Unfinished Business
Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) is in
danger of facing her political Armageddon in Texas and Ohio on March 4. If
Buckeye and Lone Star voters send her on a long journey back to New York empty
handed instead of back to the White House, she can take heart that she did not
lose to just a self-styled “skinny kid with a funny name.” If she loses, her
defeat will come at the hands of the Great Emancipator, Abraham Lincoln. Well,
sort of.
Soulsign Astrology* has at its core the knowledge that
the soul is eternal and that we incarnate in this schoolhouse of Earth to learn
lessons that, if conquered, will propel us on an upward karmic path toward, to
use the Buddhist terminology, Enlightenment. We come back to fulfill the soul’s
desire to grow and to increase experiences in the physical realm. Therefore,
while the person dies, the body dies, the soul reincarnates into another human
existence. Each individual life happens just once and each incarnation is
different. Therefore, while it is not Abraham Lincoln running for President in
2008, Senator Barack Obama (D. IL) is very likely the reincarnation of our 16th
President. A different man, a different life but the same soul. (Note: When I
wrote this in Feb of 2008, he was Senator Obama; from now on I will refer to him
with his current title, President Barack Obama.)
When President
Obama launched his presidential bid on a freezing February morning at the Old
State Capitol Springfield, Illinois where Lincoln delivered the famous “house
divided against itself speech” was he just employing brilliant political
stagecraft or was he subconsciously harking back to his own “mystic cords of
memory?” It was a bit of both.
On the surface, it would make more
sense for a man who reached the pinnacle of American politics to incarnate into
a different set of circumstances. If the soul is to learn and progress it would
seem that it would say, in essence, been there done that, now what is next?
However, there are reasons why one could come back to the same country and in
the same profession as before.
Some souls can get stuck. Human
emotion, anger, revenge, karmic retaliation toward others weighs on them so that
the soul does not move on. Free will once in the physical realm can keep a
person on a gerbil wheel of repeating the same life scenarios with the same
people. Human weakness often trumps the soul’s desire for
growth.
Others have unfinished business on Earth due to
circumstances beyond their control. For instance, if an assassin’s bullet
destroys a man at the moment his beloved country is on the precipice of peace
and unity after years of bloody darkness and his death kills the possibility of
a peaceful Reconstruction and leads to a century of Jim Crowe, lynching’s and
poll taxes. Instead of being stuck, this person might reincarnate again with the
same oratorical passion and political brilliance, not to mention fierce
ambition, he had when he was here before to finish the job. How better to be a
vehicle for unity, then as a multiracial, multi-cultural man? What better time
to come back to power then when the country is involved in another hateful war
and is in desperate need of solidarity and hope after years at the hands of hate
and fear mongers? What better karmic reward for the man who saved the Union then
to come back to restore it to pass luster? What better karmic justice for the
President credited for freeing American slaves, then to be the first African
American President?
It is of interest that both Lincoln and
Barack Obama came to national awareness from a political base in Illinois.
(Although Obama achieved something Lincoln never could, that is, win a seat in
the United States Senate. Lincoln tried for the Senate and was defeated twice.
He came to the White House after serving just one term in the U.S. House of
Representatives to a chorus of his opponents foretelling the dire consequences
of having a novice at the helm at such a dangerous time.) The fact that one
transformational speech propelled each to prominence, Obama at the 2004
Democratic Convention, Lincoln at the 1860 Young Men’s Republican Union at
Cooper Union Hall is also informative. However, Soulsign Astrology relies on
more than just “coincidences” between two figures. Without strong correlations
between their charts, without a soul connection, we have nothing more than a
list of interesting factoids. #. The proof must be in the stars and their birth
charts.
