Lunar Eclipse Sept 7 and The Escherichia coli Outbreak Keeps on Giving

E. coli Outbreak as Fall Eclipse Season Commences with Virgo Sun Eclipsed
Is the scare over?

Today October 8th, more headlines about disease ridden veggies greet us: New E. coli fears prompt recall of lettuce text from the San Jose Mercury. Already the hysterics are beginning anew as The lettuce recall was announced just nine days after the government lifted an advisory against eating fresh bagged spinach, following an outbreak of E. coli contamination that has killed three people and sickened nearly 200 others nationwide. Obviously it is not the spinach or lettuce which is to blame for foodborne illness but the cleanliness associated with the packaging (Virgo is the first sign to come to mind).

By September 15th, the number of cases of a virulent strain of E. coli linked to fresh prepackaged spinach grew to at least 94 in 20 states. And it was organic produce to blame or was it?
As we dig deeper into causes including the health and safety practice of workers we find that in the most recent outbreak with lettuce, the he grower, the Salinas-based Nunes Co. said his company's tests showed the problem water came from a reservoir that served as a "secondary source" of irrigation water, meaning it is not used all the time. But he said it's not clear how the reservoir became contaminated. So now it is the WATER so we must taken into consideration, the other end of the axis to Virgo-Pisces to be exact.

Today October 8, 2006, we may know the origin of this epidemic in legal and scientific terms but those of us who follow astrological changes look toward the nodes for large changes and trends. On June 22, the Dragon's tail (South Node) entered Virgo while the voracious Dragon's head (North Node) point of future destiny, new horizons made an entrance into Pisces sign of the two fish.
Eclipse and the Nodes Marking Our World
On September 7th the world experienced a Partial Lunar Eclipse at 15Virgo - 15Pisces
At this time the Moon was conjunct Uranus and applying toward a meeting with North Node. Here we have a Piscean Node that always represents Hospitals-Institutions and in the 4th House of family, food, nurturing the Uranian surprise is headed for our own kitchens. Just as the N Node in Pisces tells us the we must use our imagination in healing those confined in hospitals-institutions, the South Node talks of the South Node behavior has been overdone with bad habits.
William Lilly the great 17th century Astrologer assigned each sign it's own set of diseases in a book called Christian Astrology - from chapter XVI and page 95 on The Nature, Description, and Diseases signified by Virgo.
DISEASES. The Worms, Winde, Choslicke, all Obstructions in the bowels and miseraicks, croking of the Guts, infirmenesse in the Stones, and disease in the belly.

Escherichia coli or E. coli, discovered by Theodor Escherich, a German pediatrician and bacteriologist, is one of the main species of bacteria that live in the lower intestines of mammals, known as gut flora.
Mercury ruler of Virgo rightly exalted but ready to crash into South Node which already has been locked in a SQ to Pluto in Sagittarius moving direct since August 31 and ready to wreak destruction onto society.

The Eclipse chart has Venus-Sun-Mercury all applying to a meetup with that nasty Dragon's Tail in Virgo which can be overly critcal and quite literally Gut Wrenching.
From the eclipse familiy Saros Series 8 South which is known for:" Separation and loss. To be parted...Physical injury is possible through over-straining one's strength."
Chart is set for Salinas where the Natural Selection company grew the tainted spinach


Spinach is a plant which corresponds to the planet Saturn per William Lilly in Chapter VII: Of Saturn, his signification, nature and property. Now for those who are not aware that the Second Major Oppositon between Saturn-Neptune occured on August 31st and will help dissolve our precious need for secure structures. In the above eclipse chart, the ringed planet and old man Saturn is moving direct in the 9th house of foreign borders, travel far and wide - Epidemic proporations opposing Neptune or hysterics in the sign of the people Aquarius now retrograde in the third house of communications. Lest we forget Neptune is the modern ruler of Pisces accounting for the decline of oil prices with the Jupiter in Scorpio Square getting into the act.
Yes Pisces ancient ruler, Scorpio sits right on the mid-heaven of the Sept. 7th Eclipse chart. The public is going to hear lots more about E. coli and diseases like Botulism which was recently generated by carrot juice.
In fact one day after this article on October 9th: 3 More People Infected With Botulism After Drinking Carrot Juice With the last two eclipses emphasizing the energy of the sign Virgo and generating energy around the nodes, we should expect crisis and danger in the area of health. The September 22nd Solar Eclipse had both Sun-Moon at critical 29th Degree along with Virgo applying toward conjunction with Dragon's Tail.

Aries Full Moon Face to Face Revelations

This lunation taking place the evening of Oct. 6th in the US has accusers facing the accused and victims facing their perpetrators. Nothing will be held back.
Already the Aries-Libra, I and you, partnership and partner dynamic is blowing up on the morning of the Full Moon.
(2)Jack Straw, leader of the lower house of parliament is asking Muslim women in the UK to take off their veils so he can face them. Jack says: the veil is "a visible statement of separation and difference". Symbolic or as I have said Astrological events reflect deeper causual forces from many dimensions and cannot be explained away by trivial media stories.
(2) From the violence in Iraq rivaling the My Lai massacres of Viet Nam, we have Petty Officer 3rd Class Melson J. Bacos, 21, admittng that he saw two Marines fire at least 10 rounds into 52-year-old Hashim Ibrahim Awad. We are not just talking about the Libra legal compromise here since Venus-Sun-Mars all in the sign of the scales is located in the 4th house of chart set for DC opposing Aries always the pioneer. Yes Bacos is in exchange for immunity and dropping the murder charge, testifies against seven Marines - the accused and perpetrators of this horrible action.
(3)Marriage is distinctly connected to Libra and ruler Venus. So today we find that Gay marriage advocates vowed to appeal a state appeals court ruling upholding California's ban on same-sex weddings Since the entrance of Jupiter in Libra then into Scorpio, we have see the battle over same sex marriage escalating. The momentum will not be curtailed by more laws.

Initiation from Lunar Regions
On 11:13PM EDT on October 6th the US receives an initiation into ancient wisdom as Aries moon at 13 43' From the deeper meanings of the Sabians we can visualize a T

emple of Wisdom, whose four entrances are bordered by columns in the shape of intertwined serpents. Inside a man and a woman face each other and exchange gifts.

(from Martin Goldsmith) The drums have been beating since the country fell under the spell of the wicked Neo-con blackest of black wizards. Now the people are using the occult knowledge and are ready to shake things up.

Libra Sun Eclipsed and the Lazy Attitude Disappears
On the solar side we have Libra corresponding to the 14th degree and in Sabian terms:

A man wrapped in a serape takes a siesta on a hammock and dreams pleasant

dreams.(from Martin Goldsmith) In this case we can no longer tune out the unpleasant, aweful truth of Global Warming and empire building yet we respect the need to unwind.


Chart Set for Washington DC at 11:13PM EDT for October 6, 2006

Woodward with Fame and His Own Agenda in a State of Denial

Bob Woodward is no stranger to fame, fortune and massive buzz. His most dignified planets are Venus, Jupiter and the Sun adding money, power and influence to his literary répertoire. With Neptune rising at 00 Libra, what a supply of drama can be offered by Woodward to the world stage. It certainly seems like his new book, State of Denial, has the public audience enthralled: out for only a few days and it's already a best seller at Amazon and Barnes and Nobles online.

Unfortunately it should be said that the Amercian public better wake up now that the 60 minutes piece has been aired:

Bob, the consummate insider and part-time assassin whose real job is not to maintain an "informed public" or preserve the free flow of information, but to use the privately-owned media in a way that serves the exclusive interests of the ruling elite.

as taken from op ed. off Uroknet.info

Comparisons to Watergate pale before the four horsemen of the Apocalypse
Hold the curtain folks, 2006 with Bush-Cheney is not Watergate. We are in a much more dangerous, darker tragedy then 1973 and the Watergate years. The Bush takeover, war years and subsequent scandals make Nixon and his cronies seem like light hearted comedians. Back on November 18, 2005, I talked of how Woodward's secretive ways coincided with a Full Moon last year seemed like the latest Harry Potter adventure. I predicted the excess of secrets that would be spilling forth as Jupiter's cycle in Scorpio reveals hidden agenda's of the Neo-con white house.

Robert Ushur Woodward has the cabinet in defensive posture and GWB's running mate and fellow Skull and Bones member, John Kerry drooling. "With the new facts we now have available, I think Americans are going to be realizing that this is the Katrina of foreign policy," Kerry said. Despite his journalistic past, we shoul not forget where Woodward came from as a member of Yale's Book and Snake Society like the former CIA Director Porter Johnston Goss. Lest you forget, since Jupiter stationed direct on July 6th, many dirty secrets in high places are escalating a war between vertiable occult groups on the Beltway.

