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Psychic Vera's Daily Cosmic Advice
Saturday, July 5
Moon in Leo
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The Moon is still in Leo today and with a sextile to Mercury at 4:20 PM, we’ll have good communications. People may be dramatic and enjoy performing. An opposition to Neptune around 5:30 PM, however, indicates that disillusionment may be around the corner if we look for perfection or demand too much attention.
Mercury squares Uranus today and we may put our feet in our mouths if we’re not circumspect. We also may find ourselves more high strung than usual. Maybe we should cool it and take a few drops of Bach’s Rescue Remedy.
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CANCER
Summer Solstice
June 20—July 22
Cancer is the sign of the home and family, particularly the mother and if you’re a Cancer those things are important to you. If you had a dysfunctional relationship with your mother and didn’t get the nurturing you needed, you may try to get it from every person you meet or try to take care of everyone in your life, despite their protests.
Cancers can be sensitive and if you’re a high level Cancer your sensitivity to others is life affirming. You spread your wings and everyone in your environment feels supported and taken care of. If you’re a low level Cancer you respond to every real or imaginary slight in sight. Your feelings are easily hurt and being self-centered, they are infinitely more important than other peoples. The rich bitch and hotel owner, Leona Helmsley, was a Cancer. So, of course, is George Bush. Instead of being the Nurturer in Chief, he’s the Chief Destroyer.
Cancers, low or high level, like a feeling of rootedness to feel secure. Yet, sometimes Cancers grow the most when they don’t have a secure place to call home. A high level Cancer, the Dalai Lama, has made the whole world his home, after being evicted from Tibet by brutal Chinese landlords.
A low level Cancer can be overwhelmed and controlled by her or his emotions. Once Cancer moves beyond his or her own personal feelings, however, she or he becomes a reservoir of compassion. Cancer is a cardinal sign, which means it likes to take action and Cancer takes action to protect others, to work for the common good. Having a high level Cancer on your side is like having angelic protection. High level Cancers like Cindy Sheehan have worked tirelessly and with great personal sacrifice to protect young people from having to fight and die in Iraq like her son. Another high level Cancer is former Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton, Robert Reich, who still works night and day to put workers rights on the front burner.
Alan Oken says the following in Soul Centered Astrology about a high level Cancer: This individual “would be found hard at work trying to feed the homeless, creating projects for the best use of agricultural lands, and generally devoting his life to the cohesive networking of men and women of goodwill.”
While the Sun is in Cancer, people are generally more sensitive and security conscious. Home and family are in focus, with the domestic arts taking precedence.
If you’re an Aries, the Cancer month will be spent tending to the home and domestic concerns, including focus on family members. A Taurus, on the other hand, will be spending time improving his or her communication skills, talking, writing, being nurturing with siblings, and making short distance trips.
A Gemini will be tending to money matters and wondering why they insist on clinging to all their possessions. A Cancer will be paying attention to their appearance and working on their self-expression. It’s time to come out of your shell.
A Leo might be moping around when they have to spend more time by themselves, and getting in touch with their hidden insecurities, before their yearly debut in the month of August. It’s Virgo’s month to nurture friends and join groups for the benefit of humanity, while Libras will be out in the public, working on their career and standing in the community.
For Scorpio it’s time to travel and learn, focusing on education and associating with people from foreign countries, or publishing that book. During the Cancer month Sagittarius will be spending more time pondering sex, death, and other people’s money. Capricorn will develop and examine relationships and attract more clients. Aquarius will be focused on work and health related issues while Pisces will be having a merry old time with children, lovers, parties and casinos.
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Psychic Vera's Diary
June 16, 2008
Tim Russert Dies During Saturn Return
Well-known, highly respected and well-liked NBC commentator Tim Russert died on Friday a couple of months ahead of his exact Saturn Return. Saturn returns to its natal spot once every 28-29 years and when it occurs it’s time to re-evaluate our direction, and in his case his work and his health, because Saturn is in the sign of Virgo, the health and work sign. Evidently, he couldn’t do either in time. It didn’t help that Saturn was opposing Jupiter, which means it was suppressing the good luck planet, and Uranus had been opposing his Mars since May. This aspect indicates that an abrupt shock could occur and would be brought about if he was failing to pay attention to the need to change his work and health priorities. The article in Wikipedia claimed that he had diabetes, which is highly likely considering he was overweight. He was probably taking medication for it, but his diet may have included too many carbohydrates, which some doctors still believe are healthy for diabetics. Overweight individuals are particularly prone to a carbohydrate addiction. Uncontrolled blood sugar caused by carbohydrates can lead to many lethal ailments, heart problems being a major result.
