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2021 Inauguration Revisited

No, I don’t think that President Biden will die before the November 2024 election. But I do want to re-visit the 2021 Inauguration horoscope and compare it with actual events. In my book, Tecumseh’s Curse (2021), I studied the inauguration charts of all the Jupiter-Saturn presidencies to see what information the planetary cycles conveyed.

The 2021 Inauguration had quite a challenging horoscope. We tend to read charts with the archetypes in mind, but much is guesswork or conclusions based on different types of charts. I analyzed the chart by identifying the types of events that had actually occurred on previous cycles – hard aspects between the Sun and Pluto in inauguration charts, Sun-Uranus, Saturn-Uranus and Sun-Saturn.

Much can be gained by this kind of study, though it’s time consuming and not detail-oriented. And I’ve always felt that accurate forecasts will, by their nature, tend to be somewhat generalized. The more specific we try to get, the more often we’ll be wrong. Narrowing down the considerations with a framework – in this case a presidential term – will also narrow down the possibilities.

The original text from Tecumseh’s Curse is in regular font; actual events are in italics.

Forecast: “Sun-Pluto charts represented notable victories for the presidents, who sought to unite the country. (They included some of the most memorable chief executives in history.) The political parties themselves underwent change. Developments in the country’s territory, alliances and antagonisms came to the forefront. Financial affairs were often highlighted, with important changes in policies and trends. (In 2021, the country faces a recession and an exponentially rising national debt.)”

Actual events: Common ground was found in the approval of the American Rescue Plan in 2021 (for economic stimulus), and the 10-year bipartisan Inventory and Jobs Act. The Republican party is now dominated by “MAGA” adherents, and extremists on both sides of the aisle continue to make themselves heard, with stark ideological divisions. Ukraine’s and Israel’s wars affected the U.S. Fears of recession continued with inflation and rising interest rates affecting everyone.

Forecast: “Hard aspects from Uranus to the Sun in Jupiter-Saturn inauguration horoscopes created unforeseen circumstances in the corresponding administrations. Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Delano Roosevelt faced tempestuous and chaotic years, and the 2021 administration also has indications of unpredictability and the prospect of involvement in overseas conflicts, with the country potentially re-evaluating its relationships.”

Actual events: Biden withdrew American military from Afghanistan, a move that was roundly criticized (he began his term with over 50% approval, and spent much of it closer to 40%). Ukraine and Israel’s wars escalated contention among various factions in the U.S. (most notably campus protests in 2024). Billions in aide was sent to both countries, and economic sanctions were imposed on Russia (also in keeping with Pluto).

Forecast: “Uranus squaring Saturn in the tenth house in the 2021 inauguration highlights the breakdown of old structures and the opening of a new phase. (Biden reversed many of his predecessor’s executive orders in his first days in office.) Change and progress should be inevitable, but as before, the president could be limited to some extent by public opinion, opposing parties and international relations. Popular movements should impact the coming years, leading to reform or even some sort of crisis or upheaval that shakes up the country in a significant way. Uranus and Mars conjoining the first house in 2021 suggest a new identity and perspective for the country. Mars also holds the possibility of volatility or perhaps even violence.”

Actual events: Joe Biden was the first president to walk a union picket line with the UAW. His climate change and clean energy bill failed to gain enough support. Perhaps most notably, the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade caused legislatures in various states to limit women’s rights to abortion. In six states, voters reversed abortion restrictions, with up to 11 more state ballot measures expected in 2024 elections.

Forecast: “An inaugural Sun conjunct Saturn has correlated with contentious issues and administrations that were limited in time or by circumstances. In the past these have brought civil rights and racial injustice to the forefront, and it seems likely that these issues will continue to be addressed.”

