Newt Gingrich

Info on Newt Gingrich's date of birth is DD.  We have June 17, 1943 in Harrisburg, Pa.  But astrodatabank.com says that his office gave 'just before midnight' by his mom, and so they set it at 11:45 pm, but the family says 3:00 a.m.    11:45 would be Aquarius rising, and by 3:00 it's moved just into Taurus.  In there, Mars conjuncts Pallas at 15 Aries.  If we took 2:00 am EWT, then the rising is 13 of Aries and Mars/Pallas is on the ascendant.  Either way, it's either in the first house, or the last planetary bodies the ascendant passed over before birth, so would have a strong effect on the personality. I would think, from his brashness, that he'd have Aries rising, or Mars close to the ascendant, above or below, to give him his 'taking no prisoners' personality. 


Mars in Aries gives a pioneering spirit, but Mars can be mean spirited and Pallas is pure mind, no emotion.  The fact Mercury conjuncts Uranus in Gemini, plus Pallas, provides the quick, clever mind, and Sun conjunct Saturn provides the conservative philosophy and no nonsense personality. The sun in Gemini opposes the moon in Sag, which usually means his parents weren't getting along at birth, and he has a push pull between his head and his heart 


One wonders how accurate this early a.m. chart would be, because it puts almost of his planets below the horizon which usually is a person that prefers a quiet home life, and doesn't like  to climb the ladder of success and be out in the public.  ...but that Aries rising is sooooo tempting. Aries is argumentative, brash, "in your face", opinionated and wants to be first.  With Mars in Aries and, if it's near the ascendant, it just accentuates it all.  


Venus conjuncts Pluto, providing a deep sexual nature, but also shows that Pluto went over Venus in the first couple of years of life, and that usually indicates some abuse of some kind that set his personality.  In the mid 80's, Saturn conjuncted Pluto in the sky at late Libra, while Pluto was moving in to square his natal Pluto, the time of key power struggles in one's life, leading to empowerment or squelched.  It's a time where the abuse of childhood is re enacted again, this time with different 'actors' in the roles. In 2012, he's moving into a 'saturn return' from that earlier period 29 years down the road, to see what has happened in the interim.  Jupiter is the planet before Pluto, his 'destiny' planet, showing his interest in politics. 


Currently, Pluto is inconjuncting itself, correcting his forward motion if it's gotten off the track, and it usually has by this time of life. Saturn squared Jupiter on the 16th of December, 2011, Jupiter being politics and Saturn being judgment.  It could be his time in the sun on the Republican slate is due to slide now. Saturn squares Jupiter again on April 3rd and back and forth in the fall of the year. By that time Saturn has also squared Pluto going into the election, so if he gets that far, his stars aren't going to be as bright then as they are now.  Mid July will see his highest popularity.