Fast!!!

Just had to look up the charts of the U.S. Women's Downhill skiers Lindsey Vonn and Julia Mancuso. They are "ripping up the slopes" (is that how they say it?). The newscaster noted that the two women have been competing with each other since they were about 9 years old. It sure would be interesting to look at their composite charts and relationship charts, etc.

It certainly looks as if their relationship has brought out exceptional sides as both women are cleaning up medals at the game. Vonn won a Gold and Mancuso has won 2 Silvers. Interesting that both women were born in the same year, 1982. Take note, Pluto and Saturn in Scorpio, great aspect for Women's downhill skiers. Pluto had just moved into the sign. Both women have it placed at 2 Scorpio.

Lindsey Vonn
b. Oct. 18, 1984 St. Paul, MN 30 Taurus

Sun 26 Libra; Moon Cancer or Leo; NN 11 Gemini
(Mars 10 Capricorn)
(Jupiter 7 Capricorn)

Julia Mancuso
b. Mar 9, 1984 Reno, NV

Sun 20 Pisces; Moon Taurus or Gemini; NN 11 Gemini
Mars 24 Scorpio (c. Saturn!)
Jupiter 10 Capricorn

I also have noticed that the two great male speed skaters on the U.S. team were born in the same year as each other, but 2 years earlier than the Women skiers. Interesting coincidence. Take another note: Saturn conjunct Pluto in Libra, great aspect for male Speed Skaters. Scorpio plays in here as well. Both men have Jupiter in Scorpio within a degree of each other.

Moon placements for 3 of these Athletes is close to the Taurus/Gemini cusp. That seems like an interesting coincidence. What's extraordinary is that this means that possibly 3 out of 4 of these exceptionally fast people has an opposition of Moon to a natal Uranus in Sagittarius (Lightning).

Shani Davis
b. Aug. 13, 1982 Chicago, IL

Sun 21 Leo; Moon Taurus or Gemini; NN 12 Cancer Rx
Mars 6 Scorpio (conjunct Jupiter 4 Scorpio)

Apolo Ohno
b. May 22, 1982 Federal Way, Washington

Sun 2 Gemini; Moon Taurus or Gemini; NN 16 Cancer

Mars 2 Libra
Jupiter 4 Scorpio

Record Olympian Swimmer Michael Phelps was born in 1985 which means that he has both Saturn and Pluto in Scorpio.

Time is of the Essence

This morning through the road noise of my car I heard a wonderful English Financier being interviewed on PBS. He has a completely different idea of what the Fed should do with the Markets than what they are probably going to do. The one thing they all agree on is that "Speed is of the Essence" in making a Decision.

I pulled out Rex Bills and found that rulership of Speed is given to Mercury and Uranus (in parentheses). I would have included Mars but maybe Mars is related too much to rashness.

Decisions themselves are ruled by Uranus. I would have thought Saturn or Pluto.

Then by coincidence I surfed over to Jonah Lehrer's blog The Frontal Cortex and saw that he is discussing the neurology of what it takes to make a quick decision. He uses Football Quarterbacks as examples.

Link: http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2008/09/quarterbacks.php

Three and a half seconds: that's how long, on average, a quarterback has to make a decision about where to throw the ball. So, how does he make sense of his options in such a short amount of time, while a swarm of humongous, angry men attempt to pancake him?

I decided to look at the charts of great Football Quarterbacks who are listed by Lehrer along with some others to see if there is a strong connection between Mercury and Uranus which could account for their lightening quick decision making talents. It turns out there is a strong relationship in most of the charts. Mercury-Mars is also almost always present as well.

Then I decided to look at the charts of the Feds, Ben Bernanke, Henry Paulson, and Christopher Cox to see if the Stars have bestowed upon them this great gift of Instantaneous Decision Making Ability.

The Quarterbacks are listed below.

The Feds are listed below them.

Looks like the Fed needs desperately to hire some Quarterbacks.

