April 3, 2003
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Update at end, following postscript:
Two things on my mind today:
First, I have a followup to what I wrote on Jihad.
For a couple of days I kept asking myself, “What was he thinking?” I’m referring to prez shrub, of course, the man who may go down in history as having touched off the Big Jihad. Then , in answer to my unspoken question, I had a thought: “What if…?”
He is, I have heard, a born-again Christian. Since that particular terminology, that doctrinal “rebirth in Christ,” is not part of the dogma for the more sedate sects of Protestantism, nor, unless I’ve been misinformed, of Catholicism, he might belong to one of those sects that teach of End Times, Tribulation, Rapture and all that.
If that’s true, perhaps getting into the White House and finding himself in possession of awesome power, he started seeing himself as an instrument of God on a big scale. Maybe he felt it incumbent on him to trigger the Tribulation.
If he believes that he’s going to be carried off in a Rapture while the unbelievers fight it out here on Earth, that could explain his actions. It’s the closest thing to a “rational” explanation I’ve come up with yet. He has done other things and made statements which are consistent with delusions of grandeur. It just might be….
The other matter on my mind today, closer to where I’m at, involves astrology and this intense period of experience I’ve been going through.
Last night, It occurred to me, finally, that this IS one of those intense times. I’ve written previously about the fact that my life does not cycle between good times and hard times as many people’s do. For me, it’s all mixed up together and my life cycles between relatively quiet times and times of intensity. Intense times include breakthroughs and breakdowns, love and terror, gains and losses, all at once or one right after another.
Twenty-some years ago, I identified a pattern in my natal chart involving clusters of lights, planets and asteroids around the tenth and twenty-fifth degrees of several signs. That provides a crazy mix of transiting aspects every time some passing planet crosses either of those degrees.
I’ve been able on many occasions to discover such angular activation in my chart when I was experiencing intense activity, novelty, or upheaval in my life. This time is no exception.
At the beginning of this month, there was a New Moon, a Sun/Moon conjunction, at 10° Aries. Today, Mercury is trine my Ascendant and square my Sun (exact today, but in effect for several days before and after).
Tomorrow, there is a Jupiter direct station conjunct my natal Pluto and aspecting the stellia of the “curse/blessing pattern.” Saturn has been and will remain in contact with that pattern for weeks, as is Neptune for an even longer period of time since its traverse of the Zodiac takes longer.
The Neptune angle is especially prominent. It forms a Grand Trine in Air Signs: Neptune in Aquarius, trine my most elevated planet Mars on my Midheaven in Libra, and the ruler of my chart, Uranus (ruler of Aquarius) which was stationary in Gemini at my birth. This could account for some of the weird air-headedness of this usually down-to-earth (yeah, right… I hear some of you who know me thinking) Virgo.
Now that I have a clue what’s up, I can relax and enjoy it.
POSTSCRIPT
This has been an itch at the back of my mind since I read the report Stu Hughes’s brother left in “comments” on Stu’s warblog about his injury. He called it an “accident” with a landmine. Dammit, when someone is killed or injured by a landmine, that’s no accident!
Update: Oh yeah! and Oh dear.
Oh, yeah! Sarah left this great LINK in a comment. It beautifully supports my insight on Dubya’s psychology.
Oh, dear, somehow I gave d_e_s the impression that INTENSITY is rough, I guess. I love intensity. Boredom used to be one of my biggest dangers. If I got bored, I’d find a way to get in trouble, sure as shit. With the acceleration of time that comes with age, I’ve gotten past boredom, no time for it any more. But intense times give me a lot to appreciate, once I get myself accelerated into sync with the times. The rough time comes when I’m trying to catch up with what’s going on, before I notice that it’s another one of THOSE times.
Comments (10)
Interesting. I am going to have to look up my chart.
I wish I had the knowledge necessary to be able to read my own chart like that! Or the money to pay someone like you to do it for me. Alas I am unemployed and deeply in debt. Oh well… picked up some interesting insights about myself just by reading your own self-exploration… Thanks! — Lise
In regards to your first section, there is an excellent article HERE about Bush and His messiah complex. What we are dealing with is a very real threat from a very sick man.
I sub to the Progressive. It started with a gift subscription and now I’m addicted.
Take a minute to read the article.
Here’s a quote to wet your whistle, assuming you have a whistle that is dry:
Bush expressed the same feeling when he was governor of Texas. “I could not be governor if I did not believe in a divine plan that supersedes all human plans,” he said.
When he was considering running for President, Bush attended church with his mother. The preacher talked about a reluctant Moses unsure of his leadership qualities. Barbara told George that he was that Moses figure. While running for President, he himself invoked the divine plan. “Together, we have a charge to keep,” he wrote in his campaign book, which was not too subtly entitled A Charge to Keep.
I hate mosquitos, too. We don’t have as many of them in California as there were in the south, but man–those mosquitos always seemed to love me. Needless to say, their affection was not returned, lol. As far as this intense period in your life goes…sounds like a volatile time. But–judging from all the life experiences you’ve shared with us, you are an extremely strong, unique woman. And you will get through it…but if you need any support along the way, you always have friends here to talk to.
That bit about the rapture and Prez Select Shrub Joonior is damned scary….
I think you are dead on with your analysis of Bush’s psychology. That Progressive article – oh, man. This guy is a scary man at a scary time.
Interestingly, there is Christian doctrine to support the concept that in the so called Rapture the good will be left and the wicked taken. I can’t help enjoying that one a little too much.
Recently my MiL gave my BiL (the agnostic) a book and told him that if she disappears suddenly (gets Raptured) to read it…I wonder how many books Shrub Jr. gave out?
-M
I think you could be right….. about George. I’ve been thinking along those same lines but haven’t paid close enough attention to know if there could be any validity to it….till now that is.