Turning Point:  Epstein Fallout Heats Up

By Alex Miller

On 8 November 2025, a tiny bit of space debris reached a critical point in its cycle, coming to station (1) and turning direct.  That point was an asteroid named “Epstein.”  Epstein inhabits the degree of its station from October 26 through November 20, and the period was fraught for persons involved with notorious American sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.  Epstein’s station was like throwing a pebble into a pond – ripples emanated from the station’s impact, washing ashore on both sides of the Atlantic.

The fallout started in the UK, where on October 30^th the former Prince Andrew was stripped of all titles, styles and honorifics by his brother King Charles III.  The act was a direct response to the scandal of Andrew’s decade-long involvement with Jeffrey Epstein, making big news again with the release of a tell-all biography in August.  The release of that bio, not coincidentally, came on August 14^th, with asteroid Epstein at its prior retrograde station degree.  The situation percolated throughout the period of Epstein’s retrograde, and attempts by Andrew to blunt the blow by voluntarily resigning use of his titles (though not the titles themselves) were ineffective, leading to the denouement when Epstein reached its next direct station degree.

That station (18 Pisces) conjoined Andrew’s (2) natal Mercury (17 Pisces), ruling statements and announcements, as the edict came down from Buckingham Palace that Andrew was a prince no more.  More to the point, the station also opposed (180 degrees) Andrew’s natal asteroid Epstein placement (20 Virgo), creating a “Full Moon” relationship with itself, a time of coming to fruition, the ultimate reckoning of Andrew’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.

The demotion of a minor princeling, eighth in line to the throne, though shocking, is hardly epochal.  On the other side of the pond, however, the Epstein station fallout may be truly earthshaking.

Despite campaign promises to do so, the Trump administration has been slow-walking the release of the Justice Department’s files on Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes, and the rich, powerful men who joined in his child sex trafficking acts.  Donald Trump, another decades-long associate of Epstein, now characterizes the affair as a “Democrat hoax,” and his cohorts in the US House of Representatives have refused to even hold a vote on making the records public. 

A bipartisan discharge petition was begun, a parliamentary tactic designed to force a vote on a particular issue, and fell one vote short of passage.  Until a special election in September in Arizona to fill a vacant seat brought Adelita Grijalva to Washington, determined to be the final vote needed to enact the discharge petition.  However, House Speaker and Trump ally Mike Johnson refused to seat her, using the excuse of the government shutdown to delay the inevitable as long as possible, which left Grijalva languishing in legislative limbo for fifty days.

But on November 12^th, the Congress reconvened to end the shutdown, and with no choice, Johnson swore in the new Democratic member, whose first act was to sign the petition, now scheduled for a floor vote within the week, likely before asteroid Epstein moves off its station degree.  The same day saw the release of emails subpoenaed by the House Oversight Committee from the Epstein Estate, the contents of which raise serious doubts about the President’s honesty in claiming he knew nothing of Epstein’s crimes, and certainly did not participate in them.

If astrology teaches us anything, it’s that the timing of the universe is always perfect, however inconvenient it may seem to mere mortals.  When Adelita Grijalva was sworn in and became the critical vote on releasing the Epstein files, asteroid Adele (Adelita means “little Adele”) was exactly opposed Epstein’s station (from 18 Virgo).  Adele is conjoined by asteroid House (14 Virgo), reflecting the House of Representatives, while Epstein is conjoined exactly by centaur Nessus, a body which relates to sexual misconduct (named for the centaur who attempted to rape Heracles’ wife).

For Donald Trump, the situation could be dire indeed.  Trump’s natal (3) asteroid Epstein (3 Aquarius) also appears at station, indicating an outsized importance for someone of that name in his biography.  The current Epstein station falls exactly semisquare (45 degrees) to that point, providing a jolt of energy, but the truly energizing, and perhaps devastating, transit occurred last spring, when Pluto made its retrograde station exactly conjoined it.  Pluto rules sex, scandal and criminality, as well as total destruction, a daunting mix of potentially toxic factors that could, if properly disseminated, bring down Trump’s presidency.

Underscoring the peril, Epstein’s station also T-Squares (4) Trump’s natal Sun (22 Gemini) and Moon (21 Sagittarius), evoking an alteration in self-image (Sun) and emotional stress (Moon), possibly including a change of residence (Moon), if Trump were forced to vacate the White House.  In Trump’s 2025 Solar Return (5) last June, asteroid Epstein (27 Pisces) squares his Sun and conjoins the Descendant (21 Pisces), providing Angular force and impact, and establishing Epstein as a force to be reckoned with through the subsequent year.  This Epstein placement was further highlighted and activated by a Solar Eclipse (29 Virgo) in opposition on September 21^st, perhaps setting the seal on a truly spectacular implosion in Trump’s future.

Notes:  (1) Stations are periods when, from our perspective on Earth, a planet appears to slow its movement, come to a standstill, and reverse course.  This is an optical illusion created by the triangulation between the sun, Earth, and any third celestial body; astrologically, it represents a focusing of the energies associated with that point, and often coincides with major life events or a radical recalibration of how that point has functioned previously.

(2) Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, born 19 February 1960, 3:30 PM GMT, London England (Rodden Rating AA)

(3) Donald Trump born 14 June 1946, 10:54 AM EDT, Jamaica, New York (Rodden Rating AA)

(4) A T-Square is a dynamic pattern composed of two or more planets in opposition (180 degrees), each squared (90 degrees) a third.  It represents stress and conflict, with the fulcrum point (at the square) offering a possibility of resolution.

(5) A Solar Return is cast for the date, time and place when the Sun annually returns to its natal degree.   It can be used to anticipate major themes and events of the coming year.

Sources:  reporting from NBC News, Reuters; birth data from astro.com; chart data from serennu.com

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