By Edith Hathaway © 2025
“When the tyrant dies, his reign ends. When the martyr dies, his reign begins.” ~Soren Kierkegaard
“When people stop talking, really bad stuff happens. When marriages stop talking, divorce happens. When civilizations stop talking, civil war ensues. When you stop having a human connection with someone you disagree with, it becomes a lot easier to want to commit violence against that group. What we as a culture have to get back to is being able to have a reasonable disagreement where violence is not an option.” ~Charlie Kirk
“Charlie was a giant of his generation, a champion of liberty and an inspiration to millions and millions of people.” “[He] was the best of America, and the monster who attacked him was attacking our whole country. An assassin tried to silence him with a bullet, but he failed – because [together] we will ensure that … his voice, his message, his legacy will live on forever for countless generations to come. Today, because of this heinous act, Charlie’s voice has become bigger and grander than ever before.” ~President Donald J. Trump
Charlie Kirk was assassinated on the campus at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10, 2025. It was the first stop on his annual tour of American colleges and universities and some 3,000 students were in attendance. He invited students to debate him on any topic of major or perennial concern. His tent was labeled “Prove me Wrong” and his mission was to challenge the Leftist ideology that has dominated American higher education for decades and has largely shut out a conservative worldview from faculty members, students or guest speakers. A similar ecosphere has spread to U.S. secondary schools and dominated mainstream media and Hollywood. But this has been changing due to conservative warriors like Charlie Kirk. Even so, a mid-Sept. 2025 Rasmussen poll found that 26% of those under 35 believe that Charlie Kirk’s assassination was at least partly justified.
“Assassination culture is spreading on the left,” Kirk said weeks before his death. “Forty-eight percent of liberals say it would be at least somewhat justified to murder Elon Musk. Fifty-five percent said the same about Donald Trump.”
A Total Lunar Eclipse Sept. 7, 2025 at 21°09’ Aquarius was closely opposite tr. Mercury at 21°37’ Leo (with tr. Ketu and Sun within 3° orb) at the moment of the shooting. It signaled the power of speech on this day and in the 9th house of dharma, religion, and higher education in the USA chart.
Kirk was only 31, awith a young wife and two small children, and his death was seen by many as instant martyrdom. It reverberated across the United States, Europe and Asia. Self-organized vigils, marches and demonstrations sprang up in London, Berlin, Madrid, and Stockholm. Over a million people in the streets of London chanted “We are Charlie Kirk.” In South Korea and Japan, where he had spoken just 10 days before his death, many more citizens mourned his passing and wept over his brutal murder. In New Zealand Maori tribesmen performed their powerful Haka dance in his honor.
In the U.S., there were countless vigils and ceremonies, two of them of national prominence – one at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 14, 2025, and another at the State Farm Stadium in Glendale, AZ on Sept. 21, 2025. This was also the day of a Partial Lunar Eclipse and one day before the Fall Equinox, giving even greater intensity to the occasion. The Glendale event was a blend of Christian worship, a celebration of Charlie Kirk, and a call to unite in the battle of Good versus Evil. On an eclipse day this fittingly eclipsed mere partisan politics.
Both events were organized by Turning Point USA, which Charlie Kirk had founded in June 2012. Over the years their numerous events had drawn 1000s of people, but the Memorial event at the Glendale stadium was by far the largest event of its kind in TPUSA history, and one of the largest-ever memorials for a private citizen in American history. Over 300,000 people applied to attend the free event and they started lining up the previous night. Some 75,000 people packed into the State Farm Stadium and another 25 to 30,000 were in a nearby overflow stadium and in ballrooms of nearby hotels, with the events of the main arena projected on to large screens. Law enforcement estimated a total crowd of around 200,000. Some 100 million more watched on television and live streaming.
To honor Charlie Kirk’s strong faith-based orientation, at the request of his widow Erika Kirk there were 3 hours of Christian music by many leading singers and performers in that genre. This was followed by speeches from top TPUSA staffers as well as leaders from the Trump administration, including the President, the Vice President and many members of the cabinet. Charlie’s pastor and some of his mentors spoke, as did media figures Tucker Carlson and Benny Johnson – all of whom were also Charlie’s longtime close personal friends. The 5+ hour event was a first of its kind in American history, bringing key political and religious leaders together in what was dubbed “the spirit of Revival.” Many expected Charlie to be president one day. They said it would take a lifetime to fully absorb the memorial event on Sept. 21st. Steve Bannon called it “the First MAGA State Funeral.”
