Weekly Forecast for Arnold Schwarzenegger

Posted on May 22, 2011 by ohioastrology

I think Arnold Schwarzenegger could use an astrology reading. As a Good Samaritan and Democrat, I will offer it to him for free.

I am basing this forecast on the Astrotheme horoscope that has Schwarzenegger born at 4:10 am. If you recall, having the time of birth means we can see the areas of life affected by transits. Transits are the planets’ current movement through the signs. Your horoscope contains all the signs and so planets traveling through signs fall into some area of your chart and, therefore, your life.

Arnold,

Sunday:  The sun has just entered Gemini and is in your 11th house. The moon is in Aquarius in the 7th house. You will be spending time with groups for the next few weeks. These groups offer fun (Gemini) or some sort of community work (Aquarius). Neither has an emotional tone (such as a religious group). Mercury, Venus and Mars are also in your 11th house. You will be having lots of fun.

Monday:  The moon moves into your 8th house. Sex and taxes will be the order of the day, not necessarily in that order. The moon is opposite your intense Saturn/Pluto conjunction in Leo. This will be a very unpleasant day of intense emotional encounters, including raging jealousy. If you’re thinking of having sex with a stranger, don’t.

Tuesday:  The moon moves into the 9th house which means you’ll do some traveling. Hopefully you are traveling far from the person you dealt with yesterday. Venus is moving into the 12th house so you will be holding back on speech.

Wednesday:  You will continue traveling as the moon moves into Pisces. The travel may involve water. The moon trines Mercury, Venus and Jupiter on Wednesday. This should be a good day with love and support of family and close associates.

Thursday:  Another day of emotional reprieve. Later in the evening, work concerns arise.

Friday:  Back to work. You will be devoting energy to a new work project. Your energy is very high on this day, so much that you must be careful about offending others.

Saturday:  Like Friday, this is also a day of work and self-promotion. A very busy, energetic weekend is in store. To release all of this fiery energy, you should engage in a competitive sport.

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Schwarzenegger and Gore

Posted on May 14, 2011 by ohioastrology

Arnold Schwarzenegger and Al Gore have something in common astrologically – moon in Capricorn. Moon in Capricorn is considered a difficult placement because the moon is about reaction and emotions and Capricorn is about control and restraint. Consequently, moon in Capricorn folks are often perceived as cold, standoffish or withdrawn.

Moon in Capricorn are the people around you who keep calm in difficult situations. They make the funeral arrangements, clean up the crime scene, talk people off building ledges and lead troops into battle. Moon in Capricorn can do this because it doesn’t react. It controls its emotions.

Remember the comment about Gore being “wooden?” That’s moon in Capricorn.

Schwarzenegger and Gore are both sun fire signs, Schwarzenegger is Leo and Gore is Aries. Fire is expressive, extraverted and enthusiastic. Fire dominates.

Fire sun and moon in Capricorn suggest that both Schwarzenegger and Gore are dominant individuals. Even if they weren’t actors and politicians, they would be in control in some way. They are alpha males.

Using Astrotheme’s time of birth for both men, both have moon in about 3 degrees of Capricorn in the 6th house (Gore’s just barely) which is the house of work and health.

I see the moon in Capricorn in the 6th house as being the quintessential workaholic. Seeing this in Schwarzenegger’s chart, I realized that when we go to the gym we call it a “work” out, not an “exercise moment” or “fun on the treadmill.” It’s work. When we go on a bike ride, we don’t call it “work.” When we go to the gym, it’s work.

Schwarzenegger’s workaholic nature has translated into the body and health, both 6th house concerns. I’m guessing that Schwarzenegger doesn’t really get pleasure at the gym. I’m guessing it’s all work and no play. It’s serious and intense.

Gore’s workaholic nature isn’t as evident, to me at least. But being a politician seems like a heck of a lot of work to me, so I can’t tell a workaholic politician from a non-workaholic politician.

The big news for both of these men is that Pluto is transiting Capricorn. Pluto, right this moment, is sitting on top of their moons.

In addition to describing emotional temperament, the moon also describes the women in one’s life and one’s relationships with women. Both Schwarzenegger and Gore probably had mothers who were less than maternal and most likely stressed social standing than more than personal expression. Their wives may have been the same.

According to Robert Hand in “Planets in Transit,” Pluto transiting moon “signifies a time of extremely powerful emotional change in your life, which can affect your immediate personal surroundings, your home and family, and your innermost psychological development.”

