Suspect Apprehended in Sierra Lamar case

Sierra Lamar has been missing from Morgan Hill, California since March 16, 2012.  She still hasn't yet been found but a 21-year old man has been arrested for her murder.  This puts pressure on the police and community to try to hurry up and find her.  The experts believe that she has been murdered but the police aren't giving out all of their evidence.  It's easier to win a murder trial if you have a body.

Sierra's DNA was found inside Garcia-Torres' red car and Garcia-Torres' DNA was found on her clothes which were folded in her bag.  The bag was found about 2 blocks from her home (big blocks) in Northern Morgan Hill.  Garcia-Torres lives in Southern Morgan Hill in an RV park with his child and wife who is pregnant with their second child.  Both people live very close to opposite ends of a major street in Morgan Hill called Monterey Road.

I compared some elements of Sierra's case with that of Trayvon Martin in a previous post called Mars and Teenagers >........000000.

Sierra Lamar goes missing:

Mar. 16, 2012  last seen 6:00 am Morgan Hill, last text message:  7:12 am

Sierra Lamar:

Oct. something, I forgot and got stuck reading a bunch of psychic stuff looking for it.          

Suspect Antonin Garcia-Torres
b. Mar. 30, 1991  using Morgan Hill as he's lived there or close by his whole life

Sun 10 Aries;  Moon Libra;  NN 25 Capricorn Rx

Garcia-Torres has some difficult elements in his chart but the only thing that screams out to me "Murderer" is his out of bounds Mars at Declination 25 degrees 22'.  Planet of War, Mars, is at 29 Gemini in his chart.  This is on an Aries Point.  The Cancer AP is considered an emotionally volatile placement for Mars. Mars in Gemini is pretty mercurial and is doubly so in this chart because it is in mutual reception with natal Mercury in Aries.

Garcia-Torres has a possible Grand Square in his chart if you include the Nodal Axis and Chiron and if Moon is within orb of opposition to his Sun (can't be determined without time or place of birth).  Grand Squares can show a lot of tension as the individual receives hits to major squares by planets a lot more than other people.  More shit can happen to these people than to other people so they really have to learn how to roll with the punches.  Even without the Grand Square or Full Moon, Garcia-Torres will have a square between Sun in Aries and Uranus 14 Cap-Neptune 17 Capricorn.

Uranus-Neptune conjunctions can show a subset of people within a generation who are very evolved in social understanding.  In the sign of Capricorn this can show a group of people who want to run things and have a strong sense of class distinction but who want to work on a large group level.  They love gang stalking.  They will all fight for those less fortunate but may expect to take shortcuts in order to climb socially.  

Garcia-Torres has natal Sun, possibly Moon, squaring that conjunction.  Squares are considered difficult elements which will somehow challenge (square) the generational, group energy of the Neptune-Uranus conjunction.  This guy is probably extremely quick on a psychic level but his abilities don't easily flow within the overall scheme of things.  An Aries Sun with Libra Moon is going to be a very charming person as it is.  

Right now Garcia-Torres' progressed Sun has just changed signs from Aries to Taurus.  From the Ram to the Bull.  This means that the way that Torres will express his ego is undergoing a change.  The impulsiveness Aries could become Hard headed or more practical and easygoing depending on how Garcia-Torres is able to express it.  Taurus covets material possessions.  Women are often considered possessions.

Garcia-Torres has been considered the good son in his family.  His older brother was alcoholic and had just died 5 months before Sierra Lamar went missing. His Father is in jail on suspicion of having sex with an underage relative.

Here's an article called "Dissecting Torres' past:  Assault, Obstructing a Cop" from the Gilroy Dispatch which describes Torres' history.

Also connected with Garcia-Torres is a set of unsuccessful abductions from a Safeway parking lot in Morgan Hill that lasted for 7 days back in 2009.  3 different times women were attacked while in their car or while walking up to it.  A hooded man held a knife to one woman's throat and I think used a taser gun on another.  The comparisons between these charts and the chart that is set for the day that Sierra Lamar went missing is really incredible.

Here are the dates and times when I found them:

Attack #1, 46 year old woman zapped with stun gun:  Mar. 19, 2009 11:30 pm  Morgan Hill, CA


Sun 30 Pisces (H4);  Moon 19 Capricorn (H2);  ASC 22 Scorpio; MC 2 Virgo; NN 7 Aquarius RX (H3)

Mars 5 Pisces c. IC;  H3 (cars, parking lots): Jupiter 17 Aquarius-Chiron 24 Aquarius-Neptune 26 Aquarius

Attack #2, actually happened earlier in the day on Mar. 19, 2009 no exact time

Attack #3:  Mar. 26, 2009, 18 year old woman

Sun 7 Aries;  Moon Aries;   NN 7 Aquarius

First one can see that perhaps, if he committed any of these crimes, this Man is affected during/around the time of his Solar Return.  That would set off the square to Uranus-Neptune in Capricorn and maybe also his natal Moon in Libra and Capricorn/Cancer Nodal Axis.  He may also have an extra bad reaction to all the pesticides which are sprayed in the area.  Morgan Hill is agricultural.

The first attack date in 2009 had a Moon-Pluto conjunction in Capricorn same as Sierra Lamar's abduction date.  Pluto in Capricorn would also have set off the Uranus-Neptune conjunction in Garcia-Torres' natal chart as well as his Solar Return.  This brings in compulsions and dealings with power and ego.

Sierra Lamar is a Libra Sun with Capricorn Moon so her chart is hooked right in here.

Moon-Pluto conjunctions are feminine and can show deep compulsions with relation to women, especially in connection to power and control issues and deep emotional compulsions. I wrote in the past post, and that post was really obnoxious, so sorry, about how Pluto is connected with abductions and the underworld. It's connected with rape and murder and any behavior that is taboo. Moon represents Mother and Home and food. 

There is also a Sun-Mercury-Uranus conjunction in all these attack charts, or at least stellium, which is set over the Pisces-Aries cusp. This shows a wired nervous system and flashpoint thinking.  The Sheriff says that Sierra Lamar's abduction appears to have been a random act by total strangers.  That explains Uranus.Mercury represents cars and what's going on in the neighborhood.  In my previous post I discussed how this stellium was passing over the Ascendant at 7:10 am which is the last time Sierra posted a text message.

Transiting Mars is also hanging out over close degrees on the Virgo-Pisces pole in all the charts.  On Mar. 16, 2012, date Sierra went missing Mars was at 9 Virgo.  Between Mar. 19, 2009 and Mars 26, 2009 when the women were attacked in the Safeway parking lot Mars was opposing this placement between 5 and 10 degrees of Pisces.  Garcia-Torres worked at the Safeway store.  He was never tried or convicted of the attacks, was just a suspect. 

Garcia-Torres was having a Venus Return around the time of Sierra's disappearance.  Natal Venus at 15 Taurus.  Transiting Venus 13 Taurus.  Venus was passing over natal Sun during the 2009 Safeway attacks.

It would be interesting to study the Chiron-SN conjunction in Cancer in Garcia-Torres' chart.  He has such a complicated childhood-homelife. This opposes the Capricorn NN and Uranus-Neptune which just wants to rise above everything.  (That may be squaring an Aries/Libra Full Moon).

If I'm reading the article linked to above correctly the only time Garcia-Torres has gone to jail came two months after the parking lot attacks. The police came to his house and wanted to search it for a suspected criminal.  Garcia-Torres over reacted and refused to let them in and became verbally abusive, maybe physically abusive.  He was probably in the middle of the investigations over the attacks in the parking lots (was not arrested).    

May 29, 2009  6:15 pm  San Martin, CA


Sun 9 Gemini;  Moon 25 Leo;  ASC 15 Scorpio;  MC 23 Leo;  NN Aquarius

The Jupiter-Neptune conjunction in Aquarius was a big deal in this man's chart.  He's got Saturn 6 Aquarius opposing Jupiter Leo.  We're looking for late degrees. Natal Pluto at 21 Scorpio. Still too early.  Solar Arc Saturn 26 Aquarius, Bingo

On This day Chiron was in exact conjunction with the 2 planets at 27 Aquarius.  Chiron and Neptune were both stationing Retrograde and were opposing Moon in Leo.  There's that Chiron-Moon aspect in which one takes the blame for others.  At the time of the arrest the opposition was hitting the IC-MC angle with Moon (Home) at the top of the chart.  I think that all clocks should have a built in dinger to let people know when Scorpio is Rising and when the Moon and Mars are at difficult placements.  I bet half the crime in the world could be cut if people would pledge to wave white flags during those hours and dates, maybe even pledge to sit down and drink some tea with each other.

What the Hell Was He Thinking?

Story in the news last week about a guy who identifies as a woman and who pretended to be a doctor, a plastic surgeon, but who really belongs to an underground plastic surgery ring. This guy/gal, performed butt enhancement surgeries on women by injecting them with a special spackle made of cement, superglue, and flat-tire sealant.

There you go, no matter how hard you try to dress the guy up like a gal, you just can't take Home Depot out of his stupid sorry ass. There was no mention of Duct Tape in the article; maybe that's just "too 90's."

Thinking about this makes me want to throw up. It also made me feel mean and want to look the freak's birth date up in the cloud. This is probably not correct birth date, but I'm putting it out there for anyone who's curious. The chart is pretty amazing.

Phoney Dr.

July 10, 1992 Carteret, NJ

Sun 19 Cancer; Moon Scorpio or Sagittarius; NN 1 Capricorn

Sun 19 Cancer c. Venus 27 Cancer. Mommy and Beauty.

The Sun-Venus conjunction is opposing Uranus 15 Cap Rx - Neptune 18 Cap Rx. Sun-Venus opposite Neptune has overly idealistic view points of women, especially when Sun and Venus are in the sign of the Mother, Cancer. Add Uranus in on the mix and you've got total weirdness. This is why we need to add art class back into the classroom. This chart would thrive in art class. It's ok to be dumbed than shit in art class, it's actually desired. Creativity comes from making mistakes and veering from the norm, just not in this way.

Grand Fixed Square between Mercury-Mars-Chiron-Saturn-Pluto: Mercury 15 Leo-Chiron 11 Leo opposes Saturn 18 Aquarius Rx. Square Mars 19 Taurus opposing Pluto 21 Scorpio Rx. That's showing some real stress coming from childhood.

Commentary on this thing could go on for eons. Mercury shows the thinking process. Well, he got caught because of a "surgery" he performed in May 2010. That's Saturn Return stuff. Mercury c. Chiron doesn't help. Progressed Mercury in Rx doesn't help either.

He's not the only one out there. That's scary. If this chart is accurate, the 1 NN on the AP of Capricorn brought this guy out before the public. Unfortunately, not until after the Saturn-Jupiter-Uranus-Pluto t-square hit it for the last 2 years.

