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.

John McCain — Who is he really?

I make no bones about the fact that I am not a McCain supporter, but will deconstruct his chart in terms of his personality later in this article.

Other than the public facts about McCain:

He was married to a different heiress who got into a terrible accident, was crippled gained a bunch of weight and then met Cindy McCain in a bar while still married. He filed for a marriage license to wed Cindy and a month later filed for Divorce from wife #1. For this staunch conservative Ross Perot made nasty comments about McCain (he was friends with wife #1) saying something to the effect that all McCain carried about was power and glory.

McCain was a pilot in the Vietnam war. After crashing 5 airplanes he was recovered and put into a POW camp. His family has a long tradition of military service, mostly generals and high ranking officers unlike McCain himself who didn’t do well in school (sort of like our current president.)

He owns 11 houses unlike the 7 originally reported. I guess he needs the white house so he can live in a different home each month of the year.

He said he didn’t know much about economics and thinks the fundamentals of our economy are strong, very much like the statement Hoover made just before the Great Depression.

He claims he’s against lobbyists and special interests, but the majority of his high ranking staff members are made up of lobbyists.

He claimed he was going to run an honorable campaign and then released such insanely negative adds they seemed more like something one would see on Saturday Night Live then actual attack ads. Even Karl Rove said he’d gone to far with the lying. Unbelievable!

He calls Obama an elitist (my husband says this is code for uppity, a derogatory term used for black people in the south who get ahead). I didn’t believe him until Georgian Congressman Westmoreland actually said it. I guess he figured it was already out there so why not? How could a black man raised by a single mother possibly be an elitist? Well, that is answered above, veiled racism.

McCain’s wife wore a combination of clothing and jewelry at the Republican National Convention estimated to be worth $300,000. The price of most people’s one home.

He was against the wall street bail outs and now is for them, probably because his economic advisers advised him that the economy would collapse if the fed didn’t do something.

Here’s a scary bit of insider info on McCain because I live in LA and have access for various reasons to industry types; I heard a story from a staunch Republican who worked on the TV show 24, about McCain’s guest appearance on it. It seems he walked around set addressing the actors by their character’s names and sighted their character’s histories as if they were actually the actors personal stories. I don’t want to get into too much detail, but the staunch Republican man who told me this informed me that after meeting McCain he was convinced he was, “really f***ing crazy.”

The fact that he can not tell the difference between fact from fiction is a very scary thought considering he maybe running the free world in a year from now!

Now for his chart and as unbiased a reading as any human could possibly give:

The first thing I notice is the Moon in Capricorn loosely squaring his rising. Moon in Cap is in its detriment, meaning it doesn’t lend itself well to compassion, kindness or any nurturing qualities. Generally, and especially with the square this makes for a very driven, competitive, self-centered, money and career oriented personality. Making it worse is the opposition to Pluto in the 10th, again reinforcing his over arching ambition, need for public domination and desire for power at all costs.

Venus ruling his chart is in its fall and located in the twelfth of death, secrets, institutions, loss, death, psychic ability, prisons, insane asylums, etc. It’s not suprising he would be captured and spend a long time in isolation during the war in a prison camp. He is also one for secrets not just keeping them but creating them (like having an affair). It also makes sense that his first wife nearly died, spent time in hospital and lost her ability to walk. Their divorce probably saved her life.

He may not know much about economics, but he is very pragmatic and able to generate wealth for himself. His chart shows that much of his good luck comes through his partners and much of his wealth through them as well, thus marrying heiresses.

With Jupiter in its natural place of Sagittarius in the second, he is extremely lucky when it comes to work, money, assets, property, jewlery and all the finer things of life. 

His Mercury — ruling his mind, makes only one significant aspect to Uranus, an inconjunction. He has trouble concentrating, is easily distracted and can’t process bigger issues and has little interest in humanitarian causes.

I won’t go into all the astro data, but suffice it to say he is extremely lucky when it comes to generating wealth and is strategic in his relationships with others, that is to say he makes friends with people that can help him and uses those connections when needed. He doesn’t have anything like what a normal person would call friends, more what normal people would call business aquantances that he thinks of as friends because he doesn’t really know any better.

There’s not much in his chart that shows leadership other than his overwhelming desire for power and his Mars in Leo (in the 10th) giving him a sense of entitlement to power. It is also Mars in the 10th that gave him his name and career in the military, traded it for political gain of Pluto which shares his 10th house of career.