Sounds right as both men are splitting with long-time partners.

Hand adds that this transit “can transform all your emotionally based relationships, such as those with your spouse, family and parents, particularly your mother.”

While we are publicly seeing the divorces, what we are probably not seeing is that for both men, a number of relationships are probably changing with regard to emotional tone. Both men are probably dealing with a lot of emotional feedback from a number of people.

Because both men have moon in the 6th house, both may undergo transformational health changes. Capricorn rules the knees and skeletal structure so both may have problems with knees or spine. Back problems may also be part of this.

Moon in Capricorn folks don’t like to air dirty laundry so public breakups or anything else messy that occurs in public is highly embarrassing. Capricorn also likes to be perfect (and thinks it is, by the way) so anything that goes “wrong” is unpleasant. And moon in Capricorn is as judgmental of itself and it is of others so these men may be beating themselves up emotionally. They are probably more harsh on themselves than others are on them.

There is a lot more to these two charts than moon in Capricorn. The Pluto transit over their moons suggests that this is where the transform begins – emotionally and with women. This is not an easy transit but as moon in Capricorn is serious and used to hard work, both should be able to handle it. Capricorn is nothing if not tough.

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John Kasich’s Mouth – Good News!

Posted on May 11, 2011 by ohioastrology

I read today in the “Columbus Dispatch” that John Kasich “rips the nursing home lobby.” Not criticize, but “rip.” Well, at least he didn’t call anyone an idiot.

Kasich’s natal Mercury is in Aries which indicates his speech is always somewhat aggressive and warlike. For the past month, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Uranus have all been in Aries triggering an abundance of energy onto this volatile communication style.

I bet he vows every night to tone it down (his sun & moon are in earth signs, so he does want to play by the rules). I wouldn’t be surprised if he gets upset with himself for letting his aggressive thoughts come out of his mouth. I have this problem too, so I sympathize.

The good news is that May 12 – May 16 Mercury, Venus and Mars will all be moving into Taurus. Then Jupiter will move into Taurus on June 5.

So maybe Kasich will get laryngitis.

Taurus does rule the throat so it is possible that something will occur in the throat area. While the planets transiting don’t indicate illness, maybe he will get a sore throat or some other head cold that will have him swallowing cough drops and a few unspoken words.

Or maybe he will feel calmer and have more control over what he wants to say versus what he actually does say.  Taurus naturally is calm, steady and methodical. His sun will be in more control than his Mercury now.

These planets in Taurus will not only improve his communication style, but also give him physical energy to release the Arian mental energy he’s been dealing with for the last month. Possibly Kasich will vent some frustration at the gym instead of at the podium.

I also predict that Kasich will get a nice haircut at the beginning of June when Venus is directly on his sun. It’s a good astrological time for a photo op.

The good news is Kasich’s volatile outbursts will diminish. That’s good astrologically and politically because I think Kasich’s message is getting lost in the manner in which he delivers it.

However, Uranus is still traveling slowly through Aries so he will still have sudden outbursts, just not as frequently. Or maybe he will use the clever, unusual manner of Uranus and find a new way to communicate that reaches people without making them angry in response.

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Joe Simpson – Watch those Knees

Posted on May 5, 2011 by ohioastrology

I was watching “Touching the Void” again the other night. Since I view life through the astrological lens, I wondered about the horoscope of this man, Joe Simpson, who went climbing in Peru, broke his leg on a descent, fell into a crevasse after his partner cut the rope and spent several days without food or water crawling back to a camp where his companions were just ready to leave.

I would have died.

In his own words from the movie his is stubborn and things “weren’t going his way.” And he likes things to go his way.

So what drove him to make it?

Physically he simply set himself goals, like crawl to that rock in 20 minutes. Mentally he focused on those goals. He clearly is a man of intense focus.

Simpson’s sun is in Leo and moon in Taurus. Leo is fixed fire and Taurus is fixed earth. Fixed signs are stubborn and explain the “things weren’t going my way” attitude that helped Simpson survive. Uranus is conjunct his sun in Leo which also explains the “sudden” events that plague his climbing life. Uranus is also about enlightenment so hopefully he’s getting more than broken legs from these experiences.

If Uranus is enlightenment and Leo is the about self, the enlightenment or insight should be about ego and self. In the film, Simpson describes how he got to the point in his crawl back to camp where he peed on himself and realized he’d lost all concerns about self, ego, and other concerns of daily life which involve what others think of us.

