Category: Evolutionary Astrology

I don’t have Mike Pence’s birth time so I can’t do an accurate chart for him. I do have one for Tim Kaine, however. Before the debate tonight let’s look at the chart of the man who wants to be our next Vice President.

Like Secretary Clinton, Senator Kaine has his Sun in the twelfth house. This is normally not a “normal” placement for a politician because it builds in a natural reserve and even secretiveness. Both Democratic candidates prefer the work instead of the “smoozing” aspect of the work. Senator Kaine benefits from Mercury conjuncting his Sun which gives him more charisma, more appeal than Secretary Clinton. In his case, it comes across as a kind of folksy charm.

With his Moon in communicative Gemini in the third house, a house that Gemini likes, no one should underestimate his ability to get his point across. He is battling two retrogrades in his fifth house – that of creativity and expression – so while he isn’t a speaker on par with a President Obama or President Bill Clinton, when he is one-on-one he gets his point across.

Neptune and Jupiter surrounding his South Node in the mystical eighth house gives him his religious and missionary zeal.  However, when I do a progressed chart – moving planets to their current position in his chart, he has a bit too many planets hitting his eighth house in the next few years. At its core, this is the house of death, dying and rebirth – so I hope he experiences more of the rebirth and personal transformation aspect of this house.

He is not flashy, he is good at hiding his brains behind a plain exterior but no one should underestimate Senator Kaine’s brains or ability to get his point across in the end.

As a karmic astrologer the Nodal axis of a person’s chart is fascinating – that is the pattern of the North and South Nodes. The South Node tells me about their karmic past – what traits do they bring with them in this lifetime that are memories of past behaviors.  While there is nothing wrong with our past incarnations, of course, our goal in this life should be to grow beyond them, learn new lessons and move forward. Why reincarnate if you are going to do the same things repeatedly?

Donald Trump’s South Node, Sagittarius in the fourth house, indicates that was someone fiercely involved with his family and community who held himself out as the keeper of knowledge and arbiter or what was “right.” Sagittarians love to know what is true – they love to be right. With his Moon so close to the Node and Jupiter, its ruler, in his house of self-worth, we can see how easy it is to goad him. He is emotionally incapable of not saying he knows all there is to know and he is always right. This has been a pattern for many lifetimes. This is why he says I am going to do this – and going to do that. In his mind, he knows all that is right for his community. He believes in his soul that only he can make “America great again.”

With his North Node in the tenth house, in Gemini he should be moving away from this idea that he has all of the answers and he is the lord of knowledge. Gemini is the seeker of knowledge – the sign addicted to learning all things new. Gemini demands that we open up to new ways of thinking. While the fourth house is my roots, my family – the tenth house wants us to involve ourselves in the larger world. Gemini in ten demands that we live in a world that is an open tent where new ideas are encouraged.

While the tenth house is also the house of society and government, Trump seems to be trying to impose his Sagittarian belief that he knows all into the larger picture instead of opening up to learning. He is making a slight foray into the tenth house but refuses to leave behind his old, Sagittarian patterns.

Does this spell success or defeat in November? The universe does reward baby step we take into our North Node, that is true. This may be dreaming on my part but I just can’t see his myopic, nationalist, hateful speech being that big a step forward for that big a reward.
P.S. I am so glad the Hillary “listened” to my chart advice last week to keep her cool no matter what and that Trump went full into his Jupiter verbosity!

If you are a student of Astrology or this blog, you know that this a political year like no other. With Pluto, the change agent, in Capricorn the sign which rules authority and government, nothing is impossible. Sadly, we are seeing drastic changes to our political structure and none for the best.

On September 26, 2016 will see the debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. This is a very important debate as Trump seems to be climbing in the polls and Hillary literally stumbled. For the most part, Hillary has some good signs in her chart for debate time. The Sun is conjunct Jupiter, the planet of growth, optimism and expansion, in her 10th house – the house of government. Mercury, the communicator,  is also in her tenth.

She needs to watch the square Saturn (in her first) makes with Mercury. This can lead to her expressing her anger over the press giving Trump a pass. While she is correct, she can’t appear whiny. With her Moon in the fire sign Leo, she opposing the warrior goddess, Pallas Athena, it would be easy for her to play the “poor me, you are picking on the girl” theme. This would be a mistake.

Hillary needs to rely on her brain power, her calm steady demeanor and she needs to call out Trump on his foolishness with authority. If she becomes to careless, too emotional, we are all in trouble. 

On August 30, 1918, Ted Williams was born. I admit I didn’t know much about his career as a kid. I was a child of the Mantel-Marris era. In fact, the only thing I knew about him for a long time was that he had that some of this children had his body posthumously frozen and stored at an Arizona cryonics facility. There is much controversy surrounding the procedure which pitted his children against one another. Leaving the emotions behind, I had to look at the astrology of a man whose body would have such a bizarre ending…or should I say beginning.
Upon casting his chart, I looked immediately to his eight house, the house of death and rebirth. Where else? Mr. Williams did not fail me. He had Pluto, Juno, Jupiter, Vesta and the Moon all in the eighth house at birth.
Pluto in the eighth is where he likes to be – Pluto vibrates to the energy of the eighty house and concerns itself with regeneration. He had to have an interest in the afterlife with that placement. Juno is the goddess of loyalty and nestled next to Pluto just enhances his desire to solve the mysteries of death. Jupiter is ever expansive and brings optimism, hope and thoughts of the future. Vesta will put roadblocks in our way to reaching our goal. I read there was misuse of his head and that employees of the facility removed it and even used as a football by some member of the facility. If true, that certainly sounds like a roadblock to me. Of course, the Moon is our emotional barometer. If Mr. Williams made the decision to be frozen I am sure he had some issues to worth through!

I find this an interesting case study of our charts predicting not only our live path but live after death path as well.