Elon Musk attended the event and had a brief sit-down encounter with President Trump, their first in-person meeting since their very public breakup back in May 2025. He posted a picture of it later, with this comment: “Thank you, Charlie.” Scottish bagpipers were playing “Amazing Grace” on the arena stage as a journalist in the crowd asked Musk why Charlie was killed. He responded:
“He was killed because his voice made a difference, because he was showing people the light — and he was killed by the dark.”
Meanwhile, in the first 11 days after Charlie’s death Sept. 10th the Turning Point USA organization received some 60,000 inquiries about starting new chapters in U.S. colleges, universities, and high schools. After Sunday’s powerful memorial tribute to Charlie, that total exploded in just two days to 120,000 inquiries – enough to put a chapter in every U.S. high school and college.
The Astrology of Charlie Kirk
Brief review of How to Read a North and South Indian chart. All planets are in the sidereal zodiac (Lahiri ayanamsha). Underlined planets are in retrograde motion.
Charlie Kirk was born Thursday, Oct. 14, 1993 in Arlington Heights, Cook county, IL. His birth time is unavailable, but the exact Moon Ascendant occurs at 5:53 am CDT. Virgo rises for both the natal Sun and Moon Ascendant charts, so it makes it a very important sign and house, whatever the correct birth time may be. This was the dark of the Moon, with New Moon occurring Oct. 15, 1993 at 6:36 am CDT at 28°21’ Virgo. At the very least, we know that Virgo will be a very important sub-Ascendant for both the Sun and Moon charts, as Sun and Moon will remain in Virgo all day. And from the Ascendant, how the planets are situated reveals the life destiny.
Virgo is greatly concerned with purity. The Sanskrit word for Virgo is Kanya, which means “the maiden” or “virgin.” The ancient symbol shows a young woman in a boat, holding wheat (or corn) in one hand and fire in the other. This indicates how this DUAL sign focuses on purity in both food and agriculture and in mental and verbal discrimination. Those closest to Charlie say that he considered his greatest accomplishment with the Trump victory – aside from the election win itself – was bringing Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. into the Trump campaign, and soon after into his cabinet. Kennedy represents a radical departure as a reformer of U.S. public health policy and the dominance of large pharmaceutical companies to regulate national policy, notably with vaccines and the children’s vaccine schedule. Having run initially as a Democrat presidential candidate, then as an Independent in 2023-24, it was a breathtaking shift of political alliances in order to achieve common goals. Charlie Kirk was “the chief architect” of that union, according to Bobby Kennedy himself, and was credited by many for his remarkable political astuteness and judgement of character.
The planetary ruler of Virgo is Mercury (the communicator, messenger) and Mercury is exalted in Virgo. Though Charlie’s Mercury is situated in Libra, it has a mutual exchange (a Parivartana yoga) with Venus in Virgo. Through exchange with its Raja yogakaraka planet Venus (a great good planetary friend to Mercury) this yoga accomplishes two things: 1) it gives near exaltation status to Mercury; and 2) it diminishes and corrects the debilitated status of Venus in Virgo (a Neecha Bhanga yoga). Together Mercury and Venus signify sweet speech. This combination reflects a person’s ability to speak with eloquence, or at the very least with effectiveness or diplomacy. Mercury is operating as if in both Libra and Virgo. It is most gifted in Virgo for incisiveness and organization of thoughts and words. Anyone who has heard Charlie Kirk speak will recognize his gift for language and for speech, whether or not you agree with what he says.
For further details we examine the sign and nakshatra lords. In this case, with the Neecha Bhanga Venus in Virgo, there is going to be some humility to the speech, some recognition that gains are not made before initial setbacks are overcome. Since Mercury is in the 2nd house of speech from Venus, this is a good indication of outstanding speech. As proof of his humility, Charlie studied for at least 2 to 3 hours daily prior to doing his annual college campus tours. On his last tour he requested that Frank Turek accompany him. Turek is a Christian author and a specialist on Apologetics, a defense of the Christian faith using reason, evidence and philosophical argument. Not only his tutor but a close personal friend, Turek was just 25 ft. away from Charlie when he was killed.
