This is the last show of the year and the fact that it falls on Xmas with a near-Full Moon in Cancer is fascinating. This is the natural placement for the Moon, the sign it rules, and so the energy is higher today than other years at this time. The emotions with be on full display and with the holiday itself marked by the Moon in Gemini, a lot of discussion will be heard, especially about family issues or which family member didn’t bother to show up, etc. Some of us are fortunate that we don’t have family close by, as it prevents incendiary words from flying around. It’s a time when many who are alone are depressed. Jesus! It never occurs to these people that it’s dark a lot and Capricorn is the sign of depression and for many people, it’s a cold lonely time, anyway. This is not a comfortable and cozy energy that comes at this time of year. It is symbolized by a hearty, jolly man flying in the dead of winter in the freezing air of night and who climbs up and down chimneys, which itself would be quite a sight. Stories are fun when you’re a little child and can imagine the excitement of a wondrous holiday with bright colors in a dismal time of year. I can see why they fabricated such a holiday. It was all a huge, corporate and commercial enterprise, taking a religious holiday and giving it the Madison Avenue send-up.

Santa was invented in the 1800’s and in the 1930’s, was burned into the American mind as a copy-written version, which was advertised by the Coca-Cola Company. Santa Claus had many iconic men who were blended into the jolly man; such as Saint Nicholas (Eastern Europe), Kris Kringle (German or Dutch), and a few others who were known for their generosity of heart and spirit, which is why they call it a season of gift giving. Jesus was another story that has gone through a few translations and different versions. There was an identical mythological master in Babylon four thousand years before Christ who had many of the same events and circumstances in his life. There was also Buddha, Horus, Mithra, the Sungod of Persia, Krishna and Prometheus…all had commonalities to the Christ Mythos.

If you’re in a festive mood, then you’ll be glad that Hanukkah, Winter Solstice, Christmas and Kwanzaa are all this month. Just to level the playing field, let’s see how they differ. Hanukkah is the festival of lights that celebrates the victory of the Maccabees over the Syrians. A great miracle happened as the oil burned for 8 days instead of one. It was a minor holiday until the little Jewish kids began getting complexes and depression because their goyim friends were scoring big at Christmas since the 1800’s. That the 25th is the birthday of Christ is one of the greatest lies ever told. He was born March 1 in 7 BC when there was a lineup of 6 planets in Pisces and the planet Nibiru came into the solar system and appeared in alignment with Bethlehem. This was an omen that astrologers from Babylon were observing. Balthazar, Gaspar and Melchior saddled up their camels and followed the great conjunction of planets in Pisces and a radiant new star that was really a planet. For the wise men were astrologers and knew that it was the time prophesized. A great being was entering this world. He was an advanced soul from a distant planet of a higher dimensional frequency than ours. We exist in 4 dimensions, the 3 plus time. But there are many more dimensions than these and any physics professor who has knowledge of string theory will tell you that it’s true.

So, he was a Pisces and brought in the teachings of the new age, like peace, love, compassion, healing, forgiveness, spiritual oneness and the eternal soul’s ability to transcend the physical plane. What many people forget is that the three wise men were astrologers, not kings and they were bearing gifts of more than just incense and gold…they came with a story and an astrological analysis as to the destiny of the child. A good astrologer knows from the minute of birth what a child has the potential to become and who they already are. Most certainly, I know I can see because I saw it with my son. So, without knowing of the true parentage, the 3 astrologers were able to determine the fate of the master of love. The actual “father” may have been an alien from the homeworld of the humans who arrived on Earth thousands of years before. The space traveler brought in to the evolutionary equation his remarkable genes and introduced them to a pure Essene woman who had fasted and cleansed for months before, knowing she would receive this special being. The one big problem is that there is no way most of the birth events would have happened in December. However, March is when the census was taken and people would be required to be counted. Joseph and Mary had to go to Bethlehem even though they were from Nazareth, because it was his home town. You can’t expect people to be traveling through the desert in the dead of winter, so there is no truth to the rumor that Jesus was born on Christmas Day. Besides, would a Capricorn make such a sacrifice for as intangible a thing as the spirit? No, they would make a business out of it, which is exactly what the Church has done, along with the sex scandals and the corruption. There are millions of starving children and homeless adults and yet there are huge churches built on the backs of their contributing parishioners.

Christmas was made up to coincide with Saturnalia, the pagan Winter Solstice celebration. Every tradition relating to Yule-time is co-opted from various European pagan cultures from ancient times. Yule-logs were hauled home to be set ablaze and that was a winter tradition that came from necessity…because it was cold! The Christmas you know today was invented in the 19th century by advertising agencies on Madison Avenue to bolster year-end sales and served to commercialize the holiday. Kwanzaa is a harvest festival and they’ve tried to make it more relevant to today’s culture. Well, they all have, praising commercialism and profit above and beyond the spiritual connection you have to the universe and God, which can be discovered in the Winter Solstice. This is the day the Sun’s light begins to increase after a long decent into winter. This is the most powerful day of the pagan calendar and it’s due in no small measure to the kind of earth force Capricorn controls. Pagans are attuned to the natural forces of God, as they are direct manifestations of the perfection of creation.

You see, the difference in religions gives rise to how people perceive God. The Muslims see him as a God who demands a simple life of servitude and 5 worship services a day. You have to fight and die for him to know him, if you are an extremist. The Christians see God as a guy who turns water into wine at a party, has him rise from the dead, then transforms into Santa Claus and every other do-gooder. The Jews see him as the ultimate unknowable, so they don’t really know. That’s why they’re always asking questions about and to God. Like, “Why me?” This is the problem because religion is a dead end for spiritual growth since nothing new is added as we grow and evolve. Well, there have been some changes in the Church, but more as a means of keeping up to the last century.

Capricorn is gloomy and depressed by nature because they are always worried about work and the responsibilities with job and family and their status. This is a time to be joyous and remember that nice Jewish boy, the son of the carpenter, also studied to be a rabbi. As part of that study he learned astrology and numerology, as well as Kabala. In the years that are not reported in the bible, from age 13 until 29 or so, he traveled abroad and learned about all the world religions and belief systems. There were stories of the red-bearded pale skin from the water, the Fish Man, in Central America before the Spaniards set foot there. He also went to Tibet and India to talk with great spiritual masters. Well, why not? If you were God, sending someone on a mission, wouldn’t you send someone you trusted to get a peek in on how you were being regarded or worshipped? I know I would! And wouldn’t you want your messenger to be as informed about the state of humanity as possible? Certainly. But these are myths and theories about a being who may not have been who and what we really think and believe.

