You can watch JFK’s inaugural address here.
We always think of Jack Kennedy in the context of getting assassinated. His ghost is never far from American politics. When I was a child, there was a portrait of him hanging in our family’s basement; all I knew is that he died right before I was born. But who was the guy? I’ve never taken a careful look at his natal chart until now.
The fist thing my eye jumps to is his Libra rising. Libra is the sign of elegance. Everything connected to this energy has an artful touch, and that was JFK. He was one of the smoothest politicians in modern American history; he not only understood that you have to look good, and look good on TV, and sound good; he was a natural at these things.
The next thing I see is a complicated 8th house — the house of contracts, sex and death. He has a Mars-Mercury-Jupiter conjunction. This says he’s got a fast mind and can access vast amounts of intelligence. Like Bob Dylan, another man who shaped the Sixties, this is the deep kind of Gemini. He’s also sexually lit up; it’s physical (Taurus), mental (Mercury) and spiritual (Jupiter). This grouping on his 8th house cusp suggests an extremely complex marriage situation (gee whiz) and a lot of strange financial dealings, following in the footsteps of his father Joe Kennedy.
Also, take a look at his Mars on the 8th, which is the house pointing to the nature and cause of death; Mars suggests violence, and the vertex points to something that feels like fate.
He had the power to be ruthlessly competitive (Saturn in Cancer on the 10th) but coat it in a mirage of charm (Neptune in Leo nearby in the 10th).
One last thing. With that Virgo Moon, he was a quirky guy obsessed with the details. He worked on that inaugural speech for weeks, consulting many of the smartest people he knew. His Moon is conjunct Ceres (close to his mother, who would lose him as Demeter lost Persephone) and square Venus (needing a lot of attention from women). He got that attention, in many kinky ways. He was able to carry it off in part thanks to Libra rising and in part thanks to a media corps that gave him a little space to be a man when he wasn’t busy being president.