Our world is on the cusp of change, according to the Astrological markers. Right now, as of the end of July 2010 we have the following planets on the edge or going over the edge of one sign in to another: Saturn, Chiron, Uranus, Neptune, Jupiter and Mars.
People are often confused about the cusp of a sign. We think that we are a ‘watered down’ version of the sign if we are born on the cusp. For example, one woman I met said “Oh, I’m two signs.” “Oh really?” I pressed her for clarification, she said that since she was born on November 22nd she was both Scorpio and Sagittarius. I had to clarify for her that this isn’t really how it works. I explained to her that it is necessary to actually examine your NATAL CHART in order to know which sign you were really born under – since this changes a bit from year to year – those general guidelines you find in books aren’t really accurate. On top of this, I had to also explain to her that at the end and the beginning of each sign is when it is MOST INTENSE. There is no such thing as a watered down hybrid between the two. Other planets in your NATAL CHART may modify this – but not the Sun. The Sun for her was either intensely Scorpio orintensely Sagittarius – not both and not half of each! After speaking to her for 2 minutes it was pretty obvious to me that she was a SAGITTARIUS and not a Scorpio. She was just too bubbly and lighthearted to be an intense Scorpio type, but she was an intense Sag type.
The world is experiencing something very similar right now. With so MANY planets changing costumes, as it were, this year, we are under nothing less than an entire RE-casting of the world players in our lives. The changes are radical, they are dramatic and even though it happens gradually, like the waves changing from High tide to low tide – it is still both unstoppable and irreversible. You see, when a planet changes from one sign to the next, it often turns around and revisits the past sign again through it’s retrograde motion. Most people are familiar with Retrograde Mercury, but ALL planets turn retrograde at some point or another – except the Sun and the Moon.
Right now, Saturn is finally RETURNING to Libra, he entered Libra last year, then changed directions and went back into Virgo, and now is making his final and permanent change into the Libra energy. The other cusp planets – Uranus, Neptune, Jupiter and Chiron – are or will go through something similar. These are also ALL planets that effect group and social level dynamics, including family. None of them are personal planets. What this means is that society is going through a revision. It will not be the same when we come out the other side (about 12-18 months from now).
These changes started back in 2009 – remember the stock market crash? This was just one of a series of deep-level changes that are taking place. The short version of what these changes are about and what they mean at the big picture level is that the post-modern society is changing radically. Many people still don’t see this (although I find it hard to understand HOW people can cling to illusions of the past when change is so obvious to me).
People will need to work together in groups. We are getting ready to experience disruptions to the flow of goods. Local will be better. Teams will be better (and necessary). More earth disruptions are happening. It will different in different places, but being closer to nature will be hugely important.
Specifics for each person are as individual as you are, and can’t be addressed in this article. These are just guidelines to help people think towards the future and plan for it. Individual forecasts must be looked at privately. In the meantime, be ready to make a new kind of life, and embrace a deeper level of connection to your environment and community – because this is where things are headed.
Aura
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2010 Astrology Forecast (Preview of the Full Report)
First Quarter
JANUARY:
Mars RX – The Year begins with the continuing Retrograde of Mars. This cycle began When Mars Entered the Shadow (ES 10/16/09 at .3 Leo). The Retrograde didn’t actually begin until 12/20/09 at 19.7 Leo. It is the degrees between .03 and 19.7 that are getting a workout now, and anyone who has planets or sensitive degrees in this range will feel it very acutely. Mars rules action, sex, agression, war and men. In Leo it is centered on the personal sense of self, pride and ego. Be prepared to deal with ego imbalances of all kinds during this cycle, and remember to keep your own in check!
Mars Rx
Enters Shadow 10/16/09 .3 Leo
Retrograde 12/20/09 19.7 Leo
Station Direct 3/10/10 .3 Leo
Leaves Shadow 5/17/10 19.7 Leo
(The full forecast is in the PDF report available HERE)
NEW YEARS EVE and the Lunar Eclipse is kind of like Beauty and the Beast. Lunar Eclipse: 31 Dec 2009 10Can14 – ALL ECLIPSE INFLUENCES ARE FOR 6 MONTHS – Starting 3 months BEFORE the Eclipse. The Lunar Eclipse represents SECRET information that is revealed suddenly or unexpectedly. THIS Eclipse influence lasts until March 31.
