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The 2008 Presidential Election

Greetings star-gazers,

Whenever there is a significant election I make a point of looking at the astrological influences to see what I can see. It’s an occupational hazard of sorts—bordering, occasionally, on obsession. Please note that the observations I make are strictly based upon my interpretation of the cosmic influences. They have nothing to do with my personal opinion.

The reason I bring this up is because of events that transpired after the last presidential election. Aquarius newspaper printed my predictions, in which I concluded that Mr. Kerry would lose to Mr. Bush. I received several e-mails and phone calls from readers accusing me of being biased in my assessment. The irony of it all was that personally I did not favor Mr. Bush because I didn’t see his chart as one that indicated strong leadership abilities. It showed a tendency for a lot of things to be hidden from view, and that made me uncomfortable.

Hillary vs. Barack in Pennsylvania

The next big question looming in the Democratic Primary is how will the Pennsylvania Primary shake out? Although Barack seems to be cutting into Hillary’s lead, will it be enough to steal the state away from her and give him another win? Or will Hillary be able to maintain a win with at least an 8% lead, which seems to be the number to beat to still look respectable?

Prior to this election, there will be a debate in Philadelphia on April 16. Hillary happens to have a lucky break of sorts on that particular day, suggesting that she will make very good use of the spotlight. With the moon in Virgo, this is the time to be laying out specific details, rather than focusing on lofty ideas. Both candidates can expect every word to be analyzed with a fine-tooth comb, so accuracy is essential. Listing what they have gotten right will work to their benefit. However, they need to be careful about being overly critical of each other.

Astrologically speaking, the odds remain in Hillary’s favor to pull out a respectable win in Pennsylvania and keep the race very much alive. It doesn’t appear that Obama falters to any large degree, but he won’t be able to pull off anything resembling what would appear to be an upset.

Check back on this page for further commentary on subsequent elections in Indiana and North Carolina on May 6, Nebraska and West Virginia on the 13th, Kentucky and Oregon on the 20th, and Montana and South Dakota on June 3.

Other dates of note:

August 25-28: Democratic National Convention in Denver

September 1-4: Republican National Convention in Minneapolis-St. Paul

October 2: Vice Presidential debate in St. Louis, Missouri

October 7: Presidential debate in Nashville, Tennessee

October 15: Presidential debate in Hempstead, New York

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I have examined the charts of Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barak Obama, John McCain and Mitt Romney. There is a question of accuracy with respect to the times of birth for all but one candidate. Mitt Romney has a recorded time of 9:51 a.m. in Detroit, Michigan on March 12, 1947. Barak Obama’s time, as best I have found through my limited research is August 4, 1961, 1:06 p.m. in Honolulu, Hawaii. I haven’t seen this time verified. John McCain is listed in the AstroDataBank as August 29, 1936 at 9:00 a.m.in Cocosolo, Panama. I tend to be very skeptical of birth times that are right on the top or bottom of the hour. Hillary Clinton’s data that I work with is October 26, 1947 at 8:00 p.m. in Chicago, Illinois. My motto when I have sketchy data is to take it with a grain of salt, but by the same token, if that is the best data I can come up with, then I have no choice but to at least use that and see how it works.

My prediction for Super Tuesday, February 5, 2008 is that John McCain will be the Republican nominee, which probably comes as no surprise. Mitt Romney does not have enough support in his chart to show he can defeat McCain. On the Democratic side, I see Barak Obama coming out way ahead of Hillary Clinton and I see him as becoming the Democratic nominee.

If that is the case and November 4 pits Mr. McCain against Mr. Obama, I do believe that Mr. Obama will be our next President.

I will be submitting this to my website, along with the technical details below, as to how I’ve formulated my opinion.

Should I be incorrect, and I’m the first to admit when I am, I will then look at the actual nominees and form my opinion for the Presidential Election.

