For several weeks now the internet astrological community (especially the politically oriented part) has been abuzz about the eclipse chart on September ll, 2007. People have noticed some similarities, and wondered about a possible repeat, or some sort of terrible anniversary event. Eclipses are considered to release the pent up energies of a prior event.
Since 2001, the date has been filled with deep sorrow and deep dread-and a sense of a wrong unrighted, both of the attacks and of the poor Iraq people who were made to suffer the consequences of Shrub’s messianic hissy fit. Nobody has been done rightly who has suffered from this event-not the families of the victims who had to fight for an official inquiry. Not the firefighters, cops, and construction workers who by hand, sorted through the massive pile of debris to find the bits and pieces left of human beings, and who now suffer horrible diseases from the exposure to the toxins. Not New York City, who suffers a hole in the skyline and heart where the towers used to be. And above all, not innocent Iraqis who suffered the consequences of Bush’s cowardice, fanaticism, and impotence.
Eclipse Chart Set for New York City
The first thing that strikes you about the eclipse chart is it’s square to Pluto in the third. There’s a local obsession here that expresses itself in groups. Add Neptune in the Fourth inconjunct it, and one wonders. Where’s the good stuff? Venus in Leo in the Tenth is the most prominent, but it makes for a lot of preening (Mars in Leo in the Ninth)-for the cameras which aggravates the local wounds (Chiron in the Fourth retrograde). Fast intuitive read: lots of preening for the cameras that tries to hide the growing local discontent under the surface about the meaning and effects of the attack. There’s a lot of local scab-picking under the effect of the eclipse. Saturn is unaspected, so I don’t expect a lot of restraint or solemnity here either.
Values: well Jupiter in Sagittarius in the Second-whatever happens will be well financed, to be sure, but the opposition in the Ninth suggests an open conflict between money and more transcendant values-generosity to those who suffered is opposed to verbal tech from out of towners whose idea of assistance is giving Shrub blowjobs.
September 11, 2001 found me surfing the net a little and watching morning tv at the same time. While watching tv, I saw a plane go into one of the towers, and I was thinking “that’s a terrible accident” and that I would probably be hearing about it all day. But then the people on the morning shows began to really get excited, and I knew that it was more than just another plane accident. I sat glued to the TV and saw the towers come down-and it felt strange that for the first time I was seeing people die live and in person. I was frozen and shaken as I saw what happened. I kept wondering “where was my President?”. All the Presidents I had ever known were johnny on the spot when things like this happened, comforting the nation and reassuring them that things were being taken care of. But there was nothing, and nobody there. There was no rescue for the trapped people in the towers. There was no word of comfort for the lost. Nothing. There was silence, then I heard a plane had been hijacked and was turning around overhead in Cincinnati. I heard the low roar of the solitary plane as it circled and turned around. No rescue for them either. No plane to even follow and try to stop the hijackers.
But I grew angry about what happened later. Shrub practically shoved the nation into anger-we were never allowed to truly mourn with the lost-indeed we were never really allowed to get to celebrate their lives. Instead we were treated to days of patriotic bombast that lasted until Friday. Then nothing. And nothing until later they needed to pick the scab of our collective grief. We never got to really know or were allowed to really care about those who passed as human beings with lives. They were just victims.
It is said that adversity shows the true measure of a man-and whether or not he really is one. Shrub eroded all doubt that day-and every day since, he has tried to persuade us that he can sit in the big chair, through the kind of costume party and pantomine of power.
Back to the eclipse chart. An eclipse on a sensitive spot in a previous chart releases the pent-up energy and sets off events related to that event. While we have been force-fed 911 every day since as a way to shame us into going along with whatever Bush has in his silly head, what happens today just may close the cycle by reminding us what we really have at stake here.
Finally, with the emphasis on the 5th/11th house on this day, I expect to see this finally be the “people’s 911 Memorial Day”. The people who suffered, and still continue to do so, may finally take control of the public expression of their grief and sorrow by telling their stories, by gathering with friends, by trying to help the workers who suffered so much during this period.
As you now know, Larry Craig has had his lifelong closet door blown off by an undercover cop. While some astrologers say they can tell whether or not a person is sexually “different”, say by a natal aspect by Venus or Mars to Uranus, I’m not going there. What I want to know is what happens next to him. Will he survive this round or will he have the leisure time and the rest of his life, to finally face up to the fact of his sexual orientation? A look at his birthchart may give some clues.
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