2020 & All That

I've written next to nothing about the presidential election due in November 2020 - too many other things on my mind, I guess. Early this year, before medical issues for a second time snatched my attention, I did take a look at the natal charts of some likely Democratic contenders, even before they had announced their candidacies. I came to the conclusion that, of those I investigated, most likely to do well according to their natal charts and upcoming planetary transits, were Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker. My posts on the topic from earlier this year can be accessed via the label cloud in the sidebar (scroll way down); just click on "presidential candidates 2020". Many moons have passed since those posts. Elizabeth Warren is, indeed, as I + her natal chart suspected, doing well in the polls - second only to Joe Biden in most of them.

I came to the conclusion, early on, that my own preferred candidate, Bernie Sanders, will not be allowed anywhere near the Democratic nomination by the DNC - nor will my other favourite candidate Tulsi Gabbard. Sad, but true. It has been said that the DNC would rather see another Trump presidency than ever countenance a US President Bernie Sanders. This - THIS - is what is so wrong about politics in the USA, and in the UK these days come to that. Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader there is equally vilified by many!


I'd not feel too badly about a president Warren with Booker as her VP, given the rest of the choices available. I shall now make Warren/Booker my prediction! I'd be surprised if Joe Biden can sustain his current lead - I rather hope not - he's just another Republican-lite in my estimation.

Of course, if I haven't shuffled off already by November 2020, I'll be 81 going on 82, and probably fixing to shuffle off before very much longer, so my feelings on this issue are somewhat irrelevant. I'd love to know how it all turns out though, and whether astrology worked well in this particular case.

Saturday & Sundry Thoughts ~Would-be Presidential Ladies: Tulsi Gabbard, Elizabeth Warren & Kirsten Gillibrand

It's early days to be blogging about the USA's presidential election in November 2020, nevertheless I've been interested to read recently of three potential candidates from the Democrats - three ladies who appear to be preparing to throw their hats into the ring, hoping to be part of what's likely to be a crowded platform of candidates. These are: Tulsi Gabbard, who supported my guy, Bernie Sanders strongly in 2016; Elizabeth Warren, who should've supported Bernie in 2016 but didn't; and Kirsten Gillibrand who is an unknown quantity to me, so far. I shall take a quick look at the natal charts of the three ladies, not to interpret their personalities, but to decide, from coming planetary transits, which of them is most likely to experience massive change in the next couple of years.

I suspect that the time is ripe, now, for a female president - perhaps one of these ladies?


Transits of the outer planets, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, along with Jupiter and Saturn are those I'm looking at in relation to these charts. If any of these planets will be making close contact or aspect to natal planets of one of these ladies, then she'll be the one to watch.

These charts are all set for 12 noon, as no birth times are available, so house positions, rising signs and exact Moon positions will not be accurate as shown.

Between now and early November 2020
Uranus will traverse the last few degrees of Aries and up to 8 degrees of Taurus
Neptune: between 14 and 20 degrees of Pisces
Pluto: between 20 and 24 degrees of Capricorn
Saturn: between 11 and 27 Capricorn
Jupiter: between 11 Sagittarius and 22 Capricorn







Tulsi Gabbard, U.S. Representative for Hawaii's 2nd congressional district since 2013.

Elizabeth Warren, academic and senior United States Senator, Massachusetts, since 2013.

Kirsten Gillibrand, attorney and politician, junior United States Senator from New York since January 2009

CONCLUSION

No doubt at all in my mind - Elizabeth Warren has the best chance of major change happening after November 2020. Look to her natal Jupiter at 0 Aquarius. Saturn, planet which most signifies profession, public position, law, will be exactly conjunct her natal Jupiter by mid-December 2020, just after the election, and will be close enough, on the date of the election, to be considered conjunct. That signifies, at the very least, some big change in her professional public life; if not the presidency, then at least a move to a more significant position in government.

Time isn't yet ripe for Tulsi Gabbard or Kirsten Gillibrand. Ms Gabbard is probably too left-wing, at this time, for main-stream Democrats, and media characters under control of "big money" (all of 'em), who will put her down in any way they can, or alternatively ignore her completely between now and 2020, as they did in respect of Bernie Sanders candidacy in 2015/16. Main stream Democrats will wish to keep their ties to big money sources, and those sources will look on any truly leftist positions, as set out by Bernie Sanders and his followers, including Ms Gabbard, as an anathema to be opposed at every opportunity.

Elizabeth Warren is definitely the most likely of this trio to do well in the election - if she does choose to run, and that is due to much more than her astrology. She did not support Bernie Sanders in 2016, she supported Hillary Clinton - for which I do not forgive her, but that is a fact main-stream Democrats will have noted. Senator Warren knows the way to the presidency much better than I do, of course - or for that matter, better even than Bernie, whose main aims, always, has been to try to improve things for "we the people" in any way he can.

