The sensitive Cancerian energy is hidden in the 12th house. His forte is really 'behind the scenes'. Yet his Leo rising, encompassed between Saturn and Pluto brings him out. Leo loves the limelight, and Saturn/Pluto love power and all that it can accomplish for him. Yet, he isn't as gregarious as his predecessor, Pres. Bill Clinton, born a month later. That's because having Pluto on the horizon is like having Scorpio rising.....there's a tug of war going on between his desire for privacy and secrecy and the desire to be in the spotlight and be adored.

In 1946, Saturn was moving in to conjunct Pluto. Very early in his life, on October 7, 1946 to be exact, Saturn went over the horizon, conjuncted Pluto and Mercury, and spent 2 1/2 years in his first house. This says that it wasn't a happy time for a new born. In some respects it's better that one is born before a major conjunction such as this, rather than later, because Saturn is the lighter, faster energy....if 'lighter' can be a Saturn adjective!

At about the same time, the Sun, which squared Neptune at birth, moved to conjunct Saturn, and then Chiron and the moon.....it was a hard time for a 2 1/2 month old baby.....It might have been on the physical plane, or because Mercury is involved, at the ascendant, it could have been some words spoken, and the vibration touched his soul chillingly. Saturn is no wilting lily. ...and the combination with Pluto would say that something happened in his early life that affected him deeply, and would provide a deep rooted, subconscious motivation for his life experience.

Almost all of his planets are on the left side of the chart, which tells us that he's someone who acts and thinks later. Those with planets on the right side of the chart predominantly, sit back and watch what others do and then decide their moves.

When we have someone in prominence, the aspects to the outer planets become more meaningful. In Bush's case, Pluto conjuncts Mercury, and Neptune squares the natal Sun.

In 2003, Renana Brooks, PhD, who is a clinical psychologist practicing in Washington DC, wrote an article about Bush for "The Nation", where she spoke of the president as one who is generally thought of as a mangler of the English language, but that, in actuality, he is a master of emotional language, which is the intentional use of language to dominate others. This is the perfect definition of Pluto conjunct Mercury, and is compounded by the fact, that it is on the horizon and is connected to Saturn.

Then, we have the Sun squaring Neptune. To begin with, Neptune in the 3rd, fairly close to the moon, would say he could be a good writer, and a writer of fiction...or maybe poetry. But the sun squaring it would say that he was probably told that wasn't a 'manly' thing to do. Neptune/Pisces energy doesn't like confrontation and it can mean communication is edited and rehearsed for the person hearing it. In "The Astologer's Handbook", Frances Sakoian says of this aspect: "This is the aspect of self-deception par excellence. If the natives are mystially inclined, they often consider themselves the chosen vessels of some Master or Divine Being. The belief is often the result of an unconscious desire for importance...." Now, the Sun squares Neptune twice a year, and it depends on other aspects in the chart how strongly this energy is manifested.

In Bush's 4th house is Scorpio. The ruling planet, of course, is Pluto, so the Saturn/Mercury/Pluto conjunction is tied to the house of mother....and Barbara Bush is known to be a formidable woman. His tenth house of father and career, has Aries on the cusp, and Taurus encapsulated (all 30 degrees of the sign in one house with the previous sign being the ingress and the next sign being the egress). Taurus' planet, Venus, is in Leo as well, and was the first planet Pluto conjuncted after birth, in 1951. Any contact of Pluto to another planet is a time of intense learnng experiences; and one always comes out the other side changed.

At the same time Uranus in Pisces, is at the apex of the natal Master Yod. Pluto is 10 of Leo, Neptune is 5 of Libra, at his birth, with Mars inbetween at 9 Virgo as the trigger. Uranus has been moving back and forth at the apex of the Yod, opposing natal Mars all year (2005).

It has often been written in astrology, that the president elected in a "0" year, doesn't live out the presidency. The last one before Bush was President Ronald Reagan. He lived, but with the Alzheimer's, did he really? So far, Bush has eluded this potent aspect this year, flirting with Mars opposition and the Master Yod point. On a mid point system I've developed, I would say that February 2006 is a crucial time. If he makes it through, then 2006 and 2007 will see the Pluto and Neptune sesquiquadrates doing their thing, and the house of cards falling all around.

P.S. I'm working on a new book about the United States and its presidents, and how they show up in the U.S. chart and what energies they represent. They fall into 6 categories. It's interesting to note, that George W falls into the list with Richard Nixon, and there are constant references to Nixon and Watergate and how things are parallelled now. This list of presidents is found in the Boar area, and as mentioned above under Bush's minute of birth and achilles' heel, the Boar deals with depression and at it's most negative, self destruction.

Info on the Bush-Cheney-Whittington incident

copyright 2005 Pamela Leigh Powers