2017--2018 Planetary Returns to the DOJ natal chart

November 22, 2017: today I've been messing about with the Department of Justice (DOJ) natal chart which is displayed in a previous post of 2016 titled, Shadow into Light: an Esoteric Department of Justice. DOJ Jupiter, the planet associated with justice, is @3Sco10 (closely conjoining US SP Saturn Rx, our nation's progressed Saturn position these days since 1996--US Saturn no longer in balancing Libra, now in Big Business Scorpio) and since transit Jupiter has now entered Scorpio, I peeked to see when another Jupiter Return would occur for the DOJ (the last was on November 9, 2005 with a Jupiter-Uranus trine 3A41). The current Jupiter Return occurred on October 25, 2017--synchronicity! since October 25th is the DOJ's 'birthday' (1934, with FDR presiding in Masonic ceremony--follow link, above to view its natal or or founding chart). Now the DOJ's Solar Return 2017 occurred the evening before--October 24th, to be precise, as Solar Returns will sometimes do.

In the DOJ Jupiter Return chart, justice-seeker Jupiter is sandwiched between the Sun @1Sco57 (as in the natal chart) and Mercury @12Sco30 with the planetary trio in Return 4th house. With 6Leo55 rising, Sun is chart-ruler and applies once--to a conjunction with Jupiter so the whole shebang is a very Sun-Jupiter affair. So from late 2017 and for approximately the next 12 years the DOJ will express its Sun-Jupiter tendencies for good or worse. Potentials indicated by Sun-Jupiter are long distance travel, cultural and social events, intellectual pursuits, courageous actions, self-confidence (maybe too much!), and generally, busy activities within the judicial system. However, Mercury in Scorpio is apex of a midpoint picture (Mars-Saturn) denoting bad news, as in bereavement.

Another stand-out feature of the DOJ Jupiter Return 2017 chart is disruptive rebel Uranus @26Ari18 Rx conjunct Return Midheaven (MC), a marker for potentials such as dramatic reforms and adjustments in career and/or public status (the US is trending down already), sudden reforms that affect every department, geographic relocation for someone, and/or change of profession. These events we have already seen via firings and resignations, a familiar theme of the Trump and GOP agenda as they 'slim down' government until it starves (or can be drowned in a bath tub a la Grover Norquist).

Then in May 2018, a series of three Uranus Returns begin to manifest for the DOJ, a time when the past no longer holds sway and there's no telling what the current crop of Uranian Utopian anarchists (Uranus in Aries) have in mind for our judicial system--apparently a new direction or an unorthodox goal. (Nothing good to my way of thinking.) Because once a country's court system is corrupted to the core, it's down hill from then on, I'm very sad to say. Not that the US Judicial System was ever perfect, of course, but we'll know what we really had once it's completely gone--undermined and perverted by infiltrators of the betraying kind.

Now here are the three dates of the DOJ Uranus Return/s to natal position of 29Ari21, a critical, impatient 29th degree which points toward May 15, 2018 when transit Uranus bursts into Taurus (horoscope shown):

1. May 3, 2018

2. November 24, 2018

3. February 18, 2019

Above image: the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building; {public domain; Wikimedia Commons}; Constitution Avenue.

June 13, 2017 AG Jeff Sessions testifies under a Mercury-Neptune square

Scheduled today at 2:30 pm edt on Capitol Hill is an open session with Attorney General Jeff Sessions who will answer the senators' questions (or not) under the day's confusing influence of a Mercury (testifier; communicator; speaker) square Neptune, planet of delusion, deception, fraud, the media, the masses--you know the list. The assimilation of information is faulty as we see with Donald Trump who was born with the same aspect between Mercury and Neptune resulting in loose lips, indiscretion, misconceptions, lies, and a 'sneaky mind' (Oken).

Under this problematic square, who's right and who's wrong is a confusing matter and cold logic is missing although inspiration and intuition may be enhanced and illusions may be promoted. It's a tricky period during which Mr. Sessions has placed himself on the hot seat in a public forum to basically defend himself--and Mr. Trump.

Will undisputed facts reach right conclusions? As an astrologer, I doubt it. As an American, I sincerely long for facts to point in the correct direction yet I fret that today's testimony by AG Jeff Sessions will make little or no difference in the end.

Image: Donald Trump natal horoscope June 14, 1946; tomorrow is Trump's 71st birthday but his Solar Return for 2017 is actually today.

