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Trump’s Worst Week<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

“Commentators said the past week was the worst endured by any US president in living memory and warned that, as Trump becomes increasingly isolated and volatile, the situation could rapidly deteriorate – especially if he is tested by an international crisis”<\/em><\/p>\n

~ Observer, 30th July 2017<\/p>\n

Re-winding to Friday July 21st, Donald appointed Anthony Scaramucci as Communications Director.\u00a0 White House staff come and go, under Trump, but this one gave an arresting interview on our British television screens with Emily Maitlis (mentioned last week as one of those who didn’t quite make \u00a3100,000 p.a.).\u00a0 “Can he be for real?” we wondered (in this house, anyway).<\/p>\n

Scaramucci is an ambitious Sun in Capricorn, with Mars and Mercury also in that sign.\u00a0 His flamboyance may be due to a square between his Sun and Jupiter, but also Uranus trine his Sun (so he is not a typical or staid Capricornian).\u00a0 The power in his chart comes from an almost exact double trine from Sun and Mercury in Capricorn to Pluto and Uranus in Virgo.\u00a0 Like Trump, he has Venus conjunct Saturn.\u00a0 Saturn rules Trump’s 6th House of Employees, so the conjunction may reflect his unsentimental ability to dispatch them, and Scaramucci seems to emulate his style in some ways.\u00a0 The Guardian have called him a Mini-Me.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday morning (oh, it seems such a long week already; so much has happened) Donald Trump announced a ban on transgender people working in the military, which did not go down well at home or abroad.\u00a0 That was the stuff of talk shows all day long on the radio (we were travelling most of the day).\u00a0 Could our eyebrows rise any higher?\u00a0 There was a surreal and ironic juxtaposition here with it being the 50 year celebration of homosexuals being decriminalized.\u00a0 Taking a look at Trump’s transits for midweek, we find Jupiter on his Chiron (he is purging, but does he know what is toxic?), Saturn on his Moon (he is depressed, but does he know it?) and Pluto squares his Jupiter (megalomania running amok).<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Scaramucci was targeting Reince Preibus, Trump’s Chief of Staff of six months, over leaks, calling him a “…paranoid schizophrenic”, a term most people would not use lightly. Priebus was removed, with Jupiter on his Uranus (surprise, surprise) and Pluto square his Uranus (explosive situation).\u00a0 With Chiron now close to his Sun, this may prove helpful to his sanity.<\/p>\n

Republican John McCain has had quite a week or two.\u00a0 On 14th July he underwent surgery to remove a blood clot from his brain.\u00a0 On 20th July it was disclosed that he was diagnosed with a brain tumour.\u00a0 By Thursday 27th July he was back at the Senate voting against the repeal of Obamacare, much to Donald’s chagrin.\u00a0 On the subject of healthcare legislation, Scaramucci commented this week: \u201cI don\u2019t know if he\u2019s going to get what he wants next week. But he\u2019s going to get what he wants eventually. Because this guy always gets what he wants. OK? What I know about President Trump is that … he\u2019s got very, very good karma.\u201d\u00a0 It was revealed soon after this that Scaramucci’s wife Dierdre had filed for divorce while 9 months pregnant, which may be a non sequitur, but keeps the soap opera drama going.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump’s karma saved the most dramatic for the end of the week, with his North Korean nemesis Kim Jong Un deciding to trial another nuclear missile launch, and declaring that North Korea had the capacity to fire anywhere in the U.S.\u00a0 As dramas go, this international crisis has to be top in the league of seriousness.\u00a0 I have two charts for President Kim Jong Un of North Korea.\u00a0 The first, for 1983, reveals a current transit of Uranus opposite his Pluto, which is destructive enough.\u00a0 The second, for 1984, shows much more suitable transits for such an event:\u00a0 Pluto on his Sun (trigger happy), Uranus opposite his Mars (unpredictable) and Chiron square his Neptune (slightly unhinged).\u00a0 By now, Jupiter was exactly conjunct Trump’s natal Jupiter (a Jupiter Return) in Libra, as well as the aspects reported for midweek.\u00a0 Donald may be at his most reckless, arrogant and careless.\u00a0 How will he react, we wonder, to Kim Jong Un’s irrationality…<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in Newsweek, an article was published about the upcoming eclipses in August and how they will affect Donald Trump’s chart.\u00a0 The eclipse of 21st August falls directly on Donald’s Ascendant\/Mars.\u00a0 Astrologer Wade Caves is reported to have commented on the subject, among others:<\/p>\n

\u00a0“The effects of the coming eclipse could take time to show up, according to astrologers\u2019 claims. Caves believes the impact will appear over the next two years because the eclipse will take around two hours to cross the continent (for a solar eclipse, astrologers interpret each hour as a year). The result could be \u201ca loss of a leader in some sense,\u201d he says, whether literal or symbolic. ‘It seems to me very possible that by this time next year, we\u2019re looking at the reality of Trump not being in office.’ \u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Astrologically, as in other ways, Donald Trump’s days may be numbered.<\/p>\n

Aspects<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Today, Venus squares Chiron, so it is a day for looking at our relationship issues, where we might be looking at the source of any emotional wounds, such as separations from the past and longings for reconnection.<\/p>\n

We also have a sextile between Venus and Uranus, so there is an openness to new forms of relationship, and surprise twists and turns, such as re-meeting old flames or people revealing new sides of their character.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow, Venus enters Cancer, and we may collectively reveal our softer side.\u00a0 Perhaps a story about a child in the headlines brings tears to the hardest of hearts.\u00a0 Venus stays in Cancer until 26th August, so during that time we may be more prey to sentimentality or even emotional blackmail.\u00a0 We need to be conscious about our emotional boundaries, and keep clear about distinguishing our own emotions from those of others, or from the collective.<\/p>\n

Skip to Thursday (3rd August) and we find that Uranus is stationary, prior to turning retrograde.\u00a0 The capricious element of the unexpected is capable of surprising us, and we may need to take a U-turn, at least temporarily, in some aspect of our ambitions.\u00a0 Will Donald Trump effect another hiring and firing on that day?<\/p>\n

It will be clear on Thursday that there are stirrings for change in the air, but the capacity for the most dramatic change this week belongs to Friday (4th) with the recurrence of the square between Jupiter and Pluto.\u00a0 I associate this square with the triggering of Brexit in March this year, and although the TV news and newspapers are still full of this subject, I am disinclined to dwell on it.\u00a0 Nevertheless, it may be an issue that is hard to ignore on Friday, e.g. there may be some unsettling standoff.\u00a0 Already prospective candidates for the next leadership of the Conservative Party are being mooted (David Davis, Jacob Rees Mogg!) but the safest option for the Tories still seems to let Theresa May take the flack of Brexit.\u00a0 Internationally, it may be a day of direct confrontation between Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump (i.e. something may be said…let’s keep it to a war of words, gentlemen).<\/p>\n

In our own lives, there may be a power struggle or standoff which may be an issue of long standing, but nearer understanding.<\/p>\n

The week in bullet points:<\/p>\n