Financial Crisis 2008 - German hyper-inflation 1922/23

This is something of a 'pre-post' which may result, if time allows, in my writing an article on the Astrology of Germany's hyper-inflation era of 1922/23 which is said to have been caused by the privately owned Reichsbank of Germany. That our own creature, the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States, has been at the base of the current financial collapse seems a given to me but perhaps more reading is in order.

Don't think I'll be changing my mind on it though...a long-planned, rigged collapse it was and is, astrologically orchestrated by 'secret hand' Pluto in Capricorn, sign of structure, law, government, politics, and business, and apex/focal planet in the Cardinal T-Square between Saturn/Uranus (opposing one another) that we're all reading and writing so much about these days and at the beginning of its full effect for Spring Equinox 2010.

Once again, here is the midpoint picture formed between the three T-Squared planets which were in similar configuration during the era of the Great Depression:

Saturn/Uranus = Pluto: desire to overcome a difficult situation through extraordinary effort; brutality; rebellion against one's lot in life; harm through force majeure; tremendous fear of loss; upheaval to protect assets; revolution; concealing changes to activities; termination of practices that have been hindering progress; drastic changes in a previously liberal atmosphere; rigid inflexibility replaces adaptation. (Ebertin; Tyl: Munkasey; all, some, or none may apply.)

These difficult planetary patterns will affect the collective from 2010 to 2014 which covers the following time frame of transits to the US chart and beyond...

As you know, transiting Pluto has been opposing US natal Venus (values, small amounts of money, relationships) in Cancer and will soon oppose US natal Jupiter, a period of time not favorable to US interests, finances, or partnerships.

Here's the plutonian schedule of hits to our natal 'Sibly' chart (5:10 pm LMT, July 4, 1776, Philadelphia, PA) with both our Venus and Jupiter in natal 7th house of Partnerships, Legal Affairs, and Open Enemies - dates are 'on or about' depending on your time zone:

Pluto oppo n Venus 3Can06: Dec 26, 2009; August 9, 2010; Oct 18, 2010.

Pluto oppo n Jupiter 5Can56: Jan 17, 2011; Nov 20, 2011; July 8, 2011.

As you see, only one opposition has occurred as of today - the Dec 26, 2009 stand-off to natal Venus. This transit indicates struggles for power and control in relationships and valuations with possible violence brought by the determined Mr. Hades. So from August 9, 2010 until July 8, 2011 (and thereafter) plutonian power struggles will be 'on' for control of America. (I use a 5-degree orb with Pluto transits. Perhaps you do, too.)

When Pluto opposes US natal Sun 13Can19 (Sun = the leader in a national chart - the 'president' to us), the mighty contest of wills is sure to be titanic and the possibilities of impotency and isolation are on the menu. The transit is within orb of US Sun beginning in very early 2012 (Pluto 8 Cap+) and in effect until 2017!

And Pluto will conjunct UK's natal Sun during this time. Hmmm...trouble on the powerful Can/Cap axis between the US and UK? A big break between us would be a major coup for someone, wouldn't it?

Of course, other transits to the US and *UK charts will occur simultaneously which either support or counterbalance the plutonian effects, yet my main grouse today is about the destructuring of forms and the belying of our perceived reality by catalyst Pluto's secretive actions.

To me, these transits say that US resources will be sufficiently depleted during that time period, if not before, that the 'secret' control heretofore exercised by string-pulling plutocrats may not remain as secret as before, and that abuse of power by the Sun will be best avoided since it won't work anyway. My disturbing expectation is that the US presidency will be transformed (further) or will be dispensed with altogether. This will affect whether America wins, or is allowed to win, the battle to act as the global domination czar.

So is the 2008 financial collapse a symptom - or signal - of a Hitler-esque mania for world domination, which is to be continued into complete totalitarianism?

