Obama"s Astrology - Grace in a Cracked Vessel
Choosing a president is embarrassingly similar to courting a mate.
In the initial stages, the temptation is to disqualify or idealize.
The astrologer's job is to help you find the middle path.
As passionately supportive as I am of Barak Obama, when I stare at the symbolic map of his psyche and consider his unique blessings and blind spots, I am sobered.
He- like all of us- is a cracked vessel.
His leadership credentials are obvious: 1) an ability to be unwaveringly comfortable and self-possessed on stage, 2) an ability to intelligently articulate and spontaneously adapt to the moment and 3) a charismatic, influential aura.
If you're familiar with astrology, you know that these three qualities fall neatly into the archetypes of Leo (his Sun Sign), Gemini (his Moon sign) and Scorpio (his Ascendant).
If you've followed his speeches, you've probably heard him speak boldly (Leo) about "the fierce (Scorpio) urgency of now (Gemini).
" At this point, however, the tidy symbolism starts to blur.
With empathic, boundary dissolving Neptune squaring his 10th house Leo Sun, it is difficult for him to sustain the usual Leonine confidence because the stronger his experience of specialness, the greater the Neptunian sensation that his ego is porous, impermanent, even phantom-like.
He may appear to swagger, but just under the surface is an unraveling sensitivity.
To the extent that he uses his charisma for self-aggrandizement instead of advocating for those whose suffering he feels as his own, his ambition becomes his undoing.
And how about that diplomatic finesse? His 7th house Gemini Moon is square Pluto and Uranus in the 10th house.
In reaction to the upheaval and unpredictability of his early home environment, he likely detached from his body and emotions, retreating into a powerfully repressive self-control.
Minus the cathartic, body-reclaiming routines of basketball and regular workouts, his articulate activism could easily slip into provocative impatience; his altruistic passion could degenerate into dominating others "for their own good.
" This much is certain: Barak is a born representative.
He is both qualified and cursed to serve as the face of our collective ego, for on the breath of his luminous presence is a trace of nicotine-a whiff of our own secret shame.
copyright 2008 Hunter Reynolds
In the initial stages, the temptation is to disqualify or idealize.
The astrologer's job is to help you find the middle path.
As passionately supportive as I am of Barak Obama, when I stare at the symbolic map of his psyche and consider his unique blessings and blind spots, I am sobered.
He- like all of us- is a cracked vessel.
His leadership credentials are obvious: 1) an ability to be unwaveringly comfortable and self-possessed on stage, 2) an ability to intelligently articulate and spontaneously adapt to the moment and 3) a charismatic, influential aura.
If you're familiar with astrology, you know that these three qualities fall neatly into the archetypes of Leo (his Sun Sign), Gemini (his Moon sign) and Scorpio (his Ascendant).
If you've followed his speeches, you've probably heard him speak boldly (Leo) about "the fierce (Scorpio) urgency of now (Gemini).
" At this point, however, the tidy symbolism starts to blur.
With empathic, boundary dissolving Neptune squaring his 10th house Leo Sun, it is difficult for him to sustain the usual Leonine confidence because the stronger his experience of specialness, the greater the Neptunian sensation that his ego is porous, impermanent, even phantom-like.
He may appear to swagger, but just under the surface is an unraveling sensitivity.
To the extent that he uses his charisma for self-aggrandizement instead of advocating for those whose suffering he feels as his own, his ambition becomes his undoing.
And how about that diplomatic finesse? His 7th house Gemini Moon is square Pluto and Uranus in the 10th house.
In reaction to the upheaval and unpredictability of his early home environment, he likely detached from his body and emotions, retreating into a powerfully repressive self-control.
Minus the cathartic, body-reclaiming routines of basketball and regular workouts, his articulate activism could easily slip into provocative impatience; his altruistic passion could degenerate into dominating others "for their own good.
" This much is certain: Barak is a born representative.
He is both qualified and cursed to serve as the face of our collective ego, for on the breath of his luminous presence is a trace of nicotine-a whiff of our own secret shame.
copyright 2008 Hunter Reynolds