July 13, 2005Metaversal Waterweek (July 13-20)
We interrupt this broadcast to bring you another special Metaversal report from our friend in the field (and orbiting the stars) Johannes Ayres...
THE METAVERSAL LIGHTCRAFT
HYPER-ABYSSIC ASTROLOGY FORECAST
AND LIGHT SPECIFIC YOGA PLATFORM
WEDNESDAY, JULY 13th
Let clarity cloud confusion when the Mercury/Neptune opposition culminates at 4:22 am PDT, perhaps giving us some amazing dreams. It's dank and celestial at the same time. It's orange and green and I'm sorry about that, but I happen to like the combination. What is the dream and what is real?, Beware of unfounded fears or sensitivity this morning. Neptune is like that. You gotta love the planet that rules both truth and illusion, the dream and the reality, clarity and confusion. Uncertainty is a principle to use to our benefit, for the unknown is the field of all possibilities. Here's somewhere you can dispense with tedious distractions. The world will go on without you for a while. Let it, I say. You'll be back there soon enough.
The Moon is in Libra today. Libra represents the period from 23 to 42 years old, when partnerships are made and balance is sought between others and oneself. On the World scale Libra is between 400 and 1100 AD, when division of the church and state took over, and the Dark Ages swept over Europe and Asia. The opposition is symbolic of the fact that in order to emerge from the unconscious, internal conflicts must be brought out into the light of day. Marriage was the primary process through which opposing countries where integrated into a whole. With the Moon in Libra we are aware of our communal relations, law, justice and balance. The 7th house (Libra) has been called the house of marriage. The key to the New Aeon of MA'AT is figuring out the new symbol for Libra, as the institution of marriage was designed as a tool by the Church to secure it's future domination. Those that cannot find this new symbol and perform these symbolic rites on themselves and their tribe, and the whole fabric of material being.
Today we have a another occultation of Jupiter by the Moon in Libra). It is through our relationship that we really get to know ourselves. Like your self today. I do. I think the record number of Jupiter occultations this year indicates the weakening of established governments, which are associated with Jupiter. This one is total throughout South America, although not visible, for it occurs in the daytime. Whether your making it, moving to it, or simply listening to it, tonight is a great musick night.
THURSDAY, JULY 14th
The Moon touches off Tuesday's Sun/Mars aspect as it opposes Mars at 7:15 am PDT. Aggressive energy is the name of the game, for Pluto sits at the same degree as these three explosive planets, and will add its violence and intensity to the party. This can jumpstart the day and, of course, bring us more opportunities to practice loving kindness. Ahem.
First Quarter Moon at 23 Libra occurs at 11:20 am, which means it must be what we at the Core refer to as the week of elemental Water in our Metaversal Lunar Calendar. Fire week began with the Cancer New Moon, encouraging us to focus on securing the ramparts. Aum-land security comes with regular meditation. Now sweet Libra comes along to say that we need allies if we are going to be ourselves. This Moon was seeded by the Cancer New Moon of a week ago. But it was also seeded, in its larger cycle, by the Solar Eclipse at 22 Libra of October 13, 2004. At that eclipse, violence by both the U.S. and Israel picked up enormously. Also, it was then that Bush refused to sign the international treaty regarding women's equality-because it mentions sexual freedom. (This sounds more like a hard-line Islamic government!) The insurgents also (of course) picked up strength. Now the next act opens. And we move into a very new (and difficult) energy field, The entire morning preceding First Quarter is active. We'll probably be up early, maybe calling friends and associates. We'll want to take the initiative in contacting people. Animals will love this day They're thrilled about it. They'll romp and squeal and butt their horns and roll on their bellies like there's no tomorrow. But mostly they'll just amble along in quiet amazement at their own pure satisfaction.
