The Unbreakable New Year’s Resolution: Pluto in Capricorn Generation

Posted on April 27, 2024 by ohioastrology

Last week when the U.K.’s House of Commons approved a bill that would ban tobacco sales for anyone born 2009 or later, I so desperately wanted to provide astrological input. Why 2009? Make it 2008 when Pluto entered Capricorn: January 5, 2008, to be exact.

Why leave out the people born in the first degree of Pluto in Capricorn?

Like the rest of the Pluto in Capricorn generation, these soon-to-be-non-smokers were born into a world of increasing Capricorn-style structure and control. First (2008) came the global financial crisis and housing market meltdown. Toward the end of this transit (2020) came the global health lockdown. Surveillance (voluntary and involuntary) increased quite a bit during this transit.

And now in the U.K. Pluto in Capricorn can’t smoke.

Outer Planets in Capricorn

From the mid 1990s the outer planets of Uranus, Neptune and Pluto have all passed through Capricorn which rules social structure including rules, laws, governments, corporations, and ideas of success. Traditionally Capricorn is related to reputation. As a personality it’s a rule-follower and can be controlling. The United States has natal Pluto in Capricorn so is evolving through and with Capricorn energy.

Uranus brought inspiration and innovation to Capricorn (1988-1995). In the US we were in the second term of Ronald Reagan and deregulation and “trickle down” economics which now appear to have been “trickle up.” MBA studies increased.

Neptune brought idealization and glamorization to Capricorn (1984-1998).  In the US, this transit began a few years into the Reagan Administration. Stakeholders, stockholders, business plans and return on investment pushed aside any other type of civic concern. Charles Dickens writing in the mid 1800s on US culture saw the love of money. That hasn’t changed but during this transit “greed” became an archaic word.

Pluto brought destruction and transformation to Capricorn (2008 – 2024). While in many countries there appears to be government chaos, in 2020 the major governments of the world conducted a health lockdown at the same time. That’s a first. And increasingly much power exists outside of government.

Outer Planets in Aquarius

After Capricorn comes Aquarius which is group consciousness, shared ideals, futuristic ideas, technology and rebelliousness. While Aquarius relates to brotherhood, it focuses on the mental aspects and not always the physical or emotional aspects of community.

Uranus brought inspiration and innovation to Aquarius, the sign it rules (1995-2003). I recall the time during this transit where folks came up to me in the airport wondering how I liked my Kindle. The Kindle now looks as technological as a newspaper. Reputation became “brand identity.” Business focused on technology rather than products you can put in the cupboard. Innovative new business models were developed.

Neptune brought idealization and glamorization to Aquarius (1998-2012). The technology innovators bypassed the traditional power structure which had been based on wealth and privilege and became powerful through collecting, selling, and using data. These innovators became the new models of business success. Today it’s difficult to find an interaction that doesn’t include technology.

Pluto has just entered Aquarius. How will it transform technology? While we have 20 years to explore, there appears to be a cyber war occurring that most days is simply background noise. The large organizations like banks and governments are the defenders of our data – Capricorn. What happens if/when Capricorn subsides?

Pluto in Capricorn Generation: Don’t Smoke

While it’s difficult to defend the self-destructive behaviors like smoking, regulating addictions leads economically to black markets and if one bad habit is banned, when the rest?

If Capricorn profit is still the goal of our work activities, how do ban the product and leave the business? Do we ban the business or the consumption?

The Pluto in Capricorn generation isn’t yet old enough to vote so they must abide their elders and a lifelong New Year’s Resolution to not smoke. But as Pluto moves into Aquarius and this generation has more political rights, they may try to change rules they have inherited.

The leaders who thrived during Pluto in Capricorn need to be careful – telling Aquarius not to do something may lead to that the very Aquarian trait of rebelliousness. Remember that last time that Pluto was in Aquarius we called the era “The Enlightenment” a few old political systems were discarded for new political systems.

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Everyday Reincarnation

Posted on April 14, 2024 by ohioastrology

While watching an old BBC British mystery show, I was pleased to see the actor of a minor character who was being drilled by the Detective Inspector (aka DI) had risen through the years to be a DI himself in another BBC mystery series.

There must be a whole acting school in England just for mystery series. I often wonder if actors work hard to get these roles hoping one day for a long stint as a detective. The successful series can be ten to fifteen years running although some series swap out characters – something more common in British television than American television outside of soap operas.

Which leads me to a thought I’ve often had in media-land: how easy it is to recognize an actor, know he/she is an actor, yet seamlessly and easily adopt them as any character they are playing. We even give them awards for doing this. And we love them so much even if they play bad people.

It’s everyday reincarnation.

For entertainment it’s okay. Just don’t change on me in “real” life.

Everyday Reincarnation

Here in the West we are taught that reincarnation is not real, is not possible. Yet like death, it’s everywhere. In the natural world around us, death occurs constantly. So does reincarnation.

In the Western countries it’s common to work for corporations and change jobs at any time. Like the actors in BBC mysteries, I was fascinated, too, while younger and working in banking how bankers could come and go. One day you work for this bank and sell its products as being the best for your needs. Another day you change jobs and now that bank is the best for your needs.

Reincarnation.

Or we find the love of our life, plan a future and have intense experiences before it changes and ends. And then we do it again.

Reincarnation.

We watch it all the time, we do it all the time.

The Horoscope as Character

Reincarnation and death are taboo topics in the West because we have a strong sense of self. THIS IS WHO I AM. Death ends that. So does reincarnation.

When we change jobs and then tell our customers that this company (not the one I just left) is the best, then we are like the actor in the BBC mystery series playing a new role. And it’s completely normal and accepted behavior. No one questions it. It’s a job.

The horoscope represents the character we have come to play in this incarnation on earth. The horoscope is multi-faceted: often our consistency is forced because we believe we need to play the same character for our entire lives. This is what leads to what’s called hypocrisy.

The fixed signs of Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius are better than cardinal and mutable signs at staying in one character which results in roles of leadership. Do you want to follow someone through the desert or jungle who seems to be one person today and another tomorrow? Fixed signs are focused to obsessive.

  • Taurus focuses on items of the world making them financial and business leaders
  • Leo focuses on self-expression making them actors and leaders of causes
  • Scorpio focuses on emotion making them strong religious, community and family leaders
  • Aquarius focuses on ideas making them leaders of innovation and technology

The cardinal signs of Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn like to initiate new experiences with others on a personal or social level. Cardinal signs like to start new things in order to grow the self. Cardinal bounces experience off others in a personal or social setting making the character adjust to the environment.

