Cybear, I couldn't agree more with your post on the last article. There are so many out there with mumbo/jumbo and they are certainly making a buck off of it. In fact I think it is all the mumbo/jumbo that keeps us from self-actualizing.

And Pallas, thank you for correcting my spelling. I saw that after I posted and felt sure someone would come along to spell it correctly and that was you, thank you.

The Solar eclipse at the end of the month falls in my 12th house, exactly conjunct the East Point (not sure what that means) and exactly trine both my natal Saturn and Uranus in Sagitarius and Leo respectively. So the other night I had one of those really real dreams in which I was absolutely sure I was awake and somehow back at an old job from many years ago. I was really there in a familiar place that I somehow knew quite intimately. I was talking to my former boss and recognized all these people who I knew before. Then I awoke and realized it was all a dream, and the weirdest part is that it slowly dawned on me that the place in my dream that I remembered so well from my past was actually not a place I ever worked at and all the people who I knew so well in the dream were not people I knew in this life.

About a month earlier I had another very realistic dream and this one looked forward instead of to the past . . . in this one our long national nightmare was finally over and the Liar and Elmer Fudd were in chains and being frog-marched out of the White Hourse. Funny stuff dreams are made of.

On a sad note, I was reading of the passing of baseball Hall of Famer Kirby Puckett. The article listed his d.o.b. as March 14, 1960. That's interesting I thought, considering this year his solar return was a lunar eclipse. I checked the ephemeris and realized he was born very close (not having an exact time) to a lunar eclipse as well.

Sally, this is wonderful. Uncanny, but then. . .so many of us are "feeling" an ending, but EQUALLY a beginning!

You have all been so inspirational, for that i am ever grateful. I cannot get Fire The Grid out of my head. Everytime i'm in the mantra, a feeling of intense child joy/wonder consumes me. Something is "in the air!"

If any of you are interested, my article is up on Information Clearinghouse.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12223.htm

Dana Reeve, wife of Christopher Reeve, dies of Lung Cancer at 44...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11709546/

Good article Karen...how did I miss posting it
last night when placing ICH articles.

Thank you, wv. You missed it because the link was broken. Mercury retrograde. :) But, Tom fixed the link and voila.
karen

Puckett - March 14, 1960

Dana Reeve - March 17, 1961

Puckett was born near an eclipse

What an amazing site is astroworld!

We have brave pioneers seeking their own unique path to a more fulfilling and focused future (patqop, neobuckeye, cybear), we have teachers and guides providing their knowledge and encouragement (Cap'n Sally, pallas, morgana, jm and bob), we have thinkers and communicators--our philosophers-- probing deeper and deeper into the phenomena that concern us (timothy, karen), we have our very own "data-miners" sifting through the vast amounts of information to find articles of greatest interest and usefulness to us (wv, patc, garry, kiwijeanie), we have the artists who absorb events and our reactions to them and reflect that back in inspired and inspiring dimensions (tseka, judigem, patqop, dommael), we have those who teach by example to always maintain the high ground (sharon takes the cake on this point). And on and on.

What a wonderful site! Thank you Cap'n Sally for this unique place. Oh, and dontcha love it that once they gleefully display their misogyny, and legalize hatred and abuse of women, they do so on a Merc retro!

Thank you all.

(And apologies to those not mentioned (my memory cells are not fully awake or else I've overarchived info in them).)

Karen,

lovely writing.

Sally,
I don;t even know if my spelling of smidgeon was correct - (is it now ?) - but thanks anyway.

Cybear and others

I consider Reiki "New Age" (and outrageously expensive to take the courses running into many thousands), just as many consider the "secret of the universe" new age, but it too is uncountably old - and free. The catch is the personal discipline it takes to turn inward and watch your thoughts and reject those that are naysaying. That's hard work - because it's breaking a habit that has been with a person as long as they have been living - and it's easier to complain than to do the hard work of taking control of your own mind, brain, and thoughts and catching every self-defeating thought, negating it, and replacing it with what you really would like to have in your life.

I sound like I'm scolding. I am. Tsk.

And to all -

I have to thank you for the many links to sites and articles I would never have thought to look for or find by myself. It's an education.

Shy. . .you must add yourself to this list under a unique category -- The One Who Selflessly Leads Us in Kindness.

Pallas, you hit the proverbial nail on the head, AGAIN! I remember Don Juan repeating to Carlos that he needed to dump his sh*tty thoughts. We do create our own reality and it begins by what we allow our thoughts to shape.

karen

C-Span2 played "The Impeachment Forum" several times yesterday and I hope they'll play it again.

I hope you'll all watch it - they're urging people to demonstrate, to strike while the iron is hot, and the message to us, not to congress, is "that our democracy is in peril, this president is dangerous, and if you dont do something about it NOW, the time may be past and the "tyranny", dictatorship may become what the United States will be forever in the future,

that the demand for impeachment must come from the people, it does not come from Congress and never did .

Elizabeth Holtzman who was on the impeachment committee of Nixon, stated Bush is doing the same thing for which Nixon was impeached.

Holtzman's article is 6 pages long in the Nation magazine, but if we are going to do more than lip service, every one of us should read it, do our part as suggested, and pass the word to everyone we know. And the word is IMPEACH.

BTW, why is it no media outlet let us know that in November (even before the spying and the sellout of ports was known) A Zogby poll was taken that said 50 % of the people would vote for impeachment if Bush lied about the war?

The Impeachment of George W. Bush
by Elizabeth Holtzman

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060130/holtzman

"Finally, it has started. People have begun to speak of impeaching President George W. Bush--not in hushed whispers but openly, in newspapers, on the Internet, in ordinary conversations and even in Congress. As a former member of Congress who sat on the House Judiciary Committee during the impeachment proceedings against President Richard Nixon, I believe they are right to do so."

"I can still remember the sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach during those proceedings, when it became clear that the President had so systematically abused the powers of the presidency and so threatened the rule of law that he had to be removed from office." -SNIP-

"Like many others, I have been deeply troubled by Bush's breathtaking scorn for our international treaty obligations under the United Nations Charter and the Geneva Conventions. I have also been disturbed by the torture scandals and the violations of US criminal laws at the highest levels of our government they may entail, something I have written about in these pages [see Holtzman, "Torture and Accountability," July 18/25, 2005]. These concerns have been compounded by growing evidence that the President deliberately misled the country into the war in Iraq. But it wasn't until the most recent revelations that President Bush directed the wiretapping of hundreds, possibly thousands, of Americans, in violation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)--and argued that, as Commander in Chief, he had the right in the interests of national security to override our country's laws--that I felt the same sinking feeling in my stomach as I did during Watergate."

"As a matter of constitutional law, these and other misdeeds constitute grounds for the impeachment of President Bush. A President, any President, who maintains that he is above the law--and repeatedly violates the law--thereby commits high crimes and misdemeanors, the constitutional standard for impeachment and removal from office. A high crime or misdemeanor is an archaic term that means a serious abuse of power, whether or not it is also a crime, that endangers our constitutional system of government. "

-snip-
"It is imperative that a full investigation be undertaken of Bush's role in the systemic torture and abuse of detainees. Violating his oath of office, the Geneva Conventions and the War Crimes Act would constitute impeachable offenses. "

"NEXT STEPS"

"Mobilizing the nation and Congress in support of investigations and the impeachment of President Bush is a critical task that has already begun, but it must intensify and grow. The American people stopped the Vietnam War--against the wishes of the President--and forced a reluctant Congress to act on the impeachment of President Nixon. And they can do the same with President Bush. The task has three elements:

building public and Congressional support,

getting Congress to undertake investigations into various aspects of presidential misconduct and changing the party makeup of Congress in the 2006 elections.

Drumming up public support means organizing rallies, spearheading letter-writing campaigns to newspapers, organizing petition drives, door-knocking in neighborhoods, handing out leaflets and deploying the full range of mobilizing tactics."

" Organizations like www.AfterDowningStreet.org and www.ImpeachPac.org, actively working on a campaign for impeachment, are able to draw on a remarkably solid base of public support. A Zogby poll taken in November--before the wiretap scandal--showed more than 50 percent of those questioned favored impeachment of President Bush if he lied about the war in Iraq. "

"An energized public must in turn bear down on Congress. Constituents should request meetings with their Senators and Representatives to educate them on impeachment. They can also make their case through e-mail, letters and phone calls. Representatives and Senators should be asked specifically to support hearings on and investigations into the deceptions that led to the Iraq War and President Bush's role in the torture scandals. Senators should also be asked to insure that the hearings already planned by the Senate Judiciary Committee into warrantless wiretaps are comprehensive. The hearings should evaluate whether the wiretaps were genuinely used for national security purposes and why the President chose to violate the law when it was so easy to comply with it. Representatives should specifically be asked to co-sponsor Congressman John Conyers's resolution calling for a full inquiry into presidential abuses.
Finally, if this pressure fails to produce results, attention must be focused on changing the political composition of the House and Senate in the upcoming 2006 elections. If a Republican Congress is unwilling to investigate and take appropriate action against a Republican President, then a Democratic Congress should replace it.

"As awful as Watergate was, after the vote on impeachment and the resignation of President Nixon, the nation felt a huge sense of relief. Impeachment is a tortuous process, but now that President Bush has thrown down the gauntlet and virtually dared Congress to stop him from violating the law, nothing less is necessary to protect our constitutional system and preserve our democracy. "
__________

Maybe someone can find the transcript of the C Span Forum on Impeachment and post it. I'm not good at finding transcripts - :) but I do have other talents :D

Individual congresspeople, both Democrats and REpublicans have to be pressured by us, the people, to move forward on impeachment. The criminal and impeachable actions are listed on the sites. Each of those in both sides of Congress, senate and house, pugs and dems, are sworn to protect and uphold the Constitution - and they are not doing it. And we need to start telling them we know it and they are letting this country slide into a dictatorship.

"Are you for the Constitution of Agin it?"

John Dean said it was the only time in his life he had ever heard a president admit to an impeachable (criminal) offense, -secret warrantless domestic spying- and insisting he would continue to do so.

We've known all this, but we talk among ourselves.

Sally has provided this forum - 99.99 % of us are like-minded. What are we going to do with that like-mindedness?

Don't know if any of you live in New Jersey, but this is the bill up for a vote in that state. I expect a wave of these over the next several months and will change the way Astroworld operates. Remember Ari Flescher saying "watch what you say and watch what you do" well this is it, the "big brother" eye will soon be on every single person and not just in this country.

http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2006/Bills/A1500/1327_I1.HTM

Pallas, don't take things out of context....Mercury is retrograde now!

And if someone is paying thousands of dollars for Reiki they are being ripped off by some of those fluffy bunnies.

If you go back and reread the rest of my post, you'll see that I am putting a lot of positive things out there as well. Sorry I posted that one comment that got so misunderstood. I was not out to offend anyone.

You have given me a lot to think about as far as career issues and this is the one place in my world that I DO NOT WANT TO MAKE ENEMIES!

Sally,

I wouldn't worry about that too much because in
effect it is geared to libelous and slanderous remarks made by posters against other posters...(although if I was bill o'liley or tush limbo I'd worry) and as a matter of fact, it is already contained and active within other laws addressing those issues (which makes me wonder if it will pass since there are other laws that cover it).

Years ago I used to post on the Washington Post
website and there were many many freepers. From my name they didn't know whether I was male of female, and decided to do the usual republican smear or swiftboating. So one of them began to post I was a member of Nambla (or something like that, and disgusting things about what men do to little boys etc etc. I didnt even know what it was-but apparently a male pedophile thing or something liek that) I let it go on for awhile. And then posted, as is necessary by libel/slander law the required statement to the effect that they had so many days to post an apology, issuing a refuting of lying injurious statement they had made and admitting the poster, by name was lying, before a law suit would ensue.

That was when they found out I was female.

Each state has a different form of the statement,that must be posted or sent, but it falls under Libel and or Slander.

I had a lovely conversation with the fellow who ran the Washington Post site - and we did a number on the freeper, posting the required by law statement on every thread.
The freeper was shaking in his dirty lil nazi boots after he realized it wasn't a joke and the
Post was turning over his name and address.

On the other hand, a site like DU has plenty to worry about since they have some real cowboys and cowgirls over there - who don't hesitate to tear apart other posters.

Cybear,

don;t be silly. You're not making an enemy. I'm just chiding you to light a fire under you and get you going. It's all those severe earth planets you know.

Yes, I would have liked to take Reiki, but could not or would not afford it...each step up the ladder, or higher degree of REiki was more expensive, until it was a total of about $6000.

I dont know of anyplace that charges less.

I must have 20 or 30 books on Feng Shui, which I have great interest in - the same thing - thousands of dollars to take the courses.

I've never charged more than $100 to an organization for a lecture...and I charge $10 a class for classes - so you can see I just would not pay hundreds and thousands for those courses, on principle!

Pallas - you put a big smile on my face now! You did light a fire!

When I become a Reiki Master/Teacher...I don't really like the term master because it implies that someone controls or owns one or knows everything...I plan on teaching for a fee that only covers manuals and time. $50 for level one, $50 for level 2 and $100 for master/teacher level. And in some cases, a love offering only or even for free if someone is in dire straits and shows a real heartfelt interest.

If I get to a point that I can do it for free, I will. Reiki is a wonderful thing that should be available to everyone to help heal ourselves and our world.

Peace!

I paid $150 for level one and two, which was a two day course including manuals and lunch. If I can come up with $100 extra in the next couple of weeks I can get level 3/teacher from one of the teachers here that believes as I do.

If you really want to learn it, look around and it will be made available. Sometimes when we try to manifest our dreams, we have to wait and learn before our dreams come true.

Pallas,
There has got to me some Reiki teachers that don't charge $$$$$ as there are in all the arts. I do not charge students, never have, never will. I work on the principle that knowledge is to be shared so others may grow. Infact the head honcho of a particular order to which I belong wants me to take some additional instruction on hermetics and natural healing, and there was a price tag. I said no thank you the teacher will come to provide me with what I need to pass along to others. I of course have not heard back from them. (Not supposed to respond like that..haha it's the Apache in me.)

Sally, we are already seeing the fundy xians on the move here in Tx, as well as across the country, specifically Co, SC and Fl. I have gotten dozens of phone calls and flyers in the mail from churches and politicains during the past week to vote for them or who to vote for to push their agenda. The good thing about it is that they are exposing their true colors and I believe they are shooting themselves in the foot. People are seeing what these people are about instead of wondering if they are for the people or against the people.

