Pluto's Grip: The Astrology of Trump's Voting Order

A seventeen-page document circulating among Trump allies proposes what constitutional scholars describe as an extraordinary expansion of executive authority over American elections. The draft executive order, first reported by The Washington Post and detailed by The Daily Signal, would declare a national emergency over elections, potentially banning mail-in ballots and voting machines while claiming federal authority to secure elections from foreign interference. The timing of its emergence, lat

Pluto, the planetary archetype of transformation, hidden forces, and the will to power, entered Aquarius on November 19, 2024. This generational transit, which will span approximately two decades, marks a fundamental shift in how authority operates within collective structures. The last time Pluto traversed Aquarius, from 1777 to 1799, the American constitutional framework was being forged. The current return to this sign raises profound questions about whether those foundations face transformation or erosion.

The constitutional tension embedded in this executive order mirrors the astrological tension between Pluto's consolidating impulse and Aquarius's distributive nature. Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute documents that the Elections Clause, Article I, Section 4, Clause 1, grants states primary authority to prescribe the times, places, and manner of congressional elections. The Constitution empowers Congress, not the presidency, to override state regulations. Federal courts have previously ruled that presidents lack constitutional authority over election administration. Election lawyer David Becker noted that courts have been clear that "the Constitution gives no authority to the president to do any of these things."

Yet the draft exists. Its existence during Pluto's early transit through Aquarius suggests a testing of boundaries, a probing of constitutional limits that the astrological patterns indicate may intensify rather than diminish in the coming years.

The Individual Chart: Trump's Natal Signature

Donald Trump's birth chart, calculated for June 14, 1946, at 10:54 AM in Queens, New York, reveals planetary placements that speak directly to this moment. His Sun at approximately 22 degrees Gemini forms a conjunction with Uranus at roughly 18 degrees Gemini, creating an individual whose identity is intertwined with disruption and unconventional approaches to authority. This Sun-Uranus conjunction suggests someone who experiences his sense of self through the act of challenging established structures.

His natal Pluto resides at approximately 10 degrees Leo, placing the planet of power and transformation in his house of self-expression and creative will. This placement creates a natal signature of intense personal will, a relationship with power that seeks expression rather than containment. Pluto in Leo carries the archetype of the dramatic assertion of individual authority, the desire to leave an indelible mark on the world stage.

The current sky shows Pluto at approximately 4.49 degrees Aquarius, forming a challenging aspect to Trump's natal Pluto placement. This transit suggests external pressures on his relationship with power and control, a cosmic invitation to transform his understanding of authority that may manifest as resistance rather than acceptance. The square aspect between transiting Pluto and natal Pluto represents a moment when the individual's relationship with power is being tested by forces larger than personal will.

Saturn at approximately 1.53 degrees Aries has just entered the sign of initiation and self-assertion, while Neptune at approximately 0.99 degrees Aries has also recently crossed this threshold. This Saturn-Neptune conjunction, exact on February 20, 2026, created a moment when structure met dissolution, potentially manifesting as challenges to established constitutional boundaries. With both planets now in Aries, the sign of new beginnings and self-assertion, the coming months may see increased friction between executive action and constitutional limits.

The National Chart: America's Pluto Return

The United States Sibley chart, calculated for July 4, 1776, at approximately 12:16 PM in Philadelphia, places the nation's Pluto at approximately 27 degrees Capricorn. The country has recently experienced its Pluto return, the moment when transiting Pluto returns to its natal position. This rare astrological event, occurring approximately every 248 years, signifies profound national transformation. The last Pluto return coincided with the period following the American Revolution, when the constitutional framework was being established.

The return coincides with intense examination of governmental structures and power distribution. Administration officials have denied that the draft represents current policy intentions, with one official stating they had no conversations suggesting the president would issue an order not based in law. However, the International Business Times UK notes that Trump's second term has already been marked by an expansion of executive actions reshaping federal power, with this latest leaked document going far beyond routine policy changes.

Mars in Aquarius: The Activating Force

The current sky shows Mars at approximately 27.48 degrees Aquarius, closely aligning with Pluto's position in the sign. Mars represents action, conflict, and the will to assert. When Mars activates Pluto's transformative energy, the result can be forceful attempts to reshape structures. Mars in Aquarius carries the archetype of action taken on behalf of collective ideals, but also the potential for ideological conflict carried out with military precision.

Jupiter at approximately 15.31 degrees Cancer suggests expansion and protection of domestic concerns, while the Moon at approximately 16.74 degrees Cancer amplifies public emotional response to questions of security and belonging. Mercury at approximately 22.46 degrees Pisces indicates information flow that may be diffuse, intuitive, or difficult to pin down, making clear communication about constitutional boundaries challenging.

Neptune at approximately 0.99 degrees Aries, having just crossed the Aries point, carries the archetype of dissolving boundaries between vision and action. When Neptune enters a new sign, the old boundaries become permeable, and what was once clearly defined becomes subject to interpretation and reimagination. This placement suggests that the boundaries between executive authority and constitutional limits may become less clear, not more clear, in the period ahead.

