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Episode: Analysis of a Prediction: Trump and the Mars-Uranus Conjunction

Author: Chris Brennan
Duration: 01:15:23

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In episode 456 of the podcast Chris Brennan does a retrospective analysis of predictions made about the Mars-Uranus conjunction in mid-July 2024, and how that worked out in light of the attempted assassination of former President Trump. During the course of this I play some clips from past episodes of

The Astrology Podcast over the past year where we talked about the Mars-Uranus conjunction and predicted the types of events we expected to align with it, and then providing some commentary in between clips. The purpose is to study and understand the process of making our predictions about the conjunction, and what we can learn from it in retrospect. This episode is available in both audio and video versions below. Watch the Video Version of This Episode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xpp9b1LR45U Transcript A full transcript of this episode is available: Episode 456 transcript Listen to the Audio Version of This Episode Listen to the audio version of this episode or download it as an MP3:

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Hey, my name is Chris Brennan, and you're listening to The Astrology Podcast.

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In this episode, I'm going to do a retrospective analysis of a recent prediction that we did about the Mars-Uranus conjunction and how it lined up with the chart of former President Trump, especially in light of the recent assassination attempt that took place on his life on July 13th.

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So today, I'm recording this on July 17, 2024. The Mars-Uranus conjunction that we associated with that, and all astrologers at this point associated with it, is just starting to finally separate at this point.

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So now that it's starting to get some distance and move away, I thought it would be good to look back and kind of do an analysis of

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what are the statements that we made about that conjunction in the lead up to it because we actually mentioned it quite a few times before the actual event happened.

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So in this episode, I'm going to show some different clips from the past seven months where we mentioned the Mars-Uranus conjunction.

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We talked about some of the things that we thought were going to happen around the time of that conjunction and some of the different archetypal energies associated with it.

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And I'm going to show those clips in order to provide some context, partially because even though our most extensive discussion of it was on the last forecast episode, we actually mentioned it on five different episodes over the course of the past seven months.

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And sometimes when an event happens, people like to go back and they listen to the most recent forecast episode to see what we said the most recently, but sometimes they forget to go back and look at other episodes that we did even further back when we referenced the same alignment and said different things about it.

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So part of the reason that's important is because sometimes, especially for major planetary alignments,

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when we're anticipating a major alignment, we'll end up mentioning it several different times on different episodes, and sometimes we're aware of the different times that we've talked about it, so sometimes we feel a little weird about repeating ourselves over and over again.

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So that's one of the things you have to be aware of, is that sometimes we try to avoid repeating ourselves, and therefore some of our statements about certain alignments will be made

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you know earlier in the year when we first start talking about it or it first comes on our radar and then later times we may not always reiterate all the same statements over again.

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So I'm going to show some different clips about just to look at what we did say and I always do this myself sometimes when a major event happens is it's nice to go back and just look at you know what did we say about it what didn't we say and to sort of analyze the strengths of our predictions sometimes when we get something right

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to also analyze the times if we get something wrong, and to see the areas where we came really close or where we could have improved on something, and that's always interesting to me.

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So that's really the crux or the focal point of what I want to do here today, is to go through and look at the different statements we did make, see how close we got to actually predicting the event,

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but also to give you some insight into the process and how it was this evolving thing that we were trying to figure out ahead of time of what this conjunction would coincide with and see how close we actually came to describing the event.

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All right, so let's see, before we jump into it, so of course, maybe I should start by showing the charts and showing what actually happened. So on July 13th, there was a shooter who attempted to shoot and assassinate former President Trump.

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This happened around the same time as a Mars-Uranus conjunction, which only happens every two to three years basically.

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It's not a super frequent alignment so when one of these does happen it always stands out because Mars is the planet of war and violence and bloodshed and killing traditionally in ancient astrology.

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And Uranus is the planet of sudden unexpected events that happen quickly, that come out of nowhere. And so sometimes when a Mars-Uranus conjunction happens, you can get these sudden, in this instance, a very unexpected violent event that takes place.

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So this Mars-Uranus conjunction happened at about 25, 26 degrees of Taurus. which was very close to the midheaven of Donald Trump in his 10th house of career and public reputation and social standing.

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So the Mars Uranus conjunction was hitting a very sensitive point in his chart, which is his midheaven at 24 degrees of Taurus, and then it was also squaring his Mars at 26 degrees of Leo in his first whole sign house, which is the place that has to do with the body and the physical vitality of the native.

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So those are some of the things that are important and we'll come back to why some of that's important later.

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Also interesting is that it's come out once the shooter was identified, his birthday was given on his voter registration and if that information is correct,

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a number of astrologers, including myself, I noticed this right away that it turned out that the shooter himself was actually born on a Mars-Uranus conjunction back in September of 2003 when Mars was retrograde at zero degrees of Pisces and was conjoining Uranus at 29 degrees of Aquarius.

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So this means that the shooter himself was born on a Mars-Uranus conjunction and then he ended up carrying out this assassination attempt on a Mars-Uranus conjunction at the same time, basically almost 20 years later.

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So that's some of the astrology behind this, but those are the core pieces. There's lots of other interesting astrology.

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I've already talked about it a little bit in a little recording that I did for patrons on my page on Patreon, a little 45-minute recording going over what was currently known about the astrology.

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And I'll do a fuller recap on the next forecast episode like we do at the end of each month here in just a little bit. But what I want to do now is I want to jump into playing some of the clips from some of our previous episodes.

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This first clip that we're going to start with, the first time we mentioned this Mars-Uranus alignment, was in the year ahead forecast episode that we recorded last December.

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And in those episodes we try to give an overview of what some of the major alignments are going to be over the course of the next year. And when we got to July of

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2024, we really focused in on the Mars-Uranus conjunction as being one of the most important aspects of the month. So let's take a look at that and let's see what we said.

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that takes us into July, where in the middle of the month, we find that Mars-Uranus conjunction, which is very explosive and very unexpected on the 15th of July.

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Yeah, and that happens right on top of Kaput Algol, which is a star with a fearsome track record as far as history goes. Mars I found I found a precedent for Mars Uranus in alcohol That's truly horrible.

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I'll just say over 20,000 people died Who were not military combatants? As a yeah, it was anyway, I don't want to like go into World War two or but like that was the last precedent That was the last Mars Uranus on alcohol. I

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It's a very ugly configuration You know, we're not gonna have that energy the whole time Mars is in Taurus But like that that middle part of the of July like that's a that's a net that's a that's a that's worth steering around as a configuration

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for sure. Yeah, so that also makes me think of like the military technologies thing that we were talking about as well.

