Astrological Research Findings

  Donald Trump demonstrates power by humiliating and defeating others. To Trump power means a crude and cruel infliction of pain. The image below is how he is imagined leaving the Oval Office. This is both funny and sad. Trump can't admit he is a loser. He is dependent on the adoration of others to feel good. Astrologically, this is indicated by his Saturn being in conjunction to Venus and also quincunx to his Moon. He risked millions of lives with his insane rallies because adoration was more important to him than the lives of those people. It is no accident that Coronavirus is spiking in places he visited and that over 130 Secret Service agents tested positive. Trumpism has become a death cult. Trump has been dislodged from the summit of power. For an insecure narcissist it must feel like death. He is rage tweeting and denying that he lost. The Republicans are afraid to confront him. Mary Trump believes he will break as many things as he can on his way out. Lawsuits and jail awai...

  Donald Trump is a "stable genius" of sorts. He is a genius at lying and disinformation. Until he is caught on tape, of course. His facility with lying is impressive. He is all about "winning" and "winning" is about getting what he wants, be it power, admiration, money, or indulging himself with sex or food. If how he goes about "winning" is distasteful to the public he covers it up with lies. This is how he wants to treat the Coronavirus epidemic. It is inconvenient to his re-election so he lies about it and people die. This is shocking in a man who is supposed to run the country and care  about public good. It becomes so much clearer that Trump just cares about Trump. To Trump the 330,000,000 Americans are just pawns: "suckers" and "losers".  It is curious that these appalling facts came to light on September 9, 2020. Is there something astrologically special about this day? If we look at the transiting planets for 9-9-2020...

Mary L. Trump told Donald Trump that he has never been loved. The circumstances of his childhood were such that he missed out on the attention and love most children receive. What approval he got was from meeting his father's expectations. Fred Trump Sr. wanted his sons to be ruthless "killers" like he was. Donald seemed successful on the surface, but under the thin veneer there was a wounded child. Donald's basic nature is sensitive and vengeful. His tactic became to strike back, to hide his weakness. His early signature reveals his sensitivity. Later he replaced it with an aggressive signature. The two signatures are shown below. Astrologically, Trump's sensitivity is based on the conjunction of Venus and Saturn in Cancer in his natal chart. Saturn is the planet of limitations. Trump feels that he is not getting enough from relationships (Venus). Cancer is the sign of emotions, protectiveness and reliance on family. The lack of emotional support i...

Weak people don't like to acknowledge their weaknesses because they are not strong enough to withstand the truth. But if they don't acknowledge where they are weak, they can't improve. Their self-worth needs to be reinforced by other people.  We are seeing these character flaws play out catastrophically with Donald Trump. He is vain, shallow, uninformed and endlessly preoccupied with how he appears: not how most people actually see him, but how he thinks they see him. Whenever he is criticized it is "fake news". This weekend, July 4th, he again risked the lives of his followers who attended his events with no social distancing. His need for adoration leads him to appeal to the most fringe elements which are still with him. The idea of putting his face next to the great American presidents at Mt. Rushmore is beyond deluded. Trump will continue to inflame his base because they make him feel powerful. He totally depends on their love and adoration. It is a ...

Trump rolled into the White House with very inflated expectations, bouyed by his large ego, and hypersensitive to any criticism. He managed to consolidate power, especially through the aid of A.G. Barr. But, time has revealed that he is not up to the task. If we just look at the Astrological signs in his chart, we can get a pretty good idea of his limitations. His Natal Chart with transiting planets is shown below. The breakdown of signs and planets is as follows: Gemini (Sun, Uranus, North Node) - scattered attention, duplicitous, superficial, rebellious Cancer (Mercury, Venus, Saturn) - deeply immersed and protected by family, clannish Leo (Mars, Ascendant, Pluto) - aggressive, sensitive to image, inflated, "I alone can fix it." Libra (Neptune, Chiron, Jupiter) - socially astute Sagittarius (Moon) - tries various ventures but does not follow through, mythologizing Aries (Eris) - chaos and discord, prolific liar and instigator This is it folks! Ther...

Astrologically, the transiting Mars, currently at 22 degrees Aquarius (May 1, 2020), is fast approaching the exact opposition to Trump's natal Mars at 26 degrees Leo and to his Ascendant at 29 degrees Leo. The trigger-happy Trump is very likely to attack, find a scapegoat, possibly China. The exact for Mars will be on May 8, 2020 and for the Ascendant on May 11, 2020. The chart for Trump natal planets and transits for May 8, 2020 are shown below: Previously, when transiting Mars was in conjunction to Trump's natal Mars he attacked immigrants, bold eagles and fired Peter Strzok, all rather easy targets. When transiting Mars touched Trump's Pluto in 2019 he targeted Democratic congresswomen at a MAGA rally with his supporters threatening to "Send her back". With transiting Mars in opposition to Trump's natal Mars and Ascendant, and with transiting Jupiter in quincunx to the same planets, Trump is likely to attack someone he can label as an enemy. With hi...

