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A Sunday of 'Brigadoon' and book signings Aug 30, 2009
2009-08-30 17:25:00
Well, I've been watching the Sunday morning political shows which are mainly about Senator Ted Kennedy and his passing last week, yet soon I shall motor into the city to attend a matinee of Brigadoon, a nostalgic favorite of my childhood about a mysterious Scottish village that's only visible for one day every 100 years.Maybe we can devise a way for Washington DC's Capitol Hill to sign up for that schedule...we'd all be safer and richer, I suspect. Then it's a dash to a town celebration in Winterville, GA which is being held for my niece, Donny Bailey Seagraves, whose first novel Gone From These Woods is released this very weekend. So it should be a fun, if rainy and thundery, day!
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Invisible government as Octopus: a famous quote round-up
2009-08-29 23:43:00
"There exists a shadowy government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself." Dan Inouye United States Senator for Hawaii "The real menace of our Republic is the invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our cities states and nation. At the head is a small group of banking houses generally referred to as 'international bankers.' This little coterie...run our government for their own selfish ends. It operates under cover of a self-created screen...[and]seizes...our executive officers...legislative bodies...schools...courts... newspapers and every agency created for the public protection."John Francis Hylan (April 20, 1868 - January 12, 1936), Mayor of New York City from 1918 to 1925."I'm going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you're not going to believe it."George...
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Sen. Tom Coburn's frightening answer ~ video Aug 2009
2009-08-29 21:50:00
Timothy Noah's Slate post displays the brief video of Senator Tom Coburn (that's Doctor Coburn, to you and me) at a town hall meeting as he 'answers' a plea from a desperate woman whose traumatic-brain-injured husband - who has medical insurance but is being denied - needs help with Eating and Drinking. The GOP's icy veins are on display here, so perhaps you should watch the video only if you're not faint-of-med-coverage. 'Heart' pretends to enter the picture for the distressed woman, but only to make the Reagan 'government IS the problem' talking point the GOP likes to make when it behooves them politically - or when they can't think of a decent answer in a pinch.As a practiced politician, the senator doesn't actually answer her question in relation to health care or insurance reform, but he does attempt to punt the Republican opposition ball down the hall while hoping to undermine the Democrats' efforts to institute reform so that care cannot be denied by a corporate ...
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Wayne Madsen video on Mandatory flu vaccine H1N1
2009-08-29 20:15:00
Here's journalist Wayne Madsen speaking on TV recently concerning the side effects and doubts about the H1N1 flu vaccine. This 'prevention' sounds too risky to me, how about you? And why did they use components that contain Mercury? If autism or paralysis are possibilities, you can have my share, because even scientists are saying 'No Way' to their families' being vaccinated!If they institute mandatory vaccinations across the nation, the US government will have a mess on its hands, right next to its da*n spot of guilt. Yet if any of the New World Order theories are correct, revolution is just what the power elites want for thinly veiled 'justification' for the extreme control they want to wield over us. Will revolt against submitting to H1N1 vaccinations be the catalyst for conflict?~:~Update 3:40 pm edt, Athens, GA: Here at the University of Georgia (UGA) some dorm students have contracted flu and have been sent home which I hope isn't what spreads the virus.Update2 @ 5:00...
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Who really runs Britain?
2009-08-29 19:57:00
Who runs Britain ? The UK parliament? The Queen? Both in partnership? Or some old bald-headed freak cackling away in a bank vault in London or Edinburgh?Funny story. Turns out that a company named Serco, headed by a South African fellow, actually runs the UK, its railways, and quite a bit more besides.Oh what this blogging gnat would give for one particular name of the a*s who runs America . He'd have a lot of 'splainin' to do, wouldn't he?