This Lunar Eclipse takes place in Mid Cancer with it’s opposing Sun in Capricorn. The Cancer – Cap axis is about the traditional ‘Mother’ and ‘Father’ archetypes. The Sun in Cap overshadows the Moon (Lunar Eclipse) to reveal hidden or secret information in the realm of Emotions (Mother) and family (Cancer). The impact of this combo leaves the traditions and restrictions of Capricorn to overshadow feelings. The result is unexpected outbursts of feeling and the subsequent control or clamping down on them.
Solar Eclipse: 15 Jan 2010 25Cap01 - SOLAR Eclipse’s traditionally take something away, particularly something ‘official’ or worldly. This pair (including the Lunar Eclipse two weeks earlier) speaks to the Foreclosure market and the climate of hardship and change it creates. Venus is again tied both the Sun and Moon in this Eclipse and continues to to create financial change. This will mean crisis for some, opportunity for others.
Mercury Retrograde
Entered Shadow at 6′ Cap on Dec 9
Station Retrograde at 22 Cap on Dec 26
Leaves Shadow at 6′ Cap on Feb 3
Jan 13, 2010 Saturn turns retrograde 04Libra – The traditional intepretation of Retrograde planets is that the issues associated with the Retrograde Planet become troublesome during the Retrograde. This is why the Retrograde of Mercury is the stuff of legends – Mercury rules communication.
The Magi interpretation of Retrograde planets is slightly different. On the Magi level we see everything as a moment that is either good or bad timing to start something (usually called Electional Astrology). Retrograde planets in Magi speak are not bad for choosing start dates, not at all. In fact it is very helpful to have planetary combos in your Electional Dates that have aspected Retrograde planets. This is complicated to explain in a written report, but basically it has to do with harnessing the energy of the planets in question and stretching it out for a period of years in order to help you succeed in a chosen venture (marriage, incorporating, buying a house, investing, etc.)
FERUARY:
Jupiter – Saturn quincunx 2/5/10 – A terrible aspect that often takes people who have a bad illness and pushes them over the edge and often causes great disappointment and heartbreak. The good news about this version of the aspect is that Jupiter overcomes the hardships of Saturn, so although it is always a tough aspect, this one allows us to experience a moral victory where darkness is eventually overcome. Whatever you do DON’T start important projects or sign contracts between Feb 3-5. It is bad, bad, bad and nobody needs it.
There are a series of PLANETARY ECLIPSES IN FEBRUARY. These can only be viewed with special software and are overlooked by traditional Astrology. To learn what they mean you will need to get the 20+ page PDF: 2010 Astrological Forecast Report HERE.
Feb 21 there is a harsh aspect between the Sun and Saturn that can hurt someone’s reputation if extra care isn’t taken. This is an aspect that draws skeletons out of the closet. If you have no secrets, then you have nothing to worry about, but if you do… Then be careful. Also watch for news stories between the 19th-21st that crush someone’s reputation. Is there a sexua scandal lurking in the presidents closet? Or will it be yet another squeeky clean public figure?
Early March Ceres squares Uranus/Venus – This shows challenges and inconsistencies with business and business cashflow. It also indicates large scale situations where properties, businesses and other assets are ‘mowed down’ by creditors and other debt collectors. Someone will come out the other side of this owning a TON of stuff, but many, many more people will lose out.
Mar 10, 2010 Mars turns direct 00Leo17 REMEMBER – these Mars influences are the fruit from seeds that were planted last fall when Mars first entered the shadow, so look back to understand what is happening now, this will help you to plan for what to do, and how to benefit once Mars goes Direct and enters the POST shadow.
3/20-21 – The SPRING EQUINOX - All of the season changes are times of GREATEST PRESSURE on planet Earth. This is probably why they were used as pagen festivals for rituals and other religious observances. The Spring Equinox is all about finding the role of individual self by creating balance among partnerships and groups. The tendency and lesson here is to live in an IMBALANCED way. This is often the life-lesson for those who are born near this intense date.
