Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter -- Martin Luther King

Last Chance to Build Structure into the Leo Dream

This year's Capricorn New Moon at the anaretic degree tells us we have one, crucial last chance to lay down the stucture for self-actualization in the areas of our creativity, our leadership, and our will.

The energy at this New Moon is highly Aquarian, with three planets in Aquarius and Sol and Luna soon to follow into the energy of the humanitarian and social reformer. North Node is conjunct Uranus in Pisces, which resonates with the compassion of the sign of the Fishes, letting "justice flow down like water."

The Aquarius Neptune and Venus are opposed by Saturn in Leo, which tells us that deceptive political intrigues are in operation at this time and will come to a final and full revelation in August when Saturn makes its last exact opposition to Neptune.

If you've been watching the hearings in Congress, you will have noticed a desperate tone to the arguments for sending more troops to Iraq -- a tone of trying, against all reason, to salvage what has been a dismal failure as a military operation.

It's Viet Nam all over again, with the added twist, this time, of a religious appeal delivered by Condoleeza Rice, that the US is in league with the "Jewish state of Israel," yet is opposed to so-called "aggression" by the "theocracy of Iran." Somehow, this religious argument just doesn't wash in a country that is supposed to be founded upon the ideal of the separation of church (Neptune, Jupiter) and state (Saturn).

In this New Moon chart, Jupiter at the 12th degree of Sagittarius, squares Uranus and the North Node in Pisces, telling us there is something fishy about these arguments as the chief executive lines up his warships for an attack on Iran.

Saturn in Leo is trine Pluto in Sagittarius and Mars in Capricorn, which is the powerful buildup of military forces not only for a so-called "surge" in Iraq, but moreover to initiate military action with Iran, the great Persian boogey man in the rhetoric of the necons, who are persuing their plans of "creative destruction" in the Middle East (Pluto at the Galactic Center). The real object of this game of world domination is to lay claim to the last of the oil resources of the region (new 30-year contracts for Western oil companies were just signed in Iraq), and also to satisfy the cultural antagonisms of the Likud lobby that controls Washington behind the scenes through the purse strings. Jack Abramoff may be in jail, but the money still flows like oil.

In the mean time, the peace activists are geariing up for a massive march on Washington for January 27 to 29, and another for the spring from March 16 to 18.

To join in the demonstrations, follow this link to Declaration of Peace

Bush will probably make his move on Iran in the first couple weeks of April, and the consequences, of course, will be more than are presently articulated by the neocon think tanks that have cooked up this crazy strategy that includes using nuclear weapons against Iran.

The chief executive is looking down the barrel of impeachment, which is highly probable before he leaves office.

All of this warmongering is of course presented to us as a grand strategy of liberation for the people of the Mideast, but it's really no more than the old grand chess game outlined way back in Jimmy Carters' time to liberate the oil from its Eurasian deposits to the oil companies of Great Britain and the United States.

The pretense of handing over Iraq to the Iraqi police state the US is trying to install is futile because the Iraqis themselves are never going to cooperate with the country that has brought them Abu Grahib and death squads. They have responded by forming their own death squads to go after the colluders with the occupiers.

The Bush administration has provided the most incompetent leadership the United States has ever had. Watching Condoleeza Rice declare to Congress on January 11, that there is a "new plan with a new structure that will hold together in a wheel-and-spoke fashion," was just like watching the Homeland Security spokesman, Michael Chertoff, explain over and over again, after Hurricane Katrina, that the administration was instituting "a new plan," over and over again. That's all this administration has ever done, come up with plan after plan after plan, while its buddies in the military contracting business abscond with huge outlays of cash from the national treasury. Privitization is just another name for graft.

When things are in the anaretic degree, as they are with this New Moon, there is a desperate, do-or-die, tone about them as we try, like mad, to finish up the affairs of the energy involved. In this case, it's government, and for the Bushites and neocons, the die is cast. They are making one, final push to achieve their goals of hegemony in Eurasia, along with installing a police state goverment wherever they go, and that includes here in the United States.

The Bushites and the neocons are running scared because their plan of creating an anti-democratic, so-called "unitary executive" are just about to run afoul of the laws of the land since the power of Congress has shifted and they will be held to account for violating the Constitution and squandering the nation's resources.

The battle royal is about to begin and they are hoping to shift attention to Iran as the causus belli so that they may continue on in their foolish and profligate ways.

So much for the big picture, as for the personal picture at this New Moon in Capricorn, look at your own chart, find out where is Leo and in which house you are working with the energy of constructing a scaffold for a creative project. This is the creative energy you probably have been actualizing since July, 2005.

Finish up any creative projects that you have planned and get them launched by September of this year, when Saturn goes into industrious Virgo and your attention will shift to creating foundations for work and service within whichever house contains your Virgo energy.

So buckle down and finish up those masterworks!

Article: Bush Must Go by Mike Whitney

Link to Lunation Charts for January, 2007