  • Aries focuses on self-assertion and wants to be first in line regardless of where the line leads making it competitive for its own sake sometimes inadvertently becoming the follower it dislikes
  • Cancer focuses on personal emotions and likes to “belong” whether to family or other family-like group and will rarely disengage from an emotional source of energy creating dependency
  • Libra focuses on personal relationships and often takes on the character of the other in a relationship in order to form a sense of self
  • Capricorn focuses on social success and wants to climb the ladder, any ladder, as long as the climb takes them higher into levels of social respect

The mutable signs of Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces are the most changeable and least attached to one “character” in life. These signs can be greatly taxed by demands for consistency and become irresponsible in the eyes of fixed and cardinal signs. By not being attached to one character in life, they are very creative.

  • Gemini focuses on stimulation, learning and growing which means that it is constantly changing character; does a seed look like the flower it will become? Do babies look like adults?
  • Virgo focuses on work, health, diet and pets and is the one who creates and follows all of the new work and health trends; as a sign seeking perfection, it’s rarely satisfied with things as they are
  • Sagittarius focuses on foreign and unusual experiences to grow beyond the personal and social culture and experience heightened sensations which can lead to wandering off from daily responsibilities
  • Pisces focuses on collective spiritual experiences and is your resident psychic or emotional antenna; sometimes Pisces is the scapegoat which allows us to see all the stuff we don’t like in ourselves pasted onto others
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Dissolving Saturn: Saturn in Pisces

Posted on March 9, 2024 by ohioastrology

It happened again today. It’s clearly a new pattern or trend and not a strange anomaly. A vehicle completely stopped at a red light decided to make the left turn.

As with the other few times I’ve seen this in the past few months, the vehicles were completed stopped. While I always say we’re most psychic when in our vehicles, there’s no way to confirm intent. From the outside, however, these recent scenes did not give the sense of rebellion or flagrant disregard of traffic rules. They seemed like natural responses that would occur had the light been green or we’d been at a four-way stop.

When I say I’ve seen this a few times, I am discounting the woman who parked in front of the grocery store entrance, having almost hit a pedestrian, and walked brazenly inside the store and through a couple aisles. She appeared to be under the influences of substances that do, indeed, separate realities.

What does this mean?

In the three-dimensional world, in this location at least, it means one can no longer assume that if one has the green light those with the red lights will stop.

In the spiritual world I hear that “timelines are collapsing.” While I’ve been trying to understand that, today the astrological significator became evident.

Saturn is collapsing.

Saturn in Pisces

Saturn in the dissolving sign of Pisces means Saturn is ineffective. Saturn, which until the Age of Enlightenment in the mid-to-late 1700s, was understood to be the last planet in our solar system, represents “last” in the sense of limits and boundaries. Boundaries (like don’t harm me) are enforced by rules. Rules are enhanced by systems such as legal systems and regulations. To enforce legal systems and regulations there must be a stable authority whether as government or tribal leader or respected elders.

Those who don’t honor social structures are boundary crossers believing that “you” and “I’ are one.

The sign of Pisces is just that – merging into the whole. Pisces as such is otherworldly, spiritual and creative. For Pisces not comfortable with these great gifts there is self-sabotage, self-pity and childlike dependency. It’s difficult to be “otherworldly” in the “world.”

Positive boundary crossers in the religious and spiritual worlds understand “we are one” to mean that harming others harms oneself. The golden rule of treat others as you want to be treated can be inverted to others will treat you as you treat them. These are the types that don’t steal your wallet. If your religious and spiritual leaders do want all your worldly possessions, read on.

Negative boundary crossers not motivated with religious or spiritual intent understand “we are one” to mean what you have I should be able to dip into. Your pocket, your wallet – I want them and will take them. These types feel owed. This may be due to personal unmet needs, open manipulation or societal discrimination that promotes negative responses.

Paying for services rendered isn’t a boundary crossing, it’s very Saturn. It’s an exchange of energy deemed equal, or at least as equal as possible.

No Traffic Lights

Traffic lights are definitely Saturn – limitation, boundary and rule. Pisces ruled by Neptune represents fog. If the traffic light is bathed in fog, you can’t see it. Likewise, if power is lost lights are out and humans must remember the traffic rules they learned in high school but have rarely used.

With Saturn in Pisces, it’s like the traffic lights are in fog or inoperative. It’s like they are not there, like it’s simply a four-way stop.

Does this represent different “timelines?” I suppose, if one timeline is earth bound and the other from a foggy world with no electricity.

As I age, I understand the foggy world without electricity. It’s the ocean, the great expanse of water that soothes so many a human soul. Who wants to sit at traffic lights when they are concurrently listening to the lapping waves and crying seagulls while submerging their toes in the sand and inhaling the salty breeze?

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It’s Cyclical Time – Again!

Posted on January 1, 2024 by ohioastrology

This morning’s local news announced the “first” baby born in 2024. That means the child born on December 31 in the evening was the “last” baby born in 2023. First, last – it’s like competition. The child born “first” will probably know all his or her life that he/she was “first.”

Will the child being born “last” know he/she was last?

This “new” year of the Gregorian calendar starts in Capricorn – the sign ruling structure and limits and rules and, oh, success and failure in this social world.

The child born December 31 late already knows a bit about failure while the child born a few hours later already knows about success. First counts. Last doesn’t.

Your birthdays, children, while hours apart will always be the “last” and “first” of the respective years.

Welcome, children, to the world of linear time!

Last is more festive than first

It’s quiet today in this northern hemisphere city. Folks are still waking from their end-of-year parties. While the child born December 31 is last, there is much celebration on the “last” day of the year. The energy was festive for his/her birth. He/she may even have been born hearing laughter and music!

The child born “first” this morning in this city will face a dreary, cloudy sky with a light dusting of snow covering the ground. New Year’s Day is different than New Year’s Eve as folks need to go to bed early tonight, may even now be thinking about work tomorrow and the work that needs to be done “this year.” All those goals to meet!

The child born first may be lying in his/her crib while the folks around are suffering hangovers and watching sports events. While this is the “new” year the energy is less festive as it’s the end of something – the end of the parties and cookies and fattening food and presents and lights; it’s time to get back to Capricorn routines and Capricorn discipline.

It’s Cyclical Time – Again!

