Donald I, King of Greenland?

By Alex Miller

With asteroid Donn (15 Cancer) conjoined Jupiter (19 Cancer), arbiter of foreign policy and international relations, since late September 2025, it’s no surprise to find US President Donald Trump immersed in such matters (Jupiter also has affinities with immigration and aggrandizement, and Trump’s recent focus has extended to mass deportation and his vanity project of creating a gilded White House, complete with massive ballroom).  Just since Christmas, Trump has ordered military strikes on Nigeria, Somalia, Syria, and Venezuela, where US forces kidnapped President Nicolas Maduro, extraditing him to America to face drug trafficking charges.

Trump has also issued aggressive rhetoric against Colombia and Cuba, and threatened to bomb Iran if the government crackdown on protestors there isn’t eased.  This extended conjunction of Jupiter and Donn pertains through early May 2026, so the world is likely in for more of the same for the foreseeable future.

But perhaps the most bizarre outworking of this conjunction is Trump’s obsession with obtaining Greenland, an autonomous arctic region belonging to Denmark, a NATO ally.  Trump claims that the US, which already maintains a naval base on the island, needs to acquire Greenland for its national security.  He seems intent on pursuing this policy, whether benignly, either by paying Denmark outright, or dangling the prospect of cash payments to the roughly 60,000 inhabitants to induce them to vote for union with the US; or in less friendly manner, via outright invasion, a step which would seriously fracture the nearly eighty-year-old transatlantic alliance that has helped to keep the globe relatively stable since World War II.

On January 15^th, both France and Germany agreed to send troops to the island to join Canadian forces already engaged in joint military drills with Danish troops.  This appears to be an overt move to bolster Greenland’s defenses against its ostensible ally, the US, or at a minimum to express solidarity with the inhabitants’ right of self-determination.  On the 17^th Trump retaliated with a 10% tariff on European nations supporting Greenland as of February 1^st, rising to 25% June 1^st, and remaining in effect “until such time as a Deal is reached for the Complete and Total purchase of Greenland” [bizarre capitalizations his].

Given these facts, it’s no shock to see the situation on the ground reflected in the skies, where the heated rhetoric coming from DC is mirrored by an opposition (180 degrees) between asteroids Washingtonia (14 Leo) and Green (17 Aquarius, for Greenland).  A T-Square (1) is formed by squares (90 degrees) with asteroid Toro (14 Scorpio), which represents bullying, intimidation and aggressive acts or language, resulting in a celestial pattern which certainly fits the terrestrial bill.

Some of the nations currently supporting Greenland and Denmark are also in evidence in the T-Square, with asteroid Gallia (15 Scorpio), named for the original Latin designation of France, conjoined Toro, and asteroid Dominiona (9 Leo), named in honor of the Dominion of Canada, conjoined Washingtonia.  As well, asteroid Germania (22 Libra) in trine (120 degrees) to asteroid Green shows Germany’s support of the islanders.  In the old days, pressure applied by these staunch US allies would have sufficed to tone down the aggressive posture from the White House, but all bets are off in the era of Trump.

Denmark’s parlous, turning-point situation here is reflected by asteroid Danmark (26 Virgo), the Danish form of the name, appearing at station (2), a pivotal time fraught with potential peril, indicating a major change of direction.  Danmark is conjoined exactly by asteroid Canada-Assandri, another marker for the US’ neighbor to the north (and nearest neighbor to Greenland), and both points make their retrograde stations simultaneously on January 18^th, suggesting heightened solidarity between their governments.

The root cause of Trump’s obsession with Greenland might be found in his birth chart.  It seems obvious that Donald Trump craves the unchecked monarchical powers the US Constitution deprives him of, and with natal asteroid King (24 Libra) at station, conjoined a stationary Jupiter (17 Libra), planetary ruler of royalty, his aptitude for regality seems, to him, self-apparent.  And with natal asteroid Green (16 Aries) opposed King, his sovereign ambitions are focused on that bit of arctic real estate.  Perhaps he thinks, since Greenland’s head-of-state is Denmark’s King Christian X, that ownership of the island confers royal status, and if he buys or invades it, he’ll become its king.

Notes:  (1) 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.

(2) 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.

Sources:  reporting from The Guardian, MS Now; chart data from serennu.com; graphic image by author

Title Image Credit:  drawn by Chat GPT