"The bad thing of war is, that it makes more evil people than it can take away."
-Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) German philosopher
Sending hopes and wishes for a Merry Season to you all and, as Sandra Bullock famously said in Miss Congeniality, what I really want is, Peace On Earth.
Now THAT would be congenial.
tag: Peace On Earth
NEW BLOG UPDATE: Looking for some new Astrology/Political blogs to read?
You can't go wrong with Astrology Talk which is a well-organized blog written for non-astrologers and astrologers alike;
then there's Learning Curve on the Ecliptic which is on a search for Rational Astrology (ah hah! a Saturnian as am I!) and may just veer into current events, art, and travel, among other things.
And the excellent astrologer Dan Cuiboda now has his free software Configuration Hunter ready for downloading. Configuration Hunter is designed to make easier the time-consuming practice (even with computers!) of our beloved hoary-pated Astrology.
Find those Grand Trines and Crosses in a flash with Dan's wonderful program!
Plus, you may wish to visit Dan's blog Living Astrology to check out his new idea for using Seconday Progressed Moon with Solar Returns.
Happy Astrology Reading, m'peops!!! Jude
Dec 24, 2006
Dec 23, 2006
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
'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
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
Dec 21, 2006
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.
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.
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