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| A golden, perfect, corporate image of Lilith - very enticing and sexy!
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Few Observations
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Normally strong career orientation, and
extremely hard workers. This is THE hardest working Lilith, even
more so than 8th House Lilith.
It is NOT a relaxed
placement!!
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Exceptionally strong talent for self-preservation. The natural energy of Virgo in the 6th
House understands all about the perception of “wheat v. chaff”, and this Lilith
will remain on top somehow, even if he or she loses a job, or several.
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These are natural executives, given the chance. Quoted from Tribe.net.
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Good at offbeat professions. A typical profile might be a business
executive with a youthful background in bodybuilding (Arnold Schwarzenegger),
sailing boats around the Pacific, or making a $500 movie and showing it a local
theater for $1 a ticket (16 year old Steven Spielberg).
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Some of these people have incredibly long and
varied careers across many industries, or experience working every job in a
given industry (Steven Spielberg) – Lilith is a “shape-shifter” who gets easily
restless. If this person is bored, he or
she switches jobs quick.
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Begins work at a young age, and doesn’t waste a
lot of time in retirement.
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Little patience for the mindless, boring,
routine jobs that many young people are expected to put up with while “paying
dues” in a profession upon graduation from college.
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Occasionally, Lilith is channeled through one’s
creative output “on the job”. Stephen
King’s first novel, Carrie, is one of the most powerful explorations of Lilith
in modern American literature. He wrote
it while living in a trailer, and his wife had to get the manuscript out of the
trash after he received a $2500 advance from Doubleday. When Doubleday resold the paperback rights
for $400,000 in 1973, and King got the news that he would receive half that
amount, it changed their lives forever.
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Likes having sex with the servants - Arnold
Schwarzenegger, who slept with the nanny, or Hillary Clinton, who was rumored
to have been involved with her former personal assistant, Huma Abedin.
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Strong experience of Lilith in childhood, in
some cases. The native is either
rejected by their teachers, or hurt by their teachers in some way (six year old
JonBenet Ramsey was killed by a teacher).
Or the child gets a mentor with Lilith-like qualities, one who shelters,
guides, and protects the native during exposure to dangerous activities in
childhood, or during development of their own Lilith-like qualities (Helena
Blavatsky, Barack Obama).
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7th House Lilith gets a perfectionist
partner with a rebellious or restless nature.
6th House Lilith is a perfectionist whose restlessness or
rebellion gets channeled on the job.
6th
House Lilith in Action
Let’s take a look at how many of the above attributes of 6th
House Lilith operate in the life of our current President, Barack Obama. Obama not only enjoys Black Moon Lilith in
one of its strongest house placements, the 6th House, but his BML is
partile conjunct Mercury at 2
degrees Leo, which strengthens it further, and both are partile conjunct an
obscure fixed star, Talitha. Having BML partile conjunct a planet and a
fixed star is fairly rare, so an astrologer should start paying attention –
this unusual configuration is important.
It does not explain how he became President, but it does shed a lot of
light on how he chooses to wield power.
Barack
Obama
In a nutshell, Lilith gives Obama’s Mercury its
shape-shifting quality – he is an extremely facile communicator who appeases
the liberals of his party while quietly agreeing with a more conservative
agenda. Obama is said to admire Ronald
Reagan more than any other recent President, and aspects of his leadership do
recall Reagan’s way of getting things done.
In the wake of the Newtown massacre, for example, much of the new
anti-gun legislation died in committee, largely because Obama would not get
behind it – he enjoys shooting military grade weapons at Camp David, and does
not favor curbing the rights of legal gun owners.
Talitha is a lesser-known fixed star set smack in the paw of
the Ursa Major constellation. One thinks
of a grizzly bear with a wicked fast paw.
An Arabic story behind this star refers to the “third leap of the gazelle”,
which tells of a startled gazelle that leaped to three different points in the
constellation. Again, the idea is of
fast motion in the service of self-preservation.
Talitha also means “daughter of the assembly”. In the gospel of Mark, a ruler of the
synagogue (assembly) comes to Jesus to tell him that his little daughter is close
to death, hence “the daughter of the assembly”.
So Jesus goes to the man’s house, where the child is near
death or already dead, and says “Talitha
Cumi” which means “daughter arise”.
