The Trump administration has brought a fresh and exhausting sense of chaos to American political life. In previous years, the senior staff of the White House, while not exactly anonymous, has been cloaked securely in boredom. Americans always knew that the president was surrounded by advisers, but with a few exceptions—George W. Bush's Karl Rove and Barack Obama's David Axelrod—most of his shadowy figures don't become famous in their own right.
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That's not the case in Donald Trump's White House. Thanks to constant leaks, the workplace politics of what sounds like a pretty ugly workplace has spilled into public view. Chief-of-staff Reince Priebus is hanging by a thread! Press secretary Sean Spicer is about to get fired! Top advisers Jared Kushner and Steve Bannon are at war! Is Ivanka Trump's influence waxing or waning? Do Trump's top national security people even know what's going on?But even the sources transmitting this juicy gossip to the press don't know how all this palace intrigue will shake out. How could they, when their famously mercurial boss's whims change from day to day and tweet to tweet?So we talked to someone who does know the future: ELLE UK's resident astrologer Stefanie Weiss of the Saturn Sisters. She was happy to use her knowledge of the stars to offer insights into how the different personalities of the Trump White House are clashing, and whose signs were set to rise next. Here's what she had to say:Gemini. Born: June 14, 1946With Geminis there's the basic duplicitousness of everything. His sun is conjunct with Uranus. It's in his 10th house. That has a lot to say about his relationship with his father and his relationship to the idea of power. Something about his childhood being really, really erratic and him not being able to depend upon what he viewed as security.But he has really serious mommy issues with his Saturn conjunct with Venus, which translates to issues with women in general, being completely unable to separate what he believes to be attraction and hatred, or blaming them for everything that's wrong—or if you want to get really deep, blaming them for why he doesn't love himself. That's the deeper psychological portrait of this man who is in charge of the free world.
Donald Trump
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Even though he has overt rage, he also has repressed rage. So all the rage we see isn't even all of it. His Mars and his Pluto are both hanging out in his 12th house but kind of hidden, so I can't even imagine what the untapped rage actually looks like. He's definitely capable of violence; it's very scary, the sun Uranus is also opposite his moon.In terms of what's coming up for him, this is good news for the rest of us. There are two eclipses coming up. A lot of the inner circle have similar problems in their charts coming up in August, like all of them going down together. I'm trying to look at it as who's going to get away and who's going to jail.
Adviser Steve Bannon
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The other way he's being impacted is that Saturn is fucking up his shit. The same week we have the eclipse, Saturn is stationing, going out of retrograde. That is a very impactful moment in people's charts. It's hitting his sun and Jupiter. He's so power-hungry right now, but it looks like it's all going to come crashing down. This man's stored up karma—that chicken is coming home to roost.Watch: What Trump got wrong in his speech on climate changeGemini. Born: June 7, 1959Pence is pure duplicity. He has Mercury, and his sun is in Gemini. He's just a walking lie. Both the eclipses we have—the first one at the beginning of August—is actually hitting him pretty hard, in terms of the way people perceive him. I don't know if it's because we're going further down the line of succession or because he's inheriting a lot of responsibility, but August is not an easy month for him either.Basically, it means there will be lots of change. Eclipses tend to have an affect geographically. If the eclipse is visible on a certain continent, you think of it as affecting that continent. Eclipses have rarely been visible on our continent in recent years, but this one happens to be very visible on our continent, which means it will affect our continent. People were calling this the American eclipse even before Trump won the election.I'm not seeing terrorism or anything like that. Just big changes for the country.
Vice President Mike Pence
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First Lady Melania Trump
Adviser and Son-in-Law Jared Kushner
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Counselor Kellyanne Conway
Adviser and Daughter Ivanka Trump
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Adviser Stephen Miller
Attorney General Jeff Sessions
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