In addition, Venus is the 2nd and 9th house lord from Virgo as an important sub-Ascendant. This gives Venus the ability to bring financial wealth (a Dhana yoga) and blessings from the guru, the spiritual teacher, and the biological father, especially as advisor. The 9th lord Venus (from Virgo Ascendant) is critical to Charlie’s life destiny, with 9th house being Bhagya – house of Good Fortune, also Dharma (one’s right purpose in life), the wisdom and teaching of one’s guru or religion, higher education, and long distance travel. Vedic astrology does not define which religion comes from the 9th house. Charlie’s message to young people, though Christian-oriented, strongly reflected the Hindu/Vedic sense of Dharma – the divinely inspired purpose of one’s existence. He became deeply committed to Christianity from the time he was in 5th grade, age 10, and attending a local Christian Heritage Academy.
“I want to be remembered for courage for my faith. That would be the most important thing; most important thing is my faith.” ~Charlie Kirk, 3 months before his death, on The Iced Coffee Hour podcast
Coincidentally, 11 days after his assassination, and on the day of the largest memorial ceremony for Charlie Kirk on Sept. 21, 2025, there was a Partial Lunar eclipse at 4°59’ Virgo. It was 35’ – or just over half a degree – from Charlie’s natal Venus at 4°17’ Virgo. It was exact at 12:55 pm MST in the midst of the ceremonies in Glendale, AZ, thereby highlighting the focus of Charlie’s life and identifying the relevant planet astrologically. Venus also symbolizes his beautiful wife Erika Kirk, who impressed everyone that day with her heartfelt eulogy to Charlie and her statement forgiving her husband’s assassin. We discuss her birth chart later in this article.
Natal Mars situated just 4 degrees away from natal Mercury in Libra gave Charlie Kirk his rapid fire delivery of speech, while natal Jupiter earlier in Libra gave him an abundance of speech. Charlie never shied away from public speaking and engagement with anyone, especially students. He gave over 200 speeches per year on college campuses. He greatly relished debate and in the process he knew he was entering the lion’s den of current liberal/Marxist ideology. Even so, his focus was on ideas, not politics, but he had instinctive political brilliance and inevitably there were political consequences. Many credit him with helping Trump to win the 2024 presidential election by securing the youth vote.
In terms of purity, Charlie focused on it as a major theme. He urged young people to clean up their lives from drugs, laziness, promiscuity, and bad habits in general. He challenged them to find a life purpose larger than themselves (their egos) and set it in motion without delay. From his dual Christian and patriotic perspective, he urged young people to get married, have lots of children, be faithful to their wives and husbands and work to better their own lives and those of their countrymen, while being loving and loyal to their country. This went counter to current Leftist cultural themes of Identity politics – in which from Kindergarten onwards a broad spectrum of sexual orientations and gender identities are recognized and promoted, including transgenderism. It supports abortion, unlimited drug use, unlimited mass migration, hatred towards one’s country of origin and/or lack of pride in it, notably the USA, and considers Western civilization as evil.
So to review, his Mercury-Mars combination gave Charlie the ability to be bold and assertive in speech, while Jupiter’s influence in the same sign gave him plenty to say, as well as both the ability and the appetite to say all of it. The Parivartana yoga (mutual exchange) between Mercury in Libra and Venus in Virgo gave him major organizational abilities, as did a strong Saturn. Venus as ruler of the sign Libra and lord of 2nd and 9th houses insured that a sacred (or at least diplomatic) tone would prevail. Shortly, we will see that Erika Kirk has Mercury and Venus in Libra, receiving an 8th house aspect from natal Mars in Pisces. So she shares many of her husband’s qualities and fortunately she is the new CEO of Turning Point USA as of Sept. 18, 2025. Charlie had wanted that to happen if it ever became necessary, as he knew his role carried with it inherent danger from those who opposed his message and felt threatened by his successes and increased popularity.
