Barbara Simpson Interview with Dr. Katherine Albrecht

Barbara Simpson gave another great interview this week-end on her radio show on KSFO.  I think I linked to the one about GMOs a few months ago.  Saturday's interview (Aug. 4, 2012)  she interviewed privacy expert Dr. Katherine Albrecht.  The show is mostly about micro-chipping.  Penney's is planning on micro-chipping everything in their store in 2013.  Macy's and Walmart also intend to do the same.  There are movements also to microchip people, of course. People are already microchipping their pets.  Dr. Albrecht explains that cancer rates go up in animals who are microchipped.

Either way, now is a great time to invest in Reynold's Wrap because apparently tinfoil really can block the RFID chips. 

Dr. Albrecht is creating a new search engine which caters to people who want privacy.  It's called www.StartPage.com. What company owns Reynold's Wrap right now?

Inhaling

No, this isn't about you and your bong.

Oxygen molecules have been found in deep space, only 1500 Light Years away.

Oxygen molecules were discovered on earth in the 1770s. It's a Pluto in Capricorn thing. Who would have thunk that in a hundred million zillion years?

http://news.yahoo.com/oxygen-molecules-discovered-deep-space-first-time-163303242.html

The Debt Ceiling has been raised by Congress, so we can exhale as well.

Red Velvet Cake

What is this new food stuff: Red Velvet Cake? I'm seeing it everywhere. It must be all the rage.

I'm sure there's an astrological reason for it, so I thought I'd take a look for some sort of connection. Hmm, let me try to drewl on this. Probably Pluto in Capricorn. Pluto represents Deep Red, and this cake is chocolate with red food coloring. Wikipedia says that this is because it was originally made with beetroot. Who would think to try to out-do chocolate by adding coloring? It's kind of like Pluto can't become "Pluto" enough. That's the Planet of Intensity, Power and Crisis, for you. I suppose it would make more sense to expect to have "Devil's Food Cake" be the ultimate Pluto in Capricorn cake since the Devil is associated with Capricorn in addition to Pluto. But, perhaps that's only when discussing things of a Religious nature and not of a sensual nature.

When talking about Pluto and Capricorn working together, Red Velvet Cake does seem to work better as a Pluto in Capricorn thing. Devil's Food Cake probably already out did itself back when Pluto was in Scorpio and everyone was looking for a sexual release during the beginnings of the AIDS crisis.

The Red Velvet Cake does work well as a sort of elitist thing. In order to truly appreciate the flavor of the Red Velvet Cake, you have to join some sort of secret club, or make more than $200,000/year in order to eat the thing. You've got to have Status or Membership or simply to be weird enough to brag that you just ate a piece of Intensely Red Cake. Maybe I've got it all wrong and Red Velvet refers to foods that Prostitutes prefer. Red Light District Cake? No, that's taking us back to P. in Scorp. Capricorn's more about "just call me Madam." Status, Superiority.

And that's pretty much how it was created. Some chef at the Waldorf Astoria in New York created R.V. Cake for the Hoity Toits. And people wanted to give credit for its creation to Lady Eaton who married a guy who owned a department store up in Canada. She was a Sadge born Nov. 25, 1868 Dayton, Ohio. The Sagittarians do well as muses, they invoke fiery enthusiasm.

This Department Store where Red Velvet Cake became all the rage, during the 40s and 50s after Lady Eaton had passed, went defunct in 1989 - 1992. That's when the big conjunction of Saturn-Uranus-Neptune Capricorn was. The store was called Eaton's. At the same time the cake became more popular in the U.S. through the movie Steel Magnolias which came out in 1989. So there does seem to be some sort of Capricorn transference thing going on here. I am a chocoholic so I totally understand the power of this food.

Either way, I finally had a piece of Red Velvet Cake and thought it was bland as hell. Yeah, there could be some Capricorn in there. That's probably the attraction for Rich Women. If you live in a world where nobody is ever too rich or too thin you pretty prefer that all the food tastes like styrofoam.

Here's description plus a recipe:

http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/food/8-essentials-for-authentic-red-velvet-cake-2451699/.

I'm pretty sure my piece of cake didn't have the cream cheese frosting. How are we supposed to know these things on the West Coast when we only have a picture to go by?

Upcoming Total Lunar Eclipse and Arsenic Eating Bacteria in Mono Lake!!!!

This is exactly what I would have expected from the Pluto conjunction to the North Node in Capricorn but never could have imagined. It's an example of how Reality is always more imaginative than anything the human mind can make up. This shows the combination of Pluto and Saturn working together. And Neptune is there. And Uranus. And the 3 upcoming Total Lunar Eclipses are there as well. Dorothy, we're never gonna make it back to Kansas!

It turns out that NASA Scientists have discovered that a living creature exists on earth which uses Arsenic as the backbone for its DNA. The Arsenic replaces what Phosphorus did, whatever that is.

Between the Eclipses in Cancer/Capricorn and the big outer planet t-square between Saturn-Uranus-Pluto and Jupiter over the Aries Points, or the spots of the wheel which represent new beginnings, the earth might be shifting to a new method of survival. What used to be poison might now start to be the beginnings of life.

