But the story goes that the Fates foretold that Zeus, the high God of the Greek pantheon, would be overthrown by his own child with Metis--the Goddess of Wisdom. So Zeus swallowed Metis to keep that from happening. Metis was already pregnant with Athena, who eventually emerged from her father's head. In birthing his own form of Wisdom, Zeus did away with the ancient feminine wisdom of the Greek peninsula and transformed it into something that honored and upheld the masculine principles of patriarchy.
Hillary is definitely an Athena sister. She is a consummate politician and negotiator. In her birth chart, this energy comes through her Pluto, Mars and Saturn conjunction in Leo in the house of Law. Her Leo Mars is geared toward leadership and it's shaped by the power and intensity of Pluto and the strict limitations and responsibilities of Saturn. The struggle between the constricted energy of Saturn and the evolutionary energy of Pluto is intense--she has to break down huge walls to evolve. And she has in the outer world. Only she can tell if she's done it in the inner world as well. She does this with her brilliant, logical and concise mind. A true Pallas Athena--warrior and wise one.
But she's also worked to become more conscious of who she is and what she can do for those who are rejected and oppressed. This comes from being born just after Sunrise--it denotes a life of service and testing to transform ourselves for the good of the world. Hillary's Scorpio Sun lessons are embodied in all the slights and slurs and attacks she has sustained throughout her career. Scorpio deals with emotional transformation through dealing with betrayal, loss and bitterness with others, and I'd say Hillary has worked hard on her own responses to the nastiness and hurt that's been thrown her way.
Her soul-task is to emerge from this 'dragon fight' of dealing with these intense emotions and come to understand the hurt and pain of life through these experiences. We've all been betrayed, terrorized, hurt, ignored, vilified, etc. in this life and in other lifetimes. Hillary Rodham Clinton has come into this lifetime intending to deal with the insults and injuries of being a powerful woman--something patriarchy abhors! In working through her 'issues' she helps all of us transform ourselves. But it can make her hard.
A redeeming quality she has is her Pisces Moon heart--which can result in an openness to other people's pain or the ability to ignore it because you're ignoring your own pain. We can see how Hillary has grown her emotional body in the years since she was First Lady and headed a committee on universal health care. She was idealistic and smart and the male politicians torn her apart. But Pisces are always brought to their knees to acknowledge they are here on Earth to learn the lesson of "Not My Will but Thine".
When we look at her Lunar Nodes to understand her destiny, we see that while she enjoys the intrigue and power of politics, which leave her open to betrayal and attack, her destiny is to create a peaceful, loving and worthy relationship with her mate and family. This is probably her heart's desire. And admitting it would embarrass the feminist, powerful Father's Daughter in her.
While she is all these things, the vision is she promoting seems more like the band-aid to me. She wants to finish what President Obama started, a slow transformation of our political, economic and energy systems. But can we wait? Can we sit back and let Wall Street continue to gamble with our economy? Can we continue to let power remain in the hands of a few wealthy donors rather than in our voices, needs and desires?
Because of our spiritual life, we have to engage in the world--be in it but not of it, as Christ said. And in doing that, it becomes our responsibility to ensure that we create the most just, balanced, loving, wise and strong community and country and world we can imagine.
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