Actual events: Many in 2024 feel that Biden has aged-out of his job, and his more liberal policies were blocked (a voting rights bill failed in Congress, and the Supreme Court ended consideration of race in college admissions). The Supreme Court’s July 2024 decision on former president Trump’s immunity helps him evade prosecution in the courts. During the term, Biden appointed Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first Black female Supreme Court justice, Juneteenth was made a national holiday, and recognition of same-sex and inter-racial marriages were signed into law in December of 2022.

Ideological contention is nothing new, but there are many questions about both presidential candidates as I write this in the spring of 2024, with important developments expected as Mars conjoins Uranus in mid-July and Jupiter squares Saturn at the time of the election. Pluto also dips back into Capricorn for the final time from September through November right before the election, bringing up lingering issues before moving forward.

Original forecast text from Tecumseh’s Curse pages 167-169.

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Linda Goodman on the Aquarian Age

Linda Goodman was a true believer in the Age of Aquarius, perhaps because it was so obviously connected with the astrological signs. As Pluto is still near the 0 degree Aquarius point of the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction of December 2020, Goodman’s observations on the New Age may have some resonance today.

Although an accomplished astrologer herself, Linda rarely wrote about astrology beyond Sun signs. She was a product of the 1960s and ‘70s and used the modern rulership of Uranus over Aquarius, sharing some cogent thoughts on the polarity of Aquarius and Leo, the latter symbolizing the youth culture and sexual revolution. An Aries with Mercury in Taurus, she was impatient with the technical arguments about when (or if) the Aquarian Age had begun. She also disliked scientists and expressed her feelings strongly.

The piece that follows was published in her book Gooberz in 1989, though it was most likely written earlier. Goodman references a John Lennon song from 1969, campus protests in 1970, and uses slang that was outdated by the ‘80s. I have edited the piece and regularized punctuation for clarity.

Challenge

Do not listen to those smug prophets and Cassandras who argue endlessly and monotonously that the Aquarian Age is technically not yet upon us, and who babble and quarrel among themselves about the stern astronomical Precession of the Equinoxes, ignoring the Procession of Children with lighted candles chanting Peace. All we ask, is give Peace a chance.

We are well within the orb of those unpredictable Uranus vibrations, sounding the chords of humanitarianism and individualism, and yes, the flat notes of insanity too. Once again, under the ancient Law of Polarity, feeling the reflected influence of the sign opposite Aquarius: Leo, the Lion of Love, of Idealism and Youth.

Aquarius, the Water Bearer: Seeker of Truth, the unpredictable advocate of Change, whatever the cost (through violent revolution, if necessary) as a means to justify the end – of prejudice.

The eccentric, half genius, half mad Uranus vibrations of Aquarius, blending a compulsion for Progress with the hot rays of Leo’s ruling Sun, reflecting back the Lion’s firm hold over Youth and Love. “We will have Change! We will have Brotherhood!” rings out the clarion call of the individual’s right to do his or her own thing, and “let’s make love, not war!” “Let’s worship Youth!” roars the fierce, hot-blooded Lion as he rolls in sensuous ecstasy with his mate.

Is it any wonder, then, that we’re having a sexual revolution, that we shake under the Uranus-Aquarian thunder of individuality of hair styles, clothes, politics and religious convictions, with riots on campus introducing the Seventies, taking their toll?

Didn’t you see it all coming, Mister Gallup and Mister Poll? Didn’t you feel Kent State coming? Or do you scoff at the stars and ignore the planets too, as blind astronomers and other scientists are wont to do?’ Einstein might have made it all more clear than any similar peer who knocks and raps astrology if it’s fashionable to do so. Or than the shrinks and sociologists, stubborn astronomers, and the frightened astrologers themselves, who wrangle with one another, in unceasing competition refereed by prejudiced, pre-judgmental, know-it-all science wearing the dark glasses of dogma.

I see them squatting in their Kindergarten of Knowledge, the professors and the shrinks, the scientists and astronomers, the sociologists and poll takers, and an occasional politician, playing with Truth as children play with colored blocks lettered A B C for Apathy – Blindness – and Cop-out.

