Astro-Politics: Donald Trump is on Fire

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The Astrology of Politics: Donald Trump is on Fire

by Kathy Biehl

Has anyone noticed how rash, angry, outrageous and inescapable Donald Trump has been this summer? It’s been hard to miss, right? There’s an astrological reason for it. Actually, maybe five. And some of it is coming to a head, big time, at the Leo New Moon on August 14. Let us check into Donald Trump’s politically charged astro forecast. First, the build-up:

(1) Radical, rebellious Uranus, in shoot-first, aim-later Aries, is in an open flow to Donald Trump’s Sagittarius Moon. (View his birth chart at Astrodatabank.) That Moon placement is prone to foot-in-mouth disease by itself; with the Uranian contact any semblance of controls has shattered and a loose cannon has been unleashed, reckless, combative, and unrepentant. That’s been pumped up to extremes by Jupiter in Leo, traveling through Donald Trump’s 12th house, the house of self-undoing, and what I call “the back of the head,” the part of the self that is hidden to the conscious personality. The pumping up hit new heights at the end of June, when Jupiter trined Uranus. Since then, Uranus has come within a degree of trining Donald Trump’s Moon. Think of that as going to the brink of the boiling point without quite reaching it. It’s making him a human Molotov cocktail, uncontrollable to the powers that be (cowering over in Pluto, in status-quo Capricorn).

(2) Add to this the activity around Donald Trump’s Leo ascendant. If the birth time at Astrodatabank is correct, Trump has 29 Leo rising, the very last degree of the sign of the king, right on top of Regulus, the fixed star of royalty. This translates into a showy personality and larger-than-life sense of self and entitlement. Two important transits have been whipping that up: (a) a square from Saturn retrograding in Scorpio, all summer long, in Donald Trump’s 4th house of home and security, which has been dredging up fears and beasties (one case in point: the immigration rhetoric), and (b) Venus retrograding in Leo, back into his 12th house of the unconscious and self-undoing, and squaring that Saturn in Scorpio (see, e.g., the inflammatory comments about women).

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