There are many who would question my use of the title "Boy Wonder," but for a time and place in history Karl Rove will go down as that for the GOP. He has been working at making the Republican Party the only party for over 25 years and the stolen election of 2000 we the culmination of his Lee Atwater (his mentor) expanded dirty tricks. Karl Rove is a Capricorn (Dec. 25, 1950, 4:14am, Denver Colorado) and Capricorn's work to always build a foundation. Rove did build a foundation for the GOP, even getting some Democrats in the form of the DLC on board with his plan.
He didn't see then and he doesn't see now that the seeds for the destruction of his foundation are already crumbling.
When I awakened this morning at 5:00am MST, Rove's resignation was announced on the 5:00 am news. I immediately jumped out of bed and begin writing an article about the life, times and future of the Dark Prince. Unfortunately my computer crashed at 8:30 am and I lost that article. There must have been a reason for that, so I will try again.
Karl Rove (12/25/1950 - 4:14am, Denver, CO) begin working with the GOP in the 70's as a mentee of Lee Atwater (the king of dirty tricks of the 70's) Rove worked as a political operative for the unsuccessful GHW Bush campaign for President against Ronald Reagan. He was also fired for some of the dirty tricks he pulled during that campaign, oddly it involved the columnist Bob Novak to get some kind of slimy message out to the public. Now, it may have been his use of Novak during the Plame outing that has brought down his crown (at least for the time being.)
Rove was born under a pre-natal eclipse of September 12, 1950 and lost his status (again) under the September 11, 2007 eclipse, both of them at 18 degrees Virgo, with his progressed South Node just a degree away. That is a loss of power and not the only one he will have over the next 2 years.
Karl lost his position in November 2006 when Pluto exactly conjoined his Chiron at 25 Sagittarius, on the black hole known as the Galactic Center. His fate was sealed at that time. When Scotter Libby's verdict was read in June 2007, there was no out for him, Libby's friend and boss Dick Cheney, would never allow Rove to stay when he had to give up Scooter. Especially when Rove is tied so tightly to the Abramoff investigation and the attorney scandal, both scandals lead back to the White House and the Oval Office and the games would and will continue.
Karl isn't exactly done, he will no doubt do what he did following his firing from the GHWB inner circle and that would be open a political consulting office or a lobbying office. Rove is the guy that still gets things down and most effectively under the radar. However, Pluto will be moving into Capricorn in 2009, conjoining his Sun and squaring his Saturn, transiting Saturn won't be far behind as it moves into Libra in late 2009 and they both aspect his Sun and Saturn. Cardinal signs are the best for making changes when under duress and he will be under duress and will have to make changes. I also expect he will be half-heartedly in the 2008 election but going full bore into 2012, maybe working for another Bush and looking for new issues to divide America. It isn't like the political landscape is going to be calm over the next election cycle and we may have a third party to consider by then, maybe even by the 2008 cycle.
There were at least 7 astrological signatures that indicated someone of value to this administration was going to lose their job, and the sweep may not be done. We will know over the next three to six months how deep the shake up in the WH goes. Cheney isn't in the best position himself, as this eclipse squares his Mars. I don't want to suggest that Dick Cheney is likely to go, only that his influence is way on the wane.
Our sights over the next year will be turning toward a more spiritual grounding as opposed to an earthly grounding. We will be looking for what truely makes us unique beside silver and gold and things of the earth. We are preparing for a shift in consciousness by 2020 when the influence of the Great Conjunction of Jupiter/Saturn moves from earth signs, not to return for a few hundred years and moves into air, beginning with 0 degrees Aquarius. Circumstances will conspire to help us understand the oneness of humanity and the universal strength within each individual. Right now those circumstances are driven by people of averice and greed, but the final result will not be what they envision. For that we can be grateful.
ADDITION
Because of a question on one of the posts (they didn't sign) asking about the parallels to Nazi Germany and the up coming eclipse's being very critical with no end in sight. I agree that the end is a distance away, but there is an end in sight. In 1935 when Germany and Nazism or "evil" were riding high, there were an unprecedented number of Eclipses, and there have been no parallels in over a hundred and won't be any until at least after 2050. Normally there are two solar and two lunar eclipses in a year, in 1935 there were five solar and three lunar eclipses that year and the world was definitely being shifted and changed. During the height of the Civil Rights movement there were 4 solar and 3 lunar, in the year 2000 (and we all remember that one right?) there were four solar and three lunar. It will not be until 2011 that the four solar and three lunar will be repeated. But 1935 was, as I said, unprecedented and had not been seen for over a hundred years and will not be seen again for at least 150 years, maybe more. I don't expect the high drama that Nazi Germany brought to this earth, not on that scale.