If you check SO'W's sidebar (underneath the Current Moon Phase graphic) for 'Now Reading' you'll see a couple of links to interesting articles, one of which is 'German hyper-inflation 1922/23' that tells the tale of the economic conditions in the Rhineland leading up to Hitler's seizing of power on Jan 30, 1933. (Adolf and Franklin sittin' in a tree...s-e-i-z-i-n-g?)

Well, if Hitler hadn't been a murderous psychopath who psychologically splintered before everyone's eyes (perhaps in part from syphilis? cirrhosis?), one wonders what the modern condition of Germany would be. Sadly, we may eventually discover that such a model is in existence before our own eyes, and it will too late to stop it once the deed is done. Perhaps this is the meaning and outcome of Pluto-opposing-natal-Sun after Mr. Hades vanquishes our Venus and Jupiter, both planets relating to Money and Resources, and Sun representing such things as political power, control of resources, willpower, and life path or purpose.

You know, transits to natal charts continue after death so it may be worth noting that **Hitler's natal Moon/Jupiter conjunction (6Cap38 and 8:15) will also be transformed by a visit from Pluto during this period.

Tiresome subjects? Agreed! But you know what they say: just because you have no interest in Politics doesn't mean that the raptor's gaze of Politics hasn't fallen threateningly upon you.

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*UK's modern chart: Jan 1, 1801 12:00 am (NS); London, from historical record; Sun 10Cap11 at IC, Moon 19Can26 in 10th house; natal YOD: Jupiter/Uranus = Pluto: tremendous drive to success; receiving a bounty; great gains; devices with potential to transform the world; sudden financial changes. Apex Pluto in YOD pattern is karmic: possesses penetrating perceptions not shared or easily understood by others; momentous situations lead to destined changes but something must die or regenerate first (such as an old order?); long years of preparation bring a new level of power that's been purged of all vulnerabilities; has organizational control over super-structures in society; can revolutionize world concepts and usher in a new world order.

And this is in the UK's natal chart, not ours!

Negatively managed, apex Pluto in a YOD may de-elevate the individual (each of us, not Pluto! Astrology follows AC-DC principles) to a frustrating level of obscurity and isolation; Mr. Hades is openly defiant about undermining existing authority at any cost and he's been 'purging vulnerabilities' for years now (paraphrasing Dynamics of Aspect Analysis, Bil Tierney.)

**Adolf Hitler's natal chart (Rodden Rating AA): born April 20, 1889 6:30 pm (-0:52:08) in Braunau am Inn, Austria; Sun 00Tau48 conjunct n DESC 26Ari41 and asteroid, MIDAS 00:31; Hitler's Sun degree is called his 'trigger point' and has shown itself to be a violent degree of the zodiac. His first contact with Gottfried Feder in June 1919 and the great impression Feder made on him involved Feder's captivating ideas on money which Hitler used eventually against the Reichsbank in order to take over control of the nation.

Adolf 'hothead' Hitler's natal ASC has his Jupiter/Saturn midpoint upon it suggesting that liver imbalance was behind his extreme moodiness which obviously would have been made much worse by years of alcohol consumption. His Moon/Jupiter conjunction is implicated, too, with both ruled by Saturn - more Jup/Sat influences upon the physical body (Moon and ASC); Moon in Cap is ambitious, yes, but also emotionally deprived in childhood giving him a feeling of emotional entitlement increased greatly by Jupiter's over-the-top presence. jc

Technocracy the real threat to our freedoms

An article by The August Review 's editor Patrick Wood has set me back on my heels this morning!

Smart Grid: the Implementation of Technocracy? is a must-read for those feeling distinctly wary of the constant drip drip of propaganda which the power elite are using to frog-march us toward totalitarian global control.

According to Mr. Wood, Technocracy is the deeper threat to our freedoms, not Communism, Fascism, or Socialism and he explains it much better than I ever could. Repudiated by the American people when presented in 1932 and 1933, Technocracy is working behind the scenes to establish Smart Grid monitoring and distribution of energy which will be the basis of a new economy...not fiat currencies of any sort, but -- energy!