F%ck a Duck

Just read that insurance company Aflac has fired the comedian who has played the voice of its company Duck logo for the past 10 years. Gilbert Gottfried published jokes on his Twitter account about the tragedies in Japan over the week-end. Twitter is certainly made for people who can think of one-liners. Problem is, once it goes out there, you can't take it back.

I wanted to check the guy's chart to see if he has Mercury Retro or something. Actually, I wanted to see what kind of Mercury and Venus a guy has who can make a living off of talking like a duck for 10 years.

Turns out Gottfried's got a chart that could compare with a nuclear power plant, a 9.0 earthquake or a tsunami. Jupiter-Uranus conjunction. Saturn-Pluto conjunction.

And, yeah, I thought, wow, Pisces are supposed to be sensitive. Well, if you just watched those waves take over the Japanese coastline I guess you know how that goes. These guys are just like the rest of us, just some of them can figure out how to get away with it. And if you saw how big those waves were you know sort of how they do it.

And so, answer here is: bad luck, Mars was transiting over Gottfried's Sun over the week-end. The guy just had an impulse control problem. To top it off, natal Sun is unaspected which means that it doesn't flow with the rest of the planets in his chart. When Gottfried's Sun receives a transit or such, it just balloons out and projects. That's why the guy is a performer. Just now he will be performing for some other company.

Pisces does explain the alter ego with the shore bird.

Gilbert Gottfried
b. Feb. 28, 1955 Brooklyn, NY

Sun 10 Pisces; Moon Taurus or Gemini; NN 3 Capricorn

A person's voice is shown through his natal Mercury and Venus. I don't have a birth time so can't look at what was going on with the Ascendant and Midheaven, or Houses.

Gottfried's Mercury is 15 Aquarius and is unaspected to other planets in his chart. Like his natal Sun, his Mercury, planet of communication and talkie talk, just tends to take on a life of its own. In Aquarius things get a little electrical, a little fast, very intuitive and very weird. Shock value. So when Gottfried riffs, he takes it out as far and as zany as it can go. And the Internet, ruled by Mercury and Aquarius, goes out really, really far, all the way to the CEO at Aflac.

And then there's that thing about how everything you put out there is permanent and turns almost instantly into a demerit against you. Nobody on the Internet can afford to read your jokes and laugh. Nothing's more inappropriate than sitting in an Internet hot spot and actually LOL'ing into a computer screen. That's just plain creepy (LOL) and maybe that's why there's no sense of humor on the internet and why people are content to post pictures of baby animals (ROTFLOL).

Unaspected Sun. Unaspected Mercury. Didn't the insurance company cover him for this part of his personality? Maybe he's eligible for workman's comp. You can sort of just imagine him sitting there, watching all that CNN footage (I even found myself watching FOX for a while) and freaking out, probably drinking, and typing into his iphone whatever came to mind. And unfortunately he was on a roll. Mars transits only come along once every two years. Too bad about the Send Button. Press it. Drink Me. It's so much Fun.

And then about a week later you will think about what the hell you just did.

Gottfried's Mercury has progressed to 8 Taurus. He's in the early stage of learning the Taurus way. Don't know what that means, but it's definitely working at a slower pace. Maybe his next gig will be to mimic a Bull. Maybe he'll just kick more shit. Did I mention that he just had a Nodal Return in Capricorn conjunct Pluto. That's some guilty shit, for sure.

Mercury is what you say and how you say it. Your actual voice is ruled by Venus, the way your throat resonates. Gottfried's natal Venus is at 26 Capricorn. That's sort of dry and crusty and I don't want to know how old his first girlfriend was. Capricorn does like Black Humor though and with natal Venus opposing Jupiter 21 Cancer conjunct Uranus 25 Cancer and squaring Neptune 28 Libra one can see that something special and light hearted is related to the voice here.

Right now, progressed Venus is at 2 Aries. Whatever his new Mercury doesn't kick, his new Venus will ram into.

Oh yeah, oh yeah, just some notes about cycles: Just after Solar Return and Nodal Return c. Pluto.

Polish President Airplane Crash / Katyn Forest Massacre

On April 10 an unbelievable loss of Polish Government Officials. The President of Poland's airplane crashed while trying to land in dense fog at an airport in Smolensk, Russia. All people on board are pronounced dead. The Officials were arriving in Russia to memorialize a tragic event from World War II known as the Katyn Forest Massacre. Around 22,000 lives were lost during this event which occurred mostly in April, 1940 near the vicinity of Katyn. The purpose was to execute all members of the Polish Officer Corps. So, of course, there are major conspiracy theories going on. Poland has only been a Democracy for a short while.

For some reason I haven't been able to figure out from news reports what time the airplane crashed. So I'm not going to look at that right now. Anyways, it seems that there are many great accounts written by astrologers.

I did find some really eerie astrobabble that could add a psychic element to the massacre. Hope that investigations show that this was simply an accident due to what looks like pilot error. I mean, that's a drag for the pilot but the political strife that could follow would be devastating.

Polish President Lech Kaczynski died on April 10, 2010.

Lech Kaczynski
b. June 18, 1949 2:45 am Zoliburz, Warsaw, Poland

Sun 27 Gemini; Moon 22 Pisces; ASC 18 Gemini; MC 11 Aquarius; NN 23 Aries Rx

Kaczynski has a natal Sun-Uranus conjunction in his first House. Uranus is right on the first degree of Cancer, an Aries Point. 1st House rules the physical body and Sun-Uranus shows sudden, shocking events. I'm not going into long description of what all that means. Thing is, this is filling in the empty leg of the long going current transit of the t-square between Saturn-Uranus and Pluto. As a matter of fact, Pluto, planet of death is exactly conjunct the 8th House cusp in this chart and opposing Sun-Uranus in 1st house of physical body.

Death is shown by the water houses in one way or another and they are all afflicted here. In K's chart, natal Pluto is conjunct the IC from H4. The extra long current Mars transit has had Mars transiting back and forth over K's natal IC. Mars rules K's other house of death, House 12. He had Mars in this house natally conjunct Mercury, ruler of his 1st house of physical body. This is squaring natal Saturn, ruler of H8, major house of death. K's Solar Arc progressions also show a conjunction to the degree of Neptune and Pluto. One is natal and the other SA, can't remember which is which.

I suspect that House 12 rules ghosts. I know that Neptune and Pluto do, and that's where I'm going now.

(Oh, before that I gotta mention Jupiter since Jupiter rules airplanes. Jupiter is placed in the other sign that rules aviation and in the 9th House. It is trining the Mercury-Mars conjunction.)

If I'm understanding Wiki correctly the Katyn Forest Massacre occurred mainly in April, 1940. It began on either Apr. 3 or 4 and continued for 28 days. But, I also read that the Russians continued on through May because they took off work to celebrate May Day.

The document that outlines the ideas behind the Katyn Massacre was dated Mar. 5, 1940. It was apparently signed afterwards, but this date progresses into some interesting stuff.

Katyn Forest Massacre paper dated
Mar. 5, 1940 Smolensk, Russia

Sun 15 Pisces; Moon Capricorn or Aquarius; NN 23 Libra Rx

This shows classic creepy Mercury Retrograde stuff. They say to never sign a document during a Mercury Rx. Things come back to haunt you. Bad Intentions never seem to die, at any rate. The paper was signed while Mercury was at 1 Aries and about to go Retrograde in a few hours. Mercury was extra potent because on the Aries Point and trining the two outer planets that are most difficult to deal with on earthly level. Mercury trine Pluto 1 Leo and opposing Neptune 25 Virgo.

This Mercury is also set off heavily by the current outer planet t-square which is forming off and on currently and be at the Aries Points this Summer.

A Momento Mori from World War II?


The idea to execute all the Polish Officers was dreamed up by a total freak named Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria. Beria was an Aries so he was having a big Solar Return during this event. This guys sounds totally evil. It is said that he used to drive his car around town and rape women willy nilly. Total abuser.

Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria
b. Mar 29, 1899 Merkheuli, near Sukhum, Georgia, Russian Empire

Sun 9 Aries; Moon Libra or Scorpio; NN 4 Capricorn Rx

Beria's progressions are really creepy. Right now his prog. Sun is conjunct prog. Mars within a degree at 25-26 Cancer. His prog. Mars-SAturn and Pluto are in a violent t-square with each other:

P.Mars 19 Virgo squaring p. Saturn 18 Sagittarius opposing p. Pluto at 17 Gemini.

This t-square layers right on top of President Kaczynski's ASC-DESC and natal 4th House Pluto!

His North Node is conjunct where Pluto is now. This is conjunct President Kaczynski's 8th House.

Okay, I'm creeped out. I'm also looking at too many charts at once. Hope all info is correct. If we ever get a solid time for the crash it will be interesting to see how any of these point connect up. The reason for the crash is said to be dense fog (Moon in Pisces conjunct Neptune-Chiron in Aquarius). Also pilot error. Maybe this is a case similar to a couple of the runaway Toyota crashes. People stepped on the gas instead of the brake and thought they had been victimized by the brake-accelerator problems that have plagued Toyota Priuses.

Oh, P.S. the airplane was a Cancer and Pluto would be opposing it's Sun and conjunct its natal Uranus-Neptune in Capricorn. Natal Mars is at 21 Aries apex of a t-square to a Jupiter-Saturn opposition. Not the greatest chart for an airplane, imo.

2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 Crash
June 29, 1990 for Polish Air Force

Charles I's Bloodstained Shirt

Here's a photo of a silk shirt which is said to have been worn by King Charles I of England at his Execution. There are red stains on the shirt which are thought to be left over blood. Previous examinations of the stains have been inconclusive as to whether or not they really are blood and whether they really are the blood of the King.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/picturesoftheday/7263251/Pictures-of-the-day-18-February-2010.html?image=1

I looked up Charles I's chart on Astrotheme and found this:

Charles I
b. Nov. 19, 1600 Dunfermline, Scotland

Sun 29 Scorpio; Moon 19 Taurus; ASC 5 Virgo; MC 25 Taurus; NN 13 Capricorn

My question was this: Why is the Dude's blood stained shirt cycling back into the public consciousness now? Found some crazy stuff and really wonder whether the scientific tests will turn up anything.

The main thing is that Charles I lived so long ago that he is having a secondary progressed Venus Return. It's exact to the Degree at 11 Sagittarius this year. Venus rules clothes. Apparently the guy was a total stud muffin (Scorpio, of course). Van Dyck painted a really famous portrait of him, if I could link to pictures I would put it here:

(((((( ))))))

In addition to the amazing progressed Venus Return, Charles I's progressed Sun and p. Mercury (rulers of 12th House (Ghosts) & Ascendant (physical body)) are in conjunction with his natal North Node. And he is having a Nodal Return!

