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Depths of Chaos:
Astro-Mythology & the Bush Gang
By
Jennifer Van Bergen, USA
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While the planet Pluto is a tiny body and its existence was not confirmed until 1930 (and it
was recently demoted to planetoid), taking about 250 years to circle
around the Sun, it is considered to be the ruling planet of the
sign of Scorpio, which has been a recognized astrological sign
for thousands of years. [4] Its a reasonable assignment, since
the theme of both Pluto and Scorpio is the cycle of birth
and death.
While a number of the members of the Bush crew contain hard Pluto or Saturn aspects to
other planets in their charts, [10] none of them contain internal Saturn-to-Pluto contacts.
However, remarkably, the charts of Bush, Rumsfeld, and Cheney contain numerous
Pluto/Saturn contacts between them: that is, Pluto in one person's chart connects to Saturn in
the other person's chart, or to inner planets (called the “personal planets”) in various
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combinations.
Pluto/Saturn contacts are not often found between colleagues, since the contacts will
generally precipitate an immediate power struggle in which both people can sense that it is
desperately important who wins this battle because it will decide who in the end controls the
relationship. [11]
But, if Saturn and Pluto pair up, such contacts indicate, to put it simply, a criminal
enterprise, each person providing a prop to one or more other persons darkest ambitions and
pursuits. As Liz Greene says, “Pluto is Saturn's only real friend in the planetary hierarchy,
although, as the saying goes, with a friend such as this, one has no need of enemies.”[12]
Greene writes:
“The usual quality . . . with a Saturn-Pluto contact is obsessiveness. There often seems to be
a carefully organized and deliberate movement toward some self-destructive experience . . .”
[13]
Where Saturn/Pluto contacts occur within an individual's chart, the person will be drawn
towards such behaviors of his own accord. Where such contacts occur between two people's
charts, the planets will join energies and create a self-fulfilling loop, not subject to outside
interference or correction. As Greene explains, Saturn and Pluto have several things in
common: they both “have an association with
darkness, with destruction, and with the figure of
Lucifer, the Dark Prince, or the Beast who
symbolizes the depths of chaos.”[14]
When Pluto joins with Saturn, the result is ominous. Greene notes that “Saturn guards the
entry to Pluto's realm for it is the [Saturnian] collapse of external values which leads
eventually to the burning ground that Pluto symbolizes.”[15]
Bush's administration, more than any other in the history of the United States, manifests
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the collapse of external values (such as those which are traditionally Saturnian: the rule of
law, and those traditionally Aquarian: civil liberties)[16] and the seemingly irreversible
progress down the dark road to the burning ground of war. While Saturn considers itself as
a protector, Pluto provides the impetus and the subject: death, terrorism, war. Thus,
war/terror (on terrorism) in the name of self-protection.
Several members of the Bush crew have touted a sense of this fated quality, declaring their
missions to be from God.[18] The Leo placements of Pluto in the charts of Bush and
Cheney increase this sense of self-importance or greatness and the need to dominate. The
several Cancer Suns (Bush and Rumsfeld) tie the sense of identity (Sun) to the home [land]
(Cancer).
The fated quality of Saturn/Pluto also occurs within the Bush/Rumsfeld relationship.
Rumsfeld's Sun/Pluto conjunction is tightly bracketed by Bush's Sun and Saturn in Cancer,
with Rumsfeld's Pluto within a few degrees of Bush's Saturn. The contact creates a strong
sense that the relationship was destined. It is a powerful bond, not easily broken, as was
shown by Bush's unwillingness to ask Rumsfeld to resign after the Abu Ghraib revelations.
Saturn (Bush) has a tolerance for, or even awe of, the acts (torture) for which Pluto
(Rumsfeld) takes responsibility.
Both Saturn and Pluto are “trans-personal” planets, belonging to the outer rings of the solar
system. They often involve areas outside of conscious awareness. Saturn/Pluto “seems
intent upon driving the conscious personality into the burning ground with or without
conscious consent and without help.”[19] Or, as Greene says at another point, “the
individuals may be fully aware of [the] obsessive movement [of the contact] yet may not be
able to control it.”[20]
When persons with internal Saturn/Pluto combinations resist the destructive pull of these
energies and pretend that things are fine, lessons of pain and relinquishment increase.