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Psyhic Vera’s Diary
April 30
Democrats Infected by Bush’s Hateful Divisiveness Cause Some to Flee to McCain
Presidential ambition is a disease that can only be cured by embalming fluid—John McCain
Not only has Bush brought hateful divisiveness to the country at large, he’s also contributed to the poison leaching into the Democrats, which has in turn given McCain’s prospects a boost.
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Psychic Vera’s Diary
April 21
The Pope Figures It Out, At Least Temporarily
The Pope finally seems to know who his real enemies are. Can’t you just imagine what’s going on in his mind as he stands beside Evil Incarnate in this photo. “Get thee behind me Satan,” he’s got to be saying.
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Psychic Vera’s Diary
March 13
Elliot Spitzer: Destroying a Promising Political Career
for a Sexual Chimera
I guess Elliott Spitzer would rather live in sexual fantasyland then be governor of New York. The Venus conjunct Mars and possibly Moon all in Leo square Neptune in Scorpio indicates that the lure of sexual ego gratification is so overwhelming that he was nabbed in a prostitution ring and has had to resign. You got to figure that his subconscious committed an act of sabotage. He obviously did not want to be governor any more, despite any protestations to the contrary. Even Bill Clinton was never implicated in prostitution scandals.
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Psychic Vera’s Diary
February 25
The Primaries and the Ga Ga Obama Excitement
I’m really getting a headache from the primaries and the ga ga excitement over Obama. I keep trying to get stirred up about him because it seems that he’s going to be the Democratic choice and I do feel a little surge when he first starts speaking and then it all falls flat. He’s still not saying anything to me. Not like John Edwards was or even Hillary is now. I’m trying to figure out what people see in Obama but I’ve got to admit I’m flummoxed. He’s good looking, he speaks well and ...
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Pluto is now in Capricorn and will remain there until June and come back again in November for a 15 year stay. While in Sagittarius, the dark side of Christianity, Islam and Judaism has certainly been revealed. In Capricorn, the dark side of government has already begun to be unmasked. Bush brought it into the White House and it’s going to take a savvy man or woman to begin the long process of getting the evil out. Meanwhile there will be lots of turmoil and perhaps a complete transformation of our government by the time Pluto makes its return in the US chart in 2023. It will be imperative to finally cut out the spiritual cancer that’s infecting our country as well as controlling the corporations that are destroying the planet. On a personal level many of us are feeling pressured and pressed for time, stressed out. We’re feeling that we must get something accomplished. Some of us think we’re running out of time that something very big is coming and we have to prepare for it. Others are falling pray to the pressure and are being overwhelmed by dark energies like the actor, Heath Ledger.
There are positive things to say about Pluto in Capricorn. We will have the discipline and endurance to correct the overwhelming problems that plague us.
Governments may be turned on their heads but by the time Pluto travels into Aquarius in 2023 we will be dealing with these issues from a united front. In order to contend with Islamic terrorism for example, all developed countries will have to invest in the Middle Eastern nations to help educate their citizens and to raise the standard of living. John Edwards calls for the end of poverty in this country. There will also be a global effort to get rid of poverty. With Al Gore’s work we can see the beginnings of a united effort against global warming. In fact at Davos this past week he was talking about the necessity of efforts to control global warming and at the same time to uplift third world countries economically.
Personally, the use of Pluto energies is very tricky. If we allow ourselves to fall into the dark side at this late in the game, we’ll reap misery and probably death.
This is boomerang energy. If we use it for intimidation we will reap the whirlwind. However, wherever Pluto in Capricorn is in our charts can bring great healing and powerful assistance from higher sources if we use it for universal welfare.
On a personal level Aries will be dealing with Pluto in the 10th House, career and public standing will go through a complete transformation. Aries can be either be obsessed with world power or have a career that promotes transformation of humanity. Taurus will discover with Pluto in the 9th house, that their viewpoint of the world will be overturned. Many will work towards the transformation of the world through publishing and higher education. Geminis will find that Pluto transforms their attitudes towards sex and death while it’s in the 8th House. Cancer will be in for a major change in Relationships when it’s in the Seventh House while Leo will be seeing the transformation in their health and working environment. Virgo will have their attitudes toward children and creativity, upended. Throwing the light on dark energies through creative projects will be a factor in Virgo’s transformation. Libra will find that their attitudes toward family and home will be transformed. The necessity of major renovations will probably come up, with the possible inclusion of alternative power sources. Scorpio will experience a transformation in their thought processes and in their relationships with neighbors and siblings. Sagittarians will see major changes in how they make money and their relationship to material resources. Capricorns will see their appearance change and they’ll have to take care that they don’t become more controlling and pushy than usual. On a positive level they will be in the vanguard for transforming governmental policies. Aquarians will be working on dark energies in their unconscious, bringing them up to the surface and into the light. Pisces will see their friendships go through changes and more energy could be expended in humanitarian groups.
