Art Karma at The Louvre

Posted on December 15, 2025 by ohioastrology

Several summers ago a friend and I saw the movie Jaws. In the weeks after we saw the movie, there were numerous shark attacks in the news.

Then this same friend was near the Louvre Museum in Paris this summer and since that time the museum has experienced the theft of the French crown jewels, a water leak that damaged hundreds of books, and now a worker’s strike.

Coincidence?

I think not.

Karma, now that’s different. Let’s see what’s occurring in the horoscope of the Louvre that is creating this difficult energy.

The Royal Presence

“Born” August 10, 1793, the Louvre is a regal and royal Leo sun with Uranus also in Leo. That makes sense as the building was once a royal palace. The Louvre is also the most visited museum in the world, bypassing even the Vatican according to a recent search. That’s some Leo popularity! Very center-of-attention.

Venus and Mars are both in family-oriented, emotional Cancer. Again, the royal palace was “home” to many a family and folks living there probably did get emotional both in sticking together to fight enemies while at the same time keeping vigilance against ambitious relatives. Family! The best and worst of human connection. But the food was probably good (Cancer rules the stomach).

Neptune in 29 degrees of artistic, pleasure-seeking Libra meshes well with both royalty and art museums. It’s the ultimate in physical art expression. It’s beautiful. Wipe your feet at the door and please comb your hair before entering.

The Physical Experience

Natal moon is in Virgo – that squirrely, mental earth sign that takes notes, studies hard, and worries about the test. Who doesn’t get sensory overload in a museum such as the Louvre?

How many pieces of art can you look at before you get a little punchy? How many placards can you read in a day before your eyes hurt? How much history can you absorb in one visit? How many “Louies” were there?

Virgo overload causes nervous exhaustion and health responses such as headaches and rashes. Don’t get a Louvre rash!

What’s up with all the trouble?

Let’s talk about that wide grand fixed cross with sun/Uranus in Leo, Saturn in Taurus, Pluto in Aquarius, and Jupiter in Scorpio.

Let’s start with Pluto in Aquarius, which in about 15 years will “return” to its 1793 placement which was during the French revolution. The workers strike of today with Pluto in the early degrees of Aquarius is a direct energetic link to that time. In 1793 when the museum opened to the public was also the “Reign of Terror” when revolution led to chaos and violence.

It’s interesting in these early days of Pluto in Aquarius how the desire for fraternal connection leads to a very cold and detached attitude toward those not in the fraternity. It’s inadvertently cruel (although there exists always the deliberately cruel).

Pluto is evolution. We’re at the beginning of this evolutionary cycle. So over time we will hopefully move from detached and disassociated cruelty into Aquarian polite (even if detached) rationality.

Pluto in Aquarius opposite sun in Leo is group self-expression versus personal self-expression. Much art is personal expression. T-shirts at the concert are group expression. Individuals can’t achieve social change alone which leads to group expression.

The next polarity is Taurus – Scorpio which involves body, material goods, self-esteem, and values. Taurus created the word “mine” while Scorpio created the word “intimacy.” Taurus is boundary and Scorpio is where we cross boundaries. If we separated the Taurus and Scorpio bankers, Taurus manages the savings accounts and Scorpio the loans. The savings are yours; the loan is owed to the bank. Taurus is your earned income. Scorpio is the tax taken out.

This is an interesting polarity for one of the largest museums in the world. How many objects in the largest museums (British, Met, etc.) were acquired through conquest, invasion, or political dominance? How many “mines” were “theirs?” (Museum junkies know that some countries / peoples want their stuff back from museums).

Saturn also rules karma, or cause-and-effect. Rather than a brownie-point system, it’s more about cosmic law and energy exchange. How many of the peoples migrating to Europe are from countries that were affected by those same countries in past conflicts? Maybe they are following the trail of their art objects.

Uranus recently transited Taurus and the Louvre’s Saturn-in-Taurus so theft is a bit of karma. It’s not nice to take other people’s stuff. We all want to share in the viewing of these Neptune-in-Libra beautiful objects.

Jupiter in Scorpio is the magnetism of the museum, its allure as the largest and most beautiful and precious collection. And Scorpio is “our” stuff or other people’s stuff. Scorpio is a water sign so maybe it was Jupiter that created the water leak, Jupiter being the planet of expansion.

Art Karma at the Louvre

Pluto will be in Aquarius for quite a while – it takes up to 20 years to transit a sign. Through this evolutionary transit the grand square will continue to be energized. Possibly there will be more repatriations of objects. Or maybe financial changes from how the museum is supported to additional donors.

As my friend won’t be visiting France for a while, the “troubles” may decrease. The British Museum and Metropolitan in New York beware!

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What does Pluto Transiting Your Venus Feel Like? Ask Comey.

Posted on December 2, 2025 by ohioastrology

The United States has been likened to the ancient Roman Empire in terms of power and influence over other areas of the world. During the last few presidencies, I’d add that it’s the Eastern Roman Empire we most resemble – Byzantium. That empire’s culture spawned the adjective byzantine.

One of the definitions of byzantine according to Merriam Webster is of, relating to, or characterized by a devious and usually surreptitious manner of operation. Sounds familiar.

Some rulers in Byzantium lasted just days before being overthrown or assassinated. It’s funny how there are always folks lining up for this kind of work. Maybe they didn’t have a good job market, and certainly no unemployment insurance.

The current president is particularly byzantine in behavior and for this astrologer even resembles Russia’s Ivan the Terrible who eventually turned on everyone in reach in rather ruthless, medieval, ways. A modern psychologist could easily slap a few labels on that type of behavior both past and present.

While the current United States president appears to turn on everyone except his children, folks still line up to work near him. I suppose a few minutes of suffering is worth a resume golden nugget even if being tarred and feathered on the way out. Memories are short these days and “White House” probably gets folks an interview at least.

James Comey

Speaking of tarring and feathering, of the many who have experienced this under the current president, one character has reappeared – former FBI Director James Comey. In addition to learning from Comey’s situation how byzantine politics creates unnatural alliances (I shed a tear for the former Director of the FBI!), we can also learn some astrology from this Sagittarius sun.

When transiting Saturn – the great malefic – was conjunct (on top of) Comey’s sun, he had the repressive, restrictive boss and unfair treatment. Saturn contracts and often it feels like someone is wringing us like an old washcloth. During this transit (circa 2017), Comey was fired from the FBI by the president.

A little later Jupiter – the great benefic – was conjunct Comey’s sun (circa 2019) and he wrote a book about his Saturn boss. So there! Jupiter – and the book – probably gave Comey some much needed cash. As a Sagittarius sun, there’s a habit of spending more than earned or taking risks with money or not paying enough attention to budget.

