Will Donald Trump be Inaugurated? The Astrology of November 2024 - January 2025

Hello everybody, I'm the Introverted Astrologer and today I'm back with a video which I promised for my viewers. As those of you in the States will know, Trump has been nominating the various members for his new cabinet and I know that some of you have been wondering whether he will be inaugurated as president on the 20th of January. I'd said that we would look closer at the position between now and January and establish whether we have any bumpy weather ahead. And there's no better place to start than with the very intense full moon which we had just a couple of days ago. I'll just explain that we have a central chart here which is the birth chart for the United States. It's dated way back in 1776 when you had the Declaration of Independence and placed around the inner chart are these red glyphs which represent all the positions of the very intense full moon that fell here where you can see this little moon at around 24 degrees of Taurus. I know a lot of people were hopeful that this moon might mean a sudden change or a reversal particularly because this degree of Taurus, 24 degrees, corresponds with Trump's midheaven and J.D. Vance's is in that area too. As you can see Uranus is on the moon. It's tightly woven into this lunation energy and so sudden shocks, abrupt change, the unexpected are all possible. I have to say that I've personally seen many full moons come and go and very intense ones at that which didn't bring deeply impactive change and so although it isn't what many of you would like to hear I'm not sure that this full moon is going to be of the magnitude that would bring an abrupt and shocking reversal of the election results in some way and although this new moon is square the moon in the United States chart, this moon which represents people and democracy, I'm still doubtful that there will be any swift upheaval preventing the presidential inauguration. However what I would like to say is that new moons are a different matter. Their energy is more condensed and more potent and we still have a couple of new moons coming before the presidential inauguration and so we'll take a look at those now. And again we have the Sibley chart in the center and we have the new moon positions around the outer edge in red cliffs. This new moon falls on the 1st of December and it's at around nine and a half degrees of Sagittarius. This means that it falls on the ascendant of the American chart. The ascendant tells us something about the general population, the general health of a country, the general state of its economy, the general mannerisms of the people. It is the appearance of a country, broadly speaking, viewed from a more global perspective. Now this particular new moon's energy is trining with Mars and applying to a square with Saturn. I think this separating trine with Mars in the fire signs is showing that there has been a time of many decisive actions, of acting with authority and determination. Fire is very warm and enthusiastic. There's a dynamism to this. The trine aspect also removes any resistance and so it is likely that various executive actions will be undertaken and implemented at speed. This applying square to Saturn though is more difficult. This Sagittarius energy is saying something about belief systems and ideologies, philosophies, potentially even the wider legal system. And we might think of beliefs, ideas or legal constraints coming up sharply against barriers, restrictions, impediments, delays. This Saturn is in Pisces and Pisces is actually an area where we would look for the great unbounded, a place of no boundaries or barriers, the collective unconscious, dreams, fantasies. It can even get messy and chaotic and so Saturn is not going to feel very at home against this backdrop as it tries to make sense of a variety of messier, disorganised dreams and visions. Some of you may well have your natal Saturn in Pisces and with this combination we can have vague feelings of anxiety, of concerns and worries, maybe low self-esteem or guilt and we might struggle with situations where we feel out of control. I wonder also if we could view Saturn in Pisces as underpinning ways of coping which could include conspiracy theories as Saturn tries to make sense of the many disorganised, free-floating concerns and worries. There's no denying that the collective's way of coping with the fear generated by the election result might include hopes that there has been a dreadful mistake or misdeed which will be put right. On balance though, do I believe that this new moon in itself would be sufficient to reverse or jeopardise the outcome of the election? Well, it is opposing America's natal Uranus and so I do think there's a potential there for some kind of shock or surprise, some revelation coming to light and indeed it may even be related to the United States' relationships with other countries, its foreign relations. However, there are a couple of other things taking place in December and so we'll look at those in a minute. We'll first have a look at this last new moon, the one that will take place most immediately before the presidential inauguration. Again, it's America's chart in the centre with the new moon positions placed around the edge and we can see here that this new moon falls at around 10 degrees of Capricorn. This new moon energy is in a wide sextile with Saturn and we have a couple of minor aspects too which include a semi-square with Venus and also a sesquiquadrate with Uranus. So if we break these aspects down one by one, we have very much a business-like air about this new moon. It's falling in the sign of Capricorn which is very pro-authority. Capricorn speaks of leaders, of tradition, of social hierarchies and it's very conventional and it is sextile with Saturn which is a traditional ruler of Capricorn and I think, if anything, the combination of these two is showing an adherence to due process. There's a very formal and conventional air about this new moon. It implies an adherence to order and to tradition. The minor aspects with Venus and with Uranus could be showing some discontent, some tense energy, chafing at the bit. Perhaps there will be some unexpected changes but I would anticipate that these would not be major. However, this new moon is opposing the American sun. The sun which represents the president, the ruler of the country. Of course, we are