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Psychic Vera’s Diary
January 28
If I like the idea of a black president and I like the idea of a woman president why did I vote for John Edwards in the California primary (absentee ballot)?
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Huckabee is a Virgo, which makes him puritanical at least on the surface. He is, after all, a Baptist minister. Underneath he’s something different. He has 5 Leo planets and a massive Venus (love), Mars (sex), Pluto (obsessive and dark), Sun (ego) conjunction in the sign of the Lion. With Saturn (restriction) in Scorpio (sex) and possibly the Moon (emotions), this is a fellow that is obsessed with sex and this obsession is probably the reason that he used to be so fat. The fatter he was, the less likely he would be able to express his lust. Lust and the ministry don't go together unless you're Ted Haggard. Apparently, he also has very fat children. One of them slit a dog’s throat while he was a counselor at a Boy Scott camp. Needless to say he was fired but then Huckabee tried to have it covered up.
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Psychic Vera’s Diary
January 11
Mars Opposes Pluto
Tiger kills, Benazir Bhutto is assassinated, missing hiker is found murdered and decapitated in Georgia, man murders and cooks girlfriend in Texas, dangerous California storm puts out the lights for days and cuts houses in half, brutal violence in Kenya after elections, man throws children off bridge
I’m hoping that the energy from this horrible aspect dissipates soon. It peaked on Wednesday, January 2nd but because Mars has been retrograding and moving very slowly it’s taking longer than normal to get rid of it.
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Capricorn
December 21--January 20
All Capricorns like to be in control and those on the lover level will become dictatorial to maintain it, rationalizing that they know what is best for the group.
Capricorns are a community sign and are interested in what works for a community on the materialistic level. Capricorns are pragmatic and dislike being emotional (because emotions make them feel out of control), although they will sometimes tolerate feelings in others. Capricorns like organization and they’re ambitious. They feel guilty if they don’t take responsibility. Few Capricorns feel comfortable just leading a couch potato life and feel that they must accomplish something important.
According to Alan Oken in his book, Soul Centered Astrology, lower level Capricorns, however, have a “total attachment to the physical plane”. “Life seems like a constant uphill battle and it is.” These low life Capricorns, like Richard Nixon and Joseph Stalin are motivated by fear. Oken goes on to say that self-seeking creates further karmic debts, “until the bricks turn into boulders and the Capricorn collapses under the weight.” Once the ego is torn, a glimmer of light can penetrate the hard packed earth and a ray of light awakens the unconscious heart. A higher level Capricorn begins to see the spiritual value within the forms of life. Whereas before Capricorn was just concerned with money and status, now she or he is interested in taking on responsibility so they can help others. On the highest level Capricorn is able to manifest the Light of the Spirit into the Material World and become the representative on a community level for it.
January is the best month for getting ourselves organized for the rest of the year. Starting our exercise programs, dumping possessions that we no longer need, organizing our homes, beginning to actualize our ambitions and learning how to detach ourselves ultimately from a fixation on a material level so we can bring light into our communities are all worthwhile goals.
With the month of Capricorn, Aries will be focused on its career and relationship to authority while Taurus will be more interested in religion and spiritual perspectives (as long as their pragmatic). Taurus will also be interested in foreign travel and higher learning. Gemini will be focused on sex, other people’s resources and feelings, and their attitudes towards death. Cancer will focused on relationships while Leo will be focused on health and its working environment. Virgo will, believe it or not, be enjoying itself this month, particularly with hobbies, lovers, and children as well as creative projects. Libra will be focused in the home and with family members. It’s a good time for them to do some house renovations. Scorpio will be interested in siblings, neighbors, will do more short distance traveling. For Sagittarians, money will be important and the state of their finances, while Capricorn will be coming out and displaying themselves more this month. Aquarius will be in retreat, trying to gather their energies for their astrological year which begins next month while Pisces is interested in being practical about displaying its compassion and working on a community level.
