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FULL MOON/DARK MOON BY ISABELLE GHANEH
The Full Moon due to hit at 3:37 pm EDT December 8th, Monday, in the chart set locationally for Washington DC produces 28 degrees of Taurus rising. That’s an interesting degree. It falls between the two fixed stars Caput Algol and the Pleiades. It’s ruler, Venus, is straddling the cusp of the ninth house from it’s position in the eighth, the house of sex and death and taxes. Lilith the asteroid, (not the black moon) is at 3 degrees of Gemini conjunct the rising sign. Pluto and the Sun are conjunct in the seventh house of open enemies, opposite the moon in the first house.
I get a very dark feeling from this chart. With the last degrees of Scorpio on the seventh house, and with its ruler Pluto, the god of the underworld and all that’s dark and hidden and scary inhabiting it, I am left with an impression of an enormous amount of skullduggery going on in Washington at the time of the Full Moon.
The two fixed stars Caput Algol and the Pleiades are dark stars. Caput Algol is considered the most malefic fixed star and the Pleiades have been associated with the theme of great grief and weeping. The other name for the Pleiades is the “weeping sisters”. Pluto conjunct the Sun and opposite the Moon is imparting its darkness into the very being of the luminaries, the Sun and the Moon, usually the brightest spots in a chart, any chart. This is falling across the first house/seventh house axis, the identity of self and the identity of the partner, the other. The seventh is the relationship house and as such it rules not just business partners and marriage partners but partners in the sense of one’s doppelganger. It is the designation of the dark half of ourselves, in a sense the evil half. Think of George Bush Senior’s evil twin Biff in the comic strip Donnesbury and you get the idea.
The twelfth house in this chart is ruled by Mars which is currently still in Pisces. Neptune is conjunct the tenth house. By conjuncting the tenth house of how others view us, Neptune is leading the way for the influence of the tenth house to be fogged over, at least in the eyes of many of the followers of George Bush.
Vesta, the asteroid concerned with home and security and the hearth, is in the seventh house but exactly conjunct the eighth. I fear the Bush administration will use the issues of home and security and terrorist threats to clamp down even harder on its’ nations citizens. Uranus is at the top of the chart and the most elevated planet, and it squares the rising sign, the ascendant. There is a stellium of planets in the seventh and eighth houses.
I think George Bush will be very busy, along with his advisors, doing everything he can to lock up the election for the coming year. He and his friends really have enormous power and they will not give it up easily. Bush’s natal charts’ ascendant at 7 degrees of Leo is directly aligned with the fourth house in the Full Moon chart at 7 degrees of Leo. You can expect to see George Bush wrap himself in the flag; he will be practically sunbathing in it for the next year. He and his advisors will attempt to portray George Bush, the USA and home and family and safety all as one and the same thing. He will do his best to unite his image to that of the nation itself .
Bush’s natal Uranus is at 19 degrees of Gemini and that places it in the Full Moon chart’s first house conjunct the Moon and directly opposite Pluto in the Full Moon seventh house. To me this further accents Bush’s attempt at image control and image enlargement at this time. It’s possible of course that there could be safety issues for him involved with his ascendant conjunct the fourth house Full Moon chart and his Uranus in his natal chart opposite Pluto, but I think the aspects in this chart comparison speak more of image, behind the scenes actions, dirty tricks and misleading the world and the American public than any other element that I can see. Time of course will tell.
I think all Full Moons are a time of increased emoting in our lives and in ourselves. This Moon is cerebral and philosophical in nature with its Gemini/Sagittarius link, but it is involved closely with Pluto. Pluto is the belly of the beast, the underworld, the dark side. I think the planning and manipulation and the behind the scenes machinations produced in this chart for Washington DC are not just about the Republicans but all the political players at this time.
In looking at the Full Moon chart in other localities around the world, in Sacramento, California the Full Moon takes effect at around 12:37 pm on Monday afternoon. That gives the chart Pisces rising and Mars conjunct the ascendant. The Moon is in the third house with the Sun and Pluto opposite in the ninth. It certainly seems as if there will be a strenuous drive to bring in foreign money and foreign investors to help California pay off its huge debt, and that there will be a lot of anger and possibly sadness in California at this time.
