Early in the year 2016 there were
several surveys done in order to predict the outcome of the elections for the
year. Earlier in late 2015, a journalist wrote me asking for an astrological
prediction, but I told her that my efforts are merely to compute charts and the
interpretations are the forte of my wife. Nevertheless I did what she asked. At
the time, one of the personalities, Rodrigo Duterte, had not yet withdrawn from
the race. He got back later after learning that a Filipina, Mrs Grace
Poe-Llamanzares, had withdrawn her “loyalty” from the US and was authorized by
the Philippine Supreme Court to run despite her disqualification by the Commission
on Elections. The decision was made final by the SC in early April 2016 despite
several attempts to disqualify her based on the conditions stated by the
Philippine Constitution regarding foundlings and residences in the country.
A friend of my wife, Mr. Jon Hermosisima,
from the Theosophical Society in the Philippines, a serious supporter of
Duterte, asked that we lecture about astrological forecasting for his group,
concentrating on the chart of his personality. Unfortunately, me and my wife
ran out of time and could not discuss fully Duterte’s life based on his chart.
By the way, my wife was impressed by what the chart said and had supported him
in the race although it was the only chart I computed and not for the others.
The persons supporting Duterte who attended our lectures nevertheless copied my
wife’s report in their own presentation.
As of February 5-7, 2016, the Social
Weather Station reported that the Number One spot at 29 percent was held by
Jejomar Binay; Duterte and Grace Poe had tied at 24, while Mar Roxas got 18. On
the other hand, for the Vice-presidency, Escudero and Bongbong Marcos tied at
26 percent while Leni Robredo at 19 and Alan Cayetano at 16. Other surveys
later have Duterte overtaking the Number One position.
In the meanwhile, an astrologer friend
of my wife, Mr. Resti Santiago, cast an Ingress chart or entry of the Sun in 0
Aries on the Ecliptic for the Philippines and said that this represents also
the outcome of the 2016 Elections to be held in May of the same year. The time
is “exact” and is noted to be at 12:30:13 p.m. or at noon in the Philippines. Notably,
the chart had several “beneficial” positions called “trines” and involved the
Sun and some of the major planets. He particularly showed that the planets
Venus and Neptune (both in the Ninth House and close together) are in “good/trine”
positions with the Rising Sign or Ascendant, which represents the People. The
Ninth House, by the way, is supposed to mean “foreign affairs” or those related
to foreign subjects or matters.
However, the chart also had the
“difficult” ones called “squares”. The positions being targeted by these
squares are the trines; such that Venus in the Ninth House squares Mars in the
Fifth House and opposes Jupiter in the Third; Jupiter squares Saturn in the
Sixth, while Uranus in the Ninth squares Pluto in the Seventh. I ventured to
note that the square between Uranus and Pluto seems to indicate “unwanted”
changes, particularly the Tenth House (government) and the Seventh House (partnership).
On the other hand, one can interpret the Seventh House as “the people”.
I have written several times that I am
not really an astrologer but love to dabble in it for the computational aspects
involved. Thus, for my own purposes I computed the chart for the announcement
of the results of the 2016 Elections, and timed it at 6 o’clock in the evening
of May 9. I found that my chart has a Grand Trine or a good triangle involving
the Sun, Jupiter, Mercury, Venus and Pluto. However, this is offset by the
squares involving Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune. I will not dare state the
positions in the chart although I computed it for an exact time. I think their
positions really do not change much although I have not included the Rising
Sign and the apex or Midheaven for the chart. Later, I moved to another method
and computed for the entire date of the Elections in May 2016.
While Resti claimed that his Ingress chart
of March 20 indicates the outcome without saying who wins, my effort is aimed at
computing who prevails in the May 9 Elections. Eventually Resti will translate
his chart in order to determine the winner.
