Astroworld

I am posting a letter that I wrote to the foundation I worked for to tell them where I am and to thank them for all they've done for me. I am posting it here for the same reasons, just so you'll know how I am getting along, what I feel and what I'm learning.

TO THE WOMEN AND MEN OF GREAT HEART

I think about this everyday and for several days now I have started and stopped to write this, I just didn’t seem to be able to find the right words. I don’t like to talk about myself or where I am with chemo but I know people want to know, so let me address that in the beginning. I have good days and bad days but I think over all I am doing pretty well. I lost my white blood cells last week and the immune system went with it, but they have been able to stimulate the white blood cell count and bring it up. The worst thing for me is not being able to be around people too much including my children and grandchildren. I have a friend who calls grandchildren “little Petri dishes” because they carry so many germs just waiting to spread them around.

I feel as if I have stepped into a different world, the medical world is a whole new life for me and it’s so totally focused on what needs to be done, at least the “cancer” part of it is. That’s good but it’s also wearing because it’s constant. The Home Health Care team have finally discharged me, they were wonderful but constant people in and out on top of a constant stream of out of town family and friends visiting this summer, I think they think I am dying but I don’t think I am. I will say, as strange as this sounds, I believe the shock of this summer is now catching up with me and I kind of feel like “what was that all about?” People do say that I look good and healthy, so that’s a relief to me.

Now that’s enough about me, I want to talk about you the best I can and this is the part with which I have been struggling. I hope that all of you have an opportunity to feel the amount of love I have for you and everyone around you has for you. All you have done for me, the cards, the food, the prayers, the visits, the calls, the financial support (hard one for me) has been beyond loving and generous and has sent me into a swirl of gratitude, thankfulness, and deep deep appreciation wondering how on earth I would or even could ever pay everyone back. I well up in tears when I think of all of you and what you’ve done for me.

I have spent my life focused and studying the human race, I have loved and appreciated everyone who crossed my path, even those who didn’t. Nothing has ever been more important to me than people and all they have to offer, it never occurred to me that anyone would or should love and care for me back and here you all are giving your gifts and love to someone who is crossing your lives and it touches my heart and soul in a way I cannot even adequately express.

Maybe it isn’t important to anyone here but it’s important to me – you’ve made a difference in my life, you’ve changed my life in very profound ways. To be painfully honest, I could not have made it without you, and I have always had high end control issues and here I am dependant on a community of friends and supporters. When people brought food I wanted to say “oh that’s ok, I can fix myself lunch (or dinner) but I knew I could not. When the funds started coming in I wanted to say “my family and I will be fine” but I knew I wouldn’t, that I could not afford my chemo meds, or where I lived or pay my bills because my life as I knew it had ended, all I had depended upon to generate myself had ended for the time being and then all of you picked up my “slack.” How do you thank people for that at any level of adequacy? How do you get over your false pride (my father always said “beware of false pride.”) your ego, your need to control you life and what one thinks of as their destiny, how does one do that when they’ve been stripped. In my case, here you came with your love and generosity to hold another human being up.

We are born and start running from the beginning, learning, going to school, working and trying every day to do the best we can for ourselves and those around us. We seek approval for our work whether we are head of a company or raising children or being a friend, but at the end of the day it’s the lessons of the spirit and soul that are the most important; thank you all for the lesson of receiving, it’s been a lesson my spirit has lacked and is demanding I learn now, bless you for keeping me on that learning path and keeping me going.

Dear Sally......
".wondering how on earth I would or even could ever pay everyone back."
You have already paid it forward many times!
That was beautifully written!

My, Sally, you are on a roll today! I agree with qop; Both your article and your letter were very beautifully written.

Your spirit always shines through your writing, but it seems stronger than ever as of late. I think there's something to that, as well as the greater shift taking place with this third Saturn-Uranus opposition.
Something is indeed shifting, both on a very personal and a more broad scale global/universal level.

Keep doing what you are doing, Sally. Your spirit and heart are matched by those of the many lives you have touched, and continue to touch.

Dear Sally, both your article and letter touched me to the bottom of my soul. You have truly blessed my life in so many ways for so many years. So, it's my turn to say, Thank You! Sending you many hugs and best, best, wishes! Always.

Neo,
Interesting observation......greater shift happening.I feel it too....both Taurus.

One more comment.
Yesterday was the first time I had seen my cousin since her younger sister died, at the funeral service in 2007. Mimi was a buddist,and the giddy laughing youngest child all her life. ( She & I were the misbehaving 3 year olds at the serious grownups parties, even into our 60's))
Huge crowds attended the service . Only then was it revealed, as one person then another came forward, and told what Mimi had done for them all in one HUGE testimonial. ( Even I didn't know.....)
We resolved yesterday to take her as our role model!

It's lovely to love and be loved by people, that enveloping warmth is so very healing and wonderful to have, no matter if it's a community or one person we are so lucky to love and be loved. I feel very lucky indeed.

Neo, you are so right there is something huge coming and it will happen in a twinkling of an eye, leaving the world spinning. There is always something new and can be better past the rain and over the rainbow. Uranus in Aries should prove very interesting squaring and not squaring Pluto, and I know you haven't forgotten the march toward the Myan calendar, that should be an interesting year.

I am concerned about Obama for many reasons, health being on the top of the list.

Now all together......."Who's afraid of the big black hole, the big black hole......the.."
to the tune of Who's afraid of the Big Bad Wolf!

As I have been sending love and healing this summer I have felt my feelings, bump up against others healing, join, and merge, becoming one big circle....................This is powerful!

In spite of the rather depressing title, this article is very useful; especially reading the comments from readers.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/the-sad-shocking-truth-ab_b_290021.html

And Gail Collins is really evolving...........

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/19/opinion/19collins.html?_r=1&th&emc=th

sally-thank you so much for this piece and for the letter to the foundation.
Just yesterday I was reading and rereading the Sabian symbols for the the New Moon and the opposition by/to Uranus. And I was realizing that Obama is out there moving on a much huger map than I could imagine-I have been thinking that that is why he emphasizes the importance for all of us to "be ready". I am not seeing him as saviour but rather as a leader who sees things from a vantage point that I don't have.
At any rate I am trying to confirm what you share by your skills and intuition. I love you so and this article is exactly why I come here first everyday and come back several times during the day to check in on the "AW family".

Sally, do you own a Ferrari? Hahahah. It's just a rhetorical question. Sally's article was so profound, that I thought I would post something silly as a counter-balance, but actually this is about a British singer/musician/songwriter who had a Pluto experience back in '94 - underwent 5 operations in 7 weeks in France (great healthcare in this country) plus 2 more afterwards in England, was almost a goner, but lived to tell about it, and instead of folding, decided to embark on a new creative project - his life's dream of making a fantasy film about his fascination for Ferraris as a little boy, and it came to pass through a chance encounter with the singer Shirley Bassey. So the line from the song is really "Shirley do you own a Ferrari"? I kept singing this line all while Sally was in the hospital, as a way to keep her in my thoughts in a joyful way, substituting "Shirley" with "Sally". And by the way, when I lit the candle on that night for Sally, the flame glowed violet, and I thought it a good omen whether it was for the here or hereafter. Anyway, I decided to post this man's narrative about the making of his movie because I found it so artistically inspiring and compelling as testimony to the courage and triumph of the human spirit. He was just an ordinary singer to me, a few of whose songs I liked, but I gained a new respect for him after listening to this narrative. If you have the time, take a listen, although it may be boring for some of you. I don't have any particular fascination for Ferraris or cars in particular, but this appealed to my artistic senses and the celebration of life. The name of the movie was La Passione, and the guy's name is Chris Rea. The video narrative is in 3 parts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7uXgjFiwB4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN-w0M7bDhc&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pv-uZ0SEQhQ&feature=related

Here's Chris again for the last time - nice visuals

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PeU3Qc08p8&feature=related

http://shamanicastrology.com/articles-timely/pluto-stations-at-the-galactic-cross-once-in-248-years
clip......................

Every 26,000 years for about 144 years the December Solstice aligns along the Galactic Cross (where the plane of our Galaxy intersects the plane of our Solar System) near Galactic Center. The center point of this alignment was in 1998 with about 72 years on either side representing the window of the Turning of the APlutoges. When the current galactic cycle began 26,000 years ago it is possible that Pluto did not pass through Capricorn at that time and did not station at zero degrees Capricorn on the Galactic Cross.
We too have the opportunity to converge at this powerful nexus of planetary and galactic energies and ceremonially engage our heart-felt wonder celebrating the power of our shared connection in co-creation of the New Earth. This is the function of the New Earth Priest aPriestess, the guardians and keepers of the emerging mysteries, at the Turning of the Ages.

The opening lines of the Emerald Tablets of Hermes state, “That which is Below emerald tablets http://www.timstouse.com/images/EmeraldTablets/emeral1.jpg corresponds to that which is Above, and that which is Above corresponds to that which is Below, in the accomplishment of the miracle of One Thing.” This law of correspondence reminds us of our responsibility to know what is happening in the Great Above so we can more consciously co-create through our ceremonial intent the miracle of One Thing, the miracle of our connection to the ONE source of all, the miracle of love.

Next battle up.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/us/politics/20patriot.html?_r=1&th&emc=th

OMG..............This is HUGE!
Yesterday, when I was working at the library......
a book called out to me from the shelf. I picked it & checked it out. "Jung a Journey of Transformation".
Then today the NYT has this astounding offering!
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/magazine/20jung-t.html?pagewanted=1&th&emc=th

About the Red Book, Jung's personal diary, ( his descent into "madness?") hidden away in a bank vault for years, by his rather conservative traditional family, now reluctantly giving permission for it to be published!
Be sure to enlarge the images and look at them!
http://www.astro.com/astro-databank/Jung%2C_Carl_Gustav
This astro-databank is really usefull!
His (Jung) Taurus moon conjunct my sun by 2 o off! 13 15!

And THIS!
The Shift

The Revolution
in Human Consciousness

by Owen Waters
E-Book Version
excerpt..................
The duality of good versus evil, for example, is made possible by a belief in the existence of an opposite pole to goodness and wholeness. This belief, or expectation, creates the possibility that evil can exist and manifest in a world of duality. Evil cannot be conquered via conflict, as the act of conflict only adds power to the illusion which generates its existence. It can only be resolved by adopting a consciousness of unity rather than separation. Then, lasting solutions to the illusion of duality become possible.

Spiritual consciousness is associated with the second tier of six memes. With it comes the developing awareness of the oneness of all life.

Spiritual consciousness starts with an appreciation that all people are facets of the one underlying consciousness of the universe. Along with this comes an understanding that we each have our own unique viewpoint of the universe. It is through our individual diversity that the whole consciousness of humanity gains an infinite range of experience of all facets of life.

As a person becomes more at one with all of existence, they do not lose any sense of individuality. In all of Creation, diversity is the rule. Just as each snowflake is unique, so is each person.

Oh Holy Cow and Shooting Stars!! I didn't know that I am cavorting with Jungians here. Jung saved my life in my early 20's. I was such an outsider and was totally wrapped up in my introverted outpost until one day, long ago, I came across Joseph Campbell's "The Portable Jung". I read it cover to cover immediately after purchasing the book and that began my journey through Jung's work and also back into the world.
Happy New Year everyone and QOP I am expecting, for everyone, a change of consciousness that comes in a twinkling after slogging through and this change will support us through all the external changes and will help us to help the "younger" ones

OH and just a "Jungian" aside: the publishing of the Red Book will put to shame the so called biography of Jung which reported faithfully the on the externals of his life therefore missing the point.

Yaahoo Clymela! Been a Jungian since the 70's.......reading Liz Greene's Relating too......
Sort of parked it in the survival struggle until now. Yes this is the change we are looking for....how to EVANGELIZE IT?

Yup... I'm with you, seestas &O bros! I merely played around with astrology until studying the works of Jung. Tho I've always loved symbolism... er, Living symbolism. Making connections in the psyche. One can only imagine how many others are now making Connections.

Actually, we've been over the Jungian ground in the past tho it's been a while... a few years. Nice to take stock.

By "We" do you mean astroworld joannao? Or the country in general?
Tomorrow September 21, Officially designated by the UN"One Day of PEace"
This year's celebration of International Peace Day on September 21st finds me focusing on communications between real or potential enemies in ways that foster amity not enmity. From global to local, structuring relationships to enhance understanding make it harder to hate and hurt the "thems" in our lives and more likely for peaceful interactions to prevail, especially for young people.

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/colleen-turner/communicating-for-peace-d_b_292659.html

Astroworld, qop. Seems like it wasn't too long after Miss Sally purchased the site from another astrologer, whose name I can't remember.

That was before my time.....I didn't remember it, with good reason! Thnx

* Pluto goes Direct (part 2)

Pluto has actually moved forward in the last day by a minute of a degree, after being stationary for 15 days. If Pluto is affecting your chart by transit, now is the time when things can move forward. We have just had 5 mos of Pluto moving backwards, and retrograde motion is a time of sorting out underlying issues – or, in the case of the outer planets, keeping out of the way and staying conscious while they sort themselves.

But that sorting period also reshapes us, so whatever the issue is, we can now move forward renewed and re-empowered. But not quite yet, because Mercury is currently retrograde, and will be so for another 10 days. ...
http://astrotabletalk.blogspot.com/

* A Moon To Dream On

We’ve got a big lovely Virgo dark-of-the-moon moment going on — a new beginning with just the right stuff to take us where we need to go. Get your intentions together for a sprinkle of cosmic faerie dust. We really need a new beginning, eh? The current conversation is like a spinning vortex we can’t pull ourselves out of.

Here in the Patch I get a glimpse … and more … of the raw emotions that are driving this push against progress. I won’t belabor the point, but the pundit non-sense about who is ‘playing the race card’ — and how it’s just a tactic used dangerously and with no thought to its ramifications — is juvenile. If we tell the truth, the Party of No … defined now by white, rural elders … is driven by an old way of thinking and a primitive tribalism that won’t give way to intellect. Perhaps it’s covered by tight-lipped refusal to ‘name it’ … but it’s here, so it must be wherever you are, as well.

This isn’t a covert activity so much as a way of thinking that is ingrained and passed down generation to generation; we see it now, as Digby so aptly puts it, as “the assertion of white male privilege through whining victimization.” The ‘code words’ are evident — a Pub legislator said, in advance of Obama’s healthcare speech, that he’d ” … better be humble.” WTF? Did anybody say that to the Dubby? I addressed some of this issue in the weekly, here. This is old consciousness, we’re fighting — fear-filled and pervasive. ... http://polwaves.planetwaves.net/

* Quietly, Sotomayor turns on corporations

Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama’s newly installed Supreme Court Justice, has a few words for corpos seeking protection under law.

You’re not people.

During arguments in a recent campaign-finance case — that may upend campaign finance law to allow more spending by corpos — Sotomayor suggested that the core underpinning of protecting corpos’ rights was flawed.

Judges “created corpos as persons, gave birth to corpos as persons,” she said, the Wall St Jrl noted Fri. “There could be an argument made that that was the court’s error to start with…[imbuing] a creature of state law with human characteristics.”

Corpos were first afforded the rights of persons under US law in the 1800s, allowing them wide protections under fed code. Development of the law mushroomed as corpos — which were originally chartered by and in single states — began to grow larger and cross state lines. Eventually, courts ruled that states didn’t have the right to revoke contracts made by the corpos themselves. They also ruled that states didn’t have the unhindered right to revoke corpo charters. ... http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/09/18/quietly-sotomayor-turns-on-corporations/

* America, I Love You. Americans, On the Other Hand...

