June 24, 2006

We’re in the final throes, if you will, of the old moon, as it aligns with the Sun tomorrow morning and sets you off in a new direction or with a new destination, maybe a new residence, redirected attitude, or a different focus, it’s time to redefine what you need. Everyone has a unique set of needs that reflect who they are on an emotional level and few understand that because it’s the part people tend to protect. Instincts are designed to help you survive but you need to pay attention to the messages they send you, no matter what they say. We’re in a Moon Wobble period, which can cause strange and unexpected results with people we weren’t expecting to encounter. It’s like a surreal version of your life is unfolding and you don’t know how to straighten it out. Just let it ride out and in due course it will be fine.

Cancer is the home and family sign and yet many people are actually afraid of commitment and all the responsibilities it represents. It comes from the immaturity that a needy and clingy person who was over-coddled or excessively sheltered might have. In these days, it’s easy to understand how one can feel so insecure, with wages lower than expenses, negative savings, personal debt mounting and people in trouble are selling off their assets, including their homes. With the high number of houses on the market, the selling prices have leveled off, even beginning a decline. Of the investments that are out there, at this time go for the gold rather than real estate. First time homebuyers can forget it, unless they’ve just won the lottery or benefited by an inheritance of large proportions. The deck has been stacked by the upper class against the middle and lower classes to prevent them from advancing economically and it has been in the last 5 years that it has reached disastrous dimensions. During the last quarter century, the RRR has been tearing down the unions and financial protections that have been in place since the FDR New Deal. It’s easy to see why. They want to restore the past and its bad old days of slavery, no rights for women and minorities and all the people in charge will be rich, white men from conservative Christian backgrounds. Most things of the past, in terms of civil rights and social mores, are well dead and buried in the past but we have to remember them.

History is a Cancer subject, yet many Crabs, like GWB and Rummy can’t seem to remember their own history let alone the US and World history that would give them perspective and insights into how the world worked and why they are destroying it for ideological reasons. They must be manifesting the negative influence of their opposite sign, Capricorn, in wanting to have power and authority, dominating all they see while rationalizing their actions based on some moral superiority. He who ignores history is fated to repeat it. You make it much harder on yourself by disavowing your actions because then you are trying to avoid karma and you can’t do that. Sure, the victors write the histories but can you imagine what the history of the West would be if told by an American Indian? There was a civilization living in harmony with the land and nature, somewhat nomadic, depending on the time of year for hunting and gathering, a tradition of thousands of years. Then they were invaded and everything changed.

We went from living with the land to exploiting it for anything and everything we could, sending the price of things through the roof. We have driven most of the manufacturing out of the country and have increased the gap between the lowest wage earner and the highest. This is not a formula for national success, since now most of the wealthiest companies are in the financial industrial sector of the new market-driven economy, since federal regulations have all but disappeared. It’s odd that they want to regulate love and marriage, which only affects two people, generally, but they are paid off by huge corporations to look the other way when EPA or anti-trust violations are running rampant. This is why I would like to see Elliot Spitzer as the next Attorney General, since these past two, Gonzales and Ashcroft have shown screwed up priorities and hidden agendas in covering for the corrupt administration and even congress. The only way to solve this is by winning a majority in the midterms. They have gotten to the voting machines because the Diebold company is owned by staunch Republicans. They have gotten into the banking records of Americans, ostensibly to follow the funding of terror cells, but intruding into the right to privacy. In fact, Diebold makes ATMs and bank vaults, as I have seen them at my bank. This is a scary thought, if you think about it. The company that offers access to your money controls whom you vote for, in a way. So with voting machines made by this company, you can’t tell if your vote was counted or if it was changed to the Republican. Diebold must die.

Rigged elections isn’t okay in Third World countries and it’s even worse here, the alleged bastion of democracy. Then you have illegal gerrymandering of congressional districts to favor job permanence, making congressmen more entrenched and less likely to be for the people than their agendas, which often include corporate contributors and the favors that must be given to balance the books. You don’t get fat on the hill by working for the people you represent. Favors are the unspoken currency among fat cat, pork barrel politicians and the lobbyists who cling to them as the remora clings to the shark. It’s not as cozy as it was before the Jack Talk began, as lobbyists will have to keep their hands in their pants, so to speak. Personal fortunes can get some members into the governing body, while others get in to congress to make their fortunes and that’s not the way it should be at all. These are the people who make our laws and should also have to live by the same. If they were making minimum wage as a freshman congressperson, they would certainly raise their salaries at the first opportunity. Yet they won’t give a poor citizen a fighting chance. The current min-wage totals about 10 grand in a year, which goes faster than you can sneeze. If you want a better job, you need a good education and they have made that more difficult to attain, both financially and at the attention deficit level that’s rampant, making subjects less challenging and much less interesting than when I went to school.

It’s really bizarre what the congress has been spending its time debating of late. I can understand the war issues but the debate gets framed in such a way that no results will come of it, which is how the GOP wants it. When you engage in a war to drain the treasury and you still have money to pay the paperboy, then you haven’t done your job. Actually, our debt is owed to China, South Korea and Japan, making it that much more important to eat rice with chopsticks. Congressional debate has taken on the gay marriage issue and gay adoption without looking at the facts, just their own, bible-infiltrated personal background. No one can guarantee that a relationship will work unless you have a really good astrologer whose specialty is relationship issues. Some will never work out while others have a stamp of authenticity that proclaims ‘this is a love that will last and has lasted for lifetimes.’ Only when you have a feeling of a deep friendship, respect, acceptance and understanding can you really have a good marriage.

<Marriage of Figaro>
Marriage isn’t for everyone and shouldn’t be forever…one person can’t provide everything you need and shouldn’t have to. We have many aspects to our personalities and can’t possibly reveal them all in the process of courtship. There are several soul mates for each person and what happens if someone is able to hook up with two of them in one life is anyone’s guess…especially at the same time. The whole ‘one man-one woman’ concept of marriage is sickening to be limited thus. There are marriages made in heaven that have nothing to do with families or romantic partnerships, but rather businesses or teammates creating a perfect marriage of physical ability, skills and techniques to generate more balance, precision and effectiveness in business than any partner might have had on their own. Maybe by seeing marriage as a merger, then it’s easier to see more than one entity being involved with one other at a time. There are polygamous relationships that, if each spouse has a fair share and vote on things, it can be quite rewarding. Perhaps one woman wants to stay home raising children while one woman wants a career and the man or men may also have some choice in the matter. When I first started doing readings professionally, I came upon a group marriage of three women who were all Sag and two men who were both Taurus. At first I wondered at the connection between the Sun signs and decided due to their connection to nature, it fit and with multiple outlets for sexual expression, there was less desire to stray, especially when you were already connected to people of common interests and desires.

Not all relationships are created equal and not all situations are resolved with any kind of ease, as in the case of the Katrina survivors or our troops in Iraq. Families living in FEMA trailers nearly got evicted this week but got a reprieve. There are still many people who haven’t returned to New Orleans and maybe they can make a go of it elsewhere by bringing a taste of New Orleans cooking to whatever community they may live in now. What a business opportunity, if they can get the financing! Most of those people will have a hard time getting a fresh start because of the obstacles put up by the Bush league politicos that have been privatizing our government services out. Even in Iraq, your taxpayer dollars can’t afford the best soldiers or equipment, since the private contractors hire ex-servicemen who work for Blackwater and protection companies like it and they get the best armor and Kevlar vests and helmets that money can buy. This is the corporate government at work, where they cut services and increase their advertising expenses to say how well they’re doing, and everyone is fine except for the people on the bottom. Everything that’s bad about a corporate takeover of the government has or will come to pass. Any continuation of business without regulation will result in the termination of our existence on this planet. For this reason, you must urge everyone you know who is not rich to never vote Republican again! The GOP believes in poverty, will never fix it or fund it, believing that the poor, ignorant, uneducated, unemployed people must remain that way. Few alternatives beckon them but crime, prostitution and drugs and there are few ways out of that path without a humanitarian state government that believes in treating the problem, not burying it with bullshit agendas.

Cancer is about needs and comforts. You have to be able to afford to take care of your family and raising the minimum wage would be a start so that mothers taking a part time job or teenagers trying to grow up can have some economic security. Not that you could live on even 10 bucks an hour these days, as that’s less than 20 grand a year after deductions. Republicans are keeping it from passing because they are tied into the business community that doesn’t want to increase wages, which is why the government has to regulate and do oversight and this administration has done neither. Finances are a part of any economy, personal, business or governmental and taxes are the way we pay for government worker salaries and services, along with defense, which brings me to another fork in the road. Cancer rules defense and the Department of Defense used to be called War until WWII and we had never invaded a foreign country without provocation before Iraq. Thus the name can revert to its former title, the War Dept.

Earthquakes of major impact are ahead and should already be upon us without warning any minute, according to the daily paper. It’s been 250 years since the last big one in So Cal, which was 7.7, as if the 6.6 Northridge quake was nothing. It concerns me that we are unprepared for a catastrophe, as we have seen with Katrina and the aftermath. FEMA was downsized and outsourced to 3rd World country operations, perhaps, or there were too many links in the chain that weren’t rusty, they were deliberately sabotaged. Some inside GOP operatives weakened the structure and sold off supplies to private companies who could then rake in enormous profit. Get the corruption out by weeding out the cronies and the only way to do that is by impeaching the top two executives after winning the midterms. If the big one hits us, I would not like to see a lot of people homeless, thirsty, hungry and angry with their government that let them down.

