January 7, 2006

The first show of the year brings the news that Jack Abramoff will be ratting out the congressmen and senators who took bribes to pass through legislation and pull political favors for certain high-paying clients, like the Native American Casino deal and a murder-for-hire deal and a whole bunch of other stuff. This thing will have waves like a tsunami and aftershocks like an earthquake. This is bigger, more important news than anything that’s going on this week in the nation, I think. It will play out over a period of time but it will change the face of government, lobbying and how business is done in Washington. While it’s mostly Republicans that are implicated, some Dumb-o-craps are also involved, like Hillary Clinton. Congress may as well reconvene, since there is no way the GOP will allow DeLay to be reinstated when Jack talks and he will sing like a canary in a cage. Too bad they didn’t send him into the coal mine.

There were 12 coal miners trapped in a West Virginia mountain and people were told that they were rescued on Tuesday although one didn’t make it. Yet it was exactly the reverse! There was an explosion and one guy was killed in the explosion in a section of the tunnel. The 12 others were on the wrong side, in the carbon monoxide poisoned air, yet one guy miraculously survived. What happened was one of the worst communications screw-ups since the movies. People were tense and vigilant during 41 long hours of waiting to hear what anyone knew about their fates. When news first came in, the people were joyful at first, then in shock and tears the next minute. They should not have been told anything until people were out in the open air and breathing. Stupid people are digging deep into mountains to get a poisonous fuel source instead of growing it. The biggest tragedy was that they weren’t trapped by a wall of stone and could have walked out but they were trained to wait for the help that took too long. In China, thousands have died in their mines because life is deadly in the mining industry. Mountains are a Capricorn feature, as they require skill and knowledge of how to handle the climb. You have to have the instinct, the agility, the strength and the endurance to handle the changes of altitude and temperature. Climbing the mountain can be as deadly as mining it and even winter sports can cause problems, as avalanches are frequently the result of stupid people causing environmental disasters.

With the new calendar, there are the new and returning TV shows and while there are some things worth watching, ultimately, it is an individual thing. I have gone through periods of withdrawal from watching TV and other phases of watching only old series that I really liked, like in the 80’s I watched reruns of Twilight Zone, Get Smart and Star Trek. I always watch The Daily Show now, because I want to know what’s really going on in a way I can smile or laugh at it and not feel crappy because so many bad things keep happening. I try to keep away from the news channels except for special occasions, because they bash stories to death far too often. I might tune in C-Span for the Alito confirmation hearings, hoping they don’t confirm him. His advocacy for spying and other intrusions into one’s privacy are disturbing to me and to many others who have looked into his views on the matter, a particularly sore subject at this time. In all of his rulings, he has found for the corporation, the business owner and the employer to the detriment of the little guy. He believes the country gets rich by the millionaires making it on the backs of their labor force, allowing them to cut pensions, benefits, healthcare and even sick days. Unions won’t stand a chance with him on the court and this is at the core of the problems in the mining industry. An industry person is in charge of the oversight, as with all of the administration’s appointments to cabinet posts and other sensitive positions.

Business is a Capricorn agenda and when it gets too intimate with government to the point that the industry itself is doing the oversight, well, you have a problem like what happened in the coal mine in WV. This administration has consistently put people into positions where they can do more harm than good for the people of this country. They are there specifically to help ease regulations and controls on pollutants being pumped into the air, water and ground by huge industries who get tax breaks and subsidies to do things they should be doing out of good business sense. Henry Ford, though he was a Nazi sympathizer, began the assembly line and the living wage with the idea that anyone working for him ought to be able to afford to buy his products. When government gets so intertwined with business that corporate lawyers are writings laws that congress rubber stamps, as in the credit card and bankruptcy laws, that’s fascism! What we have here is a failure of democracy. The state of the union is very bad because of what Bush has done to the constitution, as in ignore it, trample it, shred it and violate it in almost every way possible. Did he wipe his ass with it?

I have already railed about the administration’s disregard for the constitution and the American way of life. It appalls many of us what they have been doing to this country, its people and its finances, as well as the destructive impact on the rest of the world. In their Christian delusion they believe the world will be wiped clean as they are taken up in the rapture. Despite their fantasy about the end of the world, they are actively working to make it a reality. They have activated the doomsday clock and the minutes are ticking down. Can we stop it? They have been listening in on Americans who call overseas and may not stop there. Just be careful what you say on the phone and in your emails these days since Big Brother is watching you. It’s scary to believe these tactics, which were shown to us as a warning in books like 1984, would actually be employed, whereas the breakaway country of Ecotopia never did pan out. I am reading it now, by the way and am seeing a good source of ideas.

We need new ideas on how to run a government because what we have now is in a sorry state of disrepair. It’s obvious to me that Maria took Arnold to task and is making him return some of the money he borrowed from the schools because education is the foundation of the future. We have to think about the future now. Mercury will form a sextile to Uranus Sunday and Jupiter on Friday, so it seems that using the higher functions of your brain is a good idea and since we are talking about the earth and water signs, make sure you contain them and sustain them to their completion. Only by seeing our impact on nature can we begin to figure ways to improve on the way things have been. The worst event of 2005 was Katrina and was made worse by what had not been taken care of, as a result, they were unprepared. Now, there are two distant concerns that will help the delta be reshaped and channeled effectively. From Illinois comes the dredging of lakes, which results in rich soil that will be sent downriver to the delta to build it back up. Across the Atlantic, the Dutch have mastered levees and dykes are built to withstand the battering and raging oceans in icy northern winters and there are some experts willing to instruct us in their technology to prepare us for future storms. The question remains how much of New Orleans should be rebuilt and how should the building proceed if there are no assurances of preventing the same catastrophe from happening? We should always be open to new ideas. It is the American way. We are an amalgam of the English, French, Dutch, Irish, Italian, Jew and Swede for over a hundred years and have taken ideas from elsewhere and implemented and perfected them here. This has always been a melting pot and a social experiment on a national order. When people get too narrow in their views, they lose the perspective. There is a simple reason the Midwest is the most conservative, since it is the most white. This why a state like Indiana goes all crazy with racism and homophobia, because they are culturally ignorant of what international immigrants bring to the coastal urban centers of California, New York, New England and the Central Atlantic states of the Eastern Seaboard, as it is called. We are a culturally mixed nation and have to resist the extremists who want to ignore that fact, turning their backs on civility to bring back racial hatred and causing havoc.

There are storms everywhere at this time of year. Some are of nature and some are political. It rained a lot this past week and the Rose Bowl Parade got rained on for the first time in 51 years but the Rose Bowl was a worse result for the hometown team. So close and yet one call and the game goes the other way. The Trojans had a few calls that went against them and one or two of their own mistakes sank them. Their first defeat in three years was a stunning one, partly because of the sudden switch of momentum at the end of a very exciting game. Still, they had a great run and were beaten by a magnificent quarterback who had a couple of receivers who caught the ball as though to drop it would have meant death and with a swift and swarming secondary. I dare any jock football or sports commentator write better copy than that!

The responsibility of parenting is a high priority for those who have chosen parenthood although delaying childbirth until 27 would help those who need time to think about it. It is a part of life that should be entered into with prior education and awareness of the responsibilities of being a mother or father. Too many people become parents without being prepared for the complexities involved, since it isn’t a single role that you play, it’s a variety of characters and professions you have to substitute for, so you should have some life experience and knowledge of fields like anatomy and health care, first aid, CPR, and a few other helpful talents, like storytelling and psychology. Your child is a growing, developing, evolving being and so are you, if you see that truth. Patience and listening are helpful qualities along with wisdom, which comes from experience. This is why Hillary wrote, “It Takes a Village” and why in past tribal cultures, there was a strong support system of co-parenting by fellow villagers, plus they had a lot of other children with whom they could play. Indigenous peoples have been that way for centuries because it works and personal feeling become less of an issue as group consciousness is more the practice. In western culture, they’ve lost it.
<Richard Cory – S&G>

We have an aging population who face the daunting prospect of maturity. Old age doesn’t seem right for baby boomers as they start turning 60 this year, including Bush and Clinton. Say, what are the odds of two consecutive presidents being impeached? At this point, it’s looking pretty good, since I’m hearing that word more and more these days, and even some Republicans are favoring it, considering how the violations of constitutional laws have multiplied. But back to aging, it’s rather ironic that so many old congress people have been isolated from the common folk for so long that they don’t really know what the issues of Joe and Jane American are all about. They should use this excessively long recess I like to refer to as Tom’s Delay to meet with their constituents and find a path back to their hearts. By the way, DeLay will not return to his previous position as the Jack-off scandal has strangled his chances of re-entering the field. If both Bush and Arnold have begun to beg for the forgiveness of the people, you know they are desperate to pick up their poll numbers. Midterms are coming and many returning Iraq vets are running for office to change how congress does business and mainly to provide for the military personnel who got their benefits cut by a wartime president who wants to build bombs, not bridges. Many men returned from WWII as heroes and went into politics wearing that badge proudly but Vietnam vets weren’t as proud of their mission and its result, especially because of the national response. They are older now and we respect them today in a way we couldn’t back then.

Speaking of older people, Ariel Sharon had a stroke and his chart shows some of the problems he’s had, and I will discuss the ones that affected him physically. He’s a Pisces with Moon in Taurus, so food is his addiction of choice and he loves meat and potatoes, surf and turf as well as breads. He has little restraint or self-discipline as he has aged with the Saturn on the Sag South Node. He was a leader and fighter when he was young, manifesting the early bloomer with Aries rising and the Saturn trine his ASC. The Sun’s weakness in the natal chart is the 12th house placement and the square to the nodes it makes. At this point in time, the progressed Sun hit natal Moon, ruler of the 4th house, the end of life for those who are prepared. Uranus is exactly conjunct his Sun right now and his minor progressed Sun squares natal Uranus, so a heart attack or heart problem of some sort, was inevitable, although a brain hemorrhage is more about Uranus in Aries, sign of the head and brain and his Aries minor Moon being on progressed Uranus. His health would be a major issue at this time of his life because the ruler of his 6th house, Mercury, has come into an exact square with his natal Sun. His minor Mercury hit natal Saturn on the South Node and brings up all the old health issues he never resolved. For once, it wasn’t Saturn or Pluto having an influence, but more Uranus affecting the Sun, which makes sense for this kind of issue.