One thing that I am concerned about is how these nuts will react when they are voted out or shunned. I think they are going to resort to violence when they can longer get their way.

Sally, I didn't read that internet law enought to get it but if it's up for vote in N.J., I believe that's a really BLUE state and it shouldn't be too easy to pass legislation like that there if there's any chance it will hurt our civil rights.

We do have to be careful. A lot of legislature is touted as protective and people buy that, unaware of the dark side.

Karen, your article is so lovely and right on. I want to re-read it. JudyG, in reading your posts, I feel like I, too, want to shake that pattern of fear and worry but aren't quite sure how to get there. I'm told meditation will do it. I know yoga does, but it is possible to be relaxed while doing yoga and revert back to fighting for surival when not. I guess when I'm ready, the right path will arise.

Shy, you are really, really something - not only are you a very caring,loving person, you ARE funny, astute (ahem! the high ground!), deep and articulate. You are quite a role model for all of us here. And you are right --- the combination of personalities and souls here encompass express many positive attributes that benefit us all. By the way, do you do any writing?

Judi G, Cybear, Pallas, Sally, Pat C and All

Thank you all so much for your wonderful comments and inspiration that you left on the last thread. They mean a great deal to me.

And I have the most wonderful news to report. I was offered a temporary, long-term position this morning and will begin the job tomorrow morning!
I have to take a drastic pay cut but am so thankful to have a job the $1.50 hourly loss is the least of my worries. I have not worked since October 1, 2005. I can continue to look for better pay, and my agency said they will work with me on this (and they will as they already have previously) and will be finished at 2:30 everyday so I can do something part-time a few days a week for extra funds. I am so happy and grateful.

It is a joy to be able to report this to you so soon after only revealing my circumstance yesterday.

Cybear,
I will continue to hold you in my positive thoughts. The affirmations you quoted were beautiful.

I try to keep up with DeLay's political happenings, including Sugarland, but one eaisly gets the impression that they are all super rich there because the constituients are able to poor the money into DeLay's coffers. In spite of his alledged corruption, he is still raising bundles of cash. I am glad you pointed that out to me as I never knew that ordinary people lived there as well. Have any early statistics been released yet?

I take it that no one knows how to compute the Lunar Phase between the sun/moon in the birth chart. I might be able to figure it out if I draw a diagram on paper which is what I will do next. I can't figure out the 90 degree addition/subtraction for nothing.

Shylurker,

Your post about all the varied qualities that we individually bring to this site was a fantastic reminder about how important each and everyone of us are. It is very keen perception on your part to be able to identify the unique qualities of each. I think about this myself very frequently, that we are all spokes in the big wheel that makes the wheel turn.

Oh, look, you can vote on Jebbie:
http://www.sun-sentinel.com /

Thanks for sharing your visions Karen. I grew up in Memphis, but made frequent trips to the mountains of east Tennessee and Western N.C. (lived briefly outside of Asheville). Beautiful country.

Back here on the home front the local papers this morning all have front page stories about the increased activity since mid-January at Kilauea. I really suspect with Pluto exact on the Asc here locally for the solar eclipse that we may see a major eruption soon. Most likely it won't be anything catastrophic (as that is not the nature of Hawaii's volcanoes) but it might be a spectacular show.

http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/

http://tux.wr.usgs.gov/

Whooooo HOOOO iBverly! way to go.....and you will find ways to make up the difference, too. I am so glad for you.

I will repeat again for those who didn't read this before (and Beverly, now I know why I felt compelled to repeat my story so many times....there was someone who needed to hear it!)...

I am not a religious person (that is not to say I am not spiritual)....but at one point in 1993, before the sheriff came to eject me from my home, I was lying on my sofa and suddenly realized I was all alone and that I couldn't do it 'all alone'. I sort of said out loud, "God, I give up...I can't figure this out, I give up. It is up to you to tell me what to do next."

An hour later, the phone rang, and it was a guy from a store in Michigan (and I live in SF Bay area) and this fellow said, I really need someone to do some fashion illustration, can you do it?" Can you believe it? No work for 2.5 years!

I did work for this store for about 3 months, so that I had a bit if money coming. But even more amazing was that a week later, the woman who became my art rep called and asked if I wanted to try doing storyboards. If anyone wants to see samples of what I do, I am posting my web site. I am giving up one of them, http://www.jwoodillustrates.com at the end of the month, as it is too much money to support monthly. But my fashion is there, as well as the storyboard stuff.

Other of my work is at the web site called Aboveboards....http://www.aboveboards.com/Portfolios/JudiWood/jw_200pages/jw20001a.html

And finally, my own web site, which will undergo a renovation in the next few months...http://www.fantasy-portrait.com

I am also doing an open studio thing....a group gets together and hires a model, and in a room rented because it has natural light, we do pencil portraits....this, I hope, will lead to doing portrait work. I expect at some point the storyboard work will revive, and hey, I'm really good at it now, to support me. To pay the bills while I do something I really LIKE doing. http://www.bacag.org/
on the enntry page, click on the bottom square of type and it will take you to the atelier page. Two of mine are there.

So hey...not trying to promote myself, but this is kind of a logical outcome of being forced into new paths.

See why I am happier?

I always wonder about the folks who pass like Dana Reeve and Kirby Puckett (it is sad when people pass that young)....to see the birth date similarities...I must look them up. I have to use Astro.com, as I upgraded my computer to Tiger operating system, and can't run my old software on it....Sally, will you be running charts on them?

I always wonder about the folks who pass like Dana Reeve and Kirby Puckett (it is sad when people pass that young)....to see the birth date similarities...I must look them up. I have to use Astro.com, as I upgraded my computer to Tiger operating system, and can't run my old software on it....Sally, will you be running charts on them?

Beverly! Congratulations! This is terrific news!

Judi, Judi, what a talent you are!

Thank you all for your kind and genuine responses to my article. I've been experiencing the effects of Firing the Grid. It's profound.

karen

Cybear, sorry you've been going through so much. Your talents seems to be incredibly great, and if I may be so bold as to also put in my 2cents.

Its been my experience that there is greed and people who prostitute themselves within every profession and social level - and 'newage' is just as susceptible as organized religion or politics.
Someone once said to me that, spirituality does not equate to physical comfort and ease of life! It is a way to manage the inner demons, and thereby, by increments, create an easier flow in one's outer world. Incorporating the buddhist wisdom into my life has made such a difference in how I look at adversity - to summarize: life's a bitch, get over it and get on with it, by using what they call the 8fold path of traits.
Cybear, look hard at your repeating themes and decipher what you must learn from them, then try incrementally to develop a new habit of 'attitude of gratitude.'
Some of your unhappiness seems to be judging what you don't have compared to others, i.e. stuff. Sometimes it seems the universe withholds in order to keep us 'praying.'

Oh, Beverly, what grand news!! The list of "pioneers" I mentioned above was one short and I knew it and yet it was too early for me to access the memory cell that had your name in it. Congratulations on a well-deserved, long-overdue success. This should open more doors for you.

Look, y'all! A glimmer of hope that we may yet return to the day when we can have some confidence when casting our votes:
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060307-010847-2326r

Karen, your article is beautiful!
And I have a question.
Would you have any objection to my printing out the last portion (smile, vision, listen, etc.) and posting it on community noticeboards?

Karen, your article is beautiful!
And I have a question.
Would you have any objection to my printing out the last portion (smile, vision, listen, etc.) and posting it on community noticeboards?

Just got an email with this in it:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/03/07/MNGAFHJJL91.DTL

Huge solar storms could zap Earth, scientists warn
Next sunspot cycle may disrupt power, communication(2012 is when it is forcast for)

Shy, That is O.K. that you forgot me as I knew I was in there anyway.

What I don't understand though is why you sleep in so late! It's after 5:00 p.m. here and you posted that note just a couple of hours ago. LOL

I noticed Jeb isn't so popular on the poll above. There was a report a month or so ago that said Jeb had brought in a crew from Texas to shred documents alleged to be connected to Abermoff/Casinos. It was reported on insight-magazine.com but was never carried anywhere else except mentioned by Thom Hartman. This reminds me that I heard on radio and saw on internet (huffingtonpost.com) that Katherine Harris is being "reviewed" for illegal money connections to the company that had dealings with Duke Cunningham. Interesting.

Judi G., Very interesting sites that you have. Not only a lovely artist, but excellent at your own PR. That is a weakness with me. It's boring to me. I see your e-mail is listed. May I write it down incase I might want to talk to you later about artistic things? I am an award winning artist/designer but it is a hobby, not any way for me to make enough money to support myself on nor do I have any aspirations in that area.

Thank you Karen for your lovely words.

Dear Sharon,

As you know I can't give astrology advise but want to share some of these interesting stories with you about real estate. I wouldn't think it would be my/your responsibility to advise clients on Mercury retrograde, eventhough we are aware of it. It is up to the client/s to take up this issue. Isn't it their personal awareness that would foster entertaining the notions of Feng Shui or Astrology to sell/buy a property? I think so. I wonder if any deficiencies found or identified after the sale could be remedied with Feng Shui corrections. Probably. But aren't these interesting stories.

Taken from my book "Astrology For Yourself" by Douglas Bloch and Demetra George, Copyright 1987.

From the Chapter on Mundane Astrology
"Thinking of Buying Or Selling a House? Ask Your Astrologer" -- This article appeared in "The Wall Street Journal" on October 10, 1986

Last March, Joy Lamberson, a property manager, checked with her astrologer before a group of investors she works for purchased a $3.5 million apartment complex in Lexington, KY. The astrologer, Carolyn Dodson of Nashville, TN, said to stall them two weeks. But the investors wouldn't wait. "They said I worry too much," says Ms. Lamberson.

Now, she says, they haven't sold a single one of 125 units. Two-thirds of the units flooded when it rained. Tenants stopped paying their rents to protest water damage. And the Health Department closed the swimming pool. "We had six managers there for five-and-a-half months working on the problems," says Ms. Lamberson. "The investors are sorry now."

~Astrologers, however, often keep agents cooling their heels. Last February, Susan Wallerstein told her neighbor, a new real-estate agent, that she planned to sell her house in Sherman Oaks. But when Ms. Wallerstein mentioned the plan to her astrologer, she told her, "Oh, my God! Don't" according to Ms. Wallerstein. The astrologer suggested waiting a month (to ensure a speedier sale) and told Ms. Wallerstein to stick the sale sign in the ground on March 30, Easter Sunday, between 5:20 a.m. and 6:41 a.m.

Ms. Wallerstein did as told setting her alarm clock accordingly. The house sold on the first day it was shown for $270,000, some $5,000 more than they had planned to settle for. The agent was a bit ruffled. "It was frustrating" he said. "I think it would have sold quickly in February, but who knows."

Astrologer, Alice Q. Reichard, has a simple explanation: "The moon rules property. On Easter Sunday, between the given times, the moon was in Sagittarius, a mutable sign that means motion-or a quick sale. If the moon had been in a fixed sign, the property would have taken a long time to sell, says Ms. Reichard."

When the Wallersteins had first wanted to sell their house, Mercury was about to go retrograde. And Mercury rules sales contracts. "If you sell when Mercury is retrograde, there will be a slip-up in the contract, or the sale won't go through," says Ms. Reichard. But on March 30, Mercury was behaving itself, real-estate wise."

Stacey Dean, a Las Vegas astrologer bought a four bedroom house two years ago for $93,500 at a time hardly propitious for buying houses, as Ms. Dean learned, to her regret. "I wanted to exercise my free will," sighed Ms. Dean.

The first hint of trouble came when she discovered electrical switches reversed; the kitchen light turned on the dining room fan. Then the shower leaked into the stairway. The clincher came last May when she found a legal notice tacked to her garage announcing that the property was to be auctioned off because of outstanding liens against it. Ms. Dean ways the matter is in litigation.

Pat Paquette has another short article up - what we believe
http://pisces-chronicles.blogspot.com/

Beverly,

I never had any doubts that you would come up just fine.

Be aware that you're on a merc rx so there may be some changes when merc goes direct/or for that matter the job may only last until the next merc rx.

I don't exactly understand your question about the moon, but is this site helpful?

http://goddess.astrology.com/moon/phases.html

Sharon,
guess you answered your own question about real estate on merc rx, huh? :)

Beverly, yes...please email me....I didn't know you were also an artist...and I've been on this board since gosh knows when, and never posted all of those web sites before!

JUst noticed that Dana and Christ Reve's son Will was born June 7, 1992. Lost both parents in an 18 month period. My birthday is June 7 also. I only lost one as a teen. I can't imagine what he must be feeling like.

Karen, had to run out most of the day and haven't read the article yet, but I get the newsletters every day, so will look for it...

Karen....such a gentle article among the political angst, no? So nice....you wrote:
Know your life is temporal. You are here briefly. What would you have your legacy be?

A couple of times in the last week, this has crossed my mind, that bible directive: (or did Christ say it?)

He who would save his life will lose his soul. But he who would sacrifice his life will save his soul.

A friend of mine has a son who has been offered the Vice Presidency of a very large corporation in Toledo (they live here, the SF Bay area). BUT....her son owns a company he started years ago and had to give up control over to take this job 3 years ago...with the option of buying it back in 3 years. Now it is time for him to decide....and what does the corporation do? It offers him the Veep job ONLY if he doesn't excercise the option to buy back his own company! So he will be held in bondage to the will of the corpoation with nothing to fall back on...(he is gong to be 42 in end of May) and will, if he does it, become the corporation man who will be unceremoniously dumped in his 50's not doubt. So he must decide whether to save his life or save is soul. What is your legacy if you make the choice to save your life instead of your soul? Oh...I'm sure we can think of SOME examples...

Timothy....oh, Pele is getting restless again, huh? I can remember watching the glow of an eruption from the big island volcano back in the 1940's....from Maui. It was just this endless red glow from way up in the sky....and it wasn't Kilauea...I t was Mauna Loa.

Thanks, Sally, and darling AW posters, all.

Don't have it at hand now, but remember checking Jeb's chart thoroughly during the last governor's race in Florida. I got the very strong impression, that Jeb is extraordinarily active sexually. Wondered at the time whether that was the reason (instead of just primogeniture) Junior was put forward instead of the smarter brother.