He is also about to have a progressed Lunar Return as well! It's all just really coming around for him.

He became a legend as a Saint. I guess he was good for the Church but bad for the coffers, so chop chop. This is why I hate politics. Anyway, his blood is something very special for the English. There are stories that the crowd dipped their handkerchiefs in it after he was executed, so maybe this is just another delusional thing for them, sort of like Sasquatch appearances are for the Americans.

Anyhoo, Charles I's Neptune (martyr) is at the perfect spot for a Saint, 1 Virgo. That puts it in the 12th House within conjunction with his Ascendant. On the day that the newspaper published this photo the Sun was at 1 Pisces, directly across.

I think I've got a crush on a headless corpse. Scorpio's are known to be Phoenix's who rise up from their ashes but this is truly amazing. His natal Sun is conjunct his IC (end of life)

d. Jan. 30, 1649

CIA Suicide Bombing in Afghanistan

I'm having a terrible time trying to track down much information about the people involved in the Dec. 30, 2009 suicide bombing that occurred at the CIA Base Chapman in Khost, Afghanistan. I read somewhere that this camp is involved with sending drones out into the community but haven't seen that story since. Would be good to know because of the Saturn-Uranus-Pluto t-square influence kind of symbolizing robots, to me personally at least. Somehow I think I wouldn't appreciate having them driving around in my neighborhood.

At this point I believe that 7 CIA agents were killed along with others who were injured.

A double agent for al-Qaida walked into the Camp without being searched. He was wearing explosives. This is the second story in a week. The terrorists are finding trustworthy, innocent looking people to work through.

The information that al-Balawi is said to have offered was supposedly so important that many of the major information gatherers in the land were gathered together in the room to hear it. I've even just read a report saying that this guy was a triple agent. He was Jordanian doctor Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi. In most reports he is 36 years old. Since he was at least polite enough to commit his crime at the end of the year this means that we can be sure (if he was indeed 36) that he was born in 1973.

Al-Balawi is said to be from an industrial town called Zarqa in Jordan. Zarqa means "The Blue One." The place could definitely use a beautification project, maybe a couple of extra fountains and some palm trees, and a high speed rail system. It's the same town where Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is said to have been from. 1st settlement was in 1902 by Chechen immgrants. Over half of the town is a Jordanian settlement left over from the Six Days War.

So, I can't get any birth dates. The CIA has let us know that the Camp Head died in the attack and that she was a Mother of three. That means that the CIA is letting us know that women are incompetent at this kind of work. Thanks, guys. Hey, why don't you do something constructive and give us some birth dates. Al-Qaeda probably uses Astrologers and it seems like they're winning this war at this point.

Twiddling my thumbs and googling wikipedia all I could really find is that the CIA is going through a double whammy Mars transit. Like all things Leo, this is hitting the heart (of the agency). The media is going on and on about how struck they are, but they still aren't giving birth dates.

The CIA's got the weirdest damn natal chart for a spy agency for reasons that I'm not going to say because I'm not giving the Jihad chat rooms the benefit. But, anyway, the CIA has a conjunction of Saturn to Pluto in Leo. Right now this conjunction is being hit by both progressed Mars at 26 Leo and transiting Mars Retrograde which was at 19 Leo. I think that Hillary Clinton has this conjunction natally and I seem to have remembered that someone tried to attack her this week, but am not sure.

Mars has been opposing the Chiron-Jupiter-Neptune conjunction in Aquarius in an extra long transit due to the retrograde. I suppose that explains how it's great weather for terrorists who want to commit jihad. Either that, or those agents were scoring Opium.

The Mars transit was amplified by the transits on the day of the attack, sort of a triple whammy (easy to say after the fact). Transiting North Node was at 22 Capricorn (conjunct Mercury) and opposing the CIA's natal Mars 22 Cancer.

CIA
b. Sept. 18, 1947 Langley, Virginia

Sun 25 Virgo; Moon Scorpio; NN 27 Taurus

Attack on CIA, Base Chapman, Khost, Afghanistan
They don't even give you the time of day

Sun 10 Capricorn; Moon Gemini; NN 22 Capricorn

The Nina, The Pinta, and the Santa Maria

Usually Columbus Day is celebrated on the 2d Monday in October. Today's date, October 12, matches the actual historical date that land was sited.

Wikipedia actually guesstimates Christopher Columbus' birthdate as being between Aug. 25 and Oct. 31 in 1451. That means that Christopher Columbus was either a Virgo, a Libra, or a Scorpio. According to my last blog, this means that Christopher Columbus would have had a higher than average chance of being a self-made millionaire if he had been born in Modern Times.

Christopher Columbus (source Wikipedia)
born between Aug. 25 and Oct. 31, 1451

Sun either in Virgo, Libra or Scorpio

Jupiter in Capricorn; NN in Capricorn; Saturn in Libra; Uranus in Cancer; Neptune on the Aries Point in either Virgo or Libra; Pluto in Leo; Chiron in Gemini

Neptune on an Aries Point stands out. I wonder if Columbus didn't have Neptune on his Midheaven since he's known to every school kid for having Sailed the Ocean Blue in 1492. That's sort of the first Advertising Jingle.

Columbus set off with his 3 ships on August 3, 1492 from Jerez de la Frontera, Spain and returned at some point in 1493. Land was sighted by a sailor, Rodrigo de Triana from off the Pinta.

Mars was in Cancer and unaspected on that date. Sounds like maybe a chaotic start.

Pluto was in Scorpio conjunct the North Node and opposing Chiron. That makes sense considering this is the voyage that is said to have brought Syphillis to Europe. Or was Syphillis brought to the Americas from Europe? At any rate, the Sun and Mercury were in Leo and the Moon was in Sagittarius, and a good time was had by all. This was the Age of Exploration, after all.

Another interesting aspect for that date, assuming I'm working with the correct date (the Pope kept messing around with the Calendars and sometimes I use the wrong date so be fore-warned), is that the Sun was opposing Saturn at 14 Aquarius on this date. The Spanish are more Adventurous than well managed. Jupiter moved into Leo during the voyage over and was opposing Saturn when Land was first sighted.

And, Land was first sighted (according to Wiki) from off the bough or stern whichever end of the ship (the Pinta) at 2 am on Oct. 12, 1492.

Land Ahoy says Sailor Rodrigo de Triana of the Pinta
Oct. 12, 1492 2am off the Bahamas, I used Nassau for a city

Sun 29 Libra; ASC 4 Virgo; Moon 17 Cancer; NN 5 Scorpio; MC 3 Gemini

It was the 2d Friday of the Month, not the 2d Monday

At 2 am, Mars was just rising over the Ascendant conjunct Lilith. Lilith is always there. (Wonder what kind of crazy looking Mermaid was pinned to the fronts of those boats.) Mars was trining Neptune in the 4th House. So, if you're ever out at Sea and looking for land, feel free to play your Nintendo, or take a leak, or chat with your buds until Mars rolls around over the Ascendant. No sense standing there staring all day and seeing nothing. And bring your Night Goggles. Don't know how this guy managed to see Land in the middle of the night.

The Sun, Mercury, Venus and Pluto were all conjunct the North Node in Scorpio. What a wild combination for a bunch of Spanish Men who have been cooped up on a boat for 3 months. Those guys were really horny, that's for sure. I don't even want to think what they did to the Native Women once they got on land. Venus was even Retrograde in Scorpio.

So, the innies were in contact with the outies when Land was sighted. The Sun, Mercury, Venus were conjunct Pluto. The Moon was opposing Uranus 25 Cancer. Mars was Rising and trining Neptune.

The Santa Maria was run aground on Christmas Day in 1492. Nasty t-square on that day. Mercury was conjunct Neptune on the Capricorn AP making for spacey thinking. The conjunction was apex to a t-square of an opposition of Moon in Aries to Mars in Libra. It was bound to happen.

Pluto was still conjunct the North Node and along with Venus was still in Scorpio so that's not all that was bound. Columbus kidnapped a bunch of people to take back to Spain. Most died on the ride back.

Interesting that Columbus, a Navigator, was born with Neptune on an Aries Point. And he made his big Discovery when Neptune was on another Aries Point. And everyone on his boat had Syphilis.

Elevator Music

Okay, this is another blog inspired by an NPR Moment. Not a driveway moment; almost crashed into oncoming while trying to write this stuff down, if you know what I mean, but today we had a light topic. Actually, I can't remember the topic. I just remember that a caller called in and told a story about how Elevator music was born:

The Story of How Elevator Music was Born, According to an NPR Caller

Way back when. Long before Elevator Music was called Elevator Music it was called Furniture Music. The year was 1917. That's how long ago it was in that dark bordello in Paris, France where music composer Eric Satie was tinkering away on his piano while the French were doing what they say Americans are too prudish to do.

Eric Satie realized that nobody was really listening to his brilliant compositions. They just wanted ambience for their French past-times.

So Eric Satie wrote "The Gymnopedies." These are very simple pieces that you sort of play over and over again. And nobody wants you to .... stop. These songs are very slow and harmonic and relaxing in sort of minor key kind of way and they songs ended up being a major influence on the 20th Century New Music movement, especially in California where nobody has enough talent or discipline to play anything more complicated. I think that "Gymnopedies" is a Greek word for Funeral Dance, so you can see what a fine wit Eric Satie was. I used to perform them at weddings along with "Feelings" and the theme song from "The Godfather."

So, there you have it. 1917. Pluto in Cancer at 4 degrees pretty much opposite the spot where it is now. I've been hoping and praying that Pluto in Capricorn will bring back music. Cancer just wants to return to the womb, but Capricorn wants to play music, n'est-ce pas? I don't think many of us in the Pluto in Virgo generation really knows what music is, pop, elevator or, you know, the boring stuff.

Eric Satie's chart is all music-y. He was a Taurus Sun with Cancer Moon and Leo Rising.

Unfortunately, Satie had Saturn in the 4th House of Home which opposes Pluto in Taurus. That's kind of a dark aspect. Possessions are ruled by Taurus, and that's where Satie's Sun (Ego) already is. Now he's got restrictive Saturn in his 4th House almost ensuring that he doesn't have any furniture of his own. Especially when it's opposite Pluto in the sign of Furniture.

What's a Shiny Leo Riser to do with these aspects? Squeezes the Lemons and Makes the Lemonade. Starts a whole new page in musical history both intellectually and anti-intellectually. (Progressed Mercury was conjunct his Ascendant at the time).

Satie's chart has this incredible conjunction of Mars conjunct Neptune on Aries Midheaven which is conjunct his South Node (What you're known for). Mars-Neptune is squaring a conjunction of Moon-Uranus in Cancer. If it weren't for the imaginative Moon and Neptune on top of the Technological Mars and Uranus he could have been a rocket scientist instead.