For the next seven years (2019 – 2025/6), Uranus in Taurus was opposite Comey’s moon/Neptune. That’s a time of emotional and physical reconciliation – and tying the two together. Were you thinking about that mean boss when you tripped down the stairs and broke all the dishes in the process? Are physical challenges (Taurus) creating worry about intimacy (Scorpio)? Is there financial worry (Taurus – Scorpio axis)? Moon could also be late Libra which would add to the spending worries but reduce the intensity from moon in Scorpio.

We can ask Comey when we see him. This was clearly a private seven years. Wikipedia indicates health issues in 2006 timeframe – some may have returned with Uranus in Taurus.

Saturn turns to Pluto

And now Comey’s Saturn boss is back with some Pluto characteristics – i.e., unchecked power. Transiting Pluto in Aquarius is now in orb of Comey’s Venus in Aquarius. Pluto may also be squaring the moon in/out of sign. In other words, power is coming at Comey’s anima, or feminine side.

Venus’ sign describes how we seek pleasure. In Aquarius it’s through thinking and interaction with others who are different, unique, or foreign. It’s not a huggy-kissy sign but enjoys social interaction with wide swathes of people. When Pluto comes around, the social experience completely transforms. Pluto has this habit – if you don’t let go – of forcing release and then evolution.

Café Astrology has this to say about Pluto transiting Venus:

Pluto transits conjunct Venus Your romantic life, social life, and value system are undergoing a complete transformation with Pluto transiting conjunct natal Venus. You are seeking depth of experience in your social and love relationships with Pluto transiting conjunct your natal Venus; or, this kind of experience comes into your life now. Someone may enter your life– or circumstances arise– that completely changes your outlook, alters your value system, or consumes much of your time, thoughts, and energy.

Intimacy, passion, and intensity are what you seek (or these find you!). Anything less will not satisfy. Your relationships can have a compulsive quality to them, and you are unlikely to listen to reason or rationality. Irrational fears about your lovability and love, in general, come up for inspection now.

Your relationships, in general, will become more intense, but especially those involving love and sex. You will experience emotional extremes, and, if a relationship is in a rut, you are likely to decide to break it off.

“All or nothing” may become your motto, and the “all” includes a depth and intensity of emotional response. You want to feel your love to the very core of your being, and you want to play an important part in someone else’s life.

Obviously, any relationship that only stirs lukewarm responses won’t be able to stand up under the demands that you make of it now. Keep your eyes open; someone you meet now may teach you some important lessons about love. You may have a love relationship with this person, or they could be someone who plays the role of teacher or guru. Your sex drive is strong and may find an outlet in either a new or existing relationship or through a creative medium such as writing or painting.

While this may not describe Comey’s relationship to the president, it may be that the president is forcing this type of transformation within Comey by pulling him out of the house where he appears to be living quietly and persecuting him in public. Situations like this can spark Venus in that we learn more about our level of self-esteem in the face of assault and the type of community in which we want to be part.

Comey appears to have prevailed again with a legal action tossed out and most likely will continue to vote Democrat, at least. What other Venus changes are on the horizon?

What does Uranus opposite your sun feel like?

Soon Uranus will move into Gemini (where it was for a bit before going retrograde) and begin to trine (a nice aspect) Venus. In a few years Uranus will oppose Mercury and then sun both in Sagittarius.

Comey will probably be doing something different by then as Pluto in Aquarius refines his social life. Maybe we’ll see him on the picket lines fighting for human rights – Aquarius is the sign of the humanitarian you see. Or maybe he will grow his hair long and play guitar on Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco. Or maybe he will become a fractal artist. Or maybe he will write a play. Or maybe he will teach transcendental medication to bureaucrats.

We’ll have to ask Comey.

Ask Comey blogs:

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Neptune in Aries: Outsourcing the Self

Posted on October 5, 2025 by ohioastrology

Aries, the first sign of the zodiac, is ruled by Mars, the God of War. Whenever an Aries energy swings into life, war, strife, and contention are possibilities called out by astrologers. That is the low level of Aries but, unfortunately, one so very common on this planet that you’d think we were living on Mars, not earth.

The highest level of Aries/Mars is there too but might not make the news – honoring and accepting self as is and refusing to accept treatment that does not honor the self. People throughout history have fought for the rights of self (the individual) from the basic human right of self-determination to the right to secure housing, safe food, clean air, and clean water.

In the tarot deck The Emperor represents dominion over self – positive Aries energy. Those who have a strong sense of self often become leaders of groups of people or countries. Often the energies of leadership are a mixture of fire and fixed – Leo being the pinnacle of this. It matches energy (fire) and possibility (fire) with focus (fixed) and determination (fixed).

Aries as cardinal fire sign also makes a good leader if it can curb the desire to start but not finish efforts and avoid impulsive decisions. Aries tends to leap before it looks.

To “live like a king” in our minds is to live in a way where all needs of the self are met and we have the power to make our own decisions. The real life of kings, historically at least, was a constant vigilance and battle to retain power.

Aries – Libra Polarity

In life I’ve learned that giving folks a blank slate – tell me what you want – is often more challenging to them than providing an option and having them react: do you want this or that? I’ve noticed some have more trouble finding a parking spot when there are many spaces over a busy parking lot with a few spaces: too many choices can cause confusion. You’ll notice this too if you go to an ice cream shop with lots of flavors.

Reaction is easier than action, multiple choice is easier than blank slate. Aries is the open slate, the choices made based on one’s very individual wants and needs. Aries isn’t looking for the instruction manual of life – that’s not very energizing.

The opposite of Aries is Libra, the other. As human selves, we seek the other in family (Cancer), partnerships (Libra) and social interaction (Capricorn).

In these cardinal signs, we are given the parking lot, the templates of human interaction. In Cancer, we have the model for family life, in Libra we have the ideal partner, and in Capricorn, our place in society. Each culture defines these relationships differently.

And then there’s Aries, which says, “hey, it’s still me here,” within all these experiences. Aries is the first to challenge the family, the partnership, or the social hierarchy. Aries can lead us out of negative social experiences. Aries leaves the bad marriage; Aries challenges the family structure; Aries defines new social roles.

People want kings

When we want to subsume ourselves in family, partnership, or social position, we avoid Aries self-determination. It takes some energy to be “Aries” and define our own lives in our own ways. It’s much easier to react. It’s easier to follow a template.

When reading the Christian Bible so long ago, I was struck by the warning against kings. It’s right there! (Of course, every religious work tells us not to kill but we do it anyway, socializing and normalizing it in some way).

Here we are being told that Kings (Capricorn authority) will use us for their own ends.

