With the arrival of the Spring Equinox, the Earth is poised in a brief moment of balance between the daylight and the darkness. From this point onward until the Summer Solstice in late June, the daylight in the Northern Hemisphere will increasingly triumph over the nighttime shadows, marking the yearly season of fecundity, growth, and renewal.
In the astrological calendar, the Spring Equinox coincides with the first degree of the first sign of the zodiac, Aries, and thus heralds the birth of the new astrological year. A chart may be drawn for this moment, calibrated to the time zone and location of the capital city of any country, offering some indications about the coming year for that particular nation. The most significant evidence in these charts often comes from potent, tight aspects to the angles, which later get set off by powerful transits.
One example is the Spring chart for 2001 drawn for Washington, DC, which had Uranus (22Aquarius58) square to the Ascendant (21Taurus58). Uranus retrograded back to the exact square to that Ascendant in early September, arriving just past it at 21Aquarius53 on September 11, and remaining very close to that square until crossing for the final time in mid-December 2001. This was a period of extraordinary turmoil, upset, and 
transformation in the US, including the terrorist attacks of September 11, the anthrax attacks, and the initial phase of the new war. It should also be noted that there was a very tight Mars/Pluto conjunction in the Spring 2001 chart, which indicated the extreme violence that erupted later in the year.
The Spring 2013 chart also carries within it a very dangerous configuration: a tight Mars (6Aries21)/Uranus (7Aries59) conjunction square to the Moon (7Cancer59). This points to sudden, violent, and transformative eruptions during the coming year. This trend is most likely to influence those living in the countries where this configuration is in strong aspect to the horizon or meridian lines.
In 2013, the most dramatically affected Spring Equinox charts are the ones drawn for 
Beijing, China, and Caracas, Venezuela. The Chinese chart is particularly impacted, with the Ascendant at 8Libra14 and the MC at 9Cancer28. From March 20 through March 24, 2013, transiting Uranus will cross the Descendant of this chart, with Mars transiting there as well from March 20 through March 22. This suggests some kind of sharp spike of turmoil, rebellion, or upheaval around that time, including the possibility of a dramatic weather or natural event. Moreover, transiting Uranus will square the Chinese Spring chart Midheaven from March 28 through April 15, indicating an unexpected shake-up within the government.
Transiting Uranus will not be returning to the Ascendant degree in the Chinese Spring chart, but it will return twice more to the square with the Midheaven, from October 5 through October 31 and from December 17 through February 1, 2014. Moreover, there will be an overlap with the long station of Pluto conjunct the IC (9Capricorn28) of the Spring chart from June 25 through November 4, 2013, with the combination suggesting some sudden upheaval and significant power struggles in the last months of the year. The first crossing of Saturn to the Chinese natal chart Venus (19Scorpio26) from December 12 through December 22, indicates that this buildup of tensions within the government and perhaps between the government and the people may lead to a very stressful time in December 2013.
Unlike the Chinese Spring chart, the one drawn for Caracas, Venezuela is only impacted 
by a transit of Uranus immediately after the Equinox, and not at all by any transit of Pluto to one of the angles. The Ascendant of this chart is 8Aries14 and will be crossed by Uranus from March 20 through March 24 and by Mars from March 20 through March 22. There may be significant domestic upheaval or potentially violent protest during this time, but events will quickly subside. The last week of July 2013 will bring a Jupiter/Mars conjunction square to the Spring chart Ascendant, implying further upheaval but likely far less drama than what may show up in late March.
It should always be remembered that any indications found in these yearly Spring Equinox charts will be far more relevant when they are supported by indications in the corresponding national natal chart. But they always yield important clues as to where to turn our collective gaze.
Note also the tight square between Mars and the MC in the Caracas Spring chart. That may indicate further anger and upheaval surrounding the new government now that Chavez is gone.
Nancy-Starlight-thank you so much for this article on the angles of the various charts of other countries and the reminder of the big bounces in 2001.
TAX CUTS: STARVE THE STATES
Controlling only one-half of Congress, the Republicans can do little more than play defense by creating a deadlock in Washington. But with 24 statehouses now run by Republican governors and GOP-majority legislatures, the party is turning the states into laboratories for radical conservative governance.
In recent years, the GOP has sent talent from Congress back home to pursue its cruel economic agenda. From Louisiana to Kansas to Indiana, Republican governors with congressional pedigrees are working to slash state income and corporate taxes that hit the wealthiest – often calling on the working poor to make up the difference by paying higher sales taxes. In Indiana, Gov. Mike Pence – until 2010 the number-three Republican in the House leadership – has asked the legislature to squander a rare surplus by passing an “across-the-board tax cut” that heavily favors the rich: Twenty-eight percent of benefits would go to the top five percent of earners. One in three low-income Hoosiers would see no tax cut at all.
In Louisiana, Gov. Bobby Jindal wants to abolish income and corporate taxes – financing the giveaway by increasing the flat tax on purchases. Jindal claims the proposal “will put more money back into the pockets of Louisiana families.” That’s a lie. Taxes on the poorest 20 percent would rise nearly $400 a year in order to lower taxes on the top one percent by $25,000.
In Kansas, Republican Gov. Sam Brownback, a former U.S. senator, is trying to pull off the same boondoggle with the backing of powerful allies – the billionaire Koch brothers, whose Koch Industries is based in Wichita, and the American Legislative Exchange Council, ALEC, a corporate front group that pushes right-wing policy across state legislatures. Brownback began his tax-cutting in 2012 by eliminating the state business tax and slashing the state income tax, promising that these cuts would act like “a shot of adrenaline into the heart of the Kansas economy.”
Instead, the state is on track to pile up $2.5 billion in debt by 2018, yet Brownback is still calling on the legislature to whittle away at income tax rates – which he declares are on a “glide path to zero” – even if that requires higher sales taxes. Thanks to the Koch brothers, Brownback enjoys a rubber-stamp legislature. Koch campaign cash in the past election put hardcore conservatives in control of both chambers; a board member of ALEC is now speaker of the Kansas House. If Brownback’s latest cuts go forward, Kansas’ $6 billion general fund will have been slashed by $1.1 billion a year, giving millionaires a tax cut of $28,000. “The magical growth model that the governor talks about only exists for the wealthiest Kansans who benefit from his tax plan,” said Terry Forsyth, president of the Working Kansas Alliance.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-gops-real-agenda-20130313#ixzz2NpFXH7Ic
Well, Starlight, this is interesting. My chart reads just like China’s. 8 degrees Libra on the Ascendent and 9 degrees Capricorn on the IC. What Confucius say about “interesting times”?
Thank you Starlight, for this wonderful article concerning the chart for the Spring Equinox, and its effect on the global collective.- It’s interesting you point out China, because I recall Scott Prouty, ( Mr. 47%), had said something, pertaining to the critical importance of unionizing workers in China. – As you mentioned in the chart,that China’s Ascendent is at (8Libra 14) and MC is at (9Cancer28), (Libra wanting all things fair, and Cancer needing the security of shelter), the Uranus transit might “shake up the government”, perhaps by triggering, a significant workers movement? Having all these major transits coming up in the next few years, it seems to all lead up to that. Meaning, that at some point, “The chickens will be coming home to roost!” Corporate America, had better take note!
N.Y. TIMES; Feb.8,2013 – Chinese Workers Rights
http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/08/chinese-workers-rights/
Hong Kong: Hunger Strike for Union Rights – China Worker
http://www.chinaworker.info/en/content/news/1939
Thanks Nancy for providing your findings from these Equinox charts for two country’s going through massive change. I would think “the people” as represented by the Moon could be stimulated to rebellion due to the Mars-Uranus square. Their “needs” being amplified by the symbolism of Moon in Cancer forming a grand trine in water (emotion) with Saturn in Scorpio (shared resources) and Mercury conjunct Chiron in Pisces (sacrifice) they should have no problem in having their voices heard.
Also with Jupiter quincunx Saturn creating a need for government (Jupiter-Saturn) adjustments at this time, how convenient that each is the point-planet (apex) for two different yods in the following week’s Libra full moon. Each participates in both yods too, with the 3rd planet in one being Pluto and the other one being Mars (both the “old” and “new” rulers of Scorpio, sign of transformation as well as shared resources).
http://www.alternet.org/labor/portland-becomes-4th-us-city-paid-sick-leave-law
March 13, 2013
Portland, Ore., became the fourth American city to approve a paid sick days law Wednesday, an important step forward today that will help the city’s workers, employers, and residents. Portland joined three other cities — San Francisco; Washington, D.C., and Seattle — and one state, Connecticut, in modernizing workplace policies and acknowledging an important reality: everybody gets sick but no one should be at risk of losing a job, infecting coworkers or customers, or missing a day’s pay because of an illness.
Thank you, Nancy, for another amazing and enlightening post. I learn so much from you and this community.
Tetramorph, a belated thank you for the earthquake link in the last thread. Between that and Alex’s link, I decided this is a year to add earthquake insurance. Hope it’s not needed, but I live in earthquake country and after reading those it will help me sleep a little better.
Chinese Space Program
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiangong-1
A manned mission, and the final Shenzhou mission to rendezvous with Tiangong-1 before it is deorbited, is planned for June 2013.
China plans to develop a full orbiting space station by 2020 and has also raised the possibility of sending a man to the moon.