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All earth (Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn) and water signs (Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces) will benefit when Jupiter goes into Capricorn on Tuesday December 18th. Although Jupiter may feel constricted in the sign of Capricorn, all earthworks and projects, financial and career concerns will be in focus for the next year. Jupiter’s optimism will be tempered with the practical realism of Capricorn.
Aries will progress in its career as Jupiter affects the 10th house of career and public reputation. Taurus may travel, go back to school, publish and publicly express their thoughts while Gemini will be focused on other people’s resources—emotional and financial, sexual energies, death related issues and may gain an inheritance. Cancer will see an influx of relationships, personal as well as professional and the possibility of making a commitment. Leo will benefit in their work and will make progress with their health. Virgo will have a creative year and benefit through their children and loved ones. Libra will be focused on the home and family issues, property sales will prosper. Scorpio will be communicating more, particularly with neighbors and siblings, taking more short distance trips, expanding their communications in all ways. Sagittarius will be having better luck with their finances. Their financial base will expand. This is the year for Capricorns to spread their wings and be more social and outgoing. Aquarius will discover their spiritual support and refuge and benefit through working behind the scenes, getting in touch with their unconscious and working through institutions. Pisces will find that their group associations and friendships expand; working on economic issues in a community setting will be satisfying.
Psychic Vera’s Diary
December 10
Robert Hawkins: Another Taurus Mass Murderer
The sign of Taurus is known for its earthy productiveness and stubbornness.
The higher level Taurus’ I know are fantastic people, attuned with nature, and are wondrously creative on the material plane. Low level Taurus’ can be explosive tyrants. Unable to transform their dark sides, they can do damage to others and there are quite a few mass murderers that were born under this sign There was Hitler, Jim Jones. There was Charles Whitman, Timothy McVeigh. Now there is Robert Hawkins, the killer of nine innocent people in an Omaha, Nebraska mall.
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PSYCHIC VERA'S DIARY
November 23
Rudy Giuliani: President in Drag?
With Saturn conjunct his Midheaven and square his Ascendant, it’s a wonder Rudy Giuliani has made it this far in his quest for worldly power and self-aggrandizement. However, there is another politician with something similar; Bush has Saturn square the Midheaven and he’s president of the United States. Apparently, it doesn’t stop politicians from ascending the heights but it can bring them low if they fail in their responsibility to the public. Look what happened to Adolph Hitler. Saturn is the planet of karma and restriction. The Midheaven says something about career and our public image. Both Bush and Giuliani have a problem in this area of their lives. With Saturn you have to play by the rules and neither man has done so.
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Diane Feinstein—Insecure, Frightened and Unbalanced
November 5
Diane Feinstein is too feminine to be a Senator. No, I don’t mean that femininity precludes doing a good job as a politician. What I’m talking about is the dominance of feminine planets in her horoscope. She is unbalanced with 7 possibly 8, if the Moon is in Cancer, of her planets in feminine signs. She has a stellium of planets in Cancer and Virgo. You’d think she’d be happier staying at home and baking cookies with that combination. Instead she is barreling ahead making bad decisions: her latest is her stated support for Mukasey, the Bush choice for Attorney General, despite his refusal to repudiate water boarding as an acceptable means of coercion. Her positions since 9-11 have, for the most part, allowed Bush to carry on his desecration of our constitutional rights. According to Wikipedia, Feinstein “voted to give the attorney general and the director of national intelligence the power to approve international surveillance of the communications of Americans entirely within the executive branch, rather than through the special intelligence court established by FISA. Many privacy advocates have decried this law and Senator Feinstein's vote in favor of it.”
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Psychic Vera’s Diary
October 08, 2007
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: Erratic fantasist but not Adolph Hitler
Iran’s Ahmadinejad has been demonized by George W. Bush, the Neo-Conservatives and the state department and yet the two of them have several astrological factors in common. For example, both are water signs, strongly impacted by Neptune. George Bush is a Cancer with a square (discordant) aspect from Neptune (planet of illusion, delusion) while Ahmadinejad is a Scorpio with a conjunction aspect (in the same place) to Neptune. Both men are seriously deluded. George still thinks he’s talking to a god who is telling him to continue the slaughter in Iraq and is whispering in his ear about attacking Iran. Mahmoud believes there are no homosexuals in his country and that the holocaust didn’t happen.
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Psychic Vera's Diary
September 17
It’s not just about the lunatics in charge of the asylum although that cliché does seem to describe our present government. It’s also about the low-level criminals who’ve managed to pool their resources and shut down our great democratic experiment. Low level meaning that these people have the consciousness of a flea.