Sexual "misconduct" is such a no-no to the Christian right base (much worse than AWOL from the National Guard champagne squadron.)

BTW, Tallahassee gossip backs up Jeb's chart indications.

(((((((Beverly)))))) I am so happy for you! That just made my day!!! Good luck with the new job and I am sure it will lead to bigger and better things!

Judi, your art continues to amaze me! From what I am getting, I think the IRS will work with you on the 15k. Hang in there.

Kiwijeanie - The teachings of the Buddha have been a tremendous help for me in the past year and a half or so. Everything is an illusion and all will come to pass. I just wish this illusion I'm in now would pass. I think I am having to learn patience, being that I have never really had to have patience. Things have always fallen into my lap at the right time, but now things are not falling as fast as I would like them to. As far as wanting stuff or being jealous of what others have, that's not really it. I have pretty much everything I could need so it's not a want thing. It's more of a security thing. Health insurance, savings and what not. Planning for the future. I think my biggest obstacle is middle age. Middle aged men have a very hard time finding work or meaningful work these days in the states. People are afraid to hire us because we may not stay around if we get a better offer, health issues and the fact that a kid will come in and work for almost nothing these days. Experience doesn't count anymore. With the repugs in control, it's all about the bottom line.

Sooo, I am having to reinvent myself and search other avenues which I have been doing. I went to astro.com, ran my chart, read the interpretation and discovered it's just a time in my life that I am having to deal with. Things will change soon.
Another thing I found interesting is as far as career goes, communication, writing and teaching are my strong points. I have been in the communication industry for years, maybe it's time to start writing. Funny thing is, when I do numerology or read the cards, writing keeps coming up. Hmmm, still got to pay the bills...anyway, something is headed my way and I am more then ready for it to appear.

Maybe what Shylurker posted about being a trail blazing pioneer plays a big part in it. I have always tended to be ahead of the curve on things and maybe it's time to blaze a new path!

Blessings to all of you wonderful Astroworlders and thanks so much for the good vibes, support and well wishes. It is greatly appreciated and has made me not feel so alone on my quest.

a little more from Richard Nolle's site astropro:

on 2006

By the time high tech equities take off in early March, it's time to cash out and get to the sidelines for a while. (Just remember what cash really is - and what's really cash.) In June, when Venus in Taurus turns the Saturn-Jupiter-Neptune T-square into a Grand Cross, I expect a crisis of confidence to disrupt the currency, equity and financial markets in no small way.

-snip-at such times the sexy Venus-Mars conjunction at 1° Scorpio (October 25). - can be a welcome diversion if the global financial and political structure is crumbling around us.

The economy is falling apart, Iraq is increasingly in chaos, our national debt is unprecedented, our Constitution and Bill of Rights are being shredded, and on and on, so what's on Frist's mind (it's a poll)?
http://www.volpac.org

Roberts the enabler.

Senate panel rejects bid for NSA inquiry
Tue Mar 7, 2006 7:03 PM ET

By David Morgan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Republicans on Tuesday agreed to expand oversight of President George W. Bush's domestic spying program but rejected Democratic pressure for a broad inquiry into eavesdropping on U.S. citizens.

Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas, Republican chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said the committee voted to create a new seven-member subcommittee that would scrutinize the eavesdropping under a plan approved by the White House.

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=politicsNews&storyid=2006-03-08T000253Z_01_N07370278_RTRUKOC_0_US-SECURITY-EAVESDROPPING.xml&rpc=22

Vermont Town Votes To Impeach Bush

http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-vermont-impeach-bush,0,5954020,print.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

They wanna know what you think about the ports deal. Click on "Vote" under the "In the News" part:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/

(They've 'loaded' it by using the word 'Arab'. Why do they do that? Oh, yeah, that's right. I forgot. Sowwy.)

bob is certainly on the right track. Hadley, who is now head of NSA was involved up to his ears and Cheney up to his awful eyeballs plus a lot of other "aides" who are probably going to spill the beans. I remember at the time they leaked Plame,
Mary Matalin and Ari Fleisher and a whole bunch of other lil rats jumped ship. I knew something was going on then, that they were afraid to be involved in.

From Truthout:

-snip-
Cheney and then-Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley led a campaign beginning in March 2003 to discredit Wilson, according to current and former State Department and CIA officials. Although the officials said they helped prepare negative information on Wilson about his personal and professional life and had given it to Libby and Cheney, Wilson seemed to drop off the radar once the Iraq war started on March 19, 2003.

A day or two after Pincus's article was published in the Post, a meeting took place in Cheney's office to coordinate a response to the charges. In attendance were Libby, Cheney, and several other senior aides to the vice president as well as officials from the State Department, and the National Security Council.

It was then that Cheney decided the only way to counter Wilson's criticism was by having Libby leak portions of the NIE to a select group of reporters whose previous work in their respective publications had advanced the White House's political agenda. (Bob Woodward and Miller - note :
"whose previous work had been helpful to advance the White House political agenda!!! - sleeze Woodward )

-snip-
In the meantime, while Libby had been leaking portions of the NIE in late June to back up the administration's use of the Niger claims, other officials from Cheney's office and the National Security Council had been speaking with a select group of journalists and had revealed Plame Wilson's identity.

From this week's http://www.aaiusa.org/countdown/countdown.htm

Freedom of Speech, As Long As I Like What You're Saying…

The much-anticipated New York debut of the London hit "My Name is Rachel Corrie" has been put on hold due to concern from the New York Theater Workshop, which was to stage the production. The play tells the story of the American peace activist who was killed in 2002 by an Israeli bulldozer trying to save a Palestinian home. The piece was written by British actor Alan Rickman and The Guardian's Katherine Viner and uses letters and e-mails from Corrie to tell her story. According to the New York Times, NY Theater Workshop artistic director James Nicola "said he had decided to postpone the show after polling local Jewish religious and community leaders as to their feelings about the work." He later said, "It seemed as though if we proceeded, we would be taking a stand we didn't want to take." By not preceding, Nicola is taking a stand as well…Much of Sunday's Academy Awards featured Academy members patting themselves on the back for their "progressiveness," including a montage on "socially conscious" movies. But the Academy showed a regrettable lack of courage or vision when they succumbed to pressure to announce Best Foreign Language nominee Paradise Now as a submission from the "Palestinian territories."

Brooding kind of time for me. This Saturn Return and opposition to natal Sun, Mars and eventually Mercury is an inward pull.

Jacob Schwartz does asteroids, but he also teaches many places...one such place is Princeton. I am taking his class in Mundane Astrology. We party alot around the planets with much needed irreverant humour. Long and short of it is...after studying the charts of congress for some time, when they changed from Rep. to Dem. and visa versa he has come to the conclusion that Saturn rules the Dems and Jupiter/Neptune rule the Reps. He also places the birth of the Republican Party before the official convention in 1854. Same for the Dems.

Democratic Party: May 23 1832 Baltimore, MD. Arbitrary choice of 2:52 pm LMT after much drinking and eating and talking. Choice of Pluto on the descendent purposeful.

Republican Party : Ripon Wisconsin...meetings took place there before the convention. They were, as you recall, the abolitionists. Birth time: Feb. 28, 1854, Ripon, Wisconsin, 3:24 pm.
Arbitrary choice of time. Again after all the eating and drinking was done.

He feels the Jupiter/Neptune idealism of the early Republican Party is now bubble headed delusion and denial so common of Jupiter and Neptune.

The Saturnian reality describes the pragmatic Dems.
And for 2006...the Dems win.

He uses placidus houses. And he does a tremendous amount of research. Charts from the Library of Congress on line...Political divisions of the US Senate and House of Rep. from 1001 to 2003, etc.

Just thought you might find this interesting.

Pallas,
I couldn't help but notice the Center for Constitutional Rights meeting took place on March 2nd. Don't know the time. Isn't that the day before Mercury went Retrograde? At 26 Pices, I think. And when the lunar eclipse happens on March 14th -15th it will be at 24 Virgo. Just square.
I wonder how that will impact, if at all, the meeting? Also the day of the meeting, Pluto and Mercury were sqare.

Sally, thank you again, for this article. Long live Astroworld.

That was me posting up at 7:06 PM thanking Shy and seconding her compliments.

Judi, Judi, Judi! You are very talented. It's so nice when people share more of themselves and their work, like you & Dommael have done. Also, I remember Garry's promo stuff for his band.

Cybear, I think I remember you being a Leo, am I correct? You must be as you have all the wonderful attributes of your sign. Sending you lots of positive vibes, love & admiration!!!! Stay connected to us.

Thank you, Beverly...very interesting & scarey stuff! I'm not sure if I answered my own questions yet, Pallas, but maybe you mean the part about doing my best. I'll just have to let everyone's higher selves in conjunction with G-d's plan play out, and hope no one blames me!!!! (LOL).

Until later...

I was also raving about Karen's article in my post.

Many, many congratulations, Beverly, on your job offer, and, Cy, I'm routing for things to materialize as you launch your Reiki practice and try different things :-) :-) :-)

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God: I've lost faith in Blair

All the signs are that the Almighty is unhappy about efforts to implicate Him in the attack on Iraq

Terry Jones
Wednesday March 8, 2006

Guardian

A high-level leak has revealed that God is "furious" at Tony Blair's attempts to implicate him in the bombing of Iraq. Sources close to the archangel Gabriel report him as describing the Almighty as "hopping mad ... with sanctimonious yet unscrupulous politicians claiming He would condone their bestial activities when He has no way of going public Himself, owing to the MMW agreement" (a reference to the long-established Moving in Mysterious Ways concordat).
Mr Blair went public about God on Michael Parkinson's TV show. "If you have faith about these things," he said, "then you realise that judgment is made by other people. If you believe in God, it's made by God as well." As is customary with Mr Blair's statements, it's rather hard to tease out what he is actually saying; but the gist is clearly that if God didn't actually tell him to bomb Iraq, then the Almighty would certainly agree it was the right thing to do.

"If Tony Blair thinks his friendship with George W Bush is worth rubbing out a couple of hundred thousand Iraqi men, women and children, then that's something he can talk over with me later," said God. "But when he starts publicly claiming that's the way I do the arithmetic too, it's time I put my foot down!" It is well known that God has a very big foot.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,329429167-103677,00.html

Thank you WV. The dates for congressional history. Hardly 1001! Rather, 1901. Excuse please. :)

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God: I've lost faith in Blair

All the signs are that the Almighty is unhappy about efforts to implicate Him in the attack on Iraq

Terry Jones
Wednesday March 8, 2006

Guardian

A high-level leak has revealed that God is "furious" at Tony Blair's attempts to implicate him in the bombing of Iraq. Sources close to the archangel Gabriel report him as describing the Almighty as "hopping mad ... with sanctimonious yet unscrupulous politicians claiming He would condone their bestial activities when He has no way of going public Himself, owing to the MMW agreement" (a reference to the long-established Moving in Mysterious Ways concordat).
Mr Blair went public about God on Michael Parkinson's TV show. "If you have faith about these things," he said, "then you realise that judgment is made by other people. If you believe in God, it's made by God as well." As is customary with Mr Blair's statements, it's rather hard to tease out what he is actually saying; but the gist is clearly that if God didn't actually tell him to bomb Iraq, then the Almighty would certainly agree it was the right thing to do.

"If Tony Blair thinks his friendship with George W Bush is worth rubbing out a couple of hundred thousand Iraqi men, women and children, then that's something he can talk over with me later," said God. "But when he starts publicly claiming that's the way I do the arithmetic too, it's time I put my foot down!" It is well known that God has a very big foot.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,329429167-103677,00.html

Why, Beasley, you're our winer and diner! Seriously, thanks so much for posting that very interesting information. 2006--oh, from y'all's party table to the invisible sky being's ear.

Sharon, Thanks for the all of the love and support!

Leo...Hmmm...Nope...I'm a true blue crab born on July 7, 1961 @ 4:16am Houston,Tx in the Heights. The oldest, most historical neighborhood in the city.

Interesting though about Leo. Lately I have been being visited by a beautiful lion while deep in meditation. So I know I am on the right track spiritualy.

Kiwijeanie - Light bulb just went off. One of the things I was told in one of my recent meditations was I have to let go of the past and my past accomplishments. I am entering a new chapter in my life and the past has nothing to do with it. Hmmmm....I think I need to visit my cave and see what is waiting for me. A being has been visiting me but not talking, just watching. Maybe I can get some info from it.

Subsequent development...from what I've heard, I don't think the contract will be accepted...in this case, it may be a good thing. I think Mercury goes forward on either 3/30 or 4/1.

Karen, just want to say again how beautiful your article is.

Actually Sharon, from the stories you posted, I thought you had decided to try to stall your buyers ntil Mercury went direct.

Whatever you do, I'm sure you will learn and remember something about Mercury.

Very interesting. Very, very interesting. This is the out-and-out struggle for the very basis of the Dem Party--us or the corporations. Astrologers, can you help with this, please?

Ooops. I'm so upset I forgot to post the link:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x601934

As I recollect, the trashing of Dean in Iowa begun shortly after Ickes and the 527s arrived there. There are several opinions on who trashed Dean, but I don't think the full monty has ever been revealed. Here's limited info; I'm still searching for more.
http://img.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/120804/dean.html

And now look at this. Talk about shooting the messenger--though we do have the opportunity to support this honest, brave man in FL:
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/14034640.htm

The most glaring problem with Dean and the "Party" is his Sun in Scorpio sets up a T-Square with the Party's Sun and Mercury in Taurus and the Moon and Pluto in Aquarius. He is a constant source of irritation to them, and that irritation will eventually split the party by 2008 with Saturn in Leo coming to a complete Grand Fixed Cross, the potential for another split like the one in the 60's when the Dixiecrats became Republicans because of Civil Rights. There won't be any winners out of this one. Whoever said "it's us against them" couldn't be more correct. Both political parties are seemingly blowing apart, one with a dictator at their helm and the other overcome with their own power hungry agenda. Thus far it's still up to us, it's pretty easy to see our leaders are not even able to lead themselves much less a nation.

Technically Mercury goes direct about 9:10am EST on March 25, that of course doesn't include the extended time we give for Mercury to go back over its shadow, the point it began its Retrograde.

