Darvish Khan Writes

Rahu is the name for the north node of the Moon in Indian astrology. It signifies the astronomical point where the orbit of the Moon around the Earth going north crosses the ecliptic – the apparent path of the Sun around the Earth. Ketu, the south node of the Moon, represents the Moon’s crossing the ecliptic when traveling south. The nodes represent where eclipses occur when the Sun and Moon are aligned with them. A solar eclipse occurs when both Sun and Moon are conjunct one of the nodes, and a lunar eclipse occurs when the Sun and Moon are on opposite sides of the Earth, each conjunct one of the nodes. They simply represent the astronomical relationship when the Earth, Sun and Moon are  aligned in a straight line. In the case of a solar eclipse, the Moon blocks the Sun’s light, and in the case of a lunar eclipse, the Earth blocks the Sun’s light. Eclipses are only possible because the relative size of the Sun and Moon, from the perspective of the Earth, are the same.

Rahu and Ketu, before creation, were a single serpent-rakshasa (demon). The trouble started when all the planetary gods gathered at a celestial banquet to receive amrita, the celestial wine of immortality, on the day of creation (they were to be created for all time). They were all seated at the banquet table, Sun and Moon beside each other, when Vishnu poured the amrita into their mouths but the rakshasa interposed itself between the two luminaries, opened his mouth- and became immortal. The Sun and Moon were horrified, and immediately exclaimed to Vishnu the folly of what he had done, and Vishnu at once threw his discus at the now divine rakshasa, cutting it in half. Rahu became the head and Ketu became the tail of the serpent who, in revenge, forever chases the luminaries and regularly eats them and eclipses their light.

Rahu and Ketu are the most fascinating of all the planets in Indian astrology because of their ability to change and even transform the nature of the other planets. The Sun hates Ketu in particular and the Moon hates Rahu in particular for their capacity to occlude their light and render them invisible.

The Sun represents the mental body, the Moon the subtle body and the Earth (ascendant) the physical, or gross body, in a horoscope. Ketu is moksha karaka- indicator of liberation, because of its capacity to occlude the Sun, or mental body, the repository of all karma. Rahu signifies worldy ambition- intense desire, because of its capacity to occlude the Moon, or subtle body, and thereby release unchecked appetite. There is no planetary deity like Rahu that represents such insanely intense craving. Even Mars, planetary lord of desire and energy, can not compare with Rahu. Rahu is the power to completely “lose one’s mind” because of desire.

Rahu is the bad guy in Indian astrology. Saturn is also a bad guy, but for different reasons. Rahu has the capacity to affect the mind (Moon) in a dramatic manner because it specifically releases cravings from the unconscious. Rahu rules mediums, the capacity to access the astral body, but also the vulnerability to possession by demonic entities. Rahu rules hypnosis, the power to put the mind into a state in which the will is occluded. Rahu thus has a powerful relation to the astral body- the body that connects the physical body to the subtle body, the body of energy. Rahu releases energy, specifically desire, which is embodied energy- but without the guidance of spirit, or the higher mind. For these reasons, Rahu is the most feared of the planetary gods.

Now, Rahu has a good side- believe it or not, after having said all of the above. Rahu signifies imagination, visualization, the capacity to momentarily and partially become detached from the restraints of the body. It signifies everything “foreign”, and release from habitual restraint and conditioning. It rules “mind expanding” drugs and alcohol. It rules altered states of consciousness- but not truly higher states of consciousness, which are ruled by Ketu. Rahu rules the dream state. Rahu also rules the capacity to influence the public by way of charisma, the sensuous and the erotic, and the capacity to project and market desire. Rahu represents change and innovation.

Now we come to our main subject of discussion: Rahu rules cults, political and religious, because it gives the capacity to suspend judgement. Rahu occludes the capacity for critical thinking- whereas Ketu heightens the capacity for critical thinking. Rahu represents the capacity for loss of identity due to being ungrounded and disassociated, whereas  Ketu represents the capacity for loss of identity due to spiritual discrimination, i.e. “I am not this, I am not that” (which has its own perils relative to physical and mental health.)

Individuals (and nations) who markedly project charisma and authority on the basis of desire for power and fame are under the influence of Rahu, as are those who believe in such people. This is usually when Rahu (and Ketu) are associated with the Sun and Moon by conjunction aspect. Because Rahu and Ketu are an axis, when one is conjunct a planet, the other is necessarily opposite that planet. Rahu and Ketu have other ways of projecting their influence, but the conjunction aspect is the most powerful.

