"Drink Me" or Stories About the SEC

Found a great article written by Marjorie Orr over at Astrology.com on all the Virgo stuff going on over at Goldman Sachs. I don't understand where she got some of the dates for Goldman Sachs but I didn't look very hard. What I did notice over at Wikipedia's entry for Goldman Sachs is that it was Founded 1869 right as the Neptune-Pluto conjunction in Taurus was forming. Interesting to match up what Robert Blaschke says about Mercury Rx in Taurus while keeping that in mind. My original intent was to figure out why Goldman Sachs is denying its wrong doing. And to do that I was looking for some kind of lyer aspect. And to to do that I was preparing myself to focus on Neptune-Mercury type stuff. Maybe adding Jupiter and Pluto in there for good measure. And so far this looks good in that regard. Perhaps this Mercury Rx in Taurus is going to dredge up all kinds of bad stuff that began around the time of that conjunction. I was just thinking that all kinds of good stuff started around the time of that conjunction, but the stuff I was thinking about was mostly in the Arts and Imagination. That's the other side of Venus besides the money thing.

Looked up the SEC's chart. Have to admit I wanted to find the reason for the porno, the getting caught with the pants down aspect, so to speak. I got distracted by the other stuff which is equally fascinating but not quite as funny. So, wait just a second and I'll go have a peak, so to speak.

Oh, haha, it's right there. Progressed chart shows that the SEC is just finishing up a Venus conjunction to natal Pluto in Cancer. And not progressed Mars is 3 degrees away and approaching. They're going through a sexy phase, what can I say?

The thing about being attracted to the kinky in the first place, and getting caught, is the natal Mars-Chiron conjunction in Gemini squaring the natal Saturn in Aquarius. The Internet is just laying the foundation for one big long game of Screwdriver for these boys and girls. Progressed Venus has moved into Leo now so perhaps they'll get free tickets to the opera and start whacking off in the boxes. Or maybe they'll do it at NASCAR races. Who the hell knows? This story would only appeal to a Gemini Riser, that's for sure. Thanks CNN.

Okey dokey, back to the Rules and Reg's for this organization.

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
procreated: June 6, 1934 Washington, DC

Sun 16 Gemini; Moon Aries; NN 14 Aquarius

Wow, what a weird chart for Securities Exchange Commission. This is basically the chart for Meth Freak. As I said, natal Mars conjunct Chiron in Gemini squaring Saturn. These guys don't know if they are making the laws or running from them.

Then there's the Venus. Venus rules money and banks. But these guys have a very artistic idea of what that means. Venus is in Taurus in the procreation chart. That's awesome. And it's conjunct Uranus which doesn't do rules and regs but it does do entrepreneurship and innovation. Venus-Uranus in Taurus is trining Neptune. Venus-Neptune trine likes to sing and dance and sell dope. HaHa this is great.

Pretty crazy. Saturn, which rules governance and regulations, is in Aquarius and disposits to Uranus, which doesn't do governance and regulations. Uranus went into Rx by Progression back around 1995 just when the market went on its long Spring Break, thank you Weird Alan.

Pretty crappy stuff started to pull the party apart. First of all, that Gemini Sun in the natal. That got hit by the Saturn-Pluto-Chiron opposition back in 2001-2. That's just when progressed Venus was exactly conjunct natal Pluto and inconjunct Saturn (prog.). That's when the porn market must have exploded, so to speak.

Gee-ad, this is how everyone knew that Elliot Spitzer was renting hookers. They were the ones who told him about them.

Is this really the story of American Finance or is it another Disney version of Alice down the Rabbit Hole? Is this why I've developed such a crush on Chairman Ben and Big Haired Tim?

Stay tuned --- I've gotta go watch a movie about Mussolini.

Blue Bell

I don't know if tomorrow's Opening Bell for the Stock Market really looks Blue. Monday's are Blue, that's why I gave this blog entry the title. Things just look volatile tomorrow and Monday. Still Scorpio Rising, still Pluto in H2. The planets that both symbolize "Red" are really flailing right now. Human Will is highlighted. Both Mars and Pluto will be unaspected by major aspects. Mars is in Scorpio in the 12th House. That shows private, secret dealings behind the scenes. Financial advisors from around the World are meeting this week-end to try to figure out a solution.

The Moon is going to add to the drama big time this week. Tomorrow's Bell has it at 4 Aries in the 5th House of Risk. On Tuesday it will be will be at 18 Aries 3 degrees within approach of a Full Moon. Aries Moons are volatile (but positive). Full Moons are volatile. The good thing is that the Moon will be keeping Pluto company in Fire. And say what you want about Moon and Mars working together, they like to act. And often they can act with great powers of intuition.

Monday's Moon will oppose the Mercury Rx though and Tuesday's Moon will be apex to a Yod with an inconjunction to Venus in Scorpio trine Saturn in Virgo. It will also be traveling very fast. There may be extreme levels of impatience which will be made worse by Mercury's rush to turn forward on Wednesday. Fortunately the Sun is in Diplomatic Libra.

Before Wednesday there will be an Opposition of the Moon to Mars but not in the opening Bell Charts. Wednesday's chart has Mercury in Direct motion in H11. It also has a Taurus Moon (Banking Sign) conjunct the Descendant and in a Mystic Rectangle with the approaching Saturn-Uranus opposition (I use orbs that might be a little too wide for some people. I figure if you can feel the aspect coming then you might as well use the astrology). This might indicate some sort of resolution to the tension although Mars and Pluto still seem to be mostly unaspected which is sort of nasty.

It's very interesting to see how this is aspecting Secretary Treasurer Henry Paulson's chart. He's got natal Sun-Mercury Retrograde between 4 and 8 degrees Aries. Tuesday's Moon at Opening Bell will be at 18 Aries. This will be on top of Paulson's t-square of Mars-Saturn in Cancer square Venus in Aries opposing Jupiter in Libra. In other words, the Full Moon is right on top of an opposition in his chart that includes Venus and Jupiter, the two biggest money planets. These are squaring Mars-Saturn in Cancer.

I don't know what that means other than to say that he's really in the thick of it. I've also noticed that by using Placidus Houses, Jupiter is not only ruling the 2d House of Money right now, and placed within that house, but it is parallel to the 2d and 8th House cusps. I hate to say this but this screams out "Buying Opportunity." As long as you remember to sell pretty soon down the road.