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Psychic Vera’s Diary
Sept 1
Larry Craig: Another Hypocrite Bites the Dust
The first thing I notice about Senator Larry Craig’s chart is his Venus conjunct Uranus. Sometimes this means that the person with this aspect is interested in unconventional (Uranus) love affairs (Venus). Karl Rove has a Venus/Uranus aspect. It doesn’t always point to homosexuality, but it can. I’d say in Larry’s case, it does. There have been rumors about him for years.
Sean Hannity of Fox news was in an uproar this evening talking about people having sex in bathrooms. Why would anyone do it? He wondered. Why would anyone risk their life and position in the Senate? Although I agreed with Hannity, he didn’t say anything about Craig’s hypocrisy, at least, while I was listening to him, and that’s what ticks me off the most. I understand that a Republican from a right wing state, like Idaho, doesn’t feel comfortable coming out but he did his best to vote against every bill linked to equal rights for homosexuals. Larry Craig is a bastard. Who knows how many gay men and lesbians have been hurt by his pandering to the religious right wing in his state. He’s just like the rest of the closeted Republicans who refuse to take any responsibility for their actions.
Larry Craig has two things in common with Bush. Both are Cancers with Saturn in that sign. Both have no major aspects to that Saturn. They are self-absorbed (low-level Cancers) and they are completely irresponsible (Saturn unaspected). George doesn’t believe he made any mistakes in his entire presidential career. How could he? He relies on God’s advice. God doesn’t make mistakes. George denies that Iraq is a mistake that he and his administration botched up the response to Katrina and are still botching it up, leaving poor people to rot down there in hell hole Louisiana. Larry Craig also denies everything. He denies he made any sexual advance to the officer, he denied he ever had sex with a man; he denies that he is homosexual. His denial and homosexual compartmentalization makes it easy for him to justify his homophobic political positions.
Howard, a gay friend of mine, said Larry Craig was pathetic. He almost felt sorry for him, an old bald homosexual who had lived his entire life, denying who he was. He could almost feel sorry for him if his self-hatred hadn’t led him to try and punish others who accepted their sexuality while he obviously couldn’t.
Psychic Vera's Diary
August 14, 2007
Karl Rove: A Control Freak’s Demise
Karl gave a little good-by speech yesterday that was the best example of a Mercury square Neptune delusion that I’ve seen in quite sometime. He thanked the president for being able to work with the “extraordinary men and women” in the White House and complimented Bush on having “far sighted courage to put the country on a war footing”. He claimed that the president boosted the economy and created jobs. Keith Olbermann had a good phrase for Karl’s Mercury/Neptune blither; he called it science fiction.
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Psychic Vera's Diary
August 04, 2007
11:45 PM
Moon in Taurus
I was very tired. I went to sleep and then woke up after about a half hour. A racing heart and a sinking feeling in my stomach told me that I have the willies. Bush has given them to me with his insane incompetence and bullyboy behavior. Any bad thing is possible in this sick republic of ours. The energy feels awful to anyone that’s sensitive to it. People are blaming the Democrats. Sixteen are to blame in the Senate for the passage of that spy bill. Saturn will come to a perfect trine to Pluto early on Monday morning. Trines are supposed to be positive but sometimes they can just make it easier for dark energy (Pluto) to materialize, to become a law (Saturn).
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Another Dick Cheney is a Psychopath Article
We all know that Dick Cheney is a jerk, but he’s worse than that. He’s a psychopathic jerk. I’ve written about this numerous times but he continues to do things that compel me to write another “Dick Cheney is a psychopath” article. I sound like a broken record even to myself but people are still continually asking me what’s wrong with him. “He’s a psychopath,” I tell them. “He was born that way.” I found a website that lists traits of people with this character disorder and he’s got most of them. It’s disturbing to fully realize that the Vice President of the United States has a major personality disorder. However, Paul Roberts, a conservative who used to work in the Reagan administration, believes that the entire Bush administration is made up of dangerous psychopaths. That’s the reason the majority of Americans don’t understand what has been happening to our country. How can normal people understand these monsters with no conscience?
