The beauty of this Total Lunar Eclipse masks some of the more sinister aspects lurking behind this Eclipse. We've already been given a peek at the tip of the iceberg at Walter Reed Hospital. That bastion of medical marvels is coming apart at the seams and that is only part of the story. VA Hospitals across this country are in as bad or worse shape. Closures and no money as it's all been sucked into this war have contributed to the appalling conditions for our Vets.
Top brass heads are rolling and it's just begun. You can bet they will be on top of it because not one GOP candidate will be able to show their face in public if it's not cleaned up fast. How could a party who has touted being "for the brave men and women" fighting "their" war look any American in the eye with an ounce of credibility. Walter Reed was right in their backyard and they made multiple photo op trips to see the "brave men and women" trying to recover from horrific wounds in moldy, rat infested quarters.
Shame is too soft a word to describe this, just as it's too soft a word to describe our acceptance of torture.
In mundane Astrology the 6th house rules the military, and in America's chart Taurus (ruled by Venus) is on the cusp of the sixth house. The military is scrambling to shut soldiers up, the pressure to hide their "shame" is enormous. Both Saturn and Neptune are squaring the 6th house cusp, and Venus in the Eclipse is squaring the US Sun and opposing the US Pluto. Oh yes, soldiers, top brass, Congress and this Administration are frantically trying to make this all go away. With the NN in Pisces and in a sextile to the sixth house, repression might not be their best path, particularly since Uranus follows the sextile to the 6th house cusp this spring. Remember, Eclipses' just keep on giving. And Mars in this eclipse chart at 4 degrees Aquarius inconjuncts the US natal Venus and Jupiter. Mercury is retrograding back to an inconjunct to natal US Mercury. Information will come flying out over the next few weeks and that's just on the treatment of our vets, it doesn't even approach the secrets of the war, over-spending, fraud, corruption.
Pisces after all rules unseen "infections" and mis-diagnose of the disease. Lies and mis-steps, and revelation of those lies will beset our leaders. Who knew what was happening and who didn't will rule conversations.
We want a Gore or Kerry or someone to save us from this administration because we need saving from them but eventually all of us will have to stand up as a group and save ourselves because no one person can, not even a body of persons like Congress can. The people will have to find a way to lead and then the others will follow.
I still say it is shifting, we are still going through the birth process into something new, I am trying to find a way to be a part of making that something new, or a piece of it positive and progressive and life affirming, I feel all of you are trying to do the same thing. I don't think the present administration trapped in their fear and greed and anger is life affirming, not the life I want around me.
This upcoming Lunar eclipse in Pisces will trine the US Sun make way for the potential of creative solutions at least a start on them.
This eclipse is marked by inconjuncts to the US chart, a mass of them, it will be like watching the Keystone Kops in Washington as they try to stem the tide of leaks and will not be able to do so.
The Eclipse chart itself has the Sun in the 6th House conjunct Uranus opposing the Moon in the 12th, here we are again back to the military. The Saturn and Neptune opposition also falls in the 6th house of the Eclipse Chart, more military and more attempts to repress and silence, Jupiter sextiles and trines respectively both ends of that Saturn/Neptune opposition. Saturn is pulling back the foggy curtain of Neptune and just look at the trash underneath and the last opposition of Saturn to Neptune, and the next and last aspect between these two planets fall across GWB's Venus, he is about to discover how deep and tragic his mistakes are and how many people are against him and he won't know what to do.
Shocks for our leaders are in store with the eclipse and Uranus squaring the 14 degree Gemini mid-heaven and secrets begin to bleed out of Washington and both parties. By the time Saturn completely leaves Leo in the fall there won't be a public politician who will not have faced grave public humiliation due to lies.
There is a lot of "unraveling" energy to this eclipse, including the stock market, not a depression but a huge correction before the month is over, we've already seen some of that beginning now, with eclipse Venus on the Cusp of the 8th house, opposing the US Saturn (ruling our 2nd house of values) and squaring the US Sun in the US 8th house and again the eclipse Moon inconjunct the eclipse Venus, economists either can't see what's happening, won't know how to address the problem, or make huge mistakes in trying to correct the problem and this is a World wide issue, not just the US. Again, a comedy of errors on the financial horizons.
As soon as Mercury goes direct next week, Congress can expect to hear from the people as "the people" continue their awakening from slumber.
There are no less than 5 planets applying to the cusps of houses, plus the NN. In fact the NN and three of the planets apply to the cusps of the angles. This is an important month in the ongoing shifts taking place. Pisces, where the Lunar and Solar Eclipses fall this month are at the exact same degrees they were in 1960 and 1988. As Winston Churchill once said "is this the beginning of the end or the end of the beginning?" The eclipses in 1988 marked the rise of the Bush/Clinton years, I think these eclipses mark the beginning of the end to those years and that's just one coming shift. which will not complete for at least 15 years, but it will shift.
While we are propelled into the fast track election season of 2008, don't forget that both parties are one party under the umbrella of big business, however over the next 15 years there will be real opportunities to break the hold they have over the world including us.
Don't bet on the status quo for quite some time, certainly not with Pluto on the Galactic Center and with the Saturn/Neptune opposition and the Jupiter/Uranus square going back and forth over each other for the next few months. These aspect will have the effect of breaking boulders of rigid thinking and being. You can also count on wild weather and earth changes just about anywhere the next several months. Instability in just about every area of life will be the rule of the day. Pisces can teach us all a lesson as they blithly go along and completely ignore the falling building, they don't even see it and they don't get hit. That's the beauty of Pisces, let's all take a lesson.