I also wonder about Neptune's involvement. I read a funny article in the newspaper (sorry can't remember name of reporter) who warned people not to look at their statements, not to open the envelope. Denial is a good thing, it is the only thing that will get us through this.

Dead Cat Bouncing - Stock Market, Friday October 10, 2008

Wall Street suffered its biggest losses ever this week. Lost around 1874 points and 18 percent of its total value. That's a loss of $2.4 trillion dollars lost in market value. (source: http://money.cnn.com/2008/10/10/news/economy/g7_statement/index.htm). I wonder how much in Capital Gains taxes that is.

The G-7 will meet over the Week-end in order to try to figure out how to try to stop the problems. Markets worldwide are suffering similar losses. I guess that's what it means when Jupiter moves into the 2d House of the Wall Street opening Bell chart. The problems went international as soon as it did. Not what I was hoping for. People are now realizing how the World is interconnected financially and are talking about the "Global Economy" rather than the "National Economy."

Today's Market showed a lot of volatility. My amounts may not be totally accurate. I wrote them down while watching a man on CNN point to a chart and while drinking a beer. According to my bad hand writing and inebriated state the Market started the day by immediately dropping almost 700 points; then immediately went up to 43.89 points above opening levels. By 1:54 it was down 595 points and was up above opening levels by 322 points. By Closing Bell at 4:00 it closed down a "mere" 128 points.

So this forced me to look at what the charts are doing through out the day.

Venus in Scorpio is conjunct the Ascendant at opening Bell for what seems like forever. Venus has been squaring the Nodal Axis with NN conjunct Chiron to the degree and Neptune and the IC. When the Market closes, Aquarius is Rising with this Nodal Stellium in conjunction and with Venus still squaring from H9.

The Saturn-Uranus opposition starts and ends the day angular. At Opening Bell Saturn is up in the 10th House opposing Uranus in the 4th House. Saturn is in its own house and with Aquarius on the IC cusp Uranus rules that house. At closing bell, Uranus is in the 1st House which it rules and opposing Saturn in the 7th house.

Today both Mars and Pluto started the day unaspected by major aspect to other planets. Pluto rules the Opening Bell Chart and is placed in the 2d House of Finance.

The CNN experts say that the volatility shows that the Market may have hit bottom. Buyers are buying some of the better known stocks. A 20 year old called in on the show and asked if this was a good time to get in on the market. I think I had heard on NPR a bit earlier that Citigroup and GE had posted a gain of 10 percent today but haven't checked.

This is what I pulled from CNN News. Numbers would need to be double checked for accuracy:

Opening Bell, 9:30 am: Market drops down to 697 points.

Venus in Scorpio conjunct Scorpio ASC squares Moon 24 Aquarius conjunct Neptune and Aquarius IC.
Mars in Scorpio unaspected in House 12. Pluto in Sagittarius unaspected in House 2.
Saturn - Uranus opposition crosses H10-H4 angles.

10:12 am: Market up 43.89 points

24 Scorpio Rising. Venus has passed up into H12 and is still in conjunction
Mars is still in H12 and making sextile aspect to Virgo MC.
Pluto is unaspected in H2

1:54 pm: Market down 595.13 points

12 Capricorn Rising. Jupiter in conjunction at 15 Capricorn (H1)
Pluto in H12 making sextile aspect to Moon in Aquarius (H2)
Mars 5 Scorpio conjunct MC 7 Scorpio and otherwise unaspected.

3:36 pm: Market up 322.18 points

12 Aquarius Rising conjunct Chiron-NN at 17 Aquarius.
1st House is loaded with Chiron-NN-Neptune-Moon in Aquarius and Uranus in Pisces
Mars has passed into H8 and is aspecting Ascendant
Uranus-Saturn opposition is angular from H1 to H7
Sun-Mercury Rx conjunction is in H8; squaring Jupiter and trining NN

4:00 pm: Market is down 128 points

21 Aquarius Rising conjunct Neptune 22 Aquarius-Moon 28 Aquarius. Venus squares from H9.
Mars (H8) & Pluto (H11) both with wide aspects to Moon.

Progressed U.S. Chart and Financial Crisis

I want to point out some aspects related to the Progressions in the United States Chart with regards to the last few weeks' Collapse of the U.S. Economy.

Before that, I'd like to point out that, along with a number of other transits, the Financial Crisis may somehow be related to the Saturn-Uranus opposition that is coming up. In earlier research I found that the U.S. has a natal Pluto Retrograde at 28 Capricorn. The year that prog. Pluto (1872-73) stationed Direct the U.S. entered a more than 20 year long Depression known as the Long Depression. This was preceded by a collapse of the Viennese Financial System which happened in May, 1873 and was indicated in the Chart for the day of the Collapse by an opposition of Saturn in Aquarius to Uranus in Leo. Saturn-Uranus oppositions don't seem to coincide with Financial Collapses but we now have two solid examples that when they do the effects are Global and very serious.

It is interesting that Pluto came out of Retrograde just as the U.S. dropped into the "Long Depression" in 1873. This depression was Worldwide and lasted more than 20 years. Even though the financial markets were messed up, production world-wide sped up. Perhaps the U.S. Leadership in this area could be attributed to Pluto's extended stay in Capricorn and sudden direct motion by progression? Say what you want about Saturn and Pluto working together, but they are workaholics and they do like to be productive.

In the Progressed Chart for the United States, the planets are so strongly aspected with regards to the financial crisis that I'm not using progressed ASC, MC and Moon right now. It would be great to look at them in order to understand how the U.S. is handling the Crisis but since there is no real consensus about accuracy of any of the U.S. charts I'll leave that to someone else.

It's interesting to notice how many planets are in moving Retrograde in the current progressed Chart. The U.S. has 2 natal Retrograde planets, Mercury and Pluto, and they are in opposition to each other in the chart. Both planets have come out of Retrograde since 1776 and Mercury has again progressed back into Retrograde.

Right now the progressed U.S. chart has 5 planets in Retrograde: Mercury 24 Aquarius Rx; Mars 19 Libra Rx; Jupiter 16 Cancer Rx; Saturn 4 Scorpio Rx; and Neptune 27 Virgo Rx.

