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While John McCain portrays himself as the candidate with experience, a quick look at his natal chart reveals a karmically young and inexperienced soul.

New data on John McCain’s time of birth places Aquarius on the cusp of his 12th house of Karma and Pisces on his Ascendant. (Click chart at left for larger image.) McCain calls himself a Maverick with a capital M, and his Aquarian 12th house reveals that this is not the first lifetime in which he assumed the role of the dissenter and the non-conformist.   

Pisces occupies the last six degrees of John McCain’s 12th house. While he was able to envision previously unforseen possibilities, in his past life McCain preferred dreaming to doing. When his visions failed to become reality, McCain relied on friends and associates to prop up his ego. 

Saturn in John McCain’s first house is also in the sign of Pisces. While the Karmic task of those born with this placement is to get in touch with deep compassion and understanding for those less fortunate, individuals with Saturn in Pisces often play the victim themselves. Whenever criticized, John McCain and members of his campaign have repeatedly cited his years spent in a prisoner of war camp as a counter to any argument, relevant or not. Bloomberg reports:

When Elizabeth Edwards, wife of former Senator John Edwards, rebuked McCain’s medical care proposal and noted that he’d always enjoyed government health benefits, McCain responded that he knows what it’s like to get inadequate care — “from another government.” 

When asked by Tonight Show host Jay Leno why it was that he could not remember how many houses he owned, John McCain again invoked the POW card, telling Leno that for 5 and a half years he didn’t have a house, didn’t have a table or a chair.

Today John McCain has many chairs in the eight residences he shares with his wife Cindy. McCain married Cindy, a former rodeo beauty queen and heiress to a beer fortune, one month after divorcing his first wife Carol, a model who became disfigured in an auto accident while John McCain was a POW.

Uranus is retrograde in John McCain’s second house of money, luxury and values. From a karmic standpoint Uranus retrograde shows that McCain placed too much importance on wealth, possessions and outer appearances in his past life. It’s clear he has continued this pattern in this life, making it difficult for him to complete Saturn in Pisces’ karmic requirement that he become an advocate for the underprivileged.

As the focal point of a T-Square aspecting his Moon and Mars, Uranus retrograde tells us that unmet needs and unexpressed emotions result in eruptions of anger. McCain is well known for his quick temper. In John McCain’s past life and in this one, Maverick becomes a euphemism for loose cannon. 

Despite these indicators of cosmic immaturity, there is good news.  John McCain’s past and present life challenges have offered training that allows him to gain the experience that is needed to become a leader and champion for the people. But it requires particular effort on his part.

Pisces Rising and Saturn in Pisces show that McCain came into this life with a deep sensitivity. His Moon in Aquarius reveals his craving for freedom. Its placement in the 11th house shows the potential for humanitarian action.

John McCain has the Sun conjunct Neptune in Virgo, the sign of service, located in the 7th house of partnerships. Mercury in Libra bestows the ability to see all sides of a situation and to play the diplomat. Because it is square his Moon’s Nodes, owning and actualizing this ability is a major part of his karmic task.

If he does the work to get out of his head and into his heart, John McCain has the potential to become the kind of leader who can envision a different way, motivate others to follow his dream and create sympathetic partnerships in service to humanity.

Do I think he can do this in time for next week’s presidential election? Of course not. But opportunities are arising for McCain to do his karmic work. Shortly after election day, Lord of Karma Saturn opposes McCain’s natal Saturn position. Transformative Pluto conjoins his Capricorn North Node in January of 2009, returning to activate it again from June to December. 

Win or lose, cosmic circumstances are in place for John McCain to mature into his natal promise of true maverick, visionary and leader of all the people, rich or poor, left or right.

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