New Hampshire – the Opposite of Iowa

Posted on January 4, 2012 by ohioastrology

Iowa has sun in Capricorn and moon in Taurus – both earth signs (based on admission to the Union).

New Hampshire has sun in Cancer (almost directly opposite by sign and degree of Iowa’s sun) and moon in probably Aquarius (based on admission to the Union).

Cancer and Aquarius, interesting mix. Eccentrically shy, self-consciously weird. Emotional with bouts of extreme rationalism.

If Iowa was about practical matters, New Hampshire is really about family and community values. This is where the water-sign candidates might prevail (Romney and Perry) although they will have to play out the “sacrificial lamb” ploy to do it as Saturn is in Pisces in the NH chart and both Romney and Perry have sun in Pisces.

New Hampshire is Water

New Hampshire has five planets in water signs (Sun, Jupiter, Mercury and Uranus are in Cancer, Saturn is in Pisces), two in fire (Venus and Mars in Leo) and three in air (Neptune in Libra and moon and Pluto in Aquarius). There are no planets in earth.

What does this mean for the candidates?

Now I see why Hillary Clinton cried in New Hampshire and not in Iowa. Iowa doesn’t care about tears, unless they water crops. New Hampshire cares about tears and feelings and probably truly believes all those promises.

I also see, too, why everyone eats in diners with these folks. Cancer is about food and comfort.

Advice to all the candidates – cry (at a diner) and make it look real.

New Hampshire Astrological Advice by Candidate

Today I’ll organize by sign of the zodiac. Aries is first and Pisces last. Hopefully you know the in-between order by now . . .

Perry the Pisces will appear before Romney the Pisces because he is in an earlier degree of Pisces.

Jon Huntsman – Wow, dude, you’re going to feel like a lighted match in the middle of the cold Atlantic. Your Jupiter in Capricorn opposite all the New Hampshire Cancer energy will turn them off. You need to pretend to be ONE OF THEM instead of ABOVE THEM. If you can leave your ego in Utah and pretend to be just one of the family, they might accept you. The important thing to remember about family is that they talk behind your back. They are talking about you now.

Rick Santorum – You’re definitely weird enough for these folks, although you’re going to have to act emotional in public, something you may have never done before. It’s time to activate that Mars in Pisces without acting nervous and jittery (with transiting Mars in Virgo opposite this placement). With your Taurus sun, you like a good meal. So does NH. Have many, many meals in NH and maybe even gain a few pounds doing it. Make sure there are homemade goodies (HOMEMADE I SAID) at all events. Let the NH folks make fun of your added weight so they can feel like family and then lose the weight down south where it’s warm enough to get some outdoor exercise.

Newt Gingrich – Are you really going to NH? I suppose with Jupiter in Cancer, you feel that they will be good to you. Your energy is like alien energy to these folks but their sense of propriety will make them offer you a room for the night. Make sure you offer them a present before you leave so that they don’t feel you are an ungrateful houseguest. Cancer likes to talk as much as Gemini, just don’t do the Sagittarius moon talk about travels and philosophy. Talk about home and family life. Tell fanciful yarns about kittens and puppies and children and such.

Ron Paul – You share the same Saturn in Pisces placement as NH. Your best bet will be to say that you ARE New Hampshire, that their travails are your travails. Bleed and cry with them and act like a Democrat for a couple minutes by showing demonstrations of pity for all that they have been through. Don’t forget to tell them that Gingrich stole the family Bible from the guest room but that you didn’t even use the towels and made your own bed. NH’s Mars is conjunct your sun. They like your natural confidence.

Rick Perry – Ah, NH is a place you can be your sensitive self. No more acting like a tough guy or berating others because a firm out of their control used a laborer with fake papers. With your sun in Pisces and moon in Virgo, this Cancer state is the one place that will accept you as you are and will even tuck you into bed at the end of a long day. Your Venus, Jupiter and Mercury in Aquarius will appeal to NH’s Aquarius moon. NH’s Saturn in Pisces, however, is on your sun. You must nail yourself to some cross for these folks, but you won’t mind it. It’s your comfort zone. Now you can finally relax for a few days before it gets rough again.

