Tran­script of Radio Show: The USA and the 2020 Elec­tion – Kamala Har­ris & Joe Biden

In my last show back in July, I exam­ined the charts of Joe Biden and Don­ald Trump. Giv­en Biden’s choice of Kamala Har­ris as his run­ning mate, I thought we would look at her Astro­log­i­cal chart today. Back on July 20, 2019, I did a radio show that looked at Kamala Har­ris (and Eliz­a­beth War­ren) as part of my exam­i­na­tion of the major Demo­c­ra­t­ic can­di­dates for Pres­i­dent, (and you might want to lis­ten to that show as well). But now that Kamala has been select­ed as Joe Biden’s choice for Vice-Pres­i­dent, I thought it would be inter­est­ing and help­ful to take a deep­er look today.

The first thing that I look for in any chart is the over­all pat­tern. Astrologers have found that there are def­i­nite shapes of a chart where­by the plan­ets around the earth form a pat­tern. And indeed, there is a dis­tinc­tive pat­tern in Kamala’s chart, and It is called a See­saw or Hour­glass pat­tern. There are plan­ets on one side and plan­ets on anoth­er side, and there is a wide space on each side of the two groups with no plan­ets. This arrange­ment indi­cates a per­son who has the abil­i­ty to appre­ci­ate and under­stand one side and equal­ly the oth­er side of an issue or prob­lem; they can encom­pass an under­stand­ing of the whole issue, to see one per­son or group and then see the oth­er side. Peo­ple like Kamala will strive to bring ideas, peo­ple, and groups togeth­er to forge agree­ments by build­ing a bridge of mutu­al under­stand­ing. Kamala will try to rec­on­cile and inte­grate sides that are seem­ing­ly opposed to one anoth­er. Peo­ple like Kamala are the inter­locu­tors and inter­me­di­aries of the Zodi­ac; they seek to bring peo­ple togeth­er through objec­tive under­stand­ing and rea­son. And this is quite fit­ting for a Libra, (Kamala’s Sun Sign) which is known for that very qual­i­ty of Social Intel­li­gence, Diplo­ma­cy and Bridge Building.

Then we look and see how the Plan­e­tary ener­gy is dis­trib­uted in a chart. We are talk­ing about the ele­ments of Fire, Earth, Air, and Water, and whether Kamala is more Car­di­nal, Fixed or Muta­ble in modal­i­ty. Kamala’s chart shows that she is a very fiery and earthy per­son, so that she com­bines the ide­al­ism and dri­ve of fire but she fus­es that with a more prac­ti­cal ori­en­ta­tion in terms of ground­ing those ideals in some­thing pur­pose­ful, mean­ing­ful, and most impor­tant­ly achievable.

Then in terms of the modal­i­ty, she is very Car­di­nal but also Fixed. The Car­di­nal comes from her Sun in Libra and her Moon in Aries, but then she has a lot of fixed plan­ets. Car­di­nal peo­ple see a prob­lem and they want to deal with it, they go for it and try and fix it. But Fixed peo­ple try to bear up and main­tain things, so she has a lit­tle bit of both. She will not hes­i­tate to address prob­lems by tak­ing action, but Kamala will be guid­ed by her deter­mi­na­tion to remain stead­fast and be guid­ed by cer­tain val­ues that she holds to be true.

I also like to see if there any sort of spe­cial pat­tern that might pro­vide a spe­cial qual­i­ty to a per­son. Indeed, there is a rather spe­cial pat­tern in Kamala’s chart, and it is called the Mys­tic rec­tan­gle. The Mys­tic Rec­tan­gle is formed by two group­ings of plan­ets. For Kamala it is her Sun oppo­site to her Moon, and her Mars oppo­site to Sat­urn, and then each of those four points is linked with one anoth­er. The two oppo­si­tions are linked by what we call sex­tiles and trines.

