Logical Consequences: Enemies, Frenemies and Foes

By Judith Gayle | Political Waves

I suspect that most of you reading this today are exhausted by daily news and disgusted by the politics that drive it. We’ve long since lost the edge of hysteria used to manipulate us post-9/11, and if we’ve grown at all during the ensuing years, come to recognize any hint of war drums in the thread of white-noise behind government announcements. The 34th President of the United States warned us about the growing influence of the military-industrial complex in 1961, so we’ve had over fifty years to chew on that information, along with four major wars and countless skirmishes and military actions to illustrate our growing reliance on violence to both define and enrich ourselves.

Political Blog, News, Information, Astrological Perspective.Ten presidents later, we’re still chewing on the same old stuff; we know it when we taste it, don’t we? Tastes like war and rumors of war, and, although many of us are disappointed by Obama’s declaration of … whatever that was, this week … against ISIS and anyone who threatens American interests, reinvigorating the War on Terror, I’d be really surprised if you hadn’t seen it coming. Me? I’m surprised it took so long.

This is America we’re talking about, “the land of the free and the home of the brave” (with neither of those attributes carefully scrutinized nor fully comprehended), and the political party that’s been screaming about the lack of American leadership and the decline of American influence in the world has been relentless in its criticism of our president’s international lack of aggression. The first ISIS beheading was enough for them to implode, the second was a bridge too far. (Yet, if you will pardon the candor, is a quick beheading any less barbaric — any less brutal and unforgivable — than years spent in solitary confinement, one’s mind slowly slipping sideways?)

The same citizens who consider it their patriotic duty to keep and carry guns everywhere they go were not content when the black guy in the White House took a wait-and-see position against jihadi insurgents while fostering an international coalition to police them. Much as I complained bitterly about too much testosterone for the eight years of Dubby’s reign, the Pubs have been bitching, and loudly, about too little for the last six.

The loudest voices heard today, of course, are the war hawks, the “peace through strength” proponents, which translates into a mandate to pound the bejesus out of anyone who defies American exceptionalism or resists American power. Jon Stewart compiled a quick and decisive montage of their ISIS assessment, along with a nuanced analysis of Obama’s actions you won’t want to miss. And we might wonder, if this moment of déjà vu is so clear to those of us who watch Comedy Central, why isn’t it that clear to the rest of America?

Perhaps it is. Those who think the Prez caved to conservative pressure are probably missing the larger perspective on what is expected of a modern American CEO. The bottom line is always money, honey, and those pressuring the executive branch to ramp up the military cash register come from all sides of the spectrum. Is that cynical? You bet, and there are millions of military contractors and their minions licking their lips as I speak. Not to mention that, emotionally, these things are almost schizophrenic in American culture. The same president who brought Social Security and banking regulation to our society in the mid-20th century is the one who perfected the complex war machinery that established America as a superpower. The meme that FDR only crawled out of the financial hole left by the Depression by throwing the switch on that machinery still holds today.

But there are fits and starts on the ISIS project, this being the deeply divided political years that echo our Civil War, when a house divided eventually stood united — after what Lincoln historian Gore Vidal called the bloodiest war in history — while leaving half the nation to simmer in its own bile, nursing a grudge that still poisons the well of our unity today. For instance, the House of Representatives, Tea Party front and center, still isn’t sure if it will fund Obama’s request to arm Syrian rebels, even though John Boehner has pubicly approved it. The hesitation includes arguments that the arms used to fight ISIS might also be used to assist Assad and perhaps eventually even be turned on us (interestingly, that’s a Democratic argument, not Republican, but as good as any to throw the e-brake on what the black guy wants).

And to such an argument, all I can say is, “Well, duh!” Go just about anywhere in the world and you will find American weaponry, much of it military, that has found its way into non-military hands. Go to your local police station and see what they’ve got in their equipment yard, waiting in the wings. And because we still haven’t figured out that might doesn’t make right — that ideas that are shot, stabbed or blown to hell can still rise again like the undead to eat our brains — we continue the loop of attack/defend, of winner-take-all (this time around), of naked aggression dressed as humanitarian concerns, while protecting our power and influence.