Leo likes the spotlight and dying alone is not the spotlight. But at a young age Simpson got a major lesson in his Leo-ness. He seems to have put the experience to good use by telling the story to others as motivation.

So why climbing?

Years ago a college roommate joined the mountaineering club. As I have moon in a water sign, nature to me is imaginative. When I go to the river, I canoe slowly and peacefully and think about Native Americans before conquest. In my youth, I thought everyone did the same.

Much to my surprise the members of the mountaineering club were hard-partying sorts. Now I see that drive to climb mountains and the partying as part of the same core – sensation.

Taurus is the fixed earth sign. Moon in Taurus is like getting a massage with a sweater on. The masseuse has to push harder for you to feel the sensation. Climbing a mountain in frigid cold, getting frostbite on your fingers and toes and having your knee cap in your chin are all strong sensations.

In the movie Simpson says it’s fun to climb, but I’m guessing he’s looking for that intense sensation.

I should also mention that Saturn, that planet of burden and restriction, is in Capricorn which rules the knees. The knees help you stand and I believe spiritually represent standing on one’s own. Even if Simpson weren’t a mountain climber, I would suggest care with the knees.

Simpson’s story to me is twofold – 1) don’t risk your life so carelessly and 2) if you are in a pinch, let go of your ego self and focus on the reality of the situation.

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George Clooney and John Kasich – Two Peas in a Pod?

Posted on May 4, 2011 by ohioastrology

One of the major criticisms of astrology is that it says the same thing about everyone. It’s true. We are all the same species and with the same needs. Although American culture stresses uniqueness, we are not unique.

I hope I haven’t ruined your day.

The natal horoscope is a circle that contains all the signs and planets. You were born on earth and share the same energies as others born on earth -all the same energies.

Which brings me to George Clooney. I heard on “Entertainment Tonight” that his birthday is this week. Looking at his chart I discovered that Clooney’s sun in Taurus and moon in Capricorn is the same placement as Ohio Governor John Kasich.

This is why people hate astrology. Clooney and Kasich? How could hot Clooney and hot-tempered Kasich have anything in common?

The easier answer is that besides sun and moon, there are a host of other planets which differ in sign and placement between the charts. The more difficult answer is that they may be more alike than we know.

Years back, a Scorpio friend instructed me to look for others’ motivations. Don’t be fooled by the manifestation of energies, she said. Look underneath for the motivation.

Clooney and Kasich have the same astrological solar and lunar motivations.  And those are?

Let’s start with the sun. Both men have sun in Taurus. Taurus is a fixed earth sign, one of the most stubborn signs of the zodiac. This sign is a sensualist at heart and seeks physical comfort and material security. I think of Taurus as materialistic in a positive sense – it truly derives pleasure from the material world.

Both men clearly make money, but their attitude toward it is unknown. My guess is that neither is overly generous for the amount of money he possesses.

Off to the moon. Clooney and Kasich’s moon are in Capricorn.  Moon in Capricorn is considered a difficult placement because the moon seeks to respond and express while Capricorn wants restraint and control. I think of the butler in “The Remains of the Day” as having a Capricorn moon. His father is dying but he fulfills his duty as a butler. Capricorn works. Capricorn fulfills duty.

In addition to moon in Capricorn, Clooney also has Saturn in Capricorn conjunct the moon. Give him a double on emotional control.

We know that Clooney vows to never marry again. How very Saturn-conjunct-Moon-in-Capricorn of him. This placement suggests that his mother was a stern disciplinarian or someone who withheld warm feelings of love. Clooney was married from 1989-1993 while both Uranus and Neptune were hopping all over his Saturn and moon. This marriage definitely ignited those issues. Pluto is now transiting Capricorn so Clooney’s moon is going to get another SCUD missile attack shortly.

Until it makes news, I will not know much about Kasich’s love life. Kasich was married then divorced in 1980 and re-married in 1997 while Neptune was transiting his moon.  Kasich also probably grew up in a household that had material goods, but not lots of kisses and hugs.

Kasich has Mercury in impulsive Aries while Clooney has Mercury in methodical Taurus. Clooney clearly can control the thoughts that come out of his mouth much better than Kasich.