Reading from his Sun and Moon in Virgo, the 11th house (Cancer) is arresting for containing an exceptionally high bindu count. Bindus are points tallied by the strength of the classic Vedic planets in each sign and house (called Sarva Ashtakavarga). Anything 30 or above per house is considered above average. In the case of Charlie Kirk, he has 45 bindus in Cancer, the 11th house from Virgo. Therefore, there should be extraordinary results in this arena of life. This brings in a lot of financial gains, i.e. investment income as well as many friends and networks of friends. Charlie had 100s of 1000s of friends and associates, some of them very close to him and some of them in very high positions of political and/or corporate power, including President Trump and his cabinet. Witness the caliber of speakers honoring him at his memorial events in Sept. 2025; also the Presidential Medal of Freedom to be posthumously awarded, the proposals for a Commemorative silver coin in his honor, and a National Remembrance Day on Oct. 14, 2025 – his birthday. Other honors and funding for TPUSA increase daily, as well as funding to assist Erika Kirk and their 2 children.
The Sankhya Shoola Yoga – major indication for life destiny
With the Moon in Virgo all day on his day of birth – all the classic Vedic physical planets are situated in only 3 houses: Virgo, Libra, and Aquarius. This is called a Sankhya Shoola yoga, and it is relatively rare to find. Shoola in Sanskrit means “a spear, a spike or thorn.” It gives the essence of “struggling.” A person with this yoga usually has the destiny to be a thorn in the side of others, often because their ideas and/or actions conflict with the status quo in some way. There is wandering associated with this combination, and not much in the way of financial assets, though all this is subject to the specific details in the individual chart.
In Charlie’s case, he started out with very little money and travelled incessantly from the age of 18 onward. He did not take a salary for the first 5 years of the business and lived frugally. By the last years of his life he was traveling almost 90% of the year. Though he found financial backers from 2012 onward, he poured all those funds into Turning Point USA, which he and Bill Montgomery founded in 2012 with Montgomery’s seed money.
We see how the Sankhya Shoola yoga is working in Charlie’s case. His conservative Christian beliefs ran counter to the dominant Leftist theme of “toxic masculinity,” i.e. that strong men, especially heterosexual white Christian men, were a negative influence and could even be dangerous for society; that pride in your nation (i.e. patriotism) was potentially problematic, including the preserving of your borders, language, and culture; and that women and non-white people should view themselves as oppressed by white men in particular and white people in general. Charlie fiercely debated the whole concept of white privilege and white guilt, along with the idea of replacing meritocracy with DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion).
Charlie’s political activism was inspired early on by Andrew Breitbart, a conservative journalist and political commentator, founder of Breitbart News. Breitbart’s untimely death on March 1, 2012 strongly impacted Charlie. Then in May 2012, Charlie spoke at a mock political debate with 400 other high school students. His dynamic presentation impressed Bill Montgomery (1940-2020), who became an early mentor and supporter. He recognized Charlie’s entrepreneurial qualities and advised him he should skip college and become a political activist, and/or at least start with a gap year. Prior to that, Charlie had hoped to go to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, but he was rejected and later was grateful for that outcome.
The West Point rejection may have also triggered his political activism, as he was keenly aware of the effects of DEI on his generation, in which straight white men were often denied jobs or admission to colleges and universities, even when they had superior qualifications or test scores. From the Obama Era onward, Identity politics was king, not merit-based policies. Democrats embraced it as their national policy throughout corporate media, Hollywood, and academia. However, the pitfalls and failures of DEI – if not magnified dangers – have become increasingly evident. As esteemed historian Victor Davis Hanson notes, when common sense and tradition are repeatedly ignored, there is a Total Systems Collapse. And that typically brings down a civilization.
So though he himself never attended college for more than one semester, Charlie had 1000s of debates with college students across over 200 college campuses. A high school graduate who was rejected from West Point Academy, he became self-taught, a so-called “autodidact” and was said to have a photographic memory. This is further testimony to the high ranking his Mercury in Libra achieves through the mutual exchange with Venus in Virgo. As ruler of the 9th house, it bestows blessings on his higher education, but not in the way he had originally intended it to happen by going to West Point.