Mitt Romney – NH’s Cancer energy adds the missing piece of a grand water trine in your chart (sun in Pisces, moon in Scorpio) indicating that this is requited love. You are in your element in NH. Your Venus on NH’s moon says that they adore you. NH’s Venus and Mars are in Leo so they are proud and will pounce on your Saturn in Leo forcing you shine more. One other teensy tiny problem is that NH’s Saturn in Pisces is conjunct your Mars in Pisces. Like Perry, you need to appear to be sacrificing something for these folks. You won’t enjoy it as much as Perry because of your Scorpio moon which is proud and in control. Hopefully your cross will match your wardrobe. If not, hang there anyway.

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4.97 Career Options for Michele Bachmann

Posted on January 4, 2012 by ohioastrology

Michele Bachmann was right that Iowa would surprise us – it gave Mitt Romney a mere eight (8) vote lead over the second place candidate Rick Santorum. Eight votes are clearly disputable but I don’t think anyone will go there during this process.

Bachmann received a mere 4.97% of the votes.

I know, I know, Iowa isn’t important like New Hampshire. I know, I know, there are people who win Iowa only to fade into the corn rows like “Children of the Corn.”

Yes, New Hampshire is in one week. But remember, Huntsman is still in the game and his dissing of both Iowa and the fidelity vows suggests he’s got some guerrilla tactic up his sleeve.

Regardless, the individuals with the most fixed signs won the top three spots in Iowa.

Michele, can you drop Newt and Perry off on your way home? Newt might be a little distracting as a talk-a-holic but Perry will be quiet as he holds back his emotions in the back seat.

4.97 Career Options for Bachmann

Ohio Astrology, again, would like to offer Political Career Displacement Services to the Republican Presidential Candidates that don’t make it through the finish line. I wish I could offer some unemployment benefit, but since politicians are all wealthy, it’s not truly necessary.

Five career options:

  1. Vice President – hey, that’s still out there. To beat our first African American president, the Republicans may choose to throw a female into the race as they did in 2008.
  2. Head of non-profit organization – I know that this is a stereotypical wife-of-politician career path, but I think you’d be really good at it with sun in Aries and moon in Aquarius. It might give the true fulfillment you are looking for by running for president.
  3. Animal trainer – with so much fire in the chart and Mars in Capricorn, you would love the challenge of taming a wild beast.
  4. Developer – you would enjoy the material aspects of development which include watching something being built and making money at the same time. It would also provide that sense of community your Aquarius moon seeks.
  5. (.97) Head of a new political party – back to the Aries and Aquarius energy. If they can revolt in the Middle East, why not the US?

Good luck, Michele. I kind of hope the Republicans will choose you as VEEP. I think you deserve it WAY more than Sarah Palin.

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Iowa Returns

Posted on January 1, 2012 by ohioastrology

In astrology when a planet returns to the position (degree and minute) where it was placed in the natal horoscope, it is called a planet’s “return.” The return is based on a planet’s cycle around the sun.

The average human life expectancy in the US is about 78 years. In 78 years we experience almost one Uranus return, almost three Saturn returns, almost seven Jupiter returns and a myriad of Mars, Venus and Mercury returns. The moon returns to its position once a month. One will never see a Neptune or Pluto return.

For a non-human entity, such as a state in the union, the life expectancy is undetermined but much longer than a human life. The oldest US states are Delaware, Pennsylvania and New Jersey which are 224 years old. Soon these three states will be the first in the US to experience a Pluto return (in about 24 years).

Since the Iowa caucuses are in a few days, I thought I’d glance at Iowa’s horoscope. I don’t know much about mundane (world affair) or electional (event) astrology but was surprised to see that on January 3, 2012, seven of the ten planets in the horoscope are undergoing a conjunction.

Iowa is also experiencing its Neptune return, which happens when one is 164 years old. Iowa just turned 165 in December. Iowa is also close to experiencing its second Uranus return. Uranus has an 84 year cycle so the second return occurs when one is 168.

The Transiting Conjunctions

• Pluto is conjuncting the natal sun and Venus in Capricorn
• Uranus is almost conjunct natal Uranus in Aries (natal Pluto is also in Aries but far by degree)
• Neptune is conjunct natal Neptune and Saturn in Aquarius (Venus is also transiting Aquarius but far from the Neptune/Saturn conjunction)
• Jupiter is conjunct natal moon in Taurus
• Saturn is conjunct natal north node in Libra
• Mercury is conjunct natal Mercury in Sagittarius

Transiting Mars in Virgo

Transiting Mars in Virgo is adding the missing piece of a grand earth trine of sun/Venus in Capricorn, moon in Taurus and transiting Mars in Virgo.

