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LET THE YEAR BEGIN
I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning. (J.B. Priestly)
Places everyone! The year that millions have been waiting for since 2000 has finally arrived and it’s going to be another hum dinger. We are now moving toward the finish line of this presidency and we will need “magic” for the trip. Ronald Reagan once said, “every new day (and year) begins with possibilities. It’s up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace.” I couldn’t agree more with that statement.
A New Year’s Chart unfolds as the world starts living out the year.
An example of the New Year's aspects and how it takes a full year to play out, in the US, the chart of Jan. 1, 1963 had the rulers of the 2nd and 8th house in a square aspect (Mars and Venus) and on the day JFK was assassinated (Nov. 22, 1963) Venus and Mars were conjunct in the 10th house with Venus opposing the natal US Mars. On Jan. 1st of that year Jupiter fell at 9 degrees Pisces, squaring the US natal Uranus. The day JFK died, Mercury and Uranus was in a T-Square to the US Uranus. An astute Astrologer could easily see that JFK was in danger on the 21, 22, and 23 of November 1963.
On January 1, 2000 the Moon opposed Saturn (the people’s wishes thwarted) the Moon also was inconjunct the US Uranus (something shocking for the people that they didn’t understand.) Mars, on January 1st was at 27 degrees Aquarius. Election day at 7:00am EST, the Moon was at 26 degrees Aquarius, and Saturn was at 28 Taurus (repeating the January 1st debilitation between these two planets) and both were debilitating the January 1st Mars, another indication of anger and frustration of the people on Election Day. Uranus was also involved promising shock, shock, shock.
Fast forwarding to January 1, 2004 there is a T-Square between Sun in the 4th House at 10 Capricorn (where it always is on the 1st of every January) Saturn in the 10th house at 9 Capricorn retrograde and Mars at 9 Aries in the 7th.
Venus, Mars, Saturn and Pluto will be important planets to watch this year. Saturn will retrograde back over Mars and then direct, reforming the same T-Square twice.
Mars and Saturn squaring in Cardinal signs indicate extreme frustrated action, and there are difficult astrocartography lines falling over Washington, DC in this January Chart. Some angry and aggravated Cabinet heads and Congressional Power brokers, look for more scandals, and more leaks. The anger among the administration players will lead to knee jerk resignations.
The combination of these two also relates to dry conditions in some areas of the world, earthquakes in other areas, and extreme volcano activity. Saturn and Mars builds up the pressure until something explodes and it’s going to be Mother Earth. When you are dealing with the parental axis (10th and 4th ) our leaders and our home will feel under attack.
Pay attention to where you get your beef. Jupiter (ruling large animals) in the 12th house (also ruling large animals) squares Pluto in the 3rd. There is a real sickness out there with our cows, someone or several someone’s in the media knows about it and will keep it under wraps until spring or mid-summer. We are not out of the woods on the Mad Cow Disease, not by a long shot. Late spring and mid-summer is also one of the times Venus, Pluto and Mars becomes big players this year.
Mars in the USA Chart co-rules the 12th house in Scorpio along with Pluto (remember, 12th rules big animals) Mars in the US natal chart squares Neptune, the natural ruler of the 12th house (ruling big animals) Feel like I’ve brought you back around in a circle. It is a circle, Neptune likes circles and confusion and chaos. Anytime that planet is being aspected or is aspecting another planet, you will find confusion and chaos. Let’s look at the 12th House. There are all kinds of things that fall into the 12th house.
Spirituality
secrets
(with Scorpio there, the secrets could be pretty slimy)
large animals,
hospitals,
incarceration,
earthquake fault lines,
big big business,
big, big government
illusion and disillusion
I like to think of the 12th house where all our angels and all our demons reside and you never know which one will be coming through the door. With Jupiter in the 12th and square to Pluto, look for wolves in sheep’s clothing.
Mars, USA Chart, 21 degrees Gemini.
Neptune, USA Chart 22 degrees Virgo
Pluto starts out in Capricorn in the USA chart and the first time it aspects Mars at 21 degrees Gemini and Neptune at 21 degrees Pisces was in1813/1814 and on Aug. 24, 1814 Pluto was at 21 Pisces in a square to Mars and opposition to Neptune, the British burnt down the White House.
