Happy Birthday America!!

We celebrate our birthday every year on July 4th. Each subsequent year when the Sun returns (apparently) to the degree minute and second when a country was born a different planetary pattern emerges. Only the Sun, one’s destiny, is in the same place, most of the other planets have changed positions and are forming a different pattern in the sky.

America’s Birthday 2024-5 had the Moon as the important planet. The Moon in a country’s chart represents the people. As the Moon by its very nature waxes and wanes so does the country’s people and moods. The Moon in the birthday chart for 2024-5 has the Moon in a Balsamic Phase, its ending period and last gasp before reaching the Sun and becoming a New Moon again.

Endings and closures are a characteristic of a Balsamic Moon phase. This situation is further enhanced by that Moon being at the last minutes of Gemini in square aspect to Neptune, the planet of confusion, deception, or not being able to see situations clearly, or on the other hand idealism-seeing a new vision for how things could be.

This country was founded on the European Enlightenment ideas, where reason, humanism, individualism and human progress were emphasized. These ideals are strongly represented with our natal Moon being in the sign Aquarius, the sign of the “Water Carrier” with an overflowing jug spreading ideas and new energies around.

Last year (birthday 2024-5) We saw groups of people assembling in crowds either for political rallies or protests; like minded people gatherings listening to ideas they were influenced by and supported. The public spoke at the Nov 6th election, as the Aquarian Moon in America’s birth chart connected with 2024 birthday’s chart Moon in Gemini, both being air signs, concerned about ideas, relationships and communications.

This year (BD 2025-6) the country’s major planet is the Sun. The Sun governs our identity, it is the central shining light which has smaller planets orbiting around; less fickle than the Moon, the Sun is more steadfast and more heart centered.

The USA by being born on July 4th 1776 has our Sun (from Earth’s perspective) in front of the zodiacal sign Cancer. The beginning of the new year for the USA in 2025 was 9:51 PM on the 4th, which is when we began the Sun being stronger than the Moon, as the old year gives away to the new one with new initiatives and emphases.

According to the unique planetary patterns seen in this moment in time, the US is going to experience a very transformative year, one in which the gods Uranus, the awakener, and Pluto the transformer are intimately involved.

In Greek mythology, Uranus is the sky God who throws lightening bolts and Pluto guards secrets in the underworld until they can no longer be kept there and erupt. These two planets were also on the angles at the Inauguration chart of Jan 20th, so not only is this year a trailblazing one, but the entire 4 years of this administration will be. The Olympian Gods are in charge.

In the birthday chart, Uranus is opposite the Solar Return Midheaven, the public recognition point and Pluto is conjunct the Ascendant in our 2025 birthday, which is in effect until birthday 2026. These are the 2 most powerful positions to have planets near as those planets are working 100%.

We will awaken to a some surprises this year, as Uranus is so strong. Uranus is also Prometheus who stole fire from the Gods to give to humans. The world will see us as coming out of a long sleep, being governed by invisible forces and powers. A spirit of frankness and ruthlessness, rebellion and revolution is in the air. Reformers, inventors, technicians, rebels and revolutionaries are all around.

Pluto on the horizon in this birthday chart, across the most influential part of the nativity, signifies that we can expect more of the country’s secrets to be uncovered and brought to light, no longer hidden. ( We see this happening today (June 25th) as the Senate is having CLOSED DOOR hearings on Biden’s auto-pen scandal., hearing testimony from a former aid who has admitted to controlling the President’s auto pen from Oct 2021 to May 2023.) We can expect more uncovering, but depending on your news source e.g. print circulation, online or social media platforms, the information might be filtered to reflect the bias of the power behind the throne.

Also significant in this birthday chart are the nodes of the Moon across the horizon. The Ascendant in the east is the most influential part of the horoscope. Pluto is sitting on it and the ascendant in Aquarius for this year is conjunct the South Node of the Moon from the 1776 chart. This adds intensity and a fateful aspect to the year as our destiny points, what we increase more of and what we release are strongly activated.

The nodes represent connections. This setup promises that the country will be discharging old connections to prepare for new ones or a widening of those connections, which will bring powerful transformations and have significant effects on our future. Our common destiny will affect large numbers of people, be them citizens or non-citizens.

Jupiter, the bringer of abundance, success and faith which is the ruler of this country’s natal chart has entered Cancer for the first time in 12 years. We are a Cancer country, the home of the brave and the free; we are a melting pot. Cancer rules the home, homeland, family and the need to protect and nurture. We are all immigrants having left our original homeland (except our Natives of course) to create a new one.

Jupiter, the planet governing our moral, ethical and religious compass, is in its favorite sign Cancer. This will focus our attention on our homeland and hopefully we will come to a better understanding of what that means and who we should be protecting and defending.

The last time Jupiter, the planet that increases and expands (watch your waistline you Cancers) was in Cancer was June 27, 2013- July 2014. In late June, early July 2013, Black Lives Matter was founded, the Supreme Court ruled on the Defense Against Marriage Act, enabling the recognition of same sex marriages and Edward Snowden began revealing the NSA surveillance of American citizens, sparking debates about governmental overreach and privacy concern, still an issue, not yet resolved. Who is defending whom and why?

This season the Supreme Court granted the executive branch of government more authority, which the lower courts had been trying to wrest away. This is evidence of the SUN, the King, the center of the solar system being paramount now, rather than the people, as it was last year in 2024.

Jupiter is in Cancer every 12 years. It was in Cancer on July 4th 1776, therefore Jupiter is returning to its natal place in the country’s founding, bringing out the promise of the natal. (In fact the day the Big Beautiful Bill was signed into law was the exact returning of Jupiter to its natal position-how appropriate).

Jupiter in our founding chart has apparently (from earth’s perspective) been going retrograde since Nov 15, 1905, during Teddy Roosevelt’s era where his progressive ideals were brought to the forefront of national policy. This was the beginning of the Progressive movement in this country.

Roosevelt’s populist policies legislated economic reforms like regulating Railroads and supporting farmers. Social reform movements were spurred on by the muckraking journalists who exposed urban poverty, the abuse of the public trust through corporate greed, the necessity to bust the trusts.

With the creation of the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 and the Meat Inspect Act consumer food safety issues were addressed. Roosevelt used “his bully pulpit” to communicate directly with the public to build trust in government through transparency. Roosevelt believed in strong executive power. He tackled corruption, and corporate over reach with the Sherman Antitrust Act, filling 44 anti trust lawsuits demanding that corporations be held accountable.

Unfortunately President Roosevelt with all his good intentions and initiatives did not see any follow through as Jupiter, the planet of morals and ethics went retrograde in November 1905. In the retrograde we reversed that Progressive course for the country and the Corporations got bigger and stronger than ever.

Now after 120 years, America’s ruling planet is stationing at 15 Cancer to begin forward motion as of July 23rd this month. A course correction is in order. Could this year be the beginning of a return in this country to its ethical, moral and religious roots ingrained in its foundation chart? We are certainly seeing a religious revival.

There is other evidence to suggest that that is the case. The new administration is working hard to clean up the fraud and waste in the Federal government and downsizing it, as well as cleaning up our food supply and redefining what nourishes us. Those populist initiatives first identified in 1905, with Jupiter going in retrograde, must be repeated again now with Jupiter in forward motion. Jupiter is the ruler of this country in the 1776 chart. Jupiter beginning its move forward after 120 years is a big deal!!