Julian Assange — Current Transits

Julian Assange — Cur­rent Transits

by – Gene Johnson

The sus­pected ter­ror­ist,  Aussie born Julian Assange, is a “man in the news” right now. His birth date is not easy to locate but accord­ing to Inter­pol he was born July 3, 1971, in Townsville, Aus­tralia.
With­out a birth time, I set up a solar chart with whole sign houses. He would have a Scor­pio Moon, as it holds for any birth time that day, and the place­ments  (Venus/Saturn in the 12th, Mars in the 8th, Nep­tune in the 6th) give a T Square with Mars in a rather wide orb, as the focal point planet. The Scor­pio Moon is of course ‘right on’ in keep­ing with his exper­tise at expos­ing the under­belly of things.

Look­ing at the cur­rent transits:

He has the long run­ning con­junc­tion of Jupiter/Uranus oppos­ing his Pluto at 27 Virgo, so his natal 6/8/12 houses are acti­vated by cur­rent tran­sits, and more upcom­ing with Nep­tune enter­ing Pisces on April 5, 2011, which will square natal Nep­tune at 0 Sagit­tar­ius and natal Sat­urn at 1 Gem­ini (tran­sit­ing Nep­tune thus form­ing another T Square here) Also a Sat­urn tran­sit across natal Uranus will make a Direct Sta­tion on June 13, 2011.   A lot going on, and more to come, so the pro­jec­tions are that Mr. Assange will be ‘in the news’ for many more months. It will be inter­est­ing to see how long he can elude The Author­i­ties, as the US wants to have him clas­si­fied as a Terrorist.

Another inter­est­ing natal plan­e­tary pat­tern he has is Sat­urn closely oppos­ing the
con­junc­tion of Jupiter, Nep­tune.  In addi­tion Sat­urn, while a bit out of orb, is none the less close to the contra-mid-point of this pair. This pat­tern can sug­gest many
things of course, but it may reveal a high ide­al­ism with Sat­urn act­ing as the
sym­bolic “obstruc­tion to its real­iza­tion.” Munkasey in his book on mid-points
has one descrip­tion of this Jupiter/Neptune pair as being asso­ci­ated with “scan­dals about growth, val­ues, or belief sys­tems; hypocrisy grow­ing as a form of inter­nal pol­icy; a
legal sys­tem where ethics and morals are based upon favors and pay­offs; degra­da­tion in sys­tems of justice.”

I did notice that he has Uranus in the Solar 4th square his Sun. Thus he is a
’man on the move’ and always has been it seems. A total non-conformist, he is thorn in
the side of The Establishment.

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Secondary Progressions Course

Sec­ondary Pro­gres­sions Course

by Donna Henson

Dates:  Sat­ur­day — Octo­ber 2, 16, 23, 30, Novem­ber 5 & 20

Time:  2–4 pm

Please con­tact Donna to reserve your place or to ask questions:

817.589.1676

donnajeanhenson@yahoo.com

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Beginning Astrology Class

Begin­ning Astrol­ogy Class

Six week begin­ner astrol­ogy class

By Donna Henson

Dates:  Sat­ur­days — Oct 1,8, 15, 22, 29 and Novem­ber 5, 2011

Where:  Rich­land Hills, TX

Please con­tact Donna to reserve your place or to ask questions:

817–589-1676
donnajeanhenson@yahoo.com

 

 

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The Match That Ignited a Revolution

The Match That Ignited a Revolution

by: Eugene Johnson

On Decem­ber 17, 2010, at about 11:30 AM, in Sidi Bou Zid Tunisia, Mohamed Bouaz­izi, a 26-year-old Tunisian street ven­dor poured two bot­tles of paint thin­ner over his head and set him­self on fire.  This tragic event ignited the rev­o­lu­tion that  has swept two dic­ta­tors from power and will prob­a­bly unseat sev­eral more before the dust set­tles and trans­form that part of the world. Con­tinue read­ing

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Note to Gaddafi: “Beware: The Ides of March.”

