A Time for Prophets To Meet Cerberus - The Three Heads of Debt

Prophets Abound
Here in San Jose area of the west coast the winds howl between rain showers - a blustry introduction to January 2006. For many of us it is good to have 2005 laid an buried but what will the New Year (Gregorian Calendar) bring? Are we in for
a time of Katrina like storms which appear as the underpinning to the Uranus in Pisces era began in 2003? Will oil finally hit that mythical $100 per barrel mark?
Is Bush going to be impeached this year? Will the average American citizen even care about the rampant proliferation of social injustices - are they able to recover
from working 60 hour weeks to pay for basics?
As I stumbled into the early morning hours, the image of three-headed hound seem to haunt me. Why was this horrific mythical image haunting my subconcious?

First Business Week But Often Ignored
It all came to me innocently while surfing the web: " Rumsfeld — along with former Vice President Dan Quayle — has ties to Cerberus Global Investments, a New York-based holding company which, just last month, purchased the Israeli government’s interest in Bank Leumi, the second largest bank in Israel." Holy Shit there was that "canine of the collective infernos" growling with hungry fang as noted in Oct. 3, 2005, issue of Business Week - That Business Week report went so far as to describe Cerberus as being “bigger” than even such well-known business giants as McDonald’s, 3M, Coca-Cola and Cisco Systems, pointing out that Cerberus controls some 226 Burger King restaurants, the National and Alamo car-rental chains, building products maker Formica Corp. and the old Warner Hollywood Studios.

And yes as the War to Bring Democracy to the Middle East burns up billions of dollars and thousands of lives, Business Week asserted that Cerberus has also “set up military base camps in Iraq.” Hey let's get back to our quiet gaze into the future.


Seers Gazing into Our Mighty Economy or Cringing with Fear?
One thing is for sure a chart drawn for Midnight 2006 for San Jose, California has those defining points of destiny - the moon's nodes on the rising and setting houses with N Node at 08° 58'Aries. Looking at those trusty Sabians for 9 Aries: "A seer gazes into a glowing crystal ball" Yes perhaps we are all prophets looking for inner illumination or at least answers via our own hypothesis or occult symbols or especially imagination.
As the blogs are inundated with speculation almost as much as the rivers that have overflowed their banks and the levees that will be breached. This reminds of that line from the past HBO Series Carnivale set in the US 1932: "Every prophet in his house."

Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005
Except some of those prophets won't have homes as the the number of foreclosures looming in USA for 2006 will increase along with Bankruptcy. Unless you were playing video games for 2,400 hours straight or exploring the great barrier reef this may not have caught your attention circa October 14th of last year: you would have seen thousands of people filing for bankruptcy trying to beat a deadline; provisions of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 were due to go into effect on Monday, October 17. If you have stopped to read my articles you will know that Jupiter planet dealing with expansion ingressed into Scorpio sign of debt on October 25th till 11-25-06.

Three Heads of Debt
This is an important shift since Jupiter is like Cerberus, the three-headed hound and guardian of the Greek Underworld. One of those gnarling jaws cries of increased bankrupticies, the other two: housing market decline and FRB interest rate increases. I also say this about Jupiter because it is not only one arm of the well publicized Grand Square but part of a fateful TSQ. The image of Cerberus - a faithful servant of Hades - seems to go along with the Scorpionic overtones.
Quick version of meaning of TSQ - Jupiter (expansion), Mars (action) and Saturn (limitiation) - three legs to the Grand Square. These three planets have added to our increasing level of frustration and discontent but soon by the middle of the month Neptune will get more involved in the show to obliterate our
cud chewing complacency. As that financial astrologer Merriman describes it: "Jupiter was in the easy-going sign of Libra trine the easy-going planet of Neptune , nobody seemed to worry. But now Jupiter is in the more money-conscious sign of Scorpio, and making a square to Neptune , and all of a sudden, things that should matter do matter" One of the major pillars defining a more serious attitude about money is the fact that the Federal Reserve Bank is not going to stop raising interest rates, all those zero interest loans and credit card financing tricks will be barking at our heels.


In the chart below Jupiter sits in the 2nd house of values, investments and possesions opposing Mars in the 8th (our values and possesions together - DEBT)
So undoubtedly by the middle to the end of the month - newspapers like San Jose Mercury or the Chronicle or TV will start to leak stories about debt increasing in Silicon Valley. Much of these warnings will be drowned out by the limelight shining for innovative seers of biotech, nanotech and just plain techno (Bill Gates has his Moon at 9° Aries - 08° 15').
On the ascendant (Persona) for the New Years chart we find a validation for the cult of celebrities keeping up our lingering complacency. At South Node we have 9 Libra which augurs this Sabian Symbol: "A famous actress strikes and holds a pose in the final scene of a play." Here we have the inevitable choice to be stuck in superficials or to penetrate the deeper meanings.

An extremely positive note is that the ruler of this chart Venus moving retrograde allows us to redo, remember and revisit our former value systems. In fact at 12:18PM Venus slips back into Capricorn which can help us recall the results of our previous overemphasis on material
desires. Now that Venus sits at Midpoint between genius (Uranus) and transformation (Pluto) we now find can consider more realistic and
original, fulfilling choices as we move into the challenges of 2006.

New Years Chart - Click to Enlarge