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THE SOLAR ECLIPSE COULD MEAN DISASTER FOk
TRUMP, ACCORDING TO ASTROLOGERS
BY MAX KUTNER ON 7/29/17 AT 10:30 AM
DONALD TRUMP TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE ASTROLOGY
Donald
Trump’s presidency was written in the stars—at least that’s what
astrologers are saying. He was born during a lunar eclipse, they point
out, which makes him more susceptible to the power of eclipses. And if eclipses are monumental
celestial events with real-world consequences, as astrologers believe, then the rare total solar
eclipse happening in August could have major implications for Trump, especially given the
growing drama around his administration.
SOLAR ECLIPSE 2017
“There's been a lot of conversation about this eclipse in terms of what's go
Trump,” says Wade Caves, an astrological consultant who earlier in July
analysis of the coming eclipse. “The astrological world has been complete]
quite some time, even more so since Donald Trump was inaugurated.”
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On August 21, the solar eclipse will occur as the moon passes between Earth and the sun, casting,
a shadow about 70 miles wide on the U.S. Total solar eclipses happen every year and a half or so,
but this is the first time since 1918 conditions will align so that the shadow will cross the entire
continent, in what is called the “path of totality.” It's also the first eclipse since 1776 whose path
falls exclusively in the U.S. Small towns within the path are preparing to see their populations
temporarily balloon by as much as 250 times, and as many as 7.4 million people are expected to
travel to see the phenomenon. For people watching from any given spot inside the path, the
eclipse will last about two minutes.
As space scientists and enthusiasts have been preparing to view the August eclipse, astrologers
have been taking to the blogosphere to predict how it spells out doom. Humans have long
monitored cosmic events for clues about the future, and for certain people, eclipses hold special
meaning. “Solar eclipses have been interpreted as evil omens by many civilizations because the
life-giving sunlight is obscured for a few minutes,” wrote space scientist Duncan Steel in his 2001
book Eclipse: The Celestial Phenomenon that Changed the Course of History. Steel pointed out
that accounts of the death of Jesus Christ have depicted a so-called “Crucifixion eclipse,” and that
the ancient Chinese would beat drums and shoot arrows into the sky to ward off what they
believed was a dragon devouring the sun.
For modern-day practitioners of astrology, the eclipse continues to hold power. “What we're
talking about is the ability of the sun to be able to give light and life-generating heat, and all these
things being momentarily taken away,” says Caves, the astrological consultant. “So there's this
symbolism that’s built in with eclipses about...things coming to a close, and in often a very
dramatic fashion.”
‘The August eclipse is not only unique because of its rarity, astrologers claim, but also because the
astrological activity associated with it happens to line up with that of the president. The eclipse is.
occurring in Leo, for instance, which is rising in ‘Trump's chart. The lion is the symbol for Leo,
and thus the sign represents rulers and kings. “At the moment that he was born, certain degrees
were activated. This eclipse is activating those same degrees,” Caves says about ‘Trump. When
other aspects of the eclipse are taken into account, he adds, “a lot of astrologers are expecting
some kind of downfall, some kind of ruin, some kind of difficulty.”
Steel, the space scientist and author, says it is foolish for anyone to believe in such prophecies.
“Way back, when people had little ability to predict when eclipses would occur apart from
recognizing that there are distinct cycles, perhaps it is understandable that doom-mongering
based on eclipses occurred,” he says by email. “But for people nowadays to imagine that they are
portents of doom is just daft... If people believe that the forthcoming solar eclipse ‘means’
anything for the U.S., for Trump, for the world, then they are deluded.”
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President Donald Trump gestures during the annual Bastille Day parade in Paris on July 14. On
August 21, the shadow of a total solar eclipse will cross the entire continental United States,
and astrologers are interpreting its signs to make predictions about Trump.
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Lights Out
Debra DeLeo-Moolenaar (whose surname is perfect for discussing the power of Leo) became
interested in astrology thanks to a witch. In the early 1990s, she says, she had fallen gravely ill
with gangrene and her first marriage was ending. She was living in Cambridge, Massachusetts,
and in order to turn her life around, she decided to seek the advice of Laurie Cabot, the so-
called official witch of Salem, Cabot told DeLeo-Moolenaar to contact an astrologer named Karen
Thorne, and so she went to see her. “She’s the one who says it all and got me going on it,” DeLeo-
Moolenaar says.
In 1998, DeLeo-Moolenaar moved to London for work. By day, she was doing international tax
law; in her downtime, her passion for astrology was growing, About a decade later, she began
blogging about her hobby. Since then, she’s interpreted the signs to make predictions about world
events such as the 2016 Brexit vote and June's general election in the United Kingdom. (She was
correct both times.) Now, the 63-year-old is retired and lives in Oxford.