Note to Gaddafi: “Beware: The Ides of March.”

by Ran­dall Ruyle

The astro­log­i­cal birth chart for Muam­mar al-Gaddafi is set for Sirte Libya on Sun­day June 7th 1942. Birth time is unknown. In light of his pub­lic pro­file a time of 12 Noon has been selected.

Since we are most likely to find aspects for an event related to the ongo­ing revolt in Libya, the focus is nat­u­rally towards that war­rior of a planet Mars and the Moon to rule the public’s emo­tions. Nor­mally in a twenty-four hour time frame a com­bi­na­tion of aspects such as a tran­sit­ing Mars square natal Sun along with tran­sit­ing Moon con­junct natal Mars may bring with it a domes­tic dis­pute with angry over­tones. How­ever when these aspects are show­ing up in a dictator’s chart at a time when ‘The Peo­ple’ are in revolt they can take on a much more deter­mi­nant mean­ing: Espe­cially when the deter­mined dic­ta­tor has stated he will die before giv­ing up his title.

Add to the tran­sits of the natal chart the pro­gressed chart and you see con­fir­ma­tion of a sober­ing real­ity set­ting in on Gaddafi’s delu­sional dic­ta­tor­ship. That is the pro­gressed chart for him shows the Moon in con­junc­tion to Nep­tune. The con­junc­tion becomes exact on March 11th and quickly falls away leav­ing Gaddafi to the stark real­ity of the day.

Most notable in Gaddafi’s upcom­ing astro­log­i­cal future is the com­bi­na­tion of tran­sit­ing Mars in square aspect to his natal Sun along with the tran­sit­ing Moon con­junct his natal Mars. Tran­sit­ing Sun also adds to the mix­ture as it forms a square aspect to his natal Mercury.

If you make a sched­ule of the exact aspects made in this com­bi­na­tion you find that on March 15th Mer­cury makes its square aspect to the natal Sun shortly after mid­night Libyan time. Tran­sit­ing Mars then squares his natal Sun later that morn­ing before noon. Finally the tran­sit­ing Moon con­juncts his natal Mars in the early afternoon.

So, what does it all mean?

Well, if the house place­ment is any­where near cor­rect one poten­tial astro­log­i­cal sce­nario is this: Shortly after mid­night the tran­sit­ing Sun square Mer­cury “the mes­sen­ger” brings Gaddafi chal­leng­ing infor­ma­tion regard­ing (7th house) “open ene­mies” that could affect his (10th house) “pub­lic stand­ing”. By that morn­ing as tran­sit­ing Mars (6th house) “his health” squares his natal Sun “his life force”. Gaddafi is met with aggres­sion and in this case quite pos­si­bly death. When the tran­sit­ing Moon ” the public”(11th house) “rebel move­ment” con­juncts his natal Mars, by that after­noon, his demise is announced to the pub­lic. What a day!

So, should funeral arrange­ments be made for Maum­mar soon? I don’t know…Maybe not…You know we all have free will…The stars may impel, but don’t compel…and Gaddafi could con­vert from a delu­sional despotic dic­ta­tor that is mas­sacring his own cit­i­zenry by the hun­dreds to a sober peace lov­ing states­man over the next  few days…couldn’t he?

Or the “free world” could come to his aid.

Nah! Time to build a pyre.

By the way: How do you really spell his last name? http://tinyurl.com/nbemwl )

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Egypt

by Gene Johnson

There are sev­eral charts for Egypt. There is an AFA chart by Marc Pen­field – March 15, 1922 @ 12:43 AM, Cairo.  I don’t know what his­tor­i­cal event that is sup­posed to cor­re­spond to. On Feb­ru­ary 28, 1922 Egypt was given its inde­pen­dence from Britain by the Dec­la­ra­tion to Egypt by His Bri­tan­nic Majesty’s Government.  A chart could be set-up for that event.

On June 18, 1953, King Farouk was removed from power of a mil­i­tary coup led by Colonel Nasser.  According to a chart pub­lished by Glenn Malec the time of that chart is 10:05 PM, and set for Cairo. This seems to be the best chart. It cer­tainly is reac­tive to the cur­rent situation.

