Marching to War: Jingoes the Brave

Wars don't happen overnight, they takes years to plan and stage.

As you may know, the US has been at it since 1991: The March to War: Naval build-up in the Persian Gulf and the Eastern Mediterranean tells much of the sorry tale, and of the involvement of NATO, Israel, and Canada.

'Tis tres sad for you, Sparkie, that if you're reading these words you have a rhyme in store--a rhyme which lighted heavily upon my Bic this morning--written in honor of those now-silent war supporters who'd rather not be bothered even though their learless feader, George Bush, needs them so. But perhaps it's just desserts that Pres. AWOL has earned their non-support!


Come all you little jingoes supporting the war
it's time to be drafted and show them what for
while waving striped flags you were quick to invade
don't say your fight-spirit is starting to fade.

For America the Brave needs more jingoes like you
with smart bombs to drop and more killing to do
as enemies pouf into tunnel and cave
your brothers are serving our as*es to save.

So get yours on down to the draft-lover's line
and step up for war--now it's your turn to shine.


(c) jude cowell 2007



Jingoism: aggressive or warlike patriotism.

See World Wide Words: Jingoism.

And in case you missed it from Nov 8, 2003: Talk of a draft grows despite denials by White House which reminds us of the bruhaha that broke out when the Defense Department placed a notice on its website under Defend America which asked for "men and women in the community who might be willing to serve as members on a local draft board...Positions are available in many communities across the Nation."

Are they now?

A tempting offer, yet most jingoes between the ages of 18 and 24--and their parents--were apparently underwhelmed and the notice was deleted from the website by Nov 7, 2003.

Seems the 'draft flag' was run up the flagpole to see who would salute and only Sen Rangel (NY) and Rep Hollings (SC) bothered by proposing legislation for the first draft since 1973 which so far has gone nowhere...hence my encouraging poem for all those who thought the Bush-Cheney war was a good idea. Where are you now? Busy? But still idealistic for war?

"Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem."

-John Galsworthy, whose Sun Leo/Moon Aquarius personality blend has these Images for Integration:

The chairman of the board raises his glass to his able colleagues...The king of a large, prosperous empire invites everyone to his wedding.

(Sun Sign, Moon Sign, Charles and Suzy Harvey.)

One's distance from the problem is the problem for the Pentagon and they'd like it to be solved by more troops please...idealism preferred but not required.

So if your draft notice eventually comes in the mail you can say a wedding invitation would have been more welcome. But in the globalist NWO empire, perhaps they're one in the same.

Churchill's thoughts on Iraq

"When Iraq becomes strong enough in our opinion to stand alone, we shall be in a position to state that our task has been fulfilled, and that Iraq is an independent sovereign state. But this cannot be said while we are forced year after year to spend very large sums of money on helping the Iraqi government to defend itself and maintain order." --Winston Churchill, 1922

"Forced" to spend very large sums of money?

After reading this quote from Sir Winston, I took a peek at his current Minor Progressions which describe the mental plane, for as you know, our natal charts continue to be impacted long after we're gone.

Sir Winston Churchill, born Nov 30, 1874, 1:30 am GMT, Woodstock England; chart progressed to Aug 25, 2007, midnight. Here are his Minor midpoint pictures which may or may not apply to anything under the sun, but as a consumate politician, perhaps they--and his sort of thinking--do:

Moon/Pluto = Neptune: sensitivity; lack of willpower; sentimentality; depression; fear of the unknown; feeling weakened somehow.

Moon/Saturn = Mc (Minor Mc = "4 Gem", near tr Midas 2006/07): sense of duty; feeling deserted; self-control; feeling ill or sad. (This Mc has Minor Pluto/Chiron, the plutocratic duo, upon it as well. Why does this not surprise me? And Moon/Saturn as a pair = ambition; strategy; direction. Hmph.)

Sun/Saturn = Jupiter: good fortune of an old or ill person; break-up of a value system for eventual recovery; cloud with a silver lining (that'd be nice.)

Mercury/Saturn = Jupiter: industriousness; philosophical thinking; success with irksome work; a fortunate separation.

Mars/NN = Sun: good cooperation; excellent teamwork.


You may have noticed the strong-armed paternalism in the above quote.

NWO's Uranus/Neptune Conjunction degree of 1892 (the robber barons and their spawn are riding still) is "18Cap": "The Union Jack flies from a British destroyer"...SUPERVISION.

pos: the self's ever-widening spread of interest in its insatiable desire to leave some permanent imprint of itself on everything it touches (like the 'mark of the beast'??);

neg/shadow/unconscious side: smug or strong-armed paternalism.