The point of discovery for this is in Mono Lake, California. As I talked about in a previous post, the California environment has an interesting connection with the past. We have 2 of the oldest planets on earth. The oldest trees and the oldest shrubs. Methuselah (bristle cone pine) and Creosote (down in the desert somewhere). So, maybe this organism is actually very old and not a new thing.

Well, the Poles, they are a-shifting.

After a very quick look on the internet to find connections between Arsenic and Astrological rulerships I found the connection with Neptune. The glyph of Neptune looks like the symbol for Arsenic. http://www.symbols.com/encyclopedia/05/0510.html. Neptune right now is in exact conjunction with Chiron in the sign of Aquarius. Neptune is one of the big rulers of Poisons. Arsenic is used in a lot of pesticides and California, being strongly agricultural, is totally maxed out on the pesticides. Arsenic exists naturally in the Southwest and other spots. The discovery was made by NASA so it's also interesting that the agency related to Space Travel made the discovery.

Interesting blog called "Paradise Preoccupied" explains the NASA discovery in ways that I can't because I don't have Science knowledge. The article gets really interesting in discussing how different life forms may actually account for other realms of existence.

So, now things get really crazy.

There are 3 Total Lunar Eclipses coming up within a year of each other. The Moon rules giving Birth. Maybe ... Oh, it's so Sci Fi.

The upcoming Total Lunar Eclipse that's coming up on December 21? When it is relocated to Mono Lake, California:

Total Lunar Eclipse
Dec. 21, 2010 :13 am Mono Lake, CA

(sorry, my program is showing the minute before the Eclipse so Sun and Moon are still in Sadittarius, but remember this is occurring right on the Aries Points)

Sun 30 Sagittarius; Moon 30 Gemini; ASC 4 Libra; MC 4 Cancer; NN 3 Capricorn

Okay, for one this is a Full Moon. It is an Eclipse. Hoot, Hoot. It is strong in its own sign. The Moon is also out of bounds at 23 degrees 44 minutes. It is also moving fast at 14 degrees 43 minutes. It is also handle of a bucket chart. It is also the Most Elevated Planet in the chart. It is also conjunct the South Node which according to Komilla Sutton is its most uncomfortable placement.

And it is opposing a huge wad of planets that are in tight conjunction down in its natural house, the IC. That's Mercury 27 Sagittarius Rx; Sun 30 Sagittarius; Pallas 1 Capricorn; NN 3 Capricorn; IC 4 Capricorn; Pluto 5 Capricorn; Mars 11 Capricorn.

Gahhhhhhhh! Dudes!!!! This is so FUUUUUUUUUUUUUU,,,,,&***%($)$)$))@@@@ing Amazing!!!

http://sandrahanksbenoiton.wordpress.com/2010/12/03/news-from-nasalife-comes-in-other-flavors-no-kidding/


http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMQDF_Methuselah_The_Worlds_Oldest_Tree

Pink Hippopotamus

Sounds like a new girly cocktail, but, no, Pluto's not in Sagittarius anymore. Pluto's in Capricorn. And Capricorn rules the skin so maybe we'll be hearing more and more information about skin and hair and any other kind of barriers. Capricorn's an earth sign and earth keeps it real and this baby's for real.

A couple was out in Kenya shooting the wildebeast, whatever the hell that means, and they photographed a real live pink baby hippopotamus. It's very young so possibly it was even born while Pluto was right on the Aries Point. That accounts for such a rarity being exposed before the public. Apparently this baby is shy, though, and hides behind his Mother, so hopefully he won't be forced into circus slavery by the media. The hippo isn't albino but some other skin type. Most animals with his condition can't survive out in the Sun and Heat but hippos are protected by their sweat.

He must have an extra special Neptune and Venus, what with the pink color and the water imagery.









http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/8031605/Rare-pink-hippo-spotted.html

Greenland's Petermann Ice Island (2010)

The biggest piece of ice to break off the Greenland Ice Sheet since 1962 occurred last week. Dubbed "the Petermann Ice Island of 2010" (to distinguish from the smaller piece that broke off in 2008) it's bigger than the island of Manhattan and is now threatening to collide with ships and researchers up in the arctic.

According to Yahoo the first image of the break was noticed:

Aug. 5, 2010 (Thursday) 8:40 UTC (4:40 EDT)

Sun 13 Leo; Moon 7 Gemini; 16 Virgo ASC; MC 16 Gemini; NN 11 Pluto

I may not be using the correct time zone so the Asc and MC may be a bit off, but it looks as if the huge t-square is again on the angles in this chart with Pluto-NN down at the bottom of the wheel in the 4th House. The Gemini Moon was up at the top of the chart conjunct the Midheaven.

Mercury is very strong in this chart as it is ruling both the Ascendant and the Midheaven and Mercury was in conjunction with the Ascendant. And it disposits the Gemini Moon which is conjunct the angle and most elevated, as I said.

House 4: Pluto-NN Capricorn
square
House 1: Venus 29 Virgo-Saturn 2 Libra-Mars 4 Libra
opposes
House 7: Uranus 1 Aries - Jupiter 4 Aries

No planets in Water in this chart which stresses the presences of the angular water rulers, Moon and Pluto, even more.

