Author: jude cowell

Vote for Speaker of the House Day 3

Planet Mars now Rx in Gemini: NASA photo
by Jude Cowell
As Kevin McCarthy has fallen short of the required number of votes to catapult him into the Speaker of the House position since Tuesday January 3, 2022, planets have continued along their courses. Today at noon the Republicans and Democrats will assemble once again on Capitol Hill and votes will be cast and tallied, perhaps with the very

2023 Eclipses yet a bit of Cosmic Relief

As Above, So Below: Year 2023
by Jude Cowell
As astrologers know, upon occasion, a year is devoid of Great Conjunctions between planets Jupiter through Pluto so that current planetary cycles and energies can carry on as-is, at least affording societies a sense of stabilization, however minor or temporary. This doesn’t mean that during a conjunction-free year all conditions are positive, of

118th Congress: Jupiter and Algol Rise

by Jude Cowell
When the Republican Party formed in 1854, did the founders consider themselves a death cult in the making? Probably not, yet that’s how far-right insurrection-leaning members and QAnon coup enthusiasts can be described these days especially after Tr*mp’s attempted overthrow of the US government on January 6, 2021. Of course, the party’s close financial-and-ideological relationship

Mark Meadows: Saturn in Capricorn

Below is a view of the ‘noon’ natal chart of Trump’s former White House Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows.
As you see, the December 23, 2022 New Moon @1Cap33 landed upon his natal Saturn Rx, planet of government, authority, responsibility, and accountability, and with New Moons often acting Uranian and disruptive like a solar eclipse, this suggests that Meadows is under scrutiny with inconvenient

Why Congress Can’t Cut Defense Spending: Feat. Rep. Mark Pocan – clip

Here’s a recent segment from a Thom Hartmann broadcast with guest Rep. Mark Pocan:

And here’s a nostalgic view of the Pentagon’s founding horoscope (April 29, 1942) with its war-waging, out-of-bounds Mars in Moon-ruled Cancer (touchy!) at apex of two difficult midpoints: ruthless Saturn-Pluto and fanatical Uranus-Pluto, creating both brutal and intense conditions.
Additionally, snugged around

Why Congress Can’t Cut Defense Spending: Feat. Rep. Mark Pocan – clip

Here’s a recent segment from a Thom Hartmann broadcast with guest Rep. Mark Pocan:

And here’s a nostalgic view of the Pentagon’s founding horoscope (April 29, 1942) with its war-waging, out-of-bounds Mars in Moon-ruled Cancer (touchy!) at apex of two difficult midpoints: ruthless Saturn-Pluto and fanatical Uranus-Pluto, creating both brutal and intense conditions.
Additionally, snugged around

US Constitution’s Saturn 2022–2023

Our Constitutional Saturn: The Law and Authority
by Jude Cowell
Below is a bi-wheel showing the US Constitution Horoscope of 1787 in center and the document’s Saturn Return of January 2023 Horoscope, outer (#3 Return of 3), with a few astro-notes penned thereupon.
Q: Will the 3rd of three Saturn Returns to the US Constitution result in some measure of resolution of the years-long campaign by

Once the Weimar Republic succumbed to a Psychopath

In Germany’s Weimar Republic Horoscope of November 9, 1918, the government that Hitl*r took over as chancellor on January 30, 1933, a dynamic T-Square appears thanks to a Saturn-Uranus opposition squaring Mercury (making great demands on nervous energy – R. Ebertin). Of course, we know that in general, the Saturn-Uranus duo stands for restriction vs freedom, past vs future, old vs new, and/or

Once the Weimar Republic succumbed to a Psychopath

In Germany’s Weimar Republic Horoscope of November 9, 1918, the government that Hitl*r took over as chancellor on January 30, 1933, a dynamic T-Square appears thanks to a Saturn-Uranus opposition squaring Mercury (making great demands on nervous energy – R. Ebertin). Of course, we know that in general, the Saturn-Uranus duo stands for restriction vs freedom, past vs future, old vs new, and/or