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).
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.