Confessions of a libra

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26.10.25

Once upon a time, a younger version of me was among those who felt frustrated that it was almost impossible to avoid knowing and hearing about American news. While America gets a high from feeling like the centre of the universe, some of us would love that spotlight given to the Global South, in a way that is illuminating and not prejudicial. I transmuted this frustration into watching America as a case study. One thing is for sure, no one does it quite like Americans. But the least impressive American I have had the displeasure of learning about is Lil’ Goebbels Jnr himself, Stephen Miller. We are going to go into a part critique, part Astrological breakdown with the hopes of illuminating this fascist.

Stephen Miller is a 3rd generation American, with his great grandfather Wolf-Lieb Glotzer having escaped persecution of the Jews in what is now Belarus. His son and Stephen’s grandfather Nathan Glotzer, joined shortly after. I find these facts worth noting before we get into his birthchart. This America-loving patriot, is only in America because of an immigrant. This Muslim-travel-ban architect, is someone whose only family had to escape persecution for being ethnically Jewish (Ashkenazi) and religiously Jewish as well, a fact that mattered not to the Russian Empire nor to the Nazi Germany regime that succeeded. Only his father and him are American-born, yet now he doesn’t want other people to enjoy the privilege.

Stephen is a Capricorn Rising (surface presentation to the world) with his Venus in Cancer 6th house (beauty and love), this perfectly encapsulates his physical presentation. He loves his little suits, he thrives on presenting himself as a traditional ‘patriarch’. The energy he is sending out and hoping you’ll receive is that he is a classic man, neat, put together and the arbiter of traditional conservative values. His Virgo Sun 8th house speaks to someone who is likely very anal about control. Someone who values power structures, and wants to be on the winning side, if not the very top.

He has a Moon-Uranus Conjunction in Sagittarius, 11h house. The Moon represents our emotions, our mothers, the feminine principle, while Uranus is rebellion, revolution, intellect, intuition and futurism. This tells me he likely has always felt a little different, his deepest emotional self is a contrarian which we see come out. I would say this also paints the image of a man who does think about humanity in a loving and detached way, the Aquarian archetype. In his own mind he likely does believe his own version of ‘truth’, he believes his ideas of creating whatever society he deems to be appropriate with the right kind of people – is something that would benefit society as a whole. This is not to say I agree but this is to contextualise his experience of his chart from the inside.

One could argue the way his Virgo Sun (ego) and Sagittarius Moon (subconscious, emotional needs) expressed through his Mercury (communication)-Mars (drive, ambition) Conjunct in the 7th is why you witness him on television with videos of grandiose ideas of how the perfect world can be achieved if only everyone just follow his ‘logical’ ideas. He is so casual with how he talks about violence, from the videos of him unearthed from when he was still a teenager talking about “Torture is a celebration of life and human dignity”. As an Astrologer, one shadow trait I have noticed in Virgo Sun males is an overcompensation in how Virgo Sun males express their masculinity. It can be defensive from an outside perspective.

The Virgo Sun man can know and feel like he doesn’t give off the same masculine energy as other men from having his core identity in a feminine sign. This is not to say he is a woman, but it is to explain the psychology behind his chart. When his Sun sits in the 8th house, we are looking at dark topics. Stephen may have a lot of personal experience with topics of; death, cults, sex, the taboo, taxes and other people’s money e.g. partner’s or an inheritance. These are all the things that sit in the 8th house. When we look at him, he is obsessed with posturing religiosity, he believes there are ‘right’ religions and ‘wrong religions’, that there are ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ skin colours. With those distinctions come dehumanisation of anyone considered to be on the wrong side.

I won’t go as far as to say that there aren’t masculine aspects of his chart, particularly the way he communicates, and the way he executes his ambition has a masculine edge (Mars-Mercury Conjunction in Leo 7th house). Stephen was made for professional visibility. The fact his 10th house sits heavy-weights like Saturn and Pluto while being in the sign of Scorpio speaks of deep power games professionally and in public. Not just power games, but learning discipline and playing out karma through the workplace and through his overarching legacy. The legacy in question with so much Pluto/Scorpionic energy, was always going to be shaped through; control, fear, embracing taboos (Nazi rhetoric/playbook) stinginess both emotionally and financially.

What this 10th house also tells us is professionally, he has likely had a steady slog. His climb likely was largely unassuming in the beginning. Were you to work with him you may feel like you blinked and he suddenly had a lot more power than you believed he would be able to have. That Scorpio energy is sly, silent, mysterious, hardworking or even overworking. Jupiter, the planet of luck, abundance, ethics, philosophy and travel sits in his 1st house. It also sits Retrograde, I would imagine Stephen feels the most abundant and weightless when he embraces his eccentricity as a core part of his identity. If he let himself be weird, possible even dress in a way that’s both traditional but approachable (Cancer Venus), with a bit of Aquarian, futuristic edge.

