LEO
Pluto is moving from your solar 5th to 6th Houses, so it is time to put to use all those talents which so characterise you and which you have spent so long developing. The Leo Barack Obama is a good case in point. We can all see he is very talented. But people want to see him tried and tested before they can feel fully confident in him. They want to see his talent and charisma come down to earth and into practical policies, “This is what I would do if I was President, and that is what I would do.” So this is the transitionary point at which he now stands as Pluto enters his 6th, and in their own way it is where all Leos stand this year. It is no longer enough to be liked and admired for the wonderful, unique, talented person you are: it is time to develop more of the practical skills necessary to use those talents, it is time to think more in terms of how you can be of practical service to the community. Not because you ‘ought’ to, but because you want to, because you will feel more fulfilled if you do.
And this period of working and developing more skills might well involve directly and unconditionally helping other people. Neptune is in your 7th House of relationship. And you may do this literally or, for example, artistically.In the case of Obama, I think one way this Neptune in the 7th is coming out is in people feeling they have a strong individual relationship with him, even though they don’t, and a deep perception of what a profound person he seems to be – that, like the Republican leader a few years ago, he has been sent by God, he is an old soul come to save the USA and therefore the world at a critical moment in history. That sort of guff.
So Leos watch out – you have the charisma to have this effect on people, particularly while Neptune remains in your solar 7th, but do not encourage it. It is tempting as a Leo to grandstand. Yes, you can do some really good stuff. But just do the work, don’t talk it up, don’t announce its ‘significance’. Pluto in the 6th wants humility of you. People will come to see just how good you are, and how much you help others. But let it creep up on them, then they will appreciate you for the right reasons.
And with Uranus in the 8th, this compassion and transparency to other people that Neptune is giving you can lead to sudden insights, you can grasp why people are like they are, the hidden conditionings that are driving them, their secrets, and also insights into your own dark places and family conditionings.
For Barack Obama, I think it indicates an unexpected (Uranus) shadow side (8th) to him. He is seen so strongly as a figure of light by many people, and there is always a shadow side to this phenomenon. I know I’m coming across as quite critical of the man. I think there could be a lot of good stuff that he does. But there is also this big shadow thing being created, just like with Bush. It’s almost as though in people’s understandable longing to get away from Bush, they are doing the same thing on the other end of the political spectrum. Bush is the shadow, Obama is the light, and they go together. Bush is demonised by the same people who are worshipping Obama. Pluto in Sagittarius is having one last laugh.Anyway, back to Leos generally. Saturn is in your 2nd House of values, talents and money. So this is giving a similar message to Pluto in the 6th. It is time to see what your talents, what you, are worth in the marketplace, what people are prepared to pay for you. Beneath the swagger, Leos can lack grounded confidence in themselves, confidence based on actual achievement. So what is being got at here is not about surrender to Mammon, but the sort of confidence that comes from putting your abilities to work, and seeing them earn you money.
This is a sort of initiation that a lot of talented people have to go through. It’s not about developing a skill – say a lawyer or a plumber – which you do to earn a living, but where it’s usually not a passion, and where you in a deeper sense are not on the line. What I’m talking about is the ‘you’ in a deeper sense, with all its richness and insight and passion and vulnerability, exposing itself to the world, testing itself in the world. This is not an easy thing to do, but it makes your gifts real and allows them to develop.
So for Leos the next 2 years are about bringing the transformative currents from the 6th, 7th and 8th Houses – the skills and ability to work hard, the unconditional desire to help others, the insights that come with that – and putting them out there so that you and others can see their worth. It is a sort of incarnation from Leo the child with potentials, to Leo the adult with self-knowledge and self-confidence.
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An interesting image: Leo the child, moving into adulthood.
Let me relate an impression I had of Barack and Oprah.
First, I'm the oldest of 4, with one brother. My father was an only son, the only offspring of 5 siblings of 1st generation German immigrants. My great-aunts doted on my brother. He was and still is very charming, very intelligent and accomplished. But the accomplishment came later. I have strong memories of my grandmother and aunts laughing and engaged with my funny, silly, darling brother.
(Maybe my father got that too. But his youth was tempered by the divorce and difficult relations between his parents, during the 30s and 40s, when divorce was a stigma and the support of those going through it was not there. He is a gentle, compassionate, and very responsible man--a great father. He and my mother were married for over 50 years.)