Transits add glamour to Woodward's communication style featuring a receptive opposition from debilitated Mercury in Pisces and it's modern ruler Neptune of smoking mirrors. If we look below at current transits for 9-30-2006 we see Venus entering Libra to meet his planet of great illusion Neptune. Plus Sun and Mars have crossed his first fot focus even more attention and energy on his book.
Both Jupiter and Saturn as the move toward another transiting SQ are pushing Woodward's fated point of destingy a Yod. As I wrote last November: When we analyse the Yod in his natal signature: Node/Chiron @ 23 Leo, Juno @ 21Cap and Pallas @ 20 Pisces one may wonder if Mr. Robert Ushur Woodward is swimming around with Lord Voldemort or worse? N Node in the 11th tends to make Robert overly attached to the drama and romance of being unique and can be willful and focused on self-serving needs. Of course in Leo, he may tend to rely on his peers in the Beltway community at the expense of his own individuality. A dangerous situation indeed since the illuminati controllers are ready to move Bush-Cheney out to bring in the next step of New World Order.


Sept. 30, 2006 Transits Surround Woodward's Natal Chart

What Do the Planets Say About East Timor Today?

Until the philosophy which hold one race
Superior and another inferior
Is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned
Everywhere is war, me say war
War in the east, war in the west
War up north, war down south
War, war, rumours of warLyrics by BOB MARLEY

Seems like everywhere we turn a new conflict is breaking out in places that used to be only a geography lesson for the average western citizen. Daily we hear of fighting and genocide in places like Darfor, Nepal, Basra, Iraq, southern Afghanistan, Sri Lanka with the Tamil Tigers and now a military rebellion in East Timor. What's up? By now we all should now that Jupiter in Scorpio ruled by Mars the aggressive ancient ruler portends more destruction, death and ultimately regeneration but that can't be the whole story. Perhaps it is that North Node in
the most impulsive and militant sign Aries since May 2003 that accounts for these continual wars?

Getting some perspective in case you don't know anything about East Timor - East Timor, officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, is an independent country located in Southeast Asia above the great continent of OZ (Australia). The name Timor is derived from timur, the Indonesian word for 'east', which became Timor in Portuguese. East Timor was colonized by Portugal in the 16th century, was known as Portuguese Timor for centuries. It was invaded by Indonesia in 1975, which occupied it until 1999. Following the UN-sponsored act of self-determination that year, Indonesia relinquished control of the territory, which achieved full independence on May 19, 2002 - according to Nicolas Campion's Bood of World Horoscopes. Note that Wikipedia lists May 20th - I tend to believe Nick Campion.

If we step back and examine the chart set for East Timor's independence after a long protracted guerilla war with Indonesia, we see tremendous amount of unstability and change with Mercury,Saturn, N Node, Mars and Venus all in Gemini in the 4th house of the nation's soul. Yes all these planets are ruled by the winged messenger Mercury and didn't Mercury just change signs on May 19th moving into dualistic Gemini?
Again this is just part of the story since Uranus has been transiting by SQ to Mercury and now Saturn adding to unexpected actions on the homefront. Jupiter in natal Scorpio in the 9th is increased by a Jupiter transit adding more and more foreign troops from Australia and New Zealand

This skirmish over military deserters is the beginning of a long struggle in East Timor as West meets in this island nation.

Hindsight Conversation: Major Aspects for the Taurus New Moon

Of the four fixed signs, Taurus the Bull is considered the sign most connected to $ and his ruling planet Venus is not only linked to pleasure of the senses but to currency. Few would argue that the sign Taurus at times the most materialistic, possesive, decadent and the most prone to being attached to ownership. On thursday May 27th we began a new moon in Taurus where the lunation and the subsequent solar transits create a powerful venue for this sometimes lazy and often times productive stubborn attitude.
Thursday's lunation gifted us with combo of Major Aspects some Positive and Others Difficult and another not so often seen.
tight Yod - with the fingers of destiny pointing at the Apex an Ascendant @ 17*Virgo with Mercury @ 16* Aries and Neptune@ 19* Aquarius - the media colors communications around active fantasy with discrimation (represented by Virgo) offering the way to truth.
(2)Three TSQ to raise the planetary challenges to an even higher dimension:
Jupiter opp Chiron TSQ Sun and Moon (challenge to accept and integrate the expanding wounds of the previously invisible immegrant community)
Uranus opp ASC TSQ MC (15*Gemini) The high price we are all paying for oil to have a career.
Chiron opp Saturn TSQ Sun and Moon Here the challenge of the disenfranchised and oppressed human community to have all the advantages of everyone else.
A Grand Trine is always the hallmark of creative energy in action.
Our Grand Water Trine is no exception with Mars in Cancer applying toward closest point of the trine with Jupiter in Scorpio and Uranus in Pisces on May 7th
Water Grand Trines seem to be the most intense, sensitive, feeling and if not caught in the depths of hysteria and emotionalism can help heal and nurture.
The thing about Grand Trines is that they are easy and flow toward our comfort zones - yes we can be creative in a sort of uncconcious manner not really grabbing our full mantle of destiny and making that extra effort to move forward.
The Kite Formation Disregard the planets represented in this template.


Well along comes a Taurus Sun/Moon to add to that Grand Trine and create a Kite Formation. In this our lunation becomes the 4th planet or point in Opposition (180 degrees) Jupiter one of the triangle points and forms Sextile aspects (60 degrees) to Mars and Uranus (which can open the door to acts of courage and foolish accidents). This formation looks visually like a kite (hence its name). The stress of the Opposition aspect may increase the likelihood of the Grand Trine being utilized (not just taken for granted). Ain't that a kick, all that leisurely slow, scented candle sensuous Taurus energy is just enough to get the big Huelga, Strike, No Shop Day or whatever it is being called grounded into physicallity. Or could we also be seeing the duality of major defensiveness and stress about the Grand Water Trine energy?
On May 1st with Moon in tribal, sensitive Cancer, the $ machine called commerce and consumerism will have a pause just as the last new moon in Aries pushed everything to the forefront this lunation in Taurus will create a pause, a stop, taking some time out to smell the roses.

Chart for the New Moon set for May 27, 2006Click to enlarge

Ahmadinejad Goes Over the Top Again: This Time the Price of Oil

As the price of crude oil continues to make new highs soaring on the "blow off" aspect of Jupiter trine Uranus which will be exact on May 4th, stories about petroleum or Texas Tea become ubiquitous. In fact one day after Venus and Uranus met in Pisces, the sign ruling oil, oceans and the downtrodden masses the intense, master of hyperbole President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says that oil is under valued even at $72 + a barrel!
With Jupiter transiting his Sun and Neptune making for sometimes deluded announcements, Mahmoud has been a fixture in world news. As an Islamic Fundamentalist who has received the approval of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei has been flexing his muscles on the international scence to the point of reckless threats. Astrologically transits like Uranus moving close to his Mars at 15Pisces. have been activating his natal Mars (traditional ruler of his Sun in Scorpio)for some unexpected moves around the commodity oil. Previously transiting Mars in Gemini made an exact opposition to Pluto @ 26 Sagittarius forming a T-SQ to his natal Jupiter/Venus conjunction in mutable Virgo on April 10th igniting Mahmoud's ability to be highly critical in his US bashing. With Pluto's continued retro. motion, this highly self-indulgent JU/VE energy becomes a criticism machine.
Maverick Chiron in his chart is closely opposed Uranus in Leo, setting him up for gradiose gestures that mask his own personal wounds dealing with past groups and associations. Soon on May 25th, an exact opposition to his natal Chiron will incite a time for him to to let go of emotional patterns which have prevented him from expressing his true self. What is that true self? Does it include the fact that Mr. President has the most evil star in the sky, Algol setting and in paran with his Jupiter as it culminates: An obsession with power, whether political, physical or spiritual A delineation of the upcoming Chiron opposition speaks of a painful and emotional process for Mahmoud. As a result, his particular sensitivity is rampant. "It is possible that an event or person could upset your equilibrium causing grief." That sure is an understatment since this fanatic has a true believer's Saturn (authority) in Sagittarius SQ his need for power - Pluto (his Contemporary ruler) @critical 0* Virgo. .
Oil Wars


Ahmadinejad Natal Chart

Still Raining Still Dreaming of Sun in April 2006

If You Thought Aries Sun/Moon Meant Sun...
you were foiled again by the Uranus-Mercury conjunction in Pisces with the latest Mercury station on March 25, 2006. For those of us in the South Bay as in San Jose and Silicon Valley, the sun has vanished like shadows before the rain.
The Total Solar Eclipse in Aries didn't bring sunshine with the New Moon on March 29th only more precipitous.
After writing a long article about the Solar Eclipse coinciding with a Pluto Station at the Galactic Center, I began to dig into Astrometerology again. It is well known that eclipses correspond to powerful weather events but so do stations of planets whether direct or retrograde. It stands to reason that Pluto which always increases the intensity of whatever configuration exists would in the very least increase wind velocity. Well we got a double whammy when Mars continued to be in orb of a trine with rain producing Neptune on last Wednesday's eclipse and began moving toward an exact opposition to Pluto on April 11th.
Mars in Negative Aspect to Pluto - Windy storms all season.
Well with the reports that began to surface like: Possible Tornado Causes Damage In Merced County on Tuesday - March 30th this was not just your ordinary wind storm season.

