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
Tag: mundane astrology
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
43 years ago: MLK Jr Assassination Horoscope Apr 4, 1968
To mark the 43rd anniversary today of the powers-behind-the-throne assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr, here’s a handy link to last year’s remembrance which contains an image of the assassination chart of April 4, 1968.Do you know the US government has never actually held a fully informed investigation of the politically motivated crime? Perhaps someone knew the culprits’ names already.If
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
Saturn’s rings surging bright, USAF space plane circling ‘secretly’
Space Weather News for April 1, 2011SPACE PLANE FLARES: The US Air Force X-37B space plane is circling Earth on a classified mission. Although its orbit is officially unpublished, amateur sky watchers have spotted it and are monitoring its progress. This week, a veteran observer witnessed a spectacular flare from the X-37B, exceeding the brightness of Venus. Details may be found on today’s
Bush-Reagan-Obama and Solar Eclipses 1991/2009
With his usual insight, journalist Robert Parry of Consortium News has written what for me is an expose of the links between the Iran-Contra scandal of Ronald Reagan (1981) and the Gulf War of George H. W. Bush (1991) – Poppy’s "100 hours of carnage."Mr. Parry ignored his employer’s instructions (Newsweek) at the time and set up an interview with a key witness, Israeli operative Ari Ben-Menashe,
Shock Doctrine Politicians = America Going Nowhere
An Austere GOP Hearts the Ruining of Americaby Jude CowellIf you’re anything like me, you’re having some difficulty keeping current your Shock Doctrine Politicians scorecard, so you may benefit from a list with their names, birth data, and a few of their astrological details. And of course, the shock in ‘Shock Doctrine’ implicates the planet of disruption, upheaval, lightening, and chaos: Uranus.
Mercury’s Rx and Direct Stations Mar 30/Apr 23, 2011: degree symbols
Today at 4:48 pm edt in Washington DC, Mercury’s current retrograde station occurs @ 24Ari21. I use ‘4:48 pm’ because that’s the moment my Solar Fire software gives for Mercury’s first minute Rx (notwithstanding the March 11, 2011 earthquake in Japan which knocked Earth’s axis off a smidgen.)Then on April 23, 2011, Mercury performs his/her Direct Station @ 12Air53 (6:04 am edt in DC.) As you know
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
Chris Hedges: The Collapse of Globalization; the Sacredness of Gaia
With Globalization, What’s Not to Like?by Jude Cowell If you’re familiar with the writings of Chris Hedges, you know that what he says must be well considered before flippantly ignoring it – except that the time has come to an end when we can afford to be apathetic about the future – environmental, social, and financial – of this little blue planet some call, Gaia.Gaia has her own hypothesis, you