In London, England, the ascendant for the Full Moon chart is at 15 degrees of Leo, and that means the descendant is conjunct Neptune. Tony Blair’s natal Moon is conjunct both the descendant and Neptune, and this highlights the seventh house of this particular chart. How much he really knows about what is going on behind the scenes, how much he isn’t telling, how much he is deluding himself, is anybody’s guess. Scorpio and Taurus are intercepted, their energy having been given elsewhere. Is this not also true of Tony Blair? Has he not given his authority away in great part to others outside his own government and outside himself, to Bush and cronies for example?
Finally in Iraq, the Full Moon chart takes effect at 11:37 pm that evening, and the mutable signs hold court, with Virgo rising at 13 degrees and the Sun/Moon/Pluto configuration across the chart at the fourth and tenth house axis. Mars is in the seventh house. I fear that there will be much more bloodshed taking place in this war torn country and much loss of life on all sides and for all nationalities.
The themes I see then, for this Full Moon, are largely seventh and fourth house issues. Issues of home and family and safety and security. Defense of one’s county and one’s family and one’s self. The inherent paranoia surrounding enemies to that safety will be felt in every corner of the world that day. Gemini logic and Sagittarian vision are available to used by all this day, but how many will avail themselves of it, remains to be seen. I hope its more than is shown in the charts for this day, around the world.
Copywrited by Isabelle Ghaneh
December 2, 2003
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thanks isabelle...wasn't it your son who cast the forecast for bush leaving the planet and cheney having something to do with it? well to me these planetary configurations say: here it is???
at the least i believe your interpretation will be correct..but with uranus up top squaring the asc., and everything else going on, i think jim shawvans forecast may play out..
plus in the mountain astrologer there was a astrocartography for the last eclipse, and i remember something pretty heavy going right through washington..the map for the eclipse before had something heavy going through turkey, which came to pass rather quickly...
i wouldn't be surprised at all, if next week is very interesting to say the least.
also, perhaps blair is feeling emotional (moon), in regards to a partner (7th), yet can't believe it? (neptune)..just a thought..
and doesn't this full moon fall in (cancer) georges 12th natal?? and on his uranus? (there's a pun in there..)
This bushies chances of relection are very slim and odds are against it. Since FDR, we had not had a back to back 2 term presidents.May be if you check back before FDR also may be not a back to back 2 term presidents in the last 90 or 100 years.I chose FDR as a landmark since the laws changed to 2 terms limit for presidents since FDR.
Great article Isabelle! Thank you for sharing!!
Raj . . . what about Reagan and Clinton? They were both 2 term, back-to-back. Or do you mean something else?
Roxanne, it was Nancy Waterman's son who is a Vedic astrologer. He predicted an inside job .. if anything happens don't believe the spin about terrorists being the culprit. IMHO, it was the same with JFK.
I think it was Geneva Clark's son who you are talking about.
Really interesting article. Thank you so much for your work. You all keep this site so interesting.
Laurie, I believe what Raj was referring to was that we have not had two successive presidents win a second term in office. Clinton had two terms, George the madman will have one, and this has been the pattern for many years, since FDR:
Dwight D. Eisenhower: 1953-1961 (2 terms)
John F. Kennedy : 1961-1963 (partial term)
Lyndon B. Johnson : 1963-1969 (1 elected term)
Richard M. Nixon : 1969-1974 (1 term then impeached)
Gerald Ford : 1974-1977 (partial term)
Jimmy Carter : 1977-1981 (1 term)
Ronald Reagan : 1981-1989 (2 terms)
George Bush : 1989-1993 (1 term)
Bill Clinton : 1993-2001 (2 terms)
George W. Bush : 2001-
Baraka thanks for explaining that. We can only hope!! Pat, yes it was Geneva of course!! Thank you both.
You're welcome Laurie. I miss Geneva. She hasn't had an article on this site for a while.
I think we are all just gluttons for the incredible writings that we are being given, by such talented, insightful astrologers :) Very nice work, Isabelle!
One other piece of news I wanted to pass on. I listened to a woman last night who is in the business of programing and computers and who has done research on these voting machines.