I have found the last week to be one of the most politically dispiriting of my adulthood. After President Obama's address to the nation on health care, I posted an opinion piece on Huffington Post which garnered well over 600 comments, as well as dozens of emails sent directly my way. The piece was in support of strong health care reform legislation, including a "public option," and used my own history of overcoming acute myeloid leukemia, as well as my wife's Italian family's health care experiences in that country, as reference points. Most responses were of the "Thank you for saying what I've felt" variety, and it's always gratifying to be told I've said something important, or made someone else feel heard.

The strong minority current won't surprise anyone who's followed the health care debate, or most any political discussion, over the past couple of years. A vocal minority has let me know, over and over again, that they don't want the government taking any more of their money; that they want to be able to decide how to spend and invest their own money; that they don't want to have to pay for anything for anyone else; and -- the big time, firecracker, most-consistent comment of all -- they don't want any Americans to have government-subsidized health care insurance if one single, goddamn, fucking, disgusting illegal immigrant might be able to get their hands on it, too.

Okay. I get it. And here's my response to both groups. ... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/evan-handler/america-i-love-you-americ_b_286226.html

The list of things that happened last week on this Mercury Retrograde were a cymbol crashing in the Universe but I don't think people actually heard the bell) What we all the people throughout the universe will experience as corporatism and captitalism fall over the next several years, I just don't know but I do know we were signaled that it is over. The Sotomayor comments were the loudest clang and well past time. Her comments alone should have sent several on Wall Street running for the restroom.

As we tumble into these final days of Mercury Retro and the beginning of the Fall Soltice there might be either a quieting down (after Monday) or the conservative types will rachet up the bad mouthing of Obama, they are working hard to make him a laughing stock. I believe Lindsey Graham said "he's been on everything but the food channel" Lindsey is such a stitch, as well as other things, like a hypocrite.

How did we get and keep the idea that political fools were the best to run this country?

I hope, Miss Sally, that the corpo restroom is the outhouse pit. ;O)

Sally,Joannaoregon, I wrote to myself I think that I am praying for Sotomeyer that the light of the Mother be with her around her and in her. Alioto and Roberts, Thomas and Scalia must be ready to slap her for her outrageous statement.I was stunned that she said that and so delighted but frightened for her-talk about talking truth to power.
I am trying to maintain my poise around the healthcare coverage but I don't like the way Obama talks about coverage. I could not afford Kaiser as a regular person-I can only "afford" it because my former employer pays the lion share of the premium=I pay $300 of the $1400+ premium. If the costs go higher I may lose the retiree medical benefit. Well I see what people are fearing and we need better information and less provocation.

Ha, me too Joanna.

Clymela, try not to be fearful and I know it's hard. I heard Clinton say the other day to read the SS Bill passed by FDR Administration, it was terrible, but they got it passed and worked on it the next 10 years to make it much better. I agree we need better and honest information but we are not going to get it, not from either side, too many hidden agandas. My hope is more clarity when Mercury goes direct in Virgo, although as it goes back over Black Hole Adonis the whole thing may be lost. I am more of a progressive futurist I guess, I believe we will get health care and I don't believe it will be perfect but we have to start somewhere for future generations. I am the recipient of the people who took a chance on Social Security, who took a chance on Medicare and my hope is future generations can benefit from the courage of today's people.

I heard a guy on NPR who has studied and written a book on all the healthcare systems in the world and ours is the worst. Anyway he said in 1994 th Swiss had the exact same health care we did and they scraped it because they though it was terrible. They went to a single payer, covered everyone in the country, got rid of private insurance, have had no problems with their new system ever since. They had decided their country was to rich to let people die because of insurance companies and lack of decent coverage. This guy said it had been a huge success for the Swiss.

I can't find the name of it on NPR and their site is hard to navigate, but the gentleman spoke yesterday between 1 and 2:30 in Denver. If I hear it again I will be sure to post it, maybe I will call NPR today and get the name of him.

Clymela, this is an article from a Doctor that I don't think will calm your concerns but she addresses the Baucus Bill as a mess and says Obama supports it. We have to keep looking at both sides of this issue or is their a "both sides" or just "one side." Bernie Sanders of Vermont says the insurance companies are throwing about a million and a half a week at congressmen to get their votes for supporting the insurance companies. Who knows who we can trust at this point. The Soltice chart has Neptune on the first house cusp and that says obfuscation and potential lies to me. Maybe Mercury turning direct in Virgo will bring some truth to this whole thing.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marcia-angell-md/baucus-bill-health-reform_b_293093.html

It occurred to me that another good phrase might be "Speak Power to Truth" to go along with "Speak Truth to Power." It just seems to have a bit more oomph to me.

Sally, thank you for your direct response to my fears and confusion. Really I am strengthened to carry on and to work by "running my colors" and filling up on Clear Light that will help me live and support the future.
Steve and I have begun leaving the TV off except to watch specific programs-when Steve was young and on his own living in parts of LA that no mother would approve of he used the TV as white noise so that he could sleep. Well I was so in love with him and so grateful that he was able to bring his genius through a truly horrifying adolescence that I "gave in" to that when we set up household together. Finally "we" have reached the point that we no longer need to use the white noise. This is helping both of us to a greater psychic health. We have been together for 13 years now.
Well that is a lot of intimate family info but I wanted to share it-probably most everyone is hip to how leaving the TV/radio on is NOT healthy.
Sally love to you and blessings that you share your wisdom so freely even when you are weak. God I so love you.
Came across a copy of Caddie Wooklawn when I was waiting for the hand surgery. That was a favorite book in childhood, that and Heidi and Little Women-the "real books" not modified ones. I drew courage from the Caddie Woodlawn book especially from her father who was an abolitionist when it was not safe. We never know how our prayers will take flesh do we?

* SaLuSa 21-Sept-2009

The changes continue unabated, and are coming to the notice of many of you who are aware of what is taking place. There is even a realisation that people are rising up in their consciousness, and more than ever they are moving beyond the old paradigm. It means that they are seeing through the degree of control exercised over them, and how they have been cajoled into supporting the ambitions of the Illuminati. Suddenly, the idea of perpetuating the war machine that has brought so much death and misery to your planet is being rejected. Peace and the means to achieve it are being openly talked about, and it is opening the eyes of others who have hitherto not considered such an idea. Believe us Dear Ones you are rising to the occasion and are spelling out the death knell for the dark Ones, whose power is rapidly slipping away. ... http://www.treeofthegoldenlight.com/First_Contact/mike_quinsey/channeled%20messages/September%202009/salusa__21september2009.htm

It occurred to me that "They" no longer dare to use "The Draft" anymore... at least for the present. That's a very very good thing. People just aren't buying "reasons" for war (ie formalized mass slaughter).

Profound dear joannaO...........
this is what is happening; no question, and we need not be afraid!

Hey, qop & everybody... just watched last night a truly amazing, strange & wonderful video I found at Hollywood chain store entitled "Ballroom Dancing & Charm School" with Mary Steenburgen, John Goodman, et al. Talk about a paradigm shifting piece of art on relationships, this is it.

I'll have to see if I can it around here........
wonder if there is a DVD version?

Yes, qop... I watched the DVD version. Mebbe "video" outlets shld change their moniker to "DVD" stores. I don't know that the Hollywood chain even has videos to rent out anymore.

You're right, qop... I had said that I watched a video but it was a DVD.

Still working on an ever more precise wordage post-stroke. (Sigh)

ANd I am living in a post video world. SInce I turned off Drech TV and hauled the Tee Vee out of the Gallery ( living room) it would be a real chore to hook up the video player the kids gave me a few years back.But I could pop a DVD into the computer & watch it. ( Just dicovered the DVD function on the computer the day of T Kenedy's funeral...............)

* Michael Moore has proven again and again that he has a remarkable feel for where the zeitgeist is heading. He's like a zeitgeist divining rod.

Roger and Me was way ahead of the curve on the collapse of the auto-industry. Fahrenheit 9/11 was way ahead of the curve on the collapse of the house of cards the [bushaholic regime] used to lead us to war in Iraq. Sicko was way ahead of the curve on the collapse of the US health care system. And now, with his new movie, Capitalism: A Love Story, he is riding the wave of the collapse of trust in our country's financial system. ...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/barack-obama-must-see-mic_b_293407.html

Launched today.............
Might be an interesting forum to work with.

HuffPostTech it's the people, not the gear @huffposttech. so what happened to obama's grassroots movement? read the blog by @chrishughes2: http://tinyurl.com/lkxv5z
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Loved the channled message Joanna. The "vails" begin lifting for people in the late 80's and that energy has gotten stronger and stronger ever since. The feelings of people regarding "did I just see what I thought I saw, did I just hear what I thought I heard" it amazing what is coming through to our consciousness right now. With meditation and elimination of anger and fear what we have always called otherworldly comes through loud and clear. The turning of Mercury in Virgo and moving on past Adonis I believe will have amazing results and I think rapid results for many of the people. One can almost feel the light on some days until fear and it's friends anxiety and anger, rise up momentarily.

A big pin is falling. Landmark National Bank vs Kestler, be sure to read the case. The Kansas Supreme Court has lowered the boom on potentially 60 million homes forclosed by illegal means that will have eventual ramifications all over the country. The Wall Street bankers were too smart by half and the other half of their corrupt shoe has fallen on them. Kansas of all places has told these yahoos that not only do they not own these mortages, they cannot collect on them and they owe the homeowners their homes back and restitution. Oh me or my there are alot of banks sweating bullets, not gold.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/LANDMARK-DECISION-PROMISES-by-Ellen-Brown-090921-894.html

Sally, re: your post about otherworldly vs fear anger.....
Last Thurs, the spirit of my deceased cousin, traveled with me on my visit to her sister and friends, visiting from Philly. The experience subtly altered the dymnamics of relating with these 5 people I have known for 40 years and longer. The changes will be beneficial in the future............+ the Artist/hostess, a newcomer to their group, is here all summer.painting.

After a supreme/peak experience on the beach yesterday afternoon...........Oh it was lovely and I didn't want to leave.................
I came home and HAD to sit down & do bills!
BOOM! fear & anger 1st time in months ........
Days are getting shorter, a chill in the air, and I haven't caught up with the electric bills displaced by the need to pay for snow removal last winter.......God forgive me for being extravegant & frivolous for spending $18. on art supplies this month!
Even tho back on Sept 17, we passed ☿ @ ♎ 1o: Sab. Symb. A Collection of Perfect Specimens of Many Biological Forms, A Butterfly Displays the Beauty of its Wings, It's body Impaled By a Fine Dart. ( roofing nail?) That expressed the moment yesterday!
So I made angry calls to the Senators, starting with Enzi, the toad guarding pensions!
That's insane, been there done that, it hasn't brought change......................is there another way?How can I get through to them;....... can I? These very conservative Ladies, ( Snowe/Collins) practice welfare at home to mollify their constituents and then vote deregulation, free market etc. in DC. What mirror can I hold up, what dialogue can I try?
I guess I will start the day at the beach in meditation.........................

Oh dear, and anarchist friend on my facebook posts that she has arrived in Pittsburgh to protest the G-20................AND NO ONE ELSE IS THERE!

Love to all of you.
Sally-what you report from Kansas is the real conservative values shining through-the old Golden Rule. Yeah for "us" who knew!!
qop- I will be sitting in prayer for both you and Sally. both of you deserve to have your bread buttered-I mean really this is nuts that those who give so much of what we need to carry on should struggle over utility bills,etc. Both of you have time and again said/offered just what I need to carry on. I love you and I know the Universe concurs. OH!! joannaoregon this includes you, beautiful one-all of you into my prayer room today!!

Thank you for the OpEdNews piece. Same-old robber barons. Keep the serfs busy & out of their feeding frenzies. Same-old same-old. Unbelievably boring.

And thank you for the prayers, dear Clymela... I can surely use the good energy. And same flow back to you.

Our friend, Art Gianfermo, has some interesting things to say at his website http://www.aquasoul.com/index2.html

" We have nothing to fear; but fear itself!"

Clymela, that's one powerful prayer room you have there!
I met the future Gov of Maine, Steve Rowe, last night at a meet & greet to kick off his campaign.........
And as I was leaving he gave me a big bear hug goodbye~! ( I started off the evening with one of my political rants of course, & by the end of the evening he fully understood my situation.)
CONTACT! Moreover he is on the same page as Theresa Heinz, recognizing that Democracy begins with raising the children to be undamaged and facilitated.

oops not finished..........
I can say with CERTAINTY, that Pres O's Dept of Education is bathed in light!
Steve is friends with Glenn Cummings, (Ast. Sec of Ed., who I met at the juice conference 2 years ago & was impressed with his values/approach/ former state house speaker) They are in it to make a difference, to facilitate change........If the situation wasn't workable, Cummings would be back in Maine to spend more time with his family" by this time.

We all walked up the street for a tour of the Beehive Design Collective's ( givers of the Black Fly Ball in Aug.) , communal house, where the worker bees were preparing for the booth at the Common Grounds Fair. It's a huge beautiful victorian mansion, on the historic register.......Queen Bee Kebhen ( the one in Pittsburg waiting for other G20 protestors to show, and the National Treasure who began this collective 9 years ago, is to be commended for intitiating this idea, change through education through the use of Artwork as an entry wedge
into the schools, to teach AGAINST the recruiters! corporate depredations etc.!
I think the time for protest has passed and it is the time to get to work in a POSITIVE PLUTO IN CAPRICORN way,...........
I will call Dr. Dean, now again, available by phone at Democracy for America in VT. and see if he can scare up some funds for these kids to support their work....and because he should know they are here! qow
Queen of Wands NOT Queen of Pentacles because it's about the spirit & soul not about the money!

qop... YOU GO, GIRL!!

Let me second that: you go geirl,QOW/QOP. And remember that Pentacles refer to resources not simply money just as the 2nd/8th can refer to money but broadly refer to resources.
This by way of telling you that I am just amazed at how you utilize your resources. I personally see you as a wizard full of creativity. Love to you.

* SaLuSa 23-September-2009

The mighty wheels of the Universe relentlessly continue to turn, as does all that exists. A majestic path that is foreordained is followed, as all movement brings each Sun and its planets into a cyclic pattern that propels its solar system ever on its journey through Space. There are cycles within cycles, and all moves in perfect harmony as it motions towards the centre of All That Is. We wonder how with such knowledge that the intelligence behind it all can be ignored. Yet there are some who are unable to credit an intelligence with such acts of creation, and the ensouling of every world that exists. Believe us Dear Ones, there is life everywhere you look, and not just in the dimensions that are open to your physical eyes. There are dimensions beyond your reckoning, and still life is present in abundance. It would be difficult to explain such vastness as an accidental occurrence, when it is clear that a mighty intelligence must exist that embraces all that exists. ... http://www.treeofthegoldenlight.com/First_Contact/mike_quinsey/channeled%20messages/September%202009/salusa__23september2009.htm

Thanks O that is JUST what I needed to hear today!
Wonderful!

Me, too, qop. May you have a wonderful day!

Sally, you and the AWs helped keep me sane during the 8 years of the Bush Jr. debacle. When the Supremes stopped the Florida count in Jan. 2001 and effectively selected Bush as president, I felt as though our republic/democracy had been stabbed in the heart. Then I thought, "well, maybe he won't be as bad as I think," but Bush was far, far worse than I ever imagined.