Lynn Swann wants to run for governor of PA and his last job was sideline reporter for football games. Earlier in his life he was a wide receiver for the Steelers during the 70’s but that doesn’t make him a hero for the whole state, since Eagle fans have no love for him. I think the Pisces he is got prodded into running because they want a charismatic Republican that will follow the Bush League of corruption and his chart makes him a bit too awed by the power and temptation to succumb to evil directions as his Venus is closely opposite Pluto, an aspect of corruption, as we shall see later on when we discuss the politicians who have birthdays this week. His Mercury’s only aspect is a trine to the Moon, which is fine for having a good memory and being sentimental but neither are qualities an administrator needs. His Sun trine Mars made for his athletic gifts and strong desires and it might have some leadership skills as well, but I’d be concerned about his Venus in Aquarius opposition to Pluto in a square to Mars, since it talks about the kind of people he will end up in bed with, in more than just sexual ways. Venus is sextile Jupiter but that can be the money he has made and will still make, although eventually states and governors who run them will come under federal scrutiny to ensure that what has rampantly happened in Washington won’t happen locally.

Newsmakers and Earth-shakers
Jon Stewart was just signed to host the Oscars and I must say he seems to be the best choice and at the right time in his career and in the life of the Oscars. More people would like to see him host than any other past host, although Billy Crystal was the best we had for a long time. Jon has the right amount of humor and restraint as well as being able to poke fun at himself or anyone else. He is the Sag who most represents many of the best qualities of the sign, having the right mix of humor, truth, wisdom and yet, a certain modesty. He will be the star but will put the emphasis on the stars being honored. I wonder what he’ll do for an opening sequence other than a monologue.

In a sad note, Lou Rawls died yesterday of lung cancer and when I looked at his chart before I knew the cause, I could tell it was lung-related. He has natal Mercury conjoining Jupiter and Sun all square Saturn, so it was just a matter of time before he choked and croaked. Progressed Mercury was exactly square natal Uranus and in opposition to minor Pluto. Minor Mercury was right on his natal Saturn and minor Sun was on progressed Saturn as well as square to the natal Sag stellium. The Moon and the 4th house also deal with end of life issues and his progressed Moon was conjunct Neptune, both natal and progressed are at the same degree and the minor Moon just this week opposed minor Neptune and his progressed Sun was conjunct the natal Moon. Oh yeah, and the day he dies, the minor Moon is exactly on the minor South Node, a karmic episode, to be sure, as death usually is. A Sagittarius with Moon in Aquarius is a free spirit with lots of energy and many friends. Sam Cooke was one friend from the boyhood days in Chicago and once, when on tour, they were in an accident in which their chauffeur was killed. That night the transiting South Node conjoined their composite Uranus exactly and in the sky, there was a Scorpio stellium in a square to transit Uranus. They wrote, “Having a Party” together, which is rather appropriate since they had a lot of things in common, partying being one of them and a Venus/Sun conjunction in Sag in the synastry. Sam was an Aquarius, the sign of Lou’s Moon, so it was easy for them to sing together, blending Sam’s smooth tenor with Lou’s deeper, darker baritone. Lou also had a great solo career and was a fine singer until his lungs became less than reliable. The pipes go when they go and then…not long afterwards, they can’t sustain much else. While he also had brain cancer, it was the lungs that knocked him off the island, Earth.
<Having a Party – Sam Cooke>

Jan 7 Millard Fillmore was the president who tried to maintain the unity of the country in the decade before the Civil War and made the Compromise of 1850 to allow California to enter the union as a free state, among other things. He took over the presidency from Zachary Taylor, who died of acute indigestion, or else he had something caught in his throat and no one knew the Heimlich maneuver. Who really knows? And Fillmore is the last president who was neither a Democrat nor Republican, but rather a Whig. And he had no Vice President! Fillmore was given his mother’s maiden name for his first name, as the Moon in Gemini denotes an affinity to his mother, although it is opposite Mars, signifying some emotional conflicts and a certain impatience and combative responsiveness. The Moon sextile Saturn shows a working relationship between his parents as a role model for what he would become. Jupiter in Gemini square Uranus in Virgo made for many political differences of opinion, especially since he was of a different party than his predecessor, yet he was adaptable and worked things out. Venus square Pluto shows him having people he loves die as well as saboteurs around him, waiting to undermine his plans. But this was a man with Mercury in Sag opposite Jupiter squared by Uranus and he probably said too much more often than too little.

John Thune is the jerk who defeated Tom Daschle in South Dakota over the Prairie Dog debate and defense. He’s one of those handpicked Bush senators who toe the party line and vote for all of Bush’s bills. He’s born one day before another Bush boy, Dick Pombo, a California Congressman from Tracy, just east of San Francisco Bay and he’s into some ecological disasters-in-the-making. The only real differences between them are the Moon and ASC, so I’ll explain the rest of the chart and you’ll understand both of them very easily. This isn’t the first time politicians have been born on consecutive days in the same year, of course, as the tale of the two Dicks is another January story, although they are Aquarians; Cheney and Gephardt. As for Thune and Pombo, this right wing congressional combo is doing the political mambo and screwing with our rights. This GOP duo has four planets in Capricorn, as the Sun is conjoined by Jupiter rising just before sunrise, making it the planet of oriental appearance and leading to a career in law and government, as well as Mercury very close to Saturn, giving rise to an opportunistic, manipulative control freak who would sell out anyone to have power and to serve their greater Republican cause. Venus opposite Pluto shows the attraction to corruption, as other people’s money is an overwhelming motivator for what they want. Venus in Pisces is on the South Node and opposed to Pluto on the North Node, showing this destiny to be wrapped up in the gross misunderstanding of the proper balance of resources and nature. That Venus/South Node is the source of their issues about religion, which is generally at issue throughout their party. They destroy people and they destroy the planet in the process, since there is no compassion, no empathy and no understanding of how real people are affected by the Bush policies that have slashed benefits for the poor and given huge tax cuts to the ultra rich, who don’t need them. They might both have Moon square Mars, which makes for an irritable personality who bothers many other people, as well. Otherwise, there is a lack of integration of the chart’s elements and hence, they do not relate to the real values or needs of the people they allegedly represent. They are pawns of giant industries and the higher political powers in their parties who broker the deals they just organize and implement to the best of their feeble ability. They will be exposed soon enough.

Also born on the 7th…Carolyn Bessette was the wife of JFK Jr. and died in the crash with him, Nicholas Cage is the actor I don’t really like and he also has Moon square Mars as well as Venus/Saturn square Neptune. Francis Poulenc was a French composer who wrote delightful, urbane and tuneful music for chamber and orchestral ensembles with such snappy breeziness that most people who hear it, like it. He was a horny bastard, with Moon in Scorpio conjoining Jupiter in a square to Mars in Leo and an exact Venus/Uranus conjunction in Sag for all the guys he must have played with but with Neptune opposite his Mercury/Saturn, he only had time for music and partying with wine, music and song.

Jan 8 Richard Pombo (see above)
David Bowie and Elvis Presley were both kings in their musical fields but Elvis had Moon in Pisces conjunct Hygeia for food issues as well as drugs and then a square to Chiron to make for a chronic wound. Venus opposite Pluto squared by Uranus is an obsession for someone until he has her and then sabotages the relationship with someone who doesn’t mean anything. Bowie on the other hand, has Moon in Leo conjoining Pluto and Saturn but square Chiron, so there are also psychosexual issues with him. Bowie has Sun exactly conjunct Mars with Mercury nearby and they all square Neptune, hence the glam-rock with drugs and sex.
< Changes - Bowie >

Stephen Hawking is the master physicist who understands the nature of the universe better than most and has even allowed himself to admit that he had made a mistake in his earlier theories. His Moon in Virgo conjoins Neptune makes him analytic and understands how things work and likes to take the time to know more about this universe that puzzles so many people. It is his Saturn/Uranus conjunction trine Moon/Neptune that aid him in his research as it gives the perseverance and patience to keep plugging on in spite of the fact that he could be wrong a hundred times before he’s right. His Capricorn Mercury closely trines Uranus in Taurus and Neptune forming a Grand Trine in Earth signs that helps him focus in on material reality. Venus in Aquarius squares Saturn and Uranus and might have something to do with a neurological problem that keeps him confined to a wheelchair and requires electronic assistance for speech.

Jan 9 Gypsy Rose Lee was the stripper with a heart of gold and because Candy Barr, the famous stripper of the 50’s, who was a Cancer just died, I thought I’d take a look into it. Then I found out that Gypsy Rose wasn’t a Capricorn, but an Aquarius and I’ll do her next month, but Candy Barr is gone and I’m not waiting until July to do hers. The exotic dancer has to have an instinct for music, as her Moon/Neptune in Virgo in the 12th shows and Venus in Leo trine Uranus lets the rhythm be flamboyantly expressed. She had a lot of style and was innocent appearing but with Pluto on the South Node and Mars in Libra square her Sun and Pluto, she had a lot of intense anger at having grown up abused, abandoned and neglected, so she ran away at 13 and hooked up with one bad influence after another. A grand trine in water, Sun, Jupiter in Scorpio and Saturn in Pisces, shows her to be somewhat lucky and tougher than appearances would indicate. Saturn is weak in Pisces and shows addiction to run in the genes, plus it squares her Chiron in Gemini, along with Neptune in Virgo, revealing a health issue with the lungs and sure enough, she died of pneumonia. Saturn opposite Moon/Neptune as mentioned earlier also indicates the drug problem and the prison stint that it caused. I should point out that she got 15 years for less than an ounce of pot in 1960 but the governor, John Connally paroled her in 1963 and pardoned her 4 years later. Perhaps he had seen her perform and still had her pasty sitting on his desk. Uranus in the 7th is a reason that 4 divorced husbands never stuck around. She is not a great success story and wouldn’t really inspire anyone who has half a brain and any kind of real talent.

Richard M Nixon is already posted on my political dartboard and “I Am Not A Crook” should be his biography, Edward von Kloberg was the dirtiest kind of lobbyist, taking cases no one in Washington DC would touch, Bart Starr was the great Green Bay Quarterback, Lee Van Cleef might have been the Bad or the Ugly in the Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns, Crystal Gayle is Loretta Lynn’s little sister and can sing real purty.

