Sally Cheyne McDonald
mcdonaldsa -at- qwest.net
Excerpt from a speech delivered in 1933 by Maj. General Smedley Butler, USMC. General Butler was awarded the Medal of Honor twice. Once in 1914 and 1917, and described by General Douglas MacArthur as “one of the really great generals in American History. The following is a quote from General Butler.
“War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses. During the years I served, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, “a swell racket. Looking back on it, I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.”
I believe “drunk on power” is an appropriate phrase to apply to our current White House occupants. Right now I believe they are looking at a ladder and Syria is the next rung. They can make a case and will try to make a case on Syria as a terrorist nation just as they made the case on Iraq; only I believe Syria will put up a more strenuous fight. It won’t be the shameful “war” of Afghanistan or Iraq and I would say July, August and September will be when all that heats up. But Syria is only another step on the ladder with OPEC the prize at the top, if this administration gets to the top.
Nearly every OPEC nation in the Middle East with the exception of Qatar and Kuwait has a 19 degree Mutable Sign, feeding into Pluto at 19 Sagittarius conjunct the ‘Black Hole’ Ereshkigal, and GWB Uranus at 19 Gemini. The finale will be in 2004 when GWB’s progressed Midheaven and progressed Uranus comes to rest in a square to OPEC’s Sun.
To get from here to there Syria must fall. Even though they are not an OPEC Nation they, with Saudi Arabia hold the most military might to stand off the US and in case you didn’t see the article, the MOAB Bomb is being moved to the Middle East. This is the reason for the resurrection of Star Wars. Not because of what Iraq or Afghanistan had in their arsenal but because of what China and Russia and Saudi’s and Syria have in theirs. These countries will fight against having the entire Middle East fall into the hands of the US. This coup has been in the works for a long time, at least since Reagan and it’s doubtful that even Reagan knew he was being played as a dupe for Empire Building.
Afghanistan (July 17, 1973 – 12:00am Kabul) was and is pivotal to controlling the Middle East, hence it was the easiest and first to fall, next Iraq, this leaves Iran (who have their own internal domestic issues possibly causing a political change in the near future), which is now hemmed in by US Military on its borders. After Iraq comes Syria because with Israel as an ally, Saudi Arabia will have US Troops surrounding their borders. Remember Bush pledging “eternal friendship” to the Saudi’s. Believe me Bush won’t forget that little humiliating bit of groveling.
There is an interesting little bit of information regarding Iraq regarding their Foundation Chart (07/31/762 in Baghdad) In 762 The Caliph of Iraq, al-Mansur commissioned his astrologer/astronomer, Nawbakht to pick a perfect astrological date to build his capital, in consultation with Masha allah, another astrologer, Nawbakht the Persian, picked July 31, 762 at 2:40 pm. Nawbakht recorded the exact date and time, placing Jupiter on the Ascendant at 8 degrees Sagittarius, opposing Mars at 6 degrees Gemini (which aspects the US Uranus in Gemini) Venus, Neptune, Mercury, are all in Cancer, conjunct the US Venus, Jupiter, Sun and Mercury respectively. The Mercury in Iraq's Foundation chart is in opposition to the US Pluto and this weeks Full Moon squares the oppostion, setting up a grand cardnial square. Is there a message buried in the antiquity of Iraq for America? One we should heed?
The most interesting of the connections to the 762 chart of Baghdad, referred to, as Babylon in the Bible, is their North Node conjuncts the US Pluto. Looking at the US Chart and the Baghdad Foundation Chart one wonders if America is the famous Whore of Babylon. Again, the upcoming Full Moon falls exactly across the 762 Chart’s Moon and squares that North Node. The Solar Eclipse of May 31st this year at 9 degrees Gemini falls across their Mars and Jupiter axis, and conjoins the US Uranus. Most importantly, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalpse are riding, the Four Guardians of the Heavens. and Aldebaran, the Watcher of the East, the fixed star the Hebrews called "God's Eye" is leading the pack.