Related: June 8, 2017: Comey Testifies under Trump's Sun Gem-Moon Sag Blend.

btw: I neglected to mention earlier that at 2:30 pm edt today on Capitol Hill, Jeff Sessions' natal vague Neptune in Libra was rising followed closely by transit Jupiter! And an out-of-bounds Mars @6Cancer (conjunct US natal Jupiter) opposes (challenges) AG Sessions' natal Mars in Capricorn. (Dec 24, 1946 'noon' Selma, Alabama).

Shadow into Light: an Esoteric Department of Justice

Various dates and events are noted upon the Wikipedia page of the Department of Justice along with the name of President Franklin D. Roosevelt but unsurprisingly I find no mention of FDR's attendance at the Masonic ceremony on October 25, 1934 to dedicate the DoJ building at 3:00 pm (The Secret Architecture of Our Nation's Capital, pp. 291/92, paperback, Ovason). Obviously '3:00 pm' was an elected hour for occult purposes.

Across the District of Columbia, esoteric symbols are styled into the city's architecture including the DoJ building via a panel designed by the sculptor C. Paul Jennewein and installed in 1935 on the Constitution Avenue side of the building. Mr. Ovason describes the panel's symbolism as "a rarity in Washington DC, for it was designed to make a hermetic use of sunlight in the slow build up toward an esoteric meaning. Given the context, this symbolism equates the sunlight with the light of justice, and deepens that significance of the Latin above the figures, Lege atque Ordine Omnia Fiunt: "All things are created by Law and Order."

(Image: {Public domain or CCO} by Daderot (own work), via Wikimedia Commons)

Ovason continues, "Since the facade (and hence the panel) is oriented on the east-west line, the morning sun falls upon the figures fairly evenly, picking them out dramatically, as the relief is highlighted above the shadows. However, the panel has been inset in such a way that, until the whole relief is lighted, a shadow remains over the stick in the hand of the nude figure to the extreme right. As the Sun moves higher up the skies, the hand of the man is eventually picked out. The sunlight then slides slowly down the stick in his hand until the bottom symbol is revealed by its rays. This last penetration of light reveals the intent of the symbolism -- a serpent, coiled in the bottom-right corner. Such a light-darkness symbolism was widely used in Egyptian architectural devices."

So what of the nude man, his staff, and the darkened snake? Officially the symbol of the man is said to represent Order and the snake suggests the ancient "Snake of Wisdom." And of course, healing and rebirth as symbolized by two entwined snakes on the staff of the Caduceus come to mind along with that symbol's Mercurial connection and its resemblance to DNA. But wait! The snake on the DoJ panel is not wrapped around the staff as seen in arcane and religious imagery. On the DoJ building the single snake is quite different for the man is standing on the snake and his staff or stick is actually a spear. It is a triumphant symbol showing victory over man's lower nature as he aims for higher spiritual growth within the basic Masonic theme of redemption.

Tragically, this denotes another way in which America has lost her direction because for too long, US justice, as is usually meted out in our two-tiered system, tends most often to inspire the repetition of criminal acts rather than leading to redemption but this is well known and understandably lamented by the populace--and is a tragedy beyond the scope of this post. It is my thought that once a nation's legal system is corrupted beyond repair, that nation is plummeting down into history's dust bin of oblivion.

As for the abundant use of celestial Virgo symbolism across the city, the Department of Justice building displays The Maiden and wheat symbols on its two large aluminum doors below the above pictured panel. The doors were also designed by C.P. Jennewein and depict lions as well which denotes the Zodiacal progression of the 5th sign Sun-ruled Leo into the 6th sign of Mercury-ruled Virgo, The Maiden, or archetypal goddess so often depicted with shafts of wheat or corn in her hand.

Mr. Ovason explains that "The idea that from the bestial realm of animality (Leo) may grow the life-giving corn, with all the Christian implications of the pelanos, or sacred bread, is a profound reflection on the inner propensity of Virgo for order and perfection. The redemptive theme is also expressed in the spear in the hand of the man above, the bottom part of which transfixes the serpent. Just as this portal imagery associates the snake with the lower lion, so it associates the growing wheat with the hand of man, by which he remains creative in the world. {} Just as the snake remains in darkness to the last, so the hand of man is first picked out by the light of the Sun...The snake is the dark inner serpent which must be overcome to free the inner light."

