After 16 months, one million pounds, and 6,300 documents insufficient evidence is the finding in Britain's cash-for-honours investigation which has come to a sorry halt. As one Scotsman reader commented, it's "a perfect example of getting off Scott-free."
Seems there's a lot of that going on in America as well. And everyone is happy but the (disenfranchised) People.
Jul 21, 2007
Jul 20, 2007
Harry Potter: London 12:01 am
If you weren't celebrating at a Mugglefest somewhere you'd be looking at this chart for London, July 21, 12:01 am BST--when Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was officially and first released.
Click to enlarge and you'll see my chicken-scratch of author J.K. Rowling's natal placements (July 31, 1965; speculative time: 3:20 pm BST; Chipping Sodbury, U.K., from The Mountain Astrologer, April-May 2002 issue, article by Neal Meredith.)
Rowling's Sun in Leo (sign of children, and the entertainer) plus her Moon in long-winded writer and dedicated worker, Virgo, give this Image for Integration:
After the ball, Cinderella polishes the floor until its shiny surface reflects her happy, contented face. (Sun Sign, Moon Sign, Chas. and Suzy Harvey.)
You'd be 'happy and contented' after your drudgery as well if you were the world's only billionaire author, now wouldn't you? ;o)
Rowling's natal chart shows what an unaspected planet can do when perfectly expressed--Mercury is unaspected and has run away with success out of all expectations in the Scribe and Communication departments, I'd say...talk about outstanding in her field!
And Mercury's 00Vir01 position is very near Fixed Star, Regulus, one of the Royal Stars of Persia, keyphrase: success if revenge is avoided. There is a tremendous amount of success promised by Regulus and Harry's character seems to know that revenge brings no true, lasting success but only more retaliation and grief. Today's world could learn from Harry, couldn't it?
July 21, 2007; 12:01 am BST; London:
The Sun Cancer/Moon Libra combo for Vol. VII applies well:
Mother Goose recites a poem, surrounded by adoring fairytale creatures.
This word picture sounds similar to the author and her book/s in general--especially since she gave a reading for 500 fortunate children in honor of this book's release!
If you, Mugglefested as you may be, wanted to use Mercury, the Youth, as a significator for Harry himself, you might want to consider Mercury's Sabian Symbol for "7 Cancer":
"Two fairies on a moonlit night"...ASCENDANCY...nature's illimitable potentialities on the side of the release she offers man from his physical or psychological involvement, and of the necessity that he achieve some measure of lightness in self-expression as a balance for the strain of everyday existence.
Here is an exaltation of fancy as a dynamic factor in all self-realization, and of the quiet moments of experience as a real opportunity for self-orientation.
The magic of selfhood lies in its ability to rise above whatever may threaten its well-being.
pos: a transforming sensitivity or a healing imagination.
neg: a senseless retreat to make-believe." (Sabian Symbols in Astrology, Dr. Marc Edmund Jones.)#
"Lightness in self-expression"? yet I've heard that this installment is the dark, heavy book. Hmm-m-m-m....
Sassily, I usually wait for the film when it comes to Potter tales and I do enjoy them since I have no rugrats about the place to fret over the 'magic' influence (as if children don't know the difference!) of the books, so it will be awhile before I know whether the above words match the book's plot or not.
That is, unless some kind Muggle personage decides to enlighten me!
Bad Poetry Heads-Up:
Did you know that Mr.A.Cat has added a kitten named Potter to the Lim's Limericks collection of rhymes? I thought not. But I knew you'd want to be warned all the same.
ask.com to stop data retention
Ask to stop data retention and for those with privacy concerns this is good news.
want Gore to run?
This from GoreHub.com:
Express yourself if you want to see a Gore presidential run!
The Honorable Al Gore
2100 West End Avenue
Nashville, TN 37203
Here's a previous post with a smidge of info on Al Gore's natal chart (more details to come, I'm sure.)
You can certainly see Gore's 1st house Saturn/Pluto conjunction in his eagle-looking stare over a large nose--just as you see Bush's natal Leo Ascendant in those slightly crossed Leonine eyes...and Tony Blair has Leo-the-Lion eyes as well!)
Express yourself if you want to see a Gore presidential run!
The Honorable Al Gore
2100 West End Avenue
Nashville, TN 37203
Here's a previous post with a smidge of info on Al Gore's natal chart (more details to come, I'm sure.)
You can certainly see Gore's 1st house Saturn/Pluto conjunction in his eagle-looking stare over a large nose--just as you see Bush's natal Leo Ascendant in those slightly crossed Leonine eyes...and Tony Blair has Leo-the-Lion eyes as well!)
Quake welcomes Beckhams to CA
An Oakland quake hitting "shortly after" 4:40 am pdt jolted people awake this morning.
Here you see the chart showing the usual culprits--angular planets, esp Uranus, planet of sudden occurences and disruption, in water sign, Pisces.
Mercury in Cancer (water sign) is angular and rising, and several of the midpoints relate to separation and to attraction...just the tension needed for an earthquake to occur. There's also a "Finger of God" formation (which I neglected to mark on the chart) the base of which is the Moon/Mercury square pointing accusingly at Neptune.
With the third and final exact opposition between Saturn (earth; continental plates; form) and Neptune (dissolution; ocean; water; rifts) separating but still within orb, the Sabian Symbol for Mars' degree (and this was a Mars Hour, btw) may be instructive:
"19Tau": "A new continent rises out of the ocean."
The brutal, forceful Mars/Pluto midpoint has been pointing to NN (North Node) in recent days as we've watched the tiffs and rifts in Washington continue to play out...
Mars/Pluto = NN: extreme force; superhuman power.
And since we obviously have no superheroes in Washington, superhuman power better describes an earthquake--or perhaps David Beckham's prowess with a soccer ball and the super (major!) paycheck that goes with it.
But after watching Victoria's "major" TV show last evening and her reaction to the possibility of California earthquakes, Posh may be packing now!
Jul 19, 2007
Plame's Lawsuit Dismissed--doh!
Doug Mataconis at Below the Beltway has the totally unsurprising news: Plame's Lawsuit against the Bush administration dismissed.
But Scooter's livin' it up.
But Scooter's livin' it up.
shadows of shadows?
LegitGov.org Breaking News
Senior Qaeda figure in Iraq did not exist: U.S. military 18 Jul 2007:
A senior operative for al Qaeda [al-CIAduh] in Iraq who was caught this month has told his U.S. military interrogators a prominent al Qaeda-led group is just a front and its leader fictitious, a military spokesman said on Wednesday. Brigadier-General Kevin Bergner told a news conference that Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, leader of the self-styled Islamic State of Iraq, which was purportedly set up last year, did not exist.#
What to believe? It's sad but predictable when deceivers are so easily and regularly deceived.
Senior Qaeda figure in Iraq did not exist: U.S. military 18 Jul 2007:
A senior operative for al Qaeda [al-CIAduh] in Iraq who was caught this month has told his U.S. military interrogators a prominent al Qaeda-led group is just a front and its leader fictitious, a military spokesman said on Wednesday. Brigadier-General Kevin Bergner told a news conference that Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, leader of the self-styled Islamic State of Iraq, which was purportedly set up last year, did not exist.#
What to believe? It's sad but predictable when deceivers are so easily and regularly deceived.
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