Karl Rove
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Capricorn is represented by the mountain
goat. Karl Rove is a Capricorn Sun
who has always—like the mountain
goat—ascended the political
mountain by being able to spot the
toeholds. Capricorn is also the sign
of the architect and Rove is widely
known as the architect of Bush's political
career, winning election strategies,
and legislative victories.
It appeared in late October, 2005, that
Rove was about to be brought back
down below the tree line to face charges
brought by a special prosecutor who
has been looking into Rove’s
participation in the leaking of the
name of a CIA operative. However,
the prosecutor blinked and, although
no charges were filed, Rove remains
under investigation.
Rove would not be the first Capricorn
to be brought low by his own hubris.
Capricorn John DeLorean was arrested
for attempting to smuggle drugs to
try to finance his struggling car
company. Capricorn TV evangelist Jim
Bakker served prison time for fraud.
Capricorn FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover
never got caught for anything, however,
because he had the surveillance tapes
and secret files on anyone who could
possibly cause him trouble. The problem
with being a mountain goat is that
every once in a while there is that
one toehold that suddenly crumbles
when completing a last long leap towards
the pinnacle. Icarus, who flew too
near the Sun on wings of wax, must
have been a Capricorn.
Pluto is approaching a conjunction
with Karl Rove’s Chiron. Chiron
is a major astrological influence,
orbiting the Sun between the conservative
Saturn and the revolutionary Uranus.
Zane Stein (see
his website), who originally
laid out the framework for our astrological
understanding of Chiron, wrote that
Chiron strongly symbolizes the maverick,
the free operator. Stein noted that
Pluto transits to Chiron may signify
a loss of power--or may coincide with
renewed power.
Chiron can also symbolize a loophole—a
legal escape—and a transit of
Pluto to Chiron may indicate a situation
where a loophole is exposed--or becomes
a source of power. Since this is Karl
Rove’s Chiron we’re talking
about, it is possible that when Pluto
hits his Chiron the loophole he used
will be exposed: i.e., he says he
was just talking to a reporter and
it was a reporter who divulged to
him the name of a CIA operative who
was married to an Iraq War critic.
It is starting to look, based on comments
by Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison and
others (see
news article), as though
Rove will be spinning a loophole.
Hutchison said that if there is an
indictment, it should not be "some
perjury technicality where they couldn't
indict on the crime." Rove has also
been very much a maverick, operating
in the space between the conservative
Republican political base and the
political center.
See
also: Astrology
Forecast: President Bush's Year Ahead;
George Bush and
Harriet Miers; Bush-McCain
Synastry
Karl Rove: Denver, CO; 12/25/1950; no birth time
