"Our only political party has two right wings, one called Republican, the other Democratic. But Henry Adams figured all that out back in the 1890s. 'We have a single system,' he wrote, and 'in that system the only question is the price at which the proletariat is to be bought and sold, the bread and circuses.'"
Gore Vidal, The Decline and Fall of the American Empire
You gotta love it when you find someone agreeing with you!
The above quote from Gore Vidal has inspired me to look yet again at the chart for the Jupiter (R-Party)--Saturn (D-Party) conjunction of May 28, 2000 through which the world is now slogging (Jup/Sat = 20 year cycle)--and what a pretty picture it is when the Rs and Ds coordinated yet again to bolster joint plans and make arrangements to sock it to The People.
Jupiter conj Saturn:
Using May 28, 2000, 12:02 pm edt, White House, the Great Conjunction of Jupiter (expansion principle) and Saturn (restriction principle) took place at Midheaven, the WHY? or Goal/Aspirations Point of the chart.
With MC 22Tau22, this gives three midpoint pictures to consider:
Jup/Sat = MC: thinking with grandeur; the philosopher; fluctuating success; changes; losses.
Jup/MC = Saturn: discontent; a happy change; non-utilization of opportunities; a missing of the right moment; cautious pursuit of opportunities; respect for the rules; long-lasting endeavors pay off with long-lasting rewards.
Sat/MC = Jupiter: changing fortunes; clinging to hopes or trying to look at the good side of things; simplicity; modesty (!); contentment; doing things right or how they are expected to be done; keeping things as they are or changing things to how they should be done for maximum security.
Pallas, an asteroid whose keywords include strategy, is at the Aug 11, 1999 Solar Eclipse degree of 18Leo+ (that's Nostradamus' King of Alarm Eclipse), which is also vengeful Venus' degree on the morning of 9/11/01.
Opposite Pallas is asteroid, Cupido, from which we get the word, cupidity, meaning, desire for wealth. Asteroid, Cupido also relates to the community or family groups (which would include the Syndicate and the mafia.)
The chart's 8th cusp (money of others, debt, insurance, legacies, credit, transformations; death; the occult/"hidden") has secretive, obfuscating, dissolving Pisces upon it (using Placidus House system which I tend to stick with unless looking at charts from centuries ago--then Regiomantanus--that's just how I roll.)
Within 8th house we see the Moon (The People; the public; publicity; changes and fluctuations) at 3Aries14. Whenever I see an Aries Moon, I always think of terror-promoter Robespierre and his love of saying, I AM the people.
But back to the 2000 conjunction--and here's where it gets really icky...
Also at MC (Goals; Aspirations; WHY?) with Jupiter and Saturn are two asteroids of archetypal importance esp when you consider what's go on since 2000.
Sigma: keyphrases: good judgement, moral sanity leading to moderation, temperance, and self-control; restraint. 'Sigma' stands for Greek goddess, Sophrosyne, and is of philosophical significance (as are the Jupiter-Saturn combo.)
Wonder what happened there? Moral sanity and moderation were their Goals? Puh! More like their goals to destroy.
Perhaps the addition of this particular and difficult 2nd asteroid understandably complicates the picture for everyone...so that it's more like:
Nemesis: keyphrases: to give what is due; one who brings justice or revenge; a source of harm or ruin; a fatal divinity; retributive justice in its outcome or execution; an inescapable punishment for human presumption; an unbeatable opponent (Bush's 'election'? al Qaeda's rise? Jupiter conjuncted Saturn for al Qaeda, too.)
So this is what the 'New Millennium' has brought us so far, in good part thanks to our illusory, deceptive "two-party system" which royally s*cks. And they have the audacity and presumption to call themselves the elite !
Stewardship - or major pocket-lining?
Either way, fear-mongering and terror-touting are the order of the day while the Rs and Ds still rule the roost ad nauseum...and final dispositor Mercury in the 2000 Conjunction chart is at "28Gemini", the "Bankruptcy" degree...and all sides are proving masterfully that they know exactly how to bankrupt America.