Is it Spring? or Have we Entered a New Dimension? Astrometerological Study

Lunar Eclipse Weather Pattern In Effect - Delayed Spring
Since the last full moon on 3-14-06, which incidentally was penumbral lunar eclipse, our weather conditions have been extreme. Today the first day of spring or the Aries Ingress, which incidentally is used to predict weather via Astrometerology brought thundershowers, torrential downpours and cold temperatures to the SF Bay Area where I live. Sunrise at 6:13AM with the last day of a waning deciminating moon seemed to indicate another sunny day like yesterday - not so. We here in the bay area having been literally swamped by rain this month, were skeptical and rightly so. By the time the Vernal Equinox begain at 10:26AM the rain was coming down in hard drops. Even the Galcactic energy is extreme with Pluto @ 26* 44' Sagittarius on the galactic plane/ecliptic. It appears that we are still in the grips of the extremes of the Lunar Eclipse with Chart Below.
Eclipse chart has
Sun SQ Pluto: atmospheric disturbances
Jupiter/Scorpio at IC : intensifys the potential for rain, flooding
Jupiter SQ Neptune: heavy precipation with flash flood potential
Mars SQ Uranus: descending cold air, wind and storms plus tornados when in season
Mars in Gemini at + 24*27' declination for more wind
Mercury SQ Mars: windy with gusts, sudden changes, thunderstorms
Venus Opp Saturn: cooler temperatures with VE in Aqua, heavy precipitation, counterclockwise air flow, reain turning to sleet or snow
Chart Below Set for Lunar Eclipse on March 14, 2006

Aries Ingres - More Intensity and Extremes
Today, March 20th, it wasn't just Northern and Central California that got cold winds, precipitation and inclement weather, just check the Midwest from South Dakota to Nebraska. A quick update has 25 inches of snow reported in central Nebraska, parts of South Dakota had up to 18 inches, northeast Colorado had at least a foot, northwest Kansas had up to 10 inches and parts of the Oklahoma Panhandle got half a foot. It doesn't appear that anything like a traditional spring has arrived.
Storm will move east since Jupiter in Scorpio positioned on cusp of 5th and 6th moving counterclockwise toward Ascendant representing eastern horizon. Plus Saturn in 2nd hits ASC causing extended storm periods.

When we examine the Aries Ingress Chart set for San Francisco, we would expect the Grand Fire Trine to mean dry, warmer weather but...
Mercury is stationing to turn direct on March 25th and in Pisces for precipitation
(the effect of stationing Mercury, Venus or Mars is negative whether direct or retrograde - expect heavy rains on 3-25/26.
Mercury applying toward close meeting with Uranus: always means sudden changes, major storms, erratic northwesterly wind gusts, descending cold air..and with hard aspect to Mars (in Gemini) gale force winds.
Mercury SQ Mars still in effect
Mars Quincunx Jupiter: storms all seasons
Pluto still in orb to SQ Sun for major atmospheric distrubances across the country - being near the Galactic Center also takes a toll.
Neptune and Pluto parallel declination at -15* - adds to ascending air currents, storms build in power.
Next I will examine the effect of the Total Solar Eclipse (New Moon Lunation) for 3-29-2006.
Chart for Aries Ingress - Vernal Equinox

3rd Anniversary of the Iraq War - Expanding the Debt/Death Limit

As we move close to the third anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, even experienced military experts like Lt. Gen. William E. Odom are calling it "the greatest strategic disaster in American history." With a new $92 billion war funding bill destined to breeze thru the House, the financial cost of the Iraq war to over $400 billion. The cost in human life is incalculable and with the planet of death and massive transformation, Pluto in exact Square to the Sun (vitality and purpose) tomorrow realization will finally
began to set in deeply.

Today, 3-16 was the second pass of a Jupiter in waning square to Neptune @ 18*39' of Scorpio and Aquarius. Not only does this aspect correlate to large amounts of rainfall and floods in different parts of the world but also signifies an irrational enthusiasm - a false optimism. Neptune has been called the planet of hysteria just as Jupiter links to euphoria and expansion.
In the sign Scorpio dealing with annihilation and transformation, Jupiter has increased the debt load for the US. Today we find out that the Senate voted Thursday to let the federal government add another $781 billion in debt to the nation's balance sheet. Borrowing limit is now close to $9 trillion.
Sabian Symbol for 19Scorpio = "An imp with curly hair and short horns holds up a magic mirror that mercilessly critical reflection of his morally squalid surroundings." Reflections of moral and social hypocrisy along with a parodies of a lifeless culture which has traded their soul for consumer goods is evident. Off the cliff we continue to sink into a deep, dark cavern.
Drama Unfolds a Tragedy - Pluto in Galactic Center
I have mentioned a few times before that Pluto, lord of death, enters the Galactic Center this month towards a station retrograde on March 29th Solar Eclipse marks the turning point. Many will perish around the world. We have all become the trancelike audience enumerated by the Sabian Symbol for 19* Neptune in Aquarius: "A rapt audience watches, as a great actor, rehearses the final scene of Macbeth. There is no set the audience can clearly visualize the burning castles in the background." Now is the time to use our imagination to undo the destructive passions and power lust inherent in a few over confident madmen who would rather devastate the world for sake of their beliefs.

View Progressed Chart for Iraq War Commencement to US Chart
As we look at the chart progressed for March 19, 2006 in comparison with the US Sibley chart, we see a Pluto-Saturn opposition on the 1st/7th house axis. Our physical condition as a nation has been heavily restricted by the alliances made in the middle east mainly Iraq. Looking closer it becomes apparent that with Mars, Chiron and Neptune transiting the 2nd house of supply and demand and GNP - our commerce and the debt we owe has been attacked, wounded and we are living in a world of illusion (Neptune). Sun and Mercury have progressed into militant Aries from
Pisces when the war started. Both our national identity (Sun) and means of communication-media (Mercury) are lost in the violent impulse to wage war merging with our living conditions (4th). By the end of May both Sun-Mercury will have conjuncted the N Node in Aries as Bush today reiterated the strike-first policy or the doctrine of preemption Highly aggressive! Highly Insane!

View Bi-Wheel Below - Click to Enlarge

Just Like Evo on Rice - Coca Charango Plays on an AstroAnalysis

Despite all the jokes about Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice being the Wicked Witch of the East which are probably true, Condi is having an expansive year travelling extensively as transiting Jupiter in Scorpio has been crossing her 9th house of foreign relations. Today she met with Bolivian President Evo Morales, the first indigenous leader of Boliva and many were wondering if Evo would be the Munchkins, or the "little people." Most journalists expected tensions to destroy the first meeting of these two intense, competetive Scorpios from opposite ends of the political spectrum, Condi born 11-14-1954 at 11:30 AM in Birmingham, AL and Evo on 10-26-1959 but in Oruro, Boliva (no time given). Actually this was more of meeting of the minds then anyone could realize with an interesting mutual reception of ego identity with mental pursuits. Evo's generous attitude was also an expression of his strong beliefs and Morales had actually handed Rice a gift symbolic of the tensions between his tiny landlocked nation and the United States - a stringed charango with lacquered Coca leaves - Play On! Evo's generous attitude of Jupiter in Sagittarius is focused on practical, sustainable power for Bolivia with a SQ to ruling planet Pluto at 5 Virgo.
Similarities with a Mutual Reception of Sorts

• Close Contacts:Evo Sun@2 Scorpio sits right on Condi's Mercury in Scorpio - She is willing to listen to his plight as an indigenous leader. Evo's Mercury @ 24 Scorpio is less then 3* orb from Condi's Sun. Perhaps Evo will sense her own childhood pain caused by racial segregation. Whether or not she will awaken to a new sense of humanity via their meeting is questionable but the possiblility is there.
  
• Evo has gotten a substantial career boost from Jupiter transiting in Scorpio. With Evo's Jupiter in Sagittarius Dignified by Sign, since his victory on Dec. 22nd 2005, he has been on a whirlwind tour of Latin America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Yes for two weeks, Morales visited several countries in search of political and economic support for his agenda for the transformation of Bolivia. Condi's natal Jupiter is exalted in Cancer but at critical 29 degree
  
• Condi like Evo, has been on a promotional sojurn attempting to gain support of the NeoCon agenda with stopovers in Israel, Palestinian Territories, Jordan, Syria and Russia and will finish up her visit with Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan.
  Yet it was Condi who came to see Evo, since Mr. Morales has broken with tradition and decided not to visit the USA like all preceding presidents.
  
• They were both musicians back in the day: Evo worked as a musician, playing the trumpet for a band. At age 15, Rice studied to become a concertpianist. Her plans changed when she noticed that she did not play well enough for an international career. With Evo music is second nature having Mars conjunct Neptune. With Condi, Venus ruler of her home life with Taurus on 4th house is conjunct the Sun pushing the need for the ego to shine. Perhaps it will be music (with Piscean transits) that help resolve tensions between Bolivia and the Imperialistic North.
  
  
• His ruler Mars also dignified @3Scorpio a forceful catalyst to Condi's mental prowess only 56' away. Even though Condoleeza is fluent in Russian, French, German and Spanish, that doesn't mean she will be able to deal with the passion and power of Mars in Scorpio also in conflict to her own belief system (Jupiter just 04'from Leo).
  

Of course there is much more to say about compatibility of these two powerful leaders as South America continues to exhibit an amazing transformation and the US enters a downward cycle and South America is rising up economically.

Eclipse Season Begins -Will Intuitiion and Flashes of Genius Lead Us Out of the Mire?