Ultimately, in order for Saturn/Pluto contacts to transform into something positive and
productive, they must disintegrate what they create. Out of the ashes of destruction rises
the Phoenix. People with Saturn/Pluto connections believe deeply in the rise of this
Phoenix from the ashes. Its Armageddon, the Apocalypse, the Rapture, End Times. But the
price for anyone within the reach of persons with such connections is far too great. Life
itself may be brutally sacrificed.
In the end, persons who share a Saturn/Pluto contact will either stay far away from each
other out of a subliminal awareness of the destructive forces they engender together, or, if
their own personal charts drive them to covet the power of such forces, as Bush's and
Rumsfeld's do, they will attract each other and work together to the destruction of others.
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Bush & Rumsfeld
Rumsfeld's chart shows that he is ruthless, relentless, sadistic, brutal, and will drastically
eliminate the unnecessary in his vision.[21] His Sun/Pluto conjunction, ruthless in itself, is
squared to Uranus, which is a dangerous placement. Again, astrologers often view
Pluto/Uranus contacts as generational and therefore undeserving of analysis. But in
Rumsfeld's chart, the planet of identity, the Sun, is in contact with both of these outer
planets: Pluto's dark forces combined with the Uranian need to be free of restrictions to
pursue his experiments and innovations, no matter what, tied into his sense of self (Sun). In
other words, this man is destructive and will not be stopped. His very identity is at stake.
Bush's chart shows ruthlessness as well. His chart contains a triple conjunction between
Mercury, Pluto, and Venus in Leo. This combines the sign of rulership and power (Leo)
with the planets of thought (Mercury) and relationship (Venus) and with the forces of
darkness and destruction (Pluto). [22] Rumsfeld’s Mercury is also conjunct the position of
these three planets in Bush's chart, contributing his intellect to Bush's dark combo.
The Saturn/Pluto contacts between Rumsfeld's and Bush's charts only increases the
brutality in either chart. Or, put yet another way, their own personal brutality contributes
to and feeds the brutal acts they commit together.
But this is not all. The contact between Rumsfeld's and Bush's Suns and their respective
Plutos and Saturns, connects the forces of identity and creation (Sun) in the sign of the
home[land] (Cancer) with death, destruction, loss, deep pain, and grief (Pluto/Saturn). In
other words, the connection provides a bridge for the energies of both Suns and the dark
forces of Pluto/Saturn, fostering a massive amount of energy.
Where these exist within an individual's chart (which is not the case here), the individual will
feel these things internally, but where they are found as contacts between the charts of two
persons (as here), those who are subject to, in the care of, or under the authority of these
persons are in extreme danger. Where those two persons hold the keys to a superpower, the
danger is worldwide.
In sum, in all the charts considered in this article, Saturn is operating destructively in
various combinations with Pluto and other planets that contribute to the malignant mix.
The only solution to this destructive set-piece is its dissolution and isolation of its elements.
In other words, these men must be removed from power.
[1] Birthdates: George W. Bush, Jr. July 6, 1946, 7:26 AM EDT, New Haven, CT
(AA/Quoted BC/BR, Astrodatabank); Donald Rumsfeld July 9, 1932, 5:40 PM CST,
Chicago, IL (DD, www.stariq.com); Dick Cheney January 30, 1941, 7:30 PM CST, Lincoln,
NE (AA/Quoted BC/BR, Astrodatabank); John Ashcroft, May 9, 1942, time unknown,
Chicago, IL (DD, www.stariq.com).
[2] Bush & Rumsfeld have Sun to Sun/Pluto contacts, Mercury to Mercury/Pluto/Venus,
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Jupiter to Venus/Pluto/Mercury, Saturn/Venus to Mercury/Pluto/Venus. Cheney
contributes an Aquarian Sun to the Pluto (Leo/Cancer) combinations, which create Sun to
Mercury/Pluto/Venus. Ashcroft adds Pluto/Chiron to the Mercury/Pluto/Venus mix.
Rumsfelds Saturn in Aquarius is opposite Bushs Mercury/Pluto/Venus in Leo and trine (120
degrees) Bushs Neptune in Libra. It is also conjunct Cheneys Sun in Aquarius (and opposite
Cheneys Pluto in Leo). Ashcrofts Mars in Cancer is quincunx (150 degrees) to Rumsfelds
Saturn. Ashcrofts Saturn is conjunct Rumsfelds Mars in Gemini.
[3] Solange de Mailly Nesle, Astrology: History, Symbols and Signs, Leon Amiel Publisher,
1981, p. 165. (Hereafter Nesle, Astrology.)
