Justin Trudeau, the former leader of the Liberal Party, was first elected Prime Minister of Canada in November 2015. He became the second-youngest prime minister in Canadian history and the first to be the child of a previous prime minister, Pierre Trudeau. During his first term with a majority government, he improved benefits for children, legalized cannabis and medically-assisted dying, and introduced a carbon tax to reduce oil-and-gas consumption under a broad climate change initiative.
During the COVID crisis, Trudeau adopted draconian measures, restricting domestic travel, firing unvaccinated health care workers and, most notoriously, invoking the Emergencies Act to shut down a truckers’ protest movement, including freezing the bank accounts of organizers and subjecting them to protracted legal prosecutions.
After that, it was pretty much all downhill for Trudeau. Although his mantra during his initial election run had been a promise of “Sunny ways, my friends,” the bloom was off the rose. His government staggered on, thwarting several no-confidence motions with the assistance of another party that provided support in exchange for items on their legislative wish list.
Trudeau may go down in history as a poster child for the worst aspects of a super-woke liberal. Although he started off benignly enough as a staunch supporter of gay rights, his party leaned so far left in the gender wars that soon men who “identified as female” were competing in women’s sports, being jailed in women’s prisons even after being convicted as rapists, and demanding tampon dispensers in non-binary washrooms.
Meanwhile, Trudeau opened the floodgates of immigration, allowing millions of people into a country already struggling with affordable housing. As a consequence, the government footed the bill for meals and accommodation during their settling-in period, while many didn’t settle in as expected. Culture clashes arose, as did incidents of crime, public mischief, demonstrations against different ethnicities, and so on. Citizens complained that rampant immigration was ruining Canada.
Throughout, Trudeau became so tone-deaf to criticism in the ivory tower of his ego that he failed to see the writing on the wall, that poll after poll showed his Party sinking in approvals, largely dragged down by his own persona. No surprise that, over the Christmas recess in Parliament, the blunt message from his own caucus was that he had to go. Two weeks later, he resigned as leader and suspended Parliament for three months to allow his Party time to choose someone other than him to face the next election.
Trudeau has relatively few yogas for a person of leadership and public stature. Perhaps the most obvious is the Chandra-Mangala yoga formed by the Moon/Mars pair in the 8th house. This accounts for a certain sex appeal that got him elected in the first place, but it also hints at some darker aspects of his behavior. Back in the days when he was a schoolteacher before getting into politics, there was an alleged incident with an underage girl that was hushed up with a financial settlement and a non-disclosure agreement.
This element of protection accorded the son of a former Prime Minister might be explained by the Ubhayachari yoga formed by the flanking of lagnesh Sun by benefics Mercury, Jupiter, and Venus.
The most pronounced feature of Trudeau’s horoscope is that he has two Parivartana yogas. The first is formed by the sign exchange between Mars and Jupiter in the 4th and 8th houses. The other is formed by the exchange between Venus and Saturn in the 6th and 10th houses. Oddly enough, both are of the least desirable class, the Dainya Parivartana, wherein a trik lord is in a sign exchange with a positive house lord. This suggests relatively benign outcomes, but problems and setbacks nonetheless.
In the case of the 4/8 exchange, early family life may offer at least one illustration. Trudeau’s mother Margaret was an 18-year-old “flower child” when she first met 47-year-old PM Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Their marriage caused a stir in Canada at the time, and was further fueled by media rumors of Margaret partying with the Rolling Stones, and appearing in New York’s famed Studio 54 club. Over the course of seven years, however, the marriage disintegrated, due in part to Margaret’s affairs with Jack Nicholson, Ryan O’Neal and Lou Rawls. Much later in life, she was diagnosed with bipolar personality disorder, and subsequently became an advocate for reducing the social stigma of mental disease.
Critics of Justin Trudeau have noted the genetic connection and suggested that he too could be subject to the same malady. The litmus test for manas disturbance in Trudeau’s chart is tentative. The lord of the 4th house, Mars, has gone to the 8th, and there occupies a nakshatra of Saturn, a classic de-stabilizer. The 4th house is itself aspected by Saturn. Finally, the karaka for the manas, the Moon, is also in the 8th house. The sum of this does not add up to “crazy” but it does invoke questionable behaviors.