Clooney has only one planet in water (Neptune) while Kasich has two (Uranus and Mars). Kasich actually is more responsive to feelings than Clooney. Kasich may at least try harder to understand what others are feeling, even if he doesn’t understand or agree with those feelings.

I will go on an astrological limb and say that Clooney and Kasich are alike, with Kasich actually being a little “nicer.” Clooney certainly looks nicer and maybe that’s why it’s not apparent that he’s actually a cold fellow.

Maybe someday I’ll read the biographies of both men and revise this post.  Maybe they are different. I doubt it.

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Facebook and LinkedIn – 4th house and 10th house

Posted on May 2, 2011 by ohioastrology

While everyone uses Facebook and LinkedIn differently, for this blog I’m looking at Facebook as being more personal & family relationships and LinkedIn as being more professional relationships.

In astrology, the 4th house relates to our emotional environment, our home (as opposed to our house) and the 10th house relates to our career and reputation. The 4th house is our “home self” or “private self” and the 10th house is our “career self” or “public self.”  Facebook is 4th house and LinkedIn is 10th house.

While some react negatively to the rise of social media, social media like all tools and technology relates to and retains the fundamental principles of our relationships as a species. It’s just another way to do the same thing. We have a private self and we have a public self. Social media has not changed that, it has adapted to that.

To know the sign that is in your 4th and 10th houses, you need to know your time of birth and to cast a horoscope. I do not have the time of birth for most of the charts I look at in this blog so focus on planets and the relationships between the planets.

I will focus on two charts where I do have the time of birth – Barack Obama, who has recently published his birth certificate online and my Aquarian friend who asked to be referred to as “Bob.” (As an aside, since Obama had to publish his birth certificates I think all politicians should do the same. Astrologers and Republicans will be happier.)

Let’s start with Obama, since you know him better than Bob. Obama’s 4th house cusp (where the house begins) is in 28 degrees of Taurus and ends in 23 degrees of Gemini. Obama’s Gemini moon is in the 4th house. Obama’s 10th house is 28 degrees of Scorpio to 23 degrees of Sagittarius. There are no planets in that house.

Moon in Gemini in the 4th is someone who is VERY chatty, especially while at home among family and closest companions. With Gemini in that house, Obama has a lot of friends and opens his home to those friends, much like you see on a TV sitcom where people walk in and out all the time.

If that is Obama’s pattern in the 4th house of his chart, this would be his pattern on Facebook. Obama would most likely use Facebook to link into everyone he knows, everyone he meets. His 10th house in Scorpio is much more private. Ironically, Obama would be more private on LinkedIn. His public life would be kept more private than his private life.

My friend Bob, on the other hand, has the sign Cancer on his 4th house cusp. His sun in Aquarius is in the 10th house (with Capricorn on the cusp). Cancer is a shy sign that hides in its shell when threatened. It is the mothering sign, the sign of home life itself and the smell of pot roast emanating from the kitchen.

As you would guess from this sign, Bob has been reluctant to join Facebook. He created a profile just the other day and finally connected to me, a friend of 20 years (we’ve been writing by letter than entire time). I made fun of Bob for not posting a picture and yesterday he finally posted one – a sea creature. He couldn’t have expressed his 4th house Cancer better than that.

Bob is slightly more active on LinkedIn, but has been active there for a while and joined it first. Since his sun is in the 10th house, I’m guessing that if he does pump up his activity in social media, LinkedIn will grow more quickly and will always be the first connection he makes with people in the world of social media. Unlike Obama, Bob will probably preserve Facebook for close friends and LinkedIn for most of his social contacts.

Astrology is a description of human patterns and cycles. The external manifestations (such as Facebook and LinkedIn) are representations of those patterns and cycles. To me, Facebook and LinkedIn have changed nothing; they are merely the technological manifestation of our 4th and 10th house energies. Before Facebook and LinkedIn, we had to decide who we liked and didn’t like and how to manage those relationships. Technology has just laid that pattern in front of us.

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If you want to be a talk-show host, what sign should you be?

Posted on May 1, 2011 by ohioastrology

In exploring the signs of talk-show hosts, I realized that daytime shows are women dominated and nighttime shows male dominated. Who decided that?

