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Alex Miller
On November 5, 2024, Americans voted to return Donald J. Trump, a convicted felon awaiting sentencing on 34 criminal counts, to the White House, electing him as the 47th President of the United States. Shockwaves could be felt planetwide, as America’s allies feared the rightward shift and foreign adversaries applauded a second bite of the Trump apple.
The skies for the day indicated a too-close-to-call election, with major pluses and minuses for both candidates, but with 20/20 hindsight we can determine which factors predominated. Asteroid Troemper is the closest to Trump, and has proven itself as an effective celestial marker for The Donald over the past nine years, since his entry into politics in 2015. In early Leo, Troemper was conjoined by both asteroids Champion and Losse (phonetic match for “loss”), providing mixed signals as to the outcome. But Troemper’s ninety-degree angle to the Election Day Sun in Scorpio indicated Trump as highlighted on the day, and additional connections to asteroids America and Washingtonia (for DC), forming a Grand Cross (four or more points equidistant to each other in ninety-degree increments), established the field of battle (Washingtonia) and Trump’s personal connection to the nation (America). Also in this mix was asteroid Christian, identifying evangelical fundamentalists as a key constituency in Trump’s winning coalition.
Asteroid Nike, named for the Greek goddess of victory, appears in early Virgo, closely aligned with Trump’s natal late Leo Ascendant, giving him the appearance (Ascendant) of a winner (Nike). As well, Nike closely squared (90 degrees) Mercury, which governs such things as the decision-making process and the vote itself, providing Trump with a personal connection to the electorate, further influenced by asteroid Donn’s conjunction with the US natal Moon, representing its people. In his third time out, Trump achieved what had eluded him twice before – he also won the popular vote, facilitated by the Donn/Moon pairing. Asteroid Victoria, named for Nike’s Roman counterpart, is conjoined Mercury (the vote), both in a supportive trine aspect (120 degrees, denoting easy flow) to asteroid Troemper.
Also key to the victory, asteroid Whitehouse (for the presidency), which in early Libra was forming a T-Square pattern (comprised of two points opposite each other in the sky, with a third on their midpoint) with Trump’s birth polarity of Mercury conjunct asteroid Donn opposing his natal asteroid Whitehouse. This natal pattern suggests populism and speechifying (both Mercury) as Trump’s (Donn) keys to the Oval Office (Whitehouse); despite his wealthy origins and many failed commercial ventures and bankruptcies, Trump was able to somehow paint himself as a self-made man of the people and a business genius. In this round of elections, his mythologized record and his ability to pull the wool over Americans’ eyes is symbolized by asteroid Bilk exactly conjunct asteroid America. This natal Mercury/Donn-Whitehouse axis has been agitated by asteroid Grimm for weeks, as the former president’s (Donn) rhetoric (Mercury) became grimmer, darker and bleaker (Grimm), but apparently, his dystopian, post-apocalyptic view of America hit the sweet spot for a majority of American voters.
Many in the US and across the globe are on tenterhooks, waiting to see if Trump makes good on his threats of retaliation and revenge on political rivals, and follows through on his avowed contempt for alliances, including NATO. For now, all we can do is take a deep breath and await the dénouement.
Alex Miller is a professional writer and astrologer, author of The Black Hole Book, detailing deep space points in astrological interpretation, and the forthcoming Heaven on Earth, a comprehensive study of asteroids, both mythic and personal. Alex is a frequent contributor to “The Mountain Astrologer”, “Daykeeper Journal”, and NCGR’s Journals and “Enews Commentary”; his work has also appeared in “Aspects” magazine, “Dell Horoscope”, “Planetwaves”, “Neptune Café” and “Sasstrology.” He is a past president of Philadelphia Astrological Society, and former board member for the Philadelphia Chapter of NCGR. His two decades of chronicling asteroid effects in human affairs can be found at his website, www.alexasteroidastrology.com.
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