The Progressed U.S. Sun is in early degrees of Pisces which shows that it is going through a transition phase. As with any of the signs this could show both positive and negative reactions to the new energy which it must adjust to as it emerges out of the Aquarian energy and into the Piscean energy. It is in the learning phase of this transition and can exhibit some of the pains associated with adapting to a new energy. The positive side of the new Pisces Progression is an increased sensitivity and compassion to suffering of those less fortunate. The negative side is a fatalistic, self-destructive streak that comes with such awareness. Hopefully, the U.S. won't begin to plant opium fields out in Utah and form huge crime syndicates. (Well, the Crime is already there it will just get worse and the jails will get even worse also.) These represent some cliche ways that Neptune deals with loss of psychic boundaries due to absorption of all the energies around its self. The U.S. Sun should eventually gain some increased Vitality from this progression as it is a Water Sign and will receive a trine contact in about years.

I'm using the Sibley Chart for the United States with Sagittarius Rising, (July 4, 1776 5:10pm Philadelphia, PA) but, as I said, I'm only showing the planetary progressions and not dealing with House placements.

First I'd like to mention how the transiting Mercury Retrograde is super strong with regards to contacts to making stressful contacts with both the U.S. natal chart and the U.S. Secondary Progressed Chart. It is making 3 passes over the United States' natal Saturn at 15 Libra. As Saturn is involved in a t-square formation opposing Chiron in Aries and squaring the U.S. Sun at 14 Cancer this is a major sore spot dealing with Vitality, Will, Fear, Government and Woundings. This could account for the extra anxiety and mental stress as Mercury and Saturn together are major rulers for Anxiety (from Rex Bills). Whether the U.S. has a Gemini or a Sagittarius Chart, Saturn still rules a financial house because Capricorn will be either on the 2d or 8th House cusps.

In addition to that stress one should notice that the Progressed U.S. Mars is now moving in Retrograde Motion at 19 Libra and so is within 4 degrees conjunction with the U.S. Saturn and subsequently is in contact with the natal t-square with Sun and Chiron. Mars will continue to move in Retrograde Motion closer to Saturn over many years. Mars and Saturn don't work well together. I'm not sure of the source of this imagery but I've heard of them described as "Driving With the Brakes On" aspect. Both want to act but Mars wants to act impulsively and Saturn wants to proceed cautiously and with a plan. In Libra one can only imagine how much vacillation this involves.

These aren't financial indicators necessarily except that progressed Venus, ruler of Banking, Money and Material Possessions is conjunct Chiron! This brings into the game the ruler of Money, Finances, Material Possessions, Banking. She is conjunct Chiron to the degree at 18 Aries and disposits to Mars. She happens to be in conjunction with the "Healer" who can't heal his own wound. Sounds a bit like the U.S. and World Governments at this point.

There's one more progressed Planet in strong conjunction with this natal U.S. t-square. Progressed Retrograde Jupiter is also Retrograde and so in a long conjunction with the U.S. Sun at 16 Cancer. Both Jupiter and Cancer are associated with consumption and the extended retrograde can show all the problems that uncontrollable consumption can cause.

So, all the planets that rule money are in a stress contact with the natal U.S. Chart through progression. They all seem to be pointing to the empty leg of the t-square. This is the missing element which the t-square needs in order to resolve its problems. This is the middle degrees of Capricorn. Interesting how Pluto is about to permanently enter Capricorn by transit while it is on the last degree by progression. It is experiencing both the Anticipation Anxiety of entering the sign and the Anticipation Anxiety of leaving the sign.

So, now I'll mention Pluto because his Progression is extremely important right now. Pluto rules Investments, Loans, Debt, Bankruptcy, Insurance. The United States was formed while Pluto was at the end of Capricorn at 28 degrees Rx. He opposes Mercury at 25 Cancer Rx. Commerce wouldn't happen without Mercury and his Communications. Right now this opposition is being hit by the progressed Nodal Axis at 27 Cancer/Capricorn. The South Node is within a degree conjunction of Pluto. Along with all the financial indicators mentioned above Pluto rules Crisis and Disaster on a Massive Scale, and together with the Nodes sort of acts like a Big Machete in the Sky.

Progressed Pluto must really be stressed out right now as he is perhaps tired of all things Capricorn and fearful of entering into Aquarius. Plus he has to face transiting Pluto retracing all those Capricorn steps. I haven't checked to see when the Pluto Return for the U.S. will be in order to compare when it with when Progressed Pluto finally moves into Aquarius. It would be interesting to see if these dates coincide. Interesting that productivity in the U.S. is at such a low point already. We are really experiencing a major lesson in dealing with materialism. One thing that Saturn and Pluto like to do when working together is to create loss. Hopefully there will be a transition to detachment, energy efficiency and innovation as Aquarius rules electricity, invention and circulatory systems. This could be the beginnings of a powerful new identity which will be embraced on a Global Scale. This won't happen for years so we have to be able to learn to handle the anxiety of this transitional time and use the energy for preparation and planning for the future.

Snowball in Hell and a Conspiracy Theory

My Mother used to always use the phrase "That'll be the day that there's a Snowball in Hell." I think that she may have just looked at the market this week and said plain old "Hell. Are those Snowballs?" The snow would have melted immediately, it's still hot in Hell, but I think there were little flurries down there.

So, Sun in Cancer that I am I just want to know: "Is it ok to stick my head out and look yet?" (Answer: Heads are still rolling).

The Capricorn Moon has opened the Stock Market for all 3 days this week as it rolled through the 2d House of the Opening Bell Chart. Capricorn is the sign that the Moon is least comfortable in. On Monday the Moon was conjunct the chart ruler of the Opening Bell chart, Pluto (H2). On Tuesday the Moon was conjunct Jupiter (2d House ruler and placed in 2d House) at Opening Bell. This morning it was in the 3d House squaring Mars at 3 Scorpio in the 12th House promising volatility. Both Venus and Mars are in Scorpio which disposits to Pluto. Venus is still conjunct the Ascendant and squaring the Nodal Axis-Chiron.

Ben Bernanke announced an Interest Rate cut in order to keep the Stock Market from tanking further. We got to see the photos of the Trader's faces making the obligatory screeching expressions on their faces and it was panicky all around. People don't care about Interest Rates anymore, we just want to keep what we have, or at least use it to buy crap on the Internet with, not to bail out crooked Bankers and Mortgage Brokers and Incompetent Presidents.

