{"id":31365,"date":"2010-11-29T18:01:51","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T23:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=31365"},"modified":"2010-11-30T20:37:05","modified_gmt":"2010-12-01T01:37:05","slug":"wikileaks-astrology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/wikileaks-astrology\/","title":{"rendered":"WikiLeaks Again: A Moment of Transparency"},"content":{"rendered":"

But his pants are down, his cover’s blown…
\nAnd the politicians throwin’ stones,
\nSo the kids they dance
\nAnd shake their bones,
\nAnd it’s all too clear we’re on our own.
\nSinging ashes, ashes, all fall down.<\/em><\/p>\n

— Throwing Stones<\/a>, by John Perry Barlow and Bob Weir \/ The Grateful Dead<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Note I’ve added a small listing of minor planets lower down in the article.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

WikiLeaks, a web-based organization that publishes classified and secret documents, has posted a set of new government documents as of yesterday evening. This is another rare moment of transparency in a world that is moving toward ever-greater secrecy and control. Much of that is based around technology; it was not long ago that only entities such as the government or The New York Times<\/em> newsroom could so much as send a fax. Today, we can access FindLaw from a Droid while riding the subway. We can be photographed naked going through airport security. So the control game is mostly about technology (but the search still comes down to the frisk, the only useful cop is one who understands some psychology, and frankly if you’re looking for explosives dogs get the job done best).<\/p>\n

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Chart for WikiLeaks posting of worldwide embassy documents. The time is from the New York Times blog - earliest known time; and the location is for the primary host of the WikiLeaks datbase. That is a really impressive 4th house -- the one with all those planets packed in. The 4th is the house of <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So here in the pre-climactic throes of our technological adolescence, it’s fitting that we have the Virgo Moon ascending over the chart for the earliest reported time that the documents were available. I’ve used the location of Stockholm because that’s where PRG<\/a>, Wikipedia’s primary host is located, and Sweden is the country that has jurisdiction over the project.<\/p>\n

Many other websites have been commenting on the content of the leak, though it would take months or years to properly assess a quarter million pages of material (that much is unreleased, so far, and will be posted gradually). I understand that this is a genre of work that is aimed at the diplomatic community. These are the meat and potatoes of day-to-day communication among embassies and diplomats, and you can be sure that there are some real gems in there. One of my favorites is how the past two secretaries of state, Madame Secretary Rice and Madame Secretary Clinton, ordered their diplomats to spy on other diplomats — including obtaining hair samples for the DNA database if possible.<\/p>\n

Remember that embassies are notoriously secretive, and the contents of diplomatic relations are protected six ways from Sunday. I recall hearing the story of an embassy employee who risked attack by a lion rather than give up her diplomatic pouch. And embassies are one of the best places for leaks. During the early part of WWII, the U.S. embassy in London, under the stewardship of Joe Kennedy Sr. (JFK’s dad) was a direct leak to the Third Reich; yes, it’s history that JFK’s dad was a down home red-blooded all American Nazi collaborator. So Roosevelt had to route all sensitive communications to Churchill and others around<\/em> the embassy, and meanwhile you can be sure they piped all kinds of bullshit past Joe’s desk so it would get into enemy hands.<\/p>\n

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The materials WikiLeaks has published offer anyone who wants to find out an idea what people in power will say or do when they think nobody else is listening or think they’re they’re not going to get caught. And that is almost always the case. It really is amazing: the pure stupidity of it all, and the depravity that is revealed as being so integral to the game. It is true that this will cause problems for diplomats (how severe is questionable) and that it’s certainly embarrassing. But for all we’ve been lied to about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan I think we can actually do better than this. Daniel Ellsberg, who released the Pentagon Papers, was an example of a person with access to high-level policy decisions who — at enormous effort and risk — broke the truth out.<\/p>\n

