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It seems like every time I think I’m done with this series another candidate announces or I discover a candidate who is so far back in the pack that I previously missed him or her. Tim Ryan fits into the prior category. A congressman from Ohio, he announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination on television on Apr. 4.
Ryan is a guy with deep, working class roots who comes from a the state that has produced more presidents than any other. He started out as a conservative Democrat but he has gradually moved to the left in recent years. Because of this movement, Ryan is billing himself as a candidate who understands both sides of the political divide and as someone who can bring conservatives and liberals together.
What we can see in a partial horoscope for Ryan (click on Tim Ryan to see a chart done for noon on his date of birth) is that he is a Cancer by Sun sign. Cancer people have no problem with change. They see it as a natural part of life. They typically follow their feelings, and what might feel right in one set of circumstances often feels totally wrong in another.
A few weeks ago I wrote that, since Uranus is crossing his Descendant this month, I expected Joe Biden to stop dancing around the issue and finally make his candidacy for the Democratic nomination official. However, Uranus aspects are by definition unpredictable and instead this transit has taken Biden’s reputed run for president in an unexpected and much less positive direction.
It has long been observed that Biden is a politician who takes the term “pressing the flesh” quite literally. He's big on hugs, shoulder rubs and handshakes. No one saw this as a problem. In fact, it was a key ingredient to Biden’s avuncular appeal and his reputation as a “regular” guy. However, the “Me Too” movement has brought new scrutiny to this kind of behavior and Biden is now suffering the consequences.
I’ve been away from my desk for a bit, so this entry is a few days late. Fortunately, the New Moon chart for Apr. 5 seems relatively quiet, so the main thing I missed was the trouble that has beset Joe Biden recently. That really have more to do with his personal horoscope and I will deal with it in a separarte entry.
Before we get into the New Moon chart, I want to say something about the very busy chart that we had for the last Full Moon. (Click on March 20 to see the article and the chart.) In that article I predicted that the Mueller report would come down. I also said that (because of the strong placement of Uranus in the chart) it would be “an Uranian lightning bolt into the political system.” That was certainly the case.
I predicted that, because of the placement of the Sun and Moon, much information would be hidden from public view and, because of the aspects between the Sun, Moon and Uranus, there would something unexpected, unusual and “quirky” about the information. The fact that Mueller did not ask for more indictments and failed to find evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian hackers surprised a lot of people and caught everyone (even the president) off guard.
It would seem that I have gotten down to the last person on my list of contenders for the Democratic nomination for president in 2020. (At least until the next one announces.) That is the noted author and lecturer, Marianne Williamson.
In Williamson’s horoscope (click on Marianne Williamson to see the chart) the Sun is conjunct Uranus late in the First House. She is an independent person who does thing her way. Her Sun, Uranus and Venus in Cancer are all square Neptune. Neptune can indicate deception and shifty behavior, but Williamson seems to have tapped the spiritual side of the planet and established herself as a New Age guru..
However, Williamson is by no means totally lost in the Neptunian clouds. She has the Moon in Capricorn. This not ordinarily a good placement for the Moon but, in her case, the Moon is isolated in the upper, right sector of the chart and it is unaspected. This doesn’t give the Moon more power, but it does give it greater significance in the total makeup of her personality. Williamson has made a thriving business out of being a spiritual advisor.