Fran Tarkenton
b. Feb. 3, 1940 Richmond, VA

Mercury 16 Aquarius conjunct Sun and squaring Uranus 19 Taurus

Johnny Unitas
b. May 7, 1933 Pittsburgh, PA

Mercury 26 Aries conjunct Uranus 25 Aries square Pluto Cancer and trining Mars 5 Virgo

Joe Montana
b. June 11, 1956 New Eagle, PA

Mercury in Gemini sextile Uranus 1 Cancer and squaring Mars in Pisces

John Elway
b. June 28, 1960 Port Angeles, WA

Mercury 30 Cancer squaring Mars 7 Taurus
Uranus 19 Leo unaspected (major aspect)

Dan Marino
b. Sept. 15, 1961 Pittsburgh, PA

Mercury 16 Libra conjunct Mars and otherwise unaspected
Uranus?

Brett Favre
b. Oct. 10, 1969 Gulfport, Miss.

Mercury 1 Libra conjunct Uranus 6 Libra and Pluto 26 Virgo
squares Mars 13 Capricorn

Randall Cunningham
b. Mar. 27, 1963 10:50 pm Santa Barbara, CA

Mercury 5 Aries conjunct Sun Aries, trines Mars in Leo and inconjunct Uranus in Virgo

Joe Namath
b. May 31, 1943 9PM Beaver Falls, PA

Mercury 28 Taurus conjunct Uranus 5 Gemini, squares Neptune in Virgo and sextile Mars in Aries

Terry Bradshaw
b. Sept. 2, 1948 Shreveport, LA

Mercury 29 Virgo (H11) square Uranus 1 Cancer (H8), Aquarius is co-ruler of H3, Mercury is ruler of H11

Tom Brady
b. Aug. 3, 1977 San Mateo, CA

Mercury in Virgo sextiles Uranus in Scorpio and squares Mars in Gemini

Peyton Manning
b. Mar. 24, 1976 New Orleans

Mercury 27 Pisces squares Mars in CAncer. Uranus unaspected in Scorpio

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Ben Bernanke
b. Dec. 13, 1953 Augusta, GA

Mercury 5 Sagittarius conjunct Venus 11 Sagittarius
Uranus 23 Cancer conjunct SN and squares Mars-Neptune at 26 Libra

Henry Paulson
b. Mars. 28, 1946 Palm Beach, FL

Mercury 4 Aries conjunct Sun 8 Aries opposite Neptune 8 Libra and trines Pluto 10 Leo
Uranus 14 Gemini trines Neptune 8 Libra

Christopher Cox
b. Oct. 16, 1952 St. Paul, MN

Mercury 9 Scorpio unaspected
Uranus 19 Cancer squares Sun-Saturn-Neptune and trines Venus in Scorpio and sextiles Jupiter

Internet Warfare, The Eclipses and Michael Phelps, Ain't He Awesome?

This is really crazy, interesting stuff. Jump to the stuff about the Olympics at the end and work your way back up. (HAPPY LUNAR ECLIPSE, BABY)

There are a couple of things I've noticed concerning the War that broke out in the country of Georgia on the same day as the Olympics. Understatement of the Century would be that Russia is full of itself these days. I've noticed that the Astrolocality lines for the Aug. 1, 2008 (21:10:09 UT) put the Sun-Moon MC lines running very close to Moscow. It's a Leo Full Moon, full of itself. Perhaps this is the reason why these people decided to start a War on the same day as the Olympics. That's just pretty weird.

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Another thing is that Russian computer hackers have been breaking into the Government Computer systems and have actually stopped the services to the President of Georgia. I've said a couple of times before that I think that the Internet is going to go through several severe attacks during the Saturn-Uranus-Pluto t-square time. This could be the first of a long line of stories in that direction.

