{"id":1038,"date":"2008-09-01T10:03:58","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T15:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=1038"},"modified":"2011-06-06T15:25:32","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T19:25:32","slug":"how-do-you-make-a-flood-and-astrology-ahead-week-of-91","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/how-do-you-make-a-flood-and-astrology-ahead-week-of-91\/","title":{"rendered":"How do you make a flood? And astrology ahead, week of 9\/1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Friend and Reader:<\/p>\n

Does anyone remember the old joke that ends with the punchline (spoken in an old-world Jewish accent), “A flood? How do you make a flood?”<\/p>\n

The flood known as Hurricane Gustav is upon us, and the GOP has basically canceled its convention to show that the boys are on the job, helping out the Red Cross and not fucking up their FEMA plans. The guys have sent their wives to the convention center, turning it into the Republican Ladies’ Auxiliary. “Brownie” is sitting in his living room, watching the thing pound New Orleans and points south, wishing he could be part of the action — now, of course, that FEMA has to actually do something.<\/p>\n

I am someone whose belief system and file cabinet include room for weather control weapons. I know personally the reporter who, in the early 1970s, did a piece for Long Island Newsday<\/em> called “A Weather Arsenal,” about the use of weather weapons during the Vietnam War. I was reminded of this by a friendly reader who’s been sending me little notes all weekend about how she thinks that Gustav is an artificial storm and do I think she’s a nut?<\/p>\n

I might, if I didn’t know about the Weather Arsenal. The thing about that thing is that it runs on computers. You need ion rays or whatever, and I am sure it helps a lot if the ocean is warm, but computers are the key and man, have we got computers these days. At a buck a byte (the going rate for memory at one time), my Mac laptop would have cost about a quarter trillion dollars in 1950. So now there is basically no limit.<\/p>\n

So when contemplating the cancellation of the Republican National Convention, and the fact that (after a huge gaff of hiring Sarah Palin to be candidate for vice president before anybody had actually checked her background — but Laura Bush, at least, met her and liked her) I am thinking of it three ways. One it’s just a hurricane during hurricane season on a slightly warmer planet than we’ve had for a while. Second is if this is just nature getting poetic justice and allowing us a moment to remember just what a motley bunch of fools have been in charge (we all remember Bush not coming back from vacation during Katrina and so on). Three is if Karl Rove sent a text up to the weather control station in Alaska that said something like, “Give me a Cat 4, prime time.”<\/p>\n

Something to think about before we get to your week-ahead aspects, interpreted by Genevieve Salerno, calculated by Tracy Delaney at Serennu.com<\/a>, and edited by yours and truly,<\/p>\n

\"Eric<\/span><\/p>\n

We are still in the early waxing phase of the Moon; tonight will be the third night of the cycle and what many cultures call the New Moon. New Moons are usually pretty helpful at creating patterns. Look around your email outbox to see the patterns you are creating.<\/p>\n

1 Monday:<\/strong> Moon entered Libra at 7:44 am EDT. Venus sextiles Centaur planet Hylonome, putting deeper feelings within reach.<\/p>\n

Genevieve writes, “Sometimes it’s easier to remove ourselves from a situation where we could use our empathy, because the moment we use it, we will be faced with the tremendous wall of grief that envelopes our communities. This wall is caused by the grief, and deep feelings, that everyone puts off. As a result, it is a lot like laundry you throw on the floor and let pile up. The Romantic art movement of the 1800s touched on the idea of sadness as an important vehicle for accessing the sublime. The Venus-Hylonome aspect today speaks to us about positive ways to use our private sadnesses creatively. The purpose of creation is to share it, and creation relies heavily on feeling. Do not be afraid to aspect that wellspring of emotion, though it might appear to be deep and dark. Even black grapes taste sweet.”<\/p>\n