Holey moley, Cap'n Sally! Thanks so much for responding--and so quickly. This stuff just eats at me, and of course I shouldn't let it. As usual, you hit that one squarely on the head, "our leaders are not even able to lead themselves, much less a nation." But somebody's leading them--and that's what's bugging me.

Two things I just came across:
Regarding Bill Gates, Marjorie Orr some time back wrote "saturn will put a damper on his bountiful cash flow in 2007."
And also interesting with the Enron trial heating up at the moment, I notice saturn will be stationing direct at Kenny Lay's Pluto in his 10th house.
More signals of global angst.

Whatever Happened to Courage?

By Charles Sullivan

Why do we tolerate the kind of government we now have? Why do we allow it to rape and plunder the earth that provides the sweet gift of life, and divvy up the profits among the rich? Why do we sit by quietly and allow the invasion and occupation of sovereign nations by the armed forces? Why do we allow our government to fleece the poor by providing eternal welfare to the rich? Why do we allow this government to represent the interest of the wealthy by neglecting the needs of the many?

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12239.htm

The truth maybe what is enabled by the impending grand square. People in positions of being able to act seem to be doing it. Hewlett Packard's board is being sued for allowing fired CEO Carley Fiorini's golden parachute of 42 MILLION dollars to be put thru when there are rules in place that would have halted that at about $6,206,000. Fastow is having his life review in court....Lay and Skilling being skewered. Teri Hatcher has announced that she was molested by her uncle 35 years ago...he has been arrested...my daughter's first boyfriend's uncle killed his wife 13 years ago or so....he is now on trial in the same courtroom that held Scott Peterson. Will all of these smoking guns be revealed in the next 6 months? Because if Bob says the Bushies are going to have that many hits on them collectively, there will be a whole lotta 'life reviews' going on.....and not while they are dead, either.

And Dana Reeve's life was reviewed by friends last night on Larry King. What was interesting is Deepak Chopra's comments that he thinks Dana's love from Ch;ris and her grief over his passing, not to mention the high level of care put into those years, caused changes in her limbic system....and she passed quickly. Marianne Williamson backed that up and mentioned that our world (Chopra said the same thing) should wake up to the fact that consciousness creates our world, and that science now validates it. The doctor from the Cleveland Clinic said he believes that Dana's career singing in smokey bars caused the cancer...she was a 'passive smoker' without ever lighting a cigarette. I say it is both. Lance Armstrong this week along had his ex fiance Sheryl Crow diagnosed with breast cancer, and a week later his friend Dana died....while he was making a speech in Canada, I think, for or with Clinton....(missed whether it was Hill or Bill).

Then I got a link on earthquakes being able to be predicted....on top of the link on the solar storms of 2012.. This from my daughter
They had a segment on earthquake prediction last night on KTVU channel 2. There is a group of scientists at SETI who have discovered a correlation between the energy that is released from the rock in the earth before a big earthquake. This energy is viewable on satellite images as a red glow. They showed pics of certain areas weeks before a big earthquake and they were red. It was very interesting. I cant find anything on it except for scientific articles like this one:

http://www.space.com/searchforlife/seti_freund_quakes_051020.html

Cybear...you ARE a Leo now...by progression.

WV, re the guardian article God: I've lost faith in Blair (funny! love it)...you do know who Terry Jones is, don't you? He is the 'silent' member of the Brit group Monty Python, the only american, and the writer and director of most of it, not to mention...he created the graphics for M.P. also....many movies to his credit.

Sally...it looks as if much momentuous political fracturing will take place under this grand square....and when was the last time it happened? and was it in Fixed signs?

Beasley, that is the kind of class in astrology I'd like to take! eating, drinking, laughing....the way life should be....

Looks as if the neptune transit return to the GOP is wearing it down, drip by drip. the Neptune cycle will return in 2018-2019

The Dems Neptune return was 1996-97....the Clinton impeachment and dissolution of the democratic power. So the dems are in rebuild, the goppers in breakdown, fin de cycle.

That explains a lot!

WV the article you posted above from Clearing House is outstanding and well worth reading over and over again. Judi, you mentioned all the things that are happening that might give one hope, but hope for what? Omens and examples of a shift have been there all along, year after year, even month after month, but concrete action is rarely taken. These things just keep adding up to an explosion and it feels as if we are awaiting that explosion either in our government or our earth, but we are holding our breath and waiting for its arrival. I'm not sure if the sky is falling or if it's fallen and we are not sure how to pick up the pieces.

I made a list the other day of my life and realized how much time I had spent "waiting." Waiting to graduate, waiting for the big job, for marriage, for my children, for the next big job, waiting to get out of my marriage, waiting to be recognized, waiting to be left alone, waiting for a break-through, waiting to get rid of this or that administration, waiting for things to turn around, waiting for the other shoe to fall; on and on and on but it all adds up to waiting for a change out of where I was to somekind of concept of where I wanted to be. Oh yes, I worked along the way to get those things and as soon as they came I started waiting again.

We are not in a good situation in this country right now, but look at history, when has the collective human condition every been in a really good situation? This most recent turn of events since 2000 have felt like we are trying to hold back the dike when there are so many cracks and fissures in the wall there will be no way to hold it back. I've wondered if it was best to let it all wash over us and then try to rebuild like they are trying to do in NO and around the world. We cannot go back to what it was, I personally don't want to go back to the lies and illusions, (as a country) but what do we want it to be? And does it include all of the human race? I think we all have a dream of sharing, kindness, caring but with whom? All we can do is start at our local level, our family, neighbors and then spread it out. For me, instead of thinking "what are they going to do" I am trying to move my mind around "what am I going to do." And that is the crux of the article WV posted above.

Sally...that is why we have the cliches about the wheel of justice moving slowly but exceedingly fine.....to me the hope is that in the end (even when I don't see it), justice comes .... and for that you have to take a long view.

and from this article from Orion on the making of tequila in Jalisco, Mexico: (fab photos)http://www.oriononline.org/pages/om/06-2om/Menuez.html

"God has a plan for you, and it might turn out to be nasty and brief. Best to savor the tequila slowly with your compadre and continue the conversation. The clichés of my former neighbors in northern California—about finding the balance in your life, living in the moment, and how "you won't lie on your deathbed wishing you'd worked more"—they turn out to be true, as true as true can be."
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The fault lies not in the waiting....but in the attitude about waiting. Best to do other things while waiting....or as Lennon said, life is what happens to you when you are busy making plans. I think the article is saying that....trust Terry Jones to get it right.

Sally, did you interpret my saying question to WV about who Terry Jones was as a 'dis' against the article? You sounded defensive. I didn't mean that....it wasn't a dis, it was an 'identification' with humor. Besides, I think Jones is a Jenious. hahaha.

Or did you mean the Clearning house article which I ddin't seee when I looked at your response?

Shylurker, never heard of demzilla....don't understand the post at DU. are there previous links which would explain it? the post assumes everyone knows the situation....

I know I will be nailed for this, but I also don't think Bill Clinton is the enemy. I think that Howard Dean just doesn't have enough poiwer. But it does appear that there is a splitting or splintering going on.

Sally, here is one guy doing something about it...http://mydd.com/story/2006/1/23/14558/3453

and I love that this is against the pig of all times, Sensenbrenner, who said when he voted against aid to Katrina victims AND redoing the Bankruptcy act which is penalizing all the victims even more that they should 'just get over it'.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=604440&mesg_id=604440
Eliz Dole Sends GOP Fundraising Letter DISGUISED As IRS Form-REPLY OR ELSE

just posted at DU....someone suggested sending it to Keith O. since I have lost ALL of my links in my computer upgrade, I don't have his email....anyone else?

Hi all, been lurking but have to make a correction judiGem -
Terry Jones is short, Welsh and a loud funny member of the PYthons. You're getting confused with Terry Gilliam who did the animation, is American etc.

Right, back to lurking....

Oh no Judi, I wasn't thinking at all about what you said, I had just read the Sullivan article that WV posted and was reflecting on the things he said in that article and how little I had done while I "waited' for some leader or someone or something to pop up through the years. I also had read this Molly Ivins article regarding the lackluster performance of the Dems and what can or should be done about them.

http://progressive.org/mag_ivins0306

But I was simply reflecting on my own inaction through the years and the stupidity and waste of that inaction.

Sally, it seems as though your were raising children - the next generation of citizens - and providing for them. I hardly call that inaction! Don't be so hard on yourself! Think of it as having put your energy into a bank account so it can be expended at a later time, with interest.

JudiG, I just went back and pulled up some of links that I skipped over earlier. Your artwork is incredible! Thanks for sharing with us.

Maya at Dreamkeeper has posted an article about a magazine called "Yes" and recommends it.
I found this thoughtful article on their website titled 'respecting elders, becoming elders'
http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?ID=1284

The article finishes by touching on fear issues surrounding death. It seems to me that the current political manipulators gain power by manipulating that death fear to its maximum effect. Something to ponder.

And on Dana Reeves, 4th chakra involvement. Boy, her heart connection to Chris must have been something to behold for her to have joined him so fast! Wish I could have seen that Larry King episode.

Hi Pallas: I made a mental note of the Mercury Retrograde yesterday. For some reason it just popped in my head when I was on the real estate post. My new job is temporary, and that says a lot in itself, but there is potential for hire in 60-90 days. I have Mercury Retrograde in my birth chart and four personal planets in Gemini (venus,uranus,sun,mercury) plus a Virgo Moon (Mercury) so lots of Mercury and the Uranus is in my 6th house of work and service. Any permanent work I have had has never lasted longer than 6 years. I will give this new one time to see how it goes, but I'm not to sure how much I am really affected by Merc. retrograde eventhough I have tried to monitor it.

Re: the Lunar Phase in the B.C.
The source of my question comes from my book "Astrology for Yourself"
I am being so persistent about it because I need to know what my "issue" is for this life because of personal evolution. I believe it may make things clearer for me.
I will call Astro-Communications Svcs. when I get home and ask them to give it to me. They do my yearly transit for me and will give little tidbits free now and then. There system will automatically compute the lunar phase and provide an angle which you convert to 90 degree increments. So don't spend anymore time on it for me.

But look at this just for your own information and put your birthday in and see what comes up for you.
http://www.lunarliving.org/feature/personal_lunar.shtml.
They give two links to compute, but only the tycho.usno works and is highlighted in the first paragraph. You might want to look at the suntable.1 also in the next paragraph.
also: http://www.mountainastrologer.com/table1./html
This is something similar but related to dark moon, not exactly what I am look for. But this gentleman is talking about a personal experience and the absence of time....how exciting and an entirely new concept.

I will use that link you provided eventually when I figure out where I am at with it. Thanks.

Pallas,

I don't, is this an example of Mercury retrograde?
Neither one of the links works when you click them and it is most stange since I have been working from them since Monday! Both of them.

Try again:

http://www.mountainastrologer.com/table1.html

http://www.lunarliving.org/featured/personal_lunar.shtml

(bad typing above, forgot the "d" in featured)

Deeeeep sigh. Be sure and scroll down.

http://johnsoncity.blogspot.com/archives/2005_09_01_johnsoncity_archive.html

Repeats deep sigh...

Dear Sally,

I always love to read what you write, but your post to Judi G., above (and judi's as well)is just splendid and expresses so much of my own feeling about the slowness of progress.

It's made even worse when I read such as:
"Majority of American's Back Biblical Account of Creation" See http://www.huffingtonpost.com
for the latest from Editors and Publishers.
It really makes me wonder just how much progress we are making toward evolving a new paridigm on earth when I see things like this. Eventhough these changes are very long-term in nature, sometimes I feel like we haven't budged an inch in 500 years!

http://www.dailydelay.blogspot.com
has the latest returns and comments on DeLay's victory today. 62% is not as good as it sounds.
They also have a scoop on Abermoff and a very cozy comments from Bush to Abermoff about his muscular body. Bush calls him a buff. Seems he does know him a lot more than he lets on. I hope they pepper Scott real hard with questions on this tomorrow.

Sally,

First, I'm wondering what Saturn is doing in your chart? because you're sounding like I felt about 10 days ago - and it was Saturn.

Second - you called it.
CNN is showing pictures of Hillary and Dean commenting there's a split.

And then Molly Ivins is saying what we're thinking except she's leaving out a few issues like immigration, the ports, the spying, open borders, phony security - and whoever heard of
the bland governor warner and why push him for president ? but I have heard quite a few speak of Feingold.

Molly Ivins: Enough of the D.C. Dems March 2006

Enough of the D.C. Dems
By Molly Ivins
March 2006 Issue

Mah fellow progressives, now is the time for all good men and women to come to the aid of the party. I don’t know about you, but I have had it with the D.C. Democrats, had it with the DLC Democrats, had it with every calculating, equivocating, triangulating, straddling, hair-splitting son of a bitch up there, and that includes Hillary Rodham Clinton.

I will not be supporting Senator Clinton because: a) she has no clear stand on the war and b) Terri Schiavo and flag-burning are not issues where you reach out to the other side and try to split the difference. You want to talk about lowering abortion rates through cooperation on sex education and contraception, fine, but don’t jack with stuff that is pure rightwing firewater.

I can’t see a damn soul in D.C. except Russ Feingold who is even worth considering for President. The rest of them seem to me so poisonously in hock to this system of legalized bribery they can’t even see straight.

Look at their reaction to this Abramoff scandal. They’re talking about “a lobby reform package.” We don’t need a lobby reform package, you dimwits, we need full public financing of campaigns, and every single one of you who spends half your time whoring after special interest contributions knows it. The Abramoff scandal is a once in a lifetime gift—a perfect lesson on what’s wrong with the system being laid out for people to see. Run with it, don’t mess around with little patches, and fix the system.

As usual, the Democrats have forty good issues on their side and want to run on thirty-nine of them. Here are three they should stick to:

1) Iraq is making terrorism worse; it’s a breeding ground. We need to extricate ourselves as soon as possible. We are not helping the Iraqis by staying.

2) Full public financing of campaigns so as to drive the moneylenders from the halls of Washington.

3) Single-payer health insurance.

Every Democrat I talk to is appalled at the sheer gutlessness and spinelessness of the Democratic performance. The party is still cringing at the thought of being called, ooh-ooh, “unpatriotic” by a bunch of rightwingers.

Take “unpatriotic” and shove it. How dare they do this to our country? “Unpatriotic”? These people have ruined the American military! Not to mention the economy, the middle class, and our reputation in the world. Everything they touch turns to dirt, including Medicare prescription drugs and hurricane relief.