That was, is, and remains the challenge of this foundering era, one that we’re still putting to bed. The problem is simple, the solution as complex as human behavior (and reflects our basic misunderstanding of our better nature: that we have one and need to nurture it). In order to create a peaceful home, neighborhood, nation or planet, we — each of us — must become peace. It must be our first choice, our best defense and the root of our power base. It must be who we are, not what we do, and that is a learning process that must be discovered, chosen, and embraced as an ongoing practice. It would also be helpful, I think, if we found peace at least as attractive as the chaos we’re enduring now.

War is part of patriarchy. The meanest, baddest son-of-a-bitch in the valley gets to rule everybody else, at least that’s the way it used to work when things were simpler. We still like to watch the western movies that affirm that concept, especially when the winners are the guys in the white hats. It was the philosophy George W. brought to his presidency, a naïve and simplistic view of the world, and he sowed the seeds of disaster for us all — despite Cheney’s bluster, even now, and Bill Clinton’s assessment that ISIS is the result of Uncle Dick’s misguided hubris — when it came to putting our deeply resented and unwelcomed boot-print on the Fertile Crescent.

Despite Dubby’s familiarity with the Saudi royals, he never understood Arab culture outside of its basic customs, or what motivated them. And now we’re reaping the whirlwind of his political aspirations, the clash between Sunni and Shia revitalized as Dubby unleashed Shock ‘n Awe. His attack on the one country in the Mideast that was strictly secular in its political concerns removed the strong man that kept the lid on the religious wars. Bush opened Pandora’s Box and called it good.

So now the euphemistic War on Terror will be revitalized as Obama attempts to stamp out renegade Sunni zealots, created in reaction to the hornet’s nest the Western world stirred up, and slowly but surely maddened, in the Mideast. If we hadn’t been there, sniffing around to secure bases and procure oil, unwittingly taking sides in an ancient religious struggle we didn’t understand, the Arab Spring might have taken its proper turn in Iraq, even Afghanistan, over time, securing new liberties for those societies bent on creating their unique brands of democracy and modernity.

True, as the sword point of the religious conflict, ISIS couldn’t be more reprehensible, but it’s not possible to stamp out the energy that creates ISIS, any more than we can eliminate the Klu Klux Klan, which fancies itself a Christian movement, on these shores, nor change the minds of the Westboro Baptist Church and its followers, simmering in self-righteousness (and unaddressed self-loathing). Neither, might I add, is it ours to do.

These hate groups CAN be replaced, however, with positive solutions to social issues that make their philosophy less attractive to sympathizers and converts, but that would require us to rethink our position as a superpower, give up our pride in exceptionalism and our addiction to colonization. That would demand that we rethink policy-induced disasters and retire our dependence on the cynical exploitation of the shock doctrine. We’d have to sustain a real change of modus operandi, and not just in foreign affairs. The power structure would wobble, the economic system would have to stop squeezing the American public for every dime it has in order to fatten the top one percent. You know, all those things Pluto in Capricorn is showing us about our failing government systems — and about ourselves.

But even now it appears too late to stop the war machinery, though it’s stuttering and spitting from lack of money and will. Obama’s reluctance to impose American power on the international scene has earned him a reputation as a softy, even among people I assumed too intelligent to fall for old psychological traps, but clearly we need our enemies, here in the home of the brave, in order to prove our superiority. In fact, we insist on it.