And the know-it-all Western occupiers are still trying to tell Iraq what to do.



New World Order chart and details are linked here.

Gigantic Jets in Oklahoma!

Space Weather News for August 23, 2007

From SpaceWeather.com:

On Aug. 20th, an amateur astronomer in Oklahoma scanned the sky for meteors using a low-light video camera--but instead of meteors, he recorded a bizarre upside-down form of lightning called "Gigantic Jets." Discovered in 2001, Gigantic Jets are enormous discharges that leap upward 50 miles high from the tops of thunderclouds. They are related to better known sprites and elves, but are larger and more dramatic. The Oklahoma Jets are the first ever photographed over the continental United States and they may provide key data to researchers working to understand the phenomenon.

Visit SpaceWeather.com to view a movie of the Jets and to learn how you might be able to catch them yourself.

little known facts about 9/11

Have you seen this resource with little known facts about 9/11?

Google's new Sky tool is a virtual telescope

New Google Sky tool turns computer into virtual telescope, planetarium so I gotta have it!

Google Earth

Bush vs Al-Maliki (Iran)

When Blogger/Blogspot was 'down' this morning, I did what I had to do and posted Al-Maliki whines so Bush refines over at Jude's Threshold.

Are you bemused at how Bush defends responding to the "demands of the people" only when it doesn't affect his own regime? Neither am I.

those Jews and Freemasons!

Masonic Traveler has the text of an interview about that suspicious secret whatchamacallit where you'll find that Jews and Freemasons are said to be behind...well, check it out for yourself.

Sun conjunct Saturn 28 Leo 32

On Capitol Hill this evening at 7:28 pm edt, serious Saturn is joined overhead by the Sun, 28Leo32 (an Astrology degree! "29" of any sign is a crisis/critical degree
as well, and conjs Fixed Star, Regulus. The Royal Stars of Pesia are all over this chart, in fact.)

If you allow the use of the NN, a joining associative point, there is a Mutable Grand Cross as well, with Neptune rising simultaneously. Neptune conj ASC is often the actor or the deceiver.

MC is part of the Grand Cross and thus releases some of its erratic, nervous energies through the career. There's an alertness yet much stress between the opposing planets (Dynamics of Aspect Analysis, Bil Tierney.)

The top of the chart, the Midheaven (Mc), which is the WHY?/Aspiration Point of any chart, has Moon 9Sag26 conj Jupiter 10Sag16. Moneybags Jupiter, significator of the GOP, is still hanging out at the "A golden-haired goddess of opportunity" degree, yet is in process of heading for "11Sag": "The lamp of physical enlightenment at the left temple."

"11Sag" is an interesting degree for it is where the Pluto/Chiron conjunction occurred on Dec 30, 1999, the oppressive, class warfare pairing which ushered in our New Millenium.

Moon is conj Fixed Star Antares where Jupiter's Direct Station recently occurred, Mars is opposite at the Foundation of the chart, along with Fixed Star Aldebaran and asteroid, Midas.

There is much going on in this chart--and much going on tonight in Washington it seems--but I have other things to do at the moment and am planning to return to complete this post later this afternoon. If so, the new details will begin HERE...

Returning later than expected, the Sun/Saturn conj is 28 mins away from exactitude, so I'll only add the degree symbolism for what seems to apply most for today given the Chinese dissident's release from prison in China and his speech in Congress today, and also Bush's meeting with other leaders at the Montebello Summit...using Adriano Carelli's The 360 Degrees of the Zodiac for "28Leo":

...industriousness profits from this influence. It will make (natives) into honest, fair, humane people whom everyone will find attractive and easy to deal with. They will promote--or contribute to--the setting up of cooperatives, cultural societies, social foundations, etc.

...in the absence of any marks of finacial luck, this idealist might bring about his own ruin.

Do you think the NAU--which Bush termed "comical"--counts as a cooperative?


(oh yeah--and Fedman Ben Bernanke met with Sen. Chris Dodd today too!)

a few astro-notes on Barack Obama

In answer to a reader's query, no! I have not done a full post on the natal chart of Barack Obama. Without a birth time it didn't seem prudent. If I find an accurate time for him I would be pleased to expand.

But here are the few notes done so far on his possible Sun-Moon blend/s depending on which of two signs the Moon was in during the 24 hours of his birth date.

The Great Equalizer = 24 hours in a day. That's all anyone has no matter how 'they' fiddle with time zones or monkey with calendars!

