A Progressive Presidency

So here we are with a new Presidency coming up next week, which means it’s time to check out the national weather forecast and see what the next four years will bring.

We’ll start with the forecast for the nation, and then see what Biden, Harris, and Trump have going on.

US transits

Saturn

The good news is Saturn will be bringing a bunch of transits that are very good for the government to be working efficiently and things flowing well.

Saturn trine Uranus  Feb - Nov 2021
The structure and authority of Saturn working well with humanitarian Uranus

Saturn trine Saturn  Jan 2022
Good for building structures, government working well

Saturn trine Mars  Mar - Dec 2022
Working efficiently, good use of energy

Saturn conjunct Moon  Jan - Feb 2023
Depressive, our emotions being weighed on

Saturn trine Venus  Mar - Dec 2023
Good for investments, finances

Saturn trine Jupiter  Apr 2023 - Jan 2024
Good for expanding things, moving right along

Saturn square Uranus  Feb 2024
Tense time when authority resists change

Saturn square Ascendant  Mar - Nov 2024
Frustrating time, for discipline and focus and slowly making progress

Saturn trine Sun  Mar - Dec 2024
Productive time, a good wind at your back

So, to sum up, a very good period of efficient government, with the only times of tension being Jan-Feb 2023, and most of 2024.

Uranus

Uranus, too, starts us off with a good transit to our Sun, helping with creative change, and then will be trine Neptune, bringing in more compassion and a higher way.

But then it’ll be square our Moon, showing unexpected emotions and wanting to break free, for May 2024 - March 2026, while at the same time working well with our Midheaven.

Uranus sextile Sun  June 2020 - April 2022
Uranus trine Neptune  April 2023 - May 2024
Uranus square Moon  May 2024 - March 2026
Uranus trine Midheaven  Aug 2024 - March 2027

So again, things go well until 2024.

Neptune

First Neptune was opposite our Ascendant for March 2015 to Sept 2017, wrapping the country in a fog of deceit and delusion, where people weren’t seeing clearly.

And since April 2019, Neptune has been square our Mars, which is like drunk driving in the fog, and it will continue through March 2022. So we’re most of the way through this period of confusion and misguided action, with a year to go.

At the same time, we’ve had Neptune opposite our Neptune for the past two years, with two years to go. This one is about connecting with bigger ideas and becoming wiser and more empathetic. But if you resist it, you can clamp down in confusion and fear. One can see how this has played into the pandemic, where half the country works together as one and feels for the medical workers, and the other half refuses that and demands things to stay the same.

The good news is Neptune is just coming into a trine with Mercury - communications and thinking - for the next two years, bringing positive inspiration and music and art.

The troubling thing is, from early 2024 through 2026, it’ll be opposite our Midheaven, or public standing and government, showing how for the next election the fog machines will be on full again and many will be misguided in who to trust and the best path to take.

Neptune square Mars  April 2019 - Feb 2022
Neptune opposite Neptune  May 2019 - Jan 2023
Neptune trine Mercury  Feb 2021 - Feb 2023
Neptune opposite Midheaven  Feb 2024 - Jan 2027

Pluto

Pluto is the one who set the stage for everything that happened in 2020, and as I wrote in my other reports, those revolutionary changes will be with us for a few years to come. Things should ease off, though, after Dec 2023.

Then Pluto will be trine our Midheaven, showing the potential for a transformation of our government, or at least using the government’s power well.

Pluto conjunct Pluto  Jan 2020 - Dec 2023
Pluto trine Midheaven  Jan 2022 - Dec 2024

Chiron

Chiron signifies the wounded healer and at times shows periods of public grief.

The times to watch for are Jan 2021, and then Mar 2022 to Feb 2023, when it will square our Sun. The Sun represents father figures, so this could show something will happen to Biden. The same for Feb-Mar 2023, when it will be opposite Saturn, who represents authority. They overlap in Feb 2023, so that could be a time of such a loss.

Chiron will then return to its place in our chart, as it does every fifty years or so, for April 2024 to Feb 2025. This would show a reckoning with the issues we need to heal, and with it being an election year, all those issues will come to the fore again, as well as resistance to them.

Progressions

Our progressions, or the slow-moving transits that work mostly out of sight on our emotions and awareness instead of in outer events, look good. They last for a month, and the best times are June 2021, Nov 2021, and Feb, April, and Oct 2023.