It is a story of healing, compassion, and redemption, and Obama made
this his 2008 campaign message. It
reflects both the healing of nation, with regard to its legacy of slavery, and
the hope that the American economy would rise from the dead after the October
2008 banking disaster – it did, but never with the same vitality. Obama may also have tapped the energy of this
minor fixed star when he chose the title of his second memoir, “The Audacity of
Hope”.
Obama’s Story
Obama experienced a wandering, far-flung childhood,
shuttling back and forth between his grandparents in Hawaii, and his mother and
step-father in Indonesia, where he spent four years living between the ages of
six and ten. It is difficult to know who
or what his childhood mentors were like – his 1995 account “Dreams of My Father”
is carefully shaped and tailored to the ears of his intended audience. The fact that his mother was a Red Diaper
baby who wanted nothing to do with her own race is most graciously glossed
over, and the fact that his daughter’s nickname “Sasha” was a very common codename
for KGB operatives is not mentioned at all.
What is known is that Obama had a powerful experience of
shifting his shape, if not his skin, in three distinct cultures while growing
up – the Third World, Muslim culture of Indonesia, the white Hawaiian culture
of his grand-parents who were thrilled when he was accepted to the exclusive
Punahou School, a breeding ground for Hawaiian leaders for at least 200 years,
and the African-American culture which he had to access on his own without help
from his family. That Obama appeared to
do well in all three cultures spoke to the power of his 6th House
Lilith. So does his wife’s revealing
remark that he was “raised by wolves” – Michelle Obama is presumably privy to
much of the story left out of “Dreams of My Father”.
Dreams of My Father
Not many people knew about the book when it was first
published in 1995, when Obama was 34 years old.
Like most Americans, I did not pick the book up off a shelf at Barnes
& Noble until it was reissued in 2004.
As I skimmed through it, glanced at the pictures, read the captions, and
got a quick sense of his writing style – I felt a thrill of excitement. Right then, I knew who had a damn good chance
at the Presidency in 2008 – it was never going to be Hillary Clinton. She was the darling of the American media,
but many of the American people couldn’t stand her.
As a white American reader, I understood instinctively that
Obama was publishing this book to explain exactly who he was to all Americans
before asking them to vote for him as their first black President. It was only later that I realized that this
book was how he tossed his bid in the ring way back in 1995. Obama would be elected to the state senate of
Illinois less than a year after this book was published. He was bored to tears in the Illinois Senate,
and he anticipated this before even getting in the door. This book was his way of making certain he
didn’t get stuck there. The same was
true during his brief stint in the US Senate, where he accomplished very
little, using the seat as a stepping-stone for his Presidential bid, and little
more. As a self-aware 6th
House Lilith, he hated “paying dues” and knew how best to switch jobs fast.
Lilith
in Virgo’s Natural House (the 6th House)
Lilith has some interesting results in this house. Some of Virgo’s qualities are magnified. Others get twisted or tainted, similar to
what happens when 9th House Lilith meshes with the natural energy of
Sagittarius.
Prolific Output from Hard Workers
Stephen King has
published 50 novels and nearly 200 short stories over the course of a career
that has spanned 40 years.
Much of Steven
Spielberg’s early work featured the sort of horror that was making a
reputation for Stephen King as a novelist in the early 1970’s. He got his big break with the movie “Jaws”,
and has often referred to the grueling shoot as his professional crucible. But he hit the jackpot even harder than King
did; the 1975 film made him a household name, as well as one of America’s
youngest multi-millionaires at the age of 31.
Spielberg is also notable for having made a film every year for the past
40 years; he is considered one of the most influential Hollywood filmmakers of
all time.
In a similar fashion, Hillary
Clinton has visited more countries and spent more time on a plane than
any other Secretary of State with a four year term. She reported using the flights as a chance to
get work done with few interruptions, and she also apparently believed in a
boots-on-the-ground strategy which emphasized face-to-face diplomacy. While the American public remains deeply
conflicted about her potential as a Presidential candidate, there seems little
question that she would have made a very hard-working Commander-in-Chief.
Anderson Cooper
is another 6th House BML who seems to be everywhere at once. Whether
it’s on location for his own show, or as a CNN correspondent, or as a 60
Minutes correspondent, he probably logs more time in the air than Hillary did
as Secretary of State.
Problems with Employers
It isn’t so much that 6th House Lilith fears
losing a job because he or she is lazy, or not indispensable to the
company. Feeling exploited by an
employer or a contract is often the bigger issue for these people.
