A Galactic Moment
June 16, 2006 (with picture)
http://cainer.com/ericfrancis/june16.html
Dear Readers:
Greetings from
El Soul, our Sun, is now opposite Pluto and the Galactic
Core, reaching across 24 through 27 degrees of Gemini between now and the
weekend. The Earth is currently positioned between the Sun and the core of the
Milky Way galaxy, our home. Observers most places on Earth can now see the
galactic arms, appearing as cloudy white streaks, spread across the sky at
night. The core is located in the sign Sagittarius (both tropical and
sidereal). When the Sun is in Gemini as it now is, we look out in the direction
of its opposite sign (Sagg) at night.
The precise opposition
between the three points -- Sun, Earth, Galactic Core -- is Sunday, June 18 at
3:44 pm EDT, 8:44 pm BST. This opposition occurs once per year. Then, in the
winter, the alignment happens the other way just before solstice, when the Sun
conjoins the core, and we get all that strange "holiday season"
pressure where time seems like it's going a million miles per hour. Notably,
December 18, 2006, there is an unusual alignment of Jupiter, Moon, Mars,
Mercury, Pluto and Sun in Sagittarius, joining in what seems like a huge party
for the first arrival of Pluto exactly at the core.
Note in this chart that we are extremely close to the
Mars-Saturn conjunction, which occurred just a few hours earlier.
How do we interpret these alignments? Hmmm. Where the core
is involved, it's high vibration stuff, for sure, and it's not particularly
easy to comprehend intellectually. There's a New Age saying that "love
brings up everything unlike itself," so if we wonder why the world is
going insane as these alignments with the GC grow in intensity, we may be
witnessing that very phenomenon.
We need to watch, study, and learn from the patterns, and
create as we go. Every insane behavior we see exhibited in society, or unloving
emotion we feel in ourselves, there exists an option for; none of them are
mandatory, if we're willing to embrace the source of life. It seems strange to
predict too much, much more appropriate to see the possibilities and consider
our options. Sometimes the Galactic Core seems too overwhelming to understand
-- scientists agree with that statement too, as relatively little is known about
it. What can you really say about the center of a galaxy of 300 billion stars?
What is it like when you reach the core, as the stars
cluster together and the night sky is as light as the daytime sky? How does
time feel at the center, where everything is light? And are the people who live
there wondering what it's like to be out on the far-flung edge, where we live,
far from what may be our original home?
For the ancient Mayans, life emerged from something they
called the Road to Xibalba, which is a dark streak across the center of the
galaxy. Part of why 2012 is considered such an crucial date in the Mayan
calendar system is because the winter solstice point or first degree of
Capricorn comes into very close alignment with the dark band, which is true today
even six years before the fact. Each time there's a Sun-Earth alignment with
this point -- that is, at each change of seasons, such as right now -- we get a
kind of holographic pre-play of what happens in 2012. If we work with this
energy consciously, we can learn how to handle it, how to avoid catastrophe,
and moreover, how to use it creatively.
Astrology has only recently begun to get acquainted with the
GC, and an increasing number of astrologers are factoring it into their work,
even if it's not well understood. Philip Sedgwick, a specialist in deep space
astrology, proposes that those individuals with the Galactic Core prominent in
their chart -- conjunct an inner planet (Sun, Moon, Mercury, Mars, Venus,
Ceres) or an angle (ascendant, descendant, MC/IC) -- reveal a potential link
"with whatever is behind all this."
All this, as in the appearance of reality; we all know there
is a deeper world, and the prominence of the GC creates or allows access to the
feeling of its existence on a personal level. According to Sedgwick, whose
views have been summarized in the Astrology Encyclopedia, "When this
transpersonal link is ignored, the individual can experience stress and
confusion; when it is consciously appropriated, information can be grasped that
the individual may seem to have no outward way of knowing."
That sounds like intuitive knowledge; knowledge from the
core to which we must listen, in order to keep our bearings. We do have some
kind of direct experience when the Sun makes its conjunction or opposition each
year.
And we will slowly find out more about this point as Pluto
continues to work it over, between later this year and late 2007. We had a
close but not exact alignment when Pluto stationed retrograde in late March
(part of the 3/29 cluster). The exact, to-the-minute alignments between Pluto
and the core are Dec. 29, 2006, July 16, 2007, and Oct. 27, 2007.
Then, it does not happen again until Jan. 24, 2253. And when
was the last time? Throughout 1759, as the great revolutions of the 18th century
(and the ideas that led to them) were brewing. Here is a link to the dates: http://snipurl.com/rthu
ASR archive on the Galactic Core
Wiki on the Milky Way
Wiki on the Galactic Core
Sagittarius Moonwalk
ASTROLOGY usually looks forward, but let's take a look back
at the past extraordinary week in world history, when we had a Full Moon in the
global sign Sagittarius, very close to Pluto and the Galactic Core, and at the
same time experienced a grand cross involving Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and
Chiron. The grand cross repeats at the solstice June 22 when the Moon, Mars,
Saturn, Jupiter and Chiron align; simultaneously with the Sun and the lunar
nodes aligning on the Aries Point.