On March 14, 2006 the first of a pair of spring Eclipses occurs. Yes this Full Moon Appulse Lunar - known as a "penumbral lunar eclipse" should shake things up. Despite limited visibility will in only parts of Europe and Africa, there will be a profound effect felt across the globe. Even though most people will not consider the event dramatic since the Moon moves through only the Earth's penumbra and is only slightly dimmed, incredible potential is here. Discoveries and revelations have already begun. Will these and other future discoveries be enough to help the average person into a higher quality of life?

This Lunar Eclipse known as Saros Series # L(lunar) 113 is member of a family of eclipses - SS 8 North which is noted for "Intuitive flashes of brillance are hallmark of Saros Series. The individual will have intuitive leaps, insights, good idas, visions or vivid dreams..." per Bernadette Brady the expert. It appears that the news is reporting one incredible discovery after another:

• NASA's Cassini spacecraft may have found evidence of liquid water reservoirs that erupt in Yellowstone-like geysers on Saturn's moon Enceladus.
  
• The recently discovered rodent species from Southeast Asia, scientists believe is part of the Diatomydae family of rodents had been extinct for 11 million years
  
• Marine biologists have discovered a crustacean in the South Pacific that resembles a lobster or crab covered in what looks like silky fur.
  
• On 2-7-06: An international team of scientists says it has found a "lost world" in the Indonesian jungle that is home to dozens of new animal and plant species
  

Brady continues to describe this Eclipse family: "The new found inspiration will pull the person away from his or her social life or relationship, thus causing a strain on his private life." Well it appears that our paragon of inspiration has another darker side. With the Moon undergoing a darkening just a few minutes after the Full Moon, symbolically women and the public are being kept in the dark as they reach out for hidden truths on this planet.
The Sun at 24° 15' will mark a critical period of transformation as the Moon is obscured by the Earth's shadow - our emotional bonds, issues with mother or mothering and women's issues will be vulnerable. The Sabian Symbol for 25 Pisces: "A purging of the priesthood." echoes the death throes of the Piscean age where religion itself along with it's representatives must change. Reformation is the key word. A recent report surfaced how the Irish government is investigating 100 Dublin priests suspected of child sex abuse.
With Pluto (the planet of destruction, power and transformation) thrown into the mix via a TSQ to Sun-Moon - this is a time of regeneration along with life threatening issues adding to major revelations.
Our Lunar Eclipse has the Moon @ 24°20' Virgo will have a lot to do with respect, reputation and service sporting the Sabian Symbol: "A flag at half-mast in front of a large public building." Will we as a society be able to honor sustainable movements that offer transcendance over selfhood, just as we honor our dead troops? As the moon applies toward a TSQ with Pluto, the issue of power used recklessly to destroy not promote life will be recognized. Most Americans now want the troops to leave Iraq immediately and the polls indicate approval ratings for Bush/Cheney are literally being jetissoned into dark, murky waters. As Victor Thorn of WingTV.net says: "Dick Cheney’s approval ratings are now lower than O.J. “The Decapitator” Simpson’s. Only 18% of Americans give Dick “I’m Drunk When I Hunt” Cheney a favorable nod."
Of course there is more to say about this Eclipse and it's brother a Total Solar Eclipse on March 29, 2006 @ 8° 32' Aries which will really push the envelope. The March 29, 2006 eclipse will be discussed in Part Two.

Chart Below set for 11:46PM UT and for San Francisco, California.
Where the Soli-lunar axis hits at 2nd and 8th house telling of major adjustments economically as the SF Bay Area, South Bay and North Bay will have to create a more sustainable living pattern with the rising/descendant @ 24° Leo/Aquarius in 150 degree aspect (Quincunx) the eclipse degrees. Perhaps the ability for large groups of people to serve the greater good in healing efforts (Venus/Chiron in 6th house public servants).
In a personal chart it is important to note where these eclipses hit, they will set in motion activities for the next six months.
I am available for consultations to help you navigate, either by phone or online : email: artg@aquasoul.com or call (408)747-1735)

Exciting, Controversial Oscar Night with Stewart along with Venus Ingress into Aquarius

We live in emotionally charged times and a world of polarized beliefs so this 78th Annual Academy Awards or "the Oscars" is anticipated to be a happy interlude. Yes with scandals and craziness swirling around amid enviromental disasters, the general public hopes Sacred Oscar Night will be devoid of our current obsessive political atmosphere. A brief preview of tomorrow night does show lots of excitment and thrills with the red carpet inception having 22* Leo rising time (see chart below). "A bareback rider in the circus thrills excited crowds." is the Sabian interpretation for the Ascendant.
PREDICTIONS: Helped by the collective energy of Aquarian and Piscean planets, Crash the movie that deals with racism from an honest perspective will win best picture. Heath Ledger will win best actor for Brokeback Mountain. Felicity Huffman best actress for Transamerica. For Supporting actor I am giving the nod to George Clooney in Syriana. Rachel Weisz will win best supporting actress for The Constant Gardener.

An amazingly quick-witted Sagittarian Jon Stewart (Jonathan Stewart Liebowitz) hosting this year's gala should provide an entertaining respite from the worlds's problems? Or will there be plenty of controversial refrences? I think so! Allusions to Brokeback Mountain, Syriana and of course the best picture of the year Crash. Venus along with Neptune is one of two planets that are always associated with Hollywood fashion,romance, artistic endeavor, glamour and dreams. Venus on the lower octave deals with more with adornment, amusement, art, beauty, femininity, desire and relationships on the sexual level (Tinsel Town is obsessed with celebrity love affairs).

Venus Changes Signs - Will It Upset the Oscar Goodie Bag?
Even with the Oscar's chart's ruler the Sun known for heroes and a world ruled by the solar, the evidence of Piscean planets even in Stewart's chart will add to an illusionary feel tomorrow.
At 3:39AM on the day of the Academy Awards Venus enters Aquarius ruled by Uranus the bringer of the unexpected and seeker of freedom for all humanity not just the privileged few even if it means revolutionary activity. Moving from a much more conservative, staid Capricorn period(extended witha retrograde on 12-24-05 at 1*27' Aquarius)into the sign of the water bearer can mean emotions need to be releashed. Neptune now in the collective sign of Aquarius signifies glamour, illusion, mystery, drugs the boulevard of dreams transcending our ordinary everyday lives. Never before in history have so many people paid homage to movie stars or should I say worshipped at their altars?
Neptune is the higher octave of Venus and has a strong influence being in 90* aspect to Jupiter stationing retrograde in Scorpio. That sweet allure and confidence that is represented by both planets working well together has tremendous potential - but this square makes for self-indulgence and time-wasting cloudy visions. Now with Mercury (our mental orientation) retrograde in Pisces many of the participants may be unable to see clearly through those mists and inner fogs. It should be noted that the ruler of Scorpio Pluto is still in close SQ to Mercury. Thus there will be an obsessive aura along with a bit of tunnel vision since Mercury is in Neptune ruled Pisces retrograde and ready to repeat messages again and again.

Moving into this glitzy mix is the self-depracting comedian (Leo N Node) with amazing abiity turn a phrase quickly with Sun/Mercury in Sagittarius. Jon Stewart manages to adhere to the old H L Mencken adage of "afflicting the comfortable and comforting the afflicted" without ever sounding affected or condescending. With Jon's N Node in close opposition to Oscar's Night's newly arrived quirky Venus, probably means that he will go after silly foibles of the Oscar institution rather then focus on political targest like Jay Bennish the HS teacher suspended for exercising his constitutional right of free speech. Stewart says: " I'm not an anarchist. I'm a comedian."
Jon Stewart's Sun (core identity) and his Mercury (communication skills) will oppose the Moon and Mars in Gemini adding to his reticence to push the envelope initially. Most of the celebrities that attend this gratuitous affair have probably never sat in for an entire Daily Show on Comedy Central. We will not be without action since Stewart's planet of drive and energy Mars @ 20* Leo is TSQ both Neptune and Jupiter for a humorous expose of the Academy's love of scandals and elitist snobbery. Also his unique need for freedom Uranus @ 5*Virgo will manifest as a satirically clever analysis of the situation with a SQ to the Moon and Mars in Gemini riding high in the career house. One thing is for sure words will be like weapons that cut ever so defly thru the world of big time flim entertainment.

Chart Below has Academy Awards 2006 as Inner Wheel and Jon Stewart as Outer (using noon birth for Jon since I was unable to find a specific time).





Pluto-Mercury: obsession with an idea; tunnel vision; putting all your energy into a project.

Pisces New Moon 2006 - a New Cycle of Water Brings, Deluge, Misplaced Devotion and Imagination

By the time you read this, you will have noticed this lunar cycle isn't like anything else we have experienced. If you live here on the West Coast, it means extended period of stormy weather looming ahead bringing rain, floods and high winds (clocked at over 75mph). Water is the primary element for this Neptune ruled Piscean New Moon 2-28-2006 at 12:31AM set for UTC time or 7:30PM EST on 2-27-06. Maybe I should say water and oil since everything dealing with petroleum and it's production will also dominate the news for the next month. The Water Wars or is it Water Worries will start in earnest - per example this article about Queensland Mayor who ponders flood-drought irony when even torrential rains have not helped. Or this article dealing with drought about western and southern Europe on track to experience a suumer like that of 2003. Dry winter points way to summer drought for Europe.

