THE SOOTHESAYER INTERNET

November 2009

What’s hot?  “Exempt” is what’s hot!

Mega pieces of legislation are rolling out of committees onto the floor of Congress.  A 1900 page bill for health care reform and a bill that is supposed to regulate the banking industries and the derivatives trade are being paraded on the TV talk shows, the online blogs, and written about (for the few who read), in magazines and papers around the country.  These bills are highly complex and are, as yet, not complete.  But the one characteristic that stands out in relief is what is “exempt” from these proposed laws.

In the health care bill, the highly touted “public option” seems to be exempt from being chosen by corporate employees who are already insured by their companies.  It is also being bantered around that individual states may exempt the “public option” if they choose so, even though their citizens may choose it.  As for the Republicans, they would seem to want to exempt it all together.  The whole thing will be exempt until 2013.

The greater outrage is Barney Frank’s bill that claims to regulate the quadrillion dollar derivatives trade (going stronger than ever) by forcing them to be transparent by trading on an actual exchange and have some money behind the trades,  would “exempt” over 90% of the entities who trade them!  The notion of bringing back the separation between investment banking and the banks that simply lend money, is also “exempt”.  Secretary of the “Treachery” Timothy Geithner, instead of proposing closing down the “too big to fail” banks whose disastrous failures have been financed by the tax payers, suggests the taxpayers cover their losses and slap them on the wrists by making the banks pay back the tax payers over a period of time for their bad behavior.  What is “exempt” is the notion that if they are too big to fail, they should not be allowed to get that big to begin with.  The head of the FDIC, Shiela Bair has publically taken on Geithner, as has Elizabeth Warren, who chairs the Congressional Tarp Oversight Committee.  I recommend the book by former regulator, William Black, “The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One”.

My comment is that Neptune (deception) in Aquarius, riding over the U.S.A. Moon into next year seems to be working.  In astrology, the Moon represents “the people” whose real interests, at present, seem to be “exempt”.   Thomas Jefferson is most certainly  rolling over in his grave.

The Economy:

Saturn is square Pluto this month and defines the “restructuring” efforts being made in the economy.  This significant aspect will be with us through August of 2010.  The last time this square took place was in 1992-93 when Japan’s real estate investments tanked and their banking system effectively collapsed.  (Does this sound familiar?)  They “propped up” their system with almost 0% interest rates and infusion of government money to save their banks (very familiar).  None of these efforts prevented their long term recession.  Here in the U.S., we were recovering from our Savings & Loan disaster and real estate bubble collapse.  Our answer was to have banks buy out or merge with the bad banks and used tax payer money to pay back the failed S&L depositors.  You would have thought we would have learned something from this.  We had just “voted for change”, electing Bill Clinton president, who later took the advice of Alan Greenspan, Robert Rubin and Lawrence Summers (who is now back) and ditched Glass-Steagall and created the Commodities Modernization Act that deregulated derivatives.  These efforts led us into the present: the worst recession since the great depression.  Does history repeat itself?  Since this square will land on the U.S.A. Venus (currency) and Pres. Obama’s Venus, the American dollar is losing its global currency status.  I have predicted this in past newsletters and feel that this trend will continue.

This month, the so-called “recovery” will be seen by most to be absurd.  Gold may take another upturn between the 9^th and the 11^th.  Between the 9^th and the 30^th, Venus in Scorpio will bring on some very cold weather in the U.S. and oil and energy prices may rise again.  With Mars in Leo square Mercury Nov. 2^nd and Venus Nov. 19, the cost of the war in Afghanistan and Pakistan will escalate.  Budget deficits will increase.  Unemployment will continue to plague us.  Venus (currency) in Scorpio points to dollar inflation so that the U.S., an “importer” economy pays more for less.  In addition, more scandals in the financial areas emerge the week of Nov. 23^rd, as Venus is square Neptune.

Other Nations:

The lunations this month point to more problems with Mexico, their economy, the peso, and the deadly effect of the power of the drug lords.

Israel is taking the effects of the transit of Mars in Leo.  Secret talks with the U.S.A. are likely to accelerate with regard to Iran’s nuclear capability.  The Iranians, however, will want to have more “talks” about dealing with this issue.

Our press is not emphasizing a growing danger and that is the relationship between India and Pakistan.  Both charts are being activated by the Leo Mars transit.  As the U.S. sends more soldiers into the tribal areas of Pakistan, India’s animosity with Islamic Pakistan is on the increase.

The Afghanistan war is becoming increasingly unpopular and more bad news will emerge about the corrupted recent election by the current government.   Pres. Obama will have to make a decision about his approach to this war this month.  However, Mars goes retrograde in December and does not turn direct until March of 2010.  He is likely to further alter these goals next year.

Final Thoughts:

So much of the popular mythology out there about Astrology is frequently confusing, misleading or worse still, the belief that it promotes the concept of “Fate”.  On the contrary, the astrologer’s job is to describe the challenges, opportunities, and conditions surrounding our lives.  This kind of information enhances our ability to take responsibility; in other words, it supports the ability to choose and respond.

I cannot resist the temptation to look from the present into future possibilities, through the lens of the constellations and planetary orbits.  Herein lies the philosophy that we are all connected to the universe and each other in ways that our current “particle” or “partitioned” view of reality stubbornly denies.  Once we awaken to a universe that is consciousness itself and one in which all of us participate, the possibilities to reinvent ourselves are endless.  The old fear-based reality will die a natural death and the light of a million suns will illumine our hearts and minds.

As the future dawns, may we all stay tuned!

 Linda

Linda Schurman