There has been discussion of China joining the International Space Station project, but this is considered unlikely given political tensions between Beijing and Washington.
http://livingmoonastrology.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/18-march-sunrise.jpg
March 18th Sun Rise in Australia – Chart
http://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=37820&lat=0&lng=0&loc=Unspecified&alt=0&tz=UCT
Tiangong 1 – Visible Passes
http://www.whitehouse.gov/being-biden
Being Biden
In this audio series Vice President Biden will tell the story behind a photo – of where he was, why it matters to him, and how the experience fits into the broader narrative of this Administration. From meetings at the White House to travels around the country, the Vice President will share his perspective in candid, behind-the-scenes snapshots. In other words, he’ll explain what it’s like “Being Biden.”
A fine piece Nancy, it will be interesting how China handles itself in the coming months. This isn’t connected to what you wrote, I don’t think, but there is a financial earthquake happening in Cyprus that will have ramifications for the entirety of Europe and perhaps here in the US. In short, in order to get a bailout, the Cyprus parliament is deciding whether or not to take money directly from the savings accounts of bank depositors. They are calling it a tax.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/17/cyprus-bank-levy_n_2897205.html
comparing use of Midpoints with use of Arabic Parts: my shorthand is to categorize them as parallel systems; finding that midpoints are a higher harmonic/dimension compared to ancient parts system;
with the passage of time and the changes to human longevity from modern medicine, with the advances to individual rights and the difference of lifestyle activities between ancient and modern cultures brings the midpoint system IMV into focus or purpose at a higher harmonic, but parallel level;
I don’t use parts often but occasionally I test political leaders horoscopes using parts system to help identify the relevance to political issues – so for useful study:
The Part of Conquest, Ascendant + Mars – Sun:
(‘slave race’ defined as group once independent but forced/conquered made into servants)
this Part/conquest is for study point of political leaders in relationship to former slave races, and modern persistent, growing issue of human trafficking, including ‘economic slavery’ from degrading quality of life for American ‘debt-slaves’ aka ‘wage slave’ employees from the economic global policies designed to turn workers into permanent captives of debt;
Part of Conquest:
Bill Clinton @15 Scorpio
Al Gore @12 Sagittarius
George Bush Jr. @23 Virgo
Dick Cheney @09 Cancer
Starlight News was unavailable via my hook-up all day until around 3PM. I really big time missed the connection. I am very happy that I can once again come and go as I like
Thanks clymela. . . .thought it might just be my computer. Glad everything’s okay now.
Same here!! When did Mercury go direct?
Starlight news was offline for me most of the day as well. I almost panicked….So grateful for the new Equinox post. A Thousand Thanks for your continuing dedication to your craft Nancy. I look forward to all that the solstice will ignite in this ever morphing world.
I feel like my online track is getting more & more narrow these days. Life with out this blog, Will, Wenneye, Lorrie and all those who post comments and links…life would be bleak with out you all. Enjoy Spring!
The Nation Magazine: Pete Peterson is one of the architects of the phony ‘Fix the Debt’ campaign
http://littlesis.org/person/33849/Peter_G_Peterson
Natal Sun@14 Gemini – Peter Peterson
Jupiter @26 Aquarius
conjunct
Ouro Preto (the dark side of money) @27 Aquarius
Separating Wan Square
SATURN@21 Scorpio 10 rx
September 22, 2007
Massive levels of debt underlying the world economy system: loans were invented so that hedge funds would have high-yield debt to buy.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007%5C09%5C22%5Cstory_22-9-2007_pg5_21
PS – ‘the phony debt campaign’
https://www.quantnet.com/threads/are-we-headed-for-an-epic-bear-market.795/
One of the world’s leading experts on credit derivatives, Satyajit Das is the author of a 4,200-page reference work on the subject, among a half-dozen other tomes.
As a developer and marketer of the exotic instruments himself over the past 30 years. He seemed like the ideal industry insider to help us get to the bottom of the recent debt crunch — and I expected him to defend and explain the practice.
I started by asking the Calcutta-born Australian whether the credit crisis was in what Americans would call the “third inning.” This was pretty amusing, it seemed, judging from the laughter. So I tried again. “Second inning?” More laughter. “First?”
Still too optimistic. Das, who knows as much about global money flows as anyone in the world, stopped chuckling long enough to suggest that we’re actually still in the middle of the national anthem before a game destined to go into extra innings. And it won’t end well for the global economy.
http://www.amazon.com/Extreme-Money-Masters-Universe-ebook/dp/B0056J0OII
Extreme Money: Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk
Fri Mar 15, 2013
It’s not every day that a money manager gets tapped as the next ambassador to France, but investors in Marc Lasry’s $12 billion hedge fund Avenue Capital could be facing that scenario.
If Lasry is nominated and approved by the U.S. Senate, he would become the first hedge fund manager to serve as ambassador, a sign of the growing power of the $2 trillion industry when it comes to political fundraising and political access.
Lasry, a longtime Democratic donor and chief executive officer of the 18-year-old firm, is the frontrunner to be nominated by President Obama as the next ambassador to France, according to several people familiar with the situation.
Speaking at an event in Washington DC on Wednesday, former President Bill Clinton said that Lasry had been notified by the White House that he will be nominated for the post. Clinton’s remarks were first reported by Politico.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/15/us-lasry-france-hedgefunds-idUSBRE92E14J20130315
Alex, was there an article about Pete Peterson? I didn’t see it, if there was. I knew Pete and would like to see what The Nation had to say. I don’t think he is the man I thought he was.
Noelle,
- I didn’t post the url because if there are three urls in a comment it goes to comment moderation:
http://www.thenation.com/blog/173052/sequestration-sacrifices-jobs-save-billionaire-tax-breaks#
http://www.thenation.com/article/173022/stacking-deck-phony-fix-debt-campaign
The Phony Fix the Debt Campaign
Pete Peterson – one of the architects of the phony fix the debt campaign
To hear the billionaire proponents of austerity tell it, America is teetering on the brink of economic ruin. America, we are told, is broke. And the only answer is to “Fix the Debt” with deep spending cuts followed by the radical reordering of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
But America is not broke.
America has broken priorities.
That’s what the billionaire proponents of cuts-at-any-cost economics won’t acknowledge as they advance a “Fix the Debt” agenda that imposes austerity on everyone else, while stacking the deck in their favor.
It is vital to understand that there is an economically and socially viable alternative to austerity cuts. It’s a growth agenda that addresses waste, fraud and abuse while finding new revenues to invest in job creation, education and expansion of access to healthcare.
The growth agenda, as proposed in the “Balancing Act” advanced by leaders of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, asks billionaires to pay their fair share in order to expand employment and opportunities.
The austerity agenda asks everyone but the billionaires to pay: via cuts not just to benefits and services but to jobs.
more on Pete Peterson ( articles about his ‘agenda’ are all over google search and the web )I’ve been writing about him since at least 2007
http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/17834-pete-peterson-s-fix-the-debt-astroturf-supergroup-takes-aim-at-social-security-and-medicare
Friday, 01 March 2013
Pete Peterson’s “Fix the Debt” Astroturf Supergroup Takes Aim at Social Security and Medicare
BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT
Peter G. Peterson’s cringe-worthy Fix the Debt campaign can hoover the kind of attention that most ordinary Americans couldn’t even dream about. If Peterson succeeds, a new era of austerity will be unleashed, and programs that the middle class and poor depend on will be decimated.
Peterson, a longtime political operative and one of the wealthiest men in the country, made his personal fortune “at the Blackstone Group on Wall Street, [where he] … cashed out with $2 billion shortly before the 2008 financial meltdown,” the Madison, Wisconsin-based Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) recently pointed out.
Now Peterson has assembled a huge war chest, recruited a high-powered supporting cast, developed a nationwide infrastructure, and is preparing to plop a chunk of his Blackstone money into “convince[ing] Americans — who overwhelmingly want to keep and strengthen Social Security and Medicare — that these programs threaten our very existence as a nation.”
The Los Angeles Times called Peterson “the most influential billionaire business figure in national politics. . . . He isn’t content merely to express concern about the federal deficit. His particular targets are Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, which he calls ‘entitlement’ programs and which he wants to cut back in a manner that would strike deeply at the middle class.”
great article Nancy, thank you.
Alex – Great posts! Thank you. I was depressed about the financial mess and your posts have not lightened my mood. It is so disturbing how these people are getting away with it. Have to admit, I get a little upset with some of Pres. Obama’s choices. And if I remember correctly, Chelsea Clinton married a big-time hedge fund banker, so maybe it’s a favor?
Speaking of Arabic Parts of which I know nothing, I was once impressed to figure out my Part of Marriage. Turns out it is 12 degrees Cancer. My ex-husband and another painful relationship both had their Sun directly conjuncting this degree, so since finding this out if someone has it in their chart, I run!
Mitzi – This one’s for you:
‘…47% Chance Scott Prouty can become the next governor of Florida?
http://ronrambles.com/47-chance-scott-prouty-can-become-the-next-governor-of-florida/
Lorrie I watched Inside Job again and I understand your disappointment with President Obamas choices. What do you think is really going on there? If, as Nancy writes we are all very pleased with the President at the end of his term I hope that there is some kind of different long term strategy. I always hope and look for the best in people, sometimes I am disappointed.
