In this episode, I talk about what’s up ahead for Trump.
Let’s just say, 2025 will be a major year for him, not just as a world leader, but karmically.
In the podcast episode, I talk about what is likely ahead. Below, I define which timing techniques I used to examine his chart.
I will also be publishing two separate posts about Trump in the coming weeks. The first will examine his assassination attempt last year using Śūla Daśā, as presented in my post on the astrology of assassination.
The Astrology of Assassination – Theory and Technique
Vedic astrology research on assassination of public figures
The second will use Trump’s chart, among others, to examine Kala Sarpa yoga, one of the most dreaded combinations in Vedic astrology - although not the guarantee of failure some astrologers claim it to be, as we’ll see in the chart examples and analysis I provide.
For now, let’s go through the timing techniques I cover here.
Daśās used: What they are and what they show
Here are the timing techniques I mention in the podcast.
Viṁśottarī Daśā
This is one of the most widely used daśās in Vedic astrology. It is calculated based on the Moon's nakshatra at birth and reflects internal desires and focus. It shows where a person’s mind is directed during a particular period. Since actions tend to follow where the mind goes, this system helps understand the motivations behind events in a person’s life. However, it is not always as ideal to predict concrete external changes.
Nārāyaṇa Daśā
Unlike Viṁśottarī, this is a sign-based daśā that reveals actual external events and circumstances. It provides insight into career, major life events, and situational changes. This daśā is especially useful for analyzing political and professional trajectories in Trump’s life.
Mūla Daśā
This daśā focuses on when karma ripens, both good and bad. It determines when past actions (from this life or previous ones) start to bear fruit. This makes it useful for predicting major turning points, including rises and falls in status, health crises, or sudden fortune reversals.
How daśās work: Mahā Daśā and Antardaśā
No matter what the timing technique, daśās always operate on multiple levels.
The Mahā Daśā (main period) sets the overall theme for a long stretch of time, usually lasting several years. Within that period are Antardaśās (sub-periods), which modify the effects of the Mahā Daśā and bring specific shifts.
Think of the Mahā Daśā as the season of a person’s life, setting the tone for a long period. The Antardaśā is like the changing weather within that season – bringing particular influences, challenges, or opportunities for a shorter time.
For example:
A person could be in a Jupiter Mahā Daśā, which lasts for 16 years. During that time, different Antardaśās bring distinct flavors: a Venus Antardaśā might emphasize relationships and finances, while a Saturn Antardaśā could bring struggle, responsibility, or contraction.
By analyzing these layers, astrologers can track both long-term and short-term cycles, offering a remarkably precise sense of how life may unfold.
This combination of Mahā Daśā and Antardaśā is what makes Vedic astrology such a powerful tool for timing events and understanding the deeper rhythm of life.
Ok, let’s get back to Trump.
Trump’s Viṁśottarī Daśā: A mind under pressure
Trump has been in his Jupiter Mahā Daśā since November 11, 2016, a period that will continue until November 9, 2032.
Jupiter sits in his 2nd house – a place of wealth, speech, and stored karma. On the surface, this placement suggests financial promise. However, Jupiter is afflicted by both Rahu and Saturn, and rules the 8th house. This introduces themes of instability, secrecy, and loss.
In other words:
Money flows in, but there’s a constant hole in the boat.
The 2nd house fills, but the 8th keeps draining it.
This quiet erosion – of wealth, of certainty – has likely been a background hum in Trump’s life since 2016.
Now: Venus Antardaśā (Sept 2024 – May 2027)
Trump is currently in his Venus sub-period, which began on September 9, 2024 and runs until May 2027.
Venus rules his 10th house (career, status) and sits with Saturn in the 12th house in Cancer. Both planets are in enemy signs, and the 12th house naturally signifies loss, hidden enemies, and foreign entanglements. As lord of the 6th and the 7th, Saturn signifies both enemies and business partners.
This combination suggests:
Backroom deals or international pressures
Isolation or exile from power structures
A weakening of reputation, even if not a visible fall
And yet—Trump remains remarkably hard to bring down.
Why?
Because:
Saturn is weak by degree, house and sign – so his enemies lose stamina.”
The pressure mounts, but never fully breaks him.
Still, this Venus period has a shelf life. As the other daśās begin to shift, we may see that immunity wear thin.
Trump’s Nārāyaṇa Daśā: The outer arc
While Viṁśottarī Daśā reflects inner focus and mental karma, Nārāyaṇa Daśā reveals concrete change. This is a rāśi-based daśā – measuring change through the signs, not the planets. It marks changes in external circumstance – status, power, visibility, and the tangible results of one’s karma.
In mid-June 2019, Trump entered Pisces Nārāyaṇa Daśā, the 8th sign from his Leo lagna. Pisces is owned by Jupiter, who sits in Virgo in Trump’s 2nd house – again, emphasizing themes of wealth (and debt), speech, and personal resources.
The daśā has, on the whole, been strong. Pisces' 3rd house holds Rahu, fueling boldness, media dominance, and unrelenting drive. The 6th house from Pisces has Mars, giving the grit to fight enemies and win, regardless of tactics.
But things start to change for Trump on his 79th birthday.
The shift to Leo: Fire at the threshold
On June 14, 2025, Trump enters Leo Nārāyaṇa Daśā, which activates his rising sign. Leo is ruled by the Sun, and Mars is placed in Leo, occupying the 1st house in his chart.