going to have the ruler of the country replaced as a new president is sworn in. Now we have been seeing a couple of little signs of something unexpected happening. Not necessarily a major and total overhaul of the election outcome but potentially some smaller unexpected happenings and to consider what they might be we're going to have a look at how the planets are behaving in December because a few things will be changing. So we have America's natal chart, the Sibley chart, in the centre and I've arbitrarily selected the date of 16th of December to show you where all the transiting planets are at this time. Let's consider Saturn first. Now Saturn is now moving direct. Saturn turned direct around halfway through November and so it is now slowly inching away from the square that it has been making to the United States chart. You can see Mercury here moving through the early degrees of Sagittarius. Now Mercury turned retrograde on the 26th of November and at this time it was around 22 degrees of Sagittarius and so it's been slowly retrograding backwards over the United States ascendant and back into the darker 12 house, the place where we have things which are hidden or secret. Mercury has only just turned direct as at the 16th of December and what will happen is that Mercury is going to gradually edge back towards America's ascendant and at this time Mercury may well be bringing out of the depths of the 12th house something which was previously hidden or secret. Mercury can of course be communications but when we're looking at things from the perspective of countries it may be communication networks, travel networks, the mass media but something about this is going to be brought out of the 12th house and just before Mercury does cross the ascendant it will make an opposition with America's natal Uranus and so the information it brings out could indeed be very surprising, unexpected. In America's birth chart its natal Mercury is in an eighth house position so it's very intense and secretive and it also has some connection with shared resources or finances possibly even finances relating to foreign spending but I suspect something important is going to come to light. Mercury will cross this ascendant again in the last week of December and it will be interesting to see what comes up in the news then. We can also consider Mars because Mars has been moving very slowly as seen from our earthly perspective and around the 7th of December Universal Time it will be conjunct the United States north node and will then turn retrograde and over the first couple of months of 2025 it will be slowly retrograding over some of America's eighth house including its Mercury. When Mars initially reaches the node in early December what might we be looking at? The node can often imply destiny, joint collaboration. It can also magnify things and so that Martian energy may be magnified and when Mars retreats to revise, to re-evaluate and reassess much of this retreat will be happening in the eighth house. I do partly wonder if some collaboration or shared agreement, a joint venture or initiative has to be reconsidered or re-evaluated as Mars pulls back into the eighth house and it will of course oppose Pluto again, it will conjunct the United States Mercury and square its Chiron. This eighth house in a country is speaking of jointly held resources, of taxation, of national death rates. Mars with the node could well imply a collective strength drive or determination, a joint decisiveness which subsequently needs tweaking as Mars retrogrades. Now will any of these changed planetary positions prevent the inauguration taking place? I have to say that I think the inauguration is going to go ahead. I think the chances of exposure or revelations that are unwanted or shocking is there. I do suspect some exposure of underhanded practices or communications could come to light this month but given the new moon energy that we looked at and the fact that transiting Saturn is also going to trine the state's sun, the sun which is the president or rulership, the implication is of persistent and methodical application to the country's due processes and so I suspect the inauguration will take place. Let's take a look at the flavour of the inauguration chart and see what it contains. This central chart has been cast for 12 noon on the 20th of January in Washington and around the outer edge you can see in red glyphs Donald Trump's natal positions and so what is the flavour of this coming term? As always the sun is in the Aquarius but this year it's conjunct with Pluto. Pluto can speak of power transformation, an intense overhaul for better or for worse. It looks like change is the order of the day because this is being promised by a Uranus in the first house and you can see this at around the degree of Donald Trump's own natal midheaven. Broadly speaking we have innovation and reforms coming. Uranus is also quite a radical and revolutionary energy. Now we do have a very interesting grand cross being formed in the if we consider Chiron to be a major player. I find this very interesting because I'm picking up subtle signs that this term could be painful for females or for family issues that are important to the American people. The moon can represent the people of America generally and also that strong principle of democracy but the moon can also represent women. In fact both the feminine planets of moon and Venus are being brought in. Venus has got Saturn sitting conjunct with it. This is indeed an aspect which Donald Trump has in his natal chart and here we can see that his Venus-Saturn conjunction is on the IC of the inauguration chart. Saturn on Venus might be seen as restricting feminine energy, of applying brakes to the archetypal feminine expression. Trump's Venus-Saturn conjunction was also on the IC of his first presidential term with the inauguration chart for January 2017. But the Mars in this inauguration chart is pulling in that Saturn-Venus conjunction that he has in a way that didn't happen back in 2017. And so we have this much stronger force here with the potential for upset, anger, conflict within the general population. I didn't add Eris to this chart but it is actually here at around 24 degrees of Eris and so it too is pulled into this grand cross energy. Eris can show where we are inclined to stand down the ground and fight for what's right if it comes to that. And because this grand cross