This is the chart for the moment Donald Trump, the president of the USA at the time, addressed a rally protesting the alleged fraudulent election of Joe Biden to the presidency, a crowd estimated at close to 200,000, with the following words:
“I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.” The president also declared that he would join the march, but instead got in his limousine and left the rally. This rally culminated a two month long verbal and legal assertion that the election was stolen.
The chart has Aries rising with Mars, ruler of Aries, exactly on the rising degree, the 6th degree. Uranus is several degrees away at the 13th degree. Mars also rules Scorpio the 8th house, and at once suggests that 8th house issues are also at play. The 8th house rules public calamity. Ketu, the south node of the Moon, is in the 8th house, and is aspected by Mars from the ascendant.
Ares and Mars rule the protest rally, and the president himself. He initiated the march on the Capitol, and so he is represented by Mars. It is a powerful Mars as it is in its own sign and rising on the ascendant degree- and rendered even more volatile and unpredictable by the proximity of Uranus. This signifies an event that would almost certainly “blow up.”
What, in the chart, represents the object of protest?
This is an event chart for a riot- and by context can be called an insurrection; what is the energy of the protagonist, Mars, directed at? Mars aspects the 4th, 7th, and 8th houses from itself. The 4th is ruled by Cancer, and in a political chart represents the homeland, the seat of patriotism and national identity. It also rules the opposition party.
The Moon, ruler of the 4th, is in Virgo the 6th; this is the house of public health and crisis, and at once suggests vulnerability. The Moon is in a lunar sign, Chitra, ruled by Mars, which further indicates a crisis is at hand, and quickly developing, because Mars is on the ascendant. Both the homeland and the ruler and chief symbol of the homeland and the opposition party are implicated.
Mars also aspects the 7th house which suggests an aggressive relation to the public and partners, which are ruled by the 7th. The 7th also rules competitors and open enemies, and describes Joe Biden as the primary object of Trump’s ire. Venus as ruler of the 7th would then represent Biden, who is safe in the 9th house of law with the Sun, ruler of the 5th of luck and merit. Mars aspects the 8th of Scorpio as well, which strengthens the house, for better or worse, but it aspects Ketu, the south node of the Moon; the combination of Mars and Ketu in the 8th is very problematic as both are fiery planets and can become explosive when influencing each other. Ketu very significantly rules the lunar sign of Ashwini where the ascendant, Mars and Uranus are placed. This means the event itself, the riot and insurrection, by lunar symbolism, is ruled from the 8th of calamity.
The 10th house in a political chart represents the president; Saturn is here in this house in the sign Capricorn, which it rules. There are three other planets here: Jupiter, Mercury and Pluto. Jupiter is weak as it is in Saturn’s sign and conjunct Saturn. It is an ally of Saturn by circumstance- but it is weak. Jupiter rules the 12th house of Pisces, which represents loss and debility; it also signifies the intelligence services in a political chart. It shows the president has an ally, a weak ally, offering secret intelligence and support, collaborating with him. This is confirmed and amplified by Mercury, also in the 10th, as the ruler of the 6th, which represents the military and police. Members of the intelligence services, the military and police, are all collaborating. Finally, Pluto in the 10th underscores that dark, secret and powerful forces are involved.