He genuinely sees beauty in traditional values with that Cancer Venus in the 6th. He thinks the most ideal or attractive traits in women and in general in the world, lies in order and femininity. He might enjoy softness in his art as well. Sweetness, emotional availability, detail, niche interests and long conversations on the couch. Apparently him and his wife tend to stay away from the public, as people rightly have opinions about the policies they push. He might not hate that as much as you would think.

While those Venusian traits are what he sees as ideal, his wife Katie Miller embodies his Mars in Leo in the 7th house. The boldly aligned flame beside him. They share ambition, they share partnership, they share war. She is not necessarily his idealised archetype. Katie Miller is likely to get her own Wyrm report because digging into her story is nothing short of enlightening. It’s almost uncanny how the two found each other, considering their peculiarities.

Stephen Miller has Neptune retrograde in Capricorn in the 12th house. Stephen likely has illusions about institutions, this is not necessarily something that we as the public will see, know and understand outright as this is all internal. He feels responsible for the healing of the collective. He may be someone who receives messages in his dreams, may be regimented in his spiritual beliefs and may be completing karmic lessons about compassion through this house. I pulled a synastry chart between Stephen Miller and the entire country of America.

A synastry chart comprises of two birth charts sitting atop each other – displayed as a wheel within a wheel – and it tells us how the two individuals or entities affect each other in each sector of life. I’ve never done a synastry in this way before, but I think I will do it again. We can talk about why and how countries can have a birth chart, if you want me to explain, let me know in the comments. As this was an intuitive read, I let my eyes wander and they landed first on Stephen’s Jupiter in Retrograde Aquarius 1st house sitting in the USA’s 3rd. This tells me Stephen Miller’s identity, self-image and self-expression is a walking provocation to the American nervous system. As his Jupiter is in Retrograde which we will shorten to Rx, his ideology and ethics turn dogmatic, contrarian and elitist.

By existing and being himself, looking like himself  – he stimulates those who agree with him to become more expressive, to become more radical, to organise in their local community. For others, he brings out their social justice seeking side to combat his very being. His Jupiter Rx Trine the US’s Moon-Pluto Conjunction in Libra. The Moon sits in the 11th, and Pluto sits in the 10th house. This tells me Stephen’s ideological elitism complements the shadow traits of the American emotional landscape and history of trauma. He stimulates the American psyche by philosophising through emotional detachment. The very cocktail that allowed slavery and colonial settling of the land, whose birth chart is calculated by the inception of the independent colonial bureaucracy.

The US wants to be seen as being fair, while deeply swimming in uneven power structures. And being addicted to those power imbalances as well. He has his Mars sextile that very Moon-Pluto Conjunction, so he has opportunities through strategy and calculated will to take surgical action on the trauma he is fixated on. We can see this in how he is the architect of a lot of policies throughout the Trump administration that are considered the most controversial. Things like the ‘Muslim travel ban’ which just feels weird to write down, because it’s so antithetical to my belief system on how humans should treat each other. This Mars-Pluto dynamic is chilling because it doesn’t just hurt, it rationalises. It’s taking the country’s unresolved grief and creating oppression from it.

The last section of this synastry to dissect before I leave him well-wrung out, for now is America has a Cancer Mercury 8th house sitting in Stephen’s 6th house. Stephen hears the wounds of America, and turns those strong heavy feelings into structure. He turns the grasping for ‘tradition’, the complaining about the “home” (land) and protecting it from others (immigrants) then turns it into his daily labour (6th house). He creates systems, like the policies to ban certain types of immigrants. He says things like, “they’re not sending their best…” to hammer in why he believes he is doing this work.

Opposing that overlay is Stephen’s Neptune in Capricorn sitting in the US’s 2nd house of values, self-esteem and material possessions. His Neptune in the 12th speaks of disillusionment or detachment from spirituality. Neptune can also be a martyr and in this case, Stephen’s work and messaging is all about his own delusions about national values. He has his own issues of being foggy about compassion, unconditional love, oneness… He speaks and intellectualises with that Mercury that he is protecting the core values of the country, while projecting his own subconscious (12th house) fears about endings and his place in the greater tapestry of the universe.

To conclude this long slog about a man I’ve never met, if he is making your blood boil – especially if you live in the US – then he is having the intended effect. With his North Node (NN) Rx in Taurus 4th house, he is being asked to let go of trying to control through fear. The NN is a point in his chart which shows a destiny he can claim if he so chooses. He is asked to stop taking advantage of trauma to achieve his own end. Instead to ground in his own self esteem. Focus on working, on rooting, on family. Focus on nourishing those closest to him and being nourished in return. He hardened for self-protection, yet all this man really needs is a nice home-cooked meal, to be told he is the man, and given endless affection. May this Uranus in Gemini 8th house, allow for continued ritualised exposure of tyranny and all who support it. For our future descendants. Amen.