King Baby Trump assumed the presidency as an astonishing act of karmic intervention. His bid for the presidency was a promotional lark from the get-go; He never expected to get very far in the primaries. It was all a public relations stunt, but then destiny happened.
King Baby was born under a total lunar eclipse, a blood moon eclipse. So called for the red/ orange hue that colors the darkened moon. Eclipses occur because the Sun and Moon align with Rahu and Ketu, the astronomical points that make this possible. Thus, King Baby was born with a Sun/ Moon opposition with Rahu conjunct the Sun and Ketu conjunct the Moon. The Sun/ Rahu conjunction falls in the 10th house of KB’s natal chart,
an indication of great name and fame. But what made the unlikely and unwanted destiny of the presidency possible is that in the US natal chart, as I explained in Part 1 of this series, Rahu’s planetary period of influence had just begun. In other words, US karma was looking for King Baby and his Orange Crown. Amerika’s destiny required an incarnation of Rahu.
Rahu is the planet of unbridled desire and ambition, represented in its fullest when allied with the Sun, indicator of fame and authority, when placed in the 10th house of the horoscope, the most powerful angle of the chart, and when associated with the lord of the ascendent. In King Baby’s case, the Sun is the lord of the ascendent sign, Leo, and is placed in the 10th house, the house of sovereignty.
But Rahu’s symbolism is polyvalent. Rahu can also indicate, besides name and fame, fantasy, glamor, the exotic, the maverick, out-of-the-box thinking, innovative thinking, creativity, the foreign, the exotic, technology, older people, the public, the astral, out of the body experiences, stuttering, senility, displacement, delusion, possession and insanity. One way of thinking about Rahu- both the negative and positive aspects of Rahu, is what can happen when the Superego relaxes control of the mind: The Id can erupt, or something new, unexpected, challenging, fantastic and innovative can happen.
The US chart is in a 16 year Rahu period, with about 10 years left in that period. At the time of the coming general election, November 3, 2020, Rahu will be the major period of influence, and Saturn will be a secondary or minor period of influence for about the following three years- right up to the next campaign cycle. Rahu is in Cancer the eighth house and Saturn is in Virgo the tenth house. The eighth is crisis and transformation and the tenth is the presidency and national status. The presidency will be the locus of crises precipitated by Rahu in the eighth.
Rahu and the eighth both relate to natural disasters, property damage, pandemics and death; We can expect these traumas to continue. Rahu in the eighth can refer to civil unrest, economic instability, loss of confidence in the dollar, devaluation of the dollar, runaway financial disaster, exploding budget deficits, public hysteria, etc. Some mix of all these will happen. But Rahu also rules innovation, technology and- more about this later, unexpected blessings.
These karmas will come about regardless of who wins the general election, but how these karmas are met and dealt with will obviously vary according to who is president.
America’s Astrology, Part 3: A comparison of King Baby’s and Corn Pop’s Natal Charts
Thanks Bill for the Vedic overview. I tried to email a reply but your email address kept coming back as undeliverable. No matter. What I wanted to say is that ironically, I have been studying Trump’s and America’s charts deeply of late as well. I am also in my Rahu Dasha ( for the remainder of my life no doubt, unless I live to be 90). It is hard to see through the smoke and mirrors of Rahu’s transformative and possibly destructive force, at times. But like Karma, its energy is inexorable and will drive us to the next collective… Read more »
Hi Deborah;
Stay tuned for my next article which is about the bright side of dark Rahu.