It’s Not the End of the World…

Hey Everyone – I’ve been getting flooded with e-mails and people worried that I am implying the end of the world or something of the sort. I’m not. However I do think this is a time of reckoning, a period of adjustment and re-alignment that will cause lots of good and bad things. This will certainly not be a boring period of time to live in. As the old Chinese curse states: May you live during interesting times.

Well, it will be interesting but not the end. Empires will fall and others will rise and we will be very different 100 years from now than we can even begin to imagine. Right now the seeds of fate for the next 2000 years are being sown. We are all here for a reason and it is important (more than anything else) that we find our mission and follow it. That we live by the golden rule and learn to cherish all creatures and people for their gifts and the special lessons they teach. The more we go toward the rational (ironic coming from someone like me I know) and toward trusting our own intuition and knowledge, allowing our freak flags to fly, encouraging our individuality in the context of the ever-expanding multi-verse the closer we will get to putting humanity on the right course.

Every human being is equal in the eyes of the Creator and equal in reality, that does not mean we are all the same – in fact we are all different and that is the beauty, the dichotomy the two opposing ideas that we must learn to balance in our minds in this new era. We all deserve to be the captains of our own lives, to weave our own fate and we have no right to judge others for really anything as the truth is complex and often beyond our ability to understand it in the sound bite fashion we are used to digesting information.

My advice to all is to carve your pathway to the Great Spirit through meditation and or prayer and trust your own way – don’t allow anyone (including me) to usurp your own heart’s connection. A good teacher will always encourage you to follow your path no matter how far off the ordinary trail it is. A dictator will impose their will on you and unfortunately there are people operating as “spiritual leaders” who fall under this category – more of them than there are good teachers. But most importantly the best teacher is that little voice inside your head or heart that tells you the truth – follow it for it is the way to the Creator.

Many blessings and Happy Lunar/Chinese New Year,

Denise

 

 

Thunderbird and Heyoka

I’m reprinting the information from another site the author is Steve Mizrach.  I’m doing so because this information is important to me. I dreamed of lightning and was approached by Thunderbeings who told me, “We are walking in a sacred manner,” the repeated this over and over. I had this dream about six months ago and I knew at the time it was a harbinger of chaos and war. The next night I had a visitation from an angel Yah-Shew-Ah or Joshua at first he came to me in a white tunic covered in dirt and then revealed himself to be an angel. He claimed to be an ancestor of mine. He then gave me a spiritual gift that I have been spending much time using. It is the gift of protection – in the way that those who were spiritually pure were protected during passover.

I had wanted to give readings for people on the site, but my life became very hectic, as I dealt with many friend’s crisis’ as well as trying to work and raise a toddler. So I will do this instead. I can offer this gift. It is the gift of spiritual protection. Anyone who needs it can contact me via this website through a comment or through the e-mail: astrologyandpsychicpredictions@gmail.com. I know it sounds strange but there are many weird things to come and if you give me your name, birth date (time would be good as well as where you are born so I can locate you on the Auric plane) I will put protection around you. My only caveat is that if you ask me to do this I will get information about you and if I can’t protect you I will let you know the reason – for example if you are sick and are ready to cross over I can not protect you from that or if you have done heinous things I can not protect you from your own karma. If this occurs I will contact you via this site in a post stating your initials and place of birth and ask you to e-mail me so I can let you know why the protection did not work – if of course you contacted me for help in post form if not I will just e-mail you back from the astrologyandpsychicpredictions@gmail.com.

This is a crucial time in human history. It is not the end but it does have the potential to be the end of many things which could lead to major re-adjustments. If you want spiritual protection during this time of transition please do not hesitate. I will make a nightly list and do the ritual for you. This is the most I can offer at this time but in my opinion it is much more powerful and helpful than simply “knowing” what you will live through in the next year.

Please read this very interesting article that I reprinted which was sent to me by my husband due to my connection with the Thunderbird spirits and heyoka. Interestingly my husband is of Native American ancestry (I mean he’s nearly half and a registered member of a tribe – a direct ancestor of those that walked the trail of tears) as far as I know I’m not, (I’m almost entirely Eastern European w/some Scottish/Irish on my mother’s side, but I know nothing about my mother’s father (the Scottish/Irish side) so perhaps I have some Native American roots I am unaware of. Either way all humans are related and all racial memory becomes universal human consciousness that we can tap into.  Also on a side note the angel was from the old testament (which I don’t know very well since I was raised Catholic after my Jewish father’s death – despite being raised culturally Jewish – crazy, huh? I guess that’s why I figure all religions are fine as long as they make sense to the person who belongs to them – different strokes and all. Whatever gets you close to the Great Spirit/God-Goddess is great.)

Many blessings to all of you – make everyday count – let the Great Spirit whisper to you through your heart and your life will be complete,

Denise

 

by Steve Mizrach

http://www2.fiu.edu/~mizrachs/thunderbird-and-trickster.html

Thunderbird and Trickster

Introduction

The Thunderbird is one of the few cross-cultural elements of Native North American mythology. He is found not just among Plains Indians, but also among Pacific Northwest and Northeastern tribes. He has also become quite a bit of an icon for non-Indians, since he has also had the honor of having automobiles, liquors, and even a United States Air Force squadron named after him. Totems bearing his representation can be found all over the continent. There have been a number of curious theories about the origins of the Thunderbird myth – ones which I will show are probably wrongheaded.

In this paper, moreover, I want to examine how the myths and legends of the Thunderbird tie into the sacred clowning/trickster ritual complex of Plains tribes such as the Lakota. I will show how the Thunderbird is intimately connected to this complex, and attempt to explain why. It is the intimate association between these two traditions that may help explain some features of Plains culture and folklore. Aspects of the Thunderbird myth only make sense in light of these associations.

Plains Indians myth and folklore

In order to understand Plains Indians folklore, we have to realize that their myths were not just “just-so” stories to entertain, divert, or make inadequate efforts at naturalistic explanation. Rather, Indian myth functioned in religious, pedagogical, and initiatory ways, to help socialize young people and illuminate the various religious and other roles in society. Indian myth was always fluid, and grounded in the present, which is what might be expected of societies which largely lacked static, written traditions. Storytelling was an art which was maintained by the medicine people with great fidelity, because it was used to explain the development of certain rituals and elements of society. (Hines 1992)

Some have looked at the Thunderbird myths through the same lens of understanding applied to European mythology. The Thunderbird is like the Indo-European dragon or ogre or Leviathan, a huge monster who kidnaps virginal maidens, and who must be slain by the brave hero. Or the Thunderbird is simply treated as some kind of fantastic oddity, like the mythical unicorn or mermaid – an impossible construction borne from the extremes of the imagination. Both these attempts at explaining myth lose the important point of seeing Thunderbird as a personification of energies in nature – those found in violent thunderstorms and such – and his crucial dual nature.

Still, the Indians were not merely “mythmaking” in the pejorative sense. They no more literally believed in a giant bird generating storms through the beating of its wings, then Christians today literally believe in their divine being as an old man with a beard sitting on a marble throne. Thunderbird is an allegory; his conflicts with other forces in nature are then an attempt to allegorize relationships observed in the natural order, such as the changing of the weather. Like other Thunder Beings, he is essentially an attempt to represent the patterns of activity of a powerful, mysterious force in a way that can be understood simply and easily – sort of the way in which a weather map functions today. (Edmonds and Clark 1989)

The Plains Indians believed that everything that was found in nature had a human representative in microcosm. Everything in nature often contained its own opposite polarity, hence the expected existence of beings such as contraries, women warriors, and berdaches. Because the Thunderbird in particular represented this mysterious dual aspect of nature, manifest through the primordial power of thunderstorms, it is not surprising that his representatives were the heyoka or sacred clowns, who displayed wisdom through seemingly foolhardy action. Western thinking has prevented us from seeing the reasons why Indians perceived this connection. Few anthropologists have sought to locate how Thunderbird may have been mythologically linked to Trickster.

The Nature of Thunderbird

In Plains tribes, the Thunderbird is sometimes known as Wakinyan, from the Dakota word kinyan meaning “winged.” Others suggest the word links the Thunderbird to wakan, or sacred power. In many stories, the Thunderbird is thought of as a great Eagle, who produces thunder from the beating of his wings and flashes lightning from his eyes. (Descriptions are vague because it is thought Thunderbird is always surrounded by thick, rolling clouds which prevent him from being seen.) Further, there were a variety of beliefs about Thunderbird, which suggest a somewhat complicated picture. Usually, his role is to challenge some other great power and protect the Indians – such as White Owl Woman, the bringer of winter storms; the malevolent Unktehi, or water oxen who plague mankind; the horned serpents; Wochowsen, the enemy bird; or Waziya, the killing North Wind. But in some other legends (not so much in the Plains), Thunderbird is himself malevolent, carrying off people (or reindeer or whales) to their doom, or slaying people who seek to cross his sacred mountain. (Erdoes and Ortiz 1984)

Many Plains Indians claim there are in fact four colors (varieties) of Thunderbirds (the blue ones are said, strangely, to have no ears or eyes), sometimes associated with the four cardinal directions, but also sometimes only with the west and the western wind. (According to the medicine man Lame Deer, there were four, one at each compass point, but the western one was the Greatest and most senior.) (Fire and Erdoes 1972) The fact that they are sometimes known as “grandfathers” suggest they are held in considerable reverence and awe. It is supposed to be very dangerous to approach a Thunderbird nest, and many are supposed to have died in the attempt, swept away by ferocious storms. The symbol of Thunderbird is the red zig-zag, lightning-bolt design, which some people mistakenly think represents a stairway. Most tribes feel he and the other Thunder beings were the first to appear in the Creation, and that they have an especially close connection to wakan tanka, the Great Mysterious. (Gill and Sullivan 1992)

The fact that Thunderbird sometimes appears as something that terrorizes and plagues Indians, and sometimes as their protector and liberator (in some myths, he was once an Indian himself) is said to reflect the way thunderstorms and violent weather are seen by Plains people. On the one hand, they bring life-giving rain (Thunderbird is said to be the creator of ‘wild rice’ and other Plains Indians crops); on the other hand, they bring hail, flood, and lightning and fire. It is not clear where with them worship and awe end, and fear and terror begin. Some Indians claim that there are good and bad Thunderbirds, and that these beings are at war with each other. Others claim that the large predatory birds which are said to kidnap hunters and livestock are not Thunderbirds at all. Largely, I suspect that this dual nature of the Thunderbird ties it to the Trickster figure in Indian belief: like the Trickster, the harm the Thunderbird causes is mostly because it is so large and powerful and primeval.

Origins of the Thunderbird Myth

Cryptozoologists like Mark A. Hall, having studied the Thunderbird myths of numerous tribes, and compared them to (mostly folkloric) accounts of unusually large birds in modern times, as well as large birds (like the Roc) in other mythic traditions, suggest that there may well be a surviving species of large avians in America – big enough, apparently, to fly off carrying small animals or children, as has been claimed in some accounts. (Hall suggests the wingspan of such a species would be several feet longer than any known birds – certainly bigger than that of the turkey vulture or other identifiable North American species.) (Hall 1988) Such researchers feel the Thunderbird myth may have originated from sightings of a real-life flesh-and-blood avian which might be an atavism from earlier epochs (a quasi-pterodactyl or teratorn, perhaps.)

However, the big problem with this theory is that most ornithologists consider it to be quite farfetched. If such a species existed (a situation akin to the folkloric Sasquatch), it would be amazing that to this point it has remained unidentified and uncatalogued. A species of birds that big, unless it consisted of an extremely small number of members, would find it hard to avoid detection for long. Hall does suggest the possibility that maybe, like the mastodon, these large birds were hunted to extinction prior to the arrival of Europeans on the North American continent. Still, the other problem with his theory is that it ignores what Indians themselves have to say about the Thunderbird.

They describe the Thunderbird as a spiritual, not just physical, being. It is not seen as just a large, fearsome predatory bird that people tell stories about. Rather, it’s an integral part of Plains Indians religion and ritual. Only by ignoring this fact could we put our Western ethnocentric biases into effect, and reduce it to a zoological curiosity. The Thunderbird is much more than that; the Indian attitude toward it comes from more than just the mere fact that it is supposed to be really big. To understand the origins of Thunderbird myths, it’s necessary to see how they connect with other elements of Indian belief and ceremony – especially the Trickster complex – and see how they fit into the structure of Plains Indian myth as a whole.

Clowning around in Plains Indian culture

Clowning, like the icon of the Thunderbird, could be found in almost every North American Indian society. In every case, it involved ridiculous behavior, but on the Plains it especially exhibited inversion and reversal as elements of satire. There were four types of clown societies on the Plains – age-graded societies, military societies, the northern plains type, and the heyoka shamanistic societies. The behaviors of all sorts of clowns revolved around a few basic themes or attributes: burlesque, mocking the sacred, playing pranks or practical jokes, making obscene jokes or gestures, caricature of others, exhibiting gross gluttony or extreme appetite, strange acts of self-mortification or self-deprecation, and taunting of enemies or strangers. (Steward 1991)

The age-graded clown societies primarily consisted of older people who had been inducted into their ranks – groups such as the Gros Ventre Crazy Lodge or the Hidatsa Dog Society. These clowns were assumed to simply be playing a role appropriate to their sodality, rather than receiving some sort of supernatural inspiration. They carried out certain expected ritual performances on proscribed days, such as the Crazy Dance or the imitation of animals. In contrast, the military clown societies such as the Cheyenne Inverted Bow String Warriors, often carried comical or ridiculous weapons, but were also expected to show absurd bravery in battle, provoking the enemy into giving up its discipline and cohesion with taunts and insults. Not surprisingly, they sometimes rode their horses backwards into battle.

The northern plains clowns, found among tribes such as the Ojibway, wore masks which made them appear to be two-faced, and costumes of rags which made them appear comical. All of these three types of clown societies practiced a sort of conventionalized or patterned sort of anti-natural behavior. That is, they might do something which seemed strange or contrary, but under somewhat regular conditions. You knew when they might do something weird – and there were times when they were forbidden to perform their antics. Further, they might often “give up” the clowning way of life, and return to a non-contrary state by marrying and engaging in a more normal mode of existence.

The heyoka were different in three primary ways from the other sorts of clowns. They were truly unpredictable, and could do the unexpected or tasteless even during the most solemn of occasions. Moreso than other clowns, they really seemed to be insane. Also, they were thought to be more inspired by trans-human supernatural forces (as individuals driven by spirits rather than group conventions), and to have a closer link to wakan  or power than other clowns. And lastly, they kept their role for life – it was a sacred calling which could not be given up without performing an agonizing ritual of expiation. Not surprisingly, these unique differences were seen as the result of their having visions of Thunderbird, a unique and transforming experience.

Testimony of Black Elk: the heyoka and lightning

The Oglala Indian Black Elk had some interesting things to say about the heyoka ceremony, which he himself participated in. Black Elk describes the “dog in boiling water” ceremony in some detail. He also describes the bizarre items he had to carry as a heyoka, and the crazy antics he had to perform with his companions. He also attempts to explain the link between the contrary trickster nature of heyokas with that of Thunderbird.

“When a vision comes from the thunder beings of the West, it comes with terror like a thunder storm; but when the storm of vision has passed, the world is greener and happier; for wherever the truth of vision comes upon the world, it is like a rain. The world, you see, is happier after the terror of the storm… you have noticed that truth comes into this world with two faces. One is sad with suffering, and the other laughs; but it is the same face, laughing or weeping. When people are already in despair, maybe the laughing is better for them; and when they feel too good and are too sure of being safe, maybe the weeping face is better. And so I think this is what the heyoka ceremony is for … the dog had to be killed quickly and without making any scar, as lightning kills, for it is the power of lightning that heyokas have.” (quoted in Neihardt 1959: 160)
Today, of course, Western physicists describe the dual nature of electricity. An object can carry a positive or negative electric charge. The electron is simultaneously a wave and a particle. Electricity and magnetism are thought to be aspects of the same force, and as is well know with magnetism, it comes in polarities, with opposite poles (north and south) attracting. Though the Indians did not have access to our modern scientific instruments, they are likely to have observed some of the same properties in lightning. Thus it would have been intuitive to link the dual spiritual nature of the heyoka (tragicomedy – solemn joking – joy united with pain) with the dual nature of electricity.

Thunderbird and Heyoka, the Sacred Clown

It was believed among the Lakota and other tribes that if you had a dream or vision of birds, you were destined to be a medicine man; but if you had a vision of Thunderbird, it was your destiny to become something else; heyoka, or sacred clown. Like Thunderbird, the heyoka were at once feared and held in reverence. They were supposed to startle easily at the first sound of thunder or first sight of lightning. Thunderbird supposedly inspired the “contrariness” of the heyoka through his own contrary nature. He alternates strong winds with calm ones. While all things in nature move clockwise, Thunderbird is said to move counterclockwise. Thunderbird is said to have sharp teeth, but no mouth; sharp claws, but no limbs; huge wings, but no body. All of these things suggest Thunderbird (and the heyoka) have a curious, paradoxical, contrary nature. You could become heyoka through a vision of the Thunderbird, or just of lightning or a formidable winged being of power. (Steiger 1974)

While clown societies were found throughout the Plains, the heyoka, or sacred clowns, were usually few in number, but were found in almost every clan. Heyoka were contraries, often speaking and walking backwards. They acted in ridiculous, obscene, and comical ways, especially during sacred ceremonies. They were thought to be fearless and painless, able to seize a piece of meat out of a pot of boiling water. They often dressed in a bizarre and ludicrous manner, wearing conical hats, red paint, a bladder over the head (to simulate baldness), and bark earrings. The heyoka was thought to usually carry various sacred items – a deer hoof rattle, a colored bow, a flute, or drum. His “anti-natural” nature was thought to be shamanistic in origin — and as a contrary, he was expected to act silly and foolhardy during battle (although this was found more among warrior clown societies such as the Cheyenne Inverted Warriors.)

However insulting or sacrilegious heyoka actions might be, they were tolerated, since it was assumed they were acting on the higher and more inscrutable imperatives of the Great Mystery. Heyoka were freed from all the ordinary constraints of life, and thus were usually not expected to marry, have children, or participate in the work of the tribe. Despite their bizarre acts (such as dressing in warm clothes during summer or wearing things inside out), they were trusted as healers, interpreters of dreams, and people of great medicine. Whenever they interrupted the solemnity of a ceremony, people took it as an admonition to see beyond the literalness of the ritual and into the deeper mysteries of the sacred. Like the flash of lightning, the heyoka’s sudden outbursts and disturbances were thought to be the keys to enlightenment – much like the absurd acts of Zen masters in Japan. (Hultkrantz 1987)

Thunderbird and Trickster

Part of the link between heyoka and Thunderbird comes from Iktomi, the Trickster figure. Iktomi is said to be heyoka because he has seen and talked with Thunderbird. Iktomi is the first-born son of Inyan (rock), and is said to speak with rocks and stones. Like Coyote and other Trickster figures, Iktomi likes to pull pranks on people, but is just as often the victim of tricks and misfortunes. This makes him at once a culture hero, and a figure to be feared and avoided. Iktomi was thought to be a hypersexual predator, one who frequently pursued winchinchalas (young virgins) who bathed in streams, through various methods of deceit. Yet his pursuits and antics often wound up with him inadvertently getting hurt or winding up in trouble.

Paul Radin suggests that Iktomi and other Trickster figures are akin to the Great Fool or Wild Man of European folklore, who often shows up in the Feast of Fools and other ceremonies where the social order is turned topsy-turvy. (Radin 1956) Jung, following his lead, claims the Trickster as an archetypal part of the collective unconscious; and his “crazy wisdom” as emblematic of humankind’s earlier, undivided, unindividuated consciousness. Iktomi and other tricksters seem to be at the constant mercy of their desires; yet their blind luck always seems to protect them from the consequences of their missteps. He is dangerous primarily because he is so powerful, yet so rarely has the forethought or good judgment to use his power wisely. Radin and others proclaim him the representative of untamed, unpredictably wild nature, within the confines of culture.

In other cultural traditions, thunder and lightning are connected with the unexpected. We talk about a “bolt out of the blue.” In American folk culture, there are a host of legendary stories of mysterious cures or transformations wrought by someone being struck by lightning. It’s at once dangerous, and a symbol of sudden, shocking revelation and inspiration. It’s also the primary weapon in most pantheons of the chief sky god (such as Zeus in Greek mythology.) For the Plains Indians, thunder and lightning symbolized the vast, uncontrollable energy of nature. It’s not surprising, then, that the Thunderbird is connected with the strange, uncontrollable force of the Trickster figure, and his avatar, the heyoka.

Significance of the Trickster Figure and “Contrariness” in Plains Society

Psychological anthropologists, especially those oriented toward psychoanalytic theory and depth psychology, point to the Trickster figure as a sort of important cultural “release valve.” He represents the “return of the repressed,” the Dionysian aspects of life only temporarily held in abeyance by the Apollonian forces of civilization. The carnivals and feasts held in honor of fools in Europe, suggest some anthropologists, are “outlets,” allowing people to invert the social order temporarily as a way of promoting its continuity in the long run (avoiding its ultimate collapse.) The ruler is dressed in peasants’ clothes, and some ignorant serf is crowned king. Symbols of authority normally held in extreme reverence are mocked and desecrated.

Clowns and contraries in Plains societies do not just come out once a year, however. They are permanent parts of the society, and are seen as continual reminders of the contingency and arbitrariness of the social order. Long before French theorists came on the scene, the heyoka was reminding his own people about the social construction of reality. By doing everything backwards, the heyoka in a way is carrying out a constant experiment in ethnomethodology, showing people how their own expectations limit their behavior. Like a good performance artist, the shocking behavior of the heyoka is supposed to confront people and make them reconsider what they may have arbitrarily accepted as normal. It’s to “jolt” them out of their ordinary frames of mind. (Steward 1991)

More importantly, as a representative of Thunderbird and Trickster, the heyoka reminds his people that the primordial energy of nature is beyond good and evil. It doesn’t correspond to human categories of right and wrong. It doesn’t always follow our preconceptions of what is expected and proper. It doesn’t really care about our human woes and concerns. Like electricity, it can be deadly dangerous, or harnessed for great uses. If we’re too narrow or parochial in trying to understand it, it will zap us in the middle of the night. Like any good trickster, the heyoka plays pranks on others in his culture not to make them feel embarrassed and stupid, but to show them ways they could start being more smart.

The Account of John (Fire) Lame Deer: Heyoka and ASC

Lame Deer calls the heyoka the “upside-down, forward-backward, icy-hot contrary.” He describes in detail one particular heyoka trick which may give some clues to the nature of their antics. Apparently, they would grab pieces of dog meat out of a pot of boiling water, and fling them at a crowd of people, without being burned or harmed in any way. (Why dog meat? Lame Deer gives a clue when he says, “For the heyoka, he says god when he means dog, and dog when he means god.”) Lame Deer suggests before doing this they chewed a grayish moss called tapejuta. I suspect that heyoka were able to perform this feat through going into trance, an altered state of consciousness, by utilizing this and other psychotropic plants on occasion.

More importantly, I think they induced trance in others through their contrary behavior. Psychologists have noted that trance does not always occur through rhythmic repetition. Another way in which it occurs (the “paradoxical state”) is through a sudden shock to the nervous system. Ethnomethodologists have often noted the blank, glassy stares and strange states produced by violating peoples’ expectations – by, for example, getting into an elevator and facing the other people in it. It’s in such “paradoxical states” that people often may assimilate new information quickly, without filtering. They also may be able to “abreact” psychological trauma. For these reasons, the heyoka may have been seen as a source of wisdom and healing.

Lame Deer seems to suggest the power of trance is connected to the power of Thunderbird. As a paradoxical state of consciousness, it ties into the paradoxical energy of thunder and lightning. The crash of thunder can startle us and wake us up out of dreaming sleep. The trance of the heyoka comes from sacred power. He ties it all together in a way that’s fairly succinct:

” These Thunderbirds are part of the Great Spirit. Theirs is about the greatest power in the whole universe. It is the power of the hot and the cold clashing above the clouds. It is blue lightning from the sun. It is like atomic power. The thunder power protects and destroys. It is good and bad; the great winged power. We draw the lightning as a forked zigzag, because lightning branches out into a good and bad part… In our Indian belief, the clown has a power which comes from the thunder beings, not from the animals or the Earth. He has more power than the atom bomb, he could blow off the dome of the Capitol. Being a clown gives you honor, but also shame. It brings you power, but you have to pay for it.” (quoted in Erdoes 1972: 251)

Conclusion

The Thunderbird’s association with heyoka clowns is not simply serendipitous. The fact that the Thunderbird displays many paradoxical and contradictory attributes links it to Trickster figures and to the contraries of Plains  Indians culture. This culture complex probably resulted from Indian beliefs about nature and the ways in which thunder and lightning exemplified the manners in which it could be at once capricious, beneficent, and destructive. The Thunderbird’s own link to the original Great Mystery suggests that the role of the sacred clown was seen as one of the highest in Plains society – like wandering fools in Europe, they were thought to be touched by the Divine power itself. Like Thunderbird himself, the heyoka was thought to be a conduit to forces that defied comprehension, and by his absurd, backwards behavior he was merely showing the ironic, mysterious dualities that existed within the universe itself.

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Erdoes, Richard, and Ortiz, Alfonso, eds., American Indian Myths and Legends, Pantheon Books, New York, 1984.
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My Sister Sent Me This Important Info via E-mail

I’m reprinting an e-mail from my sister. From what I can see it is a good idea and something people should get behind.
I did my part……..How about you  !!!!

I BELIEVE MOST OR ALL OF YOU WOULD AGREE WITH BUFFET’s IDEAS HERE. WHAT’S GOOD FOR US HAS TO BE FOR THE FOLKS IN WASHINGTON!!!  THESE TYPES OF CHANGE WILL HELP REDUCE OUR DEBTS OVERALL. LETS KEEP THIS IDEA MOVING ACROSS THE LAND.

Winds of Change….

Warren Buffet is asking each addressee to forward this email to a minimum of twenty people on their address list; in turn ask each of those to do likewise.

In three days, most people in The United States of America will have the message. This is one idea that really should be passed
around.

_*Congressional Reform Act of 2011*_

1. No Tenure / No Pension.

A Congressman/woman collects a salary while in office and receives no
pay when they’re out of office.

2. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social
Security.

All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the
Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into
the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the
American people. It may not be used for any other purpose.

3. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all
Americans do.

4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise.
Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.

5. Congress loses their current health care system and
participates in the same health care system as the American people.

6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the
American people.

7. All contracts with past and present Congressmen/women are void
effective 1/1/12. The American people did not make this
contract with Congressmen/women.

Congressmen/women made all these contracts for themselves. Serving in
Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers
envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their
term(s), then go home and back to work.

If each person contacts a minimum of twenty people then it will
only take three days for most people (in the U.S.) to receive
the message. Don’t you think it’s time?

THIS IS HOW YOU FIX CONGRESS!

If you agree with the above, pass it on. If not, just delete.
You are one of my 20+ – Please keep it going, and thanks.

Prediction from Oct.1, 2011 I didn’t want to post…

Taken directly from a journal I keep on my computer:

October 1, 2011:

Been having a very bad feeling about the world for a while. Beyond the financial crisis we have been facing. It’s been scary, as in I shouldn’t talk about it scary or even look at it scary. For a long time I couldn’t exactly put my finger on what this intense underlying negativity was related to – it felt originally like it was related to finances then politics and a general underlying tone. But in recent months I’ve decided to focus more on myself because this thing felt too big for me to look at and I felt I needed to get my own stuff in order. However lately a few things have been happening. I no longer feel invisible – I feel like I’m being watched by some sort of an institution, and this institution is not only extremely interested in my premonitions but also I feel if I put them out there it’s likely to be seen by people I don’t want it to be seen by.*

I was told by spirit tonight that it is the Iranian president Ackmadenejad? Don’t know how to spell it. That there would be an uprising in Iran and his power would be threatened so much so he would feel he was going to be deposed and in true psychopathic fashion he will lob whatever lame nuclear missiles he has at the east coast – trying to kill as many Americans as possible knowing full well we will retaliate with full force and obliterate Iran with Nukes. This will start a terrible war – a third world war. This is his equivalent of being the crazy gun man who rushes into a restaurant or school and starts shooting whoever he can and then turns the gun on himself. He knows the annihalation of his region will be the end result which is what he wants because he will be angered by the Iranian desire to become more westernized. Unfortunately, the whole region could suffer if we do this and wars will break out all over the place as a result. It will be the beginning of a long cycle of horrible war if it is not stopped before it happens.

*I know it seems a bit paranoid but this is why I stopped putting out predictive things because I didn’t what it meant to have this feeling that something was monitoring these predictions beyond just regular people.

Since this premonition I didn’t really now how to address this issue as I don’t want to alarm anyone or put anything out there that might tip the balance toward the negative in any way. I want to warn the people of the middle east and our government not to engage with the Iranian leader. Everyone talks of the “Anti-Christ” but he is actually the closest thing to someone who has the power to do tremendous damage all for the sake of a bruised ego and a power trip. It’s very frightening. The thing is our country will be goaded into a war, but it will be the middle east that again suffers most. We must not underestimate the mental illness of this man Ahmadinejad. Anyone in a position there to put a stop to his plans I urge you to try because it (ultimately) means the annihilation of your people. I guarantee you that Ahmadinejad does not care in the least for human life, even his own family’s. He is a pure psychopath without the ability to feel higher functioning emotions like love and compassion. I warn you now so that we may avert WWIII which is eminent if people in the region remain passive. Yet of course this must come from those in power because protests (which have worked in other countries) would not work in Iran. He would squash the people like bugs and commit wholesale murder and then start WWIII. It must come from those who know his weaknesses and can stop him, those he trusts.

Many blessings – may God guide all of us especially those in the Middle East and our leaders at this time,

Denise

I do want to say that my feelings about this have become more balanced and I think there is a very good chance this will be averted with people in power knowing in advance and doing the right things to stop it before it spirals out of control. I feel more confident in those in the Iranian military and people in our government that something smart will be effected to bring this to a much less dramatic end then where it could ultimately go. At least for now. But I am posting this to affirm that something must be done, action that is non-violent toward the people in that region and something that is perhaps covert must be done in order to stop this. I will only post this prediction for a week. After that I will take this down because I don’t want it seen by everyone. Those who need to see it will.

Repost about Kim Jong Il and other things…

Kim Jong il, Is He Just Ill or Dead? The Tarot Answers…

Posted on September 24, 2008 | Leave a comment | Edit

According to the tarot he has died. And while officials are hiding this, behind the scenes there is major turmoil. At first he may have gone into hiding like cats do when they’re sick, but he’s ultimately crossed over and forces are at work to start a new regime. Chances are it will be better in the long run, but for now there is competition for power and confusion about how to transition the North Korean government.

It looks like those who were closest to Kim Jong Il are of 2 minds, those who want to wait it out and see what happens (figure out where the tide of the country is) these people feel lost and confused. The other camp are vying for power, planning and formulating how to take power. Among the 2nd group there is tremendous competition to take the reigns of power and there is no clear stand out for who should take over.

There is a general consensus that if news got out about the “dear leader,” chaos, fear and confusion would break out in the country and perhaps a revolution would take place which is why there has been such a stalemate about how to proceed. And obviously why the government has been hiding his death.

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*the above was a reprint of a post from 9/2008. You can go into the finder on the blog and type in Kim Jong Il and it will come up and you can see this is indeed the original post.

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My current comment on the 9/08 post:

It could also be that the son wasn’t felt to be ready at that time or they may have been taking their time to groom the son for the job after a loss of what to do. If he had died 2 and a half years ago then the son would have been 23 or 24 perhaps seen as too young to be reliable. It could have been felt that the son needed to be made more visible for the people to accept him for fear there would be a backlash. My feeling about the son is he doesn’t have the same vibe as the dad at all. In fact I don’t feel he wants the position of being leader which will probably make him a much better leader than either of his ancestors. We will probably see North Korea open up (if the son stays true to his personality) as he gains support from his people. I really don’t feel anyone expected Kim Jong Il to die at that time, he would have been pretty young. His body preserved in an airtight casket to give the appearance of recent death. Strange as that sounds the only other thing that is possible is he was in the process of dying and during periods of health they paraded him around but he and his staff but his fate had been sealed and it was just a matter of time before he would die which is why the cards came up that he was already dead – dead man walking?

I’m going to look at Iran next which I had a very disturbing and overwhelming feeling that something was stirring there a while back. I will find that post and elaborate and also do some new analysis and future predictions.

Happy New Year and many blessings for the New Year to all! Try not to freak out. Yes things are getting crazy, but remember all of these things will force us to come to balance with the world and eventually things will be better for it.

Many blessings,

Denise

Prediction time for 2012 Election

OK, yes, it’s early. And I don’t really care about the Republicans, at all. I barely care about the Democrats as all politicians have shown they live in a bubble of greasy money, half-baked promises and back-stabbing.

But I was just told by spirit that Mitt Romney is going to be the nominee for the Republican party. Go figure. I wouldn’t have guessed that Newt being the big toad he is and a #1 in the polls and yes you read that right, I called him a #1 – potty humor. I’m resorting to that because let’s face it he stinks. I’m sort of relieved as all the other candidates seem evil or insane, at least Romney just seems like a greasy used car salesman who sold his soul to the devil for a full head of hair.

Anyway, no worries. Say bye-bye to all the Republicans whose seats are up and expect a strangely tight race between Romney and Obama but still Obama wins. It will be a much closer call then it should be. But for Obama – the moderator – who was given the job of Janitorial President I don’t think the Republicans really want his job, after all that would mean they would actually have to do something. Unlike what they are doing now which is just blocking Obama’s every move to try and straighten up the mess left by Bushy Jr.

Many blessings,

Denise

Don’t Believe The Corporate News

There are reports of violence against protestors. I witnessed horrible violence against them on KCAL 9 news – a local station. While a great many police officers were respectful there were those who were overly aggressive and as one protestor is quoted as saying in the LA Times, “Wanted to hurt people.” Here is the article:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/11/some-occupy-protesters-allege-violence.html

Police Brutality in Los Angeles

I just watched a photographer on KCAL 9 news pushed down violently and attacked by a dozen cops. KCAL 9 made it sound like the photographer did something wrong but he was literally just standing there taking photos when he was thrown down to the ground with such force that it would have broken my leg. And the idiots talking head anchor people who had no idea what actually was or had happened just started talking about how the photographer had basically asked for it because he shouldn’t have been in that area but their own camera guy and “journalist” were just a few feet from this guy. So why was it OK to hurt this single camera man as opposed to the local news guy who was also unlawfully on site but of course if the cops did that then there would be big public outcry.

This scene unfolding right now is getting crazy. And already is getting violent and frightening.

May the Great Spirit show the evils of our system and protect the innocent,

Denise

BTW is it a coincidence that the cops “break-up” these encampments in the middle of the night when people are sleeping and it’s very difficult for the media and us to see what is really going on? Hmm, don’t think so.

LA Occupy Movement Police Action

I’m watching live coverage of the LA Occupy Movement. Tonight the police are going to go in and push everyone out of the space they are occupying. Our mayor Antonio “Dracula” Vilaragosa has said that since there are children in the tents he wants them moved. Well, news flash to mayor un-dead this is exactly why the police should not go in as violence is assured.

I can feel police batons cracking against my head, blood rushing down my face. I feel like I’m going to vomit watching this. I hope I am wrong about the turn toward violence that I can feel brewing in the air. I’m sure there will be good cops who will be respectful and I’m also sure their will be power crazed psychopaths who wear uniforms and they will do serious damage to this non-violent crowd. My fear is this will break out into something much darker. I fear we are at a turning point where this goes from a “movement” to an all out revolution. I have been praying for the past two hours for the people who are there and for the police to show restraint. Please do the same.

May the Great Spirit Guide watch over this situation.

Blessed be,

Denise

New Predictions

A couple of times I had tried to write posts, but things have been upside down and crazy the past few weeks.  In the last post I tried to complete I had technical difficulty and still it seems everything conspires to keep the revelations and visions secret. But I have decided that warnings must be issued, as my hope is that enough people will take heed and change the course of what is to come.

As I said a while back financial markets would spiral down in a roller coaster-like manner. But my warning right now is really about something much more disturbing and related to the other warning that we are living in the age of revolutions.

To those in power I beg you not to proceed violently against the non-violent protestors. There is a stew brewing, one in which the consequences will be deadly and lead to another revolution here on American soil. I can tell you as well that the people will be victorious and those in the 1% take heed to start doing the right thing and correct the wrongs and injustices or take a lesson from the French Revolution.

I don’t want to get into too much detail except to say that I have never really (logically) believed people here in the US would be desperate and hopeless enough to put their life on the lines as their forefathers had, but now I know this to be untrue.  And as the middle-class and all the progress that was made to equalize our society has gone backward we will see a new caste of warriors – some cracked by the wars overseas meant to protect the interest of the 1% – and some perfectly well only to come home to a nation without hope, jobs, freedom or really any of the things our warriors felt they were going to protect.

There is always hope that things can turn around but there are three things required for this to be so: 1) The political system must change to reflect the will and needs of the people. 2) The financial market must be radically renovated and regulated – no more theoretical math to squeeze money out of thin air. 3) Total and complete freedom for regular people to protest, and participate in the political system without any negative recourse or violence perpetrated against them.

At this point I see no way for any of the current line-up of Republicans to win the next election. Obama will be forced to take a more hard line approach to the violence happening toward protestors and the financial free fall will force him to take a stand against the wealthy 1%. The only chance of Obama not being re-elected comes from the possibility of a third party emerging out of the 99% movement (which will eventually happen but further in the future) and it is only this possibility that stands a shadow of a chance and this chance is microscopic at this point if possible at all. It would take something short of a miracle for this to occur.

The other set of disturbing revelations are about the earth itself. I was shown 7 places all over the globe that would have extreme geological activity starting with the second tip of Spain, the Lapland boarder region, an area that is between China/Russia and Mongolia, The boarder between the Dakotas, the northern most tip of Australia, the Poles (north and south). I wrote down what I was shown and in order but the paper mysteriously disappeared the next day never to be found. I was told the area near the second tip of Spain (near the Mediterranean sea, just a skip across to Morocco) would be a major earthquake, the area up in the Lapland/Scandinavian area would be a volcano (I thought but wasn’t sure), the area in China/Russia/Mongolia would be severe flooding, the Dakotas I think again are earthquake.

I was told that the increase in earthquakes will only keep increasing as the polar ice caps will break off and for a little while large pieces of the polar ice caps (glaciers) would make their way around the world and be seen in the ocean in strange unexpected places. Most importantly that the earth was sick and that what She was experiencing was akin to seizures, small ones that would lead up to a major world shaking like a horrible grand mal seizure felt around the world. The period of time given for this was starting in 2012 and would happen over a period from then for 5-7 years. After which a cycle of renewal would begin. Unfortunately, there would be horrible damage done and a lot of people exiting this world. However it isn’t the end of the world, just a change, simultaneously our political system will change dramatically and power will once again reside in the people. The meek will indeed inherit the earth again. Those who align themselves with the needy, weak and helpless will be pivotal and saved – this will not be like the 1960s. This will ultimately lead to a violent uprising if things continue as they are.

This is something I’ve known since I was 12 and spent 7 months alone, on my back in my sick bed (literally true). I had visions of this period. I had hoped this period would never happen. I had several dreams along the way and signs that we were traveling on this dark road but believed we would correct it. I have been given confirmation by a terrible dream recently that there is now very little chance of changing this future which in hindsight seemed inevitable.

I have struggled with informing people about this as I have seen all the signs and been given confirmation through various spiritual sources that this would be. I wasn’t sure if telling people would help or hurt. But I have no other alternative now except to hope those in power will heed this warning to restrain the police and take control of the violence against the innocent or this will go from a movement into a civil war and no one wants to see or live through the horrors of war on our soil.

Many blessings,
Denise

PS. I’m sorry I will go through individual requests soon. What has come upon me in the past couple of months has been large and oppressive and the tip of this iceberg has already turned so many people’s lives upside down – I have been trying to help put out fires among those in my sphere. A lot of people are depressed now which is why I was afraid to post this information but again the positive thing to take from all of this is the people will ultimately win as they have in the past. And the changes in the earth will eventually calm.

For those who are depressed try to realize you are here, now for a reason. You are meant to do your part to move the earth and people to a new consciousness and what was once a simple prescribed path will be replaced by one full of novelty and change in which your decisions will have impact on the whole of history if you so choose.

Answering Readers’ Questions…

The first question comes from Amber:

Will singer Jennifer Hudson find her nephew that is missing? My feeling is that
he is hidden with his fathers family but is okay.
(Sent from my BlackBerry wireless handheld.)

You know this is a horrible thing that has happened to Jennifer Hudson’s family and I feel so badly for all of them. It is just sickening.

I saw a picture of the boy, and I feel he is in serious peril. He is terrified, and saw what happened to his grandmother, and uncle. I feel his father has him, and is acting extremely erratically and is very abusive. I worry that this man will kill the child. I am very worried. I hadn’t focused on it until I saw the picture of the poor boy, and now I am feeling he is in grave danger, and the father is not in his right mind. He could snap, and kill his own son if the boy is not found soon. 

I think its a matter of days, or weeks before this boy will pass over unless the police find him. I see the father on the road, running with the kid. Right now, the boy is alive. But I do see the father acting out on him and this father is very crazy, erratic, volatile, explosive. I’m very worried the authorities won’t find the boy until it is too late. I really hope I’m wrong. One thing I do see, if anyone can use this information is a motel with red doors. They are currently in this motel. I believe the motel is south east of where the child was taken from. Perhaps in Indiana or on the boarder of Indiana and Illinois.

If I were to have a more direct connection, knew the boys birthdate time, place and had an article of his clothing I would feel much more confident about finding this boy. Right now there is so much worry and negative energy clouding the pathway to the boy’s trail. I can’t be sure my reading is totally clear. I wish this family well. 

What a horrible and tragic situation. If the family wants my help I would be glad to do so anonymously and for free. 

The second question comes from:

BENOIT

Dear Denise

The canadian dollar keeps going down. It seems there is no logical reason. When do you think it will stabilize and how much more will it go down. And also what kind of role can Canada play in a utopic world. Will it be a communicator for peace. I feel at least in Quebec that there is good seeds for a spiritual world in the future. How do you foresee the role of Canada as your closest neighbour.

Thank you.

Best wishes,
Benoit

Hi Benoit,

I’m not sure the world will ever be utopic, but it will evolve if we let it. As global warming puts the squeeze on the world, I feel the Pacific Northwest, and most of Canada will be among the most inhabitable places on earth. 

Now about the Canadian dollar. It does defy logic that your money has gone down. So I’ll ask the tarot if the Canadian dollar will continue to loose value compared to the US dollar:

The cards say: No

It looks like there will be an economic depression both in the US and in Canada.

I asked the tarot if the Canadian dollar would go up in value over the next 3 months compared to the US dollar and it said:

No.

It seems that both countries are going to be in serious financial trouble and both economies are going to be hit hard. I believe we will see this all over the world. Oddly, no country’s money will be worth much for awhile as the public trust will have been ruined and widespread corruption, and truly terrible things about corporations, financial institutions, brokerage firms, etc. will come out over the next few months. It’s going to feel like we’ve been attacked. As if the business world has betrayed the people of the world. As if they have abused the everyday consumer/person.

It looks like there has been so much blatant abuse of power, stealing and corruption that will come out, at first, it will be devastating. Kind of like when you find out your lover has had an affair on you. It will be very painful and a lot of people will be wary of investing in anything. People will stop spending money and start really changing their habits partially out of need because of major job losses, but also out of a feeling of abandonment.

It will feel as though the government, and the institutions we trusted, knocked us out, and then while we were unconscious kicked our teeth in on top of it. It’s going to make a lot of people upset, but it will ultimately be a catalyst for major reform in how we as a world, do business.

The last question comes from Marlene:

Marlene

Will anymore Palin scandals or skeletons be revealed before the election?

I asked your question to the tarot:

The answer: No.

But that doesn’t mean she doesn’t have any. They’ll come out later.

One of them is about an affair. There was a rumor about her having an affair with Todd’s business partner and the cards indicate that this is true. It will leak out later.

And there will be others. Enough to ruin her future career in politics.

Best wishes to all and blessings.

Answering Readers’ Questions…

A question comes from Marie:

 

Marie

Thank you in advance for answering my question. Your time and energy is much appreciated.

Will Obama/Biden win PA, OH, FL, NC, CO, NV, VA and IN?

Will they have a lanslide victory?

Thank you

Will Obama/Biden win PA?

The tarot’s answer: Maybe

I’m getting the feeling there will be some Republican dirty tricks. I have a feeling it has something to do with Sarah Palin. When I asked the question, she popped into my head and she shows up in the cards along with the devil card. So it seems she’s going to try and scare the you know what out of the people of that state in the coming week. There is going to be some serious confusion. But I saw the state turn blue on the map. So I feel that this state will go to Obama, but there will be some strange stuff happening here. It may not be cut and dried right away.

Will Obama/Biden win OH?

The tarot’s answer:

Yes. It will be by a much bigger margin then expected. A lot of women are going to go out and vote, and I don’t mean the Sarah Palin types. Also young people, more then expected.

Will Obama/Biden win FL?

Wow! According to the cards, Yes.

And it will be a huge upset to the Republican establishment there. It looks like there is a major change going on down there, and again, young people and the message of change, hope and a new beginning for the country is going to play very well. There is a possibility of a crisis down there that could give the lead to Obama/Biden. The tower card comes up. It may very well be another economic hit that gets the elderly people living off their retirement funds very nervous, nervous enough to go for the guy who has a plan and won’t gamble their social security in the stock market. Also the issue of health care with this economic tsunami, may have the elderly feeling they need to vote Obama/Biden.

Will Obama/Biden win CO?

The tarot says: No

I immediately had the feeling that there is a tremendous amount of racism at play in this particular area. Unfortunately, there is too much confusion about who Obama is, the belief he’s a Muslim and all that crazy right wing stuff, has a much greater foot hold in this state. Why? I don’t know. But Obama/Biden will have supporters and not loose by an overwhelming amount.

Will Obama/Biden win NV?

The cards say: Yes

They literally jumped out of the deck. But my instincts feel this will be more of a reactive vote against McCain then for Obama/Biden. The economy is the main focus here, and a feeling that McCain’s pick of Sarah Palin was such a disaster there isn’t any trust for his judgement in solving the economic problems. 

Will Obama/Biden win VA?

I got a very odd answer. The tower came up, just as it did for Florida. Again election tampering (fraud, suppression) but in this case it looks like it won’t be clear who won the state for a little while. It looks like a court case may come out of this. And ultimately Obama/Biden will win. But chances are it will go to court first and we might not know who won the state right away.

Will Obama/Biden win IN?

The tarot says: Yes

Will Obama/Biden win North Carolina?

No. 

Will Obama/Biden win by a landslide?

Yes.

But not as big as some would think. It maybe a bit of a nail biter. Obama is so far ahead in the polls but because of voter suppression and other dirty tricks it may not look like as big of a landslide as it actually is. Some of the same old 2000 & 2004 tricks will be tried, but this time it will not effect the final outcome. In fact I think we’ll see future laws put into place because of these same Republican dirty tricks being used again and this time the tricks will be exposed and Democrats will be in the majority. 

The next question comes from me. 

Will the Democrats win the 60 needed seats to have a true majority?

And the answer:

Just barely. But Yes. It will probably be exactly 60 or just over it.

Blessing to all!

And don’t forget to VOTE!!!!

 

 

Answering Readers’ Questions…

Here is the first question:

mmmr

Did the Bush-Cheney campaign engage in electronic vote fraud in 2004 on Ohio to ensure that George W. Bush would be president for another four years?

The tarot says: Yes.

It looked like they knew if they didn’t Bush/Cheney would loose and it was a close enough and they had the people in place to get away with voter fraud. They also knew that a court case would be eminent but it would be of little consequence to them as the presumptive winners.

And the next two come from Tckal:

tckal

Hi Denise: I’m really curious as to whether Obama will win Arizona and Alaska, the McCain and Palin home states. Do you see Obama turning those states blue? Thanks!

Will Obama win Arizona? 

The cards say: Yes. But I find it hard to believe as this is McCain’s home state and traditionally red. But according to the cards, it’s a pretty strong yes. It looks like it could be because of the hispanic vote which is really going for Obama. And McCain is seen as married to the establishment, also to the problems going on in the world right now and the Bush administration.

Will Obama win Alaska?

They don’t trust Obama.

But it looks like they don’t really like McCain much. The people of Alaska like their bigger oil checks (some would call this welfare and re-distributing the wealth.) So the majority are really voting for Palin partially because of the notoriety she has brought to their state, and because of those fat oil checks. She actually has more in common with the socialism of oil rich Scandinavian countries then Obama does with his rich people should pay higher taxes scheme. Wow, that’s so radical. It’s only been the income tax code since its inception about a hundred years ago. Anyway, her painting Obama as a Socialist or a Marxist is about as ludicrous as calling Palin Einstein.

tckal

…and also those currently tied states (Montana and North Dakota) that were always red until recently. Thanks Denise!

Will Obama/Biden win Montana?

The tarot says: Yes.

I was a bit shocked by this. It looks like a pretty amazing victory there. It looks very good for Obama where I wouldn’t think it possible.

Will Obama/Biden win North Dakota:

The cards say that’s still a toss up. Right now it is too close to call and it looks like it could go either way. The hearts and minds of the people there are still undecided. They are very nervous, anxious and afraid and want a change but they aren’t sure which way to go just yet.

The last question is from Tjuania:

Tjuania in Desoto, Texas

THANK YOU,,,,,,,, I am getting so nervous about this election. There is a higher power looking over this election. I was wondering there was a report yesterday about “two skin-heads”, who were plotting the assasination of Barack Obama and killing at least 70 African- American students.

Will we as African- American parents have to be worried about these types of incidents in the next 4 years?

Yes, there is a higher power protecting this election. And something much more powerful going on then I have ever seen in my lifetime. I believe we are at a crossroads. It is a time of reckoning. Not the kind Evangelic’s are trying to usher in, but a true reckoning where karma will be wrought. And no amount of phony contrition will be accepted. Remember in the New Testament it says: And the meek shall inherit the earth. Well, we will see the fall of those who abused their power to control and pervert others. We’ve already seen many of these Evangelic preachers fall and many wall street big wigs, too. And this trend will continue. Many probably will loose their faith in Christianity as well they should. Because they have been mislead.  

I’m sorry to say the answer to your question is, yes.

We will see those who have nothing to fuel their sense of superiority and entitlement except hatred get very angry over Obama’s win. We will see a rise in all forms of xenophobia, all sorts of hate crimes not just against African-American people, but against, gay people, Jewish people, Hispanic people, Muslim’s, Indian/Pakistanis, you name it, anyone and everyone who is a minority or seen as the other. This is because there are those who have a sense of entitlement linked to their race. Most of these people have nothing else to feel superior about, they lack education are not very intelligent and often live cloistered lives without any real interaction with people who look different then they do. 

However, this will be brewing for the next few years, but we won’t actually see the real trouble burst out until about 2011 when Uranus will go into Aries. I fear we will see some really bad stuff then. More organized hate groups doing things like bombing black churches, mosques and Jewish temples. I really hope I’m wrong, but I do feel this incredible divide happening in this country. Those who wish to move forward and are open, compassionate and all inclusive (in the old days what was called liberal) and those who are full of venom, and I’ll just say it because it is what it is, as ignorant as some of these people are their leaders are evil and these people are choosing to go toward fear, intolerance and hatred instead of love, kindness and compassion. We are in a very karmic time. 

I find it ironic that many of those who call themselves Christian seem to be more infatuated with the old testament rather then Christ’s teachings which were meant to supersede the old testament, you know that book called, the New testament. Christ would never have condoned gay bashing, hatred toward other people because of their race, sex, sexual orientation or for anything this current crop of Christians demonize. As a matter of fact these Christian ministers getting rich, living high on the hog, speaking to stadiums full of followers and flying around in private jets would make Christ sick. It was Christ who freaked out on the money changers in front of the temple and said, “It is easier to fit a camel through the eye of a needle then for a rich man to get into heaven.” The reason being, wealth and power often corrupt the spirit with greed and selfishness. These are not qualities befitting a spiritual leader. But yet, these people call themselves Christian.

Answering Readers’ Questions…

The first question comes from Sinead:

Sinead

Can you tell me more about Philadelphia and PA regarding Obama?

OK, let’s ask the cards again about PA. Which came up as a maybe last time. Perhaps with the ad and a few days closer to the race the Collective Unconscious of PA will be decided.

Will Obama/Biden win the state of PA?

Well, the cards are now saying: No

I don’t completely understand it because it looks like there are tremendous economic problems in this state according to the cards. But there is also a lot of fear and distrust of Obama. This is going to be an upset. The tower card comes up reversed, never a good sign. I’ve been seeing this a lot in the cards. I saw this card come up a bunch before 9/11. In this case it looks like Palin has scared a lot of voters away from Obama. She is the centerpiece here of the reading, and it looks like she’s appealing to the fear and xenophobia. There will be some very strong supporters working to turn it around, but right now it looks like PA will not go to Obama. Even among Obama supporters there has been a walking away. I don’t know why. I could speculate, but I’m going to leave it here for now and maybe re-visit this issue in a few days. I’m very surprised to see this, I was just watching the news, and they predicted a solid win for Obama in PA. Odd.

The next question is from Wyntyr:

Wyntyr

Hi Denise,
I am so glad that you answered this post. For many reasons. I agree with you that we will see many radical hate individuals, groups, etc. in the coming years. Because people are really hurting due to the economy, losing jobs, and their life savings there are going to be people that are going to strike out in hate. Like that will solve anything. It’s sad. But, by explaining things as articulately as you do then maybe people can be forewarned and educated so that we maybe keep the violence to a minimum. We really all have to band together as a nation of citizen’s and look after one another no matter what our race or religion. And, thank you for bringing up the ‘Christian’ factor. I live in a state (NC) where one of our senators (R-Elizabeth Dole) has just released one of the most vile, horrific television ads against her democratic opponent Kay Hagan by calling her Godless and falsely fabricating an audiotape. It is honestly one of the filthiest ads I have ever seen televised. I intuitively feel (R) Elizabeth Dole will lose her seat in NC and wonder what your thoughts are? We have a funky ballot in our state this year which will probably cost Obama our state because so many people are choosing a straight ticket and are forgetting to select their Presidential choice at the top of the ballot (which coincides with your NC prediction) but I am hoping that Dole gets bumped out as she doesn’t deserve a place in politics.  Thank you again for your dedication and wisdom! Your blog is the first thing I read when I get up everyday! 

Hi Wyntyr, I don’t live in NC, but I did see the ad on either Countdown with Keith Olbermann or the Rachel Maddow Show tonight. I had seen your post and had the news on in the background so I made sure to pay attention to that part of the broadcast. Wow, it was really disgusting. And kind of insane on top of everything else. I couldn’t really tell what the point was other then making Dole seem like a paranoid nut jobber. So let’s ask the cards your question.

Will Elizabeth Dole lose her senate seat to Kay Hagan?

The tarot says: Maybe. It’s going to be so tight. It may take a recount or something because it will be so close.

Something is up. I keep getting the tower card reversed in almost every reading. There could be serious voter fraud here or since it came up for a different state as well, some sort of horrible tragedy just before the election. I am going to look at the chart of the US to see what’s going on and try to figure it out. I will post about this later.

Flyer

Denise, What should people who are in IRA’s do? If your not 59 1/5 you pay 10% to take your money out and then pay taxes on it at your current rate which could be an initial loss of 30% or more. Should we pull out of our IRA’s? Will we lose more or all if we don’t? If we stay in will it come back? When? Thank you

Hi Flyer:

You can take your money out of the stock market and put it into a FDIC insured CD for now. There won’t be any penalties because you’re just moving it. Since the economy is going to get worse before it gets better there is talk of allowing people to take out money early to help them get by (actually Obama already alluded to this) without any sort of penalty. I’m not sure how much that will be. The main thing is the stock market is going to really bottom out at the end of December and into January because Pluto will go over the first house. It will also oppose Uranus and will seem out of the blue. The market may appear to be getting better before this happens. And once Pluto goes over the market’s first house we will see a real tsunami, globally and very clearly. All that has been hidden will come out. It isn’t going to be pretty.

I personally took everything out of the market (it was just one money market IRA but still) and put it into a FDIC insured CD IRA the day before I started this blog, back around mid-September of this year because I kept hearing a voice tell me to get out. That was the inspiration for this blog. I wanted other people, especially those getting ready to retire to be able to save what they’ve worked their whole lives for. I felt if one person listened and was inspired to get out, and it saved them from going broke, it was worth it. I have no idea if anyone listened. I hope someone did.

But anyway, back to your question. The market is going to remain extremely volatile as this Pluto aspect keeps happening, it will go back and forth over the first house for the next few years. So I personally think it’s too risky to invest in for anyone who isn’t a mulit-billionaire. I’m sorry if you have lost money already. It makes the whole equation a lot more difficult. I hope that is not the case, but chances are you have. In that case I would use your intuition to pull out when the market is up enough for you to recover some or most of what you have lost. If you can pull out before late December, do it! Hope that helps some.

Tjuania in Desoto, Texas

I want to ask you about “FOX news”, there is something not right with them, I look at all cable news shows and I find them offensive on all fronts.

What do you see for them in the next 4 years with a President Obama in the White House????

Hi Tjuania;

You are right. They are run by Rupert Murdoch and have had many lawsuits slapped on them because it is basically just a front for Murdoch’s personal agenda of pushing for traditional Republican idealogy –more deregulation. I find it ironic that he bought the stock exchange this summer and according to what I have heard has lost a fortune because of it. Ironic, because it was the pushing of deregulation that has and will be the collapse of the market. But anyway. I was just saying to my husband tonight that I believe FOX news will shrivel up.

I asked the cards: Will FOX news go out of business in the next 4 years?
The answer: Yes.

Again, I got the tower card reversed. I am getting a little spooked here. There is something very bad around the pike. This is not good. I had a dream about driving through a tornado the other night, but I don’t think that was literal not that there won’t be a literal aspect to the dream. Perhaps there will be a real tornado that devastates the mid-west. I hope not. I think the dream was a warning that something very bad is brewing. Again I’m going to look into this and try to figure it out. 

tckal

Hi Denise: Thanks so much for answering all our questions and easing our minds during this dirty election. I can’t believe all the nasty stuff going on. What’s the story with this Joe the Plummer? Is the McCain Campaign paying this guy to endorse him? His campaign is so dirty. I am so disgusted. Does Palin (and the republicans) really think she’s going to run for president in 2012? She’s more of a moron than I thought. I’m looking forward to seeing her get impeached (karma!!) Thanks!

Hi Tckal:

I’ll ask the cards about “Joe the plumber,” who it turned out wasn’t really a plumber, but anyway. 
Was and is “Joe the plumber,” a Republican plant?

The cards say: Kind of.

He was just a regular semi-employed, uneducated idiot who took it upon himself to question Obama, but since then they’ve used him to say and do things that they can not. He’s a Republican and an opportunist. And so are they — they are relying on his stupidity to freak out crowds. But, it isn’t really working because he’s not coherent or articulate enough. It wasn’t a very wise move on their part. It just makes them look desperate, and even more erratic, and idiotic then they do already.

Tjuania in Desoto, Texas

Thank you for answering my question…. I was wondering about the “30 minute Obama ad”. Will this ad be effective or will they try to paint this as him being an elite?

Good question. I thought it was really moving, but you never know how people are going to take this sort of thing so lets ask the cards.

Will the 30 minute Obama/Biden ad help them win over voters?

The cards say: No. Surprising to me. I have to ask a follow up.

Will the 30 minute ad hurt the Obama/Biden campaign?

The answer: Maybe.

I think it will hurt them as their will be a viscious spin from the Republicans about how he spent all this money. Already we’re seeing McCain question where he got all his money. It isn’t going to hurt him among his supporters, but it doesn’t look like it will have convinced those people who are racist of anything other then he has a lot of money. John McCain is going to work the whole angle of how he’s the poor underdog, big time, again playing to that xenophobic crowd. Sadly, these people don’t seem to have a heart to touch.

I must say this is the first time in my entire life that I’ve felt like I was voting for someone I want to be president instead of a lesser of two evils scenario. I felt that commercial was excellent, it made me cry (this could be partially hormonal, you ladies out there know what I’m talking about.) You could really feel the goodness, honor, caring, compassion and genuineness of Obama despite the slickness of the documentary style commercial. I felt it really did highlight how special Obama is. It reminded me of what people told me about voting for Kennedy. Many people felt this intense love for him, felt he represented a new hopeful future. I feel that way about Obama. He is the first politician I actually feel is involved in politics because he wants to make the world a better place instead of for his own personal gain. (Having said that I do like other people like Hillary and Bill and many others, but they don’t have the same purity of spirit Obama has.)

Lori Denise, I just want you to know your site is helping me keep sane right now in these last few days before the election! I am checking the data sites like fivethirtyeight.com, which is wonderful but I felt that wasn’t taking into account things like Republican dirty tricks, which is why I went in search of more intuitive information. I think the cards might be right about Montana and Arizona, strange as it may seem, because it fits with the way the polls have been going lately. (I have family and friends in Montana and they all have voted early for Obama and some have even helped with the campaign–as a whole the state is conservative of course but they might like Obama’s outsider status). I am wondering what we can do about the hate crimes and xenophobia that may be brewing over the next few years. Are there preventive steps that can be taken before we see real trouble, and if so, what are they? Thanks.

Hi Lori:

I wonder that myself. Unfortunately, we live in a world where we take three steps forward and two back. There will always be entropy and order, shadow and light, good and bad. I’ve travelled all over the world and hatred is everywhere, it takes different forms. Prejudiced people in England don’t like the French. The Australians bigots don’t like the Aborigines. And of course everyone hates the Jews. That’s a pretty universal one. I could go on, but you know what I’m talking about. It’s just human nature. People seem to need a whipping boy. They seem to need someone to feel superior to. Of course not everyone has that problem. But we all have some prejudices taught to us as children and left unchecked they can take root and become ugly.

A friend of mine recently told me he found liberal racism more insidious because liberals try to hide their prejudice. Actually, being half Jewish I have to disagree with him as I would have been gassed if I lived in Germany in the 30s, and was often called a kike, even though my mom was Catholic.

Personally, I appreciate when people keep their anti-semitism to themselves. It’s what I call considerate. These liberal types are not the sort who will murder you. Some may not trust you immediately, but they at least give you a chance. And they try to be open. Even if they have to fight themselves to do it — this just makes me respect those people more! It means they are working against their shadow self by trying to be better people. That is honorable and about all we can expect from anyone.

Recognizing our prejudices, acknowledging them, and keeping them in check when they rear up is the best and only thing we can do. Eventually they disappear, the more we confront them. But this takes actual self-examination, and work. Many people find it easier to live in fear and feel better then whatever whipping boy their culture deems appropriate. 

The only answer is time and evolution. I believe the more evolved we become the more we will see were are all the same. But don’t look for utopia on that front any time soon.

The Tower Card and Pennsylvania Election

OK, first the tower card keeps coming up reversed which is actually better then it right side up in my opinion. I saw this phenomena before 9/11 so I take this to mean we are in for some sort of national crisis. Now this could be just about anything. It could even be referring to the crazy stock market collapse and subsequent restructuring of the market coming up, as I have predicted at the end of December and really the beginning of the new year. But I’ve posted on this crazy aspect enough. I do feel as I have alluded that there will be something happening next year in regards to a foiled terrorist attack. This could also be part of the tower cards appearance. I am asking for dream clarification so I’ll let you all know if I get anything. 

I asked the cards if there was any major national tragedy the answer:

Yes.

But it looks like it is in the way of voter fraud. A pattern we have seen before. There are lies, and some people walking away from the process and negative patterns yet to be rectified. This makes me feel better. We are already seeing some of this in early voting states so it’s really not a surprise.

OK, now let’s see about Pennsylvania because I just can’t believe Obama/Biden are going to lose. They are 12 points ahead in the polls. Perhaps this is what the cards are foreseeing some sort of voter fraud there. So lets check.

I can’t ask the cards the same question again because they won’t answer accurately so I’ll ask: Will McCain/Palin win the state of Pennsylvania?

OK: The cards answered: No. McCain/Palin are not going to win Pennsylvania.

I don’t know why it was a no to Obama/Biden last night, perhaps we’ll see some trouble here, and it won’t be immediately resolved that night. It could be that I got a false answer last night because I made the mistake of asking the cards the same exact question. This is a problem. One I should have really been wary of. I found the cards answer suspicious. And over the years have seen them lie when you ask the same question more than once, this is the problem with oracles, you have to accept the answer they give, even if its a maybe, or rephrase the question from a different angle.

Unfortunately, I didn’t do that, my bad. I’m happy to see that was a false negative. But it does make me wonder if there won’t be some problems in PA, perhaps the race will be tighter then expected, or there will be some voter fraud, or a lower voter turn out then expected.

Answering Readers’ Questions… And Happy Halloween!

There are so many tonight. I’m going to break them up over the next few days but will put the list of all of them on here so everyone can see what’s coming up. Make sure to check the post just before this one as it answers the question about the tower card and what will happen in PA.

The first from:

sally ann

Ben Bernanke, head of the US Federal Reserve, has an unbelievable onslaught of difficult astrological aspects affecting him on Dec. 11 and 12/08. He was born in Augusta GA, Dec. 13/ 1953, time unknown. Just found your site and you’ve pinpointed mid-Dec. for some market upheavals -what a scary correlation. What kind of crisis is in store for Bernanke/The Fed and US Federal Reserve notes (US dollars)?

Hi Sally Ann,

I really wish I would have studied economics and business instead of going to art school, but what can you do? I have to admit I don’t know much about how it works which I think gives me a strange advantage in that my intellect can’t cloud my intuition. But sometimes its frustrating because I feel I could explain things better if I did have a background in economics but anyway back to your question. Here’s his solar chart because we don’t have his time of birth:

Yeah it looks like transiting Saturn is going to make a T-Square to his Sun, Moon, and Jupiter. But without knowing the houses its hard to pin point where all the trouble will be in his life. Saturn in Virgo is work related. He has Sun in Sag, so he’s a very lucky guy and Moon in Pisces. I’d have to say he’s going to be under tremendous pressure during this period. Perhaps even be blamed for stuff yet to come out. He could very well be fired or be forced into a compromised position. It’s going to be hard for him. I’m sure he’s going to take the heat for a lot of this mess. And it is doubtful our money will remain strong during the coming crisis, but the whole world economy is going to be dragged through this with us, and a lot of foreign currency will be devalued as well. So I’m going to say in regards to his chart, he personally is going to have a lot of stress and depending on what houses these planets fall in, if I were him I would be worried potentially about my health, my own personal wealth and my job. But again I’m not sure how to read him individually in regards to the greater whole. His chart reflects tremendous crisis for him. 

barry

You foresee an economic collapse and advised people to put their money in FDIC insured accounts. Are all markets going to collapse not just stocks and bonds but commodities too? How can valuable commodities that everyone needs to survive not have value and currencies like the U.S. dollar stay valuable when governments are deep debt. Wouldn’t one want natural gas, oil stocks, gold minding stocks instead of paper money that can be printed at will? And what about money market funds, are they safe? I think I read the US government has or is going to guarantee those too. I ask these questions becasue I own gold ETF, silver ETF, gold mining stocks, Suncor, Opti Canada, Double Eagle and others. I also have more then $200,000 dollars in Western Asset Managements’s money market fund in my 401k. As you probably know there are tremendous penalties for taking money out of a 401k plan.

Thanks for doing this.

Hi Barry,

You raise excellent points, all of which I’ve been thinking a lot about for the past 8 weeks. People asked me about gold and precious metals and for some reason they didn’t look like they would have the same sort of meaning they used to. It wasn’t bad to own them, just not a huge advantage. I was talking to a friend about the commodities market. I need to look at it because it seems, that these are real things that people need, and would hold more value then anything on the stock market. I will look into this once I find a reliable chart or info about the opening of the commodities market in Chicago. I will post everything I find.

My gut tells me it won’t be the same sort of blood bath as the stock market/global market.  Readers have asked me about certain stocks, many of them energy related. I’m not a financial expert, but these stocks also looked as though they were taking a hit. And from the feedback I got from those readers, indeed they did. I have also heard that the government was going to insure some money market funds, but not to their full value. I don’t know for sure if I have accurate information because I haven’t been able to make sense of all the conflicting things I’ve heard about it.

No doubt its a scary time. I will check into the commodities market and do a post dedicated to predictions about it. So look for that in the next couple of days. Thanks for your questions. I’m also going to post a readers’ advice about 401k(s). I don’t have experience with them, her advice seemed very good, it will be at the end of this post.

Sinead

Hi this site is keeping me sane too. Thank you so much. I googled other psychics and they think McCain will win. I will give you some names then ask my questions. Victoria weston, Elizabeth Joyce and Valerie Morrison. Are these ladies all republican and that is why they think Obama will win? I am kinda upset with some of the lies that Valeria Morrison as out out about Obama on a Irv Homer show… UCK…

Hi Sinead,

I really don’t see how McCain could even logically win at this point. Really.

So it’s more likely that these psychics were wrong. No psychic is 100% right. Also when you have to constantly come up with predictions, when cornered and nothing is coming, some people end up relying on logic and don’t even realize it. A year ago it would have seemed a lot more likely that McCain would win.

I remember back when McCain ran against Bush, my husband saw him interviewed and told me he had a feeling he would win. I did not have that feeling. Have never had that feeling about McCain. It wasn’t until McCain picked Sarah Palin that I became nervous he had even the smallest chance. I just don’t think it has ever been in McCain’s destiny to become commander and chief. But he’s white and perhaps some of these (I’m assuming) older psychics just couldn’t envision a person of color winning.

That’s my take on it. 

Sinead

Hi Denise:

Thanks so much for answering my question regarding PA. It worries me that you keep getting the TOWER card. Do you think they will do a last minute scare tactic to the whole country? Maybe that is why you are getting the tower card..

Thanks again,
Sinead

Hi again Sinead — I do think that was part of the tower card coming up over and over again. It’s interesting that it came up in PA and at the center was the Empress card (a powerful archtypal mother character/Sarah Palin) I believe she was using scare tactics there.

One reader thought that reversed it wasn’t as bad, so I hope they are right. Personally, I’ve always seen the Tower bring chaos and disaster no matter which direction it shows up in. I do wonder about PA because the cards have been so wishy-washy when the polling has been so clearly for Obama. It makes me wonder if something strange will happen. But look at the post below about PA and the Tower. I go into much more detail about this issue.

Tjuania in Desoto, Texas

Thank you so much, you are keeping me sane as well, I am taking your advice and to doing something. I am volunteering at the Obama campaign office this weekend , calling prospective voters. TO EVERYONE WHO CAN , volunteer and knock on doors for this man, It looks like he is going to need it. And after you do that, let’s pray that everything will be ALRIGHT….

If McCain loses in the general election for president in the state of Arizona, will he run again for his Senate sit or will this be his “last hooray”?

Hi Tjuania — Thanks so much for doing your part. I really appreciate it and the world is a better place because of it.

Will McCain run again for the Senate?

The cards said: Maybe.

He’s going to be pretty depressed about this lose. I wonder if he won’t go into hiding for a bit before he re-evaluates that. I don’t think he’s decided yet. He made some huge mistakes and he’s going to regret them, big time.

Aleshia

What is being hidden in Palin Medical records that is causing her to delay releasing them?

My first thought– She’s a robot, a Stepford Wife. Of course that’s a joke.

My intuition says she has a heart problem. Perhaps a congenital defect in her heart or main artery leading to her heart. She has a big red spot in her aura there and from my experience this is an indication of a wound or physical problem. It’s not black, so it is not life threatening but she may not want it exposed because she wants to run for the presidency and feels it would impede her future bid.

I just looked at her chart for confirmation of this feeling and there is astrological evidence as well. She has Sun, Mars and Saturn all conjunct in her 7th house and the ruler of both her 6th and 7th is Saturn. The 6th is the house of health and the Sun rules your heart, both Saturn and Mars are trouble makers.

Here’s some advice from a reader that I wanted to share because she seems to know about 401k plans and I really don’t. 

Gwen Merrick

Hi again, I wanted to pass on some info about withdrawing from 401k and putting into IRA CD which I am in the process of doing. First of all, it’s outrageous the rules and regulations to remove money out from a 401k that one has under an employer plan. It has taken more than 10 days for me to get this money out into an IRA CD even though I FedEx Overnight the application. The good news is I found that “brokerage” IRA CDs (which are insured by FDIC) give a highter interest rate than banks (almost double). Maybe this will help some of your readers.
Thanks for posting such an informative blog.
Gwen

OK, here are the posts I’ll be answering over the next couple of days. Have a great Halloween! Best wishes to all and many blessings!

 

hopeandaplan
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Your tower card is scary. This is completely off topic but is there any hope that Rush Limbaugh will fall from his powerful perch. He is as antagonizing, misleading, as outrageous as Palin in his claims and just as popular. Turned in two votes yesterday!! Thanks for helping us all keep the faith…

 

curious123

Hello Denise,
I’m becoming more anxious and more nervous each day for Obama. I can’t wait till this is all over. I truly hope he is elected and the majority of Americans see through this mess that McCain/Palin has spun! It’s truly getting uglier and uglier with the McCain camp. I just can’t believe that Obama might or will lose PA. Please, please revisit this closer to the election and hopefully the outcome will change. I truly believe that he is for the people and we need a Barack Obama Presidency. Please tell me that karma will hit McCain/Palin upside the head real hard!!!

1. What do you see happening to McCain’s psyche after this election?

2. What about the Republican Party?

He has sold his soul to the devil…how unfortunate!!!
Vote!!!! Obama/Biden 08

Thanks so much

 

Wyntyr

Hi Denise (waving),
Thank you so much for answering my question.
I wanted to run this by you on the Tower (reversed) card. I have always interpreted the Tower card as two figures falling out of the tower on their head so if reversed it means they have landed on their feet. So, you can take the upright Tower to mean a chaotic situation that leaves you feeling out of control, reversed to mean that it’s chaotic but you land on your feet. So the Tower reverses essentially means coming out on top of a chaotic situation. Of course, I am assuming that is the only card that you pulled from the deck. And, interesting that you had a dream of a tornado. A tornado can be symbolic of a lot of things. The skies in dreams generally link to the future with the possibility of change. So if they are disturbed then it could mean there is no clear outlook for how things will be. Uncertainty, Unforeseen, changes are possibilities with tornado meanings in dreams. I keep feeling that we are in the ‘calm before the storm’. Anyway, thank you for reading and listening to my rambling.  Many blessings to you! Hugs, Wyntyr

 

Tjuania in Desoto, Texas

I am totally shocked about PA coming up in the cards as a win for McCain, and shocked about the win for Obama in Arizona…..Could you check Texas?????

The reason I am asking I am checking the polls everyday and there is a large turnout, expecially African -American and young people…..We have a senate race in Texas and alot of people are pulling for Noriega over John Coreign…Do you see Noriega closing the deal in Texas?

 

Answering Readers’ Questions…

hopeandaplan

My husband thinks Palin wont release her medical records because she’s had breast implants. I wonder with so many children if she’s ever had post partum depression and been given an anti-depressant….Just a couple of thoughts…

Hi Hope and a Plan, I think your husbands theory makes a lot of sense because she’s clearly vein. And it wouldn’t be cool for a conservative uber right wing Evangelical to have breast implants. Also your ideas make a lot of sense given her associations with the extreme right. Both your theories seem very logical.

I had wondered myself about both of those possibilities, and last night after I posted I wondered if perhaps the red spot I saw over her heart was due to emotional problems and excessive anger which we all know she has. But I’m going to say that the red spot is a physical problem. Red spots like this in the aura are not necessarily life threatening, when I’ve seen gray or black, that is life threatening. But it has the potential to become life threatening over time.

I think she and the first dude are very strategic, especially him. She’s got the “it” factor and he’s got the brains for strategyt. I have a feeling she doesn’t really think for herself, kind of like Reagan — also an example of the negative Aquarian type who is easily influenced by their partner. Reagan had been pretty liberal until he met Nancy. Nancy’s family had been very into Republican politics. Reagan was a likeable guy who could sell their agenda to the public. I think Palin is the same. Her erratic nature comes from the rare moment when her own idea drift past and her ego goes a bit wild, and she blurts stuff out. 

If it was found that she had a congenital heart defect, or a problems with her main artery or something major like that, it would make her bid for presidency riddled with even more problems than it already is. I believe her problem is not life threatening at the moment. It is under control, but she maybe on medicine or have had surgeries on her heart. And starting off with this before she gets the Republican presidential nomination would most likely make her an unsalable candidate.

I know the prediction is odd, but this is why I trust it.

For awhile I heard people wondering if it was because her baby was really not hers, which would also make sense. But I did a reading about it and it looked like the baby was hers.

barry

About my and Tijuania’s posts on commodities, precious metals and the US dollar. This was what I was trying to get at. Why move all of your money out of something of value like commodities into a paper currency even though it is insured? Government policies today are much different then the 30’s. It seems with the way the US government is giving away money that hyperinflation like that of Wiemar Germany of 1923 or of Zimbabwe today is on its way. If that is true surely having all of your money in US dollars even though insured would be a bad idea. Is hyperinflation on its way? Is the US dollar in danger of being replaced?

Hi Barry, I understand your frustration. I did feel that if McCain won we would see hyper-inflation pre-WWII Germany style. I was getting visions of that horrible future when McCain was up in the polls which is why I looked into his, Palin, Obama and Biden’s charts so extensively. McCain as I’ve posted before has a lot of stuff that would activate the break down of the Dow in even more horrible ways then anything you can imagine. It would be a perfect storm of economic melt down if he won. He would make the situation go from horrible to horrifyingly scary. The kind of scary that borders on apocalyptic, not a word I use lightly. I’m not saying that because I’m liberal and as a matter of fact I was surprised to see McCain’s chart set off all these terrible aspects in the Dow and also the NASDAQ’s charts. It scared me.

But Obama is going to win, and I don’t see things getting that bad. I believe we are going to have some hard times, much like the recession of the 70s with shades of the 30s. But it will be very different as well, and will involve the entire world. So it’s hard to explain and predict because it won’t be like anything we’ve ever dealt with or seen before.

OK, I found a date for the start of the Commodities Market, here’s the chart:

OK, this is odd. I wouldn’t have expected this market to look bad. But if you notice the top of the chart, the cusp of the 10th house is at 0 degrees Capricorn and the rising is 0 degrees Aries. Pluto will also be reeking some havoc in this market as well. Pluto hitting the 10th squaring the 1st will make this market readjust, that combined with Neptune hitting the charts Mercury in March, makes me think people will be so afraid of investing. They will pull money out, and there will be losses here as well. Or perhaps there won’t be as much money for people to invest which will impact the commodities market.

This market will not be in the same kind of horrible tail spin the Dow will be in, but it will have some stumbles, and perhaps because of fear,and a lot of loss, people will not want to invest in anything remotely seen as speculative. This will drive down the value of goods and commodities. Weird, but that’s what it looks like. Hope that helps clarify your questions.

I am going to answer the other questions tomorrow. Hope you all had a great Halloween. Best wishes to all and blessings.

Answering Readers’ Questions…

I want to start with this new post because it is very profound, despite the spelling mistakes.

Lala

I found this …. someone had a dream read it.
I have never posted any of my dreams before but this one I felt I had to shair I hope you will forgive my spelling
2 nights ago I dreamed I was hunting in a forrested aria when I saw an elder standing just inside the wood line of a clearing as I approached him and ask if he needed assistance. Because it is rair to se someone so old in the woods he looked to be in his 90-early hundreds.Wearing clean white buck skins with a bandana with 2 feathers in it out to the side to shade his eyes from the sun he had a bow and a knife but no gun. he said no he was waiting for me that there are things I must see. I said lead on atet mosunni or Grand father he said just watch it is not for you to interfear. Wached an eagle land in the clearing he was a beautiful bird with wite tailfeathers and a snow white head.but his feet where dirty and I thought this was odd for some reason as I wached I saw a brown snake slithering through the grass. I remember thinking that it was too cold for snakes but as I wached the eagle it saw the snake but refused to leave or do any thing about it. the snake struck a wound to the right wing of the eagal who was facing north it was a deep wound but not debilitating one well the eagal fought off the snake and sent it away . soon I saw a red brown and pailblue snake comming through the grass I thought the eagle would fly away ,but it did notit treated the snake as a friend and went to shelter it with his wing and the snake bit the left wing causing a wound so terrable that the eagal could no longer fly the eagal fought this snake off also then I saw a larger snake comming through the grass it was huge multicolored with black red white brown and green comming tward the eagle . who just stood there untill it was too late iw waited to attack till its head was already in the mouth of the other snake but by then its head was gone. I wached the snake crawl away and the old one said to me the first blow has already been struck the last 2 will happen after the dark chief is put in to power
remember before the dark one leaves his office the second blow will fall and the final blow will fall in the time of 2 chiefs
I know what some of what I was shown and creator I hope I am wrong .

Hi Lala: I need to know a couple of things because this dream is very clear, but it depends on when the dream came. Was this your dream? Or did you find it posted somewhere and transcribe it? Either way the time the dream came to the person is pertinent because one could interpret the first snake attack to the right wing as the first George Bush administration which was short lived, the dark chief as Clinton as he was referred to as “the first black president,” even though that seems ridiculous now, but anyway, and the last in the time of the two chiefs as George W, and Dick Cheney, as Cheney has clearly been a shadow president.

Now the first attack could have been the first gulf war and the drop in the economy of the 90s. The second attack the 2000 election debacle when Clinton was president and the last in the time of the two chiefs, 9/11 and the subsequent wars. All would fit this prophecy. This is the thing about dreams they are often out of sync with time. Let me know. If it was back during the first Bush administration when the person had this dream it would be very clearly prophetic of what we all of just gone through. Obviously, the elder in white was the person’s spirit guide. And forests often represent introspection and spirituality. The eagle clearly the US. The snakes problems. Interesting that the eagle saw the snake as a friend as this would fit with the interpretation. We have done a lot of business with the Saudis and it was mostly Saudi nationals who attacked us on 9/11. And it is well documented that the Bush family has a long standing friendship with the Bin Laden family. Perhaps, this is why he has never been found and all his family was flown out of our country on 9/11.

 

hopeandaplan

Your tower card is scary. This is completely off topic but is there any hope that Rush Limbaugh will fall from his powerful perch. He is as antagonizing, misleading, as outrageous as Palin in his claims and just as popular. Turned in two votes yesterday!! Thanks for helping us all keep the faith…

Rush Limbaugh!!! He is so awful. It’s so wrong that he has a platform of any kind other than one to jump off of, like into a swimming pool — that I would not begrudge him because he looks like he could use the exercise.

So I asked the tarot: Will Rush Limbaugh fall from power in the next few years.

The answer: Yes.

People will walk away from him, lose faith and interest. And generally feel like he’s just regurgitating the same stuff over and over. 

He may find his way again in hate radio again at some even more distant point, but it will be a much smaller demo.

curious123

Hello Denise,
I’m becoming more anxious and more nervous each day for Obama. I can’t wait till this is all over. I truly hope he is elected and the majority of Americans see through this mess that McCain/Palin has spun! It’s truly getting uglier and uglier with the McCain camp. I just can’t believe that Obama might or will lose PA. Please, please revisit this closer to the election and hopefully the outcome will change. I truly believe that he is for the people and we need a Barack Obama Presidency. Please tell me that karma will hit McCain/Palin upside the head real hard!!!

1. What do you see happening to McCain’s psyche after this election?

2. What about the Republican Party?

He has sold his soul to the devil…how unfortunate!!!
Vote!!!! Obama/Biden 08

Thanks so much

Hi Curious, 

Actually every time I do a reading regarding McCain the devil card does come up so you’re not really wrong in a sense. He has betrayed his own ethics in a crazy desire for power over others. He’s lost his mind really. “My fellow prisoners,” tells you a lot about what’s going on in his head. 

I feel the Republican party is in turmoil. It has been attracting and playing to the shadow side for the past 30 years, since Nixon. During the 80s Reagan put a happy grandpa face on it, but its agenda and many of those attracted to the party are motivated by greed, power over others, money, selfishness and they are hypocritical. Not all Republicans. But it has become a magnet for that sort of energy.

The fracturing we are seeing in the party between the religious right who basically want to make our country a theocracy and the wall street right who want to turn us into a plutocracy, are finding that those two ideologies don’t really play that well together. Not because a theocratic plutocracy, in and of itself, is an impossible idea (just look at the papacy during the middle ages) but because these particular brand of religious ideologues are (in general) not very knowledgeable about their world or their own belief system and attract ignorance.

It takes smarts to create and steal wealth and, need I say more?

I have a feeling we will see more people calling for a third party from the right in the coming years, more jumping ship to libertarianism or some other form of plutocracy masquerading as capitalism, (lets make the rich, richer) in a possible new party.

However, I don’t see the Republican party being in power for a very long time. They’ve done enough damage.

Now its time for some healing.

Wyntyr

Hi Denise (waving),
Thank you so much for answering my question.
I wanted to run this by you on the Tower (reversed) card. I have always interpreted the Tower card as two figures falling out of the tower on their head so if reversed it means they have landed on their feet. So, you can take the upright Tower to mean a chaotic situation that leaves you feeling out of control, reversed to mean that it’s chaotic but you land on your feet. So the Tower reverses essentially means coming out on top of a chaotic situation. Of course, I am assuming that is the only card that you pulled from the deck. And, interesting that you had a dream of a tornado. A tornado can be symbolic of a lot of things. The skies in dreams generally link to the future with the possibility of change. So if they are disturbed then it could mean there is no clear outlook for how things will be. Uncertainty, Unforeseen, changes are possibilities with tornado meanings in dreams. I keep feeling that we are in the ‘calm before the storm’. Anyway, thank you for reading and listening to my rambling.  Many blessings to you! Hugs, Wyntyr

Hi Wyntyr:

I wanted to share part of a dream I had last night. It was very lucid and when this happens I know it is a premonition of some sort. I was in Alaska on a ship there were all these bridges, some going to Russia. There was a very creepy, eerie feeling that something was very wrong up there. The local people knew about it, and were following the story, but we in the lower 48 were not aware. It had something to do with a bridge to Russia as well.

I don’t know exactly what it means yet, but I wonder if Sarah Palin and her husband don’t have treasonous ambitions. Perhaps making a deal with another country like Russia to succeed. Or the Russian bridge may be a metaphor for making a bridge to someone we have traditionally seen as our enemy. Perhaps the group they are involved with is actively seeking military support in secret? I’m sure if there is anything to this I will get more clarification.

The other possibility is that Palin is bad news and more negative stuff will come out about her. Scary stuff that if we knew it, would make us feel, as a country, we would have been put in jeopardy militarily by her coming into power.

There is something very bad going on up there. I know that for sure from the dream.

Tjuania in Desoto, Texas

I am totally shocked about PA coming up in the cards as a win for McCain, and shocked about the win for Obama in Arizona…..Could you check Texas?????

The reason I am asking I am checking the polls everyday and there is a large turnout, expecially African -American and young people…..We have a senate race in Texas and alot of people are pulling for Noriega over John Coreign…Do you see Noriega closing the deal in Texas?

 I asked the cards if Obama/Biden would win Texas and oddly here is the answer:

Maybe.

It looks like they have some strong support but there are so many crazy lies and misinformation about Obama down there, it’s hard to erase all of it. Even though it looks like the Obama supporters have been working tirelessly to do so. It will be a lot closer than anyone things. And surprisingly it shows up as a maybe. So we’ll have to wait and see.

OK, since I did not ask last time if Obama would win PA but rather if McCain would lose PA. I asked it again of the cards.

Will Obama win PA on 11/4/08?

The answer:

Again a maybe with the tower reversed in the center. The moon card, stuff going on behind the scenes. I take this to be that there is some serious maleficence going on in PA. Voter fraud? Or perhaps voters being scared by McCain’s recent trip there into changing their minds. But Obama has great support. And since McCain had a definite no.