"Russian hackers continue attack on Georgian Sites" by Peter Svensson (8/12/08) San Jose Mercury News.

http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_10176874?IADID=Search-www.mercurynews.com-www.mercurynews.com

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I've noticed a couple of things concerning tomorrow's Partial Lunar Eclipse (Aug. 16, 21:10:08 UT). The Sun MC Line and Moon IC-Neptune IC Lines run right through the Western States and smack dab through Seattle, Portland and the San Francisco Bay Area. Normally I would think, Yay, China's going to have a Bay to Breakers Event at the Olympics. That's an annual Marathon Celebration type thing where everybody who is or isn't a Transvestite pretends that he or she is and dances, frolicks, skips, pops wheelies on Unicycles across the entire breadth of San Francisco. It's fun but an event that I don't think anyone would want to be caught dead winning so it would be really surprising, i.e. Uranus on the ASC of a Lunar Eclipsey, if China were to go all out and declare one in Beijing as part of the Olympic festivities. They have to outdo Michael Phelps, after all.

That would be my suggestion for how to handle the Eclipse.

Unfortunately this seems like a difficult chart. Pluto is conjunct the Midheaven to the degree and at apex of a t-square to Uranus opposing Mars on the ASC-DESC axis. That's more like an Earthquake type chart. A Major Earthquake. It could be that Tesla Motors becomes the new boom techie company of the Silicon Valley, however.

The Eclipse chart ruler is Neptune which is placed in his own 12th House conjunct the Moon, the the North Node and Chiron in Aquarius. That's a lot of water. That flaunts the Uranus-Neptune Mutual Reception big time. The Higher Minded will go really high, and Gangs will take over the Mundane.

This chart also flaunts the Jupiter (Law, Publishing, Opinions, Education)-Pluto (Power broking, Other people's moneys) mutual Reception as they are both placed up in the top of the chart 10th House of Government, Authority, Management, Rules, Fathers. This is a big, outer planet chart showing things just on the verge of going completely out of control.

The Astrolocality chart also runs the Pluto ASC line through New York & Washington DC. As Pluto is conjunct the MC to the degree and squaring Mars (to the degree) and Uranus in the Eclipse chart, Security during the Presidential Campaign must be very secure. Jupiter is trining Saturn, in Saturn's sign, and Saturn's House. What does that say about Old White Men? I'm developing this terrible fear that Michelle Obama is going to start wearing Pill Box Hats in Public. Hope that's how you interpret those aspects.

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This Eclipse chart is also interesting to compare with Michael Phelps' chart. I may talk about him later but so many people are looking at his chart right now I'd just be repeating everything. I'll just say I think that this guy is awesome out of his mind and it's interesting that he's coming to the Fore during this Lunar Eclipse. Lunar Eclipse conjunct Neptune certainly describes a Swimmer.

Phelps' chart has Sun at 9 Cancer opposing Neptune 3 Capricorn and trining Pluto 2 Scorpio. All the Water signs are represented here. The Sun in tomorrow's Eclipse Chart also opposes Neptune and trines Pluto. And Pluto (transiting) is very close to conjunction with Phelps' natal Neptune. That's so Fish Like. He'll have to be very careful to "decompress" emotionally after this is over, though.

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And then there are really amazing coincidences with Mark Spitz's chart and the Munich Summer Olympics where he set his Records. Spitz is an Aquarius but his Sun is also in major aspect with Neptune and Pluto. Sun opposes Pluto and trines Neptune. Like Phelps his Moon is in Sagittarius.

And the Munich Olympics came after a Total Solar Eclipse that belonged to the same Saros Series 126 as this Summer's Beijing Olympics! Jupiter was also retrograde in Capricorn for this Eclipse. It passed back into 29 Sagittarius for the Lunar Eclipse. It was Stationed Direct the day before the Munich Olympics and was at the same spot where Pluto is now. Some pretty wild Capricorn Point interpretations could include winning the most medals and breaking Records in Olympian ways.

The North Node was already passed into Capricorn so there was almost a Nodal Return, but not quite.

This was the Olympics where the Isreali team was massacred by some terrorists. May their Souls Be Resting in Peace.

Munich Olympics, Summer 1972
Aug. 26 - Sept. 11, 1972 Munich, Germany

Total Solar Eclipse, 7/10/1972 19:46:38 UT Saros 126

Partial Lunar Eclipse 7/26/1972 2 h 41 m. UT?