Governor Rod Blagojevich
Maybe it seems like an especially precarious time now, when we get almost daily awakenings that our system of government and corporate business needs an overhaul. Corruption goes with money, which goes with power. The main astrological feature of our time is Pluto’s entrance into Capricorn. Plutocrats are people with too much money.
Astronomers demoted Pluto last year, because they make judgments about size, mass, speed and orbit patterns. Astrologers however, know Pluto to be massively powerful in its influence on the collective, and on events that matter on the scale of governments, nations, and events that affect masses of people.
Some may doubt the astrology of personality, but from the clear connections between planetary movements and the timing of events, not to mention the descriptors of symbolism played out in real life, there is obvious real data in the astrology of events.
For instance, on December 2, 2008, there was the public release of 200 more tapes and stacks of documents of the Nixon White House scandal. In his birth chart Richard Nixon had his Pluto near his Midheaven, the career point. He spent his life chasing power. He was the most secretive and manipulative president on record to date.
Pluto brings buried things out into the light. Pluto is currently passing over former President Nixon’s Mercury (the planet of mental and communication abilities) and the many tapes and documents have been released now illustrate his ruthlessness. We can hear him plot on these tapes in a shocking manner. Pluto is bringing out the truth of ruthless government behavior patterns that need to be addressed by the people. Pluto brings us “impartial truth”. One of the themes of Pluto is the discoveries with deep consequences.
The arrest of Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich on December 9 is another current event that plays into the processes of Pluto changing signs and bringing dark things into light.
Rod Blagojevich was born Dec 10 1956 in Chicago, IL. The time of day is not available. Even without it, we can see the processes that are bringing him to be accountable for his actions.
The Chicago Tribune published that he was arrested at 6:15 am at his home. The chart set up for the arrest compared to Blagojevich’s natal solar chart highlights the surprise visit by authorities and brings forward his own responsibility. His natal Saturn was at the ascendant of the arrest chart. His defense will be that he was within the limits of his job and was acting responsibly in his job.
The arrest chart has Saturn, authority figures on the Midheaven, doing their job and making details public. Uranus is at the 4th cusp (home and family) and is in a direct square aspect to his Sun, bringing his identity into the spotlight. Uranus is near his Moon, so his family and home are disrupted, his wife is probably very upset. A few days after the arrest, more audio recordings of Blagojevich on the phone included his wife Patty in the background adding her expletives, and drawing her into the case.
The unexpected turn of events is triggered by Pluto, the planet of surveillance and underground activities is touching of a planetary pattern in Blagojevich chart that include points relative to his communication, actions, and ambitions. The FBI gave details of the many plots Blagojevich seems involved in over a period of years, including events prior to his re-election in 2006.
Blagojevich was sworn in as Governor on January 13, 2003 for his first term of office. Using the chart for this event as a basis for the current event, it is amazing to find that Pluto was on Blagojevich’s Sun when he became Governor.
Pluto was in the 8th house for that Inauguration and the Sun was at 24 Capricorn, where Jupiter was at his arrest. The Sun and Mars are together going over Blagojevich’s natal Sun. It is his solar return or birthday, which sets the stage for the events of the year ahead. This all amounts to broad exposure and will likely bring out deeper levels of misconduct and many more people.
He will fight this case as hard as he can. Mars is the planet of war. There is more than meets the eye in this case that is just being cracked open.
What we have is an example of Pluto setting the man in his position of power and then unseating him through his own misuse of power. His second term Inauguration had Mars exactly conjunct with Pluto, which is ruthless power, again in the 8th of the chart, which in a corporation handles donations, financial gifts, revenues from investments, secrets of trade. The more I work with the details, I begin to lean to the idea that Blagojevich is born just after noon. This would show the transit of Pluto and Mars over his career point at his second Inauguration. Like Nixon, Pluto is putting Governor Rod in a precarious position that is going to expose much that has gone on in the back room of Illinois politics.
Jupiter was giving Blagojevich’s Saturn a boost when he won his second term, making him feel more influential and able to use his power for pressuring others by his authority. The Moon was in secretive Scorpio and square Neptune, giving a picture of back room secret deals and deceptions. The arrest chart rolls along with the trend of uncovering the misuse of power and corruption of government.
I expect Blagojevich to fight, dodge, weave, and power-on in his role as Governor up until the time that some higher authority stops him in his tracks. He boldly announced his appointment of Roland Burris to the vacant Senate seat that was the question of this unfolding event. The US Senate leaders say they will not seat Burris. It will be no surprise when Blagojevich marching into the Congressional Chambers with Burris. The solar return Mars on the Sun acts with the power of a General, marching to war.
This story is likely to have several chapters before we see Blagojevich leave his post as Governor of Illinois.
