POTUS 45 was born just before a lunar eclipse with Mercury in Moon sign, Cancer, at 8° 52′. As this new Gemini Moon culminates in two weeks, Jupiter continues in retrograde past his natal South Node and natal Sagittarius Moon, while the Sun transits his natal Sun exact (solar return) at 2:05 AM on the 14th.
Mercury also poises to transit the U.S.A. and natal 8th house for Sagittarius rising, which, personally, includes natal Venus and natal North Node. The 8th in 20th century Western astrology became associated with sex. Natal daily horoscope for June 11-12: “This influence is most likely to arouse your interest in being with a partner, because it most strongly affects the sex drive. You may want to make love with someone even though you do not care for him emotionally.”
But in traditional astrology, the 8th house is associated with death. The film Harold and Maude says it better. Harold asks why live without a mother’s love? Why life when one’s death would matter so little to the other? In personal version, mother’s reason for becoming a mother: “That’s just what people did.” Maude shows Harold to defy wrong-headed authority without attachment to contempt, to celebrate beauty, joy, and sensuality, to L-I-V-E not for others, i.e., to be alive inside one’s own life.
Tuesday, June 4, 2019, EDT:
Mercury ingress Cancer 16:05
Tuesday, June 11, 2019, CDT:
Mars conjunct natal Venus 22:28
Wednesday, June 12, 2019, CDT:
Venus opposite natal Ascendant 5:41
Mars conjunct transiting North Node 17:14
Tuesday, June 18, 2019 (Moon just past Full), EDT:
Mercury conjunct Mars 21° 32′ Cancer 12:04
Image: via Mars/Saturn synastry