US Presidential Election 2024

The 2024 United States Presidential Election, held on 5 November, was a chart of death and rebirth from the very first breath. Cast for the moment the Washington polls opened, it carries Scorpio rising with the Sun also in Scorpio: the phoenix, the eagle, power drawn from the depths and the theme of an avatar that dies only to rise again. Nothing could be more fitting for a contest that returned Donald Trump to office after a defeat in 2020, making him only the second president in history, after Grover Cleveland, elected to non-consecutive terms. Trump and JD Vance swept every swing state and took the popular vote, while Kamala Harris, who inherited the ticket after Joe Biden's late withdrawal, was left with the Democrats' weakest showing since 1988. Rebirth for one side, dissolution for the other.

That Scorpio Sun sits in the twelfth house, the unknowable realm of secrets, hidden forces and undoing, which coloured a campaign shadowed by felony convictions, indictments and two assassination attempts. The Moon in Sagittarius in the second house tied the national mood to money, freedom and value, and voters named the economy their deciding issue. A phoenix chart for a phoenix result.