One government that’s really trouble, North Korea and its crazy leader Kim Jong Il, an Aquarius, have the US in their sights and may launch a missile at us, just because he’s crazy. What kind of crazy am I talking about? The Sun square Uranus, Mercury retrograde square Mars angry kind with Moon in Pisces delusional square with Jupiter to blow it out of proportion. We would have to shoot down their missile and they might decide to retaliate but I wouldn’t advise it. Have you ever seen Dr. Strangelove? Maybe instead of protecting kids from violent video games, they should make games that are more about what people who do the real killing would be learning on. Simulators, they’re called and if you train these kids to fly planes and fire weapons of various types, you will be preparing them for the real world. Unfortunately, our government supplies our troops with defective weapons and minimal armor, so they’re sitting ducks out on a convoy. The problem comes when there is abuse of the system wherein, like Ender’s Game, a classic sci-fi book where kids are killing the enemy thinking it’s a simulation. Many congress members play computer games, like Joe Barton of TX, who can’t seem to master Civilization. Hmm, no doubt!

As for not knowing how to conduct a war, this crew leads the way. Hey Rove, it was Democrats who finished WWII and it was Republicans who cut and ran in Korea and Vietnam. Study your history before you open your fat mouth. Wait a minute…didn’t you dodge the draft, Karl? Talk about cutting and running, which is what he did with his education. His have always been the politics of fear and deception, (Saturn and Neptune squares to his Capricorn planets) as he has lied, confused and misled the American public all during his long and despicable career, if you can call it that. It’s more like slithering from one slimy deed to the next on his descent back down the evolutionary ladder to the serpent he is. So much of what he says about Democrats might actually be true of himself, as we are often prone to revealing our own foibles when we berate others. My suspicion is that his reason for targeting homosexuals is because of his own desires for gay, bald reporters who get into the White House whenever they want a story or get it on with Karl and Dick and maybe even the prez. Avoiding the reality factor is something Rove has used all his life either because he just doesn’t understand what this world is all about or because he does and is taking advantage of the darker side as much as he can. He doesn’t get that we are all part of the family of Mankind and the human race needs to prevent the destruction of its habitat. It’s what any intelligent, enlightened species would do. It’s a Cancerian thing to do, to take care of your home and family.

There’s family of a different kind, as the Mafia has had extensive roots for a long time and deep connections to both parties. I can just imagine GHWB sitting young Georgie down in his Washington Office and introducing him to his friends. ‘Here’s the President and some of his staff, Don Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney, people I think you’ll learn to get along with when you figure out what your supposed to do in this family.’ Rummy dresses like a gangster with the old style pin stripe suits and I can’t wait for the black shirt look, but I doubt it will happen. Cheney could have been played by Brando a while ago but he’s too old and while Cheney looks older, he’s only 5 years older than Bush. Then there’s the conciliere, Alberto Gonzales, who certainly covers up the crimes his boss and his cronies commit. Don’t forget that every cabinet post has someone from the industry or sector that needs to be regulated doing the regulating. It’s like asking the criminals to go out on an honor system and commit no crimes. It just can’t work like this. We need to pull Al Gore back into the political debate instead of letting him hop around the world just talking to people on stage. I have a scene in mind where, like Michael in Godfather III he says, “Every time I try to get out, they keep pulling me back.”
<The Godfather>

James Sensenbrenner is from WI and is worried about immigration? Who got to him? His voting pattern has changed in the last couple of years. Is it Tancredo who’s kissing up to him? I believe they are stalling progress on any real reform so they can make it more of an election issue. If you pass a law before then, there’s nothing to debate except how someone voted. Legislative Limbo is the dance they do when they don’t really want to do anything or they can’t get anything done. These are people running for re-election with the rate of incumbency at 98% and it’s a waste of taxpayer’s money and time to vote for a foregone conclusion. Where is the excitement of a congressional race if they are decided before they are run? Why not have consecutive term limits and make it four terms of two years, the equivalent of a two-term president? With term limits, you sweep out the old and welcome the new, getting some much-needed new blood in the hallowed halls of stale cigar smoke left over from the Nixon days. If a congressman wants to re-up, he needs to work among the people at jobs real citizens do for one year before beginning to campaign for office again. They have to understand what real people in business do…and no lobbying firms or defense contractors, as real people don’t do that.

David Safavian was convicted in the Abramoff-affiliated federal case. He worked closely with Grover Norquist, the anti-government nut job, to destabilize the American economy. They are prime Neo Cons establishing a corporate mentality to running government, which means they don’t care about rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. They only care about having control over the entire world and the way it runs. But these people are delusional and ill-advised by brilliant idiots like Norquist, who then bring about the collapse of an economy with nothing substantial to put in its place. I was unable to find out Safavian’s birth info, only that he was born in 1967 but I have Norquist and he has Pluto square the Scorpio/Taurus nodes and Venus opposite Mars, so I don’t think he gets a lot of dates.

The Miami Heat won the NBA title and Shaq and Pat Riley are happy men. They have both won multiple times before with the Lakers, who are now the fakers. Pat and Shaq are also both Pisces who have moved from one beautiful coastal beach city to another but traded the rare earthquake for the regular hurricane. Having little in common in their charts except their Sun and Mercury signs, it’s hard to see how they could have even played the same sport. Riley, having been a guard, would have a different physical and mental approach to the game and he wasn’t as strong as Shaq down low by the basket. I much prefer that they won it instead of Dallas, as I have no love for Mark Cuban and have despised his anger on the court for a while now. Funny thing is that he’s born the same day and year as my Leo the lawyer brother with whom I have had a stormy relationship, especially as kids, liking him least among my siblings. The thing that bugs me about their character is the smug ego of superiority and the fact that they are self-made men from humble beginnings, so act like they’re better than everyone else. Still, my Leo brother is the only sibling who has been divorced, following in the footprints of our parents.

Dan Rather leaves CBS, rather acrimoniously, but then he’s a Scorpio, with Mercury and Venus there as well and Pluto in the 3rd, perfect for an investigative reporter, just the kind of journalism that might be deadly to the lying-est administration in history. Naturally, if he was going after them, they would get him first with their dirty tricks and games, since they have the heads of all major broadcasting corporations in their pocket. It’s so hard to stick it out when what you’re holding onto doesn’t really exist, as you knew it. When news people look back at the 70’s, they see the golden age of investigative reporting. That all ended when the era of Reagan’s revolution that allowed corporations to take control of our country and presided over a government that was operating covertly to destroy two enemies by pitting them against each other and arming both sides of the Iran-Iraq War, among other horrific mis-deeds. Reagan covered for the evil that Poppy Bush was committing with Iran-Contra, Grenada and other invasions. Remember the Savings and Loan scandals? It was all under Reagan’s watch as the Bush kids were in on the cleaning out of private fortunes. But that wasn’t enough, so now they are cleaning out the US Treasury and borrowing so much money that it will be the end of time on Earth for humans before we can pay it all back. With that lovely thought, let’s go to the famous and fabulous.

<Newsmakers and Earthshakers>
6-24 E. I. Dupont was a chemist who developed expanded uses for gunpowder from his manufacturing center in Delaware. He was born in the years before the Revolutionary War in France and came to America at the turn of the 19th century, as his Moon in Sag indicates a long-distance move. It makes an inconjunct to the Sun, causing him some stress and anxiety but that could have to do with a neurological problem as indicated by the Uranus/South Node conjunction with squares from Mars and Saturn in Leo, an indication of irritation and pressure on the brain, perhaps, but it was his heart that caused his death at 63, while his wife had died 6 years earlier. The man was always thinking about new things, as his Mercury in Gemini was sextile Saturn to put the ideas into reality and the square to Neptune for the imagination to go with the flow to get him there. Much of the key to his personality may be found in the Uranus on the South Node trine Pluto in Capricorn and Neptune in Virgo. This is the grand trine in Beethoven’s chart but by the Declaration of Independence, only the Neptune/Pluto trine is still there. Venus in Gemini makes an out-of-sign trine to Jupiter, bringing in the wealth and sharing it with the poor and needy.

6-25 George Orwell is the author of the classic book, 1984, ironically dated only 22 years too soon, although many of the techniques used by the Reagan/Bush administration show evidence that they were implementing the book’s philosophies. Many Sci-Fi writers have written about perfect societies but this is a dystopia that I wish we could turn off. I read it back in the 70’s but it’s the next one on my reading list. As for his chart, his Sun, Moon and Neptune are all very tightly conjoined in early Cancer but they square Mars in Libra on the North Node, so he certainly had issues with anger, addiction and impatience. The Grand Trine of Mercury in Gemini to Mars and Saturn in Aquarius allow much of that energy to be channeled into his writing. Jupiter, the planet of philosophy, perspective, wisdom, truth and vision of the bigger picture is in Pisces, for the imagination and psychic insight it takes to resonate with an entire planet for more than half a century so far. The Jolly Giant squares the opposition of Uranus in Sag and Pluto in Gemini, which all have to do with Science Fiction/fantasy/political satire among other genres. Venus in Leo is sextile Pluto as the only aspect and has to do with sexual proclivities that involve narcissistic encounters, so he may have had a gay old time.
Carly Simon

6-26 Greg LeMond is the former 3-time champion of Le Tour de France. Before there was a Lance Armstrong, there was America’s best cyclist winning in France for us, despite his French-sounding name, as he was born in Southern California. He also has Moon in Sag, and I place it in the 3rd, as he needed to travel to ride his bike in competition with his peers, and that would have to do with the 3rd. The aspect of the athletic champion, however is revealed in his Mars exactly on the North Node conjunct Uranus in Leo, with Mars also just 7 degrees from Pluto as well. His Sun/Mercury retrograde made him think about his goal everyday, all the time and the trine they make to Neptune made him believe in himself and his mission. Finishing out a grand trine is Chiron in Pisces, making his quest a dream that he tenaciously felt he had to achieve and so he did. Venus in Taurus square Uranus makes having close, intimate relationships difficult because there are other things preoccupying him, like winning a bike race…only the most prestigious one in the world! His special mission is indicated by his Yod and mapped out by his Jupiter in Aquarius with inconjunctions to Pluto sextile the Sun/Mercury. Athletic pinnacles can be reached by this high-energy quality as it constantly tries to improve. If I have his time correct, his nodes are in the 11th and 5th, as the North strives to compete in the mainstream, international stage and overcome the stage fright of his previous life. His Jupiter square Neptune shows a potential for overindulgence in some addictive thing, but that could also be his sport as an over-compensation for whatever is lacking in his life…sex, as Mars is inconjunct Saturn. Hmm and you thought it was easy to get laid for even one-time stars.
Chris Isaak (05), Sean Hayes (05)

6-27 Ross Perot was the short, self-made billionaire who ran for president in the ’92 and ‘96 elections. A triple Cancer, he certainly was tenacious and had a belief that he was what was needed for America, instead of Bill Clinton. We may have done okay but wouldn’t have had such a distraction as Monica-Gate. Ross has Sun opposite Saturn, so was the Rodney Dangerfield of the family, never getting any respect. His brilliance and innovative ingenuity are illustrated by Mercury in Gemini, which for all its repetition is in a sextile to Uranus, the planet of original ideas that are uniquely expressed. His Sun conjoins Jupiter for the luck and prosperity that he’s made and his Moon conjunct Pluto opens the dark closet door into the family business, which has a corrupt tint to it. Jupiter rising just before the Sun is what might have motivated him to try his hand at politics. But the powers that be won’t let anyone from outside the clan be president.
Helen Keller (05), Frances McDormand (05), and Toby Maguire I did when Spiderman II came out.

