Jack Smith for the Prosecution
Fight night!
“If the case is prosecutable, he will do it. He is fearless.” —Mark Lesko, US Attorney’s Office in New York
I HAVE A THING for guys with big noses. Or battered noses. Or both.
It’s a Freudian phenomenon. I mean, in the way that guys get attracted to women who look like their mothers and vice versa.
For queers, things are turned around. I remember a homo shrink trying to explain the ‘reversed Oedipal complex’ to me, and I was like, “OK, whatever.”
I have an irrational fascination for Jack Smith, so maybe there’s something to my shrink’s notion. My dad had a large, broken, and commanding nose.
He was also pushy and onerous, a quintessential Aries, so I’ve conflated all of those impressions with my response to Smith, the prosecuting attorney overseeing the DOJ criminal investigations into Donald Trump.
You might have heard about these cases.
In addition to Smith’s nose, I’m also intrigued by his pitbull approach to the Trump indictment. He’s keenly qualified. Smith burnished his reputation by taking on war criminals in The Hague.
And he’s got the physical stamina too. With Smith’s Venus at the craze-o 29th degree of Aries and Mars in Sagittarius, he is a virtual dynamo on legs.
He’s completed over 100 triathlons. And some years back, he was hit by a truck, fractured his pelvis, underwent restorative treatment, and then went on to compete in thirteen more triathlons. He won six of them.
His new bearded persona gives him an Old Testament grizzled prophet vibe, which is also fun.
Astrologically speaking, Trump has met his match.
I’m not making predictions in this post—almost always a waste of time. But I like character analysis between horoscopes, so I’ll write today about Smith and Trump’s synastry.
We’ve no birthtime for Smith. But no matter, there are plenty of elements to work with.
Here is their synastry chart:
Combined, these charts create a clever-ness cage match.
Nothing can top a trickster Gemini (Smith), tangling with another trickster Gemini (Trump). Both share a mental alacrity that can turn razor sharp—and cruel when necessary.
Remember, it’s a good twin and a diabolical twin arrangement when it comes to this sign.
Both men can manipulate the environment with words and schemes. This can happen intelligently, with off-the-cuff brilliance.
Or through sketchy, near-criminal tactics. Actions that befuddle observers into thinking the opposite of what they believe they’re witnessing.
Remember, with Gemini, it’s not ‘what you don’t see is what you get,’ but more: who can possibly track what’s being thrown at them from minute to minute—it’s the whirling dervish-like, mercurial way.
Smith’s Mercury also occupies the quintessentially mercurial sign, doubling his mental acuity. With his Mercury opposing his Mars in Sagittarius, we have a skilled but hair-triggery verbal prizefighter.
But Trump’s Mercury is in Cancer, which explains his puerile ways of interpreting (Mercury) the atmosphere (Cancer) around him.
People think it’s a gimmick that Trump continually talks about people being unfair and events being stacked against him. But this is a devolved expression of Mercury in Cancer. These are the ‘Big Babies’ of the Zodiac. It’s the childlike planet in the sign of the child/mother archetype.
But his Mercury has its attributes. Mercury in Cancer people know what you’re feeling before you’ve had time to name your condition and intention. Their psychic instincts are remarkable.
To see a great example of Trump’s Mercury, revisit videos of the early days of the GOP debates in 2015, when Trump verbally gutted, one by one, his peers. The only reason I watched the debates was to watch Trump.
Because Trump has a ‘bowl pattern’ chart, where almost all of the planets (and his Sun) occupy one hemisphere—the fulcrum on this pattern falls into the seventh house—and the mid-zone of Aquarius.
Within old-fashioned astrology, the seventh is the house of one’s enemy (as well as one’s marriage partner 😬…hmmm, that’s a post for another time.)
The fact that Smith’s Moon in Aquarius (supercharged emotional objectivity) sits exactly in Trump’s blind spot, opposing his Mars and Leo ascendant, makes Smith the quintessential nemesis. The sort that can spring trap doors and backed-into-a-corner ambushes.
The Moon in Aquarius is the most socially aware and impersonal of the Moon signs, a counterpoint to Trump’s ferocious me-me-me-ness (Leo Mars/ascendant). A lunar encounter like this can have a disorienting effect on someone as ego-dystonic as Trump.
