Who is Sonny Perdue?
Sonny Perdue, no relation to Frank and his chickens, is the United States Secretary of Agriculture since 2017 and grew up in a farming family in Bonaire, Georgia. He was born George Ervin Perdue III on December 20, 1946, time unknown.
We have rectified his birth time to 6:29 am giving him a symbol of (HS) Cancer 04, “a young boy learning the importance of moksha”, also called “mukti.” Moksha embodies the Hindu concept of ultimate freedom and liberation deriving its meaning from mukt or (Sanskrit) “liberation,” i.e. release from the life-death cycle (samsara) of mundane existence. Moksha is akin the Buddhist concept of nirvana, and often the terms are interchangeably used; but Hindus believe nirvana is attained only after achieving moksha while in Buddhism it is the end itself.
Who is Sonny
Sonny is an agribusinessman, veterinarian, state legislator, and former governor of Georgia — he’s been around and more recently he has been around 30 farm states since his confirmation to hear what farmers have to say.
“People believe that folks in Washington D.C. had stopped listening to rural America over the years,” Perdue said of those who came out to his town hall meetings… In fields, dairy barns, machine sheds and front yards, thousands of people turned out for town hall meetings to express their frustrations and offer suggestions.”
Sonny Perdue at his confirmation hearings.
Recently is in the news today because of his idea of an AgBox, similar to the 1970’s handouts of cheese, milk and butter to food stamp recipients. The AgBox would be a package of “nutritious, 100-percent U.S. grown and produced food” containing nonperishable items like shelf-stable milk, cereal, peanut butter, canned meat, fruits and vegetables but it would replace half of those recipients’ food monthly benefits. How this would be implemented is still under discussion.
The appeal of Sonny
Mr. Perdue is split like an hourglass (Jansky) or see-saw (Jones) right down his chart — see above. To help you view that we have colored the two parts — one in blue and other in wheat yellow. This see-saw is almost all in the northern part of his, with the few that aren’t siphoning from below and giving purpose to his work ethic. The blue side shows the melding of family and government service while the wheaten side his personal initiative.
Perdue’s Uranus in the 12th house of government, large institutions, and self-imprisonment, bridges both sides of the see-saw into a philosophical whole. He believes in government service but also in business initiative, a traditional attitude in American politics that is seeing a resurgence under President Trump. The Uranus Mercury opposition shows Perdue is no stranger to being the bearer of disruptive ways of reforming large scale institutions, OTOH it makes him work all the harder to ironing out the problems so that they will work (square the midheaven at 12 Pisces).
The yellow side
On the yellow side of the chart we see the importance of his wife (Venus Scorpio 20.15 to his success and his many children (Jupiter 18 Scorpio 19). As the two planets are sextile his Neptune (10 Libra 40) in the 4th house, his wife and children & faith are his strongest base but inconjunct Uranus in the 12th strife comes from his government work that keeps him from home too long or brings him too munch unwarranted media flak. That may not bother him, but it does them.
Venus is sextile the Sun 28 Sagittarius 30 creating with a yod at Uranus 19 Gemini 24. The apex is then 19 Sagittarius in the sixth giving him a stellium there showing his dedication to his work and desire to work out the smallest detail. The yod recommends that Mr. Perdue delegate some of those menial things and stay focused on the big picture of his message (Uranus trine Neptune).
The Tantalizing Yod
That is hard, very hard, for him as it culminates in the asteroid Tantalus, the Greek mortal who always wanted just a little bit more but alas, could not have it. We recommend Mr. Perdue work on his will-power and self-restraint to help him here as a preponderance in the natural house of the Virgoan 6th also highlights genetic health problems that surface through stress and overtaxation.
We continually review our essays for accuracy. This one was vetted on September 3rd, 2019.
