Election Day 2020 Astrology
Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Wendell C. Perry, author of the new Behind the Horoscpe.
A lot of astrologers are looking at the chart for Election Day 2020 (Nov. 3) with trepidation, mostly because Mercury will be retrograde for much of the day. (It goes direct at 12:50 PM EST.) They remember the Mercury retrograde election of 2000 and that long, exhausting recount. However, we’ve had elections with Mercury retrograde in which the mechanism of voting worked without a hitch. The most recent was the 1980 election. What has me worried about the 2020 election is not so much what Mercury is doing, it’s what I see in the chart for the Full Moon on Oct. 31.
On my website (goodgollyastrology.com) I look at the charts for the Full and New Moons and try and determine what each has to tell us about the next two weeks. Some of these lunation charts are more dramatic than others, and my readings of them range from “right smack on” to “boy, I missed that one.” However, the chart for the Full Moon before the 2020 election seems to have a clear and rather alarming message. (Click on Full Moon to see the chart.)a>.
First of all, we have the Sun in the Eleventh House and the Moon in the Fifth. (I’m using Koch houses, but these placements are the same in several house systems.) The Eleventh House has to do with our allegiance to certain groups and organizations. In that sense, it relates to partisanship in politics. Uranus is conjunct the Moon and opposed to the Sun. The aspects are extremely tight. This in itself is a promise of instability and explosive events, and those events seem likely to involve our politics.
This is just the start. The real centerpiece of the horoscope is Mercury, which is square Saturn, Jupiter, and Pluto. Mercury, of course, rules communications and voting is all about communicating. The square to Saturn is the closest. It indicates that the process of voting will be somehow blocked or impeded. The square to Pluto tells us that these blockages will involve powers beyond our control. This could be COVID-19 or something else. The square to Jupiter is wide but, since Jupiter rules the chart, it seems to further describe a thwarting of the message that the polls convey.
All of this sounds pretty dire, and it supports some of the scary scenarios about this upcoming election that have been put forth in the media. However, there’s another way of looking at this chart. If we take the Moon as representing the “people,” then its conjunction to Uranus could describe an unprecedented energizing of the public will. Also, Venus in this chart is conjunct the Midheaven. This could mean that the election will be, in some way, good for women. It could also be telling us that, despite all the struggles and surprises this election is likely to entail, the ultimate outcome will be peaceful, and that we emerge from it a more united nation.
Our thanks to Wendell for his guest post! For more from Wendell Perry, read his article “Lifting the Lid on the Eighth House.”
When Venus conjuncts the midheaven, a senator from California will become the vice president. 😉
A senator from California who campaigned for the office of AG on the promise that she would find justice for the family of a young African American woman who was murdered by the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department, then dumped that family by the wayside the day after she was elected by closing the investigation into her death? Right after her friend and campaign donor was coincidentally elected Los Angeles County sheriff in that same election?
A senator from California responsible for the mass incarceration of African Americans for petty, non violent drug offenses while she laughingly described using those same drugs in college?
A senator from California who jad no problems accepting campaign donations from the president she’s running against, as well as well known sexual abusers like Harvey Weinstein?
A senator from California who refused to grant DNA testing while she was AG in the case of an African American man on death row who may very well be innocent?
Is this the senator from California you think will become the next vice president?
Keep dreaming.
Pray, hope, attune yourself to others’ suffering; sacrifice patiently; where there is discord, work towards unity selflessly and with long-suffering. As Dostoevsky said, “Beauty will save the world.” Appreciate true beauty — the beauty in the heavens, on earth and in others — and build whatever beauty you can in this world with whatever blessings you have been gifted.
The election 2020 in America is over, most people have already voted , ballots. As most people have voted for Democrats by ballots, Trump has technically lost the election. Why bother?
The Democrats were after Trump as soon as he was elected in 2016. And that’s the real shame.
I guess the real shame is that Trump is a crook and conman who has committed numerous impeachable offenses.
Elenor, are you kidding me? The Clintons and Biden’s are more powerful and crooked than any crime family. They have sold the US out to China and others. Criminally, Trump looks like a kindergartner compared to the Democrats.
It’s a disgrace to all astrologers when any astrology bases predictions on political bias. Makes them all look like weirdos. There was a time when Nancy Reagan used Joan Quigley to help guide her husbands important presidency. What if Joan had bias and gave bad advice? Linda Goodman was also fair as was Sydney Omar. These were well respected astrologers. Todays , who consider crystals, tea leaves or whatever equal to astrology are distasteful.
I have stopped reading blogs except one that fairly predicted Trump Pence when others were insisting the Scorpio Pisces deceiver Clinton was the choice of Gemini rising USA.
When I saw Mercury rx And the stealing did occur, I realize the theft will not stand. That is why the fraud has been exposed. Astrologers who play entertainment tv type politics belong in beauty shop magazines only.
Do not harass me.