Election Astrology - The Math

7/30/2024

I started looking at elections with astrology shortly after I learned astrology in the early 1990s. It was a natural merger of interests. My basic theory in determining elections was simple: whoever had the worst and good aspects would win. The reason is that becoming the US president is the most powerful job on earth. It’s not just the job itself. You have to move into the Whitehouse (4th house). The Secret Service constantly guards you for the rest of your life. You and your family will forever live in a kind of fishbowl, and the pressure of the presidency is intense. I’m just talking about the obvious changes, but there’s so much more. If someone is going to have this massive change in every area of their life happen as a result of election day, there should be some big, exact, and powerful aspects.

When we had a peaceful transfer of power, it was always clear on election day. The first strange election I saw was the Bush vs Gore election, where it looked like both of them would win, but Bush slightly more. I theorized it would be the electoral college that put him in the Whitehouse, something that had never happened in my lifetime before. I wasn’t sure if it had ever happened, but I knew from my AP American history teacher that it was theoretically possible. Since then, I have been able to predict every election using astrology. Even with Trump winning in 2016, it looked like Hillary’s chart was “anemic,” meaning there weren’t any major aspects happening, everything was loose, and there wasn’t much going on. Trump’s chart, on the other hand, was on fire. When I mentioned this on my blog, people went nuts on me. I was shouted down. I get why. I didn’t want Trump to win either. My husband reminded me a couple of days ago about a party we’d gone to with some friends. They asked me what I thought, and I told them it looked like Trump would win. A friend said, “Well, that’s not what Nate Silver said, and he’s always right.” I was like, good enough for me. I’ll defer to him and not entertain that anymore. God knows I don’t want that to happen. All the mathematicians and pollsters told us Trump had no chance. I set aside my charts and prayed they were right. Entertaining a Trump win was too scary.

Now, we find ourselves facing Trump's threat again. Now, Trump has changed the game's rules so dramatically that I feel I have to rethink my whole system a bit. We likely won’t know on election day like we used to. Trump will not back down, even if he loses. We have to look at election day in a basic breakdown, not just as winning and losing but all that it will mean in this current context. We will also have to look at inauguration day because now that is really the day that determines who will be the next president, as Trump will drag the results through the courts at the very least and try some coup attempt at the very worst.

However, it is still important that candidates have strong election-day aspects. So here’s how I think about it. Conjunctions are the most powerful. Oppositions are the second, squares third, trines fourth, and sextiles fifth. The more exact, the stronger. Inconjunctions are tricky on their own; they represent disunity pulling apart and are often seen when people transition or leave a situation. When they come in the form of a Yod, they work differently; they create intense tension on the focal point, putting pressure on that planet and pushing a kind of lift-off. They aren’t called “the Finger of God” for no reason. They put the native in a (if transiting) period where outside forces push them into change. In a natal chart, they create a person who can change the flow of energy around them positively and negatively, an inability to integrate certain aspects of the personality, making it an either-or situation for the native.

So, let's first break down each candidate's aspect by transit only on the day of the election, taking it point by point and determining what it will mean and what weight to give it.