Republican Veep Fight Club: Tim Pawlenty

Posted on April 18, 2012 by ohioastrology

Tim Pawlenty, former governor of Minnesota and former Republican Presidential Candidate is reported to be a consideration for Mitt Romney’s vice presidential running mate.

Pawlenty dropped out of the presidential race last September and has been Romney’s campaign national co-chair. According to Wikipedia, Romney “retired” some of Pawlenty’s campaign debt.

I wasn’t wrong in thinking that his Veep selection may cost Romney some money. Romney’s Scorpio moon suggests he’s not one to hand out cash freely and prefers to keep his money close to home. To pay your debts, he needs to trust you and you will owe him.

Pawlenty has Neptune and Mercury in Scorpio, conjunct Romney’s moon. Pawlenty may have the rare ability to channel Romney’s deepest feelings and present them in a poetic and soothing manner.

If Romney becomes president, Pawlenty would make a nice press secretary. Maybe Pawlenty is auditioning for the role right now.

Romney’s Scorpio moon, ever not trusting, might be auditioning and interviewing all potential staff during this rough run for candidacy.

Foot in the Mouth

Pawlenty has sun in Sagittarius and moon in either Pisces or Aries. We’re coming up dry on clear moon signs for the Veep pick.

For newbies to astrology, the moon changes signs daily which is one important reason to have time of birth. All the other planets move as well, but not so quickly. Any time a planet changes signs, a time of birth is needed to determine exact sign.

Moon in Aries is high strung, nervous, impulsive and extremely driven and competitive. Pisces moon, on the other hand, is a sensitive emotional sponge that often retreats from the world to recoup energy lost in daily interaction.

Sagittarius sun and Aries moon is double fire with endless and relentless energy.

Sagittarius sun and Pisces moon is more intuitive and less reliable. This combination may have extreme difficulty with the responsibilities of public life and could easily lose self and purpose.

Whether the moon is in Aries or Pisces, Sagittarius is open and frank and might have a few foot-in-the-mouth moments (ala Sagittarian Herman Cain), as natal Pluto in Virgo forms a natural square. Mars is transiting Virgo right now so we might hear some edgy and caustic comments from Pawlenty this month.

While he can have foot-in-the-mouth disease, a disease that comes with a Sagittarian birth, Mercury in Scorpio (and a bunch of other planets in Capricorn) provides discretion in communication. While Scorpio can keep secrets, Sagittarius and Aries (or Pisces) are telling someone, over a pillow at least.

There are three planets in Capricorn in Pawlenty’s chart – Jupiter, Venus and Saturn. Those three planets are opposed by Mars in Cancer.

If Pawlenty’s moon is in Aries, his Aries/Sagittarius/Capricorn energy would create a bit of a righteous snob. Sagittarius is all-knowing, Capricorn authoritarian and Aries just says, “If I like it, you like it too.”

Where Pisces lacks boundaries because of a desire to merge, Aries lacks boundaries because the self of Aries believes it should be the “self” of you as well.

Natal Mars opposing a Saturn/Venus conjunction means that Pawlenty has bad luck with the girls. Saturn/Venus creates a lonely person who can’t really relate romantically. The partner always seems to be a drag, a burden, a responsibility. Pawlenty never says anything romantic. Yada, yada.

The current but soon-to-be-over transit of Saturn in Libra made Pawlenty’s love life even less love-lifey. Pawlenty may have jumped at the chance to race across the country because home might not be where the heart is right now.

If Pawlenty’s moon is in Aries, Uranus would be slam-dancing all over it right now. The women in his life are fighting back, causing strife, saying “shut up.”

And it’s only just begun . . . transiting Pluto won’t be conjunct Pawlenty’s Venus/Saturn until late 2014-early 2015. If Pawlenty doesn’t work on making home life more amenable now, he will have a very rough time when Pluto hits that conjunction.

Ohio Astrology Assessment

Ohio Astrology gives Pawlenty 7 stars out of 10.

Pawlenty gets all 7 stars for channeling Romney feelings (Merucry and Neptune in Scorpio), having fiery enthusiasm (sun in Sagittarius and moon in Aries) and also having self-control (Capricorn and Scorpio).

If moon is in Pisces, half a star is removed because that sign can’t provide Romney the fire energy he needs.

Pawlenty loses 3 stars because he clearly has home life issues to attend to. It may be better to be Chief of Staff or some other role that’s out of the spotlight. That way in 2014 when Pluto comes crashing down on Pawlenty’s Venus/Saturn conjunction opposing Mars Pawlenty can deal with it in private.

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Angelina and Brad: Oppositions Attract

Posted on April 17, 2012 by ohioastrology

Opposites attract, it is said. In astrology, planets can be in opposition, 180 degrees apart. Oppositions are polarities – energies along a continuum.

Oppositions, in life, present themselves as others who are in direct conflict – they say no, they make us follow unusual rules, they resist, they constrain. Now how often does that happen?

Opposition is bad, right?

