Steve Stivers and the Sunrise

Posted on September 12, 2012 by ohioastrology

My sweet tuxedo cat, Lacy, thought that I took the sun with me to work. I asked why.

“Because when you leave in the morning, the sun is in the front door. When you come home at night, it’s in the backyard where we sit.”

I explained to Lacy that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west – it’s merely a coincidence that the front door faces east and the back door faces west.

Lacy twitched her nose in disbelief.

“Does Steve Stivers have something to do with the sunrise?” she asked.

Huh?

Lacy told me about the new TV commercial for Stivers, Ohio 15th District candidate, which opens with:

“It’s morning in Ohio. A National Guard Colonel, Steve Stivers, is reminded daily the sacrifice made to keep the sun rising over our nation.”

Explaining Political Hyperbole to Your Cat

It took a few minutes and an old astronomy textbook to explain that Stivers doesn’t make or help the sun rise.

“So why did he say that?” she asked while licking her left foot.

“It’s called hyperbole,” I explained. “All politicians use hyperbole during the election. He simply wants to say he believes in defending our nation.”

“Do all politicians say they keep the sun rising?”

“Maybe Stivers went a little far,” I pondered, “because he has sun in Aries. His moon could be in either Sagittarius or Capricorn. Sagittarius would suggest out-of-control hyperbole (among other out-of-control activities) while moon in Capricorn would suggest extreme reverence for authority. If he does have sun in Aries and moon in Capricorn, then he very well might be a one-man military.”

“So he could keep the sun rising if he wanted?”

My kitty is a little slow at times.

“Maybe,” I conceded, patiently. “The commercial has a lot of coffee in it, so he maybe he keeps the sun rising over Mexico and Guatemala as well.”

“I like the sun, and Stivers,” Lacy said, yellow eyes staring in challenge. This is typical of her. She likes to play devil’s advocate in political conversation, taking the opposite view of her partner.

“I like the sun, too,” Lacy, “but Stivers might want to be careful with the sun hyperbole and stick to his record of sponsoring job fairs or something more practical.

It’s a lot sunnier in Iraq than in the 15th District of Ohio.”

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The Mark of a Politician

Posted on September 11, 2012 by ohioastrology

When I was younger, it was common to hear the saying, “Behind every successful man there is a woman.”

That woman, supposedly, was the successful man’s wife.

First Ladies First

This article “Why Are Presidential Candidates’ Wives All the Same?” rekindled my thoughts on this subject in the political realm. As as aside, I think the article is brilliant and the last line of this paragraph is quite profound to me:

“In fact, this narrative has become a sort of fool-proof formula for contemporary presidential candidate’s wives since Laura Bush perfected it in 2000. After the damaging image of a power-mad Hillary Clinton, spousal reluctance has become a requirement, a kind of necessary modesty. That it’s so pervasive, despite the nagging voices in the back of our heads telling us it’s all PR, says a lot about what we still believe, or want to believe, about the modern first lady—how much we expect of her, and how little.”

The “how much” is passive femininity, which the author describes in detail, and the “how little” is any self-assertion or love of the dirty, nasty fight called politics.

Yet, as the author points out, many first ladies and first-lady contenders are as tough as nails but when they show it, à la Hillary Clinton, they get in trouble.

So is it true that behind every successful politician is a strong wife?

The Mark of a Politician

While politicians often describe themselves as “public servants” and strive to evoke our high school textbook images of 18th century intellectual lovers of freedom, a quick glance at the horoscopes of high political candidates points to something else.

While it’s not always there in a horoscope, I see it often enough to consider it the mark of a politician, at least one who makes it to the top of a political mountain – hard moon-Pluto contacts.

By hard, I mean the opposition, conjunction or square to the moon.

Both President Barack Obama and Republican opponent Mitt Romney have moon-Pluto square. For Obama, it’s moon in Gemini and Pluto in Virgo. For Romney, it’s moon in Scorpio and Pluto (and Saturn!) in Leo. Romney’s “square” is a wide aspect and some astrologers would disregard it. For me, the energies are still square albeit in wide aspect.

Romney also has moon in Scorpio which is ruled by Pluto. Moon in Scorpio is similar in effect.