This is not a time for a candidate who will offend no one; it is time for a candidate who takes clear stands and kicks ass.

Who are these idiots talking about Warner of Virginia? Being anodyne is not sufficient qualification for being President. And if there’s nobody in Washington and we can’t find a Democratic governor, let’s run Bill Moyers, or Oprah, or some university president with ethics and charisma."

If the dems aren't careful with their stupidity and spinelessness we may end up with Giuliani as
president....and before 9 11 when he was good at what he did..if you asked any New Yorker about him
they weren't happy. He cleaned up New York by beating the hell out of homeless people and telling them to go to Florida. Ruthless doesn't come close to describing him.

About that Catholic town in SW Florida. First it started as a school dream and now it is a big town dream and Cathedrial with the biggest spire in Florida or the world or something. Now they say they are not going to outlaw birth control (condoms) and porn (Playboy) but the builders have a clause that they can say what business is built in the town. They say that they are only going to discourage it, but with the ability to say who can build there, I would say it is going to be out lawed. It will be a college town.

They tried to restrict the TV cable, but the cable company said, no way. They either have to take it as is or not at all.
Now no one is really talking about this so much but there is going to be a fight with nature to build there as it is swamp. No body tries to build in a swamp, except a few Indians have some small cottages there. Indians seem to be able to deal with the swamps.

On this coast the land is in 3 layers from the coast. Right at the coast land is high enought to build, it is like a ridge. Then the next and mid low is farm land. It floods in summer but it is only used in winter. Then the swamps which are mostly water, with a few high spots that one might build a stilt house. (Houses on stilts that let the water run under them.)

Now much of the farm land has been built on. What they do is dig these lakes and use that dirt to lift the land and lakes to drain it and up the price cause it is water senic property. But it is really to get fill dirt.

Even building a road across the swamp is a hudge engineering feat. Much less what they intend to build. Digging lakes just won't work. They have to bring in loads of dirt to start. I mean loads and loads by truck. They have 250 million to build all this and I doubt that will pay for the dirt. ANd it is full of aligators, I mean full. We have aligator problems here. They are always having to go catch them and take them back to the swamp. I belive we had 2 deaths last year from aligators. When we have high water from huricanes the gators come out of the swamp and find ways to swim into our rivers and all those fake lakes. I mean that there people will find them sunning in there front yard, after all it is their home. There are other animals and bugs that one does not want to tangle with in the swamp.

They say it is 25 miles west of Naples (a very rich town where the big CEO's and people like that spend the winter) and that is swamp. Now they tried to build a community just west of Naples because there was no place for ordinary people to live like nurses, clerks, secretaries, etc. Now they have had a heck of a time just there on the edge of the swamps. It is either on fire or flooded. Few houses where ever built cause no one wants to deal with living in a swamp.

ANd don't even get me talking about the harm to the ecology.

Those students are going to feel like they are in jail at best. It will be dangerous to go out at night even from one class to another.

I think this is a pipe dream of keeping these college students "pure". But the first huracane will wipe it out, if they get that far. And I hate to tell them that no birth control or playboy, does not stop college students from sex.

It is kinda like where my daughters live in a gated community with lots of those lakes that got full of gators after a huricane till they where afraid to walk their dogs after dark. The gated community and roving security cars, just did not stop the gators. Nature won for a while and they are just on the old farm land miles from the swamps.

Beverly,

You might try that site, I think it does have the info you're looking for.

I'm a disseminating moon, could you tell ? :)

Also, since most don't have mercury retrograde could you tell us of your experience when Merc is
retro? Do you feel more comfortable? Are you thinking more clearly? can you look back and see if when you started things on merc retro they worked out better for you than when on merc direct? It's really of interest.

GAINESVILLE,

somebody posting here lives in or around Gainesville and posted to me awhile back about it - but I dont remember who? Was it Pat? or A
Judi?

Could you please click on my name and e mail me.
I have a few questions about the area?

You have to read this from the Washington Post

The Cato Institute meeting on Bush's policies.They are reviled by him almost as much as we are.
Leading Republican Conservative says "if the vote today was between Clinton and Bush, he's vote for
Clinton "(hee hee hee)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/07/AR2006030701403_pf.html

lou dobbs poll

quick

http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/lou.dobbs.tonight/

http://www.bluejersey.net/showDiary.do?diaryId=969

Biondi Wants to Ban Anonymous Online Speech

March 06, 2006 at 18:26:39 EST Assemblyman Peter Biondi (R-Somerset) has introduced a bill (A-1327) that if passed would: 1. Require that every user of this site provide us with their real name and address. 2. Require us to turn over this information to anyone who claims to have had “false or defamatory” information posted about them. 3. Make us liable for any damages if we don’t follow the measures in the bill. There’s one small problem: The NJ Supreme Court ruled that banning anonymous online speech is unconstitutional.

This is as ridiculous as it gets, but it displays the total disconnect that many elected officials have with the internet as a medium for speech. The US Supreme Court ruled in Talley v. California (1960) that anonymous postings of pamphlets is legal. Like pamphlets, websites like Blue Jersey are just a communications device, but it’s feared because it’s so democratic and often uncontrollable. Perhaps people who support these measures have something to hide and would rather it not come out during campaign season.

Assuming the bill were somehow enforceable and that it managed to pass, it would require us at Blue Jersey to spend money to verify the identity of every single person that posts here (currently 377 users). Otherwise, we would be liable for damages. That measure alone is enough to shut down almost all forums and community blogs – the costs would be prohibitive. It’s a little more indirect than Chinese-style censorship, but the end result is the same.

Congratulations Mr Biondi: You’re the winner of today’s Worst Legislation Award!

Jase, thanks! I got my Terrys mixed up...you are right....Jones was the silent one alot, though, wasn't he? Been too long since I say any Python...

Heard E.J. Dionne talking about his recent article at WaPo on the Dems...he is disputing the fact that dems have no plan...says no plan is needed, just oppositon and the mood of the country being anti bush for 2006....but he did mention the split between the DLC and the DNC. fHe is always a voice of reason. And says the important time is early 2008...by then a plan of attack should be laid out.

Molly is furious, and that is a good thing. But E.J. says the way out is to craft a DLC program which is left of center and realiistic to accomplish....and it needs to be creative, uniting those 3 things Molly mentioned into aomething dynamic. So infighting in the party is rampant, it could be the splinter which fractures the party....just getting universal healthcare handled would be a gigantic task, let alone everything else.

Beverly, yeh I read that stuff about 1/2 the country believes man was made just the way the bible tells it. geesus frigging juicy fruit, what idiots. and 25% of them have higher education degrees...were from Bob Jones U????

You know, it is quite too much to put so much pressure on dems who are powereless and at the mercy of the rethug run congress....I just have a bad feeling that we are playing into the rethug political plan to keep bring this up. Sure everyone is mad at being out of power and at how some of the conservative dems have votged (the DLC being the culprits)...but it just doesn't help...and the dems are falling right into that trap (because, for one thing, they lack a nother CLINTON type.) But what has all of us feeling 'the waiting' is that it is so slow to resolve in these high profile cases here in the US....but hey, if you want to see how it is in GB...speaking of old cases....check this out. Remember Lockerbie? Well our FBI is meddling there as here....http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=348822006

Kiwi...thanks, girl...for the compliments....every one else, also. Hey, the new mag Yes was given to me by my flower essence friend I mentioned in the post to Cybear....but I haven't gotten the first issue yet....looing forward to it....

A good converstion with Gore Vidal

http://www.truthdig.com/report/print/20060308_vidal_terrorism_propaganda_war

Challenging the mighty dollar

If major nations trade on Iran's oil bourse, it may start a 'dollar flight' effect

By Ramin Davoodi

03/08/06 "ICH" -- -- It's becoming increasingly obvious that there is a looming crisis brewing over Iran. The true 'whys' and 'what's' of the issue, however, are clouded to the American public due to our modern press and to the nature of the underlying stakes involved.

What people read is that there is a growing threat of a nuclear Iran that will threaten the safety of the West. Yet, that's essentially all that is said or written on the issue. However, to critically thinking people who turn to the internet and to foreign press for their news, the brewing crisis most likely has to do with intricate issues involving our incessant dependencies, not just on oil for our transportation and industrial needs, but more importantly for the means by which our modern economic system operates in the US, UK and much of the rest of the industrialized western world (strong hint: It's not a truly "free market").

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12254.htm

Shock and Awe; the sequel

By Mike Whitney

Yesterday's ham-fisted maneuverings reveal the administration's true objectives. Bush would like to conceal his attack on Iran behind a mask of international legitimacy. But even without Security Council approval the plan will move forward. The current showdown has nothing to do with "noncompliance" or imaginary nuclear weapons programs. It has everything to do with consolidating the vast resources of the Caspian Basin under the Stars and Stripes and fending off future threats to America's global domination.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12245.htm

===

Mein Country

Unforgivable

By Norma Sherry

The truth is right before our eyes if only we open them to see. The fear of seeing I know is almost too great, but if we don't before too long there will be nothing of memory to see. As we sit on our comfy couches mesmerized by the latest Survivor or Apprentice or handsome Bachelor, we are being dissolved, extinguished. Our jobs are going to China and India and Pakistan; our freedoms are being abolished; our air polluted; our waters putrefied; our forests fallen; our wildlife exterminated; our culture obliterated.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12256.htm

Tikkun

The Good Americans and Their Little Shop of Torture

Gestapo interrogation methods included: repeated near drownings of a prisoner in a bathtub."

The History Place

"The CIA officers say 9-11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed lasted the longest under waterboarding, two and a half minutes, before beginning to talk, with debatable results."
—Brian Ross, ABC World News Tonight, November 18, 2005
"When President Bush last week signed the bill outlawing the torture of detainees, he quietly reserved the right to bypass the law under his powers as commander in chief…Bush believes he can waive the restrictions, the White House and legal specialists said."
—"Bush Could Bypass Torture Ban," Boston Globe
As a teenager, I could not understand how the German people could claim to be "good Germans," unaware of what the Nazis had done in their names. I could understand if these ordinary German people had said they had known and been horrified, but were afraid to speak up. But they would then be "weak or fearful or indifferent Germans," not "good Germans." The idea that only the Nazis were responsible for the Holocaust made no sense. Whatever the Germans as a whole know about the concentration camps, they certainly knew about the systematic mistreatment of Jews that had occurred before their very eyes, and from which so many had profited. And if they were not really "good Germans," what should or could they have done, given the reality of Nazi tyranny?
http://www.tikkun.org/magazine/tik0603/tik0603/branfman

For you Pallas...from a merc rx if you are interested. My merc is in my 10th house (sag) snuggled between MC and GC and about 8 degrees from my Sun/juno.

For me merc retro is a blessed relief. The noise dies down. Things run more smoothly. Especially psychically. It's like the static suddenly got filtered out. A big ahhh.

I've done all the no-no's such as buy a truck, a house, travel, especially travel is good for me during retro. I sell more work.

It is very noticable; a get out of jail card three times a year.

To everyone else:
hej, wonderful posts lately!

Matewan Revisited

By Charles Sullivan

The history of America is the chronicle of class struggle. The current fight is the same fight that working class people have always waged. In the past there were three distinct classes: the upper class, the middle class and the underclass. The middle class is rapidly melding with the under class, leaving us with essentially two socioeconomic classes. In essence, what remain are the rich and the poor. The chasm between rich and poor has never been wider and it is growing every year.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12207.htm

Weekend Video

Dr. Michael Parenti: "Terrorism, Globalization and Conspiracy"

Globalization is an attempt to extend corporate monopoly control over the whole globe. Over every national economy. Over every local economy Over every life. Click here to watch

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article11635.htm

The Sunday Times March 05, 2006

Nato may help US airstrikes on Iran
Sarah Baxter, Washington and Uzi Mahnaimi, Tel Aviv


WHEN Major-General Axel Tüttelmann, the head of Nato’s Airborne Early Warning and Control Force, showed off an Awacs early warning surveillance plane in Israel a fortnight ago, he caused a flurry of concern back at headquarters in Brussels.

It was not his demonstration that raised eyebrows, but what he said about Nato’s possible involvement in any future military strike against Iran. “We would be the first to be called up if the Nato council decided we should be,” he said.

Nato would prefer the emphasis to remain on the “if”, but Tüttelmann’s comments revealed that the military alliance could play a supporting role if America launches airstrikes against Iranian nuclear targets.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-524-2070420-524,00.htm

Steve Bell's latest cartoon on torture...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/cartoons/stevebell/archive/0,,1284265,00.html

Comment
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A deaf man spouting
A videotape of Bush's briefing before Hurricane Katrina exposes him as out of touch with reality

Sidney Blumenthal
Thursday March 9, 2006

Guardian

On the eve of George Bush's presidential campaign in 2000, the neoconservative Kenneth Adelman cast him as Prince Hal, who "puts the indiscretions of his youth behind him" and "redeems his father's reign". After September 11, Bush was wreathed with regal laurels as Henry V by a clerisy of pundits. From Ground Zero to the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln ("Mission Accomplished") the president struck bold poses, but his choreographed gestures have especially illuminated his hollow crown in the darkened breach of New Orleans.
For the first time, last week, the public has seen the spontaneous Bush behind closed doors, in a leaked videotape that recorded his briefing the day before Hurricane Katrina struck. Teleconferenced in from his Crawford ranch, Texas, Bush listens to disaster officials inform him that the storm will be unprecedented in its severity and consequences. "This is, to put it mildly, the big one," says Michael Brown, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Max Mayfield, director of the National Hurricane Centre, warns: "This hurricane is much larger than Hurricane Andrew ever was." Bush asks not a single question, says, "We are fully prepared", and departs.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,329429886-103677,00.html

Thanks Tseka,

I suspected as much..nice to have it confirmed.

