I'm Wondering

I'm wondering,when Mars goes direct at 0 Leo and starts rolling over Barack Obama's Leo stuff, is that when he is going to start kicking some ass, or what? Has this Mars retro period been all about him positioning himself or is he just another bullshit politician? You tell me. Mars goes direct on March 10th at 0 Leo. Talk to me.

OK All You Love Birds, Moon Makes a Nice Aspect to Venus

Tonight, the 24th Moon in Cancer makes a lovely aspect to Venus in Pisces. Venus in Pisces is all about soul mates and mystical connections. Moon operates full bore in Cancer so emotions are on the surface. This is a nice aspect so love birds need to get into the billing and cooing that love birds do.

Cheating husbands, Lame Apologies and The Bullshit Excuse, "Men Are Like That".

Friday Tiger Woods publically apologized for his low down cheating ways. The Providence Journal published a piece about the differences in the reaction to this apology based on gender. Guys think it is no big deal that he cheated, after all, guys cheat, they need to have sex with different women, and it’s the nature of the beast and other such nonsense. (Way to go, Tiger) That is a cop out and an excuse for bad behavior. But that is the prevailing attitude, among men, whether it is Tiger Woods, John Edwards, Clinton, Sanford or Spitzer. That’s the way guys are, so let’s just move on. No. Married and/or men in a committed relationship who can’t keep it in their pants are self centered, self serving and into instant gratification. You can’t brush it off as, “oh that’s the way guys are” not when it is a betrayal of trust. What is Tiger Woods going to say to his child, his daughter, when that child is twenty and asks him about all of this? “Guys are like that and you can expect your husband to do the same." That is when his true punishment will begin; little girls marry men just like their daddies. Thank God we were not subjected to his long-suffering wife by his side. And women the world over cheered and jumped for joy at the sight of Jennifer Sanford moving out of the South Carolina State House. Way to go Jenny!

More Energy Changes - Pisces Rules

Last week I blogged about Mercury and Venus changing signs and the opposition between Mercury and retrograde Mars and what it all means. How we would feel different at the end of the week than we felt at the beginning. Here is a quote from that entry. “In the political world it rules public opinion, treaties, the Secretary of State and the public school system. A few days after entering Aquarius, Mercury and retrograde Mars oppose one another, a combative stance that does not bode well for peace and harmony.” Last week the Superintendent of schools in Central Falls announced that the entire teaching staff at Central Falls High School would be getting the boot. The teacher’s union is up in arms. Mercury ruling the public school system,the young, in Aquarius,speaks to organized groups, unions. Opposing Mars it also speaks to opposing opinions. This week is a Pisces week. On Sunday, February 14, 2010 Sun joins forces with Neptune in Aquarius. Neptune rules Pisces thus bringing the Pisces flavor to the table. This is a perfect aspect for Valentine’s Day. Love in its highest form. Venua is in Pisces, where, in astrological terms, she is exalted, meaning the Venusian energy operates at full force. Venus rules love, money, the arts, negotiation and diplomacy. On Monday Venus makes a positive connection with Pluto in Capricorn. Pluto, in Capricorn from 2008-2023, has the enormous task of purging society of those involved in big government and big business who have profited from the misery of others. Right now the public’s anger is directed at Congress, Washington, DC, Wall Street and the financial industry. Soon this will expand to include Big Pharma, health insurance and Big Oil. This is not an overnight process and will take some time. Venus will join forces with Pluto many time over the course of Pluto’s run through Capricorn. This week, Venus in Pisces offers the olive branch as she takes on the persona of the diplomat. Tuesday she joins forces with Jupiter also in Pisces, the sign that Jupiter rules. So you see, the Pisces energy is super strong. Jupiter is optimistic, confident and hopeful. Pisces is about our wishes and hopes. How we want things to be ideally. There is danger with Pisces in seeing things through rose-colored glasses. Seeing things how we want them to be, not how they really are. This is the time when we need to do a reality check. As Venus moves along touching base with the big boys she greases the wheels of negotiations and diplomatic relations. Mars, the warrior, the planet of action makes a friendly aspect to Saturn on Monday mixing things up. Saturn is in Libra and is also exalted here. Saturn principles operate well here. Saturn in Libra is the chief negotiator. Retrograde Mars in Leo wants to stir things up. Here Mars is all about strategy. In the political debates and union negotiations the name of the game this week is how to position oneself. On Thursday, Sun enters Pisces completing the Pisces takeover of the week. Watch the news reports and you will see that events reflect the Piscean ideals. Keep your eye on your own feelings and situation and how the Pisces influence impacts you personally.
We need those intangibles that feed the soul now. Take heed.

