The Hoax of Benjamin Franklin

by Jude Cowell, Daughter of the American Revolution

Dear SO'W Reader,

Have you ever looked at the Sun-Moon combinations of four of America's founders in order to ascertain their personality blends for the sake of nosing into their relationships? I refer to the Personality Blends of Franklin, Washington, Paine, and Jefferson, a previously discussed topic here on SO'W.

The reason I ask is because our nation has been infiltrated and infested by enemies and We the People are perilously close to losing what our Founding Fathers established for posterity and I'm feeling more than a little nostalgic these days for our founding Enlightenment principles. How about you?

Ben Franklin: 1st American and Hoaxer!

Now perhaps you've noticed that Benjamin Franklin's bio page is quite extensive describing the polymath, scientist, inventor, printer, writer, Almanack publisher, statesman, diplomat - well, the list goes on.

Yet the fellow born way back in 1706 was quirkily humorous as well, and not above playing tricks. In fact, one of my favorites of Ben's shenanigans is the one where he printed a death forecast for his "friend" Titus Leeds saying that "Titus" would soon pass away - on October 17, 1733 at 3:29 pm, to be precise. Cheeky!

So as you may know, "Titus" responded in print with the result that Ben's Titus hoax continued into 1734 with a second Almanack printing. Copies were sold and a fortune was made! (See lower left corner for transit Neptune opposing his natal Mars). Other transits include a 1733 Solar Eclipse conjunct his natal North Node in money-loving Taurus (see lower right corner for details), and 1733 Saturn Rx is at the "Through Imagination a Lost Opportunity Is Regained" degree - and this may be at the basis of Ben's super-creative imagination with which he invented this unusual publicity stunt for selling copies of Poor Richard's Almanack. In addition, there's 1733 North Node in Scorpio which has hit his natal 14 South Prenatal Eclipse, a Series that tends to bring success and acceptance of an obsessive idea (B. Brady). Plus, you'll spy other contacts between the charts, I'm certain:

So even though Benjamin "missed" with his original prediction, above you see the Horoscope of the alleged passing of Mr. Titus Leeds as prognosticated by Mr. Franklin writing as "Richard Saunders" in Poor Richard's Almanack - but as a transit chart (outer) to Mr. Franklin's natal Horoscope (inner); a few astro-notes are penned on for the curious reader.

As always, Thanks a Bunch for reading! jc

White House Attacks Jerome Powell and The Fed!

1913 US newspaper clipping, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Within the history of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 we find that President Woodrow Wilson signed the Act into law on the very day it passed the US Senate: December 23, 1913. That day, most Congress members were hurrying out the door for Christmas break so there were none to object to the bill's passage and enactment.

And I suppose that the Federal Reserve Act has stood America in fairly good stead ever since, and yet has kept the unfair "balance" of inequality quite well in the economic royalists' haves vs have-nots game of power and control. For as we know, silly elites equate having wealth with being intelligent and worthy to rule over the rest of us!

So now, 112 years have passed and someone of the meddling class has cued the thieves, embezzlers, and foreign raiders to yank around the US economy, decimate our National Treasury, and hollow out the lives and lifestyles of the American people - with the goal of removing the US from its perch as global leader and the US dollar from its accustomed status as reserve currency. So I suppose that We the People are no longer the corporate class' cash cow anymore. Apparently, they're done with us - like a badly written Ayn Rand novel!

And yet so far, Fed Chair Jerome Powell has resisted lowering interest rates as the albatross in the White House has demanded and this creates an additional economic drama to go along with the blighter's current tariffs turbulence in the markets, on Main Street USA with higher prices, and across the planet.

Of course, a failure to recognize the separation of the Federal Reserve System and the executive branch of government is at the base of White House demands so with this His Grabbiness creates even more anxiety as we watch Mr. Powell fend off the erosion of his power to act independently.

Okay, I'll quit fussing for now and close with a previously published, messily marked-up bi-wheel of The Fed 1913 Horoscope surrounded by the Scorpio Lunar Eclipse of May 5, 2023 chart which "eclipsed" The Fed's 1913 Scorpio Moon, a fighting spirit placement for Luna. This eclipse was basically a Lunar Return for The Fed, thereby increasing intuition concerning how to deal with issues:

The Pressmen's Strike of 1975

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good

After watching Prime Video's Becoming Katherine Graham, I decided to check out an event featured in the documentary, the Pressmen's Strike of 1975 against the Washington Post. The sabotage of WaPo's printing equipment began in the early morning hours ("around 4:00 am") of October 1, 1975 under the influence of a 13 South Solar Eclipse (themes listed, below).