And — because we can’t tell the players without a program — our intrusion into Mideast politics has now earned us unintended frenemies, it appears. Obama has refused to link his ISIS campaign with Assad, but his declaration that he has the power to bomb in Syria will now assist Assad by helping to eliminate his regimes’ enemies. In an Iraq that is still deeply divided into religious schism — the Sunni and Shia rhetoric continues at sword point, despite the rushed election that removed Maliki, while the Kurds refuse to participate in a government that offers them little power — Iran has become a major player in pushing against an ISIS takeover. The Iraqi army simply isn’t able to cope, but the Iranian forces are good at what they do. As we assist Iraq to defeat ISIS, we end up making Iran look good. With no boots on the ground, we will likely become the new Syrian and Iranian Air Force.

Nations have soul levels, according to The Michael Material, channeled information I’ve appreciated over the years. America is classified as a ‘young soul,’ and it shows. For instance, this is the country that took the game of football and made it a multi-billion dollar industry reminiscent of the “bread and circuses” spectacle of gladiator games, used to lull and mesmerize a rowdy populace.

Yes, we love our NFL, even when it’s biased and sexist and turns a blind eye to critical issues it should address. We’ll allow it to pay out huge hush-money to injured players rather than minimize the dangers of the game, and forgive its bad boys anything so long as they impress us on the field. We love our padded warriors, especially those hometown heroes who play on high school teams, and we’ll tolerate hand-slaps for players guilty of drugging, raping, battering and brawling, holding their victims up to derision long before we find the perpetrators responsible.

And yet, even now — when many of us can newly admit these systemic failings to ourselves — we still defend the game and its adherents. Why? Because the very emotions it prompts in us are deeply rooted in our shadow side. As George Orwell tells us, “Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.”

Now, a moment for football lovers everywhere: yes, there is a positive side to sports and we see that at the Olympics, where individual performance is given the same respect as team play. Athletics itself is not in question, but it’s all too easy to lose our equilibrium when we become that mindless thing called “a fan.” It is easy, even fun, to root for the home team, but not by demonizing and disparaging the opponent. Not all such contests are warfare, but warfare is what we too often make of them.

I think back to when we first arrived in Missouri and my son went to a KC Chiefs game with a friend. Sitting in a sea of red-clad fans, surrounded by those invested in win/lose mentality, my kid — who was rooting for the other team, his loyalties still influenced by a lifetime on the West Coast — was intimidated into silence when his team scored. They were, he said, “scary crazy” as a mob, surrounding him on all sides. Despite staggering paychecks and outsized perks, there’s likely more sportsmanship to be found in the locker room and on the field at these big, expensive and well-attended games than in the parking lot or the bleachers.

It’s the same kind of dark energy that inhabited the Roman Forum in those centuries that turned our calendar from BC to AD. It’s group think. It’s testosterone, it’s tribal, it’s primitive, and it can quickly turn to blood lust. All we need is an enemy to justify whatever comes next, and we don’t seem to have a hard time finding them.

We can’t read an American newspaper without discovering which of us, from helpless infants to fragile elders, died from bullet wounds, intended or accidental. We can’t read headlines without finding out which college has a rape scandal, which neighborhood has fallen prey to police brutality, which employer, bank, or corporation is victimizing those in its grasp, which is itself a passive but potent form of violence.

Here in Missouri, which is lately closing in on a ridiculous level of cultural suppression, our Dem governor’s veto of an expanded gun rights bill has been overridden by our Tea Party Congress. We now allow anyone with a concealed-carry permit to wear their firearm openly, and anywhere, even in places like restaurants which have denied them entry. It lowered the permit age to 19, which means some late-blooming high school students are legally entitled to tote their guns to school, not to mention students on college campuses. School districts will be allowed to arm teachers, and cops will be barred from disarming anyone unless they are under arrest. Given what just happened in Ferguson, how do you think this is going to turn out?

This law is in defiance of the Missouri majority as well as common sense. It’s in defiance of government itself. Remember those ‘entitlements’ conservatives consider evil, like Social Security and Medicare, and social safety nets? Turns out the political right feels it is entitled to meet violence with violence, and even to provoke it. America: land of the free, home of the brave and the well armed.

