110th Congress swears, Bush reads diaries

W pushes envelope on U.S. spying from DailyNews.com informs us that Bush signed new postal regulations on Dec 20--with Sun conjunct Pluto, natch--that gives him the "emergency" right to open and read any US envelope whether it holds fake anthrax spores or a Dear John letter.

That's why I'm hiding my diary asap in a very dark hidey-hole and suggest you do same. Oh--and a 'signing statement' was added as is his Orwellian custom.

12:00 pm est, Capitol Building today, the 110th is sworn in with 19Aries41...the Exaltation of the Sun degree--rising, and indications of change are sprinkled about the chart, the day, and thus the session.

Mercury, indicator of change is conj Mc and is focal point of Sun/Mc (the goal)) = Mercury: thinking about one's position in life. Mercury's changes in communications and in thinking are the goal and having Mercury in stable, serious Capricorn may help them keep noses to the grindstone (5-day work week reinstated!) in spite of all the sniping and undermining on tap from their opponents--from either party (2008 draws near.)

Sun in Capricorn, sign of law, authority, politics, and business is conj Mercury in 10th house--too close for comfort actually and may snuff out Mercury's plans.

There's an "attacks which weaken" flavor here too with Acumen rising with this Mc 10Cap57, so the hoped-for change of atmosphere in Washington may be short-lived at best and Bush's egocentric need to keep centerstage will be interfering as they go along...unless someone or something shuts his spigot off.

House and Senate do have an awfully big helping of pork'n'crow on their plate, don't they? How to out Bush'n'crew without exposing their own hindquarters...a balancing act if they ever was one.

Chart-ruler Mars is applying first to a helpful trine to Saturn 24Leo17 Rx in 5th house of Speculations and Risk-Taking, then Mars conjoins Pluto, planet of power, transformation, and, as mentioned above, Spying. Perhaps Bush' new postal powers will come under the microscope--otherwise and until then, no one's diary will be safe from your pet goat.

With moneybags Jupiter, the GOP's significator, in 8th house of Other People's Money, taxes, debt, insurance, credit, legacies, etc...supplying Bush the trillions for his war will be on the menu as it should be. He's bled our coffers dry.

And where the Moon? The people, the public, the populace? In 4th house of Domestic Scene on the Security axis (opposite Sun and Mercury--there was a Full Moon yesterday.)

Moon "28Cancer": "A modern Pocohontas"...COMPATIBILITY...

pos: a high skill in bringing older or neglected reality to the service of fresher and more vital self-fulfillment;

neg/shadow side: an inability to make personal adjustments and a stupid exaltation of conservatism.

!!!!!!!!

The 'positive' sounds to me like what the people--and Dems say they--want, the 'negative' could describe Bush and the GOP. (The italics are my own, Sabian Symbol from Marc Edmund Jones, The Sabian Symbols in Astrology.)

After all, prideful lion Bush is accustomed to roaring his deep displeasure when things aren't goin' his way.

And yet--this Moon is reflecting George Bush's natal Saturn--Mr.Bush being held accountable and responsible for his past actions by the American people.

Let's hope the Dem's control of Congress represents us as it has promised to do.

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Bush and the dead-of-night

By now you've heard Bush's oinks from the Rose Garden and read his op-ed about how he and Congress will be working together in peace and harmony from Jan 4 onward.

Sen Charles Schumer added his squeal that, "We hope when the president says compromise, it means more than 'do it my way', which is what he meant in the past."

Well, Senator, considering that the November elections' message the People sent to Bush about his botched war has been royally misinterpreted by Duhbya, I doubt he means anything of the sort.

The Republican Congress' dead-of-night earmarks are on Bush's agenda NOW that the Dems have control of Congress and his usual hypocrisy is glaringly in evidence...gooey-fat earmarks dripping with gravy didn't bother him nearly so much when his team was batting, did they?

He says he's anxious to work with the new Congress--I say he's anxious ABOUT working with the new Congress who may uncover all manner of improprieties the public has yet to be told. Today's shout-outs from the Oval Office were hopeful damage control by the eternal optimist.