The last time a piece of glacier this big broke off was in 1962. I don't have a month to hone the date down for the 1962 break, but during that year Uranus passed between the cusp of Leo and Virgo and was in wide conjunction to Pluto in early Virgo. Jupiter was opposing the two from Aquarius to Pisces for the latter half of the year.

So, there is outer planet similarity between the two events. Perhaps Jupiter (big stuff) in difficult aspect with Uranus-Pluto can indicate when the Greenland Ice Sheet has big breakages? It could be the entrance of Pluto into an Earth Sign as well in addition to being in aspect with Jupiter and Uranus which could be an indicator of problems.

Saturn rules Carbon and the measurements of Carbon emissions for Global Warming were just beginning to be understood around this time. But Saturn wasn't quite connected with the other planets in 1962. (It was in major opposition aspect by 1965).

The Northern half of the Globe has been having unusual heat waves both in Canada and Russia. Pakistan is having massive flooding, declaring this their worst natural disaster, and China is having massive landslides.

Hey, hasn't Iceland built an Ark or something? I think that's where the seed bank is. Who knows, maybe the seed bank is in the glacier that's now roaming free range up in the Arctic.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20100806/sc_livescience/icechunklargerthanmanhattanbreaksoffgreenlandglacier

Keeping Time With Pluto in Capricorn

I've been wondering whether Pluto in Capricorn would bring insights into how Time works. Things could get really weird once Neptune moves into Pisces.

Turns out there's a new study that shows that our brain cells will measure time even in a petri dish. Our brains work whether or not they are inside our heads!! Don't they have Einstein's brain stored somewhere on ice?

Don't know if the scientists yet understand why some people clap on the one and the three, as in Marching and others clap on the two and the four as in Tap Dance. The Viennese say they dance to triplets but there's something extra they do beyond that which people without the genetics can't catch on to.

So, yeah, I think the stuff in the petri dishes probably control a lot more than we give them credit for.











http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20100618/sc_livescience/braincellsinlabdishkeeptime

Ready For Your Close Up, Old Man

Rachel Sussman is a photographer who has been traveling around the world taking pictures of the world's oldest living organisms.

She was written about in a recent New Scientist Magazine article (April something something). Some of her photos are included on New Scientist website along with her own website.

I was happy to find that California, land that currently builds most buildings with the idea that they will be standing for only about 20 years, also houses a large percentage of the world's least transient plants.

We have Sequoias in the Mountains, and Creosote Bushes in the Mohave and down by L.A. in the White Mountains there is an old pine tree called "The Old Man" which is thought to be the world's oldest tree, currently about 4773 years old.

Things that grow very old are said to grow very slowly. Old Man stays alive by looking like he's dead all over except for one branch which sprouts leaves at a time. In 2002 he was said to be 4767 years old! That's where I tried to get his current date from.

This means that he would have sprouted around 2765 B.C. give or take a year and a typo or two.

In 2765 B.C. exactly there was a conjunction of Jupiter-Saturn and the North Node in Cancer which opposed Neptune at 2 Capricorn. So, Pluto is passing over Old Man's natal Neptune. Kind of interesting that his picture gets taken right now and presented to the World. That is an Aries Point which brings one before the world (according to Noel Tyl). Pluto rules "Fame" and Neptune rules "Photography." Let's hope it doesn't equal another of Noel Tyl's explanation of Neptune-Pluto transits which is "Wipe Out."

Either way Old Man has got some Cardinal Sign action going right now in his chart if this is the correct date. Pluto was in mid-Taurus back then. This means that both Saturn and Pluto were in signs of their detriment. Old Man's whereabouts are kept hidden in order to keep people away. Hope this secret is maintained. Probably some pot growers will think he's a weed and douse him with Round-Up. I guess an actual researcher murdered another very old tree.

Uranus, planet of cycles and returns imo, is in Pisces. So, Old Man's been going through a Uranus Return right now.









http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/oldest-things/1

Get Down

Kind of a weird thing I remember. Back in the late 80s and early 90s it seems that I kept meeting people who were having knee surgery for whatever reason. It seemed to suddenly stop after a while. Maybe I just started hanging out with younger people, don't know.

I suspect that this was perhaps because of the outer planet conjunction that was going on back then. Uranus and Neptune were together in Capricorn which is the sign that rules the knees. The kicker, so to speak, would have been when Saturn, Ruler of Capricorn, joined them. Capricorn doesn't want to kill you, it just wants to make you slow down even if it hurts.

Now I wonder if Pluto's entrance into Capricorn will either bring back the old wounds. Or perhaps there will be incredible new treatments, especially surgeries as Pluto seems to like the knife, that treat hurt knees.

Either way, I thought I would add this link for an article called "6 ways to ruin your knees" by Shahreen Abedin. With cautious Capricorn they say "forewarned is forearmed" so maybe it will help. Maybe all those people who struggled with their hips while Pluto was in Sagittarius can get a little breather from what they just went through.

