Sen Jim Webb and Dubya have speaks

From Editor & Publisher:

'NYT' Sunday Preview: Sen. Jim Webb Says Story on Rift with Bush 'Emanated from the White House' for it seems George Bush is very testy these days with more than his usual hyper-sensitivity to criticism.

And yet it's Jim Webb with a son fighting in the Middle East, not George Bush who has made no appreciable personal sacrifices to the war at all, that I've heard of.

Have you?

According to his nibs, he hasn't lost one minute of sleepin' worrying about the way things might have been. Mr. Jupiterian, the eternal optimist, proud graduate of Pocketliner U.

Here you may wish to read my November post on the natal chart of Jim Webb who may be shaking hands around Washington DC long after George Bush has faded away.

tags: Jim Webb Washington DC Bush Political Astrology

Iraq sues over oil-for-food kickbacks

Iraqis Sue Over Oil-For-Food Prgram...well, the oil-for-food chickens are coming home to roost for Bank BNP Paribas and for Australia's AWB Limited for paying billions in bribe money to Saddam Hussein's regime...er, government.

BNP is headquartered in Paris, France but has offices in the U.S. including in New York.

In a lawsuit filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Manhatttan, allegations and accusations are flying (along with the feathers) that the Iraqi people of Dokuk, Irbil, and Sulaimaniyah did not receive the benefits to which they were entitled due to brazen kickbacks and bribes which instead benefited Hussein and the bigwigs of BNP and AWB from June 10, 1999--June 3, 2003. Hmm-m-m... (insert chin stroking...)

The oil-for-food prgram has been a bee under the SO'W bonnet since Bush and Cheney invaded Iraq to break up the game, and I hope the cauldron is stirred well by this lawsuit.

Let's see...there's the International Emergency Economic Act, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.

While they're at it, a few other folks could easily come under scrutiny through their overstepping the boundaries of these laws, couldn't they?

Hmm-m-m-m...

Oh--and another #2 to bin Laden was perhaps killed Tuesday and the US military waited until today to make sure he was dead. Al-Qaeda says he's alive. The usual.


tags: Iraq Lawsuit Bush Cheney Oil-For-Food bin Laden

Winter Solstice 2006

While it was my intention to post on this evening's Winter Solstice over the White House, my week has been impossible--the week before Christmas is my busiest of the year in the real world.

Plus, you'll find many of my esteemed colleagues have excellent info concerning the Solstice from many angles...go to my Links List and you'll find a treasure of astrological possibilities.

Yet I cannot resist mentioning some factors relating to Washington DC, George Bush, and the Solstice 2006 chart which I am not posting...mainly because it's quicker not to--it's now 7:10 pm est and the Sun reaches 00Cap00:00 at 7:22 pm...just 11 minutes from now!

Using the White House as locality, the Sun has just entered 5th house of Speculations and Creative Projects....Speculations probably being the operative word here. Sun is chart-ruler with 3Leo09 rising which puts Sun and (the isolated) Saturn in mutual reception--able to help one another. They are separating from a lovely trine aspect (120 degrees.)

Saturn 24Leo50 Rx is conjunct 2nd cusp 24Leo02, and so values, money, and relationships are under Saturn's grim rays.

Applying Aspects of the Sun:

1. semi-square Neptune (2A49)...a minor aspect of irritation; may have a health connotation;

2. conjunct Mercury (9A07)...a meeting, a speech...Bush has an important one coming up in January, perhaps the most important of his career.

7:22 pm est is a Jupiter Hour so Jupiter-ruled issues will be prominent--codified religions, philosophy, money, expansion (such as expanding the armed forces?), etc.

And how about the Solstice Moon? Also in Capricorn, the Moon is at the NWO degree (Uranus conj Neptune, 1993)> "18Cap": "The Union Jack flag flies from a British destroyer"...keynote: the protection afforded to individuals and groups by powerful institutions in charge of maintaining order.

Keywords: POLITICAL POWER. And, as we know, Capricorn is the sign of politics, law, business, and authority. It's double Capricorn time.

There is a Grand Trine, if you don't mind including two planets with Mc, the Career and Public Status angle...and I don't:

Mercury/Saturn = Mc: wrapped up in one's own ideas and plans; the urge to philosophize; traveling;

Mercury/Mc = Saturn: abandoning one's previous aims; pessimism; separation;

Saturn/Mc = Mercury: brooding; concentrating on oneself; thoughts of separation; melancholy.