[4] The Chaldeans of Assyria in the Middle East are usually considered the first to divide
the sky into the twelve sections reflecting the calendrical relationship between the Sun and
Moon. This was over 5000 years ago. Martin Seymour-Smith, The New Astrologer,
Macmillan, 1981, p. 12. (Hereafter Seymour-Smith, New Astrologer.) See also, Francis
Hitching Earth Magic, Morrow & Co., 1977, pp. 271-75. (Argues that the builders of
Stonehenge and other megalithic sites in Great Britain of approximately the same era as the
Chaldeans -- knew and practiced the principles of astrology . . . long before the system was
formalized by the Egyptians or the Greeks.) The signs were developed out of the
constellations. According to Parkers Astrology, there is evidence that the modern zodiac was
in place long before the birth of Christ. Julia & Derek Parker, Parkers Astrology: The Essential
Guide to using Astrology in Your Daily Life, Dorling Kindersley, Inc., 1991, p. 18.
[5] Nesle, Astrology, p. 177.
[6] Id. In Roman mythology, Janus was the god of gates and doorways, depicted with two
faces looking in opposite directions. Janus and Saturn are often viewed as the same god..
[7] Liz Greene, Saturn: A New Look at an Old Devil, Samuel Weiser, Inc., 1976, p. 188.
(Hereafter Greene, Saturn.)
[8] By close contacts, I mean between Pluto and any of the inner, personal planets, such as
the Sun, Moon, Venus, Mercury, or Mars.
[9] Ted Bundy had a Saturn/Pluto conjunction in Leo. Hitler had a Saturn (in Leo) square
to an incredible Venus/Moon/Mercury/Mars/Neptune/Pluto rolling cascade conjunction
across Taurus & Gemini. Theodore Kaczynski, the Unabomber, has Pluto in Leo sextile to
Saturn/Sun/Uranus in Gemini. The Gainesville Killer, Danny Rolling, who is still on
Death Row, has a Saturn/Sun (Scorpio/Gemini) quincunx & a Pluto/Moon (Leo/Pisces)
quincunx.
[10] Hard aspects are squares (90 degrees), quincunxes (150 degrees) and oppositions (180
degrees). Conjunctions (0-10 degrees) can also sometimes be hard. Hard aspects bring out
the worst energies of the planets involved. An aspect is an angle of arc between two planets
around the circle of the chart that represents the plane of the ecliptic, or the apparent path of
the Sun around the Earth. Favorable aspects are generally trines (120 degrees), sextiles (60
degrees), and sometimes conjunctions. How aspects are used by individuals, however,
varies tremendously.
[11] Greene, Saturn, p. 191.
[12] Id., p. 141.
[13] Id., p. 142. Greene here writes about internal contacts.
[14] Id. p. 141.
[15] Id.
[16] Aquarius figures strongly in both Rumsfeld's and Cheney's charts.
[17] Greene, Saturn, p. 142.
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[18] The hard Jupiter influence in some of these contacts also increases fanatical religious
propensities. Bush, Cheney, and Ashcroft all have hard Jupiter aspects. Ashcroft has a
Jupiter/Neptune square: confused in his judgment, prone to religious fervor, difficulty
distinguishing real from unreal. Bush and Cheney have Sun/Jupiter squares (an aspect
shared with Fidel Castro), which indicate religious excess, tendency to exaggerate, poor
judgment, and unrealistic expectations. Rumsfeld has a Jupiter/Uranus/Pluto combination:
rebellious, radical thinker, fanatical, critical, pious, recklessly and innovatively brutal. See
Seymour-Smith, The New Astrologer (cited above at footnote 4), pp. 147-48. Also see generally,
James Braha, How to Be a Great Astrologer: The Planetary Aspects Explained, Hermetician
Press, 1992.
[19] Id. at 143.
[20] Id. at 142. (About individual contacts.)
[21] Seymour-Smith, New Astrologer, p. 147.
[22] Pluto in Leo is about abuse of power. Pluto went into Leo in 1938 and was progressing
into it through WWII. It remained in Leo for twenty years, longer than it usually remains
in a sign, through the Cold War. Of course, not all people born in those years abuse power.
This depends on what contacts the Leo-Pluto makes in the individual's chart.
The 10th house or 10th lord from Saturn shows the profession
of the native. At times it would be the 2nd house or 2nd lord
from Saturn that would determine this.
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