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Sen. Ted Kennedy passes, North Node to his natal Saturn
2009-08-26 17:14:00
The sad news about Senator Ted Kennedy 's passing late last evening after his year-long battle with brain cancer was expected but sobering. Flags fly at half mast in Washington, DC, and I, the reluctant astrologer, feel compelled to see what transits were in effect to his natal chart. So far I've only found "late last night" rather than an exact time of death.Blogging time is brief again today (tomorrow will be better), but there is the senator's Saturn in his first house @ 29Cap49, with the transiting NN 29Cap43, pointing and saying that Saturn the Timekeeper has run out the clock. Venus 29Can22 opposes at the tr South Node, and conjunct the current Solar Eclipse degree of 29Can27. His was the system that failed (7.21.09 Solar Ecl = 'systems fail.')Sen. Kennedy's natal North Node 26Pis15 in n 2nd house has a planetary visitor as well: Uranus 25Pis30; Sun 2 - 3 Virgo approaches his problematic Moon 6Vir25 and Neptune 6Vir44 conjunction in 8th house.Last last night (using 11:30 ...
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Astrology of Bernanke renomination 8.25.09
2009-08-26 00:16:00
Here is the text of President Obama's in-the-bag renomination of Ben Bernanke to remain at the helm of NY's Federal Reserve Bank. Taking a break from vacationing with the family unit, the president began speaking at 8:55 am edt (Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts); he and Mr. Bernanke completed their mission at 9:01 am edt.Wish I had time to post the start/end charts of today's announcement, but I don't.The charts have a few critical 29th degree planets, plus North Node 29Cap45, with South Node at the degree of the July 21/22, 2009 Solar Eclipse which I've mentioned many times before (29Can27 'systems fail; new methods are needed', etc etc.) Wonder what's really going on?Mercury 29Vir44 has just arisen (8:55 am edt: ASC 5Lib36 with Sun/Moon midpoint upon it - 'friendship'); chart-ruler Venus 28Can39 is *oriental and nearing a 29th degr and conjunct SN and the July Eclipse degree along with transiting Hygeia, Apollo, and Vesta.Out-of-bounds Mars 29Gem53 is within range of opposing P...
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Poll: President Obama and the New World Order
2009-08-24 20:19:00
There's plenty of time left to vote and 43 people have voted so far.The poll question: Is President Obama a New World Order shill?To answer (and I hope you do), scroll to the bottom of this very page and check it out - unless you're one of the 43.Actually you may first want to refresh your memory on what Henry Kissinger said about Mr. Obama's term in the Oval Office. Scroll down a smidge and you'll find his comment in the sidebar column on your right under 'Quotes to Note'. Then you might mosey on down to answer the Obama/NWO poll...and leave a Comment on the subject here, if you like.
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Horoscope of the 1929 Crash: 'Black Tuesday'
2009-08-23 19:25:00
A chart set for Noon in NYC on the day of the 1929 stock market crash - 'Black Tuesday ' - is being published here because the image will no longer 'click-to-enlarge' on my WordPress blog where the chart's details are published, so I'm linking this post to the chart detail text there and vice versa. (Just tryin' to disseminate some info within the bounds of online tech quirkiness!)In 1929, the 'little guy' working man (woman) who had been snookered into investing his life savings with Wall Street, was wiped out along with middle men who may just as well have jumped out of The Windows Of Wall Street for fear of prosecution for fraud and racketeering than for the loss of wealth which accompanied the exposure of their weaknesses, warts and all.Now they've done it all again, this time with expanded worldwide implications for the 'global economy' they've always said they wanted (so the collapse may be complete and total, the better to rule the entire world, my dear.) We now k...
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Ollie North asked about Rex 84 during Iran Contra hearings - video
2009-08-23 10:43:00
This video from the Iran Contra 'hearings' shows Oliver North bristling and - pardon my French - clamming up his pie hole as Rep. Jack Brooks, a Democrat from Texas, questions him about his NSC work on the martial law provisions of FEMA to suspend the US Constitution and round up troublemakers during domestic emergencies of any kind which the government deems declarable as such.The problem is these jolly days, we don't know the difference between emergencies and trumped up, sexed up emergencies! What they call 'false flag ops' are perpetrated only abroad, never here in hallowed America...or are they? With Reagan on the lofty perch, came the auspiciously Orwellian year of 1984 when there appeared a plan named Rex 84. Almost as soon as Reagan was sworn in, he appointed Louis Giuffrida as head of FEMA. You'll hear the rest in the video, if you don't know it already. (And it was at 12:05 pm est on Jan 20, 1981 that Jimmy Carter says a secret agent whispered in his ear that the Ir...
