Getting Started with the Idea
So, the other day, JD Vance popped into my head. You know how it is, you hear a name a few times, and then curiosity just takes over. I thought, “Hmm, I wonder what his stars look like.” Not in a super serious way, more like a little side project, something to tinker with, you know?
The Hunt for Data
First thing, of course, is getting the birth info. This part can be a real pain, let me tell you. Especially for folks in the public eye. You find one date here, another there, and times? Forget about it sometimes, it’s like searching for a needle in a haystack. I spent a good chunk of time digging around, trying to find something that felt, you know, reasonably solid. You sort of cross-reference a few sources you vaguely trust, hope for the best. It’s never gonna be 100% unless they flat out tell you themselves, but you do what you can, right?
Firing Up the Tools
Once I had something I was willing to work with, even if it wasn’t perfect, I pulled up my usual software. It’s nothing fancy, just a program I’ve used for ages. It gets the job done, most of the time. I punched in the details I’d managed to scrape together – the date, the time (the best guess I had, anyway, which is always a bit iffy), and the place. Then you hit ‘calculate’ and wait for that wheel, the chart itself, to pop up on the screen.
First Look at the Chart
And there it was. The chart. First glance, a few things usually jump out at you, catch your eye. For Vance, I remember noticing a particular cluster of planets all bunched up in one area. You see that, and you immediately think, “Okay, that’s a lot of energy focused right there.” Doesn’t tell you the whole story, not by a long shot, but it’s like the headline on a newspaper page.
I also took a quick peek at the Ascendant and the Moon. Those are always my next go-tos. They give you a quick feel for things, the outward persona someone projects and then the inner emotional world, the stuff under the surface. It’s like looking at the cover of a book and then flipping to a random, usually more revealing, page inside.
Digging a Little (Not Too Deep)
I’m not one to get bogged down in every tiny little detail, especially when I’m just satisfying a bit of curiosity like this. That can take days! But I did look at some of the major aspects, you know, how the planets are supposedly talking to each other. Are they getting along, making things easy? Are they having a big old argument, making things tough? That kind of stuff. It’s more art than science sometimes, just feeling out the patterns you see.
- Checked out where his Sun was, naturally. That’s the core ego, the main identity, right? Basic stuff.
- Then Mercury, how he communicates, how he thinks. Always interesting for a public figure, someone who talks for a living.
- And Mars, the drive, the ambition, the get-up-and-go. You gotta look at Mars, see where the fire is.
I spent a little while just looking at these main points, letting them sink in. It’s like putting pieces of a puzzle together, but you don’t have the picture on the box, just the pieces themselves, and you’re trying to see what kind of image emerges.
Final Thoughts on the Exercise
Overall, it was an interesting little exercise, kept me busy for a bit. Doing these charts, for me, isn’t about predicting the future or anything wild like that. It’s more about seeing a different kind of map of a person. A symbolic one, if you will. Whether it lines up with what you see in the news or hear from others, well, that’s always the fascinating part, isn’t it? Sometimes it clicks, and you go “aha!”, other times it makes you scratch your head and wonder. This time? It definitely gave me a few things to chew on. Just another afternoon spent poking around with my hobby. Nothing revolutionary, just the usual process I go through when a name sparks my interest and I decide to see what the symbols say.