July 4, 2010: Presidential scholars rank Bush 5th worst in US history

Happy Independence Day, America! Here's the Sibly version of our birth chart:


Yes, it's year #234 and barely counting, considering what politicians and bankers have done with the place - their private cash cow apparently.

Well, just in time for 2010's July 4th festivities, some bad news not wholly unexpected has arrived concerning the recent 8-year era of US expansionist and war speculator, George Bush: he's been ranked by presidential scholars as the 5th worst president in US history, with President Obama ranked 15th from the top of this year's list.

Yes, war hawk Bush is ranked in the bottom five as is Franklin Pierce with whom Dubya shares family lineage. And Poppy Bush doesn't fair very well either which gives me some small hope that hoards of discerning Americans will nix any future presidential hopes of candidates from this particular gene pool.

That's about as gently as I can put it so early in the day while listening to the second reading of the morning on NPR of the Declaration of Independence. The horoscope above marks the day with expanding Jupiter as chart-ruler during a Venus Hour, both planets relating on one level to money and its pursuit.

Now to be fair, President Pierce did have the unfortunate distinction of losing his 11-year-old son in a horrible train accident just two months before inauguration which had to be a nightmarish-beyond-belief way to begin a term in the White House.

That Pierce won with the Democrats' slogan, "We Polked you in 1844; we shall Pierce you in 1852!" is a marvel or a miracle, I'm not certain which (that said with a 2010 perspective, however.)

And perhaps the person writing on Wikipedia concerning the presidency of Franklin Pierce had Dubya in the back of his/her mind when he/she typed:

"having publicly committed himself to an ill-considered position, he maintained it steadfastly, but at tremendous cost to his reputation."

With Bush, it seems that nature and nurture supported one another during his disastrous presidency with "At least we know where he stands" the popular sentiment with the end of the sentence being, "even though he's wrong."

Well, if history turns out to be 'kind' to George W. Bush as John Ashcroft once panderingly intoned, its pages will have to be very creatively rewritten down to the last period if it hopes to disguise the misery, loss, and teeth-grinding inspired across the globe by the stubborn-willed presidency of you-know-who (with the enabling of his elite backers, his "base" as he called them.)



May this be the final time I publish a photo of this man who had to cheat to 'win' the presidency of the United States of America, with the end of the sentence being, "cheating isn't winning, it's stealing."

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On the chart image I failed to note that along with Venus and Mars, our Pluto in Capricorn is also out-of-bounds.

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.)

Homeless Vets Bill? Republicans are against that, too (video)

Just when I thought there was nothing else supportive of the American people that the Republican Party could fight against, a Homeless Veterans Bill isn't passing muster with the GOP who'd rather spend the money we don't have (after 8 years of Bush-Cheney) on war rather than on the needs of those they sent to fight it for them.

It seems astounding to me that any American of any stripe or tea flavor could possibly consider voting for Republican Party candidates in November, when Rs were and are the primary promoters of endless war for which the dire needs of our homeless vets and the unemployed are to be sacrificed so that war hawks of both parties can continue to profit from US imperialism.

Guess America's natal Saturn in 10th house with the 'fall from grace if Saturn's lessons and principles of responsibility and accountability are not followed' Saturn-in-10th-house caution is having its results now with perfect timing: transit Saturn is about to cross US natal Midheaven again (00Lib53, Sibly chart) where the Task Master will return to his natal position in 10th house three times (while opposing Jupiter at natal Ic.)

Our nation's Saturn Return 14Libra48 this time is a three-fer which draws out the lessons and any solutions, if indeed they can be found without self-serving Politics taking over the presentation:

1. December 3, 2010
2. March 22, 2011 Rx
3. August 28, 2011.

So to paraphrase film star Betty Davis, Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy ride.

Lew Rockwell on The State's 'Kill Switch'

Lew Rockwell writes on the current police state and shades of things to come as The State prepares to use a 'Kill Switch' against our free expression, and he recommends a re-reading of H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds, a disguised attack on British imperialism written during the Victorian era of NWO plotter Albert Pike.

Nowadays we may think that the British version of imperialism ended long ago until we consider the poster child of the New World Order in modern times, the Great Conjunction/s of Uranus and Neptune, the duo of enlightenment and illumination. The planets conjoined 3 times all through 1993, the last on October 24, 1993 which provides a modern-day birth chart for the NWO, as you know.

Bill Clinton was the 'Uranus/Neptune president' of the hour and he did much on the world stage to progress the NWO agenda along its merry way.

