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July 2010

THE AGE of CONSEQUENCES

Astrological Aspects

There are lunations and planetary aspects this month that are forcing us to wake up and face a landscape of realities we have avoided for a very long time.  There is a solar eclipse at 19 degrees 24 minutes of Cancer sextile Mars in Virgo on July 11^th.  There is a full moon in 3 degrees of Aquarius on July 26^th while Jupiter and Uranus both oppose Saturn and square Pluto, as Mercury forms an exact opposition to Neptune, while Mars is quincunx Neptune.   (Mars transits over all of this the first week of August).

The Military

Last month’s new moon on the Mars of the U.S. brought out a major change in the military with the exit of General McCrystal and the appointment of General Petraeus to head up the war in Afghanistan.  U.S. and Israeli troops have been quietly assembling in Eastern Europe, strategically near Iran.  The sextile of Mars (military) to this solar eclipse on the 11^th and Mars square the U.S. Mars on the 16^th are revving up for  military escalations.  Meanwhile, there is a serious anti-war sentiment developing since most people in the U.S. have no idea why we are still fighting the longest war in our history.  I have maintained in this newsletter that this is all about oil and gas resources in these regions and our getting control over them and the regimes that govern the strategic nations.  It is all about having reached “peak oil” in most of the world’s major oil fields, our inability to face this fact, and the desperation of a society dependent on oil as the most efficient source of energy to fuel its industrial and technological economy.  Why else would we be drilling for oil offshore in dangerously deep waters?  The reality is that we should have been developing sustainable energy technologies for at least thirty years.  The big oil companies bought up many of the patents from the innovative 1970s and have deliberately sat on them to keep them off the market. 

The Gulf Oil Eruption

We now have on our watch the biggest and most costly man-made environmental disaster in U.S. history, rivaled only by the “dust bowl” catastrophe of the 1930s during the last great depression.   The end of this month, Mars is quincunx Neptune, which suggests another crisis in this saga.  The chart for the Gulf Oil eruption (April 20, 2010, 9:45 PM CDT, Venice LA, 89W21, 29N16) points to the final containment being in place by November as the progressed moon completes a sextile with Saturn.  There will be incremental fixes.  The first will be in place in September when transiting Venus and Mars trine Neptune.  Another problem will erupt in Oct., when the Moon is quincunx Neptune and trine Uranus.  However, as relief wells are completed in November, transiting Mars is square Jupiter, Uranus, and Saturn in the Eruption chart in the first week of December, precipitating another temporary crisis.  Interestingly, this chart has the Sun in Taurus quincunx the Ascendant in Sagittarius.  A similar type of configuration was in the 1986 Challenger disaster, killing all the astronauts on board, and the 2004 Indonesian Tsunami disaster which was the worst in modern history.

Russia and the Solar Eclipse

In the July issue of Dell Horoscope, astrologer Bill Meridian pointed to this eclipse as historically congruent with leadership changes in Russia.  Interestingly, the end of last month, a Russian spy ring was uncovered in the U.S.A.  As former Pres. Bill Clinton was meeting with Prime Minister Vladamir Putin, Putin openly criticized us for arresting these people.  Putin was formerly head of the KGB and was likely behind this.  He may be on his way to “retirement” as this will be seen as a serious mistake.  His Libra planets all are square this eclipse which is on his natal Uranus, whereas Pres. Medvedev’s chart is strengthened.

The Economy

The normal stock market cycles do not apply at this time, usually with tops at the end of August and falls into October.  It will try to come back early in this month, but will likely fall dramatically toward the second half of the month through September.  The rest of this year will see huge fluctuations and swings.  Over all, the “Age of Consequences” will mercilessly play out.  Unemployment will be increasing this month with Mars in Virgo, even though jobs will be created in the Gulf Coast environmental clean-up effort.  The so-called Financial Reform Bill, in its present form, is all but meaningless, with a victory for the banking giants.  I hope those against it in both parties will hold out for something better in the Fall, but the powers-that-be are pushing this, especially those whose campaigns have been financed by the global financialists.  This reminds me of the so-called Healthcare Reform Bill that did little or nothing to substantially reform healthcare.

