J.D. Vance (August 2, 1984)

I guess it’s time to look at the ‘other’ Presidential ticket. Trump chose J.D. Vance on a whim, it seems. At the time, it appeared to be a doubling down on the MAGA side of life, in order to oust the ‘old man’, President Biden, but that back-fired spectacularly when Biden outmaneuvered the Republicans by stepping back and pushing his VP, Kamala Harris, forward as the Democrat candidate.

I’m not confident this is Vance’s true birth time, but I did rectify his chart to show when he married (Venus) @ 30 years of age, As a result, there is only one inconjunct and it is totally time dependent.

Mercury Inconjunct Ascendant

You are likely to have some problems, but not serious ones, in communicating with others. The problem is that people’s first impression of you may not fit in with what you say or your manner of thinking and speaking. People tend to hear what they expect to hear, and they may not listen to you as carefully as they should. So you will have to be as clear as possible and insist that others listen to what you are really saying. If others do not understand you, it is up to you to set them straight.

Planets in Youth (page 175) by Robert Hand (1977)

Hmm. Even if we cannot rely upon the correctness of his birth time, this aspect seems applicable.

Trump and Vance

In the interests of playing fair to both sides of the political divide, I have combined the two candidates charts to see what makes them tick. There are three interactive inconjuncts, two of which form a Yod pointing at Vance’s Uranus. The inconjuncts are connected to Trump’s Mercury and Midheaven. The other inconjunct links Vance’s Mars and Trump’s Sun. Hmm.

There are two close conjunctions between them, and both spell trouble in Paradise. Vance’s Sun is conjunct Trump’s Pluto (in Trump’s 12th House of the Unconscious), and Trump’s Mars is conjunct Vance’s Venus (in Trump’s 1st House of Personality). All four are in Leo. This is going to be a volatile relationship, no matter how they try to spin it. In a Tarot reading that Ellie Dreams Down Under posted today on her YouTube channel, the final card was described as the “unfaithful lover” which made me laugh. Ellie thought that it might be the MAGA voters that were the fickle ones, but the Venus/Mars connection between these two makes me wonder…