Mercury In A Mars Sign & Other Thoughts
Was listening to Heather Cox Richardson on the implications of the term "plenary authority" that Miller so casually threw out and then abruptly went silent on in an interview on CNN. It essentially frames the president as a dictator. This is so clearly an illustration of Mercury in a Mars sign square Pluto—see this clip of a before and after edited version of the interview with Stephen Miller here.
Mercury under Mars' influence can speak to rash words and "speaking without thinking." Mercury-Pluto contact can speak to mental fixation, "extreme or fanatical" thinking and "tendencies to mental domination", the "breakdown of old philosophical models, or certainties." (These delineations are all from Renn Bulter's excellent book, The Archetypal Universe.)
Furthermore, a quick look at the transits to the Sibley USA chart is fascinating. Tr Jupiter on natal Mercury Rx is the blurting out or airing of thoughts that are supposedly 'protective' (Cancer) of the state (but actually protective of elite wealth/8H)...
Tr Venus conjunct natal Neptune in the Whole Sign 10H can speak to an attempt to relate (Venus) to the glamour (Neptune) of the state (10H)...Specifically, notice how Miller is quoting all the legalese (Virgo= detail) to sound knowledgeable & confident--even as the actual meanings of what he is quoting are being subverted by any objective view (see HCR Politics Chat, October 7, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7o-7AU2eqI )--this speaks to Venus in fall, imo.
And the tr Sun conjunct natal Saturn could be delineated as the state shining a light on further state/government restriction of legislation, social welfare, etc
Saturn can also speak to rule of law & justice, and high judicial posts....What stands out here for me (this is all my own opinion, btw) is how Miller came out and attacked a Trump-appointed judge who recently ruled against the administration's efforts to federalize the National Guard from different states to go to Portland.
His attempts to spin the current landscape into something that it is not echoes not only the tr Venus/natal Neptune conjunction, but the fallen Sun conjuncting the Sibley's exalted Saturn!
The last piece to consider is that profecting from the Asc puts the US in a Virgo 10H profection year, so Mercury is the Timelord. And profecting from the sect-light & Lot of Fortune puts Aries--hence Mars--in the spotlight.
I think the end of this month will be big as Mercury enters the Sibley 1H and Mars squares the Sibley Moon. (I also see tr Venus trining the Sibley chart's Mars.) What do you see?