We are disappointed daily by Donald J. Trump. There is no evidence of humanity or reason. We are left with the stark realization that Trump is just an animal in human form. There is no great strategy to his behavior, as some strive to find. He is living for what feels good in the moment. He lashes out when he is questioned and challenged. He says what makes him look good in the moment. Truth does not matter. Trump's appeal is to people's baser instincts: selfishness, racism, greed. We should remember that he ran for presidency as a vanity project. He let it all hang out, which some people thought was genuine and just what the country needed. But, he never ran to help other people. It was all about attention getting and parading in front of cameras. Now we are living with the appalling realization that he will let tens of thousands die because he sees no benefit to himself in helping them. He gets perverse pleasure out of the pain people who dislike him are suffering. Covid-19...

For the past three years we have watched the Trump train steam past caution signs, roll over stop signs, ignoring laws, norms, and even reality. The Trump base on board was delighted by every unhinged norm-breaking and humanity-denying move. "Let Trump be Trump", they said. But now, the train's controls are being taken over and the beast inside is trapped. It is fitting that the person taking control is Nancy Pelosi, a real-life mother of 5 and the great congressional "mother" of 435. She knows how to deal with unruly children. The quote: "Character is destiny" is attributed to the Greek philosopher Heraclitus. In Astrology we believe that much of a person's character is shaped by the archetypal energies that were dominant at the time of birth. The natal chart is a basic blueprint of character. Most people strive consciously to improve their character through learning, but there is not much evidence that Trump bothered to do so. If anything, ...

As Trump continues to destabilize the world through reckless actions, are we headed for another war? Does Donald Trump have it within him to cause violence and mass destruction? He did say that a nuclear war is winnable. When we think of the most destructive leader in world history we think of Adolf Hitler. With Hitler we know what he was capable of. With Trump that is still unknown and that is what I wish to address. Is Trump driven by similar subconscious motives that drove Hitler? Trump and Hitler both tapped into the racial grievances of the White masses. When the economy is not serving people they tend to want to eliminate those they see as competition. For Hitler Jews, Gypsies and other "lesser" ethnic groups were the targets. For Trump it is Muslims, Latinos and Blacks. Both employed brutal tactics to inflict pain on these minorities. Both Trump and Hitler personally felt hatred for these groups. Both had visions of a perfect state with a master race in charge....

Are Donald Trump and Boris Johnson the right men for our times?  Do they really reflect where their countries are at this time?  It depends on whom you ask. The progressives would clearly say "No" because the chain of progress seems to have been  broken. Most of the less educated folks would say that it is time to dig in for a national identity, to bring back a more glorious past (MAGA) when they felt more honored and less threatened. The threat is to their majority, as the influx of browner immigrants is rising in number and status. This fear is at a primitive visceral level. They let the herd instinct take over. These are the people of the MAGA rallies. They are also the more economically threatened people. But, the top 1% has hitched on to this populist movement because they see that immigrants are scapegoated and not the 1% that keeps the wages stagnant and opportunities limited. Since we live in "democratic" countries, those who come out to vote...

Well, I wondered what Trump would attack when the transiting Mars was in exact conjunction to his natal Mars (August 12-13, 2019)? It turns out that he attacked immigrants and bold eagles. I was afraid he might do something drastic in foreign policy, but no, he'd rather attack those who can fight back the least. Meanwhile, he is exchanging love letters with Kim Jong un. What other nasty things have happened as Trump's planets are activated? I have previously talked about El Paso when several points on Trump's chart were activated (see previous blog: "El Paso: Echoes of Trump"). On July 17, 2019 the transiting Mars hit Trump's Pluto at 10 degrees Leo. Pluto is associated with elimination, destruction and transformation. This was the day of the MAGA rally when they started chanting :"Send her back!" This came as a response to Trump's attacks on the four congresswomen of color. Trump targeted them for elimination. The chant reverberated thro...

With Donald Trump in office the US is each day descending deeper into his insanity. His influence is getting stronger with his control over the Senate, DOJ, possibly intelligence agencies, DOD, cabinet loyalists, right wing media, etc. His base is becoming more unhinged with each rally. When horrible things happen in the world like El Paso, they do not happen by logic or reason. Their source are primitive emotions that break through civilized defenses. Trump is appealing to the unconscious. He is stoking fear and hatred of the other to incite his base. He appeals to the basest emotions. It is what inspires him. It so happens that the collective unconscious reflects the energies of the planetary bodies in our Solar System. We are primitively attuned to the energies of the planets, fixed for each of us at our time of birth. We express these energies unconsciously throughout our life, unless we take the trouble to become conscious of them. They express mostly in our attitudes toward o...

Trump has now succeeded in literally becoming what his father groomed him to be, a "killer". Trump did not pull the trigger, but he triggered a hate-filled racist man to do it for him. In the wake of the El Paso massacre we need to better understand the mind of Trump and what he is capable of doing. How far is he willing to go to save himself from going to jail? When I watched the video of Trump "condemning" violence, it was a disembodied voice delivering the speech. The message is that he does not believe what he is saying. His eyes were squinting and his face was stretched into a weird sort of grin, as if internally he was pleased. People still give him the benefit of the doubt, that he will do the morally right thing. But that will not happen. He will take them for fools again. Since we can not get Trump on a psychiatrist's couch we need to resort to more indirect techniques to understand his psyche. First, I will examine Trump's main weakness th...