Notes For The Rest of the Year – BE WARNED!! There is another financial crisis coming in May. Exact dates will be in the Q2 Astrology Forrecast PDF report.
Here is an excellent article that was published to one of my Astrology discussion groups.
I do agree that the economy is in for far more hard times than it’s experienced so far, and also that this stock ‘high’ is as false and temporary as any other drug.
I will be posting another article to go over this list of upcoming transits and what they mean to the economy. Also, bear in mind that there is no mention of the Mars Retro cycle here, which I see being the trigger point for a series of economic disasters. I will put my timing into my next article on this.
Here is that article: Mundane Forecast: The Messenger Wore A Skirt
The Economy, Politics, And The 2010s
By Theodore White; judicial astrologer
October 19, 2006–Washington D.C. — There’s a surreal feeling in the
air over America these days. After the Dow Jones Index passed 10,000
points on October 15, 2009 it was reported that New York traders tossed
around commemorative caps and popped champagne bottles like World Series
winners.
Can anyone say “stock bubble time” again?
Because the Dow reached the 10,000 mark and rose 53 percent since March
2009, a month that saw its lowest levels in ten years announcements that
the recession was over was shouted from the rooftops – that is – from
the penthouse rooftops of many of the Robber Barons responsible for the
economic mess in the first place.
“It’s almost like an announcement that the bear market is over,” said
Arthur Hogan, chief market analyst at Jefferies & Co. in Boston. “That
is an eye-opener – ‘Hey, you know what, things must be getting better
because the Dow is over 10,000.”
Back in October 2007 the Dow Jones peaked at 14,164 points. By October
2008 the Dow had lost half its value and was at 6,547 points at its
lowest points. The market rally that is said to have started in March
2009 has seen the Dow Jones rise to its current level above 10,000
points – seeing stocks breaking even over the last decade.
So, what is really going on here?
One economist says that the current stock uptick is “”relief rally that
the world is not coming to an end,” while another says, “”The market by
all technical indicators is completely overbought, just like back in
March it was completely oversold.”
Who to believe?
Some economists say that the rally is psychologically needed since it
convinces older people that they can replenish their 401 K retirement
accounts and urges people to start spending again in the run-up towards
the Christmas holidays.
On top of this, investors need to be persuaded to get back into the
stock market. “Psychology plays a huge role in investing,” says one
financial adviser, “So when you’re trying to overcome the huge levels of
panic and fear that we’ve seen over the last year, psychology shouldn’t
be discounted.”
Global Transits
I continue to be very, very worried. As a mundane astrologer, what I am
seeing is a mirage created by those in power to continue the illusion
that all is well so their banking friends in high places can continue to
horde billions in cash while the dollar is devalued enough to drive down
the enormous amounts of debt losses the banks still have on their books.
The trillions of dollars in residential and commercial credit-default
swaps from investing in the corrupt and unregulated derivatives market
has not gone anywhere.
These enormous losses are still there. On the books as lender and
banking insolvencies continue right to this very day.
Foreclosures, the implosions of small and medium level banks,
bankruptcies of companies large and small continue feeding even more
double-digit unemployment as states cut back on public services seeing
how their pension accounts have been reduced because of the corruption
of derivatives gambling over the last ten years.
Americans are very upset. And they should be. Since 2007, Americans are
nearly every stripe and economic means have lost homes, businesses,
jobs, and their savings while seeing their debt balloon to levels not
witnessed since the Great Depression.
“When sober-minded individuals begin to regard an enterprise within a
nation as ‘an enemy of the people’ you can bet that some serious blood
is going to flow,” says commentator William Howard Kunstler in a recent
column.
“This is now essentially the situation for the Goldman Sachs company,
which last week announced third-quarter earnings of over $3 billion
largely derived from converting zero percent loans from taxpayers into
zero risk profits off of anything paying more than zero percent in
interest, revenue, or dividends.