What does it mean?

The sense I’m getting is that this caucus will prove materially advantageous to Iowa. Pluto on the Capricorn sun suggests that Iowa’s already important part in the election process will be elevated to an even greater importance.

I don’t know what happens in backroom politics, but I’m wondering if Iowa will gain something from this caucus or this election. Maybe someone from Iowa will be part of the Republican ticket or possibly someone from Iowa will be elevated into a high position in Washington.

I’m also getting the image of match fixing – you know, rigging a boxing match and betting on who will win knowing the outcome in advance and betting strategically on both sides. Pluto is a Machiavellian power player.

That money enters the state during the primary process is a given. With Jupiter on the moon, this election’s windfall might be greater than in the past. Mars in Virgo adding the missing piece of the grand earth trine suggests the money is coming from communications and work.

Uranus in Aries returning to its natal position is squaring that natal sun in Capricorn and the transiting Pluto in Capricorn. This suggests some intense volatility in the state. Uranus in Aries brought us uprisings in the Middle East; this aspect might bring us uprisings in Iowa.

While the US loves revolution in our enemies, we are not so appreciative of revolution at home or with our allies. The Pluto power play may turn to bite those that create it.

Somehow Iowa’s political influence will shift in an earthquake-like manner. The Capricorn and Aries energy makes me feel they will fight to be on top and in control. But fight with who or what?

Saturn transiting the natal north node in Libra opposite natal Pluto in Capricorn suggests a struggle between fairness and power. There might even be some sort of legal battle that involves the courts or some higher electional authority.

The Neptune return over the Neptune/Saturn conjunction in Aquarius indicates that while there is a mental idea of fraternity during the caucuses, there is also elitism which runs counter to the egalitarian motives of the process.

Will Iowa Change the Primary or Will the Primary Change Iowa?

Iowa is going through some intense changes during the time of the election. Will Iowa lead changes in the election process or will the election process lead to changes in Iowa?

Something’s up in Iowa. It will be interesting to what happens.

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Ohio Astrology Helps Republican President Candidates with New Year’s Resolutions

Posted on December 29, 2011 by ohioastrology

It’s that time again – time for New Year’s Resolutions. Luckily we make our resolutions AFTER we drink ourselves into a stupor on New Year’s Eve.

New Year’s resolutions occur in the sign of Capricorn and it’s no wonder that our resolutions tend to be Capricorn/Saturnian in nature – we want to contract (lose weight, pay off our bills), discipline (plan to go to the gym three times a week, eat more vegetables) or control (this is the year I will start my own business or find a new job).

Sure, some resolve to have more fun or find a way to live on the beach (and those might be from the serious Capricorns), but the very idea of a resolution implies discipline.

Republican Presidential Candidates

Ohio Astrology, in its constant effort to be of service, offers to help the Republican Presidential Candidates find the most appropriate New Year’s Resolution based on their charts. New Year’s Resolution time for the candidates also, coincidentally, coincides with the Iowa caucuses on January 3.

On January 3, 2012, the sun will be in 12 degrees of Capricorn with Pluto in 7 degrees of Capricorn following the sun like a rash on your skin. The moon and Jupiter will be in Taurus. Mars will be in Virgo.

That’s a lot of earth which means the event (and results) will be like watching the earth move closer to your face as you make a crash landing due to a defective parachute.

It should be fun to watch.

Pluto in Capricorn means that this year’s resolutions will have the added intensity of Pluto. That means if we resolve to lose weight, there is a feeling of “I must lose weight, or else.”

Today’s list of resolutions by candidate will be alphabetical by first name. This gives our rarely-seen but supremely confident Huntsman top billing.

Suggested Resolutions

Jon Huntsman – I resolve to take better care of my skin, bones and knees. I will also let my guard down and let go of the constant need to be in control of my surroundings.

Michele Bachmann – I resolve to slow down and not take every idea and impulse to extremes. I will do this even if those around me urge me in this type of behavior.

Mitt Romney – I resolve to share more of what I have (including material goods) with others. Instead of sharing only my beliefs, I will share my true emotions and will try to understand why others don’t always agree with me.