On the surface of things he looks like a nice (good-looking) man, fair and honorable due to his Libra rising, but on deeper inspection we see a very power hungry, hawkish and greedy man without much capability for leadership other than as a soldier.

There haven’t been many Virgo presidents. No offense to Virgo’s I really love Virgos, but they don’t make great leaders as it turns out. The only two in our history have been, William Taft and Lyndon Johnson — neither were known for being stellar at their jobs.

Sarah Palin Interpreted — Who Is She?

Here is the chart of someone lacking in compassion. With no water or significant offset by water houses, she is in a word cold. So much emphasis on air and the air houses make her ideas rule her and with it being mostly fixed so are her ideas. She is unbendable, stubborn and fixed. 

If you have any hope that she’ll modify her views in the white house then you are sadly mistaken, if anything she will try to convince everyone around her that she’s right. A negative trait of so much Aquarius is the inability to change her viewpoint. Instead she’ll argue her point until she wears down those around her. She won’t shrink from a fight, if anything she thinks she right about everything and will make it her business to change her surroundings to fit her ideas. She may think of them as ideals but without anything to balance her out, she lacks wisdom and combined with the Leo rising has a pomposity and sense of entitlement that rivals the old fashioned feudal lords of the middle ages.

Partnerships are important to her, without them she couldn’t go very far as we have seen publicly. Her Venus in Aries in the 8th also makes her relationships with women contentious and competitive along with her love relationships which ironically would always have a certain sexual flavor which is why her public relationship with John McCain seems more like a high school boyfriend than a meeting of equal minds.

Neptune is going through her public house (the 7th) giving her a certain glamour and adding to the confusion of who she really is.  Uranus which rules most of the planets in her chart (Uranus rules Aquarius) is nataly in the conservative Virgo conjunct Pluto, meaning she has a need for power. It makes no good aspects to anything, keeping her ungrounded and leaning toward the past. She is a fundamentally insecure person and because of her lack of insight has narcissistic qualities or to go even further the possibility of personality disorder NPD (narcissistic personality disorder).

Mars conjunting her Sun gives her an aggressive public personality (probably also why she likes to shoot defenseless wolves from helicopters.) This  has served her well as Jupiter and Venus are also in Aries, further pushing her into a selfish personality type who has a wanton desire for power.

With Neptune nataly in her fourth in Scorpio, she grew up with a lot of secrets many of them sexual in nature, this is reflected in her own home as evidence by her daughter’s pregnancy which she sought to hide. It also makes a bad aspect to her sun, causing problems for her sense of identity and her public image.

Although she may appear unintelligent she’s more likely a bit of an air head, married to her unbendable ideas, and uniformed in anything she’s not personally interested.

With so much Aquarius she is a rebel, likes to buck the system (evidenced by her involvement in the succession movement of Alaska) but while Aquarians have made some of the best presidents because of their ability to think outside the box, their charts have been balanced by compassion, mutability and the positive qualities of Aquarius — compassion for humanity. In Sarah’s case her rebellion is tied to her sense of personal power, her desire for power, bombasity, a need to be special and a tendency to selfishness. Her inability to respect authority and the law begs the question of whether she should be put in a position to uphold the laws of the land.

She has a difficult time seperating her public persona from who she really is and identifies her outer persona as herself which is one of the reasons I see narcissism heavily in her chart. 

Adding to her conservative outlook is Saturn (the Great Malific) conjunct her Sun and Mars. She feels restricted and wants to restrict others as she has trouble differentiating herself from other people, projecting her own needs, ideas and personality dysfunction on her partners and the public at large.

The rumored affair with her husband’s business partner is more than likely not just a rumor. With Pluto going through her 5th in the year 2001 and hitting sensitive points with other things (I won’t get into the astrology) leading up to it. She had opportunity and a need for romance and power in her love relationship. This relationship more than likely went on for awhile, not just a drunken one night type of thing. Pluto going through this house often shakes up a person’s love relationship, ultimately changing it forever — death and rebirth. 

As to whether Trig is really hers or not, astrologically speaking there is very strong indication that he is, however because he is hers (in terms of caring for him) these aspects would show the same indication. It doesn’t matter whether a child is adopted or birthed, the aspects would be the same so this isn’t so easy to read. I’d have to examine Trig’s chart to decipher this and since his birth time is not available as far as I know, the matter will remain unresolved for now.