On 7/18/23 at 9:21AM, Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that he received a letter from Jack Smith, Special Counsel on 7/16/23, that he, Trump, is a target in the criminal probe concerning the 1/6 Insurrection.
The news just keeps coming and its no wonder as this is a powerful week in celestial configurations: Monday 7/17/23 was the monthly New Moon @ 24 Cancer in line to an opposition with PlutoRxCapricorn at 29 deg. guaranteeing in-depth and sometimes intense emotional processing. On the same day, the Nodes of the Moon shifted to North Node 29/Aries and South Node 29/Libra immediately squaring PlutoRx/Capricorn at 29 degrees. The Nodes of the Moon are not planets. They are the points where our Moon in its orbit around the Earth crosses the ecliptic (path of all the planets around the Sun). Strong nodal contacts indicate powerful events in the world at large (the Nodes link the Moon, the Earth and the Sun in their cycle). The Nodal shift triggers the powerful Solar Eclipse of 4/20/23 at 29 Aries – again at the unpredictable 29th degree. On Thursday 7/20/23, Mars/Virgo opposes SaturnRx/Pisces. This is typically an aspect of gravitas, of accountability and responsibility. In an opposition, we might say that there is a challenge to integrity or right action. On Friday, 7/21/23 the Sun/Cancer forms its yearly opposition to Pluto/Capricorn at 29 deg. You’ve heard me write about the 29th degree, called an anoretic degree indicating a culmination, expulsion/expression of one sign’s energies with elements of volatility – it’s a peak and a pivotal shift from one mode or sign to another. On Saturday, 7/22/23, the Sun enters fiery Leo and Venus/Leo turns Retrograde at 28 degrees clicking into the 29-degree aspects as described above.
Powerful celestial forces accumulating are expressing the tension that is currently playing out in the news on many levels. If anyone has planets or points at 27-29 or even 0deg., life will serve up some key events. The anxiety stirred up by the potential second indictment of a former President in a very serious criminal case is stressing and straining the foundations of our democracy. We have never experienced such a situation in our country’s history. It’s frightening, appalling, disconcerting and deeply disturbing. How will we manage it?
As you look at the lines on the chart and the degrees mentioned you can follow along even though you may be new or newer to astrology. Note that Neptune/Pisces is also very much in this planetary picture. At 27 degrees it forms a sextile (60deg.) with Pluto/Capricorn and completes a YOD with Venus/Leo. A YOD, often called the “Finger of God” is composed of two planets sixty degrees apart and both of them forming a 150deg. connection to a third planet (the pointer), in this case Venus/Leo poised to turn retrograde at 28 deg. on Saturday 7/22/23. It is in high focus in the chart, sitting at the Ascendant or Rising Sign. Trump’s birth chart Ascendant is 29 Leo, so it is not surprising that his life is highly activated currently. Notice that the chart of 7/18/23 mimics Trump’s Ascendant within a degree and reinforces Venus’ role of justice and that he, personally, must answer to the summons of this powerful Venus retrograde cycle. Venus return to 28/29 degrees (after its retro cycle) between 10/6-10/10/23.
We’ve discussed the key summer aspect, Venus Retrograde in a previously posted article. Venus is close to the degree of the Royal Star Regulus, pointing to the affairs of kings or leaders in our current world. Because it is at the apex of the YOD, its role as the fiery, courageous, bold warrior queen is in high focus and its aim is to remind us of what it stands for. Above all, Venus asks us to answer the question of what is fair, just, and lawful. Venus, after all, balances the scales of justice. Are those in high places beyond the reach of the law? Why should they be?