Meanwhile, the 4th and 9th houses are the touchstones for ethics and morality in the horoscope. Their common lord Mars has gone to the 8th house, which raises questions about ethical issues. Indeed, Trudeau’s time in office has been dogged by allegations of corruption – leaning on the scales of justice regarding Quebec’s SNC-Lavalin corporation, awarding multiple lucrative contracts to friends and political supporters, looking the other way when Chinese interference became an issue in Canadian politics, and many others. The great irony is that, when sworn in as PM, Trudeau had promised to run an open, ethical and transparent government. In reality, that became quite the opposite – authoritarian, corrupt and opaque.
The other Parivartana, between 6th lord Saturn and 10th lord Venus, has also played out in political policy. Trudeau’s obsession with saving the world from climate change, meanwhile ignoring many environmental issues in his own back yard, led to programs that waged war on Canada’s oil-and-gas industry, driving a political wedge down the middle of the country, penalizing the entire populace with carbon tax levies that fueled inflation. Meanwhile, his own minority government became fragile and so dependent for its ongoing existence on Canada’s third-tier Party that the budget deficit exploded to meet that ally’s demands.
Trudeau came to power on 19 October 2015, then running Moon-Jupiter, both forming yogas that engaged kshatriya (command-and-control) graha Mars – the Chandra-Mangala yoga with the Moon, and the 4/8 Parivartana with Jupiter. And although it doesn’t form any other yogas, Mars is yogakaraka for a Leo lagna, ruling both a kendra and a trikona.
The next federal election on 21 October 2019 came during Trudeau’s Moon-Mercury period. Mercury is a relatively lackluster graha, albeit swa-nakshatra and ruling the 2nd and 11th houses. Trudeau’s Liberal Party lost its majority in that election, reduced to a minority government dependent on Parliamentary allies to manage. But Mercury’s status as a double dhana lord ushered in a period that was arguably optimal for Trudeau’s finances, seeing his net worth surge.
The last federal election was 20 September 2021, called prematurely (ahead of the scheduled 2024 cycle) by Trudeau who’d seen the writing on the wall and didn’t want to wait another three years during which the official opposition might have become strong enough to defeat him. The result was a waste of taxpayer money and effectively no change, since the Liberals remained in minority government status.
That came in Moon-Venus, whose bhukti lord invoked the other Parivartana, between 10th lord Venus and 6th lord Saturn. The Dainya quality of the yoga emerged as faltering governance and the growing strength of the opposition Party via a number of subsequent byelections.
Since then, Trudeau has limped along, being as evasive and opaque as ever, to mounting cries of corruption and political chicanery, until even his own caucus had to admit the people hated their leader. After a long walk in the snow one evening, echoing events of his own father’s political demise decades earlier, Trudeau announced his resignation as leader of the Liberal Party on 6 January 2025. He was then running Mars-Jupiter, the same two grahas that formed the other Dainya Parivartana in his horoscope.
Trudeau’s “sunny ways,” long since clouded by political scandals and allegations of corruption, are officially over, crowned by naive over-reach and ultimate failure in climate, fiscal management, immigration and human rights issues. History will not paint him in a good light.
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Alan Annand is a Vedic astrologer, palmist and author. He’s a graduate of the British Faculty of Astrological Studies and was for many years their sole tutor for students in USA and Canada. After being introduced to jyotish, he was certified by the American College of Vedic Astrology, and went on to enjoy advanced instruction from Hart de Fouw. Aside from consulting and tutoring, he has long been a professional writer, straddling the corporate and creative worlds. His New Age Noir crime novels feature an astrologer protagonist whom one reviewer has dubbed “Sherlock Holmes with a horoscope.” His books on Vedic astrology – Kala Sarpa, Parivartana Yoga, and Stellar Astrology, Vols 1-4 – have been praised for the quality of their research and writing. His latest book – Kama Yoga: Love, Marriage & Sexuality in Jyotish – is a complete guide to personal relationships as seen through the lens of Vedic astrology.
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