The second time the US Mars and Neptune was aspected by Pluto was in 1906, when Pluto was at 21 degrees Gemini, (conjuncting the USA Mars and squaring Neptune) and on April 18, 1906 the great San Francisco Earthquake struck.
In 1968 Pluto was traveling in Virgo conjuncting the US Neptune and squaring Mars, Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. were assassinated on that aspect and the country was thrown into a sense of turmoil and the revolutionary energy of the hippy movement began to heat up.
These were not the only things that happened with a Pluto aspect to America’s Mars and Neptune but they were some of the more dramatic events. Even John Kennedy was assassinated when Venus and Mars conjuncted in opposition and square to the Mars/Neptune.
So what is likely to happen over the next 18 months with Pluto opposing Mars and squaring Neptune.
Mad Cow disease is one good bet, another is a scandal with the pharmaceutical companies, a BIG scandal. Our drug riddled society needs to take a look at ourselves and a look at the people promoting those drugs. There could also be a look at if there is a cure for cancer and why that cure is being withheld. We, the American people will learn of our illusion and folly of believing the government would take care of us if we paid our taxes without complaint.
The government is stripping our taxe dollars out of social services for us and pumping up the “war on terror” so we will continue paying the taxes and getting nothing out of it except a bunch of military arms to kill other innocent people in other countries. Halliburton, Roots Brown, Carlyle Group, Lockheed/Martin, Boeing etc, get our money. The military isn’t living well, but the folks who supply the military are living very well on our tax dollars. If we complain about our tax dollars going to support the Bush Cartel’s “arms pirates” we may just find our that “terrorists will blow us up, then we will be sorry. They have to keep us in fear so we won’t ask where the money is going.
Lies our government has been telling us for decades will come flying out of the 12th house like crazy, first it will be the Democrats lies, then the Republicans. Conspiracy theories regarding 9/11 will abound gaining ground with the public unless there is a more open attitude in this administration and that’s doubtful. Wait until Saturn squares the US natal Saturn and the Mercury position on 9/11.
Saturn has and will again transverse Condi Rice’s South Node. That is usually a loss of what was gained or taken that wasn’t yours in the beginning. And Colin Powell is looking for a new beginning someplace else. I hope his son joins him. I have almost decided that Dick Cheney is dead and we are seeing a look-alike. At any rate he has become a joke and aspects don’t look good for him. Rupert Murdoch (of Fox) has a tough time coming ahead and that could translate to Fox Media. Since Al Franken’s book “Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them” came out, Fox has been on the hot seat.
With the tinniest bit of luck the media will be seen for what they are and how they have mislead and confused the public for way too long. Religion will continue to be an embarrassment. I have never predict death and I have never tried to predict the Pope’s death (although many have) but I believe there will be a new pope this year and he will irritate the Cardinal Red of Rome. At least the ones who have been there a long time and tied to the “old.”
Look for Venus and Mars to set the whole thing off toward the very end of April the first of May. Venus even retrogrades on 22 Gemini squaring exactly the US Neptune. Venus is going to keep the Mars/Neptune square a hot button all summer, as well as applying pressure to GWB’s own Uranus and Nodal axis. Pluto oppose Uranus is generational and often time indicates a switch in careers. Has anyone ever thought George won’t run again?
One thing for sure, the economy will be up and down this year. Uranus in Pisces helps our Cancer Venus and Jupiter conjunction, but the Sun/Mars/Saturn T-square will pay havoc with investments. The stock-brokers and economists I know have said that the so-called recovery we have now is built on shifting sands.
Democrats and Republicans
At last George Bush is a “uniter.” The Republicans and Democrats are united on one front and that is “let’s get Howard Dean.” Both parties seem to agree on that issue. I frankly don’t know if Howard Dean is strong enough to take on both parties in order to secure the nomination.
It is still way too early to determine who is going to do what. Dean looks like the front-runner, and I think he is but that is only because he got out there first. After some of the primaries and the Democrat “pack” thins out a bit is where you will see whom and where the public is drawn. Right now there are just too many choices and we don’t know if we want green or blue.