The “people” across this big country may not have a clue how any of this
is done, and there may be much to fault them on from the
care-and-feeding of their own bodies to the content of their dreams, but
you can’t argue with the fact that they are heavily armed to an extreme.
And although it may be hard to measure with precision, one might venture
to state that they are increasingly pissed off. How else explain popular
entertainments like “Zombieland?”
The machinations of Wall Street illusion continues to be punctuated by
the year-long conjunction of Jupiter in Aquarius to Neptune in Aquarius.
This has been the cause of the 53-percent rise in stocks to force a
rebound for surviving companies before earnings season reports later in
the year. At this time in October, as Jupiter turns direct, the planet
is moving towards its last conjunction with Neptune that is exact on
December 20, 2009.
The stability of a semi-sextile between Neptune in Aquarius and Uranus
in Pisces is shaky, but provides some comfort for those who are fearful
that their retirement savings will be further depleted after losing more
than half their values in 2008-2009. This mutual reception between
Uranus and Neptune is a warning of times to come in the decade of the
2010s.
Moreover, we are about to see a “preview” of mid-2010’s Cardinal Crisis
World Transits with this autumn’s Saturn/Pluto square in the early
degrees of Libra/Capricorn. There are hidden problems and severe
stresses within government, banks, and corporations directly connected
to the theft and waste of trillions in American wealth.
Next year, we see the full strength of the coming Saturn/Uranus/Pluto
T-Square – a cardinal T-square similar to the one that occurred in the
years 1930-33. However, during autumn 2009, we see transiting Saturn
about to square Pluto, a square that will continue into the winter
months of 2010.
At this time of writing [mid-October 2009] there is an uneasy calm in
the country that Kunstler points out is leading up to Christmas:
“All these tensions beat a path into the holiday season when emotions
run high, when blessings are counted and sorrows taste most bitter. So
the big question now floating above the sheer data of Goldman Sachs
profit announcement is: what kind of year-end bonuses will they dare to
pay their executives and minions, and how will the “people” react? It
seems to me that conditions are ripening for a bloodbath.”
The tensions in the country certainly are running high, and as the first
part of next year’s T-square sets up between Saturn in Libra and Pluto
in Capricorn, some economists are scratching their heads while debating
the strength and realities of the Dow Jones’ rise above the 10,000 mark
point:
“The questions lately revolve around whether the nation is destroying
itself by inflation or deflation,” Kunstler says, “By the willful
destruction of the value of our currency to evade the repayment of debt,
or by the hapless destruction of households, companies, and governments
by default and bankruptcy.
It’s a fire-or-ice debate. Either way the nation is going down as a
viable enterprise. The fiction that we can return to a Crate-and-Barrel
credit card orgy has sustained the false of heart and mind for some
months now, but even that pleasant reverie will come to an end as the
foreclosures mount. Only remember, men living in their cars who have
lost nearly everything else will still have guns.”
My forecast for 2010 is the emergence of a second recession, which will
complete the full entry into another economic Depression for the United
States, and many other countries, particularly in the western
hemisphere.
We cannot ignore the coming global transits of 2010 – especially the
Cardinal Crisis Crisis of that time that are shown here in next summer’s
planetary activity:
I believe this is kicked off by the fourth Saturn/Uranus opposition on
the Virgo/Pisces axis that arrives on April 26, 2010. This opposition is
followed by the first Jupiter/Saturn opposition a month later on May
22-23, 2010, then followed by Saturn’s station to direct motion May
30th, which is also followed by a Jupiter/Uranus conjunction on June 8,
2010.
This shows that the transits of spring 2010 leading into early summer
2010 are quite powerful. There are mass protests in the cities as
people, now into their second and third years without jobs, and with the
economy still reeling from the collapse of residential and commercial
real estate – have had enough.
Next year, it is important to clear your schedules for spring & summer
2010 because the energies will simply be too powerful for most people to
handle. The second half of 2010 contains some of the most powerful world
transits witnessed in some time and indicates a need to restrain from
emotional outbursts and gathering in large groups, though this will not
stop many from doing just that.
