Don­ald Trump

When we con­sid­er the Astrol­o­gy chart of an indi­vid­ual, there are so many fac­tors to con­sid­er, (plan­ets, signs, hous­es, aspects and aspect pat­terns), that it can seem quite over­whelm­ing as to how to pro­ceed. I have found it most use­ful to start from an overview of the entire chart and then pro­ceed to slow­ly dis­cern the var­i­ous inter­laced ener­gy-forms that the chart contains. 

First, we should step back and take the whole chart in. After all, an astro­log­i­cal chart is a Sky Map, a pic­ture of the plan­e­tary posi­tions, as seen from a spe­cif­ic place on the Earth, on a cer­tain day and time. We are look­ing at the heav­ens above, so let’s step back and take it all in to dis­cern the over­all mes­sage of the chart. What we will find is that astro­log­i­cal charts fall into cer­tain types of pat­terns, which pro­vides this first sense of mean­ing for the chart.

The pat­tern of Don­ald Trump’s chart is called a Bowl or Hemi­spher­ic pat­tern, with all plan­ets lined up on one side of the chart, and the oth­er half remain­ing open or emp­ty. This bowl pat­tern implies a great degree of self-con­tain­ment. Here is a soul that is moved or affect­ed more by exter­nal cir­cum­stances than by inter­nal fac­tors. He has a strong sense of mis­sion, a sense that he pos­sess­es some­thing (the filled bowl), and that he lacks or needs some­thing, (the emp­ty space). He will be dri­ven, pur­pose­ful and feel he has a des­tiny to fulfill.

The crit­i­cal or high focus part of the Bowl pat­tern is formed by the lead­ing plan­et or edge of the bowl. In Trump’s chart, the lead­ing plan­et is Uranus in his 10^th house of career, pub­lic life and pur­pose. Uranus is the “Awak­en­er”, and brings about change through shocks and upsets. Not only is it his lead­ing plan­et, but it is also the upper­most plan­et in his chart, and, most sig­nif­i­cant­ly, it is next to his Sun and oppo­site to his Moon. A very, very great deal about Trump is summed up by this com­bi­na­tion of fac­tors: Sun in Gem­i­ni, Moon in Sagit­tar­ius, with Uranus con­junct the Sun and Oppo­site to the Moon.

Gem­i­ni is an Air Sign, known for its intel­li­gence, curios­i­ty, adapt­abil­i­ty and rest­less­ness. Gem­i­ni rules the mind in its capac­i­ty to con­sid­er things from more than one point of view or per­spec­tive, to per­ceive the world through mul­ti­ple “lens­es”, to assume mul­ti­ple posi­tions in order to con­sid­er which view or views seems most mean­ing­ful, reveal­ing or excep­tion­al. When applied in right ways, Gem­i­ni is our fac­ul­ty of Intelligence.

Gem­in­is love to “stir things up”. They can hold one posi­tion and then swing to the oppo­site posi­tion with­out skip­ping a beat. Gem­in­is are often “high-strung, ner­vous types” with a con­stant need to take in and push out infor­ma­tion. Their avid­i­ty and thirst for infor­ma­tion, and their insis­tent need to share these mul­ti­ple thoughts can push the enve­lope of rea­son to that razor’s edge that lies between genius and insan­i­ty. Keep­ing up with, and fol­low­ing the stream of con­scious­ness of some Gem­in­is can be fas­ci­nat­ing, but some­times frus­trat­ing and fruitless.

Being born at the Full Moon, Trump has his Moon in the oppo­site Sign of Sagit­tar­ius. The Moon rules the emo­tion­al life, the emo­tion­al needs, the ingrained and uncon­scious habit pat­terns of reactions/interactions, and will reveal how a per­son will act or react with­out think­ing. (And though we humans like to think of our­selves as mind­ful and intel­li­gent, we live a great deal of our lives on “autopi­lot”, some­thing hap­pens and we will often react with­out much thought at all).

The Moon in Sagit­tar­ius is very free-wheel­ing, open and out­spo­ken, so that it leads to a per­son who will feel and speak with lit­tle or no restraint. There is basi­cal­ly no fil­ter at all, what­ev­er is in their feel­ing-think­ing in the moment is what you are going to get.

The oppo­si­tion of the Sun and Moon, (the two prin­ci­ple indi­ca­tors of our Male and Female natures), will cre­ate a crit­i­cal con­flict and imbal­ance between the Thoughts and Feel­ings for Trump. The result will be a pulling and push­ing with­in him­self, often lead­ing to wider (and wilder) swings between cold intel­lect and emo­tion­al­i­ty. If the spir­i­tu­al-psy­cho­log­i­cal work of accept­ing and inte­grat­ing his male/female halves is not achieved, he will be sub­ject to extreme rest­less­ness, impul­sive­ness and impatience.

This com­bi­na­tion of Gem­i­ni and Sagit­tar­ius could be har­nessed and bal­anced if oth­er fac­tors in his chart were to bring in some restraint and ground­ing. There are some fac­tors in his chart that could help. How­ev­er, the prin­ci­ple plan­et affect­ing both his Sun and Moon is the plan­et that rules the “earth­quakes of life”, Uranus.