The Lagna, or first house, classically signifies the head – the seat of consciousness, perception, and vitality. Since Leo also governs the heart and spine, this daśā draws attention to some of the body’s most vital systems.
Mars sitting here energizes Trump’s self-expression and physical force, but can also bring inflammation, volatility, and pressure, especially as the daśā progresses.
Parāśara, the ancient seer who wrote the classical Vedic astrology text Bṛhat Parāśara Horā Śāstra, teaches that malefic planets often deliver their harshest results toward the end of their daśā periods. With Mars in the Lagna and Ketu set to transit Leo this month and into 2026, the pressure may escalate dramatically.
This combination suggests rising instability, loss of control, and physical strain – particularly in the head, heart, and spine. A stroke, cardiac event, or serious cognitive disruption becomes a plausible risk as this period peaks.
Mūla Daśā and the inner karmic unraveling
On his 79th birthday, Trump will also enter a new Mūla Daśā, which activates Scorpio, the sign of his 4th house.
Mūla Daśā is a rāśi-based timing technique that reveals the deep ripening of karma – the roots beneath the surface breaking through into visible life. The 4th house rules emotional stability, home, peace of mind, and the karmic heart.
What makes this period particularly volatile is what’s in Scorpio: Ketu and a debilitated Moon, both in the nakṣatra of Jyeṣṭhā, both in gandānta, and both unstable.
They're also involved in a planetary war (graha yuddha), a condition where two planets are extremely close in degree and must battle for dominance. In this case, the Moon technically wins, but it’s a hollow victory. The Moon is debilitated, eclipsed, and deeply afflicted. The result is emotional confusion and instability, not clarity or strength.
Gandānta, the knot between water and fire signs, is a place where planets struggle to hold form. The Moon is already weakened here, and Ketu, though classically potent in Scorpio, sits in Marana Karaka Sthāna in the 4th – a position of spiritual and emotional displacement.
Eclipse karma rising
When Scorpio is activated by this timing techniques, these vulnerable placements are pushed into karmic expression.
The Moon and Ketu, both in Jyeṣṭhā, stir the darker qualities of that nakṣatra: rivalry, control, secrecy, and fear of losing power.
Trump has long lived with these traits. He was born just before a lunar eclipse, with the Moon debilitated and caught between the lunar nodes, and with his Lagna lord, the Sun, also involved.
Both luminaries – the mind and the self – are eclipsed. This marks a fundamental instability at the core of the chart, a karmic distortion that clouds both perception and direction.
His life has carried the imprint of eclipse: the tension between exposure and secrecy, control and collapse, performance and delusion. But this Mūla Daśā shift doesn’t just echo those themes – it amplifies them. The very traits that once propelled him forward may now collapse inward. What once appeared as strength begins to reveal its karmic cost.
This daśā doesn’t introduce new patterns – it forces a reckoning with the old. Emotional control becomes obsession. Perception becomes distortion. What gave him dominance may now dissolve into its opposite.
Mūla Daśā takes time
However, Mūla Daśā does not give immediate results. Its effects often unfold slowly, like pressure building underground. This is the daśā of karmic sediment – not sudden breaks, but deep, inescapable shifts.
Trump’s Scorpio Mūla Daśā begins in June 2025. The unraveling may not be obvious at first. But as the daśā deepens – and as Nārāyaṇa Daśā begins to reflect the same inner themes in outer events – the weight will become harder to ignore.
One more crucial detail:
from mid-May 2025 through 2026, Ketu begins transiting Leo, Trump’s rising sign. With Ketu influencing both his first house by transit and his 4th house by Mūla Daśā, the pressure touches both body and mind, ego and emotion. Internal and external daśās begin to mirror one another. The knot tightens.
We may see faster karmic results after all.
The role of Ketu: ashes and extremes
Ketu rules reduction.
He severs attachments, strips illusion, and burns things down to their karmic residue.
When well-placed, he grants insight and renunciation. But when afflicted – as he is in Trump’s chart – he gives loss without peace, disconnection without clarity.
From June 2025, Trump enters Ketu–Ketu, followed quickly by Ketu–Moon (September through November). These are two of the most unstable combinations in his Mūla Daśā.
This is the kind of timing where control collapses. Not necessarily all at once – but the structure will begin to fail.
Whether through illness, emotional breakdown, legal fallouts, or isolation, the unraveling is likely to intensify. The body could falter. Property could be lost.
And if there is surrender, which Ketu calls for, it is unlikely to be voluntary.
Looking ahead: collapse or catharsis?
Trump turns 79 this June, just as two major daśā shifts begin to unfold. Together, they mark a period of karmic reckoning, where patterns that once held may begin to loosen.
These changes may also have a major impact on the world.
In classical Jyotiṣa, when a public figure is deeply entangled with collective karma, their personal turning points can ripple outward. Whether this becomes a moment of collapse or catharsis – personally or collectively – remains to be seen.
I’ll be writing more about this soon.
More to come
Stay tuned for the post on Trump’s assassination attempt and kala sarpa yoga.
There’s also plenty happening in the skies this month – transits and planetary shifts that touch all of us. I’ll be sharing insights on those in a series of shorter posts in the coming weeks.
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Michelle R. Dean is a Vedic astrologer and writer based in Berlin. To find out more about Michelle, swing by here.
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