I have the daytime vixens as Oprah Winfrey, Ellen Degeneres and Rosie O’Donnell (not as active). The sun signs are:

Oprah:  Aquarius (fixed air)

Ellen: Aquarius (fixed air)

Rosie: Aries (cardinal fire)

The nighttime soldiers of comedy are Johnny Carson (deceased but king), David Letterman, Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien. The sun signs are:

Johnny: Libra (cardinal air)

David: Aries (cardinal fire)

Conan: Aries (cardinal fire)

Jay: Taurus (fixed earth)

The simple answer is that to be a talk-show host you should be an air or fire sign. If air, preferably Aquarius and if fire preferably Aries.

That was easy.

So now let’s talk about air and fire, specifically Aquarius and Aries. Jay Leno is clearly the anomaly so I’ll look at his chart separately to figure out how this fixed earth sign walked on the air & fire stage.

Our top two female talk-show hosts are Aquarians. Quoting from Sakoian & Acker’s “The Astrology Handbook,” Aquarius is the sign of fraternity and brotherhood that “spills out to mankind the life-force and spiritual energy.”  Because of this tendency, Aquarians have an “honest enjoyment in meeting new people and exchanging ideas.”

Sounds like Oprah and Ellen for sure.

Remember that Aquarius the water bearer is an air sign, not a water sign. While Aquarius loves people, it loves them impersonally. My guess is that if you go and hug Oprah or Ellen you might find them a little nervous and uncomfortable. And they probably won’t come and help you clean the house, but they will fight for your cause and do wonderful, impersonal things for you (like buy you a car).

Onto Aries. Aries is the first sign of the zodiac and likes to be first. Since I talked about it second, and the Aries in question are males, I’m sure there is some competitive angst about this.

According to Sakoian & Acker, Arians are “full of creative energy” and have a “tremendous psychological drive to prove themselves.” Aries are competitive, impulsive, head strong and sort of full of themselves.

Funny enough, Libra, Carson’s sun sign, is in the sign opposite Aries, Libra. If Aries is about self, Libra is about other and relating to others (much like Aquarius). Our king of the nighttime talk show was more like Oprah and Ellen.

Letterman seems have taken the nighttime talk show from relating to others to focus on the self.  O’Brien is also an Aries, but does have moon in Aquarius, so maybe O’Brien is more of a balance of self/others.

So how did Leno end up in this crowd? I have no idea. He’s a Taurus sun with moon in Virgo which is a very earthy chart. He doesn’t have much air or fire which suggests he’s much more introverted than his talk show companions.  After the show he probably holes up somewhere. While Aries, Aquarius and Libra are wildly social and have tons of friends, Leno probably has only a few close companions.

In summary, talk shows are about TALK. Fire and air are extroverted and like to talk – Aries about itself and Aquarius and Libra about others. Air is about communication and social interaction.

Notice that there are no mutable signs amongst the hosts (Gemini, Sagittarius, Pisces or Virgo). Mutable signs are changeable and probably don’t like the commitment needed to be the same person every day in front of millions of viewers.

So, if you want to be a talk show host, you probably should be an Aquarius, Aries or Libra. If not, you might want to find another profession.

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Katie Couric

Posted on April 30, 2011 by ohioastrology

You have probably already guessed that I’m writing about Katie Couric because she’s  . . . yes, a Capricorn. And you are full aware that Pluto is transiting . . . Capricorn. And that the area of your chart ruled by Capricorn and Capricorn suns in general are going through transformations.

Katie Couric’s big “transformation” is leaving her CBS news anchor position. Maybe this isn’t a transformation for me or you, but surely it’s a transformation for a famous, ambitious Capricorn news authority.

Couric’s sun and Mercury are in Capricorn and she has earned Capricorn “respect” in her roles on the Today show and CBS news anchor. Mars in Aries adds to an aggressive, self-aggrandizing nature. And one easily frustrated by perceived slowness. I’m guessing Couric waits no longer than five minutes after she decides she wants something before she feels that thing called “frustration.”

What could be causing the frustration that led her to leave the evening news?

Uranus has just finished transiting her moon in Pisces. The frustration definitely springs from an issue with a woman Couric perceives as emotional and manipulative. Natal Jupiter in Libra is actually by degree opposite the moon in Pisces so there may have been a strong sense of partnership with this person that fell apart during the Uranus transit. Couric may be leaving her post to gain a sense of emotional freedom from this person.

Moon in Pisces gives a sensitive antenna to her ambitious sun in Capricorn, Mars in Aries combination. But empathic Pisces internally fights with cold, calculating Capricorn and fiery, aggressive Aries. Couric has a grand fire trine (a planet in each of the fire signs) so she probably beats herself up at times, fire against water. Remember that water puts out fire, so I’m guessing that Couric experiences extreme ups and downs with fiery highs and then watery lows.

