Astrology Notes on the American Election

Kamala’s Double Pluto Trip

Kamala Harris has had a huge few years of mighty hefty transits. Pluto in Capricorn was square her Libra Sun and Aries Moon from the moment she was sworn in on January 2021 until October 2023.

Even allowing for the obvious pressures of her position, especially at this particular moment in history and with the President’s decline, that once in a lifetime Pluto transit to such potent points must have been quite the crucible.

Her second Saturn Return was exact on Feb 21-22 2023 – She was apparently in Maryland to announce “updates on the Biden-Harris Administration’s attempts to lower costs for homebuyers.”

While she was addressing a possibly unconvinced audience, Vivek Ramaswamy announced his run for presidency as a Republican candidate and Vladimir Putin announced that Russia was withdrawing from the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.

The Vice-President probably would not have thought ‘fuq this Saturn Return’ but she may have felt frustrated or thwarted. You see, her Saturn is at 28° Aquarius and adjacent to her 2° Pisces Midheaven. This is a position that – yes – seeks high rank or power but also feels an acute sense of duty when in public office.

Saturn conjunct the Midheaven can also mean that while you may wield major influence, you’re not necessarily going to get the credit your ought to.

When I was looking at the Wikipedia for Kamala Harris to try and fine-tune her Saturn Return activities, I was surprised at her accomplishments over the last few years. Granted, I wasn’t making an effort to follow her but regardless of whether you like her/her policies or not, the general social/popular media slant glossed over a lot.

Sexism? Sure. But she was also sworn in with Saturn squaring her Mercury in Scorpio, almost suggesting a conditional vow, a muting. And she announced her candidacy in July 2024 with Pluto at the point Saturn was in January 2021.

This means that either (a) she re-found her voice, having transformed her thought style over those Pluto transits to her Sun & Moon or (b) that she may project more power but the new deal would be as conditional as she found the previous one. Her Pluto is powerful – she has Venus (her chart ruler) conjunct Uranus and Pluto in Virgo.

Her running partner – the potential Vice President Tim Walz – bugs me. He is a triple Aries (Sun, Mars, Jupiter) and while I’m not sure of his Moon or Rising as there is no birth-time on public record – his Saturn is at 1° Pisces, conjunct Kamala’s Midheaven

When you have your own Saturn on the Midheaven, just a few degrees away or even if you don’t, the last thing you want is a colleague or employee, whatever who has their Saturn on your Midheaven. It can work if the Saturn person is the boss or an officially much more senior and beyond-you mentor figure.

In this case, Walz could cramp her public image without even intending to. His Taurus Mercury is also opposite her Mercury in Scorpio! This is fantastic for someone to help you pump up your debating style or play devil’s advocate but it’s not crash-hot for being swift on the uptake with where one another is at.

Team Trump Is Surprising

Whatever you think of Donald Trump or his policies, it’s fascinating that he has presumably over-ridden his well-documented hyper-hubris to assemble a team around him who are much younger, more charismatic, or a thousand times richer ( Elon Musk). Or even – a la Robert Kennedy Jr + Tulsi Gabbard – just recently Democrat party candidates.

Is he really feeling his 11th house stellium (Venus, Saturn, Mercury) and opting for a squad vibe?

Or they are a means to an end? If he wins, is he likely to wake up one morning on a whim and fire them over Twitter, sorry X? Who knows but his running mate J.D. Vance is a Leo with his Venus + Ascendant in Leo (note his cat eyes that look like he’s wearing kohl) AND conjunct Trump’s Mars in Leo Rising.

This is a bromance for sure but Vance’s Mars in Scorpio precisely squaring Trump’s Mars/Ascendant suggest that if these two ever fell out substantially with one another, it would be an electrifying and enduring feud.

Vance’s Scorped up Mars reflects his self-propelled rise from the background he chronicled in Hillbilly Elegy through the United States Marines Corp, Yale Law School and so on.

It’s also a potential liability in that it squares/contradicts his suave Venusian Leo Ascendant: simply put, when the stakes are not so high as they are now, he could tire of poise and sting-attack instead. Then again, that sort of Mars is brilliant when dealing with international gangsters or dictators.

