Why not consult stars on Nov. 2?

  • By Jerry Cornfield
  • Saturday, October 30, 2004 9:00pm
  • Local News

Christine Gregoire or Dino Rossi will be our next governor.

Thanks to the end of daylight-saving time, I gained an extra hour to ponder what we know – and don’t know – about these two.

We know who’s backing them and who’s funding them. We’ve researched their political records, read their policy plans, heard their campaign speeches and watched their creative commercials.

But I’m stuck at the corner of Hyperbole Avenue and Promise Way, unsure which way this state will turn.

Maybe this never-before-shared information about both of them will help.

They’re pigs.

Christine Gregoire is a Pig. Dino Rossi is a Pig. And, by the way, I am a Pig, too.

We all share the 12th and last sign of the Chinese zodiac.

Pigs make good leaders. The Dalai Lama is a Pig, and Ronald Reagan was one, too.

Reading Chinese astrologist Shelly Wu’s Web site, I discovered that those with Pig souls are gentle, strong-willed and motivated by conscience. They do not push themselves ahead at the cost of another. I can see a little of that in each candidate.

I also learned from Wu that not all Pigs are alike. Gregoire, born March 24, 1947, is a Fire Pig. Rossi, born Oct. 15, 1959, is an Earth Pig.

The nature of the Fire Pig is “to urge outcome, to resolve,” she writes. These folks “display above-average qualities of leadership, passion and dynamic aggression.” They are doers and their energy “arouses, changes and converts.”

Earth Pigs have “exceptional practical powers,” are “effective masterminds and creative executives.” They are “serious and methodical in manner,” tend to be “conservative by nature and rarely exaggerate findings, calculations and expectations.”

I checked their key organs. For Fire Pigs it’s the heart and small intestine, and their personal flavor is bitter. For Earth Pigs, it’s the spleen and the stomach, and their flavor is sweet.

This discovery spurred me on to another investigation. How were the stars and planets aligned at their birth? What might that mean for the future of Washington?

On this point, I obtained a detailed astrological analysis from Camano Island’s Teresa Frost. Here are some highlights:

Gregoire’s Aries sun and Aries moon makes her a “go-getter, a pioneer,” and her moon in Taurus gives her an “emotional habit” of “mastering what has not been done before.” What she values, as seen through Venus in the sign of Aquarius, is to “improve conditions for society.”

Rossi’s sun in Libra makes him consider the needs of the one he’s with. His moon in Aries gives him an “emotional habit of wanting his own way” while making the other person feel special. His values, as seen through Venus, are found in Virgo, “the sign of organization, perfection and health issues.”

That may take a bit of deciphering. While you do that, I’m off to pick up my Halloween mask.

I’ll be the Undecided Pig Voter.

Reporter Jerry Cornfield’s column on politics runs every Sunday. He can be heard at 7 a.m. Monday on the “Morning Show” on KSER (90.7 FM). He can be reached at 360-352-8623 or jcornfield@heraldnet.com.

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