Why Was it Time for Some Traffic Problems in Ft. Lee?

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By Eric Francis

Wednesday, a collection of emails in the George Washington Bridge lane closure scandal in New Jersey were made public. Among those messages: “Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee,” wrote N.J. Gov. Chris Christie’s deputy chief of staff, Bridget Anne Kelly, to the Christie ally at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey on Aug. 13.

N.J. Gov. Chris Christie visits the Liliputians. AP photo.
N.J. Gov. Chris Christie visits the Liliputians. AP photo.

“Got it,” replied David Wildstein, who in his testimony before the state senate Thursday pleaded the 5th (the right to remain silent) over and over again.

His attorney told the senate panel he would start answering questions were he given state legal immunity by both N.Y. and N.J. as well as federal immunity (all three jurisdictions are involved). That sounds intriguing.

For those who have not been following this story, Christie is the brash Republican governor who during Hurricane Sandy helped Pres. Obama win the 2012 election by acting friendly toward the president when he came to visit the scene of devastation. This infuriated the Romney campaign — especially when Gov. Christie refused to tour New Jersey with the Republican presidential nominee at the peak of the campaign.

The Port Authority, which runs the George Washington Bridge, under orders from Christie’s office, shut down three of the four lanes onto the world’s busiest bridge, the one along I-95 that takes you from New Jersey to Manhattan. This was done for four agonizing days — not previously announced and for no obvious reason. The result was that the entire borough of Fort Lee was gridlocked for four days as four lanes of traffic tried to cram through one tollbooth. Tens of thousands of people endured an hours-long traffic jam. Emergency vehicles and school buses could not move.

Initially there was speculation that this was done to get back at Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich, a Democrat, for not endorsing Christie, a Republican, in his re-election campaign. But that fell apart when Sokolich told CNN that he was never asked to endorse Christie. MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, who put the story onto the national radar with her persistent coverage, devoted her whole program Thursday night to another possibility — that it involved not the election but a long battle over state Supreme Court appointees, aimed at the Democratic leader of the senate who represents Fort Lee.

The 12th house is the one on the left, right above the horizontal line (which is the horizon). The concentration of planets there says there is some huge secret waiting to come out. The planets represent the government and its leadership, as well as the king or state leader -- they are all in on it. This scandal goes right to the top.
The 12th house is the one on the left, right above the horizontal line (which is the horizon). The concentration of planets there says there is some huge secret waiting to come out. The planets represent the government and its leadership, as well as the king or state leader — they are all in on it. This scandal goes right to the top.

In a long, boring news conference Wednesday, Christie said he was upset about allegedly being lied to, but never mentioned how his office’s action wrecked things in the town for four solid days. He maintained the ruse that he thought the lane closures were part of a traffic study, right up until Wednesday when the email came out.

Christie claimed not to know anything about traffic studies, so how could he tell that the excuse wasn’t true? Having covered land use and industrial development in New Jersey, I can tell you this: any New Jersey politician who says he doesn’t understand traffic studies is like a person from Colorado saying they don’t know what skiing is.

Why did this happen and what are the implications for Christie, who was widely seen as someone who could get the Republican nomination in 2016 and also appeal to many moderates? Bridget Kelly’s email giving the order to shut the lanes has a time stamp, and a time stamp means we have a chart for the time the order was given — something that’s extremely rare to have.

The chart tells a very different story than Christie offered the public in his nearly endless news conference Thursday. Not only does he know what a traffic study is, he knew about and was in on the whole scenario. The chart for the lane closure order warns that the whole event is going to be shrouded in deception. Neptune is right on the 7th house cusp. That fog lasted a while, but the heat of the Sun burned it off.

Looking at the eastern side of the chart, Gemini is on the midheaven ruling the government (all the way to the top), and Virgo is on the ascendant ruling the question itself. Mercury, which rules both signs, is in the 12th house (which represents conspiracies). The leader of the government is in the 12th, along with a cluster of other planets. They are trying to keep this whole thing tight, top secret and under wraps — that’s the 12th house.

