The Return of Al Gore

Al Gore was born on March 31, 1948 at 12:53 p.m. in Washington, D.C.  You may not believe my opening salvos about Al Gore, former U.S. Senator, former Vice-President, former Democratic Candidate for President of the United States, Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Oscar Winner, distant cousin to Gore Vidal, son of former U.S. Senator, Albert Gore, Sr., and husband of Tipper Gore and father of a brood of four from Tennessee, but this tiny terror from Tennessee is a dynamo and a go-getter! He’s so mean he could wrestle Alabama football coach legend Bear Bryant’s bear for supremacy and whip the competition with one hand tied behind his back.

If he is so tough and indomitable, how did he lose the Presidency of the United States in 2000? Remember those hanging chads in Florida and the outrage that many of us felt that Al Gore was “robbed”? He might be tougher than he looks or acts, but the mean-spirited, ‘win at any cost’ mentality of the Karl Rove Republican Party steamroller would prove too much for even the fair and balanced Almighty. Karl Rove is evil to the core, but can you believe that television wants to hear from him when his dirty handiwork of the recent past screams from the battlefields of Iraq and malfeasance in the Oval Office? I can. I know a lot about television and how it mind controls.

Al Gore has his Sun Sign in Aries, Pluto, Saturn and Mars in Leo and Jupiter in Sagittarius-five planets, half of his chart in FIRE. Fire means that he is passionate and enthusiastic; that he has the mojo to do anything and everything as long as he is the long distance runner. But when his son was hit by a car while going to a baseball game with Al in April, 1989, there was an intensive shift to ‘family matters’ through a lot of counseling as his son had long and arduous physical therapy to be able to recover. During his son’s rehabilitation, Gore wrote his best-seller, Earth in the Balance. Bill Clinton chose him as his running mate in 1992 and Gore served as Vice-President to Clinton’s President for eight years. And then defeat snatched from the jaws of victory sent him into his cave of self-reflection.

What verifies or disputes the reputation that Al Gore has for being stiff and slow to respond to questions? I have said a million times that you have to look at the whole chart to analyze and make determinations about who someone really is. In some sectors of the birth chart there could be invincibility and blessings from on high; in other parts, struggle and disappointment.

Al Gore has the Moon at 3 degrees of Capricorn-which makes him slow and deliberate and oftentimes when he speaks, he misspeaks. Capricorn is the tortoise in the race of life; slow, but often finishes what others start. Speaking of not finishing things, he is an Aries, famous for the loud and resounding “ta da” and then fizzles or runs to the next thrill in the big top.

But Gore has those three Leo planets in a close trine to his 10 degree Sun. He has proved in the last four years that he is not finished yet-he may be getting his second wind (or win). He has Venus in Taurus-loyal to a fault-we saw that in his allegiance to the Clintons. Remember how poorly they supported him in 2000? Their collective charts show that they are incapable of supporting anyone but themselves. It’s all about the Clintons.

Mercury in Pisces-Mercury is in its detriment here-he can dream but more often we can not live in his air castles. He has Mars in Leo square his Venus-at deep levels he compares himself to that powerful father and was always in the shadow of the “bigger than life” personality and show dog persona of Bill Clinton. Al Gore is definitely insecure about how people perceive him. When he became the father of global warming and show cased the threat to existence itself through environmental suicide, he found his calling, because the klieg light shifted from him as a person onto all of us as caretakers or abusers of the Planet Earth.

His Jupiter in Sagittarius (that sign’s ruling planet by the way) makes him optimistic and hopeful no matter how late in the game is out world and no matter how much turnaround we all have to make, Al Gore is a rousing cheerleader for change.

Don’t be surprised if Barack Obama chooses Al Gore to be his running mate. Yesterday Obama chose the former head of the Hillary Clinton campaign to be one of the three who vets his short list of possible contenders for Vice-President of the United States. Al Gore is not done. Now that the Clintons are done-over and out-Al Gore is still standing. Three cheers for Al Gore. Rah! Rah! Rah!

Albert Clayton Gaulden can be reached at info@sedonaintensive.com  or visit http://www.sedonaintensive.com/ for more information.