It was difficult paying attention to it while this country is engaged in a war that is deeply ANTI-CHRIST. I tried to feel jolly during the month of enthusiastic Sagittarius, despite it all, but it just wasn’t happening. I couldn’t get behind cutting down a tree and decorating it or even dragging in a live tree to swelter in our overly heated house. The first stanza of a Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s poem, Christ Climbed Down, kept repeating in my mind:
Christ climbed down
from His bare Tree
this year
and ran away to where
there were no rootless Christmas trees
hung with candy canes and breakable stars
I’ve bought a few presents but I didn’t care if I got any in return. It wasn’t too jolly buying presents while people were dying in Iraq.
At least some of us were trying to be nice to each other.
My holiday spirit deteriorated further when my 19-year-old kitty as well as my dad-look-alike, actor Peter Boyle, died. And the Korean man in the Oregon snow.
Meanwhile our men and women continue to die in the Iraq calamity and Iraqis get kidnapped and tortured. Furthermore, Bush, despite the negative response from the Joint Chiefs of Staff, likes the idea of sending thousands of more troops over there to wipe the platter clean. Where is he going to get them unless he calls for a draft? Now I’ve just read that the weasel heads are considering hiring foreign mercenaries to fight our miserable war.
There’s no question that the First Ray of Destruction rules George Bush. He’s certainly no Christian, not the kind of Christ follower that turns the other cheek, or loves his enemies. Alice Bailey, first a Christian missionary, and then a theosophist, and then a channel for The Tibetan, gave us the information on the Seven Rays that influence our solar system and Earth. If we analyze his actions and his horoscope it’s not difficult to figure out that Bush is influenced by the First Ray.
Leo, Aries and Capricorn are all First Ray signs. George has a Leo Rising sign. (The Rising Sign is the Sign rising on the eastern horizon when we are born). Pluto is a First Ray planet. Pluto was in Bush’s First House of the personality conjunct Mercury (thinking), when he was born. Pluto is involved in the destruction of forms. In the Hindu pantheon, the god Shiva and goddess Kali are most associated with the First Ray.
Now I’ll grant you that death and destruction are a part of life, there’s no getting around it. Sometimes we need someone that is willing to wield the hammer of death, like Roosevelt did in World War II, but Bush enjoys it a bit too much. Bush told People magazine, “You’d be surprised about how well I sleep at night.”
He’s one of those men/boys that likes to destruct rather than construct. Remember how much he enjoyed executing individuals in Texas while he was governor and blowing up frogs with firecrackers when he was a youngster. I loved frogs and toads when I was a child, and always picked them up and petted them. I hunted for pollywogs in the creek near my house. I can’t imagine why anyone would want to intentionally blow the defenseless creatures to smithereens.
First Ray people are generally in government and find it fairly easy to get into positions of power. The presidency was handed to Bush on a platter. Alan Oken in his book, Soul Centered Astrology, says that First Ray people have the courage to persist against all odds. Look how Bush has persisted in his failed Iraq policy despite the people arrayed against him. Despite the low poll numbers, Bush, influenced by the First Ray, continues with his debacle.
But here’s the caveat. Those unevolved First Ray people are impatient and arrogant. “Courage can give way to foolhardiness and the urge to support other people’s efforts is transformed into the need to dominate through sheer use of force.” The negative First Ray person like Bush “manipulates others through personal power, is easy to anger, cannot take criticism and has a strong sense of personal pride.” How many times have we heard Bush tales describing over sensitivity to criticism and explosions of anger?
Like other First Ray tyrants, Bush will have to run his course until several of the Democrats, maybe other First Ray leaders who have managed to combine First Ray qualities with the Second Ray, Love-Wisdom), blockade his destructive, arrogant path.
The Second Ray of Love-Wisdom, is according to Bailey, the dominant Ray that influences our solar system. The two representatives of this Ray are Christ and Buddha.
There have been many First Ray tyrants, like George Bush, who don’t have the love or the wisdom to rule prudently. Historian Barbara Tuchman says in her book, The March to Folly, “A phenomenon noticeable throughout history regardless of place or period is the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests. Mankind, it seems, makes a poorer performance of government than of almost any other human activity. In this sphere, wisdom, which may be defined as the exercise of judgment acting on experience, common sense and available information is less operative and more frustrated than it should be. Why do holders of high office so often act contrary to the way reason points and enlightened self-interest suggests? Why does intelligent mental process seem so often not to function?” Power corrupts First Ray rulers and power corrupts absolutely.
The chief question that occurs to me, after analyzing Bush for the umpteenth time, concerns the steps we can take to contain Bush’s First Ray destructiveness. Do we have to destroy the planet in an attempt to save it? Ironically, as a First Ray tyrant, he has become the catalyst for a transformation of the electorate, who recently voted in Democrats to help block his path. People that paid no attention to politics before Bush have been galvanized to pay heed now. Some individuals that voted for Ralph Nader because there was “no difference” between Bush and Gore can now admit to their lack of discernment, if they have the courage to do so. They can compare Bush’s malignant ignorance about environmental problems and Gore’s tireless efforts to bring them to the forefront of world consciousness. If we can contain Bush’s destructiveness, we will have highlighted the problems that need confronting if we are to have, finally, a peaceful, loving planet, without destroying it.
Pluto will be going into Capricorn in 2008. Remember Pluto is the transformation of the dark side. Capricorn is the sign of government. Pluto in Capricorn=the destruction of government in order to transform it. Pluto will also be making a return to its birth position in the U.S. chart, which means that this position in Capricorn is particularly significant. As Pluto moves through this sign, one planet after another in the U.S. chart will be affected. If we use the Gemini Rising chart, first Venus in the Second House of Money gets stimulated by an opposition, beginning in March of ’08. Since this aspect takes place in the money houses, the U.S. economy will be seriously impacted, particularly celebrities and artists, women, high society. I have some concern that with Pluto moving into the 8th House (death and taxes, as well as national debt), we might face a catastrophe. In 2010, when Pluto impacts Jupiter in the Second House of Money, the wealthy in general will start to feel the heat. This will be necessary because the disparity of income as Paul Krugman of the New York Times has discussed in his columns, has gotten completely out of hand. Until the wealthy, either by choice or force become less greedy, there’s little hope that the planet will constructively solve the impending crises of global warming and the transformation of the oil based economy into an alternative fuel based one.
In Soul Based Astrology, Alan Oken says the following about Pluto in Capricorn: This position challenges the status quo of those who hold unequal power; that is, power unequal to their Soul development. He goes on to say that there are those who use lower level Pluto in Capricorn energy to try to obtain earthly power and lord it over the rest of us. However, those that are more evolved will “strive to birth those structures on the planet that will make Earth’s bounty available for all.”
All of us must do our part to help our senators and representatives stop Bush from expressing his devastating First Ray energy in the two years he has left in office. We need to end the war, move on global warming, and bring economic equality to the masses. He will try to do his damnedest to leave a calamitous legacy, thinking that whatever he does is God’s Will. The best legacy he can leave is as a catalyst for our collective action. We no longer need destruction and chaos to wake up.
