Ohio Astrology’s Presidential Prediction

Posted on October 28, 2012 by ohioastrology

Astrologers are much like analysts – we want to be right. We analyze data to understand a confusing world of inconsistency, feelings, double speak and people’s rationalizations of their actions under the mantle of philosophies and religions.

If you accept the world as non-rational, it’s an easier place to be. Trying to apply a rational standard to the world simply creates frustration.

On the flip side, I do believe the world runs by patterns if not logic and reason.

The last Get Smart movie starring Steve Carell creates the perfect image of the analyst. Carell is Maxwell Smart, an analyst who dreams of being a special agent. Smart has written bulky report after bulky report that his colleagues don’t read. When asked questions, Smart’s reply often goes something like, “It was in the report on page 726.”

Smart, aptly named, has all the answers, if someone would just pay attention.

The Western world runs on ideas of reason and likewise I believe we carry this trait culturally and which is why our religions are also tinted with this need to be right.

As an American, I was surprised to find in other countries you can discuss religion peacefully without the need to be right or convert others to your views. Discussing religion without anyone getting or telling others they were wrong was a surreal surprise.

While astrology is associated with divination, I’m turning to the view that its true purpose is creative engagement with life in the way of artists. You can explore images and not always identify with those images.

What’s called divination, though, is part of the fun of astrology, the same way betting in a sports pool is fun. You have some background information, you have some personal preferences and you bet accordingly.

I’ve been staying far, far away from election predictions for two main reasons: 1) I don’t know how to make election predictions using astrology and 2) I fear making wrong predictions taints the practice of astrology. Once something is branded divination, it must be 100 percent accurate.

Yet, I keep having a feeling about the winner. I decided to let go of whether I’m right or wrong simply because it doesn’t matter. One blog on the blogosphere getting it right or wrong isn’t important in this vast, great universe.

For a while I’ve been feeling the winner of the US Presidential election will be Mitt Romney.

Why?

When I look at the weather forecast on my phone, I see pictures of rain for the next five days. Saturn in Scorpio, which we’ll experience for the next two years, feels a lot like that weather forecast.

The energy of Saturn in Scorpio, Pluto in Capricorn and Neptune in Pisces seems more aligned with the energy of Mitt Romney. Romney is a man of water sign sensibilities five of the ten planets in the horoscope in water signs (Scorpio and Pisces). He is the rain. He’s a man who believes in the efficiency of bankruptcy proceedings over bold, daring actions. This is more aligned with Capricorn and Scorpio energy than the current president’s fire and air chart.

Capricorn and Scorpio are both very serious, not dreamers. Both are prone to fear of the paranoid kind, thinking others are out to get them because they don’t understand that others have a more fluid idea of life.

Capricorn is about law and order (sound like the campaign speech of a past Capricorn president?) not about hope and glory.

Scorpio is focused and driven and enjoys a walk on the dark side.

Both Capricorn and Scorpio are prone to depression and taking a “glass half empty” approach to life.

Capricorn is shrewd while Scorpio is perceptive.

While I’m feeling Romney is going to win, I’m also feeling that he’s not going to like it much.

It’s on Page 729

Astrology is analytical and there are far superior astrologers out there analyzing past data, looking at angles and arcs and progressions and transits. I’m sure they have much better reasons for their picks. I’d trust them if you’re betting money.

I’m simply feeling Romney in the air, in the storms and in the economy.

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Renegade, Rebel, Revolutionary – What’s up with the Letter R?

Posted on October 25, 2012 by ohioastrology

Thinking today about someone I know, the R words came to mind – renegade, rebel and revolutionary.

Oh, how I love a revolutionary! Really, revolutionaries are few and far between and our use of the word has gone way, way down since the 1960s.

Once when I casually used the word “terrorist,” someone reminded me that one person’s terrorist is another’s freedom fighter. Revolutionary is also a word charged with good and bad connotations.

That’s kind of the problem with words – people use them with a different meaning that you mean and suddenly you like the word no longer.

Hey, we’re having a few revolutions around the world right now – mostly in the Middle East. In the US, my perception is that the media views these revolutions as good. Do the people in those regions see the events as revolution or something else?

The “Arab Spring” started about right before Uranus entered Aries, when it was hanging out with Jupiter in the last degrees of Pisces.

Uranus the great awakener is associated with revolutions because you are in one state and then “wham,” you find yourself in a completely different universe.

Aries, the first sign of the zodiac, is often the renegade because Aries lurches forward first and thinks second. It’s a renegade sign, to me, only in the sense that it has a compulsion to step forward and stand up for itself.

