Explaining Romney’s Hair Attack to Your Cat

Posted on May 14, 2012 by ohioastrology

My cat asked me about the news story that describes Mitt Romney chopping off some boy’s hair in high school. She wanted to know why it is news.

“I think the Romney campaign is trying to make Romney appear fun,” I answered. “Since he’s so boring and his campaign is so boring, people might simply forget there’s an election.”

“Why did he cut someone’s hair off?” Lacy asked. Full of hair, this bothers her.

“Romney does have that Saturn and Pluto in Leo,” I explained. “Leo loves hair and with Saturn in Leo Romney probably feels everyone else’s hair is nicer.

I’m guessing he cut it off because he was envious. Some are envious of money, others hair.”

Lacy asked if I thought Romney was still envious of others’ hair.

“Remember, Lacy,” I said patiently. “Romney did this in like 1965. That’s when kids were starting to grow their hair and call themselves hippies. Rather than gay bashing it was probably hippie bashing.”

“What’s a hippie?”

“Back in the 1960s there was a ten-year period when material ambition was challenged. The 1970s had a little of it too but then Ronald Reagan stopped all that.”

“So Romney hates hippies?”

“Romney has sun and Mars in Pisces which likes to lie on the grass and stare at clouds creating imaginative stories about the shapes. He’s got a little hippie in him.

And with Jupiter and moon conjunct in Scorpio, the idea of open and free sex would be rather appealing.

And Neptune in Libra would definitely want to make love and not war.”

“So why did Romney beat up a hippie then?” Lacy asked.

“It’s called a projection. Sometimes we hate others because they are daring enough to be the things we want to be. Sometimes we envy them for doing what we can’t do.”

“You mean Romney wants to grow his hair?”

“Maybe,” I answered. “Or maybe he just wants to lie on the grass, staring at the clouds, drinking something that causes inebriation and making love.”

“So why is he running for President?” Lacy asked.

“That’s still a great mystery Lacy, to me and others.”

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Outer Planets in the News

Posted on May 13, 2012 by ohioastrology

The outer planets are the planets past Saturn – Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. These planets are far and revolve around the sun in 80- to 200-plus year increments so they represent generational energies.

These planets are “the times” we live in. The New York Times stories of Saturday, May 12 influenced this blog.

URANUS IN ARIES

Uranus began its transit of Aries in March 2011. Uranus brings sudden events from learning your spouse is cheating to enlightenment itself.

Aries is the first sign of zodiac, a fire sign, interested in self-assertion.

Uranus in Aries has brought uprisings and sudden changes in political party systems.

Alexis Tsipras, Greece

In Greece, Alexis Tsipras of the Syzria Party, or “Radical Left” according to the New York Times, won a majority in Greece’s recent elections.

Tsipras is sun in Leo and moon in Scorpio or Sagittarius. The intense charisma he seems to be known for corresponds a little more to Scorpio.

Leo and Scorpio are both highly charismatic and sexy, especially if you like big brown eyes . . .

Uranus in Aries and Pluto in Capricorn are creating a nasty T-square with Tsipras’ natal Venus/ Saturn/ Mercury in Cancer. If Tsipras has a family life, it will be shaken up very soon. I’m guessing that Tsipras’ new role will threaten the security of his family.

Francois Hollande, France

France has just elected a Socialist President, Francois Hollande. Hollande has sun in Leo and moon most likely in Capricorn.

Uranus in Aries and Pluto in Capricorn create a grand square with Hollande’s Venus and Neptune in Libra and Jupiter and Uranus in Cancer. Some of those squares are wide right now. Venus is the planet most affected as Uranus and Pluto are in the early degrees of their transits.

Hollande’s love life will most likely go through radical, sudden changes, much like his rise to the top. Like Tsipras, some family life will be sacrificed during his new role.

Sergei Udaltsov, Russia

Sergei Udaltsov, I read yesterday in the New York Times, is a Russian protest leader.

Udaltsov has sun in Aquarius, the very sign of rebellion, and moon in Aquarius or Capricorn. Mars and Mercury are also in Aquarius.

Whether the moon is in Capricorn or Aquarius, the personality is the same – my way or the highway.

While I love a revolutionary, this is the type of personality that is so rigid it may inadvertently become its opposite. For example, if you force freedom on someone, are they free?

Think Ayn Rand, another Russian who had sun in Aquarius and moon in Capricorn.

Udaltsov has Venus in Aries and Pluto opposite in Libra. The current transits of Uranus in Aries and Pluto in Capricorn are creating a T-square.