In my case, the other procedure involves
the utilization and comparison of all the charts of the personalities involved
in the process. Thus, I have the charts of Binay, Rod Duterte, Grace Poe, Mar Roxas
and Miriam Santiago for the position of President, and Gringo Honasan, Alan Cayetano,
Chiz Escudero, Leni Robredo, Bongbong Marcos, plus Trillanes for
Vice-President. I have included Trillanes who is running without a presidential
candidate although the record shows that he is running with the late Roy
Seneres. My effort consisted of having
the whole day of the May 9 Elections compared with everyone of the
personalities involved. In effect, I tried to determine how the movements of
the planets from Mercury up to Pluto affect each of the astrological charts of
the contestants. Thus, I had to count the number of “hits” each of their birth
planets got from those in the heavens that were passing at the time. I did not
compute any chart for the announcement of the outcome but relied on the
movement of the planets during one particular day on May 9, 2016.
For those who can compute based on
various ephemerides, the table below shows the personal data on the
personalities running in the 2016 Elections. Since most of them do not have any
time of birth, except for a few that were mentioned by sources, all are
computed as if they were born at noon on the date mentioned.
JEJOMAR BINAY
|
11-Nov
|
1942
|
Manila
|
RODRIGO DUTERTE
|
29-Mar
|
1945
|
Maasin
|
MIRIAM SANTIAGO
|
15-Jun
|
1945
|
Iloilo
|
MANUEL ROXAS II
|
13-May
|
1967
|
Quezon City
|
GRACE POE-LLAMANZARES
|
3-Sep
|
1968
|
Iloilo
|
|
|
|
|
GREGORIO HONASAN
|
14-Mar
|
1948
|
Baguio
|
FERDINAND MARCOS JR
|
13-Sep
|
1957
|
Manila
|
LEONOR GERONA-ROBREDO
|
23-Apr
|
1965
|
Naga
|
FRANCISCO ESCUDERO
|
10-Oct
|
1969
|
Manila
|
ALAN PETER CAYETANO
|
28-Oct
|
1970
|
Mandaluyong
|
ANTONIO TRILLANES III
|
5-Aug
|
1971
|
Manila
|
Without the gobbledygook of astrology,
the outcomes of my procedure in terms of percentages in the last column are
shown in the chart below. (For those still interested, the red columns are: opp for opposition; squ for square; inc for
inconjunction and ssq for
sesquiquadrate to indicate the difficult positions. The blue ones: tri for trine, sxt for
sextile and ssx for semisextile, are
the good ones. The black one – conj --
is the conjunction or the planets are together. All the positions are weighted
in order to show their values. For instance, the conjunctions are given the weights of 5, and the succeeding
positions have lesser weights – from 4 to 1 -- although all are positive, both
“good” and “bad”.)
The figures under in the columns are the
number or frequencies of a particular point or aspect multiplied by their
respective weights. These are normalized so as to be part of a percentage for
the whole. For purposes of wins, the ones under the red columns are not counted
since these are against the personality; only the black and the blue columns
are part of the percentages. Passages of the planets to the Rising Signs and
the Midheavens are not included since all personalities will have similar
counts under the conj and opp columns.
CANDIDATE
|
OPP
|
SQU
|
INC
|
SSQ
|
CONJ
|
TRI
|
SXT
|
SSX
|
%
|
BINAY
|
0
|
3
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
3
|
0
|
5%
|
DUTERTE
|
0
|
0
|
4
|
2
|
0
|
8
|
6
|
2
|
29%
|
POE
|
4
|
6
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
4
|
0
|
4
|
14%
|
ROXAS
|
8
|
3
|
4
|
0
|
5
|
4
|
6
|
4
|
34%
|
SANTIAGO
|
4
|
3
|
4
|
1
|
0
|
4
|
6
|
0
|
18%
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
100%
|
|
OPP
|
SQU
|
INC
|
SSQ
|
CONJ
|
TRI
|
SXT
|
SSX
|
|
HONASAN
|
0
|
3
|
0
|
2
|
0
|
0
|
6
|
10
|
16%
|
CAYETANO
|
0
|
3
|
0
|
2
|
5
|
4
|
6
|
4
|
20%
|
ESCUDERO
|
0
|
6
|
2
|
2
|
0
|
8
|
6
|
2
|
16%
|
ROBREDO
|
16
|
9
|
0
|
2
|
5
|
4
|
3
|
2
|
14%
|
MARCOS
|
4
|
6
|
2
|
1
|
10
|
8
|
3
|
4
|
26%
|
TRILLANES
|
4
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
3
|
4
|
7%
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
100%
|
The
computations show that the winners are the blue ones or Mar Roxas for President
and Bongbong Marcos for Vice President. The “wish” of Duterte to have Cayetano
as his Vice-President seems to be fulfilled. However, for being too “close”,
there is the possibility of Bongbong Marcos and Cayetano filing “objections” to
the results.