The Stock Market was still very volatile and looked like it was heading toward making more snowballs down in Hell. But, interestingly, at 1:00 pm (these inexplicable rises seem to always come right after 1:00) the Bankers and the Analysts and the President and Ben Bernanke and Warren Buffett obviously finished their lunch and started shopping. This is how the Rich get richer. And get this, the Moon was at 0 Aquarius and had just risen into the 1st House at 1pm. Pluto was conjunct the Ascendant within a degree at that point. And the Ascendant was Sagittarius and Jupiter was in the 1st House and all of a sudden All Was Good. Or at least the Market went back up into Green Numbers on the Yahoo Ticker. Green is such a refreshing number. As I said, I'm a Sun in Cancer and looking at the numbers right now is a lot like sticking my head out from the sand.

So, that's fascinating. What else was I thinking about? Oh yeah. A couple of things. A Conspiracy Theory and a Look at the U.S. Chart which is fictitious but I'm using the July 4, 1776 date anyway.

The Conspiracy Theory. I was wondering if part of this panic was staged. Leo is on the MC Cusp of Government right now and Neptune (Fantasy) and the North Node have been opposing it. The Nodal Axis is right over it with the North Node-Neptune and Chiron down at the bottom. Mars is in the 12th House right now in Scorpio. This is all pretty manipulative stuff.

I was already thinking that if Obama wins he'll probably go back to raising Capital Gains taxes on Stock purchases so the Republicans know that they've got to sell stuff before then.

The thing is this. Suzy Orman said on one day that the Stock Market lost 2 trillion dollars. That's a lot of Capital Gains taxes. Isn't that 15 percent automatically in the Government's pocket? Wow. The Bush Administration might end up leaving behind a much less significant debt to go down in the History books. I wouldn't put anything past those rats.

Since Suzy Orman said that the Market lost 2 Trillion Dollars it probably has lost another 2 Trillion Dollars. Somebody out there has that money and 15 percent of whatever gains is coming from it is going to Uncle Sam. I can't do the math, but I do know that's a lot more Capital Gains taxes. Now the Republicans can buckle up, shop till they drop, what is that newfangled alternative energy stuff anyway? and buy for the long term. They basically just borrowed the money from the Retirement funds of America and are now having repositioning the funds in this never ending volatile Bear Market. A Bear Market with a swing between 9,500 and 14,000 points. Wowee. Doesn't it seem like something a Cowboy would dream up?

Okay, that' far fetched. But, man, if you ever saw that movie about the 9/11 Conspiracy this sure does fit right in. Dick Cheney's last stand against the United States. He hasn't shot any lawyers in the head and just had to do something.

Here's my Second Thing to Wonder About. It mostly has to do with the U.S. Moon. The U.S. Moon is very important because it disposits to the Sun. It also ruled the 2d House of the Gemini Rising Chart which is the Banking Industry and it rules the 8th House of the Sibley Chart which is the Investment House. And it's placed in Aquarius which rules Resources of Community, Friendship, probably Democracy, Hopes, & Wishes.

Sorry, my internet connection is too slow. I'm ending for right now.

The Wrong Things Froze

I remember back in the Good Old Days while speculating about how to speculate on the upcoming Pluto in Capricorn transit's effect on the Stock Market I was thinking that Ice would be a great commodity. Don't know if due to Man's Invention or Nature's Intervention but things were sure to freeze back up. I remember telling somebody that anything that had to do with Freezing would be a great place to invest in and thought that this would be a Great Thing for Global Warming. I could only see it in terms of the environment.

Things are getting Frosty, that's for sure. But it was the Financial Markets that Froze. Namely the lending markets. Just listened to a great show on NPR about the Freeze. Saturn and Pluto working together like to express themselves in Business terms. I think they might be a little bit too "Human Centered" to be worried too awfully much about "Nature and Environment." They are actually nature's best defense because they represent Humankind Choking on its own spew. I should look up the astrology for the Mad Max movies. I know that Mel Gibson is a Capricorn.

Emotionally Saturn and Pluto pretty much work through repression and through terror. Just watch a couple of Alfred Hitchcock movies (I think he had a hard aspect between the two planets) in order to get an idea of Saturn and Pluto working together.

So according to the NPR Show, This American Life (http://www.kqed.org/radio/programs/index.jsp?pgmid=RD47#R810041200), the thing two weeks ago that set everything off was the fact that the Mortgage crisis spilled out into the real world when Lehman Brothers went bankrupt. Money Market Funds had made their money lending to Lehman Brothers and they suddenly didn't have an income and were paying 97 cents on the dollar. That's not supposed to happen except in very dire times because these funds are so conservative that they are so conservative. The Government stepped in and guaranteed the funds. But now I pretty much have the story behind the story of why Paulson got down on his knees and begged Nancy Pelosi to pass the pass the Bill. (Nancy Pelosi said she agreed on passing the Bill, the decision wasn't hers to make). But when one Aries gets down on his knees to beg another Aries, you really know something's up.

I'm working on some interesting projects but am having trouble with both Internet connections and Concentration so am bogging down.

Today's little project was to look at yesterday's Market according to the different charts of the New York Stock Exchange in New York, the Federal Reserve Bank in Richmond, Virginia, the U.S. Senate in Washington, DC and the House of Representatives in Washington, DC. It's a Bug's Eye view of the situation, sort of a Kaleidescope vision due to Ascendants and Locations. I'm not sure that I've found correct times for any of them. I've emailed the Feds and asked what time they open their doors but I also suggested that they ring a Bell and televise some Celebrities in order to pump up their image so I'm not sure I'll get a response. Right now they have bigger fish to fry anyway.

Here's what I've got so far. I'm trying to give minimal information. The Charts as is are very interesting just to watch who's got what conjunct the Ascendant at these various times and places. Remember that the progressed U.S. Mars is Retrograde somewhere in Libra. People are saying things like "Wall Street is Dead." Ben Bernanke said on Thursday that the U.S. won't have an Economy on Monday if the Bills isn't passed and the Funds aren't passed on.

Two planets are on the last degrees of signs and will move into new signs over the Week-end. The Scorpio Moon was Out-of-Bounds. It is passing through Sagittarius this week-end and will pass over Pluto and into Capricorn by Opening of business on Monday. Mars is on the last degree of Libra and will be in Scorpio on Monday.