Venus, again. It appears our new revolutionaries will be giving up partnership, love and family life for the sake of the revolution.

Udaltsov may not mind as Aquarius/Capricorn is more interested in social change than personal relationship.

NEPTUNE IN PISCES

Neptune just entered Pisces in April 2011. Pisces is ruled by Neptune so Neptune is floating in the warm waters of its natural home.

I expect heightened spirituality during this transit, but don’t see it in the news. Pisces brings undefined spirituality and sacrifice and also a bit of illusion as we follow idiots disguised as gurus.

Neptune also rules film and image. While Neptune doesn’t rule the news, I think the current story about Murdoch papers has elements of Neptune – we don’t know what’s real. The images created through the news appear to be distortions, some deliberate, some inadvertent.

Rebekah Brooks

Rebekah Brooks, former editor of Murdoch newspapers, is currently in court describing the newspaper’s relationship with politicians.

With sun, moon, Mars and Mercury in Gemini, it’s no wonder that Brooks is always in the news, whether her personal self or her nose.

Gemini is about communication and stimulation and is journalism itself. Gemini’s opposite sign, Sagittarius, tries to make meaning. Gemini simply revels in the facts and details. It’s a smart sign that can see the patterns but mostly loves the stimulation as boredom is the enemy.

Brooks also has Uranus and Pluto in Virgo, squaring all those planets in Gemini.

Neptune in Pisces creates a T-square of this mutable energy. Gemini and Virgo are detail, fact and gossip. Pisces is meaning, spiritual meaning.

Pisces squaring most of Brook’s chart is forcing her, in its confusing Neptunian way, to look at the bigger picture. The bigger picture may also mean that one discovers one is a sacrificial goat (Pisces is about sacrifice).

I’m guessing Brooks really is the Gemini/Virgo who enjoys talking and gossip is talking. While Gemini is known for duplicity, it’s really not malicious. If one can be so many things, why choose one thing to be?

Neptune in Pisces will show Brooks that while gossip can be fun, it can also be used to manipulate. She may have been led by her nosey nose into a room filled with deliberately misleading facts disguised as fun gossip.

PLUTO IN CAPRICORN

Pluto in Capricorn is destroying our structures. Houses, bridges, buildings, universities, churches, government and banks are all structures that maintain our society.

If we didn’t live in houses, for example, what would our society look like?

JP Morgan Chase

The most recent Pluto through Capricorn destruction appears to be occurring in JP Morgan Chase’s Investment group.

The current estimated loss is $2 billion. While $2 billion is a number I will never see in my checkbook, for Chase, this may be consumable.

We’ll see in the next few weeks what this means for Chase. I’m guessing that the bank will be restructured.

The Economy

Like everyone, I’d like to see positive economic news. The astrologer in me knows that Pluto takes 20 or more years to make its changes.

As a person and astrologer, I believe it’s time to revisit how we live economically. We want the bad economic news to go away, but what we really need to do is reinvent the future, not long for the past.

In 20 years when Pluto enters Aquarius, I’m guessing that economic structures will be more equitable. The Uranus in Aries uprisings are bringing leaders using that early 20th century word – socialism.

I’m not suggesting we need socialism, but am suggesting that economic disparity will continue to create Uranus in Aries uprisings, at least for the next seven years.

When Uranus enters Taurus in seven years, property laws will then undergo changes, most likely to support whatever Pluto in Capricorn changes are occurring.

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Jamie Dimon Lost More than $2 Billion – He Lost Control

Posted on May 11, 2012 by ohioastrology

J. P. Morgan Chase announced yesterday that it lost $2 billion through trading losses. J.P. Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon is now in the hot seat.

According to the Washington Post story today, Dimon made a comment about pundits.

“The loss, Dimon conceded in a conference call Thursday, ‘plays right into the hands of a whole bunch of pundits out there.’”

Maybe the loss will play into the hands of a Pandit rather than a pundit, as in Vikram Pandit, CEO of Bank of America. Last year I wrote a blog on US bankers and in astrological-play, chose Pandit as top banker.

I’m guessing Pandit is enjoying the “Kick Me I’m a Banker” sign having moved from his back to Dimon’s back. Pandit has had his own share of bad press and society wrath in the past six months.

I’m smelling a French Revolution here.

Mommas, don’t let your babies grow up to be bankers.

Current Transits through Jamie Dimon’s Horoscope

Dimon has sun in Pisces, moon probably in Aries and Mars in Capricorn.

Should I stop here?

