wow so news just came out that President Biden has just officially dropped out of the race, and so I wanted to do a quick little video in order to talk about the astrology surrounding this. So uh this caps off just a crazy week with the Mars Uranus conjunction that took place in Taurus, and just a string of events that I've talked about on the podcast over the past week or so um surrounding that explosive and very disruptive alignment of those two planets in the sky. So today in particular, uh this event took place and this announcement came out where uh Biden said he would not seek reelection, he was going to step back while still retaining the presidency, um and he would he endorsed Kamala Harris, his vice president, as the potential candidate to run against Donald Trump in November. So uh today, of course, is the day of a full moon that just took place in Capricorn conjunct Pluto, and we talked about this full moon as being pretty tense on the last forecast, and it's interesting because we talking about it also.

partially in terms of how Pluto and Aquarius was opposing uh the natal Pluto placement of the entire generation of people that are the Baby Boomers who were born with Pluto and Leo in the 1940s. Some of the um Concepts that we talked about I think in that forecast were about letting go and sometimes a tendency to want to hold on to things for longer than you should. But then um the Pluto and Leo generation having to go through this process of finally letting go and releasing uh control or releasing power over things during the course of this Transit. This is a incredibly striking manifestation of that. So other things going on Mars just moved into Gemini late last night. I had an inkling that this was going to be a major tone shift so I put a tweet out about that last night um you know kind of alerting people that this is going to be a major tone shift because this is the first step in um moving into the next chapter after the Mars Uranus conjunction of the past uh.

week, but also even the past two months. Basically, that Mars has been transiting through Taurus and building up to that conjunction, um, through a sign-based conjunction. So, Mars moving into Gemini is a major tone shift. Um, I also put out a tweet, uh, saying that Mars in Gemini was unburdened by what, uh, has been, um, because, uh, I had an inkling because Kamala Harris has Gemini rising. So, Mars is going into her rising sign as of last night, and that would be a major not just tone shift, but also shift for her personally, as well as, um, sort of a funny joke just because that's one of her sayings. Um, but I think from now on, I'm going to state all of my predictions in like cryptic Nostradamus-like statements like that going forward. I think might be fun for the remainder of this election season. Let me know what you think in the comments. So, um, Mars moving into Gemini is a tone shift. Uh, it sets up the buildup basically to a

series of configurations that are really going to culminate in the middle of August, as we've talked about in the year ahead forecast and on recent forecast episodes where it's like now that Mars has moved into Gemini, it's going to build up to a square with Saturn. It's going to build up to a conjunction with Jupiter and Gemini. Venus is going to swoop in, and Venus is going to form a t-square with all of that. And even each of those planets individually are going to be forming configurations like transiting Jupiter is going to be squaring Saturn in the middle of the month for the first time. So there's a lot of tense conflicting energy, and all of that just happens to culminate right around the time of the Democratic National Convention, which is scheduled to take place from August 18th to August 22nd. And of course, it will culminate on the 22nd with the nominee giving a speech at that time and accepting the nomination. So we've been talking about that as a really tense set of

combinations for months, and now I think we can see why, as there's going to be, um, you know, questions initially about whether there's a challenger to Harris, um, whether the Democrats have an open convention. There's going to be, um, questions about who her vice-presidential pick is, uh, and a number of things like that. So it's interesting that this will be, we'll be watching in real-time, seeing Harris have Mars transiting through her first house, but she has a night chart, so it's a bit more constructive of the of a Mars Transit. You'll still get some of the, um, significations of like conflict and having to fight for something that just comes with Mars naturally, but Mars also comes with, um, leadership significations and having to step up, having to be decisive, and having to take action and start doing and saying a lot of things very rapidly. That's kind of the energy of Gemini, is the pace of things is just going to speed up really, really briskly at this point. Really quickly, there's going to be a lot more chatter, um, events.