Lorrie
- I’m sorry that I didn’t lighten your mood; the big picture comes into focus in that string of four five comments doesn’t it; hope that THAT helps advance your self interests; well earned insights make for self authoritative sound, fortified frame of reference to optimize or make options from the big, manipulated, recessive economy effecting you; every well founded choice will work in your favor;
that’s the thing about Arabic Parts, when you discover one significant for you, you won’t need the whole pack of them – - as you take sure impressions from your chart’s vectors it cuts out unnecessary energy repeating off-target trajectories;
midpoints on the other hand are resonating – harmonic in nature; zones where you can adjust the magnitude of life events as you understand/experience/know your chart points;
need to have reliable ascendant degree from birth chart to use Arabic parts:
http://www.noendpress.com/pvachier/arabicparts/index.php
Arabic Parts Calculator – v1.1
Wow Lorrie, thats great news, thanks so much for that!
Open thread for night owls: Coal companies rip off miners’ pensions
by Meteor Blades – daily kos, must read : March 18th
I couldn’t log on yesterday either. Thought it might be that Mercury couldn’t make up “its” mind.
Nancy, loved this broad look and your title. The Chinese people may be on the leading edge of a broader movement. They were the first to unionize Wal-mart around 2005 or so. Their actions may be leading to broader unionization which may have already pit their interests against the government’s and corporate interests. This will escalate and may play a significant factor in the coming months.
What is the ASC for the USA east coast ( DC) ? I am in a state with a Koch bACKED PUNITIVE REP/ GOV. Involvement in political strategising, on a local level is time consuming……………..the affairs of China have little bearing on the activities of my neighbors. Venezuela is a different story. Hugo Chavez has been keeping oldsters alive in the NE for 5-6 years, with his gift of 100 gallons of free heating oil. Will the Citizen’s Energy” Joe 4 Oil, program with Chavez & Kennedy, sustain? The need is so great.that this year…………..when they opened the phone lines ( 200 intake workers)FOR APPLICATIONS, It took me 2 solid weeks of phoning every day all day, every 5 min. 1/2 hr, 5 redials per min., ( the 2nd week they had to install more phone lines as the circuits were tied up. It was like a full time job. I should have been collection benefits! On Mon. 3rd week I finally got through…but I hadn’t received the app by mail in 2 e weeks……….then there is a wait until the voucher comes in the mail, so you can collect your delivery. The alternative????? Carry a 2 gallon can to the gas station for diesel fuel to pour into your heater tank. Lasts about 2 days……….costs $4.25-4.60 per gallon or have $200. to pay for a minimum delivery. I have lost the last 6 months to painting just spending my time dealing with heating the house. The Chinese are on their own………
THE SAFETY NET: SCREW THE WORKING POOR
The Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the constitutionality of Obama-?care last year also gave states the right to opt out of an expansion of Medicaid – the joint state-federal insurance program – to cover the working poor.
A few high-profile Republican governors, including Rick Scott of Florida and Christie in New Jersey, have embraced this Medicaid expansion as a sweetheart deal: The federal government will pay all costs for new enrollees for three years, ponying up 90 percent thereafter. But other GOP leaders who despise government are content to put the health of millions at risk rather than sacrifice ideology.
Rick Perry in Texas – who calls Social Security a “disease” – is refusing to expand Medicaid, claiming it would “threaten even Texas with financial ruin.” In fact, Perry is looking a gift horse in the mouth. The feds would give the state $100 billion over a decade to cover nearly 2 million residents, while requiring just $15 billion in state matching funds. Perry’s prominent peers include Govs. Tom Corbett of Pennsylvania, Nikki Haley of South Carolina and Scott Walker of Wisconsin, who count among the nearly 20 GOP leaders who so far have refused to expand coverage.
Even the Republicans’ best efforts to demonstrate that the party is moving forward have backfired. The Violence Against Women Act expired in 2011, and Republican obstructionism blocked its reauthorization. After the election, GOP leaders were desperate to put the issue behind them. But to pass VAWA in February, Speaker Boehner had to suspend normal House rules, which require a majority of the majority party to pass a bill, and team up with Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats to reauthorize the law. In all, 160 House and Senate members voted against the act – all of them Republicans.
If this is the “new” Republican party, it looks even more radical than your father’s, or even your grandfather’s. A leading new face on the party’s right flank – Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas – recalls a famous 1950s Republican right down to the crook in his nose. Channeling Sen. Joseph McCarthy, Cruz has declared Barack Obama to be “the most radical” president in our history, adding that Obama was educated at Harvard Law School by “Marxists” who, Cruz insists, “believed in the Communists overthrowing the United States government.”
It may be tempting to believe that danger posed by the GOP’s lunatic fringe is cabined off in the House and the states of the Great Flyover. But 2014 is already looming, and vulnerable Democrats will be contesting Senate seats in red states from Alaska to Arkansas and Louisiana to South Dakota, as well as in hotly contested battlegrounds like Virginia and North Carolina.
Flip just six seats, and the GOP will control Congress – and set the agenda of the last two years of the Obama administration. Here’s hoping that when the next wave of Todd Akins or Richard Mourdocks charge onto the scene – mouthing off about “legitimate rape” or the latest Tea Party cause célèbre, that the American body politic has the good sense to shut that whole thing down.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-gops-real-agenda-20130313#ixzz2NzhJJm3C
Thank you to all the Starlighters who contacted me yesterday when we had a “day off” thanks to a server down at In Motion Hosting. A true Mercury station. But we are back in time for the now-building energy of this Mars-Uranus conjunction on the Equinox. So far:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/19/world/middleeast/syria-warplanes-hit-lebanon-for-first-time.html?hp&_r=0&gwh=AD231576AB87D45B73898860452E855B
Syria bombs Lebanon;
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21841217
Syrian rebels launch a chemical weapon;
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/19/us-usa-nevada-explosion-idUSBRE92I0FB20130319
A big explosion at an American military site in Nevada.
And we haven’t even reached the one-degree orb. This one will be intense. Remember, Mars will move to conjunct Uranus and then square Pluto, while the Sun will move to conjunct Uranus and then square Pluto, all over the next ten days. Locally, we had a water main break and a tractor trailer filled with toxic chemicals overturn, closing two main arteries this morning.
Series of bombings in Baghdad:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21840718
Tomorrow morning early rush hour in London and around 9 AM or a bit later in Jerusalem, the Moon will square Mars, which will be 1 degree 47 minutes shy of Uranus. I wish Obama had picked a less volatile time to travel.
Pat-good god!! Is your evil governor trying to kill off the old,the ill.the weak and the vulnerable? How did this man get elected? Is he still popular?
alex-you are talking about rumors I have heard on leftist circles for decades now and this includes the just past housing crisis. I never heard about hedge fund leaders rather the group was always identified as the world leaders of the IMF,World Bank and on and on at the level-the story always went that these huge bankers,etc would cause world wide depression so that then “they” could cause world war and then take over world-wide. I always turned away from these myths although I have noted a human size rhythm that has caused me to point that out but only in family conversations.
clymela
- I’m not sure what you question is : Obama notified hedge fund guy and democrat-contributor will be offered nomination as ambassador to France…it is not a rumor… it has to be confirmed by Senate;
hedge fund: reading resources
A Single Hedge-Fund Hustler Makes More Than 85,000 Teachers: Why Are Our Priorities So Messed Up?
This obscene distribution of income is what we get for failing to rein in Wall Street.
http://www.alternet.org/story/154671/a_single_hedge-fund_hustler_makes_more_than_85,000_teachers%3A_why_are_our_priorities_so_messed_up
http://www.alternet.org/just-what-do-hedge-fund-honchos-do-million-bucks-hour
Just What Do Hedge Fund Honchos Do For a Million Bucks an Hour?
Les Leopold’s new book reveals that hedge funds make their super-profits by doing what the rest of us would call cheating.
Nancy, your last comment is frightening me.
Yes, this is one time when I really hope Nancy is wrong.
Hoo boy, Nancy! Now I’ll have to go back and read past posts regarding critical phases for Obama.
The following is another sneaky insert into the Farm Bill being considered this week — protections for Monsanto. http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/03/19-1
An addition to Alex’s comment applies to Monsanto — why this “obscene distribution” of protection for corporate malfeasance?
This is emphasized in several of Nancy’s posts: “It is very clear that the dramatic and upsetting events in April will be extremely traumatic for President Obama who will be under the second crossing of Saturn to his Neptune (8Scorpio36) from April 9 through April 23.” And again emphasis on the next few days, but nothing on how this may involve Obama.
Obama will be with Israel’s leaders – and oddly, they always seem to avert being injured in one of these explosive events.
I don’t want to negate the possibility of danger – but I can almost assure you, Barack will be just fine.
I agree, Will.
I am not suggesting Obama is in danger. I don’t think so at all. I just think events are going to be very tumultuous, and it is better to be in the WH dealing with them. Also, there is likely to be more contention with so much Mars around. Not a great time for negotiating and coming together for a kumbaya moment.
