The Incident

On the evening of July 13, at 6:13 PM in Butler, Pennsylvania, there was an incident involving former Pres. Donald Trump. At least, that is how the liberal media initially reported the attempted assassination of Trump. In fact, Trump survived, and with only a minor injury to his right ear. Had he not turned his head a second before, Trump would probably be dead. However, there are factors to this story that do not add up. Perhaps the astrology of the event and Trump gives us some clues as to what was actually going on. For more, read on…

The shooter in the assassination attempt was 20 years old, with no previous military experience. And even though the he was in the sites of the Secret Service at the time, no action was taken to remove him from the roof where he had stationed himself until he actually fired upon Trump and the crowd. This has caused many questions to arise in the minds of the public, especially by people who have actually been in the Secret Service and people with military experience.

Here is the sequence of events, and then we will get to the actual astrology of the event itself and also Donald Trump. Yes, it is from Wikipedia, but it is a pretty thorough summary (at least this part) from everything else I have read. Whether or not one likes Wikipedia, here goes the sequence:

“Trump arrived onstage at the rally at about 6:03 p.m. EDT. A few minutes into his speech, at approximately 6:11 p.m., Thomas Matthew Crooks fired eight shots into the rally venue from an AR-15–style rifle chambered in 5.56mm. Crooks had not undergone security screening, as he was outside the rally’s security perimeter; he had climbed onto the roof of a building around 400 feet (120 meters) north of Trump. Reports indicated that a witness had observed a man carrying a rifle on the rooftop and alerted the police about him minutes before shots were fired at Trump. A Butler Township police officer climbed to the roof, hoisted by another officer, and encountered Crooks. Crooks spotted the officer while the officer’s hands were clinging to the edge of the roof and aimed his rifle at him, forcing him to retreat. Crooks began firing immediately after the confrontation with the officer.

Other local law enforcement officers identified Crooks and felt that he might have been acting suspiciously near the event’s magnetometers; they expressed their suspicions over the radio, and together with the Secret Service, kept an eye on Crooks. As the shots were heard, the rally attendees yelled “Duck!”

Trump was shot in the upper right ear. He raised a hand to his ear before dropping down on the podium behind the lectern for cover. Secret Service agents lunged toward Trump and shielded him. After about 25 seconds, agents helped Trump get up, by which time blood was visible on Trump’s ear and face and he asked the Secret Service agents to let him get his shoes. Trump then raised his fist, pumped it at the crowd, and shouted, “Fight! Fight! Fight!” The crowd responded with cheers and chants of “U-S-A!” Trump was then escorted to a vehicle and taken to a nearby hospital.

Trump credited a large display of a chart portraying immigration statistics with saving his life. Just before the first shot, he turned toward the chart and pointed to it. Trump said, “If I hadn’t pointed at that chart and turned my head to look at it, that bullet would have hit me right in the head.” Crooks shot Trump and at least three rallygoers before being killed by a sniper from the United States Secret Service Counter Assault Team seconds later. One rally attendee was killed.”

OK, so that is the basic sanitized sequence of events. There is more, covered in a bit. What about the shooter? From here the story gets rather interesting, as recently outlined:

“…a random 20 year old acting completely alone walked within 150 yards of a presidential campaign rally with a rifle, climbed onto a rooftop in full view of Secret Service snipers, set up his shot and fired without anyone intervening and with no help from anyone. This 20 year old is also so politically radical as to attempt an assassination and yet not radical enough to have ever posted any political writings or commentary on any social media site ever in his life. He also wrote no manifesto and left behind no indication about why he did it. His last and only political act, before attempting to kill the Republican candidate, was to register as a Republican. You must believe this and ask no questions about it or else you are a conspiracy theorist. And one thing we know about assassination attempts is that there’s never any conspiring involved.”