Newt Gingrich – I resolve to do something “grounded” this year so that I can understand cause and effect in the material world. I will plant a garden to see how what I sow is what I reap. I will be solely responsible for the outcome of the garden.

Rick Perry – I resolve to speak more clearly and more quickly with added detail. I resolve to transmute my anxiety into an energy with which to promote ideas.

Rick Santorum – I resolve to share my ideas with others by including them in what I do rather than lecturing them on my beliefs. With Venus and Neptune on my moon during the caucuses, I will connect with people more spiritually.

Ron Paul – I resolve to remember that my personal goals are not always the goals of the group. I resolve to remember that generation gaps create unique views of the world. I will share my material goods.

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Kate Moss: How Skinny Feels

Posted on December 28, 2011 by ohioastrology

Kate Moss, British supermodel, was quoted as saying in Women’s Wear Daily in 2009 that “nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.”

What does skinny Kate Moss feel?

Skinny for Moss is sun in Capricorn and moon in Scorpio. Skinny is both serious and intense. Skinny is not the aloof waif we see on every other page of Vogue – it is someone who strives for respect, to be on top and does notice that you are lower on the mountain. Skinny is discipline to achieve one’s goals.

Moss has Uranus in Libra square the Capricorn sun and Mercury and Venus in Aquarius, the sign ruled by Uranus. I believe it’s that Aquarius/Uranus influence that makes Moss a unique beauty and probably creates the Aquarian aloofness we see in her face. Aquarius also would explain an androgynous appearance and appeal.

Moss has quite a bit of air in her chart with Jupiter/Venus/Mercury in Aquarius, Saturn in Gemini and Pluto/Uranus in Libra. Air makes for a social being.

Capricorn and Scorpio, on the other hand, are private. Scorpio is intensely private of its “secrets” and Capricorn is discrete so as not to be embarrassed in public.

Moss’ drug charge several years ago must have been extremely embarrassing. Capricorn and Scorpio both have large egos and want to be seen as strong. Being caught with one’s pants down is not fun for anyone but for Capricorn and Scorpio it is close to a death warrant. Moss is probably still beating herself up for that episode.

Mars in Taurus in Moss’ chart opposes that Scorpio moon making for one stubborn and demanding chick. Moss is a deliberate and methodical individual.

There is only one planet in fire is Moss’ chart – Neptune in Sagittarius. Moss’ chart contains Scorpio obsessiveness and Capricorn striving, but not true confidence. She lacks enthusiasm and raw zest for life.

Moss probably experiences Capricorn/Scorpio depression from time to time. Her drug use may have been fueled by feelings of melancholy rather than a desire to suppress hunger or a simple desire to have fun. It could have been started by social pressure as air signs are always in tune with the crowd, even if they “rebel” against the current zeitgeist. But its deeper source may have been a simple sense of sadness.

If Moss hadn’t been discovered and turned into a model, she probably would have been equally successful in whatever endeavor she chose. She’s a mixture of drive for success and social ability which is a winning combination.

Current Transits

Saturn has been transiting Libra which has been hell for many relationships. For Moss, it has possibly created some angry and aggressive situations as it passed Pluto and is now hatching an egg on Uranus.

Pluto and Uranus are outer planets so the struggles aren’t simply with the folks around Moss, but with the powers that be in her industry. I bet there have been some nasty arguments. Moss, with Capricorn and Scorpio, is surely the winner of any angry argument.

In several years Pluto will transit Moss’ sun (about six years from now). She may be re-inventing herself now and will emerge as a different type of person around that time. Maybe she will even have a career change. Capricorn is about career and if Moss finds she’s not on top anymore, she may move to a new vocation in which to retain her heightened status.

Saturn in Gemini suggests that Moss feels a little insecurity about her education or learning background. Maybe when Pluto transits her sun she will be involved in some educational pursuit.

How does skinny feel?

Skinny, like any other state, feels different on each skinny person. For Moss, skinny is a serious business (duh). If Moss was a real estate agent, property would be a serious business, 24/7. If Moss sold ice cream, she would be watching the price of milk (and cows) 24/7.

In other words, Moss is disciplined and obsessive. Skinny is her path to success on this particular career.

Skinny is not my path to success (at least, I don’t think so). So I’m off to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. I will have something the rich and successful Moss doesn’t have – pimples.