Jul 30, 2007
Jul 29, 2007
Gonzo impeachment makes sense
In what may yet turn out to be an alternate universe, it seems that the NYT endorses Gonzales impeachment as mentioned today in The Carpetbagger Report.
If, as Einstein said, you can't fix problems using the same thinking that created them, it seems just crazy to keep Gonzo around a Justice Department whose credibility is shredded and whose staff is now ragged and sparse.
Unless, of course, you're part of an agenda to gut justice in the first place.
So the undermining of America continues while a toothless Congress wastes time and our money debating ad nauseum. Debate in a democracy is a great thing if you can just get people to shut up and actually DO something of worth and merit.
And you don't have to be an Einstein to figure that out.
If, as Einstein said, you can't fix problems using the same thinking that created them, it seems just crazy to keep Gonzo around a Justice Department whose credibility is shredded and whose staff is now ragged and sparse.
Unless, of course, you're part of an agenda to gut justice in the first place.
So the undermining of America continues while a toothless Congress wastes time and our money debating ad nauseum. Debate in a democracy is a great thing if you can just get people to shut up and actually DO something of worth and merit.
And you don't have to be an Einstein to figure that out.
Jul 28, 2007
Hillary vs Barack
When was the last chance I had to butterfly about the net pollinating here and there so that I can pass on political astrology articles to you?
Michael O'Reilly's Neptune Cafe has a great analysis on Hillary Clinton vs Barack Obama, so why are you still here?
Michael O'Reilly's Neptune Cafe has a great analysis on Hillary Clinton vs Barack Obama, so why are you still here?
Aquarian Full Moon, July 29
One of my favorite astrology blogs, Oculus Divinorum, has an informative post on July 29's Full Moon in Aquarius.
The LEO/AQ polarity is on what's called the Will Axis and concerns issues of groups and associations, hopes'n'wishes, children, romance, risk-taking, creative pursuits, and more...check out this excellent post for yourself!
The LEO/AQ polarity is on what's called the Will Axis and concerns issues of groups and associations, hopes'n'wishes, children, romance, risk-taking, creative pursuits, and more...check out this excellent post for yourself!
Awakening Warrior by Timothy Challans
Timothy Challans, a career infantry officer writes in his new book, Awakening Warrior: A Revolution In the Ethics of Warfare (State University Press of New York) that,
“The great paradox is that America goes to war against forces that it plays a large role in creating, and each war spawns new threats of largely its own creation.”
In a thoughtful book that blends philosophy and history, Challans diagnoses the ills of what he describes as the “warrior ethos” and the “American War Machine” which encompasses those political and military institutions that engage the world with physical force. Challens argues that America’s survival is contingent upon replacing the current warrior ethos with a new paradigm guided by ethics.
A native of Colorado, Challens is a West Point graduate and earned masters and doctorate degrees in philosophy at the Johns Hopskins University. For more than ten years he taught over a thousand military students from the rank of cadet to colonel, at West Point (USMA), the Command and General Staff College (CGSC), and the School for Advanced Military Studies (SAMS).
Read Awakening Warrior: an interview with author Timothy Challens in Robert Ellman's Intrepid Liberal Journal.
“The great paradox is that America goes to war against forces that it plays a large role in creating, and each war spawns new threats of largely its own creation.”
In a thoughtful book that blends philosophy and history, Challans diagnoses the ills of what he describes as the “warrior ethos” and the “American War Machine” which encompasses those political and military institutions that engage the world with physical force. Challens argues that America’s survival is contingent upon replacing the current warrior ethos with a new paradigm guided by ethics.
A native of Colorado, Challens is a West Point graduate and earned masters and doctorate degrees in philosophy at the Johns Hopskins University. For more than ten years he taught over a thousand military students from the rank of cadet to colonel, at West Point (USMA), the Command and General Staff College (CGSC), and the School for Advanced Military Studies (SAMS).
Read Awakening Warrior: an interview with author Timothy Challens in Robert Ellman's Intrepid Liberal Journal.