are going to move more quickly. There's going to be more verbal conflicts, which is going to be interesting to watch because it's not just Mars going into Gemini, but we're also moving into a Mercury retrograde that's going to start at the beginning of August, and it's going to go through until just after the Democratic Convention is over when Mercury stations direct. So there's going to be some classic Mercury retrograde things like miscommunication, technical snafus, having to go back and revise things from the past, misunderstandings, and different things like that that will all come up, especially intensely in the first week or two of August at the very beginning of that retrograde. So that is interesting. This Mars Ingress ingressed into Biden's seventh house, and so it's going to conjoin his descendant and conjoin his Saturn there as well as Square his 10th house. So that was part of the reason why I knew that would be a tone shift for him, just because both of them it's

not just Harris, but also Biden, have mutable signs rising. So, whenever a planet goes into a mutable sign, it becomes more prominent as it goes into one of their angular houses. So, um, other things going on, um, one of the things that's curious about this, that, now I'm interested in, is I had always focused on going back to last December when we did our year ahead forecast. The Pisces Eclipse, you know, speaking of the mutable rising signs that Biden and Harris both have. I was really, um, focused on the Pisces Eclipse that's going to occur in MPPT. Because that eclipse is going to take place in Harris's 10th House of career and reputation, uh, and overall life direction, and in Biden's fourth house, which represents the home, the family, the living situation, but also represents endings and sometimes things coming to an end. So, I had always thought that that would look like a transit that was going to elevate Harris suddenly, potentially over Biden. Um, so now it's kind of curious that this has happened.

earlier, but one of the scenarios that I'm thinking about right now is, you know, um, Biden is still the president and has retained the presidency and said he's going to finish out his term, um, but Harris will just be the nominee or, or, or is going to be the one that he's endorsing to run for the presidency. So, um, one of the things then that that's a little concerning about for me in terms of that Pisces is it could imply that something else happens which elevates Harris even further while Biden, um, reaches the end of something like the end potentially of, uh, you know, some career ending or bringing something to a close at that time. Um, I don't want to get into any more like specifics beyond that or, or, or go into those scenarios in more detail, but that's kind of my current working hypothesis that I'm thinking about now that this shift has taken place and the question then of what that eclipse means in September. So, um, we'll revisit that I think in the future. Um, other things this

is important this shift that just took place today. I think because um, I think a lot of astrologers have issued predictions over the past six months or maybe over the past year, but many of them were probably paying Mo most of their attention to Trump's chart and to Biden's chart, and they were probably seeing that Biden's chart didn't look as good for the election at the end of 2024. So one of the curious things now is if um, some of those astrologers need to go back and relook at their predictions based on the fact that the primary candidates for the presidency have changed. And so now they need to do the math and the sort of astrological calculus based on comparing Trump's chart to Harris's chart in order to see which one looks more prominent or looks like they might win the presidency in November. So I think it'll be interesting to see some of the discussions that happen as a result of that as astrologers kind of go back to the drawing board and anticipate that so.

that's one thing. Um, other things going on: the Mars-Uranus conjunction, which just happened this past week, uh, in late Taurus. Actually happened on her Jupiter, which is at 24 degrees of Taurus in her, in her 12th house. So, I thought that was interesting because, um, on the one hand, Jupiter rules her 10th House of career, uh, but on the other hand, Jupiter also rules her seventh House of partnership. And, um, I think that's interesting because what happened on the conjunction is that her, literally her partner, she's the vice president to President Biden, her business partner, um, you know, got sick with COVID unexpectedly and had this unexpected illness. As I talked about in a previous video, the Mars-Uranus conjunction took place in his sixth house of illness. So, um, having the Mars-Uranus conjunction take place on her Jupiter, which is a major, um, sudden unexpected career change for her, with it ruling her 10th house, as a result of a disruption to her, her running mate, basically, which is, is the seventh house.

um, I thought that was a really fascinating manifestation of that Transit, and it just continues to show you how, um, you know, the Mars-Uranus conjunction was really most important for people who had planets placed right there towards the end of the sign of Taurus. So interesting additional manifestation of that, other things, um, let's see, Biden's Health, uh, you know, one of the things that's happening right now is transiting Pluto is in early Aquarius, and it's coming back to square Biden's Moon, which is at 0 degrees of Taurus, and, um, of course, Mars now has just Transit transited out of Biden's sixth house of illness, and it's moved into his seventh House of partnership, where it's opposing his ascendant. So there's still some potential health issues there, but one of the things I was thinking about is, um, on the forecast over the past few years when there were eclipses taking place in Taurus, we kept noting that sometimes he would have health issues around those times, um, like

