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Trump has no interest in Uranus, because these are the
nancialshape.Julyisalsoagood month for him. e profected Ascendant moves to Cancer, making the Moon the Lord of the Month, and the Moon in the return chart is free from a iction. e rst crisis for Trump occurs in August, when the profected Ascendant moves to Leo, so the Sun takes over as Lord of the Month on August 13.
e Sun is the ruler of Trump’s 2016 return chart, which makes it signi cant from the start. But the Sun is also the co-almuten of the Midheaven in Aries, and it’s
mutually applying to a quincunx to a retrograde Scorpio Mars, the ruler of the Midheaven. is will be the rst period
when Trump falters. His ego, arrogance, and warlike rhetoric (Mars) will nally cross a line, and he won’t be able to avoid the
fallout because of another signi cant August event. A source of Trump’s
popularity has been his progressed Sun in Leo, which over the
past four years has been moving from a conjunction with his natal Mars to
becoming president. His candidacy has always been a means to an end for him: a way to feed his ego, increase his celebrity, and acquire more money and in uence. e problem is that he has no graceful way to exit the political arena. He’s burned too many bridges, and he’s not exactly known for his humility. Like a phoenix, he has to go down in ames before he can rise up again.
Timing the Meltdown
Trump’s 2016 solar return clearly shows disruption and crisis that a ect his career, public image, and reputation. What it doesn’t provide is a timetable of when
the events in the chart are most likely to occur. Normally, you would look for any transits to the Sun, Venus, and/or Mars in Trump’s natal chart, especially
transits from
planets involved in the crisis in the return chart—but Trump has no signi cant transits to these points in 2016. Instead, we’ll use monthly profections to map out the timeline for Trump in the months leading up to the presidential election.
Mercury, the Lord of the Year and the Lord of the Month from June 13 to July 12, is in exceptional shape in the return chart. It’s in Gemini, a sign that it rules, and since Mercury rules the Second House in both
Trump’s natal chart and the 2016 return chart, Trump
will start out his solar year
in excellent
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