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Showing posts with label Today I Weep for My Country. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Today I Weep for My Country. Show all posts

Jul 1, 2010

Senator Byrd in repose: a Mystic Rectangle forms

Today as Senator Robert Byrd lies in repose on the Senate floor for his last appearance there, Sun is in Cancer, Moon in grieving Pisces, two water signs which gently trine one another.

A pattern called a Mystic Rectangle (practical mysticism) forms today at 1:16 pm between Sun, Moon, Mercury, Mars, and NN and the senator will be visited by the public until mid-afternoon. This is a singular honor to lie in repose on the Senate floor rather than under the Capitol rotunda of our Masonic Capitol Building, and critique him as we may, I think Senator Byrd is one of the few Washington politicians who can still be said to deserve such an honor.

Senator Joseph McCarthy was the last to lie in repose there.

Today an out-of-bounds Mercury 13Can18 conjoins US natal Sun as well which indicates on one level the public viewing (Mercury) of a US leader (Sun.) The melancholy midpoint of Saturn/Neptune 13Sag34 continues its visitation to US natal Ascendant:

Sat/Nep = ASC: emotional suffering; oppressive environment (funeral, etc); sense of being 'out of the group'; mourning and bereavement.

Will there be more US funerals with the current January eclipse conjunct US natal Pluto? Well, there's not much time for it with the next Solar Eclipse occurring on July 11 @ '20Can' in a Series with quite a different flavor.

The current Solar Eclipse season (Jan 15, 2010 @ 25Cap01) has indicated loss of leadership in relation to Capricorn's interests: government, law, business; royal weddings are indicated by this eclipse as well, and those have been in the news. (Did Prince William really elope? I've had no time to follow up on the rumor!)

Born in North Wilkersboro, NC on November 20, 1917, Senator Byrd's Sun in Scorpio, Moon in Aquarius (for the 24-hour period; birth hour unknown) gave him a radically independent viewpoint, a self-reflective temperament, a magnetic effect on others, and the powerful intellect he was well known for in Washington. This will, no doubt, be eulogized.

To quote one who shares the senator's Sun Scor/Moon AQ blend, "Integrity is in no need of rules." - Albert Camus.

Yet I would add, 'but man is - especially when set loose in the halls of power.'

Today's 'cagey crab fish' Sun Can/Moon Pisc blend gives the following word pictures, or Images for Integration, which set a 'slippery and secretive' tone for this day of the senator's last appearance in the US Senate:

A lone sailboat offshore at sunset...Ol' man river, he keeps on rollin' along.

Mr. Byrd has served West Virginia well through the decades, bringin' home the pork for a state that could well use it, so it isn't up to me to hold that against him. And it's doubtful that the American people will see his likes again on Capitol Hill for who else will stand up on the Senate floor to speak against a misadventure like Bush-Cheney's Iraq invasion?

Please click if you wish to read the senator's March 2003 speech
Today, I weep for my country with which he attempted to clue in the war hawks of their folly, war hawks who still quixotically helm our nation against all common sense.

So today it's our turn to weep, if only for a moment out of our busy lives, for Senator Byrd who lies in repose, his work assignment on earth now done.


Senator Robert Byrd
1917 - 2010
R. I. P.


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(Sun Sign-Moon Sign, Charles & Suzy Harvey.)

Jun 28, 2010

Who will carry the US Constitution now that Senator Byrd is gone?

As you heard, the longest serving senator in US history, Senator Robert Byrd (D-WVA), passed away during the night at age 92.

After his 50+ years of service, had he lived down an unfortunate membership in the Klan in his youth? Opponents would say nay, yet I forgave him long ago based on his exemplary record serving in the US Senate, and most especially for delivering the speech Today, I Weep for My Country which was heard on the senate floor on behalf of common decency, Constitutional law, the American people, and the people of Iraq who at the time were only hours from being bombed by the Bush-Cheney administration in March 2003, a conflict still grinding on these 7 years later with no end in sight, and much to what should be America's eternal shame.

I well remember the months-long campaign with war drums beating on the afternoon of March 19, 2003, for I was weeping, too.

For even this *Saturnian astrologer knows that karma is what we reap from what we've sown, and Hades and chaos in the Middle East are what America has sown. No one welcomes foreign occupation of their country and that goes for Afghanistan as well. Would you?

So here is what I blogged on the 5th anniversary of the Iraq invasion with a link to Senator Byrd's heartfelt speech included. As soon as Senator Byrd finished speaking, (VP Cheney directed) the Theodore-Roosevelt-worshiping Senator John McCain to stand up and defend the war hawks' 'decision' to wage their war of choice with its visions of world domination and obscene profits.

You'll find McCain's speech included and I find it fascinating to compare the two senators' sentiments now in light of how things have turned out so far in Iraq.

Or you may wish to skip my ramblings and go directly to the text of both speeches, compliments of Information Clearing House

Now the war-promoting senator that day is the same John McCain who tossed out a "maybe more troops in Afghanistan" on Meet the Press yesterday, a statement which almost made me lose my brunch. For if Afghanistan isn't a perfect historical example of bashing one's head against a brick wall, I don't know what is, though 'stone' wall would be more to the point.

And so the tattered copy of the US Constitution which Senator Byrd carried in his pocket through the years must now be sadly laid aside with his passing. Without Senator Byrd's spirit of vigilance, let us hope that this laying aside is not indicative of a further and deeper loss of constitutional principles.

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*Saturnian astrologer as opposed to Uranian astrologer is my understanding of one who sees heredity and DNA in cell-like horoscopes where others see past lives and reincarnation.