A Vice Presidential Half-Birthday for Mayor Bloomberg?

ABC News’ Nitya Venkataraman Reports: Predicting political destinies isn’t just for the Sunday morning set this election season. Earlier this summer, astrologer Susan Miller offered her thoughts to ABC News on the ’08 landscape and predicted the fall of a political leader during the first week of August, Hillary Clinton’s Senate departure and New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg on a November ticket.

It seemed appropriate — the week before back-to-back political conventions with no vice presidential announcements as of yet — to revisit Miller’s predictions for 2008′s political all stars. 

She felt that Bloomberg’s chances of being on a November ticket were good.

"I think Bloomberg might be chosen as a running mate for one of them," she said, his independent status making him a possible choice for either the Republican or Democratic candidate. Her reasoning for a Bloomberg Rising cites the Aug. 16 lunar eclipse as opposite Bloomberg’s Feb. 14 birthday.

When an eclipse falls on or opposite your birthday, Miller says "your number is coming up for big change".

According to Miller another political player feeling the heat of the eclipses this August was former Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton.

Clinton "gets a great new job on [the Aug. 1] eclipse. She’s not going back to the Senate, I’m sure of that."

Miller was unsure of whether or not Clinton’s new role will be announced come August, or at the next round of eclipses in February. Either way, concerned Clinton supporters should know that Miller predicted, "one way or the other, she gets a very high, very good job…something she’s happy with. "

Also in the aftermath of the Aug. 1 solar eclipse in Leo, Miller predicted "a king or a prince leave the scene, or abdicate, or leave, or die". Depending on your definition of political royalty, during the first week of August incriminating photographs were published in the National Enquirer of former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards; days later, he confessed the affair on ‘Nightline’, a political fall from grace ensued.

Miller offered no indication to November outcomes, saying only that both John McCain and Barack Obama had "excellent charts" and that it was going to be a "tight election".

The Republican convention following McCain’s Aug. 29 birthday will "go very well" for the Republican presidential candidate, Miller said. For Obama, with the Aug. 1 eclipse falling so close to his Aug. 4 birthday, "his coming year is going to be very different than anything he’s had in the past."

And while the political world has been itching for vice presidential announcements almost as long as there have been candidates, Miller recommended stretching out the veepstakes into August, past the inauspicious June retrograde and August eclipses, over concerns of "disappearing candidates".

"I know that it’s traditional to announce your running mate in July. But I think if they do, they are going to change their mind," Miller said, "I don’t think [McCain or Obama] will disappear but I think their running mate could. There’s a lot of uncertainty going on."

Miller was quite to note that predictions are no excuse for inaction by the American voter. ""Astrology shows you the conditions, it doesn’t show you the outcome. The outcome is up to us. We all have to vote," she says.

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