Joan Baez is the folk singer who can once again drag out all those old protest songs from the 60’s since, with Mars in Sag opposite Moon in Gemini, she needs international war to respond with ideas worthy of communicating. Mars trines Pluto exactly, giving a passion for everything she does and that intensity is thrown into her protests. Her Sun/Mercury are trine Uranus in Taurus, so liberation and freedom are always a part of her consciousness. Venus square Neptune allows her to appreciate the plight of the downtrodden victims of an oppressive regime right here in this country. Her Jupiter/Saturn conjunction is square Pluto, so she may have something to do with taking down a powerful hate-mongering political party.

Jan 10 Rasputin was advisor to the Romanoffs before the revolution and certainly had a mystical quality about him but I am not sure how reliable his intuition was, although, when he was right, it was astoundingly so. Capricorns usually accomplish much on their own before they thrust themselves on the world stage and he knew that would be where he ended up. His Sun and Mercury in Capricorn opposite Uranus was able to see the future and was drawn to interesting and important people because they were the ones who needed to know. Neptune square the opposition means that the challenge for his growth is to understand and accept that certain energies are beyond our ability to handle them all. It made for a lifelong search to determine that understanding, which seemed to be about the times changing and the Romanoffs needed to know these things. What did peasants need to know from a mystic? When would the crops bear the sweetest fruit? There were more important things to do and more powerful people with whom to do them. The stellium of Moon/Venus/Saturn in Sagittarius makes for a social climber but also an advisor to those in power who were receptive to the truth as he could deliver it. Pluto is in the 7th house of open enemies and it finds them quite vicious and corrupt, stubbornly hard to get moving but once off, a veritable dynamo. It’s also the death of close associates. With Aquarius South Node, he was always a hanger-on to celebrities in prior lives and fell in with more of the same and it didn’t turn out too well for any of them. He will have to focus on a creative lifetime next time around.

Roy Blunt is the current Speaker of the House, keeping it warm until the next election, when it goes over to the Democrats, perhaps Nancy Pelosi, as it could happen that the entire administration is impeached, or really just Bush and Cheney. Watch Commander in Chief and you get a glimpse of what could happen in those circumstances, although, this would be a whole lot different. Roy’s one of those congressmen who know how to seem friendly and sociable but have way too many friends who are like newborn pigs struggling to suckle at the mother’s teat. He has an addiction problem with his Sun square Neptune, or he’s a Jesus freak. Three planets are in Aquarius and Mercury and Venus are retrograde in it, so he isn’t all that good relating to people and getting them to do things, but he can make a scene. Here’s another Venus opposite Pluto, like the Thune-Pombo combo above, so also inclined to corrupt partners in crime. With Moon and Mars on the South Node in Libra, he’s been codependent and unnaturally reliant on other people his whole life, so standing up for himself would not be one of his attributes.

George Foreman was a heavyweight champ before he made a ton of money on the grills with his name on it, and Linda Lovelace was the star of Deep Throat and then I heard she found Jesus. I wonder if she gave him head?

Jan 11 Alexander Hamilton was the guy who set up the US Treasury Dept. and in my opinion it was a good thing Aaron Burr killed him in the duel. He was a federalist and wanted a strong centralized government, but it’s partially because he wasn’t born in the US and had no feeling for state’s rights, as Jefferson and Washington, among many others who did. Born in Kingston Jamaica just before sunrise with the Moon high in the sky in Virgo, trine his Sun and Mercury in Capricorn, it was good for a diligent and ambitious organizer and financial wizard. Jupiter in Scorpio favored him with a sextile to his Mars and Sun, as well as a trine to Uranus for really good luck, so opportunities took him far. But Jupiter also formed a square to the opposition of Saturn to Neptune in Leo in the 8th, so he understood the use of money and the expense needed to run a nation, although it was a hard lesson to learn. His big problem was the Venus in Sag conjunct Pluto square Uranus, as it may have caused an infidelity and some dishonor or might have been the betrayal by a friend.

Maurice Durufle was a French composer who wrote for the organ and choir but was overshadowed by other, greater composers.

Jan 12 Rush Limbaugh is a big, fat idiot and liar and druggie so has a chart I would like to tear apart! First of all, he’s got some weird sexual proclivities we don’t know everything about, since he has Mars in Aquarius opposite Pluto and may like anal sex, but I’m not sure which way. It could also have been an accident and subsequent surgery, since Mars is the surgeon’s scalpel. I’ve heard that those who hate strongly have some unresolved sexual problems. His Sun squares Neptune and his Moon in Pisces square Chiron in Sag, so there’s a lot of his drug problem right there. Jupiter trine Uranus has made him lucky enough to know the right people at the right time to get him blathering away as a rightwing talk show host, but he’s an obnoxious pig who blows on a subject and spits all over it. He has a hard time seeing reality with the Saturn square to the Mercury/Uranus opposition, so he makes shit up out and pulls it out of his ass. Moon squares Mercury, as well, making for a poor memory, so it’s funny when blowhards like him get caught in a lie and they say they never said it but it’s caught on tape…sometimes they even say that it was doctored. Even it had been seen by millions!
Kirstie Alley is a Scientologist actress who lost a bunch of weight recently. Food must be her addiction instead of hillbilly heroin, like druggie Limbaugh, because she is born on the same day in the same year. She’s brainwashed by L. Ron Hubbard and Rush is brainwashed by the far right. Jeez, no wonder I never liked her except in Star Trek.

Howard Stern is the king of the Sirius Air Waves, Hermann Goring was Hitler’s head of Gestapo, Henny Youngman was the king of the one-liners…take my wife…please. Jack London was the adventurous author who wrote White Fang, Call of the Wild and The Sea Wolf from which I would like to play a little selection.
<Korngold - The Sea Wolf>

Jan 13 Orlando Bloom is one of those actors whom I believe will have a long career, since he is a Capricorn and has Moon in Scorpio and they are the two most successful signs of the zodiac. Venus in Pisces trines the Moon and Uranus, so he will have a lot of friends in the industry and with Saturn in Leo trine Neptune in Sag, long term goals with the film business may lead him behind the scenes as well. Mercury retrograde conjunct Mars in Cap square Pluto in Libra gives an obsessive mind with the powerful desire to get the scene right and to make it work but it can also be a sexual lustiness and passion that gets out of control. Venus squares Neptune, however and can cause sexual confusion as to which gender to hang out around. Sun trines Jupiter may make him open to whatever comes his way, almost literally. But with Sun square Chiron on the South Node, there may be a wound that’s deeper than most people would ever suspect.
Same day, different years…
Julia Louis-Dreyfus you all know from Seinfeld but I knew two girls who were born on the same day and year as she was way back in 1977 and one of them I am in touch with and she has always had relationship issues, like Elaine.
Richard Addinsell is a composer of film scores and light classical music. Ralph Edwards was the creator of Truth or Consequences and This Is Your Life.

Next week will be the anniversary of the birth of MLK, who would have been 77 but I wonder what he would think about how civil rights and civil liberties are being handled these days. I wonder if he would think that the black man has arrived in the 21st century or if there is still a long way to go. I suppose we will never know but we can work to make dreams into reality through preparing the way of the future in the now. It comes down to time and timing with Capricorn and you have to be prepared for the time when things have to happen. Case in point is next week’s Full Moon in Cancer in the wee hours on the morning of next Saturday. This is the witch’s winter moon and celebrations of pagan delights are the tradition. Enjoy these days and in the spirit of getting back in tune with the rhythms of the Earth, remember to contact me when you need a reading. Keep updated on my writings at Leofish.com or conspiracyplanet.com and maintain your brain in the right terrain. Until the Full Moon or sooner, don’t be a loony tuner.

January 14 , 2006
It’s a Full Moon in the sign it rules, Cancer, the sign of mom, food, home and family. It’s all about your needs and it’s the time when werewolves come out. You know that each of you have some of the untamed wild animal in you and every so often a Full Moon comes along that has you jumping out of your skin in such a passionate way that you don’t know how to handle yourself. Oh wait…maybe it was the drugs. The intensity of this lunation is increased by the inconjunct of the Moon to Pluto, causing emotional stress and anxiety. The Sun moves into Aquarius this Thursday evening and it’s time for changes, no matter how scary you think they are. There is always someone who is greater jeopardy than you are. Consider living in a war zone or in a gang-dominated neighborhood, which is almost the same thing. Life is deadly and death is the beginning of another life, if you can see it that way. Capricorn is the first true winter sign, so it initiates the coldest time of the year and signifies cold, barren control, while Cancer is more of the soft, gentle nurturing warmth of summer in its fullness. So this winter moon is cold and brittle and I shall speak of it, more than a little.

The Sun and Venus retrograde are both opposite the Moon, so your needs may be highlighted by the fact that you have some demands that you want met and they are very personal. This is like the self-indulgent, beauty lusting we crave, since the glamour magazines and TV shows us that women are supposed to be skinny and playful, while having their own lives, yet seek the company of a male partner for security and love. Most images of women on TV are false and enhanced from raw material, which is why actors spend so much time in make-up rooms, costume shops, with personal trainers and on specialized diets. These people are as manufactured as if you were singing the Body Electric. Some of them look as if they have popped out of a mold, with little true individuality, as many of them are less creative than re-creative artists and I use that term loosely. I am saying that it is harder to write a good, intelligent and effective script than it is to act in a film of it.

The Mars opposite Jupiter squares Neptune, making for a weak and passive fight. Later in the year, Saturn will oppose Neptune, a time when the powerful will be humbled by the wrath of the Creator, punished for the evil he hath wrought and held to account by a higher authority. Nah…I’m just shitting you. It might be Bush taking an early retirement, ala Nixon’s resignation before impeachment articles had been voted upon. Seriously, though, there should be some major conflicts over religious views with this Senate Confirmation hearing as the very hypocritical nature of a pro-life and pro-death penalty can be rationalized under the same spiritual principles. Then there is the issue of over-reaching powers by the president, seizing the wartime opportunity to intimidate the opposition party and bait them into in being wimpy about fighting for their beliefs. Another facet of this aspect is the potential for drug overdoses, especially with IV drug users, heroin addicts, speed shooters and other injected drugs.