Trust Your Own Inner Psychic Not Your Rulers
This lunation is inspiring many of us to trust our own intuition and look beneath the surfaces since the ruler Neptune continues to be in a close 90° Angle to Jupiter in Scorpio expanding the focus on detective work, spying and uncovering underground organizations. For example on 2-27-2006: Archaeologists discovered a pharaonic sun temple under an outdoor marketplace in Cairo, Egypt! The Sabian Symbol for 9°16'Pisces translates to 10° = "The queen's cat scouts around the rooftops of the palace. Through a window far below, it sees a mouse stealing cheese." ON Tuesday, 2-28-2006, the Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Domestic Surveillance begins in the morning to question the NSA's warrantless wiretaps again. So what is going to happen to all those folks being spied upon, the vocal whistleblowers or those of us who have a concience and are devoted to the Bill of Rights and the original US Constitution? For those that are paranoid, curiously the subject of KBR (Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root) building detention centers (Pisces ruled) somewhere in the US will also be in the mainstream news this month. Remember it has only been alternative media that has dared discuss the possibility that detention centers could be used to detain American citizens if the Bush administration were to declare martial law. With Mercury strongly emphasized in March (retrograde on March 2) and Mars SQ on the ides of March coming right after the explosive Mars/Uranus SQ on March 10th.

Lunar Eclipse March 14th Can Bring Leaps of Genius
More and more folks will began to realize that there is a metaphysical cause that connects with the physical origins and as we move forward in March to two major eclipses. First there is a Lunar Eclipse on March 14th @ 24°20' Virgo and March 29th @ 08°34' Aries - what is of great import is that they are part of Saros Series 8 North begun on May 17, 1501. Bernadette Brady describes this Saros Series as a precursor for intuitiveness and flashes of genius "where individuals will have intuitive leaps, good ideas, visons and vivid dreams." This eclipse will undoubtedly throw a heavy wrench into the Illuminati plans for world domination.

More Possible Earth Changes
We are sure to see many outer manifestations of this lunar period with earth changes and inclement weather. Already as indicated by this news report: Scores evacuated after flash floods hit Malaysia An astrocartographic map shows a Pluto lines running thru the 99E Longitude from upper Mongolia thru Calcutta, Rangoon on thru Kuala Lumpur and east of Perth, Australia. There is also a Uranus line culminating at 175E running thru the Aleutian Islands North thru Auckland, New Zealand and going west to 169W we find another Pluto line. It doesn't take a prophet to see how the number of quakes have increased in the entire Australean region in the last week. Of course this Piscean energy can seem amazing as our right brain psychic, highly intuitive functioning just automatically tunes in.

Yes this lunation is a kickoff to some incredible earth changes in March including yes earthquakes especially in the Pacific Rim. Yet this is only part of the story as we see the Piscean energy also reflects the principles of boundless imagination, dissolution and even transcendance. The great astrologer Richard Nolle calls this one of five SuperMoon's this year and we are finishing the last cycle begun on January 29th . I would have to call this a MonsterMoon filled with opportunities to meditate and reflect our true spiritual position along with revolutionary new ways to view the world.

With Sun, Moon and Uranus together along with Mercury in Pisces, we are deeply enmeshed in the 12th Archetype which Zip Dobyns says "symbolizes our hunger for the emotional Absolute, for Infinite Love and Beauty.” Neptune is the higher Octave of Venus but also provides a contrast to the pleasure and beauty of Venus. This contrast deals with the savior, the victim or martyr or the artist/musician who is devoted to creating beauty. This might seem like a difficult time to be grounded with all this focus on dreams and visions but the last three months of grinding Fixed TSQ has forced many of us to look at reality square in the face. Now that one of the major players, Mars has left Taurus for the more mental, communicate realms of Gemini, we are gettig a real breather.

I set this chart for Universal Time but used the coordinates for Washington, DC where Pluto not only has moved close to the Galactic Center (26°51') on March 28th before turning retrograde. Yes in the chart below, Lord of Transformation sits on the IC symbolically representing the foundation of our nation's center - things are becoming undone. Faulty efforts to bolster this administration have backfired: George W. Bush's decision to allow a Dubai-owned company to operate terminals at major U.S. ports (Pisces ruled) sparked a Republican Rebellion. With Mercury soon to retrograde into Pisces on March 2nd, the Dubai Ports World has agreed to a 45-day national security review. "We've defended them on wiretaps, we've defended them on Iraq, we've defended them on so many things he's tried to accomplish, that to be left out here supporting this thing in a vacuum is kind of offensive," Representative Mark Foley, Republican of Florida, said Sunday. The Neptune-Jupiter SQ has created a non-informed vacuum for many people.

With Sun meeting Uranus exactly on March 1, 2006, we will began to see others wake up to the fantasy (oft used word during this lunation) and see that most of the Bushites poliices are actually deleterious to our physical health. The fog of war and warp are at their thickest with Sun/Moon/Uranus and Mercury all in this chart's 6th house obfuscatings our nations wage and employment conditions. In mundane astrology, the 6th house rules labor conditions and is opposed to the natural house of Pisces the 12th with Virgo on the cusp. Rumblings are heard of the Pentagon's Civilian Inmate Labor Program. This program supposedly "provides Army policy and guidance for establishing civilian inmate labor programs and civilian prison camps on Army installations."

Despite all these grim preparations by the control hungry NWO (New World Order)the cosmos has other ideas. A Pluto line culminates from 73W Longitude past DC at 77W and pushes into the south on down thru Miami, Havana, Panama and down thru Lima, Peru. Usually a Pluto line symbolizes power hungry, selfish and destructive manipulators who bring loss - yes that is true. In this case Pluto meets a multitude of other planets rising and setting including Saturn all around 100 miles from DC.
We are either going to have giant earthquake on the New Madrid fault or tornado or heaven help us - a state sponsored nuclear event to get everyone into their fantasy. I am opting out for the natural disaster.

Chart Set for Washington DC but using UTC for 2-28-2006 at 00:31AM

Al Askari Shrine Explodes Plaugued by Nemisis

One of the holiest of Shiite Muslim sites is now in ruins with it's distinctive golden dome now destroyed. This once shining golden dome was added in 1905 (the end of a Jupiter-Neptune cycle when religious ideas are consolidated into society). Covered in 72,000 gold pieces and surrounded by walls of azure blue tiles, the dome was a dominant feature of the Samarra skyline. This was not just a major cathedral, located in the center of the ancient city of Samarra, Al-Askariya shrine is one of the largest archaeological sites in the world. We are talking about origins in the 9th century in fact it was built 944 and that was they year that Saturn and Uranus were conjunct in Gemini circa 27* to start a cycle that repeats every 45 years. On the day of the bombing Pluto planet of destruction and eventual transformation was at 26* 24' Sagittarius opposing those positions in 944AD. The purpose of building this shrine was to house the tombs of two ninth century imams, direct descendants of the Prophet Muhammad. Even though there are strong religious undertones with Al-Askariya original foundation date, the Saturn-Uranus cycle tends to be associated with the development of imperialistic and economic ebb and flow involving investment and production. The last Saturn-Uranus conjunction was at 27* Sagittarius in 1988 and Israel was conceived in 1942 with Saturn-Uranus circa 28-29* Taurus.

After the Explosion

Despite my historic jog into the foundations, this impressive golden dome is utterly devastated and Iraq has been plunged into what may turn out to be the deadliest Civil War ever in the Middle East. Shia mosques, wedding parties and religious ceremonies across Iraq have been targeted in the past but Shia have kept the lid on renewed violence. Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, has long urged his followers not to retaliate against Sunnis. Each new report from Iraq tells of renewed religious warfare. Some Shia militias operate within Iraqi security forces. We do know that the bombing was carried out by people in police uniforms.

What are the astrological circomstances that created this event? Perhaps the most obvious force in the chart is Saturn in Leo sitting near the cusp of the 6th - a technical specialist doing the bid of the authorities. According to Construction Minister Jassem Mohammed Jaafar: 'According to initial reports, the bombing was technically well conceived and could only have been carried out by specialists,
Opposing Saturn is Chiron and the vengeful centaur Nessus. Besides Chiron, Neptune and Sun in the house of hidden agendas the 12th there is lots more. With the Lunar Phase in a waning 3rd quarter, the people of Samarra and Iraq were in a crisis of concience leading to serious conflicts. In event charts the Moon represents the public and moves so swiftly is known as the trigger - the Moon in idealogical Sagittarius was separating from a severe challenge to the planet of unexpected explosions Uranus. Yes the Moon has it's ruler Jupiter in Scorpio expanding motives of revenge and is applying toward a conjunction with Pluto designating even more hidden motives. Uranus on the Ascendant indicates an unexpected explosion, a blast that occured at 6:55AM on 2-22=2006. The more I examine the chart for the bombing of the Shiite mosque in the northern town of Samara, it appears to be a fated event which will spell years of civil war in Iraq and still more turmoil.
I can only hope that Peace Starts to Break Out All Over the Planet and religion takes a back seat to living our lives well!

