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NYSE, Eclipses, and Danny Casolaro
2008-09-13 03:28:00 Have you ever read the tale of the founding of the NYSE as told by astrologer Ed Kohout? Under the buttonwood tree on the morning of May 17, 1792, the stock exchange began with Pluto at 23AQ31...where dissolving Neptune is drifting now. Neptune to Pluto is a period of time when power (Pluto) is dissolved and undermined (Neptune) but not necessarily by anarchy - it can be done by treachery or More About: Danny , Eclipses
May 26: Mercury Rx's effects on Clinton's campaign
2008-05-26 23:23:00 Perhaps you'd be interested in reading a Page published today concerning the current Mercury Rx 21Gem23 and its place within and effects upon Hillary Clinton's horoscope and candidacy over at Jude's Threshold. The Celtic horse goddess Macha may be involved from the constellation Auriga, the Charioteer, along with the senator's 12th house of secrets! More About: Campaign , Effects
Is voting in November a waste of your time?
2008-05-25 22:35:00 For Profit By Malcolm Martin The US government has been hollowed out during the rise to absolute power of the corporations. Elections have become an elaborate "reality show" that plays out on corporate television for viewers' entertainment.# ~~:~~ Yeah, political theater, dahlink...that's what I thought. State + corporations = fascism. Will we be put at pains to trade in dollars for an More About: Time , Voting , Waste , November
US Progressed Moon to ASC: May 30, 2008
2008-05-24 22:39:00 Here you see America's Secondary Progressed chart for May 30, 2008 --date of the real Memorial Day. (Secondary Progressions describe the physical plane and I tend to abbreviate them to 'Sec.') As you can see, Sec Moon 27Leo11 is conjunct Sec Ascendant which relates to the Self or physical body, and any time a planet or luminary (Sun or Moon) progresses to a chart's angle, change is in store.
VP search: political musings for the week
2008-05-24 18:19:00 Summer is upon us, it's Memorial Day weekend, and I've been blurbing and musing on 2008's presidential candidates and the required search for a VP candidate to share the ticket: VP search: too many senators has a few points I've been pondering this week concerning senatorial egos, piggish governors, Obama's Israel shout-out, and Hillary's crystal ball for June horrors, among other things. Last More About: Political , Musings , Search , Week
Hillary hearts the NWO
2008-05-21 22:15:00 Dost Thou Harken to Hillary ? is a just-published post at Jude's Threshold which comes as close to summing up my political laments for America's sake as any I have previously written. Some of my blab is based on misgivings about a Hillary Clinton presidency which are laid out, in large measure, by an article in The Nation from Oct-Nov, 2007. You've probably read it, but if not, here's its link: More About: Hearts
Space Station flybys or watch the movie!
2008-05-18 23:57:00 Space Weather News for 18 May 18, 2008 ISS MARATHON: The 2008 "ISS Marathon" gets underway this week when the International Space Station spends three days (May 21-23) in almost-constant sunlight. Sky watchers in Europe and North America can see the bright spaceship gliding overhead two to four times each night. The ISS is as bright as Venus or Jupiter, so even people in light-polluted More About: Movie , Watch , Space , The Movie
Senator Ted Kennedy
2008-05-18 15:32:00 Looking at the natal chart of Ted Kennedy and the 911 call for medical aid on May 17 (8:19 am edt from Cape Cod, Massachusetts) we see that the elder statesman's natal planets have been under some stress of late with more to come. "Seizures" have replaced "possible stroke" as a cause of his emergency hospitalization and more tests will be done to determine the reason for his distress. But who is More About: Ted Kennedy , Senator
Dec 24, 2008: day of US Progr'd Full Moon
2008-05-16 23:42:00 This image is the transit chart for Dec 24, 2008 , 11:45 pm est, Philadelphia, PA, which is the exact time of America's Secondary Progressed Full Moon (based on the US 'Sibly' chart, July 4, 1776 5:10 pm LMT.) Secondary Progressed Full Moons are the end of a cycle which everyone's natal chart enjoys and which gives important info regarding relationships, goals and joint successes, and public life
America's Progressed Full Moon in Virgo
2008-05-14 16:18:00 Here you see America's Secondary Progressed Chart for Dec 24, 2008, the moment of her Progressed Full Moon (based on 'Sibly' natal chart, July 4, 1776, 5:10 pm LMT.) Transits for that date and the moment of the Full Moon are written around the outside of the chart along with a few other details, plus you'll find more info here: US Progressed Full Moon if you wish. I will be adding details More About: Virgo
Letterman on Hillary's debt
2008-05-14 05:40:00 Frisky Dave Letterman just said that with Hillary's campaign being $20 million in debt, "now, when Hillary gets that call at 3 am, it'll be a collection agency." Good one, Dave. And I'd add that since it may be a company she holds stock in, isn't it like calling yourself? More About: Debt
Justice Earl Warren on social progress vs socialism
2008-05-14 05:28:00 Many people consider the things which government does for them to be social progress, but they consider the things government does for others to be socialism. That describes current attitudes perfectly, doesn't it? Still I must be aware the beam in my own eye while complaining over the mote in yours! (a beam being a board of wood and a mote being a mere speck.) Justice Earl Warren was born More About: Social , Socialism , Progress
are all political jokes mean?