In a different sense, Aquarius is the great rebel because it thinks first then steps forward because the world has offered it no alternative that meshes with the ideas. Aquarius is not the fighter that Aries is – it simply can’t function within ideas that create internal discord.

Aquarius fights for ideas and Aries fights for self (or ideas of self?).

Uranus, you know, rules Aquarius.

Some reptilian mind part of our brains has associated this state of breaking from the current cultural norm into another state with the sound of “rrrrrrr.”

Uranus in Aries might bring more Rs to our lives in the next seven years for a Rip Roaring time. R might be called the official sponsor of Uranus in Aries.

Maybe Sesame Street, that great promoter of the first letter of words, might solve the true mystery of the letter R.

That is, if we don’t have an R president.

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October 22 President Debate: Astrological Weather Forecast

Posted on October 21, 2012 by ohioastrology

Columbus, OH: On Monday, October 22 in Boca Raton, Florida there is a strong chance of an emotional frost that stings to the touch as the moon and Saturn embrace in the sign of Scorpio. Feelings may be hurt which will be nursed and licked for the rest of time.

While the tone is frosty, there are foreign Jupiter in Gemini /Mars in Sagittarius allergens in the air which are known to cause “foot-in-mouth disease.” OHA advices that the candidates wear soft and tasty shoes as eating one’s own foot is cause for unpleasant taste in the mouth.

These Gemini/Sagittarius allergens also cause words to flow from the mouth without filtering through the brain. Because of that, the words should be quite interesting and fun but may cause headaches for the listeners.

With moon in Aquarius and Venus in Virgo there is a strong chance of details raining on the audience and umbrellas are recommended. The details will cause no damage but friction between Aquarian and Virgo details may cause Uranus-in-Aries induced lightening. As long as no candidate’s feet touch the ground, damage is minimal.

Neptune in Pisces will create a thin layer of fog throughout the evening that won’t be discernible to the naked eye but will leave each viewer confused at the end of the debate. OHA recommends the audience drive through the debate with the headlights on.

Also in the weather is the chance of a ghost sighting, namely the ghost of past economic development. Pluto in Capricorn will grace the evening’s 8th house and bring back memories of past titans, legends of authority and respect.

Lastly, a strong wind advisory is in effect.

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Michael Corbat: Citigroup’s New Top Banker

Posted on October 20, 2012 by ohioastrology

“If I can’t be a banker, I don’t want to live.”

Cosmo Kramer, fake reason for fake suicide in effort to get Newman out of a speeding ticket on Seinfeld

Cat Reads News

My tuxedo cat, Lacy, learned that Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit abruptly resigned. She chided me for my blog on bankers where I voted that Pandit would prevail over his peers.

“Economists are wrong a lot too,” I pointed out, “and no one seems to bother about it.”

It is surprising that a man with sun in Capricorn and Mars in Aries has given in to the big “F” word – Failure. Capricorn and Aries are about success and competition – by throwing in the towel Pandit must be facing a Herculean frustration.

His moon may be in Gemini, the sign where Jupiter is currently transiting. Does this mean that Pandit has a Gemini-twin second job, a backup plan, a getaway car at the back door?

My guess is that he’s having thoughts such as “let’s see how well they do without ME.”

His successor is Michael Corbat.

Michael Corbat

In addition to the great perks of bank chairmanship like the executive dining room, private jets and stock options, one also gets, at no charge, two full paragraphs of astrological insight from Ohio Astrology.

How cool is that?

There’s very little kindness directed to bankers these days. OHA gives where it can.

No longer must banking chairmen sneak out at night and walk down dark, empty alleys to visit the local astrologer.

Bankerly Sun

Corbat has a bankerly Taurus sun, the fixed earth sign that is grounded and fully engaged with the physical world without the glossy glaze that many of us inflict on it.

It’s a nice sign to be if you want to count money.

Where is Corbat’s moon? It could be either in Cancer or Leo. Taurus/Leo is more charismatic and very, very stubborn while Taurus/Cancer is garden-variety stubborn but warm and inviting. Taurus/Leo is sensual while Taurus/Cancer is seeking a nostalgic and comforting physical environment.

Corbat’s Mars, the planet which shows how we assert ourselves, is in the sign of Pisces. Pisces is not generally assertive and is more likely looking at how to relate to others than conquer and dominate others. That’s nice in family life but not as useful in banking life.

With Mercury and Venus in Aries, Corbat may have a bark worse than his bite.

The interesting planets in Corbat’s chart are Jupiter and Saturn, both in Capricorn. They are not yet conjunct – it took another year for that to occur and when Corbat was about 1-2 years old his life probably changed in terms of social or religious environment.