This will involve the fully regulated consumption of electricity, gas and----water. Now there's total control over human behavior!

Technocracy is described as a totalitarian scientific dictatorship dreamed up by a few men including Howard A. Porter, one of the dudes of 1933 who thought FDR should be inaugurated as a dictator. They attempted to sell Technocracy as a solution for the world's economic ills - familiar since 2008, yes? Great Depression meet Great Recession and here we go again.

Now astrologers are familiar with the fact that Hitler and FDR have natal charts so similar, it's uncanny. Why, one was a vicious dictator, the other a sainted US President, say the unwary! Well, there's more to the links between the two men than an innocent astrologer might reasonably hope or expect.

So let me try one of the hilarious Craig Ferguson's tricks: 'Hitler and FDR. One was a ruthless dictator who seized power and turned governmental systems and societal norms upside down...and the other was Hitler.'

Yes, there were two 'seize power/take control' flavored Series of Solar Eclipses which occurred in 1932: 6 North and 6 South: 6N on March 7, 1932 @ '7Pisces' and 6S on August 31, 1932 @ '8Virgo' - these eclipses repeated, not in 2008, '09, or '10 - but in 2004, the year that the plutocratic, oppressive, fascist, technocratic combo of Pluto and Chiron aligned by parallel (mid-August) upon America's natal Ascendant (Sibly chart)...@ '12Sag' = "A Flag Turned into an Eagle That Crows."

And 6N's '7Pisces' conjoins US natal Pluto/Chiron midpoint and our natal Ceres (security and food issues), too, with Virgo-Pisces being the victim-savior axis.

Well, I hope you'll read Patrick Wood's article, perhaps follow the links he provides, and begin noticing more closely the Smart Grid Task Force goings-on all around us. Billions of our tax dollars have been and will be pumped into this radical 'project' by way of stimulus funds in the US and across the globe so this slab of fat has already been tossed into the one-world fire and will make for a very meager communal dinner for all but the wealthy shareholders.

Smart Grid, Smart-Meters, Smart Government?

So will Americans fall for the Technocracy-promoting propaganda as they refused to do in 1933? If so, we must have gotten much stupider over the last 77 years. Maybe we do need a nanny state. After all, when President Obama visited just down the road from where I type - Savannah, GA. - the other day to tout nuclear plants and stimulus money investments, he lifted up his 'Home Star Initiative' which is said to be a 'revolutionary program' that will put a lien on personal property and tie consumption costs to one's property taxes.

How does that smell to you, m'peops? My own suspicion is that there's more than a little stank issuing from that particular governmental skunk in the totalitarian road. Are they offering us a roadkill in every pot?

So the next time the disingenuous GOP calls Mr. Obama names such as 'socialist' I'll know that BHO is really acting as a reconstituted Technocrat and that he obviously agreed to promote their ruthless 'scientific' agenda in order to tarry in the Oval Office a while and play 'president'....aka, 'propaganda-catapulter' as W called it when he had the gig.

Now here's further reading posted online mere minutes ago: Maryland Gets Ready for Smart Electricity Grid Technology and you notice someone inserted 'electricity' into the code words for changes which may sound okay but we're not gonna like the agenda's heavy hand at all once its true nature is fully revealed.

Economist has views on the Fed and so do I

You know I really love it when economist Joseph Stiglitz talks corruption at the Federal Reserve in this recent interview.

Now I don't love it because corruption, avarice, and fraud are at the core of the lucre-driven creature or because I'm in cahoots with the breedy gastards, but because so much that needs saying about the financial realm seldom if ever gets said - thus it cannot be dealt with or improved upon except in very shortsighted fashion. So I appreciate the bits Mr. Stiglitz has said and hope he spills many more truths out of the Cosmic Urn of Knowledge.

It's just like in dysfunctional families: the things never spoken aloud are what do human beings the most damage. Well, we've been done.