The 9th house is also the house of publishing as well as higher education and long distance travel. At the time of his assassination, Charlie had written 6 books. He himself attended only one semester at a community college in Illinois (Harper College), and decided early on for a path of self-learning and political activism. The self-learning included some 30 online courses at Hillsdale College, which will soon confer on Charlie a posthumous Honorary degree. President Larry Arnn says Charlie Kirk was “his favorite student who never went there.”
Perhaps the best known of Charlie’s 6 books was The College Scam: How America’s Universities Are Bankrupting and Brainwashing Away the Future of America’s Youth. It was published in July 2022. His latest book, published in June 2024 was Right Wing Revolution: How to Beat the Woke and Save the West. Both have obvious political implications, but the point of The College Scam was to emphasize how American universities and colleges have become Leftist indoctrination camps, as have many U.S. secondary schools. He also covers this in his 2018 book, Campus Battlefield. He discusses how free speech and intellectual diversity are under siege at these “radical re-education camps.”
In analyzing political indoctrination replacing true education, as in learning how to read and do math, he correlates this Leftist radicalization directly to the plummeting test scores in reading and math across the board. He attributes less academic rigor and less merit-based standards to DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion), and thereby the general lowering of student and teacher standards. What is evident is the inability of most college students debating Charlie to defeat him with superior reasoning or ideas. Watching him in numerous debate videos, you observe him running circles around most of these students, while also speaking with compassion and respect. He questions their facts, asks them to reflect on their ideas and beliefs, and at times may just agree to disagree. In the face of disrespect, he is full of grace, unlike how his accusers describe him as a “hater,” a “Nazi” or “fascist.”
His assassin called him “a hater who could not be negotiated with.” The real point is that they did not like Charlie’s ideas and actions and saw the only possible response was assassination. Two weeks after Charlie was killed Hillary Clinton was on MSNBC claiming that white Christian men were a big problem for the U.S. She also said the Right is responsible for the violent-encouraging rhetoric. Hillary is incorrect. This violent political rhetoric is and has been coming from the Left for some years: Joe Biden called Trump “an existential threat,” “a Nazi,” “a fascist,” etc. This was copied by many others on the Left, leading to the near-assassination of Donald Trump (at least twice) and a U.S. Supreme Court judge in June 2022. Most recently California Governor Newsom is calling ICE “the Gestapo” and soon – unsurprisingly – an ICE office was attacked and people killed. This has multiplied across many states.
But Newsom has chosen to escalate by calling Stephen Miller a “Nazi” and “SS member” in a post Sept. 22, 2025. Miller is Jewish and is Trump’s Deputy Chief of Staff. One day earlier he gave a powerful speech at Charlie Kirk’s memorial. Andrew Kolvet, a top executive at TPUSA responded to Newsom on social media: “You’ve got to stop this. Seriously.”
So we see how Charlie’s Sankhya Shoola yoga has been working here in very powerful ways, buttressed by a strong Saturn for self-discipline. His efforts were directed at exposing and reforming an entire educational system – which, both at the secondary and post-high school levels has been operating for decades with a heavy Marxist influence that had been in fact creeping in from the 1930s onward from the Leftist/Marxists of Germany’s Frankfurt School. Many of them, including Herbert Marcuse, had emigrated to the U.S. and infiltrated institutions of higher education. The effect was clear by the 1960s. (Angela Davis and other radicals were protégés of Herbert Marcuse.)
But by the 1980s and 1990s the influence was palpable not only in the universities but spilling out into many arenas of life. Now is the necessary Counter Revolution about which Charlie Kirk and others have spoken when they warned of a God-less nation and how it can lead to chaos and violence when you dehumanize others. This coincides with the major trend shift I have been predicting in the several years surrounding the Dec. 2020 Jupiter-Saturn conjunction. I have identified the shift being away from the Marxist/Globalist dominance and towards that of the Nationalist/Populists, ensuring once again the God-given rights and freedoms of citizens can be protected by governments elected by the people and in service to the people of a nation.