FRIDAY, JULY 15th
This is a very hard-hitting moon. Moon is in forceful Scorpio, and at the same time Scorpio's two planets, Pluto and Mars, are working together beautifully as they trine one another. Transformation of power is happening. For the next two and a half days, secret desires, hidden fears and subconscious drives surface more easily. Scorpio represents the period from 42 years old to Death, when ones sense of Time compacts and passes rapidly. Since this stage is the last in the life of the human biological machine, it's now time to transcend the confines of the mortal body and to assure continued existence, either you breed (pass on your DNA) or step out of the loop (become your DNA). On the World scale, Scorpio is between AD 1100 and AD 1500, when the Dark Ages reached their peak. This is the Time of the Crusades and the Inquisition, when Pain, Bloodshed and Oppression swept over Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, after the uneasy alliances made during Libra. This is the sign of the Shadow. Successfully navigated, one can experience healthy, flowing spontaneous sexuality, an acceptance of Death and an integration of its reality into daily life, thus gaining a sense of the immortality of consciousness.
Moon trines Uranus, to throw some thebeesareinthewhatnow? and excitement into the picture. The creator by imagination, Ouranus represents the striving to break out of the lockstep of structure, independence from control. Revolution. Bio/electrick energy working through the sympathetic nervous system. Reinventing ourself. We can do hard things today, things which promote our desires and build strange bridges and arousing otherworldly passions, the eye opening each thing like poetic treasure, perceiving at work within it, the divine imagination that animates the world. A mantra uncrated by a widow is their [I am a voice made out of chemicals and you can interrupt this dictation by rolling over onto your back then returning to the original position, if you can find it again. This resets the words as a lottery tumbler would shuffle tickets by the revolving of its drum] treestumps is responsible for your travelling without volition in complete darkness through a familiar but unknown neighbourhood in a state of somnolevitation. Get the responsibilities taken care of early so the rest of the day and night can be devoted to our Lady Aphrodite. The Eternal Feminine will lure to perfection.
SATURDAY, JULY 16th
Finally! Saturn enters Leo! And bang-very big challenges confront us. For starters, Moon is in intense Scorpio. It is part of a very close fixed grand square, which is almost the exact degrees of the August 11, 1999 Great Solar (Apoc)-clipse. Remember that the path of this eclipse went from New York across the Atlantic, over Europe (now having many problems), the Balkans, and the Middle East, into India. The 1999 Great Solar (Apoc)-clipse was at 19 Leo, opposing Uranus in Aquarius, and squaring Saturn in Taurus and Mars in Scorpio. This is why we at the Core are living in the Post-Apocalyptic Rennaissaince. After the end, before the begin, as Chronzon was so fond of saying. Here we have Mercury opposing Neptune, Moon opposing Juno, and all squaring one another between 17-19 degrees of the fixed signs. In addition, Saturn just entered fixed sign Leo, and opposes Chiron in fixed sign Aquarius. Plus Venus in Leo makes a very close grand fire trine with Mars and Pluto. Fireworks! Fixed signs change with difficulty, conflict, and crisis, but their changes tend to be permanent.
We see here the kernel of the unfolding story of Saturn's two-year journey in Leo. Kings and Presidents fall here. Every planet and asteroid is closely involved now. That translates to everybody and to all of society. The squeeze is on. A fixed grand square can sometimes feel like a being in a pressure cooker, or being held against the wall. Hello Karl. There is no escape. In Washington DC, Juno is overhead. Juno represents fear, terror, and abuse-as well as partnership. In Taurus there can be an overwhelming fear of not getting "my due." One can never get enough. Moon in Scorpio sits at the bottom, tough and ruthless about getting what it wants. These are the two instrumental energies. We're hearing about the U.S. torture policy. We haven't seen anything yet! Mass torture may become routine. All IN OUR NAME.
Leo Venus is close to the Leo Ascendant. I consider Leo to be the strongest sign. It is indeed the sign of the Sun, our source of life. Venus in Leo creates its drama to express its values and desires. Venus now runs the show, from a bit behind the scenes. It conjoins the Bush Venus. Neptune is their fatal flaw here. It leaves reality behind, and at some point, reality will intrude. The U.S. cannot go on with this destructive rampage. We cannot put up with it. We are now entering a period of great trial and tribulation. We cannot let the U.S. open the gate further by going to war with Iran. Revolution is not just a song by John Lennon.
