Andrés Manuel López Obrador turned sixty-eight years old yesterday. Born on July 2, 1963, in the city of Mexico City, he is the son of Alberto López Obrador, a civil servant and activist, and Beatriz Manuela Obrador, a schoolteacher.

After graduating from high school, López Obrador studied political science at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and then at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. He worked as a journalist for the newspapers Reforma and El Universal before becoming a state deputy in the Congress of the Union in 2000.

In 2006, López Obrador was elected mayor of Mexico City, becoming the first member of the left-of-center National Action Party (PAN) to be elected to a major city office. During his tenure, Mexico City’s crime rate decreased, and he was praised for his innovative urban planning.

López Obrador announced his candidacy for the presidency of Mexico in the 2006 election, but was runner-up to Felipe Calderón. In the 2012 election, he was again runner-up, this time to Calderón.

Yesterday, López Obrador turned sixty-eight years old. As he enters his seventies, this long and eventful life has come to a close. He has left a deep mark on Mexican politics and on the course of Mexican history.

López Obrador was born on July 2, 1963, in the city of Mexico City. He is the son of Alberto López Obrador, a civil servant and activist, and Beatriz Manuela Obrador, a schoolteacher. After graduating from high school, he studied political science at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and then at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. He worked as a journalist for the newspapers Reforma and El Universal before becoming a state deputy in the Congress of the Union in 2000. In 2006, López Obrador was elected mayor of Mexico City, becoming the first member of the left-of-center National Action Party (PAN) to be elected to a major city office. During his tenure, Mexico City’s crime rate decreased, and he was praised for his innovative urban planning.

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Andrés Manuel López Obrador,

As one of the planets historically thought to be on the outer limits of the solar system (until the “modern” planets were discovered), Saturn has always been associated with the moon, itself a peripheral heavenly body because it belongs to Earth and not to the solar system. Therefore, both Saturn and the moon are aspects of a protection principle (the moon encompasses the earth in the same way as Saturn and its rings encompasses the solar system). Like the moon, Saturn rules a security/insecurity dialectic, but where the moon’s concerns the private, intimate aspects of the individual, Saturn influences social and collective security. Saturn can be thought of as the polar opposite of the moon (the archetype of the mother, but also of the child, and therefore related to orality). The god Saturn ate his children in order to reign and thus, represents the archetype of the mother (motherhood), the grandmother, and the sage (wisdom). The domination of Saturn thus indicates a maternal complex or, at least, an issue related either to the biological mother or to the symbolism of motherhood. This influence may result in a problem of identity and difficulties in aging which will make themselves evident in personal crises at every passage of this planet, every seven years—thus at the age of 7, at 14 or 15, and 21, 28, etc. Depending on the psychological context in which you are developing, you may overcome or overcompensate your identity complex and gradually acquire a strongly structured personality, or, conversely, remain in a state of immaturity which would probably be detrimental to your destiny.

The sun is the source of all warmth and life. It has been worshipped by humanity since the dawn of civilization. It symbolizes the absolute power kings and despots yearn for and emulate. From the dawn of humanity, the sun king, the nucleus of society, embodied a principle of cohesion and harmony. Various subordinates—aka planets—revolved around it. In terms of psychological symbolism, the sun corresponds to the center of an individual, the factor that rules your psyche. Its luminous aspects are usually associated with knowledge and consciousness. As a creator of life, it is related to the image of the mother and the influence of motherhood on an individual’s consciousness and ideals. As a result, the sun’s position in a birth chart always indicates the way in which an individual will relate to your goals and ideals, what your ambitions and aspirations might involve. A person whose chart is strongly “solar” usually identifies very positively with motherhood. Your personality is friendly, energetic, and creative, with high ideals and a firm determination to accomplish them. You take your own superiority and authority over others for granted, and you have a natural ability to command the attention and admiration of an audience. You are a born leader who enjoys being in the limelight and may behave somewhat theatrically or with dramatic exaggeration. You have definite artistic leanings. The sense of your ideals is evident to you and may lead you to be somewhat self-focused. If ill-directed, your deep aspirations may lead to such faults as egotism, selfishness, or greediness for power.

Andrés Manuel López Obrador looked up at the ninth house and saw that it contained several planets, including the one which ruled his rising sign.