The winds of insecurity

Leader
Thursday March 9, 2006

Guardian

If the biggest political challenge facing the modern world is to ensure that the United States again forms part of an effective international consensus on issues like the Middle East, global warming and the rule of law - and it is - then it follows that anything which weakens the architect of US unilateralism ought to be good news. The current ferment on Capitol Hill over the sale of American ports to a state-run company from Dubai has certainly weakened George Bush. So does it follow that the president's likely defeat on the issue is an event to celebrate? Unfortunately, life is not so simple.
The good news for Mr Bush's opponents is that the go-it-alone president has rarely been weaker domestically than he is today. A combination of continuing grim news from Iraq, repeated reminders of the administration's failings after hurricane Katrina (Mr Bush was back in Louisiana yesterday) and worries about the federal deficit and national security have driven the president's ratings down to record lows - as low as 34% approval in one recent poll. In those circumstances, the White House's backing for the Dubai-based DP World's takeover of a number of east coast US ports from the British company P&O has proved toxic. Fuelled by conservative talk radio, US public opinion has recoiled from the idea that in post-9/11 America an Arab government should have control of installations that are depicted as vital to national security. For congressmen of all parties looking for re-election in November, the issue is a no-brainer - they want to stop the sale if they are to survive at the polls. Republican congressman Don Manzullo of Illinois, who represents a Bush heartland district, put it succinctly this week: "This duck is dead. Either the president finds a way to kill it or we'll have to ourselves. There is no out on this."

It now looks probable that Congress will scuttle the DP World deal next week. That would be another humiliation for an increasingly weakened president. But there is an awkward truth at the heart of this angry Washington storm. That truth is that Mr Bush, not Congress, is right about the takeover. Dubai is a wealthy, stable and autocratic sheikhdom, a Singapore of the Gulf. The threat to American security from its takeover of a few US ports is negligible. The forces driving the resistance to DP World are ugly and will not help the cause of reintegrating the US with the global consensus. But, as Edwardian Britain found out, the biggest beneficiary of global free trade can also turn into a ferocious protectionist when the winds of insecurity start to blow.

Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers Limit

I dont watch Scarboro, but I couldn't help hearing his header -

"Towns all over the country are calling for the
President to be impeached"

YAYYYYYY!

I'm not surprised at Scarboro's heading of impeachment and I expect to see it on Hardball and CNN. They intend to face the question head on because of the 5 towns in Vermont voting for his impeachment. They don't have him on treason or high crimes and misdeameanors yet. They have Bill Clinton on deliberately lying to a Grand Jury and that is a crime. They will talk, talk, talk until they have the American people convinced that it's all frivolous on the part of the towns calling for his impeachment because if one State Government calls for his impeachment then it has to be considered in Congress.

Right Sally
A small state like Vermont which has town hall meetings could spell disaster for this administration. The People still have this option.
Interesting to contemplate.

Vermont motto: Freedom and Unity

Just saw on CSpan that Ann Richards (TX gov) has been diagnosed with cancer of the esophogas.

Alterntively, They (powers behind scene)
1. Want Congress to face the issue now and not when the Dems get in next Nov. Impeachment unlikely.
or
2. They (powers behind scene) know what is coming down the pike and need a really big distraction and a scapegoat. Impeachment likely.

Bush has only ever been a token. So many of you astrologers have been seeing some tough stuff immediately ahead for Bush.

I'd say i've got my popcorn ready but i'm more for hazel nuts.

More bad news....from www.capitalnews.corg (CSpan news site) in addition to Ann Richards story....

The House passed the FDA repub. led food labeling standars bill...and now there won't have to be rigorous standards of labeling in those states which demand it, like CA....fed law supercedes. how nice....and this after the Attorneys general of 39 STATES objected to it...!

And Hillary came out and said the GOP is trying to create a police state....

I watched 4 very angry democrats in the house fume about port security just now....these are passionate people, folks...and certainly weren't spineless.

They've been fighting like crazy to get funding needed for port security....the Coast Guard says it needs 7.2 Bill to defend the ports....what did they get? 720 million.

95% of all cargo coming into the US is NOT inspected. In Hong Kong, not one container comes in which is not completely inspected...so, Hong Kong is King Kong to the US mouse when it comes to being responsible for port security. I know Boxer and Feinstein have been on this for a very long time, so it is nice to know that Delahunt of NJ, Wasserman-Shulz and an AF American also from FL (whose name I just forgot but who is smart and very powerful) and Tim Ryan from OH are out there fighting....

http://tabletalk.salon.com/webx?14@@.596c4b89/0

These and so many more...it's impossible to keep up.

This is your life if you are a woman:
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article349913.ece

And looking at the US chart, it doesn't look like it will get any better, does it?

Right Sally.

That's exactly the game.

Ridicule the towns calling for impeachment..talk it to death with ridicule -

San Francisco also - and about another 18 towns, plus others considering.
Scarboro was shouting over the S.F. town representative until the guy said," Mr. Scarboro, you're out of control" HA! That was so good.

They need a senator, one senator to stand up for impeachment too.

I'm at the point in time where I hear some of the
twisted stuff these goppers say, and I shout at the television "Bullshit!!!!" I just can't help it any more. It is such bullshit -

And Hillary, a police state ----because of wanting to deport the illegals. Is she nuts? They can't vote....but it wasn't a police state when she voted twice for the patriot act huh?

She'll never get elected...not by the left anyway=the dems are so gd stupid it's unbelievable. They're so sure of their base that they're forgeetting where their base is politically. TO THE LEFT

I suspect there's a good chance the dems will lose it again - people will just stay home and not vote...the gops are incompetent greedy bastids and the dems are just plain stupid.

rant over.

Ja Judi, it's just what we've spoken of here so many times state's rights vs federal. Our tactics of using federal law and supreme court rulings in 60's to affirm civil rights have worked equally well for Daddy Warbuks and his fundamentalist sheeple.

And that should be a lesson to us.

I remember working in a free women's clinic in Seattle (one aspect of my job was abortion counselling) when Roe vs Wade was being debated. I stood alone in thinking that the foundations of the law was really faulty.

Our laws have gotten really murky. Frankly i don't know the right next step and it's one i've debated with a liberal circuit court judge friend. He's equally stimied.

i now consider myself a progressive libertarian and am trying to fill out that definition.

Pallas, I can't even stand to look at them much less hear them, but something weird comes over me when I see them on tv. I have to hear what the next line of BULLSHIT they are spewing and I do the same thing. My neighbors probably think I am nuts sometime's. I yell bullshit at the TV all the time, I only wish I could do it in person right to their faces. Maybe we should start sending real bullshit to all of there offices. Big smelly cat poop, dog poop, or cow poop! Maybe they would get the message if a few million people did it all at once. OMG, that would be hilarious....Today thousands upon thousands of boxes of poop showed up at political office's around the country. A mjority being republican, but democrats as well...More at 11...

}:0))

Cybear, I'm glad you are around when i am, i read your stories above searching for the next. There was a time when my world was falling apart, i was down to my last $20 my bank account got lost in a transfer between countries. I had been painting, always painting, when i heard of a weekend art show i plucked up my courage and strung up some clothes line and pegged up my watercolours. Sold some and better found my home among the art community. i've never looked back. If it weren't for being destitue and in a strange new land i would have stuck for a long time in traditional medicine....maybe...or mmaybe not. I have confidence that something wonderful is your way coming
warm thoughts flowing outward

Sally, I'm with you on what do we do. Were in the twilight zone these days. I think at some point we'll be living communally with kindred spirits, all sharing our resources for survival.

And it is so sad to hear about Ann, she is a wonderful lady that did so much for Texas before the fiend took over. She has been dearly missed here. And to think she lost her last race because Jr said she was a drunk.

Dare to dream....
My son has been following this, it could be the NEXT, just as microwave technology revolutionized our lives. This is pretty amazing stuff.

http://www.physorg.com/news5130.html
Researchers at Purdue University have new evidence supporting earlier findings by other scientists who designed an inexpensive "tabletop" device that uses sound waves to produce nuclear fusion reactions.

Thank you Tseka for the good vibes! Your story is inspiring. Something is headed my way, I can feel it, but it has not shown itself yet. I think this solar eclipse is going to blow out a lot of cobwebs and crud that has been around me for the past few years.

Judi, Leo by Progression...Wow, last night I was doing some chakra work and when I got to my throat chakra a voice told me that I was murdered in a past life for speaking the truth and during this lifetime I have many truths that must be spoken and I would not be silenced. They are truths that must be told for all to hear....I guess I am supposed to ROAR loudly. No wonder I have been visited by a lion lately.

teska, that article was fascinating and such an exciting prospect, good things are happening.

JudiG, no, it doesn't look like it will get better anytime soon, but it will get better. I have a client that is the head of a well known international consulting firm, and they have a client that is a huge well known international corporation. I can't say who they are, I am sure you understand why. Anyway, the corp they have been working with for three years hired them because they have lost a ton of business, been thrown out of countries, their reputation (once faultless) is suffering world-wide. Their corporate values and ethics, which worked so well for so many decades in this country and around the world is destroying them now. The consulting firm (my client) developed a strategy for them that includes a reduction of the salaries at the top, environmental concerns, community concerns, a higher standard of ethics and best business practices and the inclusion of a mind, body and spirit manner of managing, including a course on valuing, respecting and honoring other cultures. This has been a three year world wide effort with the top executives, there is a long way to go however they have had qualitative successes. The entire corporate culture based on decades is in the process of huge changes. These are important steps to take for this company and if it's successful it promises to spread out to other companies. This company has been bleeding market shares like a funnel, not because their product had changed, or even because they had that strong a competition (until a few years ago) but because of their business practices and "the people" around the globe rejected them. "The people" do have power over these multi-nationals and some countries are exercising that power, we can too.

I believe it will change as we empower ourselves and others. Life has always moved on and changed and we've moved with it without too much anger or fear. Partly because we felt the "earth" under our feet would still be there. We don't feel that way anymore, we feel that, without asking or informing, our government is moving the earth under our feet. I do however believe we are beginning to get our sea legs in this country and will force the powers that be to change, not the other way around, in time I believe they will have to work with us for their own survival as well as ours. Somehow they've forgotten we are all in this together.

Wow, whatta great thread everything from breaking news to Terry Jones and Gore Vidal and back again.

I found the reiki thread interesting. I bartered my way thru the three reiki levels about 10 years ago. I feel there should be no financial barrier between anybody and the extreme healing that the attunements convey. Even the practitioners doing the attunements admit that recieving the basic healing doen't do half the good of an attunement. Granted, one has to be in a proper state to recieve it, but I bet anyone here could deal with a slight increase of consciousness without batting an eye. In fact you seek it out, that's why I like listening to you. Energy exchanges for fees should become standard with a nominal sum to cover materials. Right now, I'm happy to be involved with a barter and exchange group and there is a lot of reiki given away in exchange for whatever the reikist needs. I would go as far as to say 'be cautious' when dealing with reiki teachers that want too much money, especially those offering extra attunements besides the basic three-I have met people pursuing these 'extra degrees' (from a branch of reiki that scoffs at Usui for being "too materialistic"!)and they were scraping pennies to get the thousands of dollars needed to attend these seminars in far-flung places. If reiki really is all-healing, then why don't we unleash reiki on the masses, free reiki for all? Yeah, yeah I know all the history about why money is requested and I think it was a selfish act. Usui never offered to attune those poor men, no, he insisted on his ego and playing christ from the outside. That they couldn't completely heal themselves and got a little upset at being dependant upon Usui was interpreted as 'ingratitude' as opposed to the realization that it was the natural reaction to a patronizing authority figure that was insisting on complete dependance. This act should be trancended not codified. We are living in 2006 and there are far more people ready and genuinely willing to take on this responsibility. Besides what is it they say about giving a man a fish and teaching him how to fish?
Another cool thing about Terry Jones: He was the head writer and director of the hilariously controversial "Life of Brian". I've seen it again for the first time since I was much younger and have been pretty impressed by the erudition of the movie. There are references to gnostic myths, and spoofs on imperial authority and terrorism that seem to cut even deeper than they ever did. I wish they would release a directors cut that includes a censored scene. The scene featured a group of isreali fundamentalists presenting themselves to Brian. They are led by a hitler-esque character claiming the holy land for the master race, then they wind up all committing suicide after a song and dance. OK, maybe it's even less funny now.The movie was released in 1979. They could never do it now.
Oh well. Let us visualze fiddly, human, solid, real and accountable paper ballots. The tide is turning there, let us put our vast minds to it. Take care, Juno

JudiG,
A ray of sunshine for those of us screaming at our TV's.

That Af Am. from Fla. woukkd be Kendrick Meeks.
I'm sorry I ( we) missed their hour talk on ther house floor yesterday. Wasserman Schultz, Meeks & Ryan have been working well together. Ford of Tennesee, & Sanchez of Ca. also belong. ANFD THEY HAVE A REP FROM OK, & SD! Schultz is Ptresidential material in the future I think!

Leader Pelosi's "30 Something" working group consists of the ten Democratic Members of the House of Representatives who are under the age of 40.

http://www.housedemocrats.gov/30Something/index.html?CFID=2289487&CFTOKEN=69277304

I didn't scream at the TV I called Mike Rodgers & Gingrey of GA. ( who propsed this sick legislation) and unleashed a diatribe at their aids!
Pointed out that I knew Roy Blunt's wife was a lobbiest for Kraft, and they were either veryu ignorant, or profiteering. That I was growing my own Swss chard in the bedroom window, tomatos in my studio, And then stated if Piccasso had had to grow & prepare his meals from scratch, he wouldn't have had time to paint his masterpiece, so the corporations are depriving us of our American freedom! ( I have been cooking since I was a teen & I'M BLOODY SICK OF IT!)
Then I called Anna Eshoo's aid and thanked her for standing up in the House & calling a spade a spade,
saying " It ain't broke we don't need to fix it." Addressing the TV audience & explaining clearly, that it wasn't for the benefit of the consumers, but the corporations, who make our food!
There's a nice new storage locker compound out in the woods between ELLSWORTH & BANGOR. It has high wire fences, & a 2 story house in t he center, built on blockhouse model with the 2nd floor extending out beyond the first, like the old west forts. Halliburton built? Wonder if it's heated?
You are all talented wonderful & special & have kept me gpng thru thiis bleak wintger!
PQ

BTW,
I have called Duncan Hunter's office, with a rant in the past., & this week there he was standing up on Blitzer, talking about the ex Nazi Russian who was shipping nuclkear weapons thru Dubi. I think he "gets it". the Carlyle connection.
I have not hesitated to state facts, that I have learned thru research online, "Christian Mafia" particularly, with the caveat that it is my duty as a retired person with more time to research these things, to keep our BUSYREPRESENTATIVE INFORMED..
PQ

Another train picking up speed and rolling down the anti-Smirk track:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/07/AR2006030701403_pf.html

From Earth Changes Bulletin by Michael Mandeville

GEO-PATHETIC POLITICAL VORTEX –

One can see appearing now through CNN and many other press venues a weekly parade of agit-prop pieces which are recycling every argument ever used on Americans over the course of the last 100 years to begin the hypnotizing buzz of a new drive to violence and imperial intrusion into the Middle East. American TV is saturated with worthless crime scene TV, accidents, and the topic of Iran, which is now seriously competing with the topic of Iraq. There is no question whatsoever that editorial decisions have been made in many quarters to feed the American mushrooms an endless diet of war talk through darkened corridors of TV sound bites. The barrage has just begun, they will be amplifying this propaganda campaign for the next six months.