6-28 Mel Brooks is one of the all-time genius comic directors, so there has to be some kind of eccentric genius aspects that separate him from the rest of the pack. What individualizes him to make him so weird? Moon in Aquarius and Mercury in Cancer exactly trine Uranus in Pisces and they are at the final degrees of their respective signs. Expressing depression and frustration, insecurity and self-doubt, the Moon square Saturn in Scorpio shows the death of a close loved one, recently, his late wife, Anne Bancroft. Venus sextile Uranus along with the Moon shows his wife to be his best friend. Venus in Taurus square the opposition of Jupiter in Aquarius and Neptune in Leo shows high expectations and indulgences and great disappointments and losses of money and people. This may trigger his Sun/Pluto square Mars in Aries, which is part of the physical comedy and explosive anger that comes out of his life and work. The Sun/Pluto may also have psychological ramifications in his work, so you might try digging under the jokes and see what’s there.
John Cusak (05)

6-29 Rafael Kubelik is the great Czech conductor who was exiled from his homeland while the Communists were in power. He went back in 1990 to record Ma Vlast, “My Country” by countryman Smetana, with the Czech Philharmonic in what must have been an emotional homecoming. Near as I figure it, he’s a double Cancer with Moon in Virgo in the 3rd house, making home always on his mind and planning a return when it would be possible. The Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and he was home in ’90. That’s the determination of a Cancer. Creating depression and frustration, Moon square Saturn could have been the aspect in his chart that limited his ability to get home for 40 plus years. Mercury closely conjunct Neptune in Cancer would give him a great musical memory, which, considering the vastness of music, you would need. Neptune rules his North Node and Mercury rules the South Node, so has done lots of musical work in previous lifetimes. It’s common among conductors to have a great memory. Moon and Mars in Virgo gives a driving need for precision and exactitude, as musical notation can be quite complex. Mars sextile Pluto intensifies his passion for precision and hard work. Venus in Leo opposite Uranus in Aquarius would attract a lot of interesting and unusual people to him, as it is the love-at-first-sight aspect. Jupiter in Aquarius trine Saturn in Gemini gave him multiple successes and opportunities galore, as he was also a composer, as well as a great conductor. For having his North Node in Pisces trine his Sun, I’d say he lived up to his potential and fulfilled his karma.
Gary Busey (05)

6-30 Esa-Pekka Salonen is a composer and the conductor of the LA Phil who came in as the boy wonder and now, nobody wonders about the boy would be king of Disney Hall. His Moon in Sag conjunct Saturn is the perfect example of one who needs to relocate a long distance from home for business reasons. The Moon trine Pluto gives depth, intensity and power to his music, both of his own creation and his interpretations as conductor. The Moon in Sag can be wild as a child and inconjunct Mercury it was hard for him to talk it out. His instrument was the French Horn, so he could be loud and obnoxious with Mars in Aries opposite Jupiter but Saturn came to control that upon maturity as he went along with the responsibilities that go with it. He was forced to grow up earlier than normal for a conductor when he filled in for an ailing big-name conductor (it might have been an aging Lenny Bernstein) and blew the audience away with a fresh Mahler 3rd like they had never heard. Mercury square Jupiter may cause big ideas and large canvases to be broadly painted with huge concepts that get out of hand. The Moon/Saturn must balance this scattered energy by keeping him focused. Sun trine Neptune gives that natural musical flow but can slip-slide all over the place without restraint, but he’s got that covered. It might be a little hard on his relationship, wherein he’s married, or at least was when he came to LA in 1992. Venus square Pluto can destroy a marriage with suspicion and financial improprieties and even infidelity. His Juno, the marriage asteroid, is exactly conjunct Uranus, so anything can happen there and his Venus conjoins Hygeia, indicating an unhealthy relationship, plus they form an inconjunct to Neptune, which would give up such illusions after a period of stress. Moon/Saturn wants to stay, hold on and control but has the fear of holding too tight that could be stifling.
Mike Tyson (05) the bad boy of boxing.
<Aladdin Suite>

The New Moon tomorrow, the 25th, promises some positive things, as it trines Jupiter, which in turn trines Uranus, so there will be some relief or benefits for the American People as a result of this…eventually. But the House is not in order and in order to make it so, we have to clean house in November. Anyone who has been there too long and doesn’t do anything good or progressive should be voted out of office. One Rep. from Texas, a crook and liar named Joe Barton, plays computer games all day long, when he isn’t taking bribes and doing favors for cronies. The New Moon for DC has Pluto in the 4th house and it could render some House members very vulnerable to corruption charges, which these days is like a prison sentence. Let’s just hope Bush doesn’t have the power to pardon these criminals and that can only happen if he’s impeached. Listen, the international courts want to try him as a war criminal. We had him stopped in ’04 in Ohio, except for the corrupt Sec’y of State who was also Bush’s Ohio campaign manager and he’s running for governor in November. Ohioans need to stop his bullshit machine. We all have to pay more attention to what affects us, like politics, since we are the governed and we have to consent to them governing us, so if a congressman or woman is lying or cheating or on the take, you have to take them out of office. It is your duty as an American to be part of the process of government, as it shouldn’t be something that happens to you. Next week will be the big patriotic show, with marches and fireworks and all. Get your house in order this week and I’ll talk to you next Saturday, same Astro-time.

June 17 , 2006

Father’s Day is tomorrow and I covered this topic last year, especially with the analysis of the Saturn opposition to Chiron, the wounded father/leader. This year isn’t much different except that now Jupiter is square the Mars/Saturn conjunction, so we’re facing a different set of issues. This could be the promise breaker because he’s too busy to take on all his familial duties, like enjoy a day at the ballpark or go hiking or to the beach. The day has Sun opposite Pluto square to the Moon in Pisces, thus indicating the breakup and breakdown of the family unit and the negative effect it has on the kids. It might also be the effect on the country of the corruption that affects them personally. Also, how much does one’s personality change when they expose themselves to the enticement of a sexually intimate relationship and how much of that is a good thing? These questions may or may not get answered in today’s show, but stay tuned anyway. In the newsmakers and Earthshakers segment I’ll be looking at John Murtha, Venus Williams, Paul McCartney, Prince William and Diane Feinstein who are celebrating birthdays this week. I’ll also see why Billy Preston, who played with the Beatles, died last week.

The Summer Solstice is a high-energy day as the Sun reaches its peak of dominance and the days are at their longest in the northern hemisphere. On Wednesday morning, the Sun enters Cancer, crossing the latitude bearing its name. For the next six months, it’ll maintain a slow and steady southward heading, turning north in December, which is why there have always been celebrations in December. The Solstice occurs at 5:26 AM PDT when the Sun reaches the Tropic of Cancer at 23 degrees North Latitude. Cancer is about Family and considering marriage as the entry into that experience, Colorado has just ruled that a 15 year-old girl can get married, common-law, as has been the practice for hundreds of years, but didn’t rule whether they already had a valid marriage. In the last hundred years, or at least since the advent of child labor laws in the early 20th century, we have become increasingly protective of our children, making up for centuries of exploitation and abuse with the over-reaction of guilty parents. We have extended their childhood up to 18 and in some cases, 21. Even at this late time in history, children are now choosing to extend it further by living at home after college to save money. I can’t judge for others but I know I was ready at 20 to step out on my own, mainly for personal space and freedom, no matter how difficult it was at times. I lived on my own and with roommates at various times, as the growth of my spirit directed. I lived by my wits and knowledge, by instinct and intuition, adapting when and where necessary. Every situation had its lessons and its benefits, so I learned a lot about how to get along with people to whom I was not related. The stifling thing of family dynamics is the arrested development that prevents one from having fully formed relationships. Astrologically, the Saturn opposition to its natal place at 14 and a half is the beginning of maturity that culminates at the return at 29. In between, at 21, we commonly are forced by the square of Saturn to its natal place and Uranus doing the same, to breakaway from the limitations of authoritarian domination or institutional confinement. It’s supposed to be a time of liberation and freedom to find yourself, exploring what you are capable of for the next 7 years.

Home and security issues also belong to Cancer, so when the Supreme Court rules that the police can barge in if they have a search warrant; it violates the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness in your own home. It would have gone the other way if they had voted when Sandra Day O’Connor was still on the bench. Our homeland defense has become an offensive against homeland dwellers. Does anyone know who we are really fighting and why? Where is the war and what are the priorities? As we enter the sign of Cancer on Wednesday, the Moon is in Taurus, illustrative of the financial and economic burdens weighing heavily on the shoulders of soldiers and the average individual. Income has decreased in the last five years as prices have skyrocketed, especially on gas and health care as well as education. Because so much of this country runs on gas, the increased prices have a tidal wave effect on the economy.

