Last minute thoughts on the astrology of the 2020 election
We’re coming down the home stretch, and I continue to get queries about the election so I thought I’d share some thoughts. Most of the predictions I’ve read have been based on the charts of the two candidates and most of those have relied on the strength of the planetary cycles each candidate is experiencing. The prevailing idea seems to be that the candidate with the most harmonious planetary conditions will prevail, but that’s not how this works. It’s often during the most grueling and challenging planetary cycles that we enjoy the greatest successes. In addition, the election of a leader of a nation has more to do with the state of that nation than the candidates who become more of a symbol of the major themes experiencing in the country at the time.
I prepared a little video for my channel:
Some astrologers use the conjunctions of Jupiter and Saturn for prediction: Jupiter represents expansion and freedom, and Saturn represents restriction and control. In the United States currently these major themes appear to be Law and Order and Nationalist Pride with a Governmental Control sub-theme (Saturn themes) on the Republican side vs Environmental Issues and Social Justice (Jupiter)with a sub-theme of COVID-19 safety on the Democratic side. I read one article from an astrologer who claimed that Jupiter represents Republicans and Saturn Democrats, but I suppose it depends on your viewpoint. Democrats tend to prefer bigger government with more services which would fall under the generosity of Jupiter, whereas Republicans seek greater control through adherence to laws and the structures of religion which to be is more Saturnian.
I mention this only to suggest that perhaps her predictive techniques are similarly not free from bias. The point that the globalism of […]