I advise those reading this to prepare in advance for the powerful time
next year – as 2010 will go down as one of the historic years of the
early 21st century. The economies of many countries will crash, and some
governments will fall leading to a decade of revolutionary sentiment in
many regions of the world.
The months of April, May, June, July & August 2010 feature the build-up,
and then, the total force of the Cardinal Crisis transits worldwide:
* April 6-7 – Pluto stations retrograde at 5-Capricorn
* April 7, 2010 – Saturn re-enters tropical Virgo
* April 26, 2010 – Saturn opposes Uranus (4th opposition)
* May 23, 2010 – Jupiter opposes Saturn (first time since 1990-91)
* May 27-28, 2010 – Uranus enters tropical Aries
* May 30th, 2010 – Saturn stations direct motion
* June 5-6, 2010 – Jupiter enters tropical Aries
* June 6-7, 2010 – Mars enters tropical Virgo
* June 8, 2010 – Jupiter conjoins Uranus
* July 5, 2010 – Uranus stations retrograde at 0-Aries
* July 8, 2010 – Jupiter turns North in declination
* July 11, 2010 – New Moon total eclipse at 19-Cancer (not seen in
N. America)
* July 21, 2010 – Saturn re-enters tropical Libra for good
* July 23, 2010 – Jupiter stations retrograde
* July 25, 2010 – Jupiter Squares Pluto
* July 26, 2010 – Fifth Saturn/Uranus opposition
* July 31, 2010 – Mars & Jupiter turn S in Declination
* August 3, 2010 – Jupiter, retrograde, Squares Pluto again
* August 6, 2010 – Venus turns South in Declination
* August 13-14, 2010 – Uranus re-enters tropical Pisces
* August 16, 2010 – Jupiter Opposes Saturn
* August 20, 2010 – Mercury retrogrades in Virgo
* August 21, 2010 – Saturn Squares Pluto
* September 8, 2010 – Saturn turns South in declination
* September 8, 2010 – New Moon at 15-Virgo
* September 8, 2010 – Venus enters Scorpio
* September 8-9, 2010 – Jupiter re-enters tropical Pisces
* September 12, 2010 – Mercury stations direct
* September 14, 2010 – Pluto stations direct
* September 14, 2010 – Mars enters Scorpio
* September 19, 2010 – Jupiter conjoins Uranus in Pisces
* October 8, 2010 – Venus stations retrograde in Scorpio
My forecast is not positive: The planetary transits above clearly show
that the economy will contract further. The Treasury bond market is not
favorable; moreover, according to my calculations, I see the rise to
10,000+ points of the Dow Jones to be an “illusion” considering
double-digit unemployment, the housing crash, the coming commercial real
estate crash and continued weak consumer spending. Because the banks are
not lending – which is what they are in business to do in the first
place – we can expect the credit crunch and business contraction to
continue into 2010.
Some technical economists are seeing red flags appear on their charts,
seeing that the Dow is only 18 points about its own average of the last
200+ plus days. This indicates that the stock market is overbought.
Commentator James Howard Kunstler observes:
“The sense that Wall Street has pulled off a coup d’etat and taken over
the machinery of the United States is the most powerful meme out there
now, and its power is growing in magnitude every day among all classes
of Americans. I can’t say how much it reflects reality. Even if it is
a result of sheer happenstance – the tragic evolution of an industrial
economy into a financial finagling economy – the citizens will still
experience it as a stealing of their future.
Whatever else one might say about American culture, it is keenly attuned
to a sense of heroes and villains. We take great pride in our ability
to blow away the bad guys. And life imitates art, as Oscar Wilde
observed. If a zombie virus is on the loose in America, the first
infections showed up in the zombie banks, among the zombie bankers.
Watch out, Lloyd Blankfein! Woody is on his way….”
The Messenger Wore A Skirt
None of this would have happened if the powers that be back in the 1990s
had listened to one woman and her team at the Commodity Futures Trading
Commission (CFTC) who was forced out by then-Federal Reserve Chairman
Alan Greenspan and Clinton’s U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin.
“History already has shown that Greenspan was wrong about virtually
everything, and Brooksley was right,” says Frank Partnoy, a former
Wall Street investment banker who is now a professor at the University
of San Diego law school. “I think she has been entirely vindicated.
