19-2 Consideration Magazine

CONSIDERATIONS

Volume XIX Number 2

May July 2004

CONTENTS

The Greater Malefic 3 Prier Wintle

The 2004 Presidential Elections 19 Isaac Starkman

Three Spring Full Moons 24 Shelagh Kendal

Lunar Phases & Solar Flares 28 Martin Piechota

Predicting the Dow 37

Ken Gillman

Will My Sprained Hand Ever Get Better? 57 Ruth Baker

Solar Eclipses & Major Earthquakes in 2003 59 Nicole Girard

Earthquake Alert for San Francisco 67 Jonathan Pearl

Birth Time Validation 75 Nicholas D. Sutherland

The Moon & Childbirth 83 Margaret Millard

An Effective Epoch Ken Gillman 87

Predicting a Birth Margaret Millard 91

These Considerations 2

Books Considered 93

Lets Consider 94

Data Etcetera 96

Who? 97

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These Considerations

NOW THE PAST to learn the future. Transit t crosses your u

later this month. What happened two years ago, four years ago,

around this time? Astrologers question the past to illuminate

what will comeat least those of us not totally empowered by

our intuitions do. And this is the theme of the current issue of Consid-

erations, just as it tends to be in each issue.

Nicole Girard examines the major earthquakes of 2003 and, by relat-

ing them to the solar eclipses of the year, identifies a clearly defined con-

nection between the two sets of phenomena, very much as she had noted

in previous comparisons. Nicole also finds evidence that the formidable

eclipse of August 1999 continues to influence matters in those places it

darkened. Jonathan Pearl, a writer new to Considerations, picks up on

some of these ideas to predict a coming quake, specifying its location

and timing. Whether he is correct or not youll know by the time you

read this.

We have a description of how the positions and aspects of planets are

being related to price changes in the stock market over a 116-year period.

This analysis is being done to create a model that hopefully will predict

future price movements.

Isaac Starkman examines the charts of the two likely candidates for

next Novembers presidential election. He uses their transits, progres-

sions and lunations to predict which of the two, Bush or Kerry, will oc-

cupy the Oval Office for the next four years. Were not too thrilled

about Isaacs conclusions but fail to see where he may have gone wrong.

Springs three full moons capture Shelagh Kendals interest. They

relate particularly to the divinity within us and we can learn much by

considering just what these charts imply.

Interest continues in how to accurately calculate the pre-natal epoch

(Isaac Starkman makes much use of it in his work). The approach of the

British astrologer of earlier times George H. Bailey, which suggests a

conception time different from the one obtained by the usual method, is

the subject of Nick Sutherlands article. As Nick refers to previous ar-

ticles on the subject we reprint three of these so new readers can get up

to speed.

Ruth Baker provides an obviously accurate interpretation of a horary

chart. Martin Piechota surveys reports of different findings that can be

related to the ws movement and to the qs physical activityall ex-

tremely useful for those needing evidence for their causality theorems.

Finally, theres some basic astrology, ever needful for beginners and old

pokes alike, a reprise of Prier Wintles superb discussion of the ways

and intent of the greatest and grandest malefic of them all. Enjoy!

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The Greater Malefic 1

PRIER WINTLE

OME YEARS AGO the humorist Milton Hayes began a lecture

on the political situation in the Near East by reminding

us of a vitally important point. The Near East, he said, is

not as far as the Far East. It seems to me that we should be-

gin this present study with a similar thought. The founders of astrology

characterized t as the Lesser Malefic

and u as the Greater. By this they

meant of course that t wasn't as "far

out", or bad, as u. u was worse than

t. Let us consider this.

t is associated with wars and

commotions, disagreements, dis-

sention, disharmony, anger, strife and

discord. He rules hot feverish ill-

nesses, inflammations, boils, ulcers

and painful sores. He is unruly, arro-

gant and aggressive, and if someone

characterized by him is present in a group or gathering, he tends to pro-

voke a row or a fight. Sudden accidents must be looked for when his in-

fluence is strong, and these usually cause painful and bloody injuries

which leave disfiguring scars. Upon women his way is to remove those

qualities traditionally regarded as feminine and to make them loud and

coarse. Militant feminism is ruled by t. Men instinctively call a persis-

tently difficult, uncooperative and unfeminine woman a "battle-axe"; for

t men are natural soldiersthe type who really love war and killing and

who cultivate an aggressive masculine haircut and general facial expres-

sion and prefer to be in uniform or military-style clothing. They have an

inward contempt for all forms of "softness", under which term they sub-

sume concord, harmony and peace in general. Today of course the world

is supposed to be seeking peaceWorld Peaceso the natural fighters

(who are always in prominent places since they must kick others out of

the way till they get to the top) pose as "defending the peace", or "fight-

ing for peace", ignoring the absurd contradiction in terms. A dedicated t

woman is just as intimidating as a dedicated t man.

One could go on adding to this list almost indefinitely, but this is an

article upon the Greater Malefic, not the Lesser. It has been a digression

for a purpose, however, to make the point that astrologers of the past

1 Originally published in 1988, in Considerations V: 3

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considered there was a very much worse evil than all of this Martian pain

and discord.

I consider traditional astrology to have been right in believing that

certain types of people, situations and happenings were evils in them-

selves, and in singling out two planets in particular as indicators of such

evils. This is not fashionable in the climate of present day astrology. t

today has dropped almost completely out of the "baddie" list. Since the

publication of Margaret Hone's Modern Textbook of Astrology at the be-

ginning of the 1950s he has become synonymous with energy, the driv-

ing force or initiative-producing principle in human affairs and the world

generally. In himself he is neither good nor bad but a perfectly neutral

force like steam, which may be put to constructive or destructive uses. If

you are careless with it you will be scalded but that is all you have to

fear.

There has been more hesitation and wariness in dealing with u. Even

today no one really likes the prospect of a conjunction, square or opposi-

tion forming between u and the q, w or ruler of the chart. Nevertheless it

isn't for want of trying. There is a general feeling that we ought to love

him. Article after article appears assuring us that u is really a friend who

can give us stability, security, a sense of proportion, peace at the close,

and what not. Whole books have been written taking a new look at the

old devil. The pity of it is that even though it never quite carries convic-

tion, it does unfortunately have the effect of putting some readers off

guard when a more realistic astrological prognosis might have helped

them to prepare for trouble2.

