THE SOOTHESAYER INTERNET

January 2010

Happy New Year!

The Saturn/Pluto Square

 The operation was a success but the patient died!

 Last years “accomplishments” are a series of surgeries and “repairs” that have led to the corporate controlled media “announcing” that according to Wall Street, the stock market and the bonus laden “banksters”, we are in an economic “recovery” and have avoided another Great Depression.  Meanwhile, foreclosures, homelessness, and millions of jobs lost have people languishing in the ER while the middle class in this nation is DOA.  The global derivatives casino trade encompassing more than a quadrillion dollars is not being touched by the feeble attempts at regulation.  The health insurance companies successfully controlled the agenda for a health care reform bill which, in its present form, will kill the patient financially, if not literally.  Manufacturing and technology is still “outsourced” to cheap labor abroad.  We do not “make” anything in the U.S. any more and are “dying” on the operating table as a viable nation as a direct result.

The ailing nations of Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Greece, Spain and Portugal are headed into default, leading to a brief upward movement into the dollar and a correction in gold.  We are sending 30,000 more troops into Afghanistan while the current crop of terrorists are spawning in Yemen, Somalia, and Nigeria and hiding out in the tribal regions of Pakistan.  The Obama administration, who so graciously proclaimed international cooperation and respect early last year and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, is continuing American imperialism with the policy of invading sovereign nations to catch a small number of young fanatical sociopaths intent on terror attacks.  This has been reinforced by the recent attempt of a young Nigerian to blow up a plane headed to the U.S.A.   This war policy is analogous to blowing up Brooklyn to catch a few hundred members of the mob.  He has continued the support for the Patriot Act and wiretapping with no legal restrictions.  Absolutely no progress has been made in reducing greenhouse gasses and worse still, no preparations are being made in the nations and regions most at risk at becoming uninhabitable as the result of escalating climate change.  Massive investment in sustainability, i.e. solar, geothermal, windmill, etc. to prepare us for the end of the age of oil simply has not taken place.

Mainstream television “news” has spent its capital on Michael Jackson’s demise, the Tiger Woods meltdown and sex scandal, numerous politicians’ sex scandals (former Sen. John Edwards and Gov. Mark Sanford), white house party-crashers, and the mindless meanderings of Ex-governor Sarah Palin and her extended family, while there is a literal blackout on news from Israel, the Palestinians, and Iraq whose activities are at the center of our military-backed Middle Eastern policies.  The coverage on Iran is superficial, confused, and biased, lacking any meaningful historic background as to how or why they may be moving toward nuclear arms.  Politically, the media gives more time to the idiotic ramblings of Rush Limbaugh and Glen Beck who are laying claim to being the voices of the Republican Party.  The Republicans are busy spewing hate, Dick Cheney style, and voting against everything; that is, after taking eight years to ruin everything.  The Democrats are still controlled by corporate and financial lobbyists, having abandoned their populist origins many years ago, motivating the outraged Progressives to move toward independence and the public wanting to throw them out of office. 

What lies ahead?

Mercury is retrograde until the 15^th and Jupiter finishes its transit in high-tech publicity oriented Aquarius, moving into sensitive, chemically oriented Pisces on the 18^th.  Also on the 15^th, a solar eclipse at 25 degrees Capricorn conjunct Venus, occurs, making that date very powerful.  Escalating currency crises and peaceniks, both Venus ruled, will be making headlines.  Venus eclipses also tend to correspond with sex scandals of which we are very, very weary.

Jupiter in Pisces will seem to help the economy in February and March.  The Saturn in Libra square Pluto in Capricorn is exact the end of this month, and will be so again in August, escalating the economic and social crises on a global scale.  Mars in Leo goes direct on March 10^th and goes through the sign through June 7^th, activating tensions in the chart of Israel.  Saturn retrogrades back into Virgo in April, opposing both Uranus and Jupiter in Pisces in May.  An important Lunar Eclipse occurs on June 26^th, conjunct Pluto, leading to a grand t-square of Mars (in Libra), Jupiter (in Aries), Saturn (in Libra), Uranus (in Aries) and Pluto (in Capricorn) the end of July/early August.  These placements exactly square and oppose Venus in the U.S.A chart, Uranus in the chart of China, and the sun in the chart of Pakistan.  In April of 1986, a Lunar Eclipse took place, conjunct Pluto in Scorpio.  This lined up with the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown and later, the Bhopal, India chemical disaster.  These placements foretell the following:

