunction of the two karmic planets prior to July 4, 1776 when, as you know, America's Saturn was (and remains) exalted in mid-Libra and Neptune was (remains) @22Vir25. Perhaps your software can find a more accurate chart for their conjunction, so do let me know if you find one. Theirs is approximately a 36-year cycle so the next conjunction came in or about 1809.

Saturn-Neptune Energies Blended

Now I'm confident that a dear reader such as yourself already knows the multiple indications and associations of the Saturn-Neptune pair of planetary energies such as weakness, poverty, undermining circumstances, social safety net programs, caution, pessimism, uncovering fraud, plus, Socialism, Communism, secret or invisible government, and more. Additionally, the Saturn-Neptune midpoint qualifies as the Illness Axis, according to Reinhold Ebertin.

Of interest to some folks is that Mr. Tr*mp was born, as we're told (10:54 am), with the Saturn-Neptune midpoint conjunct his Ascendant (physical body) indicating oppressive family circumstances and a depressing environment for the little fellow right from the start.

And so in closing, as part of my forewarned is forearmed efforts on SO'W, here are some of the potentials of Saturn-Neptune in Politics and Business, quoting from Michael Munkasey. Any, all, or none may apply to 2025 events but I suspect you'll find that many, if not all of them, closely describe current events and actors:

Thesis: Delusions among the real leadership; policies that restrict spies; misusing law officers; inefficient use of capable expert advice; mistaken religious leaders.

Antithesis: Leaders deceive about the exercise of control; deficient business practices exposed; respected persons involved in questionable practices; a leader capitulates; reliable equipment failures. (And Saturnian systems, too - jc.)

As for Events of 1773, a stand-out in what became America has to be the Boston Tea Party of December 16, 1773 - loss (Saturn) of tea and tax money for authoritarian Britain (Saturn) tossed into Boston Harbor (Neptune) by disguised perpetrators (Neptune).

Additional reading includes astro-notes concerning the highly significant Virgo Lunar Eclipse of March 14, 2025 when the US government runs out of money and may shut down unless congressional Democrats help Speaker Johnson - and the Ides of March arrives next day. Oh, and btw - the March 14th Lunar Eclipse @24Virgo happens to conjunct the 10 North Solar Eclipse of 1773 which spotlights 10 North themes of "frustration over news, communications, paperwork, and/or young people" - perhaps like meddling-in-our-private-business "tech bros"?

Sources for this post include, Midpoints: Unleashing the Power of the Planets, M. Munkasey; The Combination of Stellar Influences, R. Ebertin; and for eclipse info, Predictive Astrology, B. Brady #ad

Some Difficult Potentials Ahead

by Jude Cowell, partisan for America

Alert: Ultra fussy post ahead. Caution is advised. Seriously.

Hopefully, mass starvation in the US is not on the draconian Project 2025 agenda although depopulation does seem to be. And they're related, yes? Well, under the influence of the 8 South Solar Eclipse of October 2, 2024 @10Libra03 (among other influences), maga voters recklessly set in motion the sabotage of our nation and the interruption of American life as we've known it. For decades, the destruction of our central federal government has been the GOP's stated goal for they crave permanent power. Ain't no mystery about it.

So here's the DC Horoscope of the 8 South Solar Eclipse of 2024 with its themes of loss, separation, sad partings, physical injury through overstrain (B. Brady). Its influence has begun to fade as 9 New North Eclipse themes take precedence around mid-March and the March 14th Lunar Eclipse in Virgo with accidents and physical difficulties again possible:

Then below is a list of some of the things maga voters said Yes to in November plus a few of the worthy items and conditions they voted against; you'll think of more, I'm certain:

They voted for American Carnage.

They voted for global fascist totalitarianism to sunset our democracy.

They voted to be deported.

They voted against women and children.

They voted against healthcare insurance.

They voted for measles, polio, and epidemics.

They voted for The Confederacy and racism.

They voted for economic hardship.

They voted against keeping their jobs.

They voted against free speech.

They voted against books and learning.

They voted for chaos not law and order.

They voted for souless plutocratic oligarchy.

They voted for slavery and feudalism.

They voted against US sovereignty.

They voted for control of the US by foreign dictators.

They voted for terrorism and murder.

They voted to Make America Grieve Again.

They voted for a madman dictator bent on revenge - and an unelected sidekick billionaire who purchased the 2024 Election for him and who acts as de facto president.