But back to the image that struck about Barack:
The video that is shown of Oprah's endorsement has Oprah coming on stage, then Michelle Obama, then darling, smiling Barack. My mind went back to those summers long ago: My aunties doting on their smiling, darling, golden boy.
I posted several articles back about the seeming zealotry of Obama supporters. I do hope they start expecting some substance.
I do like your idea of combining the outer planets and Sun sign. Am waiting patiently for Aquarius's turn.
It's also good to see someone with a nice down to earth take on Barack Obama. His fans are becoming so loud and opinionated that they may end up doing him more harm than good (on-line at least).
I see a faint shadow in him, when he's been unprepared for some remark or other, in debates or interviews on TV. Nothing serious, just making him human like the rest of us mortals.
In this post you have expressed some of my own observations and concerns about Barack Obama. Before his horoscope was available online, I read this, among other articles, on him which is very revealing:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/01/magazine/01axelrod.t.html
As you will notice from this piece, his vague posturing is part of his political strategy to make himself appealing to a broader electorate, particularly the "independents" but also the undecided. Republicans Another part of the strategy, taken from Rove's strategy for George W. Bush, is to make the election about a likable personality. This, of course, he has done with great success, as did George Bush. When Obama's horoscope became available online, I saw that Obama, like George Bush, has a square from Neptune to the Sun. Both George Bush and Obama were into intoxicants. George Bush had problems with alcohol. Obama used cocaine when he was young. Both these individuals could have problems with deception of themselves and others.
Hm. Seems to me that Neptune in the 7th could also mean projecting delusions all over other people!
As for Pluto moving into the solar 6th, do the American people really need another idealist learning that making a successful sales pitch is one thing, but once you close the deal ya gotta "walk the walk"? And with another person who is only just learning HOW to walk that walk?!? And right after watching Bush slogging through this same lesson, taking the country right along with him for ill or will? Have Americans learned *nothing* this past decade??? Or is it all simply a kind of lark to them? To not take politics or their government seriously, that is, and maybe that is going to be a theme of Pluto in Capricorn in general...
Rather an ironic idea, that Bush the Cancer just had Pluto *finish* a transit to his solar 6th. Now, after spending 8 years trying to reconcile his idealistic fantasies with life as President, do you think he has transformed (Pluto) his methods of doing his daily business? Or at the very least, has a different perspective on it now?
I think I'd rather see someone in the executive office who had already integrated their lessons on how to manage the actual *tasks* of their routine, their business. But, maybe that is just me.
Anonymous - Yes,in our youth culture we've lost sight of the idea that you need lots of experience to do something as difficult as running a country. We want someone young and, hopefully, sexy. I think that was why the Iraq War occurred in the way that it did. Tony Blair in the UK was similarly inexperienced. It's not just inexperience, it's the arrogance of youth (Bush was in his mid-fifties!), because the lessons from the past are all there if you want to take note of them.
Anyway, I liked what you said, it's how I think, who are you?!!
Media reports are coming in that, in the caucus states where Barack is winning handily, his supporters are a mass that is shouting down other speakers for the other candidate.
It seems the zealotry is holding the moment.
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Ho! Thank you Dharmaruchi! At last someone puts into new words what I've been intuiting all along, here's a few posts I wrote yesterday without response:
It could simply be a matter of ignorance on Obama's part rather than evil intent. (there's a limit to how spooked I'll allow myself to get). His sun/mercury/neptune suggests he may also be led easily and "go along" without full understanding.
and...
Forgive my reiterating. I believe Obama will unwittingly allow the creepmeisters to sneak in the back door without full understanding of what he is doing.
I think this is why he scares me. His judgements are half-assed and therefore a bigger threat than we or even he and his supporters may realize.
Even with the benefit of the doubt, his motives may not be as decisively skewed as is Pelosi's...but we may experience side-effects of his decision-making that will shock our sensibilities. One of those "how the heck did THAT happen"Satories).
and...
http://boston.com/news/local/connecticut/articles/2006/03/31/obama_rallies_state_democrats_throws_support_behind_lieberman/
More than three years later, and that Neptune in the 7th proves to be Obama's detractors' projecting their unfounded fears all over him. He's turned out to be exceed my expectations for him. Perhaps people who get their news solely from the media (Neptune) will begin to rethink how people and issues are portrayed to sell false narratives.
I appreciate your general two-year analysis for all of the signs. At least you weren't as heavy-handed here as some other astrologers were about their negative feelings about Obama.
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