A fun spin on serious cosmic stuff! Wendell C. Perry has 40 years experience studying astrology and how it impacts personalities & relationships. He's written two books & published articles in astrology magazines. He's happy to share this website so that you, too, can have fun with astrology to help you in everyday life!
A few days ago my daughter and I were discussing our favorite comic book movies. We went through the obvious nominees— Marvel’s The Avengers, both Iron Man movies, Chris Nolan’s Batman trilogy—without making a firm decision. It was only later that I realized that my favorite movie made from a comic book was not any of these. My favorite was a movie that didn’t have a single costumed hero, or fight scene, or evidence of super powers; nor did it have any eye-popping special effects or clever CGI magic.
The movie I’m thinking of is American Splendor, based on the long running comic written by Harvey Pekar and illustrated by a variety of people, mostly famously by underground comic super star, Robert Crumb.
Pekar wrote about his life as a simple file clerk living and working in Cleveland. At first glance this might not seem to be the kind of material that would make a good comic book, but the unique and soul-searching way that Pekar wrote about his mundane and gritty existence turned American Splendor into an American classic.
In this issue we tackle the burning issue of what happens when you take the Sun sign that has the least tolerance for the forced cheeriness and sentimentality of the Christmas season and the greatest proclivity for telling the hard truth, no matter what, and put him in a Santa suit. It might go something like this. Click here to see Page One. Click here to see Page Two.
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A Fiscal Cliff-Hanger
With the two political parties squabbling over the so-called “fiscal cliff” I thought it might be time to look at the what’s going on in the horoscopes of the two men who are facing off in this crisis: President Obama and Speaker of the House, John Boehner.
We’ve discussed the horoscope of Barack Obama several times over the past year. The main thing going on in his chart has been the square aspect between his secondary progressed Mars and his natal Saturn. As a candidate this aspect sapped Obama’s energy at times when he most needed it (like during his first debate with Mitt Romney) but, overall, he was able to make positive use of the energy of this traditionally bad aspect. It provided the grit and determination Obama needed to survive a long and often vicious political battle and it caused him to focus on long-term planning and political grunt work in his campaign strategy. Obama won the election largely because of careful groundwork his people did early in key districts to motivate his constituency and get out the vote.
In his role as a negotiator, however, this aspect will not be as helpful. It will make Obama much less flexible than he might otherwise be and more inclined to dig in his heels and wait for the other guy to blink.
Obama's Mars/Saturn square is that it currently on the wane and that its influence is being replaced by a much more positive secondary progressed aspect. Obama’s secondary progressed Sun is moving into a trine with his natal Moon. This aspect will give the President extraordinary confidence and, at the same time, boost his popularity. No matter how the negotiations on the fiscal crisis go, Obama is likely to look like a hero.
We don’t have a complete horoscope for John Boehner but even with a horoscope charted for noon (click here to see the chart) we can see that he is currently experiencing a square aspect between transiting Uranus (Uranus in the sky right now) and his natal Uranus (the position of Uranus on the day he was born.)
This tells us that Boehner is going through a period in which his personal ideals and principles are being severely challenged. Uranus is all about change, but in this configuration we see change demanded of change. With this aspect all the crucial decisions, the inspirational ideas and the key changes that you have previously made in your life and in your thinking are put to the test.
The fact that Speaker Boehner is going through this personal crisis at a time when he is embroiled in finding a way around a major national crisis does not bode well. It is impossible to speak with any degree of certainty without a complete chart, but Boehner’s actions during this period are likely to be unpredictable and erratic.
And then we have the simple fact that Boehner is a Sun sign Scorpio and Obama is a Sun sign Leo. Scorpio and Leo are both Fixed signs and stubbornness is just part of their nature. So, expect the fiscal cliff negotiations to go down to the wire and keep your parachutes handy.
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Mars in Libra and the Directors
The release of a new movie Hitchcock brings to mind a strange fact I came across when I was doing research for the Mars/Venus Playbook. It turns out that Alfred Hitchcock has one astrological placement in common with three other famous directors of motion pictures: Ingmar Bergman,Roman Polanski and Frederico Fellini. They all have Mars in Libra. To add to this confluence, noted playwrights and theater directors George Bernard Shaw and George Kaufman also have Mars in Libra.
What is it about Mars in Libra that links all of these esteemed artists? With Mars in Libra, the mind and abstract concepts of love, beauty and partnership dominate the sex drive. The actual sex act may be important or unimportant, depending on the sign placement of Venus and the Sun, and on other factors, but sex will always be an attempt to break through the specific and the physical in order to better identify with an ideal.
In this issue we tackle the burning issue of what happens when you take the Sun sign that has the least tolerance for the forced cheeriness and sentimentality of the Christmas season and the greatest proclivity for telling the hard truth, no matter what, and put him in a Santa suit. It might go something like this. Click
