About Virgo

August 22-September 22

With the Sun traveling through the sign of Virgo we’ll spend the next month being more critical, analytical, focused on work and service, paying attention to detail, health and diet.

As with every sign there are lower and higher level types. Lower level Virgos can be critical, carping, and have low self-esteem. Unlike more organized and clear thinking Virgos, they can be messy and confused.  The Kabbalists say that the month of Virgo is the time for purification.  Virgos are happy when they take the time to rid themselves of extra weight, addictions, and superfluous materialism.While some people think that Virgo women can be petty and sexually cold, the higher types enjoy their sexuality and are loyal partners in treasured relationships. Almost all Virgos have a good sense of humor, and are witty and adaptable. Some Virgo comedians include Bob Newhart, the late Paul Lynn, and Lewis Black. While lower level Virgos have trouble with work, higher-level natives are happiest when they are of service to others. In his book, Soul Centered Astrology, Alan Oken says that low levels “have a horror of open spaces and will fill the air with excessive words, closets with superfluous clothing, and minds with needless thoughts.”

Higher levels, on the other hand, are “discriminating, know what to keep, what to throw away, and where to find work that allows creative self-expression, benefits and serves others in the process, so that they may have a clearer understanding of their function and role in society.” The more spiritual the Virgo becomes the more he or she is focused clearly on world service.

During the month of Virgo, Aries will be focused on work and health, while Taurus will be spending time with children and lovers, going to parties and working on creative projects. Gemini will find home and family most important while Cancer will be communicating and studying more, spending more time with siblings and neighbors as well as on short distance trips. For Leo, the Virgo month is the ideal time to pay detailed attention to financial matters.  For Virgo it’s time to come out of their August hibernation and shine.  Libra, on the other hand, needs to spend more time by itself, relaxing and withdrawing, while for Scorpio it’s friendship and group involvement time. Sagittarius is focused on career and being more public. Capricorn likes to travel and is concerned with higher education and learning. It’s time for Aquarius to be focused on sexual issues and other people’s resources, as well as having more interest in what happens after death. If you’re a Pisces, it’s time to work on relationships.

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Mercury Retrograde

Mercury starts retrograding on August 20th. We should put off starting any new projects until after September 12th when Mercury is no longer retrograde. It’s a good time, though, to reevaluate old projects. We should also delay buying appliances or cars because even new items may be lemons and break down. Be prepared for people cancelling appointments, mail that goes missing, people telling us wrong information and saying things they don’t mean. With Mercury retrograding in Virgo, we may have more trouble than usual with health and work issues.  We can get wrong diagnosis or have communication problems at work.  Paying attention to details can alleviate much of the problems when Mercury is retrograding in Virgo. We need to guard against saying the wrong things at the wrong time. If you travel during Mercury Retrograde, make sure your vehicle is in good condition and be willing to adapt to new contingencies along the way.

With Mercury in Virgo:  Aries may see communication problems at work or have miscommunications about health issues.  Taurus could have trouble talking with children or loved ones.  Try not to be overly critical.  Gemini could have communication mishaps in the home and with family members. Not the best time to buy property as you may get erroneous information.  Cancer needs to guard their tongue with siblings and neighbors and be careful in traffic.  For Leo mistakes can be made with paychecks and banks.  Details in financial matters are especially important to pay attention to.  Virgo is the most likely sign to have problems with Mercury retrograde this time around.  You may get aggressive without paying attention and create snarls in other people’s lives as well as your own.  Libra could have miscommunication coming through dreams and the subconscious.  Scorpio might have trouble with communications with friends and difficulty getting his or her point across in groups.  Sagittarius could have communication problems with bosses and authority figures.  Capricorn might have difficulties with airlines and schedules, missing appointments, or having problems with school admissions.  Aquarius could have problems with debts, joint finances, and miscommunication about sexual issues.  Pisces should guard against communication difficulties with partners.  Being too critical is not conducive to cooperation.

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 What I know About Leo

July 22—August 23

I know Leo likes to be the center of attention and will sometimes do anything to get it; they even like negative attention.  Despite this, they are rarely petty or small-minded.

They like praise and large gestures.  They can be generous and magnanimous, take control of any organization and do a wonderful job.  People like Leo bosses because they appreciate their employees and tell them so. They can generally speak well and sometimes they can hold us all transfixed.  Bill Clinton is like that.  So was my father. Unless they’re acting like showoffs they are dignified and respected.   They rarely complain so they aren’t often pitied.

Lower level Leos are too egocentric.  Always trying to grab the attention, they want to dominate everyone in their vicinity.  This can be quite tedious because people soon tire of their constant desire for praise and positive feedback.  Although Higher-level Leos like Barek Obama still like the attention, they are more interested in using the dynamism of their will and personality in a positive community setting.  According to Alan Oken in Soul Centered Astrology, Leos on a higher level are able to “instill and inspire a group within which he/she serves a central role and function.  Leo becomes a vehicle for the creative will as it functions to hold any group together.”  Motivated by love instead of just ego, Leo functions beautifully in any community setting as a leader with authentic purpose, receiving plenty of admiration for their efforts.

During the month of August when the Sun is in Leo, Aries will be ready for parties, focusing on their children, creative projects, and entertaining themselves. Taurus will be focused on the home and their families, real estate, and their roots. Gemini will be immersed in conversations, communications of all sorts, short distance traveling, and relationships with neighbors and siblings.
It’s time for Cancer to work on their finances and their attitude towards money and possessions. For Leo the month of August is all about themselves. It’s time to get more attention, time to come out of hiding, time to be dramatic, time to be the boss. It’s time for Virgo to do the opposite.  It’s time to withdraw, relax, and have a spiritual month.  Replenish your energies.

August is Libra’s time to be with friends and join groups while secretive Scorpio is more out in the open and in the public limelight.
Sagittarius finds traveling enjoyable during the month of August or getting ready for school while Capricorn is focused on sex and issues about death and joint finances. Aquarius is spending more time with partners and thinking about relationships while Pisces is more focused on work and health.