Astrology Critics describes the 20-year Jupiter / Saturn conjunction cycle as:

• important economic fluctuations, rise or fall of the market;
• conflicts may appear as two different processes must converge in order to generate evolution, especially social progress: expansionism, liberalisation, democratic values, freedom and, on the other side, oppression, rules, limits, performance, effort
• the manifestation of ideas, potentialities in the material world;
• the Jupiter – Saturn conjunctions are called “Grand Conjunctions”; the conjunctions occur in the same element (fire, earth, air or water) for about 200 years, with 1 or 2 exceptions;
• a series in fire signs symbolise discoveries, exploration, independence, free spirit, adventure, power, display (1603 – 1782); a series in the earth element signify materialism, wealth, industrial development, agriculture, infrastructure, territorial disputes (1802 – 2000); a series in air (next will start in 2020) symbolise new concepts, ideas, intellectual development (1226 – 1405); a series in water corresponds with spiritual movements, art development (1425 – 1583).

The big news here for Jupiter/Saturn in Capricorn folks (born in 1960 and 1961) is that transiting Pluto is coming to visit. Lessons are coming along the lines of:

• When should I trust and when should I challenge authority?
• What is success?
• What is failure?
• How is my self-esteem tied with my material success/failure?

When Capricorn loses position in society, it loses everything. For some a job is a job, but for Capricorn it is the core of self-worth.

What a perfect time for Corbat to run the nation’s third largest bank!

Jupiter and Saturn in Capricorn also represent growing up in an environment of strict rules, lots of “shoulds” and “shouldn’ts” and strong religious, moral or ethical beliefs.

Transiting Jupiter in Gemini has formed a square to Corbat’s Pluto in Virgo (health issues?) and will soon square that Mars in Pisces. Trying to please everyone won’t work very well.

Transiting Saturn in Scorpio is close to Corbat’s natal Neptune in Scorpio and opposing his Taurus sun. I’m feeling that Corbat might have a belief that people are ultimately good and will do well. He has some things to learn in this regard, with his strong Jupiter/Saturn in Capricorn standards.

I’m wondering if he will also discover the institution he has chosen to head is in worse financial shape than presented. It will take many years before transiting Uranus touches his Mercury in Aries when he will have the impulse to spit it all out. I’m guessing he will keep his lips shut for now and follow orders (a Capricorn thing to do) based on his personal code of ethics.

Corbat may also do well to watch his own finances. Stock options are nice but don’t forget Enron. Financial whizzes often know when to bail even if they tell those around them not to – but if Corbat may be the type to put all his eggs in Citigroup stock in an effort to prove his seriousness.

Banking seems a ship so large that no one man (or woman) can truly run it. It’s interesting to watch folks try.

Astrologers in Dark Alleys

For more insight, Corbat will need to take his date, place and time of birth to the local astrologer, who may also welcome bankerly folk with open arms.

Without time of birth, much is unknown in the horoscope.

With Pluto conjunct one’s Saturn and tearing down the known social structure, it’s also a good time for Corbat to explore things once forbidden – such as astrology.

Astrology presents a more fluid universe that Capricorn energy enjoys. For strong earthly folks, a fluid universe can be a scary thing. The universe doesn’t provide a Monday night special forever – it’s simply a cycle.

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Who’s More Likely to Win a Duel – Obama or Romney?

Posted on October 17, 2012 by ohioastrology

After having watched the primary debates and election coverage since August 2011, I’m getting a little bored with this election. While last night’s debate questions (Tuesday, October 16) were good, I’ve been hearing the same questions or types of questions for over a year. No wonder the candidates sound odd – they’ve been giving the same answers for over a year. Like robots, they probably don’t even know what they’re saying anymore.

While I’ve been getting bored with it, my tuxedo cat Lacy hasn’t.

Last night while I blogged, Lacy kept her yellow eyes on the debate. At one point she meowed, “They’re gonna fight!”

She referred to a point when Republican candidate Mitt Romney stood close to President Barack Obama and received a somewhat evil glare from the President. Maybe Romney hasn’t seen this photo of Obama watching Osama bin Laden being killed. Romney ought to take a glance at it before approaching Mr. Obama again.

When the men didn’t come to fisticuffs, Lacy was disappointed.

“Why didn’t they fight?” she purred.

“Lacy,” I said gently, so as not to offend, “Cats hiss and scratch when people get into their territory. Humans try to overcome that instinct.”

Alexander Hamilton

As usual, Lacy trapped me with history. While watching PBS years ago, she learned that one of our Founding Fathers, Alexander Hamilton, first Treasury Secretary, died in a duel against Aaron Burr.