n  More major upheavals and crises, especially in Pakistan, Afghanistan, India, Iran, and Mexico,

n  Pisces and Virgo oppositions point to tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, and earthquakes, especially in the Pacific regions.  A large volcano has already started to erupt in the Philippines,

n  More economic defaults, worker layoffs, another major stock market crisis in the US, and another major movement upward in gold as a defense against currency devaluations, while interest rates on borrowing will move up, in spite of the Federal Reserve, and the housing market will not reach a bottom until 2011,

n  Movements throughout the world toward revolution and overthrowing their leaders and governments,  alongside tendencies toward nationalism and anti-immigration policies,

n   A movement in the U.S. toward a populist third party and the elimination of the Federal Reserve, alongside severe deficits mandating significant cuts being made in Social Security and Medicare,

n  As our military forces escalate, a national anti-war movement will gain traction.  At the same time, there will be those who will want to reinstitute the draft,

n  Some kind of nuclear crisis and/or chemical or oil spill with significant environmental consequences,

n  A powerful movement in the government of Israel toward a military strike, possibly in Iran.

n  The highly praised “bubble” economy of China will be troubled and they will face discontent among their people.  Tectonic instabilities and environmental pollution add up to pressures on the government that will be difficult to address.

n  Brazil’s Uranus/Neptune conjunction in its chart is being hit by Pluto, growing into a harmonious earth trine later on.  Their commodity economy, largely consumer-driven, will continue to grow, but at the expense of devastating their rain forests, adding another threat to already escalating global climate extremes.  Their elections in the Fall will run into problems related to the Saturn opposition Jupiter and Uranus that begins hitting their chart in the Spring.

Is there anything hopeful out there?

Those who have read my book and newsletters know that I am not Little Mary Sunshine.  It is my experience that we need to know truths and find it within ourselves to face them, head on.  As a nation, we need to stop acting like an abused wife, who keeps getting beaten up, but continues to stay in a bad marriage, caught in a syndrome of intimidation and helplessness.  There is a tendency to “go crazy”, rebelling in general but doing nothing to really change the control of the financial Plutocracy on our government and on our lives.  This is all about waking up and taking back our liberties and the right to “the pursuit of happiness”. 

On a practical level, I have some suggestions, some of which I have been making for a number of years.  For the time being, gold and energy are good places to be, along with holding reserves of cash.  Comex gold finished this year with a 23% gain while the stock market has officially ended the decade “flat”.  I suggest subscribing to the LeMetropole Café, a great online newsletter that not only helps you buy gold, but is a “truthteller” about what is really going on in the economy.  Goldmoney.com is a good site to visit and a reliable place to buy and sell gold and silver.  The Huffington Post (www.huffingtonpost.com) came up with a great idea recently and that is to get into local smaller and highly rated regional banks.  You will be doing business with those who did not get into the sub-prime lending frenzy and are likely to remain solvent during the tough times.  Reduce or eliminate your debt.  If you have lost your job and/or your house, band together with family, friends, and neighbors, and share housing and resources.  Get more involved in local politics.  There is evidence that state Supreme Courts may rule in favor of homeowners facing foreclosure due to the lack of legality of entities issuing the foreclosures.  I have predicted that we will get “ruthlessly local” for a while.  We need to concentrate on local organic gardening and farming and paying attention to conserving and recycling water.  Civil systems need repair and we have taken these things for granted for generations.  We are witnessing a huge disparity between a relative handful of very rich people and the larger percentage of people moving into poverty.  We will be battling these trends until major planetary changes in direction occur in the 2020s.

Final Thoughts:

The great persons in history did not start out as great persons in history, but learned to tap the strength, intelligence and resolve within themselves.  In the process, they led others to a new level of awareness and self-determination.  It is always about taking the responsibility to be aware of what is happening, refusing to go into “denial, and recognizing that we have the ability to tap into a greater and higher power that does not reside “out there” but deep within our hearts.  The most painful and serious crises in our lives can lead us to recognize how to reinvent ourselves at an elevated level, moving within a new resonance, singing a new song.

Humanity is approaching a “near death experience” that can lead us into extinction or evolution.  Those of us who have survived this kind of event within the span of our personal lives, know that we are changed forever.  We know that respect for the sacredness of the earth, appreciation for the gift of life, and the revelation of the eternity of existence alter our outlook and journey through this reality. 

From the glorious array of stars above to the smallest act of kindness, I see evidence that enlightenment is at work in the world.

 Linda

Linda Schurman