One of the planets Couric has in a fire sign is Saturn, which is in Sagittarius. With sun in Capricorn and moon in Pisces Couric is definitely a serious person, an old soul. Saturn in Sagittarius suggests she does not always feel the optimism and hope that she projects. Couric is a deep person with a somewhat melancholy nature.

There are a host planets in Aries right now (Mercury, Mars, Jupiter and Uranus) opposite Saturn in Libra. Difficulties in relationships are occurring for all of us under these transits. For Couric, this means even more frustration in her goals as the partnership she is fleeing either will follow her or be replaced by a different, yet similar situation. It’s not over yet, there is still frustration to come.

In mid-May, some of the pressure will be relieved. With all this frustration boiling, I wouldn’t be surprised if later (when Pluto gets closer to Mercury) we hear from Couric exactly what went wrong. As Pluto moves toward Mercury, the planet of communication, this media woman may change her communication or news style in yet another way. Capricorn is serious and it’s serious stuff that Couric wants to communicate.

As Neptune enters Pisces and moves toward the 26 degrees of Pisces where Couric’s moon is placed, Couric will also undergo emotional changes. Capricorn is good at keeping emotions under control, but Neptune allows those emotions to enter the atmosphere, oozing like mist off of ice. Maybe the communication changes Couric will undergo involve more emotional expression or manifestation of something spiritual and/or religious. This makes me think of Shirley MacLaine who at age 40 told the world about what might be called “new age” beliefs. Maybe Couric will express more of her emotional self to the public.

Couric definitely projects (to me) her Capricorn sun and Mars in Aries. Neptune in Pisces may allow us to see the inner workings of Couric, her more vulnerable self.

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Daily Horoscope – How Is It Done?

Posted on April 24, 2011 by ohioastrology

You’ve probably been wondering your whole life how the daily astrology column is written. Everyone wonders and no one seems to answer. Let me try.

The closer to the sun a planet is, the more quickly it revolves around the sun. The more quickly it revolves, the more quickly it changes signs. The moon, which revolves around the earth, changes sign every other day. Pluto, on the other hand, changes signs every 20 years or so. So if I write a daily astrological column, I’m going to look at the bodies that change every day or fairly often. Those bodies would be: moon, sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars.

The rest of the planets move more slowly and will be in a sign for years. They, too, show up in the daily horoscope, but represent the same thing for a long time. But at the same time, those faster moving planets and moon move in and out of those signs and bump up against those slower moving planets. When that happens, you add that tidbit to the daily forecast.

Are you with me?

Now how does an astrologer make a prediction for one sign of the zodiac when millions upon millions of people share that sign?

The astrologer must pretend that all Aries have 0 degrees of Aries as the rising sign. As the planets move through the houses, the astrologer makes predictions based on those areas of life.

So I agree with the millions upon millions of people that say the daily column is bunk. It can be very accurate for some people because their houses line up with this assumption the astrologer makes about that sign of the zodiac. But for most people, it rarely resonates.

I know you’re confused. So let’s look at a daily horoscope for a chart where I have the time of birth – Barack Obama. I have a 7:24 pm time of birth.

Tomorrow, April 25 the sun is in four degrees of Taurus and the moon is in three degrees of Aquarius. I take those signs and degrees and put them in Obama’s chart.

The sun in four degrees of Taurus has just entered Obama’s 3rd house of communication and square his natal Mercury in Leo in the 6th house of work. The moon at three degrees of Aquarius is on Obama’s 12th house Jupiter, the house of hidden matters. By Tuesday, the moon will move into the 1st house of open self.

The many planets transiting Aries right now are in Obama’s 2nd, the house of money and resources. Pluto transiting Capricorn is in the 11th house of friendships and Saturn in Libra is in the 8th house of other people’s money. Neptune in Pisces is transiting his 1st house of open self.

Okay, here goes. This is the daily horoscope for Barack Obama for Monday, April 25.

“On Monday, you have information about group money or resources that you are deliberately not revealing. On Tuesday, a humanitarian or social group will bring that matter into the open. There are great changes in money earned and asset values and money owed to others is now due. The money issues are affecting your social life and friendships. You will be fighting with a man from your past about money, a man that you do not associate with publicly.”