Sep 11, 2007 Solar Eclipse
On Sept 11 there is a Partial Solar Eclipse 18Vir25--the same day as the US's Mars Return (a new cycle of activity; 2:55 pm, Mars in 6th house, Pluto rising, Moon moved on to 21Vir24, Sun and Moon in 9th house by then. Only applying aspect of Mars in Return chart: opposition Pluto, 4A56.)
So with Pluto conj ASC in the US Mars Return chart we have:
Pluto/ASC = Mars: ruthless energy deployment; courage; upset and change; foolhardiness and danger; injury; accident. A Mars Return is 'good' until the planet's next Return to natal degree--appr 2 years.
(With *midpoint pics, any, all, or any combo may apply...now, later, or possibly never.)
If you click to enlarge the Eclipse chart, you may be able to read all my shmooshed-up notes--if so, you see that Mars is apex (focal) planet of two Mutable T-square patterns formed with Sun, Moon, and Uranus.
Sun/Uranus = Mars: hasty physical actions; injury; accident; hitting a brick wall.
Moon/Uranus = Mars: lack of self-control; self-aggrandizement; injury; violence; danger of infection; craving for sensation; excessive ambition.
Apex Mars in Mutable T-square indicates one who is restless and tends to diffuse his energies in a disorganized fashion. There is a high-strung, nervous disposition with mental irritablity; he's distracted and possibly bored.
Stimulated to initiate a wide range of enterprising activities, he must focus and coordinate better to manage this energy well lest nervous exhaustion and incompetency take over.
This apex Mars also happens to be conjunct George Bush's n Uranus/NN conj:
Uranus/NN ("political reformers") = Mars: quarrels; disputes accompanied by violence; rashness; having an axe to grind and gaining support; tremendous energy and tension (the last supports nervy apex Mars, above.)
Factor in Bush's Secondary Progressed Ura/NN with Mars and we have:
Mars/Ura = NN: experiencing sudden events with others; execution of extraordinary and unusual enterprises; hyperexcitability.
Mars/NN = Uranus: organizing others; getting people worked up; sudden events that affect many people; active cooperation; upset within an organization or community.
Another thing about the US Mars Return--Mars is conj 9/11's Moon/Saturn midpoint...
Moon/Saturn = Mars: separation; illness; desire to overcome difficulties; sense of real problems; difficulty getting off the ground except by strategically planned exertion of energies.
Every couple of years, as Mars hits this degree, we may hear (but hopefully not re-experience) these issues from the 9/11 attacks. Yet we know that such disasters "keep on giving" for a long time.
Bush's natal planets rising:
Perhaps you can see a bunch of Bush's natal Libran planets rising in the Eclipse chart--Neptune, Chiron, Moon, and Jupiter, with tr Mercury 9Lib13 (conj Vindemiatrix, "loss of partner; depression; the occult.")
And with Mercury recently transited Bush's n Neptune he may have "misplaced" some communications, and has had difficulty in grasping the true meaning or accuracy of info received (Petraeus' "report" on Iraq? Purgegate emails? Other previously hidden sorriness?)
Plus, there are often mystic/occult connections when Mercury transits n Neptune--and contacts may involve charitable institutions, prisons, and hospitals (Walter Reid? Secret prisons? "Faith-based initiatives"?)
In the Eclipse chart MC 13Can09 brings Bush's and the US's n Suns to the most visible point of the chart--and as you know, things manifest at chart angles since they have an outlet for expression.
Another interesting occurrence which has been off and on of late is that tr Pluto has been in an obsessive-compulsive quindecile (QD) aspect with Bush/US natal Suns...
Sun QD Pluto = intense drive to break outdated concepts bwo innovative ideas; may disrupt governing systems and break rules through defiance of law and order (that pretty much describes the Bush administraiton in totality, doesn't it?)
Therefore, the Eclipse brings along a QD between MC and Pluto:
Pluto QD MC = driven by the need for ultimate power within career; reformers of societal perceptions; leaders of mass movements.