But it was later on October 2, 1976 that an effigy of Katherine Graham was burned in the street by a crowd of about 1,000 supporters of the strike who'd met in DC's McPherson Square and paraded under WaPo's windows, observed by the lady herself.

So considering the obvious suggestion of viol*nce in the fiery symbol, who do I apologize to for wondering if a "vast right-wing conspiracy" - retaliating for the Post's extensive Watergate burglary coverage of a Republican president, coverage that led to Dick Nixon's subsequent resignation from the presidency - had supported in some way the 1975 strike against the "liberal" newspaper, and against Katherine Graham specifically? Or at the least, who behind the scenes cheered for her troubles and perhaps wrote a few checks?

Astrology: June 16, 1917 - July 17, 2001

Above is a bi-wheel of Katherine Graham's natal chart (inner; set for the Starkman-rectified hour of 10:14:28 am est NYC on June 16, 1917) surrounded by her timed death horoscope of July 17, 2001 11:56 am mdt Boise, Idaho - in hospital. Surgery was performed yet death arrived 3 days after after she'd fallen on a concrete walkway injuring her head on July 14th.

Sadly, Mrs. Graham never regained consciousness and, as we see, was in process of experiencing her Uranus Return, a three-fer due to the planet's periods of retrogradation (return dates are listed, lower right corner). Now as you know, erratic Uranus can trigger sudden shocks and/or accidents like a "bolt from the blue." And her first Uranus Return on April 2, 2001 shows a Saturn-square-Uranus transit for her with 'old order vs new order' implications and a generational clash as authority and tradition are challenged by future plans - was this a topic at the Sun Valley conference she was attending? Well, obviously, large reforms within government and society were soon coming once the WTC attacks of 9/11/01 had been perpetrated in September. Hmmm.

Pressmen's Strike 1975's 13 South themes include: sinister energy, striving for group endeavors positively or negatively, and a potential for crisis (paraphrasing Bernadette Brady's Predictive Astrology #ad). Additionally, a mention of cosmic synchronicity should be made because Katherine Meyer Graham was born into the 9 New North Saros Series which happens to be the very Series through which we now navigate with 9NN themes of 'accidents, great physical effort', and/or 'viol*nce' (B.B.) Not to alarm, just to inform: keep an eye on safety.

And so by posting this small tribute to the illustrious lady, my hope on this Easter Sunday is that Katherine Graham may R.I.P.

Biographical details: Katherine (Meyer) Graham.

American Revolution Solar Return 2025

by Jude Cowell, A Daughter of the American Revolution

Last evening at 6:00 pm edt in multiple US locations, church bells rang out across America in tribute to the American Revolution and our fight against the tyranny of a king.

Fast forward to today and the battle against tyranny must again be fought as our independence and liberty are under severe threat of loss due to crass bullies following an old script and who may not realize it yet, but they are in the wrong country.

Independence-R-Us

My small contribution to the noble cause today is to put together and publish this post displaying two images:

1. dual charts of the American Revolution April 19, 1775 5:00 pm LMT (first shot "heard round the world") at Lexington, Massachusetts (lower left) along with the American Revolution Solar Return 2025 Horoscope revealing that the Sun actually reached its 1775 degree last evening at 6:06:01 pm edt (!):

2. A bi-wheel with the 1775 American Revolution Horoscope (center) surrounded by its Solar Return 2025 Horoscope. Astro-notes are squooshed onto the bi-wheel for the curious reader:

Notated on the chart is the 11 South Eclipse @11Pis11 under which the American Revolution began; significant to our current circumstances of threat and the state of our nation is the fact that an 11 South Eclipse repeats in August 2027 @10Leo (see lower left corner of the bi-wheel image for details).

Now obviously, violent measures occurred within the environment of April 19, 1775 and beyond, but you'll also spy potentials for violent and/or drastic measures within the Solar Return 2025 chart symbolizing our current environment as well. Because the current regime in Washington now attempts to "return a king" to the helm of our country, so the current resistance movement by and from We the People is predictable, necessary, and will be, as you know, hard-fought - and hard won!

If you wish, check with the National Museum of American History for information re: Paul Revere, his midnight ride to warn that the soldiers were coming, and the Liberty Bell.