Meanwhile that same ole 60’s crowd of all real people of all ages, joined by a flood of rapidly growing military people of all ranks, whom war made real enough to see its insanity, will be seeking to overcome the propagandists in a mighty clash of controversy though out the remainder of 2006.

Every conceivable non-violent mobilization tactic should be used to drown out the propagandists and drive the Bush/Cheny crowd out of office by the use of the impeachment powers of congress. I believe that this is already being set in motion.

I think one of the targets should be the Corporate Fascistii. Are you ready to sign a statement and live by it THAT IF A PRODUCT IS ADVERTISED ON THE CABAL’S AGIT-PROP NEWS TV YOU WILL NEVER EVER PURCHASE IT? I am.

The point is this, even as a large variety of initiatives begin the sandbagging of the Bushitas, we ought to undertake to begin sandbagging the major corporations through the simple refusal to purchase their stuff. We ought to focus that around the craven corporate crapola which is called TV news.

The proposition is ultra simple. In the final analysis it has come to this: we cannot continue to allow the Bush Republican destruction of the U.S. Therefore we must “pause” the entire system until enough people take up their responsibility to be citizens and see that this insanity is removed . Then they can be hauled before appropriate forums for eventual criminal and/or mental insanity proceedings.

It all rests on the simple truth of the critics who have been right all along. In the final analysis the fear of terrorism is a scam. It has been nothing but a scam. The scam begins with a disconnected fool who has not much hope of succeeding in accomplishing anything. He turns with desperation to random violence whose only object is to create fear. The scam is taken up by the Machiavellians who perceive a way to take advantage from the fear which is generated…and so the scam perpetuates, the desperate feeding the privateer who loots the public treasury for war contracts.

Stop the fear, stop the scam, and stop the freak-out dementics who are driving the scams.
That will make all of us safe and induce the beginning of a profoundly deepening age of peace.

The alternative is the Mirror. The prophetic warming of Nostradamus about the final rise of an Anti-Christ who will arise among the Middle-Eastern people and force the Western peoples to see in the mirror he holds up who they really are.

We are on the cusp. If the Zionists destabilize Iran, the Mirror is inevitable. He will inherit control of Iran and eventually Pakistan and Afghanistan as well…and then the Gulf…with oil and a-bombs....a mighty world power.

GEO-ECONOMIC VORTEX

Conditions will continue to deteriorate through the year…

Expect the collapse of the housing industry on both coasts sometime in late Summer under the pressure of inflation, major consumer boycotts, and another devastating round of super storms. When the insurance companies begin to buckle, you will know the end has finally come.

AS PREVIOUSLY REPORTED

The most decisively important information at the moment is that the Federal Reserve Bank (the ultra secretive banking monopoly with the monopoly to print money which sustains the aristrocracy) is no longer going to even tell anyone how much money they are printing up (or creating electronically). This will become a state secret, whose only purpose it to keep secret their program to radically inflate the value of the U.S. dollar.

It has already begun, a tremendous wave of price inflation which has begun to roll. You’ve seen it in gas, and the Cabal is not yet finished in that department. But just wait for what you will see in Safeway, Walmart, and the Malls, etc.

Expect minimally another 15% rise in gas prices this year on average, and that is a dyed in the wool holding onto my behind ultra conservative guess. There are good odds of $3.00/gal for 87 proof throughout much of the middle of this year, with a courtesy roll down in October and November so Bush can brag during the elections process how well the PublicRats are doing fixing the banana gunboat.

The hard news is the 30% general price rise which is going to roll through practically everything for living during the next two years. Food especially. Not so much medicine, they have already gouged that into the stratosphere, I believe they will mainly just let that area cook.

The next category is consumer items…WallChinaMart has to pay its gas bills too, so the Palace of low prices – always - is going to be climbing this year - always. From the point of view of China, the goods will be cheaper than ever…it is just that Americans are going to lose the subsidy on the value of their dollar. Nobody wants to pay the Imperial Tax anymore, having come to full realization that the American system is now run by putzes who mainly are pimping for the hidden hands of an Aristocracy of greed who only know how to profit from wars.

Just know the trend, the price of oil is being used to re-value the dollar. The rate of inflation now appears to be in the 20-30% range. It will only take another three years to destroy the “exuberance” in the real estate bubble through such heavy inflation, thus I think you can conclude that the bull money is all betting on this inflate.

I think the final reason to expect the huge surge of inflation is the strategic chess game which the Cabal has taken up to counter the Bears. The Bears are sitting on piles an piles of cash. Greater piles of cash than one can think about. They are waiting for a sudden deflation of the market, then they intend to scoop up stocks, real estate, and whatever equity holdings become available at bargain basement prices.. Quite obviously the Cabal hopes to reduce the power of Bear cash with a hefty inflation tax, OR, the Cabal hopes to force the Bears to put their cash back into real equities.

Wow! What amazing stories of courage and spirit through times of great adversity. They are heartwarming and inspiring! Congratulations and thank you to all of you!

Does anyone else think that events and information are coming so fast that there is a backlog for individuals trying to keep up with everything? If it is like this now what will it be after Saturn stations and begins making all of those contacts in the charts of the highest ranking members of this administration?

Pallas - I apologize for taking so long to respond to your post in the last thread. I have had a few days where my energy level has been very low. Barely able to visit a few sites on the web and work a few charts.

I use Solar Fire 4.13.

I get birthdata from various lists, ADB, AND PENELOPE.

I have worked with data she has provided and am satisfied with the results I get. That does not prove that the data is right but charts derived from it fit with the other charts I work with for timeing. The time I use for Laura Bush (5:40 PM) is a rectified (by me) time using the car accident she had as a teen, the end of GW's drinking, and their marriage. The time I use for Fitzgerald is from Penelope: Dec 22, 1960, 8:43 PM, EST, Brooklyn, NY. Her data for Rove is Dec 25, 1950, 4:14 AM, MST, Denver, CO.. For Hillary Clinton she gives Oct 26, 1947, 2:18 AM, CST, Chicago, IL.

I see more ties to the impeachment proceeding charts for Johnson and Clinton and the resignation chart for Nixon than I do to the assasination chart for Kennedy.

I do not have a website (no time to keep one up) but am content to contribute data and the occasional post to other's sites, lists, groups, etc..

As a side note, I was born 5 days before Cheney and although I am experiencing some related health circumstances I have not shot anyone.

bob

Beautiful article Sally... such energizing thoughts... thank you.

Helllloooo Astroworld! light and love to you all.

Came out to post this one for Shy... our pal Kurt speaking at what he says will be his last trip to a campus...

Kurt Vonnegut's "Stardust Memory"

http://peaceandjustice.org/article.php?story=20060306090609596&mode=print

a little tease:

"... “Well,” says Vonnegut, “I just want to say that George W. Bush is the syphilis president.”

The students seem to agree.

“The only difference between Bush and Hitler,” Vonnegut adds, “is that Hitler was elected.”

“You all know, of course, that the election was stolen. Right here.”

A couple of things, I kept meaning to post....my Reiki instructor also didn't believe in charging thousands for her work....It was $100 for the first level and $150 for the second level. There were maybe 9 of us in each session at her home.

She was taught by the Japanese/American woman from Hawaii who was the last living original instructors taught by (and I foret his name) the Japanese doctor who rediscovered the Reiki methods. She had a very hard time breaking thru the social barriers to get the training, but she did...and my teacher was initiated by her. It was the last class which Terry Attwood (she was also the first meditation teacher I had) taught privately before she became part of the staff in an alternative healing center in Palo Alto, CA. She never thought that she was going to use Reiki, but took it anyway, and then a year later started spontaneously doing it for people. A couple of years later, while sitting in a restaurant in Napa on vacation with her husband, she started to 'vibrate'....literally shake all over. It didn't stop for 4 years. She was being 'attuned' I believe....she had also worked with a healer named Pearl up at Mt. Shasta.

Pat Sharp, you rock ! And boy, this bill on food is stinking up the place big time....

And going back to Kirby Puckett and Dana Reeve and birth and death dates...Kirby b. 3/14/60, died of a stroke in the afternoon of 3/6/06 (having suffered it Sunday evening or afternoon, 3/5/06.

Dana b. 3/17/61 d. the evening of 3/6/06 of lung cancer as a non smoker. Well...here in San Bruno where I live, a woman name Ginajane b. 3/9/1960 died of lung cancer as a non smoker on Sunday, 3/5/06. She had gone thru the stress of having her husband be pulled back into the service after 9/11 and had to raise their 3 kids alone, and take many jobs to do it. She was diagnosed in August of 2004 (one year before Dana, exactly) and died 24 hours before Dana did. Such patterns....

JunoFeb...I should have read all of your post which recaps Usui's experiences when he became disenchanted with the hoi poloi...I love that story, it does teach us much and love the paternalistic part of it you pointed out. I think that is what needs to happen to all these rethugs with their paternalistic views....transend self and find a new way instead of criminalizing the more unfortunate.

And wasn't the Life of Brian a hoot? I think I will add the movies to my netflix list. Thanks for bringing it up...will check it out with new eyes.

Bob...I hate it when those lows happen....sending you lots of terrific reiki energy....where ever you are!

"I’ve been looking at economic potentials for the remainder of this year, and I maintain that there is going to be some type of culmination of the cycle that began in Aug 1999. This cycle peaks in Sept of this year, with the 11th being a highly symbolic turning point (really! Look at the chart!). The prime area of effect is likely to be economic conditions, and until this time the outlook is simply not good for the majority of people. However – within six weeks of then, by mid/end Oct, there are really exciting new possibilities becoming activated, no big challenges and lots of enthusiasm for something different. This is not long distance stuff. We’re talking months now, not years. So until end Sept, unless you’re one of the lucky 20%, tighten your belts and see what Oct brings. - Steve Judd http://www.stevejudd.co.uk/

Pallas, please don't continue doing these blanket condemnations of democrats....that includes almost all of us here, too....at least put the blame on what segment of the dems you are talking about (I get you don't like Hillary)....but even E.J.Dionne believes the Dems will regain seats in 06, BUT they will have to forge a coalition with the center to left in order to be effective in 08. Your anger just splashes on to people like the dems who are fighting again the rethug machine but doing it quietly (because the media sure isn't covering them) and against huge odds.

Which is exactly how the repubs felt in the 1980's when the dems did the same thing to THEM.

Now here is a great story from Vanity Fair re
Abramoff and how he is spilling the beans. It
ain't gonna be nice. Takes awhile to download and
settle down so that you can read it, but is worth
the effort.

http://www.vanityfair.com/pdf/pressroomadvance_Abramhoff.pdt

That should be:

http://www.vanityfair.com/pdf/pressroom/advance_Abramoff.pdf

And yes...there is a huge, high, powerful wave of this stuff happening so that one person can't possibly follow all of it. We all have areas we are interested in, and relate to....so I guess that is what we will pay attention to and read. It is overwhelming. And so with ALL of this wave of stinking stuff coming at us, what is the ONLY story on the front page of the SF Chronicle this morning? 3/4 of the front page is a picture of Barry Bonds and the baseball commissioner, and how he is going to investigate....steroid use.
Well...he is OUR Barry Bonds....but really.

Cybear...Ann Richards was probably just a hard drinkin woman....not a drunk. But cancer of the esophogas is one of the realities of drinking whiskey...too much

"Years ago, when I saw Pluto about to move into Sagittarius, I foresaw it as the end of religion, with the meaning of faith transforming during its transit (1995–2008). Substitute the word faith with belief, and I’m not far off the mark. As consciousness expansion continues to accelerate, so it’s becoming evident that we affect our world in ways previously unimaginable. Through thought and imagination, empathy and sympathy, it’s a novel form of shamanism that is becoming endemic in society, almost unnoticeably. One planet, seven billion different worlds." - Steve Judd

Sally...terrific post on the company which is reviving itself.....that is almost exactly what the fellow named Ray Anderson (CEO) was talking about in The Corporation. The need to do EXACTLY what you wrote about. In this case, it was a carpeting manufacturer. Their business will also be self sustaining by 2020. I sent your post off to my daughter to read, as well as my friend Sean in Ohio....he is getting pretty depressed over our mutual lack of work, and this tide of KaKa overtaking everything.

Perhaps this country needs to have, once again, a situation nationally like Tseka had personally...finding a creative solution to survival when at the end of the dollars. Hey...I'm getting close to that also. But still have stuff to take care of from the past in the present, before reviving into the future.

CYBEAR....you didn't realize the roar of the lion was you? hahahah...well, listen, my throat chakra was so plugged that I viewed it as concrete. Lots of times it is the 'children should be seen and not heard' issue, but you are probably too young and not female to have gotten that one. I go for the past life thing....I, too, believe that I was hung (maybe I WAS Mary Barrett Dyer, Quaker Martyr) as was Mary...for not shutting up and going away. Got rid of that plug finally. I had a boyfriend who was much younger than I was back in the late 80's....and he had trouble with the persistent feeling of being strangled. I made him yell into a pillow until it all 'released' and when it did, he remembered the rope that hung him!

WV...Mandeville, is, I think, right on. It is just the same cycle that hit me when I was 47...you all know that the recession of 1989-93 was the biggest transfer of wealth from the bottom to the top since the depression in the 30's? Thanks for posting that...

Pat C...when I upgraded my computer I lost ALL of my passwords and ID's....can't get on to Salon now except to read. Sent them an email....hope they believe me.