(http://www.webmd.com/osteoarthritis/features/6-ways-to-ruin-your-knees)

Maybe this just means that a lot more people will be getting married. The need to get down on one's knees and propose may just be too strong a pull. Just make sure you're sober.

There are a couple of great homeopathic remedies for arthritis. I've seen Rhus Toxicodendron do wonders. http://www.answers.com/topic/rhus-toxicodendron. That's poison ivy, so only take it in remedy form.

Home Building and Housing during Pluto's transit in Capricorn

I was just wondering if the Housing and Real Estate Industry will finally go through a major change while Pluto is in Capricorn. The Lending Industry isn't the only part of this field that needs a change. One could also use a couple of well trained architects.

Saw this article on how wealthy people are essentially building themselves huge Mobile McMansion Homes within days.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/03/AR2010030303913.html?g=0

If the Rich can't think of ways to spend a little extra, take a risk on a new design concept, and in educating themselves on what good taste is I don't know who will. At any rate, I'd love to see one of these dropping down a Southern California mudslide. Hopefully there will be some talented designers getting hired in there as well.

I know that many budding architects are building extremely beautiful prefabricated homes. Even toured a Frank Lloyd Wright "mobile" home a while back. (The one linked to in the picture is hideous, of course).

Anyway, while Pluto was passing through Cancer the United States developed an attitude that every family should own his own home. Now that Pluto is in Capricorn it seems that people might be returning to Urban Environments and apartments. Nothing like a penthouse apartment way up there where the Goat likes to go.

On the other hand, people may just move to the tops of mountains in order to get away from rising sea levels.

At any rate, I was realizing just how seriously the Gemini professions tanked, or shifted while Pluto was transiting the opposite end of Gemini's pole, Sagittarius. Not only have traditional news sources struggled to stay alive but the idea that news is delivered with "just the facts" has gone. So many opinions. So much "expertise." So much hypocrisy and bloat in business. The U.S. Mail Service is also suffering. Even keypads are disappearing on computers. If Pluto had stayed in Sagittarius for one more year maybe our opposable thumbs would have become obsolete.

At any rate, I wonder what a Capricorn Style of House really would look like. No basements, that's fore sure. Goats gotta climb. I don't know about Goats and craftsmanship. Sometimes a little lacking. Too busy climbing. Maybe everyone will just carry a tent folded up on their backs.

Water Quality

The Environmental Working Group has published a database on water quality of both bottled water and tap water. You can find information about both the bottled water that you drink and the tap water that your local water district provides on their site. They also tell you how to decide how to filter tap water here: http://www.ewg.org/healthyhometips/filtertapwater#identify.

I have no idea where they pull their samples from. In an area with old, crumbling infrastructure every building could be receiving a different quality of water. Each house may have its own bad pipes, but the actual sewer may be leaking into the water quality. I still haven't been able to figure out exactly how this happens. Something about when the sewer pipes get clogged by grease, tree roots, broken pipes the sewer, or sanitary sewer, will back flow into the drinking water supply. I heard some experts talking about their concerns about this happening down in Haiti. Kind of interesting that all those brains in the Silicon Valley don't seem to get it that this same thing is happening in their own towns.

I took some brown stained towels into a Health Department in one of the towns where I found this happening and they said they would have no idea how to test for what's coming out of the water. If your neighbors are cooking sweet and sour pork, your toilet and bathtub may show reddish stains, and you definitely will feel sticky and will be able to smell the stuff (I know, it happened to me along with a lot of other cuisines). But the Health Department will only test for chemicals on their lists of toxic stuff, not for Sweet n'Sour Pork, specifically. Plus, the Health Department was so dark and dingy and dirty I doubt they could possibly do anything about much of anything.

By the time you get around to testing, the neighbors may be flushing Eggs n'Bacon down the pipes anyways. I've been having severe fevers and gum trouble (I'm a Saturn-Pluto person and always have dental problems during Saturn-Pluto transits). My Dentist is from Connecticut or something so he's fairly useless from a social activist point of view. He really enjoys administering anesthesia, though.

So, how to relate this to a transit? Well, we've got Pluto in Capricorn. That's related to anything dirty that you really need to get around to. It's probably related to death and disease through pollution. It could be related to confronting problems of such a nature. Uranus is in Pisces, another Water Sign. Uranus is just as destructive as Pluto in my opinion. It's just related to the part of the process where things are so hopeless that all you have left is hope.

In the meantime, if traveling to any town south of San Francisco in the Bay Area, don't. Go up to Napa or Marin. Never thought I'd be saying this about those people, but at least they know when their shit is stinking.

Hands on Hips

Well, there might be some truth to the marvelous observation I'm about to share. And then again there might not. But, I think that Pluto's transit is related to the postures that people use to stand and sit with. At any rate, I'm noticing a stance that I haven't seen since I was a kid. People are standing and walking around with their hands on their hips. About ten years ago I actually drew a series of figure drawings of people standing with their hands on their hips because I missed seeing the pose.

I think this might be a Pluto in Earth Sign thing because, swear to God, Hope to Die, Stick a Needle in my Eye: People are going back to walking around with their hands on their hips. Who knows why. Capricorn makes all the joints hurt perhaps? Authoritarian stance?