This Solar Eclipse is in the 9 New South Series which began July 19, 1917...not such a good year, imho...there was a Saturn/Neptune conjunction then and we're just finishing up another of their oppositions in 2007. (The US propped up the Shah in Iran during the 1952/53 conjunction. Their 1989 conj brought Bush Sr playing prez, and NYSE woes.)
9 New South Series:
In her very useful book, Predictive Astrology, Bernadette Brady gives the following info for this Series:
Long-term worries about loved ones, health, or paperwork/communication issues are brought to the surface. There could be a worrisome piece of news about a loved one--or responsibilities with paperwork could come home to roost. Any news received will have a sense of destiny or fatedness about it.
The last manifestation of this Series was in August, 1989...and with this Eclipse occurring in natal 1st house (physical body; self) for Poppa Bush, will his health and/or past presidential actions be brought to the surface in some way?
And will the stock market react in similar fashion as in 1989?
The next Solar Eclipse will be on Feb 7, 2008, at the "Unmasking" degree when someone's true motives are exposed--Peep Eye! But more on that later.
*midpoint pics: Tyl; Ebertin; The Quindecile, Ricki Reeves.
Jul 27, 2007
severe dust storm on Mars
Space Weather News for July 27, 2007:
DUST STORM UPDATE: A severe dust storm on Mars, which has been darkening skies and causing a solar energy crisis for NASA's Mars rovers, refuses to die down. Clouds of dust are now visible in backyard telescopes and Mars is beginning to resemble a orange billiard ball as all of its underlying surface markings are hidden from view. The storm is already a month old and no one knows when it will subside.
Visit SpaceWeather.com for photos and status reports.#
Testy, quarrelly Mars is causing a dust-up here on earth, too. Now in Taurus (tropically) the red planet was in Pisces in 2003 as he hung over NYC during the power outage. The god of war, they call him. Reminds me of Nostradamus' prediction about the Aug 11, 1999 eclipse which mentions Mars...hmmmm...more on that later.
DUST STORM UPDATE: A severe dust storm on Mars, which has been darkening skies and causing a solar energy crisis for NASA's Mars rovers, refuses to die down. Clouds of dust are now visible in backyard telescopes and Mars is beginning to resemble a orange billiard ball as all of its underlying surface markings are hidden from view. The storm is already a month old and no one knows when it will subside.
Visit SpaceWeather.com for photos and status reports.#
Testy, quarrelly Mars is causing a dust-up here on earth, too. Now in Taurus (tropically) the red planet was in Pisces in 2003 as he hung over NYC during the power outage. The god of war, they call him. Reminds me of Nostradamus' prediction about the Aug 11, 1999 eclipse which mentions Mars...hmmmm...more on that later.
Jul 25, 2007
progressed midpoints of JFK: 7.26.07
"....if by a liberal they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people--their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, their civil liberties...if that is what they mean by a "liberal" then I am proud to be a liberal." John F. Kennedy
As you know, our natal charts continue to be impacted by transits and also continue progressing after we've passed into history.
Today I'm looking at the current Progressed charts--Secondary (sec = physical plane), Minor (minor = mental plane), and Tertiary (tert = emotional-intuitive plane) for John F. Kennedy, and their **midpoint pictures now formed ('thumnail' views, you could say--in English for the astrologese-impaired) for they may be instructive concerning the current state of the nation to which he was sacrificed.
If you're tender, you may want to skip this post entirely. Any, all, or some combination/s may apply.
Minor:
Merc/Sat = Mars: quarrels; unrest; tendency to treat others badly; bringing about enforced separations; circumstances cause separations; incompatibility; risking everything to make a point; turning drive into tyranny.
Pluto/NN = ASC: the desire or need to gain influence over the public; mind control.
Ven/Jup = Mercury: love of entertainment; mirth; optimism; communicating with grace; writing beautifully.
NN/ASC = Neptune: forming relationships through shared interests such as the paranormal; impressionability; wrong impressions or perceptions; weakening of associations through lies and deceit.
