Brennan vs Trump

John Brennan was in the news again last week.

On August 15, 2018, President Donald Trump announced that he revoked John Brennan's security clearance. Brennan harshly criticized Trump several times since he was elected, and he responded to the revocation by stating "My principles are worth far more than clearances. I will not relent."

Brennan serves as a senior national security and intelligence analyst for NBC News and MSNBC.

Here's what I wrote about Brennan in 2013, when then President Obama nominated him to head the CIA in place of a disgraced David Petraeus:-

The president nominated John Brennan to head the CIA in place of David Petraeus whose zipper problems led him astray, far enough to result in his resignation (we've been told). John Brennan looks a deal scarier than ol' Dave ever did! I've yet to see a photograph of him smiling, checked Google Image - there are a couple of forced smirky smiles, which seem the best he can manage. After preparing this post I went back to reading Les Miserables, and just by chance, on page 100 which marked the extent of my progress through the huge tome, read a description which exactly fits Mr. Brennan: "The sight of him suggested that he was continually absorbed in the contemplation of something terrible", though in the novel it refers, of course, to ex-convict Jean Valjean's appearance, early in the story.

For some background on John Brennan see Alex Kane's article 5 Terrifying Facts about John Brennan. Also Obama’s CIA Pick Stinks of Torture, Targeted Killings by Peter Z. Scheer at truthdig.com:

"Rather than use his electoral victory to shove a dove down the throat of the national security establishment, President Obama seems to be sticking it to the left, by nominating the intelligence veteran to head the CIA. Brennan was prevented from becoming CIA director in Obama’s last term because the former chief of staff to Bush’s CIA director George Tenet had the stink of torture about him. Now, he is the man most credited with an assassination program that features, among other things, a secret presidential kill list."

I haven't found any astrologer's thoughts on his natal chart yet. Let's have a gander at a 12 noon version, as his birth time isn't known:

His chart is nowhere near as scary as his photograph. This chart could easily belong to a writer, painter, photographer or poet: Mercury conjunct Neptune, Sun conjunct Venus. Saturn in Scorpio sextile Mars in Virgo might be the least benign factor here, or perhaps Pluto conjunct Jupiter. If a deathly Pluto conjunct expansive Jupiter were on or close to his ascendant - that could fit.

Moon would be in Sagittarius whatever his time of birth. Sun in precise perfectionist Virgo, Moon in expansive free-rolling Sagittarius are two very different facets of his nature.

While Brennan and Obama probably saw eye to eye on many things, the same probably does not apply to Brennan and Trump. Here's the natal chart of Donald Trump. I have to chuckle as I look at it once again - it so well describes the guy! His urge to communicate at every turn (Twitter), his sensitivity, vanity, need to be applauded and admired (Gemini, Cancer Leo).

Donald Trump's chart - 14 June 1946 at 10:54 AM in Queens County, New York.

Brennan and Trump both have natal Suns in signs ruled by Mercury, Brennan's in Virgo, Trump's in Gemini. The Virgo style of Mercurial is very different from the Geminian Mercurial style! That's one stumbling block right there. Gemini, the Air sign is free-wheeling and sociable, Virgo, the Earth sign is practical and ultra-critical. Both men have Moon in Sagittarius though, you'd think that might help things along.

Here's a potential fly in ointment: Trump's Mars at 26 Leo close to his ascendant angle (so quite a strong component of the chart) is conjunct Brennan's Pluto at 27 Leo - Brennan's Pluto is widely conjunct his own natal Jupiter too, adding emphasis, not to mention potential for a few explosive exchanges!

Personally - never mind the astrology - I'd feel happier if both men would relinquish their current positions and go play golf, build hotels, or write plays and paint pictures for the rest of their lives, leaving the business of looking after the USA to the few (very few indeed) who have the best interests of the nation's population at heart (such as...a guy called Bernie... and a gal called Elizabeth).