I’m going to say PA will have some weird stuff happen. It is not going to be clear cut, and a winner may not be called right away. I think we will see shades of 2000 here. It may require a recount, and then Obama will be the winner even though by that point people will feel his win was shaky, which is why it always comes up as a maybe.

I will answer more posts tomorrow. So look for yours. Hope you had a great holiday weekend.

Don’t forget to move your clocks back an hour!

Best wishes to all and many blessings.

Answering Readers’ Questions…

Here we go, hope I can help as we all get closer to election day and the weird tower card is starting to make too much sense.

I have been having some very odd dreams about Alaska. Another one last night: John McCain was in it with his wife. The general gist of it being that he had no natural luck in politics, and was drawing on his wife’s (astrologically speaking) luck. Without her he would never have had a successful career in politics.

I haven’t seen her chart, but I’m going to look for her birth info. If anyone knows please post it. This is interesting because his chart shows he has absolutely no chance of winning 11/4 and really his natal chart is not one of a president. I’m wondering if he’s like a psychic vampire, using her chart to get ahead. Maybe I should see if she has good aspects on 11/4. That would be interesting as it is not in his fate, but it could potentially be in hers. Weird idea. Something I wouldn’t have thought about except for having this bizarre dream.

The first question is from Curious:

curious123

First, thanks a lot for answering my question. It’s truly appreciated! I look forward to your blogs everyday. Well, call me anxious…I don’t really believe in these polls, but they are making me real nervous and crazy. Why are they tightening so much? Don’t people realize we are in a recession? Aren’t people losing their jobs? Don’t people want better healthcare and education? Do people really think Republicans are going to get us out of this freakin mess? I know and I’m trying to stay realistic. If, no, when Obama becomes president it’s going to be a while before anything is fixed. I just can’t stand that some people are so xenophobic that they don’t want to see an articulate, people first individual become president. These polls should not be 1-2 points between Obama and McCain. God, I just hope everyone turns out big for Barack Obama on Tuesday. Denise…please tell me it will. I’m crazy I know.;-)

Thanks a lot!

Hi Curious:

Remember way back after the last debate between Obama and McCain I said the race would tighten? That McCain would be seen as the winner (ultimately) of that one and start using very dirty, scary, nasty, evil (devil card) tactics? Well, hello… we’re here! But Obama is still going to win, so don’t worry! Just vote and make sure everyone you know does, too. 

Here’s the post from answering Readers’ Questions back on October 15 (which seems so long ago now, it’s such a weird time we’re living in). There are a bunch of posts regarding the last debate in which this issue of McCain narrowing the gap toward election day came up. Actually it was you Curious who was worried when I posted about McCain winning the last debate. If you look under the response to your question in that section you’ll see what I’m referring to.  This is one of the entries about it. My response was long so I’ll just make a link for those interested to make it easy: http://astrologyandpsychicpredictions.wordpress.com/2008/10/15/

Lala

You wrote
“If it was back during the first Bush administration when the person had this dream it would be very clearly prophetic of what we all of just gone through”

NO it was not my dream someone had this dream and i found it. This person had this dream on Tuesday, 28 October 2008. So this dream is about this election. Not about last administrations.

Hi Lala,

I had a feeling it was someone else’s but are you sure it was about this time period and not a dream someone put up that they had long ago? I’m going to assume you are saying: Yes, I’m sure it’s about now! And answer that question.

OK, here’s another interpretation: The eagle landing with dirty feet. Our country represented by the eagle, having dirty feet = dirty politics at the root of the problem of our nation. The snow white head and tail feathers = a purity of ideology and an ability to navigate the winds of change. 

The first snake attack was from a brown snake, perhaps this was the terrorists while the right wing was in power, which would explain why the eagle was able to shake it off. North in western esoteric tradition (I’m not sure about Native American tradition here because each tribe has slightly different associations) is often associated with death and the Great Goddess. So it could be, it was facing north, meaning the bird drew its strength from the deaths that occurred on 9/11 despite the intense wound and the idea of the motherland/patriotism. 

The red/brown snake could represent the accusations of Obama being called a “socialist” by his colleague McCain who was supposed to run a clean campaign, and the pale blue snake, the working class that would most benefit from an Obama win. The eagle embraced these snakes as friends would make sense and then once safely under the wing of the eagle attack the left, debilitating our country. Perhaps it could be the two wars we are already in, one in Iraq and the other Afganastan leaving us without a viable defenses and vulnerable to attack from foreign nations. This was something I was worried about with the invasion of Georgia by Russia. I plan on looking into foreign affairs more, after the election because I have had some bad feelings about the world stage in the last six months, but any way. 

The first strike 9/11. And then perhaps 2 more terrorists attacks or at least attempts while Obama is president and then the time of the 2 chiefs? Perhaps something like another WW? But that is far enough in the future not to worry about right now.

Look on the bright side, if this is a current premonition, at least Obama wins. But on a serious note here, premonitions are always very dramatic and scary. Believe me! I’ve had some seriously apocalyptic dreams. I had a series of them starting back in the late 1980s about the LA riots that were just horrifying.

I’ll give you an example. I had this dream that I was working as a psychic in an all white room (which I wasn’t at the time, I was still an art student), the word Oxnard was associated with it. I saw a nuclear bomb go off over south central LA and felt the radiation coming my way. Fire fighters were everywhere, and people from another country were in my home, perfect strangers. It seriously freaked me out for years and I had many of these dreams with a lot more detail then I’m going to bother to go into right now.

But as it turned out, it was a riot in south central. I was working as a psychic in a white room on Oxnard street at the time. And a group of strange German tourists ended up staying at my home because a mutual friend lived in an area where a bunch of apartment buildings were set on fire and they couldn’t get in and out of their street. Plus the Germans were freaked out, as anyone would be.

A friend explained the nuclear bomb was a metaphor for something mind blowing happening. And this is how premonitory dreams are, they are a mix of metaphor and fact, dramatic, sweeping and bizarre. We often don’t know what they mean until after the event which always lead me to wonder why I bothered having them at all! So, I take these things with a grain of salt. They are usually not as dramatic as the dream implies. The unconscious does this to scare us into remembering the dream. It exaggerates, uses a bit of hyperbole, kind of like Sarah Palin.

So don’t fret too much just yet.

MALAYALI

A South Indian… hello, Denis Siegel sir… I’m a stock market trader… lost a lot… still trading… what to do ??? Please guide me sir…

Hello Malayali,

I feel tremendous empathy. It’s a scary unpredictable time. Please post some specific questions about specific stocks or markets and I’ll do my best to answer you. (By the way I’m a woman.)

Nitin

Hi Denise,

thank you so much for answering my question on the problems faced by Qantas and also on the likelihood if we ever gonna witness a cure for aids. You also asked for the date of incorporation of Qantas which is 16 November 1920. I am very concerned in regards top their safety as 3 days ago a third incident occured midair on a qantas flight. A boeing 747 lost all radar and had to actually follow another boeing around the area to Auckland (new zealand) to land. I have that weird feeling that something will happened. i just dont wish so..Just to mention that Qantas is the safest airline in the world with not a single plane crash.

Now coming to the US elections, i sincerely hoppe Obama wins and the world economies and world peace becomes better. I spoke to one Psychic in Perth, I cant mention name and she said US might experience future terorist attacks on quite a massive scale, i.e meaning attacks happeneing simulataneously at probable 3 to 4 locations.. Have you seen anything like that?? All i can wish is that we dont get another 9/11 in YSa or anywhere in the world.

God bless u

Regards

Hello Nintin,

I ran the chart based on the info you gave. I don’t know what city the company started from or what time of day they officially started but here’s a basic solar chart, not as accurate but still helpful:

Basically, it looks like Neptune is going through the company’s solar 3rd house which would be travel and the lower mind. This would make for all kinds of communication problems and near misses. It has been making a square to the company’s Sun and Mercury and an inconjunction to the natal Saturn, meaning there are structural problems, communication problems and the general health of the company isn’t so great. Perhaps they have cut back (financially) and because of this are seeing technical problems because they don’t have the right equipment or are not responsibly fixing their equipment because they don’t want to spend the money. 

Now, Uranus which rules accidents, right now is at 19 Pisces. It is transiting through the company’s 4th house, again implying restructuring or moving headquarters sort of out of the blue. But Uranus is making some very good aspects to the chart which is why these have been near misses and not actual accidents. Uranus is trining (loosely) the company’s sun and mercury giving protection in a way from an accident and sextiling the company’s Moon and Mars, again positive aspects here. 

You are right to be concerned as coming up Uranus retrogrades (moves backward) and then forward toward an opposition to the company’s Saturn and natal Jupiter. This will happen in January and again in March, but there is still a lot of protective aspects going on, so there maybe more near misses. But Neptune will be moving out of the company’s 3rd house in late January (solar chart so this maybe off a bit) and this confusion should get better.You may also see the company let go of a bunch of their staff and move their corporate offices around the same time.

I understand you are worried. And without having the exact time and everything I can’t be as certain as I normally would be, however, it does look like despite all the near misses, Qantas will be OK. However, if you have a feeling or some instinct, don’t trust what I am saying. Always trust yourself! If you have a bad feeling or bad dream or anything, it is always better to be safe then sorry. Tell your loved one, and if they have to call in sick or take some time off or find another job, even if nothing happens. So what?!? Life is too precious not to trust your hunches. It is always the right thing to do. Always trust your gut! You are much closer to this situation then I.

Best wishes to you.

grace43

I so enjoy your blog and appreciate all you do for people spreading hope. My question is:

Will the Congress ever pass legislation to give pre Sept. 11th vets the same expanded benefits that the post Sept. 11th vets receive? Or will we all be mostly dead before that happens? (Congress’s typical treatment of veterans.) We’ve been waiting a long time only to be told to wait longer or we aren’t the same caliber of veteran as the post Sept 11th vets. (Former Sen. Bob Dole actually said this and called them the “New Greatest Generation”. ) As you can imagine, it is causing a bit of a rift between veterans.

I have great hope in Obama, because of his record on veterans’ issues. That’s why I voted for him.

Thank you and Happy Halloween! I hope it was a good one for you. (You could sure tell times are hard in my area. Barely anyone was handing out candy in our neighborhood and only a few kids were trick or treating.)

Hi Grace,

This is horrible and really sad. Both the veterans issues and the fact that candy was scarce. It’s so upsetting the mess we are in.

I asked the cards your question: Would Congress ever legislation to give pre Sept. 11th vets the same expanded benefits that the post Sept. 11th vets receive?

The answer: Yes.

It looks like there has been a lot of hard work and sacrifice here. And it will pay off. But there will be some hard feelings left behind and even a feeling of being cheated, betrayed by the government. It will eventually pass. But this bitterness will go on for a little while because some will have lost hope in the government, sort of like when your lover cheats on you and you have trouble trusting him/her again. But ultimately it will be a great victory.

A final comment:

So I had to ask if the tower card kept coming up because of election malfiescence and the cards answer:

Yes. 

Up to the old dirty tricks and intimidation. It’s disgusting.

We once were a democracy. What happened? Our forefathers and foremothers fought to break away from England. And then we split in half and fought each other to give people of all colors the right to vote. The suffregists braved the elements and the attacks against them to give women the right to vote.

All of our ancestors have fought to give us the privelages we took for granted. And then we became complacent, let Republicans steal 2 elections in a row. Not a peep from us. Not a peep. We let them have a coo. Not a peep.

Well, we are Americans and Americans will fight for freedom. If there is anything more sacred to freedom then voting I can’t think of it. If we see more of these dirty tactics we are going to see an anger rear its head in this country, so hard and loud, it will shake the tile off the Supreme Court’s roof. We may have a minor civil war here.

Let’s us, on the left, reclaim the word patriot. Because we are the true patriots. We are the people who live up to our forebears vision of this country. We are the people who believe in paying taxes to make our government strong. We believe jobs shouldn’t be shipped overseas, that Americans should come first when it comes to American companies. We should take care of our own. Not just follow our nose to where the most money can be made (China, India, etc.)

We are a melting pot, but all of us have one thing in common, we all come from strong people who braved tremendous odds to give their children and ultimately us, freedom and the ability to be whoever we need or want to be, to rise to whatever level we can or choose to rise to.

We have let a group of very wealthy plutocrats steal this from us. They have been doing this while selling us on sympathy for the devil (them), maybe someday we’d grow up to be devils, too (Joe the plumber). They have taken away everything while throwing us some bread crumbs, and brain washed us into fearing and hating one another. Divide and conquer. They have used it and won. But not anymore. Not now. We are done taking it.

We woke up and we are ready to change for the better! And those who don’t want to can feel free to sleep on the side lines of history.

Best wishes and blessings to all!

Alaska, It’s Giving Me the Creeps!

OK, I have had way too many dreams about Alaska as of late. I had three within the past 5 days or so. The one I had last week was sort of a best of, recap of dreams I had forgotten about. And once I had this dream I began remembering some of the dreams that came during the summer. There was nothing specific about them but just a vague creepiness, going up to Alaska for a vacation and something being wrong, visiting in-laws up there and getting a bad feeling. Stuff like that.

I have been meditating all day on what all of this means. I’m going to float out something that may seem very bizarre, perhaps even unbelievable. I told my husband the interpretation of all the signs, signals and feelings I was getting and he felt it was too illogical and started doing some research. I told him in one of the dreams, what I am about to tell you, was sort of a ground rumor that many Alaskan’s were aware of but unless you were local, would never have heard of.

In my husband’s search on the web, finding articles (and as it turned out much to his chagrin, suggested I might actually be onto something) I decided to do a chart of the election. Since Alaska is the furthest western point in the US, and the polls will close last there, I wanted a city to input from the Aluetian Islands, so I ended up looking at pictures and maps of Alaska and I literally got the chills. 

Here’s the thing. I’m starting to wonder if there isn’t a nefarious plot against the US being hatched there, one related to Russia. At first this seems completely ridiculous, but the more one thinks about it and does research the less odd it seems. It turns out that the Alaskan Independent Party is very anti-american, we knew that, we also knew Todd Palin was an active member of this party until about 2000 when his wife ran for mayor. She has given key note speeches at their conventions and tried to appoint members to positions in the local government of Wasala when she was mayor. But whatever, right? 

Well, they made a bid to the UN to try to become an independent state and were sponsored by Iran. OK, that’s kind of weird. And Putin is a big supporter of AIP and so is Russia. As it turns out Alaska was part of Russia (I didn’t know this being from the lower 48, or if I did I didn’t remember it) and there has been talk that Putin is interested in re-acquiring Alaska for Russia because of its natural oil and gas reserves. This is part of why (recalling back about a year or more ago) a Russian submarine placed a Russian flag on the bottom of the ocean under the melting ice caps. They were there laying claim, to the north pole. This was supposedly because Putin was and is angry about the purchase our government made to buy Alaska from the Russian Emperor Alexander II back in the 1867 before the Russian Revolution when they became a communist country. 

Now the feeling I have gotten is that there is a bridge between AIP and Russia. I get a strong feeling that AIP is not just a group of guys going drinking and talking crap. I get a feeling they are seriously acting on succession and are (and I don’t say this lightly) either now or in the future, trading arms (even perhaps nuclear) in exchange for oil and gas. AIP are using the pretty somewhat dimwitted beard, Sarah as slight of hand to get closer to the reigns of power, perhaps even get inside information to give to the Russians in exchange for their support to succeed. I am talking really, serious treason here. This is the feeling I get. I hope this is not the case. I hope the creepy dreams and weird feelings go away, but I am very worried. I have been meaning to look into Putin and what has been going on in Russia for awhile now because I feel them ready to pounce, not just on Georgia which they already have, but I feel they are going to get even more aggressive because they know we can’t do anything about it.

OK, there I said it. It seems nuts. It’s out there. But my gut and dreams tell me, there is something nefarious afoot in Alaska. Maybe, and hopefully it isn’t this extreme, and I’m sure there would be Alaskan’s horrified by this idea, just as much as any other American. But there is something very wrong. I don’t think Palin is directly involved at least not in a way that she understands, although I do think she is indirectly connected. I do feel her husband knows and maybe himself involved in this.

And I want to share this readers comment:

 

hopeandaplan

Hey Denise, I had a weird dream about Alaska about two weeks ago, of course I cant remember it but I did tell my husband something was going on up there. It seems obvious that I would have a dream since Palin has entered the collective unconscious but I told my husband before Palin was picked that something significant was afoot about Alaska, that was days before Palin was chosen. My instinct from day one on Palin was that she had more to fear from the right than Democrats. Rove was pushing for Mitt Romney and I found it interesting that her handlers who called her, “Rogue” “Diva”and a “A Wacko” were all Romney operatives. At least that’s what I;ve read Romney dropped out of the Presidential race because he must have been promised the VP slot. He had just hired Cheney’s daughter as an advisor. This man would not have gone quietly particularly since he spent millions of his own money. Palin could come apart of her own arrogance but there are certainly enough powerful unscrupulous people she’s upset. Romney cant be the only person she’s upset in her illustrious career…

Answering Readers’ Questions…

karidad

I think the snake and eagle dream might be an ‘urban legend’ character to it. Here’s another site where virtually the same dream by a Christian evangelical (so without the native american inferences). Do what you will with it.

 

karidad

This eagle-snake dream was reported on October 2004. I found the site of Michael Boldea. Looks like an evangelist ministry called “Hand of Help” with a variety of ‘dreams and visions.’

Hi Karidad,

Thanks for the information. I’m sure you are right. I took the dream to be very much about the past. Which made me believe it was written post facto. Thanks for the clarification on it.

 

vishimi

male in india

birth date – 29/11/1972
time – 12:30:00 PM
place, pune, india

question is
will i succeed in politics? when?

Hi Vishimi,

I do private readings, but not on the blog. Wish you well.

Sinead

I ammm sooo EXCITED for tomorrow. Zoma777 can you tell us if you think we will find out the results tomorrow night? Or will it be the next day? I am hoping that he wins on a landslide tomorrow…

VOTE!!!

So here’s a collection of posts about the election tomorrow. (It’s almost 3:00 Am PST so we haven’t started voting here yet.) Anything in italics is from a reader asking a question.

Here is the assemblage of earlier posts:

Posted on October 17:

 

Question 1: Will the 2008 Presidential election be stolen by fraud?

Thank God… Phew…

The answer: No

There will be attempts, but no.

Posted September 17:

My intuition has been telling me that if McCain were to win by some act of hell freezing over and pigs flying, we would go into a serious world wide Depression.

Posted October 6:

I asked the tarot if McCain would win the vote in Florida:

The answer:

No

Posted September 16 under the heading: The 2008 Presidential Election:

I was very worried about the election after the Palin bump and decided I really had to look at the astrology of the day of the election in comparison to all candidates involved. Well, phew, it was a relief. The only way McCain could win is, actually there really is no chance he can win this is also confirmed by Mrs. Palin’s chart which doesn’t look much better other than her laboring under a delusion. 

Posted November 2:

 

I am totally shocked about PA coming up in the cards as a win for McCain, and shocked about the win for Obama in Arizona…..Could you check Texas?????

The reason I am asking I am checking the polls everyday and there is a large turnout, expecially African -American and young people…..We have a senate race in Texas and alot of people are pulling for Noriega over John Coreign…Do you see Noriega closing the deal in Texas?

 I asked the cards if Obama/Biden would win Texas and oddly here is the answer:

Maybe.

It looks like they have some strong support but there are so many crazy lies and misinformation about Obama down there, it’s hard to erase all of it. Even though it looks like the Obama supporters have been working tirelessly to do so. It will be a lot closer than anyone things. And surprisingly it shows up as a maybe. So we’ll have to wait and see.

OK, since I did not ask last time if Obama would win PA but rather if McCain would lose PA. I asked it again of the cards.

Will Obama win PA on 11/4/08?

The answer:

Again a maybe with the tower reversed in the center. The moon card, stuff going on behind the scenes. I take this to be that there is some serious maleficence going on in PA. Voter fraud? Or perhaps voters being scared by McCain’s recent trip there into changing their minds. But Obama has great support. And since McCain had a definite no.

I’m going to say PA will have some weird stuff happen. It is not going to be clear cut, and a winner may not be called right away. I think we will see shades of 2000 here. It may require a recount, and then Obama will be the winner even though by that point people will feel his win was shaky, which is why it always comes up as a maybe.

 

 

 

Posted on October 30:

Can you tell me more about Philadelphia and PA regarding Obama?

OK, let’s ask the cards again about PA. Which came up as a maybe last time. Perhaps with the ad and a few days closer to the race the Collective Unconscious of PA will be decided.

Will Obama/Biden win the state of PA?

Well, the cards are now saying: No

I don’t completely understand it because it looks like there are tremendous economic problems in this state according to the cards. But there is also a lot of fear and distrust of Obama. This is going to be an upset. The tower card comes up reversed, never a good sign. I’ve been seeing this a lot in the cards. I saw this card come up a bunch before 9/11. In this case it looks like Palin has scared a lot of voters away from Obama. She is the centerpiece here of the reading, and it looks like she’s appealing to the fear and xenophobia. There will be some very strong supporters working to turn it around, but right now it looks like PA will not go to Obama. Even among Obama supporters there has been a walking away. I don’t know why. I could speculate, but I’m going to leave it here for now and maybe re-visit this issue in a few days. I’m very surprised to see this, I was just watching the news, and they predicted a solid win for Obama in PA. Odd.

Posted october 29:

 

Hi Denise: I’m really curious as to whether Obama will win Arizona and Alaska, the McCain and Palin home states. Do you see Obama turning those states blue? Thanks!

Will Obama win Arizona? 

The cards say: Yes. But I find it hard to believe as this is McCain’s home state and traditionally red. But according to the cards, it’s a pretty strong yes. It looks like it could be because of the hispanic vote which is really going for Obama. And McCain is seen as married to the establishment, also to the problems going on in the world right now and the Bush administration.

Will Obama win Alaska?

They don’t trust Obama.

Posted October 27:

 

Thank you in advance for answering my question. Your time and energy is much appreciated.

Will Obama/Biden win PA, OH, FL, NC, CO, NV, VA and IN?

Will they have a lanslide victory?

Thank you

Will Obama/Biden win PA?

The tarot’s answer: Maybe

I’m getting the feeling there will be some Republican dirty tricks. I have a feeling it has something to do with Sarah Palin. When I asked the question, she popped into my head and she shows up in the cards along with the devil card. So it seems she’s going to try and scare the you know what out of the people of that state in the coming week. There is going to be some serious confusion. But I saw the state turn blue on the map. So I feel that this state will go to Obama, but there will be some strange stuff happening here. It may not be cut and dried right away.

Will Obama/Biden win OH?

The tarot’s answer:

Yes. It will be by a much bigger margin then expected. A lot of women are going to go out and vote, and I don’t mean the Sarah Palin types. Also young people, more then expected.

Will Obama/Biden win FL?

Wow! According to the cards, Yes.

And it will be a huge upset to the Republican establishment there. It looks like there is a major change going on down there, and again, young people and the message of change, hope and a new beginning for the country is going to play very well. There is a possibility of a crisis down there that could give the lead to Obama/Biden. The tower card comes up. It may very well be another economic hit that gets the elderly people living off their retirement funds very nervous, nervous enough to go for the guy who has a plan and won’t gamble their social security in the stock market. Also the issue of health care with this economic tsunami, may have the elderly feeling they need to vote Obama/Biden.

Will Obama/Biden win CO?

The tarot says: No

I immediately had the feeling that there is a tremendous amount of racism at play in this particular area. Unfortunately, there is too much confusion about who Obama is, the belief he’s a Muslim and all that crazy right wing stuff, has a much greater foot hold in this state. Why? I don’t know. But Obama/Biden will have supporters and not loose by an overwhelming amount.

Will Obama/Biden win NV?

The cards say: Yes

They literally jumped out of the deck. But my instincts feel this will be more of a reactive vote against McCain then for Obama/Biden. The economy is the main focus here, and a feeling that McCain’s pick of Sarah Palin was such a disaster there isn’t any trust for his judgement in solving the economic problems. 

Will Obama/Biden win VA?

I got a very odd answer. The tower came up, just as it did for Florida. Again election tampering (fraud, suppression) but in this case it looks like it won’t be clear who won the state for a little while. It looks like a court case may come out of this. And ultimately Obama/Biden will win. But chances are it will go to court first and we might not know who won the state right away.

Will Obama/Biden win IN?

The tarot says: Yes

Will Obama/Biden win North Carolina?

No. 

Will Obama/Biden win by a landslide?

Yes.

But not as big as some would think. It maybe a bit of a nail biter. Obama is so far ahead in the polls but because of voter suppression and other dirty tricks it may not look like as big of a landslide as it actually is. Some of the same old 2000 & 2004 tricks will be tried, but this time it will not effect the final outcome. In fact I think we’ll see future laws put into place because of these same Republican dirty tricks being used again and this time the tricks will be exposed and Democrats will be in the majority. 

The next question comes from me. 

Will the Democrats win the 60 needed seats to have a true majority?

And the answer:

Just barely. But Yes. It will probably be exactly 60 or just over it.

Blessing to all!

And don’t forget to VOTE!!!!

 

 

 

 

DDUSA
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You may already have this but found Cindy McCain birthday May 20, 1954.

Wyntyr

Hi Denise!
I hope that you had a Happy Halloween and a good weekend! I looked up Cindy McCain’s birthday. Her full name is Cindy Lou Hensley McCain and her DOB is 5/20/1954. I haven’t found her birth ‘time’.  I know John McCain would definately not be where he is today without her ‘money’ as she is quite wealthy. Remember McCain couldn’t even remember how many houses they own? lol On a personal level, she gives me bad vibes. Kind of like Palin. lol  I think it’s about ‘ego’ with the McCain’s (getting into the White House) and Palin and not about Country First. I know I may get flamed for that but thats what I intuitively pick up. 

OK In answer to the Cindy McCain question. We don’t have to worry. She doesn’t have good aspects that day either. Actually they are OK for her but bad for her husband. We may see more of her in the coming years then him. But again, this is only a solar chart. I couldn’t find a time of birth. Here is a sampling of Obama, the McCains and the Election chart:

OK, I wish all of you well. Here are some questions I will get to tomorrow.

DDUSA

Denise,
Your prediction for Ohio may be correct as to the high voter turnout. The temperature is suppose to be close to 70 degrees tomorrow–Will that help with the turn out?

Will the corruption from the Bush/Cheney administration be exposed?

MALAYALI

Are you sure ???? Oh ! my God. Are you sure ??? December 21th / 22nd… Mid-late December 2008. Are you that much sure ??? Expecting your valuable reply…. MALAYALI

MALAYALI

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tckal

Hi Denise:

I’m very curious about something and was wondering what your thoughts are about this. Have you ever heard of a clairvoyant from Bulgaria called Vanga? She is deceased now but from what I read about her, they say she was very accurate about a lot of her predictions. I read some of the ones that are yet to happen and am a little concerned. Do you see some of the same predictions? Here are 2 sites with information on her and her predictions, in case you are not familiar with her. Thanks!

Congratulations to President Barack Obama!!!

Hey everyone, this has been a very emotional day for everyone around the world. We’ve seen the promise of the 60s civil rights movement come full circle and the promise of the American Dream restored! This also bodes well for our economy. John McCain’s chart interacted very badly with the Dow Jones, and as we saw him ahead in the polls by 12 points, the Dow plummeted. This may seem coincidental, but it is actually karmic. 

I just want to let you all know that while we are in for some strange economic times ahead, the karma of the Dow, in this current time stream, with Obama as president will be lessoned greatly. I’m going to look at his chart and compare it to the Dow Jones and NASDAQ and do an update about how this new energy will change the economic future of the world. And trust me it will.

This brings me to a point I really feel needs to be made. Some of you have mentioned other psychics, with predictions that stretch 30 or more years into the future — some have asked me to tell me your future. I want to explain something that often is confusing. It is why no psychic can ever be 100% accurate and why if you see a scary prophecy, take it as a warning rather than as an absolute. You have the power to change your life and we, collectively, have the power to change the future. 

Time and fate are not fixed. We have free will and our actions, decisions and lessons change the flow of time. There are multiple futures, Einstein talked about this. And it’s true. We have the power to change our lives and the world, but it requires effort. The reason precognitive people can see the future at all, is because most of us are lazy, and once walking down a path are very likely to continue on it. This is a readable time stream. But there is always the opportunity for growth and leaps. We are here to learn.

It is my belief (based on what the spirit world has shown me) that we come back, many times. Our body is temporary, but our soul is immortal. This is how our universe works, we are a microcosm of it. Our universe is binary, divided in halves, chaos and order, light and dark, forward and backward, good and evil, greed and sacrifice, male and female, mortal and immortal. We are all things. We embody all possiblities. We are both good and evil, male and female, greedy and self-sacrificing. Every day we make choices about the path we want to walk. Will it be toward the Oneness of Creation? Or toward the Darkness of Selfishness? Oneness comes through the bright side of ourselves and evolves us — the other path devolves us. We always have that choice, this is what free will is all about.

You will notice that the further into the future a psychic predicts, the more metaphor and nebulous wording they will use. This is because there are too many decisions yet to be made to truly predict with certainty what will take place 30 or a 100 years ahead. They maybe able to see that if the Collective Unconscious stays on the path it is on, 30 years in the future so and so event is likely to occur, but a lot happens in 30 years. A lot of new energy in the form of new people incarnating and the chances of the Collective Unconscious staying the same is very remote; which is why most far future predictions are not usually accurate. Not to say that the person who makes them isn’t extremely gifted and perhaps amazingly accurate in general about the immediate future, just the far future is not really a readable time stream. There are too many variables. 

Now you’re saying, but Denise, what about Nostradamus? He was accurate far into the future.

Well, he actually wasn’t reading that far into the future (according to him, his readings were mostly about his time period) and he put his prophecy into quatrains so they have to be interpreted. Now if you take any prophecy written in verse that can be molded to fit any situation and then have an endless amount of time for it to come true… need I say more? It’s like that old thought experiment the “infinite monkey theorem” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem
Psychics and prophecy can be fun and entertaining, even enlightening, but we all have to take it with a grain of salt. No psychic is omniscient. And a lot of psychics prophecy scary things to get attention, to get noticed. Of course there are scary things in this world, but unless a psychic shows a proven record of being accurate, one should be skeptical. Even if a psychic does show a record of being accurate, skepticisim is required. Because no psychic is ever right 100% of the time! Basically, don’t substitute a psychic premonition or prediction for your own judgment.

I went through my list of predictions about the election and I was mostly right, but I got Arizona and Colorado wrong. Colorado went blue and Arizona red which makes more sense. Also I’m not sure if Prop 8 will pass or not, it looks like it might. And the cards said it would be defeated. So, there you go. If I were to grade my predictions so far on the blog, I’d say B+ or A- but it’s not perfect. And that’s the way it is with psychics.

We have our own logic to contend with (which distorts psychic information) our own bias, and desire, and it gets in the way of reading sometimes. For example I am very pro marriage for everyone. I have personally performed marriages for many gay and straight couples (I’m a licensed minister) and believe all people should have the right to have a family, a partner and love whomever they love. I believe people come in all varieties for a reason, and its not our place to judge or decide who has rights and who doesn’t. We all should have the same rights, be equal under the law, as we are equal in the eyes of the Creator. So that could be why I got the prediction about prop 8 wrong (as I’m writing this it’s still to close to call, but is leaning toward overturning gay marriage here in CA). This is because I’m human. And my feeling is passionate about this issue and potentially got in the way of my ability to be read the issue properly.

I was so proud of CA when we passed the law allowing gay people the right to vote, and so hopeful that I guess I didn’t want to feel the disgusting back lash of judgmental busy bodies who scared voters into repealing the law. Now hopefully this won’t happen. The cards said it would be narrowly defeated, and this is still possible. I’m crossing my fingers. But also the vote Yes on 8 people assaulted the air waves the last couple of days and confused people. I have a gay friend who told me to vote Yes on 8 because he was so confused because the amendment is a double negative sort of thing. Anyway, enough about that.

I just want to thank all of you for participating in this historic day and for doing your part in making the world a better place. For changing the time stream from an oncoming Depression and WWIII to a period of struggle that could ultimately unite humanity and heal our world.

I am proud of America today. We rose to our greater good. We stepped out of the shadow self of greed and chose to see beyond color to the goodness, inspiration and hope Barack Obama engenders.

Pat yourself on the back. You deserve it!

Many blessing to all of you.

(I will answer readers questions again tomorrow. Sorry, it’s been a long emotional day. So if you have posted a question check the blog tomorrow for an answer.)

The Stock Market And How it Interacts With Our New President Elect

Hi Everyone, I just want to thank all of you for the kind words and support. And for your genuine compassion and hard work in turning this time stream toward a hopeful and positive future. I’m not saying we won’t have to pay for the trudge through the mud of the last 8 years, but our choice now will greatly help not just the US, people of all races, ethnicity’s, women, and men, but also the world as we are all more interlinked now then we have ever been. 

That being said we are going to have some crazy times ahead. And I will try to help navigate the waters ahead as best I can. As I mentioned before the stock market and the global economy is going to go through a very tough period. And remember Barack Obama is President elect, his energy is not yet attached to the karma of our country until inauguration day when he takes power. So we are going to see the Bush continium until the end of January. And Pluto goes over the Dow’s first house starting late December until late January. We will start to see some very odd stuff. Perhaps the reality of the economy will depress sales at Christmastime and further contribute to the Dow, and the rest of the world’s financial crisis come January. This aspect is exact until about January 22. I think inauguration day is the 24th, so perhaps the new energy of Obama/Biden taking office will bring some hope to the market, and the worst will be over for awhile.

However, in August of 09 Pluto will again go over the Dow’s first house as it retrogrades, and hopefully we will see our government use this energy in a positive way to put in place new regulations in an effort to restructure rather then the other alternative, another plummet. I’m going to be optimistic right now, and say this will be the start of a major restructuring of the global economy, and it will start here at home with the way America does business. Now we could also see the market react negatively to this, as we all know many investors don’t like changes, restructuring or regulation much. But it will be necessary and ultimately to the world economy’s advantage. If we don’t restructure, it will get very bad.

But, I do believe President elect Obama will make this a top priority in his administration. And I’ll let you know what I think will happen to the economy. I was going to answer a bunch of questions tonight, but I have been swamped the last few days, and will do so again tomorrow. So keep asking questions! This makes my job a lot easier. And a lot more interesting.

I decided tonight it was best to focus on the economy because I’m sure people are getting nervous about the market again now that the election is over. I’ve also gotten a plethora of questions about this issue, all of which I haven’t had time to address, but will over the next few days. I was too busy with the election to help those dealing with the economic crisis first hand.

So here are the charts of the DOW, NASDAQ, President elect Obama and VP elect Biden:

There is something very remarkable here! As bad as John McCain’s chart’s interaction was with the Dow, the opposite is true of President elect Obama. The Dow’s 8th house is Leo, this represents the investors/speculators. Obama has a stellium in Leo arcing over this house and into the 9th and he actually has Venus (a very beneficial planet that rules money) making an exact aspect to the Dow’s Moon which will be set off by Pluto. This aspect will literally soften the effect of the crisis. With Obama’s Venus being in the Dow’s 6th house there will be work done to the Dow (it will conjunct Uranus and make the opposition to the 1st and Moon which is where the Pluto transit is going to be) but with it being Venus, he will actually help stabilize the economy despite the volatility we will continue to see.

Also with his Sun conjunct the Dow’s 8th house, there will be a lot of people making money in the market. He also has Chiron in the Dow’s 8th which means he will help heal the situation for investors. Obama’s Saturn in the Dow’s 1st house means he will bring strict rules and regulations and order to the market. And his Jupiter (in Aquarius) is also in the 1st, showing he will expand the market in technology and attract more foreign investors in our companies. Perhaps even expanding the way our market is viewed in the world. This same Jupiter conjuncts the Dow’s Part of Fortune in the first, again, he will help bring a renewed prosperity.

OK I need to turn in for the night.  But let me say, that seriously the US really made the right decision here, for so many reasons! Not just because Obama is graceful, insightful, intelligent and compassionate, or because he’s broken barriers, but because he is going to do amazing things. He is going to turn this country around for the better in so many ways. And one of them will be fixing this economic crisis. Obama will show himself to embody qualities of FDR, Lincoln and already we’ve seen the parallel’s to Kennedy.

He will be a great president.

Congratulations to all of us!

Answering Readers’ Questions…

Hi Everyone! Back to answering questions! So keep asking. Hope you all are well.

The first question comes from Sinead/Jenn:

 

Sinead

Hi Denise:

Can you see if Al Gore & Howard Dean would have a role with his administration too? Environment and 50 state strategy?

I am proud to be an American…

Thanks again,
Jenn

Hi Jenn I asked the tarot if Al Gore will be offered a cabinet position in the Obama administration.

The answer: Yes. Very strong yes.

However at the center is the 9 of swords and also the 7 of swords and 6 of swords. While it looks like there is great admiration on both sides, with the ace of cups and Gore and Obama both respect each other greatly as leaders, I don’t think Al Gore is all that interested in a permanent position in the government. He has anxiety about it for some reason, and perhaps feels it would be too much stress on him, and his family at this point in his life to take such a position. But I do feel Obama will use his expertise to help and Gore will be an important consultant. Basically Gore will be offered a position, but chances are good he won’t want to take it.

The tarot says:

No, to a cabinet position being offered to Howard Dean. Not that he won’t be involved on some issues, he just won’t be offered this kind of position in the new Obama/Biden administration.

 

carolina

What about GE? Good time to sell?

The sooner the better.

I’m assuming here you meant General Electric. So I ran the chart. Transiting Neptune in Aquarius is conjunction the company’s part of fortune in the 8th. Meaning there is loss of money to the shareholders, presently. Pluto is currently transiting the company’s 12th house, meaning there is some major transformation happening behind the scenes. Stuff that won’t come out until years from now.

Also the company is coming upon a Saturn return. Right now transiting Saturn is going through the 4th house and has been since October, again a restructuring aspect. And a time to reap what has been sown, in terms of the Saturn return. Saturn will pass back and forth over the natal Saturn over the coming year. This is often a time of reckoning. Not usually something people or companies look forward to.

That being said, GE will not see the same immediate devastation that the stock market faces, until a bit later when transiting Pluto will go over the company’s 7th house cusp and oppose the first house. This will probably cause the company to partner up with another company to save itself. Some sort of major merger in order to avoid calamity. This will happen in the spring of 2012, but there will be rumblings about it for awhile before it happens. 

I’d have to say with Saturn ruling the company’s 8th house, it’s not a good time for those who have invested in GE! Normally this makes the company very slow, steady with time, evening out any fluctuations. But with a Saturn return this coming year, and the state of the stock market there is likely to be trouble with this stock over the next few years, and I can’t honestly say there is a good time to get out, other than doing so before Saturn returns next spring.

This company naturally hides a lot with so much in the 12th house. I’d say this stock has awhile before it really bottoms out though. So its best to use your intuition, and get out before next spring. The trouble this company will experience over the next 4 years is big. And unless you are one of those people who makes money on the loss of the value of a stock, then its best to get out. I would do it as soon as possible before the major crash coming at the end of December and into January of next year.

But you have a bit of time. This stock will of course go nuts like everything else when the huge stock market crash we are beginning to feel, really crescendos. But this stock should even out a bit in February before trouble comes again in spring. Hope that helps.

 

barry

I heard the presidential inauguration happens during the moon being void of course and that this was very important. Any comments?

You know. I’ve heard a lot of astrologers over the years freak out over the moon being void-of- course. It means the moon is not making any applying aspects to anything, and is kind of hanging out there on its own. But, I personally haven’t found the moon void-of-course to be that major of an occurrence. It happens every few days, and usually doesn’t last more than a couple of hours at the very most.

Also many astrologers feel aspects are only applicable to applying aspects, meaning when a faster moving planet is headed toward an exact aspect with another slower moving planet. Again I have found aspects can be very powerful even if they are waning, sometimes more powerful. So, I don’t usually get all worked up about the void-of-course moon. I’d prefer to run a chart, and look at the period of time in its context. That tells me a lot more.

Do you happen to know what time the inauguration will take place? I would love to run a chart of it. It will tell us a lot about the shape of Obama’s administration.

 

Stocer

Hi Denise,

Thanks for providing a wonderful site. I’m a regular visitor.

I wanted to get your opinion on the following Stock. Ticker Symbols are as follows:

1) AAPL
2) AGU
3) BCSI
4) BRK.B
5) DRYS
6) GROW
7) POT

I would appreciate it if you can provide certain insight whether these are to be held or sold? Especially, when you mentioned that time after Dec 15th isn’t good for the market.

I’ll check here on your site to see your observations.

As always, thanks very much for your feedback.

God Bless.
St

Hi Stocer,

I always have trouble with the symbols, it takes awhile to track down the names of the company and sometimes they are so close, I’m not sure I have the right one, etc. Could you post the names of each company? I will look in my database and run the charts, post them and give an evaluation. 

curious123 mulcena@yahoo.com | 72.185.139.211 Hello, Got a few questions… 1. Will President Obama finish his 4 years…a psyhic predicted that he will not finish the 4 years and will be force to leave after 2 years and Biden will take over?!? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dnv8f5qnZbI 2. Is this the case? Will he have honest enough people around him? Are people putting a lot of hope in him and be greatly disappointed? I hope people understand that this is a real mess that Bush is leaving. The pressure should be realistic. He is not God…maybe…lol. I’m asking these questions but might be afraid of the answers. thanks again! Hi Curious, I didn’t have a chance yet to look at the link you sent but will tomorrow. From an astrological standpoint he has a lot of protection around him. Now there is one potentially dangerous aspect to him in 2010-2011, Neptune will be making an opposition to his Sun from the first house. However, Jupiter is right next to it, meaning as long as he takes proper precautions and is careful he will be OK. Other than that he really is protected and he’s a very smart man. I can see him being president for more than one term. And from his chart he would have a much better chance of having something bad happen during his second term, perhaps because he will be a much loved president and hopefully, he won’t do this, but he might let his guard down. There are some much worse aspects for an attempted assassination in his second term then even in his first. I won’t go into that now because its far in the future and if I start having dreams or get a horrible feeling I’ll do everything I can to get word to him through whatever means. For now I feel he is going to be safe if he remains vigilant. In terms of being forced out. I don’t see that at all. I feel that’s really off base.  Thanks to all of you out there! Wishing you all well. You are such an interesting, smart, diverse group of people. It’s a pleasure fielding your questions. And I must add, all the people I’ve done private readings through this blog have been really remarkable, intelligent, kind hearted and spiritual people. I feel blessed to be in communication with such a great group of souls. Best wishes and blessing to all of you, Denise

Meditation, Chakras, and Aura-Soma

We are going through some turbulent times and this can reek havoc on our psyches. So besides meditation, I found (when I was going through a very emotionally turbulent time in my life) this system called Aura-Soma. 

I’ll explain. Our etheric bodies are a rainbow of colors, starting at the base of the spine with a red chakra, the next over the sexual organs is orange. Over the solar plexus is a yellow chakra which controls our will. Our heart chakra is green, our throat chakra is blue. And there is a chakra over our third eye which is indigo and finally at the top of our heads, the part of us that is connected to all and the universe is violet. The chakras are not to be confused with our auras which are different but kind of related, that’s another post. I want to deal with the chakras because many of us carry around stuff inside them that blocks our progress, intuition, happiness, and our ability to manifest our dreams. 

As evidence of how chakra’s work let me give you a very solid example that anyone can relate to. Remember back to a betrayal. Didn’t it literally feel like you had been stabbed in the heart? If the betrayal was bad enough, it can actually physically hurt. As a matter of fact there is scientific evidence and an actual medical term for people who have heart attacks after tremendous loss or betrayal. The heart chakra is often the one we feel the most. Like the opening up of our heart when we see our baby for the first time, or fall in love. This is the heart chakra. So you see, it often stores pain as well that needs to be cleared out in order to move on to the next level or lesson in our lives. 

I’m not going to bore everyone with a long drawn out explanation of how the chakras work, but I am going to recommend for anyone in need of a clearing, anyone feeling depressed, anxious, worried, etc. a couple of things. One meditation on your own chakras, aligning them and clearing them. The best book I have found for this is: Wheels of Life: A User’s Guide to the Chakra System (Llewellyn’s New Age Series)
Wheels of Life: A User’s Guide to the Chakra System (Llewellyn’s New Age Series)
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And a product that will help you accomplish this more easily called Aura-Soma. It’s a long and interesting story. I’ll let you look into it. But basically these oils or water based colored perfumes are prayed over, and utilize herbs, precious gems and color therapy. I found them to be amazingly helpful, really, I noticed a huge difference immediately when I was distraught. I don’t use them much now because I’m not in that state of mind, but when I do get upset I still break them out and notice a big difference in how I feel. For me the water based tinctures were much more helpful then the double colored oil based ones which work more on the emotional body. If you are a sensitive you will probably be like me and need the other type which works more from the spiritual toward the body rather then the way the oils work which is from the body outward toward the spirit. Or if you have a lot of earth in your chart you will probably find the oils to work better. For most people the oils are recommended.

Here’s a link to the book I have on Aura-Soma:
Aura-Soma: Healing Through Color, Plants, and Crystal Energy
Aura-Soma: Healing Through Color, Plants, and Crystal Energy

Answering Readers’ Questions… (And Alaska!)

OK, I had a bunch of bad, creepy dreams about Alaska. I posted what I thought they meant. I’m not saying it wasn’t one manifestation of those creepy dreams, but it looks like something very fishy did indeed go on up there! It’s just coming out now. I’ll be curious to see how this situation unravels.

tckal

Hi Denise: Many Republicans want Sarah Palin to run for president in 2012. I think you had mentioned that she will be impeached. When will this happen and will the republicans change their minds afterwards? Thanks

Hi Tckal,

We are just starting to see the skeletons shake loose from her closet. In the post where I mentioned there being a very good chance she might be impeached as governor, I also talked about how there was a mess of ugly stuff being hidden about Palin. 

I asked the tarot if she would be impeached:

It says: Maybe. 

She has a lot of enemies as I said in that prior post, and at the center of all this is gossip. The impeachment energy could be her ousting from the political arena once she’s served her term as governor never to be seen or heard from again. There is a lot of dirt on this woman. It isn’t over yet! The cards basically say, she may manage to keep her job as governor, but it won’t matter because her political career will be ruined by the end of her term.

Also in that previous posting I remember she has some bad aspects to her 7th house, the house of open enemies and the public. I said she had a bunch of enemies, people who would try to destroy her. It looks like this might end up coming from the McCain camp! They’re calling her a Diva, a hillbilly and saying she didn’t know Africa is a continent. That is pretty nasty stuff.

sunbeyond

I have a couple of questions:
Did the stock market bottom out for the year of 2008 on oct 10th or will it find new lows as mentioned in the tsunami coming in December?
Also since this would be the worst recession in 100 years What year will the stock market bottom out at and what number should i be looking at on the DOW before all the damage is done?
thanks

Hi Sunbeyond:

No, the bottom hasn’t come yet. The aspect goes exact at the end of December and into January 21/22 of 2009, until about the time when Obama is inaugurated. Then the horrible aspect receeds, giving the market a bit of a break. But it will come and go over the next year. I will remind everyone when the next exact aspect is about to happen so those who want to get out can do so before there’s another major drop. Here are the dates for future reference: The aspect goes exact again on 6/21/09 or 6/22/09 until 8/5/09 or 8/6/09, then comes back again 10/18/09 or 10/19/09 until 11/24/09 or 11/25/09. After that we will go through some smaller crisis, but be out of the major storm. 

In essence what I’m saying is the market is going to be crazy volatile and require major restructuring for the next year. Obama’s chart does soften these aspects so believe it or not (and you won’t because its going to be bad) it would have been a million times worse with McCain’s chart interacting with the Dow. Obama will lesson the effect of this crazy market. Not that he can pull butterflies out of the air and walk on water, just that he will be able to get it under control, and steer it toward the restructuring side of these aspects rather than the death side of these aspects. 

Hope that helps.

Keep sending me questions. I am also going to start looking into foreign affairs so if anyone has a question in regards to that please post it!

Best wishes and blessings to all of you!

Answering Readers’ Questions…

Hi Everyone. I’m going to focus tonight on economic questions to try and give people a heads up before things go even more nuts. I will answer all other questions over the next couple of days.

The first is from Sallyy:

sallyy

Denise,

What do I/we need to know about holding on to/selling secure stocks such as Johnson & Johnson or A+ rated bank stocks of TriCounty Bank chartered on October 7, 1892 in Roachdale, IN

Hi Sallyy,

I ran a chart for both companies and will post them with analysis. BTW thank you for giving me the info on the inauguration time. I ran a chart for that and will post it tomorrow along with analysis.

And here is Johnson & Johnson, there are 2 charts one is when the company was founded, the other when it went public:

TriCounty bank looks stable. There really aren’t any problems here. They may run into some small problems in about 7 years or so, but it won’t be anything that will break them. This company will be remarkably stable throughout the crisis.

Now Johnson & Johnson: it makes it a little harder because they have 2 charts, but I’m going to focus primarily on the public chart since that would be the one investors like you have a stake in.

Pluto is going through the company’s 2nd house. So there will be some changes in the way they work, maybe shifting jobs overseas to make a greater profit, but this has already started happening. Considering how crazy the market is, this company will not see big losses for their stock holders until mid-January 2010 when transiting Pluto in the 2nd will square the company’s Neptune in the 11th. This will happen in mid-late January of 2010 until late February 2010 and then revisit this position from late mid-late May of 2010 the end of June 2010. It will again happen from late November 2010-late December 2010.  This will most likely trigger a restructuring of the company beginning in late February-early June 2011. This aspect will go back and forth that year as well, so it may take a few tries to get the leadership right. If you can hold onto this stock for a while it will do well. Its value will begin peaking in January of 2015. It will go up in value in spurts that year and then again peak in just as great, or better value for its stock holders beginning in 2019. Again it will go up and down, but do very well that year.

Carl

Hey there,

thanks so much for your insight.
Do you see the Gold Price go up in the next 3 month?

Jupiter will be conjuncting the Sun from about January 20-24. I would say during that time there should be a rise in its value as the sun rules Gold and Jupiter rules expansion and abundance. Really from about the 1/20/09-2/1/09 or there about, gold should have a spike in value.

northernlights2008

I think you’re right about Alaska. How else can the polls be off by as much as 20 points? Can you give some specifics about what might be “fishy.” You mentioned the Aleutian Chain in an earlier post and I know that the Ds down there about fell out of their chairs when the results came in. I’ve enjoyed reading your site; it has given me great comfort. Thanks

Hi Northernlights,

I haven’t had any more dreams about Alaska. But I did get from the dreams that there were a lot of people in Alaska who knew what was going on, and there were rumors going around about it. But those rumors hadn’t made it out to the public. I keep meditating on what all of it means. I feel there is something multi-layered happening here. 

Sarah Palin reminds me of an Aquarian woman (I’m also an Aquarian so it really bugs me to see a bad one) I once knew who was the president of the student body at my college. This woman was insecure and once she took the (teeny, tiny) reigns of power she went nuts, stealing money every which way she could from the Student Council fund. I knew she was up to something and ran for Treasurer the next year and uncovered her abuse.

She’d stolen thousands of dollars from a budget that wasn’t very big to begin with. And once confronted stepped down with her co-conspirator. But both of these women pretended to be very virtuous and righteous. Much like Sarah Palin. I have a feeling Sarah has a Denise who is about to bust her open. I think we are starting to see some of this coming from the McCain camp, but I have a feeling there is someone up there in Alaska who knows some very dark things about Palin and is quietly combing through the accounting and is about to burst onto the scene and get her.

I feel Palin is extremely corrupt. I wouldn’t doubt if the voting fraud had something to do with people directly involved with her or her husband. Her husband really creeps me out. There’s something sneaky about him. He never looked at the camera, it always looked like he was calculating something. He seemed up to something. There’s something wrong with that guy as much as there is with her.

patrick

If Palin runs for President in 2012, at least she has name recognition going for her… but that may not work in her favor

Patrick, I couldn’t agree more!

OK I will save these questions for tomorrow. I wanted to get to them tonight but didn’t get a chance:

 

tckal

Hi Denise: Thanks for answering my questions about Sarah Palin. Both Palin and McCain have said that they love and respect each other, is this really true or is their honeymoon over and they’re just putting on a show? Are the things that the McCain campaign aides are saying about her all true and she’s denying them because it’s embarassing to her? Also, about the dreams you’ve been having about Alaska, will the authorities or the CIA find out about this and will they be publicly exposed? Thanks

javahaaa

Back to money and such, could you run charts on Oil and Gold futures?

here are two ways to follow oil; they should have similar results :
NYMEX Crude Oil Futures started trading on 3/30/1983 on the New York Mercantile Exchange (also began on Chicago Board of Trade that day, but it no longer trades there), at either 9AM or 1030AM – prob 1030am. NYMEX symbol CL (not to be confused with the stock CL, trading on NYSE [ny stock exchange])

USO, United States Oil Fund, an exchange-traded fund, started trading 4/10/2006, NYSE, 930 AM

Similar two ways for gold, and they should look the same, too:
Commodities Exchange, Inc. (COMEX) Gold futures began trading at 1201AM on 12/31/1974, New York; COMEX and NYMEX merged in 1994 and the NYMEX symbol is GC

GLD, Spdr Gold Trust, an exchange-traded fund, began trading 11/18/2004 on the NYSE, 930AM.

I don’t know if this affects the chart, but any of these would have been “born” – created – before those dates, but the only thing that’s easily available is the day they began trading publicly.

javahaaa

Really enjoy your commentary, Denise! Do you see any recovery in the Dow or Nasdaq between now and when the tsunami begins late December? How much? Could you also run a chart for the S&P 500?

sallyy

Swearing in ceremony is: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 at 1:00 PM at U.S Capitol in Washington, DC

A

Hi,

Some random questions:

1) What do you think about Laura Bush?

2) Bush, Cheney, Karl Rove and many GOP’ers are praising Obama. Do you think this is genuine or they are just playing along?

3) Will India play a role in the Obama administration, especially with regards to Pakistan?

Thanks!

Best wishes to all of you and many blessings!

Denise

Kim Jong Il

I just wanted to draw attention to a post I wrote back on 9/24/08 about Kim Jong Il. It looked to me like he had passed over. It seems there is speculation about what’s going on with him as there have been a series of doctored photos released that are making the world wonder what is going on with the “dear leader.”

http://astrologyandpsychicpredictions.wordpress.com/2008/09/24/kim-jong-il-is-he-just-ill-or-dead-the-tarot-answers/

Answering Readers’ Questions…

Hi Everyone, as promised here are the rest of the questions I didn’t get to. Those who posted on Saturday and Sunday and don’t see their questions here will find answers tomorrow. Hope you all had a great weekend.

Tina

Hello, Denise–

Thank you so much for your public service! I had an observation and a couple of questions for you.

According to this site, McCain was born at 6:25 PM in Colon, Panama, which would change his rising sign and shift his houses:

http://www.astrologyweekly.com/astrology-news/john-mccain-natal-chart.php

Not that it matters much now, but does this change your reading of him?

Next, I’ve been feeling that because of the mass layoffs that are pending, Obama will be forced to implement single-payer healthcare even though he doesn’t advocate it now. What do you think?

Finally, do you think Bush and Cheney orchestrated the 9/11 attacks as some groups suggest? If so, will this come to light any time soon?

Thanks again,

Tina

Hi Tina,

First I asked the question to the tarot: Will Obama be forced to implement single payer healthcare?

The tarot answered: Yes.

It looks like money is the main reason. There won’t be enough of it to go around with so many companies going under. And he will be forced to rethink the healthcare situation. But it looks like it will draw on other strengths and cover people who are unemployed as well. So it may actually be better then what he originally proposed.  It looks like the role of private companies won’t be as great in this new plan. They will not be able to take the burden on. (I have to admit I didn’t know what you were referencing until after I did the reading and interpretation, I then googled the term.)

And thanks so much for the updated McCain information! Actually this chart is better in many ways. His Aquarius moon explains his “maverick” status and eleviates some of the bad aspects the other chart had made to the economy. This being said, I have seen the “wrong” chart be more accurate about a particular situation then a person’s natal, this is akin to horary astrology in how it works. There was some reason the universe put this out there, and this off chart actually fit McCain during this very negative campaign much more than his real natal chart, which he now seems to be manifesting again. That being said, his chart still has many bad aspects to the Dow, and would have made the economic crisis much worse than Obama’s.

Also its interesting to note that I have seen people with a preponderance of planets in the 7th (a stellium in astrological terms) house have either narcissistic tendencies or outright NPD. Both McCain and Palin have this chart configuration. The reason being is the 7th house is the public, partners and public enemies, it is what we project onto others and people with NPD (or those with NPD tendencies) are not introspective, but rather blame others for their mistakes because they can’t deal with their own imperfections.  I’ll go into an an analysis of the two of them in the next post as there is a question relating to it coming up.

Now on to answering the other question of whether 9/11 was orchestrated by Bush/Cheney. The answer in short is, no. But, I do believe they knew it was going to happen, and used it to their advantage in the same way FDR used Pearl Harbor to get us into WWII, something we as a country did not want to get into after WWI. Of course in FDR’s case we had a moral obligation to save Europe, and weren’t using a horrific event to start a “preemptive war,” or more appropriately to invade a sovereign nation, but rather to save democracy in Europe, and millions more from genocide.

The months leading up to 9/11 I had dreams of being in falling skyscrapers. The tower card, which if you’ve ever seen it literally looks like the images of those that were taken on 9/11, came up no matter who or what I did a reading for. On 9/10 I couldn’t sleep, had a terrible feeling something horrible was going to happen. I stayed up all night and by chance turned on the TV just as the first plane struck the world trade center. I called some family members and friends, told them the reporters were wrong it wasn’t an accident, then the next airplane struck.

I was on the phone with my mother when I told her it was Bin Laden and that both towers were going to fall. I don’t believe the conspiracy theories about explosives already being in those buildings, my father was an architectural engineer, and the fact that those towers were so massive, and the skeleton of those buildings was metal, it was just physics at that point that told me, they would fall. The intensity of the heat bent the frame  and the weight of the building did the rest making it collapse story by story. It’s logical. I know some disagree with me, but it really is logic and perhaps I had the advantage of having those falling skyscraper dreams to prepare me for it, so it wasn’t a surprise.

A friend of mine called later that morning, and told me he felt it was Cheney/Bush who had done the deed and I told him, no, it was Bin Laden they’re just going to take advantage of it. I was sure they knew about it, actually I would go as far as saying they let it happen on purpose, but they did not directly do it. I just don’t have that feeling. Never did. I think the conspiracy here is that they had more than just a memo that Condy ignored, they allowed the atrocity to happen so they could use the fear and pain to bulldoze the constitution, expand the power of the executive branch and control of the government. They didn’t need to do the deed, there are enough people in the world who hate us for our policies in the middle-east. But they are guilty of not stopping it and guilty of using it to their advantage and just as guilty of those who did do it because they knew and did nothing to stop it.

I believe that if the Supreme Court hadn’t appointed Bush, and the recount would have happened, and Gore then would have won; 9/11 would have been stopped. I remember a speech Gore gave just before election day that had the weird, eerie feeling of being a premonition — he mentioned it was our country’s choice whether we would wake up to birds singing, and rainbows or to a stormy day, something to that effect at least. I took note of it, and boy was he ever right in his prediction.

tckal

Hi Denise: Thanks for answering my questions about Sarah Palin. Both Palin and McCain have said that they love and respect each other, is this really true or is their honeymoon over and they’re just putting on a show? Are the things that the McCain campaign aides are saying about her all true and she’s denying them because it’s embarassing to her? Also, about the dreams you’ve been having about Alaska, will the authorities or the CIA find out about this and will they be publicly exposed? Thanks

Hi Tckal,

I’m going to put up the new chart I have on McCain with Sarah Palin’s chart and let you look at how similar they are in many ways. Then do some analysis.

It’s no wonder Palin likes to kill things with that Sun, Mars, Saturn conjunction! Man that’s aggressive and insanely ambitious. But her chart is better suited to her previous career of being a sports caster. However, with that Venus in Aries in the 8th she loves her some power and is very egomanical, and being a sports caster doesn’t give the same satisfaction as bossing around her minions and asserting her warped belief system on the masses.

Now, actually McCain and Palin do have a lot of positive aspects between the two so I would bet they actually do really like each other personally, but with Palin’s Pluto on McCain’s Neptune he would have felt her to be too controlling and once they were partners, he doubted her loyalty to him, and had fears she would try to out manevuer him (and rightly so).

With her stellium in Aquarius and his in Virgo, both in late degrees inconjuncting one another, it would have been hard keeping them together as this indicates a parting of ways. I doubt they’ll be going out to coffee anytime soon, but there is a genuine fondness between them. However, their staffs, well that’s another story. Based on their charts the people that work for each of them would have found the opposite team grating, annoying and difficult.

Now onto the next part of the question. I’ve wondered that myself. I’ll ask the tarot.

The authorities are not currently aware or looking into AIP seriously at this point.

I asked the tarot if AIP was planning some sort of terrorism against the US. The answer was: Maybe.

But the scary thing, is that the tower card came up, right side up this time, Death reversed at the center. (There were a bunch of negative cards) let me just say that it looks like there is something in the works down the road, I feel it is bubbling, but at this point it may not come to pass. I will keep tabs on it. There are some people involved in this group that HATE the US and want to destroy it. That being said I don’t know how much they can do within that group or if it will ferment into anything just yet. It looks like the seeds are there, but they haven’t been sown just yet. 

javahaaa

Back to money and such, could you run charts on Oil and Gold futures?

here are two ways to follow oil; they should have similar results :
NYMEX Crude Oil Futures started trading on 3/30/1983 on the New York Mercantile Exchange (also began on Chicago Board of Trade that day, but it no longer trades there), at either 9AM or 1030AM – prob 1030am. NYMEX symbol CL (not to be confused with the stock CL, trading on NYSE [ny stock exchange])

USO, United States Oil Fund, an exchange-traded fund, started trading 4/10/2006, NYSE, 930 AM

Similar two ways for gold, and they should look the same, too:
Commodities Exchange, Inc. (COMEX) Gold futures began trading at 1201AM on 12/31/1974, New York; COMEX and NYMEX merged in 1994 and the NYMEX symbol is GC

GLD, Spdr Gold Trust, an exchange-traded fund, began trading 11/18/2004 on the NYSE, 930AM.

I don’t know if this affects the chart, but any of these would have been “born” – created – before those dates, but the only thing that’s easily available is the day they began trading publicly.

Hi Javahaaa,

Thanks for the excellent and detailed information, it makes my job so much easier! The public trading date is the one that would matter in this case since we are looking at what its going to do in the public arena. I ran all the charts. Here are the oil charts with analysis to follow:

I really want to study these charts some more before I give an analysis, because the aspects are complicated there are both good and bad things going on and I want to make sure to give sound advice. I will look at this and the oil question, ponder it tonight, and write a detailed post regarding this. I don’t want to mislead anyone, so I think its important to be thorough here.

Here are the gold charts for those interested in evaluating it as well. Again I will post detailed analysis in the next day or so. I want to be sure I get it right.

javahaaa

Really enjoy your commentary, Denise! Do you see any recovery in the Dow or Nasdaq between now and when the tsunami begins late December? How much? Could you also run a chart for the S&P 500?

Hi Javahaa: Sorry to put this issue off, but there are multiple charts and its complicated. I don’t want to  potentially be responsible for someone making a bad decision in terms of their investments. I will again post more detailed analysis on the S&P 500 tomorrow. I think I should really just do a post all about issues regarding money tomorrow. It is a bit complicated when there is more than one chart for something. I have a lot more to weigh, and compare so I don’t want to give bad advice.

More questions to answer over the next day or so, along with those of you who posted today and tonight:

sallyy

Swearing in ceremony is: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 at 1:00 PM at U.S Capitol in Washington, DC

A

Hi,

Some random questions:

1) What do you think about Laura Bush?

2) Bush, Cheney, Karl Rove and many GOP’ers are praising Obama. Do you think this is genuine or they are just playing along?

3) Will India play a role in the Obama administration, especially with regards to Pakistan?

Thanks!

Best wishes to all of you and many blessings!

Denise

Quick Thank You!

I just wanted to thank of all of you who have had private readings with me over the past couple of months. You make it possible to keep this blog alive!

Best wishes and Blessings to you all!

Denise

(And I’m currently working on a segment about gold, oil and the S & P so look for that tomorrow)

Oil and Gold..

The trend in the oil futures market with Pluto conjuncting natal Neptune in the 6th house has been for loss, and because it rules the natal 10th, a sense that there isn’t much of a future in oil futures. It’s interesting to note that Uranus was conjunct the United States Oil Fund’s Mercury this summer in the 10th, creating the spike in prices. Mercury is the chart ruler of USOF and also rules the 4th house (which in this case would be prices here at home). 

From what I can discern of these 2 charts it seems the Futures market applies to the way oil is seen as a future investment and how it will trend, where as the USOF is more about what is going on in the market currently. Accordingly, Pluto is transiting through the Oil Futures market, and as I stated conjuncting Neptune the planet of loss, it will then make an opposition to the first as it crosses into the 7th house, and will square the natal Sun, this aspect becomes exact at the end of February 2012 and I would take it to mean the bottom dropping out of this market at that point and serious losses for a long time with good and bad months, mostly bad from then on until a little upturn about 2 years later. However for now there will be an upswing coming at the end of January 09 around the 21st and from there it will stay on an up ride until the end of June, recede a bit and then go up again as Pluto will be making a sextile to the Crude Oil Futures’ natal Saturn and then sextile the Moon. Both positive aspects that will create opportunity for speculators.

In terms of the USOF, there will be a spike in value starting in early March 09 for about a couple of weeks as transiting Neptune (ruler of oil) conjuncts the USOF’s chart ruler Mercury. This same configuration happened over the summer when oil prices went nuts. And in April of 09 there should be talk of expansion, again more money to be made, but it will be through the USOF tapping into new ways of using old technology, perhaps ethanol or something like that will make investing in oil and oil revenues go up. Neptune will be making a trine to Jupiter in the 6th and will be conjuncting the 11th house at that time exactly. So money will be made through innovation, new hope for the future in regards to how to utilize oil and since Jupiter is in the 6th which is Virgo related. And Virgo rules grain and corn, I’d have to go with the idea that ethanol will seem like some sort of savior to the Oil industry at that time and people will invest in oil more heavily.

OK, I’m going to move on to Gold:

Interesting that transiting Pluto is going over the Spdr Gold Trust’s first house. I know nothing about this, but from looking at the chart and thinking about this aspect, I’m wondering if perhaps some of the gold in this trust was acquired through raiding the dead. The first thought that pops into my mind is that something has or will come out about gold illegally acquired during the Holocaust, or through something like that. This rumor I don’t feel will ruin the trust, but it could cause some changes and an attempt to change their image.

However by late January of 09, and off and on over 09 transiting Pluto will be making a sextile to natal Uranus and there will be sudden sharp rise in gold, and then the value will back down and rise again suddenly. Those periods of sudden rising should be around January 20, 09 through to early March, then again about 10 days into May of 09 until about the 21st of June 09 and again at the end of November 09 for about a month. 

In terms of gold futures, it should be fine for the time being, nothing to write home about. But in February of 2012 look out, there are a mess of bad aspects. So if you are invested in gold futures I would get out in the next few years as transiting Pluto will hit the natal Sun (the Sun rules gold) and will square the ascendant and natal Pluto and it will be exactly conjunct the 4th house cusp, opposing the 10th. All in all not good! Before this happens in 2012 there will be a little pre-shock wave (minor but it will be a warning) off and on in 2011 starting in March. That will be when transiting Pluto will be inconjuncting the Gold Futures’ moon and there will be some fluctuations and volatility starting then.

OK, more questions to answer tomorrow, now it is time for sleep! I will get to the S & P tomorrow as well as other questions.

Thanks to all of you out there.

Wishing you all well and many blessings,

Denise

Answering Readers’ Questions…

Sorry, I’ve been swamped and it feels like questions have been piling up. I’ll try to get through a bunch tonight and if I have time I will either delineate the future of the S&P 500 (as best I can) here or in a separate post tomorrow.

A

Hi,

Some random questions:

1) What do you think about Laura Bush?

2) Bush, Cheney, Karl Rove and many GOP’ers are praising Obama. Do you think this is genuine or they are just playing along?

3) Will India play a role in the Obama administration, especially with regards to Pakistan?

Thanks!

Hi A,

It’s funny that you brought up Laura Bush the night you posted because I was telling my husband that I didn’t think Laura Bush agreed with her husband’s policies which is why she choose to stay in Crawford most of the time. I have a feeling she is much more liberal and compassionate then George or his family of origin.

Every once in a while she wears an expression that seems to indicate she’s a bit embarrassed by him and is just putting up with her goofy husband because despite his foibles (of which there are many) she loves him, the way a mother loves her kid.

In answer to the second question of whether the GOP is playing along or not, I think they’re glad they don’t have to clean up their mess. They threw a big old bash on the tax payers money, and bankrupted our economy, got us involved in 2 wars, and now they can blame everything on the Democrats when Obama can’t solve all the problems they created in the first month of his administration. So, no, I don’t think it is genuine, I think it is very strategic, and they are angling for a way to take power once Obama and Biden have cleaned up their mess.

The third question is more complex. I don’t feel that India can play a role in regards to Pakistan, there is too much animosity between the two countries. Pakistan as you know was once part of India. India is a democracy, the main religion is Hinduism and of course Pakistan’s people are mostly Islamic. Pakistan has a lot of turmoil and chaos going on it’s a very delicate situation. I can tell you I don’t have a good feeling about it, and this is one of the areas I’m going to look into in greater detail over the coming months. I need to run charts of all the countries in that area, and really meditate on this because as I said I feel like we blew it, and we’ll have to repair diplomacy with Pakistan before we really can win the war in Afghanistan, or at least stabilize the country, and root out the Taliban before we can leave the country knowing it will be able to regenerate itself.

Grace

Will the situation in Iraq improve under Obama? At first, I had high hopes that a meeting of the minds could take place and really get this settled. But after reading this:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081108/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq_al_qaida;_ylt=AsEatMoZSBKorAUV.cztaY0LewgF

I am not so sure. What is your thinking on this? Thanks in advance!

Hi Grace,

I read the article and my feeling is this is just a scare tactic, a way to try and assert some power over the new administration, but it won’t work. I feel Obama will get us out of Iraq, but it won’t be over night. And I feel also that these scare tactics telegraph the fear that some radical groups have in Iraq, perhaps feeling that their cause and energy are waning. I have a feeling that the Iraqis are even more sick of this war then we are, and want to get rid of those aligned with terrorists because their presence in Iraq only guarantees our staying there. I don’t feel any major policy change in regards to Iraq coming from the new administration. I do feel Obama will get us out. 

ann

If a person is trying to have a secure future when would be the best time to buy index funds, mutual funds, both american and foreign. Also with so many foreclosures out there if a person happens to have some money when is the best time to purchase a home. How long will a person have to wait for the real estate market to recover

Hi Ann,

I’ll need to run charts on index funds, and mutual funds. If there are any in particular you want looked at post their names and if you have the date and place where they started trading that would be great.

In regards to real estate, that market does not completely bottom out until March of 2011. I know that all these foreclosures seem like good deals, but remember if you are buying them now at the start of a major recession, renting them out maybe difficult. Also the worth of real estate will continue to go down until 2011 (this market is ruled by the north node, search the site you’ll find a post all about the cycles of the real estate market). So I suppose if you get lucky at an auction and are able to buy a house for 9,000 dollars or something like that, then you’ll be OK. But often people get caught up at auctions and overbid on stuff.

That being said if you personally have a good chart for making money in real estate, and use your intuition I think you could start looking into it as an investment opportunity now, but you just have to be very careful as there is a lot working against you. And you have to consider the price of real estate will continue to go down so if you buy something at auction it should be for much, much, much less then its supposed to be worth. 

hopeandaplan

Hi Denise,
Hope you are well. I just wanted to say that despite how ugly things may get I am profoundly hopeful. I cant tell you the despair I would be feeling if McCain had won.
I do have one question and it is about the Taliban trying to create a full civil war in Pakistan. Pakistan has nukes and both India and the US as well as the whole world would freak out. I know you are looking at foreign policy and I think this is very dangerous. Its very complicated because the Pakistani intelligence agency kept the Taliban alive because they didnt trust that Afganistan wouldnt be overrun by India. Now, the Talibanis are turning on the Pakistanis. I think someone else asked about India… Not a real question, sorry. Do you have any feelings on this… Thanks for your great insight, as always.

Hi Hope and a Plan,

It is really complicated. And I have been meaning to look into it for a long time because I have had a bad feeling about that region. I will do a detailed analysis on this in the coming week. Thanks for the question.

Carol

Your sharing of your gifts with so many is
very impressive. I look forward to reading
your comments each day.

I wonder if you might comment on the pole
shift idea which has been predicted for the
turn of this century by so many psychics.
What is your take on that?

Hi Carol,

I have talked with other psychics, even with a mentor of mine about the pole shift prophecy. I do not believe that the poles will shift in the way that has been prophesized. This and the breaking off of California into the ocean, I argued over with my mentor who was a follower of Edgar Casey’s and worked with many other well known psychics. He was an amazing elderly man named John Brooks who is now on the other side, but anyway, he believed both those predictions. I did not and do not.

The earth moves at a different pace then we do, it is on geological time; its very slow, so while I do believe there will be a pole shift (and actually there is presently one going on) it will happen over hundreds, maybe thousands of years, and we will not really feel its effects directly. That is how I feel about California breaking off the US map. The plate California is on will continue to move and perhaps several million years in the future California will no longer be attached to the North American continent. It will happen so slowly that the only thing we will feel are the earthquakes along the way and it will take millions of them over millions of years for this to happen. It certainly won’t be a surprise when the last bit of those two continental shelves split apart.  And the pole shift will be the same, it is going on and we may see some repercussions as it does, but it won’t be the drama that has been predicted.

northernlights2008

It has become very clear that Sarah Palin is opportunistic (and not for the good of the whole). She is all about Sarah. She reminds me of fools gold which is probably why I find all this so upsetting.

As you know, she was investigated by the Legislature and found guilty of abuse of power. She was investigated by the Personnel Board and found not guilty. I feel she and her husband lied. What do the cards say? Thanks for your time; it is greatly appreciated.

Hi Northernlights,

Let’s ask the cards if she lied:

Interesting answer. It looks like they literally bought the outcome. They didn’t need to lie because the Personnel Board was a fraudulent investigation. The board’s hands were tied, and the judgement was already made before the “investigation” began, so it was a complete sham. 

And the cards answered, Yes, they lied to the legislature. They made it look like they were just protecting their family and played down the vindictive nature of the firing. It’s interesting to note that it looks like (according to certain cards I keep pulling) there could be a civil case against Palin. And she will have a judgement against her, and have to pay damages to the man she fired if he goes forward with a case. So he’d win a civil case against her if he proceeded. There is, and was, a strong case against her, but there was a lot of pressure from the McCain camp to shield Palin. Now that they’re gone she’s going to have to deal with the aftermath. She however won’t see it coming. She’s on a real ego trip.

OK, I will answer more questions tomorrow. So if you didn’t get an answer, you will! 

Best wishes to all,

Denise

Answering Readers’ Questions…

Hi everyone, more questions, more answers.

The first from Kathleen,

kathleen

Would like to know future physic prediction of Obama and Pallen

These are pretty broad questions but I’ll do my best and I’m sure over the next few years their destiny and my predictions will become more intricate and precise as their paths evolve.

But here goes.

Sarah Palin isn’t going to go quietly into the night. She’s going to exploit her 15 minutes as much as possible, however, she has transiting Neptune hitting her natal Mars in the 7th house of open enemies, squaring her 12th house cusp starting in December of this year. Mars also rules her 9th house (the law) and 4th house (home). This aspect will bring someone to the forefront, someone who has a grudge against Palin, more unflattering information will come out about her, and it’s possible another investigation of her, and her family could be triggered.

Another aspect that does not bode well for her immediate future is Pluto inconjuncting her Venus (Venus rules her 10th house of career). This is a separating aspect and Pluto rules power, so one could interpret that as power being taken from her. It again seems to indicate family trouble. Her 5th house is involved indicated it could be separation from a child, so perhaps her daughter will decide to move out once she’s married (that’s the best possible interpretation). I’m not going to mention some of the darker things these aspects could mean because as much as I don’t like her politically, I don’t want wish any ill on her regarding her personal or family life. And I don’t want to put anything out there that could freak the family out in any way. If it does manifest in a potentially very negative way there isn’t anything that can be done, so it serves no purpose. This aspect is very active from late December into late January, then comes back late June until early August of 09, and hits again from mid-October until the end of November.

And later when Neptune conjuncts her Saturn starting around the 13 of March, 2009, her career will be put in serious jeopardy. This aspect could trigger a loss of her career (and job in her case as Saturn rules her 7th) also there could be repercussions or loss within her marriage or her father or father’s side of the family or a father figure/John McCain?. However, these aspects will be conjunctions and don’t make any other major aspects so its hard to say how strong this energy will be. And there is a good chance that the negative aspects of these aspects will be off set when Jupiter goes over her 7th house and over her stellium in Aquarius in mid-April. So whatever comes up may not stick.

I’m just going to skip ahead to what we all want to know. Does she have a shot at becoming president? So lets look at the transits happening in her chart during November 2012 and 2016. I’ll spare you the astrological details and just say that her chances in 2012 aren’t good, but she does have a pretty good shot at 2016. She’ll very likely rear her head in a major way at that time.

Obama’s chart:

Obama has some amazingly great aspects for 2012 and if he was in a contest with Palin would win hands down. Now if someone came along who had even better aspects for that time period, Obama might not win, but I would doubt it as Obama’s chart would be extremely hard to beat. So I can pretty confidently say that it looks like he will win again in 2012.

moonbaby

Denise,

I have two questions regarding the role of the Christian Right.

Someone asked about Rush Limbaugh’s decline and you responded that his influence would wane. How about James Dobson of Focus on the Family? His influence and the influence of his organization has been tremendous in affecting evangelicals and the Christian Right. Jerry Falwell has passed from the scene. So has James Kennedy. Pat Robertson seems next. Ralph Reed seems to have been neutered. That only leaves Dobson (71) as one of the remaining big names and voices of the Moral Majority and the Christian Right.

Second, will the influence of the Christian Right diminish or surge for 2012? It seems that by pandering to this part of the GOP by adding Palin to the ticket, McCain alienated a sufficient number of moderates and independents who would have otherwise voted for him. Leaders of the GOP assessing the future of their party may decide to limit the role of the CR.

Thanks,
Moonbaby

Hi Moonbaby,

I looked for a DOB on James Dobson, but couldn’t find anything. If you come up with one let me know and I’ll run a chart (even if its solar) and be able to read his future influence with greater detail. My intuition is that the Christian right (if they haven’t figured this out already) is beginning to realize they have been used by the Republican party. Oddly, the inclusion of Sarah Palin on the McCain ticket ought to make this clearer then ever for them. Republicans have no problem playing the family values angle, and “social conservatives,” (ie. how shall I put it nicely: uneducated, isolated rural white America) but God forbid they actually run the party! That was the message coming through loud and clear (between the lines of course) with Sarah Palin. The quote from a McCain aide, “Wasilla hillbillies raiding Neiman Marcus coast to coast,” is a perfect example of this double standard.

Bush appeared to be one of the religious right “social conservatives,” and although he was as dumb as bubble gum stuck to the bottom of a tennis shoe, he had a pedigree. He went to Ivy league schools, his dad was president, he grew up in the halls of power (albeit he was drunk and doing cocaine, but still.) He wasn’t a “hillbilly,” he just seemed like one. 

The splintering in the Republican party is only going to get worse in my opinion because there are two very different sets of Republicans who really share little in common. 1) The “social conservatives,” who want to deny civil rights to people based on their sexual orientation and control other people’s wombs and: 2) The very greedy and privileged, who really don’t care about “social conservative,” issues, they just care about not paying taxes and being crazy squirrels who bury so many nuts in their lawns they can’t even remember where they put them. These people look down on group #1. And group #2 is a very small group, so they desperately need group #1 to horns-waggle and manipulate. The sad thing here is I believe group #1 has naively gone along with their religious leaders, who are busy getting rich and trying to keep their wealth like group #2. 

My point here is, the vast majority of the Republican party, those who are “values voters,” can not be happy that there have been so many shenanigans within the Republican party over the past 8 years from corruption indictments to homosexual romps exposed. These are the people who were horrified Bill Clinton had an affair with a woman. Imagine how hard they took it when they found out Ted Stevens was doing blow with a male hooker and Senator foot tapper was caught in an airport bathroom trolling for gay sex. All this and they didn’t get to overturn Roe vs. Wade! Really, they didn’t even get close. President Bush (the supposed 2nd coming of Christ according to some churches before the 1st election — boy were they wrong!) abandoned them pretty early on, and followed his own interests those of group #2, the one he really belonged to.

I predict there will be a couple of opposite pulls going on in the Christian right. I feel there will be a strong, even more crazy, racist, sexist, nut jobby (not what Jesus would condone in any way) neo-nazi type of arch, and those who are more moderate, and more intelligent who will loose their faith, or move more toward the middle, or the left over the next few years. I feel there will be great polarization in this movement, and it will not really have the strong hold it has enjoyed, but will be more of a fringe group of kind of crazy people who will truly be anything, but Christian.

Tjuania in Desoto, Texas

Hi Denise,

What do the cards say about Bobby Jindal from Louisiana or Mitt Romney? I do think that Obama will win another 4 years and there will not be any mention about Sarah Palin. Also why did the McCain campaign have two separate campaigns going on? One for McCain and the other for Sarah Palin?????

Hi Tjuania,

I have to admit I knew nothing about Bobby Jindal until you asked the question about him. The little bit of research I did makes me wonder so many things about this man, did he convert to Christianity just to get into politics? Why would a person of East Indian descent become a Republican? Or be against abortion in the case of rape or incest? Or be against stem cell research? Especially when he considered going into medicine. 

Since I couldn’t find a time of birth here’s his solar chart:

Is it just me or is it chilly in here? No, it’s Bobby Jindal’s chart. Eeeck, he’s icy. Moon in Capricorn, Venus Saturn conjunct in Taurus in the 12th with a Sun and Mercury in Gemini! He may have a grand earth trine depending on the time of his birth, but its safe to say he is very ambitious, lacking in compassion, materialistic and opportunistic with Neptune conjunct Jupiter. He does have a loose grand air trine that makes him extremely intelligent, calculating, strategic and insufferably fixed in his ideas of the way he thinks things should be.

Honestly, his chart gives me the creeps. I hate to say that because I think it’s great that he managed to become governor of a southern state despite the racism he must have faced with both his parents being from India. And I must say I have a soft spot for Hinduism, but alas he’s not a Hindu, his parents are. I wouldn’t be surprised if Bobby, hadn’t been angling for a career in politics since grammar school. And it makes sense that he went for the Republican side as it fits his personality much better than what seems on the surface would seem a more natural fit, the Democrats. I have a feeling this guy isn’t going away and is likely to try a run for the highest office in the land as soon as it seems viable for him to do so. My gut says, he’s power hungry, snobby and arrogant. I’m sure he truly believes he’s better than everyone, and has the right to govern because of it.

OK, now Mitt Romney. I ran a solar chart on him, again no time of birth:

You ever get the feeling Mitt is hiding something? Well, that’s because he is, I knew he felt a bit slimy but he’s not as bad as he seems. He actually is pretty sensitive, but he is also extremely secretive. And it looks like he came from money through both his father and his mother’s sides. This is a man who hasn’t had a tremendous amount of struggle in his life, and this is most likely why he can’t really understand what it’s like to be a regular working person.

With so much water in his chart in weak placements it is why he changes his opinions with the wind. It looks like he is a pretty religious guy, and not a bad person if you got to know him, which very few people really do. But he’s very out of touch with ordinary people, and with America as a whole, and I doubt very much he could be much of a leader. His chart doesn’t show strong leadership skills. He’s too passive, and too secretive even though he has this tremendous desire for power that comes from his father. He just doesn’t have the character to live up to that desire. Looking at his chart I don’t see any real chance that he could ever become president.

Elly

What will happen to the auto industry Ford and crysler?

Hi Elly,

Here’s Ford’s chart, hint, it doesn’t look good for them right now:

By the end of this month Pluto will be conjuncting Ford’s natal Mars, this is not good for their investors, as Mars rules the 8th house of investments. If you own stock, I’d look for a good day to sell it before the 26th of November unless you want to keep it for a very long time. Once this aspect hits off and on over the next year, there will be major losses for investors. Then things will sort of stabilize for awhile, but really the worse is yet to come as Pluto will conjunct Ford’s Pluto in the 10th causing major changes in the way Ford works, and possible relocation of their company. That will come in about 2011 so we don’t have to get too exact right now with that aspect, but after that transiting Pluto (through the 5th house of speculation) will hit the company’s Sun in the 11th and I would say at that point either Ford will come up with some radical new technology, and save themselves, or go out of business. This will be in about 8 years from now.

However, some good news: there is a positive aspect helping the company as Pluto opposes its Mars, transiting Pluto will be making a trine to natal Uranus which is in the 6th and rules the 6th. I would think that this means there will be some sort of bail out for the company that will save jobs at least for the time being. But the stock will go down in value as a result of the opposition. It may have some better days ahead, but its going to go through some serious changes over the next 8 years. And there is a chance with so much Pluto action that the company could fail, and ultimately go out of business.So, its up to you to trust your intuition about this. My gut tells me its going to be all over the place for awhile and will eventually mutate into something else.

I have been feeling the auto industry’s demise since this summer but I’m not sure if I wrote a post exclusively about it although I meant to. I may have mentioned it in relationship to the financial crisis in another post. I meant to do a detailed analysis of this issue, but felt it might seem to obvious a prediction and also got side tracked by the election.

Hope this helps you some.

I will save the other car makers for tomorrow and the following questions! As well as new posts.

Best wishes and many blessings!

Denise

Truthseeker

Nice site  I concurr that a bad crash is yet to come on the markets. GM (general motors) is a likely cause for this fall. Do you also see GM been the cause or do you see them been bailed out? Also if i may ask Do you see a time frame for the inevitable war with Iran which also would cause a stockmarket crash and a likely rise dramatically in oil prices.

Thank you 

sparker

Hi Denise,
Thanks for this blog. I really enjoy reading it everyday.
I am curious if you can find out about the Acr of the Covenant. Is a religious conglomerate hiding it? I suspect it could be the Catholic or Protestant church? When and/or how will it be found? I am really curious as to what it reveal and how it will change our lives.
Thank You

Answering A Reader’s Question… (About Lisa Williams)

I’m going to go back to some earlier questions, but felt I had to answer this one in particular because I got a call from my mother telling me there was going to be an earthquake tomorrow. I asked her what the source of her info was and she said she’d heard it from a friend. Anyway, I thought it was odd timing to get a call from her and then get this post. It turns out tomorrow there is an earthquake preparedness day going on and this is probably what my mother had heard about.

Ryan

Hi Denise,

I look forward to reading your blog every day!

I also frequent Lisa William’s blog, and she posted the following about a week ago:

“I have been feeling that there is also going to be a natural disaster on the West Coast of the US for a while. When the earthquake came recently I knew it wasn’t what I had been feeling. What ever is going to come is going to be a huge change of energy. It’s shaking things up. ”

“I wish I could tell you more, but I feel it’s not far away (time frame) and it’s going to shake up the west coast a little. I am not sure what the mileage distance is, but what I do know is that it’s going to effect everyone on an emotional level. I can see the ocean moving and an earthquake or an eruption. all I keep being told is that there is an early warning system. As I was talking about this with friends last night over dinner, I was discussing slate like plates that were coming together and rubbing. Kev who is the Discovery channel Genius, told me it was tectonic plates that cause an earthquake. ”

“I am not sure it’s an earthquake and as I sit here in the stillness of the house, I sense that it’s similar but not the same. I feel the West coast is unsteady. I feel it’s unhappy and I feel there needs to be a shift. It’s as though with the new changes that are happening in society there also has to be some changes physically, and its about energy being shaken up. ”

Can you give any insight into this prediction? Lisa Williams is very talented in my opinion and I don’t take her words with a grain of salt. I’d like to know what you think or if you could ask the cards.