What does moon square Pluto mean and why are these folks drawn to politics?

Moon-Pluto Hard Aspects

The moon represents are reactive state, our emotions. Pluto is rules transformation and evolution and often is involved in power, from personal to political.

From the blogosphere, here are some excerpts on moon-Pluto hard aspects.

Café Astrology

“Emotional satisfaction for you runs deep and is very complex. You yearn for intensity, but at the same time you may fear your own emotional nature, leading you to take great pains to keep it under wraps. Compulsiveness is a byproduct, and you find yourself easily swayed by your emotional yearnings and desires. The desire to merge with another human being is strong, yet can also be a fear at the same time.

It is very possible that you were especially sensitive to your maternal figure’s emotions, and picked up on her feelings of being overpowered, overwhelmed, resentful, or mistrustful. A strong love-hate attachment to her, or crises surrounding your experience of her, may be something that you live with and it could be undermining you in some manner. Some people with this aspect feel the need for early independence from their mother or families in order to feel released from the intense and conflicting emotions they attach to them. However, removing themselves entirely from the problem may not be a healthy, long-term answer on a psychological level. At some point, confronting early childhood conditioning is a necessary process. You may find that you can use music as a means by which you can express and release the emotional drama inside of you.”

Dark Star Astrology

“Moon square Pluto is probably one of the most intense and hungry moon aspects you can have. This is the raging Kali archetype par excellence. Moon square Pluto can be the product of an obsessive, possessive mother or be obsessed with being a mother. In some cases (The West’s, Kenisha Berry) the mother as destroyer can be literal. The moment HMS Titanic struck the Plutonic iceberg the Moon was square Pluto (63′). How symbolic of this aspect, the great ship weighed down by her treasures, plunged deep into the underworld with the loss of so many lives.”

The Strange House

“Intimate relationships may be difficult, with emotions intense and extreme. An atmosphere of emotional brooding may surround you; and others may prefer to withdraw as they sense elemental danger.

Needs for control influence choices and actions; you believe your environment and emotions need controlling to avoid ‘threats’ from others. This increases your preference for relationship dominance, often demanding that others acquiesce to [your] desires and wishes, yet this will inevitably imbalance relationships. You intend to rule, and will never willingly be submissive. If [forced] to do so by partner or employer, you will later try to undermine their dominance by subversive efforts to regain control. You can react almost violently toward anyone trying to change you, and may deliberately act in more extreme ways when displaying the behaviour that another hopes to change.”

Controlling the Environment

Moon-Pluto folks have a compulsive need to control the environment. My own belief is that Pluto-moon can indicate a psychic invasion which creates the response of constant vigilance and control, the same way you would check the locks on the door several times each night after your house had been robbed.

The moon’s involvement means the invasion is from the mother or other females. Liz Greene first introduced me to the concept of the “devouring mother” which is what moon-Pluto can describe to others, even in a non-mothering role.

Controlling the environment can take many forms – controlling the money, controlling the power (politics) or controlling the emotions.

And what’s the best way to control others through emotions?

For me, it’s guilt. I think moon-Pluto and moon-Saturn can be manipulated by or manipulate others through guilt.

Is there a strong woman behind every successful man?

If there is, it’s probably the mother who created political drive in her son.

What’s interesting, to me, is how strong woman in politics are often seen as threatening and must hide behind more traditional and softer images of femininity.

Is this what’s occurring on the US political stage? Rule by moon-Pluto men and subsequent attack on strong women because they feel like the devouring mother?

This reminds me of Bill Clinton who embarrassed his strong wife on the public stage. What was that about? Clinton, surprise, also has a moon-Pluto square.

Maybe Republican Veep candidate Paul Ryan can help. He’s the only one of the four men running for the White House without the moon-Pluto square (Joe Biden the moon-Pluto square), if he was born before afternoon. If he was born in the late afternoon or evening, his moon would be in Scorpio, and we’d be back to the Pluto influence.

Pluto help us!

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What sign of the zodiac are alcoholic beverages?

Posted on September 8, 2012 by ohioastrology

Alcoholic beverages, according to this Wikipedia article, are grouped into three general classes: beer, wine and spirits.

Wikipedia calls alcohol in beverages a “psychoactive drug” that alters perception, mood, consciousness, cognition and behavior.