Tert:
Moon/MC = NN: adaptability; sympathy; professional contacts.
Merc/Jup = Saturn: breaking off negotiations; uncertainty during negotiations; sober decisions; withdrawing from disputes to avoid a fight; rational thought; the lonely stand.
*Merc/Sat = Sun...also appears in Secondaries, see below.
Ven/Sat = Mercury: sober thinking; the visualization of stark reality; preoccupation; searching for the ideal.
Mars/Pluto = Sun: violent measures; the ability to work until collapse; intervention of the big shock; upset; passionate attack to achieve an objective; upset of plans that is unredeemable.
Jup/ASC = MC: contacts with others who support one's personal success; successful contacts.
Sat/MC = Venus: dryness in relationships; improvement in job situation.
Sat/Pluto = Neptune: being doubted; not being seen for who one really is; unstable life situation because of the inexplicable--because of fear; fraud, lies, falsehoods; the desire to harm others secretly; immorality; danger through water, gas, poison; shattered nerves (exs: gas explosions, flooding, Litvinenko poisoning in the news.-jc)
Sec:
Moon/Sat: MC: structuring ambition; making things happen carefully; feeling lonely or deserted; the state of being sick or sad.
Merc/Nep: Sun: impressionability; being deceived; sensitivity; creativity.
Merc/Jup = Neptune: lack of realism; inspiration; beguiling fantasy; losing focus os an issue; magnetism.
*Merc/Sat = Sun: changes; separations; getting down to work; discipline pays off; knowing what's got to be done (also appears in Terts.)
Nep/Pluto = Mars: lack of energy or stamina; misfortune to be used as a tool for other people's interests; tendency to succumb to external powers; great personal magnetism to set things right or rejection of actions due to misunderstandings.
Plu/ASC = Mercury: the thrust of intellect; domination of other people's minds; suggestion; hypnosis (see 'Plu/NN = ASC' in minors.)
JFK's Sec Mercury is currently at ooLib46, conj US natal MC (Goals; Aspirations; Public Status) and so I'd like to add the Sabian Symbol for "1Lib" using the rounding-up method:
"A butterfly made perfect by a dart through it"--ARTICULATION...
pos: man's awakening to the need for some more whole-souled focus on character;
neg/shadow side/unconcious: the loss of all true selfhood by a needless surrender to the world and conformity to its ways.
On 9/11/01, this Symbol aquired a deeper meaning--remember how many people spoke of turning to spiritual things and how materialism wasn't the answer? There is deeper meaning behind these attacks, folks said.
Why, for days, weeks, and egad! even months afterward, TV commercials changed and became more 'sensitive' and less 'greed-infused' but it seems obvious that this momentum has slowed to a crawl. We're up to our old ways as if the dart had never pierced the heart of this nation (a 'butterfly' flitting about to the next new thing.)
And so I pray for America to find a better road in a better way--and I'm sending a heartfelt shout-out to all who love her rather than use her cynically for their own interests. You know who you are.
And although I don't idolize JFK, it does seem that he cared more for this nation than those who currently infest the White House (and most of the varmints serving (themselves) on Capitol Hill. Of course, my liberal slant may be to blame...call me a people person, if you will...it's all right by me.
NPR announced today that Karl Rove has been subpoenaed so let's see what good another apparently toothless subpoena will do, shall we, as the drama continues to unfold...matinee discounts available.
**midpoint pictures: Tyl; Ebertin; Sabian Symbols in Astrology, Dr. Marc Edmund Jones.
As you know, our natal charts continue to be impacted by transits and also continue progressing after we've passed into history.
Today I'm looking at the current Progressed charts--Secondary (sec = physical plane), Minor (minor = mental plane), and Tertiary (tert = emotional-intuitive plane) for John F. Kennedy, and their **midpoint pictures now formed ('thumnail' views, you could say--in English for the astrologese-impaired) for they may be instructive concerning the current state of the nation to which he was sacrificed.
If you're tender, you may want to skip this post entirely. Any, all, or some combination/s may apply.