Anybody for the 5th Floor? I'm feeling a tune comin on.

Outer planets in 1917 were: Jupiter in Taurus (Possessions), Saturn in Cancer (Depression), Uranus in Aquarius (Elevators), Neptune in Leo (pop music), Chiron Pisces/Aquarius (major woundings through said rulerships), NN Capricorn (climbing, insecurities about being seen?).

Eric Satie
b. May 17, 1866 9 am Honfleur, France

Sun 27 Taurus; ASC 3 Leo; Moon 5 Cancer; NN 10 Libra; MC 11 Aries

Newborn Waking Up for His Wake

Here's a little story of the Eclipses in Action.

A Baby born at a hospital in Paraquay was announced dead after Doctors couldn't find a pulse. The baby, a boy, weighed slightly more than a pound and was born 16 weeks premature. He was placed in a box and taken home for his Wake and Burial. His Mother was still at the hospital but his Father heard crying from the box. When checked the baby started to move his hands and cry more. The baby literally didn't bother to wake up until a few hours after his birth!

There's a video on the Internet which shows the death certificate. I'm not sure if the time given in considered a death time or a birth time but either way, if my bad eyesight is reading the blurry numbers correctly, the chart is pretty amazing. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8191023.stm)

This is what I'm working with, it could be wrong:

Baby Boy born, no pulse, declared dead, wakes up at own wake
b. or d. 8/6/09 18:30 Ascuncion, Paraguay

Sun 15 Leo; Moon 25 Aquarius; ASC 29 Aquarius; NN 29 Capricorn; MC 28 Scorpio

Interesting to notice how much of this chart is in very late degrees of the signs indicated.

First off, the baby is a Leo Sun born on the 3d Eclipse of the Summer. His Sun is very strong in its own sign. It is further strengthened by the fact that it is a singleton planet in Fire.

The time that I've read on the video looks to me like 18:30. This puts the Moon at 25 Aquarius conjunct Neptune 26 Aquarius-Chiron 25 Aquarius-Jupiter 24 Aquarius. This is just passing over the Ascendant (29 Aquarius) and is in the 12th House! Either way this whole stellium is connected with the first house and Ascendant which shows conditions surrounding a baby's birth.

The sign of the Ascendant, Aquarius, indicates shock, surprise, hopes and wishes, and awakenings! Neptune shows deep sleep. Chiron shows "wounded healer." Jupiter shows "lucky son of a gun." Jupiter alone in the 12th House indicates an angel in the person's life. The Moon shows birth as well as indicating the Mother.

This stellium is squaring the baby's Midheaven in Scorpio. A square is a challenging aspect and the Midheaven is how others perceive a person. Scorpio rules the sign of death and mortuaries and difficult circumstances. Funny how early this stuff kicks in in life. It can also indicate Doctors. This baby may grow up to be a Doctor himself.

Welcome to the World, Little Miracle! What a busy first day you've had.

Shootings and Venus Retrograde?

As Venus has gone Retrograde in Aries there have been at least 3 public shootings. Venus rules one's ability to love and when she goes Retrograde complications can occur in this area. In the sign of Aries she perhaps brings out an impulsive, aggressive side that people are trying to repress.

According to the birth dates I have for two of the shooters and one of the victims there seems to be a common bond with Nodal Axes involved along the signs of Cancer/Capricorn. This means that the Venus Retrograde is squaring these people's Nodal Axes. The Nodes are considered related to one's Destiny in some way. The 2 Shooters had Sun in square aspect to their Nodal Axes so their Suns were also under stress. The Victim, a Pastor in a church, had natal Venus conjunct his South Node. His Sun, on the other hand, was not relating to his Nodal Axis.

Venus Retrograde may not mean anything other than that from the earth's point of view Venus seems to stand still in the sky for an extra long time. And in Aries this may provoke a lot of frustration. Aries likes Action.

On March 8, 2009 (8:15 am) a man who may have Lyme Disease walked into a Baptist Church in Maryville, Illinois and shot and killed the Pastor who was giving his Sermon. The man was 27 year old Terry Sedlacek. I don't have his birthdate. If he was born in 1982 then he may have a Cancer North Node. This would mean that he shares the same Nodal Axis as his Victim the Minister (whose name I won't use here out of respect for his family who probably hates Astrology). I have found a birthdate for the Minister on the Internet which gives him a philosophical and religious Sun in Sagittarius. His Moon may be in either Cancer or Leo depending on what time of day he was born. And his North Node is at 13 Cancer. As I said before his Venus was at 6 Capricorn within conjunction of his South Node. It is about 7 degrees away from natal Mars at the end of Sagittarius and this means that transiting Pluto was conjunct both Planets.

On Mar. 10, 2009 a man named Michael McLendon went on a shooting spree in the towns of Geneva and Samson, Alabama. McLendon killed most of his family, the family dogs, then went on to shoot randomly at strangers. He then killed himself. 11 deaths total (that may not be accurate).

McLendon was an Aries Sun which was afflicted by opposition to Saturn 19 Libra and Pluto 18 Cancer. His natal Mars was 7 Libra and was Retrograde. So he had a strong aspect in his chart which was lit up by this current Venus Retrograde. On top of that he had natal North Node at 18 Cancer squaring the Sun to Saturn and Pluto oppositions.

Michael McLendon
b. Apr. 11, 1982 (place?)

Sun 22 Aries; Moon Scorpio or Sagittarius; NN 18 Cancer

On Mar. 11, 2009 in Germany a student went on a shooting spree at his school (9:30 am CET, Winnenden, Germany, source: Noel Tyl's forum). This student was Tim Kretschner. Kretschner's chart shows stress aspects to outer planets in Cardinal Signs just like McLendon's do. He was a Scorpio Sun possibly with Moon also in Scorpio. His Sun was conjunct Mars and Pluto which is considered a very difficult aspect to deal with from an emotional basis. In short, it seems to show up a lot in these shooters' charts.

Both shooters have Sun (represents Will and Ego) in signs that are ruled by Mars and Pluto which are both the same energy but on different octaves of vibration. The Scorpio Planets in Kretschner's chart would have been under difficult transit from the square from all the Aquarius planets.

Kretschner's North Node was in heavy aspect to two outer planets. Uranus and Neptune were both conjunct natal North Node at 13 Capricorn (Uranus 11 Capricorn and Neptune 15 Capricorn). These planets were all getting tipped off by transiting Venus Rx in Aries.

Tim Kretschner
b. Nov. 6, 1991 Wendlingen, Germany (info from Noel Tyl's forum)

Sun 14 Scorpio; Moon Scorpio; NN 13 Capricorn

The Venus Rx, of course, isn't the only transit happening in these charts. I just want to point out these coincidental correspondences of both Murderers and Victims especially in regards to the Nodal Axes (Plural of Axis?)

I send my regrets and condolences to all the friends and families of everyone involved in these events.

Cougar Barbie

American Doll Sensation of My Childhood, Barbie, is 50 years old. I missed her Birthday by about a week but once you're this old you really don't give a shyte if anybody really remembers. At this age you're just an old Cougar. Those 60s stretch pants and tiger stripes just really don't cut it after a certain age. Or do they? Birthday Cake? "I'm not blowing that thing out it will show all my wrinkles." Well, I suppose that Barbie's spent wads on Botox at this point and doesn't give these matters a second thought. Sorry, Barbie, the big let down about Age 50 is that you gotta go through your Chiron Return. "Too Soon We Get Old; Too Late We Get Wise." That's Chiron's motto. My Grandmother used to say it all the time.

Barbie, for those who either don't know because they weren't born yet or for those who loved and adored their Barbies (like me) and can't remember because Alzheimer's is no longer considered "Early Onset" -- Barbie is a Doll. When any Toy turns 50 it is officially considered an Antique. So Barbie, Sorry Doll, you are a Golden Oldie.

But pay that no mind. Shirley Temple Dolls were considered a "Doll" Sensation as well back when my Mother was growing up and I remember watching the real Shirley Temple laugh about how she had just turned 50 and was considered an Antique. She was absolutely adored by Antique Dealers by that point and was also a well-respected Politician.

So, Barbie was officially born on Mar. 9, 1959 for Mattel Corp.

Barbie
b. Mar. 9, 1959 PLace?

Sun 19 Pisces; Moon Pisces?; NN 15 Libra

On her last Birthday she was not only going through her Solar Return, but was also going through a Venus Return at 16 Aries and a Chiron Return which was joined by transiting Neptune and Mars. That's not all, pretty much all of the outer planets were aspecting something or other in Barbie's chart. I'm haven't been seen the Walgreen's shelves bulging with Age 50 Barbies the same way that Age 40 Barbies were marketed. Guess it means a different thing to be turning 50 during a major economic downturn. With Pluto in Capricorn I have actually heard that thin lips are now considered sexy. Hmm, maybe that was a delusion. If that's so, Barbie's got to undo those Collagen lips. When Pluto's on your natal Saturn, there's probably more than that one has to undo, but best not to wreck the festivities with that irrelevant silliness.

So Barbie is a Double Pisces which means that she was let loose on the American Public during a Pisces New Moon. Pisces rules Glamour and Barbie was the first curvy, modern adult doll that young American girls had to play with. By fun coincidence her most inspired body part is considered the Feet. Well, in addition to those boobs. (The boobs probably come from the original German Doll that Barbie was cloned/stolen from). Explains those tiny curvy high-heel feet that inspired 3 generations of Birkenstock wearers among us. Barbie was Modern and yet her feet were perpetually bound to fit only high heels that suggest an Imperialistic Chinese upbringing.

But, I hate to say, Barbie wasn't an American Original. She was a Copy Cat based curvy arch to curvy arch on a German Doll named Lilli by the Mattel Toy Company Owner's wife, Ruth Handler. I seem to remember that she was created in some sort of uber new plastic which was meant to last and last and last. As kids we used to test the durability of the plastic in all kinds of sadistic ways which I'm sure would be considered anti-social by the psychologists these days.

So Ruth Handler was Mr. Mattel's wife, traveling through German toy stores looking for ideas to borrow I guess for her husband's company. She found the Bild Lilli doll which was originally created in 1955 and based on a German Cartoon written by Reinhard Beuthien which was first published in June 24, 1952. Beuthien was told to fill a spot for an empty cartoon spot in a paper. He made the original cartoon about a big baby. Pretty funny considering there was a New Moon in Cancer, sign of the Baby, on the day of Lilli's publication. There were also 3 other planets in Cancer that day. The Sun was conjunct Venus and Mercury was conjunct Uranus in Cancer.