For trouble does happen. There is plenty of it in the world we live

in, and in one form or another it comes to all of us at some time in our

lives. u aspects, above all others, are the surest astrological warnings of

it: part of the astrologer's responsibility should be to help his or her client

realize this and face up to it, neither exaggerating nor minimizing but

always helping the client to see the situation in true perspective. The

fashion for never telling a patient in a hospital when his condition is se-

rious is passing away and this article is written in what I hope is to be the new

fashion.

The worst characteristics of u are his coldness and his anonymity. He

is the archetypal official, and it is officialdom that rules the world today.

Of course if you read the newspapers or listen to the radio or watch TV

2 I remember being surprised two or three years ago when a lady friend of mine (not

particularly erudite in astrological matters) told me she was hoping her troubles

would clear up when y moved out of her q sign and u entered it in the following year. So and so's article in a popular astrological magazine had said that all the

really good things happened under u. If this strikes you as funny at least you can

congratulate yourself on not having been misled to quite that extent.

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you might be excused for thinking that t rules the world, since priority

of reporting is always given to the latest war, insurrection, riot, murder or

violent disaster. But don't be misled. There is another principle at work

which wants to control you and everybody else and which believes that

the best way to do this is not to let you know what is going on. At best it

may tell you half truths. t events are useful to it because they tend to be

spectacular and thus divert attention from other things. Sexual scandals

and lurid happenings in the film or TV world (where t combines with r

and o) come next on the list, followed by sport and the fortune, public or

private, of prominent figures in the political, business or religious field

(y). You are not supposed to know the really important things that are

going on. Above all, you can be sure that the man or woman you vote for

is not the one who takes real decisions and really holds the reins of

power.

It wasn't always so. In past ages there were kings who really were

kings; kings whom everyone could see, who gave their own orders using

their own words. Today the only kings and queens still in existence in the

"advanced" nations are "constitutional monarchs"; that is, figureheads.

They read speeches prepared for them by anonymous people and take no

action before a whole hierarchy of other people with names receding fur-

ther and further into the woodwork have been forewarned, and their ap-

proval secured. It isn't only the false kings whose words and actions are

not their own words and actions. No president of the United States today

could be elected simply by being who he is, speaking his own thoughts

and (horror of horrors) taking action on his own initiative; nor could any

president or prime minister anywhere else in the "civilized" world.

Slowness, deadness and inhumanity are the main characteristics of

that rule, Here I must digress for a moment to guard against a possible

misconception. In a book sometimes called The Dawn of Magic and

sometimes The Morning of the Magicians when it first appeared about 35

years ago, the authors, Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier, suggested

that our planet was destined to be ruled by a "cryptocracy", that is, a se-

cret government, the real members of which would always remain un-

known but which would manipulate and govern through the existing

forms of government, whatever these might be in any particular country.

This is not what I am writing about. There may well be much justifica-

tion for the idea. People and forces may exist which are capable of ma-

nipulating a system which is itself a manipulating system. Plutonic

forces such as those which thrive in the underworld of most of the large

cities in America and many other countries, and which organize crime,

prostitution, the drug scene, etc., in syndicates or "families" are obvious

candidates for the role. Nevertheless by themselves alone they could not

set up all the conditions necessary. The evils which organizes are to a

large extent derivative or parasitic. Organized crime is a parasite on soci-

ety. It organizes murder and violence, but it can only do this because t


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copiously supplies murder and violence wherever it may be required,

almost anywhere in the world. Similarly the coldness, hardness, selfish-

ness and above all anonymity and repudiation of personal contact and

caring which characterize u and which are the way things are at city and

government level all over the world today are tailor-made for Plutonic

manipulation. But we must recognize them first of all as u's work.

u is stronger than t because his organization is much better and

more far-reaching. Sometimes one reads descriptions that suggest he is

the principle of organization, upon which we are therefore dependent.

This is a misconception. In a sense every planet organizes in its own way

but with some, like the q or r, the structure is more open and the bonds

are those of loyalty or love. es organization is intellectual and logical

classification. ys is a legal hierarchy based on belief in spiritual justice.

t and u are the two planets which set up organizations that are inde-

pendent of and external to humankind and which therefore attempt to

regulate humanity from outside. t doesn't do it as much as u. As I have

pointed out in my article on the Lesser Malefic3, anyone who thinks that

u alone represents the principle of discipline while t stands for individ-

ual freedom has obviously never been anywhere near the army. But u

regulates, so to speak, for regulation's sake and in the end this is what

wins out. In World War II Hitler's army was the most efficient and disci-

plined which had existed till that date; but in Russia it came up against an

enemy in whom u's discipline pervaded the whole of society, governing

every action and thought. Even those who hated it and wanted to rebel

against it were carried along by it. Although the Russians lost 19 million

killed, in the end their sheer weight of numbers and absolute totalitarian

organization wore the Germans down4. And that victory spelt out some-

thing for the whole of the rest of the world, because gradually, even in

those parts of the world most opposed to Communism, bureaucratic or-

ganization similar to that practiced in Russia is insidiously penetrating

everywhere, even into the most private areas of life.