From the Bible Gateway

1 Samuel 8:10-22

English Standard Version

Samuel’s Warning Against Kings

10 So Samuel told all the words of the Lord to the people who were asking for a king from him. 11 He said, “These will be the ways of the king who will reign over you: he will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots and to be his horsemen and to run before his chariots. 12 And he will appoint for himself commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and some to plow his ground and to reap his harvest, and to make his implements of war and the equipment of his chariots. 13 He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers. 14 He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive orchards and give them to his servants. 15 He will take the tenth of your grain and of your vineyards and give it to his officers and to his servants. 16 He will take your male servants and female servants and the best of your young men[a] and your donkeys, and put them to his work. 17 He will take the tenth of your flocks, and you shall be his slaves. 18 And in that day you will cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the Lord will not answer you in that day.”

The Lord Grants Israel’s Request

19 But the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel. And they said, “No! But there shall be a king over us, 20 that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us and go out before us and fight our battles.” 21 And when Samuel had heard all the words of the people, he repeated them in the ears of the Lord. 22 And the Lord said to Samuel, “Obey their voice and make them a king.” Samuel then said to the men of Israel, “Go every man to his city.”

Neptune in Aries: Outsourcing the Self

Messiahs and Martyrs

Neptune glorifies and glamorizes what it touches. In Aries, it will put a halo around both positive (self-dominion) and negative (warrior) Aries. Messiahs are those who hold our power for us, who show us what it’s like to be fully within ourselves. Martyrs are the power of victimization, representing those that died for a cause, who died asserting their rights of self.

Vigilantism is Aries taking the law into its own hands. For some, this is a criminal, for others a martyr. Vigilantism is already occurring with Neptune in Aries and we’re only a few months into the transit which will last 15 years. When the culture is ready, the lesson appears.

Outsourcing the self

Social structure demands hierarchy and roles to function. There’s a leader at the top that represents the interests of the entire hierarchy. All normal stuff. No one of us can be responsible for the whole. Ideally within this Capricorn structure we have chosen (Aries) our role within it based on our abilities and needs.

Working within a healthy, functioning hierarchy is not the same as giving away one’s power. Abdicating responsibility for self can come from many seeds: lack of personal power in the hierarchy, desire to control others, lack of energy to define one’s path, and disconnection from the self.

“I was just following orders.” “This is how it’s always been.” “It may be wrong, but it’s the law.” “Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights.” Ninety Five Theses. The Bill of Rights.

All Neptune in Aries.

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Ohio Astrology Q&A – September 2025

Posted on September 19, 2025 by ohioastrology

As it’s been a long while since Ohio Astrology (OHA) has gone through the stacks of mail and sorted through the questions, it’s time for some Q&A (questions and answers).

Q: If Pluto in Aquarius is this golden “Age of Aquarius,” why’s everybody killin’ each other?

A: Great question! All astrology is polarity and the opposite of Aquarius is Leo. This is the polarity of self-expression (Leo, fire) versus group expression (Aquarius, air). When you fall in love or paint picture or perform on stage that is Leo. When you go to a rock concert and wear a T-shirt, dress up for the “SomethingCon” or join a club/organization/cult, that is Aquarius.

When Pluto was in Leo in the 1950s and 1960s, folks sat together in parks dropping acid to share the experience of love and heightened awareness. They also dressed the same and grew their hair long. A bit of Leo, a bit of Aquarius.

Today with Pluto in Aquarius, we communicate with the ends of the world on our special interests from the isolation of home, office, or basement. We’re more connected but separate. We’re alienated together. A bit of Leo, a bit of Aquarius.

Polarity means that self and group expression is a continuum of experience which we all (hopefully) do in different measure at different times. There’s Leo in Aquarius and Aquarius in Leo.

Aquarius is an air sign so lives in the mental plane where group expression is planned and orderly with a goal of perfection (utopia). Leo is a fire sign that lives in the possibility of more life with the goal of admiration (romance).

In the Aquarian effort to perfect society, the bit of Leo may confuse personal expression with the needs of the whole. Both air and fire signs get caught up in the trends of the times so need earth energy to balance what is practical.

Q: Why do folks worship the past like it was perfect? I mean, yeah, in the 1800s Thomas Jefferson was doing all kinds of interesting things, but there was slavery, and people were dying of tooth decay and smallpox while struggling for survival.

A: Fascinating question for sociologists and psychologists! As they are not present, we’ll blame Neptune. As we get older, Saturn time limits become more pressing – we are going to die, and friends and family may already be doing so. All the while, young people are prancing about with boat loads of energy defining self through personal appearance and style which seems shallow and irrelevant. With more young people wearing T-shirts of people you’ve never heard of and fewer contemporaries to relate to, the mind often goes into the past when someone else worried about the electric bill and how to buy groceries in times of inflation.

Neptune glamorizes and idealizes and gives us the sense of life being more than the day-to-day humdrum. Today in Aries (just transitioned in March but bouncing between late Pisces and early Aries) there is a glamorization and glorification of self which for Aries includes war and battle. Survivors of war often feel connected for the rest of their lives to their comrades. The intensity creates an intimacy.

When you get older, you may miss something from today you barely consider in daily life such as a walk in the park or some activity that later has vanished, like reading a book or paying with a credit card.

Q: If the 40th US president Ronald Reagan were alive today, what would he think of US politics?

A: Funny you should ask. The other day my cat said he had a dream about Ronald Reagan. I asked what happened in the dream. Reagan, said my cat, wished he were still alive for this “Age of Aquarius” as he had Aquarius sun. Reagan said he wished he could rise from the dead and take over. He thinks he would be worshipped as a god which my cat, in the dream, agreed with.

Then he said, according to the cat, that if we really want an autocracy, it can at least be done nicely and quietly, like with surreptitious back-room negotiations instead of out in the open like bad community theater. Taurus moon Reagan went on to say that speaking nicely in an even tone is simply what gentlemen do or at least did in the 20th century.

Reagan did add, said the cat, that leaders should all look nice with natural colored skin tone and realistic hair. Dress for the presidential job you want, Reagan said in the dream, not the one you have.

Q: Why is everyone driving crazy with one taillight and putting on their left signals when they are turning right and generally driving recklessly?

A: This is the traditional, “Why has the world gone mad?” question. The answer is simple and again we’ll blame Neptune. Neptune has been in Pisces since 2011 and has dissolved our shared reality as Neptune “rules” Pisces which is other-worldly and imaginative by nature, and sometimes escapist through excessive media/entertainment, drugs or alcohol.

The drivers you speak of may have spiritually transported themselves to the Indy 500 raceway and believe they are winning some very important race. Others may feel that all material controls in the car are the works of evil entities and choose to drive by intuition. Others may be writing an opera in their minds and deciding if the oboes are needed in act three.