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Yeah, no, that's a that's a great point. You know, we see a lot of new debt new devastating weapons get their premiere under Mars Uranus conjunctions.

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Really quickly any other significations like unexpected conflicts unexpected fights unexpected severing or separation revolutionary type Acts and and events I'm trying to think of anything else like the u.s.

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Has a Mars Uranus conjunction which explains both You know the Revolutionary War but also sometimes like the gun culture and stuff. I often link to that connection. Yeah one just the u.s.

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Is as we say a

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Alright, so that's the first clip. So that was from December of 2023. We're really focusing in on this conjunction.

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We talk about it taking place specifically on the 14th and 15th, but with alignments like that, with slower moving planets, it's really something that peaks over like a week-long period when Mars especially comes within about a degree of Uranus, and that's basically what happened that day.

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is that Mars came within or moved within alignment of a degree of Uranus. So here's the actual chart and there we can see Mars at 25 degrees of Taurus in a few minutes and then Uranus at 26 degrees of Taurus.

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So that conjunction had really come into full alignment at that point. So there back in December we're talking about it in terms of you know, revolutionary things. We're talking about it. I keep mentioning it.

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One of the things you'll see over and over in the clips is I keep mentioning it in the context of gun culture in America because in the United States birth chart, in what's called the Sibley chart for the United States, there is a Mars-Uranus conjunction in the seventh house.

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So let me show that chart. we go. So with the founding of the country July 4, 1776, Mars was at 21 degrees of Gemini and it was in a sign-based conjunction with Uranus at 8 degrees of Gemini. So one of the things that's interesting then symbolically is

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I associate that because in ancient times Mars was associated with wars, killing, swords, knives, cutting instruments, anything that could kill by cutting or severing or penetrating into something.

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In modern times, Mars-Uranus, because Uranus represents technology, so Mars-Uranus conjunctions can represent guns and explosions and advancements in technology for warfare and all sorts of things like that.

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But specifically that conjunction in the U.S. chart is one of the things that I associate with its

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like culture of guns and different things surrounding guns, which is the Second Amendment and the right to bear arms, but also the lack of restrictions on that and the way that in modern times that's led to so many different shootings, especially over the past decades, past few decades, where it seems like things have gotten out of control with mass shootings happening really regularly.

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So that's something I'll mention over and over again, which is where I'm picking up on the potential gun significations of that, but I think it could have been articulated better in terms of that, of why I was saying gun culture, but you'll see me go into it a few different times.

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All right, so that was way back in December. That was us first getting wind of the Mars-Uranus conjunction, and that was going to be one of the major alignments that was going to coincide with some major events over the course of the summer.

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And we talked about that when we did our monthly breakdown and got to July. But then our next treatment of it, we jump forward a few months into our May forecast.

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So there were a few references in passing to the Mars Uranus conjunction and how it was going to be bad in other episodes, but they were much more brief.

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And this clip that I'm going to show next from May is really the next time that we started to get into it in more detail.

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doing the Year Ahead Report late last year, we really focused in on May, especially because May is one of the best months for electional astrology of this year, where you have the greatest preponderance of positive placements that don't have downsides, and you have the least amount of major, major downsides or afflicted planets

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out of any other time of the year, especially compared to later in the year, where we're going to deal with stuff like the Mars-Uranus conjunction this summer, or the Mars-Jupiter conjunction, or especially the Mars retrograde that's going to dominate the later part of this year.

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So I showed that clip just to show how I was contrasting in May how it was a good month for electional astrology because there were some very positive planetary alignments.

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I was telling people to take advantage of that because I was contrasting it with later in the year

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where there would be some of the worst planetary alignments that would be much more difficult and would have much more tense energies and negative events associated with them.

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And one of the ones that I highlighted there was the Mars-Uranus conjunction. So that was the point of that clip. Now we jump forward to the June 2024 forecast and let's see what was said there.

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And that's the opening of Mars moving through Taurus over the next couple of months, where one of the things that's interesting about that is now Mars is building up to conjunction with Uranus.

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So that's another part of that energy that we immediately have to contend with is that as soon as Mars goes into Taurus, it's co-present with Uranus. So it's building up to a Mars-Uranus conjunction that will culminate in July, I believe.

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Yeah, mid-July. mid July. Okay. So part of that, though, then also, the other thing we have to take into account about that transit is what it's happening in the absence of, because we've had Jupiter transiting through Taurus over the past year.

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So whatever, like, difficult transits.

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There's been this positive ameliorating or counteracting influence from Jupiter most of the time, but what we have here this month is both the departure or removal of some of that positive or counteracting energy from Jupiter and the introduction of this more rough, difficult

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tense conflict oriented energy with Mars moving into that sector of our chart and Mars moving into that sector of like the chart of world events.

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Yeah. Which makes me wish that I had looked back at all the times, the couple times that Mars had been in Taurus with Uranus when Jupiter wasn't there aspecting.

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Because we've probably, we probably delineated that a couple of times on the podcast, like two years ago, four years ago, even six years ago, maybe.

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Well, I mean, one of them was really famous. One of them was January 6. Remember, it was Mars was at the first ingress. Yeah, the first ingress was like Mars was at 29 Aries, and then it switched over into Taurus that day, the day that

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You know, the bunch of Trump supporters went to the Capitol and like raided the Capitol building. That was a that was probably the Mars in grass, like what? Yeah.

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Yeah. Thank you for remembering. And we got like the the dude with the the like the bullhorns as like the the shot that everybody remembers that like was emblematic of that. Jupiter wasn't there.

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Jupiter and Taurus has been trying desperately to provide a little chill over the last year. And it's a little concerning that that's what things look like with Jupiter trying to provide chill.

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Yeah, for sure.

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One and one of the things that was notable about that event that I remarked about at the time was it was surprising also because it was one of the few times where it seemed like Trump because it also since he has Leo rising, it moved into his 10th house that day.

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And it was one of the few times where there was just like immediate backlash.

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And it seemed like he'd gone too far for once because he had given a speech that led to all of that right before it happened and that he was receiving actual like consequences for

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And that was an interesting, sort of interesting to track his transits. He's actually like leading in the polls right now in terms of the swing states for the presidential election.

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And the Republican National Convention is actually going to take place, I think, really close to the Mars-Uranus conjunction that's going to occur in July. So for some reason, that convention... Isn't that his Midheaven is like 25-ish Taurus?

