What was Eliot Spitzer Thinking?

What is the answer to the question, ‘What was Eliot Spitzer thinking’ when he hired a prostitute after building his reputation prosecuting prostitution rings? Let’s take a closer look…

The whole premise of the value of astrology is that who we are is in our natal birth chart. I write and speak and teach this truism because nowhere else and from no one else can we know who we are except by looking at the quantum physics we brought with us at birth. Who you are and what you are capable of is in your natal astrological birth chart. I am a proponent and student of Kabbalah, most of all because the teachings of Kabbalah verify that the astrology of an individual shows not only one’s character and propensity for good and evil, but there is also a timing device connected to birth charts. Events happen to us when they are triggered by transits to our natal astrology.

Eliot Spitzer’s astrological birth chart clearly pictures without a doubt-backed by a preponderance of evidence, as her eminence Nancy Grace would bellow-has a predisposition to bizarre and unseemly sexual behavior. Is it not true that what we resist persists? Is it not true that he prosecuted a number of prostitution rings and yet the demon in him-the user of these prostitutes-raged within him? Would Bill Clinton have had a lifelong drive to act out with women, unsolicited and oftentimes overtly rebuked by them-if he did not have the same demon roaring and clanging and banging to get out of its cage? Would disgraced New Jersey Governor McGreevey have solicited a homosexual affair from someone on his staff if there was not that seductive, salacious nature hiding and waiting in his psyche to come destructively bounding out and creating resignation of his power position and divorcing his wife?

Do you want to know what all of these men have astrologically in common? They all three had a lot of Leo planets-which say ‘because I can’ to anything their dark side wants to do. As we say in 12 steps, ‘what price are you willing to pay and to what lengths are you willing to go.’ Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, these three unwise men need a 12-step program for Sex and Love Addiction more than they need to be Governors or a President.

When you hear all the pundits and psychiatrists and ministers weigh in remember that they are trying to figure out Eliot Spitzer’s behavior. As in all areas of life, I don’t look to government, religion, science or the currency of thought to know what I know. I look at the birth chart of a person, place or thing and although with events like presidential elections or sporting events there are a lot of factors to consider, the chart still gives me the best insights into who, what, when, where or why something like what had happened to Eliot Spitzer pops up. And by the way, former governor James McGreevey is a Leo and he resigned during the Leo cycle of the year.

What would I say to those of us whose demons are about to come roaring out of our libidos or unconscious into the light of day where everybody can see: seek counseling to tame the beast. Write about these deep and dangerous desires. Learn to pray for guidance to retrain the impulses. These parts of us that get out of hand and ruin our lives are the work of an ego lurking in the shadows. I am a big proponent as well of who and what the ego is. Unschooled and unmonitored and unredeemed the ego or our dark side-the part of us that thinks it is above the law-that someone else will be caught-that Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was a silly piece of fiction and not a reflection of your duality-can destroy us.

I had and still have a deep and abiding compassion for Eliot Spitzer when I read about what happened to him. I followed his rise to the highest office in New York, and I always felt that his ego was really the governor. Spitzer was always a bit too cocky and self-assured. He tore into Wall Street and others whom he suspected of malfeasance with the relish of a Genghis Khan or an Alexander the Great. Could it have been his own unknown and unexposed dark side that was lashing out at others to deflect the attention to his own corruption? You be the one to answer that by looking at your own devils and your own dark side.

I said a few weeks ago that Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, who wrote Death and Dying and was one of the founders of Hospice, said that any of us is capable of murder. Could our self-righteous selves convince us that we are above despicable sexual misconduct or stealing or lying under oath or perhaps even killing someone? Be careful. You better have an open dialogue with your ego and try to convert it to the touchstone it can be when redeemed.

Show some compassion. Pray for the Spitzers-he has a wife and three daughters. Love Eliot Spitzer, for he is your brother and in many ways represents your own dark side.