Alex – Thanks for your concern and constructive advice. Yes, I struggle like most, but I’ve lived this way most of my life and have learned to live conservatively. My angst is for humanity and what we are leaving for future generations. We’ve worked so hard to educate and change the trajectory and it seems like we just keep getting defeated in our efforts. It gets disheartening when the criminals get away with financial mayhem and then get rewarded for it with significant positions in society, while the average person keeps having what little they can garner taken from them. When I look at my beautiful new three-month-old grandson, it breaks my heart at the world they are being born into. He is a Scorpio with Cancer Rising, Uranus in Aries, so it will be interesting to see how he will change the world.
Another thing I know little about is the vertex. I think it is an important life-changing midpoint, isn’t it? My son (adopted at birth when I was 35) has his Sun exactly conjunct that degree, so it gives credibility to its importance to me.
Anyone have a spring chart on North Korea?
Karen – That’s another issue that is so distressing. Montano has so much support from our govt. and this sneaky farm bill another assault on our freedom to choose for ourselves. Why should it be so hard to have GMO labeling if that’s what people want?
And, I see that the dems have caved and the assault weapon ban is probably dead. Sen. Diane Feinstein said to ask Harry Reid why.
Pope Francis and the “Dirty War”: The Video Testimony
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/112692/pope-francis-and-argentinas-dirty-war-video-testimony#
Meet The Five Cowardly Senate Democrats Who Killed the Assault Weapons Ban
Sen. Reid made the practical decision. Given what these members of his caucus decided, he chose to drop the assault weapons ban in order to have the best chance of getting a meaningful piece of legislation passed.
The disappointment of the left should not be directed at Reid. The blame belongs squarely on the shoulders Baucus, Tester, Begich, Heitkamp, and Manchin.
These five Red State Democrats decided to that they would rather cater to their own political survival than do something that might save the lives of mass shooting victims. They sided with the NRA over shooting victims, and they killed any chance that the assault weapons ban ever had of passing.
http://www.politicususa.com/meet-cowardly-senate-democrats-killed-assault-weapons-ban.html
All factors signal revolution in Saudi Arabia: Analyst
“We will see national or somewhat of a national protest movement in the country, I think, in the next few months maybe next weeks,” he added.
Ahmed pointed to seven decades of tyrannical rule by Al Saud dynasty, noting, “It is not only the issue of the large number of the prisoners, [and even] the political prisoners in the country. You are talking about high unemployment, high poverty rate, high level of corruption within the ruling family and the ruling class.”
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/03/19/294411/revolution-nears-in-saudi-arabia/
Lorrie
- http://cafeastrology.com/vertex.html
The vertex is only valid is the birth time is credible and ASC is solid:
I have used vertex as ‘wish fulfillment’ most of the time, which is mentioned as one option that some astrologers use for analysis.
The astrologer at this url uses vertex routinely.
Lorrie
- in a child’s chart: child development timeline
look at 7-8 year old chart
at 13-14 year old chart
at Node return at 18.6 years
whatever you feel is important in 20′s
especially at 28-29 years old
and follow the node returns outward 18.6 year cycles;
there of course are lots of other cycles but that is basic framework;
Thank you, Nancy. It’s tumultuous for me as well. with Saturn on my AC and Sun/Mars/Uranus sitting on Moon. Plutocratic Pluto is at 11-Cap-KeyWord: ‘Aristocracy’.
On a much lighter note…”US Republicans and Conservatives flock to CPAC – In Pictures”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2013/mar/16/us-republicans-cpac-maryland-in-pictures#/?picture=405700892&index=0
Alex – Thanks for the child development timeline. As you have outlined, I see where important steps occurred for my child at those times. (Re. the vertex, my birth time is accurate and my chart bears out the correctness of it.)
You Wouldn’t Believe How Fast Americans Are Losing Their Religion — But the Fundamentalists Have a Plan
As their power declines in America, fundamentalists are moving to developing countries not as far along the secularization curve. And they’re causing massive damage.
http://www.alternet.org/belief/you-wouldnt-believe-how-fast-americans-are-losing-their-religion-fundamentalists-have-plan
My son Evan is about to graduate as a creative writing major. He wrote this short story one day, and it is now being posted on Planet Waves website. Here is the link.
http://planetwaves.net/pagetwo/daily-astrology/the-water-seeker/
Nancy!
You must be so proud! A creative soul with an interest in fairness and peace? Wow. What does he want to write? Novels? Short Stories? Political stuff?
Very touching and impressive, Nancy!
Starlight,
Like Mother, like Son. How proud are we? Evan has found his voice. Tragic. Moving. Gorgeous.
Write on!
Thanks for posting Evan’s story. A poignant and timely reminder of who the victims are in drone warfare.
A beautiful, spine chilling story. Thank you so much for the link, Nancy.
It has a sense of immediacy and a personal narrative that draw in the reader and tear at our hearts.
Alex-I wasn’t really asking anything simply commenting on “things” I have heard and linking up with what you were saying. The reference to the rhythm of unfoldings is perhaps better left unwritten since I am not referring to something “grounded. At any rate thanks for following up with additional links,etc.
Congratulations Nancy best wishes to your talented son;
Tell Harry Reid how shameful he is for burying the gun ban. http://www.reid.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm
Evan: your work is profoundly moving BRAVISSIMO!
Alex: a thousand thanks for the arabic parts link.
Hi guys,
What an interesting thing to pop up today, when there’s all that Mars energy in the air: Donald Rumsfeld takes to Twitter on the anniversary of the Iraq war to say something like, “today we began the process to liberate 25 million Iraqis”
DK story is here: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/03/19/1195421/-Rumsfeld-s-Colossal-Twitter-Fail
The Twittersphere is not happy.
You’ve got it, Evan. Beautiful imagery merged with horror to evoke emotion, and reflect the reality of misguided “might.”
According to news reports, Air Force One touched down at Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv at 12:12 P.M. local time. Here’s the chart:
http://oi46.tinypic.com/34gwo61.jpg
A close Mars/Uranus conjunction (6 ’19/ 7 ’59 Aries respectively) falls right on the charts midheaven (6 ’24 Aries) squared by Moon (7 ’33 Cancer). The synchronistic aspects are quite amazing. Whatever results come out of this high profile Presidential visit, it would be reasonable to assume this chart could be fully activated at time of the March 27th Libra Full Moon (6 ’52 Libra).
Full Moon 27th March 2013 – A Tremendous Build Up of Energy Is Released
An article by Solaris Astrology
…..This coming full Moon is full of energy. It occurs as 6:52 Libra opposite to the Sun, Venus Mars and Uranus a fearsome and volatile conjunction of planets in the sign of action and force, Aries. This is one of the strongest alignments of opposing planets I have seen in a long time being reflected off a full Moon, and this energy is cardinal energy wanting to start something. This full Moon is also square to Pluto so we have a transformative influence here, and there is a trine to Jupiter which extends the reach and scale of anything that occurs in the light of this moment in time. If something happens, it’s going to be huge.
We also have two yods on this chart, one pointing at Jupiter from Saturn and Pluto and one pointing at Saturn from Jupiter and Mars/Uranus. Yods are known as turning points in time and the energy within them is quite unstable. This is because the two inconjunct aspects which form part of a Yod are separating or adjusting aspects which force a change in circumstances. These two yods are cutting across from each other and are linked which gives me the impression of shearing or a big shift on both sides of the chart.
Put all this together and I believe we are looking at significant moment in time, a time that a lot of diverging energy will be finally released (full Moon) in a wide ranging (Jupiter), pro-active (Aries Stellium), transformative (Pluto) manner forcing difficult to deal with change (yods).
Continued…….
http://solarisastrology.blogspot.in/2013/03/full-moon-27th-march-2013-tremendous.html
starlight: Major congrats on your son’s upcoming college graduation (a major accomplishment in my book) and his recent public posting on Planet Waves. Good job Mom and Dad!!!
will: If my memory serves me correctly, today is your solar return so here’s to a big Happy Birthday to you sir!! Hope you have a wonderful day.
Jackson: I believe also that today is your solar return as well. If I am wrong, please correct. If not, Happy Birthday to you as well.
Lisa L. Robinson
Lisa L. Robinson,
Many, many thanks for your sweet remembering.
Jackson,
May your day be a grand one, fellow Aries point native!
Thank you everyone for your nice commnents on Evan’s story. Much appreciated!!!
And happy birthday to our zero Aries posters: Will and Jackson!! I know there were some others but I can’t think of the names right now.
Oh my!!Nancy-your sons story is stunning. So much realized with few words. Stunning! Thank you for sharing this. You must be so proud of your son and all the years you have shared as your family.
Happy Birthday, Will! I knew it was either today or tomorrow. What does your solar return chart look like? Going to have a good year?
Starlight,
If there’s anything your son would like to talk about in terms of creative writing/publishing, I’d be happy to talk to him. Could recommend the absolute best book ever written about life as a writer: Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott: http://www.amazon.com/Bird-Some-Instructions-Writing-ebook/dp/B000SEGI8Q/ref=tmm_kin_title_0
Will, your comment: “but I can almost assure you, Barack will be just fine”! Very presumptious of you. Only God can give that assurance, & that you can be assured of.
Happy Birthday Will. May you find peace & happiness.
angellight,
I am God. I am the point through which all energy and love passes. Know it.
Thank you very much, Teresa! I haven’t looked at my solar return chart yet.
Starlight,
Thank you so very, very much. I am deeply grateful to you for hosting and feeding this amazing site; its like getting a birthday gift every week!