Often oppo­si­tions lead to a strug­gle between one thing and anoth­er. By hav­ing this Mys­tic pat­tern, it allows a per­son to find a way through, a bridg­ing if you will between what seems to most to be irrec­on­cil­able things. In her case the Sun in Libra would pre­dis­pose a per­son to try to do the right thing in terms of rela­tion­ships and part­ner­ships, and to defer one’s own needs and inter­ests for that of oth­ers, to be what we call very “oth­er inter­est­ed”. Yet her moon in Aries says she also feels a strong need to assert her­self and dis­play lead­er­ship, courage, and ini­tia­tive. And if that is too strong one might run roughshod over oth­er people.

So, it is a tug of war between doing what is right for one­self and doing what is more accom­mo­dat­ing. Of course, the les­son in her life was to learn to hold her­self in the mid­dle, to be pos­i­tive­ly self-assertive with­out being too abra­sive or strong about it; to be mind­ful­ly sen­si­tive so that she equal­ly con­sid­er the social con­se­quences of those words and deeds in order to main­tain har­mo­ny and balance.

Like­wise, with her Mars in Leo, Kamala wish­es to act in the world in a way that that dis­plays con­fi­dence and mas­tery as she looks to earn respect. But if you shape your actions too much by what will bring you approval and respect, well then you might become untrue to who you real­ly are. That is when her Sat­urn in Aquar­ius reminds her, “to thine own self be true”, and that she should not over­ly care what peo­ple think. So that also pulls on her from anoth­er direc­tion. Giv­en this polar­iza­tion, she could get stuck by either being too accom­mo­dat­ing in terms of try­ing to earn peo­ple’s respect or too dis­mis­sive of peo­ple so she can do her own thing. The need of course is to strike the right bal­ance, to be some­one who val­ues hon­or and indi­vid­u­al­i­ty, but also real­izes the impor­tance of doing that with­in a con­text that is social­ly mean­ing­ful. This pat­tern is one of the keys to under­stand­ing what dri­ves Kamala’s life.

Then we turn to the prin­ci­ple indi­ca­tors in any­body’s chart, and for Kamala it is her Sun in Libra placed in her 5th house. Peo­ple with the sun in Libra are focused on rela­tion­ships and part­ner­ships, and we often find them being the medi­a­tor between indi­vid­u­als and groups. Libra’s have a strong sense of fair play and jus­tice, and we usu­al­ly see them work­ing towards alle­vi­at­ing injus­tices and heal­ing divi­sions. Kamala is a lawyer, and a pros­e­cu­tor and now a sen­a­tor, and get­ting involved in social caus­es and try­ing to make that social space more equi­table and fair­er would be some­thing that would dri­ve her sto­ry with­out question.

Kamala’s Sun is in the “nat­ur­al house” for the Sun, the 5^th House, as the Sun rules the 5th sign of Leo. This place­ment often indi­cates some­one who car­ries some form of ener­gy that nat­u­ral­ly dis­plays lead­er­ship; she inspires oth­ers with her prin­ci­pled nature. More­over, with her Sun in the nat­ur­al house of Leo, she will shine like the Sun, and when she smiles it will light up the room with warmth and goodness.

When we look to see how her Sun is con­nect­ed to the rest of the chart, the first thing to note is that Kamala was born a Full Moon. I like to say that a per­son born at a Full Moon is born with no excus­es, because they implic­it­ly under­stand cause and effect, the law of action and reac­tion. But it also indi­cates that Kamala was brought into the world so that when she looked at her moth­er, and then she looked at father, she said to her­self, “wow these peo­ple are dif­fer­ent”. It set Kamala on her path, to try and fig­ure out how to rec­on­cile the dif­fer­ences I sense with­in me, and then between myself and oth­er peo­ple. This aware­ness dri­ves her sto­ry through­out her life, try­ing to find a way to bring togeth­er peo­ple and to bring togeth­er the oppo­sites and achieve an inte­gral synthesis.

Her Sun is also per­fect­ly lined up with her Sat­urn in Aquar­ius. A Sun/Saturn trine per­son has a very deep under­stand­ing about how the world works, and equal­ly a res­olute sense of respon­si­bil­i­ty in the world in terms of their life. We typ­i­cal­ly find that peo­ple like this often find their life tends to shine once they hit their 50s and onward, as they show great adept­ness and matu­ri­ty and skill in work­ing in struc­tures and mas­ter­ing them.