SUNDAY, JULY 17th
Moon is in Sagittarius, and the mood is more optimistic. It is also easier for us to work with spirit. The current energy is very creative, and visionary activist artists like you and I can and will have, a field day. If anything just print out the following and give a copy to at least 20 people who might not already know.
George and Tony Get their al-Qaeda Fix
Monday, July 11, 2005
By Greg Palast
The tooth fairy, Santa Clause, WorldCom profits, the Easter Bunny, al-Qaeda. The cruel, evil jerks who blew up the London subway last week, despite appropriating al-Qaeda's name for their website and T-shirts, have about as much to do with al-Qaeda as a Beatles tribute band has to do with the Fab Four.For all the horror, hoopla and hair-pulling, this was no September 11. Timmy McVeigh slaughtered a heck of a lot more people in Oklahoma City with his cow-poop bomb. I'm not belittling the heartbreaking hideousness of this crime, but let's get the facts straight. If al-Qaeda is the Panzer Division of terrorism, these London bombers were terrorism's Cub Scouts. We're talking a few pounds of nitro wired to a clock -- a design badly copied off the Internet. A witness watched some Arabic-looking teenager nervously checking his bag on a bus which, London's un-hysterical police now believe, he accidentally triggered, blowing apart himself and a bunch of unlucky commuters.
Al-Qaeda this ain't. All the evidence is that this half-assed attack was the work of some poor young Muslim schmucks, possibly whipped into a frenzy by the mewling mullah of Finsbury Park, Omar Bakri Mohammed, a cleric who enjoyed the comfortable middle-class dullness of England during the week while on weekends preaching, "a 9/11, day after day after day" to punish his Western hosts. It's not al-Qaeda, but for George and Tony, it's good enough. Blair's Foreign Secretary dramatically dashed out to tell us that the explosions had the "hallmarks of al-Qaeda." Our Commander in Chief, looking as commanding as possible (no reading of kiddie stories this time), could not have been more satisfied. The "hallmarks of al-Qaeda"? That's not true and Blair knows it. And Bush knows it. And that's no little matter, my friends. Because Blair and Bush are al-Qaeda junkies. They've sold us on everything from fingerprinting five-year olds to invading Baghdad to tolerating plummeting paychecks all on the slick line that we are under attack by a well-trained, well-armed, well-funded hidden army called al-Qaeda. But our War President and War Prime Minister are having a little problem with their war on terror. The enemy's gone AWOL. Except when we go LOOKING for trouble -- as in invading a Mesopotamian country -- trouble pretty much stopped looking for us. Even September 11. Forgive me for pointing this out, but no matter how horrific, it was in the end the deed of a couple dozen fundamentalist fruitcakes with box-cutters hankering for a hot time with virgins in the next life who got "lucky." Yes, unlike the London attack, the "luck" of the September 11 hijackers required the sick genius of monied operatives and a Washington administration that operated with eyes wide shut toward Saudi gangsterism.
But now al-Qaeda's luck's run out, not because Bush has us taking off our shoes in airports, but because, overwhelmingly, Muslims in this world really have no attraction to killing kids or commuters. For Bush and Blair, organized terror's diminishing powers was a political problem -- until last week, when the al-Queda addicts of the White House and Downing Street got a new terror fix. Even if it wasn't the real al-Qaeda, it was enough for them to mainline into the body politic a big, fat dose of fear. Now, with world media all jumped up on its latest fear high, Bush and Blair can resume their sales pitch: more weaponry, less liberty. FDR calmed a nation when he said, "We have nothing to fear but fear itself." But the Bush and Blair slogan is, "We have nothing to sell but fear itself."
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Greg Palast is the author of the New York Times bestseller, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy. Subscribe to his commentaries or view his investigative reports for BBC Television at www.GregPalast.com.
