Hillary Clinton

For decades astrologers argued about when Hillary Clinton was born. Some charts used 8:00 in the morning, others 8:00 in the evening, and she reportedly said she thought it was eight at night. The debate ended when her Illinois birth certificate, sealed by state rules for seventy-five years, became available: it records 6:45 in the evening on October 26, 1947, in Chicago.

That time places her Sun in early Scorpio, with Venus and Mercury, retrograde, also in Scorpio, all three in the sixth house. Scorpio is strategic, private, intense and resistant to being read. The sixth house concerns work, duty and the details of daily labor. A Scorpio cluster in the sixth describes a person who is formidable at the work itself, deeply prepared, policy-minded and guarded, and that is how admirers and critics alike tended to describe Clinton, as a relentless worker who rarely let the public see what she felt.

Gemini is her rising sign, with Uranus, retrograde in Gemini, sitting in the first house. Gemini is verbal and quick, and Uranus there gives an unconventional, sometimes polarizing first impression. From her first appearance on the national stage, Clinton seemed to provoke unusually strong reactions.

She grew up in Park Ridge, a suburb of Chicago. At Wellesley College she became the first student to give a commencement speech there, in 1969, and the speech drew national attention. At Yale Law School she met Bill Clinton, and in 1974 she worked on the House Judiciary Committee's impeachment inquiry staff during Watergate. She moved to Arkansas, married Bill Clinton in 1975 and became the first female partner at the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock.

Mars and Pluto sit almost exactly together in Leo in the third house, the area of speech and debate. Mars and Pluto together are associated with intense willpower and battles fought with words, and Leo adds pride and a need for a stage. Clinton's long public career was fought largely through hearings, debates and speeches.

As First Lady she led an ambitious effort to reform health care in 1993 and 1994, which failed in Congress. In 2000 she became the first First Lady elected to public office, winning a United States Senate seat from New York. She ran for president in 2008 and lost a close primary contest to Barack Obama, who then appointed her secretary of state.

Her Moon is in Pisces, in its last degrees, in the eleventh house of groups and hopes. A Pisces Moon is compassionate and absorbs the feelings of others, but it often keeps that sensitivity well hidden, especially in a chart dominated by Scorpio.

In 2016 she became the first woman nominated for president by a major American party. She won the popular vote by nearly three million votes but lost in the Electoral College to Donald Trump. The Scorpio planets in the sixth house kept her working through every setback; her birth time, at least, is no longer a mystery.