Affinities: Roger Stone and Richard Nixon

What's with the love fest of Roger Stone and Richard Nixon? Why would Roger tattoo the image of the disgraced president on his back?

Richard Nixon famously said: "I am not a crook", while Stone labels himself as a "dirty trickster". Nixon has been shown to be a crook, but never proudly owned it. While Stone is more of a court jester, Nixon wanted to be king, and he was the most powerful man in the world, for a while. But he blew it by playing dirty.

 Why would Roger Stone worship such a man? Birds of the same feather? Perhaps. What psychological traits do they have in common? They were more than a generation apart in age and grew up in different circumstances. Can Astrology shed some light?

 While there are just 5 astrological signs they have in common, they share numerous aspects between the same planets. Many of the same energies are at play in both Stone and Nixon. These aspects are listed in the table below:

         Roger Stone:                                       Richard Nixon:

 Mercury square Mars                          Mercury conj. Mars
Mercury conj. Pluto                             Mercury opp. Pluto
Mercury square Jupiter                       Mercury opp. Jupiter
Mercury sextile Saturn                        Mercury quinc. Saturn
Mercury semisext. Uranus                  Mercury semisext. Uranus
Sun semisq. Neptune                           Sun opp. Neptune
Sun square Moon                                  Sun semisext. Moon
Moon square Pluto                               Moon trine Pluto
Mars sesq. Uranus                                Mars semisext. Uranus
Mars square Pluto                                Mars opp. Pluto
Uranus square Neptune                       Uranus opp.Neptune
Eris sesq. Pluto                                      Eris square Pluto
Pluto-Saturn-Neptune                          Pluto-Saturn-Neptune
Mercury-Mars-Jupiter                          Mercury-Mars-Jupiter
Sun-Uranus-Neptune                            Sun-Uranus-Neptune
Mercury-Neptune-Pluto                       Mercury-Neptune-Eris

 Mercury, the planet of thought, shows up several times in this comparison suggesting their patterns of thinking are very similar. Roger recognizes Nixon as a like mind. But it goes beyond the mind, with Sun, Moon, Mars and Eris also making connections. This becomes a fixation and Roger acknowledges it by having Nixon seared into his flesh.

 But which of these energies could account for their dirty tricks and criminality? One such energy is the Sun-Uranus-Neptune. It was described by Roger Elliot as "looking for wrong way out of problems". Another energy is Mercury-Neptune-Pluto/Eris. Elliot describes this energy as being "caught in wrong-headed, single-minded way of seeing life."To get the results and rewards they want they will push through forcefully, use deception (Neptune) and unusual justification (Uranus). 

 Astrological Natal Charts for Stone and Nixon are included below:
                                                  




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