“The reason we fell to the Communists was because we as a people forgot God.” ~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, about life in the gulag of the Communist Soviet Union
For his efforts to expose the Marxist influence in the U.S. education system and elsewhere, Charlie attracted a lot of followers but also a lot of detractors. They hated him for his raw political power and the large crowds he drew wherever he went. When he was killed, many on the Left celebrated and laughed all over social media, and this became controversial in its own right. Many people were fired across the spectrum, and some – like comedian Jimmy Kimmel – were fired and then re-hired by Disney. He said Charlie’s killer was probably a MAGA person, then later claimed he never said it or meant it – except it’s all on video. And though he claims he has rigorous fact-checkers, they ignored the FBI’s information about the Leftist assassin they had in custody, as well as information from the parents. The suspect was known to have a Transgender boyfriend.
The majority of Congressional House Democrats voted against a Resolution to honor Charlie Kirk with a Day of Remembrance on his birthday, though the resolution did pass. Democrats voting against the resolution said he was a “racist,” without presenting any evidence to that effect. They were just determined not to honor Charlie Kirk or recognize anything good about him. So that message was loud and clear, as well as how much the media and Hollywood declined to admit that any person of Leftist persuasion could possibly be involved in Charlie’s murder or causing any undue violence in general, including while news breaks of Leftist terrorist attacks increasing on ICE facilities and as President Trump finally announces that Antifa is a major domestic terrorist organization and will be treated as such, including those who provide their funding.
Lastly, we note Charlie’s very strong Saturn in Aquarius. Natal Saturn turns Stationary Direct at 29°41’ Capricorn on Oct. 27, 1993. Thus, natal Saturn retrograde at 0°01’ Aquarius is just 20’ beyond its upcoming Stationary Direct degree, and that is considered very powerful. It remains in Aquarius for all of Oct. 14, 1993 in the Central time zone. Located in the 6th house from Sun, Moon, and Venus in Virgo natal Saturn is very well placed and very competitive. It is also receiving a close trinal aspect from Jupiter at 0°01’ Libra.
With both Jupiter and Saturn, Dharma and Karma planets respectively, in AIR signs, there is a natural interest in commercial and interpersonal relationships. With Jupiter and Saturn in harmony, it is easier to find one’s dharmic and karmic destiny – which is certainly the case for Charlie Kirk. He knew early on that college was an issue for him, in fact the whole institution of higher AND secondary education in America. That was clear from age 18 and is reflected in the mission of Turning Point USA as well as the subject of at least 2 of his 6 books. By age 18, Charlie understood that he wanted to expose and reform what was happening there and that it was critical to the well-being of the entire nation.
The Astrology of Turning Point USA
Brief review of How to Read a North and South Indian chart. All planets are in the sidereal zodiac (Lahiri ayanamsha). Underlined planets are in retrograde motion.
Charlie Kirk founded Turning Point USA Tuesday, June 5, 2012, one day after graduating from high school. A 12 noon chart is used here, since the time is unknown. The organization started out in a suburb of Chicago (Lemont, IL), though its headquarters was moved later to Phoenix, AZ. Legal papers may have been signed in Chicago. His co-founder Bill Montgomery (1940-2020) was also his financial backer. They met two months earlier, as described above. Later in 2012 Charlie raised $50,000 to start 2 chapters of TPUSA in north Florida; and at the Republican National Convention in August 2012 he secured an additional $10,000. By Sept. 10, 2025 TPUSA had expanded to 1,000 employees and over $140 million in revenue.
An Annular Lunar eclipse occurred June 4, 2012 – the day of Charlie’s High School graduation– at 20°11’ Scorpio (Mean node). The Mean node position is within one degree opposite the TPUSA natal Sun and Venus, giving them more voltage, especially with Venus within half a degree from the Sun.
Though we have no exact birth time, for TPUSA we know that all classical Vedic planets are in either DUAL signs (Moon in Sagittarius, Mercury in Gemini, Saturn in Virgo), or in FIXED signs (Sun, Jupiter, and Venus in Taurus, Mars in Leo). The absence of planets in CHARA (cardinal) signs is striking, though it is interesting to note that the Vedic classics consider DUAL signs the ones with best longevity, and FIXED signs next best. CHARA signs are active and have the quality of initiating well but can burn out without other steadying influences. TPUSA under Charlie Kirk’s leadership has developed masterfully and with a clear sense of its parameters and objectives. His birth chart has all three qualities, with one very strong planet (Saturn) in the FIXED sign of Aquarius.