In the natal chart for the US, born on July 4th 1776 at 6:30 pm at Philadelphia, the US has Sagittarius rising which makes Jupiter the chart ruler. Jupiter is in Gemini, in the lunar sign (nakshatra) Ardra, which is ruled by Rahu. The Moon is placed in Aquarius in the lunar sign Shatabisha, which is also ruled by Rahu. The two most important indicators of the nation’s personality and collective karma- its moods, likes and dislikes and destiny, are thus influenced by Rahu.

Jupiter as the ascendant ruler strongly promotes growth and development, and an abiding interest in law and religion. Indeed, America is famous for its devotion to the Constitution and to myriad religious denominations and cults. That Jupiter is in Gemini, the sign of information and communication, and in the 7th house, the domain of trade, diplomacy and international conflict, all strongly promote this inherent obsession with law, morality and God- to the world.

The Moon is in Aquarius the 3rd house, the domain of media, which gives an obsession with all forms of media and communication, including the internet. The Moon rules Cancer the 8th house, where Rahu and Mercury are placed. The Moon thus broadcasts what Rahu and Mercury signify as the controlling planets in the US chart: Rahu, because it rules the lunar signs in which the Moon and Jupiter are placed, and Mercury, because it  rules Gemini, the 7th house and Virgo, the 10th house, the two most powerful angles of the US chart (because of the four planets in the 7th, and the 10th ruling the nation’s presidency).

This emphasis on Cancer the 8th house in the US chart signifies many important things about US karma. First and foremost, a compulsive sentimentality. Both Mercury and Rahu are badly placed in Cancer as it is the sign of feelings; Mercury, the capacity to think rationally, is at sea in Cancer. Rahu and the Moon are bitter enemies; Rahu is specifically the capacity to subvert the mind, and here it is in the Moon’s domicile conjunct Mercury-  the mind’s rational faculties!  This promotes an exceptional capacity for rationalization, which is applied to its essential identity as a God-fearing nation devoted to law and order, signified by Sagittarius the ascendant, and Jupiter, the ruler of the ascendant. America can do no wrong. This is the astrological signature explaining both “Manifest Destiny” and “American exceptionalism”.

What does Cancer the 8th house signify? The 8th house rules the national debt, interest rates, the stock market, i.e. the capitalization behind corporations, government bonds (publicly issued debt), the death rate as reflected in public calamities such as pandemics, disaster relief debt, insurance claims, foreign financial relations and foreign debt (balance of trade). Basically, the 8th rules debt- all kinds of debt, incurred by or related to, the public. And – let’s not forget the category of taxation as the capacity of a nation to fund the national budget.

There is an American saying, “nothing is more certain than death and taxes”, which the US chart most beautifully and exceptionally illustrates. The chart ruler, Jupiter, is placed in the 7th house, which rules foreign trade and foreign wars, is disposited by Mercury, ruler of Gemini, placed in the 8th; And Rahu disposits Jupiter’s placement in Ardra, and is in the 8th. It is the US’s exceptional destiny to fund foreign wars and corporate gain through massive public debt and taxation- by completely losing its mind!

The United States of America is a cult devoted to corporatism and militarism!

It is no surprise the King Baby Trump as a cult leader extraordinaire was born under a total lunar eclipse known as a “blood red (orange) Moon”. He was born with a red/ orange halo to lead America into insurrection.

And it is no surprise that he did so shortly after the US entered a planetary cycle of 16 years ruled by Rahu, some 12 years of which remain to highlight the US 8th house of debt and calamity!

An exceptional destiny awaits the US over the next decade (as it continues to lose its mind).

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This event chart is for 1/20/2021 at 12:00 noon at Washington DC. I am using the Lahiri sidereal zodiac. This chart helps set the themes for national politics for the next four years.

Joe Biden will be inaugurated according to long established custom on January 20th at 12:00 noon. It is unlikely that another time and place will be selected for this event as maintaining continuity of tradition will be paramount.

I should point out that because the date, time and place for the inauguration doesn’t vary, this chart always has Aries rising and Capricorn representing the 10th house, and that the Sun is always in the 10th. The other planets’ zodiacal positions vary, of course. Midday is always the preferred time for a coronation as the Sun, which represents the sovereign, is at its strongest and brightest.