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Psychic Vera’s Diary
June 05
Moon in Aquarius
Scooter Libby didn’t scoot out of judgment today as Judge Walton performed a great humanitarian service (Aquarius) by sending him to jail for 2.5 years for lying and obstructing justice. There’s no question in my mind that Scooter is just the tip of a very dirty iceberg with Cheney being the base of the filth, but punishing Scooter is better then punishing no one at all for destroying Valerie Plame’s career and endangering numerous CIA agents. When I looked at Scooter’s (that’s hardly a name for a man, more a name for a dog-- Cheney’s dog) chart yesterday, I thought he was being the sacrificial patsy for the VP. Is he that enamored with his old boss, that’s he’s willing to go to jail rather than reveal what Cheney told him to do? I’m sure Scooter was surprised by the sentence. Transiting Mars is opposing his Neptune today, which brings disappointment and confusion in its wake. Cheney and his partners in crime probably told Scooter that he’d get out of being sent to jail if only he’d keep mum about the VP’s involvement. That obviously didn’t work.
Transiting Pluto is doing its damage with it’s malignant square to the North and South Node. The great German cosmobiologist, Reinhold Ebertin in his book, The Combination of Stellar Influences, says the following about the negative aspects of this Pluto Node combination: The state of feelings one’s association with other people is a burden, the feeling of being cramped in ones style through the influence of others, with subsequent suffering because of this. More can be ascertained by looking at what Ebertin says about Scooter’s Mercury, which is conjunct the North Node and also squared by Pluto. Negative aspects of Mercury/Node include: the calculated use of contact and relationship with other people for one’s own personal benefit, the inclination to chatter or gossip (about Valerie Plame?). A negative Pluto/Mercury combination reveals: Hasty thinking and speaking, irritability, premature action, impatience, overestimation of the self.
Overestimation of the self and arrogance are traits that are mentioned again when we read about the degree symbol for Libby’s Leo Sun Sign. The Zodiac Image Handbook—Fixed Signs by Helene and Willem Koppejan describes the symbol as: The angel of the Sun touches the earth with the point of his flaming sword, making sparks fly before a crouching lion with its head raised. It is caparisoned with a saddle and plumes. They interpret the symbol in the following way: There are two sides to this character. The left side is the lower level of the over-decorated crouching lion. This side embodies the features of what is the danger for Leo: spiritual laziness, indolence, outer glory and no true will to humble and discipline oneself. People on this lower level think too much of themselves, overestimate their own prominence and are puffed up with their own self-importance. Scooter, however, has a greater destiny if he would use his higher side: he is to be the messenger of the creator of love light and heat and what is more, to earth this with the flaming sword or with the words of the spirit. These people are irresistible in their urge to perform great deeds of power and glory, and they will sparkle and radiate. The Koppejans equate Libby’s degree with Prometheus who stole fire from the gods for the benefit of mankind. They say, “Prometheus was right to do this, but his fault was high-handedness.”
More Pluto aspects include a trine to the Sun, which although a positive aspect, obviously indicates that he is facing dark energy. Using this negatively, Ebertin writes that Pluto Sun indicates “physical suffering, martyrdom, separation by Providence, again overestimation of self and arrogance.” Perhaps we could say that due to his pride and arrogance he is paying the price by going to jail. I can’t help but think that maybe he’s been separated by Providence from his criminal colleagues, including the vice-president, in order to get in touch with the positive possibilities of his Leo Sun degree.
Martyrdom is mentioned again in Ebertin’s description of the Saturn/Pluto combination that has been plaguing Libby for quite awhile as transiting Saturn has been conjuncting Libby’s Pluto. Ebertin goes on to say that this combination indicates, the pursuit of purely egoistic aims. A person who is prevented by others from reaping the success that is due him as the result of hard work. The application of force or of compulsion, self-destructive energy. The loss of one’s fortunes or possessions.
I hope that he gets in touch with his higher side in jail and reveals the Vice President’s mendacity and responsibility for this Valerie Plame debacle.
Psychic Vera's Diary
May 31
Moon in Sagittarius
We can usually expect a chuckle when the Moon is in Sagittarius and I got one today from my friend Steve. This is what he wrote in an email:
“I was listening to Mitt Romney on C-span this afternoon at a "Town Hall" meeting. He's really a mediocrity but so are most Republicans. One woman asked him what he would do about the fact that we are in such low esteem around the world. She said people outside the US think we are all liberal. She wanted to know what Mitt would do to get out the conservative message to people in other countries.
How can anyone be so disconnected from reality?
She should just shoot herself.”
I got that response from Steve after I sent him a link about Al Hurra television which is “the U.S. government's $63 million-a-year effort at public diplomacy broadcasting in the Middle East, run by executives and officials who cannot speak Arabic, according to a senior official who oversees the program. That might explain why critics say the service has recently been caught broadcasting terrorist messages, including an hour-long tirade on the importance of anti-Jewish violence, among other questionable pieces.”
