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!
General Petraeus and the Perils of Being a Scorpio
Despite their well-earned reputation for sexiness, Sun sign Scorpios tend to be secretive about their sex lives. They leave the bragging and trophy collecting to people less serious about sex and let their smoldering, often irresistible allure speak for itself.
That’s why it took an FBI investigation to bring the affair between Sun sign Scorpio General David Petraeus and Sun sign Scorpio Paula Broadwell to light. Even though Broadwell had been in close proximity to Petraeus for a year, preparing material for her biography of the general, the revelation of their sexual relationship came as a surprise to many.
Looking at their horoscopes (charted for noon) we see that Broadwell’s Sun in Scorpio is within a couple of degrees of Petraeus’ Sun and opposite his Jupiter. (Click here to see a double chart with the horoscopes of Petraeus and Broadwell charted for noon.) This indicates that Broadwell was somewhat overwhelmed by the power of Petraeus’ personality. For Scorpio, power isn’t just the greatest aphrodisiac, it is the only aphrodisiac. Scorpio people are drawn to power and if they can’t wield it themselves, they want to be close to it.
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?