J.D. Vance’s best asset is probably his Virgo Mercury trine Jupiter in Capricorn – clever analysis on the fly, speedily expanded into a broader context or better idea. In contrast, Trump’s Mercury is in Cancer and square Neptune in Libra: It’s tangible in his sometimes sing-song tone, sudden swerves into unrelated monologues and on/off relationship with the truth.

Mercury-Neptune square communications styles can be difficult because it’s like they listen, hear every syllable and then bam: did you even say anything? They’re talking about how their grandmother had a Hermes cocktail ring that turned out to be fake or why someone should bring back the brand of tanning lotion girls wore in the Eighties.

There Are Leos Everywhere

J.D. Vance is not the only Leo in the new Trump Squad: The biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy is a triple Leo (Sun, Mercury and Mars in Leo) with Capricorn Rising and a Gemini Moon. His Mars is conjunct J.D. Vance’s Sun and they’re old friends from Yale.

While it’s unclear what role he would play in a hypothetical Trump administration, he has an array of strongly held views – from the idea that 75% of the public service should be fired or that climate change policies are more damaging than climate change, to believing “it is wrong to kill sentient animals for culinary pleasure.”

Former Democrat and military veteran Tulsi Gabbard – whom you may recall from her flaming debate with Kamala Harris at the Democrat’s 2019 presidential primary debate is a quadruple Aries (Mercury, Mars, Sun, Venus) but unfortunately I don’t have a birthtime for her. She does, however, have her Moon and North Node in Leo – the same Node as the American birthchart.

She has a brilliant Mercury-Node alignment – the gift of being able to logically, at lightspeed, perceive how things will play out. Her Aries Sun, Mars and Venus are opposite Lilith-Pluto in Libra so she’s able to be bi-partisan, at least to the extent that it drives evolution. Her major asset is Jupiter conjunct Saturn in Libra – the stateperson’s dream astro-aspect.

Rounding off the big cat input,  Robert Kennedy Junior – the other democrate who decamped – has his Ascendant and Pluto in Leo. His Capricorn Sun is on America’s Pluto, which seems strangely apt for a Kennedy, somehow.

This Sun of his is also conjunct Mercury, Venus and the North Node, all in the 6th house – health and service, amongst other things. You may not agree with him but this suggests sincerity on his part.

He cops a lot of flak for his alleged anti-vax views but I first him encountered him via his work on water. He’s been tirelessly advocating for clean, plentiful water and better policies around it for decades. In 2020, he and Erin Brockovich accused the then President Trump of “by far the most consequential attack on the Clean Water Act in history.”

Kennedy has Mars in Scorpio square Pluto in Leo and conjunct J.D. Vance’s Mars so they’ve got similar modus-operandi in some ways.

Can you see how all this Leo buzzing about with Mars in Leo about to be Retrograde is just wild?

Astro-Similarities Between Kamala Harris And Donald Trump

I know, I know – it seems absurd but one of the reasons it is so difficult to pick an obvious winner in this race is the astrological similarity between these two.

Trump is a Gemini with his Sun at 22° conjunct the Node at 20°. Harris has Gemini Rising at 24° conjunct the Node at 25°. Jupiter in Gemini is wildly beneficial for both of them and to about the same extent. So yes, they are from the same Soul Pod.

Kamala has the Sun in Libra exactly opposite her Aries Moon at 27° degrees. Trump’s Sun is exactly opposite his Sagittarian Moon – they were both born at the Full Moon and while obviously unalike in an array of matters, their Air-Sun/Fire Moon kinship gives them a similar temperament.

Their Moons are trine, their Suns are trine and their Mercuries (Harris in Scorpio, Trump in Cancer) are trine.  They both have Jupiter square Saturn, which can make them feel as if they’re outsiders, no matter how illogical.

Most interestingly, given that they are in competition, their Mars are conjunct: Kamala Harris has Mars at 21° Leo and Donald Trump’s Mars is at 26° Leo. People with their Mars this close together are often either fierce rivals – as they obviously are in this situation – or can work surprisingly well together.

But really, I am stunned at how similar their astro is and because they’re both so Jupiter amped at the moment, each has – astrologically – a fairly even chance of winning.

Thoughts?