Patrick Kennedy's Surprise Announcement

Ever since Patrick Kennedy announced that he would not be running for reelection there have been so many names thrown around about possible candidates that it is hard to keep track of. I said it before on this blog that the September Primary election was where the action was going to be and I was not wrong. Patrick Kennedy has stated that he made the decision over the Christmas holidays. As an Astrologer it is interesting to note that transiting Mars had just gone retrograde in his 10th house of career and that Mars rules his Natal Ascendant, (the personality, the physical body) and his 6th house of work and service. Retrograde periods are times of review and revision. So contemplation about work, career, health and service would find the way on his to do list. On the outside looking in we deal with what is public about his life. Father’s illness and passing, political challenges and personal demons he has quite openly wrestled with. But we can’t crawl inside his head. A major life cycle change in a person’s life occurs when transiting Uranus, an 84 year cycle, opposes its natal position. This is a transit that Patrick has been experiencing over the last year or so. This also brings the sudden and unexpected into the picture. His decision has left the field wide open. Today, William Lynch, brother of Patrick Lynch has formally announced his candidacy. He should have waited until tomorrow, after the New Moon. Other names bandied about are Ralph Mollis, Theresa Paiva-Weed, Scorpio John Brien, Cancer David Cicilline and Aries Elizabeth Roberts. I think we may be hearing from Aquarius Stephen Laffey. I’m betting he won’t announce until mid March. Whoever or whenever, this political season here in Rhode Island reflects the change that is in the air across the country. Scott Brown in Massachusetts, a signal of voter discontent with the status quo, is a warning to all incumbents. Even former Presidential candidate John McCain is facing a serious challenge in his home state of Arizona. As I have written previously, 2010 is the year. Stay tuned.

Patrick Kennedy Not Seeking Re-Election Promises a Lively, Vigorous Primary

I knew that the primary day was the day with all the action. With Patrick Kennedy not running the field is now wide open. I’ll bet Betsy Dennigan is kicking her ass. She’s the person running against Jim Langevin. In order to run against him she had to change her official residence. If she had stayed where she was, she’d be in a perfect position to run for Patrick’s seat. As it stands now, Republican John Loughlin is in the race and there is a strong possibility that Democrat Jon Brien may run. Speculation about David Cicilline, the Mayor of Providence, has been bandied about. My guess is we will be hearing from Stephen Laffey. I'll put money one it. I’ll post more when I have had a chance to study the charts of all involved as well as Primary Day chart. Things will start to sizzle and pop after Mars goes direct on March 10th. Stay tuned.

Mercury and Venus change signs and the energy shifts.

