THE SOOTHESAYER INTERNET

September 2009

Saturn opposition Uranus (November 2008 – July 2010)

The Establishment vs. The People       

Senator Ted Kennedy, a most significant protector and proponent of what our constitution calls “the people”, died last month before his lifelong mission of legislation for universal healthcare could be passed by the congress.  So many have lovingly eulogized him in the past several days, I won’t attempt to do so here, but my heart is saddened for our country’s loss. 

Whatever your politics, Kennedy truly cared about the people he served.  So few people in positions of power seem to care about anything at all but hedging their bets, accumulating their fortunes, and collecting campaign funds from corporate lobbies.  Now that a bill is emerging, health insurance companies have carefully orchestrated the appearance of “dissenters” in town hall meetings who are screaming about their constitutional rights (they wouldn’t know what the constitution says if it flew up and hit them in the face); that the government should stay out of their lives and health care choices.  Meanwhile, millions are watching their health insurance premiums double in price, are turned away for treatment, have lost their jobs due to catastrophic illness, and are forced to appear instead in emergency rooms of hospitals around the nation. 

Whose Rights?

With respect to government power and our rights, I am more concerned about government interference through wiretapping, invasion of privacy, and their ability to arrest any of us without charging us with a crime – the Bush mandates that have not disappeared under the oversight of the so-called “new” administration.  I am disturbed that our mainstream media, owned by huge corporations are filled with character assassinations, distorted news items omitting major information about the issues, and tabloid sewerage that is better flushed away privately in bathrooms than “revealed” on television.  I am appalled that giant food and pharmaceutical corporations can ignore or hide information that threatens public health and have contributed to the health crises we face today.  Our legislature, on both sides of the aisle, has been busy as bees for the past 30 years making laws to protect these corporations because they contribute major money to their campaigns.

This nation’s economy is burning away as fast as the wild fires in California are burning through dry acreage.  Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan Chase are still trading hundreds of trillions of dollars in exotic derivatives and collecting bigger than ever bonuses.  There

has been no substantial structural change in our banking and financial systems.  Private debt has been transferred into public debt.  The dollar is sinking.  Real unemployment is around 18% and climbing.

We have reached peak oil, peak water, peak topsoil and are being poisoned by uranium ash and effluent from coal mining and coal burning.  The majority of the world’s top scientists acknowledge rapidly accelerating climate change, due at least in part, to human activity.  Yet, the coal and oil lobbies in Washington are winning.

Saturn symbolizes the “powers-that-be” – those whose wealth puts them in control – the institutions whose energy goes into maintaining themselves either for the greater good through maintaining order or at every one else’s expense.  Uranus represents innovation, change, and the interests of the people-at-large.  When they stand up against one another, history tells us that the darkest expressions of each of these planetary archetypes seem to present themselves.  They do not seem to be willing to compromise or modify their positions.   Instead, they go head to head on the defensive and nobody wins.  Sen. Ted Kennedy’s strength was his determination to accomplish his goal and his ability to make compromises with the other side of the isle in order to get the job done.  The void that is left in his absence will either be filled with demons or angels.  Stay tuned!

Weather & Travel:

Watch out for tropical storm activity to be serious and reoccurring back and forth as Mercury retrograde is square Pluto and opposition Uranus through Oct. 11^th.  Travel is especially dangerous the week of the 20^th.

The Economy

Mercury will retrograde from September 7^th through the 29^th, from Libra back into Virgo, marching over a square with Pluto, conjunction with Saturn and opposition with Uranus.  The new moon on the 18^th will hit the Saturn/Uranus opposition.  The Cabal will likely be unable to continue the “spin” about the bogus economic “recovery” as more layoffs, bankruptcies, and foreclosures hit the proverbial fan.  Pluto goes direct on September 11^th, making another opposition to the U.S.A. Venus (currency) and emergency meetings will be held behind closed doors about the fate of the dollar.  Oddly, I do not think gold will move upward in a major sense since Venus in Leo will oppose Neptune and inconjunct Uranus between the 15^th and the 16^th.  A bullish gold move will likely take place in October.