We note that natal Mars at 22°38’ Leo in the TPUSA chart is closely opposite the Total Lunar Eclipse Sept. 7, 2025 at 21°09’ Aquarius. We discussed earlier how the Total eclipse was closely opposite tr. Mercury at 21°37’ Leo (with tr. Ketu and Sun within 3° orb) at the moment of the shooting on Sept. 10, 2025. So for the TPUSA chart, though there is a lot of strong male energy amidst the staff and foot soldiers of the operation, Charlie Kirk was certainly the dominant male leader and founder, and would have been represented by that natal Mars. The effect of a Total eclipse is always more dramatic and definitive, but as we have seen with Charlie’s tragic death, the organization has continued on valiantly and received enormous public support – exploding far beyond expectation.
Especially compelling is the cluster of 4 planets in Taurus, which is also the 9th house from Charlie Kirk’s Sun-Moon-Venus combination in the Virgo Ascendant chart. This is an extremely important house for establishing an organization related to higher education and one which expanded to TPUSA Faith, Turning Point Academy, and Turning Point Action. TPUSA Faith spreads the Christian principles and combines it with Turning Point Action, in its political orientation to register voters and its patriotic orientation to study the Founding documents of the United States, with its Constitution and Bill of Rights.
With all this planetary energy in June 2012 in the 9th house from his natal Sun, Moon, and Venus, Charlie was highly motivated to launch something reflecting the essence of the 9th house, which includes religion, higher education and long distance travel. And since June 2012, upon graduating from high school, he has been tirelessly engaged in all these realms.
From May 2, 2024 to May 15, 2025 tr. Jupiter was in its Jupiter return position for TPUSA, and in the highly auspicious location of Taurus (for Charlie personally) when he and TPUSA brought together presidential candidate Donald Trump with former candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to form an important new alliance. For Kennedy the Jupiter return was exact nearly to the minute to his natal Jupiter in Taurus on Aug. 23, 2024 when he first announced at a TPUSA event that he was suspending his campaign and supporting Trump’s campaign for the presidency. Tr. Jupiter was also in Taurus at the time of the Nov. 2024 presidential election, in which Charlie and TPUSA helped Trump to achieve a resounding and overwhelming victory, the best-ever in the 21st century for a Republican with the youth vote.
As mentioned, the TPUSA Venus is notable for being closely combust the Sun (cazimi) in its own sign of Taurus. Venus is also retrograde. Though Venus and the Sun are not planetary friends, when a planet is this close to the Sun it gains some extraordinary brilliance, and in the case of Venus – beauty. Socrates taught that if you can learn what is good and beautiful, you can learn what is true; that appreciating beauty in its purest form leads one to the divine. So Venus and Jupiter are both connected to education in that way, though Jupiter has the role of the teacher, the priest, the spiritual guide.
Natal Saturn for TPUSA, meanwhile, is close to its Stationary Direct degree at 28:44 Virgo. It is also Vargottama (repeating in the same sign in other divisional charts). Both of these attributes add to Saturn’s strength and staying power. Further, the USA Saturn is also in Virgo, and in the 12 noon chart for TPUSA, natal Moon is close to the USA chart Ascendant at 8°59’ Sagittarius.
Charlie’s last interview was on the morning of Sept. 10, 2025. He discussed his role as an entrepreneur. Then he was shot at 12:23 pm that same day.
We also have his commentary, as of April 28, 2025, on where he thought the universities stood. This was in Charlie’s interview with Dr. Jordan Peterson.
Dr. Jordan Peteterson: “The universities [have actually become] the voice of the barbarians. Hence, the pro-Hamas demonstrations on campus…. But it’s very dangerous for conservatives to conceptualize themselves as anti-institutional, because then they become indistinguishable from the radicals…. I think the brick and mortar universities are aiming in the wrong direction.”
Charlie Kirk: “I think they’re irredeemable.”