Here’s the story.

The Cliff Notes version of the story is that Hamilton and Burr were long political enemies. Burr suffered political failures in which Hamilton contributed to the opposition. At a dinner one night in 1804, Hamilton spoke against Burr and his words surfaced in a New York newspaper. Burr then challenged Hamilton to a duel in which Hamilton lost, losing his life.

So we have:

• Dissing
• Dueling
• Death

Quite unseemly, but Hamilton still managed to make it on the $10 bill.

Twentieth Century Dueling?

We’re lucky that today in the US we don’t lose our lives during political turmoil (at this time at least). Campaigns appear to be fought more with money than fists. But if they were fought mano a mano (with pistola a pistola), who would be more likely to win, Obama or Romney?

You’d don’t hear much about fighting in astrology, outside of relationship astrology . . .

Mars

The planet of assertiveness and aggression is Mars. It’s the planet that makes us move from here to there. Mars is the ancient god of war. It makes us attracted to others or repulsed by others and drives us to act on any impulse.

It can be associated with violence and anger, but I believe that occurs only when you don’t (or can’t) express your Mars. Mars then erupts. It’s a rocket in your pocket and is going to launch at some point, so make some room.

Obama has Mars in mutable earth Virgo and Romney has Mars in mutable water Pisces, the opposite sign to Virgo. No wonder the fight between these two men last night looked like a pissing contest – it was nervous Virgo against anxious Pisces. It was detail (Virgo) against feeling (Pisces), analysis (Virgo) against synthesis (Pisces), and critic (Virgo) against victim (Pisces).

Neither Virgo nor Pisces is an open, put-up-your-fists fighter. Both signs are mutable and mutable often deal with problems through avoidance.

“Lacy,” I said. “You probably won’t see these two hit each other with anything more than criticism.”

“That’s boring,” she replied, yawning and settling down for a little nap.

Who’s More Likely to Win a Duel – Obama or Romney?

Dear readers, you’ll have to weigh in. I think if this were 1804, neither would show up for the duel.

I’ve been wondering this about Romney and now wonder it about Obama – what are they doing on that stage? Do they really want to be there?

Obama hasn’t explained much his first lackluster debate performance. I’m wondering from his chart if he’s hiding an illness (transiting Saturn in Scorpio squaring Mercury in Leo in the 6th). Jupiter has also been transiting that moon in Gemini. Mercury rules Gemini and speech and lungs.

Romney appears much more engaged now that during the primaries. Transiting Neptune in Pisces is transiting his Mars in Pisces. Does that make one desire the top of the political mountain or an aggressive desire for spiritual union?

I still wonder.

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The Transformation of John Lennon

Posted on October 16, 2012 by ohioastrology

John Lennon keeps coming to mind, so I thought I’d get him out of my psyche and into this blog. What other use is there for a blog?

While I consider myself a mild fan of the Beatles and Lennon, I’ve never been so enamored of him to put up a poster or anything like that. So it’s odd that he’s so on my mind (and was before the anniversary of his October 9 birthday).

What’s coming to mind is an image from my childhood. One rainy Sunday afternoon I sat with the “Hey Jude” album cover, listening to the song “Rain,” staring at Lennon, face hidden behind a head of frizzy brownish-red hair, mustache, long beard and glasses (aka “Lennon specs”). I couldn’t believe this was the same man who was on the cover of earlier album covers, say, “Rubber Soul.”

I asked my mom what happened to him.

If she had an answer, I can’t recollect it. But now as a middle-aged woman in these changing times, I’m wondering if Lennon didn’t truly transform in a way few do. Until recently, I simply thought of Lennon as a rebel looking for something to oppose.

As we move toward another general election here in the US, I’m having a strange nostalgia for hippies and Lennon-types to say (or sing) about peace and other non-tangible elements of our lives on earth. Hard times often lead to great insights.

Pluto and Transformation

The planet Pluto is associated with transformation. Transformation is so easy to say but so difficult to experience. A friend once compared cooking with baking. Cooking, she said, was creative but baking, in contrast is alchemy.

Transformation is alchemy. If you were a strand of wheat, would you willingly transform into bread?

And let’s say you do decide to become bread (challah, maybe?), how would the rest of the field of wheat respond?

The wheat is the wheat and the bread is the bread.

Transformation isn’t easy.

“Christ, you know it ain’t easy
You know how hard it can be
The way things are going
They’re gonna crucify me

Saving all your money for a rainy day,
giving all your clothes to charity,
last night the wife said,
oh boy when you’re dead,
don’t take nothing with you but your soul . . .”