Aldebaran 8 Degrees Gemini a royal star with Archangel Michael, the Military Commander of the Heavenly Host will be, on the day of the Solar Eclipse May 31st, joined by Antares, Watcher of the West at 9 degrees Sagittarius. The Watcher of the South, Fomalhaut, has just welcomed Uranus to ride with him at 2 degrees Pisces. Only Regulas, Watcher of the North at 28 degrees Leo is holding back for now.
The Lunar Eclipse of May 16th at 25 degrees Scorpio falls upon their Pluto. Could this signal the gods passing Babylon off to the “Whore?” The items the Iraqi Museum housed was considered the “cradle of civilization,” was the 7,000 years of history looted from Baghdad’s museum an omen to its ignoble end, with another chapter on the horizon? Remember it is the Archangel Michael, Military Commander of the Heavenly Host who is leading the charge this May.
It’s for certain with George Bush’s Saturn conjunct both the US Mercury and Baghdad’s Mercury a repression of dissent will be stifled as long as Bush is President, I also believe that Baghdad is Bush’s waterloo in some manner.
In Vedic Astrology (which actually only includes planets up to Saturn) there is an aspect called Kal Sarpa Yoga, meaning all planets from the Sun to Saturn are contained between the Nodes, with the North Node on one end and South Node on the other, creating a hemmed in quality. They may experience success but it will be after a great psychological struggle and they pay a very heavy price for past Karma and their beliefs. Nelson Mandela is a good example of one who paid that price and moved beyond to his higher spiritual self. The Kal Sarpa does not deny success it simply places extreme obstacles in a person’s path. Unexplained obstacles. Pluto was not discovered when Hindu astrology was written but it exists as an impulse in Hindu astrology much as the Arabic parts influence, and Pluto is conjunct the karmic South Node of Bush’s chart. I say again, GWB’s problems have just begun, and several of those problems will manifest as psychological in nature.
Saturn in Syria’s chart exactly conjuncts the US Mars, will possibly be able to restrict the US march toward war with them, at least for awhile.
May 31st is rapidly approaching and the 9 degree Gemini Eclipse hits the US and all the “king’s men.” In the 2001 Inauguration Chart the Moon is conjunct GWB’s South Node and transiting Pluto is just sitting there letting us feel the karma being imposed upon us by this President. That Inaugural Moon conjunct GWB’s South Node shows us where we are being sucked in as a nation, or where they are trying to suck us in.
Carl Jung, the great psychologist of the 19th and 20th Century said, “87 percent of all cultures are herd mentality, doing what they are told. Eleven or twelve percent transform and help to move the “herd” forward toward progressive evolution, and one or two percent transcend." Those are people such as Christ, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Mother Teresa, Buddha, Mohammad, etc. People such as these show the way toward the true spiritual being.
Those of you who see what is happening, and that’s all of you who visit this site, plus others, are in the eleven, twelve percent who have transformed. As hard as it seems at times to be outside the herd, it is incumbent upon the transformed group to help others with as much compassion as possible to see the problem with being stuck in a quagmire of the past.
What is the ultimate purpose of needing to experience this kind of muck and mire yet once more in history? I don’t know. I don’t know why we had to experience Attila the Hun, Hitler, Stalin and a host of other dictators, but I do know it serves a purpose and that purpose draws a line between the light of the world and the dark of the world.
Will George W. Bush and his thugs fall? YES, but not on the same time-line of the eleven/twelve percent. It will be the time-line of the herd, and when they decide they don’t want to be part of Bush’s karma, so far 70 percent of them haven’t decided. However, according to Jung’s statistics, at least 17 percent of the 87 percent have awakened. This is good news.
“Life is the same dull boring story told over and over but with such intensity one would think it was happening for the first time.” Voltaire
Sally Cheyne McDonald
04/14/2003
The Foundation Chart was supplied by Claudia Dikinis of Starcats based on the work of James Holden at Cura: The University Center for Astrological Research C.U.R.H. I strongly suggest you access both these sites for insightful astrological information.