Avid OHA readers probably can feel the “Pluto in Capricorn” talk coming. Pluto is currently transiting Capricorn and is conjunct Dimon’s Mars which squares Dimon’s moon.

Aries–Capricorn squares equal frustration of the sort where those around you are never quick enough, never productive enough and never, ever get it right.

“If you want it done right, do it yourself,” came probably from a Capricorn and mostly like a Capricorn with a sun-Mars square.

Aries–Capricorn is extremely demanding, which Dimon might hide behind that easy-to-get-along-with Pisces sun. But who becomes the CEO of a bank without being demanding?

The Pisces empathy with the Aries-Capricorn whip has made Dimon a more likeable than his banker brethren.

It’s the lack of control (Capricorn) of the situation that would be most frustrating for Dimon.

At a $2 billion bill, who wouldn’t be more than a little frustrated?

But if Dimon had made a strategic bet himself and lost $2 billion, the frustration wouldn’t be there.
Pluto conjunct Mars in any sign creates nasty power struggles. In Capricorn, the earth will shake from the struggle that will ensue from this transit.

If Dimon doesn’t smack a few racquetball balls around soon, he may begin to suffer health problems. I can’t imagine what his reaction was upon being delivered this onerous news.

Dimon will definitely be on the attack.

Neptune and Uranus Transits

Neptune is transiting Pisces and is currently right on top of Dimon’s Mercury in Pisces. Pisces is emotional and Mercury is communication so Dimon is an emotional communicator.

Pisces is also dreamy-imaginative so what are called “facts” to a Mercury in Aquarius, for example, are different than “facts” to a Mercury in Pisces.

I’m guessing that we’re not hearing all the facts that others, such as the SEC for example, would define as “facts.” When transiting Mars in Virgo starts to analyze this in more depth, expect the “facts” to change.

Uranus in Aries is right on top of Dimon’s moon. Dimon’s Pisces sun must do all the work in making him appear calm. Aries moon in general is irascible. Add a pinch of Uranus for sudden, impulsive and sometimes angry outbursts.

Jupiter and Saturn Transits

Being in the hot seat for Dimon means potential loss of position. With Saturn in Libra transiting Dimon’s Neptune in Libra, there will be definite change to his partnerships. It may not be that Dimon leaves J. P. Morgan, but he may split from an individual he has seen through rose-colored glasses.

Saturn transiting Dimon’s natal Neptune is removing the glasses.

Jupiter is still transiting Taurus but will soon move into Gemini opposing Dimon’s Saturn in Sagittarius. When Jupiter passed over Dimon’s Venus in Taurus (this March), Dimon probably bought himself and a loved one a present.

Taurus loves land and home and gifts that are materially solid, like a big painting for the front room.

Jupiter begins its opposition to Dimon’s natal Saturn at the end of June. Astrologer Robert Hand describes this opposition as struggling between optimism and caution, expansion and cautiousness.

Jupiter rules Sagittarius and Dimon’s Saturn is in that sign. Sagittarius rules things foreign, so I wonder if there is a breakup of foreign assets. Jupiter in Gemini brings an expansion of information and communication and definitely both sides of the argument.

Transiting Mars in Virgo will make a wide square to transiting Jupiter in Gemini so I’m guessing any factual distortions will be of the sort where too much information is provided that floods the system.

You can starve people of information or flood them with information to have the same effect – no one knows what’s going on.

Dimon may also choose to leave the country.

The Transits Will Soon Pass

Whoever said, “All things shall pass,” was clearly wise, maybe a Pisces.

Because the transits mentioned above are all in effect this moment, they have been building to fruition well before this $2 billion problem and will pass quickly at this point.

Dimon must protect his health at a time of such intense frustration. One piece of spiritual advice (he may be a banker, but he is a Pisces) is to learn that life is truly out of our control.

The only thing we can truly control is ourselves, I believe. I learned this lesson myself – at a bank.

Dealing with money creates powerful feelings in people and anger from those who think if you work in a bank you are controlling them (through their money).

Pluto in Capricorn is teaching us great lessons about power and control in societal structures. When the news passes and the fallout occurs, Dimon may be able to offer us some Neptune-transiting-Pisces sun wisdom.

He will be sadder but wiser.

And he won’t be in control.

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Looking Back at Mercury Retrograde

Posted on May 10, 2012 by ohioastrology

Whenever Mercury goes retrograde, which is about three times a year, astrologers across the globe write articles and blogs warning about miscommunications and other communication-oriented mishaps.

