Tag: US Congress

Why Congress Can’t Cut Defense Spending: Feat. Rep. Mark Pocan – clip

Here’s a recent segment from a Thom Hartmann broadcast with guest Rep. Mark Pocan:

And here’s a nostalgic view of the Pentagon’s founding horoscope (April 29, 1942) with its war-waging, out-of-bounds Mars in Moon-ruled Cancer (touchy!) at apex of two difficult midpoints: ruthless Saturn-Pluto and fanatical Uranus-Pluto, creating both brutal and intense conditions.
Additionally, snugged around

Hakeem Jeffries: Leo Sun-Virgo Moon

Offical Portrait, Hakeem Jeffries; United States Congress, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Astro-Notes: A New House Minority Leader
by Jude Cowell
Promotion is in the air in Washington DC, for today, House Democrats elected Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) to the position of House Minority Leader beginning in early January 2023, and replacing Nancy Pelosi. Both a 9:00 am est and 12:00 pm

Hakeem Jeffries: Leo Sun-Virgo Moon

Offical Portrait, Hakeem Jeffries; United States Congress, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Astro-Notes: A New House Minority Leader
by Jude Cowell
Promotion is in the air in Washington DC, for today, House Democrats elected Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) to the position of House Minority Leader beginning in early January 2023, and replacing Nancy Pelosi. Both a 9:00 am est and 12:00 pm

DC Horoscopes: 118th Congress January 2023

Now that it’s known that the House has been commandeered by Republicans through whatever means they could finagle (exs: gerrymandering districts in red states, voter suppression tactics) and that Democrats have kept control of the Senate, here again is a dual image of both the 9:00 am and 12:00 pm est horoscopes set for the traditional opening day of the US Congress, January 3, 2023; exact hour

Midterms 2022 Planets to US Congress Horoscope

US Congress’ Transits: November 2022 into Early 2023
by Jude Cowell
Below is a simple display showing a bi-wheel of the US Congress Horoscope of 1789 (inner) and the Midterms 2022 Lunar Eclipse Chart (outer). As you see, there are two significant planetary contacts on Election Day 2022: from 2022 Saturn in Aquarius and 2022 Neptune in Pisces.
Also of note is transit Mars Rx perigee in Gemini

Nov 2022: Are gridlock government and shutdowns on the way?

Blurred: Will It Be the Tyranny of One-Party Rule?
by Jude Cowell

Besides blurring political prospects for the 2024 election, one of the more basic results from last evening’s Midterms 2022 Elections is certain to be an increase of gridlock government where the needs of the American people are even less addressed than before. Yesterday’s Total Lunar Eclipse (a red ‘blood moon’) in Taurus did

DC Horoscope: 118th Congress Opens Jan 3, 2023

If all goes as usual, the 118th Congress of the United States, after being sworn in, will meet in first session upon Capitol Hill from January 3, 2023 to January 3, 2025. Depending upon results of the 2022 Midterms in November, varying levels of loyalty to their congressional oaths are to be expected.
So below is a bi-wheel of two DC Horoscopes, both set for the first official day of the 118th

DC Horoscope: Final J6 Hearing

Here’s a quick posting of the DC Horoscope of what’s apparently scheduled to be the final J6 Public Hearing of June 23, 2022 with my study notes penned squooshedly upon the chart:

Since the schedule of the J6 public hearings has experienced a measure of alteration, I don’t wish to spend time on a June 23rd horoscope of an event which may be rescheduled or which may not be held, and I hope that

Notes on tour-leader Barry Loudermilk

U.S. House Office of Photography, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons: Rep. Barry Loudermilk of Georgia
Undermining Democracy: Tour Leader Barry Loudermilk
by Jude Cowell
With the information being revealed this June during the current public J6 Select Committee Hearings, you’ve probably heard that on January 5, 2021, Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA; pictured above; link to the video released by