Astroworld

A new name, face and temporary hero stepped on the stage of what's right and wrong this week. Representative John Patrick Murtha, Jr. (June 17, 1932, New Martinsville, West Virginia N/T) One of the most interesting aspects in his chart, is his progressed Sun and Jupiter in a conjunction to his Neptune at 5 Virgo, awakening the ideals and values of his childhood, and a desire to return to the best of himself.

He served 5 tours of duty in Vietnam and was heavily decorated, before he turned to "national" service as a Representative in the United States House in 1974 and has been there sense. He was named as an un-indicted co-conspirator in the 1980 Abscam scandal - a FBI sting catching some politicians in taking bribes, he was never actually indicted and continues to this day to serve as a highly respected Pennsylvania US Representative.

This week, as most of your heard, Mr. Murtha, a known hawk, blasted this war and stated the troops needed to be withdrawn from Iraq immediately, and bluntly dismissed any attacks upon his character.

The other curious aspect in Mr. Murtha chart is his 26 degree Gemini Sun, in exact opposition to the Galactic Center. Is this a hint of what we can expect when Pluto crosses over the Galactic Center in a few weeks? Pluto has a slow and ponderous journey through the zodiac, it's also erratic and astronomers readily admit their calculations can be off on Pluto up to 5 degrees one way or the other. Pluto now stands at 23 Sagittarius and within the 5 degree potential of error (sounds like a poll, doesn't it?) and close enough to affect anyone with 25/26 degrees Mutable.

Because Pluto moves so slowly and can go back and forth on a given degree up to 5/6 times over a year or 18 month period, thereby affecting millions of people and several generations, what happens to individuals is not calculated for every degree, but you can find historical data as to the impact of Pluto in a Sign. The last time it was this close to the Galactic Center was in the 1760's and a Revolution was being born. There were many courageous men and women who stood up for freedom and fairness. Now it's 2005 and enter Mr. Murtha, he bears watching.

Another surprise front and center face this week in the news, Robert Woodward. (March 26, 1943 6:35pm, Geneva, Ill. ) Bob, of Watergate fame provided an interesting omen to the Valerie Plame "outing." Bob was instrumental in bringing down a Presidency, they made a movie about him (and Carl Bernstein) and he was a hero of the Vietnam era. Americans, angry at being ignored and sick and tired of the war needed 1) a hero and 2) a blood sacrifice from the government; Bob Woodward supplied them both. He sat in as the hero and Nixon was the sacrifice. Everyone knows the story, or we thought we "knew" the story and because of what we "thought" we knew Bob Woodward remained a trusted hero. The part of the story that wasn't widely known, Bob Woodward became seduced by the very corruption he seemingly disdained. He fell (like Judy Miller) to the seductive power of being "apart" from the people instead of "a part" of the people and he only walked the aloof halls of money and power, leaving the "common" man far behind.

Mr. Woodward's problems have only begun. 1) Mars went stationary retrograde in an exact square to his Chiron in his 11th house speaking of a wounding by a group or groups of the masses. His Saturn and Moon opposition is being squared by Uranus for several months. T-Saturn was conjunct and square his Venus and will return to visit that aspect again, plus Pluto will square Mercury, ruling his mid-heaven, all through the spring; the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth isn't out in the public as yet. Remember Bob was disposed by Mr. Fitzgerald on Wednesday and Fitzgerald called in a new Grand Jury today. hmmmm.

Michael Scanlon (No birthdate as yet) a wanna be in the House of Power and Corruption and a former aide to Tom Delay and business partner to Jack Abramoff has found that his new best friends are in the Justice Department. Michael Scanlon has agreed to testify against his former business partner and everyone with whom he conducted business. The net in that scandal will bring in so many fish, it will be hard to feast on all of them. Potential new candidates for a prison cell will be the darling of the Religious Right, Ralph Reed, Delay, Hastert, Gail Norton, Blount, Rove, Wurmser, Hadley, oh the list just keeps widening, yawn. Jack had his fingers in so many pots and so many people were licking whatever dripped off those fingers and it was money, fraud, corruption, greed dripping down. If all the guilty people in this government could ever be rounded up and convicted, the paddy wagons to haul them off would stretch from D.C. to Main. Scanlon could be in protective custody.
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The Full Moon this last week has provided and will continue to provide a virtual treasure trove of "outed" secrets, increased scandals, anger amoung the people. The wide grand trine between Mercury/Saturn/ NN in the Full Moon chart, will be the SOLID leaking of information that will keep on coming at least right through Christmas.

I said 5 years ago that these people had released "the hounds of hell" and the problem with doing that would be they could not control where the "hounds" would go and the "hounds" have turned toward Washington for the time being. Keep your fingers crossed through December and January, otherwise we have three more years.

I have been encouraging my clients for the past seven years to buy gold, and I continue to encourage this. Saturn in Leo makes it a solid long term investment.

Feel free to edit, it's still my birthday and I didn't put my editing hat on today.