Bush became president thanks to the electoral college and the Supreme Court, the judges had been split 3-3. There was no conference in 2004, but in 2000, when Al Gore won the popular vote and George W. The society’s astrologers correctly predicted Obama’s win in 20. Astrology, on the other hand, relies on one snapshot of a specific time. She noted that polls rely on potentially changing attitudes. “Polls are sketchy,” according to conference-goer Sheri Horn Hasan, 58. Why would someone trust cosmic forces over scientific polling? “Maybe we astrologers are more powerful than we ever realized,” Shelley Ackerman told the crowd. The difficulty prompted the creation of a petition to request that Congress create a law requiring every future presidential candidate to submit a long-form birth certificate, down to the minute of arrival. Sign up for our free daily political newsletter » The Clinton campaign did not respond to a request for comment. Still, the society’s members used that time in their studies. He later retracted his confirmation in an interview with the Washington Post. has become the agreed-upon time astrologers used to make their predictions after astrologer Marc Penfield claimed to have confirmed it. But what time did she come into the world? Meanwhile, a different sort of birther controversy has erupted within the astrology community over Clinton’s precise time of birth. “I just don’t see that inauguration taking place,” she said, speculating the possibility of a health issue like the flu. I give it 100%,” she said.Ĭhristeen Skinner of London agreed with the rest, but noticed something in Clinton’s future that left her with one major doubt. Pointing to a vedic astrology chart, she believes her prediction will be right again.

astrologer Edith Hathaway correctly predicted Barack Obama’s win in 2008.

This time, using a chart tied to George Washington, his gut is with the Democrat. Six American astrologers echoed those predictions at a panel on Sunday, each calling the election for Clinton with a few weeks left before voters head to the polls.Īleksandar Imsiragic of Serbia had correctly predicted Trump would be the Republican nominee when 17 candidates were still in the mix. Unanimously, with varying levels of certainty, the astrologers predicted Clinton would win the presidency. One by one, six international astrologers from Canada, Turkey, the United Kingdom, Slovenia, Bosnia and the United States, cast their predictions on a twinkly lit stage beneath a cardboard moon.

“This is the election that nobody wants, but everyone wants to talk about,” society president Ray Merriman said while introducing a panel of international astrologers to a crowd clad in power beads, braids and colorful tunics.Ĭreedence Clearwater Revival’s “Bad Moon Rising” kicked off the first election discussion on Thursday, an appropriate song given October’s never-ending surprise.

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