U.S. Defense Secretary Hegseth Has Eight Hairy Problems

By Sue Kientz

Kentucky Republican Congressman Thomas Massie began his work week on November 9, 2026, by filing Articles of Impeachment against the U.S. Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth. (1) The charges include accusations that Hegseth, using his position as head of the U.S. Defense Department, (a) waged war without congressional authorization, (b) continued said war after Congress passed a resolution directing the president to terminate the hostilities or seek authorization to lawfully continue, and (c) violated deadlines of the War Powers Resolution (that require Congressional authorization at day 60 to continue waging war, and if no authorization is obtained, to withdraw from conflict). The additional articles included other ways Secretary Hegseth had allegedly violated the constitution, in that he (d) carried out illegal military boat strikes against suspected but unidentified drug dealers traveling in the Caribbean, (e) unlawfully captured and kidnapped Venezuelan President Maduro, (f) executed unauthorized military operations in Yemen, (g) violated laws that require minimizing civilian casualties, and (h) abused his power by seeking to punish Senator Mark Kelly for public comments that were protected speech. (2)

When reached for comment, Hegseth rejected the allegations, labeling them a political stunt. He promised to comment further at a press conference on Tuesday morning, November 10. The Pentagon also released a statement, calling Massie’s move partisan, despite the Kentucky congressman being a Republican.

This isn’t the first time the so-called Secretary of War seemed to be in hot water for his actions, but since last week’s midterm election returns handed heavy losses to Republicans, with many voters mentioning their particular dislike of the Iran war, impeaching and convicting Hegseth might be a way for the GOP to find someone to blame for their imminent loss of power come January. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson has two legislative days or until Thursday (since Wednesday is Veterans Day, a federal holiday) to schedule a vote on the articles.

As far as what astrology says about this turn of events for the former Fox News weekend co-host, we are blessed with excellent birth data from Pete Hegseth’s birth certificate, perhaps available due to his television gig. (3) Pete Hegseth was born on June 6, 1980, by happy chance the 36^th anniversary of D-Day. His chart indeed has a martial air with Sun (16 Gemini) square (90 degrees; crisis or a real challenge) third-largest dwarf planet Haumea (16 Virgo). Named for the Hawai’ian goddess of childbirth, mythic Haumea produced her own children by cutting off parts of her body, quite a dramatic and painful proposition, even if swift and effective. Such drastic actions are common with astrological Haumea as well. For example, in 1945 during World War II, Pluto, Haumea, and the Sun conjoined in Leo when the Americans sought a quicker end to more war with Japan and dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which decisively convinced the determined Japanese to unconditionally surrender. (4) Haumea has positive qualities of healing and rebirth, making her a powerful agent of change both healthful and destructive, but one especially negative trait is impatience when things are not going well. (5) It is this negative Haumea propensity that about half of the impeachment articles addresses, like bombing unknown civilians in a boat cruising the Caribbean because they might be drug smugglers; initially striking Iran but without the latest intel that would reveal a children’s school where a military target was assumed; and pretending that if one ceases hostilities at day 60, one can claim that war ended, then start up some weeks later bombing the same country, claiming this time it’s a totally different war.

Even without the midterm election “disaster,” Pete Hegseth looks as if trouble would find him right now anyway. As the week began, transiting Saturn (8 Aries) was square Hegseth’s Mercury (9 Cancer) and his prime supporter Trump’s Mercury (8 Cancer) (6), a figure that suggests harsh truths (Saturn) have to be told (Mercury – communication, information), with unpleasant results for both men. Whatever is up for discussion, there’s animosity involved, since transiting Mars (22 Leo) is semisquare (45 degrees; minor yet annoying) Hegseth and Trump’s Mercury degrees, suggesting an undercurrent of hard feelings, probably on Trump’s part since Jupiter (25 Leo) is conjunct (0-7 degrees; a trigger or new beginning) Trump’s Mars (26 Leo), making his usual terrible temper even more outsized (Jupiter, the largest planet, enlarges one’s reactions). Mars also squares Pete’s Uranus (22 Scorpio) and conjoins his dwarf planet Makemake (23 Leo) position soon after, which taken together could shake him up (Uranus) and even lead to considering an escape plan (Makemake often represents flight, sudden actions, even crazy decisions, but is it crazy for Pete to resign?). (7)