Always bear in mind the externality of u's approach. It is of a piece

with the behaviorism of B. F. Skinner, who first explicitly enunciated the

principle that nothing reliable or of value can be derived from the

statements made by people about their subjective beliefs, feelings or ex-

periences, and that a true social science must be based upon an objective

study of people's external behavior. Even though the origins of our mod-

ern world can be traced to a period long before Skinner, in him is found

its ideal apologist and prophet. To be respectable in the intellectual

field at university level today you must at least pay lip service to behav-

ioral psychology and sociology, and to logical positivist philoso-

3 Considerations V: 1. 4 The Saturnine cold of the Russian winters also helped.


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phy5. All other sciences which are called "applied" rather than specu-

lative or "pure", that is, chemistry, biology, medicine, genetics, computer

science, etc., also tend to be applied materialistically rather than with

thought about their possible relevance to man's aspirations and

destiny as a spiritual being. Orthodox science nowadays supposes

that the sum of all that existsour universe and all the others as far

as Space extendsis simply one vast mass of inorganic, lifeless matter

receding from a central source-point, each separate piece revolving

under its own momentum as it does so. Life may exist here and there as a

kind of anomaly: it seems to be an accidental by-product of electrical

discharges through liquids or gases containing various large hy-

drocarbon molecules. In essence, therefore, it must obey the same laws

as those which govern inorganic matter, which is regarded as the

basic reality that gave rise to it. Sciences like physics, which are not ex-

plicitly concerned with life, simply ignore it. Those that do have

to concern themselves with it, like biology and medicine, defer to the

reputation achieved by 19th century physics, which began transform-

ing the world and has continued to do so in the present century

through its discoveries. They apply its methods, use the instruments it

provides, and study and attempt to regulate life as an external physical

process6. And the man in the street follows suit. Even the "born-again"

Christian, who claims to believe in a God who created the universe

and sent His Son to save those who would stand up and say they believed

in Him, believes most of the time in a material world of automobiles

and washing-machines and television sets, trusts a doctor to give

him chemical drugs when his physical body is ill, consents to be treated

as a statistic by an insurance company, drives his car on the right or left

side of the road as the law provides, submits to other regulations, and

pays taxes at the end of it all for the privilege of being so regulated.

Of course there are exceptions. For example there are trans-personal psy-

chologists, and a Jungian Psychological Institute. There are naturo-

paths and holistic healers who won't use drugs. Some theoso-

phists are aware that Madam Blavatsky and her Masters taught that

the q and planets are conscious beings. Eastern gurus and swamis are

5 Those with a different viewpoint prefer to call logical positivism "logical nega-

tivism" for it denies the existence of everything which cannot be demonstrated

objectively just as steadfastly as behaviorism does. 6 There will be those who will objectwith reasonthat science as a whole is a

Uranian rather than a Saturnian phenomenon. This is true, but the uncompromis-

ingly materialistic way in which science has developed from the 18th century to

the present day was certainly given its initial impetus by Saturnian materialistic

economic theories current in the late 18th century and throughout the 19th. Re-

member too that u is still co-ruler of i' sign, b.


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making inroads here and there. But these are oddities, and the rumor

that physics itself, in its avant garde, is coming up with some

rather weird notions concerning the ultimate nature of matter

notions which have been compared with the intuitions of both Eastern

and Western mysticshas certainly not penetrated down to the man

in the street. Today if you advise someone to treat his electric kettle or

heater with respect because electricity is a living force you will, by

and large, be regarded as a nut. "Them things is just things." It is gener-

ally accepted that we do not live in a world that, in its own way, is liv-

ing and conscious as we are, and to which we must therefore relate,

but in a world that is just a thing, to be pushed around and carved up

and regulated. And 99% of our own selves are made of this same thing-

stuff, we believe, even though we are conscious, and possibly have a soul

which can be saved. Consequently we too are ripe for regulation, which

is what u wants, for this is his world-picture.

Who could have thought two centuries ago, when 90% of the world's

population, even in advanced nations, lived on the land and in contact

with the land and its natural rhythms, that a complete transformation was

about to occur and that shortly more than 90% of the people in the ad-

vanced nations would work either in factories or in offices, often in

shifts throughout the day and night, with no

contact at all with the natural rhythms of this

world? In they come at certain appointed times,

in cars, buses and trains, and back they go again

at other appointed times, commuting daily from

dormitory suburbs laid out in neat rows or from

endless serial numbers in high rise apartments.

Who rules time? Why, u of course; but not

living time. Not the time that rises with the q

in the morning and moves in rhythm through the

days and nights and through the seasons,

measuring its length not by hours and minutes

but by the intensity with which we live our lives. u's time is the time of

B. F. Skinner7, which has nothing whatever to do with our subjective

feelings and experiences. It never varies its pace, for u is the archetypal,

external, objective regulator. We have so much time for sleeping, and so

much time for washing and dressing, and so much for eating and so

much for getting to work. Even when we were younger it was so much

time for getting to school and the time to be spent at school was precisely

measured out and punctuated by bells. Exactly so many years had to be

spent there and then we began our working life. The precise length of life

is also specified and laid down. As the Department of Health and Social

7 I hesitate to state the obvious, but remind the reader that "skin" is traditionally

ruled by uEditor


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Security spelt it out in my own case recently: "For pension purposes Mr. Wintle's working life consists of 45 years of

which 40 (90% of 45) must be reckoned before entitlement to British retirement

pension can exist at the standard rate..."

The trouble is that we all want this. We are suckers for it because

what we all want is security and u wins because he promises stable, se-

cure conditions.

It is no accident that recorded history, which is after all the study of

human behaviorism in past centuries, consists on the one hand in a saga

of wars and conquests (t) and on the other in a study of constitutional

and legal development and the enforcement of law and order by this, that or

the other authority over ever larger areas of the Earth's surface (u). Peo-

ple have an undeniable impulse to hit other people and grab what they

own. It is evident in children even from the earliest age. This is t. But

they also want to retain what they own, and for this reason law has al-

ways had its attractions: I mean law in the sense of strong police forces

to guarantee property rights, the swift apprehension and punishment of

malefactors, the hanging of thieves, etc. This is u. The earliest code of

u law of which we have definite knowledge is that of Hammurabi, King

of Babylon, dating from the 3rd millennium B.C. Its provisions were

carved in stone and exhibited in the market place. It gave no quarter to

anyone who trifled with other people's private property.

