{"id":16319,"date":"2009-07-08T10:07:33","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T15:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=16319"},"modified":"2009-07-08T23:01:11","modified_gmt":"2009-07-09T04:01:11","slug":"robert-mcnamara-astrology-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/robert-mcnamara-astrology-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ripples"},"content":{"rendered":"

Note<\/strong>, McNamara’s noon chart is below. Bonus points if anyone comes up with the time of birth –\u0412\u00a0 I have not looked, though someone must have dug out his data in the Sixties when he was somebody special. I’ve added some comments in the comments area below the chart.<\/em> -efc<\/p>\n

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

The interesting times continue. We can be sure that there was an eclipse Tuesday because that was the day of Michael Jackson’s funeral. Eclipses are events involving the lunar nodes and this demonstrates their property of mass public contact.<\/p>\n

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Valencia, Spain. Photo by Eric.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Aries Point has a similar feeling, and this eclipse — stretching across the middle of the cardinal signs Cancer and Capricorn — definitely counted. As I mentioned, this eclipse was across the ascendant\/descendant (1st\/7th houses) of the Thema Mundi<\/strong><\/a> — the chart of the world. For those looking for some clues about the effects of astrology in real life, this is the perfect demonstration. Do we really think that the Jackson family consulted an astrologer and held the memorial a couple of hours after the exact eclipse? As Jehovah’s Witnesses you can be sure they would not go near an astrologer or astrology. But that does not exempt them from participating in the cosmic order.<\/p>\n

As we mentioned in an article by Judith Gayle yesterday, a man named Robert S. McNamara died Monday. He was the architect of the Vietnam War, a ‘good American’ responsible for the deaths of millions. His name is no longer a household word, but some of us remember. Here is a very long New York Times<\/em> obiturar<\/strong><\/a>y, written years before his death in the tradition of the Times<\/em>, well worth investigating. I also highly suggest getting The Fog of War<\/strong><\/em><\/a> from Netflix. This won an academy award for best documentary and it’s little other than in interview with McNamara, about his decisions during the Vietnam-era and how he feels about them today.<\/p>\n

I’ve posted his noon chart below, scroll down a bit. We don’t kow the exact Moon or ascendant because we don’t have a birth time, but noon charts work pretty good for very prominent people. The first thing that leaps out of this chart is his Ceres-Pluto conjunction (exact that entire day), which brings a planet associated with the grief of mothers into contact with Pluto, the lord of death.<\/p>\n

Given his tendency toward obsessive bureaucracy I think that the Virgo Moon is likely, particularly opposite Eris, which under certain circumstances, such as war, comes with all kinds of strife and conflict. Even without the Moon present in the alignment, McNamara is old enough to have Eris in Pisces (nearly everyone alive today has Eris in Aries) and he has Chiron conjunct Eris. This is my first time looking at Chiron-Eris in Pisces, and I need to give it some time to have an opinion about it; except to say that in this case it belongs to Robert McNamara.<\/p>\n

Note how much Cancer he has in his chart. He has a Gemini Sun and Mercury — followed by five points in Cancer. Also note how the July 21 total solar eclipse falls precisely on his lunar nodes — to the degree, the last degrees of Cancer\/Capricorn (the eclipse is in the last degree of Cancer).<\/p>\n

This is a truly important chart and one that we need to come back to. I say this not only because Vietnam was a futile war based on nothing but lies that took millions of lives, 58,000 of them being American men and women. I say it because in our own era, we refused to get the lesson, and allowed our leaders to do the same thing in Iraq that we did in Vietnam a generation earlier.<\/p>\n

That karma belongs to the United States government and it belongs to us. We all knew better. To my readers in the mid-2000s who sent me the closest equivalent of hate mail that I get for opposing the invasion of Iraq: take a gander through the life story of Mr. McNamara, and the consequences of his actions, and ask yourself if you really can see through the fog of war. American society is built on the stuff. Very few people can see it for what it is. I wonder what it will take.<\/p>\n

Eric Francis<\/strong><\/p>\n

PS, here is a short story: at the time of the Iraq invasion, I was taking so much heat for being opposed the war that I askd Judith Gayle to take over that part of my job. She might not agree that she has a thicker skin than I do, but there was no way I could be your astrologer and come under attack from my readers for opposing war<\/em> (something that Yasmin Boland has told me happened to her as well.) So we made that a ‘different’ project, with about 10x the editorial output than I was capable of and a much sharper, clearer point of view. We who call ourselves spiritual need to invest this into politics and the affairs of government as well, or we’re fooling ourselves. Thank you Judith.
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Note, McNamara’s noon chart is below. Bonus points if anyone comes up with the time of birth –\u0412\u00a0 I have not looked, though someone must have dug out his data in the Sixties when he was somebody special. I’ve added some comments in the comments area below the chart. -efc Dear Friend and Reader: The … Read more<\/a><\/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":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16319"}],"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=16319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}