After comparing Melania’s major life events to this 7:00 pm chart, I’ve modified Penfield’s time a bit to 7:10 pm, which is the chart used here. Still, the paternal Sun-Saturn conjunction dominates by being angular. It’s no coincidence that Melania’s father and Donald look and act alike, and that Melania instantly understood Donald’s motivations and lifestyle.
Melania’s Black Moon Lilith at 15º Leo conjoins Vesta near her Leo Midheaven, which shaped her professional life as a glamorous, enchanting model. Lilith here demands to be treated equally, yet it squares her play-by-the-rules, partnership-oriented Saturn. This creates a lifelong pattern of restraining herself to maintain her primary relationship. When Lilith is forced to be quiet, she gets filled with rage and resentment, something that seems obvious in recent photographs.
She stays married and loyal to Donald for unknown reasons, but likely due to her financial security and status as First Lady. Lilith near her Midheaven makes her the dark presence that is felt but not often seen in public. All that is changing now as she steps out of the shadows and enters the limelight to promote the documentary film, Melania.
The film premiered last weekend at Washington DC’s Kennedy Center and 20 other cities across the country. At the time, transiting Saturn at 28º Pisces was closely sextile her well-placed Venus at 28º Taurus. Transiting Uranus is turning direct at 27º Taurus — only one degree away from her natal Venus and exactly trine her progressed Moon at 27º Capricorn.
Note that her progressed Moon is also conjunct the US Pluto at 27º Capricorn, which marks the national importance of this film. Another key US link is her progressed Midheaven at 13º Libra squaring her Part of Fortune at 13º Cancer, which conjoins the US Sun at 13º Cancer. This all bodes well for Melania’s place in history, except for some severe challenges also shaping up.
The one hard aspect to her natal Venus is an opposition from Neptune at 0º Sagittarius. Her progressed Neptune has retrograded to 28º43’ Scorpio, only 0º04’ from opposing her natal Venus. This suggests that disillusionment and disappointment may arise, even though she’ll pocket $28 million from the venture (according to The Wall Street Journal). The big Solar Eclipse is exactly squaring her Venus-opposite-progressed Neptune.
Directly ahead, transiting Saturn in late Pisces is entering into a challenging square to her progressed Sun at 29º Gemini, which confirms the ego-deflating negative reception audiences are giving her film. And with the Solar Eclipse right on Donald’s Descendant, the film’s box office numbers may have a direct effect on their relationship.