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Yeah, it's around, it's around there. Which is where Mars and Uranus meet up. Well, that's interesting. Yeah, it's really it's really we should definitely cover that next month. Yeah, we'll talk mid July.

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But yeah, we'll talk about that a lot. Jane in the live chat says yes is mid heavens at 24 Taurus. So we'll talk about that because it's also weird because then you have the Democratic National Convention that's happening in August.

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And that's happening right on the Mars Jupiter conjunction in Gemini, which is square Saturn. Yeah. Yeah, so both of those are going to be kind of a hot mess this summer, and it will be interesting to track astrology.

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I'll ride along with you on that prediction. Okay. Yeah, you will second that. All right. So that was our from our forecast from May, that we record our forecast for June that was recorded in May. It was released on May 30th.

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So in that, we're starting to talk about the Mars-Uranus conjunction, and we're partially talking about it in the context of Jupiter moving out of Taurus and taking some of the positive counteracting influence out of that sign, leaving Mars and Uranus to form that conjunction with no real mitigations involved.

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As a result of that, thinking that it would be much more difficult and much more negative than it could be otherwise, in this clip we also really start to situate it in terms of Trump's chart because one, we remembered, I remembered, that one of the last times that Mars was in Taurus and formed a conjunction with Uranus was this period in early 2021, this two-month period

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when January 6th happened, and then Trump got a lot of repercussions from that. A lot of negative things happened. He had the second impeachment. Biden was certified, actually.

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Because of January 6th, the certification process was delayed until early on January 7th, once Mars moved into Taurus where it was forming that sign base conjunction with Uranus.

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So as a result of that the certification process happened with with that So that he was officially out of office and then Biden was inaugurated Trump was kicked off of Twitter There was some other legal problems that came up for him so I started remembering it and situating it partially in the context of just remembering one of the last times that Mars went through a

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the 10th house in his chart, which is one of the most important houses that has to do with your career, your reputation, your overall life direction, and destiny. Traditionally, he had had problems with that transit of Mars through Taurus.

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And then it was in this episode that we really realized that it wasn't just that Mars would be going through his 10th house again, but that the actual Mars-Uranus conjunction, which we knew was going exact around 26 degrees of Taurus in the middle of July, would actually happen very near to his midheaven.

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So that was the thing that we started to pick up on where we realized that this was actually going to be a crucial and important event for Trump himself that would impact his career and his reputation and his life direction.

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And Austin in particular was picked up on that. as something that we needed to come back to in the next episode, which we did, although we didn't go into it as much as we could have at that point, as we'll see in this clip next.

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But this was the point at which we started paying attention to it, especially in the context of Trump's chart and realizing that something was up there and that there were going to be some major events.

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I also realized that it would happen right before and at the very beginning of the Republican National Convention.

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So I started thinking that there was some crazy unexpected event that somehow happened right before it that would throw things off or that would create some sort of chaos to cast either a shadow or some sort of influence over the proceedings of the next week.

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So that's one of the things that I started thinking about is wondering what that would be and what that event would be essentially that would happen at that time. So yeah, I think that's good for this analysis.

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Let's jump forward to the next month and this one is essentially our most recent and extensive treatment of it, which is the July Astrology Forecast episode that we did of the Astrology Podcast that was released on June 29, 2024.

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So let's take a look at that. So that is going to take us into the very middle of the month, which brings us to our most dynamic and striking and potentially tense aspect of the month.

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But it's this Mars-Uranus conjunction that's going to take place, especially on July 14th and July 15th, where Mars conjoins the planet Uranus at 26 degrees of Taurus. Looks like 26 Taurus in around 18, 19 minutes.

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so yeah yeah so like i guess let's break this down piece by piece so first right to mars it's a mars uranus conjunction and it's also tightly conjoined the star kaput algol which is um has a fearsome and well-earned reputation as being the most malefic of the bright fixed stars so

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Just Mars Uranus is in and of itself quite volatile right more. What Mars and Uranus both share is a desire for things to change very quickly.

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while Mars likes going fast, Uranus likes things to be sudden, shocking, you know, too quick, like in the blink of an eye. Uranus is about like the moment of volatilization or ignition. And so when the two are combined, we almost always see

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Accidents you like accidents big enough to make the news of you know a factory blows up a chemical Plant has a leak and then you know, there's an explosion, you know, we had like it's too volatile And so that is we almost always have issues there on a personal level.

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It is potentially a trigger for people freaking the fuck out and where we go from activated to completely on fire, or someone explodes as a reaction to something. The parallel is that extremely quick chemical reaction.

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It's, you know, when it's applied to human affairs, we often get, or, you know, larger scale, we get violence. Violence is not uncommon. There's the accident side.

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There's also the intentions being associated strongly with whatever is cutting edge technologically. Mars Uranus has, in the deployment of cutting-edge weapons, one example being the pair of nuclear weapons that were used at the end of World War II.

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Both of those were deployed under Mars-Uranus conjunctions. And it's, of course, worth noting that the United States, which has for a long time now been a leader in cutting-edge weapons, has Mars and Uranus together in the natal chart.

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And so it's a volatile thing in and of itself. And then being conjunct could put our goal, our goal, which is.

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in the sort of Eastern Mediterranean Greek corpus, seen as the head of Medusa, is also seen in Chinese star lore as the anchor star for the mansion of the trenches of corpses.

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And the ghoul in Al Ghul, Ra's al Ghul, we still use the Arabic name for the star. The ghoul is the same ghoul, for which like undead corpse-eating monsters in fantasy are named, right? It's the name of a corpse-eating spirit, right?

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Like an evil daimon or djinn. And when we look at when Caput Algol shows up historically, we see incredibly fucked up atrocious events. We see the bombing of Guarnica, for example, you know, massive civilian casualties.

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And so having the Mars Uranus on top of algal, it sucks.

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It's probably going to be totally fine for individuals who are listening to this podcast, but it almost certainly denotes some atrocious event happening likely in one of the active theaters of conflict right now.

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And I hope I am completely wrong about that. But it hits natal charts of countries. And yeah, it's, it's real. I'm not, I wouldn't be worried about it on an individual level.

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But as far as what will be happening in the world, I will be surprised and relieved if there isn't if there aren't notable atrocities during this period of time.

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Yeah, well that, my friend, is not a rosy picture. I'm trying to think of anything that you didn't say. So yeah, like sudden changes, unexpected events, and upheavals.