So when he says it's "time to set aside politics (when Rs do it it's okay, when Ds do it, it's 'politics') and "focus on the future" (2 more years--PLEASE--we've got more crap to perpetrate) he isn't factoring in how totally fatigued the entire country is with his propaganda, his enabling of the "GOP" spending in the dead-of-night (let us not forget who perfected the practice), his deceit, his war, and his ugly snoot and fake accent.

Plus, he dances like a frat boy who thinks he can dance--but only when he's high on substances.

Well, I'm feelin' grousy today...I had to wake up to more of Bush's get-ahead-of-the-debate tactics from the Rose Garden and now he "writes" too? Sheesh.

Oink along with the AP here: Bush: Congress Must Limit Pork Spending

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portrait: Herr Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Jan 27, 1756 NS, Salzburg, Austria; died or was poisoned in 1792.

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Drawing by Jude Cowell

Mozart to the World!

Listening now to the Metropolitan Opera's broadcast to the world of Mozart's THE MAGIC FLUTE.

As you know, one's natal chart continues to be transited and triggered posthumously, so how will today's big Mozart Shout-Out to the world - nearing the end of the year-long celebrations of the Maestro's 250th birthday party - be shown in his natal chart?

The music began today at 1:38 pm est, New York City, and Moon 20Tau16 was rising at the midpoint of his natal Venus/Neptune combo. Venus and Neptune separately and together indicate inspired art and music...that from-on-high style he is well-noted for.

If you read my previous post on Mozart from January, it'll spill the beans on Mozart's Harmonic signature (H5 = creativity known for its Style) as I wish him Happy 250th Maestro!

Rising...Venus/Neptune = Moon: reveling in love ideals; a dreamy nature; a chaotic emotional life; being easily influenced or misled by others; a renouncing, unhappy, or disappointed woman.

The pairing of Venus with Neptune relates to art and music, of course, and Moon = the Public, or Publicity.

(As always with midpoint pictures, they operate on an 'all, some,or none' level.)

Well! This could relate to someone at the Met today - or since I sometimes work on an ongoing study of Mozart's death, it could relate to his life 'then' and esp to a woman in his life.

Here are some other factors which stand out when relating today's performance chart with Mozart's natal chart:

Tr Chiron conjunct natal Sun "8AQ"; plus, tr Sun will conjunct natal Chiron on Jan 3, 2007...this reminds me of my previous post on Thomas Paine the day he had the same double transit between Sun and Chiron. You'll find my Thomas Paine posts--two in May '06, and one in Sept '06 in Monthly Archives...in this browser it's near the bottom of the page, but I'm using an updated IE7.

(Be sure to update your browser and clear your cache in time for the New Year!)

More on today at the MET:

Tr Mars is conjunct his natal Moon/Pluto conjunction, a duo signifying "smother love" but also gifting him with deeply powerful creativity...the ability to move the masses, oh yeah uh huh! (Mozart is my all-time fave, btw.)

Natal Moon/Pluto = tr Mars: unusually great energy and a tendency to quarrel; great changes of mood; easy excitability; injuries.

Well, the intensity and originality of Uranus is now highlighted for him - he's in process of having an Uranus Return...plus, he's just beyond his Saturn Half-Return (or Culmination, as I think of it), and his Nodal Half-Return--when weak relationships are broken--is on the way when tr South Node of the Moon reaches his NN 11Vir28.

The Magic Flute ended at about 3:30 pm...about 8 minutes ago, and I want to upload a drawing which I perpetrated of Herr Mozart back in the early 90s which I will do just after this post so it can welcome you who may or may not have gotten this far into my babbles...again, Happy 250th, Maestro, and...


Wishing Happy New Year to All!

Jude Cowell


And yet with Mooon squaring Saturn in the MET performance chart for today, it would seem as if the Moon (the public) is being blocked in some way by authoritative Saturn who repreents old traditions and even religions and philosophies.

Perhaps the brotherhood which Mozart joined is no more thrilled at The Magic Flute singing their secret tunes in 2006 than they were when po'd about it over 200 years ago!