Donald Rumsfeld

Donald Rumsfeld, born on the ninth of July, 1932, in Illinois, and died on the twenty-ninth of June, 2021, was an American politician and businessman who twice served as Secretary of Defense, first under Gerald Ford and again under George W. Bush. He was both the youngest and the oldest person to hold that office, and between his terms he ran major pharmaceutical and technology companies. His record must be stated plainly. As defense secretary from 2001 he was central to the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq; he asserted that Iraq held an active weapons of mass destruction programme, and no stockpiles were ever found. His tenure is inseparable from the use of torture and from the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal, and he resigned in 2006 as support collapsed.

His chart is noted here only analytically. The Sun in Cancer in the fourth house and the Moon in Libra in the seventh describe, in this system, a temperament oriented toward home, family and partnership, worn behind an assertive Aries mask, the warrior at the door. A natal signature describes temperament; it never excuses a person's choices. The decisions, and the suffering they caused, were his.