Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” – a sweeping multi-trillion dollar tax breaks package – shortened to Triple B by his advisers, has evoked wry smiles from economists. They point out that “Triple B” is the tag that credit ratings groups use to designate the lower threshold of investment grade assets, before they become “junk”, with rising default risk.
The FT commented that the “BBB” tag could soon look decidedly unfunny. “The only silver lining in this sordid saga is that if anything can curb Trump’s wilder instincts, it is probably those rising bond yields.”
The bill as it stands still has to get through the Senate with a few Republicans becoming increasingly uneasy about rising debt levels especially as Moody’s has just stripped away America’s AAA rating.
Democrats fiercely opposed the bill and warned that the cuts could have dire consequences for millions of lower-income Americans.
The Congress vote at 6.30am 22 May is not too revealing – though it does connect by aspect the celestial shifts with a trapped 9th house Pluto trine a hidden 12th house Gemini Sun conjunct Uranus sextile Neptune in Aries and Saturn in final degree Pisces.
I am beyond sick and tired of Trump’s pinball politics (sorry Americans) but what intrigues me at this moment is the Inauguration chart. Most obviously it has a control-freak, bullying Sun Pluto conjunction opposition Mars. But it is another aspect which I cannot quite quantify. The Mars opposition Mercury (= running arguments) squares onto a 6th house Libra Moon conjunct the Black Moon opposition Chiron. The Progressed Moon will conjunct the BML and square Mars exactly late this July so whatever that 6th house Moon represents will come sharply into focus.
In mundane astrology, the 6th house rules public administration, the health service, the armed forces, civil service workers, the workers, the management of food.
The Moon refers to the masses – i.e. the electorate rather than the ruling classes; with some reference to women’s issues as well.
The only two past presidents, whose Inauguration times I could tie down with a 6th house Moon were Abraham Lincoln in 1861 and Franklin Roosevelt in 1941. The second during World War 11 had a Scorpio Moon on the focal point of a Fixed T square as war time loomed. Not exactly the same but similar. The first for Abe Lincoln had a 6th house Sagittarius Moon.
In general terms a focal point Cardinal Moon, as this year has, suggests a hair-trigger emotionality and a tendency to take offence. Which makes sense of the present climate in the White House. The Moon opposition Chiron hints at emotional wounding which could/should evoke sympathy for the have-nots but does not seem to remotely. Maybe the Black Moon casts a malevolent shadow.
Anyway I am puzzled by that Moon so any Mundane experts do pitch in.
BUT do NOT pitch in with stray partisan thoughts, likes and dislikes. CONSIDER whether your contribution can add insight to the debate before posting.
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