Leo, the sign that represents the president or the king, is on the cusp of the 12th. That indicates that the governor presided over the whole matter. The Sun, ruler of Leo, is also found in the 12th. He’s right in the mix, fully aware and sharing responsibility for the whole thing. To sum that up, the planets that rule the official government and its leadership, as well as the sign associated with the king, and its ruler, are all crammed into the 12th house.

This is your classic 20 pounds of shit in a 10-pound bag kind of scandal. And it wasn’t staying in the bag. The fact that the email got out, making it clear that the traffic jam was payback, that he fired a member of his team and accused her of lying, and that his appointee at the Port Authority said he wanted immunity from the feds, New York and New Jersey tells you that there was criminal activity involved. I think that will come out around the time that Venus stations direct on Jan. 31.

The 12th is sometimes called the house of self-undoing. Christie has a very strong presence in that house, and to me this chart looks like he’s going to come fully unraveled. He will not even come close to the 2016 nomination. He may not even survive his second term.

8 thoughts on “Why Was it Time for Some Traffic Problems in Ft. Lee?”

  1. Eric, just realized that Christie’s natal Ceres (9+ Leo) is conjunct this chart’s Mercury. When Christie’s natal Pluto (9+ Virgo) is added to this chart’s Jupiter (10+ Cancer) and Juno (9+ Aquarius) it turns the yod into a boomerang. Well, it was already a boomerang with the chart Mercury, but adding Christie’s Ceres increases the retaliation factor off the charts. Ceres, as the myth goes, unhappy with the gods’ lack of cooperation in efforts to find her daughter, took it out on the People by denying them food/crops. Mercury (transiting) and Ceres (natal) in this case created (Leo) their point by denying (Ceres) the People mobility (Mercury). Christie wasn’t getting what he was searching for.

    However, Christie has 3 transiting asteroids working for him right now; Pallas-Athene (13 Virgo retro) is conjunct his Sun, Juno (6+ Pisces) is conjunct his Jupiter, and Hekate (28+ Libra) is conjunct his Venus. These feminine symbols, all starting new cycles with his natal planets can help to add or restore balance, strength, wisdom and cunning, not to mention just plain luck to his reputation. He may be down for the count but he’s not out yet.
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  2. Bridget Anne “Time for some traffic problems in Ft. Lee” Kelly was appointed deputy chief of staff in April. That was when Juno was first at 9+ Aquarius and squared Saturn and sextiled Uranus. When she sent her now famous email Juno had returned to 9+ Aquarius in retrograde (above chart) and her 3rd and final moment in this degree (in direct motion) was the day before Christie’s big win on Nov. 5 and just after Booker was sworn in (Oct. 31). A guest writer on Chris Hayes’ show tonight (MSNBC) said he’d learned that she was not a maverick and followed the rules, but she could be vindictive.
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  3. Christie’s speech started at 3:17 PM, Trenton, NJ, with 4+ Cancer rising, 12+ Pisces on the MC.
    Sabian symbol for 5 Cancer, At A Railroad Crossing, An Automobile Is Wrecked By A Train. Rudhyar likes “Karmic Readjustment” for a nutshell description.

    13 Pisces Sabian symbol for the MC is of An Ancient Sword, Used In Many Battles, Is Displayed In A Museum, or “will power” if you will.

