Strife: Heated, often violent conflict or disagreement. Bitter, angry dissension. It can also refer to an act of contention, fight, struggle, exertion, or competition for superiority.
Mars is the planet of strife and Mars in your birth chart depicts a group of aggressive, impetuous thought-cells in your unconscious soul-mind that are naturally inclined to attract conflict and strife. Only you know if you’re a strife magnet.
Strife is rampant on planet Earth. Combative Aquarian age politics and competitive new age business set the scene for conflict.
The competition to survive validates the Darwinian view of the world: Only the fit and strong succeed. Darwinian economics is all about the ruthless, aggressive pursuit of money and profits.
In January 2025 Donald Trump returned to the White House in hot pursuit of hard power and economic supremacy. The atmosphere in Washington was combative. He alienated long-time allies, turned America’s foreign policy into a business deal and upended democratic norms. He cut US foreign aid by 90%.
Trump is intent on reducing the federal workforce and stamping out DEI: diversity, equity and inclusion. He’s putting freedom of expression, democracy, the rule of law and LGBTQ+ rights under threat.
It’s the age of the MAGA (Macho) man and he’s tough, aggressive (Mars), insensitive and emotionless (Saturn). Yet Trump has Mercury, Venus and Saturn in the emotional (I feel) sign Cancer but with Venus (his emotions) conjunction Saturn the dominant emotion he feels is selfishness: the undeveloped good in nature.
And when discord messages come from the sky presidents here on Earth can make dreadful mistakes.
April 2, 2025: Donald Trump in a highly theatrical, meandering performance announces that he is placing a 10% tariff (Saturn) on all imports with additional taxes for some 60 countries.
Jupiter was square Saturn in the sky; in America’s chart progressed Jupiter was square birth chart Saturn; and Jupiter is square Saturn in Donald Trump’s birth chart.
Donald Trump: world champion strife magnet
Three major international events defined Donald Trump’s first season in the White house.
The North Korea crisis throughout 2017; the US-China trade war throughout 2019; and the covid-19 health emergency throughout 2020.
And in 2017 at the time of the North Korea crisis progressed Mars in his chart was square birth chart Mercury; and in the Aquarian Age progressed Mercury was opposition progressed Mars and progressed Mars was parallel birth chart Pluto.
In 2025 Jupiter (trade, finances and higher prices) and Saturn (economy, tariffs, security and recessed economic activity) in his chart are active by progression but Mars – planet of strife, conflict and energized effort – is going to play the lead role in his life story throughout the year.
Mars – his aggressive urge and desire to fight – is not prominent in his chart but it does aspect all his key planets.
It’s sextile (fortunate opportunity) his desire for power and significance (Sun); trine (fortunate luck) his mentality (Moon); semisquare (discordant friction) his intellectual urge (Mercury); conjunction (discordant prominence) his personality (ascendant); and square (discordant obstacle-frustration) his reputation (Midheaven).
Strongest aspect is Mars conjunction ascendant; best is Mars trine Moon; worst is Mars square Midheaven. Mars conciliates his high discord Sun-Moon opposition.
In October 2021 progressed Mars parallel birth chart Jupiter (legal matters and trade) in his chart started > peak power date is July 28, 2025; and in April 2024 progressed Mercury (his mental activity and decision making) parallel (discordant intensity) birth chart Mars started > peak power date is March 18, 2026; and progressed Mars semisquare (discordant friction and criticism) birth chart ascendant (his personality and health) started > peak power date is October, 29, 2025.
Then on April 5, 2025 progressed Mercury conjunction (discordant prominence) birth chart Mars started > peak power date is October 20, 2025.
Mercury is speeding so the aspect has a 12-month time frame during which major Mercury-Mars events can occur and it’s happening with discordant Jupiter and Saturn progressions in his chart and Saturn conjunction Neptune in the sky > peak power date is February 20, 2026.
Donald Trump’s chart progressed to October 20, 2025
Birth certificate data is June 14, 1946 at 10.54am EST: 40N41; 77W48 (Queens, New York)
Progressed Mercury conjunction birth chart Mars in house 12 (secret enmity, disappointment, self-undoing, isolation and restriction) maps a temporary discordant progression (stellar aerial) that’s turning his thoughts towards strife and haste and attracting difficulties due to impulsive, reckless decisions and what he says.
Their conjunction is in the fixed, domineering sign Leo so he won’t be inclined to change his decisions.
Mercury is the ruler of house 11 (his friends) and the co-ruler of house 2 (his finances); and Mars is the ruler of house 12 and house 9 (courts and overseas trips) and the co-ruler of house 4 (his real estate interests and home life).
In mundane affairs Mercury rules science, education, intellectual activity and press; and Mars rules war, conflict, disputation and manufacturing.