In this chart timed for the explosion - the National Identity or character of Iraq (Sun in Pisces near the Ascendant) heavily identifies with religion, religious figures, theology to the point of being deceived (Neptune the ruler of the chart is in the 12 house of hidden causes) and betrayed.
Internal conflicts and tensions are exacerbated by militant teachers who communicate by attaching the government and efforts to politicize and offer other diversions.
The People themselves have become polarized and unable to communicate (Moon/Sag applying to SQ with Mercury) their own lack of food, unrest ethic, and racial discord stimulated by foreign sources. I can go on but let me leave you with someting of a blaring coincidence:
Nemisis the spirit of divine retribution
against those who succumb to hubris was a player in this event.
I found 128 Nemesis an asteroid discovered by J. C. Watson on November 25 1872 the goddess of divine retribution is within 07' orb (Pretty freakin close)
contraparallel invovling declination - to the MidHeaven - In Astrology the MidHeaven is where the Sun culminates (similar to Noon on the clock) and it indicates the Fate of the chart's leaders, national reputation and honor. sitting at 20Leo45 just 07'orb contraparallel (Like an Opposition) this chart's MC! I went to Wikipedia and found that Nemisis rotates rather slowly, taking about one and half Earth days to complete one revolution - slowly seeking revenge. Of course everyone will be blaming al-Qaida... it appears that all of the existing religious problems and terrorism attributed to al-Qaida are beyond anyone's control and al-Qaida is just one of the instruments of the conflict from unseen forces that have been present for aeons of religious intolerance thru the Piscean Age.




Another interesting thing is that the MidHeaven degree is 15* 45' Sagittarius which translates to what is called the Sabian Symbol read as 16Sagittarius from the modern version called 360 New Symbols: "In an amateur production of the Pirates of Penzance, the Pirate king gets carried away and sets fire to the admiral's plywood galleon." This is all about recklessness, playing a role to the hilt then with fiery temper starting a culural revolution.

Nessus Abducts the Death Penalty - amid Poison, Perpetrators and Victims

Pisces Sets the Stage
We live in strange times where the gods, demons and centaurs are seemingly walking the earth again. Or does it just seem that way with ingress of Sun into Pisces on 2-18 to join Uranus and Mercury - identities are undergoing that mystical, merging often deceptive malaise that accompanies too much Pisces. This is the type of energy that turns victims into perpetrators as in the bizarre scenario with Cheney and Whittington where a victim apologizes to the one who pulled the trigger! The US Chart (7-4-1776) has it's own identity changing with Sun progressed into Pisces on Nov 4, 2004 right after Bush and the NeoCon mob stole the election in 2004. Since the Sun represents a nations national identity or pride is now oriented to a more watery, mututable, drug oriented and yes will be more compassionate once the lunar nodes slip into Virgo/Pisces circa June 23, 2006. I caution everyone not to expect any great change all at once and yes this extends to ending the death penalty and reforming prisons.

Morales and legacy of Nessus
By now (writing this at 5:30PM PST) we have all heard of the unusual delay of the execution of Michael Morales at San Quentin. Not just one delay but an entire stoppage of all executions indefintely. There is no question that Morales, like the Nessus myth explained below represented the beast who would abduct and rape by instinct. Yes Morales is quilty of the 1981 rape and murder of Lodi teenager Terri Winchell but has now become the latest symbol in changing the death penalty. Morales was scheduled to die tonight at 7:30PM and the doctors themselves were unable to comply with U.S. District Court Judge Jeremy Fogel's specific, set procedures involving a qualified medical professional in the execution chamber to ensure that Morales was unconscious before the potentially painful drugs ( massive dose of the barbiturate sodium pentothal) were administered. In fact Fogel required that injected directly into Morales' vein, rather than flow through an intravenous tube from outside the death chamber, Previous lethal injections have been administered by prison staffers through tubes connected to a machine that would administer the fatal dose. Now we would need a medically certified professional (indicative of the 6/12 house axis that Pisces/Virgo operate). Well as we all know a monkey wrench was thrown into the proceedings as State officials rejected the his conditions and said they would instead ask Fogel to reinstate the procedure used in California's 11 previous lethal injections. Sodium pentothal is administered under that procedure to render a prisoner unconscious, and two other drugs paralyze his muscles and stop his heart. A hearing on the request will not be held until May, and Morales' execution cannot be rescheduled until after Fogel rules.
Morales execution delay in my mind is significant and relates to Nessus the centaur who abducted Deianera wife of Heracles - we will examine the current oppositon from the asteroid 7066 Nessus discovered discovered by David Rabinowitz, working with Spacewatch, at Kitt Peak on 26 April 1993.


Currently the astro atmosphere surrounding the ongoing struggle to end the death penalty is ruled by Neptune who is in an ongoing challege (SQ ) with the expanded energy of death, poison and retribution with Jupiter in Scorpio. mixing the energy of poison and fragility along with guardians at the threshold. Officials would have had to follow Judge Fogel's specs and now that two anesthesiologists refused for ethical reasons to take part early in the morning, if they wish to execute Morales before the death warrant expires at midnight tonight. Actually I just found out that Morales excution has been delayed again indefinitely - what are the subtle energies operating?
Before I go on further with the specific procedure, this is an Astrology column and I already talked about how Uranus in Pisces in trine to Jupiter in Scorpio is putting heavy emphasis on whether or not the Death Penalty should be upheld. Tonight I am bringing into the mix one of the more arcane aspects but just as important, the asteroid Nessus, discovered in 26 April 1993, is now at 5* 10' Aquarius applying toward a conjunction with Chiron at 6*11Aquarius both in oppositon to Saturn at 5*55'Leo. So the power of elite, royal authority in Leo is facing off with the wounded healer who brings all of the collective wounds to the table now joined with Nessus, the image of "the beast".
Myth of Nessus:
In order to understand this profound juncture in history, it is important to grasp the myth of Nessus a centaur, Heracles (his murderer) and Deianera the victim. First of all the general character of centaurs was that of wild, lawless and inhospitable beings, the slaves of their animal passions. Two exceptions to this rule were Pholus and Chiron, who expressed their "good" nature, wise and kind centaurs. Now to this particular myth which has relevance to the entire Morales-Death Penalty controversy. Nessus was a famous centaur. He was the son of Ixion and Nephele, the Cloud. In a fit of lust, he attempted to kidnap Deianira, the wife of Heracles. Actually Nessus had offered to ferry Heracles' wife across a river.....and when he reached the other side, tried to rape her. Heracles saw Nessus attempting to rape his wife from across a river and shot a poisoned arrow into Nessus's breast. As a final act of malice, Nessus told Deianira, as he lay dying, that his blood would ensure that Heracles would be true to her forever. Thus he told Heracles' wife that, should Heracles ever be unfaithful, she could bring him back to her by placing the blood-soaked cloak (now on Nessus' back)over Heracles' shoulders. Since all Greek myths have a twist and message for humanity we continue into the future: Deianira foolishly believed him. Later, when her trust began to wane, she spread the centaur's blood on a shirt and gave it to her husband. Hercules went to a gathering of heroes, where his passion got the better of him. Meanwhile, Deianira accidentally spilled a portion of the centaur's blood onto the floor. To her horror, it began to fume by the light of the rising sun.

She instantly recognized it as poison and sent her messenger to warn Hercules, but it was too late. Hercules lay dying slowly and painfully as the shirt burned his skin -- either in actual flames or by the heat of poison. He died a noble death on a funeral pyre of oak branches, and was taken to heaven by Hera and welcomed amongst the gods, as the constellation Hercules, for his heroic exploits. Things were not always rosy between Hera and Heracles though...born in the 13th century BC in Thebes to Queen Alcmene of Tiryns and Zeus. Heracles was his father's pride and joy This resulted in Hera's hatred and jealousy of the young boy. Ironically, Heracles' name means "Hera's Glory".
Upon Heracles death, Hera finally relented, allowed his physical body to die on earth, and translated him to Mount Olympus where he was made one of the gods for all time. Per Zane Stein: (Something to ponder....it was Nessus' poisonous act that, in actuality, healed the feud between Hera and Heracles.)
Some of the Keywords that describe the effect of Nessus in our charts and the place of the mundane - the delicacy and sensibility of the flower, the fragility of life, nastiness, manipulation, cruelty. weakness, morbidity. the strength that is found in weakness. a guardian at the threshold. simple, dark, infinite. terrible and beautiful in its fragility.

Zane Stein describes the effect of Nessus, "Having to face deep pain and make choices as a result of, or while under the influence, of this pain.."

Full Snow Moon Part Two - Inner Perceptions leads to Outer Change via Mercury/Uranus in Pisces

Valentine's Day 2006 features one couple that won't have a special photo-op for the eEntertainment channel but which will inspire fantasies and psychic abilities beyond our regular perceptions. This couple includes Mercury the Trickster and Hermetic Master sometimes a hermaphrodite but alwasy upbeat gets together at 7:33:07AM PST with that Uranian Record Breaker and Revolutionary: Ouranus in the sign of Pisces. Pisces is one of the collective signs with such Neptunian meanings and keywords as: Merging, Boundless, Illusions, Dreams, These planets met at 9*52' Pisces which translates into the Sabian Symbol for 10* Pisces. Whether we use an older description or the more modern 360 New Symbols - this degree is about Observation both inner and outer along with Transcendance. First from Dr. Marc Edmund Jones: "An aviator in the clouds." From a higer limitless perspective, we are able to use bother our inner and outer realms of sight. The second image does allude to secretive scrutiny, internet spying and wiretapping something the NSA or is it NWO (New World Order) insists we need for our own protection. "The Queen's cat scouts around the rooftops of the palace. From a window far below it sees a mouse stealing some cheese." Besides hidden viewpoints or a loftier perspective, we are also encouraged to use our Inner sight and intuitive, psychic abilities.