As a very young child I didn’t understand how the adults around me could remember to have Christmas every year. How did they do it? I’d heard about something called “college” – is that where they learned how to do it? (Ironically, maybe so).

Our linear, material culture needs a beginning and end (and by default, a middle). Linear time creates the playing field for competition and measurement. Linear time wants continual, uninterrupted growth. But does that occur in nature?

Rites and rituals are part of cyclical time. Our modern, Western religious holidays follow the cyclical time of the seasons – the death in winter and rebirth in spring. Our flowers reincarnate. They look the same as last year’s flowers, but are they the same flower we smelled last year?

Are we different on January 1, 2024 from December 31, 2023? Will we be different on December 31, 2024?

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George Washington and Thomas Jefferson Go to White Castle

Posted on December 27, 2023 by ohioastrology

The year 2020 was quite unique in the known history of the planet earth. At the beginning of 2020 with Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto in the sign of Capricorn, the major governments of the earth all enforced the same mandate at the same time – social lockdown.

A statue should be erected to this unique event – an agreement of governments that crossed political, social, and economic systems.

The United States has natal Pluto in Capricorn and in 2020 was nearing its Pluto “return,” a time when a planet returns to its natal position (in this case 27 degrees of Capricorn). Pluto is evolution (and if you don’t evolve, destruction) and Capricorn is structure, rules, laws, authority (represented by the father), government, police, banking, and anything else related to social systems and hierarchies. Success and failure are Capricorn concepts as they relate to our relationship to society.

Individuals, Moses excepted, will not have a Pluto return as humans don’t live 248 years. But countries can have Pluto returns assuming we know the “birth” of a country. The birth of a nation is not as straightforward as the birth of an individual. For the United States, I use the symbolic July 4, 1776 horoscope as it is the cultural foundation of our society and taught as our “beginning.”

Contraction and Expansion

Capricorn is ruled by Saturn, the planet of contraction which can be, but is not always, limitation. Rules are contracting. Laws are contracting. Capricorn and Saturn create boundaries. While Saturn and Capricorn can get bad press because they are not fun, they rule the fence around your yard and your locked front door; not fun, but necessary.

Want to lose weight? You’re embracing Saturn rules and discipline to do so.

Does Pluto in Capricorn mean the US must evolve through contraction and limitation?

The US horoscope has Sagittarius rising and Jupiter/sun in Cancer which relate to abundance; the US is a country with massive geography and abundant natural resources. Cancer rules the emotions and stomach and Sagittarius/Jupiter rule expansion and the thighs which explains why approximately two-thirds of Americans are overweight.

After Pluto’s last transit of Sagittarius from 1995-2008 our Sagittarius rising financial expansion was extreme and excessive (called over leveraging) and resulted in financial meltdown when Pluto went into Capricorn in 2008. After the expansion, the contraction. After the Christmas shopping in Sagittarius (end of November through December solstice), the New Year’s resolutions and credit card bills in Capricorn (the solstice through late January).

While expansion/contraction is deemed a natural economic cycle, it may be a particularly American cycle, a kind of bipolar national culture. Moderation, conservation, balance, frugality, resourcefulness – these are positive virtues we might have read about in novels one hundred years ago but not today. We prefer excess and when it proves unhealthy, we then call Saturn for a fix rather than allowing Saturn in our daily lives.

Will the US continue cycles of expansion and contraction or will we evolve into something more balanced?

Saturn/Capricorn Authoritarianism

Saturn/Capricorn represents the father and authority. My armchair psychological observation indicates those raised with good parenting (completely subjective of course), specifically from the father, have a positive relationship to authority. Authority is respected and honored. For those with bad parental relationships, authority is simply someone or something in the way.

Authoritarianism, then, is also subjective. Where a fence is a boundary and where a fence is a cage is based upon our subjective relationship to authority. Managing of shared resources (not pouring oil into the water supply for example) involves either cooperation or some form of authority.

The evolutionary challenge of the US is to understand the polarity of citizenship (Capricorn) versus personal need (Cancer). Discouragement of cooperation through political polarization is a tactic for government to sustain itself rather than to solve collective needs.

At its root, authoritarianism means excessive control. Control of swaths of population has historically taken negative forms: physical deprivation, fear of violence, forced indoctrination, and movement control. If we’re honest about history, the US has employed all these measures on certain segments of its population.

Negative control tactics are easy to identify. But in our digital age, there may be another, less noticeable, form of control – consumed and distracted attention. This may be a particularly American form of control where it appears there is no control.

We choose to be distracted, right? It’s fun, right?

Low Capricorn focuses on fear, control and maintaining the status quo regardless of its efficacy. High Capricorn is ultimately about personal responsibility and being positively involved in society.

Neptune Relief

While all this Pluto-in-Capricorn responsibility, control, and challenge from authority is occurring, we have Neptune transiting Pisces, the sign it rules which is the chill pill of these chaotic times.

In the 1960s when Pluto and Uranus were transiting Virgo – the sign opposite Pisces – we had a generation (“Hippies”) wanting to “drop out” of the system who openly and unabashedly took psychotropics and engaged in sexual behavior both privately and publicly.

The children of the Hippies, born with Pluto and Uranus in Virgo, are now experiencing a Neptune opposition in Pisces. And how are they reacting?

Most of the Hippie behavior has been corporatized by Virgo anxiety and need for order which is aided by Pluto in Capricorn. Drug use has subsumed into pharmaceutical use. Social rebellion is now political opposition. Social media provides the activism. Fast fashion supplies the ragged clothes . . .

Low Neptune and Pisces wants to escape this cold, cruel world and prefers liquid (alcohol) and image (movies) but will engage in other forms of release such as gambling or excessive pleasures (eating, sex, etc.).

High Neptune and Pisces also wants to feel good but does so through the more arduous path of spirituality where personal consciousness is altered slowly and permanently without the side effects of temporary escape. Spirituality, contrary to its marketed image, is about staying present and often involves service to and interaction with others.

Low Neptune/Pisces are easier to spot and more lucrative than High Neptune/Pisces that can’t truly be monetized. Both are occurring during this transit.

George Washington and Thomas Jefferson go to White Castle

While American politicians want us to believe that we are divided and tearing down the system (we’re going to have another Civil War!!), they are simply wearing out the nerves of the populace who then turn to Neptune in Pisces. With the population thus disengaged, it’s easier to control the system.