Thanks!
Ryan

Hi Ryan,

I agree Lisa Williams is very talented and genuinely psychic. She’s a medium though and specializes in talking to people who have crossed over. It’s weird, but psychics do seem to have specialties, kind of like athletes, some can run very fast, others can jump or swim, etc. I’ve had friends who were amazingly clairvoyant (meaning they could be dead on about everything going on in someone’s present life) but didn’t have a talent for reading the future. I’m not saying she’s wrong, but if she does turn out to be inaccurate that in no way means she isn’t an amazingly gifted medium. It could be she has been picking up on the social turmoil regarding Prop 8, and also the terrible wild fires that broke out tonight in the Santa Barbara. It’s very possible that these fires will get much worse because of the Santa Ana winds. So she could very well have been feeling that. I had a premonition about a terrible fire this summer, but didn’t know when or where it would be, only saw fire on the hills and the wing of a red owl.

I read Lisa Williams whole post, and it seemed she was reticent about posting it.

I was in Bali about 3 months before the Tsunami and major earthquake. Both my husband and I felt the energy of a big quake coming, and were very on edge because of it. I didn’t have a blog then to warn anyone — I should have! I did visualize white light around that part of the world obsessively while we were there. But, sadly, I wasn’t surprised by what happened. I knew something terrible was going to occur in that region.

And actually before Katrina, I told my husband New Orleans was going to be buried under water, and never the same, perhaps go the way of Atlantis. He had wanted to move there. I said, big no! So we compromised and went to New Orleans about 4 months before Katrina hit, he used the excuse that we had to see it one last time before it went away. I agreed.

In the airport terminal while we were waiting to board, I saw a  stewardess with the head of a skull. It was out of the corner of my eye, and when I looked directly at her, in full daylight, it did not dissipate. I began to freak out, thinking maybe it was a sign the airplane was going to crash, but no one else in the terminal had this so I figured it was something about her, perhaps going on in her personal life.

While we were in New Orleans the first night, walking down Bourbon street, I saw again some people scattered throughout the crowd with skull heads, even when I looked directly at them. I felt the street filling with water, and got so afraid I demanded we go back to the hotel, and was afraid to leave for a couple of days until I was assured (psychically) that this was a future event, and not something about to happen while I was there.

Now the problem was I didn’t know how far in the future this event was going to happen. I felt it was very close, and it turned out to be about 4 months away. I also didn’t know what to do with this information or how to warn anyone of the impending disaster. I always hope when I get information like that, that I’m wrong.  

When we were there the photos I took were extremely bizarre, some of them were taken at a haunted house, but even those that weren’t had very odd things, light streaks and orbs, in them. I’ll look for them and post them in the future. I sent some to a ghost site, but I’m not sure they were ever posted. 

I had a similar freak out before the Northridge earthquake here. Unfortunately, for me it began about about 5 years before it happened! I had squirreled away enough food, water and sterno to feed my neighbors. And luckily bought earthquake insurance 6 weeks before the earthquake hit. I knew it was getting closer. 

I am not getting an immediate feeling there is going to be giant earthquake here in Southern California. I’ve gotten better at not stretching too far into the future with psychic knowings, they don’t do much good! It’s been awhile since I’ve been to Northern California so I can’t speak to the energy up there.

I’m sure there will be a giant earthquake here in California, but like I said I don’t feel it coming in the immediate future right now. If that changes I will post it. 

I do wonder if  Lisa Williams is picking up on some future event, which is very possible. When I first moved here, and started feeling the Northridge quake about 5 years beforehand, it felt very immediate. So it could be she’s picking up on something further down the road, maybe 5 or so years from now. I do have a feeling we’ll see another major quake around then, but not in the very immediate future.

Hope that helps some.

I’ll post more answers later.

Best wishes to all,

Denise

The S&P 500, The Promised Analysis…

 

Really there is nothing of great note in the S&P Protected E PEF. Except Saturn conjunct the natal Moon Sun in the 9th and of course on over the course of the year to just conjunct the natal Venus. Meaning foreign investment in this market will be down and money tight but not a horror show. There’s a little dip mid-December, but there are also positive aspects offsetting the negative. I don’t get a bad feeling, not that it won’t go through some major changes, it will, Pluto is going through its 1st house, so along with all the other new regulations and market face lifts this one will have its share, but it won’t be as adversly effected for some reason.

What will be going on with the S&P Chicago is a bit more complex. There will be a lot of volatility as aspects both negative and positive move through the chart. The most troublesome is transiting Pluto squaring the natal moon in the 10th house in late December of this year (08). I feel this will have to do with lay offs and make the market extremely volatile at that time, fluctuating wildly as people try to get a grasp on what is happening. Just before this period in mid-December there will be a transiting Jupiter square to natal Pluto in Libra in the 5th house. This could mean the disclosure of some sort of legal malfeseance, making speculators weary about investing.

The one area that should do OK, maybe even do pretty well is food products, especially comfort foods as Pluto will be making a trine from the 6th house (very likely grain or corn or something like that related) to natal Sun in Taurus (again food reference here, healthy conscious with it being the Sun) and because the Sun is ruled by Venus natally in Pisces in the 10th I’m going to speculate its an older company, one that has been around since the depression or before the depression of the 30s (also related to liquid, could it be soup again?) But because the Sun is in the 11th, a company that has tried to re-invent themselves as healthy, delicious and nutritious. 

Now onto the S&P Protected E PEFX:

Again a lot of volatility. There are a lot of aspects (and a feeling I’m getting here) that people will feel trapped, unable to get out even if they want to. Saturn is transiting the 8th house so there isn’t a tremendous amount of money here in general for investors to make and there hasn’t been since a little over a year ago. Not a lot of money being paid out to. But with Jupiter transiting the 1st house and trining tranisiting Saturn in the 8th, both planets making sextiles to natal Mercury and eventually the natal Moon there is and has been opportunity for financial growth its just relatively conservative and feels more stable then many other markets right now, like a good place to keep your money for the time being. 

However in late December and through mid-late January Pluto will be conjuncting the natal Part of Fortune in the 12th meaning there will be a (more then likely a temporary) shift in value not seen by the general public, but it could encourage some secret restructuring to keep the S&P Protected E PEF on track. In mid-February there will be some trouble cracking through the ice as transiting Neptune will square natal Mercury in the 10th. During this period there could be losses and the public perception of loss and under-performance of this market. 

So there you go. Hope that helps. If you have a specific question about any of these markets please post it and I will answer as quickly as possible.

Best wishes and good luck to all,

Denise

Will Hillary Become the Secretary of State?

OK, I had to ask the cards if Hillary would become the secretary of state in the new Obama/Biden administration. I remember someone asking me earlier if she would have a place in his cabinet and it didn’t look like it at the time. But I can visualize her in this position so I asked the tarot if she would become the secretary of state:

The answer: Yes

It’s a very strong yes and she will be excellent at the job.

Answering Readers’ Questions…

sparker

Hi Denise, Thanks for this blog. I really enjoy reading it everyday. I am curious if you can find out about the Acr of the Covenant. Is a religious conglomerate hiding it? I suspect it could be the Catholic or Protestant church? When and/or how will it be found? I am really curious as to what it reveal and how it will change our lives. Thank You   

Hi Sparker,

I feel the arc was moved many years ago from a temple to keep it safe into a dried salt water lake or sea bed that is currently desert. At that point it was tampered with by fortune seekers who moved it to another location in the same basic area. Many years later when some of these fortune seekers went back to recover the arc the topography had changed and they forgot exactly where it was buried. I do not feel it is currently in anyone’s possession (including any institutions) and unless there is a concerted effort using modern technology, psychics and historians, it will not get found for a very long time, most likely not in our lifetime. I do feel it could be found if there was enough funding and a strong team, but its not likely to happen anytime soon.

Truthseeker

Nice site  I concurr that a bad crash is yet to come on the markets. GM (general motors) is a likely cause for this fall. Do you also see GM been the cause or do you see them been bailed out? Also if i may ask Do you see a time frame for the inevitable war with Iran which also would cause a stockmarket crash and a likely rise dramatically in oil prices. Thank you 

Hi Truthseeker,

I’ll answer the GM question now and look into Iraq in a separate post, so look for that in the future. Here are 2 charts for GM:

I would say big lay offs are coming in February of 09-March of 09 somewhere in that time frame. As Uranus will hit the companies 2nd house of work and Pluto will conjunct the company’s natal Neptune (loss). There will be major restructuring during that time period as well but a lot of people will loose their jobs (it looks like to me). This company is going to have major restructuring, lay offs and general turmoil for the next few years, until early 2011. And then for another couple of years there will still be major power changes, perhaps a changing of leadership and direction, trying to rebirth themselves with some potential success but its going to take some major changes in the way this company has operated and some major innovation, new technology and leadership to get it back on track. This is going to take time. It really won’t be recognizable once these changes have happened. The company will have re-invented its product and its perception in the public eye but this will take a long time, not until about 2014 will there be some real stability.

As for the GM stock, transiting Pluto is going through the companies 2nd house of employees/workers and opposing the 8th house of investors and inconjuncting natal Neptune in the 9th, meaning all the shifting and layoffs are going to make investors uneasy. But as bad as this seems now, it will hit much bigger in mid-late January – February of 2010. So whatever is happening over the next year with GM, it will culminate in a negative perception and will lead to major loss in the value of this stock at that time. 

Stocer

================================= Hi Stocer, I always have trouble with the symbols, it takes awhile to track down the names of the company and sometimes they are so close, I’m not sure I have the right one, etc. Could you post the names of each company? I will look in my database and run the charts, post them and give an evaluation. Denise ================================= Hi Denise, Per your request, I’m attaching symbols along with their company names. I wanted to get your opinion on the following Ticker Symbols: 1) AAPL (Apple Inc.) 2) AGU (Agrium Inc. 3) BCSI (Blue Coat Systems Inc. ) 4) BRK.B (Berkshire Hathaway) 5) DRYS (Dryships Inc.) 6) GROW (U.S. Global Investors, Inc) 7) POT (Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan, Inc.) Hope this answers your question. I would appreciate it if you can provide certain insight whether these are to be held or sold? Especially, when you mentioned that time after Dec 15th, 2008 isn’t good for the market. I’ll check here on your site to see your observations. THANKS. Stocer

Hi Stocer,

OK, that’s a lot of stocks so I’m going to break them up over the next few days or over the week probably. I’ll do Apple tonight:

Oye, vey! They were doing so well. And I do love apple computers. I’m very partial to them. They just went through a good run with Pluto going through their 10th and revitalized their image and captured the music market, transiting Pluto in the 10th making a sextile to Venus in Aquarius in the 1st. But this positive aspect will dissipate by the end of this month around Thanksgiving, the 25th, 26th something like that when Pluto goes into Capricorn and starts to conjunct the companies Mars in the 11th. There will be some angry customers, technical problems and general unease felt by the employees at Apple starting in mid-late January of 09.

So I don’t know if they are planning to release a new operating system or some new gadget or whatever, but its not going to be well received and will even make some people angry. I would say give this aspect some time to grow as it will hit their Sun in about 6 or 7 years and there could even be lawsuits regarding some of the new technology they are going to be putting out over the next 6 or 7 years. I don’t feel like this is going to kill the company or really destroy them, it will set them back. Perhaps also because of the recession they will find it harder to sell their new products and they may try too many things in an effort to capture a market some of which may not be properly tested before going out. It will eventually clear away, and all will be well with them in the long term however. But look for some market slides, and some big problems coming their way starting around the 20th of January 09.

John

Hi Denise Can you please tell me whether I should hold on to the Bank of America share (BAC) and wait for it to rebound in the next few years unless it is going to be hit hard by your mid – end Dec 08 prediction Thanks

Hi John,

Here is the chart of B of A and some analysis:

If you can wait until February 2019, I would. You will do well if you can hold this for a long time. If not periods of 2013 look pretty good to sell, the stock will be better valued then. If you want to sell relatively soon I’d say the end of November, early December is OK, perhaps not great because there will be a lot of volatility. I personally would hold onto this stock for awhile because they will get their act together over time and this stock will recover. That’s what it looks like. I would personally wait it out.

Hope I helped.

Remember I’m an astrologer! You know a lot more about your investments and financial needs then I, so always trust your own judgement. The market is extremely volatile right now, and it will be for awhile. Some companies will fall, but many will regroup, transform and live through this period so don’t get too freaked out.

Late December through January is going to be very scary. It’s going to look very bleak, but remember things will change! And you can recover what you’ve lost if you don’t get too overly anxious. Try some meditation techniques, remember its just money and you’ll be OK. Try to remember there will be new opportunities after this period to remake some of the money you will have lost.

Money isn’t everything! And as long as you can eat, and have a roof over your head count your blessings! Your chance for wealth will come again as the economy realigns. But it will take time and we all will have to change our lifestyles a bit. But perhaps this is a blessing. We will all learn more compassion and eventually this will pass. Try to maintain hope as things get ugly. And if you haven’t gotten out of the market yet, don’t panic sell now, especially if you are invested in very big conservative companies that can weather storms like we are about to see.

Try to keep positive and see this as an opportunity for spiritual growth and realize other avenues will open to you if you keep your eyes open.

Best wishes to all of you and many blessings,

Denise

Answering Readers’ Questions…

So many questions! I’m going to list them here so I can answer them over the next couple of days.

But let’s start with Stoccer who asked me about a bunch of stocks and I wrote that I would tackle that over the next few days. Some of the stocks I did not have information in my data base for, so Stoccer if your out there, and have the start date of trading with 5) DRYS (Dryships Inc.)3) BCSI (Blue Coat Systems Inc. )2) AGU (Agrium Inc. or 7) POT (Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan, Inc.) please post them so I can analyze them in the future.

Hey, your not a broker or a hedge fund manager are you? You have more stocks then I have socks! 

OK here goes with: Berkshire Hathaway and then tomorrow. I’ll do GROW.

This stock probably started having serious trouble in March/April of this year as Pluto would have been transiting the 8th house of its investors and opposing the natal Moon in the 2nd house of workers. There was a lot of instability, major fluctuations, perhaps even lay offs at the time or a fiscal cutting back. But sadly, this was just the tip of the proverbial iceberg as January will show more signs of instabilty and then, wham, in March of 09 transiting Pluto is going to reek havoc on investors as it squares Pluto in the 5th. There will be volatility throughout 09, but in January of 2011 the value of this stock will go up so if you can hold onto this one it will get better in a couple of years.

 

curious123

Hi Denise,
I just have a few questions:

1. As a Haitian living in America (came here around 1986), I was wondering if you see any positivity coming to the people of Haiti? It is extremely sad to see a country where once upon a time be so beautiful be in such constant turmoil. It’s extremely heartbreaking.

2. Will Barack Obama, serve a second term as president? (I know, he hasn’t even started his first). Will he be a memorable president, not because of his race, because of what he accomplishes? Plus, will he have his angels protecting him and his family throughout?

3. Will Sarah Palin go away…please! I can’t stand seeing her on every news channel, still babbling, and not putting any coherent sentences together. It’s nauseating. Is she xenophobic? My sense tells me she is. I didn’t get that from John McCain.

Sorry, to ask such loaded questions and thanks in advance for answering all of our questions!!!! I would like you to do a reading for me in the near future. Is there anyway you can send me some information? Do you have my email or do I need to give it to you?

Hi Curious,

1) Haiti. My godfather was from Santa Domingo. What an a amazing history that island has! The people emancipated themselves through a combination of magic and fighting. The Haitians are an amazing people, a truly spiritually gifted group (as a whole). I’ll run a chart and look at this with greater scrutiny in a future post.

2) Yes, Barack Obama will have a second term. I looked at his aspects about a week ago, and it would take superman to defeat him in 2012. That being said you never know, but it would be pretty impossible to beat him.

3) As McCain’s people put it, Sarah Palin and her family are “Wasilla hillbillies,” so yes, they are xenophobic, and until that dang Neptune comes off her stellium Mrs. Palin is going to soak up the spot light. But once Neptune goes bye-bye, she will disappear along with it (for awhile). I think she will try a bid for 2012, but I looked at her chart, and she has no chance of winning the election that year, so, not to worry.

I agree, I don’t believe John McCain is xenophobic. It’s too bad he really ran such a disgraceful, dirty campaign because other than that he seems like a good guy. Clearly, though he’s the type that makes a better senator then a president. I had the feeling he was pretty freaked out when he was running for the office, like he was having flashbacks or something. He didn’t seem to be in his right mind. Perhaps the pressure pushed him too far.

If you look under the page that says, Private Readings at the top or in the side bar it gives all the info on how to contact me via e-mail (since the e-mail I have linked to this account no longer works) andit explains how to schedule everything. 

I’ll look forward to your future e-mail!

 

Pat

Obama’s Part of Fortune is NOT on the USA’s natal Moon !
Pat

Hi Pat,

Yes, actually Obama’s Part of Fortune is within one degree, an almost exact conjunction to the natal US signing of the Constitution. There are many charts for the US, so maybe you are or were looking at a different one.

Here are both the charts and you can see for yourself what I was referring to:

I’ll get to these questions next over the next day or so:

Renee in Georgia

Well Mrs. Denise you have done it again…you stated that the racial aftermath of Obama being elected would have some nutcases coming out the woodworks with hate crimes starting to rise.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081115/ap_on_re_us/obama_racial

Will this type of behaivor evaporate or will it get worse?

 

sallyy

Dear Denise,

A question and a comment.

Question: I fear that Monsanto, the producers of genetically modified (GM) corn, soy beans and grain, could possibly bring about a famine–due to their not allowing for a variety of grains (by other companies) to be raised in the United States. In addition to disastrous impacts upon the environment, and GM product’s nutritional defects, our putting all of our eggs in one genetic basket (using only one variety of seeds) could bring disaster if that seed variety fails–like the potato famine. I can not find specific incorporation dates for this company. What do you see astrologically for this company?

Comment: I whole heartedly agree with your 11/13 statement with regard to the religious right. As is stated in this quote:

“The resurgence of fanatical religious fervour occurring in many lands cannot be regarded as more than a dying convulsion. The very nature of the violent and disruptive phenomena associated with it testifies to the spiritual bankruptcy it represents. Indeed, one of the strangest and saddest features of the current outbreak of religious fanaticism is the extent to which, in each case, it is undermining not only the spiritual values which are conducive to the unity of mankind but also those unique moral victories won by the particular religion it purports to serve.” The Promise of World Peace, 1985. Author: The Universal House of Justice of the Baha’i Faith,

 

Pat

Wished I knew about your prediction back in September re the stock market big fall.

Love your insights here and check it daily for updates.

I appreciate if you could provide an insight as to whether I should hold or sell this AUSTRALIAN stock 

CENTRO PROPERTIES STAPLED (CNP)

before the predicted Tsunami on 21/22 dec 2008

 

Gwen Merrick

Hi Denise,

I came across this site which got me thinking about the trend going on in these various cities (Detroit, Chicago, Atlanta, New York City) all of which are asking for handouts from the Federal government. Is it more widespread that the cities mentioned and is there a particular astrological aspect that runs through them all? Here’s the site:
http://themayorspage.blogspot.com/2008/11/this-is-starting-to-get-scary.html
Thanks again for you insight.
Gwen

 

tckal

Hi Denise:
(1) The Gallop poll shows that Obama’s favorability rating is at 71%. Are the people who didn’t vote for him finally starting to see him as the right person for the job? This rating is very good for someone who hasn’t even taken office yet. Go Obama!
(2) Do you the know the timing of when Sarah Palin will have this civil case against her? She has been plastered all over the news lately. Everyone wants an interview with her to ask about her $150,000 + clothes (was this her doing?). She should really be ashamed of herself for saying those lies about Obama. She’s so quick to call people “jerks” and liars if they say anything negative about her…but when she does it, in her eyes it’s ok…like when she tried to incite hate and violence towards Obama. It’s just so upsetting to see these republicans being so hypocritical and mean. I don’t understand them at all.
(3) Speaking of hypocrisy, Elisabeth Hasselbeck (Sarah Palin’s twin sister), the woman who is so hated by many for her strong republican views, constantly butts heads with her co-hosts. I really don’t think her co-hosts enjoy working with her, eventhough they say they do and they all love each other. I feel they secretly hate her too and they just have to put up with her because this team brings high ratings. What do you think about this?
Thanks again for answering our questions. I really enjoy this site…I feel we have our own little community in here where we can come to share our views, seek spiritual guidance and feel hope! Thank you Denise!

Best wishes to all of you and many blessings!

Denise

Answering Readers’ Questions…

 

First Renee:

Renee in Georgia

Well Mrs. Denise you have done it again…you stated that the racial aftermath of Obama being elected would have some nutcases coming out the woodworks with hate crimes starting to rise.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081115/ap_on_re_us/obama_racial

Will this type of behaivor evaporate or will it get worse?

Hi Renee,

I read the article you sent. Wow, it’s very sad. People seem to find a way to live up to our lowest expectations often more than they do the opposite way around. I’ve been feeling that this will get worse for a little while during Obama’s administration, not that there will be more racist idiots, just that those racist idiots will become more organized and dangerous.

On the other more positive side, I do feel some people who were perhaps not so vehemently racist will soften, and open up a bit as Obama will be an amazing president, and many people will truly admire him. So the vast majority will support Obama. I have a feeling the crazy racist faction has, and is pushing back (as you referred to an earlier post where I talked about that) but over time I see that group splintering into those who become more insane, and those who see their way out of it. Three steps forward, two steps back, that will be the way this goes down.

Next is Sally:

sallyy

Dear Denise,

A question and a comment.

Question: I fear that Monsanto, the producers of genetically modified (GM) corn, soy beans and grain, could possibly bring about a famine–due to their not allowing for a variety of grains (by other companies) to be raised in the United States. In addition to disastrous impacts upon the environment, and GM product’s nutritional defects, our putting all of our eggs in one genetic basket (using only one variety of seeds) could bring disaster if that seed variety fails–like the potato famine. I can not find specific incorporation dates for this company. What do you see astrologically for this company?

Comment: I whole heartedly agree with your 11/13 statement with regard to the religious right. As is stated in this quote:

“The resurgence of fanatical religious fervour occurring in many lands cannot be regarded as more than a dying convulsion. The very nature of the violent and disruptive phenomena associated with it testifies to the spiritual bankruptcy it represents. Indeed, one of the strangest and saddest features of the current outbreak of religious fanaticism is the extent to which, in each case, it is undermining not only the spiritual values which are conducive to the unity of mankind but also those unique moral victories won by the particular religion it purports to serve.” The Promise of World Peace, 1985. Author: The Universal House of Justice of the Baha’i Faith,

Hi Sally,

I looked for data of when this company started, all I could find was when they began trading and I have a 2 charts for that, but they won’t really tell us much about the goings on of this company. It’s odd, this company seems very secretive. I’ll post the charts, but again they are related to the value of the stock, and not what the company is doing.

My intuition is that what happened to the stock market will happen to the agricultural business down the road. With a lack of diversity, and all eggs placed in one basket, the situation is ripe for major devastation of our food sources. This is scary. I will continue to try to find information about this company, and look into it some more. Please remind me in a few weeks if I haven’t posted anymore about it.

Tomorrow I will answer:

Pat

Wished I knew about your prediction back in September re the stock market big fall.

Love your insights here and check it daily for updates.

I appreciate if you could provide an insight as to whether I should hold or sell this AUSTRALIAN stock 

CENTRO PROPERTIES STAPLED (CNP)

before the predicted Tsunami on 21/22 dec 2008

 

Gwen Merrick

Hi Denise,

I came across this site which got me thinking about the trend going on in these various cities (Detroit, Chicago, Atlanta, New York City) all of which are asking for handouts from the Federal government. Is it more widespread that the cities mentioned and is there a particular astrological aspect that runs through them all? Here’s the site:
http://themayorspage.blogspot.com/2008/11/this-is-starting-to-get-scary.html
Thanks again for you insight.
Gwen

 

tckal

Hi Denise:
(1) The Gallop poll shows that Obama’s favorability rating is at 71%. Are the people who didn’t vote for him finally starting to see him as the right person for the job? This rating is very good for someone who hasn’t even taken office yet. Go Obama!
(2) Do you the know the timing of when Sarah Palin will have this civil case against her? She has been plastered all over the news lately. Everyone wants an interview with her to ask about her $150,000 + clothes (was this her doing?). She should really be ashamed of herself for saying those lies about Obama. She’s so quick to call people “jerks” and liars if they say anything negative about her…but when she does it, in her eyes it’s ok…like when she tried to incite hate and violence towards Obama. It’s just so upsetting to see these republicans being so hypocritical and mean. I don’t understand them at all.
(3) Speaking of hypocrisy, Elisabeth Hasselbeck (Sarah Palin’s twin sister), the woman who is so hated by many for her strong republican views, constantly butts heads with her co-hosts. I really don’t think her co-hosts enjoy working with her, eventhough they say they do and they all love each other. I feel they secretly hate her too and they just have to put up with her because this team brings high ratings. What do you think about this?
Thanks again for answering our questions. I really enjoy this site…I feel we have our own little community in here where we can come to share our views, seek spiritual guidance and feel hope! Thank you Denise!

Best wishes to all of you and many blessings,

Denise

A Dream and a Warning…

 

Last night I dreamt I was back in my hometown of Chicago, in the downtown area. Many of the buildings had windows blown off of them. The John Hancock building (I think, it may have been the Sears Tower though) had a hole of windows missing in the center of the building. From the street I could see office furniture and papers riffling from the wind. At first I thought perhaps it was a terrible wind storm that had caused the damage, but in retrospect it seemed more like the kind of damage a bomb would do, one that perhaps wasn’t that powerful, but the sound of which would shatter glass in many buildings. I was then shepherded into a safe zone, and my dream continued.

 

This is the first creepy warning dream I’ve had about Chicago. I had a bunch of dreams about 9/11 that were a cross between Chicago and New York (probably because I grew up in Chicago, and know the topography there, its part of my psyche). But this was definitely Chicago. I was told by the guide in the dream that this “storm” had hit Chicago.

 

As I meditated on whether to post this dream or not, first I was going to talk to my husband about it (who was in the other room while he was sitting on a chair checking his e-mail) one of our daughter’s toys (a brand new one) played a tune. By the way this has happened with all of her toys at various points, sometimes in the middle of the night, which is kind of annoying, but anyway, I’ve gotten used to being haunted. This confirmed the necessity of the post as I’m sure one of my relatives on the other side was responding to me with a confirmation. I had worried about posting this dream because sometimes they are personal, but this did not have that feel, it was very lucid, vivid and I had a guide, which in personal dreams I do not have.

 

Also as I meditated on so many questions about the forthcoming racism, which as I stated will get worse and more scary for awhile, I had a very creepy knowing. I am not so worried about President Barack Obama, he’s not naïve and has incredible protection, but I am worried about Michelle and their two daughters. As sick as this may seem, I feel there is or will be soon, a plot to kill them.

 

On election night the joy and elation I felt from the collective psyche (and my own personal joy) was countered by an intense feeling of hatred. I could feel the anger, racial intolerance and vileness of bigotry stewing on the other side. I was happy to see Barack Obama take no chances and give his speech behind bulletproof glass. He must always be vigilant, but so must his family. I fear that Michelle will see herself and the girls as less of a target and be more open to getting hurt. If anyone out there has access to them, let them know about this. Take triple measures with the girls and Michelle. I am very worried.

 

Later on I will try to get Michelle Obama’s chart and look at it, and again look at President Obama’s to see if there is a particular time frame when they should be most vigilant.

 

Best wishes to all,

Denise

 

 

Answering Readers’ Questions…

Hi everyone, I’ll try to get through some questions tonight, but those I don’t get to tonight, I will get to over the next couple of days. So if you don’t see your post here, and you asked a question, you will see it soon!

The first is from Pat:

Pat

Wished I knew about your prediction back in September re the stock market big fall.

Love your insights here and check it daily for updates.

I appreciate if you could provide an insight as to whether I should hold or sell this AUSTRALIAN stock 

CENTRO PROPERTIES STAPLED (CNP)

before the predicted Tsunami on 21/22 dec 2008

Hi Pat,

Because I don’t have foreign companies in my computer data base could you give me the date when this company started trading? Or if you want to ask a question, go ahead and I can use the tarot instead to answer you directly.

Gwen Merrick

Hi Denise,

I came across this site which got me thinking about the trend going on in these various cities (Detroit, Chicago, Atlanta, New York City) all of which are asking for handouts from the Federal government. Is it more widespread that the cities mentioned and is there a particular astrological aspect that runs through them all? Here’s the site:
http://themayorspage.blogspot.com/2008/11/this-is-starting-to-get-scary.html
Thanks again for you insight.
Gwen

Hi Gwen,

I read the article you sent and ran some city charts which I will post here but I don’t feel this is a city problem. The cities are just the first to feel the effects of the dark economic times we are facing. This is only the beginning and over the next few months we will see more and more scary economic news come out. There has been a lot hidden from us while Pluto transited the Dow’s 12th house. What happened there was bad and the ripple effect will be unfolding. As cities loose revenue because houses will be abandoned and people will not be able to pay for extras there will be a loss in sales taxes, all of these taxes help to keep a community thriving and able to meet the needs of its citizens. But this money won’t be there and projected budgets of income won’t be met, leaving cities in a deficit without being able to fuel new revenue. I’m sure in New York this has a lot to do with the housing market and wall street, and in Detroit the housing market and auto manufacturers and in Chicago the housing market and the commodities market. It all comes back to the housing market and again wall street with those evil predatory loans, this is the main street we heard about so much on the campaign trail but honestly didn’t really make sense until now. Politicians were privy to the goings on of how this problem was trickling down but we didn’t see it, won’t truly see it until Pluto goes over the 1st house of the Dow in late December early January 09. 

Here are some city charts for reference. As I looked at Chicago my fears for its safety were again aroused as Pluto will be making some very bad aspects in 2010 and 2013. I will go into that at a later point. I feel that it will be domestic terrorists this time, not foreign, that hit Chicago. I have a feeling there will be an attempt in 2010 but it won’t work or will be stopped but another attempt will happen in 2013, and that one could be very bad.

On 9/11 transiting Pluto made an exact opposition to New York’s natal Pluto.  And it looks like the transiting Moon was on the 10th house opposing New York’s sun and sextiling the natal Pluto, lighting up this opposition.

Starting in January of 2010 transiting Pluto will be making an opposition to Chicago’s foundation chart’s Venus in the 8th, leading me to believe there will be rumblings or beginnings of some sort of attack. By January of 2011 in the incorporation chart Pluto will be squaring natal Jupiter. I feel these attempts maybe sort of like what happened in New York before 9/11, smaller attacks sort of like what happened when terrorists set a bomb off in the trade center underground parking structure. But starting in January of 2013 transiting Pluto will be making a transiting square to the incorporation’s natal Pluto in the 10th and making a conjunction to the South Node in the foundation chart. This will be when the real trouble will be, however I feel there is still a very good chance that this plot will be discovered in time maybe averted. 

awesome888

Hi Denise,
I am an avid reader of your blog.I was wondering if OZL (OZ Minerals LImited) listed on the Australian Stock Exchange will recover to levels of 12 months ago and when would be a good time to sell stock in that company.
p.s. I bought the stock when the Market was at its peak.

Thanks

Gurdeep

Hi Gurdeep:

Someone asked about Oz Minerals about a month ago, here’s the page with info on that stock. Because it is a foreign stock I don’t have astrological data on it so I had to use the tarot. It looked like the company would stabilize over the next couple of years and be bought out, I’m not sure how that would effect things for you. Hope that helps some. If you have a date when they started trading post it and I will run a chart and give you more detailed info on this company.

http://astrologyandpsychicpredictions.wordpress.com/2008/10/18/answering-readers-questions-7/

Pat

One should look at the USA chart on July 5:10 p.m. or Liz Greene’s chart for 4:50 p.m., Philadelphia…those charts coincide with the planes that hit on 9/11….Liz refers to her chat as the National Chart and if one looks at the transits to that chart one can clearly see the coming Pluto oppose Venus which is the ruler of the M.C. of the USA chart….one will then also note that Saturn is coming to the MC of that chart an ominous sign…??? although it is what Biden had to his M.C…it is clear that he had a winning chart…..however…could this mean something else……do the transits to Obama’s chart for November 14th 2009…12:00 p.m………IF it is a correct time of birth..and that has not been establiched………these are very scary aspects….they coincide with Saturn to the MC of the USA chart ( 5:10p.m. Phil.)….. notice Pluto also squares the MC at the same time……not sure that the signing of the Constitution ( 1787) is the better time to see what may happen….the birth of the country July 4th may be more correct…just take a look for the next 2 years and hope otherwise.
Pat

Hi Pat,

Every astrologer works differently. We often use different houses, different charts depending on what the issue at hand is and even entirely different systems. There is a lot of debate among the astrological community about the chart of the U.S. I use the constitution and the signing as my go to, and usually the signing, because this is actually when we legally declared ourselves free from British rule. I’m familiar with Liz Green’s work, but only as a sort of mass sun sign astrologer which is different then the sort of work more esoteric astrologers and psychics do.

Usually, when a country or an entity of any kind has more than one chart they are accurate about different aspects of that entity or country. I used the U.S. constitution signing because, in this instance, President elect Obama will be steering the laws and direction of our nation, and it seemed fitting that the inception of our country be used instead of the date we celebrate, which many astrologers believe to be wrong, or just the constitutions chart which is fine, but the signing is the manifestation chart, and in my opinion more accurate.

I will however check out Liz Green’s chart of the US. I’m curios to see it.

Louis

Hi I do enjoy your website, thank you for all your work. I was advised by a reputable psychic to hold onto my (Australian) shares and do not enter into the mass fear and loss of confidence that is wreaking havoc on the financial markets. I have so far followed her advice despite being at a large loss with the 2 stocks in mining that I hold. I am feeling a little shaky that I will lose everything. What is your opinion or feeling about the above advice could firm faith prevail rather than feeding into mass fear? To be quite honest I held on because I am at the risk of already losing a large sum, and it was almost too late to sell. On behalf of those like me who may have left it too late are we foolish to hold on hoping things will improve one day?

Hi Louis,

I can ask the tarot specifically about those stocks, whether to sell or not if you post the names of them. On a general note however you are sort of in the undertow now and have to let go, hold your breath and let the wave pass over you. I don’t have a feeling anyone can come out ahead right now and it may take several years to regain what you’ve lost, but I do think it’s possible even probable as long as you’ve invested in solid companies.

This financial situation is going to take a long time to dig out of, but if you can wait, you will more than likely be fine. I must say though, it’s a lot more then fear driving this economy down. This is real. There are some really serious problems that will be discovered, and are being discovered, and it won’t be easy to sort out. I don’t know when the psychic told you to hold your investments, but I would have told you to sell everything back in September which is when I started the blog, and told everyone to get out of the stock market ASAP as it was about to collapse. Please post any specific questions about companies you may have, and I’ll try to get to them as soon as possible.

Best wishes and many blessings,

Denise

And I’ll get to these questions and more over the next couple of days:

doodshippichik

Hi Denise!

I love your blog and have become addicted to it (in a good way, of course) …. what will happen to Joe Lieberman? I feel he can’t be trusted and the Democrats should throw him back to the Republicans, since that seems to be his comfort zone.

Also, as a Floridian, I’m interested in the political futures of current Governor Charlie Crist, and former Governor Jeb Bush. I’ve had enough of the Bushies and their ilk, but I somehow don’t think either of these guys is going away anytime soon.

Peace and blessings to you!

Norah

sunbeyond

The S&P is currently at around 870 , at its lowest point of the coming severe recession depression, will it reach 600? or perhaps even 400?

tckal

Hi Denise:
(1) The Gallop poll shows that Obama’s favorability rating is at 71%. Are the people who didn’t vote for him finally starting to see him as the right person for the job? This rating is very good for someone who hasn’t even taken office yet. Go Obama!
(2) Do you the know the timing of when Sarah Palin will have this civil case against her? She has been plastered all over the news lately. Everyone wants an interview with her to ask about her $150,000 + clothes (was this her doing?). She should really be ashamed of herself for saying those lies about Obama. She’s so quick to call people “jerks” and liars if they say anything negative about her…but when she does it, in her eyes it’s ok…like when she tried to incite hate and violence towards Obama. It’s just so upsetting to see these republicans being so hypocritical and mean. I don’t understand them at all.
(3) Speaking of hypocrisy, Elisabeth Hasselbeck (Sarah Palin’s twin sister), the woman who is so hated by many for her strong republican views, constantly butts heads with her co-hosts. I really don’t think her co-hosts enjoy working with her, eventhough they say they do and they all love each other. I feel they secretly hate her too and they just have to put up with her because this team brings high ratings. What do you think about this?
Thanks again for answering our questions. I really enjoy this site…I feel we have our own little community in here where we can come to share our views, seek spiritual guidance and feel hope! Thank you Denise!

Best wishes to all of you and many blessings,

Denise

wingsofgrey

Hi Denise,

Some time ago a reader asked a question about Mexico and violence. and I was wondering if you could expand on your thoughts on violence in that region. I have several friends that are planning extensive visits this winter to Mexico City, Oaxaca and Chiapas and i myself am considering it. Recently, someone i knew was brutally assaulted and murdered (a US citizen), and another person I knew , an independant journalist, also a US citizen, was shot and killed some time ago. At least one of the murders (if not both) are considered to be politically motivated. Suffice it to say, it has arisen some concern about how safe it is to go this coming winter, and any feeling or input on any increasing violence in the near future would be greatly appreciated.
thanks so much!

Answering Readers’ Questions…

From Wyntyr:

Wyntyr // 

Hi Denise,
I hope you are doing well and I continue to enjoy your blog. I don’t know why but I am picking up some really ‘negative’ (and I hate to use that term) vibes from the Clinton’s. I don’t know if I am picking up Bill’s resistance on releasing financial records or if they are trying to play their hand a little too hard behind the scenes but something feels ‘off’. I definately feel that Hillary is capable but there is an undercurrent somewhere with she or her husband that doesn’t feel right. 

Have a great week Denise!

Hi Wyntyr, I think you’re right, and I feel it’s coming from Bill. I think he’s a bit of a rooster and an alpha dog. I don’t think he likes the idea of his woman being someone else’s even if it is just politically. This is why initially my feeling was Hillary would not be in Obama’s cabinet, but I feel something switched in her on the campaign trail, and feel she is a very good person who will see this as an opportunity to help where she could really do some good.

Also it would cause problems for Bill’s foundation, and he seems pretty self-centered, so I doubt he’d want to put that on hold to help his wife’s career (that much). But you never know! I think she wants the job. And he TOTALLY OWES HER! And she’ll remind him of that! She probably already has numerous times. He deserves a bit of her wrath.

I have the feeling that taking the position of Secretary of State would put her in a better position to become President next time around, because it will add diversity to her political resume. I’m sure she knows this.

I do have the feeling Bill is pressuring her to turn the job down, and I sense a bit of confusion on what to do. Hillary if your out there, take the job! It will be great for you! And you will do far more good in this position then being one of a hundred senators.

doodshippichik

Hi Denise!

I love your blog and have become addicted to it (in a good way, of course) …. what will happen to Joe Lieberman? I feel he can’t be trusted and the Democrats should throw him back to the Republicans, since that seems to be his comfort zone.

Also, as a Floridian, I’m interested in the political futures of current Governor Charlie Crist, and former Governor Jeb Bush. I’ve had enough of the Bushies and their ilk, but I somehow don’t think either of these guys is going away anytime soon.

Peace and blessings to you!

Norah

Hi Norah,

The first part of your question has been answered in recent news, Senator Lieberman is caucusing with the Democrats. In my opinion he is a slimy traitor to his own party, and then kisses the butt of whoever is in power. He really betrayed Obama, after Obama saved his butt in the past, but perhaps this is a lesson in turning the other cheek, which proves Obama is more of a Christian then any President we’ve had in a long time. He doesn’t just pay lip service to the religion. He really seems to live by the testaments and walk the walk, unlike so many others.

It’s ironic people would think him a Muslim when he actually seems more devoutly and truly religiously Christian then any politician in recent memory but oh, well. At this point I think most of us know that the way the word Christian is bandied about and more often has to do with being in a club then actually following the words of Christ, or you wouldn’t have hate mongers, domestic terrorists (people who bomb womens’ clinics, murdering doctors, women and babies) and racist freaks calling themselves Christian.

The religion itself is actually quite beautiful if one lives by the message of Christ rather then falling back on the old testament when convenient to play the hate card. Not to say there aren’t people out there who really do live by Christ’s teachings. I’ve met many and they are amazing people.

OK now onto Jeb Bush and Charlie Crist. Since I don’t have a time of birth on either of these guys I ran solar charts. Their rising will be different because of this, and of course, because the moon moves so fast, the degree of their moon will more than likely be different unless they happened to be born at noon. But I can get some basic info on the inner workings of their soul, and personality based on just their solar charts. So here goes:

OK Charlie, the first thing I got when I looked at a picture of him (I’d never seen him before, I live in LA where are news consists of who won “Dancing with the Stars” and telling everyone its raining outside when its raining outside, actually stopping programming to burst in with updates about drizzle, very annoying.) My first impression was he had heart problems. He may not know this yet, but he has a gray palour to his aura that I’ve seen in people with serious health issues, and if he hasn’t had an incident yet, he’d better go to a doctor as he will soon have a problem (within the next couple of years.) 

In terms of his personality, he’s very out there, probably very charismatic if you were to meet him in real life. He seems pretty open on the surface, and clear, but with that Mars in Pisces as the centerpiece of a Yod between Neptune and Pluto, he’s really not. He’s very sneaky, secretive, passive aggressive, and manipulative. I’m sure though he’s well liked, and I’m not saying he’s a terrible guy, But with all that Leo bravado opposed by a cool Aquarian moon, and then this Yod, I’d say he’s more interested in power, attention and privelage then he is in serving the greater good.

His Aquarian moon may give him some humanitarian tendencies and he may even tell himself he’s doing things to make the world a better place, but really he has to fight the tendency to use his moon to rationaliize his own selfish desire for power, and his dirty fighting and belief that the “ends justify the means,” type of thinking, telling himself he’s doing bad things for a greater purpose when really he’s not, he’s doing it for himself, and using causes to hide behind.

Now I have to be honest, I know absolutely nothing about this guy, his policies, how he ran his election so you’ll have to tell me what his campaign, and administration have looked like so far. I didn’t know anything about him until you posted this question and didn’t look at anything but his birth info so I wouldn’t be tainted while reading him. I have no idea about his record, I am just going on his chart.

In terms of a future in politics, Uranus will be going into Aries in 2011 and start to make a trine to all his Leo planets giving him good luck and raising his public profile. So there is a very good chance he could win another election as governer as Uranus will go from trining his Sun to his natal Uranus, then Mercury, then finally Pluto much later. That perhaps will be when he tries or potentially has a real chance to go for the white house or a much higher position in government if he wants to. I don’t think we’ve seen the last of this guy, I think its just the beginning for him. 

Now Jeb Bush:

My first instinct about Jeb Bush — he’s tired. I get the feeling he’s worn out by politics even though he’s got an incredible drive for power with that Pluto – Sun opposition in his chart. With that Moon in Capricorn opposite the Uranus in Cancer, he probably didn’t see his childhood as being all that idillyic and he’s pretty emotionally shut down. His chart does not show a lot of compassion for women and he probably has pretty hostile love relationships, were there is a lot of fighting. He likes a woman who is strong and fights him back. But he also resents it. He is much smarter then his brother with Sun conjunct Mercury trining his Saturn conjunct Neptune. He’s a very smart guy. I wonder if his personal life gets in the way of his political ambitions, not directly, but I feel he gets absorbed in his relationships and has trouble balancing things. Also this Pluto sun opposition inconjuncting his Moon makes me feel like its sort of the family business and he’s not entirely sold on it.

That being said Uranus will go over his Mars around 2011. In his case I’d have to see where this falls in his chart to tell how it will manifest. Sometimes this aspect can cause accidents especially injury to the head. But hopefully not, hopefully it will cause some sort of intellectual inspiration and a change of heart in his life for the better. I don’t get the feeling at this point though that he’s going to be all that involved in politics for awhile. Maybe ever again. I feel his energy waning in that direction. Maybe he’ll change his mind down the road but for now he’s walked off this path.

sunbeyond

The S&P is currently at around 870 , at its lowest point of the coming severe recession depression, will it reach 600? or perhaps even 400?

I will ask the tarot: 

Will the S&P reach 600 in the next few months: Maybe. It looks like that depends on what gets decided over the next few months with the auto makers. If they go under the S&P will go down.

Now I’ll ask if it will get down to 400 in the next few months: A bizarre answer as all the cards are positive, but the answer is also a yes. Perhaps it will bottom out first and turn around pretty quickly. It seems there will be a horror show, a major down turn and then suddenly good news out of the blue which will cause new opportunity and a sense of victory. I have no idea what this could be.

I’m getting the feeling that the market will be extremely volatile, but there will be some measures taken by the new administration in the face of this very frightening time coming up, that will reinstate confidence in the market and turn it around, but it doesn’t look permanent at first. It seems that the market will plunge and then rally, in a similar way as the Dow, but will ultimately go through a major transformation and there will be new laws put in place that will end up first freaking out the S&P, these laws will help us avoid future calamity, but will scare investors. It may take a couple of years or more for this market to again really stabilize and heal.

I have to go my baby is crying. So I will answer the next set of questions and hopefully more tomorrow.

Best wishes to all of you,

Denise

Answering Readers’ Questions…

OK I’m going to answer 3 questions from one reader tonight and also tackle the auto industry mess. I did not have time today to watch their plea for money today, but here are the charts of 2 major auto industry giants, and some indication of their fate.

Personally, I don’t feel that the companies should be bailed out, the workers should be. By this I mean instead of giving them 25 billion to these companies to screw things up some more, why not give all of the workers a decent severance pay, and re-education training, then make the overpaid CEOs who have run these companies into the ground, repay the 25 billion dollar loan off by selling their private jets, downsizing their homes, and selling off their assets until they lifestyle is commensurate with their job performance.

For the past 30 years these companies have made crappy cars, been in bed with the oil companies, have laid of thousands of workers without any concern for them (until the crocodile tears we’re seeing now) and haven’t invested in research, design, engineering or technology. According to the free market capitalism they’ve been playing ball in, they deserve to go under. All they are going to do with this money is waste it. So I say give it to the people who need it, the workers — give them enough to survive the transition into a new field of work and retrain them. That will ultimately do the economy a lot more good then throwing money down a golden CEO toilet.

Now you may say, hey Denise, you thought the bail out for wall street was OK, what gives? Well, I did think the first package, the one that didn’t pass would have helped a great deal, but the compromised one would do no good. And in that case the problem was worldwide like a global leukemia that needed immediate chemotherapy. Unfortunately, before that happened someone stuck a bunch of saltwater in the IV instead of the needed drug, and it didn’t kill off the bad paper (which is causing a strangle hold on the economy) it just watered down the problem. This is real trickle down economics, bad decisions by the greedy to steal the poor’s money through false promises of being able to buy and afford the American Dream of owning a home. Now its trickling down to us all paying for their con.

So lets look at Chrysler and GM’s charts and see if bailing them out is worth it.

I think GM will get a bail out, but they’ll have another crisis of major proportions in 2011, and very likely go under at that time, so I don’t see the point of bailing them out. They are going to fail eventually, it’s only staving off the inevitable. It would take a miracle, over the next couple of years, for them to turn this company around, and make the coming transiting Pluto opposing their natal Pluto be a change for a better rather then the death of the company. I think its really throwing good money after bad with them, but congress in its freak out state will try to do something, the money may not really come into their possession until mid-late January of 09 though.

OK, now here goes with Chrysler. Again they are headed for total destruction. But not immediately, I don’t want to bother going into all the dreadful aspects with them, there are too many. They really don’t have a chance of making it in the long haul. By 2012 they will be collapsing in on themselves. Again, giving them money will only hold the coming problem off until then, but I feel congress will try to rescue them as well, but it will ultimately be for naught. They are in even more serious trouble then GM. And they are not very upfront with their business. We’ll find out about a lot of bad stuff in 2012, a lot of smarmy activity and reckless business dealings. 

This is very sad. Anyone who works in this industry, my advice to you is this: You have a couple of years, take classes at a community college or any sort of school that offers you a new career opportunity. The medical field, nursing homes, funeral businesses, prisons, the federal government and institutions of all kinds will be growing over the next twenty years as Uranus (and then Neptune) transit through Pisces. So nursing, being an MRI tech, x-ray tech, funeral director, prison guard, government employee, will all be areas of opportunity. Start taking classes in a related field and do research on careers ruled by Pisces, there are many. Find one that seems interesting and get education to go into that new field. You don’t have very long, so don’t waste your time trying to keep your auto industry job unless you want to move to wherever they make Toyotas and Hondas.

tckal

Hi Denise:
(1) The Gallop poll shows that Obama’s favorability rating is at 71%. Are the people who didn’t vote for him finally starting to see him as the right person for the job? This rating is very good for someone who hasn’t even taken office yet. Go Obama!
(2) Do you the know the timing of when Sarah Palin will have this civil case against her? She has been plastered all over the news lately. Everyone wants an interview with her to ask about her $150,000 + clothes (was this her doing?). She should really be ashamed of herself for saying those lies about Obama. She’s so quick to call people “jerks” and liars if they say anything negative about her…but when she does it, in her eyes it’s ok…like when she tried to incite hate and violence towards Obama. It’s just so upsetting to see these republicans being so hypocritical and mean. I don’t understand them at all.
(3) Speaking of hypocrisy, Elisabeth Hasselbeck (Sarah Palin’s twin sister), the woman who is so hated by many for her strong republican views, constantly butts heads with her co-hosts. I really don’t think her co-hosts enjoy working with her, eventhough they say they do and they all love each other. I feel they secretly hate her too and they just have to put up with her because this team brings high ratings. What do you think about this?
Thanks again for answering our questions. I really enjoy this site…I feel we have our own little community in here where we can come to share our views, seek spiritual guidance and feel hope! Thank you Denise!

Hi Tckal,

Question 1:

I think this is because there were many people on the Republican side who knew Obama was the better man for the current job, even McCain admitted he didn’t know much about the economy. McCain certainly isn’t a dumb guy, but between the two men, Obama has a superior intellect, something we are in desperate need of after 8 years of a monkey (George W, ironically looks like Curious George to me only he’s missing the curios part) banging on a typewriter hoping to write MacBeth. 

Many people identify themselves with a party kind of in the same way they identify themselves with a religion. They are raised Catholic so they call themselves that, but they never attend church, are pro-choice, don’t know if they believe in God, hated CCD and never read the bible. But they have incorporated Catholic into their identity because that’s what their family was, or is, and so they think of themselves that way even though they really aren’t. This goes for the brands Republican and Democrat.

I’ve seen people on both sides misidentify themselves because of this same issue. For instance (this has happened to me more then once and on both sides of the fence) I have a musician friend that when we first met told me, he was a Republican. I found this hard to believe because everything he said and did ran counter to this identity. So I asked why he said he was a Republican. His answer was, “that’s the way I was raised.” 

“OK,” I said. “So your anti-choice?”

“No,” he replied.

“You’re anti-gun control?”

He shook his head.

“So your all for the, ‘just say no to drugs thing.’”

He smiled mischeveiously.

“You believe in criminalizing drug offenders?”

“No,” he said.

“Well, you’re not a Republican then, you’re a Democrat,” I finally said.

After a few weeks of thinking about what he believed, and the platform of both parties, he realized he really was a Democrat, and not a Republican, but it took someone confronting him on it for him to think about it. I think a lot of people who identify themselves as Republicans couldn’t do the deed of voting Democrat because it would be like being a Bears fan and going to Soldier Field, sitting in the Bears section, and rooting for the visiting Broncos to win. It’s a loyalty issue. Odd as that may seem.

Personally, if the Democrats started acting like Republicans, and Republicans like Democrats, I’d become a Republican. Doubtful this will happen anytime soon, but for me, and I’m sure most people who read this blog, its the ideology of fairness, compassion, kindness, humanitarianism, helping out those in need and being open minded (as long as they aren’t violent or vile or something like that) we are loyal to, it’s not the brand name Democrat. But not everyone thinks this way. So I think of the71% you mentioned, that extra 18% or so of Republicans, they wanted to vote Obama, but couldn’t make their hand punch a hole next to the word Democrat.

2) Oh, Sarah Palin…

See all that stuff in her 7th house? That rules court cases and the public eye, she has and has had Neptune (glamour, confusion, delusion) going back and forth over all those planets this year which is probably why she was tapped (astrologically speaking) for the position of VP out of relative obscurity. I’d say the suit will be filed next year, and will come to fruition (either in settlement terms or a court case) in 2010 when Neptune hits her Saturn (hello, karma).

3) Elizabeth Hasselbeck…

I don’t know if you heard of the study done by Dr. Drew Pinsky about narcissism and different sorts of stars. Musicians had the lowest, or most normal rates per capita of those he studied, actresses (interestingly not actors) the second highest percentage of NPD over the general public, and guess who had out of control NPD? Reality TV show personalities. Turns out they had this mental illness in overwhelming numbers. Need I say more? 

OK, I will. This mental illness (in its extreme) or tendency often makes people difficult to deal with. They have major entitlement issues, and this, as we have all known people like that, is not fun to deal with.

However, I’m not saying Elizabeth Hasselbeck has this problem (I’d have to look at her real chart, not just solar to see if she has it, Sarah Palin does, though).

I have often wondered about your question as well. I do have the feeling she drives the rest of the women on the show a bit crazy, but I also get the feeling she’s probably very nice to them, and I don’t feel she holds onto anything. Despite her annoying views, I have a feeling she’s pretty upbeat, and when not talking politics, or ideology is probably good natured, and fun to have around.

So in answer to that question, I’d have to say, I think she was driving them nuts during the election, but they don’t hate her. And now that its over I’m sure any rifts can be patched.

Hold on tight, we’re getting closer to the wild ride.

Best of luck to all of you and many blessings,

Denise

Answering Readers’, Stock Market Edition…

Hi Everyone,

Since we are in a market free fall and as predicted in Mid-September the real tsunami will happen at the end of Dec until the end of January. It won’t really be over then, but that’s when we’ll really see some scary stuff, much scarier then we have already. So in an effort to help as many of you as quickly as possible with all the instability on that front I’ve consolidated the stock market questions here. There are a lot, and I hope to get to them all tonight, but I maybe being too ambitious, we’ll see. I’ll try. If not today then they will be resolved over the weekend.

Let me remind all of you I’m a freaky psychic, artist type, and don’t know anything about the stock market. I’m only going on what my freaky psychic ability gives me and my knowledge of tarot, and astrology so when you write questions to me, make sure to dumb them down. Or I have to just go with the tarot and ask straight yes/no questions because I often don’t understand what the ins and outs are of particular financial issues, except for very basic stuff about how the market works.

I mentioned in a post a while back that there was a lot of money to be made on the down side of this market, but I wouldn’t advise people who aren’t super savvy with short selling, and all that jazz, to try this during this insane period. Would someone out there who does understand how to do this, please write a comment about the ins and outs of this to educate us? I will take the comment, and turn it into a post, and put it up with credit to whoever takes this on. Perhaps this could be a way for many people who lost a lot of money to make it back over the next couple of months. Think of spreading your knowledge as a public service.

OK, here goes!

 

 

hopeandaplan

Hi Denise,

Hope you are well. I know you must be getting overloaded with insights and chaos as things start to unravel. You know me with my Moon in Capricorn I am trying to shore up my nest egg… So i have two questions. The first is what do you think of shorting the Dow, betting that it will go down using a Dow etf short over the next 3 months?

Secondly, Etrade stock accounts are not FDIC insured so if we do have anything in the market when chaos strikes can Etrade confiscate it to cover their Banking and Lending arm. Their savings accounts are FDIC insured…. Thanks for looking out for us. All the best to you and your family!

Hi Hope and a Plan,

I think betting the stock market will go down is like betting ice will melt on a stove. I don’t know much about short selling but, yeah, it’s going to go down. And I do think you can make money betting it will go that way.

So I asked the cards if you could make money that way, just to make sure:

The answer: Maybe.

You really have to know what you are doing. If you get someone to help you, it looks like you know a man who is very generous who would be willing to give you advice in this area, then yes. But you really need to understand how all of it works, and your timing has to be impeccable so, talk to people, do research before you go for it.

I asked the second question to the cards.

Again a Maybe.

It seems that they will not have money, be economically depressed, and use their clients money to keep afloat, but I don’t have a feeling this will be legal. So they will eventually have to pay people back. But of course if they go out of business you’ll be out of luck. So you might want to be safe and put your money into one of the FDIC insured accounts where they can’t touch it.

oceanhawk1

I hate to say this, as it is not a profession that I believe is for the sane, however with these incredibly volatile swings in the market, I have gone back to my origins as a day trader and have been cleaning up. When i taught day trading for some the shops on Wall street, I told everyon 2-3 out of 10 may survive this style of trading. It might be time for short jump back to the days of the soes bandits!

Hi Oceanhawk,

Maybe you could educate us on how to short sell! I agree that if you are well trained and understand short selling and all that complex stuff, and are not a normal everyday person with some long term investments in the market, you can make a bundle. I actually talked about that in another post. However for normal people who stick their money in an IRA or 401k, or a couple of stocks and plan to keep them until retirement, those people need to get out and wait for awhile before re-investing when the market is stable again. Most people fall under that category. I wish I understood the market better to even begin to understand how to make money short selling.

I recently saw an episode of Nightline that addressed the issue of short selling, and talk of making it illegal in the future. It seems there were investors who were actually destroying companies to short sell and make money off them this way, which I guess was what set off this issue of making the practice illegal. 

 

 

Pat

Hi Denise

Appreciate your reply to my question re Centro and you asked for the start date. here it is-

Centro was incorporated as Jennings Properties Limited on 18 February 1985, and following a prospectus issued in August of the same year, shares were issued on the Australian Stock Exchange. In 1991 the Company was renamed Centro Properties Limited, and in September 1997, the Company was restructured to a stapled security structure named Centro Properties Group.

Hope this helps and also do not mind your reading using the tarot cards too. Just to refresh the question – Is this stock worth holding or to sell before the coming Tsunami around 21/22 Dec 2008? Or is there any hope of this company surviving?

One more question re your predicted Tsunami around 21/22 Dec- does that mean the US Dow will fall big time and the flow on effect on the rest of the world stock markets like here in Australia.

Thanking you in anticipation.
Pat

Hi Pat,

I can’t really run a chart without an exact date, and place at the least and since there are so many I wouldn’t know which was most useful. I’ll ask the tarot if it would be best to sell this stock before the end of December:

This is a Maybe. And I sense from the card layout, if you can wait a long time, it will be OK. If not sell within the next week or so. The sooner the better in this case.

In answer to the second question. That’s a big YES according to the tarot with the tower card coming up in the upright position — the super bad position. So it looks like the fall of our economy will trigger a domino effect that will sweep across all the markets like it did in October only in a much bigger way.

javahaaa

Denise, do you see any positive movement in the US stock markets – Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500 or Nasdaq Composite in the next 2 weeks (Thanksgiving week, and 1st week of December), before your December tsunami begins in earnest? I trying to intuit if there’ll be some “bounce” up before that big downturn starts, and getting stuck. Thanks for your blog and answer – hopefully within a day or two!

I’ll ask the tarot. Will their be a “bounce” up in the S&P 500 in the coming three weeks?

The cards say yes and no. The next couple of weeks won’t be good but in about 3 weeks there will be big turn for the better before the plunge. Perhaps this will be when the announcement to bail out the auto industry takes place.

Will there be a “bounce” up in Nasdaq Composite in the next three weeks?

That’s a basic no. But it actually looks like next week there will be some sunshine and better spirits and then back down. It doesn’t quite look as dire as the S&P or the stock market though.

Will there be a bounce up in the Dow Jones Industrial Average over the next three weeks?

That’s a no. There maybe one day in a few weeks that looks OK, where it goes up a bit but that’s as good as it will get. That day will be in the middle of the week. And it won’t last, the volatility will continue until the plunge.

Hey Denise,

With so much talk about companies bankrupting...I was curious about the wireless
industry and what will become of Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile?
Thanks,
Amber
Sent from my BlackBerry wireless handheld.
Hi Amber, 
I couldn't find data for any company except AT&T Wireless. If you can find the start dates for the other companies I can run charts on them.
Here's AT&T's chart:
It looks like they will have problems with companies they have partnered with over the next couple of years but once they get over that aspect they will do really well. 
Actually they have an incredibly healthy and prosperous time starting in 2012. So it could be they take
a hit because of the economy and their investments like everyone else but will recover and do very well.


The next question is from someone wishing to remain anonymous:
Thanks, also, I have two stocks QCOM qualcomm and SNDK sandisk, that I am thinking of holding. But I'm not sure how they'll perform.
So here are the charts for Qualcomm and Sandisk:
Pluto is transiting Qualcomm's 12th house of loss. I have no idea what this company does or is, but it
isn't good to have Pluto transiting this house, that being said in 2014 transiting Pluto will be making
very good aspects to the natal Jupiter and the natal Moon as it conjuncts the natal Uranus. So there will
be some sort of unexpected restructuring that helps this company and makes it very profitable for a period
of time or a new technology or innovation that really gives them a boost. However, Pluto will be going
through this company's 12th for a very long time and will hit Neptune, then sextile native Pluto
so there will be up and downs, and a lot of restructuring behind the scenes, but ultimately when
Pluto goes over the ascendent in 2019, this company will be dramatically transformed or will parish.
Even though Pluto is going through the 12th (death and loss house) it is making good aspects.
So I would say in general this company will have some serious troubles, but manage to reorganize itself
and do OK once the market recovers a bit. Right now though Pluto will be on the cusp of the 11/12 houses
starting in the very beginning of December and that is very likely going to cause serious loss. So
if you can leave your money in this company for a long while it will probably be OK, but not until
2012.
Now for Sandisk:

Transiting Pluto is just about to make an exact inconjunction to the company's natal moon again in early December, late November.
Both are at 0 degrees. This aspect is not good for their investors, and I'm not going to bother with the astro speak,
just tell you that this will cause a crash in value for investors which will continue until transiting Pluto
opposes the company's part of fortune in Cancer in 2010. There will probably be some trouble then with
partnerships or legal issues they will have. Once they solve that they should do better in 2011. So if
you can wait for at least a couple of years, preferably longer, then you should recover some of the losses you will
have in the coming months. 
I can't say whether people will make money holding onto stocks however as I
have this weird feeling it's going to take a long time to get the market value up to the place it was
when most people bought their stocks. Even though things will be getting better. And companies maybe
doing OK, its sort of like what happened with the dot.com thing where everything became so overblown
there was now way to get back to where the height of those values were at their highest point.
It's my intuition that it will really take a decade for many people (those who remained in their blue
chip, stocks and made conservative investments) to get to the fiscal place they were a year or so ago.
I feel the value of the markets will rise as things change, but it won't be the wild ride we've seen, it will be more of
a steady goat climbing a mountain.

OK, my baby just woke up so I have to excuse myself and answer the following questions tomorrow:
Here's a sampling of the next batch.
Best wishes, many blessings and good luck to all of you!
Denise

 
awesome888
Hi Denise,

Thanks for the reply. In regard to further info,

OZ Minerals is a merger between 2 companies - Oxiana and Zinifex.

The name OZ Minerals was approved by share holders on 18 July 2008 and started trading under that name on 23 July 2008. Hope this is sufficient info.
God Bless
Gurdeep
barry
For the people that have taken your advise and sold stocks and went to cash this year, when do you adivse investing again? I have a lot of cash in a money market fund in my 401k waiting to do this. I have a choice of 2 US domestic bond funds, 1 foreign fund and several US domestic stock funds. What would you invest in and when would you start? Thanks for doing this.
 
To
Hi Denise,
thanks so much for your blogs. I really enjoy coming back here. You have predicted a stock market “Tsunami” for December. Things are so extremely bad already… how much worse can it get…? Do you see the Dow Jones Index going below 6000 in December…? Also, do you expect Deflation or Inflation in 2009? Are they going to print so much money that the dollar becomes completely worthless and we will finally need a new currency, or o you see the dollar getting stronger, like right now?
Thanks a lot in advance,

your advice is truly appreciated!
Ninja
Dear Denise,
you are awesome. Thanks for taking the time and write to us all.
I am holding stock from the company AUY. Do you see the price going back up to between 10 to 30?
Thanks a lot,
keep up the great work,
Ninja

patrick

if Hillary becomes the Sec. State, hopefully she will not be excessively distracted by outside drama or personal career plans, etc.

Truthseeker

Hi Denise firstly i would like to thank you on answering my question about GM and i look forward to the answer on Iran. I agree with this blog on the Auto industry 100%. Even with a bail out of 25 billion this would only last 2 -3 months as it costs 11 billion to keep afloat For GM alone. They will run out of reserves in roughly 1-2 months time.

Grace

I’m afraid you are right there, Denise. ( It’s too bad these people have to be so mean.

Do you think this bomb is from domestic or foreign terrorists?

Also, you’ll probably answer this tomorrow, but won’t Michelle Obama get bored just doing First Lady stuff? She’s a high powered lawyer herself with a promising career that she has just side lined. Will she be working in a professional capacity behind the scenes?

Another question about a woman and politics…

Chelsea Clinton worked a great deal on her mom’s campaign. She seemed to really be enjoying herself. She’s got the degree for it and she’s been around the halls of power all her life. It just seems natural for her to go into politics herself. Do you see Chelsea in politics in the future?

One last question, do you see a place for Arnold Swartzenegger in the Obama administration? I know he has asked to “join the team” several times publicly.

Thanks in advance! I love your blog.

jerry mulrooney

It’s a strange feeling within me that is so at peace and sees all possitive future experiences peaceful. I am not religious (organized religion) and cried when President elect Obama was elected. Obama seems like he gets it, worldwide. Whether he can make a difference with the problems we have today, will remain to be seen. Maybe he will convince the world to in John Lennons words, “give peace a chance”,

Marie

Thank you in advance for answering my question.

If Obama chooses Hillary for the Sec of State job, will she be a team player and represent him to well or will she be a disappointment to Obama?

Will Gov. Richardson be offered a position in the Obama Administration?

Clarification on Stock Information by Javahaa

Hi Everyone,

Thanks to Javahaa who clarified a lot of details and issues I can’t really answer. He warns against people who are not sophisticated in the art of investing to try short selling. That was my feeling but I don’t know how complicated it is to learn so, I’m just a freak, what can I say. Please read his very informative post. It answers many questions about shorting and other issues.

Thanks again to Javahaa!

javahaaa

Denise, something you said needs to be clarified, for the benefit of your readers, re ETrade/FDIC/stock holdings, because I know you do not want to give wrong information. I’ll also address, briefly, the ’short’ issue for regular folks. I am a professional investor (and read you out of curiousity and respect for intuitives, though I don’t base my work on it). You are right, that investment assets (stocks, bonds, mutual funds) in brokerage accounts aren’t FDIC insured. This goes for mutual funds held at a mutual-fund company, too. But, your assets are covered by “SIPC” insurance, are kept separate from the investment firms’s own assets, and can’t be seized by the government or creditors if the firm goes under. For example, anyone with an account at Lehman didn’t lose it -their money was separate from the firm. Any reputable brokerage firm, and any you’ve ever heard of is, like ETrade or Schwab or Merrill Lynch, etc., has “SIPC” insurance that covers your brokerage/mutual fund assets up to $500K, and has private insurance (often from Lloyds) to a much higher amount than that. If it’s a firm you’ve never heard of, always verify that a firm has SIPC and additional insurance before giving your money to them. Private “pooled” investments, like hedge funds, usually don’t. SIPC insurance does _not _protect your investments from market fluctuation or investment loss just because the stock/fund has gone down in value. It just protects their value on the day a firm goes under, like Lehman on Sept 16, until they can be transferred to another brokerage firm. That transfer happens ASAP, but it may take a few days, which means you can’t buy or sell anything during that time. SIPC protects the value until the transfer is complete. Eveyone should know, too, that if they opened an account at a bank that has stocks or mutual funds, or purchased an annuity there, it’s a _brokerage_ account, not a bank account. The only thing an FDIC-insured bank account will have is cash or CDs. Also, a brokerage account at ETrade, etc., may actually have cash assets that are FDIC insured – this is different from a “money-market fund”, which is not. Ask the firm. A CD, whether bought at a local bank or in your brokerage account, is always FDIC insured, since banks create these (and sell them on the “open market”, not just your local branch). As for “shorting”: For those who think the market is going down and is not already a sophisticated investor, they should _not_ take a crash course in shorting stocks. Shorting is dangerous – you can lose a lot more than you started with – and should be left to professionals. However, the regular investor can easily purchase an “inverse” fund, which goes the exact opposite of the market. I won’t name any, but there are 2 mutual-fund companies that offer them, and a whole lot of ETFs that do; Google to find (I caution anyone against using leveraged funds when inversing. ..and if you don’t already know an ETF is, or what a leveraged fund is, then you shouldn’t get into these in the first place). If you want to understand these more you can always interview an experienced, local financial advisor for education and help (I am remaining anonymous and will not answer questions on this or any other blog). Never do anything you don’t understand, or don’t understand the downside risk of, even if someone is helping you. Again, while the average investor can easily purchase funds that inverse the market, only sophisticated, experienced investors should actually “short” stocks or get involved in futures or options. Unless, of course, you don’t mind losing lots of money. And, Denise, I would caution you in any advice you allow to be posted on this subject.

More Stock Market Advice (trading on the downside) by Betterdaysahead

Thanks to reader Betterdaysahead for this very informative comment which I’m posting here for everyone to read more easily. 

betterdaysahead

In regards to trading the stock market and making money on downside action; I would say that one may want to look into and learn about trading stock options. They can by Puts to play any downside action (Calls for upside action). If they own the stock they can sell Calls. The positive side of buying an option is that the potential loss is limited to the actual amount of the cost of the purchase of the option.

For example, if one spent $1000 on a Dow Jones Index (DJX) Put option with the ideal the DJX is going down further, then if the market did go up the most that one could lose is $1000. There is a ton of info out there online for one to learn about option trading so one can do their research. In my experience, and if one was just getting started. I would suggest buying an option that will expire at least 90 days out, and that is either “at the money” or slightly “in the money.”

The full explanation of these terms can be learned in the many resources available online on how to trade stock options. It would take too much space here to explain. Option trading has limited risk and maximum profit possibility, and in many cases it would be better, and certainly does not require one to have a “lot of money” to trade options, as compared to trying to short sell an actual stock(s) which could lead to unlimited losses, even of money not in an account. So I would say to your readers that if they want to pursue making money in the markets on downside action they should strongly consider trading stock options. Additionally, the profits come faster and at a greater percentage rate than trading the actual stock.

Discount Private Readings, What?

Hi everyone,

As a Yule tide offer on December 9,11,12,16,18 and 19 between Noon and 6PM PST I will cut rates for a 15 minute reading to $50, for half an hour $100, 45 minutes $150 and for an hour $200.

I want to give people on a budget a chance at a private reading with the New Year coming and so many changes heading our collective way. So e-mail me at happypeopleusa@aol.com soon to reserve a time in that period. For more information in general about private readings check the page entitled Private Reading (how to get one).

During this period I will book readings very tightly so if you realistically think you will want half an hour or more then book it in advance! Because chances are good I won’t be able to extend time with you. Under normal circumstances I’m very generous with my time (as those of you who have had readings with me know) and try to keep a wide window around readings, but I want to be able to give many people readings, so I won’t be able to do that during this window of time. If you do want to just book a 15 minute period then it will have to be a tarot reading and make sure to have questions prepared so you get what you want out of the experience.

(I’ll go old school and just clairvoyant it up. One of my first job’s as a psychic, I had to read very quickly under a lot of pressure — that’s a story in itself, I won’t bother to go into.)

Best wishes to all and many blessings…

Howdy, all…

I’m sorry, but I’ll have to post the answering readers’ questions later today! Hope all are well and some of you were lucky enough to recover a bit from the small bounce we had today.
Best wishes,

Denise

More Clarification on Working the Down Side of the Market

Thanks to reader Ftrsman who writes in with further clarification about working the down side of the market! 

ftrsman

Hey, Denise, great site, thanks so sharing so freely! Didn’t think I’d ever write in, but I have to say something about trading options. While put options are a way to make $ if something goes down, and betterdaysahead is right, technically, saying ‘limited risk with maximum potential”‘, that’s making it sound a little too good. Over 95% of regular investors lose every cent they ever put into an options contract, so their ‘limited risk’ keeps happening over and over. (The minute you buy an options contract it starts losing value, because it has an expiration date, and few non-pros understand when an option is fairly priced to begin with). Another poster is right in saying it should be left to professionals.

Right now the options market is really screwy, because people are paying for fear and the normal parameters of price/time/volatility just aren’t working (IOW, the move has to be so big, and relatively fast, before the risk/reward pays off – it’s not simple like ‘the dow goes down 5%, your option goes up 5 or 10 or 20%. ‘ ). A lot of pro options traders are staying on the sidelines because pricing is so screwed right now. Besides, any pro will tell you that a newbie who wants to trade options oughta not just take a basic course online or wherever but spend a year or more ‘paper trading’, meaning, practicing on paper, and if they start doing that right now, a year from now the ‘big move’ may be over (but the next year may give a good education). If they really want to, s/he could give some $ to a pro options trader, but you usually have to start with $50K-100K, and I don’t know if I’d be trying someone new out right now. Don’t mean to be a joykill, but don’t want to see anyone hurt. There’s nothing wrong with cash.

Answering Readers’ Questions (Stock Market and More)

More questions! I’ll get to as many as I can tonight and the rest over the next couple of days.

 

awesome888

Hi Denise,
Thanks for the reply. In regard to further info,
OZ Minerals is a merger between 2 companies – Oxiana and Zinifex.
The name OZ Minerals was approved by share holders on 18 July 2008 and started trading under that name on 23 July 2008. Hope this is sufficient info.

God Bless

Gurdeep

Hi Gurdeep,

Thanks for the info. Here is Oz Mineral’s founding chart:

Here is their trading chart:

The first chart I can’t be sure of the time, I used the start trading time of Australian Stock Exchange so I’m going to go on the second chart which will be more accurate and also be more appropriate as it will apply to those people who own stock in this company.

I would say there will be losses as Neptune returns to 23 degrees Aquarius in the 5th house in February of 09 but then as Uranus hits Mercury in the company’s 10th in March of 09 and trines natal Uranus and the Moon in the company’s 6th house there unexpected productivity which will lead to unexpected profits especially seen about a year later in April of 2010 when this aspects completes itself with a trine to the part of fortune in the 8th (investors). That will also be when (more toward the end of April but still, very close) when Mars will hit the company’s Venus (ruler of the 8th) and Neptune will be out of the 5th house of speculation and making an applying sextile to Pluto in the 3rd house from the 6th, which means there could be loss of some jobs as the company relocates or opens up another division somewhere else and lets some people go in the process, but it’s not a huge loss of jobs or anything. If you’re going to sell I’d wait until that period of time, it looks much better at that time. This stock will rebound and you will very likely regain any losses or make money if you wait it out until then.

Next from Barry:

 

barry

For the people that have taken your advise and sold stocks and went to cash this year, when do you adivse investing again? I have a lot of cash in a money market fund in my 401k waiting to do this. I have a choice of 2 US domestic bond funds, 1 foreign fund and several US domestic stock funds. What would you invest in and when would you start? Thanks for doing this.

Hi Barry,

I can’t give you a logical answer like an investment person would only an intuitive one. Personally, I would wait until at least March of 2011 when Uranus moves out of Pisces and into Aries. Things will be more hopeful, and there will be much more market confidence in certain areas by then. But I have a caveat, Pluto will be going through Capricorn (which rules business, major corporations and markets) until 2024 and Neptune through Pisces until about 2025, which means we are going to see the end of business, capitalism and the markets as we have known them.

There is going to be major restructuring throughout the next (nearly) 20 years. And this will be on a global scale. You will have to really educate yourself not just the history of the markets, and any funds you are interested in, but you will also have to be able to follow all the nuisances, and changes that will be perpetually coming.

I know some financial people are saying there won’t be a depression, others are saying it will be the worst depression we’ve ever known. But truly, I don’t think either are correct. This is going to be a period unlike anything we’ve seen. I don’t feel it will resemble the 30s except on the very surface. I have a feeling the world will work together to solve this crisis as I’ve posted long before there was any talks of this or foreign leaders coming together, etc.

There will be a period of adjustment and I don’t think financial people really have a clue just how radically things are going to end up changing. As I’ve said before I feel there will be international laws put into place not just regarding lending, but on trading as well, the markets will somehow be tied together in a new way, and instead of this hodge podge of pieces there will be a uniting off all markets into a truly global economy. But this will take many years, and happen piece by piece.

So to better answer your question, please post or e-mail me (so you can remain anonymous if you wish) specific funds and a time frame so I can do a yes/no spread about them. The trend here I’m seeing is too big, and wide, that I can’t see the trees inside this forest unless you point them out.

Also a shout out to anyone who has some advice on foreign and domestic funds, perhaps a break down of what’s positive and negative to help out Barry and all other readers. I’m a psychic/artsy fartsy type I’m not a hedge fund manager so I can’t logically answer this question it’s too broad for me. Give me something I can do a chart on or a tarot reading about!

 

Ninja

Dear Denise,

you are awesome. Thanks for taking the time and write to us all.

I am holding stock from the company AUY. Do you see the price going back up to between 10 to 30?

Thanks a lot,

keep up the great work,

Ninja

Hi Ninja,

I’m mental with the stock symbols. Can you please post the name of the company and if you have the date it started trading and where that would be ideal, in case I don’t have it in my database.

Sorry about that for now, but I will answer you when I can run a chart. Or if you have a specific yes/no question I can do that, too.

 

Hopeandaplan

Hi Denise,
I thought you and everyone would find this article/interview interesting. The financial strategists mention that around Valentines Day as the potential bottom of the market. This coincides with everything you’ve been saying about the first wave of the worst ending late January of next year. Thanks to everyone who shares their thoughts and of course, Denise who shares her insight, gift and wit. I look forward to you all every day.

“Pros Say: No Market Bottom ’til Valentines Day
The Big 3 U.S. automakers may have reached a bailout compromise Thursday – or not. Citigroup shares hover near $5, even after mega-investor Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal said he’d boost his Citi stake to 5 percent. Strategists told CNBC to expect more volatility – and no bottom for months yet.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/27824439/ “

Thanks for the information Hope and a Plan!

 

Chris

Denise: Will there be a bailout for the American public or are lawmakers going to continue down the wrong path of bailing out their business buddies?

These stimulus packages Obama wants aren’t designed well enough. Because my business pays almost nothing in taxes due to our HUGE equipment write-offs, I’m not provided any of the stimulus.

Just curious if this bailout madness is going to either stop or come to who really needs it?

Thanks!!!

 

P.S. LOVE your blog. Don’t stop! Wish I could afford your private readings… 

Hi Chris,

This is an excellent question! It seems like the country has cancer of the eyeball and they are doing radiation on our femur. It’s kind of insane. I’m hopeful that it will get better with the new administration, but lets see what the cards say.

I asked if the new administration would focus on bailing out the people instead of big corporations. 

The answer: No.

But it’s not as bad as it seems. There will be change and much more help to those who need it. But it won’t be as much as many would like or think is necessary. The problem is they will keep trying to bail out companies to “save jobs” but they will also most likely extend unemployment benefits, pass health-care reform and also try to help people keep their homes, stuff like that, but by comparison it really won’t be commensurate with what they are doing for these big businesses that have been mismanaged, and deserve to go the way of the dodo for their idiocy and overpaid moronic CEOs. The money they spend bailing these companies out (which in my opinion those CEOs should have to sell all their assets off first and live like normal human beings if they ran their company into the ground, then they should loose their jobs and have to worry about money like anyone else does) would be better spent on education and on restructuring these companies. 

I don’t know if anyone saw Michael Moore on Larry King tonight, but he had a great idea; basically bail out the car companies, but take them over, kick out their management, and have them producing hybrids, mass transit vehicles, and cars that run on everything other than gas. I guess FDR took over the automotive industry when he came into office, and had them manufacturing airplanes, tanks, etc. for the war effort. Moore felt the government should take over the companies if they’re going to give them 25 billion, and make them help solve our reliance on oil in the process.

Moore was of the same split mind as most of us. These auto makers have been refusing to make good quality desirable products for the past 30 years, and now they want a hand out! It’s despicable and causes an immediate gag reflex before the repercussions of their failure hit the conscious mind. Moore had a good point. If these jobs go under there will be a huge ripple effect. And we can’t afford millions more jobs lost. So maybe socializing the auto industry not just by giving them money, but by actually making them do something productive would be a way out of the mess.

I doubt, however, this sort of strategy will be enforced. I’m sure this bail out will happen before the Obama administration gets in, and it maybe too late for the Obama administration to implement that idea depending on how the deal goes down. Let’s hope for all our sake congress uses their collective brain cell to figure this one out before signing off on our money like they did last time.

The second bail out package shouldn’t have happened, it did no good! The first one I believe would have made a difference, but so much was compromised, and ruined trying to get the Republicans on board that the bill was castrated. The only good that bill did was restoring a little faith that our government had a desire to solve the mess our country created. I think it bought us a little bit of diplomacy and that’s about it.

These questions will be answered over the next couple of days!

Best wishes and many blessings to all,

Denise

 

patrick

if Hillary becomes the Sec. State, hopefully she will not be excessively distracted by outside drama or personal career plans, etc.

 

Tobe

Hi Denise,

thanks so much for your blogs. I really enjoy coming back here. You have predicted a stock market “Tsunami” for December. Things are so extremely bad already… how much worse can it get…? Do you see the Dow Jones Index going below 6000 in December…? Also, do you expect Deflation or Inflation in 2009? Are they going to print so much money that the dollar becomes completely worthless and we will finally need a new currency, or o you see the dollar getting stronger, like right now?

Thanks a lot in advance,
your advice is truly appreciated!

 

Marie

Thank you in advance for answering my question.

If Obama chooses Hillary for the Sec of State job, will she be a team player and represent him to well or will she be a disappointment to Obama?

Will Gov. Richardson be offered a position in the Obama Administration?

wingsofgrey

Do you think that your dream with Chicago as a target, has any connection to the 2016 bid for Chicago Olympics? Considering that Atlanta was a target, it doesnt seem to unlikely that another Olympics in the US could be a target.

Tina

Hi, Denise–

What a gift this is! Aquarian breadth with Piscean depth taking on all the issues of our times. I truly hope you’ll pursue publishing this. I can’t be the only one needing this vision, this hope, and this inspiration.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Yours,

Tina

From Americhrist, 2008/11/21 at 5:38 PM

ArthurThe savings account component of my eTrade account is FDIC insured or at least they have the little FDIC logo there.

barry

Hello again. Here is a unique question. When within the next 75 days would you recommend a marriage date for these two people? Born 7/28/56 Chillicothe, Ohio and 8/17/80 Olongapo, Philippines. Any other advise would be appreciated too. Thank you again.

Tjuania in Desoto, Texas

Will Tim Geitner be a good Secretary of Treasury?

Answering Readers’ Questions…

Hi Everyone!

More questions from readers. I’ll do my best to try and answer them.

patrick

if Hillary becomes the Sec. State, hopefully she will not be excessively distracted by outside drama or personal career plans, etc.

Hi Patrick,

Well, it looks like Hillary is going to take the job, but it won’t be officially announced until after Thanksgiving for some reason. That’s what I heard on the news at least, but you never know.  I can understand your concern about Hillary and drama, the Clinton years were full of that problem and she appeared to be very hawkish when running for president. So let’s see if she will be distracted by outside drama or personal career plans.

The tarot’s answer: Yes. But not so much in terms of her performance on the job.

She’ll be distracted to a degree by her husband. The pattern card comes up. And a man is in the center. It looks like Bill will cause her some personal anguish, the ace of cups reversed is also there. But she has the six of wands, victory in business or career also, so I’m going to say she’ll do a great job, and be an excellent wing woman to Obama, however her husband may have trouble being on the side lines.

I get the feeling Monica wasn’t really the first time she dealt with Bill’s infidelities, and I don’t think it was or is the last. There is a high probability that stuff will get leaked out about other infidelities he’s had, or may have, but I don’t get the feeling it will have much impact on the Obama administration. It will be more of a personal impact on Hillary not so much her job. I think Bill might be a sex addict. I feel bad for her. The worst part is she’ll feel humiliated because of his behavior, and that’s really not fair.

Tobe

Hi Denise,

thanks so much for your blogs. I really enjoy coming back here. You have predicted a stock market “Tsunami” for December. Things are so extremely bad already… how much worse can it get…? Do you see the Dow Jones Index going below 6000 in December…? Also, do you expect Deflation or Inflation in 2009? Are they going to print so much money that the dollar becomes completely worthless and we will finally need a new currency, or o you see the dollar getting stronger, like right now?

Thanks a lot in advance,
your advice is truly appreciated!

Hi Tobe,

I’ll ask the tarot if the Dow will go below 6000.

The answer: Yes

I saw the number 5986 while I was focusing on this question. But I could have flipped some of the numbers. Maybe 5896? I do feel that in the end of Dec/early Jan. we’ll see it get into down into the high 5000 range.

In answer to the second question. My feeling is that because the whole world will be in similar crisis our money by comparison will fluctuate, but not get to the point where we have to use a barrel full of money to buy a gum ball. So I guess we’ll see inflation, but it will be world wide, and our dollar will be nested in about the same place its been for awhile.

It’s kind of like we’re all on the Titanic together, so buying someone’s diamond ring that’s worth two hundred bucks for ten million dollars isn’t going to matter because we’re all sinking. In other words value will have an entirely different meaning within this new context.

I also see a world currency as a direct result of this crazy financial debacle. Once the international banking and market laws go into effect, it very likely will go that way out of ease of use. But I don’t see that happening right away. That’s at least a few years away. At least. And this could change depending on what happens over the next couple of years.

Marie

Thank you in advance for answering my question.

If Obama chooses Hillary for the Sec of State job, will she be a team player and represent him to well or will she be a disappointment to Obama?

Will Gov. Richardson be offered a position in the Obama Administration?

Hi Marie,

I do feel she will be a team player. I have a strong feeling that Hillary is worried this might be the highest office she will be able to attain due to her age and her husband’s notorious past. I really feel her heart is in this, and she will acquiesce to Obama’s policy. The campaign (which started almost immediately after she became a senator in my opinion) was her trying to show how tough she was and invulnerable. This stance ruined her. Both these characteristics are actually more antithetical to her then the public would think.

I feel she played tough for fear of seeming weak, and like someone who isn’t really tough, and doesn’t understand the boundaries, she overplayed this in an effort to be one of the boys. I don’t feel she is truly hawkish. I do feel she played to win according to the rules she had in her head, and didn’t follow her heart. If she had been true to herself she would have ended up being President and Obama VP. But she blew it a long time ago. Pretty much from 9/11 on when it seemed she traded in her true passion for a power pant suit. That being said, I feel we are going to finally get the real Hillary here.

As for Bill Richardson the press has already answered that one. It seems he’s going to be in the new administration as well, which is great. I meant to answer this question sooner because I had a strong feeling Obama would find a place for him but now it’s too late to show my clairvoyant skills off.

wingsofgrey

Do you think that your dream with Chicago as a target, has any connection to the 2016 bid for Chicago Olympics? Considering that Atlanta was a target, it doesnt seem to unlikely that another Olympics in the US could be a target.

Hi Wings of Grey,

By the way is this an owl reference? I love owls! They are my life long totem animal. Anyway, that’s another story, another post. 

I feel Chicago isn’t going to be a target of domestic terrorism earlier then 2016. That was my immediate feeling. Which will be before the olympics, but that’s a good question. It may make Chicago vulnerable again at that time to other attempts.

