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Barack Obama: Is This ‘Ox & Leo’ Powerhouse Infallible?
Jan 2nd, 2009 | Comments
What is common between Barack Obama and all these guys and gal…Monica Lewinsky, Napoleon Bonaparte, Oscar Peterson, Russell Baker, Dustin Hoffman, Louis Armstrong, Menachem Begin and Robert Redford? In Chinese astrology, as interpreted by my favourite Suzanne White, all of them are “Ox & Leo”. (In my earlier posts I had mentioned about Suzanne’s apt/fun descriptions about G.W. Bush and General David Petraeus.)
In a horoscope for 2009 especially prepared for president-elect Barack Obama (August 04, 1961), Suzanne White states: “What we have here is a very nature-oriented, earth-bound, power-mad megalomaniac whose nose for locating flies in life’s various ointments is practically infallible.
“This is not to say we didn’t need such a stringent ruler to come along in 2009. We did. All of us are suffering. Some of us have too much and are stumbling over excess and wading through our own glut. Many more of us have nothing.
“The world financial market, such as we knew it, is over. Change and upheaval are in the very air we breathe. Religious fanaticism seems to have more power among certain young people than either rock music or computer games could ever have inspired.
“Well, a more self-possessed type of Ox doesn’t exist. The Earth Ox is autonomous and ruthless. The Earth Ox may occasionally appear to cower in the face of something overwhelming. And, deep down, he may really be afraid. But he won’t display fear. He will display audacity instead.
“So these Earth Oxen are brave. And bold. Temerity is their middle name. Think about it – Earth and Ox together? A bulldozer…Even the most successful Earth Ox is a bit of a klutz, an awkward peasant in bourgeois clothing. They may wish they had never become so visible as to be obliged to hobnob with all the splendid people who only make them feel more like a hick.
“What Earth Oxen wanted to do when they set out to take over the world was to lead the people. But they never dreamed that they might also have to learn to drink champagne, make small talk, wear evening clothes or take ballroom dance lessons.” More here…