The Sam Alito hearings bear out his preference for unchecked presidential powers and limiting free choice concerning one’s body, along with racist and sexist attitudes. He is certainly in favor of the president being able to interpret new laws as they are to be applied, which is not only unconstitutional but sounds imperialistic, at least. He also has displayed a terrible memory for associations and affiliations with groups of which he was proud to have been a part. I am referring to the Federalist Society and CAPA, Concerned Alumni of Princeton Assholes. They should specify that they are Republicans and it would be CRAP. It’s interesting how he can remember miniscule details from his early childhood or where boxes are checked on forms but events from much more recently are vague and even lost to his conscious mind. We ought to be able to put these judicial nominees on a polygraph first! Did he mention that he had strong religious views and was heartily supported by the abortion abolitionists of the extreme religious right? You can’t call them pro-life when they feel no qualms about murdering innocent people by bombing abortion clinics. He likes the Philadelphia Phillies, having attended one of their fantasy camps, both of which tell you what a loser he really is. Fans of baseball who live in New Jersey have a choice of what home team to root for and two of them are in New York and have shown a greater propensity for success and going to the World Series. The Phillies have been to the big show twice in my life; once, when they won in 1980 and then in 1993. And only twice before did they appear, losing in 1915 and 1950. One championship in over a hundred years of existence is pretty pathetic. This guy should strike out at the big league level since he has Bush League views and that should warrant a Phillie-buster, but he might just get confirmed, so I fear for those whose cases come before the Supreme Court in the next few years.

Abortion always seems to be the hot button issue out of fear that termination of an unborn child ends the possibility for that soul to ever have a life. Your soul is eternal and keeps returning. This is a facet of the widespread belief and evidence of reincarnation, an absolute fact in one of the oldest civilizations in the world, India. Reincarnation is a reality, so the child you give birth to could be the killer you executed. Hmm, there’s a thought to consider. If pro-life wants a child to live and a criminal to die as well as soldiers and innocent citizens in an illegal war, why don’t we call them pro-death, except for fetuses? The death penalty allows criminals to escape confinement with their souls in tact and their memories are attached to it. But if you keep the killer in the joint with no connection to the outside world and the worst ones get solitary with no contact, then you may be able to reorient the soul by encouraging them to better their minds through reading and expressing their hidden talents through art or music or writing. Give them a pet, eventually, a cat, and let them learn how to love a little at a time, when they are ready for it. I don’t believe you should force the soul out of its temple until it has had a chance for redemption of some sort. And I don’t think it’s fair to make kids learn to be mothers when they haven’t become adults yet, so abortion should be mandatory for girls under 18, without exception. If they want a child, they should have to go to a class that instructs mothers-to-be in the necessary skills to handle the responsibilities of parenthood. A commitment to education should actually be motive enough to stay baby-free.

News from the Kali-forn-ya Governator, he took a spill in his Gestapo-mobile, the motorcycle with the sidecar, and split his lip, but his son wasn’t a bit hurt in the accident. He doesn’t need to have a special license to ride the bike if it has the sidecar on it, so maybe he should learn to ride a two-wheeler. His mommy, Maria, has taken him to task and has slapped some sense into him, maybe a little too little and too late. I doubt if his incompetence will fail to be an issue. An actor who doesn’t understand the ensemble and interactive nature of the political process can never be a good administrator. Mainly, he’s been tanking since Saturn entered Leo, his sign and when Jupiter hit Scorpio, but especially when it hit Maria’s Sun, she came into her power and rose to the job of redirecting her loose cannon husband. Let’s say that his political style had a little too much of Conan and too little of the sensitive character he played in “Junior”, where he’s a pregnant doctor. Maybe then he would notice how bad the healthcare system is in the state and do something about it. Instead, he wants to borrow millions and pay for it with cuts to the elderly, the poor and the infirm with no tax increase to pay for it. Back in the days of fiscal responsibility, it was a known fact that if the state needed money to build bridges or roads, schools or public housing, taxes were raised to pay for it. You would see signs that said, YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK. Now you get appropriations that are funded by the future taxpayers of America with no accounting or responsibility as to where the money comes from or goes to. It’s just another reason why Arnold has to go and we have to get a different party in there, since Gray Davis didn’t workout so well, either. How about a Green Party candidate?

Staying with politics for a little bit, it seems that, once again, Bush has always had a problem with dissent and warns the Dems to watch what they say or it could be interpreted as giving comfort to the enemy and then they would be suffering at the ballot box. What?! Then he challenged them about the economy. Well, once again, it depends to whom the benefits go. As the market soars, wages fall, so for the average citizen, it’s a horrible economy. People can’t afford healthcare, let alone essentials or luxuries. This is how he works with his delusional blame game mentality. Whenever anyone is pointing a finger at him in an accusatory manor, he has to go into a Human Torch-like Blame-on! He casts aspersions and insinuations at the Democrats that are more in keeping with his modus operandi than anyone else. I think Bush’s mindset on enemies is that if you can’t beat them, beat them up and then cut them up and put them in the wood chipper and spread it around the brush you’ve been clearing. He’s hands are already dirty, so wouldn’t it be fitting to have this one cost him his presidency, perhaps next year after the Dems sweep both houses of congress.

Capricorn-Cancer Full Moon brings up issues of food and weight as well as aging and families. This Full Moon opposes Venus, so considering women’s positions in the world today, they need to become more aware of how their lot in life has been constrained by the dominant gender, men. Especially bad is the plight of Middle Eastern Muslim women, whose identities are hidden under layers of clothing that cover almost every square inch of their bodies. Cancer is subconscious and instinctive, while Capricorn is deliberate and strategic. As such, those who have strong Cancer/Capricorn polarities may have food discipline problems and need to have a stricter dietary regime. People who are overweight, whether or not they have any other health risks, are more likely to die of heart attacks, strokes and diabetes. So, it’s up to you to get in shape. If I can do it, you can do it. I have 23% body fat at this time, which could be lower but I am more aware of my eating that I won’t gain all that much weight again. Capricorn is about limiting oneself from indulgence in excess. It deals with restraint and self-control, which requires discipline and a sense of ordered purpose. What’s the point of doing something if there is no purpose?
<Winter Moon – Stan Getz>

Much of our predispositions have been formed by patterning on closely available role models and in the absence of one, there is likely to be a transitional period of chaos while the inner adult finds time to correct this liability. It used to be that parents and close relatives formed the social environment for a family of growing children and there was minimal outside intervention. But for the last 50 years, the invasion of your homes by television and the mass-market advertisers has been assaulting your senses at twice the volume of the regularly scheduled program. It’s a corporate conspiracy cornering consumers into paying attention and programming them to pay money for products they don’t need or are inferior to quality products from better companies who pay their people to work more proficiently. I am referring to companies like Wal-Mart, who outsource most of their manufacturing labor to China and other Asian countries. It is typical of what has been happening as the Republican-ization has turned Americans into also-rans in the global network of original solutions or inventions that are relevant to the future of the world. Case in point is the Detroit Car Show, where muscle cars are back, despite higher gas prices that are again increasing at a time when the Supreme Court is hearing a case on gasoline price fixing in the late 90’s. It’s a conspiracy by oil companies and automakers to keep cranking the gas-guzzlers out.

The Stock Market has been soaring thanks to the opposition of Jupiter to Mars, energizing it and the square to Neptune, deluding investors into believing that the economy is good, when it’s only the corporations boasting any earnings, as the workers are left with smaller wages and benefits that disappear. Indeed, this is the worst economy for the American worker, as jobs are scarce and are low-paying hospitality jobs. An aircraft engineer isn’t going to be put to good use cleaning house or being a plumber. Unions are being busted where it hurts most; pensions and healthcare benefits. Now they have to contribute more of their own money and get a lesser package at the end of their employment. We waste so much of our money on disposable items and packaging that adds significantly to the cost of distributing foods. It is due to the enormity of the scope of the food industry and the tremendous distances food has to travel to reach its destination. It was much different before mechanization and faster shipping methods as we were limited in the range those foods could be distributed. A good economy can get better when workers are happy because they are well paid and are able to have free time to travel or vacation and the company they work for is able to turn a nice profit without subsidies or tax breaks.

This year, the economy is looking better, as Jupiter, the planet of expansion and increase, is in Scorpio, the sign of collective resources, financial institutions, banks, insurance companies, etc. That’s why things seem good, but since it is Scorpio, whenever something looks too good to be true, it turns around and stabs you in the heart. By the end of this month, it squares Neptune and those who can see the deceptive trend of the market will get out at that high point, but the square will endure for a couple of months, so gauge it by how things go. In June, Jupiter squares Saturn again and we hit a big bump in the road. In September, it squares Neptune again and in October, Jupiter and Saturn form the last square and the party will be over. In the November Mid-Term Elections, Mercury will be retrograde and along with the Sun and Venus, will square Neptune, with the Moon in Gemini and people will be so disillusioned and feel like victims of a pyramid scheme where they put in lots of their own money and see the guys at the top reap all the rewards. Saturn and Pluto near a trine that will be exact next year but the end of this year sees the beginning of the end of government corruption on such a huge level and we’ll see congress do something to regulate how money is raised or how lobbyists work the congress.

Reforms in energy are needed and California is on the move to get more into solar energy with subsidies to business and residential users over the next 11 years. This is just a beginning, since many mayors around the country are doing their part to become more environmentally harmonious. The better your environment, the happier and healthier people are and with healthcare in such a crisis, it’s about making better decisions with how to work the system. Wal-Mart has worked the system to the point where they leech off the government by not hiring full-time workers, teaching them how to obtain food stamps and welfare among other services. Now, in Maryland, the lawmakers have stood up to the retail mega-monster store and demand that they contribute to the health insurance for their employees if they have over 10,000 in the state. Wal-Mart, always seeking loopholes, will keep 9,999 employees in the state so as to skirt the law.

In other business news, there could be more diesel fuel cars on the road, especially if there’s more bio-diesel fuel available around the country. Supply and demand is usually the reason business takes off but we have to create a new fuel source to compete with gasoline to make them all cheaper. Bio-diesel is ideal, since it can be made from many different food sources, including garbage and used cooking oils. Until Americans are ready to accept hemp as the herbal and fuel savior, we have to find other sources to tide us over. The plant was made illegal because of political manipulation by the press owned by powerful magnates who had oil and timber interests that were threatened by hemp product manufacturing. In the Nixon years, he made it a Class 1 drug to be able to bust pot-smoking, peace loving, protesting hippies more easily. Wouldn’t you know, Bush has the government up to the same dirty tricks Nixon used against the people, like spying, keeping track of protestors as though they were the terrorist threat and students who speak out against the war. They all have been followed, photographed, perhaps wiretapped because they are undermining the government’s right to intimidate its citizens.