When I was growing up during the Pluto in Virgo transit I remember that people would put their hands on their hips a lot. My friends and I would have Hands on Hips duels practically. I have a cliche visual memory from The Dick Van Dyke Show of Mary Tyler Moore's portrayal of Laura Petri. She is standing in the living room of their 1960s Ranch House in her stretchy anorexia capris and black flats saying "Ohhhhh Rooooooob!" I don't know what Rob did, I only remember the pose and worrying that I would never be able to be that skinny when I grew up.

Back in the 60s I suppose the Hands On Hips Pose was an authority thing leftover from the Pluto in Leo transit where everybody had Know-It-All competitions. Then with Pluto in Virgo everyone felt insecure and awkward and just needed a place to put their hands. Pluto in Libra couldn't put up with the awkwardness due to its lack of aesthetics, and, besides, everyone was either running (going for the burn) or snorting coke or dancing disco. The hands just went in the opposite direction of whatever the feet were doing as a sort of balancing act thing. They had to stay in constant motion. By the time Pluto was in Scorpio hands went in the pockets and people began to slouch. Slouching can be a power thing. If you are very relaxed and staying towards the background it's amazing how much power you can accumulate. This turned into a conscious need to fake humility when Pluto hit Sagittarius. (I learned that term from a very funny Sadge I went to school with). Throughout Pluto in Sagittarius people were slouching because they were feeling friendly and cool and besides they were watching too much TV and spending too much time on the computer. Slouching it seems, leads to too much fat and a diabetic stance.

Either way, Hands on Hips is back. Look around. You will notice. People will get up off the couch but their knees will hurt. So Knee socks? Ruled by Saturn, they are also back. The knitters are creating these masterworks of cabling and fair isle color patterns that belong in museums. If you're old and your knees are in pain coerce a knitter friend to make you a pair of knee warmers in Angora. It's consider the warmest yarn and is a folk remedy for Arthritis.

Hands on Hips

What is now I guess considered a long time ago, maybe 10 years, I was drawing a series of drawings of people standing with their hands on their hips. I had noticed that this was a posture that people had used a lot while I was growing up and then it just sort of passed out of fashion.

Recently, I'm noticing that people are once again using it. That solid, balancing, even keeled way of holding the body.

Know that if this is really a Trend then the reason for it must be related to the Father of all Things Trendy which would be Uranus. But, I think that Pluto also has something to do with this. As a matter of fact, I sort of wonder if this isn't a Pluto in Earth Sign thing, especially as it relates to Posture. Pluto rules the root chakra, the attachment to the ground and the underground. You can, or at least I can, (well, maybe sort of) understand what motivates (Pluto) a person by watching how they hold themselves against the gravitational pull.

Anyway, Pluto was in the earth sign of Virgo when I was a kid. Pluto has just entered the Earth Sign of Capricorn. And I swear to God, I'm seeing people standing with that solid, salt of the earth type of balanced posture all over the place.

I do remember that the Slouch was really big while Pluto was in the sign of Sagittarius, which displays a more casual and relaxed style. I had actually started drawing poses of the slouch while Pluto was in Scorpio.

Pluto and Jupiter in Capricorn / Old Grey

Don't know how to spell Gray. Is it Grey or is it Gray?

I know that every yar Designers try to push a color or a whole palette of colors as part of their trend setting, marketing, job security thing. And, since hanging out a lot on the knitting blogs I know that last year the Fashion World tried to push Yellow. I don't know if this went over very well. Seems like somebody maybe made that decision before they knew the Stock Market would tank.

Curious thing is that Yellow is my favorite color usually and last year I wasn't into it at all. What I was attracted to was the Color Gray(sic); especially a very light, fog-like grey(sic). Before Pluto moved into Capricorn I was wondering if grey(sic) hair would suddenly become a big fashion statement, kind of like it was back in the days of Marie Antoinette. A sort of fashion statement on sophistication. I thought the younger set would start wearing gray(sic) wigs. The lady who cut my hair said that she has noticed that older people are letting their gray(sic) hair grow out.

Well, it turns out the entire Fashion World is really attracted to gray(sic) these days. Maybe they are still pushing Yellow, or whatever other color they have moved on to, but they are all wearing gray (sic). It might be a result of the hard Economic times and the serious take on Reality and all. Capricorn is Wise, Old and Conservative. Pluto has just moved in and Jupiter is about to. Gray(sic) is a neutral and a classic. If you have grey(sic) clothes you can expect to own them for a very long time, probably about the amount of time that it will take for Pluto to move through Capricorn.







http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/02/20/fashion/20090221-street-feature/index.html

Hey, What Did You Just Step In?

Well, now that we pretty much know that life is not possible on the Moon we've found another use for Her/Him(gender of Moon is??). The Moon has become the Space Race's garbage dump. The Japanese are slamming a used up space probe onto the Lunar Surface at 2 pm today (6/10/09). I don't know if this is 2 pm Japan time, or CNN time, or Yahoo time. I doubt it's Moon time. At any rate, Pluto rules Waste Products and Pluto is opposing Cancer, the Astrological Sign that rules the Moon. I suppose we can expect more of this. The Moon today is also in Capricorn, the sign of its fall. If Capricorn can't find a use for you he will just trash you.