Before going into Pisces, Neptune – and Uranus – was in Aquarius giving us a preview of today’s Pluto in Aquarius. These two outer planets in their travels connected us to a constant stream of billions of bits of incoming data which assails us from waking until dropping off into overstimulated sleep. Chances are the drivers you refer to are being asked about their favorite ice cream, are responding to an invite, are taking surveys from the last three office visits, and addressing a work fire drill all at the same time while rushing to an appointment in which they are late.

If you missed the answer because you received 50 texts while reading, just pop back to the top where it says “Q:”

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Robert F Kennedy’s Astrological Wellness Check

Posted on September 12, 2025 by ohioastrology

Ohio Astrology does not usually offer medical advice having no background in health, biology, virology or any medical science. Expertise is an idea that has gone extinct – in the US at least – with the rise of the Internet so Ohio Astrology will, as always, follow the times, offer what it can, free of charge, as service to humanity.

Robert F Kennedy: Public and Private

Robert F Kennedy, United States Secretary of Health and Human Services, has sun in Capricorn and moon in Cancer. That’s an opposition, a natural polarity of personal consciousness (Cancer) and social consciousness (Capricorn). Kate Middleton, wife of Prince William, also has this opposition and lives on the public stage with style and grace while maintaining family privacy.

Kennedy, however, has Uranus conjunct moon. With this polarity (Cancer – Capricorn) family and social standing is a prominent theme for the individual – no mystery here for a man from the Kennedy clan. However, Uranus conjunct moon – in any sign – but also in nurturing, needy Cancer indicates the “mothering” was a bit inconsistent. Mothering and family and clan was sometimes supportive with steaming bowls of chicken soup and other times – unexpectedly – irritable over insinuated or perceived insults and slights. Kennedy’s emotional responses are similar. Flower-bearing one day, grouchy the next.

Five of the ten planets in his horoscope are involved in this opposition. From a health perspective, Capricorn rules skin, teeth and bones. Cancer rules stomach and digestion. Food sensitivity is suggested here, trouble digesting milk and many other items which could then lead to problems with Capricorn skin, teeth and bones.

Stomach aches indicate emotional upsets for Kennedy. If, say, during a Senate hearing on school lunches he suddenly rises for a potty break, assume that nerves are to blame. Moon is reaction. While Capricorn’s poker face meets the social interaction with emotional armor, the moon in Cancer is having its own gurgling reaction.

Reproductive Health

With Saturn and Mars in Scorpio, this adds to Kennedy’s emotional nature. While Capricorn doesn’t like to be anything but perfect in public, the underlying emotions are anything but neat and tidy. Close family and associates may be the recipient of volatile emotions.

Saturn and Mars indicate an obsessive emotional nature, one that often seeks revenge for perceived slights – Capricorn can be vengeful as well. Mars and Saturn indicate sexual frustration and even sexual cruelty. The gonads are under the stomach so Kennedy from the belt down is very different than from the belt up. Like the Nile, there’s an “upper” and “lower” Kennedy. Upper is conscious, upstanding behavior. Lower is emotional, sometimes irrational, and often inconsistent childlike response.

As a strategist, Capricorn and Scorpio do well, especially in medieval environments where the penalties for even minor infractions are the rack. Capricorn is a rule-follower and rule-creator and loves tradition, authority, and respect. Capricorn and other earth signs (or those with prominent Saturn) can say things like, “I don’t agree with slavery and beating runaway slaves but it’s legal.”

From a health perspective, Kennedy needs to watch for prostate issues resulting from suppressed emotions and anger. He may also need some check on hormones like testosterone. At his age, this would be a normal procedure (in a normal environment). Ulcers and hernias are also likely.

Air and Fire

Most of Kennedy’s horoscope is earth and water, traditional, conservative, emotional, feeling, personal, private, and sensitive. Cancer moon has a tendency to hide and Capricorn sun has a tendency to overwork so at times Kennedy is emotionally and physically unavailable (although with moon in Cancer, Happy Hour and supper are both enjoyed and routine).

There’s a wee bit of air with Jupiter in Gemini and Neptune (outer planet) in Libra. When Kennedy is feeling balanced and whole – rare for his chart – he does enjoy some lively company and purposeless fun. Neptune in Libra likes art, culture, beautiful people, and fine food. With sun in Capricorn, guessing there’s a wine cellar filled with expensive rarities shared only with close family and friends.

Gemini is twin – double – so Ohio Astrology always looks for two of something – two jobs, two families, two personalities, etc. Can’t look for two cars or homes as this is so common in our culture.

What’s double? Gemini is language so possibly two ways of speaking. At home, may have an entirely different style of speech or use a foreign language. With moon in Cancer, when he does joke around, it’s so different than his other persona that it may be surprising. Cancer is also known for the belly laugh so he may even giggle (you can fool everyone but your astrologer!).

Kennedy’s Pluto in Leo is generational as well – the American voters can’t “quit” this generation for some reason, a puzzling mystery to this astrologer. Not sure why we don’t like the subsequent generations. Leo is proud, vain, and defined a lot of personal right to self-expression. I suppose the leftover proud and vain energy (the self-expression seems to have gotten lost) sells.

Note to voters: You might want to consider a Virgo for Health & Human Services as rules work, health, and diet and thinks about such things about 25 hours a day (every day). Add this to criteria for your next presidential vote (if you get to vote).

In Kennedy’s chart Pluto and Jupiter make a wide yod aspect (finger of God) to his Capricorn planets (Venus, sun, Mercury). Pride, vanity and ability to speak in flexible ways allows the authority to be demonstrated. It also points to Capricorn responsibility and the importance of it for personal, spiritual growth.

Final Health Assessment

Ohio Astrology’s final, unauthorized, non-professional, non-binding, non-refundable health assessment for Kennedy is:

  • Critical need for colon cleanse to clear out emotional debris from stomach and colon areas
  • Exercise to release any sexual frustration
  • Seek air (outside fresh air)
  • Socialize more with diverse individuals to stimulate the Jupiter in Gemini desire to learn
  • Understand the needs of others as cardinal signs (Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn) can be self-centered
  • Get some sunlight
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Critical Mass: Outer Planet Trends

Posted on August 10, 2025 by ohioastrology

Driving home one day and seeing a cell tower, I finally understood critical mass.

Thoughts move quickly and cell towers became critical mass when I wondered, “Who decided all this?” While I’m rarely an early adopter, I was early to both eReader and iPhone having people approach me in airports to ask how I liked these devices.

That feels like yesterday and was about 15 years ago. Today I’m far behind in technology compared to others. And I’m uninterested in keeping up.

Critical mass is a physics term and business term, according to a search:

  • Physics: the minimum amount of fissile material needed to maintain a nuclear chain reaction
  • Business: the minimum size or amount of something required to start or maintain a venture

In the New Age movement since my entry in the 1980s, critical mass was often thrown out as the method to raise awareness: when that critical mass was reached, we might stop destroying ourselves and instead focus on peaceful, harmonious existence.

