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By Len Wallick

It’s Monday. Take a breath, a long one. Take a minute to look away from the computer monitor at something far away, ideally through a window, then please come back.

Now that you have paused for some perspective in the body, please, let’s do the same with astrology. Pluto will transit Capricorn for a decade and a half. This is just the beginning. By the time Pluto makes ingress into Aquarius (in 2023) the world, for most of us still present, will be a very different place: a process made of many, many small changes and some very large ones.

Saturn in Libra lasts two years. As with Pluto, this we are at the beginning, though of a much shorter process: but one impressively tense and urgent. Saturn will square Pluto again soon, and again after that. Meanwhile it has two more oppositions with Uranus, once when this retrograde takes it back to Virgo and once when it returns to Libra.

Jupiter is direct in Pisces and will remain so until it joins Uranus in Aries this coming June. Shortly thereafter these four will dance into a t-square in three of the cardinal signs. Lose not sight of these things. Upon this framework will the ephemera of the year be woven.

This week has its own long view. It ends with the month on a Full Moon in Leo that will be conjunct (to the degree) with retrograde Mars. More on that as we approach it, but, once again, keep an eye on it. Something precipitates with this Full Moon; it’s like it falls out of the sky, out of nowhere.

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Today’s Oracle takes us to the Pisces weekly of April 13, 2007

There is a way to get what you want — as long as you want it. Events this week will go a long way toward helping you clarify both who you are and in what direction you need to go. I mean the direction you are taking your growth and self-development, and the direction you call home. Due to the movement of Jupiter and Pluto in your solar chart, there is now unusual emphasis on your professional activities and your role in the world. Yet the changes you’re experiencing internally dwarf anything new that may evolve or develop in the world around you, though at a certain point the two intersect. Meantime, choose based on what you know, remembering what you do not know.

(The Daily Oracle is a random selection from one of 10,000 Eric Francis horoscopes. The Oracle is a divination tool like tarot cards, and also can be used to research any horoscope for the past 10 years. It is available to subscribers of Planet Waves Astrology News in all its working glory. This is a brilliant piece of programming combined with a full decade of Eric’s writing — when you have a question, it really works (as long as you’re sincere), and we know that you’ll love it. Sign up to discover how and why. Or enjoy one selection free here every day.)

for the weirdest story of the past 10 years. And I’m only up to the second paragraph.

Well…what has proven to be the most challenging annual edition is verging on completion — at least the 12 signs of the zodiac are. Today I did total rewrites on Leo and Cancer, and posted them to the still-hidden member site. I have posted an excerpt of Cancer Confidential to the Confidential Diary; more excerpts to come. This leaves two signs. When it comes time to do the final drafts, I work backwards from Aries to Taurus, via Pisces; that is, in order of Aries, Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn, and so on, to Taurus. This is honoring the idea in the book Esoteric Astrology the soul treads the wheel in reverse. My intention is to reach my readers on the soul level, so I finish the annual going each year in that order, after doing the drafts and research in kind of random order.

The signs I did today involved the Sun and the Moon, including my own rising sign, Cancer. Tomorrow the signs involve Gemini and Mercury. I know the Taurus draft is in good shape (it’s 5,500 words and needs to be sculpted and cut). I just checked the Gemini draft and it’s pretty good, so I am guessing that I will be out of the horoscopes by tomorrow afternoon.

Each sign actually has four pages: the sign interpretation, at 4,000+ words; excerpts from the past three annual editions; a page of survey responses by Planet Waves readers of the sign in question; and a page of resources and outtakes (that is, the chart for your sign’s annual horoscope, unused material that was cut from the main interpretation, and other stuff).

There are many articles done, and many nearly done. This annual has four special sections on key life transits that are included with any purchase (even if you just buy one sign), taking the astrology in age range rather than sign. There are four of those, addressing the transits of Saturn, Chiron, Uranus and Pluto. These are fully researched and drafted, and awaiting Mr. Francis to give them a final edit; I plan to do these one a week over the next four weeks.

Our graphics editor (and videographer for the new series of YouTube videos) Alise-Marie knocked herself out today pulling together the illustrations for many of the articles.

This is a very, very unusual annual edition; a breakthrough in how to make the best use of my talents, and reach as many people with as high-quality astrology as possible for the lowest price possible. Here is the order page. I suggest that you get at least your Sun sign and rising sign — both have valuable information for you. For the best price, purchase all 12 signs with a subscription to Planet Waves. This really is the best price — and once you get into your sign you will want to read all of the signs, and this gives you all 12 for one price — plus weekly and monthly editions of Planet Waves. To find those options, go the Confidential Diary, and look at the top right side of the page.