What planet does that?

Neptune is the planet that “alters perception” when it passes over or makes aspect to another planet. Neptune is associated with foggy or unclear states – the kind of state where you fall in love with a frog and the kind of states where you sell roses 15 hours a day for a guru who lives in a mansion.

Neptune clearly rules “beer goggles.”

Goggles are the perfect image of Neptune – we can see, but we see through a think layer of glass, plastic stuff.

What is the stuff we’re looking through?

I don’t think it’s simply our psychological stuff – that would be the moon. I think Neptune rules the fourth dimensional “stuff” of all that we collectively see, feel and believe. If we’re a culture that believes in fairies, that is part of fourth dimensional stuff. If we’re a culture that believes in technology, likewise that is part of the fourth dimensional stuff.

Even if you don’t personally believe in “the stuff,” it hangs around the environment like pot smoke and may still give you a contact buzz.

Pisces

Neptune is the planet rules the sign of Pisces, the two fish swimming in opposite directions. Pisces is emotional, sensitive and empathetic.

Empathy evokes images of morality yet Pisces is empathetic whether it wants to be or not because it has no psychic skin between itself and the world. Don’t think all Pisces are able to help you simply because they truly feel your pain.

With no skin between itself and others, Pisces goes with the flow and can be pure water flowing from the mountain to the ocean or polluted water flowing from a toilet to a sewer.

Pisces needs to choose its water carefully because whatever water it swims in, it becomes.

Alcohol by rising sign

While the three categories of alcoholic beverages all provide the same effect in varying degrees, each has its own “culture,” which delights me to no end. It’s a “psychoactive drug” with a story.

Let’s have some fun and assign each classification a rising sign (ascendant in the horoscope) that describes how it presents itself to the world.

Beer is associated with the average Joe, the guy sitting at the bar watching the sports game. It is consumed at sports events is often the subject of sports-events’ commercials and relates to joining the gang. Beer is for everyone and has no class or caste system.

Beer’s rising sign can be Aquarius, the sign of the humanitarian. Even if Aquarius can’t stand the taste of beer, it would drink it to prove camaraderie.

Wine is associated with “culture” itself which likes to attach itself to the country of France quite often. Seeing the drunken, vomiting and goggled state of inebriation as something beautiful is clearly in the realm of Libra.

Libra is ruled by Venus and rules pleasure, beauty and art and brings these impulses to wine. Libra hangs a picture in the stockroom, brings a table cloth to the picnic and puts candles on the kitchen table.

Spirits are tricky to me. There are so many spirits, each with different images. Absolut drinkers and Wild Turkey drinkers evoke way different images. Hmm. I need help, dear reader, with spirits. Maybe spirits should be sub-categorized:

  • Whisky is associated with rough types, hunting men and a shot that takes away the pain of the day. I’ll brand whisky a Scorpio because whisky drinking involves serious business.
  • Vodka is associated with what? I don’t drink enough to know but see it in Ohio as between wine and whisky in terms of seriousness and intensity. I’ll brand it, for the moment, a social spirit and will honor it for the time as Gemini, the sign of the social butterfly.
  • Brandy is both a romantic and girly drink. I don’t think, but am not sure, that two men after work will go for a brandy. What’s sweet and comforting? I’ll go with Cancer on this one, which I also think rules ice cream.
  • Rum is from sugarcane and the Latin and South American countries. Since rum is associated with those cultures and fun, good times, I’ll brand it a Leo, a sign preferred by Latin and South American rulers.
  • Tequila is from Mexico which is a Virgo country. I can’t imagine Virgo ruling any alcoholic beverage, but what the heck, let’s invite Virgo to the party, even if it’s a teetotaler.

Then there is the drink of Drinks:

Martinis are associated with business lunches, advertising executives and success. Martinis, then, might be represented by Capricorn.

Now a big question remains – what rising sign to have after dinner tonight?

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Scorpio Mud Slinging: Not Just for Politicians

Posted on September 7, 2012 by ohioastrology

My 12th grade political science teacher told me all I think there is to know about politics. I quote Mr. Silverman:

“Politics is power and it’s all about whose ox is being gored.”

