Lindsey Graham who died suddenly after a trip to Ukraine where he was hopeful that pressure on Russia would end the war was a latter day supporter of Trump as Republican senator for South Carolina. In 2015 mounting his own campaign for the US presidency, he denounced Trump as a “race-baiting, xenophobic religious bigot”; and criticised his role in the January 6 Capitol Hill attack. But he nonetheless became a firm ally and helped persuade the White House to launch a full-scale war with Iran. His ultra-hawkish, interventionist stance on US foreign policy also led him previously to be a firm advocate for G.W.Bush’s Iraq invasion.
He was born on July 9 1955, no birth time, in South Carolina to a blue-collar family. When his parents died in his twenties he raised his much younger sister, while attending university and training for the US military.
He had a stellium in Cancer ranging from Venus to his Sun and a late degree Uranus Mars conjunction; with a Pisces Moon. His Sun was trine a conscientious Saturn in Scorpio. His volatile, excitable Mars Uranus was in a highly-strung, dogmatic square to Neptune. And his Mercury in Gemini trine Neptune was sextile Pluto making him a forceful communicator.
Puzzling over his flip flop approach to Trump – odd thoughts. One is that Cancer is tuned into the public pulse of the moment so although he wasn’t very Mutable he might well have opted to go the way the political wind was blowing. Mercury trine Neptune can be evasive if not downright duplicitous.
His Sagittarius North Node would also make him chameleon-like – his Gemini South Node giving him problems with loyalty and a tendency to be used by others if it suited his purpose.
His Mars Uranus would incline him towards dramatic even violent interventions.
Three of his Saturn midpoints have been triggered or are about to be this year which might suggest that karma was at work. He strayed too far from his Sagittarius North Node which needs to seek higher knowledge.
Houses will make a considerable difference.
His relationship chart with Trump was extremely odd for a pair who appeared to be allies. There was a differing-agendas composite Sun, Uranus, Mercury conjunction; a power-struggling composite Mars Pluto conjunction; and a Jupiter Saturn conjunction. The Uranus hinted at incompatibility but the toxic Mars Pluto pointed to total submission being the only remedy. Jupiter Saturn? – luck first followed by a price to pay for bad choices. That is not so much an anti-Trump thought, more that he went against his own inclinations and sold his soul for ambition.
Graham’s Pluto was conjunct DT’s Mars and his Mars Uranus was conjunct DT’s Saturn Venus.
It was a mess of a relationship.
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