Stephen King
has switched publishers because he was convinced he wasn’t being paid what he
was worth. Later in his career, when he
had more clout, he pulled the book, “Rage” from publication, and let it fall
out of print, after a 14 year old boy quoted from the story before shooting and
killing his teacher and two classmates.
Snoop Dogg
refused to produce any more tracks for Death Row Records altogether because he
was convinced he wasn’t getting his due.
Michael
Jordan
Michael Jordan
didn’t have his estimation of what he was worth belittled by employers, but in
the eyes of many, he turned into a bit of an ass once he became the boss
himself. 6th House Lilith can
be a hard person to work for.
During his first season in the NBA, the 21 year old Jordan
found himself “frozen out” when most of the other players on his team refused
to pass him the ball because they were envious of him. Lilith asserts herself early in the careers
of 6th House natives. Jordan
didn’t let it get to him; he went on to win Rookie of the Year anyway. That showed the “haters”.
While still a young man, he retired from basketball for the
first time around age 30, citing exhaustion (which is how 6th House
Lilith feels when he or she is bored out of his or her mind). He switched to baseball, and then came back
two years later. Jordan was not
concerned about the money or his reputation – the ability to do something else,
to shape-shift on the job, was more important.
As an older man, Jordan became the first former NBA player
to ever become the majority owner of a league franchise at age 47. His Ketu maturation delivered groundbreaking
career success – see my earlier article on executives who take the final steps
toward their career dream around this age.
The next year, he took a hard stance on capping players’ income, telling
one team owner, “If you can’t make a profit, you should sell your team.” His team bitterly rewarded him with the worst
winning percentage in NBA history that year.
Mentors Who Absorb the Power of
Lilith, Thus Shielding Their Proteges
When Stephen King
was two years old, his father walked out on the family. Under the pretext of going out to buy a pack
of cigarettes, he left the house, and King never saw him again.
His mother ended up a poorly paid domestic, and King grew up
nearly dirt-poor. Of his mother, and his
childhood, he wrote, “We were latchkey kids before there were latchkey kids,
and she was a female wage earner when, basically, women did scut work and
cleaned up other people’s messes….And I got a sense of who was being taken advantage
of and who was lording it over the other people.”
King would have his own career problems as an adult,
including a devastating car accident which slowed his prolific output and
forced him into early retirement, but it does seem that his mother was the
sacrifice. Some children with a 6th
House Lilith get a parent or mentor who deals with unusually difficult life
circumstances – the child gets something of a “free pass”, but the parent or
mentor is cursed, in rare cases.
Other children who cannot deflect the power of Lilith may
end up dead the way Jon-Benet Ramsey did.
Why this happens in the 6th House is difficult to
pinpoint, but it is a very different expression of Lilith from what is often
seen in the 4th House, where one or more parents reject the child,
or where the child finds the parents impossible to live with and rejects them
as soon as he or she is old enough to be able to. 6th House Lilith usually
commiserates with the sacrifices made by the parent or mentor – the animosity
and resentment of the 4th House is largely absent.
Hillary’s
Mom, Dorothy Howell Rodham
An even stronger example of this atypical Lilith is the
impact on Dorothy Howell Rodham, the mother of Hillary Clinton.
Abandoned by her parents, the young Howell was sent unsupervised on a
cross-country train to live with a grandmother so abusive that when she found
Howell had gone trick-or-treating one Halloween, she ordered her confined to
her room for a year, except to go to school.
At 15, Howell escaped the grandmother by going to work as a
nanny for a family in San Gabriel, a position which paid $3.00 a week, and
allowed her to attend high school.
In a particularly vicious attempt to exploit her daughter,
Howell’s mother waited until she was 18, and then lured her back to Chicago,
using the pretext that she would now be able to help Howell pay for college
since she had remarried. Upon her
arrival, her mother instead said the offer was only to work as her housekeeper. Howell fled her mother’s home, and never
looked back.
Hillary Clinton has never been anything but supportive of
her mother, who she credited as being one of her most important mentors, but a
pattern of viciousness in the women of Clinton’s family tree leaves some
questions about some of the colder aspects of Clinton’s personality. Were I to side with her supporters, some of
whom feel she is “twice the man” that Obama is, her mother’s lineage might have
something to do with it.
When Lilith functions
well…
There is a less bitter side to this unusual expression of 6th
House Lilith. Sometimes the child or
youth gets a mentor who teaches them astrology, the Tarot, the I Ching, and the
runes, and passes on a wealth of mythic knowledge, which the child develops an
early fascination with. Or the mentor
may teach the young person to negotiate an unfamiliar culture or to improve his
language skills enough to be understood (Arnold Schwarzenegger). Or this person may shield the child from
overly critical teachers without spoiling him.