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Saturn in Libra

 

It’s a big deal when Saturn changes signs and that is happening July 21 when it travels into Libra.  It will remain in Libra for 2 years. The Mutable Signs, Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces will be getting a well earned break.  Saturn in Virgo has been pretty tough on some of us, particularly with regards to work and health.  Now it will be the Cardinal Signs’, Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn’s turn to suffer the slings and arrows from this difficult planetary energy.  Saturn in Libra indicates that for the next couple of years, there will be lessons to be learned with regards to relationships.  If we fail to pay attention to a weakness in this area of our lives, Saturn will hone in on our Achilles heels.  Libra wants to be fair and balanced and Saturn will make sure we follow through.

For Aries, relationships should take priority.  Responsibilities must be considered when getting involved with any relationship.  You may enter into long term partnerships during the next 2 years.  Taurus may find that work becomes harder and that there are responsibilities and issues around fellow employees.  It’s also a good idea to pay attention to your health.  Gemini may find that relationships with lovers and children take on more responsibilities, while there could be losses with gambling or in the stock market.  Cancer finds that home and family attracts more responsibilities.  Be circumspect about buying property during this time.  Leo needs to focus on relationships with siblings.  This is also a good time for serious study.  Virgo will be paying attention to finances while Libra may find that health matters most of all.  Get a check-up, eat a healthy diet.  Scorpio may spend more time by themselves and find that they have insecurities about their marriage or partnership.  Sagittarius might get more involved with friends, or decide they don’t want to bother due to too many responsibilities.  Capricorns will reach the pinnacle of their career and/or take on more concerns in their public life.  Aquarius may find that traveling is more difficult but it’s a good time to take up the responsibility of higher education.  Pisces needs to analyze their sexual relationships, their attitudes towards death, and realize that joint finances bring responsibilities.

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Psychic Vera’s Diary

July 5
Sharron Angle: Another Tea Party Fanatic

“You can make more money on unemployment than you can going down and getting one of those jobs that is an honest job but it doesn’t pay as much. We’ve put in so much entitlement into our government that we really have spoiled our citizenry.”
                                                                                                     --Sharron Angle

Alternet.org has a good article on it’s website about the dangers of the Tea Party and the website wants to follow through with an investigation of individuals who belong to the tea party movement.  I thought I do my part by writing about Tea Partiers who are running for public office.  In my last entry, I wrote again about Sarah Palin, who is a Tea Party supporter. This time I’ll analyze Sharron Angle who is a Tea Party/Republican candidate running for the Senate against Majority Leader Henry Reid in Nevada.

Angle is a Leo born, July 26, 1949, which makes her a double Leo because the Moon is probably in Leo too.  I say “probably” because I don’t have a timed birth chart.  Her main motivation in life is to be the center of attention and she’s now up to her eyeballs and is enjoying every minute of it.  The degree symbol for her Sun sign is a “sad-looking man, seated on a stool, is leaning forward with one hand on his knee.  The figure is vaguely lit up by sunlight, obscured by a dark cloud.”  The interpretation reads that when “on a low level of spiritual awareness, the melancholy becomes a real barrier against the light from above, these people may become morally weak and even degenerate into a state of senile decay.  In such cases there is little spiritual development, but like a cloud, emotionalism overshadows them; their life can then become disorderly and inconsequential.  It may be her own egoism and greed, which obstruct the light of higher life.”

With Venus the planet of love and relationships conjunct Saturn, the restrictor, both in Virgo, and square Chiron, she doesn’t have a lot of love to give and is very critical of her loved ones.  She may have inherited this trait from a cold and critical father (Saturn in Virgo). Judging from some of her political positions and the quote above about the unemployed, she has little empathy.

With a Mars conjunct Uranus in Cancer, Angle is touchy, impulsive (Mars in Cancer) erratic and weird (conjunct Uranus).  She has sided with scientologists over drug issues and a legislative proposal for a program of massages and sweat-boxes for prisoners.  Her Mercury (thinking) and Sun (Ego) in Leo opposing Jupiter (inflation exaggeration, extremism) makes her a lunatic fringe Republican who wants to ax the Department of Education, our membership in the United Nations, the IRS, Medicare and Social Security. She doesn’t believe in global warming.  She wants to drill, drill, drill for oil.  Her opinions probably match the John Birch Society platform.  She’s against abortion of course, even in cases of rape and incest.  She hates homosexuals and deplores the idea of same-sex marriage.  This Mercury/Sun/Jupiter aspect gives her the idea that she is privileged and special, exactly what she accuses the unemployed as thinking.  The Bush family members have the Sun/Jupiter aspect and are always surprised and outraged when we think that they act like trailer trash.  How could we when they’re obviously superior.  Arrogance is the key word here and Sharron Angle is filled to the brim with it. 

I don’t think she’s going to win in the November election.  Her aspects compared to Harry Reid’s aren’t all that good but I’ll look at them more closely at another time.

 

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Psychic Vera’s Diary

July 4
Sarah Palin and her Female Followers: A Shared Delusion

The Christian right is now poised to become a women’s movement—and Sarah Palin is its earthy Jerry Falwell. 
Lisa Miller in Newsweek, June 21, 2010 Issue

It’s sad and frustrating to me that a high percentage of religious right wing women can’t see that Sarah Palin is an evil bitch.  According to the June 21 edition of Newsweek, Sarah (who is on the cover) is trapping scores of evangelical women in her political web. 

Apparently, they believe that she is like Queen Ester in the Old Testament or as one of her followers said when she was asked what she saw in Palin, the woman quoted Proverbs 31.  Are we meant to believe that Sarah, “chooses wool and flax and with a will sets about her work.  Like a ship laden with merchandise she brings home food from far off (particularly after she has earned thousands from her idiotic speeches).  She rises while it is still dark and apportions food for her household with a due share for her servants.  After careful thought she buys a field and plants a vineyard out of her earnings.  She sets about her duties resolutely and tackles her work with vigor.  She sees that her business goes well and all night long her lamp does not go out.  She holds the distaff in her hand and her fingers grasp the spindle.  She is open-handed to the wretched and extends help to the poor. (Has anyone ever seen her give anything to the poor) When it snows she has no fear for her household, for they are wrapped in double cloaks.  She makes her own bed coverings of fine linen and purple (I might like her better if she did this rather than roam around killing animals for fun).  Her husband is well known in the assembly, where he takes his seat with the elders in the region(only in Alaska and only because she said so). She weaves linen and sells it, and supplies merchants with sashes (I would like to see her offer a sash to the CEO of BP in consolation for causing the greatest oil spill in US history).  She is clothed in strength and dignity and can afford to laugh at tomorrow (particularly when we consider the next sentence).  When she opens her mouth, it is to speak wisely; her teaching is sound.  She keeps her eye on the conduct of her household (like her daughter’s shotgun marriage and her son-in-law’s modeling in Playgirl) and does not eat the bread of idleness (except when she got waited on hand and foot during her vice-presidential campaign)…”

Although discernment is considered a highly valued spiritual gift by the Christian community, it’s interesting and distressing that few evangelicals seem to have it. I’ve only met one fundamentalist who has it and he no longer claims to be part of that community.  Robert Tanner describes his falling out with them as well as with the Mormons in his book, Two Horns of the Devil, which you can buy on this website as well as on Amazon and Barnes and Noble..