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Rebelliousness is a major one, with a strong urge to break free from restrictions and challenge the status quo. Impulsiveness, there's a common theme of people acting impulsively, taking risks before fully considering the consequences.

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Unpredictability, especially unpredictable behavior and a tendency to act on a whim, which then ties in with sometimes there can be accidents where the impulsive and unpredictable nature can lead to accidents or injuries.

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There's also a strong drive for freedom with both planets.

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So this can inspire feelings of like independence or strong urge for individual freedom Sometimes this can be You know, we've seen in the past can not be good when you combine all those things together like for example January 6th when all those people like took over the capital was the day that Mars ingressed into Taurus and began a sign base conjunction with Uranus and

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So that's kind of like a reference point that we've had over the past several years in terms of what that can look like in very stark ways.

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On the positive side, sometimes there can be this feeling of like excitement and adventure and like going out and doing something new.

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striking out on a new path suddenly and unexpectedly, doing something that's way different than what you've done up to that point.

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There can also be this feeling of like innovation, like innovative ideas and a drive to create something new and groundbreaking, especially because it's Mars from a mechanical or technical perspective is very common with both Mars as well as Uranus.

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so I'm trying to think of some like You know because there will be some very challenging things and that's going to be a very volatile and explosive energy that's going to manifest in some Probably notably negative ways, but there's also going to be some constructive instances Especially if it's forming like nice trines or sextiles to planets in somebody's chart in which case some of that Energy could be channeled in more constructive directions.

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Yeah. Yeah, you know, you know if you if if your, if your chart is in such a position that you need, you're going to need to do something with that. Um, I think Mars Uranus is really excellent for, um, how do we put this? Fuck it.

00:31:38 Speaker_01
I'm going to do it myself and I'll do it my way. Um, like a lot of, a lot of the, uh, a number of the negative, uh, potentials there are eliminated.

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If it's just you struggling to do something yourself, like, like, I'm like, I'm not going to, I'm not going to try to work within an existing organization or order and, um,

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And try to get everybody to agree that my radical way of doing things is really like just doing it yourself, just going off on your own doing it your way removing that social element takes a lot of the the stress out of Mars Uranus because Mars Uranus are both

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antisocial to a meaningfully intense degree. And so removing the need to collaborate around whatever that is can be really helpful.

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Even if that's like going off for a few days and doing some work yourself and then coming back to whatever collaborative or institutional context you're in, but not trying to

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fight to do like not getting, not getting caught in a fight around Mars year around that stuff I think is a good, good way to give that energy give that fiercely independent energy, a good place to go.

00:33:01 Speaker_00
Yeah, for sure. You know, I'm trying to think of like people because there's positive and negative examples of that. There's like the the U.S.

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is obviously like the classic countrywide example of that, where both many of the good things I think associated with the U.S.

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in terms of positive manifestations of independence or technological innovations or things like that come from that conjunction in the U.S. Sibley chart. But then also some of the negative things or the downsides with that, like the

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gun culture or refusal to have restrictions, even on basic things like that also come like from that, because there can be this explosive sort of independence or this very stubborn independence to Mars Uranus conjunctions. Yeah.

00:33:49 Speaker_01
Fierce individualism. Right. And there's also a like, fuck it, we're moving to America. Right. Like this. Sure, we've been here for 100 generations, but it's a fucking mess. Fuck it. We're going to America is a very Mars Uranus thing.

00:34:04 Speaker_00
Totally, totally. And then with accidents, a famous one of that, of course, is like Frida Kahlo and her Mars Uranus opposition. And she had that freak accident with that bus one day where she was riding on a bus and it crashed.

00:34:22 Speaker_00
And then she had a major injury. And that's often pointed to by astrologers to her Mars Uranus contacts and her chart that were getting activated at the time.

00:34:31 Speaker_00
Um, but then also there can sometimes be other types of Mars Uranus conjunctions that are kind of like quirky or kind of wacky. Um, Robin Williams is like a good example of that. He had Mars Uranus conjunction.

00:34:42 Speaker_00
It was very close in cancer and his kind of like wacky, zany, um, impulsive, like comedic style. That was also very, um, improv improv, improvisational.

00:34:55 Speaker_00
I'm not pronouncing that right, but the ability to improv well, I think is a very Mars Uranus thing. Right.

00:35:02 Speaker_01
The spontaneity is very Uranian. And Mars is good in the pocket, right? Mars is good at decision making, like in the middle of an ongoing thing. And yet Mars Uranus certainly has potential dangers, but is not universally like this terrible

00:35:25 Speaker_01
you know, a terrible atrocity full combination. This particular one atop that star is a pretty nasty combination, but you know, Mars, there's a lot you can do with Mars Uranus and there are gifts there as well.

00:35:41 Speaker_01
Worth noting the charts that that Mars Uranus algol hits. One, I would look at the royal family of England because there's a ton of algal stuff to the to the British royals.

00:36:00 Speaker_01
And so I would be surprised if there wasn't some meaningful development on such such a rare conjunction atop algal, considering how much algal stuff is in that family.

00:36:13 Speaker_01
It also hits the chart of the EU, the moon in the chart of the EU, which is at 24 of Taurus. And it also hits the sun in Israel's chart. It connects to other national nativities, but those are the conjunctions that I'm aware of.

00:36:34 Speaker_00
Yeah, and that week, the Republican National Convention is actually taking place July 15th through the 18th.

00:36:40 Speaker_01
So Madness, they do not have an I know you there was a like, Oh, did what is there a possibility that Trump has an astrologer? And that's why the debate is where it is. The Republican National Convention does not have an astrologer.

00:36:54 Speaker_01
That is, I would not schedule my event for them.

00:36:58 Speaker_00
Yeah, so there's that's one checkmark. We've got one for and one against.

00:37:02 Speaker_00
But yeah, so there may be some some unexpected developments of that, of course, just a few days earlier on the 11th, he's going to be sentenced when Mars is like right on his mid heaven.

00:37:13 Speaker_00
So there could be some explosive stuff with respect to him that week that yeah, following. Yeah, almost certainly.

00:37:22 Speaker_00
Alright, so that was a longer clip and there's some extraneous stuff I could have cut out but I wanted to just play the entire clip in its entirety so that you can see the different ways that we were talking about the Mars-Uranus conjunction which were largely negative.