Yet if you, lone reader, don't feel damaged by these global-minded, win-at-any-cost gangsters, I must then ask you: where's your sense of outrage? You know that organized crime is organized crime no matter the size of the culprits' bank balances so sneakily tucked out of sight from the tax man.

Hey, let's round 'em up and move 'em out! To the Big House, that is.

But we must be sure to Audit the Fed before closing it down - and preferrably "over the weekend" for a little poetic justice served as a side dish to go with a well-deserved legal entree.

Sibel Edmonds' The Traitors Among Us in March 2010 issue of Hustler

Now able to publicly name names, whistleblower Sibel Edmonds' expose 'The Traitors Among Us' has been published in the March 2010 issue of Hustler Magazine and you may read more about it @ The BradBlog if you wish.

Seems obvious to me as it was presciently so to our founders: America is in deepest trouble from those who've undermined her from within - even more so than from our enemies without. And when they go into cahoots with one another, well...here we are circa 2010.

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Sending a shout-out of thanks for this heads-up to my amazing friend Alex @ Modern Astrology.

SCADs: 9/11, Iran-Contra, Watergate, MLK assassination, etc

SCADs are 'State Crimes Against Democracy' and tend to be called 'conspiracy theories' by those in power who wish their backdoor dealings and collaborations to remain secret along with their culpability.

9/11, Iran-Contra, Watergate, various assassinations...the list of SCADs and suspected SCADs gets longer all the time and goes back to LBJ's and McNamara's Vietnam and before.

And you know what they say when you have thorny problems to root out: you must first identify demons in order to fight and vanquish them.

FDA list: Recalled Foods with Salmonella as of Feb 2010

Since the contaminated food additives are found in many many food products, here's the info set up by the FDA with a list of salmonella-laced snacks, dips, and such.

You may have seen the additive 'hydrolyzed vegetable protein' listed on labels as 'HVP' although it isn't always listed. Joy. Crapshoot. Thanks, FDA.

2012 and the Shift of the Ages

A resource just found: Shift of the Ages which is a site for promoting a film by that name but it could be interesting to follow when I, and you, have the time.

It's all about Time! (And so is Astrology.)

In popular culture Dec 21, 2012 has been made a boogieman date but is this a correct interpretation of the Mayan Calendar and its meaning?

Last evening I watched again PBS' Cracking the Maya Code, first aired in 2008, and have now discovered the website Shift of the Ages - and the transcript of Cracking the Maya Code!

Celebrate Pi Day on March 14, 2010!

Did you know there's a website with a definition of Pi (for the math-challenged among us) and other interesting Pi facts?

It isn't that anyone should need a reason to bake a pie at any moment in time - pies being my personal favorite - but surely celebrating Pi Day with a Pi Pie is as good a reason as can be found!

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My thanks go to Maya for the Pi Day heads-up.

NPR: Rangel stepping down from Chairmanship

NPR BREAKING NEWS: Rangel Stepping Down From Tax-Writing Chairmanship

Embattled Rep. Charles Rangel, facing an investigation by the House ethics committee, says he has decided to temporarily step down from his post as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.

Read more at NPR.

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Ship in process of being deserted by rats but this rat will stick around until the last of the cheese is served.

UPDATE 12:24 pm est: in the last two hours I've had a chance to look at the chart of today's reading in Congress of Rep Rangel's resignation letter which was read at 10:03 am est (C-SPAN) and have now posted some brief Astrology notes about it at Jude's Threshold, if you're interested.

A link to a fine explanation of the Chilean earthquake's effect on earth's wobble is included; shorter days are complimentary.

Time Warp Through the Rabbithole with Frederic Chopin

Whew! Just completed installation of new pc equipment after a wobbly crash last Wednesday evening (Feb 24) so I'm barrelling online to say, Still here, and so is Stars Over Washington!

And since the Art collaboration I've been working on these last weeks is in high gear now (and having been off the *interweb for a week so I completed new drawings for the '1st Annual International Astrology Blogathon March 19 - 21, 2010'), I must thither me yonder with little delay.