In Roman times the magistrates would exhibit the laws they intended

to enforce publicly on tablets and parchments for all to see. The Romans

produced the best armies the world had seen up till that time, and also the

best laws. The civil wars around the time of Julius Caesar and the end of

the Roman Republic were so horrific, however, that when the emperors

took over people were forced to submit to a system of controls that began

to penetrate into almost every facet of life. In the centuries that followed

the Roman bureaucracy became more and more the real government of

the Empire, able to foment intrigues against the emperors and even to get

rid of those it disliked. Significantly, it was composed mainly of freed-

men (that is, men who had once been slaves, chiefly Greeks, chosen for

intellectual subtlety) and of slaves. Unfree status is the unmistakable

mark of u. These men came to be able to direct and control the old aris-

tocracy, taxing them, decreeing forfeiture of their property and even im-

prisoning or proscribing them on what would be represented by them as

the Imperial whim. They themselves remained always unnamed and

nameless. This too is always u's way, just as he always yearns to bring

down anyone who, either by birth or achievement, has attained promi-

nence and power or made a name for himself in an open way. Under this

rule the Roman Empire gradually declined and Roman character itself

underwent a slow and subtle change for the worse. From being a proud

and fearless Roman, with a reputation for standing by his word and al-

ways carrying out what he said he would do, the typical citizen of the


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empire became known for greed, rapacity, cynicism and the tendency to

turn even on his closet friends in the pursuit of whatever he believed to

be his self-interest. Palace revolutions and assassinations caused the

death of emperor after emperor. Eventually the rot went so far that in the

West the barbarian invaders could no longer be kept out. At least they

put an end to the Roman bureaucracy when they sacked Rome and re-

placed its rule with a more primitive but also more robust kingly govern-

ment. The system persisted in Constantinople where it became synony-

mous with fanatical fossilized rigidity and the most ferocious resistance

to any form of change that has ever afflicted any government in the

world. Eventually the Turks put an end to it in the 15th century.

During the thirteen and a half centuries which followed after the fall

of Rome in 410 A.D. until the latter half of the 18th Century, u's influ-

ence upon humanity in Western Europe was confined to what may be

described as his normal activities. Even barbarian and feudal societies

must have some organization, and so must churches which call them-

selves universal. The Catholic Church throughout the Middle Ages as-

pired to direct the spiritual life of every human being in Europe and in-

evitably therefore it began prescribing regulatory controls and restric-

tions which affected everyday life. As soon as it did so it was right up u's

street. Take sacerdotal celibacy for instance, the decree that priests,

monks and nuns must not marry. The practice of celibacy as an adjunct

to the spiritual life was of course not something first invented by the

Catholic Church or by Christianity in general. Several Buddhist sects

advocate it, and it has been known in many religions. What was distinc-

tive about it in Medieval Europe was its rigidity and the fact that it was

imposed as a rule from outside, instead of being something to which a

religious person might be intuitively led and wish to practice as part of

his or her own spiritual development. Here we recognize u. For as long

as the Catholic Church remained the one acknowledged spiritual head of

Europe this rule produced abuse, cynical evasion and suspicion of the

clergy by the laity. One of the first things Luther did at the time of the

Reformation was to permit priests to marry. Indeed the Church went

much further and decided that sex as a whole was, at best, only a neces-

sary evil. It therefore fell fairly and squarely within Church jurisdiction.

Innocent II and other Popes issued decrees that sexual intercourse be-

tween married persons was only to be permitted on certain days of the

week and only in certain positions8.

It sometimes seems a mystery how and why people en masse will put

up with things like these, but we must never forget that basic human

craving for security. The Middle Ages as a whole were violent and inse-

cure times, and therefore there was a temptation to cling to anyone who,

8 In the East at the same time Mohammedism was making absolute the complete

subjection of women to men.


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on whatever grounds, claimed to be in control. To some extent the more

preposterous the demands it made the more holy and deserving reverence

it might appear to be. After all, did not St. Augustine give as his reason

for believing in Christianity itself, "Credo quia absurdum est"?9

In any case the laity did not fall behind the Church in giving u oppor-

tunities to express himself. In a warlike age, when a gentleman was ex-

pected to be acquainted with all the contemporary t weaponry, a thrust

from a sword or lance, or a blow over the head from a mace, was a most

natural form of death. Nevertheless provision had also to be made for

times of peace and for preserving what had been conquered. The Medie-

val Age was therefore the age of the castle. Built with immensely thick

walls in some prominent place dominating all the countryside around,

and designed to be as nearly impregnable as possible, it symbolized tem-

poral power and control, supplementing and complementing the spiritual

power enshrined in the monastery and cathedral.

The feudal u also created the dungeon and the instruments of torture

associated with it. The fetters, manacles, and ball and chain, all designed

to restrict movement, are almost symbols of u himself. The rack, the

thumb-screw, and all the others you have heard of, just go to complete

the picture. Don't dwell on them unnecessarily: but do realize that some

principle operative in humankind prompted their invention and use. Stop

white-washing it away. It is necessary to be aware of it so that you can

recognize it when it turns up again, in this or some other form.

We don't need to spend much time on Medieval justice, except to

add that the stocks in which people were publicly confined by their feet

for passers-by to torment and jeer at, and the gibbet, usually erected at a

crossroads, on which people were hanged in chains and then left to rot so

that the sight and the stink would scare others into due respect for the

law, are both as good examples of u at work as you could wish for.

What is significantly more worth remembering, though, is the plague,

the Black Death, which periodically swept over

Europe, sometimes wiping out practically the

entire population of whole towns and villages,

leaving no one to till the soil. Knowledge of

hygiene was practically nonexistent then and

religious people in particular prided themselves

on living without consideration for the body.

Experimentation and research in medicine were

almost impossible because all education was in the

hands of the Church, which was opposed to any

form of study not directly authorized by itself. u

always wants to limit what people are allowed to do or to know. Small

wonder that whenever the plague struck, carried as it was in dirty condi-

9 I believe because it is unbelievable.


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tions by rats and fleas, there was no defense whatever against it. u loves

dirty conditions.

A nice example of t and u working hand in glove, so to speak, is the

English revolutionary period of 1648-60, during which that nation was

split into warring religious and political factions, the king was captured

and beheaded, and a revolutionary government set up which ruled for

eleven years. This was also the first definite appearance of i, an utterly

modern influence, upon the European political scene. It was really before

its time and the Old order resumed its sway with the restoration of

Charles II in 1660; but the tendency of t, u and i to operate closely to-

gether, both as regards time and in the sense of subserving each other's

interests, is something we should notice. Like the other two, i is a planet

which tends to work mainly on the external plane, dealing with what it

sees as objective realities. Superficially it may seem to bear more obvi-

ous resemblance to t than to u since what it does it does abruptly and

quite often violently and, of course, the Martian use of Uranian inven-

tions for military purposes is all too patent. However, u has climbed to a

position of almost total control in our contemporary worlda control

surpassing anything he has ever been able to achieve in the past and

which he could never have achieved on his ownby riding on the back

of the Uranian scientific revolution of the past two hundred years.