. . . If there is one person we should have listened to, it was
Brooksley.”
It never amazes me how gender discrimination can lead to wide-spread
later catastrophe such as the one that the United States now faces. This
discrimination was faced former CFTC Chair Brooksley Born – one of the
most fascinating women many Americans have never heard of.
Women are often attacked by groups of males for not being “reasonable”
and for being “stubborn” when being warned about the future consequences
of their actions. This is especially true for brilliant women in
positions of power and was no less true for Brooksley Born, whose
removal from a important position led to the economic meltdown that the
country now experiences.
A former prospect for Attorney General in the Clinton Administration,
Born was passed over in favor of Janet Reno because Bill Clinton found
her “too boring.” A long-time friend of Hilliary Clinton, Brooksley Born
was offered the chairmanship of the CFTC in 1996. Her battles with the
powers-that-be in the Federal Reserve and Treasury Department would
later led to her ousting in what has been called a “typical Washington
turf war.”
This “turf war” ultimately resulted in Greenspan and Rubin allowing the
derivatives market to continue wholly unregulated – and no questions
asked – leading to what is now surely another Great Depression.
Born, a 1960’s-era graduate of Stanford University and Stanford Law
School who was the first female president of the Stanford Law Review,
was an expert on derivatives. Because Over-The-Counter (OTC) derivatives
were under the CFTC’s jurisdiction Born was shocked at the threat
these posed to the economy of the United States.
In a 1996 conversation with Greenspan, who was chairman of the Federal
Reserve Bank, Born related what Greenspan said to her while probing her
philosophy over lunch in Greenspan’s private dining room at the Fed
Bank’s headquarters in Washington D.C.
“Well, Brooksley, I guess you and I will never agree about
fraud,” Born, said she clearly remembers Greenspan saying.
“What is there not to agree on?” Born says she replied.
“Well, you probably will always believe there should be laws against
fraud, and I don’t think there is any need for a law against
fraud,” she recalls. Greenspan, Born says, believed the market would
take care of itself.
Undeterred, Born continued to warn Greenspan, Rubin, and anyone who
would listen that the unregulated market of OTC derivatives trading and
credit-default swaps was a tick time bomb. She was attacked for looking
into this area.
“Nominally and statutorily, OTC derivatives were under the CFTC’s
jurisdiction, and the CFTC had exercised its discretion to partly exempt
the market,” Born said. “But kept some powers and responsibilities that
it had no ability or possibility of exercising or enforcing. Although I
was willing to be persuaded otherwise, I felt strongly that while heavy
regulation was not required, transparency was needed, and some federal
regulator should have information before a disaster occurred rather than
only afterwards.”
Born wrote a “concept” paper on the effects of OTC derivatives.
“There was a firestorm of criticism from the large OTC derivatives
dealers, and they were supported by other financial regulators,” she
said.
Heading her off at the pass was Alan Greenspan and Robert Rubin, who
were said to be “joined at the hip” in getting Born to back off.
“It wasn’t a regulatory effort, Born said. “We were just asking
questions! The concept release didn’t propose any rules. Alan
Greenspan, Arthur Levitt, and Robert Rubin all said that these questions
should not be asked and urged Congress to pass a bill that would forbid
the commission from taking any regulatory steps on over-the-counter
derivatives.”
Now the story is finally coming out. On Tuesday, October 20, Frontline
will feature a report called “The Warning” on Born’s attempts to stop
the growth of the unregulated derivatives market.
The political part of what has to date appeared to be an economic
problem is resolving into a crisis of authority and legitimacy,”
Kunstler says. “When those in charge of a nation’s livelihood prove to
be comprehensively false and dishonest, the economic automatically turns
political.
“Nobody believes the bankers anymore, of course, and nobody believes the
interlocutors of the bankers – the Federal Reserve chairman, the
Secretary of the Treasury, the heads of the SEC and a dozen other
regulatory bodies – and increasingly the charming figure in the White
House cannot be believed on these issues of the nation’s livelihood.”
