Happy 250th Birthday, USA… Or Is It? (Part 3)

The Deeper Analysis of the April 9, 1784 USA Chart (Continued)

Fireworks gone wrong, https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/firework-fails-fireworks-videos-gone-wrong

In Part 2 of this series, I described the Big Three (Sun, Moon, and Ascendant), the Personal Planets (Mercury, Venus, Mars), the Interpersonal Planets (Jupiter, Saturn), and the Outer Planets (Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto) in this version of the USA Chart.

Here in Part 3, I will analyze its Chiron, major asteroids (Ceres, Juno, Vesta, Pallas), and other minor planets or asteroids, as well as the Nodes of the Moon and any pertinent aspect patterns.

The fun continues!

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Chart Interpretation Continued

Chiron in Taurus

Chiron in the 2nd house

This placement indicates trauma, pain, or suffering due to financial losses or a crisis. The attachment to money or material property as a substitute for self-worth will eventually crack (typically at the Chiron Return), and the native’s lifelong issues with a scarcity mindset, greed, hoarding, stinginess, fear of loss, and overcompensating for a chronic feeling of lack (lack of self-esteem, lack of feeling like “enough,” lack of feeling like one has enough to survive) comes up for healing. If the Chiron Return can be navigated honestly, thoughtfully, and in full surrender (Scorpio style - the polarity of Taurus) to what needs to be released and what needs to be cultivated going forward, the native has an opportunity to grow beyond this self-centered limitation and actually evolve into a teacher and healer that can both see and alleviate the material and emotional suffering of others as well as themselves.

This placement aligns with the Great Depression, the Gilded Age and the robber barons, Ponzi schemes, “welfare queens,” gated communities, the consumerist culture in general, and the nation’s maniacal fixation on patriarchal capitalism as a whole - almost like a religion. Try getting a Taurus to let go of something they are attached to. Typically, they double down instead. Often this must be done via extenuating circumstances. Healing will occur when the nation learns to share its immense wealth instead of hoarding it within the 1% at the top of the capitalistic, plutocratic pyramid.

Ceres in Scorpio

Ceres (retrograde) in the 8th house

This placement indicates a nurturing style marked by intensity, depth, possession, and transformation. Healing energy is prevalent, and advances in medicine, psychology, and healthcare in general can be borne from this placement. They seek deep bonding, resource merging, and their nurturing qualities are interwoven with issues of trust, loss, and renewal, especially in the context of resources and self-worth. It is important for them to learn the balance between attachment and detachment, to provide care without suffocating, dominating, or controlling. This native can be obsessive, but they can also be brutally ruthless. They have no fear whatsoever of grief or suffering, though they do feel things very deeply. They know that going to the darkest depths of the soul brings the regeneration, rebirth, spiritual growth, and power they crave and they may be drawn to work that involves deep transitioning in one form or another, like hospice work, spiritual guidance, psychology, research, investigative, or coroner professions. Their intuition is razor sharp and their psychic abilities are sky high. There is a tendency toward insatiability, sex or substance addiction, or lashing out in rageful anger; they can engage in self-harm just to feel “more.” Their greatest power comes from self-trust.

This placement aligns with American advancements in anesthesia, vaccines, antibiotics, organ transplants, heart surgeries, and the development of cognitive psychology. It also aligns with Dr. Jack Kevorkian (“Dr. Death, Armenian-American proponent of compassionate, assisted euthanasia), American medical researchers Watson, Crick, and Wilkins’ Nobel Prize in Medicine for their discoveries on DNA, and the development of the understanding of serial killers’ psychology and behavior, as well as with American commercial banking, the Federal Reserve, and American Alfred Kinsey and his sex research documented in “The Kinsey Reports.”

Pallas in Scorpio

Pallas (retrograde) in the 8th house

This placement indicates a native with keen intuition and a ruthlessly probing mind. They are a natural detective and/or psychologist. They likely have psychic abilities and possess deep emotional intelligence. They are intent on discovering the deepest truth about the mysteries of life. They instinctively have strategic acumen and can conjure up mutually beneficial joint ventures with ease. They may be very private or even secretive about the information they dig up, holding their cards very close to their chest until it is apparent how much power they can squeeze out of the situation in their favor. This native is very patient and can sit on information for a long time until they sense the time is right to reveal their hand.

This placement aligns with the CIA and the FBI. Conjunct the nation’s Sagittarius Moon it can pose as a gregarious, fun-loving, almost bumbling fool as it simultaneously collects state secrets behind the scenes.

