The US Saturn Cycle and Trump (Assassination? 🤔)
It seems more likely the more I stare at charts
First let me say that astrology gets predictions wrong all the time, and I’ve only been studying astro intently for about 2.5 years, so in most senses I’m still an amateur. Also, being killed and being removed from office can be a very similar looking signature. So take this as an interesting set of arguments and charts and see what you think, but don’t freak out about it please.
I’m not saying anything will definitely happen to Trump. I’m just saying if something is going to happen, now would be an indicated time.
(Which could be as benign as an old man dying of things old men die of. That does happen obviously, and you don’t need a chart to know that.)
As a reminder: astrology is not a science. Astrology is divination.
This post got kind of long, so here’s a map of what I’ll be covering:
All the charts of former US presidents being killed, resigning, or dying of natural causes while in office. Hint: they all have Sun-Saturn aspects, i.e. “death of a leader”. Also the Butler chart (where Trump got shot in the ear but was fine).
The chart of today so you can compare it.
Saturn cycles and how the history of Trump in office maps onto it, and what a Saturn opposition brings
What I think it all means (facing the music).
How this upcoming Saturn retrograde gives us an opportunity and what we need to do with it
So the first thing that had me thinking in this direction is when I noticed that in the US Sibly chart, Saturn and the Sun are square at about 1.5 degree orb. That means any hard transit to Saturn is also a hard transit to the Sun—it will light up that aspect every time. And right now, the US is going through a Saturn opposition, meaning Saturn is at 14 Aries, and our Saturn is at 14 Libra —Aries and Libra are opposite signs.
The Sun in a country’s chart represents the leader of the nation—the central figure. Saturn, among other things, represents death or final endings—a hard boundary beyond which we cannot return. Saturn is ground truth, hard reality, the facts of life, having to face the music.
Sun-Saturn: The death of solar figures
Sun-Saturn transits often correspond to leaders dying or being removed from office.
I rounded up all the charts of leaders being killed, resigning, or dying of natural causes to see what we see. We have 9 charts in total. We are mostly looking at Sun-Saturn here, but we can also see what Pluto (also a planet of death) and Uranus (a planet of shock and sudden disruption) are doing.
Four of our US presidents have been killed in office
When Lincoln was assassinated in 1865, there was a Sun-Saturn opposition in the sky. This was not directly on the US Saturn but it was near it, in the same sign. (Also note Pluto sextile our Sun, and Uranus is in Gemini—like it is now).
When Garfield was assassinated in 1881, the Sun and Saturn were exactly sextile, and the Sun was conjunct the US Sun (a Solar Return), meaning it was also square the US Saturn. (Also note Uranus is sextile the Sun on the other side, forming a Minor Grand Trine.).
And after hanging on for 79 days, when Garfield finally died—Saturn had returned via retrograde to almost the same exact position, again sextile the US Sun. Saturn was not taking no for an answer!
When McKinley was assassinated in 1901, Saturn was opposite the US Sun and square the US Saturn. (Check out Uranus on our Ascendant as well, and Pluto on our Mars opposite!)
When JFK was assassinated in 1963, Saturn was trining the US Saturn. That was also the decade of the Pluto-Uranus conjunction, which saw a lot of assassinations and turmoil—and we are currently at the trine of that cycle. (Trines do not always mean “good things”. They mean “these two planets are operating on the same wavelength, seamlessly supporting each other”.)
We’ve had one resignation (so far…)
When Nixon resigned, the Saturn was conjunct the US’s Sun (and thus also square the US’s Saturn).
Four US presidents died of natural causes while in office
William Henry Harrison was only in office for a month when he died of pneumonia. This chart give us Sun-Saturn grand cross! (While the Sun is almost conjunct Pluto!)
Next up is Zachary Taylor - he died of an “unknown digestive ailment” after apparently drinking copious amounts of a 4th of July cherry-and-ice-milk drink (for real?).
So we’ve got another Solar Return chart. And look, there is Saturn at 20 Aries. This is getting a bit freaky, right!? (Also note we have another Uranus-Pluto conjunction near Saturn).
