...get the back into the tempest and the night's Plutonian shore!
Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken!
Leave my loneliness unbroken!-quit the bust above my door!
Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore!"
And the raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas, just above my chamber door;
And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon that is dreaming,
And the lamplight o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted-nevermore! (Edgar Allan Poe The Raven)
Happy Birthday Scorpio, and some birthday it will be. There are five planets in Scorpio, squared by Saturn on one side and Neptune on the other, with the Full Moon coming in Taurus, completing a grand cross for all Scorpio's (as well as the other fixed signs.) And for good measure transiting Pluto (ruler of Scorpio) is square to the North Node. I've said before that the fixed cross is related to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse; this month will remind the world that they are still riding.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I am numb this election season. I feel as if I am in a nightmare Picasso surreal painting with flying images thrown at the world and I for one am trying to duck. There's fireballs, floating politicians, dismembered heads, clocks to remind that time is running out, voting machines, stolen money, marching men - a nightmare of reflections of all that has gone wrong in this country, this government. Scorpio and Taurus will feel this depressive illusion most keenly, as they are tied to this swirling mass of slime; at least until the 18th of November (when Mercury goes direct) And we are likely to not find out the total results of the election until after the 18th, in several of the races.
This election season is represented very well by Poe's poem "The Raven," as dark and dreary machinations are at work in the nation's capital. Can't you just see the dark cloaks swirling around the bowels of the capital buildings. Secret phone calls, secret meetings, secret memo's, shredding any incriminating evidence that even might make it's way to some unscrupulous reporter or journalists who hope to recreate Bernstein and Woodward in bringing truth first to the people. Not even Jupiter in Scorpio this year can lift the underbelly of slime off this government, not this month. Lows, lows, and new lows seem to have captured their imagination.
Not many agree with me, but John Kerry's little rant toward this administration was actually the beginning of a lifting of the fog that has surrounded this country. Kerry pulled the curtain back and did so in public and loudly. The very thought of this administration getting away with saying the most outrageous lies and threats and Kerry says one thing that's misunderstood and they are demanding he stip himself naked, put on a hairshirt and apologize for nothing, because he did nothing is in and of itself outrageous. Uranus is nearly stationary direct in an exact square to Kerry's Mars and he is truely sick and tired of this BS and said so.
The first week of November is more difficult for the Republican Party than the Democrats, late in the second week it becomes more difficult for the Democrats. With the aspects on Election day, I am 100 percent certain that if the Democrats do not take back the House of Representatives and the Senate the votes and or machines are rigged, honest people have been dropped from the voting roles (as in 2000) or disenfranchised, but the election will have been stolen and there will be no doubt whatsoever.
Under the above configuration the lies and gunk hidden will come pouring out. The "October Surprise" will be that it's in November. In 1993/1994, the last time Jupiter was in Scorpio with a massive line up of supporting planets, plus an eclipse and was also squared by Saturn (in Aquarius) and Mars (in Leo) there was unrest in this country and that unrest has only esculated over the last 12 years. The Eclipse of 1994 at 10/11 Scorpio is being activated this year by Mars and a trine by Uranus on election day. That eclipse related to a family of eclipses involving inspiration and unique ideas and we will be on that road following the election, no matter how the election turns out. That degree of Scorpio also squares Mr. Bush Pluto and eclipses when set off trumps the power of any planet.
Poe wasn't known for anything hopeful and the last lines of The Raven bears that out, but I would suggest that Poe did not understand the metaphor of Pallas, the warrior Goddess that is the bust in the room. Pallas is at 12 Capricorn right now, opposing the US/Bush/Republican Party Suns - it's their soul that must be lifted from the floor, right now it would seem to be the people trying to take the opportunity to lift themselves up and out and Pallas, along with the Full Moon will help us do just that.
On that note I will sign off but will ask you to be sure and vote. Some, I know, feel it's a waste of time because they don't like any of the choices, but it's the voting itself that's important. We have to continue to let them know and the world know that we are here and we are active and we care what happens to our country. If you don't like the candidates, write someone in the empty space, but vote, it's important that the world knows we care and each vote pushes up the percentages.
Hurrah for Michael J. Fox and Limbaugh will regret the day he made fun of someone with a debilitating illness, Rush is in a Karmic period and this Karma will return to him.
I will be adding PS's as the days go on to this article as things come up right on through the election and Morgana will be putting up her full moon article.
Again, Happy Birthday Scorpio and just keep digging that slime right up from the underbelly of this country and those who would harm this country; the sooner you get it all out, the sooner we can start healing.