Juno in Leo

Juno in the 5th house

This placement indicates a commitment to the arts, performance, play, creativity, and a joyful, childlike spirit. Partners may have these qualities, or they may be met in places where the native is already indulging in these energies. This native shines when having fun and in creative flow; their sparkle fades when they feel caught in serious obligation or stagnancy. They attract admirers who inspire them to glow more brightly, and the more they glow the more admirers they have. The indulgence in life as a beautiful, romantic, passion-filled, and fiercely fun odyssey worth celebrating is the name of the game for this native. They bring joy, vibrancy, and open-hearted expression to all their relationships.

This placement aligns with the nation’s devotion to the creative arts: theater, television, music, film, dance, and art. Theme parks, like Disney World and Universal Studios, especially fall under this placement’s energy.

Vesta in Taurus

Vesta (anaretic 29°) in the 2nd house

This placement indicates a devotion to material stability, which in modern terminology translates to money making. There is a strong resistance to change with this placement. Financial security can be elevated to a spiritual, even religious sphere with Vesta in this position. Fulfillment is found in routines and tangible results. Hard work toward a desired goal is its natural inclination. There is a tendency toward rigidity, complacency, and an inability to relax until there is “enough in the bank”; it may become difficult to discern when enough material gain truly feels enough to cease collecting resources. There can be such a focused intensity on cultivating financial security or gain that it becomes ritualized, sacred, or even pathological.

This placement aligns with the elevation and almost cult-like worship of capitalism in the USA, to the point that it can be argued that we are now in late-stage capitalism due to the severe imbalance of those who have worshipped the almighty dollar to billionaire (and beyond) status, much to the detriment of the majority of the citizenry. “Cash is king,” “Money talks,” “Money doesn’t grow on trees,” “Time is money,” are all common American idioms regarding money.

Psyche in Capricorn

Psyche in the 10th house

This placement indicates a spirit that is ambitious and successful, dependable and timeless, and one that needs to develop a sense of balance so it can transform itself, through self-love, into its Highest Self – a well-rounded, self-accepting achiever who can also revel in life’s pleasures. There is likely a strong desire to align the career path with the higher purpose. This placement indicates a drive towards perfectionism; avoiding the shame of public failure is often the inner motivation. Balancing ambition with rest is imperative.

Midheaven in Capricorn

This placement indicates an achievement-oriented and responsible career path, one that can be respectable and respected and also bring in lots of cold hard cash. Finance-based careers are in line with this Midheaven, such as banking and stock trading as well as financial advisement. It is the native’s reputation as well as the career indicator. The Ascendant is said to be the vibe people get of you as you come in the door; the Midheaven is how they remember you when you leave. This is a multiple-Saturn dose as the natal Saturn, also in Capricorn, is located in the 10th house (Midheaven is the cusp of the 10th), and Capricorn and Saturn are naturally aligned with the 10th. This native has lots of stamina, resilience, and ambition to reach their goals, no matter what they set their sights on. But you can bet your bottom dollar that a mountain of money will be involved.

This placement aligns with the Saturn in Capricorn placement listed in Part 2 of this series. In short: Capitalism is highly indicated here, perhaps even in an extreme form.

North Node in Pisces / South Node in Virgo

NN in the 12th house; SN in the 6th house

This placement indicates a soul growth pattern of learning to release attachment to perfection, criticism, discrimination, and overthinking and allow oneself the permission to embrace sensitivity and go with the flow and dream. If it does not inspire one creatively or spiritually, it is not the highest path. Having faith in intuition and utilizing organizational skills in a way that inspires both oneself and others in creative or spiritual ways is the path to shining brightly in this life. The goal is to focus on developing an ability to go with the flow of life and find the divine beauty in everything. The theme is imagination, sensitivity, creativity, and surrendering to a higher power.

This placement aligns with the USA’s distinct religious-yet-secular heart and the natural inclination among many to be peaceful, generous, spiritual, creative, kind, and inspirational while doing genuine good in the world. Martin Luther King, Jr., Jimmy Carter, Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, Jane Addams, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Disney, Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the recent NASA Artemis Moon Mission team are strong examples.