The new chart for Goldman Sachs is getting hit this month and will get a harder hit between April and July of 2010.  Could we see more disclosures of their tactics to enrich themselves at the expense of the global economy?  Who will blow the whistle this time around? 

Pres. Obama announced his reappointment of Ben Bernanke to Chair the Federal Reserve, who was clueless about the crashing mortgage market in 2007 and rushed to save the guys at the top – the big banks who committed all the crimes against solvency and are rewarding themselves with raises and bonuses.  Interestingly, Ron Paul seems to be making headway with Congress as his bill to audit the Federal Reserve will come out of committee this month.  I do not agree with Ron Paul that the government should get out of everything, including social security and health care, but I agree with his total honesty about the economy, the gold standard, fiat money, and the unsustainable debt in which this nation is now drowning.  I question the value of the existence of the Federal Reserve, a cartel of banks acting in their own interests.  They are supposed to provide stability in the banking system.  Recent history has thrown that idea out the window!   I appreciate Ron Paul’s voting against the Iraq war (as did Ted Kennedy) and his conviction that we should stay out of wars with nations who do not attack us.  The escalating war in Afghanistan is taking another shredding device to our economy and the national deficit.

The only positive thing about appointing Bernanke is that the president did not appoint Lawrence Summers, as had been suggested.  Summers is the architect of global financial deregulation and a major force in the collapse of economies throughout the world.  He convinced many sovereign wealth funds to invest in derivatives connected to toxic mortgages back in 2007.  He is behind getting rid the the Glass-Steagal Act and passing the Commodities Modernization Act at the end of the Clinton years to which I have referred in past newsletters.

Other Nations:

Nations whose charts are taking hits from the Saturn/Uranus opposition are: Columbia, Honduras, Mexico, The Netherlands, and Egypt.  They will all suffer from threats to their leadership, ethnic and religious rivalries, and problems with immigration.  Afghanistan’s election, widely believed to be fraudulent, will not solve its underlying problem; that it is a nation in name only and a poor and unorganized group of tribes who are living no differently that they did 1000 years ago, and whose only economy is based on narcotics.

President Barak Obama:

To date, the promises made for real substantial change in direction by this president are not appearing.  Thus, he is losing both the progressive constituency and the “independents” that helped get him elected.  We must recognize that he came into office coinciding with the biggest economic collapse in modern history, two unjustifiable and terrible wars, serious climate change, and at the end of the age of oil.  But I expected to see a person who “stood for something” at his core.  To date, many are questioning just where he stands on the significant issues of our time.  However, it is evident that every great leader has not necessarily started out being great.  Lincoln was not against slavery at first and Roosevelt made many failed attempts to turn the great depression around without success.  Both of them eventually stood up and fought for powerful ideas that changed the course of history.

My take is that President Obama is a Faustian figure; a man who has made a deal with the Devil in order to attain this high office.  The Devil, in this case, is composed of the financial “cabal” of bankers and corporations who have controlled America for a long time.  The Roosevelts had their own money and historic stature as did the Kennedys.  Obama, who, relatively speaking, came out of thin air, has defined himself by marching  through the established corridors and pathways to success – top student at Harvard and Columbia Universities, being popular with everybody and stirring up no controversy. If he had been in any sense “controversial” as an African American in the U.S., he probably would not have gotten to first base.  He paid his dues and has also paid a big price.

Now the time of reckoning is descending upon him.  It is becoming obvious that he is continuing many of the economic and military policies that the worst president in modern times, George W. Bush, put into place.  He has appointed as his most important advisors either Cabal members or Cabal camp followers.  He can no longer get by on personal charm and a good speech.

In October, Saturn enters Libra and will square Pluto for nearly a year.  Mars enters the sign of Leo (Obama’s Sun sign) and will go back and forth in this sign (retrograde/direct) between October 17^th 2009 through June 7^th 2010.  Amidst the crises these planets precipitate, he could get rid of many of the insider “bad guys” and bring in economists and advisors who have intelligence, integrity, and a passion to work with him to change the course of history.  He could define what he really believes and who he really is.  Ironically, it is possible he could risk everything by doing so, but if he does not, he risks losing his soul.  The choice, in the last analysis, is only his to make.

 Linda

Linda Schurman