It’s funny how you can learn the truth so early in life yet search for years for answers, in this case, for political answers.

Sports and Political Fervor

As the US election nears, I’m seeing more political talk on my social media. Political fervor reminds me a lot of sports fervor, such as with American football.

If I’m watching, say, an Ohio State University game and happen to be an Ohio State University alumnus, it is assumed I am rooting for “my team,” the Buckeyes. If I root for, say, The University of Michigan Wolverines, I will get both angry stares and possibly hostile responses.

If I root for the Wolverines, no one will call me “open minded.” If I root for Ohio State University, no one will call me “narrow minded.”

Yet when we make our political choices, it’s like we’ve picked a sports team and the opposing team hates us by default. It’s important to remember in the US we usually have only two viable choices and many like neither but still exercise their right to vote.

You have to vote for someone, right?

Politics, of course, is far more important than sports. If I root for the Wolverines, no one is going to take away my right to a fair trial or cutoff my only form of sustenance during a Great Depression.

I’m starting to understand why the US elections are held in the sign of Scorpio and am feeling the current Mars in Scorpio transit and am beginning to dread, just a bit, Saturn’s two-year transit of Scorpio that begins on October 5.

Scorpio – Life and Death

Scorpio is a fixed water sign. Fixed means steady in behavior and belief. Water means emotion. The combination creates an emotionally intense, sensitive, never-forget-a-slight personality who treats most matters as ones of life and death. Scorpio understands the motivations of others and is always looking under the surface.

Scorpio loves and Scorpio hates. In response, Scorpios are often loved or hated.

Sound like politics?

When we love our sports team or our political party, any disagreement is like an insult to one’s child – the response is quick and hostile. You can insult a person much more easily than his or her child which brings out a visceral protective and emotional response.

Mars in Scorpio this month has heightened and brought out early the natural intensity of the US election process, what is often called “mud slinging.” It’s going to be a nasty one.

But who’s being nasty? We complain it’s the politicians but I fear we have our own inner mud to release and politics is simply the way to do this, much like how people watch horror movies to release fear.

But politics is real, you say!

I agree and there is a segment of the population that is always engaged in politics. But the discussion of abortion and attendant anger and hostility we have every four years for many will recede the second week of November as the election passes and the holiday season begins.

The election is like a fight in the middle of the school yard – you have to go look. And when you become a spectator, you become involved. You might even root for one of the fighters, yelling their name and shaking your fist.

Letting Go

When you love or hate something intensely, you create attachment.

The lesson for the intense Scorpio is letting go, in hatred for sure, but sometimes in love too. Letting go has a religious term which is called forgiveness. I think forgiveness is emphasized in religion as it releases a person from his or her own emotional prison. It may also help the object of resentment, too, but I think ultimately helps the person doing the forgiving.

When Scorpio doesn’t let go, it falls into a default mode of obsession – that’s what you get when you mix a fixed mode with a water element.

There’s a line from an episode The Big Bang Theory I enjoy which relates to this. The character Sheldon is obsessed with hatred for Wil Wheaton, who is on the opposing bowling team. Wil Wheaton points at Sheldon’s head and says that is where he, Wil Wheaton, is “living rent free.”

Our obsessions allow others to live “rent free” on our energy.

Two More Years

The Scorpio energy originating now will move from an aggressive form (Mars) to a more constricted form (Saturn) for the next two years.

Whoever wins will have to deal with an obsessed, possibly depressed but inevitably emotional environment. While this energy can’t tell me who will win the election, it feels a lot more like Mitt Romney, Pisces sun and Scorpio moon, than Barack Obama, Leo sun and Gemini moon.

The Mud Slinger in All of Us

Scorpio is a sign that likes to dig in the mud to see what it can find. That makes Scorpio the ultimate detective.

The US elections occur during Scorpio and seem to represent a time of digging into others’ mud as well as our own.

Don’t forget that the other event that occurs in Scorpio is Halloween, a holiday where we dress up as ghouls and goblins and knock on people’s door asking for candy.

Sounds a little like politics too, doesn’t it?

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Henry Rollins: Rebellion Times Two

Posted on September 4, 2012 by ohioastrology

What’s the most rebellious sign of the zodiac? For me, rebelliousness is independence with a bumper sticker. One of my votes for most independent sign goes to Aquarius (Sagittarius ranks high too).