2 Tuesday: <\/strong>Sun squares Pallas in Gemini, a perfect little meme for the Non-Republican National Convention. The boys are flying in the face of politics, hoping for the best. Mercury sextiles Ceres, which is great for recipe collectors. Psyche trines Varuna, which should ease the mental trauma inflicted on everyone sitting in their nice dry living room as they watch the flood waters rise in the Gulf Coast. Juno squares Eros, which asks the question, “Is getting married the best way to get a lot of sex?”<\/p>\n

Genevieve writes, “It is always a good idea to examine and re-examine your motives and your conduct. When you have two aspects like the Sun-Pallas and Juno-Eros, you have a diagram of what can happen when a person prefers to remain aloof by the processes of relationship that go on around them. Honor plays an important role in many of the decisions we make as far as our friendships and love-ships are concerned, and honor can be a strength, or a serious disadvantage, if used without discernment. Put another way, be wary of finding yourself on either end of a martyr-user, or good-evil scenario. Does the conduct in this situation reflect what you believe in?”<\/p>\n

3 Wednesday:<\/strong> Moon enters Scorpio at 4:02 pm EDT. Sun squares Chaos. Uranus opposes Logos in Virgo. Logos is a binary TNO orbiting beyond Pluto. It has a counterpart called Zoe. Together I think that the two are the astrological stand-in for all issues related to the soul of technology and what technology does to our soul. Have you noticed that the more we use the Internet, the more we bring our soul energy into this dimension that used to be called Cyberspace? I know you wouldn’t know it from most Facebook pages, but you might know it from the way Facebook users bring their sense of self into the digital realm. This is true of all of us who invest psychic energy into the technosphere, whether we recognize it or not.<\/p>\n

4 Thursday:<\/strong> Sun conjoins Saturn and trines Jupiter, a very nice setup that should open a lot of doors. Sun squares Ixion in Sagittarius, which is suggesting that we not be too frivolous or lacking in moral courage when we use those opportunities. Material wealth is always involved with the Earth signs since all wealth comes from the Earth (in the words of the late multimillionaire\/record impresario Alfred Schweitzman). Genevieve writes, “When we look at money as a means instead of an end, we force ourselves to restructure our values and find a different set of goals, and we come a step closer to freeing ourselves from the grip of never feeling like we have enough. This aspect denotes a time for just such a conversation to have with ourselves.”<\/p>\n

5 Friday:<\/strong> Venus in Libra sesquiquadrate Neptune in Aquarius. Mars trine Chaos. Pallas conjunct Chaos. Oh this sounds like dandy astrology for politics by chaos. Borrowing a phrase from Book of Blue, someone out there in the political sphere seems like they plan to make a mess and clean it up.<\/p>\n

6 Saturday:<\/strong> Moon enters Sagittarius at 3:11 am EDT. Mars trine Nessus in Aquarius retrograde. Pallas trine Nessus. I would say this sounds evil, but I know better.<\/p>\n

7 Sunday:<\/strong> Mars in Libra squares Jupiter in Capricorn, which is about, you know, a crusade of some kind. Stand up and get ready to be offended by the viewpoint of your choice. Mercury trine Chaos — let it pour. Virgo Sun trine Vesta in Taurus, which is a friendly reminder how much of sex is service, and how we need to take self-service in erotic relationships to a fully conscious level. If you need something, ask for it. Maybe someone will say yes, maybe they will say no; at least you have a chance to get your needs met (a value in itself, in this world) and either way, you will know where you stand. Psyche opposite Sedna. Keep your mind open in hell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sun conjoins Saturn and trines Jupiter, a very nice setup that should open a lot of doors. Sun squares Ixion in Sagittarius, which is suggesting that we not be too frivolous or lacking in moral courage when we use those opportunities. Material wealth is always involved with the Earth signs since all wealth comes from the Earth (in the words of the late multimillionaire\/record impresario Alfred Schweitzman).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[13,1,76],"tags":[36,52,165,35,166,167],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}