To close this tribute post, here's one of the reasons I sometimes describe myself as A Daughter of the American Revolution - among others, it's my ancestor Francis Power Who Fought at the Battle of "Bunker Hill" (Breed's Hill, actually).

Finances, Currency, and the Sept 2025 Eclipse

by Jude Cowell, partisan for democracy and the common good

Remember when we took a look at the Lehman Brothers Crash Full Moon of September 2008 across the Virgo-Pisces victim-savior axis and how the March 14, 2025 Lunar Eclipse landed upon and perhaps stimulated it by degree? As we know, secrets and inconvenient facts are difficult to keep hidden under the influential rays of a Lunar Eclipse!

Well, considering how the US economy is being weakened under the Tr*mp regime, and the US dollar as reserve currency is under threat, let's take a look at the September Solar Eclipse which may be categorized as an Autumn Equinox 2025 Solar Eclipse at the critical, impulsive 29th degree of Virgo because the eclipse perfects a day prior to the Equinox (see upper right corner for details); a karmic YOD pattern of crisis is also present pointing toward the 9th house Mars at a 29th degree:

Visible in the chart are the social safety net duo of planets opposing the Eclipse:

Saturn which indicates those who refuse to own up to their responsibilities and place blame on anyone but themselves, and Neptune (conjunct Aries Point) suggesting the tiresome stand-off between reality vs fantasy, delusion and self-delusion, and the chaos and confusion such twisted conditions activate and made worse by bad faith actors, cultists, anarchists, and saboteurs, both foreign and domestic.

My astro-notes are penned on the chart for the curious reader, and here are the Themes of all 9 New South Solar Eclipses:

9 New South: long-term worries surface concerning health and/or loved ones; issues regarding paperwork or communications; worrisome news with a sense of destiny or fatedness attached; and/or responsibilities with paperwork come home to roost; initial 9NS July 19, 1917 @25Can51 (conjunct US 1776 Mercury = logic required for best results); 9NS is the Prenatal Eclipse Series of Charles Koch.

9NS Eclipses also occurred in the years 1917, 1935, 1953, 1971, 1989, 2007, (2025), and next in 2043.

Eclipse info: Brady's Predictive Astrology #ad

Thanks a bunch for reading! jc

A Birthday 2025 Military Parade for his nibs?

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good, Daughter of the American Revolution

What Color Uniforms Will They Wear?

As most Americans know, the US Army was founded on June 14, 1775 by the Second Continental Congress. And on June 14, 1946, an unusual baby was born in Queens, New York who would grow up to believe that he should rule the world and play the POTUS role as America's commander-in-chief.

So now that he's back in the White House (by hook or crook), his nibs dreams once again of staging a massive military parade to march through the ill-prepared streets of Washington DC, in honor of himself, one assumes. And to show the military power that he "commands" like the other dictators he admires. But let's have no more opinions about his expensive ego-boost for now, just two horoscopes for your consideration:

US Military Founded June 14, 1775 set for noon (lower left), and the military organization's Solar Return Horoscope June 13, 2025 (not on the 14th - same as with his nibs' Solar Return 2025, linked below:

Now as we've previously discussed, the month of June 2025 contains three planetary Returns (3 horoscopes shown) for his nibs including his Solar Return 2025, and just prior, on June 11th, both a Lunar and a Mars Return occur.

He's certain to be a very busy boy beginning new cycles of activity in June - and celebrating bigly, folks! Or at least playing even more golf on the tax payers' dime.

America's only Neptune Return

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good

Through the years in multiple SO'W posts, I've fussed about the fact that the Republican Party of 1854 experienced a Neptune Return (a three-fer to mid-Pisces: "A Lady in Fox Fur") and has shifted its identity and public image into something unrecognizable to most people. This is why we began to hear, "not your father's Republican Party" ad nauseum.

Now, I'm finally getting around to fussing about America's one and only Neptune Return - also a three-fer due to slow-moving Neptune's 164-year orbit and the gas giant's tendency to (seemingly) station and move retrograde as viewed from Earth, in its role as one of the generational or outer planets, as we call them.

Significantly during America's Neptune Return period, Solar Eclipses manifested with themes that ran in the background of society and, depending on multiple factors, influenced or perhaps disrupted earthly events as Uranian "wild cards" of the Universe, aka, "Cosmic Blinks" able to uncover secrets which shady Neptune prefers to keep hidden. Therefore, sudden peep-eyes may occur!