This week the energy shifts, on Wednesday, February 10, 2010 Mercury moves into Aquarius and on Thursday, February 11, 2010 Venus enters Pisces. Mercury rules how we think, our immediate environment, transportation and communication of all kinds. In the political world it rules public opinion, treaties, the Secretary of State and the public school system. A few days after entering Aquarius, Mercury and retrograde Mars oppose one another, a combative stance that does not bode well for peace and harmony. Traffic accidents and tie ups, heated debates that verge on physical violence and difficulties in diplomatic relationships. Mercury in Aquarius fosters original thinking and ideas, innovative and unique solutions and a certain rebellious attitude against the status quo. President Barack Obama will have something to say, he will reach out and try to mend fences. Debt, finances and financial reform and the salvaging of the healthcare reform bill will be the subject of his speeches and focal point of his meetings. Venus’ move into Pisces extends the olive branch and furthers the cause of peace and reconciliation. Venus is the diplomat, comfortable and operating at full force in Pisces she settles things, brings people together in an altruistic manner. Venus here operates from the highest spiritual motivations. Mercury rules the young, Venus rules young women, and Mars rules young men, so the youth movement may begin to find their voice. In our personal lives the shift of these planets, from one sign to another, effects how we think (Mercury) and how we relate (Venus). Mercury in Aquarius wants to get together with a group of friends and bat ideas around. Venus in Pisces wants to merge with another on a spiritual level. We’re drawn to music, arts and humanitarian causes. Make a note of how you feel at the beginning of the week and compare it with how you feel by the end of the week. You’ll get the picture.

John J. Loughlin, Patrick Kennedy, Jon Brien, and the 2010 Election

Republican John J. Loughlin II, a Pisces, formally launched his campaign for Patrick Kennedy’s seat in Congress. According to the Providence Journal he did so Thursday morning, “outside the office park where his Lincoln grade school used to be.” What significance the location has is anyone’s guess. Loughlin is pro-life and thinks we should maintain the ridiculous “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. His announcement was made under a waning, void of course Moon. Presidential candidates Al Gore and John Kerry received their nominations while Moon was void of course, as did Thomas Dewey, Richard Nixon (1960), Goldwater and McGovern. Nixon was re-elected under a Moon void of course. Couple the void Moon with a waning Moon, which is a great time to make things disappear, things don’t look too bright for Mr. Loughlin. Not that someone is not going to give Cancer Patrick Kennedy a run for his money given the current anti-incumbent sentiment. There is talk of, Scorpio, Democratic State Representative Jon D. Brien of Woonsocket entering the ring. Primary day is an interesting day and where all the action will be. In the days leading up to the primary, Mercury is in retrograde motion, changing to direct on the Sunday before the primary election. We need to be aware that information and polls are not always accurate under retrograde Mercury. Mercury retrograde is master of the fake out. On the day of the primary, Pluto changes direction and Mars moves into his home sign of Scorpio. Patrick Kennedy experiences a Mars return, a two year or so cycle, around that time as well. He will be fighting and aggressive. Brien, if he chooses to run, has some favorable aspects on his side. He too will be experiencing a Mars return around that time. (Funny that, the opposing parties have the same Mars in Libra, and that Mars is jazzed up and ready to roll, combat time.) On primary day, Moon, the people, will be rolling over Brien’s Sagittarius Mercury, the vote. It could give him a bit of a bump up. So it should be interesting. I will be keeping my ear pinned to the ground to make note of any official announcements and for birth times of Loughlin and Brien.