Her Sun is next to Mer­cury, what we call a con­junc­tion, and that makes her a very sharp per­son in terms of her intel­li­gence. And that strength of mind fits quite well again with her moon being in Aries since the moon in Aries rules the head and makes for a rather quick mind.

An Aries Moon per­son leans into life, they are very enthu­si­as­tic, some­times a lit­tle too enthu­si­as­tic, some­times a lit­tle too com­pet­i­tive, and that eager­ness or over­reach­ing can some­times bring them trou­ble. When­ev­er a Moon in Aries per­son is frus­trat­ed or hav­ing some dif­fi­cul­ty, I always tell them that the answer or rem­e­dy is for them to get mov­ing, to just get very phys­i­cal and use up that ener­gy in some form of phys­i­cal exer­tion. Rather than peace­ful and still med­i­ta­tions in order to be cen­tered, peo­ple like this should run, dance or move vig­or­ous­ly and that will restore their peace of mind.

The Aries Moon in Kamala’s chart is in the Eleventh House of social ideals, of her social con­scious­ness and con­science. This means that Kamala’s com­mu­ni­ties, the groups, and asso­ci­a­tions that she belongs to and par­tic­i­pates in are so mean­ing­ful to her. These com­mu­ni­ties and caus­es bring her nur­tur­ing and com­fort as she equal­ly tries to bring lead­er­ship and nur­tur­ing to them.

More­over, the Moon in her chart is oppo­site to her Mer­cury and that means she ini­tial­ly had to strug­gle to inte­grate what she was feel­ing and what she was think­ing and speak­ing about. Hav­ing had to work on this, she prob­a­bly has learned to mas­ter the art of weav­ing togeth­er her intel­lect and her feel­ings, to hold them togeth­er so that her words and ideas can car­ry that much fur­ther into the mind and hearts of oth­ers. But she may still get stuck or stum­ble between what she is think­ing and what she is feel­ing some­times, and when unable to over­come that divide, she might be misunderstood.

Kamala is for­tu­nate to have her Moon trine her Mars, (and that Mars in her chart is impor­tant and we will come back to that). Mars is her ris­ing plan­et, it is the lead plan­et of her chart, and any­body with the Moon trin­ing Mars is some­one who is a “Can Do per­son”, not a “Can­not Do per­son”; the word no or can­not is just not part of their DNA. Once they set their sights upon a task or mis­sion that is it, they are ful­ly ener­gized once they feel strong­ly about some­thing, so that they are on it com­plete­ly and noth­ing will dis­suade them.

Kamala approach­es the world like a Gem­i­ni because she has Gem­i­ni Ris­ing. This makes her curi­ous and rest­less, and some­times provoca­tive or con­trary. She can see more than one side to an issue, and she relies upon her intel­li­gence and adapt­abil­i­ty to solve prob­lems and not get stuck.

The Mid­heav­en of a chart shows the des­tiny or path in life, and for Kamala she has the sign of Pisces on top of her chart. This means that she feels that her life and her life work must have some­thing to do with a mis­sion or greater pur­pose, that it is not about her­self but about the call­ing to some task that requires sac­ri­fice and dedication.

Kamala’s ris­ing plan­et of Mars is in the sign of Leo. I have men­tioned many times that Mars in Leo is one of the sig­ni­fi­ca­tors found in more US President’s charts than any oth­er. Kamala’s Mars in Leo is in a promi­nent posi­tion, and it gives her a Leo qual­i­ty of being a fight­er for hon­or and for integri­ty. Mars ris­ing peo­ple embody a war­rior spir­it, it can make them strong, but they need to be care­ful in how they wield this pow­er. For Kamala, Mars is placed in her Third House of the Mind and Intel­li­gence, and indi­cates a very sharp and quick mind, and often a very sharp tongue. It is great asset for a debater, it is the per­fect asset for a lawyer because that is where this ener­gy can find a mean­ing­ful application.