Happy Birthday Will & Jackson and to the other zero degree Aries souls on this site. Evan’s piece on planet waves is so sadly wonderful, I hope it gets lot’s of attention. Congratulations!
Hi guys,
This is not about astrology, but such an interesting story about karma, I thought some people here would find it interesting.
I’m from Kentucky and a big college basketball fan. Last year, Kentucky won its eighth national championship. We were on top of the world. It was John Calipari’s third year as our coach, and he delivered everything we wanted. He was God in Kentucky.
This year, we all new starters, after last year’s team went to the NBA, six of them, I think. And we clearly didn’t have the talent of last year’s team. Then, midseason, our best player went down with a torn ACL, out until the season was over. Then things got really ugly, so ugly that the team didn’t even make the NCAA tournament, the one we had won the year before.
It’s just expected that Kentucky will make that tournament every year. We have the tradition and the money and can draw the talent we need to do that.
It’s a huge blow to your pride as a team, as a fan base, to miss the NCAA tournament. But a lot of teams do and end up in the secondary tournament, the MIT. Here’s where it gets really interesting.
Kentucky is named a number one seed in the MIT, one of the best teams that didn’t make the big dance. So we get a number eight seed, one of the worst teams for a first-round game.
We Get Robert Morris in Pennsylvania. Our coach grew up in the same small town where Robert Morris is. His high school is practically right around the corner. He did not have a privileged childhood. His grandmother used to work in the cafeteria at Robert Morris. When he was a child he’d often go to Robert Morris after school and play outside the cafeteria, and his grandmother would come out and slip him free food to eat.
So, it’s humbling enough not to make the NCAA, but even more so to come back to your little hometown a yearafter winning the national championship and have to play the school where your grandmother used to work in the cafeteria. Because we all want to go back to our hometowns as a huge success.
Kentucky would normally host the first round NIT game, as the higher seed in our arena that seats 23,000, which is full for every game.
But in another odd coincidence of karma, our in-state rivals, University of Louisville, is the overall number one seed in the NCAA tournament this year. One of the perks of being the number one seed overall is that you get to play in the arena closest to your school that is hosting first-round games.
Wouldn’t you know it? This year, the Kentucky Wildcats home-court is hosting first-round games.
So the University of Louisville’s fan base is going to be all over Lexington this weekend, playing in our arena, as the favorite to win the national championship. (That really burns.)
Which meant, Kentucky could not have its own arena last night. So Kentucky traveled to our coach’s hometown, to play in Robert Morris’s tiny 3000 seat arena, giving Robert Morris the home-court advantage, which is a lovely perk in basketball. This would be much like the Boston Celtics playing in a high school gym.
And we lost on a last-second shot. Our season is done.
I can’t imagine what our coach did to deserve this kind of karma, but I find it fascinating. Especially coming after last year’s victory, his first NCAA title.
Just thought you guys would enjoy the story.
Will-Happy Birthday!! i thought of you but forgot to say anything.
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IT STOPS LOBBYIST BRIBERY, ENDS SECRET MONEY & EMPOWERS EVERYDAY AMERICANS.
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Happy, Happy Birthday, Will…Wishing you a beautiful birthday and a year filled with good health, peace, joy and all the good stuff.
And, let’s not forget, Jackson, our other witty & honest 0 degree Aries — we celebrate you, too, and wish you only goodness, joy, good health and peace in your life.
I think there was one more but he hasn’t posted lately! Any other 0 degree Arians, please identify yourselves!
Many thanks to you, Clymela! So fond of your sharing. All good things!
Astrologer Anne Ortlee has an incredible post for March 18th…
For those interested…it’s really something incredible. Music/video/Music and More MUSIC. Something about it was sort of cathartic and releasing to me.
http://anneortelee.com/
Happy Birthday Will – may the odds be ever in your favor!
Evan’s story is so beautifully written, Nancy. We are all the same as Ahmad, with the same thirst, and we are killing each other.
David,
That is one great birthday wish – thank you very, very much!
Many thanks, Sharon – and yes, the best to Jackson as well. At one point there were, I believe, 4 zero-Aries peeps who posted here…sometime during the horrible Bush era, I believe.
Thank you a great deal.
Gratitude, Lunagardener! Grazi!
Starlight…what an incredible son you have…to write such a moving piece that speaks so much to the concerns we have today.
It’s so much appreciated to read that.
And…Evan sees what it is…and he speaks out about it in a way that goes to the human heart to try to understand something about ourselves and our country and what is being done in our names.
Thank you EVAN…and to you Starlight for the link to that incredible read.
Hey Teresa,
Cheer up, it’s only a game. That’s what they always tell us University of Louisville supporters when we lose. Remember you guys played in our brand new arena last year? What everybody knows is that the state of Kentucky produces some great basketball teams, and they don’t always come from UK or UL either!
We all need to get past our hubris, or karma or whatever and not think of ourselves as being either Hatfields or McCoys. We are much more than the schools we attended and/or love to support. I know it’s a big part of the fun of sports to have rivalries, but like a lot of other things(like politics!) it can go too far. John Calipari is a GREAT coach, just like Patino was when he was the head coach at UK. They both make lots of money and their pride can handle a tournament loss cuz there’s always next year, right?
Just to make it more interesting and karma-like, Robert Morris is an old family name (father’s side) and even signed the Declaratiion of Independence. That should make the coach very proud. On the other hand Robert Morris (an Aquarian) wound up in debters prison and was a rather profiteering kind of politician (blush!)and that’s something too embarrassing to even admit, much less talk about. Even more so than not winning a top seed in the NCAA championship I would think.
I’m hoping like hell that UK beats the socks off of Robert Morris Teresa, and I’m a died in the wool UL fan. Go Big Blue!
http://darkstarastrology.com/2013-horoscope/
In May though, dashing Mercury on fixed star zealous Aldebaran “speaks out against evil. They may swing between sinner and saint and have the archetypical Mercurial talent of switching abruptly between conflicting principles.”
http://jessicaadams.com/2013/01/01/new-astrology-predictions-for-2013/
In 1929, Jupiter was in Gemini, Uranus was in Aries, the North Node was in Taurus and the South Node was in Scorpio. It was the year of the Wall Street Crash and the end of the Roaring Twenties. This pattern in the heavens held until June 1930.
In the first half of 2013, the alignment is echoed in the most uncanny way. Jupiter is in Gemini, Uranus is in Aries, the North Node is in Scorpio and the South Node is in Taurus. It’s the year that starts on the edge of an American Fiscal Cliff and the pattern holds until June.
Barbk,
Another BB fan!! My husband’s from Carollton and grew up rooting equally for both. So he’s really happy for Louisville, and he still loves Rick. First thing he said when UK didn’t make it was that he would root wholeheartedly for Louisville.
And sadly, the UK game was last night. We played pitifully and lost to Robert Morris. They stormed the court! Were just blissed out. I was actually happy for them. They played tough, and it was their David Vs. Goliath moment. Their coach looks like he’s about 22. So, we’re done. (A point of pride I have to mention, my father actually helped build Rupp Arena. He worked construction in and around Lexington for twenty-five years.)
Go Cards!
Putting Our Money Where Our Mouth Is by Dylan Ratigan
It was a three-tour Iraq combat Marine and his war-protestor wife who pointed me in a new direction. They were guests on my show last June discussing how they were bootstrapping their way to operate a high-yield hydroponic organic farm that uses 90% less water and produces three times as much food. It was a business that promised to cure food deserts – areas where access to fresh and healthy food is limited – while having the potential to create jobs for thousands of combat veterans, each of whom was the beneficiary of $1 million in military training while on active duty.
http://www.dylanratigan.com/2013/03/20/putting-our-money-where-our-mouth-is/
U.S. Supreme Court Considers ALEC Voter Registration Bill And Limiting Federal Oversight of Eligible Voters
http://www.alternet.org/us-supreme-court-considers-alec-voter-registration-bill-and-limiting-federal-oversight-eligible?akid=10211.237636.8GYAqF&rd=1&src=newsletter811974&t=21
I noted the coming of the pattern Jessica Adams talks about in summer 2006. It brought me here. (well an old ephemeride and a Time Hammond Almanac of the 20th century helped)
We live in interesting times. Thank you for pinpointing the date Alex, Starlight.
The following article from a gold and silver investment company, although geared towards generating interest in their product, is still worth reading……
Will The Banking Meltdown In Cyprus Be A “Lehman Brothers Moment” For All Of Europe?
March 19th, 2013
Cyprus lawmakers may have rejected the bank account tax, but the truth is that the financial crisis in Cyprus is just getting started. Right now, the two largest banks in Cyprus are dangerously close to a meltdown. If they fail, depositors could end up losing virtually all of their money. You see, the banking system of Cyprus absolutely dwarfs the GDP of that small island nation. Cyprus is known all over the world as a major offshore tax haven, and wealthy Russians and wealthy Europeans have been pouring massive amounts of money into the banking system over the last several decades. Yes, those bank deposits are supposed to be insured, but the truth is that there is no way that the government of Cyprus could ever come up with enough money to cover the massive losses that we are potentially looking at. This is a case where the banking system of a nation has gotten so large that the national government is absolutely powerless to stop a collapse from happening. If those banks fail, depositors may end up getting 50 percent of their money or they may end up getting nothing. We just don’t know how bad the damage is yet. And considering the fact that many of the largest corporations and many of the wealthiest individuals in Europe have huge mountains of cash stashed in Cyprus, the fallout from a banking collapse could potentially be absolutely catastrophic.
