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Once upon a time, a very, very long time ago…
Planets crashed into one another
And left behind a debris field between Saturn and Uranus
Known now as asteroids
(These are not the same as the ones we are familiar with
that lie between Mars and Jupiter)
This field is actually called the Centaurs
And the very first Centaur in mythology was known as “Chiron”
He was also the first astrologer
It was not until 1977
That humanity was ready to see it through a telescope
It was not that the telescope was now powerful enough
WE were the ones that were READY to see Chiron
That means that we were ready to see the Chiron part of ourselves
Chiron revealed that he was all about wounds and healing
On a large scale
And we were ready to look directly at our own wounds
And address them
For the first time in human history
About a month or two after its discovery
I became an astrologer
A book had jumped off of a shelf in a bookstore and landed in my hands
And it told me
“This is what you are supposed to do”
And I knew it instantly (Uranus) that it was right
So that’s what I did
The name of the book was “The Compleat Astrologer”
That’s how it was spelled
The country was going through a rough time
Because Saturn was returning to the same spot that it started from in 1776
As it had done every 28 years since we were “born”
It represented a hard fiscal time
And Americans were being held hostage in the Middle East
It was the end of a chapter
And the beginning of a new one
Along about late 1979 I constructed a natal chart
For a man who had just been elected to be our new president
And I became worried
Because a president’s chart represents the whole country
While he or she is in office
Yes, he was an Aquarian - good enough
But, I saw great delusion in the chart because he had problems with Neptune
The chart had a very confused and distorted viewpoint of money and finances - and glory
It said
Charts can be hard to read
But, they never, ever lie
He could be convincing and some thought he could really communicate
But, to me, it was not communication
I did hear a very convincing tone
Covering a very dubious ability to see and manage reality
He was trying to turn back the hands of time
Back to the “good ole days”
And he went on to stress that government itself was the problem in the U.S.
This is just one way that the seeds of polarization came to be planted
Government was not to be trusted from then on
And he was very popular
He gave a Cancerian country a much needed sense of warm fuzzies
And they responded
He was the New Papa
He would shoot the bad guys
And even had space-ray guns
He scared the Soviets away
As he huffed and puffed and helped to blow down their Big Wall
And it was good
In the meantime, he unleashed businesses
So that they would not be regulated or confined
You see, Aquarians don’t like being confined
So, we all put our Blind Faith into a Wall Street den of thieves
Surely, they would do the right thing
That was exactly what we wanted and needed to see
Certainly, the market would self-rectify and stay on an even keel
All by itself
After all, in their $2,000 suits, they appeared to be so, well, professional
And upstanding
This man went on to be known as a great “conservative”
When in actuality, he was treating businessmen very liberally
And lo led to behold and he created the big “L” word
And things were about to become ugly
“Liberal” became polarized from “Conservative”
“Conservative” became polarized from “Liberal”
“Liberalism” was now the new dirty word
As was Socialism
And Communism
As and all other “ism’s”
Yet we still needed to base our lives around our own Society
We still needed to Commune together as Christ had suggested
These very precepts belong to the sign of Aquarius
Aquarians like Lincoln and FDR
We were intended to work together
And accomplish in the joy of our fellow Man
As a group
A United States
It was etched into our national DNA
Instead, we adopted this ridiculously sophomoric attitude
Now, no matter whichever party had your allegiance
It was completely right in all ways
On every issue
While the other party had it all wrong
And we bought this Bill of Goods
And we no longer had a need to think for ourselves
As we dared to give lip service
To Adams and Madison and Jefferson
The conservatives grew to hate the liberals
And the liberals grew to hate the conservatives
And yet still, some belonged to the right team
While many others wanted free hand-outs of everything
Which surely had to come to an end
And others were simply to be abandoned to the Original Sin of
Wrong party-identification
So we went on and on
While Wall Street lawyers found more and more loop-holes
And shafted the American public
Behind a false mask of good intentions