Violence is entwined in everything we do, all we see around us, as is the hard-edged competition that creates us as winner or loser, ‘makers’ and ‘takers.’ And although we are surely tired and dispirited from such a glut of rash emotion and disaster, we must begin to respond to this consciousness as an ethical challenge to the very soul of this nation, to humanity itself. We are raising up a generation who believe this is what life looks like — we dare not fail them, or ourselves!

There are logical consequences to every action, but in order to anticipate them, we have to tell ourselves the truth about what we’re doing. The logical consequences of war are not safety and security, but militarism, systemic and never ending. It’s provocation for more war, an everlasting loop of war and vengeance and tribal retribution. It’s more of the same, because it is a reflection of our fears and ego, our intellect rather than our heart.

If what’s past is prologue, then it would be instructional to remember that Jimmy Carter left office after one term with 36 percent approval and no war on his record. Now? 52 percent approve his presidency, looking back at what they might have done differently, and to different result. Certainly we would have made early and important inroads into matters of energy independence and environmental protections. In ethical considerations, Carter was a frontrunner. We need to find that ethical center again, because until we tame the beast within, the beast without will reflect the daily choices we make.

War drums are pounding, politicians are posturing, and all we can do now is act consciously to advocate for those actions and policies that will bring our nation back to it’s center. We need now, more than ever, to be the one we’ve been waiting for. To create peace in our experience, then, we must be peaceful. To create love in our experience, be loving. To change the world, we must begin today.

7 thoughts on “Logical Consequences: Enemies, Frenemies and Foes”

  1. Did anyone watch the 1st installment of The Roosevelts on PBS last night? If so, you saw the 20th century version of the Might is Right mindset (which the U.S. leadership has come to symbolize) in the form of Theodore Roosevelt. Yet, the poor guy (he DID have painful experiences – mother and wife died on the same day for Pete’s sake!) had a Moon in Cancer and a Neptune in Pisces. Still, back then projection (of one’s traits onto another) was not common knowledge, and a Man Had To Do What A Man Had To Do (in a Patriarchal world).

    That natal Pisces Neptune of Roosevelt’s was trine his natal Nessus (old family wounds) in Cancer and squared his natal Jupiter (expand) in Gemini. It also opposed the U.S. Sibly Neptune in Virgo while his Jupiter was conjunct the U.S. Sibly Mars in Gemini. It was his destiny to personify the U.S. guts and glory mystique.

    President Teddy Roosevelt did though have a Scorpio Sun conjunct Mercury. In 1898 he took his Rough Riders to Cuba, making a big splash by taking Kettle Hill in battle, making him a very popular hero with the U.S. citizens who read of his exploits back home. At the time, transiting Neptune was at 21+ Gemini (as was transiting warrior goddess Pallas) and conjunct his natal (retrograde) Jupiter (conjunct U.S. Mars) which squared his Pisces Neptune (which opposed the U.S Neptune in Virgo), thus forming a combined and activated T-square. It’s easy to see how his playing the role (Pisces AND Gemini Neptune) of a warrior (natal Jupiter conjunct U.S. Mars) pushed forward the U.S. persona of Policeman of the World, even though he, personally, must have been scared out of his wits.

    Something else about that time period of the Cuban battle was that the Great Attractor (now at 14+ Sagittarius) was at 12+ Sagittarius then and conjunct the U.S. Sibly ascendant. This gives us an indication of how that energy (GA) can operate since Roosevelt’s natal Saturn was at 11+ Leo and trine the “transiting” GA that was conjunct the U.S ascendant. The Chiron discovery chart (11/1/1997) has Neptune at 14+ Sagittarius (and conjunct the present GA), and now Chiron is targeting the U.S. for some consciousness awakening, Neptune style, via transiting Uranus.