I asked the tarot and it answered: Maybe.

I’ll have to look into the astrology around that time to glean anything further. But my immediate feeling is Chicago will be a target much earlier then that, and I’m worried about that attempt right now. 

Tina

Hi, Denise–

What a gift this is! Aquarian breadth with Piscean depth taking on all the issues of our times. I truly hope you’ll pursue publishing this. I can’t be the only one needing this vision, this hope, and this inspiration.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Yours,

Tina

From Americhrist, 2008/11/21 at 5:38 PM

 

Hi Tina,

Thanks for your kind words and for posting this about my book!

malayali

Hello Dennis, why are you avoiding me. I need your help. Please comment regarding NIFTY. Expecting your valuable advice… your friend, malayali

Hi Malayali,

I need you to give the start date of trading of this company, the name of the company, and what market it is traded on so I can run a chart. I thought I had posted this before, but I’m sorry if either I didn’t and thought I did or you missed the post. I’ll be glad to look at it if you give me more info. Sorry for the delay. 

Wishing all of you the best!

Here’s a sample of the next bunch of questions:

barry

Hello again. Here is a unique question. When within the next 75 days would you recommend a marriage date for these two people? Born 7/28/56 Chillicothe, Ohio and 8/17/80 Olongapo, Philippines. Any other advise would be appreciated too. Thank you again.

Tjuania in Desoto, Texas

Will Tim Geitner be a good Secretary of Treasury?

Louis

Hi Denise I very much appreciate your reply and your time. The psychic advised me in October to hold on to the Australian stocks I hold. One you have answered with Oz minerals. The other is Minara Resources MRE ( Nickel and Colbalt Miner) which began on 17th March 1994. I couldn’t agree more that this crisis is more than fear and although it hurts many of us little people who have become victims of greed and deception, this crisis had to happen because we must come back to real values and respect for each other. Competition, winners and losers, victims and predators are not a healthy way to live and is unsustainable in the long run. May all the things that are good eventually prevail . And the ‘meek inherit the earth. One other question I have, although I like Hilary Clinton I am unsure of her possible position as State Secretary. Do you think if she took on the role would she be able to negotiate peacefully with other nations and create healing with those nations that are angry with America’s previous actions, interference and foreign policy? Thankyou so much

Iris

Hi Denice. This is my first time posting here. I have a question. Have you done any readings on Michelle Obama and Jill Biden? I am interested in getting to know about them and what will they do in the next 4 years.

Thanks!

Iris

Jean

Hi Denise,

Can you give me some advise on a couple of mutual funds? I had originally thought that I would just hold them through this – but if it is going to get much worse, perhaps I should sell. I just don’t know how low they will go, or how long it will take for them to recover.
MEURX
MDISX
Thanks,
Jean

Cathy

Hi Denise,

I am interested in the stocks for Boeing (BA) and Airbus (EADSY) – how this ecomonic crisis will effect them and should we hold out for the long-term?

Answering Readers’ Questions…

 

barry

Hello again. Here is a unique question. When within the next 75 days would you recommend a marriage date for these two people? Born 7/28/56 Chillicothe, Ohio and 8/17/80 Olongapo, Philippines. Any other advise would be appreciated too. Thank you again.

Hi Barry,

I wouldn’t feel comfortable giving a good time specifically without the birth times of both people. In general both people are Leo’s and there are a bunch of conjunctions. I can’t tell however if their moons or rising signs are square or in the later case, trine or whatever. The woman born in the Philipines hasn’t gone through her Saturn return yet, meaning she hasn’t completely come into her own. That will happen in September of 2009.

If it were me, in this case because there is a big age, and cultural difference, I would wait until that return happens and get married October of 2009 when there are a lot of positive aspects between the outer planets and stuff going on in both charts. If one can’t wait then it’s best to do it while the sun is in Sagittarius, either the weekend of December 5 or on the 10, or 11th.

But mostly I’d just go with your own gut feeling, and do it when convenient. Stuff like marriages and births have a tendency to work out the way they are meant to. So I wouldn’t sweat it too much!

Tjuania in Desoto, Texas

Will Tim Geitner be a good Secretary of Treasury?

Hi Tjuania,

That’s a big yes from the tarot.

Oddly a woman is at the center of this answer. I feel his wife maybe a secret weapon. It looks as though he works very hard. Also the Justice card comes up which makes me believe he’s got a diplomatic personality, and works well with other people, often moderating between different people’s opinions, and coming up with a workable solution.

It also looks like as he gets into the job he’ll soon uncover a lot of deceptive practices, and out right lying that took place on wall street. This could potentially lead to a criminal investigation which could also be why the Justice card comes up. There is another woman involved in the pursuit of justice along with him. This probably won’t happen right away, at the earliest it would be three months into the Obama administration when this angle is considered. Perhaps it will be Nancy Pelosi or another powerful woman (Hillary?) who insists on prosecuting those responsible for what will turn out to be a major swindle of the American public and the world economy. We are only seeing the tip of the iceberg here. There are people involved in this who definitely deserve to do prison time. Whether they do, that’s another question altogether. 

Louis

Hi Denise I very much appreciate your reply and your time. The psychic advised me in October to hold on to the Australian stocks I hold. One you have answered with Oz minerals. The other is Minara Resources MRE ( Nickel and Colbalt Miner) which began on 17th March 1994. I couldn’t agree more that this crisis is more than fear and although it hurts many of us little people who have become victims of greed and deception, this crisis had to happen because we must come back to real values and respect for each other. Competition, winners and losers, victims and predators are not a healthy way to live and is unsustainable in the long run. May all the things that are good eventually prevail . And the ‘meek inherit the earth. One other question I have, although I like Hilary Clinton I am unsure of her possible position as State Secretary. Do you think if she took on the role would she be able to negotiate peacefully with other nations and create healing with those nations that are angry with America’s previous actions, interference and foreign policy? Thankyou so much

Hi Louis,

I’m assuming that Minara is also an Australian stock traded in Sydney? If not let me know. I ran a chart for it based on the info you gave and the start time of the Australian stock market. Here it is:

I’m wondering if this stock performed well in the spring and summer of 2006. Because if it did then this chart is accurate. It would have been off and on during that period and sort of out of the blue. In general though the company should have had other troubles going on that I won’t bother going into, but it should have had a little unexpected boon during that time period. If it did not, then take this info with a grain of salt because I may not have the right chart and timing in the market is everything, and without the right chart, the timing will be wrong.

So here goes.

According to this chart transiting Pluto is (and has been for awhile) going through the company’s 8th house (shareholders) not a good thing for the shareholders in general. However, there are some good aspects coming up starting at the end of December of 2010 and into 2011, when transiting Pluto will sextile the company’s Saturn in the 10th. This will bring them opportunity to do (or do more) business abroad, and news of this will make the stock value go up. And again when Pluto sextiles the company’s Mars in the 10th in February of 2011 on until about 2012, when the opportunity for the company to fulfill some its expectations, and become more aggressive, perhaps even expand operations, that will give this company more value. There will also be an opposition at that time to the company’s part of fortune which can either mean jackpot or crisis. So you’ll have to watch them carefully as all these aspects are sextiles and sextiles are merely opportunities, not absolutes.  Also during this time Neptune will be conjuncting the company’s Mercury either making them come up with visionary solutions or it could cause lying, confusion and secrecy.

Really, if you can wait until 2016 to sell, I’d do that because there will be very powerful trine from transiting Pluto to the company’s Moon, and also it will set off Jupiter. I would not however freak out right now and feel you have to sell this stock. There isn’t anything going on in its chart to make me think it’s going to fold anytime soon. So if you can wait out this storm, then it will get better. Remember though, I’m an astrologer and a psychic not a financial investment person, so it’s also a good idea to seek advice from someone who knows the logical side of this as well.

Iris

Hi Denice. This is my first time posting here. I have a question. Have you done any readings on Michelle Obama and Jill Biden? I am interested in getting to know about them and what will they do in the next 4 years.

Thanks!

Iris

Hi Iris,

I couldn’t find their times of birth so I ran solar charts on them. Here are both women’s solar charts.

Both women are forthright, strong with Mars near their Suns, they are also aggressive, physical, athletic and don’t back down. 

Michelle is emotionally very soft and compassionate which foils her very aggressive, ambitious outer personality. Her luck has always been because she made it herself with Jupiter in Aries. She’s a humanitarian with Saturn (the ruler of her Sun) in Aquriaus, plus that Mars in Aquariaus conjunct her Sun. She’s extremely brilliant with Uranus/Pluto trining her natal Mercury. I do worry about Michelle Obama’s safety more than anyone else. And looking at her chart in February of 2010 Pluto will be going over her natal Mercury. If she has Gemini or Virgo rising this could be a very bad thing as Mercury would rule her chart or if she has Mercury in her 8th house. I warned before about her safety and to me this confirms my fear that she maybe more of a target then even her husband. Perhaps because she will be seen as easier to get to. I’m worried about her.

Jill is also intelligent and has a strong sense of family and probably values her privacy a lot, and is a bit of a homebody. As I said she’s also strong and aggressive, but not overly so as Mars, and her Sun conjunction are softened by a trine to Neptune. So she makes her point, fights it out, but not unfairly and also listens to the other person. Despite all the airy Gemini in her chart she’s pretty practical with Mercury in Taurus, and likes the finer things in life, and is willing to work hard for them — Mercury trine Saturn in Virgo. She too like Michelle has made her own luck in this world, and probably came from modest beginnings. I’d say for various reasons that I won’t get into, she’s also very sensual in a good way. She’s affectionate to those she loves, and isn’t afraid to express her feelings with her family.

Hopefully there times of birth will become public at some point, and I can give a better analysis.

Best wishes to all and many blessings,

Denise

I’ll get to these questions tomorrow! (And other posts, too.)

Jean

Hi Denise,

Can you give me some advise on a couple of mutual funds? I had originally thought that I would just hold them through this – but if it is going to get much worse, perhaps I should sell. I just don’t know how low they will go, or how long it will take for them to recover.
MEURX
MDISX
Thanks,
Jean

Cathy

Hi Denise,

I am interested in the stocks for Boeing (BA) and Airbus (EADSY) – how this ecomonic crisis will effect them and should we hold out for the long-term?

Answering Readers’ Questions…

Hi Everyone:

If I don’t get to post for the next couple of days that’s because I’m in a non-wireless zone, so hopefully I will be able to wish you all a happy Thanksgiving on Thanksgiving, but if not:

Happy Thanksgiving!

OK, now more questions. This first one is very important because remember all the financial posts I had done and how if Barack Obama were to win our situation would actually get better, not immediately, but it still would be less dire even in the short term.

Well, I’ve been thinking a lot about that. I can feel the panic in the air as I’m sure all of you can, but I also have a feeling with this aggressive restructuring of the market we are currently undertaking, the beast will be tamed to a large degree. I’m not saying there won’t be people losing their jobs, and several shaky years when people will feel unsure about their employment, their investments and what’s going on in the world financially, but I am feeling (and seeing) that this Pluto aspect (once Obama is officially in office) will actually be more about restructuring then about total devastation.

It’s as if we were in a big car barreling down a freeway at 150 MPH, headed toward a sink hole when the passenger yanked on the car steering wheel and the car lurched away from our certain death, totaling the car, but everyone lives, and has varying degrees of injury. 

So while that sounds kind of insane and scary, and it is. Our future is not nearly as bad as it would have been. We have in a way, saved ourselves from certain disaster. We will still have to pay for the sins of corporate greed, but I believe their days (at least for several generations to come) of being robber-barons is over. And the world as a whole (if we stay on this path) will find its way out of crisis.

So here’s the first question from Anonymous:

From Anonymous:

The big concerns expressed by some economists, is the perilous time before the inauguration which obviously coincides with your prediction. Evidently, in the 1930′s, the delay between the Hoover administration and FDR’s was disastrous. It appears that Obama’s administration has been getting the message and he is inserting himself into the Bush administrations’ management of the economy. Do you see a possibility of the tsunami being avoided if this trend continues? (Hope springs eternal)

Hello Anonymous,

I won’t go as far as saying the tsunami will be entirely avoided because there’s only so much Obama can do until he becomes president, but I do feel his inserting himself into the situation is absolutely a blessing to us, and will soften the blow a great deal. I feel this for a number of reasons:

1) He is reminding us (while we are panicked) that there is a competent leader who will carefully and cooly appoint the right people, and delve right into this on day one to fix the problem. This is kind of like cuddling your baby when he has an ouchy. This in itself I feel is helping to some degree to reassure us from total panic.

2) He is making good well measured decisions that are inclusive of all sides of the argument, further reassuring us that he is willing to listen to whatever idea is best no matter what side of the aisle or whether it be left, right or center. I think this is very important right now that the best idea win, politics aside.

3) We are in uncharted territory here with the economic crisis, and conventional wisdom isn’t going to work. Even the financial experts, deep in the pit of their hearts know this, and we can all smell their fear. This is exacerbating the market because they keep lying to the public when they are aware that they really can’t give advice right now, there is too much novelty, too much emotion and things are far too volatile to predict. But Obama’s measured, cool demeanor and show of strength really helps to calm this sector down. People respond to strong leadership which he is showing. 

I do feel that we’ll have a strange couple of years, and by the time its over we won’t recognize the way the market works anymore. It will be very different. It’s the end of capitalism as we once knew it.

It will no longer be a free for all anything goes as long as it can make money sort of ideology.

As I’ve said before in many posts, there will be new international banking, and trading laws that we will have to abide by, and the world will come together to make sure this never happens again. This means a lot of dirty underbelly will be exposed and rooted out, and a new way of doing business will be ushered in.

So it’s really hard for me to know how many companies will collapse under the weight of these new laws, and how many will be strengthened by it, but my gut feeling is it will be corruption darwinism, with the worst offenders dying off. That being said it will take awhile to discover all the nooks and crannies of these company’s books, and the market will be pretty nutty for awhile.

From Amber:

Denise, I found the information on t mobile and when they filed the merger with the security and exchange commission to become t mobile. I hope this is sufficient info. 

Here’s the chart:

  

Hi Amber,

I don’t see anything catastrophic here. It looks like they will be fine through this, they may actually expand into other communication services, the worst of it is they may have to lower their prices, or cut rates and try to go into encouraging usage in a more traditional home phone kind of way.

Jean

Hi Denise,

Can you give me some advise on a couple of mutual funds? I had originally thought that I would just hold them through this – but if it is going to get much worse, perhaps I should sell. I just don’t know how low they will go, or how long it will take for them to recover.
MEURX
MDISX
Thanks,
Jean

Hi Jean,

Can you give me the stock names and also if you have their first trading or incorporation date in case I don’t have it in my database. If you can’t find it don’t worry I’ll try to find it, but if you can find info on it, then I will be able to answer you much more quickly.

Cathy

Hi Denise,

I am interested in the stocks for Boeing (BA) and Airbus (EADSY) – how this ecomonic crisis will effect them and should we hold out for the long-term?

Hi Cathy,

Here are 2 charts I found for Boeing:

There will be opportunity for them to be more profitable, but they have to make some major changes. It looks to me that this stock will be very volatile for the next couple of years, and go through some very major shifts, even perhaps changing what they are known for making and potentially getting more into experimental or innovation orientated/research driven work. That’s there best chance at staying valuable. Otherwise as Pluto makes opposition after opposition to Mars, Mercury (the chart ruler), Pluto and then the Sun, this company could go under, but that won’t be for awhile, not until about 2020. So you have some time here to decide when the best time to sell is.

I couldn’t find anything for Airbus. Do you have their incorporation date or the start date of when they began trading? If so please post it in a comment and I’ll run a chart for you.

Best wishes and many blessings to all of you.

And of course have a great Thanksgiving!

Denise

Mumbai India

Hi Everyone,

I’m sorry I couldn’t post for the past 2 days. Especially with the terrorist attacks going on in Mumbai India. I have a feeling this was part of the reason the Tower card kept coming up for this month and why I had the creepy terrorist attack dream about my hometown of Chicago.

Before the 9/11 attacks I had both types of things happen, both dreams of skyscrapers falling in Chicago and the tower card showing up. I believe this is because Chicago is my dream-scape city, generic stand in for all major cities since I grew up there. I wish the dream could have been more specific and I could have warned people in advance, perhaps though this dream was a warning of this and not literally of Chicago, but then again, premonitory dreams often have multiple layers of time built into them, so I hope this is not also linked to some sort of future attack in Chicago.

I am going to run a chart specifically for Mumbai India and for the start of this terrorist attack and try to see if there is some pattern between it and other attacks.

Oddly, last week I had run a chart for India, Pakistan and a bunch of other countries in the region, and was going to do some analysis of what was going on there, but didn’t get a chance. I wish I would have now. 

This is such a horrible and hideous tragedy. I feel so bad for all the victims and their families, and will pray (as I hope all of you will, too) for a peaceful crossing over for those souls who died during these attacks.

Answering Readers’ Questions…(India & Pakistan War?)

Hi everyone. Hope everyone had a good holiday for those of you in the US. And I’m very sorry for those who went through the horrors in Mumbai. Wishing all the people of that city much peace and healing in this very troubled time for them. I will focus on issues regarding this area of the world in this post.

 

Nitin

Hi Denise,

hope u r well. thanks for all your contribution for the blogs. My main concern was always qantas and another recent incident 3 days ago mean a qantas airplane had to shut down one engine and land on one engine only. My gut feelings are not good.

Also i would like to mentioned that i had the weirdest dream the previous week and it looks like nightmare. Then came the Mumbi attacks. I just learned that a family friend who was staying at the Taj got killed. may be my dream was an omen.

Now the next question is Will India and Pakistan go to war?

why i think it is imporant to ask this question is because it would have an impact in the war on terror in Afghanistan. I feel a new test for president elect Obama on international affairs is coming.

Hi Nintin,

I thought of you when I heard there had been a crash of a training jet. I think it was New Zealand Air which of course is not even the same country, but it is in the general area of Australia. I always think its best to trust your own intuition especially if you or someone you love is directly involved with the issue at hand. You more than anyone will be plugged into the zeitgeist of that company especially if you are an intuitive type which it seems you are. So trust yourself. What’s the worst thing that can happen by doing so? If you work for them, you get another job and nothing goes wrong with the company. Well, maybe its because you were meant to move on with your life. And even that is a good reason to listen to your intuition. 

I want to stress here for EVERYONE: ALWAYS TRUST YOUR INTUITION! It will never lie to you. It will never lead you astray. It will always guide you, if you let it. It is intuition that saves peoples lives in crisis situations. IF SOMETHING OR SOMEONE DOESN’T FEEL RIGHT — TRUST YOURSELF! Forget being polite, forget social morres. I have hear countless examples of people trusting themselves and barely escaping serial killers and those who went against everyone intuition and were later nearly murdered. 

Why do you think all the animals on the island of Sumatra started walking up hill hours before the tsunami hit? Trained elephants were seen literally breaking free from their chains just hours before the water rose. These were animals that had never exhibited this behavior before. The answer is simple. They have instinct — intuition. Something we all have, but humans turn it off, and chose to listen to our logical brain. We talk ourselves out of our feelings, often at our own peril.

So if your about to get on an airplane, and you suddenly feel really panicky, and have no logical reason why, have always been fine before a flight, and just start to sweat, or itch, or something weird as you stand in line to get on — bail out. I hearby grant you permission! Death isn’t an worthy test of your psychic abilities. 

It’s my feeling that in the case of 9/11 and in Mumbai, Madrid and in London were these attacks have taken place, more people were not killed because they did get a weird feeling, and people trusted it. There should have been more people who died in all of these situations which tells me, and it should tell everyone, some part of us knows danger and that part is ALWAYS to be TRUSTED. Above and beyond logic, psychics, preachers, priests, gurus, presidents, authorities, whomever. 

Now for your next question. I’m going to post both the charts of Pakistan and India here and do some analysis:

OK, I know I posted a lot of charts, some are comparisons from India’s side, then from Pakistan’s side of the equation. It’s interesting to see how at the very beginning both of these countries were very similar, and would have gotten along like twins. 

Then the second chart for Pakistan when it became an Islamic Republic, still has some commonality with its mother country, but takes a strong turn. 

Looking at the transits on the start date of the Mumbai terrorist attacks and onward, Pluto was at 0 degrees Capricorn (a critical degree) exactly opposing India’s Mars and in Pakistan’s original chart, their Mars as well. It was also making an exact inconjunction to India’s rising. Pluto rules nuclear power, mind blowing experiences, the occult, death, the hidden and unseen, power over others and Mars rules aggression, war, fighting, guns, weapons of all kinds, the military, etc.

There was also an exact fatal Neptune opposition from Aquarius transiting the country’s 10th house, opposing the country’s Sun. This was also an attempt on the part of the terrorists to disrupt India’s business and wound the spirit of the country, and the feeling of safety not just for westerners, but for Indian nationals as well.

Transiting Uranus was also making an applying square to the country’s Jupiter in the 6th house (almost exact), giving chaos a greater opportunity. Luck was not on the India’s side. Uranus also was making an applying inconjunction to the mid-point of the natal Sun and Venus, so the health and financial well being were suddenly disrupted, and men, women and children were all fair game to these disgusting vile sickos. 

India (as we all know) has been recently blaming Pakistan for the terrorist attacks, and calling it their 9/11. Now here’s the very scary part: transiting Pluto will be at 2 degrees of Capricorn, going through Pakistan’s 9th house of foreign countries, squaring the countries Mars. This happens around the 20th of January 2009. This could very much mean a retaliatory attack from India against Pakistan at that time, and it could (with Pluto’s involvement) involve nuclear weapons, perhaps not the high powered kind we have, but still. This information may not be known to the general public right away, if ever, or might not come out immediately because of the 12th house involvement. It maybe that India takes out terrorist camps with dirty bombs, or some kind of weapon that isn’t like Hiroshima, but smaller, more targeted and meant to surgically destroy a particular area. But chances are good they won’t just use traditional weapons with this transit and are more likely to use very powerful, surgical type of warheads or nuclear type of weapons.

Transiting Neptune will also be opposing Pakistan’s natal Jupiter in the 5th house in January, exactly. I would think there would be some global confusion in terms of their alliances with other countries at that time, also with Jupiter conjunct Pluto in Leo in the 5th it seems this country has a tendency to control its children to a pretty extreme degree, this Neptune opposition could put these children in real danger. I’ll put this bluntly, it looks like there is a strong element of brain washing geared toward children, and children are often gambled with in order to gain power (Pluto conjunct Jupiter in Leo 5th house), with this Neptune opposition, many of them could die as a result of them being used for a particular ideology (Neptune=loss, 11th house=ideology). So it could be that many of the terrorists and terrorists in training are actually pretty young, some even children.

Then into late February Saturn will retrograde, making a transiting opposition to Pakistan’s natal Mercury in the 12th house (ruler of the 3rd and 6th), I believe causing more conventional type of conflict perhaps an invasion across the boarder from India into Pakistan (3rd house) perhaps even declaring a sort of martial law or a take over of the country (6th house of general health of the country, Saturn being constriction, opposing Mars violence, 12th house behind the scene and ones hidden enemies).

All in all, I’m going to say there is a very strong chance that come early-mid January of this year we will see talks between India and Pakistan break down completely as transiting Mercury will oppose India’s natal Mercury and there is no glue nataly between India and Pakistan, they really do not know how to communicate with one another. Pakistan has Mercury in Pisces in the 12th, very duplicitous, sneaky, religious in an organized religion sort of way, intellectually repetitive and India has Mercury in Leo in the 3rd, very bold, dramatic, intellectual, wordy, perhaps even threatening things they often don’t ever intend to do (under normal circumstances). They are like a goat and a pig trying to carry on a conversation, just doesn’t work. Once talks break down, this is when we will see targeted nuclear strikes coming from India in my opinion toward the end of January and then there is a strong possiblity of a conventional war/invasion in February.

OK, I was planning on going over a bunch more questions tonight, but got very absorbed in all the charts relating to India and Pakistan.

I will get to the question of NIFTY tomorrow. 

Malayali:

Do you have the start date of when that market began? And when trading starts each day for NIFTY? I can run charts based on that and give some analysis. Please post it if you have that info. I will try to do some research myself in the mean time and I will post about it tomorrow.

NIFTY: India’s Stock Market: Chart and Analysis

I’m dedicating this entire post to Malayali’s question of what the future holds for NIFTY.  Malayali has been very patient and done a lot of research to bring insight into the stock market side of what is going on in India. 

Let me remind everyone again, I’m not a financial person, just a monkey with an ephemeris, tarot cards, computer and some astrology charts. So try to bare with me.

Here is an explanation from Malayali on what NIFTY is and then the chart and analysis will follow.

 

malayali

Hi Denise, thanks for your humble reply. With lot of respect… here are some details regarding NIFTY. The National Stock Exchange of India Limited or S&P CNX NIFTY (NSE), is a Mumbai based stock exchange. It is the largest stock exchange in India in terms of daily turnover and number of trades, of both equities & derivative trading. NSE is also the third largest stock exchange in the world in terms of number of trades in equities. Though a number of other exchanges exist, NSE and the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) are the two major significant stock exchange in India, and between them are responsible for the vast majority of share transations. The NSE’s key index is the S&P CNX NIFTY, known as Nifty, an index of 50 major stocks weighted by market capitalisation. The Standard & Poor’s CRISIL NSE Index 50 or S&P CNX Nifty nicknamed Nifty 50 or simply Nifty. The Nifty is a well diversified 50 stocks index accounting for 21 sectors of the economy and is the list of bluechip stocks listed on National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) (nseindia.com). Nifty is used for variety of purposes, often used as the benchmark of trading the health of the Indian Stock Markets, and also used for benchmarking fund portfolios, index based derivatives and indux funds. Nifty 50 Index started with a base value of 1000 on November 3rd, 1995. I hope you won’t disappoint your friend. I believe, that your predictions will hit the desired targets. Expecting your valuable advice & comments on NIFTY….. your friend, fan & believer….. malayali….. (Life’s Highest Value of NIFTY Index = 6357.10 dated 27th November, 2008) & (Current Value of NIFTY Index = 2752.25 dated 26th November, 2009). But today, 27 th November, 2009….. both NSE & BSE is closed due to the terror atacks on Mumbai. For more details & NIFTY charts, log on to : nseindia.com

BIG correction : (Life’s Highest Value of NIFTY Index = 6357.10 dated 8th january, 2008) & (Current Value of NIFTY Index = 2752.25 dated 26th November, 2008). But today, 27th November 2008….. both NSE & BSE is closed due to the terror attacks on Mumbai. For more details & NIFTY charts, log on to : nseindia.com. I’m sorry,… typing mistake, malayali…

After searching the Historical Index Charts of NIFTY (nseindia.com)… the start date of NIFTY is on 3rd July, 1990 = 279.02 (Index Closing Value). Each day, Nifty Index trading starts from 09.55 A.M to 03.30 P.M (Monday to Friday). Life’s Highest Value of NIFTY Index = 6357.10 dated 8th January, 2008. Current Closing Value of NIFTY Index = 2755.10 dated last Friday, 28th November 2008. Denis Siegel….. you are great…… mind-blowing…… & simply superb. Your true friend & follower….. Malayali

 

OK, here goes. 

The information Malayali gave will hopefully help those of you who are more familiar with how markets work. Again, I’m just an a psychic and an astrologer so I’m just going to go with my intiution and what the stars point out.

It’s interesting to me to see how the problems in this market are manifested very differently then in the Dow Jones or NASDAQ charts. It is Jupiter in Capricorn going through the 5th house (of speculation, Jupiter = foreigners) conjuncting the stellium there and opposing the stellium in the 11th house. I know in Vedic astrology Jupiter is the great beneficent and Saturn the great Malific and in this case Jupiter is opposing itself and later conjuncting Saturn (also in Vedic astrology there is no use of the outer planets, Pluto, Uranus or Neptune.)

Basically, this means that it is foreign markets making investors nervous and causing a see-saw effect; this aspect would have been felt strongly during our crash at the end of October, but would have been felt as early as January of 08 when there may have been technology jobs lost in India for some reason, and feelings among astute investors that something didn’t seem right. This little period of instability would have gone on until mid-late February of 2008 and then there would have been a period when investors would have felt safer again, and been lulled back into complicity. The big wake up call being this fall.

The good news for NIFTY is this market is very strong, and really its the global market that is causing problems here, right now. Those problems will get worked on, even fixed over the next few years. It’s not until February of 2011 that there will be unexpected, out of the blue troubles, mostly again with the work force, and more then likely with technology jobs. This will cause a big adjustment in the market at the time and by May of 2012 will very likely lead to value being lost in the market, especially companies that deal in technology, communication or communication related jobs. I wonder if this will be because laws will be passed in the US giving domestic companies greater incentive to hire US citizens instead of outsourcing these types of technology related and communication related jobs to India, reversing the current trend. So watch for that in the next four years.

This will be the start of a major adjustment of the NIFTY. And will be when NIFTY will have its version of what we are seeing here in the US, but I’m sure not to this extent because by then there will be even more laws in place protecting the world markets, but still, there will be a tremendous amount of Pluto aspects going on, so you will see this market restructured starting with this out of the blue crisis in 2011 and then some major restructuring starting in December of 2013, and later some big losses for investors about a year later when Pluto conjuncts Neptune exactly in the 5th house of speculation. So I would say to anyone at that time, pull your money out well before that time, and put it in something safe or in another market until this market goes through its period of adjustment.

It will have one very bad last readjusment when Pluto conjuncts NIFTY’s Saturn in the 5th house and square’s NIFTY’s Mars in the 8th from about 2019-2020. This could be a much bigger problem for India, I’m going to look at India’s chart and post it right now. Here’s the chart of India:

Based on this, I’d say there will be some sort of a global crisis. It could be the climate crisis, a major famine or drought or natural disaster, something that will impact everyone and make trade, business and the economy seem very small by comparison. That being said, I hope I’m very wrong.

Hope I have shed some light on NIFTY. If you have a specific question, something I could ask the tarot in a yes/no spread, then please feel free to post it and I will answer it as soon as I can.

Best wishes to all and many blessing to you,

Denise

India/Pakistan and Answering Readers’ Questions…

A

Hi D,

Happy Thanksgiving and thanks for answering the question about Laura Bush.

What is going on with India? Obviously it’s a terrorist attack. but any correlation with pakistan or al queda? What’s next for India?

Thank you!!!

Hi A,

I didn’t feel it was Al Queda, never did. And, not being an expert on the whole world of terrorism didn’t know about all the other groups out there. I watched MSNBC today (maybe it was CNN) first there was an interview with Kissinger, yawn. And then with two actual experts on India. The first thought there was some domestic involvement, the second thought it had all the hallmarks of some group that was a terrorist group born, breed and trained in Pakistan.

My gut told me the second guy was right. I’m sure the terrorists knew the lay of the land, had been to Mumbai before many times planning everything out. They were not Indian. And I’m sure they were Muslim extremists. I’m sure of that for so many reasons, as I’m sure the rest of the world is 100% sure of it, too. I’m not going to go into how angry I am about this, how anti-spiritual all forms of terrorism are, whether its Islamic, or Christians blowing up abortion clinics, or the ancient Jews murdering the Goddess worshippers (notice a theme, they all believe in the same God, and yet they all fight over details about Him? Hmmm, people didn’t do that before Jehovah, what’s up with that? But I digress.)

The other interesting thing the second expert said was that India had developed some sort of nuclear based laser system to take out terrorist camps in Pakistan if something like this were to happen to them. He claimed India wouldn’t start there, but that the people of India would demand the government do something.

All of this lead me to believe that those aspects coming up made even more sense. Perhaps India will try to get Pakistan to offer an apology. It won’t be either good enough or they won’t do it. India will either as retaliation, or as a means of defense hit Pakistan with its new weapons system to try, and take out what they see as the next potential threat. 

After 9/11 I think we as Americans know how it feels to be attacked, and not only do we feel for the people of India, but we can understand their outrage, and pain. It is natural they will want to strike back. And, unfortunately, I get the feeling from Pakistan they are indifferent, or cold to the pain of their neighbor, and this will exacerbate the wound.

I don’t think Obama will be able to stop this, nor do I think its in our best interest that he does. I don’t have a feeling this war would escalate to the point of getting totally out of control. I feel it will be more strategic. And perhaps even help us to bond with India in an attempt to rid Pakistan of their compliance with terrorist groups. 

I will spend the next couple of posts answering questions about the stock market. 

Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving weekend. And again we pray for the Indian victims, and their families. May they cross into the light without fear, without pain, without sorrow, without regret and may those they left behind be given solace, protection, and remember their loved ones will always be with them. 

Wishing for this world compassion and love. If we could only have that — we would have everything.

Denise

Answering Readers’ Questions… Focus on The Economy & Stock Market

DERA

For a long time the oil companies, insurance companies, and pharmaceutical companies have gouged the public. Will there ever be changes that will benefit the good of the public instead of these companies?

Also, I read somewhere that there will be fewer doctors. The reason is due to problems dealing with the insurance companies.

Hi Dera,

This is a great question, one we’d all be interested in knowing.  So lets look at a couple different charts for the US, and see what will be going on in the world of doctors and health care as time progresses.

OK, we can do a lot more here then just look at health care. There are a few things I want to point out before I get to that. If you notice in the Declaration of Independence chart (our official birth date 7/4,1776) you’ll notice a preponderance of planets in the 8th and spilling into the 9th house. Let me explain why this chart, while it does have resonance with our country still, and is used by some astrologers is often seen as not being the official chart of the country.  

Let me explain the 8th house thing spilling into the 9th (8=cults, 9=foreigners), that would be the Pilgrims, the Quakers, the Shakers and all the small radical religious groups that “came over,” (actually many were kicked out of England because of their beliefs) during that time. It was these people who founded this nation, and that energy which is all very 8th house is the bedrock of our nation, sort of like our subconscious.

However, just because we declared our Independence we still were not truly legal until the US Constitution started, and was signed. Often the later is used as the true north of the US because it is comprable to a marriage date as opposed to when you first started dating. It’s the completion of what was started on July 4, 1776. That being said, the first date with your spouse is also very important because it sets the tone of a relationship.

Our Declaration, definitely set the tone for our nation, which is why we are a haven for radical religious (cult-like or lets come on out and just say it cults). 

Truly the only difference between a cult and an organized religion like Catholicism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism or Judaism is the length of time and amount of people that identify themselves as part of that religion, so I don’t mean to demean the word “cult,” all religions start out as cults. Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, the Mormons started out this way, the Shakers, the Quakers, Scientology is now becoming more acceptable and less seen as a cult. Basically, once a religion goes from a small group to an institution it looses its cult status.

But, anyway, I digress. I want to also say that I just looked at all 3 charts and compared them to 9/11 and found the most accurate by far to be the US Constitution signing chart. Someone had posted much earlier (sometime in September or October) that the US Declaration chart had been used by Liz Greene and somehow she had found a way to make it dovetail with the 9/11 attacks. I would very much doubt this to be true, and this reader was probably confused. Liz Greene more than likely used the Constitution Signing chart because if you look at it in terms of transits, it should have been a very good period with Jupiter returning and hitting this charts stellium in Cancer. And transiting Pluto is not making any close opposing aspects. Perhaps she used a solar arc chart or a progressed chart based on it but it couldn’t have been that actual chart with the transits.

Anyway in the US Constitution Chart, transiting Pluto had just gone over the US Cons. Sign. chart’s Moon and squared Mercury ruler of the 8th house, both death aspects and transiting Neptune was in the 12th house of loss making an applying a conjunction to the ascendant, again major loss. The 12th and 8th house are both death houses, and both Neptune and Pluto are key to major loss, transformation, literal and figurative death.  

So lets focus on the US Constitution Chart as it seems most accurate in terms of transits. 

1st your question of health-care:

In the spring of 2009 we’ll see the first in a series of bills aimed at health-care reform as transiting Uranus in Pisces goes through the first house and opposes the US cons. sign. chart’s Sun. The way we see this issue has been changing over the past seven or so years, our minds began changing then when Uranus opposed Mercury in the 7th. And then as bankruptcy laws changed and increases in health-care costs went up, Uranus opposed Venus in the 7th, again highlighting the financial need for laws to change how we deal with our health-care system, pointing out the lack of human kindness in it. And finally when it hits the Sun in spring of 09, the vitality of this issue, the soul of the problem will be tackled in a bill. This aspect will go back and forth for a while so it will be the first in a series of several major changes to the system we now have in place.

It probably won’t be until May of 2010 until these changes are really put into action. This will be when transiting Uranus in Pisces will be trining the US cons. sign’s Uranus in the 6th house of health and the health-care system. This overhaul will be immediate, and a bit of a shock to the system, but will be a great improvement especially for women and children, and those who don’t have steady employment, but work more piece meal.

In terms of the Pharmaceutical company’s getting there’s — it’s coming. In February of 2012 when Neptune (ruler of their industry) enters Pisces they will start to see their days ripping off Americans coming to an end. This same thing can be said of the oil companies who are also ruled by Neptune. Companies who lower their prices and make sacrifices will stay in business, and do very well. Volume will be the key to this business and be very profitable from that angle. Those that want to continue making 150,000,000% profit off each pill will go under. The oil industry will have to basically do what its doing now, keep cheap in order to survive. Even then as Neptune goes into Pisces alternative types of fuel will become the mainstay, most likely hydrogen based, either water itself or hydrogen engines this will happen in 2012.

Of course all of these changes won’t happen overnight, little by little we’ll see things headed down this path, and this trend will continue until about 2025. So hopefully by the end of it we will be a completely green world. Let’s cross our fingers that is one potential outcome.

My guess is that at that time (2025 when Uranus enters Aries) the pharmaceutical industry will have a revolution of a different sort, and will be more nano-technology driven, with tiny micro surgical techniques in the form of pills that will release tiny robots that will cut out ulcers or cancers or whatever, very early on, staving off the need for more traditional medicine in a lot of cases.

Truthseeker

Hi Denise, I have a question in relation to the property market in Australia. Will property crash in Australia? Will it drop more than 30%?

Thanking you in advance.

Hi Truthseeker,

Real Estate will crash or bottom out in 2011, truly bottom out. Meaning the value of houses will go under. I’m not familiar enough with the real estate market down there but if you feel that the houses are really over valued, this will be when they are not just “corrected” but when they are actually worth less then what logic dictates that they should be. People will not want to buy real estate during this period. They will be afraid of it. This is when you should buy real estate. You can make a fortune at that time until about 2013. Then you still can make money but not as much. It will hit a peak again starting around 2018 and really 2019, 2020, people will be going crazy again like they just did for it. so there you go. Hope that helps.

northernlights2008

Any thoughts on the two unresolved Senate races in Minnesota and Georgia? I think you predicted the Senate would get close to 60 seats a few weeks back. I wonder what the cards say closer to the evantual realities. Thanks!

Hi Northernlights,

I still have the feeling that the Dems are just barely going to crack that 60 margin. I lost track of where it was now. It’s hard to believe its still going on! And no one really cares! That’s the amazing thing, it shows how good things are on the political front at least.

sally ann

Hi and thanks Denise,
This may be a tarot card question.
Will COMEX gold default in December? Many analysts are predicting this will happen when so many paper gold contracts holders demand physical delivery,that the COMEX will be unable to meet the demand. (Now, physical gold is trading at far higher prices than the COMEX paper gold and COMEX price corruption is suspected).

Hi Sally Ann,

The tarot says: Yes.

It seems there has been some lying going on. Some illusion, delusion, some mismanagement and whoever was in charge has just sort of walked away from the problem leaving the company and investors in the lurch, while taking what they could from the situation. Not good. Hope this turns out to be a false read on the situation, here. But that’s what the cards are saying. Sometimes though the cards aren’t very good with timing. Astrology is much better for that.

I want to clarify a basic note here. I wish I could have seen the little bump up last week in the stock market, but as I said before there is too much novelty here to read the market for these. There is too much irrational, emotional stuff clouding the zeitgeist of the market. It’s almost as if everyone is on amphetamines, stuffed into a theater in the dark, and someone shouts “Fire!” There’s a stampede before anyone bothers to look around, and see if there actually is one or if its just a nut yelling it.

And on the other end of that, are the financial “experts” who are kissing the “ouchy’s” of investors and lulling them back into the market with false expectations that everything is OK when it’s not which is why we saw this crazy drop when the news came out that we are in a recession. Duh. Really? It’s ridiculous. And I’m sure in another month it will be news that we’re in a Depression that will cause the market to plummet. But look around, it doesn’t take a genius to figure this out.

The arguement against why this isn’t a Depression is a very flimsy one right now. It is simply that unemployment isn’t high enough. But back when George W. took office his administration changed the laws so that as soon as your 6 months of unemployment ran out you were taken out of the unemployment statistics. So how many people have been unemployed for years? We don’t know. They aren’t being counted. This is a hidden problem, another shadow that we’ll see come out when Pluto pops over the ascendant of the Dow.

Here’s the other thing, in the Decleration chart Pluto is about to shred it. I’m glad it’s not our real chart, (and if it is well, we’ll know it for sure soon) but rather our more unconscious one, or we’d be in even bigger trouble then we already are. But it’s still posed to do some major damage to our US Cons. Sign chart this will happen a little later though in March of 2009, and will again most likely hit speculators and the stock market.

Ironically, this Monday Pluto hit 0 degrees again as it had the last time we had the major drop in November, and that is directly on the US Const. Sign charts south node in the 5th — meaning, what we have reaped in the market we are going to be sowing, and it’s going to be powerful, and painful. I think the Dow’s big Pluto over the ascendant happening at the end of December into January will be more about the horrible corruption, lies and sociopathic behavior of CEOs that will come out making investors think twice about trusting their money to these people, many of whom are really criminals in business suits. This is the shore I think the Tsunami is headed in terms of the Dow.

OK, More questions tomorrow. These will be covered over the next couple of days:

Be well. Best wishes to all. Pray for our planet and each other. We need it now!

Jean

Hi Denise,

You asked for more information on the mutual funds I inquired about.
MEURX – Mutual European (Z fund) – Fund inception date is 7/3/1996
MDISX – Mutual Discovery (Z fund) – Fund inception date is 12/31/1992
I don’t know if this matters or not, but in November 1996, Heine Securities Corporation, known for the Mutual Series of funds, merged into the Franklin Templeton complex.

Thanks.

Cathy

Denise, Thank you for the charts on Boeings. Here is some info on Airbus that I found -Airbus Industrie was formally established as a Groupement d’Interet Economique (Economic Interest Group or GIE) on 18 December 1970.
2000 three of the four partner companies (DaimlerChrysler Aerospace, successor to Deutsche Airbus; Aérospatiale-Matra, successor to Sud-Aviation; and CASA) merged to form EADS. If this doesn’t help – I’ll keep searching but I appreciate your efforts of trying. Happy Thanksgiving to you!

Id

Dear Denise,

Thank you for your analysis and insights. In these troubled times on a lot of fronts ( financial, physical and even spiritual ) you provide clarity and hope.

I have two questions.

1 – Urban survival. In which timeframes do you see possible shortages of food and basic necessaties?
2 – When will the dollar downtrend and demise commence?

To readers of this blog, please do google “urban survival” and make some basic preparations.

Peace

Wei

Hi Denise:
Great postings!
Wondering about Citicorp (c). I think you ran a chart, but I didn’t find the interpretation for it. Given recent bail outs, will it survive?
If you have time, I am wondering about US Steel (x) and Freeport-McMoRan Copper and Gold, Inc (FCX), Google (GOOG), Intel (INTC), Foster Wheeler Ltd. (FWLT), Procter & Gamble (PG), and Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation (BNI).
Many Thanks,
Wei

 

KRG

Hi : Very interesting

On the prediction that India will hit Pak sites, I wonder whether this could happen thru US, becos it seems more likely that Obama will use his power to persuade Pak to let US take on the training camps etc in Pak. Don’t see India doing this unless we continue to get hit like 26/11. May be you could run a chart for US vis-a-vis Pak and see how it looks…

 

Truthseeker

I woke up with the feeling that the credit crisis wasnt the cause of the market crash at the end of Dec/ Jan

northernlights2008

Any thoughts on the two unresolved Senate races in Minnesota and Georgia? I think you predicted the Senate would get close to 60 seats a few weeks back. I wonder what the cards say closer to the evantual realities. Thanks!

 

Iris

Another question. Some of Obama’s supporters are up in arms about the people he is choosing to work in his Administration. They feel that they have been betrayed. Will the Disgruntled Dems. get over it in time or will they hold a grudge for the next 4 years?

 

Thanks! 

 

grace43

 

 

Will Arnold Schwartzenegger be joining Obama’s cabniet? I thought when Obama said a top Republican would be on his cabniet, it would be Arnie. Now he’s picked Gates to stay on as Sec. of Defense. Since some very conservative Christians are in top level positions in the military, this seems to be a wise move aimed at keeping them calm. What’s up for the Governator after his term runs out?

Here’s his birth information: 30 July 1947, Thal, Styria, Austria (Taken from his bio on Internet Movie Database)
Birth Time: 04:10 (04:10 AM) MEDT(-1:00) (taken from Lois Rodden’s AstroDatabankhttp://www.astrodatabank.com/nm/SchwarzeneggerArnold.htm )

Thanks in advance!

PS

I sure hope he will be. After four years of having to look at Bush and Cheney, this lady would appreciate someone up there easier on the eyes. LOL

 

Answering Readers…

Hi Everyone,

There are a lot of questions about stocks and the economy, so that will be the bulk of tonight, but I’m trying to mix it up a little so it’s not soooo much about that. So here goes. The first question comes from Jean.

Jean

Hi Denise,

You asked for more information on the mutual funds I inquired about.
MEURX – Mutual European (Z fund) – Fund inception date is 7/3/1996
MDISX – Mutual Discovery (Z fund) – Fund inception date is 12/31/1992
I don’t know if this matters or not, but in November 1996, Heine Securities Corporation, known for the Mutual Series of funds, merged into the Franklin Templeton complex.

Thanks.

Hi Jean,

Here are the charts of both funds analysis to follow:

It looks like MEURX will really be hit hard when transiting Pluto through the 5th (house of speculation) makes an exact opposition to its Mercury in Cancer in the 11th (house of hopes and dreams). Also Mercury rules the second house of work and everyday sort of money flow, as well as ruling 2 planet, Venus=money(in this case) and Mars how the fund is perceived. They are both wedged in the 10th which is also another important earth/money house. I would move my money into a different fund if I were you before late January. Specifically right around inauguration. So move it before then.

MDISX will fair better until about the 20th of January 2010 when transiting Pluto will be at 4 Cap making an exact square to the funds moon which has involvement in the 5th house of speculation but mostly rules the 6th house. So I’d guess there will be some bizarre fluctuations in the value of the fund during this time, sort of irrational in nature. But it will settle down and it won’t see major changes until Jan. 2010 when perhaps new laws will take place forcing (more then likely many areas of the market) to adjust. It will be more in its business practices and ideology. So I’d say this fund looks healthier for the time being.

Hope that helped.

Next from Ylem:

ylem

Okay, this scared the crap out of me:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/12/02/terror.report/index.html

Do you have anything to say on the likelihood of a bioterror attack in the next 10 years (or much sooner) that will wipe out millions of people?

I’m freaked!

ylem

just to add to my post: The fear of a bioterror attack is in some ways paralyzing, as it makes working towards anything feel pointless – what’s the use if our world will be in ruins in less than five years? Give us some hope, please!

Hi Ylem,

I read the article you sent a link to. It is really, really, really scary. 

I have been thinking about this a lot lately, especially with what happened in Mumbai. And especially when looking at the charts of India and Pakistan, and seeing the upcoming transits over the next few years, and the direction the planets are headed.

I got scared when I realized that we weren’t that far off from Uranus hitting Aries. That revelation felt very bad. 

Uranus smacks Aries in March of 2011. My read on this is: sudden and explosive violence. Especially, as it will near a square to Pluto. These two warring planets will clash (square each other exactly) in August of 2012. We had better get our act together rounding up terrorists and spreading good will and compassion. I hate to say what this could bring. I will do more analysis on it over time. I don’t want to jump to conclusions right now. We have time to turn this potentially deadly aspect into something more innocuous, but it will be a hard ship to turn around. I’m not going to lie about that.

Good news though, we do have free will and we have the power to choose love and compassion, kindness and fairness over whatever crazy bee drove into those terrorists’ types heads. Sometimes I feel there is an almost sick sexual fetishism of murder really driving these people, more than any pretended belief they have in God. Because I’ll say one thing no one who is spiritual believes in killing anyone for any reason. And any religion or branch of a religion that preaches this is not a religion, its a political power machine using naive people to brainwash through fear so they can do the dirty work of those leaders who manipulate them and blindly seek power.

OK, enough of my going on about that. It makes me so angry. I wish there was a way to round up all the terrorists and make them sit around a campfire and listen to Kumbayah for a year, do some knitting, talk about their feelings, go through some therapy and deprogram them from their crazy- maker leaders. Most of these people are young men who have no way to feel important, and aren’t allowed to express their sensuality or sexuality except through this horrible violence. It’s a terribly sick combination. A stew of rotten meat, and I’m afraid we’ve all been guilty of not addressing it. I think the whole, “Well, it’s a cultural thing,” thing is part of the problem. Not that we should take control of their lives. I do think these groups pray on very impoverished, angry, probably abused souls who haven’t seen any other option in life. We owe it to all of our brothers and sisters to at least show them that there are other ways of seeing, believing, feeling, and help them live in dignity, not just ignore them, relegating them to deserts of the world to starve in, while we live it up. It’s no wonder they hate us. We are so decadent compared to them.

I really hope instead of bombing Pakistan and Afghanistan and Iraq and trying to control the Muslim world militarily, we try to lift them up and befriend them. That’s the only way we are going to make this world work.

Blah, blah, blah…

OK, power speech: this is why it is crucial for everyone to live up to their highest potential and do whatever little thing you can to change the hearts and minds of those around you for the better.  

If you imagine we are all drops of water in this sea of humanity, (check out the book, “The Messages in Water,” if you get a chance) and by being more loving and kind we actually effect the whole sea. We don’t have to become President or be a famous movie star or whatever, just being loving changes the world for the better.

Anyway, it’s 4 AM now I’m going to answer the next bunch of questions tomorrow.

Best wishes to all.

Denise

Sorry everyone down there! I’ll get to you soon!

Cathy

Denise, Thank you for the charts on Boeings. Here is some info on Airbus that I found -Airbus Industrie was formally established as a Groupement d’Interet Economique (Economic Interest Group or GIE) on 18 December 1970.
2000 three of the four partner companies (DaimlerChrysler Aerospace, successor to Deutsche Airbus; Aérospatiale-Matra, successor to Sud-Aviation; and CASA) merged to form EADS. If this doesn’t help – I’ll keep searching but I appreciate your efforts of trying. Happy Thanksgiving to you!

Id

Dear Denise,

Thank you for your analysis and insights. In these troubled times on a lot of fronts ( financial, physical and even spiritual ) you provide clarity and hope.

I have two questions.

1 – Urban survival. In which timeframes do you see possible shortages of food and basic necessaties?
2 – When will the dollar downtrend and demise commence?

To readers of this blog, please do google “urban survival” and make some basic preparations.

Peace

Wei

Hi Denise:
Great postings!
Wondering about Citicorp (c). I think you ran a chart, but I didn’t find the interpretation for it. Given recent bail outs, will it survive?
If you have time, I am wondering about US Steel (x) and Freeport-McMoRan Copper and Gold, Inc (FCX), Google (GOOG), Intel (INTC), Foster Wheeler Ltd. (FWLT), Procter & Gamble (PG), and Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation (BNI).
Many Thanks,
Wei

 

KRG

Hi : Very interesting

On the prediction that India will hit Pak sites, I wonder whether this could happen thru US, becos it seems more likely that Obama will use his power to persuade Pak to let US take on the training camps etc in Pak. Don’t see India doing this unless we continue to get hit like 26/11. May be you could run a chart for US vis-a-vis Pak and see how it looks…

 

Truthseeker

I woke up with the feeling that the credit crisis wasnt the cause of the market crash at the end of Dec/ Jan

northernlights2008

Any thoughts on the two unresolved Senate races in Minnesota and Georgia? I think you predicted the Senate would get close to 60 seats a few weeks back. I wonder what the cards say closer to the evantual realities. Thanks!

Iris

Another question. Some of Obama’s supporters are up in arms about the people he is choosing to work in his Administration. They feel that they have been betrayed. Will the Disgruntled Dems. get over it in time or will they hold a grudge for the next 4 years?

 

Thanks! 

 

grace43

 

 

Will Arnold Schwartzenegger be joining Obama’s cabniet? I thought when Obama said a top Republican would be on his cabniet, it would be Arnie. Now he’s picked Gates to stay on as Sec. of Defense. Since some very conservative Christians are in top level positions in the military, this seems to be a wise move aimed at keeping them calm. What’s up for the Governator after his term runs out?

Here’s his birth information: 30 July 1947, Thal, Styria, Austria (Taken from his bio on Internet Movie Database)
Birth Time: 04:10 (04:10 AM) MEDT(-1:00) (taken from Lois Rodden’s AstroDatabankhttp://www.astrodatabank.com/nm/SchwarzeneggerArnold.htm )

Thanks in advance!

PS

I sure hope he will be. After four years of having to look at Bush and Cheney, this lady would appreciate someone up there easier on the eyes. LOL

Astrology: How It Works; Really, you can do that in one post? Well, a little…

In answer to Shannon/Sparker’s question:

Sparker

Hi Denise,
I have another off the wall question. I don’t know what time of day I was born. I would really like to understand astrology more and I feel I cannot really delve into it with out being able to personally relate to it. Is there a way to find out what time of day I was born? Can it be done clairvoyantly or by Tarot cards? It is something that has been really bothering me. I know I am going through a Saturn return right now and my life is flipping from one direction to the next without any notice. I think if I understood the astrological influences I might be able to handle things better.
Thanks for your time! I love reading your posts everyday. : )
Sparker

Oh, and if you do feel drawn to answering my question and may be able to help in some way, just in case you need it, my dob is 3/31/80 and my name is Sharon

It’s time to explain some stuff about astrology. It’s an esoteric art/science a lot of people don’t really understand. I used to think it was completely bunk. I know, it’s kind of ironic. Especially, when I was a kid and an avid amateur astronomer (despite always knowing and having psychic experiences) the idea that somehow the stars alignment at a given time effecting us as individuals seemed ridiculous.

But after working as a psychic and meeting several very accurate astrologers, and learning more about the art (in my early 20s) I realized there was a lot to this ancient science/art. Now with quantum mechanics and quantum physics, and string theory – somehow my brain can reconcile the inconsistancies of left, and right, and have made peace with the fact that, dang! It works!

Firstly, the time of an event is crucial. My own birth time was wrong, and for years I walked around with a chart that didn’t completely make sense. Things never “timed out,” as we astrologers say. It described me very well in terms of my personality, and basic issues, but with the old chart my father never would have died when I was 10. I wouldn’t have moved to CA when I was 18 to go to art school, or gotten married at 21. So you see, those are some pretty big things that didn’t show up at the appointed time.

However, for all of you, who are like me, either born in Chicago (where they kept notoriously crappy birth time records at hospitals) or your state didn’t require a birth time for the certificate, or here in CA where I filled out my daughter’s form, and would have been wrong had it not been for my husband (because I had an emergency c-section, and was under anesthesia when she came out). Alas, there is a way out of the confusion. 

It’s called rectification!

One caveat. It takes a long time to do, and is difficult. It’s easier if you have a basic area of time to start with that an astrologer can plug in. Truthfully, it’s so difficult I don’t know any astrologer (at least who I’ve met) that would do it. But with the advent of good astrology programs it has gotten a million times easier, and I actually do it. I did it for myself, and finally I can look at my chart, and tell where stuff is going to hit me instead of just what’s coming my way, but without any real knowledge of what area of my life its going to wreak havoc on. 

Rectification requires giving an astrologer at least 3 major dates in your life such as: the date you married, had a parent die, or other loved one die, had a child, got divorced, moved to a new city, had a crazy great job promotion. Anything that you consider to be a major turning point in your life can be used. The astrologer plugs this information into your chart, and runs it through weighting the aspects, and the chances of how likely a particular time is to be your time of birth.

Other methods have been used by astrologers, and psychics like scrying, the use of a pendulum, channelling the birth time. But in most cases I would be suspicious. Not that the astrologer/psychic isn’t trying, but timing is very exact, and psychic ability is often foggy which is why psychics don’t win the lottery. Numbers, exact details and absolute clarity are not the calling cards of psychic ability, it is ruled by Neptune which also rules confusion, and imagination, alcoholism, schisters and the insane.

By its very nature psychic ability is imprecise. The most a great psychic could hope for is anything over 75% accuracy. This is remarkable for a psychic. Anyone who is more consistently accurate is a one in a million freak of nature.  Even those psychics who are very good will have varying degrees of accuracy for each person they read, connecting more to some then others. They do exist, one in a million sounds pretty small, but there are 300 million Americans and almost 7 billion people on the planet so there are some remarkably gifted psychics walking around.

The point I’m trying to make is, rectification should be done by at least a good astrologer. I tried to get astrologers to do it for me back in the day before computer programs were set up to help, and was very frustrated by the experience.

The other method that can work (at least it did for me) was about 4 months before I became pregnant with my daughter, my father started showing up. I know this sounds weird, even weirder for me because he not only died when I was 10, but for 30 years I had really no contact (spiritually) with him. Sometimes he’d show up in the background of a dream, just watching me, but that was about it. I had even wondered if it was because he’d already incarnated. I had given up ever making contact with him until death.

I wasn’t much of a medium until recently, I had been extremely accurate when channeling, but it wasn’t people I was channelling. For some reason I couldn’t really see dead people, could only talk to them through the spirit guide that I channeled, sort of like a liason.

Anyway, I was at the mall waiting for my husband to finish trying on some new shirts, siting at a table with two chairs, I was in one of them, when I felt a tall lanky man walk past me, pull out the chair next to mine, and sit down. I went to see who had sat next to me, but there was no one there.

All of a sudden I had a strong, vivid impression of my father. You know how over time the memory of someone you haven’t seen grows fuzzy? Well, it was bizarre because I could make out the specks in his eyes (in my mind’s eye) he was not only sharp, clear, but made up of colors your real eyeballs can’t see. The more I concentrated on him the clearer he became, and he started miming things to me, because at first I couldn’t hear him.

It had been 30 years since I’d heard his voice, but the more I tuned in I actually heard him speaking. Long story short he imparted some information, I heard my name called by a woman (I thought it was someone passing by, but no one was there) and then saw my Aunt Doris whom I did not know had passed over.

A couple of days later I found out my Aunt had died (not that day or anything but awhile before). It was very odd, sitting at a table at The Grove, in Los Angeles, talking to myself (luckily not too many people were around) and at the same time feeling so extremely moved. Ever since that day he has come around, and made his presence known, and he, after a year of going through almost every minute of the day in an effort to rectify my chart, gave me my birth time. I plugged it in, and it was amazing. The chart was totally accurate.

I had come close with my efforts based just in plugging in every two to five minutes of an hour, but had been off even then by a few minutes from what turned out to be my real chart.

So it is possible for a psychic to talk to a relative who knows. But that relative has to really know. My dad was at the hospital, and had looked at his watch when he got the news. He showed me the event. If the psychic talks to a relative who is just as clueless as the mom, or everyone else, the information is useless. Don’t forget people on the other side are still people. They are in a timeless space and have access to future and past events if they know how to do it, but not everyone on the other side has mastered how to make contact with loved ones here, how to skip forward or backwards. Just because they’re dead doesn’t make them omnipotent. It does give them access, but they aren’t always right, and some of them lie, just like people here do. 

Keep posting questions if you have them. 

Hope you are all having a good holiday season despite the economic tragedy we are suffering through.

Best wishes and many blessings to all of you,

Denise

Answering Readers…

More questions from readers. The first from Cathy:

 

Cathy

Denise, Thank you for the charts on Boeings. Here is some info on Airbus that I found -Airbus Industrie was formally established as a Groupement d’Interet Economique (Economic Interest Group or GIE) on 18 December 1970.
2000 three of the four partner companies (DaimlerChrysler Aerospace, successor to Deutsche Airbus; Aérospatiale-Matra, successor to Sud-Aviation; and CASA) merged to form EADS. If this doesn’t help – I’ll keep searching but I appreciate your efforts of trying. Happy Thanksgiving to you!

Hi Cathy,

I was about to run a chart when I realized I wasn’t sure which market Airbus was traded on because I think its a European company? And if this date you gave was the start trading date or the inception date or incorporation date, so let me know what more you dig up so I can run a chart. Sorry about that for now.

Id

Dear Denise,

Thank you for your analysis and insights. In these troubled times on a lot of fronts ( financial, physical and even spiritual ) you provide clarity and hope.

I have two questions.

1 – Urban survival. In which timeframes do you see possible shortages of food and basic necessaties?
2 – When will the dollar downtrend and demise commence?

To readers of this blog, please do google “urban survival” and make some basic preparations.

Peace

Hi Id,

It’s funny to write that, it’s like I’m writing to a part of myself. Jokes aside, I’ve given this a lot of thought. I think your suggestion to google urban survival is a good one. It’s always good to be prepared. That being said, I’m not getting the feeling we are going to see the economy drive us to the point of the things our grandparents and great grandparents went through. I’m not feeling it’s going to get that bad now. I feel there is a safety net being built that will cushion the blow and we are going to have to change our ways, but its not going to get to that extreme. I asked the cards if we will see the economy drive us to extremes and the cards said very emphatically, No. That’s not to say they don’t tell of hard times, anxiety, and major changes.

However, your point about urban survival should really be taken in terms of natural disasters. I live in earthquake country. Everyone lives somewhere that could be devastated by a major flood, drought, hurricane, tornado or earthquake. And I do feel that environmental problems of that kind are going to continue to spiral out of control, and we all need to be prepared for that.

My biggest fear right now is that the economy will defocus us from the real problem, and that is the environment. It doesn’t matter how many gold bars you have hidden under your sofa if your house is floating down a river. That’s kind of the situation we’re in. Believe it or not, this crisis has helped to focus us on the big picture to some extent, but its still not big picture enough. We need to go wider, broader. We are literally going to kill this planet — leave it barren, if we continue down this path.

As a teenager (back in the 80s) I made a disturbed illustrated children’s book about these little bugs who were slowly eating away their host. Great idea for a kids book, huh? It was of course a metaphor for us killing the planet. I told a much older hippy type friend about this, and he said, “That’s just egotistical, man. The earth is so much bigger then us, it can survive anything.”

And I said, “Have you ever heard of cancer? It starts out as one cell and multiplies until it destroys everything.”

Anyway, of course he thought I was nuts way back in the 1980s when I mentioned us destroying the planet. But I could feel it, and we were and are. My worst fear is we’ve waited too long to do anything about it. We have to make this our number one priority, seriously. Once we get things back on track, if we don’t use everything and do everything possible to solve global cancer (warming sounds like a vacation) then we’re all going to parish and there won’t be any future of our race.

Wei

Hi Denise:
Great postings!
Wondering about Citicorp (c). I think you ran a chart, but I didn’t find the interpretation for it. Given recent bail outs, will it survive?
If you have time, I am wondering about US Steel (x) and Freeport-McMoRan Copper and Gold, Inc (FCX), Google (GOOG), Intel (INTC), Foster Wheeler Ltd. (FWLT), Procter & Gamble (PG), and Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation (BNI).
Many Thanks,
Wei

Hi Wei,

I didn’t have Google, Foster Wheeler, Burlington or Freeport-McMoRan in my database. And of course had multiples of the other stocks you were interested in. I’ll post them and do some analysis. In the mean time if you want me to look into those not represented, post the incorporation date or the start trading date of these company’s where they are traded and I’ll run charts on them. Here goes:

OK, I don’t know if Citicorp has officially gone under yet, but they will or they will be absorbed by another company completely by February 09 when transiting Neptune in Aquarius makes an exact square form their first house to Neptune in Scorpio in their 10th. They have been seriously deluding themselves. Also Pluto is going through the company’s 12th house and making an applying square to their Saturn in the second. They’ve been keeping secrets, and if they do get absorbed by another company, whoever takes them on will be hit with a necessary and very brutal restructuring in order to save what’s left which would take place in March of 2010. This lapse in time will probably be because the company has been hiding a lot and it will take time to sort out all the mess.

US Steel doesn’t look bad, there are some good aspects and some slightly negative things but nothing major. They may have some foreign issues, but nothing major. They will also do pretty well over this period. My grandmother used to work for US Steel when they had a manufacturing plant in Gary, Indiana. She made steel during the 30-60s. Pretty crazy, she had all sorts of scars along her arms from where she had been cut accidentally from the steel in the plant.

Intel has that critical O degrees Pluto in Libra dancing in its 11th house. It should be getting hammered in the stock market right now. But things will get better for them in late January when Pluto hits 2 Cap and trines the part of fortune in the 10th. This stock and/or company is going to go through some major changes over the next 15 years, if it can survive these changes it is going to do amazingly well and probably be one of those long term blue chip type of stocks. But its going to go through a lot.

Once Pluto stops squaring Proctor and Gamble’s Mercury in Libra at 0 degrees in the 12th house in January this company will do well. Much better then most. There are a lot of positive transits being made to both charts. I suppose they survived a Depression and a couple of recessions, so they know how to deal with down markets. They will actually do quite well throughout the next few years, which is all I looked at so…

I’m tired now. I’ll answer the rest of you all tomorrow!

Best wishes and many blessings,

Denise

KRG

Hi : Very interesting

On the prediction that India will hit Pak sites, I wonder whether this could happen thru US, becos it seems more likely that Obama will use his power to persuade Pak to let US take on the training camps etc in Pak. Don’t see India doing this unless we continue to get hit like 26/11. May be you could run a chart for US vis-a-vis Pak and see how it looks…

Truthseeker

I woke up with the feeling that the credit crisis wasnt the cause of the market crash at the end of Dec/ Jan

northernlights2008

Any thoughts on the two unresolved Senate races in Minnesota and Georgia? I think you predicted the Senate would get close to 60 seats a few weeks back. I wonder what the cards say closer to the evantual realities. Thanks!

Iris

Another question. Some of Obama’s supporters are up in arms about the people he is choosing to work in his Administration. They feel that they have been betrayed. Will the Disgruntled Dems. get over it in time or will they hold a grudge for the next 4 years?

Thanks! 

grace43

Will Arnold Schwartzenegger be joining Obama’s cabniet? I thought when Obama said a top Republican would be on his cabniet, it would be Arnie. Now he’s picked Gates to stay on as Sec. of Defense. Since some very conservative Christians are in top level positions in the military, this seems to be a wise move aimed at keeping them calm. What’s up for the Governator after his term runs out?

Here’s his birth information: 30 July 1947, Thal, Styria, Austria (Taken from his bio on Internet Movie Database)
Birth Time: 04:10 (04:10 AM) MEDT(-1:00) (taken from Lois Rodden’s AstroDatabankhttp://www.astrodatabank.com/nm/SchwarzeneggerArnold.htm )

Thanks in advance!

PS

I sure hope he will be. After four years of having to look at Bush and Cheney, this lady would appreciate someone up there easier on the eyes. LOL

Geo-Politics & Bio-Terrorism

Hi everyone, 

I decided to take a break from answering stock market questions for now for a couple of reasons: 1) My brain is hurting from it. 2) If you haven’t gotten out of the market by now, it’s probably best to wait it out if you own stock in a major blue chip type of company. I will get back to these questions though over the weekend, and look into it, but in general most people are on the losing side now, and most readings I’ve done about the situation indicate waiting it out for several years is often the best thing to do if you want to get your money back to about where it was. So that being said, I will of course answer everyone over the next couple of weeks, but I just need to take a little break from it.

I really want to get to the issue of bio-terrorism and the trouble bubbling over between India and Pakistan because I feel a very dark thing there and have for awhile, but kept getting side tracked. The other day Ylem posted an article about the inevitability of such a thing happening somewhere in the world. Ylem was very worried if many people would die as a result and my response was unfortunately there were some signs (astrologically speaking) that  this could very much occur as early as 2011. This will be a major ongoing problem for about 7 years, nearly a decade before the world will get this genie back in the box, on the brighter side hopefully stopping this genie over the next decade before it ever gets out. So it is imperative that our government, and all world governments be extremely aggressive about fighting this, because it would and could be potentially extremely devastating. 

The problem that these terrorists don’t understand is they will not only potentially murder millions of innocent citizens of a country whose governments they have a problem with, but this kind of attack will backfire and very likely cause massive losses of life not just of the “enemy” but to their own people as well. Diseases once released into the public can’t be controlled. And even nerve gas attacks will have repercussions as leaks (because of badly constructed holding tanks) will poison the environment where it is stored. And this could be said of any potential dirty bomb material as well.

The reality is with Uranus in Aries, Neptune in Pisces, and Pluto (in Capricorn) squaring Uranus we will be in danger of wars of all kinds, big or small, terrorist and conventional.

In June of 2012 Uranus will make an exact square to Pluto in Capricorn, and the best possible read on this would be the tearing down of the way we’ve done business, and replacing it with a radical new type of visionary leadership, that is if we live up to our highest potential, which is my hope.

My fear is enough of us will settle into darker places, and the worst potential outcome of these aspects is: unexpected war/invasion/terrorist acts with massive repercussions to the economic and eco systems with tremendous loss of life. And of course there are varying shades of gray between these two extremes. And more then likely it will be somewhere in the middle as we collectively struggle between the chaotic side of our nature and the peaceful side.

Our country (the US) will be most vulnerable to an attack in June – August of 2010 and then again starting in March 2011 off and on during the spring into the summer of  that year, and of course the whole world will be vulnerable in 2012 during that awful configuration of planets and aspects. My current feeling is that these attacks have a very good chance of being caught and averted if we are vigilant and I feel we will be, but we all must do our part to pressure the government to stay on this issue.

Other countries I don’t have the same feeling about. I have to say one of my first gut feelings was a worry for Israel. Here’s there chart:

Israel will have some very challenging aspects regarding the three outer/fate based planets as we progress into the next decade.  There is some hopeful news for them, they have great intelligence, and because the planets are never perfectly aligned for a horrible attack, there is a very good chance they will discover whatever plot there is against them. But they really have to watch their backs in the coming decade. And smaller consistent attacks will most likely escalate.

Now my other bad feeling was for India which I’m hoping was just about this recent Mumbai attack. Here’s the chart for India:

Right now Pluto is still at that critical 0 degrees of Capricorn going through India’s 8th house of death and opposing its natal Mars in Cancer exactly. They are still very vulnerable right now to another terrorist attack. Since the last attack happened when the Moon was in Scorpio squaring the country’s stellium in Leo, I would say they will be very vulnerable around the 22 of December this year, even more so then they were in November as the Sun will join Pluto, and light up this possibility. I wonder if perhaps this Pakistani group is trying to push India into a war with Pakistan, and this is a big part of why communications will break down at the end of January. Even the uncovering of a plot at this point would be enough to push these two countries into war or at least to push India into striking back at the Pakistani based terrorist groups.

I’m going to post a bunch of charts of countries in the middle-east here, because it seems there is a theme among them.

There are other charts I want to run and will add in a later post about this ongoing subject ,but don’t have space here. Let me just say that there is a good chance there will be a possible coo or revolution in Iran when Uranus hits this country’s Mars in the 8th, and it will be bloody. It looks like it will come from this country’s youth. And will be very unexpected and potentially deadly, this aspect happens in 2010.

It seems that the most vulnerable places over the next 10 years will be Israel and India, we are also high on the list, but harder to access for many of these small potato type terrorist groups.

Let’s also look at some European countries:

Looking at all these charts the first thing that pops out is the early degree planets in cardinal signs in nearly all these western nations, except France. Pluto will be wreaking havoc here, and this could also relate to the economies of all these nations.

The United Kingdom has an interesting feature, and probably one that makes it very vulnerable to surprise attacks; Uranus at 1 degree Libra in the 12th. Next year on and off, Pluto will be squaring this degree, and combined with other aspect this could leave the UK open to attacks, more than usual. Especially in Jan, June, July, August, October and November of 2009. This same period will be very bad for the Dow Jones as Pluto will be going over the ascendant back and forth bringing to light deeper problems and darker secrets, each one more surprising then the next and leading to erratic trading. Obama’s administration is going to have to get in there fast and start restructuring in order to turn this around. 

Also the UK’s vulnerability shows up in the charts of its allies, Italy, Spain and Germany, very likely these countries will be key to intelligence that if listened to by the UK could avert potential disaster. During this time all these countries will be having their own crisis related to the financial mess we’re in, with the exception of France which will be doing better then the lot of these posted western nations.  Perhaps they already had tighter regulations and were more protected and isolated economically then most of the other countries were.

OK, it’s time for sleep. I will continue looking at the world and this issue country by country over the next few weeks. And as we get closer I hope to go city by major city to try and isolate where any potential threat may occur.

Wishing all of you a wonderful Friday.

Keep posting questions, I’m going to get to them! I promise.

Best wishes and many blessings to all of you,

Denise

Answering Readers’ Questions…

 

More questions, more answers, the first from KRG:

KRG

Hi : Very interesting

On the prediction that India will hit Pak sites, I wonder whether this could happen thru US, becos it seems more likely that Obama will use his power to persuade Pak to let US take on the training camps etc in Pak. Don’t see India doing this unless we continue to get hit like 26/11. May be you could run a chart for US vis-a-vis Pak and see how it looks…

Hi KRG,

I think you are right in the sense that the US will try to hit the camps at some point in the future, especially with the recent news about an increase in the chances of a bio-terrorist attack. However, it looked like India was still very vulnerable and that this Pakistani terrorist group wanted to push India to respond to Pakistan. The last post I did detailed all of this.

Truthseeker

I woke up with the feeling that the credit crisis wasnt the cause of the market crash at the end of Dec/ Jan

Hi Truthseeker,

I’m sure you’re right. It’s turning out to be the information about the economy, joblessness, and eventually as Pluto crosses the 1st house of the Dow, and squares many other important planets at the critical cardinal 01 degree, (many western nations have a planet at this critical degree as well) we’re going to see some very ugly, criminal and shady stuff uncovered about how companies have been operating which will further freak out investors. Of course the news coming out about the seriousness of this crisis, joblessness and personal spending freezes we are all in will contribute to this coming Tsunami.

We’ve been at the point where we noticed the water receding back from the shore, and it looks really weird, but we couldn’t figure out what was happening or why. We are now at the point where the water is starting to hit the shoreline.

northernlights2008

Any thoughts on the two unresolved Senate races in Minnesota and Georgia? I think you predicted the Senate would get close to 60 seats a few weeks back. I wonder what the cards say closer to the evantual realities. Thanks!

Hi Northernlights,

It seems that I’m too late to predict Georgia. It looks like Republican Chamblis won. I really feel Franken should win Minnesota, if he doesn’t I think there was funny business going on. So I guess it will be 58 or 59, but its close enough. The Republicans are so fractured right now the next couple of  years will make it worse for them. I don’t think that number will stand long.

I do feel Obama will have the 60 needed, if not this go round, then next. The cards indicated it would happen. As I’ve said before about the cards, they are always right, but their timing isn’t always accurate.

Iris

Another question. Some of Obama’s supporters are up in arms about the people he is choosing to work in his Administration. They feel that they have been betrayed. Will the Disgruntled Dems. get over it in time or will they hold a grudge for the next 4 years?

Thanks! 

Hi  Iris,

I have noticed this very thing, and it’s annoying. The poor guy hasn’t even taken office yet. He can always fire people if they don’t work out! I wish they would let him get out of the gate before they tried breaking his legs. This is the very thing that is lame about Democrats, and the reason they are perceived as weak. And why it has been so easy to split the party, divide and conquer, a technique used efficiently by the Republicans who had the binding force of greed to keep them together as one giant jelly fish stuck to the butt of our country.

Democrats are often too idealistic, and not practical enough. They expect miracles immediately, and are too easily disappointed by reality because the binding force that makes people Democrats is a variety of things. There is no one glue keeping the party together except for idealism, so its a double edged sort of thing. It’s why Obama won. But also why people from his own side are going to pick on him like he’s the fat kid on a baseball diamond. It’s annoying.

Obama is putting together an entire administration. Just because he’s carrying some people over from the Bush admit-nothing-stration doesn’t mean they will ultimately stay, and there is some need for consistency and experience. If company A bought company B, they’d replace almost everyone, but just for efficiancy sake, and the sake of time, some employees from company A would transition to company B.

I think everyone getting their panties all up in a bunch before Obama even has possession of the white house is ridiculous. And frankly, the dude has 60 odd days to pick everyone on his team, move his family, and get a meeting of the minds together to basically run the free world.

So I say to those spastic hypercritical Democrats and lefties, cut him some slack! Jeez! There’s a lot to worry about right now, and I’m sure Obama will cull through people over time. Give the guy a chance. God, knows we gave George W. Idiot a new chance every day which he spent screwing something else up, and there was very little fuss made about any of his messes. But he had the web of greed there to catch him at all times where Obama has a sack full of ideologies to try and placate.

All I ask is 6 months to let the Obama administration get going before the traditional Democratic backstabbing and infighting. We are in a global state of emergency. Which will require us to learn to be more practical, and pragmatic instead of dreaming up ways in which we wish our politicians were more delightful. 

So in answer to your question. Unfortunately, I’m sure we will see the traditional Democratic hazing, but lets all commit to do our part not to participate in it.  There’s enough to fix that Obama shouldn’t have to worry about pandering to everyone, too.

grace43

Will Arnold Schwartzenegger be joining Obama’s cabniet? I thought when Obama said a top Republican would be on his cabniet, it would be Arnie. Now he’s picked Gates to stay on as Sec. of Defense. Since some very conservative Christians are in top level positions in the military, this seems to be a wise move aimed at keeping them calm. What’s up for the Governator after his term runs out?

Here’s his birth information: 30 July 1947, Thal, Styria, Austria (Taken from his bio on Internet Movie Database)
Birth Time: 04:10 (04:10 AM) MEDT(-1:00) (taken from Lois Rodden’s AstroDatabankhttp://www.astrodatabank.com/nm/SchwarzeneggerArnold.htm )

Thanks in advance!

PS

I sure hope he will be. After four years of having to look at Bush and Cheney, this lady would appreciate someone up there easier on the eyes. LOL

Hi Grace,

I just don’t see Schwartzenegger in Obama’s cabinet. He’s really done a bad job here in California. We’ve had budget problems, and the unions are talking about throwing him out of office. He’s a big oaf. Sorry to say. I’m sure his wife would make a better governor then him. He should have stuck to his acting career. Here’s his chart from the source you gave:

In 2010 he’s going to have transiting Pluto going over his Moon in the 6th house. His moon rules his chart, it’s in Capricorn/career and in the 6th that’s your job.  And it will be making an applying inconjunction to his Sun. So I’d say he’ll have some trouble in the career department. His wife should take extra precautions for her health at that time, too. As the moon in the 6th could be his wife Maria having some sort of health problem that could be fatal if not caught early.  Or if his mother if she is still alive could have a health crisis. So the women in his life will have to be diligent with their health over approximately the next 5 years.

He may very well get recalled here in California in a special election at that time (November 2010). He himself was put into office on a trumped up recall election, ousting our Democratic Governor Gray Davis. It was pretty lame. Karma’s a b*tch. So looks like he’ll be getting it back right about then. Or at least the fire will be roaring in that direction by then. I hope for him, and his family’s sake it’s just his career that has trouble, and not the women in his life.

Bedtime! More questions and answers tomorrow…

Best wishes to all of you!

Denise

Clarification And Fiscal Advice From Javahaaa

I want to thank Javahaaa for taking the time to explain some CD’s, FDIC info and how to get the best rates for your account. I’m not a financial advisor, just a nutty psychic astrologer/writer who gets premonitions about all kinds of things not just the stock market, so I really appreciate Javahaaa taking the time to explain this for my readers. I certainly wouldn’t be qualified to do it!

Javahaaa is a banker so please read the advice so kindly offered:

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Denise, since many of your readers seem fearful about their banks and CDs , being in banking I want to set the record straight for them. Every CD you get at a local bank is FDIC insured. You do not have to worry about losing the money if the bank “goes under” or, more likely, is bought out by someone else. Period. This has nothing to do with astrology.

The only people who have to worry the bank’s solidity and losing $ are those who own stocks or bonds of the bank. Even all the CDs and checking/savings deposits at IndyMac were safe. If the bank does “fail” and is taken over by the government, you may have to wait a short while before the $ is returned, but you will not lose it, including the interest accrued to that point. If it is, more likely, bought out by another bank, your $ is at the “new” bank the next day (CDs still subject to same holding period they first were).

Now, whether or not the FDIC has enough funding to meet its obligations, should lots of banks “fail” at once, is a separate story – and _that’s_ what you’re readers ought to ask about, not any individual bank.

Anyone who wants to keep their nest egg in CDs should shop around for the best rate – and the “best rate” is not just the %, but its relation to the maturity of it…. i.e., a 3.5% for 9 months is better than a 4% for 5 years….ask your local bank branch manager (or other experienced banker there) to help you figure out the “best bargain” at their bank, and compare that to other banks (most are more than happy to help you). You can also shop online: bankrate.com is a great site for the public. Then, _put the maturity date on your calendar _, and when the maturity date is coming near, shop around the same way. Usually, if you just let it roll over at the same bank automatically, you will _not_ get as high a rate as you will by shopping around. 

Banks run “promotional” rates to get your money in (often losing money themselves on the transaction, by giving you a higher % than they can get with their own $), and depend on most people being lazy and letting the $ roll automatically to a new, lower % CD once the promotional one comes due.

I hope this helps. Again, stock and bondholders should worry about the long-term solidity of the bank (or any company they invest in), but not people with their savings/CDs there. There are too many other things in day-to-day life to worry about – like spending less than you earn and saving enough (for the near future, and for retirement) to begin with.

Considering the fiscal condition of Medicare (which, at 3X the size of Social Security, is the federal program in the most trouble), and medical cost in general, saving for old age should be priority #1 for most people. They’re going to need a lot more $ than most think.

Answering Readers’…

Hi Everyone! Keep posting questions. I’ll get to them. Hope all of you are able to have a good holiday season despite the craziness going on.  I know we are all scared but remember that this is a transitional period and like our grandparents and great grandparents we will prevail. It will make us stronger as individuals and as a nation. 

I was thinking about how lost we had become. We were so busy consuming, wanting everything for the cheapest price we could get it. Things were shoddily made by practically slave labor in China. We expect to have to buy a new computer every couple of years, more than that and your computer is a dinosaur. We had become so wasteful, not only was this wasting our time on chasing endless carrots on sticks but it is a huge part of our environmental problems. Perhaps tightening our belts, buying less and expecting better quality, keeping a few things we love for a long time and treasuring them rather then buying new stuff every few months because it falls apart, is not only better for us personally but better for the world at large. Think about all the time we can save and resources by not being the decadent consumer culture we have been for the past 20 or so years. We will be better for this. It’s a painful way to learn this lesson, but learning it will ultimately be to our benefit, spiritually, emotionally and environmentally.

Sandrine

 

Obama may not make it to the 20 of january. The problem of is citizenship is still here and stronger. As Denise predict it last time he won the trial against Berg. However now the filed a Law suit at the Supreme court. He may not win it this time. Maybe that is what Denis Dream about Chicago was all about ? I hope he will win the trial again and be president on january 20. Hi Sandrine, I see Obama being sworn in on January 20 and when I looked at the supposed case against him via the cards it looked like there was absolutely nothing to it. So I wouldn’t worry about it.        Gwen Dear Denise, Thank you for all your help to so many who are worried about their jobs, savings, etc. in this financial downturn. I am a small business owner who is also worried whether or not “Main Street” businesses will begin to fall across the nation. Could you say something about the Teahouse which was incorporated in NYC on March 15, 2005 at 5:05pm. People seem really scared and, of course, restaurants seem to be extremely vulnerable to this economic climate. Many small business owners in our neighborhood are seeing a 30% downturn already. Best wishes for the holidays, Gwen Hi Gwen, Here is the chart of The Tea House: No doubt there will be a loss of costumers, primarily tourists, people on trips, foreigners, and people in the publishing business as Pluto inconjuncts the moon of the Tea House later in the year, into next year. I’d say if this business tightens its belt and really tries to be conservative it should weather the storm right now.  also as Uranus transits the 7th house and hits the businesses Venus and then Sun there, the Tea House could get a new husiness partner which would really help it to stay afloat during this down turn. Neptune is transiting the 6th which will also mean that some servers will probably have to be let go in order to keep the place open. But it does look like it will be OK, as long as the business is proactive and adaptable.   Best wishes to all and many blessings.  More answers and questions tomorrow! And any suggestions for posts are always welcome. Denise

Answering Readers…

Hey everyone,

I’m working on some more posts that clarify astrological points over the next few weeks, so hopefully this will help with my astro talk and also get some of you interested in further investigation of the art/science.

