Sarah Palin has resigned as Governor of the state of Alaska, effectively dooming any hopes she has to run for President in 2012. This announcement came as a shock to political watchers and to conservatives whose support remained consistent despite the teen pregnancy of her daughter and ethics violations.
The resignation comes on the heels of a dramatic and very public feud between Palin and David Letterman who made some bad jokes that were in very bad taste about Palin's daughter Bristol, who bore a child out of wedlock. But this was just the culmination of a media frenzy that dogged her from the moment she was chosen by John McCain to run as his vice-presidential candidate. Some say that a new Vanity Fair article just tipped her over the edge.
You can read more about Sarah Palin's astrological chart here, and the noon chart is here. (There is a 4:40 pm birth time floating around but that has never been verified by any legitimate source. However, Leo is rising in that chart and Uranus, ruling surprise and sudden change, was transiting the progressed Midheaven of that chart at the time she was nominated last year.)
I suspect that Palin's husband Todd may have been behind her resignation. He has evidently been her greatest supporter and played an active role in the care of their children, and transiting Pluto (death, rebirth and transformation) has been in a challenging square formation to Venus (relationships) in her chart since January (it came very close last summer at the time she was nominated), and the second phase of that cycle is coming to a head now. A transit of Pluto to Venus can be very difficult for a marriage that is not in good shape, and any unsettled business is sure to come to a head under this influence.
Palin is also going through a stressful transit of Chiron over the triple conjunction of the Sun, Mars and Saturn in her chart that began back in February. She is much more sensitive than she would otherwise be, and any feelings of self-doubt and shame (Sun/Saturn) will be exacerbated now.
It will be interesting to see if Palin has a political future. She was not overly popular in her home state of Alaska, and erupted into the consciousness of the US primarily as a symbol for the fading right wing of the Republican party. Much depends on how the opposition of Saturn (convention) and Uranus (change) plays out over the next year. If a balance is struck between conservativism and liberalism in the US, there will be no need for someone like Palin who generates such extremes of emotion. But if the polarities continue to separate we will see the growing use of caricatures as political figures rather than intelligent operators who can handle the world stage.
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Neema writes,
"I also request your help and advice regarding my career and life. I am going through a very distressing phase in my life. I had a great career for 10 years and was working at a senior management level, when suddenly without any reason, around two and a half years back my career came to an end. From an ambituious, confident person I am reduced to a sad and beaten personality. Not only have I lost my job, I have lost my health and happiness. Lynn, would I ever come out of this situation? When would I get a job? Would I ever be my former self again?"
And she sent me her birth info. Neema, around that time Saturn was transiting Venus in your chart, and Venus is in the 10th house of career so I suspect that there were some interpersonal issues that caused the loss of your job. Saturn continued to transit your 10th house, affecting your career until the fall of 2008. At that point Pluto began a square of Pluto in your birthchart. We call that the "Pluto Square."
You don't have a difficult chart - in fact, you have a Grand Trine in fire between Mars (in Aries, where it is the most powerful), Neptune, and a conjunction of Mercury to Venus WIth the Grand Trine things have come easily for you, and as a consequence you have not had the opportunity to develop an inner source of strength.
That is the opportunity that faces you now. The Pluto Square will force you to face obstacles and develop those inner resources. Try to think of it as a training ground rather like boot camp, where you are forced to become stronger and more powerful. Then it will be easier for you to use the sheer force of that Aries Mars to assert your will and become powerful again.
Why did Sarah quit? Why did Farah-Farah quit Charlie's Angels?
Might it, perchance, be attributable to the Aquarian element of surprise?
Sarah Palin is strongly Aquarian: the notable hair, the devotion to social ideals at the seeming expense of mundane obligations, a masculine fixity, and, despite howls of protest from small-minded critics--what will eventually prove to be stunning far-sightedness and breadth of vision. Lincoln was an Aquarius.
Palin is intelligent, charismatic, a hard-worker, mother of a fairly large family, and good-hearted and brave enough to bear and raise a child with Down Syndrome.
She is a true-blue American, a wonderfully successful female, and it is a disgrace to see the Michael Douglas-reject Maureen Dowd, who has never accomplished anything of significance, call her "crazy" to the cheers and jeers of the NYT madding crowd....
The same phonies who are always b*tching and whining about Women's Lib and Sisterhood...as long as they are the unchallenged presidents of the clubs and all the "sistahs" march in lockstep to their silly tunes.
Aquarians have an uncanny sense of timing. The house of cards is about to collapse, and Palin will be well-positioned to help pick up the pieces. To lead the charge of the Aquarian "light" brigade.
Maureen Dowd? oh you mean the plagiarist?
In a land of the blind, the one eyed man is king.
Lynn, thanks so much for your response to my question about my anger when I hear Sarah Palin speak. It's bothered me because I'm usually so tolerant and I feel guilty for getting so angry at someone who's only daring to speak her mind publicly, which she has a right to do.
Your response makes a lot of sense to me and I think you are very wise.
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