Hillary Clinton has come out of 'hiding' to ballyhoo her new book, "Living History". She was only 'hiding' because junior senators are suppose to keep a low profile. Now, as a former first lady, she hits the book signing trail with a large book (over 500 pages) detailing her life. Subsequent comments have suggested that she is taking the offensive. That she does intend to run for president at some point, and she's taking a tactical advantage by offering her own explanations, so that she can ultimately say, "I covered all that in my book, I have nothing more to add".

I like Hillary. I don't think I'd want to be close friends with her, but anyone who goes thru the 8 years of presidency hell and has to face all that Plutonian power, gets my vote. And I do believe - whether it was the right wing conspiracy or someone else - that there was someone who didn't want Mr. Clinton to accomplish what he wanted to during his years, and so kept him embroiled in all that turmoil in order to accomplish it. After all, there have been many, many presidents who have done what he's alleged to have done, and no one crucified them for it. JFK, as much as he is lionized as an icon of our age, reportedly had an affair with Marilyn Monroe, who was paraded in to rub Jackie's face in it when Marilyn sang happy birthday to him. That's arrogance of power. He also was rumored to have an affair with a mobster's ex girlfriend.

Hillary was born on October 26, 1947 at 8:00 pm, Cst, in Chicago Illinois. She has a Scorpio sun, a late, late Pisces Moon, and late late Gemini ascendant. Uranus is on her ascendant. It's always suspect when the time of birth is like this one - 8:00 pm. So we might look at her moon being earlier in Pisces. With late Gemini rising, she's really a Cancer rising with a splash of Gem; but, because Uranus is on the ascendant, it heightens the Gemini, and gives her a quick, facile mind, that 's forward looking, and someone who wants life to be an adventure. Boring is not her cup of tea. ***

The first planets from her ascendant happen to be Mars, Pluto and Saturn conjunct in Leo in the 3rd house. Mars is a detonator for Pluto/Saturn. The power and control signified by P/S is exacerbated by Mars. There are some with this configuration that have it under control, but by overlapping Chinese astrology over the chart, we find that it's in the area of the Rat/Gall bladder for her, which indicates rage and a hair trigger temper. Others of her era who have this combo associated with the Chinese in a more neutral place, will not experience this as strongly. These are people who are on a 'need to know' basis, for they erupt over the tiniest thing that doesn't please them. Plus, being basically Cancer rising, she's ultra sensitive, and doesn't want to be found wrong.

Neptune is in Hillary's 4th house. Neptune is oozy and gauzy and is not good in the foundation of the chart. The 4th house is like the roots that go into the soil and the trunk of the tree, and the other houses are the branches and the leaves - whatever reposes here has a lot to do with life's destiny. Neptune in the 4th can say that Hillary loves the water, enjoys the intrigue of 'behind the scenes' machinations and has a transcendental nature. It also shows that her roots need to be shored up periodically, and she feels lost at sea at times. This 4th house represents her mother, who could have been very esoteric, or may have had a problem with alcohol.

The 5th house represents children in general and the first child in particular; in this case, Chelsea fits the bill for both. So many planets are in this 5th, one can see how Chelsea is so important in Hillary's life. One wonders though, if she loves kids so much and works to improve their lives, that she only had one. But, here we have the Sun, Chiron, Venus, Mercury and the south node in Scorpio with Jupiter in Sag. Wherever Venus and Jupiter reside is where the person has luck and harmony, in most cases, and shows how close the two of them are. It's obviously from where her interest in children is derived.

The moon in her 10th house shows that her mother was the most important parent in her life. Since the moon is ostensibly in Pisces and the ruler of Pisces is Neptune in the 4th, it shows a double connotation of the effect of her mother in her life.

Uranus, again, is in the 12th, hiding out, but because it is so close to the ascendant, it's almost like she has Aquarius rising; it certainly adds a depth and breadth of vision to the Gemini energy, for Gem tends to be the every day intellect, while Aquarius and Uranus are it's higher octave, and show the mind from a higher perspective. Hillary has times when ideas just pop into her mind as if from nowhere, and gives her inspiration.