With Mercury and Venus both in retrograde, often seen as indicators of a situation “turning around” once the retrograde planets appear to move in direct motion, (8) such a delay might grant Hegseth room to breathe and regroup, even as this might not help him for long. Venus (23 Libra), representative of kindness, good will, and civil relations, is opposite dwarf planet Eris (25 Aries). Nearly as big as Pluto, Eris importantly challenges Pluto’s love of its (selfish) individual will, with Eris insisting on due concern for communities and fair dealings for all, especially for those treated as outcast. (9) Once Venus turns around later this month, it again opposes Eris in two weeks, perhaps when Hegseth’s impeachment accusations are backed up by sworn testimony about his many allegedly criminal inconsiderate and hasty actions.

Title Image credit: Story, impeachment articles, and Hegseth’s gelled-up hair described by author to ChatGPT, which generated the above Image.

Notes and References

1. “Rep. Thomas Massie files resolution on Hegseth impeachment, teeing up a vote,” 9 November 2026, 1:05 p.m. ET (Massie’s live announcement on MS NOW), Washington DC, MS NOW, https://www.ms.now/news/rep-thomas-massie-moves-to-force-vote-on-hegseth-impeachment
2. Jimison, Robert, “Hegseth Impeachment Charges Say He Violated the Constitution,” 9 November 2026, The New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/09/us/politics/hegseth-impeachment-massie.html
3. Hegseth, Pete, 6 June 1980, 8:28 p.m., Minneapolis, MN, Birth Cert., Astrodienst, https://www.astro.com/astro-databank/Hegseth,_Pete
4. Nuclear: Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima, 6 August 1945, 8:15 a.m., Hiroshima, Japan, Astrodienst, https://www.astro.com/astro-databank/Nuclear:_Atomic_bombing_of_Hiroshima
5. Kientz, Sue, “Pluto and Haumea: Having Power, and Using that Power,” eNews newsletter of The National Council for Geocosmic Research, Inc. (NCGR), Issue 215, June 30, 2015
6. Trump, Donald J., 14 June 1946, 10:54 a.m., Queens, NY, Birth Cert., Astrodienst, https://www.astro.com/astro-databank/Trump,_Donald  
7. Makemake is the fourth-largest planetary body in the Kuiper Belt. Read more at Watch out, it’s Makemake!, the Makemake chapter from More Plutos that appeared in the Astrological Journal, Nov./Dec. 2014 issue
8. All planets move retrograde (abbreviated “Rx”), or backwards in degrees as observed from Earth, at some point during their orbit of the Sun. This optical illusion is due to the position of Earth sometimes moving faster than other solar system bodies, so the retrograde object seems to drift backwards in the sky. With Mercury and Venus, their movements around the Sun require them to pass in front of the Sun from Earth’s perspective, which appears as backward motion. Eventually the body “stops” (in astrological terms, “stations”) and resumes forward motion. Sun and Moon never appear to move retrograde.
9. Kientz, S., “Eris, the Discomforting Other,” More Plutos, appeared in the Astrological Journal, Sept./Oct. 2014 issue; https://moreplutos.com/articles/Eris-SueKientz_AstrologicalJournal-Sept-Oct2014.pdf

For astrological keywords and examples of historical figures for Haumea, Makemake, and Eris, see “Dwarf Planet Basics,” Astrology News Service, 6 November 2024,  https://astrologynewsservice.com/articles/dwarf-planet-basics/

For more details about the angles or relationships between planets, see Lynne Hyde’s “Astrology Basics,” 12 November 2024, ANS, https://astrologynewsservice.com/articles/astrology-basics/