Pluto is a singleton in Fire in H2 of most of the charts. It is ruler of most of the charts while Libra is still ruler of some. Either way, Venus is in the 1st House in all the charts. This is a really interesting time to understand how complicated a planet Venus is. The Politicians are in overdrive trying to cooperate with each other and resolve mistakes of the past with how they will destroy the future. And of course, Money, Money, Money. And nobody is saying that this Bail-Out is a completely good thing. And I sort of doubt anybody thinks it will be a complete answer.

Mars is now conjunct the Ascendant in many of the charts at opening of business. That shows our Aries buddies, Paulson and Pelosi. We're acting. Everyone seems to know that we're bluffing.

I'll try to take a look at Monday's Charts quickly as well as I seem to remember that NYSE's for that day was a bit scary.

New York Stock Exchange, Stock Market went up 300 points beginning of day and ended down more than a 100 points at Closing. Opening Bell Friday, Oct. 3, 2008 9:30 am New York, NY

Sun conjunct Mercury Rx in Libra. Moon in Scorpio. Pluto singleton in Fire, Moon out of bounds, Uranus moves into H4, Uranus apex of a Yod to MC and Mercury Rx (In Stock Exchange Chart only). Bowl Shape chart bounded by the Saturn in Virgo (H10) to Uranus in Pisces (H4) opposition.

ASC 11 Scorpio: conjunct Venus 12 Scorpio (H1), sextile Jupiter 14 Capricorn (H3); square Chiron Rx & NN Aquarius.

MC 19 Leo: sextile Mercury Rx (H11 on H12 cusp), square Venus (H1), oppose Neptune (H4), minor aspects to Mars (H12), Jupiter (H3), Uranus (H4)

Sun 11 Libra (H11): conjunct Mercury Rx H12 cusp; trine NN 17 Auqarius-Chrion 17 Aquarius-IC 19 Aquarius

Moon 30 Scorpio (H1) square Neptune (H4); minor aspects Mars (H12), Jupiter (H3), Pluto (H2)

Federal Reserve Bank, Board of Governors Oct. 3, 2008 Richmond, Virginia

Don't know what time they open so am looking up 3 different times:

8:00am
ASC 21 Libra conjunct Mercury Rx (H12), square Jupiter (H3), trine Neputne-NN-Chiron (H4); minor: Uranus (H5)
1st House: Mars 30 Libra, Venus 12 Scorpio

MC 24 Cancer: trine Moon 29 Scorpio (H2), square Mercury Rx-ASC; square Mars (H1), trine Uranus (H5), ??? Neptune (H4)

H2: 19 Scorpio cusp, Moon; H5: 27 Auqarius, Uranus in Pisces; H8 19 Taurus cusp, empty; H11 27 Leo, Saturn in Virgo

Sun 11 Libra (H12)
Moon 29 Scorpio (H2)

8:30 am

26 Libra Rising conjunct Mars 30 Libra (H1)
H1: Venus & Moon 29 Scorpio

1 Leo MC

Sun 11 Libra (H12)

Moon 29 Scorpio (H2)

9:00 am

3 Scorpio Rising conjunct Mars 30 Libra (H12)

11 Leo MC

Sun 11 Libra (H12)

Moon 29 Scorpio (H2)

U.S. Senate Opens?? Oct. 3, 2008 9 am Washington, DC
ASC 3 Scorpio conjunct Mars 30 Libra (H12); sextile Pluto (H2); minor aspects: Jupiter (H3), Saturn (H11)

MC 9 Leo: sextiles Sun (H12); squares Venus (H1)

Sun 11 Libra (H12)

Moon 29 Scorpio (H2)

House of Representatives Opening? Oct. 3, 2008 8:30 am Washington, DC

ASC 27 Libra conjunct Mars 30 Libra (H1); trine Neptune (H4); sextile Pluto (H3), minor aspects Moon (H2), Uranus (H5)
House 1: Mars 30 Libra, Venus 12 Scorpio

MC 1 Leo trine Moon (H2), square Mars (H1), minor: Saturn (H11), Pluto (H3)

Sun 11 Libra (H12)

Moon 29 Scorpio (H2)

H2 25 Scorpio Cusp, Moon in Scorpio; H8 25 Taurus cusp, empty; House 5 4 Pisces; H11 4 Virgo, Saturn.

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MONDAY'S Opening Charts The Sun will be conjunct Mercury Rx within a degree and will be squaring Jupiter to the degree. Jupiter rules the 2d House of most charts and is now in the 2d house in most charts. Good time to invest in mattresses because if anyone can get their money out that's where they're going to be sticking it. This Leo Midheaven sort of sucks because it disposits to the Sun and the Sun is conjunct the Mercury Rx and squaring the Jupiter-2d House stuff in most charts. Has Congress convened? Maybe they aren't even going to work on Monday. What do I know? I just watched a video on CNN where an Elephant was told to choose between voting for Obama or McCain and chose his trainer instead. That's what I'm watching on the News.

NYSE: 9:30am New York, NY

ASC 13 Scorpio conjunct Venus 16 Scorpio (H1)

MC 22 Leo, Saturn in H10

Sun 14 Libra (H11)
Moon 4 Capricorn, out-of-bounds at 26 degrees plus, conjunct Pluto and in the 2d house with Pluto and Jupiter.

Federal Reserve, Richmond, VA 8:00 am

ASC 23 Libra, Mars 2 Scoprio and Venus 16 Scorpio in H1

MC 27 Cancer

Sun 23 Libra (H11)

Moon 5 Capricorn (H3) conjunct Pluto

9:00 am

ASC 6 Scorpio conjunct Mars 2 Scorpio (H12)

MC 11 Leo

Sun 14 Libra (H12) conjunct Mercury Rx 15 Libra (H12)

Moon 5 Capricorn (H2) conjunct Pluto 29 Sagittarius

House of Representatives
Opening 8:30 am?? Washington DC

ASC 29 Libra conjunct Mars in Scorpio; H1: Mars and Venus

MC 4 Leo

Sun 14 Libra (H12)

Moon 5 Capricorn (H3) conjunct Pluto (H2)

U.S. Senate Opening 9:00 am??? Washington, DC

ASC 5 Scorpio conjunct Mars (H12) House 1: Venus 16 Scorpio

MC 12 Leo

Sun 14 Libra (H12)

