Weekly column: Will Trump’s vision unite or divide?

Review

This year I felt people would be choosing a path, not a person. And I’m not sure they want to go down the Blue Path any deeper than they already have. I think that’s what happened. Tens of millions of people who didn’t like Donald Trump voted for the path he promised.

—Peggy Noonan, “A Triumph for Trump’s Republicans: America, After Its Long Journey Through the 2010s and ’20s, Is Becoming More Conservative Again,” Wall Street Journal, November 7, 2024.

His campaign is proposing a second, much bigger hike in tariffs, lavish tax cuts, a labor-supply shock in the form of mass deportations and attacks on the independence of the Federal Reserve. These are all terrible ideas. “Normally, if you’re cutting off migrant labor, you try to get goods from outside. And if you’re cutting off goods from outside, you try to get migrant labor. If you cut off both, you almost certainly get inflation, if not stagflation,” says Adam Posen of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, a think-tank. JPMorgan Chase, a bank, has estimated that a tariff hike half the size of the one Mr. Trump is advocating would knock a third to half a percentage point off GDP growth in its first year and increase inflation by 1.5-2 percentage points.

The Economist, “How Bad Could a Second Trump Presidency Get?,” October 31, 2024.

It was all about the U.S. election last week. The U.S. stock market and Bitcoin loved it, and both soared to new all-time highs. Other world stock markets didn’t respond so favorably, which is understandable given Trump’s campaign promise of higher tariffs and prospects of another trade war.

Precious metals also fell following the election. Gold lost over $100 within 48 hours of the election. Silver dropped briefly below $31.00 after reaching a multi-year high of over $35.00 just two weeks ago.

It was a wild week, but it wasn’t as violent as feared, with Mars in opposition to Pluto, which formed a grand square to Joe Biden’s natal Moon and Kamala Harris’ natal Mercury, her ruling planet (see below). The election results were also known much more quickly than most expected, perhaps related to the efficient Sun/Saturn trine with the Moon in Saturn’s ruling sign of Capricorn. Election officials seemed much more prepared and organized than in 2020.

Short-term geocosmics

In the election’s final weeks, virtually all the opinion polls showed Mr. Trump and Kamala Harris in a statistical tie in the seven swing states. It was an admittedly striking result, and the question became: Are the polls “missing” something? Indeed, they did. They missed the public’s loss of belief that the Democratic Party represents its interests.

—Daniel Henninger, “How the Democrats Lost It: A 10-year Obsession with ‘Trump’ Caused the Party to Take Its Eyes Off What the Voters Really Wanted,” Wall Street Journal, November 6, 2024.

I had mentioned to some astrologer friends—don’t underestimate transiting Jupiter on Trump’s Sun-Node…. and all I kept hearing back is that Jupiter in Gemini is in detriment and won’t help—won’t get him elected. Well—it did. Jupiter energy prevails no matter what the sign, IMO.

—Kathy Rose, on ‘X’, @roseastrology, November 8, 2024.

For this week, we find some sobering geocosmic signatures arising. First, Venus will leave the expansive and optimistic sign of Sagittarius for the more skeptical and prove-it-to-me sign of Capricorn. Venus (money and love) won’t settle for promises now. It wants to see deliverables on those promises. That dynamic is reinforced with Saturn, the ruler of Capricorn, turning direct on November 15. Saturn stations are powerful Level 1 signatures of a market reversal +/- 10 trading days. The potential for a reversal increases more within just four trading days when the Sun enters into opposition with Uranus on November 17.

Kathy Rose, quoted above, is an excellent, down-to-earth, practical astrologer. She does her homework and takes consulting very seriously. I pay attention when she makes a forecast. She follows basic modern-day astrological methods of analysis and not the complicated calculations that seem to bog down many astrologers today in trying to make an accurate, coherent prediction.

In the final outcome of the U.S. 2024 Presidential Election, basic astrological analysis of the two candidates’ charts worked just fine. Donald Trump won by 2°, which was the distance between transiting Jupiter to his natal Sun at 22° Gemini, versus the 4° separation of transiting Jupiter to the Ascendant of 24° Gemini in the chart of Kamala Harris. Additionally, Jupiter was conjunct Trump’s natal Lunar North Node and Uranus, too, and all are in a favorable trine to his natal Jupiter.

However, there was yet another layer of astrological analysis that applies here, and that is the fact that the Sun is also Donald Trump’s ruling planet (he has Leo rising, and the Sun is the ruler of Leo). Ms. Harris, on the other hand, has Mercury as her ruling planet (Mercury rules Gemini, her ascendant). When we scale down to her natal Mercury, we see that it is 1° Scorpio, exactly opposite President Biden’s natal Moon at 1° Taurus. This early degree of Scorpio and Taurus was besieged by the Mars/Pluto opposition on the Leo/Aquarius axis (a grand square) last week. In other words, her ruling planet was in a hard aspect to transiting Pluto, a planet of rejection and portending a need to start over, compared to Trump, whose ruling planet was being conjoined by Jupiter, a planet of good fortune and luck.

