THE SOOTHESAYER INTERNET NEWSLETTER

Linda Schurman
Editor and Publisher

June 2013

Important Points of Reference (for astrologers) :

Mars is square and Venus is trine Neptune as it goes retrograde June 7^th, New Moon June 8^th at 18 degrees of Gemini with Mercury square Uranus and opposition Pluto, Venus opposition Pluto and square Uranus between the 11^th and 12^th, Full Moon June 23^rd at 2 degrees of Capricorn, Mercury goes retrograde the 26^th (through July 20^th), Jupiter enters the sign of Cancer on the 25^th (through July 16^th, 2014).

Gemini and the Twins – Good News and Bad News:

 This month’s transits of the Sun, Mars and Jupiter in the news-making sign of Gemini, the Communicator, will remind us of the mythical good twin vs. the bad twin.  This environment should effectively remind us that without the dark we would not truly appreciate the light.  By having the courage to look at both, we may be able to unravel the complexities of our times and maybe save ourselves from the numerous self-inflicted blows to our civilization.

Pres. Obama (has the Moon in Gemini), had to face scandals concerning ineptitude in Benghazi, the IRS targeting conservative political activist groups, and the Associated Press phone hacking probe.  The first two are murky and lacking in explanations or information, but the AP scandal interfering with freedom of the press is disturbing, especially in association with the President’s amplification of going after “leaks”, and instituting a bigger “big brother” state.  More news about all this will emerge this month.

My personal heroine, Elizabeth Warren, called for student loan rates of 0.75% (the same as Wall Street), and there has been a concerted effort by a citizens coalition to force Monsanto to reveal and label its GM seeds on all food products.  Meanwhile, it was announced that 31% of the bee colonies died off last winter.

The bad twins in Congress just sneaked in a proposed piece of legislation called LRB-1763 known as “Govern without Public Support”.  It would institute voter ID requirements, shortens time allowed for early voting, allows more time for lobbyists to make campaign donations, removes the prohibition on corporate election spending from state law while adding a loophole to the law allowing interest groups to avoid disclosing their election campaigning, and limits the public’s right to recall elected officials, among many other changes.  I would propose getting out your good twin and contacting your congressmen!

 The June issue of Popular Science features how the U.S. believes it can be energy self-sufficient by 2030 showing breakthroughs in solar, wind, water, waste, landscaping, oil and natural gas.  They omitted any discussion of nuclear fusion.  Meanwhile, corporations “fracking” for oil and gas continue to despoil the environment and exaggerate the claims concerning the amount of natural gas actually being mined.  Good Twin, Tesla Motors is flourishing as the all electric car is selling around the world in spite of its high price.  Meanwhile, the press revisited the BP oil disaster in the Gulf that created an environmental catastrophe that is still there.  Recently, an Exxon/Mobile tar sands pipeline rupture in Arkansas seriously contaminated local waterways.  Digging for oil and gas and under the ocean and around the world goes on.  It was announced last month that the global concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has reached 400 parts per million for the first time in about 3 million years.     

In my recent book, “Fast Forward”, I predicted that medical science would be developing effective cures for a whole host of illnesses using “energy medicine”.  This past month, our own primary physician informed us that Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)   is now available to us locally and qualified physicians offer this treatment.  We also discovered the device on a smaller scale but just as effective, called the Fisher Wallace Stimulator is for sale.  You can purchase this device for around $600 and use it yourself in your own home.  These non-invasive treatments have been shown to be highly effective for all types of depression, Parkinson’s disease, dementia and a host of brain and nervous system disorders without the side effects of pharmaceutical products or electric shock therapies that have been the previous modes of treatment.  The sign of Gemini is associated with the brain and nervous system whose disorders have been multiplying at an alarming rate for the past 30 years.  This is definitely the good twin bringing relief.

The advent of the availability of the 3-D Printer in which you can create practically anything by entering coordinates into a computer that produces the object, would seem to be a marvelous invention.  However, the dark side emerged last month when a man created a gun that fired and blew up in his face.  All laws attempting to regulate fire arms seem limp and helpless beside this capability of designing and producing firearms in the privacy of your home.  The Good Twin and its Bad Twin arise again!

The Economy:

The stock and bond exchanges will be subject to serious fluctuations this month with some selling likely between the 12^th and the 26^{th ,}  when Jupiter reaches 27 – 29 degrees of Gemini an historical “crash”  degree.   However, we have been in a bull market for stocks for some time because of the manipulations of the global banking cartel and the Federal Reserve.   With nearly zero interest rates, money is coming back into stocks since there seems to be no other way to make money with your money.  However, there are very few signs of health and burgeoning profits in these companies.  The Cartel is getting into stocks pushing prices upward as they continue to try to hold gold prices down on the Comex even though significant buying of gold bullion is taking place.  I think between now and the first week of July, there may be some scary downturns since the market is very fragile.  However,   I do not see a severe crash (like 1929, 1987 or 2008) until Nov/Dec. 2017 when Saturn reaches the “crash degree of 27 to 29 degrees of Sagittarius.  The most severe part of this depression will likely play out from then to Dec. 2020 when the Jupiter/Saturn conjunction in Aquarius takes us into a new upward cycle.

