It’s one thing to look at McCain’s chart as we've done in a previous article and decide whether he would make a good president. It’s a whole other thing to set up a chart comparison between the candidate and the country he will govern. Astrologers call comparing two charts the art of synastry. The synastic relationship between McCain and America is quite ominous.
The first thing I notice is the tie-in between McCain’s t-square (Venus conjunct Neptune opposing Saturn and square Chiron) and the U.S. Mars square Neptune.
With McCain’s Chiron (the wound that never heals) in his Ninth House of Foreign Countries, Religion, and Higher Education, stimulating the Martian fake machismo (Mars/Neptune) of America we can surmise that the McCain’s Vietnam complex will stimulate America’s hyped up masculinity configuration. This interaction has already been in focus when he sang, “Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran,” to the Beach Boy’s tune and said it was ok with him if we remained in Iraq for 100 years. Because of his Vietnam Complex (the Wound that Never Heals), he will most likely try to resolve his feelings about it by stimulating U.S. aggression (Mars) towards foreign countries. The interaction of his t-square(Venus—love, Neptune—illusion, Saturn—loss and repression and Chiron) with the US Mars/Neptune is tied in to his feelings that he has never had the love he thinks he deserves and he’s going to try to get even for his treatment at the hands of the Vietnamese.
This theme is repeated with McCain’s Moon in Capricorn in conjunction (same place as) the U.S. Pluto (intimidation) in our 9th House of foreign Countries and Religion. Talk about stimulating our dark side in foreign affairs. But that’s not all. His Moon is opposing his Pluto, which is conjunct the U.S. Mercury. In other words his Moon opposing Pluto is configured with our Mercury opposing Pluto. He is going to talk tough and turn America into a very dirty stick to compensate for his raw deal.
McCain thinks that Vietnam is all behind him but it isn’t psychologically and we’ll have to pay the price if he steps into the Oval Office. I have a hard time understanding his past atrocious treatment of the parents and loved ones of MIAs and POWs as well as his failure to support bills for Veterans that increase their educational as well as health benefits. Does his Republican stinginess outweigh any compassion or interest in fairly compensating our soldiers? Or what about his support for torture when he was tortured? What’s that all about on a psychological level? Is it an attempt to manage his own destructive feelings by walling them out (his Moon in Capricorn is pretty cold), which also shuts out any feeling of compassion for prisoners that we’re torturing? It’s craziness and I think he’s crazy.
I don’t understand the people that believe that he will handle foreign affairs better than Obama. With this chart comparison I can’t see how his relationship with foreign countries will be anything but abominable and dangerous. As General Clark said being tortured or being in Vietnam or being on the foreign relations committee in the Senate does not a president make, particularly with this chart comparison.