MONDAY, JULY 18th
Moon is traveling through Sag, with excellent aspects. Our Lady Luna enters Sagittarius at 1:57 p.m. Sagittarius represents, on the level of the first octave, the period between Conception and 7 weeks, the first Lunar month after the sperm reaches the egg, and is a compacted pattern at a molecular time scale of the entire life of the cellular body. The embryo develops in parallel with the earlier phases of evolution, retaining memory of these structures in the brain. On the level of the fourth octave (see Chapter 9 of the Metaversal Lightcraft Training Manual for more on the Four Octaves), Sagittarius represents Initiation beyond the realms of Death (Scorpio). On the World scale, Sag occupies the period between AD 1500 and AD 1750, The Renaissance. This was the time when astrology, mathematics, musick and geometry were understood as divine techniques for communicating with the Soul of the World. With the Moon in Sagittarius we are into philosophical speculation, adventure, and foreign influences, and actions that expand the awareness through gathering unfamiliar experiences. Late night can be very loving.
TUESDAY, JULY 19th
Moon in Capricorn is sending its monthly transmission from Galactic Center. By tonight the Moon is visible along the shaft of the arrow in the constellation of the Archer. The tip of this Arrow points directly at Galactic Center. Also worth noting is Venus to about 3.5 degrees to the right of Regulus, the heart of the Lion, reminding us of the importance of loving ourselves and the divinity we all carry within us. Venus is now only 45 degrees away from Jupiter, catching up to Jupiter on Sep 2. It is worth keeping an eye on these two planets as the distance between them closes. Venus outshines Jupiter although both are easy to spot as the brightest planets currently in the night sky.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 20th
Venus in Leo and Mars in Aries trine each other with Pluto in Sagittarius completing a Grand Trine in fire inspiring our hearts and minds with expansive heart felt ideas that when we act upon them are designed to take us into new territory. Fullest rise of the Moon is tonight with the exact Full Moon at 4 am PDT tomorrow morning. This means the Moon is rising closest to Sunset tonight about 20 to 30 minutes before Sunset depending on your horizon line. This is the closest Full Moon to Earth this year and may appear especially large as was last month's Full Moon. And when I am done with my wanderings, I too will appear especially large upon those dewavèd sands, crawled upon by starfish radiant beneath the earth's shadow, and there will I surrender myself to the first tongues of water, a salt doll waiting for its ocean.
THE METAVERSAL LIGHTCRAFTHYPER-ABYSSIC ASTROLOGY FORECAST
AND LIGHT SPECIFIC YOGA PLATFORM
WEDNESDAY, JULY 13th
Let clarity cloud confusion when the Mercury/Neptune opposition culminates at 4:22 am PDT, perhaps giving us some amazing dreams. It's dank and celestial at the same time. It's orange and green and I'm sorry about that, but I happen to like the combination. What is the dream and what is real?, Beware of unfounded fears or sensitivity this morning. Neptune is like that. You gotta love the planet that rules both truth and illusion, the dream and the reality, clarity and confusion. Uncertainty is a principle to use to our benefit, for the unknown is the field of all possibilities. Here's somewhere you can dispense with tedious distractions. The world will go on without you for a while. Let it, I say. You'll be back there soon enough.
The Moon is in Libra today. Libra represents the period from 23 to 42 years old, when partnerships are made and balance is sought between others and oneself. On the World scale Libra is between 400 and 1100 AD, when division of the church and state took over, and the Dark Ages swept over Europe and Asia. The opposition is symbolic of the fact that in order to emerge from the unconscious, internal conflicts must be brought out into the light of day. Marriage was the primary process through which opposing countries where integrated into a whole. With the Moon in Libra we are aware of our communal relations, law, justice and balance. The 7th house (Libra) has been called the house of marriage. The key to the New Aeon of MA'AT is figuring out the new symbol for Libra, as the institution of marriage was designed as a tool by the Church to secure it's future domination. Those that cannot find this new symbol and perform these symbolic rites on themselves and their tribe, and the whole fabric of material being.
Today we have a another occultation of Jupiter by the Moon in Libra). It is through our relationship that we really get to know ourselves. Like your self today. I do. I think the record number of Jupiter occultations this year indicates the weakening of established governments, which are associated with Jupiter. This one is total throughout South America, although not visible, for it occurs in the daytime. Whether your making it, moving to it, or simply listening to it, tonight is a great musick night.