Then, when their blocks topple over, they rage in childish petulance and bang each other over the head with the offending chunks of wooden facts.

Do not bang me over the head with you’re A B C blocks colored with half-truths, you disciples of Thomas, the Doubter. You will not break the Ram’s tough horns!

The Aquarian Age is here! And its pulsating, powerful, unpredictable orb, mixing with the Sun rays of the roaring Lion, is ominous, if not heeded. Locking the New Age in your scientific closets with boring, tiresome technicalities will not make it disappear. Yes, the vibration of Aquarius is here, and much too close for comfort.

It burns my soul and sears my mind with unanswered questions.

Linda Goodman’s horoscope is on Astrodatabank.

From Gooberz, p. 184 to 185

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Gloria Steinem’s Marriage

Gloria Steinem remains a strong advocate for equality and social justice. A 1934 Aries, she chose not to marry because she felt the role too restrictive for her as a young woman in the 1950s. But she did finally marry at the age of 66. How does this show up in her birth chart?

We see Steinem’s personal strength and self-sufficiency in her Scorpio Ascendant and its ruler Mars. Mars is placed in its other ruling sign of Aries and conjoins the Sun, a very dynamic combination. The Sun is exalted in Aries and rules her 10^th house of career. This might be a combination focused on children, since the Sun and Mars are in the 5^th house. But Evangeline Adams’ teacher Catherine Thompson said that the Sun in the 5^th house has the potential to “burn up.” Mars is also inconjunct Neptune in Virgo in the 10^th, showing a less conventional outlet. Gloria pursued a career that she liked and enjoyed.

The 5^th house also relates to creative self-expression and Steinem began as a freelance journalist. Her Moon in Leo in the 9^th house found a wider audience through writing, editing, lecturing and political activism. She became a celebrity in 1963 for her exposé on the treatment of women at the Playboy Club in New York after being hired as a Playboy bunny waitress. This was the time of her Saturn return, when it also opposed her Midheaven, showing a major turning point in her life.

Her experiences with marriage and partnerships are 7^th house issues, and she has Taurus on the cusp, ruled by Venus in Aquarius. Venus conjoins Gloria’s 4^th house cusp, so again we might consider an outlet through the home, or a sense of security as inducements to marriage. Though the sign of Aquarius is not known to necessarily follow conventions.

Saturn also conjoins her 4^th house cusp and Venus, so we can see why her concept of relationships had a sense of restriction. With both planets conjunct in Aquarius, Steinem needed a feeling of independence in partnerships, and her focus remained on special-interest advocacy. The early home is also represented by the 4^th house, and Gloria’s youth was peripatetic, with some freedom but obligations as well.

Her father was a travelling antiques salesman, and the family rarely stayed in one place for long. When her parents divorced when she was 12, she became responsible for the emotional support of her mother, who suffered from chronic depression. This might also be indicated by Mercury in Pisces in the 4^th opposite Neptune, giving her empathy and compassion through an experience of suffering at an early age.

In keeping with the prominence of the dignified Saturn in Aquarius, Steinem’s paternal grandmother had been a noted Ohio suffragist in the early 20^th century, astrologically showing her feminist roots.

Taurus on the 7^th and its ruler in fixed signs typically supports longer lasting connections, and Gloria had several long-term relationships with prominent men over the course of her life. She came close to marriage once, even getting a license, but didn’t follow through. She has said that it was always her own choice not to marry, but both Saturn and Aquarius may shy away from legal permanence.

Steinem’s marriage to businessman and environmentalist David Bale on September 3, 2000 at the age of 66 is in keeping with Saturn’s influence for a delayed or late marriage, or one that demands maturity. The marriage seems to have been a good one, but while Bale was seven years younger than his wife, he died of brain cancer in late 2003 at the age of 62, putting Steinem back in a caretaker role during the last two years of his life.