00:37:40 Speaker_00
Austin was talking especially about how it would be this conjunction was unique because it was going to be conjunct the fixed star Algol and in the constellations that represents the head of

00:37:51 Speaker_00
Medusa, so there's this head symbolism with Algol which ended up working out in a really striking way in the end in the sense that Trump, you know, they attempted to shoot Trump in the head and the bullet ended up just grazing his ear barely.

00:38:10 Speaker_00
So there was head symbolism.

00:38:13 Speaker_00
Austin was using keywords like something sudden, shocking, violence, talking about cutting-edge weapons, which actually ended up working out in a separate way that I'll talk on the next forecast episode where Russia unveiled some new weapons.

00:38:27 Speaker_00
and released a video of them recently on the Day of the Conjunction. Other keywords during the course of that, an atrocious event. I of course, as I always do, try to balance things out and talk a bit about the positive things

00:38:44 Speaker_00
Um, so I tried to talk about some of the positive potential manifestations of this, especially if it was hitting somebody's chart in a more positive or flowing way. Um, but we also returned back to themes of like gun culture and guns.

00:39:01 Speaker_00
Um, Austin talked about going out and doing something on your own. And that actually reminds me in retrospect of that. It was like a lone gunman. Um,

00:39:12 Speaker_00
so yeah so that ended up being part of the context and one of the clips i actually forgot to include from earlier in the episode is that um we talked a little bit about how earlier in the episode as we were doing the recap for the previous month trump had just been convicted of of a felony and his sentencing actually was supposed to take place

00:39:36 Speaker_00
on like July 10th or 11th or that week basically.

00:39:40 Speaker_00
So at this point in late June when we did this forecast episode, I was under the impression, because I noticed that his sentencing was going to take place near the Mars-Uranus conjunction, I started being under the impression at that point that that's what the Mars-Uranus conjunction event was going to be, was that it was going to be related to his sentencing and that

00:40:05 Speaker_00
That was for the Stormy Daniels bribery case, which kind of made sense because on one of his previous Mars transits, that was when he was first indicted for that, I believe.

00:40:22 Speaker_00
Yeah, back in February, February 15th of 2021 was when the judge set the date for the trial and for the hush money trial and denied a motion to dismiss the case. So things really started sort of going in that direction.

00:40:43 Speaker_00
Back then when Mars was in Taurus in 2021 Which is pretty close to a conjunction of his Midheaven and his Mars Uranus conjunction so

00:40:55 Speaker_00
This is tricky, and this is part of the reason why the analysis is kind of interesting at this point, is that there were two known events that came up that we knew were going to happen, which was like the RNC was going to start around or just after it was going to happen, most of it just after the Mars-Uranus conjunction would go exact.

00:41:14 Speaker_00
and that he was supposed to be sentenced the week it went exact, actually a little before the exact conjunction, on like the 10th or the 11th. So I started assuming that that

00:41:26 Speaker_00
event of the sentencing would be for some reason what the Mars Uranus conjunction would be about on his Midheaven as a negative event potentially, but it didn't quite make a lot of sense because nobody expected him to be sentenced to jail

00:41:46 Speaker_00
for that case, even if he was sentenced. So there was still a little bit of a question of like, well, is the sentencing of that already enough to take up the symbolism of that conjunction? And is that all that's going to be?

00:42:02 Speaker_00
Or is there going to be something else that happens sort of in between those dates and right before or in the lead up to the Republican National Convention? which then started I believe on the 15th.

00:42:18 Speaker_00
So unfortunately I think part of that then was true in that it ended up being relevant, but what happened actually after we recorded this forecast episode is that the Supreme Court passed a decision which ended up making it so that they could delay the sentencing

00:42:42 Speaker_00
of that trial. So the sentencing didn't end up taking place, and that was one of the things then that happened is that didn't end up being the event for that week. And so at some point after the forecast came out, once

00:42:57 Speaker_00
that news came out with the Supreme Court decision and how it affected and delayed the sentencing from that conviction and from that trial, then there was a question that started to arise about, well, what is the event then if it's not that sentencing?

00:43:17 Speaker_00
So, I think I start to wrestle with that at that point, at some point in early July. And there's one more clip I wanted to show, I believe, which is from an episode of the Secret Astrology Podcast, which is a podcast

00:43:35 Speaker_00
that is available to patrons of The Astrology Podcast who sign up to support my work through my page on Patreon, and it's one of the benefits on one of the higher tiers on my Patreon.

00:43:47 Speaker_00
So in this episode, which was released on June 30, 2024, I talked with my friends Nick Diggin, Best, and Patrick Watson, and we did kind of like a research project where we did a study session just going through all the different charts for the presidential election and talking about them.

00:44:05 Speaker_00
and trying to weigh the different factors that were pointing in different directions in terms of what the outcome of the election would be.

00:44:13 Speaker_00
So I released this on June 30th, so not a lot of new developments had happened, because at this point I'm still thinking that the sentencing is the main thing that was going to happen around that time.

00:44:25 Speaker_00
that would soak up some of the symbolism of the Mars-Uranus conjunction, but it is interesting some of the statements that were made during this podcast. So let me share a clip from that now. He had some good things.

00:44:42 Speaker_00
This Uranus transit is coming up on Mars, but that's still impending when Uranus gets to 26 degrees of Leo. That'll be a little tricky and having the Mars Uranus come up, but that's going to take place right around the time that he is.

00:44:58 Speaker_00
He has sentenced basically his sentencing is when Mars hits about like 23 degrees of Taurus. Pretty close to his midheaven and then weirdly the RNC takes place right after that. So we'll talk about that in just a just a minute.

00:45:12 Speaker_00
We just got done talking about the debate. And now we were going to talk about the RNC chart.

00:45:19 Speaker_03
Alright, um, yeah, that RNC chart, um, uh, the first thing that struck me about it is the... Well, have you been following everything?

00:45:29 Speaker_00
Did you watch the debate?

00:45:30 Speaker_03
Yeah, yeah, so I, I just, um, was, yeah, I was just remembering that Nick and I previously talked about the RNC chart and how it features that Mars-Uranus conjunction in Taurus, which reminded us of that's I guess, raid, they call it.

00:45:57 Speaker_00
Was the raid the one that happened subsequent to that, when Mars was right on his midheaven in early 2021?

00:46:05 Speaker_02
No, no, that was January 6th, 2021, was the insurrection. That was Mars Uranus. And then a year and a half later, late July, early August of 22, there was another Mars Uranus conjunction in Taurus, and that was when the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago.