    Late this month and much of October transiting Uranus will be setting off the square between the U.S. Saturn and Sun, while at the same time he trines the (transiting) Great Attractor (and Chiron’s “natal” Neptune) at 14+ Sagittarius. Transiting retrograde Chiron at 14+ Pisces will square the GA (and his own natal Neptune). At that time trans. Uranus will also be travelling retrograde but come next February and half of March he will trine the GA (+ Chiron’s natal Neptune) again while in direct motion. Days later he will make his 7th and final square to Pluto to end that series. Trans. Chiron also will repeat his pattern in direct motion, stationing in November after the U.S. election in a trine (he at 13+ Pisces) to the U.S. Sun (13+ Cancer), and will go on to square the G.A. (+ his own natal Neptune) in January 2015.

    Neptune is often experienced as a lack of clarity – even illusion – but his real “job” is to remove boundaries (separations) and merge differing factors into one whole. We are nothing but cattle being herded by the cosmos into a new awareness of our possibilities! Remember that when things look fuzzy and don’t make sense. The times they are a changin’.
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    p.s. the 2nd part of the Roosevelts is on tonight and a new chapter every night through Saturday. I recommend it.

  2. Almost schizophrenic? I think we’re already there. More Vietnam vets have committed suicide than died in combat, or so I’ve heard. My dad was one. And that’s just Vietnam. World War III has been ongoing since WWII ended. The Empire has been schizo since the Kurgan invasions in my estimation.

  3. The Sunday press has evidently learned the lesson in blind trust that Bush taught us with Shock ‘n Awe — they seem to be carefully examining ISIS and its capabilities to do harm to America. The military analysts … retired generals and the like … have been trotted out, as expected, but I appreciated that none of this … even CNN coverage … was accompanied with martial music to stir our patriotic sensibilities, as happened in 2003. We’re more skeptical these days, thank God/dess.

    Martha Radditz did a piece on domestic violence — over 600,000 incidents last year — determining the NFL’s (either cover-up or minimal) response as a watershed moment. As well, news is full of Minnesota Viking’s Adrian Peterson’s indictment on child abuse, beating his 4-year-old with a switch (tree limb) for which he is regretful that it left deep marks, but not willing to give up beating his kids because not only was HE raised well with this technique, but … Bible, rod, child, yadda.

    http://houston.cbslocal.com/2014/09/12/exclusive-details-on-adrian-peterson-indictment-charges/

    So here’s that bit of connective tissue that links it all together:

    Patriarchy = Authoritarian = Violence.

    We seem not to understand the consequences of this behavior loop, it’s so engrained in us, but we’re getting there. When we send our soldiers out to kill and intimidate for country, how can we expect them to do less when they come home? When we nationalize (and glamorize) a game that is so rough it turns the players brain to jelly, why do we expect them to be any less violent at home? And when we insist on mis-using a Book whose last update in social expectations happened two thousand years ago as our standard, how can we expect to evolve past our self-imposed limitations?

    Chiron time, indeed, Miss be! This close-up of violence — now out of the closet — in so many arenas of our culture is SUCH a Chironic expedition into our own psyche! We can’t come through it without addressing the self-wounding, the shame and the error without forgiving ourselves and others, and re-thinking the views that have kept us recycling this old tired energy. (And thanks for the link, kiddo!)

    I heard a (smug, Pub) pundit say these next election cycles (they’re full of 2016 spec today because of Hillary and Bernie going to Iowa) will be anti-establishment … and that got me thinking about Eric’s theory that this is the reverse of the 60s energy, a conservative implosion rather than a liberal one. The 60s brought the newer, more open culture represented by the Boomers to defy the traditional, and ultimately, although the needle moved in myriad ways toward cultural progressivism, the violence engendered at the height of that period was put to bed by the last assassinations of King and Malcolm and Bobby. Like pins in a balloon, that rebellion leaked away, leaving the traditional establishment to maintain itself, relatively unscathed.

    This time, it appears that the traditional, even regressive, faction is opposed to the establishment status quo and their internal rebellion has all but stopped congressional activity for years … and threatens the next session as well, with McConnell pledging same. The majority of Americans want progressive solutions to problems, while the Pubs, evidently, want none at all — just more of the same. By the time this is over, the Pubs will have soured their brand so completely there will be little left to revive.

