The most fraught Republican Party convention in decades starts at 1pm this coming Monday in Cleveland, Ohio. The police are bracing for trouble as tens of thousands of demonstrators are expected, with white supremacists and skinhead gangs pledging “make sure that the Donald Trump supporters are defended”. Civil rights activists and militant black groups will be there as well. With Ohio’s “open carry” gun laws, many will be armed; the police have spent $20 million on riot gear and American news crews have prepared as if they are about to enter a war zone. The Dallas and other shootings have racked up tension, and the Nice atrocity has only exacerbated the febrile mood.
The chart has an excitable, no-compromise Cancer Sun square Uranus; with Uranus still on the explosive, anarchic focal point of a Yod to Mars in Scorpio sextile Jupiter; and another Yod of Moon (Pluto) sextile Neptune quincunx Mercury Venus in Leo. So a great deal of strain inside and outside the convention centre.
Trump who will be the GOP nominee, unless there’s a dramatic turnaround, does not look good humoured or calm with tr Mars square his natal Mars in Leo through the three days; as well as an over-excitable, over-stressed, accident-prone tr Uranus square his Sun/Mars midpoint; a nervy, fanatical tr Uranus square Mercury/Pluto; and a quarrelsome, emotionally out-of-sorts tr Uranus square Venus/Saturn which can lead to relationship splits.
Marjorie: Much of what you predicted about the relationship between Donald Trump
and Mike Pence is coming true. An awkward, tense duo indeed. It will be interesting
to see how the Republican convention plays out, given the rather chaotic planetary
vibe. I do hope peace will prevail. Can you give us a glimpse at the tenor of the
Democratic convention? Will it be a bit more calm and settled? Or is there the
potential for even greater calamity?