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.

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.

USA and the Saturn-Neptune Cycle

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good

As you know, there are multiple potentials (quite a mixed bag) that can express via the Saturn-Neptune pairing. Within their 33-to-36-year cycle, the two planets meet once again in Great Conjunction on February 20, 2026 @00Ari45, the Aries Point of World Events. Their current cycle began in 1989 with three exact conjunctions in the Zodiacal range of 10--12 degrees of Saturn-ruled Capricorn.

Their placements in Capricorn suggest possibilities such as industry, a strong will, realism, truth, self-restraint, diplomacy, endurance, one-sidedness, slow advncement, economy, egocentrism (Saturn), plus, success through crooked means, strange objectives, delving into religious problems, deep research, people with little sense of reality, secrets, subversion, liquids, fumes, gases, poisons (Neptune).

Then depending on which technique we prefer for three-fer returns and conjunctions, and because a fresh conjunction arrives next year, I'd say that we are now operating within the third phase of the pairing which began with the November 13, 1989 Conjunction @10Cap22. This chart is shown as the outermost horoscope in the following tri-wheel and it's the DC Horoscope operative until their next conjunction on February 20, 2026 at Aries Point (2026 chart shown, below):

Saturn-Neptune Meet February 20, 2026:

So here's a partial list of potential expressions of the Saturn-Neptune duo when their energies combine; any, all, or none may apply or may alternate expression:

Social safety net programs, Socialism and other forms of -isms in government, delusions among leadership, inefficient use of capable advice, policies that restrict spies, using and hiding lies and deception, false hopes that lead to nothing, secret or invisible government, weakness, depression, pessimism, and/or illness, mistaken religious leaders, uncovering or restricting fraud, continuing detrimental practices, regrets, denial of responsibility, utilizing illusion, shabby practices, neglect in society, abandoning responsibility, an illusion of respectability, breaking through existing circumstances toward "the dream", loss via dissolution, erosion, or theft, martyrdom, a sense of being wronged, losing focus, Earth and Water events - and the list goes on and on when restrictive Saturn and urge to merge Neptune act as a "team" (Oken; Ebertin; Munkasey; Tyl), their energies heightened at Conjunciton.

Then as you know, both planets are considered karmic in nature due to Saturn's orbit lasting 28--30 years, while pokey pup Neptune takes 164 years to complete an orbit. Meanwhile, inadequately addressed conditions and neglected problems pile up until they must surface. Yes, events feel as if they come from the outside, but the issues have been with us all along, often bubbling on a back burner.

Now additionally, there are basic concerns about the upcoming Saturn-Neptune Conjunction in 2026 because of the last few years and it's the fact that the planets meet during what will likely be Year Two of the second go-round of Mr.T. "manning" America's helm with finger on The Button, a convicted felon and figurehead in the US of a global Underworld network of crooks and looters (Neptune-Pluto). Concerns include delusions and illusions (Neptune) about authority figures (Saturn). And as we've seen, running the American Ship of State aground is the aim of our enemies, domestic and foreign, and they must be stopped. Yet now that the fox is in the henhouse again, it will be complicated. Some folks are calling for the impeachment of Mr. T., a valiant effort which could boost Democrats at Midterms 2026.

Of course, all of the difficulties have been the case for years now but as a new cycle of Saturn-Neptune begins, we may expect the gaslighting, lies, and fraud to increase, both here and abroad, along with a potential for societal events to manifest, perhaps some weather-related - any of which may trigger hysteria (R. Ebertin) within sections of the population.

Now here are a few general astro-notes concerning Saturn in Pisces where the lesson bringer planet of Old Age, accountability, fears and flaws hangs out until 2026. And you know how Neptune, floating through in its own sign of shady Pisces, has timed a period of contagion, confusion, mass migration and delusion - and fears and paranoia.

Then looking at soon-coming lunations as we must, here are the Solar and Lunar Eclipses of 2025 (DC Horoscopes shown) including themes of both Solar Eclipses, all of which energies will run in the background of society - until influences from the 10 North Eclipse of February 2026 @29AQ take over; notably, the Saturn-Neptune Conjunction of 2026 occurs under the 10 North.

For more information see Midpoints: Unleashing the Power of the Planets, Michael Munkasey #ad

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.

