Post-2020 US Presidential Election Astrology Analysis and Reflections

In episode 278 astrologers Chris Brennan and Leisa Schaim look back at the astrology of the 2020 US presidential election, and reflect on what we learned as astrologers, now that the outcome is known.

In the first part of the episode we discuss the much-anticipated Mercury retrograde period, which stationed direct on election day, and coincided with delays in determining the outcome of the election.

Then we review some technical factors in the birth charts of the candidates that worked in showing the outcome, and discuss what we learned from some of the different methods that astrologers employed.

Later we discuss a few other topics such as the role of bias and the media sources an astrologer draws on to provide them with context, the need for weighting or ranking surveys of astrological predictions, and then also some reflections on the nature of astrological prediction.

This episode is available in both audio and video versions below.

Timestamps

Here are some timestamps for topics covered at different points in the episode:

00:00:00 Introduction

00:02:50 Election day Mercury station

00:15:15 November 6 Mercury Saturn square

00:18:23 November 7 Moon in Leo

00:19:40 Mercury retrograde summary

00:20:20 Transition delay

00:21:50 Nov 18 Mercury clears shadow

00:22:22 Nov 12 Jupiter-Pluto conjunction

00:28:35 US Sibley chart

00:35:19 Pluto

00:38:37 Chris’ political astrology background

00:42:42 Eclipses

00:47:22 Biden’s chart and Dec 14 eclipse

00:52:10 Nov 30 lunar eclipse

00:53:30 Trump’s chart

00:54:45 Pence’s chart

00:58:46 Harris’ Zodiacal releasing

01:08:30 Harris’ chart

01:14:12 Trump and 2016 election

01:15:23 Trump’s ZR periods

01:21:58 Biden’s profections

01:30:50 Trump’s transits and profections

01:43:40 Biden’s secondary progressions

01:51:44 Inauguration chart

01:54:40 Tiffany Trump’s chart

01:58:50 Melania Trump’s chart

02:01:38 Prediction techniques

02:23:06 Critical thinking in astrology

02:27:10 Horary in political astrology

02:29:24 First vote chart

02:30:20 Prediction misconceptions

02:40:11 Final remarks

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Transcript

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