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Aries being the Cardinal sign for Fire, initiatory beginnings, startings, birthings, the 29:59 the culmination thereof. Ka’bang! This is a year of culmination, hello?! Can I like wave a very big RED FLAG here that something is a foot. You just don’t have New Years ushering in so nonchalantly, no siree, the degree of Orange Alerts has certainly got all of us frightened. Hmmmm, take a long hard look Mr. and Mrs. America it is costing us plenty, not only in the cold hard cash we sweat to earn but in the blood of our children and grand children spilling on the desert sands for some two bit despot and his oil reserves. Is America sick of it yet I wonder? Let’s talk about our tainted food supply, can we say MOOOOO, geeze ya think America is going to sleep through that! Come November Americans have the opportunity to right the wrong committed by the Supreme Court in installing George Bush at the helm of our country. Among the other underpinnings of America that has gone unreported or under reported are the daily shootings in America’s city’s. I’m not sure that more innocent blood hasn’t been shed in Oakland then has been shed in Baghdad since New Years Day, violence is violence, dead is dead. Civil war in America? The big dumb bulk of the population goes on along, thinking it’s only in the cities, but it isn’t, it is every where. Further anything less then the unseating of the Republican’s can save the collective middle class ass. Carly Fiorina, said it baldly, and badly, but we have better have heard her, for her sentiments are echo’d throughout the board rooms of America, “Speaking at a news conference in Washington Wednesday, Fiorina said, "There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore. We have to compete for jobs as a nation."
The statement was made as CEOs involved in the Computer Systems Policy Project defended the corporate practice of "off-shoring" jobs to countries where labor is cheaper.

"In an international marketplace, when the same job is done in India or China at the same skill level for one-fifth to one-twentieth the cost, we have to determine how do we stay competitive in that marketplace," said Carl Guardino, CEO of the Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group. "The fact of the matter is that in China today, 60% of the college graduates are engineering or technical degree majors. In the U.S., 6%. We have to learn once again, that we have no right to anything."

Hmmm, no jobs, tainted food, uncivilized medicine run by pharmaceuticals and insurance companies. Get it Mom and Pop, these are not the Republican’s you think they are! Now to Carly Fiorina, Carl Guardino and any of the other corporate gurus; Remember Kobe, Japan, earthquake, no hardware replacements, no equipment, big iron no go, oops offline. On the other foot, Americans may have to look beyond their own shores for work. When you’re offered a job, you’ve a mortgage to pay, bills, you will, I will, and I’d move my family to another country to find work. Yup. But what happens when hundreds of thousands of Americans earn an international education? Another eye opener, we as Americans’s are incredibly ignorant about the rest of the world and we believe the hype spoon fed by the government propaganda machine (press corps), embedded right? Ahem… The People, Mr. Snakeoil Salesman are sick and tired of living in fear and come November they can change the course of this country. Everything happening is building to that date and as Howard Dean oft says, the People have the Power. The culmination of all the grass growing from sea to shining sea, the Iraqi War protestors did not go quietly into the night, they have not forgotten that THEY WERE RIGHT no WMD no nary a one.

That being said, we can take a quick heads up with the shake, rattle and rolls occurring in diverse places! Wyoming, Nevada, Virginia, and California! The Winter Solstice quake occurring in California kind of disturbed the whole geosphere, a geophysicist talking head termed it a ‘bell ringer’, every grain of sand vibrated. There have been much bigger quakes elsewhere around the globe...still there’s an omenish feel to it. Of course the parallel to the quake is the disaster sitting in the Governors chair in Sacramento. Man if American’s have learned nothing else in the last fifty years is that you can’t count on the federal government to assist your butt. It’s you, your neighbors, your community and state, count on Uncle Sam to clean out your pockets while you still breath.

With the moon waxing to fullness on January 7, 2004 at 10:34 AM (Washington, DC ), the full moon straddled the 8th House Cusp at 16 Cancer 44. George launched the Immigration reform, Bill Bradley endorsed Howard Dean, more cattle herds were quietly quarantined, the slaughtering begun. The breadth of exposure and spreading of Mad Cow is staggering the beef and dairy industries. The financial impact to these industries of meat and dairy will send them both reeling. Watch I suspect since we’ve seen the cow go down, the odds are humans are not far behind. What kind of sick greedy thinking allows downer cows into the food system?

States are shutting down schools, trimming emergency services such as police and fire professionals. Our National Guard Units are not coming home from Iraq but instead must stay longer, again leaving America with it’s pants down around it’s ankles. From Claudia Dikinis’ discussion on the 8th House, “Mundane Astrology and Astrological Law”, she describes the house as “International Finance, corporations and transnational corporations. Foreign investments, death, public mortality, assassinations, death duties of officials, death arrangements, national mourning reside in the 8th House. It is possible that the 8th House can bring renewal, regeneration and new resolve to the populace after a time of grieving. The 8th House is opposite the 2nd , and therefore speaks of the ‘death of things a nation holds dear’.”.

Besides, Bill O’Neill’s little tell all ditty came out when the Moon waxed full and it is a real eye popper. Eh Loki, Mercury went direct right smack on the Midheaven, let’s talk about it, a lot, infact the Administrations mouth has runneth amucketh. Did you catch Colin Powells tap dance in the moonlight? How many times do we have to tell you, We know You lied! The Sunday morning talk shows will have a field day with it, O’Neills’ book, course the Prince of Darkness, Richard Perle and his assistant David Frum have their own bibliotech published. Their audacity only serves to anger and motivate the Fodder Units. Speaking of the Rez, the Sun in obvious opposition to the Moon crossed into the 2nd House, now I don’t see anything ominous with the Sun, I would normally look at it as a beneficial boost. But since this guy has been nothing but costly since he stepped onto Pennsylvania Avenue, the conjunction forming with Chiron the Wounding Healer is a heads up, it’s going to cost us dearly. You also can add transiting Pluto forming an opposition with the US Mars, another flavor of destructive energy. Transiting Mars, ruler of Aries has also formed a square with the US Sun, my, my, is someone having a temper tantrum out of frustration. You know, the screaming toddler kind of tantrum hurling onesself or objects about. It’s interesting to note here that the transiting full moon conjuncted the US natal Sun in the wee hours of the morning just prior to the moon waxing full, at which time word came forth that the Rez was planning a Moon colony and Mars complex. With what money from where? I’m all for venturing where no man has gone before, but on whose dime? Nah, this smells like the Razzle Dazzle showman hawking his wares. In the meantime the International Space Station has sprung a leak not much more mentioned, that’s bothersome.

Our weather nationwide is extreme, that’s another ‘TOLD YOU SO’! Lots of squares and crosses, Neptune and Uranus form the two inconjuncts, the triggers for action. January will be interesting to watch. Don’t we have a State of the Union address coming up? Last one has sixteen memorable words, how many will this one have? Hah!

Okay the clock ticks down to November, Dean/Clark Clark/Dean Clark/Clinton Dean/Edwards anyone else really still in this race? Kucinich, only in my dreams. ABB (Anybody But Bush). Uranus has moved to 0 degrees Pisces 21, a new beginning and I expect much more dramatic changes to take root.

Keep in mind 29 Aries 59, the People have the power!

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