Farewell to Joerg Haider, Austrian far-right politician and governor of Carinthia, who today died in a car accident. Both his parents were former Nazi sympathisers, and he himself had some good words for Hitler’s regime.
Like Nazi Germany, Joerg Haider was an Aquarian. Yes, types of government can have star signs, and because Hitler came to power on January 30 1933 Nazi Gemini comes under the sign Aquarius.
As astrologers increasingly realise, there’s nothing fluffy or sentimental about the sign Aquarius. It’s ruled by the sign Saturn, and it can have a cold brutality to it. And it often doesn’t care about mainstream political opinion. Aquarians have their own way of looking at the world, and if other people don’t agree that’s their problem.
Having looked at Joerg Haider’s horoscope, he was a man who wore his Karma on his sleeve. He had Mars, the planet of aggression, conjunct the South Node of the Moon, in Libra. In astrology the South Node is the line of least resistance, and as he lead his life, conflict must have seemed the easiest option.
The silliest manifestation of this, in his younger days, was using a straw doll for fencing practice – which had Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal’s name pinned to it. Libra represents populism, sometimes using fear and stereotypes to gain political support. In other words appealing to the electorate’s latent xenophobia is the lazy way of making it in politics.
We can then see Joerg Haider’s soul coming into the world on January 26 1950 full of anger and rage, and perhaps being disappointed that the opportunities in post war Austria for fighting real-life battles, with swords, guns and bullets, was zero. So the aggression got channelled into politics.
As far as his death was concerned, he was running into his second Saturn Return. Saturn has a twenty-nine year cycle, so fifty-eight can be a critical age. One has to deal with the consequences of one’s actions, good and bad, and very often the Saturn Return can be an ending.
In Haider’s Indian horoscope, Saturn is ruler of his Eighth House of death. It’s in the Indian Third House, and the Third House is connected with short journeys. So death in a car accident fits the bill – apparently he overtook another car, lost control and crashed into a concrete block.
And I should say, that using Indian astrology the period from December 2007 through to July 2010 was always going to be very dangerous, and it’s not surprising that he died when he did. His fifty-eight year journey was over, it was time for him to move on, to face new challenges.