As we have written on several occasions, no one escapes unscathed under a Pluto transit. Trump had the experience of a hard Pluto aspect to his natal Venus/Saturn in the 2020 election.

Longer-term thoughts

“What’s love got to do, got to do with it?
What’s love but a second-hand emotion?
What’s love got to do, got to do with it?
Who needs a heart when a heart can be broken?“

—Tina Turner, “What’s Love Got to Do with It,” written by Graham Lyle and Terry Britten, Capitol Records, 1984

In the wake of Donald Trump’s victory, American women are joining the 4B movement and abstaining from romantic relationships with men.

—Lydia Patrick, “Women Embracing the No Sex, Kids, Men ‘4B Movement’ After Trump’s Win,” Newsweek, November 8, 2024.

Really? Like abstaining from sex really going to punish men who mostly voted for Donald Trump? Doesn’t that actually support the perception that progressives have of Republican’s views on sexual activity? And what does politics have to do with sex? What’s love got to do with it? Maybe this relates to Pluto (deep, sexual, intimacy) moving into Aquarius (detachment, the “machine”). Or maybe society is moving into a deeper mental health crisis, with many unable to cope with reality, as Saturn (reality) moves towards its conjunction with Neptune (romance and illusion) in 2025-2026.

The election results open a new line of thinking: what role does Donald Trump, his visions, and forthcoming policies play in the Aries Vortex era (2025-2028)? He is now the leader of the techno-renaissance, which makes sense given the evolvement of his relationship with Elon Musk. He is now the leader in the movement towards a global digitalization of world currencies, given his support of Bitcoin and his support of creating a strategic fund based on Bitcoin. He wants to make America the leader in space development, and he supports Robert Kennedy’s drive to transform the Food and Drug Administration and make it more aligned with promoting healthy diets for children and adults alike. These are all consistent with the positive implications of reform-minded Pluto moving into Aquarius and trine Uranus moving into Gemini, with their midpoint conjunct Saturn and Neptune conjoining at 0° Aries (hence the “Aries Vortex”).

His election is also consistent with the political cycle of boom and busts, as expressed in several of our webinars this year. That is, all Republican presidents since 1900 have overseen new all-time highs in the U.S. stock market. That cannot be said of Democrat presidents, although several have (but not all). By the same token, all stock market crashes (i.e., losses greater than 26%) since 1900 have occurred under Republican presidents. None have occurred under Democrats. The implication is that under Donald Trump, the U.S. stock market will at first soar to new all-time highs. But by the end of his term, a stock market crash (by historical measures) has a high probability of happening, too. This also fits with the geocosmic cycles overlapping in 2027-2029 that will be discussed in the Forecast 2025 Book coming out next month (see below).

So, to all my conservative friends and readers, I say congratulations on your victory last week. Enjoy, but don’t gloat. Trump’s approval rating is only 43% for a majority of Americans. This indicates that the election was more about rejecting the opposition than supporting the victor. If he is truly to unite the country as promised, his approval ratings need to exceed a majority (50+%). To all my liberal friends and readers, I say, please don’t be despondent and unhinged. This is democracy at work, which many of you said was the reason for your vote. The nation has voted (not spoken, but voted), and the transition appears to be going smoothly, which you wanted but feared would not happen if the vote turned out differently. Trump has four years to accomplish his goals and, at the same time, unite the nation that is so divided right now. In actuality, he really only has two years—even one!—to do this because there will be a mid-term election in 2026 that, demographically, favors the Democrats. If he isn’t doing the job well after even one year, the complaints and campaign for 2026 will begin. The pressure will be on.

The real question I think every American should be asking is this: do we want him to succeed? Do we want America to be a real leader of the free world again? Because he is the one, the majority of voters have chosen to carry the Aries Vortex banner into 2025-2026. This is the signature that will define the future of America’s role in the world. This is the configuration that offers the promise to humanity into and then —hopefully—out of the abyss of division and polarity that otherwise brings us to the brink of Civil War (or war of the sexes, judging by the Newsweek Article quoted above). This is the configuration that holds the promise of the techno-renaissance that can uplift humankind to new heights or an escalation of wars that threaten the lives of millions of inhabitants. And, like it or not, he is the one who either succeeds or fails in this turnaround, depending on the support or resistance of this nation and even the rest of the world.