Mercury Retrograde in Virgo

Mercury stations into retrograde motion on Friday 20th August 2010 for a 3 week backtrack until September 12th 2010 (depending on timezone).
This marks a period of re-evaluation.  Mercury in Virgo is a mind of analysis, the little details that mak…

Video: How can America keep financing the deficit?

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts’s articles have been favored on this blog for a while now. Here he discusses the purposeful destruction of America which I’ve been fussing about on this and other blogs for years. My typing finger is fairly falling off from all my fussing…but honestly, if we-the-people would realize en masse the power we have in numbers and the raging class warfare which has so far

Celente predicts market crash by end of year (video)

Gerald Celente has been correct a bunch of times about our financial prospects. Here he’s predicting a possible stock market crash by the end of 2010. This post’s title should read, audio. Pardon.Then does Astrology, also a system of cycles as in the realm of finances, concur? Right now we’re ‘between’ two Solar Eclipses, both of which indicate financial stress and/or weakness. July 11, 2010’s

Interception: Landlocked Countries… and Bjork

Intercepted signs and planets Intercepted signs are like landlocked countries: A landlocked country is a country entirely enclosed by land, or whose only coastlines lie on closed seas. Historically, being landlocked was regarded as a disadvantageous position. It cuts the country off from sea resources such as fishing, but more importantly cuts off access to […]

The ‘Why’ of Things

There seems to be a trend of late wherein what’s often being said (or expressed in some form) is dressed up with what we want it to mean, rather than with the words or expression having a decent relationship to the facts that are evident. This is…

16 August 2010: Deep Emotion

10 PM of the 15th sees the Scorpio Moon sesquiquadrate Jupiter in Aries, kicking off the week with an eye to expansion of Self-interests–it’s ‘me’ time, for each of us, and rightly so–a kind of suspension that allows us to…

Catfood Commission vs Social Security benefits

Today I am working on an America-infused article for Julie Demboski’s Eclipse e-zine so I don’t expect to be posting today beyond this heads-up which concerns a post of mine you may have missed. If you’re in the mood for 1930s to 2010 financials mixed with a smidgen of Astrology and embedded within a classic film try:Money in the Land of Oz.And check out a previous post on this blog which

FDR signs SS Act Aug 14, 1935 (video)

Here is President Franklin Roosevelt signing into law the Social Security Act of 1935 and making a few remarks afterwards.The bill signing of December 14, 1935 makes today SS’s 75th anniversary, so Happy Birthday and may you enjoy many more returns, SS. As a small business owner in the US, I’ve paid 100% of my FICA taxes into the SS fund for decades so naturally I remain partial to this social ‘