    Chiron at 10+ Pisces conjunct the MC is trine the ruler of chart, Moon, in 1st house at 9+ Cancer. The Moon’s Sabian symbol is A Large Diamond In The First Stages Of The Cutting Process. Keyword “craftsmanship”. For Chiron the Sabian symbol is Men Traveling A Narrow Path, Seeking Illumination. Rudhyar gives us “walk on” as a key word. The Moon had already entered the arena of the cardinal cross when Christie began his speech, having squared Uranus earlier and was now opposing Pluto, then conjunct Jupiter at midnight, and tomorrow morning square Mars. The Moon is indeed travelling the narrow path provided by Chiron. This man will make a run at the presidency in spite of the painful first cuttings.
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  4. Yeah, I bet you’re right about Booker keeping his mouth shut. Seems likely that could be about something in April. I mean Bridgewater? Follow the breadcrumbs to the Bridge on that one. Although, I was wrong that Juno squared Pluto, she was square Saturn on April 9th, before Lautenberg died and nobody was thinking “special election” yet.
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  5. I think that holding the Senate election on an off-day, costing millions, is another pointer to Christie’s political style. I am sure Booker has a few stories that he’s not going to tell.

  6. On October 16th when Cory Booker was elected, trans. Venus at 9+ Sagittarius was square Chiron and trine Uranus. She was also square Christie’s Pluto./be

  7. Something to do with Cory Booker’s election maybe? Booker was sworn in as the new U.S. Senator from NJ on October 31 (when Mars was conjunct Christie’s Pluto and opposite trans. Chiron).

    In a twist of irony, Christie formally opened his 2013 campaign headquarters in Bridgewater NJ on April 27th (shortly after Juno squared Saturn and sextiled Uranus).

    An article on April 9th (Bet.com) is titled “Although Friends, Cory Booker Says He Doesn’t Support Chris Christie”. Transiting Juno was square transiting Pluto.

    Frank Lautenberg (NJ Senator) dies on Monday June 3, (trans. Juno squares the transiting nodes and begins to station retrograde) and Christie calls for the primary election to replace him to be held on August 13th, (trans. retrograde Juno would be square trans. Pluto) with the special election to be held on Wednesday October 16th (2 days before the Aries lunar eclipse, 16 days before the 4th Uranus square Pluto, and trans. Chiron would be opposite Christie’s natal Pluto) . Additional cost for this special election (rather than have it on the same date of the governor’s election a few weeks later) is reported to be $24 million paid by NJ taxpayers.

    Perhaps Christie was jealous and/or fearful of Booker’s popularity.
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  8. Yeah baby, and add to the above that Juno (doesn’t this all sound like a Juno revenge thing?) was opposite Mercury, square the nodes and quincunx Jupiter and Black Moon Lilith at the time of this email! Juno was also semi-sextile Pluto (just getting started in their cycle); she’d also been in this same degree (9+ Aquarius) in mid April before she stationed retrograde, and at that time she squared Saturn (9+ Scorpio) and sextiled Uranus (9+ Aries).

    Mars transited 9+ Virgo on October 31 as he trined Pluto and quincunxed Uranus, and on October 28th Mars had quincunxed Juno at 7+ Aquarius. Then on November 4th, just before Christie’s landslide win on Nov. 5th, Juno sextiled Uranus (9+ Aquarius-Aries) for the 3rd time, and semi-sextiled Pluto again. It was sort of a delayed or slow-motion yod, Juno and Uranus sextiled (again) both forming a quincunx to Mars in Virgo, the focus of the yod. Mars was opposite Chiron in Pisces. Chris Christie has natal Pluto at 9 Virgo. (September 6, 1962)

    It sounds like a Juno thing or a Scorpio thing. . .or both. Right now Juno conjuncts Neptune in Pisces but she is bi-septile (a double septile of 51 3/7’s would be 102 6/7’s degrees or essentially 103 degrees separation) Saturn in Scorpio. If septiles are 1/7 of the circle and 7 is an irrational number then irrationality would flavor the septile and bi-septile aspects. If a septile is indeed indicative of a “fork in the road of destiny” (Robt. Wilkinson, Aquarius Papers dot com) then a double-fork in the road could produce the mother of all traffic jam scandals. I bet there was something going on in October that got Christie’s panties all in a wad and he’ll never tell, but maybe one of these intrepid reporters on the job. . like Rachel, could find some documentation that would reveal just what it was. Perhaps something that began in April has some bearing on it.
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