Election Day 2020: ASTRO ALERT

Why am I so fascinated by astrology? It’s not that I’m so impressed by that astro-eccentric New Age thinking. It’s not that I want to guide my life by the stars, either. It’s the eerie synchronicity that keeps grabbing my attention. It’s the pseudoscience that makes sense to me.

Astrology uses meaningful coincidences (synchronicity) between planetary movements and their aspects to understand, interpret, and often predict current events and behaviors. Moreover, a skilled astrologer can also illuminate such aspects with surprisingly accurate forecasts. Yeah, it’s weird. But so often it rings true.

Latest case in point? November 3, 2020: America’s Election Day.

Just read what Astrologer Pam Ciampi wrote in her “Overview of 2020,” from the 2020 Weekly Forecasts of Llewellyn’s 2020 Daily Planetary Guide:

“Election Intrigue
This year, November 3 marks the most important day of the week, the month, and possibly the year. That’s because it’s the US presidential election day and also the day that Mercury(planet of communications and voting) is scheduled to come to a standstill(station direct) in Libra. On past election days when Mercury was in a stall and getting ready to “switch” direction, it brought snags, glitches, and communication complications to the election process.

The most memorable time was Election Day 2000, when Mercury stationed retrograde in the last degree of Libra. The outcome of that day resulted in the famous “hanging chads” and Al Gore’s loss to George W. Bush. If we fast-forward to 2020, Mercury is stationary in Libra again on Election Day. The only difference is that in 2000 Mercury was at a standstill and retrograde, and in 2020 Mercury is at a standstill and direct.
This is why November 3 this year is expected to bring about technical difficulties that will affect the voting process and possibly interfere with the entire internet. Besides being at a standstill, Mercury is also squaring three of the outer planets that control social and economic power. A Mercury-Pluto square suggests extreme or brutal tactics, a Mercury-Saturn square brings rigid thinking and communication difficulties that might involve the law, and a Mercury-Jupiter square is a sign of wild embellishments and errors in judgement. All in all, November 3 could be a real Election Day mess. Stay tuned to see how it plays out.”

Hmm. Mercury… Here comes another synchronistic footnote. Mercury is the planet that “rules” the Sun signs of both Virgo and Gemini. Guess who has his natal Sun in Gemini? Donald J. Trump. So if there’s any mischief forthcoming, POTUS 45 will probably play a big role in this “Election Day mess.”

Notice I said “probably?” That’s because astrology deals with synchronicity and indirect tendencies — not with direct cause-and-effect. And yet, so often it can pick up the zeitgeist that’s been long ignored.

Here’s yet another odd coincidence. When ABC’s George Stephanoupoulos asked Speaker Pelosi about her options on delaying(or stopping) the Senate from voting on a new SCOTUS before election day, Pelosi gave this response:
“We have arrows in our quiver that I’m not about to discuss right now, but the fact is, we have a big challenge in our country.”

Guess what Joe Biden’s Sun sign is…Sagittarius, The Archer. Hmm.

And hey, I’m not a professional astrologer. I’m not even trying to find coincidences, no matter how meaningful they seem to be. I’m just sharing them here for educational and informational purposes. So whether or not you believe in these esoteric ramblings, you can’t really ignore them all, either.

But wait just a minute, you might say. Anyone can come up with a “probably.”Anyone could have told you what Ciampi wrote, especially now. Especially now since the pandemic has forced a lot of voters to vote by mail. Especially now since the new Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has impaired pick-up and delivery of mail service.

Sure, anyone could have told you or me that. But no one did. That’s because no one had the information in writing when Pam Ciampi did. Her timeline for astrological forecasts was way ahead of yours and mine, dear readers.

You see, every year Llewellyn Publications offers their yearly planetary guidebooks before the year actually begins. So I got my 2020 guide last fall, in 2019.

So Ms. Ciampi had to write her forecasts in 2019 or earlier — much earlier than the publication date and distribution time of these 2020 guidebooks.

She wrote her prediction about our country’s upcoming “Election Intrigue” way before 2020 began. BEFORE the COVID pandemic began. BEFORE the US economy tanked.
BEFORE Louis DeJoy was appointed, then ratified, to head the USPS. Even BEFORE Trump began his major propaganda re-election campaign of publicly accusing the Democrats of “rigging the election.”

I’d even say Ms. Ciampi probably wrote her forecast BEFORE Trump started publicly declaring he should get another term just because of the bad way he’s been treated since he became President. But that’s just my personal opinion. Who can keep up with this guy in the Oval Office and all his unexpected tweets and fascist proclamations?

I try, I really do try. But it’s gotten to the point where astrologers seem more credible and reliable than POTUS 45, doesn’t it?

What’s really so bizarre here is that Trump himself has also been interested in esoteric stuff like astrology, numerology, and feng shui — Yes! Feng shui! As long as it helps him and makes him look good, he’s into it.

See for yourselves, dear readers. Go back to media records for the 1990’s and look at how enthusiastic Trump was about feng shui(Ancient Chinese Art of Placement). In fact, he credited feng shui for helping him with one of his many financial “comebacks.” He raved about how it “really works.”

Then after he got elected President in 2016, he disavowed all knowledge of his actions (as they used to say on “Mission: Impossible.”) Although reporters were trying to track down his former feng shui consultants for interviews, they couldn’t find them anywhere. Trump’s geomancers were nowhere to be seen. Rumor had it that he’d intimidated his former “employees” from speaking to the press and somehow got them sequestered from public view. But that’s only gossip…or is it?

Like most of his “employees” who used to work for him, the feng shui consultants got discarded when The Donald decided that his “employees” were of no further use to him.

And that manner of dismissal is a whole lot scarier than a liar in the White House whose election(or downfall) might be predicted by an astrologer.

Never would I have guessed that an astrologer’s forecast would have more veracity than the words and deeds of The President of The United States of America…But nowadays, we do live in weird times — and they’ve gotten weirder since Trump got elected.

From what I’ve read, though, the Blue Moon at the very end of this month is going to be one wild and crazy October Surprise for everyone to remember. Especially Trump. As a Gemini with a Leo ascendant, he’s going to have disruptive Uranus in Taurus conjunct the full moon on the Midheaven of his chart. That’s going to be in opposition to Scorpio, the ruler of his 4th House of Family and Home. So besides battling Covid-19, POTUS 45 is probably going to endure shake-ups in his household, as well as shocks involving his public image.

Besides, with Saturn moving into Aquarius this December, his health woes will be far from over. If he’s lucky enough to get re-elected, he’s probably not going to be lucky enough to fully serve out his second term of office.

Or, so astrology might predict…

Anyway, if Kellyanne Conway and Mark Meadows and Kayleigh McEnany can keep changing, withholding, then denying their information all the time, can we really keep pooh-poohing astrology?