Don­ald Trump – The test of Power

It is most often true that the future of a nation and the for­tunes of its leader are inex­tri­ca­bly bound to one anoth­er. My pre­vi­ous post­ing not­ed that the most sig­nif­i­cant plan­e­tary tran­sit in the USA chart this year is the tran­sit of Plu­to over the USA Mer­cury. It may come as no sur­prise then that the most sig­nif­i­cant tran­sit in Don­ald Trump’s chart, for this year and for the next, is Plu­to as well.

In 2019 and 2020, Don­ald Trump will have Plu­to form­ing an Incon­junct aspect (150°) to his Sun. More­over, build­ing in dur­ing 2019 and becom­ing ful­ly man­i­fest­ed in 2020, Plu­to will be in oppo­si­tion to his Sat­urn. What do these two pas­sages indi­cate for Trump and the Nation?

Plu­to and The Tri­ad of Spirit

Plu­to is part of what I like to call the “Tri­ad of Spir­it”. Uranus is the Avatar or prin­ci­ple of the High­er Mind; Nep­tune the Avatar of Uncon­di­tion­al Love; Plu­to the Avatar of the Will. Togeth­er, at the crown of the spir­i­tu­al hier­ar­chy they rep­re­sent the Mind, Love and Will of God. For humans, we are striv­ing to learn to wield these pow­ers cor­rect­ly, as we slow­ly but sure­ly walk the path of awak­en­ing by devel­op­ing freer minds, tru­ly uncon­di­tion­al love and guid­ed by ever more cen­tered wills.

Plu­to rules will-pow­er, and through our will we strive to mas­ter our­selves; we learn that we must focus inward­ly, and to use our will for greater self-con­trol and self-mas­tery. The num­ber one error (or sin) on this Earth is when we use our will and pow­er to con­trol, sub­ju­gate, manip­u­late and vio­late anoth­er (or oth­ers). The great­est spir­i­tu­al crime is tres­pass­ing, where we vio­late the sacred space of another.

We are here to mas­ter our­selves, and by our exam­ple, as well as by offer­ing lov­ing help and guid­ance to oth­ers, we help one anoth­er towards greater self-mas­tery and self-con­trol. By being tru­ly cen­tered by the will, (and guid­ed by Wis­dom and Uncon­di­tion­al Love), we are more able to use what­ev­er per­son­al, social or col­lec­tive pow­ers we hold and to exer­cise them cor­rect­ly; and we will serve the source of that pow­er and direct it in the prop­er man­ner as deter­mined by our roles and respon­si­bil­i­ties. Ulti­mate­ly, any exer­cise of pow­er must be in accor­dance with Spir­i­tu­al truth:

We are here to learn to wield our will in a Transper­son­al man­ner; through our per­son­al will we serve the “source” of that pow­er so that it is nev­er used for self­ish pur­pos­es. The teach­ing will ever be, to remain guid­ed by one’s High­er Self and so by the One; we resolve to serve and so remain true to the path, “Let Thy Will be Done!”

With­in any hier­ar­chy, (Fam­i­ly, Com­mu­ni­ty, Cor­po­ra­tion, State or Nation), the leader, (or lead­ers), the hold­er of any form of exec­u­tive pow­er is invest­ed with the respon­si­bil­i­ty to be the prime exam­ple (the “Exem­plar” or Avatar) of this spir­i­tu­al truth: That the exer­cise of Will and Pow­er must be held and cen­tered, yoked to serve the pur­pose and intent of what­ev­er office that leader is there to serve. That is why in many cas­es, a per­son will take a “oath”, which binds their indi­vid­ual will to the gen­er­al good or pur­pose which they serve; that pow­er is not “theirs”, but it is mere­ly entrust­ed to them while they hold that office.

Don­ald Trump

In 2019 and 2020 Don­ald Trump will expe­ri­ence Plu­to pass­ing over his Sun and over his Sat­urn. What will this mean for him and for the USA? Quite sim­ply and pro­found­ly, Don­ald Trump is going to face a fun­da­men­tal “test of pow­er”. If he has wield­ed the pow­ers of the pres­i­den­cy cor­rect­ly, if he has aligned his will to the office of the pres­i­den­cy, then he may pass this test, though it will be a very chal­leng­ing time. If he has not suf­fi­cient­ly and cor­rect­ly sac­ri­ficed his will to the greater good of his office, if he has not under­stood the nature of his oath and aligned him­self to the true source of the pow­er which he serves, then he will fail and fall one way or another.

The Plu­to align­ment to Trump’s Sun in 2019 and 2020 indi­cates that his exer­cise and expe­ri­ence of pow­er is shift­ing in ways that will bring about a grow­ing sense of unease and con­fu­sion for him. He may ascribe it to forces or per­son­ages out­side of him­self, but it will real­ly be the grow­ing schism between his low­er will and the high­er will to which he swore an oath to serve.

This grow­ing gap between the pow­er of this office and the expe­ri­ence of his per­son­al pow­er erod­ing may cre­ate with­in him, at least in part, a desire to walk away from or give up this posi­tion of pow­er as it has lost its appeal. It is no longer of per­son­al use to him. The rea­son for this will because he has failed to under­stand and serve in the office of the Pres­i­dent as those who came before him.

The align­ment of Plu­to to Trump’s Sat­urn dur­ing 2020 is even more chal­leng­ing, as it will direct­ly threat­en his sense of posi­tion (Sat­urn) and the con­fi­dence he has in main­tain­ing that role. Typ­i­cal­ly, an indi­vid­ual with this tran­sit feels that the effort to wield or main­tain their posi­tion is over­whelm­ing. Author­i­ties, who rep­re­sent oth­er realms and sources of pow­er, are coun­ter­ing or oppos­ing his form of exer­cis­ing his (pres­i­den­tial) power.

These oth­er cen­ters of pow­er may wield such a strong counter-force that he will not be able to per­form his duties, or thwart his attempts to do what he wish­es. He will either have to bend or break under the pres­sure of foes and forces that will appear unshak­able and unbeat­able. Again, as a result of this pres­sure he may wish to with­draw from his posi­tion or if he attempts to remain, he will find that his pow­er is cir­cum­scribed or rescinded.

There are sev­er­al oth­er chal­leng­ing tran­sits in Trump’s chart in 2019 and 2020 (Nep­tune Square his Uranus in 2019 and Square his North Node in 2020, Uranus Semi­Square his Uranus in 2019 and Uranus Square his Plu­to in 2020), and I will address these in future post­ings and radio shows.

But the prin­ci­pal chal­lenge for the next two years will be Trump’s encounter with this test of Plu­to, with this test of Posi­tion and Power.