So Cyprus needs to come up with some money from somewhere in order to keep that from happening.
Basically, there are three options at this point…
Continued…….
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/will-the-banking-meltdown-in-cyprus-be-a-lehman-brothers-moment-for-all-of-europe
Starlight, thank you for the link. – Evan’s piece was movingly
devastating. Indeed, a fresh and illuminating voice for today’s world. He certainly has a bright future ahead of him!
Gypsi
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did 2006 pattern for you include T/Saturn or N/Saturn activation? the constructive side of Saturn, that is often overlooked, relates to taking on new responsibilities in life that are your choice (and being ready to do so)
Matthew Modine’s JESUS WAS A COMMIE – A SHORT FLIM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-IHDfcQsIQ
PLASTIC JESUS – A Short Music Film by Matthew Modine
http://youtu.be/tCjMH0U-OLM
There’s cold beer in the fridge, Will and Jackson. Come on! You’ll eat like kings, listen to rock-n-roll, jazz, blues, whatever; have spiraling conversations while watching the fish roll on the lake, the geese parlay for mates. And, of course, we’ll light a big fire. If you don’t make it, we’ll celebrate your birthdays for you.
At least 5 times over the last decade, women were shot to death less than a month after getting protection orders.
propub.ca/ZUI3ks
A deadline has just been announced by the ECB (European Central Bank). Barring any last minute agreements, time runs out on Monday March 25th. Could Cyprus risk being ejected out of the Euro on this date, or is the ECB merely bluffing (see article below)??
The ephemeris reveals an exact Mars-Jupiter-Saturn yod on the 25th with Jupiter conjoining the ECB Sun (10 Gemini – 01 June 1998 Frankfurt, Germany). Could be an indication of drastic measures in the offing. Mercury went stationary direct last Saturday morning at 5 pisces. Stationary direct Mercury conjoined the ECB south node (5 pisces) in opposition to Cyprus’s natal Pluto (5 Virgo) and the ECB North Node. That happened to be the day the ECB first introduced the draconian tax measures on Cypriot banks in exchange for an additional 10 bilion Euro loan. Cyprus’s natal Moon (Aug 16, 1960 Nicosia) symbolic of the people of Cyprus at 11 Gemini is closely aligned to the March 25th Mars-Jupiter-Saturn yod.
ECB Gives Cyprus Bailout Ultimatum, Banks Face Cutoff
March 21, 2013
(Reuters) – The European Central Bank gave Cyprus until Monday to raise billions of euros to clinch an international bailout or face losing emergency funds for its banks and inevitable collapse.
The ultimatum came with the island’s leaders locked in talks on a “Plan B” to try to raise 5.8 billion euros demanded by the EU under a 10 billion euro rescue, after angry lawmakers threw out a tax on deposits as “bank robbery”.
Officials said new options discussed on Thursday could include nationalising pension funds of semi-state companies, issuing an emergency bond linked to future natural gas revenue or a revised bank deposit levy hitting only large investors, many of them Russians.
The European Central Bank, which has kept Cyprus’s banks operating with a liquidity lifeline, said the government had until Monday to get a deal in place, or funds would be cut off.
“Thereafter, Emergency Liquidity Assistance (ELA) could only be considered if an EU/IMF programme is in place that would ensure the solvency of the concerned banks,” it said.
Cyprus’s central bank governor said he expected to clinch a financial support package by then. He did not say how.
The government has ordered banks to stay closed until Tuesday. The stock exchange also suspended trading for the rest of the week.
Continued…..
http://in.reuters.com/article/2013/03/21/eurozone-cyprus-idINDEE92J0DI20130321
Ales-thank so much for the heads up regarding the current line up and the connection to the bank crash of 1929!! Hmmm!!! I wonder what is coming-I of course have wondered as ordinary people such as myself are getting pushed over the edge financially but seeing the pattern you illuminated startled me.
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Lorrie,
Thanks for the link to Dylan Ratigan… I had wondered what happened to him when his MSNBC show vanished. I still have time to catch the Chew today!
Did anyone watch the President speak to the young people of Isreal? Mesmerizing.
Thanks, all. And a big happy birthday to you, too, Will. You’re right; at one point, there were several of us Aries-pointers here.
Nancy, Your Son is very talented. How proud you and your husband must be. Please tell Evan how impressed we are with his works and look forward to reading more of his brilliant writing.
Happy, Happy Belated Birthday, Will!
I’m having a problem with my computer…if there are any especially savvy computer experts out there with any help, I would greatly appreciate it.
I have a year and a half old Apple Computer. But have been using FIREFOX. My Adobe Flash Plug-in needed to be updated. Every time I tried to re-update it I was unable. I called Apple, was told to go to Safari and they walked me through it. Fine, now I have Adobe Flash Plug-in on Safari. Although, I now cannot get Adobe Flash on FIREFOX.
The big problem is…My son lists and sells on EBAY and that was hooked up on FIREFOX where the Adobe Flash Plug in is disabled. So, he is unable to list now.
If anyone here is familiar with this problem or has any input for me in solving this problem or suggestions…I would be so very, very grateful.
Continuing Resolution Passed: 3/21/1013 – 10:54AM
Excerpt Email: Food Democracy Now
This morning at 10:54 AM EST, Congress passed the Continuing Resolution, HR 933 that contained the dangerous provision that strips the important concept of “judicial review” from our courts, caving to Monsanto.
Food Democracy Now! and our allies alerted you this past week, the passage of Section 735 strikes a major blow against America’s constitution, citizens, farmers and the environment that undermines our basic democratic rights in favor of continued corporate welfare and failed oversight of GMO crops.
Even if their new GMO crops are ultimately proven to be harmful to human health or the environment, Section 735 allows them to be planted the minute the USDA approves them!
Even more alarming, currently 13 new crops are awaiting approval at the USDA and AquaBounty’s GMO salmon is on the verge of being approved by the FDA. This new provision opens the door wide open for these approvals.
The floodgates are literally open for Monsanto, DuPont and Dow Chemical’s new GMO crops that are resistant to more toxic chemicals like 2,4-D, Agent Orange and dicamba that will replace failing Roundup Ready GMO crops.
According to legal experts, this provision would create a precedent-setting limitation on judicial review and is a dangerous assault on fundamental federal and judicial safeguards needed to protect America’s farmers, citizens and the environment from the wanton approval of Monsanto’s new GMO crops.
http://www.fooddemocracynow.org/
not good news. I’ve signed petitions and bothered my senators, but you know they are all on the corporate payroll.
Patty….
I went through this problem for three days before finding a “fix.”
Go to Firefox “Tools” tab, click on “Add On’s” when that comes up click on “Extensions.” If you have “AdBlock 2″ or “Adblock Pop Up Blocker” click on the right to “DISABLE” them both. Then restart Firefox and see if you are able to get your YouTubes.
That worked for me. It could be that you don’t have the AdBlocks and it’s another extension that’s blocking Firefox…but that was what fixed my “Adobe Flash” after nothing else worked including installing and uninstalling Flash several times because both Adobe and Firefox Help told me to do it…but the suggestions didn’t work.
Hope this helps.
Will & all,
Talk of solar returns reminds me — when you look at yours, do you do solar return compared to the natal chart? Or just a solar return chart? I see both options, and they yield different houses for the return planets. Never sure which to study.
Alex, maybe this will cause a big grass roots (pun intended) push for the growth of organic produce businesses which would, in turn, lower the prices?
Thank you, Suzy, for that information. I think I have a similar problem with updating the Adobe Flash player.
Thank you for the update on HR 933, Alex. I’m swearing under out loud — rather toasty I might add. I had rather hoped saner minds would prevail.
Will, just got back to the blog and see you had something beautiful occurring in your life and I missed it so here goes- HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR WILL, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU and many more..Wennye’
Alex,
Pallas had just passed my natal Saturn, and Pluto was opposite my Moon, retrograde. Transiting Saturn was on my natal Vesta, and I had quite a clump of asteroids, plus Mars, in my 8th house. (I have Uranus and Pluto in the 8th natally – a lot of deep karmic change stuff happens there.)
Teresa, astro.com has an “extended charts” selection (maybe you know about it; I didn’t read everything upthread) which allows you to look at your natal chart + progressions, and you natal chart + solar return chart at the same time, if that helps.
Mars/Uranus building to peak tomorrow morning. Suicide bombing inside a mosque in Damascus. Signifcant casualties.
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/syria-hands-over-seized-lebanese-fighter-beirut
Gypsi
– patchwork astro-info scrambles my brain
I like looking at whole chart, taking notes, redrawing it… I do things slow-mo!;
nice chart for everyone is B & W chart called the ‘BNC’ at this url:
http://astrocom.com/astrology/charts
it is inexpensive and they are quick can fax your chart or email or send it postal service; the chart has all the midpoints, you can get add-on small fee for big four asteroids plus this that and the other thing….
since natal 8th house has UR & PL here is a suggestion:
forward reading ( whichever body is before the other do a solar arc direction how much of an arc between them – count that as one year for every degree and move forward until the two bodies met by solar arc; whatever was happening in your life on the year they met up by solar arc….. it would have been an interesting important year for you;
going on to the
T/Saturn tied to N/Vesta
T/Pallas transiting N/Saturn
couldn’t be any chance choices in that time frame were ‘unconscious’ they had to be considered choices …. or refining strategies or re-balance of older decisions – sound right?