The chart has the 20th degree of Aries rising with Mars, ruler of Aries, in Aries at the 13th degree. It is exactly conjunct Uranus. The Moon is also in Aries at 5 degrees. The chart thus has a double Aries ascendant as the Moon functions as a secondary ascendant. This fact reinforces the natural ascendant, i.e. makes it more powerful.  There are three planets in this double Aries ascendant.

The most important house in this event chart- after the ascendant, is the 10th house, which represents the president assuming the office of the presidency. There are 5 planets in this house: Pluto, Sun, Saturn, Jupiter and Mercury. Saturn, ruler of Capricorn, is strongly placed here.

The ascendant- the sign rising on the eastern horizon at the time of an event chart, represents the occasion itself, i.e. the electorate or public inaugurating the president. It represents the mood of the nation.

The Aries ascendant with Mars exactly conjunct Uranus and also conjunct the Moon, which represents the public and homeland, is explosive- to say the least. It indicates a tremendously edgy and ambivalent electorate. The three planets are in the lunar constellation of Ashvini which is disposited by Ketu, placed in Scorpio, the 8th house of calamity. Mars aspects Ketu from the ascendant, and rules Scorpio. This further describes the public as disturbed and volatile.

The 10th house planets signify a powerful concentration of energies. The Sun rules the fifth house of cabinet, Saturn rules the 10th of the presidency and the 11th of Congress while Jupiter rules the 9th of the courts and the 12th of intelligence services. Mercury rules the 3rd of media and the 6th of the police and army. Pluto is also in the 10th, having just entered the sign Capricorn and will for the next four years- until the next general election, be approaching its natal placement in the July 4th, 1776 birthday chart. This is a “Pluto return” to its natal placement at 6 degrees Capricorn, the exact degree placement of the Sun in the inauguration chart. Both the Sun and Saturn here in the 10th house refer to the president: Saturn by rulership of the 10th, and the Sun as symbol for the ruling sovereign.

This is a rather heavy symbolism for the well-being, longevity and ruling powers of the president. The Sun- the president, is sandwiched between Pluto and Saturn which indicates a “rebirth” of the presidency and government: Pluto is catabolic, it breaks down and releases energy; Saturn and Capricorn refer to government and administration.  Mercury rules the lunar constellation in which Ketu is placed, and thus connects the explosive energy of the ascendant (the public) and the 8th house (calamity) to the 10th house of the president. The Biden presidency (the Sun) will have to also endure the oppression of Congress (Saturn), and Jupiter is debilitated and thus offers diminished support.

The ongoing Pluto return in the US chart promises the death and rebirth of the national identity as this degree placement is the degree of the 12/21/2020 conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn (which sets the broader social agenda for the next 20 years) and is the degree placement of the Sun (the president) in the inauguration chart.  This process will be at its most acute for the coming four years. In the US chart, Pluto by transit is aspecting Mercury in the 8th house of transformation; Mercury rules the 7th and 10th houses, and thus this will portend enormous changes in how the US relates to foreign nations, international trade and armed conflict abroad- all relative to the executive branch.

There is one more factor to consider: The US chart is in a planetary period in which Rahu  will dominate the US chart for the coming decade. Rahu- along with Mercury, is in the 8th house, the house of calamity and transformation, and like Mercury is activated by the transiting conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn, and by Pluto as well.

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Jupiter and Saturn have been close together for some months, visible in the evening sky as a pair of bright wandering stars. Both planets are now in early Capricorn of the Lahiri sidereal zodiac- not the tropical zodiac familiar to the West, and will attain exact conjunction on the Winter Solstice, December 21st at 6 degrees Capricorn.

Jupiter, according to Indian astrology, is at its maximum debility at 5 degrees Capricorn. That it is also conjunct Saturn in Saturn’s own sign- where it is most powerful, is a double blow to its significations. Jupiter represents, in one word, dharma, or righteousness- individual and social, and this conjunction thus signifies a striking low point in terrestrial affairs.

Jupiter and Saturn conjunct every 20 years, so the conjunction is itself not unusual. What makes this conjunction unusual is that it happens with Jupiter at maximum debility, with Saturn being extremely strong, and that it also happens on the darkest day of the year (in the northern hemisphere). Jupiter and Saturn are the two most important social planets in astrology. They represent opposing and complementary forces or karmas, and represent how individual karmas relates to the wider world.

Jupiter rules religion, philosophy, education, travel, law, the courts, finance and the professions (as opposed to the trades).