As weeks and months pass, we'll be seeing more presidential hopefuls throwing their hats into the ring - on both sides. I'll repeat this exercise later on, with a different cast of characters.

Something up their sleeves?

There was an interesting speculative piece at Counterpunch yesterday:
Plan B Is Not Bernie by Jim Kavanagh.
It begins:

I admit: It’s all speculation.

On April 4th, I wrote on Facebook: “My prediction: the next President of the United States will be someone who is not yet in the race. (e.g., Possible alternative Dem ticket: Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren.) How crazy am I?”

This wasn’t just a wild guess. It was based on a few considered convictions.

And ends:

It’s almost certain that Hillary Clinton will be the nominee of the Democratic Party and the next President of the United States. But if, perchance, she gets derailed by a deus ex machina like the FBI, you can bet that the Democratic Party will have a Plan B, and it won’t be Bernie Sanders. It will be an attempt to stop Bernie Sanders. Perhaps it is just a coincidence that a Joe Biden-Elizabeth Warren ticket gets mentioned in the national press the day after Hillary’s Chief of Staff walks out of an FBI interrogation. Or is someone floating a balloon?

Would Bernie ever bite? Maybe not, but if the day comes, it’s some dish like this that the Democratic Party will try to serve.

A bit of speculation does provide flavour to an election season that is becoming all too predictable in the available too-and-fro argument and insults online and in media generally. Mr Kavanagh's whole piece is well worth a read.

How about "Ready for Gore"?

I'd put my hopes about Al Gore running in 2016 to the back of my mind for a while since my post in June, then yesterday afternoon, catching sight of my sidebar, I typed 'Al Gore 2016' into the Google search box and found I'd missed something, on 3 July:



I haven't watched Morning Joe since 2008, so would've missed it anyway, but it's surprising I hadn't picked something up from reading around. Maybe some websites just don't want to know about Al Gore.

I read yesterday that there's a movement afoot to get Elizabeth Warren to run, "Ready for Warren". Much as I admire her, I doubt she's ready, or strong enough, to take on the Presidency yet. She'd become a tool for the oligarchs in no time flat. Al Gore knows his way around, knows exactly how they fight dirty. I believe he could be the only one with even an outside chance of saving the day environmentally, and in other ways too.

We're stuck, for now, with the two party system, Al Gore is the best chance there is of making it work at least a little better than it's working at present.

Senator Elizabeth Warren - What Next?

Something Senator Warren said earlier this week began a mini-flurry of wonderings regarding a possible presidential run in 2016. I've always admired her style, but in view of current doubts about Senator Sanders' true loyalties, and the fact that Senator Warren voted, along with Bernie Sanders, to confirm David Barron to a seat on the First Circuit Court of the United States, I shall have to give this more thought and caution. I've become wary of placing trust in any politician beholden to the rot-riddled establishment Dem. Party.

Elizabeth Warren's career, presidential potential and natal chart have come up in four archived posts spanning 2010 to 2013 - another look:


Wednesday Women - Elizabeth Warren (11 August 2010)


Elizabeth Warren (20 July 2011)


Elizabeth Warren and 2016   (28 Jan 2013)


Next Exit 2016?  (14 Oct 2013)

Next Exit 2016?

The outlook is dull, no silver linings can be seen behind the clouds, so far. To brighten things, how about looking further ahead than the next government shutdown (if this one ever ends).

2016? Whenever I have to face something I don't enjoy ( major dental or medical treatment for example) I send my mind well ahead to when it'll all be over, and concentrate on that. Perhaps concentrating on future possibilities now would serve to lighten our darkening skies a little.

I read a decent piece by Sean McElwee in this vein yesterday at Salon, with some interesting comments attached:
"To defeat the Tea Party, the left needs bolder leader than Hillary
The right's tactics won't change. Democrats need a 2016 candidate who fights differently than Clinton and Obama."

Whether Hillary Clinton will run for the presidency in 2016 isn't clear, but let's say she will. Would she be the best way forward for the "left"? I use the word "left" with caution, because really and truly there is no representative of the true left in the USA - such a person is not allowed to rise. If one were to appear on the scene he/she would be put down rapidly, either by ridicule or something more destructive. I shall have to curb my enthusiasm for true leftists and third parties in 2016, while still scanning the horizon anxiously for the rise of one of them. Bearing all that in mind then, would Hillary be the best we could hope for as next President? I must not forget that the president is only one piece of the picture. More truly left-leaning and outspoken congress people would be an even more important step to take at election time - but where are such people? Perhaps a few more of them will appear in 2014 and 2016, emboldened by the currently wretched job incumbents are doing.