On January 2nd at 7PM PST I will be appearing on Entertainment Tonight to make an Astrology Forecast for all of your favorite celebrities, like Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Tom & Katie Cruise, Britney Spears, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, Jennifer Anniston, John Mayer, Paula Abdul.
This week – and today – election day, we have a heated set of planetary aspects. But, surprise, emotions are high on the campaign trail and Americans are looking for a fight, no matter what side of the ‘fence’ they are on. This has caused people to even attack ME for making Astrological predictions. sheesh!
Here on this blog, I have gotten slammed on a number of occasions simply for stating my Astrological perspective and making Astrological predictions. Ok, sure I have an opinion too. I’m human. Just for the sake of transparency here is where I am coming from:
1) My number 1 concern and care is for the environment and the planet. And I don’t just talk about it, I run a biodeisel car. I despise the oil companies and what is happening to our world because of pollution and greed. I put my money where my mouth is. I cannot in good conscience give my money to these oil criminals. Precious few people are really doing what matters and taking themselves off of the system that doesn’t work. For me, I believe this is the ONLY thing we CAN do. I don’t think politicians can save us.
2) I run a business, a company and I care deeply about how policy effects my ability to pay people! I am an extremely practical person. I only care about what WORKS. I knew 7 years ago that the mortgage system was being built to fail, and I said so in my columns (Oh yeah, people attacked me then too).
3) I grew up as the child of hippies, Aura is my real name for pete’s sake. So I know first hand what all the weaknesses of delusional, fairy tail, escapist thinking can be. I actually see the rational side to EVERY argument. And I don’t like politicians. None of them. I think our problems are bigger than this. I advocate individual change and responsibility.
4) I believe the best political activism is the activism that creates individual action and personal change and responsibility: plant a garden, get on bio-fuels, invest in wholistic self-sustaining systems (stay away from get rich quick schemes!), take care of your own health by eating healthy and doing regular intestinal cleanses, and exercise, work together with other people, be part of community, live with good values and treat people as you’d like to be treated.
Pretty simple really. Pretty common sense, but for some reason people who read my Astrology predictions think that I am a politico. I am not. I hate politicians (yes, all of them), I just state what I see. I often see things I don’t like, but I am prescient in a way that people need to hear, so I share it. I have even been accused of creating the things I see. Please people! I am merely a messenger. All I want to do is laugh at how crazy this 3 ring circus has become:
Yeah. laughter really IS the best medicine. And here’s my most poignant Astrology prediction yet: We will all need our sense of humor to get through the things that are coming up, because the whole thing is completely INSANE. It doesn’t matter what side of the political warfare you find yourself on, a little kindness, a lot of humanity and deep servings of humor are going to be indispensables. That’s my Astrological story, and I’m sticking to it.
Just based on the Void Moon in his candidacy announcement on Feb 10, 07 at 10am, it’s hard to imagine Obama winning. The Void Moon is indeed a formidable force. Have any of YOU tried to make anything stick that you did on a Void Moon? It’s nearly impossible for most people to do. (For clarification on this check my blog post: ) Basically what I am saying here is that the Void is working against Obama’s candidacy. HOWEVER, the Void still has an impact on the world. That impact is to DEEPEN THE DISCUSSION, make people reflect on what is important and do some inner emotional and spiritual housekeeping. Always a good thing in my book.
Right now, as all this presidential prediction discussion is flying around I see so many Astrologers forget to make note of the current RETROGRADE MERCURY and the current RETROGRADE SATURN. Both of which indicate upcoming changes in trend and overall direction. Mercury goes direct on Feb 19th – which means all of the current discussion will be revised (endlessly) until Early March. Saturn changes direction in May indicating a major change in our collective approach to authority figures, who we take seriously and why, as well as our understanding of the RULES OF ENGAGEMENT.
So many Astrologers also seem to forget that we have another Eclipse season before candidates are announced formally (and it is an *ss kicker too!) The next set of Eclipses take place in August. Get ready for a serious game of hardball. As I keep saying, it ‘aint over yet, and before it ends the plot (and drama) WILL THICKEN.
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