At 90, Gloria Steinem continues to fight sexism and campaign for equality, working from her Manhattan brownstone home. Google Arts & Culture says that “Since 1966, this apartment has served as birthplace and host to many movements and limitless ideas… countless organizations and individuals… coalesced here to organize, strategize and create.” Real estate is another 4^th house theme, and the activist eventually bought her apartment, which is extremely valuable today. Ultimately, it seems that the home and the relationships that it supports became the real center of stability in Steinem’s life, a connection that’s lasted nearly 60 years.

Gloria Steinem was born on March 25, 1934 at 10:00 p.m. in Toledo, OH, rated AA on Astrodatabank (from “officially certified birth data”).

Ms. Gloria Steinem: A Life by Winifred Conkling is an excellent biography that inspired me to look at Steinem’s horoscope.

Transition Time

The Jupiter-Saturn conjunction on the winter solstice of 2020 ushered in a new era as the planetary pair moved into Aquarius. The conjunctions set the stage for 20+ year developments, and have a long history with the U.S. government and presidency, as I wrote about in my book Tecumseh’s Curse.

Since early 2023, Pluto has likewise been moving back and forth between the last degrees of Capricorn and the first degrees of Aquarius, bringing its own momentous changes, at a much slower pace. But this is especially so as it’s been crossing the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction degree over a 2-year period.

These transits have provoked contentious issues and some extremism in government and elsewhere. We might metaphysically see it as growing pains, but there are many challenges ahead. We are at a turning point with the presidential elections now less than a year away.

Many events are developing which resonate with Pluto changing signs and the Capricorn old guard transforming into something new and different. We seem to be turning a page, as old authorities, organizations and associations face a changing landscape, and the past falls away. Some of these notable events include:

Rosalyn Carter’s death on November 19, 2023 and her husband Jimmy, 99, in hospice care, symbolic of a generation passing.

Court Voting Rights Act decisions are set to empower Black and Native American minorities in Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and North Dakota, with other redistricting suits developing elsewhere. The slim minorities in both the House and Senate could easily be reversed in 2024.

Various court rulings have been made in Colorado, Minnesota and Michigan as judges consider removing former president Trump from 2024 ballots in violation of the Insurrection clause of the Constitution. Some will certainly progress to the Supreme Court. Trump of course also has several ongoing legal battles, with trial dates set for the spring and summer of 2024 (see my overview forecast from August 2022)

As many question the age and wisdom of leading presidential candidates Biden and Trump, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is polling with greater support than any independent candidate before. And the No Labels party of more moderate values may put Joe Manchin or another forward as a 2024 presidential candidate.

These are striking developments taken individually, but altogether show a major transition. Things will change and move forward. Pluto will station within half a degree of its return to the U.S. July 4, 1776 chart in October, moving into Aquarius for the final time in mid-November of 2024.

It’s no coincidence that this occurs right at the time of the next presidential election cycle. We can expect a re-set somehow, with the U.S.A. in a very different place by 2025. Unfortunately, it looks like the transition will be slow and messy. But that’s the nature of Pluto, who drags things out before moving on.

Kevin McCarthy’s Ouster

Speaker Kevin McCarthy is in the news with his ouster from the House on October 3, 2023 after only 9 months in office. It reminded me of a class with Bob Zoller nearly 30 years ago. He was stressing that nothing will manifest that’s not promised in the birth chart. We all accept that, but he had a more deterministic view. Certainly, I argued, sometimes things work out better than astrologers might expect. He agreed, but went on to say that if that’s the case, the success will be either partial or short-lived.

We often find Saturn in the 10^th house in people with visible positions of authority. But sometimes, depending on the essential dignity and aspects, they’ll face challenges or experience a loss of position for one reason or another. Think about Herbert Hoover, who had an illustrious career but only served one term as President due to the Great Depression. He had Saturn in Aquarius in the 10^th opposite his Moon, Mars and Uranus. Woodrow Wilson had Saturn in Cancer conjunct the MC and opposite his Sun, and had to address World War I and a severe stroke that left him disabled. He never realized his hope for a League of Nations.

