Astrology Explored

August 10, 2008

Why does everyone, including Rielle Hunter, seem to be in denial about who she is? For a woman who for many years was a “seeker of truth” and even started a production company purported to be “committed to projects that reveal truth” anything but seems to be spun about her story.

John Edwards denied his affair first, and continues to deny his paternity of the child of Rielle Hunter. Rielle Hunter parroted this lie repeatedly reportedly because she “loves John and will do anything to protect him.” Indeed this seems to be the case, since after John Edwards, cornered about his refusal to take a paternity test, agreed to one, now Ms. Hunter refuses to allow her daughter to participate. This even after members of her own family demanded a paternity test of Edwards.

Even Hunter’s former lover, who based a party chick character on the real life antics of Hunter in his well known book “Story of My Life”, seems to forget exactly when he hooked back up with her.

McInerney said he lost track of Hunter after she moved to California. He was unaware she had moved back to Manhattan and was making videos for the Edwards presidential campaign last year, before the supermarket tabloid reported she was the former North Carolina senator’s mistress.

But:

In 2005, McInerney and Hunter met in Manhattan and discussed those days [her days in New York in the 80's]. A transcript of the discussion ran in Breathe Magazine that year.

And one journalist writes:

At lunch at the Soho House in late spring of ‘07, Rielle told me that she and novelist Jay McInerney were working on a “genius” idea for a television show about women who help men get out of failing marriages by having affairs with them. She said they wanted to pitch this idea to Darren Star, creator of “Melrose Place” and “Sex and the City.”

So McInerney, far from losing track of her, met up with her in 2005 and batted ideas around with her in Spring of 2007 about a potential television series.

Even Edwards staffers came up to the plate with obfuscations. Andrew Young, former Campaign finance manager claims to be the baby daddy of Hunter’s child, though this revelation from a family oriented North Carolinian has hardly dented his relationship with his wife. At first, when Hunter was pregnant, he, Hunter and his family lived in the same gated community in North Carolina, then all of them trucked out to California, where Hunter had her baby. But no father was named on the child’s birth certificate.

Even Hunter’s Website “Being is Free”, on which she discusses her party days and her search for spiritual enlightenment was taken down sometime after the first National Enquirer article was published in October of 2007. Access to archived shots of the site is blocked. If the affair was over in 2006, and the child not Edwards, why bother?

So who is Rielle Hunter, and why do people feel the need to lie about their relationship with her? What can astrology tell us?

Rielle Hunter’s birthdate came from her daughter’s birth certificate, and her birthplace is cited as Fort Lauderdale. While her birth time is not known, her facial features, long, thin, triangular, with her eyes high on her face, straight nose, thin lipped, and long pointed chin, fairly screams “Aries Ascendant”. This would give her Jupiter in Aries on the Ascendant, a twelfth house Sun in Pisces and a third house Moon in Gemini. We see an individual with a fairly weak sense of self, driven by excess of impulsive actions. With her Venus, the planet of her value systems, in tension aspect to her Neptune, and that Neptune in harmonious energetic connection with her Mars/Sun combination she is an individual who overly romanticizes much, including the men in her life. With at least three planets in her twelfth house of self undoing and her Sun and Mars in Pisces, she is her own worst enemy, unable to see issues clearly. She reacts to outside stimulus rather than providing a reasoned response.

This is confirmed by one description of her life in the Eighties :

A former pal of Hunter’s confirms her partying past saying she used to hang out at Nell’s nightclub where there was a big drug scene.

“She is one of millions of other girls, not smart enough to make it as a writer, not pretty enough to model or act.

“She was average in every way, except for her drugs and whacked-out sense of truth,” the friend said.

Her eighth house cusp is Scorpio, which demonstrates an interest in astrology, but she would not make her living at it. She shares no features demonstrated by professional astrologers, as indicated by a study by astrology researcher Terri McCartney. One journalist mentions that she let Rielle “do his chart”, so she can cast astrology charts. During her marriage in the nineties to lawyer Alexander M. Hunter, III, she tried her hand at screen and stage writing, with many of her titles based on astrological themes such as Jupiter, Where Are You?, So Very Virgo, Reality Reels, It’s All About Uranus. We can infer from all this that has a some proficiency with astrology and its complicated concepts.

After her divorce she spent the next four years in spiritual retreats until she tired of it. She says of those years,

she found spiritual enlightenment and gave up drugs and partying after moving to Los Angeles, admitting on her Web site, “I was in a state of ecstasy for about a week and realized what I was looking for, in terms of medication, was inside of me; it was a higher bliss.

“With that clearing, all desire for drugs or alcohol vanished. I became sober overnight.
“And then I became a spiritual seeker, addicted to a higher consciousness, addicted to enlightenment.”

And

Her purpose on this Earth, she said, was to help raise awareness . . ., to help the unenlightened become better reflections of their true, repressed selves.

Does that not describe to a “T” a twelfth house Pisces sun?

So we have a portrait of a woman who believes herself to be a “seeker of truth” and a teacher, verified both by astrology and her historical past, that is essentially directionless. Her “seeker of truth” persona is nullified by her illicit involvement with a married public figure, who only admitted this affair until it was no longer plausible to deny it. Far from being clear about her motives and desires, she fell into a relationship that was forbidden by society’s standards and should have been proscribed by her own “enlightenment”. Instead she fell into a Plutonic relationship, an addiction of its own, and managed to damage the career of a man she claims to love.

As someone who is knowledgeable about astrology, she should have realized that Edward’s Pluto in stress aspect to her Sun would come to no good end. (see chart below) or that with his planet of sexual drive, Mars, sitting on her Moon square Mars combination, the relationship was all about sex. Not a drop of “love” in it. With such a lack of self awareness about her own internal drives and the effect they have on other people it is no wonder that other people scramble to minimize or deny their relationship with her. Unfortunately, until she really wakes up, she is a train wreck waiting to happen in anyone’s life.

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Note: Hunter's birth time is speculative