NASA Artemis Moon Mission astronauts hug in space, 2026

Lilith in Leo

Lilith in the 5th house

This placement indicates a blind spot in the balance of give and take between oneself and others. It can also indicate a desire to prefer play over responsibility - the abject deferment of accountability so as to avoid blame and shame can be present here. The native may be more concerned with their passionate creative pursuits and interests and may thereby shun or neglect serious matters. Eventually, this catches up, but fortunately for Leo, there is not much problem with honesty and owning up to shortcomings as long as there is room to save face and create balance between fun and duty. This placement can also indicate promiscuity in relationships, preferring to attract multiple romances over settling down with one serious partner. Again, eventually maturity calls and the native will need to decide if they will remain in an eternal childlike state of play and self-preferment or accept that they will need to step up and have some responsibility when it comes to others, if they want to maintain their self-respect.

This placement aligns with Hugh Hefner’s Playboy magazine, created in 1953 and grown into a huge empire that influenced the sexual revolution of the 1960s as well as American men as a whole to this day, that eventually grew so much that by the time of Hefner’s death, the Playmates and former partners and wives of Hefner began to speak out against his lifestyle which definitely seemed to prefer play over responsibility in relationships. It would later surface that he subjugated his Playmate partners to sexual coercion (and even rape, via some reports) via drugging them with Quaaludes prior to his encounters with them, prostituted his Bunnies out during orgy parties, and for publishing nude or semi-nude photos of women and girls (Brooke Shields shown in a bathtub at age 10 in Playboy in 1975) without proper or age-appropriate consent. It also aligns with the sexual promiscuity of Americans as a whole (perhaps as far back as the 19th century when prostitution became more organized in the USA), which often is at odds with the otherwise staunch religiousness that is prevalent in the nation’s psyche - a true blind spot.

Part of Fortune in Leo

POF in the 5th house

This placement indicates a native whose greatest joy comes from creative self-expression and being in the spotlight while embracing life’s pleasures. The arts, theater, music, performance, film, and spectacular stage shows of all kinds are indicated here as what bring this native joy, luck, and satisfaction in life. Romance, pleasure, fun, play, and leisure activities are deeply fulfilling. Sharing these things with the world is the source of its greatest fortune and luck.

This placement aligns with the USA’s profound contributions to the entertainment industry, as mentioned in the Venus in Pisces section of Part 2 of this series. Hollywood, Disneyland, theme parks, video games, Broadway, Rock ‘n roll, Grunge, MTV, Film, Las Vegas, and the American pastime of “having a good time” is all indicative of this placement.

Nessus in Pisces

Nessus in the 12th house

This placement indicates issues related to spirituality, addiction, or a history of experiencing abuse or trauma related to escapism or boundary dissolution. Also issues around unconscious patterns and hidden psychological traumas, suggesting a need to confront and work through past painful experiences regarding spirituality, psychic abilities, and the collective unconscious.

This placement aligns with the abuses within evangelical, fundamental, and cult-based religions in the nation, such as mental, psychological, financial, and sexual abuse, brainwashing, humiliation, and the overall misuse of religious authority as a means to control and punish congregants, often as projected shame, while maintaining delusion and an inability to fully confront these issues as a systemic problem. This occurs across multiple faiths and belief systems and has lasting effects on people’s mental and emotional health. It is an egregious abuse of faith and trust and most often occurs among the most vulnerable.

Aspect Listings

The placement of any planet or point is just the beginning, whereas the aspects that planet or point makes to other planets and points in the chart tell the story of how that planet will likely behave in the individual. See the lists below for planetary aspects; see the “Notable Placements and Aspects” section of this series for details on any important aspects in the chart. Often, it is within the aspect patterns that we find solutions to compulsive and detrimental behaviors that hold us back from becoming our highest, best selves.

• Chiron in Taurus

  CHIRON:

  ·         Chiron novile Mercury

  ·         Chiron sextile Venus

  ·         Chiron semisextile Mars

  ·         Chiron trine Saturn

  ·         Chiron septile Uranus

  ·         Chiron biquintile Neptune

  ·         Chiron opposite Pallas

  ·         Chiron square Juno

  ·         Chiron opposite Ceres

  ·         Chiron quintile Hygeia

  ·         Chiron novile Astraea

  ·         Chiron novile Ascendant

  ·         Chiron sesquisquare Midheaven

  ·         Chiron sesquisquare Vertex

  ·         Chiron binovile Lilith

  ·         Chiron biseptile White Moon Selena

  ·         Chiron trine Eris

• Ceres in Scorpio

  ASPECTS:

  ·         Ceres in Scorpio in 8th house

  ·         Ceres inconjunct Sun (yod with chart ruler Mars)

  ·         Ceres trine Venus

  ·         Ceres inconjunct Mars

  ·         Ceres biseptile Jupiter

  ·         Ceres opposite Chiron

  ·         Ceres conjunct Pallas

  ·         Ceres square Juno

  ·         Ceres parallel Hygiea

  ·         Ceres biquintile Astraea

  ·         Ceres semisquare Midheaven

  ·         Ceres semisquare Vertex

  ·         Ceres square Part of Fortune

  ·         Ceres biseptile Lilith

  ·         Ceres sextile Eris

• Pallas in Scorpio

  PALLAS:

  ·         Pallas conjunct Moon

  ·         Pallas biquintile Sun

  ·         Pallas sesquisquare Mercury

  ·         Pallas trine Venus

  ·         Pallas square Jupiter

  ·         Pallas sextile Saturn

  ·         Pallas sesquisquare Uranus

  ·         Pallas semisquare Neptune

  ·         Pallas opposite Chiron

  ·         Pallas opposite Vesta

  ·         Pallas square Juno

  ·         Pallas conjunct Ceres

  ·         Pallas biseptile Hygeia

  ·         Pallas inconjunct Astraea

  ·         Pallas biseptile North Node

  ·         Pallas sesquisquare Ascendant

  ·         Pallas novile Midheaven

  ·         Pallas septile Vertex

  ·         Pallas square Part of Fortune

  ·         Pallas quintile White Moon Selena

  ·         Pallas septile Eris

• Juno in Leo

  JUNO:

  ·         Juno biseptile Moon

  ·         Juno trine Sun

  ·         Juno sesquisquare Mercury

  ·         Juno triseptile Venus

  ·         Juno opposite Jupiter

  ·         Juno inconjunct Saturn

  ·         Juno semisquare Uranus

  ·         Juno semisquare Neptune

  ·         Juno square Chiron

  ·         Juno square Pallas

  ·         Juno square Ceres

  ·         Juno sesquisquare Ascendant

  ·         Juno sesquisquare Midheaven

  ·         Juno novile Vertex

  ·         Juno conjunct Part of Fortune

  ·         Juno biquintile Eris

• Vesta in Taurus

  VESTA:

  ·         Vesta opposite Moon

  ·         Vesta novile Sun

  ·         Vesta septile Mercury

  ·         Vesta quintile Venus

  ·         Vesta square Jupiter

  ·         Vesta trine Saturn

  ·         Vesta opposite Pallas

  ·         Vesta square Hygeia

  ·         Vesta binovile North Node

  ·         Vesta septile Ascendant

  ·         Vesta biquintile Midheaven

  ·         Vesta trine Vertex

  ·         Vesta square Part of Fortune

  ·         Vesta trine White Moon Selena

  ·         Vesta sesquisquare Eris

• Psyche in Capricorn

  ·         Psyche conjunct Saturn

  ·         Psyche sextile Nessus

  ·         Psyche sextile Eros

  ·         Psyche square Sun

  ·         Psyche trine Vesta

  ·         Psyche inconjunct Juno

  ·         Psyche inconjunct Part of Fortune

  ·         Psyche sextile Pallas

• Midheaven in Capricorn

  MIDHEAVEN:

  ·         Midheaven in Capricorn

  ·         Midheaven sextile Moon

  ·         Midheaven biseptile Sun

  ·         Midheaven square Mercury

  ·         Midheaven quintile Venus

  ·         Midheaven contraparallel Mars

  ·         Midheaven contraparallel Uranus

  ·         Midheaven square Neptune

  ·         Midheaven parallel Pluto

  ·         Midheaven sesquisquare Chiron

  ·         Midheaven biquintile Vesta

  ·         Midheaven novile Pallas

  ·         Midheaven sesquisquare Juno

  ·         Midheaven semisquare Ceres

  ·         Midheaven sextile Hygeia

  ·         Midheaven sextile North Node

  ·         Midheaven trine South Node

  ·         Midheaven square Ascendant

  ·         Midheaven square Vertex

  ·         Midheaven semisextile White Moon Selena

• North Node in Pisces / South Node in Virgo

  NORTH NODE:

  Soul Growth Ruler (North Node Ruler) = Neptune, as modern ruler (10° 48’ Libra, 7th house) and Jupiter, as traditional ruler (29° 25’ Aquarius, 12th house)