We are hearing about the real estate market “recoveries”.  These apply to the upper 10% of our population who live in “high end” locations.  Millionaires who have held a lot of cash for years now are buying up properties in cash transactions and turning them into rentals, a smart move on their part.  But as far as middle class purchases; these are minimal as banks are still not lending money for mortgages easily.    Unemployment rages in Europe and here in the U.S. the real rate is estimated at about 22%.  Many people have given up looking for jobs and are living with relatives or in homeless shelters.  Youngsters are graduating from college burdened with student loan debt and unable to find employment.  Congress is currently working on a bill to raise student loan interest rates, a major move to kill off education and dumb down our nation into infinity! (Very bad twin!)    Many recent graduates are working minimum wage jobs until they find a better job, which frequently does not appear.  Fewer are collecting unemployment because it has “run out” and some people do not collect at all because they are working a series of permanent “part time” positions that do not qualify them for either unemployment or health insurance.

The transit of Saturn in Scorpio is dredging up the trash and the truth about many things.  People are just beginning to wake up to the destruction of the middle class, our nation’s infrastructure, and the corruption of the banking and financial system.  Most of all, we are having to face how our government has been “bought out” by the Plutocrats and paralyzing itself to the point of nearly total disability. 

Weather and Travel:

The transit of Mars in Gemini this month through early July, combined with Jupiter and the Sun in this sign foretells major winds.  We have already suffered the great tornado that devastated Moore, Oklahoma.  With Mercury and Venus in Cancer leading us into the transit of Jupiter in Cancer (June 27^th through July 16^th, 2014), I would expect to see a lot of rain, resulting in significant flooding of our nation’s rivers.  Mercury is opposition Pluto and square Uranus June 7^th-8^th that is likely to produce a significant series of storms.  This does not bode well for air travel this month.

The Tumultuous Middle East:

The transit of Mars in Gemini this month will go over both Uranus and Mars in the chart of the U.S.A. and going over the Mars/Uranus conjunction in the chart of Syria between the 6^th and the 8^th of June.  If we are not careful, we may get sucked into the civil war in Syria as well as growing civil conflicts in Iraq and Egypt.  This Mars stimulates more conflict in Egypt as there has been a great deal of unrest there and their leader has declared absolute martial law.

Representatives from the U.S. and Russia recently met to discuss how to end the civil war in Syria.  The Syrian government thumbed their noses at this effort.  There are at least four “shadow” governments that represent different religious/ethnic groups that would like to take over the governance of Syria.  Russia has been a Syrian ally for many years.   The chart of the Russian Confederation (Sep. 5, 1991) is being activated by the transit of Saturn in Scorpio, which bodes a reactivation of Cold War politics and Putin’s desire to increase his power by pointing the finger at the “enemy”, mainly, the U.S..    Recently, both China and Russia have been suspected of “hacking” into data banks of U.S. military contractors. The U.S. has an arsenal of weapons greater than any nation on earth and both these nations have been “stealing” our weapons technology for years.

The Middle Eastern nations are the Devil’s Playground for the clashing of these interests.

Final Thoughts:

Recently, I have personally felt the effects of bi-polar Gemini and its multi-tasking, side-switching, mood changing, perpetual motion machine.

I have been blessed with some beautiful and serene days during which my cherished friends and family have enjoyed sharing ideas, mutual admiration, and just plain warmth and affection for each other.  There have been quiet times when I have felt suspended in a place of peace, comforted by some kind of divine presence that assures me that the web of life on earth will be somehow mysteriously sustained.

Then, I am plunged back into the whirling vortex of dark goings-on:  senseless killings, violent storms, the revelation of evil secrets, and a seemingly hopeless pile-up of painful consequences that we humans have brought down upon each other.

My last effort, amidst all this turmoil, is to look up at the spectacular night sky where, once again, the constellations speak to me of light and dark, creation and destruction and creation once again.  Herein resides a consciousness so magnificent that its promise often eludes us within our limited narrow visions, trapped in sorrow and regret.  Once again, the prophecies return to remind me that what is greater and more loving will ultimately win the day, the month, the year, the century as it fills up our hearts and minds.

Let us all be ready to receive this great blessing! 

   Linda

Linda Schurman

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I have been working steadily on this publication for nearly four years.  The research I have done has been a “wake-up call” for me as I have tracked the historic trajectories that have led us to where we are now: at the critical point of choosing either extinction or illumination.