If you click to view the NWO natal chart you'll notice its Ascendant degree '13Cap' which is where transiting North Node has so recently pointed..."A Fire Woshiper" which ties in with the eternal flame of the Illuminati, is the symbol of the Olympics, and is modeled by eternal flames burning at gravesites of assassinated leaders who didn't kowtow enough to The Plan, apparently.

(Remember Jackie Kennedy's words after her husband's assassination when she refused to change out of her bloodstained clothing before flying back to DC? "Let them see what they've done." Not that 'they' cared. JFK intended, some say, to end the Vietnam War, retract the power of the CIA, and was about to mess around with the world banking system of the overlords.)

Well, perhaps the most interesting thing about the illuminating Uranus/Neptune conjunction of October 24 (birthday of the United Nation so they share Sun positions, 1Sco+) is its Sabian Symbol which I shall repeat here in light such things as: the viciousness of police actions during last weekend's G20 Summit in Toronto, ramped up oppression in the US including the the SCOTUS decision in favor of corporations, 'austerity measures' against the poor and getting-poorer peoples of every nation, and in some small support of Mr. Rockwell's article linked above.

Quoting from Dane Rudhyar's An Astrological Mandala:

'18 Capricorn' = "The Union Jack Flag Flies from a British Warship"

Keynote: The protection afforded to individuals and groups by powerful institutions in charge of maintaining order.

This symbol reflects conditions prevailing in the past when Great Britain's fleet was policing the seas under the international principle of the freedom of the seas. Times have changed, but the concept remains valid. Power is required to maintain social order and relatively peaceful interpersonal as well as international relationships. Alas, this power can easily be misused under the pretext of preserving "law and order." Justice and compassion must balance social power, and especially the power of privileged groups. Where this symbol appears, the need for protection may be in evidence-or it may be a warning against using power for selfish advantage.

{This symbol} brings us to a realization of the ambivalence of POLITICAL POWER, its value and its dangers.

And in his book The Sabian Symbols in Astrology, Marc Edmund Jones explains:

'18Cap' = "SUPERVISION...

positive expression; the self's ever-widening spread of interest in its insatiable desire to leave some permanent imprint of itself on everything it touches;

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

(The addition of 'unconscious/shadow side' is, as always, my own. Yet the measures and actions we see perpetrated now is the NWO coming out of the shadows. jc)

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.

Locke's advice to US on strong-arming the Middle East

The Second Treatise of Civil Government 1690

"That the aggressor, who puts himself into the state of war with another, and unjustly invades another man's right, can, by such an unjust war, never come to have a right over the conquered, will be easily agreed by all men, who will not think that robbers and pirates have a right of empire over whomsoever they have force enough to master, or that men are bound by promises which unlawful force extorts from them.

Should a robber break into my house, and, with a dagger at my throat, make me seal deeds to convey my estate to him, would this give him any title? Just such a title by his sword has an unjust conqueror who forces me into submission. The injury and the crime is equal, whether committed by the wearer of a crown or some petty villain. The title of the offender and the number of his followers make no difference in the offence, unless it be to aggravate it.

The only difference is, great robbers punish little ones to keep them in their obedience; but the great ones are rewarded with laurels and triumphs, because they are too big for the weak hands of justice in this world, and have the power in their own possession which should punish offenders."

John Locke (1632-1704) from The Second Treatise of Civil Government 1690

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The above text has been broken into paragraphs for easier reading online by this blogger.

And its fair and balanced concepts have been broken into a million pieces by America's Military Industrial Complex with the aiding and abetting of the three branches of the US government and the criminal collusion of NWO promoters.

Financial overhaul approved as US Venus rises 6.25.10

In Time for June 25, 2010's Lunar Eclipse conjunct Pluto

As you've heard by now, the proposal for the largest financial overhaul in the US since the Great Depression was approved this morning at "5:40 am edt" (time noted by C-SPAN's call-in moderator) as committee members reached a compromise on the bill's details.

C-SPAN's session this morning concerning financial overhaul has refused any discussion from callers on how the legislation will affect the floating of the 'amero' said to be on tap later this year, and another caller's question about the Illuminati's role in the legislation.

Such questions are always shut out from all discussion on C-SPAN even though at 5:58 am edt today, the Illuminati signature of Uranus and Neptune, the Uranus/Neptune midpoint, crossed DC's Midheaven 14Pis56 (The Goal), along with the midpoint of the Big Bankers and Large Scale Operators, Jupiter/Pluto. US natal Jupiter 5Can56 was precisely rising at that precise moment...'6Can' = "Game birds Feathering Their Nests"...

Uranus/Neptune = Mc: guidance is sought from other realms or never-before-tapped sources; supernatural concerns come into play; inner vision; dissolution; a lack of stamina; restraint placed on half-baked ideas; proficiency in using the right side of the brain.

