The Los Angeles Astrology Chart
Wildfires Are Just the Start. Her Pluto Return is Coming.
PEOPLE ARE SURPRISED that a city has a horoscope, but just like a person, we can use the birth or even the christening date for a nation, to predict the future.
Nobody knows when Los Angeles was born, of course, but she was named on 4th September 1781. We use a 12 noon time, without a given clock time of naming.
The chart rings perfectly true. She is Virgo and obsessed with health. Los Angeles, California is the capital of juice bar and gym wellness. She’s Gwyneth Paltrow.
Virgo also rules drugs. She’s John Belushi.
And this is Hollywood, too. The media, the internet and television show up with Minerva in Gemini. The Descendant is also in Gemini. That’s New York, her other half and opposite number.
The L.A. Earthquake in Astrology
The worst earthquake in Los Angeles history took place on 17th January 1994 at 4.30am.
L.A. was born with unpredictable Uranus at 2 Cancer in the sector of home, real-estate, families, Mother Earth and households.
When the earthquake hit, the Moon was very close at 1 Aries. The South Node was also close at 1 Gemini. The North Node was at 1 Sagittarius. Minerva was exactly at 2 Scorpio (the sign ruling insurance and property).
In modern astrology we allow a one-degree orb or difference. Los Angeles had this.
The 2025 Wildfires and the L.A. Astrology Chart
And here we are again. The worst wildfires in Los Angeles’ history. Beyond the 1994 Northridge Earthquake, which killed 57 people, injured 9000 and caused property damage of $13-$50 billion, we now have the January 7th 2025 wildfires, ongoing as you read this.
Transiting Pluto is at 1 Aquarius, just one degree away from the LA Uranus at 2 Cancer. In fact Los Angeles was always going to have unpredictable real-estate prospects; Cancer rules not only the houses, but the land itself. Uranus is associated with whatever turns the world upside-down.
It takes Pluto 248 years to land at 1 Aquarius and here he is, in January 2025. Pluto is also picking up the Ascendant at 1 Sagittarius in the L.A. chart and the Descendant at 1 Gemini. There is an exact aspect to Juno at 2 Sagittarius in the LA chart, from Pluto.
Pluto rules earthquakes in astrology. In January 2025, Gavin Newsom is in the eye of the storm (current) which will become a great deal more in January, February 2026.
Newsom, Harris and the Democrats
There is more to this than just wildfires or earthquakes. This is about the Democrats and the Republicans. It’s about Kamala Harris, Gavin Newsom and California.
L.A. was born with Pluto at 4 Aquarius, the sign of the group; the ensemble cast in a Hollywood production; political parties; grassroots organisations.
Los Angeles is having a Pluto Return in February 2026, over a year into the future as I publish this in January 2025. This is more than an upheaval with the Democrats and a likely leadership change. It’s more, even, than another writers’ strike.
Watching Los Angeles in January, February 2026
It may come in as early as January 2026, as faster-moving cycles go across the L.A. Pluto position at 4 Aquarius, but this is a deep transformation of the place and the people.
Again, Los Angeles needs to be prepared for wildfires and earthquakes. On another level, what happens will be about politics and it will be about Hollywood politics too. Rock bands and actors’ unions are all ruled by Aquarius. It is the sign of the diverse circle.
L.A. was christened and created with Pluto at 4 Aquarius. Neptune at 4 Libra. The Moon at 4 Aries.
Those are extreme patterns. She’s a place of extremes and while she bears that name, always will be. Her Pluto Return in January and February 2026, will see many changes, all at the same time, affecting the landscape, politics and the studios. Earth-shaking.
Los Angeles could rebuild with climate change in mind. A change in architecture and structures that take climate change and homelessness in mind. It has the potential to lead us into an age of Aquarius where everyone has a home. All trends start in California. They were the first state to ban smoking in restaurants. People across the United States mocked them. Just like they will probably mock California for how they will rebuild. It will take the rest of the United States a good 15 - 20 years to get the memo. May the people and all living things in California know that we love them and care about them no matter their politics!
I was living in Southern California at the time of the Northridge quake. Even as it was happening, you could tell it was different, somehow worse. That morning everybody stayed home and watched the news to see exactly how bad it had gotten.
I can’t tell you exactly why, or how, but after watching the news that morning, internally I was just like, OK this is it, I’m done here. I threw in the man, and the job, and moved out of state within three months. That quake wasn’t just Geological and communal, it was personal.