The whole year of 2022, and especially around Sept, will be heightened emotionally when our progressed Moon returns to its place for the first time in 28 years. This can be a time of fulfillment as well, but it’s often a time of reckoning with your life and the choices you’ve made and deciding what you want from life. Everyone gets this at age 28 and again at 56, and the last few times the nation had it were Nov 1967, when we had the March on Washington to protest the Vietnam War, and April 1995, when we had the Oklahoma City bombing.


Biden transits

Now let’s look at what our next President will be going through.

Saturn trine Saturn  Mar - Dec 2021
Excellent for authority, government, all organized

Saturn opposite Pluto  Jan - Oct 2021
Can’t make changes you want, conflict, power struggles

Saturn square Mars  Mar - Dec 2021
Held back, frustrated

Saturn square Mercury  Mar - Dec 2022
Negative thinking

Saturn square Sun  Jan - Feb 2023
Challenges to your position, a time of struggle, discipline

Saturn opposite Chiron  Feb 2023
Some kind of wounding to his authority

Saturn square Uranus  Mar - Dec 2023
Can’t make changes you want, frustration

Saturn square Ascendant  Mar - Dec 2023
A stern, strict time, focus on work

Saturn square Saturn  Feb 2024
Challenges in your life, hard times, need to focus

So yeah, not a good time by far. He’s got one good one for most of 2021, but it can’t offset the two difficult ones for that year. 2022 won’t be as bad, but 2023 will be even worse. Lots of challenges, hard times getting things moving, frustrations, and so on. But he’s gone through all these before, and he knows how to get through tough times.

Uranus

His Uranus transits aren’t any better.

Uranus square Pluto  May 2019 - Feb 2021
Uranus opposite Mars  May 2020 - Mar 2022
Uranus trine Midheaven  May 2022 - Mar 2024
Uranus opposite Mercury  Jun 2022 - Apr 2024

This shows tension with trying to implement changes, and outright opposition from angry Mars. Then he’ll have a good patch with the trine to his Midheaven, helping him be more dynamic and innovative, and the opposition to Mercury at the same time, which is like having lots of coffee, in that it’s great for lots of communications and ideas and looking at things in new ways, but be careful of getting frazzled. Also, travel might not work out well, with unexpected events.

Neptune

Neptune is actually all good, once Biden gets past the opposition to his Midheaven in February, which clouded his public persona and shows all the deceit that’s been cast on his election.

Neptune opposite Midheaven  Feb 2019 - Jan 2022
Neptune trine Mercury  Apr 2019 - Feb 2022
Neptune trine Jupiter  Mar 2021 - Dec 2024
Neptune trine Sun  Mar 2022 - Oct 2024
Neptune trine Venus  Apr 2022 - March 2025

All of these show compassion, kindness, and looking for the higher way. Under these transits, you’d want to care for the sick and then listen to cat Stevens while relaxing on the back porch. Hopefully they’ll bring him some peace amidst all this hectic politics.

Pluto

For the last two years and this year, Pluto will give him energy, but it might be too combative, or he may go too far with use of power, or being too righteous. Fortunately he’s been using it well.
And then for next year through 2024, he’ll be facing deep emotional issues, conflict with the people, or threats to his home, which for the President would represent the nation.

Pluto opposite Jupiter  Jan 2019 - Dec 2021
Pluto square Moon  Feb 2022 - Dec 2024

Progressions

Biden’s worst progressions were actually last year, including a depressive aspect for Dec 2020, when he was being held back in the transition.

But it will be trine Mars in Feb 2021, giving him energy, opposite his Midheaven in Aug-Sept 2021, showing struggles with his public image, and then good trines to his Jupiter and Sun and Venus for Jan - Apr 2022. It’ll go into energetic Aries in May 2022, and July to Nov 2022 are good, too.

During all of 2023, though, his progressed Venus will be square Saturn, bringing depression.

And in Sept 2024, it’ll be conjunct his own Moon, showing heightened emotions (the same aspect the nation has for Sept 2022).


Harris transits

A clue to how Biden’s presidency will go might be found in his Vice President’s transits. (For an example, when trying to see if Trump would win the election, I found Pence’s transits showed he’d be feeling depressed in December and held back in January.)

Harris has had a challenging 2020, with Saturn square her Moon and her Sun and Mercury as well. I haven’t seen any reports of her struggling, but it’s definitely been hard on her, and she’s risen to the challenge well.