I’ve always wondered in the Civil Rights Movement would have been so strong if George Wallace hadn’t tried openly to oppose African Americans attending the University of Alabama.

While the Jim Crow laws were bad and unfair, they were openly bad and unfair, a direct opposition.

Today there are no Jim Crow laws but has racism ended?

My opinion is that racism has not ended but that the direct opposition has been removed. Now it’s like an astrological square, a frustration that is there but not openly labeled. It’s a subterranean race war waged quietly behind closed doors and through clenched teeth and subtle less-than-friendly responses.

Which is worse?

The lesson of oppositions, to me, is that the energy is openly in direct conflict. You see it, taste it, smell it and can respond to it. There is value in your opponents fighting you openly as opposed to say, your opponent luring you into a room and infusing carbon monoxide.

Angelina and Brad

Angelina is a sun in Gemini and Brad is a sun in Sagittarius, opposite signs.

Gemini is the fact finder and Sagittarian is the meaning maker. Gemini is like the journalist and Sagittarius the philosopher.

Both like to talk and argue so arguments in the Jolie-Pitt household are most likely open arguments. At the table one of the kids might say, “I hate when people in purple coats eat green grapes.” Mom and dad will look at each other, smile and then ask, “Can you tell us why?”

Both are curious. They really want to discuss this. It would be fun to discuss this in fact.

No one loves a fun, frivolous argument like the Gemini-Sagittarius polarity.

Jolie has Mars/moon/Jupiter all conjunct in Aries. To call her feisty is a gross understatement. This is an A type extraordinaire who seems to be plugged into an electrical socket 24/7.

This is one who changes everything you do every time. When she enters a room, she may change it with her beautiful and powerfully famous presence. If she weren’t famous, she’d be changing all the rugs and pictures around.

Jolie lacks earth in the chart which explains why she probably travels the globe regularly and probably can’t sit down for a minute.

Now I know why she’s so skinny. Moon in Aries is vain (extraordinaire) so she thinks about eating, not eating and being skinny. But she truly is busy, like a bee, all the time.

Pitt’s Jupiter in Aries encourages this behavior. He openly endorses it.

Jolie’s sun in Gemini and moon in Aries are trine, a positive, flowing relationship.

Squares

If oppositions are open conflict that you can see, smell and deal with, squares are more like friction. Here’s where the Jolie-Pitt relationship may have less talk and more cold shoulder.

Pitt has a nice, friendly, talkative Sagittarius sun. Next door he has Mars/Mercury/Venus/moon in Capricorn. Capricorn is more selective in friendships.

There is a chance the moon is in Aquarius. Internet times of birth for Pitt have a morning time putting moon in Capricorn.

All that Capricorn, a sign of authority and structure, duty and responsibility, are in square to Jolie’s Aries energy.

This square causes control issues. Aries says, “I’m going to do what I want right now because I’m me” and Capricorn responds, “You shouldn’t because there is this law this standard and everyone will see you, which isn’t important deep down but affects your reputation.”

I believe Jolie’s dad, Jon Voigt, is a Capricorn.

Brad is by turns best friend, open and allowing, discussing everything, and at other times the parent, The Father, who puts some restraint on Jolie. He’s also probably harder to get to know than he appears.

I recollect an article quoting Pitt’s last wife Jennifer Aniston saying something about Pitt being cold. I can’t remember the quote but I recall thinking about the lack of feeling or coldness confirmed a Capricorn moon.

For Pitt this Sagittarius/Capricorn combination isn’t always easy to balance. He loves to be open (Sagittarian sun) but doesn’t really buy into all that you’re saying (Capricorn). Talking is fun, but don’t think that talking is agreement.

Capricorn is selective and worried about being respected and revered in the eyes of society and authority. Because of that, it becomes authoritarian itself.

Pitt also has Uranus/Pluto in Virgo trine the Capricorn energy. For a fire sign sun, he’s actually a practical, serious guy who is watching his investments.

Saturns

Jolie’s Saturn in Cancer opposes Pitt’s Capricorn energy. Jolie’s Saturn suggests her greatest need (Saturn represents kind of a weak link in our personalities) is to feel a sense of belonging.

Opposed to Pitt’s Capricorn stellium means that Pitt represents to Jolie the way into a society, a group, a sense of belonging.

Pitt’s Saturn is in Aquarius suggesting that he doesn’t really like being in groups and finds it difficult to share the ideals of other people. From the news, I think Jolie is breaking through that Saturn taking Pitt across the world to understand others’ problems.

Opposites and Squares Attract

Astrologers watch famous relationships for the same reasons others do – that watching beautiful people is exciting – and more.

The famous provide data to test theories. What’s it like when a Gemini and Sagittarius get together? Do they travel the world? Spend all their money? Argue like cats and dogs?

Jolie and Pitt have recently engaged. From the transits, I’d guess it was Jolie’s impulsive idea. Uranus in transiting Mars which gives the aggressive and energetic Aries even more energy. It’s the Energizer Bunny with even more powerful batteries.