You could say the past week was an exercise in global
dominance. Note the technology theme that keeps recurring, usually involving
control -- that, along with war and more war. This is, of course, only the news
that was reported in the mainstream media, and the same issues were largely
echoed in the alternative media [blogs and Internet news sites]. We can be sure
that many more things happened, but these are the collective issues that came
to the attention of people in the western world.
Thursday, June 8 begins our timeline, with full momentum
going into the Full Moon, which occurred Sunday, June 11. The grand cross,
Venus in Taurus version, was June 8 and 9.
Net Neutrality Backers Suffer Defeat in
Congress 08
June 2006 - Congressional Republicans dumped the idea of net neutrality. The
rejection of the principle that all data is equal came during a debate on the
wide-ranging Communications Opportunity, Promotion and Enhancement Act (Cope
Act). Neutrality, the current system, means that all data on the Net travels
with the same priority. Big business -- in particular, telecoms -- favor a
ranked system where certain data have higher priority, kind of like how a
private courier can get your package somewhere faster.
US Envoy John Bolton Threatens To Cut UN
Funding 09
June 2006 - In what was perhaps an empty threat, John Bolton, the
NSA Eyes Social Networking Sites 09 June 2006 - New Scientist
magazine reports that the top secret National Security Agency, the NSA, is funding
research on how to harvest information from social networking sites such as
MySpace and add them to individual profiles mined from banking, shopping,
property, phone and other records. Good thing they're busy fighting terrorism
spying on teenagers. What will they spy on next? Oops, don't ask...
Appeals Judges Rule Internet Telecom Fair
Game for Surveillance 09 June 2006 - A federal court of appeals ruled in favor of the FCC in
a recent government wiretapping case when they determined that ISPs (Internet
service providers), broadband providers, and university networks may be legally
spied upon. Private research institutions and corporations were exempted in the
ruling.
3
Taliban Resurgent In Afghanistan 11 June 2006 - The Taliban are
regrouping in
Bush Drops In To Visit Iraqi Prime Minister 13 June 2006 - US President Bush
made a top secret trip to the Green Zone in
US Teams Compete To Build The Next Nuclear
Bomb 13 June
2006 - The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the Los Alamos National
Laboratory in
Albert Just Makes It As First Hurricane Of
The Season
13 June 2006 - The first hurricane of the 2006 season just barely made
hurricane strength on Monday, clocking in at 66 MPH as it steamed toward the
Gulf Coast of Florida. You can't really get a speeding ticket for being one
mile per hour over the limit. But we have plenty of time for that.
US Opens New War Front in North Africa 14 June 2006 - The US has dubbed
Huge NATO Offensive Against Afghan
Insurgents To Start Thursday 14 June 2006 - 11,000 US, Canadian and British
soldiers are set to launch the largest offensive since the war being in 2001
against insurgent Taliban fighters in the Southern provinces. Their goal is not
to kill or capture the fighters, but to drive them out of the South altogether.
Casualties on all sides are starting to trickle in.
ACLU Sues Pentagon Over Anti-War Group
Monitoring
14 June 2006 - The American Civil Liberties Union sued the US Defense
Department on Wednesday to demand information it says the government has
collected on groups opposed to the war in Iraq. The group says the Pentagon has
been monitoring anti-war groups and individuals and has compiled lists on
people it sees as potential threats but who the ACLU says are exercising their
free-speech rights.
and almost as an afterthought:
Karl Rove Off The Hook? 13 June 2006 - Karl Rove's attorney
announced on Tuesday that Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald had written to
say that he "does not anticipate seeking charges" against Karl Rove, leading
many to state emphatically that Rove is now off the hook. Patrick Fitzgerald's
spokesman had no comment.
-- Additional research by Lise LePage, Judith Gayle and
Melanie Andrews
As For That Afterthought
Before I get to the astrology of this, let's set up the
story in case anyone has not been following along. Understanding this story
will get you an A in 'current events', and the chart is pretty darned
interesting.
truthout.org, one of the most popular alternative news
portals on the Internet, reported on May 13 that Karl Rove, "Bush's
Brain," had been indicted for his role in exposing the identity of a deep
cover CIA agent called Valerie Plame Wilson. Somebody high up in the Bush White
House did expose her identity, and this was in retaliation for the agent's
husband, Joseph Wilson, challenging Bush on whether Saddam Hussein was really
developing nuclear weapons.
A special prosecutor was named to investigate and bring
charges if necessary; his name is Patrick Fitzgerald. We've done his chart last
November. Rove being charged would have been big news -- but truthout seemed to
be the only place with the story. Here is what it looked like:
Karl Rove Indicted on Charges of Perjury,
Lying to Investigators By Jason Leopold
t r u t h o u t | Report
Saturday 13 May 2006
Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald spent more than half a
day Friday at the offices of Patton Boggs, the law firm representing Karl Rove.
During the course of that meeting, Fitzgerald served
attorneys for former Deputy White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove with an
indictment charging the embattled White House official with perjury and lying
to investigators related to his role in the CIA leak case, and instructed one
of the attorneys to tell Rove that he has 24 business hours to get his affairs
in order, high level sources with direct knowledge of the meeting said Saturday
morning.