Not only are we able to see beneath the elite agenda's tricks but are beginning to get a Galactic eye's view. With an administration which tends to gloss over huge errors that effect and destroy the lives of innocent Iraqi and Katrina survivors caught in a Neptunian like scandal the "hunting incident starring Elmer Fudd Cheney." Vice President Cheney's apparent unapologetic public response for the shooting won't mix with transiting Mercury/Uranus in Pisces especially with his own natal Neptune opposition to the Moon @ 22 Pisces. Let's face this dude is just cold, detached and secretive. Now that we have established that Dick "Gunner" Cheney is not exactly forthcoming (Pisces rules those things hidden). By March 11th when transiting Mars SQ Uranus and Sun/Mercury meet Cheney's natal Moon this entire situation will take a back seat to severe geo-political eruptions with Iran, oil and Iraq leading the way.

Earth Mother Rising
As the Sabians above warn us not to watch the quail birdie in Texas, but to be aware that our Earth Mother is awakening. Stories like Why is Earth's Girth Bulging? from National Geographic News on August 7, 2002 are starting to help us connect the dots... Something massive is moving on or within the Earth and causing the planet's gravity field to get wider around the equator and flatter at the poles, according to a pair of scientists studying the field with sensitive satellite instruments. "Starting after 1997, the world that was getting rounder started getting more oblate [flattened at the poles]," said Christopher Cox, a research scientist at the Space Geodesy Branch of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Or the fact that there is a Major Anomaly In Chandler's Wobble - 2005/2006
well Earth’s Wobble Has Paused! Suddenly at the beginning of November 2005, the track of the location of the spin axis veered at a very sharp right angle to its circling motion. The track of the spin axis began to slow down and by about January 8, 2006, it ceased nearly all relative motion on the x and y coordinates which are used to define the daily changing location of the spin axis.'
So What Does All This Mean?
Have we reached the time of major earth changes? Here is one possible explanation from Sheldon Nile: This process will make her more ball-like in shape and permit Mother Earth to again lock in the 24 major tectonic plates that comprise her surface area. In addition, the mantle that lies below the surface crust will thin out slightly, causing a series of massive upwellings of magma in the precise locations to enable the lost continents of Atlantis and Lemuria to rise once more.
Lost Worlds Appear in the Future?
Another fanatastical scenario worthy of the Mercury/Uranus Pisces conjunction tells of a new atamosphere where we will see more unusual flora an fauna remiscient of the "lost world" in the Indonesian jungle found recently. This discovery proved to the the home to dozens of new animal and plant species - The team recorded new types of butterflies, frogs, and a series of remarkable plants that included five new palms, a giant rhododendron flower and he spectacular Honeyeater bird. This area at 2000 ft elevations was not only beautiful, untouched, unpopulated forest; there's was no evidence of human impact or presence up in these mountains," In typcial Neptunian fashion, we start to think of the possibilities if our earth increased the oxygen levels of the lower atmosphere increased to 33 to 36 percent with new species flourishing to offer Gaia perfect health.

The Sleeping Prophet and the Rising of Continents?
The spirit of the psychic diagnostician, Edgar Cayce (March 18, 1877 – January 3,1945) Cayce's natal chart has N Node at 9*54' Pisces so that his spiritual destiny is played out. It was Cayce who was famous for his incredible 14,000 "readings" during a period of 43 years (1901 to 1944). When out of his trance, he claimed generally not to remember what he had said during the reading. One of his most famous predictions involved the rising of the continent Atlantis and Lemuria.

By Feb 17th when Mars enters Gemini, ruler Mercury in Pisces will be establishing a Mystical Undercurrent leading up to the wet, wild, delusionary Pisces New Moon on Feb. 27th and the retrograde station March 2 at 26Pisces. Questions proceed as many are on edge with such highly mutable conditons changing weather and such.

Full Snow Moon - Part One : AstroWeathercasting Example

As record breaking storms bury the Northeastern US, it appears that this lunation is living up to the name given by native tribes of the north and eastern US; the Full Snow Moon. According to the national weather service 26.9 inches of snow fell in Central Park, the most for a single storm since record-keeping started in 1869. Besides the weather story even upstaging the continual Iran-Nuclear and Cartoon Riots stories, the weather is beginning to share a place with snarled air transportation. In the lunation ingress chart that I set for Universal Time 2-13-2006 at 4:45AM for New York City, not only is the Aquarian Sun @ 24º20' placed in the 4th house but so his the planet of unexpected change, the record breaker Uranus @ 9º47'Pisces the conjunct Mercury. Mercury is the higher octave of Uranus the ruler of Aquarius and the new age bringing swift surprising changes. Three of the major New York-area airports were closed for much of Sunday the 12th. A Turkish Airways flight skidded off a runway at Kennedy in the evening. Not only will transportation be effected, all things mercurial are a higher than normal priority at this time period.

Mercury's Effect Continues into March
If you remember it was January 24th when Mercury met Chiron in Aquarius, this was when Google's fight with the Government trying to obtain private internet data came to light along with Google's censorship in China. A cosmic marker pointed out by Astrologer Richard Nolle called the Mercury intersolar period begins on 2-23 when Mercury attains its greatest elongation east of the Sun commensing a segment of its orbit which lies between Earth and the Sun. Kicking off the second phase of this cycle is a retrograde period on March 2nd for the messenger @ 26º52'Pisces. We are in a time period when we need to preparde for an incredible breakdown by planning, study, research, gathering information and documentation in advance. We have already seen some 70,000 homes were without power in the Washington area and another 70,000 were without power in the Baltimore area. Hopefully we will not see the Full Hunger Moon per the Algonquin tribes of New England.

Cheney Caught in the Confusion
Vice President Cheney who has Mercury @ 24º Aquarius opposing this Full Moon in Leo -thus an inner disharmony is then reflected through projection onto the external world. In Dick's case he was involved in an accidental shooting yesterday. Actually at a South Texas ranch, he "accidentally" shot and wounded a fellow hunter, 78-year-old Harry Whittington while wielding a 28-gauge shotgun to shoot quail. Now Cheney whose Moon is at 22 Pisces has been under the spell of a Pluto transit which is now moving close to his natal Neptune at 27 Virgo creating multiple confusions and deception.

The Mercurial Pisces is not only reflecting mental breakdown and foggy thinking but as a recent articles says about sleeping pills and anti-depressants. Americans are taking sleeping pills like never before, fueled by frenetic workdays that do not go gently into a great night's sleep. Some researchers have reported what is called the "next day" effect, a continued sleepiness hours after awakening from a drug-induced slumber. Insomia and the unexpected effects of artificially combating this frightening trend.

Plans for Self-Suffiency in MidEast
The secondary story of this Full Moon involves the Sabian Symbol for Leo @ 25º "Standing next to his camel, an Arab merchant looks out over the desert and considers which oases he will visit to secure food and water." This spells plans for self-reliance and economic security on a long range basis. With Mars taking the third leg of a TSQ in the 7th (house of open enemies, contracts and negotiations) we are seeing the influence that Iraq/Iran is having. The Iraqi Grain Board, has suspended its business relationship with AWB Ltd (Australian wheat grower) and now is considering who should win a tender for 1 million tons of wheat. Related financial news has Moscow hosting finance ministers from the Group of Eight nations on 2-11-06. Yes Russia is taking it's position as the world's second-biggest oil exporter after Saudi Arabia seriously especially in light of the Iranian Oil Bourse slated to open in March 2006. This This new Bourse which will rival the New York's NYMEX and the London's International Petroleum Exchange (IPE), based on a euro-oil-trading mechanism that naturally implies payment for oil in Euro. It is apparent that the Russians, Chinese and Japanes have inherent economic interest in adopting the Euro.

Antares and Menkar Set the Tone for Nation
If we use Fixed Stars and Starlight software for the lunation set in Washington, DC at 11:44PM 2-12 we have the Royal star Antares culminating with the Sun means an intensity, obsession a sucess that can backfire. Menkar the brightest star in the constellation Cetus linked to both the whale in Jonah's tale and the sea monster and Andromeda is culminating as the Sun is setting: Great success or great loss; to be a pawn in the winds of change. Also Menkar, one of the most difficult stars to have linked, is culminating as Jupiter is on the Nadir, symbolically feast or famine, the fickleness of life. Note that Menkar has been compared to the collective unconcious which can have a huge, stormlike effect either positive achievment or negative victimization.

Focus on Opportunities Rather than Obstacles - Uranian New Moon 2006

Perhaps like many, you equate today's new moon with the media's obsession with unexpected tragedies: the roof on the trade hall collapsing in Poland, or ABC News "World News Tonight" co-anchor Bob Woodruff and his cameraman, Doug Vogt injured by an explosive device in Iraq. Hamas and it's militant leader in Gaza, Mahmoud Zahar have grabbed the attention of the world even beyond a 7.7 earthquake in Banda, Indonesia or crude oil prices rising above $68 a barrel.

