Astrology of Trump’s indictment

 

 

For those of us who study astrology there is danger of getting lost in details unless we have a model to deal with the jungle of information. 

In his second book, The Changing Sky, Steven Forrest presented a model for sorting through the many possible planetary configurations that present themselves in a transits and progressions reading. This system, termed "The Four Nets," is applied to the jungle of astrological symbolism, each net catching creatures in descending orders of size. In the First Net, we see all the astrological biggies—major transits and directions to and from the Sun, Moon and Ascendant for example. By the time we get to the Third or Fourth Nets, we are looking at events we might safely ignore —unless the earlier Nets have come up empty. This is a strategic, orderly, and effective method for organizing one’s approach to a transits/ progressions analysis. 

Of all directions those of the progressed Sun are among the most important. In Donald Trump’s chart the current Primary Direction (mundane) is: ” Sun square Saturn”. In simple terms this is one direction that means trouble with the law. 

But going further we notice that natal Saturn is conjunct Venus with both square to the TNP Hades. Martha Wescott delineates: 

Venus-Hades: prostituting oneself for love 

So that is Steven Forrest’s Net #1 - the Big Bear as he likes to call it. Then to answer the question. Why now? We look at a fast moving transit. In the early hours of March 31^st , transit Mercury [23ar] formed a square aspect to Trump’s radix Saturn [23cn] triggering the major Primary Direction leading to his indictment! Incidentally Mercury-Saturn is bad(Saturn) news (Mercury).

 

 

Now take a look at the event chart for transit Mercury square Trump’s Saturn. Rising on the Ascendant is the star Algethi. For this star, Ebertin writes: 

The Head of kneeling Hercules possesses a character of Mars-Venus with a slight blend of Mercury. In good aspect, it is supposed to give much enjoyment and favors from women. However if connected with unhelpful planets, it is said to cause much irritation with the female sex. 

 

Finally can it be a coincidence that the news comes to us just as there is a Venus-Uranus conjunction in hard aspect (semi-square) to Mars. For Ebertin this is ”a love adventure..unfaithfulness”. While the aspect is worldwide in scope it becomes meaningful at those places where the configuration aspects the angles. Here is the chart for conjunction drawn for NY. Notice the alignment with the meridian.