    Bernie Sanders, on Meet the Press, held the winning hand, I think, when he kept punching up how angry the citizenry has become — it isn’t just the hard-left that want progressive politics now. The longer the Pubs dither, the sharper the curve toward real … if foot-draggingly eventual … change for the better, IMHO.

  4. Just so you know, presently transiting Chiron at 15+ Pisces retrograde is conjunct his own discovery chart’s Pholus; you know, small cause, big effect, , cork’s out of the bottle? The Chiron chart’s Pholus makes a square to Neptune (and the present location of the Great Attractor). He makes a trine to Mercury in Scorpio (in the Chiron chart) and a trine to the Moon in Cancer (in the Chiron Chart), and a quincunx (adjust) to the Pluto-in-Libra group (in the Chiron chart). Wise up, it’s Chiron Time.
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  5. Yeah, somebody on TV this morning used the word “revenge” which recalled the nature of Regulus, a fixed star near the ecliptic, which is that it (Regulus) promises success if revenge or vengeance is avoided. Now, nobody looks to be successful coming out of this whole ISIS/ISIL/IS brouhaha, especially the U.S. if we let the psychology of beheading rule our actions.

    Consider that fixed star Regulus was in the sign of Leo for centuries and now will be in Virgo for centuries, as of just a couple of years ago. It is still at 0+ Virgo, where Transpluto also resides. If we put Regulus and his Success-only-if-it’s-not-about-Revenge theme into the U.S. Sibly chart, it would be in the 9th house of “foreigners” and it would sextile the U.S. natal Hades at 0+ Scorpio in the 11th house of “friends and groups”. You would then get a yod that points to the U.S. Sibly chart’s IC or nadir, at 1+ Aries, the country’s root of it’s power base, the families of the U.S.A. Combined, the message reads: foreigners (9th) seeking revenge (Regulus + Transpluto) through groups (11th) and/or “frenemies” (11th) using tactics we prefer not to look too closely at (Hades).

    1+ Aries is very close to the Aries Degree (0 Aries) and that is where our personal life becomes part of the world picture. Is it not remarkable then that the U.S. PROGRESSED Sibly chart has two celestial bodies now at 0+ Aries, Ceres and Isis? We know how to interpret ISIS but must remember that Ceres is also linked to the revenge theme. Yet who better than Ceres to “nurture our better nature”?

    Seems to me that we need to know what Success would look like. What in the World would that consist of? Pure revenge? Regulus ain’t gonna let that happen. Freedom from fear for the people who are now subjected to it around the clock? That would work, but would we as citizens of the U.S. be satisfied with just that or would we need to be rewarded for our aid in achieving that freedom in some way? As things stand, probably yes if (our) government is calling the shots.

    One of the key points you hit on Jude; Bush, like most Americans, “never understood Arab culture” and he symbolizes the polarization between the “new world” and the “old world” cultures, much the way the White Man was the polarization of the Native Americans. You have beautifully conceived the big picture for us Ma’m and it remains to be seen if we can overcome our cowboy mentality. I love that you reminded us of Jimmy Carter’s soul-centered goals, and as well noted the similarity between U.S. football and, say Spain’s goring of the bulls. Again, two symbols of the extremes in our own version of polarization.

    I submit that the U.S. PROGRESSED goddess symbols, positioned at the World Point (Aries Point) Isis and Ceres, are also capable of expressing in positive as well as negative Action(Cardinal Fire). Isis the goddesses was responsible for finding all those scattered parts of her husband the god Osiris and making him whole again, while the goddess Ceres taught that the cycle of life and death and rebirth was a path toward evolving from density into the light. PROGRESSED planets move slowly and the next couple of years could be telling.