My take is that despite the presence of these unexpected, challenging (opposing Saturn retrograde in Leo) out of the blue events, today's new moon at 9*32'Aquarius
handedly illustrates opportunities to create new designs for our lives. Usually it is when things are going crazy and spinning out of control when we all start looking out of the box for solutions. The Sabian for 10* Aquarius- A popularity that proves ephemeral. Jones speaks of approbation or the official act of praise but what we are speaking of is bringing the issues to a dramatic fulfillment in times of crisis. With Saturn's egotistical square to all these revolutionary planets demanding that solutons are sought or wounds addressed can sometimes create blind opportunism for the elite rulers (Saturn in Leo).
Chart for the New Moon using Universal Time but for South Bay, California click to enlarge.


So here come viable solutions like Permaculture...
One of the main strategies or axioms of the design science of Permaculture is highlighted. In case you have only had a steady diet of network television and are not sure exactly what Permaculture means, try this on for size. An updated definition of Permaculture: Consciously designed landscapes which mimic the patterns and relationships found in nature, while yielding an abundance of food, fibre and energy for provision of local needs. The inspiring tenet I refer to: Focus on opportunities rather than obstacles per co-founder Dave Holmgren in 1977.
Why do I connect Permaculture with this decidely Aquarian New Moon, which has Chiron, Mercury and Neptune all completing a power packed stellium with the Soli-lunar lights and heavily challenged by Saturn representing authority and the old guard? As Holmgren says: The process of providing for people's needs within ecological limits requires a cultural revolution.
The exact degree and minute of this lunation is the same as the Jupiter-Uranus conjunction of March 14, 1914.
Historical Reference - March 1914
The Jupiter-Uranus synodic cycle is known to connect to higher frequencies offering awesome discoveries, visions, ideals and new social trends. Lets talk a look back at the March 1914 window before World War I begun:

• On March 27, 1914, the first successful blood transfusion is performed (blood circulation is ruled by Aquarius).
  
• In March, 1914, Margaret Sanger published the first issue of The Woman Rebel, establishing Planned Parenthood History. She was a humanitarian reformer.
  
• An early March snowstorm in 1914 paralyzed Queens. Wires were down everywhere, trolley cars were frozen to the rails and the Long Island Railroad electric trains ran with difficulty - Uranus the modern ruler is noted by unusual weather.
  
• From he Daily Star for 3-1914 in Astoria New York: In what is now called Jackson Heights, an interesting housing experiment was ready to be tested at 25th Street and Jackson Avenue
  
• Universal Studios was begun when, Carl Laemmle had his Western business manager Isadore Bernstein, buy more property in the Los Angeles area. For $165,000 in March 1914, Bernstein chose a 230-acre ranch and the rest is history. Now with our current mutual reception involving Neptune ruler of movies with Uranus the awakener this is relevant.

Currently we are in the waning trine of technological, world changing conjunction that began in 1997 with Jupiter in trine to Uranus - this is a period of integration of new ideas. Since Astrology like Permaculture doesn't operate in a vacuum, it is the relationship of the rulers of this Aquarian stellium that provide and undercurrent of change: Uranus in Pisces quincunxes Saturn retrograde in Leo. With Saturn in the picture we should expect some major structural changes which may seem like obstacles but with adjustments from Uranus which demands active spirituality along with Neptune. As enviromental issues and the need for sustainability are magnified by Jupiter now in Scorpio (need for total regeneration on the planet) this is the climate that Permaculture will flourish. All year we will be under the influence of a TSQ involving Neptune, Saturn and Jupiter (where spiritual aims battle with structure and ideals). Just for survival alone it is time incorporate new ideas, social activism and inventive methods as things intensify on the planet.

Mercury the Messenger and Trickster meets the Shamanic Chiron

Mercurial types are considered just a little more clever then the rest of us or at least their mental process seem to work a bit faster. Gemini (ruled by Mercury) usually seems clever or more fascile with words or Virgo, able to concentrate their thoughts into massive analysis or reasearch projects. Now that Mercury has entered Aquarius, where the Messenger of the Gods is at its highest function, we all seem to be thinking at warp speed. Yet this evening at 8:50PM PST or 11:50PM EST at 3º 55' Aquarius we have the first encounter. This meeting will be repeated a few times as Chiron transits thru Aquarius till 2010. Yes in Aquarius, the tendency to transcend mundane thought patterns dominates and this position of Mercury strengthens the intellect and can provide inventive ideas for the collective. One thing to not though is that with any Chironic contact there are problems. Contacts of Mercury to Chiron create an atmosphere for the archtypical Trickster ala Hermes - the son of Zeus and Maia of Greek legend. This connection is about reveling in either mischief making or demonstrate phenomenal abiliities to communicate. Even a compulsive need to communicate in multiple forms takes shape. Not just traditional oratory, writing but with music or mime.

Musicians like Jimi Hendrix, Pablo Casals with Chrion SQ Mercury or Maria Callas who had Chiron trine Mercury and also the ability ot learn several languages all epitomized totally original techniques to help their listners move beyond ordinary reality. Here is where the shamanic tendency of Chiron to open up the intuitive areas of the brain more easily. Since this flair for communication does not always lie within the realms of left brain and verbal accuity, sometimes these folks have problems coping with school or other traditional Saturnian structure. In Aquarius this mercurial combo can lead to critical scientific thinking and Eureka like discoveries.
The Trickster
Legends of the Trickster figure abound in every culture: the Monkey King stealing the Peaches of Immortality, Hermes stealing Apollo’s cattle and making them walk backwards, or B’rer Rabbit with the tar baby.
With Mercury in proximity to Chiron, there is a counter productive trait that is ready to trip us up like the Trickster which Carl Jung described "as a collective shadow figure with all the inferior traits of character." This energy which prefers to wound or disparage when we reach our highest potential. In many ways we can relate this to to Chiron in the 3rd house or in Gemini, where issues involving siblings predominate our live and conciousnes or cause us to feel like our mind is wounded. Lewis Hyde said Trickster is the mythic embodiment of ambiguity and ambivalence, doubleness and duplicity, contradiction and paradox.
History has given us the visionaries like William Blake with Chiron conjunct Venus sextile Mercury who was able to break thur the logical modalities of normal thought to offer colorful and penetrating prophetic writings.
Unfortunately, 20th century history gave us villans like Joseph Goebbels with Mercury cojoined Chiron in Scorpio, who was Hitler's Minister of Propaganda. Goebbels eventually commited suicide when the Nazi empire finally fell apart. My guess is that Mercury conjunct Chiron can indicate a certain prediliction for media manipulation if not supported by other aspects. We are beginning to see how journalists at Fox News or MSNBC, CNN, ABC or NBC (GE owned) have helped damage our thinking by failing to question the horrendous war in Iraq.

Mercury/Chiron in Aquarius and Effects in Recent News

• "Effective January 27, 2006, Western Union will discontinue all Telegram and Commercial Messaging services. " This announcement came after 145 years of service.
  
• Our collective ability to communicate via electronic media - computers and the internet (Aquarius ruled) has been wounded. Take note of the words of this article regarding the Web as it supports the Surveillance Society.
  IT is strangely fitting that President Bush's no-warrant wiretapping came to light during the season of holiday gift buying, much of which took place online. From RFID tags to iTunes software which automatically monitors every song you listen to on your computer, digital surveillance is another form of wounding.
  
• The Trickster is evident in today's story of the super hacker who was a "Bot" master. He pled quilty to federal crimes yesterday and could face 25 years in prison for selling botnets to spammers and adware distributors. This is significant because this is the first time in the U.S. that a hacker has been convicted not only creating and spreading malicious code (Hermes the unconventional) but profiting from it.
  
• Actor Chris Penn (born June 10, 1962), was found dead today and he had a Chiron/Piscies SQ his Mercury in Gemini. With a brother as famous as Sean Penn, there were undoubtedly sibling issues. As for his skills as a dramatist: critics often called him underrated. "Just as talented as Sean — just a lot less cocky," Slate magazine critic Cintra Wilson wrote of him last year. He could play humiliation and vulnerability especially well, she wrote, and "makes you seamlessly believe in characters so much you barely even notice them."
  
  
• The continuing story of the government wiretapping our conversatons and now trying to get private internet data from Google. Surely we are feeling wounded when our most private of thoughts are no longer safe from the Justice Department which has issued subpoena's to Microsoft, AOL, Yahoo! and Google. Of course most Internet users believe that Google Inc. should refuse the federal government's demands that it turn over search-engine data.
  

Chiron is continually bringing the gift of Shamanic energy to the human community and was not only associated with the discovery of the medicinal use of plants, teaching healing arts but the ability to shape shift. So with Mercury in lightening fast Aquarius, we may be able to change the shape of our thoughts and mentation from man to animal, to bird, to angel or whatever was is needed to further transformation in today's challenging enviroment. January 24th was only the first iteration of this Magical transit which in Aquarius will despise convention and traditional control pouring forth the electric energy of innovative solutions.

Next Chironic conjunction will involve Venus on March 14, 2006 where relationships will be transformed by the wounded healer.