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Astrological Aspects to the frontrunners' charts for Super Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Mitt Romney:

Unfavorable Aspects:

Transiting Mars (24 Gemini) at a wide conjunction to natal and progressed Uranus, (17 and 20 Gemini respectively) squaring his Natal Sun at 21 Pisces and Inconjunct his Jupiter Moon conjunction at 27 Scorpio

Transiting Uranus (16 Pisces) Squares Natal Uranus (17 Gemini)

Transiting Nodes (27 Aquarius/27 Leo) Squaring Natal Jupiter Moon conjunction (27 Scorpio)

Transiting Saturn (6 Virgo) Opposing Natal Mars (6 Pisces)

Transiting Pluto (0 Capricorn) Inconjunct Natal Ascendant (1 Gemini) and Natal Saturn (2 Leo)

Transiting Jupiter (10 Capricorn) Inconjunct Natal Pluto (11 Leo) and Square Natal Neptune (9 Libra)

Progressed Moon (11 Aquarius) Opposing Natal Pluto (11 Leo)

Solar Arc Mercury (13 Taurus) Square Progressed Moon (11 Aquarius)

Favorable Aspects:

There are a few favorable aspects, most of which are weak.

Transiting Jupiter (10 Capricorn) is Sextile Natal Mercury (13 Pisces)

Transiting Neptune (21 Aquarius) Semisextile Natal Sun (21 Pisces)

Progressed Sun (20 Taurus) Sextile Natal Sun (21 Pisces)

Solar Arc Jupiter/Moon (27 Capricorn) Sextile Natal Jupiter Moon (27 Scorpio)

Solar Arc Pluto (11 Libra) Trine Progressed Moon (11 Libra)

Transiting Moon (26 Capricorn) at 7:00 am – 9:00 am EST conjuncts solar Arc Jupiter Moon (27 Capricorn)

John McCain

Unfavorable Aspects:

Transiting Pluto (0 Capricorn) Squares Natal Mercury (2 Libra),

Transiting Jupiter (10 Capricorn) Inconjunct Natal Mars (12 Leo)

Transiting Mars (24 Gemini) square Natal Venus (22 Virgo), Square Progressed Mars (26
Virgo) and Progressed MC (26 Virgo)

Progressed Mercury (10 Scorpio) separating from an Opposition to natal Uranus (9 Taurus), approaching a Square to Natal Mars (12 Leo)

Transiting Neptune (21 Aquarius) inconjunct Natal Venus (22 Virgo) and progressed Moon (20 Virgo)

Transiting Uranus (16 Pisces) opposed Natal Neptune (16 Virgo), Square Natal Jupiter (15 Sagittarius)

Favorable Aspects:

Transiting Pluto (0 Capricorn) conjuncts Natal North Node (1 Capricorn)

Transiting Jupiter (10 Capricorn) Trine Natal Uranus (9 Taurus)

Transiting Moon (26 Capricorn) Conjunct Natal Moon (27 Capricorn)

Transiting Neptune (21 Aquarius) Trine Solar Arc Mars (22 Libra) Sextile Progressed Venus (20 Sagittarius) and Ascendant (23 Sagittarius)

Transiting Mars (24 Gemini) Inconjunct Natal Moon (27 Capricorn), Conjunct Progressed South Node (25 Gemini), conjunct Progressed Descendant (23 Gemini)

Progressed Moon (20Virgo) approaching a conjunction to Natal Venus (22 Virgo)

Transiting Venus (14 Capricorn) conjunct IC (16 Capricorn)

Debatable Aspects: (Could be read either way)

? Transiting Saturn (6 Virgo, Ruler of Fourth House ) conjunct Natal Sun (6 Virgo) , Opposed to Natal Part of Fortune (8 Pisces)

Hillary Clinton:

Unfavorable Aspects:

Transiting Mars (24 Gemini) in Natal Twelfth House, Conjunct Natal (25 Gemini) and Progressed Uranus (23 Gemini), Inconjunct South Node (23 Scorpio), Square Natal Moon (29 Pisces)

Transiting South Node (27 Leo) conjunct Solar Arc Uranus (26 Leo)

Transiting Saturn (6 Virgo) Conjunct Progressed Mars/ Natal IC (6 Virgo)

Transiting Pluto (0 Capricorn) on her Descendant, house of open enemies, Approaching Conjunction to Progressed Sun (3 Capricorn) and Conjunct Progressed Mercury (29 Sagittarius), Squaring Natal Moon (29 Pisces)

Transiting Sun (16 Aquarius) separating from Opposition to Natal Mars Pluto conjunction (14 Leo)

Transiting Neptune (21 Aquarius) Opposing Natal Saturn (21 Leo)

Transiting Mercury (18 Aquarius) Opposing Natal Mars, Pluto Saturn Conjunction (14, 14, and 21 Leo Respectively)

Transiting Uranus (16 Pisces) Squaring Progressed Moon (13 Gemini) by 3 degree orb

