Astrology: No Kings Protest October 18, 2025

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good

This Saturday October 18, 2025 the second No Kings Day protests will occur around the country (and the globe!) with a variety of starting times. As a representative, the horoscope shown below is a noon chart set for Washington DC. 20Sag59 rises with the Moon/North Node midpoint of spiritual connections, along with asteroid Icarus.

Conjunct the Mercury-Mars Conjunction in Scorpio is Nemesis - determined to restore karmic balance to long overdue justice in our nation. Divine retribution is indicated.

And with ethical Jupiter exalted in Cancer acting as chart-and-protest ruler (in DC), his applying aspects include trines to the Saturn-Neptune pair, and a challenging opposition to powerful Pluto. Perhaps financial manipulation will become involved at some point as leverage.

Then at the foundational IC of the chart is Mars-ruled Aries and on the image I've notated a potential for the Insurrection Act of 1807 to be invoked by using the massive yet peaceful No Kings protests as "justification" to use military troops as law enforcement against the American people. So please beware of "plants" who may commit violent acts in order to instigate upheaval, thus providing a fearful White House with the fodder it so desperately desires:

Yet after all, Americans rallying against the oppression of kings - what could be more patriotic than that?

US Mercury Returns 2025 and 2026

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good

Those who've spent time with America's July 4, 1776 Horoscope are cognizant of our national Mercury @24Can11 and its intriguing Sabian Symbol, "A Leader of Men Wrapped in An Invisible Mantle of Power." And with 1776 Pluto opposing US Mercury, surveillance, subversion, and other secretive issues and concerns are par for the course around here, and always have been. As we know, manipulative Pluto issues orders from afar and grabs all the power he can for his extreme wealth hidden in secret places is never enough.

Why, in the 2025 Horoscope shown below, Pluto in Aquarius (technocrats) is apex planet in one of the YOD patterns with the Mars-Jupiter sextile at its base; therefore, a certain rich fellow's name has been added for he ruthlessly leads the action. Of course, you're welcome to disagree! Especially since mundane Pluto can easily symbolize groups of manipulators and organizations even though The Invisible One prefers to work alone in isolation, as we know. Ivory tower and all that.

Yes, plutocrats prefer that their identities and actions stay hidden, but ours? Not so much. After all, knowledge is power - and control.

So as it turns out in 2025 - when it comes to surveillance, finances, and other Plutonian power-grabbing issues, everyone's personal data is up for grabs, not the least of which has already been pilfered under technocrat El*n M*sk's teenaged "DOGE" boys - and by other foreign actors as well, ongoing. So we're having to accept it that, Big Bro is in the house, and the ultimate consequences for regular folk are unpredictable at best. Sadly, we're in a world of thieves, traffickers, and other criminals via Neptune-Pluto underworld figures and their associates, with headquarters now run from a scofflaw White House.

And so considering that the realms of Mercury the messenger include a plethora of things such as children, education, thinking and planning, the senses, trade, commerce, travel, and all forms of communications (exs: lies, deceit, gossip), let's take a look at America's Mercury Return of June 22, 2025, and for 2026 which will perfect three times beginning June 22, 2026 - near Summer Solstice both years.

Since both Mercury Returns perfected on June 22, I've placed the Returns on the same page, dual image style. First, you see a tidier version of the charts, then the same dual images with way too many of my study notes scribbled upon them. (My notes are intended for the more daring reader.) Then mention should be made that each year, when Mercury returns to its 1776 degree, any aspects it made in 1776 are repeated, applying or separating. Naturally, this is the case with all planetary returns.

Images: US Mercury Return 2025 (lower left) and US Mercury Return 2026 number 1 0f 3; 2 and 3 are listed on the chart (upper right):

As you see above, the 2025 Return Horoscope contains YOD crisis patterns denoting turning points and karmic opportunities, and it's safe to say that We the People (and the rest of the world) are experiencing precisely what is shown in the 2025 chart as the year lurches along through violence, fanaticism, vigilantism, and the sadistic brutality that we see in the news everyday. Under Tr*mp. Did I mention it's all happening under his heftiness?

Now here are the exact same charts with my study notes added:

Be advised that the radix chart used to calculate these returns is the July 4, 1776 5:09 pm LMT Philadelphia, PA horoscope; naturally you should use whichever data you prefer. jc

A Big Deal: 11 South Eclipses 1937 vs 2027

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good

So many of the Events of 1937 are fascinating including mention of the June 8, 1937 Solar Eclipse as the "first Total eclipse to exceed 7 minutes of totality (7:04) in over 800 years" - and it was in the 11 South Saros Series @17Gemini36 (displayed below).

Then, an 11 South Eclipse in 1775 (@11Pis11) brought us the American Revolution (reforms were needed, blocks were violently or tragically removed - B. Brady), and looking ahead, an 11 South repeats on August 2, 2027 @10Leo - conjunct Mr. T's 12th house Mars-Saturn = Pluto (10Leo02) midpoint picture with the trio's potentials for: fury of destruction, bodily injury, murder, death of many people, and/or "intervening of a higher power" (R. Ebertin).

So below is a dual image of the two 11 South Eclipses for the sake of comparison. 11 South 1937 (upper right; Nazi era) conjuncts Mr T's natal Uranus while the 11 South of 2027 (lower left) conjuncts his natal Pluto, as noted. Yes, it's possible that the 11 South Eclipse of August 2, 2027 may stimulate his fatality-driven midpoint picture of Pluto = Mars-Saturn (the death axis, according to R. Ebertin). Whose death remains to be seen.

Of course chronologically, it's the other way around from 1946 to 1937 but the important thing for our study is that there's a Uranus-Eclipse contact - and that Mr. T's 10th house Uranus is his guiding planet of chaos, disruption, erratic behavior, shocking events, and radical reactionary politics. (Note: there's no such thing as "conservatives" anymore.)

Add a "wild card" Eclipse of karma

to the electrical planet of karma, Uranus, and you get potentials for anarchy, zealotry, inner rebellion, revolt, shared upsets, upheaval, and/or separation.

Now as you see, 11 South Themes are listed on the chart along with the date and degree of the initial eclipse in the Series which provides a Cancerian lens (@00Cancer48, a Cardinal World Point of global events) through which to view all subsequent 11 South Eclipses: these days CAncer = tribalism, nationalism, patriot (real of imagined), plus, family of course. For societies across the world, 11 South Eclipses are a big deal and represent intense periods of time along with turning point possibilities:

How the Mr. T will be affected by the 2027 eclipse, who knows? More likely (at least to some extent if he's still active in politics) he'll use the energies to perpetrate what he believes will be to his advantage - possibly by relying on someone who keeps up with planetary positions on his behalf for timing purposes. Of course we know that now in October 2025 Pluto's "criminal gangs" of thuggish vigilantes are roaming the country asaulting people including US citizens, and following Mr. T's directive of "American carn*ge" announced on January 20, 2017.

And so we can envision that power is involved when a Solar Eclipse conjuncts Pluto for their combination suggests karmic setbacks if energies are misused (exs: vigilantism, use of the Insurrection Act). For as you know, Underworld Pluto's involvement adds potentials for gang wars, rape, theft, subversive actions, and other criminal offences.

Alternately, Pluto-Eclipse's positive attributes can lead to a charismatic leader of the masses, as suggested by Rose Lineman's booklet on Eclipses. #ad

Then might that describe California Governor Gavin Newsom? We'll see, but with his October 10th birthday coming this week, we should publish his Solar Return 2025 Horoscope before Friday the 10th, don't you think?