But she has to learn to be care­ful to not over­do or over­whelm her oppo­nent (or audi­ence), and that if she comes across as too strong or to seem to be full of her­self in terms of what she knows or how she wields that pow­er of her mind it could reveal a lack of social grace. Her very intel­li­gence and assertive nature could be turned against her.

As much as Mars is so impor­tant as her ris­ing plan­et, the cul­mi­nat­ing plan­et in anyone’s chart is also sig­nif­i­cant, reveal­ing much about their soul and their des­tiny. For Kamala, it is the plan­et Sat­urn in Aquar­ius. Sat­urn rules struc­ture, real­i­ty, insti­tu­tions, and the law. More­over, it is in the Ninth House which rules high­er under­stand­ing, the realm of Truth, Sci­ence, Phi­los­o­phy, and the Law as well. This place­ment shows that Kamala has a great abil­i­ty in this life­time to be mas­ter­ful in realms of reli­gion and phi­los­o­phy and sci­ence and law. As we all know, she was a lawyer and a pros­e­cu­tor, and giv­en Sat­urn in the Ninth house the path of her pro­fes­sion­al life makes sense.

Jupiter is the plan­et that informs and guides our beliefs and our truths, of what we find mean­ing­ful to us, and forms our inspi­ra­tions and moti­va­tions. Kamala has her Jupiter in the sign of Tau­rus, and it is in her Twelfth House. With Jupiter in her 12^th House, she can draw upon a well of spir­i­tu­al con­fi­dence and under­stand­ing from with­in her­self; for Kamala, her faith is cen­tered, deep and abid­ing. With her Jupiter in Tau­rus, she makes her way by a very per­sis­tent search for the truth. More­over, Kamala has a firm belief that there are teach­ings and val­ues that are eter­nal, and this sup­ports her opti­mism and faith in human­i­ty. Because of this sense of last­ing val­ue, she has a very steady kind of spir­i­tu­al under­stand­ing, she lives a faith informed by truth.

With her Sat­urn in the 9th house, Kamala would have start­ed with a cer­tain cultural/spiritual sys­tem of belief, but then by her own need and through cir­cum­stances, she would have been exposed to and explored oth­er cul­tures, beliefs and paths to Truth. Her Sat­urn “test in life” is in fact the test of truth, and those with this test even­tu­al­ly arrive at a place of a more encom­pass­ing under­stand­ing of Wis­dom teth­ered to Humil­i­ty. Then peo­ple like Kamala can help oth­er peo­ple under­stand what is true and how to under­stand the way to truth because that has been and remains Kamala’s journey.

The plan­et Venus in a chart will show what you val­ue, what you love, and how you love. For Kamala Venus is espe­cial­ly impor­tant because she is a Libra, a sign ruled by Venus. For Kamala, Venus is in the sign of Vir­go, so even though Kamala is a Libra she real­ly wants to be a Vir­go. Kamala wants to be more at peace, to have a more com­plete under­stand­ing of val­ue, beau­ty, and love by tak­ing an ana­lyt­i­cal approach to beau­ty and to rela­tion­ship. It can make some­one some­what of a per­fec­tion­ist, but it also makes her more atten­tive to the need for rela­tion­ships and part­ner­ships to be formed with right struc­tur­ing so that they are har­mo­nious and bal­anced. Venus is a strong indi­ca­tor for Kamala, since it is the plan­et that is ris­ing before her Sun. With Venus in this posi­tion and Sign, she is led through life by Venus; she seeks to under­stand and heal the pat­terns and con­di­tions of rela­tion­ships between part­ners and groups of people.