Minor:
Merc/Sat = Mars: quarrels; unrest; tendency to treat others badly; bringing about enforced separations; circumstances cause separations; incompatibility; risking everything to make a point; turning drive into tyranny.
Pluto/NN = ASC: the desire or need to gain influence over the public; mind control.
Ven/Jup = Mercury: love of entertainment; mirth; optimism; communicating with grace; writing beautifully.
NN/ASC = Neptune: forming relationships through shared interests such as the paranormal; impressionability; wrong impressions or perceptions; weakening of associations through lies and deceit.
Tert:
Moon/MC = NN: adaptability; sympathy; professional contacts.
Merc/Jup = Saturn: breaking off negotiations; uncertainty during negotiations; sober decisions; withdrawing from disputes to avoid a fight; rational thought; the lonely stand.
*Merc/Sat = Sun...also appears in Secondaries, see below.
Ven/Sat = Mercury: sober thinking; the visualization of stark reality; preoccupation; searching for the ideal.
Mars/Pluto = Sun: violent measures; the ability to work until collapse; intervention of the big shock; upset; passionate attack to achieve an objective; upset of plans that is unredeemable.
Jup/ASC = MC: contacts with others who support one's personal success; successful contacts.
Sat/MC = Venus: dryness in relationships; improvement in job situation.
Sat/Pluto = Neptune: being doubted; not being seen for who one really is; unstable life situation because of the inexplicable--because of fear; fraud, lies, falsehoods; the desire to harm others secretly; immorality; danger through water, gas, poison; shattered nerves (exs: gas explosions, flooding, Litvinenko poisoning in the news.-jc)
Sec:
Moon/Sat: MC: structuring ambition; making things happen carefully; feeling lonely or deserted; the state of being sick or sad.
Merc/Nep: Sun: impressionability; being deceived; sensitivity; creativity.
Merc/Jup = Neptune: lack of realism; inspiration; beguiling fantasy; losing focus os an issue; magnetism.
*Merc/Sat = Sun: changes; separations; getting down to work; discipline pays off; knowing what's got to be done (also appears in Terts.)
Nep/Pluto = Mars: lack of energy or stamina; misfortune to be used as a tool for other people's interests; tendency to succumb to external powers; great personal magnetism to set things right or rejection of actions due to misunderstandings.
Plu/ASC = Mercury: the thrust of intellect; domination of other people's minds; suggestion; hypnosis (see 'Plu/NN = ASC' in minors.)
JFK's Sec Mercury is currently at ooLib46, conj US natal MC (Goals; Aspirations; Public Status) and so I'd like to add the Sabian Symbol for "1Lib" using the rounding-up method:
"A butterfly made perfect by a dart through it"--ARTICULATION...
pos: man's awakening to the need for some more whole-souled focus on character;
neg/shadow side/unconcious: the loss of all true selfhood by a needless surrender to the world and conformity to its ways.
On 9/11/01, this Symbol aquired a deeper meaning--remember how many people spoke of turning to spiritual things and how materialism wasn't the answer? There is deeper meaning behind these attacks, folks said.
Why, for days, weeks, and egad! even months afterward, TV commercials changed and became more 'sensitive' and less 'greed-infused' but it seems obvious that this momentum has slowed to a crawl. We're up to our old ways as if the dart had never pierced the heart of this nation (a 'butterfly' flitting about to the next new thing.)
And so I pray for America to find a better road in a better way--and I'm sending a heartfelt shout-out to all who love her rather than use her cynically for their own interests. You know who you are.
And although I don't idolize JFK, it does seem that he cared more for this nation than those who currently infest the White House (and most of the varmints serving (themselves) on Capitol Hill. Of course, my liberal slant may be to blame...call me a people person, if you will...it's all right by me.
NPR announced today that Karl Rove has been subpoenaed so let's see what good another apparently toothless subpoena will do, shall we, as the drama continues to unfold...matinee discounts available.
**midpoint pictures: Tyl; Ebertin; Sabian Symbols in Astrology, Dr. Marc Edmund Jones.
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