The young person gets a balanced introduction to alternative lifestyles,
and may grow up with a foot in both worlds, so to speak.
Some
Final Observations on “Mean” and “True” Lilith
Black Moon Lilith is known as “Mean” Lilith – this is the
most commonly used calculation. The Moon's Node is only "true" about
twice per month, when the Moon is actually on it, for the rest of the time, it
is as "untrue" as the mean Node.
Most astrologers today are using “Mean” Lilith. I have found “Mean” Lilith to be more
accurate across the natal charts that I follow.
The fact that it is a calculated point, rather than an actual physical
entity, seems to give it a greater number of predictive associations in each of
the houses. The same is true for Rahu
and Ketu in the Vedic system, and this is what first alerted me to the same
potential for Black Moon Lilith – I am convinced that modern western astrology
misses out on much of the information encoded in Lilith’s house placement
because our tradition is weaker with regard to calculated points.
Vedic astrologers identified an age of “maturation” for Rahu
and Ketu – the age at which the calculated point gives a potent result in the
native’s life, according to house placement.
While nothing this specific shows up across the board with BML, I have
noticed that it tends to be more active in childhood (4th House and
11th House, and sometimes 3rd House), late adolescence
and young adulthood (6th House, 7th House, and sometimes
9th House), mature parenthood (5th House).
Some people have a “heightened” Lilith that is active across
the life span – these tend to be subjects with a tightly angular Mean Lilith,
or in some cases, “True” Lilith, or those with either Lilith tightly conjunct a
planet or fixed star.
Fixed star conjunctions with Lilith affect everyone born across
a given month – not all of these people experience Lilith strongly, or even
perceptibly. Where the native has
several very tight fixed star conjunctions, Lilith tends to gather energy and
manifest more strongly (Marilyn Monroe), but obviously even this phenomenon
isn’t true for everyone.
Oscillating Lilith, or “True” Lilith, can show up in a
subject’s life in rather unexpected ways, and should not be ignored,
particularly if one perceives a heightened experience of Lilith in general. When I first began writing this series, I
felt certain of the 11th House quality of my natal “Mean” Lilith,
but as I worked my way through Lilith in each house, I had to acknowledge that
it was my “True” Lilith partile conjunct Sirius just inside the 10th
House on the 11th House cusp that probably exerted a greater
influence on the publication of this series.
What's Next?
What Did I Miss?
SOURCES
Qualities of 6th House Lilith – another excerpt
of “Interpreting Lilith” by D.G. Jay
Meaning of the fixed star, Talitha, at 2 degrees Leo
Biography of Stephen King
Stephen King takes “responsibility” for a school shooting
Hillary Clinton spends a lot of time on airplanes
Dorothy Rodham, Mother and Mentor of Hillary Clinton, Is
Dead at 92
Celebrities with 6th House BML
Very comprehensive overview of Lilith, from ancient
Mesopotamia to modern Wiccca
A thoughtful analysis of the differences between “True”
Lilith, asteroid Lilith, and Dark Moon Lilith, is included below, with keywords
for each. Kelly Hunter’s Black Moon
Corridor is also discussed, a concept I have found useful in my own work with
Lilith.
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JUNE 27, 2014 UPDATE
Hillary Clinton's birth time is controversial, and is now most widely reported as 8:02 am on Oct 26, 1947 in Chicago, IL. There is talk of her birth time being 8:02 pm instead, and I used a birth time around 11:45 pm which was available on the Internet when I originally wrote this article. In truth, her actual birth time may never be publicly known.
Various hypothetical birth times for Hillary all have points to recommend them (which explains why accurate rectification without a known birth time can be highly speculative). For a more in-depth look at the question of Hillary's possible birth time, check out, "What Time Was Hillary Born?"
Hillary Clinton's birth time is controversial, and is now most widely reported as 8:02 am on Oct 26, 1947 in Chicago, IL. There is talk of her birth time being 8:02 pm instead, and I used a birth time around 11:45 pm which was available on the Internet when I originally wrote this article. In truth, her actual birth time may never be publicly known.
Various hypothetical birth times for Hillary all have points to recommend them (which explains why accurate rectification without a known birth time can be highly speculative). For a more in-depth look at the question of Hillary's possible birth time, check out, "What Time Was Hillary Born?"
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