This chart shows 17 AQU 32 ASC, with Sat­urn in 20 LIB 34 in the 8th, CONJ Nep­tune at 21 LIB, and these  SQU to Mer­cury at 20 CAN.  Mercury rules the 8th ( 29 VIR).  So, this is a strong indi­ca­tor for sud­den erup­tions of violence/chaos/transformation.  The pair­ing Sat­urn and Nep­tune are inter­est­ing – too much caution/pessimism/rigidity repres­sion meets too much vagueness/evasion/inefficiency/corruption.  One of the major beefs of the pro­tes­tors was the cor­rupt government. Mubarek had mil­lions of Egyp­tians on his “pay­roll”, who of course sup­ported him, they were each oth­ers’ meal ticket, and he him­self is reported to be richer than Bill Gates, so was a very effec­tive rob­ber of the pub­lic treasury.  Uranus is CONJ Mer­cury and also SQU the Neptune/Saturn, so this four planet con­fig­u­ra­tion is a key to this chart.

On Jan­u­ary 25, noon, the tran­sit­ing Moon was 20 LIB and Sat­urn 17 LIB, and CONJ the radix Nep­tune & Sat­urn and SQU to radix Uranus. Transiting Sun & Mars were CONJ the NNode of the radix chart.  And the tran­sit­ing Pluto, NNode are OPP to the radix Sun and Mars, which added fuel to the fire.  Also, tran­sit­ing Jupiter & Uranus were SQU the radix Sun. So, this was a very hot tran­sit­ing align­ment on the first day of the demonstrations.

In the pro­gres­sions: Sun ℗ in CONJ Pluto®.  Moon ℗ 25 LIB is SQU MC ℗. Mars ℗ is SQU ASC ℗. Mercury.  And a big­gie, Uranus ℗ is SQU Saturn ®

The Total Lunar Eclipse ( 29 GEM) of Decem­ber 21, fell across the ASC/DSC at Cairo, and was OPP  the Egypt­ian Sun (27 SAG).  Also, tran­sit­ing Pluto at 4 CAP was OPP radix Mars.  Could we spec­u­late that this pre­saged a national iden­tity crisis?

The Solar Eclipse chart for Jan­u­ary 4, set for Cairo, is also interesting.  The N Node, Pluto, Sun/Moon, & Mars, all in CAP are in the 10th, and the Uranus, Jupiter CONJ in PIS is just past the ASC.  A clear sig­na­ture of pos­si­ble “shake-up” in the gov­ern­ment (10th) as the peo­ple ( 1st) rise up.

Prob­a­bly the most impor­tant thing to watch over the com­ing months is the move­ment of Sat­urn as it approaches its Return.  It only makes one pass by radix Sat­urn On Octo­ber 17, this year.  And, then, there is Uranus mov­ing through Aries SQU radix Mars, which will keep things stirred up.

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The Deep Water Horizon Event

By Eugene Johnson

Well it has been con­firmed by the gov­ern­ment com­mis­sion inves­ti­gat­ing this, what was clear from the start of this hor­ren­dous event, that the cor­po­ra­tions, par­tic­u­larly Hal­libur­ton and BP, failed to fol­low stan­dard pro­ce­dures and use proper mate­ri­als in drilling this well, with the result that the planet has suf­fered the sin­gle most envi­ron­men­tally destruc­tive event ever, in recorded his­tory.   The Gulf of Mexico’s waters were already filled with ‘dead zones’ caused by oil pol­lu­tion, this blown-out could turn the entire Gulf into one.

I see a bit of grim irony here. About 500 miles due south of the blown out well and the sunken Deep Water Hori­zon  is the Chicx­u­lub Crater which is the remains of an aster­oid that smacked into earth about 65 mil­lion years ago.  It struck what is now Con­tinue read­ing

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Venus Retrograde

Venus went ret­ro­grade on the 7th of Octo­ber and will not turn direct until the 18th of Novem­ber. Ret­ro­grades are a time for re eval­u­at­ing the facets of your life that relate to the planet in ret­ro­grade, espe­cially when it is one of the inner plan­ets. Venus ret­ro­grades only once every 19 months and when the points where it goes ret­ro­grade are charted on an astro­log­i­cal wheel, five suc­ces­sive ret­ro­grade peri­ods will cre­ate a five-pointed star, one of the rea­sons this is an eso­teric sym­bol for Venus. It also has to do with Venus dis­ap­pear­ing from the west­ern sky for a period and reemerg­ing as a morn­ing star. There are a num­ber of mytholo­gies sur­round­ing this phe­nom­e­non and deeper eso­teric meanings.