I’ve described Sarah Palin’s Aquarian degree symbol numerous times and I’ll only repeat it here because it indicates her true nature and shows how blind these woman are who can’t see it.  This is the symbol for the 22 degree of her Sun Sign, quoted from the Zodiac Image Handbook by the Koppejans.  Under his forefeet, a furious bull is disemboweling a dog. At the right side, a man is opening up a human corpse.  Is it his victim or the subject of his pathological studies?  The writers describe the individuals that have this degree as enjoying violence and “their brutality can be as wanton as it is ferocious…the lowest version of this degree, in the pure human sign of Aquarius, takes pleasure in mutilating their victims before killing them.” Remember Glenn Beck also has this degree prominent.

Palin was a parishioner in an Alaskan church that was connected to other frightening and extremist religious movements.  One was portrayed in the documentary, Jesus Camp, where five year old children are told that they are sinners and a cardboard copy of George W. Bush stands in front of the children for them to idolize.

Sarah also has that Sun degree square delusional Neptune, which probably means that she can’t see this destructiveness in herself. However, she is able to create a gossamer web of illusion around herself and is able to pull the wool over the women’s eyes that worship her.  It is probable that many of these evangelical women either have Sun, Moon, or Mercury in stressful aspect with Neptune too.  Destructive delusion passes from one to the next and creates trouble and danger for the rest of us who have the gift of discernment and can see the truth about people like Palin.

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CANCER
June 21—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 W. Bush.  Instead of being the Nurturer in Chief, he was 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 9
Joran Andreas Petrus van der Sloot—a true Psychopath

Due to my Scorpio Moon and Saturn conjuncting Pluto in my 12th House I watch a lot of crime drama and sometimes I wonder how accurate the shows really are until psychopaths like Joran van der Sloot come onto the real world stage.  With his recent arrest for the murder of 21 year old Stephany Flores in Peru, perhaps justice will also finally arrive for Natalie Holloway, the Alabaman teenager who disappeared in Aruba 5 years ago to the day that Stephany Flores was found beaten and chocked to death in van der Sloot’s hotel room in Lima. 

I wasn’t able to find van der Sloot’s birth data until recently so I never did an analysis of his chart until a couple of days ago.  What an open book!  Some charts just don’t seem to fit the criminal but van der Sloot’s chart is a textbook case of obsession with violent and perverted sex.  Further, he really enjoys killing.  With his Sun (Ego) in Leo (double Ego) conjunct Venus (romantic relationships) square Pluto (dark intimidation), he enjoys the attention he gets from women and his ability to push them around and have power over them.  His Sun is also conjunct Mars (anger), which indicates that he’s a hostile son-of-a-bitch. (He now claims that his reason for killing Stephany Flores was because while he left his hotel room to get some coffee, she googled his name on his laptop and discovered that he was a suspect in Natalie Holloway’s death.  He became enraged because she invaded his privacy so he choked her and hit her with a tennis racket.  Neptune (delusion) squaring his North and South nodes, probably with the Moon in Capricorn (cold emotions) thrown in(I don’t have the birth time for his chart) indicates that he doesn’t have a clue as to what direction(north and south nodes) he wanted to take in his life and now the decision has been made for him.  He’ll spend most of the rest of his life in jail, probably in Peru.

Although I can’t find Stephany Flores’ birth data, I do have Natalie Holloway’s. The chart comparison between van der Sloot (who was arrested 2 times and let go two times for Natalie’s Holloway’s murder) and Natalie is very disturbing.  First of all, her Mars in Aquarius/square Pluto forms a t-square with his Venus/Pluto aspect.  Mars is, of course, sex and aggression and it stimulates his Venus/Pluto desire for rough perverted sexual relationships.  Her Venus(love relationships) conjunct Mercury(thinking and speaking) in Scorpio and square his Mars(anger, sex) in Leo indicates that she probably said something (Mercury) that hurt his male ego(Mars in Leo) and he retaliated by killing her. This is a chart comparison made in Hell.  Her Jupiter, the planet of good luck and spiritual protection is being blocked by his Saturn.  Obviously, once she met up with him she didn’t have a prayer.

It’s a terrible shame that Natalie knew nothing about her chart.  She could have been warned that her Mars in Aquarius square Pluto was likely to attract intimidating people and possibly death (Pluto in Scorpio) if she wasn’t discriminating.  I get extremely frustrated with this country’s negative response to astrological analysis.  So many people could have been saved from misery and death if they understood their birth chart and paid attention to their astrological cycles.

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Jupiter in Aries
June 5—September 8

While Jupiter is in Aries for the next 3 months our enthusiasm can take us farther than it did while it was in Pisces.  We’ll have more energy to initiate new projects but we’ll have to go the extra mile and follow through or we could end up being all hat and no cattle.  A conjunction to Uranus beginning on June 8th means that there is excellent energy for new projects, particularly those that are inventive and innovative, dealing with publishing, higher education, metaphysical or astrological studies.  Jupiter will remain in Aries until September and will travel back into Pisces until next January when it travels into Aries again.

Aries will really get a boost with Jupiter in their sign but watch out for overindulgence and taking everything a bit too far.  Taurus will find that it’s enjoyable to spend more time by themselves, to work on their spiritual lives.  Gemini will have a great time with friends and find advantages joining groups that deal with humanitarian concerns.  Cancer will see their career ambitions expand and find that they have good luck in the career sector.  Leo has the opportunity to travel and pursue higher education, a chance at publishing that book.  Virgo may gain money through other people, receive an inheritance, improve their sex lives.  Libra will find that their relationships expand.  They can also attract more clients.  Scorpios will benefit at work and their health may improve while Sagittarius sees good relationships with children and loved ones.  They also may make some money gambling.  Capricorn can see advantages with real estate, buy a new home or expand their present one.  Aquarius will enjoy short distance trips and study, have advantageous relationships with siblings and neighbors.  Pisces will find that money comes more easily than in the past but they’ll have to learn to be circumspect and not be overly generous in the extreme.

