I thought it might be use­ful to offer (more or less) a tran­script of my lat­est radio show (Octo­ber 6, 2019):

Don­ald Trump – The test of Power

As I not­ed in my 2019 Fore­cast, it is cer­tain­ly true that through­out his­to­ry, one can often dis­cern the future of a nation by the for­tunes or mis­for­tunes indi­cat­ed in the chart of its head of state. I had also not­ed in the my fore­cast for the USA that the most sig­nif­i­cant plan­e­tary tran­sit in the chart of the USA this year is Plu­to oppos­ing the USA Mer­cury. It may come as no sur­prise then that the most impor­tant tran­sits in the chart of Don­ald Trump is by Plu­to in 2019 and 2020.

Yes, in 2019 and 2020, Don­ald Trump will have Plu­to form­ing an Incon­junct aspect (150°) to his Sun. But out­er plan­e­tary align­ments build in over more than one year, and then cul­mi­nate when they are exact. For now, in 2019 and becom­ing exact in 2020, the plan­et Plu­to will be in oppo­si­tion to Trump’s Saturn.

Pluto’s Role in the Tri­ad of Spirit

Plu­to is one of the Avatars of the tri­par­tite core of our Spir­i­tu­al Hier­ar­chy, or what I like to call the “Tri­ad of Spir­it”. Uranus is the Avatar or prin­ci­ple of the High­er Mind; Nep­tune is the Avatar of Uncon­di­tion­al Love; and Plu­to is the Avatar of the Will. Togeth­er, form­ing the crown of the spir­i­tu­al hier­ar­chy, which is found in every speck and mote of cre­ation, they rep­re­sent the Mind, Love and Will of God. Where­as their man­i­fes­ta­tion on low­er planes is seen in the struc­tures of ele­men­tary par­ti­cles, chem­i­cal, and organ­ic life-forms, we as humans, being self-aware, are here to learn to wield these pow­ers, by align­ing are thoughts, feel­ings and pow­er to the path of truth and light. We humans are cir­cuitous­ly and slow­ly, but sure­ly bend­ing ever upward as we walk the path of awak­en­ing by devel­op­ing ever freer minds, more tru­ly uncon­di­tion­al love and becom­ing ever more guid­ed by our more cen­tered wills.

For humans, Plu­to rules will-pow­er, and it is by exer­cis­ing our will that we strive to mas­ter our­selves. We are slow­ly learn­ing 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 one anoth­er. The great­est spir­i­tu­al crime that we humans can com­mit is tres­pass­ing, where­in we vio­late the sacred space of another.

We are here to mas­ter our­selves. By our exam­ple to one anoth­er, as well as by offer­ing lov­ing help and guid­ance to oth­ers, we are here to help one anoth­er towards greater self-mas­tery and self-con­trol. It is only by being tru­ly cen­tered by the will, (and guid­ed by Wis­dom and Uncon­di­tion­al Love), that we will use what­ev­er per­son­al pow­er (as in a fam­i­ly), or social pow­er (as in our com­mu­ni­ty) or our larg­er col­lec­tive pow­ers (such as in Cor­po­rate or Insti­tu­tion­al pow­ers) it is only by our Tri­ad of Spir­it that we exer­cise them cor­rect­ly. We must always remem­ber that all pow­er flows from the source and must serve it, (the fam­i­ly, the com­mu­ni­ty or the Nation),  and so we must serve the source of that pow­er and direct it in a prop­er man­ner as deter­mined by what or whom we serve. It is not “our” pow­er; we are but ves­sels serv­ing some­thing high­er. Ulti­mate­ly, any exer­cise of pow­er must be in accor­dance with Spir­i­tu­al truth which is the source of the One Pow­er. That is why we must hold our­selves to the roy­al road and say, “Let Thy Will Be Done”.

In all these human hier­ar­chies of Fam­i­ly, Com­mu­ni­ty, Cor­po­ra­tion or State, the lead­er­ship is spir­i­tu­al­ly invest­ed with the respon­si­bil­i­ty to be the prime mover and exam­ple for the whole that they serve, they are the “Exem­plar” or Avatar in human terms of this spir­i­tu­al truth: Their exer­cise of Will and Pow­er must be held, cen­tered and so yoked so that it serves the pur­pose and intent of that enti­ty that they serve. This is why we acknowl­edge these investi­tures of pow­er by some form of cer­e­mo­ny, and very often that per­son will take a “oath”, which binds their indi­vid­ual will to the gen­er­al good or pur­pose of the what or whom they serve. They are to acknowl­edge that this pow­er is not “theirs”, but it is mere­ly entrust­ed to them while they hold that office faithfully.

