Karmic Knowledge

Luckily for Condoleezza Rice, the recent report that Florida Republican Mark Foley has been making innapopropriate overtures towards underage congressional pages has temporarily removed her from the spotlight. Prior to the revelation of Foley’s misconduct, the latest in a string of GOP scandals, Rice had been spending a lot of time on the defensive.

It began a few weeks back, when Condi responded to Bill Clinton’s statements that, in the quest to stop Bin Laden, he at least tried, something the Bush administration had not done. After Clinton defended himself in an interview with Chris Wallace on Fox, Condi was dispatched to respond to the allegations of inaction. She told the media:

The notion somehow for eight months the Bush administration sat there and didn’t do that is just flatly false… What we did in the eight months was at least as aggressive as what the Clinton administration did in the preceding years.

Hot on the heels of her declaration, Condi was once again featured in the headlines when excerpts from State of Denial, the latest book by Bob Woodward, revealed that Rice had been specifically warned in July of 2001 by then FBI head George Tenet that Osama Bin Laden posed an imminent threat to the security of the United States. Woodward writes that Rice brushed off Tenet’s warning and never reported this meeting in her testimony before the 9/11 commision.

Rice denied the allegations:

What I am quite certain of is that I would remember if I was told, as this account apparently says, that there was about to be an attack in the United States, and the idea that I would somehow have ignored that I find incomprehensible.

White House records have since confirmed that the meeting did take place.

When one considers what’s revealed in her hands, I suspect this isn’t the first time Rice has been in the hot seat over “incomplete” or “ideologically modified” communications.

When we look at Condoleezza Rice’s index finger (in hand reading called the Jupiter finger), we see that the uppermost phalange crooks sharply toward her middle (or Saturn) finger, the finger of accountability and integrity. The upper phalange of Jupiter is associated with ideals and principles. Mythologically, Jupiter was the protector of the state and its laws. A severely crooked or damaged upper phalange on Jupiter is associated with an abandonment of those principles and an inability to feel confident in one’s own power and authority.

A compromised Jupiter finger may also show an especially high need for respect. When Jupiter doesn’t get that respect, Jupiter’s owner gets hostile. Rice has been described as the “iron butterfly” and the enforcer of the Bush administration’s unpopular policies. The media has been delightfully publishing photos of her scowling face as she plays the role of global attack dog.

Rice is also the owner of a short Mercury or pinkie finger. Mercury was the winged messenger and the Mercury finger represents communications, voice, strategy and relating skills. The owner of a short Mercury finger is not inclined to be direct in his or her communications. While not in and of itself a sign of dishonesty, it does show a fear of showing the true inner workings of the individual. Mercury, in his myth, is also known as the divine manipulator.

Rice’s Mercury finger is also extremely low-set. In other words, the base of the finger seems to grow out of her hand a full phalange lower than the base of the ring finger, it’s next door neighbor. Low-set Mercury is a sign of fear of abandonment, usually having its origin in a childhood where Daddy was absent, either physically or emotionally. Rice has herself told of a childhood where she was taught she needed to be “twice as good” to get ahead. She skipped two grades and pushed herself to excel at piano and skating as well as academics. Did she ever have time to feel?

When we consider this intense need for approval in conjunction with Rice’s compromised upper Jupiter, we have the perfect recipe for a person who would sell out her own principals in order to feel successful and to gain a sense of respect and belonging. This combination is the signature of the hypocrite and the deceiver, not only of others but of self.

Robert Scheer, in an editorial published October 3rd on Truthdig.com, describes Condi as having “an impressive track record of calculated distortion.” One has to wonder whether, when Condi Rice took her oath of office, she had the Jupiter and Saturn fingers of her left hand crossed behind her back.

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