New article @ Starlight News: The Long View

[tanyev]

The Long View

In a few days, we will have completed five and a half years of the Bush Regime’s strangling hold on America. In these times of dark uncertainly, desperate concerns about the nation’s future reverberate through the hearts and minds of many. Like a dreadful disease settling ever more deeply into the soul of the nation, this administration is relentlessly sucking the lifeblood out of our democracy, whittling away at our most cherished freedoms under the cover of bogus claims of threat and smashing the delicate tripartite balance of power so carefully crafted by our Founders. It is a seductive temptation, however, to believe that all will be well if we can just get rid of Bush and Cheney, the main perpetrators of the current depredations. For not only have these culprits instituted many structural changes in the system, including a very aggrandized Chief Executive function and an endless war, but the corporate power that increasingly stands behind all government policy and decision-making exercises a grip of steel over our institutions that has been decades in the making.


In order to better understand the current situation, it is useful to step back and examine the nation’s evolving as described in the symbols of its astrological chart. Beginning with the onset of George W. Bush’s first term, when the ripening national glow of the long-ago 1990’s began to turn sour and when the lush fruit of America’s secure economic expansion and towering international prestige began to rapidly decay, we find Pluto crossing the US Ascendant for the first time. In the US chart, Pluto, the planet of the obsessive accumulation of power and the struggle to maintain it, is in the second house where it signifies the compulsive materialism of this nation and points to the fact that power resides in the realm of huge accumulations of material wealth and resources (2nd house). At the end of the year 2000, Pluto moved from the hidden, behind-the-scenes realm of the 12th house into the in-your-face immediate environment of the first house. From the beginning of Bush’s reign, the overwhelming power of corporate money in politics and the reach of the corporate agenda into government policy have become increasingly apparent. This does not mean they did not exist previously, but they were far more hidden. Pluto crossing the Ascendant has made them very visible.

http://www.starlightnews.com/

Huh. I can't get a direct link to the article. The link is on the left side of the page, toward the bottom.

[I Have A Dream]

1. Lots of interesting information there to digest.

Thanks for posting it, tanyev!

[loudsue]

2. Nancy's writing always gives me goose bumps.

She's amazing!

And whew! What an article! Great read!

:kick::kick::kick:

[IChing]

3. I think it is interesting in the last paragraph on 2012-2016

"Many astrologers have discussed the powerful Uranus/Pluto square that will be present from 2012 through 2016. It clearly heralds a turbulent time for the planet and a time of bold and unexpected transformation and shifting changes.

What is good news for the US is that there are no major Saturn transits in the US chart during this period. The two years 2014 and 2015 will be exceptionally important with both Uranus and Pluto in hard aspect to the US Sun. We can expect all kinds of changes, possibly directly impacting the president and/or the goals of the nation (the Sun). And although these changes may be dramatic and far-reaching, the lack of simultaneous Saturn energy indicates less a time of national mourning than a time of national mobilization, dynamism, and potency."


Is this also describing?:
"This galactic alignment is the key to understanding 2012, and it involves the rebirth of the December solstice Sun Lord through the Dark Rift “cleft” in the Milky Way, located between Sagittarius and Scorpio." The Mayan Lord of Creation and 2012:

http://www.newdawnmagazine.com/Article/The%20Mayan%20Lord%20of%20Creation%20and%202012.html


Read her for years,
She was really taken aback, as was I, when she said that Kerry would win the election and didn't.
She got it right, he did win but didn't take into account Blackwell and diebold.

[tanyev]

4. Shameless self-serving kick.

It's so convenient to have a link to Nancy's site on pg. 1 of this forum.

[I Have A Dream]

5. :o)

:thumbsup:

[rumpel]

6. Now, on the possibilties

mentioned in this section, how does everyone here feel - what we do, should we see signs of this manifesting

let this lesson be played out - so that ultimately change does come about
or work towards mitigation, work towards accelarating changes for the better?

As Uranus comes back across the square of the US Ascendant in August 2006 and again in January 2007, we can expect powerful events that have an impact on US citizens directly, and, in some instances, on the actual, physical aspect of the country, possibly through forceful weather-related or other natural events.

There are, furthermore, some indications of increased military activity in the next few years, most notably in May and June 2007 when transiting Uranus (18Pisces41) makes a station exactly quincunx the US progressed Mars (18Libra41), a transit that will also be activating the increasing aggression in Bush’s chart shown by his progressed Mars conjunct Jupiter (18Libra08) from May 2007 through November 2008. The year 2008, beginning in April, brings the transit of Uranus square to the US Mars, through February 2009. This is also a strong indication of increased and fierce military activity, which is likely to seem highly successful in August and September 2008 when Jupiter stations opposite the US Sun, but then turns very problematic when Saturn stations square US Mars from late November 2008 through January 2009, again pointing to the limits of US power

this also sounds like bush & co. could remain... :(

on edit: as I read the other article she has: bush's timeline in his second term

how about redirecting this potential planetary energy to manifest around him and those of the "darker energies", and not so much to affect the rest..

:shrug:

[I Have A Dream]

7. The Fifth Night on the Mayan calendar begins on 11/18/2007.

If you're not familiar with what the Fifth Night is, here's a paragraph that gives a little information:

The Fifth Night or period of dark that follows is also the darkest period of each cycle.. In a plant's life this is the growth of the bud. In your history, this was puberty. In all of human history this has been a time of great physical hardship or major conflicts, i.e., the Ilionian Ice Age, the Neanderthals going extinct, Rome falling, and WWII are glaring examples.

(From the following link: http://www.2012.com.au/Our%20future-Mayan%20calendar.html )

Fortunately, the Fifth Night only last until 11/12/2008, which is the beginning of the Sixth Day.

Rather than go into fear (which is what I'm naturally inclined to do), I've decided to focus on how I want the world to be. (Using the Law of Attraction) I hope that I can keep it up even if some unpleasant things occur during this period.

[rumpel]

8. That is right after the prez elections :)

Sounds good - thanks, Dream

btw - I think today my confusion has greatly subsided...

:)