Expansion and contraction. Authoritarianism and escape. Too much work and too much play. Binge and purge. This is what is evolving.

Pluto is about to pass from Capricorn into Aquarius – the sign of the US natal moon. It will be about 12 years before it comes into aspect and transiting Neptune will then be in fire-sign Aries and Uranus will have gone through air-sign Gemini. These are more extroverted, social energies.

Americans who have checked out may check back in.

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New Year’s Resolutions: Breaking Habits at the Wrong Time

Posted on December 10, 2023 by ohioastrology

It’s that time again – the “new” year! But is it?

“Oh no!” you’re thinking. An astrologer going off on seasonal holidays – solstices and Druids and Celtics and Picts and all that New Agey stuff.

Let me stop those thoughts. If you live in the northern hemisphere, look out the window. Is it sunny? Is it warm? Are there flowers blooming? Are there tomatoes growing in the outside garden?

Is this when you want to “start” a “new” year?

If you’re in a place where you will spend the next three months indoors next to your larder and refrigerator, is this when you want to start dieting?

If it’s cold and dreary outside, is this when you want to start a new jogging habit?

The Gregorian calendar models socially-mandated human behavior, not natural human behavior and natural energy cycles.

Human Habits

Holidays astrological style I’ve been writing about for years, with little change . . . somehow everyone in the world wants change but they themselves are not willing to change. See, it’s a one-way street. We change the holidays and I’ll change whatever you want.

Christmas holiday shopping in the US begins “Black Friday” which is the very beginning of Sagittarius. Ruled by Jupiter, it’s the planet of expansion. We eat, we drink, we shop and are generous. Because generosity is promoted during this time, every organization I’ve ever blinked at is asking for money. And it’s become corporatized and digitized.

And then on Christmas day – normally 2-3 days after the Winter solstice, it all stops. This is the beginning of Capricorn. Capricorn is ruled by Saturn, the planet of contraction.

Expansion, contraction – it’s considered a business cycle but it’s also an American cycle of consumerism and debt. Exuberance and guilt. Too much food then ineffective dieting. Too much then too little. Too extreme.

In the contraction cycle, we make “resolutions” and many of them are contracting in nature – lose weight or quit something (smoking or spending money or other bad habits). Contraction in the sign of Capricorn makes sense. But if you are stuck inside in a low Capricorn mood (depression), then is this the best time to stop eating Twinkies?

Capricorn is about discipline and control so it’s a great time for solitary endeavors such as learning a new skill, reorganizing the entire house, balancing the checkbook, and checking to-do items off of your list. In other words, Capricorn is chore-like. But the chores generate the satisfaction of an organized life which is a positive energy leading to more discipline.

Nature’s Energies

The winter solstice is a time when nature goes to sleep. We humans probably need more sleep as well during this time. That would be following a natural energy instead of a forced energy that has a high likelihood of failure.

In January everything starts “new” so who has time to sleep?

Spring, the sign of Aries, has an aligned holiday called Easter. This is when nature comes back to life in the northern hemisphere and when people are naturally exuberant and ready to go outdoors and socialize again. We come out of our winter slumber to a rising sun. We dress in yellow and orange and light green.

Aries is the first sign of the zodiac and when life begins “anew.” This is the best time for our resolutions. It’s also when my naturopath recommends internal body cleansing – matching the internal energy to the external energy.

At the summer solstice in late June, we enter the sign of Cancer which rules the stomach. By this time some garden food is available. Wouldn’t this be a wonderful time to start a diet? When fresh food is readily available and folks are grilling out, it’s much easier to make good food choices than in dark, dreary January with leftover eggnog in the fridge.

Right Timing for Resolutions

Instead of making a resolution for the entire year that most likely will be broken with the first winter head cold, consider making monthly resolutions that align with the natural energies and can be monthly successes instead of annual failures (Capricorn rules ideas of success and failure).

OHA offers these suggestions for more energetic alignment. Signs cross months – the month listed is the bulk of the sign.

  • January (Capricorn) – throw away all time management and “successful” people habit self-help books and clean out a cupboard or closet. The natural organizing energy will lead to organizing thoughts that can be applied the rest of the year.
  • February (Aquarius) – this is when you lay out the year’s “plan.” Resolutions often involve change of behavior or skill so learn that new skill in February.
  • March (Pisces) – this is the end of the year; it’s important to connect emotionally and allow imagination to flow to bring color and life to the organization and plans developed in winter. Happiness is a feeling, not a plan.
  • April (Aries) – get out of the house! This is the time to start those new plans. By the way, don’t mention your resolutions to anyone from January – March but in April those plans have already germinated so go ahead and tell everyone with all the excitement you can muster!
  • May (Taurus) – after an introspective winter and spring bust out, time to relax with all the other folks that have busted out in spring. Sit on the deck with a beer. This is also the best time to build things – houses, bookcases, and anything tangible. But don’t build fast, build slow and enjoy it.
  • June (Gemini) – time for friends and parties and new experiences! Travel, think, read, talk or do all at the same time. Follow your new interests. Be careful not to double and triple book your calendar. You won’t need as much sleep this month so plan long days.
  • July (Cancer) – time for fresh food and family. Holidays involve family but the pressure of winter holidays creates lots of sadness as well as cheer. In Cancer, your “family” may or may not be blood related. Family enjoyment is greater in this energy.
  • August (Leo) – time for summer love! This is the best time to create fun, playful events and have a love affair if that is in your annual plans. Your friends are illness free in August so hug and kiss to your heart’s content.
  • September (Virgo) – this is back to school for many and another social habit aligned correctly to the energies. Virgo loves to study and learn and apply learning to work and habits. If you’re still attached to annual resolutions, this is another decent time to create them.
  • October (Libra) – time to get married! If you’re already married, enjoy what you’ve got (“Love the one you’re with”) and add some Libra creativity to spice up the soup. Time for any and all creative pursuits – your hidden talents can be on display so others can appreciate them.
  • November (Scorpio) – All Soul’s Day is aligned well in this sign. Time to go deep within to understand how our ancestors left their storylines within our blood and soul. Apply your passions to all of life – wear that deep red overcoat. Let the world know how you feel.
  • December (Sagittarius) – this month aligns with Western Christmas and is naturally a time for “the more the merrier” type of behavior that can include pub crawls and bobbing for peppermints in the eggnog. Have fun but be careful!
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Crime Dealer: Vinnie Politan

Posted on November 26, 2023 by ohioastrology

It all started with Dateline.

