{"id":642,"date":"2008-08-09T12:59:39","date_gmt":"2008-08-09T17:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=642"},"modified":"2011-06-03T00:26:40","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T04:26:40","slug":"edwards-astrology-everybody-fucks-who-cares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/edwards-astrology-everybody-fucks-who-cares\/","title":{"rendered":"John Edwards Astrology: Everybody Fucks*, Who Cares?"},"content":{"rendered":"

*or wants to…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Note to readers, here is a limited time special offer discount<\/strong><\/a> for subscribing to Planet Waves. Come all ye old subscribers and new visitors!<\/em><\/p>\n

Dear Friend and Reader:<\/p>\n

DUTY REQUIRES me to comment on the occasion of today’s stunning news that John Edwards had sex. Those Democrats; they just can’t help themselves. Or is it always a bigger deal when a donkey does the deed?<\/p>\n

Now, you’re probably saying, this wasn’t about Edwards having sex. It was about him lying. That’s fine, as long as we remember that there’s a rule in American politics that you have to lie about sex.<\/p>\n

Then you have to get caught. If you’re a Democrat such as Bill Clinton, of whom this naturally reminds us, it has to be a heterosexual affair, and you have to get impeached, quit office or drop out of the campaign. If you’re a Republican, you can only get in trouble for having gay sex in a public place or with a child, and you get to keep your job to prove that you’ve redeemed yourself. Then everyone forgets because nobody wants to think about a distinguished senator looking for love in an airport men’s room stall.<\/p>\n

Let’s look at John Edwards’ natal chart<\/strong><\/a>. Astrodatabank rates this as C status, which means the time is iffy (like so many ’08 candidates before him), but we know where his planets are: most of them are in Gemini, Cancer and Libra. Cancer is the soft, cozy exterior this man presents – the perfect dad, the ultimate hubby. He has just enough woman in him not to track up the kitchen floor, and to spend whole Saturdays traipsing around town with his kids. He’s the kind of guy who takes care of America<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

But the fact of the matter is Gemini. He has the Sun, Moon, Mars and Jupiter in this sign, most of them lingering in the 12th house. He is well-spoken. He is multifaceted. He is slightly delusional. He is a little kinky (Geminis get the whole twinning thing, one reason why they make hot lovers). A former Edwards’ staffer sent me the silk scarves he allegedly used to tie his illicit partner, purported femme fatale<\/em> and filmmaker Rielle Hunter<\/a><\/strong>, to the bedposts. After experimenting with them for several days, we are now attempting to match the perfume found in the scarves with Rielle’s at the Planet Waves Sciences Center in Raleigh.<\/p>\n

Geminis like diversity. So does everyone else, but what good is astrology if we can’t blame things on it?<\/p>\n

Even though this chart’s birth time is dodgy, this revelation fits well with a 12th house stellium. The 12th is where we keep all our most delicate secrets, particularly if they involve sex, such as illicit affairs on the campaign trail or wanting to have sex with the entire church choir, the choir director and his wife.<\/p>\n

Now if you really want to blame something, look at his Saturn\/Neptune conjunction (has difficulty assessing reality, and it often seems to be made of a sand-castle-like substance) square Uranus in the ascendant. This is clearly a person who feels he can make up the rules as he goes along. Of course, that’s how he got to be a presidential candidate in the first place. What good is a national leader if he’s not a warlock?<\/p>\n

He has Chiron in the mix (square Neptune and and Saturn), in the 7th house (relationships). This makes him more charming to the ladies than a bleeding tourist is to a shark. It also means his relationships could have that quality of one disaster after the next, which would be true as long as you don’t notice how much he’s learning, or the level of authenticity he strives to bring to the people he’s involved with, or how deeply they touch him. Apparently he was truthful with his wife Elizabeth, and she would have preferred to keep the matter private.<\/p>\n

That may be part of the problem. A writer for the Telegraph<\/em> (UK) today reported that there may have been hush money involved – that is, a bribe to keep Hunter quiet. Here is his report on that<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It would have been very bad for America had he (for example) had got nominated president or been chosen as running mate. Had he been the candidate right now, it would have strengthened or guaranteed the possibility of a McCain presidency. It shows some off-key judgment that he didn’t think of that; that he didn’t allow his love for his country to trump his need to be its president.<\/p>\n

But the deeper issue is the requirement in American politics to hide and\/or obfuscate anything having to do with sex. Deeper still is that some people think you have to be sexually pure to lead the nation into war. We have come a long way since Caligula<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The issue is honesty, but lies are part of the political process. Why do we turn a blind eye to all the other lies, then gawk at an affair? Why, because we like it!<\/p>\n

Yours & truly,<\/p>\n

\"Eric<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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