McCain, Palin & The Moon In Capricorn
"Johnny, I'm going to come over there and wash your mouth out with soap."
- According to John McCain, his mother's reaction when it was reported that he yelled obscenities at his POW captors
Trolling around the web this weekend, I've come across a number of blog entries that attempt to explain the astrological 'voodoo' surrounding the McCain/Palin combo. There's a lot of heady and complex insight available, but perhaps there's as much to be gained from the appreciation of one simple astrological fact. Both John McCain and Sarah Palin were born while the moon was transiting the astrological sign of Capricorn.
Now your average astrological scribe could write a lengthy essay, if not an entire book, on what that might mean, but it's a holiday weekend and my brain is happy to have its feet up right now. So let me here share the simple of it. The moon has to do with our emotional reality as primarily established from the influence of our primary caregiver (usually mom); Capricorn is about all the conscientious striving that we do to achieve status and success in the real world.
In astrological terms, Moon in Capricorn is said to be in its detriment. That's because what we consider to be easiest energy flow of the 'planet,' in this case the moon which is responsible for our deepest feelings and emotional security, is forced to operate through the least conducive medium, in this case the harsh and demanding lens of worldly appearances and ambition. The Moon in Capricorn individual, to put a very fine point on it, is the individual who cannot be emotionally fulfilled until they do something important enough in the real world to impress what often turns out be a very hands-on and authoritarian mom (there is also sometimes an abused or abandoned mother pattern here, in which the mother demands the keeping up of 'normal' outward appearances, and the child consecrates themselves to some day making things right by acting out against or supplanting the father).
Before this registers as insanely judgmental, please consider a few of history's famous Moon in Capricorns: George Washington; Abraham Lincoln; Adolph Hitler; Napoleon Bonaparte; Robert Kennedy; Arnold Schwarzenegger; Ernest Hemingway; Lucille Ball; Phil Knight; Herb Kelleher; Jeff Bezos; Larry Page; Phil Jackson; Joe Torre; Lee Harvey Oswald; and Mark David Chapman. Clearly, you can't just talk about good or bad here. But if you dig a bit into the lives of these individuals you will almost invariably find a considerable 'mom' influence, one very much directed towards laying down a set of rules about right behavior and meaningful goals, resulting in lives that manifest with the most fierce intensity about making a public mark.
I can't presume to tell you how you should feel about voting for a pair of running mates who participate in this astrological condition. You might get Washington and Lincoln; you might get Hitler and Napoleon (you might get Jackson and Torre). What you will get under either circumstance, though, are individuals whose emotional reality was likely fashioned in the mills of unfettered ambition, and who see the world as a harsh and difficult place that can only be mastered by endless, sometimes ruthless, practical striving.
In the context of the preceding, I find it no small source of amusement that Sarah Palin's sun sign is Aquarius, the same sign as John McCain's mother. Talk all you want about generational inconsistencies but I'm guessing that McCain, psychologically speaking, may actually see Palin as a mother figure. Or perhaps to be more precise, Palin may be the sort of 'mate' of which McCain's mother might approve.
It's also interesting that the Moon will be in Capricorn during most of election day. This will however be under a set of circumstances known as "void of course," suggesting that the intensity signified by this position may be on people's minds but will fail to gain traction in the voting booth. Right now, I'd be forced to conclude that the heavens favor Obama but I wouldn't risk five cents to back that assertion. I'd only wager that history has not seen its last surprise.
That's it for now. I need to go call my mom.
- According to John McCain, his mother's reaction when it was reported that he yelled obscenities at his POW captors
Trolling around the web this weekend, I've come across a number of blog entries that attempt to explain the astrological 'voodoo' surrounding the McCain/Palin combo. There's a lot of heady and complex insight available, but perhaps there's as much to be gained from the appreciation of one simple astrological fact. Both John McCain and Sarah Palin were born while the moon was transiting the astrological sign of Capricorn.
Now your average astrological scribe could write a lengthy essay, if not an entire book, on what that might mean, but it's a holiday weekend and my brain is happy to have its feet up right now. So let me here share the simple of it. The moon has to do with our emotional reality as primarily established from the influence of our primary caregiver (usually mom); Capricorn is about all the conscientious striving that we do to achieve status and success in the real world.
In astrological terms, Moon in Capricorn is said to be in its detriment. That's because what we consider to be easiest energy flow of the 'planet,' in this case the moon which is responsible for our deepest feelings and emotional security, is forced to operate through the least conducive medium, in this case the harsh and demanding lens of worldly appearances and ambition. The Moon in Capricorn individual, to put a very fine point on it, is the individual who cannot be emotionally fulfilled until they do something important enough in the real world to impress what often turns out be a very hands-on and authoritarian mom (there is also sometimes an abused or abandoned mother pattern here, in which the mother demands the keeping up of 'normal' outward appearances, and the child consecrates themselves to some day making things right by acting out against or supplanting the father).
Before this registers as insanely judgmental, please consider a few of history's famous Moon in Capricorns: George Washington; Abraham Lincoln; Adolph Hitler; Napoleon Bonaparte; Robert Kennedy; Arnold Schwarzenegger; Ernest Hemingway; Lucille Ball; Phil Knight; Herb Kelleher; Jeff Bezos; Larry Page; Phil Jackson; Joe Torre; Lee Harvey Oswald; and Mark David Chapman. Clearly, you can't just talk about good or bad here. But if you dig a bit into the lives of these individuals you will almost invariably find a considerable 'mom' influence, one very much directed towards laying down a set of rules about right behavior and meaningful goals, resulting in lives that manifest with the most fierce intensity about making a public mark.
I can't presume to tell you how you should feel about voting for a pair of running mates who participate in this astrological condition. You might get Washington and Lincoln; you might get Hitler and Napoleon (you might get Jackson and Torre). What you will get under either circumstance, though, are individuals whose emotional reality was likely fashioned in the mills of unfettered ambition, and who see the world as a harsh and difficult place that can only be mastered by endless, sometimes ruthless, practical striving.
In the context of the preceding, I find it no small source of amusement that Sarah Palin's sun sign is Aquarius, the same sign as John McCain's mother. Talk all you want about generational inconsistencies but I'm guessing that McCain, psychologically speaking, may actually see Palin as a mother figure. Or perhaps to be more precise, Palin may be the sort of 'mate' of which McCain's mother might approve.
It's also interesting that the Moon will be in Capricorn during most of election day. This will however be under a set of circumstances known as "void of course," suggesting that the intensity signified by this position may be on people's minds but will fail to gain traction in the voting booth. Right now, I'd be forced to conclude that the heavens favor Obama but I wouldn't risk five cents to back that assertion. I'd only wager that history has not seen its last surprise.
That's it for now. I need to go call my mom.
Thank you so much for writing about the election..loving astrology and politics I have been working hard to find both in articles....and I love love love this article you wrote on both McCain/Palin. Glad you wrote about capricorn like you did, She being an aquarius sure didn't strike me as being for the people...oh yeah, only the so called little people. A huge divider not a uniter and I was shocked to find she was an aquarius at all.
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Thank you, Amandria. Politics aside, Sarah does have that Aquarian charisma when it comes to mass media appeal. And I'm now told that the time of birth has not been firmly established, so she might possibly have an Aquarian moon. There's no doubt about McCain, though, and I admit I kept smiling throughout his convention 'video' when his mom kept popping up on the screen. Also her first comment was that John is "a momma's boy." I love astrology and politics, too!
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