One could say that by means of this revolution i has provided u and

t with a convenient alias. It is no longer fashionable to speak of planets

in quasi-personal terms. The older astrologers thought in terms of plane-

tary dignities and detriments and told us, for instance, that u joys in the

12th house

10. Today we have to be scientific and objective and must think

of him only as an abstract principle. He is "limitation", "concretization",

"resistance", and so on, as Mrs. Hone ably expounded in her Modern

Textbook of Astrology. You can't blame him for these things because

they are all obviously necessary stages in the working of some sort of

impersonal machine in which we are all caught up. Indeed we seem to be

actual component parts of it, despite our illusions of free will, emotions,

personality, and so on.

The astrological world has really been developing towards this idea or

philosophical position quite slowly over the past thousand years. The

Greeks saw the planets simply as gods ruling different spheresbeings

with consciousness, personality and free will, who vied with one another

and used their individual powers sometimes alone, sometimes in alli-

ances, sometimes to trip each other up, sometimes aiding individual hu-

man beings or mankind in general and sometimes inflicting misfortune

upon them; but always, in whatever they did, asserting themselves. By the

14th century European astrologers believed that the old Greek stories had

to be interpreted symbolically, much as some schools of Biblical exege-

10 Of course he doesit is the house of prisons and secret enemies.


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sis, following St. Paul's hint in Galatians IV, 24, believe that the Old

Testament histories are really spiritual allegories. They believed they had

the key to the operating principle of the system revealed to them in the

Tetrabiblos of Claudius Ptolemy, published in the 2nd century A.D. Fate

was not simply the outcome of the capricious whim of irresponsible gods

who could never be called to account. It could be calculated in advance

by balancing one planetary position against another. True, it might still

be fortunate11

or unfortunate in ways which seemed to bear no discerni-

ble relation to deservingness or undeservingness, but predictability was

at least something. Charles Harvey develops the argument to its logical

but unbelievable conclusion in the definitive 20th century political text-

book Mundane Astrology12, when he states that all of our individual pat-

terns are parts of one great pattern which was astronomically and mathe-

matically decreed from the moment the universe came into being ten

billion years ago. Moreover we have to realize that it is essentially a

good pattern. Our freedom consists solely in our ability to understand

it13

. Then we can harmonize with it and make the best of it, however

much it may rub our individual noses in the dirt.

I personally consider that this approach makes nonsense of human life

for it directly conflicts with the reality of living experience. The prevail-

ing fashion of the age to see everything in terms of "processes working

out"14

(cf. the Communist "scientific" view of history as part of the sci-

ence of economics, with individual freedom an illusion totally subsumed

within statistical probability theory) really turns everything upside-down.

The part of us which is real is the part which is truly self-conscious and

free, the part which can always become aware of and manipulate (han-

dle) any situation we are in (including the astrological situation). Ulti-

mately everything comes down to the individual. It is as individuals that

we experience everything. Statistics are only of value to humanity inso-

far as they reveal patterns which we can make use of as individuals. As

Dennis Elwell pointed out thirty years ago in a prolonged controversy

11 The fact that the old astrologers (as also we ourselves) still used words like

"fortunate" and "capricious" is a clear admission to the discerning that at an in-

stinctive, subconscious level we all still know that the Old Gods continue to rule

in their old way. "Fortuna" is the Roman Goddess of Luck while "capricious" is

derived from the Latin word for goat which is also the root of the Sign-name .

It therefore implies not merely a tendency to leap unpredictably, like a goat, but

also a penchant for landing just where it is most inconvenient (u). 12

Aquarian Press, 1984. 13

Such a definition of "freedom" is merely a get-out from an impossible self-contradictory position. If there is a pattern which decrees everything that occurs it

must decree our thoughts too since these spring from our past and present actions

and decide our future ones. 14 Who works them out?


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with John Addey in the pages of the Astrological Journal15, statistical

astrology, far from throwing into relief that which is important or signifi-

cant, frequently obscures the vital individual character points. It is the

single cases which stand out from the herd that tend to incarnate the true

essence of a situation or period. There were many people born at times

and places very close to those at which Napoleon, Beethoven, Einstein,

Hitler or John Lennon entered Earth-life, but only these individuals actu-

ally "realized"16

the potential inherent in their individual nativities.

Individualism is something that u dislikes, both as a theory and

when manifested by individuals. Anonymity has always been a rule

never to be deviated from in all his bureaucracies. I refer to him

himself as an individual however because, even though it may be hereti-

cal and paradoxical, I feel that this way of describing him makes more

sense and is much truer to what I experience in life and astrology than

the contemporary "scientific" approach. Whether or not he is actually and

literally an individual is a question I leave unresolved for the time being.

The way in which the old astrologers always referred to u, y, t and the

q as "He" while r and the w were "She" reveals pretty plainly what they

knew they were dealing with and experiencing. Planets unquestionably

work very much more like the descriptions handed down in the old

Greek myths than as scientific principles. A planetary aspect or combina-

tion is never really a formula which can be weighed precisely so that its

results can be forecast exactly. Certainly one can choose a good time or a

bad time to start any undertaking, whether it be a business venture, a

marriage, or simply being born, according to aspects in force at a particu-

lar time and place; but still there can be a virtual infinity of outcomes

according to one's own attitudes and activities and, I venture to suggest,

those of the planets concerned. What actually occurs is simply something

we recognize as appropriate to the planet or planets concernedthat is,

their likely choice17.

Precisely because the scientific view of the universe seems to imply

that as individuals we can have little or no effect upon it, we have been

thrown back upon ourselves and become solipsists. We still believe we

can make much or little of life but think this can only be as a result of our

own positive or negative thinking. In reality however life as a whole is

something we have to relate to outwardly, for it interacts positively with

us and responds to us. I do not wish to advocate a return to an explicitly

magical view of life and the universe, but I do suggest that there is more

15 Journal of the British Astrological Association.

16 The word "realize" implies both inward understanding and external demon-

stration. 17

The really great astrologers such as William Lilly have always been people who developed an unerring "feel" for what a particular planet would choose.