Bush, Harper, Calderone Summit

Bush Seeks to Boost Canada, Mexico Ties at a 2-day summit in Montebello, Quebec, today and Tuesday as these midpoint pictures form the background of the week:

Saturn/Uranus = Mars (conj asteroid Midas): tremendous upheaval possible through rebellion, overstrain, calamity, or anxiety about how things will get on; challenges leading to a fight (Tyl): injury; accident; deprivation of freedom; the wrong use of extraordinary energy (Ebertin.)

The pairing of Saturn (structure; form; old; the past) with Uranus (rebellion; disruption; shock; progress; the new) is always indicative of the tension and stress between old vs new which may lead to conflict and sometimes to violence, and there's an intervention in one's destiny flavor. Instigator and activist Mars has been mightily busy of late, hasn't he?

And with Mars at 6-8 Gemini this month puts me in mind of the last Great Conjunction/s of Neptune/Pluto, the Robber Baron team of the late 1890s...

1. Aug 2, 1891 8Gem38
2. Nov 5, 1891 8Gem19
3. Apr 30, 1892 7Gem42

This is when the real exploitation of natural resources and the oppression of the masses got its modern beginning not they hadn't before, of course. The Neptune/Pluto cycle lasts appr 492 years, and they are now in the septile phase (51:26 degr) of their slow dance. You'll find my post on the karmic Neptune/Pluto septile here, a 7th harmonic aspect.


Sad to say, the other difficult midpoint picture ongoing is explosive in the extreme:

Mars/Pluto = Uranus: tremendous energy; dangerous sense of attack; chip on the shoulder; fight first, talk later (Tyl); cruelty; violence; brutality; sudden disasters of great consequence (Ebertin.)

Weather-related catastrophes are included in these pictures, and the Saturn/Uranus/Mars combo certainly relates to mining collapses all over the globe from Utah to China, and to airplane explosions in Japan, etc. Boeing planes have been grounded there for inspections as an unaspected Uranus 'runs away' with current energies--yet Uranus is the focal planet in the Mars/Pluto midpoint picture, and is associated with electromagnetic weaponry, lightening, technology, and creative genius.

May the shuttle Endeavor's early return escape the violent influences of Hurricane Dean and of instigators of all stripes.


But back to Canada's 2-day summit:

Protesters have been out since yesterday prior to Bush's arrival for some Canadians see this 'partnership' as a threat to Canadian sovereignty being led by the US.

Agreed, but in this case it takes three to tango, my Canadian friends, for No Borders are respected by Chiron-Uranus Types in Government.

With PM Stephen Harper and Mexican president Felipe Calderon categorized as "conservatives" and "free trade advocates" (supposedly more so than their recent predecessors) it seems the North American Union globalist plans are grinding along nicely and with better shills now in place.

Imho, the clearest view of this devilish dissolving of the three nations is to be found at Patrick Wood's The August Review.

And it's not a pretty picture no matter how it's propagandistically framed...the class warfare of plutocratic Chiron-Pluto never is.

Guess Cheney owns the planet Mars

Because he's readying to drill for oil there with NASA as his enabler. Crazy. And if they break it, they sure won't be able to fix it, will they?



Thanks go to Astrology Communications Media for the link.

Petraeus "Report" Sep 15 2007

Symbolically using the noon hour of Sept 15 as a time of airing/revealing, we see the chart for Gen David Petraeus' report on the Iraq occupation's "progress" holding a wealth of information relating to the US natal chart (Sibly) and having links to the NWO chart as well.

My assumption is that the so-called, much-touted report will be delivered on Sep 15.


UPDATE Monday 8.20: LegitGov.org

White House: Iraq progress report could be Sept 11 20 Aug 2007 U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker and the top U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus [Betrayus], will likely testiLIE to Congress about progress in the war on September 11 or September 12, the White House said on Monday.#

LOL! Did someone in the White House read this post about Sep 15?


The Mc/WHY Point of the noon chart has "6Virgo" = "A merry-go-round"...not conducive to getting out of a hopeless loop, and connected to reaching for the brass ring. Seems the speculators of Washington are busy with their usual power games, doesn't it?

Highlight colors are: US natal = pink; NWO = yellow; Mutable T-square = green; YOD = red (click chart to enlarge for my usual schmooshed-up, chickenscratch notes.)

The Mutable T-square is a biggie here esp since the apex Sun happens to be in conjunction with America's natal Neptune, planet of self-delusion, deception, and confusion. Nebulous Neptune's veiling effect doesn't bode well for this 'revelation' meant to improve America's direction in Iraq...it'll be more of the same propaganda, I suspect.

That R and D political considerations are keeping us in Iraq is so painfully obvious, that--as my mother used to say--if it'd been a snake it would've bitten ya.

