August 29, 2004, New York City
Full Moon 21 Pisces
Summer in the City
The Lovin' Spoonful
(John Sebastian - Mark Sebastian - Steve Boone)
Hot town, summer in the city
Back of my neck getting dirty and gritty
Been down, isn't it a pity
Doesn't seem to be a shadow in the city
All around, people looking half dead
Walking on the sidewalk, hotter than a match head
The sounds of hundreds of thousands of Anti-Bush voices will echo in the canyons of Manhattan's skyscrapers. Their chants, civil disobedience, banners and signs carrying the message that Bush lied, the People died and no amount of blood can wash his sins away. As She waxes full on this hot steamy night in the City on the eve of the Republican National Convention the idealism of a Pisces full Moon washes across the landscape. Yet rising in the night sky a T Square forms like a dark apparition. It's focal point, Pluto. Plutonian energy once more moving in direct motion again setting the stage for radical change.
The People, protester and delegate alike are being energized by the Moon's square to Pluto. This makes for extreme emotional volatility. When participants are grabbed with this energy their goal is the only thing they have in mind, nothing, nothing will impede them or stand in their way. The other players in this volatile T Square mixture are Venus conjunct Saturn in Cancer (what more bitter water?), and both are in opposition to Chiron at 20 Virgo, rather like a scalpel run amok.
The full Moon then forms a trine to Venus and Saturn promising a shark
feeding frenzy in the blood scented waters sating the hunger of television journalists. To further add to the carnage and angst Pluto 19 Sagittarius forms inconjuncts with the Full Moon chart Ascendent 19 Taurus and again to Venus and Saturn. Venus conjunct Saturn here will manifest all the bitterness, anger, frustration of the People for the media to feed upon and the whole world to witness. (Full Moon Chart)
Running up to this Republican spectacle we find Feith, hip deep in the Israeli spy scandal and dragging Rummy with him by association...
FBI investigates alleged Pentagon spy
Senior official believed to have passed documents to Israel
"The Associated Press, quoting two federal law enforcement officials, reported that the person works in the office of Douglas J. Feith, the undersecretary of defense for policy. Feith is a key aide to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, working on sensitive policy issues, including U.S. policy toward Iraq and Iran.
No arrests are imminent, but the investigation is nearly complete, authorities said. “It’s a big deal,” one of them told NBC News. Agents said they had evidence that the official passed sensitive information, including draft policy documents and presidential policy directives, to Israel through the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5844415/
Can we say bye bye Rummy, bye bye?
Then there's the Cheney Rumor!
Big story on CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/08/27/fri/index.html
"And finally today, we offer you this unconfirmed gem of a rumor from the New York Post, our favorite newspaper in the whole wide world. Apparently the good folks at Page Six are told by their well-placed sources that GOP delegates are all abuzzagogg that Dick Cheney will resign at the convention for health reasons. That's right, he's gonna resign, sparking a prime-time floor battle that will result in a draft movement for Sen. John McCain, described by the Post as a "bigger war hero than John Kerry."
These are roiling energies feeding into the opening of the Republican
National Convention. Pass the popcorn! Retro Mercury adds more chatter by forming yet another inconjunct with the full Moon and the chart Mid-heaven. This is then amplified by the Sun in Virgo making a conjunction with militant Mars setting up yet one more trigger by both Sun and Mars inconjuncting Neptune in the 10th House. Thus providing yet more confusion and delusion for the leaders represented in the 10th House. Slick snake oil salesman spinning his tales. Has anyone reminded the Emperor that he has no clothes? Hmm. Big flashy, splashy parties are all around the Big Apple.
Wow, all that is just the sky above New York City! Those same energies
running amuck in the Universe have an impact upon Washington and the
character of our Nation. The US Chart compared to the Full Moon chart based in New York is where the center of our Nations attention is focused and where the pResident plans on putting his track record on display. The comparison chart.
The full Moon falls in the U.S. 3rd House, media, press, television, communications and travel and forms an opposition to the U.S. n. Neptune. Thus the spin, hype, and the abundance of Bushism's will saturate the airwaves further muddying the psyche of the American People with his disinformation. Transiting Jupiter having passed Neptune is moving away but leaves behind it's propensity to amplify and exacerbate the Neptunian fog that has blanketed everything associated with this mis-Administration.
The bitterness and frustration expressed by the Transiting Venus/Saturn
conjunction conjoins the U.S. n. Mercury which the media will display worldwide. Bush won't be able to duck these protesters, and he can't avoid his Republican compadres who want an accounting of his first term and the debacle he has created.
T. Uranus, the juggernaut of the Cosmos sets to work upsetting apple carts having formed a trine with the U.S. n. Venus and Jupiter promoting wide spread emotional upheaval. With the full Moon squaring the U.S. n. Mars the People are stirred up on both sides, strong emotions will be vented. The Ascendent of the Full Moon chart conjuncts the U.S. n. Pluto once again indicating radical change for our Nation, hopefully correcting the course that took us down the path of destruction.
But beyond glitz and glamour of the Republican celebration in New York the Specter of 9/11 haunts the shadows. It takes great gall to short change the People of New York and then rub their faces in excesses of the richest 2% of the Nation. New Yorker's have their own welcoming committee, hundreds of thousands of them. Their voices are being raised in protest, joined by many other great Patriots on this hot steamy summer night. The Moon waxes full. Her face is turned toward them hearing every word. Meanwhile, Frances is churning away in the Atlantic, the oceans are roiling much like the spirit of the People.
It's the People who will bring about change.
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