'A Shitstorm': Astrologers Say Election Day's Blood Moon Eclipse Spells Chaos

BEFORE DAWN ON Election Day, the full moon will appear drenched in blood. 
Our satellite will begin transitioning behind the Earth’s penumbra at 
exactly two minutes past midnight Pacific Time on November 8th, according 
to NASA, and remain fully obscured — cast in an ominous sanguine hue — 
from 5:17 until 6:42 a.m. Eastern. It’s the last total lunar eclipse for 
three years. The whole thing sounds like the setting for a particularly 
deranged Q drop, so we sought some reassurance from the experts: 
astrologers. Unfortunately, the astrologers didn’t have much reassurance 
to offer.

“Nobody asked me, but I would not pick an eclipse day to have an election 
on,” Chani Nicholas, of the mononymous astrology empire, says. 
“Historically, eclipses were looked at as ‘bad omens’ — definitely not 
times to do major things.” 

“I’ll be honest, I’m very nervous,” Tali Edut, one half of the AstroTwins, 
says. “No matter which way it goes, there’s an eruptive quality to it.”

In an email, Susan Miller, of AstrologyZone, said she was in disbelief 
when she first noticed  Election Day’s astrological conditions: “We are 
not polarized enough, right?” 

Everyone seemed to agree: energetically, Election Day is poised for chaos. 
“It will be a mess,” says Sam Reynolds of Unlock Astrology. “A shit show,” 
Zoe Cardiff of Triple Goddess Astrology agrees. She rattles off a few ways 
that could manifest: “Contested results. ‘Too close to call.’ Recounts. 
Disagreements on the outcome for sure. Everyone being really pissed off 
and in their corners.”

In astrology, lunar eclipses are taken seriously, Cardiff explains, 
because they represent “fated changes in direction” with the themes of the 
signs with which they are associated. This total lunar eclipse is taking 
place in conservative Taurus — a house that is known for ruling “the 
economy, finance, currency, cryptocurrency, climate, natural resources, 
the supply chain,” Cardiff says. At the same time, the Moon is conjunct 
with Uranus, the planet of disruption and change and revolution and 
upheaval. 

“Whenever the Moon is at a close degree to the sign of another planet,” 
Edut explains, “It’s almost like they’re in cahoots. They’re two actors in 
the same scene. This eclipse is at the same degree of Taurus as Uranus is, 
so it’s like this extra Molotov cocktail thrown into the mix.”

Several astrologers pointed out another unsettling aspect: this eclipse is 
occurring as Uranus moves through Taurus. The reason that’s frightening, 
Nicholas explains, is because the last time Uranus was in Taurus was from 
1934 to 1942.  “A moment of totalitarianism, Nazism, extremism, and 
fascism,” Nicholas says. “It really dovetailed with this very iron-fisted 
period in history,” Edut agrees. 

“Astrologers have — we have all — noticed this link, and a lot of people 
predicted a kind of rise of that type of sentiment,” Nicholas says. This 
particular eclipse, she says, is practically engineered to highlight those 
dynamics. “Our job is to take that very seriously. Our job is to not look 
away from the white supremacist, white nationalist, Nazi rhetoric that is 
infiltrating a lot of different air waves.”

If that weren’t enough, Jessica Lanyadoo, astrologer and host of Ghost of 
a Podcast, points out that this election is also taking place amidst the 
United States’ Pluto return — the point at which the planet returns to the 
station it was in at the moment of one’s birth. “Pluto takes approximately 
250 years to move all the way through the 12 Zodiac signs, so people never 
have Pluto returns — but nations do,” Lanyadoo says. “Not to get too in 
the weeds with this, I can tell you that Pluto returns often coincide with 
the fall of a nation.”

“When this transit occurs, it demands that a nation is willing and able to 
confront their shadow,” Lanyadoo says. “And in the United States, we have 
a really deep shadow of racism and violence and genocide.” 

And there is one more aspect astrologers say has to be considered: A 
Mercury Cazimi — the point at which Mercury, the messenger planet, “is 
exactly conjoined the Sun, from the Earth’s perspective,” Reynolds 
explains — is also occurring the same day. 

“That’s very rare that you would have a total lunar eclipse and Mercury 
Cazimi happening at the same time, and, as it’s happening, a midterm 
election that is so important,” Nicholas says. “It’s loaded.”

Mercury Cazimi, Nicholas says, is “usually a moment of insight and 
clarity, and it’s happening in Scorpio. Scorpio is all about mystery and 
secrets and what you can’t know or see until it comes to light. So it also 
feels like there’s some sort of secret or something being revealed.”

Every astrologer consulted agreed that the eclipse portends an unexpected 
result. “If this eclipse is describing an event, it’s describing an 
upset,” Nicholas says. “But I don’t know who it’s an upset for.”

Lanyadoo wouldn’t venture a guess either. “The energy of eclipses is 
unpredictable, it’s chaotic. And this particular eclipse involves a planet 
Uranus, which governs the unpredictable,” she notes. “This eclipse, I 
think, will defy a lot of political people’s predictions. And, as an 
astrologer, I would not dare to try to predict what will happen, because 
it’s an eclipse and eclipses are wild.”

Miller agrees that the involvement of Uranus “will make for a big 
surprise… It is the nature of Uranus to pull something in from the outside 
world into the discussion, something we would never have thought possible 
or even probable.”

For folks that are going to the polls on Election Day, Nicholas advises: 
“Go early, go with snacks, consider that the day might be a little 
disruptive, and make sure that you’re bolstered in the way that you need 
to be bolstered in order to get your vote in.”

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