For Jolie, the engagement is pure, delightful self-assertion.

For Pitt, with Pluto transiting his planets in Capricorn, the engagement is more transformational. It changes his role in society. It’s a serious act of responsibility. It’s not impulsive, it’s life changing.

So when’s the wedding?

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Ohio Astrology Recommends Combining Mother’s Day and Earth Day into “Mother Earth Day”

Posted on April 16, 2012 by ohioastrology

Thinking about Mother’s Day, I wondered why it was in the sign of Taurus. Cancer is the sign I most associate with mothering. Cancer is late June to mid-July.

From my Google search of Mother’s Days across the world, only Kenya celebrates Mother’s Day in the sign of Cancer.

I then realized that Earth Day is also in the sign of Taurus, very early Taurus on April 22. Perfect to celebrate Earth Day in the sign that is most earthy, most grounded in reality, most loves its material possessions and is mostly likely to look at the materials of the earth and see furniture – Taurus.

This Earth Day, April 22, 2012 the sun, moon and Jupiter will be in Taurus, triple the earth fun.

In celebrating our mothers, are we really celebrating the earth?

In celebrating the earth, are we really celebrating mothers?

A common Mother’s Day present is flowers, a present of the earth.

In Peru, pachamama is “mother earth” or “mother world.” Possibly the closeness of Earth Day and Mother’s Day is a subconscious drive of the Western world to become more connected to the earth. Possibly we are sensing that the earth is what truly nurtures and supports us. Earth is reality.

Will mothers be helping us reconnect to earth?

Mother’s Day is traditionally the time mothers sleep in and have breakfast served in bed, not helping at all. Maybe Mother’s Day is truly about mothers teaching the family about what it takes to both cook breakfast and clean the dishes and the kitchen.

Maybe, by extension, the children of mother earth will then see what is involved with taking care of the planet.

I’ve also learned from the Wikipedia article on pachamama that she rules earthquakes. Make mom angry, and the ground beneath you will shake.

If we combine Mother’s Day and Earth Day into “Mother Earth Day,” we should make it a national holiday with paid time off of work. Because the earth is between the sun (which rules Sunday) and the moon (which rules Monday), Earth Day could be celebrated at midnight Sunday, which is the border between Sunday and Monday.

That Monday will be the most special-ist Monday of the year – no “case of the Mondays” but a celebration of living on Mother Earth.

Off to think about Father’s Day in Gemini. What’s up with that?

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Author Sue Miller and the Sagittarian Quest for “Something Else”

Posted on April 15, 2012 by ohioastrology

Sue Miller’s protagonists in “While I was Gone” and “The Senator’s Wife” struggle with living life as it’s laid out in the societal template (marriage, children, family) and a craving for “something else.”

You might say that in this 21st century women are under no “template.” I believe our ideas about life are still very structured, for both men and women, even in this land of the free and home of the brave.

Don’t believe me?

Tell your family and friends that you’ve decided to leave that steady job and [fill in the blank with your dream].

Let me know how they react.

Actor George Clooney chooses not to be married and is continually pestered about this fact. Why can’t we accept he’s chosen to be a bachelor who has the looks and fame to sleep with any woman he wants until they bore him then move on?

What’s so threatening about a man who doesn’t want to be married?

In 1992 Hillary Clinton answered the charge that she wasn’t a good mother and made headlines have arisen again as we question yet another woman’s role as female (Ann Romney).

Why did Clinton’s comment about not wanting to stay home and “bake cookies” ruffle so many feathers?

What’s so threatening about Hillary Clinton?

These are just two “something elses” in an infinite list of “something elses.” Why are there not more “something elses” going on?

Miller’s Female Characters

Miller’s female characters are attractive to me and very real because they deliberately or impulsively make choices based on this need for “something else.” They then must deal with the results.

Miller’s characters make perfect discussion fodder for book clubs – they make choices and you (and the characters themselves) wonder, “Should she have done that?” and “What if she’d just have . . .”

I don’t believe Miller is trying to create book club discussion points. Miller, a Sagittarius sun, probably struggles with impulsive choices versus stability in her personal life.

Sue Miller

Miller is sun in Sagittarius and moon either in Sagittarius or Capricorn.

Her Sagittarian sun is opposed by Uranus (exact), Mars and Saturn in Gemini. The Sagittarian sun opposed by Uranus and Mars in Gemini represents an impulsive and unpredictable nature. That Miller’s characters struggle with conventional life (high school, college, steady job and steady marriage), suggests her moon may be in Capricorn. Also that Saturn in Gemini may add to impulsiveness followed by guilt.

Except for a moon in Capricorn, Miller’s chart would be all air and fire, intellectual and intuitive, constantly seeking both stimulation (Gemini) and meaning (Sagittarius).

What is the “something else” that Sagittarians seek?

I was impressed with this article on the cognitive processing of liberals versus conservatives. The article states that conservative individuals seek “cognitive closure.”