If Obama weren’t president, I would simply assume that he had some intense money problems right now. Since he is president, I’m feeling that the chart represents American money issues he is not communicating truthfully. I’ve suspected before with his chart that he’s giving money to people who will now be cast off from financial support.

So, a daily chart is a mix of things that are going on quickly, like the moon, and things that are larger developments that move slowly, like Pluto.

Most of us can’t think back to a specific day in our and remember that day, unless it had special significance (like a marriage, child birth, etc). Likewise, a daily horoscope isn’t an entity in itself but a part of the cycle you are currently navigating

Make sense?

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Nicolas Cage – Another Capricorn Loses It

Posted on April 24, 2011 by ohioastrology

If you are an astrologer or just read astrology blogs for fun, you are probably aware of Pluto’s transit through Capricorn. Transformation of the Capricorn area of your chart is in order and Capricorn suns will be hit at some point. Mel Gibson, Tiger Woods, Kate Middleton – these are the Capricorns most in the news right now although Gibson and Woods have calmed down for the most part. Just when I thought we were all quiet on the Capricorn front, I see that Capricorn Nicolas Cage was recently in a domestic dispute while drunk.

Capricorns hate to lose control.

So if Capricorns are losing control, that means life, for them, has become unbearable. If Pluto makes a transiting aspect in your chart, it’s just simply pushing the buttons that are already there to be pushed. For Pluto, your “buttons” are bright red and pulsating.

So now Pluto has pushed some buttons in the personality of Nicolas Cage. Which buttons?

Cage has Mercury, Sun and Mars in Capricorn. Pluto is just beginning to transit his Mercury. Mercury is communication and in the sign of Capricorn indicates a serious, practical mind and manner of speech. No astrologer has ever said Capricorn is a “nice” sign so during bad times, caustic, critical speech can be part of Capricorn’s communication method,

I see Cage’s real problem, though, as two things: Mars in Capricorn square moon in Libra and Saturn conjunct Venue in Aquarius. Both signify difficulty with women, and, if you are a heterosexual male, with love. If you’re a Freudian psychologist, this also indicates problems with the mother relationship.

Saturn is transiting Libra, touching Cage’s natal moon. Uranus, Jupiter and Mars are all in Aries opposing the natal moon. The intense opposition going on now with Aries / Libra is activating the underlying issues with women and emotions in Cage’s chart.

First, Mars in Capricorn square moon in Libra is frustration. I should be nice, but I want what I want now.

Cage’s moon is sensitive to what others think although Mars in Capricorn doesn’t give a damn and does whatever it wants. I’m guessing Cage vacillates between “I do care” and “I don’t care.” Drunken episodes are “I don’t care” but I bet he’s apologizing to someone right now.

Saturn conjunction Venus in Aquarius is a feeling of rejection in love. Sun in Capricorn isn’t the most trusting sign either. Combined, there is a strong propensity to feel rejection on a regular basis. Often those that carry feelings of rejection also do a lot of rejecting themselves in defense.

Venus and moon are in air signs, so I sense that Cage’s love interests are social, well-liked women who have groups of friends and are often with those friends. Cage, with inner sense of rejection, may not like when the women in his life are off happily socializing. The Saturn/Venus conjunction suggests he’s socially awkward and has difficulty with large groups and impersonal socializing. Most likely he wants to be around close companions only. I’m guessing that when his women are off, he gets controlling and wants them by his side.

I could imagine this type of situation bothering Cage – you invite him to dinner and then decide to invite another friend as well. Inviting that new person without letting him know will make him uncomfortable. Some people love to meet new people all the time and some people simply don’t.

Maybe Cage’s motivation in being an actor is to be part of a larger group in an impersonal way. As an actor he surely has a large fan base. I’m sure he appreciates that but would have difficulty walking into a big crowd of those fans.

Cage has only one planet in water and one planet in fire (don’t know rising sign because don’t know time of birth). A chart filled with air and earth is a sensation and thinking chart. It’s not a chart of feeling or passion. Cage won’t express his feelings well, but can be quite poetic at times with that Libra moon.

My guess on Cage’s drunken escapade is that he had some feeling of rejection and went into the Mars in Capricorn “I don’t care,” mode. But Libra moon suggests he does care. I’m guessing, too, that he is very concerned about his public image. Like all things, Pluto in Capricorn will pass. After it does, Cage should have a better balance of cooperation and control.

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