Lilli Doll
cartoon published: June 24, 1952 Germany
Doll manufactured: 1955 - 1964

Sun (c. Venus and trine Mars in Scorpio); Moon Cancer or Leo; NN 25 Aquarius

As the Wikipedia article states, Beuthien was told to change the character because it disgusted his editor. Beuthien kept the Big Baby Head, the big round eyes, the pouty lips and the bulbous forehead and stuck a really sexy, modern woman's body on it. Big boobs, long legs and those creepy little feet. But, the German Barbie had lots of personality. She was a double Cancer like Leona Helmsly and Courtney Love, after all. She was a modern woman who earned her own way and was a brazen gold digger. Her wit was really raunchy. Those lucky German girls got to quote such comments as (from Wikipedia article on Lilli: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild_Lilli_doll). Anyways, one can see the Mercury-Uranus conjunction at work:

• "I could do without balding old men but my budget couldn't!"

• The cartoon always consisted of a picture of Lilli talking to girlfriends, boyfriends, her boss ("As you were angry when I was late this morning I will leave the office at five p.m. sharp!").

• to a policeman who told her that two-piece-swimsuits are banned: "Which piece do you want me to take off?"

• "Of course I'm interested in politics; no one should ignore the way some politicians dress!"

• the beauty of nature: "The sunrise is so beautiful that I always stay late at the nightclub to see it!".

Mrs. Mattel loved the doll -- she was oh so fashionable. The Mae West comments apparently didn't carry over into the Americas. Eventually Lilli was discontinued and there is talk of a law suit. No matter, Mattel cranked out the Barbies and they were an instant sensation. American Barbie had no real personality, she was simply a modern fashion statement who came with lots of accessories. Her Venus was at 17 Aries in conjunction with her South Node at 15 Libra. Her Sun was squaring Mars. And she was re-born from the Neptune in Libra/Pluto in Leo generation into the Neptune in Scorpio/Pluto in Virgo generation. One can see the loss of playfulness between the generations. Kind of interesting, though, that a post-war German doll is so much more playful than a 1960's American Doll, but pay that no mind.

Mrs. Mattel was a Scorpio which rounds out the story into a Water Sign saga but I'm busy screwing up my life and can't really wonder too much what that statement means. The story pretty much sums it up anyway.

Ruth Handler
b. Nov. 4, 1916 (Where?)

Sun 12 Scorpio; Moon Aquarius or Pisces; NN 24 Capricorn

The Boogeymen of the Inauguration

Obama's swearing in was a Miracle both in acceptance by the U.S. of an African American Leader but also in the peaceful control of a huge crowd. This shows the angular Sun in the 10th House and angular Moon. The Sun was conjunct Mercury and Jupiter (eloquent President born of an immigrant and mixed marriage). The Moon was at the last degree of Scorpio in the 7th House (Public's deepest desires working in harmony and cooperation). Those are my interpretations, at any rate. There were problems with the music due to the cold temperature. YoYo Ma and his Classical friends apparently played to a dubbed version of their performance because their instruments couldn't stay in tune. Aretha Franklin was on Larry King saying that she was unhappy with her performance. But, damn, her hat was the finest confection that ever graced a female head, my knitting forums were going ape face over it.

There were problems with both of these aspects, the Mercury and the Moon as would be interpreted. With Mercury both Retrograde and Cazimi the Sun and with the Void of Course Moon one would expect some snafus and we were not disappointed. The Swearing In happened a bit late at around 12:06pm rather than at noon on the dot. Then the chief Justice messed up the 35(?) words of the swearing in. This was redone one Wednesday but without the Bible. So the actual "words," the Mercury element, didn't quite jell. It doesn't matter, really, but it's always difficult to know whether it's God in the Details or the Devil. I suppose it's best say a Blessing for the Virgo's before all important activities because things like this can be real thorns in the side. I think this is Obama's natal Gemini Moon square Pluto aspect in action anyway.

There was another problem, which could be attributed to the Scorpio Moon. Some Texan politican refused to okay Hillary Clinton's election as Secretary of State until the next day.

I wanted to check out the charts of the two guys who sort of put a clinker in the day's activities to see maybe what are party pooper aspects.

Both are Aquarians, oddly enough (an Aquarian keyword). Both are also Conservatives trying to cope with the aftermath of the Neptune transit to their Suns I suppose. Neptune is the planet of formlessness. It's supposed to break down one's sense of boundaries, thus its normal rulership for compassion for others. Needless to say this is not a Conservative's favorite planet. Conservatives like things to stay the same, like structure, and simple plans and boundaries.

First Boyfriend, Republican John Cornyn from Texas had to input his negativity by ensuring that Hillary Clinton's appointment as Secretary of State was delayed a day. I wanted to see what the dude's problem is.

John Cornyn
b. Feb. 2, 1952 Houston, Tx

Sun 13 Aquarius; Moon Taurus; NN 1 Pisces

Cornyn's in that limbo space between his 2d Progressed Lunar Return and his 2 Saturn Return. The second pass is not as quite as big a deal usually. They happen farther apart in years than the first return does. And they say that if you screwed up during your first Saturn Return you don't often make it to your second Saturn return. That last interpretation sounds like office folklore wisdom and I have no idea if it's true or not. Probably it's true some of the time.

Cornyn's got a Cardinal Grand Square in his chart. His Saturn is at 15 Libra and opposing Jupiter at 11 Aries. These square a Venus-Chiron at 8-9 Capricorn opposing Uranus at 11 Cancer. Right now his Progressed Sun is on his Jupiter to the degree so he's outspoken about his opinions. This is sort of a double whammy Sun-Jupiter aspect as transiting Jupiter is conjunct Cornyn's Sun. This is reflected in the Sun-Jupiter conjunction of the event chart.

I'm sorry I can't offer a reasonable interpretation of what a Grand Cross means except that a huge amount of difficult aspects will be tripped off quite frequently in a person's life due to the squares (challenges) and oppositions (opposition, need for balance). Venus conjunct Chiron in Capricorn certainly seems to bring on some loveability & fear issues that are focused outward into the social Jupiter-Saturn-Uranus squares. If someone had thought to send Cornyn a box of See's candies maybe he would have mellowed a bit. Cardinal Signs begin projects, so this was perhaps the Republicans' announcement that they intend to fight everything.

Cornyn's progressed Mercury has begun moving in Retrograde Motion in Aries since he's come in to office. (sometime around 2005? I'm not real sure about date) so he's probably going to become all balled up over a lot of mercurial type of issues concerning getting facts straight and being a pest in general.

Chief Justice John Roberts also messed up during President Obama's Swearing In Ceremony by quoting the words out of order. I thought that Obama had fumbled due to nervousness but apparently it was Roberts who mis-spoke. Later on that night I heard the news trying to replay the Swearing In and realized what a loss this was. Well, there's Mercury Retrograde for you. This one was right on Robert's natal Sun which was close to going through a Return (Solar). And Jupiter was there. And the North Node was there. And Mercury was cazimi. And the Moon was Out-of-bounds. And, boy did he screw up. So, the Sun-Jupiter-Mercury Rx conjunction really points the astro arrows at these guys.

Chief Justice John Roberts
b. Jan. 27, 1955 Buffalo, NY

Sun 8 Aquarius; Moon Pisces; NN 6 Capricorn

While looking up his birth data I was reminded that Roberts had a seizure on July 30, 2007. This may have a result of an illness. Interesting that at the time of the seizure, his Sun was in the process of progressing in to Aries at the time. Aries and Mars rule the brain and inflamation. Right now his progressed Sun is exactly square natal Pluto and is 7 degrees away from a conjunction with his natal Mars. Boy, I hope he's taking a lot of Vitamin C because that's an inflamatory aspect.

Additionally, transiting Neptune is at 24 Aquarius moving into conjunction with Robert's natal Mercury 26 Aquarius. He has to be careful about any drugs he's taking because they could be causing Mental Fogginess. Either that, or it could have been a Freudian Slip of a super conservative white guy. Neptune rules the subconscious memory.

With these heavy transits to his Mercury and Mars it would make sense that he's really trying to maintain right now. Robert's natal Mercury is in a t-square with Saturn and Pluto so his normally sharp, conservative mind is getting a good fogging over, that's for sure. His thinking could also possibly be getting an opening up to new and better ideas.

There are many aspects to look at. I'll end here. Hope I've got this info right.

"The 3 Horsemen of the Apocalypse"

Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me this morning on NPR, or at least I think that's what show it was, referred to the 3 Feds in charge of saving the economy as "The 3 Horsemen of the Wall St. Apocalypse." This really is something straight out of Tolkien.

Anyway, here they are along with the Pluto-Nodal Axis transits that they are going through right now. This is the Pluto in Leo generation on overdrive. Paulson and Cox both have Mars out-of-bounds and Sun in conjunction (Cox) or opposition (Paulson) to Neptune. It's amazing they manage to stay in their saddles.

Henry Paulson, Secretary of Treasury
b. Mar. 28, 1946 Palm Beach, Florida

Sun 8 Aries; Moon Capricorn or Aquarius; NN 25 Gemini

t. Pluto conjunct n. South Node


Ben Bernanke, Federal Reserve Board Chairman
b. Dec. 13, 1953 Augusta, GA

Sun 22 Sagittarius; Moon Pisces or Aries; NN 25 Capricorn

t. SN 18 Leo conjunct n. Pluto 25 Leo
p. Sun 18 Aquarius & prog Venus 19 Aquarius conjunct t. NN 18 Aquarius-Chiron 17 Aquarius-Neputne 22 Aquarius

No out-of-bounds Mars but has Saturn unaspected in Scorpio. He's meant to do this, you can just tell.

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

Sun 24 Libra; NN 20 Aquarius; Moon Virgo or Libra

Has natal Grand Square of Pluto 23 Leo conjunct South Node 20 Leo square Jupiter Taurus opposing Venus 24 Scorpio.

Right now he's having a Nodal Return and t. Neptune-Chiron is opposing natal Pluto right over this.

Mars is out-of-bounds and conjunct Chiron in Capricorn. Apparently he went to a recital the day that Bear Stearns tanked and then went on vacation the next week (Sun conjunct Neptune-Saturn).

Bruce E. Ivins, Anthrax Researcher

Last year the Government plagued us with the TB Man. Remember that weird and unbelievable story about the guy who was diagnosed with untreatable TB and then decided to go ahead with his international flight in order to expose everyone he came in contact with? Then it turns out his Father in Law to be was a TB Specialist with the CDC. That was weird. Now we have the weird stories of the Anthrax guys. The first guy who was under suspicion was finally found innocent in March (after 7 years) and immediately after that the Feds turned to another guy (after 7 years). This guy was Bruce E. Ivins. This is so strange. We're being Terrorized by people in our own government who know how to not get caught. The first guy, Steven Hatfill, was a Scorpio. The second guy, Bruce E. Ivins, was a Taurus. Their Suns oppose each other to the degree. That doesn't really mean anything except to the Sabian Symbol people. Scorpio is just the strangest Sign. I don't get it.

