"The system is rigged and it's rigged against you. Do you really believe that if we replace Corporate Republicans with Corporate Democrats anything is going to change? It won't until we stand up for ourselves and stop this." (John Edwards)
You can certainly tell that the campaign is heating up for the presidential run, with Hillary going back to Obama's kindergarten statement of wanting to be president when he grew up and Obama slinging back. Edwards is running his heart out as is Biden and Dodd, especially Biden. The planets are beginning to line up behind different candidates with a tail wind, and pushing against others.
Iowa December 28, 1846 10:03am Iowa City, Iowa.
A Capricorn Sun, and Aquarius Asc. and Sagittarius Mid-heaven. The mid-heaven is ruled by Jupiter and their Jupiter is in Gemini in the 4th house. That Jupiter will or could give a boost to the running Gemini, John Edwards. Iowa's Moon is in Taurus, as is Obama's Moon. Jupiter will be in a sextile for Hillary's and Joe Biden's Scorpio on primary day, and will be sextile Kuchinich's considerable Scorpio planets. With a conjunction between Edward's and Iowa's Jupiters they will want to go with him as their candidate, but those aspects were in play in 2004 and he worked hard there and at the end of the day, Iowa could not go with their hunch, they went for the Sagittarius Sun person that conjuncted their mid-heaven, John Kerry; leaving the Scorpio person Howard Dean in the dust.
As a collective, I am not sure Iowa trusts the Scorpio energy, their Mars is in Scorpio square their Aquarian Neptune and Saturn, collectively they may not like or trust that intensity in themselves much less their candidates. Howard Dean's Sun was in aspect to the Mars/Neptune/Saturn aspect, as is Joe Biden's. Obama's energies play into that configuration, as does (to a lesser extent) Hillary Clinton's. Iowa might turn to Edwards as a last resort.
On January 5 Venus conjuncts Iowa's and Edward's Jupiter, it could turn out that they love him.
THIS ARTICLE DOES NOT INCLUDE PROGRESSIONS OR EDWARD'S SOLAR RETURN, I WILL ADD THOSE LATER TODAY I JUST WANTED TO GET THIS UP, LOOK LATER THIS EVENING FOR A MORE COMPLETE TREATMENT OF THE IOWA CAUCUS.
Iowa Caucus
The Iowa Caucus begins on January 3rd at 7:00pm, the ultimate "pow wow" of political discourse and one of the few of its types in the US. Aries is at the Mid-heaven and Leo on the Ascendant. Neptune will be squaring Iowa's Moon (the people are not sure what they want or who) Matters will be made more confusing with Uranus in a square to Iowa's Mercury. Hillary's Mars and Pluto fall in the 1st house giving her a boost of power on primary day. Edwards progressed Sun is also on Iowa's Ascendant giving him added exposure and Obama's Sun conjuncts the Ascendant. Every single candidate has win and loss for this primary and I am not sure a clear winner comes out of the soup to claim victory.
I still go back to John Edwards as being a potential winner or at least a cog in the Clinton/Obama victory train. The ruler of the mid-heaven for when the Caucus begins is Aries, 28 degrees Aries in fact and its ruler Mars is retrograde at 28 Gemini in a sextile to the mid-heaven, a separating opposition to Pluto and a trine to the North Node. John Edwards natal Mars will be experiencing the same aspects, a tremendous amount of energy to that Mars.
Obama has an interesting aspect that will be fascinating watching it play out as he moves through all the primaries. On January 3, the North Node will be at 28 Aquarius retrograde, moving toward a fast conjunction to Obama's South Node and then his Uranus, usually a loss. We will see. Odd, Michael Bloomberg is an Aquarian and the North Node is heading toward his Sun, something new in Mr. Bloomberg's future.
Hillary has her own problems for the next several weeks with Neptune moving back to 21 Aquarius, the Saturn/Neptune degree. Hillary has Saturn and Mercury at 21 fixed signs and with Neptune moving toward the square and opposition she will continue to have problems and a possibility of it all being washed away right underneath her.
Politics as usual are almost over for this generation of politicians and we are watching it start through the Cheyne Stoking one does prior to death, named for John Cheyne and William Stokes in the late 1700's as a way of describing the respritory patterns of our dying breaths and we are seeing our political process going through that now. By 2020 we will either be in the land of the elite or the land of the people, our choice.
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