In his book on midpoints, Michael Munkasey gives the Uran/Nep midpoint as: changes in political and social structures due to new ideals and dreams of the future.

Yeah, that's what worries me!

Jupiter/Pluto = Mc: hard-working attainment of power position; great accomplishments in society; industriousness; advancement and promotion; ambition.

(Midpoints: Tyl; Ebertin; Munkasey; 'any, all, or none' may apply and are subject to future transits and directions.)

At 5:40 am edt, Capitol Building, ASC 1Can43 - '2Can' = "A Man on a Magic Carpet Observes Vast Vistas Below Him"...perhaps this will result in actual congressional oversight!!

Hour of the Sun, with Venus 12Leo49 in 2nd house of Money and Values conjunct President Obama's natal Sun - perfect timing for his taking this victory to the G20 Summit in Toronto this weekend.

However: chart-ruler Moon 21Sag13 in 6th house makes only one applying aspect in the chart to tell us how things will proceed: an opposition to Mercury (8A42) which sounds like the people (Moon) won't be too impressed. And perhaps there's someone else who won't be impressed with the clue embedded within the Moon's Sabian Symbol...

'22Sag' = "A Chinese Laundry"! Well, I'm an American people and am wondering how the government of China, America's biggest creditor, will react to the bill's ultimate provisions. Hey, maybe China's approval was sought beforehand, hmm?

But enough of my typing out loud...

Activist Mars 9Vir52 conjuncts Ic, the Foundation of the Matter; '10Virgo' = "Two Heads Looking Out and Beyond the Shadows" as Senator Blanche Lincoln's compromise on regulating derivatives and other risky instruments was gained thus allowing the vote to be taken successfully to the crowing of the Democrats and the President, though only the riskiest derivatives will be included in the bill.

And Mercury, planet of negotiations, agreements, votes, and legislation, rises at a critical or crisis 29th degree: 29Gem55, with Sun 3Can45 conjunct US natal Venus, our nation's chart-ruler in the Sibly chart.

Sun/Mercury = ASC: fondness for negotiations; a pleasant mental state. (Yes, they must have had that Quelle Relief! feeling after the 20-hour session and their months of wrangling cats. Rraowwww!)

The pile-up at ASC this morning points my attention toward Spring Equinox in March (Sun 00Can00), the month that the President signed his Health Insurance Reform Bill into law, the results of which we hear good things so far although personally I'm not certain the 'goodness' of the bill has been confirmed...too soon to tell.

So as with all congressional legislation, it remains to be seen the real-life effects and potential collateral damage which may be created by the financial overhaul bill which Mr. Obama intends to sign by the July 4th recess.

And I imagine that his one-world-government collaborators attending the G20 Summit this weekend in Toronto will be quite impressed, a possibility which makes me doubt the bill's sincerity on behalf of the American people's best interests.

For one thing, a Consumer Protection Bureau has been left in the bill but will be housed within the bowels of the secretive Fed. And if that doesn't illustrate perfectly the old saw about (the Fed) fox guarding the hen house, I don't know what ever has.

G20 Summit opens w/ Lunar Eclipse: YOD in Toronto

Update June 25: the 'disagreements' mentioned in my post below are being noted in the CNN Political Ticker today and the G20 jawboning has yet to officially begin!

Original post begins here:

"To deal with the global economy," is the reason for this weekend's global summit, says Canada's PM Harper, and all week long I've been antsy (due to busy-ness) to find confirmation that the G20 Summit in Toronto will begin on Friday, June 26, 2010 in tandem with the June 26 Lunar Eclipse 4Cap46 conjunct Pluto 4Cap06 Rx @ 7:30 am edt in Washington, DC, with US natal Mercury Rx rising opposite US natal Pluto conjunct Descendant (7th house of Partnerships.)

Well, here it is.

And apparently it's going to take a small army of security forces to protect their hallowed brows and expanded brains and ideologies from anti-G20 protesters who are not impressed with their style of meddling in people's lives.

If you click the Eclipse link above you'll see the horoscope set for the White House which is almost identical to one set for Toronto - both @ 7:30:18 am edt. And both charts have '27 Cancer' rising, an apt degree considering current events because the Sabian Symbol for '27Can' = "A Furious Storm Rages Through a Residential Canyon."

Therefore, America's natal Mercury/Pluto opposition remains on the ASC/DESC axis for Toronto on June 26, 2010. Yet Mc/Ic axis differs, for at the White House, Mc '11Ari' = "The President of the Country," and as you know, ASC = the WHAT? Point of any chart. In our current case, that would be President Obama.

