Michael Wolfstar O’Reilly and Jeff Jawer of Star IQ are covered in this article in the New York Observer ezine: <\/p>\n
The fate of the 2008 presidential election might already be sealed\u2014in the fine print on Barack Obama\u2019s birth certificate.<\/p>\n
Was he born at 1:06 p.m.? Or was it just after 12?<\/p>\n
According to America\u2019s most popular political astrologers, what happened\u2014or did not happen\u2014during that crucial Honolulu hour on August 4, 1961 could determine the future of the free world.<\/p>\n
Since Mr. Obama\u2019s birth time is not yet publicly known, even to his own campaign, astrologers who make their living interpreting the impact of the heavens on the nation\u2019s earthbound elected leaders can\u2019t make up their mind as to whether he has one of the most ready-made \u201cleadership charts\u201d in recent presidential history\u2014a strikingly similar one to Bill Clinton\u2019s, save the seductive planets\u2014or is cursed with the prospect of physical danger and a mentality too cerebral to run a country.<\/p>\n
The only existing report of the time, which apparently originated from a shout-out from Mr. Obama over a noisy crowd to astrologer Frances McEvoy during a New Hampshire pass-through earlier this year, places him at 1:06 p.m., coincidently just 300 seconds after the moon transitioned from Taurus, a sign of resolution and leadership, to Gemini, a decidedly less confident constellation. And it\u2019s only an hour before the ascending planet in the horizon, which determines first impressions, transitioned from a deeply powerful constellation to a more wavering and reckless one.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf he were born an hour earlier, it would make a huge difference,\u201d explained astrologer Michael \u201cWolfStar\u201d O\u2019Reilly, who wrote about Mr. Obama\u2019s alleged campaign-trail exchange with the astrologer on his Web site, NeptuneCafe.com.<\/p>\n
Mr. O\u2019Reilly, who has been featured in The Wall Street Journal and is a weekly contributor to StarIQ.com, one of the Web\u2019s most popular online sources of horoscope information, has his own theories on what all of this means for Mr. Obama.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the problems with Obama is he has a progressed Mars in the 12th house\u2014the house of secret enemies\u2014and Mars is the warrior planet,\u201d Mr. O\u2019Reilly said. \u201cAnd it\u2019s forming some very hard aspects to Pluto, which is the warrior of his chart.\u201d In other words, \u201che has some very powerful enemies.\u201d<\/p>\n
Although Mr. O\u2019Reilly fears that one such enemy might be a gun-wielding lunatic (he thanks the Secret Service for \u201ccatching on\u201d), the stars might simply be spelling out \u201cHillary Rodham Clinton,\u201d who has a formidable chart and who many astrologers believe will win regardless of the moment Mr. Obama emerged from the womb. She enjoys a Scorpio sun\u2014historically the most common sun sign for a president to have\u2014and a Mars in Leo, which, to a statistically improbable degree, according to Mr. O\u2019Reilly, is the most frequent Mars placement for a U.S. leader.<\/p>\n
Jeff Jawer, the founder of StarIQ, who invented the first-ever hand-held astrological calculator and cowrites a best-selling annual astrology guide, described Mrs. Clinton as \u201cseriously formidable.\u201d He also said she is not quite who she appears.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow, I\u2019m not a Hillary fan, even though I\u2019m a Democrat, but Hillary may be nicer than we think,\u201d he said. He noted her Pisces moon, an indication of innate compassion that no U.S. president before has ever shared. But then he warned of a potentially \u201cMachiavellian\u201d side to her, caused by a Scorpio sun and Scorpio ascendant: \u201cEven people who like Hillary\u2019s Scorpion way, we know there\u2019s an enormous amount going on beneath the surface. Elements of the left don\u2019t trust her. And that\u2019s the thing about Hillary: We will probably never know her. And in the age of media saturation, we love the quality of accessibility in leaders.\u201d [note from Lynn: it’s not certain that Hillary has a Scorpio ascendant. Astrodatabank <\/a>shows her at the final degrees of Gemini rising and I have made what I think is a convincing argument <\/a>for a Cancer ascendant.]<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n