Message #92623

[Bianca]

Saturn at 25 Capricorn retrograde conjoins a Pulsar at 26 Capricorn and squares the Black Hole at 24 Aries. Saturn tied to a Pulsar suggests a pragmatic, fairly open relationship with the media, Pulsar-ruled, and Obama has shown himself to be canny and effective when dealing with the press. Information is key to his career success, and the campaign’s detailed targeting of specific voting districts and demographics is in part a function of this combination. Saturn/Pulsar also indicates a facility and ease in disseminating the campaign’s message, particularly via high-tech, cutting-edge means (as further indicated by the exact inconjunct of Uranus at 25 Leo to Saturn). Certainly the internet has been used to great advantage by Obama, from fundraising to organizing volunteer efforts and keeping surrogates focused on the daily talking points.

The square from Saturn to a Black Hole is considerably more problematic; it can indicate dramatic success in career matters, but there is also a susceptibility to sudden reversals of fortune or devastating loss, self-inflicted wounds and awkward mis-steps, more than a few of which have already appeared in this campaign. Some Black Hole Saturn natives chase the will-o-the-wisp of their careers for decades, with the prize always seemingly just out of grasp. It generally indicates huge amounts of time and energy invested in career, and this has surely been the case this year with perhaps the longest-fought primary in recent memory.

On a more personal level, Black Hole Saturn also represents the father lost at age two, for whom Obama expressed an ongoing yearning in his first autobiography, Dreams from My Father.