The SOTU is tonight 9pm est. in Washington D.C.

This might prove interesting tonight quick glance shows the Sun square to Jupiter at 1 Taurus and Saturn at 29 Libra who oppose each other'ish. We find Mercury lagging back at 25 Capricorn behind the Sun at 4 Aquarius 29 agitating the Jupiter/Saturn opposition and stirring the pot so to speak. We've all been paying some attention to the GOP Idol fest, as well as to the weird weather patterns, the oddly places earth quakes, and the latest with yesterdays Coronal Mass Ejection that is currently bombarding the earth it just seemed a good time to start a new thread. We are also playing off the New Moon energies from the Aquarian New Moon.

If you stop by leave us your thoughts on tonights SOTU. Will the President mention OWS especially considering Mitt Romney pays less in taxes then WE DO which is particularly obscene to me. I'm looking to hear the Warrior Obama. And hell no the banks do not get immunity, the people have pitch forks and we are tired of being had.

I'll be chatting tonight. I lost my password to the website where I upload charts so I am unable to unpload tonights chart. I will find some place where I can store these and find them again.

Bright Blessings all.

New thread, the previous one was getting pretty leggy. New article coming soon!

by Sally Cheyne McDonald

It does seem as if we are going down the stairs but don't look at that, look up, cause we are going up. Smashed here between three eclipses, a partial solar eclipse on June 1st in Gemini, a full moon eclipse on the 15th also in Gemini and now another partial solar eclipse in Cancer, close to the US Sun at 9 degrees Cancer, but not close enough for me. This eclipse does however fall on the US midpoint of Sun/Jupiter, perhaps the worst of possibilities will be held off for August. This eclipse, while not falling across the US at all, does fall close to transiting south node, the past is rising up, karma is written all over this eclipse.

It's interesting to me that since 1997/98 all the outer planets have been crossing over the South node of the US and since that time we have been reaping what we have sown in this country. I know we all say it wasn't us, but in large measure it has been us. We ignored the growing impact of big business for over 100 , we ignored the influence of the Federal Reserve and banking since 1913, years because they paid us. I don't think people can be blamed for trusting their government and big institutions, we were all busy with wars, raising kids, working, dealing with depressions, trying to carve something out of nothing as we came of age. Good things happened during those times and the good things for the people have been constantly chipped away through those years. Did we have too long a history of slavery, too culturalized (no such word, but I like it) toward serfdom during modern history's days, starting before the Greek civilizations? I don't know but world wide we have either turned a blind eye or let slavery and serfdom exist for ourselves and for others. I've always thought we made the holocaust important not because people were mowed down like ants, but because the entire world for whatever reasons stood up against all the injustice of it all. The common man and woman around the world felt proud and felt like they were bringing freedom and justice, no matter what the leaders were doing. But if you look around the world today you can see none of the injustice has stopped. There is still slavery and massive death of men, women and children, there is still serfdom, still injustice for mankind, still corruption and suffering for the masses and world wide we have been turning a blind eye, heaving a big sigh and saying "what can we do?" We just go on and the karma keeps going around from country to country. Even Mother Nature is starting to rebel; remember the 70's commercial, "it's not nice to fool Mother Nature." I always thought, even then, this is an omen and every now and then, she turns her wrath on this world. We are absolutely connected in every sense of the word to everyone else. Physics shows us that when we believe we are separate, photons separate from that. If we believe we are separate from the wealthy it's not in our sphere, if we believe we lead a poor and sad life, that is in our sphere because we have connected to it.

Einstein tried to explain this to us and said "we cannot solve a problem while we are in the same level of thinking that created the problem in the beginning."

By Sally Cheyne McDonald

What a week, more problems with Japan, Libya and Syria killing each other right and left with the countries ready to explode, the assassination of Osama ben Laden and the celebration of death instead of the US normal celebration of the end of a war. The State Department indicated that war would go on so I guess we don't celebrate the end of wars anymore. Pakistan didn't know that Ben Laden was living in the suburbs with a ton of retired military and next to their military academy. Who could have possibly known he was there?

The "tornado winds" that made a run at destroying the South certainly got its "zip" from all the Aries with an assist from an opposition by Saturn and the conjunct of Jupiter and Mars in Aries. It's been a week and it isn't over yet. Uranus squared the US Venus this last week and I don't think the drama is over as yet, it impacts the 10th House of leadership in the US chart.