[Keith Morrison voice for the Dateline initiated]: It was a Friday. A Friday of a very long work week of the usual, and some extra, corporate drama that left our astrology blogger both physically tired and mentally fatigued.

Many corporate workers know the feeling – the mental wear and tear of a work week fuels a desire on Friday for something relaxing – a drink, a movie, a nap on the couch. Even preparing dinner is too challenging hence the common Friday pizza night.

This particular Friday our astrology blogger may or may not have gotten pizza – that part of the story is fuzzy – but it’s on the record that she chose to watch antenna TV, crappy as it is, and discovered the mental stimulation and recharge of Dateline.

In that Friday’s episode – a full two-hour detailed and drawn-out affair – we learned that a woman lifting weights had dropped the weights which fell on her neck and killed her. At least, that’s what her husband claimed.

After a full twenty minutes of medical and health experts discussing whether or not this type of death by weights was possible, we learned that there was critical information to know after the commercial.

And what was that information?

That the women didn’t like to lift weights; she liked to run.

This blogger was hooked!

If anything recharges a corporately-drained brain, it’s a show that consists almost entirely of red herrings meant to pique interest by stringing you along with breadcrumbs of facts both relevant and irrelevant. It’s mental magic, a cognitive slot machine, and explains why Dateline has been on the air for over 30 years with three thousand episodes.

Crime Junkie

Like all addictions, one leads to another.

Until the pandemic, Dateline on Friday was adequate when needed. Then came the pandemic which sent corporate workers home and allowed more leisure time with nothing open for leisure.

Which brings us back to antenna TV which I rebrand “Pharmaceutical Crime” television. If you like pharmaceutical commercials or crime shows (real and unreal), antenna TV can meet your needs at very low cost.

Dateline has a nice formula of sympathetic victims, lots of husbands and wives and boyfriends and girlfriends – so it’s not the kind of show that keeps you up at night. These are the crazy people out that you’d never marry . . . you hope.

Unlike Dateline, other true crime consists of unsympathetic characters, more gruesome ways of killing each other, much more disgusting detail and situations that will keep you up at night or at least prevent you from talking to a stranger for the rest of your life.

With pandemic time on my hands, I’d gone from the crime ivory tower of Dateline to the crime gutter of channels that simply call themselves “crime programming.” Now there’s an interesting term.

Court TV

In the highs and lows of crime junkie hood, Court TV belongs right in the middle. While Dateline sticks to mostly sympathetic characters murdered by known killers, Court TV reminds you that there’s a court drama playing out every one or two minutes and that people on earth are just . . . weird.

The host of Court TV is Vinnie Politan, a former New Jersey prosecutor. Like crime stories themselves, I have a hate-love relationship with this guy. At first glance he’s so bombastic that I need to remember (as with Dateline) that there are real people, real victims, involved in these stories and many who loved them and would be hurt by their stories becoming cheesy entertainment.

Yes, yes, like Politan I’m viewing others’ tragedies as mental stimulation (aka entertainment). But Politan can dish it out so aggressively and with such mockery, I sometimes have to turn him off. Unless he’s caught me in one of his crazy, but very accurate, perceptions or mockery that makes me laugh out loud.

In a recent conversation with his guests (who appear to sign an agreement stating they will try to be as goofy as possible), Politan pointed out that Alec Baldwin may be innocent in the shooting death of a movie set employee, but yet if you or I took a gun we believed was not real and did the same thing we would not be exonerated.

Good point!

And I will admit to agreeing with Politan when all his guests disagreed – when Idaho murder suspect Bryan Kohberger was stopped twice in Indiana for tailgating there must have been an alert on him.

Who gets stopped for tailgating?

In Ohio, no one. I assure you.

Vinnie Politan Horoscope

Astrologically, who is Vinnie Politan?

Without knowing time of birth, we can’t know Politan’s rising sign. The rising sign is the first appearance we give to others. We may be shy but give the appearance of confidence. Or we may appear quiet but when comfortable become a chatterbox. Or appearance may be aligned with the personality we will see if we get to know someone in depth.

The rising sign can also describe appearance. From this deep set eyes, Politan might have Scorpio rising or Pluto in the first house (the rising sign is the start of the first house). Scorpio rising would describe an “intense” personality.

Politan’s outspoken, aggressive, and flippant approach to many stories is reminiscent of fire sign behavior (Aries, Leo, Sagittarius). Yet in Politan’s chart there is no fire.

With three planets in earth, three planets in water and two planets in air, Politan will have a natural lack of confidence and force of personality. Without fire, it’s easy to lack enthusiasm or competitive spirit when life has blockages. When lacking fire, we may not stand up for ourselves when we need to.

Yet Politan nightly displays a fire energy of a person fighting for his rights in an oppressive state. Possibly because it’s not natural to his personality, it appears overdone. It’s TV so nothing is real and Politan’s angst is along the lines of soap opera acting.

In contrast, the mental energy Politan puts into his assessments is very real – two planets in air-sign Aquarius and three in earth-sign Virgo. Five planets in thinking signs represents half of his entire horoscope. This man thinks, and thinks, and thinks. It’s difficult for him to stop thinking if the answer doesn’t appear perfect. And with crime, you may never know exactly what occurred.

Politan’s other three planets are in water signs. In Chinese astrology, water is associated with intelligence but a different type than our air-sign rationality. Water understands emotional and psychological motivation. Watching crime drama, you will find rationality isn’t common in murder. “Motive” is always sought as we need to know why.

Crime – Horoscope 8th House

In a horoscope, the sky is split up into 12 houses. Without time of birth we won’t know Politan’s house placements but by sign there is indication of his interest in crime and human psychology.

Law as justice, fairness and balance is in the domain of Libra and the 7th house. There are no planets in Libra in Politan’s chart although he may have some 7th house placements.

Crime, in contrast, is an 8th house concern ruled by Scorpio. Why?

Eighth house is traditionally sex, death and taxes. What do these areas of life have in common?

They are a crossing of physical or emotional boundaries. The government takes money out of our paychecks before we get it. It’s a crossing of boundary. We are intimate with another. It’s a crossing of a boundary. We die. We’ve “crossed over.”

The opposite of the 8th house is the 2nd house which rules our self with boundaries – my money, my body and my values. The door to your house, the unshared bank account, the physical body – these are boundaries.

How much crime comes from 2nd and 8th house concerns? Lots of it.

Or all of it?

