Based on his gut, statistician Nate Silver believes former President Donald Trump will win the election. Based on his 13-key system, historian Allan Lichtman predicts Vice President Kamala Harris will win. And based on some planets and moons, astrologers are making their own predictions.
Dayna Lynn Nuckolls, who has been a professional astrologer for 17 years, makes her predictions based on a subject’s birth charts or sometimes a bazi chart, which is a type of Chinese astrology. In 2016, she said she predicted Trump would win, and though she didn’t make that prediction public, she said it gave her confidence to begin posting her predictions on social media. This election? Nuckolls says Harris will win.
“Kamala Harris is having her Saturn return, her Jupiter return and her Mars return,” Nuckolls told HuffPost on Thursday. “She has the chart of the moment. She in so many ways ― who she is, what she represents, as someone who was born in the mid-1960s ― her chart is the promise of this moment that a Black woman, a child of immigrants and someone who is disrupting the status quo of identity and power in this country, she has the charge for that, and this is her moment.”
Nuckolls said that both Harris and Trump are performers.
“Both of them are very Venusian, according to their sidereal birth chart, which means you never really know what they really think or feel,” she said.
Trump is “sidereal Leo rising,” Nuckolls said, which makes him want to be the center of attention, while Harris’ Saturn and sidereal Aquarius have been beneficial because she doesn’t take any of Trump’s bait.
Trump’s age puts him in his seventh house year, which is the house of “open enemies, conflict and competition.”
“Because of the way that the sky is right now, and because of the way Kamala Harris’s chart is, in very explicit ways, her chart matches who that competition is and who that open enemy is,” Nuckolls said.
There might be reason to believe Nuckolls’ prediction, considering that in January, she predicted that President Joe Biden wouldn’t be on the ballot.
Kayla Murphy, a professional astrologer with more than 36,000 followers on the X social media platform, also predicted in March that Biden wouldn’t make it on the ballot and that Harris would be the Democratic nominee. Murphy told HuffPost on Thursday that she has gone back and forth on who she believes will win, but she predicts Harris will be the winner, even if there is a “third variable” at play. Murphy said there will be a Mercury station, “a shadow period the day after the election,” which is similar to “what we experienced with the 2020 election.”
“We obviously know that there was a lot of debate around, Was this correct? Were things counted incorrectly?” Murphy said. “Was there, like, someone trying to cheat or rig the election here? So I would not be surprised if we saw similar themes, regardless of who does end up winning.”
But she said that right now, Saturn is in Pisces, which “historically has always been a Democratic win.”
Real Astrologer Laurie, a professional astrologer with more than 30 years of experience and who has more than 238,000 followers on TikTok, predicted as early as 2023 that Trump would never be president again, and in January, she said if President Joe Biden were to win in November, “it won’t be for long.” She wasn’t convinced he would be the candidate.
On Oct. 21, Laurie stuck by her prediction in a TikTok post that has been viewed more than 280,000 times.
“From the beginning, I’ve said Trump wouldn’t lead anything again in his lifetime,” she said in the TikTok post. “The second prediction I made in general for the U.S. election was that the party that held the executive power would retain the executive power, that I was not convinced that Biden would be the candidate and that Harris had the better transits.”
In August 2020, Amy Tripp, who goes by Starheal on social media, tweeted on X that Harris would run for president in 2024 because it “coincides with her Saturn return.”
And 10 days before Biden’s July 21 decision to relinquish his reelection bid, Tripp accurately predicted he would step down on that date. She told Rolling Stone that she predicted July 21 because that was when the full moon, which is “a time of awareness, when something is revealed,” will be at 29 degrees in Capricorn, which “rules the government and old age.”
Murphy said that in 2025, both Harris and the United States in general have “very good transits,” which are the movements of planets through the zodiac signs. Murphy said 2025 might remind Americans of 2013, when Barack Obama was president.
“That’s not to say, ‘Oh, Obama was an incredible president. We’re going to completely replicate what was going on back then,’ but I think that Kamala has a similar effect on people in terms of her charisma and her sense of humor,” Murphy said. “I think she does — whether people like her or not — bring a lightheartedness to the table that I think people miss in the Obamas.”