Saturn rules government, hierarchy, consolidated power- anything and everything that imposes limits and finality. It rules the trades, labor, disease and suffering. It also rules democracy- rule by the people, but also rule by the mob. It rules corporations because corporations are legally owned by shareholders. It rules administration and bureaucracy.

This transiting conjunction at 6 degrees Capricorn falls in the 2nd house of the USA chart of July 4th, 1776 at Philadelphia at 6:30 pm, known as the Kelleher chart. The 2nd and 8th houses form an axis that is referred to as the financial axis of a chart. The conjunction will aspect Rahu and Mercury in the 8th house; Mercury rules houses 7 and 10, which rule foreign affairs and conflicts, and the presidency, respectively. This transiting conjunction will thus directly affect the presidency, foreign affairs and since Rahu is the ruling planet of the US chart at this time according to the Vimshotarri dasha cycle, it will activate Rahu and 8th house significations in an especially unpredictable manner. Moreover, this transiting conjunction falls exactly on top of the US natal Pluto placement; Pluto by transit has just entered Capricorn as well, and over the next 4 years is making a “Pluto return” to its natal placement at 6 degrees Capricorn.

The karmas that are activated in this month of December will be dramatic and continue for years. The US will experience trauma signified by Jupiter and Saturn transiting over natal Pluto, directly affecting the presidency and promoting martial conflict and financial chaos.

Something unexpected is about to happen- apart from the pandemic, which may climax in the coming months. The pandemic is only the opening act.

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In Indian astrology, Rahu and Ketu mark the astronomical axis where the orbit of the Moon crosses the ecliptic which defines where eclipses are possible. This is where the Sun, Moon and Earth all line up in a straight line. When both the Sun and Moon, either in conjunction or opposition aspect, are sufficiently close to this axis, eclipses occur. They represent the potential power to darken either the Sun or Moon. They are regarded as “shadow planets”  on the basis of this potentiality to effect an eclipse. Understand that they have an interpretive value as planets that darken, obscure- and more besides, regardless of whether in a given natal chart they actually effect an eclipse or not.

But in the natal chart of Donald Trump, aka King Baby, who was born under a Sun/ Moon opposition aspect with Sun conjunct Rahu and Moon conjunct Ketu, this effected a total lunar eclipse, and one in which the Moon takes on a red/ orange hue and is called a “Blood Moon”. Thus King Baby was born with an orange astral crown. He was born at the time when the Sun’s light was obscured by the earth and the Moon was bled of light.

Both King Baby and Corn Pop have Rahu in the 10th house- and Ketu directly opposite, in the 4th house. But only KB was born during an eclipse. (It wasn’t visible at the time and place of his birth, NYC, because he was born during the day.)  Rahu in the tenth house creates a tremendous ambition, for better or worse. This depends on the rest of the chart. KB decided to run for the presidency on a promotional lark simply because he thought it would give him more publicity, whereas CP has strategized his entire life to become president. His ambition is a decades’ long calculated effort.

Rahu is the north node and Ketu is the south node, referencing the Moon’s direction when crossing the ecliptic.  Rahu is the mouth of the dragon that swallows either the Sun or Moon, and Ketu is the tail from which the luminary reemerges. Rahu is especially associated with lunar eclipses and Ketu with Solar eclipses for the reason that Rahu’s symbolism relates to the subtle body, the seat of Prana ruled by the Moon, and Ketu’s symbolism relates to the causal/ mental body, the seat of desire, ruled by the Sun. The Moon distributes the light and shakti- the energy and power, of the Sun. Rahu relates to the energy of desire as radiated by the Moon, and Ketu to the seat of that desire as symbolized by the Sun.

The Moon’s power to distribute the light and energy of the Sun is dramatized in the 27 lunar mansions, called nakshatras, each spanning 13 degrees and 20 minutes of celestial longitude for a total of 360 degrees.  The Moon spends roughly one day in each of its mansions every month.

These remarks on Rahu and Ketu are relevant to understanding what’s happening in the US natal chart.

The US chart has Rahu in the sign Cancer, ruled by the Moon, in the 8th house, along with Mercury. Rahu is the power to occult the Moon, the shakti of the Sun. This means wherever Rahu is placed in a chart is a point of disruption of karmic patterns relative to desire and ambition, and often with creative results. Rahu disrupts the status quo. The US was “born” during Rahu’s major period as the Moon’s lunar mansion is ruled by Rahu, and the Moon’s placement begins the Vimshotari planetary cycle of prediction. The very inception of the US is powerfully symbolized by Rahu not only by the Moon placed in a nakshatra ruled by Rahu, but by Jupiter, lord of the ascendent, also placed in a nakshatra ruled by Rahu. (Each of the nine planets rules 3 nakshatras.)