And the rich grew richer
And the poor grew poorer
And the divide between all of Us swelled
The Great Divider had planted his seeds
This tender Cancerian country opted for deafness over the facts
Burying its collective head under the rocks
Like a good Crab
Stock dividends went forth and multiplied
And complacency became the norm
But at least now, our captives were back home
And it was safe…
We thought
The heavyweight, Pluto, slowly inched closer and closer to
The sign of Capricorn
The sign of government, institutions, and the very fabric of our society
The last time it was there
America had separated from the British
It was a revolution
And we had a Tea Party
Then, one day the president was shot by a would-be assassin
Which actually happened exactly 29 years ago to the day of this writing
And it really scared His over-protective Cancerian wife
As it should have
And we discovered out that she had secretly been using an astrologer all along
Of all things
This woman, who called herself an astrologer
“Guided” his and her moves
But somehow, the bullets didn’t show up in her charts
When the political waves got high and rocky
They would be snuggly tucked away
Safe at their sprawling ranch
And when the waves subsided
He would make his great speeches
But was never touched
It was so Aquarian
Which led to him becoming known as being made of Teflon
In actuality (astrologically) he was doing everything
Bass-ackwards
Instead of orating when the waves were powerfully behind him
And resting when they were doldrums
He had assuaged his worried wife
And a worried nation
While beyond the human melodrama, Pluto kept on the move
Through Libra and Scorpio and on into Sagittarius
Into the year of 1995
And all was good
After all, Wall Street and Washington, D.C. had everything in hand
Literally
And the coffers were full
The divide divided and widened and widened
Now, the Liberals were the enemies
While the Conservatives belonged to the right team
The latter was now the “party of the family” and all things good and proper
Things like conserving our water and our earth
Became known as a liberal attitude
And when groups of folks battled to protect unfortunate families
They also became to be known as being liberal
By now, we had new cable TV programs
Numbering literally into the hundreds of channels
And the “L”-word had spread
But now became confused with another “L”-word too
You could actually be a Liberal Lesbian if you so chose
Truth no longer mattered
If you labeled something long enough and repetitively enough as being bad
The public bought it
It was easier than thinking for yourself
And much easier than differing with your workmates at the water cooler
After all, they had seen what they needed to see on TV
And it was no longer good
On the other hand…
The “Left” perched atop the dogma of political correctness
Which quickly bent all of us out of shape
Teachers dared not to touch our children
The losers became winners and the winners became losers
And all games ended in a tie
Even though they insisted that their policies were liberal
Confusion abounded in the land
But it didn’t matter anymore
Because the schism had chasms
And the chasms had schisms
Meanwhile the folks with the big bucks were getting big tax breaks
And they would take care of everything
As the profits kept rolling in
People now needed someone to blame for the expanding rupture
Our children grew confused and disillusioned and
No longer had heroes
Or someone to look up to
But it didn’t matter anymore
Because we had plenty of distractions and electronic devices
To keep our minds busy
And our Ballplayers became our Gods
And we watched these gladiators bring us victory
And we learned that our bodies just weren’t shaped exactly right
But could be easily fixed by a scalpel or two
As Pluto inched even closer to the sign of the Goat
And Chiron remained on course
And astrologers learned that this was no mere asteroid or Centaur
Meanwhile Pluto in Sagittarius was giving us a neat new world
That we paid for easily with cheap pieces of plastic ad nauseum
From, according to some, companies who had their arms twisted
They mailed billions of new credit-card applications
Every day, stuffing our mailboxes
While worthless paper trails of Wall Street’s derivatives
Helped us accumulate more and more junk from China
With our bottomless pit of imaginary vapor-money
No one could tell
No one could see an end in sight
It would go on forever
Well, as long as we were collectively in the sign of Sagittarius
And we would drive by all the Monopoly houses
One after another
And wonder how the cars and mobile homes
And motorcycles and boats were being paid for
We said to ourselves, “Where are they getting all the money?”
“They don’t make that much money, do they?”