With Saturn and Mc relating to Capricornian issues, and with George Bush becoming more isolated as the Saturnian Scythe continues forming, it may be safe to say these midpoint pictures describe our misguided and misguiding "leader." Thing is, the Solstice Chart is good for the next few months and will include the Scythe which will perfect in early 2007.

Yet, Jupiterian Bush will still be feeling on the bold side as the Solstice Sun arises with Fixed Star, Altair; keywords: to explore; to be bold; to be determined. Determined in his stubbornness, is George Bush who is very very bold--with other people's lives.

A significant point in the Solstice Chart set for the White House is the HOW Point--the Ic, or Foundation of the chart (also Endings; the Drain.) Conjunct Ic we find SIGMA, the Scribe, and asteroid Juno, the Wife archetype but which also has keywords: the abused, or the abuser.

Will there be an ending in a wifely relationship?

(You may know that the angles of this chart are quite close to the angles of Bush's natal chart, btw...which makes the 2006 Solstice even more personal to his nibs himself.)

Solstice Mars is at 11Sag14, the degree of the Chiron/Pluto conjunction of Dec 30, 1999...Chiron/Pluto of plutocracy and oppression fame, fyi.

Chiron and Pluto lined up in parallel in mid-August 2004 with the Iraq War fiasco of George Bush well underway. Mars as trigger to this point isn't very comforting to a worrywart like this reluctant astrologer esp with Mars being the god of war, and Bush thinking about sending more troops into the melee of hell he helped to create.

The Sabian Symbol for Mc (WHY Point) may be pertinent, or at least we should face it, I think:

"21Aries"..."A pugilist entering the ring": keynote: the release and glorification of social aggressiveness. Keywords: OVERWHELMING POWER. Which is what the neocon chickenhawks assumed the US invincibly had--before they squandered it, that is.

Now they want to squander more--will you let them? Shock and Awe deja-vu?

Well all I can think of is Bush sending more US troops into the energy vortex that is the Middle East. Somebody stop him...please.

Some interesting Midpoints in this chart:

Sun/Mars = Mercury; readiness for action; the desire to bring plans to fruition; the thinking fighter at work or a leader in a struggle;

Neptune/Mc = NN: sharing bad intentions with others; bad company; unpleasant associations;

Moon/Mars = SUN: consciousness of objective; prosperity through cooperation; the union between husband and wife (there's the wife again);

Moon/Jup = Pluto: a desire to start a great enterprise (uh oh); an extraordinary and unusual striving for wealth and possessions.

Mars/Neptune = Venus: danger of infection; misdirected passions; perversions.


Images for Integration: Sun Cap/Moon Cap: A hoary old grandfather sits in his chair with his grandson on his knee. He gives him a gift for his 7th birthday--a first edition of Pilgrim's Progress. Progress?

Some of the negative traits of this Cap/Cap blend are: a lop-sided focus on self-advancement; self-centeredness. The positive includes clear-headedness---kind of like Bush's touting himself as now being clear-eyed! (Puh!)

And here's a quote from philosopher William James, who shares this Sun/Moon blend natally:

To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them gratified.

Now wouldn't that be refreshing if Bush gave up his?

tags: 2006 Winter Solstice Bush Political Astrology


Midpoints from Ebertin's Combination of Stellar Influences; Sun/Moon blend info from Sun Sign-Moon Sign, Charles and Suzi Harvey.

Platitude deja-vu from Bush 12.21.06

This from Democrats.com:

Walk for Change: January 3rd and 4th in Washington DC

Walk the halls of Congress with Gold Star Families for Peace, led by Cindy Sheehan. Let's tell the members of the 110th congress what is expected of them from Day 1: an immediate exit strategy from Iraq.

We will insist that all funding for the war stop immediately and money in the pipeline be spent to rebuild Iraq. We will insist that hearings begin immediately into Bushco's crimes against humanity and the lies he told to the American people. We will demand IMPEACHMENT.

Learn more, sign up, find a ride, find a room:

tinyurl.com

Sounds like it's stop the money you'll stop the war. Stop the hemorrhaging of America!

And with asteroid Niobe, the grieving mother, now traveling in tandem with Mars, planet of war, you see Cindy Sheehan invading the halls of Congress--halls she owns as well as the rest of us Americans in spite of the besmirching they've received through the years.