La-la-land, I thought. But now I see the power of critical mass and fully agree that it can be achieved for any purpose, business, physics, or human awareness shifts. It’s simply our choice. This is what we choose.

Critical mass chose cell towers.

Critical Mass Trends

Critical mass may have a mathematical calculation for physics or business, but I don’t know that it has one for human consciousness. The news isn’t going to report on raised awareness.

From an astrological perspective, critical mass trends are seen in the outer planets of Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. With long cycles, these planets describe both the build-up of critical mass shifts and the shifts themselves.

In the 1990s – 2000s the shift was through Capricorn and Aquarius with both Uranus and Neptune transiting those signs. Capricorn supports social structure, rules, and traditions. Aquarius then rebels against such for new group consciousness and new ideals and goals.

Uranus brings sudden changes and Neptune idealizes. Our heroes have changed from astronauts and cowboys to techies who sit in enclosed spaces all day thinking about data and systems. Unlike astronauts and cowboys, they also think about Capricorn control.

Pluto recently entered Aquarius for a 20-year journey. Uranus brought sudden shifts in technology, Neptune brought idealization and critical mass to technology, and now Pluto will destroy and transform.

Uranus recently moved into Gemini, an air sign that is compatible with air-sign Aquarius. More change is coming in the next seven years to anything related to communication and learning.

Neptune has moved into Aries, the first sign of the zodiac and a fire sign which brings idealization of self and self-assertion. Calls for equality and vigilantism are two extremes of this energy. I’m imagining some technological vigilantism in addition to those who use the old-fashioned weapons.

Air and fire creating critical mass brings both optimism and enthusiasm. Air and fire live in the world of possibility and with enough earth element bring those ideas into reality. Without earth, much stays in the realm of possibility and creates the dreamer or the talker-but-not-doer.

Without earth, we also become divorced from our body and earth. Pluto in early Aquarius has brought a great deal of physical destruction in its early degrees not because Aquarius is violent in any way – it’s quite civil and organized – but because it ignores the physical and emotional effects of ideas in action. Aquarius is seeking the perfect universe, perfect society, perfect plan – if it makes you uncomfortable physically or emotionally so be it.

Critical mass of the next 15 years will be in the “air” which also means our heads, our thinking. What we think and what we do may not be in sync, a common enough habit of being human but particularly wide a gap in the next 15 years. Possibility may outweigh probability, and the optimism of air and fire may ignore the problems that arise from perfect plans which involve imperfect people.

After the years of Pluto-in-Capricorn lockdown and restriction, air and fire want to play, have fun. The excessive and heavy earth energy of that time has fueled the desire to enjoy life – fire is joyful by nature. Air is motivated by interest and stimulating experience. More interesting ideas and gadgetry are on the horizon.

Spiritual Critical Mass

During the Capricorn/Aquarius transits of Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto, we fed our life’s data into “the machine.” Now the machine is presenting it back to us – at a cost sometimes.

Sending our data into the processing machine and having it return like a boomerang to tell us what we think is a fascinating way to examine the entire workings of the mind. We send the thought out, it returns and agrees with itself since it sent out the original thought. Our returning thought reinforces our existing beliefs.

Confirmation bias is only a part of this dynamic. Our value systems drive beliefs so some “confirmation bias” may involve the response to challenged values.

What’s different here is that we can see how our mind works – not what it thinks.

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Jon Husted: Ohio’s Other Jet Senator

Posted on June 28, 2025 by ohioastrology

Ohio’s senators (both Republicans) are Bernardo (Bernie) Moreno and Jon Husted. Husted, like Moreno, was not born in Ohio but in “the state up north” as Michigan is called in Columbus, Ohio which is Ohio State University Buckeye football team territory. This is noted for any Ohio nativists.

Moreno, born in Colombia, is unlike Puerto Rican Bernardo of West Side Story in that he is accepted by the Jets, the white males born in the city in a gang called the Jets. The movie Bernardo was not (he had to form his own gang, the Sharks).

Moreno was born a Shark but is a Jet.

Is Husted a Jet or a Shark?

From his background, Husted was born a Jet. Abandoned by his father and mother unable to care for him (according to Wikipedia), Husted was adopted quickly and grew up in Michigan. He appears to have had a happy childhood.

Husted’s sun is in Virgo and moon in either the late degrees of Aries or early degrees of Taurus. Statistically there’s more chance of Taurus but with a talent in sports (football), the competitive and assertive Aries is quite likely.

Husted was born six months after Moreno so generationally they are very similar. What are the personality similarities and differences?

Perfectionism and Purity

Moreno has sun in Aquarius (fixed air) and Husted sun in Virgo (mutable earth). Both signs are perfectionist – Aquarius due to the fixed air nature which has mentally constructed the “perfect” and “ideal” solution. Virgo, in contrast, is perfectionist because it’s afraid of criticism. Virgo’s internal critic is enough, usually, to fulfill any critical feedback.

Both men were born in the generation of Uranus and Pluto conjunct in Virgo. When first learning astrology, someone told me that this was the generation that would “clean up the planet.” Being part of that generation, I felt proud.

These many years later with both world and astrological experience, I understand the various ways an energy can manifest. Yes, there are many of Virgo energy – personal or generational – who are trying to clean up the planet.

Yet Virgo is an anxious sign so rather than cleaning up a planet, many of the Uranus/Pluto in Virgo generation are excessively fearful of germs. Until the pandemic, excessive worry about illness was considered hypochondria. Post pandemic, hypochondria appears to be encouraged by the pharmaceutical industry. Advertising pharmaceuticals might have been created by this generation; if nothing else, this generation accepts this advertising as a norm.

Virgo is interested in purity of health and environment and ideal in its approach. Neither Moreno nor Husted is showing much interest in “cleaning up the planet.” Moreno and Husted’s generational Virgo purity appears to relate more to people and culture. Cleaning up the culture is something that occurred more than once in the 20th century in political movements for a perfect race or eradication of foreign cultural input.

Is that purity or simply Virgo anxiety?

If I eat that candy, what will happen to my health? If those other people become the majority, what will happen to my life?

In addition to health, Virgo’s concerns are work, diet, and pets. Husted with five (of ten) planets in Virgo is most likely both a health purist and workaholic. This is the person who has a donut at the staff meeting then must plan to run an extra five miles later to burn it off. Virgo and the Uranus/Pluto in Virgo generation love all the new technology that tracks donut by donut.