THURSDAY, JULY 14th
The Moon touches off Tuesday's Sun/Mars aspect as it opposes Mars at 7:15 am PDT. Aggressive energy is the name of the game, for Pluto sits at the same degree as these three explosive planets, and will add its violence and intensity to the party. This can jumpstart the day and, of course, bring us more opportunities to practice loving kindness. Ahem.
First Quarter Moon at 23 Libra occurs at 11:20 am, which means it must be what we at the Core refer to as the week of elemental Water in our Metaversal Lunar Calendar. Fire week began with the Cancer New Moon, encouraging us to focus on securing the ramparts. Aum-land security comes with regular meditation. Now sweet Libra comes along to say that we need allies if we are going to be ourselves. This Moon was seeded by the Cancer New Moon of a week ago. But it was also seeded, in its larger cycle, by the Solar Eclipse at 22 Libra of October 13, 2004. At that eclipse, violence by both the U.S. and Israel picked up enormously. Also, it was then that Bush refused to sign the international treaty regarding women's equality-because it mentions sexual freedom. (This sounds more like a hard-line Islamic government!) The insurgents also (of course) picked up strength. Now the next act opens. And we move into a very new (and difficult) energy field, The entire morning preceding First Quarter is active. We'll probably be up early, maybe calling friends and associates. We'll want to take the initiative in contacting people. Animals will love this day They're thrilled about it. They'll romp and squeal and butt their horns and roll on their bellies like there's no tomorrow. But mostly they'll just amble along in quiet amazement at their own pure satisfaction.
FRIDAY, JULY 15th
This is a very hard-hitting moon. Moon is in forceful Scorpio, and at the same time Scorpio's two planets, Pluto and Mars, are working together beautifully as they trine one another. Transformation of power is happening. For the next two and a half days, secret desires, hidden fears and subconscious drives surface more easily. Scorpio represents the period from 42 years old to Death, when ones sense of Time compacts and passes rapidly. Since this stage is the last in the life of the human biological machine, it's now time to transcend the confines of the mortal body and to assure continued existence, either you breed (pass on your DNA) or step out of the loop (become your DNA). On the World scale, Scorpio is between AD 1100 and AD 1500, when the Dark Ages reached their peak. This is the Time of the Crusades and the Inquisition, when Pain, Bloodshed and Oppression swept over Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, after the uneasy alliances made during Libra. This is the sign of the Shadow. Successfully navigated, one can experience healthy, flowing spontaneous sexuality, an acceptance of Death and an integration of its reality into daily life, thus gaining a sense of the immortality of consciousness.
Moon trines Uranus, to throw some thebeesareinthewhatnow? and excitement into the picture. The creator by imagination, Ouranus represents the striving to break out of the lockstep of structure, independence from control. Revolution. Bio/electrick energy working through the sympathetic nervous system. Reinventing ourself. We can do hard things today, things which promote our desires and build strange bridges and arousing otherworldly passions, the eye opening each thing like poetic treasure, perceiving at work within it, the divine imagination that animates the world. A mantra uncrated by a widow is their [I am a voice made out of chemicals and you can interrupt this dictation by rolling over onto your back then returning to the original position, if you can find it again. This resets the words as a lottery tumbler would shuffle tickets by the revolving of its drum] treestumps is responsible for your travelling without volition in complete darkness through a familiar but unknown neighbourhood in a state of somnolevitation. Get the responsibilities taken care of early so the rest of the day and night can be devoted to our Lady Aphrodite. The Eternal Feminine will lure to perfection.
