The CIA rides high on Trump’s hate list as he considers the agency the beating heart of a “deep state” that is working to undermine him. The agency’s track record of past screw-ups is not such as to inspire respect anywhere but a new book points to the risks of putting “the instruments of American national security in the hands of crackpots and fools.” The author Tim Weiner, says “I’m not known as a great defender of the CIA but neither am I a defender of willful ignorance.” He says appointing “a coterie of dangerously incompetent and servile acolytes to the highest positions of national security” will blind them to a coming attack.
Made all the more likely since allies may now be reluctant to share sensitive information with the US, given Trump’s on-off bro-romance with Putin and others; and his appointment of those like Tulsa Gabbard, who have had Russian connections.
The CIA, 18 September 1947 12 am Washington, DC, is showing signs of significant panic at the moment with Solar Arc Mars conjunct the Neptune. And Solar Arc Neptune Mercury just over the opposition to Uranus.
Trump’s relationship with the CIA is beyond hostile with a composite Saturn, Sun, Mars, Pluto square Jupiter – and they don’t get much worse than that – which is under increasing strain in 2026 and the years thereafter.
‘Following two impeachments (and two acquittals), an insurrection and another election, Trump is bent on revenge. The new director has also moved aggressively to implement a purge at Langley. “He’s attempting to rid the CIA of its most experienced officers and to impose ideological purity tests. “Ratcliffe said explicitly from the get-go that he aimed to align the leadership of the CIA with the president’s view of the world. Since the president’s view of the world is largely based on falsehoods and imaginary enemies, I think this will be an extremely difficult task.”
Trump’s relationship with John Ratcliffe, 20 October 1945, a Sun Libra with a Mutable T square, the present CIA director, whom Weiner describes as “a spineless person who will do whatever Trump tells him to do” has a cheer-leading composite Jupiter, Sun, Pluto, Alphard conjunction.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jul/15/tim-weiner-cia-trump
While I understand some scepticism about the men in grey suits in the state sector, costing a fortune, often incompetent and rarely held accountable, Trump and others’ obsession with the ‘deep state’ is a psychological curiosity. Maybe connected to his Pluto in the 12th which will give him deep-seated suspicions as well as a desire to wield secret power himself.
Trump’s relationship chart with the US Federal Reserve which also appears to be in his crosshairs is equally toxic with a composite Saturn Pluto square Mars; and an evasive Sun Mercury Neptune conjunction.
What maybe has not been taken on board sufficiently is Trump’s total lack of Earth signs. The ’deep state’ may be dodgy in areas but it is the machinery of government, what keeps it ticking over. He has no understanding of the nuts and bolts of a functioning system – to which he is taking a wrecking ball at the moment. What happens when it all falls down?
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