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Uranus in Aries
May 27—August 13

Uranus will travel into Aries on Thursday May 27 for a short stay.  In 2011 it will be back in Aries for seven years. Uranus is the planet of independence, revolution, individualism, and the desire for freedom.  It was originally discovered just in time for the American and French Revolutions.  Traveling into Aries now, it has already influenced the formation of the Tea Party Movement.  Unfortunately the nature of Aries can make the desire for independence and freedom self-centered, selfish and egocentric.  The Tea Party Movement is not known for its support of cooperative community work and either is Uranus in Aries.  The last time Uranus was in Aries, we had the Great Depression. But there was also the invention of the first analog computer and the cyclotron, a device for accelerating atomic particles.  During the previous period when Uranus was in Aries (1844-51), the US went to War with Mexico and the Brits were at war in Afghanistan.  Any of this sounding familiar yet?  The Communist Manifesto was published.

Uranus will increase in Aries individuals a desire for independence and freedom to do whatever they want, damn the consequences.  Taurus will be affected by the same energies but may not be conscious of it; it might be like a fly buzzing in the back of Taurus’ mind.  They may find that they like to spend more time by themselves and express their individuality by following a spiritual path. Gemini will enjoy the variety stimulated by Uranus, particularly in the house of friends, attracting unconventional people. They may also join revolutionary groups.  Cancers may find that there is a change in their careers; they may want to try self-employment or be attracted to unusual careers, like astrology, for example, or work with computers.  Leo will be might  impulsively take off on long distance trips or to apply for colleges that offer independence like online study.  Virgo may want a change in their sexual habits and be more unconventional.  Libra may want a change in their partnerships to allow more freedom and independence, while Scorpio finds that their working environment needs changing to allow for more independence.  There could also be a change in their health habits. They may try alternative medicine.  Sagittarius notices that children and loved ones may want more independence, while Capricorn may desire a change of residence or desire more freedom from family members or find that family members would like to be more independent.  Aquarius finds that short distance traveling gives them the feeling of independence that they want and also notices changes in their relationships with siblings and neighbors.  Pisces might discover new types of income or discover that money flows in through unconventional methods.

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GEMINI
May 20—June 21

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Geminis are intellectual wizards.  If you’re a Gemini you probably know a lot of things about a lot of things.  Much of a Gemini’s knowledge may be superficial and tangential but their communication skills are excellent, unless they have foot in mouth disease.  We’ve all met those.  A low-level Gemini may never stop talking and they have no interest or time in sharing their word space with anyone else.  Geminis like to say what they think.  The problem is, that can change in 10 seconds and while a Gemini has moved on, everyone else is left with their cutting words and inappropriate witticisms.  Donald Trump and Barbara Bush are Geminis.  Low-level Geminis get bored easily and jump from project to project, subject to subject.  They’re jack-of-all-trades, master of none.  And they can be very indecisive. Gemini is known as the sign of the Twins because two distinct personalities play a role in a Gemini’s psyche.  There’s the charming and witty conversationalist and the insensitive gad-about.

High level Geminis, on the other hand, bring harmony to relationships where ever they go.  Alan Oken in Soul Centered Astrology says, “The Gemini individual is being used as a conscious vehicle for creating harmonious linkages in the world.”  He goes on to say that a high level Gemini “aligns and blends various conflicting political and social forces; acts as an agent for harmony in group interrelations, becomes a diplomat for peace, and inventing technological advances for the benefit of humanity.”  I wonder if Rudy Giuliani or Newt Gingrich will ever rise to the level of Bill Moyers or my daughter, both high level Geminis. Probably not.

If you’re an Aries the Gemini month is a time for beefing up your communication skills, talking, writing, getting in touch with siblings, making short distance trips.  If you’re a Taurus, this month is spent working on your finances.  Maybe you’ll develop two incomes.  For you, Gemini, this is your month for self-expression and paying attention to your appearance, while it’s Cancer’s time of the year for withdrawal, meditation, and dream work, getting in touch with their vulnerabilities.  Leos likes to yak it up with friends and get involved with group associations while it’s Virgo’s time to shine and get some public recognition while concentrating on their careers.  Libra may like to travel during the Gemini month, have relationships with foreigners, and publicly express their thoughts.  If you’re a Scorpio, this is the month for dealing with issues surrounding death, sex and other people’s resources.  More focus on relationships for Sagittarians.  Capricorns are spending more time communicating about health and work related issues.  Aquarians are having fun during this time of year and spending more energy on their loved ones, creativity, and children.  Pisces have home and family as their focus. 

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Psychic Vera’s Diary

April 25
Moon in Virgo—A Good Time for More Criticism

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In answer to an article in the Atlantic by Marc Ambinder: Have Conservatives Gone Mad? Yes, they have. You can’t expect the Republicans to have legitimate criticisms of the Obama Administration as the Left does because the Republicans don’t stand for anything, and they don’t want to do anything for our country. They are simply adamant about keeping their oligarchy in place. They don’t want to clean up the environment, they deny that global warming exists, they don’t want to close Gitmo, they’d like to act out their hatred and fear by proxy, hiring someone else to torture people, non-stop, forever. They don’t want to tax the rich because they are rich or like John McCain, they are married to rich. They don’t want to give health insurance to all Americans because they’ve got it, and they don’t care if anybody else has it and insurance company lobbyists buy them off. They don’t want to pass strict rules of finance because they’re in bed with the Wall Street bankers, and they want to keep making millions off their fraudulent practices. Unlike progressives and liberals, they don’t have a constructive agenda to move our country out of the economic black hole, or to give everyone a fair shake. They don’t want the rest of us to get anything at all because they’re selfish greedy little bastards. They’re selfish greedy little bastards because they are terrified of living, dying, and their indeterminate sexuality.