Both Trump and Smith have Mars positions in fire signs. So they love the thrill of taking on opponents. But again, with Trump’s Mars sitting on his over-amped (29 degrees) Leo ascendant, Trump loses objectivity with his fierce self-obsession.
If there’s one part of Trump’s horoscope that will eventually permanently waylay him, it’s not his 12th house placements but his crazy-ass, boy-who-cried-wolf, Mars in Leo.
Smith’s Mars in Sagittarius is much more strategic (and devious). Jupiter, the sign's ruler, can morph into whatever entity or presence is required to achieve his aims.
Smith’s is a wide-ranging Mars and not so focused on the self. Ideas galvanize this Mars, not personal prejudices. There’s also a sense of righteousness about this Mars that can be abrasive and overpowering. Oh, well.
The fact that Smith’s Mars opposes (by wide orb) Trump’s Sun/Uranus conjunction in Gemini is part of the synastry guaranteed to ignite fireworks. If these were the charts of two gay men, you’d have a fierce, electrical attraction at play. The potential for a highly volatile but thrilling merge— unconventional and kinked out.
IOW, there’s a sexual element at work between Trump and Smith (not that either one is queer,) but the erotic, boner-making elements of warfare are ping-ponging between them like crazy. War is a distinctly phallic activity—the butting, battering, and penetrating of enemy lines, etc.
My friend, the late Robert Blaschke, once told me: “Whenever Pluto makes a hard aspect (square, opposition) to someone else’s Sun (Smith’s Pluto squares Trump’s Sun and Moon exactly), the Sun-aspected person is forever transformed. There’s nowhere to run or hide.”
For good or ill isn’t indicated, but the life principle (Sun) always ‘loses’ to death (Pluto), just as we will eventually succumb to death. There’s no equivocating.
Does that mean that Smith will triumph in both cases? I don’t know, but regardless Trump will have been forever altered by this legal process. Most certainly, his indefatigable energy reserves will be depleted.
But never underestimate Trump’s Sun, North Node, and Uranus conjunction in Gemini. Whenever you ask yourself, “How in the hell does he keep coming back?” remember this aspect of his chart.
Uranus Sun contacts, especially housed in a part of the horoscope that involves collective ‘hopes and dreams,’ marks someone as a potent force of and for revolution, regardless of which side of the political spectrum you reside.
With Saturn climbing towards Trump’s midheaven, it’s possible he will serve as President for another term—even if he’s doing so from a prison cell.
And wouldn’t that be symbolically fitting given the schizophrenic condition the US is mired in presently?
Remember, we’re still off-gassing the nation’s Pluto return—a process none of us will live long enough to see resolved—even Teflon Trump.
Love,
Opening collage by FW, © 2023, Nightcharm, Inc.
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• When Mars Turns Against You—Uh oh!
• The 12th House: Astrology’s House of the Rising Sun
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What I love most about your writing is that I'm laughing as much as I'm learning while reading one of your essays or posts. To be honest, I've been trying to avoid the attention suck of this indictment thing with Trump, and I hadn't paid much attention to Jack Smith (indeed what a face!) but you pulled me in.
And thank you for saying what I often comment about, the waste of time involved with making astrological predictions. My god, remember how 99% of the astrological community pegged HRC as the next president? That wiped out my attention quota for predictions.
Thanks again for another excellent post!
Even without understanding the astrological language, this is fascinating. Knowing nothing of Smith, this fleshes him out for me. Knowing all too much about Trump, this explains a lot of what I know and provides a lot of additional insight. The sexual attributes to their battle are made obvious by you and I have to ask myself, “Why have I not considered that?” It explains so much more to me. The prospect, however slight, of him serving as President from jail is both hilariously funny (as in absurd) and horrifically terrifying (as in democracy’s last gasp). Finally, unlike you, I am not smitten by a big nose (my father has a rather aristocratic one). However, I do find Smith attractive and sexually so. For me I suspect it has more to do with his eyes. They are cold and calculating and absolutely dominating. Guess that says something about me!