It was Barack Obama who began the cock-up over the Presidential oath by interrupting the Chief Justice before he had finished the first sentence. From there it all went pear-shaped. It was good for human reasons to see Obama making a mistake, because he is normally so sure-footed. He looks and behaves very much like a Capricorn. His only planet in Capricorn is Saturn, which is one reason I think Saturn is very important – along with Jupiter – when considering Obama as President.This cock-up meant that Obama took the oath for a second time a day later, out of “an abundance of caution”, and only then began signing Presidential documents.
So which oath-taking should we use as the chart for his Presidency? This question will no doubt occupy astrologers for decades to come.
It seems clear to me that we have 2 charts, each with its own validity. It is useful to compare them with the July 2nd and the July 4th charts for the USA itself. On July 2nd 1776, Congress voted for Independence, and so this is when the US legally came into existence. On July 4th 1776, Independence was publicly declared, and this was the point at which, as far as the people were concerned, the US was born.
The same applies to the 2 Presidential oaths. After the first oath, Obama was President as far as the people of the nation were concerned. After the second oath, he was President in a legal sense.
But America defines itself as being ruled by the will of the people. This is why it is the Sibly Chart of July 4th that is the main chart for the USA, rather than the legal chart of July 2nd. And this is also why, in my view, it is the chart for the first oath-taking that will remain the principal chart for Obama’s Presidency: because it was from that point that the people considered him to be their President.
I wrote about this chart on 16 Jan and 21 Jan and it means, in my view, that the Void Moon of the first chart remains important. Obama's Presidency may therefore be interrupted in some way, but he may also initiate great things in the time that he has. The historical evidence points strongly to this pattern, but in astrology nothing is ever a certainty. With mundane charts, however, there is a greater collective presence, and so less free will, and predictions from such charts therefore have a greater degree of certainty about them.
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I have had a couple of further thoughts on this chart, which found their way into my comments section. Firstly, a Vedic astrologer considered the Mercury retrograde to be a bad thing. Vedic astrology seems to operate in a more fatalistic way than modern western astrology, and I do not necessarily view Mercury Retrograde as a hindrance. It certainly seems to be a hindrance if you are beginning a venture, which is what Obama is doing. BUT… look at the Houses that Mercury rules in the Inauguration Chart. It rules the Second House of the economy, and the Sixth House of jobs. Obama is not primarily embarking on a major new initiative in these areas: rather, he has a big fixing and sorting task to do first before he can get to the point of new growth. And this is exactly what Mercury retrograde is good for. It’s crap for starting things, but good for fixing things. We could hardly have asked for a better placement!
My other thought, which came to me while having a nap, was to do with Sun in Aquarius sextile Moon right at the end of Scorpio. Here we see the leader (the Sun) in a good relationship with the people (Moon), but particularly the black people, due to Scorpio’s association with the unacknowledged shadow side of the psyche, and therefore with the historical place of black people in US society. But the Moon is right at the end of Scorpio. So we have this leader with his vision for the future (Aquarius) leading his people out of their long sojourn in Scorpio and into the bright expanded horizons of Sagittarius. Wonderful!
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a lot of people are adamant that Barach became president at 12 noon tuesday regardless of speech or no speech because of the constitution. Remember that little document?
It wasn't Obama's cock-up, but the Chief Justice who misplaced the "faithfully" in the sentence.
Yes, but Obama wrong-footed him in the first place by coming in before he'd finished the first sentence! I think that set the tone!
To those of us waiting for this Presidency the man became President at noon, just like the Constitution says in article XX, which doesn't say anything about the oath:
Amendment XX
Section 1. The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January...
The original Constitutional article on the Presidency says "Before he enter on the *execution* of his office," he will take the oath (which by the way doesn't include the phrase, "So help me god"). So after the Rightists started complaining about the oath, Obama swore it again before he signed further orders.
Vedic astrology is, in a sense, more fatalistic, but it then goes on to recommend specific things you can do to ease the bad effect of certain transits.
In a way I prefer this to the way that Western astrology typically tries to shy away from the idea that certain configurations are a royal pain in the backside.
Great analysis by the way!
The oath that Obama took is standard to all U.S. federal employees and members of the U.S. armed forces, and it is usually taken repeatedly during one's career. Generally, the person administering the oath READS it, but it seems that in this case, the Justice chose to memorize it.
It is customary that the oath is broken into short phrases, such as: "I, Barack Hussein Obama", but the Justice didn't stop at this point, and instead ran into the next phrase just as the President, expecting him to make the customary pause, repeated the first phrase.
It was the justice, then, who initiated the problem, and not the President.
Yes, according to Wiki also the first mistake was due to the Justice who paused momentarily after saying "I Barack Obama", which Obama took as a cue to speak, but then the Justice continued. Also at the end he said "So help you God?" to Obama, instead of "So help you God" for Obama to repeat.
So it seems Chief Justice Roberts was having a bad day. He is the first Chief Justice to administer a Presidential oath whose appoitment as Chief Justice was voted against by the incoming President. So maybe that had something to do with it!
Also he has Mercury at 26 Aquarius opposite Pluto, which Neptune is transiting. So Neptune could make him fluff things, and that opposition to Pluto - well, maybe there was some sort of power issue going on!
With natal Moon in Pisces as well, he probably has a hard time getting anything right just now!
To me this is proof that Obama is using an astrologer.
I'm going to blog as much.
^ I very much feel the same way, MsMarmitelover. I really do. The whole fluff-up was veeery interesting though. This was no coincidence. And D, sorry, I put the burden on Justice Roberts. I think it was the BBC who reported Roberts had thought he could memorize the oath easy peasy. Well, obviously he didn't take into account his nerves. Fool. I personally found it very sweet when Obama paused trying to help him out. Had it been me up there I would have been royally irritated. That's the Virgo in me.
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