12 North/South, 13 North/South, 14 North/South

Now for your consideration, below is a list of Solar Eclipses that occurred between December 1937 and the end of 1939. Added to the image is a hand-written listing of the three dates that transit Neptune returned to position in our nation's July 4, 1776 Horoscope set for 5:09 pm LMT Philadelphia, PA; this timing places Cardinal World Points of manifestation upon America's MC-IC axis, and 1776 Neptune clocked in @22Vir25:08; and as you see, eclipse themes from 12 North to 14 North are listed as well; solar eclipses from those series will repeat in our era during the years 2028 and 2029; (please pardon my messiness!):

When Neptune is in the Sign of Virgo

Having nebulous Neptune in fact-based Virgo, its sign of detriment, isn't the easiest placement for the Divine Source planet, as you may agree. Undiscovered until 1846, we might assume that the Founders were unaware of the planet's tendency to undermine, subvert, erode, defraud, deceive, and such - especially with Neptune's square to US Mars in Gemini ("fog of war," confused motivation, misguided action, etc). To me it seems that our Neptune has been a mixed bag - and all three times that Neptune returned to its 1776 degree, it re-squared US Mars by transit which must have complicated and confused matters. Although a measure of inspired action likely occurred as well for those receptive to it.

Plus, a primary factor with Neptune in Virgo is instability in employment conditions which the American people are overly familiar with - especially now that transit Neptune in Pisces has recently opposed US Neptune in Virgo. This major transit has brought persecution and dissolution with it, aimed at our civil and other rights, plus, a shifting of ideals and ideologies. Then with Mercury-ruled Virgo involved we should add difficult health implications including the fact that the 1937--1939 period is when adulteration of our food began, and continues today much to our detriment. Meanwhile, the losses and hardships of the Great Depression years inspired a materialistic streak within the masses (Neptune). How could it not?

Then if we add Neptune's 9th house position in our 1776 horoscope to this fuss of a consideration, we have attractions to cultism, an unfortunate tendency that has helped to sink (oceanic Neptune) our country under the hoax-like, scam-prone conditions of recent years made worse by bad faith actors working on behalf of our nation's enemies - which involves Neptunian subversion, spying, the Big Lie, and the Internet, a weblike Neptunian creation.

Now to close, you'll see notated on the image that Franklin Delano Roosevelt was president during this Neptunian time frame, while John Nance Garner IV, aka, "Cactus Jack," was Vice President. Cactus Jack! And if you're curious, I recommend a search for historical events of 1937, 1938, and 1939 to provide you with a wider 'real world' perspective than mere eclipse themes can do.

For more details re: Neptune, you might try the Horoscope of the Discovery of Neptune.

Passover Full Moon April 12, 2025

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good

Also known as a Strawberry Moon or a Pink Moon, here you see two versions of DC Horoscopes displaying the April 12, 2025 Passover Full Moon @23Lib19. The first horoscope is unmarked by my astro-notes (you're welcome!), the second contains a liberal sprinkling of notes including the Full Moon chart's prominent Sabian Symbols:

Passover, a major Jewish holiday of liberation, begins at sundown April 12, 2025.

Also notable are planet Venus exalted in Pisces turning direct at 9:02 pm edt, and warrior planet Mars @27Cancer opposing US 1776 Pluto - a Cardinal Grand Cross (crisis, recklessness, confrontation, premature action) forms when US Pluto is added to the T-Square between the Full Moon and Mars (see notated chart, lower right corner and center left for a few potentials).

Among other things, these forceful energies apparently signify Mr. T's ill-advised, self-destructive (for America) trade war with China; we should also note that the Republic's 1949 horoscope sports a Mars-Pluto Conjunction of brutal*ty and power.

Then curiously, the current 9 New North Eclipse @9Aries (great physical effort; accidents) during which the Passover Full Moon of April 2025 perfects has conjoined America's Mars-Pluto midpoint in our July 4, 1776 Horoscope. This may be insignificant - or it may increase potentials or opportunities for power plays and overly aggressive actions by those in positions able to act out these forceful Mars-Pluto energies.

NYSE 1869; Trump Tariffs 2025

April 2025: Snorts of Concern from The Bull of Wall Street

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good

There was no dire crisis on Inauguration Day 2025 - other than the second presidency of an insurrectionist. That was and is the crisis we now face blended with an existential crisis for survival by a dark wizard from a far away land. The following post attempts to sort out some of the conditions that these two sinister saboteurs have forced upon our country for selfish purposes by utilizing the lens of Astrology as best I can.