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to the old shamanistic view of things than is usually allowed. Magicians

and shamans in all countries and at all periods have always asserted that

it is possible to place oneself in tune with a particular planet or god by

procedures which are part psychological and subjective and part magical

and objective. In this way one can make the planet or god either an ally

or an enemy, and set definite forces to work which can accomplish ob-

jectives within its specific province. I would not venture to assert exactly

how true this is in a literal sense, but if false it is certainly not more false

than the prevailing "scientific" view of the way things are. The latter, far

from being in precise accord with reality, is actually playing straight into

the hands of forces, and of people on Earth who incarnate these forces,

who are cynically manipulating us and controlling us.

The Uranian scientific and industrial revolution began in earnest

about the middle of the 18th century, thirty or forty years before i was

discovered telescopically, since when it has been developing continu-

ously and at an ever accelerating pace. It has proved to be the most far-

reaching revolution in the whole of recorded history. Other revolutions

and conquests may sometimes have laid waste stretches of countryside or

carried away the populations of towns into captivity, but this revolution

has effectively taken the whole population of the Western World, which

used to live on the land or in close contact with the land, and herded it

into an entirely new type of town, completely unrelated to the land and

its rhythms, and taught it a new life-style based on minerals, metals, plas-

tics, electricity, numbers and theories, according to which everything that

it used to live by, if it continues to exist at all, exists only to be exploited.

u has come more and more into his element with each new stage of the

process, no doubt rubbing his horny hands with delightsymbolically,

of course. Everything has had to be monitored because every develop-

ment has required to be externally organized and regulated. Along with

every step we have taken towards the scientific paradise promised by i

we have in effect been forced to take two steps towards u's cold classifi-

cation and de-humanized regimentation of mankind.

The Biblical writers knew that some such things were coming and

warned against it. They had seen its beginning in the Roman Imperial

bureaucracy. The Book of Revelation, XIII 16-17, tells us of a "beast"

who: "Causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bound, to receive

a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or

sell, save that he had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his

name."

The numerical system intrudes more and more inexorably each day

into all our lives. It begins when our births are registered (as it also began

to do at the time of the first Roman census) and does not cease till the

row of digits we then receive is shifted to the death duties register when

we die. True, it isn't complete yet. There are still areas of life which have


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not been invaded and taken over where we can laugh and love and make

our own choices whether to go up or down or right or left, but every-

where records and registers intrude more and more to monitor our every

activity. As soon as we have given our first burp and can be fairly said to

be alive medical registers specify what vaccinations or injections we are

to receive and when. We must be visited and reported on by child-

welfare inspectors and social workers and begin to go to school at age

five or six. No harm in any of these things in themselves of course. No

doubt there are loving injections and school inspectors in Paradise itself.

But they are Satanic when they become automatic like the latest washing

machines, or churn out on a ticker-tape recording just how many divi-

dends we have paid and what our listing is when trading closes each day.

Our exact whereabouts is always carefully computerized somewhere

so that we can be traced for military service and taxation. You know that

from the way a steady stream of advertising bumph continually reaches

you, addressed to your full name, street number and post code, with even

your age in code in the top right-hand corner. We are continuously bom-

barded with "information", through all the printed and broadcast media,

so that we shall all think approximately alike, within certain well defined

allowable limits. To travel from one part of the world to another requires

even more careful registering and enumerating and the issue of special

identifying documents. The days when Abraham and Sarah could pack

their belongings on an ass's back, set out from Ur and wander into Ca-

naan are well and truly over. Within more and more countries even local

travel is monitored and if one moves one's apartment this fact too has

duly to be registered with the police.18

Every tax return and population

census asks for more and more personal details.

Official forms and letters preserve a certain hypocritical pretense of

emanating from human beings. "I am happy to inform you..." or "I regret

to inform you..." they say, or "Kindly furnish the following informa-

tion... The tragedy is that there really are real human beings sending out

these things, where computers and robot machines have not yet fully

taken over their work. What they can write or say, however, is not what

they themselves think or say but only what is laid down as sayable in

18 If this paragraph appears to be exaggerated, the reader should note that in

Sweden, Finland and Norway, to give just three examples of advanced countries

within the "free" world, it is required by law that any alteration of status such as

a change of address be registered with the government within fourteen days.

Information about each individual is maintained on computer tape at the gov-

ernment Census bureau, and includes details of his or her birth data and that of

each member of the family, marital status, place of employment, number of

rooms in the dwelling, etc. This data is updated every month. This is not re-

peating a rumor for, in my capacity as statistical consultant to a leading Scandi-

navian company, I frequently had hands-on access to this data bankEditor.


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specified circumstances.

Within the system itself, u's Brave New World is dispensing with

human thought in as many levels as it possibly can. The tone is one of

encouragement. "You don't need to worrydon't try to work it out for yourself. Just follow the procedure laid down. If there are any problems just return the

form". It is becoming the pattern of "civilized" human life. Everything

that is advertised is advertised as being as simple as falling off a log. No

one would try to sell something and advertise it as difficult!

Big business is really part of the system. Before you can "qualify" for

a housing loan, or buy a car, your identity and every number you've got

is thoroughly scrutinized. Credit controllers inquire into the credit-

worthiness of all potential customers. Everyone now buys almost every-

thing by means of credit cards, which are a mark of status within the sys-

tem. There are cards for gas and cards for the telephone, cards to clock in

and out of work, cards for hotels when you travel. But it is easy to lose a

card. Very soon it will be a number invisibly printed in the palm of your

hand, or on the forehead, which a computer beam can read.

If you are going to "get on" in this modern world you've to accept the

system and run like a preprogrammed rat in your allotted groove. Then

you can carry a briefcase and drive or be driven in your Mercedes to your

allotted and computerized parking area, ascend in a special numbered

elevator to your numbered office, and spend your days phoning the num-

bers of similar people in identical air-conditioned cubicles with family

photographs on the desk and a potted palm in one corner, while you en-

sure that meticulously typed and numbered pieces of paper circulate be-

tween you and them at precisely the right dates and times with precisely

the right thoughts expressed on them which are not your thoughts but the

system's thoughts which you have learnt to think.

