Summer Solstice - Ingress Chart Washington, DC

Happy Longest Day of the Year, One Day Late.

Summer Solstice for U.S.

June 20, 2008 7:59 EDT Washington DC

Sun 1 Cancer; ASC 23 Sagittarius; Moon 26 Capricorn; MC 14 Libra; NN 20 Aquarius

The 1st & 7th Houses of this chart contain the opposition between Sun-Venus and Pluto so any kind of emotional tug-of-war seems a prominent feature of the Summer as far as the U.S. goes. Venus rules the Midheaven, Leo in intercepted in the 8th House so the Sun doesn't rule a cusp and Pluto rules the 8th House. This certainly describes a battle for all Executive positions, especially for the Presidency. Don't know what it means that Leo is intercepted in the 8th House other than that finances will be very prominent in this battle. We've already seen this as Barack Obama flip-flopped on campaign funds issues. (I agree with why he did this (as far as I can understand it which may not be far) but also realize that he has no clue how things run in a Democracy and is acting like a spoiled brat doing this stuff just because he wants to, more and more like Bush as every second passes. Uranus is still in Pisces, we're not out of the woods yet. Where's Dennis Kucinich in this race? (I forgot how to spell his name.) I need someone to vote for. With the sign of consultants, Libra, on the Midheaven and its ruler conjunct the Sun and DESC I think this is a serious issue that will come up. Anyway, I'm giving my own opinions already but with Venus opposite Pluto everyone's going to be feeling emotionally drained by the time Summer is over. I really wish Jessie Ventura would run. I'd vote for him. He's got umph. We could all be Americans again if he would be Prez.

As already stated Pluto is in the 1st House. That's a power thing. Jupiter rules the Chart and is also in H1 conjunct the Moon in Capricorn. These 3 together are good for anything competitive. The Presidential Election. The Olympics. Jupiter rules Opinions, Luck, Education, Lawyers, Publishing and the Moon rules Women, the Public, Real Estate, Land, Environment, Food, Nurturing. Will be interesting to see if U.S. women do very well in the Olympics. In this chart Venus is out-of-bounds and both conjunct and parallel to the Sun so is very strong. Venus rules the Judicial System through Libra and Money through Taurus so this looks very important.

The other prominent Axis is the 2d-8th house. Saturn rules the 2d House and is placed in the 8th House. That's depressing. The Nodal Axis also lies across these houses in intercepted Leo-Aquarius. Neptune-Chiron-NN are in the 1st House of Banking, Money, and Values. Mars is conjunct the South Node in the 8th House of Investments, Taxes, Insurance. This maybe shows some deceit and corruption brewing. It could also show a lot of risk taking and wish fulfillment through the Leo-Aquarius vibe. Hopefully this will show investments in risky, wise innovations. And over all of this cautious Saturn rules. And Saturn is in trine/sextile to the Pluto opposition to Sun-Venus. It shows that the Government will be playing with everyone's purse strings. Wonder what Leo intercepted in the 8th will do to the price of Gold. Neptune in the 2d shows money through Oil & Gas and other Neptunian subjects like Glamour, even Coffee, even Morphine, you know the drill.

I remembered that Astrologer Dean Bensics (hopefully he'll give a reading of this chart over at Noel Tyl's forum) looks up Astrolocality Charts from off the Ingress Charts and this one is interesting. The Mercury DESC Line runs close to Chicago where Obama is from. Mercury rules the Descendant in this Ingress Chart. The Saturn MC line runs through Arizona where McCain is from. The Pluto ASC line runs through Washington. And a Mars Line runs through Northern California and up through Portland and Seattle. Will the Vice Presidential Picks be from off of the areas indicated by these lines as well?