The traditions are derived from various legends but the result is reflected by the signs of this time of year. Thanksgiving starts the Holiday Season with the beginning of Sagittarius and the New Year is wrung in by Capricorn, so all the holiday spirit comes down to these two signs. The generosity that it takes to schlep all over creation to find the perfect present or the luck of actually finding something the person likes. Then there is the frustration of buying for someone a more expensive gift than they got you. Or worse, the gift received is wholly inappropriate in every way! What were they thinking? There’s the enthusiasm of opening gifts, which is Sag and there’s depression at not having family or anyone to share the holidays with because of the Cap. When one has these qualities at odds in their personal expression, we call them bi-polar and when the moods shift fast, it’s the bi-polar express.

Here are some powerful thoughts I want to share with you. Savor these gems as precious diamonds and heed their value.
“God doesn’t fail you. You fail yourself. You can’t expect divine intervention unless you merge with the divine.”
“Accept who you are and learn to do the same with others.”
“Speak with an affirmative statement as in, ‘I am doing this’ and you’ll see that your thoughts create reality. Putting your statement into the future tense…as in ‘I will’…or ‘I should’ delays fulfillment of your life.”
You are all a part of the One and the One is in you.
Jews, Christians and Muslims are all descended from Abraham and are like a bad sibling rivalry. Were you all not listening when it was said, Thou shalt not Kill or turn the other cheek…or love thy neighbor?
It seems as though everything Jesus taught has been twisted or forgotten. These people are Christians in name only. Too many people have died in the name of Christ for anyone to bear.

Instead of everyone playing Santa during Christmas, they should be playing Jesus. The expression is not, What would Santa do? Now, if you emulated the spirit of the chart of Jesus, you might get close to higher consciousness, but it does take time. Let’s look at the chart of Jesus.

Jesus Christ - Superstar Cosmic Master, Higher Plane High Priest

Joshua-bar-Joseph was so named to give a family name to a child from nowhere. It’s as though Kal-El rocketed to Earth from Krypton; it was that profound. Joseph was a respected carpenter and master craftsman who took in a girl who had just been raped by an angelic alien…well, perhaps not quite a rape, but an in-utero implantation of a fertilized egg from a highly evolved being. But I’m being Sci-Fi instead of astrological.

He was a Pisces, just before the New Moon and Neptune was on the South Node in Scorpio in a trine to the luminaries as well as an exact conjunction of Jupiter and Uranus as well as Saturn, on the other side of the Sun. Venus was also in Pisces, but not trine Neptune. All of the Pisces planets except Venus are also opposite Pluto, so he came to root out the corruption and destructive ways of humanity. Neptune’s placement shows his sacrifice of death for religious reasons and being the martyr. So, a spiritual master returns to finish what he began many millennia before…in Atlantis. His Mercury in Aquarius ties him to the sunken civilization. By the way, his Venus opposes Mars, the reason he attracted mostly men as his disciples. Mars in Virgo would also be pointing to others to do good service for others. The cherry on top of this fruit salad is the North Node in Taurus in the 5th house, signifying a lesson of love and peace, the very message He came to deliver and the results have been the very opposite.

So, how does one emulate this chart of an integrated spiritual master? One must look long and deep inward and understand that at the heart of the matter is that your body is matter and your spirit is energy and you are charged with igniting that spirit to the highest level you are able. Reach for the stars and if you come up with stardust, it’s better than dirt. Seriously, though, you have to know you are an eternal being with a never-ending connection to the source. You need to believe in yourself as part of the Oneness and are empowered by releasing to it. You would know everything you need to know because you would open up to the universal mind that knows all and accept the words or image that it presents to you and you will not question it because you know it comes from God.

You would love, forgive, understand and be compassionate with everyone, showing no signs of prejudice or negative judgment. You would work hard at anything you attempt because you know from work that you build character and are often of service to others. You would have a natural understanding of your psychic energy and spiritual identity and it would not freak you out in the least. With the Vertex in Leo in the 8th, you would send out rays of unconditional love in a transformational way. You would be an inspiration to millions in this age and will have to reinvent yourself for the next age.

We need a reminder of how to live from those who show by example instead of preaching with their fat asses all into self-indulgence. You do not over-feed your own face when millions around the world and even in your own nation are starving and malnourished. When you see obesity in children, it’s because they live on high starch and high fat diets and because of the expense of lean meats and fresh produce. Every culture has a proscribed diet from its genetic predispositions and historical background. We need to help people re-establish healthful eating/growing/recycling patterns toward self-sustainability. Colonization was a tragic period in Earth’s history because it caused us to fall far from equilibrium and it has gotten worse since then. It’s interesting that religious persecution was one of the main causes of colonization. Where do you put those you want out of your society? Send them to the New World! Even Jesus was said to have visited Central America during his lost years.

So, today is not the birthday of Jesus Christ, rather it is that of the Anti-Christ…
Karl Rove and the Art of Deception
This Neo-Con-Nazi has the Stalin qualities of being a Capricorn with Sun square Saturn, so resentment at growing up with low self-esteem is compensated for by destroying the lives of people with whom they have a problem.
Rove isn’t really a genius, but an evil, twisted, spiritually perverted con artist. His Moon is opposite Mercury retrograde and Venus and they are all square to Neptune! He might be gay in secret, especially with Mars in Aquarius quincunx to Uranus, indicating kinky sexual appetites. He’s led a life of fraud, lies, and deception and has managed to avoid having the finger pointed at him…until now. I believe he is the architect of the stolen elections, including using locals and imports to confuse and pressure the issue. I know he did it in Florida and I wouldn’t doubt that he’s involved with Ohio, as well. But let the astrological facts spell it out.