Abraham Lincoln was born on a stormy Sunday morning,
February 12, 1809 in Hodgenville, Kentucky. While some charts show a birth time
at 7:00 AM, which would place his chart in somewhat of an alignment with
Barrack’s, others record the birth at 2:00 AM, a much more direct alignment. We
have to remember that recording the time of birth of the child of a poor farmer
delivered in log cabin on a bed of cornhusks on the American frontier was not a
high priority. Often late night-early morning births were recorded only when a
midwife or preacher could arrive the next day. It is doubtful Lincoln knew the
correct time of his birth. His beloved mother died when he was a boy and his
relationship with his father so distant that he failed to attend the elder
Lincoln’s funeral.
The 7:00 AM time comes from one source, a
woman named Peggy Walters described as an old midwife, a distant aunt, a
20-year-old neighbor or the daughter of the actual midwife Mary Brooks Enlow. At
some point in her life, presumably when Mr. Lincoln came to prominence, she said
that he was born “sometime around sun-up.” It is a fair assumption that she
probably was 20 years old when he was born, was asked the question some 51 years
later when Lincoln became President and was relying on an old woman’s memory for
the answer. Whether she was at the actual birth has never been proved and for
all we know her mother, the real midwife, returned to her house hours after the
child’s birth and that is what she remembered a half century later. This is
hardly a reliable source.
The 2:00 AM birth time also makes for a
chart that mirrors Lincoln’s personality. It places Neptune the ruler of Pisces
in the 1st house, the rising house. The rising house, the ascendant, signifies
our outward personality. The Sun sign, so important to armchair astrologers
today, is an illustrator of a person’s life force, their internal energy.
However, the ancient Sumerians, the inventors of Astrology, did not give it
special emphasis. The Sun’s light actually interfered with their ability to see
the other stars and planets and they really did not pay much attention to it. A
person’s rising sign was of more interest. Pisces is the sign of the martyr, the
greatest payer of karmic debt. Pisces also deals with dreams and the spiritual
world, cosmic awareness – the etheric. Abraham Lincoln, the first martyred
President, was famous for his prescient dreams, even the one that foretold his
own death.
This chart also places his Saturn in the 12th house
(the house of karma and the cosmic consciousness, ruled by Pisces) on the cusp
of his rising house, a common location for someone prone to depression or
“melancholia” as it was termed at the time. A Saturn 12th house person would
also carry a “mystical presence” about him and seemingly be able to tap into
cosmic realms unavailable to mere mortals.
In addition, the 2:
00 AM birth time activates his third house, the house of thought and
communication by placing his Sun and Mercury there, two markers of someone with
the gift of speech. How else could a man educated in a one-room frontier, “blab
school” write words that bring goose pimples to the soul as does the “Gettysburg
Address” or his second Inaugural address to name just a few?
The
7:00 AM birth time leaves his third house empty – a very unlikely scenario of a
man who built and saved his political career on his oratorical abilities and
whose speeches will ring through history as long as there is an America. It also
places his Saturn in the 9th house, which would have him more drawn to the
position of Secretary of State or foreign ambassador than a man who never
traveled beyond the confines of North America.
Sadly, the 2;00
AM chart places Lincoln’s Mars (warrior energy) in the 8th house – the house of
death and rebirth – in a conjunction with Uranus, a strong designator for a
fast, unexpected and violent death. His Mars in Libra – the sign most associated
with other people, foretells a violent death at the hands of
another.
Today, April 27, 2011, thanks to the lunatic birthers we
now know the President's birth time! See, I knew they had to have SOME value
somehow! President Obama was born in Honolulu on August 4, 1961 at 7:24 PM. And
yes Hawaii was and is a STATE.
When I found out his correct time
- not the time many astrologers had presumed, I wondered if my theory still
held. Is Barack Obama the reincarnation of Abraham Lincoln? And the answer -
yup, I am still pretty darned sure he is.
The fastest way to
examine a past life is to look at the Nodes. A Node is where a planetary body
intersects with the ecliptic, the plane in space formed by the orbits around the
Sun. In Soulsign, we reference the Nodes of the Moon as it travels on the
ecliptic around Earth. The South Node shows us what type of life from which a
person comes. Pluto reveals the soul’s desired incarnation, the South Node tells
us how and if the person manifested the desire when in the physical form. The
North Node indicates where a person should be going in order to fulfill the
current soul’s desire.