Today in the Old Executive Office Building:

Bush spoke this morning (he just finished with a flourish at 10:51 am est) from the Indian Treaty Room of the Old Executive Office Building because of White House Christmas decorations (the show's the thing! Such sensitivity.)

Uttering the same platitudes and not overruling overriding his commanders if they told him more troops to Iraq was a bad idea (so he'll send them, thanks--from whence I know not), he said that what his commanders say is important to me. A little flip-flopping going on, George? Actually, it's all theater, dahling...he and his energy baron pals are doing exceptionally well, thanks...here's your musket, America.

(And they're about to corner the switch grass market from the sound of it. Sombody needs to take a switch to 'em. And switch out Bush'n'Cheney while we're at it.)

As deceptive Neptune was rising (10:29/10:30 am) at the A man unmasked degree, Bush was non-answering about Cheney's being called to testify in the Scooter Libby trial. Bush said, no, I read it in the newspaper today--that's an interesting piece of news and that's all I'm going to say about an ongoing investigation.

Read it in the newspaper today? Puh and fie, what a lie.

Are he and his comrade Cheney so out of touch with each other? Perhaps. Is he so casually unconcerned by a White House staffer being on trial? This was not one of his shining thespian moments. m'peops. I doubt anything will come of the trial unless Cheney is forced to incriminate himself--and let's not hold our breaths over that possibility. But we'll see. His testimony may be by tape anyway...another of Neptune's realms.

Iraq Quagmire, oh yes, it is:

So the Joints Chief of Staff say no, George says, go. And what happened to the American people spoke malarky? George now says the November elections were a mandate to find a new direction, not to leave Iraq.

He's playing his usual purposely obtuse self. Latest polls give 17% as the number of Americans who think more troops to Iraq is the answer.

So what's wrong with the SEVENTEEN PERCENT? Have they signed up yet? Here're your muskets, y'all.

Gates at the Gates:

Robert Gates is on the ground in Baghdad during Bush's press conference (propaganda session) as he non-answered questions, with slogans for the Way Forward, and catapulting a message to the Iranian people about their leader:

you can do better than a leader who isolates your country to the detriment of its people.

Well, duh. Takes on to know one, doesn't it?

And to the American people, Bush says, GO SHOPPING! So get your shopping caps on and your credit cards renewed, America and shop-til-you-drop while ignoring George as he keeps us in Iraq...it's all good.

tags: Bush Cindy Sheehan Iraq War Walk For Change

Gates of the Pentagon

At 7:00 am est this morning, Robert Gates took his oath of office in secret administered by Bush's Chief of Staff. And yet the Gates of the Pentagon swing both ways, you know. Why begin such a difficult undertaking during the Balsamic phase of the Moon? It's the phase of endings and partings.

Could this refer to the partings that will take place if more troops are sent into the devil's brew stirred up in the Middle East by the Bush administration?

Asteroid, Niobe, the grieving mother, is conjunct Mars, planet of war and of the military, hence of soldiers (and policemen.)

And I must not foget the grieving mothers of Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and elswhere who are brought even lower by my warhawkin' government's imperial ways...but not abused by the US alone, oh no, but by their own neighbors and kin as well.

And yet--the last hours of the Balsamic phase is when it behooves you to begin an enterprise which would benefit from...Publicity! Why am I not surprised?!

SO'W received a thoughtful comment from Jeff C. concerning this morning's installation of Robert Gates as head honcho of the Pentagon and the US war machine.

Jeff suggests "...the publicity of the event being the Sun, Gates being the new, Plutonian Bully-boy on the block, and the Pentagon being Galactic Center."

Plausible, for sure, but I've been considering it more this way: the (leader) Sun is Gates as the Sun catches up to Pluto (the Pentagon), with Galactic Center being the energy vortex which will result if Gates sends more troops to the Middle East. (G.C. may also have a nuclear connotation unhappily.)

Moon is Publicity and the very isolated Saturn represents George Bush.

Transit Pluto has been at G.C. previously and describes the violence, explosions, and the futility of wasting ourselves in what may end up worse than the British rout from Kabul and the subsequent massacre--the Brits were left one lone survivor for reporting purposes, no doubt--in January, 1842. The Khyber Pass, snow and ice, and hordes of very upset natives.