Politan has Jupiter in Taurus opposite Neptune in Scorpio which drives his interest in both prosecution and crime. As prosecutor, you are arguing to control the outcome of another’s life based on their actions. If successful, you might even send them to prison for the rest of their lives. That’s a lot of power and responsibility.

When money (Taurus) is a motivation, it’s a clear, unquestioned motive. Anything other than the tangible is in the realm of Scorpio and the “why” is much more difficult to explain.

Take, for example, the four-person southern Ohio family (Wagners) who murdered eight members of another family (Rhodens) over custody of a child in 2016. In the end, the child in question now has lost 12 family members including both sets of grandparents (death and prison) as well as mother (death), father (prison) and several aunts and uncles to death and prison.

Explain that!

Scorpio and Pisces can explain. Politan has Saturn and moon in Pisces so can understand motivation which is non-rational. There are motivations – in the case of the Wagners it was about control – but it’s not rational so led to the opposite of all they were trying to achieve. They no longer have control over anything, including their own movements.

Politan’s perceptive nature (Scorpio and Pisces) combined with rational nature (Virgo and Aquarius) makes for a thorough understanding of complex situations. Oh yeah, Politan has Mercury in Capricorn – that’s earth and probably contributes to his authoritative voice on Court TV.

Crime Diet

Going to the gutter of true crime, I attempted to crime “diet” and even convinced a friend to attempt it with me. We’ve both fallen off the wagon.

The lure of true crime is that it’s not rational and provides mental stimulation in possibility. Because so much of it makes no sense, the mind can turn it over in the same way we savor a piece of hard candy. The more you think about it, the more it provides stimulation. And when the candy has dissolved, you need another piece, another fascinating story.

Researching obsession with true crime provides several theories that may align with the elements:

Fire – the adrenaline rush of calamity and the human instinct to see what’s going on around us

Earth – in contrast to the criminals, we feel grounded and sane

Air – the mystery and suspense of discovery is engaging to the mind

Water – it’s a safe way to process fear

Of the several major learnings from astrology, one is that we all do the same things but in different ways. Crime junkies like the criminals themselves have many motivations. And Crime Dealers like Vinnie Politan will serve them.

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Being Andy Warhol

Posted on November 13, 2023 by ohioastrology

When Mary Tyler Moore died in 2017, I was surprised by the number of condolences in my social media feed.

How did I not know so many people were Mary Tyler Moore fans?

Had my friends been binging on the Mary Tyler Moore show while I wasn’t noticing? Why did we not have long, late-night discussions over wine and fondue about her performance in Ordinary People where she played a controlling, emotionally restrained mother, a role opposite to many of her sunny, cheerful roles? The irony is that this role in Ordinary People was more in line with her natal horoscope than the Dick Van Dyke show or Mary Tyler Moore show, although in the latter she does demonstrate the Capricorn drive for career, success and financial independence.

But we have no wine, fondue pot or time this evening.

The social media condolences for every and all passing celebrities demonstrate how much we have become like newscasters, like the journalists we increasingly disdain. Like journalists we get the buzz and present it to our viewing audience. We want our audience to stay tuned, especially on the career-oriented sites or revenue-generating sites where we want to maintain our brand. No audience, no brand.

Brand

Still on my reading list is Naomi Klein’s No Logo which, if I understand the premise, it about how products developed brands and later the brands became the products. Published in 1999, it seems a prescient work as in this nation we elected a brand president. The wrapping paper no longer needs to contain a present.

When did the concept of “brand” originate?

Internet research suggests 2700 BC but the concept of brand seems to involve two important modern elements: consumer culture and easy communication.

Prior to this “brand” was held but just a few individuals of intellectual or spiritual greatness and maybe some fermented grapes. Today we all have an audience – large or small – for our brand. We must sell ourselves regularly in the digital economy.

Pluto in Capricorn

Transformative Pluto is soon to leave Capricorn – where it will not reside for the next 248 years – and go into Aquarius. For Americans, Pluto in the late degrees of Capricorn represents a Pluto “return” as we were born into this placement. Who knows, maybe this is exactly how people felt in 1776 – “WTF? Will people just calm down and stop killing each other and stealing each other’s stuff?” I bet a few folks said that in 1776 too. Maybe nothing has really changed in the evolutionary spiral.

With natal Pluto in Capricorn, the US evolutionary path involves understanding of business, career, success, rules, and authority. We went one round as Capricorn “boss.” The second round of Pluto through the signs may bring us back to our idealistic roots with lots of Capricorn lessons about authority. I plan to check back in 2272.

One legacy of this last 20 years of Pluto in Capricorn is brand for everyone, the “democratization” of brand. Traditionally Capricorn is about “reputation,” an old-fashioned idea made new. The idea behind reputation was that you’d better be good so that the people in the neighborhood and community don’t talk about you and you can get a good spouse and job.

Brand, like reputation, is an everyday affair but takes more than good behavior; it takes constant reinforcement and promotion of one’s good, or desired, behavior. Bad behavior is a brand too, and a popular one today. Brand is public relations of self. Brand is self.

Andy Warhol

Pop artist Andy Warhol said, famously, that everyone would be famous for 15 minutes. Today we may only have 15 minutes of privacy.

Warhol had six of the ten horoscope planets in fire (sun/Venus/Neptune in Leo, Uranus/moon in Aries and Saturn in Sagittarius) representing an extroverted nature seeking self-expression and recognition. While born with Pluto in Cancer, he appealed to the Pluto in Leo “Me” generation busting out of the norms of their parents during the 1960s.

With moon and Uranus in Aries, Warhol exhibited much of Aries’ self-aggrandizing aspect. Having a natural understanding of brand, Warhol was made famous by his paintings, prints and movies of popular products (Campbell’s soup) and popular people (repeating images of famous faces).

Uranus has an 84-year cycle so in the early 2010s returned to Aries. In the 1960s, Warhol produced repeating images of famous faces. In the 2010s, we created repeating images of our own faces.

Uranus in Aries occurred during the beginning of the Pluto-in-Capricorn transit and provided the selfies that were needed for the continued focus on brand – social media and cameras. And unabashed promotion of self.

If you do have some wine, fondue and time available, after discussion of Mary Tyler Moore’s thespian agility, we can discuss whether Warhol would be famous today.

Would Warhol have made it through the jungle of brand to stand out? Or would he be just another Instagram page or YouTube channel?