Virgo and Pisces

Every sign is part of a polarity. For Virgo, the other pole is Pisces. Here are some Virgo/Pisces polarities (Virgo on left as it’s left brain and Pisces on right as it’s right brain):

  • Detailed/imaginative
  • Analysis/synthesis
  • Trees/forest
  • Structured/unstructured
  • Disciplined/relaxed
  • Clouds as weather/clouds as rocket ships, bunny rabbits, and soft pillows

The personal planets of Mercury (communication) and Venus (pleasure) are in Virgo for Husted, Pisces for Moreno. Husted is more prone to focus on detail, compile details, and present comprehensive analysis of his points of view in communicating. That’s also a great pleasure, getting things done, paying the bills, working out, and then feeling satisfaction that all the chores are complete.

Moreno, in contrast, is more emotional and imaginative when providing “facts” and details. Pisces communication is more prone to explain how something feels than what it is. Moreno and Husted probably have a few challenges when working together as Moreno talks about possibility (living on Mars when we can’t live on earth) and Husted wants to see step-by-step how we are going to colonize Mars and in what year (and will there be places to exercise?).

This polarity creates a different generational experience for each senator. For Husted, his “Virgo-ness” is enhanced by the Uranus/Pluto in Virgo aspect. That’s why the Virgos of my generation are a bit unpredictable – one day it’s raw kale, the next day a 10-mile run, and the next day a bottle of antihistamines.

For Moreno, in contrast, his Pisces energy – his Saturn is in Pisces as well – is opposing this generational aspect indicating a troubled youth, one where the home life wasn’t stable, a challenge to authority (aided by moon in Aries) and sometimes rash behavior based on emotions and need to assert self.

Jupiter and Saturn

Jupiter and Saturn both changed signs between Moreno’s and Husted’s birthdays. Moreno has Jupiter in Cancer, the sign of its exaltation. Husted, in Leo. Moreno has Saturn in Pisces; Husted, in Aries.

While Moreno’s early life may have had challenges, Jupiter in Cancer (trine a generational Neptune in Scorpio) provides an outlet – also within family. Possibly a beloved grandparent helped Moreno through tough times (Pisces energy suggests relating to older generations).

Husted’s Jupiter creates more ego and pride in the family and social environment. While pride is there, Husted’s Saturn in Aries suggests a bit of restraint on full and deep pride. Pride comes from the environment (I was raised in a good neighborhood with good schools) but Saturn puts the breaks on it by suggesting that if it weren’t for that neighborhood and parents, he might not be good enough (remember, Virgo needs to be perfect).

Moreno’s Saturn in Pisces carries with it a general sense of being separate from the whole, the whole of humanity, the whole of the universe. It’s not a small hole to fill even as moon in Aries achieves, achieves, achieves.

And that Mars!

And then there’s Mars, ruler of Aries and self-directed action (including all forms of competition, sport and general fighting). For both men, Mars is in Scorpio (as is natal Neptune).

This first speaks to the drive for physical union – you know, sex. When women make news in politics it’s usually due to sex – their own gender or that they had sex with a powerful man outside of that powerful man’s marriage.

Scorpio is fixed water and is emotionally intense and can go to obsession. Neither man likes to be humiliated (who does, right?) but both will take it very deeply and never forget. Revenge is an extreme form of retribution which Scorpio is known for when there is no balancing factor on obsession. And with Neptune in Scorpio, both men can imagine more than was intended. Moreno is particularly prone to seeing much that was never intended.

Ohio’s Jets

Ohio’s two Republican senators are Jets, the dominant power group that today is trying to purify the culture by removing or threatening to remove immigrants, offering white foreign nationals rights to immigrate to the US, politically persecuting women not tied to males, politically persecuting the opposing party, and pardoning males (primarily white) trying to overthrow the government.

For Husted, it’s a type of Virgo-ness, the obsessive-compulsive desire to put everything in order. Order is good, we all want to support four-way stops, the legal system, and quality control for our food supply. Virgo extreme then takes us to the polarity of excessive emotion and undefined fears.

For Moreno, he may be playing a risky game. He’s not native Jet and may have to sit on a very uncomfortable fence of Virgo/Pisces – make things “perfect” or feel for humanity? He may want to remember that Pisces as last sign of the zodiac is also often the target of scapegoating.

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Bernardo Moreno: Jet or Shark?

Posted on June 15, 2025 by ohioastrology

Bernardo Moreno – Bernie Moreno to Ohioans – was born in Bogota, Colombia. Moreno is an immigrant. He is also a United States Republican Senator for Ohio.

Bernardo was also the name of the Puerto Rican leader of the Sharks in the 1957 Broadway play and then 1961 (and 2021 adaptation) movie West Side Story. Unlike Moreno, Bernardo of the story was not an immigrant, Puerto Rico being a part (colony) of the United States.

If you’re not familiar with West Side Story or its historic and greatly-modeled precedent Romeo and Juliet, Bernardo of the story moves from San Juan, Puerto Rico to New York City and is attacked day one (he says in the movie) by the Jets, the white guy gang that wants to rule the dilapidated, depressed, and desolate playgrounds of the “west side” of New York. That side, we see from the panoramic at the beginning of the movie, isn’t the glamour of “the” New York City. It’s the place where the poor and destitute struggle for useless territory.

The Romeo and Juliet tribe-crossed characters are Bernardo’s sister and a former Jet. Bernardo is Tybalt (according to a search-it’s been a long time since I’ve seen the Shakespeare version).

Bernardo Moreno – called “Bernie” just like Bernie Sanders – gives a more, how shall we say it – non-Hispanic sense of the name, at least to those not familiar with Hispanic nicknames.

Is Moreno, then, a Jet or a Shark?

Play it cool, boy, real cool

Moreno has sun in Aquarius, the fixed air sign that is cool and detached by nature. It’s more comfortable with ideas than feelings. Pluto is currently transiting this sign so Aquarians are now at the forefront of our evolutionary changes.

In Aquarius, Pluto will destroy, transform, and evolve group consciousness, group ideals. When Uranus and Neptune were in Aquarius (1990s-early 2000s), we destroyed such things as landline phones, clocks with hands, paper newspapers, privacy, and consensus understanding of reality (with help from Neptune in Pisces where every image is real to our brains). We replaced these things with digital life: most business interactions are now forced into digital; social media is assumed and not participating creates pressure from social groups.

Fixed signs are as described: fixated and often obsessed. In Aquarius, the fixation is ideas and group ideals – sometimes called fads – where some last and some don’t. Aquarius is also considered rebellious – think Rosa Parks. The rebelliousness against one or primary group consciousness results lands Aquarians into an opposite or different group consciousness. For Rosa Parks, it was the Civil Rights Movement.

For Moreno, it lands him with the Jets although he’s a natural member of the Sharks. But not all sharks are the same. In our American cultural mix, there are the Cuban Sharks who came legally because we didn’t like the authoritarian strongman Fidel Castro (today I wonder why). There are Mexican Sharks who are a mixture of legal statuses. And then there are all the Central and South Americans who like Mexicans are a mixture and many experiencing the results of cultural disruption aided by US presidents during the 20th century. The actual Spanish don’t seem to have a cultural identity here.