Now we're still standing in the wreckage, but we have hope. We've got to push for progressive changes and return to sanity and push hard, so that Obama has plenty of support & incentive to do the right thing. And we've got to vote out as many corporate puppets as we can.

Joanna, by chance I found the book "My Stroke of Insight" by Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D. About 10 years ago she was a neuroanatomist at Harvard, 37 years old, and she had a stroke in the left hemisphere of her brain. It took her about 8 years to recover, and she learned a lot about the intuitive, feeling, one-with-the-universe right hemisphere during this experience.

Fascinating book, well-written and very accessible. Please excuse the long-winded post.

Wonder if the planets are conspiring to produce this type of weather condition in Australia - very eerie.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_australia_dust_storm

Lengthy but interesting interpretation of the Sat/Uranus opposition from Lynda Hill:

http://www.sabiansymbols.typepad.com/

From everything I saw and heard at the U.N. today, I would have to agree with JoannaO in saying same old, same old.......my unsolicited opinion.

Isn't it amazing? The gringos for around 2000 years have been thumping around with their hobknob boots thru the middle east. Always a glorified godly pretext... you betcha.

Very well done ... succinct.

http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/20090922_hollywood_stars_speak_up_for_health_insurance_execs/

well, this is the second time I've posted today and have not appeared on AW, have I been banned?

...after all, I am being (tremendously) impacted by Pluto, saturn, uranus and goodness knows which other malefic planet has decided to get their knickers in a twist and maybe "off me" inthe process ... so paranoia may be the order of the day! Well, looks like it was paranoia ... NEVERMIND. Goodness knows where those other articles went ... they were GOOD too!

I decided to range a bit further afield than USia news on Pres Obama which I think is a little bit of a brain wash against him. I mean he must be doing a few things folks like us would appreciate.

* US prison camp in Iraqi desert closes

Closing the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay is not America's only detainee dilemma. They still have 1000s of prisoners at two large detention centres in Iraq. Until this week, there were 3. But now, Camp Bucca - once by far the largest [USia] internment camp in Iraq - has closed. The BBC's Hugh Sykes visited Bucca on its last day.

Since the invasion in 2003, US forces have detained more than 100,000 people, most of them at Camp Bucca, far out in the desert near the Iraqi border with Kuwait. It was officially known as a "Tif" - Theater Internment Facility. It was named after a NY fire marshall, Ron Bucca, who died in the 11 Sept attack on the WTC in 2001. When it was est'd, it consisted of just a few tents surrounded by 3 layers of razor wire fencing. ... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8266293.stm

Omg... "Theater"!!?!? Somebody had a stinky sense of humor.

Forget the fluff in the article I'm posting. CHECK OUT THE COMMENTS SECTION. People are DEFINITELY WAKING UP. We are on a short fuse, people. The status quo is just NOT going to cut it.

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090923_saving_the_obama_revolution/?ln

Marta, you are on and absolutely have not been banned.

Old Mayfly, thank you for your kind words but I don't think any of you know what a support you've been to others including me the last 9 years. Those that come and go on this board and those that keep standing by, all a support all have added a huge amount of wisdom and information and propel us forward. Literally when I see anyone (I don't want to start naming names because I'm afraid I will miss someone and you're all impotant) who has posted my spirit just leaps and I am not blowing smoke, if you saw my chart you would know that I don't blow smoke.

It's been interesting watching the retro Mercury aspect the Saturn/Uranus opposition and the chaos in words and the health bill and the economy and the war. It seems on the surface to all be in disarray while the government continues to shoot themselves in the foot. Uranus in the progressed Senate chart is at 27 Virgo adding to the stew pot. I don't think this health care bill will be hammered out really until Uranus goes direct but I do think we will get a new measure of truth when Mercury goes direct in Virgo. What seems to be happening on the surface is very different as to what is happening under the surface as Uranus trines Mercury in the US chart. However amusingly what I see on the surface is a bunch of people running around like chickens with their heads cut off and all in a tailspin without knowing what direction their tail is spinning. The "white noise" out there is deafening right now.

You betcha Sally, white noise...........
LAst night I checked & the big Town Meeting/Vote on the moratorium (or NOT ) for the low cost housing,in Milbridge,( moon 2o Capricorn, threatened by T Pluto @ 1o) Happens at 7: PM Sept 8th, 12 hours BEFORE Mercury goes direct!
Whatever the vote, it won't hold !
I am only looking at the moon in the chart, today I will do a complete natal transit comparison.

Common sense won't give us the answers that we seek now as the idealistic Sagittarius Moon lifts our spirits, enabling us to believe that anything is possible.
Fortunately, magic can happen today as planets align on several points of a 5-pointed star. These quintile aspects involving the Moon, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter and Neptune allow us to find original solutions to ongoing problems if we are willing to let our imaginations take the lead.
This from the tarot,com in my e-mail.
Can anyone name this star?
☽ - ♐, ( sag), ☿- ♍, ☌ - ♋, ♃- ♒,
♆ -( Pisces ♓ ? )don't know why the symbol for pisces. won't print? Mysterious!)

http://video.nytimes.com/video/playlist/politics/1194811622221/index.html#1247464678726
NYT John Harwood interview of Olympia Snowe

And here is Snowe's chart.

http://tinyurl.com/ycgdawc hope tinyurl works)

Interesting.....T chiron is exact ☌ her mars 21o ♒, (Her palla 17o ♒) her N chiron is exact ☌ my N NN 8 ♏, Her N ♃26o ♏ ☌ my N ☽ 24o♏,
Her ☉,☽,☿, in pisces in my 10th house,
Her progressed: ☽20o ♊ ☌ my ASC. exact! ( USA ♂ R 21o♊) ( My MC 27o♒, USA people's ☽ 27♒)
Her prog. ♂ 10o ♈, ☌my ♀ ♈,10o her prog. ♀ 0o ♈☌my ♃28o pisces my 10th house, ( ( my ♃ return 7 months away..)
Her prog. ☉ 4o♉, my N☉ 13o ♉
Pisces : State of Maine, Snowe's ☉☽, my 10 thhouse, rules Healthcare issue!
If I find the right angle can I make a real difference...
Suggestions please
I'm thinking, use my pisces ruled water paintings in some way............,

Or should I just put on my power red jacket and go into her office to have a discussion.....
purple for pisces? I do have a purple wool jacket too.

Uhhh... Or am I wasting my time?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur/desperately-seeking-snowe_b_298008.html
good article.

Marta-one thing I have learned about the AW site is that if there is any break in your posting such as, you know, answering the phone,etc the system will just eat your post. I have lost more than one that way. So--- if you think there has been a significant pause just "save" the original on your desktop and post and if it is "eaten"add your post later on a new box if the original gets eaten.
I haven't read everyone's entries yet. Love to see all the activity.

Sally, and all you brilliant, shiny-star AWers. I've taken myself out of circulation for a few days. Perhaps it's the nonstop rain, perhaps it's the fact that i've been railing on this healthcare issue and just needed a psychic break, a bath in the nethers of Love.

I just hate it that you're struggling, qop. I'll bet every single person on this board has been there. But, hey, isn't it time for calendars? I'm ready to send my check today!

One thing i keep seeing is what Sally keeps repeating. But, i believe we're going to be seeing more of those spouting vitriol, like the Becks and LImbaughs are going to be experiencing some pretty serious setbacks, even charges. However, what will be even more serious is the underhanded dealings (made public) about those CEOs who are profiting from these dark deeds. We're beginning to see glimmers of these every day, but i'm quite certain it's going to accelerate.

For now, how's about a little satire. . .

Oops. . .the link
http://margaretandhelen.wordpress.com/

Yes, I have removed myself pretty completely. I was just at the beach...................It was Nirvana! I did NOT want to leave...............I have given 300% since March, soo I guess this is my little vacation.
And no I don't have much in the way of material goods...and that can be frustrating........but as long as they don't turn off the power, ( & they won't, we reached a settlement) I am so rich in other ways,love of friends, nature, love of what I am doing...........................
It really doesn't matter.
Calendars.......almost! I worked intensively this morning on the one with the flood tumbling through the woods.fairly large & complex....
have to finish the wave receding over the rocks with the incoming tide, and then I think I have a calendar!

Meanwhile, news of my friend Kehban, founder of the Beehive Design Collective, who was waiting in vain for other G-20 protestors in Pittsburgh

Kehben Grifter: oh SHIT!!! I'm on Democracy Now today complaining about the pathetic turnout in Pittsburgh! YIKES! I swear i said much more inspired things too!
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/9/24/headlines

I love margaretandhelen. They always crack me up.

This is VERY uplifting!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=245x102237
Don't miss paragraphs 10 - 15

Sally, thanks ... life would be pretty miserable without AW ... I know I don't post very often (until something really p.o.'s me that is ...:) but I'm always here ...

Clymela, Thanks!!!

Aw, Sally, you are always so gracious.

In Atlanta tomorrow, Fri.Sep.25, at 3 PM, there is going to be a protest in front of the office building for Cigna Health Insurance (3500 Piedmont just NW of the Peachtree and Piedmont intersection in Buckhead.)

The CEO of Cigna received over 11 Million dollars in salary in 2008, and this year--perhaps sensing which way the wind is blowing--he received ONLY 1.3 million in salary. Both of these years he also received lavish perks.

Meanwhile, a young Atlanta woman policy holder of Cigna, Dawn Smith, will die soon if she cannot get the treatment which Signa has denied covering.

What's going on here? Are we back in the days just before the French revolution, or what?

Anyone in the Atlanta area who can come, please do.

Protests at Cigna? Ain't that a shame Mayfly, I know you feel as badly about this as I do. Sorry for the sarcasm but I do feel that we are at a dangerous tipping point, the anger unleashed at those "town halls" could be coming home to roost. The Hyatt in Boston isn't having a good time and I think good. It's a very peaceful demonstration, organizations are just cutting off using the Hyatt and the taxi cab drivers are refusing to go to the Hyatt

http://www.boston.com/business/ticker/2009/09/taxi_drivers_to.html

Then there are the riots in Pittsburgh, something is going to happen over the next week regarding the census taker who was killed, there are a lot of folks down their who have always hated the "census takers." and look for reasons over the last 80 years or so (since bootleg booze) to kill them.

Howard Dean says Congress really doesn't realize how angry people are at them, this summer was a shock. They need a couple more shock's I think before they get the fact they aren't hearing folks or responding to the needs of anyone but noney and people are really mad. This Mercury goes direct in a square to US Mars and conj. US Neptune with Uranus squaring and opposing that aspect. It will be such an interesting fall.

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/WilliamPitt/742
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy - they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

Even Morford is feeling dark these days!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/09/23/notes092309.DTL&nl=fix

And yesterday Shattuck avenue was full ,once again, of striking UC staff and students!! They were very polite but Steve and I had to change our plans about how to get around because we arrived at the corner of Central and Shattuck at the same time as this flood of demonstrators
I love the story from Boston. Would love to be able to be at the CIGNA demonstration.
The story from Kentucky frightens me and again I say that this is caused by hate radio which has been blasting away for decades now and then we now have hate radio and hate politics.
Hello to all our returning friends. The flavor you bring cannot be duplicated and you are missed. I expected to hear more voices once we got to the Equinox-of course the Big Cats may be surprised by the voices they hear.

OOHH!! guess who just woke up? Please read Pittsburgh for Boston TV for radio.

And literally the other side of the coin!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/33017394#33008618
Homeless man, Terry Herbert buys used metal detector for $6.00 & finds treasure from the past.
wonder what this man's chart looks like?

Mayfly, that woman in Atlanta, is there anyone in Atlanta that can get her story up on youtube. that's what we need to do is have people get their stories out, put a face to this mess.

Are you ok in Atlanta? What massive storms you all have had, it's just been awful hasn't it

News from Pittsburgh on the ground.............

Kehben Grifter
g20 PITTSURGH... overwhelmed by ecstatic surprise from AMAZINGLY JOYOUS AND FANTASTIC RIOTS. Hours of it. I ain't seen anything so blissed out and ferocious in many years! An amazing pivitol shift happened in the abscence of the "shut it down"and seemingly mandatory spokescouncily model, a whackof organic gumption and love is gluing everything together in its place... My heart is swollen with amazement!4 hours ago

This is a strong condemnation of GITMO from the marine who built it.

http://tinyurl.com/ybk45f8

I'm so happy about the PITTSURGH... um, "do." And I hope no one was injured tho the young may view them as proper "war" wounds. And good on that marine.

None of us have to "follow orders" from criminals & whackjobs. They lost their "rights" to "authority" years ago.

And I can see the boming of Iran's nuclear sites coming, just from the tone of world leaders at the G20.

Crystal-Let us pray that the West does not intend to bomb Iran's nuclear site because doing so will no doubt involve the slaughter of people who have nothing to do with their government's actions.
I am forwarding a piece by Eric Margolis printed in Common Dreams when the West was so upset over the release of the man convicted of the bombing.I found this moving at a time when reasonable people were being manipulated by their governments to see things in an untruthful way. I thought that his,Eric Margolis',reporting was a wonderful example of the Aquarian transit of Uranus,Jupiter, Chiron-speaking truth to power in front of the group as it were.http://www.commondreams.org/forward/emailref/46409-

Well it doesn't seem to have worked but you can find it @ commondreams.org 8/30/2009. Which if you haven't (using the group "you" here)discovered it yet is a wonderful "newspaper"

from Atlanta--it is unusual for us to have floods like this, but this formerly was a very heavily forested area and now there is so much growth, development, i.e. pavement, there is not so much natural woodland to absorb the water.

Anyhow, we are in the older part of town (built up 1908) our street parallel to Peachtree, which was one of the Cherokee trails, all of them along ridges. So we have had no flooding in my immediate neighborhood. Some outlying areas have been hit pretty bad.

Story on WSB-TV yesterday about an 87 year old woman in Lilburn (suburb) who was swept away by the water when her garage door (adjacent to her house) collapsed. This hearty woman exercised 5 days a week to stay in shape. She was able to swim to a tree and hang on. An 11 year old neighbor with an eastern European last name heard her scream and called his dad and 911. The dad swam out to the elderly lady and held on to her and to the tree until rescue arrived. All unhurt. Sort of a uniquely American story.

Here's the link to Clymela's earlier post for those who wish to read it.

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/08/30-0

Sally, when I first heard this story about the woman, Dawn Smith, who had paid her Cigna policies for years, and then was diagnosed with a (treatable) brain tumor and denied coverage, I thought "Can this be true?"

Last year the Cigna CEO H.Howard Hanway received $11 Million in salary and millions more in perks.

Gosh, how can Cigna afford that kind of compensation? Maybe by denying claims of policy holders like Dawn Smith.

Anyhow, today at the anti-Cigna rally in Atlanta I met a few people who know Dawn. Dawn ran a pr/marketing company and also is a critically acclaimed playwright. She put in her claim 4 years ago and still is fighting for coverage of her necessary treatment.

I'll research and see if anyone is publicizing this on you-tube or elsewhere. It certainly needs to be widely publicized.

"Buy health insurance for peace of mind--until you actually need it and make a claim."

Well... and that's out-n-out fraud. How many decades have "insurance" corpos gotten away with that!