(From the Ballad of John & Yoko)

Transformation through Partnership

According to this Astrotheme chart, Lennon had sun in Libra, moon in Aquarius and Aries rising.

It’s not unusual for Libra to marry or partner-up at a young age. Libra seeks partnership first and everything else second.

Lennon married his first wife, Virgo sun, Cynthia, on August 23, 1962. At the time, transiting Pluto was conjunct his Venus in Virgo.

Venus in Virgo is a “love me perfect” placement. With sun in Libra and moon in Aquarius, Lennon was seeking not just a partner, but the perfect match along the lines of Virgo, Libra and Aquarius perfection, which is weird, quirky and eccentric.

Transiting Pluto conjunct Venus also creates some serious control issues around this need for a perfect partner. While I haven’t had time in my recent Lennon obsession to read a biography, I have vague memory of reading that he didn’t treat his first wife well and was honest about this in later times.

Lennon’s second wife is the wife of history, the fated encounter that changed Lennon forever. On November 9, 1966 he met the artist Yoko Ono. Ono was different from Lennon in age (she being older) and culture.

At the time of meeting Ono, transiting Pluto was nearing a conjunction to Lennon’s Neptune in Virgo. Venus in Virgo is looking for the perfect pleasure. Neptune in Virgo spiritualizes perfection and sees perfection in whatever is worshiped.

Lennon and Ono split up for a year in 1974, while Pluto was transiting his Mars in Libra. They were together until his death in December 1980 when Pluto had just moved into his 7th house of partnership, the house ruled by Libra.

If the Astrotheme chart is correct, most of Lennon’s fame and public life occurred with Pluto transiting the 6th house, the house of work, health and service.

What an odd house of emphasis for a period of intense rock stardom!

Did Lennon transform work, making rock stardom a valid work path? Was he secretly ill? Was his transform regarding service?

What Transformed in Lennon?

Taking the 6th house to a higher level via Barbara Hand Clow in “Alchemy of Nine Dimensions,” the 6th house is “be here now” while the opposite 12th house is “bliss.”

In the mid to late 1960s, at the height of his fame and meeting of Ono, Pluto and Uranus were both transiting Virgo and opposite a transiting Saturn in Pisces.

Natal Neptune, which was in Lennon’s 6th house, happens to rule the opposite 12th house. Neptune in the 6th can indicate mental health problems of the sort where what one calls “reality” is not the “reality” of those around us. While we all have different perceptions of reality, Neptune can bring visions, hallucinations and all kinds of vague fears and anxieties.

Was Lennon’s transformation deep in the realm of perception? While it seemed that Lennon went from poor Liverpool orphan transformed into drug-using, guru-worshiping rock star, maybe the transformation was from a separate personal reality into a shared social consciousness? Maybe when he appeared to go crazy, he was actually connecting to others for the first time?

Did he transform from garden-variety rebel to spokesperson for a generation’s spiritual longing? If he did, was he aware of his role or riding the waves of a strong current?

Lennon’s chart had only one planet in water – Mercury in Scorpio. Neptune in the 1960s was transiting Scorpio, bringing, to Lennon and others, open talk of sex and intimate feelings.

Lack of water is lack of understanding in the feeling realm. Air, in contrast, can follow the zeitgeist but in an intellectual way, without understanding that what people say and their true motivations are not always equivalent. Lack of water has difficulty both experiencing and expressing feelings. Air relates through shared ideas, not shared emotions.

The Mystery of Transformation

Most of us try to bring what’s inside of us out to share with others. When we go through difficult or unusual times in life, it can be difficult to explain one’s experiences.

Lennon appeared to be a man transformed, ostensibly through his meeting of an eccentric foreigner, but I’m guessing Lennon always had a Yoko Ono within, the bread that could be created from the strands of Liverpool wheat.

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Scorpio is Coming to the Vice Presidential Debate

Posted on October 7, 2012 by ohioastrology

Every four years I’m reminded of a very important fact – the United States has a Vice President.

I’m sure it’s a job that’s harder than it looks, but I’m still considering a run for Vice President for four years of low-profile career trajection that not only pays well, but provides the leap into the world of high-paid public speaking events for the duration of my career life.

I just need four years – no more. I’m willing to support (almost) any cause for this opportunity.

In honor of the Vice Presidential low profile, the current Democratic Veep, Joe Biden, will debate the Republican Veep contender Paul Ryan this Thursday, October 11.

There was a time in US politics when the Veep was elected independently of the President causing wee bit of a problem if the Veep didn’t sync of philosophically with the President. But that is no longer, so the Veep is one of a partnership and must be assessed in terms of his (or her) ability to run our country should the President be unable to fulfill the duty.