However, I am greatly encouraged at discovering that many people are developing new and innovative technologies that can solve the coming energy crises and are conceiving of new, more egalitarian economic systems and societal transformations.  These pioneers may help us to navigate this “age of transition” from cannibalizing our planet to living in concert with the earth and each other.

Our journey through the great constellations has taken us to this place in time, this powerful historic point, this great challenge to human survival and evolution.  It will take great courage on all our parts to open our hearts and minds to the level of truth needed to fulfill the great prophecies given to us through the ages.  I think we can do it!

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What Next? A Survival Guide to the 21st Century, by Linda Schurman, Lazer Lady Publishing, Inc., 2505 Anthem Village Dr., Ste. E-165, Henderson, NV 89052 USA, 2007. Softcover—164 pp.—$15.95 (ISBN 978-0-9796900-2-0). Available from: www.lazerladypublishing.com

Linda Schurman has maintained a private practice in astrology for more than 34 years. She is also a studious observer of the larger world stage, including domestic and global politics, climate change, financial markets, and social justice.

What Next? A Survival Guide to the 21st Century is a concise book that addresses the daunting issues of our time. This book is clearly written for non-astrologers. The specific astrology in the text is minimal; however, the author offers an educated view of the challenges we all face. The information, though directed to the general public, provides a timely and useful context for the concerns that clients bring to practicing astrologers every day.

The first chapter, “Pluto in Sagittarius (Nov. 1995 – Nov. 2008),” sets up the immediate background of where we are now by recapitulating the big themes of these years — Globalization, Financial Speculation, Religion, Law, Education, and the Media.

The next three chapters cover a similar range of themes and are organized around the outer planets’ transits: Uranus in Pisces (Mar. 2003 – Mar. 2011); Neptune in Aquarius (Jan. 1998 – Feb. 2012) (Septile Pluto 2001 – 2011); and Pluto in Capricorn (2008 – 2024), Uranus in Aries (2011 – 2018), Neptune in Pisces (2011 – 2026).Schurman also writes on the upcoming Jupiter–Saturn conjunction in Aquarius (Dec. 2020)and offers a chapter on “Sedna — A Planet of the 21st Century.” Although the book is organized by astrological motif, and there are key astrological charts in the Appendices, the body of the text is informed by the work of (non-mainstream) journalists and economists.

Given the subject matter, Linda Schurman’s book has a necessarily unflinching tone; she diligently refers to research on global warming, the energy crisis, corporate and political corruption, and other such matters. This author writes a large story in accessible language. She combines a view of the forces at work in the greater world with a positive and practical set of ideas for managing life in these often overwhelming times. For example, Schurman makes “prophecies” and suggestions throughout the book: Chapter 4 contains sections on the Worst-Case and Best-Case scenarios, as well as “The Quiet Revolution — Moving into the Solution” and “New Frameworks of Consciousness.” Chapter 3 includes some investment recommendations and has a special section on solar design.

Linda Schurman is facing reality and yet also holds an impressively hopeful vision for the future. If you feel confused by the complexity of the times, her book will help you to sort out what has happened, who is responsible — and what we can do now (as she writes in the Introduction) to help ourselves become “able to ‘invent’ our way out of even the most profound set of challenges.”

— reviewed by Mary Plumb

by K. Diaz

A Practical and Spiritual Survival Guide for the 21st Century, September 12, 2007

There are several doomsday books that have been written that question our ability as a species to survive the threat of global warming, the impending energy crisis and a world that is imploding with new super bugs and looming pandemics, all of which are eventually guaranteed to wipe out civilization as we know it. This book, written by a well-renowned and incisive astrologer, not only points out the harsh truth about what the future holds for our planet and its people should we decide to continue our xenophobic thinking and behavior; it also provides hope through concrete scientific information, backed up by several references from well-respected professionals in their specific fields. The author also shows, through previous astrological patterns, how we are destined to repeat our mistakes with much graver consequences unless we choose to raise our consciousness in a way that connects us with every thread that runs through the universe and to realize that we all individually and collectively play a part in the future of our Mother Earth. The message that she brings to the table is that we are all our brothers' keepers. The book is concise and easy to read without the usual technical vernacular used in most astrology books, although it provides charts of nations and events to prove her points to the astrology student or professional. A beautifully written book that provides hope for change and a different future for our children and grandchildren in a world currently devoid of compassion and understanding for one another.

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Important NOW Book, August 28, 2007

What Next? by Linda Schurman is an astute account of the world's affairs, political, ecological, and economic, as they are today. Linda, a well-known astrologer makes dire predictions about where we are headed as a world, but she emphasizes it is up to us...we have choices, because although the planets and heavens have patterns that are read as given proclivities to certain events, they are not absolute because mankind's will can change events or prevent some. The book is important reading for our time, because we are running out of time for changing our fate. For professionals, Shurman gives official astrological charts to back up all her predictions. For the general public, we need this book to wake us up to what will likely happen if we don't act now. A MUST READ! I highly recommend this book.

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