Race in the race to the white house…

Hopefully this rational argument will help those on the fence think about the issue of Obama’s race a little differently.

Suppose your child was critically ill with a rare disease and your only hope was a specialist who happened to be African American. Would you let your child die because of prejudice or would you let the most qualified doctor treat your kid? 

Seriously folks a McCain administration would plummet us into the worst world wide Depression in history, not to mention the possibility of WW3. I’ll post about this later. I’m going to deconstruct the chart of Russia, Georgia and the conflict there as well as what’s going on in Iraq and the US. Look for that in coming posts. I can say this, before we went to war in Iraq I had a very bad feeling (as did most of the population) not just about the conflict in the middle-east but its potential to instigate a world war. The tarot cards confirmed my worst fears. At the time I didn’t know exactly how this would unfold but it’s becoming clearer now. With the US military stretched to its limits in 2 simultaneous wars, we can’t mind the world stage. Russia also has made the same argument about invading Georgia as we made about invading Iraq. But I’ll save all this for a later post…

For now, vote, pray and talk to anyone who will listen. We are at a major turning point. This election is crucial to the well being of all of us. Not just fiscally but in ways unimaginable to most.

John McCain vs. Barack Obama on Foreign Affairs

Looking at their charts it is clear that John MCCain is much more likely to get us into another war — he is hawkish by nature. Obama is more likely to use diplomacy to avert crisis — his excellent understanding of other cultures and his natural oratory abilities give him a distinct advantage in averting further conflicts and with what is going on in Georgia vs. Russia we need diplomacy. Do we really want a war with Russia when our military is already stretched to its limits?

Just because someone served in the military does not mean they have the capacity to run it. McCain was a soldier not a strategist, by this logic someone who works behind the counter of a bakery would be well equipped to oversee the FDA. Granted the person working behind the counter would learn something about the food industry but that alone is not enough experience to even run their own bakery. In order to do that the person would have to have good business acumen, an understanding of the market in their area and management skills.

The fact remains that Obama’s chart shows greater understanding of foreign affairs and diplomacy. He knows how to reason with people, and can put himself in other people’s shoes, unlike McCain.

Will John McCain survive if he’s president?

Being a cancer survivor means remission not cure. For a man that is 72 years old (the average life expectancy being 77 but lets face it McCain has had more than his fair share of health crisis in the past.

In Feb/March of 2009, not far into his potential presidency, McCain will face some extremely challenging health aspects. In August he had Uranus opposing his Venus which is when he found his soul mate in Sarah Palin out of the blue. Back to the issue, it will start (signs of this have probably already started and perhaps he knows something we don’t) when Uranus conjuncts his Saturn in the 6th (house of health). He naturally has health issues, chronic in nature that flare up from time to time, probably from stress. But this will hit him hard and oppose his Venus in the 12th (Venus rules his chart) making him look visibly ill. Pluto, we all should know about Pluto at this point — death, rebirth, sex, a hard core nasty when it hits you — will be squaring his Mercury, giving signs of speech trouble and an inability to concentrate. This aspect has been coming and going for a while which is probably why he has gotten so inept at reading from a tele-prompter. Mercury rules his Sun, Venus and his 12th house of death. This really isn’t good for a 72 year old cancer survivor. 

One can never really predict death via astrology, but we can see health troubles, and it looks like he’s in for some seriously bad health early into his administration, so bad it could be fatal. Saturn (the great malefic) is also reeking havoc as it has hit his Neptune (loss and in his case rules his house of health) and then moves over his Venus, his chart ruler and then his Mercury. All in all it doesn’t look good for John McCain’s health and I wouldn’t be surprised if his body gave out early in his administration.

This is why it is imperative to look at Sarah Palin because she would inherit the throne. In her we would see an administration like Bush’s only much worse. I hate to use what some would think of as hyperbole, but in this case it’s actually not, she’s Hitler in high heels. Her chart is more akin to a dictator than a president. Actually, there has never been a president with the kind of chart she has with so much weight on fixed signs and air. Being an Aquarian is generally a pretty good thing, as most have humanitarian urges, but in her case all this is in the 7th (meaning it’s projected onto her partners) and we see an ego run amok with a weak Sun in the 7th with Leo rising. Seriously, she has no ability for details, shades of gray or anything, but absolutes.

Aquarians also like to buck the system which can be good if they have good intentions. Unfortunately, in Palin’s case it’s not that she has bad intentions, its just that she doesn’t have clear, intelligent, fair, balanced and wise judgement. She’d likely to veto bills just because. She’d shred the constitution if she could get away with it and being that we’re half way there, it’s not that out of the question. She’ll let a witch hunter pray over her if she can win. She’s irrational, self absorbed and a “know it all” — not good. Not good at all. And believe me I want to see a woman in the white house more than you could ever know, but not one that would throw us back into the dark ages.