If you can, don't miss the PBS Bill Moyers hour on PBS tonight - A woman is filling in for him - wonderful discussion about issues facing women worldwide, also an enlightening interview with Rory Stewart (Turquoise Mountain) about the right approach to stabilising Afghanistan. Humanity should take precedence over the need for a Military victory. All these generals/colonels etc. are such ignoramuses - truly - they only understand the language of war.

Interesting that Obama chose Pittsburgh (Founded November 25, 1758) to host the G20. Pittsburgh just experienced its' first Pluto Return. The city has definitely experienced a "death" with the loss of most of its' manufacturing industry and with it an exodus of a major percentage of its' peak population. Now, with a new generation of immigrants and technology, it seems poised to experience a full, if gradual, rebirth. Perhaps this bodes well for the eventual rebirth of the Midwest/Rust Belt region as a whole?

Bill at his best!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-maher/new-rule-if-america-cant_b_299383.html
New Rule: If America can't get its act together, it must lose the bald eagle as our symbol and replace it with the YouTube video of the puppy that can't get up. As long as we're pathetic, we might as well act like it's cute.

Took three tries-popup software (typical Merc RX) to get in here.

Is it me, or am I not hearing much about the G20 summit as before? Not that there haven't been protests, but I wonder if people realize that protest alone won't keep people's houses anymore-that new strategies are needed. Pluto in Capricorn brings out the capitalist in everyone, the entrepreneur. I fully expect a whole new economy by 2024, growing off the backs of the old.

Sally, thank you so much for this haven.

I have a new website, http://www.drugpeace.info. Built because I found out (intellectually) that pot can lower blood pressure and blood sugar, but old fashioned moralism and sheer insanity means that if I try the remedy, I lose my job!

A lot of people on the pot boards say that the law will never change because of industry, but I think industry is otherwise preoccupied, and considering some of the crazies that have come out recently, a little pot would do them good! Indeed I believe that's the secret of why things didn't get more crazy after Vietnam. The whole toke culture after that calmed down a lot of the Veterans and allowed them to adjust more readily to peacetime life.

I'm also working on my relocated site, http://www.aquariusmoon.info. It's just a personal site now, but I'll be blogging shortly once I'm no longer so preoccupied with the task of building my site. (Somehow it has something to do with my Venus in Virgo in the Ninth)

http://tinyurl.com/ycxybx7
crying shame this................

Yes we are hearing much less about G20 meeting. All the coverage is controlled and we are getting no direct feed. Creeps me out.
Carol-I am confused about how this society hates the lowly herb but allows millions to be spent advertising alcohol which is so destructive. I used pot for years not so much now because, I imagine, I am older aand calmer now.
I have noticed though that pot is not perfect for every health problem. I know two people with serious mental balance problems who get very confused aand mixed up under the influence but so it is with everything-no size fits all-no medicine works for everything.

Word CLymela~!
And the Sabian Symbol for Mercury 22 Virgo today is:
A Lion Tamer Displays his Skill and Character!

They just played music for a Lion Tamer on the WBACH Classical Kids Hour...timely!

True, no drug fits everyone, but this is one drug where you can't even get in many states a doctor to evaluate you for risk. Under it's current scheduling (Schedule 1), the DEA says its not even worthy of study-I've read stories where researchers have been given the runaround to even study it to see if it might have medicinal/industrial/whatever uses.

It is almost the only drug where you can be arrested just for having. Also when it comes to effects, remember there are two types of pot: sativa, which is the mellowing kind, and indica, which is apparently more intense and body oriented. Of course, who knows how many batches have been grown with all sorts of unsavory chemicals as well due to the greed of some.

I'm also about to go back to school, so I would have to deal with Fed issues as well, so the war is not won for me, even if Ohio approved medical mj.

Carol-I absolutely concur and go even further and want us to end the "war on drugs"-how much health care,schools,etc could we have with the money we use fighting the governments war on drugs.

Carol-thank you so much for getting the address right for the Eric Margolis piece.
qop-missed your little post on the harvest. How sad and someone's "private tragedy".

Carol, Venus in Virgo in the 9th? Me too!

QOP, the Bill Maher article should be handed out like a flyer at every street corner in America, plus sent to Congress and the President, but even then, it still may not do much to change anything.

Here's another example of military inanity:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090926/ts_nm/us_iraq_drone

uh huh... a drone "accident". Don't think I'll buy that one.

I saw Julie & Julia today. DO NOT MISS IT!
Screen play by Norah Ephron. SOme very pointed political jabs........
Beyond that a joyous, celebration of life and love!

Ex wife of DC sniper.................

In the book, Muhammad describes how she fell for her ex-husband. Photos show him as a once-loving father, feeding his newborn son at the hospital with a bottle and playing with all three kids.

However, his behavior became erratic after returning from the first Gulf War with the Army, as he grew distant and angry.

"His dark mood was evolving into a permanent fixture. His old 'get up and go' was missing. He seemed to have lost interest in not just in me, but in life itself," she writes.
more.........

http://www.phillyburbs.com/news/news_details/article/116/2009/september/26/ex-wife-dc-sniper-said-you-have-become-my-enemy.html

AFPAK -- ack! ack!

Afghanistan — the dark hole of civilization that broke the likes of Alexander the Great and most recently, the Soviets — a narco-state that barters its children for martial beds and takes pride in its anachronism, run by War Lords … FREAKIN’ WAR LORDS … like 12th C. despots. This place is about as far away from Democracy as Glenn Beck is from emotional coherence. Attempting to bring Afghanistan into the modern world is a lose/lose proposition; and mission creep could keep us at this impossible task for generations.

Obama is treading softly in this arena; still undecided about what’s required and waiting for the election woes to shake out while leaning to the pragmatic. There’s a bit of Bill the Cat in me when I think of this hairball of a war — ack! ack! – rolf that puppy up, Obama! But … well … it’s the “nest of vipers” thing that we can’t let go of. ... http://polwaves.planetwaves.net/

Really... I detest control freaks. And I do believe that USia is THE control freak of the century.

Tomorrow Mercury goes into its stationary direct degree of 21 Virgo, conjunct the US Neptune and square the US Mars. Listen carefully over the next few days as there will be a message delivered about the "war" or "health care" or both.One thing I hope comes out is who murdered that census take in Ky, not sure the law down there is interested in finding out who.

O, loved the polwaves/ planetwaves piece by Judith Gayle!
Yesterday My new neighbor up from Cambridge for the year.....stopped by and gave me his CD recording of Earth Sound. seisimgraphic symphonies
The last piece on the CD captures the tsunami of 2004, ( was it really that long ago?)
Verrry interesting!

Planetwaves is the site of astrologer/photographer Eric Francis (remember him?), who went behind the subscription part of the site... he is one of my faves but I refuse to do subscriptions. And anyway, Judith Gayle does a fine job, too. http://planetwavesweekly.com/sales/home.html

"One thing I hope comes out is who murdered that census take in Ky, not sure the law down there is interested in finding out who." I have no doubt that they already know who is the murderer but chose to leave him be for the time being or forever.

Same-old same-old.

Oh, this is good methinks...

* Realizing the Self

...Mental impulses seem to well up from the ocean of the unconscious without apparent logic or reason. But if you sit long enough you might discover, that as the world revolves on its axis, and the planetary angles activate your own planetary patterns in sequence, then there is a kind of logic to the thoughts and feelings that arise. If Mercury is at 20 deg Sagittarius and square Mars at 21 deg in aspect to Neptune at 22 deg, perhaps when the moving Ascendant axis hits 20 Sagittarius, you start dwelling on an injustice - a situation that is in your opinion not right or fair - which you then get angry about, and then feel helpless and sad about. Every day. Every day you carve deeper valleys in your psychological landscape through the same series of thought processes. Where is free will here? And how much stronger and more intense will this be when a passing transit, Uranus conjoining Mars for example, shakes up the configuration?

Being aware of this process changes everything. From an astrological point of view the awareness itself has nothing to do with Mercury. Thought cannot monitor itself. It has to do with the Sun, which is the one constant in the busy spiral of activity of Mercury, Venus, Mars and all the other planets as they revolve around the sun. ... http://www.world-of-wisdom.com/blog/realizing-the-self/25/

qop-thank you so much for that link to the article on Mildred Muhhammad-this is a painful tale we need to hear/read. This could open our hearts and minds to what happens to human beings in war and not only the "victims" but the damage cone to the victors/bullies.
I have been troubled by the horrible marriage in hell of US military and US psychology-this is involved here and this disgusting and hateful link-up is more prevalent than we realize. I am bringing this up because this man was trained in one of those units and he turned those "skills" on the young boy who was his accomplice.
I have recently become of aware of some of this psychology being used against certain middle-class children of color who get into trouble for pot,etc. Their parents or the courts send them into a certain recovery center where these kids stay for months 9-10 months and come out zombies.I am relieved to hear that people in the churches are beginning to investigate-the churches in the black community are very powerful as all of us alive during the Civil Right years learned.Well enough on this but just sstart listening and these stories will come to you.

Yes joannaoregon! That world of wisdom.com was excellent!
And the musings of Dowd & Rich are particularly interesting today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/27/opinion/27rich.html?th&emc=th

The Devil wears Crocs!
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/27/opinion/27dowd.html?th&emc=th

"...horrible marriage in hell of US military and US psychology..." Exactly, Clymela... & they've been doing that for decades!

One huge video gaming for the Boyz, qop. They'll NEVER GROW UP!

They strut, preen, swagger, gussie up in their costumes & drool (ala bushaholic & cheney-shoot-em-up-his-friend), but the Boyz REFUSE to grow up!

back in 2003, someone on smirking chimp,wrote a "fairy tale" about a Father, who reluctantly sacrificed his only child ( a Daughter) to the kIng to save the Kingdom. SHe returned; THE ENEMY
LOOKING OUT OF HER EYES!
It was chillingly written...........If I find it bookmarked ( that was 2 computers ago) or printed out, I will post it.

Joanna Oregon, since the gentleman killed in Ky. was an employee of the US Government (census worker) the FBI is on the case.

Raw Story
>http://rawstory.com

has a chilling report from one of the civilians who found the body.

I hope I am not posting twice.

Joanna Oregon, since the gentleman who was killed in KY is a US government employee, the FBI is investigating his death.

Raw Story has a chilling account from one of the local civilians who found his body.

>http://rawstory.com

Sally, thank you, thank you for that you-tube suggestion re Dawn Smith's Cigna claim rejection.

Today I spoke with someone on the MoveOn Council here in Atlanta. They all know Dawn, who wanted to come out to our demonstration but wasn't well enough.

Well, duh, if you are really sick you aren't in a position to stand in front of your callous health insurance payment receivers with a sign.

Anyhow, I suggested (without giving you any credit :} ) that they do an interview with Dawn about her claim and what has been happening--very low-key--just the facts--and behind Dawn have this huge poster showing the salary 11+ million + perks a year of the Cigna CEO.

The council is meeting tonight and I hope they do it. If it goes on You Tube I will let you know.

Don't mean to be the party guest who is talking too much, but here is link re events at G20 in Pennsylvania. This is very bad--one of America's possible futures--

>http://open.salon.com/blog/kevin_gosztola/2009/09/25/on_the_ground_g20

Military-type uniformed, but otherwise unidentifed armed guys grabbing peaceful protesters and pushing them into vehicles, then driving away, etc.

Also see bagnews notes:

>http://www.bagnewsnotes.com

Old Mayfly.if you go back up to Sept. 125 7:57 PM.........I posted a comment from a friend of mine, Kebhen Grifter, on the ground at the G 20 protests.
At that point it sounded fairly positive.
2 days later there has been no facebook post....however, eventually I will hear a 1st hand account which I will pass on............

Oh this is truly sickening!
http://www.commondreams.org/further/2009/09/27-0
Presumably in order to make even more money than they must already be making, Mattel's American Girl - creator of obscenely pricey dolls that sell for up to $158, unless you want the bed for another $118 - is now marketing Gwen, a homeless doll. For $95, you get Gwen, with aforementioned dress, long blond hair and back story of a dark secret - she and her mom, fallen on hard times, live in their car before making their vinyl way to a homeless shelter.
Except MAttel wasn't THE CREATOR. A nice school teacher started the American Girl Doll concept and THEN sold out to Mattel.

Great articles and comments folks and your observations are so good. Take a look on Huffpo for the article about Obama trapped in the presidency and all he has to get around in order to accomplish anything. The presidency doesn't really have much power unless it's grabbed by illegal means which bush and cheney did just that. If the President had that much power Bill Clinton would have passed health care in 1994. Right now they are out to destroy the Obama Presidency as fast as they can.

QOP reminded me that I haven't been on AW much and I apologize but this last week has been particularly difficult and I am sorry.

Things are getting pretty nasty out there and the Saturn/Uranus opposition deals with the shift in the status quo so things will continue to heat up when Mars gets to Virgo. We will see many clashes with police/military and I think it is the military (I am not sure we aren't experiencing martial law right now) vs populist protestors, not right wing protestors.

I keep thinking of John Lennon's old song "Imagine" It's becoming imperative now for all who can to "imagine" a better world and what that would look like. Sometimes I wonder if this country has lived with ao much anger and hatred over one side or the other that it's near impossible to "imagine" a better world because that world would include everyone. Before anything changes at all in this country or the world there has to be a shift in consciousness, maybe that wave will come from Europe or Africa or Asia, but it doesn't seem to be coming from the US at this point in time, but the lesson of transformation is coming in the form of Pluto opposing the US Venus then Jupiter, then the Sun/sq to US Saturn, we will have to figure out if we (this country) decides to take the lessons of transformation or not.

Sally dear, I don't mean to be a nag........
just concerned for your well being!

I am "Imagining as hard as I ever can!
I AM seeing little baby steps/ positive signs of the shift, but then I think Maine is reclaiming, the phrase,
"As Maine goes so goes the Nation."
established back in 1775 when we won the first Naval Battle of the Revolutionary War & established the Merchant Marine.'and when Sen. Edmund Muskie ran for Pres. in 1968, and the school girl, Samantha Smith, wrote a letter for Peace, to the President which made an impact around the country! World!
I have a new neighbor whose "instinct" impelled him to leave the city where he had always lived, and buy property here to build on. He gave me a copy of his CD Earth Sound composed from seismigraphic recordings.............. INCLUDING THE TSUNAMI WE BLOGGED in 2004!
I have begun to share OUR wise old ways with him!............

Sally-please no apologies!! We love you and so treasure the strength and power in your words and ideas and then the sentences but ,dear one, most of us clam-up after a hard day-forget a hard season. Love to you and none of us are demanding anything other than your return to health-perhaps we leaned on you too much because your voice is SO strong and your astrology so wise.
qop if I had $$$ I would come to Maine. Oh poo!! couldn't get my California family through one winter there still every time I turn on the computer and your photo of the moose resting in the glen comes up I am there. I even do active imaginations of it covered in snow and ice although I can't quite get to the bitter cold.
The idea of the homeless Barbie is horrifying. This is the most disgusting indoctrination of our children. When I grew up the only homelessness I knew about was 1) Charles Dickens 2) the images from WWII-there were no "homeless" in my life.

I just wanted to say why I've not been on because I do know like qop says people do get worried. I worry if someone on here isn't on for awhile.

Take a look at this video by Max Kiser, be sure to watch it to the end but USBC the second largest bank in the world is dropping the dollar as the world's standard currency.