00:46:20 Speaker_00
I was trying to remember, I knew there was some intermediate like Mars and Taurus event that happened on his Midheaven because that Midheaven kept being sensitive to that transit, but I forgot what the intermediate one was. Right. So it's a big one.

00:46:35 Speaker_02
So and then he's boxes in the shower and chandeliers.

00:46:40 Speaker_00
he's about to be sentenced on July 11, when Mars is like right at 23 degrees of Taurus, which is also right in his mid heaven. So it's going to be a little past that now.

00:46:50 Speaker_00
And that's one of the things I actually don't understand about the RNC is this Mars Uranus conjunction sounds more like what I would expect the Democratic Convention is going to look like this year, which is just like absolute chaos and like anarchy and people protesting and

00:47:06 Speaker_00
internal division and everything else. So I don't really understand why this has such a unstable signature to it for at least that conjunction.

00:47:18 Speaker_03
One theory I have is that the Maas-Uranus conjunction will still be applying on the previous week when the sentencing happens.

00:47:29 Speaker_03
We know that the past two times, at least in the context of Trump, this conjunction between Maas and Uranus and Taurus has been about unwelcome intrusions, trespassing onto property.

00:47:44 Speaker_03
And so I wonder if there will be some kind of unhinged intrusion, perhaps on the sentencing, where we have a kind of similar type of situation where you have sort of trespasses onto the property.

00:48:04 Speaker_03
you know, the domain of wherever he is, you know, that's kind of where we'll see this. kind of unhinged Mars sort of playing itself out.

00:48:13 Speaker_02
So I can, so go ahead.

00:48:15 Speaker_02
I just, I only wanted to just to add to that before you continue that in January 6th and the Mar-a-Lago raid, I believe in both instances, Mars was also like not yet conjunct Uranus, but approaching the conjunction, like close enough to call it a conjunction, but it hadn't, it was still applying.

00:48:32 Speaker_02
So that, that, that stands for what you're, that supports what you're suggesting for the sentencing.

00:48:38 Speaker_00
Okay, yeah, that makes sense. So this is the chart where I'm sort of approximating when I think his speech will probably take place towards the end of the convention, I assume. So this is the last day of the convention, July 18th, about 7 p.m.

00:48:53 Speaker_00
Actually, that's 7 p.m. Central Time, so that would be 8 p.m. It'll probably actually be later than that. It'll probably be an hour later. because it would be like 9 p.m. Eastern time probably, I'm guessing, just like the debate was.

00:49:08 Speaker_00
But nonetheless, still probably Capricorn rising. It's interesting then that this is going to be the same rising as the first debate chart, but now it'll be a day chart rather than a night chart.

00:49:22 Speaker_00
So the Saturn as the ruler of the Ascendant and the third won't be so terrible in terms of communication necessarily. Transiting Venus we can see is in Leo in his first house and Trump's first house and Mercury's there as well.

00:49:37 Speaker_00
Those are pretty good for him. I mean, that's relatively positive.

00:49:41 Speaker_02
But that Mercury is being squared by the Mars Uranus, of course.

00:49:46 Speaker_00
Yeah, well, this is just like two days before this full moon that looks like really intense that occurs at 29 Capricorn and Mercury is like squaring Uranus exactly then so it's like there's some craziness that happens like a couple of days later for sure, but I'm not sure if this is

00:50:05 Speaker_00
enough yet for that to be a factor. I mean, I guess this Mercury also three degrees later at 26 will also hit his Mars, but it's just, it's not quite there yet.

00:50:17 Speaker_00
You know, so I don't know if that's affecting this speech necessarily, or if it's something that happens like right afterwards.

00:50:23 Speaker_03
If we think about, you know, Mercury kind of describing the quality of speeches in a given time, then it's not hard to imagine that with Mercury applying to Trump's Mars and receiving a transiting square from the Mars here in his conjunction that he'll probably be verbally channeling the

00:50:42 Speaker_03
the qualities of that conjunction to his Little Mars and to the transiting Mars, Uranus. He'll definitely be speaking to that kind of, well, the insurrectionist kind of ethos, you know, that marked that original conjunction in 2021.

00:50:58 Speaker_02
It does. It looks very belligerent.

00:51:01 Speaker_03
Very much so. Yeah.

00:51:06 Speaker_00
Looks like Transiting Sun will be conjoining his Venus, the ruler of the Tenth, which was helpful during the debate when Transiting Uranus sextiled that almost exactly the same day. Looks like the Moon is going to be passing over his natal Moon.

00:51:20 Speaker_00
Yeah, I don't know. I mean, plus, so Transiting Venus is on top of his Pluto almost, or two days from there.

00:51:32 Speaker_02
And look, it's effectively a coronation, right? I mean, he doesn't have a challenger. It's the absolute opposite of what will be happening for Biden. I mean, he's got his opponents, but those opponents aren't even considered Republicans anymore.

00:51:51 Speaker_02
The Cheneys or whoever.

00:51:54 Speaker_00
So then I guess the only open question is just we know the negative event that happens before for him is going to be the sentencing, which is going to take place when Mars is on his midheaven.

00:52:04 Speaker_00
The only question is just if there is some sort of unexpected disruption that comes from the Mars-Uranus conjunction during the RNC, or if that and some of the other transits are just the sort of belligerence that you guys were mentioning. All right.

00:52:26 Speaker_00
Yes, so that was the casual episode and

00:52:32 Speaker_00
You know, it's really interesting how we're talking about it, because I'm still assuming that the case is that the sentencing is like the main thing, but I'm wondering if there's not some sort of unexpected event that happens at the beginning of the RNC or around that time, because I'm still focused on the Mars-Uranus conjunction and how that seems to cast a shadow over the subsequent RNC.

00:53:00 Speaker_00
What's interesting is then we were expecting the energy of the Mars-Uranus conjunction then to be really present in the RNC and some of the events that took place during it, but what's happening now is actually

00:53:16 Speaker_00
the event that occurred, the Mars Uranus event that occurred just two days before it, is altering and casting a shadow over everything and impacting the way that people are talking and things like that. Ironically, the Uranian element is that

00:53:34 Speaker_00
A lot of the speeches are less divisive or fired up because of this incredibly divisive or violent event that just occurred right beforehand that's changing the nature of the discussions, at least this week, in terms of the presidential race.