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Warpaths and a Joyride to Hades
2009-08-23 09:28:00
And in front of military veterans, too!President Barack Obama sounds predictably Bush-like as he stumps on behalf of war to an allegedly willing audience, while evoking 9/11 to justify US imperialism against the whole world - but most especially against the Middle East where the oil lies.Never mind the true and lasting consequences.Did I hear you whisper, hope, change...or...audacity?Once again I assert that changing presidents in honor of the Oval Office is a baton-passing exercise. It has nothing to do with deserting a previous agenda. It has everything to do with continuing an agenda, though perhaps under a different guise...this time, a suave one.You know the old saw: would you buy a new or used car from this man? Well, it seems you and I already have, but unbeknownst to many, George and Dick were huddled together in the rumble seat, grinning like satanists on a joyride to Hades.Mr. Obama steps on the gas...

Financial Astrology 2009 - 2010: Saturn, Jupiter-Neptune
2009-08-23 05:47:00
Master Financial Astrologer Ray Merriman has an article on Saturn 's Realities and Jupiter /Neptune Hopes that takes us from 2009 into 2010. Since financial cycles and astrological cycles may be understood in tandem and one used as a magnifying glass to read the other, I recommend Mr. Merriman's article to you, especially since the current media attention seems focused more on Jupiter/Neptune's dreams and grand schemes than on Saturnian practicalities and realism.2009, year of the Great Conjunction/s of Jupiter and Neptune. This speculating and possibly religious pair's third and final conjunction will be on Dec 21, 2009 @ 24AQ18, conj US natal Moon (the people.) Shall I type out the midpoint picture this forms one more time? Okay.Jup/Nep = US n Moon: an emotional swoon; going with the wind; dreaminess deceives; becoming involved in speculation (I know - we've been doing that for years, that's a big part of the problem - sheeple to the slaughter); little sense of reality (engro...
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'Capitalism: A Love Story' by Michael Moore - video
2009-08-23 01:33:00
This trailer about Michael Moore 's new film, which debuts on Oct 2, hints that the movie looks promisingly informative and more than a little annoying for Bush, Cheney, Paulson, Bernanke, Congress, Wall Street gentry, and the rest of the heisters who've ruined a world economy so they can build it back to their liking.
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Propaganda of a Rising Star: Ben Bernanke
2009-08-22 19:34:00
The Atlanta Journal and Constitution reports that Fed head Ben Bernanke is a "rising star" who, after a "slow start", is managing the financial crisis quite well, thanks.Perhaps he is, but knowing that Mr. Bernanke's Fed term is up in January 2010, my suspicious nature is more likely to see the current glowing reports on Mr. Bernanke's performance as propaganda meant to justify the fact that there's little chance President Obama will be replacing Bernanke in January. And the Wall Street culture continues to rule plutocratic America as numbers reports are fudged and are strategically released to create a 'special effect' - a mirage - of financial improvement. All in all, I'd have to say that the jury is still out on Mr. Bernanke's performance - at least it is on Main Street USA.Here's a round-up of stuff I've previously blurbed about Ben Bernanke including his Pre-Natal Eclipse details - his PE manifested its 18.6-year cycle on September 11, 2007 (perhaps you remember that ...