Saturn opposite Mars  Mar - Dec 2022
Frustration, feeling held back

Saturn trine Ascendant  April 2022 - Jan 2023
Great for making headway, disciplined, focused

Saturn trine Sun  Jan-Feb 2023
Great for leadership

Saturn conjunct Saturn  Jan-Feb 2023
One’s Saturn Return, often a time of promotion

Saturn conjunct Midheaven  Mar - Dec 2023
Assuming authority

Looking at those transits, she’ll feel a bit held back and frustrated for most of 2022, and then, in Jan 2023, everything will open. Not only a great trine to her Sun, but it’s her Saturn Return, where every 29 years Saturn returns to where it was when you’re born. It’s a time of advancement and promotion. And while it’s exact for Jan-Feb 2023, the Saturn Return often works for a full year ahead of that, so all of 2022 is in play as well. But since Saturn will be conjunct her Midheaven, or public standing, starting in March 2023, it points to early 2023 as when she’ll become President or assume a greater role.

Uranus

Harris has three great Uranus transits from Midheaven 2021 to early 2023, giving her plenty of energy for all things that are inventive, electric, and transforming things for the better.

But then, starting in June 2022, Uranus is square Mars, which would not only make her a bit rebellious and acting out in sudden, angry ways, but could in itself signify being the target of such anger.

Uranus trine Uranus  July 2021 - April 2022
Uranus trine Pluto  May 2021 - Feb 2023
Uranus trine Venus  July 2021 - April 2023
Uranus square Mars  June 2022 - March 2024

Neptune

For Neptune transits, she has just one, a square to her Ascendant, that would make her a bit more sensitive and maybe not seeing things clearly.

Neptune square Ascendant  May 2020 - Feb 2023

Pluto

Pluto has been trine her Jupiter the last few years, which is an excellent transit for effective energy, especially for justice and reforming things. That one is over last month, leaving two very difficult transits.

Pluto square Moon  Feb 2020 - Dec 2022
Pluto square Sun  Feb 2020 - Jan 2023

We covered Pluto in the 2020 report, so you know these are difficult transits. Pluto square her Moon would make her emotionally volatile, hurt, and could bring grief. The same with the aspect to the Sun. In her chart she has Pluto in the Fourth House, so this means this might involve issues of the home and her mother.

She and Biden have their Moon is almost the same place, which shows they understand each other well. Biden has his Pluto square Moon transit a little after hers, but they overlap for all of 2022.

Progressions

For April this year, her progressed Moon will be square Mars, showing anger and conflict. For October, she’ll feel held back and weighed with responsibilities.

It will then be square her Midheaven in Jan 2022, showing some struggle with her public image.

Strangely enough, she, too, has her progressed Venus square her Saturn, a once-in-a-lifetime progression, and hers will be for Sept 2021 to Sept 2022, a year before Biden’s.

She’ll be wound up emotionally in Oct 2022, and for mid-Nov to mid-Dec could be an emotional wounding and conflict.

Her progressed Moon is conjunct her Ascendant in mid-June to mid-July 2023, which is like a new beginning, and she has good aspects for Sept and Oct 2023, and Jan 2024, that will help with leadership.


Patterns

In reading those you probably noticed the same pattern, where Jan-Feb 2023 came up and again and again. This suggests a turning point there, and it doesn't look like a good one. If Biden relinquishes being President at any point, whether due to health, resigning, or an unforeseen act, it would most likely be then.

But I could well be wrong about this. I said Pence might assume the Presidency when he had his Saturn Return in 2018, and I'm saying the same now about Harris. But he didn’t have the full collection of transits that Biden, Harris, and the nation have here.


Synastry

I would be remiss if I didn’t mention a few troubling aspects between Biden’s chart and the nation’s chart.

First, here’s how I wrote about Trump, back before he took office.

That’s it for his transits, which show his administration beginning with frustration and ending with even more of it. But we can also check his synastry (compatibility) with the US chart.

Trump’s Sun is conjunct our nation’s Mars, which means he feels he represents our military. His Sun and Moon are also both square our nation’s Neptune and Midheaven, showing he can’t be trusted to tell us the truth and he’s not good for our public standing in the world.

His Mars is opposite our Moon, which shows his anger will strongly effect our emotions.