Saturn in McCarthy’s chart is different in that it’s closely square the Moon in Sagittarius conjunct the 7^th house cusp. There’s no dignity for Saturn in Pisces or the Moon in Sagittarius, and the mutable signs are not as forceful as the fixed (Hoover) or as tenacious as cardinal (Wilson). But like the others, he is in a sense the victim of circumstances. He’d do better if he had a solid majority to back him. But his horoscope doesn’t suggest that.

The Moon may represent his constituents, the public, his general audience or his open enemies. Ruled by Jupiter in Taurus in the 12^th which squares his MC, his partnerships and position (since Saturn is also ruled by Jupiter) are somewhat at the mercy of others, and might be undermined by hidden enemies (the 12^th) who are more determined than he is (Taurus). And with his angular Moon so closely square Saturn, the timing has not been right.

McCarthy’s horoscope has some good aspects but no essential dignity. So despite being a member of Congress for over 16 years, as Zoller said, his greatest success was both contentious and short-lived… so far. I don’t think we’ve heard the last of him.

British journalist Martin Bashir, who controversially interviewed Princess Diana, has some similarities in his chart with Saturn in the 10^th square his Moon, though his Saturn in Aquarius is stronger and the Moon is weaker.

The Judge and the Abortion Pill

Eclipses may cause upheavals when they occur, and their patterns highlight trends and events to come. The April 2023 Court decisions on the abortion drug mifepristone are part of a larger pattern involving eclipses, the Biden administration, Joe Biden himself, the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction at 0 Aquarius and now Pluto’s change of sign from Capricorn to Aquarius as well.

U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk was confirmed by President Trump in 2019. Lawsuits filed by conservative groups in his Amarillo, Texas jurisdiction have been assured of the outcome, and the judge has already made decisions on immigration and LGBTQ workers. His April 7, 2023 decision on mifepristone would amount to a nationwide ban on the drug, which was approved by the FDA and in use for over 20 years.

The original Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court decision guaranteeing the right to abortion was decided on January 22, 1973, four days after a Lunar Eclipse at 28 Cancer 40. When the Court struck this ruling on June 24, 2022, transiting Pluto was at 28 Capricorn, closely opposing the eclipse degree.

The Kacsmaryk decision shortly after a full Moon was quickly brought to the Supreme Court, who froze the ruling on April 21, 2023 on the heels of a Solar Eclipse at 29 Aries, until the court appeals play out.

Let’s remember that the 2021 Biden inauguration Moon is also at 29 Aries. Placed in the 12^th house, it suggests the private nature of the matter addressed and the crusading energy placed in this question by many. 29 degrees certainly shows change, especially as the Moon in the inauguration horoscope conjoins Mars and squares Pluto and the Sun at the Midheaven. President Biden is fighting Judge Kacsmaryk’s ruling, and his own Moon is about 1 Taurus, closely conjunct the administration’s Moon. The Jupiter-Saturn conjunction at 0 Aquarius in December of 2020 set the stage, making these developments part of a larger cyclic trend. And the transiting North Node will also be at 29 Aries in July of 2023, further emphasizing this point.

We can clearly see the many astrological layers at work: Roe v. Wade decision on a Lunar Eclipse at about 29 Cancer, and the Supreme Court strikes Roe v. Wade with transiting Pluto at 28 Capricorn. Court’s hold on Kacsmaryk’s decision on a Solar Eclipse at 29 Aries. Pluto is at 0 Aquarius to 28 Capricorn from January 2023 through February 2024 and will activate these points, showing not only how things are slowly changing, but also the strong personal feelings involved on both sides of the question.

