Willard “Mitt” Romney

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Willard “Mitt” Romney

August 16, 2011 by Mrigashira | Edit

A horoscope worth looking at. Even though Rick Perry has entered the race and the media seems to have handed it to him after just 48 hours of campaigning, I would not be so quick to write Romney off. This subdasa and he is in now takes him up to May 2012. The following takes him well past the general election. Both are 10th house and raja yoga periods capable of making a President.

Of course, the challenge with presidential election charts and astrology is comparingtwo charts that may be chock-full of yogas, and we don’t have Perry’s chart. Furthermore, we know that Barack Obama begins a very powerful Sani Maha Dasa period in the fall of 2012. But we will have much more to say about that at a later point.

My feeling, at this point, is that Willard has a very, very good shot at being the first Mormon president.

Julia Roberts

Horrible as her new movie's previews look, expect an *enormously* successful 12 months.

Tobey Maguire

An astrologer's nightmare: a public prediction of success is followed by what appears to be career disaster.

He can spin a web, any size, and catches thieves just like flies. But the arsenal of secret powers celebrated by Spider-Man’s famous theme tune is next-to-useless when it comes to negotiating the choppy waters of Hollywood studio politics.

Tobey Maguire, the actor who has played the super-hero throughout his extraordinarily-lucrative modern incarnation, has decided to hang up his spandex suit, just weeks before filming on a fourth instalment of the franchise was due to commence.

Also quitting, in the fallout from what appears to be an epic creative dispute, are Sam Raimi, the director behind all three of the recent Spider-Man films, and Kirsten Dunst, who plays Mary Jane Watson, love interest of the web-throwing crime fighter’s alter ego, Peter Parker.

Today, however, comes a different story:

American actor Tobey Maguire will star in The Hobbit after quitting the Spider-Man franchise.

The Sun reported Maguire, 34, will play the lead role of Bilbo Baggins in the blockbuster movie version of JRR Tolkien's classic book.

The news follows his decision to quit the Spider-Man franchise after three films.

Maguire was said to be unhappy with the direction the fourth Spider-Man movie is set to take.

The Hobbit producer Peter Jackson - who was also behind the epic Lord Of The Rings trilogy - and director Guillermo del Toro have been after him for months.

I am spared public embarrassment... this time.

UPDATE, July 30, 2010: With the fate of the Hobbit films tied to the potential bankruptcy of MGM and with Ian McKellen looking for other work, this will be a very interesting prediction to test in the coming months. Success for Maguire, let us remember, need not be tied to this particular film.  But it should come within the prescribed period.

A prediction

There will be a new Pope by this time next year.

Random chart I've been looking at

Tobey Maguire is in for two ace years.

Milhous Part III

Richard Nixon did not become president on the strength of his 10th alone. If anything, his 10th is rather problematic (in a certain way similar to Al Gore's). The humongous raja yoga in the 5th house of politics was the driver for his career success. The sign on that 5th house is Sagittarius. The lord of that 5th house is powerful Jupiter, residing in his own house, along with the 9th, 1st and 4th lords. It is no surprise then that Jupiter's subperiod, the final one in Saturn's mahadasa, would take him to the presidency.

Mercury forms part of the rajayoga, though it loses a planetary war to 9th lord Mars. That said, the first years of its period were not unkind. In its own subperiod it gave Nixon one of the greatest landslides in American history, despite Watergate.

Then came Ketu's subperiod. Ketu, itself in a house of Mercury, did not cause his resignation. But next up was Venus. The period began on March 29, 1974. On April 16 came a subpoena for the tapes. May 9th saw impeachment hearings begin, and on July 24th came the Supreme Court's 8-0 decision against the President. August 9th would be the last day of the Nixon presidency.

Saturn in the 10th brought Richard Nixon to incredible heights. At the very beginning of its period he would be elected vice president of the United States. But he would then fail to be elected president in 1960 and even governor of California in 1962. But Saturn is known to give delayed results. In its final subperiod Richard Nixon achieved his greatest ambition.

Venus was lord of a 10th house that contained Saturn. And Venus, from the 7th, was itself afflicted by Saturn. His two great presidential defeats, 1960 and 1974, were marked by Venus' subperiod.

Two postscripts. Saturn rules the 7th house of marriage, not the 10th of the profession, even though it is posited in the latter. Ketu sub Saturn would indeed see the death of his beloved Pat.

And a final postscript. Saturn in a kendra house by its nature either produces men of higher Saturnian qualities (seriousness, discipline, responsibility) or criminals. Richard Nixon, of course, was both.

The other president with Saturn in the 10th was our greatest: Abraham Lincoln.

Oprah's big moves: an astrological perspective

She's making a big move to cable in two years. Now, it's a bit difficult to make predictions regarding Oprah because I count at least three birth times out there.

Astrodatabank has it at 4:30 am, giving it an "A" ranking, adding that it comes "from memory."

If that is indeed the correct time, that means Oprah is running the period of a strong Sun, which is her 9th lord, forming a humongous rajayoga with 7th/10th lord Mercury and 11th lord Venus and the ever-hungry Rahu. The combination occurs in her 2nd house, which is one of the strongest I have ever seen. The second lord Saturn is exalted... where else, in the house of windfalls, the 11th. It is hardly surprising that this is a billionaire's chart. It's almost as if Oprah's destiny was primarily to be wealthy; fame was just the vehicle to get there, and a by-product once she did.

But the coming 10 year period, beginning 2011, looks a bit problematic. Oprah's Moon rules the 8th and is fallen in the 12th. On the one hand, this produces a type of vipreet rajayoga, where in theory the lord of a bad house is weakened by its residence in another bad house. Oprah's Moon, in addition, is with a strong Mars in its own sign. And it is also true that Ketu's major period, which ran from 1978-1975 was hardly her worst.

Still, the period of a fallen Moon will have its drawbacks; in any case, it is hard to see how it goes better than the Sun's period, which ought to count as one of the best in her life--in particular this year running from the summer of 2009 to 2010, which is the ultimate fruition of her rajayoga: the subperiod Mercury, her 10th lord, during her 9th lord Sun's major period. One could argue that this dealmaking period is the apogee of her career.

My gut feeling is that Oprah will regret giving up that TV show in favor of moguldom in its purest state.