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Trump Assassination Attempt: The Butler Did It

September 15, 2024

By Alex Miller

On Saturday, 13 July 2024, former US president and current Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump cheated death at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania when he turned his head at the last moment, and a would-be assassin’s bullet whizzed past harmlessly, barely nicking his ear. The event was portrayed celestially in part by asteroid Butler, which was paused at its station degree, amplifying its effects and attracting global attention.

But first, a little background on stations, and why they’re significant. A station occurs any time a celestial body appears to slow its motion, stop, and reverse course in the sky. We’re all familiar with Mercury retrograde and the SNAFUs that can occur in communication while it operates between these station points, and the same applies to any planetary body, as well as asteroids. Stations and retrogrades are optical illusions (nothing ever really travels backward in the solar system), created by the triangulation between the earth, the sun, and a third body, causing the visual distortion. They’re not “actual” in any sense, but astrology is a symbols system, and in that language, stations mean something important is about to occur, pay attention! They represent pivotal events, literal “turning points,” often denoting crucial moments in a biography, when powerfully placed in a birth chart.

In this case, asteroid Butler was at its station degree on July 13th, about to turn retrograde on the 17th, when Donald Trump took the stage in Butler. A typical campaign rally in sleepy Butler wouldn’t have made much news, but with its cosmic referent at station, the western Pennsylvania community was about to make its mark, becoming the focus of all eyes globally, as the venue for a presidential assassination attempt. People or places resonant with points at station often become prominent for just this reason, that quality of “embeddedness” in the consciousness of the times which stations evoke.

We mentioned that a stationing point had to be well-connected in a subject’s birth chart to produce a memorable manifestation. For Donald Trump, this Butler station fell atop his natal (or “birth”) asteroid Gunn (yeah, you read that right – Gunn!!), in a tense ninety-degree square aspect to both his Sun, representing his lifeforce, and his Uranus, which rules shootings and assassinations, among a multitude of other things in its bailiwick.

Moreover, from its station degree, Butler was also aligned with Saturn, acknowledged as the ancient lord of death, and also ruling chief executives and heads of state such as presidents. The icing on this cosmic confection is the fact that Trump’s birth Butler is also conjoined his Saturn!

No siree, there’s not much mystery to this story at all – obviously, the Butler did it!

Alex Miller

Alex Miller is a professional writer and astrologer, Editor-in-Chief of ANS, author of The Black Hole Book, detailing deep space points in astrological interpretation, and the forthcoming Heaven on Earth, a comprehensive study of asteroids, both mythic and personal. Alex is a frequent contributor to “The Mountain Astrologer”, “Daykeeper Journal”, and NCGR’s Journals and “Enews Commentary”; his work has also appeared in “Aspects” magazine, “Dell Horoscope”, “Planetwaves”, “Neptune Café” and “Sasstrology.” He is a past president of Philadelphia Astrological Society, and former board member for the Philadelphia Chapter of NCGR. His two decades of chronicling asteroid effects in human affairs can be found at his website, www.alexasteroidastrology.com.

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