His Sun is sextile Jupiter, exactly and his Jupiter trines Uranus, which opposes his Sun. So, he’s a political opportunist who manipulates or uses his friends and acquaintances to gain power with his special friend, George, in front of the public. Or he gets people to do his bidding so he can maintain and expand their control and power. Bush and Rove go back to 1977, after Herbert got booted out of the DCI position. I would think there’s a connection there.
Rove’s Sun also conjoins Pallas, leading him into diplomatic circles and it, in turn, is conjoining Chiron, showing his status as a political mentor and consultant. Chiron in Sag shows the giving of advice for political purposes and international hegemony, especially with the trine to Pluto. Chiron squares his Nodes, so this gaping wound of overcompensation permeates his whole existence. Chiron is also close enough to conjoin his Sun, marking him as a wounded soul with global power as his counterweight for his pain.
Ah ha! Eureka, his Pluto squares his Juno! You don’t get it! His sexual proclivities are scandalous! Someone needs to follow him with a video camera and secretly tape a sexual encounter with a young boy, as that would topple him! He has a son but I doubt that he’d go the way of incest, although that Moon opposite Venus square Neptune may hint at just such a scenario. It could also be that he needed the smokescreen of a family in order to operate in conservative circles, just like in the 50’s, when gay people were heavily in the closet.
Mercury retrograde inconjunct Pluto shows repetitive obsession with sex and its attendant passions. It’s also greed, oil, drugs, and other things that are destructive in one way or another…oh yeah…WAR! It’s the political gamesmanship and strategy, which is why he was the one behind having Comedy Central pull That’s My Bush after less than a dozen episodes.
I think he was a victim of sexual abuse by an uncle or older male cousin. This is based on his Mars trine Saturn and Saturn square Uranus as well as the Saturn/Sun square. And the T-Cross of Moon opposite Mercury/Venus squared by Neptune details the relationships of his victims as well as his abusers. The Moon is the Mother and Mercury is either a sibling or an uncle or aunt.

Rove has proposed a national sales tax to replace the income tax and that could eliminate the cost of the IRS. But a flat tax, while simple, is certain to bankrupt the US economy. Everyone pays the same rate and the more you spend, the more tax money you contribute to the coffers. It sounds fair and it might be, but there are always strings attached and we’ll see what they might be. I am always open for change…but it has to be progressive or favorable all around for it to be defensible.

His Capricorn father-knows-best control issues come out when he wants to dictate how people conduct their personal lives by eliminating abortion and gay marriage. The moralistic holier-than-thou is a bit Old World, kick-you-out-of-England mentality. It is against everything the founding fathers wanted, was to have an exclusionary government…okay, only white land owners had any power at the beginning, but it was expanded to free men of a white color for the first century. During the second century of our country’s history, women and blacks and all other people of color were entitled to vote and run for office and participate in the great American Democratic system. Alas, when Rove talks of a permanent Republican majority, it takes away all sense of debate and checks and balances. The government must advise the people and get the consent of the governed. Representatives used to listen to the will of the people but now bow to the Dow and the lobbyists.

Paul Wolfowitz and the World Domination Game
Here’s a Jewish guy born 11 days after John Kerry in the same year and cut from extremely opposite kinds of cloth. This is almost the farthest right anyone has even been in the past twenty years! What is with this man’s obsession to dominate the world? Well, let’s see why he is the way he is.

First of all, he’s a Capricorn with Moon in Scorpio, the two most financially successful signs of the zodiac, but also the most ruthless, especially the Moon in Scorpio, in its fall in a close square to Pluto, making him obsessive, perhaps compulsive too. One needs to witness or experience some form of destruction to handle this energy and sometimes, they willingly seek it out. This could also be born out some incestuous childhood experience. Usually it signifies an intense and explosive family dynamic that foreshadows the kind of violent intentions that lay ahead. It’s also an intention to destroy other people’s countries and cultures to transform them into his delusional vision, which comes into his aura with the Sun square to Neptune. This is his inability to handle reality or see things as they are. He’s looking at what should be the order and structure he wants to put in place. Keep in mind this is the guy who said we would be welcomed by the Iraqis as liberators and would be showered with fruits and flowers. Sun/Neptune paints a glowing landscape of an imaginary scene. The reality may be so 180 degrees, that he will never have any credibility in any other administration. A Capricorn’s reputation is everything, and now he will be perceived as a man who’ll do anything to get into a war to take over another country. He is an imperialistic elitist. Just ask him.

Wolfgang has Mars conjoining Uranus in Gemini, so he has a radical methodology of chaos in his strategy. It could also be some strange, bizarre and kinky sexual practices. They are trine to Neptune, so he incorporates deception and illusion to try to get the job done, however. This should have been a hi-tech shoot, where we can see them but they can’t see us. Instead, it’s the worst nightmare of war; urban combat with high collateral damage and huge civilian casualties. Now, strategy is a Saturn concept and his Saturn may have a wide sextile to Jupiter, for his global domination scheme but it is sadly lacking in the detailed, practical planning part of the program, since his Saturn and Mercury are inconjunct each other, despite being in mutual reception (each other’s signs). He has Pluto on the North Node, like Kerry, but with a different intention, since his wound is so deep, it skews to the anger and cowardice of people who want others to pull the trigger, as he would never stoop to shooting someone himself. If he were to be a part of the war effort from the front lines, he’d have re-thought his strategies a long time ago.

Here’s something else worth considering…Saturn is in a wide opposition to his Sun, which means that all he sees out there is fear and control and he who has it is the winner…and he wants it. There is often an attraction to authority figures and there is also a desire to control, manipulate and dominate other people, having no compassion or feeling for what really goes on behind the scenes in the real response to war. Here’s a theory about his past life…he was a Nazi who was killed in WWII and was reincarnated as a Jew as payback. He may be a man akin to Ariel Sharon, the guy with two girl’s names. Back to Wolfowitz, his Juno is on the South Node, indicating he’s pretty crappy at relationships. Well, look at his Moon and Venus in Scorpio, which is prone to burning bridges behind him when it comes to committed relationships. It could also be him lying prone and getting buggered by hunky gay guys whom he pays for their services so he doesn’t have to form love relationships.

