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Astrology, Morality, And Jerry Falwell Jr.

You’ve probably heard about the recent case of Jerry Falwell Jr, son of famous TV evangelist Jerry Falwell, and president of Liberty University. If you haven’t, here are the gory details.

Jerry has been the center of rumours for years now about various forms of financial and/or sexual misconduct. It has recently come to light that the family’s “pool boy” was in the habit of having sex with Jerry’s wife, while Jerry sat in the corner and watched. I’ve had a look at Jerry’s birth chart and his transits, and frankly they are such a bucket of cliches that it almost feels like a setup.

Jerry was born June 17th 1962, 9:13 PM., Lynchburg Virginia. He has Sun in Gemini with a close opposition to his Moon in Sagittarius. it would be playing into the worst possible cliches about both of those Signs that I’m not about to insult your intelligence with things like “Geminis can be duplicitous” or “Sagittariuses don’t always care where they wander, as long as they’re having a good time.” Saying things like that does a disservice to both astrology and the complexity of human nature.

I’m not even going to point out that the Moon is the ruler of his Seventh House, and having the ruler of your 7th house in your 12th House means that “you can often get involved in a marriage with some kind of hidden or unusual nature to it.” Heck, I’m not even going to mention that having Venus, Uranus, and the North Node in the 8th house can lead to “unusual sexual circumstances.”

I’m not going to bore you with the obvious interpretation of transiting Pluto cross over Jerry’s ascendant, which can have explosive results for both one’s personal image and marriage. Or that having Saturn crushing his 8th house Venus for the last several months could mean bad news related to sexual matters and career (Venus is the ruler of Jerry’s Tenth House).

Instead of that, I’m just going to lay out all of these astrological “pre-existing conditions” in front of you and add one additional factor.

Once again, we have another case of someone who has built a career on moral judgments of others failing spectacularly by his own publicly-espoused standards. And once again, it turns out that the alleged immorality was in fact being committed by the person telling people you could going to hell for doing things like that. It’s as horrible a stereotype as when Old Man Jenkins the groundskeeper turns out to be the real monster on an episode of Scooby-Doo. The formula repeats itself over and over and over again.

Personally, I have absolutely no concern whatsoever about what people do with their sex lives, providing everyone involved are consenting adults. It’s the incredible hypocrisy that makes me sick, and I think you should feel exactly the same way. And just maybe you should remember this next time you stand in moral judgment over someone’s personal life.