One small step for man, One big step for mankind ...

Advice for Pluto in Capricorn Survival

Came across two bits of Wisdom that echo Pluto in Capricorn Wisdom to me. One is a joke, the other is a slogan. Sorry I didn't catch which comedian said the joke, Billy Crystal maybe?



"Sometimes it's better to look good than to feel good."

"Fake it till you make it."

World's Most Powerful Laser, Groovy Baby.

Yesterday the U.S. dedicated the world's most powerful Laser Beam Maker at the Lawrence Livermore Labs in Livermore, California. Turns out the United States has got some reserve Mojo despite the Recession. As a matter of fact, I think this means we have too much Mojo. If we ever use this thing for Defense purposes all the little boys from Sea to Shining Sea who are unfortunate enough to survive will grow up with 3000 testicles each and a penis the length of the Empire State Building. Shag that.

The Lawrence Livermore Laser, called "National Ignition Facility" or NIF, has the power of 192 normal laser beams and makes a Hydrogen Bomb look more like a mere firecracker, maybe just even sparklers. Thing that's really scary is that it is set to be fully operational in 18 months in 2010. Now I call that a Pluto-Saturn-Uranus t-square on the Aries Points, Baby.

The NIF received certification approval by the Dept. of Energy on

Mar. 27, 2009, Washington, DC

Sun 8 Aries; Moon Aries; NN 7 Aquarius Rx

Hey, a New Moon in Aries (Military, Direct Action, Weapons) conjunct Venus Rx in her Detriment and squaring Pluto (Control, Revenge). How's that for a weapon called "National Ignition Facility?" Words like "Ignition" and "Target" really come into focus with strong Aries emphasis. Some of that good old Brassy U.S. Pluck? Don't think the rest of the World might like it but I could be wrong....

Not sure exactly what time the certification happened. So, don't have an exact placement for the Moon, but the Sun is conjunct Venus to the degree. Venus in Aries here is Retrograde and in Detriment by sign (opposite sign that she naturally rules). Venus rules Diplomacy and when Diplomacy fails we pull in the big guns and just take aim.

The Sun-Venus conjunction is further stressed by aspect. It and maybe the Moon is squaring Pluto. This square contains all the planets except for Saturn (Government and anything Authoritarian) which makes a handle to the Bucket Chart Pattern. So, where's angry old Mars since he's so strongly featured in indirect ways in this chart? He's opposing Saturn from Pisces.

Uranus, sign of unexpected Kabooms, is unaspected and ruling the North Node. This is also great for Science and Outer Space Discoveries.

Wish I could find times. These charts would be very telling in understanding how those 192 Laser Beams will be focused in the future.

Yesterday was the Dedication Ceremony for the Facility.

May 29, 2009, Livermore, CA; Time: Need to look for the length of Arnold Schwarzenneger's shadow in the photos in order to measure the hour.

Happened around Mid-day

(http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_12480167?source=rss)

Sun 9 Gemini; Moon Leo; NN 4 Aquarius

For the Ceremony, we've got Mercury Retrograde in Taurus and squaring the conjunction of Jupiter-Neptune and Chiron in Aquarius which features all 3 planets on the same degree. I don't know what that means with regards to pushing buttons, maybe a little slow and stupid on the trigger, but the news media (Mercury) is being very quiet about this facility. I guess if you're announcing how you're more powerful than anyone else in the World maybe you don't want to boast.

The Jupiter-Neptune-Chiron conjunction was in effect at the certification signing in March as well but yesterday both Neptune and Chiron were stationing. Neptune stationing Rx and Chiron stationing Direct. And both planets and Chiron were on the same degree. Yesterday, the people cutting the ribbon were thinking more in terms of Scientific discoveries. Kim Jong Il was blasting something like the 7th Nuclear warhead in 2 weeks over in Northern Korea.

This is just like the time in 5th grade when me and Mary MacKenzie mixed Lavoris with Baking Soda and Nitric Acid over a hot plate until it exploded over an entire corner of the classroom. We just had to keep adding ingredients until it exploded, it was our only purpose. Spent about 3 hours mopping the goop up and I've never wanted to see another explosion for as long as I live.

Uranus in the ceremony chart is still unaspected in Pisces and is further enhanced as a singleton in Water. Schwarzenegger was quoting movie lines from Terminator while cutting the yellow ribbon. That's the Neptunian movie element. Neptune is the sign of self undoing. I heard someone, a Neptunian obviously, also say that it represents hidden resources. That's good for Team U.S. North Korea has certainly been sharing their hidden resources.

So this Uranus-Neptune mutual reception. Collective Unconscious? Forced Collective? How about Collective Unconscious obliterated. That's Pluto on the Aries Point shooting its wad.

