Sarah Palin’s Birth Time Discovered
Tonight a friend and reader of the Political Astrology Blog sent in a tip which directed us to an article that mentions former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s birth time.
The article is from the Winter 2009 issue of Sandpoint Magazine, and it can be accessed online here. The magazine covers local news related to the city of Sandpoint, Idaho, which, of course, is where Sarah Palin was born.
The article itself is a somewhat short biographical piece on Palin, written by a local author named Sandy Compton who appears to have done a number of interviews during the process.
A few paragraphs in it gives an account of the circumstances surrounding Palin’s birth, including the time that she was born.
According to the article, Sarah Palin was born at 6:00 PM.
Here is the relevant section from the article:
That evening at 6 p.m., Dr. Helen Peterson, Sandpoint’s first female general practitioner/surgeon, delivered a 7-pound, 11-ounce baby girl.
This appears to be a rounded time, and while it may derive from the birth certificate, it could also simply be based on someone’s recollection, and so it is not entirely trustworthy.
Conflict With Other Birth Times Reported
Note that the birth time listed above conflicts with the two times listed by Astro-Databank. The second time, reported by Gregg DeLaCastro as 4:40:07 PM, appears to be entirely baseless (a nonexistent Wikipedia entry), and can safely be ignored.
The first time listed, 9:43 PM, was apparently reported by someone named Thor based on some source on a mailing list. Purportedly it was derived from a local records office through unspecified means, although since a birth certificate was never produced, it also comes off as just as baseless as the other time listed.
What all of this means is basically that this 6:00 PM time is probably the most accurate approximation of Palin’s actual birth time that anyone has come up with yet. Certainly it is the only one that appears to have a documented source – although again, I hasten to add that the source is not necessarily the birth certificate, and thus the time may only be an approximation.
Sarah Palin’s Birth Chart
The 6:00 PM birth time gives Palin early Virgo rising. This is somewhat problematic since, if this is only an approximate birth time, she could have been born slightly earlier, which would give her a different rising sign. In fact, if Palin was born about 23 minutes earlier, or before 5:37 PM, then her ascendant would be in Leo. Nonetheless, here is the 6:00 PM birth chart with Virgo rising:
Sarah Palin – Born February 11, 1964 in Sandpoint, Idaho at 6:00 PM
Big thanks to Renee Quesada from the Myspace group for the tip on Palin’s birth time.
- Update – December 23, 2009: Patrick Watson found more information on the source for the data: “The article was not written by Sandy Compton as it said on the site. And, Sandy Compton is NOT female. Instead the article was written by Marianne Love. My question was forwarded to Marianne Love and she said she got the story from a birth notice in the Sandpoint News Bulletin, which she looked at in the Bonner County Museum. Regardless, 6 pm is what it says in the newspaper. Until we get to see the actual birth certificate, we can’t be sure if 6 pm is anecdotal or rounded up or down.”
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OMG Algol on the MC! (Not that I would ever draw conclusions from a single factor, oh no.)
Sarah Palin’s Birth Time Discovered « The Political Astrology Blog…
A friend and reader of the Political Astrology Blog sent in a tip, directing us to an article that mentions former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s birth time….
This gives her a 4+ Virgo rising chart. Guess who has the Sun at 6+ Virgo? John McCain. 6 pm gives Palin 4+ Virgo Rising. Todd Palin has a stellium in Virgo, starting with Mercury at 5+ Virgo.
This is nifty: Sarah Palin was offered the VP spot on 8/27/08 roughly around 10 am (definitely in the morning in Sedona, no earlier than around 8:45 am). Where was the Sun at that time? 4.46 Virgo. Look at it in sidereal (lahiri): her 6 pm ASC is 10.46 Leo. The transiting Sun was at 10.48 Leo in sidereal. That could suggest that she really is born right around 6 pm, but it’s just one nifty thing.
The Virgo Rising would comport well with how she always seems to have her enemies and competitors, and how she was a local sports hero. That’s because all the Aquarius would be in the 6th house. 6th=enemies, competitors, and thus sometimes sports also. She always has issues getting along with even her allies in the Repub-party. 6th house commonly gives problems with co-workers and so on.
I’m not necessarily convinced, but my first instinct is that the Virgo ASC makes sense, and this is one the ASCs I suspected before this. Her appearance is also neat, clinical, professional, wearing glasses, wearing her hair up. Her m.o. is to be this very critical (“I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities.”) humble, small-town girl, who is also very spunky and aggressive (all her Aquarius in the 6th house).
so i hear that a lot of women are repelled by sarah palin. anything stand out to you in the chart that might explain that?
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Isn’t it interesting that not only is Obama’s natal Pluto at 6 Virgo 57 conjunct McCain’s Sun (and also sextile his natal Neptune) but also, if this is Sarah’s correct birth-time, his Pluto is conjunct her Ascendant.
When I check up on the time that Sarah was born, another blog indicated that she was born at 4:20 pm in Standpoint, Idaho. THis to me made more sense because of the Leo Rising. the sun, mars and saturn was in the seventh house of relationships. She definitely has this charisma that Leo would definitely express.
At this point I’m not terribly impressed by the statements I’ve heard for how Palin ‘comes off as’ Leo rising. I think many of the same characteristics that people are associating with Leo rising could also be ascribed to simply having a close Sun-Mars conjunction in Aquarius. The ascendant is close enough to the cusp that it could certainly go either way though.