Not until they narrow their field a bit will I spend too much time looking at all the candidates. Right now it’s Dean, Clark, Edwards (surprise) and Hillary. Hillary as a VP has a strong draw. Hillary as anything would mobilize the American White Male who so loves George Bush; they would pull out the stops to throw her off the mountain. However, it could also mobilize the American Woman (no matter what color she is)
On Election night 2000 at 7:00pm (when the polls closed in Washington) the Moon had transited to 2 degrees Pisces. That is close to the same degree of Uranus (3 Pisces) when women garnered the Right to Vote in 1920. That 2000 Moon was sitting up in the 10th house all by itself, and in 2004 Uranus will be sitting on that Moon. Are women about to deliver a surprise this year? I can’t even begin to delineate the VOC Moon at 29’59” Aries in this year’s January 1st chart. Is this a signal that the end of the Warrior mentality is at hand? I interpret this January 1st Moon as “war, war, war all the time, time, time” is wearing thin with the public, and because GWB’s 10th house IS Aries, this Moon might also be a signal that his time is passing.
Pat Robertson says that God told him George Bush would win in a landslide and that it doesn’t make any difference whether he does good or bad, God will bless him. I guess God just really really loves George W. Bush.
I am going to repeat my prediction here of GWB being in a dangerous situation this month and the month of February, again in August, September and October, and if elected will serve no more than 6 months and it has nothing to do with God.
Last year at this time I said there would be a lie told in January or February by this administration that would heat up in the summer for GWB. That lie turned out to be Weapons of Mass Destruction. There is another scandal brewing right now for this administration that pops open this spring or summer and by August Bush and the Republicans will be scrambling to contain it all.
Someone asked about Karl Rove for the New Year. Summer will see Rove with problems, and John Ashcroft has problems now. He should not have destroyed information regarding the Valerie Plame affair.
Mars square Saturn is cold and cruel along with frustrated action, Saturn, along with Pluto, aspects a colossal number of people in the GWB administration. I have had difficult Saturn and Pluto aspects (as we all have) and I wasn’t having fun. Were you?
I don’t know how but I do know that Pluto and Saturn will extract their pound of flesh from Bush and the United States, we cannot stop it but we can respond in a positive manner. Keep the faith, this country has survived worse times and equally as bad Presidents, we will survive this and have the opportunity to re-make this country.
Sally Cheyne McDonald on Jan 2 |
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Bravo Sally! Very interesting! It seems that it will be a wild year to say the least! I hope we all survive it. Thanks for the tip on the beef -- my family loves beef but I think I'll be buying more fish and chicken!
In an e-mail (don't have a link), Eric Francis of Planet Waves says about the next election, "The presidential election is surrounded on all sides by extremely turbulent astrology, a true mine field. However, you need Raphael's Ephemeris (the British standard ephemeris) to see this. Rare clusters of occultations by the Moon of many planets occur in both October and November, and two eclipses lead up to the election itself -- it is a deck full of wild cards. The range of possibilities for the election most likely spans from sneaky electronic election fraud at best to a Code Red cancellation of the election, at worst."
People, get ready to be cheated again or at least not have a voice at all. We need to all work hard for a paper trail.
Thanks Sally for your time and energy and I'll be looking forward to your articles all year!
Great writing Sally, wow, it's 2004!!! Gawd I've been waiting for this year for three long ones, finally here ;)
I would really like to see some info on the PNAC (the project for the new american century) being as there are so many people in high places associated with this "military-industrial complex" group. It is, I believe, effectively a shadow government for this country. The only thing I have been able to come up with is it was established in 1997, washington DC as a non profit educational organization. Is there anyone living in that area that might have a way to access government records as to the details of their incorporation date/time?
I'll tell you Vis, in the 04 chart, that Jupiter at 18 Virgo in the 12th squaring Pluto doesn't make me feel good about the Republicans. Lots of big time dirty tricks, but I know as sure as anything all this will turn on the Repugs and Bush. It's gonna be a nasty campaign. The Dems need to leave Dean alone and not waste their energy fighting each other. Dean was right to call Terry McAluffe on this stuff.
Jeanie, I might have a source for that information
Thanks Joanna, but those sites only give info on the organization's mission, reports, etc. Interesting and eye opening to most I'm sure (I've been to those sites already.) What I'm looking for is a specific incorporation date/time from which a chart can be generated.
Oh. I never found that either. Must be another secret. ;O)
To modify Sally's quote: "Saturn ... will ... transverse [George Bush's &] Condi Rice’s South Node. That is usually a loss of what was gained or taken that wasn’t yours [the election] in the beginning." The captain and first mate on the "Ship of Fools," the erzatz Gemini twins take a tumble. Saturn in the US 10th, retrograde. Time's up for the interlopers.