Mer­cury is the plan­et that rules the mind and our means of com­mu­ni­ca­tion, and for Kamala it is in the sign of Scor­pio. So even though Kamala is a Libra, she thinks like a Scor­pio which means with a great insight that always seeks to go deep­er, to remove the veil cov­er­ing things that are hid­den. She will not accept things at face val­ue but will dive deep­er to find the truth. Kamala’s mind is focused, deter­mined and author­i­ta­tive since her Mer­cury lines up with her Sat­urn, (just like her Sun). She goes deep­er than most and goes to the heart of the mat­ter, so that when she deliv­ers that mes­sage, she is com­pelling and persuasive.

KAMALA/BIDEN:

How do Joe and Kamala’s charts line up with one anoth­er? The most strik­ing dif­fer­ence between their charts is the Fixed and Watery nature of Biden as com­pared to the Cardinal/Fixed and Fiery/Earthy nature of Har­ris. Joe will appre­ci­ate Kamala’s dri­ve and ide­al­ism, but he will cer­tain­ly come across as the more sen­si­tive and emo­tion­al per­son in their part­ner­ship. After all, he has the Moon as his Ris­ing Plan­et, so Joe is an emo­tion­al and sen­si­tive type, he will be the heal­er or “Empathiz­er in Chief”. Kamala has Mars ris­ing, she will be the one who is ready for bat­tle, she will be the “War­rior Woman”.

One of the most sig­nif­i­cant links between two charts is when one person’s Moon aligns with the oth­er person’s Moon, and Kamala’s Moon and Joe’s Moon are con­junct, and that cre­ates a bond of empa­thy and under­stand­ing between them. Then Kamala’s Sun (which is oppo­site to her Moon), is also oppo­site Joe’s Moon. Here is when we say, “oppo­sites attract”. Each will feel that the oth­er per­son is dif­fer­ent but in a stim­u­lat­ing way; in some sense, each will feel that the oth­er bal­ances or com­pletes them in some man­ner. For Kamala, she will have to come to under­stand Joe’s emo­tion­al nature (which is quite dif­fer­ent from hers, he with the Moon in Tau­rus, and her with the Moon in Aries), and Joe will have to accept and enjoy Kamala’s strong per­son­al­i­ty, espe­cial­ly with her Sun in her Fifth House.

Astrologer’s will always look to see if there are Sat­urn con­nec­tions between two charts, and that is here. Joe’s Sun Squares Kamala’s Sat­urn. I always say to my clients who have this in their part­ner­ship, that this forms the feel­ing of “Déjà vu”, so that the two peo­ple will feel that this rela­tion­ship is famil­iar, like they are meet­ing one anoth­er “once again”, and their rela­tion­ship seems to have a feel­ing of kar­ma and des­tiny about it. It will tend to hold peo­ple togeth­er, to be deeply com­mit­ted to one another.

Biden’s Mer­cury squares Harris’s Mars, and this will cre­ate a fris­son of ener­gy, but also the poten­tial for fric­tion between them. Basi­cal­ly, Joe will usu­al­ly want to talk more about some mat­ter or issue, where­as Kamala will wish to take action more quick­ly. Each will mod­er­ate the oth­er when it works; Joe bring­ing more delib­er­a­tion into an issue before mov­ing on it, and at times Kamala get­ting Joe to act soon­er than he might have with­out her.

Jupiter is espe­cial­ly impor­tant in a rela­tion­ship, espe­cial­ly for Biden who has Sagit­tar­ius Ris­ing. Joe’s Jupiter squares Kamala’s Moon. This may seem chal­leng­ing at times, but Jupiter being the greater benef­ic will often lead to a reward­ing expe­ri­ence. Joe’s Jupiter will help Kamala to expand her out­look and broad­en her under­stand­ing of the world. The key to this work­ing will be do they fun­da­men­tal­ly share the same spiritual/cultural beliefs? And for that we need to exam­ine the aspect between Joe’s Jupiter and Kamala’s.

Joe has his Jupiter in Can­cer and Kamala has her Jupiter in Tau­rus, and they form a strong and pos­i­tive sex­tile. That means their under­stand­ing about the nature of truth and faith are sim­i­lar and aligned. They will form a part­ner­ship that can inspire and bring out the best in one anoth­er and give hope and inspi­ra­tion to oth­ers as well.