Cosmic Blinks: 2025's "Wild Card" Eclipses

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good

Viewing Year 2025 through the cosmic lens of the year's disruptive "Wild Card" Eclipses reveals emphases on the signs of Aries (one solar) and the Virgo-Pisces victim-savior axis (one solar, both lunars). This spotlights or activates the planets Mars (Aries), plus, Mercury, Jupiter and Neptune (Virgo-Pisces) for Cosmic Blink imperatives sent from Above. Changes of direction in earthly events will likely occur and secrets and/or inconveient facts are set to be uncovered.

So today, for my Friday end-of-the-week post, you see below a dual image of the two Solar Eclipses of 2025 in the 9 New North and the 9 New South Saros Series, along with a dual image of both Total Lunar Eclipses of 2025.

Yet being as fatigued with it all as you are, dear reader, further notes concerning the four eclipses of 2025, other than themes listed below, are hereby postponed to be published later on, most likely to my Stars Over Washington Patreon page exclusively for my special Patreon subscribers who generously support my work here on Stars Over Washington which helps defray expenses. (As can Buying Me a Coffee!) My Thanks to you all, btw!

Meanwhile, here are the four eclipses of 2025 set for Washington DC as a symbol for America; first, the Solar Eclipses:

And below are the Lunar Eclipses. As you see, the first eclipse of 2025 is the Total Lunar Eclipse of March 14th @23Vir56 which conjuncts US 1776 Neptune and squares our 1776 Mars in Gemini. This eclipse ruffles our nation's problematic Mars-Neptune square with its "unconscious habit patterns not appropriate to present reality" (Sakoian and Acker), plus, misdirected motivations, and the fog of war.

Underlying it all is the Moon-Neptune pairing which suggests potentials for refined feelings, subconscious stirrings, faulty assimilation of impressions, illusions and self-deception, oversensitivity, a lack of confidence, strange notions (R. Ebertin) - and the same old mass delusion aligned with our beguiling fantasy that Tr*mp will continue to exploit to the utmost:

Then as our calendars make clear, society begins 2025 with the eclipse energies of the October 2, 2024 8 South Eclipse @10Libra with its difficult themes of loss, partings, and separations. Both Election 2024 and Inauguration 2025 occur under the auspices of the 8 South - and it turns out that freedom is the loser.

On to Solar Eclipse Themes of 2025

9 New North: great physical effort; accidents; sudden physical events; potentials for violent actions; keep a watchful eye on safety; initial 9NN August 21, 1664 @28Leo50; PE of Abraham Lincoln and El*n Mu*k.

9 New South: longterm worries surface concerning health and/or loved ones; issues regarding paperwork or communications; worrisome news with a sense of destiny or fatedness attached, and/or responsibilities with paperwork come home to roost; initial 9NS July 19, 1917 @25Can51 (conjunct US 1776 Mercury: logic required for best results); PE of Charles Koch.

Eclipse info: Brady's Predictive Astrology #ad

Moon, Jupiter, America 2024

by Jude Cowell, still a partisan for the common good

By now the world knows that Donald Tr*mp has coup'd the White House and will be inaugurated into office (his hand on the Bible? How so? Will it be held upside down?) via the Presidential Oath to protect and defend the US Constitution, the freedom document he plans to toss in a trash bin, our civil rights with it. Only czarish oaths to his nibs will have any meaning for Mr. Tr*mp and for VP Vance who will follow him - Vance, put in position by billionaire Peter Thiel. Members of the billionire class have invested a lot of bucks and have big plans for Mr. Vance.

To astrologers not enthralled to the harsh authoritarian mindset, Be Ready To Defend America even as we look back with sad disbelief at yesterday's election and the November 1st predictive New Moon in Scorpio, sign of betrayal. On a personal note, my uncles who fought Nazis in WWII and my Revolutionary War ancestors who sacrificed, fought, and died to help set up this country are cruelly dishonored, if they could know about this fascist coup. Instead, I must know on their behalves. And so I write SO'W for 18+ years while hoping for a better America.

As for Eclipse Cycles repeating through the years and rhyming via similar historical events, 2024 Eclipses are repeating from 1934 in the 8 North and 8 South Series, the year that Herr Ad*lf became president of Germany, if you get my drift; here's the horoscope with astro-notes penned on:

No, our fight for freedom and democracy isn't over, it's beginning!