When the Sun highlights natal Neptune by transit, fantasies and ideals become part of the environment (Capitol Hill in this case), and there is a tendency to conveniently lose sight of reality--or others may hide the truth (hush my mouth, ya don't say!)

Flexible morals cause trouble yet there is a sense of compassion in the air such as when visiting the sick or maimed in hospital, etc. Possibly our wounded soldiers may receive scant mention or lipservice with Neptune's illusions attached to the issues.

Tr Atlantis 18Vir24, an asteroid whose keywords are: abuse or misuse of power; where we feel doomed ...remains at the Solar Eclipse degree of Sep 11.

(My own sense of doom has been heightened by America's entering the New Millenium with enemies not just without--but within as our Consitution and Bill of Rights continue to be undermined by those who purport themselves to be our "leaders" but who use our patriotism, apathy, and gullibility against this nation in order to pursue their selfish aims of world domination. They su*k.)

So here are the midpoint pictures from the noon chart using apex/focal planet Sun as well as focal US Neptune:

Mars/Pluto = Sun: passionate attack to achieve objectives; upset of plans that is unredeemable; ability to work until collapse or complete breakdown; violent measures; intervention of the big shock (as in the misnamed, propagandistic shock and awe?)

Mars/Pluto = Neptune: implacability or irreconcilability; cunning and deceit; subterfuge; plotting rebellion; desire to harm others secretly and unobtrusively; catastrophe caused by water/gas/poison (since it's Neptune as apex, I would add: catastrophe caused by deceit; self-deception; lies, etc.)

Will this "report" even be aired to all or to a few rubberstampers in Congress as the White House would prefer? Neptune's veiling!

Tr Mars 23Gem26 is just beyond his US natal Mars Return--same day as the Sep 11 Solar Eclipse.


Mutable T-square:

Sun = leader in a national chart and in this particular case, I believe the apex Sun in Mutable T-square represents Gen Petraeus in its positive expressions, and George Bush (and what he's done to our military) in the negative. They say the White House has actually written this "report" which leaves Petraeus to catapult it to the world-at-large and most esp to the American public. "Our enemies are listening" as well, as the White House rightly says.

Apex Sun in Mutable T-square: this individual is driven to seek recognition, praise, and significance from society. He wants to feel proud of his mental achievements but runs the risk of nervous overstrain and physical exhaustion if he pushes too hard.

Mutable signs have low stamina, and apex Sun here indicates an inconsistent course of action. However, because the Sun represents purposeful inner drives, apex Sun gives somewhat less of an aimless scattering of energies. But there is massive ego involvement in the thought processes, therefore less objectivity. A know-it-all manner shows an overrating of powers with concepts which are irrational and illogical.

When positively directed, apex Sun in a Mutable T-square shows resolved tensions and one who stands out (the karmic 'Saturn conj SN' is someone who stands out, and the conj is at MC), strength and willpower are used to present something of relevance to society. Yet Saturn conj SN is very limiting and shows one whose rigid ambitions are out of harmony with prevailing cultural attitudes. (I most often see Saturn in a nat'l chart as usually signifying Cheney or even Bush Sr--or both.)

A well-directed apex Sun is wise and dignified, and is a tower of strength and support for many, along with the organisational skills that encourage the cooperation of others through his wholesome self-esteem and leadership--acclaim and honor follow. (Dynamics of Aspect Analysis, Bil Tierney.)

If you enlarge the chart, you see that the day's Sun/Moon midpoint is conj US natal Saturn (which was Mercury's position on 9/11/01.)

Sun/Moon = Saturn: addressing problems; difficult concerns witin relationships; renunciation; joint or shared suffering; inhibitions or separations; a weakened systems (oh yeah--our governement and our military--jc)

The YOD, or Finger of God pattern, indicating a crisis and a special purpose or task, is pointing to tr Uranus, the rebel, fresh from conjunction with tr NN...Ura/NN = radical, reformist political groups--one of Shrub's more prominent signatures.

YOD's Mercury/US n Saturn = Uranus: boredom with the past; separations.

Now much has been written about the wonderfulness of Gen David Petraeus but as long as he carries Bush's water, he is suspect around here--can anyone believe Bush would accept any interference whatsoever in his globalist plans?

One of the primary background influences these days is the obsessive-compulsive quindecile (QD = 165 degr) between Saturn and Uranus which is affecting a lot more than this "report" and from Ricki Reeves' excellent book, Quindecile we find that Saturn QD Uranus is:

driven toward breaking old and outdated concepts through use of innovative ideas; disruption of governing systems; breaking of the law through defiance of law and order; benefit comes from societal changes for the betterment of mankind.

Betterment? Now where can the world find some of that?



Midpoint pics: Ebertin; Tyl.