{"id":8951,"date":"2009-01-04T13:30:52","date_gmt":"2009-01-04T18:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=8951"},"modified":"2009-01-04T16:36:44","modified_gmt":"2009-01-04T21:36:44","slug":"astrology-gaza-isreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/astrology-gaza-isreal\/","title":{"rendered":"About that secret meeting…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Because we are in a time of transition of power, there are a lot of secret meetings going on right now, but the secret meeting that shows up in the chart for the ground assault on Gaza is pretty stunning. Astrology is conveyed in images and symbols, and it’s difficult to put into words: the less so for expressing irony. When you look at yesterday’s chart<\/strong><\/a>, part of the story is told in by the planets ruling the ascendant and the descendant — “self” versus “other.” Since Israel was making the move this time, it gets “self” — the ruler of the ascendant. The Palestinians, whoever they actually are, get “other” — the ruler of the descendant. This works out to be Mercury and Jupiter.<\/p>\n

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Child of anti-Isreali protestors in Paris yesterday is bundled against the cold. Demonstrations against Israel's bombing and invasion of the Gaza Strip have erupted around the world. Photo by Dani Voirin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

These two planets are doing a dance right now, thanks to the upcoming Mercury retrograde. On the Dec. 31, hey made a conjunction way at the end of Capricorn. This not all that interesting in itself — but when you take those planets and you tell the story of a war, and you see an image of cooperation<\/em>, it really makes me (for one) wonder what is going on. It starts to look like a faux war. But then, if you study the history of war, they all turn out to be faux. War is supposed to be about motives and reasons, and these never turn out to be ones we are told.<\/p>\n

How people respond to news and rumor of war reveals a lot about human nature. We get caught up without asking too many questions. Forgive me if this sounds callous, but even within the drama of this particular war, I wonder just how it is that the Palestinians can be upset that they’re being bombed and invaded after sending 75 rockets a day over the border into a bigger, more powerful country. So far I haven’t seen one sign at one of those protests that says, “Sorry about all the rockets.” Are we to believe they have a divine right to commit terrorism? Does anyone expect us to believe this?<\/p>\n

Then again, apparently, Israel has been assaulting Gaza through the “cease fire.”<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

It makes so little sense that it points to something larger. So, too, does the timing — just weeks before Cheney\/Bush give up the magic telephone line to the world, The Button (you know, the nuclear one), and the direct ability to wreak chaos on the planet. The ground assault on Gaza reminds me a little too much of the ground assault on Iraq. That chart was really weird, too: for the opposite reason. Instead of the two sides looking like they had a perfectly cooperative relationship, that one looked like they had no relationship whatsoever. It looked like a war without an enemy.<\/p>\n

Looking ahead at this conflict for a moment, remembering that it’s mixed up with a new president taking office, we see a couple of turning points. It looks like Israel may start to pull back by next weekend when Mercury stations retrograde, and like there will be seemingly serious talk of diplomacy by around the 18th, when Mercury and Jupiter make their second of three conjunctions (two days before the inauguration). That is a sham: Mercury is retrograde.<\/p>\n

And an eclipse is coming, in Aquarius, a mere six days after Obama takes office. This is perfect cosmic weather for chaos, confusion and disinformation to settle in like influenza.<\/p>\n

\"Eric<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Friend and Reader: Because we are in a time of transition of power, there are a lot of secret meetings going on right now, but the secret meeting that shows up in the chart for the ground assault on Gaza is pretty stunning. Astrology is conveyed in images and symbols, and it’s difficult to … 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\/8951"}],"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=8951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}