Hitler's ascension

[Jim Eshelman]

Most political events are part of a continuum - things happened before, and things happen afterwards, and a given moment is just a snapshot in the middle, perhaps of a moment worth noticing.

That's how I think of the event 82 years ago today. On August 19, 1934, Germany held a plebiscite that vested sole executive power of the nation in the hands of Adolf Hitler. What does the snapshot of that day look like?

Using noon in Berlin as a starting point...

The Capsolar is dormant, which is a shame because it has some fascinating, appropriate aspects in the wider foreground. The CANSOLAR looks mostly like a popularity-celebrity event, with Mercury tightly rising (squared 0°09' by Jupiter, which also squares Asc) and a partile Moon-Venus square (0°40'). That Mercury is also in tight triple-conjunction mundanely with Sun and Pluto - the triumph of celebrity demagoguery. I suggest setting up this chart as an object lesson. (One would almost think that a demagoguic TV-type celebrity could have the entire control of a nation handed over to him, which seems the deepest fiction - except it happened.)

Mercury, partile square Jupiter, is also the main player in the CAPLUNAR, along with a 0°42' Moon-Pluto opposition. Oh, and Uranus is only 1°11' from Asc it turns out, so there is a 0°23' Mercury-Uranus square right on the angles. And then - back to the celebrity factor - the CANLUNAR a few days before the voting has Jupiter rising, Venus at MC, a 0°49' square between them, and a very close Moon-Pluto conjunction in the upper foreground.

Coming down to the day... there is a partile Mars-Jupiter square in space (basically an evangelism aspect), and it falls atop CapQ Moon. Transiting Uranus squared Capsolar Ascendant. Our recurring friend transiting Mercury exactly conjoins CanQ Ascendant, while the Cansolar's Mercury-Jupiter square hits the quotidian MC. That transiting Mars-Jupiter square falls exactly on Cansolar Asc.

Overall, it is a day of triumph, and especially for someone who has enormous popularity, something the nation sees as a huge victory, a big win, especially driven by evangelical type fervor; and, beneath it, there are some quiet landmines.