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Psychic Vera’s Diary

April 24

Moon in Virgo: A Good Time to Criticize

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Things are so economically complex and confusing that even a healthy-minded intelligent person has a hard time figuring it out, let alone the dysfunctional and ignorant bumblers in this society. I’ve almost given up trying to understand what the banks did to push us into our present economic situation, myself. That’s where Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, and Rush Limbaugh come in. They give answers to the poor mooks who have even less of a clue than I do. They cater to their fears, prejudices, and hatreds and fill their minds with lies and their own delusions and voilá the Tea Party is born. I watched a video of a Tea Party rally on Huffington Post, in which a young progressive interviewer asked some of the participants about what they didn’t like about the Obama administration. They mentioned health care. One man believed Glenn Beck when he said that everyone failing to buy health insurance would be thrown in jail. An old woman still thought there were death panels, which could decide not to give her health care because of her age. Taxes were mentioned. When the interviewer told individuals that the Obama administration had given 95% of us a tax break and taxes were at an historical low, they said they didn’t believe it. When the interviewer asked them if they knew about the 800 dollar tax credit for working households, they also denied that was true. The banks and the oligarchs are funding Fox News to lie about Obama and his administration so they can proceed with their lawless and selfish ways. The poor mooks are just being used as pathetic patsies and the rest of us are suffering because of it.

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TAURUS
April 19th—May 20th

 

A low-level Taurus is completely focused on the material plane and they want what they want when they want it.  They are very good at accumulating and managing possessions, they adore luxury, and they’re very sensual.  They have trouble connecting with the Spirit because they are so fixated on the physical level.  They’re excellent at making money, stick to a project until Hell freezes over, and have a green thumb.  Taurus is stubborn, whether they are high or low level, and don’t change easily.  They are the most fixed and possessive of all the signs.  A low-level Taurus can repress his or her anger until it erupts and does great damage like Hitler, or Jim Jones, or Pol Pot, Idi Amin, or Saddam Hussein.

 High-level Taurus’ know how to connect with the Spirit in a practical, grounded manner.  They are wonderful in nature and often find the Holy located in it.  High-level Taurus’ are loyal to their friends and will stick with them past Hell freezing over.  A High Level Taurus has learned to control their desires, not repress them but put their physical drives into perspective.  The High Level Taurus is very creative.  The women and men are comely and appealing.  According to Alan Oken in Soul Centered Astrology, a High Level Taurus can “stimulate the presence of Light in any form which matter may take.” 

During the lush month of Taurus we can find the Spirit in nature, focus on our gardens, and develop our projects and celebrate the Earth.

For Aries, the Taurus month is best for working on finances, for Taurus, this month is best for expansion and personal development, for Gemini, Taurus is a time for spiritual retreat and relaxation, for Cancer, meeting with friends and involvement with groups, for Leo- career development, for Virgo it’s a great time to travel, to follow a course of study, to publish a book.  Libra should be looking at joint finances, focusing on sexual issues.  Scorpio should be working on relationships.  Sagittarius will be dealing with health and work issues, while Capricorn will be paying more attention to children, lovers, and creative matters.  Aquarius will be focused on the home and family, real estate.  Pisces will be associating more with neighbors, siblings, and will be focused on all types of communications.

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Psychic Vera’s Diary
March 22
Glenn Beck

Some people may use Glenn Beck’s early dysfunctional family life as excuse for some of his misbehavior as a commentator now. His father divorced his mother due to her alcoholism and she, apparently, committed suicide by going out in a boat, jumping over board, and drowning. After he went to live with his father, his stepbrother also killed himself. Beck tried to cope by drinking Jack Daniels and smoking pot, he said, but was finally only able to control his alcoholism by attending AA meetings. Other disabilities include a diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and a conversion to Mormonism after being raised Catholic. 

 Despite his recovery from alcoholism, he is still haunted by those childhood patterns because as a commentator he is inflammatory, dangerous, and absurd. Inflammatory and dangerous because his commentary is a catalyst for white male rage, panic, and its subsequent acting out. Among many other inflammatory things he has said, Beck argued that President Barack Obama has repeatedly shown "a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture”.

Absurd because he appears to be emotionally overwrought and acutely distressed in response to what “Obama is doing to our country” but his Moon (Emotions) is in overly controlled Capricorn. Doesn’t that tell us that it’s all an act?

With Beck’s Sun conjunct Mars and Saturn in Aquarius and square Neptune in Scorpio he feels angry and repressed and probably was by a father, who was distant (Aquarius) and dismissive of his mother, Beck, and his sister. This aspect also engendered acute feelings of inadequacy. The Neptune involvement makes Beck delusional and explains his earlier use of booze as a pacifier for his angry frustration (Mars conjunct Saturn). It also explains his current delusional philosophical outlook.

He also has what I call the double helix opposition between Chiron in Pisces and Uranus conjunct Pluto in Virgo. Chiron is the wounded healer and in Pisces, Beck has had many wounds to try to recover from. I know one woman who has this opposition and she went to live with her father after a messy divorce (she didn’t get along with her mother), and then after several years he left took off with his girlfriend and left her to fend for herself when she was 15.

Beck has made several transformative steps up from the early days of his youth but he still has a long way to go. Acting as a catalyst of white male rage because of his own personal problems is not a positive contribution to society. Right now, I can’t see that he’s anything but a detriment. Maybe it’s because his Sun degree symbol is, “Under his forefeet, a furious bull is disemboweling a dog. At the right side, a man is opening up a human corpse. Is it his victim, or the subject of his pathological studies?" Maybe this disgusting symbol can also explain his recent comment that individuals should leave churches that preach "social or economic justice" because these terms indicate that the church supported Communism and Nazism.

Just like Sara Palin who was born a day after, as an Aquarius he should be making a constructive contribution to our country but, instead, he is living the life of a low-level soul, empty of real human empathy and stuck in a vicious cycle of feelings of inadequacy, hatred, and recrimination.

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ARIES
Mar 20—Apr 19

 

Aries is a stimulating sign.  Because it’s the first sign of spring and ruled by Mars, it is impulsive and able to share its enthusiasm and attract followers. It likes to dominate and to initiate projects but often has difficultly completing them after the first exciting impulse.  Aries can be naïve like an adolescent.  A lower level Aries can be selfish, always charming, but egocentric. It’s me, me, me most of the time.  Aries seldom know how their actions affect others unless they start to progress on a spiritual level.  A good example of a low level Aries is televangelist Pat Robinson who says thoughtless things and becomes entangled with moneymaking schemes without considering the ramifications of his ill thought out actions.