Robert Luskin, Rove's attorney, did not return a call for
comment. Sources said Fitzgerald was in Washington, DC, Friday and met with
Luskin for about 15 hours to go over the charges against Rove, which include
perjury and lying to investigators about how and when Rove discovered that
Valerie Plame Wilson was a covert CIA operative and whether he shared that
information with reporters, sources with direct knowledge of the meeting said.
It was still unknown Saturday whether Fitzgerald charged
Rove with a more serious obstruction of justice charge. Sources close to the
case said Friday that it appeared very likely that an obstruction charge
against Rove would be included with charges of perjury and lying to
investigators.
This is the kind of story you obviously do with confidential
sources, and nobody else could track the story down. Further, truthout.org
reported that it was what's a called a "sealed indictment" -- that
is, a secret accusation that someone has committed a crime. An indictment or
Rove would be a big turning point in the history of the
Mainstream news pretty much ignored truthout's revelation --
however you can imagine that such a story made the big boys pretty nervous, in
case they missed it; a lot of people read truthout, and the "legit"
news portals did not have it. Nobody else had it. None of the blogs, not
RawStory.com, and this created a quite a bit of tension. Instead, many leftie
bloggers attacked Leopold for his supposed unreliability and demanded that he
come out with his sources. The issue went nowhere till this week.
Then June 13, Luskin issued a statement saying it wasn't so;
that Rove, his client, was off the hook.
"I can tell you this: Marc Ash, my editor, has spoken
with all of my sources," Leopold wrote in an email to me yesterday.
"What we know is this: something went on behind the scenes over the past
four weeks as a result of my story that has caused this sudden change in Rove's
status. I reported Rove's indictment based on what I was told by all of these
sources. We believed it to be true because these sources have proven reliable
in the past and have provided us with many of our scoops."
Right -- so what exactly did happen? Perhaps we'll find out.
That's what the astrology rather boldly suggests. There are a few
possibilities, and we don't know, at this point, whether Rove was in fact
indicted at the time, or not. We don't know if he cut a deal with prosecutors.
We're pretty much in the dark at this point.
On Wednesday night, truthout.org's editor Marc Ash responded
on the site's official blog. Ash wisely took a non-confrontational approach,
standing down on the matter, deferring to the mainstream press. However, he has
put the matter back into the hands of the mainstream media and the
'blogosphere', which was so critical of the original article by Jason Leopold,
several dependable sources for which said Rove had indeed been indicted.
Let's take a look at the chart and see what it says. Note, I
originally did the chart for the time truthout anticipated it would post its
statement; the actual time turned out to be 68 minutes earlier. I will use the
"actual time"
chart.
Mars, the ruler of the ascendant, represents truthout.org.
It's exactly conjunct the midheaven -- meaning that truthout.org is now on top
of the game. Mars has what's called 'accidental dignity' in this chart. It's
not just angular, it's smack splat on the midheaven, to the degree, within
one-half degree.
We find Venus, representing Rove and friends, in Taurus,
also angular, prominent and well placed in their sign, but square
The position the news organization takes in its statement reflects
this: essentially, they defer to the mainstream media but call on them to be
transparent about their sources and the full text of whatever it is that
Figzgerald said about his choice not to prosecute Rove.
This does two things: One, it puts everyone who, yesterday,
was on the offensive, into a position where they have to defend the veracity of
their story. Two, Marc Ash calls for something that other bloggers (many of
whom have been very critical of truthout), have no choice but to sign onto: basically
one thing that we can all agree on is that the mainstream media needs to do its
job better, and part of that means being honest and using real documents, not
just the quote of a lawyer on one side of the story.
One thing that we can all agree on is that we want the
truth. So, let's get the truth out.
It is incredible, beyond incredible, really, that nobody in
government corroborates the statement of Luskin, the very slickest of
Republican lawyers, that his client, Karl Rove, has been cleared of culpability
in this matter. The mainstream media is quite literally reporting one side of
the story; there is nobody to quote on the other side; Fitzgerald has been
silent. There are no documents that have been provided. It's just a lawyer's
quote.
At least truthout.org used independent (though admittedly
unidentified) sources, and multiple sources.
One last point re the statement of Marc Ash: as you'll read,
truthout.org has committed to protecting its sources, no matter how they came
to be wrong, no matter who may have put them up to it, no matter what.
It would appear from the chart there is a development that
occurs soon. The Moon, ruler of the 9th house (the judiciary) is about to
oppose Mars. There appears to be something big brewing, and it manifests soon,
very likely in writing. The ruler of the 8th house (the truth itself), Mercury,
is occupying the 9th house; the ruler of the 9th, the Moon, is in the 3rd
(writing, communication) about to oppose Mars (which represents truthout.org).
I don't know what we're about to learn -- but we're about to
learn something, and it's my open prediction that far from this story this
disappearing, we will indeed find out what happened, and it will be
baaaaaaaaaaack in black and white.
And so will we -- next week.
 |
|||||
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |