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This delineation shows the astrological indications for politics, economics, and society in the United States of America following the inauguration of President Donald Trump on 20 January 2025. It should be read in conjunction with all currently active ingress, eclipse, and outer planet conjunction charts. 

Executive Summary: Donald Trump takes office in the midst of a complex and intricately interwoven chart predicting a profoundly difficult period for the United States, in which the slow decline of American global primacy and the rise of widespread popular discontent with the existing order of American society are major forces. Trump’s efforts to push forward his agenda will be hindered by resistance from many sides. The American people will rise to the challenge of difficult times to an extent that may startle cynics, but there are hard limits to what can be accomplished. Major institutional change is coming, affecting some of the most basic aspects of American public life, and turmoil in every sphere of society should be taken as inevitable. 

Period of Effect: This chart will be active from the time of inauguration until the completion of Trump’s second term, whether it ends by the inauguration of his successor or by death or incapacity before that time. 

Inauguration Overview: The inaugural chart for a head of state provides a general picture of conditions during that head of state’s term in office. This is one of the few mundane charts that uses a time determined by political events on earth instead of celestial events in the heavens, and so inauguration charts tend to vary even more drastically than ingress, eclipse, or outer planet conjunction charts. Nor is this necessarily the definitive chart; we cannot be sure of the exact time of Trump’s inauguration until he puts his hand on the Bible.  Since several planets are very close to the house cusps in this chart, a few minutes one way or another could make a significant difference. (I will post a corrected chart after the inauguration if that turns out to be necessary.) 

In general, this is a very complex chart with more than the usual number of important aspects.  It is important to note that the Sun, which represents Trump and his administration, is far from the strongest or most influential planet in this chart. Many of the events for which the next four years will be memorable will have little to do with Trump directly. His presidency is more a symptom than a cause of the changes about to break over the United States. 

Sun and Moon: The Sun represents the incoming head of government, which (barring some wildly unexpected turn of events) will be Donald Trump. Since the second inauguration of Franklin Roosevelt in 1937, during whose first term the date was changed, the Sun has always been in his detriment in Aquarius at the time of the inauguration—a detail which may have much to do with the troubled state of the executive branch since then. In this chart the Sun is in the usual place, just short of one degree into Aquarius, and in the 10th house of the executive branch. “Great power dogged by failure and frustration” is a good summary of the influence of these conditions—which, again, have burdened every US president for nearly a century. 

The Sun in this chart has three significant aspects, all of them negative: semisquares with Venus and Saturn in the 11th and a distant separating opposition with Mars in the 3rd. None of these are strong, but they add to the sense of general frustration in this chart.  Venus, as discussed shortly, rules the 1st house of the American people; Mars rules the 7th house of foreign affairs; Saturn rules the 10th house, and thus represents the federal bureaucracy. All of these will offer resistance to Trump’s agenda and force him to struggle to achieve his goals. 

Each of these aspects has its own specific implications as well. Sun semisquare Venus warns of disputes with other countries and economic problems, especially afflicting the entertainment sector of the economy.  Sun semisquare Saturn indicates obstacles to the passage of legislation, disputes between the president and the rest of the political establishment, and economic trouble; it also predicts a difficult time for the rich, famous, and influential. Sun opposite Mars also foretells disputes with other nations; it also predicts bitter partisan rivalries, hostility toward the upper classes, and political turbulence. War is unlikely, due to the Moon’s weak placement, but hostilities short of war are all but certain, and some of these may be domestic. 

The Moon represents the general public, and more particularly that sector of the public that has the capacity to make its voice heard in political and cultural affairs. She is very weak in this chart, being peregrine and intercepted in Libra, and placed in the cadent 6th house. Of her four aspects, three are hostile—squares with Mars and Mercury and an inconjunct with Venus. Her only source of strength is a distant separating trine with Jupiter, and this is nothing like enough to save her from extreme weakness and debility. 

This in itself is fascinating, as the recent election has been read by some thoughtful observers as a rebellion by the masses against the politically connected minority the Moon represents. If so, the masses can expect to get their wish in at least one sense: the political classes will have very little power to influence events during the second Trump administration. 

The aspects just cited have their own stories to tell. Moon square Mercury warns of bitter disputes and controversies in Congress and the country generally, and since Mercury is in the 9th house of the judiciary, many of these will end up in court. Disputes over treaty obligations will have a serious influence on foreign affairs, and conflicts over schools, education, media, and transportation policy can be expected to boil over in a big way. Moon inconjunct Venus warns of excessive federal expenditures, controversies over trade policy and tariffs, volatility in markets, and the bankruptcies of important firms. 

Moon square Mars is an omen of conflict on the grand scale. With the Moon and Mars both very weak, actual war is unlikely, but blustering and saber-rattling will be the order of the day, and difficult questions will arise in foreign and domestic policy alike with few options for solutions. The military is troubled and there is a risk of disasters that will claim the lives of many servicepeople. Finally, weak though it is, the Moon’s trine with Jupiter offers some hope of economic stabilization, and in particular predicts improved conditions for working people and therefore some degree of domestic peace and contentment. 

The Moon is also significant here as she is an element of a powerful aspect pattern: a T square that includes her, Mercury, and Mars. The T square is an indication of stresses rising toward dramatic change. T squares are like drawn bows, and the empty fourth corner of the square is the direction toward which the arrow will fly; in this case, the 12th house of institutions is the target, and significant institutional change will be needed to resolve the stresses. This will almost certainly occur during Trump’s term in office, for reasons to be explained later; the timing will have to be read from ingress charts and other indications. 

The indications of the houses and their rulers are also important in this chart. 

The Economic Hemisphere: 

1st House: the house of the ordinary people of the nation, and in particular those whose voices aren’t normally heard in the collective discourse of the time has Taurus on its cusp and Venus for its ruler. Venus in this chart is strongly dignified in her exaltation in Pisces and is also in her day triplicity in that sign, giving her additional force; she receives help from a sextile with Mercury and a trine with Mars, but she is afflicted by an inconjunct with the Moon, a semisquare with the Sun, and a conjunction with baleful Saturn. She is also in the condition traditionally called besiegement and duress—that is, she is closely surrounded by two malefic planets, Saturn to one side and Neptune (always a malefic in mundane charts) to the other. 

Saturn rules conservatism and tradition, while Neptune rules mass consciousness and the deep currents of mind that affect culture and society. Caught between these two contending forces, Venus has very little room to maneuver, and so the condition of the American people during this time can be summed up as “doing their very best in a tightly constrained situation.” 

The sextile with Mercury, who rules the 2nd house of the economy and the 6th house of the laboring classes, suggests that improvements in the condition of working people will help considerably; her trine with Mars is best discussed when we reach that potent and complex planet. The inconjunct with the Moon and the semisquare with the Sun both indicate economic volatility  and troubles afflicting the entertainment sector of the economy. The conjunction with Saturn is also unfavorable for the economy, and all these aspects are unfortunate signs for women’s issues. 

The 1st house also contains two planets. Our old friend Uranus is here, and he’s up to his usual tricks: in his fall in Taurus and retrograde, he predicts sudden disruptive change. Interestingly, however, his only aspects are favorable—a trine with Mercury and a sextile with Mars. Expect more natural (and unnatural) disasters to hit the nation during the next four years, comparable to the recent troubles with hurricanes and fires; with Mercury in the 9th, government responses will likely be less feckless, and Mars in this chart hints at a substantial role for grassroots responses coordinated by the internet—a factor we’ll explore a little further down. 

Jupiter is also in this house, just over a degree from the cusp of the 2nd house. He is retrograde and in his detriment. He warns of financial extravagance and a crisis involving the federal budget toward the end of Trump’s term, though Jupiter is always benefic and so matters can be expected to work out favorably in the long run. He also influences the following house, predicting many corporate bankruptcies and high volatility in markets. Since he rules the 8th house of foreign trade and investment, watch these closely for hints of trouble to come. 

2nd House: the house of the national economy, trade, and banking has Gemini on its cusp and Mercury for its ruler. Mercury is very weak in this chart, being peregrine in Capricorn and placed in the cadent 9th house; he is strengthened by sextiles with Venus and Saturn and a distant but applying trine with Uranus, but he is afflicted by a square with the Moon and an opposition with Mars. A weak Mercury ruling this house indicates volatility in markets, losses affecting media and internet companies, and more than the usual burden of economic fraud. Be skeptical of unexpected good news—it will likely turn out to be false. 

3rd House: the house of transport, communication, and the media has Cancer on its cusp and the Moon is its ruler. The Moon’s very weak condition has been mentioned already. Expect industries in this sector to suffer seriously during the next four years, coming under legal pressure (Mercury square Moon) and another factor, one that shapes everything in this chart. This is the influence of Mars, who is placed at the end of this house, less than two degrees from the fourth house cusp. 

Mars is another very difficult planet in this chart, being retrograde and in his fall in Cancer; while he is in the cadent 3rd house, he is close enough to the 4th house cusp that he has the strength of an angular planet. He aspects six of the eight other planets, more than any other planet in this very busy chart. Conjunct the 4th house cusp, he warns that the people remain bitterly discontented with the current state of society; influencing the 3rd and 4th houses, he indicates the spread of revolutionary ideas through the crawlspaces of the internet and the all but abandoned communities of the rust belt and the flyover states.  Grassroots activism organized through the internet will become an increasing force, sometimes constructive—as when citizens provide help to those affected by disasters—and sometimes much less so. 

For now, Mars being as badly afflicted as he is, those ideas are unlikely to cause more than sporadic outbreaks of violence directed at targets that represent the worst aspects of the current system—the recent assassination of a health care executive is a warning of what can be expected in the years ahead. What may happen after the end of Trump’s second term is a question that only later charts can show.  

4th House: the house of agriculture, mining, and other resource extraction industries, as well as the rural regions of the nation, also has Cancer on its cusp and the Moon for its ruler. The next four years will be very difficult for rural communities and for resource extraction industries, with economic and political volatility as a result. With Mars on the house cusp, expect severe drought, though this will be broken at intervals by periods of ample rain (a traditional indication of Mars trine Venus). Fires, storms, and accidents affecting houses, mines, and agriculture are also likely. All of this will feed the rural discontent and revolutionary ideas l mentioned above. 

5th House: the house of speculative ventures, the rich and famous, and the entertainment industry, this has Leo on its cusp and the Sun therefore rules it. The Sun is in relatively weak condition in this chart, as noted earlier, and so speculative markets are likely to perform poorly during the four years ahead. Problems with the entertainment sector have already been noted, and this placement reinforces that indication. A scandal involving women or children will become a serious threat to rich and famous people.  

6th house: the house of public health, the work force, and the military, this has Virgo on its cusp and Mercury rules it. Mercury’s negative condition has already been mentioned above. Ruling this chart, it warns of ongoing trouble with unemployment, dissatisfaction among the laboring classes, and trouble with public health. Information regarding these subjects will become public and cause discontent and outrage. 

The Moon is also placed in this house. Peregrine, intercepted, cadent, and afflicted by two powerful squares, she warns of strikes, discontent, unemployment, and hardship; food prices will increase, public health will suffer, and cattle will likely suffer from disease, though all these factors will be geographically restricted, as shown by the Moon’s intercepted condition. 

The Political Hemisphere: 

7th house: the house of foreign affairs and the activities of other countries has Scorpio on its cusp and Mars is therefore its ruler. The condition of Mars in this chart has been discussed above; in his fall and retrograde, but angular and connected to most of the other planets by aspect, he predicts turmoil in foreign affairs and a great deal of trouble for the United States. Expect the US to continue to back down from its former hegemonic condition as pressures from other nations mount up. War is unlikely but a constant drumbeat of covert operations, economic embargoes, and bare-knuckle diplomacy can be expected in an attempt to slow the decline of US power over the global system. 

8th house: the house of foreign trade and other nations’ money and resources has Sagittarius on its cusp and Jupiter for its ruler. In his detriment and retrograde, Jupiter likely indicates the dependence of the current US system on massive borrowing from abroad, a lifeline that is fraying fast as the dollar’s role as global reserve currency ebbs. Expect unfounded confidence, earnest handwaving, and frantic attempts to keep the gravy train rolling to be the order of the day all through Trump’s second term. 

9th house: the house of the judiciary and of organized religion has Capricorn on its cusp and Saturn ruling it. Saturn also rules the cusp of the 10th, and so court rulings during the next four years will by and large support the executive branch and the claims of big government. Conservative trends in religion will be strong during the period ruled by this chart, but since Saturn is peregrine in Pisces and receives a complex blend of positive and negative aspects, that strength may well prove transitory. Saturn ruling this house is also traditionally unfavorable for foreign trade and shipping, and predicts storms at sea and loss of life on the coasts. 

Mercury is also placed in this house. Since this is also the house of space travel, the planet of science and technology in it suggests significant national expenditures on a space program, but since Mercury is peregrine and cadent, those will be much less successful than current hype predicts. This placement also predicts religious controversies, and storms along the coasts. 

10th house: the house of government and the executive branch also has Capricorn on its cusp and Saturn for its ruler. Saturn in this chart is peregrine; he receives strength from a conjunction with Venus and a sextile with Mercury, but he is hindered by a semisquare with the Sun and a square with Jupiter. This placement is favorable for law and order, and it predicts success in overcoming difficulties affecting the nation, but it also warns of unpopularity, difficulties, and hard limits. 

Since Saturn is afflicted by the ruler of the 8th house, Jupiter, there is a very real possibility that Trump will die in office or be incapacitated by illness. Even if this does not happen, the four years to come will be difficult for the federal government. With the Sun in this house semisquare the house ruler, an ongoing struggle between the presidency and the federal bureaucracy is a given, but since this is a minor aspect that struggle will not break out into open conflict. 

11th house: the house of the legislative branch, and more specifically of the lower house of the legislature, this has Aquarius on its cusp and Uranus for its ruler. Uranus, as already noted, is as strong and negative as usual, but is uncharacteristically supported by favorable aspects from Mercury and Mars. Expect some sudden and possibly traumatic event to impact Congress during Trump’s second term. It is possible, if the results of the first two years of Trump’s presidency are not to the taste of the American people, that the 2026 elections will give Democrats a majority in Congress; it is also possible that constitutional changes such as term limits may shift the balance of power in Washington decisively away from Congress. All that can be certain here is that drastic change is coming. 

Saturn and Venus are both placed late in this house. Saturn in the 11th predicts gridlock in the legislative sphere. Members of both parties become discontented with their leadership, and both parties become unpopular in the country. Venus in this house counteracts this to a limited extent but predicts scandal affecting members of Congress. 

12th house: the house of institutions has Pisces on its cusp and Neptune rules it. Neptune in this chart is located almost exactly on the 12th house cusp, less than 4 minutes of arc from it; the house and everything connected with it is subject to a potent malefic influence from Neptune, who is in his house and strengthened by a trine with Mars, though hindered by placement in a cadent house. Expect lurid scandals to surface relating to some of the most important institutions of American national life. The nonprofit sector faces charges of treachery and secret dealings with other countries; secret and mysterious crimes come to light. All of this will help drive a push for institutional reform—which may ultimately drive revolutionary change. 

Copyright © John Michael Greer 2024. All rights reserved.

Four years ago I published a delineation of the chart for Joe Biden’s inauguration as US president on 20 January 2021; you can find it linked here (or do a search for "inauguration" on my SubscribeStar page).  When I published it, it was not quite certain that Biden would be the one being inaugurated on that day, as a cascade of legal challenges to voting irregularities in the 2020 election were still pending. Donald Trump should be grateful that those challenges failed:  the chart, as I noted at the time, was the most relentlessly malefic mundane chart I had ever studied, and my interpretation turned out to be relatively accurate—though, as we’ll see, it was not without its mistakes. 

Joe Biden, as we all know, was left holding the booby prize. He leaves office shortly with his reputation in ruins, his approval ratings at record lows, and the agenda he (or his handlers) tried to push through during his presidency decisively repudiated by the American people. With that in mind, it may seem unnecessarily cruel to go back over his inauguration chart and point out how each of the negative influences shown there played out in practice. Since the revival of mundane astrology is still very much in its infancy, however, a retrospective of this kind has much to teach—and of course I still have plenty to learn about this subtle and complex branch of astrology, and discussing my hits and misses in public is a useful part of the learning process. 

With that in mind, I’ll give those paragraphs of my delineation that made specific predictions, focusing primarily on the aspects made by the Sun, and then discuss them one at a time. 

In retrospect, I should have paid more attention to this factor. Venus was a background factor through the whole period of the chart, but she also indicated that the widespread domestic violence I feared would not break out during Biden’s term. 

All this turned out to be more or less correct. There were in fact serious demonstrations by the opposition, most notably on 6 January 2021, but they posed no significant threat to Biden’s administration. The loss of support from influential circles was more significant; the shift of significant Silicon Valley figures, notably Elon Musk, into Trump’s camp turned out to be a disastrous omen for Biden’s administration. 

We certainly saw most of these factors at work. Biden’s legislative agenda did better in Congress than I expected, but ran into challenges in the courts and also in terms of popular reaction. The Moon-Saturn square and the Mars-Saturn square below had another meaning, which I missed completely. 

This was my first major mistake in interpreting this chart. I should have recognized this as an omen of war, as of course it turned out to be. The US is not officially a combatant in the Russo-Ukrainian war that has dominated most of Biden’s presidency, but Ukraine is only able to keep fighting because of huge and ongoing infusions of money and arms from the US, and many reports from neutral observers indicate that we also have plenty of “military advisers” and “mercenaries”—that is to say, US military personnel—actively involved in the fighting. This has proved disastrous for the US on several levels, as many of our most vaunted weapons systems have turned out to be paper tigers in actual combat, and the economic sanctions our government relied on to bring Russia to its knees turned out to be even more feeble. 

Finally, Saturn is in exact semisquare aspect with Neptune at the time of the inauguration.  This aspect portends delay and confusion in national life. The people are unfortunate and discontented and feel that their interests are threatened.  Secret or mysterious crimes can be expected, and state and municipal officials face discredit or downfall.  

This, on the other hand, turned out to be quite correct. 

This was another misstep on my part. Sun square Mars is another indication of war, and was fulfilled with the outbreak of the latest round of fighting in the Middle East. Here again the US was caught flatfooted, most obviously by the inability of the US Navy to do anything effective against the Houthi militias in Yemen when the latter made life interesting in the Red Sea. That said, the other aspects of the interpretation have turned out to be correct: core institutions of US life are indeed in jeopardy, and the attitude of the masses can be gauged very well by the way that everyone outside the centers of power in the US reacted to the assassination of health insurance CEO Brian Thompson: across party lines, the general response of “okay, that’s a good start” testifies to the near-total loss of support for the existing elite among society in general.  

This, on the other hand, was a hit, though I should have been more specific and emphasized it more. It refers to the replacement of Joe Biden by Kamala Harris as Democratic candidate by a cabal of party insiders.  That turned out to be a disastrous mistake, and helped make Trump’s victory in the election even more robust than it would otherwise have been.  

This turned out to be quite accurate, and in particular sums up the final months before the 2024 election with fair precision. 

As of this writing, Biden is still alive, so the indications of death did not pan out; on the other hand, the collapse of the Syrian government and the tentative ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah might well be considered lucky breaks for the US, and the wave of rioting over Trump’s victory predicted by so many pundits after the election failed to emerge. The Jupiter aspects also seem to be borne out fairly well. 

Most of my predictions based on house rulerships were fairly run of the mill; readers may consult them in the post linked earlier, and make their own judgments. I would like to discuss a few of them, however. 

This one was a partial hit at best. Given the condition of the Moon, I should have realized that it was predicting a near-total loss of public trust in the corporate media. With viewership of the main news programs at all-time lows, and surveys suggesting that most people would consider a broken Magic 8-Ball a more reliable source of information, that has certainly taken place. 

Another partial hit. Covid is still a significant health issue but it has dropped out of the political sphere, and only a few public health authorities are even trying to push the kind of measures that featured so heavily in the 2020-2022 epidemic. The collapse of trust in vaccines and the medical industry generally which has been so notable a feature of post-Covid America is not shown in this chart—understandably, since Biden had little to do with either of these. 

7th house: the house of foreign affairs and the activities of other countries, this has Scorpio on its cusp and Mars is therefore its ruler.  Mars is dismally placed in this chart; he is in his detriment in Taurus, afflicted by squares with the Sun, Jupiter, and Saturn and a very close conjunction with the malefic planet Uranus, and in the cadent 12th house; the only factor on the other side of the balance is a loose conjunction with a very weak Moon. The position of the United States in the world will take a steep dive during the period covered by this chart. Since several aspects affecting Mars in this chart are associated with bad decisions made by political leaders, much of the damage is likely to be self-inflicted. 

While this was certainly correct, the condition of this house was also screaming “War!” at the top of its lungs, and I missed that. 

Change that last phrase to “the 2024 elections” and these two paragraphs turned out to be quite correct. 

This also turned out to be quite correct. 

All in all, then, I would call this delineation a partial success, though with some notable misses; not bad, perhaps, for my first presidential inauguration chart. I am currently working on a delineation for the chart for Donald Trump’s second inauguration, which will take place at noon on January 20, 2025; when that is ready, it will be posted to my SubscribeStar and Patreon sites as a public post—and then we’ll see, over the next four years, how well I did. 

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This delineation shows the astrological indications for politics, economics, and society based on the appearance of Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas in the autumn of 2024. Mundane predictions based on the appearance of comets in the heavens go back very far in the history of astrology, but the techniques used in earlier times are very poorly understood at present. This set of predictions should therefore be considered tentative and experimental.  

Comets are transient presences in astrology, just as they are in astronomy.  They affect political, economic, and demographic affairs for a longer or shorter period, and then they and their influences alike swing back out into deep space. Those predictions tend to be much more precisely focused than those of ingresses, eclipses, or great conjunctions, and this delineation is therefore rather shorter than my other posts here. 

Executive Summary: Comets are traditional harbingers of trouble, and according to the old lore Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas predicts crop failures, disease, economic troubles, and political turmoil. In the United States it portends dramatic changes in legislatures and institutions; in Britain its effects will land most forcefully on the judicial system, the churches, and the executive. In both countries, and elsewhere in the world, many people currently in positions of power and influence will be driven out and will not regain what they have lost. These events are likely to unfold over the next two years. 

Period of Effect: The sources do not agree on the length of time that a comet’s influence will continue, but one common measure holds that the number of years a comet will affect the world is the same as the number of zodiacal signs the comet is seen to pass through by witnesses on Earth. Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas first appeared to the naked eye in Virgo, and current predictions hold that it will last be seen without telescopes in Libra.  If this rule holds true its effects will be apparent for two years, fading out at some point in the autumn of 2026. 

General Indications: Comets are invariably malefic indications in mundane astrology. John Merrifield’s Catastasis Mundi (1684) speaks for the entire tradition when it summarizes the effects of comets as follows:  “theſe ſigns in the Heavens, or appearance of Comets, are the aſſured forerunners of ſterility of the Earth; Famine, Peſtilence, War, Alterations of Empires, Kingdoms, Statutes, Laws and Cuſtoms; Winds, Earth-quakes, Inundations, extream Heat and Drought, with grievous Diſeaſes, and ſuch like horrid evils; also the Birth of ſome great Emperor, King, Governor, or Learned Man.”  

The intensity of the effects of any comet are shown by its apparent size at maximum visibility and the length of time it stays visible to the naked eye in Earth’s skies. Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas was clearly visible but of modest size and duration, and so its effects will tend to be on the lower end of the midrange. I have taken this into account in the national predictions given below. 

Which “horrid evils” are signaled by the arrival of any given comet are determined in large part by the sign in which the comet appears. Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas was first visible to the naked eye in Virgo, low in the eastern sky just before dawn.  A comet in Virgo predicts warfare, economic troubles, epidemics of feverish illnesses, and a decline in the birth rate. It also warns that the officials of some government will be driven out of their offices en masse; they may be imprisoned or forced to flee their country, and will not regain their positions, their influence, or their wealth. Since the comet was in the eastern sky, these will tend to happen relatively soon. 

The comet’s second appearance was in Libra, low in the western sky after sunset. A comet in Libra signals crop failures, famines, poverty, drought, and suffering through excessive cold; it warns of secret plots and treacheries, pandemic diseases, and the deaths of eminent persons. Since the comet was in the western sky, these will tend to happen later on in the period of the comet’s effects. 

Aspects:  It was once standard in mundane practice to consider the effects of any transient astrological event in the context of the quarterly ingress chart. I have done this using the Libra ingress chart of 22 September 2024. Placing the comet against this during its periods of visibility allows certain aspects to be identified and interpreted. This sequence of aspects will tend to play out, in something like the order given, in the events of the two years during which this comet will have effect. 

