Astroworld

This full moon falls on the heels of Katrina and the changes she initiated in conjunction with the new moon all of which are continuing to ripple. The Moon is VOC not making any aspects, a time which is best spent reflecting on recent events, Bill Clinton tagged the tone of the reflection and provided some badly need perspective. He is a controversial figure to both fringe elements of the Republicans and of the Democrats who believe he has moved too far into the Bush camp.

Taking a quick look at Big Dawg's chart on the full moon finds the moon in an exact square with n. Uranus, his Uranus also forms an inconjunct with his natal mercury which has Saturn conjunct. Bill Clinton's gave a concise view of the state of our nation with the hard edge of reality. In a nutshell Big Dawg gave the Democrats a playbook and step by step simplified version for GWB to turn things around.

Talk about a powerful point in the history of our times. Arriving Thursday is the Autumnal Ingress on September 22, followed by a solar eclipse on October 3 and Mars going retrograde on October 2 prior to the new moon (darkest part of the waning moon) and heralding the solar eclipse.

Harvest Moon

The stand alone Full Moon chart as it rose over our Nation's Capitol finds the 25 Pisces moon in the 11th House opposing the Sun and Mercury in Virgo. Further unsettling the 11th House is Uranus at 8 Pisces. Uranus is still in a strong square with the US n. Uranus (chart). Uranus is going to wreak havoc in those staid halls as the voices of their constituencies, the People raises their volume and pitch in those Senate and Congressional Offices. Bush's agenda is derailed. As the import of the picture of America having had it's glamorous facade stripped away by Katrina seeps into the American psyche what emerges is the image of a bumbling incompetent Bush (Saturn squashin the lil' pissant) and the re-emergence of Bill Clinton on the world stage already having plans in motion to address the needs of his People. The anger threshholds of Mom and Pop American threaten to explode among the US Citizenry with the dawning awareness of the devasting position this mis-Administration has left us in financially, militarily, morally, ethically, scientifically, because of what ? Oil and greed.

With Mercury conjunct the Virgo Sun the MSM may start spilling more and more detail about this mis-Adminstration and our illustrious leader or conversely once again toe the Bush line of psycho babble.

There are serveral interesting features. There is the 29 critical degree Taurus Ascendent, conversely a 29 degrees Scorpio Descendent, Saturn sits smack on the IC in opposition to the Full Moon Midheaven. Saturn's energy is going to bring it home to the People right where we live. We the People put these homo sapiens in positions of power, we the People can also remove them from power.

Mars at 22 Taurus in the 12th is inconjunct Pluto 21 Sagittarius in the 7th House and the other arm of the Yod with Jupiter at 21 Libra in the 6th House. Having been jolted awake shortly after midnight by a 3.1 earthquake 3 miles from the epicenter gives me great pause considering the top 3 disasters as predicted by FEMA, the WTC, Hurricane in New Orleans, and the San Andreas cutting loose, either end San Francisco or Los Angeles would be ugly.

Chiron also plays a part as it trines the Ascendent and the Sun/Mercury conjunction giving an international image of a wounded Nation, a damaged pResident, and the putrid spectre of death of the People shown by the Press who abetted a corrupt Administration.

Autumnal Ingress

The Autumnal Ingress chart is often potent in its ability to foreshadow what a nation can expect over the next three months.

The 2005 Autumnal Ingress chart find the Libra Sun conjunct the Midheaven on one side, and Mercury in Libra on the other in the 10th House. Focus, Jorge and his balancing act, trying to weight the scales of justice in his favor.

Mars in Taurus is upon the US 6th House cusp which suggests more military action taking place at the behest of the Bush Team. Also in play in the 6th House is the Moon at 2 Gemini coming into conjunction with the US n. Uranus. The People are not going to take any further military action well, nor are the people stomaching the loss of life for George's misadventure in the MiddleEast.

Chiron is conjunct Pluto in the US 2nd House. Just how much to we owe to whom? Or who really owns America? Again checkout what Clinton had to say in those Sunday morning transcripts on Daily KOS.

That pesky SN is forming a conjunction with the US Saturn in the 10th House. Talk about chickens coming home to roost! With Jupiter transiting the 10th house as well as magnifying the microscopic view of a Presidency in freefall.

Also anticipated during this period of coming into the Gulf of Mexico during this Ingress is the newly named Tropical Storm Rita on the Full Moon who is expected to become Hurricane Rita which promises to share her Harvest bounty of globally warmed waters somewhere along the Gulf Coast. For chagrins we can look at her Tropical Storm chart

TS Rita cast for 5:00 PM EDT Bahama's when she received her name gives her a 13 Aquarius Ascendent with Neptune at 15 Aquarius retrograde forming a conjunction. Uranus falls in the 1st House also adding to her image problem. She'll be erratic (duh no kidding it's a storm driven by steering currents we've yet to understand) and she certainly has the potential to be the finger of God or the Gods. The Yod with Mars as the focal point falls in the 3rd House with Pluto and Jupiter forming the arms that connect that finger (wonder if it resembles Gaia flipping us the bird?). The full Harvest Moon has progressed to 6 Aries and trines Saturn suggests a costly and energetic cyclone. Course if you check out the weather channel you'll see a ring of storms stretching from Africa to the Gulf Coast off into the Pacific you'll find two or three more possibly threatening Hawaii (which I recently heard a talking head refer to them as the Island Nation of Hawaii).

Time to reflect, a time to reap the whirl wind, a time to count the costs. The big picture again we are living history. How will historians reflect upon the society we are today? Not very well I imagin.

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