The Astrology of Erika Kirk
Brief review of How to Read a North and South Indian chart. All planets are in the sidereal zodiac (Lahiri ayanamsha). Underlined planets are in retrograde motion.
Erika Kirk was born Nov. 20, 1988 in Cincinnati, Ohio. No birth time is currently available so we will use a 12 noon chart. The Vedic classical physical planets are spread out over 5 houses, called a Paasha yoga. Paasha means bondage. It indicates that one has numerous worldly activities, and because of that there is a bondage in the spiritual sense. This can be favorable for wordly affairs depending on the sequence of the Dashas (planetary periods). Since we have no birth time for Erika Kirk, we cannot know the timing of her Dasha sequence. But with the Moon in Pisces, conjoined with Mars, there is a potential for a life destiny in which major sacrifices must be made. Pisces is a sign generally associated with that destiny, especially as an Ascendant sign. In this case it is only her Moon and Mars in Pisces, and Moon-Mars together in the same sign is also a Dhana yoga, a combination for wealth. Her Moon in Pisces is opposite Charlie’s Sun and Moon in Virgo – an excellent combination for marriage partners, plus her Mars in Pisces was opposite his Venus in Virgo. Further, her Venus in Libra contacted his Mars (and 2 other planets) in Libra. So these are the astrological signatures for what we could all see – a married couple happily in love on all levels.
Her Venus and Mercury in Libra, a sign Venus owns, shows her capacity for sweet speech. Her husband Charlie had the Mercury-Venus mutual sign exchange. So they both had this Venusian influence to the speech, but also her natal Mars aspects Mercury from its 8th house aspect. This gives the incisiveness and assertive energy to the speech. When Mars is involved with Mercury, the communications can obviously have a sharp-edge, but the Libra influence helps to keep it more diplomatic and kind.
Erika Kirk has a balanced blend of CHARA, FIXED, and DUAL signs in the chart. She also has natal Jupiter in Taurus – the same sign as Jupiter in the Turning Point USA chart. As we have discussed, tr. Jupiter was in Taurus in 2024 when TPUSA was prominently featured in Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, especially the uniting of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Donald Trump on Aug. 23, 2024.
As for everyone, there are bound to be more worldly responsibilities during Sade Sati. This occurs when Saturn transits through Houses 12, 1, and 2 from natal Moon, lasting on average 7 ½ years. With her natal Moon in Pisces, for Erika Kirk that began when tr. Saturn entered Aquarius from April 30, 2022 for 2 ½ months, then without interruption from Jan. 18, 2023 for over 2 years. Her wedding to Charlie Kirk was May 8, 2021. Their daughter was born in August 2022 and their son in May 2024. Tr. Saturn entered Pisces March 30, 2025. Her Sade Sati continues through to mid-April 2030, with a brief respite in August and September 2029.
For the memorial tribute to Charlie Kirk on Sept. 21, 2025, Erika Kirk stepped out of her previously more background role at TPUSA and onto center stage. This showed her strong natal Sun in Scorpio closely opposite Jupiter in Taurus, and with both luminaries in WATER signs, she showed her intuitive capacity to make deep connections with the public. She was a model of grace and fortitude in the midst of her sorrow, and she impressed the world with her vow to forgive the young man who had just killed her husband, knowing that forgiveness was central to the Christian teachings, and that she would have to do it sooner or later. But doing it so soon was breathtaking for many people to witness, and in doing so she serves as a role model of a woman with a strong Christian faith. Her new role to lead the TPUSA is likely to succeed, and not just because she knows how to run successful businesses and has done it before. This new role elevates her but also stretches the demands on her exponentially.
“He wanted to save young men — just like the one who took his life.” ~Erica Kirk, Sept. 21, 2025
Prior to Charlie’s assassination there had been many death threats against him, and of course they expanded their security team. But they also relied on their Christian faith and their belief in what in the Vedic tradition we call Dharma, or right purpose in life, that which is of divine importance.
Erika was quoted as saying: “Weapons will form but not prosper.” This comes from The Bible, Isaiah 54:17:
“No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord.”
Those who cite this verse are usually invoking God’s divine protection for those who serve God. There is recognition that opposition may arise, but it will ultimately fail.
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