We don’t have a birth date for Judge Kacsmaryk. However Wikipedia says that he was born in 1977 – the year of a Solar Eclipse at 28 Aries! Now we know exactly why this particular judge is involved.

We may not be able to predict the final outcome of the court decisions. But with Pluto at 29 Capricorn 47 for the November 2024 election, this issue will surely continue to motivate voters.

What Evangeline Adams Knew Review

I was very pleased to read Sara Rose Diamond‘s review of my update of What Evangeline Adams Knew: a Book of Astrological Charts and Techniques:

Christino has done the world of astrology a major service by compiling, and presenting in such a lively way, a lot of valuable information that would otherwise fall by the wayside… vital scholarship for the safeguarding of astrological history.

Read the full review: http://facingnorth.net/books/astrology/evangeline

More about the book: https://karenchristino.com/books/what-evangeline-adams-knew/

Brooklyn Author Betty Smith

Betty Smith, the well-known author of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, had an early play produced in New York City this season. I was surprised to learn that she had actually been a playwright for most of her career, and had no real success until her novel was published when she was 47 years old.

A Sagittarius, Smith was born on December 15, 1896 at 6:00 p.m. in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, according to her biographer (though no source is given for the time). She had many trines in her birth chart, but her life often wasn’t easy. With Cancer rising, her Moon in Taurus in the 11^th house is exalted, suggesting popularity and a good income from her career. A grand trine with Jupiter in Virgo in the 3^rd house and Mercury in Capricorn in the 6^th house shows her facility for writing. With Cancer rising and a prominent Moon, her best work drew on her memories.

Betty’s mother was practical and down-to-earth (shown by the Moon in Taurus and 10^th ruler Jupiter in Virgo). But her father, well described by the Sun in Sagittarius opposite Mars and Neptune in the 12^th house, was a dreamer who couldn’t support his family and died of alcoholism when his daughter was just 19. The Moon also squares Venus on the cusp of the 8^th house, showing other family issues and their modest circumstances.

Betty was forced to work at around age 15, and she worked diligently for most of her life, often struggling to get by. She returned to school twice but never completed her high school degree. And while she later attended college and then completed a master’s program in playwriting at Yale University, she never received those degrees because she lacked the prerequisites.

There are no angular planets in this chart, and aside from the Moon, there’s a lack of essential dignity. The 7^th, 8^th and 9^th houses are all traditionally ruled by Saturn, but its near-exact conjunction with Uranus, the modern ruler of Aquarius, covers these houses either way. Placed in Scorpio in Smith’s 5^th house, we can see her relentless pursuit of education and creative work, and her focus on her two daughters throughout her life. But there was often an element of both responsibility and unexpected change in each of these areas. Saturn may delay things, but with a close trine to the Midheaven, the author always found opportunities and had great success after middle age.

Smith’s sometimes rocky marriages also come under the rulership of Saturn and Uranus. After splitting with her first husband following his infidelity and some separations, she essentially raised her girls alone. She became bored with her younger second husband when their relationship stabilized, and her third husband, also younger and reflecting the Neptunian pattern in her chart, was a drinker who secretly cashed large checks and pawned household items before he died of a sudden heart attack when his wife was 63.

Smith worked in North Carolina for the depression-era Federal Theater Project and stayed there the rest of her life. She wrote many plays, mostly with others, and earned some money through publication. She drew on her personal experience for A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, and writing about urban poverty from a female point of view was innovative at the time. The novel also resonated with many during the war years, as it reflected a simpler time and depicted women struggling to hold their families together and survive.

Many astrological events combined at the book’s publication on August 18, 1943 which radically changed Betty’s life as it quickly became a best-seller. Smith neared a progressed Solar Eclipse in her 8^th house (she had been in debt before immediately receiving a large royalty check). Her progressed Midheaven at 13 Taurus in her 11^th house of career earnings trined her 3^rd house Jupiter and sextiled her Ascendant. The progressed Ascendant at 21 Leo trined and sextiled her Sun-Mars-Neptune oppositions from her 2^nd house of money. The progressed Moon and Mercury in Capricorn through her 7^th house kept her focused on her goals and added the help of her publisher and the public as both planets sextiled her MC and natal Saturn-Uranus conjunction. And transiting Pluto also squared her ruler, the Moon, from the 2^nd house.