Yet with the current fascist ascension, we must expect a time of trouble with wild cards such as El*n Mu*k and B*bby Kenn*dy, Jr lined up to take over various departments of government to kleptocratically ruin and embezzle what they can. That's if faithless Tr*mp keeps his promises to them. Subsequently, a Large Looting will ensue with or without them, so a global financial crash is expected, and the crypto-currency hoax will be favored to undermine the US dollar.

Then another cash cow for thieves will be our social safety net programs, now at risk more than ever before, and this itself will undermine the US economy since consumerism and buying power will be significantly reduced or taken away. Obviously, much suffering will result for seniors and others, and America's enemies will be so proud of their favorite insurrectionist fox back in the hen house where he can commit the American Carnage he threatened on Inauguration Day 2017 (horoscope shown). Plus, as you know, the Catholics on the Supreme Court gave him a pass for criminal acts. Word is, prosecutor Jack Smith has closed his investigations of the orange felon and has packed his bags.

Election 2024

So! Very badly done, male voters of America - and the Latino voters who pulled up the ladder behind themselves. You succumbed to the influence of the brooding Scorpio Moon of Inauguration 2017, and allowed moneybags Jupiter in duplicitous Gemini Rx and moving back and forth among Tr*mp's 10th house Sun-North-Node-Uranus trio to seduce you and pretend to add to your bottom lines. Good luck with that, you'll need it with the orange grifter back in the White House running roughshod over our society, animated by the revenge on his mind. You assume that you and yours will be spared his wrath but that's yet to be seen. Look up "cut off nose to spite face" in the dictionary and there you'll be.

Plus, even more women can ble*d out in parking lots for lack of health care, chumps.

Yet another factor may be that the traditional apathy of the American people took over and voters stayed home on the sofa so that others could do the lifting. We discussed this in a vintage Jude's Threshold post concerning the unconscious Uranus-Neptune square of July 4, 1776. (Count their positions backward from Neptune @22Virgo to Uranus @9Gemini; the post displays a Scorpio Rising horoscope but the positions of both planets are the same). This hidden square seems to me to be one of multiple astrological indicators influencing yesterday's pivotal situation, and others past, present, and future.

And though it's beyond the scope of this post, we can even look back as far as certain Jamestown Colony conditions of 1619 if we have the time and interest to do so.

Now here's a bit about the Sabian Symbol of the (2017 and) 2025 Scorpio Moon/s:

9 Scorpio+ rounded-up to "10 Scorpio": "A Fellowship Supper Reawakens Unforgettable Ties": "FRATERNITY; negative expression: surrender of individual distinction and exaltation of naive animality" (Jones). However, the "fraternity" may not be the pro-society kind, more like the hooded kind.

Additionally, here are Horoscopes of the Solar and Lunar Eclipses that influenced Election 2024 and which continue to do so. The first perfected in muddle-headed Pisces, then the 8 South Solar Eclipse manifested with its difficult themes of loss, separation, and sad partings (B. Brady). Astrologers warned but not enough voters listened. Or, too many voters are fans of racism, sadism, Plutonian animalism and criminality on steroids, as it turns out.

Meanwhile, a target is on the US Constitution, as you know, so it may be significant that the freedom document's next Jupiter Return occurs in 2025 - on May 19th to be exact. The document's current return period began on June 5, 2013 @25Gem22 - and Jupiter was conjunct South Node (1Can09) in 1787, with mundane Jupiter being the planet of freedom, freedom of movement, a freedom movement, expansion, and exploration. Yes, Election 2024 Jupiter is in Gemini, as noted, but retrograde. This backward condition did not aid the Harris-Walz Campaign with its freedom slogan and campaign song by Beyonce.

Full Disclosure: here's what I posted in the middle of the night after the American Albatross was declared victorious: An America of Stupid, Self-Destructive People. Obviously, I was feeling very fussy. Were you?

A Related "forewarned is forearmed" Post: Orange Albatross Plans an American "Kristallnacht". If you voted for him and a similar monstrosity occurs, you voted for it.

11 South Eclipses: dissolved systems and removals

by Jude Cowell, partisan for America

In December 2017, we considered the Horoscope of Russia - Flag Raised which marks the official moment that the Soviet Union turned into "Russia." Upheaval in society and in government had been occurring for a few years as we read on the events' Wikipedia page, Dissolution of the Soviet Union. And as you know, "dissolution" is one of mundane Neptune's favorite activities.