In astrological terms, I see cognitive closure as relating to the earth and air elements. Earth likes to live in the realm of the practical and usually rejects the complicated because, simply, it’s complicated. There are bills to pay and dinner to make so who cares about the complicated situation in that country far away that I can’t right now see, touch, taste, smell or hear.

Air loves to categorize and put every idea in a chart or grid. Air doesn’t necessarily like it simple, but air would also want closure, to have every idea and stimuli labeled and tagged somewhere, at least. But I don’t see air as rigid as I do earth. Air likes to play with ideas and could live with cognitive non-closure until an idea found its rightful place in the master chart of ideas.

Water lives in the world of emotions and fire lives in the world of possibility and both require intense imagination. I see water and fire as least interested in cognitive closure for that very reason. Imagination is a flowing, non-structured state.

For an earth sign, cognitive closure is a cozy living room filled with comfortable furniture. For an air sign, cognitive closure is a puzzle of pieces that have finally fit together. For a water sign, cognitive closure is a stifling denial of the many feelings that don’t fit any pattern. For a fire sign, cognitive closure is simply a boring prison that removes the possibility of possibilities.

Sagittarius, the mutable fire sign, is known for its quest for meaning and what late-astrologer Howard Sasportas called the quest for the sublime. Cognitive closure to a Sagittarius is a brick wall that cuts off the view of “something else,” “something more” and “something different.”

Many of us get lost on road trips and worry about where we are. Sagittarius looks up the street and wonders where it leads.

Sagittarius is the opposite of a xenophobe; rather than fearing “different,” Sagittarius seeks “different.” Consequently, Sagittarians are often wandering and traveling to far-off places.

While Sagittarians, in their quest for meaning, often find their way into organized religions, Sagittarian is the one who is most likely to break the rules, regardless of how arrogant and smug the Sagittarian may act about its beliefs.

Sagittarius is the monk who knows to sit in silence but can’t resist the urge to chase the butterfly that’s just flown past his nose.

Capricorn, on the other hand, is social structure. Capricorn loves hierarchy and class and relationships based on rules and laws and regulations and four-way stops with stop signs and anything else that might be termed structure or infrastructure.

Stop signs are great to have at four-way stops so don’t dislike either Capricorn or its planetary ruler, Saturn. Once in Columbus when the power went out for five days, I not only yearned for functioning traffic lights, I vowed never, ever again to curse stopping at a stop light. Without those lights, havoc reined.

Now imagine a chart with this desire for “something else” (sun and Mercury in Sagittarius) and comfort zone of obeying authority and structure (moon in Capricorn).

That makes for a Sue Miller character, who runs out of her ordinary life, then back in, then out again (sometimes). Miller’s characters don’t disdain ordinary life; they simply hear the siren call of “something else” and heed the call. The characters seem to appreciate both ordinary and non-ordinary life but don’t know how to mix these two as they are like oil and water.

Miller, as author, makes no apologies for her characters’ choices. The characters are fully responsible for their actions, which is very moon in Capricorn. Capricorn does not care to either give or receive pity.

Miller’s writing ability problem stems from her three planets in Gemini (Uranus, Mars and Saturn). Gemini is more the journalist than the novel writer with a love of words for their own sake and language in general. With Saturn hanging about in Gemini, Miller can probably slash you apart with her words, if she chooses. With Gemini, words can also be misleading.

Sue Miller is Something Else

Miller has captured the complicated state of being a person (usually female) in a civilized society who feels the call of something else or something more.

Because she’s writing novels, Miller must present some resolution at the end. If she didn’t, her editors would probably force it, as many of us like cognitive closure at the end of an artistic work.

Miller the Sagittarius dares to tread in territory many of us avoid, the territory of unusual and impulsive choices.

Miller is something else.

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Posted on April 13, 2012 by ohioastrology

Blog re-post from September 25, 2011. Miss Ann is back in the news!

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This morning I read about the home-spun authenticity of Ann Romney, wife of Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Of course, checking out the horoscope behind the authenticity was a must.

First let me say I LOVE THIS. Watching politicians’ attempts to project images takes me back to watching plays in elementary school. You’re taught by elementary school not to laugh (openly) at others but still don’t have the maturity to restrain your giggles watching your friends trying to portray characters in a play. Their acting is terrible, it’s funny and you laugh.

According to the AP story, Ann and Mitt Romney were flipping pancakes recently at a political fundraiser. Mrs. Romney is quoted in the article as saying that she served pancakes nearly every morning before her children went to school.

I don’t question the authenticity of Mrs. Romney’s love of making pancakes nearly every morning for her sons…

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Republican Veep Fight Club: Condoleezza Rice

Posted on April 12, 2012 by ohioastrology

An OHA reader commented that “[Mitt] Romney is going to ask Condoleeza [sic] Rice to be VP.”

OHA made time in its busy schedule to look at the chart of the former National Security Advisor and Secretary of State.

In addition to these high and honorable titles, Rice is also an accomplished pianist. That Rice is extremely intelligent is clear.