  ·         North Node in Pisces, 12th house

  ·         North Node square the Moon

  ·         North Node contraparallel Sun

  ·         North Node semisextile mercury

  ·         North Node conjunct Venus

  ·         North Node square Mars

  ·         North Node conjunct Jupiter

  ·         North Node trine Uranus

  ·         North Node square Vesta

  ·         North Node biseptile Pallas

  ·         North Node parallel Hygeia

  ·         North Node semisextile Ascendant

  ·         North Node sextile Midheaven

  ·         North Node triseptile Vertex

  ·         North Node inconjunct Lilith

  ·         North Node septile Eris

  SOUTH NODE:

  Evolutionary Path Ruler (South Node Ruler) = Mercury (08° 57’ Aries, 1st)

  ·         South Node in Virgo, 6th house

  ·         South Node square the Moon

  ·         South Node parallel Sun

  ·         South Node inconjunct Mercury

  ·         South Node square Mars

  ·         South Node sesquisquare Saturn

  ·         South Node sextile Uranus

  ·         South Node triseptile Pluto

  ·         South Node contraparallel Hygeia

  ·         South Node quintile Astraea

  ·         South Node inconjunct Ascendant

  ·         South Node trine Midheaven

  ·         South Node semisextile Lilith

• Lilith in Leo

  LILITH:

  ·         Lilith trine Moon

  ·         Lilith trine Mercury

  ·         Lilith contraparallel Saturn

  ·         Lilith semisextile Uranus

  ·         Lilith sextile Neptune

  ·         Lilith opposite Pluto

  ·         Lilith binovile Chiron

  ·         Lilith biseptile Ceres

  ·         Lilith inconjunct Hygeia

  ·         Lilith parallel Astraea

  ·         Lilith inconjunct the North Node

  ·         Lilith semisextile South Node

  ·         Lilith trine Ascendant

  ·         Lilith inconjunct Midheaven

  ·         Lilith sextile Vertex

  ·         Lilith opposite White Moon Selena

  ·         Lilith quadrinovile Eris

• Part of Fortune in Leo

  PART OF FORTUNE:

  ·         Part of Fortune in Leo

  ·         Part of Fortune in 5th house

  ·         Part of Fortune biseptile Moon

  ·         Part of Fortune trine Sun

  ·         Part of Fortune sesquisquare Mercury

  ·         Part of Fortune triseptile Venus

  ·         Part of Fortune opposite Jupiter

  ·         Part of Fortune inconjunct Saturn

  ·         Part of Fortune semisquare Uranus

  ·         Part of Fortune semisquare Neptune

  ·         Part of Fortune square Vesta

  ·         Part of Fortune parallel Pallas

  ·         Part of Fortune conjunct Juno

  ·         Part of Fortune square Ceres

  ·         Part of Fortune sextile Astraea

  ·         Part of Fortune sesquisquare Ascendant

  ·         Part of Fortune novile Vertex

  ·         Part of Fortune contraparallel White Moon Selena

  ·         Part of Fortune biquintile Eris

  ·         Part of Fortune inconjunct Eros

• Nessus in Pisces

  NESSUS:

  ·         Nessus conjunct Eros: Abuse by authority figures, teaching figures, spiritual and religious figures, legal figures.

  ·         Nessus semisextile Sun: Abuse in the self-esteem, monetary abuse, abuse in relationships. Tendency to pick partners and situations that are damaging to the self-esteem.

  ·         Nessus sextile Chiron: Abuse with siblings, in the communication, intellectual abuse. Having been abused verbally, psychologically. Abuse being embedded in the brain. Trauma or even mental illness or afflictions suffered as a result of having been abused. C-PTSD. Ruminating thoughts. Negative self-talk.

  ·         Nessus square Mars: You may experience abuse in the home, in childhood, witness your mother being abused, or experience abuse in private or behind closed doors. You may not be believed if you speak out about it.

  ·         Nessus inconjunct Juno: You will be exposed to experiences or themes of abuse so that you can grow as a soul.

  ·         Nessus inconjunct Part of Fortune:

  ·         Nessus trine Ceres:

  ·         Nessus trine Pallas:

  ·         Nessus sextile Saturn:

  ·         Nessus sextile Psyche:

This concludes Part 3 of the series, “Happy Birthday USA… Or Is It?” Please check back for Part 4, coming soon.