And this from a guy whose aim was so terrible in high school he failed an tryout for the shooting team at his school. Bolding added. The FBI finally managed to get access to Crooks’ phone, but continue to say they cannot find a motive for Crooks to have done this. Sure. Who was Thomas Matthew Crooks, then? The BBC gave a run-down on him. We have his date of birth without a time of day (chart). We won’t clutter up this posting with a lot of charts. You can go to the links to see them, the ones that are not posted here.

Anyway, Crooks was born on 20 Sep 2003 in Bethel Park, PA. He was a Virgo with Cancer Moon, ascendant unknown, as well as the lunar degree. He had a partile conjunction of Mars and Uranus, which can be quite cold and calculating, which was being approached within a few degrees by the transiting Mars/Uranus conjunction (chart). In addition transiting Neptune had been opposite Crooks’ Sun, while directed Jupiter was exactly in sesquisquare with Crooks’ Neptune. What this speaks of is manipulation and deception. Was the young man set up to do this? We’ll come back to that. From here the prevailing official narrative gets dicier.

Crooks was under observation by the Secret Service (USSS) for almost 30 minutes before he fired on Trump. The counter-sniper had Crooks in his site from the time he clambered up on the roof of the building from which he fired. But the counter-sniper took no action, not until Crooks fired on Trump, at which point Crooks was immediately ‘neutralized’. Why, given Crooks was seen with a rifle, had been observed using a range finder minutes before he ascended the roof, was observed carrying a ladder and a rifle to the building, the roof of the building where the counter-sniper observation team was actually set up, and on and on, did the USSS take no action? No action at all was taken to remove the threat to Trump?

Many commentaries are citing the failure of the USSS to protect Trump. Once one sits back and coldly analyses the events and the timeline, it looks less and less like a failure on the part of the USSS: It becomes a feature. An ex-Green Beret, level one sniper tells us why (and here). From this background we move to the event chart, below (bigger):

There are several features to this chart that are not entirely obvious at first glance. For the obvious, the shooter (Crooks, 7^th house, open enemy of the state) is ruled by Gemini, with Mercury (youth, young people) in the 8^th house (death), but in quincunx to Saturn (failed attempt). Saturn squares the horizon axis from the 3^rd house, showing the delays in the response of the USSS and just a general suppression of plans (horizon axis). Saturn co-rules Secret Services along with the 12^th house. But Saturn also trines the Sun (leader) in the chart, protecting Trump.

Mars (violence and violent people) was conjunct Uranus in the 5^th house (young people, speculation, risk-taking). It can be a violent combination, explosive, even. Mars/Uranus also represents the sudden taking of action, as well as haste and premature action. That would mean on the part of Crooks. He fired immediately after being confronted by a policeman who had climbed up to the roof. That suggests Crooks acted too quickly and botched the attempt. Then there are other factors present in the chart, not so readily evident. Next we move to midpoints, of which there are two key:

• • Sun=Mars/Sat: “Weak vitality, the inability to meet all demands or to master all situations, the necessity to overcome illness. – The illness or the death of members of the male population.”
  • Mars=Sat/Plu: “Brutality, assault or violence, ruthlessness. – The necessity to fight for one’s existence or life, maltreatment.”

Aside from Crooks, one person was killed in the shooting – a 50 y/o volunteer firefighter named Corey Compratore. He was the one hero in the event, who died trying to save his family. Two other men were also injured, age 57 and 74. Trump lost a bit of his right ear. The 57 y/o had to have multiple surgeries to save his life. We wish the injured a speedy recovery. Millions of dollars have been raised on GoFundMe platforms for the victims and their families so far. All of the injured and dead were men.

Lastly, we see Orcus squaring the horizon axis from the 9^th house. Orcus is said to be the punisher of broken oaths and a kind of counter-Pluto. Orcus and Pluto are both plutinos. We also find Pluto in semisquare to the Ascendant of the event chart, indicating a drastic or radical change in one’s plans as well as subversive influences. Pluto also co-rules assassins. But returning to Orcus in the 9^th house, that is suggestive of foreign influence. And this guy Crooks probably thought he was fulfilling some greater ideal by trying to off Trump.