One commenter to the linked piece pointed out that progress towards the left, however much many of us wish for it, has to be very, very gradual, in order to avoid dangerous backlash from the extreme rightist and/or dominionist factions. I agree, reluctantly. Hillary does fill that requirement. From what I've read about her early years, she did seem, then, to be of the true left. Her experiences with "the guys behind the curtain" must have dampened her leftist ardour in maturity. She does know how to play the game, must have learned many lessons from Bill. How to play the game is a valuable skill to have, in the circumstances. The skill: an ability to please "the guys behind the curtain" while still helping the rest of us, and the nation, as much as possible. Maybe this would be further lesser evilism, but if, for the time being, it's all we can have....what else is there, other than to keep scanning the horizon for signs of change?

The argument I see often, that "the US isn't really a leftist country at heart", doesn't ring true. Look what happened when candidate Barack Obama presented his original promises of hope and change, leftist proposals all the way from him - then: fighting Wall Street, making government more open and transparent, healthcare legislation with a public option, closing Gitmo, and more. You remember all those good promises? The people ate them up, ravenously, and voted him in. Then what happened? His devoted followers still insist that he has been thwarted at every turn by an intransigent congress. Others consider he was a centrist or mild conservative from the start, someone wily enough to know how to play the base sufficiently well to get into the White House. History will decide which was the true face of Barack Obama. What his original triumphant win did prove is that the USA truly wants to be the more left-leaning nation it is not presently allowed to be.

Names such as Elizabeth Warren, are being thrown around as an alternative to Hillary Clinton for the Democrats in 2016. I think Ms Warren is too new to the game, but in time she could prove to be the nation's saviour. 2020? 2024? I'd like to see Alan Grayson and Bernie Sanders in positions of some power, if not president, with considerably more national influence - and Dennis Kucinich of course. It's not likely to happen in my lifetime though, maybe not even in theirs.

Well....that didn't turn out to be a particularly sky-lightening exercise after all. Hmmmm. I shall have to take the following to heart:

“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”
~ Bruce Lee

Elizabeth Warren and 2016

Commenter "Sonny" left a note on a 2011 post featuring the natal chart of Elizabeth Warren the other day, with information on Ms Warren's time of birth, and asking if I'd take another look at the chart.

"1:51:24 pm time of birth..
Would you consider doing her chart again and letting us know your feeling on her being VP in 2016.
Thank you"

Ms Warren is now Senator Warren of Massachusetts, of course. Excellent!



Her natal chart updated with the proposed time of birth :

My view:
It'd be difficult to narrow down any potentialities to an indication of her being Vice President in 2016. All we're likely to see is some indication of change in her career, extra dynamism around Uranus (change) or Saturn (career, legislation) also involving Sun, Moon or ascendant (different parts of "the self).

In November 2016 Mars (dynamism, energy) will conjoin her Jupiter at 00 Aquarius, the planet at the apex of the Yod mentioned in the 2011 post. The Yod involves Sun/Uranus, Saturn and Uranus-ruled Aquarius. Indication of "something" happening linked to career matters, but there are numerous possibilites.

Another possible indication of "something" important/different happening is that Uranus, planet of change will be conjunct north Node of the Moon in her chart.

Perhaps Mike, our blog friend who is more expert and experienced than I am in these matters, will offer his opinion....please?

ELIZABETH WARREN

Elizabeth Warren is in the news again.It's almost exactly a year since I first wrote about her natal chart in a post last August: http://twilightstarsong.blogspot.com/2010/08/wednesday-women-elizabeth-warren.html

As was widely expected President Obama has not mominated Elizabeth Warren to directorship of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). He has nominated instead the person she recommended, Richard Cordray. Republicans in congress have declared they will not support any nomination - so nothing has been gained in by-passing Ms Warren, and much has been lost, in my view. Once again, there's a veil of Neptunian fog around the President's motives. Loyal Obamabots would like us to think he's playing a crafty game of chess. I don't think so.

There is mention of Elizabeth Warren considering a run for the Senate, opposing Scott Brown in Massachusetts. Some commentators look on this as A Good Thing, others, myself included, wonder how long it would be before the toxic, corrupt money-grubbing atmosphere would either sicken or spoil her.

If President Obama wanted to go some way to redeeming his standing with the "proper left" (he has, so far, seemed to despise this group), he'd offer her a post in the Treasury or elsewhere in the administration. The best scenario of all, though, would be for her to run as a presidential candidate in 2012. She'd have difficulty finding the necessary $$$$$$$$$ at this stage, I guess. 2016? Maybe! As Independent, Democratic Socialist, People's Party - whatever! Then we would hear some real home truths, the ones we've been so longing to hear.