Sun Opposite Pluto might suggest the deadly effects of the sun. Well, a 49-year old lady from Iowa was catching some rays on the beach when she was run over and killed by a beach patrol SUV in Oxnard. Another part of the world has a different experience, as the Siberian permafrost is melting and exposing decomposing Wholly Mammoths that smelled bad enough when they were alive. The worst part is that it contributes to an already major CO2 global problem. The Sun/Pluto aspect also deals with corruption, which leads me to the world of politics and I can’t believe Karl Rove won’t be indicted…yet. It’s only a matter of time before they figure out how many illegal scams he’s been behind. They must have gotten to Patrick Fitzgerald. Since Rove wasn’t the leaker, it had to come from higher up and you can’t go much further unless it’s the VP or the prez. Time to Impeach!

On Monday, Uranus turns retrograde and Mars squares Jupiter, which could translate to a reckless intergalactic trip that goes through some bumps, since Stephen Hawking said the only hope for mankind is to find suitable planets and colonize them. What if they are already taken or occupied by the Silons or some other species, either hostile or not? Can we really expect a world that’s ripe for human habitation that hasn’t already been colonized? Even when we find a suitable planet, the distance we would have to travel to get there would make it a multi-generational journey unless we were to receive the knowledge of light speed travel. Only an alien race would be able to help, unless it’s someone from our future, as in The 4400. I know it sounds crazy, but that’s Sci-Fi, indicated by today’s Moon/Uranus conjunction.

Speaking of craziness, how about the 1.4 billion in FEMA money that went for entertainment indulgences, DVD’s, shopping sprees and even a sex change operation. Money even went to prison inmates and a total of about 1,500 hundred people might be joining them if they can prosecute them all for fraud. The Sun/Pluto opposition has a lot to do with fraud, too. It was a system easy to play because these GOP operatives want to bankrupt our treasury in order to destroy the government from within. Why can’t anyone see this? As you give out all kinds of free money to Iraqi contractors or Katrina victims, if you don’t keep track, you get screwed. No accountability on this administration’s part and no one takes the blame as theY move around the deck chairs on the Titanic. Rove dodges indictment, our troops kill Zarqawi and Bush’s poll numbers go up, even though he did nothing. Did you also know we could have gotten Zarqawi 3 years ago? Hmm.

It’s been a tough week for Jerry Lewis. The entertainer had a heart attack, while the congressman might get indicted, which could lead to a heart attack for him, too. He’s awfully involved with people close to Jack Abramoff and defense contractors because he’s the chairman of the House Appropriations committee, which is where the money is disbursed. The comedian was anxious because he was about start live performances again and at his age, it’s a rough trade. The Sun rules the heart and Pluto rules death and transformation, along with sex, taxes and other people’s money. One can have a greater awareness of their mortality when they are facing a Pluto aspect, as it squares his Sun/Uranus conjunction in Pisces. More indicative of the heart attack is the transit Uranus square to his progressed Sun/Mercury in Gemini, with the shortness of breath rather than the stench of death. Now maybe later on this year in November, Saturn squares his Saturn along with Pluto square his Sun/Uranus. His soul knows it’s time for something new, as his minor Sun conjoins the North Node near his natal Sun and his minor Mercury is the same degree as in the natal. Even the minor Moon is on the natal North Node this week, but that’s a double-edged sword, as the Moon also represents the end of life as well as the beginning.
<Smile – R. Downey>

As for the congressman of the same name, his progressed Moon is in Scorpio in a square to his Saturn, so he’s very worried right now and fear is bad for a campaigning politician to show to the public. With his Sun sandwiched in between his Jupiter and the more distant Venus, he’s been an opportunist. A Libra with Venus there on the Sun opposite Moon in Aries, he’s always been torn between his instincts to do what he feels he needs to do with what he thinks he should do for others, even though he feels he can’t trust them. It’s all topped off with a square to Pluto bringing in the corruption and secret financial schemes where other people benefit but he doesn’t get caught, except recently, when Saturn went over his South Node and his reputation sank. There is also Uranus opposite his Neptune, which can be interpreted as people of his district lacking faith in his work. Mainly though, minor Saturn, the big cop who says stop, is opposite his natal Sun. And dig this grave by yourself, Jerry, progressed Venus exactly square natal Venus, so it was all about the money and bad choice of companions. Lobbyists are the slime that is found on many with money.

Congress has cut $95 million in funding for PBS and NPR, causing them to have to cut programming, including that which targets early pre-school levels to give them a head start. They want to make this country more ignorant, despite their rhetoric. This is why you see Wal-Mart ads on PBS now, because of withdrawn public financing from Bush and company. The plan is to make people ignorant enough that they will think that religious schools will substitute for education until they realize that it is more indoctrination than instruction in the basic tools for intellectual and social development. Under-funded public schools have a similar effect of allowing higher dropout rates, lower test scores, fewer cultural programs and field trips and less physical education. Our kids are leaving school dumber and fatter than a generation ago…hell, even 6 years ago!

They want to take control of everything, which is the corporate mentality they warned us they were bringing into play. Bush even stated that things would be better if he were the dictator, just as a CEO is in the corporate hierarchy. There is no consideration of the realities of the common ordinary citizen because they don’t do reality in their high-class hillbilly mentality. What we have here is the Frankenstein monster that is part religious rightwing nutcase, lunatic fringe, with the mentality that Jesus is returning and we’re all going to fly up to heaven if we believe. One part is the Neo Con agenda to establish control over the Middle East and Iraq was the place to begin. Another is to shrink government to the size of a pea and crush it. Why they feel that a country without government is a good thing is beyond me, but then, I’ve been a Democrat since I could remember.
Mars conjoins Saturn in Leo, an arrogant, authoritative and pushy energy that gives orders and can’t waste time. It happens to be right on Bush’s ASC and Mercury/Pluto, so he thinks of it as a victory march.

Two years ago I knew gas prices would reach over 3 bucks a gallon…it was the last time Mars and Saturn conjoined. Bush spoke of our addiction to oil but hasn’t done anything to help us kick the habit. America is also addicted to crystal meth and it’s perhaps now the worst drug epidemic in the world, yet they still want to go after pot and coke, which have so fewer negative effects and are from natural plants. Here’s the difficult part to understand…we could end our dependency on foreign oil and eliminate all petroleum for fuel if we grew hemp and other plants good for fuel. Why do you think it won’t happen with these bozos? Because of their ties to lobbyists and their large industries that would take a hit economically if hemp were legal. It’s a lineup of the usual suspects; energy, textiles, drugs, timber and many other big business operations would be cut into severely if hemp were to be used to its full potential. As a fuel, it could be either Ethanol or biodiesel and as a building material, it would last longer than wood and possibly, in the right compound, even steel. We have so much potential as a nation if we see our country moving forward, not mired in a quagmire of negative results.

Look back at the chart of the first inauguration of Bush and you’ll see war was a dominant theme (Mercury/Uranus square Mars in Scorpio) and a lot of people would die because of the greed of a corrupt few. All this could be seen in the Moon/Pluto conjunction square Venus in Pisces. This even describes the 9-11 attacks and the administration’s failure to do anything about it. The egotistical but delusional American exceptionalism was expressed through the Sun/Neptune trine Jupiter in Gemini. But the problem, I think is that the Moon/Pluto was on his South Node, so he couldn’t help but pull all kinds of old tricks out of the bag, thanks to his old buddy Turd Blossom Rove. Mercury/Uranus are in the 11th at the time of the ceremony, exposing the deals with his friends in the energy business to help them out, like Ken Lay. I wonder if Bush will try to pardon Kenny boy? Perhaps you read the last week’s Rolling Stone article by RFK Jr. about Bush stealing the election in Ohio. I did and there were so many ways they cheated in Ohio that it’s amazing that it hasn’t been all over the news, although it was back in November 2004 but nobody listened. Kerry didn’t even contest the election, even though he would have been justified, but would have gotten a similar treatment as Al Gore in 2000. We are engaged in a war of ideology and the RRR has to cheat because God won’t fix the elections for them. If they won fair and square that would be one thing…but to have to cheat to establish a minority ruling party with great distrust from the people and then try to change the constitution to make themselves favored by the religious freaks, well that’s just wrong on so many levels.

There are wars of defense, revenge, territory expansion, especially for resources or strategic advantages, religion, political and economic, the last of which we are waging right now. Actually, it’s all of the above when you consider it. It will be the longest war other than Vietnam, which lasted a decade, and despite the death of Zarqawi, the end is nowhere near in sight. There are so many victims of this war but it is having a global effect and the end result is the enrichment of the oil companies and contractors, as they have been raking in record profits. The war in Iraq began during the end of Pisces, using deception to cover the real motives. Money, greed, power to control the Middle East and to feed the beast of the military-industrial complex and oil barons. They want to make it into more of a holy war, which will increase the religious fervor felt on both sides. We have replaced one evil empire with another, as the Soviet Union fell, the Jihadists have risen and Osama went from fighting the Russians to fighting us. In the book, 1984, the enemy may change but they are always at war, just like with these guys. Does it have to take an end-times conflagration before people awaken to the truth of the Christ within? Only when we live in the ways of Jesus can we ever know Christ, just as many Muslims wish to live the life of Mohammed. Live simply, pray and be fair and kind to others. War is never the path to peace, just more war. Wars are often started by cowards who can’t settle personal differences with intelligent words or ideas that will offer a path to peace.
<Dogs of War - PF>

Can you believe some GOP fools called Murtha and Kerry cowards? Republicans who never served in the military or on active duty have the nerve to call Murtha and Kerry cowards and have thrown down a rusty gauntlet. Karl Rove has pulled old chestnuts out of his playbook because it’s June, time of campaigning for the fall midterm elections and as such, the game is afoot. Indeed, with the Gemini energy, game-playing, head-tripping, I’m rubber, you’re glue bullshitting is going on at a rampant pace. Rove has his Mercury retrograde and repetition is old news to him. Plus, his Moon is in Cancer and he loves to hang on to the past, filled with his memories of the way things should have been had his imagination not been stifled by reality. You see, Neptune squares his Sun and Moon very closely. Beating the dead horse, his lies will be trumpeted by the legions of operatives who parrot talking points with no understanding of the real-world crisis we face as a planet and as a nation. John Kerry was no coward in Vietnam nor was John Murtha, whose birthday is today.

