Was the Void of Course Moon and Mercury Retrograde a bad omen for Obama's Inauguration chart?

On the morning of Obama's planned Presidential Inauguration on January 20th 2009, I posted a note to my friends commenting that the chart for Obama's Presidency was great apart from the Moon being seriously void. I hope I wasn't following other astrologers who had taken the void moon and/or Mercury Retrograde to be a bad omen for Obama's Presidency. Their concern about the Moon comes from the theory that nothing comes from arrangements and decisions made when the moon is void.

On reflection, I have never found the void of course (VOC) moon to be a 'bad or good' influence - it's just nothing goes quite as planned. Each event and each horoscope needs to be viewed in it's entirety to judge whether the void is more likely to act as a negative or positive influence. Grand National declared 'void'!

Source The void Moon can be disastrous where arrangements have to be fixed and coordinated. On 3 April 1993, the Grand National Horse Race watched by 300 million people around the world ... more.

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