Crisis Solar Returns for the U.S.
Crisis Solar Returns for the U.S.
President Biden's 2023-2034 Solar Return
January 2024
Biden’s current solar return runs from November 21, 2023 until November 20, 2024. It’s a very difficult chart because both lights are badly afflicted.
One does not want to see the solar return Moon aspected by more than one malefic during the course of a solar return. Transiting Saturn or Mars to the Moon often signifies ill health.
Mr. Biden’s Sun is conjoined to Mars by less than a degree (0° 56') in his 2023 solar return far below the horizon in the 3rd house. People often feel attacked or harassed, which is frequently literally true, when Mars configures the Sun, especially with the conjunction, opposition and square. Furthermore, the Sun below the horizon, tucked away remote from the angles, is not a strong position from which to wage a campaign.
Transiting Neptune will remain angular for the entire year going back and forth from the 7th house, symbolic of the most significant others in the life, to include enemies, which indicates that he could be betrayed, to the 6th house of the solar return, a place of infirmity. Transiting Neptune will also trine his natal Sun throughout the entire year. As a practical matter, Neptune weakens whatever it touches.
Worse, transiting Neptune will be sesquiquadrate Mr. Biden’s natal Mars all year, which makes everything harder than it would otherwise be. This transit is like being hamstrung, therefore injured and unable to bring one’s best to a fight or like charging into quicksand unable to maneuver.
Transiting Pluto will be square Mr. Biden’s natal Moon for the entire birthday-to-birthday year. Transiting Pluto to the natal Moon brings some measure of crisis into the life that generally relates to one’s person, home or family and sometimes all three simultaneously.
The same Mars that conjoins the Sun in this solar return, is closely mundane square the solar return Moon, although that is not obvious because they have no zodiac aspect. Solar return Mars rises at the White House when 10h 49m 46s of sidereal time is passing through the M.C.; 1m 14s later, which is slightly more than ¼° of arc, the Moon passes through the I.C. Mars closely configured with both lights in a solar return is usually a problem for somebody in their eighties. The solar return Moon’s placement in the sixth house only emphasizes the matter.
The solar return Moon is square Mr. Biden’s natal Saturn 1° 22' from exact. This is depressing and also relates to being limited or blocked, not infrequently due to physical issues; that is to say, problems from within oneself. It usually represents an uphill battle.
Furthermore, solar return Saturn is sextile the natal Moon 1° 21' from exact, which represents problems from without, or outside oneself. The Moon-Saturn situation is therefore doubled. Chronic illness attends this if either of the Moons is in the sixth house, as the solar return Moon is here, and either Moon suffers additional affliction.
The solar return Moon is quincunx the President’s natal Pluto 1° 21' from exact. Often people feel abandoned with this transit, alone and with few options.
Solar Return Pluto is sextile the Mr. Biden’s natal Sun (0° 24') and will remain within orb of the sextile to the President’s natal Sun for the entire birthday-to-birthday year. One often feels cut off, estranged, or cut out of the action when this transit is on.
The Pluto situation is made still worse by solar return Pluto trine the ascendant of the return itself, less than ¾º from exact as this chart begins, but which will also be in play for the entire jurisdiction of the chart: that is to say, for a year. Unless simultaneously attended by helpful symbolism, Plutonian symbolism is frequently related to desperately important, military, physical or life and death issues that impose extreme tension upon one’s person.
In short, his situation is not enviable because the angles of the solar return pick up Neptune and Pluto while Mars, Saturn and Pluto configure both lights.
© Kenneth Bowser, 2024. All rights reserved.