Barack Obama vs. Abraham Lincoln

Their career paths have been compared, and almost parallel in their meteoric rise from being state legislators to Presidents (in Obama’s case potential president). But what do their charts say. Are they similar? And if so how? Let’s take a look at the man who helped start the Republican party and the current lead Democrat.

 

 Despite the unknown time of Lincoln’s actual birth we can still compare the basics so here goes:

Although Lincoln was an Aquarian he had a lot of water in his chart, specifically Pisces which gave him great compassion for the down trodden. Pisces is opposite of Virgo and the two have a lot in common, as Leo is opposite of Aquarius. Again both signs share similarities, this is because if you have the sun in Leo like Barack Obama your earth is in Aquarius, meaning the earth is actually traveling through the constellation of Aquarius. So in a sense opposites are not really opposites in astrology but rather two sides of a see-saw.

WIth so his sun and moon in Aquarius Lincoln definitely thought outside the box and was ruled by his principles but unlike Sarah Palin who is utterly lacking in compassionate or sensitivity in her chart, Lincoln had oodles of it. He was a visionary, literally and extremely intuitive, eccentric, odd looking as we know and a revolutionary for the greater good. His chart is heavy on trines like Barack’s making it easy to communicate, rise to the head of the class and understand others on a very gut level, very similar to Barack Obama’s abilities. Barack shows great aptitude for communication and shows intellectual brilliance in his chart, Lincoln shows immense genius with Uranus making a trine to his mercury both in water signs he was probably spooky (if you knew him personally) in his ability to read things others couldn’t see and size up situations in a glance. His chart is the stuff of legends. He also had Mars in Libra trining his sun, making fairness a huge issue for him much like Obama. The civil war probably pained Lincoln greatly on a personal level as he wasn’t a hawk but would have preferred to work things out through debate, alas this was not his fate. Saturn and Neptune conjunct in Sagittarius gave him charisma and uncannily good luck in his career. But it also gave him trouble as evidenced by his assassination (square to Mercury with Neptune there — Neptune bringing loss.) This was not helped by his Uranus, ruler of his sun and moon in Scorpio (can mean sudden death) square his moon. His Venus inconjunct Uranus also brought turmoil to his relationships with women and his love life which he probably didn’t see until he was smack in the middle of it and it was too late to bail out.

Obama’s chart is more stable, grounded and service oriented rather than sacrifice oriented like Lincoln’s but there are some real similarities between these two men. Obama however is a more dramatic orator, (supposedly Lincoln had a strange high pitched voice and of course Obama has a deep melidious one) and his passion is more on a gut level than Lincoln’s which was more intellectual in nature. Neither are/or where hawkish in their world view but rather keen to diplomacy first. Obama is more of a fighter with so much Leo in his chart, some would say a bit more bombastic but also much warmer. It’s doubtful that a man like Lincoln could be president during our age of TV and the internet, as his looks and personality would have been very eccentric and off putting at close inspection. Obama on the other hand has the charm and charisma needed to win the office in contemporary culture with good looks and personality playing such a key role in elections. 

Obama is about as close to the likes of Lincoln as we could concievably see in contemporary America. There are some real parallels not just in their careers but in their personalities. Obama’s main focus is the working person however, and of course Lincoln’s was a bigger more pervasive assumption that he tackled. Lincoln’s chart reflects his ability to truly shake up the statis quo, Obama’s is not really set up like that, it is focused primarily on serving the everyday American trying to get by and the economy which if Obama wins we’ll be able to dig ourselves out of the rabbit hole. If not, if McCain wins look for a major global Depression where the rich get richer and less and less fit into that one percent. Our nation will look like a bad day in Tijuana. We will see the end of the middle class if McCain wins at least until someone else takes the reigns but by then it maybe too late. 

MAKE SURE TO VOTE NOVEMBER 2.

Barack Obama – his chart, who is he?

It’s interesting to see how prevalent the 7th house is in the charts of politicians. As law makers it makes sense being that the 7th house rules courts and justice as well as partnerships, the public and open enemies.

In Barack’s case we see a lot of 7th house action, his mind is defintely occupied with issues of fairness, equality and service. His Leo sun is reigned in by the 6th house of service so any bombast is tempered with his desire to serve coupled with his opposition to Uranus in the 7th and his Aquarius rising he has strong desire to serve humanity.

With his Pluto in the 7th his partner is strong, as we know. And has great influence, as well as Joe Biden will. He takes into consideration other points of view and weighs them heavily in his decision making process.

Moon in Gemini trine his Jupiter gives him a cool emotional demeanor and an understanding of both foreign and domestic people. His childhood would involve a lot of emotional ups and downs and moving quite a bit, this is also public knowledge but is indicated in his chart. His mother was an intellectual and teacher, (Moon in Gemini in the 4th) this created great opportunity for him to grow intellectually as moon trines his Mercury in the 6th. Again he puts his knowledge into serving the greater good. Not surprising he would become a community organizer as his need to serve is strong and taught him a lot about the world and himself.