Categorizing Virgo must have order, yes. "All things are created by law and order." In astrological symbolism, law is one of the provinces of Saturn, ruler of Capricorn, the sign of law, government, and business. And where does Virgo lead? To Libra, sign of the Scales of Justice, and this is available in America--if you have money to pay for it.

So, without further fussing on my part, here is the DoJ horoscope set for October 25, 1934 at the astrologically elected hour of 3:00 pm est, Washington DC with its out-of-bounds Moon which suggests that We the People were 'out of the loop' or somehow detached from the event (or unaware of it). Mars and disguising Neptune are in celestial Virgo while transit Pluto powerfully challenges US natal Pluto by opposition, and the recent Jupiter Direct station @13Virgo was performed upon 1934's Neptune and may be at least partially descriptive of current mutual lawsuits between Washington and NC and the overblown reactions involved on both sides to what is close to being a non-issue of social wedge proportions.

Please enlarge the image if you wish to read the astro-notes squished upon the chart:

Dems & DOJ Have Done Nothing on Voter Suppression: 2016 Disaster Awaits

The entire Campaign 2016 has become something of a disaster for several reasons but voting conditions on November 8, 2016 may take the cake. It seems maddening and hypocritical how often Washington has pontificated to other countries on How to Hold Elections while they've managed to gum up US elections so effectively in about every way possible:

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Why do you want to serve George W. Bush?

News Updates from Citizens For Legitimate Government

July 28, 2008

All items are here: Breaking News

"What is it about George W. Bush that makes you want to serve him?"

Justice Officials Repeatedly Broke Law on Hiring, Report Says July 28, 2008

Former Justice Department counselor Monica M. Goodling and former chief of staff D. Kyle Sampson routinely broke the law by conducting political litmus tests on candidates for jobs as immigration judges and line prosecutors, according to an inspector general's report released today.

Goodling passed over hundreds of qualified applicants and squashed the promotions of others after deeming candidates insufficiently loyal to the Republican party, said investigators, who interviewed 85 people and received information from 300 other job seekers at Justice.

Sampson developed a system to screen immigration judge candidates based on improper political considerations and routinely took recommendations from the White House Office of Political Affairs and Presidential Personnel, the report said. Goodling regularly asked candidates for career jobs, "What is it about George W. Bush that makes you want to serve him?" the report said.#

Oh don't encourage me to answer that one! Heil? -jc

Einstein fans rejoice as warping found

Einstein's Warping Found Around Neutron Stars yet I never doubted Albert, did you?

Alberto and his warping of the DOJ, that's another dark matter. Now if the White House can find the thousands of missing and damning emails, we'll really be on to something. Hint: they're in this universe.

35W Bridge Collapse and the YOD in the sky

Yesterday's YOD formation is startingly implicated in last evening's bridge collapse in Minneapolis, MN (6:05 pm CDT), and my heart goes out to my fellow citizens there.

If you're not actually visiting SO'W at this moment, I hope you will do so and take a look at the chart for what's being called a collapse--with Homeland Security's quick-as-bunnies' assessment that the collapse "did not appear to be terroism-related."

That was mighty fast, wasn't it? Almost prescient! A lot like the FBI's pronouncement within hours of Sen. Paul Wellstone's plane crash (Oct 25, 2002) that there was no evidence that the crash had been an act of terroism. But that's a post for another day (see American Assassination, by Jim Fetzer and Four Arrows.)

The crisis-ridden YOD formation with Mercury/Mars (both of which are associated with travel and vehicles) pointing to saboteur and catalyst, Pluto--rising, planet of death and destruction--adds another picture to my mention of the YOD (Rumsfeld defends) of yesterday...

Mercury/Mars = ASC: stormy or turbulent proceedings.

To recap from yesterday...Merc/Mars = Pluto: suffering heavy or bitter attacks or assaults from others.

Tony Snow quickly weighed in on behalf of the White House with helpful finger-pointing toward the bridge's squirreliness:

White House Cites Deficiencies in Bridge which is true, according to the National Bridge Inventory of 2005.

Being of a suspicious nature, it only makes me think that this particular bridge was a good choice for a false flag op. And it was under cosmetic refurbishing at the time, to be sure...another part of a convenient red herring?