For now I’m answering some readers and the first is from Wei:

Hi Denise: I am not a conspiracy theorist, but the economic turmoil and the violent bubble and bust situations from the dot.com to the most recent real estate and credit crisis wreaks of corruption. It creates paupers and millionaries. My comment is related to a posting you made about how you forsee a different monetary system, a more universal and world market situation. I watched zeitgeist, the movies found on http://www.zeitgeistmovie.comand what I found interesting is the parallel between your comments and how the documentaries notes nefarious desire to create globalization through an universal currency and gov’t with subsequent tearing down of our civil liberties. “Terrorism” which has been happening all over the world now is touted as the new way for bankers to make money because it is a war that you can’t win so it goes on forever. Wonder if you feel there is actually some feeling that globalization is a bad thing. I, for one, find it interesting.  Hi Wei, I’ll have to check out the link. I’ve been too busy to look at it, but I will tomorrow. You know the bible seems to think globalization is bad, but I actually don’t feel that way for a number of reasons. Again, I haven’t seen the documentary, but I often think the knee jerk reaction to globalization is based on this ingrained fear driven into the subconscious of our country via the book of Revelations. Which by the way was prophecy about the end of the Aries age, going into the Pisces, not about this time period despite the fact people of every age have tried to wrangle the prophecies to fit their particular era. And all the fancy metaphors and predictions did come to pass at that time. Especially, if one is a Christian the talk of a Messiah saving Israel should clearly indicate the rise of Jesus, and the emancipation of the Jews from the Egyptians around that period. I remember when I was a kid back in the late 70s (I was on occult mailing lists of course because I tried to join the Rosicrucian’s and many other such groups via the mail) getting a pamphlet put out by the Zionists saying that the beast was the computer (there was really only one big computer that was housed in like a skyscraper or something) and all bar codes had the number 666 as part of their encoding. This computer/beast was going to control all commerce, and people were going to have to eventually wear their mark on their palm, because cards would be too dangerous, etc. People might loose them and then what would they do! Oh, yeah call 1-800-bank-blah, but they hadn’t thought up 800 numbers yet I guess or the idea of replacing cards. Their interpretation was kind of true. Banking is computerized, but we don’t wear the mark of the beast. And maybe the prophets of old did see some weird computer thing in a vision, and were afraid of it, doesn’t mean it is the devil. Let’s not forget it was cool to stone your wife to death, sacrifice your kid if God told you to, and God forbade eating pork. So the fear mongering in the bible extends into many crazy areas. So here are my reasons why globalization is not only not a bad thing: 1) The more we band together as a world the greater our chances for saving the earth. 2) The more we are all interlinked the more we lift each other up, helping the developing world and in turn hopefully, helping them to avoid the errors of the mistakes we’ve made along the way. They also help us. If we do things fairly, we can all benefit from the resources of all nations, and put the best of everyone and everything to work for the whole of the world. 3) Agreeing on international laws which we all have to abide by puts each separate government’s feet to the fire, such as: We violated the Geneva Convention, in my opinion the Bush administration officials (and the President himself) should stand trial for war crimes if he, and/or his people are proven to have OK’d torture. They broke the law. If we can’t do anything in our country to make our government officials accountable then we still have the hope of the world community policing us. The more we (by this I mean countries) hold each other to humanitarian standards, despite the policies of our particular isolated country’s politics, the more we advance humanitarian causes. 4) We are one planet circling around one of approximately 250 billion stars in our galaxy alone. There are billions, and billions of stars and scientists are finding it common for stars to have planets orbiting them. And I’m sure over time we will find solar systems as common as cells in a human body. The chances we are alone in the universe are impossible. The more we see ourselves as one people – one world, the more we are prepared to take the leap forward into the future, advance our sciences, our capacity to travel to other planets and be able to deal with the eventual (if we are not already dealing with it, which in my opinion we are) communication with either extra-terrestrial or extra-dimensional beings.  Of course the down side to a global economy is what we are currently seeing. If one country falls then we see the domino effect. But if we can put laws in place, and make sure anti-monopoly laws are not only put into place, but indestructible via deregulation or otherwise, then the world would thrive in ways no one could imagine possible. However, if we allow the greedy to manipulate the world stage then it would be Soylent Green time. This is the potential threat of a truly united global economy. Luckily, people and country’s are self-interested enough to see this potential and hopefully (if these countries are not run by morons or madmen) protect their people from exploitation. Best wishes and many blessings to all of you, Denise

Answering Readers…

The first from Grace:

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I am a hobbist genealogist. I have several long deceased relatives I would like to know what they were like. Have you ever done a chart on a deceased person? If I have a date and time of death, how do I use that?  My great grandfather died of swine flu in 1918. His brother died that same year in WWI. I can find military records for Uncle Glenn, but nothing for Grandpa Benjamin. I would love to know more about these two men, but have exhausted all other sources. It seems like their deaths sent the whole family into a downward spiral. I don’t have birth times naturally, but I don’t think that will matter in this case. Can you use dates from the distant past to see how they impacted the future? Thanks! Hi Grace, You can run a solar chart. And yes you can see how they effected the world through their charts, and of course, what sorts of things they went through based on that info. You won’t know exactly what. and when things happened without a birth time, but you can really tell a lot about their personalities; how they interacted with people, their passions, their weaknesses, most definitely. if you want to post their birth dates I can run solar charts for you, and do an analysis to show everyone how this works.   Wyntyr

Hi Denise,  I would love to know your thoughts on the Illinois governor (Blagojevich) scandal. Somehow this man seems so caught up in his ego that he literally doesn’t ‘get’ what he has done and feels like he answers to nobody but himself (is my humble opinion). I hope this won’t drag out very far into 2009 if at all, but most likely there will be a lot of mud sliding downhill for quite some time with this scandal. This time period almost seems like a ‘karmic’ cycle in the world. And, those that are corrupt will definately feel the effects. I personally feel that once Obama and his team get into office, that they are going to uncover unprecedented amounts of previous corruption and scandal that we have NEVER seen in anyones lifetime (especially in the financial, banking, auto industry, etc.). And, they are thankfully the right team to clean it up! Best wishes to you Denise! Hi Wyntyr, The dude looks like a cartoon of a slimy used car salesman. How did this man even win? Seriously, he has such gross energy. I couldn’t believe it when I saw the guy. He’s just a bad stereo type of a political hack. I think he got confused, and thought he was living in the Soviet Union, because how ridiculous is this whole thing? He not only couldn’t sell Obama’s senate seat — I don’t want to even get into how stupid this guy has to be. And yes, I agree with you, we are seeing karma boomerang right now. It’s just the beginning. I don’t think we’ve seen the end of the Bush scandals in terms of them getting their due as well. Interestingly there was a planet discovered a few years ago (in our solar system) by Mike Brown professor/scientist from Cal-Tech. There was some debate about whether it was really a “planet” or not because of its size and the fact that it was so far out of orbit. But it is actually bigger then Pluto which is why scientists started trying to say Pluto was no longer a planet. Long story short they decided trans-neptunian planets in the Kuiper Belt would be called dwarf planets, lame but anyway, I e-mailed Mike Brown about the importance of picking the right name, which was his responsibility since he found it, telling him how important a name is, especially to the collective unconscious, blah, blah. I begged him to pick a Goddess name since there were so few and also to try and stay within the same pantheon all the other planets were named for. He wrote me back and told me he was on it. I had suggested a name but there was already an asteroid with that name and they couldn’t have two heavenly bodies with similar names due to some regulation. So he ended up picking Eris, Goddess of strife. This was decided in 2006. Interestingly enough Uranus, ruler of revolutions was discovered in-between the French revolution and our revolution. I don’t think its a coincidence that Eris was found when she was. As I see it she is a warning about the difficulties ahead. I want to do more research on her mythology but to make a long story short I think her discovery was a foreshadowing of a new period, one in which karma becomes more instant, and where reaction follows action almost immediately. I’ll do some research and write a post about this. Here’s a link to basic info about Eris: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eris_(dwarf_planet) Bed time. I’m working on a number of posts, one regarding the outer planets and how they effect us and I guess now one on Eris. Best wishes and many blessings to all, Denise

Answering Readers…

Hi all, I’m currently working on deconstructing the dwarf planets — Pluto being one of them, the one wreaking havoc right now. So of course I wanted to address Farah’s comment, which is here:

 farah

Eris’s original nickname was Xena and I think that that is the name that should have remained. The symbolic energy surrounding Xena mythologically speaking (even though Xena is a modern invention) is much higher and more positive than the concept of a goddess of discord and strife. Hi Farah, Xena was the dwarf planet’s nickname while Mike Brown decided on a mythological name. At the time I e-mailed him back in 03, I didn’t realize there was a rule that heavenly bodies had to be named after ancient God/Goddesses. I actually wrote to him begging him not to name the planet something stupid, and to pick a Goddess as there are so few represented. I had one in mind, but unfortunately the name was already taken. I agree that the Goddess of discord and strife is pretty negative, and I wish he hadn’t named this very large “dwarf planet,” after a Goddess that was supposed to love the sight of human blood being spilled. She is actually the sister of Aries, another warrior God. She’s pretty gnarly. And we’ll have to see how she plays out over the coming years. Right now Eris is at 21 degrees Aries. And Eris has been in Aries starting way back in 1924, so you see she is very slow moving. It takes about a century for her to change signs, so perhaps we will see a corrolation between her energy, and that of the century, in which case we are still lingering in the 20th and haven’t quite made it to the next level. Interesting to note when Eris was in Pisces it was during the enlightenment, and when in Aries: it was the age of self-realization, modern art, the sexual revolution, and a general push toward exploring the self (also the “Me” generation fits squarely in the center of her reign.) Let’s hope Eris was unfairly named, and perhaps is more about the general color of the mass consciousness, perhaps the deep dark id-like side of humanity, or the life blood of a century rather than just her horrible reputation as being a viscious death mongering blood letting, cold, malacontent, Goddess of chaos. I wonder if perhaps her story, and her attributes changed over time as the Greeks became more patriarchal. This is a common theme, demonizing Goddesses as a culture turns from the feminine aspects of God for political reasons to support the new patriarchal system, and thereby changes the attributes of a Goddess. This was also done in the bible where several demons were actually, at one time, Goddesses and Gods that the ancient Jews worshipped before becoming monotheistic. It’s a common political-religious tool to frighten people into a new belief system that enforces a new political structure.

Louis

Thank you Denise for your advice on Minara Resources, MRE, The company was born in Perth, Western Australia not Sydney, Australia despite this, the reading was accurate in that they were doing very well in 2006. Would this have much affect on the overall accuracy of the astrological reading? When I read and re -read some of your answers to our questions there is a thread throughout that somehow gives me faith and peace (something I haven’t had recently) that the worlds economy wont end but transform, even though our foundations, our basic security is under threat, and there will be massive changes and challenges to come, there is a larger picture that is ultimately for the good. At the end of the day materialism isn’t what it is made out to be and can often create so much misery as seen in our Western worlds. My gratitude to you for helping me see this. Louis  Hi Louis, The timing would be slightly off with a city change, but the basic chart would be the same. Also if this stock is traded in Sydney then it would likely take on the timing of Sydney.  I’m very glad i could help you feel better during this period. These are growing pains and if we all stay involved and demand our world become a better place, it will be. Best wishes to all of you and many blessings, Denise

The Outer Planets: How they effect us personally (part 1)

For those of you who have researched astrology, you’ve probably read that Pluto, Neptune and Uranus are more generational in nature and don’t effect our personality or us personally in the same way that the “personal” planets like: the Sun, Moon, Venus, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter and Saturn do. (Of course the Sun and Moon are not actually planets but for the sake of astrological influence are lumped in with them and referred to them as such.) But let me assure everyone that this is a major error and misnomer on the part of astrologers that I plan to explain.

The argument set forth by astrologers is that because these outer bodies are slow moving, they can’t directly effect individuals and instead have more to do with whole generations. True, in a way, but lets examine this assumption. There is a quote I read many years ago by Thomas Paine (which I’ll have to find later and post exactly) that states basically: People are more like their generation then their own parents.

People born within a generation (I’ve noticed) not only have  have physical characteristics about them that stand out. The Baby Boomers have Pluto in Leo and Neptune in Libra. Leo the lion has a mane, is it any surprise that this generation was obsessed with hair? They even had a musical with this name and it was a major source of protest for hippies to let their hair grow in every direction, and as long as it could get. This is just the superficial start of how Pluto in Leo plays itself out within the generation.

This was the generation dubbed, “The Me Generation,” again Leo rules the ego, family, creativity, fertility, children, child-like behavior, speculation, hobbies, theater, drama, performing, And this generation was the first to radically change the dynamics of the family literally Pluto = transformation, death and rebirth, sexuality and in Leo the family, the performing arts (hello rock and roll.) This was the beginning of massive divorce rates and partner swapping, which would be the Neptune in Libra. Neptune = confusion, delusion, illusion, spirituality, psychic ability and Libra = Partnerships, marriage, the visual arts, issues of fairness, peace, strategy, legal matters. All people in this generation have dealt with permutations of these issues directly. And in a strange way this over-arching theme among people born from the late 1930s to the mid-late 1950s I’d argue effects them more because they not only have personally dealt with these issues in various forms in their own lives, but it colors their perception of history and world view because their peers also share these same issues and there is a presumption cast on all humanity that these themes are ever present, when in actuality they are, but not to the same degree.

Let’s look at the generation after the boomers, the Gen-Xers, born from about 1957-1971 (this is from an astrological view point not the standard arbitrary time frame given for generations). Less people were born during this period then any other, especially when Pluto conjuncted Uranus in Virgo. This was the height of the sexual revolution from about 1962-1968. Uranus rules revolution, and Virgo rules: perfectionism, health food, dietary concerns, health, medicine, service to others, analysis, criticism, and is associated with the fashion industry. With Uranus conjunct Pluto during a chunk of this generation from about 1962-1968, we have seen a rise in (and I know because this because I am part of this nutty generation) over-zealous almost religious fervor about health food, dietary issues and exercise. On the positive side there has been an exploration (by this generation in particular) of eastern medicine, energy work and all things non-traditional in regards to healing the body.

This configuration also gives a strange sort of not wanting to be part of a generation thing, where there is an emphasis on individuality because of the Uranus interaction with Pluto, and a recycling of the past in new ways, hence the obsession with vintage everything. Also this generation has Neptune in Scorpio which brought to the forefront the modern primitive/tattoo clan, and also an acceptance and fascination with the occult in general among my peeps. 

I’m going to continue this post tomorrow, discecting generation Y and beyond. And then wrap it all in a nice bow and illustrate how these generational traits play a personal role in our lives.

I’m going to be lazy and sleep now. It’s been a very hectic couple of weeks, and it’s almost the holidays. And I haven’t even finished shopping! That’s how behind I am.

Best wishes to all of you. May your dreams come true (as long as they are not nightmares) and may the Universe bestow many blessings upon you, and your loved ones.

Denise

Answering Readers…

Hi, it’s been a crazy busy week and I’m working on some very big posts for next week. So here’s just a little something for now. A comment to be commented on by Krish:

 

Submitted on 2008/12/08 at 4:26pm Krish Pakistan has become a Rogue state. There is a parallel state there being run by ISI/Army. They have stoked the fire of Jihadi and it has been good money from them. Pakis are getting money from Arabs in the name of Jihad and getting from USA in the name of fighting it. But America is suffering from romantic nostalgia and does not want to act. I see deja vu all over again. American public want to pull out and this is going to create Taliban part 2.   Hi Krish, i’m not sure if you mean pull out of Afghanistan, Pakistan or Iraq. But your point is well taken. Pakistan is playing both sides of the fence, and is a dangerous rouge state. My intuition has been telling me for a while, that this is the area of the next big conflict for the US, the West in general and also India. I feel the most turmoil there in regards to potential war and terrorism. We’ve been being worried about iran and North Korea, but its Pakistan that could errupt like an oversized pimple at any moment. It’s coming to a head.   Best wishes and many blessings to all. I promise I will post more and with more in depth articles once I finish playing catch up. Please keep posting questions! Denise

An Extension…

For all of those who have been interested in getting a reading for the discounted rate, as long as you let me know this week, even if I can’t fit you in — I will honor the lower price. Even if the booking ends up being after the holidays. So if anyone is interested just e-mail happypeopleusa@aol.com and let me know you are interested this week so you can secure a less expensive reading.

Best wishes to all,

Denise

P.S. I’m fighting off a cold which is why I am extending this offer. Hopefully, I won’t give into this cold and next week I’ll be able to read everyone, if not I will, of course, schedule everyone when I can, and you will still get the discount.

The Stock Market: Answering a Reader’s Question

This question from George is a good one. It is at the bottom of this post for reference.

I have to admit that the feeling I had before the initial crash was intense and urgent. Since then it has been erratic. I picked the end of December into January because this is when Pluto is exactly conjunct the Dow Jones first house. Of course if the date or time was off in that chart (which is always possible) then we could have seen the hit at 0 degree instead of the 1 degree in the official chart. 

The other manifestation of Pluto going over the first house is the exposure of corruption, scandals, abuse of power and scams that could hamper investment in the market out of fear. We’ve started seeing this with the most recent news of the ex-head of NASDAQ taking rich investors for an estimated 50 billion dollars. Pluto will uncover more of this sort of thing, it may or may not lead to another crash, but it will definitely transform the way the markets are ultimately allowed to do business.

In the next 10-15 years the  market will go through such major transformations economists/brokers/bankers and financial people won’t recognize it as the same entity it once was. I think we will see instability for a long time as the market re-organizes, and gets restructured under Pluto’s influence. Which means during this long period we may see wild fluctuations as new things become uncovered, and new laws are put in place to shore up the bleeding. 

It’s my feeling that we are still in the midst of this crisis, and haven’t seen the worst of it, but it will turn around over the next couple of years. In terms of the bottoming out, if I were looking just at the aspects I’d have to say as an astrologer that the worst still will be the end of December into January when Pluto hits that 1 degree mark. And again when Pluto retrogrades back to that point at different points in 2009. However, as a psychic, I also know that charts are not always 100 accurate, so timing isn’t always exact because of this, and the intense urgency about the market I felt back in September has abated. I’m not sure if this is because we’re already in it, and I’ve gotten used to the energy, or if we really have seen the biggest drop we’re going to feel by comparison of where it was to begin with.

I do feel however, that we haven’t seen the end of companies going under, and the market dropping and being very erratic which is why for those of us who are not incredibly market savvy, it is still best to wait it out. I’d give it at least a couple of years to stabilize.

It’s been my intuition for a number of years now that there is a lot of criminal activity taking place in the stock market and I feel the uncovering of this is part of Pluto going over the first house of the Dow. I mentioned this in earlier posts. I feel we are entering into this phase of Pluto now where a lot of dirty tricks, insider trading, corruption and scams are exposed. Pluto is going to clean house, and while this is good in the long run, it will disrupt people’s faith in the market, and bring down value substantially. 

So to summarize: We are still in the middle of the bleeding. Criminal activity regarding the market will continue to come to light. The market will undergo tremendous change over the next decade. It won’t really be “safe” for normal people to invest in the market for a few years when it begins to stabilize again. More companies are going to go under. The overall value of the market is going to go down. We are headed into a different sort of depression then the 30s, but still it will be a depression. There will be international market, and banking laws put into place over the next decade, and the world will become even more intricately connected as one economy, with one set of rules we all have to abide by. After a few years of changes people will get used to the Pluto energy, and begin to understand the new flow of the market, and it will turn around for the better, and start to build more value again.

This new depression will be somewhere between the recession we felt of the 70s, and the 30s, but on a global scale. It won’t be barrels full of money to buy bread, but there will be tremendous unemployment and people having to change their lifestyles dramatically in some cases to get through this time. I also feel that the length and severity of this depression/recession has been greatly reduced by the election of Obama. His chart compared to that of the US constitution signing, and the Dow, and NASDAQ are good. Most of his energy regarding the markets will be spent in re-structuring them for the future good of the world’s economy. 

I hope I’ve made sense and this is helpful. If you want anymore clarification just let me know. 

Here is George’s question:

George

Hi Denise,   Do you still think that US stock markets will crash during December and January? It is interesting if you see anything new. Can you please share with us. Thanks, George

Something Kind of Creepy…

Pluto hits 1 degree Capricorn on the day of the winter Solstice, December 21 (this year 2008), I picked that day in the first post for all hell to break loose because of the astrological hit. Of course I had been feeling the crash and posted a couple of weeks before the market started going nutty, but warned that date was when something very bad would happen, this of course is only if that chart is 100% correct. Stuff doesn’t always happen exactly when the aspect hits, but it usually does. So far we’ve seen the market go crazy at 0 degrees quite a bit, and seems to go nuts every time Pluto goes back and forth over that point.

Now for the creepy thing. My sister in Chicago told me that a friend of her friend’s kid, a young man who recently had a schizophrenic break, and has been in a psych ward for the past few months has been screaming recently that God has been speaking to him, and that something was going to come to an end on December 21, 2008. He’s been very specific about that date, but not exactly what this end is, or what exactly this terrible thing God has been telling him is going to occur then. When my sister told me this I got the chills.

Now, maybe you’re thinking. OK, Denise this kid is nuts, so what? Well, its been my experience that psychic ability and schizophrenia in particular are two sides of the same coin. Schizophrenics are psychics without a filter, it’s as if their ego is shattered into a million pieces, and they are an open channel. Psychics have a thin filter, and with training learn how to open themselves up enough to see things. But psychics have an ego, allowing them to function almost like normal people do. In my family both schizophrenia/insanity and psychic ability run on both sides. I’ve known people who have worked in the psychiatric field who have told me very bizarre paranormal stories about schizophrenics.  I personally witnessed some very bizarre activity around my own grandmother who was schizophrenic.

Now here’s another creepy thing. Something that gave me the chills. I have poltergeist activity in my house, always have, always will. I’m pretty used to it. When I was younger it really upset me, and my family, husband, my friends, room mates, etc. But generally I’m not freaked out by it anymore, usually it’s very begnine. I feel it is mostly people from my family who come around when I’m alone with my kid (who is also psychic) doing things like turning the faucets on in my house (which several people have witnessed, 4 different friends and my husband) just to let me know they’re here as emotional support (water is emotion and turning on the faucet is a symbol of communication.)

But tonight I had a creepy thing happen. And it seemed more like a warning then a friendly “hello, we’re here watching over you,” kind of thing. I was in the kitchen holding my baby daughter when I noticed the garage light (there are 2 but only one was doing this) blinking in a sort of morris code way. And the color of the light itself was unusual, perhaps because it was so fast, more like an orange then the normal white it usually is. It’s motion activated, but there was nothing outside, no wind and the rain has stopped here for 24 hours so it wasn’t that. My neighbor’s motion detector light that always goes off when ours does, wasn’t triggered. All I can say is it gave me the creeps, and things don’t usually do that. I tried to video tape it, but of course it stopped doing the creepy Morris code thing and just went black like it had been. The other odd thing was the garage lights haven’t been working for the past 2 weeks. Maybe it was just a short or something electrical, but I’ve never seen it behave that way in the 13 years we’ve lived in this house and as I was talking to my husband about it over the phone, I heard three slow knocks on the outside of my house. 

I am taking this all to be a warning from the spirit world that something is up, and to be warned that we haven’t seen the worst of things just yet. I hope this is nothing. But I fear, from experience, that this is another warning. I had something similar, but also very different happen about a month before the first market crash. It also scared me which again isn’t easy to do. 

So, be safe, don’t do anything rash with your money, and take this warning to hunker down and be forewarned. Remember the other side usually does this sort of thing for a reason. As long as it’s not a negative entity (which is always possible and would be my trouble not a universal warning) then the spirits are just saying, “Key keep an eye out and be careful right now.”

Answering a Reader…

I had to answer this post by Truthseeker. I saw it after the post just below it and it also confirmed my skin crawling feeling. Here it is:

Truthseeker

Calm before the storm maybe.  I was actually wondering if the market crash was from an unexpected reason. For example a terrorist attack, war (if India dropped a bomb on Pakistan) , possibly Israel attacking Iran out of no where. Heaven forbid. Hi Truthseeker, I have a weird feeling you are onto something. As I was writing the post below I felt that the warning the spirits were showing me was not just about the economy, that something else was in the mix. I really hope I’m getting confused here. But when I focus on the message I get anxious. I’m going to try and see if I can dream anything about this for clarification. If I do I will post it. If anyone else has a feeling about this, please post it.  The other scary thing I noticed when looking at the charts of almost all the western nations was (including the US) there was a theme of 01 degrees in a cardinal sign. Meaning Pluto is about to either, square, oppose or conjunct this sensitive point of a bunch of nations. India has Mars at 0 degrees Cancer, Pluto was exactly opposite its Mars during the Mumbai attack and also exactly incounjuncting the country’s 0 degree Gemini rising. And Pakistan has 2 degrees Aries, which Pluto will hit in late January early Feb of 09. This is why I felt India would strike back at Pakistan during that period. I think Pluto actually hits 2 degrees Capricorn making the square exact, just after Obama’s inauguration. Perhaps the transition will be so focused on the economy, India will feel it can strike back at Pakistan. Let’s hope not. Best wishes and many blessings to all of you, Denise

Answering Readers, and More About Eris…

hopeandaplan

Hi Denise,  I just saw in the news that there was an earthquake in S Carolina, early this morning. I had a thought about the orange garage light experience you had last night. Sometimes when I get signs they are literal. Do you think its somewhere called Orange? Orange county Florida, California, or Orange the city in different areas??? And, Do you think there is anything to worry about with the Soviets doing naval excercises in the waters off of Venezuela? Thanks for keeping up the blog! Hi Hope and A Plan, I had wondered about this, it was definitely something one would see in a ghost movie. I remembered as I was falling to sleep having had a dream the night before about an attempted terrorist type of attack, the weapons were mostly machine guns and I think there was an armored car involved. In the dream I was a spy uncovering the scheme. it was a foreign european country. it was night time and I didn’t think that much about it. That was all I remembered of it. It was so odd, that I kind of forgot about it. It’s not often I’m a spy exchanging gun fire in a dream. But I wondered as I was falling asleep the night of the crazy garage light, if perhaps I had blown off a warning dream the night before, and the light was trying to draw my attention to my unconscious. I’ve noticed as I’ve gotten older (and because of all the migraine and seizure medicine I take now) that I often forget my dreams, and most of my psychic stuff happens while I’m awake, often physical/poltergeist type of manifestations mixed with intense emotional feelings attached to words that circle around in my head for days until I can’t ignore them anymore. Maybe the spirits really have to hit me over the head because I’m either jaded or the medicine I take makes remembering my dreams difficult. Anyway, I thought it was interesting to read the post by you which I have coming up after Better Days Ahead’s comment, about the terrorist attack in France. I’m not surprised by the attempt because as i said there are a bunch of European countries that have Pluto hitting something important in their national chart right now. But France actually doesn’t have anything all that nasty compared to most, so its not surprising the attempt was stopped. In my dream there was gun fire exchanged. And I’m not sure if it was France or Germany or England, it was just a very typical European city. There are parts of all European cities that look the way the dream did. Hopefully this will be it for attempted terrorist attacks for the time being, but I don’t know. I am a little worried that there maybe a bigger broader wider international type of plan coming, something that will involve multiple attacks in many European cities at the same time, and here as well because of this critical degree in cardinal signs seen in so many important and national charts. I really need to study the charts again, but I’ve been so busy as we all have with the holiday and trying to keep away one of my intense migraine’s under control for the past week. betterdaysahead   If there’s gonna be a big sell off, it might be lead by a failure to make a loan to the auto industry. Clearly Bush and his folks are against this.   Hi Better Days Ahead, It looked like the American auto industry would survive for the next couple of years and then go under. But there is so much anger about the last bail out which as I said in the posts back before it happened, wasn’t going to go through the first time around when it actually would have helped, but rather a watered down crappy version would pass and do really no good. People have a right to be angry. In my opinion the only reason the bail out happened was to show good faith to the rest of the world — basically to make it look like we were doing something, ANYTHING. But alas, the bail out was so flawed by the time it passed it really was an empty, extremely expensive gesture. Of course though the banking industry is the life blood of the global economy and if we poisoned it, then we were obliged to fix it or risk losing our place in the world economy. We would have been thrown out of the game for being cheaters, which of course, we were, so our government had to make a show of good faith to save face. But they really didn’t get much else accomplished for the money. The auto industry is a very different beast and it will fold our economy into a full swing Depression if it collapses, but we won’t be contaminating the world water supply like we did with the banking scheme. The Republicans don’t really care about saving Joe Normal’s job at GM, and as its turning out they didn’t really care about saving the world economy either, just fattening deals for their peeps. But that’s another story. I can’t say I have a lot of pity for the CEO’s of the American car makers, they’ve been morons. But I do feel for the people who have done their best, and worked hard at their jobs, and now face the potential loss of the life they’ve known.   hopeandaplan Hi Denise, I woke up with the feeling that everything was shaking and a lot of energy was swirling. I have been sensitive to geo activity. It doesnt need to be local. Of course, all of this might be personal to me… I wonder if this is particularly heightened since I have my Moon at 0 degrees of Capricorn at the nadir, or collective unconscious of my chart?? I just saw that a terrorist attack and asassination attempt were thwarted in France. There was a thwarted terrorist attempt of an Air France flight to LA a couple of years ago. Seems like this time of year is a vulnerable time for France… Take care of yourself… Hi Hope And A Plan, There have also been some earth quakes out this way the past few months. There was a pretty big one (5. something) about 4 months ago that we really felt, another out in the desert that was over 6 something, but in a very un-populated area, but it was felt here as well as in Arizona and Nevada. I felt it as a gentle rocking. Then of course some in the mid-west not too long ago. It has made me wonder, seems like there are an awful lot of them all over the place but then again, it seems earthquakes come in swarms and then calm for a while before the next swarm hits. I would think you’d be very sensitive to both geo activity and the collective unconscious with your moon at 0 degrees Cap and Pluto going over it right now. Pluto does rule mass consciousness, transformation, and of course Capricorn is an earth sign.    sparker  I hope you feel better!!! Many Angels to you!!! As for the comment I made last night about Eris, after reading it today I am not so sure about how well I conveyed my thoughts. It didn’t come out the way I thought I was conveying it at the time. Hence, I am not a writer! I am also not sure if I was right about her. I had some very weird, and actually not very dreamy, dreams last night about a lot of people being homeless. Not sure if it was Eris visiting me in my sleep or if it the fact that writing that comment was the last thing I did before I went to bed last night. I thought I was being enlightening but, I am not so sure about it today. But, anyway, FEEL BETTER!! : ) Many Angels to YOU!!  Hi Sparker, I’ve been doing more research on Eris. It seems that my hunch about the patriarchal version of her as slanted toward the negative is right. She is much like a trickster, Goddess of chaos and discord. She likes to confuse or as my friend would say she’s a sh*t stir, meaning she likes to get people to think, laugh and is seen (among those who see her as positive) to be a Goddess of creativity through chaos. She also likes to reveal the superficial and make people think. I found a site that extolls Her virtues and have posted some of it here for reference and a link to the site for anyone who wishes to find out more about this Goddess who will ultimately be absorbed into astrology once we figure her out. I’m working on it right now. Here are some excerpts from the site: Today’s Eris, as is often said by Discordians, shows more of Her mellow aspects, at least to Her ‘co-conspirators’ who sometimes tend to err on the side of attributing to Her every sort of weirdness that intrudes into their lives. Eris is said to be responsible for generating bureaucracies among human societies to both keep the tyrants confused and to keep the intelligent perplexed. She is also here to tell us that, contrary to the religious, spiritual, and theological dogmas of the past centuries, We Are Free. Humankind is not inherently flawed, spiritually blocked, or sinful. Any flaws, blocks, or sins as may exist are entirely our own doing, and as such, they can be overcome, outgrown, or avoided if we decide so. Eris also represents the active principle of standing up for oneself in the face of exclusion, betrayal, or injustice. In Discordianism, getting ‘even’ is considered a valuable experience in one’s ability to recognize a need for redress without having to rely on so-called authority or parent figures to tell them so. How a Discordian goes about gaining redress is left up to each person. The Myth of the Golden Apple (discussed below) is often cited as a prime example of doing so. Here’s the post that I took those excerpts about Eris from: http://davensjournal.com/index.htm?eris.xhtml&2

Answering Readers: Tsunami, Auto Makers, Germany and Italy, Oh, My!

Hi everyone,

I’m sorry I missed posting last night. I’ve been run down and having migraine issues. But am doing better now. If anyone is both psychic and has migraines please post your experiences. I ran a poll about this a while back but not many people responded. A friend has a theory that somehow they are related, I’m not so sure. But it does make a good super-hero sort of Achilles heel. I don’t think these two things are necessarily related but you never know. It turns out I also have an abnormal brain from recent MRI’s, hmm, somehow that doesn’t surprise me, doubt it surprises any of you. I have Chiari I malformation, a genetic disorder causing the brain stem to be partially in the spinal column. Several people have told me they thought this was why I’m psychic. I doubt that as well, but if anyone has both Chiari I, II or III malformation and is psychic let me know!

So here are some new posts from readers that I will answer, first from Wyntyr.

Wyntyr

Hi Denise, I really hope that you are feeling better! You have been working tirelessly on this blog and just know that you touch many souls and hearts. I have been getting the same poltergeist activity (lights, objects, etc.). It sure makes you wonder huh? I don’t know about you but I just have this ‘intuitive’ feeling for lack of better words that something is creeping up on us on the near horizon. I don’t want to speculate but I really believe we are headed for a depression. And, what concerns me is that a lot of people really don’t understand why that means to our country and the world! I don’t think the auto/bank bail-out is even the ‘tip’ of the ice-berg. Scary huh? And, the morons that have contributed to putting us into this mess are not going to want to go quietly into the night either! Good news? I see a two-term Presidency for Obama. Maybe a woman in 2016 (not Sarah Palin..thank goodness). Your posts are eerily accurate and the research you put into your answers is just superb and helpful! BTW – I don’t know if you have anything in ‘print’ (book, novel, newsletters, etc.) but I keep getting a STRONG message to tell you to give it a go. You will find GREAT success! I usually don’t say things like this but I keep getting that from my own guides that I wanted to pass it on to you! You have a great gift! Many blessings to you! ~Wyntyr~ Hi Wyntyr, Thanks for all your support and kind words. I actually just found out that (I’m also a photographer) I will be doing the photography for a vintage knitting/coffee table book. We just got an offer today. So your guides are right. And I do plan on putting together some other writing to get published. This summer I also was part of a chapbook of poetry called, “Haiku Not Bombs,” that was published. Just re-affirming your psychic ability and intuition. And I’m also working on a new astrological theory involving the dwarf planets and plan to write about it, besides the fiction writing i normally do, but haven’t been lately due to time constraints. Interesting you too have been having poltergeist activity. Last night I had planned to write for the blog, but I wasn’t feeling well, and my mother was staying the night from out of town. We both fell asleep putting the baby to bed. I had planned on getting up a few hours later and writing. So I woke up, looked at the clock, it was 4:11 AM. Just after I awoke one of the baby’s toys started going off. At first I thought maybe a cat had triggered it in the living room. But it kept repeating the alphabet, did this about 5 or 6 times. So I got up, and saw that it was in the baby’s (yet to be inhabited) room. It was going nuts with lights, and not only were there no cats around, there was no way a cat could have gotten near it. The doors and gates to the hallway where the baby’s room was, were all closed. So I got a little disturbed by this, but figured maybe some other motion had set it off, and went back  to bed. The next morning I went into the baby’s room, and tried pushing every button on the toy, but the only thing that triggered the alphabet song was rolling a barrel full of little plastic beads. And it wasn’t easy to get the thing to go off! Also it didn’t do the weird light show like it had the night before. So again, it seems the spirits were trying to say something. I don’t think they were malicious, just concerned. My mom got a freaked out, she stayed in bed with us. I’ve always kind of freaked her out despite her own psychic experiences. But that’s another story.  I thought about why it choose the alphabet song. And came up with the notion of an elementary warning, a basic sort of thing, perhaps a code for saying all ducks are in a row just put it together now, it’s 1,2,3… A, B, C, all it takes is logic to sort out what’s happening now. I have to agree we are seeing all the signs of falling into a Depression now, and its only getting worse. I have to admit I’ve been news avoidant for the past week because, I’ve been under the weather, and haven’t had the energy to keep up with the world. But the little bits of information friends, and all of you very smart, savy readers have been feeding me, have been a bit scary. I stayed away from Keith Oberman and Rachel Maddow because I was afraid my migraine would get worse. So I have some catching up to do! Thanks to everyone for informing me. I’ve been a bad girl lately in terms of that. grace43   It looks like OPEC hasn’t figured out we’re in a depression yet: OPEC agrees to slash output but oil price sinks http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081218/bs_afp/opecenergyoilprice_081218025533 More bad news on auto industry layoffs: Chrysler, Ford Idle Factories; GM Delays New Plant http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98420426&ft=1&f=1006 It looks like your tsumani is nearly here. ( Hi Grace, It seems that perhaps the auto industry will be one of the things that push the economy over the edge. All of this is happening during that Pluto window, over the holidays, and up until about the 20th of January, it looks like all the major car companies are shutting down until then. I think they will eventually get some kind of help because when I looked at their charts it seemed they wouldn’t collapse for a couple of years, but who knows how long we will try to keep them afloat, and if they keep stringing their workers along they’ll put tremendous strain on the economy due to their contribution to unemployment rates, and will drain federal, and state money for unemployment, loans, their bail-outs, etc. Not a good situation. It really is turning out to be tsunami, we saw the water pull back in the fall, and now we’re starting to feel the flooding overtake the shore. Sag1999   Hi Denise, I want to share that about two weeks ago while drifting off to sleep (the in-between stage, sometimes images appear to me), I saw two very large fire balls on a big boat coming towards my view. I thought that was odd. Then in my mind, it connected to Boston’s fear since 9/11-that we have natural gas shipped to the south of the city. Two days later in another in-between-stupor stage I saw a big ball of explosion, again. Yesterday the word Germany came to me while I was making dinner. I thought it didn’t make sense. When my husband mention this particular blog post and said I should share my intuition, he described potential terroirst attacks on 12/21/08 (happens to be my 42th birthday), Italy came to my mind. I wonder if some kind of attack will come to the harbors/major cities in Europe? I am hoping it’s not Boston. Or anywhere, for that matter. I don’t consider myself psychic, but I have picked up chestpain once before a flashing ambulance flew by me. Thanks for sharing your wisdom in this blog. Hi Sag,  You are barely a Sag! Almost a Capricorn, very cuspy, born on the solstice — a very special day, although I’m sure it kind of sucked when you were a kid. You got all your presents just once a year! Not very fair. Anyway, I couldn’t find an incorporation date for the city of Boston, and there isn’t a chart in my computer data base probably because no one knows the exact date the city was founded. All I could find was a year, and that’s not too much help. I do however have both Italy and Germany’s charts and they are 2 of the western nations with cardinal planets about to be slammed by Pluto. I will post their charts and then give some analysis: As you can see Italy has 1 degree Mercury in Cancer, meaning their Mercury will be exactly opposed Pluto starting around the 21st of this month until the end of January. And just after that Pluto will be squaring Germany’s Mercury in Libra at 2 degrees starting at the end of January 2009, just around our presidential inauguration. In Italy’s case the aspects being made are more about an ally or friend being hit by a foreign group. In Germany’s case it also looks indirect, more through money and the way the world views them, and their economy.  I wonder if there won’t be some sort of terrorism related to the banking industry. Or maybe we’ll discover something related to this. I do feel though that there will also be terrorist attacks, again in a western country. It’s very interesting that you picked Italy and Germany though because both of the country’s will be seriously effected soon by Pluto. So I’d say it’s very possible your visions and intuition are picking up on something about to happen. The web of stuff going on feels so complex right now. There is so much hitting the fan. It makes sense that both Germany and Italy would be good targets for terrorists. Italy is pretty easily accessable to the middle-east compared to most european countries, and there was the shoe bomber/mentally challenged, can’t light a match dude, who was on board a flight from Germany.  My dreams have been evading my waking capture lately because I’m on so much medicine, and I’m so exhausted. But everyone keep posting any premonitory dreams, lets all delve into the collective unconscious and see if we can find out what’s going on. Perhaps together we can piece it together like the alphabet song, stringing one thing after the next until all the pieces show themselves as part of a bigger dynamic. Many blessings to all of you and have a happy holiday season, Denise

Reader’s Comments and Questions…

Hi everyone,

Tonight I tried to catch up on a bit of news.  It was just confirmed that the bones of Caylie Marie Anthony, found about a block and a half away from where the toddler was living were indeed the remains of the little girl. I watched the news in horror. And noticed that this was in Orange County. I had to roll back the DVR to make sure, because Hope and A Plan had posted this after the orange light incident/poltergeist activity:

hopeandaplan

Hi Denise,

I just saw in the news that there was an earthquake in S Carolina, early this morning. I had a thought about the orange garage light experience you had last night. Sometimes when I get signs they are literal. Do you think its somewhere called Orange? Orange county Florida, California, or Orange the city in different areas??? And, Do you think there is anything to worry about with the Soviets doing naval excercises in the waters off of Venezuela? Thanks for keeping up the blog!

I wondered if this was a visitation from the little girl, trying to get a message through. I was after all alone with my  11 month old daughter. Child murders are always extremely upsetting, but this one in particular always made me sick to my stomach, its not like Casey (the mother and talk about some narcissism with the name freakishness of Casey, grandma Cindy, I mean come on) was having a psychotic break like Andrea Yates which was horrifying, but at least she was out of her mind, this woman Casey is clearly just a sociopath. Every time I’d see her disgusting face on the news my stomach would turn. She just oozes manipulative, sociopathic, self-centered, self-indulgent slime bag. The pictures of that poor daughter are just heart breaking especially after having a daughter myself. Anyway, perhaps this was an attempt by the child’s spirit to communicate, or just a total coincidence. Either way it’s weird.

prabhat

dear sir, i went thru your analysis about -india pakistan war.i agree with you. transit of mars and rahu in capricorn –interchange of sun and saturn and presence of transit mercury in capricorn……indictions are horrifying….may lead to ANTHRAX BOMB and other such inhumane attacks. destiny cannot be altered. thnx and regards,and… see u in the dreams. bye www.astrokhare.com

Hi Prabhat,

It’s fascinating how both Vedic/Sideral astrology and Western/Tropical astrology use completely different systems, calculations, even planets and both come to similar conclusions. As my readers can see that Prabhat says, “destiny cannot be altered,” this is a common theme in Vedic astrology although westerners who practice Vedic astrology will argue that, Indian astrologers will not. I have studied both systems and I find that they are both accurate, however in the west we do have more ability to exercise our free will and therefore have more control of our destiny. The reality is that in India, marriages are arranged, and people are tracked toward a particular career, and although the cast system is outlawed, it still exists. People born in India do have to contend with fate in a much different way then we do in the west which is why I think Vedic astrology is so accurate for people in that part of the world, but less so for westerners. And why western astrology is much more accurate for us on this side of the globe.

They are both equally accurate and important despite the entirely different viewpoints, calculations, house systems, aspects, including planets, even the signs are different for example if you are an Aries in western astrology, unless you were born at the very end of that sign you’d be a Pisces. Pretty different yet both are accurate. The universe sure is complex and amazing.

grace43

Funny, my husband and I were talking about places he had lived that we would like to go back to. He has been longing to return to Italy for several days now. My kids also have an annoying toy that plays the alphabet song that’s been going off a lot lately. Unlike your baby’s toy, this one goes off at the drop of a hat. An interesting thing is that this fall before the election it was another toy that plays Peter and the Wolf went off constantly. Just out of curiousity, my 2 year old got out a deck of cards and completely crumpled the 8 of hearts, King of Diamonds and the Jack of Diamonds. What do these cards correspond with in the tarot? I thought she was destroying face cards because her older sister and I were playing Slap Jack earlier. Then I remembered, she thinks every card is a “slap jack”. She also pretty much destroyed a joker, but we give her the jokers to play with while we are playing other games, so I didn’t think much of it. I’m glad you’re feeling better. Congratulations on the book deal! Happy Holidays!

Hi Grace,

The 8 of hearts is the 8 of cups in the tarot. It means so many options that the person can’t decide what to do. Often there is an element of illusion involved in this card. The King of Diamonds is the King of Pentacles, and this is a tricky one because in order for Rider/Waite to publish the first tarot deck and honor their vows to the magical order they were involved in they had to switch certain cards to get around things. The King of Pentacles, most books will tell you, is an earth sign man, but according to the Brotherhood of Light, which is where I really learned the craft of reading (rather then just using them as clairvoyant jumping off points) the card is actually a Gemini male if it is right side up, and a Gemini woman if it is reversed.

The Jack of Diamonds is the Page of Pentacles which would actually be an Aquarian male right side up or an Aquarian female if reveresed. Again a book would tell you it was an earth sign, but it really isn’t. This little switch-a-roo is evident when you actually look at the cards, there are clues built into the illustrations.

 

Sag1999

Sorry, Denise, Sept. 7, 1630, from the blog I cited before was a more accurate date for the founding of Boston (not 11/17/1630). Please use the Sept date if you are doing the chart.

Hi Sag,

There are two charts I ran for Sept. 7 because I guess back in 1630 they were using a different calendar and my computer compensated for that putting the actual date at 9/17/1630 but just in case it was already compensated for, I ran a chart for Sept. 7, 1630 as well. The compensated chart has some tension with Mars conjuncting the part of fortune in Aries in the 8th house inconjuncting the Sun and Mercury. However you must bare in mind that these are both just solar charts so there maybe things going on in the chart of Boston that are hidden from me since we don’t have an exact time. In general though neither chart looks terrible. Hope that helps calm your fears. Below are the two solar charts.

Also I saw a few things I wanted to make sure no one missed, Sarah Palin’s daughter, Bristol’s, future mother-in-law was arrested for crank. That can’t be good for Mrs. Palin’s career – karma anyone? There has been a minor auto industry bail-out which I thought would happen earlier then this, they really dragged this one out. And there is an investigation that has been started by congress here’s a passage I found about it:

A bipartisan Senate report, issued on December 11, accuses Rumsfeld and other top Bush administration officials – including Condoleezza Rice – of being directly responsible for the abuse and torture of prisoners at Guantanamo and other US prisons. It is the result of a two-year investigation conducted by the Senate Armed Services Committee under the direction of Democratic Senator Carl Levin and Republican John McCain, the former presidential candidate.

Although the report remains confidential, a 29 page summary was made public. It states that the source of the CIA’s resort to methods of “aggressive interrogation’ of terrorist suspects lay in Bush’s decision on February 7, 2002 that the Geneva Conventions did not apply to Taliban and Al Qaida prisoners. This opened the door for water-boarding (simulation of drowning), nudity, tying prisoners in stress positions for long periods and, of course, “extraordinary rendition”, that is to say the practice of sending prisoners abroad to be tortured in foreign countries on behalf of the United States.

Another critical report – not yet published but circulating among top officials in Washington – is a 513-page history of America’s lamentable yet highly-expensive failure at rebuilding Iraq after the devastation it caused in overthrowing Saddam. Entitled Hard Lessons: The Iraq Reconstruction Experience, the report was compiled by the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, led by Stuart Bowen, a Republican lawyer.

Also I’ve heard that Rumsfeld can’t go to certain countries because there are warrants for his arrest to be tried for war crimes. It has long been my prediction that this administration will be tried for war crimes by an international court, and that many, if not all will end up in prison. I’ve been saying that since we went into Iraq, and of course no one believed me. My friends and family have heard me rail on about this prediction for a long time now. So lets all do something positive and imagine the Bush administration and all their lacky’s behind bars. They deserve that times a billion.

All the lives lost, the death, destruction, tearing apart a soveirgn nation for what? Imbalancing the power in that region so that Iran has become a real threat, and making the Muslim population of the world hate us ten fold?

We know how many of our people have died. But how many innocent Iraqi people, men, women and children have died due to this arrogant, disgusting and perverted, vile, administration? They have been more like a gang of greedy psychopaths then a group of leaders.

Let’s not lie to ourselves and pretend the Bush administration is the first and only vile administration. There were others, one that springs to mine was old Hickory – Andrew Jackson, a real horror show with his trail of tears, or what we would now call ethnic cleansing.

It makes me angry that we Americans somehow think we are always the good guys, and that’s exactly how we become the bad guys — we forget to look at ourselves, that’s when we get into trouble. This is exactly why the patriotic BS after 9/11 was so destructive, as if criticizing the government was somehow anything other then those among us with a moral compass trying to keep our government on the straight and narrow.  

My great hope is for those out there who we have hurt or wounded, trampled on with our mighty power, or abandoned in their time of need, just know it is not us the people of the US, it is and has been our lame government. There are people here who care about the world, who understand we are not perfect and who believe we should rectify the mistakes we’ve made.

It’s important to remember there are good and bad people everywhere, and terrorism hurts only the innocent. It accomplishes nothing and is just an empty egomaniacal gesture and vein attempt at fleeting self-importance and world attention that leads directly to the dark side. There are no virgins awaiting you in paradise. Terrorism isn’t martyrdom. It’s the way of cowards killing innocent people because those terrorists are too small, cowardly and weak to take up arms against the real people in power who oppress them.

Martyrdom is serving, and helping your fellow human beings, feeding the hungry, saving the broken, not murdering innocent people. Mother Teressa was a martyr. Bin Laden was a (I have a strong feeling he’s dead now or  is in the process of dying) maladjusted lost soul looking to be important because his ego was weak, and just being wealthy wasn’t enough for him, he had to be important, even if that meant killing innocent human beings to feed his pathetic ego.

OK, sorry I got very angry there thinking about people who do such evil deeds in the name of religion or God. It literally drives me nuts. It’s absolutely the most vile thing, justifying murder via God. Horrible.

Anyway, on a lighter note, hope all are having a good weekend, and hopefully nothing crazy will happen over the next few days.

Best wishes and many blessings to all of you good and wise readers,

Denise

Answering Readers’ Questions and Comments

Happy almost official Solstice or Yule tide.

The first question comes from Sag.

Sag1999

Hi Denise, Thanks a lot for doing the charts for Boston. I had emailed this separately, and here is the gist with a little more info. I stared at the European and Italy maps for a while, and the Vatican caught my eye. It’s a neighbor/friend of Italy, of the great book the Bible, and its Pope Benedict XVI is from Germany. Does it resonate with the cards Grace mentioned above? The Vatican is near the River Tiber. All the pieces from my intuition fit in the puzzle. And the Vatican is a symbol of religious or Christian power. What do you think?

Hi Sag,

It makes almost too much sense for a terrorist to think up!

I’ve been to the Vatican. It is actually in the center of Rome, and is considered its own country, with its own postage stamps, and everything. The guards still wear uniforms designed by Michael Angelo. They are extremely goofy looking, and wouldn’t scare a child with a water pistol away. It’s an interesting notion, but my gut tells me no.

There is so much gold, lapis luzuli, and garnet or ruby dust on the walls of that place selling off part of one of the walls could feed all of Africa for a year. There is so much raided treasure in the Vatican it is both beautiful, and if one knows the history, actually very appalling.

I wouldn’t rule out Italy though. I could imagine something happening in a train station or something like that, something transportation related.

I asked the tarot though just to be sure, and of course they said, Yes. But it was an odd sort of yes in that it didn’t look like a physical sort of attack against the Vatican and/or it didn’t look like it would really work. 

Norah

Hi Denise You are right on in your assessment of Casey Anthony … she is a true sociopath. No doubt the defense will try to get her off on the grounds of temporary insanity, since the evidence against her is so damning; but she knew exactly what she was doing: Caylee Marie got in the way of her partying lifestyle, so she offed her. I suspect there are many dark and terrible secrets in the Anthony home, not just this horrific crime. I live in central FL and we’ve had this story on the local news pretty much 24/7 since it happened. Now that the poor child’s body has been found, we all want justice for her. So sorry you have to deal with migraines, Denise. But perhaps they intensify your gift. I’ve heard them described as “an electrical storm in the brain” and some sufferers report a feeling of clarity after the pain wears off. I get them, also, but not nearly as badly as you do; I find if I take the herb feverfew daily, it helps cut down on the frequency and severity of the attacks. But I don’t take other meds that might conflict with it. Herbs are powerful medicine in themselves! Thanks for all you do here. May peace and prosperity be yours in the New Year. And thank God the Boooosh Administration is on its way out! I hope you’re right … that a war tribunal is in their future, with prison close behind. Peace! Norah Ocala, FL

Hi Norah,

Thanks for the kind words and good wishes. I’m wishing you the very same.

We haven’t had the same coverage here about that poor girl. I’ve only seen snippets here and there. There was never a doubt in my mind that the girl’s mother did it.

The poltergeist phenomena stopped once I posted that Cassey Anthony murdered her daughter Caylee Marie Anthony. Perhaps the little girl wanted word to get out that her mother did indeed kill her. What a sick, despicable woman that sweet little one’s mother is, it is beyond tragic.

kishwer

i have some ?s about my satrun dasha?I need answers and help from you. thanks kish

Hi Kishwer,

I am not a Vedic/Sidereal astrologer. I’m of the Western/Tropical persuasion contrary to many websites stating that I am an Indian astrologer. I’m flattered by this as I’ve had dreams of India all my life since childhood, and memories of a past life there, and a real love of this country, but in this life I do Western astrology.

The little I have studied of Vedic astrology would be of  no help to you. It would be better off for you to go to someone who specializes in this because it is very different then Western astrology. We do not use dashas and we use outer planets, the old tropical placements rather then the sidereal ones, and so many other differences it’s hard to explain in one post. Both are extremely accurate, but oddly enough, there isn’t much cross over.

Best of luck in finding help with this. If you find a good reference for a Vedic astrologer please post it. I’m fascinated by this branch of astrology, but upon researching and studying it, I found it so different then the western system that it just confused what I already knew. However, I would love to have a chart done by a good Indian astrologer.

vish

Hello Denise, just read your prediction of market crash next week. Would it also affect the financial stocks adversely? If so, I was considering investing in stock FAZ which does well if financial stocks crash. Please advise. Appreciate your help. Thanks, Vish

Hi Vish,

Do you have any sort of information on FAZ such as its incorporation date or when it was founded? If so please post it and I will run a chart.

The market crash will most likely be ongoing through the end of January, and then will rebound a bit when another crash will happen in June, and stay unstable like it has been now until the end of November in 2009 when it will again show real signs of recovery. 

Of course this is assuming that the Dow’s chart is accurate, if it is not the timing will be off. We’ll soon see. If the market continues to spiral down until the end of January and then starts to stabilize a bit after that, then we’ll know the chart I have is correct.

Best wishes and many blessings to all of you,

Denise

Answering Readers’ Questions…

Hi everyone, hope your holiday season is going well. It looks like the downward spiral is happening in the market as predicted, despite the time period which is generally characterstically low in movement either way during the week of solstice or yule, Christmas/Hanukkah. 

I just want to say that I read on some financial blog a reference to a statement I made about gold a while back. From what I could tell at the time via the cards there wasn’t a really strong constant direction up, and despite the fact that people turn to precious metals to invest in during recessions and depression, it didn’t look like it was going to go be a straight shoot upward, which I found confusing.

Anyway, I laughed out loud when someone called me an idiot, or something like that, because I said the market was too volatile at the time of the question to predict. And the person posted something like: that twit obviously knows nothing about the market.

So let me assure you I really do know nothing about the market which I have stated numerous times. All I go on here is astrology and whether things look bad for a company, or a stock, or good. If you ask me questions about anything abstract, or that I don’t have a chart for I can’t answer you because I’m not an economist. I’m a freaky artsy, psychic, astrologer not a business/economist type.

That being said of course people are worried about their money which I’m happy to help with, but with the caveat that everyone knows I am just a psychic and an astrologer. I foresaw the first market crash a couple of weeks before it happened because of my psychic ability, but this was a general, “Get out of the market!” sort of warning that was hammered into my skull from whatever or wherever these things come from. And I picked the word tsunami back then (which later Greenspan used to describe the situation) because it felt like it was going to pull back, and then flood us, not tear us down like a tornado in one fell swoop or shake everything to pieces in a matter of moments like an earthquake.

So here goes with questions. The first is more of a comment from Grace who did some research on the world economy, and I’d like to share her post with everyone:

grace43

The government of Beligum fell this weekend due to the financial crisis and suspected corruption. http://www.nineoclock.ro/index.php?page=detalii&categorie=worldnews&id=20081222-20320

Apparently, those corporate fat cats have learned nothing. AP IMPACT: Wall Street still flying corporate jets

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081221/ap_on_bi_ge/meltdown_corporate_jets

On verge of failure, bank executives collected financial bonanzas, AP study finds

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/sns-ap-executive-bailouts,0,568377.story

This is not just happening in the US. In a few minutes search, I found dozens of articles from around the world where corporate fat cats accepted government money that they insisted they needed to continue operations are now using this money so they can have enormous bonuses and fly around in corporate jets playing golf with one another! These same people time and count their underlings bathroom breaks and dock them an hour’s pay if they are five minutes late! I can’t tell you how angry I feel thinking about this on so many levels. Obviously, it is good to be the king.

Andrew Rumsey

Will Lehman Brothers recover from their Chapter 11 of Title 11 Bankruptcy? Should I hold onto what shares I have and possibly buy more or should I sell my Lehman Brothers shares?

Hey Andrew,

Do you have an incorporation date or a start trading date for this company. I need the date, time and place and I can run a chart and let you know what I find. If you could research that for me I’ll be happy to let you know.

Also there were questions about FAZ, which I will get to later, but in the mean time can anyone explain to me what this is? You don’t need to go into too much detail, just give a basic run down, something to clarify what it is that I’m reading.

OK for now that is all. I have so much to do with the holidays as everyone does and my husband was out of town for two weeks, leaving me alone with a little baby so besides getting sick this past week, I’m way behind on everything.

Have a great holiday week.

Best wishes and many blessings to all of you,

Denise

The Light

Remember the weird garage light incident? Well, we had an electrician not only come out, and check the wiring for a short, and he completely changed out the light fixture. Guess what? The morse code spirit was back! Luckily, this time the light was its white self, and my husband saw it for his very own eyes.

A reader had suggested that she’d noticed signs were often literal and had mentioned the orange color was perhaps related to Orange County, within days of the orange light incident news of Caylee Anthony’s remains were uncovered in Orange County Florida.

From my experience white light, although it would on the surface seem to be benign, is associated with major world events which aren’t good. I’ve seen flashes in the sky, and have had other weird experiences with white light that I won’t bother to go into, just before major global events.

I have to admit I was a little annoyed at the garage light, and thought perhaps it was a trickster ghost or a negative entity. So I devised a means of communications with it. I gave it 10 seconds to respond, one flash for yes, two for no. The weird thing was, it actually worked stunningly well. Accordingly, I ruled out this entity being a ghost, angel or demonic spirit, and lets say it claimed some sort of divine origin from beyond our understanding of God in the realm of Kether for those of you who know the Tree of Life or the Kabbalah. 

Long story short it wanted me to let everyone know that we are at the beginning of the end of the world as we have known it. The end of crazy materialistic greed, and indifference to morality and our fellow man. We are at the end of Capatlism as we have known it, witnessing the fall of that ideology just as 20 some odd years ago Communism fell. What will come in its wake I feel will be something more in the middle, a capatlistic form of socialism if we are smart, if not, and we remain steadfastly glued to our greed and selfishness it could turn into a world of extreme explotation. I’m an optimist so I’m going with the former rather then the later. 

I wasn’t going to post tonight because I’m exhausted from the holiday and just catching up with all of it, but I was woken up by this energy, and urged to put this information out there. 

We will learn a lot of spiritual lessons coming up, compassion, kindness and a new respect for life and humanity. But I fear we will be so caught up in this global paradigm shift (mostly economic and political) that we maybe blind-sided by the eco-disaster we are headed for, and all that intails including global health problems. I also fear with this period of restructuring we will see a rise in groups trying to vi for power through terrorism, and more corrupt people trying to bully their way into positions of power. We must all be and stay involved in the politics of our world. It is imperative to our survival.

So for now that’s all I’m going to write. I’m very tired and I had to get that off my chest. Once the holidays are over. I promise to answer more questions and give more detailed posts.

Wishing all of you many blessings and a warm and wonderful holiday season. Enjoy your loved ones and be thankful for all you have.

Denise

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to all! Hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday. 

Many blessings to all of you in the New Year.

With love and peace,

Denise

Generations Continued… (And kind of answering some readers)

I will get to the financial questions this weekend. I never looked at an exact date for the actual total bottom out of the market just gave a general time frame from the end of December until about the 20th of January because this is when Pluto goes over the Dow’s ascendant. Except for the exact start was December 21, 2008. To me the main message was to get out back in the fall before the first drop hit which was why I started the blog.

But unfortunately I don’t think we’ve seen the end of the free fall, and I will look at other factors that could set off another big scary plunge coming up in January.  

As I said before Pluto going over the ascendant of the Dow was going to bring to light some serious scandals, criminal activity going on behind the scenes, and a loss of faith in the market itself because of ethics issues. Maidoff (ironic name) is the biggest, but I doubt he will be the only one to be exposed, and fall.

We are in a time of reckoning. A very karmic time, for those who have been greedy and materialistic they will learn major lessons now. Remember that old quote from the bible, “The meek shall inherit the earth.” We are seeing the beginning of the powerful’s fall and a new respect for those old time values, things you can’t buy like politeness, kindness, caring, empathy and good old thriftiness. It’s about time greed became the disgusting word it always has been.

Enough about that! Let’s talk about generational astrology and the first Gen-X president (barely gen-x but still) President Elect Obama. We will go from the mantel of the “Me” generation to that Uranus/Pluto conjunction (in Obama’s case it’s very loose, and his Uranus is in Leo, so he’s not full tilt, but kind of transitional) in Virgo.

Gen-Xers can be annoyingly idealistic on the bad side, and on the good side they actually really do try to walk their talk, whatever their talk is. They are good for their word. Most grew up in fractured families and were ignored not just by the families, but by the culture at large which had a literal boner for everything sexual. One could not enter a store without seeing statues of naked people humping. It was a very child inappropriate time. A time when being a kid or having one was seen almost as a sad debilitating disease that slowed down not only a chance to get laid and wasted (although being a parent has never stopped people from partaking if they wanted to) but also your chance to explore yourself. You know that ever fascinating Me, that has so many things to express and do. 

I found it deeply ironic (that’s the very nice way of putting this) that during the Vietnam war, all war was horrible, when Me’ers were being drafted. Now, I agree war is bad. They were right. But the lame thing was war became good, when it meant cheaper gas in the old Ford 4 wheeler and it was (mostly poor kid) Gen-Xers going to Bagdad, suddenly war wasn’t such a horrible thing.

“We have to protect our interests.” I actually heard old hippies (who had been at one time anti-war) say things like that. It was a major 180. “Don’t trust anyone over 30,” and once they hit their 50s I heard arguments from this generation saying that it wasn’t until people were in their 50s and 60s that they were most productive.

Hey, that’s a coincidence, you’re in your 50s and 60s.

And I won’t say more about this because we all get it just from these few examples. I don’t want to whip them, there are many amazingly good people in this generation, and not all fall victim to these convenient 180s. And not everyone backtracked on their principles, but even those in this generation who are the good eggs agree with me that they, too, have been sorely disappointed by their fellow Me’ers in this regard. Some so disappointed that they have made the mistake of projecting this problem onto all of humanity instead of seeing it as a distinctly Pluto in Leo character trait. Not that they are the only people all of the time, but it is a generational marker. I actually had a history teacher in high school who was a Me’er and he said once, “You can’t change the world. We tried in the 60s and look what good it did. It didn’t make any difference.” 

When I pointed out to him that things took time to grow roots, and that a lot of things actually did change for the better because of the activism of the 60s, which we have to give props to the Pluto in Leo people for, they were a big part of this and this is their good side. They can be very generous and trusting. Problem was they kind of got their dreams crushed after the assassination of JFK and MLK and Bobby Kennedy and many of them gave up and went toward the negative side of the Leo tendency, which was pure un-adulterated ego gratification in the form of materialism, greed, self-absorption, an inability to sacrifice the self for the greater good, and using sexuality as an ego pick-me-up.

Ok, let’s get onto the Generation Y which has more in common with the Me’ers, just as Generation X has more in common with children born during the 1990s (I’m not sure they have a name yet so let’s call them Zers). Generation Y has Neptune in Sag, Pluto in Libra, Uranus in either Libra or Scorpio. This period went from about the fall of 1972 until around the fall of 1984. If you were born in 1971-fall 1972, you fall in between Generation X and Y and will have qualities of both. In some cases you maybe an Xer or a Yer depending on your date of birth as the planets retrograded back and forth for about a year.

Y’s were the kids who went to rave’s. They are very social, and with Neptune in Sag, a bit of a lost soul generation. As a group they spent most of their young adult years floating, the economy was good when they came of age, but they grew up in fractured homes. They often just wanted things to be peaceful and hated confrontation.

They also do not have the same obsession with integrity that Gen-X’ers do. They are more bendable and willing to go along with trends, fit in with their generation and are more social, less critical of others and more accepting.

They had a hippie like feel when they were younger and were more akin to the Pluto in Leo types in terms of accepting (and abiding) excess, and had multiple partners where as Gen-X’ers never dated, they have one boyfriend or girlfriend and then moved on to another. They chastised anyone who even tried the multiple boyfriends or girlfriends idea unlike Y’ers or Me’ers. Gen-Xer’s were and are sort of prudish about sexuality unless it falls into the Neptune in Scorpio side of their personality, and has elements of bondage, S & M or a dark thing about it. Even then one could argue the sexual repression built into the X’ers finds a release in the darker side of sexuality and fantasy. 

Next I’ll go more into Y’ers  and those born in the 80s, 90s and compare them to the other generations as well…

Best wishes to all.

Hope everyone had a great Christmas!

Denise

Generations, Our Collective Karma and Personality

OK, hope you all didn’t think I was being too hard on the old Pluto in Leo boomers. They have given the world a lot but because of their massive size, and scale have also monopolized the resources, the tenor of the collective psyche, and have been at the steering wheel of power for the past 40 some odd years. Let’s just give everyone my definition of the Pluto in Leo, Me’ers or Boomers, because it doesn’t correspond exactly to the arbitrary lines drawn by anthropologists, sociologists and mathematician’s.  

The Boomer (Me’er/Pluto in Leo) generation started back in 1942, although the transitional generation between the Boomers and the “greatest generation ever,” started around 1938 when Pluto began to enter Leo, however Neptune didn’t go into Libra until 1942, hence the official start date of the Boomers. This generation continued until the fall of 1957, again however, there were people born with Pluto in Virgo and Neptune in Scorpio off and on during 1956 and 1957 as these planets retrograded back and forth. So some people born during this period fit neatly into the Gen-X group personality and some into the Boomer personality. 

I want to go backwards a bit and talk about the “greatest generation ever,” those born when Neptune was in Virgo and Pluto was in Cancer. These folks went through the Great Depression, WWI, WWII and many of them lost their lives serving the greater good — Neptune=Loss and Virgo=Service to others. It is no surprise among this generation we saw frugality, a great love of home, family and country and a dedication to work, service and sacrifice. This generation truly had these gifts built into their charts. This collectively (of course not everyone will fit this because we are all individuals as well and other things in people’s charts can and do over ride things) was a generation willing to sacrifice everything for their children, and family, in the hopes their kids would have a better life. 

When WWII ended, and the start of the Boomer generation began, the fruits of all the sacrifice, and hard work that “the greatest generation” tilled ripened. The Boomers grew up in an era of unprecedented wealth and giant middle-class. Only one person in a family had to work (dad) and that person could work at a gas station as an attendant, save his money and buy a home, and actually support his family. I know this because this is the story of my husband’s father.

It became an unconscious, and expected right to attain the American Dream; home owning, good paying jobs whether they were the “blue collar” factory sort, or the professions that required years of college. Boomers grew up in an era where all things were possible, and had no way to relate to their parents paranoia about the other shoe dropping economically, or the memory of miners murdered for starting unions so they could be paid fairly and treated like human beings. 

By the time Boomers came into power really in the 1980s, although they steered the mass consciousness well before that especially culturally in the 60s and 70s, they had all but forgotten the lessons of their parents generation. An unfortunate paranoia about Russia, communism and being frightened to death with thoughts of nuclear obliteration, this group embraced capitalism with a reactive almost religious zeal that spoke of their dark fear of anything “pinko” related. Thus the embrace of Reagan’s war on unions, social programs and those laws protecting us from another depression — regulations! Slowly as this generation held the mantel (and again not all are on this side of the fence, but enough to say it is the majority) of power they allowed the mentally ill to spill onto the streets in overwhelming numbers in the 80s during the Reagan years and unwound all those handy regulations. 

I remember going into downtown Los Angeles in the mid 1980s, and being horrified to see literally tens of thousands of people living in boxes like the old Hovervilles of the 1930s. The great majority of these people were the mentally ill. And then later as Reagan continued with his theme of , “Pull yourself up by your own bootstraps,” (now there’s a big assumption, some people are too poor to have bootstraps to pull on) the streets became flooded with families turned out because welfare programs were slashed to nothing, and again I remember walking around the cold foggy streets of San Francisco in the late 1980s and seeing whole families with their tiny children, begging for food, money or anything a stranger like myself could provide. This was the 80s I remember. And Ronald Reagan was a bastard who started this whole mess. We can trace all of our problems back to his selling of “trickle down economics,” and anti-regulation of the stock market, banking institutions (remember the fall of the S & L’s and the Bush brother who went to jail for stealing money from old people?) and the destruction of the social net FDR had built? And making it difficult to get a student loan? Thanks Reagan and your line of bastard children weaned at the teat of the no-hold-bar capitalistic cool-aid.

All this revisionist history about Reagan and Nixon (who was a crook and started what Reagan really cemented, Reagan just sold it to everyone as if it were home made fudge backed by grandpa Ronnie) is a disgrace to the reality of our current situation, and dangerous to our future understanding of how to avert the crisis we are now in, and will be again, if we are not honest about the roots of our problem. We  need a bit of cultural psychotherapy that I’m happy to provide, a reality check. It’s vital we are brutally honest with ourselves about our past and our present, look at what happens when the 4th estate (journalists) fail to be critical and look at facts: we end up in a prolonged war in 2 countries where we don’t even know how many innocent civilians have died. And thousands of our young people have given their lives for what turned out to be a lie. It is a disgusting and vile war crime, truly treason on the part of the Bush administration. Throwing away the lives of so many, and shredding the Genova Convention laws all the world agreed to, for their personal agenda.

Ok, enough of my asides, back to generational astrology. Let’s skip forward to Generation Z, the young people who are coming of age during this crisis. This generation officially (according to me) started in January of 1984 when Pluto was in Scorpio and Neptune went into Capricorn. There would also have been some cuspy Generation Z’ers in 1983. These kids were the ones who went nuts for Harry Potter, and grew up exposed to the tiny cultural mantel Generation X held during the 1990s mostly in the way of comedy and music.

They have many similar traits to Generation X. An intense interest in the occult, even more so then Generation X because for them their exposure to this will be and/or has been more trans-formative and in Gen-X’s case it was either confused, fantasy based or remained in the psychic realm. Pluto is also naturally placed in Scorpio making this generation a powerful group of souls who came here to help transform the earth, and the collective consciousness.

There was also a rare configuration of planets during their generation (which was also the case with X’ers and the Uranus/Pluto in Virgo combo which the world hadn’t seen in over 10,000 years, not an aspect most souls could handle which is why there aren’t many X’ers) by March of 1988 Uranus went into Capricorn conjuncting Neptune. This is about when we saw the last banking mess as Capricorn rules the financial sector and Neptune confusion, scams and delusion. This was when the S & L crisis was getting going, not yet public, but when this scam was more then likely hatched.

Anyway, those born during this period, who would now be almost drinking age as of 09, will be very much like Gen-X’ers who came to adulthood during the recession of the early 90s, when people with master’s degrees in psychology were working as Baristas. Unfortunately, this group of people will probably see their high priced educations put on the back burner for any old job they can get. This group will be instrumental in solving the financial crisis, we will see them re-invent business as we have known it. They are a serious bunch, highly ambitious and again a very rare group of souls who choose to come here and sacrifice a lot to help out the greater good and mankind. On the whole they will bring the same kind of innovation to business that Gen-X’ers have brought to health care with their emphasis on alternative healing, health food, yoga, nutrition and organic food (all Virgo obsessions that have brought a lot to the table in the healing professions.)

On the negative side those born with Pluto in Scorpio are also the generation that was prone to intense violence. There was a tremendous rise in school shootings among their generation. Pluto ruling death and naturally placed in Scorpio its no wonder. They were also very over sexualized early on, with stories about them having oral sex in school on buses and having sex parties. This is all that sexual energy in its highly powerful place of Scorpio. The fact that Bill Clinton’s sex life as the number one story of the day while they were growing up didn’t help much. Most of these kids when polled back in the 90s said that oral sex wasn’t sex. I wonder where they heard that from? Also with so much heavy Capricorn in their charts they as a group were placed under tremendous pressure to achieve, and were raised with stuff being given for good grades, often bought instead of nurtured. All of this is in their stars.

Now the generation just after the Z’er’s when Pluto went into Sag, are much different.I’ll get into the why’s of this as I continue on with this generation…

Israel and Answering A Reader…

Nitin wrote a post a few days back before Israel went insane on Palestine. I wanted to post it for others to read in case they missed it. 

Nitin

Hi everyone,

hope u guys have had a great xmas. i would like to share one of the weirdest dream i had this morning. i dont claim to be psychic but on many occasions my intuitions have proved right. In simple terms my guts feelings has probably have been right at 90%. However, in 2008 i have noticed that i hve started to have dreams very lucid one arounf 3 to 4ish in the morning. these dreams are like visions of something providing answer in some of the time on the thing thats been on my mind a lot, sometimes i will feel my grandma guiding me through these visions. The funny thing about these dream or vision is that i am fully aware of it.. i know that th moment i opened my eyes it will stop and by keeping my eyes close, its like the movie is playing. It is quite a new phenomenon for me… Ok this morning the 26 December, i start dreaming that i went to see a friend that i studied with when i was in London. He was living in one of those very tall buildings. We took the lift and up we go. he was living on the 17th floor i cant recall. and then i find myself on the balcony of the building. i could see my mum and my dad. and then in the sky i could see figher planes. it was air combat. with all the firing in the sky it looks like lightening in the sky. we were hiding and then i could hear machine guns and so many helicopters around.they were hovering . i could see the soldier in the combat helicopters with guns. they were all shooting towards the ground. at this point i became aware that it is a vision and once i opened my eyes, everything will go. Also eventhough we were lying down,i was not scared of being shot at..at this time india and pakistan came into my mind. then i opened my eyes and obviously evertyhing switched off. ok the way i am looking at it. there would be somemilitary operation that gonna happened i dont know where. with all the wars going around that is obvious …y india and pakistan..part of my ancestor is from india and part is a mixture …its very typical for an islander like myself..but my mum and dad is hindu. .. i dont have a religion as such but i am very close to hinduism because of my parents prctice and i have been growing up with all the occasional hindu rituals. Now this friend of mine in the building is muslim and his wife is pakistani…may be its far fetched but that was ahy i tried tomake a connection. however i doubt myself as well int he sense that the soldiers i say in the combat helicopter were not indian at all. they look european..and it looks like they had proper logistics i.e proper combat helicopters and fighter jets..

i thought about georgia nd russia as well. i dont know…

thank you so much for listening..

god bless

And then Nitin posted this in response to the dream:

Nitin

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081227/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_palestinians could be the dream was an omen to the current event… follow the links

Hi Nintin, 

It’s OK to call yourself psychic when you consistently have dreams that come true, and feelings that turn out to be accurate. It doesn’t make you arrogant, just honest with yourself. You have the gift/curse. We all do, some more than others, that’s all. I have a feeling a pretty big percentage of my readers are psychic. 

Your dream sounds very much like a premonition of Israel bombing the Gaza strip. It makes a lot of sense, especially since you mentioned the people looked European. Seems like a very obvious premonition about Israel’s aggression toward Palestine. I am going to look into what happened (astrologically) there in a later post. It really is disturbing and disgusting of Israel. 

I’m really sick of the way they have treated the Palestinian people. That lame excuse about launches toward Israel that hurt no one, does not give them the right to kill innocent people. My father and his family were Jewish, and great supporters of Israel, but they would I’m sure be disgusted by Israel’s increasing aggression, and out of control reactionary, aggressive dealings with the Palestinian people.

Israel is a disgrace to all Jewish people. Just as America under George W. Bush became a disgrace to the West. They had better stop this crap or they are going to trigger a much bigger problem. I feel so much instabilty in that region. It feels like that area of the world is teetering on the verge of a nuclear holocaust. I’ve been feeling that build since we invaded Iraq.

Does the Israeli government not realize how much damage the Bush administration has done to the cause of Democracy and tolerance? Don’t they get that bull dozing an apartment building when someone who lived there Ding-Dong- ditched your house is more than over kill right now, it’s enough to incite a major war.

This is very disturbing.

There are so many militant terrorist groups pushing the west toward all out war — the terrorist action in Mumbai, 9/11, the bombings in London, Madrid, the idiot shoe bomber. By reacting with this kind of force, the way our moronic president handled the situation with 9/11, only gives these horrible meat headed spiritually devoid terrorists power and ignites the flame of anger and revenge. It is the responsibility of those with great might and power to show restraint and use logic, kindness, compassion and diplomacy in the face of these irrational, blood thirsty zealots, or we become worse than they are. This is true of the U.S. and true of Israel.

I certainly hope that India is more evolved then we are and they don’t throw their weight around like a western country would. Let’s pray that they are wiser then all of us. Their main religion of Hinduism which teaches tolerance, that in itself shows they are miles above us in terms of their spiritual development. Let’s hope their leaders are as wise as those ancient teachings.

Best wishes to all and many blessings,

Denise

Answering Readers…

More About Israel

Hey everyone. I got an angry e-mail from a reader in defense of Israel. I just wanted to say that I am of Jewish descent and actually could move there if I wanted, so could my daughter. I am a supporter of Israel, but I feel they over responded to the mortar fire that by their own original accounts didn’t hurt or kill any of their people. So far there are confirmed 3 Israeli deaths, and over 300 Palestinian.

I was listening to Air America tonight on my way to the drug store, and Thom Hartmann was reading a bunch of Israeli op-ed pieces from different major Israeli newspapers. They were about 90% negative in regards to the recent attack on the Gaza Strip. Hartmann said he was getting all kinds of hate e-mails and phone calls.

I just wanted to clear a few things up about why I am so upset at Israel:

I want there to be an Israel.

I am also an empath and feel the pain of others, killing should never the first response, it should always be the absolute last answer when your own life is endangered. The Jewish people more than most should know the horrors of racial cleansing and murder. We of all people should be the most pacifistic of all, yet, Israel has turned into an insanely hawkish nation. I fear they have taken a cue from our terrible foreign policy of the last 8 years, and are going to push the region into an all out war. There is so much tension there and hatred for the west.

All Israel is doing by responding with such force is creating more terrorism and escalating the attacks against them. They have the right to defend themselves, of course, but the first tact should always be diplomacy which they refuse to do because the Israeli government hates Hamas — granted they do want to obliterate Israel, but Israel doesn’t make itself look gracious, accepting, logical or willing to change their mind by taking the slightest opportunity to blow up apartment buildings in the Gaza strip. This is insane! If they would have appealed to the UN or the US or any of their neighbors to help negotiate, they would have come out heros, and the world would be on their side. If those talks broke down, and their people were attacked again then they could have responded strategically.

But this response was extreme and very much in keeping with our reaction to 9/11, start a war when we should have rooted out Bin Laden and his gang. I understand the rage of being attacked, and the ruthlessness of terrorists, but we can never be blindly loyal to any country, person, place or thing or we stop seeing the truth. It is important to always look at both sides of an issue, have compassion even for the enemy, try to find a peaceful way out, and always respect the lives of others instead of dehumanizing them which is so often done in times of war.

This is a very grave situation Israel has stepped into and it really freaks me out.

I usually have dreams before Israel does something like this. I had a vision of Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination when I was traveling with my husband in Germany. I told him about it, and a few weeks later Rabin was assassinated. I also dreamt about a month later that I was hanging out with a family in a suburb of Tel Aviv (which looked somewhat like the desert area of southern CA) and me, and their teenaged kids were talking outside when we looked up, and saw fighter jets zooming overhead with the star of David on them. It was so real this dream. Shortly there after the peace Rabin had been trying to negotiate fell apart, and the war with the Palestinine people began again in earnest.

I knew back in 1995 that dream I had meant that the reality of peace there was broken. Since then I have often had dreams of being in Israel. I have always been a staunch supporter of Israel, especially when Rabin was in charge. He was a great man, and a great leader, full of compassion. I felt that he really could have changed the fate of Israel for the better, and solved the problems with the Palestinians. This is because he listened to them, had compassion for their side of the story. Israel desperately needs another leader like this, or they are going to be blown off the map. I pray someone steps forward soon to change the bad feelings they are engendering among the Arab and Islamic world or God help us all.

I worry that this is just one more piece in a big puzzle leading us into another world war. Iraq was one, Israel’s over-zealous aggression against the Palestinians, and the Pakistani terrorists who are trying goad India into a response. If these cards keep falling, we could see some really terrible things. I didn’t want to freak everyone out but when I was doing charts for the future, I realized that Uranus was going to go into Aries starting in the spring of 2010, this squaring Pluto in Virgo could lead to great upheaval, war, and violence sparked in part by the lording over of power of the west and the world financial troubles. Once Neptune goes into Pisces at the beginning of 2011 there could be major loss of life and tremendous world sorrow.

This doesn’t have to be our path but it is one possible future. We can use these aspects and energies to become more enlightened, empathic, compassionate and honest. But this is why I am so upset with Israel, and the US because we are pushing this energy toward the negative, chaotic, shadow side instead of the positive enlightened side. Let’s just pray for humanities enlightenment and greater compassion for all, and stay involved in the realm of politics where these big broad lessons will be carried out either for or against us as individuals. We have to stay involved, and steer this ship in the right direction! We each have the power to influence the Collective Unconscious and the more we work toward not just our own positive transformation but those around us, helping, listening and being compassionate the more we will grow out of our shadow self.

I know this is hard. We have been living in our shadow self for a long time, and people have become remarkably self-involved in a way I don’t remember them being even 10 years ago. It seems we have fermented a culture of greed and selfishness, and many have taken it to heart, living this shadow side every day without even knowing it.

I believe in confronting people who are taking advantage of others, and standing up for the down trodden, fighting for people to respect one another. To me the worst thing we can do as human beings is to be indifferent to others. Even hate is the other side of love, and can be flipped, but indifference is nothingness, an empty chasm that leads only to isolation, chaos and emptiness. So don’t be afraid to speak your truth. If someone hurts you or others, let them know in as kind a way as you can – this is how we all learn, and grow toward becoming more compassionate, better people.

Peace and best wishes,

Denise

A Sun Sign Overview for 2009

We are all very complex beings are charts reflect this. Sun sign horoscopes for newspapers are more akin to fortune cookies then real astrology, but that being said I have been asked to write a column for a very large local blog serving the Inland Empire here in Southern California. I’ll put up their link once everything is in order. 

Since it is the New Year coming up and we are all wondering about our fate, I thought it would be fun to share the unconventional astrological column I wrote for them which you will get to see first. 

I will then get into answering questions again after the holiday season is over.

Best wishes, many blessings to all of you and Happy New Year!!!! 

Denise

 

An Overview of your Sun Sign for the New Year 

 

Aries (March 21 – April 19) – If you were born at the start of the sign of Aries, it will be an odd year. Not only will your sense of identity shift and wobble, but so will your career. You may find starting your own business or becoming more independent in your job situation is the best way to solve the coming changes. You may have heavily identified with your career in the past, and will be forced to re-invent how you see yourself. It will be essential to put your ambition and career aspirations into perspective.

 

It is important for all Aries people to re-examine their careers right now with Pluto in Capricorn making an applying square over the next several years, issues of self-fulfillment in relationship to your career, and also becoming more independent, and less reliant on your job to give you a sense of yourself and your identity. Now will be the time you find yourself spiritually, attuning to who you truly are, finding your passion, and putting it to action if you do things right.

 

If you resist the karma of Pluto, and push to stay in a career that is making you miserable, chances are you will find yourself out of a job, and with identity issues. If this becomes the case, use your time to find your passion, and re-create yourself, and your life, instead of wallowing in anger or depression.

 

Taurus – (April 20 – May 20) If you are an April Taurus through to the middle of May Taurus you either felt or are currently feeling Neptune squaring your sun. This has been, or was a weird time for you, a lot of confusion about how to best express yourself, and issues about serving the greater good, flashes of deep knowing, and transformations in your friendships. For those in the later part of this sign get ready for all of the above to happen. Good news for all of you though, Pluto will be making an applying trine to your sun starting this year, meaning greater opportunities for you over the next 7-10 years, somewhere in this period depending on the exact time of your birth you will reap great benefits and have major transformations coming your way for the better. Powerful allies and better job, and career prospects will be yours, despite the economy, you personally will find your way through this period. If you are in the beginning period of Taurus this luck will come over the next few years, if in the middle, then this luck will be building, and come to fruition in about 4 or 5 years, and again if you are late Taurus you will find your time later in this period, but will start to see this luck build in a few years.

 

The vast majority of Taurus people have gone through a period where they had to learn to let go of the past in lieu of a better future, often this meant the loss of old friends who perhaps no longer fit in ones life or even family members who created too much hurt to hold onto. Now that this great letting go, flushing out period is almost over (about ¾ of you are done with it, just those late sign people are currently or will in the coming years go through this) you will find a renewed spiritual understanding, and deeper insight into the world, humanity and yourself.

 

Gemini _ (May 21 – June 21) It’s been the best of times, and the worst of times for Gemini people.  With Pluto making an opposition to your sun for nearly a decade (depending on when you were born some will have had this aspect as long as 8 or 9 years ago, some just last year) you will have seen love lost and found, major changes in the dynamics of your family, more than usual amounts of travel, and an either an urge to go back to school for some, for others perhaps just taking classes here and there during this aspect. This aspect will also have given you access to powerful people that may have taken you on a bit of a roller coaster.

 

And with Neptune making a trine to your sun, you have found friends who have been good spiritual guides, but have lost friends who were bad for you. If you are in the later part of Gemini, you have yet to experience the positive aspect of friends helping, and guiding you, or those who are negative falling away, but will soon. You will also have and (later Gemini will experience) a greater need to connect with their spirit and a sense of the common good. Humanitarian issues will play a bigger role in your life if they haven’t already. You may find good, even great things come from helping others.

 

With Saturn squaring your Sun for the past couple of years, somewhere during this period you have felt down, even depressed at times, there may have been career struggles and changes in your work situation. But this will pass in the fall of 2009 as Saturn goes into Libra. This change will bring more balance to your work, and home life, and provide new career opportunities over the next few years. And with Jupiter in Aquarius making a trine to your Sun (early Gemini have already been feeling this) an expansion of your social circle, friendships, and help or aid coming through your friends. You may also feel the desire to get involved in humanitarian causes as your sense of the world at large expands and you see the connection between all people more clearly.

 

Cancer – (June 22 – July 22) With Pluto beginning to make an opposition to your Sun back in the fall of 2008 and continuing through 2009, there have been housing, family and security issues arising, especially if you were born in the early part of Cancer. You will find yourself torn between work and home, often feeling you are sacrificing one while trying to balance the other. Now is the time to be frugal if you haven’t been because this opposition can destabilize your foundation, specifically your home and career. Saturn in Virgo will soften things until the fall when it goes into Libra and squares your Sun.

 

For those who are early in the sign, you will find that period bringing issues of marriage, partnerships, legal situations, contracts and issues of fairness in relationship to your career. It could be an anxious time, so be frugal now, and plan ahead. It could also make things happen, such as an engagement, a long awaited contract or a longed for business partnerships finally come to fruition. Best to be self-aware and manifest the positive side of this aspect. For those born later, you will have these issues in 2010-or 2011, so you have longer to prepare, get working on it!

 

With Uranus in Pisces, you Cancer people have been having keen intuition, flashes of brilliance, loads of ideas and sporadic connection to your spirituality. Right now this is most intense for those Cancer’s born toward the middle-late part of the sign, and would have happened several years back for early cancers, and be something to look forward to for latecomers.

 

Leo – (July 23 – August 22) Leo’s have been enjoying a time of opportunity for power coming to them from Pluto. Our next President Barack Obama is a Leo, he had positive aspects from the powerful Pluto giving him luck in the arena of politics, but you don’t have to be involved in politics to have seen a rise in your career over the last decade, and major changes in your family life, or at least your perception of them.

 

As Neptune entered Aquarius back in 1998, those of you who are early Leo’s would have seen major, out of the blue changes in your self-perception, and your goals in life. Some of these may have been paths that went nowhere, others led you to where you are today, and have helped you get in touch with what was truly important in your life, and the more spiritual side of your nature. You also probably went through many friends, loosing touch with some, keeping sporadic contact with others and finding new people filling your life.  This aspect could have brought about a loss in your family. There was also a great urge to connect with the greater good and your mission in life. As Neptune has moved through Aquarius and opposed Leo people’s Sun’s along the way, you will have experienced what I am relaying. For those of you who are mid-late Leo’s you will go through these changes and feelings now. And of course the late Leo’s will feel this between now and 2011.

 

As of the fall of 2008 and onward, Pluto will no longer feed you a lucky streak, so it is best to ground yourself and tighten your belt, and become more practical in your assessment of all things related to yourself, and your family. You will have some opportunities in your career, which you must go after to make happen, starting when Saturn enters Libra in the fall of 2009. So don’t assume things will just come your way in your career as has been the case for many of you, you will have to play a more active roll in gaining opportunities and capitalizing on them. You will have opportunity for business partnerships, marriage, contracts and legal dealings that will be to your benefit. Saturn will remain in Libra until the fall of 2012. So of course the earlier of a Leo you are the more this applies for 2009 and the later you are you will see these opportunities manifest toward the end of Saturn’s reign in Libra toward the fall of 2011.

 

Virgo – (August 23 – September 22) Virgos have had a tough go of it for a long time now, they’ve been beaten up by squares to their Sun from Pluto, causing upheaval in their family life, their sense of identity, and in their work. Another whammy has been the opposition of Uranus in Pisces to their Sun’s making them do things that have been out of character. They have felt the need to suddenly rebel against their lives nearly tearing away everything in the process, and in the less fortunate Virgos’ cases they may have lost a lot. But even those that caught themselves at the precipice of throwing away everything they had worked for due to overwhelming unconscious feelings suddenly erupting into their lives, they couldn’t help but do damage to friendships, family, and their own moral code. Some may have had problems with drinking binges, spending binges, or emotional outbursts and/or anxiety.

 

The good sides of this aspect have been revelations about the self that were buried; a greater connection forged between the mind, and the soul and heightened intuition. For those of you, who are late in the sign of Virgo, watch out! Try to realize these feelings are just those, try not to act on them and destroy the life you have created for yourself. If you do act on them consider going to therapy as a way to tell if you are being self-deceptive, or projecting your own issues onto others. This opposition creates a distorted mirror, exaggerating your own sense of perfection and the people in your life’s flaws. This aspect will make you want to smash your friendships, partners and sense of self to bits leaving you to pick up the pieces after a lot of destruction. So be careful with this, Uranus in Pisces will give you a desperate need to rebel and the Pisces side of it will add illusion and delusion, making you a rebel without a cause.

