Blonde on Blonde
Bookended between the two most famous people on Earth, the United States spins madly on.
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MEA CULPA. I’M GOING TO WRITE about Donald Trump and Taylor Swift. Two people I would gladly forgo ever reading another word about in this lifetime.
So why do it?
I’m fascinated by the bond that links Trump and Swift’s horoscopes to the United States’ horoscope (yes, nations and countries have birth charts). And when we’ve gotten to a place where a pop artist could derail the presidential hopes of a former reality TV star, things are definitely parked in Crazy Town.
You’re familiar with the babble: The hysteria from MAGA enthusiasts related to Swift and how the pop singer is a psyop maneuvering to hand the addled Joe Biden the presidency in 2024. The nonsense has been broadcast non-stop on SM and FOX—a network that increasingly seems affiliated with The Onion.
But, hold on to your wig hat—as nuts as it sounds, if you consider the synastry between Swift’s and Trump’s horoscope, you might conclude that the network is on to something. Although not in the conspiratorial way they keep blathering about.
At any other time in history, a theory like this would seem an unhinged delusion, but we’re living in 2024, a year that chroniclers will one day define as the moment US democracy was sucked over the event horizon of the Twilight Zone.
During the past decade, Trump and Swift have become imbued with supernatural power. Which isn’t unusual when searching-for-meaning plebs transform celebrities into cult idols. Each icon becomes a totem—a raison d'être for the ideological mission of each group. How the cult camps impact each other can be outlined by studying the icons’ birth charts.
When considering their horoscopes, MAGA-ites have a Martian crisis regarding the Swifties. Meaning: The pop music star’s natal Mars squares Trump’s natal Mars to an exact degree—a classic confrontational call to arms. And more lethal, Swift’s Mars in Scorpio opposes Trump’s Taurus midheaven—his chart’s ‘high career’ or aspiration point—exactly as well. More on this as I go.