The war between the dollar and gold will continue.  On the 9^th and the 26^th, the “Cabal”  will likely attempt to take gold down as first Venus and then Mercury oppose Neptune (deception and confusion).  Mercury is trine Pluto on the 30^th, suggesting some kind of victory for the Plutocrats.  As I have said before, the dollar is likely to peak on Nov. 18^th and gold may bottom.  In December, with Mercury, Mars, conjunct Pluto in Capricorn, gold will likely be viewed as the safe haven.

There will be vain attempts to “reform” Social Security.  The financial Cabal wants to privatize this which, as we all know since 2008, would be a total disaster.  Just as many states have dipped into their Teacher Retirement systems, our government has found clever ways of dipping into Social Security, leaving IOUs in the form of Treasuries that, as the dollar falls in value, become increasingly worthless.  It can be reformed by upping the age of retirement and denying funds to those whose retirement incomes are over $75,000 a year (restoring them if the income drops below this level).  However, the issue is a hot button with massive unemployment and more people getting older and more disabled as time marches on.

Weather:

Between July 26^th and August 5^th, the highly stressful planetary aspects suggest serious storm activities, including hurricane activity.  This is not good news for the Gulf.

Final thoughts:

For years, this newsletter has concentrated on exposing and revealing issues about which I am passionate and upon which astrology can shine its ancient light.  Many people have asked me if there is any hope or optimism for the future.  My answer is a resounding “yes” as I have suggested a “quiet revolution” that will take us “back to the future” with locally grown organic farms and gardens, local enterprise, solar architecture, and a spirit of cooperation among neighbors through a renewed interest in local community governance.

Recently, I read an article on “Truthout” entitled “A New Deal for Local Economics” by Stacy Mitchell, who informed us there is a growing movement in this direction.  She points out that there are now 5,274 active farmers markets and a notable development in local shops, leaving the giant chain stores behind; a reversal from what we have seen in this country for the past 40 years.  She points out that some of the chain stores are recognizing this by changing their brand name to a “local shop name”.  However, the locals are figuring this out and bringing their business to those that are authentically home grown.   Local banks, detached from the “bankster” monopolies are beginning to emerge.  Local small manufacturing enterprises are hiring Americans, defying the outsourcing mania for cheap labor abroad.

More people are turning to health practices that promote and support health and healing rather than “attacking disease”.  Chiropractors, acupuncturists, nutritionists, homeopathic doctors, naturopaths, are all being looked at through new lenses, as products pushed by doctors who have been paid off by “drugsters” in the pharma industries are turning up with side effects that are as bad or worse than the “disease”.  As obesity has become an epidemic in this nation, we are realizing that a lack of exercise and consuming mass produced processed foods with high concentrations of high fructose corn syrup, sugar, salt and saturated fats may be behind our upswing in chronic disease.  We all know our healthcare system is badly broken as fewer and fewer people are able to pay for a system whose costs are growing out of control.  I think this nation is getting ready to take control and it all begins with each one of us making personal decisions about how we envision our lives.

 The most important transformation in this century may be an evolution of our awareness   embodying a new experience of what it means to be human in the highest sense.  Already, quantum physics presents us with multiple probable dimensions which may include consciousness itself.  As we are forced by necessity to leave the old broken systems of belief behind, we may look to the constellations above as reflective of what is burning in our own hearts, waiting to break free of the predator/prey model of mutual self-destruction, waiting for the “peace which passeth understanding”, waiting for what has been promised by all the prophecies through the ages -  an entirely new dawning of the light.

Linda

 Linda

Linda Schurman

We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth... For my part, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst; and to provide for it.  .....Patrick Henry