Considering there is good and bad in every sign, Rove and Wolf represent much of the worst of the sign; power-mad control freaks who seek global domination and are more akin to James Bond villains than to diplomats or even real politicians. They play dirty with the ends justifying their means, even if it means many good people die. They’re thinning the herd and considering it all a sacrifice for their cause more than their country. Wolf and Rove never served in the military, did they? Rove was leading the College Republicans after he had already dropped out of college. He devoted his time to engaging in dirty tricks against candidates of his choice and tried to make sure they lost when he wanted them to. He also loaded up the angry mob from DC and sent them to Florida to harass the bureaucrats and disturb the recount, causing a premature end to the counting, thus ensuring Bush’s victory. Also, as it turns out, the “Bush Doctrine” is really the Wolfowitz Strategy. Wolf is one of the key founders of the PNAC and if it doesn’t frighten you, then you don’t know about it. And if you don’t know about it, you had better learn. Newamericancentury.org is the address, so check it out.

Interestingly, there is little biographical information on either of these Neocon strategists and Capricorns like it that way. They use the power of secrecy to avoid having anyone find out about their goals or motives and what’s behind them. They have to use people to gain the power and from its use, they achieve even more power. After a while, one wonders, what these men do not recognize is that the misuse of power corrupts down through the soul and into the heart. These people love power more than they love other people, which cast them far afield from most of humanity. So, I suppose the way it plays out will determine how we shall view them in the future. Political operatives with an agenda to remake the world in their image of a Bush-ocracy are all too rampant right now, as it is. Perhaps if they see the results of a second term as it wreaks havoc and the coming apocalypse that is a holy war in the Middle East, they’ll reconsider their political affiliations.

Now the Democrats may be in for some conflict on the issue of abortion, depending upon who becomes the leader of the DNC. Will it be the ultimate liberal, Scorpio Howard Dean, although there are some things that aren’t so extremely left about him? Or could it be the anti-abortionist, Tim Roemer from IN? But in the bigger picture, making abortion an issue at all is questioning the rights of individuals to take care of their bodies in a way they see fit. Legislating individual responsibility for one’s own body is virtually impossible to enforce, plus it shouldn’t matter to anyone else, anyway. People walk around all day long, committing suicide in one way or another. With some, smoking tobacco, with others, it’s alcohol, while still others do drugs of some sort or another. What’s worse is the government is in bed with these industries, rubber stamping their efficacy while they refuse to do the same for a product that causes little to no harm and even has medicinal benefit? It’s shear idiocy and will not change under this administration in the next four years, even though they will increase the rape of the wilderness and deforest millions of acres in clear cuts.

Abortion should be less of an issue than the environment, which is in danger of such rapid deterioration unless changes are made in reducing fossil fuels. Your SUV is contributing to our demise, the effects of global warming and air pollution. If every car were a hybrid, we would save money on gas and the pollutants would be significantly decreased, plus the engines would be quieter. We have to take a stand and refuse to allow the Forest Service to cave under pressure from the feds to allow loggers and oil wildcatters to come on our pristine lands and devastate the ecological balance and woodland creature habitats.

In the ultimate environmental balance, a world covered by hemp would make a difference in the air and the water as well as reducing the need for lumber. Hemp fiber could supplement cotton, wood, and even steel, as fabrication methods are worked out and scientists and engineers are given an opportunity to work with the materials in labs and shops. You could clothe, feed, house and move millions of people with hemp products. Everything from most of the car parts to the fuel and oil to propel and lubricate it. We have a really useful panoply of production from an abundant weed. It would make excellent lightweight bullet resistant vests, too. So, why won’t the government let it be free? It’s a weed that will grow everywhere, by anyone for any purpose. Corporate control or commercial products would be in competition, even though we are the land of free enterprise. Ironic, isn’t it?

I notice the gas prices coming down under $2/gal in the Valley and wonder what that really means in terms of the overall picture regarding oil. Not that I drive all that much, but it does have a ripple effect in the economy. People like to travel and if it costs too much to fill up the tank, then they’ll be less likely to want to venture far away. If there were an infusion of cheaper ethanol on the market and engines could be refined to handle that as a primary fuel, we’d be looking a millions of acres of hemp plants providing the resource for fuel and a fiberglass-like material that is lighter and stronger than steel. Farming would once again become a field to move into, so to speak. Government lands could be cooperatively tended by Native American tribes, as we offer them a chance to get out of the glitz of the casino and back to their native ways, with horses and hunting and tending the crops. The greening of America would be the great work.

Now Xmas is over
A week ‘til the New Year
Let’s just keep hoping
We can live without fear.

Full Moon on Xmas happens every nineteen years
A couple times it happened we had Cold War fears
It was close in ’88 and again in ‘85
I tell you we’re lucky, just to be alive.

Full Moon on Xmas is more rare than you think
There was one in ’96 and again in ‘77
It was just after they found Chiron up there
After years of studying the heavens

I want to wish you all a Merry Saturnalia and Xmas or Kwanzaa or whatever you choose to celebrate in this first week of winter. May it be all of the season you hope it to be and may it be merry and bright, as the stars in the sky and the stars in your eyes.

Mercury comes out of retrograde tomorrow, so sing praises unto the lord of hosts. We are free of the insanity that has been the last three weeks, with only the last frantic week before the Xmas deadline. It really is a shame people don’t keep the spirit of Xmas all year long, since they need some kind of reminder that an event didn’t happen on this date 2004 years ago.

Mercury, as it happens, is sandwiched in between Jupiter and Neptune, in a sextile to each of them and it suggests several ways of handling the coming weeks. We need to see past our own noses to grasp the truth. You have a better understanding of the bigger picture when you also examine all the information. Just the facts, madam, but you know…there is a higher truth than just eyewitness evidence and that is the eternal truth of God. We can know it by tuning into the highest vibration of our soul. Jupiter expands our spiritual perceptions and increases our wisdom by encouraging us to trust our natural psychic instincts. It is the energy of the mind as it connects to the electromagnetic energy of the spirit. Somewhere in the transmission of these signals, we try to consciously intercept them and negate them based on our negative programming. Now, we can access some of these higher-mind files, for lack of a better term, hopefully put them to good use, except we’ll have to wait for Saturn to do the heavy lifting on that.

The Moon is in Pisces at the start of this show, just past the First Quarter, so if my imagination and dreaminess get to you, that’s the energy of the top of the morning for you. In fact, this Moon is part of a Grand Water Trine, completed by Mars in Scorpio and Saturn in Cancer. The message is that it should be easy to get things done today if you believe in what you’re doing. Nothing is really easy under Saturn’s influence, but in relative terms, accomplishing a significant goal is never easy but is more readily attainable under these kinds of energies than more challenging ones…or none at all.