I keep wondering what is behind the Obama comment that he's made several times even during the primaries, "I am willing to be a one term president." I believe the would be "empire" (us) has fallen and we are just beginning to get the word.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x379176

And the Universe is possessed of riches beyond measure.................
IT WILL PROVIDE!
Back in '68 My husband & I picked up some UK tourists and gave them a ride in the South of France. They a were complaining about the state of British finances................( post Empire)
However, WE RICH AMERICANS ( touring Europe on
Fedor's $5.00 (AM) per day.......( on ONE Artist;''s salary,) gave them a FREE ride and got them where they were going!
We are in a transition, We the lightworkers must lead the way!

ANd My Osho card for the day......... Playfulness
Zen Tarot Card
Playfulness

The moment you start seeing life as non-serious, a playfulness, all the burden on your heart disappears. All the fear of death, of life, of love - everything disappears. One starts living with a very light weight or almost no weight. So weightless one becomes, one can fly in the open sky.

Zen's greatest contribution is to give you an alternative to the serious man. The serious man has made the world, the serious man has made all the religions. He has created all the philosophies, all the cultures, all the moralities; everything that exists around you is a creation of the serious man. Zen has dropped out of the serious world. It has created a world of its own which is very playful, full of laughter, where even great masters behave like children.

Osho Nansen: The Point of Departure Chapter 8

Commentary:

Life is rarely as serious as we believe it to be, and when we recognize this fact, it responds by giving us more and more opportunities to play.

The woman in this card is celebrating the joy of being alive, like a butterfly that has emerged from its chrysalis into the promise of the light. She reminds us of the time when we were children, discovering seashells on the beach or building castles in the sand without any concern that the waves might come and wash them away in the next moment. She knows that life is a game, and she's playing the part of a clown right now with no sense of embarrassment or pretense.

When the Page of Fire enters your life, it is a sign that you are ready for the fresh and the new. Something wonderful is just on the horizon, and you have just the right quality of playful innocence and clarity to welcome it with open arms.
Please..all of you join me!

amen QOP amen

Excellent posts. It reminds me of a trite saying, "you can fool some people some of the time. . ." but it sure is difficult to keep it up. The illusions are being exposed in swift succession. Those who keep perpetuating the myth that we're coming out of this recession, while pocketing enormous profit HAVE to know what they're doing. It's one big Madoff scheme with no one talking about where the money is going (or to whom).

And yes, Sally, the media needs to explain (which won't happen)why the 24-7 coverage of right-wing yahoos, guns on hips, swaggering hate speech while those who demonstrate to help expose the illusions are ignored.

Ah well. . .i'm downright thank-full for all the gifts given me. I'll just continue to use those gifts, giving back. Gosh, come to think of it, every person on this board does the same thing!

* Dust Up & Smack Down

Well, what a week! The Equinox really put an exclamation point on the expected ‘unexpected.’ I can’t squeeze everything in here, but I’ll try to hit some of the high points.

The Prez went to the UN and gave another uplifting speech disavowing [bushaholic]’s unilateralism and enlisting global cooperation rather than waving the Great American Penis, as had his predecessor—this made Limbaugh’s brain explode and caused it to leak out this kind of goo: ... http://polwaves.planetwaves.net/

What an interesting evening. A lesson in civics!
There is a lawsuit in DC, DOJ, against my town, for thousands/millions of $ for "discrimination in housing". We were to vote tonight to overturn the moratorium on the farm worker housing project, to stop the lawsuit! Big turnout, feelings running high ( to say the least!)
Astrologically they couldn't have picked a worse time to hold the vote!
T NN & ☽ ☍ n ☉,♃......❏ n ♅ &♇ in ♈ ( Town's n ♅,♇ ❏ n ☉♃♋, no wonder it's such a contentious place!) Then the T ♅, ♄ ☍ is ☌n NN ♍! ANd T♇ ☌n ☽2o ♑. Curious to see if t he Merc direct tomorrow AM will make any difference? I think not.
My friend just called...............the vote was no...oh those idiots.........now we are in for a big $ penalty! SHe ( seated at the dias with the Town Manager & Selectmen, as part of the vote counting group said the expressions on the faces, in the crowd were positively chilling.
This makes the Milbridge Millee Manager last that made the SF Chronicle small peanuts!

Is Hamid Karzai and his brother corrupt, as some in the US administration believe, or is the US playing politics as usual? You be the judge.

http://tinyurl.com/yaus6e7

Oh I am tired tonight........ I meant that makes the story of the Milbridge Millee, last summer that made the Sf Chronicle, small peanuts!

Marta posted this link on the Starlight blog, and I tend to agree with the author's point of view. I too am tired of the West's hypocrisy.

http://www.counterpunch.com/roberts09282009.html

Good article on counterpunch Crystal and they are right as we go down the same path as Rome, Germany leading up to both WW's and Britain in the 1800's. All their empire building brought them to destruction and that's where we are headed.Our greatest hope now is to support strong labor unions and to keep pushing our so called leaders. I don't think anyone in Washington can see the forest for the trees.

You will wake up tomorrow feeling different than today with Mercury going direct, put out your intentions while Mercury is stationary, it goes direct at 5:12am Eastern Time, 6:12am, Central Time, 7:12am Mountain Time and 8:12am Pacific Time.

Interesting......................I feel that the water series of paintings is completed..............( for now)
I still have to do a little more work on 2 of them, but that is just finishing details. It's a wrap! ( 5:15AM EDT!)
Boy, I really didn't feel this way yesterday!
Verrrry interesting!

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Libertas1776/3
In 1944, an ill President Roosevelt(just about a year before his death), the war having taken its toll, addressed Congress in his 11th State of the Union message. At one point, FDR proposed a 2nd Bill of Rights, so to speak, that would cover American's rights where the The Bill of Rights had left off, or covered insufficiently. Of course, he did not intend for a change in the US Constitution, but rather these implementations would be enacted "politically" through legislative change.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4081836
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4081719

A Senate Democratic leader is hoping to blow up the deal reached between the White House, drug makers and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.), by introducing an amendment on the floor to allow prescription drugs to be re-imported from Canada.

My son Eric would have been 50 today............

qop, ah, those Libras! Both of my girls are Libras. Yesterday my eldest turned 28. She lives in Vancouver, so we don't get to see each other much, which is terrible. But I digress. I called to wish her a Happy birthday and she announced that it was her "Champagne" birthday (I'd never heard of it). Turns out that her birth day is on the 28th, and she turned 28. Hence the champagne.

Anyway, time is fleeting. And what was once so close becomes so far away. Time, distance and yes, death, do separate us, though the skein of love will always connect us no matter where we are.

qop-wish that I could hug you. So I will send what we can over the internet: (((((qop))))).
Sally thanks for the reminder on Mercury-as a Gemini and with Mercury so strong and happy in my chart I always "know" when these things go on but have been so busy with "thousands" of things that I wasn't noticing.

Perspective. What you won't find in the NYT, WaPo, or from the "powers that be". Read, if I may suggest, the first 3 posts (and by all means continue on through the rest, if you have the time or inclination).

http://www.chris-floyd.com/

(((((((clymela, & Marta,))))))) Thank you both.
Actually Eric isn't that distant, he has been here with my guides checking on the paintings as they develop!
And he is free of the conflicts that plagued him in life!

ANd here is the full story...........We will be all over the news regrettably.

http://www.bangordailynews.com/detail/122963.html

Milbridge upholds building moratorium
By Sharon Kiley Mack
BDN Staff
MILBRIDGE, Maine — In two separate votes Monday night, more than 165 Milbridge residents upheld a building moratorium that was enacted last June for multiunit housing.
clip...........

"Russell explained that a risk the town was taking was that HUD could determine that a violation had occurred and ask for all federal grant funds that Milbridge had received in the past — a whopping $1.25 million — be repaid."
1,200 people average income $20,000.!
( How do you get through to people like this and tell them they are shooting themselves in the stomach?)

You are very welcome Qop. On another note ...

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/23110

Posted on the internet by "Scott" in reference to the beating of the war drum against Iran ... brought a wry grimace from me ... If the shoe fits... wear it.

"So. Why did you want O'bomba over McCain?"

Marta-thanks for the link to Gary Wills piece.
I was fascinated by his linking the emergence of the Imperial Presidency from WWII. I believe and have for years and will until the end I imagine (oh!! my end. I am no End Times type)that until "we" fall on our knees and beg forgiveness for using the split atom,etc against people and animals and the Earth herself we will be forced into the type of hideous ugliness we are in right now. This belief colors so much of how I act in life and what I demand and expect from leaders. I fear the consequences looming from the Imperial ignoring of "the people". Uranus in Aries is really going to surprise many of the chattering classes-I was born to two Aries- I know where my intuition comes from.

Clymela, you're welcome and I totally agree with you. Here's some to ponder on ... found on the internet:

"We throw good money at these gooks, and they still don't like us to invade their country and kill their people! Really! What does an empire have to do to get a little love around here?"

"What does an empire have to do?" Answer: Repent, and go away, and bring your leaders to trial, and hold them accountable for their war crimes and torturing..

Message to the USA, its leaders, and its people:

"It is unthinkable in the 20th century to fail to distinguish between what constitutes an abominable atrocity that must be prosecuted and what constitutes that 'past' which 'ought not to be stirred up'.
We have to condemn publicly the very idea that some people have the right to repress others. In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousandfold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations. It is for this reason, and not because of the "weakness of indoctrinational work", that they are growing up "indifferent". Young people are acquiring the conviction that foul deeds are never punished on earth, that they always bring prosperity.
It is going to be uncomfortable, horrible, to live in such a country!"
--- Alexandre Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago.

The Gulag Archipelago was written in 1973. Look around, many wars and deaths and lyin' and theivin' later, I think we're there.

Marta... thanks for the Chris Floyd.

Oh, and Marta... for your post at 4:18 pm.

Whoa!! Marta!-thank you for the Solzhenitsyn. I bet I can pick up his book for $1.00 at used book stores and I will.
I was thinking of him when my guy,Steve, had to be hospitalized in a "public hospital"the entire stay was something of a nightmare reminding me of "The Cancer Ward".

Thanks Clymela and JoannaO, you may enjoy (not sure if that's the "appropriate" word) this one, too:

http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/1845-curtain-call-grim-glimpses-of-the-worlds-true-workings.html

(((((((qop)))))))

Dear QOP I know Eric's birthday must be a sad or perhaps a reflective day, nevertheless it is an important day for you and for Eric because it's still his birthday. So happy 50th Eric and bless the mother who gave you life.

(((((qop)))))

I apologize for the length on the following, from British Astrologer Palden Jenkins, but I do think his words are both extremely relevant and timely, if not critically important. He doesn't include aspects, but if you are even somewhat familiar with the planetary cycles, particularly Uranus and Pluto in Conjunction (1960s, 2100s), Square (2010s, 2070s) and the Opposition (2040s), but also the upcoming Neptune-Pluto Square (2060s), you will easily see the energies fall into place:

http://paldywan.blogspot.com/2009/03/what-about-future.html

Palden Jenkins: What about the future?

People keep asking me about the future. Well, I’ve spent decades on this, written a book and articles about it, and I’m going to give a brief summary here.

During 2008, we entered a seven-year period of intense reorientation and change. We’re faced with the overdue issue of accepting and tackling the world’s major problem, and there’s little time left to pretend otherwise. We all know roughly what the issues are. We’re into a phase of facing facts, and it has just begun. The economy won’t be reviving in two years’ time – this is dead serious.

In the next few years I think we’ll get an escalating series of crises, culminating in their coming in multiples, overloading the world’s capacity to handle it. The key issue is not the magnitude of such crises but their poignancy, and the wider issues they bring up. I estimate that, by 2012, we could be facing big stuff, and by 2015 the world will have been sufficiently shocked and battered to have made the necessary reorientation, in principle. Then comes the real stuff.

This involves a mobilisation of the world’s population and resources, and a thorough restructuring of global infrastructure, society, economies and human activity. We could see the bankruptcy and ineffectiveness of governments and nations, collapse of many established systems, a grasping for solutions and also tremendous pulling-together and improvisation – a painful mixture of tragedies and breakthroughs.

The later part of the next decade could begin to become more productive, with a momentum building. In the West in particular, we’ll be seeing a subsidence of material plenty yet an increase in social wealth – human stuff – prompted by major challenges and the need to cooperate, or suffer.

There’s a lot to do, and it takes 40-60 years to establish a forest or reorientate society into a zero-energy world where justice and resolution are becoming properly embedded. We’ll be entering a phase where we’re dealing with problems, but the problem is deep-seated, historical and enormous, and it could take decades until the world can be declared safe, properly proportioned and out of crisis – my earliest estimate is the 2050s, but it could be the 2070s-80s.

The 2020s could be a remarkable decade, with many innovations developing and many improvements gaining shape. Things will be changing fast, with new generations bringing a new approach. Progress in detoxifying the world, peace-building, soil-enrichment, climate recovery, city-rebuilding, resource-reorganisation, cultural change...

Humanity will be sorely tested in its capacity to hold together, to avoid the complexities of mass fear, pressure to feed and supply itself, resolve its conflicts and carry out all the necessary work. Itr could be relentless, but a time of great progress.

The 2030s could bring a wave of deeper challenges though. The problem is global, intricate and complex. Certain longterm consequences of earlier times cannot be fixed easily and quickly, and their effects could be kicking in. Not least population and survival issues. I believe the worst time could be the 2040s – during this decade we could find out whether or not humanity survives.

There could be large scale devastation, but the core issue here is the focusing of the global will and awareness, so that the busy dissonance of the past becomes focused in greater global resonance. That is, will to live, to cooperate, to act as one people with shared interests, and to prioritise whatever it takes to do so. Resonance is the way we will create the necessary miracles to solve the most threatening and crucial of global issues.

I think the 2050s could see a fitful, dawning relief and subsidence of crisis, but also a certain shock and debility amongst humanity. It could be a decade of assimilation of what has happened, and dealing with the consequences. A time of exhaustion, rather like the time after a major war.

By the 2060s or 2070s, a rebuilding phase could be beginning, oriented more to the future than dealing with the consequences of the past. But it’s a long haul, and integrating many of the breakthroughs of the time with daily-life reality could take time. Nevertheless, the world will have been rendered a more safe, just and proportioned place, and it will be a question of dealing with longterm issues here. Humanity will take time to revive, but new generations will be ready for it.

By the end of the century I believe we will have stabilised into a new global state. The world will be more ecologically well-adjusted, the world’s population could be smaller, it will be an integrated planetary system, society will be working on a cooperation basis., much will have changed, by necessity. It could be the beginning of a new age in human history.

That’s the short story. It’s my estimate, not a prediction cut in stone. Disasters and changes will be massive, especially for those on whom they impact most, but perhaps not as catastrophic as some people visualise. The key issue that many people omit to realise at present is that our reality is a manifestation of what goes on inside us, and it changes as we change.

So many world issues could be resolved not only in the physical, organisational way many people visualise – though this will be really important – but also by our changing within ourselves as a race. If you have a chaotic society run by people all looking after their own narrow interests, seeing things from their own viewpoint, you’ll get a turbulent world with an imbalanced climate and all sorts of things going haywire.

But if there is basic human unity of purpose and willingness to cooperate and understand each other, all sorts of things will change. This is not a dream, but a pragmatic solution, a basis for a society, and economy and an ecosystem that works.