2008-05-13 22:32:00 Because this one seems about right to me: Presidential candidates, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John McCain were flying to a convention. Barack looked at Hillary, chuckled and said, "You know, I could throw a $1,000 bill out of the window right now and make somebody very happy." Hillary shrugged her shoulders and replied, "I could throw ten $100 bills out of the window and make ten More About: Jokes , Political
Noctilucents!
2008-05-08 17:22:00 Space Weather News for May 7, 2008 NOCTILUCENT CLOUDS: On May 5th, experienced sky watchers in Northern Ireland were surprised by a sudden apparition of electric-blue noctilucent clouds (NLCs). This marks an unusually early beginning to the 2008 NLC season and may herald a spectacular summer of high-latitude "night shining" clouds. NLCs first appeared in the 19th century mainly around
Eye on Pelosi and Thursday's money vote
2008-05-08 03:13:00 Eye on Pelosi : Here's an excerpt from a Washington Post article explaining Thursday's votes: "Setting up their last major battle over war policy with President Bush, House Democrats yesterday unveiled a plan to link their favored domestic spending projects and a troop-withdrawal timeline to additional funds for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan requested by the White House. The $195 More About: Money , Vote
Spotlight on Homeland Security 11.25.02
2008-05-08 01:47:00 Stars Over Washington has previous posts concerning the Department of Homeland Security but today I published a Page at Jude's Threshold with details on DHS' natal chart if you wish to take a peek. While there, please add imperialism to the list of -isms for Pluto/Chiron. My original wet-behind-the-bloggedy-ears HoSec post from Nov 20, 2005 may be found here--image of this money-grubbing More About: Homeland Security , Spotlight
Addington subp'd, Congress shafts America
2008-05-06 18:57:00 I believe that if the people of this nation fully understood what Congress has done to them over the last 49 years, they would move on Washington; they would not wait for an election... It adds up to a preconceived plan to destroy the economic and social independence of the United States! --George W. Malone (1890-1961) US Senator (Nevada) 1957 (Source: speaking before Congress) Strategic More About: America
IN and NC primaries today
2008-05-06 17:06:00 Although I've been inexplicably reticent this week to publish anything much on today's record breaking turn out in the Indiana and North Carolina primaries, you'll find a bit of astrological info at Jude's Threshold, if you wish. It's a brief post so it won't take you long to check it out. You know I don't call myself a reluctant astrologer for nuthin'! More About: Today , Primaries
Aquarid meteors, the Moon, and the Dem nominee
2008-05-06 01:02:00 Oops! this alert is a day late, but timely for Tuesday-- Space Weather News for May 4, 2008 ETA AQUARID METEOR SHOWER: If you see a meteor flit across the sky tonight, it could be a piece of Halley's Comet. Earth is crossing a stream of dusty debris from Halley and this is causing the annual eta Aquarid meteor shower. Sky watchers in the tropics and southern hemisphere (where the shower is More About: Moon , The Moon
Population Control by any other name
2008-05-03 19:12:00 The Lords of Capital Decree Mass Death by Starvation By Glen Ford Having crushed the planet's peasants and converted food into just another commodity for global manipulation, the Lord's of Capital have unleashed upon humanity the threat--no, certainty--of mass starvation. Information Clearing House has the full article. # As astrologer Sybil Leek wrote, totalitarianism increases as the More About: Control
Barack Obama's Jupiter in Aquarius
2008-05-03 17:29:00 Here's a post on Senator Obama's Jupiter in Aquarius which you may find of interest. Shared by Albert Einstein and Walt Whitman, this is an intellectual and curious placement for expansive Jupiter and often draws its native toward working for the collective. Plus, Obama's Jupiter-Saturn conjunction is helpful for those with political aspirations and seems to have been of benefit to him so far! More About: Barack
'DC Madam' an apparent suicide
2008-05-03 03:43:00 Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens For Legitimate Government May 1, 2008 All items are here: LegitGov Breaking News Alleged Call Girl Professor Hanged Self Jan 30, 2007: A former university professor accused of working as a call girl hanged herself over the weekend, police said Monday. Brandy Britton was found dead at her home Saturday by a family member. Britton, who was a sociology More About: Apparent Suicide , Suicide , Madam
Space Station joins Jupiter in May!