‘To make their predictions about how heavenly bodies influence activity down on Earth,
astrologers such as DeL.eo-Moolenaar and Caves consult thousands of years’ worth of theory and
materials. They form charts based on dates—such as August 21 for the coming eclipse and June 14
for Trump, his birthday—and sometimes compare such charts. “The closest career that’s out there
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is an economist,” says Caves, because they also look for patterns in the past in order to make
predictions.
At least one president followed astrology, and Trump considers him an idol. Ronald Reagan is
said to have scheduled important meetings, presidential debates, surgery, State of the Union
addresses and his 1967 inauguration as governor of California based on astrological information.
First lady Nancy Reagan was reportedly in regular contact with Joan Quigley, an astrologer
who died in 2014 and who had written a memoir about her experience with the White House.
When an eclipse happens, astrologers have more information to analyze, resulting in predictions
beyond those in an ordinary horoscope. “It goes back to: What is an eclipse?” DeLeo-Moolenaar
says. “It's basically, from an astrological standpoint, a big burst of energy. It's like a scattering of a
shotgun shell across the chart of a nation or an individual, giving energy and power into
something that's already in play.” At this moment, she says, the U.S. is in a dramatic period, and
“then this bly
set it off.” As she explains it, the moon represents the common people, and the sun represents the
leader. Then the moon blocks the sun and “the lights go out.”
se comes along” that “can be expected to spark this frustration and quite p.
Debra DeLeo-Moolenaar became interested in astrology in the early 1990s. She now uses it to
make predictions about politics, including the 2016 Brexit vote and the 2017 general election in
the United Kingdom.
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DEBRA DELEO-MOOLENAAR
Presidential Penumbra
The effects of the coming eclipse could take time to show up, according to astrologers’ claims.
Caves believes the impact will appear over the next two years because the eclipse will take around
two hours to cross the continent (for a solar eclipse, astrologers interpret each hour as a year).
The result could be “a loss of a leader in some sense,” he says, whether literal or symbolic. “It
seems to me very possible that by this time next year, we're looking at the reality of Trump not
being in offi
In February, DeLeo-Moolenaar wrote on her blog Archetypal Assets that she finds it significant
how the eclipse will involve Uranus, according to astrological charts. That planet, she wrote,
“disrupts everything that it touches. It is a lightning bolt from the blue. Serious change in any
direction and on a major scale.” And because Uranus “will make close aspects to Mr. Trump's
natal Mars,” she wrote, “this will be a power surge—provoking a crisis of some sort. Whether for
good or evil, we can’t know in advance.”
Marjorie Orr, another astrologer, pointed out last November, just four days after the election, that
the August eclipse is part of what space scientists know as the Saros series, which has included
eclipses in 1909, 1927, 1945, 1963, 1981 and 1999. Orr noted the major political events in those
years: the impeachment of President Bill Clinton, the attempted assassination of President
Ronald Reagan, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the atomic bombings of
Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the death of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a period of unrest in
Chicago that involved bombings and an attempted assassination of President William Taft.
“Usually this series places strains on personal relationships, induces hasty decisions on the ba
of false information and is associated with tiredness or health problems,” she wrote. “Certainly
this eclipse presages violence in one form or another.”
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The astrology blogger Eugene Johnson predicted in April: “This eclipse by itself does not suggest
that the U.S. is in immediate peril for war, but it alerts us to be prepared for some kind of
significant, perhaps shattering, event here in America.” Johnson noted that the chart for the
eclipse will involve Jupiter, Uranus, Pluto and Neptune. “I can safely say that this eclipse series
will mark important developments on the world stage because of the high preponderance of outer
planets involved,” he added.
Caves has published perhaps the most thorough analysis. He wrotethat the position of the eclipse
in relation to the star Al Jabhah traditionally “brings loss and danger,” and that when it involves a
military officer—or president—it suggests the possibility of mutiny by soldiers.
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Caves singled out certain dates that could prove significant: October 10, November 21, Novembe
26 and December 17 through 19. It’s “possible that there will be a sudden health issue that lands
on Trump’s shoulders, pulling him out of the Oval. It’s also quite reasonable to suspect ousting,
either through official channels (i.e. impeachment) or a mutiny behind closed doors,” he wrote.
“What we can say with reasonable assurance is that these charts, when properly considered, make
it difficult to imagine Trump has smooth sailing ahead.”
In response to skepticism about their claims, DeLeo-Moolenaar says everyone is entitled to
their opinions. “I happen to think it works, I happen to feel that it works. I think also that as
human beings, we have both a rational side and an intuitional side, and I think the astrology
speaks to this intuition, to centuries of myth that still follows us around.”
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