Richard Nixon, the second of five children, was raised in poverty in Yorba Linda and Whittier, California. Of Scotch-Irish heritage, Nixon can claim a royal heritage. "Though his maternal grandfather [English-Irish], Franklin Milhouse, Nixon descended from King Edward III (1312-1377) of England. His great-grandfather George Nixon was among the troops to cross the Delaware with General George Washington during the American Revolution. His great-grandfather George Nixon III was killed at Gettysburg during the Civil War."

At ages 3 and 4, Nixon nearly died. First, he fell out of his buggy and sustained a bloody wound to his scalp and nearly bled to death. A year later, he suffered from pneumonia:

Progressed MC 19 Gemini opposite 4th house Vesta of "safety;" progressed Moon 25 Pisces, in T-square with natal Pluto and Mars. Nixon's progressed Moon reached 28 Pisces on April 1, 1916 just after his 3rd birthday igniting a two year period of life and death struggles. Twenty-eight degrees of the signs rouses Nixon's natal Pluto, positioned as the "boomerang" planet in his natal YOD. [John Dean, Nixon's White House counsel, and Henry Kissinger, Nixon's National Security Adviser, have natal planets which also set off Nixon's natal Yod.] Nixon's progressed Moon entered the sign Aries on May 26, 1916. Mars/Moon is oftentimes associated with accidents involving the head. Nixon died in 1994 after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 81. [Progressed Sun 11 Aries; progressed Mercury retrograde 3 Aries conjoined to progressed North Lunar Node.]

Nixon spent his childhood hustling produce to market for display in his father's store, Nixon's Market. At night he lay in bed listening to the radio for "spin" on the Harding administration's Teapot Dome Scandal. At the age of 10 He told his mother that he ". . .would like to become a lawyer -- an honest lawyer, who can't be bought by crooks." Progressed Juno (political "marriage/destiny" trine natal Saturn, 27 Taurus in Nixon's 9th house of "law." ["The Teapot Dome incident became a symbol for supposed excesses and government graft and corruption."]

Nixon was described as ". . . quiet, obedient child, dutifully (Capricorn) helping out with chores and keeping out of mischief." For all that, obedience couldn't save his brother Arthur from death by Tuberculosis after a two year stay in an Arizona sanitarium. "His mother later recalled that Richard set out to make up for the loss by becoming a success and making his parents proud of him." [natal Mars at 29 Sagittarius opposite Pluto of "life and death" in quincunx to Neptune, signifying a disease of "malaise" and Saturn in Taurus. Mars is the ruler of Nixon's 3rd house cusp representing siblings. Venus in Pisces, ruler of his Saturn, is in his 6th house of health conjoined to Chiron of life-long wounds. Venus is exalted in the sign Pisces. "making up for loss (Chiron) by [devoting his life to] making his parents proud of him."]