Don­ald Trump

In 2019 Don­ald Trump is expe­ri­enc­ing both Plu­to Incon­junct to his Sun, as he also faces the steadi­ly build­ing Oppo­si­tion of Plu­to to his Sat­urn. With the Sun rul­ing the “Expe­ri­ence of One­self”, and with Sat­urn rep­re­sent­ing the Real­i­ty that this Self has made or formed for itself, we are wit­ness­ing the grow­ing unease and uncer­tain­ty of Trump’s expe­ri­ence of his pur­pose and will, (Plu­to to his Sun). But also, increas­ing­ly in dur­ing 2019 but becom­ing ful­ly formed in 2020, Trump will encounter the grow­ing real­i­ty that his pow­er is being be met with a Pow­er greater than his which, depend­ing upon how he responds (or reacts), may ulti­mate­ly lead to the removal of his exer­cise of pow­er alto­geth­er as Plu­to goes over his Saturn.

The 2019 Incon­junct, is slow­ly but sure­ly cre­at­ing a con­di­tion of uncer­tain­ty and fear for Trump, as he real­izes that his inte­ri­or expe­ri­ence of his own pow­er, and the actu­al expe­ri­ence of pow­er out­ward­ly are becom­ing uncou­pled. Many indi­vid­u­als who face this same aspect often find them­selves with a fore­bod­ing sense that the ground is shift­ing from under­neath them, so that they feel and act as indi­vid­u­als who are becom­ing unmoored and uncen­tered. Some have cho­sen to walk away, to relo­cate or refo­cus their cen­ter and their exer­cise of pow­er. For many of those, it is actu­al­ly quite lib­er­at­ing, and is expe­ri­enced as it should be, an oppor­tu­ni­ty to grow. For some, who do not wish to lose what they believe to be “theirs”, they are remind­ed that we are all here to serve the source of pow­er, and not to exer­cise it as if it were ours alone. So, what is actu­al­ly hap­pen­ing “spir­i­tu­al­ly” for Trump, is that his per­son­al will and its align­ment to the greater Will of the whole is becom­ing increas­ing­ly tenuous.

Mean­while, grow­ing in 2019 and then force­ful­ly show­ing itself ful­ly in 2020, the Plu­to Oppo­si­tion to Trump’s Sat­urn will direct­ly con­front the very struc­ture or Real­i­ty of his Pow­er, as it will force a con­fronta­tion between Pow­er and Pow­er in the very Roles and Titles, the very Insti­tu­tion­al nature as under­stood and expe­ri­enced by Trump. Pluto’s pas­sages are most often expe­ri­enced as quite cathar­tic and trans­for­ma­tion­al, and for many are likened to a death and/or rebirth expe­ri­ence. The Real­i­ty that Trump has made of him­self is fac­ing its ulti­mate test. He will see it as a “life or death” expe­ri­ence. He will fight hard­er than he ever has to main­tain his posi­tion and pow­er. The oth­er realms of col­lec­tive Will and Pow­er will take up one side or anoth­er, and often Trump will see these oth­er wield­ers of Pow­er as coun­ter­ing him and what he con­sid­ers to be his right­ful exer­cise of pow­er. The ques­tion will be, is it a right­ful or wrong­ful use of his posi­tion. Pow­er will face Pow­er, claims of Right will bat­tle with oth­er claimants. In the end, Spir­it will decide who is right and who must fall.

Oth­er Alignments

As I not­ed in my 2019 fore­cast, there are sev­er­al oth­er chal­leng­ing tran­sits in Trump’s chart in 2019 and 2020. For exam­ple, Nep­tune, the sec­ond plan­et of the Spir­i­tu­al Tri­ad, is mak­ing sev­er­al align­ments: Nep­tune Squares his Uranus in 2019 and Nep­tune Squares his Lunar Nodes in 2020; and Nep­tune will Square his Moon and Sun in 2021:

• The Square of Nep­tune to Uranus will make an indi­vid­ual feel that their indi­vid­ual free­dom is being cir­cum­scribed and dimin­ished. Here in 2019, life will seem more and more fraught with uncer­tain­ties and con­fu­sion for Trump, lead­ing to ris­ing lev­els of anx­i­ety and fear. This par­tic­u­lar pas­sage is even more dis­turb­ing for Trump, who has Uranus as the plan­et next to his Sun and also lead­ing the pat­tern of his chart. This posi­tion of Uranus has cre­at­ed a self-image for Trump as an “Icon­o­clast” (a break­er of idols), and he has through­out his life sought to break con­ven­tions, norms and stretch the bounds of what is right and wrong. Now his very “pow­er”, to be an unbound man, is com­ing into ques­tion as he feels his free­dom to act as he will challenged.
• In 2020, Nep­tune Squares Trump’s Nodes of the Moon, (what are known as the point­ers of life, of where you are com­ing from and going to, what we know as Dharma/Karma). It is one of the most impor­tant indi­ca­tors of your spir­i­tu­al pur­pose, show­ing the path of growth (or not) for the soul. This aspect is already being felt by Trump, cre­at­ing a grow­ing unease and con­fu­sion regard­ing his real pur­pose, and storm clouds of anx­i­ety will obscure what he is tru­ly fac­ing on the path ahead.
• Cul­mi­nat­ing in 2021, but already being felt in 2019 and cer­tain­ly through­out 2020, Trump will have Nep­tune Squar­ing both his Moon and his Sun. The pas­sage over his Moon will make him ever more emo­tion­al and unsta­ble. He will expe­ri­ence ever increas­ing degrees of emo­tion­al con­fu­sion, and he will exhib­it many more emo­tion­al upsets and out­bursts, as he slow­ly descends into ever greater emo­tion­al vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty. This tran­sit can make a per­son who is not cen­tered and strong ever more con­fused, fear­ful and delu­sion­al. It real­ly should be a peri­od, for any­one, to take some time to con­sid­er their life with regards to spir­i­tu­al and emo­tion­al ful­fill­ment. They should take time to restore their emo­tion­al health, and so reduce or let go of major responsibilities.
• At the same time, Nep­tune will align with Trump’s Sun which is often more chal­leng­ing than the pas­sage over the Moon. The Sun rules your sense of self, and Nep­tune will erode and dis­solve that sense of self and reveal the “truth”, that you do not real­ly know who you are, and that you are more (or less) than the per­son you thought your­self to be. Trump will expe­ri­ence a loss of con­fi­dence and cer­tain­ty about him­self, (and most like­ly com­pen­sate by dou­bling down on his grandios­i­ty and claims of being “per­fect”). If he were hon­est with him­self, he would sur­ren­der his respon­si­bil­i­ties (and per­haps go on a spir­i­tu­al quest which might lead to some kind of re-birth and renew­al). But if Trump per­sists as if noth­ing has changed, he will increas­ing­ly find that his view of him­self and the world will become irrev­o­ca­bly and deeply divid­ed from the world as it tru­ly is.

The Chart of the Impeach­ment Inquiry

I also thought it worth men­tion­ing that an Astrologer can cre­ate a chart for any “event”, and see what it might indi­cate for that moment in time, that is the con­di­tions and mes­sag­ing from the stars in “the now”. I cal­cu­lat­ed the chart for the announce­ment by Nan­cy Pelosi of the offi­cial start of the Impeach­ment Inquiry on Sep­tem­ber 24, 2019, at just after 5 pm EDT.

I often make use of, in my per­son­al read­ings with clients, a book of sym­bols for each degree of the Zodi­ac, writ­ten by Dane Rud­h­yar titled, “An Astro­log­i­cal Man­dala: The Cycle of Trans­for­ma­tions and its 360 Sym­bol­ic Phases”.

I often use this when exam­in­ing Pro­gressed New Moons and Pro­gressed Full Moons, as well as oth­er rel­e­vant moments in a client’s jour­ney. One of the most impor­tant points of any chart is formed by the Ris­ing Sign and Degree. The ris­ing degree or Ascen­dant in the “Impeach­ment Chart” is 18 degrees of Aquar­ius. Here is the sym­bol of that degree:

A MAN’S SECRET MOTIVES ARE BEING PUBLICLY UNMASKED.
Keynote: The dif­fi­cul­ty for the mod­ern indi­vid­ual to keep secret his pri­vate past or his deep­er motives…
This sym­bol refers to the UNMASKING of hid­den motives and per­son­al secrets. It may refer to the pub­li­ciz­ing of past behavior.

This is Trump’s “test of pow­er”, and it will reveal whether or not he has aligned his will with the Greater Will, or whether he has mis­used his pow­ers and tak­en the Social and Col­lec­tive good will to serve his own per­son­al and self-inter­est­ed needs.