You can’t cross the sea merely by staring at the water. (Rabindranath Tagore, Nobel laureate for literature 1913 India)
Look at the tyranny of party--at what is called party allegiance, party loyalty--a snare invented by designing men for selfish purposes--and which turns voters into chattels, slaves, rabbits, and all the while their masters, and they themselves are shouting rubbish about liberty, independence, freedom of opinion, freedom of speech, honestly unconscious of the fantastic contradiction; and forgetting or ignoring that their fathers and the churches shouted the same blasphemies a generation earlier when they were closing their doors against the hunted slave, beating his handful of humane defenders with bible texts and bullies and pocketing the insults and licking the shoes of his Southern master." "The Character of Man," Mark Twain's Autobiography (thank you Joanne of Oregon)
Mud shields are issued to all Democratic Candidates (Ironic Times, Feb. 23)
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I had a friend with a spectacular home and family, everything seemed perfect and ideal. One day she leaned up against the living wall and it collapsed. Termites had been eating away for years and she didn’t know it. The same day her husband came home and said he was leaving for another woman, my friend had no idea there was anything wrong in her marriage, more termites.
One of our readers (Jeanie) reminded me (all of us) of Jack Nicholson’s famous quote “you want the truth? You can’t handle the truth.” I read a quote once and do not remember the author so if anyone knows please let me know. The quote is “you don’t want the truth, you want lies and pretty words, then you will weep and wail and I shall have to say but you could have had the truth”
The truth is the United States has been bought and paid for long ago and it is now owned by a small percentage of people throughout the world. The truth is our government leaders for low so many decades have been practicing deception, fraud, and a swindle on the American Taxpayer. The truth is this is not the United States we grew up with or believed in. The truth is we have an opportunity, the best opportunity ever to educate ourselves and have a part in making the US what we believed it to be.
Uranus, Neptune, Pluto
These are the riders of the storm that have swirled around us for decades and are now a full blown, worldwide hurricane. In their turn they have created havoc and drama in our lives, bending and twisting our collective reality for over 200 years from the inception of this country.
The transits of Uranus alone in the last 84 years at 2/3/4 degrees Pisces, Gemini, Virgo and Sagittarius have brought women the right to vote in 1920, women’s rights in the workplace in 1944 as a response to so many women needed to run the country during the war. How many of you have heard the phrase ‘Rosie the Riveter?” Again in 1963 Women’s Rights and Civil Rights were pushed forward.
2004 put Gay Rights on the civil liberties table. Thanks to Mr. Bush’s dysfunctional 12th house feminine Cancer Sun, Gay Rights will become an issue in America and will be passed. This is only a matter of time. Uranus hovers around those early Pisces degrees until after the election.
Uranus must pass the US Moon at 27 degrees Aquarius to arrive at those early Piscean degrees; fairness for all begins to raise her head when Uranus aspects the Moon and the disenfranchised take to the streets. It doesn’t matter what the polls say right now about gay rights, the polls were against giving women the right to vote in the beginning, the polls were against striking down the Jim Crow laws and being pushed into civil rights for African/Americans. The tide will turn on this issue.
This is a run down on additional Uranus issues:
Tony Blair is facing a very real danger of trial with potential imprisonment by or before the spring of 2005 (Mars at 3 degrees Gemini in the 12th house, squaring a 3 degrees Pisces Midheaven.)
Bush dealing with intense pressure on the coup in Haiti and will be perceived as making yet another mess.
A sudden but erratic boost to our economy and the coffers of the political parties through the elections (more going to Republicans than Democrats, but the Dems will still benefit)
The economy will not begin a full recovery until the North Node is in Scorpio.
The country accepting a Kerry/Edwards ticket as a foregone conclusion,
even though Kerry doesn’t want Edwards as his running mate.
Iraq heats up soon, this week or next and again toward the third week of March. More bombings and more dead.
Bush administration wants to wait until this summer to trot out Osama; they may not have that luxury.
Finally, I cannot emphasize enough the impact that 8/9/10 degrees Gemini will have this spring. Both Edwards, Kerry and Bush have planets at those mutable degrees, the US Uranus and Mars will be passing over those degrees the end of March first of April. Later the Venus transit (more on this later) will be activating this degree again. Hot spring and summer for politics and war.
Later this week I will post on Neptune, Pluto and Saturn, the Galactic Center and Messier Object 21. This is bigger than Pluto.