It is worth noting that since J.D. Vance was picked as Trump’s VP running mate the media began running the ridiculous meme that there was Iranian involvement in the assassination attempt. They think we are stupid. Iran is practising Napoleon instead – never interrupt your enemy when he is busy making mistakes. They have no reason to assassinate Trump, given they are now an integral part of BRICS+, the SCO and have what amounts to alliances with Russia and China, and couldn’t care less about sanctions and so forth.

As further evidence that the media thinks we are stupid, upon first hearing of the event they tried to portray it as anything but an assassination attempt: “Trump speech interrupted by Secret Service” (CNN); “Trump injured in incident at Pennsylvania rally” (CNN again, hence the title of this post); “Trump rushed off stage as loud noises were heard” (WaPo); and my favorite – “Secret Service rushes Trump offstage after popping noises heard at his Pennsylvania rally” (NBC). What, was someone eating Rice Krispies in the crowd? A day later the liberal media all had to reluctantly sing the same tune after it was apparent Hitler Trump was still alive and called the event as it was – an assassination attempt. Oh, but it gets worse. Our politicians think we are stupid too.

The immediate and knee-jerk response from Democrats was “There is no place in America for this kind of violence…”. No, its better we commit violence overseas. The utter hypocrisy of politicians on all sides was on full display after we heard snap, crackle, pop at ‘the incident’. All the warmongers were in full agreement, that we shouldn’t shoot each other. It’s OK to shoot other world leaders, though. Then there were a few people who said what they really felt, and lamented the fact that Trump survived the attempt. This brings up a wider point, later. But wait, there is more to this being an inside job.

The attack came two days before the Republican national convention, where Trump was fully expected to be the nominee, and where he would announce his VP pick. But then we find that there was a shorting on Trump’s Truth Social stock ($DJT) the very day before the shooting, just like there were similar shorts on stock on 9/10 and on Oct 6^th (before the Twin Towers and before the Palestinian jailbreak). ‘Someone’ knew this was coming, if the stock thingy proves to be true. Ooh, there is a long incrimination-by-association paper trail with that little revelation.

Then there was the utter incompetence of the USSS on full display, like on the stage and around it. It was like Keystone Cops. The USSS women at the vehicle were particularly noticeable, and not for their cool glasses, either. No doubt they had a good briefing and pep talk before the event.

Such incompetence on the part of the USSS lends toward the event being the cover-up of an inside job, which would go to explain why the head of the USSS (Cheatle) was not immediately fired and still is in office. She also thinks we are stupid, trying to tell us there were no agents on the roof where the shooter was because of the roof’s inclination. We are inclined to think she is lying, or she is really stupid.

And why is the FBI washing away evidence of the crime scene, as Lara Loomer claims? They should be careful. That inclined roof gets mighty slippery when it is wet. Anyway, as for Trump’s VP pick, Vance has said we should dump Ukraine. The nationalists in Ukraine see that as betrayal. Instead, we need to go after Iran for Israel, which would be a colossal blunder, and a war we would also lose. The ultimate enemy for the US is China. With Israel wrapped up (they think) they could then concentrate on China. So, if this was an attempt on Trump that was actually an attempt by proxy (Crooks) for deniability – or maybe the real shooter liked more commanding heights? – who would want to see Trump dead? Several actors come to mind:

• • Ukrainian nationalists and oligarchs who have been feeding off the teat of the US and EU and who would see their cash and weapons dry up if Trump was elected. (Orcus in the 9^th house, from above comments?) Biden did make an oath to Ukraine that they would stand behind them ‘as long as it takes’. Obviously it is not going to take much longer.
  • Certain three-letter agencies in the US who have had a hand in seeking to oust Trump since Hillary Clinton couped Bernie Sanders for the run in 2016. These people would be looking down the barrel of a Trump presidency with more than a little trepidation, and with a lot to lose.
  • All the foreign policy wonks in the Beltway who want to see continuous war in Ukraine and elsewhere years into the future. Or perhaps they owned a large share of $DJT and Rumble stocks that were shorted the day before.