Vindicated Scorpio Government Anthrax Guy Steven Hatfill
b. Oct. 24, 1953 St. Louis Mo

Sun 2 Scorpio; Moon Taurus or Gemini; NN 29 Capricorn

Not going to say much about this guy. He won Millions in a Lawsuit, cha ching, that' s so Scorpio. He has a conjunction of Sun-Saturn-Neptune (Scorpio, Scorpio, Libra) which squares his Nodal Axis. Seems like a real blame thing going on with his life path. Either way, I can't stand seeing innocent people getting blamed.

Newly Accused Anthrax Guy Bruce E. Ivins
b. Apr. 22, 1946 Lebanon, Ohio

Sun 2 Taurus; Moon Capricorn; NN 15 Gemini

For one, I can't convict this guy the way his loopy therapist did, just by looking at his chart. But, Wow, take a look at that chart. This is why I can't think about doing professional readings. What if? oh no, it couldn't be...

Dude had Sun in Taurus, Moon in Capricorn. Okay, okay, let's get it out of the way...

If you knew Hitler
Like I knew Hitler...
da da dah da da da,
dah dah dah dah

Can't remember the words, these songs weren't allowed in my house growing up. I assume everyone knows this, but if not: Hitler, the most famous psychopath on earth was a Taurus Sun with Capricorn Moon. So are 1 out of every 144 people (approximately) in the whole entire world. Those people have to live under this astrological shadow. We have to remember that they barbeque on the week-end, they don't cut in line at Wal-Mart, they tell their kids to shut the arf up in public. Capricorn Moon people are ambitious but also thin skinned when it comes to public humiliation. You can really wreck one pretty easily by following him around in your white van with the radar scanner on top. They're very perceptive and will notice you and they have a deep painful understanding that they're not as loveable as everyone else. Capricorn Moons just never quite get the theme song from Cops out of their heads...

But then you look at this Dude's chart and your eyes see ring tones. This guy's got the chart of a school shooter. Sun square Mars at 30 Cancer and Pluto at 10 Leo. Then you calm yourself down. Breathe deeply. How many people were born within a week of this guy and have this same aspect and become Government Researchers who work in Defense to protect our Country against BioWeaponry? This guy's IQ was obviously through the roof and he had found a perfect constructive way to focus those aspects in his daily life. Gun imagery would come to him automatically, probably a trait that was beat into him from his Capricorn Moonian Mother, we don't know.

Then you see that this guy is born with a Uranus-NN conjunction in Gemini that trines Neptune. He works with innovations and poisons so he really is looped into the greater good? Is that what it means? He focused the energy perfectly for his chart.

Uranus here is a little too potent for my tastes because it is a singleton in Mutable and Air. Scientists need a lot of air in their charts due to the mental nature of their job. When under stress this guy's one outer planet link to Air could get really weird on him causing all kinds of Uranian shocks and unexpected twists and turns. Kind of crazy that the Saturn-Pluto opposition of 2001-2 stationed on his Uranus-Nodal Axis. Kind of like throwing a bomb on one's life path. Gemini would certainly like to send a bomb through the U.S. Mail system. And there's that funky trine in Ivins birthchart from Neptune in Libra which likes to deal with poisons. It can also describes what we actually know about his job. He was an expert in a field at the time that needed his knowledge.

Ivins' Mercury was in Aries so he wasn't one to mince words. Mercury opposes Neptune so, maybe he wasn't clear in all of his communications. Maybe he wasn't always real honest. But he was probably very nice. He would obviously be good at covering his tracks. Funny how his words to a therapist were what drove him to kill himself. Victimized by an Empath. Holy cow.

Here's a Colleague's description of Ivins:

http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/news/display.htm?storyID=78365

Here's his Loyal Social Worker's:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0801081anthrax2.html

God, I wonder if she'll be on Larry King tonight promoting herself. What do you want to bet she's big and blond and has phony fingernails? Her handwriting looks quite diagnosable to me, but in a Saggy kind of way.

The progressions in Ivins' chart show his psychological decline. His Progressed Sun recently changed signs into Cancer (at 2 degrees). This is the Astrological Wheel's initiation into the wonderful world of feelings, probably best to go through early in life.

Transiting Pluto is opposing the prog. Sun showing an opposition from Powerful figures. The Feds were on his ass. He got caught.

Ivins' progressed Venus is also very stressed. She has been passing over his natal Mars and was within one degree conjunction of hitting his natal Pluto. As I already said this is squaring his natal Sun. I think I've also said that I keep finding Sun-Venus progression combinations that come up a lot in Suicides. I don't know why. Either way, a lot of planets in his chart disposit back to Venus and Venus on Pluto is extreme. And it would have tripped off his natal square between Sun and Mars-Pluto.

Jupiter may have been transiting over his Moon, amplifying the dire nature of his situation. Jupiter is supposed to be lucky. But in Ivins' chart it is squaring his natal Jupiter-Chiron conjunction in Libra. His reactions to everything would have been very intense. I tend to think that the Moon-Chiron square shows that he may have been blamed for something he didn't do just because he has the chart and weird qualities of a school shooter. Certainly, it made him a victim of his own therapist. It does sort of give a scapegoat flavor to what's going on here, but maybe he was only scapegoated by his therapist who was jealous and confused by his bigger brain. Now that he's dead at least she can reinstate her Psychology Today subscription. But, really, who the Hell is going to rent this woman out to talk about how they don't get along with anybody? When you've got to kill yourself in order to not feel humiliated that you lost in your therapy session, then you know there's time for reform in that profession. Maybe she'll be able to sue somebody as well and retire on a beach in Tahiti with the wrongly accused Scorpio guy.

What I want to know is why does it take 7 years to locate these guys? 7 years. Uranus changes signs. Saturn squares itself. Progressed Moon squares itself.

Hmm, if I knew how to do Horary I would ask if Ivins was the guy.

That would be just so amazing if he really poisoned Law makers and Media people and postal workers by sending poison through the mail. That's so Gemini-Uranus trine Neptune.

If this guy were going to kill himself, wouldn't he have used Anthrax? Well, maybe it's too painful. Maybe the vaccine he created really worked and he knew they'd revive him.

Okay, I'm done. I can't accuse the guy, but I wouldn't want to have to read his chart for him either.

Why Is Carl Icahn Such a B?

This is a guy I don't get. Carl Icahn. He makes Zillions of Dollars by wrecking companies. If he were to chose to take out evil Companies that harm people I would think he was a hero. But he doesn't. He picks Companies he can make money off of. Essentially, he looks for a weakness in the Corporate World and then picks it to shreds. So, essentially he's a Buzzard and a Bottom Fisher. He's a wrecking ball for businesses kind of in the same manner that Osama bin Laden is.

Now Icahn's going after Yahoo. He's bought a bunch of shares and tried to intimidate Yahoo into selling to Microsoft. On Monday he's settled for a membership on Yahoo's Board of Directors. According to the show I heard on NPR last night, when Icahn comes on the Board of your Company he's there to wreck the company. He will get Microsoft to buy Yahoo and to destroy it. He calls himself an Activist. But he's no Robin Hood Activist. He's just a Greedy Mother Fucker who's showing off "because he can".

Carl Icahn
b. Feb. 16, 1936 Rockaway Beach, NY

Sun 27 Aquarius; Moon Scorpio or Sagittarius; NN 11 Capricorn

Icahn's Sun is in Aquarius which can be a very emotionally detached sign. Aquarius sees things from a distance. If Icahn's Sun is in Sagittarius one can see someone who's sights are set very far into the distance. Also someone who is very independent and believes very strongly in his own opinions. If Icahn's Moon is in Scorpio then there's a deep emotional motivation that he's working through. Scorpio would make him more of a Strategist, lone wolf type of character. It's pretty interesting how the Capricorn North Node seems to funnel these energies into the Corporate World. Capricorn rules God and the Devil. Capricorn rules the Corporate World. Capricorn rules Ambition. Capricorn can push a person to be successful so that even a person with no real skills can become a great success. I suppose as an ex philosophy major in college and chess player, Icahn sees himself as being a constructive disturbance, sort of a Psychic Demolition Derby Queen. Only thing is he's not working on the spiritual realm. He's simply been given the gifts to know how to manipulate things at that level. (jerk)

Icahn's Sun is unaspected by Ptolomaic Aspect. So his Ego is big. I'm sure he keeps trying to reassure himself that he means well because most Aquarius Suns do. Deep down he probably wonders why he doesn't give a shit and is probably insecure about it, but mostly he probably just doesn't give a shit. (For years my Uncle was completely broken up over the money he lost on TWA).

Icahn was born during heavy outer planet activity. As I said before his Sun is doing its own thing out in Aquarius. But his inner planets are busy hooking up the outer planets who in turn are hooking up with each other. He'd be good at Demo because he'd know exactly where to reach in and pull the plug, like a set of dominoes. For one, the Inners are in Outer Planetary Signs. For Two, they are in aspect to Outer Planets themselves. Mars in Pisces opposes Neptune and squares Jupiter. Mercury in Aquarius and Venus in Capricorn both oppose Pluto.

Icahn was born during an Saturn-Neptune opposition between Pisces (Saturn) and Virgo (Virgo) which shows that he understands the martyr complex. He was born into the Depression and he's very aware of that. Weird way of showing it that's for sure. It seems that every time Uranus trips off this opposition he pulls some new extra obnoxious stunts. In 1968 he started his own Corporate Raider business (Uranus in Virgo). in 1985 he launched his famous hostile takeover of TWA (Uranus in Sagittarius). Now with Uranus in Pisces, 2008, he's taking over Yahoo.

Icahn also has a wide square between Uranus in Taurus and Pluto in Cancer that expands out into a t-square with Mercury in Aquarius. And he has another big t-square with apex Jupiter in Sagittarius squaring Mars in Pisces opposing Neptune in Virgo. That explains how he attaches such a Circus to everything he does. Also explains his aggressive manipulative strategies. Mars and Jupiter together explains his interest in thoroughbred horses.

So the Money thing. Why's he so good at it? Without looking at his full chart I can't say. For one, he's got Jupiter in its own lucky happy go lucky sign of Sagittarius. And then, just from looking at his planets it seems that he's just got a sense of how the World works on a very big level and a hunter's desire to kill at that level. The Inner Planets are in the Outer most signs and the Outer Planets are in heavy aspects with each other.

The biggee, Pluto, in Icahn's chart aspects every planet except Neptune. So power and financial investments, other people's money, and working behind the scenes is a big part of his life. Pluto opposes the two planets that rule the Markets, Mercury and Venus, so power plays in the Markets are automatic for him. Icahn has Pluto squares Uranus, so he likes to rebel, stir things up, move the furniture around, turn CEO's into his pawns.