Best New Year astrology of 2004 synopsis I've read Sally! You really put things into perspective for me. I read the comment Pat Robertson made about Bush being God's annointed. A remark on the Drudge Report website where I first read it, asks from someone, "Maybe Robertson was listening to Karl Rove and just thought it was God."
Happy New Year Sally and Many Thanks for showing us what to look for/look out for!
In 1992 Pat Robertson said God told him George HW Bush was going to be reelected. There seems to be some static on the line.
sally thanks for your optimism..and barbara, i sure hope (to god!) you're right!
someone should out robertson for his dealings with diamonds and africa and taylor, etc..and they should out him to his own followers, not to people who already know he's a demon. he's the worst slime in america, including our politicians.
This should perk y'all up! Did me, anyway:
"Authorities are conducting a criminal investigation into whether corporate money, including hundreds of thousands of dollars linked to U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, improperly financed the Republican Party's takeover of the Texas Capitol."
That's from today's LA Times. I got to it through buzzflash.
Anybody know if/where there's a copy of his chart on the net?
I've been trying to find birth info for Patrick J. Fitzgerald, the Justice Dept prosecutor who is now in charge of the Valerie Palme outing investigation. Fitzgerald is supposed to be a fair, independent type, but he still is reporting to Ashcroft's deputy. Also, a few years back we were hearing how fair Ken Starr is--though I didn't believe it about Starr. Fitzgerald may actually be ok. Too early to tell. Anyhow Fitzgerald was born in 1960 Brooklyn probably sometime between Nov. 14 and Dec. 31. He is described as having a sense of humor but also dogged, tight-lipped, dispassionate, endlessly prepared, doesn't like bantering with reporters (so probably not a Sag). I saw Fitzgerald's photo and he looks like a Virgo (maybe rising sign?) I think Palme affair will blow up on Bush yet.
The rapidly growing influence of conservative religious groups in American life and politics is making me extremely apprehensive particularly concerning the control this group will have on the 2004 elections. Robertson has a Multimillion-dollar broadcasting empire on which to spew his evil ilk and therefore influence the easily lead. When someone as twisted as Pat Robertson warns his large group of supporters that the 9/11 attacks happened because America wasn't being Christian enough and God was punishing us and expounds on how God has blessed George Bush to the point of even over looking any bad or terrible mistakes he makes simply because he is a man of prayer, how could a person not be alarmed. It appears that Pat Robertson and his minions evidently believe that they have a singular corner on righteousness therefore expecting God, in his spare time, to get involved in U.S. politics and social issues that concern Robertson. To quote Robertson "There will never be peace until God's house and God's people are given their rightful place of leadership at the top of the world. How can there be peace when drunkards, drug dealers, communists, atheists, New Age worshipers of Satan, secular humanists, oppressive dictators, greedy money changers, revolutionary assassins, adulterers, and homosexuals are on top...there is absolutely no way that government can operate successfully unless led by godly men and women operating under the laws of the God of Jacob."
Robertson must be a happy camper since in his perverse mind he sees Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz and of course the exceptionally God blessed George Bush as those Godly leaders that have taken their rightful place of leadership at the top of the world. Hey Pat, I’ll be waiting for those greedy money changers to be given their due and when shalt these Godly leaders bring on the world peace.
yes, well in the book of revelation "God" does let a (worse) beast destroy the likes of a prosperous whore because she has 'fallen', but Pat would never realize he is, as an american public millionaire PHONY and hypocrite, one of the usa's top whores, and good reason for God's ire, if it does exist..whether Pat is just in denial or an out and out satanic deity (like j edgar hoover), only God knows.
9/11 happened because america had to have the opportunity to find out the policies they support, and those consequences. you could actually call the usa an innocent victim till then, BUT to go on, and actually support the iraq war puts them karmically in line for an even more major awakening, sadly.
electing the likes of a dean, or kucinich would really be fighting the war on terror, or "terr" whoever she is, that bush keep's referring to. bush and his "nucular" puppet talk.
quote: "9/11 happened because america had to have the opportunity to find out the policies they support, and those consequences. you could actually call the usa an innocent victim till then, BUT to go on, and actually support the iraq war puts them karmically in line for an even more major awakening, sadly." so well said, Roxanne, but I don't believe there are innocent victims, it's all/ always karma. Makes it pretty darn interesting to speculate. In the meantime, we've still got aways to go, and it's going to get pretty hairy.