The discussions above assume that the
readers know the personalities involve. For those who only know the names, the
following give some of the information received by the author:
JEJOMAR BINAY – he was able to impress
the late President Corazon Aquino in the year 1986 when the late President
Ferdinand Marcos was overthrown by a “peaceful people power”. He was made head
of Makati City and from there he was able to nurture a political dynasty and
made the city as a model with the help of wealthy businessmen. Although of a
different political party, he became the vice-president of the current
president who is the son of the late President Aquino. Even as his family alone
is loaded with a number of graft cases filed by the Ombudsman, he will have to
face some after he is no longer the vice-president. During the election campaign
his accomplishment in Makati City is overshadowed by his character weaknesses
that tended to pull his popularity down. His candidate for the vice-presidency
is Senator GRINGO HONASAN, who used to be the military leader of a mutinous group
that overthrew the late President Marcos in 1986 and was amnestied by the late
President Cory Aquino.
RODRIGO DUTERTE – is another political
personality who rode on the “popularity” of his Davao City for its record as a “crime-free”
city which helps him in the popularity contest. Although a rough person – he is
known for his tough tongue and a womanizer – his stance against dope dealers
and crime makes him a favorite. Initially he had withdrawn his candidacy, but
since another candidate who used to be an American citizen was allowed to run,
he decided to go back and run against her. It seems his only credential is of
being a crime-buster, but his leanings towards communism and financial support
for the ideological enemies of the state, the NPA, offends those supporting the
Administration. His candidate for the vice-presidency is Senator ALAN PETER
CAYETANO, brother of another senator and son of a late senator-friend of an
ex-senate president.
GRACE POE-LLAMANZARES – is a foundling
and adopted by a movie personality, the late Fernando Poe Jr or FPJ, who was
defeated in a contentious elections against an imprisoned ex-President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
with a pending case. Mrs Poe-Llamanzares was able to wrest a high spot during
the Philippine senatorial contest in year 2013 and rides on the popularity of
her adopted father. Nonetheless, she gained the support of the people during
the popularity surveys for the elections of 2016. It turned out that she had
married an American soldier although with Pilipino background and surname; her
own children were US citizens; and she owned mansions in continental USA. She
“renounced” her US citizenship but short of the ten years required of her. Her
faults were “corrected” by the Supreme Court by being allowed to run as
president although her nationality and residence in the Philippines were being questioned.
Her candidate for the vice-presidency is Senator CHIZ ESCUDERO whose second
marriage was questioned by his in-laws.
MAR ROXAS – used to be the
vice-presidential candidate for the current President Aquino but defeated by
the present Vice-president Binay in 2010. Roxas had been assigned to various
high positions in the government, but his performances were supposed to be
lack-luster and indecisiveness. His candidate for the vice-presidency
is Congresswoman LENI ROBREDO, the widow of the minister of Local Governments.
She had merely wanted to run as a senator after being widowed, but was prevailed
to candidate for the vice-presidency.
MIRIAM SANTIAGO – had been defeated by
President (General) Fidel V. Ramos after the reign of President Gloria
Macapagal-Arroyo in a contentious elections process. Later, she became a
senator, but lately is suffering from lung cancer, had some remissions and
undergoing some cures. Her performance in the latest popularity surveys was
poor. She had as her candidate for the vice-presidency Senator BONGBONG MARCOS,
the son of the late President Marcos and his “famous” Imelda. He rated high
during popularity surveys. He belongs to a political dynasty in the Ilocos
Region and expected to convince all Ilocanos in all the Philippine regions and overseas
to support him in his election bid.