Smith continued writing; her fourth novel Joy in the Morning (1953) took a nostalgic look at her first marriage and was also a best-seller. In early 2023, when her early play was first produced in New York, transiting Uranus in Taurus was near the progressed MC of her break-out novel, and squared her Nodes from the 11^th house.

Like her mother, Betty Smith tragically suffered from dementia as she aged, and she began having trouble with words. Jupiter in the 3^rd house square Pluto in Gemini in her 12^th contributed to her writing abilities, but ironically also suggests the possibility of mental challenges. In her early 70s, Betty began forgetting names and her daughters eventually institutionalized her. She died less than a year later at 75.

Perhaps due to her strong Moon in Taurus and its grand trine with Midheaven ruler Jupiter and IC ruler Mercury, we still share in Betty Smith’s memories of her family and the old neighborhood from A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. No wonder, since the image of a tree growing in a harsh environment is so aptly symbolized by her Moon-Jupiter-Mercury grand trine in earth signs.

Presidential Cycles

In my book, Tecumseh’s Curse, I studied the cyclic patterns in Inauguration charts. Since all three previous Sun-Saturn administrations “were limited in time and by circumstances,” I still think Joe Biden will be a one-term president.

Previous Sun-Saturn presidencies faced contentious issues. Examples are Zachary Taylor (1849), Rutherford B. Hayes (1877) and JFK (1961). In each, the country was divided as we addressed major conflicts regarding race, so I felt that “racial justice will once again feature during the 2021 administration,” which has proven to be true.

I expected previous Sun-Uranus and Sun-Pluto administrations to show similarities to 2021 as well. These cyclic patterns indicated that “financial affairs were often highlighted, with important changes in policies and trends,” the “political parties themselves underwent change,” and “the country’s territory, alliances and antagonisms came to the forefront.” We can already see how these influences have played out in the first half of the Biden administration with inflation, recession and rising interest rates; the changes in both parties notable in Congress; and developments involving relationships with China and Russia in particular.

I believe that planetary cycles are an extremely important forecasting tool. They reveal the patterns of history, and how certain themes are reiterated with each new generation. Since Joe Biden, inaugurated with the Sun conjunct Saturn, is presumed to be running for president again in 2024, I’m not sure exactly how things will play out, but time and further astrological study will tell.

Update: What Evangeline Adams Knew

I’m very pleased to announce my update of What Evangeline Adams Knew: A Book of Astrological Charts and Techniques – now available in digital and print. Originally published 19 years ago (a nodal return), the book was ready for a renovation.

I corrected some errors (including a few birth times) and made it a little easier to read. It’s essentially the same book with a few additions. Evangeline’s teacher Catherine Thompson’s chart for her second wedding shows why it was problematic. Edgar Cayce biographer Thomas Sugrue’s account of his reading with Adams gives us another example of how she worked. And a short excerpt on astrological investing from Sepharial’s The Law of Values clues us in on the state of financial astrology in the early 20^th century.

What Evangeline Adams Knew introduces us to Adams through the charts and work of several of her teachers. We get to know her through her relationships with Aleister Crowley, her marketer husband and many of her friends and associates. I include the transcript from her 1916 trial for fortune telling in New York City, and analyze many of her forecasts for individuals, public figures (including politicians running for office) and mundane affairs.

Read the reviews and more about the book here.

If interested, be sure to buy the 2023 corrected and updated edition with the new cover above. What Evangeline Adams Knew is available on Amazon.com, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Scribd, Hoopla and other outlets.