(ALSO: Her Progressed Moon in August [21 Gemini] will be exactly square Transiting Uranus, same time as Democratic National Convention August 25th-28th)

Transiting Jupiter (10 Capricorn) Square Natal Neptune (11 Libra)

Favorable Aspects:

Transiting Pluto (0 Capricorn) Sextile Natal Sun (2 Scorpio)

Transiting Saturn Trine (6 Virgo) Progressed MC (6 Taurus), Trine Progressed Sun (3 Capricorn)

Transiting Neptune (21 Aquarius) Trine Natal Uranus (25 Gemini)

Transiting Moon (26 Capricorn) Conjunct Progressed Part of Fortune (25 Capricorn), Solar Arc South Node (24 Capricorn)

Debatable Aspects (Could be read either way):

? Progressed Moon (13 Gemini) Opposing Progressed Jupiter (13 Sagittarius) and Solar Arc Neptune (12 Sagittarius)

Barack Obama:

Unfavorable Aspects:

Transiting Pluto (0 Capricorn) Opposing Natal Venus (1 Cancer), Inconjunct Natal Moon (0 Gemini) and Natal Mercury (1 Leo)

Transiting Jupiter (10 Capricorn) Inconjunct Natal Sun (12 Leo)

Transiting Moon (26 Capricorn) Conjunct Natal Saturn (25 Capricorn)

Transiting Mars (24 Gemini) Square Natal Mars (22 Virgo) and Progressed Sun (27 Virgo), Opposing Solar Arc Neptune (23 Sagittarius)

Transiting Saturn (6 Virgo) conjunct Natal Pluto (6 Virgo)

Progressed Moon (1 Aquarius) Opposing Natal Mercury (1 Leo), Inconjunct Natal Venus (1 Cancer)

Favorable Aspects:

Transiting Jupiter (10 Capricorn) sextile Natal Neptune (8 Scorpio)

Transiting Venus (14 Capricorn) Opposing Solar Arc Moon (14 Cancer)

Transiting Moon (26 Capricorn) Conjunct Progressed Jupiter (27 Capricorn)

Transiting Sun (16 Aquarius), Mercury (18 Aquarius) and Neptune (21 Aquarius) Conjunct IC (19 Aquarius)

Transiting North Node (27 Aquarius) Conjunct Natal South Node (27 Aquarius)

Transiting South Node (27 Leo) Conjunct Natal North Node (27 Leo) and Natal Uranus (25 Leo)

Transiting Uranus (16 Pisces) Trine Natal Ascendant (17 Scorpio)

Transiting Mars (24 Gemini) Sextile Natal Uranus (15 Leo), Trine Progressed Mercury and Mars (22 Libra) and Solar Arc Pluto (21 Libra), Trine South Node (27 Aquarius), Sextile North Node (27 Leo), conjunct Progressed Descendant (24 Gemini)

Transiting Saturn (6 Virgo) conjunct Part of Fortune (5 Virgo)

Progressed Moon (1 Aquarius) Separating from a Conjunction to Natal Jupiter (0 Aquarius), Trine Natal Moon (0 Gemini)

Progressed Venus (26 Leo) Conjunct Natal Uranus (25 Leo) and North Node (27 Leo)

Debatable Aspects: could go either way:

? Transiting Neptune (21 Aquarius) conjunct Progressed Ascendant (24 Sagittarius)

? Transiting Pluto (0 Capricorn) Conjunct Solar Arc Ascendant (2 Capricorn)

For Barack Obama, the transiting nodes show up strongly both in the Super Tuesday election date and also on November 4, 2008. The nodes have a lot to do with destiny.

vs. Hillary Clinton: The Transiting Nodes only hit her Solar Arc Uranus and Sextile Natal Uranus

Transiting Mars favors Barack Obama because it sits on his Progressed Descendant and is therefore angular and strong,

vs. Hillary Clinton: Transiting Mars is weak because it is in her twelfth House and therefore decreases her competitive power and her visibility

Barack’s Progressed Moon is well situated on natal Jupiter vs. Hillary’s Progressed Moon tucked away in the Twelfth House and only Opposing Progressed Jupiter and Solar Arc Neptune

Both Barack Obama and John McCain have transiting Mars sitting on their Progressed Descendant

 

Kathryn L. Silverton
Lilburn, Georgia
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