I began to wonder about the Centaurs in his chart. I do remember that they often show up in the charts of rapists. Rapist, Corporate Raider, what's the difference? As I said before this is no Robin Hood, but he does have a following. Turns out Nessus is the big Astro rapist indicator so that's a no-go.

But, the interpretations for Pholus are actually very interesting with relation to Icahn's chart. Eric Francis assigns the phrase "Small cause, big effect." Transits of Pholus are very prominent in key times in Icahn's career.

Natally Pholus is conjunct Icahn's North Node in Capricorn (within a degree). It was conjunct his natal Sun in 1968 when he started Corporate Raiding. In 1985 (TWA takeover) it was conjunct Icahn's natal Uranus along with prog. Mars. Right now it is in Sagittarius and could be conjunct his Moon (so don't know about that one).

Here's Astrodienst's description of Pholus. Pretty interesting description compared with Icahn's personality. Remember that Icahn has a Saturn-Neptune opposition in his chart that seems to activate in the financial when touched by t.Uranus. Pholus is to Saturn-Neptune what Chiron is to Saturn-Uranus:

The outer extremes of Pholus' path cross the orbits of both Saturn and Neptune. Just as Chiron is considered an astrological key to Saturn and Uranus, so Pholus is a key to Neptune. His average distance from the Sun is a little greater than that of Uranus, a complete revolution takes 92 years. In myth, Pholus guards the centaurs' vines, the wine from these being the actual cause for the battle between Hercules and the Centaurs. Like Chiron, Pholus becomes embroiled in the battle by chance, and dies due to a tragic coincidence - while curiously inspecting one of Hercules' poisoned arrows, he is mortally wounded.

According to first astrological observations, Pholus gives unusual ability in a particular area, or unexpected results, due to a gift for experiment. Pholus' transits over the main axes of a chart, often mark radical and unexpected change, hinted at by his sudden and unexpected death in the myth.

The Wikipedia article is interesting as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pholus_(astrology).

I don't have time to look at Jerry Yang's chart. I do remember that he's somewhere close to going through his Neptune square which is a drag. But, hehehe, Icahn's about to have t. Neptune pass on to his Sun. That's gonna be like trying to do business while an unbelievably beautiful woman wiggling her veils in front of his face. Wish I could be a fly on the wall in that room.

According to Wikipedia, Icahn's opposing Barack Obama. Warren Buffett is supporting Obama. I wonder what kind of a relationship those two have, Icahn and Buffett, that is.

Isaac Cline and the Galveston Hurricane, Sept. 8, 1900

We're having another Heat Wave here in California this week. Half the State is on fire and it's only June. Usually the really bad fire season starts in the Fall. I think we're literally running out of Fire Men because they're so exhausted.

So, I've picked up another book in the Library bookstore (which I haven't read yet, just can't resist looking at the astrology). It's called Isaac's Storm by Erik Larson. Larson is writing post Hurricane Katrina and has found a great angle from which to tell the story of this parallel but even more devastating Hurricane story. It's about the chief meteorologist, Isaac Cline, who kept denying that Galveston was due for a huge Hurricane. Apparently Cline had a major turning point moment on Sept. 8, 1900 when the ocean and the winds blew his pregnant wife away and devastated his town. FEMA trailors didn't even exist in those days. I read somewhere that they threatened to shoot any man who wouldn't help bury the rotting bodies and so the men all got stinking drunk in order to tolerate the carnage.

I had to look at Cline's chart. I mean, we all do stupid things but this guy got caught and on a big level. The book says that it is a story of great human arrogance being wiped out by the great forces of Nature. Yeah, whatever. In the end, the storm still would have hit. It's just a little disconcerting because people were expecting the storm, except the Weatherman.

Isaac Cline - hope I have correct birth date, found only one source and Wikipedia disagrees with the year
b. Oct. 13, 1861 Monroe Country, Tennessee (I used Nashville for town).

Sun 21 Libra; Moon Aquarius or Pisces; NN 9 Capricorn

I'm tending to associate Chiron with these kinds of intense moments where a person really has to question himself. Am tired of using the words "wounding" and "healer" for Chiron, but they certainly would apply here. Cline's Chiron is in Aquarius trining his Libra Sun so it is strongly aspected in his chart and works in shocking, inconsistent ways. Chiron may also be conjunct Cline's Moon in Aquarius but without a birth time, who knows? Either way, I'd expect the guy to be very intelligent and cerebral with the Air emphasis. If he had a Pisces Moon, then that's another story, he should have just become a poet. His Sun is also trining Uranus in Gemini. With all this air influence I can see how he would enjoy watching the clouds and the lightning. I might even expect him to be pretty intuitive as a forecaster.

So, what went wrong?

You always want Neptune to be strong too in a forecaster's chart, but in positive aspect. In Cline's chart Neptune is on the last degree of Pisces in Retrograde. This means that it is placed in its own sign and is also on the Aries Point. He came before the public as, well, the guy who didn't know. Well, Neptunian issues are really complicated that way... And this is the spot where the Astrological Wheel both ends and begins.

So, what went wrong?

The Outer Planets are figured very strongly with each other in Cline's chart showing perhaps that his life was to be connected with major events of his generation. Maybe it's unfortunate that Neptune isn't included, bound into the circuitry with these planets. Cline had a natal conjunction of Jupiter 17 Virgo conjunct Saturn 18 Virgo. This is a social aspect and shows that he may have been good with adminrataive duties and policies. The Jupiter-Saturn conjunction trines Pluto at 10 Taurus and squares Uranus at 17 Gemini Rx. I read that as just meaning that he was part of a generation that could really change the world. People can learn from your mistakes after all...

Here's what went wrong.... (my opinion, of course, take it for what it's worth)

The interesting influence to me is Cline's Progressed Mercury. Cline's natal Mercury was in Scorpio at 14 degrees. It was opposing Pluto which emphasizes the Plutonian side. His thinking was very sharp and shrewd and based on gut instinct generally. Too much Confidence in one's thinking can be a problem with this placement. He is said to have come across as a bit of a snob.

But Cline's Mercury was even more Plutonian due to the fact that his Secondary Progressed Mercury never left Scorpio. It went Rx just before entering Sagittarius. And, if I've calculated correctly, it was conjunct its natal position within a degree when the storm hit. That would indicate a turning point in the old cognition center of the horoscope (my opinion). This indicates that he was due for a change in his thinking. But, man o man, this was punishment. Pluto doesn't make it easy.

This is a Plutonian Mercury more than any Plutonian Mercury seen before on Earth. It seems to be a major trigger for why he would have to experience such a Crisis. Cline experienced the event on more layers than anyone else around him. He was the expert who was supposed to know more than anyone and protect them and he completely failed. He lost everything including his wife. His children I guess were saved. He lost his house and possessions. He lost his credibility but one wonders what happened on his insides. When they say that Scorpio is a deep sign, they aren't kidding. Other people don't have to exist on these levels all at once. (I seem to remember that the guy who got fired for the Katrina fiasco was a Scorpio Sun, don't remember his name)

The Astrology for the Day of the Galveston Hurricane was pretty nasty. Just as the Storm hit the town around 9 pm there was a Full Moon: Sun in Virgo opposite Moon in Pisces. These two were within wide orb of a square to the Nodes (Sagittarius North Node conjunct Uranus and Jupiter). They were also involved in a wide Grand Square to Uranus in Sagittarius and Pluto 18 Gemini.

A t-square between Sun and Moon squared by apex Pluto seems to bring big Crises. But, Pluto was close to the South Node and Uranus and Jupiter were conjunct the Sagittarius North Node. This could be expected to be huge. Hurricanes seem to follow astrology more clearly than earthquakes.

At 9 pm, Aries was Rising. Ruler Mars was a singleton in Water in the Sign of Cancer and in the 4th House approaching the IC representing turbulence in the home, environment. Guess the strong Mars to Cancer aspects translates out into "One if by Land; Armaggedon if by Sea?" No planets were Retrograde this day, Nature was just coming at em full force. Interesting how most of the planets were in Mutable Signs. There was absolutely nothing in place astrowise to put the breaks on at that point.

Pluto as I already said was squaring the Sun and Moon (event chart). It was placed in the 2d House (does that seem common in these devastating natural disasters) of the 9 pm chart and ruled the 8th House of Death and Destruction and really really big Insurance company crises. This square was layered right over Cline's chart. Pluto was conjunct his natal Uranus and the Sun & Mercury were conjunct his natal Jupiter-Saturn (reputation???) in Virgo.

(mmm, do we have a transit of these planets coming up?)

There were a couple of other big Progressions for Cline that might indicate that he was somehow due for a big change in his life as p.Sun and p.Mars were on the verge of changing signs. His Progressed Sun was at 30 Scorpio exactly conjunct his natal Venus. I know that Scorpio rules Death and Venus rules the Wife, but this is just a little too creepy for me because his pregnant wife didn't survive. I certainly never would allow that into a forecast myself. Cline's progressed Mars was also at 30 Libra about to move into Scorpio. I'd have to read the book to know how that turned out for him. Who can read all these books? This one looks extra interesting I have to admit. I'm very curious about what happens when prog. Mars moves over the Libra-Scorpio cusp. Oh wow, I've just flipped to page 267. Turns out they struck oil in Texas on Jan 10, 1901, just 4 months after this storm. (Beaumont, Texas).

This is what it says on the inside book jacket, which sounds very similar to the conditions today:

That August, a strange, prolonged heat wave gripped the nation and killed scores of people in New York and Chicago. Odd things seemed to happen everywhere: A plague of crickets engulfed Waco. The Bering Glacier began to shrink. Rain fell on Galveston with greater intensity than anyone could remember. Far away, in Africa, immense thunderstorms blossomed over the city of Dakar, and great currents of wind converged. A wave of atmospheric turbulence slipped from the coast of western Africa. Most such waves faded quickly. This one did not.

I.M.Pei / Architect of the Adams Mark/Sheraton

I have ariven in the land of Sunshine on Your Shoulder and Rocky Mountain Highs and Golden Boy Rednecks and boy some of them are looking good but I'm on my Venus-Pluto line and am going to drewl no matter what. Am going to go to 2 Days full of Non-stop Astroblab. Even I burn out after one day so we'll have to see how it goes. The problem right now is that it's frustrating deciding who not to go see there are so many great names and great subjects. I just checked in on Eric Francis' blog and he's doing a really awesome, thoughtful job of covering the event. Check it out: http://planetwaves.net/pagetwo/.

The UAC Conference is being held in a Hotel that was designed by the great Chinese American Modernist Architect I.M. Pei.