I know we have a holiday on Monday for the great civil rights leader, Rev. MLK. I have a dream, too. I dream that all people would learn how to accept each other without judgment or prejudice. I have a vision of a land where everyone works together and people aren’t homeless or unemployed because the people would have nationalized medicine, operating with a 90% success rate of prevention of deadly diseases. I see a future where nations do not horde their knowledge or technology but rather teach each other to learn things they have not been exposed to, if it works to the benefit of those concerned. The forests will be replanted and wildlife returned to its natural habitat, making zoos obsolete and wildlife preserves will become the place to see them in a happier setting. I smell a time ahead when the air will be clean, the toxins will be removed from populated areas and the water table kept from being further contaminated. I believe in a future wherein we can learn to communicate better and have easy conversations between differing factions as we explore what would work best for all concerned. This is a time yet to come when there is no war because it would not benefit anyone to fight it out.
<Last Night I had the Strangest Dream – S&G>

In the world of sports, Kobe Bryant had a streak of 4 games with more that 45 points, the first to do it since Wilt Chamberlain did it in 1964, although he had done it with regularity even before that. He was a scoring machine and so is Kobe. But on Wednesday night, the Blazers held Kobe to only 41 points and snapped the streak with a loss in Portland. Still, the Virgo with Moon in Taurus has a lot of talent and precision is one of them, however, his Mercury retrograde in Leo makes only one planetary aspect; a trine to Neptune for the incredible imagination and belief in himself that allows him to take so many shots and be so creative with the ball, yet be a bit selfish, too. But it’s because he’s so good that he can do that. On the opposite side of the zodiac, you have Shaq, who is lazy and could be so much better but focused on becoming a cop! How much time could he have spent learning how to shoot free throws in those academy hours? Kobe will spend more hours practicing because of that retrograde than Shaq’s ADD Mercury in Aries.

Newsmakers and Earth-shakers
I just heard that Angelina Jolie is pregnant with Brad’s baby after she said she wouldn’t have any kids of her own as long as there were orphans who needed adopting. Well now, hottie with the hooters… You got some splainin’ to do.

Jan 14 Benedict Arnold was one of the American Revolution’s earliest heroes, as he beat the British at Fort Ticonderoga and then went up to Canada to flush them out from Montreal and somewhere along the line, he got compromised. His chart is one of the more stark ones I’ve seen and I’ve seen 100’s of thousands of charts, it seems. It’s like one big opposition, with the Sun in Cap opposite Mars in Cancer, Mercury on the South Node in Capricorn opposite Jupiter/Neptune/ North Node in Cancer and the Moon and Venus in Sag closely conjoined opposite the Gemini ASC. There are a couple of other aspects; a quintile of his Sun to Pluto, which gave him a genius for sabotage and betrayal, for which his name has long been known. His name was synonymous with “traitor” for the longest time and I wonder if still is. Saturn square Pluto is the breakdown of authority and under duress, it’s easy for a man of mutable reactions and subject to questioning regarding the proper use of power to lose his way. Mercury opposite Jupiter/Neptune is the political confusion or deception used to persuade him to become a turncoat.

15 Chad Lowe had been married to Hilary Swank for eight years and I looked at their charts back in the summer but didn’t look to predict much about their future. Well, now they have parted ways, amicably, it seems and shall remain friends because they have a karmic connection, which is why they lasted 8 years despite not being perfect for each other. He has his Venus on her North Node and her Uranus is on his South Node, so this isn’t really a shock to him as he is used to the friendship aspect of their relationship and that can continue. They have an intense and sexual friendship that had to evolve into love, the great savior. Her Sun on his Moon was crushing his creative expression by her overwhelming talent and range and strength, which he has remarkably little of. His Sun and Mercury oppose his Moon in Leo and focus too much of his psyche on his emotional needs. Mars in Pisces opposes Jupiter in Virgo, of which those planets are doing now, although in Taurus and Scorpio. Saturn in Leo right now is obviously the culprit and she’s feeling it, I’m sure.

Joan d’Arc is the iconic Maid of Orleans who heard the voice of a spirit guide that led her to battle the invaders and save her people. Having Mars on her South Node meant she was a man in her previous life and as such, fighting came quite naturally to her. Moon/Jupiter in Libra trine Pluto gave her the insight and wisdom to command a deadly force. Her Sun/Venus trine Saturn gave her the authoritative presence in the line of duty, as a good Capricorn would. It was her Mercury opposite Neptune that made her think she was hearing the voice of God telling her to lead the people. Mars inconjunct Uranus could account for some behavior that was perceived as crazy or insane.

MLK had a dream or two because his Moon was in Pisces conjoining his Venus in a trine to Pluto, so he was trying to change the world and got things rolling nicely, until they shot him. They always kill the real voices of social change but never the evil guys who need bumping off. Jupiter trine Neptune and Saturn in a grand trine gave him wisdom and perspective few had and many who heard would follow, as there was so much inspirational truth he was speaking. With Mars opposite Saturn, he would arouse the wrath of those whose lives would be changed by his peaceful marches and the growing civil rights movement. Powerful white men were among those enemies of Dr. King and when he said, “Free at last…” I wonder how many of them were sad for their own stupidity? His Mercury in Aquarius shows a bright intellect but its lack of close contacts tells me that without connection, the mind is a terrible thing to waste, but leading a cause for freedom would help him connect to all of humanity. Pluto in the 9th house made this transformation as far away as South Africa, as Steven Biko and Nelson Mandela would have read about and heard about him.

16 Sade is the singer who was known for Smooth Operator and she must have been. She may be a bit of a freak as she has Mars in Taurus opposite Jupiter, square Uranus in Leo and Venus opposite Uranus squared by Neptune, so she’s delusional about love or avoids it altogether. Maybe it’s not being able to understand people or that she’s been victimized in her past lives. She also has some kinky sexual expressions and her Aries Moon on the South Node could be problem emotions of a childish nature, impatient and trine Uranus, urges her to connect with friends and attach a little too much with a needy nature that can turn into an uncaring bitch. Her Mercury/Saturn is in Capricorn trine Pluto, giving a shrewd business sense, with a touch of ruthlessness, so she probably burned too many bridges.

17 It should be called the day of the heavyweight champ, since Ali and Joe Frazier share this birthday according to one source, but another one said that Joe’s was this past Thursday and anyway, they were also both Olympic Gold Medal champions. Joe Frazier lost to Ali in the Rumble in the Jungle, no…that was Foreman…it was the Thrilla in Manila. Yeah, that’s it. Well, since it’s really only Ali’s birthday, I’ll take a look at his chart. With Moon, Mercury and Venus retrograde in Aquarius, he had natural athletic ability and agility. His intelligence and memory were enhanced by the trine to Jupiter, which also made him very funny and boastful. His Sun trine Saturn and Uranus made for the discipline and uniqueness, as well as athletic training until he was a master of the art of boxing. Completing a grand trine was Neptune in Virgo for the poetry and gracefulness, wherein he “floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee.” Mars in Taurus square Pluto and the Sun gave him anger and a devastating left hook.

Ben Franklin I have written about extensively and you can get his profile in last January’s archives.
Jim Carrey in Man in the Moon portrayed Andy Kaufman and they both had this birthday. Of course, they are both crazy, with Mercury in Aquarius and aspects to Neptune…Andy had Mercury trine Neptune but opposite Pluto, while Jim has Mercury square Neptune and strange voices pop out of his mouth while he’s sleeping. Andy had his Mercury conjunct Mars, so he could play clueless simpleton or asshole jerk with ease and with Moon in Virgo conjunct Saturn, the jerk was closer to the real deal, especially with a square to Chiron in Sag. His Sun made only one aspect and it was an inconjunct to Uranus, otherwise also unaspected. Jim has the same aspect and for Uranus, there are no other aspects, but the Sun conjoins Venus and while that’s not much, it makes him a little better with relationships than Andy. At least he gives the appearance of being pleasant.
<REM - Man on the Moon>

18 Kevin Costner has Sun opposite Jupiter and Uranus square Neptune, so is under the delusion that he actually has real acting talent when he can’t even sustain an accent for an entire movie, as in Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves. His only convincing work is in sports movies, especially the baseball ones, Bull Durham, Field of Dreams and then there was For the Love of the Game, which my wife and I called For the Love of God! He’s okay in westerns, although I’ve never felt he had the real authenticity that Clint Eastwood brought to the genre, but Clint was raised on the stuff. Maybe his Sag Moon makes him right for the sports and western themes as well as the light romantic comedies. As for developing characters with psychological profiles and back stories, he can’t get that part quite right.

A.A. Milne authored “Winnie the Pooh” and is well known to millions of readers. He was a double Capricorn with Mars on the Gemini ASC, as near as I can figure, and a lot of trines from Capricorn to Taurus, including Moon to Saturn, Neptune and Jupiter, giving a stable, imaginative and good-humored natured. Venus trine Neptune and Jupiter make for an understanding nature and well off financially. Sun trine Pluto gave an intense personality but not a violent one. Uranus is in Virgo in trines to Jupiter and Neptune in Taurus and Moon and Venus in Cap, which adds uniqueness and originality. Mercury in Aquarius square Saturn made him brilliant and hard-working, as his father was a headmaster at a boy’s school. Mars in Gemini on the ASC makes sense for the stroke that kills him, especially with it in an exact quincunx to the Sun. Strokes are caused by blood clots in the brain so it makes sense to have Scorpio, sign of blood, on the cusp of the 6th house of health.
Emmanuel Chabrier is the composer of Espana and other pieces that aren’t played very often, yet still sparkle. His Moon in Sag conjunct Jupiter accounts for the liveliness of the music and the Venus in Pisces on Uranus makes for the rhythmic bounce he put into his phrases.