At the bottom of the ladder you may or may not have a car and if you

do it won't be a Mercedes. You'll probably do something very repetitious

in an office or factory with a lot of other people close beside you doing

the same or very similar things. You may have enough to eat and some-

where bearable to stay but you'll be worried all the time in case you

might lose the "security", for there are always plenty of people who don't

have itjust to warn you to stay in line. These unemployed have to fill

in endless forms to receive hand outs from the system just to stay alive.

Outside the system there still remains that small part of all of us

which somehow continues to find a way to continue to laugh and love.

And of course there is always that small suspect minority which rate

laughter and love as so important that they contrive somehow to exist

always on the fringe of things. Apart from them (us?) there is no one in

the Western World any longer completely outside it, and u is careful to

remind everyone sufficiently regularly just how parasitic we really are.

Then there is the Third World. Here a tiny minority are very rich and

the majority are grindingly poor. These rich probably are rich enough to


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enjoy the world they live in but the rest long for justice, which u's media propa-

ganda for more than half a century now had thoroughly convinced them means

"life" within the system. It could be the Communist system. u wouldn't mind.

Regulation and classification are all that matter.

But the ironical thing about this whole Modern World set up, really, is its in-

security and vulnerabilitythe very things it claims to protect us from. We all

know that t threatens it. Both the United States and Russia had sufficient

"overkill" to wipe out all life on this planet several times over. Even if they did-

n't use the bomb they could still achieve the same result just as effectively with

nerve gas or botulin toxin. But u's vaunted "security" is itself laying us open to

annihilation just as surely. A major catastrophe which cut off regular supplies of

food and power and destroyed housing on a massive scale would result in death

to unthinkable numbers of the population of a civilization in which the majority

no longer know the basic necessities for survival on this planet and who are en-

couraged never to think about real issuesa population which has in effect be-

come an aged invalid.

Vitality, initiative, resourcefulness and independence are the marks of real

life. Vitality, initiative, resourcefulness and independence are anathema to u.

Not that he doesn't want to keep us working. The more work we do the better.

We still have to go to school and learn how to program computers and look

through microscopes and classify minerals and go to the w and back and keep all

the myriad wheels turning. But if we want to know what it's really all for and

where we're really going then we're Hippies and drop-outs and wasting every-

body's time. Just go on voting for your Representative and your Senator and

your President as and when they're nominated and listed for you, for then you

can look forward to a peaceful Old Age.

u rules Old Age, and essentially all his organization and planning is for Old

Age and reduces us to Old Age. His ultimate "freedom" really consists in the

privilege of being able to contemplate your big bank balance as you sit in your

wheelchair.

A prominent u in a chart always gives an old look with something rather

anxious and timorous about it, even in youth. There may not be a scar, as with

t, but often there is a deformity of some sort such as a disparity in size between

one side of the face and the other or a difference in the slant of the two eyes. The

voice often has a rasp or crack in it. Whether prominent in our charts or not,

however, u sooner or later begins to operate on all of us. His normal way is to

begin by introducing the first white hairs. As time goes on (his time) the mus-

cles, eyesight and hearing all weaken. Joints become stiff. Hair goes totally gray

and falls out. Gums recede and teeth decay. The voice becomes querulous. All

effort, including mental effort, becomes a strain and ultimately even the best

mind becomes confused and childish. He has been preparing all the time for this.

His insurance policies and Old Age Homes are ready--Homes that are infinitely

worse than the prisons and hospitals and institutions he had for us

when we were younger, for those admitted to them know

there will be no discharge, no way out. Only the benefics

can ameliorate things a little with visits from loving friends

and relatives. Eventually o brings the only possible release:

the final sleep which cancels our account.

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The 2004 Presidential Elections

Isaac Starkman

My rectification for the charts of the two candidates:

John Kerry1:

Radix: 11th December 1943 at 14.07.24 UT; 39N44, 104W59.

Epoch: 27th March 1943 at 14.42.36 UT; same coordinates

George W. Bush2:

Radix: 6th July 1946 at 11.24.16 UT; 41N18, 72W56.

Epoch: 15th October 1945 at 15.37.18 UT; same coordinates

John Kerrys main Primary Directions in the

Topocentric System3 (Dual Test) for the Presi-

dential Election on 2 Nov 2004 are:

^ S o E/E 8 apart

k S o E/E 3

t G u R/R 2

u G o E/R 2

3 cusp D i E/E 3

3 cusp D E/E 6

o S w E/R 9

u D q E/R is exact on 17 Dec 2004

Kerrys main secondary directions: Direct: Converse: PSSR4:

t S o E/E 3 e S cusp 12 R/E 5 u D k E/R 11

q F o E/R 5 t G k R/E 8

Cusp 12 A o R/R 6 r D k R/R 3

k G o R/R 4 F k E/E 10

w A t E/R 14

w G t R/R 16

1 The main source for Senator John Kerrys events was:

www.boston.com/globe/nation/packages/kerry/timeline.htm 2 The main source for events in the life of President George W. Bush was:

www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/choice2000/bush/cron.html 3 For details see my article: Rectification Without Tears in Considerations

vol. 13, no.2. R indicates that the aspect is in the directed Radix, E that it is in

the directed Epoch. 4 See my article on PSSR in Considerations vol. 14, no 3









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John Kerry

Natal. 2:07:24 pm UT

11th Dec 1943

39N44, 104W59

Starkman

rectification

John Kerry

Epoch 2:42:36 PM UT

27th March 1943

39N44, 104W59


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For Inauguration Day, 20th January 2005 Kerry has two negative

PSSR aspects:

w S u R/E 12

w S t R/R 12

Lunar Cycles are always one of the best tools for prediction. In

KerrysLunar Return for 31 Oct 2004 15.36 UT: k 25 z A t23 z.

