I cannot tell you how disappointed I am. That’s exactly what I emailed this morning to the editor of the Astrological Journal of Great Britain. I was inquiring as to whether or not he had decided to publish a non- political astrology article I had sent to him.
I went on in the email to state that apart from my disgust at Bush and cronies winning, I felt that from an astrological perspective, he was going to lose the election, since John Kerry had a much much better chart than Bush did. In addition, Bush and Kerry had the Saturn situation down pat a la Grant Lewi. It was Lewi’s book that first alerted me to the Saturn sequence, many moon cycles ago when I was a teenager and really getting into astrology . He stressed, with many examples, the importance of the Saturn rotation through an individual’s chart; how once Saturn rises to the top, the tenth house, the person is at the acme of his career and that once it begins descending and reaches the first house, that person is going into obscurity which will reach it’s depths once Saturn approaches the fourth house, the nadir of the chart.
Now Kerry has Saturn on the upswing, along with a lot of prominent Jupiter aspects and tie-ins to the USA chart and Bush has the opposite; his Saturn will conjunct his ascendant during September of 2005 and then it’s all downhill from there. Even keeping the Curse of Tecumseh in mind, death does not mean the chart does not live on, as in the case of John Kennedy. I can remember sitting in a circle in kindergarten class when the principals’ assistant came in to tell us the President was shot. It’s that clear to me and I was 5 and a half. I can also remember the constant numerous references to Kennedy throughout my childhood, i.e., on the anniversary of his death being in second grade and making a commemorative poster for him, etc.
So death does not end the life cycle of a chart and in no way was Kennedy’s death the obscurity card at his table. Richard Nixon, once he resigned, did retire into the seclusion of San Simon or wherever he was then (it may have been a large estate in New Jersey, I’m not sure) but I do know you never heard from him again not for a long long time. So how could Bush’s chart, which is awful in the extreme, proclaim he won?
Well, I don’t know, I just don’t. I know I was so sad today and so disappointed to think that monkey man with his ever widening smirk will be at the forefront of politics the next four years. Then I was angry, then I was disappointed etc etc. Well it was only a hop skip and a jump from being sad and disappointed about the election for me to make a list of all the other things in life I was sad about, which is how that goes. It wasn’t until I saw the headline of a local weekly independent magazine with the tile ‘AARGH’ that I realized I was not alone in my disappointment and sense of horror at the increased arrogance this win, whether honest or not, will bring to the simian’s who run our country now and for the next four years.
Then I stopped and said all problems have a solution and even being disappointed doesn’t mean it’s all lost. It’s not. If you fall off the wagon get back on, etc. I said to my domestic partner this morning that maybe I had been wrong in predicting a winner to an election, maybe all I could see were good transits and bad transits and times of trial or times of well being. I told him that maybe Kerry will be happier not being elected and maybe Bush will be more bogged down.
Astrologers can see good trends and energy and transits but what that translates into is anybody’s guess; we don’t have crystal balls and can only try as best we can to ascertain what the good transits or bad transits will mean for someone.
I did take a look at Bush’s Solar Return for 2005 and with Solar Return Uranus directly opposite his natal Mars in the 2nd house I don’t think he will have an easy time of it next year. Since Solar Return Sun and Moon are both in the 9th house of the return chart, legal affairs will command his attention, how and in what way I don’t know.
Mars is in Aries, its own sign in the return chart and directly opposite Bush’s natal Moon. Mars is also conjunct the 7th house of the Return chart and the natal Moon is conjunct the Return ascendant. A lot of anger is there and danger. With the 4th house, the house of endings being brought to the cusp of the Return chart ascendant, I think it’s safe to say Mr. Bush will find himself with a lot of unfinished business he needs to tie together and turn around.
So again, as Scarlet O’Hara says, after all, tomorrow is another day, and she should know, since in my opinion she was the true Aries, always up and running with the dawn of a new day.