The US is presently in a Vimshotari  Rahu major cycle of 18 years, with about 13 years left to run. The coming administration will be in a Rahu/ Saturn cycle for the first three years;  Saturn is in the 10th house, the house of the presidency. It is a planet of old age and control- a planet which resists change but which also represents the end of things. This will be a difficult period. It rules the 2nd house of banks, financial institutions, stocks and bonds and commerce. It also rules the third house of media and transportation.

The last year of the coming administration brings a Rahu/ Mercury period that lasts through March, 2026. This is a very different combination as Mercury rules youth and analytical thinking and thus strongly balances the significations of Rahu.

The Moon’s lunar nakshatras add another dimension of symbolism and interpretative meaning to planetary placements. The US chart ruler, Jupiter, is placed in the solar house Gemini; It’s lunar house is Ardra, ruled by Rudra, the wild and howling form of Shiva, the god of destruction and whose symbol is a teardrop. Ardra signifies karma that often brings one to tears.  The ruler of Gemini is Mercury and the ruler of Ardra is Rahu, and these two planets disposit Jupiter, lord of the ascendent and the 4th house, ie the homeland, of the US chart. Mercury disposits not only Jupiter, but all the planets in Gemini. So the coming Rahu/ Mercury period in the 8th house will be extremely consequential. Rahu/ Mercury is followed by Rahu/ Ketu. There will be a great national identity crisis developing over the entire Rahu period, which encompasses the next three administrations.

The Rahu/ Mercury period is especially interesting for the fact that both planets are placed in the nakshatra Pushya. Pushya is ruled by the deity Brihaspati, lord of sacred speech. It is considered a highly spiritual nakshatra, perhaps the most spiritual of all nakshatras, and promotes powerful speech and purification of the psyche. Pushya’s symbol is the cow’s udder indicating its primal power of nourishment. This period will very likely see the election of a national leader in 2024 who combines the significations of Rahu, Mercury and Pushya:  someone young, intelligent, heterodox, creative, capable of speaking truth to power- a highly articulate revolutionary. And very likely a woman.

The year 2024 will represent the greatest American revolution since 1776. It will be Rahu’s very beautiful revenge. It will represent the overthrow of the old order symbolized by Saturn: corporatized and militarized America.

America’s Astrology, Part 5: The presidential election of 2024 and the natal chart of AOC- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

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Here we have the natal charts of the contenders for the coming presidential election. I have discussed KB’s chart earlier, and so won’t spend much time on it here. He has a Leo ascendent with his power planet Mars conjunct the ascendent. He worships Ares. The Sun, ruler of the ascendent, is in the 10th with Rahu and aspected by Jupiter, ruler of the 5th of politics, government and luck. Jupiter is in the 2nd house of family support disposited by a strong Mercury in the 11th house of wealth. He was born a rich boy, and he was born during a total eclipse of the Moon, called a blood moon, because of the Moon going red/ orange during a total eclipse, and thus he was born with an orange astral lunar crown. The Moon is in its worst sign, Scorpio, conjunct malefic Ketu and aspected by malefic Mars- with no other ameliorating aspect.  Its terrible condition sums up his infantility and narcissism, in short his extreme defensiveness and his sobriquet, King Baby. He is perpetually mewling and bawling.

Corn Pop has Scorpio rising with Mars in Libra the twelfth, and Venus in the ascendent: They exchange signs- each in the sign of the other. This intimately relates the two houses. Sun and Venus in the ascendent are opposite Saturn in the seventh, and Mars and Mercury in the twelfth are opposite the Moon in the sixth. His marked tendency for verbal gaffes is clearly seen in Mars aspecting Mercury, the intellect and the Moon, the mind, all at once. And in Saturn afflicting the lord of the second of speech from the ascendent, the Sun and Moon. These two opposition aspects include 6 of 9 planets, and control chart dynamics. Rahu in the tenth, disposited by the Sun in the ascendent, signifies the pursuit of name and fame. Jupiter in Cancer the ninth is powerfully exalted, rules the 5th of politics and aspects the ascendent, containing the Sun and Venus. This echos KB’s chart; the same planets and the same houses combine their influences.  Sun, Jupiter and Rahu on the one hand, the ascendent, the fifth, ninth and the tenth on the other hand.