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0 Degrees of Cancer – Meryl Streep

Posted on December 27, 2011 by ohioastrology

Cancer sun individuals are for me some of the most humorous and imaginative. One of America’s most revered actresses is a Cancer sun – Meryl Streep.

Streep has a Cancer sun conjunct Uranus in Cancer in 0 degrees, the very beginning of this sensitive, imaginative and fragile sign. Moreover, this conjunction is in the same declination. That means in the sky these two planets were truly next to each other, and not simply in the same longitudinal bandwidth

Cancer is a cardinal water sign with constantly changing emotions. Late astrologer Linda Goodman said Cancer’s moods change with the tides. With Uranus conjunct the sun in this sign, moods change very, very suddenly.

If Streep weren’t an actress, she would probably drive her companions mad with emotional change. Or maybe she does.

Streep’s moon is in the fixed earth sign of Taurus which should provide some grounding for the emotional Cancer. But wait, this moon is square to Pluto in Leo.

Is this grounding or controlling?

Moon square Pluto is a hard aspect and what I call “the mark of a politician.” Streep likes things her way and has a need to control the environment. There’s a lot of stubbornness with this aspect.

Images of Cancer

I’m trying to imagine a Streep outside of the profession of acting. Here’s what comes to mind.

Imagine a fun-loving partner who laughs with you about the time you two ate an entire chocolate cake for dinner and washed it down with red wine. You then mention this same story as conversation fodder at a party one week later only to find that your Cancer is now upset with you for telling everyone about the cake because now everyone thinks he/she is a binge eater and an alcoholic.

One day it’s a funny story, another day you are making fun of your Cancer friend.

I’m also imagining this sun/Uranus and moon combination to be an individual who changes suddenly, say in the middle of a conversation. Your conversation is now an argument he/she is leaving, never to return. You wonder if you should contact the authorities and put out a missing person warrant only to find that your Cancer/Taurus person has managed to take his/her favorite blanket, softest pillow and three packages of cookies on the way out the door.

How far is he/she really going?

Both Cancer and Taurus like comfort. Streep’s moods may change in the blink of an eye, but the need for comfort is constant. With Cancer and Taurus, the comfort is physical and often involves food. Streep also has Venus in Cancer adding to the desire for comfort.

As with her moods, the eating habits of Streep may also be erratic and eccentric. Uranus changes suddenly but Taurus wants things the same. There may be certain food items for Streep that are unusual but staple.

As with the argument above, I imagine someone who one day eats nothing but Twinkies, another day eats only whole foods but every single day still drinks at least one glass of chocolate milk.

With the exception of Jupiter in 0 degrees of Aquarius, the planets in Streep’s chart all fall between Aries and Libra. These are personal signs.

Streep is essentially a private person. Bringing her changing moods into the theater is her homage to Jupiter. Lucky for us she does this and it’s probably lucky for those around her that her moods are dispersed into a wider spectrum.

Current Transits

Currently Pluto is transiting Capricorn and Uranus Aries (both in early degrees). Both are in square to Streep’s sun and Uranus forming a T-square. In early 2010, Saturn was in Libra causing a grand cross.

Streep must be undergoing some intense changes with regard to her role in her family, partnerships and friendships. These transits affect us all in some way. For Streep it’s rather intense. She is probably going through a lot of emotional changes right now with some severe ups and downs.

Streep is not an actress who makes the news when she shops for groceries. Streep’s ability to act may also help her protect her changing emotions from erupting into public view.

Jupiter is transiting Taurus and later next year will conjunct her moon. She will feel much calmer then and more secure. If I didn’t know that she were a wealthy actress, I would guess next year that she would feel more secure due to a financial gain or acquisition of property.

Jupiter on the moon could also indicate weight gain. It may be a time Streep feels like eating more, both for comfort and pleasure.

Mars transiting Virgo is conjunct Streep’s Saturn in Virgo. Natal Saturn in Virgo says that Streep never feels “perfect” enough. She may be very self-critical. With Mars activating that aspect, she may be exceptionally critical right now.

Mars is squaring Streep’s natal Mars/Mercury conjunction in Gemini so this critical side may be projected outward. Streep may be verbally rather rough and critical right now with those around her.