Therefore, it is with some measure of poised aplomb attained quite naturally through my complete reliance on the insights and analysing skills of one Julie Demboski that I highly recommend to you her interesting observances concerning the cosmic symphony playing over our heads this very Tuesday, March 2, 2010.

Well, it's good to be back @ SO'W...especially with so many of our infesting politicians running for cover! Skiddaddle, fraudulent crooks and varmints!

To be cont'd...

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Fryderyck Chopin born March 1, 1810; 6:00 pm Zelazowa Wola, Poland:

Sorry my pc problems caused me to miss the 200th anniversary of Frederic Chopin's birthday yesterday (although a few conflicting dates exist) but this morning I happily caught Performance Today and heard a wonderful pianist playing Chopin on Chopin's piano in the house where Chopin was born. That was really something and was made more astounding for this reluctant astrologer (or perhaps for any other) because it provided a living link through music...from 1810 to 2010. Pouf! 200 years!

Now, 200 years = 200 degrees ('a day for a year' as in Scripture) so 200 degrees is equivalent to 20 Libra on the circle of the zodiac. (Each sign contains 30 degr and 200 contains 6 signs (6 x 30 = 180; Aries - Virgo) = 180 degr, plus 20 degr more = 20 Libra.)

So here's a peek at the Sabian Symbol for '20Lib' to see if its word picture might pertain to something that could please Frederic Chopin. Plus, you'll find '21Lib' (201 degr) mentioned in Chopin's bio at AstroDataBank. I did not read the bio before typing in the '200 degr = 20Lib' above but of course, one degree dissolves into the next like seconds on a clock face morphing into the next minute, and 60 minutes melting into an hour. Right?

'20Lib' = "A Jewish Rabbi" and '21Lib' = "A Crowd Upon a Beach."

For more info, I shall quote from Adriano Carelli's The 360 Degrees of the Zodiac which gives a Symbol for '20Lib' (but not for '21Lib')...

'20Lib' = "Around an altar, on which the fire of sacrifice is blazing, the priests lay the sacred meal."

"An outstanding personality, innerly filled with light and warmth. There is a sincere religious spirit, exclusive of hypocrisy but not of earthly pleasures, prominent among which is enjoyment of good food. The other (chart) factors have to show whether this pious strain is likelier to inspire an ascetic or a sensuous mystic. In either case, the native may enter the clergy or, as a layman, lead an apostle's life.

Either in a cloister or in the world, the natives' ecclesiastical or worldly career stands under good auspices and even may prove very fortunate indeed, if backed by other indications of luck." (8th house Jupiter in Aries - jc.) "The support of highly placed people and the sympathy of learned persons will bring forth the native's otherwise unmistakable gifts, and his presence will appear indispensable to others."

Sad that composer-pianist Fryderyck Chopin died age 39, on Oct 17, 1849 of tuberculosis after settling in Paris (Sept 1831) and charmingly becoming part of an elite circle of social creatures with whom he arranged to teach music to their offspring, and entertain ritzy revelers during intimate candlelight suppers and other diverting amusements.

Which Symbol do I think more applies? Probably "A Jewish Rabbi" which may of course be considered to describe an archetypal image of a pope or priest. During his final lying-in, Chopin received the viaticum from Abbey Alexander Jelowick on Oct 14, 1849, passing away 4 days later. Plus, a rabbi is a teacher, and the maestro taught music lessons, as noted.

Upon Chopin's request, his heart was removed and placed in an urn and masoned behind a wall of the Church of the Holy Cross, Warsaw, an act meant to deliver a particular message into the Great Beyond, I think. It seems to me to be a 'time capsule of the heart' that goes along with the brilliant musical time capsule I experienced on the radio this very morning!

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*the wordism interweb is freely credited to TV's Craig Ferguson.

No 'George Sand' has been mentioned or injured during the typing of this post.