I thought I would mention, while it’s fresh, the synchronicity between today’s Aquarius Full Moon and the website Wikileaks making 91,000 pages of documents on the Afghanistan war available. I haven’t even dipped into the document collection and I may never, but I’m enjoying watching CNN reporters tentatively mention, well, all this stuff they’ve been ignoring for nearly 10 years. Even CNN is confirming that much of this information is about documenting civilian casualties, in the Army’s own words in its official reports.

The information spills into consciousness in the midst of a Full Moon that is in aspect to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Pluto: this is the real thing, an authentic turning point. We don’t always see the new direction for a while, but this is going to be a craw in the throat of anyone who tries to speak in favor of this disgusting, deceptive travesty. I admit to voting for Obama fully aware that he would escalate the war; I held my nose when I did so. There was a lot else at stake, and neither the military contractors nor Congress were going to let go of it too soon anyway.

Let’s remember that this business was started just eight weeks after the Sept. 11 false flag attacks and is very much a creature of Dick Cheney and Karl Rove, who are now all but forgotten.

Remember too that even after the release of the Pentagon Papers in 1971, which described in detail what a total mess Vietnam was, the war did not end for years. The report covered through 1967, was released to the government in 1968, and the New York Times started publishing it in 1971. The war ends two years later — with untold lives of Vietnamese, Laotians, Cambodians and Americans in that time, despite all the lies of the Johnson administration exposed.

From the time the report came out, government officials knew the truth. Then consider how much happened in the years after: everything from the Tet offensive to the bombing of Cambodia to the shooting of four students Kent State.

I remember when that war ended, and I studied it in history class many times, and everyone looked back and thought: gee whiz, how did we let that happen?

Now you have your answer.

Today’s Oracle takes us to the Scorpio weekly of July 29, 2005

There are some people who when some worldly power is vested in them immediately strive to establish their position and make all kinds of changes. That would be ill advised right now. I suggest you take an approach that combines “wait and see” with the kind of leadership that stays focused on maintaining some continuity for a while. As recent events have demonstrated you don’t know everything and people are not going to tell you everything. Eventually you’ll find out everything you need to know but the operative word is eventually. So take your time find out who your real allies are and solve important problems as they arise.

(The Daily Oracle is a random selection from one of 10,000 Eric Francis horoscopes. New horoscopes by Eric are published weekly plus twice a month in Planet Waves Astrology News and Planet Waves Light. The Oracle itself is a divination tool available to subscribers to either of these services.)

Today’s Oracle takes us to the Gemini monthly of May 1, 2006

You will need to decide for yourself whether friends and associates have your best interests at heart, or whether they are only out for themselves. This will be complicated in part because for the first half of the month you will be less inclined to think of yourself and more inclined toward considering the needs of others — and you may project this tendency onto everyone and everything. Unfortunately, when it comes down to making an educated guess, we usually must assume that self-interest will prevail, but that at least gives us something to work with. Keeping a focus on what you actually need and really want — and making this known to close partners — will actually get both you and them pretty far, even if you have to go against the prevailing winds for a couple of weeks until the Sun arrives in your birth sign and the fog clears.

(The Daily Oracle is a random selection from one of 10,000 Eric Francis horoscopes. New horoscopes by Eric are published weekly plus twice a month in Planet Waves Astrology News and Planet Waves Light. The Oracle itself is a divination tool available to subscribers to either of these services.)

Just saw this on CNN. It’s a spot about a worldwide video project taking place starting July 24, that is, 7-24. People are being asked to videotape for one day (not necessarily continually) by a director who it sounds like I’m supposed to know about. Everyone can partake, all you need is some video device, camera, etc. Here’s your link on CNN, which points you back to the Life in a Day project. The stuff will be edited and shown at Sundance as well as streamed online. Have fun!!

Zed

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I kept reading, making little copies of the horoscopes and pinning them to the wall at my creative/sewing corner that I lived in back then, about 2003/4. Your insights guided me through some very deep soul development and reawakening even though I was raised in eclectic metaphysics and such deep work is not that new to me.

Forgive me my rambling but I will try to be brief. I was raised in “New Thought,” beginning this journey very aware at age 6 and over the years, 53 of them as of the 14th, have gone through what I call the spiral of equilibrium and dis-equilibrium, being so aware of growth and then being static — states of what seems like sliding back into unconsciousness. How does this apply to why I subscribed? I just plain needed a guide who was actually ‘awake’!

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Today’s Oracle takes us to the Pisces monthly of July 1, 2005

In the coming months and indeed the coming years you must carefully balance work priorities with health priorities. As a Pisces you’re blessed with natural vitality and also with an abundance of energy when it comes to the tasks of life. Saturn’s forthcoming ingress to your 6th solar house suggests a time of focus as well as a time of increased responsibility. You’re going to need to help yourself by staying in balance keeping a pace you can live with and making sure that your role in the world out there is consistent with the real.

(The Daily Oracle is a random selection from one of 10,000 Eric Francis horoscopes. New horoscopes by Eric are published weekly plus twice a month in Planet Waves Astrology News and Planet Waves Light. The Oracle itself is a divination tool available to subscribers to either of these services.)