The Perfect Career

It’s always interesting to see a chart and how an individual has manifested his/her personality in the world. For Streep, she seems to have taken her constantly changing moods into a profession that necessitates a constantly changing personality.

Maybe this is why the shy and self-conscious Cancer finds its way into the theater and movies – it’s the only place where it can truly be itself.

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28 Degrees of Cancer – Ernest Hemingway and Hunter S. Thompson

Posted on December 26, 2011 by ohioastrology

Ernest Hemingway and Hunter S. Thompson were both Cancer sun writers who were heavy drinkers, loved to travel (and write about it) and committed suicide by self-inflicted gunshot wound while in his 60s.

Hemingway had sun in 28 degrees of Cancer. Thompson had sun in 25 degrees of Cancer with Pluto conjunct at 28 degrees of Cancer.

Hemingway’s moon is in Capricorn while Thompson’s is in either Scorpio or Sagittarius. From Thompson’s excess and traveling lifestyle, I would guess Sagittarius.

Clearly both men suffered from depression which led to heavy drinking and later suicide. Both men were under a major Saturn transit at the time of death.

Hemingway

Hemingway with sun in Cancer and moon in Capricorn – opposite signs indicating he was born close to or during a full moon. Cancer is warm, clingy and extremely sensitive and needs lots of affectionate love and constant reminder and feedback on that love. Capricorn is the opposite – a restraint of emotions.

Hemingway probably vacillated between a warm, loving person and a cold, resentful wounded child. At the time of his suicide, Saturn was conjunct his moon adding weight to a tightly wound emotional state. It must have felt like a physical weight on his body.

Thompson

Thompson also has this warm, sensitive sun. He was so sensitive that he needed to wear sunglasses constantly. That’s a crab hiding in its shell.

Thompson’s moon is unknown as it shifted signs the day of his birth. Sagittarius explains the wandering writer and the excess of drugs and alcohol. A Cancer – Sagittarius combination would have a hard time saying “no” to indulgence.

The moon in Scorpio would add intensity and sensitivity. There would also be a tendency to brood. With Pluto on Thompson’s sun, he would have had some controlling Scorpio like behavior regardless of where his moon was placed.

Ultimately, Cancer is about belonging and feeling at home. Any control Thompson exerted would be to feel part of the gang, part of the brood. The worst offense to him would be to brand him an outcast or ban him from the party.

At the time of Thompson’s suicide, Saturn was transiting his sun, saying that his sense of belonging was being challenged. He may have felt he wasn’t part of “it” anymore. He probably felt left out in some way.

Cancer Sweetness

I was thinking of blogging on “the funniest sign of the zodiac.” For me, that would be Cancer. I also find that Cancers are some of my favorite actors.

Cancer, like all the water signs, is sensitive to the environment so picks up the nuances of the behaviors around them. I wonder if Cancer sensitivity feels like an allergy – the way our body reacts with hypersensitivity to substances in the environment that are not truly harmful. Cancer reacts to everything.

Cancer, then, can mimic your every habit. Just ask your Cancer cousin to tell you about Aunt Myrna at last Thanksgiving’s dinner table. Your Cancer can not only speak in Aunt Myrna’s voice, but will hold the fork like Aunt Myrna, tell you you’re fat (like Aunt Myrna) and then pick her teeth (like Aunt Myrna).

Cancer can be a “sweet” sign. That works well for Cancer women who can retreat into female “sweetness” to run the emotional chords in a family, but for men it is a challenge. Men are not supposed to be sweet and sensitive. Often sensitive Cancer men (and sometimes women) overcompensate by putting on a tough act.

Being tough and strong is a weak defense for Cancer and what ultimately makes Cancer break. There is great power in emotional honesty, something very rare. When you know someone who is 100% emotionally honest, you will shrink in your skin from your own emotional lies. You will also see that emotional honesty needs no protection. When you’re hiding something, that’s when you need protection.

It must be tough to be a male Cancer. When Saturn came pounding on the shell, both Hemingway and Thompson cracked in some way we’ll never understand.

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WordPress is a Gemini

Posted on December 21, 2011 by ohioastrology

WordPress, the Internet site in which you now are residing, was launched on May 27, 2003. That makes WordPress a Gemini with moon in Aries.

Gemini is a mutable air sign, the sign of the twins. Gemini is ruled by Mercury and is about communication and short-distance travel. Mercury is the wing-footed messenger of the gods. It is important to remember that he is the messenger and not the message.