Employing no Arab speaking officials at an Arab television network is as logical as discharging all the Arab speakers in the U.S. military because they were gay.
Those right wing conservatives are real cards.
Psychic Vera's Diary
May 30th
Moon in Scorpio
Today I heard two Scorpio stories. Scorpio is the sign of sex and death and these stories both dealt with the latter and not the former, unfortunately. The first story was much worse than the second, which had a somewhat happy ending.
A woman I know, I'll call her B, described what was happening to her daughter and son-in-law in Iraq. Because they're married, both are stationed in the Green Zone in Baghdad. Her daughter has developed many infections, including cysts on her legs and one of her kidneys but she wasn't getting any medical help until B called the Red Cross and she was taken to a hospital. Meanwhile, B's son-in-law had broken his ankle and despite it being a compound fracture, he was neither treated nor taken off duty. While on guard duty, he passed out and dislocated his shoulder and hurt his head. Still no treatment. B's daughter has told her mother that there are many more soldier suicides. Initially, she seemed to like her duty in Iraq, telling her mother that the Iraqis really need our help. Now it's a moot point. If our soldiers can't help themselves, how can they help the Iraqis. B was a registered Republican. I wonder if she's planning to change her registration? Today she prefaced her remarks with, "Our government is not taking care of our soldiers over there." B said she was trying to get them out of Iraq. She'll certainly get more help from our member of Congress, an anti-war Democrat and a woman, then she'll ever get out of any of those sociopaths in the Bush administration, including the delusional commander-in-chief.
The second story involved a friend's description of the intense Scorpio day she had yesterday. In the middle of the ringing phones and orders up the yazoo(she owns an internet business, Africantreasures.com),one of her cats dragged a baby bird--a Grosbeak into the house and was ready to devour it when K rescued it and put it in the bathroom with a couple of drops of Bach's Rescue Remedy on its beak. Unfortunately, moments later, her kitty captured another baby bird, killed it and dragged it into the house. Before K could do anything to stop it, one of her two dogs gulped it down. The rescued baby bird was taken to Wild Bird Rescue.
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Saturn Takes Out Jerry Falwell
May 15, 2007
Today I thanked God that Saturn, the grim reaper and God’s judge, was allowed to take out Jerry Falwell. No more mischief making for this troublesome bully boy, who with Mars (hostility) opposing Uranus (erratic individualism) and square Pluto attracted hostility wherever he went with his discordant divisiveness.
Saturn made a perfect conjunction today to Falwell’s Leo Sun and down he went. Leo energies influence the heart and Saturn in Leo means that Falwell was felled by a heart block. There were other astrological aspects impinging upon him as well.
Mars (anger) just went into Aries this morning, perhaps increasing his irritation and accelerating his adrenalin. The Uranus Jupiter square that peaked last Thursday had also been involved with Falwell’s Venus, which makes me think that he was having relationship problems, perhaps with his wife, perhaps with a new (Uranus) relationship that was getting out of hand. Maybe he just wanted a change in his marriage but didn’t know how to go about it without leaving his wife.
Although beneficial Jupiter was making a positive aspect to Falwell’s Sun, it wasn’t enough to mitigate Saturn from lowering the boom. On the other hand, maybe Jupiter gave Falwell what he really wanted, an escape, and offered us all a gift as well.
Pope Ratzinger: Blurting out his Dark Side
May 14, 2007
Pope Ratzinger has once again put both feet in his mouth, a victim yet again of planetary energies and his own myopia. While in Brazil he has offended the Indian leaders who described him as “arrogant and disrespectful,” by claiming that the Catholic Church had purified them. Further, he said that going back to their native religion would be a regressive step. Adding more to their outrage, the Pope said that the Indians had happily welcomed the arrival of the Catholic priests at the time of the Spanish conquest because they had a secret longing for Christianity.
How can we forget the Pope’s Mercury (communications) conjunct Uranus (unpredictable, iconoclastic) square Mars (impulsivity, aggression) in blabbermouth Gemini and his offensive remarks to Muslims in September of last year. Then as now, Pluto is the culprit, as it is still affecting his 10th house of reputation and public recognition. Presently, it’s making an inharmonious square to his Mercury square Mars. Add transiting Mars to the Pluto aspects on Sunday and it appears that the Pope’s repressed hostility is coming up to the surface. With Pluto (the dark side) still in the sign of Sagittarius (religion), Pope Ratzinger is exhibiting the shadow side of Christianity.
