Stranger at the Bank

Today, I stopped by the bank we’ve used for more than 30 years with a question about a charge to our money market account. The woman I spoke with was probably in her mid to late forties, pleasant, personable. She was a new employee, I think, I’d never seen her there before.

We talked about interest rates – this money market paid 4% – and when I mentioned what another bank pays, she seemed surprised. “Interest rates are coming down. I think it’s because of the election. You know, the uncertainty.” And the expression on her face just then – anguish, fear – told me she was a Kamala supporter.

I didn’t verify that by asking, but so far I haven’t seen trump supporters express anguish or fear of any kind. They, like trump himself, figure he has it all wrapped up, legally or illegally, they don’t care as long as he wins.

“I wish it was all done,” I remarked.

“God, me  too.”

And then she refunded the charge to our money market account.

Before the election, I intend to return to the bank and ask her who she’s voting for – or voted for already – verifying it one way or another. I want to know if my reading of people is as flawed as my reading of trump’s astrology chart over the years.

I’ve spent a lot of time since 2015 staring at trump’s chart, running transits to it, progressions, solar returns, trying to determine what’s going to happen. But I can’t be objective about his chart or about him. I need to know if this is also true of my assessment of people I just meet.

My intuition screams at moments like this. But that doesn’t mean it’s correct. It’s just loud because it’s what I want – in this instance, a Harris/Walz win.

In one of my anti-trump posts, a man who was on our podcast whom I like, whose chart I did, whose artistic expressions awed me, said he was surprised that I didn’t recognize evil – i.e., the democrats, Harris/Walz. I replied that I could express the same surprise about him.

Sigh.