Rice has also never been married (according to Wikipedia), which also attests to her intelligence . . .

Rice’s chart is almost entirely water with some air and fire and no earth. Mercury, Saturn, sun and Venus are in Scorpio while the moon, Uranus and Jupiter are in Cancer.

Mars in Aquarius and Neptune in Libra are air.

Pluto in Leo is fire.

This is one sensitive individual.

Scorpio is definitely a tough sign but also sensitive. I believe the revenge Scorpio is known for emanates from this extreme sensitivity. Cancer and Pisces are more openly vulnerable but Scorpio hides it. Scorpio obsesses then strikes out.

Scorpio is the detective of the zodiac who knows how to hide secrets and, thereby, knows how others hide their own. Scorpio doesn’t need a microscope and DNA evidence; Scorpio feels what’s going on.

Cancer is even more sensitive than Scorpio, easily hurt and not shy about shedding tears of both sadness and joy.

Cancer has the need to belong and loves family and other close, intimate groups.

Rice is not shallow. If she loves you, she is an extremely devoted and caring friend.

Now if she doesn’t like you, you may as well not even exist. With the Cancer in the chart, I suspect if she doesn’t like you it will show. Everyone will get a little treat with the holiday card but you. Your seat at the table will be the crack where two tables are joined. The raise you want has not been approved.

Don’t think she doesn’t notice every little thing that you’re doing and responding to it.

With Saturn conjunct sun and Uranus conjunct moon, Rice had an unusual set of parents, both controlling and unpredictable. Rice may be avoiding marriage not just due to her extreme intelligence but because her parents’ marriage wasn’t one that made her fond of the idea.

Rice does want deep, intense commitment but probably feels that others are either too controlling (Saturn on sun) or unpredictable (Uranus on moon). While she loves people and many love her back (moon and Jupiter in Cancer), she doesn’t fully trust another human being.

With a Scorpio, one betrayal signifies that there are 6 billion other people who might do the same.

Rice is suspicious but when you are past the gate, she would walk across Utah to give you a glass of water.

The lack of earth in Rice’s chart means that Rice isn’t grounded and prefers activities that provide emotional stimulation over activities that are chore-like such as washing the windows and fixing the house.

Saturn conjunct sun in Scorpio creates a person so disciplined they might be a military leader, yet there is not a true enjoyment of physical activity. Rice might spend three hours on the treadmill for the result it brings rather than physical enjoyment of the exertion. She might cook a fantastically complex meal, but only for the emotional enjoyment of seeing others share it, not for the physical sensation of preparing food.

Moon in Cancer does have its food issues, though, maybe even a little lactose intolerance.

Ohio Astrology Assessment

OHA gives Rice 10 stars out of 10.

Rice has proven herself a loyal and devoted public servant and appears to be a true Scorpio as there is no kiss and tell book out there with her name on it (unlike Dick Cheney).

Rice’s sun in Scorpio is conjunct Romney’s moon in Scorpio and Rice’s three planets in Cancer are trine Romney’s Pisces sun and Scorpio moon.

In addition, Rice’s Mars in Aquarius is conjunct Romney’s Venus.

If these were two single people looking to date, I would definitely set them up.

OHA gives Rice 10 stars because she would actually like Romney and support him from the heart. She also finds him attractive. The other candidates might have more support from the pocket (which holds the wallet) than from the heart.

There are two problems, both which this strong woman could overcome.

One is Rice’s Saturn (in Scorpio) conjunct Romney’s moon. Wow, this Scorpio thing arises again and again every time I look at the potential picks. Maybe the issue isn’t about Scorpio moon (Romney) doling out money but a problem with Romney finding a partner he can truly trust.

Both Rice and Romney are slow to trust. Romney may have mistrust of Rice because of her intense knowledge and possible possession of certain secrets.

Two is that moon in Cancer is extremely sensitive and the ugliness of one’s personal life being probed will be highly unpalatable to Rice (as it would to any normal human being).

If Rice does find herself in this position, she can talk to a Scorpio sun / Pisces moon combination for advice – Hillary Clinton.

If Romney and Rice could develop trust in each other and Rice could stand the probing of her personal life, these two could be a successful team. Not only do they share political views, but they might truly like each other.

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What do PowerPoint Presentations and Cars Have in Common?

Posted on April 10, 2012 by ohioastrology

I’ve always felt we are our truest selves when in our cars, alone. In our cars, battling traffic on the way to work, we dare to flip off others and make nasty, grimacing faces.

Would we dare do this at the grocery if someone bumped us with their cart?

Some do, of course, but most of us are different when physically ten feet away than we are when behind the power and metal of a car.

The car, then, is like our 4th house of a horoscope, our real self when no one is around or when we are around our closest family and companions.

PowerPoint, for those of you not living in the squares of a corporate organization chart, is a program created by Microsoft for presentations.

Oh, how people love PowerPoint.