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Astrology of Reagan's First Inauguration 1981
2009-08-21 20:24:00
The text of Ronald Reagan's First Inaugural Address of Jan 20, 1981 attests that his was the first inaugural ceremony to be held on the West Front of the Capitol Building; thus Mr. Reagan was facing the Washington Monument and the Jefferson and Lincoln Memorials, as he notes in his address.And yes, I believe that he was standing on their and others' 'shoulders', as he said, but he was also looking into the distance while mentioning the Potomac River and Arlington National Cemetery with its simple crosses and Stars of David. Here is an example of a man speaking publicly in two realms at once (maybe more.) His 'code words' warmed the hearts of the religious folk who did so much to elect him and were so totally charmed and thrilled with him as president, yet Illuminati references are sprinkled throughout the speeches of his administration.As I continue studying this chart and the Reagan years, I expect more of such references to become clear now that the NWO has its ugly head stu...
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Pluto to Lockerbie Bombing chart Aug 20, 2009
2009-08-20 20:21:00
Here's a Wiki link to details of the sad fate of Pan Am Flight 103, aka the Lockerbie Bombing of Dec 21, 1988 over Lockerbie, Scotland.As you've heard, a man serving time for the crime suffers from terminal cancer and has been released by the Scottish government, and the US government is sounding snake-mean as it calls for 'house arrest' as if the ill fellow needs to be kept in one place with his dire condition! (But perhaps it's only a little of the political theater I'm always grousing about.)Here's a 'time capsule' news story from Jan 31, 2001 as CNN proclaimed Libyan guilty of Lockerbie Bombing. The guilty verdict took 11 years to announce.Now wondering what transits, if any, to the chart for Dec 21, 1988, 19:02:46 GMT, were now in play, I found that tr Pluto 00Cap47 Rx this very day is conjunct 1988's Sun and Uranus which gives three midpoint pictures, with all three planets conjunct a World Point of the Cardinal axis (00Cap) - on Dec 21, 1988 Pluto was at '15Sco':S...
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Elections in Afghanistan August 20, 2009
2009-08-20 19:48:00
In time for today's New Moon in Leo, voters in Afhanistan have turned out in spite of Taliban violence and threats.Here's a report from abroad from Der Spiegel which we may assume to be Pentagon-filter-free. Or not.
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August 2009 Astrology Forecast by Urania
2009-08-19 18:40:00
It's August 19 and I'm very late checking in with my longtime friend, Urania, who graciously offers everyone an August 2009 calendar of planetary correspondances at her place, Urania's 9th House, so check out the action.For even as August nears its melt into September, the astro-details melt as well, so for September 2009, you'll benefit from her August info for better planning ahead, if you're so inclined.Succinct enough for the busiest reader, Urania translates the celestial into practical guidance along with bon mots for those who'll listen, so drop by for a refreshing visit when you can!
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Leo New Moon in Washington DC 8.20.09
2009-08-19 07:25:00
New Moon 27Leo32; August 20, 2009, 6:01:31 am edt Washington DC, Hour of Saturn; chart-ruler Sun; New Moon opposes Jupiter Rx, Chiron Rx, and Neptune Rx 21 - 25 AQ (conj Descendant...but mostly the New Moon opposes Neptune.)Sun/Moon = Neptune: misunderstandings in relationships; discontent; deception.Midheaven (Mc = The Goal/Aspiration Point) 14Tau41 conjunct US Inaugural ASC (Presidential Oath of Office - on January 20s every 4 years at the Capitol Building.)New Moon opposes US natal Moon in AQ (Sibly chart); US natal Moon now being transited by Neptune...sense of rootlessness; family relationships either become eroded or spiritually closer; mystery and confusion abound; creative and promotional talents may prosper.Highlighted in orange, you can't miss the big honkin' YOD (Finger of God pattern, sextile base pointing to apex planet/s...in this chart it's Jupiter, Chiron, Neptune in AQ) since it kind of overlays the ASC of the New Moon chart here, with Venus/Saturn midpoint at AS...

Jupiter's Moons Captured on Film: Io and Ganymede!
2009-08-19 00:28:00
Space Weather News for August 18, 2009JUPITER MOON MOVIE: An amateur astronomer in the Philippines has photographed one of Jupiter 's moons, Io, casting its circular shadow across another, Ganymede. The movie he made of this rare event is must-see cinema for astronomers. It's playing now on SpaceWeather.com.
