What The Huber Age Point Cycle Reveals About The 2024 US Election

The US election is less than 48 hours away and like many astrologers, I have been looking at charts to see what’s going on with the astrology of the current moment.

Many astrologers have made predictions about who will win: Kamala Harris or Donald Trump? I’ve always said that no matter who wins, the other side will accuse them of cheating. I don’t think either outcome will be accepted by the other side, and it’s highly likely that we will be in for some pretty tumultuous times.

Rather than predict who will win the election, today I want to explore where the United States is on the Huber Age Point Cycle. For those who are unfamiliar, I recently wrote a guide on the Huber Cycle.

The US is currently 248 years old. In the Huber Age Point Cycle, this puts it in a sixth house year. The sixth house of the US chart is in Taurus and Gemini, and there’s one planet in the sixth: Uranus in Gemini.

In the Huber system, the sixth house is interpreted as a time of coping and establishing existence. This certainly does seem to be a prevalent theme for the US currently, as it finishes up its Pluto return and looks at who is going to lead it into its next phase of history.

The US entered the sixth house phase two years ago, in 2022. Previous years when the US entered the sixth house were 1950, 1878, and 1806.

The US moves through the sixth house at a rate of about 5.6 degrees per year. So, in 2024, the Huber Age Point moves from about 24 to 29 degrees of Taurus. (Coincidentally, the Age Point is currently very close to the location of the fixed star Algol, which I don’t have time to get into now but which factored in heavily to Trump’s assassination attempt in July 2024.) Previous years when the US was at the exact point were 1952, 1880 and 1808.

Previous years when the US was at the opposite of the current Huber point (oppositions tend to show up strongly too) were 1988, 1916 and 1844.

As always with mundane astrology, it’s useful to look back in history on the certain dates highlighted by a timing technique, and see what happened then. I’m fond of Mark Twain’s famous quote as an analogy for this practice: “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” You’ll often see resonances throughout history when you stack a few moments together that are linked by astrology.

So, I took a brief look at events in US history during the date ranges I identified above: 1988, 1952, 1916, 1880, 1844 and 1808.

These years were all US election years, making this particular Huber point especially important and interesting. I focused on the US elections for obvious reasons. Here is what I found:

1988

George H.W. Bush became the 41^st president after defeating Michael Dukakis.

Bush was a Republican and Dukakis was a Democrat.

This was the last landslide election of a US president.

1952

Dwight D. Eisenhower became the 34^th president after defeating Adlai Stevenson.

Eisenhower was a Republican and Stevenson was a Democrat.

Of note: earlier that year, then-President Harry S. Truman decided not to seek re-election due to his age and poor showing in the polls.

1916

Woodrow Wilson remained the 28^th president after defeating Charles E. Hughes.

Wilson was a Democrat and Hughes was a Republican.

This was a very narrow victory for Wilson.

1880

James A. Garfield became the 20^th president after defeating Winfield Scott Hancock.

Garfield was a Republican and Hancock was a Democrat.

Voter turnout was one of highest in history.

Of note: Garfield was assassinated during his first year in office and was succeeded by his vice-president, Chester A. Arthur.

1844

James K. Polk became the 11^th president after defeating Henry Clay.

Polk was a Democrat and Clay was a Whig. The Whig party preceded the Republican party.

This was a narrow victory for Polk.

1808

James Madison became the 4^th president after defeating Charles Cotesworth Pinckney.

Madison was Democratic-Republican and Pinckney was Federalist. These two parties are no longer in existence. Here’s a description of their main values:

• The Democratic-Republican party favoured liberalism, republicanism, individual liberty, equal rights, decentralization, free markets, free trade and agrarianism.
  • This sounds mainly like the current Republican party, though the Democratic party does have some overlap too. And indeed, the Democratic-Republican party split into the current-day Democratic and Republican parties.
    
• The Federalist party favoured centralization, federalism, modernization, industrialization and protectionism.
  • This sounds more like the current Democratic party, though again there’s some overlap with the Republicans.

This was a decisive victory for Madison.

To summarize, during the previous two times that the US was at the current Huber Age Point (1952 and 1880), a Republican candidate won the presidential election. During the first time it reached this point (in 1808), Democratic-Republican James Madison won; his values overlap with both current parties so it’s hard to assign him to one or the other. All victories were decisive.

During the previous time that the US was at the opposite of the current Huber point (1988), a Republican (George H.W. Bush) won by a landside. During the two opposition points before that (1916 and 1844), the Democratic candidate managed a narrow victory for a second term.

What really stood out to me was the 1952 election, which was the Huber point immediately prior to now, where the sitting president (a Democrat) decided to step down due to age and poor polling, just like what happened earlier in 2024 with Joe Biden. Then, a strong Republican candidate won, in large part because he promised an end to the Korean war – which he made good on the next year.

Also very notable was the second previous point in 1880, when James Garfield won a decisive victory and was assassinated four months later. His assassin, Charles Guiteau, felt that his campaigning had been vital to Garfield’s victory and was upset when Garfield’s administration refused to reward him with a diplomatic post in Europe.

Garfield didn’t die immediately – he suffered for two months and eventually succumbed to sepsis and infection after doctors were unable to remove the bullet.

Taking all of this into consideration, I think we may see a decisive victory in the 2024 election, and possibly a sudden shocking event that leads that person to step down shortly after winning. I also think there’s a decent chance for a fairly swift peace negotiation for one or more of the major conflicts (Russia-Ukraine or Israel-Palestine). Maybe that’s wishful thinking, but there’s some support for this in the astrology.

I have done a lot of other research into other historical events that have occurred in previous Huber cycles that might provide some insight into what the US might experience in the next few years. I was particularly interested of what will occur when we the Age Point reaches the exact placement of the US natal Uranus, which will be in 2026.

I’ll have to save all of this for another post. In the meantime, I wish everyone the best through these rocky times. Remember that everything is a cycle and nothing lasts forever. Particularly now – we stand on unsteady ground.