Donald Trump in 2025
Mercury is the planet of cerebral activity and Mars is going to make his thoughts hot, aggressive, angry and reckless. His very short fuse will get shorter. He’ll be ranting like a lunatic. It’s commonly known that as people get older, they tend to experience tremendous amounts of self-delusion. Watching a cranky old man throw tantrums won’t be pleasant.
Mercury rules his brain and tongue and they’ll be on fire. His brain could explode. His red (Mars) MAGA cap could burst into flames. There’ll be a lot of yelling and screaming going on. He’ll be using language you won’t hear in Church or at dinner with Grandma.
Mercury conjunction Mars forecasts a titanic conflict that will inflict massive damage. His hostile, out-of-control aggressive urge will wreak havoc. The strife and conflict will escalate every quickly.
Mars is driven by hatred and revenge. It’s abusive, rude, harsh, cruel, brash, insulting and unsympathetic. When anger escalates reason dissipates. The angriest war of words in the history of the universe could erupt. All hell could break loose. He’s already blown-up global trade and he could start World War 3 and blow-up the world.
In 2025 Trump will push the boundaries of his power to the limit. His Sun-Uranus thought-cells are prepared to go to any extreme to attain his goals. The idea of a Trumpian autocracy is flashing across his objective consciousness. Can he overturn America’s constitutional order?
Dealing with a delusional angry man will test world leaders who have to navigate the disasters he creates and serve their nation’s interests to the best of their ability.
Progressed Sun square birth chart Mars in America’s chart
In June 2023 progressed Sun parallel progressed Mars in America’s chart started – peak power date is September 20, 2026; and on May 14, 2025 progressed Sun square (high discord conflict and frustration) birth chart Mars starts > peak power date is May 15, 2026.
America’s chart progressed to May 15, 2026
Chart data is July 4, 1776 at 12.14am LMT: 74W08, 39N57 (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Progressed Sun is in house 11 (Congress) and birth chart Mars is in house 1 (the people and their welfare). Mars dominates the chart.
Birth chart Sun is in house 2 (finances and wealth of the people) and cusp ruler of house 4 (land, territories, housing and weather events). Birth chart Mars is in house 1 and cusp ruler of house 6 (work, employees and sickness) and house 12 (isolation and secret enmity).
Sun discord signs for power abuse and administration incompetence. The nation’s leaders are behaving badly and Mars signs for strife, conflict, war and escalating anger. America is a hotbed of rage and hate.
Donald Trump is angry and the people are angry with Donald Trump. And Canada, Denmark, Panama and many other counties are angry too.
Mars is the builder: the construction worker. It’s the planet of manufacturing and Trump’s trade war is all about US manufacturing. And Sun square Mars forecasts major problems for manufacturing due to administrative incompetence.
Donald Trump’s support base voted for him to fix the US economy and their cost-of-living crisis and if his tariffs cause the price of goods to rise his dedicated followers won’t be happy. (And that high-discord Jupiter cycle still has years to run.)
But, whatever Trump does he’s just doing his patriotic duty. Like everyone he only does what’s in his nature.
Donald Trump
With Sun trine Jupiter and Mercury square Neptune in his chart he’s mastered the art of sounding more and more trustworthy as he strays further from the truth. He’s very prone to engage in confused thinking and gross exaggeration.
His deal-making, transactional approach (Saturn) to resolving conflict, uses every negotiating tool and tactic at his disposal. He’s self-interest driven and ignorant of the risks involved or the discord consequences of his erratic disruption.
His free-wheeling attitude towards foreign policy often plays out in real time through posts on his Truth Social account; and Uranus and changeable Gemini in his chart can say and do something one day and reverse it all the next.
Donald Trump performs for a domestic audience which approves of a common standard of political behavior. He provides his nation with a sleazy type of moral guidance.
Humans are copycats. They imitate and adopt ideas, beliefs and behaviors without thinking and Trump is training Americans to dislike other nations and they’re retaliating with hate and dislike.
And his aggressive show-me-the-money approach and selfish it’s all-about-me attitude are catching on. Autocrats around the world are copying his example.
In 2025 faith and trust (Jupiter) on planet Earth are in short supply (Saturn) and the world is jam-packed with big egos. Inflated self-importance and status rivalry easily erupt in personal conflict. And during 2025 the conflict, disagreement and dissension that Donald Trump attracts will confirm that he’s the world champion strife magnet.
In March 2024 progressed Mars parallel progressed Uranus in the Aquarian Age chart started > peak power date is October 2027; and on September 21, 2025 progressed Mars sesquisquare progressed Uranus starts > peak power date is February 2027.
Mars is the planet of war and Uranus is the great disrupter. Things are about to change very quickly. Extreme strife and conflict are approaching fast.
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