Fitting in is a part of everyone’s life. Our personalities may or may not align with the culture in which we were born. That creates challenges for some, comfort for others. Fitting in can make us comfortable and fearful of change. Not fitting in is a drive that moves culture forward.

There are many ways to describe the current cultural split of the United States: Democrat/Republican, north/south, east/west, wealth/poverty, and privilege/marginalized. Another might be the “fitting in” versus the “not fitting in” which is a combination of all of the other splits.

Astrologically, we are all unique and there is no “fitting in” or trying to get everyone to “fit in.” There is no superior race because any race can be any horoscope.

Aries moon

Why did Moreno side with the Jets?

With moon in cardinal fire Aries, Moreno is highly competitive, self-directed, and courageous. Ruled by God-of-War Mars, Aries is interested in self, not so concerned about others. Moon is reaction so while an Aquarius sun can think very broadly and far into the future, Aries wants what it wants NOW. Like the cardinal signs in general, it can be self-centered.

The path to power today is to go with the Jets – siding with the Sharks is a bit up and down. Minorities rise and fall like the stock market in this country while the Jet (upper class white male) class tends to consistently and continually rise in wealth and power. It’s difficult to see privilege unless it’s taken away so the non-successful white male will resist this, but remember that the January 6, 2021 stormers of the Capitol Building were mostly white male and all were pardoned. This would never have occurred with males of other cultural stock.

The other Moreno

The sun and moon are major aspects of our personalities: the sun is conscious self and moon reactive self. We see this in ourselves and others clearly.

Outside of the sun and moon, Moreno’s chart contains quite a bit of water – emotion. Mercury, Venus and Saturn are in mutable water Pisces (the watery-est of the water), Jupiter in cardinal water Cancer and Mars and Neptune in fixed water Scorpio. Six of the ten “planets” in the chart are in water. Chiron, not amongst the ten, is also in water (Pisces).

Inside the skin of Moreno, he may very well be a Shark – maybe one day he will emotionally connect with his people on a political level.

Saturn in the same sign (but technically out of orb) with Venus and Mercury (and Chiron) indicates an extremely sensitive nature, psychic wounds easily created. Love doesn’t meet the need for a very deep connection that is a challenge with Aquarius sun acting detached and Aries moon chasing the newest war.

In the end, aren’t we all motivated by love? And we do very crazy things for love as this Manson cult follower and murderer Patricia Krenwinkel describes in her parole hearing:

It is countless how many lives were shattered by the path of destruction that I was a part of, and it all comes from just a simple thing as just wanting to be loved,” she [Krenwinkel] told the New York Times in 2014.

The Pisces and Aries energy – in combination with generational Pluto/Uranus in mutable earth Virgo, there’s a neurotic cast to the personality. Aquarius wants to be rational and then the rest of the chart gangs up together to create overwhelming emotion. I’m imagining a man who acts “cool” then blows up to those closest who are both surprised and confused – what the heck is he upset about and where did that come from?

Moreno’s Mars and Neptune in Scorpio never forget a slight or act of disloyalty, regardless of whether his Aquarius sun pretends to be all rational and fair about it.

Neptune in Aries

Transiting Neptune just entered Aries which creates a halo of spirituality around things Aries: self-identity, self-determination, self-aggrandizement, and self-defense.

We’re already seeing a rise in negative Aries – war and contention. Positive Aries is responding with demonstrations celebrating self and asking one megalomaniacal self not to see himself as the ruler of the world.

For Moreno, this Neptune can be either side of the Aries halo – the gang-like control of the neighborhood or a collective connection based on shared culture – American culture which by nature is a mixture of the cultures of the world.

With natal Jupiter in Cancer, Moreno probably has a loving family. Maybe as Moreno sides with the gang ruling the basketball courts and graveled remains of destroyed buildings, Moreno can ask: “What would my abuela (grandmother) think? Which is more important: community or competition?”

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Saturn in Aries: Discipline Me!

Posted on May 25, 2025 by ohioastrology

When Neptune entered Aries in March of this year (2025), it provided inspiration to Aries: the first sign of the zodiac, the sign of self, beginnings and initiation. Neptune glamorizes what it touches so Aries felt as though anything was possible with drive and initiative. So many dreams, so little time!

Now comes Saturn, the planet of contraction. It entered Aries this yesterday and met up with Neptune to put the brakes on too much idealism, too much “self,” too little understanding of the “other.” Saturn in Aries is considered detriment; Saturn prefers the opposite sign of Libra so that fairness and a balance of self/others is achieved.

What happens when Aries drive meets Saturn restriction?

Aries gets frustrated and angry.

Ruled by Mars, the glyph for Aries is the glyph for male: the circle with arrow projecting outward. Aries angry will project outward which can cause arguments. Mars is the God of War for this reason. Historically men, armies, and countries went to war to eject people from land. War takes; it doesn’t give.

Hanging people for their religious views isn’t really in the realm of Aries but with Neptune hanging around in Aries, zealotry is added to a naturally competitive sign. Religion and violence have been historical bedfellows, and the combination is so challenging because neither bargaining nor reason can be employed. I’m on a mission of something heighted whether it’s to save humanity or reclaim a land or fight for a community.

Aries fighting for a cause beyond the self is unstoppable because this sign does not have embedded fear. Moon in Aries especially will not back down even if the face of overwhelming odds. That can be a very good thing that leads others to overcome unfairness and obstacles.

Saturn in Aquarius, Pisces, and Aries: Lockdown to Breakout

Lockdown:

When Saturn entered Aquarius in 2020, the governments of the world agreed on a common mandate: lockdown. The lockdown, or restriction of social interaction, was due to an illness crossing the globe.

Aquarius is the 11th sign of the zodiac ruling social groups, social consciousness and social movements. Social interaction was contracted by Saturn.

When Saturn entered Pisces – the 12th and last sign of the zodiac- in 2023, the emotional effects of lockdown became apparent with rise in emotional, mental, and spiritual illnesses. Physically distant from others, we become emotionally and spiritually disconnected. Isolation combined with Neptune’s transit in Pisces dissolved shared reality. Mutable consensus reality is a tactic of negative forces which helps separate humans from each other benefitting only a few.

How does one feel a part of the whole, a part of community and life on Earth, when we can’t agree that the sky is blue?

Existential crises are not just for philosophers. Today if a political figure states the moon is made of cheese, it must be debated which both angers and isolates all sides of the Cheese-or-Rock debate. All that is achieved is separation.

Breakout:

Saturn now in Aries will retrograde into Pisces before staying in Aries in 2026. During this time, we may have a very unstable set of “selves” trying to break out of the existential isolation into a new self, one aligned with true feelings, beliefs, and purpose.