What if you have both sun and moon in Aquarius?

That makes you independent to the point you might want to move to Uranus (the planet that rules Aquarius). I think it was Jeanne Avery who said of Aquarius that it’s the sign that says, “Stop the world and let me off.”

To Aquarius, the world is a nutty place. To the world, Aquarius is the weird one.

What do you think?

Henry Rollins

Henry Rollins, former lead singer of the band Black Flag, has sun and moon in Aquarius. His moon could be in Pisces, but his intensity suggests that he has a double dose of a fixed sign (Aquarius is fixed air).

[Painting by J. Gray]

What Rollins also has is the 1961 conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn in Capricorn. Folks with this aspect seem to sway toward 1) following the rules 100 percent or 2) not following the rules 100 percent.

Why?

Jupiter is social convention. Saturn represents the rules that uphold the convention. In Capricorn, these individuals grew up hearing, “This is how you SHOULD do things,” and “What will the neighbors think?”

In response, sensitive souls with sun in Cancer or Pisces might very well alter their lives to the liking of the neighbors. Those born under more rebellious signs, say Aquarius, smash the neighbors’ Halloween pumpkin and steal their lawn ornaments in response.

By the way, the band “Smashing Pumpkins” was formed by a man with the 1967 Uranus/Pluto opposite Saturn aspect – another “stick it to the man” formation in the skies.

Rollins has two planets in Aquarius and two in Capricorn; neither sign near what is called “emotional.” Rollins has some ideas for a better society and you ought to listen. If you don’t, he will simply repeat it for you – again and again.

But he’s not totally unemotional under those tattoos – Rollins also happens to have a grand water trine with Mars in Cancer, Neptune in Scorpio and Mercury in Pisces. He’s driven by emotions but swayed by logic and reason.

Venus in Aries is, for me, the image I most see when looking at a photo of Rollins – intense, physical, sexy aggression – the kind of aggression that separates the men from the boys.

Lastly we have Uranus in Leo and Pluto in Virgo. Pluto in Virgo came to clean up the planet, make us give up Styrofoam cups and is the Official Planetary Sponsor of hand sanitizer.

Uranus in Leo opposes Rollins’ sun in Aquarius adding a slightly quirky edge to an already weird and unique personality.

I wonder if Rollins is trying to get his ship to beam him off this crazy planet?

As Pluto transits Capricorn for the next 20 years, Rollins may find that the world finally knows what he’s been talking about his whole life.

Uranus transiting Aries is tromping on his love life – sudden changes will occur.

Neptune in Pisces is moving toward Rollins’ Mercury in Pisces making an already misunderstood person a little more obtuse. However, as Neptune continues in its own sign, more people will understand what Rollins is on about.

Oh, to be understood – finally!

Now the big question for Rollins – can he handle being understood? What do you do when people finally start to get it?

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The Astrology of Diamond Wedding Rings

Posted on September 4, 2012 by ohioastrology

This blog on “Venus Square Saturn: Love the Rock” made me think of diamond wedding rings. They represent, ostensibly, love, and they are also called “a rock” as in, look at that rock on her finger!

When you marry, in the United States, you complete paperwork and buy the female (in the  heterosexual version of marriage) a ring, for most a diamond ring. These two elements – wood (paper) and earth (rock) are what makes hanging out with another person and, maybe, having sex with them, into a Marriage.

I remember in the mini-series “Roots” the slaves jumping over a broom to make official the marriage. Brooms are wood.

The day before you get married and the day after are the same – you are two separate individuals. The marriage is in the commitment.

The ring and paperwork are symbols of the physical, spiritual and emotional commitment. Earth and wood are part of earth and the symbols of marriage relate to earth.

Really, you can’t make another person play by any rules unless you tie them to you physically with rope (i.e., the old ball and chain) or lock them in a room (as some do).

The rock, the diamond, represents the crystallization, the grounding, of the relationship into a marriage. The diamond represents making the intangible tangible.

What sign does that?

Saturn

Those beginning their study of astrology might learn that the planet Saturn was the ancient Great Malefic, creating burden, responsibility and duty. Just when you learned to dislike him, some astrologer comes by and tells you that without a strong Saturn connection between you and your loved one, marriage might never occur.