As the comet first appeared around the middle of September, it was in opposition to Saturn, at that time placed at 14° Pisces. This aspect warns of delays, hindrances, reversals, limitations, lack of opportunities, and other unfavorable circumstances.  It is unfavorable for nearly any imaginable activity other than hiding under the nearest bed. 

Next came a square with Jupiter, at 20° Gemini at the ingress.  This is a bad omen for all economic affairs, predicting bad judgment and misplaced confidence; speculative bubbles are common under its influence.  As this aspect passed off, the comet began to apply to a conjunction with Mercury, then at 22° Virgo. This predicts confusion, misunderstanding, misjudgment, indecision, and uncertainty. 

The comet then passed behind the sun and was no longer visible from Earth for several days. It emerged from hiding in its evening position conjunct the place of Venus in the ingress chart. A comet conjunct Venus is a very unfavorable omen for women’s affairs. It also warns of public disturbances, disappointments, and quarrels. Thereafter, as the comet picks up speed, it begins making many aspects in a hurry, but it is also fading rapidly from naked-eye visibility

The two aspects following the Venus conjunction that are certain to take place during its visible period are unexpectedly favorable, trines with Mars and Saturn, forming the grand trine aspect pattern. The Mars trine indicates that, as they fade out, the effects of the comet will favor sudden decisive action, especially but not only in the military sphere. The Saturn trine suggests that the long-term impact of the comet will lead to increased prudence, practicality, and conservatism in the nations most affected by its influence. 

Country Charts:  In my usual way, I have worked through the comet’s trajectory as traced against the US and British autumn ingress charts. Subscribers to my SubscribeStar or Patreon accounts can compare the descriptions that follow with the ingress chart delineations posted there. 

United States of America:  In the US chart the morning appearances of the comet, when mapped onto the Libra ingress chart, were in the 11th house of the national legislature and the 12th house of national institutions.  According to Jerome Cardan, a comet in the 11th house predicts a great slaughter and destruction of the aristocracy, and a comet in the 12th house predicts crop failures and pestilence. It is uncertain whether these specific assessments will turn out to be correct under modern conditions, but it is unlikely that things will go well for America’s elite classes, agricultural sector, or public health under this influence. 

While this chart has to be considered alongside the current ingress charts and the eclipses currently in effect, the morning appearances are not favorable signs for incumbents in national and state legislatures in the near term. Combined with the placement of these sightings in Virgo, it is likely that the impending election will lead to a great many officials, elected and otherwise, losing their positions. This comet also suggests that in the near future, there will also be major changes in the institutions that shape American public life. 

The evening appearances of the comet were in the 12th house of institutions and the 1st house of the nation’s population and identity. Cardan unfortunately does not give an interpretation for comets in the 1st house, but an increased death rate is one likely meaning.  The changes set in motion shortly after the comet’s sighting in the institutional sector can be expected to continue through the entire period affected by the comet. Economic troubles, high costs of living or food shortages, and difficulties with public health can be expected, and so can plots and conspiracies directed against the interests of the American people. 

Great Britain:  In Britain the morning appearances of  the comet, when mapped onto the Libra ingress chart, were in the 9th house of the judiciary and religion. According to Cardan, a comet in the 9th predicts scandal and trouble for religious institutions, and this can be applied to the judicial system as well. The 9th house also rules events at great distance, long voyages, and air travel; expect these to be sources of trouble for Britain during the period during which Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas has effect. 

The evening appearances of the comet start in the last part of the 9th house, but cross the midheaven and pass through the 10th house to the early degrees of the 11th before the comet fades from sight. The 9th house implications already suggested will continue to play out during the latter part of the comet’s period of effect, but the more important impact will be on the political system, which faces serious crisis over the next two years.  There is a significant risk of war or other political violence, as the comet will be passing through the 10th while squaring the ingress position of Mars in the 7th.  It is also far from certain that Prime Minister Keir Starmer will remain in power, and there is some risk to his life or that of King Charles due to the comet’s conjunctions with the Sun and the midheaven. 

The comet will fade from sight while in the 11th house. This suggests that some of the same legislative upset predicted for the United States is also in store for Britain. Labour is unlikely to do well in by-elections and may face serious internal conflict during this period.