A high level Aries, however, is no longer just interested in her or himself but is willing to take action so all beings have a chance for a better life.  Spiritual Aries are great humanitarians, pioneers, and leaders like Al Gore, who has taken the initiative to bring the knowledge of the dangers of global warming to the entire world.  Alan Oken in his book, Soul Centered Astrology, says Aries on a higher level “sees himself as an instrument to correct injustices and, if necessary, as an instrument of sacrifice for some high ideal…such an Aries works with the Plan of evolution and is in touch with his role in its unfoldment.”

If you’re an Aries, this is your month to really initiate new plans and take charge of your life.  If you’re a Taurus this is the time of the year when you spend more time by yourself, digging a little deeper into your subconscious motivations and coming to an understanding of your vulnerabilities and fears.  Geminis will be quite social this month, being more aggressive in making friends and joining humanitarian groups.   Cancers will take charge of their careers and get more public recognition while Leos will want to take trips, or consider higher education, or be suddenly more interested in religion or philosophy or publicly express their thoughts.  Virgos will be focusing on their sexuality and wondering about death.  Issues may come up about joint resources, debts, and taxes.  If you’re a Libra, you’ll be focused on partnerships and be more aggressive with other people.  Scorpios will focus on health and work issues while Sagittarians will be spending more time with their children and lovers, and expressing their creativity.  Capricorns will be working on their homes and spending time with their families while Aquarians will be doing a lot more talking and writing, mixing it up with siblings and other close family members.  Pisces will be working on money issues and figuring out how not to impulsively spend it.   

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Psychic Vera's Diary

February 2

How Stupid Can They Get?

Were Republicans always this stupid?  It seems that they were better in the past, but when I asked my dad years ago, “Aren’t there any good ones, Dad?”  He answered, “The only good Republican is a dead one.”  I think he must have thought they were stupid too because he always liked to tell the story about the time he and my mother told me not to play with a boy that had Down’s Syndrome because he was too rough, and I asked, “What’s wrong with Johnny, is he a Republican?” (Will Sarah Palin go after me now that I’m politically incorrect and have, at least in my youth, compared the stupidity of Republicans to a kid with Downs?)

A recent poll mentioned in an article at Huffington Post doesn’t surprise any of us who’ve been watching Republican shenanigans for quite some time.  So many of the idiots polled believe that Obama is a racist, and a Socialist, and is not a citizen of this country.  Rat, a friend of mine, recently received a phone call from a right wing cousin, living in the South, who said, “Obama is so stupid.”  It’s too bad Rat couldn’t have said,” He’s one of the smartest presidents we’ve ever had in office, and you’re so stupid you can’t even see it.”  Republicans are terrified of this smart black man that makes them look like ignorant turds.

Rat also has another cousin in the South that’s a tad slow and yet he talks about Obama in the affirmative.  So it’s really not Forrest Gump stupidity at all, but something much more sinister, like fear and prejudice, which is based on fear.  These white weenies are so afraid they’re losing their hegemony to women, black, browns, or gays; they’ll believe anything they read or hear that’s derogatory about the president of the United States.

I’m tired of their Republican bullsh*t.  I wish I could feel compassion for them but they and their ilk are destroying this country.  I wish the aliens would just cart them away in their spaceship; they’ll be raptured like they’ve all been praying for.  Instead of heaven, however, they’ll be heading towards a Hell of their own choosing.  That’s how stupid they are.

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Jupiter in Pisces
January 17-June 5

As Jupiter travels into Pisces on Sunday, January 17th, the transition period from Aquarius has been marked by an outpouring of aid to Haiti from all over the world.  Pisces is the sign of the underdog and Haiti has been an underdog country for almost two centuries.  During the next year while Jupiter is traveling through this sign, there should be more help for the downtrodden and poorest among us.  At least we’ll have the opportunity to help those in need because most of us will feel more compassionate.

Jupiter creates expansion and greater opportunity as well as excess. It also is the planet of travel, higher education, and publishing. There will be a turning to religion for some, while others will increase their spiritual interests.  Music and other artistic self-expression will be important, particularly if it expresses a spiritual theme or helps the less fortunate.  Concerts to raise money for Haiti are a good example of Jupiter in Pisces energy.

While Jupiter is in Pisces, we’ll have to watch for emotional overload and losing our boundaries.  It’s always important to balance our enthusiasm with reality or we’re sure to be disappointed if things don’t work out as we want them to.

For the next year, Aries will find that spending more time by themselves and doing spiritual work may be to their advantage.    Taurus can benefit if they expand their friendships and work with humanitarian groups.  Geminis can expand their careers, adding service to the disadvantaged to their résumé.  Their careers may also involve traveling or publishing.  Cancer may find traveling and/or higher education expansive while Leo will gain advantage through partner’s or other people’s resources, as well as a possible inheritance.  There may be more sexual opportunities.  Virgo will expand their partnerships, clients, or possibly get married. Libras will gain protection for their health and they’ll find more opportunities in the work place.  Scorpios will find that they expand through activities and time spent with children, lovers, and hobbies.  Sagittarians benefit through property and their homes.  This is a good time to buy a house.   Capricorns finds that they are more interested in spending time with siblings, and/or neighbors.  Aquarians will benefit financially as long as they don’t overspend.  For Pisces, it’s the year to really come out of their shell.  My Pisces friend, Paddy, for example, told me yesterday that she was looking for ways to bring a little happiness into other people’s lives this year.

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Psychic Vera’s Diary
December 8, 2009

Saturn Vs Uranus--Redux

Despite this astrological aspect presently waning in influence, Saturn opposing Uranus continues to create a disconnect between progressive politicians represented by Uranus and stagnating Republicans represented by Saturn. We see it, for example, in the health care debate and in the climate crisis.  The majority leader of the House, Steny Hoyer said, “The hard choices that are being forced on our country demand engagement from both parties. I'm thinking of challenges like reforming our massive entitlement programs, controlling the growth of health care spending, and responding to climate change -- issues that are fraught with political risk and so easy to demagogue that it is almost impossible for one party to take them on alone. Those challenges are dangerously likely to stay untouched as long as at least one party is willing to be a 'Party of No.”
Apparently, the two warring sides will continue to go at it until the aspect is gone in August of 2010.  At first it may seem that the stagnating Republicans are getting the upper hand because in mythology, Saturn, the son of Uranus, castrates his father and takes over his throne.  Uranus warns Saturn, however, that one of his sons will eventually dethrone him.  Despite Saturn devouring all of his children to prevent this, his wife hides one child, Jupiter aka Zeus, who is not eaten and will later usurp his father.

