Biden Revealed: The Myth We Protected, the Truth We Denied
What Jake Tapper’s new book - and the stars - reveal about truth, leadership, and letting go. How love, denial, and silence led us back to the very thing we feared most.
How do we hold the grief of knowing we were misled by someone we trusted?
That’s the question I’ve been sitting with since finishing Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson’s new book, Original Sin.
It’s not a hit piece.
It’s not partisan propaganda.
It’s a searing, methodical, and unexpectedly human portrait of what really happened inside the Biden White House - and what didn’t happen - during the slow and painful unraveling of the President’s cognitive health.
This isn’t about red versus blue.
It’s not about blame or gloating.
It’s about reckoning - with ourselves, with the cost of silence, and with the uncomfortable truth that sometimes the people we love most are the ones who hide the truth from us, believing it’s for our own protection.
After reading Tapper’s account, I did what I always do when the truth feels tangled - I turned to the stars. I pulled up Joe Biden’s birth chart, hoping to sort fact from fog and feel my way toward something deeper than spin.
What I found in both the book and the chart was the same core story: a man of strength and strategy, beloved for his warmth and loyalty, who also spent a lifetime wrapped in grief, secrecy, and self-protection. A man whose natural instincts - emotional privacy, mythic self-sacrifice, deep loyalty - became liabilities when what the country needed was clarity, not containment.
Both the book and the birth chart paint a portrait of someone built for mystique, not transparency. Someone who may have believed, with all his heart, that staying in the race was an act of love - when in truth, it became a denial the nation could no longer afford.
So the question I’m wrestling with today is this:
How do we hold on to love and the uncomfortable truth at the same time?
How do we grieve the man, the myth, and the moment, without letting go of our capacity to be honest?
Let’s unpack it together.
And before we dive in, I want to acknowledge Joe Biden’s cancer diagnosis this week. I know this is a tender and difficult time for him and his family. I send him the light of my love as he navigates this path.
What follows here is not a takedown - far from it.
It’s a wrestle with uncomfortable truth, seen through the lens of love.
Come with me.
What Does the Book Reveal?
Original Sin lays out what many suspected, but didn’t have the proof, the language, or the permission to say out loud, until now.
2020–2022:
According to the book, from the start, insiders in the White House knew President Biden was showing signs of cognitive strain. But publicly? The message was airtight: “He’s great.” Staff quietly adjusted his schedule - few evening appearances, no unscripted moments, short press availabilities. Meanwhile, those close to Biden spoke in careful code, saying he “functions best when rested,” and avoided interviews that could expose his decline.
2023:
Behind closed doors, the picture grew harder to ignore. Cabinet members were alarmed. Biden confused major names and dates. Aides shielded him with teleprompters and rehearsed scripts, even at private fundraisers. Still, the myth held.
October 2023:
Special Counsel Robert Hur interviewed Biden over classified documents. What he saw seemingly left him flabbergasted. In his report, he wrote that Biden was “a well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory”. Translation: not fit to stand trial, not because he was innocent, but because he was cognitively compromised. Biden tried to rebut the image with a fiery press conference, but ended up confusing Egypt with Mexico on live television.
Summer 2024:
George Clooney, a longtime ally and fundraiser, wrote a bombshell op-ed after a closed-door event he hosted where Biden didn’t recognize him. The op-ed confirmed what others were whispering: the man leading the country was no longer fully present.
June 2024:
In the first debate against Donald Trump, it all came undone. Biden’s performance was halting, incoherent, and heartbreaking. For many Americans, it was the first time they saw with their own eyes what insiders had been covering up for years.
July 2024:
The fallout was swift. Democratic Senators withdrew their support. The DNC quietly prepared to replace him. Biden stepped aside - too late to avoid damage, but just in time to prevent a full-scale revolt.
What this book makes plain is that the decline didn’t happen to us. It happened around us. And it was covered up not just by a handful of loyalists, but by institutions - party leaders, staff, media, and even voters - who were afraid of the alternative.
Afraid of Trump.
Afraid of truth.
Afraid of what might happen if we said what we all could see.
The Truth Was In The Stars All Along
Joe Biden’s birth chart tells the same story Tapper’s book uncovers: of a man shaped by grief, secrecy, and myth-making.
Biden has Sun, Mercury, and Venus all in Scorpio in the 12th House - the astrological house of hidden truths, isolation, and self-deception. Scorpio already keeps things close to the chest; the 12th house adds a veil. This is the signature of someone who doesn't just hide the truth from others - he hides it from himself.
His Moon in Taurus shows emotional resilience, but also stubbornness - an unwillingness to step aside or change course, even when it’s time. Mars in Scorpio in his 11th House reflects a deep desire to protect his legacy and wield quiet power through political networks.
His Saturn in Gemini in the 6th House, governing health and cognition, points to the slow erosion of mental sharpness - particularly under pressure. It’s a placement that foreshadows deterioration hidden behind structure and routine.
And then there’s Chiron in Leo in the 9th House - the wound of legacy, of being seen as “the one,” of carrying the nation’s story. It suggests he believed - perhaps deeply - that only he could defeat Trump. That belief wasn’t just political. It was mythic. And myth, when unchallenged, can become delusion.