<Newsmakers and Earthshakers>
6-17 John Murtha is the former Marine who is a congressman from western PA. Almost by himself, he’s revitalized the protest against the war, an ironic twist of events for such a hawk and fighter as he is. Or was. The reality of war is best understood by those who have fought in them and he’s fought in enough of them to know the difference between one worth fighting and one that has to be withdrawn from. With Mars, ruler of war, conjoined to Chiron, Murtha knows about the wounds of war and has quite a few of them buried in his memories. Moon in Sag trine Jupiter in Leo and Uranus in Aries indicates he’s fairly positive about his memories and experiences but needs to offer his opinions based upon them to those who would go where most fools would fear to tread. He’s now running for a leadership position in the party and lookout, Nancy Pelosi, we could have this old vet leading the battle cry to resolve the issue of Iraq by redeploying outside of the country. Murtha has Venus retrograde in Cancer, so has diverted his desire for close associations with people to the need to stand up for national defense. Venus makes no major aspects, leading to conclusion that he lacks close allies in his battles in congress. His Mercury in Cancer is another reason defense is on his mind and the inconjunct it makes to Saturn in Aquarius gives him the social responsibility to speak his mind for the benefit of mankind. His Saturn is in an out-of-sign wide trine to Mars, which fits the military leadership positions he’s held. His Mercury sextile Neptune in Virgo gives him a military man’s faith; that God looks after the good soldiers with the just cause and protects them with true aim and a steady hand and heart. Saturn forms an inconjunct to each of those, resulting in a Yod, giving him a special mission to convey the soldier’s perspective of war on the men who fight and die or who are wounded, maimed or who suffer from PTSD, as not all wounds are visible. Uranus square Pluto is his birth into a time of upheaval and war that changed the social realities of an entire civilization. Pluto also trines the North Node in Pisces, an indication that he’s making progress on the evolutionary ladder by making sacrifices for the greater good. Mars was the oriental indicator in his chart, signifying leadership and a military career, as he’s had the fighter instinct in him for a long time.

6-17 Venus Williams is acknowledged as one of the great tennis players in recent years and she has the heart of a champion. As I have mentioned in the past, many Geminis have excellent eye-hand coordination and quick reflexes and many great tennis players have been Gemini. Steffi Graf’s birthday was just last week and Jennifer Capriati is also a Gemini. With Venus, her work ethic is due to her father as indicated by the Mars/Saturn conjunction in Virgo but the problems come from the squares they make to the opposition of her Sun/Venus retro to Neptune, a sure indication that sacrificing her love life for her career would be mandatory. It was another way daddy could manipulate his girls into a life of subservience. But Venus has Moon in Leo close to Jupiter in Virgo and the Moon is square Uranus for a breakaway from the family dynamic. Venus is sharp and smart, with Mercury trine Uranus, even brilliant in some ways, using her mind and hands, but she’s also suspicious, with Mercury square Pluto, so she doesn’t easily trust anyone sometimes not even her sister. Serena is a Libra and also has made adjustments and compromises.

<When I’m 64>
6-18 Paul McCartney had his chart examined last year but we could look for a divorce aspect in the progression. He wasn’t the revolutionary John was because with Moon/Mars/Pluto/Chiron in Leo, he was a lover, not a protestor. Venus in Taurus brought that love into physical, tangible terms with millions of dollars made on his music and his work with The Beatles. The square between Venus and the Moon/Chiron shows some deep-rooted relationship issues, despite his long-term love relationship to Linda. At the time of his divorce proceedings or filing, I suppose, well, at least right now, that it’s all very public, his progressed Moon is in opposition to his natal Sun, stressing the emotional gulf from who he is and square Neptune in his natal chart is his disappointment and acceptance of being the victim of a huge financial hit because he didn’t have a pre-nup. His minor Mars square his natal Sun and progressed Moon irritates him no end because of that fact. Minor Venus on his South Node emphasizes that further, showing money and love in the toilet. Transiting Uranus is on his minor Mercury and opposite his progressed Mercury with minor Uranus on his natal Mercury, so he needs to talk with friends and astrologers on how to best rebound from this hit on his pride and heart. The innate weakness is his Juno in Scorpio that has minor Chiron right on it and is square Chiron natally, showing a preference for the wounded types, whether physical as in Linda’s case or emotional as in Heather’s. As Saturn passes over all his Leo, it’s possible that love just went dry. Progressed Venus conjoins Pluto and squares Juno and that’s the end of a beautiful thing. Blind faith isn’t just a 60’s rock band, it’s something certain people fall back into when they want to believe in something of this world that they imagine is of another world. That sentence contains a half a dozen references to Pisces, his South Node, thus the area of his greatest weakness and also the source of his musical gifts. As minor Venus square natal Uranus would predict, his relationship would abruptly change and they would separate, even divorce. With the progressed Sun square minor Jupiter and the progressed Moon in Sag with those difficult aspects mentioned, it’s easy to see why he rode the emotional roller coaster and has to be philosophical about it all. If only he had faith…
Roger Ebert is the portly movie critic who outlived Gene Siskel despite having multiple surgeries in recent years. Yet his marriage is strong and lasting far longer than Paul’s. It could be the orb of the Moon square Venus that equates to that difference.

6-19 Lou Gehrig, the Iron Horse, was the record holder of the most consecutive games played until it was recently broken by the new endurance champ, Cal Ripken. The reason for this steadiness is the grand trine that includes Mercury in its own sign of Gemini, Mars in the cooperative sign of Libra and Saturn in the team or group sign of Aquarius. He was able to connect with his teammates because of his Moon trine Venus in the competitive signs of Aries and Leo despite his Moon square Neptune that was due to an overbearing Mother, hence the Aries Moon on the South Node. But I believe it was his Mars square Neptune that caused him to be addicted to baseball, which could also be his Moon square Neptune but it was his sacrifices everyday, no matter how miserable he felt, that he went out and played at the highest level of ability. The mutable T-Cross of the Sun/Pluto opposite Uranus square to Jupiter in Pisces could be construed as his playing himself to death but there’s also a theory that it’s part of a genetic inherited trait that was a destined thing for him to suffer through, so it would have a name that people could become aware of and perhaps do something about. As he neared death, he was losing motor functions and transit Neptune was at the empty spot in his mutable T-Cross, plus Saturn squared his own Saturn and its polar planet, Venus, eroding his balance, his bones and his structural integrity.
Moe Howard of the Three Stooges had Moon in Pisces opposite Jupiter square Mercury in Gemini, which all fits much of the comedy he did. He also had Neptune on his Sun, so he may have had an alcohol problem. Why else would he be able to endure the stunts he had to do? Venus square Mars shows relationships fraught with conflict and battles over money. The depression era hit a lot of people hard but those guys didn’t even get royalties for most of their work.
Paula Abdul I did last year.

6-20 Brian Wilson was born two days after Paul and with Moon in Virgo square Saturn, depression got to him and caused drug addiction indicated in the Pisces South Node.
Errol Flynn was last year, Martin Landau

6-21 Prince William is a double Cancer and was a real momma’s boy but with Diana’s murder, he was deprived of that experience, so he’ll keep his mother’s legacy alive in his work for poverty relief. Neptune sits right on his Sagittarius ASC screaming for compassion and social justice and it makes a Yod to Venus in Taurus and Pluto in Libra, giving him a special mission to help people’s financial burdens be forgiven from debt by the corrupt businesses and governments that have lied, betrayed and taken advantage of those people for generations. Mars/Saturn conjunction in Libra squares his Cancer/Cap nodes, so he’ll have the issues with his dad and the whole of business and government coming down on him when he’s king. Of course, daddy Charles wants his shot but the old lady won’t die. Cheese and crackers, Gromit, her mom lived to be a hundred! His chart shows some similarities to Edward VIII and Henry VIII, but he would be William V, as there were two Norman Williams, a Dutch William and an English William from the Hanover line in the 19th century. Charles would only be the third one to rule under that name.
Jean-Paul Satre also had been analyzed last year.

6-22 Diane Feinstein is a senator from California who is married to money and yet has a liberal agenda as her Sun/Moon sextile Uranus reveals. I am more concerned about her Mercury conjunct Pluto square Uranus, as in following along with a corrupt line until enough of her constituency protests and she bends to the left. She also has a special mission indicated by a Yod of Saturn inconjunct the sextile of Venus and Jupiter, so she has a social responsibility to all her people to improve their lots in life.
Meryl Streep had her time in the limelight last year, Billy Wilder was a great director.

6-23 Edward VIII abdicated to marry a commoner and since we looked at William, we may as well look at a predecessor. Here was a man who couldn’t live up to his destiny and chose to follow his heart, which makes sense for his Moon in Pisces trine to his Sun and Uranus/Juno in Scorpio and his Sun square the nodes. But it’s his Saturn near the South Node that seems to indicate the lack of ambition. It may also have been the circumstances of the 1936 global depression that inclined him to run away with a hot sexy Gemini woman who had her Sun on his Jupiter, so she made him feel great. His Jupiter, after all, was square Chiron, so he saw government as dreadfully dull and didn’t want to be a part of the ruling class compared with being in love. It could be said that as Mars in Aries sits on the North Node and squares the Sun, he didn’t care about following a proscribed path laid out for him. He was going to do whatever he wanted to do and no one could stop him. It doesn’t get much more explosive than Moon square Pluto and it could have brought down a lot of people if his needs weren’t met.
Alfred Kinsey was compared with the actor who portrayed him, Liam Neesom, Bob Fosse, Ray Davies, Clarence Thomas was reviewed last year as well.