Too many liberals, represented by Uranus, are willing to desert Obama, who with Aquarius Rising is the midpoint of the seesaw between these two cosmic powers. Aquarius is ruled by both Uranus and Saturn.  Liberals believe that he is a disappointment because he tries to balance progressive action with some conservative restraint.  But short of a revolution (Uranus), we cannot progress without giving Saturn his due.  Interestingly enough, Obama’s Jupiter is in the sign of Aquarius while his Saturn is in Capricorn, which is ruled by Saturn (a double whammy).  Should Obama simply accept the role of Uranus (Revolution), he will certainly be overthrown by the Republicans, as represented by Saturn.  Many people are terrified of change (Uranus), despite our present desperate situation and will do everything to stop it (Saturn).  On the other hand, those voters who long for a progressive messiah who will immediately change everything to their liking are not being realistic and are setting us up for failure.

Eventually, if we don’t destroy the planet in the meantime, we will find a solution to global warming, resolve the issues with heath care, create an economic and social environment where there is no longer a divide between the haves and have nots, black and white, or gays and straights.  While Obama is neither the Messiah nor the Anti-Christ, he is the Rainbow Bridge that will connect us to the Aquarian Age as well as to the next cosmic cycle starting in 2012 prophesized by the Mayans centuries ago.

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The US Economy

November 5, 2009

Economists say we’ve got the worst economy since the Great Depression.  Astrologers confirm their assumption by noting a similar planetary configuration now as then.  In the 1930s, Saturn was opposing Pluto.  In November of 2009, Saturn is now squaring Pluto.  Both oppositions and squares can create havoc. In the 1930s, Uranus in Aries was part of a T square with Saturn and Pluto.  In 2009 Saturn was opposing Uranus but there was no aspect with Pluto.  Unfortunately, in August of 2010 we’ll see Uranus in Aries again as it was over eighty years ago and in a t-square with Saturn and Pluto.  The second Great Depression is not over yet. 

Breaking the planetary aspects down in the US chart tells the story.

Pluto is in the 8th House of the National Debt, taxes, credit, corporate finances, insurance, loans, and death.  Pluto= corporations, catastrophes, death, and financial mergers.  Pluto in the 8th house is a double whammy. There has been a catastrophe (Pluto) created in credit and financial markets, including insurance, which has forced the Federal Government to create over a trillion dollars in debt to help make these financial markets solvent. 

Pluto is presently opposing Venus in the 2nd House of Personal Finances.  The money spent on the financial markets (Pluto in the 8th House) has come into direct conflict with the money needed to make US households solvent.   This is also indicative of credit card Companies (8th House) creating more hardship for the American consumer, by raising interest rates and reducing the amount of credit, and making credit much more difficult to come by. This Pluto opposing Venus aspect is also affecting the 6th House of Employment, Unions and Health matters, hindering job creation, and creating blocks to resolving the Health Care issue.

Saturn is in the Fifth House of Speculation and the Stock Market. Saturn=Loss, conservatism, and contraction.  It is square (conflict, stress) to Pluto in the 8th house of credit and corporate finances.  Although the Stock Market has recovered somewhat I wouldn’t bet the farm with this aspect now coming into affect.  With Saturn squaring Venus in the Second House of personal finance, I would advise that the average American investor be very careful about risky investments in the stock market.

There has been lots of collateral damage from these extremely stressful planetary aspects affecting the economy.  While Saturn has been creating losses in the Stock Market as it has traveled through the 5th House, it also indicates that children, also ruled by the 5th House, have suffered grivous losses.  Children have been murdered and kidnapped, often by men that have lost their jobs and can find no employment.  Whole families have been slaughtered.  Recent news has said that 50 percent of the nation’s children are now receiving food stamps. 

With Saturn (conservatism) ruling the 9th House of Religion and publically expressed thoughts, right wing religious groups as well as right wing TV and radio personalities like Glenn Beck, and Rush Limbaugh or politicians like Sarah Palin, have become even more vocal and ugly, particularly since Obama was elected.

While Saturn was going through Virgo in the last couple of years, it had been opposing Uranus in Pisces creating a bitter battle between conservatives (Saturn) and Progressives (Uranus).  With Uranus in the 11th house of the Congress, Uranus won out in last year’s election, ushering in a majority of Democrats.  However, this fight will continue when Saturn travels back into Virgo next year. 

Meanwhile, Uranus is now opposing Neptune which is in the 5th house of the stock market and speculation.  We said that Uranus in the 11th house of Congress has created a band of progressives that are trying to change (Uranus) the US trajectory as far as health care, global warming, green technology, and gays in the military go.  Neptune rules drugs (illegal and pharmaceuticals).  A conflict between the pharmaceutical industry and the progressives in Congress has been confusing the health care initiatives.  Senator Lieberman, for example, has said he won’t vote for the health care bill if it includes a public option.  Lieberman, a Pisces, a Neptune ruled sign, is under the thumb of Big Pharma due to monies received from same.  His wife is also to blame for his disgraceful lack of support for the public option. She works for this sleazy Neptunian industry.

Is there anything mitigating these disastrous aspects? 

Uranus has been making a positive trine aspect to Mercury in the 3rd house of media (including the internet).  Although newspapers have taken a hit, innovative, progressive blogs and websites (Uranus) have helped the American people see the truth.  This aspect may also help support rail as a excellent mode of transportation.

Jupiter has been traveling through the 10th House of government and our national prestige.  Since Obama has been elected, people around the world have changed their tune about Americans and they are back to looking at our country with admiration.  Jupiter is now in Aquarius but when it travels into Pisces in January of 2010, it will begin its positive march towards a trine aspect with Venus, Jupiter and the Sun in the Second House of Money lifting our economy, and hopefully mitigating the sorry aspects of Pluto which will continue to oppose the other Second House planets as it is doing now.  Since Jupiter will still be in the 10th house of the government and the Chief Executive, it is up to Obama to create a job program similar to the WPA to significantly alter the disastrous personal finances of the American public.