Moon 5 Capricorn (H2)

Tomorrow's Bell-Out

The Stock Market has dropped below 10,000 points for the first time in 4 years today. Over the Week-end the European Markets started having problems so as of today the problem is officially Global. Maybe Sagittarius ruling the House 2 cusp of the Opening Bell Charts these days has a bit to do with the swing to the International Crowd. Also Jupiter is now officially in the 2d house chart and squaring the Sun/Mercury Rx. There are three planets in the 2d House of the Opening Bell Charts these days: Pluto at 29 Sagittarius, Moon in Capricorn and Jupiter in Capricorn. Today the Stock Market opened with Moon conjunct Pluto. Tomorrow the Moon-Jupiter conjunction squares the Sun-Mercury Rx conjunction from the 2d to 11th Houses so Resources are definitely still stressed. Venus in Scorpio is still conjunct the Ascendant and squaring the North Node-Chiron-Neptune Axis.

The Charts are still a bowl shape bounded by the Saturn-Uranus opposition in H10 (Saturn) and H4 Uranus. There's a feeling that things are under control but something's missing (Bob Marks' interpretation of Bowl Shape Charts).

Both Saturn & Uranus are strongly aspected in these houses by rulerships. Saturn naturally rules the 10th House. Uranus isn't comfortable in the 4th House, that's Earthquake Weather, but it's placement is extra strong there right now because it rules the Aquarius IC right now. I've actually heard this Financial Market described as "an Earthquake." It's also been described as an Abyss. October is also literally Earthquake Month in California.

What's interesting is that no one, absolutely no one feels that this is "just a correction" the way they usually do during a volatile swing. Guess this isn't a swing. I started wondering about this while listening to an NPR interview this morning. A financial expert (sorry, don't know name, but he was really great) said that people keep asking when will things go back to normal. I looked up normal in Rex Bills. "Norm" is ruled by (Jupiter). I would have thought Virgo but what do I know. Bills also says that "Correction" is ruled by (Jupiter) as well. I'm sure he wasn't talking about Financial Markets but just thought I'd mention it. People's attitiudes have definitely switched from the Jupiterian style to the Saturnian style.

At any rate, last week I read an interesting article on a study that was done on Bailouts. And it turns out that this Financial Crisis started in August, 2007. England went through one at the same time. England nationalized its banks and the U.S. Well, The U.S., being a Cancer, must internalize its angst before acting. The first part of a Banking Crisis is called the containment phase. I now am able to recognize when the experts talk now about "Containment." This is where one tries to stop the crisis from overflowing into other areas of the economy. The 2d part of the Bail-Out situation is the "Resolution" or "Restructuring" phase.

The Yahoo article is here: "History of Bailouts: What Kinds Work; And Why Ours Won't" by Henry Blodget.

The Link to the PDF File of the original IMF Working Paper "Systemic Banking Crises: A New Database" by Luc Laeven & Fabian Valencia is here:

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2008/wp08224.pdf

This is a study of 42 recent Bailouts which describes which ones work and which ones don't.

There's a pretty clear explanation of how Banking Crises happen and how they are fixed.

Interesting that peaks in banking crises across the World (mostly 3d World countries) correspond with major Astrological Outer Planet transits in Cardinal Signs. One group of Crises peaked in the early 80's, notably 1981 which corresponds with the Saturn-Pluto conjunction in Libra. Another one occurred in the early 90's with peaks in 1994-95 which corresponds to the Uranus-Neptune conjunction in Capricorn. The article separates Banking Crises into 3 different types. Sometimes a Crisis only has one type, sometimes it goes through a twin crisis. Sometimes a triplet crisis. The early 1990s had "Banking" and "Currency" Crises whereas the early 1980's had a "Sovereign Debt" crisis.

We ought to blame Venus since she rules Money, Currency, Banks but I'm not sure how we go about gathering evidence against her since her orb is so fast. She is in the middle of her 8 year cycle with the Sun as well as at the beginning/end of a larger cycle.

I, of course, immediately look to Pluto for the cause and effect stuff but probably that's not appropriate. I mean, make a crisis and Pluto will be there. Probably why people fear Scorpios. It's interesting that the article says that one of the ways to improve confidence is to provide Insurance which is a Plutonian keyword. Confidence tends to also be a Scorpionic trait. Interesting how money and confidence are so tightly interlinked. Business people have the best understanding of human nature. Pluto rules Scorpio which is the sign opposite Taurus which rules Money, Currency, Banks. Bills give rulership of Confidence to the Sun alone. Scorpios would probably agree with that. They are just determined which is probably the best a Water Sign can do.

An interesting rulership I ran across was the one for "Conscience". Bills gives rulership of this to: Sun and (Pluto). That's very interesting considering how Pluto rules Power. True Power can only come with a clear conscious. That's when one's got integrity. There's the flip side where absolute power corrupts absolutely. Pluto also rules Corruption along with (Neptune). The Scorpio's have a full plate, that's for sure.

Over the week end I picked up a used audiobook that was written in 1995 about how the world was going to Hell back then as well. Nobody will have read this far into this blog so I guess I don't have to go out to the car to check for the title. Either way, the writer mentioned the importance of Hope and Wishes and Dreams are in the Economy. This apparently is true. The real problem is that no one knows what to do with the problems that face us. These aren't qualities that I would expect during a Uranus-Neptune mutual reception. It seems that those two are avoiding the human race at this point. Perhaps mutual receptions work the same way that Grand Trines do (a la Noel Tyl's description) in that they insulate each other from interacting with the rest of the chart.

Ban Against Short Selling

Short Selling is where an Investor is anticipating a decrease in the market and buys Stocks with money he/she doesn't have. Explained here:

http://www.investopedia.com/university/shortselling/shortselling1.asp

The SEC today has extended a Ban it placed on Short Selling in something like 800 financial companies so that they couldn't make things worse than they already are. The original Ban went into effect on September 18, 2008 and can by law only be kept in effect until Oct. 17.

I looked back at the Sept. 18 Opening Bell Chart to see what may have indicated the idea of authorities doing something to keep monkeys under control.