 

On the brighter side, those who are early Virgos have gone through this and are about to feel Pluto give them a boost in their careers and work situations. Those of you who are later degree Virgos will experience this later on. Also for the past couple of years and on into the fall of 2009; Saturn has been hitting your Sun. You may have felt or do feel down, depressed, drained, perhaps guilty if you ran your life off into a ditch, and your career/work life has felt like its been in a slump. Saturn will move off your sun in the fall of 2009. It will feel as if a huge weight has been taken off your shoulders and you can finally breath again. For those of you who are late Virgo’s you’ve had some of that, but you’ve also experienced 2008 as a period of expansion in some areas of your career, even giving you some luck, but it came at a price, the price of being overworked and exhausted.

 

2009 will be much lighter and more full of ease for early Virgos, and all Virgos will see powerful allies coming to their aid in work and career over the next 13 or so years as Pluto moves slowly through Capricorn. So if 2009 isn’t your year, you have time to build a strong career/job foundation, the more you work for this the more it will pay off as Pluto eventually trines your Sun.

 

Libra – (September 23 – October 22) Libra’s I’m not going to lie to you, the fall of 2009 won’t be easy if you were born during the early part of the sign.  There will be a lot of adjusting to do as Pluto squares your Sun – providing both identity and career issues; questions about what you are doing with your life, and if you are on the right path or not. Also you will have questions about your partnerships, which will come to a head during that period.  However you won’t feel this if you were born later on in the sign until the year’s progress.

 

A double whammy happens for those born early on in Libra because Saturn will also be on top of their Sun, making them feel drained and overwhelmed. Try focusing on your career at that time without losing yourself to it, and don’t make any big decisions about career, partnerships, legal situations or your spouse either. Wait at least 3-6 months from November of 2009 to decide what you are doing, and seek out counseling or talk to a trusted wise friend to help you gain clarity. You will feel the desire to cut off ties, to make big decisions, but you will be too overtaxed and overwhelmed to make good decisions so wait it out!

 

For those born about ¾ of the way through Libra, Neptune will be aiding you in your spiritual development, bringing you new friends, an interest in charitable organizations, a greater connection to your fellow man, more social opportunities and a greater love and appreciation of music. Those earlier in the sign already experienced this depending on how early in the sign; it could have been as far back as 1998. This transit will, and for some already was life altering for Libras and will continue to be feed as Neptune rolls through Aquarius. And for those later Libras file away the above warning about Saturn. It will eventually hit your Sun too, depending on when you are born, this aspect could hit you up until late 2011.

 

Scorpio – (October 23 – November 21) Those who are born early in this sign will see more opportunities coming their way in their career and family life starting from late 2008, and into 2009. But these opportunities are the type that one must work in order to make happen. There will be doors opening you will have to walk through, not lucky breaks.  The last couple of years there have been opportunities in your career especially through higher education, continuing education or taking classes. If you were wise and used this feeling to gain new skills you will have seen doors opening for you.

 

Now with Pluto you will have a second chance if you didn’t take advantage of that urge. This time will provide a powerful deeper-rooted sense of your spirituality and a pathway to following your bliss. By doing so, doors will open, but again you will have to knock on a lot of them, and do the footwork to make it happen, this aspect does not guarantee success, just opportunity for success.

 

As Neptune has been squaring your Sun sign for quite a while and depending on where you fall, either early, middle or late in the sign, you would have had, or will have, a period of loss of friends, family, and a lack of self-confidence. You may have felt depleted, depressed, even using social situations as an excuse to loose yourself and go crazy through drinking. Or it could have manifested as the loss of social interactions, which led to a period of isolation leaving you spinning around in your own head. Early degree Scorpios would have felt this as long ago as 1998, and those about ¾ of the way through the sign will feel it now. Be careful not to get carried away with drinking especially in social situations as it can lead to friendships ending.

 

With Uranus in Pisces those who are again about ¾ of the way through the sign will be experiencing a lot more psychic activity, intense dreams, flashes of knowings, deep sudden realizations about people, events, and even the occasional premonition.  You will find yourself much more open to psychic ability, the occult, astrology and spiritual development during this period. For those earlier in the sign you’ve already gone through this, for those who are at the tail end of Scorpio you have this to look forward to. However again the theme of drinking/drug/food/shopping abuse (anything escapist) comes up so be careful!

 

All in all there will be more opportunities for your sign starting this year and besides Pluto, and Uranus’ help eventually Neptune will go into Pisces and there will be more opportunity, more spiritual development down the line. This period has and will become a great awakening for Scorpios. They will find themselves and who they were truly meant to be. It will also open up your intuition and if you are open to it great spiritual experiences.

 

Sagittarius – (November 22 – December 21) Pluto has just gone over your Sun for the past decade depending on when you were born within your sign. You would have had a tremendous overhaul of your ego, your sense of family, and would have come to understand yourself in ways you never did before. Sagittarians are blessed with tremendous good luck; they are charming, capricious and also on the other side decadent and didactic.  Pluto going over your sun allowed you to see deeply into your own soul, and own who you truly are. You would have experienced your personal foibles and had to come to terms with the truth about yourself, either bad or good. With Uranus making a square to your Sun (those who are about ¾ of the way through the sign) you are currently experiencing both flashes of knowing and intuition and a loss of friends, outworn ideals, and the delusions or illusions still lingering in the ego. For those born earlier in the sign they have already gone through this, for those later in the sign, go with the energy to come, and make the best of it.

 

Neptune has been providing some cover for those born about ¾ of the way through the sign, it has brought into your life wise friends and more social activities also a broader compassion for humanity. Sagittarians tend to be so lucky that they often don’t delve deeply into their psyches, and have a tendency to escape into excessive spending, drinking, drug taking or eating. As Uranus has been making this opposition, and with Pluto’s conjunction it has forced foot loose and fancy free Sagittarians to come to terms with the darker side of their nature, to dig deeper into their own psyches, and transform for the better.

 

2009 will be easier as Pluto is finally out of your sign, and when Saturn stops squaring you in November of 2009, you will finally feel some real relief especially in regards to your career and work situation.

 

Capricorn – (December 22 – January 19) if you are an early Capricorn, times are tough. You have to make a major transformation and find your true spiritual path – your reason for being here, and career path all at once.

 

Saturn your ruling planet has been giving you some steering directions for the past couple of years, and will continue to do so especially for those born later on in the sign, but once it goes into Libra in the fall of 2009, you must be careful not to become too anxious or stressed out by the rigors of your relationship balanced with your career. This period could bring about the cementing of a contract, relationship or a business partnership, but it will take a lot of work, and be exhausting so try to build in time to rest during this period.

 

For those of you who are later on in the sign Uranus is giving you lots of inspiration, and good ideas follow these flashes of intuition and you will find success. Those of you who are early in the sign have had this aspect already pass, and those who are late in the sign will have it happen in a few years, but will start to feel the effects of this coming on. Trust your intuition, and it will open doors for you.

 

Aquarius – (January 20 – February 18) In January of 2009 Jupiter will be in Aquarius expanding your sense of self, your base of knowledge, your circle of friends, and your waistline if you’re not careful! Also Neptune has been transiting Aquarius for quite some time now, those who are about ¾ of the way through the sign will have Neptune conjunct their Sun leading to greater psychic ability and/or confusion, drug or alcohol problems and a plethora of ideas and imagination. Also there is a danger to your health so you must be careful and trust every weird intuition you have about your health during this period or you could really suffer. Those born earlier in the sign went through this as early as 1998 and those later in the sign will experience this in years to come. 

 

By the fall of 2009 you will find even greater flow and ease in your career as Saturn enters Libra. If you are early in the sign you will see this then if late it will manifest as late as 2011. But either way you will see ease and flow, as Saturn is the old ruler of Aquarius and still co-king. Your partnerships, friendships and career will feel easier then they have in a long time. There will be more opportunity coming to you and luck will be on your side. Of course for those early Aquarians they will feel this strongly by the fall of 2009 and those later in the sign will feel this in the next couple of years.

 

Pisces – (February 19 – March 20) These past 12 or so years haven’t been the easiest. Pluto was squaring your sun and depending on if you are early in the sign or late, this next bit would apply anywhere to over a decade ago to as recently as 2008. There was a lot of confusion and misplaced optimism and when the delusion was uncovered, it could have worn down either into a depression, or a period where you overindulged through drugs, alcohol, shopping, spending, or any kind of excess and escapism.

Pluto was the culprit but you are free of it! Now do a little happy dance. Coming up is much more opportunity for your career, and with Uranus in Pisces if you are about ¾ of the way into the sign you will experience great flashes of knowing, greater insight, and understanding, things you never got before will suddenly click in. On the negative side you have to be careful not to be too erratic or you could loose some friends. Also be careful with binge drinking which will be a great temptation. Those who are early in the sign will have already gone through this as long ago as 1998 those late in the sign will go through this in a few years, but will start to see the signs of it as early as this year. 

Just one tiny thing…

My readers are AWESOME! So smart and thoughtful. You make me so happy when I read your comments. It gives me even more faith in humanity. You guys rule! You are all so insightful, wise, intelligent, intuitive, compassionate, loving, and IDEALISTIC!!!! YEAH!

Sending you all lots of love,

And HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Denise

(2009 is Year of the Ox, I’ll get to that later)

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

Happy New Year to all!

2009 is a number 11.

So universally we will all be more globally minded, partnership orientated, Internet savvy, humanitarian focused, interested in the bigger picture, and how it relates to us individually.

This will be a year when big things are tackled, broad strokes are used, and we really try to work together in earnest in ways we haven’t in a long while.

2008 was a one year; the start of a new beginning, but also a period when we were more self-absorbed as a whole. 

This year we will have both the 2 energy and the 11 energy working for us. So on the personal level marriage and partnerships will be more our focus.  For those of us tapped into the higher vibration of the number 11 we will find ourselves participating in the world at large, finding inspiration in working together to find solutions and helping our fellow man.

Have a great New Years Day!

Peace and blessings to all,

Denise

Answering Readers…

Hello everyone. Hope you all have had a wonderful start to the new year. I’m going to do a post (over the weekend) explaining how to figure out your personal year (numerology) and what it means for you. It’s pretty fun and always interesting to look back and see the cycles of your own life. In numerology you go through years 1-9 and then start over again. And from my own observation there does seem to be resonance when looking back 9 years prior. It’s not the same of course, but the issues do seem to have cross over. But I’ll save that for later.

Here’s the first question from Sallyy:

sallyy

Denise, Can you give recommendations on books on Tarot, or ways to study Tarot? You said you learned from the Brotherhood of Light. Do you recommend C.C. Zain’s book? Thanks, Sally

Hi Sallyy,

I checked out the C.C. Zain book after you mentioned it on the blog, but only in a cursory way. It looked good to me. I learned from a person from the Brotherhood of Light, but I did read a zillion books about tarot before that happened, and found most of them to be rather unhelpful. It was always like a bad cook book where you had to look up things, and try to apply too many interpretations to a card. Which is why early on I chucked my Rider-Waite deck and book, and used the Motherpeace deck. It was much easier for me to relate to, and to read without having to look everything up; I could use its images to unleash associations and focus on the person.

Actually this is really how using the cards work best. More as a tool like a scrying mirror or crystal ball would work, but with more to go off of. The best astrologers and numerologists work this way as well. That being said you can learn the craft of reading which is rooted in the Kabbalah, and numerology.

It looked like the Zain book actually delved into this quite a bit, however the writing seemed a bit arcane and well, occult. If you have done a lot of reading on the subject it probably will all make sense, if not it might be kind of dense. However, the book is down loadable for free so you might as well read it! There seemed to be a lot of good information in there. Here’s the link to the free down load in case you don’t have it or other people are interested:
http://www.lightofegypt.com/index.aspx?action=view_articles&folderToUse=courses/Book_06_The_Sacred_Tarot#

My other suggestion would be to really research all the decks that are out there and find one that speaks to you and practice reading your friends. When doing this, first clear your mind, do a protection and ask your higher self/God/Goddess/Universe/Creator whatever your personal connection is to the divine, to give you the absolute truth while you read. It is also helpful to have a visualization you do before reading. I imagine a light switch, and then a damn breaking, and all the water from my subconscious coming through to my conscious mind. You might want to visualize turning on a faucet, or opening the third eye chakra, or whatever you want, just something that makes sense to you and allows you to focus while letting the Universe know you are connected and ready to receive information.

Friends have sworn by the workbook, “Tarot for Yourself,” by Mary K. Greer. Here’s a link to it: Tarot for Your Self : A Workbook for Personal Transformation Second Edition

Hope that helps!

The next question comes from Steven:

Hi Denise; I was looking at the transits to the USA natal chart; would you please comment regarding the transiting Saturn conjunct natal Neptune and square natal mars? Also on today’s trigger transiting Mars opposite natal financial Venus and transiting Pluto applying opposition to natal financial Venus (mid January to end of March)? I have read on financial astrology sites, that this chart is used also for the US dollar. I would appreciate your insight. kind regards, Steven

Hi Steven,

I’ll post the different US charts here and we can talk about them. There are actually 3 but I’m only going to post 2, because these 2 seem the most significant to me. They are the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution signing. Here they are:

Looking at both of these charts and the date of 9-29-2008 when we had the -777 plunge, they are both pretty awful but it seems that the Declartion chart describes in greater detail what happened and with more clarity. The fall can be seen in both through different aspects but since the Declaration chart seems to be more in keeping with the financial crisis let’s go ahead and use it to answer your question.

Quite honestly I was hoping that the Signing chart was going to be more accurate because it would be less painful but with all those planets in the 8th house of the financial industry and other people’s money in Cancer at early degrees, Yikes! Pluto is going to make hard core oppositions to this starting around inauguration. To make it worse Pluto which rules this chart will be opposing Venus (money) and in the 8th house.  And then as Pluto progresses it will hit Jupiter, then the Sun and finally Mercury making this period of adjustment a long one.

In terms of transiting Saturn conjuncting natal Neptune that is in the Signing chart and won’t be felt until the fall of 2011. This transit will first trigger a trine to Pluto and then to natal Saturn so it could actually be more related to the re-structuring of the international banking laws for the better and trigger a new power structure in regards to how the global economy works.

However in the Declaration chart Saturn will be making a square to all those Cancer planets starting at the end of November and this could add extra strain on the economy as issues relating to the law and more wall street scandals both come out and are prosecuted. This will also trigger new regulations.

So in regards to your question, “Also on today’s trigger transiting Mars opposite natal financial Venus and transiting Pluto applying opposition to natal financial Venus (mid January to end of March)?” What those astrologers are referring to with transiting Mars is a trigger. It’s Pluto that is doing the major damage but Mars will help it along and kick it off this will happen around the 18/19th of March 2009, also the Moon will be in Cap, adding extra oomph to the whole thing. That could also be a very bad day for the stock market and the value of our money. 

Hope that helped to clarify some of it.

Best wishes to all and many blessings,

Denise

Here’s a link to that blog with the edited more readable version of your sun sign over view if anyone is interested:
http://www.instantriverside.com/riverside-ca-news/what-will-the-new-year-hold-for-you/2008/12/31/

Some Info From Nitin…

Nitin tried to post this but had trouble. It looks like good information so I’m putting it up on the front page to draw attention to it:

Hi Guys,
happy new year 2009. Hope this year will be a quieter one compared to 2008. Anyway i would like to share to the readers of this blog some interesting stuff i have been reading and which i think is very relevant indeed to the actual world economic crisis. There is this guy in the states who got a phd in economics and he has been writing books on the US economy since the late 70′s and until recently where he wrote a book on the fed chairman Greenspan as being fraudulent and how through his policies is acting in the hands of the capitalist. I am impressed with his explanation of all the complex economic theory in simple layman terms and how he questioned the fundamentals of the modern ecomic school of thoughts. Maybe you guys have already started moaning about why i am writing about economic stuff on a psychic blogs and its not even my blog in the first place. Well interestingly this guy ( his name is ravi batra) a professor from southern methodist university have been making economic predictions since the late 70′s  and over 85% have actually happened. He also predicted that The US will wage a war against radical islam and also that iran will be governed by priesthood by the end pf the 70′s amongst other things. His books has been best seller in the states. i am going to include some links for you guys to check this guy out.
His details
http://www.ravibatra.com/about.htm
an independant article on Ravi Batra
http://www.fwweekly.com/content.asp?article=7369
his main forecast over the 2 decades
 http://www.ravibatra.com/Forecasting.html
He wrote an interesting article on the bailout in very simple layman terms
    http://www.ravibatra.com/Bailout.html
also he wrote about the main reasons of the financial crisis
http://www.ravibatra.com/globalfinancialcrisis.htm
He also uses an interesting socio economic concept call the social cycles built in his forecast model for predictions.
i am impress by how he diverged and rewrute the wage gap effciency theory.
Denise, i would like to have your sincere views on this guy..his latest book in 2007 was entitled the new golden age is in line with your predictions about how the current economic crisis would create a new world order.
god bless
and Happy new year 2009  

The first from Inphinity1:

inphinity1

Hi Denise,
You mentioned about late December, early January danger in stock market. Do you still see this?
Thanks,

I think we’ve already seen the market crash hard this fall, and what the Dow chart showed was in relation to the scandals that we have seen come out, and will continue to see. In the chart of the US, it unfortunately looks like we haven’t seen the worst of an economic drop yet, but my anxiety has abated for the time being and has been held steady for awhile now.

Consumer confidence and spending at Christmas was at a record low. Many stores went out of business at what was traditionally their best time of year, often the only time they really made a profit. This could be an important part of the economic crisis that has yet to play out in the stock market as Pluto begins to oppose the countries Venus in Cancer starting at the end of January until the end of March of 2009. Of course planets move back and forth (called retrograde movement) so it won’t be the last time we have some big news or set backs in our economy. Pluto usually takes a couple of years going back and forth over a degree before it finally moves on.

Also I posted the warning a couple of weeks before the stock market crash because I felt it coming psychically. I hadn’t done any charts or anything. Problem with public charts like the Dow or even our US chart is they are very inexact. When I tried to put a time frame on my feeling I picked what the astrology said as the timing. My psychic feelings build until the event, but I can’t tell you the exact time they are going to happen so I looked to astrology in this particular case to verify what I was sensing.I personally took all my money out of the stock market the day before I started this blog, and sent an e-mail to all my friends and relatives urging them to pull their money out ASAP as I felt the drop coming very immediately.

This is the problem with psychic ability and even astrology, it’s not exact. It is ruled by Neptune and Neptune also rules confusion, insanity and oddly music. If all psychics were 100% accurate in every detail about everything, we’d know everything that was about to hit, and there would be no way for fate to intersect with free will or the lessons we are meant to learn, and no one would be able to truly live in the present as we would always know what was just around the corner. Even this very idea is impossible because the exact knowing of the future would actually change the outcome because our behavior would change making the event unable to manifest. This is one of the reasons why psychic ability is erratic, and when accurate has no sense of exact time attached (so you can’t really change anything or act on the information completely).

Knowing the outcome of everything would be gaming the system (and one could argue make your purpose here on this planet null and void) which is why I believe we are only allowed bits and pieces of information as psychics. We are more akin to detectives looking at clues then people reading a book. Also you have to consider even the quantum nature of time and the many streams of it, which interact with the Collective Unconscious, and the Stars (or some would say fate). Time is a very intricate and changeable thing because we as human beings evolve, change and grow (and each of us effects the whole) making it hard to pinpoint with absolute precision the exact future of mankind. And thank God for that, it allows us to transcend, surprise and gives us the chance to find enlightenment. It also means teach of us has the power to lift up the whole the more we show kindness, love and strive toward enlightenment.

And a comment from TalkSense, 

TalkSense
talksense@net.org

Pity the north node has been in Aquarius in 2008, not Capricorn.
Sorry, “approaches Capricorn” just won’t do.
It doesn’t “approach Capricorn” until the end of July 2009.

Hi Talksense

I didn’t write that the North Node was in Capricorn. It is approaching Capricorn; it goes backwards through the sign, not forward like the planets do. 

About 20 odd years ago I came across a book that is out of print, it detailed this phenomena. It was quite remarkably accurate. It empirically put forth evidence (this is what I was referring to in this post you commented on) of the past 200 years (as of the 1980s) showing the housing market’s relationship to the nodes. If you happen to live in the Santa Clarita Valley you might be able to find it through their library system. I’ve never come across the likes of it anywhere else.

As the node moves closer, and that means by sign not just by degree, the market shifts either toward buying (Cancer node) or toward selling (Capricorn node). The movement itself is part of the pattern, so yes it “does do,” and you are misinformed about this particular theory. Doubtful you read this book as it is sadly, very obscure. And if you have please post the name of it because I have long forgotten the name only the contents and the basic theory remains etched in my memory. I used this theory for my own personal real estate gain so I have to say it really does work. I bought my house at the bottom turn around of the market when it was in Sagittarius, and it was just getting going again, 6 years later it was worth 3 times what I paid for it, and then the market went nuts in CA (the bubble) and it was worth about 4 and half times what I paid for it until it settled back to its 3x’s price. I expect it will go down to about 2x’s the price we paid, before the market goes back up again. So all in all real estate if you keep it long enough is always pretty solid. But you bet if I have money when the North Node is in Capricorn I’m going to buy real estate and hold onto it for at least 6 years. 

Also an important thing to note is that both the Node and Neptune are in Aquarius and it will be easy for people to be mislead, confused, duped and taken advantage of regarding house buying. Personally, I would wait a little longer if one can before taking the real estate plunge.

Talksense I want to put out an invitation for you to share your own theories about the relationship between the real estate market, and the nodes, or either/or. I’m always interested in learning, and open to other people’s opinions. 

Best wishes to all,

Denise

Numerology with more to come…

I’m going to start with showing everyone how to figure out there personal year number and then post the interpretation to it later. My daughter wasn’t feeling well tonight so I fell asleep with her and I’m too out of it to write anything truly coherent so here goes.

You take your birth day and month and add it together with the current year. 

Example:

I was born February 9: 2-9 which is: 2+9=11

The year is 2009: Again that is 2+9=11

11 + 11 = 22 

2+2 = 4

So for me this is a 22/4 year

It is important if you get a double digit to keep it in place because it is known as a master number. If it is not a double digit, you can immediately reduce it to its number such as:

If I were born 8/9

It would be 8 + 9 = 17, then 1+7=8 plus the number 11 for the year making this persons year number a 1.

(8+11=10 which reduces to a 1)

Hope that’s clear. I’ll let you all work on that and then let you know what each year number means. If you have questions about how this works, post it so I can answer before going ahead with the meanings.

Meaning of the your personal year (Numerology, cont.)

Sorry this post is so late in the day, again my little one has a cold so it’s a lot of cuddling and holding right now, not a lot of time to write. I’ll try to answering questions later tonight. But for now let’s get to the meaning of your personal numerological year.

If you added up your info and are in a:

1 path year:  Expect new beginnings, new people coming into your life. Whatever you start now will have at least a 9 year life expectancy as it progresses with you through the changing number years ahead. So its a good time to start something you’ve always wanted to do, take classes, start a new career or start a relationship. Things you start this year will last and will resonate for a long time. If you ever wanted to write the great American novel, now is the year to start it. This is a period when it is best to focus on the self and be aggressive with your plans. It is not the best year to start a relationship however it is a good time to work on yourself so you eventually get to where you want to go in life.

2 path year: Partnerships, legal agreements, creativity and cooperation are the themes. This is an excellent year to start a business partnership or get married as the energy of your life supports this and will make it easier on you to adjust. If you an artist or artistically inclined you will find this year to be full of inspiration and new ways of seeing things that will improve, influence and  inspire you to produce more work.

3 year: Self-expression, travel, fun, luck, travel those are the themes of 3. You will more free time to do the things you love and want to do. It is a bit of a vacation year in your life, allowing you to focus on having fun and replenishing the well of your life. If you change careers this year it will be one that is fun and full of travel or you won’t be able to stay with it. If you find yourself in transition try to enjoy the time off and explore things you haven’t had a chance to as they will lead to new opportunities and open up new possible career paths.

OK, I’ll post the rest after my next reading…

Best wishes,

Denise

Personal Year Numerology cont.

I’ll continue with the year number 4:

4: The basic theme is work, order and a strong building foundation which includes organizing, rearranging things to work better, fiscal responsibility, budgeting and getting your life structured to be more efficient. This year will be dedicated to material issues, money, your work and either building or buying or re-organizing your home. Physical beautification of your environment will play a big role as will getting your financial house in order. 

Personal year 5: This is a year for communication, change, travel. If you didn’t get to make the big changes in your last 1 year, this is another opportunity to change your life, career, relationships, friendships and perspective for the better. Also writing, if you have that propensity, will become more important to you.  So if you didn’t start that novel or short story or blog 4 years ago during your 1 year, this is a great year to do so, or even start keeping a journal as you will have a lot to express and say. Take advantage of your desire to connect and communicate with others this year, and if you can, do more traveling, you’ll get a lot out of it; it could even be life altering for those in a 5 year providing just the right inspiration to move you to a better place on your personal journey.

6: This is a year when your home, family and love will be the main theme of your life. On the positive side there could be a birth in your family or extended family, adding joy and a focus for everyone to come together. On the negative, it could be the loss of a family member that causes everyone to come together.It is also a good time to explore your creative side, especially through visual art. So if you ever had an interest in photography, painting, sculpture, ceramics or drawing now is the time to explore that and take a class or just fool around and edify yourself by taking up an artistic hobby this year like sewing, knitting, or scrap booking. Enjoy it and realize this new obsession is part of your growth.

7: The main themes are rest, relaxation, retreat and spiritual growth. Now is not the time to worry about money or anything much but reflection. Things will take care of themselves. You must relax and reflect in order to move forward. This is not the year to push yourself or to be overly social, you may actually feel a desire to retreat and spend more time alone, that’s perfectly natural during a 7 year and you should allow yourself that indulgence as its time to look more deeply into your soul, think, reflect and meditate. You may feel yourself drawn to spiritual pursuits, reading and analyzing the past. You may also find this year brings more insight, intuition and psychic ability then you’ve experienced in awhile. Use these gifts to help sort out the last 6 years so you may move ahead, and make the right decisions about the direction of your life for the future. 

8: The main theme here is karma, responsibility, finances and sexuality. This is a big year with big issues, any hole left open will need to be filled, any problem not examined will come to a head. But also all the good work you’ve done will come to fruition. So it is mixed. The more aware you have been the easier this year will be. However if you have been ignoring your relationship, business partnership, career or work, then inevitably you will be forced to deal with it. On the good side of this what happens this year will correct your path for future success. And as I stated, if you’ve been attending to things you will reap big rewards, and this period will start your dreams manifesting.

9: The main themes are charity, endings, transitions, friendships, humanitarian causes. Things you started many years ago will finally be completed. Your friends will be a huge part of your life and this year you may feel the urge to volunteer or help others in need. This is a year of completion. The energy you have sown you will reap; projects started will now come to term and ideas will become reality.

Master Number Years (11, 22, 33, 44):

For those of you who have double digits this year, bare in mind you will have the influence of both the master number and the lower/regular number so check both meanings, and bare in mind both energies will be in play, some days the themes of the master number will be at the forefront, and other days the reduced number’s issues will be the theme.

11: The themes are flashes of inspiration, illumination, the unexpected, tapping into the collective unconscious, visions, dreams that come true. This is a big year, one in which you will feel almost precognitive, as if you  know what is around the bend. You will be more likely to experience psychic activity in flashes of things that somehow just come to you, and brilliant ideas that spontaneously appear. Be sure to pay attention to these things, they will play a vital role in moving you forward in all areas of your life.

22: Power, position, completion and strength are the themes. Things will come full circle this year. If you have felt a long period of waiting, well, the waiting is over, this is the year when what you’ve been working toward will manifest. This is powerful manifestation energy that extends beyond the personal to touch the global and/or collective unconscious. 22 is the number of the master builder, and this number doesn’t come up often in a lifetime,  so take advantage of every opportunity and make sure to put things out there for the universe to complete them.

33: Called the Christ Vibration, the theme of this year is sacrifice and compassion. You maybe called upon to help others, especially in your family in ways that you don’t believe (right now) you are capable of, but you are and will be. This year will be more about serving others and expanding your compassion, sense of humanity and charity. Your connection to your higher self, inner strength and spirituality will be heightened and challenged. It is best to trust in powers greater then yourself to help guide you through this year, if you do so, you will do the world and your family tremendous good. The next year you will be a 7, giving you a break and a chance to replenish yourself, so remember that these sacrifices will not be permanent, try to embrace them and grow from this opportunity for giving.

44: The main theme of this number is healing, karma and service to others through manifestation. It’s important to take the good karma you have accrued not only to build your own empire, but to help other with their dreams. This year manifesting things and healing yourself (and others) comes easily. 

Best wishes and many blessings to all,

Denise

Answering A Reader…

A numerology question from Iris:

Iris // January 6, 2009 at 10:31 pm (edit)

Hi Denise. Tell me, is it possible that someone’s personal year can start early. My personal year for 2009 is 6 but everything I am supposed to experience this year happened last year. The personal year 7 is more of what I’m into now.

I hope I am making sense.

Hi Iris,

Actually, depending on when you were born within that year it would change. For example if you were born December 31 you would add up your 12 + 31 = 34 then the year 2009 = 11, so the number would be 45 which would be a 9.

However, your year change wouldn’t happen until December 31, so you would experience 2009 as a number 8 even though technically it would be a 9.

Some numerologists don’t agree with this, they believe once the year number changes so does your personal year, so you have to go with your own experience. In your case you feel you experienced your year number early. What is your birthday so I can help you figure it out.

It’s possible that if your birthday was very close to midnight and you moved to another time zone, perhaps your birthday would fall on the next day or the day before depending on where you moved. In astrology its called a relocation chart. I’ve never really heard it applied to numerology, but it seems possible that this could occur in such an instance as well. 

For example your birth date was 11/11 at 11:51 PM Sydney Australia and then you moved to the Berkeley, CA you would actually have been born on 11/10 at whatever time (you get the idea). Or reverse that and say you were born at 11/11 in Berkeley, CA at 11:51 PM and moved to New York you would actually have been born at 2:51 AM 11/12. Perhaps something like this occurred in your case? You can e-mail me your info if you don’t want your personal information on the blog.

Best wishes and many blessings,

Denise

A Theory About the Dwarf Planets

Besides having a sick baby, I’ve been preoccupied with working on a theory involving the dwarf planets so I’m sorry I have been remiss in answering questions and I promise to get back into the swing of it soon. 

This theory is complex and will take some time to work out. In the mean time I’ve been doing a lot of research not just on the planets but on the Gods/Goddesses they are named after and the time period in which the planet was found. It’s interesting to note that a plethora of planets were found just after the turn of this century. Obviously, technology has advanced and this is a large part of the recent discoveries but it’s not all of it. Pluto was discovered in the 1930s during the rise of Hitler, the A-bomb and Stalin. Interestingly it is actually smaller then the recently discovered Eris.

So far their are 8 named dwarf planets (with many more to come over the next several years) and 8 traditional planets. This karmic number and the fact that it is doubled seems significant. Perhaps each sign has a dual or (as I suspect will end up being the case) triple ruler-ship.

My gut tells me there should be three planetary rulers for each sun sign symbolizing our threefold nature; the lower self (the id), the middle self (or ego) and the higher self (the divine self or the super-ego). 

The mix of mythological characters making up this hodge podge of dwarf planets seems to reflect shadow sides and very evolved energy which leads me to believe that we are now entering an age of self-awareness that will lead to an evolutionary shift. We will either be steered down the path toward Armageddon by the nutjobbers (destroying everything) or spring forward in our spiritual evolution and chose life. 

The fact that the outer planets have been making intense aspects in late signs for the past 40 years or so leads me to believe our planet is attracting many old souls to fight for Her and the human race. But I also believe on the other side of that pendulum there are just as many immature, selfish, destructive, chaotic and mean spirited souls (in varying degrees on both sides of course) pushing us toward our extinction. 

So I’m going to just leave off with a few choice pieces of information about the myths of these newly discovered heavenly bodies in hopes that it inspires and illuminates. Over the next few months I’ll try to put all of the information together into some organized thought and apply it astrologically.

Here is some research I’ve gathered if anyone is interested about 2 of the 8. I’ll post more each night so no one gets overwhelmed.

Orcus (Mythology)

In Roman mythology, Orcus was a god of the underworld, punisher of broken oaths, more equivalent to Plutothan to the Greek Hades. The origins of Orcus may have lain in Etruscan religion. Orcus was a name used by Roman writers to identify a Gaulish god of the underworld. The Etruscan so-called “Tomb of the Orcus” atTarquinia is a misnomer, when the first discoverers took as Orcus a figure of a Cyclops. Generalized connotations of “Orcus” have made it a popular name for providing an instant “demonic” atmosphere. InDungeons & Dragons, Orcus is a demon prince, and lord of the undead. Orcus also appears in the gameNetHack. This is in good part because Orcus’ name is the origin of the words “orca” and “orc“; the latter popularized by J.R.R. Tolkien in his “Lord of the Rings” trilogy.

Sedna:

 Sedna is a very significant figure in Inuit mythology. There are a number of different versions of the myth of Sedna. 

As the legend goes, Sedna was a beautiful Inuit girl who lived with her father. She was very vain and thought she was too beautiful to marry just anyone. Time and time again she turned down hunters who came to her camp wishing to marry her. Finally one day her father said to her “Sedna, we have no food and we will go hungry soon. You need a husband to take care of you, so the next hunter who comes to ask your hand in marriage, you must marry him.” Sedna ignored her father and kept brushing her hair as she looked at her reflection in the water.
Soon her father saw another hunter approaching their camp. The man was dressed elegantly in furs and appeared to be well-to-do even though his face was hidden. Sedna’s father spoke to the man. “If you wish to seek a wife I have a beautiful daughter . She can cook and sew and I know she will make a good wife.” Under great protest, Sedna was placed aboard of the hunters kayak and journeyed to her new home. Soon they arrived at an island. Sedna looked around. She could see nothing. No sod hut, no tent, just bare rocks and a cliff. The hunter stood before Sedna and as he pulled down his hood, he let out and evil laugh. Sedna’s husband was not a man as she had thought but a raven in disguise. She screamed and tried to run, but the bird dragged her to a clearing on the cliff. Sedna’s new home was a few tufts of animal hair and feathers strewn about on the hard, cold rock. The only food she had to eat was fish. Her husband, the raven, brought raw fish to her after a day of flying off in search of food.

Sedna was very unhappy and miserable. She cried and cried and called her father’s name. Through the howling arctic winds Sedna’s father could hear his daughter’s cries. He felt guilty for what he had done as he knew she was sad. Sedna’s father decided it was time to rescue his daughter. He loaded up his kayak and paddled for days through the frigid arctic waters to his Sedna’s home. When he arrived Sedna was standing on the shore. Sedna hugged her father then quickly climbed into his kayak and paddled away. After many hours of travel Sedna turned and saw a black speck far off into the distance. She felt the fear well up inside of her for she knew the speck was her angry husband flying in search of her.

The big black raven swooped down upon the kayak bobbing on the ocean. Sedna’s father took his paddle and struck at the raven but missed as the bird continued to harass them. Finally the raven swooped down near the kayak and flapped his wing upon the ocean. A vicious storm began to brew. The calm arctic ocean soon became a raging torrent tossing the tiny kayak to and fro. Sedna’s father became very frightened. He grabbed Sedna and threw her over the side of the kayak into the ocean. “Here, he screamed, here is your precious wife, please do not hurt me, take her.”Sedna screamed and struggled as her body began go numb in the icy arctic waters. She swam to the kayak and reached up, her fingers grasping the side of the boat. Her father, terrified by the raging storm, thought only of himself as he grabbed the paddle and began to pound against Sedna’s fingers. Sedna screamed for her father to stop but to no avail. Her frozen fingers cracked and fell into the ocean. Affected by her ghastly husbands powers, Sedna’s fingers while sinking to the bottom, turned into seals. Sedna attempted again to swim and cling to her father’s kayak. Again he grabbed the paddle and began beating at her hands. Again Sedna’s hands, frozen by the arctic sea again cracked off. The stumps began to drift to the bottom of the sea, this time turned into the whales and other large mammals. Sedna could fight no more and began to sink herself.

Sedna, tourmented and raging with anger for what had happened to her, did not perish. She became, and still is today, the goddess of the sea. Sedna’s companions are the seals, and the whales that sit with her at the bottom on the ocean. Her anger and fury against man is what drums up the violent seas and storms . Hunters have a great respect for her. Legend has it that they must treat her with respect. Shaman’s from the world above must swim down to her to comb her long black tangled hair. This calms Sedna down. Once this is done, she releases her mammals to allow the Inuit to eat from the bounty of the sea. It is for this reason in the north that after a hunter catches a seal he drops water into the mouth of the mammal, a gesture to thank Sedna for her kindness in allowing him to feed his family.

This is the legend of Sedna.

Best wishes and many blessings,

Denise

Answering Readers’ Questions…

Besides answering everyone I want to announce a new page on the website. I’d like to start a collective dream journal for everyone. It will be under Dream Journal at the top, I’m going to post whatever dreams I can remember (the more you write them down the more you remember) and would love for all of you to post yours as well.

It’s a kind of experiment to see if there are themes running through all of our dreams, any synchronicities or what I call simultaneous dreaming. A weird phenomena that has happened to me several times when I had the same exact dream as someone else, usually a close friend or sibling. 

I think through this journal we can pick out symbols we all are having and this will tell us more about what to expect for 2009 and the coming years. Hope you all participate. It should be very interesting. At least for me it will be. I believe we are all connected and it should be fascinating to see where our psyches intersect.

First Iris:

Iris	Submitted on 2009/01/07 at 3:27pm Iris Annette Boyd, September 4 1969, around 2am not quite sure. I was born at home in Stanton, Tennessee and live in TN all of my life.

Iris, since you were born early in the morning of the next day, do you think it’s possible your parents got your date wrong? Perhaps you were really born on the 3rd maybe just before midnight? My grandmother had this happen to her. Her recorded birth day was the 8th of September but her mother told her she was born on the 7th. It wasn’t until she died that we saw her original birth certificate stating her birth date was the 8th. Getting the date and time wrong was (and is) actually very common for home births. Obviously, when you’re in labor the last thing you can concentrate on is the clock and having had a baby myself, I know that you loose track of time. It’s very easy to just guess later or be so elated about the birth that later you try to reconstruct the time and it is often wrong.

Have you ever had an astrological chart done before? And if so did it seem accurate? I can put your chart up here for all to see and do a brief interpretation if you’ve never had it done before to illustrate how it should work. If the timing of things is completely off, the chart is very likely wrong. 

Even though I was born in a hospital in Chicago my birth time was about 12 hours off, probably because when whoever filled out the birth certificate did so, they just looked at the time or if my mother did she was unaware of the actual time of my birth and her memory was faulty. Chicago from what I’ve heard had notoriously wrong birth times on its birth certificates. Why? Who knows, perhaps they just saw it as a stupid formality and didn’t pay much attention to this detail. I guess getting the day right was good enough for them.  

Let me know if you want me to run your chart and post it, with some possible events so everyone can see the timing of a chart.

Next question comes from Grace:

grace43

Submitted on 2009/01/07 at 4:07pm Although this has nothing to do with your recent blog entries, do you have any idea what happened to poor Adam Herrman? His parents did not report him missing for 10 years and CPS was called on them several times for abuse. I doubt this poor boy could be alive today. Here is a link to the story: http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=6588020&page=1 Thanks in advance. Hi Grace, I saw a brief quick reference to this story on the news tonight. My first reaction was he was murdered by his mother. I just read the story link, and see that he was adopted and his adopted mother was very abusive toward him. Reading the story just confirmed my gut feeling that he was murdered by the mother a long time ago. She seems to be a classic case of BPD. What a sad and horrible story, poor boy. I hope he really did run away and she was just cheating the system by collecting money on him, but I really don’t get that feeling. I feel that child is no longer on the planet. I’m sure she buried him in a wooded area not far from their home. And I feel the adopted father knew about this and is covering up for the wife. After so long now he is also guilty of murder for not coming forward so I don’t think he will spill the beans either. But I do feel they’ll find the body of the boy in the next couple of years, probably this spring/summer. Next is from Steve: capricorn777 Hi Denise; wishing that your little daughter gets well soon. Additional info on previous financial natal charts. The New York Stock Exchange was established on May 17, 1792 New York, NY and NASDAQ was established on February 8, 1971 New York, NY Take care Steven   Hi Steven, Do you have any idea what time of day they were established. It’s my feeling that since  the Dow has changed so dramatically from its inception that the chart researched and provided by Kepler software is probably a lot more accurate then the old chart. I did run a solar chart and it didn’t feel right. I will run the other as a solar chart and let you know. I’ll post both of them in the next couple of days. They won’t be all that accurate without a time though.  Thanks for the well wishing for my baby daughter. She has now spread her germs to me. But it’s not too bad. Colds are a lot easier when you can take decongestants!    Best wishes and many blessings to all, Denise

Year of The Black Panther (Medicine Cards)

If you haven’t heard of the medicine cards, I highly suggest looking into them. They are excellent for doing personal readings for yourself. As a matter of fact they work better than anything else for that, the tarot can be hard to interpret when looking at it for yourself.

Here’s a link to anyone interested in checking them out: Medicine Cards: The Discovery of Power Through the Ways of Animals

I highly recommend this for anyone interested in a personal/spiritual divination system that is easy to use, clear and used primarily for your own use.

OK, that being said I pulled a card just after New Year’s eve to represent the general feel of 2009 and got the Black Panther. This is powerful medicine. It’s meaning is to trust the unknown or be thrown into the abyss.

The black panther is a great teacher, but it doesn’t teach gently. In my own experience it denotes a period of chaos which can lead to a loss of reason. Black panther is a nocturnal predator and only the keen, able and strong are able to survive it. 

It nurtures the spirit through the teaching of fierce independence and self-sufficiency, but it can also cause chaos, destruction and disruption. It has resonance with Pluto in that it destroys the old ways holding a person (or a world) back in order to nuture and teach independence, strength and self-reliance. It has no patience for superficiality, and its energy is strong, forthright. It will rip your throat out if you act out of fear and not out of deep abiding faith in yourself. 

This will be a year when structures are shaken down to their foundation, and people who have lead unconscious lives will have to wake up or risk losing either their peace of mind or their physical well being. Black panther is a harsh teacher, but very mystical. 

We will see people’s interest in symbolism, deeper meaning and spirituality rise along with the panther’s reign. For those who embrace their own instincts and personal power, it will be a year of advancement. A year when you will see through the collective chaos with laser sharp clarity while others are drowning in it.

This however will not be the year to save someone else like a friend, lover or family member. The panther stalks alone. If you attempt to save someone else this year (I mean personally not in the way of global or through broader acts of charity) be careful because a great deal of damage can be done to the person you are trying to save, and to your relationship with them. Panther’s attempt to rescue a weaker animal can lead to accidentally tearing its throat out. There is no room for subtlety during black panther year. It is a year of extremes, of predators and prey, kill or be killed, trust or perish.

The world will go through major changes this year, and its likely extreme circumstances, war and natural disasters will not abate, more likely these things will proliferate. It will be a tough year for many, but it will teach us the most valuable lessons of our lives.

For those on the journey toward spiritual enlightenment, it will lead the way to great inner strength, magic, psychic awareness, and will open doors to the other side, other dimensions, and parts of the brain most of us have turned off.

Don’t be afraid if this year you have visions, crazy dreams or intense spiritual experiences. Embrace these experiences and let them change you for the better.

The Dwarf Planets Varuna & Quaoar

More info to put under your hat regarding the dwarf planets. It’s my feeling as I research that there seems to be an anima and an animus side of each side which perhaps the recent find of the dwarf planets will enlighten us on. 

Varuna seems like a non-gender specific, kinder gentler version of Saturn. The Goddess/God (switches back and forth in representation) rules time, morality and keeping the chaotic order. Also He/She is the keeper of the celestial waters, which again relates to Capricorn and the sea-goat.

And my feeling Quaoar is a co-ruler or Aquarius. Quaoar is a Togva people Creator Being who sings the world into being first creating the other Gods and Goddesses — a similar theme to the tree of life or the Kabbalah. There is no gender associated with Quaoar which is also true for Uranus (as he was castrated) and Aquarius which although is part of the masculine air triad, the sign for Aquarius is either a man or a woman pouring water out of an urn. The symbolism being the milk of human kindness given freely — thus the humanitarian nature associated with Aquarius. 

Quaoar’s association with music might seem Pisces-like but there is another new dwarf planet that fits Pisces better and Quaoar’s gender-less-ness fits the sign of Aquarius because heavy Aquarius in a chart or Uranus involvement, are often an indication of people who don’t readily fit into a gender identity or sexuality.

Answering Readers and Some Dream Patterns

 

Hi everyone, thanks for participating in the dream journal. Already I’ve noticed some interesting patterns, not sure if anyone else has. There seems to be a lot of water and chaotic dreams. Interesting to note someone had a dream that they posted under year of the panther that stated they saw a panther walking down the street. My husband also (without my having told him of my pulling it) pulled the black panther card. 

Please keep using the Dream Journal as your personal repository for your dreams. As themes start to suggest themselves we’ll take a look at them and see how they interact with the world at large. Also you can print out your dreams and paste them into a dream journal for your own records. Dream journals are really remarkable, often when reading mine from years ago I found things that eventually came to pass. Sometimes having dreamt about things as far as 10 years down the line. So make use of it!

The first question comes from Curious:

curious123

Hi Denise,
First, I hope all is well. I was just wondering. You haven’t really given any updates about Pres. Obama and family (Michelle Obama from previous predictions), the Illinois mess surrounding him or his cabinet choices. I also was wondering, what is to come for him in the first 100 days after he is to be sworn in? What about his ballout?

Once again thanks alot!

Hi Curious:

I know some of his appointments have been a disappointment, for me his choice to appoint Ken Salazar was the deepest however he did appoint Steven Chu a Nobel laureate in physics to lead the Energy Department. I know our Senator, Diane Feinstein scolded him for his choice of Leon Panetta to head the CIA due to Panetta’s lack of experience, however as my husband pointed out, this could be because many people within the intelligence community have their hands dirty from the torture issue and Guantanomo. He may have decided to rely on someone outside that circle in order to have some perspective. As for Salazar I was happy to read he is a staunch conservationist and that he is balanced by a Nobel laureate. It appears Obama is putting together not just a team of rivals but one where there is a multitude of opinions to draw from, none however being from the super left which isn’t a surprise. Obama has never claimed to be left of center, neither was Clinton. Actually there hasn’t been a president who has been anything but a centrist or at least played the game as a centrist since Kennedy or FDR. Certainly Reagan, Bush I and II were radical in many ways, Reagan slashing the social net to pieces and Bush II turning capatlism into the wild west and then socializing it. I really want to reserve judgement about Obama and his strategy for the first year because it is my gut he is going to turn out to be a really good if not great president who will solve some of the toughest issues we’ve yet faced and I don’t think one does this by surrounding themselves with a team of people who are in harmonic agree-ance a with ones own opinions. We saw how that worked with Bush II. He had nothing but Yes people around (other then the duck man, Cheney who appeared to be a Yes man but was really a weasel stealing power whenever possible). Arguments, disagreements and healthy debate are good for solving big problems. I don’t think these appointments speak to his absolute take on things but rather his openness and desire to get people involved in his administration who have more experience then he does. I’ll have to admit though, I was a disappointed at first and felt a little betrayed but just because he’s hiring these people now doesn’t mean they will be with him throughout his administration either. So, again my intuition tells me he’s doing this to encourage debate among his staff and to get people to think outside their boxes which is ultimately a good thing. 

To answer the other questions about how he’ll be treated in the first 100 days as I mentioned in a much earlier post from before the election, I’m sure there will be people trying to pin the financial mess on him. He’s not going to have an easy time of it which is why I feel its important to see how he does and lend him some trust. He is an incredibly intelligent man, and his strategy maybe more complex then something someone like say, George W. would use, perhaps this is why it will be beneficial.

And the bailout, I feel will be an ongoing process which will require years of restructuring. It isn’t going to be like the Bush bailout which ultimately was more akin to throwing a napkin over a bale exploded barf, then an actual solution. It was more of a nod to the rest of the world saying, “See we screwed things up, but we’ll clean it up.” But we really didn’t end up doing much. The Obama administration will end up with the mop and bucket and it will take some time to scrub down. It’s my feeling that Obama is also going to instate some new house rules like, “No getting crazy drunk on taking advantage of investors and the American people.”

The next from Capricorn777:

capricorn777

 

Hi Denise;

wishing that your little daughter gets well soon.

Additional info on previous financial natal charts:

The New York Stock Exchange was established on May 17, 1792
New York, NY

and NASDAQ was established on
February 8, 1971
New York, NY

Take care
Steven

Hi Steven,

I’m going to post this charts with the alternative dates for the stock exchange and the NASDAQ and let you know what I see. 

 

I was reticent to do this because my software (Kepler) which has an excellent database for financial astrology gave different information. I posted the charts already that came with the software but it does seem to be off. And upon a cursory examination this time, it looks like this old Stock Exchange chart maybe more accurate, we shall soon see. If the market doesn’t hit an all time low in Feb-March of this year then this old chart should be the one astrologers use from now on as the nodes are in 0 degree cardinal signs which when Pluto passed through this past September 29 and throughout October would have made a terrible grand cross and would have reeked havoc, which seems to have been the case.

Since I didn’t know if the market would have started way back when at 9 or 8 or as it does now at 9:30. I picked 9. I figure they were early risers and would have started by then. I also did the NASDAQ chart for both 9 and 9:30 because I wasn’t sure how new the half hour mark was as the start. It seems like an oddity that came this century to me in order to accommodate the coasts and world markets. OK so here goes:

Lets hope for the sake of the NASDAQ that they traded earlier when they began back in 1971. Otherwise not only will Pluto hit this NASDAQ’s Venus in Capricorn at 3 degrees this spring but it will also hit the 10th house cusp making the situation much more extreme. If trading was done back then also at 9:30 then the spring will not only show huge financial losses as Venus rules money and Pluto death, transformation and endings but with the 10th house it may indicate a change in the structure of the NASDAQ itself as Pluto first hits Venus, the way business is conducted might be restructured to save institutions. This big Pluto hit could mean the loss of more jobs among those companies traded on the NASDAQ when Pluto hits the NASDAQ’s 10th. 

Also it is interesting to note that Neptune was conjuncting the NASDAQ’s Sun a few years ago, this would have caused delusion among stock holders, the sense that the impossible had suddenly become possible and the theoritical a reality. There also would have been a lot of lying and deception going on by companies, institutions, and brokers about the health of companies on the NASDAQ. 

That being said give it awhile and the NASDAQ will come back stronger then ever, after the restructuring takes place and when Pluto starts to make a trine to the part of fortune. There will be more tech jobs created here in the US again and a wave of good economic health for companies involved in the NASDAQ but this will take awhile. I won’t bother to look it up in the ephemeris because it will be years from now. I’ll post about that when it gets closer.

Generally this NASDAQ chart shows a lot of return for investors under normal circumstances. It’s interesting to note that when transiting Pluto was conjunct Neptune, Jupiter and finally Mars, in the 8th house back in the 1990s, we had the crazy technology, internet bubble. This would fit perfectly with those aspects. I’d have to say this chart looks very accurate to my eye so far.

Now for the chart of the New York Stock Exchange started way back in the 18th century.  Here we see the nodes at exactly 0 degrees Aries and Libra, both making an exact square to Pluto back in the fall of 2008. If this chart is off by an hour and the start of the market back then was at 10 AM which could be possible, then we would see these nodes in the 2nd and 8th houses, making this a hard hit for the Stock exchange as those points would represent jobs (2nd house) and banking, brokers, financial advisors and investors (8th house). Let’s hope this is the more accurate chart making the hit this past fall the worst of it. I’m going to check this chart against the 1929 crash and do a comparison post to see if maybe there is a way to verify its accuracy or inaccuracy. If this chart is inaccurate and the previous Kepler based chart was accurate, then we have the worst of it coming really in March of 09.

Hope this is not the case.

May 2009 bring your greatest dreams and wishes to fruition,

Denise

Answering Readers…

The first from Gwen:

Gwen

Hi Denise, I have a question with regard to the Medicine cards and your comment that these cards were best for personal readings. My thought was that it was always quite difficult to give oneself a reading due to our grasping natures and sense of self coupled with the discursive aspect of our minds. In your view, am I wrong and have you experienced accuracy with readings you might have given yourself? Thank you for all the informative issues being discussed on your blog. All the best, Gwen

Hi Gwen,

It is impossible to use the tarot to give readings for yourself, unless it is a simple yes/no spread, and still you won’t really understand it except for the yes/no side of it. The medicine cards are different, they aren’t set up to give you the same sort of reading the tarot does. They are more like ruins, but not as abstract. They put you in touch with your animal totems and give you a general direction of the path you are currently on. Because the legends are rich, but specific, you can’t misinterpret them like you can the tarot. It’s hard to explain.

They aren’t meant for the kind of reading you would get from a psychic: specific info about your job, love life and the future. Instead they will give you a very spiritual reading of your life, and tactics to use to move you forward as well as direct you in your current undertakings. I have used them for about 20 years. They are very enriching.

The next from Robert Charles:

Robert Charles

I am a fan of your website. troughout the preisdential season, I would always check predictions that you posted. Many of your predictions are accurate. Anyway, there is a famous tennis player by the name of Maria Sharapova. She has been dealing with a shoulder injury for months that have kept her from competiting. Can you see whether or not she will overcome this injury and still have a bright future in tennis. Thank you in advance you responding to this comment!

Hi Robert Charles,

I’m a sports idiot and only know Maria Sharapova from the commercials for cameras she did with her dog. I think that’s her at least. Her birth time is not available, so I found a link to her solar chart and I’ll list her planets here. Having no time of birth makes it more difficult to see the injury and healing path but I’ll go with a psychic reading instead. Here’s the link to her solar chart:
http://www.astrotheme.com/portraits/XwgEm8DvzxJv.htm

And here are her basic planets, the degrees of the Sun and Moon will be off however:

She is extremely ambitious and I’d be surprised if she let much of anything get in her way for long. I’m wondering if she tore ligaments? If so I get the feeling it will be this summer when she gets back on the horse. Mind you this injury will plague her for awhile and could effect her performance for a few years. She will have trouble with pain during this time and will have to learn ways to manage this.

I just tried to research what sort of injury she had but there was no info on this, I do get the feeling it has something to do feel a pulling sensation in my shoulder and radiating pain in my back. I have a feeling she will be back in the summer, but again she might not do well even then. This injury will force her to be sporadic in competition for a couple of years.

Next from Hope and a Plan:

Hopeandaplan

Hi Denise, Hope everyone’s well. I was wondering if you were still getting a feeling about potential attack in Chicago? I know you have family there. I have a convention in March, which I think you previously mentioned in timing… And why wont Sarah Palin go away she’s turning into Kathy Lee Gifford before Regis gave her the boot! Thanks for all of your insights!

Hi Hope And A Plan:

I haven’t been having any intense feelings of doom which have always come before a major hit in the collective unconscious. I did feel that if there was an incident in Chicago it would be thwarted, so if anything does happen it won’t come to fruition. That’s my intuition right now. 

I asked the cards and although they answered Yes to my question of whether their would be a terrorist attack in Chicago in the next year, the tower card did not come up. The Devil reversed did and the pattern card, mostly wands as well and the 9 of swords reversed which is the anxiety card. My feeling here is, again something might be attempted but at this time will not come to fruition. It will be stopped before it can come to pass. I’ll let you know if I start getting that really bad feeling or any dreams that show a change in this, but for now, it seems the powers that be are going to stop anything (this year) before it has the chance to occur.

The Sarah Palin thing, what can I say? She doesn’t want to go away. She’s like a pit bull with the head of a chihuahua in her mouth. She’s desperate for the spotlight. But as I said in very early posts about her, there are a lot of scandals surrounding this woman. I think the most she can hope for is a career as a Kathy Lee Gifford want-to-be. I don’t think she cares much about politics. It’s just whatever gets her face on TV or in magazines. Like I said when analysing her chart, she’s a narcissist, with a capital N.

Next from Grace:

grace43

The next from Grace:

This is totally off topic… I am trying this new acai stuff. It is supposed to do everything for you except turn you 18 again. What are your feelings about acai? Will it really do what people say it will? Does it really help people loose weight? Or have I just wasted $12.45 on another worthless suppliment? I understand you are not a health professional, I am just asking what is your vibe on this? Is this another flash in the pan fad or something that really works? Once again, thank you.

Hi Grace,

You know I’m really skeptical about all the diet stuff. I don’t believe there is any one thing that helps that dramatically. My intuition has always steered me away from any of this stuff and it usually turns out to be just a way for some people to make quick money. 

I gained about 90 pounds when I got pregnant due to all my health complications. About 35-40 pounds was instantly dropped once I had the baby due to excessive water weight (I had  preeclampsia among other problems). So I had to loose about 55 pounds of fat that I gained from not being able to move. I lost the weight and then some by not eating much. I started out with Lean Cuisine and those 100 calorie snack packs, and then my stomach shrank, and now I eat whatever I want, just not that much. I don’t excercise at all except for carrying around a 25 pound baby. And my size 8 pants are already too big for me.

I recently read an article in Discover Magazine about the genetics of scarcity. It seems that Diabetes, obsessity and even high blood pressure are a result of living as hunter/gatherers. There would be long periods when we didn’t, or couldn’t get much to eat, so storing fat, or in the case of high blood pressure salt (for the desert dwellers) was a plus. 

I’ve come to believe we don’t really need to eat all that much to actually thrive. I feel better now then I have in a long time (except for the hemiplegic migraines which I’m still working on getting under control) and I believe it’s due to the fact that I don’t consume that much.

When you think about how our ancestors lived, they would have burned a lot of calories in pursuit of food, rearing kids and just the harshness of their lives and would have eaten very little. I also believe eating about 10% meat is ideal because from all the date assembled it is what our ancient ancestors consumed; the rest was fruits, nuts, vegetables, legumes and starch (either rice, corn or wheat).

I’m not advocating starving yourself. I just think the only answer to losing weight is either exercising a lot and eating, eating, eating or just not eating that much. Once you get used to not eating that much your body tells you when you really do need to eat, and you stop doing it out of habit. 

It looked like acai berry though is a good form of anti-oxidant but so is tea, coffee, dark chocolate, blue-berries, etc. There are a million foods with anti-oxidant properties so I don’t see the point of spending so much on something you can get from fresh, cheap and easily available sources, but this is just my opinion.

The next from Iris:

Iris

Hi Denise, I don’t mind you doing a chart on me. Thanks for offering.

Hi Iris,

Please send me an e-mail with all the details of your birth, time, place and date. So I can post it and do a public delineation.

Best wishes and many blessings to all,

Denise

Answering A Reader (Chris)

Here’s Chris’s comment:

 

Chris

“It is impossible to use the tarot to give readings for yourself, unless it is a simple yes/no spread, and still you won’t really understand it except for the yes/no side of it.” Will you elaborate on this, Denise? I give myself readings on occasion, as do several of my “psychic”/”6th sensory” friends. I’ve always found my own readings to be very insightful, accurate and helpful. ‘Impossible’ seems to be an off-the-mark adjective? Difficult perhaps? But impossible? Just looking for clarification. Also, I’m wondering, surely along with many others, when do you see life becoming less of a struggle for most of us? My gut tells me it’s going to be awhile, which is a strong contradiction to the last eight years or so of my life’s activities for the path I’m on. While I have read each of your entries word for word, some more than once, I’ve not seen a mention of when the new lifestyles we will all ENJOY (yes, that’s right, all of what’s going on is for the better) might settle into a sustainable routine for the majority of mankind, globally? Mid to late 2011 is what my gut seems to be indicating. Yours?

Hi Chris,

Thanks for your post.

Certainly, my statement is hyperbole. I have done readings for myself as you mentioned so have my psychic friends. However it is really, really hard to interpret and not the same as getting a reading from someone else. The closest thing to get an objective reading in that way, that I’ve found is with the Medicine Cards. That’s really what I was trying to say. Yes/No spread of course is the easiest to delineate, clear, concise and not open for interpretation, it takes the subjectiveness out of what can be a maze in terms of interpretation for the Rider-Waite based tarot.

In answer to the second part of your question, yes, around the end of 2011 beginning of 2012, although I feel the worst of it will be felt the next couple of years. I do feel it will be a lifestyle shift for all of us for the better, one we were in desperate need for. I feel many of us will learn to cherish things that are truly important and be better for it.

Best wishes to all and many blessings,

Denise

Exoplanets, Multiverses and the Aquarian Age

There have been over 300 exoplanets found in recent years. Exoplanets are planets that revolve around other stars, planets outside our solar system. So far those found exoplanets have been gaseous monsters more akin to Jupiter than Earth. And actually often many times larger then Jupiter. The reason being; they are easiest to find because they literally tug on the stars they revolve around. And with our new fan-dangled telescopes in space and telescopes with computer programs that compensate for our atmosphere, we have been able to peer into the universe actually back to the beginning of time. A freaky thought, we can actually look back (because light takes a long time to get here) back at the birth of our cosmos. By 2012 scientists believe they will find a planet that is not only earth-like, but has the makings and or markings of life.

Oddly, the more scientists study our universe the more questions have been raised which are often relegated to the realm of philosophers, theologians and occultists. Such as; if there was a big bang, how did it happen? That question has actually been tackled and led to some very interesting theories that echo ancient philosophy. One such theory is well known, string theory which proposes a minimium of at least 11 dimensions and tiny strings that vibrate which basically sing everything into being; this idea seems very like the myth of Quaoar. And accordingly our universe was created by 2 other universes bumping together and suddenly Bang! Our universe was born. I like this idea, it’s very much in keeping with the Goddess/God myths and the idea of “as above, so below.”

There is also the theory of an infinite amount of universes and dimensions, some compeletly barren of life others thriving like ours, where everything just happened to be perfectly tuned to allow it to exist. To me this seems the most logical and probable, it also doesn’t dismiss the idea of string theory or the notion of universes doing the bump and grind.

And lastly is the anthropic principle which basically states, there are just too many coincidences for our universe not to have some sort of creator because everything in our universe is perfectly tuned to encourage life. If anything about our universe was slightly tweaked it would be barren. And perhaps, which is my personal opinion, all these theories are right in a way.

Needless to say, chances are extremely remote that we are the only universe, and there are only 4 dimensions (time being one of course). In which case we are not only one star in a galaxy of about 250 billion, inside a universe of who knows how many billions of gallaxies. But we are in a multiverse with an infinite amount of universes, and an infinite amount of dimensions. This makes the possibility of us being alone extraordinarily unlikely. And this reality will challenge our current major Western religious traditions which rely on personal conversion via a special emissary from God.

These theories threaten the idea of anthropomorphic God (if there’s so much life, and its so diverse why would we we God look like us? He could look like an alien eight legged space creature for all we know, but chances are He/She doesn’t look like anything but is pure energy). It also threatens the notion of one Messiah sent to save us.

If God had to personally rescue every intelligent life form by sending his son or daughter down to every intelligent life in the multidimensional multiverse He/She wouldn’t be able to do anything except save His/Her creations from the forces of darkness.

These theories make the idea of our specialness seem a bit egomanical and the religions built on these irrational feelings seem small and ill equipped to answer the big questions which they were designed to answer. It’s my belief that as science progresses on its course it will continue to bring us closer to the truth, and a real understanding of the multiverse. We will end up coming full circle to many of the older esoteric teachings which (having studied them) are remarkably akin to what science is digging up. The three major western religions, all very much Piscean age in their emphasis and spiritual teachings, will begin to crumble. This will be the end of the world as we have known it, Armageddon. But it won’t be the end of us, we will survive to find enlightenment outside this limited view which has had people killing each other over the fine print of the very same God’s word.

It is no wonder that the extraterrestrial or UFO phenomena has really not been properly investigated by the scientific community and has been mired in government secrecy. My grandmother told me a story about listening to the radio show, “War of the Worlds,” when it came out. She said people were running down the street screaming. And there were actual suicides, people throwing themselves out of buildings because they not only believed they were being invaded by aliens, but people were so terrified by the very idea of alien creatures. People are frightened of other human beings from different races, imagine an alien race dropping down from the sky. Who would choose to believe this? And of course the government would want to cover it up. It takes away their power to protect their people if some alien race can swoop down and do experiments on their people and they can do nothing to protect those people. How does it benefit any government to acknowledge they have no power to stop these attacks?

For me the lamest arguement against the visitation of extraterrestrial beings is a common one that goes something like this: “Well, if they are visiting us, then why don’t they land on the whitehouse lawn and meet with the president to prove to us they’re really here.”

Here are the flaws in this arguement. 1. If they are advanced enough to come here from another universe, dimension, time or place in our universe then we are by comparison extremely primitive compared to them and potentially dangerous. Do our scientists tap the alpha wolf of a pack on the shoulder and ask, “Uhm, excuse me Mr. Alpha wolf would it be OK if our peeps here tagged some of your pack, and maybe did a little experimenting on them so we could get a better idea of what you guys are all about?”

If any scientist was stupid enough to try that, not only would the alpha wolf not understand the scientist, chances are the wolf would rip the guys face off and eat his guts for breakfast.

I’m pretty sure if an alien race came to earth, they would want to observe us first, make sure we weren’t violent and irrational. If  however we were intelligent and civilized enough to negotiate with, they might then make some kind of contact with our government. But after observing us for as little as a week, it would be clear we were naturally hostile, violent and unpredictable kind of like a wild animal.

We invaded Iraq because we thought they had weapons of mass destruction. What would we try to do if we knew without a doubt our people were being abducted, abused, tortured, experimented on, and who knows what else? Wouldn’t we demand our government kill these evil aliens?

Answer: Yes.

We don’t let other humans torture and kill without repercussions. We certainly wouldn’t let some creepy alien race do it for purposes of their personal edification.

And number 2) Has anybody every considered we are being treated in the same way we treat animals? Perhaps we are an experiment to one or more alien races, and part of the experiment is observing us, the way we do animals in the wild, with as little meddling as possible. Perhaps, they don’t want to be found out! Maybe they don’t land on the white-house lawn because they don’t see us as equals.

Wow, imagine that!  A creature in the universe who is actually more advanced and thinks they are smarter than us!

Now back to the theological question raised by alien life. I’m sure our universe is teeming with it. And besides finding life on other planets, I’m pretty positive life from out there has found us. There is too much evidence, too many witnesses, too many mass sightings and too much bizarro activity to keep pretending. Something is going on, and it has been for a long time. The shapes of the crafts have changed from saucers to triangular lights, but there are far too many credible sightings and physical evidence from witnesses to poo poo.

I recently saw a case of two woman with a young boy who witnessed a UFO many years prior. The woman who got out of the car showed signs of severe radiation poisoning and was hospitalized 3 times for this, and isolated to the basement of the hospital with a hazmat sign posted outside her door. The other woman had milder radiation poisoning. She had remained in the car. The boy had the least since he was not only in the car, but away from the windows.  According to the doctor who treated the woman for radiation poisoning the other woman and boy were shielded from the radiation due to the metal of the car. The boy was most shielded because he was under the dashboard. I guess the glass of the car allowed some radiation to spill through. 

And back to the theological question of extraterrestrial life:

It’s my belief there is no creator type of God, but rather an infinite energy that is God/Goddess/Higher power. It has no gender and is actually simultaneously in everything, and everyone, joining all of the universe together in a giant web of energy. And when we die, we rejoin the core of this energy, get recycled through a process of co-creation, where we are active participants in designing our next lifetime in order to learn and grow.

It’s my belief that as pieces of this divine being, we are each attempting to individuate through various lifetime, and like roots from a plant, our souls are in search of the water of knowledge which we each bring back like dutiful ants to our source the God/Goddess energy, or the infinite, which is like a multifaceted diamond with many faces and areas to reflect upon for deeper connection.

Now back to my point about the end of the Piscean age and the earnest beginning of the Aquarian one. The Piscean age was about sacrifice, martyrdom, selflessness all as necessary tools to master for spiritual development. Its my belief that in the Aquarian age, being connected to the whole of creation/the Universe and personal individuation will be the main themes of how we get to the next step in our collective evolution.

Science will play a major role in how we come to see both the connection between us and all things, and in our own uniqueness. Actually, I have the feeling that science itself will become fodder for spiritual revelations and confirm very ancient ideas like the old stand by, “As above, so below.” Which is really an ancient description of a fractal and the idea that we have everything available to us to unravel the mysteries of ourself and the universe if we just pay unbiased attention. Another ancient model which seems very prescient is the Kabbalah or Tree of Life which is a very elegant, simple and poetic way of describing creation. 

In it there are two pillars of creation. One side feminine the other masculine. Beyond the pillars is the unknowable region of GOD which is a genderless, unfathomable beingness called Kether on the Tree of Life, the Abyss beyond the two pillars or dual nature of our universe. It is oneness where we are connected directly to God/Goddess through our higher-self. It is pure energy, beyond our brain’s comprehension (it is a place unbound by the laws of our universe and our dualistic order). Our higher mind, our soul, our higher-self is able to go to touch this sacred space beyond space-time, beyond the laws that govern our universe or multiverse but if one tries to understand it or make sense of it, all knowing of it disintegrates. It’s like trying to carry a patch of air in your hand while diving under water. All you are left with is the knowing, the feeling. But Kether can not be brought back here it is a vibration too high and powerful for thick slow moving Malkuth (the final earthly plane on the Tree of Life) which is where we live and why we don’t remember our life inbetween lives and most of us don’t remember our other lives which are washed clean in the energy of Kether.

Weird…

I wrote a post last night and put it up but it disappeared. And I can’t find it! It was very long and complex and had a follow up. I found the follow up but not the first half. This makes me sad. I guess I’ll answer some readers and get back to this subject later.

Answering A Reader (Lori)…

From Lori:

Lori

Hi Denise, this is going back a few posts, but can you explain the difference between “early-degree” and later-degree” Virgos (or any sign). Did you mean degrees as in the chart (for example, when you did my chart last month there is a 23 degrees right by my sun, but a 13 degrees on the outside of the circle right by my sun sign). Or did you mean early or late by whether they were early or late in the sign, as in the case of Virgo, born closer to Leos (say August 24) or born closer to Libras (say September 19? Hope my question makes sense.

Hi Lori,

I’m glad you brought that up. I’ve been meaning to clear this up for awhile now. OK, so early degree means the earlier you are born in a sign. For example if you are born September 1, you would be an early degree virgo because the sign changes August 23. You’re Sun would be under 10 degrees. If your birthday fell in the middle of the sign it would be mid-degree and late degree would mean late in the sign. If your Sun has a 23 degree near it, you are a later degree Virgo.

Early is 0-10, Mid is 11-20 and late is 21-29. So you see you are not super late in your sign. In fact the negative Pluto aspect I mentioned in that overview would have already hit you off and on in 2005-2006. The positive side of that Pluto transit will come later.

In terms of the 23 next to your sun and the 13, it could be one is the degree and the other the seconds. The degree will have a little circle next to it and the degree a ‘ next to it. If your sun is actually at 13 degrees then you would have felt this transit before 2000 and the positive Pluto aspect will be coming up sooner.

Hope this makes sense if not, just post your birthday and I’ll clear it up for you.

Do you believe we are alone?

Answering Readers…

The first question comes from Sinead. I actually have a half-written post from about a month ago that I never finished regarding this subject. I’ll have to post it later.

Sinead704

Hi Denise: Did you ever hear of 12/21/2012 being the end of the world or possibly earth changing? Thanks, cusious about it astrologically…

Hi Sinead,

Yes, I have heard this because it’s when the Mayan calendar runs out. People have speculated that it signals the end of the world. The Mayans broke segments of time into worlds, kind of like western astrology does via ages. However they used different language to describe this then we do. Instead of ages like the Taurus age, the Aries age, the Pisces age (which we are in the tale end of) and the coming Aquarius age, they used the term world and they paired it up with animals and animal Gods who had significance to their culture. 

The fact that their calendar ends December 21, 2012 could mean a lot of things. Perhaps they just calculated their calendars until they ran out of steam figuring they would get to what was beyond 2012 when the time came. Or they saw that as the pole has shifted backwards through the zodiac, in our recorded time from Taurus all the way through to current Pisces, with Pisces being the last sign, and perhaps for them a similar astrological configuration symbolizing the last sign, the pole then goes past the last western sign (and maybe their version of a last sign) to point toward Aquarius. Either they saw this a quandary to figure out later, or as some have stated the end of all worlds. As we are currently living in the last sign in the grand procession of ages before going past the final sign of Pisces, they may have had a system that mirrored ours and perhaps this is when (in their system) the pole shifts completely toward the next sign.

Some have speculated that the end of all worlds means a vibrational shift that would happen at this time, others Armageddon.

Also take into consideration this date falls on winter solstice, traditionally an ending of one year as the God dies and is reborn and beginning of a new year. It could be very simply that they were forecasting the end of their own culture and the demise of the world they had known, sort of like the bible has done. Of course with global warming, an economic depression and wars raging all over the globe it doesn’t seem that far off to imagine the literal interpretation to be accurate.

It’s my belief we will experience a period of purging and destruction that will be followed by a new well spring of humanity, which hopefully will be (and I believe it will be) a collective evolutionary shift toward greater enlightenment at the end of the storm.

Let’s face it, we don’t seem to learn much from love, peace, and roses. We seem to need a little butt kicking to get us straight from time to time. I wish it weren’t so, but it seems for the majority of us, we learn through loss and hard times not through appreciation of what we have. Our lower tendency is toward greed, which we don’t always even know we are exhibiting. For instance we have plenty of food, shelter, clothing, a loving family, a nice home, a good car, a wonderful job and we wish for a bigger house, more money, more power, etc. It’s not necessarily a bad thing, it pushes us to be bigger and better than we are, it’s often called ambition. But the negative side of this means we aren’t truly present in our lives appreciating all the good we have and learning from it. Some of us have the ability to do so, but most of us have a motto more akin to that old Rolling Stones song, “I can’t get no satisfaction.” Personally, I liked the Devo version better, but then I’m a dork for Devo.

I’ll re-read the post I was writing about the Mayan calendar ending and put it up in the next few days.

Sally Herr

Perhaps you have answered this question previously. What is you sense of conspiracy theories regarding 9/11? Thanks. Sally

Hi Sally,

I think I did answer this in a previous post, but it’s fine. It’s my intuitive feeling that the Bush administration knew about what was going to happen on 9/11 and there was a conscious decision not to interfere, but rather exploit the situation to further the neo-con agenda. This was my first initial feeling the day of the event, despite some friends rushing to say that it was actually planned by the Bush administration. I did not have that feeling. Of course facts have come out which were documented in Michael Moore’s film confirming my feeling. I don not feel or believe explosive devices were already in place in the towers. The heat from the fuel, and the poor upkeep on the flame retardant material that was supposed to cover the metal skeleton of the buildings, allowed the metal to bend in on itself, causing the weight to collapse the buildings.

The fact that invading Iraq had been a neo-con objective since the last war and an excuse was needed to justify breaking the Genova convention, I believe was why the events of 9/11 were allowed to take place. Why else would there be a stand down order issued? Besides the long standing friendship with the Bin Laden family, which is why they were the only people allowed to fly besides our president who never touched ground. When we needed him most he was playing chicken in the sky.

I’m not saying there wasn’t a conspiracy of exploitation, willful ignorance, and apathy. I just don’t believe they went as far as planting the bombs and ordering the terrorism. The terrorism was inevitable if one looked the other way, and that’s what they did. In that way I do believe they were co-conspirators in waiting for the shoe to drop, so they could use it to whack their enemies.

Id

aha …….. mercury retrograde these sort of things happen. yesterday I spilled liquid on my laptop ( first time ever and hopefully the last ) first thing I did is turned it upside down, unplugged the power cord and held the power button till it shut off. after that I took a few paper towels kept them between the screen and moniter and left the computer upside down. Turned it on today mornings and it’s working fine. keys are a bit sticky but freeing up… ………. dont ask me what I spilled on it and I do not drink milk not after I was weaned away

Hi Id,

Urggg! Mercury retrograde! It’s enough to drive a person crazy. Have you noticed people also drive erratically during Mercury Retrograde? I’ve seen more near misses and accidents during those periods then any other time. I think your right about the missing post. Hope your computer is OK. 

Hopeandaplan

Hi Denise, Mercury retrograde. I’ve lost calls and emails this week. I had a question about the increase in autism. Do you have any theories or any insights through readings you may have done with families of autistic children? Thanks!

Hi Hope and a Plan,

I’ve done research about autism because of my pregnancy, and of course, my now one year old daughter. It has always been my feeling that it will turn out to be environmental toxins. For awhile people were concerned about Mercury in vaccines, but that was removed about 10 years ago, and the incidents of autism have continued to soar and have actually gotten worse. The anecdotal stories of people noticing their kids (mostly boys get autism) exhibiting the signs shortly after vaccination made me spread my daughter’s shots out because I felt it wasn’t so much the vaccination as perhaps overloading a baby with too many things to try and fight off, and perhaps for babies (especially boys because of the x chromosome and the fact that this makes them biologically weaker health wise) who are already dealing with toxicity, a bunch of vaccinations that overload their immune system is enough to set the autism ball rolling. 

I know some scientists think it is genetic, but I have a feeling it will turn out to be a number of toxins, and could also be further complicated and linked to the breakdown in our immune system caused by exposure to more UVB rays then ever before. 

grace43

((hugs)) I think this happens to everyone at one time or another. Pres. Obama is asking everyone to contact him with ideas at change.gov. Do you think he actually reads these emails and uses the ideas? If he does will our Congress also actually start listening to us? That will be a nice switch. Once I wrote a letter to my Congresswoman and she wrote me back that she was doing everything she could to stop people like me. I have had better luck with my Senators, but I really feel things would be different if they actually read their mail instead of their employees.

Hi Grace,

I bet he would read an e-mail if it had a great idea. I’m sure he has other people fish through them first. That’s a pretty cool thing to hear though. I wasn’t aware he’d put that out there.

Best wishes and many blessings to all of you,

Denise

Some Clarification (kind of answering readers)

I just wanted to clarify some stuff I wrote about. I’m not sure if it made sense or not. Grace mentioned she didn’t believe that the aliens or inter/extra-dimensional beings were necessarily superior to us. I agree, and I also don’t think we are superior to any other animal on the planet.

It’s interesting to note that ancient Celtic lore about the Faerie people was very similar to recent alien abduction stories. Also it was said that no one could understand the motivations of the Faeries, they don’t play by our rules which are very similar to the stories of people abducted by aliens.

For all we know we could be one giant science experiment for one group of alien/extra-dimensional peeps, or we’re some kind of zoo. Who knows. It doesn’t really matter other than we can’t possibly understand their motivations. From descriptions people have given of abductions the gray types are very unemotional and have an ant-like group mind sort of thing about them. Then their are the Nordic ones which are more akin to the stories we associate with the Faerie people. Whether they are extra-terrestrial, extra-dimensional or some version of us in the future coming back we really can’t know. But Grace is right, just because they have superior technology does not mean they are better then us. Just like we are not better than a gorilla, just different.

As a matter of fact the more scientists have researched animal intelligence the more they have found many animals to be surprisingly brilliant. Ravens and crows are supposed to be as intelligent as dogs and are excellent tool users. Supposedly Border Collie’s are as smart as chimps, and can understand about 200 words, and commands after just one use. There are many others, like dolphins who among other things can recognize themselves in the mirror, besides us, elephants and chimps this isn’t a really common quality. Anyway, you get my point.

The 2012 thing is pretty scary, not because of the grand cross, those happen a lot, all the time actually. They aren’t fun but they are pretty common. It’s because the Mayan calendar literally stops and calls that date the end of all worlds. Kind of creepy. Terrance McKenna was of the mind that it was going to be some sort of dimensional shift. Some have thought it was when the pole shift would happen, although the pole shift has been going on now for a while and is likely going to continue on its slow steady course. I’ll have to run a chart for that date and do more research. I’ve kind of resisted it because I guess I didn’t really want to know especially if it truly was fated so long before we could do anything about it. It seems unfair and I usually focus on the intersection of fate and free will, the area where we can control our destiny if we choose to do so. The only thing to me that fits with the end of the world happening on that day exactly, especially having been forecasted so long ago by the Mayan’s is potentially a huge comet or asteroid hitting the planet that day that the Mayan’s had some kind of astronomical information about which we don’t yet  have.

There are technologies which have been lost over time, some relatively recently discovered such as indoor plumbing; turns out the Minoans (and I think the Romans may have imported some aspects of this with their group bath house situations) not only had it, but also multiple story buildings. The Roman’s also had the multi-story technology, but it wasn’t as sophisticated from what I’ve read. All of this was pretty recently uncovered by archaeologists; so anyone poo-pooing the idea that the ancients were sophisticated technologically need only to think about that, and realize we didn’t discover they had this technology until the past 15 years or so. 

And I realized today after hearing it on the news that Obama’s going to be sworn in at noon. I remember thinking this was the most logical time, but was given the time of 2 PM and ran a chart for that time instead. I’m going to put in the new time, and do analysis of his inauguration and what it means for the country for the next post. And also rectify Lincoln’s chart and the comparison between both of them again.

I really wonder if Obama is Lincoln re-incarnated. It kind of makes sense. Lincoln was never able to finish the job and Obama has so much in common with him in terms of their career paths. Although, of course, Obama might have used Lincoln as a role model which could explain this aspect of his life. But I don’t know. There is a feeling about Obama, besides him being tall and skinny, and the opposite sign of Lincoln, something about his coolness and great oratory ability that seems very Lincon-esk.

On the subject of both England and the US going bankrupt that Gwen asked in a post, when my father-in-law told me he was voting for Bush the first time around I  said to him, “He’s going to bankrupt this country just like he’s done with every company he headed.” I think Obama is going gray already trying to figure a way out of this financial mess. I’ll have to meditate more on this and get back to you though. But I feel we are teetering that way right now. We are in so much debt to China and now they are doing all of our manufacturing, it will be very hard to extricate ourselves from this mess. I will do some readings about this though and a specific post about this issue over the next week.

Well, Happy Inauguration everyone! It’s a new era. Let’s make it a better one by staying involved. As we can all see politics are not something that happen far away on a hill that have nothing to do with us personally. What goes on in Washington or in my case Sacramento because I live in CA, affects us personally from our retirement (thank GOD and Harry Reid that Social Security didn’t end up invested in the stock market) to our children’s education to our health care, to our jobs.

Our lives are directly and indirectly effected by politics and public policy from the moment we are born. From the opportunities we get in terms of education, to the whether we will be taken care of in our old age. I’m so happy to see people getting involved and the word apathy considered no longer cool.

Best wishes and many blessings to all!

Denise

Happy Inauguration!

Today felt more like New Years then New Years day did to me. It was really very moving. And inspired me to feel that we have again began to walk the right path, the one going forward. We’ve spent the last eight going backwards and imploding. I remember the Bush inauguration, boy was it different! Instead of their being over 2 million people gleefully wanting to see the President sworn in and people openly weeping with joy, the street that Bush traveled down was blocked off because there were so many protesters, many of whom were throwing eggs and various other rotten fruits and vegetables at his limo. When I think about that compared to the joy and hopefulness of this new inclusive administration that actually thought to have an open inauguration ball for the people, a president who was put in office by the good people of this land instead of corporate America, I feel pride in humanity. There are so many truly good hearted people, problem is most of them are not CEO’s or in the halls of power. But I feel with Obama we have one of our own to represent us. 

I wanted to say there were some really interesting posts today and I want to get to them but will do so tomorrow. Today I want to focus on the coming administration and the chart I had for Lincoln which was wrong, and now righted, comparing it again to Obama. And also the real time that inauguration took place and what it means in terms of its resonance with the next 4 years.

Looking at these charts I see even more in common then the wrong chart for Lincoln I had. Of course, Lincoln’s birth time might be off, all I could find was a reference to him being born around sun-up and also a website that had guessed his birth time at 6:54 AM probably based on this old folk lore, but it doesn’t matter because it’s close enough to a solar chart to tell us what we need to know anyway. 

There are all sorts of karmic indicators between the two men born about 150 years apart. It’s quite remarkable and seems to imply that if Obama isn’t the reincarnation of Lincoln then he is meant to finish what Lincoln started in terms of the inclusion of all people into the political process.

Here are just a few bizarre examples of the karma indicated in the charts, Obama’s rising is conjunct Lincoln’s Sun and Rising, Barack’s part of fortune is conjunct Lincoln’s Neptune and Saturn in Sagittarius, Barack’s south node is conjunct Lincoln’s Sun and rising. The south node and Saturn are both the main indicators (and the moon as well) in regards to past lives. Here we see that the south node, where would have left of in a past life is directly conjunct the rising and Sun of Lincoln, add Uranus to this conjunction, further emphasizing the Aquarian (humanitarian, global, broad minded, highly idealistic) direction that Obama not only has had in his previous life (south node) but is going toward in his current lifetime. Uranus rules Aquarius, giving Obama’s north node an Aquarian flavor. Now that’s pretty connected, but then look at Saturn, another big karmic indicator.

Obama’s Saturn is conjunct Lincoln’s part of fortune and his Moon. Again a serious karmic connection. And Lincoln’s Saturn and Neptune are directly conjunct Obama’s part of fortune. So literally, Lincoln set in motion laws and karma that directly benefitted Obama, allowing Obama to continue Lincoln’s mission of bringing idealism, hope and morality to the office of the Presidency.

Let’s not forget, not only was Lincoln coming into office while slavery, a moral outrage, was in force but also about 40 years from the Seminole war/trail of tears — the genocide of the Native American people, especially the Seminole tribes during Jackson’s administration, the Creek being one of the hardest hit. I’m sure there were plenty of Americans who didn’t like the direction the country was going in, morally ambigious (to be generous) and morally reprehensable to be more accurate. Let’s not forget the movement of people like John Brown, Harriet Tubman and a host of others who were not only against slavery, but saw it as evil. And here comes Lincoln, he played it pretty cool during the election, but his moral objection to this atrocity was so great, he was willing to push the country to war in order to correct our course. Ironically, Lincoln became president in 1861 and Obama was born exactly 100 years later in 1961. I could go on with the similarities between these two men, but I already have in a previous post and what I’m seeing now with the correction is only that these two men are more alike then I imagined.

Ok, a couple more things, their Suns are in opposite signs and their Moons make an opposition (despite it being out of sign it is still only 5 degrees apart). Especially when the Sun is involved in an opposition there are a lot of similar qualities between the two signs because when the Sun is in Leo, the Earth is in Aquarius and vice-versa. There are many other things that strike me, such as Lincoln’s Mars in Libra and Obama’s Mars in the 7th house, both fighters for justice and equality.

Obama’s love life is much better though then poor Lincoln’s who was attracted to very self-absorbed women. If Obama was Lincoln in a past life, he seems to have figured that lesson out because he has a much more harmonious love life than Lincoln did. Obama is attracted to women (in terms of long term love relationships) who are strong, dramatic, romantic and nurturing. Can’t say the same for Lincoln, he was stuck with Venus in Aries in the first, a double whammy. I bet Mary Todd was violent both verbally and physically, full of anger and selfish — these qualities may have been considered insane in a woman back then when women were supposed to put aside their own egos and support their husbands. Mary Todd probably tried to do this, but she wanted to be the center of attention and be in control. More than likely she resented her husband and the world for the unfairness women endured, having to sublimate her own needs and ambitions for her family.

Now let’s look at the inauguration chart and see what it says about the tone of the next 4 years:

 

Wow! Can you see all that Aquarius and Pisces at the top of the chart! Despite the Moon being void of course, which in my opinion can make anything possible and isn’t necessarily a bad thing, there is a real focus on idealism, humanitarianism, the greater good and sacrificing for the good of the whole. The Sun is conjunct Mercury, Jupiter and the north node all in Aquarius in the 10th, meaning there will be a renewed sense of our common humanity, a focus on communication and through communication we will find our greatest fortune and direction.