My husband and I heard a recording of dubya talking about his special oval office yellow rug on AAR yesterday. I said he sounds *very* obsessed. My husband says he sounds hypnotized. Drugs can do that, right?
Here's an article about it; can't find an on-line recording yet. Reading about it is freaky too.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/03/09/MNGUQHL5NS1.DTL

Hello all--here's a good rant from Doug today in which he more or less implies that the WaPo's "reporters" are actually moles for Al-Gonzo and the dumbmander-in-chief.....

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/blog/2006/03/we_dont_burn_our_sources.html

I don't know if anyone has posted this article, but it's a must read ...

http://howtheneoconsstolefreedom.blogspot.com/2006/01/fantasy-life-of-neocons-alito-and-his.html

Gee I'm glad I rock; because I sure can't type for "beans"!
Apologies for all the typos, & skips above.
It is a perfect reflection of my chaotic life right now!
This new iBook is about 1/2 the size of my old computer the keys are flat, right next to each other rather than raised, AND the lighting is very poor! When I finish the house redo....I hope I can find a better place to work on it.
Frist & HASSTERT JUST WENT to the WH with the news that the Dubi Port Deal is deader than Social Security reform!
WV.............THAT IS ABSOLUTELY WHAT WE HAVE TO DO!
After I ranted at the Reps. yesterday, I wanted to call Kraft and tell them of my boycott of their products.
LOL I didn't have any Kraft products in the house with their 800 number!!!! If anybody has any website about GM foods, blue vs red companies.......Couldd you please pass them on? I've lost them all with the switch of computers.
WARNER IS READING A PRESS RELEASE FROM BILKEY RE; THE PORT SITUATION. DPW will divest itself of all American interests..to facilitate the deal. Didn't know they already had Am interests!!!!
Huh???????
Back to painting walls!
PQ

I knew you just couldn't resist taking what appeared to be a classic Neptunian stream of consciousness missive and turn it into yet another anti-Bush tirade.

Is this how your parents raised you? I find you most rude and unkind. Earth to MU: This is not a pro-bush site. If you want to comment fine but keep the insults to yourself. Remember you’re a guest at this site so try to have some respect for your host. Or perhaps like most extreme republicans, your manners have gone out the window with your patriotism.

For the astrologers on the list click on this link. When you get to the page click on edit in your browser, click on find on this page, type in Philadelphia. Or just go to the end of the article.

http://www.starworldnews.com/archv/mublair.shtml

bob

The women in Italy are having about the same rate of breeding as Russia (a little lower & under the child-screwing nose of the vatican), it would appear. That's great!! In an overpopulated world that has had quite enuf of human becomings thank you very much, this is great news. Besides, Russian women have to do most of the work in all areas of society! ...while, apparently, the malebots are too busy gulping vodka & practicing home-violence to schedule in a self-pitying daily 3-min-&-a-squirt. Good on the women! No self-respecting woman wants to put up with that... when she has a choice!

Abilene, thank you for your support of Astroworld and your kind words. Bob, thank you for Mu's site. You might want to know that Mu has been asked not to submit articles to other sites or to post, it's not just this site. I did read the article on Blair, as well as some of the other articles and found them informative and I would recommend anyone who wishes to "debate" Mu, the contact information is at the bottom of the website (there is interestingly, no avenue to post comments on the site) It would seem he doesn't invite discussion or an avenue to debate. But do visit the site.

...besides all the babies that have been or were to be born with alcohol fetal syndrome... a given when sperm is pickled. No society needs that either!

Sally,

I am aware of his status on other sites as I am a member of several on which he has BRIEFLY appeared.

I have spent the time since my last post working on a few charts and I believe Mr. Bey will probably fall silent around the end of the first week in June through Sep 4. How will he answer his followers(?)?. He would appear to be quite vexed around June 8, July 17, July 31, Aug 29, and Sep 4 in particular. All dates on which I am forseeing extremely negative activity for Mr. Bush. The June 8 date is not directly linked to Bush but to Cheney and others in the Bush camp. And Sep 4 seems to affect not only Bush but people around the world.

I will go back to his site. I want to see if he, with all of his wisdom, has made ANY predictions; especially concerning Mr. Bush.

bob

Hi judiGem, re your loss of passwords ... go to www.bugmenot.com ... they have a list of user names and passwords you can use to login to many sites. You should be able to find alot of what you need there.

cheers!

Judy,

My aunt had cancer of the esophagus and she never touched the stuff.

Welcome JunoFeb...I was going to suggest to CyBear that he barter his healing services for a couple bottles of Bach Flower Essence...average around $10:00-12:00 per bottle, but never got around to it. It's an idea CyBear and those at the health food store would probably love to work something out for healing. I know I would.

Oh, WV, And All: I can't take the time right now to finish
the Vanity Fair article, but have to wonder if Abermoff has truly "opened his eyes" and learning anything about himself through his present circumstances. When he refers to Norquist as a strategic politicl genius, really??...when he has vowed to break every teachers union that ever existed. Like they are the ultimate in evil in our society. He calls DeLay a great human being and says they talked about Art together, when it is on tape that DeLay vowed to cut off ALL funding for the Nation Endowments for the Arts. He says "I want to see the funding at ZERO.

We need to remember also, that DeLay was just recently appointed to some post on the Judiciary Committee. I suspect he will fanagle ease for a great many of his friends. Or was this appointment strictly to protect himself.

Yes, Bob...It has been less than 24 hours since I was here last and this site is smoking today....I can't keep up here and most definitely not with all the events in current affairs! It's truly overwhelming.

Sally: You are absolutely right about the Republicans going to play Impeachment for all it's worth. But I really didn't know that Congress will have to act on the State/Vermont's initiative. That's amazing! Are there more details about Congress responsibility to it that you can describe easily? Of course, we know that it will keep getting moved to the bottom of the stack of pending legislative review like they do with all the other issues they don't want to deal with or think may be damaging to the power.

Tseka: I thought the Elite were in charge of the impeachment, deciding YES or NO.....when it's in their interest to do so. I don't know. Just what I was thinking. But I want it to be like Sally say....that the PEOPLE will have the power to institute changes.

The first link I posted was to a site on which an article by Mr. Bey was featured.

Here are some links to sites of Mr. Beys':

http://muminbey.tripod.com/

http://muminspeaks.blogspot.com/

http://lists.topica.com/lists/panastroforum/

And to a list that is open to the public where he has many postings:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/astrology/message/11005

bob

Beverly
Impeachment is the accusation...
Steps Toward Impeachmentnote number two on the list....
These steps are distilled from a variety of sources listed here.

1. Impeachment starts informally with the the people. Please make your opinions known.
2. A member of the House of Representatives refers charges to the House Judiciary Committee. OR, using a little known precedent, a State Legislature can pass a Resolution of Impeachment and transmit that to the US House through their Representative.
3. The House Judiciary Committee considers the charges and adopts a resolution to conduct an inquiry.
4. House of Representatives passes the resolution by a majority vote.
5. The House Judiciary Committee conducts the inquiry or investigation into the crimes.
6. The House Judiciary Committee approves articles of impeachment by a majority.

Steps Toward Impeachment

for more, hope this helps.

oops that is not hot here is the link then look for impeachment.
http://www.impeachbush.tv/impeach/basis.html

Dear Pallas: Thanks for your comments.

I would be happy to give reference regarding personal mercury retrograde, but am not really sure if other planetary factors are involved.

This morning while getting ready for work I wondered if I could take receipt from recent car repairs and check the dates to see if Mercury was retrograde at those times. nly twice with this present car, one was 7-2-05.

I took 8 drops of Bach Oak (surrender) last night and felt like a new person when I got up. I was kind of legarthic yesterday so any comfort I felt today was from taking the essence most likely. I muscle test for what I need. But work went exceedingly well today, worked an hour over and received a very nice compliment at days end. I was generally quite comfortable but noticed that I compared my environment with the previous job, IN WHICH I FELT A KEEN SENSE OF BELONGING. I don't know if I will find that here. It's too soon perhaps.
That is Venus talking, not Mercury.

Everything I did today was 100% ruled by Mercury since it was all detailed hand work with moderate to fast pace and no significant mistakes, obstacle, break-downs, etc. What is intersting is that the whole day was relatively Mercury since I had very little interaction with others spending 95% of the time by myself.
Mercury is not prominent in my chart by transit today so I wonder how much of my natal retrograde comes to the fore when it is not active by transit. But my Virgo Moon is ruled by Mercury also, so I am not sure how much that plays into everything. I love working with my hands anyway, but perfer something artistic vs. manufacturing.
Today:
Moon sq. North Nodes in Aries 3rd house
Moon Sx. Mars
Moon Sx. Moon
Moon semi.sq. Mercury (denotes friction, but there wasn't any)
Jup. semi.sq. Cap. Asc
Mars semi.sq. North Node

I have three very heavy Pluto transits otherwise that is it for today's activity in my chart. Not much Mercury there is there?
Can you glean anything from this?

I do believe my Mercury, under the horizon in the fifth house and retro., does temper my speech, in that I try to think first before I speak which is not typically Geminian. My Cap. asc. helps with this too.

I received my Federal Income Tax refund this week during a retrograde period. I knew it would be to me by March 9 because I have counted it out in Jan and marked my calendar. I began to wonder last week when it would come since the money situation was uncertain until just a few days ago. It actually came early and was most likely mailed under the retrograde. So no delays there and certainly not lost in the mail.

Tseka says that the noise quites down for him, but I wonder if my retro merc. makes me more sensitive to noise. Four different radio (Mercury) stations I had to endure at work today although it wasn't right on top of me so was bearable. I would have NPR or AAR on, not music.

There are probably many other things I could say but will have to give them additional thought. I will observe Mercury happenings between now and March 29, when it ends.
Hope this helps.

Oh tseka, thank you. How instructive. It's exactly what I wanted to know. I am wondering now if Michigan would follow in Vermont's path. I will check to see if something is underway.

from Raw Story
HA! Tweety has been gettin' slush from conservatives....he has been getting speaking fees! Who here is surprised?
Report alleges Chris Matthews got hefty speaking fees from conservative groups
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Funny story I haear on Air America today...a woman in San Diego county was fired from her job as a sales person because she had a bumper sticker on her car that said
1360 Air America Radio, home of progressive talk radio" .... the woman was called to meet another woman who was her supervisor at a supermarket parking lot, where the woman pointed at the sticker and said..."YOU MIGHT BE AL QUAIDA and DONT' YOU KNOW WE ARE ON HIGH ALERT IN THIS COUNTRY?" and fired her on the spot. The woman is suing the company....

Well...that is a conservative part of CA....!

now I must go read all these articles....

Pat Sharp and I are the worst typists here...although she is even WORSSE than I am...hahahahah....I sound like I speak some other language....and phonetically speall...that was supposed to be 'heard' the story on Air America.

PS...heard the story on Al Franken and then again from Sam Seder in the afternoon...he was doing a riff on it promoting his book...they are all pretty damn funny...

bob,

I use Solfire 5 but not to its full advantage.

I have to thank you for giving me a boatload of information and direction. I'll check out the
sites you use for birthdata - some I've never heard of. Great contribution. Thank you again.

Oh...and Pat...Sam Seder also said, oh great...Dubai will divest and sell to an American company....wnd who will be controlling THAT? Cheney? Frist? ...(he said Frist has the magic ability to see into his blind trusts....." ha! out of the frying pan and into the fire. I love Gore Vidal and always have, but now I am depressed after reading his interview, except the part where he says at the end that all the christian right will end up in jail as rapists....

As for his take on Clinton, I am sure it is true that Clinton will go down as our most intelligent president.....

I just wish he would go down as the one not leading us into global pressure cooker.

gee Judi,

are you saying "Edie, stifle yourself?" Nah, you wouldn't say that.

The democrats, especially under the former minority leader have been spineless, gutless
wimps.(of course his wife was a lobbyist also, so he prolly had to watch his step - the gops could expose a lot on him I bet)nor do I think Harry Reid is doing that much better, although when he does rarely speak out, it's pretty cutting - he should do it more.

And I obviously am not alone in my criticism, as can be seen by the many links to blogs that are posted here.

Personally, I'd like to see them stop trying to shut Dean up. No, I dont support the DLC. But I didnt really support Kerry either, yet I worked my buns off for the Democratic party. Did you too?

I'm not entirely sure I'll do it this year - maybe just work for individuals, but certainly not for the whole party - not for those patriot act re-inforcing cowards.

"dems who are fighting again the rethug machine but doing it quietly because the media sure isn't covering them) "

That's the trouble. They should not have been doing it quietly for the past 5 years. They should have been making as much noise and complaints about what the repugs were doing in Congress as possible. And they didn't. So what if thugs would call them crybabies- at least the
murican people would know explicitly what was going on LONG BEFORE THIS.

I haven't seen Pelosi, or Barbara Boxer or Levin, or Conyers, or Schumer, or Nadler, or Rangel, or Menendez or Corzine having much trouble getting tv interview time....because they have the guts to stand up and say what they really think, and not sit in the middle of the road trying to straddle both sides of the line.

Hi Sally, Bob, Abeline,

I see Sally's been up to her great editing tricks again.

Thanks Bob, for pointing out spaces on the Web where one can see my writings. Clearly, I was wrong on Blair.

In fact, just the other day on the PAF, I asked the readers/members there to keep a track record of my predictions; I think this is something more astrologers need to do, and I have no problem being called on the carpet when I've been proven wrong.

It would be very nice if others were as honest.

The PAF is a place where people can respond to anything I or anyone else has said - no censorship allowed (sound familiar Sally?). Contrary to the opinions of some, the PAF was formed with debate of ideas in mind (Pan Astrological Forum, Feb 2 2001 4PM EST, PHL, PA; Placidus 29 Can). No one is censured for their point of view there.

And, why is it that I have so much trouble in certain places and spaces? could it have anything to do with the simple fact that what say troubles others so? We all know that similar things happen on American college campuses everyday - where scholars with a more conservative bent are not welcome to share their views publicly, lest risk rebuke, censure or worse. Witness Summers and Irving over accross the pond.

Never once am I taken to task on the astrological merits or lack thereof of my arguments, always on the slant they're presented, or the way I say something, etc. All style, no substance. No wonder so many fall for the okeydoke.

I've jotted down your key dates Bob, and I accept your challenge; more to say regarding it and what appears to be the failed UAE deal very soon.

Stay tuned...

Salaam,
Mu

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