But in Toronto, Mc = '9Ari' = "A Crystal Gazer" which makes me wonder if it's a "McCrystal" gazer at the top of the summit's agenda. We do know that fury and rage lurk just outside the summit's hotel doors, don't we?

Besides the fact that evaluating Venus in 1st house in Toronto (in 2nd house in DC), another difference between the two locations has to do with 2/8 axis issues such as money, shared resources, and transformation (a la PM Harper's justification noted above.)

Interestingly, in Toronto (not in DC), the ASC degree is just late enough to clock into a *YOD pattern, a Finger of God configuration indicating a special task, crisis, or a turning point - a critical situation which must be attended to by current actors and which was left incomplete by past actors (or generations.)

There is also a potential for health conditions or illness to interfere with proceedings, or to appear within the collective due to a YOD's 1st/6th/8th house connotations.

The YOD in Toronto involves...

Saturn/ASC = Neptune (in 8th house, both charts): depressing and introverted life situations; arguments about strange dimensions or obscure things; over making a point; a depressing environment; disagreements cause separations; dreaming of what the world should be like as opposed to what it is.

(Midpoint picture: Tyl; Ebertin; Munkasey; any, all, or none may apply, yet I suspect that these days, they all do.)

With General McCrystal and President Obama, the separation has already occurred though more may be at hand, and with transiting South Node hanging about US natal Sun (the leader) since April.

Now if we can just get the Pentagon and White House to admit that the Afghanistan jig is up. Our now-retrograde US Secondary Progressed Mars (military forces) is showing and withdrawal must be accepted! Paying Taliban warlords doesn't fit into anyone's budget that I know of, how about you?

Talk about neurotic, South Node behavior!

Meanwhile, the good people or public (Moon) will be 'eclipsed' as the summit begins on Friday with overpowering Pluto's extreme wealth, surveillance, and manipulation standing by in 6th house of Police and Military Forces. (Protesters are already being arrested, and it's being reported that the hotel's workers have gone on strike today. And here's a btw reminder - another title Pluto carries is: the pope.)

So given America's natal Pluto on DESC, plutonian strength girds the power elite and their minions-in-attendance as they make high handed plans for - or, I should say, against - the world's future.

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*A YOD, which resembles a squished triangle, is formed by a base of two or more planets sextile (60 degr) one another which 'point' to a third planet (or more) known as the apex planet/s; both the sextiled planets are quincunx, or inconjunct, the apex planet/s (165 degr.) In a YOD, apex Neptune signifies those who prefer their comfortable ivory towers to harsh, mundane realities - this way their high idealism can be successfully sustained against all common sense and dealing with the ultimate consequences of their actions doesn't interfere with their lives.

Greater structure and definition are needed by nebulous, often deceptive Neptune and this need may be supplying a basis for the 2010 summit's agenda. Neptune is a very creative apex planet in a YOD pattern, for the desired 'universal unity' (in their case, one-world-government) makes a potent, entrancing inspiration point for their totalitarian dreams and visions of Utopia which first requires chaos in order to rebuild a 'better' world.

Now some astrologers would not consider the above pattern as a YOD because one of the points is, well...a point (rather than a third planet.) Yet the midpoint picture detailed here is still of influence in Toronto symbolically, at least, since the ASC degree changes within minutes causing the YOD to dissipate. My point is that the precise timing which creates the YOD in Toronto is gleaned from the perfection of the June 26 Lunar Eclipse, Sun precisely opposing Moon...and world conditions are depressing and introverted indeed.

For as author, journalist, and social activist Upton Sinclair so fairly asked not so very long ago:

"Is it altogether a Utopian dream, that once in history a ruling class might be willing to make the great surrender, and permit social change to come about without hatred, turmoil, and waste of human life?"

Yes.

Altogether, it is too much to ask. Pluto does not share.

Well, I'll be keeping an eye on Toronto this weekend...June 26 and 27...it's growing late in the game so I hope you will, too. jc

A WikiLeaks article round-up w video: June 24, 2010

No time today to remark upon the ongoing WikiLeaks embroilment but here is an article round-up for you in case you want to check out some viewpoints on the matter:

Echelon? WikiLeaks Founder Drops 'Mass Spying' Hint

By Andrew Fowler

WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange has given his strongest indication yet about the next big leak from his whistleblower organisation.

Hail To The Whistleblowers

By James Denselow

Whistleblowers like those at WikiLeaks make huge sacrifices and are a vital last resort to check the powers of government.


Wikileaks: A Publisher Of Last Resort "privatized censorship" Video

Wikileaks editor interview on censorship.


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