SATURDAY, JULY 16th
Finally! Saturn enters Leo! And bang-very big challenges confront us. For starters, Moon is in intense Scorpio. It is part of a very close fixed grand square, which is almost the exact degrees of the August 11, 1999 Great Solar (Apoc)-clipse. Remember that the path of this eclipse went from New York across the Atlantic, over Europe (now having many problems), the Balkans, and the Middle East, into India. The 1999 Great Solar (Apoc)-clipse was at 19 Leo, opposing Uranus in Aquarius, and squaring Saturn in Taurus and Mars in Scorpio. This is why we at the Core are living in the Post-Apocalyptic Rennaissaince. After the end, before the begin, as Chronzon was so fond of saying. Here we have Mercury opposing Neptune, Moon opposing Juno, and all squaring one another between 17-19 degrees of the fixed signs. In addition, Saturn just entered fixed sign Leo, and opposes Chiron in fixed sign Aquarius. Plus Venus in Leo makes a very close grand fire trine with Mars and Pluto. Fireworks! Fixed signs change with difficulty, conflict, and crisis, but their changes tend to be permanent.
We see here the kernel of the unfolding story of Saturn's two-year journey in Leo. Kings and Presidents fall here. Every planet and asteroid is closely involved now. That translates to everybody and to all of society. The squeeze is on. A fixed grand square can sometimes feel like a being in a pressure cooker, or being held against the wall. Hello Karl. There is no escape. In Washington DC, Juno is overhead. Juno represents fear, terror, and abuse-as well as partnership. In Taurus there can be an overwhelming fear of not getting "my due." One can never get enough. Moon in Scorpio sits at the bottom, tough and ruthless about getting what it wants. These are the two instrumental energies. We're hearing about the U.S. torture policy. We haven't seen anything yet! Mass torture may become routine. All IN OUR NAME.
Leo Venus is close to the Leo Ascendant. I consider Leo to be the strongest sign. It is indeed the sign of the Sun, our source of life. Venus in Leo creates its drama to express its values and desires. Venus now runs the show, from a bit behind the scenes. It conjoins the Bush Venus. Neptune is their fatal flaw here. It leaves reality behind, and at some point, reality will intrude. The U.S. cannot go on with this destructive rampage. We cannot put up with it. We are now entering a period of great trial and tribulation. We cannot let the U.S. open the gate further by going to war with Iran. Revolution is not just a song by John Lennon.
SUNDAY, JULY 17th
Moon is in Sagittarius, and the mood is more optimistic. It is also easier for us to work with spirit. The current energy is very creative, and visionary activist artists like you and I can and will have, a field day. If anything just print out the following and give a copy to at least 20 people who might not already know.
George and Tony Get their al-Qaeda Fix
Monday, July 11, 2005
By Greg Palast
The tooth fairy, Santa Clause, WorldCom profits, the Easter Bunny, al-Qaeda. The cruel, evil jerks who blew up the London subway last week, despite appropriating al-Qaeda's name for their website and T-shirts, have about as much to do with al-Qaeda as a Beatles tribute band has to do with the Fab Four.For all the horror, hoopla and hair-pulling, this was no September 11. Timmy McVeigh slaughtered a heck of a lot more people in Oklahoma City with his cow-poop bomb. I'm not belittling the heartbreaking hideousness of this crime, but let's get the facts straight. If al-Qaeda is the Panzer Division of terrorism, these London bombers were terrorism's Cub Scouts. We're talking a few pounds of nitro wired to a clock -- a design badly copied off the Internet. A witness watched some Arabic-looking teenager nervously checking his bag on a bus which, London's un-hysterical police now believe, he accidentally triggered, blowing apart himself and a bunch of unlucky commuters.