Unlike Milbridge, this town is doing it right!
http://tinyurl.com/ycjsllq
"It takes 200 full- and part-time employees to tend to the more than 450,000 tomato plants in New England’s largest greenhouse operation. The company hired about 75 of those workers this summer to accommodate the new greenhouse.
( ALL LOCAL!)
The plants themselves are on a grand scale, some climbing 10 to 12 feet up a network of support wires. Bigger than a broomstick at the stalk, they’re full of dozens of picture-perfect tomatoes. An army of bumblebees takes care of the pollination and in the winter, grow lights mimic the sun to ensure year-round harvests.

To help keep the greenhouse warm, the company uses a wood-fired boiler system for heat, which it installed with the help of a $500,000 grant and loan guarantee from the federal Department of Agriculture."

Great article Neo, the one thing he didn't say is as the last several years have shown us in a disturbing way, countries are being so weakened and have been so weakened it will be even more difficult to withstand or even survive what's ahead. I loved "as we change it changes."

Another thing he didn't say was WHO exactly was doing the very destructive behavior forever n' ever amen... nobody wants to touch that with the proverbial 100 ft pole, & it's the "he (tiny collective) who shall not be named." Those plutocrats, with more money/power than god, work deliberately against the good of all... they care not a pin about "the all" and, in fact, seek to decimate "the all" purposely. I get tired of the deliberate leaving out of the "WHO". Soooo, it will continue as overall same-old same-old no matter what the astrological aspects. They merely coopt those.

And those poor tomato plants will never get a rest because "He" says they shan't. "He" doesn't understand cycles for health--alternate periods of activity & rest, for example--& dismisses them of no bank account. "He" "thinks" Mother Nature is a stupid cow (which are NOT stupid like Him), esp where profit-profit-profit is concerned. So people will be fed with the fruits of plants driven to insanity in their slavery to the great & mighty idiot "Him-In-The-Sky" via "His" local reps. You think I'm kidding?! You think I'm not being Nice? Perish the thought!

The greenhouse is so much better on many levels. People want tomatoes. These tomatoes are locally grown, using already used land. Even with the power usage, the carbon footprint is much less than shipping tomatoes all the way from South America. I would be glad to do without the exploited labor, health problems, and cleared tropical forest land as well.

I understand, CarolJ... things are both/and, not either/or.

I agree, Sally and Joanna. There is definitely something insideous at work "in the shadows" and has been for ages. Whether it is the Illuminati or some other plutonian cabal, the fact is, this group or entity and its' clandestine activities must be thouroughly exposed and put out of commission forever.

My honest opinion now is that the plutonian individuals and organizations at work in the shadows are a direct product of the "good/bad" dichotomy that rests at the very heart of Western Civilization. The belief long held in the US and Europe that we are "the good guys" who are incapable of evil and wrongdoing, has only fostered the creation and growth of a shadow that is in essence that part of ourselves and our society that we individually and collectively deny.

The only solution that will work is to ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY, as a civilization for EVERYTHING we have done both individually and collectively. We must accept responsibility for all of the things that we would rather blame on other people and things. There is no excuse for war and murder profiteering, genocide, ignorance, poverty and starvation, and trashing the Earth. What affects one of us affects us all.

Americans in particular fear our shadow. We cover it up with the flag and patriotism, but it still remains. It will grow until it either overtakes and destroys us from within, or we finally acknowledge it, accept it and take responsibility for it, which means putting a stop to it. One way or another, we will confront, or be confronted by our "dark side" within the next 5 years. All the flag-waving and chest-thumping reactionarianism in the world cannot and will not prevent our date with destiny.

So true Neo......
"The only solution that will work is to ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY, as a civilization for EVERYTHING we have done both individually and collectively. We must accept responsibility for all of the things that we would rather blame on other people and things. There is no excuse for war and murder profiteering, genocide, ignorance, poverty and starvation, and trashing the Earth. What affects one of us affects us all."
I saw this at work, first hand, in Germany 10 years after WWII. Not some of the elders but the young people..who have been running the country ever since. (Well Angela Merkel was a 1 year old baby back in 1955) But you get my drift. ANd always neo-nazism rears it's ugly head BUT their society dispatches it right away, which we are NOT doing!

Tomatoes....O, I am going to be controversial here. I have been trying to grow tomatoes through the winter in my house for several years now. Some varieties are perennial and self pollinating.......
Honey; when they don't feel like producing, THEY DON'T! Believe me!
Of course I don't have a fancy greenhouse or grow lights...but I don't think even gallons of
miracle grow would do the trick!

In case any of you missed it.

Hello everyone,

Mom called with some GOOD news. Her recent CAT scan shows that the "hot spots" are receding. The liquid within her abdomen is shrinking, which is good news also since that is where the cancer cells migrate to.

She is going through another round of chemo this week with a minimum of 7 more rounds in this segment.

The doctors are telling her that this panel of chemo is working and doing it's job.

She is experiencing a lot more exhaustion this week, but she is in good spirits and is thrilled with today's news.

https://www.carepages.com/carepages/lovehealssally/updates/2366641

Words do not express how happy I am to bring this good news to astroworld.............
so I won't even try!
Just "Good Job" everyone all the way around.

Thank you QOP for posting my daughter's info about my CAT Scan. I don't tweeter or tweet because I cannot imagine that anyone would be interested in what I am doing, but I did have a CAT Scan last week and got the results today with my Chemo treatment and the news, as Amy said, was good. I am thrilled and more than hopeful, especially since the "wound vac" delayed my full treatment of chemo in the summer and the lowered cell count was another delay. Thank you all for your good wishes and the light you've been sending, I know it made a difference, a big difference. Bless all of you a million times over in your lives.

NEO, you are RIGHT, RIGHT, RIGHT!!!!! We have to own it and nothing changes until we change. It is going to take a massive shift in consciousness and I try not to look at how far away I feel we are and what it is going to take for that final shift.

"he (tiny collective) who shall not be named."

You know Joanna, when the first Harry Potter book came out and I read it, and read how J.K Rawling said the books when practically channeled to her, I felt as I read all the books that there was a message being given not only to the children but the adults. Was it to be aware to the Muggles, was it there was more than we see or understand, or was it the power we give away to that "shadow" side of this country. The fear of questioning, of seeking, of being different; was the message that what we fear is nothing? and will we eventually see it all for what this country is and has become? I hope so.

We here, have of course already been aware of the Muggles for quite some time................
Yes, there is, WAY, more than we can see or understand....
AND......ONLY WE; can give power to the shadow side! Only we can choose to give in to fear......
We are witnessing a miracle here, not "Sally's Miracle" but, OUR miracle! The POWER of LOVE. The POWER of Believing IS seeing...............

There is another, older, children's story.........
DO you remember Tinkerbelle? Her light fading......until all the children in the theatre cry out "I believe"? And her light returns becomes brilliant.

Interesting...I didn't post that,it did it by itself........
The follow through thought is: how can we best channel this tremendous power of love, and direct it, as an awesome force and direct it where it can affect the most change?
Is anyone else here sending love, & enlightenment, to the the Obama family? I have, they can use a heap of it.
I saw the first herons of the season yesterday down at the stream......................
{As a water creature the heron is also a symbol of going with the flow, and working with the elements of Mother nature rather than struggling against her.

The heron is a beautiful creature, exhibiting grace, and noble stature. It’s no wonder the Native Indians and ancients honored the heron throughout the centuries.
Specifically, the Iroquois tribe held the blue heron as a very good omen, a very lucky sign. They recognized the heron as an expert fisher/hunter. As such, they believed that sighting a heron before a hunt was a sign that the hunt would be a good one.}

And I am grateful that I arrived at the kitchen window to grab the watering can, just in time to see a young buck, chase the blue heron, who had to fly to the opposite stream bank!

WOW!! Sally this is the greatest news. We are continuing to send you love and light.
qop-absolutely to send the Obama's Light and Love. Thank you so much for sending your thoughts on the regal Blue Heron. Do they "pass through" on their way to where the live in the winter months?

Sally, I'm happy to hear of your progress, thanks to your daughter and QOP. I am still holding you in my thoughts, and soliciting prayers for you.

QOP, your posts are so inspiring. I just love reading them - it's like armchair travelling. You are blessed with all that good energy you possess.

It's a beautiful day here on FL's Gulf Coast - the first cool day in 6 months. Feels like the first day of fall - nippy/refreshing, but it won't last. Heat and humidity returning by the weekend.

Thanks everyone for the wonderful posts.

This, I think, is good & shows a Pres Obama with maturity & brains... something main stream press doesn't allow.

* Obama's cunning intersection of Iran and Afghanistan

http://blog.buzzflash.com/carpenter/504

Yes and that good energy, comes from THIS PLACE, where those poor miSlead people cast the wrong vote on Mon. night...............
?
As for the blue herons................
There is no longer any discernable pattern to their comings and goings. There was a pattern for all the wild life here the first 10 years I lived here.
I interpret this as a symptom of climate change!
5 years ago, 2 heron families nested up at the head of the stream, BUT young eagles raided
the nest........so they didn't return to breed.
I have seen them out there with a snow cover as well as in early summer.

* More Lies, More Deceptions
By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS

The G-20 ministers declared their meeting in Pittsburgh a success, but as Rob Kall reports in OpEdNews.com, the meeting’s main success was to turn Pittsburgh into “a ghost-town, emptied of workers and the usual pedestrians, but filled to overflowing with over 12,000 swat cops from all over the US.”

This is “freedom and democracy” at work. The leaders of the G-20 countries, which account for 85% of the world’s income, cannot meet in an [USian] city w/o 12,000 cops outfitted like the emperor’s storm troopers in Star Wars. And the US govt complains about Iran. ... http://www.counterpunch.com/roberts09282009.html

I LOVE blue herons, qop. There's an eatery close by that I patronize just because of its Blue Heron name... a Tai cafe. And dear friends of many years, who have Whiskey Creek running thru their property, often have blue herons a-visiting.

I have an as yet unpainted painting from the year they nested here. One foggy rainy morning when everything was veiled in gray, they were flying around, like prehistoric birds. Because the house is about 50' above the stream, they were at eye level or below! ( Did a quick water color sketch then.)

* Citizen Alert!

This is the guy that needs to be directing healthcare in the US of A — Dr. Howard Dean. He sez the Dubby would have ADORED the Baucus debacle bill. And this is the guy that should be handling financial policy in this nation — Robert Reich. Here’s his pass-around YouTube explaining the Option in about a minute, making complete sense and urging us to make a huge noise. Send it to one of your fence-riding friends NOW. ... http://polwaves.planetwaves.net/

Oh, no... not HIM again. Bushaholic's special lil buddy boy & around & around neverending in our hamster wheel!

* London Times: Tony Blair Set To Become Europe's First President

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6857807.ece

Agree JoannaO. Don't these people ever go away? I guess power is intoxicating.

Or, Crystal... perhaps they're running out of icky old puppets & have to recycle the same ones. ;O) That's a cool thot.

And it's just as painfully obvious that there's no actual world court to bring internationl war criminals, or any other kind of criminal, to justice, eh Crystal? It's just another shuck... a dumb tale... a bale of hay to keep the dumb masses contently chewing their cuds. And the ones that aren't contented... well, there's a snuff out for them. Same-old same-old.

"same old, same old" you're so right joanna and it's been that way forever, the positive and negative in the world and one doesn't know who are the good guys and the bad guys. The shift will come, it always does but waiting for it wears one out. Even the Jupiter/Neptune conjunction which wraps itself around peace and light didn't seem to give too much of that this summer.

Be in the moment.

Oh Ah ha!...........
Mark this new moon as the beginning of a bold new quest.
My soul sister, born the same day, 10 years later, other 4, bookmarked AW on my computer 8 years ago........ just emailed me the outline for how to take the town by spiritual conquest! Executed by the Milbridge Goddesses....+ several more key players.
I won't detail it here because that dissipates energy. But I post it because there IS ANOTHER WAY!
We MUST stop leaking energy with circulated indignation............... WE KNEW we were headed this way....How creative can we be in dealing with it?
Namaste

This is right up my latest focus,remembering things told me before but I wasn't ready yet-I think I am now.
That is focus on what we want to see not what we fear we will see. Sounds simple and I guess that it is but it is not easy. At least for me discipline is required.qop-let me know of any way I could help. Love and Light.

"Be in the moment." - qop

I AM in the moment, qop, & that is what's such a drag imo.

Not new Moon qop, it's a Full Moon in Aries/Libra and aspects the 3/9 houses of the full moon chart in Washington. Fairly interesting full moon too, with a sextile from Mars in Cancer in the 12th to Mercury in Virgo in the 2nd house and transiting Neptune finishing out the yod from the 7th. T-Uranus is in a trine to Mars and opposition to Mercury and Mercury is conjunct the US Neptune as T-Neptune inconjuncts all of it aspects the US Mercury.

Mercury seems to be the messenger on this Full Moon, lots of Mercury contacts and the houses (3/9) representing communication are well in play, as is Neptune. Pay some attention to the information we receive, or have already received this last weekend and the next couple of days. We have Iran on the table, Afganistan (Mc Crystal meeting Obama Friday) California is seriously going broke and has too much money out in loans with China, Senator Baccus has ended the mark up insurance reform bill and is sending it out of the finance committee. Lots of news out there and as per Neptune, we will not get the straight scoop, be sure to listen very carefully especially on health care reform and certainly California if you live there.

Uranus is involved here with a trine to Mars and an opposition to Mercury, so it could all be sudden change. None the less the big info is communication, messages, obfuscation around those messages of the last few days and next couple.

Oh, oops, Sally.........
that was a typo, as I knew it was a FULL moon,
♈ ☽, nudging my ♈ ♀, from behind as it was.....................
clymela, that is a sweet offer......I guess you could send healing thoughts to help make the project work.
And O, if I could figure out how to send you a
seige of herons, ( yes that is the plural for many of them) I would!
Look how happy the Brazilians are to have won the Olympics.............
Sort of points out how greedy Americans have become...... (picture rich) http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x8682080

And Downeast Maine is still a place for individuals!
http://www.bangordailynews.com/detail/123711.html?comment_result=posted#comments-post

UMM professor is Down East’s own college of musical knowledge
MACHIAS, Maine — Behold Gene Nichols: Today he is wearing canary yellow socks, a Peruvian jacket and a dress shirt that is red on one side and blue on the other.

His long white hair has escaped its ponytail and is sort of swirling in surprise around his head, and his oversized glasses dwarf his face as he sits in his music classroom at the University of Maine at Machias — a space that is part playground, part symphony hall, part band shell and wholly wacky.
.................................
Gene is bringing his Ukulale Band to Milbridge, on the 12th, for our Peace Concert.
The couple who organized our "Work for Peace "Group, moved to the feudal kingdom of Bar Harbor
so their kids could graduate from high school there, improving their college admittance.
Now they are back in their house here.........
so we can look forward to more of their well organized events.

Ukulale Band... what a great sound that must be! I played once for a long period the bartitone uke. Sure was fun!

They are a blast O. They also appeared at the Blackfly Ball.
The annual Handel's Messiah concert, not so good.
WIth Gene's sense of fun, and several VERY SELFIMPORTANT local sopranos, and young people just learning........it can't match the absolute perfection of the Pennsylvannia Pro Musica's U of P, I used to enjoy in Phila.
The important thing is..........Gene is teaching his students the love of music!

