05-13-2016, 07:04 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-13-2016, 11:58 PM by Eric the Green.)
(05-12-2016, 09:00 PM)MillsT_98 Wrote: I still don't understand, how can the general election be down to practically just Clinton and Trump, yet they have lower horoscope scores than Sanders?
No, that's a good question. Astrology is one tool, but it's not the only one in a good prophet's toolshed. Predicting human behavior can never be a perfect science; there's always a flaw. What Galen doesn't understand, is that there's always an uncertainty factor.
Sanders, as he himself keeps pointing out, started at 2% in the polls and almost caught up with Hillary. Having greater recognition, status and establishment support is a lot for any candidate to overcome who has almost none of that. So, Sanders' horoscope score helps explain, by this thesis, that he came so far. And, the test of a prophet is predictions coming true. I never predicted Sanders would be nominated, but that he would run a strong campaign. That was even before he began his campaign that I said this. This is exactly what has happened.
Another similar example was the 1988 Democratic primary. If Democrats only knew then what I know now, that Michael Dukakis had one of the lowest candidate scores in history, by any system or reckoning, maybe they would have picked someone else. But who else was there, that year? I thought Richard Gephardt looked like a better choice at the time, in 1988. But he does almost as dismally as Dukakis now on my system. Jesse Jackson had a much better score; 9-5 I think. But like Bernie, he was coming from way out of the mainstream and the establishment. He also had no political experience except as a black activist and motivational speaker. Considering the odds against him, he did pretty well. But no-one could have believed he would actually be nominated, and he couldn't have defeated George Bush either.
By the same token, in my new system (though not in my older one), Carly Fiorina should have won HER party's nomination, going strictly by the numbers. But her name recognition and even her status as a celebrity cannot compete with Donald Trump, who has a good score too. Carly moved up in the debates because of her performance, and Cruz chose her as his would-be running mate. Pretty good for a fired tech exec and failed senate candidate. Trump beats the score of all the other Republican candidates, however, except poor George Pataki.
Green Party candidate Jill Stein has the best score of all the candidates, 15-4 (that used to be what I thought Trump's score was). But few think that, despite being a great candidate, a Green Party nominee can win the general election.
There are other astrology indicators too. Don't forget that Hillary has Jupiter rising. That can be very powerful for success.
Also, the highest scoring candidate in the primaries doesn't always get nominated. If you look at the list of general election candidates scores, some of the losing candidates had very low scores; a primary opponent in a few of those cases had a higher score. It's pretty rare, but it does happen. In 2012 almost all the Republican candidates had low scores, but Romney was picked because it was his turn. Going by the score alone, the Republicans should have picked Ron Paul. But that wasn't going to happen; he was too far out of the mainstream of his party, and too politically inexperienced. Congressmen don't get nominated. Ron Paul's score reflects the fanatical devotion that he is able to generate among his young libertarian followers. Bernie's score reflects something similar. And they both have done better in national polls than the nominees of their party.
Another factor where both Bernie and Hillary trump Trump, but Hillary may trump Sanders, I will mention below. That's the connection to the spirit of the times, or the generational zeitgeist, social mood, etc., indicated by the saecular/generational planets Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. You may recall that my main point in this forum is that Uranus' orbit = the archetypal saeculum length of 84 years. Hillary has a better connection than Sanders, because for Hillary the connection is just starting, while for Sanders it is at its peak now.
Here is a part of an article I recently wrote that might bother the likes of JDG and Classic Xer, if they put any credence in astrology:
The Spirit of the Times: Uranus, Neptune and Pluto
Another connection I found was very interesting, however. From the time of Teddy Roosevelt, who launched the USA's career as a world power able to make progressive reforms, until the reign of Ronald Reagan, who helped end the Cold War that had kept us so involved in the world, but also turned our nation away from the progress that TR and his cousin FDR had launched, the outer three planets connected our presidents to the zeitgeist, or spirit of the times. ALL 14 out of the 14 presidents between and including TR and Reagan experienced a visit of Uranus, Neptune and/or Pluto over one of their most personal indicators, the Sun, Moon or Ascendant, within orb of a conjunction and in the same sign, sometime during their time in office or on the campaign trail. This put them in touch with the spirit of the times and the thrust of world progress, and were called upon to serve this higher calling. Plus, JFK had a special posthumous connection, as Uranus and Pluto joined together exactly on his Moon in Virgo 2 years after his death, showing how his revolutionary work lived on in the efforts of his successors.
After Reagan, and probably because of the direction he took the country, the next 3 presidents didn't have this connection; not either President Bush, nor Bill Clinton. This indicates what we all know; that these 3 recent presidents failed to lead us toward the high potential that lies within the spirit of these times.
Note however that Reagan may not have had this connection either. It is based on a birth time of about 4 AM with a Sagittarius Ascendant, which would have connected him to Uranus and Neptune transits during his 2 terms. However, this birth time is uncertain. Note also that Herbert Hoover just barely had Neptune transiting over his Sun in Leo when he ran for president; but then lost it once he entered the White House and the Depression hit.
None of the Republican candidates who ran in 2016, except possibly the pragmatic underdog John Kasich (whose Moon in Capricorn is now being contacted by Pluto), give us this key connection; this tap well and direct line to the higher Spirit flow. Romney has a connection now, which might inspire him to run as an alternative to Trump. But the situation is different for the Democrats. Both Bernie Sanders, whose Moon-Mars conjunction in activist Aries (the sign of the happy warrior) is being visited by revolutionary Uranus, and Hillary Clinton, whose sympathetic Moon in Pisces is now getting connected to visionary and compassionate Neptune, have the opportunity to get us back on track, IF we elect one of them. And since Barack Obama was also connected to Neptune through his Ascendant, (which we now know, thanks to Trump's pressure on him to release his birth certificate), Hillary is right that she will continue the work that Obama started. In fact, Jupiter and Chiron (the centaur asteroid called “the wounded healer”) joined Neptune very close to Obama's Ascendant in Aquarius in December 2009-- just before the health care reform often named after him was passed. Because I used that conjunction to successfully predict that Obamacare would pass, among other successful predictions I had made, I decided to write this book.
I hope that any future presidents we elect will keep us “on the road again” to world peace and progress. It might be worth looking at future candidates' charts to see which of them are up to the task. They will be-- IF they have these kinds of connections to the current positions of these three creative and transcendental planets that represent humanity's genius and progressive, communal spirit.