At www.astrology.com, Robert Tillett writes this about Mercury retrograde:

“Mercury retrograde gives rise to personal misunderstandings; flawed, disrupted, or delayed communications, negotiations and trade; glitches and breakdowns with phones, computers, cars, buses, and trains. And all of these problems usually arise because some crucial piece of information, or component, has gone astray or awry.”

Retrograde

When a planet goes retrograde, as many do, it means that from earth the planet appears to be moving backward. The planets are always moving forward but because they are far away from earth, the distance between earth and the planet makes earth appear to move ahead and the planet move backward.

In astronomy it’s called parallax.

Last Mercury Retrograde

Mercury was retrograde last from March 12, 2012 to April 2, 2012.

Think back to that time. Did you have lots of communication problems?

I didn’t. Those astrologers are mad.

But I’m having a lot of problems now.

Data Gone Mad

I work with data. I love the feeling of finishing a project and moving onto the next one.

What I dread are those times when everything seems to go wrong at once. Now is one of those times. It seems everything done in the last couple months has come back like a boomerang with a problem attached.

Is Mercury retrograde?

It’s not retrograde now but it was when the originating data was produced – four to six weeks ago.

The miscommunications of Mercury retrograde appear not to be simply the miscommunications themselves, but even the knowledge of the miscommunications.

Mercury retrograde is like a Dear John letter sent in the mail that gets stuck in the side of the mailbox. “John” goes off to war thinking his bride loves him only to find out from his family’s letters six months later than his love has gone off and married the butcher.

The letter is found stuck inside the mailbox a year later after John has returned home from duty.

Mercury was retrograde when the letter got stuck to the box. The communication was extant but John did not know it.

Mercury

Mercury is the messenger of the gods. Pantheon.org tells me that he also delivered the dead to the underworld.

Mercury retrograde is the messenger traveling backwards. The image that comes to mind is of trying to walk up a down escalator. I suppose swimming upstream is the same effect.

I also imagine the messenger, a constant traveler, getting distracted by the lovely scenery in all the places where he travels.

Maybe Mercury goes retrograde because we need to stop and take a rest from our messenger-ing.

Or maybe Mercury retrograde is like leap day in leap year. It’s a gap in time that always exists and is rectified in a day every four years. Mercury retrograde may rectify various speeds of communication by halting activity for a short period through mishaps.

Astrologers are not Mad

It’s my own humble opinion that astrologers are not mad. The warnings about Mercury retrograde are not heeded because average folk don’t see that the post-Mercury retrograde problems were actually caused by Mercury retrograde.

Astrologers, then, should hold on Mercury retrograde communications until AFTER Mercury has gone direct (appears to be moving forward again).

Astrologers can then say, “Ok folks, take a look at last month’s bank statement. You may find a problem.”

Astrology is associated with prognostication so we astrologers want to be ahead of the curve with a warning about the future.

But with Mercury retrograde, we may serve humanity more by warning about the past.

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If Corporations Were People, What Sign Would They Be?

Posted on May 7, 2012 by ohioastrology

Mitt Romney, soon-to-be Republican Presidential nominee said last summer to a protestor at the Iowa State Fair that “Corporations are people, my friend.”

In Columbus last weekend President Barack said, “Corporations aren’t people.”

If corporations were people what sign would they be?

Capricorn

This is an easy one. Corporations are ruled by Saturn which rules Capricorn.

Why Saturn?

Saturn is about structure. Structure is critical to this three-dimensional reality. Not only do we need structures, such as houses, for protection, but we also need structures and rules so that we don’t run into each other at intersections.

Corporations are structures. To visualize the structure of a corporation and the people involved, boxes and lines are created (called an organizational chart) to outline the structure.

Authority loves structure the way that real estate brokers love houses. Structure breeds authority because without structure there is no need for authority. If there were no rules, there would be no cops.

Cops are ruled by Saturn (and sometimes violent Mars and brutal Pluto) because they maintain the structure, the rules.

Capricorn loves structure, organization and authority.

The person that buys you a closet organizer as a gift has strong Capricorn in the chart.

The description of Capricorn in the astrology books makes you want to be some other sign. It’s about duty, responsibility and order. It’s cautious and serious and practical and takes the path of most resistance.

Capricorn likes to achieve and what is achievement if it is easy?

Corporations

Corporations do exhibit the ambitious side of Capricorn. Let’s take a health care corporation, for example. As a corporation, the goal is profit and achievement. They profit and achieve by providing health care service.

Like a Capricorn, the health care industry cares about your physical, structural upkeep but not very much about how you feel.

