Ann Romney Takes On the Gender Gap
Although Mitt Romney sewed up his nomination last week with decisive wins, a new poll indicates that he has a significant gender gap: women favor Obama by 18 percentage points, while men are split evenly. To gain ground with this cohort, Romney consults his wife Ann about what women want, and she in turn touts her husband’s solid family values and economic plans.
Ann Romney was born with an energetic Sun-Venus-Mars conjunction in forthright Aries (April 16, 1949; 1:40 am*; Bloomfield Hills, MI), and a Moon-Chiron conjunction in Sagittarius. The fiery assertiveness is checked by her Capricorn Ascendant, and Mars opposite Neptune can also be inhibitive. Previously, she has stated her distaste for campaigning, but now wants to help as best she can.
With Capricorn Rising, Saturn plays an extra significant role in her life. She married on March 21, 1969 when transiting Saturn was conjunct her Sun. Then, 29 years later, Saturn conjoined her Sun again and she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Also, transiting Pluto had conjoined her Moon-Chiron, and her progressed Venus conjoined her 6th house Uranus, a veritable triple whammy expressing itself as a life-changing health crisis.
The astro-events that brought on her M.S. are important now because similar alignments are shaping up. Transiting Saturn is opposing her Aries planets, her progressed Sun is near her 6th house Uranus, and transiting Chiron is squaring her Moon-Chiron. So far, she has managed her M.S. very well with traditional and holistic methods, but the pressure to bring around women voters must be hard to resist. Her progressed Sun conjoins natal Uranus right on Election Day, which can also be read as a personal peak of excitement and celebrity status.
Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman
Young men with dynamic Mars-Uranus aspects can quickly get involved in dangerous situations. The Mars-Uranus pairing fosters impulsive, sudden action and encourages risk-taking. Those with this combination tend to be hyperactive, spontaneously volatile, and are generally too willful to listen to others’ opinions. Get two people together with this aspect, and you can expect fireworks.
Trayvon Martin (February 5, 1995; Miami, FL; time unknown) and George Zimmerman (October 5, 1983; Manassas, VA; time unknown) both have this aspect. While the circumstances surrounding Trayvon Martin’s death remain uncertain, and many half-truths and outright lies** have emerged under Mercury’s retrograde phase, astrologers can arrive at their own opinions. And one thing is clear: neither of these two was perfectly innocent.
Martin’s Aquarius Sun has a wide opposition to Mars, but by secondary progression, his Mars is only two degrees from opposing his Sun. The Sun-Mars type often puts himself into situations that require boldness and courage. In this way he can prove to himself that he’s not a coward. They tend to see others as being argumentative or aggressive rather than themselves.
Zimmerman’s Mars centers a T-square involving a Jupiter-Uranus conjunction opposite Chiron. This T-square (along with Martin’s progressed Sun) was activated by the transiting Juno-Chiron square that was described here last week. Both Martin and Zimmerman have their natal Sun sextile to Jupiter in Sagittarius, indicating each believed he was in the right. However, Zimmerman’s Mercury-Neptune square tells us that he is perfectly capable of falsifying information or misrepresenting the facts to verify his story.
Matt Damon’s Guru
This month, Matt Damon begins filming "The Promised Land", which features a script he co-wrote about the dangers of hydraulic fracturing or "fracking" to access natural gas. Many environmentalists are excited because the film exposes how fracking can contaminate the water supply with toxic chemicals. Damon has a history of supporting leftist causes, but this one has the oil and gas industry worried.
Matt Damon was born with a progressive Sun-Uranus conjunction in Libra (October 8, 1970; 3:22 pm; Boston, MA) that opposes a Chiron-Eris conjunction in Aries. With this configuration, he’s naturally attracted to situations that stir up trouble, which is apparent in his real life as well as in the movies. A Mars-Pluto conjunction gives him an interest in dangerous, high risk roles, most notably as Jason Bourne in the successful series of action thrillers.
With cause-oriented Aquarius Rising, Uranus is the ruler of his chart. When he was growing up, Damon’s next-door neighbor was the social activist Howard Zinn (August 24, 1922). Zinn’s best-selling "A People’s History of the United States" shaped Damon’s worldview, which is shown by Zinn’s Saturn conjunct Damon’s Uranus. Their enduring friendship lasted through Zinn’s death in 2010, and is evident by Zinn’s Venus-Jupiter conjunction right on Damon’s Libra Sun.
As the anti-fracking film begins, transiting Pluto is turning retrograde at 9º33’ Capricorn, which forms an exact square to Damon’s Uranus (orb 0º00’). This signature alone suggests a metamorphic project is underway. Over the next three years, transiting Uranus and Pluto will be activating his ruling planet and his Sun. Under this radical influence, Damon is likely to become increasingly vocal about his Zinn-inspired political views.
* Ann Romney‘s birth time is unknown. The time used here is speculative.
** Here are the facts: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/04/02/us/the-events-leading-to-the-shooting-of-trayvon-martin.html
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