Which reminds me... if you, Seestas & Bros, haven't seen "August Rush," you're missing something big time! Particularly if you love music. On DVD. Am going to get a copy for my own library & I don't often do that.

qop, I think the Blackfly Ball should be a national holiday, it would be good to have this country laugh and let themselves go. I love your Gene Nichols, he is a perfect character as you describe him and who wouldn't learn to love music through someone like him.

Joanne, I've never heard of "August Rush" but I'm going to look for it.

I did find some clips on you tube of August Rush. Beautiful, just beautiful, "the music is all around us all you have to do is listen." What a statement

Oooooooooh yes!

JoannaO, I've seen August Rush several times. Just loved it!

On another note, here's something to brighten everybody's day and bring a huge smile to your face and a lot of light to your hearts ... Enjoy!

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1154427026066

I'm back to astro-politics. Here's a great page on Pres Obama. http://www.neptunecafe.com/obama.html

Marta..What a great way start the day, all that laughter!

Qop, so glad you enjoyed it. They're adorable!

OH!!! babies!! I love babies! We have three kittens that my grand daughter was rescuing and of course now we will soon have four cats. We already had a mature cat-she is sooo alpha that we thought she would eat the babies but NO!! she mothers them even though she never was a mother herself.

Dr. Pat QOP, has made an amazing miraculous discovery...............
Living WITHOUT FEAR; with LOVE instead, is the best diet going.............
I have lost almost 15 lbs. tis last month!
( Without altering my diet, although I am eating less volume.) I have tried everything I know er:dietricks ocver the last few years & nothing worked.
( G W Bush's fault we are too fat in this country!...Canadians 2 hours away from me are NOT! Been puzzling that one for about 8 years!)

http://www.examiner.com/x-18778-Columbus-Weight-Loss-Examiner~y2009m9d3-Stress-makes-and-keeps-you-fat
Stress is a well-known cause for many health problems, from heart disease to acne. It also makes weight gain more likely due to several metabolic factors - the fight-or-flight cycle of adrenaline, noradrenaline and cortisol, for example - and can lock us mentally into a cycle of stress eating.

Luckily, this can be overcome. Not by going all new-agey and giving up our modern lives to live among the Yanomamo, but by honing the mind to conquer the body's false survival signals.

Now if I can just conquore my typos I will be be perfect!

I think, too, qop that having two unelected criminals, bushaholic n' cheney-shoot-em-up, accepted as "head" (brain) of the US FOR EIGHT YEARS was a HUGE problem. True to natural flow of things (energy), every body is controled by its brain (head). Ergo! A sick "head of the country" (brain) caused an enormously sick body (populace).

That's exactly what I was trying to say O, You expressed it much better.

testing

And so it begins...

The demise of the dollar

Source: The Independent (UK)

In the most profound financial change in recent Middle East history, Gulf Arabs are planning – along with China, Russia, Japan and France – to end dollar dealings for oil, moving instead to a basket of currencies including the Japanese yen and Chinese yuan, the euro, gold and a new, unified currency planned for nations in the Gulf Co-operation Council, including Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait and Qatar.

Secret meetings have already been held by finance ministers and central bank governors in Russia, China, Japan and Brazil to work on the scheme, which will mean that oil will no longer be priced in dollars.

The plans, confirmed to The Independent by both Gulf Arab and Chinese banking sources in Hong Kong, may help to explain the sudden rise in gold prices, but it also augurs an extraordinary transition from dollar markets within nine years

More: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/the-demise-of-the-dollar-1798175.html

In two words: Pluto Return. The days of the US as an empire are numbered.

In the vertex progressed chart Chiron is on the US Saturn right now squaring the US Sun, a disasterous blow has already been delivered and the results of this will play out over the next few years while Saturn and Uranus and Pluto move over that 14 degrees of Saturn. It will be a change for the US for sure and as Pluto comes across that US Saturn and then moves forward to conj. itself at 27 Capricorn coupled with the Jupiter/Saturn conjunction in Aquarius in 2020 giving us a new direction, vision and an opportunity to rebuild over the following 20 years, hopefully a better and more honest direction. A book written by Stephanie Coontz "The America that Never Was" is a real eye opener as to the illusions we've been fed and lived under for decades is well worth the read.

I saw Michael Moore's film tonight "Capitalism - A Love Story" it's worth the time and overwhelming in it's scope of junk we've been fed. Kind of like a "love story" that's filled with lies and broken dreams. We will need to find a new dream folks because the one we've been living has dashed our hopes of "happy every after."

Sorry, the name of the book is "The Way We Never Were."

http://books.google.com/books?id=DTqj0OPRSkUC&dq=The+Way+We+Never+Were&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=en&ei=sezKSuvMJMSltgfh0YjuDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4#v=onepage&q=&f=false

Stephanie Coontz [sociologist] "The Way We Never Were"...

I read that wonderful book a few years ago, Miss Sally, because at that time, I decided to read only material written by women... as they definitely had a different view on the world, recommended it to many, loaned it out, then forgot who unfortunately. Will get another copy & re-read. And I will view Michael Moore's new film, too. Perhaps the guys are finally catching on.

Twilight of Pax Americana

Since the end of WWII, the world has depended on the United States for stability. But with American military and economic dominance waning, capitalism and global security are threatened.

More: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-schwarz29-2009sep29,0,4375015.story

Love this Victor Hugo quote from Anne Ortelee's website:

Weekly Weather October 5, 2009

" The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness....But to talk of light is not necessary to talk of joy. One may suffer in the light; its excess burns....To burn without ceasing to fly, that is the achievement of genius. When you have reached the stage of knowing and loving you will still suffer. The day is born in tears. The enlightened weep, if only for those still in the darkness." Victor Hugo

Good 'un, Crystal. I'll bet more than a few of us are feeling just that way lately... relieved at least we're still in the Light according to Mr. Hugo anyway. Yep... the brightest Light casts the deepest shadow... a physical fact awa spiritual fact. A nice twilight or early morn surely might feel better sometimes. Yup.

* The Rock and the Hard Spot

The Village is echoing with AfPak speculation, esp on the heels of the announcement that Petraeus has prostate cancer and indications that Gates and Obama are not considering exit from Afghanistan. I didn’t expect that so I’m not disheartened; defining, and hopefully limiting, the mission seems to be the challenge of moment. After a disturbing Blackhawk Down type incident, reconfiguration is required. ... http://polwaves.planetwaves.net/

* SaLuSa 7-October-2009

Here we are again, and not that we ever went away, but we realise how uplifting many of you find our messages. The purpose is of course to prepare you for First Contact, and inspire you to find your own path that takes you on to Ascension. By successfully raising your vibrations you enter a higher state of consciousness, and progressively leave the old ones behind that have clouded your vision. The tasks placed before you are within your ability, and having expressed your intent to rise up much support is given to you. That is the beauty of the Spiritual structure that links in with you, the moment you make the decision to evolve in a purposeful manner. It is a wonderful sight to see the areas of Light upon Earth, ever increasing in their magnificence as they spread across it. ... http://www.treeofthegoldenlight.com/First_Contact/mike_quinsey/channeled%20messages/October%202009/salusa__7october2009.htm

* Petit Muiracles

October 1, 2009

"There was no why." - John Muir

In this quote, Muir spoke of being, being with nature. The ecstatic naturalist, who wrote eloquently of his experience with wildness, has been highlighted in Ken Burns' doco on [USia]'s Natl Parks. If you can tolerate endless hours of droning writers' blather, Burnsian sentimentality and nationalism, and music that starts to mould, have a go at it. The history of courage in the face of degradation and greed is worth your time. The parks have proven to be a great and generally kind accomplishment. I've been to quite a few, and indeed they have redeemed my mortal soles, my aching existence and twittered me tweetly. I wept with remembrance and deep love of these protected lands. It's all a Muiracle.

I fall on the side of wilderness, and distain the ignorances of recreation, like snowmobiles in Yellowstone or mountain bikes in Arches or those hideous quad things on natl monuments. Get out and walk! Dwell. Be. ... http://www.in2light.com/

* Mars Meets S Node - Lunar Impact Oct 9, 2009

... Astrology is the perfect timing device and relating to the Moon's Nodes
and the Lunar Impact for 10/09/09.
The astrological chart set for the lunar impact on Oct 9th for the actual impacts which commence at 4:30 am PDT or 11:30 UT have the Moon @ 21 deg 42 min Gemini TSQ Venus-Mercury-Saturn/Virgo and Uranus in Pisces. In the above chart set for UT, the degree of the Mid Heaven

Of course the interesting bit of synchronicity is that Mars will be applying to a conjunction with S Node opposing N Node of the Moon @ 12:23 PM PDT.

More detailed info on this Lunar Bombing has the Centaur rocket (Chironic symbol)
with Sagittarius rising. So the Centaur rocket will strike first, transforming 2200 kg of mass and 10 bn joules of kinetic energy into a blinding flash of heat and light. Researchers expect the impact to throw up a plume of debris as high as 10 km. ... http://www.aquasoul.com/index2.html

There're just no words and I've tried hard to find some.

I'm so glad you liked "The Way We Never Were" Joanna and I'm feeling like "The Way We Will Never Be." Not without some kind of huge metamorphis of the people.

At approximately 7:30 am or so (MDT) the Moon will be at the nuclear degree of 8/9 degrees Gemini. Perfect don't you think. The very concept of "blowing up the moon" leaves me blank and speechless. The utter insanity of it the long term danger and implications of it is just beyond the pale. It leaves me beyond the question "what are they thinking." Was there international input into this? Was it explained? I am sure they can slam a missle into the crust of the moon or think they can, but then what? You drive a hole into any wall and you cannot exactly determine the long term ramifications, it's just beyond stupid and narrow thinking. Lord have Mercy. Remember the old nursery rhyme: "I see the Moon, the Moon sees me, God Bless the Moon and God Bless Me."

If you get the chance to watch the clip of Keith Olbermann's hour long commentary on health care, please consider doing so. He rightly said this isn't about politics, or president, or insurance and big pharma, this is about life over death and choosing life and how can we as a society not stand in unison to choose life for one more day or year or even second, it's why we are here and yes "death" will ultimately win in the end it always does and always will, but how can we not want to choose life when possible. It is an excellent commentary, no, not excellent, outstanding in it's message.

I feel the same way. I haven't even talked about the horror I feel when I hear that we want to "bomb the moon". Really the words I do have are so insufficient to express my grief and sorrow and horror. This from a society that produces citizens who steal girls and boys to use as sex slaves. This from a society that will allow medical care only to those who can pay. I believe that we are lost and we now need a miracle to save us.

JoannaO, both your posts re: riding those recreational vehicles roughshod over pristine park land, tearing it up (get out and walk!! is right), and the bombing of the moon, are a testament to America's culture of violence. It's not bad enough that they practise it here on earth, now they want to be the first to promote it in outer space. It really disgusts me that nobody is trying to stop this lunacy, all to the tune of $79 million in cost to taxpayers.
I used to like swimming in the sea, but can't anymore because of all the rec. activities - jet skis, speed boats, para sailing that take place too close to shore, and have resulted in a lot of accidents, even deaths. Speed and violence - hallmarks of the American culture.

Enjoyed reading that in2light link JoannaO. Mark Krueger sure has a way with words.

The comment by Olberman, was Magnificent! Couldn't make it any clearer than that, & what a story he wove with the story of his friend Mike!

Look at this news...........
Breaking News: Obama wins 2009 Nobel Peace Prize
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4096037

The Uneducated American
By PAUL KRUGMAN

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/09/opinion/09krugman.html?_r=1&th=&adxnnl=1&emc=th&adxnnlx=1255087214-DlC4hTMAaCbu8X2vG7y7rQ

Seems like the much touted moon rocket experiment turned out to be a dud. The only ones who seemed to be happy with the results were the wildly clapping jokers at NASA. Most likely the experiment was a failure - $79 million and not even some smoke to show for it.

Good on 'em, eh Crystal? It's another one of those things that lets us know "money" is an illusion... & so is the massive egoic desire to "bomb the Moon." [they'll never grow up!]

* Attack on the Moon, Saturn's Solar System ~ 09 October 2009

In the last GT I mentioned that Saturn was going galactic. I had no idea that the astronomical community would release new findings that make Saturn a much larger planetary player than previously known. The new discoveries make Saturn - already a solar system unto himself with his 60 + moons and vast array of known rings - seem as if he is creating his a galactic presence. But first, it seems more people want to talk about the attack on the Moon than the discoveries about Saturn - I do hope lord Saturn takes no offense. ... http://www.philipsedgwick.com/

I bookmarked Sedgewick's site.

Oh look at this.& I know 2 of the 5 Board of Directors. David Bright's wife ran against Susan Collins last election.

Maine organic milk producers form company to save farms

True Yankee ingenuity launches MOOMilk
http://www.bangordailynews.com/detail/124751.html?utm_source=BDN+News+Updates&utm_campaign=0e25e95ca8-RSS_MORNINGUPDATE_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email

No time to read or post..just Good Morning AW'rs..........Life is GOOD!
♡

Good Morning back to everyone. And yes life is good. I was delighted to hear that the first assault of the moon was a dud and Crystal I couldn't agree more with your pointing out that assaulting the moon is likened to driving all- terrain vehicles over pristine wilderness. Violence indeed.

I was just roaming around the web tonight when I stumbled upon this. Don't know if any of you have heard of this before. Scroll down to the You Tube video entitled "Space Gate" and play it. Not sure how much of it is fact, and how much conspiracy theory.

http://womenslens.blogspot.com/2008/08/vivianes-corner_09.html

Interesting perspective from a Mayan.
Chile Pixtun, a Guatemalan, says the doomsday theories spring from Western, not Mayan ideas.

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/11/2012-mayan-year-2012-stir_n_316599.html

My first clue of doubt, Clymela, is the music used on the tape... highly manipulative on that part of the brain for emotions.

joannaoregon-good morning dearheart. I think you must be referring to Crystal's entry regarding the space people and Europe and the hidden government. Myself I have never really been interested in extra-terrestrial life or for that matter any hidden government. For me I live one day at a time taking care of those around me reading and writing and loving and working always to come even with the Christian culture I was born into. As I have matured I am even more left leaning out of love than I could have aspired to in my youth.
Good Morning AW's-I love you all and as I say I come here first EVERY day.

http://starsoverwashington.blogspot.com/2009/10/listen-to-heaven-videobrett-dennen.htmlhttp:
I am sending this to all of you. Moved me to tears this morning. Also you could go over and read Jude's comments-so beautiful that I started to weep again.

With Columbus day coming up, here's a different take on the man himself:

"The indigenous population was kind of waiting expectantly, almost with smiles on their faces," Kracht said. "'I wonder what this guy is bringing us?' Well, he's bringing us smallpox, for one thing, and none of us are going to live very long."

http://tinyurl.com/yl8p764

QOP, I agree with the Guatemalan's perspective on 2012. There are so many pressing problems to be dealt with right now, who has time to dwell on it? I myself don't lose sleep over it. My belief is that if something untoward is going to happen, nobody is going to be prepared for it, or can be prepared for it, so why worry?

Right on Crystal! What will happen will happen......
And Clymela..love your lovingness!
O, you are right, and I think some of the "music?" we listen to manipulates our brains in ways we don't like ( that's a collective we)
Today is a lovely day.............

I wonder if friendly ETs put a quabash on that bombing of the moon. Just a thot.

Of course they did, O. That's why I said it would fail the other day!

