New issue on its way to subscribers

In today’s subscriber issue of Planet Waves, Eric leads off with an analysis of the chart for the Egyptian military’s “Communique #1” from yesterday. As mentioned in last week’s issue, the military’s role is unclear at best in the changes Egypt is undergoing, and the astrology for yesterday’s statement by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces reinforces this sense in its own way.

Also in this issue, Eric invites the whole world to be his valentine in the course of recounting how far the idea of polyamory has come in mainstream media, how far it still has to go in local communities, and how, at its core, it’s really a solid way to individuate in the context of relating — if polyamory is something that resonates with you.

He writes in this issue:

Granted, this is merely a step on the way to the deepest level of self-exploration, which involves stepping as far out of emotional co-dependency as possible. Any form of relationship can become a spiral. But being fully authentic in your relationships (as opposed to hiding, lying, denying, etc.), is a great step in the right direction.

To read both articles and this week’s horoscopes, you may buy this issue singly here. For three months of weekly issues of Planet Waves, please click here.

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  2. Aword and Carrie, thank you! This is truly a day to remember for me, even with the b-day thrown in for good measure.

    And Carrie, A Happy Birthday to your dad!

  6. Well, that was the symbol when I heard the news, but the earlier symbol was where the Moon was when it was first announced. . .

    TAURUS 27: AN OLD INDIAN WOMAN SELLING THE ARTIFACTS OF HER TRIBE TO PASSERS-BY.
    KEYNOTE: Peaceful adaptation to collective needs.

    Well, I guess I’m the only one who gets a new rebeginning. So sorry!

    Happy birthday Brendan!
    be

  7. Amanda – It would not surprise me that the Egyptian military owns what your source says they do. Look at Burma, where the military owns and operates something like 40-50% of the economy there. That’s the only one off the top of my head at the moment, I have no doubt there are plenty of other examples, both past and present.

    You can do a lot when you have the power. A nice birthday present (mine), I must say.

  8. shebear,

    I’m so with you! ((((((((((( scream with relief!)))))))))))

    It is the 11th of the month as we move through the portal of the 11 gates

    One small victory for man, one giant leap for mankind
    (or is it the other way around!??!)

    Moon at 26+ Taurus . . . Sabian Symbol – A WOMAN, PAST HER “CHANGE OF LIFE” EXPERIENCES A NEW LOVE.
    KEYNOTE: Man’s capacity to rise in consciousness and feelings above biological limitations.

    “. . . . .the symbolism stresses man’s capacity to rise above the limitations which both biological nature and the ‘normal’ social pattern of behavior have tried to impose on him. As in many of the preceding symbols, a ‘woman’ is pictured, because at this early stage of the cyclic process the individual consciousness still has a receptive of ‘feminine polarity – as was indicated in the very first symbol of the entire cycle (Aries 1 degree)

    OR MAYBE IT’S JUST A STEP TOWARD BALANCING THE YIN-YANG (“be” speaking for the goddesses!)

    more thought by D. Rudhyer on this symbol: Whenever this third stage of the 12th sequence is brought to a person’s consciousness, the indication is that he or she should freely open his or her mind to the possibility of always new REBEGINNINGS. Ideally, the new beginning should imply a more mature response to the new possibility of experience.

  9. i’ve been trying to find documentation of what a friend told me recently: that the Egyptian military actually *owns* much real estate — including coastal resort hotels — and industry, and that they will therefore do whatever needs to be done in Egypt’s transition to ensure the continuance of its own economic comfort.

    so far this is the closest i’ve found to corroboration, from the NY Times:
    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/11/world/middleeast/11military.html

    The military has been an anchor of Egypt’s authoritarian government for nearly 60 years. It helped usher Mr. Mubarak, a former air force chief, into office after the assassination of Anwar el-Sadat in 1981. But under Mr. Mubarak’s rule, its role in Egyptian politics has been reduced, with the separate domestic security services playing the role of political enforcer. Many top military officers have kept busy overseeing the military industries that represent an estimated 5 to 15 percent of the economy.
    …

    “In addition to its role as the ultimate source of political power, the military has a huge role in the Egyptian economy. Since a peace treaty was signed with Israel in 1979, military industries have expanded in part to keep a relatively idle officer corps content.

    “Part of the strategy was to buy their acquiescence through a greater economic role for them,” said Michael Wahid Hanna, an analyst with the Century Foundation, a research organization, who has been in Cairo during the crisis. “Their business interests are vast,” he said, and include benefits like officers clubs and a boat on the Nile for the air force.

    After the protests began Jan. 25, the military asserted itself in domestic politics for the first time in years, deploying in Cairo and other cities. The initial reshuffling of Mr. Mubarak’s government, though perceived abroad as a concession to the demonstrators, tightened the grip of the military and intelligence old guard.

    …

    In the personnel changes Mr. Mubarak announced days into the protests, the prime minister, Ahmed Nazif was replaced by the former commander of the air force, Ahmed Shafiq. The defense minister, Mr. Tantawi, was given the additional title of deputy prime minister while remaining commander in chief of the armed forces.

    “This is a security cabinet put in place by Mubarak,” said Michele Dunne, an expert on Egypt at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. “He fired all the economic reform people and brought in others who are security minded.”

    Now the military finds itself in an unfamiliar role, caught between swelling protests and civilian leaders who appear reluctant to cede real power.

    Mr. Hanna, of the Century Foundation, said the military had no training in policing the streets in the face of angry civilians. “It is an open question,” he said, “whether the chain of command would be respected in a situation when it tasked a foot soldier or even a commander to kill their own people.”

  11. yep — that’s what al jazeera english is reporting!
    http://english.aljazeera.net/

    Hosni Mubarak resigns as president
    Egyptian president stands down and hands over power to the Supreme Council for the Armed Forces.
    Last Modified: 11 Feb 2011 16:19 GMT

  12. This just in (shortly after 8 am PDT) the Vice President of Egypt has apparently announced that Mubarak has apparently stepped down. Perhaps he was just waiting for the escape plans to come through. That’s what happens when you fly standby, i guess.

  14. That the military should find itself in this position represents a colossal failure, primarily of the elaborate police state it had established over the last few decades precisely in order to distance itself, as an institution, from the day-to-day repression that kept the regime in place and ensured that no viable opposition leadership could emerge. Since the Camp David Accords of 1978, the military has been profiting from its role in the Arab-Israeli conflict. Egypt’s standing army of more than 460,000 men, with its 4000 tanks and hundreds of fighter jets, with its three-year conscription (used to a large extent to provide free labour to army-owned farms and factories turning out dairy produce, poultry, bottled water and countless other goods), its lavish medical facilities and officers’ clubs, has never had to justify its existence or the drain it represents on the state budget.
    http://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n04/issandr-elamrani/why-tunis-why-cairo

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