Pluto in Capricorn: Thoughts on Politics
1. Dirty stuff.
Are there still people in this culture who don’t understand the psychology of politicking?
It’d been months since I’ve listened to NPR regularly. I keep hearing criticisms of the Clintons for their propaganda against Obama - mostly taking what he’s said out of context (at least that’s what I keep noting). Isn’t that what politicians do in this system?
What occurred to me was that we might be expecting Bill not do such things. Not because we think he is or should be spotless, but he’s got this patina that’s supposed to follow him everywhere - that of the Office of the President of the United States.
That we get to see him actively engaged in this is an example of the opportunity of Pluto in Capricorn. Pluto can show us what’s going on behind what’s going on. In this case (as if we needed more examples of this), we get to see how even the highest office holders in the land are still, regardless of the efforts of the purveyors of spin, human.
I can’t wait to learn what’s waiting for us re the current highest office holder in the land - believe me, there’s something. There’s got to be. There’s no way any sitting president could escape the revelations probably unavoidable as Pluto shifts into Capricorn…what I keep thinking is that not even these guys can escape the turning-over-the-soil imperative of Pluto.
2. Scandal
It seems that the media might not let French President Sarkozy, no matter what he achieves in office, escape the realities of his personal life: He has relationships, he drinks alcohol, he emerges from a plane with his new wife (an ex-model, for crying out loud!!) with one too many buttons on his shirt undone.
The shocking reality that he has a libido and one of those concave depressions below his Adam’s apple (and maybe chest hair) might be too much - a reporter just said that the French would prefer him to be “more presidential.”
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