On May 11, 1869, the very day of a New Moon @20Tau57 surrounded by Venus and Pluto, the Reorganization of the NYSE occurred giving astrologers another horoscope for the financial entity besides the Buttonwood Agreement Horoscope of May 17, 1792 in which we find a bubbly Jupiter-Neptune Conjunction of gambling and speculation. So we know that bubbles and bursts are baked in from the earliest days. Personally, I would say that it's a tactic used by Wall Street gentry, not that we need Astrology to tell us this.

As always, enter the Wall Street Casino at your own risk.

Autocracy 2025/Venus-Pluto: Organized Crime; Break Down of the Social Fabric

As you know, the Orange Tariff Whisperer announced his risky regime of tariffs on April 2, 2025 from the White House Rose Garden, and as everyone knows, markets have reacted wildly ever since to his trade war. You've read, seen, or experienced the crisis-laden conditions so there's no need to repeat them in this brief post.

Instead, let's consider a bit of Astrology.

Curiously, the "fork in the road," an existential crisis sci-fi fantasy is promoted by the Space-mad fellow, based on cold war-era concepts, and has inspired a sculpture he commissioned in December 2024 for Tesla HQ. The phrase also describes a YOD pattern such as the one in the 1869 Reorganization Horoscope pointing toward karmic Saturn.

And if we allowed the Ascendant with Atlantis rising in the Tariffs Horoscope, there's a YOD pattern there as well - with the Neptune-Pluto sextile at its base and the planetary duo a symbol of Organized Crime, Drug Use and Trafficking, the Occult, Mysticism, Obsessions, Subterfuge, and/or Loss.

Now the fact that a YOD is in the 1869 chart emphasizes the fated nature of the pattern's imperative (YODs always involve timing issues - and preparing for a special task and a karmic opportunity) so manager planet Saturn has now stepped from the shadows, so to speak, to take control of our nation's economy, as we've seen. And he has a a mission to restrict and sabotage our lives because Elon's is a dark vision leading to a "Dead End". As we've discussed previously, Pluto @3AQ34 represents Elon and his DOGE "tech bros" leading a BOWL shape of planets in the Tariffs chart.

NYSE 1868 (lower left); Tariffs 2025 (upper right):

Please note that the astro-notes penned on the image are incomplete so as always, you'll spy other factors of interest.

However, it's revealing in the Tariffs chart that sinking Atlantis rises while sun god Apollo (often a symbol of Herr T - the asteroid rises in his chart with his Mars but here sits upon his natal Descendant along with the Saturn-Pluto midpoint @29Aquarius - he and Elon bringing hardship and cruelty) opposes. Then I'd have to say that Atlantis rising shows the motive of his trade war - to sabotage America and the global economy, and to purge the American people from our country a la the Project 2025 agenda of depopulation.

The Elon from South Africa

Let's read the 1869 YOD's trio of planets with apex Saturn (also the handle of a Bucket pattern: he's the director) as a midpoint picture between Uranus-Pluto = Saturn: "exposure to extreme pressure from others; self-will; egosim; hatred (R. Ebertin); persisting despite obstacles on the path toward reform (M. Munkasey); tendency toward autocratic leadership; "my way is the best way"; pressure from others; toppled from position" (N. Tyl.)

And of course, karmic Saturn in Jupiter-ruled Sagittarius adds a double dose of karma and suggests a religious flavor and/or immigrants to our country such as bankers from Germany who were involved with the stock exchange from the start - and those who were involved with forming the Federal Reserve System of banks - operatives and agents such as Paul Warburg. And now an immigrant from South Africa.

Meanwhile, In the News: Wall Street Expects The Fed to Rescue the Economy From Trump Tariffs. Well! Then has a little coordination between the players been going on?

Then in a flurry of cosmic synchronicity, the 1869 New Moon @20Taurus was activated on May 10, 2013 by a 15 South Solar Eclipse @20Taurus with themes of: release of tension; a lingering situation suddenly clears but with a collective sense of grief and/or loss (paraphrasing B. Brady). Therefore, events of 2013 may be of interest including a huge financial bailout by the European Union coming to the rescue of Cyprus, one of the world's more amenable tax sheltering locations.