Gary Johnson – mountaineering, marijuana salesman and dull

GJGJ bid

 

Gary Johnson, former Governor of New Mexico and self-made millionaire, is running for President as a Libertarian he did in 2012. The Libertarian Party stands for a radically smaller and less powerful federal government and is pro-abortion rights and same-sex marriage equality. In 2012 he got less than 1% of the vote, but is now polling in double digits in some places, though his aggregate of 8% is way below the 15% needed to appear in a national debate with Clinton and Trump.

He’s an extreme athlete who has scaled Everest and was until recently director and CEO of a marijuana marketing and packaging company. Despite his CV he seems to lack charisma being described as about “as telegenic as an educational film about the metric system.”

Born 1 January 1953 Minot, North Dakota (no birth time) he’s an ambitious Sun Capricorn in a quirky opposition to maverick, so an outsider by temperament. His Sun is in a confident trine to Jupiter in money-minded Taurus. His Pluto is trine Mercury in Sagittarius, opposition Venus in Aquarius (conjunct Mars in Pisces), and sextile Saturn Neptune in Libra. Although he’ll be persuasive, too much Pluto can also muffle a personality, making him overly controlled.

There’s nothing much of help from his chart without birth time. He’s got tr Saturn square his Solar Arc Sun exactly at the election which isn’t positive.

He’s not an intuitive fit for the USA since his Uranus is conjunct the US Cancer Sun squaring the US Saturn in Libra – so unless the country is in the mood for a total upheaval, he won’t be in with a chance.

He announced his bid on 6 Jan 2016 on Fox Business at 8.11am New York (I think). This gives a hidden 12th house Sun Pluto trine an 8th house Jupiter, sextile a Scorpio MC and square a 3rd house Uranus; with Uranus trine Saturn – certainly top marks for perseverance and marking out a new path, but it looks too behind-the-scenes to be a winner.

Third party candidates tend to do better across the summer and then fall away. But with everything up in the air at the moment, anything’s possible. He won’t appeal to Republicans because of some of his views or to disgruntled Democrats because of others. After Ralph Nader’s votes unwittingly helped GWB win in 2000, there’ll be a reluctance to vote away from the main parties.

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