Time To Talk About Harris

When Harris says, about Trump, “I know his type”, we can see from their charts how true that is. Game recognizes game. She does not use hers the way he uses his, but she understands it.

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Part One of my discussion with Jessica Murray, Time To Talk About Trump,
can be found here.

Part Two — Time To Talk About Biden, can be found here.

THE UNITED STATES IS CAUGHT in a bizarre phase shift. As the fumes from the 15-year-long Pluto through Capricorn transit float over the cusp leading into Aquarius, the nation is caught in a protracted clash of opposites—forced to witness—and live out—the crumbling remnants of The American Dream. The shining ‘City Upon a Hill’ has become an open-air nuthouse.

After publishing the close read on Donald Trump last year and then Joe Biden earlier this summer, I invited my friend and colleague, astrologer Jessica Murray, to return this month for a final astro analysis, this one on Kamala Harris.

Murray is the astrological kingdom’s sharpest commentator on the larger cycles (and the stories they portend) related to geopolitical events. As Murray would frame it, these circumstances implicate each of us because we were born into this historical moment and have a role to play in the larger national drama.

FREDERICK WOODRUFF: Given we’re a little over two weeks away from the election, I thought we’d cut to the chase and start by studying Harris’ horoscope (which has an AA rating from Rodden) in comparison to the United States Sibly chart.

I’m a meat-and-potatoes astrologer, meaning I don’t work with progressions, solar arcs, asteroids, etc. I like to focus on the most salient—literal and not symbolic—components of a chart, especially regarding how one horoscope intertwines with another via synastry. Indeed, there are other heightened contacts, but let’s start with these two.

I want to focus on Harris’ Saturn in Aquarius in conjunction with the US’s Moon in Aquarius. Followed by her Gemini ascendant’s conjunction with the US’s Mars in Gemini in the seventh house of the US chart. This evokes two extremes. A chart’s ascendant and the planet Saturn have opposite functions within astrology. Saturn, to protect and preserve, while our ascendant is how we push forward into the environment and influence (and sometimes disturb) what we interact with. Harris is a Libra, so she seems equipped to deal with these two opposing aims. I find Libra folks prosper when they have complex contrasts in their charts or with the synastry of another chart. The tension promotes the productive side of their diplomatic skills.

Your book Soul-Sick Nation: An Astrologer’s View of America is a no-stone-left-unturned close read on the US’s horoscope (and how the nation has responded, historically, to the various transits that touched off its natal chart positions). So, I’d love to get your take on these two highly charged contacts between the charts. So, let’s start with the most emphatic, Harris’ Saturn in Aquarius on top of the US’s Moon in Aquarius.