It takes a strong man to be married to a strong woman and Teresa Heinz Kerry is just that, a very strong, indeed a very forthright woman. Just what we need in my opinion. After seeing her on TV I said to myself ‘she has to have an Aries ascendant*’ due to her reddish coloring, her straightforward, no nonsense approach to the truth (oh what a relief it is) and her mannerisms; all bespeak of an Aries rising woman.
Here is someone who doesn’t suffer fools gladly. I think its refreshing in the sense that she has such a strong sense of self that she can’t be intimidated by having her every word, gesture, line of thought and article of clothing scrutinized. It’s hard to be in the spotlight and you need to develop a very strong identity to withstand the pressure. This I believe Teresa Heinz Kerry has in abundance.
The first things I check out in a chart are of course the Sun, Moon and Rising Sign. Teresa’s Moon is (luckily for John Kerry) adjacent to the Moon in the U.S.A. chart, at 27 degrees of Aquarius. Having a Moon in that same spot or close to it is a very good thing for anyone who wants to connect with the American populace on a grand scale. It’s also good for someone running for office, which in a sense the partner of the candidate is doing. THK also has Jupiter at 22 Aquarius so it’s a good fit for both her and the country.
Saturn conjoining her Aries ascendant would show in her steadiness of purpose and her ability to think seriously about any issue that comes her way. The Sun conjunct the descendant, the 7th house, explains her need for powerful partners and her getting them by marriage or business. The 7th house ruler, Venus, is in Scorpio, and in the eight house, which further confirms that fact.
The vertex in the chart is at 23 degrees of Sagittarius. I don’t really use the vertex that much for specifics, but I like to look at it and see where it is placed; it can then tell me something I may not know. Reading a chart is like reading a map, you just have to know what the signs mean, it’s not really any different. With THK’s vertex so closely placed to John Kerry’s Sun in Sagittarius you can tell the connection between them is great. Also its in the 9th house, which is the house you look to to represent the second husband in a natal chart, according to Marion March and Joan McEvers, just to name two astrologers whose reference works I can quote. But it’s a universal astrological tenet.
THK’s Moon at 27 Aquarius is directly opposite John Kerry’s Jupiter at 27 Leo. Again a significant link to the communication between them. so much so that they can afford to let themselves go in public and not be their perfect selves every second of the day. I refer to the 60 Minutes interview with both John and Teresa Kerry, and the comments made by the interviewer about their appearance together along with Andy Rooney’s remarks, i.e., that Kerry’s wife made him nervous. Well, maybe she does, but she doesn’t make John Kerry nervous and since he’s married to her that’s all that counts.
I think these two people know each other, they like each other, they accept each other and they have a good instinctive realistic understanding of who the other person is and what they want out of life, which is so important in a relationship. Each person must be allowed their own individuality and allowed to speak and think for themselves, anything less and the relationship is just a sham one way or another.
John Kerry’s Moon at 17 Gemini furthers this notion by its sextile of THK’s ascendant at 18 Aries. John Kerry’s Mars at 10 Gemini trines THK’s Mercury at 10 Libra. This again is a good couple placement, the trine making it easy for them to agree to disagree.
On election day Teresa Heinz Kerry’s transiting planets show her Venus will be conjoined by transiting Mercury. Pluto is nestling up close to her Vesta in the 9th house, close to the ninth house cusp. Transiting Jupiter is fast approaching a connection with her Mercury and her Sun, both in the 6th house.
Its intriguing to me, looking at the transit chart for THC on that date of November 2, 2004, that at the top of the chart transiting Juno, the marriage asteroid, is conjunct both her 10th house midheaven and the asteroid Lilith. At the bottom of the chart, transiting asteroid Lilith is conjuncting THK’s Chiron.
Surely this is symbolic of the media focus that will fall on her and how the media and society at large will invest themselves emblematically into THK in the very likely event she becomes America’s First Lady. The Lilith Motif, the ambitious devouring she-devil, the ogress, is the fate that befalls many independent women. Lesser mortals or just plain stupid people tend to think of a strong fascinating intelligent woman with a vigorous sense of self with symbols from the bad old medieval days; with witchcrafty femme fatales leading men by the nose, bewitching them, etc. etc. etc. Sadly, our culture, in regards to the figurative treatment of women in the collective unconsciousness of our society, has not proceeded from the golden days of the witchcraft trials as much as we would like to think.
Let’s stay straight to the course and hope this doesn’t occur, no matter how outspoken she is. After all, if you ask me, Lilith got the better deal in the Bible, much more so than poor Eve.
*Birth info on THK obtained from the Starcats website as posted verbatim on it ”Thanks to Mary Louise Bateman: "Dear Claudia, According to Salon TT, this is Teresa's date/time of birth. Oct 5, 1938 - 6:18 PM - Mozambique. They got it from a friend of hers..." I later confirmed with Mary Louise that the city of birth is Mozambique's capital, Maputo. Birth certificate confirmation still pending. -- Starcats, March 10, 2004.”