one of the things was that he got Covid two years ago when Mars was transiting again through Taurus, his sixth house of illness, just like it is right now. Um, but it made me think that perhaps some of those eclipses that we had wondered about at the time, which we were paying attention to potential for illness or during one of them he had like a medical procedure during one eclipse and during the time that he was out under anesthetic, um, Harris became acting president for a period of time. So, um, it had me thinking more recently that some of the health decline might have, um, been happening in concert with those eclipses over the past two years, but it just wasn't as, as sort of visible, uh, until recently, until that debate took place. And then all of a sudden, um, it was more clear that some more significant health decline had taken place. And obviously, there were some instances of that or there were some, um, examples of that. So many people say they knew ahead of time, but I think, um, it wasn't until

June that it was more obvious sort of how advanced that had become um at the time of that debate, which was right when Saturn stationed retrograde conjunct the degree of his IC and opposite to his mid-heaven so um I think that's interesting, and Patrick had Watson had actually done an interesting research study showing how Biden in the in the past when Saturn was hitting his IC had often moved um and like moved from one residence to another where he'd been living in some place for a long time and then he stopped and in a recent podcast recording we did on patreon we talked about how that could be an indication of him moving out of the White House um in terms of paying attention to uh what what the outcome of the election will be but now it's kind of interesting in this context um that that's almost like aside from the election at this at this point so that it's no longer something indicating the outcome of the election but we do know that by early next year whoever is inaugurated that Biden will

be departing from the White House, so that's just an interesting example of a Saturn Transit through the fourth house, basically, and somebody leaving the home that they've been living in over the course of the past few years. All right, so other things going on, that's kind of it, I guess. I mean, the DNC transits are going to be crazy, just to reiterate those. Mars Square sat, that's like a tension between people that want to act and move forward versus an energy of those that are holding things back or that want to stick to a more conservative or safe route. We often use the analogy of pressing the gas and the brake pedal in a car at the same time is kind of what a Mars Saturn Transit is like, and there can be a lot of tensions as a result of that. So famously during the lockdown during 2020 in March and April, there was a Mars Saturn conjunction, and you had that real feeling of, you know, everybody being

stuck inside and having the like tensions over that um other things in terms of alignments. There's uh the Mars Jupiter conjunction is going to take place in Gemini and that just sounds like like attempts of Rapid expansion and things moving very quickly um having lots of discussions lots of social media posts um because Gemini is a sign of of communication and then um what else Jupiter versus Saturn the first exact aspect of that taking place this month um is really a huge tension between um forces of like expansion versus forces of of consolidation and um having a tension between like I was saying those that want to move forward and do something new versus those that want to stick with something old and the two of those having to like battle it out and then come to some sort of compromise between the two of them so that energy is pretty clear in terms of the archetype and it will be really interesting to see how that plays out in terms of the Democrats and whatever this processes over the next few weeks between now and the time.

of the convention. Um, but other than that, um, there's a lot of things to look at. Now, astrologers need to look at Harris's chart, Trump's chart, Vance's chart, and whoever, uh, Harris's running mate ends up being, and to see what they think about the outcome of the election. So, I think all the astrologers will be having those discussions very intensely from this point forward, uh, doing the research and talking about it. Um, right now, Austin and I are preparing for the August month ahead forecast episode, which is the big monthly forecast episode we do at the end of each month, and we have that scheduled now for the very last day of the month, for July 31st. Uh, we're going to record that in front of a live audience of patrons. So, if you want to join us for the live recording, uh, be sure to sign up through my page on Patreon at patreon.com/asrology podcast, and then you can join us in the live webinar for that recording. But otherwise

I will release that recording as soon as I can, probably the following day on August 1st, in order to give people a more detailed preview of what the astrology looks like for next month and some of the new types of craziness that are in store for us over the next few weeks. All right, so I think that's it. Let me know what you think in the comments. Um, what transits are you looking at in terms of Harris's chart, in terms of the DNC, and what's going to happen next month? Let me know your thoughts in the comments. And other than that, thanks for watching, and I'll see you again next time. [Music] [Music]

Biden Steps Aside: Astrological Analysis

Biden Steps Aside: Astrological Analysis