19 Robert Palmer died a couple of years ago and while he was alive, he was a very popular singer…Simply Irresistible. With Leo rising and Moon in Libra, it’s no wonder he wrote about love and relationships, but with Moon square Venus, they were never easy and there was often a problem with who’s in control of the money. With Mercury conjunct Mars in Aquarius, he was smart and innovative, as in his music video for the song, “Addicted to Love”, but the opposition to Pluto on the ASC made him obsessive and self-destructive. The cause of death is listed as a heart attack but with the drugs that a Jupiter square Neptune can put away, it’s likely that it contributed to a failure of the cardiovascular system. Plus, with Sun inconjunct Uranus, there might have been some heart arrhythmia or some deformity of the valve. Ultimately, the Sun square the nodes shows a problem with the energy of the Sun and it is a karmic issue that refers to skipping steps of evolution. Actually, that’s more about the emotional immaturity and codependency, so not really the medical aspect.

20 Fareed Zacharia is a writer for Newsweek magazine and frequent guest on The Daily Show as well as a regular on This Week in Washington with George Stephanopolis. He has Mercury in Cap rising before his Sun, labeling it the oriental indicator and indicating a career in some form of communications. Mercury trine Uranus makes for genius, intellectual brilliance and lightning quick thoughts that lean on progressive ideas. Mercury also is sextile Venus in Pisces, allowing him to be sensitive in interpersonal relationships. Saturn square Neptune is the case of the disappearing or absentee father, sometimes through mysterious circumstances, other times because of alcohol or drugs. Moon in Pisces shows a family history of such tendencies, so watch out, kids, if you have these aspects in your chart. You may just be delusional enough to think you, too, can write for Newsweek.

Federico Fellini is the gifted but strange Italian director with multiple fetishes, I’m sure. Uranus trines Mars and Pluto, both, so sexual experimentation is a certainty, just as Venus in Sag trine Jupiter opens one up to many relationship opportunities and there are always more to come. What most grabbed me and I’m sure they were a bit of an issue for him too, was the Sun/Moon/Mercury square Mars, which can make one irritable, impatient and verbally confrontational, with some anger towards the mother and a little self-loathing, as well. He also had the notorious Scorpio-Taurus nodes, which mark him as a hedonist. Jupiter conjunct Neptune makes for a great filmmaker but it did nothing to redeem his soul or incorporate the ideals into his daily life. As such, there is little spiritual evolution in his life process. Many people face this in one form or another.

We live in world that practices dozens of forms of religion but has little spiritual faith in an eternal life and when you explain that reincarnation fits the bill, they shut down and don’t want to hear it. Capricorn is about mastery of the material plane while Aquarius is the liberation of the individual. After so many structures and limitations have been placed on you, one has to liberate the soul and free the body so as not to stagnate. As we move into the sign of the future, let us remember the friends, groups and important associations that have a significant impact on how we advance into our potential. Astrology is an Aquarian science, no matter what physical scientists think. It has roots as far back as Atlantis, another place consigned to the realm of imagination or theory, and moved forward in Egypt and Babylon. Our souls have their roots back ever farther in time, all the way back to the big bang at the moment of all creation. But where were we before that? What was before the beginning of time? What will happen after the world ends? Will the universe collapse back in on itself and return to a single point in space and create another big bang? If you ask me, we all need another chance to get this right. Maybe an astrology reading is just what you need to begin your new life’s direction. You’ll get a big bang out it.

January 21 , 2006
Oh the humanity! Aquarius is all about it and it is the future now. The Moon is in Libra, the sign of the 7th house but just moved below the horizon minutes ago and Jupiter is aligned with Mars. Neptune is still in a square to the opposition but I think it’s making a lot of people think about the future and one of the words that keep coming up is reform, while another is impeachment. They don’t understand that to move to improve the system of corruption with more obfuscation and new rules that they will find ways to circumvent or outright violate, anyway, doesn’t really help, like a band-aid on Chicken Pox. Wake up to a new way of doing life, people. Everyday is a rat race to dominate others and make more than the other guy or have a nicer car. Whoever made it about winning was not paying attention to the spiritual lessons in life that really matter. There are so many things we have to do as evolving souls that concerning yourself with competition is to indulge in the ego’s perspective of having attention and praise lavished on them for having bested an opponent. Aquarius is the ultimate team sign because it is about the group advancing to the finals and playing the most highly skilled and best executed play possible because excellence is often more important than winning because it leads to winning and playing better. But ultimately, you compete against yourself and your success is your own.

The Sun is the center of your essence, as in the ego and will to express your true self, which is buried under layers of karmic defense mechanisms. We fear what we were when we were bad people because we don’t want to be that again, but old patterns die hard. The Sun is approaching a conjunction with Chiron, an indication that there is something wrong and unhealthy on a grand scale. Aquarius is the sign of universalism and the Sun is personal, while Chiron shows the wounds that affect the egocentric fool. With the nearing Saturn opposition, it’s a foregone conclusion that there will be further tales from the wounded leader or father. This is a major issue and can lead to things like impeachment, which even Arlen Specter mentioned on George Stephanopolis’ show, This Week in Washington. So this week we’ll see if the Democrats really have the balls to follow Patrick Leahy’s lead to vote against Alito and filibuster him into limbo. Limbo lower now! How low can you go?

Aquarius is the sign of friends and groups, networking and associating with interesting or powerful and important people. Sounds like a lobbyist! Congress will try to clean itself up but we all know that’s impossible with all three branches of government ruled by a single party. There’s absolutely no oversight and until they abolish the K Street project that Tom DeLay and Jack-off started where all the lobbyists had to be Republican to work the street and get access, you won’t see any real results. Reforms are needed, yada, yada as they yap their flapping traps and out comes nothing but crap. They will do something but they are trying to cover their own asses and voters need to see that clearly. If they vote for the real reforms that change the way business is done, then you’ll see the Democrats’ plan be the one implemented, but don’t really count on it. The plan should have every congressman who took bribes to put through legislation be fined and fired, never again permitted to enter into politics. But the GOP won’t do anything but mild alterations in the rules and tightening of time limits between the revolving door from public to private sectors, since petitioning the government is one of the first amendment’s rights.

This is the sign of principles and ideals, along with humanitarian programs that help those who can’t help themselves. This is the sign of Edison, FDR, Lincoln and other visionaries who saw a better world for all mankind. Our great leaders are all progressive thinkers and doers just as Jesus was about the most liberal and progressive person of his time and perhaps of all time. We need change now. It is time to reform the American Dream from Greed to Need and not in a way that becomes overly socialistic, just realistic that people who have billions of dollars need to stop earmarking their phony charity contributions to their mate’s favorite interest group. There is a tradition among the wealthiest classes that the rich take care of the poor and the best way is to educate them. Addressing the needs of the many in ways that can be born by the few wealthiest one percent is the morally ethical and responsible thing to do. Simple shelter for those who are homeless, food and clothing from donated sources should be easy enough to procure through faith-based initiatives, which are a sham and a shame that they would have to be governmentally sanctioned to do good works for the community. When churches raise money to build bigger and better churches, it’s not about the people in the community that need help but an attempt to show off what they perceive to be God’s house. Our liberation requires better separation of church and state while we progress to a nation that will tolerate freedom from religion.

One of the reasons people fled to the New World was to be away from the Inquisitions and religious oppressions that dominated Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries. Persecution of the Jews began again in 1492 in Spain and they were driven out or invited to leave, along with their dark-skinned African friends, the Moors. Some went to Eastern Europe to find freedom, some to the Western Hemisphere toward an adventurous life. Our founding fathers made sure they did not invoke religious authority in any way on the people of this country for those very reasons. That the Religious Right wants to do that very thing is wrong in a democracy. They have been wrong about so many things throughout history and now they are trying to correct one of their misconceptions because they refuse to accept reincarnation as part of the Christ teachings. They have eliminated Limbo, which is the place where infants go when they die so young and without sin. If they would just see that the spirit is the eternal soul and is on a continual search for the experience God has offered, they would be in a whole lot better standing with the creative power of the universe. They just have to extend Christ’s words that you must be born again and again until you learn how to love one another.

I am reading this book that was written in the 70’s called Ecotopia, which describes a future breakaway country of the Northwestern states and Northern California. It paints a picture of a cooperative culture of recyclers and bio-tech innovators, who ride bikes and take mag-lev trains as well as hunt and fish in the pristine restored wilderness of renewed forests and pastures. Small collective farms replace giant factory farms and produce is sold where it is produced to minimize transportation costs and labor plus the trucks that haul the produce. Have you ever seen a tractor trailer overturn with a load of lemons or tomatoes on the freeway? It’s a mess! They would have no more freeways because few people actually would need a car and if so, they would use bio-diesel fuel as petroleum was outlawed for everything but lubrications and they have a few others that work for that, like hemp oil and jojoba oil. Desert nurseries could grow plenty of jojoba and less harsh lands are fine for hemp, since it will grow anywhere.

So, a new tape of Bin Laden has surfaced and the GOP, they could be called Grossly Overreaching Pigs, have already politicized it to spread fear and concern that only by reauthorizing the Patriot Act and continuing NSA and FBI wiretaps will we be safe. Bullshit. We don’t need to limit our freedoms and liberties to stop a terrorist attack. We need intelligence, but not the kind these people think because they have so little intellectual acuity that to call them dumb is an insult to dumb people. These right-wingers cut the CIA’s budget to prevent them from hiring Arabic translators, just the thing we needed in the post-cold war against religious fundamentalism and that’s a battle on two fronts. Evangelical Christians are as much a threat to our civil rights and liberties as Islamic fundamentalism. Pitching one extremist group against another like this can lead to an endless war, which is what it would become and a collapse of the US economy from debt and deficit would be result. We would all have to learn Mandarin as a second language or maybe Japanese, as well as Arabic. That would be a scary world to live in and that’s what our leaders are leaving for our children and their kids. And I doubt that they will have the planet survive to a sustainable level during those later days. There needs to be a significant course correction in the use of energy if we are to have any legacy at all.