00:53:52 Speaker_00
So Patrick said some really amazing things there in terms of he was really getting close to something because we were talking about the past incidences and how January 6th happened during when Mars went into a sign base conjunction with Uranus and also they noted in this instance that

00:54:14 Speaker_00
the Mar-a-Lago raid of Trump's home when the FBI raided his house and pulled out all of these classified documents that he wasn't supposed to have, that that actually happened the last time that Mars was in Taurus and was conjoining his midheaven.

00:54:32 Speaker_00
So what was interesting is that

00:54:38 Speaker_00
Patrick was picking up on that there was an archetypal theme from the past two instances of this transit for Trump that had to do with like unwelcomed intrusions or he said unhinged intrusions and that ended up actually being very very close to the actual symbolism where you had this kind of like

00:54:58 Speaker_00
unwelcome intrusion or unhinged intrusion of this guy that literally tried to assassinate or tried to murder Trump when that Mars-Uranus conjunction again happened on his midheaven.

00:55:11 Speaker_00
So even though it wasn't like an exact repetition of events, there was this interesting echo of a similar theme that was coming up over and over again.

00:55:21 Speaker_00
in this episode or in this section One of the things I touched on briefly at the very beginning as I noted how Uranus so much of the discussion at this point has happened surrounding The transit of Mars and Uranus to Trump's midheaven which over the path in the last two instances over the past four years first in 2021 and then in 2022 has been

00:55:49 Speaker_00
negative for trump in terms of his career especially in his reputation and other things like that because it's his 10th house but this is one of the first times when i mentioned uranus how uranus will square his mars in the first house once it gets to 26 degrees of

00:56:07 Speaker_00
of Taurus and that ended up being really important and that was the point the the part that We didn't emphasize enough because we were paying so much attention to the Midheaven because the historical precedent of that But Uranus did switch over into 26 degrees of Taurus and squared his Mars and that was the part that was actually

00:56:31 Speaker_00
indicative of something that was dangerous to him physically because he has this Mars in the first house in a day chart conjunct the degree of the ascendant with Mars at 26 degrees of Leo and the ascendant at 29 degrees of Leo.

00:56:47 Speaker_00
So the first house represents the body, the physical incarnation of the native, their health, and other things like that.

00:57:00 Speaker_00
And actually I talked about this on on an episode, but that's the part of this That wasn't just potentially problematic for him in terms of career like we were focusing on the Midheaven but that was the part of this that indicated a potential physical danger was Mars being activated by the Mars Uranus conjunction in his first house conjunct his ascendant because a malefic in the first house one of the manifestations can sometimes be a physical injury

00:57:30 Speaker_00
accident, scars, or other things like that.

00:57:35 Speaker_00
So what's interesting about this, and this is in the very last clip that I'm going to play here today, is I actually discussed this in the last episode of the astrology podcast that I released before this and after the last forecast episode.

00:57:52 Speaker_00
where I actually did a whole episode on the first house in astrology, which was released on July 7, 2024, about a week before the assassination attempt.

00:58:03 Speaker_00
And what's crazy about it is that I actually, one of my examples that I used when I got to, because in that episode, I went through each of the planets

00:58:15 Speaker_00
And I showed different examples of what it meant when a certain planet was in the first house and how it had worked out in the lives of different major celebrities.

00:58:24 Speaker_00
And when I got to Mars, one of my core examples was I used the birth chart of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, who had Mars in the first house and was famously shot by an assassin and was assassinated. And that was what started World War I.

00:58:41 Speaker_00
So let me play that clip right now because I think it's the last piece here that's kind of interesting and relevant in terms of all of the different pieces that came together that we were talking about over the past month that could have fallen into place and did in interesting ways in terms of how it all worked out.

00:59:08 Speaker_00
So we've talked about some of the character ones and people tending to be more direct and stuff. There's other difficult first house ones.

00:59:18 Speaker_00
For example, Archduke Franz Ferdinand had Mars and Sagittarius in the first house in a day chart, and they were famously assassinated by a revolutionary, and that's what started World War I, basically. So here's their chart.

00:59:38 Speaker_00
So we see Sagittarius rising, the sun ascended to 18 Sagittarius, the sun at 25 Sagittarius and Mars in the first whole sign house at zero degrees of Sagittarius.

00:59:52 Speaker_00
And yeah, there was that just that famous story of their unfortunate assassination and being shot and that ending their life and then starting a war that took over like the entire world for a period of time.

01:00:06 Speaker_00
That's, that's the challenge, though, sometimes with Mars in the first house is like, sometimes the question, it can be a fine line between like, are you the person that's saying what everything's thinking, what everyone's thinking, but not saying, and that's a good thing, because so

01:00:22 Speaker_00
So I think I used that example of Franz Ferdinand and his assassination with Mars in the first house because we went through some literal manifestations of Mars in the first house and how they had indicated physical injuries or ailments to the body and associating Mars with guns especially and sometimes gun-related violence or injuries happening to the person.

01:00:46 Speaker_00
So I used Franz Ferdinand as an example. I also used Hemingway as an example, who had a number of accidents throughout the course of his life, but in the end of his life, he also committed suicide by shooting himself in the head.

01:01:02 Speaker_00
But then in order to talk about the example,

01:01:06 Speaker_00
Other examples of Mars in the first house, I also talked about it in terms of character traits, because sometimes Mars in the first house manifests literally in terms of the body, but also it can manifest in terms of the person's mind and character and how they act in the world.

01:01:24 Speaker_00
And what's crazy about that is I then used an example, just a few examples later, one of my next examples was Trump. So let's watch the rest of that clip.

01:01:34 Speaker_00
It needs to be said, or are you the person who's like saying the thing that shouldn't be said that's actually really offensive and unnecessary where you're just creating unnecessary drama by being overly, you know, brusque or rude or other things like that?

01:01:52 Speaker_02
Yeah, it can run the gamut. When you're a hammer, everything's a nail.

01:01:57 Speaker_00
Sure. So speaking of that, that's actually my next example, which is Rush Limbaugh had Aquarius rising with Mars and Aquarius in the first house. So that's like the other example.

01:02:10 Speaker_00
And then of course, it's like today, the contemporary sort of version of that, to some extent, who everyone's familiar with is just Donald Trump has lately a rising and Mars conjunct the Ascendant.

01:02:23 Speaker_00
And that's also very much part of his personality or that Mars element is very much part of his personality in terms of, of similar things.

01:02:32 Speaker_00
And in terms of, let's say, like divisiveness, that's really, really good keyword that sometimes like divisiveness is a core keyword. And like, sometimes that divisiveness, as we explained earlier, with like, the protest is sometimes necessary.