Daydreams.

I can still find no information as to her time of birth, but will take another quick look at what we know of her natal chart:





This Yod (Finger of Fate) links the sextile between her Sun/Uranus and Saturn via two quincunx (150*) aspects to Jupiter in Aquarius. Translated = Her forward-looking, reform-conscious self and her law-directed career need, and will eventually achieve, an expansive (Jupiter) outlet to "the ordinary people" (Aquarius).

Significant planetary transits affecting her chart during coming months:

Pluto (transformation) in Capricorn passed exact opposition to her Sun/Uranus in Cancer towards the end of 2009. Pluto is currently in a brief retrograde spell and will have retrograded to within around 3 degrees of her Sun/Uranus in September. This could bring her a feeling of déjà vu about some events of early 2010....perhaps concerning her initial thoughts about the setting up of the CFPB ?

The other planetary "agent of change" Uranus is currently in early Aries and in retrograde mode too. Uranus will have tracked back to 0 degree of Aries by November and will then be in square aspect to Sun/Uranus, all at what is known in astrology as a "critical degree" of a cardinal sign - which means there'll be extra emphasis and significance indicated on events around that time. Transiting Uranus will also then be in exact helpful sextile to Ms Warren's natal Jupiter in Aquarius, which sits at the apex of that Finger of Fate.

In other words, we should watch events surrounding Ms Warren very intently this Fall.

Wednesday Women ~ Elizabeth Warren

Coincidentally, one of last week's Wednesday Women was born in Oklahoma, and so was this week's subject: Elizabeth Warren. She is in the news a lot at present as a candidate to lead the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The President will soon be choosing the person to fill this important post. There's much controversy, and strong opposition, from some quarters to Ms Warren's candidacy, due to the fear that she'd be too tough on the big banks and the finance industry. Fat Cats don't like to be frightened like this - they're not used to it and can scratch, claw and spit at any likely enemy.

There's a good page about Ms Warren at Who Runs Gov ~ Profiles. Extract:

Growing up in Oklahoma, a decade after drought and depression crippled the state's economy, Warren understood the value of the dollar at an early age. When Warren got sick, her mother would decide whether to take her to the doctor based on Warren's temperature and how much they already owed the doctor . "I worried about money from the time I was a little kid," Warren told Newsweek.

Warren went to Houston University, earning a bachelor’s of science in 1970. Shortly afterwards, Warren got her law degree from Rutgers University. She then taught at various universities, including in Texas, Michigan and Pennsylvania.

In 1995, she took a full-time position at Harvard Law School, where she continues to teach.

I've seen Ms Warren twice on TV in Real Time, interviewed by Bill Maher, and was enormously impressed by her down to earth attitude and sharp intellect.

David Corn had this to say on the matter in Politics Daily:

The obvious candidate for this new financial sheriff position is Warren, the Harvard law professor who first proposed such an agency in 2007 -- before the Wall Street meltdown. As head of a congressional panel overseeing the TARP bank bailout, she's been an outspoken and plain-speaking foe of Wall Street and the big banks. She has denounced shifty credit card companies and shady mortgage lenders. She deserves this position. And progressives love Warren. But Geithner may not. Last week, the Huffington Post, citing one "source with knowledge of Geithner's view," reported that Geithner was opposing Warren for this position.

If Obama dumps Warren, the White House will justifiably enrage reformers and progressives -- that is, part of its base. If Obama nominates Warren, the White House will have a major fight with banks and GOPers. "That may be a fight worth having," a Treasury Department official says, "but that's up to the White House to decide." It's a mighty big decision.

My feeling: never mind the Consumer Protection Bureau -we need this woman in the White House! Take a look at her natal chart.


Born on 22 June 1949 in Norman, Oklahoma. the 12 noon chart below will not show exact Moon position or ascending sign, as time of birth is unknown.




Stand out factor in her natal chart = Sun conjunct Uranus (the rebel and reformer) tightly conjoined within 12 minutes of arc, in sensitive nurturing Cancer. Jupiter in Aquarius forms a Grand Trine in Air (mentally oriented) signs with Neptune in Libra and Mercury/Mars in Gemini - an intellectual circuit!

Saturn at 1 Virgo lies in sextile to Sun/Uranus reflecting her ability to blend meticulous structured arguments with a "left-field" rebellious reformer's insight.

That's enough for me to be strongly on the side of Elizabeth Warren, in whatever capacity she chooses to progress.