2008-05-02 01:02:00 Space Weather News for May 1, 2008 FLYBY ALERT: This is a good month for spaceship spotting. On May 1st, the International Space Station (ISS) begins a 4-week series of bright flybys over North America and Europe. In early May, the ISS joins Jupiter and the stars of the Summer Triangle in a glittering pre-dawn sky. Later in the month, increasingly-frequent flybys shift to evening hours and the More About: Space , Space Station
European Man, Ferguson + Solar Flares
2008-04-30 08:10:00 Space Weather News for April 27, 2008 All items: SpaceWeather.com STRANGE SOLAR FLARE: No sunspots? No problem. Yesterday the blank sun unleashed a solar flare without the usual aid of a sunspot. At 1408 UT on April 26th, Earth-orbiting satellites detected a surge of X-rays registering B3.8 on the "Richter scale" of solar flares. That's a relatively minor flare; nevertheless, the blast sent More About: European , Solar , Ferguson
Time Links: 1781 with Jan 20, 2009
2008-04-30 01:40:00 Just a quick heads-up on a Page published today on some links between the charts of Cornwallis' Surrender of Oct 19, 1781, and the planetary positions of America's Inauguration Day 2009, noon est, Capitol Building, Washington, DC. The 1781 chart, aka the Yorktown Surrender chart, is yet another of several versions known of America's birth or natal chart. Well, sheesh and more sheesh! it's as if More About: Time , Links
Bush: another Let's Blame Congress press conference
2008-04-29 16:39:00 Criticisms must be getting through the bubble! Bush is on TV now in his second Press Conference of 2008, contentious Mars 24Can36 is rising, and there's a full 8th house of Shared Resources, 10:31 am edt, White House. Rain is on the way. Just before Bush began, Tim Russert said Bush has to try to get out in front of the issues, and I guess he is--whining at Congress whose fault he says it is More About: Press Conference , Blame
Wedding Day Astrology: Jenna Bush and Henry Hager
2008-04-27 19:07:00 Have you heard? Jenna Bush and Henry Hager will tie the nuptial knot on May 10 at the Bush Family's Crawford, Texas ranchero, aka White House2. (I made that up having no idea if anyone calls it that or not, but we all know the family prefers to be there.) Yes, Taurus the Bull will marry Leo the Lion! So if you haven't had a chance to consider the starry, romantic evening's planetary More About: Wedding , Astrology , Jenna Bush
TV's Craig Ferguson shines!
2008-04-27 01:06:00 Tonight, as host of the White House Correspondents' Dinner, my favorite TV host slash comedian, TV's Craig Ferguson , will be on the spot in Washington. (Follow link to see his chart with a few details just published over at Jude's Threshold.) Tonight's hosting duties represent quite an ego-massaging entertainment coup for our freshly-minted American citizen, Craig of Glasgow...he's the one More About: Craig Ferguson
Mars' Phobos in 3D!
2008-04-26 19:28:00 3D MOON OF MARS: NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft has photographed martian moon Phobos in color and 3D, revealing landslides, crater chains, long grooves and a strange splash of blue. The pictures are featured on today's edition of SpaceWeather.com # And no 3D glasses are necessary! Cool.
CIA, FBI, and Moon to Pluto in Capricorn
More articles from this author:2008-04-25 01:41:00 Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens For Legitimate Government Apr 24, 2008 All items are here:LegitGov Breaking News CIA Acknowledges it Has More Than 7000 Documents Relating to Secret Detention Program, Rendition, and Torture Apr 23, 2008: The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) must stop stonewalling congressional oversight committees and release vital documents related to the program More About: Moon , Pluto , Capricorn 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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