Billy Preston, a Virgo musician who played in the last Beatles recording session, died last week. Moon in Aquarius gave him that natural rhythmic instinct that Mars/Jupiter trine Uranus elevated to virtual genius. Venus in Scorpio square Saturn in Leo is problems with relationships, money and kidneys, which was the cause of his death. In addition to his second Saturn return, his progressed Moon in Taurus was square transit Saturn as well as natal Saturn and Pluto. Topping it all off is the fact that a bunch of planets are at 29 degrees, including natal Moon in Aquarius, minor Mercury right on it and square Venus in Scorpio with minor Moon right on it. Venus is the kidney issue and the Moon is the end of life. You could tell it was just a matter of time before the kidney punch got his ass as his natal Venus opposite Hygeia is squared by Saturn and natal Ceres, which translates to a lack of taking care of his inner organs. Right before he died, the progressed Moon was opposing Jupiter indicating an overcompensation and indulgence in something that set off a shut down of his kidneys. Here’s an interesting connection; Hygeia in Taurus in the 2nd and Chiron in Libra in the 7th are both Venus’ signs and houses with health concerns, so he was gonna get it, one way or the other.

I leave you with a song that he played on but also one that we need to think about in its simplicity. When I look at the world that we have created in the name of God and we say his creations are all good, I wonder if we are lying to ourselves. If we want to give him credit, then fine. Let it be as it must be.
<Beatles – Let It Be>

June 10, 2006

It’s a wild and crazy Full Moon in Sag near Pluto and the dirty, disgusting truth will come out about the lies, corruption and cover-ups of murders and rampages by the US Military. I don’t want to go into the gory details but it involves boxes of severed heads and that’s just not the topic to discuss with the Moon in good-humored, fun-loving Sag. Pluto near the galactic center has brought about much of the damage and corruption globally with business and politics, as Pluto rules insurance, investments and all forms of other people’s money. Sag is political and international, which is why there could be a big global economic problem when the oil-based economy collapses.

There is a stark contrast between the Plutonian darkness and the Gemini lightness and it should be apparent in the way things have played out these days. By Friday, the Sun opposes Pluto and the battle between light and dark reaches a peak. In the northernmost latitudes, they are reaching their all-day Sun holiday called Midsommer in Sweden, in the land of the midnight sun. Northern Alaska will also enjoy a day without darkness, as it’s part of the yearly cycle of the natural order of things. It’s the result of spinning and tilting as we circle around the Sun. Repeating cycles, year after year.
Programming and conditioning through repetition is the Gemini way.
Sometimes, however, the rules are changed, as when the Pentagon released a new Army manual that has eliminated the Geneva Conventions guidelines for the treatment of prisoners. It’s a Neo Con world out there and we’re headed for trouble because the very principles upon which this nation was constructed are being dismantled at a furious rate.

Flag Day is a reason they want to do a flag-burning amendment but the fact that Hillary Clinton is somewhere or somehow behind it is a little surprising. It could be a rumor, as so often happens in the press. It’s just another stupid, can’t-win, too many downsides kind of thing. Al Franken suggests making the flag out of the non-burnable material baby clothes are made from. But there has only been one American burning the flag in the last twenty-five years, as I recall, and they stopped ‘em then. This is more of the same wag-the-dog distraction to take your attention off any real dirty games they’re playing.

Last year at this time, I did a piece on the differences between Democrats and Republicans, so you can reference it in the archives at Leofish.com. This year I think I’ll look at the difference between liberals of today and those of forty years ago. Back then, there were real activists because they had nothing and had nothing to lose. With TV news becoming a big business, it was also a time when attention could be paid to important issues that were televised. The media was seen as liberal because the conservatives in power labeled them so when they are seen as intruding on government secrets, there’s not as much backlash. Since way back then, large corporate ownership of TV networks has precluded much editorializing on the part of the newsperson and stations are more conservative than ever, as it is also a reflection of the administration that runs the FCC.
Thinking like an individual is a challenge when you are bombarded by sayings, sales pitches and tired old marketing ploys. Then you have the old chestnut, standards and practices.

The Mars/Saturn opposite Chiron square Jupiter in Scorpio warrants discussion. I see it as male domination slamming into a massive awareness of the woundedness in which it is expressed. The judgments and insults about the ineffectiveness of a leader these days is no surprise as it has been part of politics for hundreds of years already. You can also see it as the hubris of arrogant egotism without restraint and joking about the rapture and the end of the world.
<REM>

I find it rather intrusive to have other people determine what I think, do, say or feel about myself or anyone else. The government can’t legislate love, so hands off the gay issue. Therefore it is fitting that, once again, the Senate failed to pass a gay-marriage ban from being put into the constitution. They have so many other pressing issues to face. Aren’t people more concerned about gas prices than they are gay marriage? How about health care and early childhood education? Aren’t these values to address? These people are so predictable now that you can see the train coming from miles down the track. Faced with scandals that closely touch the office of the president, he reaches out for an old chestnut from the fear the queer campaigning that seems to be most employed during election years

We’re so often worried about what other people think about us but yet, you are exactly what you have made yourself to become. There’s an old Buddhist saying, “You are what you think, having become what you thought.” You have been repeating many of the same thoughts and patterns throughout many of your lifetimes. You have a few different fields where you focus most of your lifetimes, for example, mine are the arts and the occult, along with healing and medicine. I have been an astrologer or used it heavily in at least 11 lifetimes, including as a high priest of the stars in Egypt and Mayan and Incan as well. I still think about those places and remember them despite never having gone there in this life.

We are so compelled to conform to our patterns that they are habits and addictions, really, and the more we are aware of that fact, the more we can get beyond the problem. The old astrologers said “The stars impel, they don’t compel,” but Pluto is the planet of obsession and Jupiter rules compulsions, so obsessive/ compulsive people come out more when they are in mutual reception, as they are now.

Gender identity issues are ruled by Pluto, as well as sex, rape and death, all of which happened in this next example.
The Gwen Araujo Story coming to TV, is the story of a 17-year old transgender who is beaten to death by a group a pindajos who felt dirty after getting blowjobs and then finding out she still had her penis. It was almost one year ago that the trial of her killers happened and they got some serious time.
TransAmerica is out on DVD now and they use a GG in Felicity Huffman, but I wonder about this new one about Gwen. I have been following that story and wish that it would lead to greater awareness and acceptance for a lot of people in a difficult transition.

The new Batwoman comic book character is a lesbian, apparently aimed at sexually confused or alternative men and women. I think it’s cool to inject some sexuality into superheroes because saving the world is hard work and you have to get a little release from all that tension.

Gender is a confluence of sperm and egg determining the biological makeup of the fetus but sometimes there is a little mix-up. I’ve encountered several XXY chromosome people who are by all standards except genitally, female. There are more of these births happening because there’s something in the water, the foods or the environmental influences in several places in the world. Indeed, some places are more prone to having transgenders born, in many cases they are also multi- or at least bi-racial. A mixed signal from God, from whom all things are good but what does it say about infallibility about perfection of the human body and are variants from the norm evolutionary or are they just mutations? Does the shape of your penis determine how you feel about yourself sexually? Do you really want to have boobs because you like them or because you feel like a woman all the time? Are there questions you can’t ask anyone? Believe or not, it really shouldn’t freak anyone out to discover you have a desire for the opposite sex, since in previous lifetimes we have been male and female and both hetero and at times bisexual, even gay, depending upon the circumstances. Believe me, if you’re in prison and have a disadvantage of size and weakness, you are someone’s gay lover, bitch.

If you have a penis, don’t pee if you’re sneezing, have the hiccups, coughing, laughing, are too hard and aiming too high or are too flaccid and not aiming at all.

Here’s a little episode of gay or bi…
George W Bush has Mars in Virgo, so likes men in uniform, which Jeff Gannon did as a male prostitute. What if Gannon is Bush’s Monica Lewinsky? Bush’s Moon conjoins Jupiter and Neptune in Libra, the bisexual sign, because they can’t make up their minds. His Venus in the 1st in Leo is narcissistic, which applies to many who are gay, and it sextiles both Uranus for kinky experimentation and Jupiter, for adventure and expansion. Back in 1984, there was someone who provided confidential male escorts to Mr. Bush as his progressed Sun conjoined his Venus and his minor Moon conjoined natal Mars. Now it’s possible that it was a phase that he went through but isn’t it also possible that he’s so deep in denial and in the closet that not too many people even suspect?

They like giving America wedgies all the time but the more one rants against something like homosexuality, the more in the closet they are themselves. Many anti-abortionists may have regrets about their own abortions or someone close to them but then this is a case of over-personalizing an issue that it’s a private and personal one. Flag burning doesn’t resonate with what the people of this land want. They want some accountability in congress and to eliminate the corruption. They want our standing in the world restored to its former glory. Our people are tired of fear-mongers telling us to duct tape our windows with plastic sheeting as if that will keep us safe in the event of a nuclear blast. You may as well crawl under your desk, while you’re at it.

