Saturn (25Leo44) ruler of bones, now in Leo, sign of the spine and the heart, was at Midheaven at 1:57 pm edt, Port Clyde, Maine. Roberts is said to have "fallen" at his vacation home in Maine "around 2 pm." His spokesperson says he "took a tumble."
But does tr Saturn (loss) in Leo (leaders) have more winnowing to do? You betcha.
1:57 pm edt:
Rising is 14Scor17--Scorpio rising may indicate surgery, as you know. Chart-ruler Mars (25Tau03) is in 7th house of Partnerships/Public Enemies, and is applying to a square (obstacles; blockages) with Saturn. Health problems or broken bones?
Roberts has been reported as having no known health conditions (other than hanging out with the syndicate of Bush-Cheney and their ilk.)
The stubborn Taurean Mars is still within orb of the rigid Fixed T-square with Saturn/Neptune, mentioned in a recent post.
The "fall" chart also brings in another picture:
Neptune/MC = Mars: acting without clear understanding (as in, tipsy? or just acting on principle which doesn't sit well with your Federalist pals' agenda?); the desire to bring wrong ideas into realization; metaphysical study; charisma for professional gain; playing a role.
I'd give a 'hmm.m.m.m...' on that last one! Was this 'incident' really a fall?
After all, Roberts' natal Sun is now opposed by tr Sun, a transit during which we are not favored if we attempt to resist the authority of others! It's our "unbirthday" when arrogance or aggressive attitudes do not cause your opponent to back down = you lose, he wins.
This puts Roberts' n Sun on Bush's n DESC...fine for when you're getting along, not so good when you aren't.
US Inaugural ASC (Jan 20, DC, 12:00 pm) is conj the 1:57 pm Desc, the 7th or Partnership house. Inaugural ASC = the president; and the Sun today is conj Bush's natal ASC, highlighting his nibs as he chats up Britain's Gordon Brown.
There's more in the chart, of course, but since Roberts' "fall" has interrupted the post I've been working on all day, I'll quit wondering what really happened in Maine (did Roberts draw the line?) and will publish on my reconsideration of May 28, 2000's Great Conjunction of Jupiter (Rs) and Saturn (Ds) when so many of our present troubles were agreed upon, and Bush became the shoo-in.
The post on the Societal pair will appear previous to this one, so I hope you'll check it out esp since the Jup/Saturn cycle is of 20 years' duration. Don't know about you, but I'm wumped out already.
Jul 30, 2007
Jupiter conjunct Saturn, May 2000
"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.
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 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.
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