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Swine Flu vaccine memo leaks: paralysis possible
2009-08-18 22:33:00
Memo leaked!But are reactions only kneejerk 'Never Trust the Government' propaganda, perhaps backed by anti-Dem partisans? Of are reports of the serious health risks from the vaccinations of 1976 worth being concerned about?Personally, I'm inclined to opt out of the drive to inject, how about you? And for children? I'd sooner school them at home than participate. But I no longer have school-aged children running about the place. I shudder for the parents who must put their children's well-being on the line for a State that seems headed for the totalitarian model of draconian heavy-handedness.The phrase, Like lambs to the slaughter comes to mind. And people - even scientists - have been known to make mistakes that force others to suffer from their misjudgments. Any thoughts?
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Howard Dean and 'public option' health insurance
2009-08-18 03:28:00
'DR. NANCY SNYDERMAN: If we took a public option and retooled it somewhat, why not make the case to the American public that we will allow people below the age of 65 to buy into Medicare even if there's some trimming that has to be done out of that budget too?DR. HOWARD DEAN: That's all I want. If you allowed people to buy into Medicare who are below 65 years old, that's a public option, and that's what we need.'You've probably read or heard about Howard Dean 's solution for the 'public option' maze of cross purposes we're being treated to while support for any reform melts away like a polar ice cap, exposing Atlantis' library of scrolls underneath...So I'm passing on this snippet of his interview here as my way of saying, Listen to the doctor on this one. It's worth a try. Now. Wonder what exactly he means by, "buy into"?
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Tom Delay to compete on Dancing with the Stars!
2009-08-18 00:06:00
6:06 pm edt: NPR just made my day by announcing that 'Godfather' Tom Delay will be hoofing it on Dancing with the Stars ...will that be, Dancing with the Czars?How weird for the dancer training him in tripping the light fantastic!Yes, I'll manage okay, as long as this TV stint won't give him the idea that's he's some kind of a 'star'. Actually, Kelly Osbourne will be a stylish addition, I think!
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Solar/Lunar Eclipses affecting Russia's natal chart
2009-08-17 22:01:00
Natal chart of modern Russia, Dec 8, 1991; 7:45 pm EET; Moskva (Moscow); historical record; Hour of Venus 2Sco50 in 4th house; Chart -ruler Sun 16Sag08 conjunct Mercury 15:51 Rx, in 5th house.Uranus 12Cap20, Moon 14Cap25, Neptune 15:22, from 5th house into 6th house; Saturn 3AQ27 in 6th house (note: Russia's natal Saturn conjuncts Jan 20, 2009's US Inaugural Jupiter 3AQ32 in Inaugural 10th house.)As I read today of the troubles in Russia, I am moved to take a look at Russia's natal horoscope and see that the recent/current Lunar and Solar Eclipses are affecting the Big Bear's national chart.July 7, 2009's Lunar Eclipse 15Cap24 'eclipsed' natal Uranus, Moon (the people), and Neptune (the masses) in Capricorn, 5th to 6th house. Our current Eclipse season of July 21/22, 2009's Solar Eclipse 29Can27, conjuncts natal Nemesis 29Can49 Rx in 12th house, but is actually another lunation manifestation from Russia's Pre-Natal Eclipse Series, the 11 South. Highlighted in red in 12th hou...
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Merely a Lull in 'A Furious Storm'?
2009-08-17 19:17:00
Is President Obama's rosy glow of an early economic upswing for real? Or is it merely a lull in the eye of the financial hurricane?Opposite America's natal Pluto 27Cap33 Rx is an Illumination Point, an unconscious point that may be worth considering in this financial crisis. And since Pluto is Rx in our nation's natal chart (July 4, 1776), I'm using the 'rounding down' method.Each degree is linked to what's come before and what degree's symbol comes after - a process of evolution, so more than one degree may be looked at for information, including those degrees that square, trine, etc, the point/degree you're considering. The Symbols are often used in rectification work, for some paint such an accurate picture that they bring a chart into precise focus (when an exact time isn't known, for horoscope calculations hinge upon knowing the hour/minute/second of a person's, entity's, or event's moment of beginning.) In the case of the current financial crisis, I am inspired to...