Read about the retreat from Kabul on Wikipedia, of course, but you may also click on the above link to The Book of Days, then click on WARS.

As far as Gates' comments at his public swearing in this afternoon, Mr. Gates ignored the fact that failure in Iraq came the day Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld Invaded Iraq illegally for their own self-serving reasons--reasons which would shock us if they were fully known.

Secret Swearings:

In the above chart for 7:00 am, we see that Mercury, debilitated in questing Sagittarius, is oriental...rising just before the Sun. This gives a crossing-the-Ts-dotting-the-Is kind of demeanor to the Sun which, I believe, is Mr. Gates.

If you enlarge the chart and can read my chicken scratch you'll see I've added the WHAT (Asc), WHERE (Desc), HOW (Ic), and WHY (Mc) Sabian Symbols--just the Symbols/pictures themselves--to the chart's Angles.

At the base or foundation of the chart (HOW), I've put both versions for "11 Aries"...Marc Edmund Jones gives, "The president of the country" while Dane Rudhyar gives "The ruler of a nation." Both pictures are basically the same concept, I just like them both for you-know-who who facilitated the swearing in.

Uranus at "11Pis" is at the Initiate's degree, which I think is significant in view of the condition of Mercury as mentioned. But what does a debilitated Mercury in Sag entail?

Mercury in Sag considers itself--it, for Mercury is neutral--to be a paragon of truth. (In Washington? P-shaw!) There is a preoccupation with distant and lofty goals...which you'd think the American prople had had enough of, wouldn't you?
Especially while our own nation's dire needs--more emergency rooms, anyone?--are being ignored and underfunded.

This lofty-goal tendency can cause one to miss what's obvious and right under one's nose, and with broad-viewing Jupiter as chart-ruler, it sounds like too much of the same to me. A change of attitude isn't much if that's all you change. And a change of slogan is an insult.

With the US secondary progressed Mars (military) now Rx, and our weapons, equipment, and troops wumped out and needing more money infusions than we've got--thanks to drunken-sailor spending of GOPers and their enablers--the US's failure in Irag is more than Mr Gates can handle unless he, too, changes the direction of our military "on the ground" and reverses the daft, bullheaded course of George W. Bush.

Yes, Robert Gates' initiation today has earmarks of his being just another Jupiter Mantra type--every day in every way I'm getting better and better...an ego-illusion if there ever was one--and one that can be sustained only temporarily until reality sets in.

The Sand Dune to Nowhere is what Bush'n'crew have given us and Gates' Shout-Out to Bush Sr's former catch phrases and slogans today are not enough to save what's left...as we know, rhetoric is not enough, and the CENTRALIZATION OF POWER at the base of today's propaganda charade will only make the crow go down more drily for America eventually--even drier than choking on a royal pretzel until unconsciousness envelops the wilted George Bush.

Hopefully, Mr. Gates will find a new direction that doesn't follow the rubberstamped mantric madness of Bush's mistakes, miscalculations, lies, and illusions.

Here's an idea:

Perhaps our globalist puppetmasters should get out of politics--for in the last few years they've been shown to be doing a really sucky job at it.

tags: Robert Gates Pentagon Bush

Bruce Reed on Chertoff

Until about two years ago, I spent a lot of time reading and commenting on Slate Magazine including in The Fray where I joined in the posting as peacely2. Yes, I just blew my own cover although I've actually done it 'ere this, so what the hey.

Anyway, nowadays I rarely get by there, but when I do, I prefer the writings and musings of Bruce Reed, the Has-Been, as he styles himself.

If you haven't already, read his Inside the Whale in which "Michael Chertoff Takes Over the DHS Branch of "The Office"...try it, for it combines three of my favorites: Bruce Reed, Steve Carell in tv's The Office, and the Departmental Boondoggle I love to despise, mock, and ridicule almost more than anything--Homeland Security, or HoSec, as I prefer to call it.

You know...that Hitler-sounding black hole that Bush created to keep terror in the news, swallow up FEMA which used to work fine until Bush got hold of it, and perform as yet another Bush moneypit for our tax dollars...that black hole.

And you may wish to read my previous post Homeland Security Is Hatched from Nov 2005, or perhaps Michael Chertoff Nov 28, 1953 for a bit info on the natal chart of HoSec's frontman.