Back in September we also discussed the planetoid Eris and its discordant influence and it’s prominent conjunction to the Pope’s Mercury Uranus conjunction and square his Mars. He has again sown dissention where he had hoped to bring fallen away South American Catholics back into the fold.
It’s unfortunate that the Pope is not aware enough to control his response to astrological energies. Although with Pisces rising, he’s motivated towards the spiritual life, he’s also unclear about who he is or what is lurking in his subconscious. Pisces rising has a difficult time clearly seeing themselves. He’s probably too old for increased self-awareness, but there’s always hope.
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Cho Seung-Hui: A Capricorn Run-A-Muck in a
Run-a-Muck Gun Culture
April 20, 2007
Capricorn is a sign that likes to be in control but when its inner control breaks down Capricorn really loses it. In a society with better gun control, Capricorn Cho Seung-Hui might have not have had the opportunity to run-a-muck and commit the worst massacre in U.S. history. Korean culture and the violent U.S. society Cho was living in also had an important part to play in this terrible tragedy along with Cho’s astrological, psychological, and spiritual dynamics that led to the Virginia massacre.
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Alberto Gonzalez: Bush’s Valet
According to Republican Party confidante and journalist Robert Novak, Republicans are telling him that Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez is incompetent and should be fired for his part in the dismissals of eight United States attorneys due to their perceived disloyalty to the president. Novak also writes that a credible source in the White House says that Bush will never ask Gonzalez to resign. Gonzalez has been Bush’s attorney for years, beginning when Bush was Governor of Texas but he acts like the president’s valet, and just like any rich man’s valet he’s allowed Bush to get away with murder and kept silent about it. "Even Ashcroft would push back at the White House when they pushed too far - Gonzalez, never," said Senator Schumer, who voted against Mr. Gonzalez' appointment after interviewing him… He totally saw his role as George Bush's lawyer."
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Psychic Vera's Diary
March 3, 2007
Ann Coulter: The Weasel Turkey Strikes Again
Almost a year ago to the day I wrote an article about Ann Coulter. Since the putrid pontificator is at it again I'm reposting it before I send it to the archives. I've added a postscript because it ties in so well to the article I just posted on the Saturn Neptune Opposition. Friday she spoke at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference CPAC) in Washington, D.C., and said: “I was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, but it turns out you have to go into rehab if you use the word ‘faggot,’ so I -- so kind of an impasse, can’t really talk about Edwards.”
Ann, by the way, is a supporter of Mitt Romney. If you want to find out more about Mormonism and the author's experience with fundamentalism, read Robert Tanner's book, Two Horns of the Devil, sold on this website.
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About Saturn Opposing Neptune
February 25, 2007
The Truth Will Make Us Free--Jesus
Saturn opposing Neptune will peak again on Wednesday, February 18th. This aspect has been creating difficulties for us for quite sometime. When planetary energies are in opposition, they are conflicted with one another.
Saturn, which represents earthy reality, karma, and limitation, has been in conflict with Neptune, which represents idealism, illusion, and spiritual awareness. With Neptune in Aquarius, many of us have been longing for a new spiritual attunement, but we’ve been broadsided by the reality of prejudice, bigotry, and the small mindedness, and even violence of those that practice fundamentalist religion. Fundamentalism wears the same clothing no matter which religion is followed, particularly the Western religious faiths of Islam, Christianity, and Judaism.
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Sociopaths in the White House
January 30, 2007
For what shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul-----Jesus
Dick Cheney could be in deep doo doo as Scooter Libby’s defense team refuses to allow their client to be a sacrificial lamb for the sociopaths in the White House.
I just finished psychologist Martha Stout’s book, The Sociopath Next Door. Although she says only 4 percent of the population has no conscience, I’m convinced that the Bush Administration includes more than their fair share. In fact I wouldn’t be surprised if there were a higher percentage in the White House now than there has been in any past administration.
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January 07, 2007
The Nasty End of Saddam Hussein and
Another Bush Master Plan for Violence
It's another end to a fantastic week with the "well thought out" and "diplomatic hanging"of Saddam Hussein right at the beginning of EID, the Moslem holy days. It's still hard to believe that people in our government could be so incredibly stupid. As Ted Rall said, leave it up to a nation of frat boys to make a butcher like Hussein into a saint. Sunni Moslems now believe Hussein is a hero, after coming to the conclusion when he was dragged out of his rat hole that he deserved whatever punishment he received.
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