{"id":23680,"date":"2010-03-21T01:49:52","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T06:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=23680"},"modified":"2011-06-03T18:48:01","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T22:48:01","slug":"320-the-irak-invasion-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/320-the-irak-invasion-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"3\/20 – the Irak invasion anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday’s 7th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq passed nearly without notice. I mentioned this in Friday’s edition of Astrology News<\/em>, which describes how we are in an anti-Sixties moment, characterized in part by a lack of response to an injustice of epochal proportions: one that is costing incalculable pain and draining the wealth of our nation. To the extent that people care, it seems to be a private concern, never mentioned with passion. The Iraq war is like background noise; an afterthought; but not to those on the ground, or their families.<\/p>\n

I quoted Michal Lang, the creator of the Woodstock festival of 1969, which happened under mirror-image astrology to what we have today. I had long suspected Woodstock was a peace protest, so I thought I would ask Michael, who I see from time to time because he lives in my area. “The war was definitely at the center” of the minds of those creating Woodstock, he said in a March 11 email. “Everyone’s thinking was focused on stop the war<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

A war, mind you, that had only officially started a mere five years earlier, with the fraudulent Tonkin Gulf non-incident<\/a>. If you have any interest in the history of Vietnam, I suggest you read that Wiki page. Vietnam started with pure, refined fraud: nothing actually happened that day in August 1964, nothing except a bunch of rumors.<\/p>\n

I was reflecting on my thoughts at the time of the Iraq invasion at this time in 2003, which I recall distinctly; these were pervaded by a sense of horror and impossibility, and outrage that Iraq was being blamed for the Sept. 11 incident. Two things were on my mind. One, the Neocon team was trying to crash the economy. It seemed obvious. Two, they were bombing the cradle of civilization out of contempt for humanity. We forget easily that Western Civ began in the The Tigris and Euphrates River Valley<\/a> — also known as Mesopotamia, now known as Iraq.<\/p>\n

I spent a lot of time with the chart, which was a Pisces chart with the Sun void of course in the last degree of the zodiac. It seemed like the chart for the creation of an intentional quagmire. If they wanted a war, they would have waited for the Sun to enter Aries in a few hours. I look at the astrology of the war in this article<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I can’t tell you these things are true in any absolute sense, but that was my thinking at the time; and when, early in the war, the Iraqi Museum of Antiquities was sacked, while the Ministry of Oil was guarded by U.S. Marines, I had some confirmation. Now that we see what the war has done to our economy, driving the United States into debt to the tune of about $12 billion a month<\/a>, every month, we have another clue. The combined cost of Iraq and Afghanistan is now close to $1 trillion, with no end in sight.<\/p>\n

So I wonder, today — how long is this going to last, and what’s going to get us out of there?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saturday’s 7th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq passed nearly without notice. I mentioned this in Friday’s edition of Astrology News, which describes how we are in an anti-Sixties moment, characterized in part by a lack of response to an injustice of epochal proportions: one that is costing incalculable pain and draining the wealth of … 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\/23680"}],"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=23680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}