November 9, 2004

• I’m picking up on a lot of sentiment in favor of getting out of the
  U.S. since the election went south.  I’m even told that when the
  returns came in, the Canadian immigration website crashed from
  heavy traffic.

  Can you imagine anything that would make the Halliburton Cabal in DC
  happier, now that they have four more years to rape the country and the
  planet, than to see their opposition fleeing?

  Is retreat or suicide
  really the best response to tyranny and aggression?  Stand and
  fight!  America needs all the help it can get, now more than ever.

  But that’s not what I planned to blog about.  It just came out
  spontaneously.  I suppose if I gave it too much thought I might be
  afraid to come right out and say it. [ not bloody likely, but...]  Y’never know who’s watching.

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  CelestialWeather

  Here’s some of what Rich Humbert had to say about this week:

  If planets
  had political leanings, Saturn would be the conservative and Uranus would be
  the progressive.  Saturn understands the power of time, responsibility,
  and order.  Uranus understands that times change, there are varying and
  often conflicting responsibilities, and that order can degenerate into
  crystallization and morbidity.  They are natural antagonists and
  act together in life to form useful structures and limits (Saturn) and then
  break out of those same structures and limits (Uranus) when they’ve outlived
  their purpose. This week both Saturn and Uranus are standing still above us,
  and the energies they symbolize are at extremely high levels.  We live
  in times when the traditional values of local communities are under
  unrelenting pressure from a shrinking world.  Small town dwellers know
  they enjoy a shrinking commodity: the sense of safety and comfort that comes
  from belonging and knowing one’s neighbors.  Long established urban
  neighborhoods share the same experience. But the dynamic nature of global
  economics and the digital age are eroding these small fortresses.  Many
  people are frightened by the anonymity and alienation of modern electro-cool
  world culture.  Something of value is being taken away, and new forms of
  community aren’t ready to replace this value.

  So amid the cultural
  conflict washing over us this week, as suggested by Saturn and Uranus
  immobile, we have a Scorpio New Moon that comes Friday. (http://www.celestialweather.com/images/110704.jpg)
  Scorpio is about commitment and passion, and the New Moon is our annual
  opportunity to re-dedicate ourselves to that which matters most.  All
  the signs have a special planet that operates as the energy source for the
  sign; this special planet is called the “ruler” of the sign.  The ruler
  of Scorpio is Pluto, lord of death and metamorphosis.  For the past few
  years, Pluto has been passing through Sagittarius, a sign which expresses the
  human experience of shared cultural values like religion, ethics, and
  law.  So we find people all over the world bringing the life and death
  struggle of Scorpio to religion: we find ourselves in culture wars.  The
  U.S. New Moon horoscope puts Pluto at 9 o’clock just rising up and exactly
  one sign away from the New Moon itself.
  This area of the horoscope is
  considered “karmic” because it represents consequences and outside forces
  impinging upon us as individuals.

  The 21st degree of Scorpio, the New
  Moon degree, bears the symbol of a soldier obeying his conscience and
  resisting orders.  Taken to extreme this leads to anarchy, but it
  suggests that we take this time to listen to our inner voice, a totally New
  Moon activity, and resist the external order that we find incorrect. 
  One can easily see the fundamentalist vs. relativist issue in
  this symbol.  Do we march onward as Christian or Muslim soldiers, or do
  we obey the divine spark within us?  Blind obedience is the other
  extreme, “1984″ style, and is equally as repugnant as chaos.  In times
  of powerful and often incomprehensible change, people want something
  stable.  The more powerful the
  change and the more it’s in our faces,
  the more we’re frightened and the more we cling.

  Anyone interested can find more at Rich’s website, linked above.

  I suppose this upcoming moon, culminating in the Full Moon a little
  over two weeks from now, will be an interesting one for me, what with Saturn
  and Uranus being stationary.  Uranus was stationary at my birth
  and is therefore a prominent influence in my chart and my life. 
  Besides that, stationary Saturn, along with transiting Mercury,
  Jupiter, and Neptune, are all aspecting my “intensity pattern”,
  throwing mixed curses and blessings my way.  Neptune, Mercury,
  Jupiter and Uranus — I not only can handle but I welcome such
  influences.  Only as I’ve aged have I gotten even a little bit
  closer to appreciating Saturnian heaviness and restrictions.  With
  such a diverse set of influences, I guess I will just wait and see what
  they bring.  I’ll try to ride the wave, whatever it is.
  

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