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!
Ben Affleck was already a veteran actor by the time he gained national attention in Good Will Hunting in 1997, so it’s not surprising that his horoscope is loaded with references to acting. First of all we have his show-off Leo Sun sign. Then we have Venus close to his Ascendant, indicative both of a winning personality and good looks. Finally, that prominent Venus forms a nice trine to his Moon in the 5th House, the sector of the horoscope most often associated with the theater and entertainment. (Click here to see Ben Affleck’s horoscope.)
With this in mind, it’s not surprising that Affleck has shown up as the leading man is so many movies over the past few years. Even though many of those movies were flops as far as the critics were concerned, most ended up making serious money, proof that Affleck is eminently watchable regardless of the vehicle.
But Affleck has shown himself to be much more that a pretty face. The Oscar he won for Good Will Hunting was for co-writing the script (natal Sun in the 3rd House of communication) and he has continued his work as a scriptwriter. Recently, it has been his talent as a director that has heads turning, particular with his most recent projects: The Town, Gone Baby Gone and Argo.
I'm sitting up late watching the election coverage and, despite nearly two years of hoopla and a butt load of money spent, it appears that the political realities in the country have not changed. We are still going have a Democratic president, a Republican House of Representatives, a Senate that only marginally favors the Democrats and a nation sharply divided.
The problem this presents astrologically is that the big square aspect between Pluto and Uranus has also not changed. It will be coming at us again next year, and several more times before 2015, with all the same nastiness that has made recent times so “interesting”.
Shortly after the polls close in the Eastern Time zone on Nov. 6 the planet Mercury goes retrograde. Practically speaking retrograde motion is just an optical illusion caused by the relative motion of the Earth around the ecliptic, but astrologically, retrograde motion is a significant factor, particularly when it involves Mercury.
Astrologers have long observed that, when Mercury goes retrograde, communications suffer and technology seems more likely to fail. Most of the time Mercury retrograde is an irritation that manifests itself in things like garbled messages, lost e-mails and batteries that go dead at just the wrong moment. But what happens when retrograde Mercury’s famous knack for screwing up communications impacts a Presidential election?
Last May, at the United Astrology Conference in New Orleans, a panel of six astrologers unanimously predicted that Barack Obama would win reelection. I was a little perplexed by this. Months earlier I had compared the horoscopes of Obama and Mitt Romney (who I had assumed would be the Republican nominee) and decided it was just too close to call.
What I saw was that both men had about the same amount of positives and negatives in their charts during the period running up to the election. For example, Barack Obama is dealing with a very difficult secondary progressed Mars square to his natal Saturn, but the North Node of the Moon is near his Midheaven which could mean that he has fate on his side. Mitt Romney has his secondary progressed Sun and Mercury opposite his natal Moon and Jupiter, an aspect that indicates sloppy management and ill-timed remarks. But he is also in the midst of a significant Saturn cycle aspect, a time when many people experience defining victories.
