AUTHOR’S NOTE: Although this horary forecast is scheduled to appear in a future issue of the online AstroLogic magazine, I wanted to present it here first since I’m working on Part 2 and didn’t want to wind up in a “cart > horse” situation when I publish it. The success of my Sarah Palin prediction makes me think this one may have some validity.

Here is the first installment of a two-part projection regarding which one of the major U.S political parties will gain (or in the case of the Democrats, retain) “majority rule” in both houses of the U.S. Congress during the mid-term election in November. Part 1 is a horary astrology “event chart” cast for the very end of the day on November 8 when a decisive majority of the votes will have been counted, and Part 2 will be a tarot reading using my “Enemy at the Gates” vulnerability spread and the excellent social-commentary deck, Brian Williams’ PostModern (aka “PoMo”) Tarot, for the main body of the reading.

For the event chart, I assumed that the 10th House of the “reigning monarch” represents the Democratic incumbents, who already hold a numerical advantage in the House of Representatives and a de facto one in the Senate since Vice President Kamala Harris will always side with the Democrats in any deadlocked vote. I assigned the 1st House to the Republican minority as the “aspirants” for political ascendancy. I examined the relative strength of the house rulers for both houses, and also looked at the condition of the Moon to assess the attitude of the “public” electorate. Thus, this horary chart has two pertinent Significators and one “kicker.”

The 10th House is occupied by Taurus, with the Moon in Taurus (its sign of exaltation) residing in the house. Venus, the ruler of Taurus, is in Scorpio in the 4th House and in opposition to the Moon. Normally I would see a dignified Moon in the house of the Querent as a “win for the home team,” but here it represents the “third interested party” (electorate) and the suggestion is that voters (Moon) are going to be “in the face” of the Democrats over concerns about financial security (Taurus), something that has been brewing in the “national mood” since the economy went sour; think of it as the “chickens coming home to roost.”

The Moon opposite the house ruler implies that the liberal policies of Venus will be under close scrutiny by constituents during the campaign. “Turning” the chart, the 4th House becomes the “7th House from the 10th,” reinforcing the idea of “distance and separation” between the house ruler and the sociopolitical climate of the situation (“nobody’s home” up in the 10th). Venus is in its detriment in Scorpio, significantly curtailing its ease of expression. (Note that traditional horary astrology doesn’t apply the minor “Keplerian” aspects and makes little use the “modern” planets, so the inconjunct of Venus to Mars, the slightly wide and separating opposition to Uranus, the trine to Neptune and the sextile to Pluto are of little moment in this chart.)

On the other hand, the square of Venus to Saturn weighs heavily in the equation, further limiting the Democrats’ “wiggle room” despite the fact that its concurrent square to the Moon is too inexact (and separating) for the formation of a solid fixed-sign T-square. Still, their policy-making leeway would seem to be shrinking as public discontent hardens, as shown by Saturn square Moon. The trine to benevolent Jupiter is a little too wide to take as well. Jupiter does form a legitimate T-square with Mars and Pluto, but Pluto (with its augury of cataclysmic upheaval) is insignificant as noted above and disruptive Mars has no meaningful connection to the 10th House and its ruler, so I don’t see much chance of Jupiterian exaggeration magnifying those tendencies. Although Jupiter in Pisces and Saturn in Aquarius are both in their sign of traditional rulership, they disposit nothing (Neptune as modern ruler of Pisces doesn’t count), so there is no “sole dispositor” in this chart to pull in the other stray factors. The showdown between the Moon and Venus is the signature feature of the delineation.

The 1st House ruler is the Sun in Scorpio at the tail-end of the 3rd House and riding up on the Imum Coeli/cusp of the 4th House. The impression I get is that the Republicans are angling for a “grass-roots” undermining of the status quo that has a “homeland” (and “heartland”) spin to it. The Sun with Mercury in the vanguard is “breathing down the neck” of Venus in the 4th House, which could be giving Venus unnerving “deer-in-the-headlights” anxiety. The Sun is also square to Saturn in Aquarius, the sign of the Sun’s detriment, but not in quite as much difficulty as Venus in the sign of its own detriment.

The other major aspect to the Sun is a tight, applying opposition to Uranus in Taurus, but once again Uranus is not of much importance unless it is showing that the unrest inspired by Donald Trump’s highly polarizing presence continues to be a destabilizing influence on the Republicans’ chances. Uranus – as the most elevated planet – sits very close to the Midheaven/10th House cusp, so it may be as much of a “wild card” for the Democrats as it seems to be for the Republicans. One way or the other, it might emerge as a significant “player” in this election, especially since the fixed-sign T-square formed by Sun-Mercury, Saturn and Uranus is a strong one, with hard-nosed Saturn as the high-focus or “trigger” planet dumping its energy into the 12th House, the unoccupied leg of the incomplete Grand Square. This sensitive point is not far from the Ascendant, giving it the potential to galvanize high-handed “secret operations” in the running of the Republicans’ campaign.

In summary, it looks like the Moon could very well stare down Venus and hand the Democrats a bruising defeat as long as the Republicans are able to shake off the long Uranian-Plutonian shadow of Trump. But Uranus in the form of radical, sociopolitical disaffection – although it may be impartial in its misanthropy and cut both ways – may still sabotage the GOP when least expected.