My experience is that everyone believes himself/herself to have the best PowerPoint presentations. Everywhere you go the standard is different but each company believes its standard to be the one correct standard.

Sounds a lot like culture, doesn’t it?

PowerPoint is the presentation we show the world. PowerPoint is a mirror in which we look at ourselves and see our image reflected back. PowerPoint is the 1st house of the horoscope.

PowerPoint is the outside and our car is the inside of our personal selves.

Personality Assessment by PowerPoint and Car Driving Styles

Astrology takes years to learn as it’s an analytical exercise of math, geometry and synthesis of numerous points of data.

To make astrology easier, OHA likes to use real-life manifestations of astrological principles for easier assimilation.

Find below the style of PowerPoint and car driving and you’ll have an idea of your friend/co-worker/loved one’s 1st and 4th house signs. It may also be a good indication of sun (PowerPoint) and moon (car driving) signs.

The sun is our conscious self and the moon our reactive self.

POWERPOINT PRESENTATIONS BY SIGN

ARIES competes through presentations with lots of charts, large bold text and animated graphics. It’s the presentation that doesn’t load because of too much animation.

TAURUS is simple and to the point with one-sentence slides and simple, easy-to-understand graphics, like pie charts.

GEMINI is inconsistent and creates presentations where no slide looks alike or follows the same format. Slide ideas are not clearly connected.

CANCER tries to make the presentation personal by adding graphics that evoke feeling such as dollar bills in the sales presentation or cookies in food sales charts.

LEO uses the largest font possible, bright colors and charts that dazzle and amaze so that the lack of text and content is overlooked. It’s not about the content, stupid.

VIRGO creates the “novel as PowerPoint” type of presentation and reads each line to you. Virgo should avoid creating PowerPoint presentations and stick to novels.

LIBRA creates balanced presentations of charts, graphics and text. These are the presentations you envy in their beauty.

SCORPIO is careful what it shows in the presentation as it fears the revealing of secrets and subsequent loss of power. Charts may not measure data equally and may deliberately lead you to the wrong conclusion.

SAGITTARIUS wants you to think and wonder so look for charts and graphics that provide meaning and more questions than answers. The presentation is a guide to conversation, not a manual.

CAPRICORN creates presentations that meet exactly the corporate standards, down to the font size and useless header/footer graphics. Content is authoritative and there is no question and answer slide at the end.

AQUARIUS will rebel against PowerPoint and present in some program off the Internet. Content may appear to be from video game.

PISCES when found in a corporate setting, will create, uneven presentations that don’t really explain anything. Pisces has deep understanding of the content, it just can’t say it in a PowerPoint.

CAR DRIVING BY SIGN

ARIES is always in the fast lane, tailing you and trying to move ahead. If you pass Aries, be sure to look for Aries passing you in competitive return.

TAURUS is also in the fast lane but not driving at the speed limit. Taurus has one speed (always) regardless of lane.

GEMINI is weaving in and out of traffic. Gemini doesn’t weave to get ahead; it’s weaving because it’s fun.

CANCER is talking to the companion in the car. Cancer rarely drives alone.

LEO is passing you and letting you know that you are being punished for driving slowly. Leo also looks in the mirror a lot (at itself).

VIRGO is driving the speed limit because Virgo 1) follows the rules and 2) actually read the speed limit sign, something others rarely do.

LIBRA drives fast and slow, often in the same drive. It drives slow in the fast lane and fast in the slow lane.

SCORPIO is a focused, deliberate driver who does not tail or weave but gets ahead of you somehow.

SAGITTARIUS loves to drive fast because it’s sublime. It’s not tailing you in competition or to punish you; it’s tailing you because you’re in the way of the exhilarating ride.

CAPRICORN follows all the rules of driving and gives you a nasty look because you’ve broken a rule, whether you know it or not. Capricorn may be driving slow in the fast lane, but thinks it’s driving fast.

AQUARIUS is focused on the traffic patterns and has determined the appropriate speed and distance during these particular conditions so that no one has to break. The angry look you see on Aquarius’ face is because no one gets it.

PISCES is not really driving, it’s daydreaming. If you see a Pisces bumper sticker, just stay away as the driver is physically in the car but the imagination is not on this planet.

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Republican Veep Fight Club: Rob Portman

Posted on April 9, 2012 by ohioastrology

Another name tossed around for Mitt Romney’s running mate is Ohio native and US Senator Rob Portman.

Ohio politicians are OHA’s eminent domain, area of expertise, core competency, low-hanging fruit and customer-centric deliverable.

Etc., etc.

Businessman Romney would understand that if you call your blog “Ohio Astrology,” you ought to deliver astrology about Ohio.

Here it is, as promised in the advertising.

Rob Portman

Moon in Aquarius

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Portman’s sun is in Sagittarius and moon in either Aquarius or Pisces.

Sagittarius / Aquarius make for a scientific-minded individual who probably took the refrigerator apart as a child to see how it functioned. This is a combination that is constantly learning, who, at the age of 85 decides to get a PhD and learn a new language.

