ARTICLES FROM CURRENT ASTROLOGERS

The Moon at 3 Gemini exactly opposes a Black Hole at 3 Sagittarius. Among other things, this describes an unusual, disrupted childhood, aptly borne out in Obama’s biography by the loss of his father to divorce when Obama was two, his uprooting and displacement to an alien culture in Malaysia at the age of 6, and separation from his mother to be raised by his maternal grandparents at age 10.

Mercury at 2 Leo exactly conjoins a Black Hole, and it is this which is the source of Obama’s persuasive, compelling rhetoric. The ability to craft just the right turn of phrase, to remain cool and collected under pressure, to praise even opponents with deference and grace, but also to cut to the heart of their differences with surgical precision and devastating effect, are all gifts of Black Hole Mercury. Thinking quickly on one’s feet, inspiring others and convincing them of the truth of one’s own perspective, garnering support for one’s own views, and presenting cogent, workable plans of action round out the potential positives for this placement in the political arena. Unfortunately, there is also a greater-than-usual susceptibility to having one’s words misrepresented, misquoted, misinterpreted, and misused, and there may be a difficulty in having one’s message heard. At times this message problem can be seen by others as a lack of meaning, as mere words without any substance behind them, and rightly or wrongly, this accusation has been leveled at Obama more than once. Others may harbor inaccurate views of the native, as in the persistent internet rumors that Obama is Muslim.

This strong Black Hole Mercury is allied with a galactically-augmented Pallas, the strategist of the cosmos, gifted with enhanced pattern-seeing abilities and capable of working out plans of attack several moves in advance, able to clearly see the ramifications and potential pitfalls of every choice. At 24 Pisces, Obama’s Pallas is exactly squared two Pulsars, at 24 Gemini and Sagittarius, and falls on the midpoint of the Black Hole at 24 Aries and the Quasar at 24 Aquarius, in exact semisextile to each. Pulsars provide a constant influx of data from which Pallas sifts what is pertinent and important, reviewing this through the lens of the Black Hole, focused on the parallel reality that is waiting to be born, and then bringing that into this reality with the auspices of the grounding, achievement-oriented Quasar.

Pallas devises the stratagems to bring this hoped-for reality into existence, and can be seen in the phenomenal ground game played by the Obama campaign. Mobilizing hundreds of thousands of small donors, directing thousands more volunteers, knowing exactly which precincts to target to maximize delegate counts state by state, and understanding the importance of caucus structure, were all key to his primary victory, and all Pallas perks.

Obama’s people rang rings around the Clinton campaign, whose chief strategist Mark Penn was certain of an early victory from California’s mega-delegation by Tsunami Tuesday, apparently blissfully unaware that the Democratic primaries, unlike those of the GOP, were not winner-take-all, but proportional. Obama garnered more delegates in lightly populated Idaho, which he swept, than Hillary netted in closely contested behemoth New Jersey, which she won, but so narrowly that Obama took almost half its delegates.