It is obvious that these Pluto aspects are calling for a transformation of our entire economy.  Death of the old free market corporate economy and rebirth of a new one that supports a progressive vision and lifestyle for all of our citizens could be on the horizon.  If the stressful Plutonian energies can be used to motivate our society into positive transformation, we’ll all be much better off.   If we are intimidated and refuse to vote wisely like voters in New Jersey and Virginia did on November 4th, we will certainly reap a malignant harvest.  Remember it was George Bush who got us into this disgusting mess and it certainly won’t be a Republican to get us out of it.

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Saturn in Libra

 

It’s a big deal when Saturn changes signs and that happened October 29 when it traveled into Libra.  It will remain in Libra for 2.5 years with a short hiatus in 2010 when it starts retrograding back into Virgo for about 3 months, beginning in April.  The Mutable Signs, Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces will be getting a well earned break.  Saturn in Virgo has been pretty tough on some of us, particularly with regards to work and health.  Now it will be the Cardinal Signs’, Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn’s turn to suffer the slings and arrows from this difficult planetary energy.  Saturn in Libra indicates that for the next couple of years, there will be lessons to be learned with regards to relationships.  If we fail to pay attention to a weakness in this area of our lives, Saturn will hone in on our Achilles heels.  Libra wants to be fair and balanced and Saturn will make sure we follow through.

For Aries, relationships should take priority.  Responsibilities must be considered when getting involved with any relationship.  You may enter into long term partnerships during the next 2.5 years.  Taurus may find that work becomes harder and that there are responsibilities and issues around fellow employees.  It’s also a good idea to pay attention to your health.  Gemini may find that relationships with lovers and children take on more responsibilities, while there could be losses with gambling or in the stock market.  Cancer finds that home and family attracts more responsibilities.  Be circumspect about buying property during this time.  Leo needs to focus on relationships with siblings.  This is also a good time for serious study.  Virgo will be paying attention to finances while Libra may find that health matters most of all.  Get a check-up, eat a healthy diet.  Scorpio may spend more time by themselves and find that they have insecurities about their marriage or partnership.  Sagittarius might get more involved with friends, or decide they don’t want to bother due to too many responsibilities.  Capricorns will reach the pinnacle of their career and/or take on more concerns in their public life.  Aquarius may find that traveling is more difficult but it’s a good time to take up the responsibility of higher education.  Pisces needs to analyze their sexual relationships, their attitudes towards death, and realize that joint finances bring responsibilities.

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Psychic Vera’s Diary

August 20

Robert Novak: Sour Political Commentator and Writer

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Robert Novak died this week. I know somebody must have loved him, and is sad to see him go but I’m not.

I first heard of Robert Novak over twenty years ago when my dad referred to him and his co-host, Rowland Evans, of the Evans and Novak interview show, as the most sour men on television. Knowing my father’s hatred of Richard Nixon, I was astounded that he’d found someone more disagreeable than tricky Dicky. Over the years and after Evans died, Bob Novak continued to grow more miserable every time I saw him. He was so surly and unpleasant, I found it almost impossible to watch him on Crossfire. Most Pisces I’ve met are compassionate and sensitive but he wasn’t or didn’t seem to be. Then again, he only had one Pisces planet, his Sun sign. There was also his Gemini Moon. Talk, talk, babble on, he often put his foot in his mouth, like the time he outed Valerie Plame’s covert agent status in the CIA in one of his newspaper columns.

He had other dreary aspects like Venus(love) conjunct Saturn(limitations) in Capricorn. Talk about standing cold in a blizzard with regards to love and relationships, probably activated by a cold relationship (Venus) with his father (Saturn). Further, this conjunction was in a grand cross with Uranus, the Nodes of the Moon, and Pluto. He probably remained loyal to his wife with the Venus/Saturn complex, but Uranian energy wanted him to break free and may have even given him a desire for a homosexual liaison. With the Venus/Pluto opposition, he certainly wanted to go over to the dark side, at least once in awhile. Maybe that’s why he was so surly and acidic. Repressing sexual energies generally produces a dangerous and unpleasant individual.

He had an unaspected Mars in Cancer. Very touchy, and easily annoyed, he had no outlet for his acerbic personality accept through his poison pen and words. He did have a Sun trine Jupiter, which gave him good luck in his career. I suspect there were times when he was generous, enthusiastic, and warm, particularly with his family since Jupiter was in Cancer. However, he had the standard conservative Sun/Neptune aspect. While this one doesn’t make a person politically conservative as much as it clouds his/her vision and makes them delusional, many Republican operatives, just like our last president have this Sun/Neptune complex, and it has created a lot of problems for the rest of us. Although the US chart doesn’t have this aspect, it does have a Mars/Neptune square, which deludes the men in this country about their so-called masculinity. Combine that particular energy pattern with the Sun/Neptune complex of the right wing politicians, and we have an entire political party and its commentators inhabiting fantasyland.

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Psychic Vera’s Diary

August 10, 2009

Isn’t it ironic that Erik Prince chose Blackwater as a name for his evil business, which supplies murderous mercenaries in Iraq? Moreover, isn’t it apropos that this Prince of Darkness is now being accused of murder or facilitating the murder of individuals who were working with federal officials investigating Blackwater?

Two individuals have come forward to rat on Prince to legal authorities. Only identified as John Doe, #1, and John Doe #2, their stories cannot be corroborated by The Nation magazine in which this article on Prince appeared. However, their sworn statements are strong indictments of Prince and his company.

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Psychic Vera's Diary

Aug 6--Moon in Aquarius

I’ve failed to keep a running commentary on the political situation for several months now. Partly because Psychic Chuck and I’ve been ill with a long-standing virus, I’ve been unable to stomach (literally) the Republicans’ frantic attempts to discredit Obama and destroy everything he is trying to accomplish. They have no heart for the country. They just want Obama to fail so they can get back in power. I’m so sick of them and they are so disgusting, I haven’t been able to take the energy and time to write about them. Our individual lives and our country’s life are filled with danger and these political beasts with their Sun/Neptune delusion, cannot see it. Other delusional people misinterpret the danger and some of them blame it on our president because he is black.