And finally, his Neptune is conjunct the US’s Midheaven. Since Neptune rules illusions, and the Midheaven the place of public standing and career, this shows him born to be our Bullshitter in Chief. We won’t be able to believe a thing he says.

All that turned out accurate, and yet Biden's synastry with the nation's chart is actually worse.

 

First, Biden’s Moon is square our Pluto, showing how he riles up strong emotions.

His Sun, Mercury, Venus, Uranus, and Ascendant are all square our Moon, showing conflict with the nation’s emotions.

His Midheaven is square our Mars, which connects his public status and anger from the people.

 

And finally, just as with Trump and everyone their age, his Neptune is conjunct our Midheaven, showing deception from a leader. Biden also has the flipside of that, where his Midheaven is conjunct our Neptune. These show he may be just as deceptive as Trump has been. The good news is that Biden doesn't have Mercury square Neptune in his birthchart as Trump does, where you're always seeing things the way you want to and then lying about it, but instead has Neptune sextile his Sun and Venus, making him more kind and compassionate.

Summing Up

For the nation, the first three years of this next administration should work well. There will be the usual political arguments, and Pluto is far from through with the changes it wants to make, but at least the government will be working efficiently and at its proper tasks.

Once 2024 comes along, though, there will be tension and emotional upheaval, and Neptune will come in to cloud things up and take away the brief respite of clarity the nation had, just as we enter another election year.

And for Biden, he'll have a rough patch for the next four years. But he knew it’d be hard, and knew he was the only one who could do it. It's just that the toll of the next two years might be too much, to where Harris has to step up at the start of 2023.

January Update: Capitol Offences

It’s been four days since the Assault of the Capitol. In my last report I mentioned how Trump has Jupiter opposite his Pluto for all of January, and how it can spur one to go too far with abuses of power. From Robert Hand's Planets in Transit:

 

Sometimes this transit can stimulate a rather ruthless desire to get ahead. Most of us are tempted to cut corners, but that can have very unfortunate consequences, for this transit can indicate trouble with the law or even arrest. In fact you should do as little as possible to arouse the authorities against you, because this transit is so likely to create just that problem.

 

On that day Trump also had the Sun square his Jupiter, which is a smaller, one-day version of that, and it definitely brought about all the negative repercussions.

 

Neptune Blues

On the blog here I haven't yet written about two Neptune transits that have had a strong effect on what we're going through. First, Neptune is square the nation's Mars right now, making everyone easily deceived. This is how I wrote of it back in my 2018 Report.

 

Looking ahead, Neptune will be square our nation’s Mars from April 2019 – Feb 2022. This doesn’t bode well, since Neptune rules delusion and confusion, and Mars rules machines and war. When Mars is square Neptune, there’s a two-day transit that often involves drunk driving or getting lost in the fog, as when John Kennedy Jr. lost his way when flying his airplane to Nantucket. This is a three-year version of that, where our direction won’t be clear. And again, with the next election, deception will loom large.

 

I didn't expect the deception to be pushed even harder after the election, but here we are, with a good portion of the country believing the election was stolen. What Robert Hand says about this transit definitely sums up the rioters:

Another danger with this transit is that you may become wrapped up in fighting for some terribly idealistic cause that has little chance of succeeding or of giving you any real satisfaction. All that you can count on is that you will be required to surrender your individuality for a "higher purpose," which usually turns out to be someone else's ego.

 

Also, for where it all started, Trump himself has Neptune square both his Sun and Moon for 2020-2022, seriously warping his perspective and judgment. Here's how I wrote of it in 2018:

 

Neptune rules fog and delusion, and so there’s a much greater chance of both him gaslighting and himself being the victim of deception. It might also show a mental decline. It most likely signifies how he’ll be spreading conspiracy theories after leaving office and believing them as well.

 

Pluto: And Revolution in the Air

 

In 2020: The Year of Pluto I covered how Pluto, in returning for the first time to the place it was when the nation was born, brought about much the same feeling of the Revolution with all the racial and alt-right protests in 2020, and how that will go through the next two years.