Historical Context: The Georgia Indictment

The astrological patterns gain additional significance when viewed against historical context. On August 14, 2023, a Fulton County, Georgia, grand jury indicted Trump and 18 allies for racketeering after Trump campaign officials accessed voting machines with election officials. This history of confrontation with electoral systems, combined with current planetary positions, suggests an ongoing cosmic narrative about the relationship between individual will and collective governance.

The question facing astrologers and citizens alike is whether Pluto's transit through Aquarius will ultimately strengthen democratic institutions through necessary transformation or weaken them through concentrated power grabs. The planet's nature suggests both possibilities exist simultaneously. Transformation often comes through crisis, and the sign of Aquarius demands that such transformation serve collective evolution rather than individual ambition.

The Saturn-Neptune Conjunction: Structure Meets Dissolution

The Saturn-Neptune conjunction on February 20, 2026, created a moment when the planet of structure, limits, and accountability met the planet of dissolution, dreams, and transcendence. In mundane astrology, such conjunctions often correlate with periods when established structures face challenges from forces that dissolve boundaries. The conjunction occurred at the very beginning of Aries, the sign of new beginnings, suggesting that this dissolution of old structures may give birth to new forms of authority.

Saturn's subsequent entry into Aries, the sign of self-assertion and initiative, indicates that the coming years may feature increased attempts to assert new forms of authority. Saturn in Aries carries the archetype of disciplined self-assertion, the will to act decisively and independently. Combined with Neptune's presence in the same sign, this suggests that assertions of authority may be accompanied by rhetoric that blurs boundaries and creates confusion about constitutional limits.

The Upcoming Pluto Square to US Mercury

The upcoming Pluto square to the US Mercury, exact around March 15, 2026, suggests intensified communication about power and its limits. Mercury governs documents, agreements, and the exchange of ideas, making this aspect particularly relevant for constitutional interpretation and legal challenges to executive authority. When Pluto squares Mercury in a nation's chart, the result can be power struggles over information, documents, and the meaning of written agreements.

This transit may bring intensified legal battles over the meaning of constitutional provisions. The Elections Clause represents states' primary constitutional authority over federal elections, subject to congressional override. The question of whether a president can claim emergency powers to override this constitutional arrangement may be precisely the kind of Mercurial dispute that Pluto's transformative pressure brings to a head.

The Shadow of Aquarius

Pluto in Aquarius historically correlates with movements toward collective decision-making, but also reveals the shadow side of such movements: populist authoritarianism disguised as popular will. The executive order draft, with its invocation of national emergency powers to centralize election authority, exemplifies this shadow expression. It claims to act on behalf of the collective while concentrating power in a single authority.

The sign of Aquarius carries the archetype of the collective, but also the archetype of the individual who claims to represent the collective. The danger of Pluto in Aquarius is that transformation may be captured by those who claim to act on behalf of the people while undermining the very structures that distribute power among the people.

Administration officials quoted by The Daily Signal frame the draft as the president's duty as commander-in-chief to "declare a national security emergency and take all necessary precautions today to ensure the safety of the November elections." An unnamed ally or official stated, "I just pray we are not already too late." This rhetoric of emergency and necessity, combined with the concentration of authority, represents precisely the shadow expression of Pluto in Aquarius: the claim that extraordinary circumstances require extraordinary concentration of power.

The Deeper Pattern

What emerges from this analysis is a pattern that transcends any single individual or document. The United States is experiencing its Pluto return while simultaneously hosting a president whose natal Pluto is being activated by transiting Pluto. Saturn and Neptune have just conjoined at the Aries point, dissolving old boundaries while creating conditions for new assertions of authority. Mars is activating Pluto in Aquarius, providing the energy for forceful attempts at transformation.

The constitutional framework established during Pluto's last transit through Aquarius is being tested during its current transit. The question is not whether transformation will occur; Pluto guarantees transformation. The question is whether that transformation will serve the collective evolution that Aquarius demands, or whether it will be captured by individual will masquerading as collective necessity.

The draft executive order may be denied as current policy, but its existence reveals an intention, a testing of boundaries, a probing of constitutional limits. As Becker told Votebeat, "It keeps getting worse for him," referring to court rulings on executive authority. Yet the astrological patterns suggest that the confrontation between concentrated power and distributed governance will intensify rather than diminish in the years ahead.

Pluto's grip on the American chart is not negotiable. The transformation it demands will occur. What remains to be determined is whether that transformation strengthens the constitutional framework established during its last Aquarian transit, or whether it erodes that framework in service of concentrated authority. The heavens do not determine outcomes, but they do reveal the timing and nature of the challenges we face.

The next two decades of Pluto in Aquarius will answer the question that the constitutional framers could not have foreseen: whether a system designed to distribute power can survive an era when power seeks to concentrate itself in the name of the very people it claims to serve.