I.M. Pei
b. Apr. 26, 1917 Guangzhou, China

Sun 6 Taurus; Moon in Gemini or Cancer; NN 14 Capricorn

I've read that the Sheraton has bought the Hotel and is remodeling it. Only hope that they are respecting the Architect's original idea as Remodels often bastardize originals rather than playing off of the ideas. At any rate, Pei had a natal conjunction of Sun to Venus at 6 Taurus and the Sun and Venus are now also in Taurus although later on in the sign, conjunct his natal Mercury. Perhaps he's hanging out in the Air Ducts trying to understand how 1,000+ Astrologers respond to the Spaces he created.

Pei's chart is a bowl shape bounded by Neptune in in Leo and Uranus in Aquarius so one can see the Outer Planet creativity at work, the need to venture off into the Outer Boundaries, looking for new realities. Well, Pei had lots of Taurus, Sun, Mercury, Venus & Jupiter, so he did have his grounded earthly side that just wanted to create comfortable surroundings. (I haven't even seen the building yet but I just drank a German beer so I can imagine it in my mind -- and from off the Internet).

The current transits are hitting the outer edges of Pei's chart. Mars is conjunct his Neptune and the Neptune-NN-Chiron conjunction is right on top of his Uranus. Better not screw up that remodel, Mr. Sheraton/Hilton. Corporate Nouveau Riche isn't the way to go here. Experiment, baby, experiment. And fix those Air Ducts, they're probably full of Asbestos.

E. (Edward) Lorenz, Father of the Butterfly Effect

Edward Lorenz was the Mathematician/Meteorologist known as the Father of the Chaos theory and the Discoverer of the Butterfly effect theory. He recently passed away on April 16, 2008 at the age of 90.

He is of particular interest to me as he worked with the ideas of Prediction. He said that the Weather can't be predicted more than about 3 weeks in advance. Having no scientific leanings I can't pretend to understand his theories. But, I think I now understand why people become so much more famous after their deaths. It's because only Obituary Writers can finally reduce a person's life's work down into a readable, understandable summary so the more humbly endowed can try to understand.

From the San Jose Mercury News' obituary: "Edward N. Lorenz, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology meteorologist whose efforts to use computers to increase the precision of weather forecasts inadvertently led to the discovery of chaos theory and demonstrated that precise long-range forecasts are impossible, died of cancer Wednesday at his home in Cambridge, Mass."

Lorenz's chart is very similar to the Cyclone which just hit Burma, at least the Uranus & Neptune parts of it so I suppose those planets might really have a strong influence on Weather. Obviously they are strong rulers for chaos, prediction techniques and progressive, abstract thinking.

Edward N. Lorenz
b. May 23, 1917 West Harford, Connecticut

Sun 2 Gemini; Moon Gemini or Cancer; NN 12 Capricorn

Although he didn't have stelliums in Aquarius or Pisces like I expected to find (Uranus in Aquarius, Chiron in Pisces), Lorenz' chart brings the Uranus-Neptune influence straight into focus. His chart is a bowl shape bounded by those two planets, Uranus very strong in its own sign of Aquarius is the boundary planet on one side and Neptune in Leo is on the other. They aren't in opposition to each other. Neptune is conjunct Saturn as well over the Cancer-Leo cusp so there is a strong outer planet boundary on this Bowl Shape.

Most of Lorenz's planets are clumped between Mars in Taurus and Neptune in Leo with Uranus hanging outside of the configuration sort of acting as a funnel for the energy. Makes sense for a pioneer in the maths and sciences and innovation.

According to Rex Bills, Atmospheric conditions are ruled by (H3). Interesting that Lorenz' Sun is in the sign that rules the 3d house. Gemini is an Air Sign. Lorenz made a "mathematical model of the way air moves around in the atmosphere." Also interesting, Lorenz was born with Gemini's ruler, Mercury in Rx at 22 Taurus. Mercury is conjunct Jupiter to the degree and is squaring Uranus. Mercury stationed direct out of Retrograde when Lorenz would have been around 5 or 6 years old. This held it in the conjunction with Jupiter and Mars throughout his Childhood which must have had some sort of really strong effect on the development of his thinking processes. Mars and Jupiter and Uranus (which held with the square) are all planets which I associate with speed and performance, tools necessary for becoming a forecastor. Taurus is sometimes considered to slow the communications processes down but it also may have been responsible for his early interest in the Natural world.

In 1960 when Lorenz figured out his Butterfly effect, p. Mercury had moved into conjunction with p.Sun and Pluto in Cancer. These ideas became what is known as the Butterfly effect where even small actions such as the flap of a Seagull's wing can have an effect on someting completely different on the other side of the earth. He eventually presented a paper in 1972 called "Predictability: Does the Flap of a Butterfly's Wings in Brazil Set Off a Tornado in Texas?" (Bills give rulership of Butterflies to Mercury, Gemini (Neptune)) There are different stories about who actually came up with the naming of the Butterfly effect.

During this time, the progressed Sun was passing over Lorenz's natal South Node-Pluto conjunction (which also maybe includes Moon in Cancer). Certainly he was meeting with his destiny at a very deep, profound level of existence. Emotionally, I wonder what state he was in though.

Also interesting, Lorenz's progressed Venus was exactly conjunct his natal Neptune in Leo and was about to pass out into the empty half of his chart. I think this is a great astrological metaphor for understanding the nature of chaos and unpredicability that would later be known as "the Butterfly effect." Both Neptune and Venus understand the importance of each small thing and the interrelatedness of all things.

Lorenz found that predications can't be made through linear thinking (like astrology). He initially created a model with 12 variables (like astrology, just a coincidence, I'm going overboard here) and eventually reduced them down to 3 variables.

Lorenz first developed a simple nonlinear model of the atmosphere that considered only 12 variables and tuned it to display nonperiodic behaviour. He then showed that the linear method did not yield perfect predictions of this behaviour and since perfect predictions could be made by forecasting with the exact equations, he had demonstrated that the linear method could be beaten. (from www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries...)

According to one obituary, Lorenz's office was a chaotic mess.
(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1895916/Professor-Edward-Lorenz.html

Steve Jobs' Pancreas

Just read an article in the latest Fortune or Forbes about Steve Jobs. Apparently Jobs pulled out of the Interview at some point and so the editors, needing to fill up space and being vengeful, researched a bunch of stories about Steve Jobs' problem personality and published those instead. The writers pull you in at first by discussing his weird bout with Cancer and then continue to dig in to the guy.

I remembered the Cancer story when it came up and wondered how Steve Jobs had managed to survive Pancreatic Cancer. The type of Cancer he had apparently is a very rare form which is highly treatable. According to the article Jobs let 9 months lapse between diagnosis and surgery in order to treat the disease through diet and other methods. That was 4 years ago so I suppose the treatment worked.

Had to look at his chart. Obviously Steve Jobs has remarkably good intuition so he'd know better than anyone which surgery date to pick for himself. And the astrology is really amazing. For one, the surgery took place right around a Full Moon which is said to be a Bozo no-no in Astroland. Evidentally, in some cases this is not true. The Moon rules the Pancreas so maybe in this case it's a good idea so have the surgery during a time when it's influence is prominent. I seem to remember that there was something odd about the iPhone launch too, how it's not good to launch a phone onto the market during a Mercury Rx. (But Jobs has natal Mercury Rx conjunct ASC).

Jobs was diagnosed in October, 2003 during a routine exam. According to the article he tried to avoid surgery altogether in order to cure himself through diet and probably meditation. Jobs waited 9 months before having the surgery on July 31, 2004 in Palo Alto, CA. And so far so good. He's still alive and creating beautiful things and being attacked by Media Moguls.

Steve Jobs
b. Feb. 24, 1955 6:00am San Francisco, CA (astrotheme)

Sun 6 Pisces; ASC 16 Aquarius; Moon 30 Pisces; MC 4 Sagittarius NN 3 Capricorn Rx

The Pancreas is ruled by Cancer. Right on cue, Jobs' natal Moon is in his 1st house of Physical Body and Cancer rules his 6th House of Health. Jobs has a conjunction of Jupiter and Uranus in Cancer in his 6th House which opposes his Venus in Capricorn, H12. That would indicate some problem with digesting sugars. Jupiter would indicate Liver problems. Uranus likes to do things differently and Jobs' Pancreatic Cancer was the weird type. His diet cures probably had much more of a positive effect than anyone will admit.

The day of the surgery, July 31, 2004, t.Saturn was conjunct the natal 6th House Jupiter-Uranus. The Progressed Moon and t. Saturn sort of have a slightly similar orbit and were layered over Job's natal 6th-12th house opposition. Prog. Moon, prog. MC and t. Chiron were conjunct Jobs' natal Venus. They also rule the 6th & 12th Houses so this is a very strong aspect. There's definitely an emphasis on Health here. Jobs was going through a lot of public scrutiny at the time concerning finances as well, that's indicated in the opposition being layered over progressed MC-IC axis.

Also on this date, Neptune was conjunct his natal Ascendant. Neptune rules Jobs' natal Sun (Vitality) and Moon (pancreas, emotions) so it's really interesting to see here aspecting the House of his physical body. The transiting Moon was conjunct Neptune-n.ASC as well. This is right on Jobs' natal Mercury Rx. I'm going to assume that this brought his whole body into sync to act as one unit during the surgery. I don't know how an astrologer would feel about Moon conjunct the ASC as that might be considered to knock the fluids out of balance but here it seems to have worked well. As Neptune rules Anesthesia and he was probably really easy to knock out.

T. Uranus, ruler of Jobs' Chart, was conjunct his Sun to the degree. And Mercury was opposing this combination from the 7th House to the degree. Sun-Mercury-Uranus combination would be great for sharp, clear, focused, one on one relations coming from the Surgeon. This would be very important for a Neptunian because they are said to be difficult to diagnose and treat, all that fog and aura just blurs their edges. Adding to that, Jupiter was in the 7th, and Mars. The Doctors were feeling confident.

The amount of Mars transits is really interesting since Mars rules the knife. T. Mars was conjunct natal Pluto (opposing n. Mercury) which would have helped the Surgeon to pay attention to what he was doing. Pluto rules surgery.

Jobs' Pluto is in his 7th House. He's probably paranoid and mistrusting about most people, especially since Pluto is connected to a t-square opposite Mercury-ASC and squaring apex Saturn. The article says that he was almost thinking of forgoing the surgery altogether.

Anyway, the transiting Sun passed over Pluto about 16 days later which must have assured continued Vitality on both Jobs' part and the part of those around him. That would be a nice follow up transit as the Sun would have next passed over Mars and Jupiter (transits), all emphasizing strong vitality.

Then there are mutual Sun-Mars progressions: Prog. Sun 5 degrees approaching natal Mars at 30 Aries. Prog. Mars approaching square to natal Sun 6 Pisces. He went into this fighting like a warrior. Very important.