In medical news, it turns out that baby aspirin taken every day can help prevent strokes in women but heart attacks in men. It is much more likely that a man will suffer a heart attack than a woman. And the Supreme Court upheld an Oregon Right-to-die law, which could lead the way to California adopting it and Arnold better not stand in the way or he’ll be terminated. Speaking of terminations, Clarence Allen, of Native American descent said as a farewell, “Hoka Hey, it’s a good day to die.” He enjoyed his buffalo steak heartily and was executed with no great fanfare. California should not be killing people with lethal injections when it’s just as easy to put a guy out in the middle of the freeway and let him be a crash test dummy. Take the best shooters from murderer’s row and send them into Iraq and Afghanistan and show the enemy no mercy. The problem is, they would be difficult to command and control, plus they would have to be kept away from civilians, especially female.

There are better ways to die than in a chair or on a desert road a third of the way around the world. I would like to go to sleep and wake up on the other side, a higher vibrational dimension where you can tap into any resource or field of study so that you are ready for what you want to create in your next lifetime. If you always look to the future, you are participating in creating it by visualizing what you imagine. The people who die fast without planning the next life get stuck doing what they just did in their past life or what others lead us into. So many of us have to go through a transition of letting go of the past that it’s like an onion peeling off layer after layer and revealing those past life issues that can either be expressed in positive ways or eliminated as wasted efforts. Each life is a layer and as you get to the essence of your being, you’ll find it to be a blend of many of those lifetimes because they have made you what you are today. You are also what you are because of who you have always been but different circumstances bring out different qualities within different situations. By the way, what is the state of your onion?
<Copland – Sunday Traffic>

Some people are of the opinion that we are going to be hit by the bird flu pandemic more easily than a terrorist attack. In fact, this is probably why Osama has offered us a truce…he knows this is coming to our shores and it could affect more people than any attack they could have made. And there you have karma working against us, since this country’s corporations have created much of the bad economic karma around the world. They have pushed industrialization further and faster than the Earth can sustain and we need to move into the future by reinventing techniques from the past. We need a lot of new materials for electronic devices that don’t cause horrible pollution, radiation or toxins. There are so many things killing us that it’s truly shocking to find out the worst killer of all is…us. And teenage drivers account for such a large number of traffic deaths that it’s annually more lives than we’ve lost in Iraq. You think there are tragedies happening over there and you’d be right, but there are far more happening on our roads and caused by our kids, particularly 15-17 years old. They get into cars while under the influence of alcohol or drugs or cell phones and even the peer pressure to perform a stupid stunt that causes them to have an accident, which are ruled by Uranus and Aquarius. It’s no coincidence that these accidents are happening all the time and kids aren’t informed or educated enough to understand the dangers involved in their activities. Wake up, parents and teach your kids to straighten up and fly right.

For some people, that means getting married and settling down, which favors a more prosperous life, as a study has shown that divorce is the fastest way to lose money. About half, in the cases of a few friends of mine, and that’s way too much money. My brother was constantly pestered by his ex-wife and she took him to the cleaners in the divorce but she has gotten hit by karma and paid the price. My other brother, my sister and myself are still doing well with our first mates and everything is ship shape and smooth sailing. But all of us are in harmonious matches, with Sun sextile Sun, at least by sign in each case. My Leo brother has chosen a Capricorn and an Aquarius, so just doesn’t get it, but Leos do like a challenge.

The French woman who had a face transplant went back to smoking, which could lead to tissue rejection and she will lose face over that. I have no info on her, so I can only say she’s a stupid addict who would rather get her fix than her face. Many people who have addictive tendencies might have strong retrogrades, Mercury, Gemini or the 3rd house activities or Mercury on the South Node and maybe Chiron in Gemini or the 3rd. This might also indicate lung allergies or communication disorders, as you can’t use one factor to assess an individual’s problems. There has to be a recurrent theme in order for an issue to be significant. Gerald Ford has pneumonia and was admitted to a hospital to make sure our oldest president doesn’t croak before he’s really ready to go. I can’t say I have any affection for one of the conspirators in the cover-up of JFK’s assassination as a member of the Warren Commission. His natal Mercury squares Mars, an indication of irritation or infection in the lungs and Mercury rules the South Node, so there it is as a ready-made potential killer. With the fixed T-Cross we’ve had hitting him right on the Mercury degree, it is no wonder that he’s in the hospital. Neptune opposes it and the Mars/Jupiter opposition squares it, so he’s getting hammered and later on in the year, Saturn lands right on top of that Mercury, stopping his breath, perhaps not taking away his breath in the figurative way, but actually ending his life in August. I want to see if this prediction comes to pass, and you know, I don’t tend to predict death.

In the darker side of health problems, Leif Garrett is a heroin addict and was caught and busted being the self-destructive Scorpio he is and also under direct assault from the Mars-Jupiter-Neptune T-Cross. His Sun and Moon are conjoining Neptune natally and are being squared by Neptune for his escapist drug use. Jupiter is on the Scorpio planets, hence the risky behavior and the excessive indulgence in such a life-destroying drug. Mars opposite his stellium is the needle and the approaching Saturn square will happen this summer, so he’ll be sent to the slammer or maybe be lucky enough with Jupiter on his Sun to get a rehab sentence and be ordered to clean up his act and do drug diversion courses and community service. His Mercury/Venus in Libra are square his Saturn in Cap and Jupiter in Aquarius straddling the cusp, so manic/depression is a possibility, especially if he’s seeking attention by acting out of frustration from not working.

Oprah and Elie Wiesel are going to Auschwitz together for a holocaust awareness trip. If they air it in the Arab countries, it will deflect the statements of the crazy Iranian president. Both are survivors of some pretty horrific stuff but Oprah has had a positive attitude and has helped so many people. Her birthday is next week, so I’ll go more into her story then and perhaps will learn more about this scheduled trip she’s taking with Wiesel.

Ray Nagin has gone too far in declaring that God is real angry at New Orleans. Perhaps because he’s a Gemini with Mercury on the South Node in the same sign gives credence to the fact the he doesn’t know what the hell he’s saying half the time or that he’ll just change position later on. God hates the people of his city. Really…you have personalized God to the point where you have given him human feelings and reactions, having created Him in your own image, rather than the other way around. God has no anger, wrath or any other emotion. He isn’t a jealous God and doesn’t punish anyone, no matter what your moronic religious leaders say. Too many of them have become so disengaged from spirit and too much into the evils of political manipulation and attempting to remake your country into a theocracy. It would be an awful thing to have happen, stripping your nation of the very freedoms it was founded upon. God, if it were possible for Him to care about your petty struggles of physical dominance over each other, would pity you for your foolishness regarding what you fixate on as important or consider relevant morals and values. Basing a religious view on things like abortion and gay marriage has been a diversion from having people focus on the real issues of jobs and wages, health care and other benefits that have been stripped from pensions, just as they, too, are disappearing.

Al Gore has taken the Bush administration to task for committing a series of crimes against America. In particular, the domestic spying agenda that has both the left and some on the right up in arms regarding its complete disregard for the constitution. If he had shown as much in the way of balls in 2000 as he has of late, he would have won convincingly and there would have been no need for a recount. Dealing with the current infringement on American’s right to privacy, Gore said we need a special counsel since Alberto Gonzales has an obvious conflict of interest, being so close to the evil master of Pennsylvania Avenue. He has a natal Moon in Capricorn and has been too cautious but now it has progressed into Aquarius and his progressed Sun is in the 11th and his minor Sun is exactly on his ASC, so he has come into his own and may want to have the power by 2007 so as to mount a campaign. Speaking of which, public access to the candidates on TV paid for by taxpayers and public service TV, is the logical way to go. Most voters have television access and can watch the platforms and messages of the candidates’ programs without bashing their opponents. No more smear ads and no more PAC attacks like the Swift Boat ads. We have to change the ways people get elected and that includes eliminating the need for fundraising by making all air time free to the candidates.

Now Hilary is speaking out, calling the Bush administration the worst in our history and I agree with her. Republicans decry her comments as having gone too far but they are defending an indefensible president who has violated 8 amendments and several laws. I suppose she’s gearing up for her presidential run in ’08 but she has a lot of explaining to do about some of her positions, including the war in Iraq. I know people think she’s the future of the party, but I see that as Barack Obama. Al Gore is the bridge to a better time in the White House but Hilary brings back bad memories that have stuck in people’s minds. Granted, most of them are Republicans and have listened to Fox News for too long and have had their brains melted by the hypnotic bloviations of the nut jobs who are able to get air time while astrology is marginalized on national radio…for now.

Wilson Pickett just died this week. He was a Pisces with Sun opposite Neptune and transiting Pluto came along and squared that. Saturn also squared its natal position. I guess he doesn’t need to wait ‘til the midnight hour anymore. <song>

<Newsmakers and Earthshakers>
Jan 21 Geena Davis portrays the first female president in Commander in Chief and shows the difficulty of balancing a family and running a government and dealing with international issues as leader of the free world. Her chart shows her ready for just about any challenge, as Aquarius is the sign of surprises and her Sun opposes Uranus, so she seems be to attracting them everywhere. Her Moon in Taurus opposes Neptune, and for all the actors she has dealt with in life, she knows them well enough to marry someone outside the business. Her Venus in Pisces squares her Mars/Saturn in Sag, so her strong yang energy is a little offset by Venus in its exaltation. Her Mercury is retrograde in Aquarius at the same degree and condition as Ben Franklin, but he has aspects to it, whereas, she doesn’t and may not invent anything or write a new constitution, but she is very bright and progressive. Aquarians envision the future as they idealize it but can also see it as it will be, when they are in the moment of clarity in the now. Her Moon square Sun and Uranus makes it difficult to form deep intimate emotional bonds. The Neptune could be about acting or victimization in a past life, leading to compassion in this life. Venus trine Neptune is enough for her to have significant acting talent. Venus opposite Jupiter might attract a lot of Sag types and the Pluto opposition Venus is that deep, compassionate soul that wants to help you redeem another dark, tortured soul. Mars/Saturn is square the Jupiter/Pluto as well, so there might be a lot of anger and highly explosive temperament. With North Node in Sagittarius, the world of politics opens up new dimensions in her experience and may lead to another career as a politician, although she should act as long as she gets good roles.

22 Linda Blair, Olivia D’Abo, Diane Lane, actresses all and Sir Francis Bacon are on this day along with the late, great Sam Cooke.