The con­junc­tion of the Sun with Uranus means that Trump will stand out, and nev­er blend in. His life will be unusu­al, full of excep­tion­al moments that break through bound­aries. Born to rebel, he would have been inde­pen­dent and defi­ant as a child, and he would have devel­oped a view of him­self as not sub­ject to nor­mal rules or expec­ta­tions. He can exhib­it bril­liance and flash­es of great insight, but he will at times be equal­ly unable to restrain him­self from dis­trac­tions and errat­ic behaviors.

Again, even this chal­leng­ing set of fac­tors could have been com­bined with sta­bi­liz­ing ele­ments to mod­u­late and mit­i­gate his nature. But in Trump’s chart the ener­gies of insta­bil­i­ty (and chaos) are dou­bled-down by Uranus also being in oppo­si­tion to his Moon. Trump will look upon feel­ings (and women) with great dis­trust because they are for him so unpre­dictable and unknow­able. By being dis­mis­sive of and not in touch with his feel­ing nature, he will swing wild­ly between his peri­patet­ic intel­lect and chaot­ic emo­tions. His thoughts will lack true empa­thy and com­pas­sion; his emo­tions unin­formed by his rea­son. He will be capa­ble of bril­liance yet lack empa­thy, he will be sen­ti­men­tal but not car­ing. Trump may remain divid­ed with­in him­self; he would be unset­tled and unstable.

Many com­men­ta­tors have assumed that Trump’s way of act­ing (and react­ing) is pure­ly an act, and that he employs the “prin­ci­ples of chaos” as a mas­ter manip­u­la­tor to upend his adver­saries and achieve his ends. What his chart reveals is that this is no act. Trump is unsta­ble by nature. He is sim­ply unpre­dictable because he prob­a­bly can­not con­trol himself. 

The plan­e­tary ruler for Gem­i­ni is Mer­cury, which for Trump is in the sign of Can­cer. Though he will con­sid­er him­self to be a man of rea­son, pos­sess­ing a great range of ideas and knowl­edge, and that he comes to his facts and opin­ions via his supe­ri­or intel­lect, much of his think­ing and deci­sion-mak­ing is uncon­scious­ly influ­enced by his emo­tions. He will believe that he is being “rea­son­able”, when he in fact he is often being blind­ed by his emo­tion­al biases.

But much more trou­bling is that he also has his Mer­cury squar­ing his Nep­tune, the plan­et of Dreams and Imag­i­na­tion. Nep­tune is also, when mis­ap­plied or mis­un­der­stood, the plan­et that rules Fan­tasies, Delu­sions and Decep­tions. Mer­cury squar­ing Nep­tune, if you can mas­ter your­self, can be won­der­ful and make you a great sto­ry-teller, it is gift for painters and poets, allow­ing one to slip beyond the bound­aries of real­i­ty for inspiration.

But when com­bined with the inher­ent insta­bil­i­ty of his chart, Mer­cury square Nep­tune means that Trump will say any­thing, and mean noth­ing. He will make some­thing up, and turn around and say the opposite…and prob­a­bly turn around again and say some third thing. He will employ “smoke and mir­rors”; he will claim to speak plain­ly, and accuse oth­ers of being untruth­ful. He will sow doubt and con­fu­sion, he will often promise and not deliv­er. He is prob­a­bly not to be believed or trust­ed much of the time.

One of the more chal­leng­ing aspects a per­son may have in their chart is a hard con­tact between Venus and Sat­urn. Trump has his Sat­urn con­junct Venus, which means he expe­ri­enced con­di­tion­al forms of love as a child. Rather than being loved tru­ly, he was exposed to “love” that was giv­en or with­held as a tool for reward or pun­ish­ment. This is not love, this is the abu­sive pow­er wield­ed by an author­i­tar­i­an par­ent, most like­ly the father.

With­out sig­nif­i­cant help to heal this wound, Trump would have no true expe­ri­ence of healthy “self-love”, nor would he be capa­ble of tru­ly lov­ing anoth­er. He would need oth­ers to love and admire him to fill the aching hole in his soul. But he would be unable to show real love to anoth­er, for he has none to offer. He would be ungen­er­ous, unchar­i­ta­ble and treat oth­ers as “objects”, as he can be the only “sub­ject” in any relationship.

This aspect in a chart may indi­cate and form the con­di­tions for devel­op­ing “nar­cis­sis­tic per­son­al­i­ty dis­or­der”. It has been not­ed, that many of the actions and over-reac­tions that Trump has dis­played in his pub­lic life seem to con­form to the clas­sic behav­iors asso­ci­at­ed with nar­cis­sis­tic per­son­al­i­ty disorder.

In short, these delin­eations from Trump’s chart point to an indi­vid­ual who appears fun­da­men­tal­ly unsta­ble, often untruth­ful, and with a heart that is broken.

Next, The Tran­sits in Trump’s chart