Saturn is the three-dimensional world of matter. Turning the feelings of two individuals into a “marriage” is Saturn.

Saturn rules the sign of Capricorn. Capricorn loves marriage in the same way it loves all rules and institutions military, political and religious in addition to Hoyle’s Rules of Games and Robert’s Rules of Order.

Venus is the planet that rules pleasure, which includes love, a great pleasure. When Venus is in Capricorn in a person’s chart, pleasure involves concrete, tangible items. In Capricorn (as opposed to the other earth signs of Taurus and Virgo), the tangible items ideally represent status and position.

Venus in Capricorn evokes for me the image of the diamond wedding ring.

When I saw the blog title, “Venus Square Saturn: Love the Rock,” I thought immediately of a diamond wedding ring. The blogger fears that Venus square Saturn will ruin the night’s date. Maybe the blogger will be surprised that the evening’s date might have a diamond ring attached, or a request for commitment. I’ll have to check in to see how Venus square Saturn played out.

Without Saturn, it’s just a date.

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The Tornado – America’s National Storm

Posted on September 3, 2012 by ohioastrology

At lunch the other day, my co-workers were talking about tornadoes and asking a European at the table about tornadoes in Europe. It seems there are few twisters on the Continent.

Are tornadoes uniquely American, I wondered?

My Google search revealed that tornadoes can occur anywhere in the world but the Continental United States has the majority although Bangladesh may have more per square mile and has had some of the worst. Who’d have thought that the United States and Bangladesh had anything in common?

The United States

The United States has sun in Cancer (water) and moon in Aquarius (air). Tornadoes, swirling wind, develop in “warm, most air.”

The Cancer is the warm, moist air and the Aquarius is the wind, the wind that can pick up your car and move it hundreds of feet away.

Aquarius is fixed air, the air of idealism and brotherhood. Swirling air seems more like Gemini, the sign some consider the rising sign for the July 4, 1776 chart. The U.S. does have Mars in Gemini.

Interestingly, current U.S. military intervention often begins (or is only) in the air, with military aircraft dropping bombs.

Bangladesh

Bangladesh was formed on March 26, 1971 when it split from Pakistan. That puts sun in Aries (fire) and moon in Pisces (water).

There’s not much air in the chart except for Uranus in Libra opposite the sun in Aries and Venus in Aquarius.

Fire and water together – what does that make?

Petroleum? This Wikipedia article calls it a “flammable liquid.” Sounds like fire and water to me. Bangladesh does have petroleum.

(I found this lovely fireplace site while searching).

In addition to tornadoes, Bangladesh seems to have its share of floods, cyclones and monsoons, all great water in the spirit of Pisces, the ocean.

Pisces seems to want to engulf Bangladesh.

The current square of transiting Pluto in Capricorn with Uranus in Aries is sitting right on top of Bangladesh’s sun in Aries square Mars in Capricorn.

Will there be another revolution in Bangladesh? Aries is independence and Capricorn self-reliance, but who would this country break away from at this time?

Or maybe Bangladesh will unite with another region for more Capricorn political authority. Will it join OPEC?

Brothers in Weather

The United States can add tornadoes to the list after apple pie as a cultural identifier. We have the most tornadoes.

Still, the United States and Bangladesh may be brothers in weather. The only difference is that Bangladesh carries the weight of so much destructive weather in a much smaller area. And would Bangladesh fight the United States for the rights to a National Storm?

Two countries – so different, so far apart, yet sharing the same weather. Who’d have thought?

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A Grand Earth Trine is Coming to the Democratic National Convention

Posted on September 2, 2012 by ohioastrology

By noon on Tuesday, the opening day of the Democratic National Convention, the moon will have moved into Taurus. And there it will stay until the end.

Moon in Taurus will trine sun and Mercury in Virgo and trine Pluto in Capricorn. You know what that means – grand earth trine. The trine is a little wide, yes, but still a lot of earth coming to the party.

Lots of earth, especially Taurus, should bode well for the Democratic Party because earth represents not just practical daily matters, but the “thing” we all seek – money.

