Typing on the Weekend of June 22–24, 2012
by Jude Cowell
Since this weekend is the last for composing and setting up my new subscription newsletter Stars Over Washington Monthly by early July, you can imagine that typing is keeping me tres busy and I won’t be hanging out much here on my SO’W blog until Monday or Tuesday–crazy events in Washington DC notwithstanding. No, it isn’t a weekend
In January 2011 I wrote a few notes concerning the personality found in the natal chart of one Darrel Issa. Quite the dissecting critic is he.
Today, June 20 (Summer Solstice 2012 at 7:09 pm edt in Washington– horoscope shown), Issa is in his element as the probe of Attorney General Eric Holder grinds on toward a contempt of Congress citation (something most Americans issued to Congress years
June 19, 2012: New Moon in Gemini and Dual Natal Charts of Obama and Romney
Today’s new cycle is timed by a New Moon in communicative Gemini and merits a lovely post by master astrologer Julie Demboski–with a charming and gorgeous art image included!
This New Moon @28Gem43 is the last lunation prior to June 20’s Summer Solstice 2012–its Sygyzy Moon. Today’s New Moon makes no major aspects to
Monday June 18, 2012: Now here are two intelligent fellows discussing some good ideas!
Max Igan: The Truth Shall Make You Free:
A Gemini New Moon, Romney, Obama, and A Draconian "Free Trade" Pact
by Jude Cowell
Wondering about the significance of the June 19th New Moon @28Gem43? Then let masterful Dipali Desai fill you in with pertinent astro-details and insights!
Coming so close to Summer Solstice 2012 (Wednesday June 20), this New Moon perfects at 11:02 am in the edt time zone, is disposited by Mercury (ruler of
The Perils of Ignoring History: This Time, Europe Really Is on the Brink
By Niall Ferguson and Nouriel Roubini
As the euro crisis escalates, Berlin should remember how the banking crisis of
1931 contributed to the breakdown of democracy across Europe. Action is urgently
needed to stop history from repeating itself.
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As the social-economic crisis of austerity measures in the EU ruins
Now you know that Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder is under fire from Republicans over the Fast and Furious fiasco, a Mars-themed project of misbegotten proportions.
Taking a peek at Atty Gen Holder’s natal planets to see if current planetary transits are creating upsetting contacts with his natal planets, we see that tr Mars approaches Holder’s natal South Node (SN @20Vir07), a point of
The Power Desires of Obama and Romney
by Jude Cowell
It is my personal conclusion that America’s obsession with Sun-Pluto power issues and control makes the use of fear as a tool against the populace easy to latch on to for the US natal horoscope shows an obsessive-compulsive-don’t-know-when-to-quit Sun-Pluto quindecile aspect (165 degrees) between the executive (Sun) and power (Pluto.) Other
On June 20, 2012 the Sun reaches 00Can00:00 and summer begins in our hemisphere. The Moon at that precise moment will position at 15Can so we have a Sun Can-Moon Can flavor for the season with the Moon ruling over all from its own sign of Cancer–home, domestic scene, family, security needs, real estate, shrewdness in business, protection, and a range of every emotion. And since the astrological