It’s interesting to note that Aquarius rules TV and new technology. The inclusion of the “Neighborhood Ball,” that was both televised and interconnected with parties around the world via the internet and text messaging is not just a fluke with this administration. We will see Obama pushing and using new technology to interconnect humanity and to create a greater sense of community, things he’s already done but this won’t stop now that he’s become president, from this chart it looks like this will be expanded upon. He really will be open to any good idea no matter where it comes from with all that Aquarius — it means he will be thinking outside the box and won’t care about an ideology being condoned by the elite but rather will truly get inspiration, motivation and problem solving from all sorts of people.

So if you have any good ideas, seriously, e-mail him. He will pay attention. One of the things I loved was after the “Neighborhood Ball,” was his interview with a random woman reporter who I’ve never seen before, and I”m sure for her this was a huge break to get to interview the new president. He actually honestly thanked her.

He is an amazing mix of dignity, humility and confidence that is so rare. Can you imagine Bush thanking someone like this unknown entertainment reporter? No, he wouldn’t even talk to her or know her name. If she bothered to shout a question at him coming off a helicopter, Bush would probably have responded to her with something like, “No comment, Leggy.”

Doesn’t it feel like you were finally freed after being at a really crappy job for 8 years chained to a desk with only a naked buzzing florescent light bulb dangling over your head? And now you just took a long hot shower and are drinking a cup of cocoa by a fire in some nice cozy cabin? Bush being gone is such a relief, it’s hard to even believe it’s real. I’m wondering if I’m going to wake up tomorrow only to find its all been one amazing dream. It almost seems like some cheesy Hollywood movie where the good guys win. It kind of restores ones faith in goodness.

I want to mention all the Pisces in the 11th house which reinforces Obama’s message of giving back to the community and encouraging people to serve others for the good of the whole. This will also continue to be a main theme throughout his administration, not just a campaign promise or stump speech anomaly.

There are a couple of troubling things, one is Neptune making a waning square to the moon (which is void of course) involving the 7th and 11th houses, signifying there maybe unrealistic expectations placed on Obama’s administration. The Moon in Scorpio going through the 7th house of the public would indicate that people may expect him to fix the war, financial crisis and make nice-nice with the rest of the world either unrealistically fast or out of just plain old delusion.  With Pluto in Cap transiting the 8th house, the indication is major transformation and shake up related to banking, financial, corporate and halls of power. Obviously this is already showing with our failing economy and electing the first African American President who implicit in his color alone, has shaken up the Washington establishment and re-defined what a candidate not only can look like but what his message can be. Pluto in Capricorn however indicates there is more transformation in corporations, big business, financial institutions and wall street ahead. And with Mars in Capricorn in the 9th Obama will have to contend with some infighting among allies on how to deal with the world’s economic crisis. There will also be resentment toward the US by other countries who will rightfully blame us for causing this problem. However, unfairly Obama will have to deal with some very angry foreign leaders who will see us as the reason their economies are faltering. I don’t see this as being a warlike sort of thing, just heated debate among friends on how to solve this problem. I can see why some astrologers were freaking out over the potential for Obama’s assasination for the obvious reasons but also because Pluto is in the 8th house. But in my opinion and my gut, Pluto there (especially because it’s in Cap) is related to the world economic structure, financial and business worlds not Obama himself. These institutions are going to have serious trouble, many more major corporate institutions, banks, and businesses will become defunct. This will not be a time of greed, over-zealous capitalism and giant profits.

It will be a time of reckoning, spiritual evolution, appreciating what is truly important, each other and helping one another. It will be the best of times and the worst of times for big business, investors and a lot of people who may still potentially loose their jobs. However, with Taurus rising it does look like Obama will focus on creating new jobs for people. Perhaps the creation of re-education programs geared toward not only technology and service, but for working with the elderly and dying, will be encouraged through this administration.

Despite the financial sour pickle we are going to eat and the release of information (probably within the next day or so) that will make the market start to free fall some more, we will be a better, stronger, wiser, kinder people. Also with Saturn in the 5th, the stock market will have the squeeze put on it both in terms of new laws and regulations and also its numbers continuing to constrict rather then bloom.

I think we may see the end of capitalism as we have known it. But once new laws (which there will likely be many international as well) are put into place, there stock market will recover. And with Saturn being in Virgo, down the road the next set of stocks to get  hit will be health care related stuff as it seems Obama will restructure that as well. 

OK, enough of my rambling. Please post your comments and questions. You all, always amaze me with your insights. I’m fortunate to have such a brilliant group of people who bother to peer inside my nutty brain.

Best wishes and many blessings to all of you,

Denise 

Oh! I forgot to mention another kind of cool thing. Obama is the 44th president, that’s a karmic master number!

The Economy: Help Me – Help You!

I know there are going to be a bunch of financial questions coming up. The stock market, the US chart and the inauguration chart all indicate we are still heading for more disaster. Which reminds me, there was another inauguration after the inauguration because the first was flubbed and I guess that has some legal relevance. I want to find out when the second oath was taken so I can run a chart on that. It should be interesting, perhaps will tell us more about the deeper issues which will come up during the next 4 years. 

So for any of you out there who want to ask about stocks or the market please find either an incorporation, start date or start trading date and the name of your stock in full, not the ticker thing. 

I believe it was Steve who asked about Lehman Brothers but he seemed to have trouble finding info on the start date. I will try to do some research and post about that company if I’m able to run a chart. Otherwise if anyone else  has information about Lehman Brothers please post it for him so I can run a chart.

Enjoy the warm glow of hope and unity, it won’t be long before the sharks start biting again.

Best wishes and many blessings to all,

Denise

Answering Readers… (Lehman Brothers & Goldman Sachs)

Thanks everyone for posting the 2nd inauguration time. I’ll run a chart for it over the weekend and post it with analysis next week at the latest. There were a lot of really interesting comments, many of which will probably take a whole post to answer so bare with me as I address them over the next week. Don’t be discouraged if you don’t see your question answered immediately, I will get to it.

Andrew had asked about Lehman Brothers in an earlier post. I asked him if he had an incorporation date in response to his first question as to whether Lehman Brother’s was going to get out of bankruptcy. The little bit of research I did to find an incorporation date tells me Lehman Brother’s has already filed chapter 11 and is in liquidation so it seems pointless to go much more into this but I’ll post a couple of charts related to them. One was in my database, the other chart was based on a readers information which I couldn’t find corroborated anywhere. The problem with a lot of these financial institutions is that they morph and change so much and depending on how big of a change they make, it can mean they end up with a new chart. For instance if you were married and did a chart for that marriage but then got divorced and ended up re-marrying your husband, the second wedding date would be the new chart for your marriage. The original marriage chart would not be useful except to speak about the past. So its not easy chasing down all these companies and their chameleon like incorporation, merger, going public, etc. dates. And depending on the issue at hand, one of the company charts might apply more than another one. 

Here are the Lehman Brother’s charts I ran:

OK, based on the incorporation date chart given by a reader, Pluto ripped them a new one right through their 7th, legal issues, partnerships, open enemies, then through the 8th house of death, rebirth, investments, and other people’s money and then continued to rip through the 9th which would be all things foreign. That’s a lot of Pluto conjuncting almost everything in their chart for a long time, really at the start of this incorporation date. They should have consulted an astrologer! Not an easy road to hoe there. It would have been surprising if they could have actually stayed in business. It’s sort of amazing they made it through all of that according to this chart until Pluto finally hit Neptune in the 9th exactly at their time of bankruptcy. Of course Neptune rules loss, and death, the 9th would extend the bankruptcy to any foreign division and they would have not only lost their investors money here in the US but all over the world. Yikes, that was not a good time to incorporate at all.

Now the other chart is not nearly as bad, the one from my database but when Pluto hit the cusp of the 6th house, which should have been toward the end of December if memory serves, then it would have been clear there was no saving the situation and people would have been laid off and the doors would have started to close. However it does look like when that Pluto opposition happens and actually finishes off the company, investors will get some money back through the liquidation process. It will be less of course then they would have gotten but at least there will be some pay out to people.

I’ve also had a question about Goldman Sachs so here are again 2 charts, one for the newest change over from an investment bank to a holding bank and the other I think is their incorporation chart. Both are important but the newest it seems will help save them in the long run. 

The 1999 chart is an unfortunate one and as the planets transited through it, shows how and why the company was bound to fail. With Neptune and Uranus conjunct the south node in the 8th house, they were apt to be delusional, risky and repeat stupid mistakes they had made in the past. That Neptune there is a hard one to work with as it really indicates loss of investors’ money, and in Aquarius, its from being too unconventional. Uranus there shows they were willing to take too many risks with their investors money on ideas that were ungrounded in reality. When Pluto went over their Moon in the 6th this would have caused things to come to light, collapsing their reputation and making people pull their money out of the company. There would have been tremendous fear at that time. More then likely a lot of employees were also laid off at that time as well. Interesting to note that the Moon rules their chart and also real estate. Pluto in excessive and reckless Sagittarius (no offense to Sagittarius people this is the negative side here I’m talking about) hitting the emotional moon which rules not just their real estate ventures, but their public persona and reputation changed dramatically, this triggered them to go into freak out survival mode. They then filed in court to become a holding company not an investment company thereby changing their fate.

The new chart shows Pluto going through their first house which means they are trying to give themselves a big make-over and lure the powerful back into their web. It looks to me like they will find a way to survive this storm in the long run. It may take them awhile to build their momentum back, but by changing to a holding company they probably saved themselves from doom.

OK, more tomorrow! Keep posting comments! I love hearing from everyone.

Best wishes and many blessings,

Denise

Obama’s 2nd Oath

I ran a chart for the 2nd oath taken by Obama. However, according to the post by Hopeandaplan, legally Obama became president at noon on the 20th. It seems this would be a chart related to how his neigh sayers and enemies will deal with him over the next 4 years. I think this because it was only for them that this second oath took place, so that no one could claim that because the oath was flubbed it didn’t count. Plus the justice who flubbed the oath was someone whom Obama had opposed. 

So let’s look at it and see.

With Mercury ruling the chart due to the Virgo ascendant and it being Mercury retrograde, which is probably why this happened to begin with (if something legal occurs during Mercury retrograde it inevitably has to be redone or if one goes on a trip during Mercury retrograde it means you will return to that place again later so it’s not always a bad thing), but getting back to the point, Mercury is in Capricorn in the 5th. I’d say there will be a lot of criticism and judgement from the other side about how to deal with the stock market and the financial disaster we’re in.

Be prepared to hear a lot of dramatic exaggeration of how his plan will ruin everything if put into place (by the Republicans) with Mercury being in the 5th house.  There will be an unfair amount of expectation for Obama to be perfect, and his critics will be very nitpicking and harsh with Saturn in Virgo in the 1st house. Expect his greatest criticism to come from the fiscally privileged with Moon in Sagittarius. Those corporations who have shipped jobs over seas, taking them off American soil. This could be because of new laws Obama will try to put in place making it difficult, if not impossible, for companies to exploit developing nations in leu of paying a proper wage to the American worker and keeping jobs here.

With Uranus and Venus conjunct in Pisces in the 7th house squaring the Moon in the 4th and opposing Saturn in the 1st, the loss of jobs, money, and passing of new laws pertaining to work, health-care, public service and  the real estate market means richy rich isn’t going to be pleased. There will be some real reform coming from an idealistic compassionate bent with Uranus conjunct Venus in Pisces meaning the Obama administration won’t have the motto, “greed is good,” but rather a motto of, “lifting up your brother, lifts all humanity.” Usually, selfish, greedy people don’t really dig this, too much, and they will be ravenous dogs picking at every tiny little thing they can find to try and show some sort of hole in his ideals.But I don’t think they’ll get far.

The public is going to be overwhelmingly with Obama, all that Aquarius in the 6th house of the regular working person means he will appeal to their issues and needs. He will do a lot to help those people. Also this chart reflects the reform of the health care system coming in his first term of office.

My feeling is Obama will be like Reagan in that any dirt thrown his way will just blow back on those throwing it. He is definitely the man for this big job, and the hope he has inspired alone is worth so much after 8 years of utter storming despair under the Bush administration’s fear and spy tactics. It’s as if we just broke down the Berlin wall again. The last 8 years were as close as we’ve come so far to a Plutocracy.

As a person who was born in the late 60s, this current America seems to be the direct logical step toward the future I was promised as a kid. The idealism, enlightenment and humanitarianism of that time has come to fruition and feels like a road that one side of us have been walking since this country began. On the other side of that is the old aristocracy, the Queen’s subjects who came over with their Manifest Destiny, murdering the Native Americans, trading slaves and genuinely feeling they were better than everyone else because they were more prosperous.

America it seems has this double, almost schizophrenic personality, the one of Thomas Paine, full of idealism, humanitarian outcry, a desire for personal freedom, a belief in intrinsic rights of mankind and unshakable faith in the goodness of the human heart. And the other religious zealot side, and not just any kind of religious zealot, but the kind who actually believe they are so much better than everyone else, and their religion is so righteous, that God has given them the right to enslave, steal, lie, cheat and murder “heathen” Native Americans. Whole villages of Native Americans were murdered and by accounts horrendous war crimes committed such as cutting off Native American women’s breasts and throwing them around as a game and raping and murdering both women and children.

This unabashed, disgusting, grotesque narcissistic imperial mind set is the shadow side, the one we don’t teach to our children in school, but it lives on in people like Ann Coulter, Bill O’Reilley, Rush Limbaugh. These vile bottom feeders dig deep into the well of the shadow side of the American psyche, playing the strings of racism, hatred, fear and stupidity.

In my lifetime I have witnessed the tug of war between our better “angels” as Lincoln said and our inner demons. We’ve ping ponged from darkness to light and from light to darkness with the push of a chad. When I was younger I was naive enough to believe that people were becoming more enlightened, and the world was going to just keep getting better and better all the time. But it isn’t that simple, we will always have to fight off are dark side. We must always be vigilant against those who preach hate and masquerade it with long blond hair and a tight mini-skirt up to the Va-Jay-Jay. Those like Ann Coulter who want everyone else to follow the rules in her head, except that she won’t live by them because she’s special. If she were so conservative then where is her husband and 15 kids? I’ve heard it said in passing several times that she believes in “free love,” meaning she likes to sleep around with people who can make her more money. But if she’s so Christian and pure, then doesn’t this go against her belief system? Why people buy her books or pay attention to anything she has to say is beyond me. I wish people would give her the treatment she deserves, silence and a turn of the back. She isn’t worth the touch of my fingers on the keyboard.

Enough rambling….

Best wishes to all,

Denise

Clarification, and History…

I wanted to address this comment from Javahaa. 

javahaaa

Denise and readers, The two strains that began our nation were not ‘idealism’ and ‘religious zealoutry’. They were, in reverse order of importance, religion and capitalism. The earliest and larger settlements , like Jamestown, were capitalistic ventures, sponsored by specific British companies to seek new sources of revenue. Somehow, _that_ isn’t taught in elementary school. I’m no fan of religious zealoutry, but put blame where it is most due. By far, capitalism was the force behind slavery, not religion, and it was the force behind native genocide/displacement. Religion might have been used to buttress it (just as the money powers used it to dupe working/middle-class christians to start voting GOP in the 80s), but if it had not been an extremely profitable institution, it would have been dropped like a hot potato.

Hi Jahavaha,

I have to say that you are both right and wrong in that of course capatilism and greed are the real motivators behind the evils we have visited on other people and cultures. However if you look at the history of the Christian religion, it is blood soaked. One of the greatest genocides of all time was perpetrated by the Catholic church against “witches” and/or “pagans,” (exchange heathen here) most of these women (which turned out to be aproximitely 25% of all european women) were murdered during the burning times. And lets take the middle ages and the Spanish Inquisition where indescribable torture was visited on “witches,” “pagans,” and “heretics.” Granted the church benefited greatly from stealing the land from wealthy women land owners once their husband’s died and they had no protection and were suddenly pronounced “witches,” but people, the vast majority of people who participated in these atrocities believed they were doing God’s work. So to clarify, the people up top maybe motivated by greed, but the masses who do their bidding are motivated by fear.

And yes, religious zealots are to blame for murdering the “heathen,” Indians. Many if not all were motivated by greed, but they used their religion as an excuse, so I ask you what difference this makes? If a religious idealogy can be warped into a weapon of torture and war, is it truly spiritual? Eastern religions have never been used this way, nor did the “heathen,” Indians, or “pagans,” or “witches,” or anyone before the 3 major western religions popped up. I don’t think this is mere coincidence despite arguing with people who were of those religious persuasions for years, there is something intrinsically wrong with a religion that can be used to defile, destroy, murder, rape and torture others. Here’s what it is: Intolerance.

Yes, that’s right. When one believes that they alone have the only answer and control the only freeway to the Almighty, then arrogance, hypocracy and perversion are born. In all other religions (excluding the 3 major western ones) there is a belief that “all Gods are one,” meaning it doesn’t matter what your God looks like or what your religious system is, it’s all the same at the core and should be respected. Heck, in ancient times it was common for people to incorporate other Gods into their pantheon after visiting foreign lands, hence we have Jesus brought to Rome which is the birth place of the New Testament put together by the Roman emperor Constantine who adopted Christianity for its belief in one God for political reasons.

At the time Rome was split in 2, there was Rome and Constantinople, Constantine wanted a religion that reflected his belief that the state should be one unified body and thus gathered together a group of scholars to look over the letters that different Christian sects used in their house gatherings were they would worship. Each group had a different set of letters and interpretations of Christ. Actually, most of the first home churches were started by women, but anyway, up until Constantine the Christians were considered freaks and persecuted for their belief in just one living God who they claimed was the only way to heaven.

Unusual that the Romans persecuted them because historically this new brand of righteous religious zealot willing to be martyred and eaten by lions for angering the ancient Gods was not done before monotheism was introduced into the culture. Also, there may have been a back lash against the Christians as this religion came up while Rome was going down and some may have felt the old Gods were abandoning them for tolerating this group of people who wanted not just to co-exist with the old ways, but to overthrow the old ways and eliminate the old Gods. 

Anyway, Constantine’s scholars actually picked through the different writings attached to the house churches and put together the New Testament. Constantine of course ordered that the Christians stop being persecuted and publicly claimed to become a Christian although it is said that he never actually converted and was heard on his death bed calling to the old Gods. The people whom were closest to Constantine, his soldiers and advisors claimed he had stayed true to his original faith and had used monotheism as a justification for the unification of Rome. It wasn’t long after that Rome entirely fell apart.

In the 1980s papers from the original New Testament were carbon dated at between 50-300 years after the death of Christ. Most thought it closer to 300 years. Even the Catholic church acknowledges this fact. This is significant because even 50 years after His death much of what He did and said would have become legend rather than fact, like playing a really long game of telephone, some of his words and teachings could have been misconstrued, such as that He was the “only son of God,” even the King James version which some have suggested takes liberties with interpretations, He actually never calls himself anything, but the “son of man.”

Since Rome was in desperate need of a saviour and the idea of a living God was very much a part of the culture, this interpretation of Christ’s teachings could be very wrong. Imagine living in a world where the Emperor is a God. Well, some Jewish guy who has some great spiritual ideas really wouldn’t cut it, hence this weird paganization of Christ could have happened. He had to be a living God for that religion to take hold in Rome.

So he may have said he was the only son of God, his Jewish followers may have believed he was the Messiah or just an amazing prophet and wise man, we don’t know for sure because so much of the truth was lost by no one during his lifetime, not him or his immediate flock, writing anything down when it actually happened.

Hope that clarifies things a little.

Best wishes and many blessings,

Denise

Answering Readers…

From Zak:

zak

Southern California has been experiencing a number of smaller earth quakes lately. Should we be concerned that a “big one” is coming?

I’ve been feeling a big earthquake coming but not right away, down the road several years, probably in the next 2-4. I have a feeling this one will be on the San Andres fault and will be between a 7.8 -8.5. It will be here in Southern California. I’d have to meditate on Northern CA, I’ve had the feeling the last few years that a big one would strike there first and then we’d have one a few years later here, but I’d have to be up there to really get a feeling for it and haven’t been in the hood for awhile. I’ll keep you posted as I feel it is getting closer.

And…

I just want to address the last post from Javahaaa first. 

It’s my belief that one can not think outside of the box if one lives inside it. There is a lot of debate about the genesis of the bible, both testaments. It is also true that depending on which side of the fence one is on, information can be read different ways. My research comes from sources outside the traditional framework of the church. I suggest reading Robert Graves very dense and scholarly book called, “The White Goddess.” There are many books I could recommend such as Merlin Stones, “When God was a Woman,” and the research done by Maya Gumbatis and so many others who came from either a feminist or archeological perspective to show the evolution and birth of the western religions. One can name all the types of trees in the forest and not see the actual forest. The details of how each testament was canonized is really not the point. The point is much bigger and if one gets lost in the minutia of information, then one losses the bigger perspective here.

I don’t want to keep going around and around about this, however, it’s not just the Burning Times, the Spanish Inquisition, the entire Middle-ages, the genocide of the Indigenous people from Australia where people were hunted for sport to our Native Americans who walked the Trail of Tears. One can say these atrocities aren’t related to western religion and I’m not being black and white about things here. I’m trying to make the point that the ideology of western monotheism (that means not just Christian but Judaism and Islam) is fundamentally toxic and why so many truly moral and decent people reject it in the form of atheism. It is toxic because these 3 religions who all believe in the same God, believe not just that their God is the only way, but that their interpretation of God is the only way. No one is more guilty (of the 3 of these western religions) then the Christians. And honestly I do think its fair to judge a religion based on its history, just as I would judge a person, an institution, a country or any ideology. An ideology has to work or it is useless to me. If a spiritual ideology is at the root of so much destruction, then one has to question if it embodies the core moral and spiritual values one has, and this is why so many of the most moral people I’ve met are atheists because they stop at the west and don’t bother researching any other form of spiritual teachings. And frankly they don’t need it. They have an intrinsic moral compass that they can always rely on, it’s called: compassion.

As I’ve said before in previous posts, the Creek never murdered the Cherokee because they believed in different Gods. They warred over resources and survival. I don’t think war is ever a good thing, but at least it makes sense to fight over scarce food sources, or over normal human stupidity. I’m sure they performed rights to their Gods before wars and begged for help. But they didn’t go into battle believing they had the divine right to kill anyone because that person was lesser than them. They went to battle for survival, to protect their homes, tribes and families; they went to battle to save face or to gain advantage. And they honored not only the people they killed in battle, but the animals they ate. Both with very elaborate rituals meant to release the souls of the dead to the next world. They would waste nothing of an animal, respecting the animals sacrifice for their survival. The structure of their psyches was shaped by an animate world were everything had value, everything was alive and part of the Creator/Great Spirit. And our consciousness is shaped by the idea that everything is inanimate except us which encourages a skewed narcissistic world view and one where we are superior to everything and can do as we please. We are man vs. nature. Indigenous cultures wouldn’t even know what that meant, it would be as absurd to them as buying land was to the Native Americans.

So I guess what I’m saying is we live in a western culture, and this ideology permeates not only those who are religious, but the way we govern, the structure of our government, our cities, our psyches. We are so enmeshed in these ideas that we can’t look at them objectively. We are literally living in a world created by a disassociation with nature, and look what we get, global warming, toxic waste everywhere. These are not coincidences, we have been at the control of world domination for at least the last 100 years and before us many other western Christian empires (the English, the Spanish, the Portuguese, the Holy Roman Empire).

2000 years of this ideology and we’re about to die off. And yet we’ve been on this planet for over 100,000 years (a conservative estimate) and probably more like 250,000 years. In 1 or 2% of our time here, with the western thought controlling and conquering the world we are on the verge of extinction.

Do you honestly believe this is a coincidence? Don’t you think there is something intrinsically wrong with the way we have been doing things? And don’t you think it’s a little deeper then just Capatalism? What spawned Capatilism? It was invented by the western mind. Would it have sprouted at all if we had remained in balance with the earth and continued to honor all living beings? I’m not saying our own greed and other monkey brain problems don’t get thrown into the mix here, and that we can’t be tricked by are darker natures no matter what period of history or culture, but we managed to keep these in check for a long time, granted not always perfectly, and by no means am I saying life was ideal for all before 2000 years ago, but we had one thing right and that was; we lived in harmony with nature and our environment and didn’t see ourselves as the only living creatures of value to the Creator here on earth.  

I do want to say the 3 major western religions have also brought a lot of good to the world and there are many amazing and exceptionally spiritually evolved souls who use this path toward enlightenment. I’ve met so many people who fit that statement, probably the vast majority, these are the people who despite what the doctorine teaches, choice to believe in other people’s right to free will. These are people who have an internal moral compass which tells them there is something intrinsically wrong with persecuting others for not believing as they do. These are not the martyrs or the saints or the exhalted by their religions. But in my opinion these are the most enlightened members, people who can pick the truth and metaphor out of a book that has been tweaked and translated and within its pages been used to demonize others (like the reference to the ancient Hebrew Goddess Asatarte as Asatorth a demon). The whole thing is so absurd, that God is jealous, punishing and that we are all born with original sin because Eve made a mistake several hundred thousand years ago. All one has to do to eliminate that ridiculous idea (clearly put in place to put the fear of God into people so they could be controlled) is to look at a newborn baby and see how innocent and vulnerable that little being is. If God were truly like the God of the bible then heaven would be a pretty horrible and dysfunctional place. It would be like living with your psycho alcoholic dad on a bender. I really don’t feel God is anything like He/She is portrayed in the Old Testament. And after studying the Kaballah I don’t think any Rabbi does either. Just like most Priests loose their faith. The more one studies the good book, the more one sees the holes and looses faith. It seems the only people who can remain in those faiths are those who filter out the stuff that they intrinsically know doesn’t feel right. And there’s a lot of it in there. 

Here’s just a tiny example of the insanity in the 10 commandments:

 You shall not covet your neighbour’s house; you shall not covet your neighbour’s wife, or male or female slave, or ox, or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.

And then, huh?

I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery;

So being a slave isn’t good, but owning one is A-OK? As long as you don’t covet your neighbors slave then we’re cool. What? That’s just ridiculous.

And that’s just a little tiny mini-quark sized fraction of an example from a cursory look at the 10 commandments. There are even more within the 10 commandments that are insane. 

Anyway, I want to let this go. So I’ve said my peace.

And as I’ve stated I believe any organized religion has the agenda to control people just as a government does. Within any organized religion however one will always find people who are truly spiritual and remarkable; those who use religion as a foundation for their spiritual connection, but are not enslaved by the literal words of their texts. 

P.S. It’s said that Mother Teresa lost her faith in God by the end of her life. This seems to be a common theme for people who are sticklers for the rules set forth in the bible. I think more people would be able to connect with their spirituality if they didn’t feel the only way to do it was through fear of God which is what the Old Testament is all about, and unfortunately it sets the foundation for the New Testament although Christ worked against it with his sermons. I do believe Christ was a remarkable teacher and holy person, I just don’t think he explained how to get from where most people are to where he was, very well. Although that’s what he wanted people to do when he said, “I am the way.” It’s my opinion, he didn’t mean worship me as God, he meant do as I do. I am your example, love everyone. And who could argue with that message?That’s the highest spiritual lesson we can possibly ascend to.

There’s a lot more to talk about including something Juno said about similar dreams. I’m noticing more and more patterns. Interesting that she had a dream about being at Disneyland because I actually took my daughter there for her 1st birthday about a week ago. Anyway, maybe we’ll all share some more simultaneous dreaming.

Best wishes and many blessings,

Denise

Readers Questions & Comments…

Sorry I got carried away there with conversing with Jahavahaa. He is obviously a very intelligent man with a lot of insight.

Anyway, there have been some really interesting posts that I haven’t gotten to. Also I’ve noticed more and more overlap in the dream journal. Have you guys noticed this as well? 

OK, so here goes. The first from:

I dream of Israel too

Hi Denise, well written. I too am Jewish and cannot believe Israel’s mismanagement of world opinion by its behavior in Gaza. I’ve seen more antisemitism this winter than I have ever witnessed in my life. Will there be any sympathy when the cards fall karmically in Israel? I kind of tend to doubt it. Instead people round the world will be cheering, “Good! Filthy Jews, die!” It is almost as though non-Jews are writing the policy in Israel and attributing it to us in order to get us all killed! Hitler in his wildest dreams could not have come up with a more efficient plan to make Jews and Jewry look bad I too have dreams of Israel before she misbehaves in the world theatre. Tell me what this dream from four nights ago means, because it has me terrified: I was here in New York, among tall buildings, and the sky was a very deep, strange, unreal twilight blue. People were pointing with smiles of wonder up at the sky, so I looked. Odd military aircraft were streaking by overhead and all had the Mogen David symbol on them. These were firing missiles down at America. I saw F16s appear and fire back, but deliberately off-target so as not to hit any Israeli aircraft. I asked, “What is going on, why are Israeli jets firing at America?” And a voice from someone in the crowd yelled, “Israel is attacking America!” People began to run screaming in all directions. I continued to look up at this bizarre sight of Israeli jets firing odd streaming missiles through the sky, and American jets either deliberately missing them, or having their return fire shunted aside almost supernaturally. Nothing the US fired touched so much as one Israeli warplane. It was like the US had its hands tied behind its back. Now: a large bridge was prominent in the dream, and among the people fleeing, I saw a man who resembled Ted Kennedy, and thought to myself, “Senator Ted Kennedy; what is he doing here?” I woke up having a very bad feeling off this dream. PS, any commenters who call me a self-hating Jew, Israel is now a shanda fur die goyim. If you really are Jewish, pro-IDF folks, you know exactly what the phrase means. Read it and weep.

Hi I dream of Israel too,

You are so right about all of it. It really is upsetting because in order for Jewish people to always have a safe haven (which is why the UN championed the formation of the state after WWII) the Israeli government really must try extra hard to peacefully co-exist. Yitzhak Rabin was heroic and if only the current group of politicians would take their cues from him and continue his work then not only would Israel be safer but the whole world would be as well. The majority of Israeli and Palestinian people want peace. And both sides deserve this, both sides are human beings who bleed, feel pain and want only to be free and safe.

From what I heard about editorials in Israel, most papers slammed the Israeli government for their actions. So you and I are not the only Jewish people who find their actions repugnant. It’s really the American people who don’t get a balanced, even handed account of things who get upset about this. And a lot of Christians because Israel figures into their final days scenario. They need an Israel so Jesus can come back. But if Israel were to continue the way it was behaving (and I’m not sure what exactly is going on there right now, it’s been out of the news) it wouldn’t be long before one of its neighbors was pushed by its people to drop a nuke on them. Personally, I really don’t want that to happen! So I think if anything you are a self-loving Jew. You want Israel to be a better place with a better government, same can be said for being an American and pointing out our flaws so that we can fix them.

Oh, and your dream! I interpret it to mean that Israel is being self-destructive and putting the US at risk by their behavior. The fact that we made a show of trying to shoot them down, but it wasn’t in earnest, illustrates well, how we’ve dealt with the crisis going on in Gaza. I think your dream may also have a premonitory warning against terrorist backlash as well — the fact that it took place in New York where the biggest attack of the kind here happened. The dream was telling you that the actions of Israel aggressively endangered the US.

As for the reference to Senator Kennedy, perhaps because he’s a very liberal political figure and is in the process of dying, he too isn’t another reiteration of the theme of your dream. (Sorry for the unintended rhyme.) 

(And for the non-Jews if your interested in Yiddish here’s a link that explains the meaning of what I dream of Israel too wrote: http://www.treppenwitz.com/2007/03/a_shanda_fur_di.html)

Next from Tranquilsleep444:

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Just as you predicted, Denise. CNN’s leading headline right now is to brace ourselves for a rough week. From cnn.com: “Market braces for ‘terrible,’ ‘awful’ news” Investors this week will face a large batch of company report cards, in what is shaping up to be the worst quarter for corporate profits in a decade, CNNMoney reports. Investors will also digest reports on housing, consumer confidence and leading economic indicators. “Everyone is bracing for the GDP number to be pretty terrible, but the bigger surprise could come with the housing numbers, which are also expected to be awful,” one analyst says.

Hi Tranquilsleep44,

Hopefully you’re having some tranquil sleep because you either didn’t get involved in the stock market or pulled out in the nick of time! I didn’t see this story, but will look for it on line. All I’ve seen so far is mostly political news about the Republican block on Obama’s proposal which I talked a little bit about before news of this came out. It was in the inauguration chart that they would try to peck him to death with stupid details and find every little way they could to give him trouble. But then it doesn’t take a psychic or a chart to figure that one out! 

From the info you posted, chances are good a chill will be sent down the spine of investors and we will see another plunge. This is just logic. The astrology showed this period through March as being particularly bad. Hopefully, it will get better.

Maybe it will take a few months for Obama to get a stimulus package through the house and senate. Or perhaps there will be a series of bills that finally change things enough for us to start seeing that the worst of the storm finally starting to clear by then.

Let’s hope so!

From Hope and a Plan:

hopeandaplan

Hi Denise, Since a corporation that reincorporates as another incarnation changes its astrological fate could a married couple renew their vows and change their relationship dynamic? Thanks!

Hi Hope and a Plan,

The answer to that is yes, if the couple legally re-marries. If it’s just a renewal of vows then it will have a chart, but more related to the 5th house, or just a sort of renewal of the romance. It won’t change the chart of the marriage.

However if the couple re-marries then the new chart eclipses their old one, and sets the tone for their future together. It’s interesting because I’ve seen people get divorced after being married a long time, and then end up getting re-married. And they definitely have a different dynamic, although of course, being that they are the same people it doesn’t erase their past. Also when it comes to couples there is also a mid-point chart that wouldn’t change. So the psychological, personality stuff remains the same, but with the change in marriage time and new chart it effects the way the couple deals with those issues.

And from Marlene:

Marlene

Hi Denise, What will become of the GOP/Ultra Right Wingers over the next decade? Will they shrivel up and blow away, become more prominent or change for the better ? Will they realize their agenda turns the majority of people away? Will Limbaugh,Coulter, O’Reilly and their ilk become less relavant or better yet, marginalized?

Hi Marlene,

This is an excellent question and one I have been asking myself for awhile. I have the feeling that they will end up being marginalized, but not immediately. It will happen more over the next couple of years.  They will end up crawling back into the holes they slithered out of, but I doubt they will go peacefully. And their zombie followers will follow them back into the minority of voices.  

I think people will get tired of their B.S. and bashing. Many people who listen to these idiots are patriotic and want the country to do well. If they see the country going in a better direction I’m sure they will loose interest in the nonsense and ridiculous theatrics of Limbaugh, O’Reilley and Coulter. And those fans who were more on the fence will fall of and see the good in this very exceptional man we have as our current president. I also feel that the rise in more centrist and left leaning media will help restore balance to those who have been brain washed by the theatrics of the Karl Rove Neo-con playbook.

There are still so many great comments and questions to get to and I promise to do so.

Best wishes and many blessings to all,

Denise

Psychic Protection

I’ve had people e-mailing me about various psychic/supernatural phenomena recently. Whether you are being haunted by a malevolent ghost, an alien, a demon or bizarre inter-dimensional being. Whatever supernatural situation one may find themselves in, the best thing is to learn the Lesser Pentagram Ritual. 

Here it is:

 
Especially if you have psychic or sensitive children. It is imperative to listen to them and teach them psychic protection. This is the platinum premium A #1 form of psychic protection I’ve found. It works for EVERYTHING! I’ve had friends use it who were being abducted and it stopped! And of course it works for protecting you against all forms of negativity.

For those who are especially sensitive and or fear there are malevolent beings infesting their home, do it frequently, and for sure every night before sleep.

Oh and here is the banishing side, basically dismissing the protection. Honestly, I rarely ever use this but for those who are interested here is a lesson on it as well.

 

Best wishes and many blessings to all,
Denise

The Words and Written Instruction to the Lesser Pentagram Ritual

Here’s the link I found the following written version of the Lesser Pentagram Ritual:

The Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram, or LBRP, was formulated initially by the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and is a ritual of banishing which focuses on invocation of Divine elements prior to a magickal working. Under the power and virtue of the pentagram, lesser energies are banished from the presence of the magician and will not return (unless invited).

Performing the ritual prior to any working or as a means of starting one’s day dispels the negative energies of the psyche and otherwise.

History of the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram

The first recorded instance of the LBRP as a practice was noted in Eliphas Levi’s works, and likely stems from a Hebrew prayer as documented by R. Samson Raphael Hirsch in ‘The Hirsch Siddur’ [Feldheim Publishing, 1969], which reads as follows:

“In the Name of God, the God of Yisrale: may Michael be at my right hand, Gabriel at my left, Uriel before me, Raphael behind me, and above my head, the presence of God.”

Other variations of the LBRP exist including a Gnostic Pentagram Ritual, the Enochian BRP, the Wiccan LBRP and the Olympic BRP.

By utilizing the pentagram itself in the ritual, the magician is calling on the powers of the elements to assist him in his working; the correlation being that the upright pentagram represents the highest aspect of man and the spirit is consciously in alignment with and ruling over each of the four elements.

Steps to Performing the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram

Perform the Kabbalistic Cross.

Face east. Stand straight with both arms at each side. Visualize the color blue. The color should be that of an electric stove flame. With your left hand remaining at your side, inhale deeply through the nose, stretching out the right hand holding an athame, dagger or pointing the index finger. Starting at your left, trace a line from your left hip up to a point just before your head, then down to your right hip, up to your left shoulder, across to your right shoulder and then back down to your left hip. As you are drawing the pentagram, see the flame as projected out to a point past your finger. Project this image out from you so that the pentagram is before you.

Inhaling deeply with the pentagram burning before you, bring both hands up to the sides of your head just adjacent to your ears. Point the index fingers of both hands toward the pentagram. Step forward with your left foot simultaneously pushing both hands pointing through the center of the pentagram, exhaling and feeling the energy go out to the end of the universe. With this exhalation, vibrate the words YHVH (pronounced Yod-heh-vav-heh).

Bring both hands back to your ears and your foot to its original standing position. With your right hand still pointing, extend your hand toward the center of the pentagram. You will now be drawing a line from the center of this pentagram to the next, moving in a clockwise direction ninety degrees until you are facing East. As you trace the line in the air, visualize a brilliant white light emanating from the tip of your finger or blade.

Repeat the pentagram process for the south, tracing another pentagram and vibrating ADONAI (Ah-doh-nai). Pointing the athame or finger again, trace the white line to the west and repeat this process, vibrating AHIH (Eh-he-yeh).

Turn north. Trace the pentagram and vibrate AGLA (Ah-ge-lah).

Complete the last trace of your line as a circle which meets and closes where you began in the East. Visualize the circle as three dimensionally around you in all directions, so that you are encased within a white sphere of protective light with the electric blue pentagrams encircling you in all directions..

Evocation of the Archangels

You are still facing East. Stretch your arms straight out to the sides so that your body forms a cross. Meditate on the energies flowing through you and making you a brilliant cross of light at the center of the universe.

Remember that each angel represents a corresponding element, so it is helpful when invoking them to also strongly imagine that element that they are a part of.

Visualizing Raphael

Visualize a figure on a mound in front of you. The figure is dressed in gold-yellow robes with purple highlights. The figure carries a caduceus wand (the symbol used by doctors, a wand entwined by serpents, which represents the life force) and the figure’s robes wave in the wind. Feel an airy breeze coming from behind the figure. Say, “Before me, Rah-fay-EL.”, vibrating the name.

Visualizing Gabriel

Visualize a figure behind you clothed in blue with orange highlights. The figure holds a cup and is surrounded by waterfalls. Feel the salty moisture of the sea in the air. Say, “Behind me, Gahb-Ray-El.” vibrating the name.

Visualizing Michael

To your right visualize a figure dressed in scarlet with green highlights. The figure holds a flaming sword. Sense heat emanating from this direction. Say, “On my right hand, Mee-chai-EL.”, vibrating the name.

Visualizing Ariel

To your left visualize a figure dressed in greens and brown on an earthy, fertile landscape. The figure holds some sheaves of wheat. Sense the dark feel of moist earth and green, green grass. Say, “And on my left hand Ohr-ree-EL.”, vibrating the name.

After these visualizations, move your left foot out to your left and visualize another blue pentagram all around you, outlining your body. Say aloud, “For about me flames the pentagram…”

Visualize a golden hexagram, a six-pointed star, sometimes called a Jewish star, or Star of David, within you, right where your heart is. Say, “…and within me shines the six-rayed star.”

Thanks everyone for letting me know it was hard to understand him. Have a great weekend!

Best wishes,
Denise

Earthquakes and Auras

Odd as this may sound I’ve noticed a lime green color in people’s auras, and also sort of floating around always and only within a week of an earthquake. For those of you who see aura colors and live in earthquake country, this is a big heads up. Also if you own pets and they start acting very oddly, and/or you notice everyone around you getting terrible headaches, and extremely erratic driving be aware, there could be an earthquake coming. 

For those of you who don’t see auras but are interested in learning or trying to see them, there is one way that really works. You have to work with a partner (I guess you could try this alone but it would be hard). First do some meditation to clear your minds. Dim the light so that you can barely see. Then take turns standing in front of a white wall. It’s best if you have as much skin exposed as possible. if you are both comfortable being naked with the other person that’s the best (I’m not comfortable being naked so I’d go for a tank top, but that’s me) squint your eyes and look just above the line of their body. At first you may get vague impressions or feelings about colors, then as you practice more you will start to see colors. Later you may find yourself in the middle of a conversation over coffee and see someones aura if work at it or turns out you have a hidden talent for it.

Here are some basic color definitions please post your own associations on the blog. I’m always interested to see how colors appear and what they mean to different people. 

Yellow: Super analytical, left brain type. If you see this as a blob on the head it means the person is thinking, usually about something very left brained like math. This type is very logical and can be intolerant of spiritual or emotional types. On the negative side they can come across as arrogant to sensitives because they have a tendency to be judgmental about anything that strikes them as flaky.

Red: I’ve only seen this in spots on people and it usually, for me, means there is physical problem that needs to be addressed where the spot is. If it is more detached and has other colors associated in the spot it indicates (for me) an emotional problem, usually suppressed anger.

Orange: I’ve seen this pretty rarely as well, as most of my friends are in the cool spectrum. But anyway, it indicates intense passion, creativity and in one person I knew whose whole aura was orange, he had an invasive sexuality. Everything he did and said seemed like he was astrally tongue kissing you. 

Green: Ah, the healer. These people tell you everything is going to be OK and you completely believe them. They have this intense calmness and groundedness. They are great with their hands and often go into some form of healing as a profession or I’ve seen sculptures who are greens as well.

Blue: Calm yet emotional, loyal, kind hearted, easy going for the most part. They are very balanced and have good command of both their right and left brains. They are creative but also logical. They are spiritual or religious but again it is in balance.

Indigo: A new color, added to the human spectrum according to older psychics around the 1960s. This is when they began seeing it in some children. It has become more common now. They are psychic, spiritual, eccentric, strong willed, independent minded and can be moody. They are very creative but their creativity comes from tapping into the collective unconscious rather than in the case of the oranges whose creativity is more raw and primal.

Violet: Very spiritual, psychic, leader types, bossy, can be a  know-it-all. Sylvia Brown is kind of a full on Violet personality type but a negative version. A more positive version would be Allison Dubois (from the show “Medium”).  They are really intense and can be a handful but they are very spiritually powerful.

White/silver: I’ve only seen this (oddly) around people who were trying to project a persona. It doesn’t seem to be a natural human aura color but rather a protective shell that is meant to hide the real personality. Not to say there is anything bad about these people, they could be either insecure or assuming a role instead of being themselves. They are usually good people who are trying to live up to a lot.

Gray: If you see someone with this, tell them to go to a doctor ASAP. This is the color of someone who is physically ill. I was at the David Letterman show a few weeks before his heart attack and he had a really sick gray look in his aura. This is when I started to put the gray aura together with heart attacks. It usually is heart related from my experience.

Chartreuse: Now that’s a weird one huh! Yes, it is. I’ve seen it only twice and if you see it run for the hills this is a person who is trying to seem like something they are not. Both times the person was “new age,” and very messed up emotionally. They may want to help others but they don’t have the knowledge or ability and are trying to project something that isn’t real. This is the color of a con.

Magenta: Very spirited, whimsical, artistic, fun loving people who love to be different.

If anyone has more questions or again, if anyone has different associations with the aura colors please post them. I’ve noticed different psychics will attribute different characteristics to the colors. Perhaps we all notice different things about people with different aura colors depending on our perspective.

Best wishes and many blessings to all,

Denise

Auras, Questions and Comments

Hi everyone,  I’m so glad everyone posted about their own aura experiences. Like I said, it’s interesting to me that all psychics seem to see auras differently. They have different colors with different attributes and meanings. I’ve yet to figure out why. Perhaps we are reading different layers of the human soul. And we each have personal associations that take precedence over universal ones when it comes to our intuition.

Sally mentioned she sees white around people. I used to see this as well. According to some books I’ve read this is actually the etheric body, which is different from the astral body, the one with all the colors in it. 

And here’s a post I want to address from Vishalsaxena:

vishalsaxena209

Hi Denise, I have been following your wonderful blog since couple of month. My interest in Astrology comes from my Mother who works on Vedic/Horary astrology. I have a question, which I am trying to get answered for some time. Since last 2-3 months I have been seeing sparks of light appearing suddenly floating in the air and they vanish quickly. This usually happens when I am focused or in deep thought. The sparks are point size and have intensity of the Sun. Also, it feels like a sweet calm after the observation. I am sure I have no medical issue with my eyesight and I can read from far and for long time without the eyes watering. Also, these sparks are occurring more frequently since a month and I am curious if they have a purpose. I have done some Kundalini exercises last year and had to discontinue them due to work pressure. Do you have any take on this from psychic point of view?

Hi Vishalsaxena,

The Kundalini exercises may have opened you up more to psychic phenomena. This is a powerful chakra and I’ve heard of this happening to people who work with it.

I have seen this as well. It started out as little white flashes and then I noticed these flashes in different colors, usually around people’s heads. Then later, and currently, I see them in relation to what I have figured out is precognitive weather or world patterns. When it’s going to rain I’ll see blue flashes, when it’s going to be exceptionally windy, yellow flashes, or when there is going to be a rash of fires I have seen red flashes. And of course the bright green flashes when there is going to be seismic activity. Over the years I’ve decided they are elementals.

On the rare occasion when I have seen either white or purple flashes (usually in the sky, often at night) it proceeds some major world event like 9/11, Mumbai, the Tsunami in Indonesia, Katrina, a major earthquake or flood that kills hundreds or thousands. It at first seemed odd that these very spiritual colors would be associated with what I see as negative world events. But I think these flashes are signs that the gateway between the worlds is opening and readying to accept a mass group of souls.

So while the events are always tragic, I see it as reassurance that the people who go through those terrible things are being greeted by angelic energy waiting to transition them to a higher plane.

If I were you I would keep a diary of whatever you notice going on in the world and in your life within a few days or a week of seeing the flashes. The language of psychic phenomena is so personal that the best way to determine what the flashes mean is for you to be vigilantly observant and try to make connections with patterns you notice. This will take a while. Sometimes it can take years but it’s worth it. However, chances are good if you keep a journal and meditate on the meaning of the flashes for you, the answer will become clear.

This is the most important thing in interpreting psychic phenomena, being in touch with your own subconscious. We all have different associations for things, colors, objects, people, etc. Always go with what your feeling is about a color or whatever. Other people can sometimes act as guides, and there are some universal things that help as a jumping off point in interpreting the language of your psychic ability, but we all have different parents, backgrounds, religions, cultures and these things make a major difference in how our unconscious speaks to us through pictures, colors, sounds, smells and feelings. We are all psychic and the more one pays attention to their own truth the clearer and more refined the intuitive ability becomes.

And from Hope and a Plan:

Hopeandaplan

Hi Denise, My ears have been buzzing with energy like crazy for the past week. I was going to share this yesterday but thought it could just be me. Friends are having a lot of nightmares. Of course we’re having terrible news about employment rates. I have noticed that when packs or schools of animals do odd things in they may be reacting to wierd energy swirling. At least its a theory that continues to play out successfully for me. So again with Austrailia with me with the beaching of the whales and the shark attacks and then last night massive schools of sharks sighted off of Florida. This theory began back in the summer of 2001 when there was a huge spike in shark attacks in Florida and that was when the 9/11 terrorists were preparing down there. Its an observation I personally note. Thanks Denise.

Hi Hope and a Plan,

I agree it’s all connected. And however you see the patterns and make the connections is the way your unconscious speaks to you. Always trust in your intuition. It really will never lead you astray. It’s the logical mind that gets us into trouble, talks us into helping the “nice man” in the cast when we get a creepy feeling and should run away (Ted Bundy). It’s interesting to note people who escape from serial killers always do so because they trust a feeling they are getting that appears to be completely irrational. So, there you go. 

The nightmares are I’m sure everyone plugging into the collective anxiety of the world. We are in trouble for sure. And it’s not going to be an easy couple of years. Even if we as individuals maybe OK, it won’t be easy to see other people losing their jobs, becoming homeless, and being destitute. 

One thing is for sure, we are supremely lucky Obama won. Imagine the energy right now if McCain had beaten him. It would be extremely depressing and we would be looking at a much worse future that would take, who knows how long to recover from.

Best wishes and many blessings to all in this New Year of the Ox,

Denise

UFOs, Alien Abduction & You

I’ve been doing a bunch of research on UFO sightings and alien abductions for a story I’m writing. It seems that our history is riddled with stories of machines and strange objects in the sky piloted by intelligent beings. Often these beings have been associated (in the far distant past) to God/Goddesses and or God. Accounts have been found in all religious texts from the bible, Hindu texts, and even cave drawings.

There are several interesting accounts of encounters in the bible which I never really put together as extra-terrestrial, but others have (I’m also not necessarily saying it is extra-terrestrial it’s just one theory). The account of Moses coming down from Mt. Sinai (there was also some strange phenomena that occurred while he was there that the people below saw) after talking to God, his hair became completely white. Some have theorized this was from radiation exposure. I’m not sure about that, but it’s an interesting theory.

Also when the Jews were emancipated from slavery and headed toward the promised land with Moses as their leader, they followed a pillar of fire for guidance. Some have speculated this was what we would currently call a cigar shaped UFO.

Whatever these flying machines and strange objects in the sky were, they are definitely references to them in all ancient cultures which does seem odd since we not only did not have that technology, but even imagining that technology seems like a leap. It’s not like the ancient world imagined guns or microscopes or TVs or computers or telephones, so why these crafts?Often described as mechanical and operated by intelligent beings the crafts were seen by some cultures as operated by Gods or angels.

There are many Native American Indian tribes who claim direct lineage from people who came from the stars. These stories are actually woven into their oral tradition and passed down as fact. Their are also tribes in Africa who claim to be descendant from star people.

In ancient times it seems that those who had encounters with the beings in the crafts were often put in the position of mediating between human and whatever these beings were. These same people were privileged with special powers (such as Moses parting the Red sea) and given detailed visions of things to come, prophecies. 

It also seems that there were intense periods of activity at major turning points in human history, such as when the Jews were emancipated from Egypt, when Alexander the Great fought two of his major battles that changed the history of the region. I don’t know enough about India’s history to speak of how the references in their sacred texts interface with the period they were included so I won’t. 

I find it interesting that since the world wars there have been more and more sightings. The Foo Fighters spotted during WWI were just a taste of the intensity of sightings by pilots in WWII. Throughout the last 100 years it seems the activity has become more intense. Of course there were always stories along the way, fairies who stole children and exchanged them for changeling babies, which seems like it could describe a lot of things but one of them is alien abduction. 

It’s interesting though that in the past 50 or so years there has been an increase in the phenomena of abduction. And that the experiences of abductees are traumatic, often weirdly sexual and seem to be for breeding purposes, but also many abductees are given bizarre prophetic information. All have to use telepathy to communicate with the beings which leads me to wonder if there are some commonalities between people with abduction experiences. Are these people perhaps more psychic than average people, more open? Many claim encounters from very early childhood and being psychically trained by the beings. 

I’m rambling on about all this because I’d love for those who feel comfortable doing so to post their stories for my edification. And those who do not feel comfortable in a public format to e-mail me their stories at: happypeopleusa@aol.com

I have a feeling they pick on specific types of people despite differences in culture, race or socio-economic class. Many people never report their experiences to anyone for a number of reasons, some don’t want to dig up the past, some don’t want anyone to think they are crazy, some are just too lazy. Whatever the reason, if you or anyone you know has any kind of bizarre experience that seems extra-terrestrial or extra-dimensional in origin please let me know about it. I will absolutely keep your information entirely confidential and use it only for my own research and edification. 

Here’s an interesting article about the number of Americans who have had experiences or believe in the phenomena and how it breaks down by gender, religion, political persuasion and education:
http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/34758

Best wishes and many blessings to all,
Denise

More Clarification on the Lesser Pentagram Ritual

I wanted everyone to let everyone know, once you have practiced this enough you don’t have to do all the theatrics. You can do it as a silent prayer before bedtime or if you get a bad feeling, or if you are afraid of getting in a car accident. It works just as well. But it is important to really have it down, have it be second nature. 

The other thing I noticed was it didn’t specify the gender of the Angels. I learned to visualize the Raphael and Michael as male and Ariel and Gabriel as female because of their association with male and female elements. To clarify this statement, in astrology and western occultism both air and fire are consider “masculine,” elements and water and earth are “feminine.” The association with the elements and their direction is an ancient tradition and found in every culture. Reinforcing the energy of masculine air and feminine water by visualizing the angels as those genders adds extra power to the ritual.

Also I noticed that the ritual closed with “and within me is the 6 rayed star.” Again I learned this as “and above me is the 6-rayed star.” After suffering the 1994 Northridge earthquake (which I had many premonitions about and had done numerous protection rituals in our bedroom because of my fear of an earthquake striking at night, I amended the ending to, “And above and below me shine the 6 rayed stars.” Because the major structural damage we had was to the flooring of the home and although our bedroom was the only room in our entire home that escaped completely unscathed, living in earthquake country the earth itself began to make me feel vulnerable. Plus I figured every possible direction was covered this way.

Anymore questions about this please let me know. This ritual/prayer is used as a protection in many different western esoteric traditions because it works so well. I have tried using white light, calling the elements, visualizing a mirrored ball around me, all of which help, but this ritual is iron clad protection. One elderly old magician (in the esoteric sense not in the David Blaine kind of way) I knew, claimed it saved him from a head on collision with a truck. He said he saw Michael just before the accident and felt the wheel of his car jerk out of his control. Of course he always said the lesser Pentagram in his mind before setting off on the freeway. 

Give it a whirl if you get freaked out or spooked. It really does give one a sense of calm and a real feeling of protection.

Best wishes and many blessings,

Denise

P.S. If anyone is starting to wonder what the heck my deal is, well, let’s just say I’ve done a lot of searching in all the major religions and their esoteric counterparts. When you are plagued with bizarre psychic phenomena your whole life, you gotta do something to get it under control!

Horary Astrology & Answering Readers…

The first question comes from:

Sunbeyond

Dear Denise
I’ve heard from this one analyst that commercial real estate will suffer real hard this year and for years to come, seeing that recently with all the retailer bankruptcies like circuit city and linens n things. Do you think that we are near a collapse of shopping malls? I want to also ask about this company Simon Property Group (largest mall development and operator in the USA) public traded SPG symbol NYSE Listing date Dec 14, 1993 9:30 am . Currently trading around the price of 43 dollars, Do you think its wise to bet against this company? Thanks for your insight, Love reading your blogs,

Hi Sunbeyond,

I wrote a post back to you but you may not have noticed it. I think the best way to answer this is through horary astrology which I will outline at the end of this post. Please send a clear, direct question about this issue to my e-mail: happypeopleusa@aol.com so I can run a horary chart on this topic. This method of astrology will be the most fruitful as you’ll later see.

The next from Carolina:

carolina

Denise…I had a reading with a friend who is a wholistic healer and clairvoyant before the holidays, and she also noted lime green in my aura. Usually she reports violet (as in violet flame), so not sure what that means…but you mentioned it in your blog lately. Also, I had a reading with Denise in January, and I highly recommend her! Excellent combination of astrology, tarot and clairvoyance! Plus it’s good to support someone who is giving us so much information on her blog, who is talented and generous.

Hi Carolina,

Colors mean different things to different psychics. But here are a couple of questions. Do you live in a state that has earthquakes? If not, then have you recently become involved with a new age group or with someone new? I ask this because for me, the violet is clear, that’s a spiritually evolved person who is psychic and it is your basic energy field. We all have a basic color that stays constant, although it can get muddy when we are sick.

The lime green can mean a couple of things. I’ve seen it mostly in relationship to earthquakes. I’ve seen a variation of lime green (more of a chartreuse color) around people who were emotionally disturbed and usually wrapped up in some sort of persona meant to cover it up. But this is only when that color is the entirety of the aura, not just a small bit.

Usually, a small bit of color in an aura indicates either an influence coming in or going out, depending on which side it is on. If on the left side it indicates a person who maybe disturbed who will try to manipulate you. If it is on the right side, it indicates a person who was emotionally disturbed (but trying to hide it under the guise of enlightenment or being special or “a healer”) leaving your life. The spot is not directly you, however it is in your aura because this person will be allowed too much influence in your life for a period of time before you realize their game. 

Now, that’s how I would read that, but I didn’t’ see the color, so the best person to ask is your friend. She may have very different associations with colors then I do and it could mean something entirely different to her. 

And next Juno:

Juno

Thanks for the clarification. By the way, tomorrow Uranus and Saturn will be in direct opposition. What does this mean in general for Americans, or do you have to know where the planets fall in your chart? If you answered this before, my apologies 

Hi Juno,

Uranus and Saturn although they both co-rule Aquarius are pretty opposite in their energy to begin with. Uranus is revolution, rebellion, thinking outside the box and Saturn is conservative, time tested and conventional. Hence the two types of Aquarians Abe Lincoln vs. Dick Cheney. Couldn’t get more opposite there. I’m glad you reminded me about this opposition as it makes an exact aspect to my Uranus, so I guess I should think about what that means. 

It does depend on where the planets fall in your chart and/or the chart of the US or other entity. In general though oppositions bring conflict, so I would expect the general vibe of the day to be conventional energy vs. forward thinking. This could mean we will have more open and contentious political debates on both sides of the aisle. 

And now for some info on Horary astrology:

Horary astrology is pretty amazing and not something one reads about in ordinary books about astrology. Basically a querent asks a question and the astrologer erects a chart, using it to answer the person’s question. The chart is erected for the time the astrologer receives the question.

I have found lost pets many times through the use of horary charts. Once I found a writing partner’s cat in a the ceiling of an apartment building on an adjacent street. I will give an example of a recent question I used a horary chart and give the exact interpretation I gave the client and the result of what happened. 

Here’s the chart with the question at the top:

My client had lost a very large check and was understandably upset about it. So when he called and asked for help. I had him clearly state the question and took down the time he asked it and erected this chart from the time the question was asked. The client wasn’t sure if the check was at home, or at his new office or the office he was currently in the process of moving from. Here is a copy of the e-mail I sent in response after studying the chart.

I looked at the horary chart and this is what I came up with. 

Call me when you get a chance if you need clarification: OK, it

looks like the check is in an enclosed space probably a box taken from the

place of business during the move. I also feel the box itself is out of sight,

maybe high up in a closet or on top of a bureau and covered in clothes. 

The box is white with blue/aqua either writing or trim. It is likely

currently at home, up high and near some sort of technology

like a computer or TV. It was thrown in this box before you went on your trip.

There may also be client paperwork in this box regarding their financial worth. 

Hope this rings some bells. 

 

I received a phone call on the day the first day the client had a chance to 

look for the check. He was ecstatic (as it was a lot of money). It turned out

to be at home on a bureau, near a TV, up high, in a white box, under some 

clothes in a box he had packed before his trip out of town at Christmas. 

The box was white, had his client's information in it and the check itself was

blue. 

 

I have found many things without the use of horary charts so much so that 

I've had to put boundaries down with absented minded friends who would call 

whenever they lost anything. Or my husband who perpetually lost his keys every

morning and would wake me up at 5 AM so I could find them for him. That was

annoying, but anyway, horary charts are really great. And for me they make

things much more concrete. Just one more tool to make the Neptunian world of 

psychic ability clearer and more helpful.

 

Best wishes and many blessings to all,

Denise

 

Call to Arms…

Just last night I answered a readers question about the opposition of Uranus and Saturn. The forces of left and right going head to head are here. I’d like to post this I got via-e-mail from a reader about getting involved to help support our new president get our country back on track:

Dear Denise, 

You gave me that wonderful reading back in December. I just thought I’d FYI you about this rightwing campaign to scuttle President Obama’s stimulus package and what we can do to counteract it.

FYI below.

Thanks

To all who support President Obama and his stimulus package:

The right wing has mounted a call-in drive against President Obama’s stimulus package and senators (including Durbin and Burris from Illinois), representatives and the White House are being deluged with calls. We who support Obama and his programs MUST do our part and make phone calls supporting the stimulus package.

According to Thom Hartmann, Air America radio talk show host, one of the best ways to get through is to call your local office. I found this to be the case and, in fact, when I mentioned the right wing campaign to the lady at Durbin’s office she said: “Oh, I was wondering why we were getting so many calls against the package.”

If you’re in Illinois, I’ve listed the Chicago senate office numbers for Burris and Durban below. There is also info for folks from other states.

Also, it’s important to call the White House Comment Line (number below). I just called it and the operator I talked to said that she had received 40 calls against the stimulus package and only 10 for it.

IMPORTANT: CALLING IS THE KEY, NOT EMAILING.

To find out your Senators local office (in any state), go to:
U.S. Senate: Senators Home
www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm?State=IL - 39k -

To find out your representative’s local office (in any state), go to:
Find Your Representative 
http://www.house.gov/htbin/zipfind

You will need your 9 digit zip code and can get that at:
http://zip4.usps.com/

To leave a comment for the White House, call the comment line:
Comments: 202-456-1111

ILLINOIS SENATOR INFORMATION:
Senator Dick Durban
 CHICAGO
230 S Dearborn St.
Suite 3892
Chicago, IL 60604
8:30 am to 5 pm
(312) 353-4952 – ph

Senator Roland W. Burris
Chicago Senate Office
Kluczynski Federal Building
230 S. Dearborn, Chicago, IL 60604
(312) 886-3506
 

So do your part and call!

Best wishes,

Denise

Readers, Horary Chart Offer and SAG? Huh?

Hi everyone,

I meant to answer Chris’s question about a possible SAG strike and also I had a reader ask me more info about Gold and commercial real estate, all worthy questions which I will get to over the weekend. I really hope SAG is not that stupid. Why can’t they just come up with a temporary agreement and deal with the Internet stuff in a couple of years when it actually starts to make money. There is no money in the Internet right now and what little there maybe for actors (in terms of advertisers) is so minuscule it’s just ridiculous, especially with the economy the way that it is and the writer’s strike we had here.

I understand the importance of standing on ideals and being pro-union, but we are headed for some seriously tough times and in my humble opinion, actors are the most overpaid profession of all professions. When someone can live for 5 years off of making one commercial that shot for 2 days, hey, I don’t feel all that much compassion for the 2 cents the person might potentially get from a google ad. In this case it’s not the right timing to throw another wrench in the struggling economy here in SoCal for something that is so minor, and can be put off for the time being. That’s my take on it. I will do a reading though tomorrow to see if the union will go that route. And before anyone gets their panties in a bunch about actors being overpaid, let me just say, really they are. I have a lot of actor friends and clients and my husband has done some acting. Seriously, they get paid more to do a TV show then the person who created the show gets. Doesn’t that seem backwards? Yes. I actually know of one situation (and I’m sure it’s happened more than once) where an actor on a show got the head writer/creator of the show replaced. The show then proceeded to tank and was cancelled. Hello, karma! But anyway, a strike right now is not a good idea. Sooooo not a good idea.

I just want to say that we really have to get involved again in politics as the unfortunate stuff in the US chart mentioned in previous posts is about to come down. We started seeing the transit at the end of January and we are in it right now, but it hits big in March. So unless we pressure congress to do something about getting the economy back on track we seriously might be headed for a major depression. As I stated Obama is the guy for the job and he has been doing everything to focus on this but he needs our support and support from congress. So please bug the crap out of your local congress-people. Seriously. Or we are so up s*it creek and we don’t want to go there when we don’t have to. 

I’m actually starting to believe my own wild conspiracy theory that the Republicans want to turn the US into a 3rd world country so they can have slave labor here at home. I really think they want there to be a huge gulf between rich and poor and are willing to do just about anything to make that happen. So us middle class people better start fighting or we’ll end up on the soup line.

Please urge all your friends, copy and paste the previous post with all the info that a fellow reader shared with us and do an e-mail blitz. Things are unfortunately going the way I predicted them to go. You know in this case I really didn’t want to be right!

Have a great weekend and keep posting questions. And I wanted to put an offer out there for those interested in a particular financial situation to send an e-mail with a specific question so I can run a horary chart and do a post dissecting it for everyone. Of course the issue should be something that will benefit more than just you personally, something that you and other people can benefit from knowing.

Best wishes,

Denise

my e-mail is: happypeopleusa@aol.com

Gold, Commercial Real Estate, SAG & Horary Astrology

I plan on answering those questions I promised to answer tonight via horary astrology. I’ve had great success finding lost stuff, let’s see how it goes for more abstract questions. Please keep me posted on the situation when it comes to pass.

OK, the first question comes from Chris:

Chris

 

Denise, will you do a Tarot reading on the SAG strike/greed out here in Hollywood? I’m sick of the news wavering so badly. My gut tells me they are smarter than that knowing better not to put us out of work again but I just don’t know anymore.

I’d just like to know if they’re going to strike and if it’s going to put a lot of people out of work again.

There are so many questions I would love to ask you. Thank you so much for everything. Hope I don’t post comments too much… 

Hi Chris,

Post as many questions as you like! I’m happy to be able to have a dialogue with people. That’s what the site is really for. So don’t worry about it. I did a tarot reading to see if SAG was going to strike in the next 6 months it came up no for the next 3 months, and a potential yes once 3 months are up, so I guess that would be around spring. But to be extra thorough and to see what divination system is better at handling these sorts of questions I did a horary chart based on the time you posted the question. So here it is with an explanation.

This is a difficult one to answer according to the chart. It does seem to indicate that there won’t be an immediate strike, but one will eventually take place.  I would say when this chart progresses to the point of Mercury conjuncting Jupiter. So let me look at when that will be. OK, according to the horary chart the strike could be as early as the end of this month. I really hope that’s not the case. In all fairness to horary astrology universal questions are not supposed to be its strong suit so we’ll see. Unfortunately, both divination systems seem to say there will be a strike. The cards predict in  a few months, the horary chart at the end of February.

Next question comes from an anonymous person about the gold market.

This person wanted to know when the low point for gold would be in the next 3 months. Here’s the chart.

From the looks of this chart, it would seem there won’t be a low point, that buying low in the next few months won’t be possible. The window of opportunity has passed for now. And there was one other question this person wanted answered. Will gold keep rising until 6/21/2009? Here’s the chart:

The answer to that is basically, yes. It may not be straight up. There maybe days when it levels off and sort of plateaus, but it will continue to trend upwards until at least that date of June 21, 2009.

And the next question was from Sunbeyond:

Sunbeyond

Regarding the question asked before about commercial real estate: Will the company SPG be heading towards 20 dollars from its current price of 40s anytime soon?

 

Here’s the chart:

That would be a strong yes. I won’t bore you with why. But yes this company is going to trend from the 40s into the 20s.

I hope you all are having a great weekend and I will get to more questions over the next few days. 

Best wishes to all and many blessings,

Denise

It’s my Birthday so please indulge me…

The, What Does Denise Look Like Contest?

I know this is odd, but I had this weird idea to have a contest to see if anyone could guess what I looked like. I have a couple of reasons for this: 1) I think most of you who read this blog are sensitives if not full on psychic freaks like myself. 2) Whenever I (or I’m assuming anyone) talks to another person on the phone (that they don’t know) or reads something by an author, we or I, always get a visual of what the person looks like. So I’m curious, after months of you guys being inside of my head, if any of you have a picture of what I look like and if so, what that picture is.

So here’s my proposition. Post what you think I look like (and ignore the reference I made to my red hair because I’ve dyed it back to as close to my natural color as I could). I will then post a picture of myself, and pick through the one that seems closest (in my opinion) if there are a bunch that seem close, I will let you guys vote. There will be between 1-3 winners depending on how many people participate. If you win, I will run your chart and send you (via e-mail) a computer interpretation of your natal chart. This would be worth anywhere between $30-75 to have done by an astrology service.

If someone is crazy dead on, I’ll throw in at least one extra computer interpetation (I have several different types) worth about the same $ amount. Or I could run a loved one’s chart and send you their basic computer chart. Also I will answer one horary question or tarot yes/no question for you via e-mail about anything you want! 

I’m a freak, what can I say? I am just really curious to see what sort of visual is conjured by the writing on the blog. And don’t be afraid to say anything that comes into your head. I will not be insulted. I will also right now make a concerted effort to project a visual of myself………..

I will answer the questions about the stimulus package tomorrow. It’s been freaking me out a little, this should have already been done! Especially (as we all know) with the very bad aspects only getting worse in March. It kind of scares me. I’ll take a look at the whole picture and do a detailed analysis over the coming days.

Best wishes and many blessings to you all,

Denise

I’ll run the contest over the next month so the winner will be announced on March 10th. The day after the contest closes.

And also I’m thinking about adding a computer chart service for those who are interested. If anyone wants me to make this available please let me know. Of course the cost of this will be much less than a normal reading with me. It would not be my interpretation, but rather a generic astrology service that breaks down and explains all the basic elements of your chart. For this I would charge $30 and send it via e-mail. I had planned to write my interpretations in the service, which is possible with the program I have, but I haven’t had time yet which is why I haven’t made it available. But many other astrologers sell this same service and charge much more for it. So because I have had some requests for this I’m thinking I should make this available. So, anyone who is interested let me know via e-mail at: happypeopleusa@aol.com or enter the competition and potentially get a free one!

You All Are Definitely Psychic!

OK, I just wrote this long post that disappeared into the black void of the Internet. So I’ll keep it short. I’m going to check into the Stimulus Package today and post about it later.

And so far all of you have gotten at least something right about me either physically, or about weird quirky elements of my personality which I haven’t told you about. And so far you all have mentioned my hair being above my shoulders, which it is. So that’s pretty amazing.

I will post more later. It’s late and my last post was sadly eaten up by the void.

Good-night my army of brilliant political psychic freaks,

Denise

You guys are pretty amazing.

Oh, and it looks like Israel is getting a new leader! Yeah! One that works the middle ground rather than the right. But it’s still tight, so let’s all hope for the best there.

Economic Stimulus Package

Somehow the Stimulus Package sounds vaguely x-rated but since I couldn’t answer if it would make it through. I decided to find out more importantly if it would actually work. So here goes.

So a stimulus package passed the house and senate but will it help the economy? I had to ask. Here’s the horary chart.

 

I think the answer to that question is complex. It looks like because a lot of time was wasted and the initial bail out was such a failure, we will have a period of serious hardship in which this new stimulus package won’t be able to do much to bail us out of our problems. There will be a further tightening of the economy, more job loss and more erratic stock market reaction, both overly optimistic and inflated and then days where there will be serious losses. However as this chart progresses the ultimate answer is yes. This package will eventually change the economy for the better, and probably set in motion other smaller bills that will amend and help this behemoth. Again the next couple of years will be tough. It will take some time for this package to actually have a real impact on every day people. And chances are it won’t be enough all by itself, but it’s a good start, one that should have happened weeks ago. If it had we would have seen a much more dramatic and immediate recovery but as it is there have been many compromises (again) that will drag it down and slow its ability to fully help the economy.

I will answer more questions later. For now best wishes and many blessings to all of you,

Denise

A Call For Submissions & A Testimonial

Hey all you smart readers and writers out there. I’m putting it out there for you guys to have your own page on the blog. If you have anything you want to write an essay about or have theories about, etc. I’d like to have a page that publishes your opinions. Please send submissions to: happypeopleusa@aol.com

I may edit some of them or just put them up raw. So try to use your best grammar and spellcheck. I’m going to start this off with a good friend and fellow writer’s submission named Chris Richardson. She is an excellent science fiction writer and just had her first short story published this summer. I will probably give her her own page, and for those who submit a lot and have a lot to say, I’ll might just give you your own page, too! I hope those of you who are interested take me up on the offer! The topics can be about current events, politics, astrology, psychic phenomena, UFOs, psychic experiences, dreams, dream interpretation, the economy, basically anything I would normally cover on this blog. But you don’t have to be psychic, just have an opinion!

And I also wanted to post this testimonial about a reading I did last night:

Hi Denise, 
 
You were a huge help today, and I received some news about my mom that floored me. If you want to use what I wrote below as a testimonial on the blog, feel free. 
 
I called you for a session primarily to talk about career stuff, but between the time of the booking and my reading, my mom was readmitted to hospital with ongoing heart problems. I mentioned to you that I was worried and wanted to move home immediately. you said that you thought my mother’s heart arythmia was masking a deeper problem with her lungs, her left one, and that as soon as that was discovered she would be on the road to recovery. You also saw fluid in this lung. 
 
Four hours after I spoke to you, I received a call from my sis that the doctors had discovered fluid in her left lung, and, after an MRI, had done a biopsy of this same lung. You were eerily accurate, Denise, thank you  
 
-Kathleen 

I’m not usually so blatant and there are other testimonials on the reading section, but since she mentioned it I decided to go ahead and post it here.

Best wishes and hopefully I’ll get to post more later,

Denise

Nadya Suleman, Readers/Writers & Fertility…

I have officially kicked off the readers/writers page with an essay from a good friend and fellow writer, Chris Richardson. I published Chris’s opinion on the page Readers/Writers (here’s a direct link:http://astrologyandpsychicpredictions.wordpress.com/readerwriters/) although I don’t exactly share it. Please read her post first on the Readers/Writers page and then continue on with my conclusions. It is interesting to have Chris’s perspective because I feel it really represents the Pluto in Leo generation or the Baby Boomer viewpoint which is very under-represented on this blog. Please feel free to comment on her piece or on any post you want. Also remember I’m open to submissions for other voices to be heard as well on the Readers/Writers page.

I feel that Nadya Suleman is mentally ill and her children need help, perhaps even intervention. I’m more angry at the doctor and Nadya’s family for not intervening. In Nadya’s interview with Ann Curry, Nadya appeared out of it, unrealistic and suffering from some sort of personality disorder. She clearly also has a problem with lying which means she has a lot of shame. It’s my opinion that she probably has NPD. And, it hit me at some point during her interview that she paid for all the plastic surgery, and some of her children in a much darker way than she admitted to (she still hasn’t admitted to the plastic surgery, however). It was my strong hit that she at some point literally sold herself as a call girl, not something one can put on their taxes. 

To me the fact that her 8 children were born on 1-26 fits in with my theory of Aquariuses. All who I’ve read for have been (including myself here) entirely ignored during childhood, often to the point of serious neglect. And lets face it with 8 babies and 6 other kids, those little ones aren’t going to get much mommy time. I feel very bad for her children and its my belief that especially because Nadya has signs of mental illness, people should reach out and help her. It’s also my feeling that Nadya (being someone with NPD) was in desperate need of attention and wanted to be “special,” unfortunately the only way she felt she was able to fulfill those needs was by having more babies than anyone should have at one go. Also she wanted to surround herself by an a huge audience of unconditionally loving admirers, her giant brood of children.

If there is a cultural issue to blame, its this ridiculous fascination with crazy people who have had way too many children. I recently saw one woman and her husband on the View who had so many kids they had trouble remembering their names and birth order and how old they were. This woman used religion as an excuse for whatever psychological problem she had, and believe me, she had that crazy cult look in her eye like one of the Manson women showing up to his trial in the early 70s.

In a world with over 6 billion people and counting (2500 years ago there were about 10 million people, can you imagine, that’s less people than live in NY, LA or Chicago), global warming and places like China sterilizing people because they literally have no room to grow, it seems perverted to me that anyone should be so greedy as to have that many children. Not to mention the fact that the children don’t get to be children, they end up parenting each other and have very little one on one time with their own parents. We don’t live in the 1500s on a farm. Our world is over run with human beings almost to the breaking point of the earth’s capacity to deal with us. 

So everyone getting their panties in a bunch about Nadya is perhaps a good thing. Maybe it will force people to think about what it means to have so many children, not just in her case, but in all the cases of couples who choose to be greedy and selfish by surrounding themselves with a brood of admiring little people. It’s one thing back when the technology of in vitro fertilization was new and led to multiple births. OK, that’s not anyone’s fault, and it wasn’t purposeful. But when a person already has 6 kids, even going for another is selfish in my opinion. Even if you were a billionaire and could put every kid through college, give them everything they could ever want or need, you still couldn’t possibly give each kid enough attention and love, which is what kids need more than anything. 

Let’s look at the extreme situation of children (especially in Romania) in  overcrowded orphanages in Eastern European. These poor children were lucky to get their diapers changed and feed on a semi-regular basis, with nothing else, no love, cuddling, interaction. These children when adopted have exhibited incredible anti-social disorders, brain damage and often irreversible personality warping, even after just being in orphanage for 6 months. Human beings need love to grow, they need attention and kindness, encouragement and support. These are more essential to development than money or 2 opposite sex parents or really anything besides basic food, shelter and clothing. 

I recently read an article in Discover Magazine about new technology that will enable us to take a skin cell, turn it into a T-cell and then make it into either an egg or sperm. So a same sex couple could have a baby which is the good side of things, but the creepy side is a person would be able to make a baby entirely by themselves. For example your a single woman who wants to have children, you could have your skin cells turned ultimately into sperm and be implanted with your own sperm. Now that seems like the ultimate in-breeding. What kind of bizarre genetic problems will we create doing that? And also, we now possess the technology to actually extract unhealthy genes and replace them with their healthy counterparts. There are even ways to replace whole sequences, and to isolate genes to make people smarter, healthier, etc. 

So to me Nadya Suleman is just the can opener on a giant ethics problem we are starting to face. At what point do the rights of the parents or potential parents interfere with the rights of the children? One can argue we don’t want to go the route of China and God knows that is horrible what they put people through, and we certainly don’t want to emulate them in any way. However, is it fair to utilize science and technology in ways that interfere with nature and the fundamental human right to be nutured and loved by a parent without feeling like you are an orderly at an orphanage who is expected to help raise and take care of your brothers and sisters.

I don’t know about you guys, but when they interviewed Nadya’s other 6 kids, none of them seemed excited or happy about the competition coming home. They already seemed to know, all too well how hard it was to get what they needed with only 5 other little people to compete with.

As time goes on and we continue to push the envelope with fertility treatments and micro-preemies we are going to have to address these moral issues. If the Christian right is against abortion because it is the destruction of a life, then I would argue this is the same problem from the opposite side of the coin. The inability to provide your children with attention, love, comfort, food, stability, nurturing and a roof over their heads should be taken into account when science is called upon to step in and create a liter of children.

It’s one thing of nature does it, then, I’m sure we can all agree, one could understand getting pregnant and a few months in realizing you were pregnant with triplets or something. OK. You have to do the best you can. Enough said, but when you have 8 implanted by a doctor (or 6 that turn into 8)  and risk not just the children’s emotional and financial well being, but literally their health as well. This goes beyond morality into the realm of psychosis, mental illness and extreme selfishness. I pray that those little children do well and that all of her children have enough other influences in their lives to get what they need to be emotionally healthy adults.

I personally don’t think more than 2 embryos should ever be implanted into a woman. Twins are about as much as a woman can by natural standards handle. She has two breasts. We are not cats or dogs with 10 teets, there’s a reason for this. We aren’t meant to have litters of babies. It’s not healthy for any side of that equation.

Suleman, Stuff & (Anyone Out There A Neurologist?)

Everyone! Wow the passion about Nadya Suleman is intense. I’m happy to see people posting their feelings about her. It is very sad that a woman like this can drop all those kids, yet good, decent, healthy, kind hearted people are made to jump through hoops to adopt! It’s crazy. 

I hope you guys read Chris’s post on Suleman. I’m sure you all would agree with the majority of what she has to say about it. 

I’ve been meaning to ask this question for awhile; If anyone is a neurologist who reads this blog please explain something in a comment back. My neurologist (jokingly) told me the cure to MS was pregnancy, something about progesterone production seemed to put women into remission while pregnant. OK, here’s the question. Has anyone tried using hormones to trick the bodies of women with MS believing they are pregnant? Thereby tricking the disease into remission? And if there has been research on this topic, I’d love to see why it either doesn’t work or why it hasn’t been studied on a bigger scale. Granted this will only help 1/2 the population with MS, but it could lead to other cures to the disease. I just wanted to put this idea out there and see if anyone else had thought about it, as I have known many people who have suffered with MS and it is truly a terrible thing to deal with, and hormones are an easy and readily available drug that if there is any possibility to use them in this new way to make people’s lives easier and healthier, why hasn’t it been done already?

The “What does Denise look like contest,” is still going on. It will be on until March 10 and I’ll announce the winner/winners and give them their prizes that week. So keep the psychic experiement up! I’m finding this to be very interesting! It seems one can get a lot out of imagery out of just words on a screen. I’m very impressed with everyone’s abilities. It seems all of you have picked up different stuff about me. Some more accurate than others, but so far everyone has gotten at least a few details right. I think that speaks of how amazing the mind truly is, and how interlinked the right brain/intuition and visualization are. I’ve noticed that while writing I have had thing just come to me and often these things pan out as very accurate premonitions. Perhaps writing/reading and meditating allow us to connect with what Jung called, “The Collective Unconscious.” Whatever it is that’s going on, it just proves that as human beings our brains are much more complex and mysterious than most of us dare to imagine.

Hope you all had a great Valentine’s Day Weekend!

Best wishes and many blessings,

Denise

A Story By Chris Drake

I’m posting the published short story (fiction) by Chris Drake under the section, Readers/Writers. Please check it out! Her writers name is Chris Drake which is her maiden name, I also had put up a non-fiction post of hers about the Nadya Suleman story on the Readers/Writers page under her married name.

Best wishes,

Denise

Cori Desmond

Recently a young woman from Redondo Beach was murdered here in Southern California, her body was found about 100 miles away in the mountains. That was a small miracle as she could have ended up being one of those people who just disappear, something I believe her murderer counted on.

Her name was Cori Desmond and her father’s appeal was heart wrenching. Having a daughter myself and knowing the intense grief and anger he must be feeling overwhelmed by. I did have some strong feelings when the first part of the story was reported and nothing was disclosed about the gender or situation. And then again when more information came out today about the case.

The second bit of information confirmed what I picked up about the situation from the first report. Again when the next bit of info came out I had a picture of the murderer and some feelings about where he was originally from, how he got her into his car and the cause of her death.

I don’t want to give out any details (I have reported those to the police) but since I’m just going off of stuff from TV, it may not be as accurate as I would be if I was more directly in contact with either the family or with the detectives. I do want to put it out there to her family and the police that I would be more than happy to help them in any way possible for free. I have a feeling they don’t have much of anything to go on but Cori’s spirit is strong and I feel she is very angry and wants very much for this man to be caught, not just for her own reasons. I can be e-mailed at: happypeopleusa@aol.com

Best wishes and many blessings,
Denise

Answering Readers

I have gotten a couple of posts from Louis, here they are and I will answer those questions tonight.

Louis

Hi denise, I am an avid reader of your website.  Thank you again. I have written previously asking about OZ minerals, you have said it would be brought out in 2010 however there has been an offer to by the company by a Chinese company. Will they buy it this year. And is it wise to buy more to reduce the overall loss, as the Chinese company is offering a little more than its present share price?. The other question is currently in Victoria, Australia we have had terrible fires devastating and killing many. Is there a rhyme or reason for particular areas throughout the world to be hit by disaster and are those people chosen to suffer such excruciating loss? Thanks again . Warmest wishes Louis

I heard about the devastating fires and was horrified and very saddened by them. It was a case of arson from what we heard here. Sadly I don’t think there was any reason those people were “chosen” for suffering. I feel the psycho who did this just bought himself a ticket to becoming an ant to be squashed on for the next 1,ooo lifetimes.

In other words sometimes things like this are new karma that happen. I don’t believe everything is fated, I believe we co-create our fate. Those people who suffered such loss and those who died may have had things in their destiny or fate that made them more suspectable, but it had nothing to do with them. This is why it is so important for people to ALWAYS TRUST your INTUITION!!!

People blow off those weird feelings because they don’t trust themselves. It doesn’t matter whether someone thinks your crazy or you feel like an idiot or you turn out to be wrong, if you ever get the feeling that something bad is going to happen and you feel the need or desire to leave, then do so. If you ever get creeped out by someone, TRUST IT! Don’t ever, ever, ever doubt yourself. We all have this internal self preservation instinct and it must be headed at all times above any kind of rationality because you are literally gambling with your life by not trusting yourself.

And the next one:

Louis

A little added info to the above query, the Chinese company offering to buy the desperate Australian Resource Company Oz Minerals OZL is called Minmetals. Is this my last chance to recoup a little of the huge losses I have already experienced? Blessings and more Louis

Hi Louis,

I’ll use the tarot to answer this question. So here is the question for the tarot. Should you buy more stock in OZ to regain the losses you have so far before the Chinese company Minmetals buy them out? I hope I got that right. I’ll answer that one, and if I got it wrong post the question again so I can answer you with a yes/no spread.

The cards answered a clear yes to that question, even though you still may not fully recover what you lost it will help according to them.

I wanted to thank Wei for answering the question about MS and pregnancy. I had always heard women with MS shouldn’t get pregnant and was surprised when my neurologist told me pregnancy was the “cure” for MS, meaning it went into remission for pregnant women. I’m not sure if this is new information or if this is sometimes the case but not always? Anyway, thanks for giving your info Wei.

And to all those who knew Cori Desmond I want to extend my condolensces. I am so sorry for the loss of this young woman who I feel was very strong and independant. I am worried about the health of her father as I feel he may have heart problems as a result of this or already had issues that this could make worse. My offer to help goes out to him. I truly feel for this man and wish this had never happened. 

Best wishes and many blessings,

Denise

Readers’ Comments…

First Hopeandaplan:

hopeandaplan

I wanted to thank you for creating the dream journal. For many years I have had hazy but sometimes precognitive dreams and was always frustrated that I couldnt share them with people whom they might actually impact. Most of the time I didnt believe they were precognitive… I had a lot of dreams about Australia in late January and felt their surge in shark attacks further signalled trouble there. I am sorry the dreams werent more definitive. Also, about a week ago I got a lot of flashes about Suge Knight. I dont even listen to rap??? I guess he was in a brawl earlier this week. I didnt post about Suge because I am so out of the loop I thought he had passed away. I’m grateful you’ve generously encouraged us to believe enough in our intuitions to share them here because as a community we’re all picking up on one another’s stuff. I also enjoy your welcoming other writer’s thougths about ethics. Just of a fan of all the humanity expressed here on your blog!

Hi Hopeandaplan,

I’m so glad you are making use of the dream journal and I really hope people continue to use it and exchange information and patterns. This is a really interesting experiment in my opinion and already I’ve seen odd coincidences and patterns which I’m sure you have, too. I think this sort of thing could be key to pointing out major events that are going to manifest out of the Collective Unconscious, hopefully, we will each receive some piece of vital information and be able to stop potential terrorist attacks or other major disasters in the future (if this sort of research continues and evolves.)

If nothing else it can only help us better understand how the unconscious works and what dream symbolism means for each of us. I do wonder if before major events that touch many people, if we won’t see some common themes. I’m hopeful that we will.

Thanks so much for participating in this and I hope more people take advantage of this opportunity to share their souls and inner most psyche’s with others of like mind.

And from Nic and Noe:

nic

cori was my friends sister. what you’ve heard on the news is all anybody knows, if that helps.