Vice President Joe Biden, with sun in Scorpio and moon in Taurus, will probably be passing the hat around while his sun-in-Leo running mate stands on stage attracting the lights.

Biden is also having a Mars return (in Scorpio) so he will be unusually charismatic during this time. Biden will probably be doing the “work” of the convention, whatever that is (I really don’t know).

Mars in Scorpio is also conjunct Obama’s Neptune in Scorpio so I’m guessing these two will come dressed especially well and may even receive notice for how they look physically.

That’s what earth does – it notices the stain on the wall, the pimple on your face and dust bunnies in the corner. The details will be taken care of with sun in detail-oriented Virgo.

Jupiter transiting Gemini will be conjunct Obama’s moon and Biden’s Uranus/Saturn conjunction. Biden may want to speak more rather than passing the hat in dark corners and making sun-in-Scorpio promises for moon-in-Taurus money. Biden wants to speak but may be prevented from doing so.

Obama’s sun in Leo, moon in Gemini loves to talk and with Jupiter above in Gemini, Obama will talk until he drops. Leo loves attention and if you laugh at its jokes, it will continue telling the same joke until it’s not funny anymore. Succinct and concise are words not in the lexicon of a Leo/Gemini.

The other side of earth, besides the ability to earn money and accumulate goods, is stability. While many if not most of us seek stability, stability is, how shall we say it, a little boring?

Conventions, to me, are 100 percent boring, but boring like other adjectives is in the eye of the beholder.

The only “fun” or unexpected events come from Uranus in Aries, exactly square Pluto in Capricorn. Uranus in Aries brings headstrong, impulsive outbursts, of the fiery kind. This aspect has been occurring for a little while now and will create exact squares a few more times, I think.

Let’s see, what weather conditions involve lots of earth and a little fire or spark? Hmm. Maybe a volcano erupting? That’s a Uranus in Aries sudden explosion with lots and lots of earth.

Will a volcano erupt at the Democratic National Convention? Is Clint Eastwood coming?

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Clint Eastwood – The Man Behind the “Cool”

Posted on September 1, 2012 by ohioastrology

Poor Mitt Romney. His week in the spotlight at the Republican National Convention was stolen by two tougher men – at the beginning by Isaac (as in the hurricane) and at the end by Clint (as in Eastwood, the actor).

It’s like Romney has middle child syndrome, ignored because his windy older brother demands attention and his capricious younger brother is more engaging.

The good news for Romney is that I saw my very first “Romney for President” bumper sticker, and it’s just September.

Clint Eastwood posters, on the other hand, are ubiquitous. Even if Eastwood ruffled a few feathers, he’s sold enough posters and bumper stickers for his entire lifetime.

Clint Eastwood

Eastwood’s speech at last week’s Republican National Convention has been labeled unscripted and improvised.

Makes sense – Eastwood is a Gemini sun with transiting Jupiter overhead. Eastwood is not worrying about his comments and his fans probably aren’t either. Jupiter is goodwill in addition to excess. With Gemini, excess often involves what Gemini rules – communication.

From some news stories, Eastwood’s ad-libbing caused embarrassment to the candidate and the party.

Maybe those that booked Eastwood thought he’d be more like the late Charleton Heston? Maybe they didn’t pay attention to the fact that Heston is a man who played Moses while Eastwood is a man who played Dirty Harry?

Heston has moon in Leo, according to the Astrotheme chart, which makes him love attention. If all Leo moons were actors, the world would be a better place. Acting is the perfect outlet for Leo moon’s love of attention, positive outgoing energy and general dramatics and passion.

I may also have confused Eastwood with Heston because I thought he was a Libra. While Leo moon is definitely attractive to the opposite sex, Eastwood has a certain ethereal quality that I think makes people see a character like Dirty Harry as a bedroom poster.

It may be Eastwood’s Neptune in Virgo square sun in Gemini that brings on that “cool” and ethereal quality. The fine features of Eastwood are probably in the realm of Virgo (rather than Aquarius or Libra). Neptune in Virgo is not its favorite place so Eastwood is not one to jump into the collective waters for a bath. He’s independent.

Natal Mars and Uranus in Aries speak to Eastwood’s outward projected and at times aggressive personality.