Your mom, ruled by Capricorn’s opposite sign Cancer, does truly care in her heart about your health. When you are sick, she makes you chicken soup and brings you crackers and ginger ale. She feeds you until you get better.

A corporation, on the other hand, wants you to spend less money and get back to Capricorn productivity.

The health care industry might be better called the Health Structure Industry.

Can corporate structure be rejected?

As corporations grow in size in the US, is an individual able to reject participating in corporate life and still survive?

Health care, for example, is tied to participating in a corporation.

So while corporations are made of people, I feel people are being forced to participate in corporations.

And to gain entry into many corporations you need credentials from yet another structure – higher education.

Pluto in Capricorn

As Pluto transits Capricorn for the next 20-some years, Capricorn structures will go through intense transformation. “Intense” is one way to describe the effects of Pluto.

Pluto is destructive. Uranus likes to make sudden changes, but often Uranian changes feel liberating, are the shedding of some awful situation.

Pluto, in contrast, pulls the rug from under us, the rug we love to stand on. Pluto is the force that makes the child give up the pacifier, blanket and teddy bear.

This is the energy that is affecting our societal structures.

While corporate structures can be constricting, they also provide comfort. A regular paycheck that will go on indefinitely is quite comforting. Would you buy a house, another structure, without the guarantee of a regular paycheck? The bank, another structure, would demand it anyway.

It will be interesting to see how our corporations and structures evolve during this Pluto transit of Capricorn.

Pluto in Capricorn choices will be tough, my friend.

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Is Ann Romney’s Fish Shirt a Subliminal Message to Vote for Romney?

Posted on May 5, 2012 by ohioastrology

My cat Lacy said she likes Ann Romney’s fish shirt. I asked why.

“It reminds me of dinner,” she answered.

“Well it reminds me of the sign Pisces,” I responded.

Lacy and I stared at each other in joint realization.

“Pisces is the fish,” Lacy began.

“And Mitt Romney is a Pisces,” I added.

“And the mouth opened toward Romney,” Lacy finished.

Lacy twisted her whiskers in thought. “I bet she could have bought a fish shirt for way less than $900.”

“I’m sure she could have,” I told my practical cat. “But she is wealthy so why bother searching for a cheap shirt with a big yellow fish across the breasts when you have found one you like.”

Lacy then asked if I thought Michelle Obama would do the same for her husband.

“Well, Barack Obama is a Leo (the lion) and animal prints are rather common.”

“Does Michelle Obama wear animal prints?”

I told Lacy that my Internet search yielded a few photos of Michelle Obama in animal prints.

“Do you think Ann Romney and Michelle Obama are sending us subliminal messages?”

“You never know, Lacy,” I told her. “There are many astrologers who claim they are hired by politicians. I don’t think Ronald Reagan was alone in his use of astrology. If we find Ann Romney’s shirt actually cost $999, then we’ll know for sure that she’s pitching for her husband and Herman Cain’s tax plan.”

“Which do you like better, fish shirts or animal prints?” Lacy asked me.

“I’m an animal print girl all the way,” I told her. “You should know that, being my cat.”

“Which do you like better Lacy?”

“I want to swallow the fish whole,” she said. “Animal prints evoke courage and daring. I’ll have to go with animal prints.”

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Sacha Baron Cohen – His Own “Plus One”

Posted on May 4, 2012 by ohioastrology

When I see actor Sacha Baron Cohen at award shows as one of his crazy characters, I often wonder what he is hiding from.

Looking at his horoscope, I don’t think he’s hiding from anything. His alter-ego characters are probably imaginary friends he’s bringing with him to the ceremony. With four planets in Libra, including the sun, Cohen doesn’t like to travel solo.

Coming in character is Cohen bringing his own “plus one.”

Cohen has Pluto, Uranus, sun and Mercury in Libra with moon in Leo. When writing about moon in Leo, I looked for charts of famous people with moon in Leo. As moon in Leo can’t be ignored, I’m surprised I missed this one.

The comfort zone for moon in Leo is to perform. With Mars in Aquarius opposite moon in Leo, Cohen feels almost a compulsive drive to perform for the crowd, any crowd or anytime there is a crowd.

When Cohen brings one of his alter-egos to the awards ceremonies, it’s probably due to insecurity about being alone in the crowd and his response is to perform.

Cohen’s horoscope is almost all fire and air, no earth and only one planet in water (Venus in Scorpio). In addition to the Libra, Leo and Aquarius energies, Cohen has Jupiter and Neptune in Sagittarius and Saturn in Gemini.