Sept. 18 was the day that the Moon in Taurus made an Earth Grand Trine to Jupiter (H3) and Saturn (H11). What a great use of a Grand Trine. The G.T. relates to the chart strongly as the Moon (Public) disposits to Venus which conjunct the ASC. Jupiter disposits to Saturn from its 3d House position in this chart. In addition, Capricorn (Controls like Bans, Cautionary Measures, Gvmt. & Authorities) was intercepted in the 3d House. Government (Saturn) containing the Monkeys/Traders/Short Sellers (H3, Containment indicated by the Grand Trine and the Interception in the 3d House of Trading/Selling). I'd definitely give Mercury Rulership of Short Selling to Mercury, 3d House. The upcoming Mercury Retrograde couldn't hurt with this as well although the Short Sellers are probably watching this market and feeling very repressed.

Good work to whomever (whoever?) timed this. The SEC must have an Astrologer. Speaking of Monkeys, I wonder what they did with the media that day.

The Feds did this just before Scorpio began to Rise on the Ascendant at Opening Bell. It was at 29 Libra. Pluto had just begun to stick in the 2d house of Money on that day as well and was squaring the Sun.

The Head of the SEC is Christopher Cox who is a Libra Sun. I briefly mentioned him in the post on the Horsemen of the Apocalypse. His Libra Sun is conjunct Saturn & Neptune. He's apparently very intuitive. Neptune-NN is opposing his natal Pluto. That's the "psycicist" transit vibe on the planet. But, he's probably going through serious black outs right now.

Stock Market Biggest Drop Ever, Sept. 29, 2008 plus Notes on Black Tuesday plus Robert Gober

Yesterday's Market was the biggest point loss ever. Dropped more than 700 points. More than half of that happened within minutes of the announcement that the House rejected the Fed's Bail Out Plan. Paulson and Pelosi, both Aries, wanted to move it ahead. The people said no.

The operative word used here yesterday is "Sink." This is how the Media describes the aspects that are influencing the "Drain" of the Horoscope which is the IC. There's an artist, Robert Gober who for years used images of Kitchen Sinks in his drawings and sculptures. Wish I could add the image. Sinks are a very powerful emotional image. It's amazing to see how something that never moves and is useful most of the time can attract such frightening experiences. An example of Artist as Prophet here? As a matter of fact I looked up his chart (Wiki says: Sept. 12, 1954 Wallhingford, CT) and Gober is having a Venus in Scorpio Return right now and has a singleton Pluto in Fire. You can see the intense emotionality. The Transiting Saturn-Uranus opposition is about to hit his Sun in Virgo which maybe opposes a Pisces Moon. He'll have to step up to Whirlpool imagery.

So for astro-sink imagery we have Chiron (Healer who can't heal his own wound), the North Node (Destiny) and Neptune (have to add a Water Planet) who are in conjunction in the sign of Aquarius at the bottom, the pit, the lowest spot, the drain hole of the Astrological Chart Wheel. Aquarius has to add the Shock Factor. Aquarius also rules the circulatory system. What is "Making the Medicine Go Down" so easily is the Trine from the 12th House Planets (More Water imagery of Sinking). 12th house is self-undoing and chronic problems. Mercury Retrograde wants to review that Bail Out Plan. The Bankers and the Government put us into this mess, let them back peddle a bit. I don't have a clue what the Bail Out plan says myself.

During ordinary times, Venus in Scorpio promises Sex. In extraordinary times, Venus in Scorpio promises all kinds of turmoil surrounding money and power plays. I remember listening to a Carolyn Myss audiobook where she explains that, as a general rule, Men Who Don't Make Enough Money Can Suffer Sexual Dysfunction. So, it's often connected. Venus has been unaspected by major aspects the last couple of days. Pluto has been a singleton in Fire.

The Opening Bell Chart has Venus conjunct the Ascendant in Scorpio. Banks in Crisis. Venus disposits to Pluto which is in the 2d House of Banking. I heard that the vote against accepting the Bail Out was at 1:45 and by 2:15 pm the Markets had tanked, dropping immediately about 400 points. They were already down hundreds of points for the day. At 2:00 pm Mars was conjunct the Libra Midheaven by 1 degree. Venus was up in the 10th House approaching conjunction to the Midheaven by 10 degrees (Bankers/Government). Pluto had just passed over the Ascendant by a couple of degrees. The Ascendant had just switched signs over an Aries Point and was at 3 Capricorn. Capricorn, ruled by Saturn, is the Brakes, Caution, Rejection, Government, Delay. This makes the Ruler of the Chart Saturn and Saturn had just moved into the 8th House.

And since Saturn is opposing Uranus right now, that puts Uranus into the 2d House. Shock-o-rama. Just the overtime money that the Media is making right now covering this mess would support the Iraq War for another 3 years. What recession? The World has gone crazy. Don't know if this is true but last night on Larry King I heard Suzy Orman say that the 700 Billion $ Bail Out is nothing compared with the Trillion $ lost in yesterday's market. We have to think big. Really really big. My brain's not that big, I have to admit.

Adding to the fuel was the New Moon in Libra (corrected from earlier error where I said the Sun & Moon were in Aquarius, woof) from the 11th House. (In the Washington DC chart the Sun-Moon was just past the MC and still in conjunction at 2:06pm when the Bailout bill officially failed according to USA Today cover). Sun and Moon are squared by Jupiter which makes the challenge from the square extra big. AT the time of that the Bail Out Plan was rejected, Jupiter in Capricorn was in the 1st House. It was almost as if Fund Managers world wide had planned the drop. Today the Markets were back up a really high amount, something like more than 400 points for the NYSE and almost 100 for the NASDAQ.

Comment about Saturn in yesterday's Opening Bell Chart. I don't know much about Declinations other than to look at them for out-of-bounds planets. I did notice that Saturn is a stand out here as it is the only planet to have a Northern Declination. All the rest of the planets have gone South. I suppose this creates a picture, along with Saturn being most elevated planet in the chart, up in its own 10th House. Government is highlighted. A presidential campaign would have been the normal prediction I guess. Saturn's opposition to Uranus is certainly putting an extra spin on that.

Today's chart for Tuesday, Sept. 30 puts the Moon in conjunction with Mars and Mercury Rx in the 12th House. This conjunction has only trines. Moon-Mars combinations are volatile. Sun at 8 Libra. Venus conjunct ASC. ASC 8 Scorpio. Pluto H2. I would have thought that the Moon-Mars combination would have brought great volatility. In this case it brought the Markets up in a huge leap. Perhaps the trine is an indicator for this.