Let’s take a peek at the swirling energies that will envelop our Veep wannabeeees this October 11.

October 11

We’ve had one major planetary shift since the Presidential debate – Saturn has moved into Scorpio. Saturn will be conjunct Mercury on the 11th so this will be one serious debate. I’m not sure it can be more boring than the first presidential debate where Barack Obama appeared to be on Valium, but I suppose electing our leaders should be serious.

Saturn in Scorpio will charge a T-square in Ryan’s chart (Saturn in Taurus, Jupiter in Scorpio, and possibly moon, and sun/Venus in Aquarius) and oppose Biden’s moon in Taurus. Saturn has yet to pass over Biden’s stellium (Mars, Mercury, sun and Venus) in Scorpio.

Taurus and Scorpio – the conversation will probably teeter-totter between these two general subjects:

  1. Attack on sources of campaign contributions
  2. Attack on past unseemly behavior

Now that should be fun!

Both the moon and Venus will be in Virgo. We may see a return of the Obama “let’s read the grocery list to you” debate style.

We may also get even more “did not – did too” type of childlike back and forth. But this is usual in what the US calls a political “debate,” moon in Virgo or not. But we might see some real testiness in this one.

Biden will probably be the feistier one with transiting Mars in Sagittarius and transiting Jupiter in Gemini opposing Biden’s natal Saturn/Uranus in Gemini. He may appear to have ants in his pants.

That same transit will affect Ryan’s Neptune in Sagittarius so we may hear Ryan talk about a mission and things lofty. He will probably be the first one to say something like, “People don’t want to hear us criticize each other’s teeny-tiny details (Virgo), they want us to talk about our vision and beliefs (Sagittarius).”

It makes me wonder if Newt Gingrich isn’t prepping Ryan – during the Republican debates in the middle of nit-picking back and forths, Gingrich would often step back and claim to have higher thoughts to share.

With transiting Mars (in Sagittarius) in T-square with moon (in Virgo) and Neptune (in Pisces), the Vice Presidential debate may produce some mutable sign imaginative utterances, of the sort that make it onto bumper stickers.

Let’s hope so – saying unpredictable and ridiculous things CREATES JOBS for T-shirt makers, bumper sticker creators and the owners of and advertisers on YouTube. If both men truly care about the economy, they will consider the business produced by each gaffe (which would be fun to quantify).

Let’s hope that Mars in Sagittarius trumps serious Saturn in Scorpio and anxious moon in Virgo and creates some risky and fun behavior that enlightens, entertains and also improves the economy.

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Attachment

Posted on October 6, 2012 by ohioastrology

I can’t let go of the idea of writing about attachment, as great a subject as it is. I’m thinking of it both in the common meaning of attachment and the Buddhist idea of attachment.

If I understand the Buddhists correctly, we all are attached to the senses, of which there are six – taste, touch, smell, sight, sound and object of thought.

Object of thought?

The “sixth sense” that we in the West colloquially use to mean intuition or sudden, non-logical insight, is not the sixth sense of Buddhism.

If the Buddhists are trying to get us to detachment from all senses and objects of thought, then we need to detach from the world as we know it.

That’s a bit scary.

Where does astrology fit in? For me it’s the metadata of “objects of thought.” It’s the library catalog that describes all the books in the library. The “library” contains the objects of thought. Astrology is the metadata of metadata because it categorizes at the most basic level.

Fearing astrology, then, is like fearing the library card catalog. Who fears that?

For me, astrological prediction is simply having fun with the metadata. If we know a person well (their personality), we pretty much know how that person will respond in a given situation. Astrology is just peeking into a personality without personally knowing that person.

Metadata of attachment

If astrology functions as the metadata of all that we experience, then, for me, the Taurus-Scorpio axis (two signs that are 180 degrees apart in the zodiac and represent a polarity) represents attachment as we understand it in the more colloquial sense. Dictionary.com defines attachment as “a feeling that binds one to a person, thing, cause, ideal, or the like; devotion; regard.”

Attachment is binding and the binding can be to something physical (person or thing) or non-physical (idea).

As Saturn enters the sign of Scorpio, it’s a good time to think about attachment as the things we are attached to might transform into things we can no longer have.

Taurus-Scorpio Axis

Taurus is the fixed, earth sign, strong and steady. What I love about Taurus is how it accepts things as they are and does not struggle with the essence of what is.

An example is how some folks come to your house and sit in your chair and visit while others sit in your chair and comment that you can find a different, better-in-some-way, chair at this-and-that place. Taurus accepts the chair while others react and want to change the chair.