Let me state in finality that all may not be lost just because I think it is. Lawrence Livermore Labs is set on a couple of earthquake fault lines. It is probably about 50 or 60 miles East of the San Andreas Fault Line. So it would be kind of cool if the Laser were set on motion detectors so that if an earthquake starts it will zap the fault line and merely singe the beard hairs off the hippies in Berkeley while nary a tipsy chandelier swaying in the land. In other words, maybe they can aim this thing into the ground at the right time and way lay an earthquake, or at least send the Shock waves over to North Korea. Maybe this thing could be useful in other decent ways. Who knows, it may be so powerful it can blast Dr. Evil and his Hairless Cat up into space once the Statue of Liberty is up to her waist in the Hudson from Global Warming. Maybe Hollywood can rent it out to etch-a-sketch Angelina Jolie's lips into the Moon. This is just so Outer Planety, my little Cancerian Sun just can't cope. I think I said before that I'm bad in a crisis. I get laughing attacks. Can't we just get Kim Jong Il a haircut? I mean, that's all that guy really needs anyway.

Extra notes:
Construction for the NIF broke ground exactly 12 years to the day of its opening celebration: Jupiter Return in Aquarius.
The Jupiter-Neptune-Chiron conjunction is one degree away from Kim Jong Il's natal Sun.

Frown for the Birdie

Seriously now folks, wipe that smile off your face.

New facial recognition software can't see beyond your dazzling smile so 4 states are now requiring that people not smile for their Driver's license IDs. (http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-05-25-licenses_N.htm?se=yahoorefer.)

How's that for serious old Pluto in Capricorn (don't show wrinkles and teeth) and Uranus-Neptune mutual reception (technology). Turns out that grinning makes a person unrecognizable to computer software recognition programs which makes for more Identity theft.

Capricorn rules Skin, Wrinkles, Teeth, and everything that's stuck between your teeth. Funny how everyone started grinning for photos when Pluto was in Cancer. Cancer rules lunacy and one thing you can say about lunatics is that they've got real nice smiles. Now that Pluto is in Capricorn we can all stop, though. This is going to run the Dentists out of business.

Forcing Healthcare

The human will to live is a very strong thing. I lived in San Francisco for 11 years and some of the street people who I saw when I first moved there were still alive and living on Market Street when I left. They lived even though Western Civilization had no use for them.

I wonder what effects Pluto in Capricorn will have on the idea of the Human Will. This is thought of as a cold, uncompromising combination and people need to either temper that with warmth and generosity or look very deep into it in order to come up with a better answer for how things are. Not how things ought to be (that's the Sadgo's thing, so cute) but how things can be. As such Pluto in Capricorn can represent Super Intelligence.

The Pluto in Virgo generation is not necessarily a warm crowd and has given birth to the Pluto in Scorpio generation which is born to test the human will. If we don't fear how narrow minded we can be and lacking in generosity of spirit we will not take humanity to the next level. This aspect is excellent for survival, especially when applied to the Sciences. But is survival all we really want? Don't we want improvement? Pluto in Capricorn might suck at honoring the idea of Free Will and Freedom. That's my personal fear. Or, it can excel at understanding what really is will and freedom, if given the chance to make the conscious decision to do so. Decisions belong to both Scorpio and Capricorn. As do Excellence.

I expect to hear a whole lot of stories like the one about a 13-year old boy in Minnesota who suffers from Hodgkin's Lymphoma who was been ordered on Friday by the Minnesota Courts to seek Medical treatment for his Cancer. Capricorn is about pushing and forcing. Scorpio is the sign of willfulness. These two together might end up being the worst possible thing together. Capricorn rules both Government and Judgment and the strict side of parenting.

This medical case brings up some really important issues that need to be discussed in society urgently in my opinion. Does Western Medicine have the right to force itself on others? This is how it gained prominence in the early 20th century -- by bullying. The Rockefellers were wanting to unload their money on some Medical endeavor and, although Nelson (was it Nelson? I may be wrong) preferred homeopathy, the Allopathic Dr. (whoever he was) made a better sales pitch and got the money. It has pushed other medicines out of the way ever since by declaring them frauds and illegal although it often can't boast better cure rates.

If the healings that this boy's family believe in could work, who would know? They are now squelched. The only cases that alternative doctors get are the ones who are already declared hopeless by the bastards who have rendered them as such. People are afraid to die of Western medicine more than of anything. Chemo? If overdone, you melt like a Hiroshima victim, I've seen it personally.

According to Wikipedia, Hodgkin's Lymphoma is said to have a very high cure rate. This is cancer of the lymph nodes. Interesting that the 13 year old boy, Secondary Progressed Lunar Return leading into 1st Saturn opposition. Moon = Glands, Saturn = Authorities, Parents.

In Western Medicine Hodgkin's Lymphoma has a high cure rate. That's why the Judge and the Doctors are so bossy about this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hodgkin_disease. Capricorn is a very wise sign, the wisest, as a matter of fact. But, sometimes the media is the message. I don't like the word "Oncologist." To me it just means "Big Fat Ego."

On the other hand, a 90-95 percent cure rate is really impressive. According to Wikipedia this is the first Cancer to have shown a great response to Radiation/Chemo. ("Radiation and Chemo" are pretty much the same as "Lobotomy" in my mind. So I totally get what those parents are talking about. Still, I might try to consider this one.