John Edwards, Andrew Young, Rielle Hunter and the Video

Then sordid saga of John Edwards and his sordid affair with Rielle Hunter continues with reports of a video that depicts the two in a very personal and intimate situation. Today, the Andrew Young’s, the family that housed Ms. Hunter while she was pregnant and the Andrew Young who said that he was the father, are in court over possession of that video. Rielle Hunter says the video was made in September of 2006. The Young’s say that the video depicts Edwards having sex with a woman who is not Elizabeth Edwards and that the woman in the video is visibly pregnant. So they claim they are not talking about the same video. Got that so far? The Young’s are contesting a court order that restrains them from distributing the video and that seeks to return the video to Ms. Hunter. They claim that she abandoned the tape when she was living with them, throwing it in the trash and made no effort to recover it until two years after she left their home. She throws the video away; they dig it out of the trash. Nice people we are dealing with here. Gemini John Edwards has spent many long years with Elizabeth Edwards, a nurturing Cancer, a cardinal and at times manipulative sign. She also has Mars, the action planet, and Mercury, the thinker and talker, in Gemini, smack dab on John Edwards Gemini Sun. She is/was definitely a driving force behind her husband. Being a Cancer, she is the Mommy type, kissing and hugging and treating everyone around her like her kids. Up steps Rielle Hunter, an Aries, another cardinal sign but as unlike a Cancer as one can get. This is a me first sign. Mutable Gemini’s are flexible, changeable and easily bored. Aries and Cancers are Cardinal signs that push and initiate. Rielle is a 60’s baby with the powerful Uranus/Pluto conjunction in Virgo that neatly squares John Edwards’ Jupiter and Sun. Her Mars in Pisces squares his Mars in Gemini as well. Now squares are not pleasant aspects but they do make things happen. Edwards’ is easily led, and Rielle easily leads. Enter Andrew Young, another Aries. He too has the powerful Uranus/Pluto conjunction in Virgo squaring Edwards’ cluster of Gemini planets. Rielle and Young, the two Aries, may butt heads often but there is more in sync between them than between them and Edwards. There is more to this video than meets the eye. Edward’s is a scumbag who cheated on his wife and lied, denied and jumped through every kind of hoop to escape detection. But is he stupid enough to make a video? Is Rielle stupid enough to throw it away? Do the Young’s normally go through their house guest’s trash? This never ending saga continues. What is really up here? A clue, remember what Deep Throat said to Bob Woodward while lurking in the parking garage, “Follow the money.”

Whitney Houston and BET Awards

I watched the BET Awards last night. I thought Virgo (with a ton of Libra planets) Jennifer Hudson stole the show. I thought Whitney Houston looked like a strung out junky or a woman with a serious case of hot flashes, or both. My first thought was what are they giving this woman an award for? Is this a reward for screwing up your life, similar to TARP rewarding banks for bad behavior? But you have to admit the woman is a huge talent, broke all kinds of records and smashed barriers of race and sex. In June of 1987 when her second album was released she was at the top of her game. Whitney is a Leo, with Venus in Leo near her Sun, (giving her her great good looks), and with Saturn sending evil glances across the Zodiac from her Aquarian 12th house. When this record was released transiting Saturn was exactly on her Midheaven, the highest point in the chart, the point that rules career and public standing. Saturn here indicates the culmination and reward for hard work. The Saturn cycle around an individual’s horoscope is a road map indicating when they rise and when they fall. As Saturn moves through the sky and rising through the horoscope reaching for the high point, the Midheaven or MC, it reflects the native’s professional success. As Saturn moves past that point and begins to head toward the bottom half of the chart, the success usually begins to wane. In July of 1992 she married Bobby Brown, right around the time of her first Saturn return, a transit that marks a major turning point in the life. Bobby Brown is an Aquarius and his Sun and Whitney’s Sun are within minutes of an exact opposition. Bobby Brown’s Sun falls in Whitney’s 12th house. The house of hidden enemies and ways we screw ourselves up. To say that this was not a wise move on her part is an understatement. When her daughter was born in 1993, the planet Saturn was finishing up a trek through her 12th house preparing to hit her Ascendant, the point of personality, physical body and another critical point, like the MC. This transit places limits on the native’s movements. People often feel restricted and wish they were someplace else. I’ll put money on the fact that at this point Whitney realized, deep down somewhere, that this marriage was a mistake. When Saturn moved to the bottom of her chart, the IC, the opposite of her huge success occurred. During this time there were reports of heavy drug use, a legal issue with her father and the death of her father. This was the literal bottom for her and where she began to make the turn around. Now Saturn is once again above the horizon, the first/seventh house axis, and she is really beginning the climb from those depths. Saturn traveling through the 7th is a testing time for relationships, some don’t last, and those that do are the ones that are worth it. She has a way to go, and everything she does now will be under scrutiny. She can’t make any mistakes. She will not attain her former heights of success until Saturn once again reaches her MC, top of the chart, in 2016. In the meantime she needs to, get straight, get some HRT (hormone replacement therapy) or start taking Vitamin E, great for hot flashes.