NOTE: Scroll down to see a bi-wheel chart for President Bush and Harriet Miers.

 

Harriet Miers has withdrawn her name from consideration as U.S. Supreme Court Justice. An article in the New York Times noted that “Ms. Miers has been described by friends and associates as intelligent, principled and discreet to the point of shyness.” Harriet Miers is a Leo, but what sets her personality apart from many other sunnier, more flamboyant political Leos (think Bill Clinton, Arnold Schwarzenegger) is her Virgo Moon. A Virgo Moon makes one meticulous and detail-oriented. It also imparts usefulness and even a sense of mission in serving others—as Miers appears to have done with President Bush.

 

A number of post-mortem news reports have commented on her withdrawal by noting that she was so closely aligned with President Bush that she really lacked an identity that was strikingly independent of his. This lack of independent identity, while an admirable trait in her job as White House Counsel, was a detriment in her nomination to be a U.S. Supreme Court Justice. In commentary posted to this website in early October, I noted the bundled trines of both Bush and Miers and the close synastric conjunction of these bundled planets. This pattern symbolizes, in immediate visual terms, the astrology behind much of what has been said and written about this nomination and its subsequent difficulties. You can read this analysis below:

        

Harriet Miers is President Bush’s nominee to replace Sandra Day O’Connor on the U.S. Supreme Court. Harriet Miers is a Leo, born August 10, 1945. Although her birth time is not known, her Moon is firmly in Virgo.

 

What is most astonishing is the fact that all her planets are in a tight bundle pattern, a trine from Gemini to Libra, and all of President Bush’s planets are also in a tight bundle pattern from Gemini to Libra. Miers is almost a year older than Bush, so it’s not like they were born on the same day or even the same week. When the two charts are overlaid on one another, it’s like seeing double. It’s almost as if Bush nominated himself for the Supreme Court. There was no objectivity or perspective in the nomination and that has already spelled trouble for Miers’ confirmation. Harriet Miers is Bush's White House attorney; it is her personal closeness to the President, her lack of judicial experience (she's never been a courtroom judge), and her lack of political "tracks" that have made her a controversial nominee. Miers is so closely tied to President Bush that as Bush goes, so goes Harriet Miers. If Bush is seen as weak and vulnerable, lacking in support, Miers will have a hard time being confirmed.

 

Saturn continues its heavy tread over Bush’s Mercury and onto his and Miers’ Pluto (see my forecast for President Bush's year ahead). Saturn was exactly hitting both their Plutos (each at 10° Leo) when the confirmation hearings were scheduled to begin in early November, 2005. In Miers’ horoscope, Pluto is also the midpoint between the two planets at the edges of her bundled trine—Mars and Neptune.  (If you're wondering when Saturn hits Bush's bundle midpoint: September, 2006--shortly before the midterm elections).

 

See also: Astrology Forecast: President Bush's Year Ahead; President Bush's "Closest Aspect"; Karl Rove

 

Inner wheel; Bush Outer wheel: Harriet Miers