The Mars/Saturn/Pluto combo squares Hillary's Venus and Mercury and planets in Leo in general. It adds an intensity to this latter group, and can create a powerful, manipulative quality of communication (Mercury); a sexy but jealous aspect to Venus can create problems....in love affairs, but also marriage.

From a Chinese Astrology point of view, Hillary was born in the Year of the Boar, the month of the Sheep, the Hour of the Dragon and the minute of the Dog.

The Boar is like Eyeore from "Winnie the Pooh" - oh, woe is me, life is hard. It also talks about depression and the need to have people around who supports them in seeing the positive. The Boar hates humiliation and ridicule, and Hillary certainly had to deal with that in her husband's presidency (oops! I almost said 'her' presidency!).

The Sheep is the corresponding Chinese animal to Scorpio. The Sheep moves in ...packs? Is that a good word for sheep??? Pluto is the mass populace being the furthest planet out there which affects us. The Sheep needs to be a maverick sheep and pull out of the 'pack' and become it's leader rather than it's follower. There's an element of Victim/Victor energy in this sign, and we can see Scorpios that are victims as well as victors in life.

Born in the hour of the Dragon, this helps her to appear before the cameras and enjoy the adulation. The Dragon also needs to acquire things simply to have them; and with the $8,000,000 for her book advance, she has enough to acquire what she wants now (wouldn't that have been nice for my book to get an 8 million advance!)

Her achilles heel is the time she was born. In this case, the Dog. The Dog is rather reserved; can have intimacy problems. Usually has cold hands and feet. The Dog can either be the loveable loyal dog, or it can be territorial and bark and scare people away. One would surmise Hillary has some of the latter.

During the presidential years, there was an aspect which focused on the Dog energy for all Scorpios. Where they used to dominate by pressing for sex, in this time frame, they dominated by witholding sex. It was a time when Hillary could probably have cared less what Bill was up to; "let someone else do it and leave me alone to focus on the power I want" might have been her mindset. I don't think she cared a damn whether he had sexual encounters with Monica Lewinsky....what she did care about was it being found out, and once more, compromising the presidency and causing her humiliation.

Bill was born in the Year of the Dog, and as I have said before, they draw a clear line between relationship, history, marriage, children, as opposed to oral sex. When he said "I did not have a sexual relationship with that women" that was his truth. He probably thought the oral sex did not constitute an affair.

Will she become president someday? Currently, Uranus is entering her 10th house of career, which, of course, can rip the rug out from the mundane, and send her in a new direction. Pluto is moving into the 7th house in the next few years, where Bill could be a good ally.....or her Plutonian power can keep her warm at night. If she does become president, the Chinese overlay shows the Monkey/Bladder energy overlapping this area, which would indicate, that while she was victimized in the last 10 years, Sheep/Sm Intestine energy representing this time of her life; as president, she would move into the Monkey/Bladder energy which would be control, and she would resolve NEVER to let that happen again, and live out her presidency in total control.

***(birthtime listed in Lois Rodden's Astro databank. It was originally an "A" date, but since then other times have come forward (isn't that just like a Scorpio to keep things secret?), and then became
"DD" - dirty data, when they couldn't verify it. The IMDB says she was born at the stroke of midnight. Astrodatabank says "Celeste Longacre quotes her. However Eileen Applegate quotes an article from the Chicago Sun Times stating, "Her mother went into Edgewater hospital after midnight and Hillary was born early on the morning of October 26th." I tend to think the 8:00 am date is probably right, in that the sun, Venus and Jupiter are in her 5th house of children, which has been her focus her adult life. 12:00 am puts Mars/Saturn/Pluto right on the ascendant, which could show her zeal for power and control. But if her mother went to the hospital after midnite, then that time would be mute.

copyright 2003 Pamela Leigh Powers