Sharon,
Yes, I look at charts there, too. But it’s when they give you the option of just a solar return or a solar return plus natal, that you get different charts, and I guess maybe it’s just your preference, which one you want to see?
I wonder the same thing about progressions. Do you like to read just progressed chart or progressed compared to natal? I never know which one to look at.
Teresa, Well, I don’t know that much (even though I’ve had about a 40 interest in astrology), but I like to look at the progressions and natal chart together as they line up in two columns and I like to compare the new coloring to my life and personality that’s been added to the natal foundation. I don’t remember if there is one that combines natal, progression and transits or just progression and transits, but it’s good to compare those two as I notice Nancy talks about how transits affect the progressed placements. As far as the solar chart, I don’t know what the value of comparing to the natal chart would be. I would just read it for what it said about the coming year That’s my 2 cents. I’m sure others like Nancy can give you some concise advice!
Teresa Hill/Sharon-I think that everything we do to understand ourselves and our experience is always related to the natal chart. Whether the birthday chart (solar return)or progressions or transits we are always seeking to understand what is happening to the native. If you are trying to answer a question for someone else you use their chart otherwise you could never find anything to help the questioner. For example: these are very trying times and for some there will be tragedy yet for others depending on their natal chart this will be a time of amazing breakthrough. It all depends the individual chart and what the native is seeking through learning about her chart.
Sharon-for a fast review I was taught to use transits for the closer smaller planets (fast moving)Sun,Moon,Mercury,Venus,Mars and progressions for Jupiter,Saturn,Uranus,Neptune,Pluto. i am fooling around with the newer points of reference such as the asteroids-when I was studying we didn’t have access to heavenly bodies that exceed Pluto. There are always times when one uses the opposite such as when a planet changes signs,houses,crosses an angle.
Karen-is that party for Will& Jackson still going on? Sounded so wonderful that I would love to come. All that I would ask is a promise that I won’t have to come back to my real time life until I am thoroughly refreshed and renewed.
Karen, many thanks for your generous party vision – I am there in spirit!
Wennye, You are too good for words-the Bay Area is very blessed to have you there, Dear One – big love to you and may all kinds of funding come in to support your noble efforts and beautiful work.
Clymela, I just opened a wonderful bottle of Pinot Noir and a big wedge of Manchego – come in and sit down!
Jackson, I trust you are performing with your band and putting out more of your amazing music – you fortunate to be talented on many levels.
Teresa Hill,
I just threw an Astro.com solar return chart with transits and Nancy took a look at it. It was a shock to me as it explains some of the spiritual crisis I have going on at present and my rather monastic existence as of the last several months. Gotta whole lot of boogy-ing in my 12th house with a stellium of transiting planets there. I’ve never punched-up a solar-return chart. I don’t know much about them.
Nancy-your son’s story is so beautifully written. I wanted to continue to read more. Hope he can turn this into a novel.
Jerry,
My niece is moving to Cali April 1st and her fiance is traveling there next week ahead of her. Your comment or the article you posted, didn’t give a specific date or time frame for the possible event in cali. Do you have a specific time or time frame for this possible activity?
thank you.
I think Obama got his mojo back today. It was the first time since the election that, in my mind, he had that special spark he used to have all the time. I have to admit I have been quite worn down in the last few months by the endless stream of Republican rubbish that has been drowning out everything else, so I may not have been seeing our president that clearly. Thus today was a really welcome surprise.
Some spiritualists believe that when you travel “across waters,” you are able to then regain your true essence!
He was great and I believe that is the real Obama.
Yes Alex, there were a lot of revisited decisions in 2006, and a lot of partings, from my old dog dying to some human partings as well. I parted from groups that were just sure that the economic boom was going to last forever and they considered me nuts. Boy fall of 2007 was interesting, but I didn’t bother to rejoin the group to say I told you so.
I am familiar with astro.com. My solar return this year looks super interesting, and will be the first one not loaded with red squares from Uranus and Pluto in some time. I do not know how to send a link to my chart on astro.com, but I’m not desperate for anyone to look at it. I have had pluto opposite my Moon, on my ascendant, opposite my Venus and conjunct my Saturn, in addition to aspecting the rest of my chart for years. Comes a time when you don’t look at transits much, you just keep on trucking. That is a spiritual rebirth of sorts.
Gypsi, you can just copy and paste the link here, I think, and we should be able to see it.
Thanks, Clymela!
When Pres. Obama was honored and awarded Israel’s Medal of Honor with accompanying accolades, my greatest pleasure was knowing that republicans everywhere were probably going insane with jealousy and rage!
Gypsi
- I’m in the midst of scheduled spring cleaning/repairs it will take me a few days to get time to look at your chart… I have it in a file now … meanwhile ask Nancy to take your comment and link off the thread;
what was your original question or two?
PS Gypsi
- I have weak eyesight (aging eyes) haven’t seen on her page Jessica Adams 2006 pattern having read her twice could you copy/paste the relevant info?
Wonderful Talk on the New Energies Available from Cosmic Sources Creating New Holistic Approaches for Change , the rise of Spirituality & a Closing Meditation
http://tinyurl.com/cubuf23
Starlight: I too was feeling the very same sentiments you were experiencing. I guess that it what the GOP wanted to create — disillusionment in our President not based on reality but their illusions.
angellight – I don’t know what they are trying to create, but I know a great many progressives who are starting to turn off to everything after so much GOP obstruction and insanity. Many are just worn out from it all. And I am starting to be really angry at the Democrats for not making the filibuster harder to use, i.e. a talking filibuster. That would have been simple enough, is not radical, and would have at least minimized some of the obstruction.
In 1929, Jupiter was in Gemini, Uranus was in Aries, the North Node was in Taurus and the South Node was in Scorpio. It was the year of the Wall Street Crash and the end of the Roaring Twenties. This pattern in the heavens held until June 1930.
In the first half of 2013, the alignment is echoed in the most uncanny way. Jupiter is in Gemini, Uranus is in Aries, the North Node is in Scorpio and the South Node is in Taurus. It’s the year that starts on the edge of an American Fiscal Cliff and the pattern holds until June.
The Charleston – the dance of the 1920s – ruled then, as Gangnam Style does now. Both are ‘me, me, me’ physical movements where it’s all about solo dancing. The planet Uranus rules strange dances (it was discovered in the same year as ‘animal electricity’ when Galvani accidentally made a dead frog jump). It galvanises people on the dance floor – by watching the sign Uranus is in, you can always spot the hot dance/hit of the age!
But wait, there’s more. In 1929, Jupiter in Gemini (ruling the media) coincided with the first public demonstration of colour television in New York. Will 2013 be the year we see 3D video-on-demand on the internet?
above quote from Jessica Adams page.
Hi Elizabeth,
The general time frame given by Psychic Focus for a possible shift in the tectonic plates under the Pacific Ocean as mentioned in her blog…… beginning March 13th to the time of the Full Moon (March 27th). Apparently it has to do with what she calls ‘the Red Comet’ which will be exerting enormous influence over the earth’s gravitational forces. So far, there doesn’t appear to be any significant seismic activity to date. We shall see.
Starlight-listening to Obama yesterday I walked through the house to announce to Steve that I am once again in love with Obama. What a leader,what a man to stand there and announce to the young people that they are the future and then to announce the humanity of the Palestinians and to recognize their full humanity right there on stage. I hope that I can hold to this while Obama goes through this trying,troubling time.
Aloha Starlight & All!
With all the corruption, insanity, audacious authoritarian moves in the political, banking, corporate, civilized world, maybe because I’m looking for relief (the old car-game of can you see a blue car? and suddenly they’re everywhere)I’m seeing interesting, hopeful signs of intelligence & enlightened humanity even amid the overwhelming media meme traffic!
Or maybe seeing signs of the huge change from Regulus/Leo into Regulus/Virgo, service leadership beginning?
*Just heard on radio that rather than flying over occupied territory to Jerusalem, PBO ‘had to be’ driven there through occupied territory instead. While this is more dangerous to him personally, the unscheduled passing visions of the suffering of the real people of occupied territory can leave a lasting impression and influence his views/actions eventually when the next McCain/GOP/TP shrieking begins again for perpetual war…
*Did you know that Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/Yoo/Bybee/Gonzales/Addington/Haynes were found guilty of war crimes against humanity in abstentia by Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal Court in 2012?
*Have you heard of the President of Uruguay, Jose Mujica, a formerly imprisoned guerrilla, who lives at home w/his wife after selling off the palatial former pres. residence & keeps only 10% of his salary+? http://www.worldwatch.org
*In exploring for answers to the previous stream question: is it misogyny in the church or something else? Came upon an enlightening YouTube vid: Gillard labels Abbott a Misogynist (on NewsonABC w/2+ million views). Maybe it’s not misogyny but fear of women that keeps ordination off the table!