Super Moon and Spring Equinox
March 19-20 2011

Throughout history nations have commenced wars or resumed fighting on the Vernal Equinox. The last vestiges of winter giving way to the warming sun and thus with the snow melting the armies could once again advance and resume the fight. Eight long years ago the Bush Regime launched 'Shock and Awe', a war based on lies and American oil lust. There is no honor, no victory in the destruction of Iraq and its culture.

The 2011 Spring Equinox finds Barack Obama at the helm of the US Ship of State. Like the HMS Titanic, the US rammed an iceberg and over the ensuing years the ship has begun to list in the cold waters of the old Confederacy with their heads of state conspiring together to wage war on the working class, the middle class, women, bringing the vast resource of what is the American People into wage slavery. The rats long ago escaped in life boats and were lauded as heroes.

By Sally Cheyne McDonald

In Dec. 2020 the Grand Conjunction between Jupiter and Saturn meet at 0 Aquarius marking the energy governing the next 20 years in an air manner as opposed to the earth we have been following for decades, the last of which began in the year 2000 ending in 2020. We can watch the movement of Egypt for the signs of the world's direction as we move toward 2020 and the 20 years beyond that. Egypt has changed forever and will be the compass for Africa and the Middle East, perhaps Israel, Europe and America as well. No matter the strife Egypt goes through in forming their new country they will eventually arrive close to the ideals that started their protests. Protests that are now forming in other countries as people in the worst of the poverty stricken countries are beginning to see how their money and resources have been stolen through corrupt corporations, governments, and financial institutions. Europe and the US aren't in the same drastic financial straits as Africa and the Middle East, but they are questioning and angry at the massive amounts given to banks and corporations while "energy subsidies" are being cut for the elderly and poor in their countries not to mention other drastic measures that affect the most vulnerable. The next ten years will see changes implemented as we move toward 2020 and those changes will be throughout the world.

by Sally Cheyne McDonald

I have been taking a break, a blessed break. A break from the GOP (GOOP Of Politicians) that seems to make up the Republican Party, and the Dems (Dying Easygoing Mess) that seems to make up the Democratic Party. I took a break from the crazies running around with guns killing others or waiting for some to shoot, the hit on progressive voices with the firing of Keith Olbermann from Comcast aka MSNBC. A break from the health care repeal, a break from the lies and games, a break from the frauds and crooks running this country and Europe, a break, yes a blessed break. However, I have to make some comments on the SOTU.

Howard Fineman a well known pundit says Obama will be calling on the inspiration of the JFK 1961 Inaugural Speech. You know "ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." There is no doubt that the astrological energy around on Jan. 20, 1961 for JFK's Inauguration is around Obama and Tuesday, but President Obama does not have the charisma JFK and the Kennedy family possessed and the delivery will not be the call to unification that JFK invoked. It doesn't matter whether half the people listening never heard JFK, it was his appeal that called the nation to action, President Obama does not have the same appeal or the same type of follow through that the Kennedy administration activated. At Kennedy's Inauguration, he had not disappointed anyone, he had not slammed his base and turned his back on them, neither he nor RFK had closed the door on prosecution of those who were stealing the US blind (that group have always existed) they were not taxing only the middle and poor, his administration still held promise for the future of this country. The JFK speech was one that Mr. Obama might have been able to deliver with conviction at his first SOTU but it will be harder now, if not impossible. What was it that was said to Dan Quayle when he tried to compare himself to JFK, "I knew Jack Kennedy and you're no John Kennedy."

By Sally Cheyne McDonald

And "leaping" they are, leaping all over the place. Assange and Wikileaks, to arrest or not to arrest, bail or no bail ( turns out bail) John Boehner, who seems to have perpetual PMS is straining to get to January 1st and lead the GOP House to what they see as their Promise Land. The State Department is in turmoil because Richard Holbrooke, the most senior and best diplomat they have decided to seek a more peaceful path; and the White House insisted his dying words were actually a joke when he asked that the "war in Afghanistan be stopped." Ireland, England, France, Germany, Spain and Greece are in a beginning state of revolution over their government's Austerity Plans. The protest groups in London started yelling "off with their heads" at the Prince and Duchess of Wales, that's not a epitaph royalty would take lightly in Europe, no matter how long it's been since "off with their heads" had real meaning. And then there is Obama trying to dance and badly between the Democratic Party and the GOP, Wall Street and Main Street seemingly confused as to who and where he is. The Senate is a mess and completely inbred to the point of idiotic drooling that means nothing, gets nothing done and can't find their direction out of a paper bag. Then of course there are the usual "lords," always depicted in cartoons as puffed up buffoons (there is a reason for that.) Those would be the bankers, Corporate CEO's and Wall Street in general.