In his Kinetic Lunar5 for 11 Oct 2004 10.26 UT: j 11z A t 9 z

In his demi-Kinetic Lunar for 23 Oct 2004 10.01 UT:

j 17 z A t 17 z

k 20 f A u 27 f

In his Converse demi-Kinetic Lunar for 17 Jan 1883 16.15 UT:

j 24 A t 25

k 19 x A u 19 x A l 17 x S o 16 s

And in his the Converse Asc-Lunar6 (6) for 3 Feb 1883 05.58 UT:

j 17 x A l 16 x S o 16 s S u 19 s

All of these Lunar Cycles are calculating for Boston, Massachusetts,

and are precession corrected.

The main Transits for 3rd

November 2004, 04.00 UT:

Transit Aspects to Radix Transit Aspects to Epoch

Direct Prenatal Direct Prenatal

e A cusp12 42 y A u 45 u S k & ^ 25 o A j 20

u F cusp12 5 t A u 40

r A MC 37

L Z Asc 7(true) 30

(mean)

S w/u 5

o A w/k 27

The analysis of his natal and epoch charts clearly indicates that

Senator John Kerry has NO chance

to win the 2004 Presidential Election.

5 These very effective Lunar Cycles can be calculate only in my program or in

the oldie-goodie DOS program NOVA 6 For an explanation of these cycles see Alexander Marrs book Prediction III

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George W. Bush

Natal

11:24:16 AM UT

6th July

1946

41N18 72W56

Starkman

Rectification

George W. Bush

Epoch

3:37:18 PM UT

15th Oct 1945

41N18 72W56


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George W. Bushs main primary directions for 2nd

November 2004:

A j R/E 10 w A j R/E 2

w G y R/R 4 j A i R/E 3

y D t E/R 1 q S i E/E 9

l G y R/E 2 q V j R/E 6

Bushs Secondaries:

Direct: Converse: PSSR7:

j F l E/R 7 e S cusp3 E/E 10 e F cusp 3 E/E 1

q F r E/R 9 y F i E/E 7

r A y R/R 11 w F l R/E 2

w F q E/R 6

In the converse Lunar Return for 28th March 1888,

11.06 UT:

j 10 a A q 8 a S i 15 z S w 15 z

In the converse demi-lunar return for 14th March

1888, 14.36 UT:

j 5 d A 3 d S y 6 c

In the Desc-Lunar for 21st October 2004, 14.32

UT:

k 21 h A r 21 h

Transits for 3rd

November 2004, 04.00 UT:

Aspects to Radix Aspects to Epoch

Direct Prenatal Direct Prenatal

t S k 55 y F j 47 r A k 34

& F w 35

y S ^ 44

r G j 32 l (mean) A j 60 l S e 25 r F y 0

l (true) A e 40 e G y 60

i A w 19

Transits to Bushs Epoch for 20 Jan 2005: y A y, orb 28 !

George W. Bush has y repeatedly present in the various systems

demonstrated above with very few negative indications.

Bush will win the 2004 election

& be re-elected

President of the United States.

7 See my article on PSSR in Considerations vol. 14, no 3

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Three Spring Full Moons

SHELAGH KENDAL

VERY YEAR, important celebrations are held at the time of

three full moons. Important because they bring reflections of

how humanity in general is fulfilling its obligation to protect

our planet and develop spiritually. When the w is in a position

to reflect the full light of the q it transmits the energy of per-

sonal will power more forcefully to where we want it to go. Yin and

yang can work together and we can use them to our advantage.

All full moons (the opposition of the q and w), are opportunities to

reflect and see reality more clearly so are significant, but the three spring

ones, in a, s and d, are times of long-established traditions that have

special meaning for human development. Their dates are associated with

festivals held world wide and the New World Servers, an international

group which encourages simultaneous meditations every full moon, con-

sider spring a time of particular importance for coordinating individual

efforts to spread the Light.

a Full Moon

7:02:43 AM EDT, 5th April 2004

Washington DC: 38N54, 77W01

E









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The a full moon is the first one after the spring equinox and always

marks the arrival of the "moveable feast" of Easter which

is the following Sunday. Being the first sign of the

zodiac, a is the time for a new start and the Christian

celebration of resurrection and rebirth. Like the welcome

home of the prodigal son, this festival offers the energy

of unconditional love and an annual chance of a new

beginning for all individuals whatever their culture or religion.

Every spring is the start of a new seeding cycle. What is

planted then will manifest in autumn. This year at the full

moon on April 5, all the personal planets will be active. r is moving to a

waxing square with i, changing ideas of what we want, and t has a

waning square with y ready to assess results of past actions. A few days

later e turns retrograde, so be ready for a three-week period for new

thinking after Easter.

s Full Moon

4:33:24 PM EDT, 4th May 2004; Washington DC

The s full moon is the Buddhist festival of

Wesak, when, it is said, Buddha returns to earth

briefly to help the Forces of Enlightenment pour

out both love and wisdom to the whole planet.

Although sacred to the east, Buddha`s message is for

the world. For those willing to pay attention and

catch its wealth, it is a reminder of the need to

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practice Right Human Relationships for peace and happiness. Adding to

the significance of Wesak May 4 is a lunar eclipse just after e moves

forward again. It is also a positive change for y as it goes stationary di-

rect after being retrograde for four months. Therefore the focus is on two

planets connected with minds (e and y) while the eclipse leads away

from the past and old habits held by a stubborn w. That same time, the

two planets of love (o and r) are being activated. The eclipse is in wax-

ing square aspect to o and r comes in line opposite . If ever there was

an appropriate time to consider the need to coordinate the heart and

mindlove and wisdomthis celebration in May is it. As well as being

a crucial test for facing the mistakes of past illusion (o), May can bring a

release of tension from anxiety or guilt, if we are ready to forgive our-

selves and others.

d Full Moon

0:19:32 AM EDT, 3rd June 2004: Washington DC

At the time of the d full moon, a third stream

of energy is available to convey a message of

goodwill. This is the Festival of Humanity

and Unification when personal will and intel-

ligence can work together. It is an occasion to

be aware of the power of words and thoughts.

The June 3, Festival of Goodwill promises a

continuing confrontation between love and

possession with r still opposing . Although


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retrograde, r in d will be very strong as it is the esoteric ruler

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