Did I just hear a Breaking News announcement from President Obama that a government shutdown has just been avoided less than one hour before it would happen? A temporary spending bill has passed, says his nibs, yet with Mercury Rx and Pluto turning Rx at 4:51:03 am – in a few hours – who can know such a hapless and wispy bill’s ultimate fate?No time to put up the chart of his announcement (it’s
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US Gov Shutdown? US natal chart w Apr 8, 2011 transits
UPDATE 4.6.11 6:07 pm edt: NPR just reported that if there is a government shutdown at the end of the week it would happen at "12:01 am Saturday morning." This is one minute one second later than what I used to set up the horoscope below yet the charts’ (cusps’) time link remains the same.Original column begins here: America’s Natal Chart with Transits for April 8, 2011: Midnight on Capitol
Paul Ryan’s Roadmap to America’s Future (of Serfdom)
With Mercury’s current retrograde condition in Mars-ruled Aries, a review of Paul Ryan, poster boy for austerity cuts, and his "Roadmap to America’s Future" may be in order. It amazes me that any self-interested American can believe the austerity plans of the GOP as touted by Paul Ryan will lead to anything but complete government take-over by fascist elements – their goal perhaps, but not the
Is the US infested with the Hegelian Dialectic?
In an attempt to make sense of the mess the US is in, the following article link is posted for your consideration with an excerpt:The Hegelian Dialectic is designed to get us into a frenzied defense or offense of a particular idea or thesis. The natural outgrowth of the original idea is the opposite idea or anti-thesis, which will breed it’s own defense and offense. The predetermined answer of
Aries New Moon Apr 3, 2011 w US natal Mars rising
The more I look at the chart factors in the horoscope of the April 3, 2011 New Moon at a critical/crisis degree, the more worrisome they appear. Sadly, the cure isn’t to stop looking.Well, as you know, the combination of Mars and Uranus is a permanent signature in the American natal chart and national psyche so we can’t say we’re not a warring bunch of varmints, can we? With Gemini the sign of
Obama speaks on Libya 3.28.11 w Mercury at loose ends
Horoscopes set for Monday night, March 28, 2011, on the occasion of President Obama addressing the nation about the US-NATO-Arab-Allies mission in Libya, don’t look so much unpromising for the globalists’ usual war propaganda purposes as they look…well, ignored by the general public. We have, after all, heard this sorry tune too many times before.Under conditions which must certainly be obvious
Keith Olbermann: Qs for the President on Libya
Reading other people’s mail is usually wrong but not in this case:Libya, Obama, and the Five-Second Rule Special Comment By Keith Olbermann Mr. President. We are not clear why we are fighting, who exactly we are fighting with, who the ‘rebels’ are that we’re fighting for, what a No-Fly Zone accomplishes with a dictator who has ground troops, how long we are to be there, to whom we are to "
After Citizens United, & Solar Eclipses 1993 = 2011
Perhaps you’ve seen the brilliant photo of the March 19, 2011 SuperMoon in Virgo rising above DC’s Lincoln Memorial now posted on a new blog After Citizens United. (Astro-Note: constellation Virgo and its stars have particular significance for the founding of America including the related archetype for nurturing asteroid Ceres (‘security concerns’) which in America’s natal chart, conjoins our
A Fixed T-Square situation: Rep. Paul Ryan & President Obama
Today SO’W spotlights a new blog concerning Republican wunderkind Paul Ryan for those who wish to better understand the man behind the budget-slashing mask – and who don’t mind using the lens of Astrology to do so.You’ll find that synastry information is included concerning the rigid and difficult Fixed T-Square between President Obama and Rep. Paul Ryan as posted by astrologer Mark Andrew Holmes
President’s Presser 11:15 am est Friday 3.11.11 w SN Rising
President Obama will hold a press conference tomorrow, March 11, 2011, at 11:15 am est, it is announced.Rising gas prices is said to be his topic during the presser yet rising at 11:15 am est in Washington DC tomorrow, we find the transiting South Node of the Moon (SN), a separative, Saturnian point of unconscious behavior and bad timing. SN rising indicates strong individualism, a non-conforming