On the more per­sonal, every­day level, Venus ret­ro­grade is about reeval­u­at­ing your rela­tion­ships, all kinds. You may even find some peo­ple sur­face in your life after a long absence and present you with an oppor­tu­nity to heal the rela­tion­ship and find clo­sure on old wounds.

A won­der­ful post about this appeared in Jim Sher’s blog recently. One of the best I’ve read in some time about the Venus ret­ro­grade cycle and how it typ­i­cally man­i­fests. Look at where Venus is tran­sit­ing at present to know where and what kind of rela­tion­ship is need­ing your attention.

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October New Moon and more

We have an inter­est­ing month com­ing up. Octo­ber will host a Super New Moon (when the Moon is both at perigee, clos­est to the earth, and con­junct the Sun) in Libra bring­ing a more pow­er­ful effect for this new moon. The effects are stronger on our phys­i­cal and emo­tional bod­ies, giv­ing the pos­si­bil­ity of greater shifts in con­scious­ness and aware­ness. That hap­pens on Octo­ber 7 around 6:45 am.

Libra is where the action is hap­pen­ing, with a con­junc­tion between Sat­urn and Mer­cury in Libra as well as the New Moon. Also, Venus will go ret­ro­grade on Octo­ber 8 at 13 Scor­pio and ret­ro­grade back into Libra. It will remain within 10 degrees of Mars for 12 weeks, from July 26 until Octo­ber 16, insti­gat­ing new rela­tion­ships and res­ur­rect­ing old ones for heal­ing and completion.

With the Saturn/Mercury dance, it is giv­ing an oppor­tu­nity for us to set clear direc­tions, get seri­ous about them, and make the needed changes. In Libra, the sign of relat­ing, rela­tion­ships are stressed, and we’re asked to get real about fair­ness and equal­ity. With the square to Pluto in Capri­corn, it also brings in the need to change some deeply held beliefs in order to do this.

For a greater in-depth look at this month’s skies, go to The Moun­tain Astrologer’s web­site and click on luna­tions, or fol­low this link for much more on the Super New Moon. http://www.mountainastrologer.com/current_issue/lunations.html

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Make Hay While Saturn is Smiling

Accord­ing to Jim Sher, right now we are in a rare period in the Sat­urn cycle when he is not only going direct but won’t ret­ro­grade back across this par­tic­u­lar span of degrees (Libra 4 — Libra 10). Sat­urn went direct on Sep­tem­ber 4 and will be free and clear of its ret­ro­grade space until Octo­ber 23. He calls it “Pure Progress.” A good time to get on with your busi­ness, what­ever you’ve been try­ing to accom­plish lately, because it will be eas­ier and have less re-dos than usual. Read the full blog post by Jim Sher.

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Signs of the Times

By Eugene Johnson

A few days ago my friend Roy and I were talk­ing about our col­lec­tive pen­chant for nam­ing and num­ber­ing things. In the num­ber­ing cat­e­gory we see a lot of the ‘index’ these days. Every area of life that has a sta­tis­ti­cal aspect to it will dis­play at least a few indices to quan­tize what it is doing; the finan­cial sec­tor would arguably have the most.

I thought that Roy was jok­ing when he said that there was even a Rap­ture Index. But, later I checked it out on Google, and sure enough there is such a thing. In fact, accord­ing to the site, the Rap­ture Index today is near an all-time high, 172. You can get a grip on the rel­a­tive power of this num­ber by the fact that the Index, in its high­est read­ing, was 182, on Sep­tem­ber 24, 2001. I sensed that things were tense but didn’t think that we were near 9/11 stress lev­els yet.

If this sounds a bit too weird to be true, check this out for your­self at Con­tinue read­ing

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