And what you've seen from those who took over the federal buildings in Michigan and now the Capitol, these are the types of people who actually started the Revolution. Those easily angered by propaganda, like the wildly inaccurate sketch of The Boston Massacre, and quick to use violence to force their way, as when they destroyed the Royal Governor’s mansion or burned the harbor master's own boat when he impounded a ship John Hancock was using to smuggle wine. Even smearing feces, as they did in the Capitol, was a common tactic in threatening Loyalists with warnings on the walls of their homes. And without even knowing of astrology, many of those extremists are pushing this theme, as when Lin Wood, one of the prominent conspiracy theorists, declared, “It’s 1776 in America again, and you’re not gonna take our freedom. We’re gonna fight for our liberty.”

 

Michael Lutin saw this coming all the way back in 2006 and wrote about it in Vanity Fair in an article called “Special Alert: Horoscope U.S.A.” You can find it online, but he goes off on tangents, so here’s the key parts.

A planetary configuration not seen since 1776 is coming our way, heralding chaos, revolution, and rebirth... Pluto rules over mass movements and great political and social changes.

 
A Pluto-style transformation doesn’t happen overnight, and events that seem at first random and explosive don’t come out of nowhere. They have been brewing and simmering for years.

And now we're right in the middle of it.

Pluto: The Shadow on the News

In the 2020 report I wrote about how Pluto can signify the shadow. The part of ourselves we reject and hold at a distance, much like Pluto itself, which was rejected even as a planet. And how Pluto transits, like the Pluto Return the nation is going through now, dredges up that shadow—all the things that need to be cleared—and makes us face them. 

 

Scrolling through Twitter the last few months, many political commentators noticed this theme playing out as well.

When Trump turned over the rock on underbelly of America, I had no idea how much putrescence would crawl out. We’ve got a problem, America.
- Jonathan Benner @BennerJonathan

 
It makes me think of Carl Jung's concept of the Shadow: Trump and his supporters are a manifestation of the unacknowledged parts of our collective national consciousness...and at some point we need to recognize and deal with it.
- Asha Rangappa @AshaRangappa

The president’s effect is to embolden white supremacists, violent militias and anti-government extremists. He has been warned of this numerous times, yet he persists. He knows. He just does not care. And the country, I fear, will pay the price.
- Bill Kristol @BillKristol, Washington Post, 10/16/20

 

This is one of the major and necessary lessons of Trumpian pathocracy, and one that we've had to learn. Trumpism is a much needed confrontation with our shadow, showing us the unwanted, dark and repressed parts of ourselves as individuals and a nation. But also the hidden good.
- Elizabeth Mika @yourauntemma

It’d be nice to say all that is behind us, but Pluto will be conjunct our Pluto for another two years, so there’s still lots of work to do on that front. Expect the issues of 2020—including racial injustice and tearing down old foundations built on those injustices, from statues to statutes—to stay with us and be resisted even as the ground shifts.

 

What’s Next

 

In my last report I mentioned how January could be rife with danger, especially right before and during the Inauguration. This means the Assault on the Capitol might be only the beginning.

 

In fact, just two days ago, Twitter authorities mentioned Jan 17th as a date that’s been mentioned as the second assault, and it’s one of the days I included in my warning last week.

The situation is that Mars and Uranus are right together now, as are Saturn and Jupiter, and both are in tense square aspects of 90 degrees to each other.

You can see that here, on Inauguration Day at noon, with Mars and Uranus over at 9 o'clock, and all those red lines up to Jupiter and Saturn together at the top.  Also, look at how the Sun and Pluto, conjunct exactly on the 13th, are on each side of the Midheaven (MC).

So the whole world has Jupiter square Uranus this month, which spurs people to do all they can to break free of restrictions, and then Saturn square Uranus all year, where authorities and the law put brakes on that freedom.

 

And to top off those aspects, during the next few weeks the Sun and Mars are going to go through and touch on all those points of tension, lighting it all up.

Mars square Saturn      1/8-12
Sun conjunct Pluto       1/13
Mars conjunct Uranus  1/15-20
Mars square Jupiter     1/18-22
Sun conjunct Saturn    1/23
Sun square Uranus      1/25
Sun square Mars         1/30

 

Summary

 

Those dates match up with the nation’s transits and Biden’s transits, especially for the 17-20th, as I wrote about in my Inauguration 2021 post. It could simply signify all the anger and protests, but it's definitely troubling to see. Especially when so many of those set against Trump losing the Presidency are veterans, and the most dangerous of them know how to keep a low profile and were trained to work alone or in pairs.

 

How it will all play out, I don’t know. If we can make it through the month without another tragic event, we’ll be doing well. But things could definitely ramp up quickly from the 13th on.