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Here is the
next installment in my on-going interpretation of the Astrological Karma of George
W. Bush. See my April Column and May
Column for the first two installments of this series.
There
is an additional rather heavy element in the karmic experience of
George W. Bush. He has the planet Saturn in the Astrological sign
Cancer and this Saturn is also in the Twelfth House. If I were with
a client now, I would normally say at this point, “And unfortunately,
everyone has Saturn somewhere.” The location of Saturn in a
birthchart indicates where you have to experience karma through a
certain heaviness, weight, limitation, or restriction. It is the
planet related to the metal lead.
Saturn in Cancer indicates a certain heaviness or restriction in the early
childhood. Saturn in the Twelfth House relates to Bush’s memory of his
most recent past life.
This is what Hilarion says about Saturn in the Twelfth House:
"The placement of Saturn in the twelfth points to a burdened previous life,
usually one marked by illness and loneliness. As a result the present personality
will bear scars in the subconscious, and these residues may well program him
to react to events and people in certain negative ways."
At the time of Robin’s death the Saturn in his birthchart was experiencing
simultaneous tense transits (squares) from Saturn and Neptune, and a conjunction
from Uranus. This heavy Saturnian past life memory was being especially activated
at this time.
In another perspective on the Twelfth House, noted Astrologer Liz Greene explains
that the Twelfth House represents the inherited family ‘daimon,’ that
is the inherited family unconsious which you then somehow become programmed
with. My personal feeling is that the past life memory and the family unconscious
are both valid interpretations. With his Twelfth House Saturn, George W. was
carrying within him this heavy, difficult, past life memory. It was then arranged
for him to incarnate into a family where it was known that there would be a
similar heavy Saturnian weight in the family unconscious as well.
Suspended above the family table was a portrait of Robin placed by her father.
Her presence was always there, but virtually never spoken about. That the elder
George Bush suffered greatly from the loss is revealed in a letter he later
wrote to his own mother where he said:
"I sometimes wonder whether it is fair to our boys and to our friends to ‘fly-high’ that
portrait of Robin which I love so much; but here selfishness takes over because
every time I sit at our table with just our candlelight, I somehow can’t
help but glance at this picture you gave us and enjoy a renewed physical sensation
of closeness to a loved one."
This letter was apparently written before the birth of Dorothy for in it he
pines for a little girl, for some, ‘soft blonde hair to offset those
crewcuts.’ That the elder George Bush would feel these deep feelings
but again, not express them, especially with his sons, would, again, relate
to the Moon in Libra’s tendency to have an appearance of calmness masking
more turbulent emotions underneath. That these unexpressed feelings were in
fact heavy, deep, and painful would resonate with the Saturn in the Twelfth
House, ie. Saturnian heaviness in the family unconscious.
On a more positive note, George W. has his Neptune in the Third House of mind
and thinking in positive aspect (sextile) to his Mercury. This aspect would
give George W. the capacity to open his mental perspective to the positive
aspects of Neptune. These aspects include spirituality and compassion. In addition
to being a caring, nurturing Cancer, George W. has, with this Neptune aspect,
the ability to express sensitive comments to those around him. These factors
also relate to his capacity to open to a religious spirituality. It has been
noted that in his childhood his family practiced what has been referred to
as a ‘Christianity Lite.’ It was George W.’s encounter with
the Reverend Billy Graham which really helped him to access the potential of
this positive Neptune aspect. This opening of himself to God in this Neptunian
way positively aspecting his Mercury helped George W. to tone down the arrogance
and self-absorption of his Mercury in Leo.
The other factor which would help him greatly in toning down some of the abrasive
qualities within his Astrological make-up would be his marriage to Laura. An
indication of the destiny for this, by all accounts, happy marriage is Bush’s
Jupiter In Libra for which Hilarion says, ‘In Libra, ruled by Venus,
Jupiter always promises an eventual happy marriage (or marriage-equivalent). ‘
This happy marriage and opening to spirituality also helped George W. to finally
get a grip on another problem which comes under the influence of the planet
Neptune. This problem was George W.’s alcoholism. Neptune, it is to be
noted, rules drugs and alcohol. Neptune in difficult aspect will bring lessons
relating to confusion, illusion, delusion victimhood and martyrdom. This Neptune
in the Third House, the house related to the sign Gemini and to mental thinking,
would also resonate with George W.’s tendency to mangle the English language
and to be himself vicitmized for that. Additionally, it would relate to his
tendency to use alcohol to buffer himself from the rough edges of life. Some
say that George W. was not an alcoholic. His wife Laura said he never drank
during the day. Yet, in that time period when George W. was asked when was
the last day that he didn’t have at least one beer, he couldn’t
remember. Later, he has stated that his alcohol imbibing days were simply “When
I was young and irresponsible.” His period of being young and irresponsible,
however, lasted until he was 40 years old.
This Neptune is in wide conjunction with his Moon in Libra, the Moon in Libra
representing that part of his childhood experience where things appeared as
calm on the surface even though they were not underneath. The Neptune is also
in tension with (square) his Sun in Cancer. Looking at this complex of factors
objectively, with no prior knowledge of the biographical details of the subject,
factors involving Sun, Moon, Jupiter and Neptune, I would suspect a very complex
relationship between father and son, and perhaps between father and mother,
and mother and son.
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