Newt Gingrich is ruled by this unpredictable, curious sign. WordPress is like Gingrich – lots of different, random, of-the-moment thoughts. Luckily for WordPress, it keeps its role as messenger and is not trying to own disparate and contradictory messages as a personality trait.

Maybe Gingrich should be called “The Blog” as his thoughts are more like blog entries than parts of a cohesive, coherent belief system.

WordPress’ own Mercury (and Venus) is in Taurus suggesting that for a vessel of communication, WordPress is very quiet about itself. With Jupiter currently transiting both Mercury and Venus, WordPress is probably making lots of money. WordPress may also be considering selling some of its assets.

Moon in Aries means that WordPress is about speed and has a “give it to me now” attitude. You might liken WordPress to McDonalds – it’s communication served up fast for a busy culture.

It’s interesting that Saturn, the planet of limitation and restriction, is also in Gemini, in the fated 29th degree. WordPress is both a conduit for communication and is also teaching us something about the limits of communication or simply communication’s role in the greater structure of our lives.

Mars and Neptune are in the air sign Aquarius. More air, more communication. Aquarius is an impersonal sign. With very little water in the chart (only Uranus in Pisces), WordPress is not about emotional connection. It is about intellectual connection to broad audiences (Aquarius).

Neptune will be transiting WordPress’ Uranus in Pisces. I’m guessing that soon some privacy or invasion issue will arise with/through WordPress.

When Uranus conjuncts the moon of WordPress’ chart in the next five to six years, there will be sudden, impulsive changes to the platform. In five or six years, I’m sure it will look nothing like today.

Matthew Mullenweg

WordPress was created by Matthew Mullenweg. This young man is a Capricorn sun with moon in the “give it to me now” sign of Aries. Capricorn and Aries are both driven cardinal signs who are constantly competing to get to the top of Mt. Everest first.

Mullenweg has a strong internal drive to succeed and it looks like he’s accomplished that goal at a young age.

Mullenweg’s Saturn, Pluto and Mars are in Scorpio. This is a very intense, controlling placement. Mullenweg probably never rests, is very demanding and has his fingers in every pie he cooks as they are cooking.

For all that serious intensity, Mullenweg’s chart does have a balance with Uranus, Venus, Jupiter and Neptune in Sagittarius. Sagittarius is about freedom, learning and exploring.

I’m imagining a man who might spend 40 days straight working 23 hours a day until a project is complete then getting on a plane the next morning for Cancun where for 10 days he will do nothing but sit on the beach, drink margaritas and have other kinds of foreign beach fun.

One thing I can tell you from this chart – Mullenweg makes the rules.

Thank You to WordPress

I have to offer a big thanks to WordPress for providing a communication channel where I can talk about my favorite topic – astrology. Communication is two-way and not only do I write, but I also have the opportunity due to WordPress and other blogging sites to read fascinating articles on astrology.

As astrology is deemed superstition, the publishing world mostly publishes books on popular astrology that rehash the topics of love and money. In the blogosphere, I find folks like me who have studied quietly for years and now can share their unique perspectives. My favorite sites are found in the “Blogroll” section.

I love it.

WordPress, don’t change! Be the Gemini you were meant to be.

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Astrological Elements in Sex and the City

Posted on December 20, 2011 by ohioastrology

If you’re familiar with astrology, you may notice astrological symbolism popping up in movies and books. Shakespeare and Chaucer are said to have included astrological reference in their works. Students of astrological symbolism claim the Bible is full of references to astrology.

The personality profiling that is sold to corporations for thousands of dollars is also based on astrological symbolism (via Carl Jung).

Why does astrological symbolism appear so frequently in our culture?

First, because astrology is a cohesive description of the world. Secondly, because for books or movies to be interesting, the characters must be different and balancing.

In Sex and the City, there are four characters that clearly represent by their personalities the four astrological elements:

Carrie – air

Miranda – earth

Charlotte – water

Samantha – fire

Carrie is a writer, an air sign occupation. She’s witty and flaky and capricious. If you’ve ever taken a sick day and sat on the couch and watched several seasons in a row, you might be surprised at how many times she and her flame “Big” break up and get back together. Carrie is not consistent. She’s the perfect airy Gemini.

Carrie is AIR.