<Pomp and Circumstance>
Graduation time has many kids thinking about college and many trying to figure out how to afford it, some opting to join the Army or National Guard, which amounts to the same thing these days. So many high school grads are unable to continue their scholastic careers for one reason or another. While not everyone benefits economically from a degree, it does usually equate to more money, prestige and success, but there are always exceptions. Not every president graduated college and some others were far from the top of their class, like our current demander-in-thief. I looked upon graduation as liberation and validation, on the two sides of it. Liberated from Philadelphia because I moved away after graduation and validation because I was acknowledged for my talents as an artist, singer, actor and all around fun guy. I did well in junior college but was overly split in my junior year, commuting to CSULB from Venice and working part-time to support myself in an apartment by the beach. School is relatively safe compared to the real world but it’s also very competitive although I didn’t buy into that premise enough. It’s why I came to realize that a degree in Theater Arts wouldn’t get me very far in the real world. Acting led me to the Renaissance Faire and my first astrology teacher. Life is about connections.

I developed a craft of making charts and the art of interpreting, so that my work was artistically inspiring and intellectually illuminating. It’s hard to calculate and construct a chart, as it takes at least an hour or two, if you do it well, and that’s before you even meet the client. With today’s computer programs, you input your data and it spits out a color chart with all the graphics and tables in a minute or two. Imagine my frustration with clients who got the time of birth wrong initially and I had to redo the chart! But it’s no big deal with a computer, unless they don’t tell you about their correct time until after the reading. I just went through that with a Taurus.
So, what would I have done had I pursued an academic degree? Probably psychology of some sort, as it’s as close to much of what I do anyway. Oh, and something health-oriented or involved in the arts because that’s what I’ve done a lot, or most probably doing an infomercial pitching my own personal wellness package. Hey, that could still come. With Saturn in the 3rd and Sun/Mercury conjunct, a writer is born but has to make ends meet with things like telemarketing, sales of various types, insurance, investments, inheritance, communications of various types and even delivery service. I also worked for a strip-o-gram company as a clown and comedian/MC for some of that 8th house nastiness.

Today’s kids have fewer options than we did back in the 70’s because with Corporate America transformed into Corporate International, the economic landscape is changed, especially with the elimination of healthcare benefits and pension funds. This administration has told Americans, “You’re on your own, and as we privatize government services, you get less for more of your tax dollars.” We are more than screwed, as today’s kids are not only worse off educationally, they are less prepared to enter the work force. Instead, they enter the armed forces. So then they go off to fight in an illegal, ill-advised war of imperialism to establish a foothold in the Middle East and they get sand kicked in their faces. Literally. How can these people not feel betrayed and cheated? The people who support this war effort are anti-Arab and anti-Islam, believing in the eventual Armageddon on the plains of Gehenna. You can find them in the pews at Megachurches throughout the Southern Baptist South and Midwest. They are the programmed and conditioned ones who respond to the mere suggestion of God’s influence over the fate of man. The triple convergence of religion, government and corporation is deadly to the power of the individual and one’s ability to live free.

For the past 27 years, America has been assaulted by the RRR to end abortion, women’s and gay rights of all sorts. Wedge issues to drive Americans apart. Divide and conquer. We are one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Now how can you justify what they are trying to do under those sentiments? We are not one nation under Jesus, Moses or Mohammed and God is not a partisan political operative. The bible doesn’t guarantee civil rights and freedoms; rather it gives God’s laws and tells stories. Biblical laws are irrelevant to the present century, as they were intended to direct the people in the time before the rule of law and nationally elected governments. Laws must evolve and change as people do. Slavery can be justified when you take the word of the bible literally, as can murdering someone just because they saw their parent’s nakedness or had a little lay down with another man. Taking the bible literally is as dumb as thinking it was all original works of divine inspiration. There are many retread stories from earlier times. Southern preachers are especially good at stirring up emotions because under rational scrutiny, almost all religious arguments fall flat. We need to become a more civil and secular nation, as is so much of the world. We see the trouble a holy war has exposed and we still don’t turn from it. It’s due to the tenacious defensiveness of the leaders who run this operation of lies.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation is even a real nation or just a coalition of mandated divisions containing residents of that particular locale. Haditha is Iraq’s Mi-Lai massacre because we are stuck in a quagmire playing whack-a-mole with exploding roadside bombs and clusters of snipers set to fire after the IED goes off. War is hell when you go into a hostile environment and the enemy has their stronghold already long established. The Pentagon was preparing for a Middle East war as far back as the Nixon-Ford days but they let the Iran-Iraq war happen by supplying both sides with weapons, allowing us to forestall our involvement until Saddam invaded Kuwait. After the Arab Oil Embargo of ’73, it was only a matter of time before we invaded one of those gushers. And they claim it wasn’t a war for oil. Right…and I’m 6’3” with pecs and abs of steel.

It’s getting to the point where a Republican’s only insult to throw at a Democrat is…liberal truth-teller!
<Gimme Some Truth>

<Newsmakers and Earthshakers>
6-10 John Edwards
Here is a man of the people, having 4 planets in Gemini, reflecting others’ ideas and experiences. As most of you know by now, he was a trial lawyer and had won many of his high profile cases so as to amass several million dollars. Now, that doesn’t make him a bad guy but I can tell you right now, he won’t be supporting the Bush proposed law to limit class action suits at the federal level. First of all, the president, who places those judges on the bench, can control the federal courts.
Now John boy was born and raised in the Carolinas but it doesn’t mean he’s a country hick. Gemini is the sign of the city dweller, whereas, its opposite, Sag, is the country boy, the adventurer and world traveler. It’s interesting that he was on the intelligence committee in the senate and Pluto is at the midpoint of his Sun and Saturn/Neptune conjunction, sextile to all of them. His Gemini curiosity seeks to understand all the information available about what goes on in the world that escapes the notice and avoids the control of the powers that be.
Edwards has Mercury, his ruler, in Cancer, the sign of family and homeland. It’s a mind with a great memory and sentimentality, sensitivity and responsiveness, as in the need to care for his neighbors and constituents. Venus in Taurus is sextile to his Mercury, so he connects with others with a one-to-one relate-ability very easily. He can see your view and appreciate your need for security and the basic needs of life.
His Moon is conjoining Jupiter in the 11th, making him a noble, generous and positive leader who’s own need for security is enhanced by putting out his own effort in a giving way and getting in return from the universe. The more you give, the more you have, yet the less you need, so the more you give. It might be considered that the woman he married, Elizabeth, is a lawyer and his number one advisor. She’s also indicated by his Juno/Pallas conjunction to the Moon, showing her wisdom and partnership skills as well as her weight problem, which may be connected to her son’s death. His Sun is conjoining Mars, also in Gemini, indicating that he is a fighter and takes action, standing toe-to-toe with all comers. He would also have been a hero in Viet Nam had he been a little older and not just missed the draft and the war, having graduated as the war ended.
I’ll tell you this…he won’t be the frumpy, grumpy, Snidely Whiplash (Backlash) that Cheney is. He won’t be pressing the flesh with huge corporate interests who seek to bribe him or Kerry because they are already rich men who can’t be bought…or so we like to believe. Since JE has Jupiter rising before his Sun and it’s in a close conjunction with the Moon, his message is one of hope and optimism for a better future (11th) and he has ideas to make those things a reality. It can also mean a favorable relationship with the mother, or a guy who takes advice from his wife, while Saturn square Uranus may indicate a cold or detached association or even separation from the father. I know about that, having it in my chart. As such, he was able to come into his own without restriction and aim as high as he wanted to go. The Jupiter oriental appearance makes him a natural for law and government, as well as jovial, enthusiastic and optimistic.
Along with the Moon/Jupiter are Juno and Pallas, so he has wisdom in his relationships, as people attest upon meeting him. He comes across as genuine and interested in their concerns and finds a way to remedy the situation. He needs to make things better in a way that relates this wisdom to those who can benefit from it. He would want to interact with people who had a level of intellectual expertise and experience, and, as a lawyer, made many friends of intellectual skill. Not all of them are worthy of his respect, however, just as the remainder of the Senate isn’t all his good buddies. Colleagues are one thing, but close intimates…quite another thing.
He has Cancer Rising, an indication that he has family at the forefront of his mind (Mercury’s there) and the core of his experience. With Uranus in the 1st house, he projects liberal values to a degree, but the Cancer ASC gives him more traditional perspectives of the middle class son of a mill worker. He is a protector of those too weakened to stand up for themselves and he knows what the common family has to go through to survive. Rich and privileged sons who go to Yale comprise the other candidates, Edwards comes from the masses, and has aspired to the classes, a real American rags to riches story, the American Dream itself. The GOP will tear him apart but they do that to every opponent, without regard for the truth. Since Edwards has the Moon as his ruling planet, he stands for the families who have been affected by the rising and falling economy. His mom may have been a major influence in his morality and demeanor.

6-10 Elliot Spitzer is the corporate crime fighter extraordinaire. If you want to start the ultimate in Justice Departments, go for Elliot, John Edwards and Pat Fitzgerald. Here’s an interesting twist, however, since Spitzer is born the day before Hugh Laurie. What could be seen in Elliot’s chart that leads to law and corporate reform? The Wall Street Watchdog has his eye on the New York Governorship, on his way to the presidency, perhaps. Jupiter is in Scorpio, the sign of other people’s money and it’s not connected to the rest of the chart by aspects to other planets, thus operates as a free agent. The square that Chiron it makes leads to investigate cases of public-money misuse and malfeasance. His Leo stellium is even more clustered than Hugh Laurie’s with the Moon nestled tightly between Venus and Mars, perhaps his inclination and instinct to fight for the benefit of the small family fortunes as they struggle for survival against the large corporate giants. These three Leo planets square Neptune, subjecting poor Elliot to deception and other elusive devises to avoid being found out as a cheater, liar and thief. He’s the victim of many false attack ads by the RRR who want to denounce him as anti-American or whatever they always do when someone of integrity has the guts to stand up to a superior force or power and stand one’s ground, asserting the truth, despite the repercussions. His experience with Saturn may be an estranged relationship with an annoying father who stressed him out and he compensates by going after the paternalistic corporate big daddy and it will lead him to go after corrupt government officials as well.