This week’s skyscope.
Two days before the solstice, on the 19th, we have a trifecta of two aspects and Mercury’s change of direction. The Venus square Uranus, an aspect that shows a lack of intimacy due to detachment and aloofness, can also break up relationships, guaranteeing that you’ll be without a date over the holidays. It could also have something to do with the fluctuation of the dollar and other global currency prices but its effects are often temporary. Mars trines Saturn, also, making for good organizational energy and discipline in the ranks, too. It could be said to be the war is good for business, as long as you aren’t setting up shop in Iraq. And, last and best, is the turning of Mercury direct! Yay! We can start thinking straight now and begin things that will work out. Since this lunar cycle culminates with a Full Moon on the morning of the 26th, it’s time, this next week to resolve any business matters that initiate new ideas or directions.
The Winter Solstice on the 21st happens to be the day after Mercury goes direct, lifting the millstone that weighs on this earthy sign. With the Moon in Taurus, business can get accomplished with fewer complications and it should be a season of relative prosperity. On the 24th, the Sun sextile Uranus flips on the light of a creative future and friendly associations with all humanity but not exactly peace on Earth and goodwill toward men. Mars enters Sagittarius on Christmas Day, so don’t expect the fighting to stop, in fact, it well may increase and expand on this Full Moon.
It is perhaps this very energy that the Bush administration is kicking off its ill-advised and ill-timed financial plans. Social Insecurity, it will come to be called.

This is the weekend of Venus square Uranus, when breakups are common and intimacy issues abound. It’s an aspect found in the charts of people who prefer alternative people and lifestyles. We’re talking gay and lesbian as well as transgender people will have this. It can be indicative of short-term affairs or just quickies or attractions to bizarre and eccentric people. It could also relate to the revolutionary types and the radical freedom fighters, who only want to live in their land without being invaded by strange people who don’t understand the language, the cultures and customs of the lands they seek to liberate. You can also sense that some people have values so completely different from yours that you may never really blend well, except in the most detached of ways. It might be at the gas station where you tell Abdul to keep the change, not wanting to insight a fatwah right there. We are all born to be different. Regimenting us and instilling the same programming does nothing to help the evolutionary journey of the soul.

Abstinence makes the heart just wander. It doesn’t make the heart grow fonder. It doesn’t prevent the sexual desire and it just can’t stop that youthful fire. Teen sex is down and contraception is up. At least that’s what they would like you to believe. When you make up the stats and play with the facts, it’s very easy to deceive. It’s really sad that the program that our government has out now rejects medical science and pushes religious beliefs and actually creates unfounded fears based on fantasy and hearsay. Sexual myths are rampant. The worst I’ve heard is that sex with a virgin will cure or prevent AIDS. This is prominent in Third World countries where ignorance and poor education is ubiquitous. Malnutrition also contributes to Attention Deficit Disorder; hence learning disorders are a big part of the resulting problems. I think kids are smarter than adults give them credit for. Sure, some do stupid things, but they are a result of their environments and social influences. Adults need to watch themselves more carefully around young people, as they are often unwitting role models.

More girls 18-19 are sexually active than boys in the same age group. So, maybe they are going for older guys…or, as with many Cancer girls, younger, but the times have changed, perhaps forever. Gone is the innocence of youth and the joy of discovery, sometimes surreptitiously finding out secrets about sex from literature your parents had. One of my sources was My Secret Life and another was Sexual Variations or was that deviations? Needless to say, I was well informed long before my first encounter. It doesn’t necessarily relate to a better performance. It astounds me how many men seem to need some sexual performance enhancer. There might be a medical reason for the dysfunction but there are two other factors that weigh in considerably as having an effect. I actually don’t know how much study has been done on impotence but I have theories of my own. They say dysfunction is caused by impotence and to me they are the same thing. Two things can cause it and that would be alcohol and weight or diet, because they are closely related. You are what you eat and if you don’t eat the right foods, you won’t have the energy or blood flow to make that little friend pay attention. Doctors will tell you that the physical causes might be due to heart disease, prostate cancer, diabetes or Peyronie’s disease. The psychological causes are depression, stress and anxiety. Jeez, if that’s the case, most men must be impotent. I’m telling you, though, their reasons relate directly to my reasons. Far too many people eat the wrong foods and drink alcohol and it creates moods swings that are most perplexing for others to handle, which is why the divorce rate is so high and people are rude and violent toward each other. Unhealthy living in so many ways, destroys the pleasure of a human existence.

This leads me the mental disease of Sagittarius; Bi-Polar Disorder. It’s also referred to as manic-depressive, wherein the qualities of Sag and Capricorn alternate and clash at every turn. Handling the enthusiasm of an upward emotional trend is exhilarating but the crash of depression is difficult for most of these people to endure. Most people have their endorphins regulated by exercise and are able to release the tension that a polarity like this experiences. Those who don’t express most sides of their personality with any natural flow develop internal imbalances that throw their equilibrium off-center and then it becomes difficult to juggle the various emotions we have to deal with throughout the day. Far too many people have lesser addictions to caffeine, nicotine, carbohydrates, sugar, salt and other stuff that isn’t all that healthy for the human body in the amounts they are using. Sag is about risky and excessive behaviors and Cap is about control and fear, so you can see where they would conflict. Most of us live closer to the temperate zone in between the extremes of the Equator and the poles. So too, would most people be in a more temperate place emotionally, as well. I should also mention that Don Juan was Sagittarius and there is a sexual wildness about them that has a hard time being restrained, since the wanderlust continues, even if it’s all in the mind.

I’m sure a lot of federal elected officials are getting their share of action, both on the sexual front and the financial end of things, as well. Everyone knows about the Beltway call girls and hookers, but there is a sleazier side to DC than the sex trade. It’s the influence peddling that is being done by highly paid lobbyists. Now it’s one thing to be a political operative and then go into lobbying, like James Carville, the ragin’ Cajun. But there is no more obviously dishonest way of moving into the field than the way Rep. Billy Tauzin just did it.