Identity

Libra energy represents “the other.” Its opposite sign, Aries, is about assertion of self.

With the sun as conscious self in the sign of the other, identity is formed by reflecting others. We all do this in some way (Libra is in all of our charts somewhere) but Libra sun does it as the primary personality trait.

Coming to events in character is more than acting technique. Cohen is reflecting what we want to see.

Libra loves beauty so because Cohen often reflects obnoxious or abhorrent characters, he must feel as though he’s living in a trash heap. Deep inside he probably wants the unpleasant people he projects to go away.

Libra reflects and then Leo dramatizes.

Libra and Leo are also in love with love itself so Cohen probably had a girlfriend in kindergarten (if it took that long) and then proposed to her.

By reflecting off of others and having an emotional need for audience, the greatest torture for Cohen is to spend time alone. Five minutes of alone time can drive this horoscope mad.

Lack of Earth

Lack of earth in a horoscope means there is little grounding to the personality. With very little water and complete lack of earth, Cohen may reflect identities, but he probably doesn’t fully understand the emotional impact that he is creating.

Cohen may wonder at times what it is that motivates other people to do what they do. In an effort to understand, he mimics.

Neptune/Jupiter/Saturn

Neptune and Jupiter are conjunct in Sagittarius. If Cohen’s personality wasn’t ungrounded enough, this aspect creates a dreamy wanderer, one who may also experiment with mind-enhancing drugs.

Opposite is Saturn in Gemini indicates insecurity in communication and with siblings. For all of Cohen’s amazing ability to create character, he may have trouble with small talk on the Tube.

Sometimes Saturn opposite Neptune creates depression or some melancholy. Libra is not a sign that enjoys a trip through sadness. Libra loves beauty and would only enjoy melancholy if some poetry emerged as a result.

Chances are Cohen chases the demons away by traveling (Sagittarius).

Saturn Transiting Libra

Saturn has been transiting Libra for the past two years passing Cohen’s Pluto, then Uranus, then sun and now Mercury.

This writer is counting the days, minutes and seconds when Libra will finally pass into Scorpio (beginning of October). Cohen is probably counting the minutes with me.

Saturn is contraction and in Libra is challenging the fairness and “rightness” of our relationships.

There is also a grand earth trine in the skies right now with Mars in Virgo, Jupiter in Taurus and Pluto in Capricorn. Since Cohen has no earth in his chart, he may wonder why everyone is worrying about work, career and retirement.

Others around him may need his commitment or support and Cohen may not fully understand how dependent others can be on him.

The Dictator

Cohen’s new movie is called “The Dictator.”

I don’t think Cohen’s horoscope has the elements of a dictator. So who is he reflecting?

With moon in Leo maybe Cohen is telling us that all dictators are really just men (and women theoretically) who need attention.

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You Can’t Ignore Leo Moon

Posted on May 2, 2012 by ohioastrology

An OHA reader found his/her way onto the site through the search term “ignoring Leo moon.” Was the reader looking for ways to ignore Leo moon? Or had the reader ignored a Leo moon to suffer the consequences?

You can’t ignore a Leo moon. Your Google search is over.

Moon as Comfort Zone

The moon represents how we react and how we find comfort. Today we call this our “comfort zone.”

Leo is a fixed fire sign, strong and proud. Like its ruler the sun, it shines – always.

The sun doesn’t turn on and off. The sun has no thermostat to turn down the heat when it’s too hot.

This is important to remember.

Leo as a sign represents creative self-expression, romance and children. Leo is known as the actor of the zodiac for its love of attention.

So the moon in Leo reacts by seeking attention. The comfort zone is to create drama. Show offs are actually feeling insecure.

The creator of soap operas probably had moon in Leo. Dramatic lovings and hatings occur daily on soap operas as they do in the life of a Leo moon.

Identifying Leo Moon

Below are scenarios to help you identify Leo moon in your immediate surroundings.

Work – This is the co-worker who comes in late for the meeting because while he was driving to work he saw a purse snatcher grab the purse of a little old lady. Stopping his car in the middle of the road, he had to run three miles to apprehend the thief who happened to be the CEO of a local bank who had just lost his job.

This same co-worker was late to yesterday’s meeting because while driving to work, a piece of the space shuttle landed on earth and happened to fall right in front of his car.

Home – This is the family member who arrives at the placid Thanksgiving dinner (maybe late again, Leo loves an entrance) with her new partner from a different ethnic background who no one has met (which makes them uncomfortable) and announces during the carving of the turkey that her psychologist said her problems in life were because mom never loved her. Mom runs off crying, dad tries to comfort the crowd and the siblings vow have a secret Thanksgiving next year.