Aries is the beginning: we’re beginning a collective new sense of self. Self wants to have an identity. Self wants to be noticed. Self wants to be number one. Self is the center of our stories.

Saturn doesn’t promote self, it promotes discipline. Discipline of self is key to making it through this transit without causing wars both personal and collective.

Any successful person – from corporate executive to athlete to artist – knows that discipline is essential to success. The Genius Myth where one comes out of the womb and writes operas or leads masses to enlightenment doesn’t truly exist (but we can argue it of course).

The movie Amadeus was highly influential as you still hear some talk about greatness versus “mediocrity.” That’s Aries and Capricorn (ruled by Saturn) – I can’t be a painter unless my work looks like Leonardo da Vinci. This is negative Saturn in Aries, competition as a demotivator rather than a motivator. It’s low self-esteem that prevents us from growing in the unique way we each are programmed to grow.

Aries like the other fire signs (Leo and Sagittarius) is meant to be positive. Positive doesn’t mean putting a positive slant on a negative situation; positive means the deep belief that one is the directing one’s own life. Aries is about self-dominion – being the captain of one’s own ship, being the driver on one’s road trip through life – and feeling good about it.

Saturn in general doesn’t bring feelings of joy to astrologers. Yet, we seem to need – in this country at least – a bit of Saturn-in-Aries discipline of self. Sure, let’s argue about whether the moon is made of cheese but for the purpose of understanding rather than creating a faux-debate where one insists the moon is cheese simply to win an Aries-driven competition.

And if the moon is truly made of cheese, we can all share in an moon-sized quesadilla.

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J.D. Vance’s Squares

Posted on March 7, 2025 by ohioastrology

There are many dangerous jobs in the world. The traditional ones that come to mind are firefighter, police officer, construction worker, high-rise window washers, emergency medical professions, and of course soldiers.

One I’d add today is Vice President of the United States. Back in 2021 when the current president was voted out of office, his followers wanted to lynch the vice president. Vice President is a dangerous job today.

Reading Byzantine history, I’m always amazed not just with the speed of power transfer during those times but that anyone would want the job of leader. If your predecessor lasted two days, why would you want to try?

Vance can probably explain it.

J.D. Vance’s Squares

Using the Astrotheme horoscope for JD Vance, the current Vice President of the United States, the sun and Venus are in fixed fire Leo and Saturn and Mars are in fixed water Scorpio. And that’s a square.

Squares create tension. Often successful people have a square or two as that’s like the friction that creates movement. Many creative people have had the “discomfort” of a square or opposition in the horoscope that led to creativity.

Transiting Uranus is in the last degrees of the fixed earth sign Taurus – that creates a transiting T-square. And now Pluto has entered fixed air sign Aquarius creating a grand cross (not by orb but still relevant to this astrologer).

That’s a lot of tension going on for Vance, which is understandable since much of that tension is being shared with the entire country and much of the world.

Square by square

Scorpio-Leo

In all seriousness, Vance’s conjunction of Saturn/Mars in Scorpio is something that would give medieval astrologers pause. Saturn and Mars are “not good bedfellows” as an astrologer or two has noted (Liz Greene maybe?).

Why?

Saturn is contraction (or control) and Mars is assertiveness (or aggression). In Scorpio, which is the water element, the fixed nature makes every slight feel like a gashing knife wound and the emotional response is strong and can be vengeful. So it can be mean and even violent.

Vance’s moon is in balance-oriented and pleasure-loving Libra but is conjunct Pluto which rules Scorpio. This is another marker of need for emotional control both of self and others. Libra is an air sign so not comfortable with emotion and when encountering negative emotions often disassociates.

If sun in Leo and moon in Libra were free to express without the other planets, Vance would be a more jovial, lighthearted individual. That might be a spiritual goal for his incarnation on earth, but it will be a challenge, especially when surrounding himself with the Pluto-type individuals of earth who form the appropriately termed “plutocracy.”

Transiting Squares

Transiting Uranus has been in Taurus, the fixed earth sign, since 2018 soon to pass to mutable air sign Gemini.

Uranus adds the unexpected in the realms of body, money, assets, property and values. This is the transit of the pandemic and changes to supply chain, body and medicine. For Vance, it would have also created issues with virility and intimacy opposing his Scorpio planets and squaring his Leo planets. Vance’s natal sun/Venus in Leo and moon in Libra are romance junkie placements, but squares create blockages to romance and intimacy due to control issues and emotional sensitivity that block sexual expression. These may have resulted in physical issues as well.

Now Pluto has entered fixed air Aquarius for a 20-year haul. This is the fourth of the fixed signs creating a grand cross (very wide and to other astrologers not in orb). Aquarius is opposite Leo being group consciousness in contrast to personal consciousness. Vance will be learning a lot about group consciousness, and it will appear to be as conflict, as oppositions feel like open enemies.

However, the oppositions – which are polarities – contain variations of an energy. While Vance may be seeking office for personal (Leo) reasons, by supporting political groups and agendas, he’s moving into the Aquarius side of the polarity. Through desire to express self and receive recognition for self, he may be abdicating personal expression to the group.

Likewise on the Aquarius side, often shared group ideals can turn into following the crowd. Aquarius likes to be rebellious which can be in relation to perceived unfairness (like Rosa Parks not giving up a bus seat) or a reaction to other group ideals (if everyone is wearing their hair long, wearing it short). One manifestation is productive; one is not.

And if squares weren’t enough

And if squares weren’t enough, when Uranus moves into Gemini in the summer, it will opposite Vance’s natal Uranus. Unexpected behavior of the Gemini sort which is more short-term, local, and personal will create unexpected behavior in Vance of the Sagittarius sort which is more long-term, distant, and philosophical. Vance may simply find ways to “escape,” as Sagittarius likes heightened experience, not the day-to-day stuff like paying bills and making dinner.

This summer Vance may take a long vacation.

It’s easy enough to read the news and know that Vance’s life is going to be tense for the near future, at least the next four years.

What astrology tries to understand is the motivation behind it all. Vance’s horoscope with four fixed signs and Pluto conjunct moon creates a “battle of wills” type of personality. If you say up, I say down. Small disagreements become major conflicts. Mountains out of molehills. That sort of thing.

Beneath it all is the Venus influence – Venus in romantic Leo and moon in Venus-ruled Libra. There’s a playful, joyous person in Vance, an insecure one who just wants to be loved. In the end, we all just want to be loved, right? It’s the boy who had a teddy bear too long and was the subject of ridicule and vowed never to be laughed at again.

Vance hanging with the tough guys relying on his background of control and violence probably isn’t the road to joy and pleasure. The path appears dangerous.

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