Tauzin had his son run for his vacated seat in the House and after serving as the committee chair to write the prescription drug benefit coverage under the Medicare reform bill, he has moved into being the top pharmaceutical lobbyist. It confirms what we have known all along; a deal was made in a back room with cigar smoke billowing around these politicians and lobbyists as the House gave the store away to the big drug companies. Billy’s personal rationale is that he was saved from cancer by drugs and he wants to give something back to shore up their maligned and corrupt public image. Maybe if he hadn’t associated with so many toxic people or in poisoned environments, he wouldn’t have come down with cancer in the first place.

Mental illness in returning Marines and soldiers from Iraq is astoundingly high. There’s all of that heroine coming out of Afghanistan, so they may have used some of that. Or it may have been the lack of personal interactive-ness of human response. Morale is low, the lies are fast and thick, the abuse of Iraqis widespread and the hatred of America is rampant in the country that should have been a walk in the park but for the mismanagement of a war that should never have happened. There is darkness upon the wasted land of Iraq, where lives will forever be changed and the democracy of Iraq will revert to being a republic, just like we are. When votes aren’t counted unless they go to the predetermined winner, they don’t say much about it.

Anyway, our soldiers and Marines are dying in combat and the wounded are brought back home but there are scars on many that are never seen. We have seen serious combat-related psychological damage before but not often like this. There is more madness from this war than ever before. Back during the previous quagmire in Viet Nam, men suffered from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and seemed to disappear in the streets of urban areas, close to VA hospitals but apart from any semblance of community. They couldn’t re-integrate with society because when they were away from it, so much happened to destroy their humanity, which is what I believe is going on with many of the Iraq War returnees. We have more people deployed now than anytime since Nam and it isn’t going to be any easier to re-program these people coming back for life as it was. A while back there was a series of murder-suicides by returnees in Fort Bragg and it got national attention. But we have a bad case of national ADD. We have little memory for the ills of the recent past when we have so many new ones to deal with.

The dollar is weak on the world market and it’s because of the tax cuts that have caused huge deficits…yet Cheney wants more tax cuts! Is that Aquarian insane? You bet! He’s certainly no genius, even if he is following Grover Norquist’s ludicrous plan for miniscule government. In a country this size, you need a reasonably solid federal government and if you want to dismantle it from within while imposing limitations on states to conduct business to a point where they won’t go bankrupt, then you need to empower them and let them make laws and raise taxes that the feds can’t touch. The way of improving the national budget crisis is the way the Democrats would…raise back up the taxes on the very rich. These are the friends of Bush and they aren’t looking forward to that but it is the only way we can keep this country’s economy solvent.

It’s quite likely that the hero mythos is a Sagittarius scenario. The quest for a talisman or a truth or a key that unlocks great magic beyond what is known are all paths that have been taken. The hero always seems to be overwhelmed by obstacles, outgunned, out-manned, but not out-witted. There is also physical endurance that is almost invariably tested to the extreme limits. Frodo is a perfect example of the extremes of a journey and a quest to save Middle Earth. The temptation to succumb to the power of the dark side is easy, to resist is harder than humanly possibly. The risks are many and the rewards are great and the stress that it takes to survive would destroy a lesser person. You have to be more than the best you can be and these are all Sag themes.

Chiron represents the wounded hero, as well and in the book I’m reading, never was it more apparent. The wizard, who never wanted to be like the druids of old, is the last of his line and has no right arm. He is poisoned by a thorn of a vegetative guardian of an ancient key, which helps unlock incredible magic power. Like Lord of the Rings, he has chosen a fellowship of companions to aid him on the trek. There are those with a shadowy past, like Clint Eastwood’s Man with no Name or the hero with a fatal flaw, like Barry Bonds and far too many from all different fields.

In many cases, a hero will fight to the death to defend his land and his people. In some cases, he is beaten to death by police, as happened with Stephen Bantu Biko in South Africa, whose birthday was today. His middle name tells what tribal heritage he descended from, the Bantu tribe. Peter Gabriel sang a song about Biko, who was born in 1946 and died 27 years ago, when Chiron opposed his Chiron, incidentally, just before it was discovered. Mars, Jupiter and the Moon were in opposition to his Mars/Sun conjunction at the time of what would prove to be his fatal beating. Biko had studied medicine and was on the forefront of anti-apartheid politics, which made him unpopular with many whites. You can google him and find out more but here’s the astrological truth.

His Sun/Mars conjunction flares with the fighting instinct, often with great power, but being a Sag with Moon in Scorpio, as well as Venus conjoining Jupiter in Scorpio, he was a deeper, more profound man than just making lots of money. He wanted to benefit his people in the ways men of intelligence and accomplishment do. His Mercury in Sag trine to Saturn and Pluto gave him the serious depth few others have and the commitment to bring positive change to his people. Uranus in opposition to his Sun shows an association with idealistic freedom lovers and progressives, and would indicate the possibility of an accidental neurological problem, which happened several days before he died, when he was beaten repeatedly about the head. Perhaps his Moon in Scorpio squared by Saturn shows the end of life at the hands of the authorities. Yet, this is the same aspect that shows parental troubles and divorced families, as well as depression…hmm. Is there a connection between these kinds of experiences and depression? You think?

The truth of his death was altered as more truth leaked out and it became a rallying call and even a battle cry for freedom and justice. Marginalizing the native people of Africa and resettling them on lands non-native or indigenous to their people is equivalent to what we did to the Indians here. The spirit of wild horses and buffalo roaming free was all but silenced when white settlers invaded and settled pristine lands such as all of the Western Hemisphere. It also happened in Africa, despite having a long and ancient history with local peoples descended from long forgotten tribes of pre-history. Humans first came out of Africa millions of years ago and yet, many stayed, physically adapted to the warm climate of the Equator. Nomadic lifestyles were the preferred way of experiencing different seasons with hunting and gathering the method of sustaining their bodies. This is why there were no established cities or nations of apparent power to compete with the imperialist colonials whose efforts at conquest were spurred by the greed of their kings.

Imagine the life of living off of a land of organic gardens and vast forests filled with nuts and fruits and berries, as well as fish and game of every sort. You would live in complete harmony with nature and have rituals to celebrate significant celestial events, as that was the main form of visual entertainment, unless it was storytelling or song and dance. Then the white men came and destroyed everything, polluted everywhere, fenced off every place and sold off land as though it could belong to someone. There is a madness of ownership and greed in the white man that most other races did not have for a long time. Many Asians may have had that ownership affliction for a long time, as they would have had some contact with the west over the millennia. The New World was new to the concept and it has been a harsh lesson for us, since we are poisoning ourselves daily, with every breath you take and every move you make.

