A 29-year-old candidate continues to battle for 29 uncounted ballots in a disputed race without which she trails by nine. Whether the mailed-on-time absentee ballots will be counted is scheduled to be voted on at the beginning of this final week of January, Monday the 28th, 83 days after the November 6, 2018 midterm elections.
The vote takes place in a city incorporated on September 22, 1851, whose charter was approved by voters on October 18th of the same year—the year it was devastated by spring floods and began re-building from scratch. Onward 168 years, it is included in next week’s regional forecast for brutal polar vortex temperatures.
Midterm elections, November 6, 2018:
Ceres 27° 42′ conjunct Venus 27° 10′ Rx Libra
Friday, January 25, 2019 (CST):
Ceres egress Scorpio (transit since November 12) 12:06
Des Moines incorporation, September 22, 1851, noon:
Chiron 17° 46′ conjunct Juno 17° 46′ Sagittarius
Saturn 3° 11′ Rx conjunct Uranus 3° 39′ Rx Taurus
Des Moines charter approved by vote, October 18, 1851, noon:
Venus 29° 35′ Libra opposite Pluto 29° 55′ Rx Aries
Jupiter 1° 32′ Scorpio opposite Saturn 1° 20′ Rx Taurus
Sources: Saturn return in Western astrology; candidate article citing age; Des Moines; minority report PDF (tinyurl); polar vortex
Candidate’s last name: [KAY ter]
Image: goat from Cyprus