Note to Readers: One of the best things about Planet Waves’ investigative journalistic astrology is finding astrologers of kindred spirit here on our website and on the web who are focused on the political astrology of the day. Astrologer Nancy Summers is publisher of Starlight News, a political astrology website. She provides this take on the Supreme Court decision granting personhood to corporations. Given the amount of  seismic activity on earth and its halls of power, its always good to have perspective from all eyes watching. –fb

by Nancy Sommers

One of the central themes of our time in the US and abroad is the uphill struggle by those who fight for the public interest against the increasing and pervasive domination of powerful corporations. The astrological symbol of this is the passage of Pluto through the sign of Capricorn from 2008 through 2023-24.

Image of Pluto and Charon taken by Hubble Space Telescope (NASA).

The planet Pluto describes an intensely focused, engulfing power that wants total control. While in Sagittarius, from 1995 through 2008, this battle was largely ideological (Sagittarius) and manifested in the global rise of religious extremism, including the growing power of fundamentalist-fueled terrorism associated with the willingness to commit suicide for an idea. As Pluto moved into Capricorn, the ideological striving of religious extremists morphed into a hunger for a more consolidated, reality-based power, and the spreading terrorist threat has seemed to take on a more political, calculated, and tactical direction.

In addition to its rulership of mass movements based on fanatical teachings, Pluto also rules hidden, manipulative, and potent concentrations of wealth, in other words, the obsessive push of consolidated wealth toward global corporate dominance. This side of Pluto is particularly well-expressed when Pluto is in the sign of political power and government institutions: Capricorn. During this 15-year period, corporate power will strive to expand exponentially through an insidious penetration into government institutions, igniting a growing power struggle of epic proportion with those who attempt to restrict this takeover, and leading to an eventual implosion emanating directly from this fanatical and overreaching grasp for control. The reign of corporate dominance (Pluto in Capricorn) will, at some point in the 2020’s, begin to transform into a far more egalitarian reality (Pluto in Aquarius), which eventually will also push too far, leading into the next phase of the cycle.

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By Ma Kettle (Carol van Strum)

For five years, I have signed every petition that comes into my e-mail, have written and called legislators on every occasion demanded, have joined marches and sent donations I couldn’t afford — sadly, with effectively zero results.  For five years, despite massive marches, on-line campaigns, call and write-in campaigns, despite revelations of treasonous lies, corruption, and crime in the highest places, NOTHING HAS CHANGED.

We are still murdering wholesale in Iraq, we are still holding prisoners without due process, our civil rights have been unilaterally nullified, we still have the most ineffective and expensive health care system in the world, poverty continues to increase, nothing is being done to stop the juggernaut of global warming — the list could go on and on.  As if that were not bad enough, any hope of change through the ballot box is nullified by rampant, unchecked fraud in both electronic voting systems and the election process itself.

The reason we have no impact, no matter how large and growing a majority we are, is that the federal government in its entirety is controlled not by the electoral process but by and for corporate money. Furthering this usurpation is corporate control of the media, thereby literally manufacturing both our consent to be governed and the electoral process itself.

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Today’s Oracle takes us to the Taurus weekly of June 18, 2004

Circumstances are compelling you to pay attention to your family, but this is not in the usual mindless spirit of reverence. There is a question of ethics at stake; there is a behaviour pattern that you are seeking to discern the nature of. Venus retrograde is pointing you toward the past, toward the moment when you made up your mind about your value as a person. Like most people, you short changed yourself, but if you search your family patterns with an open mind, you will see how that happened — and discover what you can finally do about it.

(The Daily Oracle is a random selection from one of 10,000 Eric Francis horoscopes. The Oracle is a divination tool like tarot cards, and also can be used to research any horoscope for the past 10 years. It is available to subscribers of Planet Waves Astrology News in all its working glory. This is a brilliant piece of programming combined with a full decade of Eric’s writing — when you have a question, it really works (as long as you’re sincere), and we know that you’ll love it. Sign up to discover how and why. Or enjoy one selection free here every day.)

Ulster County now has a county executive, for the first time since its settlement history, which goes back to around Henry Hudson’s day. The office commenced Jan. 1, 2009. I met the winning candidate, Michael Hein, when he was campaigning, and one morning at the Kingston Farmer’s Market he committed to a sit-down on the issue of SUNY-New Paltz PCB contamination.

That meeting happened today. I was given a time slot of 15 minutes out of Hein’s schedule; and showed up, in earnest, with two big thick blue binders full of my articles, which were mainly intended as a prop: something to show for 18 years of work on an issue. Hundreds of published articles in about 15 different publications, backed up by dozens and dozens of books full of documents (which live in Seattle).

I showed up with my books and put them down on the conference table. I knew immediately this would be a friendly meeting. When someone is trying to shut you down, they may as well sock you in the eye; it’s that obvious. I asked Hein if he knew what happened and he gave an informed rundown of the basic events from 1992.

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