So yes - even the stars knew.
The Uncomfortable Truth
What Tapper and Thompson reveal in their new book is devastating in its ordinariness.
Biden’s decline wasn’t sudden.
It didn’t come out of nowhere.
It came slowly, and those closest to him saw it, managed it, explained it away.
The book tells of two Bidens: one who could still rally when rested and prepped, and another who struggled to finish sentences, forgot names, and didn’t recognize old friends. Tapper and Thompson describe the White House environment as one of emotional insulation and strategic control.
In a recent interview, Jake Tapper revealed that there’s a saying in the Biden family: “Don’t call fat people fat.” A crude shorthand, perhaps, for a deeper instinct - don’t name the uncomfortable thing. Don’t look directly at the truth if it hurts. That philosophy might explain everything.
What if that instinct - to protect, to soften, to preserve dignity - is the very thing that has cost us the most?
Because while the Democratic machine shielded Biden from scrutiny, while the press tiptoed around his decline, while loyal staffers rationalized his deterioration as manageable, the reality was mounting.
George Clooney saw it.
Barack Obama saw it.
Cabinet members whispered it.
And millions of Americans felt it in their gut
but didn’t have the permission to name it.
Until it was too late.
Until the Hur report said the quiet part out loud.
Until the debate made it undeniable.
Until the country turned and asked: who’s really running the country?
And now, we find ourselves with Donald Trump once again in the White House - the very outcome Biden and those around him were trying to prevent. Not necessarily because the country suddenly fell back in love with Trump, but perhaps more because Democrats lied to themselves about the one thing we couldn’t afford to get wrong: leadership.
In the end, the 2024 election became a choice between two forms of deception: one loud and unapologetic, the other quiet and institutionalized. One man lied brazenly. The other lied by omission. Both were trying to win. And both betrayed the truth.
The result? An election not built on vision, but on the collapse of integrity itself.
Choose your illusion. That was the ballot.
No wonder so many stayed home.
Truth Without Love Is Not Love
As I mentioned earlier, this book - and its harsh truth - landed in the same week that Joe Biden was diagnosed with cancer. It’s a lot to take in.
Even if you’re not Joe Biden’s biggest fan, it’s hard not to feel something tender about his prognosis. This is a man who has already lived through unimaginable grief more than once, and this feels like one more heavy chapter. Love him or not, this week’s news stirs something human.
For those who do love Joe Biden, this week invites us to grapple with the truth:
Love without truth is not love.
To love someone is to face their limits with compassion, not to pretend they don’t exist. To honor their legacy, not protect their myth. We don’t need a hero who never faltered. We need a democracy that doesn’t depend on pretending.
We can love Joe Biden and still hold the truth.
We can grieve the way this all unfolded and still demand something better.
Because the truth is not the enemy of love. It is its beginning.
And if we can’t tell the truth about our own side - our own leaders - then we’ve already lost what we thought we were trying to protect.
It’s time to retire the myth that truth-telling is treason.
It’s time to stop pretending that speaking up means taking sides.
Love walks into the fire. It names the grief. It says, yes, I still love you. And yes, this is where you failed.
If we can do that, maybe we can begin again - not with perfect leaders, but with an honest reckoning.
And maybe that’s the only way we heal.
So Where Do We Go From Here?
We start by refusing to protect myths at the expense of reality.
We start by holding our leaders - and ourselves - to the standard of truth, even when it hurts. Especially when it hurts.
Because love that cannot bear truth isn’t love. And democracy that cannot survive honesty isn’t democracy.
If we want to build something better - something braver - we must be willing to feel the fire of disillusionment and walk through it anyway.
Eyes wide open.
Heart still beating.
No more pretending.
My intention in my writing is to lessen the climate of fear around world events by offering clarity and cosmic context for what’s unfolding; to bring context to the chaos. I believe our highest calling right now is to anchor in the vibration of loving truth and call in a more beautiful world, and to do that, we must lean out of fear. I hope you read this with an open, uplifted heart.
This is so well spoken. Everything you say here. These words stand out: "Because the truth is not the enemy of love. It is its beginning. We start by refusing to protect myths at the expense of reality. Because love that cannot bear truth isn’t love"
Fear, denial, pride, and often a misapprehended idea of what "loyalty" is are the enemies of honesty and love. This has played out in history over and over again ad nauseum and plays out everywhere today in our institutions, families, and any of our groups. Protecting our friends, family members, leaders, by covering over the truth hurts us all. It is time to face this and learn. Lies, whether overt or through omission rob people of their ability to make good choices.
I read you to try to find better clarity, so I appreciate your messages. Regardless, I will say I don’t believe Trump won the 2024 election. There is good evidence, found by professionals in the field of voting metrics, that indicates the election was hacked for Trump. I don’t believe the majority of the American people voted for Trump or that he won. Despite this, it is true and correct that truth MUST prevail, notwithstanding psychology’s Ellis. It is why all the truths concerning Trump have to come out as well. And with this truth, action needs to follow.