Fishing – This is the man who’s caught the 1,000-foot fish (that no one has seen). If you caught a 1,001-foot fish, then his was 1,002-feet. Napoleon Dynamite is moon in Leo material.

Friendship – This is the friend who is caring and devoted until she realizes that you also have other friends and then has extreme jealous reaction. You are now not devoted enough and have betrayed your friend. Don’t let your Leo moon friend know that you have other friends and you’ll be fine.

Heart of Gold

Have you met a Leo moon? Do these stories make you laugh or pull your hair out?

If you like boredom, Leo moon is not for you. If you want people in your life who shake things up a bit and bring some fun to boring routine, a Leo moon is essential.

Leo rules the heart so no matter how self-centered a Leo moon can appear, it loves and want to be loved in return.

Way to Ignore a Leo Moon

If you find yourself in a situation with a Leo moon and want to ignore him, there is only one way. Move to another country.

If Leo moon is sharing space with you, it can’t be ignored.

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Saturn Conjunctions – Hitting the Brakes

Posted on May 1, 2012 by ohioastrology

As I was merging onto the freeway yesterday, there was a police car on the side of the road in speed entrapment position. The car in front of me hit the brakes.

Neither the car in front of me nor I were anywhere near the speed limit and if we had been speeding the police would have already tracked us.

The car in front of me probably knew that as well but hitting the brakes when seeing a police car is a visceral, involuntary reaction in many. We just do it.

We see authority, we clamp up.

Saturn is the planet of limitation, boundaries, rules and authority.

Hitting the brakes when seeing a police car is a Saturnian response.

Now imagine when Saturn is sitting next another planet in your horoscope (a conjunction). It’s like that planet seeing a police car and hitting the brakes.

Personal, social and outer planets

I searched my horoscope database for famous people with Saturn conjunct a personal planet – sun, moon, Mercury, Venus or Mars.

The personal planets represent our most personal characteristics such as the things we want to be (sun), the things we do for comfort (moon), the way we talk (Mercury), the things that give us pleasure (Venus) and the way we assert ourselves (Mars).

After these planets come the social order planets of Jupiter and Saturn. These represent our role in society including family structures, organizational structures and religious structures.

After that are the outer planets of Uranus, Neptune and Pluto which represent generational energies and energies that are not always personal. If we choose to reject an activity that gives us personal pleasure or convenience (such as dumping waste into a river), we are acting on transpersonal energies.

I looked for personal planet Saturn conjunctions because entire generations may have conjunctions of Saturn with social or outer planets. That means the generation is dealing with those issues (such as tearing down the establishment or cleaning up the planet or rebuilding the economy).

Looking in my database, I didn’t see a lot of Saturn conjunct personal planet. Maybe that’s telling and people who walk out into the public light naturally are driving without the brakes, without an inner police car waiting on the berm in ambush.

John Boehner and Rick Perry

John Boehner, current Speaker of the US House of Representatives, has Saturn conjunct Mars in Virgo.

Rick Perry, current governor of Texas and former contender for the Republican Presidential nomination, has Saturn conjunct moon in Virgo.

What’s the difference between those two Saturn conjunctions in Virgo?

Mars is how we assert ourselves. The moon is how we react.

Saturn conjunct Mars in Virgo says, “Quit asserting yourself with detailed and discriminating words unless you use every word perfectly and have every detail correct.”

The image I get is of a child losing a spelling bee during the final round and vowing never to misspell another word for his entire life.

Saturn conjunct Mars is a nasty and caustic aspect. Wanting to assert and hold back at the same time causes internal combustion. In response, for example, to the feeling of not being perfect having lost the spelling bee, the Saturn/Mars Virgo conjunction then criticizes every spelling error found in others for the rest of its life.

Saturn conjunct moon in Virgo, in contrast, says, “Just analyze everything that happens and try to react perfectly. You’re not perfect now.”

Trying to be perfect is a recipe for insecurity and moon in Virgo fights with itself endlessly for not being perfect. That constant stream of criticisms creates nervousness which leads to . . . mistakes!

As an aside, I did feel bad for Perry up on that debate stage. Astrologers know he’s nervous but you just can’t admit that when running for President.

Virgo is the sign that rules health so putting the brakes on a Mars in Virgo or moon in Virgo leads to health problems, probably of the nervous sort. Those are the illnesses that result from “stress.”