Mathew again!
http://www.matthewbooks.com/mm/anmviewer.asp?a=112&z=2

Concert for Peace
There will be a concert called Another World is Possible: a Concert for Peace starting at 6 p.m. on Monday, October 12 at the Milbridge Congregational Church, in Milbridge. Participants will include Brian Stewart and Leonora Hildebrandt, Gene Nichols and the Ukelele Band from University of Maine at Machias, Carl Karush and Pepin Mittlehauser, the Milbridge Congregational Church choir, Father Tony Mullaney, Pam Dyer Stewart, and the Rev. Eric Kelley. There is no charge for the concert.

Father Tony Mullaney: left the priesthood, in favor of the Quakers & activism back in the 60's.
Wonderful man!
Wish all of you could attend tonight!

wish I could be there,QOP. Here in Berkeley area we are celebrating Indigenous Peoples Day with wonderful speeches and music and dancers.
I am wondering if the big transit conjunctions of Jupiter,Chiron,Neptune are preparing us to face the coming conflicts hinted at for the major t-square of Saturn oppose Uranus both square Pluto or rather Pluto squaring both-god forbid that we imply that anyone or anything can do anything to Pluto - I was just thinking about this. Has anyone else been thinking along these lines and I would love to hear if anyone else is thinking along these lines.

Dearly wish we could, too, qop! I would LOVE to hear that concert. Mebbe they'll record it on CDs. Keep an eye out for info on a distributor? And thanks for that spiritual "shot in the arm".

I know that ETs exist because it would be silly to think that earthers are the ONLY sentient beings in an endless universe. But I can't always feel that they will help such teeny weeny flotsom & jetsom such as ourselves even when realizing that size is relative... not to mention still dealing with a thyroid issue that makes me depressed as hell. Well, working on that (t)issue, too. ;O)

Have a great day everyone!! ...esp to you, Miss Sally!!!!!

Now for the latest...

SaLuSa 12- October-2009

Dear Ones not only are you progressing as individuals, but better still you are raising the level of Human consciousness. It is your path out of duality and is creating opportunities for other souls to lift themselves up. The energies that you are creating can inspire others, and it is how the awakening gradually brings in more people. This is important at this time when the dark ones are trying to hold on to you. We see a movement in your consciousness that is going to bring about a grand awakening. It will bring about the end of their attempts to hide the truth behind the many actions that have brought about the present reign of fear.

You are the Ones that are paving the way to a new era, and soon you shall see the first benefits arising from it. As we have told you on a number of occasions, it is the right time to claim back what is rightly yours. You have been controlled in many ways over a long time, and without a change of direction would be totally at the mercy of the dark forces. Now you have a world leader who will take heart from the people’s support, and make decisions that will clearly be seen as establishing a peaceful period in human experience. We know what is in his heart, and he only waits for the opportunity to show what he can do. You are crying out for his spiritual perception to show itself and be translated into action, and it will come. ... http://www.treeofthegoldenlight.com/First_Contact/mike_quinsey/channeled%20messages/October%202009/salusa__12_october2009.htm

Same old, same old here too.

http://tinyurl.com/yhy8too

Aaaiiii-chajuajua... where does the "time" go. Seems like yesterday that we all slipped into the "new" century & millennium of 2000... and Lady-Lady, certainly wouldn't want to go back thru those years either.

Yup, Crystal... same old grasping murderous geezers! That certainly hasn't changed in the turn to the new millennium.

The Next New Moon occurs on Oct 17 @ 10:33 PDT or Oct 18 @ 1:33 AM EDT

The moon will be at 24 deg 58 min Libra with this Sabian Symbol: "Information in the symbol of an autumn leaf." http://www.aquasoul.com/index2.html

Words fail me!
You couldn't put that concert on a CD! It was audience participation all the way with Gene's inspired guidance/leadership.
We ALL sang The Age of Aquarius, Let the Sun Shine, Irving Berlin's I'll be Loving You Always........ended with We Shall Overcome, in a circle swaying together.
Brian, & Leonora ( drummer), played several wonderful original songs a Blues for Peace, A Rap for peace.........
And that Pipen Mittlehauser,adorable boy soprano, ( looking like he fell off the columns of a Baroque church in Austria) looked as if he was about to fly us all off "to the 2nd star on the right and on till morning." He had a wicked sense of humor and played the spoons & his cheeks with great precision.
Pam the midwife, r talked about Oxytosin, the "love hormone" which births babies, and is produced at the inception. I urged her to poat it on Common Dreams, Du, Salon, wherever she could to spread her beautiful message..

And dear Tony, loaned me his speech so I could post part of it here! He agreed with me that in the 2 or 3 years we haven't been meeting, everyone in the group has evolved light years...........
This passage evoked for me, the light side of Pluto in Capricorn.

"All the major religions proclaim a UNITY among all Created things. That's a powerful basis for our hope. No created POWER can overcome people United within a total creation.
But it won't happen unless we ORGANIZE. Just think,of the common ROOT (* earth, Capricorn, rooted, stable), of that word with the word ORGANIC, that is "LIVING". We ORGANIZE towards COMMUNITY, whose roots suggest UNITY, together within diversity. We don't organize towards SYSTEM, whose main value is control by a few."
(*my input)

Oh, Forgot to add.........they are showing a film at the church on the 21st. " Rethink Afghanistan."

Re: Your post on Oct. 8 Sally,

"If you get the chance to watch the clip of Keith Olbermann's hour long commentary on health care, please consider doing so. He rightly said this isn't about politics, or president, or insurance and big pharma, this is about life over death and choosing life and how can we as a society not stand in unison to choose life for one more day or year or even second, it's why we are here and yes "death" will ultimately win in the end it always does and always will, but how can we not want to choose life when possible."

The collective concensus at the concert last night was that everyone there, chose LIFE,over death, resoundingly JOYOUSLY & LOUDLY!

Nobel jury defends Obama decision.

http://tinyurl.com/ylhw3ux

The Baucus bill passed. We are so screwed. Here's an interesting comment found at NYT on it.

The Baucus committe must explain the skullduggery they engaged in last spring which is buried 10 graphs from the end of an 8/6/09 article in Business Week:

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/09_33/b4143034820260.htm

“This is good news for UnitedHealth, which benefits when patients pick up more of the tab. In late spring, the Finance Committee was assuming a 76% reimbursement rate on average, meaning consumers would be responsible for paying the remaining 24% of their medical bills, in addition to their insurance premiums. Stevens and his UnitedHealth colleagues urged a more industry-friendly ratio. Subsequently the committee reduced the reimbursement figure to 65%, suggesting a 35% contribution by consumers—more in line with what the big insurer wants. The final figures are still being debated. ”

This pending 50% rise in co-pays & deductibles of all Americans from the current 24% of costs to 35% of costs (on top of our premiums) is exhibit A why there absolutely MUST be a public option to control insurance cost abuse, as well as why this data must be exposed by Democrats and the press at the earliest opportunity.

Broad discussion of this bomb-shell cannot be held until after reforms are completed, or reforms will get blamed by the inusurance industry for hikes obviously approved last spring.

I 'spose it's the uranus/cancer sq neptune/libra babyboomers whom them bad old boyz plutocrats plan to most screw over on SS, etc. Actually, the USian govt has become one vast ponzi scheme tho it mebbe didn't start out that way. Anymore, I have no idea... I just see the effects.

* TW3 and the Long Knives

That Was The Week That Was … absurd in too many ways to count; and we thought the Doublespeak of the earlier 8 yrs abhorrent! Dubby succeeded with his Supreme Court but he also killed off respect for govt, for leadership and civility, and drove a wedge the size of … ahem … Texas between the two parties and their way of perceiving their world.

Today the Baucus Bill shoots into the air like a bomb tossed at the moon … and WTF does that say about ‘civilized’ humankind, that they treat another planet like personal property to be exploited by blowing a hole in it; there will be ripples, oh yes, I believe so! What can the Mother think of opportunistic aggression against Sr Moon? Br Sun is withholding his flares, punishing our errant behavior with future weather issues … and if the flooding and cold snap in the Patch is any warning, the coming months won’t be fun.

So now, masks dropped and long knives waving, the Insurers are in an all-out assault on reform — smell the desperation! They’re threatening a huge bump in costs — an 111% increase in premiums for starters. That’ll teach US to try to get off the reservation! ... http://polwaves.planetwaves.net/

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) -" Just moments after she broke with fellow Republicans and voted in favor of health care reform, Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) came under fire from the GOP for allegedly lying about her nation of birth.

"This vote is going to raise suspicions, once again, that Sen. Snowe was born in Kenya," said GOP Chairman Michael Steele. "We demand that she prove, once and for all, that she is definitely not Kenyan."

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-borowitz/gop-claims-olympia-snowe_b_318963.html

After all all those Somalis DID come to Lewiston Me. several years ago!

And isn't it nice.....Huff Po automatically includes a URL link when you copy & paste the 1st paragraph of an article!

And this is a great idea.
I'm thrilled to announce the launch of HuffPost Impact, our new section devoted to service, causes, volunteering, and giving back. Developed in partnership with the impassioned team at Causecast, HuffPost Impact will use the tools and power of online journalism to help people get involved, work together, and bring about real change. It offers our readers the opportunity to read a news story that moves them, then take immediate action in tangible, specifically tailored ways -- ranging from making a donation to a charitable group, to volunteering and contributing directly to an individual in need, to signing a petition and signing up to stay updated on stories that interest you.

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/announcing-huffpost-impac_b_318098.html

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6767760
"1. Rockefeller affirms there will be a public option. The AHIP PWC report has ticked off plenty of Dems and they are taking it as a threat that the Insurance Industry are about to spike rates.
2. The House is busy drafting legislation that would punish the Insurance Industry for any sort of rate increase prior to the HCR becoming effective. Windfall profit tax, anti-gouging law, etc. They are taking the threat seriously.
3. Rockefeller, Menendez and other Progressive Senators will be on the bill merger committee and will be key in merging the HELP and Finance Committee bills."
more....................

* SaLuSa 14-October-2009

Perhaps somewhat sooner than you might have anticipated, the first meaningful contact is soon to be announced. The news is already spreading like wildfire, and it is going to be a moment when history will be made. You have reached a new stage in this cycle that will see you move even further ahead, and all the promise of a new age will begin to unfold before your eyes. Does it not seem appropriate that at a time when you will be preparing to celebrate Christmas and the New Year, you will have another reason that will bring joy to so many of you. Between now and the end of the year the first official announcement of our existence will go ahead, and none other than Pres Obama will sit at that table. Over a period of time we had been anticipating a more open contact, but in keeping up with your likely re-action it has been decided to take a formal approach. ... http://www.treeofthegoldenlight.com/First_Contact/mike_quinsey/channeled%20messages/October%202009/salusa__14october2009.htm

JoannaO, thanks for posting the polwaves article on the Baucus health bill ...

I just love how the propaganda machine works. Embedded in the article is this tidy little idea, which, if you don't know anything about the health insurance market/plans, helps to allay any fears about something negative (very negative) in the Baucus plan, i.e. the tax on "cadillac" plans (which is another propaganda tool since the only difference between the "cadillac" plans and the plans the insurance companies WANT TO SELL YOU is the cadillac plans have affordable COPAYS and DEDUCTIBLES, hence people USE THEM TO GO GET THEIR HEALTHCARE.

++++++ This is what the article said:

The PricewaterhouseCoopers study also assumes that proposed taxes on high-cost insurance, new levies on insurers and other health industry firms, and Medicare cuts will be directly passed on to privately insured policyholders.

Critics of the study said it tilted those assumptions too far toward a worst case, ignoring the bill’s potential to curb costs (CURBING COSTS MEANS IN INSURANCE LANGUAGE - THAT YOU DON'T USE THE PLAN!).

For example, the tax on high-cost health insurance that Baucus is proposing could lead employers and individuals to switch to lower-cost plans and avoid the levy. If that happens, there would be no additional costs to pass on to consumers.

+++++

EXCEPT THAT NOW YOU WOULD BE PAYING PREMIUMS FOR PLANS THAT ARE DESIGNED NEVER TO BE USED EXCEPT IN THE CASE OF A CATASTROPHE, AND ONLY FOR A SHORT TIME BEFORE THE PERSON GOES BANKRUPT - THE "LOWER COST PLANS" = DEDUCTIBLES OF A MINIMUM OF $2,000 (PER FAMILY MEMBER!!!!!) PER YEAR!!!!! OR EVEN HIGHER, SAY $5,000 DEDUCTIBLES (PER MEMBER/PER YEAR) WITH OUT OF POCKET COSTS AROUND $10,000 PER MEMBER!

Take me: I'm self-employed, pay $535 PER Month for a $2,000 deductible plan. If I get sick I have to pay $2,000 before I get 1 dollar back. So, $7,000 in premiums + $2,000 Deductible. If I get sick $9,000 in expenses for ONE year. If I'm still sick the next year, probably $10,000 in expenses because the premiums go up every year and if you have an "age change" could go up around $500 (a month) like it just did for my brother.

I keep on tellin' ya'll - SINGLE PAYER OR NO MANDATE or NO REFORM. Better the devil you know than this highway robberty. Write your CONgresscritters and senators. I already left Obama a message on the whitehouse site informing him that if there wasn't a single payer (or at least a voluntary, open to all public option in the reform package that he could forget about my support, vote or anything else from me and I'll make sure everybody around me arrives at the same conclusion). This is war.

I'm sorry, I get so darn mad every time I hear the LIES that I feel like I'm going to explode! This is NOT an honest DISCUSSION of the costs/benefits of healthcare reform. THIS IS A FRAUD AND A CHEAT AND A STEAL. By our own government in collusion with big business. Now, when the middle class is reeling from the economy.

You GO, Marta!! It's same-old same-old from the same old old pink flatulated boyz who don't have to worry a thing about THEIR med plans paid for by the same PUBLIC over which they're raking. Soooo.... after all the pompom & flag waving, we still don't have health care in this country. Going to get even more interesting.

* A record year for Wall Street pay

According to the Wall Street Journal, the major US banks and financial firms are on track to hand out a record $140 billion in compensation this year. This is a 20% increase from 2008 and $10bn more than the previous record, set in 2007.

The stock market celebrated the news, outlined in a front-page Journal article on Wed, along with the release of JPMorgan Chase’s 3rd-qtr earnings report, which showed a 7-fold increase in profits from last year to $3.6bn. The Dow Jones Industrial Avg rose 145 pts, closing above the 10,000 mark for the first time in a year.

The record pay being handed out by the 23 largest publicly traded banks, hedge funds, asset mgmt firms and stock and commodity exchanges (the report did not incl privately held companies) underscores the class interests being served by the Obama adm and the subordination of the entire political system to a financial aristocracy which essentially dictates govt policy.

The American financial elite, aided and abetted by the WH and Congress, is profiting from an economic disaster that is driving 100s of millions of working people in the US and around the world into poverty—a disaster precipitated by its own methods of financial speculation and fraud and its manic pursuit of personal gain.

One year after the financial crash of 2008, the richer-than-ever compensation packages for bankers give the lie to Obama’s occasional protests against Wall St “excesses” and talk of tough, new banking regs. It demonstrates that the adm’s economic policies, incl trillions in subsidies to the banks, have been devoted to paying off the bad debts of the bankers at public expense and protecting the wealth of a miniscule section of the population.

There is an element of provocation in the pay awards being doled out by the banks. Far from curbing their avarice, they are flaunting their wealth and power in the midst of soaring unemployment and deepening social misery for millions of Americans. ... http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/oct2009/pers-o15.shtml