Next is Warren G. Harding, who died in 1923 of a heart attack. Saturn was conjunct the US Saturn - a Saturn Return. (Also note Pluto on our Sun, and Uranus trining them…did you know we have a Pluto-Uranus trine in our sky right now also!?).
OK, last one. Let’s see what FDR’s chart looks like. Well, would you look at that. Saturn nearing our Sun, the Sun opposite our Saturn. (Also there is Uranus in Gemini again—our Uranus return—which we also have right now).
The almost-assassination
Let’s also look at Butler (the most dramatic attempt that Trump survived).
This chart is a Mars-Uranus conjunction right after the Solar Return, with Saturn trine the Sun.
That Mars-Uranus conjunction was also right on Trump’s Midheaven (at 24 Taurus). Astrologers were definitely saying something might happen. The possibility was there.
But sometimes the Universe is a tease, I guess? Or maybe it’s that Saturn was not aspecting the US Saturn. So it wasn’t really part of the Saturn Cycle, which I’ll talk about below.
OK, so what does the chart of today look like?
We are right in a Saturn opposition, which forms a T-square with the Sun.
We are a bit past the danger point of the Fourth of July (Solar Return), and the Mars-Uranus conjunction, although still in range. Uranus is in Gemini. Pluto and Uranus are trine.
The other intense thing coming up on July 20th is the “Basket” (which I talked about last time) — where Pluto, Neptune, Uranus, and Jupiter will all be at 4 degrees of their respective signs, forming a unique configuration of two Minor Grand Trines and a Jupiter-Pluto opposition in the signs of Leo vs Aquarius - the signs of the King vs the People, which I talked about in the French Revolution post.
Because of the way cycles work, this configuration is a milestone in the cycles of all of those planets - the Uranus-Pluto cycle, the Uranus-Jupiter cycle, the Uranus-Neptune cycle, the Jupiter-Pluto cycle…you get the idea. (Neptune-Pluto doesn’t really count because they have been sextile for like, a century at this point.)
Another interesting detail is that Saturn stations retrograde on July 26 at 14°44’ Aries. The US chart’s Saturn is at 14° 48’ libra. So it is stationing almost exactly on the opposition point. While we also will have a Sun-Pluto opposition in the sky.
So like, there are a lot of omens, is all I’m saying.
But the way astrology works is, when you look up an event, you will see symbols that describe it, but that doesn’t mean every time a configuration happens, someone dies. That’s what makes astrology not-a-science in terms of prediction. The symbols can mean a lot of different things in terms of the way it actually plays out. It’s not weather prediction, it’s reading symbolic sky-code.
So while the Sun-Saturn charts are compelling, that’s why I’m not like, “OMG TrUmP is gOnnA die”. I can’t know that for sure, nobody can.
And even if he does, that doesn’t get us out of all of our problems, because The Saturn Opposition is in the US chart, not Trump’s chart. Trump is just the vehicle for it to play out. It is OUR SHIT we have to face, as a nation.
The Saturn Cycle
By the Saturn Cycle, I mean the different aspect Saturn makes to itself when comparing charts:
the Saturn return (conjunction - equivalent to a New Moon)
opening sextile
opening square
opening trine
opposition (equivalent to a Full Moon)
closing trine
closing square
closing sextile
another return
In a normal human life, the first Saturn Opposition at age 15 is about coming of age as a teenager, growing up, individuating. The second Saturn Opposition at 44 is a time of re-evaluating commitments and letting go of anything that is no longer authentic. It’s part of the passage into middle age.
This is from my free long-term transits report:
The halfway point in a planetary return cycle brings a reckoning with whatever began at the planet’s last return (or the natal promise). It is the point of maximum contrast and tension in the return cycle. It often involves a pivotal test, lesson, or achievement, which facilitates deeper integration of the planet’s lessons.
I wrote about the US Saturn Opposition and what it means more in this post.
I went back and looked at the last US Saturn Return, as well as other points in the cycle. Things that start at the conjunction often go through stages of development at the other major transit points.
