Shameless (2024)

{Newt} Gingrich gained power and held sway in the House while behaving just as he had encouraged young Republicans to act before he had even been elected to Congress. He’d advised them to “learn to ‘raise hell,’ to stop being so ‘nice,’ to realize that politics was, above all, a cutthroat ‘war for power’—and to start acting like it.” If only he’d gotten accepted into art school.

Cohen, Brian Tyler. Shameless: Republicans’ Deliberate Dysfunction and the Battle to Preserve Democracy (p. 15). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.

Honestly, I never knew. Maybe we should look at Newt Gingrich.

Newt Gingrich (June 17, 1943)

But, when I said ‘let’s look at’ him, I meant astrologically.

This chart was already on my computer program, but it was listed as Harrisburg NY, so I suspect they didn’t get the Wikipedia memo. It was also listed as being BC quoted, when, in fact, all astrology sites list his birth time as conflicting/unverified. What I suspect happened is someone rectified his chart, based on the placement of Venus @ age 19 when he married his first wife. There is one inconjunct.

Moon Inconjunct Jupiter

This aspect indicates that you have a positive, optimistic outlook on life, and you enjoy socializing with good friends. However, there are some dangers with this aspect. First, it can be a sign that you are self-indulgent and possibly even selfish, although this is not likely to happen if you have a good, strong relationship with your mother. You have a great need to be cared for and supported, to be accepted for what you are with no strings attached. If this need is fulfilled, the positive side of this aspect will flourish. But if your mother does not support your needs fully, you will feel insecure and will look elsewhere for support and fulfillment. In this case your concern will be totally for yourself with little thought for other people’s needs.

Planets in Youth (pages 124-5) by Robert Hand (1977)

Now, I was going to comment that this seems a bit like Trump, but his Moon is in opposition to the Sun and Uranus. Trump’s only inconjunct connects Neptune and the Midheaven.

So maybe Brian Tyler Cohen is correct: the nastiness in American politics started with Newt Gingrich.