That's what Newt's telling his base. "GWB is weak and spinless, don't look for much over the next two years and rebuild the conservative base and it's all Karl Rove's fault."
http://www.insightmag.com/Media/MediaManager/Gingrich3.htm
I smell rats jumping ship and well they should because eventually someone soon will tell them that the ship has sunk.
I am sitting here in the middle of a blizzard and what was a very dark sky has just deepened into a more ominous darkness, signaling the storm gathering into another intense blast of snow and wind. A perfect metaphor for the deepening darkness in Iraq and the entire Middle East with their so called changes at the DOD.
Robert Gates stepped into the shoes of Donald Rumsfeld at a private 1st ceremony held at the White House on December 18th at 7:03 AM (the public ceremony was held later that same day) And what a shift that change will bring. There are so many issues around this swearing in chart of Robert Gates, and I am sure from their perspective they have good intentions for success (whatever they call success) but the best laid plans of mice and men come to mind.
The most important transits in the Swearing In Chart are between the United States, Robert Gates chart, and the Iraq War chart, all are inter-related and all are activated by this chart.
SWEARING IN CHART
Six planets in Sagittarius plus the Ascendent. Mars at 8 degrees Sagittarius opposing the US Uranus, and Gates natal Uranus - a promise of unexpected violence. Mars is conjuncting the Royal Star Antares (The Archangel Oriel, the Watcher of the West. Spirit of adventure, obstinacy, injuries to eyes, honours, sudden loss, stubborn, suspicious, violent, several marriages) It also opposes another Royal Star in Gemini at 9 degrees, Aldebaran (A Royal Star. The archangel Michael, the Watcher of the East. Eloquence, high honours, integrity, popularity, courage, war mongering, agitation)
Mercury at 15 degrees Sagittarius opposes Robert Gates Mars in Gemini (angry words coming from him or toward him it also opposes the fixed Star Cursa (Currents of Fate, fluctuating emotions, irreversible changes to rhythm of life, sense of oblivion)
The Swearing In Ascendant at 21 Sagittarius, places the US Mars on the Decendant, as well as the Iraq War Saturn - repessive anger resulting in sudden explosive violence and conjunct the unfortunate star Bellatrix (Loquaciousness, accidents, sudden dishonour) We've certainly experienced the impact of those qualities in the US Mars and this insures the new DOD will cause more violence coming toward our troops from foreign countries as well as arguments with foreign countries.
The most dramatic aspect in the DOD Swearing In Chart is the Sun conjunct Pluto on the Galactic Center the massive Black Hole in Sagittarius at the 26th degree, (A vast Black Hole at the centre of our galaxy, discovered 1932; source of energy, motivation, aspiration; alien consciousness; crisis of faith; travel; education; philosophy; spiritual urges; single-minded dedication)
This Pluto and Sun conjunction is opposing Robert Gates Saturn, squaring the Mercury of the Iraq War Chart, in an opportunistic sextile to the US Moon and inconjunct GWB's Saturn. The last time Pluto was at the Galactic Center it became a prelude to the Revolutionary War as I wrote in "A Call to Arms" at the beginning of the year, http://www.astroworld.us/archives/000558.html#000558
Whatever they do or are planning to do in this administration's and James Baker's plan for "change" will ultimately trigger a revolution in this country and where the dust settles is anyone's guess, but it will not turn out the way the politicians envision. That's the long term vision, the short term reality will create a bigger mess than imagined. These people really need to get out of the "green zone" and find out what's really going on and how they can really make a long lasting positive difference. I think they are so mentally dried up and one sided they simply have a deficit of imagination or creativity they cannot impact any situation positively. The only thought is for more money and more power, that's it, they seem incapable of creating, healing or going forward.
Neptune is opposing Robert Gates Jupiter temporarily giving him the belief that he is and will be the Savior of this administration and this mess in the Middle East, when Neptune moves off and Saturn retrogrades back to his Jupiter, the tragic folly of that kind of thinking will be a gobsmacking thump for them all. The problem is while Nuptune is opposing Mr. Gates Jupiter giving him a "savior complex" it will be in a trine to GWB's Neptune solidifying his belief that he is the "SAVIOR." The final nail in the Gates coffin is his Natal Mercury opposes the Iraq War Chart natal Sun at 29 degrees Pisces creating a lack of balance for the outcome of the Iraq Study Group agenda.
The metaphor of this week's blizzard in Denver and the change in the Department of Defense is significant I think because the last blizzard Denver experienced was in spring of 2003, the week the Iraq War began, almost an omen of what was to come. Astrology bore out the disaster that was to come from the Iraq war and astrology bears out the continuation of this diaster as well as the ultimate downfall of the powers that be and the rise of honesty and integrity. It will be a hard won victory for the people but it will be won as inspiration spits at us from the Galactic Center.