is in the cardinal signs, these are signs of action. And so I think we're going to have a lot of disagreements and resistance during this term. Chiron can also speak of a nation's health, its illnesses, its physical as well as emotional or psychological hurts. And this opposition to the Moon may represent illness, hurt or damage to women's physical health, particularly given that this is the sixth house of health. This Mars is also opposing the Sun. Mars can represent a national urge to get things that we want for ourselves in the same way that it can in a personal chart. But it does also speak more broadly of a country's levels of general violence and also of its military assets, its soldiers. Given that this Mars opposes the Sun, which is the ruler or the president, we can pick up that perhaps government and military functions may not see eye to eye. They could be at loggerheads and tensions could run high. There is no presidential term without its problems. Each one is unique. And I would also add that this Moon is in the area of Trump's lateral Chiron and Jupiter. And so I wouldn't want to catastrophize and imply that this situation is without hope. It may well even be that Trump is able to alleviate some of the conflict in this cross by extending sympathy or benevolence in some way. And we'll have to see how that plays out. A lunar return is not necessarily the best way of establishing whether an inauguration will take place. But for what it's worth, we have Trump's lunar return here, which is dated for the 29th of December. And it's the last point at which the Moon returns to 21 degrees of Sagittarius, which is where it was at Donald Trump's birth. So this central chart is showing us roughly a four-week period from the 29th of December through to the end of January. And so it will cover the inauguration day. And if we're looking for close and prominent aspects, then straight away we can see that his son is on the ascendant of this lunar return. The lunar return is saying something to us about emotions. And in this case, we can see that Trump is beaming out his true solar expression onto the world for all to see. The ascendant is the most powerful of all the angles. So I don't think it's a coincidence that we have his son there. If we look at the chart on the right, this shows us Trump's birth chart in the centre. And all those lunar return planets have been placed around the outer edge. As you can see here, the lunar return ascendant with the Sun on it is at the bottom of the chart. And opposite that ascendant, we have the descendant. This descendant does have Trump's natal Mercury sitting conjuncted. And so I think where we are committing verbally during the inauguration process, the relevant planets are showing up. As a last touch to conclude, we have an important mundane chart here. Mundane relates to the astrology of countries. And part of the traditional process of evaluating a particular year for a nation involves casting ingress charts. And these are the pivotal times when the Sun reaches zero degrees of a cardinal sign. So starting from March, we would have cast an Aries ingress chart for the states. And it would be precisely that naught degrees Aries point over the skies of Washington, which would lay out the tone for the year. But at every subsequent ingress into a cardinal sign, so Cancer, Libra and Capricorn, those charts should also always be considered in conjunction to the Aries ingress chart. And so we have here a chart cast for the very second that the Sun entered the sign of Capricorn. This is something that takes place on the 21st of December. And its importance lasts from 21st of December through to March in 2025, when the Sun next enters a cardinal sign. Now this ingress chart does have some prominent aspects being made, which I thought were important. If we start by looking at the Sun, the Sun is telling us something about the president or the ruler of a country, its elite, who is in charge. And in the Placidus chart, the Sun is in the second house, which is reasonably stable. It's a It's not very well aspected. However, do bear in mind, the Sun has not been well aspected for most of the ingress charts during the course of this year. And of course, the Aries ingress had the Sun on Neptune, Cancer had it square Neptune, etc. But the Sun is not particularly well aspected by other planets that could help either. If we were looking at the whole sign The Sun is in a cadent house. It's not a particularly strong house. And there would be far better places for it to sit. If this was going to be a few months where a president is popular. We do have Uranus tight on the descendant. And is this going to tell us something very important about the next few months and America's relationships with other countries, not its further afield than that. So for example, Russia, Ukraine, the Middle East are all possibilities. Is there going to be significant change or revision here? The tightest aspect of all, however, involves Saturn and the Moon. There's this partial opposition between them, which doesn't look altogether happy. Amongst the mundane explanations for this particular opposition, we'd be looking at very unpopular government, higher rates of unemployment, difficulties with trade, government apparatus may not run smoothly or efficiently. And indeed, in some cases, it may be that an important state official dies. The picture is never clear, however, and I'd hate to present it all as being totally negative. We can see Venus here, which is being brought to prominence somewhat because it is angular to the ascendant. There is this trine with Jupiter. And so to some extent, there is peace and goodwill. And this is also saying something about women again. And in this case, we could consider that the interests of women generally are going to benefit in some way too. I know some of you have felt let down by the sheer volume of astrologers who were unable to predict the outcome of the election successfully. I share your frustration, and I've been delving into the whys and wherefores of how this happened. And I'm starting to find answers to those questions, which also cast light on some of the early months of Trump's presidential term. So if you're interested, watch out for a video coming soon, which takes a look at this whole area. Until next time, though, look after yourselves. God bless you and yours. Try not to worry. It's one day at a time. Do take care.