WEll, she says the way to get around it is to vote absentee and to have it sent to.... that's the part I forget but it seems to me it can only go one place unless you take it down somewhere yourself. I'll check . In the meantime sign on for absentee voting. It's also , she says a way to bust these cheaters.
dedacherry, thanks, I've passed the links to my e-mail friends.
i couldn't get the audio to work...
shows how much craziness is going on in this country..i for one have not vaccinated my baby at all...it's bio-terrorism.
Thanks for Baraka;I thought it was self explanatory.Also even if you ga back before FDR, there has been only one(may be two or may be not)
there had been back to back 2 term presidents in
American history of 227 years.That's why odds are
insurmountable and stack against this mad bushy(only way the heavy odds can be overcome is by stealing the elections not once but twice but then
if he fools us twice, shame on us!).Another tid bit, the only other time father and son were presidents(at least they did not steal the elections
-Adams),I think both were one term presidents, if I'm not mistaken. So History WILL repeat itself in
2004.No mistake about it!
I meant thanks to Baraka(not for);speed error!
The thing to note about this full moon, in relation to Bush's chart, is that it falls directly conjunct his nodal opposition, at 19 Gemini/Sag, which means, this is something highly karmic coming George Bush's way. Go back and look at your own full moons on the nodal lines, and you'll see a very 'change' oriented experience. Given Pluto is on the south node conjunct Bush, and Uranus, which is natally conjunct Bush's north node is prominant in the MH, we are likely looking at a very different Bush following this eclipse. I haven't looked at the triggers yet, which would be the important thing to do for getting a timeline here.
Thank you so much, Vis. I--and I'm sure many others--are looking forward to your explaining and discussing the "triggers." Fascinating!
yes and i'd appreciate a discussion on the nodes / these are also karmic as in past life matters as well. it is intrigueing what you say vis, that bush can be 'changed' somehow after this eclipse.
The eclipse on Dec 8 falls exactly on Saddaam's true nodal axis,with the Sun on Rahu in the 8th and Moon on Ketu in the 2nd.
IMHO he's going to be ultra-careful the next week because his astrologer has already warned him...may have told him even more, but that's not for us to say.
I'm looking forward to that Vis!
Right, there's all kinds of potent match-ups with the degree that Pluto is at right now, in the conflict areas of the world, and it's militarized leaders. Alex covers some of them here:
http://www.daykeeperjournal.com/aarch02/0211/pluto-queens.shtml
We could also note two Democratic contenders that don't look so hot right now:
John Kerry, natal Sun at 18'49 Sag, Moon at 19'36 Gemini, progressed Saturn Rx at 19'46 Gemini.
John Edwards, natal Sun at 19'29 Gemini; progressed Jupiter at 18'30 Gemini.
As for Bush on the 8th, he'll be at the Congressional ballroom to hear this band:
http://www.mexiadailynews.com/articles/2003/11/28/news/news02.txt
DALLAS, TEXAS-Since Emerald City's explosion onto the music scene in 1983, they have continuously electrified audiences with a repertoire encompassing the last 50 years of popular music. Emerald City has performed with such talents as Roberta Flack, Garth Brooks, Willie Nelson, and Michael McDonald and is now set to perform for President George W. Bush and his guests at the Monday, December 8th Congressional Ball in Washington D.C... The collective energy of this 10 piece and 3 horn section group takes their audience to a higher level at every performance. Their ability to entertain is only rivaled by their extensive ability to get the audience on the dance floor. On Monday, December 8th, Emerald City will perform in front of the President, First Lady, Congressmen, Senators, Representatives, Justices of the Supreme Court, Vice President and guests.
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Who is to say how the energy manifests itself. The above being a 'electric' celebration of getting SH is probably in the cards as one manifestation, in someworld, so be careful about hoping for a 'change'.... and if that were the change. Then Dean may have this last week had his 'jump the shark' moment!
Bush and Cheney at the same event? On December 8th??!! WOW. Shawvan sees both these men's charts lighting up like Christmas trees on this day with their progressions/transits. Yes, it will be interesting to see how the energies play themselves out. Hopefully there will be no foul play, as I don't want Bush or Cheney to come to any physical harm. I want them to lose the next election emotionally and physically intact.
Ooops. I believe the date Shawvan noted was the 10th, not the 8th. My bad.
if i'm not mistaken - there is no eclipse on this Full Moon Dec. 8