Making friends is easy for a Sagittarius / Aquarius because this combination loves interesting ideas and interesting conversation and wants to learn about everyone. What better way to learn about everything in the universe than through the people who do the everything.

Meet a person who plays the clarinet and learn a little about music. Meet a person who mushroom hunts and learn how to pick an edible, non-toxic mushroom.

While Sagittarius and Aquarius are both super, duper friendly, neither likes clinging attachment. Try to hang on to this combination and watch them slip away into the farther stars in the galaxy.

Moon in Pisces

If the moon is in Pisces, it’s a little different. Sagittarius / Pisces create an almost mystic personality. The Sagittarian inquisitiveness is still there, but there is more intuition of the non-scientific sort. This is someone who follows his hunch and is usually correct in doing so.

There’s more shyness with this combination. It’s still a great chess partner but someone who is must less mentally organized than Sagittarius / Aquarius. With Pisces, the answers arrive and the path from A to B can’t really be traced backwards.

The sock drawer is a mess and the hair needs cut.

With Pisces moon, there is more emotion and moodiness in the personality.

Other planets

Portman has Mercury and Venus in Capricorn making for a serious speaker and studious person. Before giving a lecture, Portman probably spends time making notes and studying (especially with moon in Aquarius; if Portman has an organizer with note cards, then I vote Aquarius moon).

Saturn and Mars are in Scorpio adding more seriousness to the personality. Sagittarius is not serious in itself, but other planets in his chart make Portman a more serious responsible Sagittarius (I’ll have to meet him some time since I’ve never met one of these creatures).

Jupiter is in Virgo, which might be opposite moon (if in Pisces). That would create some anxiety and add details to the above-mentioned note cards.

I’m getting the image of a man who can remember everything and everything which, to some, is called a “know it all.”

Outer planets Pluto and Uranus are in Leo and Neptune in Libra. He’s of the “Me Generation” (Leo) that “Makes Love, Not War” (Libra).

Ohio Astrology Assessment

OHA gives Rob Portman 8 stars out of 10 (moon in Aquarius) or 9 stars out of 10 (moon in Pisces).

Portman’s sun in Sagittarius lends some fun and enthusiasm to life and political campaigns.

If moon is in Aquarius, Portman would also provide some fixed qualities and a little more “man of the people” type of feel.

If moon is in Pisces, I can see Portman truly liking Romney, unlike some of the other candidates. However, too much mutable makes for adaptable but unpredictable individuals. It might bother the pundits but it wouldn’t bother Portman and Romney.

The only problem I see here is Portman’s Mars/Saturn in Scorpio on Romney’s Jupiter/moon in Scorpio. Once again, money becomes an issue with Romney doling out the funds.

The other problem with this Saturn conjunct moon synastry in Scorpio is that Romney may want Portman to hold secrets that Portman is not comfortable with. With Mars in Scorpio, Portman has some secrets of his own but won’t necessarily like playing “omerta” for Romney.

If Portman’s moon is in Aquarius, this will be even more of a problem as Portman is generally transparent in his ideas, although he is discreet in his person (Mercury and Venus in Capricorn).

While Portman has this Scorpio in his chart, he seems more interested in ideas than gossip.

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Republican Veep Fight Club: Bob McDonnell

Posted on April 8, 2012 by ohioastrology

This short list of possible Mitt Romney Veep picks (according to this story) includes Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell.

Where to begin?

I’ll start where I always do – sun and moon.

McDonnell has sun in Gemini and moon in Sagittarius. Sound familiar?

Newt Gingrich, current Republican presidential nominee, has this same sun and moon.

Luckily for McDonnell, he has more balance. Mars in Capricorn provides grounded, focused direction and Jupiter/Mercury/Uranus/Venus in Cancer provides a true feeling (and loving) nature.

However, Capricorn and Cancer are opposites and so are Gemini and Sagittarius. McDonnell is a man of polar opposites.

Gemini and Sagittarius are fun signs and, like Gingrich, can rouse the crowd because who doesn’t like some jolly, good-natured fun?

Who doesn’t like in the middle of a long drive to see a road off the side of the highway, wonder where it goes and spontaneously hop on it?

Who doesn’t like ice cream for breakfast sometimes? And who hasn’t neglected a bill and spent the money on something fun and frivolous?

Maybe Mitt Romney.

Mars in Capricorn is a calculating, driven placement. It opposes a great deal of Cancer energy (Jupiter, Mercury, Uranus and Venus) suggesting that McDonnell feels a strong drive to succeed but is often pulled back by family, a loving and generous family.

Back and forth, this is McDonnell.

A fun, loving and spontaneous back and forth, but back and forth.

McDonnell is also a wanderer and bedside philosopher. Essentially he is seeking meaning and belonging. From all that energy in Cancer, he appears to be surrounded by a very loving family and community.

With all that love, I’m imagining a man who is loved and comfortable but has a desire for something he can’t exactly put his finger on. He knows he’s blessed and shows his appreciation, but occasionally can’t resist wandering off to look for that something else . . .