Regards the 2^nd and 3^rd points above there is an hour-long interview with Ray McGovern, ex-CIA analyst, who outlines the reasons why these people want to see the end of Donald Trump, one way or another. The video is highly recommended viewing. He also outlines why Trump would have no more success in his policies as President this time around than he did before and why he was unable to ‘drain the swamp’. He also explains that ‘thorough and swift’ investigations by the FBI are typically geared toward cover-ups. All this brings us to the next point: Why isn’t Trump dead?

Upon hearing of Trump’s ‘miraculous’ escape from the jaws of death, his more cultish followers proclaimed his salvation as ‘an act of God’, especially among evangelical Christians. You can buy the t-shirts too. So, what’s God got to do with it? Not much, really. It just wasn’t Trump’s time to go, as we will see. His salvation was ‘in his stars’. But of course the people who think God saved him also think astrology is ‘of the devil’. Actually, the indicators for death in a horoscope are pretty clear if one has an accurate time of birth, which we do for Trump.

This brings in a tool in astrology we have not addressed in this blog but is a must-have for any astrologer. We are talking here of age harmonics, which are widely used for rectification and timing of events. This was illustrated in a Facebook post the day after the event by a good friend of mine in Australia (hat tip to Alice Portman). His chart with transits and age harmonics for the event are below (bigger), highlighted by me in Alice’s chart:

The chart describes a violent event, as she stated in her post:

“…an assassination attempt through shooting occurred as transiting Uranus moved to a square to his Mars, with transiting Mars conjunct MC. As Uranus can be quite a long transit I use Day Age Harmonics to see when it would be triggered and, as you can see on the charts provided, Day Age Harmonic Moon was at 26Scorpio21, exactly triggering natal Mars by square and transiting Uranus. I have always said that Day Age Harmonics are the best trigger for events I have ever found, and it is confirmed again with this event.”

Since we have largely focused on midpoints and solar arc directions on this site, that is not to discount other methods, such as age harmonics. Alice is one of the true pioneers in astrology. I miss our long conversations from when I lived in Adelaide. There is more to Trump’s chart, though, which rounds out the picture and points back to the question about how he avoided death. When we look at a particular midpoint in his chart and the solar arcs to it a clearer picture emerges. His chart with transits and directions is below (bigger):

We won’t go into an analysis of the above chart except for a couple of factors, in relation to the question of why Trump is not dead. Firstly we note Trump’s directed Midheaven (MC) had just come within a degree of orb to Trump’s natal Pluto. Normally that direction is associated with ascent to power. It came within orb at the end of June this year. But then we note the midpoint structure in the center of the chart wheel:

• • Plu=Mars/Sat: “Brutality, the rage or fury of destruction. – The intervening of Higher Power, bodily injury or harm (murder, the death of a great many people).”

Past readers of this blog might remember the alternative name for the Mars/Saturn midpoint – the ‘death axis’. We all have one, lurking somewhere in our individual charts, in fact at every 45° from its initial placement. It is true it is or can be one of the indicators of death, and one of the factors astrologers look for if they have to consult on death. But in the case of Trump, with Pluto at that midpoint his is a particularly powerful placement and it can be an indicator of a violent death. In most cases of its activation it would probably indicate some sort of illness, malaise or accident in the case of the raw midpoint itself, but when Pluto is activated, as in the case of Trump, his life becomes rather interesting.