But it was OK, it would all be paid for
By their $1,000 tax break
Alfred E. Neuman assured us that it would be OK
As ADHD became the norm for our stressed-out offspring
Google-eyed, as they glued their retinas to the photon tubes
On one of the family’s 5 television sets
Or 8 computer or game monitors
And we wondered
And sighed
And showed great concern
About all the things around us
And as the veil started to lift (Pluto)
We started to see that we were really…
Up shit-creek without a GPS
Not only were we without a paddle
It didn’t even matter
Because we had drug prescriptions aplenty
So we numbed ourselves
And promised each time that the ball would touch down on Time’s Square
That next year would be better
And before you knew it
The Century as well as the Millennium was over
It was 2001
And surely that would change everything
For the better
Just as it does when you get married
It no longer mattered if were the “United” States or not
Because now
We had someone to blame
Before he even did anything
Onto this stage and into the top office ascends this bold African-American man
Memories of not-too-long-ago Selma and water-cannons resurrected
We had seen the other side
This man too had a dream
And many European-Americans just couldn’t digest this new scenario
In my mind
No matter what he did
He was in for it
And Pluto grew closer
And Chiron picked up speed
And then one day…
Chiron caught up with massive Jupiter
And mystical, spirituality-minded Neptune
This had never happened before
And this country
The only one in the free world that dared
To call itself free
Even though it couldn’t or wouldn’t
Take care of its own
But now…
Even so, many of the people whined and screamed and complained and bitched
While still, little ones went without
As the elders chose between their food or their medications
And we stubbornly crossed our arms and
Refused to work together
Fast-forward over the next 7 years
And then one day in 2008
Saturn returned again
And Pluto left the gala behind in Sagittarius
And entered the sign of Capricorn
And the bills became due
It was getting too late
But the people had grown tired
And we came to find that the unregulated financiers
Had not used the money as they said they would
But instead bought islands for their girlfriends
And suddenly credit card offers stopped
And the wealthy holding mortgages went without
While we watched our legislators
Grow more and more corrupt
Right in front of our noses
You could mortgage your mortgage
Many mortgaged their mortgages to other mortgage companies
And the whole house of cards came cascading down
Pluto had caught up with all of us
And wanted to see what was really inside this entity
Called the United States of America
What had we truly done since 1762 when we started this cycle?
You see, that’s what Pluto does
It exposes hypocrites
Even the Boy scouts and the churches were hiding their abuses
After all, it was Us that brought this on
Was it not?
And we continue to war and argue and build TV empires
To manufacture facts and statistics in order to support our positions
Because you can easily dial 1-900-makeupapollforme
Just as astrology had unveiled to me
My 1979 vision of delusional financial pies-in-the-sky
All went kerpluiee
While all of our hard earned money trickled down
And gushed into the pockets of just a few
And they madoff with our 401Ks and our pensions
Right in front of our noses
It’s been 28 years since those days and Saturn has shown us
The tab for all theses reckless excesses
And while it’s now sobering and scary and all of those things
The split within our nation
Is the worst result of all
Ironically, Jupiter left Neptune and Chiron to be on their own
Just as Teddy’s mission was completed
These cheerleaders were no longer needed
For our land had finally become READY
To find compassion for the health and well-being of its own people
We in the know could thank Jupiter and Chiron and Neptune
Major symbols of Manna and Grace from on High
They put new thoughts into our minds
And for once…
Neptune had landed
And that’s not an easy thing to do
As Neptune is much much bigger than we are
So, at the same time that we were being lifted spiritually
Pluto was actively busy tearing away the façade to show us our rotting beams
It was not happening to just the masses and the institutions
More importantly
We were getting our report cards on how we’d been acting individually
Now, we are left in pieces
Yet many of us still want someone or something to blame
As if that ever helps
And still, no one is coming forth
With the lessons from the Wise One
The One we symbolize on our car bumpers with signs of the Fish
But still do not heed
But we say that we do
We say we belong to his team
But most of us don’t
While Pluto knows who is who
We think of His days
As somehow belonging to some other time long long ago
In some dusty old volume
Some ancient secret tome
A foreign, unreachable place
From a time of seasoned wisdom
Which is barely kept alive and poignant on Sunday mornings
As we fill ourselves with the toxic and hate and divisive rhetoric
We see on TV and hear on talk-radio
On the other 6 days of the week
As we look for “others” amongst our One single family
To ironically be the scapeGoats, of all things
Yet we still look for solutions
And haven’t learn from the past
We think, perhaps if we bombed just the right country…
While we fear just the same
And fail to see that the two are connected
And the insanity continues
Party-left and Party-right are two sides of One thing
When we truly pull back to see
What is there
Beyond the fear
Of separateness
We have truly been our own worst enemy
And now are faced with a brand New World
Because we need new solutions
The old just won’t do
Says Pluto
Amidst all of this storm
There’s a New Day coming soon
If we’re wise enough to set sail
To pick up the New Winds
From Jupiter, Chiron and Neptune
And Uranus in New Aries
As our voices are needed
Everywhere
To speak up
And spread the Word
His Word
Which is Our Word
The Only Word
Not as a manual of behavior modification
But as a guide to navigating the Only Reality That Exists
That this place is Ours
And by seeing what’s really there
We can heal Ourselves
And We can heal this place yet
Because the logical conclusion is that
We truly are Him
P.S. Oh, by the way. There’s no need to look for answers. We already know all the answers
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