Public Education v. Pluto in Sagittarius

Democracy and Capitalism don't work without Public Education so it looks like California is headed for a Police State because that's what it's going to take in order to control the High School Class of 2006. A Statistic was just announced in The San Francisco Chronicle that 1/3 of the Class of 2006 for the entire state did not graduate from High School. This is 4 percent lower than 2005 numbers. Bad and getting worse. I don't know if this includes both public and private schools. Most of the people I've known with kids haven't sent their kids to public schools for years. I've known people who work in public schools so that they can afford to send their kids to private schools. The graduation for kids in LA and Oakland schools was extremely low, around 40-50 percent.

Early education is ruled by 3d house-Gemini. Pluto in Sagittarius, the opposing sign, has really taken its toll in California which is a Virgo so is squaring it all. We've neglected the kids (Gemini) in favor of the Ph'ds (Sagittarius) (they all send their kids to private schools, the property taxes are very low in California so it's easier to do than in other states).

I don't know what this means except that these kids are some of the ones born with Pluto in Scorpio, an extra potent placement because it's in its own sign. That phrase, "Don't Mess with Texas?" That's sort of the feeling you get (and worry about) with the Pluto in Scorpio generation because they will probably have some extra powers. You kind of get the sense that it would have been best to have taken care of their needs in the crib before sending them out into the world. Nobody will understand that Might Makes Right better than these little buggers. There's a positive way to spin it and I hope it will come true. They might just need more self-reliance, a buck the system type of attitude, very creative, highly attuned to the deepest workings of Nature. They will be (or at least the ones from the states that educated them) great leaders able to create great change. They could also enjoy arson, theft, murder, terror and building bombs. What the Fuck? No one was there to correct their homework after all. Scorpio is highy emotional, repressed and not a great communicator and could really use some help in that area. And Blood Red is their favorite color too, they wouldn't have minded getting back a paper that's all marked up.

Uranus and Aquarius rules Public Affairs and Institutions and Aquarius squares Scorpio. Scorpio is also in a stress aspect to Gemini. So maybe these kids are just not that into the Educational crap. Let's face it, High School is a total waste of time. Maybe they'll be able to think on their own. After all, Global Warming was created by all the Ph'ds of the world and their inventions. These kids are going to have to fix it.

Okay, so now I feel better. I also feel like I had better get the Hell out of California because there's gonna be a lot of disgruntled kids fighting for the Jack in the Box jobs and once Pluto rolls into Capricorn they're going to do anything they're going to want to start their big climb upward in the World and it might not be pretty to be around. The square from Uranus in Aries that's coming up? OMG.

This year was the first year that a New Test was administered. The person behind The Test is an ex Senator and SomebodySomebody in the Public Education system. It's very controversial because people are wondering why they test the kids before they educate them? His name is:

Jack O'Connell
b. Oct. 8, 1951 Glen Cove, NY

O'Connell's chart is a Gas. Like the Grand Inquisitor of Betty Crocker's Test Kitchen for kids.

Rex Bills says rulership of Tests belongs to Uranus, Saturn and Mercury. O'Connell's chart is perfect for his role. Stellium in Libra (Balance, Justice, Intellect) of Mercury (test)-Saturn(scary test, concentration)-Sun(ego)-Neptune(spacing everything out around him) squaring Uranus (quickness) in Cancer and opposing Jupiter (higher education). His Moon may be out in Capricorn filling in a Grand Square of Cardinal Signs. That much Libra is probably a really great test taker. I bet most of the College Professors are Libras.

O'Connell's NN is 10 Pisces so he's coming up for a Return purty dang quick. Hope he can get those kids spelling before it happens. His Progressed Sun is at 10 Sagittarius exactly squaring his NN. Pisces is known for its empathy, sensitivity and kindness but also its institutions, incompetence and lack of organization.

This is frustrating. What isn't frustrating is the guy I met in the parking garage at the Library. A young engineer, computer techie, with talent and heart to spare. For some reason we started talking and he was telling me about his volunteer work setting up computers in schools. He was given a school with the lowest rating of all where the kids are considered hopeless because of their poverty and destitution. First he found them some old computers. Then he cleared off a wall in the classroom and set up the computers. Then he designed some programs to make it fun for them to learn. He said he designed the programs to speak to them through games that instead make them think in terms of computer geniuses. The kids ate it up and they started scoring phenomenally. The parents saw the improvements in their kids and got excited and started wanting to participate. The teachers came out from behind their bullet proof shields. I asked him how long it took to set the whole thing up. A couple of weeks! Can you imagine how long it probably took Jack O'Connell to write his tests? It was an unbelievable story. This guy, basically a kid just out of college, is a modern day miracle worker doing this for free. I wish I had his sign but I don't even know his name. I wish I could scream it to the universe.