Flower to Seed

Scorpio Full Moon this year falls on May 2, 2007 at 6:09 AM at the Descendant of the chart cast for Washington, DC, indicating that skulduggery and hanky-panky in the world of officaldom is now coming out into the open.

George Tenet, the ex-CIA chief who took the fall for the chief-executive is now coming forth with information that points to Cheney and company at the National Security Council as the culprits in the false information leading up to the war. The ex-aide to Alberto Gonzales has been given immunity to testify before Congress concerning the firing of the US Attorneys, and the little black book of a Washington DC Madam has been given to a judge in a corruption case.

Awareness (opposition from Sun in Taurus at the Ascendant to Moon in Scorpio at the Descendant) of the traditional Scorpio concerns: sex, death and other people's money is in the consiousness of the people, as well as the status of the nation among the nations of the world (seventh house Full Moon).

This chart contains a wide fixed grand cross with Saturn right at the Immum Coeli, indicating that the currently unpopular chief-executive is about to fall into the pit of his own making concerning fourth-house matters of the country. Real estate values have taken a plunge since the so-called housing bubble is said to have burst back in February of this year. The patriotic inclinations of the people are at a low ebb largely because the common people realize the more pressing issues at hand for them personally are related to how they will fare financially in the coming times of economic change. They also worry about what to do in a natural disaster, and if Hurricane Katrina was any indication for them, they realize they have no help in the coming climatological disasters.

The ruler of the tenth house is Uranus, conjunct Mars and the North Node in the eleventh house. Uranus and Mars in Pisces are sextile to Pluto and Jupiter in Sagittarius in the eighth house, indicating that the chief executive has an itchy trigger finger for more aggressions in foreign countries, which he sees as a way of stabilizing the monetary standard.

Furthermore, the chief executive is intent upon having his own way, and he will use the presidential veto or any or any other presidential perogrative he can find to do as he wishes to do. He believes he has the right to spend the nation's blood and treasure as he personally sees fit to spend it.

Jupiter is in its own sign and therefore anything is liable to happen in relation to foreign countries and the nation's treasury. With Uranus involved, all we know is that a surprise move will be made that somehow will prove to be a windfall to the national treasury.

Although Congress has now called for a withdrawal time for the Iraq war, Congress nevertheless has been willing to continue funding the war in Iraq, so its call for an end to the war seems to be little more than political posturing for the 2008 election.

Both the Sun and Mercury are in Taurus at the Ascendant, saying that the body politic of the country and psychology of the masses will be attuned to Venus (ruler of Taurus) in Gemini in the second house.

A woman, or two women (Gemini) will be speaking out in valued ways that shed light on the financial wheeling-and-dealing related to foreign financial matters (Venus is in opposition to Jupiter and Pluto in Sagittarius in the eighth house). The Washington Madam is likely to open a Pandora's Box involving military contracting scandals and the ex-aide to Attorney General Gonzalez is also likely to shed light on the revolving door between military contracting and campaign funding at the root of the judiciary scandals.

All this information is likely to effect the nation's banks, investments and foreign commerce in a negative way because so many unflattering things concerning the machinations of those in power are likely to be revealed.

Condoleeza Rice, a Scorpio woman, (Moon in Scorpio) has previously been given an easy time in the Congressional oversight process. Things are going to change for Rice. She will discover that her facile language and evasive statements will go over like a lead balloon (opposition of Venus in Gemini to Pluto in Sagittarius) and serve only to further incriminate her (Scorpio Moon/Sagittarius foreign affairs in the eighth house of criminality) in the unfolding drama of how and why she participated in a ruse to lead the country to war under false pretenses.

The people are looking for answers and now are concerned about their own financial welfare and prospects, all of which are indicated by the Sun and Mercury at the Ascendant, and Venus in Gemini in the second house. Venus is squaring Uranus in the eleventh house, so the hearings in Congress will suddenly reveal much that was previously hidden.

The next two weeks are going to seem like a game of truth or consequences for the nation, and the stakes are high, with Jupiter in Sagittarius in the eighth house of state secrets. Uranus and Mars are at the apex of a mutable T-square, so the energy flows into the whirlpool of secrets revealed in a fast and furious manner.

Neptune is in Aquarius in the eleventh house, indicating that the Congress is playing the role of peoples' advocate, yet Congress is not quite believable in this role, since it has so far remained complicit at every step of military expenditure.

Neptune is involved in a fixed T-square, so in spite of the fact that Neptune is elevated by position and sextile to Jupiter, the ruler of the chart, Neptune is still having to hold its own against the entrenched forces of three other fixed signs involving conservative leadership (Saturn in Leo) and money (the Taurus/Scorpio axis).

Nevertheless, there is a Neptunian motif to this chart, since secrets are going to come to light in a surprising manner (Neptune/Uranus mutual reception).

In keeping with the Scorpio theme, going from flower to seed, we will find that national events will follow nature in a normal pattern in that like begets like.

In the garden of Les Fleurs du Mal, we will find the old rule still holds true:

As ye sow, so shall ye reap.

Link to Scorpio Full Moon (Flower Moon) Chart for 2007