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Astrologer Bella Popa reads the Los Angeles mayoral race through two retrogrades

Astrologer Bella Popa has offered a reading of the Los Angeles mayoral race based on Mercury and Venus retrograde, LAmag reports. Popa, founder of the Astrobella app, associates the period with reassessment and a return to unresolved issues.

The reading comes as incumbent Mayor Karen Bass and City Councilmember Nithya Raman are tied at 40% in a University of California, Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies and Los Angeles Times poll, according to ABC7 Los Angeles and INDIA New England News.

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Popa reads the candidates' charts#

Popa told LAmag that, in her reading, Mercury retrograde in Scorpio brings hidden information and unresolved issues to light. She linked Venus retrograde in Libra to reconsidering values, fairness and balance.

Popa sees Bass's Libra energy as fitting the moment's focus on fairness and diplomacy, while Raman faces what the astrologer calls a major reckoning with power. Astrology is a pseudoscientific divinatory practice that seeks insight into human affairs through the apparent positions of celestial objects.

Popa also pointed to Jupiter moving through Leo and approaching Bass's natal Moon-Pluto conjunction, a pairing in her birth chart. She told LAmag that Jupiter is traditionally associated with luck and expansion, while the Moon represents the public and emotional connections.

The mayoral race has tightened#

The poll surveyed likely voters from October 19 to 25 and found 19% undecided, INDIA New England News reports. The outlet said Raman had held an 11-percentage-point lead in September, citing USA Today.

Both candidates campaigned in Raman's Encino district on Friday, where residents expressed differing views of her record, ABC7 Los Angeles reports. Bass said she had intervened to help constituents with homeless encampments and a rise in home burglaries; Raman denied that account.

INDIA New England News reports that Raman's campaign has used social media to reach younger voters, including a video inspired by the movie "Mean Girls." The election is scheduled for November 3.

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