Al-Qaeda this ain't. All the evidence is that this half-assed attack was the work of some poor young Muslim schmucks, possibly whipped into a frenzy by the mewling mullah of Finsbury Park, Omar Bakri Mohammed, a cleric who enjoyed the comfortable middle-class dullness of England during the week while on weekends preaching, "a 9/11, day after day after day" to punish his Western hosts. It's not al-Qaeda, but for George and Tony, it's good enough. Blair's Foreign Secretary dramatically dashed out to tell us that the explosions had the "hallmarks of al-Qaeda." Our Commander in Chief, looking as commanding as possible (no reading of kiddie stories this time), could not have been more satisfied. The "hallmarks of al-Qaeda"? That's not true and Blair knows it. And Bush knows it. And that's no little matter, my friends. Because Blair and Bush are al-Qaeda junkies. They've sold us on everything from fingerprinting five-year olds to invading Baghdad to tolerating plummeting paychecks all on the slick line that we are under attack by a well-trained, well-armed, well-funded hidden army called al-Qaeda. But our War President and War Prime Minister are having a little problem with their war on terror. The enemy's gone AWOL. Except when we go LOOKING for trouble -- as in invading a Mesopotamian country -- trouble pretty much stopped looking for us. Even September 11. Forgive me for pointing this out, but no matter how horrific, it was in the end the deed of a couple dozen fundamentalist fruitcakes with box-cutters hankering for a hot time with virgins in the next life who got "lucky." Yes, unlike the London attack, the "luck" of the September 11 hijackers required the sick genius of monied operatives and a Washington administration that operated with eyes wide shut toward Saudi gangsterism.
But now al-Qaeda's luck's run out, not because Bush has us taking off our shoes in airports, but because, overwhelmingly, Muslims in this world really have no attraction to killing kids or commuters. For Bush and Blair, organized terror's diminishing powers was a political problem -- until last week, when the al-Queda addicts of the White House and Downing Street got a new terror fix. Even if it wasn't the real al-Qaeda, it was enough for them to mainline into the body politic a big, fat dose of fear. Now, with world media all jumped up on its latest fear high, Bush and Blair can resume their sales pitch: more weaponry, less liberty. FDR calmed a nation when he said, "We have nothing to fear but fear itself." But the Bush and Blair slogan is, "We have nothing to sell but fear itself."
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Greg Palast is the author of the New York Times bestseller, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy. Subscribe to his commentaries or view his investigative reports for BBC Television at www.GregPalast.com.
MONDAY, JULY 18th
Moon is traveling through Sag, with excellent aspects. Our Lady Luna enters Sagittarius at 1:57 p.m. Sagittarius represents, on the level of the first octave, the period between Conception and 7 weeks, the first Lunar month after the sperm reaches the egg, and is a compacted pattern at a molecular time scale of the entire life of the cellular body. The embryo develops in parallel with the earlier phases of evolution, retaining memory of these structures in the brain. On the level of the fourth octave (see Chapter 9 of the Metaversal Lightcraft Training Manual for more on the Four Octaves), Sagittarius represents Initiation beyond the realms of Death (Scorpio). On the World scale, Sag occupies the period between AD 1500 and AD 1750, The Renaissance. This was the time when astrology, mathematics, musick and geometry were understood as divine techniques for communicating with the Soul of the World. With the Moon in Sagittarius we are into philosophical speculation, adventure, and foreign influences, and actions that expand the awareness through gathering unfamiliar experiences. Late night can be very loving.
TUESDAY, JULY 19th
Moon in Capricorn is sending its monthly transmission from Galactic Center. By tonight the Moon is visible along the shaft of the arrow in the constellation of the Archer. The tip of this Arrow points directly at Galactic Center. Also worth noting is Venus to about 3.5 degrees to the right of Regulus, the heart of the Lion, reminding us of the importance of loving ourselves and the divinity we all carry within us. Venus is now only 45 degrees away from Jupiter, catching up to Jupiter on Sep 2. It is worth keeping an eye on these two planets as the distance between them closes. Venus outshines Jupiter although both are easy to spot as the brightest planets currently in the night sky.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 20th
Venus in Leo and Mars in Aries trine each other with Pluto in Sagittarius completing a Grand Trine in fire inspiring our hearts and minds with expansive heart felt ideas that when we act upon them are designed to take us into new territory. Fullest rise of the Moon is tonight with the exact Full Moon at 4 am PDT tomorrow morning. This means the Moon is rising closest to Sunset tonight about 20 to 30 minutes before Sunset depending on your horizon line. This is the closest Full Moon to Earth this year and may appear especially large as was last month's Full Moon. And when I am done with my wanderings, I too will appear especially large upon those dewavèd sands, crawled upon by starfish radiant beneath the earth's shadow, and there will I surrender myself to the first tongues of water, a salt doll waiting for its ocean.