False-Flag Ops, anyone?

tags: Michael Chertoff Homeland Security Bruce Reed Slate Magazine Political Astrology

principles of the New York Times

"Principles for Granting Anonymity":

We do not grant anonymity to people who use it as cover for a personal or partisan attack. If pejorative opinions are worth reporting and cannot be specifically attributed, they may be paraphrased or described after thorough discussion between writer and editor. The vivid language of direct quotation confers an unfair advantage on a speaker or writer who hides behind the newspaper, and turns of phrase are valueless to a reader who cannot assess the source.

Anonymity should not be invoked for a trivial comment, or to make an unremarkable comment appear portentous.#


Thanks to MediaMatters.org for the reminder of the NYT's journalistic principles as we head toward the 2008 Election and the dirty-tricks propaganda campaigns to associate progressive candidates with name-calling and silly accusations and innuendo--which have already begun. (See Sunday morning political programs, esp Chris Matthews' Show--but not to leave out Tim Russert, of course.)

May all our news sources act so nobly (sic) as the NYT...as stated above.

So...Blog on with the Truth, oh Bloggers! Keep their propagandistic, win-at-any-cost hooves to the Fire of Truth!


tags: NYT New York Times 2008 Election Chris Matthews Tim Russert
Political Astrology

Blair sinking in sleaze

Here you see today's transits for noon, London, to Tony Blair's natal chart.

As you know, Mr. Blair is under tremendous pressure of late--as is his twin George Bush--and we see here recent transits to Mr Blair's 12th house planets.

Read The Scotsman's take on Blair's troubles (which are often self-created) Blair sinking amid sleaze allegations for details.

Now 12th house-ers are usually good at secretive occupations dealing with large organizations such as--you guessed it--politics, and Blair's having Venus (relationships; values; money), Mercury (thinking; communications), Sun (ego; true life purpose), Jupiter (one of two Social planets relating to the expansion principle, to optimism and confidence, and negatively to hypocrisy and to over-confidence--a manifestation often seen in charts of politicians along with 12th house back-door-deals for pocket-lining); Mars (energy; action; intitiative) lined up in 12th house (of Self-Undoing) is great for strengthening purposes until a bunch of transiting planets come along to knock them over like bowling pins.

If we see these planets as ACTORS opposing Mr. Blair we may see that for some time--certainly since 2005 when Jupiter opposed natal Venus--he has been under great stress. Most of these recent oppositional transits involve such things as:

plans, ideas, opposed or dismissed out-of-hand; unfavorable time for group endeavors, meetings (Mars oppo Mercury: Oct 17/18, 06);

unfavorable for ego-related situations; bad time for displaying arrogance or aggression or to resist the authority of others; Half-Birthday--time for reassessing one's progress or its lack (Sun oppo Sun, on or about Nov 8);

discontent with personal achievement (or wealth!); a difficult time to find anyone who is the least bit impressed with you;; overblown efforts and discouraging comparisons (Jupiter oppo Jupiter, 3rd week Nov);

others actions/efforts are diametrically opposed to your own; the hitting head against the proverbial brick wall transit; aggression succeeds even less with equally determined force against you by others (Mars oppo Mars, on or about Dec 11.)


These are just some of the effects of the last several weeks to Mr.Blair's natal chart in the opposition realm...and there's the ongoing tr Saturn to natal Pluto, the power planet.

Now many people--self included--are of the Pluto-in-Leo generation and so we all have had, are having, or will have this important transit to our natal Plutos.
But it is made more important for those who are directly connected with societal power structures...such as politicians like Blair and Bush.

So what to expect with the Saturn to Pluto transit?

Saturn...control; restriction, denial, loss, and accountability stomping on Pluto's power...you could even say the power-behind-the-throne and perhaps secret activities:

loss of control in situations which are too large to handle efficiently or readily;
may lack resources to be the one in charge; struggle to understand or control current motivations, behavior, and actions that developed as a result of the past.

Saturn brings the past to catch up with us...and you'll read about it for Mr.Blair and his bribes to the Saudi Arabia royal family to secure their order for 72 Eurofighter Typhoon jets, and his cash-for-honors scandal--and his stopping of the SERIOUS FRAUD OFFICE's inquiry into the arms deal--in the above-linked article.

Now...where can America get one of those Serious Fraud Offices? What a hoot of a name! Propaganda rules, m'peops!


tags: Tony Blair Bush Politics Political Astrology