Huey Long was a left-wing populist Democrat politician in Louisiana, prominent during the Great Depression until his assassination in 1935. A controversial figure, he is celebrated as a populist champion of the poor or denounced as a fascist demagogue, accused of being unconstitutional and authoritarian. His biographer Thomas O. Harris saw him as “neither saint nor devil, he was a complex and heterogenous mixture of good and bad, genius and craft, hypocrisy and candor, buffoonery and seriousness”. After his death Roosevelt adopted many of his proposals in the Second New Deal.
He was born 30 August 1893 4.15 am, worked as a traveling salesman, he ultimately became an attorney, often representing poor plaintiffs and prosecuting large corporations such as Standard Oil. Chief Justice William Howard Taft praised him as “the most brilliant lawyer who ever practiced before the United States Supreme Court”. He went on to become Governor of Louisiana and then Senator. His regime there was described as “the closest thing to a dictatorship that America has ever known”. He was impeached in 1929 for abuses of power, but the proceedings collapsed in the State Senate. His assassin was the son of a political rival.
His policies included Share Our Wealth plan, advocating massive federal spending, a wealth tax, and wealth redistribution.
He had a hard-working, go-ahead 1st house Sun Mars in Virgo below a flashy, attention-attracting Leo Ascendant square a lucky, successful Jupiter in his career 10th. But what stamped his personality was the generational Neptune Pluto conjunct in Gemini, often a signature of megalomaniacs. It was heavily aspected being square his Sun Mars and trine Venus Saturn in Libra as well as sextile his Aries Moon in the 9th house of legal matters and widescale communication. His Moon opposed Saturn and Venus and trine Mercury in flamboyant Leo on his Ascendant.
With Mercury in Leo leading the way he was never going to be understated and backed up by an uber-determined and ruthless Mars Sun square Pluto Neptune he would crash through niceties to get what he wanted.
After his death Roosevelt’s close economic advisor Rexford Tugwell wrote that, “When he was gone it seemed that a beneficent peace had fallen on the land” and said that Roosevelt regarded Long’s assassination as a “providential occurrence”.
Huey Long was a threat to FDR in the 1936 election, as an alternative Democrat vying for the nomination or more likely an independent candidate. Roosevelt’s first term, although many reforms had been adopted, was not successful in pulling the country out of the Depression, hence the attraction of Huey Long. FDR may have lost if Long had lived because he could have split the Democratic vote and allowed the Republicans to win.
It is astonishing how many politicians have Leo Sun or ascendant. Trump asc, Obama, Sun, Bush, asc, Clinton Sun just to name a few,
Politics is showbusiness for ugly people – as someone once remarked. Apart from Obama who is good looking,
This is hilarious. I just had a good laugh … show biz for ugly people 😉
Former Prime Ministers David Cameron and Theresa May have stelliums in Ĺeo too.
Sign of royalty which modern times has government and what else is royalty if not politics: from family dynamica for power to ministers to become Kings closest to servants spying for Queens etc.
Leos r naturally gifted in politics..just that popular myth gives them dramatics and loud lives but then that’s too politics to gain audience ,the King who pays ..pleasing
Post Huey long’s Age Harmonic for date of assination and superimpose it upon his natal
chart. Harmonic MH conj 8th cusp exactly. Harmonic Chiron conjuncts natal Nodal
axis, fatal. . Harmonic Age Saturn , 22Cn, squares the natal Nodal Axis. Saturn is
at the bendings, square these nodes. gives fatality.
As in JFK’s biwheel the number 22 shows up giving “to kill, to die”
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