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Republican Presidential Debaters: Stepchildren of the News

Posted on November 11, 2023 by ohioastrology

If you followed the news this week, at the top of your feed should have been news from Ohio – the passing of Issue 1 (state constitutional right to abortion) and Issue 2 (legal use of recreational marijuana). Scrolling down your news feed you may have seen news about the war in Israel. Scrolling further down you might have seen some news about zoo pandas being returned to China or the war in Ukraine. Even further down your feed, should you have the 21st century patience to scroll that far, you might have seen that last Wednesday (November 8) was a Republican presidential debate.

While political debates prior to the national election year or month may have historically generated low interest, this year’s rock-bottom interest over pandas going back to China sets a new low. And the minimal coverage it received nationally was a spat over the use of Tik Tok.

Pluto in Leo Generation

You’ve heard of the “Me Generation,” right? That generation was born with slow-moving (20 years in sign), generational Pluto in the fixed fire “me” sign of Leo. Leo is confident, enthusiastic, energetic, bold, and always center stage. This generation defined much of the life we live today and their retirement and passing from the planet represents a shift of both energy and economics for the generations behind them.

While we had a dip in the Pluto-in-Virgo generation with President Barack Obama, post-presidency we retracted into the prior Pluto-in-Leo generation (Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and Donald Trump) and appear to be unwilling to let go.

Our five Republican presidential candidate debaters have Pluto in Virgo or Pluto in Libra. They are all trailing their Pluto-in-Leo master of brand (Trump).

My “Mr. Spock” mind is fascinated that everyone purports to hate “the government” but we can’t let go of grandmotherly and grandfatherly and Santa Claus (Sanders) leaders who represent our hanging on to a past we believe we want to discard.

In fascinating timing, transiting Pluto will dip its toes back into fixed, air-sign Aquarius in January 2024 and will fall back into cardinal, earth-sign Capricorn from September through the November election when it then returns late November to Aquarius.

Pluto changing signs is a shift – and in Aquarius is the sign opposite Leo representing a shift from “me” to “we.” Aquarius represents group consciousness and shared ideals. These are your friends rather than family which we didn’t consciously choose.

“We” or “me” – that’s our collective shift. We are a global village and now affect each other’s day-to-day life in so many ways beyond open war. We drink each other’s water and depend both on our friends and enemies for daily life.

Two generations of 30-ish people have Uranus and Neptune in Capricorn and/or Aquarius. These generations will continue to debate Capricorn authority versus Aquarian freedom. It’s their time. They will figure it out.

2024 Planetary Shifts

In 2024, two social/outer planets will shift: Jupiter from Taurus to Gemini (May) and Pluto from Capricorn to Aquarius and back again (January, September, and November).

Other social/outer planets will continue in the signs they are today: Saturn in Pisces, Uranus in Taurus, and Neptune in Pisces.

How will the shift of Pluto from Capricorn to Aquarius affect each candidate in 2024?

November 8 Republican Debaters

These five individuals (links to Astrotheme horoscopes) spent 90 minutes last week debating the national issues and, of course, attacking each other. Alphabetically, let’s see what 2024 brings for each and, free of charge, offer a 2024 New Year’s resolution.

Chris Christie (former New Jersey Governor)

2024 astrological landscape: With natal Saturn in Aquarius, Pluto will transit that placement in 2024 and already has this year. Pluto is power regardless of title (think mafia) and Saturn is structure and rules (think police). What happens when the mafia and police meet? It’s a very intense power play. Pluto is underground so behind the scenes Christie will mostly likely be forced to step aside. When Jupiter transits into Gemini in May, it will create a grand-square with Christie’s moon in Sagittarius, Jupiter in Pisces, and sun/Pluto in Virgo. In Christie fashion, he will have parting words which tends to reduce future party invitations.

2024 New Year’s Resolution suggestion: Meet new people by joining a new social organization.

Ron Desantis (Florida Governor)

2024 astrological landscape: With natal Jupiter in early Leo, Pluto will oppose this natal placement. With natal moon in Aquarius (probably late degree), Pluto won’t be in orb but will have an effect. As with Christie, this opposition has already occurred. It represents what is already reported in the news (way low on your news feed) – attack on confidence (Leo) and overwhelming demands from your tribe (Pluto in same sign as moon). If Desantis prevails, the forces behind politics will make great emotional demands on him. With sun in Virgo and moon in Aquarius, emotional demands are like eating liver and onions. Mental and intellectual demands are fine. Dietary demands are fine. Schedule demands are fine. Emotional demands, yuck!

2024 New Year’s Resolution suggestion: Let go of ideas of perfection and quit fearing mistakes.

Nikki Haley (former U.N. Ambassador)

2024 astrological landscape: With sun in 29 degrees of Capricorn, transiting Pluto in late Capricorn and early Aquarius is trampling all over Haley’s sun. This represents transformation of self which may correspond with reaching a high office (and being a female co-candidate would compete with the current gender politics). Pluto in Aquarius trines her natal Pluto in Libra and also out-of-sign with Saturn in 29 Taurus. Haley has made peace with both the mafia and police. Haley’s moon is either in late Pisces or early Aries. In Pisces, this brings sensitivity that is not always useful in politics and with Neptune transiting, the rigors of campaigning may take a toll on her emotional health. In Aries, this woman can’t be stopped.

2024 New Year’s Resolution suggestion: Be a good partner to my political bedmate. No whining even if he acts like a jerk in public.

Vivek Ramaswamy (Entrepreneur)

2024 astrological landscape: With most natal planets in the fixed signs (Mars/sun/Mercury in Leo, Jupiter in Aquarius, Saturn and maybe moon in Taurus, and Pluto in Scorpio), Pluto in Aquarius has the ability to completely transform Ramaswamy’s life. Fixed signs are tough and stubborn but Pluto forces, it doesn’t ask. Where to begin? It’s like a domino effect – does the body change or money go down the drain knocking everything else over? Or is it that he’s kicked out of the social club and now has no friends? Or do those long-ago love affairs come to light, especially the one with the wild, unsavory traits?

