BILL GWATNEY, chairman of the Arkansas Democratic party, died after being shot in his office today at about noon. Arkansas is one of those little places where big things seem to happen. Remember, the last president came from Arkansas, and it was also the home of Barack Obama’s main contender in the primaries, Hillary Clinton. The astrology indicates that this was not a lone nutcase scenario, but someone on a kind of political mission. And in a way reminiscent of Lee Harvey Oswald, that someone happens to be telling no tales.
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Bill Gwatney, chairman of the Arkansas Democratic Party, died after being shot. Photo: Arkansas American Legion. |
Tim Johnson, the suspect, was killed. After a 30 mile chase involving three different police agencies, there are conflicting reports of how he died. Some said his car ended up wrapped around a tree. Others say he was subsequently shot.
The obvious problem here is that with the assailant gone, we will never really know the truth about what occurred.
The astrological backdrop to this story is that the chart for the Democratic National Convention in Denver in less than two weeks is a dark piece of astrology that reflects the extreme violence of our times. While most people have been focusing their fears on an attempt on the life of Barack Obama, it is not surprising that violence has erupted somewhere in the Democratic camp.
Here is the astrology chart for the assassination, based on press reports of an incident that took place “around noon.” [The time was in fact 11:59 am; this chart is cast for exactly at noon, which does not substantially change it.]
Checking the ascendant, the first thing we need to note is that it’s in the very last degree of Libra. That tells me two things: one, there is an old rule about not judging a chart that is in the very late or very early degrees of a sign. So we need to be careful about being too definitive about this chart. Late ascendant charts will tend to indicate a changing story. Gwatney clung to life for a few hours, and he died four hours later.
Second, the degree involved, 29+ Libra, was involved in the 2000 election (Mercury stationed direct in that degree just as polls closed on election night) and it’s involved in the 2008 election — again, it’s the position of Mercury.
When you have the same degree of the zodiac pop up in three different charts on similar subjects (in this case, presidential elections), that is a significant connection. This will have an effect on the election and seems designed for this purpose.
The ruler of the Libra ascendant — Venus — is exactly conjunct Saturn. I think that Gwatney, a superdelegate and friend of the Clintons, is a much bigger player than his nearly empty Wiki page indicates. And the Venus-Saturn connection did not bode well for his prospects of surviving the shooting. [I did not write this in the earlier draft because I honor the astrological taboo on predicting death.]
We also notice Pallas Athene — the asteroid of politics — in the house of death, the 8th house. The suggestion here is that Gwatney’s murder was specifically politically motivated.
Had this not followed so closely on the heels of John Edwards being taken out of the political arena last week when an affair was disclosed, it might not be so suspicious. Sometimes two events are a coincidence and three represent a pattern. Let’s hope the weirdness stops here.
I’ll be back shortly with additional details. Here is an article that gives some additional details about Gwatney’s role in politics.