President Obama’s South Node would need to
correlate to Lincoln’s life force with either his Sun or rising sign energy. It
does not disappoint. His South Node is in Aquarius in the first house. Abraham
Lincoln born on Feb 12 had his Sun in Aquarius. Therefore, his South Node –
Barack’s immediate past life force was in Aquarius – correlating exactly to
Lincoln’s Sun energy. He was in his immediate past life a person who was born
under the Sun sign of Aquarius. That is two direct connections to Abraham
Lincoln. Adding an extra connection is it’s placement in the first house. The
first house is what has the most influence on our personality- it shows how we
project in the world. Someone with a strong first house is someone with a very
unique personality. Well he has been dead for over 150 years and everyone still
knows who Lincoln was. I would say that is pretty unique!
Can we
reverse the process and look at Lincoln’s North Node to find another correlation
with President Obama? We can and it too works. Lincoln’s North Node is in
Scorpio, and on President Obama's chart Scorpio "opens" the 10th house - the
house of government and authority figures. Lincoln’s soul was progressing toward
a Scorpio experience. Lincoln’s North Node was in the 11th house – the house
dealing with cultivating unique and revolutionary group activities in the social
and political arenas. It is safe to say that his soul using the Obama existence
is getting to know what is like to move people in a revolutionary group force to
change government. He held the Union together now he wants to continue by
bringing much needed change to the way it operates. (When I wrote this in 2008
we still had more hope. Now in 2011, we realize the lunatic fringe just won't go
away and the battle will be hard, hard fought.)
Just as President
Lincoln had a very strong 3rd house – the house of mental ability and
communication, President Obama has a powerful conjunction of Vesta, Ceres and
the Moon there. This is a placement that signifies the ability to dedicate the
self to nurturing people through his ability to emotionally express himself.
These factors when added to the similarities and coincidences
joining each man’s life, including the early loss of a Mother and distance from
a father, spell out a soul connection. President Obama has Saturn in the 12th
house as did Lincoln but its more serious aspects are mitigated by being in
conjunction with expansive optimistic Jupiter. He also shares Mars in the 8th
with Lincoln, which doesn’t make me happy. However, it is in a less volatile
sign of Virgo and there is no negative interception with
Uranus.
It is amusing to see that this time around Obama got a
Harvard education. It was one of Abraham Lincoln’s great shames that he had a
backwoods education so much, so that he forced his eldest son Robert, to go to
Harvard and Harvard Law School, although he did not finish the latter. One of
the many battles Robert had with his parents was over there constant pressure to
get the education not available to them. Barack made it to Harvard Law School
and became the first African American President of the “Harvard Law
Review.”
Their North and South nodes correlate perfectly. Barack
Obama has the karmic benefit of the education Lincoln craved and an even
stronger communication house in an incarnation at the time of mass and instant
media. He also thankfully has Venus, the archetype of the ancient goddess of
love and beauty in the5th house in Moon Child a much less ominous placement than
Lincoln’s warrior god of Mars. It is no wonder Barack Obama dreamed of being
President when he was in kindergarten. He was cannot wait to get back to
work.
#Yes, yes I know John Kennedy is supposed to be the
reincarnation of Lincoln according to pop astrology and people who like making
lists of “coincidences” between the two. Sadly for those enamored with this
theory there is just no real karmic astrological links in the charts of the two
men. Also, for all of those people circulating the lists of coincidences on the
internet please note that Lincoln never had a secretary named Kennedy and was
not shot in a theater named Kennedy. Lincoln served one complete term and part
of his second, Kennedy never made it through his first term. Southerners did not
shoot both men, although Booth was a Southern sympathizer, he was born in Maryland – a Northern state. In
addition, the assassins were not born exactly 100 years apart – that is another
continually perpetrated myth in these threads.
