As I predicted on my November 2024 predictions, Trump won the election. So I decided to make this post to talk a bit more about the whys and also discuss the energy around the election too.
Trump Election and the Trends
Those that follow my work regularly know that I’ve been publishing articles on the long term prospects of the world. It’s something I decided to do since I believe we are in the cusp of great change, with the major astrological aspects of the coming years showing that.
I mention this because many of the Vedic astrologers who predicted the Trump win as well mention great transits in his chart as a main factor. I similarly considered those and, yes, they are important. But to me, the decisive factor in making this prediction was the long term outlook of the world. As I wrote in my prediction:
Looking at the transits around and specially after the election, a lot tends to align with his political messages and the policy around him.
In September, I published about Saturn conjunct Neptune. This aspect deals a lot with our cultural perception of the world and social trends, relating a lot to the mythos around society. It happens every 36 years, having last occurred around 1989.
If we look at the world, much of our current culture is derived from the events in the early 90s, when the last conjunction occurred. That was a conjunction in Sagittarius. The sign deals with travel, expansion, laws, regulations; as well as an outspoken and feisty streak.
Since the late 90s up until this day, immigration and the integration of foreign cultures has only expanded. Bureaucratic boards and regulations have similarly increased, with the EU being the greatest example. Celebrities are mostly outspoken and focused on shock and awe.
In the 80s and before, most celebrities tried remaining neutral and diplomatic. Taking a stand was reserved for those with powerful and long careers. The outspoken ones were few and vastly criticized. Nowadays, we have the opposite. Few celebrities try to remain neutral, and they are criticized for it.
That was the Sagittarius impulse, which wanes more and more as we approach the new conjunction in Pisces next year.
I specifically mention celebrities, as celebrity culture was a big thing of the Sagittarius cycle. In politics, celebrity endorsements used to be powerful. Initiatives from the 90s like Rock The Vote were a clear example of this. Look at us now. Harris was endorsed by most, and the biggest, celebrities around. It made almost no difference. The celebrity age of Sagittarius is over.
Which brings us back to my main point, on why I saw the mundane trends favoring Trump more than Harris.
Harris is a lawyer and bureaucrat. She wanted to maintain immigration and foreign collaboration. All Sagittarius matters. Her imagery in the campaign was centered around sassy and outspoken behavior. Again, a very Sagittarius thing.
Along with Kamala is Brat, a big thing of the campaign was bringing people like Dick Cheney (of the Iraq War) to show how even Republicans were against Trump. War bureaucrats of the past. In many ways, her campaign was doused in Sagittarius imagery.
On the other side, Trump’s message became even stronger against immigration. He talked about reducing bureaucracy and regulations. He had an anti-war messaging, which we all should hope remains true. In many ways, his campaign was the anti-Sagittarius. A very ironic turn of events for someone who rose to fame in the 90s, by being the exact kind of outspoken character favored by that sign.
Also worth mentioning that Trump brought idealistic and somewhat coy people, like RFK Jr. and Elon Musk, into the campaign. Idealistic, yet shy, is something seen through Pisces. The sign of the 2025 Saturn-Neptune conjunction. So not only did the campaign shun the waning influences, it aligned itself with the rising ones.
On that note, Kamala is Bush. The father, not the son. Considering the Saturn-Neptune conjunctions, this election mirrors the 1992 election. It happened around the Saturn-Neptune conjunction in Sagittarius, as the world moved on from the Virgo conjunctions in 1953 and their influence.
Bush was a very Virgo character, his campaign was all about responsibility, cleanliness and maintaining the order. He lost to Bill Clinton, who ran a campaign about enthusiasm, youthfulness and economic improvement. Bush criticized Clinton for his lack of experience, making an appeal to those Virgo values that were waning culturally.
This time around, Trump was criticized for not caring about the social etiquette and moral philosophies of society, like diversity and inclusion. All Sagittarius values waning in society now, as we move into the new cycle.
Overall, Trump’s messaging aligned more with the trends I see rising with the major astrological events of the coming years, which is what motivated my prediction.
Election Day
The election day was very tense, with reports of nervousness from people on both sides of the contest. I have to admit, as someone who hates and criticizes the hyperbole of MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION EVER (always in caps lock), that this time it truly felt like it was. Hearing people talking, behaving, it truly was a significant moment. Something I felt lacking both in 2020 and 2016.
Looking at the chart above, a few things point to this. Starting from what every astrologer talked about, Mars opposing Pluto. An aspect of great tension and conflict. Some predicted great violence, riots and trouble. Which, to the best of my knowledge, has not happened. The 2016 Trump victory had a much bigger repercussion, on that sense, than this current one. On my prediction, I said that most of the protests would be ineffective and symbolical. Again, I seem to have gotten that prediction right.
But going back to that Election Day tension, it mostly comes from the Moon that day. Aspect wise the Moon sits exactly aligned with the Lunar Nodes, in the middle of them. With the Nodes being a karmic point, this indicates a day of tension and transformative events. I always look to planets sitting in the mid-point of the Lunar Nodes when making predictions, as it always denotes an intense moment. In the case of the Moon, an intense day.
Besides that, the Moon also made a square to Neptune, early in the day. Neptune relates to illusions, deception, dreams and imagination. The square shows those illusions being shattered or broken, creating a need for realignment.
The star of the show in the day’s tension, however, is the nakshatra of the Moon. Nakshatras are a specialty of mine, and a very important point of Vedic Astrology. The Moon sat on Mula nakshatra for most of Tuesday. This star is ruled by Niritti, the goddess of destruction. It deals a lot with uprooting, radical transformation and fierce energies. Natives born under this star tend to be rebels or outsiders. Events around Mula tend to leave a strong mark in the psyche.
In many ways, it was a day of tension and uprooting. People who liked the result had a whole day of tension, glued to their screens watching everything carefully. Many who disliked the result are feeling a strong shock right now.
In many countries, people believed Harris would win. A poll in Germany showed that 72% of people believed she would win the election. Needless to say, people around the world who believed their international correspondents were surprised by the results. Outside the US, most of the international press made it seem like Trump had zero chance and Harris was the perfect candidate, leading to the current shock and last minute adjustments around the world.
Overall, this was a classic Mula day. Shock, uprooting and transformation. The natural impulse of the nakshatra was strengthened by the other aspects of the day, maximizing the impact.