It's hard to do--ingrained, really, as it's been politically expedient for the past 4500 years--but I DO wish that we could stop associating supremacist malebot criminal behaviors with a derogatory description of a "she." It's the ultimate scapegoating in symbology & obscures reality... "Adam n' Eve," for instance. The Planet, Gaia, seems a definite "she," but the US of A has a definite "Fatherland" feel to it... like all other patriarchal systems. It helps me enormously to be clear about the supremacist malebots' collective animus, as indicated in the US by the sign of Cancer, & who's doing the major "acting-out."
Joanna, how delightful. I am sick as a dog with the flu and this is my first time up today (11:45am) and what do I see? Your delightful diatribe against the collective. The US is absolutely "fatherland" and confused about it as well. Cancer, a feminine sign, with the Sun, a masculine planet in Cancer, and the ruler of cancer in cold dry aquarius. However that isn't our collective problem. It's Mars square Neptune. We basically don't see ourselves clearly or anyone else for that matter. We absolutely must be willing to face our shadow and it doesn't seem as if we are. Well that's it for me, back to bed
Joanna: I equate she/he to the predominate energies being manifested, ie: masculine/ feminine. It's important as far as being able to discern where the balancing needs to occur inorder to achieve a state of peaceful equilibrium. As long as a "thing" exists, so to will it's energies, so it's not just political, it's life.
Anybody old enough to remember when all hurricanes were given feminine names? Just one weatherMan too many made a crack and some women made a fuss & got it changed. A small thing--but a change for the better. Those small denigrations can add up and influence attitudes more than one might think. ---Want to add, that this site is so stimulating--so many good ideas and comments, that I find myself just wanting to talk (post) and talk (post). Take care of yourself, Sally. We don't want flu to interfere with these great articles. A Dr. Mom tactics is to change your sheets every day (put 'em in the dryer on high to kill germs.) That's why hospitals do it. You'll get over the flu faster.
Ahhh... balancing. That'd be nice. ;O)
However, Miss Sally... Mars is yang enery run amok as is its tiresome habit. And, of course, coupled with Neptune... well, it all adds up! ...as Barbara noted well, & as exhibited by the USian state of affairs today.
Last time I look, bushie is acting Mars & ain't no willing female (as much as he'd secretly wish to be.) ;O)
I never watch, let alone read, Fox News. However, Michael Moore's website suggested this article. If you want a good laugh click on the link below.
The articles provides us all with a (frightening) glimpse into the minds of the people sworn to protect us from terror...LOL.
Fox Top News Stories:
"WASHINGTON — The FBI is warning police nationwide to be alert for people carrying almanacs (search), cautioning that the popular reference books covering everything from abbreviations to weather trends could be used for terrorist planning.............The FBI noted that use of almanacs or maps may be innocent, "The product of legitimate recreational or commercial activities." But it warned that when combined with suspicious behavior — such as apparent surveillance — a person with an almanac "may point to possible terrorist planning."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,106890,00.html
Honestly I am not a fan of Hillary and I feel as if she is on the ticket, then the Democrats lose big time in November( that sounds like the '84 ticket with Mondale/ Fierro(sic)) and I'm sure that we all remember what happened in '84 ----kinda like what Pat Robertson said about Bush winning in a blowout.
I've been wondering what has happened to Colin Powell since he had his cancer surgery. I doubt that it went as well as the media has reported or he would have been back at work or at least been interviewed to impress the media kinda like Cheney did after he had his last heartattack.
Anyway I hope Colin Powell goes quietly into that good night. Although I never though much of him in the first place ( I guess a military uniform carries a lot of weight with many Americans), Powell totally lost me when he stood in front of the UN almost a year ago and delivered such a ridiculous pack of lies that I'm sure most of the those listening to Powell at the UN had to bite their tongues so they wouldn't laugh.
As for Condi Rice, it couldn't have happened to a nicer ass-kisser!!!
This is off topic but Isabelle memtioned the DRUDGE report. Isabelle, or anyone else: whenever I link to that site I get spam emails that are about home loans and sometimes profanity. It stops after many deletes w/o openning the email,but notice they start when I link onto Drudge. Anyone else having a problem?
JoannaOregon,
re: bush secret wishes. word has it that he says "fabulous" just a tad too often. fabulous being a sure trigger to most people's gaydar.
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