On Eclipses and Destiny Swapping
A case study using the Canadian Election.
I know it’s been a while! But between the Saturn return, a year of my chart ruler in detriment, and many retrogrades and eclipses — life has really kicked my ass. Regardless, I’m back and hoping to share more of my astrological musings and field notes now that the app formerly known as Twitter has devolved into a fascist cesspool. The world as we know it seems to be collapsing ever so slowly, and I think that exploring these topics through the lens of astrology is one way to cope with that. I also think it’s a neat tool to try to make sense of where things could go and how we can eventually negotiate with fate to correct course.
Anyway, I can share that rant for another time. If you are reading this post, it’s because the results of the Canadian election are out and there is so much to unpack. I have been sitting on this interpretation for AGES because I have been burned by the outcome of the US election (I have been working on a post-mortem for that, but it’s a lot of reflection to parse through). Astrology never ceases to amaze, and hopefully real-world events serve as living allegories of what seem to be abstract principles for interpretation. Since I am living in Canada and most of you are based in the US, I hope to keep you all informed on what goes on outside of the bubble that is the dying US Empire. I will preface this with the fact that I have been working with the information and tools that I have at my disposal, and so this has framed my interpretation of the events of the last 6 months or so. This interpretation has only gotten richer as more of the context began to fill in. I hope you enjoy!
Live Long Enough to See Yourself Become a Villain
Trudeau’s Timing: As many of you know, former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his resignation from his post as leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and as Prime Minister on January 6th. Back in October, I posted a quick and dirty thread on why I thought Trudeau would take his “walk in the snow,” much like his father did when he stepped down as Prime Minister for good in 1984. I will spare you the details of his rise to power (as impressive as the timing is astrologically), since the fall is a lot more dramatic and relevant to the current narrative.
A quick look at his profections along with the solar return that went into effect on Christmas 2024 will make my thought process on this pretty clear. His timelord from the ascendant is Saturn, yet again— his out of sect malefic. This means that act one of the sade sati and the closing Saturn square before his second Saturn return are especially challenging. With the collapse of his marriage and public support during this time, it makes sense that it was time for him to re-evaluate his priorities when it comes to career. The solar return’s cardinal ascendant hints at quick change over the first half of his 53rd year. To add insult to injury, when you calculate the month of burden (the distance between the lot of fortune and lot of burden), it suggests that difficulty would come sometime in March. With eclipses and his chart ruler going retrograde in and out of the sign of its fall? It only made sense to suggests that some type of event would remove him from the helm.
However, while I was sure that he would be leaving his post in March for the reasons stated previously, I was torn on whether the Liberal Party would still make it. Assuming that he stayed on as leader, the fact that he had angular eclipses and Jupiter moving from its detriment in his 10th to its exaltation in the 11th by transit next year as generally favorable for his party putting up a good fight to retain power. However, his timelord from the ascendant would be moving into its fall in his 8th house, and natally Saturn is tied up with 10th house matters. If the election took place in October 2025 as scheduled, this would not be so bad since Saturn would move back into Pisces the month before and be received by an exalted lord. Common sense and material reality at the time also dictated that the Liberal party was on life support as far as the polling was concerned.
A New Champion Emerges
So, Trudeau resigns and a leadership race takes place for the Liberal Party on March 9th. How uncanny that the man at the center of the fallout between the Prime Minster and his right hand cabinet minister throws his hat into the race?! One of the first things that stood out about Mark Carney is that he is a Virgo Moon and that an eclipse was going to occur just before his 60th birthday. When someone on reddit discovered an announcement of his birth from a local newspaper on the day he was born, the chart that revealed itself made certain things click into place.
This chart is padded with eminence factors like you would not believe. With the chart ruler exalted, in the house of good fortune in mutual reception with Jupiter, that already bodes well for Mr. Carney. The lights are not only angular from the lot of spirit, but he has the ruler of the lot of fortune and the moon in the 11th from fortune. It makes sense that he is a well-respected banker who has able to be adjacent to politics, but also an extremely wealthy man.
When looking at the solar return that was active at the time he became Prime Minister, adding multiple timing techniques allows the timing to make sense. After all, most planets are angular or succedent his potential to rise is clear. I think the Sun, Saturn, and Venus all retaking their oaths in the 8th house of the return are evocative of him inheriting the reigns in a difficult time. It does help that his Venus-Jupiter mutual reception also retook its oath. This heralds a lot of good or opportunity that comes from leveraging his connections to rise to the highest office.
There is another timelord technique called the Lord of the Turn, which assigns a planetary hour to each house starting with the planetary hour of birth. Unlike profections, the planetary hours proceed in chaldean order and repeat every 7 hours. The turn lord came to the Moon, which was the planetary hour of the 11th house. Any time the Moon is the lord of the turn for Mr. Carney, you would expect to see potential gains for him depending on the condition of the Moon in the solar return. The Moon in that revolution was in Gemini in the 11th conjunct Aldebaran, about to perfect with Mercury who rules the 11th. This is after separating from Venus. Very on point for leaving behind a cushy banker role to move to politics.
Speaking of the Moon, the eclipse in Virgo being hilariously literally for its swapping of the ruler energy. It was his lunar return but also a 1st house eclipse for Former PM Justin Trudeau, with the 10th part of that eclipse falling in the former PM’s 10th. This is very much a passing of the baton moment in favor of Mr. Carney with lots of stacked testimony.
A Tale of Three Virgoans
This narrative would not be complete without cycling back to the other key figure in this narrative — Leader of the Opposition and the Conservative Party of Canada, Pierre Poilievre. Trudeau may have fallen on the sword, but it is Pierre whose perceived inevitability as Prime Minister was snatched from beneath his feet. Like Prime Minister Carney, Mr. Poilievre also has a Virgo Moon. Since we do not have a birth time for him, it is not clear if it is in the second or third decan. But we do know that like the two gentleman leading the Liberals, there is a strong Mercurial influence on a key point of life.
Therefore, one thing you can do is treat either luminary as a hypothetical ascendant and run transits and other annual timing techniques from that perspective. When you profect either luminary, everything moves to the 10th from itself since he is 45. Either Jupiter via Pisces or Mercury via Gemini would be a critical time-lord from the sect light. How interesting that the Mercury retrograde in Aries coincided with a literal reversal of his trends in the polls, which handed him a defeat. It’s even louder when you consider how the eclipses would be impacting him. The Virgo Eclipse of March 14th was not only a lunar return, but the 12th part of that eclipse fell 10th from the Moon in Gemini. If we work from the perspective of the moon chart, there would be implications for his ability to rise to power.
I hope that this post was demonstrative of the many technical considerations that go into mapping these storylines. You may not have perfect AA rated data for everyone, but sometimes you may have enough to fill in the blanks where possible! I hope you all are seeing the implications for the dynamics you have with various people in different facets of your lives. I want to do more things like this, both from a political and pop-culture-based standpoint. If you would like to see how techniques like this could be used to understand your own life and the narratives that you are playing your part in, please consider booking a session with me! Otherwise, please stay tuned for my revamping of the blog (and eventually the podcast).