<Wonderful World – Sam Cooke>
Sam Cooke was one of the greatest performers of his time in a life that would have been longer had he not been murdered in a set-up that has been covered up by the LAPD, if they ever really knew anything, anyway. Since I am familiar with his life and his chart, it showed up that everything that happened would happen at the time it occurred, even describing the environment of the scene of the crime. As an Aquarian with Moon in Pisces, he was a free spirit from a religious family, his father was an itinerant preacher and the kids sang in the choir. With Mercury in Capricorn, Sam thought with a business mind, mindful of his creative gifts and using them to achieve success. Venus in Sag square Moon in Pisces made for a situation wherein lots of women were at his disposal and he had an emotional need system that could never get enough. With Uranus square the opposition of Saturn to Jupiter/Pluto there is the possibility of sabotage by an opportunistic partner who was no real friend, despite protestations to the contrary. Mars in Leo opposite the Sun attracts strong competition as well as an attacker. Ceres on the Libra South Node square the Saturn/Jupiter/Pluto is the lack of maternal nurturing and the overcompensation with sex and emotional experiences that provide the thrill. Mercury trine Neptune gave him a good musical gift and psychic intuition but Mercury square Uranus puts it into a case where he knows that he knows but when he doesn’t know, he doesn’t know why he doesn’t know. The grand trine of Mars to Venus to Uranus in fire signs gave that great energy and easy flow of musical style and the ability to go with any style at all, as well as creating his own.

23 Richard Dean Anderson, is better known as McGiver or Jack O’Neill, depending on which of his series you watched. This is the man whose character is associated with gerry-rigging almost anything imaginable and able to break into or escape impossible situations. A double Aquarius with Moon in Aries makes for a quick and resourceful person who knows how to survive. Venus is retrograde conjunct Jupiter in Aquarius so may have made a lot of money and fallen in love many times, but there is always something fateful to the real deep ones that strike a personal chord and it may cause him to back off personally. His Moon is opposite Mars on the South Node, so you have the warrior who died in combat in WWII and he gets cast as a military man in Stargate SG-1. Mercury retrograde in Capricorn flashbacks have given him memories he has used although the square to Neptune gives him dreams he’d rather not have. His Venus/Jupiter opposition to Pluto attracts unsavory characters and gold-digging bitches from hell, who fall for a handsome man and find him to be alien compared to their mundane, banal and pedestrian lives. Still, it’s an aspect of death or divorce, especially with Pluto in the 7th house. They even worked it into the Stargate script, that his son killed himself with his gun. Moon square Uranus is family craziness, separation as well as accidents. Moon opposite Mars are the family fights and the need to break free of their influence is the square to Uranus.
It is also the birthday of Humphrey Bogart, Manet, Django Reinhardt, and John Hancock.

24 Hadrian was an Emperor of Rome and some say he was the best, possibly because of the Venus and Mars in Pisces, so he built great works for the people and supported the arts. Mercury and Saturn trine Neptune contributes to the strong appreciation of the arts, as well as his ability to use that influence over the people. Entertain them and they are your audience. Jupiter in late Capricorn conjoined his early Aquarius Sun and Moon so he was able to be generous to them as a strategic advantage. But the square to Neptune they formed caused a problem with deception, dissipation and confusion.
Of the others who share this day, Oral Roberts is an angry preacher whose fear of God loses something in the translation. Moon/Pluto in Cancer leads to an obsession with his mother but the opposition to Mercury and their square to Mars makes it a difficult task to communicate without irritating the hell out of each other. He has Saturn/Neptune opposite his Sun, so projects religious control and patriarchal domination, not real acceptance and understanding.
Warren Zevon was a double Aquarius with Aries rising and Mars on the Sun/Mercury opposite Saturn/Pluto, so live fast and die young because it was just a matter of time. He died of lung cancer, hence the Mercury-Saturn-Pluto connection. Mercury also square Chiron sets it up as well.
Mariska Hargitay is the actress whose mother was Jayne Mansfield.
Elliott Abrams is a little under the radar but he’s one of the darker Neo Cons and is already a convicted felon, even before he began working for this White House. He’s so much of the same shit as I’ve already discussed, I will look into him another time.

25 Antonio Carlos Jobim is one of my favorite international jazz musicians, as I love the soft, swaying sound of the bossa nova and the samba. His rhythmic vitality is displayed by his Aquarius Sun/Mercury conjunction and Venus is a bit later in the sign. Plus his Pisces ASC has Uranus rising in the first just a few degrees from it and Jupiter in the 12th in Pisces also gives excellence in his musical life and a guardian angel to watch over him. Moon in Libra sextile Neptune is another natural flow of a musical gift from his soul, while his Mars in Taurus sextile Pluto in Cancer provides a rebirthing of the physical vitality in a sultry and emotionally passionate sensuality that burns at a low but intense heat. Saturn in Sag square Jupiter in Pisces may have stopped him from physically traveling all that much during his life, he died in ’94, but it certainly didn’t stop Joao Gilberto from spreading the tunes internationally. It could have been the Moon in Libra trine Jupiter that facilitated that connection.
<Bim Bom>

Conrad Burns is the corrupt Senator from Montana who has taken money from Jack-off. So what’s so bad about Burns? Well, for starters, he has Mercury conjunct Venus and Saturn all square Jupiter in Scorpio, making him a liar and an opportunist. He uses people and manipulates them because he wants more than he has earned and is ruthlessly dedicated to doing almost anything to get it. He’ll promise things and not deliver and not just because he’s a politician. The Moon conjunct Mars has appeared in the charts of many megalomaniacs, like Hitler, Barbara Bush, Saddam Hussein and a few others. His is in Libra and the Mars squares Pluto, causing angry outbursts and sexual appetites that get out of control. With Pluto the nearest body to the South Node and conjoining it within less than 7 degrees, one might surmise some suspicion, obsession or secretiveness about what’s a gross invasion of our privacy rights. This guy has Uranus square Pluto, which could be construed as the destruction of our freedoms and civil liberties. His Aquarius stellium of Mercury, Venus and Saturn, forms an inconjunct to Pluto producing corruption in spades but Neptune has no planetary aspects at all, so he is unredeemed. It’s a strange vibration this creates. Saturn sextile Pluto brings him quite a lot of powerful people with an awful lot of money and who use it in ways that destroy our people and planet. While he has a trine of those Aquarian planets to Mars in Libra, it doesn’t help because Mars just facilitates his will to yield to power and the shadow government gets away with it!
John Belushi and Virginia Woolf also were born on the 25th.

26 Ellen Degeneris has evolved into an excellent TV show host and I suppose will never wear a dress in her life. She has some deeply ingrained attitudes about role relations that are as unconventional as would be expected of an Aquarian. But she’s never really cared what people think about her personally, since her Moon in Aries doesn’t care. That it’s trine the Mars/Saturn conjunction in Sag reinforces the likelihood that she was a man in her previous life. Her retrograde Venus on her Sun adds the weight of unique appeal and attractiveness. It has aspects that are almost standard in the gay community, with the Sun/Venus opposite Uranus for the unconventional, the square to Neptune for the misunderstood and confused victim of circumstance. Jupiter is 3 and a half degrees away from Neptune, so there’s the humor, which Mercury in Capricorn compliments with timing and hesitations that increase the humorous impact of a twist in the logic.
Wayne Gretzky, known as the great one, is the NHL’s greatest player ever, although a few like Mario Lemieux would challenge that claim.
Paul Newman just won a Golden Globe for his work in Empire Falls, a made-for-cable movie and it was an excellent film. Almost everything he’s ever done had some elements of excellence and is always interesting to watch.
Others on this day are David Strathairn, Roger Vadim, the director and General Douglas MacArthur.

27 Mozart, Lewis Carroll and many artists and musicians share this birthday. Wolfgang Mozart has always held people in rapt wonder that such incredible music came so fast and freely to the child prodigy until his early death at 36. Forty-one symphonies, a dozen of which are masterpieces, 27 piano concertos and many other concerted works along with many chamber and solo works makes us incredulous as to what he might have evolved into had he lived as long as, say Beethoven at 57. Another 21 years and he could have opened up whole new worlds in the way music is performed. Aquarians are originators and inventors, coming up with unique expressions of familiar forms until they are ready to change the forms altogether. It’s what they do. They shock, amaze and surprise you at every opportunity. In Mozart’s chart, Neptune was opposite his Sun, Mercury and Saturn, giving a powerful focus on his true calling. Mars retrograde in Cancer acts like its opposite sign and drives the car all the way to the finish line. The trine to Venus is why it all came across so pleasantly and why his marriage was so easy. Uranus in Pisces on the South Node is the source of his genius and the Moon/Pluto square to it caused his obsessive/compulsive qualities. Jupiter sextile to the Moon/Pluto made him highly prolific in his musical output.

John Roberts has already been thoroughly questioned and we have studied the chart and interpreted it for its karmic implications. There are precedents and he just showed himself to be a rubber stamp for the Bush administration in the Oregon assisted suicide decision. He teamed with Scalia and Thomas in dissenting that the states have the right to allow terminally ill patients to die to ease their suffering and the emotional and financial burden on their survivors. In this day and age of horrible life-ending diseases, why should people be made to suffer from what was never their fault in most cases. Toxic waste, radiation exposure, and who knows how many other things that cause cancer that the government doesn’t tell you about and won’t because they have deregulated industry and downsized any EPA superfund cleanups, diverting the money into the war effort. They keep trying to rally America by cheerleading the troops or proclaiming progress but things are breaking down over there and there are few solutions. With that, may I suggest some? Get out fast! Let them have their mess.

This year, Saturn is on the nation’s North Node, showing that it’s time for leaders to take responsibility and command some respect by living up to their best potential. What it has actually done is drawn our attention to the high and mighty egos that will fall and need to fall in the fall November elections. Uranus is square to its natal position in the US chart, indicating a time for sudden and abrupt, even revolutionary changes to be made. Chiron is near the South Node, indicating the very wounds that involve the underdogs and the disenfranchised. It is time for them to register and exercise their right to vote and bring in as many people of color as well as colorful people in to the House and Senate. We are descended from tribes of communal warriors, hunters and gatherers and some people have returned, in part, to their tribal associations in the form of community organizations or gangs. By making all politics local, you can muster black and Democratic voters and citizens to run for their communities but they have to be taught how they have been gerrymandered into disempowered puzzle pieces on the map. This is the time to move into the future by taking over the institutions that were created for this very purpose. We are the People of the United States of America.