Astroworld

Jupiter and Saturn are now in their first square, from Scorpio to Leo, to their 2000 conjunction and the positives of Taurus are beginning to knock on the world’s door, mainly taking care of mother earth and her inhabitants. It’s interesting that Al Gore and Bill Clinton are holding the door knocker right now. Clinton has his Moon in Taurus and Gore has Mercury and Venus progressed to Taurus. It was, however, Clinton’s public Moon, kicked by a bracing cold slap from Fox’s Chris Wallace and a square from Saturn that could teach us all a lesson.

Bill Clinton’s Mars/Neptune/Venus conjunction, in Libra dream, is to bring the world together as one in order to accomplish peaceful, helpful co-existence for a “better, more prosperous world for all.” He thought the world was ready for that; the world isn’t, not yet, but we will move in that direction. Bill Clinton is a Leo (big ego) and not one of his natal planets is retrograde, so he charges ahead. The work he has done and the money he has raised is incredible, but his belief that we are all connected, while correct, hasn’t quite caught hold with the masses. Saturn in square to his Moon this weekend, the weekend he raised over 7 billion dollars for the greater good of all (a crowning achievement) gave him a punch to his ego and he will have the opportunity to grasp the concept that “the world” needs an education on inner-connectedness before we can go on from “stay the course.” He could really do a great deal of good if he would outline for the public the difference between those who want to move ahead and those who want to stay stuck in today’s swamp. If we as a human race responds most positively to fear, let’s scare folks with the message of what will happen if we don’t move forward.

Al Gore’s Taurus comes from progressed planets, not natal planets, so he will better be able to work underground to change perceptions. I read an article that stated “An Inconvenient Truth” has come to Washington and the Congress of no faith, have been taking trips to the Antarctic to see the melting for themselves and they are getting “nervous,” about global warming. Mother Earth (possibly a Taurus) is going to force them into paying attention to her and their selfish greed that has ignored her decade’s long warnings. Remember those “tree-hugging liberal, Mother Earth” ads 25 or 30 years ago, the ones the oil companies and conservatives hated, the ones that showed Mother Earth pissed. They need to drag out those ads and start a re-education of the public. The Jupiter/Saturn square will happily remind us of the desperate earth conditions we are in with our oil, endless wars, raping the earth, tearing up the land, this is an opportunity. The next square to the 2000 Grand Conjunction of Jupiter/Saturn comes in 2014 with Jupiter in Leo and Saturn in Scorpio and we need to have policies to heal the earth by then. Now is the earth’s tipping point.

We think of our leaders as serving us, they do not; they serve themselves and we are their participatory audience, if we are not getting our money’s worth or we don’t like the play we need to do something about that. We need to make sure at the very least, that we can get out of the theater by our votes. At the November elections 5 planets are lined up in Scorpio, Sun, Mercury and Venus all square Neptune and Mercury is retrograde. We need to yell, scream, push and demand that our votes are counted and verified. We need to demand an honest election now and in 2008 and most of all we need to vote. There is a difference between the conservatives and liberals of today, and if there isn’t we needed to have them in office so we can see who is corrupt and needs to go and if there should be a viable third party for 2008. This is not the time for people to “take their marbles and go home.”

Now to the personal impact of Saturn. All fixed signs are under the restrictive glare of Saturn. Saturn just loves to show us and those around us our defects, where we need to examine our own limitations and ego drives. Bill Clinton was one example of that and the need to show and tell the differences between people who want to work together and people who don’t, no matter their party affiliations.

George Allen (T-Saturn conjunct Pluto and oppose Venus) His handling of “makaka” and the revelation of his Jewish ancestry (“I eat ham sandwiches”) has been bazaar. He has placed himself between a rock and a hard place. People who are deeply offended by his behavior won’t vote for him and people who even care about ancestry won’t vote for him. I would be stunned if he won this election and would have some real cynical doubts about the honesty of the elections in Virginia, but if he does win, he has killed his chance of being a viable Presidential Candidate in 2008. He absolutely fits my analogy of Saturn aspecting your planets. My analogy of Saturn is “you train for a marathon but break your leg a month before, no matter how good your aspects are on the day of the marathon, you won’t be running.” George shows signs of a serious break here. On the other hand Jim Webb (a newly minted Democrat) is more proud of his GOP roots than he is of being a Democrat so that race could end up being a wash for the GOP.

Lieberman fell down right before the Primaries in CT when Saturn opposed his Mercury and he started baiting his base. The next week or two he is coming up on another fall (as is George Bush) as Saturn squares Joe’s Saturn and Mars conjunction, this is when he could lose CT for good.

Hillary Clinton and Condi Rice won’t escape Saturn’s rays and while Hillary will probably win in NY (no real opposition) her potential Presidential bid will be greatly reduced. Condi was sidelined in the Middle East when Saturn squared her Saturn and opposed her Mars. She has another square to her Sun and Venus and on the brink of looking like a “flop” once again.

Missouri is an important Senate race for the Democrats to win. McCaskill (Democrat) is challenging Talent (Republican) and neither of them has any major foot tripping points. However, the state of Missouri is being lied to by their present leaders, and that would be Jim Talent. Missouri sports a Sun at 17 degrees Leo, opposed right now by Neptune,
and squared by Jupiter. Saturn just went over that Sun, maybe all this is an indication that “kings” will fall in Missouri and that would be Jim Talent. That is my personal hope. If that turns out to be the case, look for some brewing scandal the next couple of weeks for Jim Talent.