*The Bangladeshi govt. is currently holding war crimes tribunal trials and has found guilty-in-abstentia leaders from their 1970s Civil War that left 1/4 million women raped; many millions/tortured/dead/displaced.
*As for Harry’s decision (3x actually he’s done this) to abdicate his/Dem power in the Senate filibuster rules choice? Having observed his Mars/Pisces shrinking-violet-victim public behavior, seriously thinking he has a testosterone deficiency & needs to change his diet to amp it up. Criminal incompetence, given the generations of damage already done because of his inability to stand up for the constitutional power/rules to benefit the nation and instead plays “hostage” with we-the-people imv.
*And then there’s this bit of Mango & Milkshake to bring a smile:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/21/mango-and-milkshake_n_2924857.html
*Warm hugs and aloha to everybody! E Ho’omaluhia me ka Honua!
ArtsCulturePeace,
Thanks for Mango & Milkshake. Absolutely adorable.
Aloha Noelle,
Glad you enjoyed Mango & Milkshake!
Been looking to see how the outer planets (Pluto/Cap sextile (by earth/water)Neptune/Pisces are expressing energetically and found something today that qualifies:
A commissioned symphony “In the Shadows of No Towers” seems to approach the transformative quality of a fiscal-sponsored commission (Plu/Cap)into an ephemeral creative musical reach for oneness (Nep/Pisces) about the life changes that have occurred across the planet (mostly anti-life changes/warring/suffering/poverty)since 9.11.01. I feel humanity has yet to find the courage or language to deal w/the massive, oozing wounds that have been opened since that fateful day by the illegal Iraq War of Occupation/Profit.
Instead of bombs & deep dysfunction, focused exploration by creative process, group/team focus of the orchestra/composer/maestro/sponsor…If only Congress had a few piccolo, drum, harp players+ to play the constitution & freedoms of we-the-people into current reality?
Anyway, here are links to the project that include vids on the making thereof and a glimpse of the conscious/thoughtful piece that will premiere at Carnegie Hall soon. As the composer says in the vids: it’s a “challenge of soul, spirit & mind.” Warm aloha, blessings, peace:
http://journeytocarnegiehall.ku.edu/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hecV5asWWcw
Will, thanks for your wishes towards the Project however I am in the slow process of closing it out (at least for now). My friend and neighbor who helped with spear-heading the Project, crossed to the other side March 11th. Which in my mind finalized the struggle in keeping it going. Ready now to get my new orders from our Eternal Parent. Blessings All ( Jackson didn’t see your birthday announcement until now-HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY internet brother)
The Shocking Transition: From Pisces to Aries
http://omtimes.com/2013/03/the-shocking-transition-from-pisces-to-aries/
Wennye, I can’t wait to hear what your new mission is and I pray those who you helped continue to be helped, as well as find ways to help themselves. So sorry that you have lost an important friend in this material incarnation. Maybe he can help more from the other side?
From Lorrie’s omtimes article, “The Shocking Transition…:”
Typically, a new chapter of Aries finds us very active and adventurous; this time it has a whole new flavor. In fact, when the 7 planets were in Pisces in early March, I felt the Collective change – I felt the teeter-totter tilt towards the East for the first time, as opposed to rational Western thinking. Don’t miss the fact that quantum thinking is taking over. This is a new age. It’s happening everywhere.
“Hopefully, as Uranus and Pluto stop squaring each other over the next two years, we’ll come up with a reasonable solution to protect our children with new gun laws.
Thank Goddess, we are in a New Age. This is not generic hype-talk. This is true. People are changing as fast as possible. I’m seeing light-workers emerge as quickly as the cosmic conveyor-belt can handle it. Honor it, celebrate it; the Holy Spirit, or whatever name you want to use, is feverishly blooming in all of us. Talk love. Spread it because this occurs maybe once in a culture’s rein.”
There was a lot of politicking going on with Obama in Israel as I see it; in other words, the subtext, which said to me that Israel is desperately trying to make nice to Obama and repair the breech since they have to live with him for 4 yrs. At the same time, Obama is trying to repair the impression he gave and the Repubs jumped on that we are not Israel’s friend and will throw Israel under the bus. Of course, what Obama is doing is very important in restraining an Iran-Israel war. Also, Netanyahu said nada at the award ceremony. He let Peres say it instead and I wondered if that was perhaps Netanyahu couldn’t trust himself to pull it off with sincerity? I also read that Abbas (interesting that Abba means father in Hebrew, too)was very disappointed along with his countrymen that POB asked them to sit down with Israel WHILE they continue to build instead of insisting that they stop. POB has in the past; I wonder why not now? I have read and heard many mixed things about the building in general. Someone I know has a daughter who was an architect on one of the bldg expansions a few yrs back. She had said her particular project had nothing to do with the future Palestine and the media was making it look like it did. So even now I wonder what the facts are. What is clear to me is that Netanyahu has often announced it in a way that seems provocative and I also wonder what he’s doing here. I do not think he’s against peace…I think he became pessimistic when Hamas was voted in in Gaza. I would have liked Peres’s comments better if he did not label what was happening as terrorism (rockets had been fired into Israel that day; that’s war, not terrorism in my book) and spoke about the extremist groups who do not want peace while spending more of his time finding common ground and creating bridges to peace with the Palestinian Authority.
Gypsi
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would you re-state your question (is 2006 significant to Q?) you have interesting natal chart ;
Jackson, Happy Belated Birthday to you!
Suzy, the kindness of your reply illuminated my computer problem…thanks so very much.
Obama’s Israeli speech was
brilliant/inspirational. Hope people have a chance to view it:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/03/21/full-video-and-transcript-of-obama-s-speech-in-israel.html
To Sharon: big hug and thanks so much for your part in keeping it going a little longer! Blessings dear friend
OH!!Sharon thank you so much for your words and thoughts. I felt that universal love so much during the Pisces showers but I have been feeling somewhat tired with the shift of energies. Your words reminding me that we are growing as fast as possible came as an unexpected sweet treat that fills and refreshes. Love back to you and to all who read these words
Thank you, Jerry. That time frame puts my mind at ease.
Gypsi
- the strength of your over all aspect-architecture in your natal chart is remarkable; first of all you can appreciate that and give it some weight in comparison to any risk, deficit, disfavor or disadvantage you are seeing in your planet relationships one on one when you say you have a lot of karmic stuff to clear out;
you have lots of inherent strength – - as I said I’m dealing with my home environment next couple of days but I have enjoyed analyzing your chart… I can put it to words when I know the focus of your attention when you tell me what your question is about;
Same back at you, Wennye
and I’m glad what I copied from Lorrie’s post inspired you, Clymela…I wish I had this kind of knowledge but it was from a writer at omtimes.com, which Lorrie posted a few posts above mine. It is interesting that there were 7 planets in Pisces at one point recently. Well Aries = spring = new beginnings, new births. Did you hear that Obama got Netanyahu to call the Turkish prime minister, apologize and resume relations? Turkey is a solid country and I like their prime minister in spite of his negative talk against Israel. Obama is trying to unify the more moderate mideast countries and stabilize the mideast. Syria is the most unstable element right now, it seems. Perhaps he’ll be able to do what Bill Clinton tried to but couldn’t. I watched about 15-20 minutes of his speech to the youth of Israel and didn’t even get through half of it. He is really coming from a place of strength. I can’t wait to finish watching it tomorrow.
Elizabeth Warren was the only senator on the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, aside from the chair and ranking minority, to show up at last Thursday’s hearing on indexing the minimum wage to inflation.
This was unfortunate for the two witnesses representing the National Restaurant Association in opposition of the idea, because it meant that every 15 minutes it was Warren’s turn to ask questions again.
She carved them up like a Thanksgiving turkey. Has their association ever, in its history, supported an increase in the minimum wage, Warren asked — and if not, why not.
http://thephoenix.com/boston/news/153162-mrs-warren-goes-to-washington/#ixzz2OL9NSGyW
Sharon-I found out too. I apologize for not catching on sooner.
Outrageous — David Cay Johnston Explains How Big Corporations Withhold Your Taxes and Then Pocket Them and other tails of legal corporate robbery!
http://t.co/zMKJllaTaX
Starlight: Yes, the Filibuster should have been and could have been fixed. I don’t know but may be some Dems are being blackmailed or even paid off by big money. There is an awful lot of dirty, Corporate money in Washington. They will do all most anything to hold onto their power.
Thanks, Alex. Great article on Warren. Everything I find out about her just makes me respect her more.
Clymela, pls don’t feel like you have to apologize for something so minor that we all do all the time (especially me)! Hope you’re having a peaceful, restful, regenerative day, and that everyone else here is, too.
angellight
- I sent an excerpt and link for the Day Cay Johnson interview to Debbie Wasserman Schultz – chairman of DNC
Hey!! where is everyone?
Hello clymela. I’ve been wondering the same thing.
Its probably the VOC moon. I’ve noticed this pattern when the moon is void-of-course.
New post up:
http://starlightnews.com/wordpress/2013/03/building-conflict/
With every planet now sitting within the first 11 degrees of their perspective signs, we are in a period of very long VOC Moons. Seems the world may be more dysfunctional than usual.
On my way to the new article (god! Nancy we are soooo spoiled!!) just wanted to say good day to everyone-glad to see that I was not the only one wondering where all my friends were.