Crazily, in the Russia - Flag Raised Horoscope linked, above, the IC (Basis-Foundation-Root Point) is @9Sco58 which conjoins the position of the November 1, 2024 predictive New Moon Prior to our 2024 Election @9Sco35. Also, the Scorpio New Moon Horoscope of November 1st shows Russia's 1991 Venus-Pluto Conjunction in Scorpio rising (21/22 Scorpio) which suggests those who wield a fascinating influence upon the public.

Incidentally, Russia's 1991 IC was conjoined by the Inauguration 2017 Moon @9Sco21 which could add to the case of Russia's multi-pronged pro-Donald interference in our 2016 Election. And/or the contact symbolizes agent Trump's 2017 voters being emotionally all-in with his Russia connection and his idolatry of dictator Put*n. According to the November 1st New Moon, these lunar connections continue.

The Point: 11 South August 2, 2027

Meanwhile - and believe it or not! - the aim of this post is to publish the Horoscope of the 11 South Eclipse of August 2, 2027 @9Leo55 (shown above) with its themes of "systems fail; new methods or ideas are needed to deal with events; any blocks may be violently or tragically removed" (paraphrasing B. Brady).

A sad example of this theme occurred under the influence of the 11 South Eclipse of July 11, 1991 (conjunct Casolaro's natal Mercury - conjunct the sometimes murderous star Castor) for writer Danny Casolaro was "violently or tragically removed" by "suicide" as he worked on a book about a global criminal network he called, The Octopus.

As for Trump himself, will 11 South eclipse energies that conjunct his Pluto = Mars-Saturn in 2027 be utilized by his nibs against others or will they land upon his felony-prone head? Well, since Astrology is an AC-DC type of situation, things could go either way - or both ways all at once.

In closing, if you've so far avoided it, do read the neo-gnatzies' fascist Project 2025 agenda to see what maga extremists hope to have in store for the American people. If their draconian ideas are implemented, conditions in the US will echo those of the Soviet Union in the lead-up to December 25, 1991 when their system of government failed and new ideas were needed.

This is not a comforting post, dear reader, but please remember: forewarned is forearmed.

What's Up, Modern Humanity?

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good

Information found via the Wikipedia page concerning America's Robber baron class of the Gilded Age resonates from the 19th century through to our era of American Plutocracy, corporate fascists, thieving demagogues, corrupt politicians, and others who exploit the masses in order to build and protect their fortunes. Win at any cost is their tiresome refrain, no matter the collateral damage along with the degradation of society.

Meanwhile, adding a bit of Eclipse Astrology to the cosmic picture of anti-societal manipulators obssessed with power and wealth may be of interest to a dear reader such as yourself.

Eclipses Place Historical Events in Context

Themes of 2 Old North, a difficult series of unfortunate news; issues of separation or endings of unions; things look glum but outcomes can be positive if fast action is taken (B. Brady). Is it curious that this happens to be the Prenatal Eclipse Series ('PE') of John Wilkes Booth and Donald Tr*mp, two Mars-Pluto kind of guys?

So below is a list of Solar and Lunar Eclipses for the years 1891 and 1892. The Total Eclipse of influence upon Modern Humanity (as timed by Neptune-Pluto Conjunctions of 1891/92) manifested in the 2 Old North Saros Series on April 26, 1892 @7Tau05:06: that's Venus-ruled Taurus, a money sign of possession, growth, and The Bull of Wall Street. We can add intolerance toward others to the Taurean mix, which is a nice way to avoid mentioning their racism and bigotry.

Eclipses of 1891 and 1892:

Messily penned on the above list are a few notes regarding the prominent, forceful, overriding planetary duo of Mars and Pluto which form a cosmic time link between years 072 and 1892!

Of course, these are not the only cosmic influences during either of those years yet the duo points toward the escalating level of violence of our time now affecting cultures around the world, and with the two planets specifically aligning in opposition in time for US Election 2024 in November with many of America's plutocrats, corporate types, and complicit politicians joined together in league to collapse our country, destroy democracy, and undermine the US dollar so that "crypto-currency" can take over (a la Musk and Thiel in particular, former PayPal partners).

One clue of this? That the initial 2 Old North Eclipse of June 24, 072 was conjoined in July 1776 by America's Jupiter @5Can56 with its revealing Sabian Symbol for "6 Cancer": "Game Birds Feathering Their Nests." And isn't that what corrupt politicians, their greedy enablers, and anti-democracy corporatists have been up to ever since - at our expense? Besides, Jupiter-Eclipse energies combined indicate issues of immorality and unethical behavior.