Mars in Virgo in the 6th again reinforces his desire to play fair and serve others in the process which is probably why he was attracted to law. but the kind of law he was interested in and is interested in is focused on workers and their plight, those that serve others, he identifies with them which is part of his passion to serve.

He has the ability to think outside the box (Aquarius rising) but this is balanced by many factors in his chart which enable him to think in gradations of color as opposed to the black and white world of someone like Sarah Palin who has a proponderance of fixed signs and too much Aquarius in her chart leading her into the realm of magical thinking and the inability to listen to others, this quality often referred derogatorily as “a know it all,” is not present in Barack Obama. His chart is balanced with all the elements and enough mutable signs to offset his fixed sun and rising. He is strong in his convictions without being married to his ideas, able to amend his position to changes that come along when necessary and capable of listening to a good case and changing his mind to fit the facts and circumstances.

His emotional center is his home life, his wife and children, and his mother. Jupiter in Aquarius in the 12th making a trine to his moon will ultimately be a great benefit, just as the chips look down for him luck strikes and fate helps him along. 

All in all he is compassionate, service orientated, humanitarian and extremely intelligent, if this makes him an elitist then we should all be so lucky as to be called this. His excellent aspects make him capable in many ways, not just his general intelligence, ability to understand the working person, his service oriented personality but also he understands finances not just the big picture but the details of the economy. Notice the trine between Saturn in Capricorn in the 12th and Mars in Virgo. He understands what is going on behind the scenes, things we the public do not see and knows how to fix this via legislation, Mars in the 7th in Virgo. It’s no surprise that the top wealthiest among us those in the top one percent fear him because he is not going to be a giant help to them but rather to us, the everyday people who work for a living. He has many enemies in that elite group and it will be no surprise that they will pull out all the stops to make sure he’s not elected including resulting to fear tactics (geared to the naive) which will more than likely be their main focus in trying to take him down. But alas, he does have Jupiter there to save him. So he does have hidden forces who support him and luck on his side.

He will restore our good name in the world and put our economy back on track and with all the Virgo in his chart he will reform health care for the betterment of us in the middle class.

So make sure to vote!

Joe Biden — Who is he, an astrological analysis

We have a long political history of Joe Biden. His story has been out there for a while so I’m not going to bother repeating his record, you can find that anywhere on the web. Here’s a look at him as a personality and stuff we don’t know about him.

His moon in Taurus is exhaulted making him an emotionally stabile individual even though it makes an inconjunction to his sun (out of sign) which would lead me to believe his father was hidden or absent during his childhood and perhaps the communication between his parents wasn’t all that great. he has an affinity toward women, compassion toward them due to his strong bond with his mother. with Sag rising he is interested in foreign affairs, cultures and has traveled abroad widely. 

With Saturn and Uranus in his 7th it’s not a wonder that his wife would die in an accident, this is perhaps not the best aspect for Obama as it would also apply to him. The secret service is going to have to do double duty to protect Obama. His second wife (the 9th house) is in much better stead with Leo there, she is probably the household leader and an outspoken, charasmatic sort of person.

He has a stellium in Scorpio in the 11th and 12th, giving him a strong focus on the mechanics of power behind the scenes. With Mercury, Sun and Venus conjunct he is a good public speaker, understands metaphor and is smarter than the public knows. All these planets are beneficint, meaning it takes the sting out of the 12th house and with Venus conjunct his first house cusp, again he has an affinity for women, gets along well with them and likes to play fair unless pushed (Scorpios do have a sting so if you’re not playing fair, he’ll call you out on it.) He also has very sharp intuition that borders on psychic ability. He can see what’s coming down the pike and act before things go wonky. 

With Neptune in the 10th his career has ebbed and flowed, and as we know publicly he almost let it go when his wife died, not surprising with this aspect. It does trine his Saturn and Uranus in the 7th so it was his partner who shifted him back on course. His chart shows a person with penetrating intelligence and with Jupiter exhalted in Cancer in the 8th, he’s also lucky with investments, and other people’s money, inheritences and understanding the stock market.

His Mars in Scorpio in the 11th indicates that he can be a ruthless fighter especially when his ideals, hopes and dreams are at stake. He’ll take out the stinger and fight to the death if need be.

Jupiter rules his chart and as it is exhaulted in Cancer in the 8th, he has not only a great understanding of foreign affairs but of the economy at large and specifically the stock market and investments. He will know how to invest our money to help dig us out of the financial hole we are currently in. This is further confirmed by his part of fortune and moon being in the 5th (house of speculation, children, creativity and romance).

This man does not back down from a fight.

His early childhood was probably not one of great wealth, but loss and nurturing. This man understands what most Americans are going through and has built into his chart great compassion for the down trodden, the middle class and the people at large.