Two of the most noted world leaders of our era died this weekend — one of the darkest and one of the most enlightened. Kim Jong-il, the modestly-titled “supreme leader” of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (that is, North Korea, serving from 1997 to 2011), was attacked by his heart and died Saturday. The next day, Vachlav Havel died. He was the last president of Czechoslovakia and the first president of the Czech Republic, serving from 1989 to 2003. It would be hard to imagine two more different global figures, or examples of humanity.
They left the planet as the Sun made its annual approach to the Galactic Core — that is, aligning with the center of our galaxy, an aspect which was very close over the weekend and is exact today. Other notable aspects include Uranus on the Aries Point (which happens once per 84 years), the conjunction of Vesta and Neptune (which happens every four to five years) and of course, we’re early in the era of the Uranus-Pluto square. These men were both revolutionaries in their own right. In identifying your place on the political spectrum, you might ask yourself who you identify with more.
Havel was the guy who brought Czechoslovakia out of the Soviet era and into the modern world. He was a world leader, but was also a widely-regarded playwright and nonfiction author. I cannot think of another prominent national leader who came from a prior career in the theater. He was Libra with Aquarius rising and a Gemini Moon, born Oct. 5, 1936. His birth time is not sourced but it’s published as 3 pm, and he was clearly the type who might have told an astrologer his data. The most notable aspect in his chart is a grand cross in the mutable signs — those restless, sensitive, ‘tell me both sides of the issue’ signs that are so often prominent in the charts of intellectuals.