The Sun will continue to approach a square to Jupiter which will be exact around Oct. 6-8 at 14 Libra/Capricorn. Interesting how the Mercury Retrograde is moving back to be in conjunction with the Sun at the same time. Jupiter will be in House 2 of this chart. It also rules the 2d House.

Sun-Mercury Rx will be trining the NN-Chiron-Neputue conjunction and Neptune will be conjunct the IC to the degree at 22 Aquarius.

Rising Sign will be Scorpio. Venus in Scorpio will still be in conjunction with the Ascendant but will have passed into the 1st House. She will be strongly aspecting most major factors in the chart (apex sextile to Jupiter-Saturn Trine, square to Nodes, Neptune, IC-MC, semi-sextile to Sun-Mercury Rx.)

On Oct. 6, 2008 the Opening Bell Chart will have an out-of-bounds Moon at 5 Capricorn and will be placed in the 2d House within conjunction of Pluto 29 Sagittarius. Jupiter will be in the 2d House at this point as well. The Moon may pass over it as well while the Markets are still open. That would set off the Sun-Mercury Rx as well.

Mercury Rx will still be in effect and so I now get the power of the Mercury Rx and don't know if this is the best time to promote finishing up a deal. Especially since it is squaring Jupiter which is a major indicator for money. But, Venus looks in a better situation to represent herself. Jupiter and Pluto and the Moon are in her House. At least one of her houses; she's a powerful planet.

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Here are some notes I wrote down yesterday about Black Tuesday from The Great Depression, Oct. 29, 1929 9:30am..

Sun 6 Scorpio; ASC 12 Sagittarius; Moon 1 Libra; MC 2 Libra; NN 13 Taurus

Saturn, Uranus, Jupiter, Mercury & Venus on Angles.
Ruler Pluto in H8
Angular Saturn in H1 squaring Moon-MC on Libra Aries Point. Saturn is at 26 Sagittarius (Galactic Center, close to spot where Pluto is now)
Mercury 19 Libra conjunct Venus 12 Libra
Jupiter 16 Gemini conjunct DESC. Gemini is the Markets. Jupiter is now in H3 at Opening Bell.
Uranus is once again aspecting the IC with a wide conjunction. (9 Aries, IC 2 Aries).
Chiron 13 Taurus is conjunct NN 13 Taurus (H5) and opposing Mars 16 Scorpio & Sun 6 Scorpio.
Neptune 4 Virgo is a singleton in Earth.

Opening Bell - Monday, Sept. 29

Tomorrow's Stock Market Opening Bell chart shows a big emphasis on Fixed Signs and Jupiter. Fixed Signs are on all of the angles. There are no trines or sextiles to the angles, but if anyone can handle that energy well a Sun-Moon in Aquarius can. Chiron is within one degree conjunction of the IC and is conjunct the North Node and Neptune in Aquarius who are still hanging out in the 4th House. Aquarius is a very erratic and unpredictable sign and it is not comfortably placed in the 4th House of Housing, Real Estate and Security. But this combination can bring innovation or at least the ability to play and experiment with concepts which is what the Bankers are doing. Unfortunately Bankers are not the most generous people on earth and usually just have their own self interest at heart. They are digging themselves out.

Meanwhile, I'm mentioning the one thing I remember from the Stock Market class that I dropped out of half way through 15 years ago. The Teacher said that when investing always remember that "The Trend is Your Friend." That's two Aquarius Keywords. So, looking for Aquarius and Uranus in a chart could be the way to take advantage of this market. Aquarius is on the IC so opportunities are cropping up in Real Estate and probably in other 4th House businesses like Restaurants, Hotels, etc. Knitters who can design are probably doing pretty well right now by selling their stuff, especially if they use very tactile pleasing yarn. Rich people still have money to burn. These young Pluto in Libra kids are creating unbelievably beautiful knitting, that's for sure. What a relief after the Pluto in Leo and Virgo gunny sacks.

Where was I?

Oh, yeah. Uranus rules the 4th, heavily influenced by Chiron-NN-Neptune. (Weather, flooding, poisons, stiff jawed, bony assed, rich people from Connecticutt finally able to afford to buy water front property in California, argh).

I suppose I should say that Aquarius is unpredictable so anything can happen. I just can't believe that the politicians will let the Stock Market tank right before a major election (Jupiter-Saturn trine).

Pluto rules the chart and he's a singleton in Fire in the 2d House. The Sun and Moon are in conjunction in Libra in the 11th House. And Sun-Moon disposit to Venus which is still hanging out on the Ascendant at the Opening Bell. So, Venus is conjunct the Ascendant tomorrow but is otherwise unaspected. Venus in turn is in Scorpio and disposits to Pluto. An emotional cauldron. Venus rules Banking, Money, Values. Pluto rules Other People's Money, Investments, etc. Both stand out in this chart along with:

Sun and Moon are squaring Jupiter who is the ruler of the 2d House. This is a challenging aspect. It can represent huge sums of money. The Feds and Congress have worked all week-end and have agreed upon a deal.

I spent some time last week looking through Rex Bills for Rulerships that are relevant to this and noticed that Jupiter has some interesting rulerships.

Legislation, legislatures
part rulership of banks, banking, bankers: Jupiter, Venus, 2 Taurus, Sagittarius (Sun)
Liberals (Jupiter, Uranus)
conservatives: Saturn and dogmatic Conservatives (Taurus)
Civilians: Jupiter, Moon
Civilization: Jupiter
Financiers: Jupiter, Venus, Taurus (Sun, Saturn)
Finance, financial prospects & affairs: Jupiter 2, Taurus, Venus (7, Saturn)
Depositoris (Jupiter)
Department Heads (Jupiter, Uranus)
Regulations Jupiter (11)
Senate, Senators: 11, Aquarius, Jupiter (Neptune, 5)
Public's attitude toward the press: Gemini, H3
and
Press' attitude towards the public: (9)

Committees are ruled by (Mercury, Pluto). Gemini is on the 8th House cusp for this month. Jupiter is in the 3d House at opening bell right now. The Market really is heavily affected by Committees right now and also the Press. These rulerships are all shown very strongly in the chart. The Moon and Sun joining together in Aquarius in the 11th House and squaring Jupiter in the 3d House. Wow.