What happened at each point in the cycle so far
Note that the date range is due to retrogrades and represent the first perfected aspect and the last. So, the square is building prior to the first date, and in its denouement after the last date.
Last US Saturn Return: Dec 3, 2010 — Aug 28, 2011
The Arab Spring, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was arrested, the debt ceiling crisis leading to the US getting an S&P rating downgrade.
One thing that stood out to me was the 2011 White House Correspondent’s Dinner. The one where Obama mocked Trump to his face. I read through the transcript—it really wasn’t that bad, and Trump has denied it had anything to do with his running for President.
But we all know how much Trump compares everything he does to Obama, how he seemed to tear up the JCPOA (the Iran Nuclear Deal) simply because Obama negotiated it, and how he was responsible for the Obama birth certificate conspiracies.
We also know how much Trump always wanted the elites of NYC to accept him, which they never will.
The seed is planted.
Opening Sextile: Feb 9 2016 — Nov 4, 2016
Trump was elected President on Nov 8, 2016. So this was the entire 2016 election cycle.
The opportunity is seized.
Opening Square: Jan 30, 2019 — Oct 21, 2019
The longest government shutdown in US History at the time, 35 days was October 1, 2025—November 12, 2025, as the square was applying. (It’s been exceeded now by the one in 2025 which was 43 days.)
Trump pulled out of the JCPOA in May 2018. In November 2018, Trump reinstated all sanctions on Iran, even though Iran was still abiding by the agreement. Tensions escalated between the US and Iran throughout 2019.
Epstein died August 10, 2019.
In December 2019, Trump was impeached the first time—but was acquitted in Feb 2020.
The stakes are raised, the conflict is apparent.
Opening Trine: January 25, 2022
This was the only date of the perfected trine aspect. Biden was president. We were dealing with the Omicron variant of COVID-19. Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022. Wordle was a thing.
Also: After months of requests by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), Trump’s team turns over 15 boxes. NARA discovers over 180 classified documents within them and refers the matter to the DOJ.
The Jan 6 Committee was doing its investigation during this time, the results of which were shown in public hearings in June through December of 2022.
Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted on December 29, 2021 and sentenced to 20 years on June 28, 2022.
We try for accountability…and largely fail.
Um, could you bottom line this plz.
Sorry, I got a little carried away with the history and dates. My point is that this last Saturn cycle has tracked various events in Trump’s interactions with US leadership.
Conjunction (seed) - is this where he decided to run?
Sextile (Venus, opportunity) - he’s elected the first time
Square (Mars, conflict) - impeached the first time
Trine (Jupiter, harmony) - accountability, sort of not really
Now we are at the opposition - the midway point in the cycle. The harvest or the reckoning.
The opposition is the point in the cycle where the conflict that was seeded at the conjunction and erupted at the square has to be dealt with, if you didn’t use the energy of the trine to deal with it.
If you’ve done the work in earnest all along, it can be a gentle letting go of things that are no longer aligned. Saturn rewards diligence and genuine effort.
But we all know that is not where Trump is at. He has spent his entire two terms getting away with shit (hell, his whole life).
And in a lot of ways, so has the US. Trump is the personification of first-world entitlement, taken to the grossest extreme.
We also know that the rest of the leadership in DC has not successfully held him accountable at all. The Republicans are collaborators and the Democrats are feckless.
So that’s why, unfortunately, I feel this moment is going to be more like smashing into a brick wall.
Facing the music
I see several possibilities in terms of what “having to face the music ” means on a Saturn level, in our current situation:
The Iran War is terrible for the US and the globe in general. And Trump does not seem to be able to just let it end. He started something he is only losing, and he knows that, and he can’t stand it. And so he keeps creating the conditions that could lead to peace, and then sabotaging them.
Oil is a finite resource that the whole economy of the world runs on, and we keep interfering with it flowing, and keep drawing down our own reserves. There is a point where we will run out.
There is no violence without consequences. You cannot kill the entire leadership of a country and expect they will just let it go. The US will receive blowback of some kind from this war.
This war has used up all our fancy war gear. And we do not have the manufacturing base to replenish them very quickly.
