Dick Rising: The Weiner Scandal 2.0

By Alex Miller

Now folks, I know this is going to strain the bounds of credulity, but believe me — it’s a fact. Among the literal host of personal-named asteroids out there (or up there, as it were), there are several with names which are common euphemisms for “penis” in English. They’re not named for such, but they work that way in news stories and birth charts, especially when the topic is sex and scandal. Among these are asteroids Dick (#17548), Pecker (#1629) and Wiener (#18182).

Chart showing pertinent aspects between Anthony Weiner's natal chart and the chart for his recent announcement. Click here to see full-size version.
Chart showing pertinent aspects between Anthony Weiner’s natal chart and the chart for his recent announcement. Click here for larger version.

Hmmmm… Wiener… now what does that remind me of? Oh, yes! Anthony Weiner (vowels reversed), the former U.S. congressman forced to resign two years ago in the wake of a sexting scandal, now running for New York City mayor. And what’s he been up to of late?

Well, as the great Yogi Berra might have phrased it, “it’s dong-ja vu all over again!”

Yes, Anthony Weiner (born Sept. 4, 1964) has been caught with his pants down once more in a brand new sexting scandal, more than a year after he pledged never to do it again.

After the story broke, candidate Weiner called a press conference in New York City, and began speaking at 5:36 PM EDT on July 23.

At precisely that moment, what celestial body should be rising exactly on the ascendant but asteroid Dick, at 23 Virgo! Dick rising; pretty apt, on a whole bunch of levels. Not only that, but Dick also opposes TNO Salacia at 27 Pisces, a point named for a Roman goddess from which we derive our word “salacious,” meaning “lustful, lecherous, obscene or grossly indecent.” Indeed.

But it gets better. The Sun that day at 1 Leo was exactly conjoined Anthony Weiner’s natal asteroid Photographica, which of course represents photos and images of all kinds, including sexting. Not content with that rather potent contact, the Sun was involved in a T-square, a tense, geometrically unforgiving structure denoting conflict and challenge, incorporating an opposition to transiting asteroid Pecker at 25 Capricorn, and a square to asteroid Wiener at 29 Libra.

While out of Sign, this pattern is within orb, and is tumescent with appropriate imagery, including an asteroid representing Weiner personally — as well as a virtual orgy of celestial penis jokes.

The day was one which was primed for the disclosure of politicians’ sexual peccadilloes, with an engorged pairing of Mars (sex) and Jupiter (politics), both at 6 Cancer, into which just happens to walk another personal-named asteroid, Sydney (#15550). Named for the city in Australia, it’s functioning here as the first name of the woman who exposed Weiner’s dirty little secret, Sydney Leathers (No, I’m not making that up!).

At 4 Cancer, she’s right there with Mars/Jupiter, and trine to her natal degree in Weiner’s birth chart, 5 Scorpio. That just happens to be exactly where transiting Saturn is right now, representing lawmakers, government officials generally, and chief executives like mayors specifically.

Of course, it also represents careers, loss and limitation, and endings or withdrawal from a process — such as, oh, I don’t know… a mayoral race?

[If you’d like to connect with your inner Wiener, Dick or Pecker, or any number of fun and fascinating celestial bedfellows, check out the asteroid ephemeris generator at Serennu.com.]

9 thoughts on “Dick Rising: The Weiner Scandal 2.0”

  1. hi, arrowforwhere!

    I hadn’t noted the SF wiener story – thanks for the tip! I do note that on the 30th, asteroid wiener had moved to 0 scorpio, within orb of transit Saturn at 5 scorpio, ruling rules and regulations, particularly of a sexual nature, while in scorpio. asteroid scott at 1 cancer is trine wiener/Saturn, and pulling into conjunction with Jupiter/politicians at 7 cancer. asteroid godiva, named after possibly the world’s most famed nudist, at 21 cancer is aligning with mercury/news at 18 cancer.

    kinda makes sense, doesn’t it? :^)

  2. len, thanks as always for your support. as you say, I do find this PNA field to be incredibly validating and affirming for astrology. there’s very little wiggle room on interpretation or wishful thinking when you bring such concrete elements into play. when you see Sydney conjunct mars and Jupiter on the day there’s a political sex scandal involving a Sydney, it’s fairly obvious there’s a connection. no creative interpretive stretch required, it smacks you in the face.

  3. hi, saravictoria!

    thanks for commenting; couldn’t agree more about weiner’s issues, adding also the issues of the lying, and the misuse of $45,000 in campaign funds two years ago to ‘investigate’ who hacked his twitter account, when he knew he’d posted his pic himself. he’s shown himself to be completely unreliable and unrepentant.

    the thrust (so to speak) of this piece, however, was to note the incredible – or as you say, unfathomable – way that PNAs insert themselves into our realities. I can assure you that your experience of PNAs in your chart and life is not unique; in fact, it’s pretty standard, which makes them all the more amazing. the mechanism by which this operates still eludes me, but I find it fascinating.

  4. Hey dont know if you heard about another Wiener , city supervisor in san francisco… Exerpt from the NY Times:
    The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted 6 to 5 on Tuesday to approve a ban on public nudity. The vote means that there will be no more lounging nude in the city’s plazas, parading up and down city streets sans pants or riding subways and buses bare-bottomed.

    Scott Wiener, a city supervisor who represents the Castro district, introduced the ordinance after an increase in the number of habitual nudists and a rise in complaints from residents and business owners.

    “The nudity situation in the Castro has become extreme,” Mr. Wiener told his colleagues.

  5. Alex: Thank your for your instructive ingenuity, as well as for your affirmation of astrology in general.

  6. For those following this issue, I devote a good bit of energy to Wiener et al in this week’s Planet Waves FM. I address the topic of sexual moralism and our perception of these events, more than analyzing the people involved — I explore the environment in which they are happening and how we see them — and how they are a mirror.

  7. I once looked up the asteroids that make up my name and found they fell in amazingly strong places in my chart; names of significant lifetimes of mine as well. Whoever created This Program is rather unfathomable. Re: Le Weiner – must add my two cents somewhere, so here’s as good a place as any. I am not concerned about the sexual element of the issue, per se – that isn’t, to me, the problem. The PROBLEM is that as a major public figure, a politician, no less, it requires a significant and highly problematic disconnect to engage in these activities on social networking sites or any kind of network that is potentially public. It implies a high degree of unconscious motivation, not to mention compulsion, to engage in this way. I don’t care about the sexuality of it. I care about the mental competence it implies. It’s not screwing a staff member in private or a hooker or whatever – it’s sex games in public. So there’s a screw loose somewhere, no pun – or pun, etc., whatever.

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