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Astrology Forecast for the Week of Aug 17 - 23, 2009
2009-08-16 23:47:00
Are you looking for a Week ly Astrology Forecast for Aug 17 - 23, 2009?Whoa, there! Because astrologer Julie Demboski really kicks Fated Undertow's tush with her insights and advice, so check it out before the week wanes without you.And see my previous post for a Space Weather News link to Monday morning's dawn show of beauty as performed by the Crescent Moon, Venus, and (if you're in the right spot on the planet) an ISS flyby to spice things up with its modernity of techiness.

Monday, Aug 17, 2009: Venus, Crescent Moon, ISS flyby
2009-08-16 22:30:00
This just in...Space Weather News for Aug 16, 2009MONDAY MORNING SKY SHOW: Set your alarm for dawn. On Monday morning, Aug 17, Venus and the Crescent Moon will gather beautifully close together in the eastern sky. For many observers in North America, the International Space Station (ISS) will make an appearance, too. It's a fantastic way to begin the day. Check SpaceWeather.com for a sky map and ISS flyby predictions. ~:~And astrologically we check our software or ephemeris to see that Moon @ 13Cancer will be conjunct US natal Sun at sunrise on Aug 17, 2009, with Venus in Cancer, too - almost at critical degree, 20 Cancer. That's emphasizing Pluto's Heliocentric North Node '20Can'; and Venus/Pluto contacts can bring jealousies, transformative Art and/or Love, and bankruptcies, among other things.Relationships of all kinds are being given a celestial heads-up.August 17, 2009 in Washington, DC, sunrise edt: Sun 24Leo39 rises in opposition to US natal Moon in Aquarius, Sun/Moon mi...

Stars Over US Presidencies
2009-08-16 19:32:00
At leisure I have now re-read the Visual Astrology Newsletter's issue concerning Fixed Star parans to US presidents' natal charts and the portents of US Inaugurations from the perspective of their dates and locations being changed at key times in US history.First it was George Washington on Wall Street, then Philadelphia, then on to Washington...scenarios of crimes and crescendos of political power. And of the people's power, such as we, at any given time, realize it and its usefulness.Why fuss about stars? Because our inaugural reschedulings and locational adjustments have brought new star parans into play for our nation while morphing the character of the Office of the Presidency and its idealisms into different kettles of fish being forced onto America's menu. And We-the-People have been choking on hidden fishbones ever since!So because the US presidency and its Oath of Office symbolize, on one level, our system of government (a republic masquerading as a democracy), the evid...
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Jupiter Direct Station 17AQ10 10.13.09
2009-08-14 00:17:00
Before you in black and white, you see a map showing the 1st minute and second of Jupiter 's Direct Station 17AQ10 on Oct 13, 2009, 00:34:18 am edt, Washington, DC USA. The precise moment depends, of course, on the exactitude of one's software, which is quite naturally tossed off slightly by Moon Wobbles and other Quirks of the Universe. How constantly grateful am I not to be even remotely responsible as the one who keeps our solar system's planets in their courses!~Click image to enlarge/read notations and scribbles~There is the grouchy Mars/South Node rising with North Node, the Dragon's Head, conjunct US natal Pluto. The look of the chart is disturbing and I prefer not mentioning it in too fine a detail for now. Perhaps you might study it for yourself and let me know what you decide. For now, let's discuss Jupiter's new condition as of Oct 13 as a planet (seemingly) moving ahead in the zodiac...So imagine you're in DC (aka, the District of Columbia) during the wee hour of 1...
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Is Health Care Reform in the US really necessary?
2009-08-13 18:15:00
You decide if Health Care Reform in the US is really necessary.
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