    Transiting Uranus (disregard of rules) will reach the degree of the U.S. Sibly Chiron (20+ Aries) next summer and will station retrograde there. We are living in “Chiron Times” I believe (trans. Uranus stopped and stationed retrograde just short of the U.S. PROGRESSED Chiron in July) and how synchronous it is that transiting Jupiter (understanding), on Election Day, November 4) will be trine, at 20+ Leo, the U.S. Sibly Chiron at 20+ Aries.

    Also on Election Day, transiting Uranus (the unexpected) at 13+ Aries retrograde will conjunct the Eris (who squares the Moon in Cancer) of the Chiron Discovery Degree chart. The Chiron chart Eris also conjuncts the south node (repeated patterns) in Aries of that chart, opposes the north node (new patterns of growth) conjunct Pluto (transform) in Libra who conjuncts Vesta (invest in) who conjuncts Venus (value). As it happens those Libra planets in the Chiron chart (Pluto, Vesta, Venus) are conjunct the U.S. Sibly Saturn (14+ Libra) while the Chiron chart Moon conjuncts the U.S. Sibly Sun in Cancer. This election is more important than just who will control the legislative arm of our government. It is an opportunity for U.S. citizens to show their power through their vote, just as so many decisions need confronting.

    On Election Day Vesta, at 14+ Sagittarius will conjunct the Great Attractor, a powerful magnetic force of which Phil Sedgwick asks the question “Do we have free will and consciousness or do we remain subject to the immutable laws of the physical forces of nature?” On the day Chiron was discovered Neptune was also at 14+ Sagittarius, trine Aries Eris, sextile Libra Pluto, Vesta and Venus, and quincunx the Moon in Cancer. Chiron’s “modus operandi” is to Pete and Repeat a lesson, over and over until we get it. This election less than 2 months away is one of those teachable moments. Do we know where our election choices stand on such things as this new war? If not we must find out and make it one of our determining factors in how we vote.

    Lastly, the Chiron Discovery Degree chart’s Pallas (strategy) at 1+ Scorpio joins the U.S. Sibly Hades at 0+ Scorpio in their sextile with fixed star Regulus (+ Transpluto) in a powerful yod to the U.S. Sibly IC at the yod apex, where PROGRESSED U.S. Isis and Ceres, strong symbols of feminine energies that will reside there for a while. This encourages an adjustment at the Root of our Power Base toward incorporating this influx of feminine action with the existing overwhelm of masculine action (the Patriarchy) leading to a balanced approach. Possibly even harmony. It’s all about healing ourselves and the world we live in.
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  6. The news ledes over at Huffy are a real patchwork of what we’ve been discussing, here, and revealing, so I’m going to link a few of them here, starting with Sarah Palin, apologizing for her part in losing McCain the presidency (which would mean we’d be turning ISIS and most of the Mideast to glass about now, or something similar.) Sarah is one of those faux-adults that illustrate — to me, anyway — how the soul levels work.

    Sarah Palin: ‘I Owe America A Global Apology’

    Sports Are Supposed To Be An Escape But This Week, They Reflected America At Its Worst

    Cops: Zimmerman Told Driver, ‘Do You Know Who I Am? I Will F***ing Kill You’

    And some of those Syrian rebels Obama has been leery of (and that McCain would have armed immediately) have signed a non-aggression pact with ISIS in order to focus entirely on Assad … which puts the whole Obama plan in question now. All of which is good news, essentially — anything that pokes holes in the forward motion of American intervention, for starters, and invites hesitation about the whole of it.

    ISIS Strikes Deal With Moderate Syrian Rebels: Reports

    The Mideast countries may fight one another but very few will align with an outsider to fight against their own. We should know that by now. Even Turkey, who will let us use their air bases for humanitarian flights, will not allow us to use them for attack.

    And last, here’s a piece about someone who chose differently than his tribe, or his battered ego, demanded. An excellent read and clip about the choice for nonviolence on a (remarkably cool) Saturday in September.

    WATCH: Meet The Terrorist’s Son Who Refused To Follow In His Father’s Footsteps

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