Meanwhile, back in Vienna…Beethoven had his birthday two days ago and would have been 234 years old, although he has been decomposing for 177 years. Well, that’s only fair since he spent most of his first 57 years composing, to which few have ever improved on his achievements. He remains a monolith of musical edifices. Nine magnificent symphonies, 7 concertos, 47 sonatas, 16 string quartets, dozens of other works for all kinds of instrumental combinations. As a pianist/composer/performer/conductor, he would often perform his latest works from the piano or podium, to the awe of many. He worked like a madman on his scores and crossed out, furiously, passages he didn’t like. He composed two masses, an oratorio, only one opera but wrote four overtures for it.

By our best reports, Ludwig was a triple Sagittarius, being born a day before a New Moon, thus finishing up a cycle of experience. Perhaps he was a composer in a previous life on another world and brought this wave of advancement to music of that time. With Mars in the 7th house, opposite his Sun, ASC, Moon and Mercury, he was rude, inconsiderate and abrasive with most people. Having Moon square Neptune explains his escape into writing music when his father wanted him to be a performing monkey. It’s also a sign of his victimization at the hands of a family member.

A profound grand trine in his chart shows his effect upon generations of listeners. Here we find the three outer planets, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto in a close triangulation, which rarely happens. I think the Neptune/Pluto cycle happens over a five hundred year period, so only twice in the period are they trine. And how often with Uranus as well? I had never looked into it. Well, now I have, after half an hour. It hasn’t happened any other time in the last two thousand years, I can assure you of that. I took the tedious research time and looked it up myself. You can calculate when the aspects between Neptune and Pluto occur, so there hasn’t been any other correspondence with Uranus in a trine in the last two millennia, which is saying something for the incredible Herr Beethoven.

There were things about the man that showed he wasn’t the hippest dude of his era. It has to do with his Venus, i.e. social skills and fashion sense, which, in his case, were extremely lacking. He was rude, opinionated and gee, like Berlioz but even more ahead of his time. Berlioz would have had nothing without Beethoven clearing the way.

So, where might the deafness come, oh great forensic astrologer? I’m mighty glad you asked that, son. You see, Mars rules the blows to the head his father so brutally pounded him with and the opposition to his Sun, Moon and Mercury show that it happened early in his life, Mars in Gemini, sign of repeated beatings.
Saturn (father) square Uranus shows the chronic nerve damage received as a result of his father’s abuse. I wonder if there would be any physical evidence on his skull from those early beatings? There could be fracture marks that may have healed.

I suppose Sagittarius makes me think of my own childhood, when my Sag dad beat me with his belt. My Sun is on his South Node, so I probably drove him crazy, but I turned out all right, for what I am supposed to be. Sag is supposed to be the teacher and all he would tell me is to smarten up. What a great teacher! But that’s exactly what I did!

Steven Spielberg’s birthday is also today and he’s got Mars on his Sun, so he was into the action/adventure theme for a while. He’s a man of depth from having 3 planets in Scorpio along with Chiron. Wait a minute…what’s incredible is that Biko is the same day and year! Oh Steven! You must do this! Stephen Biko by Steven Spielberg. What a perfect fit! It could be ready in time for the 30th anniversary of Biko’s death. It’ll be his biggest biopic since Schindler. Then maybe he can go after the Indians’ story from their viewpoint. Making a point about human rights whether in the present or the past is important for the collective consciousness of the civilization, so it can grow from its errors of the past.

The weather is getting warmer up here on this planet. It’s been 75 degrees this week in SoCal. 2004 was the fourth hottest year in recorded history. Now if only the “Scientists” working for Bush would pay attention to that information! They refuse to react to something that can be remedied by diminishing the very substances they make the most money on, oil. Coal is also a major source of Mercury pollution, which is killing our fish populations and passing on the poisons up the food chain. They don’t see how badly they are destroying life on earth because they only notice the bottom line in the financial section of the report.

Many preachers talk about God’s plan for you as a personal directive, but it’s not at all like that. God has a lot of Universe to patrol, so he’s got a simple message for humans who are living and evolving on this ball of rock and water. God’s plan for you is to experience all you can to learn all you are able so you can grow to have fun, exploring the universe, like He has done. We are cells in His body and as part of the whole, we get to experience as much of that whole as we are able to open up to. We are but specks of dust in the vastness of the galaxy and microscopic in the universe, so why should we think God talks to humans? Because some few people said God spoke to them in the days before psychiatric diagnosis, there have been tales that these events really happened. Ever hear of literary embellishment? Well, stories in the Bible aren’t necessarily so in a literal sense. There are stupid people who read the bible and think it to be literally exacting in the punishments for abolished activities. It’s very disturbing when disturbed and likely illiterate people in the South and Texas take the printed word as gospel, as in the case of the woman who killed her baby by cutting of it’s arms…or was it just the hands…anyway, stupid people should be put out of our misery.

There are certain truths that were uttered by the eternal being known as the Christ, Jesus, who walked the Earth two thousand years ago and yet his messages, crammed as they may be down the throats of submissive and willing Christians, fail to live in the hearts of these people. Love thy neighbor as thyself, is not meant to be represented by Desperate Housewives. In fact, few people practice any of what is preached because they differentiate between “good and evil” instead of what is of God and what is not. The fact is, that everything is of God therefore nothing is not of God, therefore dismissing the notion of good and evil. We choose to be what we become by the power of our thoughts, not just in one life, but over many lives, gathering an identity that resonates throughout your whole aura. This is the life energy radiating around the body as well as through it.

Read the Sermon on the Mount and see if the Bush family and their Republican Neo-Cons fit any of the good qualities of mankind or show any of the beneficent traits, at all. I believe that all good people will heed the true words of the Master and when we can recreate all of exactly what he said, there will be a new awareness of Christ consciousness. It begins by understanding the nature of the being who became Christ, as it entered into the body of a perfected master in the form of Mary, an Essene Jew who studied the laws and adhered to the teachings of the pure ways of faith. I’m waiting for some female director to do a Jesus movie from the perspectives of both Marys, his mother and Magdalene. There persists a goddess cult of Mary and there is tacit acceptance of it, since it is better to have faithful with some attachment to old ways than to have no parishioners, at all.