Miranda is the serious, ambitious lawyer trying to be a partner in her firm. Her life is about success. She’s the perfect Capricorn, critical and judgmental.

Miranda is EARTH.

Charlotte is the nostalgic, emotional, sentimental character. If you pay attention to Charlotte on that sick day while watching season after season, you will notice that it is very important to her to be married and have children. Her obsessive need to conceive a child [spoiler alert] ruins one marriage and almost a second. Charlotte is a perfect Cancer.

Charlotte is WATER.

Samantha is a beautiful, sexy and supremely confident public relations executive. She prowls like a cat at night for sex. Samantha is a loosely drawn character with sex as her primary preoccupation and competition her second. Regardless, she is still much like a Leo or Aries.

Samantha is FIRE.

The Wizard of Oz is also a good representation of the four elements. Why not watch The Wizard of Oz instead of Sex and the City?

Time moves and so do the projections of our astrological elemental selves. Whether we are Dorothy or Miranda, the Straw Man or Carrie Bradshaw, the fundamental nature of the elements remains.

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Astrological Elements in the Wizard of Oz

Posted on December 19, 2011 by ohioastrology

Astrology is analytical. I like to think of astrologers as the Nerds of the New Age Movement. There are ten “planets” in 12 different signs in 12 different houses all making angles to each other. For the Obsessive Compulsive Astrologer, there are also decanates, Sabian symbols, mid points, progressions, transits and more! Astrology appeals to those that love data and details and making meaning out of these many moving parts.

To make it easier for those first learning astrology, examples from the cultural world aid speed of learning. What is literature and film but symbolism?

The Wizard of Oz, required viewing for US citizenship, is a colorful example of the four elements in Western astrology – fire, earth, air and water. Have you got your pen ready? Here are the characters and the elements:

Dorothy – earth

Straw Man – air

Tin Man – water

Cowardly Lion – fire

In case you were born on Mars, I’ll explain a little of the story. Dorothy lives in Kansas with her aunt and uncle (she’s clearly parent-less). After her little mutt Toto gets in trouble for biting the town grinch, Dorothy runs away, gets caught in a tornado, and is sucked through the tornado into the sparkling and colorful Land of Oz (which is over the rainbow).

Now I don’t know about you, but I always found Oz more appealing than Kansas. Why the girl was so eager to return to the black and white dust bowl rather than stay in the colorful land of yellow brick roads and green cities with chameleon horses, I’ve never figured out. But that explains the element of earth – it seeks the practical, not the magical.

Dorothy has become ungrounded. [Spoiler alert] Her trip to Oz is a dream or maybe an astral projection. Dorothy needs to return not just to Kansas, but to her body. She wants to go home. Her body is her home.

Dorothy is EARTH.

Back in Oz, Earth Dorothy meets the other elements. First comes the Straw Man. He was stuffed with straw but they forgot to give him a brain. When asked how he can talk without a brain, he responds, “People without brains do an awful lot of talking.”

Clever.

For a creature without brains, the Straw Man is the one coming up with the ideas.

The Straw Man is AIR.

Next we meet the Tin Man who needs oil to move from his stiff and rusted state. We learn he was built without a heart. While Leo, a fire sign, rules the heart in astrology, for the Tin Man the heart is about all emotions, as we learn in his song. Later in the story he cries when Dorothy is poisoned nearly rusting himself again.

The Tin Man is WATER.

And lastly we meet the Cowardly Lion. He comes up to the group ferociously only to react with childlike fear when Dorothy slaps him on the nose. The Cowardly Lion is seeking courage. Courage is about the spirit.

The Cowardly Lion is FIRE.

By the end of the story, Dorothy’s companions all find that they possess the qualities that they mistakenly believe they are lacking. Dorothy’s earth quality quest to return home, a clear and urgent goal, brings out the hidden qualities of her companions.

And what about the ruby slippers given to Dorothy by the good witch Glinda to protect her from the Wicked Witch of the West?

Red is the color of the root chakra which represents, again, grounding. It’s also the place where our energy resides and relates to our urge to fight. [Spoiler alert] At the end of the movie, Dorothy does invoke her root chakra by protecting her friend and inadvertently killing the witch by throwing water on her and melting her.

Dorothy is finally reunited with her body and back in the three dimensional world of the senses.

Her friends air, fire and water are then merely memories.

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