Rahu in the tenth is said to confer ambition with a vengeance. CP is on record for stating as a young man that one day he would become president. He has been in politics since 1973, and prepared for politics by becoming a lawyer.  His entire adult life has been dedicated to pursuing politics and becoming president. The irony that his competitor became president as a lark, with no qualifications as a politician, and without even really trying except by displaying his brutish and orange haloed self, must be galling. Notice that CP, with Venus closely conjunct the Sun- it is combust, in the ascendent, prides himself as refined and diplomatic. This same aspect makes him unconsciously patronizing, especially toward women. The conjunction is aspected by Saturn from the seventh which, among other things, gives power issues with women, and attracts him to partners who seek to control him; This aspect also refers to his choosing Kamala Harris as a running mate, whose nickname is Top Cop.

Echoes of the USA natal chart are also here: CP as a senator became chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee: Saturn the administrator is in the seventh of foreign relations, and there is the exchange between the 1st and twelfth, which rules foreign lands, as a primary quality of his personality. Remember that in the US chart the obsession with the seventh house has resulted in the pursuit of empire; CP has dedicated his career to furthering US corporate and military interests abroad.  He is the quintessential neoliberal.

KB and CP share another interesting feature: KB’s Sun/ Moon opposition rules his 1st and 12th, and combines their influence and ditto for CP, with the exchange of signs ruling the 1st and 12th. In each case this helps creates an entitlement complex in which their personalities deserve to reflect constituents of the collective.

So, who has the better chart to win the presidency?

Both of them are in a Jupiter major period, and will be at the time of the election; KB has Jupiter ruler of the fifth of luck in the 2nd of wealth aspecting the Sun/ Rahu  conjunction in the presidential tenth. CP has Jupiter in the 9th of fortune aspecting the Sun, ruler of the tenth containing Rahu, in the first. These are both excellent placements and aspects for political success.

KB is running a Saturn period as a minor or secondary influence: It is curiously placed in the 12th, along with Venus. This placement is ambiguous: it is more negative than positive- the 12 house is not known for conferring political success. But it is 11 houses from Jupiter, which is good. However, KB is running Rahu as a tertiary influence, and this restores his orange astral lustre. It is placed 9 from Jupiter, which is excellent.

CP, not to be out done, is running Rahu as his secondary planetary influence; Remember, he also has Rahu in the presidential tenth, which is in Leo, disposited by the Sun in the first. Outstanding! And CP, for his tertiary influence, has the exalted Jupiter again endorsing him from the fortunate 9th.

Isn’t it crazy how Rahu and Jupiter dominate this conversation!

In Indian Astrology, there are divisional or harmonic charts which put a given house under an electron microscope. Here are the divisional charts for the 1oth house, the house of vocation and status:

We look at the first house and the 10th house for additional clues as to what the dasha planets at the time of the election will be promoting. DT has Jupiter, ruler of the primary influence, in Cancer the 4th aspecting the 10th- excellent! Saturn, ruler of the secondary influence, is in Sagittarius the 6th; Jupiter and Saturn are exchanging signs! And Saturn is with Venus, ruler of the 1st- where the Sun and Rahu are placed. Wow! So, both Jupiter and Saturn are aspecting the 10th and both of them are conjunct the lord of the 1st, where KB’s orange crown is shining brilliantly! OMG.

What else is happening in this divisional chart? Mercury is in Scorpio the 2nd and Mars in Virgo the 12th are exchanging signs: they are collaborating, and they are flanking the ascendent, ground zero of the general election as commanded by KB. Mercury rules the 12th of clandestine meddling and Mars rules the second of resources- and the police! They are loyalists to the Orange Crown secure in the citadel of the 1st.

What about the neoliberal stalwart, the aging knight in creaky armor, Corn Pop? How will he respond? His primary influence, Jupiter, is in Pisces the 6th, a bit out to sea. The tide is out. It does aspect the 10th- this is good. And Rahu, his secondary influence, is in the 1st, which is excellent. Jupiter repeats as the tertiary influence.

CP’s natal chart looks like the stronger chart, but KB has the stronger divisional chart. Let me warn my readers: do not underestimate, for a moment, the compelling orange lustre of King Baby’s sovereign halo.

America’s Astrology, Part 4: Rahu’s Very Beautiful Revenge in 2024.

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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

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