Someone challenged me once to define “stress.” We use this word a lot but it is difficult to define.

I think of stress as a Virgo phenomenon. The term itself came out of the Pluto conjunct Uranus in Virgo generation (born in the late 1950s and early-to-mid 1960s).

Stress, I believe, comes from the mind. I think stress results from our thoughts rather than from the physical exertion that comes from doing the things that cause us “stress.”

Does doing the laundry cause stress or all the things we think about while doing laundry? While we do the laundry and think about mowing the lawn and balancing the checkbook and the 100 other tasks we want to accomplish on a rainy day is when we feel “stressed.”

Boehner and Perry probably feel a lot of “stress.”

Brakes are necessary

As you’re aware, brakes on cars are quite necessary. Likewise, Saturn in your chart is necessary.

The lesson of Saturn is to learn when and when not to brake. Braking on ice, for example, is a very bad idea as you can go into a spin.

Saturn conjunct a personal planet is a big lesson in how to use that planet and sign’s energy.

When to brake and when not to brake, that is the question.

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Republican Veep Fight Club: Bobby Jindal

Posted on April 30, 2012 by ohioastrology

Last night as my cat Lacy and I were deciding what to watch on TV, she asked if we could watch the TV show with all the guys.

“The Big Bang Theory?” I asked.

“No,” she answered. “The one where they wear suits.”

“Mad Men, you mean?”

“No.” She looked at me like I was stupid. “The one where they stand up and yell at each other.”

“The Price is Right?”

“No,” Lacy said patiently. “The one where they argue about health care and immigration and stuff.”

“Oh,” I finally understood.

“That’s not a TV show, that’s a Republican debate. Those were for real. Those are over until after the conventions this summer. That’s why the Sunday talk shows discussed some men who got drunk and slept with prostitutes, like that’s news.”

Bobby Jindal

To keep my cat happy, I looked at another supposed Republican Veep candidate and read her his chart to put her to sleep.

I’m not suggesting Bobby Jindal, governor of Louisiana is boring. A Gemini sun and Gemini Mercury is never boring.

With moon in Capricorn, however, the fun always has a purpose, is to achieve an ambitious end.

Jindal has a nice, tight opposition of Saturn and Venus in Taurus with Jupiter in Scorpio. Jindal likes nice things and preferably those that others buy for him.

Mercury in Gemini is opposed to Neptune in Sagittarius is a lively and fun story teller. Just remember that some facts are inserted for the benefit of the story.

Jindal’s Mars is in Aquarius and Uranus in Libra so we’ve got a loose grand air trine here. Air is social and talkative and Jindal probably rarely misses a committee meeting or professional club networking event.

Pluto in Virgo squares the sun (in Gemini). Jindal is probably a walking dictionary. If you need a word in your crossword puzzle, text him for the answer.

Or if you need to know the capital of Angola or the average rainfall in Mali. He probably knows all that too.

Jindal is smart and shrewd. I bet he’s an awesome chess player, if he can stay in the chair long enough.

Deep down Jindal is a serious person who has probably considered important issues since childhood.

But he probably won’t show you that part of himself.

With Pluto transiting Capricorn right now, Jindal will receive feedback from others to open up a little more. Uranus transiting Aries is creating an opposition to natal Uranus in Libra so if Jindal doesn’t open up a little to partners, those partners may exit his life suddenly.

Ohio Astrology Assessment

Ohio Astrology gives Jindal 6 stars out of 10.

Back to love, I just don’t think Jindal will love Romney the way a Pisces sun and Scorpio moon should be loved.

The Jupiter/Saturn opposition lands right on Romney’s moon in Scorpio. Jupiter in Scorpio wants to convince Romney that it’s not after his wallet. But Saturn and Venus in Taurus are trying to accumulate goods and like a friend with wealth.

On the other hand, Jindal’s almost complete lack of water in the chart (except for that Jupiter in Scorpio) could provide and completely detached, emotionally uninvolved point of view for Romney.

If Romney needs someone that can send the command to launch the missiles, Jindal has that type of self-control that can do it (if he has morally decided he would do it).

Moon in Capricorn respects authority and takes on the tough jobs in life that others might avoid, such as issuing the command to make a foreign enemy disappear in the night.

Jindal can definitely handle the job, that’s for sure.

Jindal might prove a loyal companion to Romney, but only through sense of duty and not necessarily out of personal admiration.

OHA wants Romney’s new political marriage to be borne of love and admiration, not resume-building so gives Jindal only 6 stars.

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