With only two and a half weeks to go before the 2012 presidential election — featuring Mercury stationing retrograde — Eric dives into the charts of Obama and Romney. In addition to that analysis, this week’s premium subscriber issue also includes horoscopes for all 12 signs (which have for a while included a special feature for the current week’s birthdays). The astro-news briefs this week include a tribute to Amanda Todd — and the necessary conversations indicated by her unnecessary death.
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“Because Romney wants to set policy for the rest of us, he is subject to every possible prying into his private life that we can possibly arrange. If you will notice, however, I did not shame him at all for his desires, only for his tendency to hypocrisy: to do what he says others should not to, and then to lie about it….
I am clear: I have nothing against Romney or anyone else for doing anything involving sex where the people involved said yes and everyone is over the age of 18. What I have against him is wanting to tell the rest of us what to do, and treating us like his property.”
I think it is important that you clarified that. Thank you for taking the time to respond.
Re Mormons and alcohol: the way I’ve seen it, it’s kind of like the Amish “rumspringa” period. Things done before marriage (like drinking) are okay if out of sight, and for the boys sex is certainly okay. Girls are not supposed to do all that of course, saving themselves for marriage and all that malarkey.
HS: Glad to see you are back!!
JannKinz
One tidbit from the trenches in Michigan: I find it interesting that I have heard from more than once source who knew Romeo back in his youth that he drank alcohol. I didn’t ask about his drinking habits. The info was volunteered as part of conversation, ironically with people claiming to be Republican, who didn’t even try to explain it away as youthful experimentation or indiscretion. Fast forward to this week’s mini-roast at the fundraiser in NY, spotlight on Romeo stating emphatically that he hasn’t had any alcohol in his 65 years.
Hmm. I would suggest that it isn’t just sex that Romeo has conflicted issues about. Alcohol seems to be another.
One more thing: I cringe every time I hear Romeo called “Mitt.” What an insult to Michigan. Call the Weasel by his real first name: Willard.
JannKinz
love and hugs to you Stormi!
good for you HugS! about time, eh? 😉
cheers to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc1mriOPmHs !
ox ~ s
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Hugs to you Huffy! 🙂
Hey Hugging! Welcome back dear!! All sounds good.((( )))
I’m really looking forward to your annual Scorpio forecast Eric. So many changes in my life, so many new beginnings, and a feeling of renewed empowerment. It’s been a rough summer, but one I ultimately came to value deeply. Thank you always for your help and writings.
HS
Hi eric,
I like all the stars this week!
Thanks.
You’ve written and spoken a lot about sexual healing and related topics. But I thought I’d just ask you since you put it directly in the gemini stars how you define sexual healing.
The paragraph got me a little confused where it mentions a rare aspect – this weekend? What is it? And also sexual healing connected to friends and family.
Carrying the theme into relations with them?
Happy saturday.
It’s like a misty London or Paris outside my window.
Beth
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Hi Beth
It’s Sun-Saturn trine Neptune-Chiron, which happens Monday through Wednesday or so. Gemini’s solar 6th house is involved, so that evokes the theme of healing and service.
At this stage of history I would define sexual healing as anything that enters the spectrum of honesty and awareness about sex, without moralism or dogma. I’m primarily describing the conversation that needs to happen, however, when one person finds some sanity it’s usually possible to offer that to the people around them, as an example and point of reference.
That’s a basic intro to the territory…happy to keep the discussion going till you feel I’m clear.
xxef
When someone enters the public discourse as a policy maker, the rules change, in my opinion. Mitt Romney can do something that Amanda Todd could never do — be a hypocrite on the special level of public life versus private lives. He will be able to appoint justices to the Supreme Court who can ban abortion for the whole country, while obtaining the services of the best doctors to procure an abortion for a member of his own family, when it’s illegal.
Amanda Todd, or someone in a similar position, could not or cannot do anything like that, and she is subject to a different set of standards.
Because Romney wants to set policy for the rest of us, he is subject to every possible prying into his private life that we can possibly arrange. If you will notice, however, I did not shame him at all for his desires, only for his tendency to hypocrisy: to do what he says others should not to, and then to lie about it.
We heard him say this week he has no agenda to ban abortion and no desire to take away the right to birth control. We have heard him say in prior weeks that he would sign the personhood law and that he wants to roll back Griswold v Connecticut. Merely for not being a woman, he is a total hypocrite here, since current laws [case law] protects women (from things like prosecution for murder if they have a miscarriage). Any fetus personhood law would open the door to prosecution for a miscarriage, something that could never happen to him.
Once a public policy maker steps into this dimension, they are no longer protected by the kinds of privacy rules that apply to Amanda Todd. We deserve to know everything about them.
I am clear: I have nothing against Romney or anyone else for doing anything involving sex where the people involved said yes and everyone is over the age of 18. What I have against him is wanting to tell the rest of us what to do, and treating us like his property.
I find mixed messages in this week’s article. One message implies shame while the other says,
“When will we learn that bullying in any form is not okay?”
“He impresses me as a three-hooker kind of guy. At least in his dreams, he needs the three most beautiful, best-dressed and (most of all) most expensive call girls in town. Then he needs them to do all manner of delightfully perverse things to him, simultaneously, for hours on end, till they finally start to get sleepy. That’s when he reminds them to vote for him, and invites them to church the following Sunday.”
How is what you are saying here any different than what was done to Amanda Todd? Aren’t you deliberately trying to imply some THING about Romney? Since when does pro-sex PW interject and speak disdainfully or judgmentally about fantasy? Definitely mixed messages.
Many thanks all, this is fascinating stuff.
Hmm, I’ve several similar aspects to O’s chart, but I also know that my chart is my chart alone. I’m opposite O: Aquarius Sun, Leo Rising. There is a Grand Square hanging around too, between Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, and Pluto however, so I’m not without foibles (didn’t really need a chart to tell myself that!). Personally, I’m not giving up on Pluto as a planet…
Fortunately, nothing else gibes. Nessus is out in the 11th house in Taurus, Damocles in Aquarius near Pholus (10&11Aq). I come nowhere near Romeo’s chart, for Pete’s sake! Thank the Goddess I gave up on being a robot years ago.
I’m not sure about the three hookers either: how about three ‘sister’ wives instead? Much more controllable, yet ultimately much more dangerous. Romeo would feel entitled to them as such, since he’s entitled, period. Not to mention the whole sex/uptight/buttoned down suppression, repression thing. The Mittster exudes repression: his language, his physical carriage and mannerisms, they all just scream closet ‘sub’ to me. So who’s the dom?
Hey Eric,
Do you have any strings you could pull to get us an asteroid officially named…Romnesia?
LOL
That’s what I said.
“Romeo”?
Great work. As I was reading this I was reminded that I, too, have Venus in Aquarius and a Mars/Mercury conjunction in Pisces. Maybe I have more in common with the Romneybot 9000 than I thought!!! When I was growing up, I definitely identified with Mr. Data. LOL
Thanks for another knock out edition, Eric and team! Haven’t had time to read it all properly yet – but Amanda, I wanted to thank you for your beautiful piece on Amanda Todd – I really needed to read something like that, gave me some comfort. Her sad and tragic story has been weighing on my mind…