There’s something powerful in those who seek to dominate others, especially when one allegedly taps into the universal mind of God to get the message directly and they preach to you like they have all the answers and no one else does. Everyone has a personal connection to God by virtue of his or her own chart, as it reflects the energy of the universe at the precise moment you were born. There is only one of you, clones don’t count, although it would be as intelligent in potential, it wouldn’t have your memories, unless you downloaded your memories into the clone’s mind. But there’s another truth right there…there are no two people exactly alike, not even identical twins. We each have unique wiring in our spiritual/mental/emotional system and it doesn’t react the exact same way as anyone else’s system.

We are united yet separate, like the states are individualized but part of the whole known as the United States. Yet, the way it looks right now, it might behoove the Western states to break away and form a separate country so that we don’t get robbed, taxed and limited by federal laws, rules, statutes and decisions to destroy our environment for the benefit of some fat cat international corporation whose CEO is cozy with Bush, being a generous contributor.

Sagittarius is about truth, wisdom, independence and internationalism, so how can that be part of what we are when this administration has gone it all but alone in Iraq, to the dismay of many nations. Now the new tape of Osama been Hiding is out on the internet and it turns out he’s not too happy with the Saudis, either, and would love to see oil go up to $100/barrel, which would make gas over $5/gallon, in all likelihood. I would accelerate the ethanol program and increase production of other fuel alternatives that can replace gasoline. There are ways of making progress that don’t destroy the planet but actually help clean it up. There is a way to extract fuel from waste products, if only they would try. Instead of drilling on pristine lands that will never be the same again, why not develop better bio-mass fuels?

We need the wide, open spaces for deer and antelope to roam, where seldom is heard the sounds of heavy machinery out on open wilderness, or the smell and sight of stinky smoke clouds rising from the processing. We need to eliminate the air-destroying chemicals that have been eating away at us for decades and now that we know about it, do something to improve it. Our lives are worth whatever we put into them. We can’t expect things to happen to us or for us if we make no effort to get to where we want to go. It’s as though you say that you want to reach a mountaintop. You’ve never tried it before and have no training, so you shouldn’t expect success the first time out. Yet, there are people who do, surprisingly. They expect far more than they deserve because somewhere along the line they were led to believe that they can do everything. While I don’t believe in limiting yourself from trying new things, you shouldn’t delude yourself that you can do everything. Some people who have all the money and time to do whatever they want are a bit annoying or excessive: Trust fund babies and millionaires.

Take for an example, Howard Hughes, whose birthday is December 24th. He inherited money, always the easiest way to earn it, and set out to build an empire. But after he broke almost every bone in his body, he became addicted to morphine and was never the same again. A look at his chart reveals an eccentric all the way, with Sun conjunct Uranus in Capricorn, the empire builder who does it his own way. These two in opposition to Neptune shows the problem with the addiction and his lack of spiritual faith or understanding. His Mars/Saturn conjunction on his Aquarius South Node made him hooked on new inventions, especially aviation. Jupiter squares this aspect, making him a risk-taker and adventurer of the sky, especially with 3 planets in Sag; Mercury retrograde, Moon and Venus, so he always wanted and needed more, more and still more, but he was always thinking bigger and bigger, just look at the Spruce Goose, largest plane ever built up until that time.

His chart looks like that of an introvert, with 7 planets below the horizon and the self-effacing Virgo on the ASC, which is the correlation to his hand-washing obsession. Mercury retrograde would repeat and repeat, in Sag, excessively so. His Sag planets are all opposed to Pluto, which makes for an obsessive-compulsive behavioral trend and also attracts occult, underground or corrupt influences. The forensic astrologer strikes again. I’ll diagnose your physical and psychological problems all from your chart! For lost objects, however, call my psychic friends. But seriously folks, if you need direction about your life purpose, I’m the guy to talk with, since your chart tells me everything you need to know. It’s an organic, living tool to use over and over, in new ways each time, or the same way to get a deeper understanding of what you need to know more about. It’s always fun and enlightening to discover the truth about who you really are, underneath this current shell.

A peek at the future: My celebrity hot flash senses a possible fling between Ellen Degeneris and Portia De Rossi, both Aquarians. Of course, I have been studying alternative lifestyle aspects for a long time and naturally, both these women have them. Ellen has Venus retrograde on her Sun, an imbalance for any female to bear, but it opposes Uranus and squares Neptune, to boot. So her ego invests in her relationships to her own detriment, and she draws in weirdoes and addictive types. Her Mars/Saturn conjunction is in Sag and her soul has the earmarks of having been a brutal man with excessive violence, which she would have encountered earlier in this life. It could be one of the things that happened because she was gay or that made her aware she was already a lesbian. Ellen has Moon in Aries, so I don’t think she’s ever cared what anyone feels about her.

Portia, on the other hand, has Venus exactly conjunct Jupiter in Capricorn, with the Moon there as well, but Venus and Jupiter are square to Uranus, a classic intimacy problem stemming from high expectations built in her childhood that led to great demands. Her Sun conjoins Mercury, so she is an androgynous mental type, yet she makes herself look and even act hotter than she is. Her Moon is square Pluto, giving her evil motives to go after whatever she wants, even if it belongs to someone else already. Her Mars opposes her Saturn, another manly indication, which in her case, she is in conflict with. Ellen dresses like a man and yet Portia can’t handle that look for herself, so she’s the perfect fem for Ellen. But two Aquarians? Come on…someone has to be wrong or you’ll never disagree. And who can be happy if you don’t argue so you can have makeup sex.

Next week is the holiday that kids can’t wait for and parents can’t wait for it to be over, except when the bills come. I will broadcast as usual, so to express my unique views on the holiday, since I know about the history and the myth, as well as many of the legends that were molded together to create this great big commercially marketable commodity and symbol for the fat rich white old men who reap the rewards and profits at their personal toyshops, regardless of their clientele. But you’ll have to wait to unwrap that package. I’ll stick it under my tree until then and hope you can resist psychically seeking it out. May all your parties be safe and liberal, free from want and stress and with lots of good cheer. One more show and then it’s a New Year. I’ll be welcoming that New Year in with you, if you’re able to tune in. May you have love and peace in this holiday season.