So now we know that the two main candidates in the 2008 election in the USA are going to be John McCain (for the Republican party) and Barack Obama (for the Democrat party). Here's John McCain's birth chart, but be aware that the birthtime is quoted as from his mother's memory, and she has given both 9am and 'about 11am' as the times, which is part for the course when relying on recall rather than documentation:
I'll be writing more about this chart and the election on another occasion. For now I wanted to write about the parans between the planets and the stars, because they add perspective to the usual ways of interpreting a chart. These should be reliable despite the birthtime uncertainty. Here are John's, copied and pasted directly from pre-written headline interpretations (just headlines: there isn't space/time to go into more detail at present), so they're not at all tailored by me or anyone else to McCain himself:-
Sun
Rising when Antares is Anti-culminating
Someone who is intense and focused, the potential to be obsessed
Anti-culminating when Capella is Rising
An individual who wants to act as a free agent; the athlete
Moon
Rising when Sualocin is Rising
Good networker, helpful friends, and a popular person
Culminating when Arcturus is Setting
Concerned with the health of others, physical, emotional or spiritual
Mercury
Culminating when Murzim is Setting
The writer, the researcher, the business entrepreneur
Culminating when Alpheratz is Anti-culminating
Outspoken, and thinking in different ways
Venus
Rising when Alnilam is Culminating
Understanding connections between different ideas or groups of people
Rising when Ras Alhague is Anti-culminating
A person who expands the collective's options by increasing the information available
Setting when Schedar is Rising
To support another with quiet dignity; to give a cause dignity
Mars
Culminating when Menkar is Setting
Actions that please or jolt the collective; to be driven by hidden forces
Setting when Zuben Eschamali is Culminating
A disciplined, and ambitious, individual
Jupiter
Rising when Zosma is Culminating
The Angel of Mercy; to have compassion
Rising when Phact is Setting
The explorer, the wanderer through places or ideas
Saturn
Rising when Ras Alhague is Culminating
The desire to leave a legacy of knowledge or wisdom
Rising when Alnilam is Anti-culminating
To find simple practical solutions to complex problems
Setting when Bellatrix is Culminating
A battler, a person who struggles against the tide
Setting when El Nath is Culminating
Prepared to battle the establishment, a hard life