Noting the bolded points regarding the midpoint, above, we note ‘intervention by a Higher Power’. The base planets of the midpoint were both activated by transit that day – Saturn by the Sun and Mars by Mars. Hence we see his injury, in that he got his ear clipped – an apt symbolism, we might say. But we also see something else – the transit of Jupiter by sextile to Pluto and the directed MC. There was your ‘Higher Power’, the Greater Benefic protecting him, or we might say, ameliorating the intensity of the fiery activation of the midpoint’s base planets. It wasn’t God. It is just not his time to go. So, Trump dodged the fatal shot this time. But that will change shortly, as in before the election.

When one looks at the progressed Moon and the age harmonic Moon at the end of October, with Uranus once again square to Mars (retrograde) and both of those Moon placements activating natal Pluto/directed MC and the midpoint just described…well, I don’t want to say too much. At the moment, with the heat of the assassination attempt still buoying Trump’s chances of winning the election, it would appear – given his current trajectory – that Trump will win in a landslide. All I will say is, if I were a betting man, I wouldn’t bet on it.

Three months is an eternity from Election Day in the world of such divisive and charged politics, with so many people placing their hopes, dreams of power and leveraging fortunes on the outcome. What seems certain today could all come crashing down tomorrow. The devil made me say it (kidding). Actually, it is just the better part of common sense, and with that in mind, there is one more final point to add.

Since the assassination attempt failed, if it was planned by more nefarious forces (Pluto is semisquare the Ascendant in the event chart from the 2^nd house – people of Big Money and influence seeking to bend an outcome to their desires by force), then it reflects a certain desperation within the halls of power, from wherever they are. Now they are operating on a Plan B, whatever that might be. They are not done with Trump, or Biden for that matter, not by a long shot (take that as you will). And now Biden has covid. There is a resulting power struggle in the White House as we speak. US elections are not just about America. There is a lot riding on this election both for Ukraine and Israel/Palestine. The odds are, both of those nations will lose, Bigly. Here is why I say that:

For the first time in its history the chart of the US shows Saturn by solar arc sitting on its natal Mars and squaring natal Neptune. It shows a sickness of soul. In addition, transiting Saturn squares the Horizon axis from the 3^rd house in its retrograde phase – people talking at each other rather than to each other. The other thing the directed Saturn shows is that the US is no longer able to push other nations around militarily. Hence, people connected with the military-industrial complex and finance are desperate, and calling for desperate measures, like the one we just witnessed. We cannot even defeat the Houthis in Yemen, much less Russia by proxy in Ukraine.

The ‘arsenal of democracy’ is drained. Our vaunted values lie in a shambles overseas. And people are sick of war. This is a magical moment, as every point of crisis is. Maybe, just maybe this election will force the very much needed debate we need to have as a nation.

As for Trump, let him and his followers enjoy his Iwo Jima moment. He made it into the history books with that photo. It is the one for which he will be most remembered, and admired by his followers. He is a rock star in Asia, even though they don’t especially like him. The day after the attempt on his life there were already t-shirts in production in China with that picture on it. You can buy one if you like. Not my cup of tea, but it is an iconic photo, whether one barracks for Trump or not.

I don’t wish any ill on Donald Trump or on anyone else in the race for the White House, for that matter. And no, The Simpsons did not predict Trump’s death this year. And yes, the event was real. A man died there. Staged events use crisis actors, who tend to pop up in other crises. This event was not the act of a lone shooter, either. He had help. We may never know the whole truth of what happened that day. That is what tends to happen with real assassinations in America. No one in America actually believes Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, for instance.

I won’t be voting for either Trump or Biden anyway. People should vote their conscience, and both of those men represent a system that has gone on for long enough – too long – and needs overhauling. What we need in this country, the land of my birth, is an open, uncensored and very ‘lively’ debate (and it would be, too!) divorced from personalities. The focus needs to be on issues. We have a lot of issues to fix at home. No one man or woman is going to step into the White House and change things. It will take grassroots pressure over time to see any change. That said, buckle your seat belts, or get the popcorn ready. It’s going to be a wild ride to November!

Feature pic from USA Today