Our reputation is toast. Europe knows we are shitty allies. China knows we can’t defend our own bases.
Epstein is still lurking. We all know there is more to know, and nobody has faced any consequences. And we know Trump is mentioned in them a bajillion times.
The number of bucks this man has passed, the number of fuck-arounds that need to be found-out, is immense.
Trump has always been an unstoppable force in US politics. This moment is him meeting a number of immovable objects.
I can’t tell you the exact form it will take. But it will be Saturnian in nature. And Saturn ends things. 💀
But in some ways, being taken out would be Trump dying like he lived—not facing anything, actually. 🤷🏼♀️
But it’s the US that is having the opposition, not Trump. So maybe that’s what this chart is saying.
Maybe Trump dying, and all of us being left to sort out the consequences, to face what he did to our country and with our country’s resources and reputation, is the Saturn opposition + Uranus return moment.
I guess that’s my thesis. It took me a minute to get here. But again, I’m just some lady on the internet with some astrology software. Don’t get too excited. 😂
Especially because we are the ones who have to clean up his mess. This is our reckoning, not his. And it is a reckoning we have deferred for decades.
When it comes to leadership, the US has chosen brinkmanship instead of budgeting, spectacle instead of governance, bullying instead of diplomacy, culture wars instead of reckoning with our past and our problems.
This has been going on for a long long long long time. That is why Trump is a symptom of the problem, not the root of the problem. And this is when we harvest the fruit And the fruit, I’m afraid, is rotten. 🪰
The retrograde is our opportunity
The retrograde station on July 26 curiously stops just short of an exact perfected opposition. This setup is an almost-but-not-quite: something opens but is not concluded.
The exact opposition is not until March 15, 2027. So this reckoning will play out for the next eight months.
A few weeks after it perfects—April 7, 2027—the Sun and Saturn conjunct at 17 Aries, forming another T-square to the US chart. I read this as, whatever happens this month, we have until then to work it out. Because that will be the start of a new Sun-Saturn cycle at the end of this window of reckoning. That is when whatever we have accomplished gets built into the next cycle. That is when wherever we stand becomes the new normal.
So we need to build a much better normal by then.
This eight month period is when we have agency over our next chapter.
This is the chance to look honestly at what we have become as a country. To stop blaming anyone, and take responsibility for what is in our power to do.
So we have to do the work, because Saturn is always about doing the work. 💪
We can’t possibly clean up everything by then. But what we can do, and have to do, is look honestly, tell the truth, face reality, and acknowledge everything that we have ignored or managed a narrative around instead of dealing with.
That’s the work that Saturn is giving us an opportunity to do, with whatever he enacts at this juncture.
The stability of our future and the realization of our potential as a nation is dependent on how much truth we can tell right now.
I believe we will soon encounter a rupture big enough that for a moment, narrative management stops working. The truth simply becomes undeniable.
Maybe it’s something happening to Trump, and the outpouring of emotion, all the pent up feelings that we all have pushed down for a decade while we just try to get by, while we wait for this to be over.
Or maybe something else. But something. There will be a moment the spell breaks.
But humans, we have superpowers of denial. We are so practiced at it.
But we are also very, very, very sick of it. We are sick of it in our souls.
We all saw that in the Mangione moment.
OMG I just had to go look up that chart too. Look at this.
It was a Sun-Saturn square (death of a leader). But the Sun was also on the Ascendant of the US. It was shining a light on who we are. And Saturn was trine the US Sun. This was a hint. This was foreshadowing, perhaps.
That was a moment when a huge backlog of unacknowledged reality and our feelings about it became self-evident as we suddenly all saw how everyone else felt about this event.
That is exactly the kind of thing I think is on the schedule for us. But bigger, much bigger. Big enough to finally force our entire country out of the denial that has become an entrenched way of being for the entire political class.
OK, this post became a frickin’ novel, so I’m going to sign off here. Whatever happens, whatever all these omens are pointing to—it’s up to you to take care of yourself, and up to all of us to take care of each other. Godspeed. 💚