Neptune-Pluto of the Criminal Underworld

Now according to Astrology, the cosmic clock of Modern Humanity is timed by Neptune Conjunct Pluto 3 times: 1. August 2, 1891 @8Gem38; 2. November 5, 1891 @8Gem19; 3. April 30, 1892 @7Gem42. As you see, a midpoint picture forms with US 1776 Uranus (8Gem55), and humanity remains under its sway of potentials for:

Impersonal attitudes about destructive or antisocial activities; unusual means to escape from or change reality; going to extremes with drugs (M. Munkasey); possibly aberrant behavior; disruption to gain recognition; adventurous ego thrust; making waves to get to shore; courage (N. Tyl); hypersensitive nerves; peculiar discoveries; the mystical or supernatural (R. Ebertin).

(For more information on such topics, you may wish to consult Eric Meece's Horoscope For The New Millennium #ad.)

A Vast Rei*h-Wing Conspiracy of Global Proportions vs Democracy

Among other things, the combined energies of the Neptune-Pluto duo represent Underworld Crime and their Syndicates, often described as organized crime and/or mobsterism. My suspicion is that the 1891/92 conjunctions in early Gemini landing upon US 1776 Uranus and occurring during the Robber baron/Gilded Age time frame spotlights today's crop of Uranian Utopians: the zealots, rebels, secessionists, and anarchists of the Maga persuasion - unethical scofflaws who break laws and traditions with abandon and resent any attempts to hold them accountable. And this is the exact opposite of our framers' founding idea: that man is capable of governing himself - without the oppression of monarchy.

Yes, that's Utopianism for you - the idea that man is in no need of laws and can do as he "will." So perhaps we can agree that many so-called "Maga" folks are linked to criminality yet other associations cannot be ruled out whether involving various trafficking activities, financial and religious scams, protection rackets, bribes and favors, political chicanery and/or the occult.

So this is today's spot check on Modern Humanity. No, we don't actually need Astrology or Eclipses to tell us that things aren't all together peachy at the moment, certainly not for everyone. However, astrological principles can help put things in perspective - at least until we get our ducks in a row - and get them we shall!

It was lightly sketched back in 1984, but here's one now:

The Solar Eclipse of Opus Dei

by Jude Cowell, partisan for American Democracy

During all the brou-ha-ha the last few years as the US Supreme Court bench was successfully populated with the bums of theocratic "conservative" judges through confirmations set up and manipulated by a Federalist Society's right-wing operative named Leonard Leo among others, a secret society known as Opus Dei ("God's work") came to attention within our public discourse.

The group was founded in 1928 under the auspices of the initial (very first) manifestation of a 2 New North Solar Eclipse @26Gem21:51. And perhaps you remember that former AG Bill Barr has been revealed as an Opus Dei member. Perhaps you also remember that the theme of all 2 New North Eclipses are: "The Tower - collapse and rebuild once the dust settles" (B. Brady). Apparently, the group's goal is the collapse of America so that our democratic Republic can be "rebuilt" as a fascist theocracy akin to the Catholic Church - from whence arose Opus Dei. Why, even women were allowed to join in 1930! They must have been seen to be useful after all.

Now I won't dispute the decades of degradation in society - in the US and elsewhere - with the enthusiastic participation of the Entertainment industry (sex sells), but attempting to force one's moral and ethical values on others is a senseless endeavor, unless a resort to cruelty is the point.

For as you know, values must be internal and can never be externally forced or they'll merely be superficial, and not genuine at all. Because historically we have the era of The Inquisition/s as a stark reminder of this.

Mercurial! Opus Dei's Eclipse in Gemini

Now in Mercury-ruled Gemini, solar eclipses bring issues of logic, fluency, and coherence in communications; negatively, they tend toward superficiality, caprice, and/or "talkathons" full of little if any forethought. Polling activities may also turn up under a Gemini eclipse (R. Lineman), plus, the fact vs fiction polarity of mutable Gemini-Sagittarius tends to be ruffled by a "wild card of the Universe" eclipse in Gemini.