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This issue is about communications, so let’s consider Mercury — look at that thing, conjunct the Galactic Core at 27+ Sagittarius. It’s a LOT of information, from a deep source, with cosmic impact. When you think of the GC think of a place that is as bright at night as it is during the day — during daylight, from the nearest star; at night, from all the other stars clustered nearby. Align Mercury with that and we have a ‘message from the cosmos’ or ‘the voice of the heavens’. Remember that speech in Clinton’s cabinet room by Palmer Joss in the film Contact<\/em>? Paraphrasing here — he tells the Christian fundamentalist adviser to the president, I beg to differ but this is the voice of heaven, if the term has any meaning at all.<\/p>\n

One aspect that gleams out of this chart is Mars in Sagittarius square Jupiter in Pisces; it’s within a degree in this chart, leaning right into that square — Mars applying<\/em> to Jupiter, so the aspect is hot and happening, and bristling with the quest for social justice (particularly from Sagittarius to Aquarius). This raw quest for truth is precise and it calls one of the themes of the moment. You have to admit, those WikLeaks people have some fuckin’ balls to do this. Call them whatever you want; it takes nerve to do this kind of work. I say this having tasted approximately one teaspoon of what they do as standard fare: revealing dangerous, damning documents that expose a deep layer of the truth and the denial that veiled it.<\/p>\n

On this note, to my mind, the really interesting gem in this chart is Chiron conjunct Neptune. There is your moment of transparency in the shortest shorthand of astrology. In a chart such as this one that is not only a single historic event, but also an event that defines the tone and theme of an era in history, we want slow-moving planets in a tight aspect that really tell the story. True — we also want slow moving planets in aspect that define a very wide cycle of history, and we have those, but this kind of pointed but era-defining event deserves precision. And we find that in Chiron conjunct Neptune in Aquarius. That aspect is at its third (as close as it gets) conjunction; the cycle last repeated in 1945 and is now in a series of contacts that are ending with the current near-miss but very close precise conjunction.<\/p>\n

You need Chiron for this kind of willingness to be daring and step out. You need Neptune for this kind of all-permeating ‘uncensorable’ power — and certainly dramatic and cinematic…how long before the WikiLeaks story is made into a movie? You can be sure script writers and directors are lusting for it.<\/p>\n

Aquarius defines the theme of social consciousness, technology, the application and use of technology, the public (but only a specific portion of it that cares, mainly those who access the Internet) and then the elite diplomatic corps itself. Chiron conjunct Neptune is the fog clearing. Neptune in Aquarius represents the ubiquitous presence of technology around us and how it has morphed into a dream, full of contradictions (we are ‘obsessed with privacy’ and then post the details of our private lives to Facebook). Chiron comes along and shakes us out of denial; wakes us up to the reality of the situation; cuts through the grease and the fog and the smog and the ‘cloud’ (a Neptune descriptor that also describes an aspect of the Internet).<\/p>\n

Technology has been thrust upon us so fast and so thoroughly that we have barely done even the most cursory assessment of what it means, how it influences us, how it affects our thoughts, and so on. In fact this plunge has been so thorough, thinking about it would feel like writing an essay about water the moment you fell overboard. I guess you could tweet: Sudden sensation; completely soaked; data and multimedia everywhere; not sure where my mind is<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Not to go too far off topic of the WikiLeaks thing but it’s very much a direct attribute of this world. The fact that this data is available, and that it’s available on your iPhone while you’re having a sushi dinner in Tokyo, are closely related. And with that Mercury conjunct the GC (something we won’t really understand till we go there) it’s overwhelming information, and few people grasp its total content, but — the truth is available. Notably, the documents go back as far as 1966. Some will shed light on the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n

In the next post I will look at the asteroids. I’ve had a little help from the Maestro of Asteroids herself on this one, and from the Dean of Astrological Programming herself as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

But his pants are down, his cover’s blown… And the politicians throwin’ stones, So the kids they dance And shake their bones, And it’s all too clear we’re on our own. Singing ashes, ashes, all fall down. — Throwing Stones, by John Perry Barlow and Bob Weir \/ The Grateful Dead Note I’ve added a … 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\/31365"}],"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=31365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}