Then again, foreign terroists could have read the 2005 Inventory as well. Add the fact that a train was passing underneath the bridge and it seems a good way to deliver the Boom, Boom, Boom which eye-witnesses have reported hearing just before the bridge went down with plumes rising.

HoSec, ahh, HoSec:

Are there links between the bridge collapse catatrophe and the natal chart of the boondoggle aka HoSec?

Too many to mention, but some highlights include:


HoSec Mars conj Bridge MC: action; change of status; responsibility grows.

HoSec Moon (9Leo45) conj Bridge Sun: illuminated achievements.

HoSec Mercury conj Bridge Jupiter (getting ready for his Direct Station in a few days, conj violent Fixed Star, Antares, obsessed with success): travel; legal issues.

This position of Mercury is same as n Mercury of George Bush--and of the Republican Party.

And since the Bridge collapse's 8th house cusp (death; transformation; 7Leo53) has Bush's n ASC upon it--with Sun conj his and R-Party's n Mercury) you may wish to check out my burning bush post on "8Leo" from another degrees interpretation by Adriano Carelli.) These 8-11 degrees of Leo also conjunct perfectly Alberto Gonzales' Leo line-up of planets.


More HoSec hook-ups with current transits:

HoSec MC (goals; ambitions) conj Pluto (actually this is a Pluto conj MC transit): dramatic changes of perspective are practically assured; identity transformation possible; major job adjustments; separation; recognition and the ultimate power position are possible; past mistakes are opened to view and threaten ruin.

The last possibility has been italized by yours truly. (Tyl, midpoint directory.) Wouldn't want it overlooked!

Another transit of great interest to HoSec's natal chart is Pluto opposite n Saturn at IC, the HOW? of the natal chart. Pluto opposite Saturn's control and authority:

Structures and traditions are significantly altered or transfomed (Pluto = transformation) by current circumstances; sacrifice, hard work, and attained seniority (Sat) bring no rewards; attempts to impose authority are met with unwavering resistance. Unwillingness or inability to accept past failures, loss, and disappointments work against one's authority (Instant Horoscope Predictor, Julia Lupton Skalka.)

With the cruel, violent Saturn/Pluto midpoint at MC (Goal; WHY?) as the bridge collapsed, we see:

Sat/Pluto = MC: major separation as a last resort; desire to rise from difficult circumstances through the application of tenacity; severity; one-sidedness.

Also at MC is asteroid, Hidalgo (sorry to note, but this brings in a Latin influence) whose keywords are: expecting to be in control; self-assertion in defense of principles. Foreign terroists--or Gonzo-and-Bush-under-fire and firing back?

So...Saturn/Pluto = Hidalgo, and all are within orb of conjunction with Bush's natal IC, the HOW? Point/Foundation of his birth chart. They've been hanging about his IC for awhile which I thought was interesting, that's all.

And with activist, instigator, and figher Mars conj nasty Fixed Star, Algol these days, there's plenty of violence, murder, and criminality to go around, isn't there?

Pluto rising is snugged about by two more nasty Stars: Aculeus and Acumen. But my typing finger has worn out so I'll save them for another day...hint: they both relate to leadership ability--and to blindness!

Yet I must add at the IC/HOW? Point of the bridge collapse chart, asteroid Cupido, keywords: organization; corporations; the family. Hmmm.

And there's Rx Venus, she of the vengeful nature when riled, conj asteroid Atlantis: abuse or misuse of power; where we feel doomed.

Perhaps you see why I'm suspicious of the whole easy-to-dismiss-as-not-terroism disaster...and why I'm not certain from which quarter our troubles have come.



Note on HoSec + Bridge Collapse Davison Composite Chart: often I use C/Natal or C/Dav charts for events or relationships and keep the results under my babushka. This time it's worth a mention of the date which results from the C/Dav combo (averaging = their relationship.) I tend to read C/Davs as karmic conditions--but in the past-catching-up kind of way--reaping what we sow.

Their combination gives: March 29, 2005...the day Bush nominated Rachel Brand as Asst Atty General, I found after performing a small Googling (and there may be other related events for that date, of course.

A true Bushie, Brand announced her (rather quick) departure from the DOJ on June 29, 2007, effective July 9 just passed. Here's a link to a brief article--esp since Brand has ties with under-serious-fire Gonzales for his underhanded handling of the Justice Dept:

Asst Atty Gen Rachel Brand Announces Departure from DOJ's Office of Legal Policy