Taurus is traditionally associated with money earned by self, values and physical property. Because of that, Taurus can be viewed as materialistic, focused on objects (as opposed to persons and feelings).

The opposite of Taurus is Scorpio, which is the fixed water sign. Scorpio is traditionally associated with money shared with others, sex, death, inheritance and regeneration.

What I love about Scorpio is its emotional honesty and focused drive. Scorpio teaches me that I can get what I want if I focus with honest intent.

If Taurus is attached to material objects, Scorpio is attached to emotional objects.

In the extreme, I think of the Taurus-Scorpio polarity as the hoarder-stalker polarity. I’ve wondered why we are so interested in reality shows about hoarding – maybe we’re collectively working through Taurus-Scorpio issues?

Maybe as Saturn enters Scorpio we can look away from the TV toward ourselves and see what we’re hoarding? Maybe I don’t have a house full of “stuff” but maybe I have a head full of “stuff” or an emotional side full of “stuff?”

US elections occur during the sign of Scorpio which explains the intensity of the reaction to others’ ideas. What’s interesting is how few of the campaign ideas make it into Taurus, physical, reality. It’s also interesting how we seem to have decided in the US that we must have two parties that have opposite position on ideas.

Is it truly necessary to create this duality?

Saturn in Scorpio affects each of us differently, based upon our natal horoscopes. Planets beyond Mars, however, relate to shared energies, the energies of time and place (such as the energy of an upcoming election during bad economic times).

The Scorpio area of your chart (called a house) can give insight into areas where you are most attached. Pluto’s (which rules Scorpio) placement in your chart can give insight into areas where you will be forced to let go of attachments.

Saturn will be in Scorpio for about two and a half years.

Happy detaching!

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Ohio Astrology Presidential Debate Prep Sheet

Posted on September 29, 2012 by ohioastrology

Back in Byzantium in the mid 400s and early 500s, a debate raged about whether Christ was both human and divine or just divine. The belief that Christ was just divine is called monophysitism.

[All references to Byzantium are from John Julius Norwich’s “A Short History of Byzantium.“]

By the time of the great ruler Justinian in the early 500s, the populace had divided into two factions – the Blues and the Greens. Blue and green originally represented, according to Norwich, the colors worn by the two principal teams of charioteers.

Norwich later writes that the Blues “tended to be the party of big landowners and the old Graeco-Roman aristocracy while the Greens represented trade, industry and civil service.”

Norwich later writes that the Blues “had gradually come to be loosely associated with religious orthodoxy, the Greens with monophysitism.”

Two political parties, represented by colors, defined by wealth, work and religion –

Sound familiar?

Unlike today, the Blues and Greens united after Justinian’s new tax collector decided to strictly enforce the rules.

The Blues and Greens united in what was called the Nika Revolt. Unfortunately for the united Blues and Greens (does that make purple or an icky dark gray?), they were ambushed and quashed.

In Byzantium, divided they stood and united they fell.

Justinian had considered fleeing the angry mobs, but his infamous wife, Theordora, talked him out of it as an emperor should never be a fugitive. In the last line of a quote from Theodora on the matter she says, “As for me, I stand by the ancient saying; the purple is the noblest winding sheet.”

October 3 Presidential Debate

Speaking of political parties represented by colors (Blue States and Red States), divided by wealth, work and religion, the first 2012 US Presidential Debate between Democrat President Barack Obama and Republican contender Mitt Romney occurs this Wednesday, October 3.

OHA, as always, helps where it can and has spent several minutes putting together this very thorough astrological prep sheet. OHA will turn away from Byzantine political treachery and seek the most positive manifestation of energy for each of these powerful, successful and dynamic men.

We mustn’t forget that running for president is like the Olympics – regardless of each man’s slip ups and foibles, it takes a very strong person to make it as far as each has.

October 3 Astrological Placements

Wednesday, October 3 has a very interesting mix of placements. The sun is in Libra with a wide T-square with Uranus in Aries and Pluto in Capricorn.

The moon in Taurus is opposite Mars in Scorpio.

Venus in zero degrees of Virgo is opposite Neptune in zero degrees of Pisces.

Mercury is conjunct Saturn in the late degrees of Libra.

Jupiter in Gemini is wandering off on its own a bit – it trines the sun but is off by degree from many of the other planets.

Do’s and Don’ts – Barack Obama [using Aquarius rising chart]

Do put on that Gemini moon butterfly sociability while Jupiter is lending a hand. But don’t talk too fast or lay on too many details to overwhelm the crowd.