Katherine Harris seems to have pulled a last minute “hail Mary pass” with both Bush Brothers campaigning for her. Hmmm. Well Katherine can still pull it out, believe it or not. Let’s hope she is too far down to climb back that far up.

There is potential good news and bad news for the Democrats this election and several elections to come. The Democrats point to the Democratic Reorganization Chart (the Jackson Chart of 1832) as representing present day Democrats. That chart sports a Moon/Uranus conjunction at 17/18 Aquarius and squares their Chiron indicating tendency to “wound” themselves from time to time and they have certainly been doing that very thing since 1990 and Pluto from Scorpio moved into a square aspect, and now Neptune is on that point with Saturn having opposed. No wonder the people (Moon) and the Democratic politicians cannot get their message out and when they do, it’s confused, with the Saturn opposition just passed they might be awakening to their problems (we can hope) That’s the bad news for them in this election, and the potential that the election will once again be stolen (Sun, Mercury, Venus squaring 17 degree Aquarius Neptune on election day, Neptune is the thief at his lowest level and that’s where politics resides today) The good news for the Democratic Party is their progressed Mars went retrograde in 1977, on the US South Node, the very year that Democrats started losing traction in American Politics.

This year the US Mars went retrograde and for the first time since 1977 the US public could once again begin identifying with the kinder, gentler, more liberal wing of politics and not the harsh warring end of the political spectrum. Unfortunately the DLC has tried to move the party so far to the center as to confuse the message of the party. They don’t know what their message is and we sure don’t either. We are attaching the Democratic messages of our past to the Dems agenda, cause we don’t know their agenda for sure, not anymore. We only know that we don’t like or trust the agenda of the present administration. Their progressed Sun is in Scorpio and trine their progressed Jupiter. Transiting Jupiter gives them a boost in October and that will certainly be helpful. The Jackson Chart has the South Node at 5 degrees Aquarius, and my question is will transiting Chiron very close to that 5 degrees Aquarius cause the Democrats to once again shoot themselves in the foot and would it be deliberate or accidental? Some Democrats believe they will have a better chance of winning 08 if they lose in 06 (Neptune on their Moon/Uranus square their Chiron)

This last month gave us a heavy dose of Virgo lessons. We had two New Moons in Virgo, two Eclipses’ and one full moon. A huge beam of light is shinning on what we didn’t know before and what we haven’t seen. Plant your seeds of what you want your life to look like in 2008, or what you want the world to look like by 2012. This is going to be a year (2006/2007) of change and courage. There isn’t a better energy than Virgo for turning lemons into lemonade. The 29 degree Eclipse in Virgo says it’s the end of something for someone, but for whom and for what ideology? We will know before the next six months are up as the March 19, 2007 eclipse at 28 Pisces places a bookend on this period of time whose roots began in 1969 at Nixon’s first Inauguration.

There are two dreams in the cosmic hopper right now coming from the people, and both were demonstrated this last weekend on the world stage. The posturing and hubris and “men” marking their territories issuing forth from the UN, by several leaders is a dream of world domination; and the other demonstrated at the Clinton Global Initiatives dreams of world empowerment. To be sure, the dream of “world domination” has much to play out before their folly is over. We have more restrictions coming and more greed, financial disasters (as they are draining America’s coffers) earth changes (Mother Nature is ticked off and “it’s not nice to fool Mother Nature”) more potential enslavement but I’m going to say that the “world empowerment” is new on the scene while domination is an old concept, more recently resurrected with Nixon, or perhaps never released from the Nazi period; but my prediction is ultimately “world empowerment” will be the winner as these two eclipses spell out that the past is going, going until it’s finally gone.

And finally to the question of the day “Is Bin Laden dead or alive.” He might be dead. There are several non definitive charts out there for Bin Laden and one of them is a Pisces chart. The eclipses this month could certainly have done him in and the Saudi’s and French decided it would be fun to take Karl Rove’s October thunder away from him. Or George Bush is tired of hearing about the fact that he’s still at large and he made another deal to protect Bin Laden and say he is dead (I said on 9/11/2001 that the Bush administration would never bring Bin Laden to justice, the families are too close) so he doesn’t have to listen to people attacking him as a failure in that area. Anyway this administration has developed other bogyman in the Middle East and they don’t need Bin Laden anymore. At any rate, actual dead or alive is of no consequence to the US, he was figuratively and symbolically dead from the beginning. Americans obviously don’t need the literal facts anyway, at least 25 percent of us will believe that GWB went into Tora Bora himself and tore Bin Laden’s heart out with his bear hands.

Life is about to get interesting, as Morgana would say “get the popcorn out.” Take nothing that is said or done at face value, look deeply below the surface of everything. A Jupiter/Neptune square (especially with Jupiter in Scorpio) you can see what’s happening particularly with people who are unaware (such as our politicians) As for me, thank heavens Jupiter is transiting Scorpio and it’s all become ever so funny watching the idiocy of these folks run out and if we have to follow this boat down the rapids with them, let's at least do it laughin. But then again, I believe in the dream of world empowerment for the greater good of all. We have our own brand of Kool-Aid that we’re drinking and that brand is faith, hope and charity.