Ohio Astrology Assessment

OHA gives McDonnell 7 stars out of 10.

McDonnell would bring to the ticket energy, fun and a feeling that he’s part of your community so you can be part of his community (Cancer energy).

Romney could use a person who emanates a feeling of inclusion.

On a personal level, Gemini and Sagittarius are mutable signs which would square Romney’s Piscean energy. Romney will feel very uncomfortable with a man who wanders off and can’t be found even if that man is at a donor’s house having Sunday dinner after that church function on the schedule.

McDonnell’s Saturn is in Scorpio, the same sign as Romney’s moon. For Romney, McDonnell will cost money. Romney may have to pay off some debts for McDonnell.

If balance is what is necessary for Romney in the general election, McDonnell will provide that. As long as Romney can let go of moon in Scorpio control and let Bob be Bob, McDonnell could provide the fun, rollicking times that voters seek during a general election.

If an election isn’t any fun, what’s the purpose?

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Reality and Imagination

Posted on April 7, 2012 by ohioastrology

Think about your favorite TV show, the characters and the interactions.

Notice something missing?

What’s missing are all the things we do in our daily lives.

If we track the hours of a day spent preparing food, eating food, cleaning up food, sleeping, commuting, working and engaging in other mundane life activities (balancing the checkbook, getting an oil change, buying light bulbs), we find we have little precious “leisure time.”

Yet when watching our favorite TV shows we are seeing our character friends exclusively in their leisure time. If not, then we are seeing them in work that is 100% engaging 100% of the time (hospital ER, courtroom, crime scene).

We don’t watch our TV characters clip coupons and rearrange the cupboards. They don’t change the sheets and wash the windows. They never, ever, clean the dryer lint trap.

Why not?

TV emphasizes the interactions that contain meaning. In TV land, laundry and work and making toast are emphasized only if it provides meaning to the interactions.

We don’t see people washing dishes simply because dishes must be washed.

Virgo and Pisces

Virgo rules work and routine (and the 6th house) and its opposite sign Pisces rules sacrifice and spiritual states (the 12th house). Barbara Hand Clow describes this polarity in “Alchemy of Nine Dimensions” as “be here now” (6th) and “bliss” (12th).

Virgo is the discriminating mind and Pisces the uncritical mind.

Virgo is analysis, Pisces synthesis.

Virgo is many, Pisces is one.

This article on the five regrets of the dying sparked this blog and suggests that on our deathbeds, we think more in terms of Pisces than Virgo.

Sensitivity and Detail

Both Pisces and Virgo are sensitive signs. I think of the folktale of the Princess and the Pea as relating to this polarity.

Based on the Wikipedia summary, the prince is looking for a princess and can find no suitable candidate. A woman spends the night claiming to be the princess but is not believed. Only after sleeping on a 20-mattress buffer to a small pea and declaring she couldn’t sleep due to a hard object does the prince believe her.

Virgo is the picky prince who can’t find the perfect mate and is unbelieving of the princesses’ divine heritage. The princess is a Pisces who can feel the subtlest stimuli from the farthest distance.

Virgo picks at everything and Pisces feels everything.

If you have a friend who can’t eat your dinner because of allergies, changes chairs because of a draft, asks you to turn off the light because of the glare and then pulls out a decaffeinated tea bag, you know you have Virgo/Pisces energy in the room.

Reality and Imagination

I believe there is great bliss in doing meaningful work of any sort, from washing dishes to computer programming, but our world requires that we engage mostly in activity that provides no real meaning to our spiritual selves.

As with TV shows, our imaginative lives do not include mowing the lawn unless our fantasy involves a meaning around mowing the lawn, such as the fantasy of a lawn that cuts itself while you sit on the deck drinking martinis and watching the sunset.

Imagination is the meaning without the details and reality is the details without the meaning.

Imagination is the bubble and reality is the pin. Come up with an imaginative idea and tell people and the first thing they will do is pull out the pins.

Merging Virgo (Reality) and Pisces (Imagination)

A merging of Virgo and Pisces is creating a blissful state in every detail of our lives.

I believe that is the goal of meditation and why in a meditation retreat you remove the details that are not necessary for the weekend’s survival and then focus exclusively on the details of each moment including sitting, breathing, walking, chewing and thinking.

What is called “mindfulness” then may be the merging of Virgo and Pisces energy.

Neptune in Pisces

Neptune has just begun its 15-year transit of the sign it rules, Pisces. Mars is currently retrograde in Virgo until mid-summer.

Neptune in Pisces will be seeking meaning in life and probably begin rejecting some of those many extraneous details of our everyday lives.

As Mars transits Virgo, which it will do many times in the next 15 years, it says, “Bliss sounds nice, but who’s paying the rent this month?”

As all the other planets continue on their paths and people engage in their everyday activities, Neptune will hang out above them and say, “But what does it mean? On your deathbed will this activity have mattered?”

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