01:02:47 Speaker_00
Other times, the divisiveness can be, you know, not necessary, but it can just be something that happens or arises from the person for different reasons.

01:02:59 Speaker_00
Alright, so that was the last piece that I just thought was interesting as an aside in terms of bringing everything together. One of the last discussions I had was just talking about Mars in the first house.

01:03:13 Speaker_00
I used an example of an assassination and then talking about it within the context of up to that point Trump's personality being very Mars conjunct the Ascendant, but then

01:03:26 Speaker_00
literally less than a week later, he had a literal manifestation of Mars conjunct the degree of the Ascendant in a day chart in that somebody tried to shoot him and a bullet or something hit his ear and

01:03:43 Speaker_00
cut him and then there was blood which is another Mars related thing and then he'll probably have I assume like some sort of scar from that or something which is also something we talked about in the Mars discussion about the first house is sometimes people that have Mars in the first house having scars but sometimes when you have a scar there's a reason for it that usually there's some sort of injury or accident that preceded it.

01:04:09 Speaker_00
Alright, so I think that's it. My main comment that I highlighted that I made at the very end of the last forecast episode was just that there would be something explosive for Trump in that week coinciding with that Mars Uranus conjunction.

01:04:33 Speaker_00
Let me find that clip again if I can. He's going to be sentenced when Mars is like right on his midheaven. So there could be some explosive stuff with respect to him that week that would be following. Yeah, almost certainly.

01:04:49 Speaker_00
Yeah, so I think that ended up being true. There was some explosive stuff that week.

01:04:54 Speaker_00
One of the take-home lessons is that while sometimes if there's a known event coming up that you think is going to coincide with the transit, especially if it doesn't line up perfectly with the dates, I think one of my take-home lessons is that you then need to not

01:05:13 Speaker_00
assume that it's only going to be that event, but instead need to open it up for the potential for other events, which we kind of did, but we could have gone into even further.

01:05:23 Speaker_00
And I think I was a little bit distracted by knowing about the sentencing and assuming that that would soak up a decent amount of the symbolism.

01:05:30 Speaker_00
even though it didn't really make sense why, because we didn't expect a lot of unexpected stuff from that sentencing. Really the most unexpected thing was that the Supreme Court decision came out of nowhere and got rid of it completely.

01:05:44 Speaker_00
That ended up actually happening with another of his cases, Right on the day of the conjunction, the classified documents case ended up being dismissed by the judge.

01:05:59 Speaker_00
So that happened, I believe, on the 15th, which was the actual day of the conjunction, which actually did end up being a separate, unrelated, and reporters were referring to it as surprising or shocking and as a positive break for Trump.

01:06:17 Speaker_00
Also on the day of the actual conjunction on the 15th, that was the first day of the RNC, and Trump actually announced his vice presidential pick of J.D. Vance.

01:06:28 Speaker_00
So that ended up being another major development for him, and we'll see how that works out in terms of the future. But let's see. Other than that, final thoughts.

01:06:44 Speaker_00
Yeah, so I hope this has been useful or insightful in terms of giving you some insight into what we said on the podcast, into showing how our views of things can grow and develop over the course of a six or seven month period as we get more information.

01:07:03 Speaker_00
how you yourself could go about trying to make predictions and the different factors that are involved or the different things that we're trying to take into account and the things that you know that you can take into account versus the things that you don't know.

01:07:19 Speaker_00
For example, we never could have known or taken into account ahead of time that the shooter who would carry out the assassination attempt on the Mars-Uranus conjunction that he would actually be born on a Mars-Uranus conjunction.

01:07:34 Speaker_00
So it's like sometimes there are factors and charts that you're not aware of that are working in the background that will become prominent, and all you can do is work with the things that you are aware of. So we were aware of, for example,

01:07:50 Speaker_00
Mars-Uranus conjunction. We knew that was going to be a rough aspect right in the middle of July. We became aware of Trump's chart and how that would hit his midheaven very closely. So we were expecting some 10th house things related to that.

01:08:05 Speaker_00
I think we could have emphasized the 1st house things even more related to Mars being placed in his 1st house. And then I think

01:08:14 Speaker_00
we would have actually sharpened and gotten a little bit closer to the actual manifestation, which was this physical, what ended up being a physical injury for him, although really was a potentially life-changing event that could have ended his life at that point, a life-threatening event that happened.

01:08:33 Speaker_00
So I am kind of careful with political predictions and things like that, so I don't think I ever would have gone out of my way to

01:08:44 Speaker_00
say things too explicitly in terms of that, so there probably would have still been some couching things in more careful language. But nonetheless, I think what we were able to say, and just the fact that

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you know, we're just one astrology channel that picked up on the Mars-Uranus conjunction that interpreted the symbolism archetypally to the best of our abilities and got surprisingly close in terms of narrowing down what I think will be one of the most important events of the year and potentially a notable event that changes history just by paying attention to the mundane astrology and trying to call it like we saw it.

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But there were other astrologers who did other forecasts who also pointed out that Mars-Uranus conjunction.

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So at the very least, I wanted to do this retrospective video just to talk about that and call some attention to that because I think it's a good demonstration

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of what astrologers are doing and how they are picking up on this natural property of the universe which is sometimes telling us when important events are going to take place through the alignment of the planets and through this sort of these omens or this symbolism that arises from it that can actually describe to you sometimes the nature of an upcoming event.

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I don't think we would have been able to pick up on or describe that to the extent that we did if astrology wasn't a legitimate phenomenon.

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And I hope in showing some of these clips I've sort of demonstrated the extent to which we did as well as the extent of our limitations or the extent to which we didn't as well.

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because there's always room for improvement and that's one of the things I always get from these events is I always go back and try to look at what we said and look at the process of how we got there.

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and also try to see how we can improve and like what we could have done different or better next time.

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Yeah, but this is just one example and this is something that we're just constantly doing each month with these month ahead forecast episodes where we try to look at the mundane planetary alignments and we try to predict the future.

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So I think that's it. There's a lot more to come. There's a lot of other events and alignments this year and other things we'll get into in future forecast episodes.

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So I look forward to having some of those discussions and also checking in with Austin in the next forecast episode and sort of recapping what happened and our predictions and some of the things surrounding that.

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But for the purpose of this, I think this is sufficient here. So I think I'll sign off. So thanks, everyone, for watching or listening to this episode of the Astrology Podcast.

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So thanks for your support. And yeah, I think that's it. So I'll see you again next time.

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