posted January 28, 2016 09:12 AM            

Ideas?

posted January 28, 2016 11:01 AM            

For example, I know a guy (and once did his chart that impressed him, but I no longer have it) who was once very conservative, and also racist, and I think it was his Cancer energy that made him loyal to his family that way (that is if his family had a different ideology then he would have grown up to be that ideology himself, or put another way his natal chart made him initially loyal to his conservative family rather than his natal chart made him a conservative).

Then a very dramatic life experience (don't know the transits, all I recall is that it was in the 1970s) caused him to question everything, and in many ways he became very liberal...though he's also still very much in supporting the military (not to be confused with supporting wars they're sent to fight), though he can work up a rage over conservative politicians screwing over soldiers as much as liberals dissing them (not to say that all conservatives and liberals do that, just the ones who are successfully confused by TPTB into believing that supporting soldiers mean supporting whatever they're ordered to do).

posted January 28, 2016 06:49 PM            

PixieJane is right it is more complicated than that, especially when you're asking merely about signs. However, I do not buy the research emphasizing Pallas related to politics as it is a relative unimportant asteroid, not even a core planetary energy.

Most important - Personal politics is not set in stone, and if you find your politics is then you are not listening and learning as any citizen has freedom to do in a democratic society.

My chart is earth heavy. I started my adult life voting for Republicans (later Libertarians) because I grew up in a very conservative family. Now I'm a registered Democrat and wouldn't vote for any Republican. My politics has gradually shifted between about 2002-4 to now from right to left (progressive communitarian/democratic socialist) due to exposure to people of different religious and ethnic backgrounds, taking time to listen to them, my fundamentally pragmatic nature, and my in-depth learning about how US laws and government actually function relative to people's expectations.

Having said that Cancer types tend to line up with pre-packaged conservatism, tend to align based on subjective assessments rather than thought-out well-considered learning. Opposite sign Capricorn tends to paternalism, but more pragmatism. That is because Cancer is emotive and wants stability, but tends to want to enforced from without (societal laws, etc), and tends to project this onto others in a 'codependent' fashion -- but not always. There are 'liberal' Cancer types -- plenty. Capricorn is more deliberative than Cancer and will typically put more thought into political positions and voting, but wants things to be respectable/respectful, doesn't like angry challenges to established authority, etc.

That is one example of typical tendencies. Let's not use astrology to explain someone's cemented, carved in stone inflexible political attitudes (often projections of various internal issues), or to create notions of what someone's politics 'should' be because of factors in their birth charts. This uses astrology as a substitute for direct real learning of persons as they actually are -- works in progress.