Hillary Clinton and the Moon-Mars Eclipse
Written on January 13, 2008 by Dharmaruci
On 24th December, the red planet Mars was obscured by the Full Moon at 3 degrees of the Moon’s home sign of Cancer. According to Robin Heath, this occultation, or eclipse, occurred at 3.45am in the
UK. Eclipses are portents because nature is not acting in its usual manner. I was wondering what it might mean, what events might unfold in the coming weeks that would reflect this eclipse.
These things are very hard to second guess, but I got half way there when I looked up 3 degrees of Cancer in Nicholas Campion’s ‘Book of World Horoscopes’: there it was, the US Venus (Sibly Chart) at 3 degrees of Cancer. Venus is to do with wealth, so I reckoned the eclipse might precipitate a time of reckoning around the sub-prime crisis: events might occur that would force the major financial institutions to own up to their liabilities, enabling the economy to settle back on solid ground again. This may yet happen, especially with Pluto entering Capricorn later this month, conjunct Venus as it Ingresses, and moving to oppose the natal US Venus.
I was half way there because there is another meaning of Venus in a Mundane chart that I didn’t consider, which is the women of a nation. The Moon-Mars Eclipse was a portent of Hilary Clinton’s ‘emotional moment’ in the run-up to the New Hampshire Primaries! Machismo (Mars retrograde) overwhelmed and eclipsed by the healthy feminine (Full Moon in Cancer). This event was significant because she is the first woman to have run for President in what is a very competitive male world. And she has spent many years being a ‘pretend man’ to survive in this world. And you can see her capacity to do this in her chart (26th Oct 1947, Chicago, Illinois, time unknown).
She has Sun in Scorpio, as well as Venus in Scorpio square to a Mars-Saturn-Pluto conjunction in Leo. She is tough and ambitious and a survivor. But there is another side to her, which is her Moon in Pisces, square to Uranus. A lot of people, not surprisingly, do not like Hillary Clinton, but they don’t always realise that she has worked on behalf of children all her adult life. This is her Moon in Pisces, it doesn’t like the limelight (or the rest of her personality!), so we don’t get to see it. But it is square to Uranus, it is longing to break free, and it broke free last week when she had her emotional moment. It was politically opportune, but it was also for real, and the women voters instinctively recognised this and voted for her.
Hillary Clinton is 60, and so is in the period of moving into the stars of her latter years. And probably the most significant single configuration there is the Moon in parans with Bellatrix, because you have a major planet aligned with a major star. The Moon is another feminine planet, it symbolises at best the qualities of care and nurture and compassion, and Bellatrix will give her the capacity to develop and express these qualities as she gets older. Which, on a personal level, would clearly be a good thing for her. But if she becomes President, this process would assume a collective dimension, it would have huge cultural significance in the macho world of American politics. And Bellatrix, as a major star, will give her the power to have this collective impact.
But, as with many of the other major stars, this success has to be earned, and in the case of Bellatrix there is success only through facing one’s shadow – and in this case, if she becomes President, through the collective also facing its own shadow. Hillary Clinton isn’t a tough guy just because she has to survive in American politics. She is like that anyway if you look at her chart. Her Moon in Pisces gets some expression, but not enough to make her seem fully human. The shadow in her is the coldness and the drive for power for its own sake. To the extent she can acknowledge this and relax it, she will be able to harness the power of Bellatrix in paran with her Moon. And the whole culture will benefit. If she continues to be hard-as-nails Hillary, her Presidency will fail. In fact, she probably won’t get elected. She has enough people who hate her anyway (she has Venus conjunct Chiron in Scorpio, not good for popularity), but as the New Hampshire Primary showed, if she can allow herself to be a woman, to feel, to care, to let that be seen, she will succeed.
It is interesting that over the next few years Pluto will oppose the natal Venus of the US Sibly chart, and Neptune will conjoin the Moon. Pluto-Venus speaks of the same issue on a collective level, the need for women to become more empowered, but the need to face the shadow side as well for success to be achieved.
So if Hillary becomes President, it could herald a very interesting time for women in American culture.
A paran of her prime which she will fortunately be leaving behind is Venus with Menkar. This led to her terrible humiliations through her husband’s indiscretions and their parading in all their detail in public.
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