Planetlines

What is happening now in Iran is a historic event no matter what the outcome, and on the streets it is a human tragedy as well. Studying the astrology involved as events unfold is a good way to learn, so I will be posting some thoughts on this over the next few days.

SEVEN YEARS AGO, I wrote down some observations elsewhere on the astrological connections surrounding the impeachment of a U.S. President, Bill Clinton. My thoughts on this are recorded in a series of articles elsewhere on this site entitled The Impeachment Chronicles. That series was based in part on contemporaneous observation, and in part on looking at parallel events in U.S. history, both nationally and at the state level. Examples of the former include the impeachment of Andrew Johnson and the resignation of Richard Nixon, while at the state level I considered at least one gubernatorial impeachment. Read more »

Part II

HAVING LAID OUT the problem in the first part of this article, I will begin this part by saying categorically that Pluto seems to play only a supportive role in who wins or loses a Presidential election, and most of my other ancient rules about transits to the natal and progressed fare about the same. On the other hand, certain transits do seem to be important during an election, though for the most part they are quite different than what I would have expected.

Years ago, my study of this question had been done in a somewhat informal way, so with the help of more modern tools than pencil and paper and with the benefit of a few more election cycles to consider, I decided to take a closer look at the issue. In my effort to look more closely at the question of transits to the “two Suns,” I collected the data on all major candidates plus the transits on election day from 1932 through 2000, calculating each man’s natal and progressed Sun, and then tabulating the actual transits to these two points on the election day in question. 1932 seemed a logical starting point because it was a watershed election in terms of the use of film and radio, and generally marked a new era in national politics.

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LONG AGO AND FAR AWAY, I was given the assignment to write an article projecting the probable outcome of a U.S. Presidential election that was still in the early primary stage. On the Republican side there were two contenders, which included our only appointed President Gerald Ford, and California Governor Ronald Reagan (which tells you how long ago and far away it was). On the Democratic side there were a half dozen or so contenders, many of whom were relative unknowns. Between all of those in both parties with their eye on the prize there was exactly one (Ford) at that early date who had a reliable birth time. For Reagan, several claimants were in circulation, all of which seemed to be phony, and most of the Democratic candidates were too unknown to have drawn much interest from astrological data hunters.

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