Today the US Congress returns to Capitol Hill after the August break for a 4-week session and with many items to address which include the thorny question of whether to extend the Bush tax cuts or not, and for the middle class or the rich.You may wish to check out the issues and the status of existing legislation at Open Congress.Meanwhile, overhead, Sun remains in earthy Virgo today while the
Tag: mundane astrology
Sun-Moon blends of 9/11/01 and 9/11/10
Today marks nine years since the attacks of 9/11/01 when the Sun was in Virgo and Moon in Gemini. Naturally, the Sun is in Virgo today was well, but expectably the Moon’s sign is different.9/11/01’s Solar Return to 18Vir51 occurred today at 12:42:27 pm edt in Manhattan with the Moon at 4Sco25, so let’s briefly compare the two Sun-Moon blends, then and now. Rising was 00Sag46 with ‘1Sag’ being the
Global Banking Reform as Basel III meets 9.12.10
This Sunday in Basel, Switzerland, global titans meet to complete their agenda for new banking requirements which they deem are made necessary by the engineered Financial Collapse of 2008. The meeting occurs ‘under the radar’ for most of us, hence this posting peep-eye.Sunday’s conclave, Basel III is meant to establish, among other things, the amounts that banks must set aside for future crises
Obama presser w/ his natal Neptune rising 9.10.10
Update 9.10.10: just read Paul Krugman’s piece Things Could Be Worse which addresses the economic measures of the president as mentioned in his presser today, R v D tactics and what would happen if Rs take control in November midterms, and compares our financial crisis 2008 with Japan’s response to their own financial crisis of the 1990s. A good read.And if you missed it, here’s a White House
The Natal Chart of John Boehner
On Thursday, November 17, 1949 John Boehner was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was elected House Minority Leader for the Republican Party on January 4, 2007.Mr. Boehner’s birth time is unknown to me, but for the 24-hour period, the Moon remained in Libra (11:13 – 26:03) with Sun in Scorpio ranging from 24:31 to 25:32; Mercury in Scorpio 21:17 – 23:23.The following planetary positions are from his
Francis Bacon, Uranus/Neptune, and Pluto
If you like to read about America’s founding, Rosicrucianism, Freemasonry, and other such mystical topics, you may be interested in a discovery I’ve just made of a site that has so many links and articles to check out, I’m just getting started. But I want to be certain you knew about it, too, though much investigation is required to find out how much it contains concerning America. As you know,
Autumn Equinox 2010 on Capitol Hill
Horoscope: Autumn Equinox September 22, 2010 Capitol Hill, Washington DC; Hour Saturn; chart-ruler Mercury 12Vir49 in 4th house of Domestic Scene and Real Estate – unaspected; Sun 00Lib00:00 in 4th house conjunct US natal Midheaven (Sibly chart); Moon 27Pis11 in 10th house of Public Recognition, Status, and Career; MC 00Pis01 conjoins America’s Pre-Natal Eclipse 00Pis33 in the 12 South Series
Opinions: Obama’s ‘end of combat ops in Iraq’ speech
It was quite a dizzying tightrope he walked and perhaps President Obama’s multi-messaged speech with two-directional, murky Pisces Rising concerning the ‘ending of combat operations in Iraq’ didn’t go over very well among his more discriminating listeners. Here’s an article round-up of opinions for you including mention of one of my favorite topics when it comes to the US government – Orwellian
Obama on Iraq tonight 8:00 pm edt w/ Pisces Rising
This evening at 8:00 pm edt, President Obama will speak for approximately 15 minutes on the ending of official combat operations in Iraq, a war begun on March 20, 2003 6:35 am Baghdad time with 8Ari16 rising.There’s no time this morning to blog on the Iraq War chart itself but I can say that in tonight’s TV speech chart, the first planet to rise will be 2003’s Mercury 27Pis19, the spot where
‘To abolish poverty, abolish plutocracy’ (Rutherford B. Hayes)
Here’s the rest of the above quote from our 19th President Rutherford B. Hayes (1822 – 1893) but I wonder which modern day Republicans (or Democrats) would like to hear it much less implement it. For then their over-stuffed gravy train would have to be brought to a screeching halt instead of honest people’s incomes dissolving into thin air:"Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty. As