And so the Horoscope of the Opus Dei "revelation" (October 2, 1928: thus, its founding), is shown in a dual image, below (upper right) set for "noon". Actually, Madrid, Spain may be the more accurate location but cussedly I've set both charts for Rome, where Vatican City nestles.

As noted, the Opus Dei Society was spawned under, and influenced by, the 2 New North Eclipse of June 17, 1928, as its solar and lunar energies "ran in the background of society." Below, the 1928 Eclipse Horoscope is shown lower left, and both charts display a YOD pattern of karmic opportunity, turning point, a special task, and/or crisis for those who care to use the "Finger of God" pattern which tend to work as timing agents; a generous helping of my study notes are squooshed upon the dual image of charts:

Saturn (old order) and Uranus (new order)

Then as you see, rigid Saturn in religious Sagittarius is prominent (see Saturn-SN notes on chart) as is Uranus in Aries (Utopianism = lawlessness); one spot that "vessel" Trump can be found in the eclipse chart is spiritual planet Neptune conjunct Apollo (the sun god: Sol Invictus?) conjunct Herr T's rising natal Mars in Leo (rising with Apollo and royal star Regulus, it seems). As noted, the theme of 2 New North are those of "The Tower" (#16 Tarot card). How curious that poet W.B. Yeats published one of his most famous collections in 1928 titled: The Tower.

Understandably, my suspicion is that the secretive group's Quest (Jupiter-Chiron) is to force their religious beliefs upon society utilizing a self-righteous assumption of alleged intellectual superiority (Saturn is Sag as Bucket handle). Plus, mention should be included here of the Eclipse Horoscope's Mercury-Pluto Conjunction with its spying tendencies and obsession with other people's secrets.

And the Sabian Symbol of the 2 New North Eclipse degree rounded up?

"27 Gemini": "A Young Gyspy Emerges from the Woods and Gazes at Far Cities." Dr. M. E. Jones gives this Symbol's keyword as, "EXPENDITURE"; and its positive expression as: "self-release in the joy of the accomplishments of the moment; negative (unconscious/shadow side- jc) expression: "complete disinclination to enter into the ordinary relationships of society."

Well, to me this sounds on the holier than thou side. How about you?

Not Another Govt Shutdown!

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good

House Speaker Mike Johnson has set a vote on funding which would push back on yet another (Republican) Government Shutdown. Yet Mr. Johnson is admitting that the situation is iffy.

Remember 2020 when Mr. T instigated a Christmas Government Shutdown? A December Full Moon in Cancer had spotlighted his natal 11th house Mercury @8Can51 And of course, we all know way too well about the old fella's Mercury-Neptune square of deception, fantasy, lack of discrimination - and his sneaky mind (A. Oken). His Gish gallop of lies and propaganda comes with the square for free - such a deal!

Meanwhile, Election 2024 is upon us, and some political wags are saying that Republicans will vote the keep the government open because they don't want to be tarred and feathered by a Tr*mp shutdown just prior to November 5th. Plus, the Senate won't play along in any case, and this limitation may be symbolized by lawmaker Saturn Rx @14Pis40 conjunct the 1854 Neptune of the Republican Party - the grim face of reality transit.

And so another government shutdown may or may not occur this year, but I thought as a dear reader you might wish to view a Horoscope just in case: October 1, 2024 12:01 am edt Washington DC; notable are the several fixed stars conjunct planets:

And here's a dual image of two prior lunations of this October 1st non-event/event: the third "Great American Eclipse" of April 8, 2024 conjunct Chiron in the 8 North Series of dreams and visions (upper right; B. Brady), and the Pisces Lunar Eclipse of September 17, 2024 @25Pis40, also designated a Super Moon (via R. Nolle):

Yet actually, an October 1, 2024 shutdown would practically introduce the next Solar Eclipse of October 2, 2024 in the loss/separation 8 South Saros Series which brings along Election 2024 and Inauguration 2025. The hope I cling to is that the 8 South Eclipse degree of 10Libra falls snugly within Mr. T's natal Neptune-Chiron-Jupiter trio of grand schemes, grifts, and speculation in his 2nd house of Money, Values, Possessions, and Earning Ability.

However, we know that the loss and separation of a government shut down would, as usual, land upon - not just scheming politicians - but on the furloughed and laid-off workers affected, and all of us who depend upon the US government to fulfill its many tasks in a timely manner, automated and otherwise.

For more information on this see 8 South Eclipse Themes Affect Election 2024.