Do take care of the throat. With moon in Taurus in the 3rd, you may have a sore throat. We’re not smoking again, are we?

Do wear something sexy, as transiting Mars conjuncts Neptune in Scorpio in the 9th.

Don’t let the nasty transiting T-square (Uranus in Aries, Pluto in Capricorn, sun in Libra) which affects the 11th – 2nd – 8th compulse you to talk in terms of “haves” and “have nots.” It’s a tension, but not a release.

Do’s and Don’ts – Mitt Romney [using Gemini rising chart]

Do let go of ideas of what your parents are thinking. The Venus (in Virgo) and Neptune (in Pisces) opposition is at the very edge of the 4th and 10th houses. Instead of thinking about parents, think about you and society.

Do let Jupiter transiting your natal Uranus in Gemini allow you to have some fun! If you say something wrong, just laugh at it.

Do show your Scorpio moon passion while Mars is transiting and not think you have to be a more placid moon in Taurus type person.

Don’t let the nasty transiting T-square (Uranus in Aries, Pluto in Capricorn, sun in Libra) which affects the 5th – 8th – 11th draw you into a response about “haves” and “have nots.” Talk in terms of the 5th house self-expression and 8th & 11th house sharing.

Tie Color

Now we know the astrology but we won’t know tie colors until the night of the debate.

Will the men wear Democrat blue (state) or Republican red (state)?

United States flag red, white and blue?

Power red?

Throat chakra electric blue?

Byzantine emperor purple?

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Where’s George?

Posted on September 23, 2012 by ohioastrology

Successful business people and politicians seem to never want to retire. If I had the money of some of these folks, the only place you’d find me is on the beach.

It makes sense, really, that the successful don’t rest – if they did, they wouldn’t be successful. (I’m also not surprised at the rumor that investor Warren Buffett is a penny-pincher).

But it is an election season and I have to ask: Where’s George?

That’s George W. Bush.

We’ve heard from Jeb Bush, George H. W. Bush but not our 43rd president, George W. Bush.

We didn’t hear from him much before he was president so I shouldn’t be surprised that we don’t hear much from him post-presidency. He very well may be enjoying a political-free life.

But it’s still odd that he’s not on my TV screen cheering loudly for Mitt Romney.

Makes me wonder.

What’s Up with George?

According to this Astrotheme chart, Bush has sun and Saturn in Cancer in the 12th house, Neptune, moon and Jupiter in Libra in the 3rd.

Let’s start there. For the past two and a half years, Saturn has been transiting Libra. Saturn passed over Bush’s planets in Libra making a square to the 12th house Cancer planets.

This Saturn transit suggests family and relationship problems. A 12th house sun, especially in the sensitive Cancer, is never one to air dirty laundry in public (thank you).

Cancer and Libra are both relationship oriented; that means they need to feel secure in partnership and family life before launching on any adventure for the self.

Libra is often one to marry young to the consternation of parents. But I think we all have to be what we are and Libra likes to connect with a partner first and then is able to focus on the world.

We all seek partners, but it’s not always a prerequisite to initiate other areas of life.

Pluto transiting Capricorn is not yet opposing Bush’s sun in Cancer. It will begin opposition at the beginning of 2014 from the 6th house of health and work. Pluto has just entered Bush’s 6th house of health.

It’s possible there is illness in his family; Capricorn rules skin, teeth and bones so it may possibly be something affecting those areas.

Jupiter is currently transiting Gemini conjunct Bush’s Uranus in Gemini in the 11th and square Mars in Virgo in the 2nd.

Combined with the 6th house Pluto transit, there could be some money problems relating to factory or worker-related issues.

Bush’s chart is self-oriented, with planets all sectioned in the left hemisphere, which is called a Bowl Type horoscope.

The three outer planets – Uranus, Neptune and Pluto are all on the right hemisphere of the chart suggesting that external events will intrude upon the private, family-oriented Bush.

Pluto, I’ve already mentioned. Neptune is in the 8th house of money (shared with others), taxes, sexual relationships, and inheritance. Uranus is in the 9th house of long-distance travel, philosophy and world view.

Saturn leaves Libra in a couple weeks and enters Scorpio. When it does, it will be at the very bottom of Bush’s horoscope, an anchor into 4th house of family, personal emotions and parenting. In the sign of Scorpio, which rules the 8th house, there may be problems with family assets.

Where’s George?

Bush appears to be busy with issues that consume most of us – family, work and money. I get the sense that the issue is with those around him as transiting Uranus (in Aries) is opposing natal Neptune (in Libra).

Aries is not quiet about its needs. As Uranus gets near the Bush’s midheaven in the next few years, we may hear more from him.

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