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<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\nAnd, given the good fortune that those people lived and that we had a holiday with news of a failed attack rather than a successful one, we can afford to reflect a little. This whole incident is mellow enough that we can afford to assess our maturity level as a country dealing with these kinds of problems. And we can consider how we are responding as a world; this is the problem of no one country. The whole western world is involved; and a good bit of the rest of the world.<\/p>\n
I know that Barack Obama is not the most popular guy right now, and I chalk a lot of that up to plain immaturity and disrespect for leadership. If we as Americans or as a world are going to expect Big Daddy to come and clean up the mess that we made and that we allowed to happen, we might show some reverence for how hard a job that is. I would refer back to my article on Obama just before the election of 2008, which looked at the position of the planet Damocles<\/strong><\/a> in Obama’s chart.<\/p>\n Better yet, we might want to take some responsibility of our own, rather than whine that things are not going well. This is really, really basic. I don’t envy the position that Obama is in: for way too many people, such as people who can clap their hands and get on television, he can do absolutely no right. Particularly given the astrological circumstances of the past couple of weeks, he’s doing great and things are going really, really well. I know there are some pretty serious points of sell-out: the banking issue for example, and that may be serious. But frankly nobody in particular is standing up and speaking about that issue. Obama cannot get tough on the banks because he’ll be crucified and we, the people, are not backing him up.<\/p>\n I think it’s reasonable to have minimal expectations and be grateful that things are going as well as they are. Both eclipses and Mercury stationing direct have that little caveat of: don’t push too hard; spending your time avoiding issues rather than causing them or solving them; and move through the energy gently. I really mean it: if your life is functioning and you’re in a safe place and you have money for food and heat, be grateful of that, pay attention for who around you needs assistance, and take your life one day at a time.<\/p>\n If you ask me, we are a brutally competitive culture, and fools for it. We waste so much time being competitive that we rarely ever have the experience or even a clue what it’s like to be fully cooperative. That’s the spirit we need right now.<\/p>\n Yours & truly, It’s been a weird Mercury retrograde since right around Christmas, though considering it came with a lunar eclipse and the beginning of Mars retrograde, it’s been pretty mellow, at least in public life. Most of the drama — and it is simply drama — has surrounded the Underwear Bomber and related investigations and revelations — … 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\/21004"}],"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=21004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAnd as for wee, the people — this is the time to take it a little easier on ourselves rather than a little harder — in preparation for the challenges to come. I say this to myself as well as to you; I’m looking at this huge deadline for Cosmic Confidential coming up in about one week and it’s taking all of my experience, skill and patience in myself to pace out my work and stay cool and get it done. I am aware and would pass onto you that the sense of pressure — not the actual pressure — might well be going up next week as Mercury slows down and the focal power of the solar eclipse works itself to an edge. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen these two events happen on the same day.<\/p>\n
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