August 2013: Saturn and Pluto Trigger New Millennium Horoscope
by Jude Cowell
In June 2013, I published the New Millennium Horoscope so that the chart would be available to you and me for future reference–for transits, progressions, etc. Click to view the chart and my original post with brief astro-notes.
Looking at tonight’s transits (7.31.13) and with August at our door and the potential
Another Front Opens in the Plutocrats’ Middle Class Warfare
by Jude Cowell
As powerful Pluto plods through Saturn-ruled Capricorn, sign of business, law, and government, the oppressive, disenfranchising Pluto-Chiron pair of Plutocracy keeps steamrolling along…
With only 6% of US financial assets held by Credit Unions and by banks that are actually banks (which along with non-profit credit
Okay, all you sly "entitlement reformers" of America, listen to Professor Reich’s realistic ideas which make a world of sense instead of wasting time propagandizing the public with your ideology-driven, not-my-brother’s-keeper jackassery:
Several SO’W posts are Reich-inspired. Here is one of them:
What Do Rs Want for America? Social Darwinism. Nice crowd we got there.
And if you’re up for
Bubbling on the Hob: Reheat and Serve
by Jude Cowell
Perhaps current scandals and pseudo-scandals now plaguing the White House will keep boiling long enough to add steam to the near-deflated Tea Party movement, perhaps not. But for now we may as well pass the buttered scones and jam for we know Republicans won’t let a good scalding cup go cold when there’s a chance to further undermine the
David Stockman, former congressman and budget director for Ronald Reagan, has done our nation a tremendous service with his book The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America.
Astrologers will recognize (and many have written the last few years on the topic) that transformative, destructuring Pluto, now in Capricorn (sign of government, law, business–and capitalism) is slowly
Stephen Colbert interviews graduate student Thomas Herndon who discovered in writing a paper for his professor that the spreed sheets used to justify the benefits of austerity measures contain faulty numbers, plus, the much-cited Growth in a Time of Debt by Rogoff and Reinhart completely leaves out the improved economies of Australia and others in order to further support their faulty conclusions
After Spring Equinox 2013 arrives, the Cosmos has a Scorpio Lunar Eclipse in store for us (secrets and leaks continue to be revealed?), and on May 9, 2013, a Solar Eclipse @19Tau31 manifests during a Moon Hour of changes and fluctuations. Here’s a horoscope of the May Solar Eclipse set for the White House (as a representative of the United States of America):
Chart shown: May 9, 2013 8:28:
Of Saturnian Budget Control and Other Astro-Considerations
by Jude Cowell
Perhaps of interest to you may be the Social Security Legislative Bulletin dated August 2, 2011, the day that President Obama signed into law the Budget Control Act of 2011 (S. 365.) The bulletin includes details of the limits established on government-wide discretionary spending until year 2021 and implements a goal
Can ‘Sequester’ Have a Natal Horoscope?
by Jude Cowell
Here is a natal horoscope I propose for the ‘Sequester’ based on Bob Woodward’s assertion that Jack Lew, now sworn in as Treasury Secretary, and the White House’s Ron Nabors presented the ‘sequester’ idea to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on July 27, 2011 at 2:30 pm edt, allegedly as a way to make sure GOP and Democratic legislators
One in six Americans are going hungry and there’s a new documentary gaining attention for better addressing these disturbing issues:
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Source: The Daily Show, February 26, 2013. Documentary debuts March 1st, ‘sequester’ kick-in day unless cooler heads prevail in