Saturn is not forgiving to folks that try to sidestep his lessons. White House puppetmaster Karl Rove has been living under the Cosmic Taskmaster’s big black boot for the last two years. With several planets in Cancer and Capricorn, he’s been in quite the crucible. Despite installing Bush for a second term, Saturn watchers have expected that the chickens would eventually come home to roost. Big Daddy Saturn frowns on misplaced arrogance.

It’s fitting that a leak might be his undoing: the water metaphor is completely apt for Saturn’s transit through Cancer, sign of the sea. As Saturn transits the last few degrees of the sign, we all revisit the issues of the last two and half years, and hopefully purge ourselves once and for all. For Rove, this could spell an ending. Saturn in Leo is often a time of fallen leaders. In these hyper-Orwellian times, let’s just pray that he doesn’t wag any dogs to distract us.