Elizabeth Hurley, Chris Penn, Leelee Sobieski, Judy Garland

6-11 Hugh Laurie plays his role as Dr. House to the specifications prescribed in his chart. His surly nature is presumed by Saturn square the South Node in Aries and the anti-social tendency is the same square to the Libra North Node. His diagnostic wizardry is implied by the sextile Mercury in late Gemini makes to the early degree Pluto in Virgo, giving a deep, penetrating thought process to his character. Mercury opposite Saturn and Saturn opposite Hygeia indicate the problem with authority figures in the world of health sciences. His addiction to pain and pain medication along with the infirmity that caused his use of drugs is laid out like a high-class restaurant table with Venus, Mars and the Moon in Leo square Neptune in Scorpio. The Moon conjoins Uranus revealing his eccentricities and emotional detachment and unpredictability. His chart is a perfect reflection of much of his character. I can’t say the same thing about his role in Stuart Little or anything else he’s done.

Ray Nagin has Mercury on the South Node in the same sign as his Sun and gives credence to the fact that he doesn’t know what the hell he’s saying half the time or that he’ll just change position later on. What makes matters worse is the square it makes to Mars in Pisces and the Jupiter/Pluto conjunction in Leo. To sum it up in a nutshell, shit jumps out of his mouth. With Moon in Leo conjunct Uranus, he has a rather wide appeal, if you like the unusual and eccentric. His Venus in Cancer is retrograde but the trine it makes to Mars in the sign of the last hope and lost cause shows he’s fighting to regain the heart, hopes and spirit of a washed-out city. I see him as believing his actions are meant to help his city’s denizens make a commitment to rebuild what can and should be rebuilt and resign themselves to the fact that due to the significant subsidence that is causing the great city to sink at an increasing rate. They have to let go of some of the place, allowing the Mighty Mississippi to reclaim some of its own. Mayor Ray has Sag North Node and if he’s going to get his people to come home, he has to travel to see them and rustle up some much-needed investment from other states and private investors to get the city growing again. Mercury opposite Saturn places him at odds with the powers that be and at the feet of the real powerbrokers, the heads of corporations. As they become targets of legal battles for financial over-compensation, boards vote on executive raises and benefits, but an objective observer should look into it, if possible. Ray’s Sun trine Neptune got many people believing in him and forgiving him for what was done to him by FEMA and Homeland Security.
Gene Wilder, George Herbert Walker, Jacques Cousteau
<Grofe – Mississippi Suite>>

6-12 Jim Nabors is the very kind of person you wouldn’t want to offend by this talk of gay marriage, since he and Rock Hudson had a secret thing that would have been quite different today. His Sun/Jupiter conjunction gave him the humor and openness to a multifaceted lifestyle that entertained many people for a long time. His Moon/Saturn conjunction contributes to the longevity but they square Uranus, which makes for separation from traditional family structures and feelings. The Moon opposes Venus/Pluto, contributing an intense sexual obsession for anal sex. Moon/Saturn also trine Mars, easing the relationships with men to compensate for the psychological detachment from his parents. With Mercury and Mars, as well as Chiron and North Node in Taurus, it was his destiny to sing with a rich baritone voice. Mercury square Neptune is his feverish imagination and escapist fantasies that had little to do with reality. Venus square Uranus is one of the gay aspects but it’s due to the transitory nature of quickies and one-niters that occurs in any single’s scene. It’s issues with intimacy.

George Bush has a whole long revealing file on the PDB on my web site, Leofish.com
Anne Frank

6-13 William Butler Yeats was an influential Irish poet and playwright whose brilliance challenged the thinkers of his day to stretch their minds a bit, as he has Sun/Uranus trine Moon in Aquarius and Saturn in Libra, so he could actually get work done. Wouldn’t you know that a poet has Neptune exactly quintile his Sun, which shows artistic genius in fields like theater and poetry. Jupiter opposed his Sun and Uranus giving him a search for truth as his carrot in front of the horse. Venus conjoins Pluto and squares the Moon opposite Mars setting up a passionate and explosive relationship game. There would be games of prodding and poking, irritating annoyances that could break down into confrontation and conflict. Old-fashioned donnybrooks are known to happen when this kind of chap gets his knickers in a knot. It sounds like a bit of Victorian Brokeback to me.
Ally Sheedy, Tim Allen

6-14 James Sensenbrenner is a fear-monger who currently heads the House Judiciary Committee and that’s why there haven’t been and won’t be any investigations into government wrongdoing in this congress. His chart has corruption oozing all over it, with Moon in Scorpio square Venus/Pluto in Leo, betraying people’s trust and conducting financially unethical deals has got to be grounds for his district not to re-elect the fat pig. His Sun conjoins Saturn, so he rationalizes that he can do anything to stay in power but the Sun also squares Neptune, causing addiction to drugs, alcohol or food. It can also have something to do with a religious element beaten into him by his parents, as it makes him a victim, which causes addiction in many cases. With Mercury square Chiron, he has an inability to be really rational in discourse unless he is in the position of knowing everything, as a Gemini with Mercury conjunct Uranus would like it to seem. The trine Mercury makes to Neptune may be why he favors the religious faction that has taken over his party. Perhaps it shouldn’t be any great surprise because he was elected to the House in 1979, the year the Christian Coalition began making inroads into right wing policy crafting. His impolitic asteroid Pallas conjoins Mars, making it all for war and not for peaceful discussion, in other words, he’s an arrogant asswipe who doesn’t care about the rights of the people to be represented for their interests. And he carries around unbending fealty to a lost leader.

Boy George is the former cross-dressing androgynous front man of Culture Club, who had a big hit with Karma Comedian and has some decidedly gay aspects. First, there’s the Venus opposition to Neptune squared by Jupiter. Talk about a guy who’ll fuck anything that walks but despite high expectation, there is always disappointment and as such, it can lead to drug use and ultimate overdose. His Mars/Uranus in Leo make for a flamboyant sexuality of outrageous kinkiness. During the staid Reagan years, this dude shakes things up a bit. Moon/Mercury conjunction in Cancer trine Neptune in the 7th in Scorpio with Pluto in the middle sextile them all is his ability to reach the masses for a brief moment in music history. With Saturn only inconjunct the North Node and his time passed, he would have to reinvent himself with some valid contribution to culture. For good measure he was born in one of the few years that had Chiron opposite Pluto rather than Uranus. Chiron is also involved in the trine to Moon/Mercury and Neptune, making music his mission.

Donald Trump, Malcolm McDowell, Steffi Graf

6-15 Edvard Grieg was the Norwegian composer best known for his music to Ibsen’s play, Peer Gynt. Everyone’s heard Morning Music and In the Hall of the Mountain King but he wrote tons of stuff that’s easy and delightful to listen to and I haven’t done a composer in a while. His Mercury retrograde on the South Node might reflect his love for traditional folk melodies. Venus in Taurus confers a natural talent in music and with the trine to the Moon/Saturn in Capricorn; he well might have hiked in the mountains to listen for shepherds and milkmaids to sing their tunes. Mars in Sag provides the energy and enthusiasm to explore the open lands. Moon/Saturn also square Pluto contributing to obsession over death of parents and family members in general. The real gift of artistic genius and understanding is his Sun/Mercury trine Jupiter/Neptune in Aquarius, sign of rhythm and invention.
Helen Hunt, Mary Carey, Astrologer John Addey, Jim Belushi, Ice Cube

6-16 Alice A. Bailey was one of the founders and proponents of theosophy, having a strong background in metaphysics and astrology. I ran into a fellow astrologer reading an Alice Bailey astrology book a thousand miles from where I had met him weeks before. Her chart shows the challenge of being a female with strong masculine memories, as the subjects she was delving into had previously only been explored by men. Perhaps her Mars on the ASC reveals some of that male energy. Another factor that exposes an identity crisis is the Moon in Libra square the Sun, as if she could ever be concerned with only herself! Her Mercury in Cancer on the South Node shows memories from lifetimes ago and the square to Jupiter is her judgmental, opinionated arrogance at having so much more knowledge than so many others. With the Sun sextile Saturn, however, she may have tempered that attribute with self-restraint and discipline out of respect for the other person’s accomplishments. An ardent intellectual, she may have had some emotional issues with her Moon square the nodes, making her out of balance. Venus in Gemini sextile Jupiter in Aries gave her a love for knowledge and wisdom and Jupiter is on the MC in the 9th, like me, inclining her toward metaphysical truths as well. Moon trine Pluto gave her strong instincts with the occult but Mars square Neptune would have complicated things with addiction problems and suicide attempts. This was a response to her strict family’s Christian dogma that her soul could not relate to and turned to Eastern mysticism, as we all should.
Tupac Shakur is the rapper slain in the Death Row Records East-West rivalry with Biggie Smalls the other victim. Odds are Suge Knight had them both killed. That profile should also be in the archives, as I seem to recall having done it.

Our civilization has been made uncivil by religions competing for an ever-larger marketplace with dwindling returns. There are more sects of Christianity than there are other religions, I’ll bet. It’s because they have become so factionalized and fragmented that they have lost their way and have meandered far from the truth. The only thing they spread is fear, or is that the RNC and not the SBC. Baptists are on a mission from God to make sure everyone is born again in the spirit of Jesus but there are problems if he didn’t actually die on the cross and had lived, traveling to France with Mary and raising a family. So much myth has filtered into the story that it’s hard to know what really happened and whether or not there was another exodus. It’s worth it to consider different ways of considering how history was interpreted, to each according to the advantage they could gain from twisting it. As we consider this Sag Full Moon, the truth shall set you free but you have to explore the world and learn from your own personal experiences. Be mindful of self-improvement and caring for your health. It’s cheaper to maintain health than to regain it when it’s lost. I can’t believe I’m closing with a line worthy of a Chinese fortune cookie. But I am. Thank you and good times. Here’s a fun piece by Grieg.