Dear Friend and Reader,
TODAY AS THE SUN sets off a high-charged square with Uranus, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich is facing federal charges for attempting to sell the senate seat vacated by Barack Obama. He offered it to the highest bidder and if no one was going to give him what he wanted, he would just have to take it for himself.
Blagojevich is being taken to task by none other than America’s most famous prosecuting lawyer, Patrick Fitzgerald. Fitz was the guy who went after Dick Cheney and Karl Rove a few years ago for the spy-outing case involving someone named Valerie Plame. He managed to score a conviction — Scooter Libby. The accusations against Blagojevich include mail and wire fraud and bribery. The motive appears to be a money shortage in the Blagojevich family. Looks like the governor took American free enterprise a little too seriously.
We might ask what highly unusual astrology could set off this incident, which is not about Blagojevich but about the trust of the American people in their government. The incident comes at a time when it seems a modicum of faith was restored by the election of Obama last month. If this is not a rumbling of Pluto in Capricorn, I don’t know what is.
We cast Blagojevich’s natal chart for noon on Dec. 10, 1959, because he is a well known person and no birth time is available. Lesser well known folk usually get a sunrise chart when no birth time is available. Today is his birthday, or in the language of astrologers, his solar return. And on that day, there is an exact Sun-Uranus square, which suggests that the king (indicated by the Sun) has encountered an awakening, stunning and disruptive force for progress (Uranus). This is true for him because it involves his natal chart; this is true for all of us because the square is happening in the Big Sky. If we wanted to find a better illustration what is going on right now, we’d have to make it up.
Blagojevich is a Sagittarius. Dauntless, bold and ambitious, this is one sign that was born to match power with boundaries and discipline; apparently it did not work this time.