With so much air and fire, Eastwood is energetic, outgoing, assertive and aggressive, positive thinking and probably completely immune to any underlying emotional currents. Since he always jumps out of bed to greet the new day with a positive attitude, you should too.

I’m starting to see why he’s perceived as “cool.” This is a man who, with Mercury in Taurus, tells it like it is, has a positive attitude and doesn’t mope or dwell on the past.

That is kind of cool.

Romney’s Lesson

What’s interesting is Eastwood’s energy in relation to Romney’s energy. While Eastwood is outgoing, confident and could give a crap about what you think, Romney is sensitive and introverted (Pisces sun and Scorpio moon) with a tendency to dwell on the past and hold grudges. While Romney truly feels the pain of others (unlike Eastwood), leaders and heroes are born from confident and bold actions, not from listening to you on the other side of the confessional.

Maybe rather than being embarrassed by Eastwood, Romney might take a few lessons from him. When you reach out to others, you sometimes slip on a banana peel. Others will laugh and if you do too they just might love you for it.

For people to follow you, they must like you. To like you, they need to see something aspirational in you. Feeding the poor might be what religions tell us to do, but, unfortunately, it is not aspirational.

I wonder what would happen if Romney went on the Sunday morning shows, all by himself (without a wife or a Veep candidate next to him) and said he laughed his ass off at Eastwood’s speech?

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Are the Gods Telling Us Not to Vote Republican?

Posted on August 28, 2012 by ohioastrology

The Chinese Mandate of Heaven described how the emperor had earned the right to rule. Ancillary to the mandate, there were signs that a ruler had “lost” the Mandate.

From About.com on Asian History:

“Signs that a particular ruler had lost the Mandate of Heaven included peasant uprisings, invasions by foreign troops, drought, famine, floods and earthquakes.”

At this beginning of the Republican National Convention, a hurricane is blowing past, creating enough threat to convention-locale Tampa to disrupt the process yet moving toward New Orleans and taking all the news stories with it.

I must admit I feel sorry for Mitt Romney, the Republican Presidential nominee. If you want a lesson on the dark or shadow side of Pisces it is this – Pisces is the last sign, the sacrificial goat and the victim. Sometimes stuff like this just seems to happen to Pisces and at other times Pisces seems the stand in the “Victim” line waiting for things to change.

If Romney wanted to convince me that President Obama had the ability to create weather patterns to perfectly disrupt the convention, I would believe him. It’s the perfect storm and confluence of events to ruin Romney’s moment in the spotlight. It’s like having Newt Gingrich back on the podium.

Or maybe it’s a message from the Gods not to vote Republican. I can’t quite decide . . .

Which Gods are Speaking?

The God Pluto passed over the moon yesterday to transform the convention. Pluto is evolution so the convention will evolve from its planned state to a state where it responds to the environment.

Pluto was conjunct moon in Capricorn on August 27, never a fun time. Storms and earthquakes were the news (as well as a little fighting in Syria).

The good news is that today (August 28) the moon moves into Aquarius. Brotherly love will prevail. While I wouldn’t call Aquarius emotional, the one-day delay may release some very sincere demonstrations of sharing and communing.

Yes, communing. That’s what Aquarius does.

The two-day Age of Aquarius will last through Wednesday.

Romney may want to listen to the voice of his own God Neptune (ruler of Pisces) and hold off on any speech until magical Thursday when the moon is conjunct Neptune (although he must watch out for the void of course moon which is described well on this site).

With the God Neptune involved, Romney can share his pain and he might be advised to do just that. Sensitivity is the order of the day, not toughness. I know, I know, act sensitive and they might call you a wimp. Dramatic Leo Bill Clinton cried with the masses (and was believed), so Romney could take some lessons from a pro.

Are the Gods Telling Us Not to Vote Republican?

Hmm. I’d love to say, “Yes,” but I think the gods are telling Republicans to transform ideas of what the convention should be.

Pluto over the moon might be saying, “Dumb rigid rules, I’m getting rid of them.” Neptune will then come around to gather the dust and arrange it into an etheric and emotional whole.

At the end of the convention, I’m imaging there may be talk like “this is the best thing that could have happened to us.” The Aquarius moon will bring the ideas together and Pisces moon will forge emotional connectedness.

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