The thing about sending someone to an oncologist is that, once you have Cancer it tends to come back. They call it remission when it goes away and then they call it metasasis (spelling?) when it comes back. The "cure" rate is not really a cure rate. It's more like a wait rate, 5 years? 10 years? 20? This is a dirty secret that people who have known people who have died of cancer will talk about, the rest of the population is blissfully stupid about this stuff. I tend to think that Cancer is related to very deep human feelings. And, if these aren't addressed the person is never healed, he simply becomes uninsurable.

So, I strongly feel that this boy's parents are also on the right track in bringing in Native American healing. The Native Americans were and hopefully still are more connected with the land than anyone else. And the land in the U.S. is the most impressive thing I've ever personally seen.

And the problem with the way the judge mis-handled this case was by not accepting the parents' viewpoint, because they are right. You can't cure Cancer by breaking peoples' wills. You need to speak to their spirit.

So, I propose that, if the Judge really thinks that the 13 year old Boy needs to see an Allopathic Doctor then the Judge ought to at the same time be forced to see a Native American healer who can offer him the spirituality and broadmindedness he needs in order to do his own job.

I am very aware that Western Medicine has forced its way into existence by pushing out other modes of healing which the boys' family have been trying to follow. Forcing it on others is horrible. Suzanne Sommers conquered her Cancer by using non-traditional methods. I know of one other woman who did as well. For chronic illness Allopathic medicine is great for diagnosis but in my opinion really lacking in treatment. Too aggressive, too much concerned with quick fixes, too restraining and authoritarian.

Western Medicine is already unaffordable in the United States and as such is so bad at organizing itself into a usable and useful not to mention helpful section of society, maybe its practitioners ought to consider cleaning up their own mess. A little Self-Management, a little chemo performed in the profession, hey, a Lobotomy, before outward management (i.e. force) on others.

First Do No Harm. Figure out what that means. After the 10 years of going-without-sleep in your stupid Internships, how could you? In the end, keep this kid alive. Treat him and his parents with respect. Honor their presence. (I'm sure glad I don't have your job, it's too hard). And Thank You. (I sent my Father's oncologist a Christmas Card and his reaction was unbelievable. I'm sure he had received a ton of honors but I don't think he had ever received much gratitude).

Please pray for Daniel Hauser.

End of rant.

American Female Reporters Detained Abroad During Venus Rx in Aries

With this long Venus in Aries Retrograde one would expect that women who have been too impulsive in some way might get caught. It looks as if Women U.S. Journalists may have overshot their boundaries in other countries as there are 2 separate incidents in the works right now.

Iran has just convicted U.S. reporter Roxana Saberi, Age 31, for charges of Espionage. She has now been sentenced to 8 years in prison. She was arrested on January 31, 2009 in Tehran for buying a bottle of wine. Her Journalist license had been revoked by Iranian officials for a year. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101315579. Venus was at 28 Pisces when she was arrested and has stationed Direct at close to the same degree as she is found guilty. It has been in a square to Pluto in Capricorn (Paranoia, Governments, Borders, Patriarchy, Convention, Authority, Rules) the whole time and will continue to be in this square for about another Month. This is a good time for us Ladies to get in touch with our Inner Libra. (God Help Me in that case. Born with Libra North Node and the worst natal Venus placement in all of womankind. Actually, my Lilith and Moon placements are worse.)

Likewise, North Korea has detained two Female Reporters for crossing over the Border from China while filming for Al Gore's Current TV channel. I believe they were reporting on North Korean Refugees in China.

Euna Lee (Age? ) and Laura Ling, Age 32, were arrested on Mar. 17, 2009 at around 3am while walking in the Tumen River which borders China and North Korea. (http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.korean/browse_thread/thread/8ba677ad567cf363). They were probably trying to film refugees as they were crossing over in to China.

I'm not sure of the exact location where the women were but it looks as if Pluto (Spying, Paranoia) had just risen over the Capricorn (Government, Authority, Patriarchy) Ascendant and, of course, is in this ever-lasting square to Venus in Aries (Assertive Women). Good to know that one must be careful of Authorities when Pluto in Capricorn is rising over the Ascendant. And probably when it's hitting any other angle in the chart.

Capricorn's ruler, Saturn, (Authority, Government, Borders) is in Opposition to a conjunction of Sun-Uranus in Pisces (Refugees, Rivers, Detainment, Rebellion, Free Spirit) in the 3d House of Journalism. My information is a little unclear on this but I believe that their Chinese Guide was also arrested but that two other crew members managed to escape.

A week later it was determined that Lee and Ling would face trial. They face up to 10 years imprisonment in a North Korean Prison camp if convicted. According to the link included down below Euna Lee is Korean-American and Laura Ling is Chinese American. She is the sister of Journalist Lisa Ling. What an amazing pair of sisters. Unfortunately this isn't the Patty Duke show.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6115798.ece

I don't have birth dates for the women. I wish them a positive outcome for their Trials and hope that the interrogations aren't as awful as I'm imagining them to be.