Hillary and Barack: What Are They Really Up Against?

We've all seen the negative ads on TV and watched the two of them go at each other Who's-Afraid-Of-Virginia-Woolf style. We've heard about the racial and misogynistic subtexts, but neither Reverend Wright nor an all out media bias can come close to the private battles being waged by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack H. Obama.

One of the things I love about astrology is its ability to provide a truly consciousness-expanding picture of the global scene unfolding before us. It gives us a sense of the exciting and challenging process in which we are all, every one of us, being asked to participate. In addition, however, in the case of this Democratic campaign, a planetary view can penetrate deep beneath the surface of people's actions to reveal the interior struggles of both these would-be Leaders Of the Western World.

We are all inexorably attracted to and drawn toward the very things we're repelled by-and vice versa. Horoscopes can describe the choices we often make in relationships, and the people whom Destiny or the Universe keeps throwing in our path. "Here you go," chuckles Fate. "This is what you've got to deal with in this life, so deal with it and shut up." In this case It's six people in two beds in the old dominance and submission theme.

First, Hillary:

The astrology: She has Mars, Saturn Pluto in Leo in her solar tenth house.

The Meaning: She is inevitably drawn into battle, a love/hate affair is more like it, with a supremely narcissistic man. (Bill Clinton and Barack Obama are both Leos.)

Hillary was a child of the 40s and 50s, a time when girls were taught to take Home Ec and typing in high school, and just find a man. Period. She has always loathed that sort of stupid conditioning, and has fought, kicked, screamed and scratched to disprove that she is doomed to such stereotypical female submissiveness. She has struggled to be free to assert her dominance over self-centered men who, she feels, attempt to keep her from realizing her potential, embarrass her, put her down as a cruel reminder that she has no place playing in the Big Leagues with the Big boys.

One look at Bill Clinton's behavior during this campaign is enough to show anybody that Obama is not the only one undermining her race for the White House. She is still involved with two narcissistic guys who are damned and determined to keep their place among the rest of the guys.

Good Heavens, it's a threesome.

Now Obama.

The astrology; He was born with the North Node near his sun and the South Node in the solar seventh house.

The Meaning: He's got a heavy load as well. It's not always evident but he has a great insecurity and abandonment anxiety on the part of women. Not only does he suffer from an overinflated sense of responsibility (the "good child" syndrome"), but that South Node gives him a couple of other big traits as well.

1) He has a grandiose belief in his power to cure all ills. He thinks it's his job to keep people happy (probably starting with his mother) at all costs and to prohibit them from being depressed hopeless or self-destructive. He thinks he's supposed to heal problems that existed before he arrived on the scene. Fearing abandonment or rejection, he takes on impossible tasks, only to be crushed when he realizes that his people-pleasing actually loses him his real and true power.

2)He has an irresistible attraction to women who engage him in a wrestling match for dominance, kindling not only his competitiveness, but his fear of losing control to (and paradoxically winning control from ) a woman, and being rejected. His true path is to maintain his masculinity and resist surrendering to his desire to submit to a controlling woman in fear of being abandoned, but the whole dance is way to tempting to walk away from. And so it is with Barack, Hillary and Michelle Obama.

Well whaddaya know? Another threesome.

When you think about it, though, aren't they're all acting out the war between dominance and submission played out between all men and women these days?

Comments

[wearyvoter]

Scorpios can choose between soaring like eagles and stinging like scorpions. Hell hath no fury like a Scorpio scorned. (I have a Scorpio sibling as well as a Scorpio child.)

[clevelandchick]

The Democrats are always running against The Mediacracy's depiction of Liberals. One candidate has caved to this depiction whole-heartedly and embraced the Republican fellating Mediacracy's disengenuous stereotype and the other has not bought in.

I'm in the construction industry and had a white male coworker come to me to complain about the city's completely voluntary program of using minority and female business owners on projects if at all possible. He thinks that nobody discriminates based on race or gender anymore. I recounted a few stories I've heard and experienced myself over the last 10-15 years of such discrimination. He was surprised but then told me how his grandmother bragged about her vote for George Wallace. I replied "Well, there you go. I guess there are still folks out there affected by folks like your grandma so the city asks that you give a minority/female business a chance". He laughed.

I know what they face but Jesus, it's the Democratic Party's job to be promoting their damned platform. Where is the money they get going?

[wilhelmR]

Hillary is running in favor of the Little Common Man, those who burp, fart, and don't know how to think for themselves. Obama is trying to raise the USA, for the first time in History, those little (white) men to be other than zombies. Can he do it? No, unless Zarathustra, Zeus, or Jesus comes along and makes them New (Free of themselves) Men.

[KarenM]

Hah! Finally, someone else pointing out that both Bill Clinton and Barack Obama are Leos. One more tidbit: although GWB is a Cancer, he has a Leo ascendant.... more or less a Leo who has truly run amok. (Unlike Sun and Moon signs, etc., ascendants don't always have aspects that "mitigate" their more extreme expressions.)

Frankly, I was ready for a change from all that Leo energy.

I wanted some Gemini problem-solving energy, like Dodd (1st choice for his campaign on restoring the Constitution) or Edwards (for being such a great populist). But, alas... our press could not bring themselves to cover the campaign on issues of substance... too much work. They would rather eat barbecue with McCain.

So, given a choice (deemed suitable by the press) between Hillary (Scorpio) and Barack (Leo), I would choose Hillary, since a Scorpio sun is a true change-agent (and usually an excellent executive) over more of that Leo Leo Leo Leo energy. Not that I don't appreciate both Bill and Barack... but we really do need something different.

Also, what could be more revolutionary to have a woman not just as our president, but as the leader of the free world? What a message that would send round the world!

[PioneerKing]

What are you drinking? The leader of the free world. Lady you have got to be doing some drugs to believe that the way our economy is in the crapper, the failing educational system, the debt we owe China and the rest of the world, the fact that in some countries the dollar is not even accepted anymore, the mess that we have made of Iraq and fact that less than 25% of those eligible to vote do so, the failure to address environmental degradation in a substantive manner, the high prison rate, the bigotry and racism and sexism. America is not by any means the leader of the free world. Get real My Friend.

[SpringChicky]

We're a hullava more freer than the rest of the world.

We're not so impoverished that we can buy a home and live a zillions times more comfortable than those abused women in other parts of the world..

Where in the world can a single mother like me maintain her own home, drive a decent car, make my own decisions and be so independent as I?

Kudos to the (female?) posted who feels we live in a free world!!!

AMERICA is most certain!y a FREE WORLD

[PioneerKing]

What a bunch of gobbledy goo. Do you really get paid for writing such dribble?
What's the inference that Obama is more flawed than Clinton. If so your reading "...presents a problem for Barack Obama because he is a worthy man who recoils from shit. The Clintons bathe in shit. Shit sustains them, and shit sustains their hack mouthpieces. Witness Fast Eddie Rendell basically saying on Meet The Press that the Clinton campaign, unlike Obama's, never claimed to be honest.”
“There is much for one to hate about George W. Bush, such as his delusional good humor in response to abject catastrophe. Yet there is now something we've grown to hate just as much...the Hillary "head-bob."
“To witness that quasi-human drone, to hear lie after lie after lie, all the while the head nodding up and down, up and down, is to truly know what faces Obama. He is Richard Benjamin in Westworld, fleeing the remorseless robot Yul Brynner.”
“Clintonism is nothing if not remorseless. Let us hope, for the country's sake, Obama can find a way to obliterate it.”
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