2024 New Year’s Resolution suggestion: Learn to be tough without driving a steamroller over everyone in my life.

Tim Scott (South Carolina Senator)

2024 astrological landscape: With natal Venus, Neptune and Mars in Scorpio, transiting Pluto in Aquarius creates a square. Scorpio is emotional and passionate; Aquarius rational and detached. With moon in Cancer, there’s a personal, emotional and sentimental nature. That’s a loving, warm nature that is probably appreciated by friends and family but Scott’s political party is leaning toward rogue cowboy rather than sensitive, caring person. With Uranus/Pluto/Mercury/sun in Virgo there’s lots of intelligence (like Desantis) but that, too, is not always appreciated in politics. The story is always detailed but the public prefers less than ten words in one’s slogan. Saturn in Pisces means that Scott is having a Saturn return which represents maturity. In this watery sign and watery chart, it’s emotional maturity which includes letting oneself cry openly at the tearjerker movie. It also means letting go of past emotional trauma.

2024 New Year’s Resolution suggestion: Stop thinking too much. Learn not to be hurt by every slight. Watch Bambi when I want to cry and Fight Club when I want to toughen up.

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Uranus in Taurus Conjunct Mule Piss

Posted on September 4, 2023 by ohioastrology

When Uranus went into Taurus in March 2019 (after a quick dip in May 2018), I wondered how it would affect some of our older political leaders with moon on the Taurus-Scorpio axis specifically Kentucky Senator and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (moon in Taurus), Congresswoman and former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (moon in Scorpio) and President Joe Biden (moon in Taurus).

Age, some say, is just a number. In attitude, maybe, but in body I would disagree. Many believe they beat age until, simply, age wins. Age always wins.

Saturn, once the last known planet in the solar system, represents age and time (and rules and boundaries and every other structure of your world and body). Saturn has a 29-year cycle so after three cycles we get to the end of a human lifecycle. At this third Saturn cycle, Uranus has made one 84-year cycle. Neptune with its 165-year cycle is opposite its natal position around age 80. Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune define the qualities of “old” on planet Earth.

Saturn is understanding our limitations (no more drives across the continent after a night of drinking). Uranus is heightened awareness that sparks independence (at age 80 who cares if the world knows you had a child “out of wedlock”). Neptune brings the first foot into the next world (spirituality and sometimes dementia if we stay in this world too long).

Senator McConnell going Neptune glassy-eyed at the podium has sparked, once again, the issue of age. Why are we electing politicians in the final stages of their earthly lives?

Government is Old

The heroes of today in America’s business culture are the creators and purveyors of technology. They may not be young anymore, but technology is a thriving culture that encompasses many generations of innovators.

Possibly in politics we can’t separate from the grandparent culture because government itself is the grandparent – a historical relic.

In Jihad vs. McWorld published in 1995, author Benjamin Barber explains how globalization (McWorld) creates a reaction toward traditional values (Jihad). The extremism we see in other cultures is a reflection of our own extremism and the adoration of the grandparent generation is a desire for a long-lost past. Grandparents are always “pure,” are they not? Unless they’ve made it to a Dateline episode all of the sins of the past have been diluted in the running river of age.

Nostalgia for the past – this looking back over time is Saturn. The nostalgia, that is Neptune because in the past we simply ate our ice cream on a hot summer day and there was no one being needlessly murdered around the corner. If they were, we didn’t know about it.

American aging politicians represent our reluctance to part with the past. But like the politicians themselves, we must.

Pluto will re-enter Aquarius in January 2024 and will remain in Aquarius through 2043. Aquarius represents the future. The future will be upon us.

Uranus in Taurus Conjunct Mule Piss

McConnell

McConnell in 2018 referred to himself as “stronger than mule piss” in pushing to nominate a new supreme court justice. In 2018 he was stronger than mule piss. In 2023, mule piss is stronger. That’s how it works. Mule piss will be stronger than all of us in the end.

Sun in Pisces, moon in Taurus, McConnell has been under the transits of Neptune in Pisces (since 2011) and Uranus in Taurus (2018-2019). That’s in addition to the natural aging aspects mentioned above – Neptune in Pisces is opposing his Neptune in Virgo, his Uranus return in Taurus around the corner, and Pluto in Aquarius opposes his natal Pluto in Leo.

Clearly McConnell’s physical deterioration will remove him from politics. Pluto in Aquarius at the beginning of 2024 will probably be the marker.

Astrology is symbolic of a human life and we will all one day be McConnell – maybe without the Neptune transit to sun. If McConnell were more spiritually-minded, as Pisces can often be, this would be a great time of spiritual connection rather than political disconnection. He might have been a monk finally reaching enlightenment.

Pelosi

Pelosi with moon in Scorpio is making the slow retreat from politics after political violence was inflicted upon her husband. With sun in Aries and moon in Scorpio, this is one fighter both covert and overt. But again, age gets us all and regardless of our security systems, age makes us vulnerable.

Pelosi has natal Saturn, Uranus, Venus and Mars opposite the moon in Scorpio. The transiting Uranus creates a host of events including challenges to authority (Saturn), Uranus return (independence), new attractions (Venus) and unexpected aggression (Mars). Moon in Scorpio is on the other side of this – an opposition – so it appears to be stuff “out there” that is changing when really it’s time for the Scorpio moon to stop obsessing.

Pelosi, like McConnell, has natal Pluto in the early degrees of Leo and was already forced out. But by leaving voluntarily, she may enjoy some of age’s transits like the independence of Uranus to now speak its mind or the Neptune opposition that wants to wear that crazy polka dot dress that would have branded her a liberal hippie.

Biden

Biden has a Scorpio sun and Taurus moon so is affected by transiting Uranus in Taurus. Taurus is the body so like McConnell the body will have sudden changes. Like McConnell, it’s already occurring with some sudden falls.

Biden has natal Uranus in two degrees of Gemini and natal Neptune in one degree of Libra. His Uranus return and Neptune opposition are a bit delayed so he may last longer in politics (and life) than McConnell.

Biden’s trigger year is 2025 when Uranus goes into Gemini and Neptune in Aries. Gemini rules the lungs so there can be respiratory illness and breathing trouble at that time. Transiting Uranus opposite natal Venus in Scorpio suggests endocrine and genital issues.

While politics is always a pendulum swinging to extremes, Biden’s rise brought a traditional figure in response to radical figures. Astrologically, Americans have liked fixed sign presidents (Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, Aquarius) because fixed signs stay on message.

When Pluto enters Aquarius in 2024 it will form a square (tension) to Biden’s Scorpio and Taurus energy. Aquarius is about people, the future and rebelliousness. Aquarius likes to be different and wear it as an identity. Biden may need to embrace his own Uranus transit to relate – maybe instead of hiding his age and body changes, he can share this with his people – that would be unique and unexpected.

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