Noe

Very sad… she use to work at my bf’s work. I’m in shock, there has been a lot more crime in the beach communities lately, has me a bit worried. I feel awful that this young girls life was taken.

I can’t tell you how heartbreaking this story is, as are the stories of all people who undergo the disgusting, vile, evil monstrous behavior of that these anti-social personality disorder types propagate onto others.

But this story in particular really hit me hard and her father’s pain was palpable.

I am wishing all of her family, friends and loved one much support, kindness and love throughout this incredibly tragic and horrifying situation. I’m sure medical science will discover (at some future time) that the one thing all murders have in common is some serious frontal lobe damage or crazy hard wiring. One can try to chalk it up to bad childhoods, but let’s face it, a lot of people have horrible childhoods and don’t do things like this. There is something wrong with their brains and I perhaps their very souls.

I will answer these questions tomorrow at some point, once I run the charts and look at them.

Best wishes and many blessings to all the kind and good hearted people out there reading this blog,

Denise

Sally Herr

Dear Denise,

On February 17, 2009 Obama sign the stimulus package at 1:34 Mountain Time in Denver, Colorado as seen on CNN. Now, what do you perceive about the stimulus package? Thanks!

I got this information from the website,http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PoliticalAstrology/message/103237. Note: one can only read entries if one provides their password and name.

Sally

Carl15

Dear Denise, Thanks so much for your efforts here! There’s so much panic out there now – do you see major US banks like Bank Of America (BAC) and Citigroup (C) being nationalized by the government? Also, do you see a recovery of American International Group, Inc. (AIG)? THANK YOU SO MUCH! Peace and blessings, Carl

Answering Readers…

The promised answers to the last set of unanswered questions…

Sally Herr

Dear Denise,

On February 17, 2009 Obama sign the stimulus package at 1:34 Mountain Time in Denver, Colorado as seen on CNN. Now, what do you perceive about the stimulus package? Thanks!

I got this information from the website,http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PoliticalAstrology/message/103237. Note: one can only read entries if one provides their password and name.

Sally

And from Carl:

Carl15

Dear Denise, Thanks so much for your efforts here! There’s so much panic out there now – do you see major US banks like Bank Of America (BAC) and Citigroup (C) being nationalized by the government? Also, do you see a recovery of American International Group, Inc. (AIG)? THANK YOU SO MUCH! Peace and blessings, Carl

Since it turns out both of these questions are interlinked I’m going to post the chart of the stimulus package and then explain how and why.

 I couldn’t substantiate whether or not this chart is accurate but based on it. Just look at all those planets in Aquarius crammed into the eighth house of banking and investing. This will cause a couple of things to happen. One being incredible instability in the banking and financial industries, a lot of banks and investment companies will still to go out of business unless there is truly a revolution, one way being what Carl suggested. When I meditated on Carl’s question a few days ago I didn’t feel that there was any desire on the part of the Obama administration to nationalize the banking industry but this chart would suggest to me that it might actually be neccesary in order to restructure them along with many other elements of the financial industries. 

If this is indeed the correct chart then the changes will be radical and the model of a foreign system will be modified to fit ours (Sun conjunct Neptune in the 9th).  Conservatives are going to have serious opposition to this (Saturn opposite Uranus which rules all that stuff in the 8th and 9th houses) but if something radical isn’t done (and there will be elements of this that reflect systems in places like Denmark, Sweeden, Norway — not to worry though they have the highest standard of living and are among the wealthiest countries in the world so not a bad place to steal ideas from) there will be a huge collapse. Those are the choices here. And the Obama administration isn’t going to sit by and let that happen so although their original intentions may be to be more conservative as more information comes out and things progress they will be further and further pushed to make radical changes.

I’ll look into AIG for Carl later tonight.

Best wishes to all and many blessings to all the kind and good hearted people out there,

Denise

P.S. I will try to substantiate this chart and once I do, I will go into much more detail about what’s going to happen as a result of this bill.

The Economic Stimulus Plan & Cori Desmond

First I want to say that I am so sorry for the loss of Cori. I feel very badly for all of her family and friends and want to let them know I have given the police all the information I received. I also talked to some of Cori’s friends which confirmed some of what I had told the police and had e-mail correspondence with her father whom I will be more than happy to help if he wants me to.  I’ve gotten a flood of e-mails from her friends. She was obviously a very powerful presence and touched many people’s lives. I’m sorry if you have e-mailed me and I haven’t gotten back to you. I haven’t had a lot of time recently. 

Now onto the Stimulus Package which upon further reflection and after seeing the Governor of Louisiana on Meet the Press tonight, brought to light one of the aspects in the Stimulus Package chart. That is the Uranus Saturn opposition which is the ideological tug between the conservative status quo way we have been dealing with the economy since Reagan’s “Trickle Down Economics” and “no new taxes,” mantra. Both of which were falacies even then as wealth never ended up trickling down and we went into a recession in the early 90s because of the overspending hole Reagan put us in, as it turned out Reagan did also raise taxes. He actually invented or re-applied new ones like the Capital Gains tax so when you sold your home that you had already paid taxes for every year, not to mention the income tax you had to pay before you bought the home, but you were then taxed on any profit you may have made on your home. The only way to avoid this was by buying a home of equal or greater value.

So all those people who were middle class wanting to scale down, use their equity to retire on, screw them! They had to pay this extra ridiculous double tax. Again, this was a slimy way to tax the middle class and allow the wealthy to weasel out of their fair share.

This broken ideology is the cornerstone of the Republican party. Yet until Bush “broke the world,” as Seth Meyers joked on Saturday Night Live a couple weeks back, they were getting away with the bait and switch, doing what they accused the Democrats of doing (which they actually weren’t) like creating huge deficit spending (remember that surplus at the end of the Clinton era, seems like a thousand years ago now), they were selling their party as fiscally conservative — read help the wealthy save their money so they can buy more yachts while the schizophrenic guy gets dumped onto the streets from a half-way house because, damn it, he should “pull himself up by his own bootstraps,” theory.

They went after unions under the guise of their outdated uselessness and once they were destroyed the jobs with health care benefits and 401Ks and all those extra perks began slipping away. Until they were finally shipped overseas. And interestingly the border from Mexico became very porous while Reagan was in office. One needs desperate people to work for nothing if your desire is to exploit them.

I always said they were trying to turn this country into a third world nation, a country of very rich and very poor, nothing in-between. But even I couldn’t entirely believe it. It seemed too disgusting, greedy, evil and vile to really be true. Surely, there was something I was missing, perhaps a different ideology about economics that I didn’t get. Not that old timey way of doing things like indentured servitude and slavery, and people working for nothing so that their bosses could live like kings. No. Who would want to walk down a street and see people starving, who could do that and feel nothing? Oh, yeah, I think we had that answer, the people who were in charge the last 8 years. And the people who supported them, often not knowing what they were really supporting, thinking they were for “family values” and gun rights and the right to life and even Christianity. When in reality these people were really for greed, selfishness, and whoever has the most stuff wins. Not very Christian, not very “family values,” to let your grand kids pay for your spending sprees and live in a contaminated world so you could make a few extra bucks off that oil well.

Now the new Republican face is supposedly Bobby Jindal, Governor of Louisiana and he’s saying he won’t take the Stimulus Package money to help the people of his state, most of whom live in poverty, many still are not settled due to Katrina, because of “ideological” discrepancies with the plan. Meaning he wants more, “read my lips, NO NEW TAXES,” for the rich and is willing to commit political Harri Kari to carry the broken down smoldering torch of Reaganomics. Is he kidding? What are these idiotic Republicans thinking? Really? Really? I mean REALLY?

We are about to plunge headlong into a world wide depression because of their ideology. America voted them out of power in every branch of the government and they actually have the gall to criticize this bill. Really? Seriously, they actually tried to get in the way of it. And this Bobby Jindal is going to turn down relief for the starving people of Louisiana because it’s going to make the deficit worse? That’s his supposed excuse. Where was he when we invaded Iraq with now hundreds of thousands of dead innocent Iraqi people, thousands of our soldiers and a trillion, bazillion majillion dollar deficit from what was a bungled mess and total violation of the Geneva convention. 

So back to the astrology of this. This idiotic commitment to a failed economic ideology that the Republicans are still in love with will end up pushing this stimulus package into a more and more radical stance. As things worsen, the reaction will have to be more extreme, more radical and dare I say it, more about spreading the wealth. I know these guys hate that idea. I mean only they deserve to be wealthy. But lets face it, if they are the only ones with money, then its kind of hard to have an economy.

The best metaphor I heard about what has happened is this: Imagine you are playing a poker game and one guy keeps winning and winning until he’s taken all the money from all the players. Well, the game’s over. That’s a major ideological hole in Trickle Down economics.

And what happens when the rich just get richer? They literally clog the economic colon of the country. They can’t possibly move around enough money to sustain everyone. When the wealth is spread around, and there are a lot of middle class people spending money, we actually have more jobs, more productivity, more to go around. This was the basic theory behind Clinton’s economic ideology  and it worked very well. Actually, incredibly well.

So if anyone implies spreading the wealth around is a bad thing tell them to go back in their time machine to the 1950s when McCarthy and the Red scare was happening, and leave the rest of us alone — those of us who live in the 21st century and know that some of the most productive and wealthiest nations in the world are actually social democracies, like Norway, Sweden and Denmark.

Countries where they have the highest standard of living and where the people are statistically proven to be the most content of anywhere in the world. Lands where no one starves on the street, the mentally ill are treated, and you not only have free health care, but if you apply yourself academically you can get a free higher education.

Now those don’t sound like such bad ideas to me.  

A land where both parents get something like six months paid maternity/paternity leave. Where the kids are brought to work, and put in company daycare where the parents work. You know all those family values we like to talk about, but don’t actually like to do anything about.

It actually sounds surprisingly evolved and civilized. Hope we can drop that weird anti-pinko, left over cold war brainwashing that makes it impossible for us to see things clearly.

Best wishes and many blessings,

Denise

The Economy… predictions from around the blog

I pulled some predictions about the economy from past postings that may apply to what we are in right now. Here’s one from January 21, 2009:

Despite the financial sour pickle we are going to eat and the release of information (probably within the next day or so) that will make the market start to free fall some more, we will be a better, stronger, wiser, kinder people. Also with Saturn in the 5th, the stock market will have the squeeze put on it both in terms of new laws and regulations and also its numbers continuing to constrict rather then bloom.

I think we may see the end of capitalism as we have known it. But once new laws (which there will likely be many international as well) are put into place, there stock market will recover. And with Saturn being in Virgo, down the road the next set of stocks to get  hit will be health care related stuff as it seems Obama will restructure that as well. 

Another from December 2 2008:

Here’s the other thing, in the Declaration chart Pluto is about to shred it. I’m glad it’s not our real chart, (and if it is well, we’ll know it for sure soon) but rather our more unconscious one, or we’d be in even bigger trouble then we already are. But it’s still posed to do some major damage to our US Cons. Sign chart this will happen a little later though in March of 2009, and will again most likely hit speculators and the stock market.

Ironically, this Monday Pluto hit 0 degrees again as it had the last time we had the major drop in November, and that is directly on the US Const. Sign charts south node in the 5th — meaning, what we have reaped in the market we are going to be sowing, and it’s going to be powerful, and painful. I think the Dow’s big Pluto over the ascendant happening at the end of December into January will be more about the horrible corruption, lies and sociopathic behavior of CEOs that will come out making investors think twice about trusting their money to these people, many of whom are really criminals in business suits. This is the shore I think the Tsunami is headed in terms of the Dow.

From December 4, 2008:

OK, I don’t know if Citicorp has officially gone under yet, but they will or they will be absorbed by another company completely by February 09 when transiting Neptune in Aquarius makes an exact square form their first house to Neptune in Scorpio in their 10th. They have been seriously deluding themselves. Also Pluto is going through the company’s 12th house and making an applying square to their Saturn in the second. They’ve been keeping secrets, and if they do get absorbed by another company, whoever takes them on will be hit with a necessary and very brutal restructuring in order to save what’s left which would take place in March of 2010. This lapse in time will probably be because the company has been hiding a lot and it will take time to sort out all the mess.

 

I just wanted to do some re-capping of past predictions. It’s not easy to find stuff on this blog. There’s so much! Gee whiz I blab a lot. Anyway, remember the contest is still on, I’m also still looking for people to submit their opinions for the Readers/Writers page and I’m open to all questions (that of course pertain to the broader picture, not just personal ones). Hope you all are doing well and by now have gotten out of the market as it looks like we will see it continue to decline for a while. 

Best wishes and many blessings to you,

Denise

Obama’s Speech & Health Care Reform

Obama’s speech last night was amazing. I didn’t get to finish watching all of it but he really is the first president I’ve ever truly been proud of. He exemplifies the best that a leader can be. I’ve been doing some looking back and wanted to share some earlier posts that touch on things that Obama talked about last night.

Here’s a post from December 2, 2008 about the health care system:

In the spring of 2009 we’ll see the first in a series of bills aimed at health-care reform as transiting Uranus in Pisces goes through the first house and opposes the US cons. sign. chart’s Sun. The way we see this issue has been changing over the past seven or so years, our minds began changing then when Uranus opposed Mercury in the 7th. And then as bankruptcy laws changed and increases in health-care costs went up, Uranus opposed Venus in the 7th, again highlighting the financial need for laws to change how we deal with our health-care system, pointing out the lack of human kindness in it. And finally when it hits the Sun in spring of 09, the vitality of this issue, the soul of the problem will be tackled in a bill. This aspect will go back and forth for a while so it will be the first in a series of several major changes to the system we now have in place.

It probably won’t be until May of 2010 until these changes are really put into action. This will be when transiting Uranus in Pisces will be trining the US cons. sign’s Uranus in the 6th house of health and the health-care system. This overhaul will be immediate, and a bit of a shock to the system, but will be a great improvement especially for women and children, and those who don’t have steady employment, but work more piece meal.

And this pertinent post dated January 25, 2009 after doing the chart of the 2nd inauguration:

With Mercury ruling the chart due to the Virgo ascendant and it being Mercury retrograde, which is probably why this happened to begin with (if something legal occurs during Mercury retrograde it inevitably has to be redone or if one goes on a trip during Mercury retrograde it means you will return to that place again later so it’s not always a bad thing), but getting back to the point, Mercury is in Capricorn in the 5th. I’d say there will be a lot of criticism and judgement from the other side about how to deal with the stock market and the financial disaster we’re in.

Be prepared to hear a lot of dramatic exaggeration of how his plan will ruin everything if put into place (by the Republicans) with Mercury being in the 5th house.  There will be an unfair amount of expectation for Obama to be perfect, and his critics will be very nitpicking and harsh with Saturn in Virgo in the 1st house. Expect his greatest criticism to come from the fiscally privileged with Moon in Sagittarius. Those corporations who have shipped jobs over seas, taking them off American soil. This could be because of new laws Obama will try to put in place making it difficult, if not impossible, for companies to exploit developing nations in leu of paying a proper wage to the American worker and keeping jobs here.

With Uranus and Venus conjunct in Pisces in the 7th house squaring the Moon in the 4th and opposing Saturn in the 1st, the loss of jobs, money, and passing of new laws pertaining to work, health-care, public service and  the real estate market means richy rich isn’t going to be pleased. There will be some real reform coming from an idealistic compassionate bent with Uranus conjunct Venus in Pisces meaning the Obama administration won’t have the motto, “greed is good,” but rather a motto of, “lifting up your brother, lifts all humanity.” Usually, selfish, greedy people don’t really dig this, too much, and they will be ravenous dogs picking at every tiny little thing they can find to try and show some sort of hole in his ideals.But I don’t think they’ll get far.

The public is going to be overwhelmingly with Obama, all that Aquarius in the 6th house of the regular working person means he will appeal to their issues and needs. He will do a lot to help those people. Also this chart reflects the reform of the health care system coming in his first term of office.

My feeling is Obama will be like Reagan in that any dirt thrown his way will just blow back on those throwing it. He is definitely the man for this big job, and the hope he has inspired alone is worth so much after 8 years of utter storming despair under the Bush administration’s fear and spy tactics. It’s as if we just broke down the Berlin wall again. The last 8 years were as close as we’ve come so far to a Plutocracy.

 

Blessing to all of you,

Denise

Answering Readers and Slashing Prices…

Questions and comments from readers and also some other stuff as you will see! First comes from Juno:

Juno

Hi Denise-

Just a suggestion — are there any L.A.-based papers that would run a regular column on info like this, concerning the Obama presidency and the new economy? Sending then a sample like this as a pitch would work; it would be great to reach a wider audience and to help others out there, and I think people are freaked out enough now that they are either going to shut down further or open up to new ways of looking at info.

Hi Juno,

Interestingly I’m talking to a much bigger local based website about doing this sort of political astrology for them instead of a regular old astrology column. You must be psychic!

And from Sparker:

Sparker

Hi Denise,
The other night I saw four, what I believe, are UFO’s over the city of LS Vegas the other night. Apparently, there is a huge surge in these blatant sightings. Whatever they are they apparently want to be seen.
I have also seen a lot of chem trails over Las Vegas the last few days. I saw them a lot in the Fall when I was in Central PA. It’s amazing to me that these things in the sky are going completely unnoticed by people.
Do you have any insight into why these things are taking place? I suspect the chem trails have something to do with reflecting light in the hopes of preventing global warming.
Thanks!,
Sparker

Hi Sparker,

I’ve  been doing a lot of research about this topic because I’m writing a piece about it. There have been a lot, A LOT, of mass UFO sightings in the past few years. And interestingly there have been a lot of UFO incursions at major commercial airports. These crafts have been spotted by airport staff, pilots and mechanics.

There have been a record number of air disasters lately which reminded me of one readers’ questions about the specific airline Quantas nearly getting hit a few times last year. I have started wondering about all the ariel phenomena it’s getting a bit nutty. I saw some footage of an airplane almost being hit by a UFO but according to the videographer the object could not be seen with the naked eye, making me wonder if perhaps there is something weird going on with all the recent crashes, especially since there has been such an increase in UFO sightings.

You should report what you saw to the local chapter of MUFON so they can investigate. Your sighting information will help them figure out how big, where, what time, and what the span of the object was.

There is definitely something going on. I have several theories about why there seems to have been so much contact from alien beings since our recorded history and why it escalates at different points. It seems to rise during major historical turning points, before WWI, at the turn of the 19th century right before the invention of the aircraft, during and before WWII and then in 1950s during the height of the cold war scare and again during the 1980s onward.

I do think you are right about global warming being a key. I believe the escalation is because we are dangerously perched on extinction. You could be right about the chem trails being some sort of way to shift the warming trend but I don’t know just yet. Maybe now the UFO occupants not only don’t care if we notice them, but are too busy trying to gather what they can before things dramatically shift or perhaps some are also invested in helping us avoid this, sort of like us going into the arctic and trying to save the animals there. A part of me wonders if we aren’t some crazy science experiment where our world is some kind of zoo and we are being watched by a bunch of different types of beings to see what happens. Let’s hope not. That seems very cold and creepy. 

All I know is there have been way too many credible witnesses and far too much evidence to dismiss the phenomena. I wish more people in the conventional sciences would investigate these sightings. I think they do science a great disservice by being closed minded and arrogant. Whatever is actually happening is really not important, what is important is that so many people of seen things and if it is a mass delusion (which I truly don’t believe it is) than isn’t this worth a scientific study in and of itself?

And another offer to cut my rates down during this uncertain time.

There are a lot of people going through scary things, people who need a little perspective and I don’t want my services to be for just rich people. So the Yule Tide offer is back for those who need it and for those who are really in a desperate place, but have virtually no money, then I can work something out, perhaps answering a few questions via e-mail for a minimal amount of money. I have had a lot of people needing help and many of them don’t have the means to pay my fees which is understandable in this economy. 

For those of you who don’t remember the Yule Tide rates they were: 50 for 15/20 minutes and 100 for 30/35 minutes and 150 for 45/50 minutes and so forth. If money is tight go for the 15/20 and prioritize what you really need to know and we can focus on that. Then in a few months if another area of your life is in need of help, we can work on just that in another short reading.

And lastly I’m asking a favor from the army of psychics who read this blog. Please visualize the capture of Cori Desmond’s murderer. You don’t have to have an exact picture just imagine the words Cori Desmond’s killer and the words Imprisoned, Captured, Found, anything of that nature next to it, or on it, whatever. However you want to do it. But please help, this is a very good hearted family who is really suffering.

Many blessings to all of you good people,

Denise

Cori Desmond

It’s very interesting that so many people are picking things up about her and the case and seem to feel an intense need to help in this way. I have had postings about other missing people on occasion, but the response to Cori has been really amazing.

I want to thank all of you out there for trying to help and for being open to the possibility of touching her spirit. I’m trying not to read all of it or rather take it in, as I want to be clear in case my services are needed by her family.

Keep her in your thoughts and prayers and visualize her killer being caught. You would be surprised how much visualization can help.

Questions, Anyone? The Economy?

Since for the first time in a long time I know we are in good hands, in terms of our president, and politics will be politics, I want to expand questions from all of you about things you are worried about. I was doing a lot of stock analysis which seems pointless right now, but if there are other things that will effect the whole, but you have a personal investment in, feel free to post a question about it.  Here’s an example of a question like that: Will the Toyota plant in Kentucky close this year? Or whatever you want. Even if it is more personal, as long as you feel others will get something out of the answer, please post. 

For me right now the economy is the major concern. But I feel we are going to have to ride it out for the next couple of years. I do feel that this spring another bill will be passed that will change things more dramatically for the better and the economy will start to show slow movement toward recovery.

But don’t get too excited, it’s going to take at least the next 2 years to really build momentum again. In the mean time we will all learn a tremendous amount and I hope that as a result we will learn the lessons our grandparents and great grandparents learned during the Depression. They not only learned how to save their pennies, but how to plan for the future and think long term. This ideology has fallen so out of style, ironically it was “conservatives” who weren’t thinking much about conserving for the future. But it could be that this down turn is the very thing that saves us in the end. We are in such a desperate ecological situation, perched on some very scary earth changes which we still have the power to turn around. Now that instant gratification qualifies as obscene, we may actually be able to save our planet while saving our economy. 

Best wishes and many blessings to all of you good people,

Denise

Readers/Writers Page… Information on Chem Trails

Hi everyone,

I’m sorry I’ve been unable to post for the past couple of days. I’m posting an excellent piece written by Barbara about Chem Trails and what they are on the Readers/Writers page. So if anyone is interested in that subject I would highly recommend reading this. 

I will look over all the comments and post more later!

Best wishes,

Denise

Answering Readers…

The first from Marlene:

 

Marlene

I have had it with that windbag Rush Limbaugh! Exactly how does a failed DJ from Pittsburgh who has never ever even attended a political science class, a drug addict and a bigot end up being treated as though he is some authority on the US? Every day in the news I am treated to Rush’s latest outrageous comments? Is anything being done behinde the scenes to shut him up for good (searching for scandals perhaps?) or can we expect some skeleton in his closet to put an end to his bloviating? Any chance he will eventually be marginalized by the GOP?

I’m answering Marlene first because I’ve been thinking a little bit about Limbaugh and his legion of suckers. I’ve been having this strong feeling that his antics are going to get old soon.  People are starting to figure him out. I’m sure he’ll have his die hard cult like fans, but the economy being in ruins, while Limbaugh gets rich shouting off his mouth about stuff he hasn’t half a brain cells worth of information about, isn’t going to fly.

And I don’t think people are going to believe its great for the rich to get richer anymore while they worry about losing their homes and/or family and friends losing their homes because the “greed is good” motto which Rush ascribes to has shown its true nature and its not good.

Greed is actually one of the seven deadly sins and there is a reason for it. Hording resources all for your self, wanting to be bigger and better than everyone else because you have a defective ego and need to see others suffer so you can feel better about your lame self, is disgusting. And these people call themselves Christians. I don’t think Christ would agree.

I really feel that we are just beginning to see the swing to the left. And I’m hopeful we’ll be able to undo a lot of the damage done by the right. I feel Americans are learning a big lesson here. Number one is, we are all in this together for and two, we all need help sometimes. That whole “pull yourselves up by your own bootstraps” motto doesn’t work so well when you have no boots, let alone straps. The assumption that we should all just worry about ourselves and screw everyone else is not only anti-Christian but anti-moral, anti-human, anti-compassionate.

Not everyone is born with Paris Hilton’s money, Einstein’s vision, Billy Jean Kings back swing, or even an average IQ. Some people struggle to read, some people are deaf or blind or have severe depression or have physical ailments that impede their ability to do most jobs. So we’re all suppose to just die homeless, on the street while starving to death if we can’t find a job, or get a job that pays enough to live on or work enough hours at the low paying job to make ends meet? This was the basic philosophy of life they sold us. I could never understand how anyone could believe it. It’s absurd.

I watched an episode of Super nanny the other night where the family was English and the dad supported his wife and three kids working at a fast food restaurant. I honestly couldn’t get over that. It was like looking back at 1950s America when people made a living wage here. It blew my mind. Here this guy would have to have 2 crappy jobs and his wife would also have to have 2 and be working 80 hours a week just to survive. And they still wouldn’t have health care! And their kids would have no real chance to go to anything but a community college and they’d never be able to retire. It’s so awesome being an American. We should really be proud to be one of the richest places in the world for those 1 percent who control all our wealth! Good for them, they make us special!

This country in the past 20 years became so barbaric in its capitalism I hardly recognized it as the same country I was a child in during the 70s. I wondered where all those open minded people who were smoking pot and going to rallies and rock concerts went. What happened to all those people who wanted peace and love and were anti-commercial, anti-materialism? I think a lot of them became Yuppies during the 80s and instead of smoking pot started snorting cocaine and their world view went up their nose!

We got lost there. Our country disappeared up its own bottom with all the crazy double talk, crazy making ways the Right wing sold their agenda of making the rich richer. They sold it under the guise of, “anybody could do it,” when they were actually rigging the game the whole time in their favor. It was such an enormous Ponzi scheme. The biggest dupe ever. It feels like we just got done with an era of criminals running the government, you know like what happens in other countries, not places like AMERICA, nothing like that could ever happen to us! That’s exactly how it happened to us! We stopped paying attention, believed all the crap those with a mic in hand said was the truth and lost interest in participating in our government.

I actually remember arguing with people about voting back when I was in high school. I was excited to get to do it at 18 and I had friends who could have cared less. I was appalled. When I confronted them they said things like, “It doesn’t matter. It’s just one vote.” They were so confident in our system of government they actually believed we as a nation were impervious to real corruption, abuse of power and politicians with agendas meant to serve only the wealthy few who supported them. Talk about naive.

This is why we are in the mess we are in. We as whole were a band of naive school children being led by FOX news and the newest versions of Herst that came in the form of Rupert Murdock. People actually used to believe what they read in a newspaper when I was a young adult. I think most people have seen enough slant from one paper to the next that we all know at this point there is no such thing as “objective” journalism which is why bloggers have become so popular.

At least a blogger doesn’t have to pretend to be objective about anything. You know the person’s slant and you can take their view point with a grain of salt, and you’ll now how much and what kind of salt to take it with because they will be very clear about their bent, making no apologies for it. At least this forum eliminates the gate keepers who have an agenda and it allows for enough variety of opinion for a person to make up their own mind.

The Internet has liberated our minds and has radically changed how we see and obtain information. I have a grand and strong feeling that the Limbaugh’s of this world will end up being no more popular than the biggest of the big bloggers.

In Limbaugh’s case, if we ignore him. He will go away! He’s the Courtney Love or Madonna (back in their days) of radio, always doing something to keep himself in the news. Same with that freak of a free loving, giant Adam’s apple (makes you wonder a little) skinny, googly eyed freak, Ann Coulter. I think she literally stole Courtney Love’s playbook after she made a xerox of Madonna’s while adding in a few extra zesty crazy ideas in to take it one step further.

That Coulter I think is by far the most out of control of all of them which is why people like her. I kind of feel like they love looking at the crazy, googly eyed nut job whose always on the verge of losing her sh*t because she’s got some kind of serious emotional problem and seems almost like one of Freud’s hysterics. She’s a carnival ride.

I used to think she knew it and was playing people, but recently I’ve started getting the feeling that she actually believes she’s some genius which she will (sadly for us) probably never get how very wrong she is as I’m sure she equates how much money she’s made with some kind of IQ score. It’s been my observation that often people of very average intellect are the most successful as their tastes and intellect connect with the masses in ways super brainics do not. I think Coulter actually has lost touch with reality and is like a crazed rabid pit bull. All of those people should be IGNORED. It’s exactly the one thing they don’t want. And the only thing that will stop them!

Best wishes, 

Denise

Answering Readers…

The first question comes from Dera:

DERA

Do you see a solution to the problems with the Mexican Drug cartels waging a war on the govt of Mexico City? I am so concerned about the people there and is legalizing drugs the answer?

Hi Dera,

My intuition tells me that the US will try to intervene in keeping the drug cartels under control, but won’t have a lot of success. The violence will continue to escalate until the people of Mexico are forced to have a kind of civil war against the drug lords. There are similarities to Chicago during the 1920s, but of course in Mexico it is even more extreme and violent. The mix of psychopaths, illegal drugs and corruption within the government all contribute  and it feels like it is escalating to the doorstep of genocide. I don’t feel this is going to get better soon, actually I feel it will get much worse. I only hope I’m wrong about this.

Oddly, I don’t feel the answer to this problem is to just legalize drugs because there is such a strong network of organized crime and corruption that it would be substituted with something perhaps even worse like sexual slavery, prostitution of children, etc. This network must be destroyed first and the government replaced with one truly vested in the good of all the people not just their own pocket books. I’m not saying everyone in the Mexican government/police/military fit into this category, but there are enough that do to make the good people ineffective. 

Eventually, those within the government who are not corrupt will have to build an army out of the ashes of those who have been devastated by the drug lords. Together, the people will have to fight this cancer overtaking their country or it will end up war torn and could lead to mass genocide as these psychopaths gain power and control.

The more violence these drug lords perpetrate the more they become sick with a mad cow-like disease eating away at their souls with each act leaving them nothing but empty shells feeding on destruction. This is the disease of war. It is what is happening in Darfur, what happened in Rowanda, what happened to ordinary people who became Nazis. This sickness is born from violence against our fellow brothers and sisters. It is the sickness that begets war and makes people do horrible things they would never believed themselves capable of. It can also infect ordinary people after seeing ones family slaughtered or child mutilated. It is the darkest side of Kali, the crazed destroyer. It is chaos, insanity, absolute coldness. I wish I could say inhuman, but this darkness is a part of the human condition, the shadow side. In normal healthy people we feel it rear up, but repress it with rationality, empathy and compassion. When all those things are gone there is no controlling it.

This is a very scary situation. I wish there was an easier answer.

hopeandaplan

I was watching two evangelists speaking with Rachel Maddow a couple of nights ago. They were explainging how socialism would usher in peace which was the prerequisite for the advent of the anti-christ’s arrival. They said Obama wasn’t the Anti christ because he wasnt popular enough but that his policies were setting the stage for his appearance. Huh? They are admitting that they would prefer people to go hungry and wage war so they can stop the antichrist. Who is the person(s) who have managed to pervert Christian principles so successfully? I also found it interesting that their segment coincided with James Dobson’s resignation from Focus on the Family. I respect religious differences and I embrace all spiritual expression but how is this evangelical dogma different from jihadist extremism? Any thoughts on the future of these people’s influence in American politics? Thanks.

Hi Hope and a Plan,

I’ve lost count of how many anti-christs there are, and have been. Nostradameus had at least 3. These dudes have had one pretty much every time there’s someone who wasn’t pro lining their pockets with gold. Sure, socialism is going to bring the anti-christ, that makes a lot of sense, I guess he must be living in Sweden or Norway, or maybe Denmark? Oh, I know perhaps Canada where they have “socialized” medicine.

We all know how Jesus was a TOTAL CAPITALIST! Whew, he just loved him some money and really didn’t want anyone helping out their neighbor or loving others. He taught anti-compassion and letting people starve to prove a point and loved war if it made him some dough. Oh, yeah, wait that’s those guys! I guess they must be the anti-christs because they are anti-everything Christ stood for. Besides I thought they wanted the anti-christ to come, so the big space ship in the sky could come and suck them up and they could be one of the chosen people to live forever in their decrept sack of rotting bone bodies. I mean come on, this is some insane crap. It really is just insane. 

Let’s look at the reality of this proposition. There’s this crazy, angry, jealous God who sends down his only son (something Jesus never said but hey, the Romans needed to make him into a living God so they could sell the religion) to save humanity from the original sin of Eve “eating of the fruit of knowledge” and thereby cursing all of us due to her mistake. Wow, that’s a very insecure God. He doesn’t even want us to have knowledge in case we might figure out he wasn’t all that, I guess. So Jesus removes this original sin if you believe in him, OK, then you die and go to heaven. Kind of, then your body rots in the ground until “Judgement Day” when Christ returns (after the anti-christ) and everyone is brought back to life forever. It’s not quite clear if we all are just animated skeletons or if we get back our old bodies and if so, what period are we talking, when we were really old, at the time of death, or do we get to pick our favorite period?

Here’s a question, after spending all that time in heaven (the other afterlife story) with angels, God, and living in perfect peace, why would you want your rotted out old body to be re-animated so you could live on earth forever? Heaven sounds like a much better deal to me. 

It’s all about fear and control. I’m sure that the crazy jihadists believe just as strongly in their book of stories as the crazy Christian zealots believe in their stories. But here’s something that neither side seem to understand, these are stories meant to illustrate ideas, greater ideas, spiritual ideas that are not easy to explain in common language, and are often beyond our understanding which is why they are never literal. The bible conflicts with itself pretty much on every count. In Genesis God first refers to himself as We, then as an I, he makes everything at once, then in 7 days. I remember studying the book of Genesis in high school and thinking how bizarrely contradictory it was. And wondered why no one ever addressed this.

Ultimately, all spiritual paths and all religions (by virtue of them being related to people’s spiritual paths on occasion) are not straight forward, black and white, easy to understand, direct, concrete or literal in any way at all. The language of the spirit is poetry, visions, flashes of understanding, connection, compassion, intuition, symbolism. There is nothing simple about it and absolutely nothing literal, which is why zealots who see everything as literal are insane and truly waste their lives looking at the multiverse through a keyhole, randomly assigning roles to whatever they see based on the book they have in their hand.

It is absolute blindness.

I don’t think one could even begin to name how many zealots have lived in the history of the human race, yelling that the end was near, blah, blah, blah. But when it comes to these people actually really doing something about evil, like calling out the government of Darfur, calling Omar Bashir the anti-christ or at least an anti-christ, they won’t because what happens in Africa stays in Africa. The world to these people is the US and maybe Europe? But everyone on the planet could die off because of someone like Bashir and things would be peachy. These types weren’t calling Hitler the anti-christ either. Whys that?

Cause they reserve their hate speech to use as scare tactics to get people away from helping out others, because they don’t care about anything but their pocket books, their place in society and their power. And if it doesn’t effect them personally then it isn’t important.

So let’s get real about these a-holes. They are not spiritual, they are not Christian, they are not anything but shysters. 

OK and these questions tomorrow, and I’ll go back further over the week and answer earlier questions as well:

Sherry

Hi Denise Here’s something that might be of interest to all. For so long now we’ve watched small businesses get run over by large corporations and big box stores. It’s been hard to keep small individual businesses (i.e. mom-and-pop stores, etc.) from going bankrupt. I feel that once we get past the next couple of years and the economy begins to grow again, there will be opportunities for individuals and small companies to grow again. Especially since so many have closed up in the last few years. Right now everyone seems to shop at Walmart and Costco, etc. just to save as much as possible, but I think that when times get better people may want a more personal touch in their shopping. Would you ask the cards if an expansion of entrepreneurship is coming in the new economy. I would hate to think that we’re stuck with the Walmarts for the future. Use this recession time to prepare for what you want to do in the future. Lay the groundwork, so to speak. Thanks.

skaley

Hi Denise, I have a feeling that the US Dollar will start sliding heavily after sept 2009. How do you see the USD playing over the next 5 years?. How will the strength/weakness in USD effect the housing prices in the country? Do you see housing prices becoming affordable and in line with rents again?

 

Best wishes and many blessings to all you good people,

Denise

Answering Readers

There are a million questions to answer and I’m going to do it! I promise. So let’s start with these and get to all the others over the next couple of weeks:

Shay

A lot of sensitives have noticed a certain shift in the air for the month of February, more so the last week of Feb. Some have said they felt the shift was very positive and others like me, have never felt anything so negative…why do you think this shift has occurred and why are we feeling so differently about it? This topic comes after many message boards saying the exact same thing.

Hi Shay,

I have felt a personal shift toward being more productive but in terms of a global shift I’ve felt that since last summer. But my timing is usually off in that way. I’ve always tended toward precognition and the whole time/space thing gets confused for me. I can feel things years before they happen with the urgency of something going down that moment. Or it could be months or just weeks of days ahead of schedule. I have often felt out of synch with time, and I think actually there is something about me that bends it, because no matter who ends up hanging out with me, it’s like all of a sudden they’ve entered a worm hole and look at the clock 5 hours later and go, “Oh, my God is it really that late?” It always seems that time gets lost in and around me.

So for me the shift was extremely negative in the summer, so much so that I actually felt depressed, frightened and extremely worried. Then it moved toward the next phase which was a sense of hope and peace which I feel will be coming in about 2 years. I think the shift you are feeling is the shift into this depression and then there will be a shift out, we are sort of in the middle right now. And according to the US chart (which I’ve figured  now is most accurate) March is the month when the market is supposed to truly bottom out. We’ll see. But I do feel we will recover within the next couple of years. The panic, fear and depression I felt coming I feel is here and we will rise out of its ashes in a bit. 

My main concern is making sure that we solve the global warming problem which I’m afraid will get lost in the mayhem of the market, the financial industry going down the tubes and the recession/depression and wars we are in. All the money in the world doesn’t do any good if there’s no world to live in.

Lori

Hi Denise, thanks so much for expanding the discussion. I have a question that is somewhat personal but does have applicability to others besides me. I am wanting to change jobs–I am lucky that this is a choice and not a necessity–but I do feel that a career change is important for my mental health, as soon as I can manage it. I am wondering when the jobs outlook in Washington state will improve. Currently there is a hiring freeze in state jobs, including higher education, until July 1st. Will the stimulus bill be able to help us lift that freeze sooner? What will the jobs outlook be in education in general as 2009 progresses, both in K-12 and higher education (either public or private institutions)?

Hi Lori,

I am getting that the stimulus package will lift the hiring freeze sooner than July, more likely it will be lifted in May. I have a feeling though in general for 2009 the jobs outlook in education will be much like it has been for the past few years. It will take a little longer before the education field gets the boost it needs through government support. I do feel this will be coming but not immediately. I do get a sense that in about 2-3 years much more money will be pumped into that pipeline and there will be some major changes for the better.

Hope everyone is having a great weekend.

Best wishes and many blessings to all you good people,

Denise

Answering Readers (a little) & Economic Warning

Hey everyone,

I don’t want to freak everyone out, but I wanted to warn everyone I’m feeling the other end of that hit in the market coming soon, in the next 6 weeks. Sort of like the next wave in the Tsunami about to hit the shore. I had looked at charts when I felt the first one (about 3 weeks before the -777 market  crash) and from the looks of it, it seemed likely some major stuff was going to hit the fan in December, the stuff about Bernie Madeoff came out then, and didn’t help, but the timing was off in the chart. Hence I’ve concluded that the chart I have for the market is not exact. So I’m going with my intuition which is usually more accurate anyway.

I’m feeling it coming. It’s going to get scary bad. We are about to hit bottom, the below 6000 points thing mentioned early on this blog. So try not to freak out, it will get better. It has to get super extreme, this is part of the correction. Things will turn around, but there’s about to be major panic for many. We are already in a free fall so for many of us who are not in the market and have started adjusting our lives this next hit won’t feel as dramatic at first. We will feel the punch a little later. 

As for President Barack Obama he is doing everything possible in his power and it is sickening that the Republicans are more interested in winning the game according to their party rules then they are in all of us winning. More has to be done to restructure the financial industry and our economy as I have said in earlier posts, and I think we are headed toward another near melt down and some kind of other government intervention via another bill which will become a huge deal as the economy will take another giant hit here. 

Hold on to your seats its going to be bumpy, but it will turn around.

For those who have argued against the fusion of a strong social net and capitalism (an argument you will hear in coming weeks more vehemently thrown out there as the richest 1 percent try to pursued us that they really their money will trickle down eventually) let me say that the wealthiest countries in the world with the highest standard of living are countries which have embraced mindful capitalism and a society where the standard is the working middle class, something we used to have in this country. As the metaphor goes if one person keeps winning all the cash on the table and everyone else runs out trying to stay in the game, then the game is over when the guy “wins.”

However if there were always cash for people to play with then no matter how much that one guy wins, he will just keep winning, and we will all win because we are able to keep money flowing. When a handful of people control all the resources we all loose, including the dumb people who greedily want to have all the resources. However, these people don’t get that they are losing more by holding onto this old model because they need to have things clearly defined in winning and losing rather than the idea of the economy and life being a process, a continual flow like a river rather than a guy running a marathon.

The mentality of this greedy winners vs. losers mentality is a Reagan era legacy that I’m sure has roots back to the B rated cowboy movies he used to be in. In truth life is not about winners and losers it’s actually about being in the flow, giving, learning, experiencing. It isn’t about being better than everyone else. But try telling those guys on Wall Street who were complaining about home owners getting help instead of the help they gladly accepted from George W. & our government to stay flying in their private leer jets when they were supposed to be using that money to bail out their companies.

And to answer Sinead’s question below. I was planning on this being the end of the contest. So I’m going to go through the posts and pick some winners which I will announce in the next couple of weeks. I may wait to post a picture though, for my own weird reasons. I will eventually post a picture but I have my reasons which someday, I’ll explain, maybe.

And by the way, everyone who participated got something right! I think that’s pretty remarkable. It just goes to prove that there is something to all of this nuttiness. And also I wanted to pass on some interesting stuff. I’m not sure how many people are familiar with the Myers-Briggs personality indicator (which is based on some of Jung’s theories) or on the ancient early psychological system called the enneagram but for those of you who are interested in learning more about yourself here are some interesting links.

It is a fascinating system and if you are interested in learning more about yourself I highly recommend taking the Myers-Briggs test. Here’s a place to take the Myers-Briggs test for free with some info on the types:
http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp

And here’s a free Enneagram test. Also very fascinating:

http://www.eclecticenergies.com/enneagram/test.php
 

I’d love to get people to take the tests and then do a survey and see what the breakdown of people is according to their type. Is there a type specifically wired toward interest in metaphysics or is it everyone in different ways? Hmm, perhaps we can find out!

Best wishes and many blessings to all you good people,

Denise

P.S. Below is Sinead’s question.

sinead704

Hey denise!     I know this has nothing to do with the above post, but i can’t find the birthday predictions on what you look like. Did the contest end? I already predicted but I wanted to see who was the most accurate? Thanks Sinead

The Contest

I’m going to go over the entries for the contest in the next couple of days and post the winners and a list of prizes. The next couple of days maybe shorter postings because we have a house guest from my home town of Chicago staying with us. But you never know. I may find time to blab per the usual. 

I will answer some questions for sure on Thursday and some tomorrow as well. Sorry I’ve got to keep it short today but I have a lot of analyzing to do. Hope you guys look into the enneagram and the Myers-Briggs personality tests. They really are fascinating.

Best wishes to all you lovely humans,

Denise

Enneagram Poll

Answering Readers…

First from Sherry:

Sherry

Hi Denise Here’s something that might be of interest to all. For so long now we’ve watched small businesses get run over by large corporations and big box stores. It’s been hard to keep small individual businesses (i.e. mom-and-pop stores, etc.) from going bankrupt. I feel that once we get past the next couple of years and the economy begins to grow again, there will be opportunities for individuals and small companies to grow again. Especially since so many have closed up in the last few years. Right now everyone seems to shop at Walmart and Costco, etc. just to save as much as possible, but I think that when times get better people may want a more personal touch in their shopping. Would you ask the cards if an expansion of entrepreneurship is coming in the new economy. I would hate to think that we’re stuck with the Walmarts for the future. Use this recession time to prepare for what you want to do in the future. Lay the groundwork, so to speak. Thanks.

Hi Sherry:

You make some excellent points about how cannibalistic the nature of business was in the past decade and a half. This model was what killed so many industries not just small businesses. The idea that one could sell more goods and services to the middle of the bell curve while ignoring everybody else (which is what has happened in entertainment, music, art, theater, film, clothing, cars, etc.) lead to a lack of innovation, no risk taking, bottom line quarterly thinking, no long term plan for the future, and thus our culture and its products (including the arts) become boring. Everything and everybody was forced to look basically the same, drive the same 3 colors of cars, wear the same basic T-shirt sold at different prices and watch and listen to the lowest common denominator of music/film, etc. Of course there are always exceptions, but when the business world is run based entirely on the bottom line, sans any kind of passion or vision, we get gate keepers who are afraid to move culture forward via new ideas in all areas music, writing, art, film, clothing, shoes whatever. We are all individuals and we were being treated like cows, prodded and wrangled this way and that to buy whatever seemed to fit some CEO’s idea of the perfect sweater for the “little people,” ie. the unwashed masses or the basic moron on the street which Jay Leno’s version of the tonight show so aptly encapsulated in his “Jay walking,” bit.

The bit was successful because it reinforced the idea that everyone was an idiot, not that they were interviewing 20 year olds about politics and policies their parents barely knew about, hence no interest in the subject and no knowledge. If you would have interviewed these young people about their favorite bands, TV shows, movies or whatever they were into, I’m sure the Leno staff would have actually learned something rather than going through hours of tape looking for the dumbest answer to the dumbest question. Sure, there are dumb people in the world. But there are also brilliant people. Granted that’s not a funny idea interviewing smart people — if it were, talk shows would actually be interesting to watch rather than painful product endorsements disguised as entertainment.

The world used to be much less homogoneous. Countries used to have their own cutlures. The past fifteen years, maybe longer it seems this has been more and more erased. We have imported our ugliness everywhere, from McDonald’s, to Starbucks. Granted Starbucks treats its employees well and makes a good cup of coffee, but it seems a bit sad to see one on every corner in London or worse, Rome! I liked the world a lot better when it was feasible for a person to have an interesting idea and then put that idea forth as a store, a book, a film or whatever. When the product and the idea came first, and as long as it made some money, broke even and had the capacity to move things forward it was seen as a success rather than this ridiculous notion of constant unending growth for share holders to snort every quarter. 

Enough of my ranting, let’s ask the pendulum if we are going to see (in the next 3-10 years) a return to the mom & pop run business, along with more diversity and choice for all.

OK, according to the pendulum we will see a return of the mom and pop store, more diversity and business catering to all different types of individuals once the correction is finished. This may take a couple years to accomplish, in the mean time some big cheap chain stores will continue to dominate the landscape.

But I do feel many of them will go down as well and this will also open up new opportunities for the future. It’s my feeling that the next ten or more years businesses will become smaller and geared more toward niche markets, an extension of the E-bay sort of model but adapted to the real, as opposed to, the virtual world.

I have a feeling with so many outer planets in Aquarius people will be seeking to express their individuality more and more and resent middle of the bell curve marketing. This along with feeling duped by big business will give incentive to people to support stores, shops and individual business owners within their own communities. Gone will be the days of being so disconnected from how, what, where or when a product is made and how it gets to the individual. At least for awhile. Let’s hope this recession/depression has a big enough impact on our collective psyche to create a sense of responsibility for consumers and their choices forever or at least a very long time.

And from Hope and a Plan:

Hopeandaplan

Hi Denise, I am a pretty private person and I would understand if you didnt want to post a picture of yourself. I think you share an awful lot of yourself already… I have a question about the next wave…Sheila Baird, the FDIC chief claimed that at the rate of banks were shutting their doors the FDIC insurance for depositors will run dry by year’s end. Do you think that’s part of this tsunami wave? Should we start stuffing our mattresses? I know this is a self fulfilling prophecy but if its on its way, then how is my pittance going to impact the gazillions of dollars going out to these banking behemoths? I am reticent to be negative, especially since I am not a finance specialist but all bets are off with the financial system these days…. I feel like I have to look out for my family and my extended community, like the people on this board. If the banking system is going to tank and then restructure I am not going to naively go down with them in the short term. Thanks in advance, Denise.

Hi Hope and a Plan,

It’s been my feeling from the beginning that the FDIC money would run out, and it might take time to get money out of your bank if it goes belly up. I don’t feel however this will be permanent. So if anyone is worried, take enough money out to live for at least a couple of months, but I don’t feel it will be safe to take out your life savings and put it in your mattress.

I do feel the Fed will make good on the insurance, it just might take longer than one might want. I don’t feel that it will be an inordinate amount of time with Obama in the white house but I worried with George W. it might take 6-12 months if he were still president or if crazy McCain had gotten elected. Thank the Universe this did not happen. We are seriously going to be so much better off than one could imagine by making this choice. As bad as it may seem, this period will be compressed into a matter of a couple of years rather than over a decade which is what would have happened. 

From Cherri:

Cheri (tranquilsleep444)

Any other INFJ’s out there?

Hi Cheri,

Yes, I am an INFJ. I encourage everyone to check out their type based on the Myers-Brigg system. It is very fascinating.

From Juno:

Juno

Dreamt of a wild rabbit – the little grey ones you see in L.A. hillsides at dusk – it was a baby rabbit, and was poking its head down a hole in the hillside, being playful, scampering about… I was watching him for ages, enjoying myself, alone on a hillside. He poked his head again down the hole, and screamed, with his hind legs sticking up in the air, flailing. I pulled him up by his legs and a snake was attached to his nose. I pulled off the snake, killed it with a rock, and cradled the rabbit on its back while I looked for help. The rabbit had such sad eyes I started to cry, and in the dream he started to morph into my toddler son, naked, with wounds by his left rib and groin, but he was bleeding clear fluid, not blood, like in the story of the crucifiction of Christ. I woke up at this point, so upset I went and checked on my son, who was fine, but who has had a very serious flu and had had to be rushed to the hospital. I can only assume that is why I had such a horrible, disturbing dream. Ugh. I should add I never dream about rabbits, and never was into “cutsie bunnies” growing up. Any insights?

Hi Juno,

Rabbits are associated with the Goddess Oeaster, which is where the Easter Bunny’s origin comes from. Since she is a Goddess of the vernal equinox and spring, she and the bunny represent fertility, the new, spring, youth and renewal. In some Native American traditions rabbit medicine is supposed to be the medicine of fear because rabbits are prey animals. Again they are innocent, open and easily hunted in the wild which is why they overcompensate through sheer numbers. 

Snakes are associated with sexuality. There have been many Goddesses associated with charming snakes, and of course snakes are very phallic. Snakes also represent regeneration, death and rebirth and are associated with the sign of Scorpio as one of the 3 symbols of that signs karmic ascension the Scorpion being the first, the Snake the second level and the Eagle the final and highly evolved spiritual sort of Scorpio (like Gandhi).

The wounds are an obvious metaphor for damage. The bunny obviously your child, an innocent, the snake that you had to destroy as it was killing your child, could be a relationship with a man that must transformed for the sake of your child’s survival (emotionally and spiritually). The wounds letting out clear fluid like water I would think are that water. So the wounds are draining the life blood of his emotions (water is associated with emotion in western esoteric tradition). The injury being at the site of the left rib, again seems to reinforce a primal sort of injury (being done to his spirit) as the rib in Christian tradition is associated with the first man and woman. And the groin area represents an injury to his eventual manhood.

I’m sure the trip to the hospital triggered it but this dream seems very clearly to be telling you that there is more to your son’s illness than just a physical problem. There are some very damaging emotional things in the environment which it seems you are aware of and are trying to change as you pull your son out of the hole and work on healing and saving him.

Hope that helped.

And if you want to take the Myers-Briggs test there is a link to a free test site in an earlier post. Just use the search it button and put in Myers-Briggs or personality test and it should come up.

Best wishes and many blessings to all you good people,

Denise

Just found this review

Hi everyone, just found this review about the book of Haiku I had work published in. Thought I’d share the review with everyone: Haiku Not Bombs by Shin Yu Pai

My review

rating: 5 of 5 stars
Funny and timely, this book of Haiku stretches beyond the ancient model to a contemporary paradigm of Haiku. Excellent for anyone who loves poetry. Denise Siegel’s poems are especially ironic, interesting and funny but all the others add a great deal, and an interesting perspective.
Haiku Not Bombs by Shin Yu Pai

My review

rating: 5 of 5 stars
Funny and timely, this book of Haiku stretches beyond the ancient model to a contemporary paradigm of Haiku. Excellent for anyone who loves poetry. Denise Siegel’s poems are especially ironic, interesting and funny but all the others add a great deal, and an interesting perspective.

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The Shadow Self

Many New Age concepts and ideas focus on the love and light side of human nature and neglect dealing with the shadow self. In ancient esoteric tradition the shadow self is as important to master as forging a connection to the higher self is.

By the shadow self, I mean the dark side of ones nature, the place where pain, childhood scars and wounds get hidden. Often it is this part of the self we work very hard to keep in the dark for fear of seeing ourselves as imperfect, wounded or incapable. It is the shadow self that plays the trickster giving us a visceral dislike of someone who reflects this part of us, or seduces us into a relationship that opens up the closet full of familial negative patterns and self-sabotage.

It is not that the shadow self wants to destroy the self, it is the shadow’s job to make us face our deepest pain, fear, sadness, remorse, shame and grief in an effort to heal and move past these events that marred our sacred wholeness. 

We live in a culture that promotes easy answers, quick solutions, magic pills and 7 steps to success. Oprah talks about “light bulb” moments, as if one moment, one concept or one idea can actually change the trajectory of someones entire life. In reality our experience is built in layers brick by brick, no one piece of information will solve everything, no one solution is right for everyone and while there are helpful principles and lessons, there is no Secret behind all of life’s dilemmas and no simple solution to just visualize what you want. Sure all those things are helpful tools that can transform a person’s life, but all the visualization in the world of meeting the perfect mate isn’t going to work if one is an agoraphobic shut in whose only human contact is with a handful of relatives who go grocery shopping for them. Unless that person’s soul mate is their mail carrier visualization isn’t what’s holding the person back from their dream, it’s their fear — their shadow self has overtaken and eclipsed their ability to do anything productive, including leaving the house. 

We all are on different journeys and have different shadow selves to heal, and be tricked by. There are no mistakes in life, just opportunities to learn and grow created by the part of us that needs to be healed. But when we judge ourselves based on these past experiences as failures, or idiots or whatever, we fail to see that what happened was perfect.

As painful as any situation maybe, it is a chance to go deeper, learn, grow and connect. Negative experiences afford us the opportunity to re-evaluate and stop the unconscious script we are playing out by becoming more conscious, so that we can make better decisions in the future and individuate fully without the constraints put on us by our ancestors’ issues (parents, grandparents, etc.)

When evaluating any spiritual system it is always (in my opinion) important that that system has taken into account all sides of the human psyche. Systems focusing so much on being positive without understanding, or reconciling the internal negative conflicts we all have can be very dangerous to our spiritual and emotional well being. These systems are more akin to drug addiction than actual spiritual work, affording people the chance to slip into a world of fantasy and narcissism where the ego is dowsed in positive affirmations without the proper reflection and integration necessary to actualize and manifest a person’s dreams.

This is why ancient mystic traditions were not only secret, but required intense study, dedication and meditation. People were brought through layers and levels of teaching depending on their innate wisdom and ability to grasp lessons on multiple layers. Not true of many of the easy fix New Age medicine shows offering a cure to everything in the form of some numbered panacea. (The 3 steps to ultimate weight loss, the 8 steps to becoming a millionaire, the 9 steps to happiness, etc.)

It’s easy to understand something intellectually, but without understanding the emotional and spiritual elements of a problem, it can’t be solved. For example one can not choose who one falls in love with. Intellectually, a person might know that person A is bad for them but love is a feeling, not an idea and therefore no amount of logic can remove that feeling. Instead that person has to go through all the feelings necessary to get to the place where they can let go, usually after immense grief and intense pain, to the point where those negative feelings eclipse the feeling of love and the person can no longer hold onto the warmth they felt for the other person without causing themselves great distress. Does that make the person stupid? Absolutely not. Yet we judge ourselves and others as if we should somehow be able to spontaneously turn into robots and be able to use logic to solve our emotional issues. 

I suppose my point here is the importance of knowing your shadow, of confronting it, making friends with it and letting it teach you. Otherwise if the shadow is ignored it will eclipse a person’s life and lead to terrible heartache, destruction and pain which hopefully will ultimately lead to understanding. But there is a better way, don’t ignore the darker side of your nature. I’m not saying to indulge it, actually exactly the opposite. I’m saying, know it, listen to it and reflect on it so you don’t feel the irrational urge to act on those feelings. This actually works believe it or not. Awareness is the first step, self-acceptance the next, toward controlling your life rather than being controlled by outside influences (actually more accurately your shadow self which if you’re not fully aware of, will feel out of your control as if stuff is happening to you rather than you are co-creating your life). Not that we always have the choice, the shadow self is a trickster and it tricks everyone at some point or another. But the better a person knows their dark side and allows communication with it, the clearer and the healthier the choices are as well. 

And best of all comes the realization that you are a God/Goddess of your own life. Meaning you are co-creator with the divine, part of the divine and given this tremendous gift of consciousness which you can use to achieve whatever goal you set for yourself as long as you are truthful with the wholeness of who you are.

Myers Briggs Type

The Mathmatical Formula that Shattered the Global Economy

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/17-03/wp_quant?currentPage=all
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copula_(statistics)

Above are some links to the math that has brought our world to its knees. And to think I used to fall asleep in junior high school algebra. 

Perhaps you, like me, heard reference to this formula on NPR or various other news outlets. After looking at it, I wonder if any of the bankers had even the slightest clue about it, let alone applying it to anything tangible.

So here’s my lame math formula. All based on the simple geometry:

The one guy gets more than a third (33.4 %) of the whole pie while the 9 people share almost a third (28%). So lets be clear here, 10% of wealthy Americans control 61.4% of all the wealth. And just 1% of the wealthy control more than a third. while 40% of Americans make it sharing just over a third of the wealth at 38.6 %. And the rest, half of the country, 50% of us live in abject poverty.

 

This was before the market crash. I’m sure there are more people who have fallen into the abject poverty pile since then.

 

I have a simple question to ask to those who subscribe to unbridled free market capitalism and the notion of those who work hardest are rewarded with the most money. Firstly, that one guy controlling more than a third of the pie, does he really work harder than the equivalent of 150,000,000 Americans put together. Because man if he does, he’d have to be God as working that many hours would mean he not only never slept, but also had an army of clones.

 

And if one wants to make the argument that somehow that guy has provided some service or great work that entitles him/her to more pie than they could ever eat in one lifetime while half the people around them starve, I ask, did that person cure cancer, Aids and save our planet from a deluge of asteroids? Because there is nothing that anyone who has such ungodly amounts of money has done that warrants the pie being that lopsided.

 

Take for example Bill Gates. He stole the idea for Windows from two inventors who stole the idea for the operating system from the way Macs worked. Gates literally bought their program for something like 500 bucks and then turned around and sold it to IBM for millions or billions, whatever. Did (or does) he deserve to control that much of the world’s resources because he was an unethical opportunist? Or even someone like Jim Carey, does he deserve 20 million dollars to make fart jokes in some lame half-baked movie? Does anyone really deserve to hog more resources than they can actually make use of?

 

And what does it say about people who choose this for themselves. I’m not saying people don’t have a right to be wealthy, be comfortable, and even be decadent and live uxorious ridiculously comfortable lives. But one doesn’t have to control that much of the wealth to do so. As a matter of fact if the pie was at least a little more evenly distributed, more people would have more and be more productive.

 

For example if everyone had enough money, to at least make their own pie, then there would be a constant flow of money, goods, services and new wealth for everyone to partake in. It would be exponential rather than a closed, fixed system where the poorest 50 percent cannot participate in the economy because they can barely afford the basic necessities of life.

 

Historically, our country has always done best financially when there was a strong, healthy middle class, like in the 1950s when a guy could work at a gas station as an attendant, buy his own home and support a wife and two kids. Or during the Clinton era when there was a huge boom in the middle class and new service orientated and luxury businesses sprung up due to the increased flow of money being funneled into the economy.

 

So why is it that Republicans hang onto this bizarre Ann Ryand philosophy of unhinged free market capitalism without restraint or regulation and the idea of the individual as purely and solely responsible for him/herself?

 

Well, let’s take a look at Ann Ryand. First off she was from Russia and had a knee jerk reaction to having grown up there. She was also a screenwriter and no offense here, but part of being a Hollywood screenwriter is being able to boil things down to very simple black and white arguments and ideas. There is no room for subtlety, complexity, and depth of character and layers of meaning in a 90-minute screenplay. The best one can hope for with a great movie is a clear well defined argument that makes you think about a situation in a new way.

 

Anyone who has read the Fountainhead can attest to the ridiculous modernist notion of special treatment for the super human, great genius who stands outside of normal human expectations (such as decency, compassion, human kindness, caring, being interested in things other than yourself) because of his great talent. She literally makes the case that some people should be above the law, above human decency and be lavished with an endless fountain of praise and support no matter how socially retarded, because they are intrinsically better than everyone else.

 

Hmmm, what does this sound like?

 

Oh, yeah, Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

 

Funny she lived here in the land of NPD (Hollywood). And there in lies the key. There seems to be a fundamental personality dysfunction which is attracted to this (conservative often Republican) model. One that feels the need to be better than everyone else, to be treated specially and has to have other people suffering so they can feel good about themselves. Upon closer inspection the conservative movement seems to be less motivated by an ideology than a mental illness – what I used to deem “Mad Squirrel disease” where an individual can never have enough and constantly seeks out more and more nuts to add to their storehouse despite the fact that they will never be able to physically use all of what they have acquired.

 

After studying psychology I realized this was a character trait of Narcissism. Our culture has promoted it. Wall Street was immersed in the darkest part of this mental illness. I wish these people would spend their money getting therapy and get out of the way of change. They spin empathy and humanitarianism into socialism and communism. They turn the notion of helping people who are losing their homes into something akin to a welfare state, but yet, for them, the special few, they not only have their hands out, but their pockets, their buckets, their private jets and anything else they can cram taxpayer dollars into under the guise of “saving jobs.” When they say that I think they mean, saving the jobs of the captains of their private jets, not the 10,000 jobs they are shipping to India because they don’t want to pay a living wage or give their employees healthcare.

 

I had a friend one time who drove an old green VW Bug. She happened to be driving it around the Silicon Valley in a very wealthy area. This guy in a Mercedes was offended by how carefully and slowly she was going, not and yelled at her, “Peasant!” I think that says it all.

 

When it comes to how these people feel about themselves and the way they see everyone else. They appear to be living in feudal Europe during the dark ages. Sad for us they are not actually living back then, but are just imposing these unconscionable notions on the rest of us.

 

Best wishes and many blessings to all you good people,

Denise 

P.S. I will announce the winners soon. And have you noticed on the Myers Briggs poll almost no extraverts. I’m guessing this is because extraverts are not very interested in taking personality tests. 

Don’t forget to vote in the poll if you know your Myers Briggs type or your Enneagram type.

AIG & Rachel Maddow

Rachel Maddow made in an interview with David Letterman made an an interesting point about AIG. Basically, she said that if they are so giant and important that we can’t afford to let them go under and we as tax payers have to support their company, then they should be socialized. Meaning they should be owned by the tax payers. 

In essence they were a huge part of the enormous Wall Street scheme that brought down the economy. Once regulations were removed (or as I like to call them laws, or more aptly, legal boundaries meant to protect people from crooks, liars, thieves and murderers) bankers and Wall Street went crazy insuring bad loans, knowing damn well theses were crap loans, but not caring because they were selling these crap loans off to people who trusted their company and their company ratings.

Oh, yeah, and part of the math problem that ruined the world was that this formula (mentioned in the previous post) was applied in a way that made it look as if there was no risk to these insanely risky, often fudged (for the purpose of getting them through) loans. So in essence AIG did not directly have to take the risk, they covered the butts of the companies who were going nuts with the new scam of giving home loans to people who couldn’t afford them. The bankers, brokers and insurance companies knew full well it was going to implode, but they were betting on the other guy taking the hit while they pocketed the money.

This is some seriously disturbed behavior and just proves the stupidity of supposedly naive people like (and literally) Alan Greenspan who believe somehow business people are morally superior to the rest of humanity and thus don’t need things like laws (i.e. regulations) to keep their fingers out of other people’s cookie jars.

I will announce the winners of the competition later tonight.

Best to all,

Denise

What Does Denise Look Like Contest Winners…

OK, it is pretty amazing all of you got something right. Some of you nailed me at different points in my life. Tckal pretty much nailed what I looked like before I dyed my hair back toward its natural color and cut it to shoulder length. She thought I looked like Peggy Olson from Mad Men. I’m a bit more quirky and my features are sharper but if one were going to pick an actress, she’s pretty darn close.

But I’d have to say that Mira Kelly had the highest number of things right and here they are:

I am 5’7″ and actually was 5’6″ until I was in my late 20s when I grew an inch. My favorite color is purple. I am 135 pounds. My hair is dark brown, wavy and worn in a bob about half way between my chin and shoulders. I do have a tendency to look concerned a lot, she mentioned 2 prominent wrinkles which are often there but luckily I have avoided for the time being. She was one year off in my birth year. I’m actually a year younger than she thought but very close. I do have a crystal ball on my shelf which I don’t normally use but have in the past. My eye color is actually a gray-blue (a lot of people think I have hazel or brown eyes because they are dark). My father actually had blue eyes with a brown ring in the center which is similar to what she described. I do wear a 9 size shoe. I am a crappy cook, but do make a mean a great penne arrabiata (and a few other things, I’m a pretty good baker because I love cookies.) My eyes are closer together than any golden mean would suggest they should be. I do have a heart arrhythmia and my heart gets out of sync sometimes. I do like to wear flat shoes. I actually am incapable of walking in heels so I don’t have much of a choice there. I do have pierced ears and my mom did get them pierced for me although I was not 4 but 12 at the time. And did have my left (not the right ear, but come on its very close) pierced a couple more times when I was in my early 20s although they did close up along with the nose ring I also had for a short period of time. And it’s true that when I wear nail polish it usually just wears off and I do find it impractical because I do a lot of work with my hands (such as painting, building, sawing, drawing, knitting, etc.).

Andrea Zak did well. She got that I wore reading glasses and my height, the fact that I’m too lazy to wear make-up and have pale skin.

Todd Brady did very well. If it were 1984 he would have gotten me spot on. He seemed to be describing the high school version of me. He got my height, pegged my taste in music and even described my cat from that period of time as well as my asymmetrical haircut and the color was indeed a light brownish blond back then. I was also about 125 pounds and drove a puke green pinto station wagon which is kind of like a VW in that it has a rounded quality to it. Although a VW bug is much cooler and actually my brother had one when he was in high school. Again, spot on for 1984. Another winner, he was reading the past.

 

Id

Id did well with the color of my hair the fact that it is shoulder length. I do have very prominent and distinct eyebrows which my husband often exaggerates when drawing a cartoon likeness of me. I also do have a strong jaw line but not in a square way, rather kind of pointy. And I do wear reading glasses and during certain periods of my life, oddly, I have had to wear glasses due to astigmatism although it seems to vanish and come back at different points in my life. Right now it doesn’t seem to be a problem. I have a lot of other problems, but that’s not one of them.

Sally in Dallas was mostly right in terms of height and weight, hair thickness and color.

Wynter was right about my love of changing hair color. It has been everything to bleached out platinum blonde/gray to purple, red, blue, brown, black, blonde and natural looking red.

Iris was right about me wearing a lot of black although I’m over it now. I did spend a good 20 years wearing almost no other color but black. And although I am an Aquarius my ruling planet of both my sun sign and moon sign are Virgo. I also have Mercury as the ruler of my chart which rules Virgo so I have a Virgo feel about me.

Hello!

Got the color of my eyes right.

tranquilsleep444 or aka Cheri. Got the color and length and style of my hair. And the mischieveious look which I’ve often been accused of having.
Sally Herr got the incoming grey in my hair. And qualities some people have told me I exhibit.

fitzgeraldo got the long nose and angular face and a haircut I have had in the past as well as a style of glasses I’ve worn before.

 

It’s interesting that many of you thought I had freckles and was kind of on the short side. This must have been in a previous life. Anyway, if you see your name was put in bold font it means you are one of the big winners so please e-mail me your birth date, time and place so I can run a chart for you. I will then send everyone a computerized chart. The grand prize winner, Mira Kelly will get several different print outs sent to her, a total of 3 detailing different areas of her and her life. And for everyone whose name I mentioned you all are also winners and can e-mail me one yes/no question for me to answer via e-mail. Remember it has to be a simple yes/no and just one question and I will answer it. Of course all winners can ask a yes/no question to me via e-mail and I will answer it as part of their prize.

Congratulations to all who won and participated. You all did really well. And actually everyone got something right.

Thanks for participating and I will put a picture up of myself in the coming month or so.

Best to all and many blessings,

Denise

A Free Non-Time Consuming Way to Help Animals

Here’s a copy of an e-mail sent to me by a friend. Basically this is a link to a website where just clicking on their button generates money for their cause. It’s free. It’s easy and you are helping out lots of innocent abandoned pets.

Here it is:

Animal Rescue

Hi, all you animal lovers.

This is pretty simple. Please tell ten friends to tell ten friends today! The Animal Rescue Site is having trouble getting enough people to click on it daily to meet their quota of getting free food donated every day to abused and neglected animals. It takes less than a minute (how about 20 seconds) to go to their site and click on the purple box ‘fund food for animals’ for free. This doesn’t cost you a thing. Their corporate sponsors / advertisers use the number of daily visits to donate food to help abandoned / neglected animals in exchange for advertising. Here’s the web site! Pass it along to people you know.

http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/

 

Best wishes and many blessings to all. Don’t forget to e-mail me at: happypeopleusa@aol.com to collect your prizes!

Denise

The What Does Denise Look Like Contest, Photo…

Hey everyone. I’m getting over my weirdness, or my desire to be invisible, like a giant brain stashed away in a closet for people to consult with and am going to show you a photo of me. I’m not wearing any make-up and my natural hair color if you look closely can be seen at the roots. 

My mother is on the right. Not a bad looking lady I must say and my daughter is on my lap. She’s too cute, looks just like her dad. And the weird lady is you guessed it, me!

I generally look better with make-up, some sleep and a proper hair cut (I actually cut my hair myself because I didn’t want to waste time going to a salon that’s how lame I am), but having a baby creates obstacles to these mundane things.

Tea Tree Oil & Toenail Fungus (don’t read if you’re grossed out by stuff like this)

I know this is kind of weird but back in the early/mid 1990s I went to Australia and toured the country for a month. Back then tea tree oil was unheard of here in the States. I bought some, unsure of what to do with it, there was only a mysterious bit of information I was given by an Aussie that it was an indigenous cure for different skin troubles.

After experimenting with it now for almost 15 years I’ve found it does some pretty remarkable things. Because it is an oil it penetrates deep into the skin tissues and cells and kills all the bad stuff on a cellular level.

I am prone to skin infections actually once had cellulitis which is an infection of the skin cells which can kill you. I was on antibiotics for several months after IV antibiotics. I was on so many antibiotics that I ended up in the hospital with an infection in my intestine because the antibiotics had killed all the good stuff and left me raw. I ended up having to have more antibiotics. Let me tell you that was one of the most painful things I’ve ever experienced and my back has been fractured, I’ve had a baby, have horrible migraines where I want to blow my head off, kidney stones and herniated a disc and slipped one as well, and this pain was so bad I was passing out from it. It was intense. (I’m fond of blaming my deceased old Ashkenazi Jew dad for his ancient sperm because I was born an old woman with all kinds of ridiculous health problems. The Ashkenazi are not super healthy people as it turns out my dad died at 63 which was pretty average for his other 9 brothers and sisters.) But anyway, enough of my asides, when I would notice an infection brewing in my skin I began applying tea tree oil to it and low and behold, after several days of dowsing myself with it, the infection would go away.

So last summer I was having more back trouble and my husband insisted I go have a message. I’m not found of them unless the person giving them is very clear and focused or I pick up all kinds of stuff about the person and its very unnerving and distracting. Well, I made the mistake of soaking in the hot tub and taking a shower (wearing special shoes because of course I was paranoid this would happen and you’ll see it did). And of course I developed some weird fungus on my toenail shortly thereafter. 

My doctor would not give me the normal Lamisil or whatever it is that a doctor gives people with fungus’ growing on their toe nails, because it’s hard on the liver and I’m taking way too many drugs to control my seizures and brain problems (as I’m sure all of you can tell.) So my toe was getting pretty crazy when I had the idea to try tea tree oil. Well, I did and it actually seems to be curing the fungus. It went from black to clear, then I could actually cut off the fungus part which had previously been like a piece of steel and now was like a relatively normal, but very thick toe nail. 

Moral of the story. For those of you who don’t have health insurance or don’t like western drugs, try tea tree oil. Dowse your toe in it or infection, cover it with gauze or cotton, wrap it in medical tape. Continue to do that at least once a day before bedtime, twice is best but once works pretty well too for at least 3-7 days. You will see remarkable results. 

Just a weird random tip. I think it is actually good for acne as well, but I haven’t tried it for that.

Best wishes and many blessings,

Denise

E-Mail/Computer Trouble

There is something weird going on with my computer. It has been freaking out more than usual the past couple of days. It doesn’t seem to let me do anything except open up my Window’s word file. I have a feeling it’s the ghosty who has been turning the hot water faucet on and clanking around in hard soled shoes at 5 AM, waking me up. Pretty sure it’s my dad visiting from the other side.

It seems that in the past few weeks since I was working with some spirits, I started having all the energy drained out of my battery faster than a kid in a straw sucking competition. My computer hasn’t wanted to stay on and I’ve had ridiculous problems with my e-mail, it seems to have a mind of itself. Anyway there’s a ghost (literally) in my machine so it’s taking me longer to get to my e-mail and even to get on the blog. I am very stubborn so fear not I will get to everyone’s questions and work tirelessly to answer all the winners and those who need readings. Just give me a few more days then normal while I sort out my problems.

As I write now my battery power went from 99% down to 34% in about 10 minutes. And the stupid thing is actually plugged into the wall. Even when it shows the battery is charging it goes down, like now in about 10 seconds it went to 32%. It’s ridiculous. I thought it was a connection problem and spent some time adjusting and straightening the prong that fits into the computer from the electrical plug in and while that made a solid connection I’m still experiencing the drain when dealing with anything other than this piece I’m writing. Now you have to admit that’s weird. I’m working on a fictional piece (which I referred to a while back) and when I work on that my computer is a perfect gentle woman. The ghost is even given me grief about writing this post. It won’t let me spell check or edit or move the cursor so I’m giving up for now.

I’ll let my computer rest and juice up then get back to answering e-mails later tonight and tomorrow.

Best wishes and blessings,

Denise

Answering Readers.

Here’s something from Jeff I’d like to address because I think there is a lot of confusion over this subject among many Americans especially oder Americans and those who are more conservative in their bent.

jeff

Hi Denise, I’m a recently new visitor to your blog. Your politcal pursuasions are obvious. Isn’t it wonderful we live in a free country where you can say and write about just about anything you want. For that, I know we are both thankful. However, with all due respect, I must say that the socialist countries I have traveled to all have a HUGE gulf between the rich and VERY poor – and if there is a middle class (European countries) it is not nearly as broad of a spectrum as it is here. I am not saying capitalism is the answer to everything. It does however encourage personal responsibility much more that socialist idealism (hence the whole mortgage bailout here in the U.S. will discourage personal responsibility). I really feel you are being dishonest by painting republicans with a broad brush (many of them have very socialist tendancies) that they want the rich to get richer and poor to get poorer. That is ridiculous and dillusional. Please tell me one socialist or communist country where a poor person has the opportunity to better their life than the U.S.A. Do you know any Venezuealens or Cubans that live here in the U.S. who are anxious to return to their homeland? I do not. These are socialist countries where the leaders always speak about the “common good”, yet their intentions are really more about their own power and insecurity. Please Denise – do some soul searching and be honest about this subject. You know very well that human tendancies, whether they be conservative or liberal will veer selfishly out of control if there are no checks and balances. As you also know, the wisdom (of check and balances) our founding fathers had in writing our Constitution and founding documents was influenced by the Almighty himself. By the way, as perhaps you can tell with your psychic abilities, I am a sole provider supporting a family (a wife and 3 small children) and I have come from very modest beginnings. Respectfully, Jeff

 

Hi Jeff,

I’m so glad you brought up these points. Firstly Cuba is not a socialist country it is a Marxist Communist state. And so are the other examples of countries that you noted. They are not actually socialist countries. Socialism is very different from Communism and Communism is horrible. Marx and Lennon didn’t take into consideration people’s greed and need for power over other people. I totally agree that people in (actually I think all of them) nations which are Communist not only fail their people in the most basic of principles but also generally turn into dictatorships. Marx didn’t take into consideration that politicians once they are in office, are not likely to spread the wealth but rather let their darker nature take over and hog the wealth and they literally rob their own people. It is disgusting and I revile it.

What I advocate is a socialist Democracy closer to what the Europeans and Canadians practice, where there is a built in eject button and safety measures against abuse of power. I am a staunch supporter of our constitution unlike the people in the Bush administration. Here’s a short definition of socialism: social security, the fire department, police department, public education, the library system and in other democracies it includes health care, college education, maternity & paternity leave, guaranteed paid vacations for anyone who works, arts funding, psychological services for those who need them. Socialism can be worked into any other system of government like a democracy or theoretically even a dictatorship but of course it isn’t because it is based on compassion for humanity which dictators usually don’t posses. Communism is based on the writings of Karl Marx from a book called the Communist Manifesto. His ideas were later championed by different dictators as a way to get into power only to have everything change once they got in. Marx’s ideas were (as I see it) psychologically naive and childishly idealistic.

I actually have traveled around the world many times over. I’ve been to pretty much every western European nation numerous times, have been to Australia a couple of times, and have traveled to Indonesia and of course Mexico and Canada, so I’m not speaking from an abstract point of view. According to reality and against many people’s desire to say that America’s always #1, the standard of living is visibly much higher in Scandinavian countries than it is here and that’s a fact.

Here’s a link to the ranking in terms of standard of living you can check out. We have 92% of the world’s wealth controlled by just 5% of Americans. Many countries with GDP’s much, much lower than ours rank higher than we do in quality of life because of that, even though technically they have less money. This is what I’m talking about. We are ranked at number 10 for standard of living.

 http://skeptically.org/economics/id21.html

I advocate eliminating poverty and giving all of our people the respect and help they need to contribute in the most useful way they can, not becoming a communist dictatorship. Ironically, the closest we have ever gotten to true corporatism (which by Mussolini’s definition was what fascism was) and thereby a dictatorship was via George W. Bush. Not only did he bow so heavily to corporate interests and put everything into the private sector including warfare, but also went ahead and finished deregulating everything in the corporate sector so corporations didn’t have to play by the same rules that we as individuals do.

I think Greenspan showed either his stupidity or his immense naivete when he said that he believed corporations would self-regulate. That worked so well in early 20th century America, and Dickinson’s England and now is working wonders in China. Unchecked capitalism is just as naive and stupid as communism because both fail to take into account human nature, greed, power plays, corruption, selfishness, nepotism and just general psychology. This is why we have laws to protect ourselves from one another. We are not made of love, purity, light, goodness and angels. We all have our darker natures which I talked about in the entry about the shadow self. 

My husband’s parents are very conservative. They are wonderful people who, I’ve come to realize, see America through the fixed lens of their own childhood imaginings. Where everything is black and white, good guys and bad guys, and we are always on the side of good. Although they mean well, there is a general lack of self reflection about how our government works. It is not a fixed entity but a living organism that changes and grows. The America of 2009 is not the America of the 1950s when they were coming of age and it never will be again. We have grown, changed and become intricately connected to all the nations of the world in ways we never could have imagined back then.

It has been my observation that conservative people tend to have a sentimental view of America and constructive criticism about making it a better place is greeted in the same fashion a nasty comment about their mother would be. Liberals on the other hand are a diverse group, have different agendas and often not only criticize the government, the opposing party but their own party as well. They are by their very nature self-reflective and idealistic. And it doesn’t always serve them well because often they can get too far out on a ledge and all the petty bickering can lead to a lack of seeing the bigger picture. 

I actually see myself as a pretty moderate person. I’m compassionate, empathic and want all people to have a good quality of life. I really don’t think that’s too crazy considering we can do a lot to accomplish this with very little sacrifice. I don’t think that a 36% tax going up to a 39% tax on the 5% of people who control more than 90% of the wealth is anything close to socialism. One of the richest men in the world is the founder of IKEA, Ingvar Kamprad and since he lives in Sweden pays at least 50% income tax, yet he manages to do just fine without belly aching because he knows that his money is going to make his country a better place and he has more than enough for generations of his family to live like royalty.

I personally think if you make 10 billion dollars a year you should pay the government half of it because it is your karmic duty to give back when the Universe has given so much to you. And if you are so greedy that you’d rather step over people living in tents with their kids by a river who are slowly starving to death so you can have that extra 1 and a half billion dollars you are a despicable human being who deserves to trade places with that person in the tent. Anyone who can tell themselves that people should just pull themselves up by their bootstraps and buck up is not only uncompassionate but naive. There are many people in this world who don’t have the same advantages that everyone else has, such as the mentally or physically handicapped, or even people who are of below normal IQ’s. Should they just shrivel up and die because they can’t do it alone? Ronald Reagan the great advocate of this ended up with Alzheimer’s, if he had been dealt a couple of hard blows and lost his fortune, who would have taken care of him? He got rid of all the halfway houses for people with mental problems back in the 1980s when he was president.

As a mystic I see this issue as much bigger and perhaps one of the greatest tests of human character. We are meant to help one another, learn from one another, have compassion for each other, love each other. Those are the messages of Christ. His message was clear and ringing yet instead of the compassion, non-judgement and love he preached Christians and our “Christian” country has taken a very old testament view of things. When Christ said, “I am the way,” he meant follow his example. But this is a tall order and one that requires intense spiritual, psychological and emotional work to accomplish. It’s a whole lot easier to turn the other way when your brother is starving and say, “It’s his own damn fault. He should pull himself up by his bootstraps. Look at me I had it hard, blah, blah, blah.” Yet that person has no idea the struggles the homeless person they are judging endured and if the right set of circumstances hit anyone could end up in that situation as so many are finding themselves now. And then would you want people to judge you? Having not walked in your shoes? Or would you want compassion and a helping hand.

We come into this world dependant on our mother. Our whole life is intertwined with other people and we are given things, opportunities, education, and countless other things, even just support and love from our families, yet we seem to forget this. No one does anything alone. No one person is better than another. No one person more valuable. We all have something to give and we all have something to learn. It is a sin of vanity that makes a person judge another and a sin of selfishness which allowed capitalism to run amok just as communism did before it.

Both have fallen.

Now lets move on and stop playing this game, the game of division, lets stand together and help one another become a strong tribe, watch each others backs. Let’s take this opportunity to reinvent ourselves so we maybe born again into a greater version of who we are, let’s face our nation’s shadow self squarely (and it does have a shadow as all living things do) and grow into a more evolved, compassionate, educated, civilized and decent people. This is all I advocate. You can call me a lefty, a communist, a socialist or whatever makes you comfortable. But the truth I’m writing about here will make itself known. I only hope you learn the lesson before the hammer comes down and this lesson is learned the hard way.

Honestly, I worry that our country still hasn’t really gotten what’s going on and it’s going to have to get worse before it gets better before the lessons of compassion can be learned. I also worry that President Obama will be too pliable and take a long time to slowly change things to where he wants them, but for many on the left they may feel disheartened as he won’t go quickly enough for them. And for many people who are desperate right now, they too might be upset because they need quick help, not a slow moving tortoise approach while they are drowning. 

Best wishes and blessings,

Denise

Answering Readers and other things…

I just wanted to address some of the points Jeff has made. I think he really clarifies the differences in the two viewpoints between conservatives and liberals very well. I understand the lack of faith in our government and the fact that there is corruption and stupidity on all sides of every issue in politics. I would never advocate a one party system.

My back was fractured when I was 12 and a disc herniated. I spent the entire year laying on my back, by myself in my bedroom. The only education I received was American history and the constitution as I had to pass (this was in Illinois) a constitution test in 7th grade in order to move onto 8th grade. Needless to say, I got one hour a week from the principle who would come to my home and tutor me. I spent a lot of time reading the constitution, the bill of rights and reading about American History. The ideals and people that founded our nation were profound and beautiful. Our forefathers did an amazing job of working out potential problems. They had incredible foresight. However they did not foresee all things that came up in the last century which have truly corrupted our government. And of course they had built in the 2nd amendment not so people could hunt animals, but so we could have a revolution if the government got out of control. Problem is of course (which of course they couldn’t foresee, perhaps if DiVinci had been one of the founders) the advent of nuclear weapons and military technology that no rag tag militia could fairly fight against. 

I really don’t have total faith in the Democrats. I just think they are less corrupt, more like normal politicians than the Republicans. And not all Republicans fall into that category. And especially regular American people who are not politicians but who identify with the party and vote Republican. They are not any better or worse than people who vote for Democrats. I’m talking only about the leadership of the Republican party; since the Nixon administration there has been a clarion call attracting many corrupt politicians with agendas to exploit the common working American people for their own personal gain on that side of the fence.

There are 2 types of politicians, those who get into politics to serve and lead. And those who get into politics to exploit, loot and are on power trips. I don’t think the Republican party has always been this way, and certainly the vast majority of people who vote Republican are not this way. In actuality I think the Republican party has manipulated many people’s deep love of this country, of tradition, stability, pride and our identity as self-reliant people against us.

But if we left morality up to the wealthy one percent to take care of the poor, the sick and whoever else, do you think they would do it? No. Certainly the feudal lords of Europe weren’t going around giving out loafs of bread to starving children, they were to busy denying them education and prosecuting them for stealing bread so they could put them to work in prison camps. With Democracy and laws, came taxation built on levels of ability to pay, the end of debtors prisons (when you could actually go to prison for life for not being able to pay someone you owed money to, can you imagine how many people would be in jail now if this law hadn’t been changed.) Government can’t solve all of our problems, but it can and should create a moral bone structure to hang our civilization’s body on.

As much as we like to pretend that we are all working on a level playing field with the same amount of talent, intelligence and acumen as everyone else. This is just blatantly untrue. Many of us our handicapped by our environments as children. We seem to be able to muster compassion for the abused child, but as soon as he turns 18 we seem to expect this person to magically be able to shake off the horrors of their childhood and compete in a game fixed by the wealthy.

I grew up in an area of Chicago that was very wealthy and I knew countless kids who were of average intelligence who went to ivy league schools because their parents were wealthy enough to give endowments to those institutions and it was family tradition to go to Harvard or Yale or Dartmouth. Is that fair? No. All the conservatives who claim B.S. on the whole affirmative action thing don’t complain about the wealthy legacy kids who get in with subpar SAT scores and average grades. Because it’s really not that they mind the game being rigged, they just want it rigged in their favor. And the people who are in power in the political arena (especially on the Republican side) are from extremely privelaged backgrounds. This hasn’t always been the case, but in the last 30 years the Republican party has drifted into the lane that promotes corporatism, gives a pass to the wealthiest one percent and turns a blind eye toward graft. The Democrats still have real people participating, like Bill Clinton (despite his personal sex addiction problems and foibles) he was a real guy who was raised by a single mother, in a poor family and through his brilliance and determination made something of himself. This is the America I believe in. This is the America I want to see win out. I don’t want our country to become a feudal one, where the wealthy one percent control us through their lobbyists and corporations. I want all Americans to be represented and to have a voice. I want to stay a democracy and not be bowled over by corporate interests masquerading as moral voices.

You know, the Democrats aren’t all that. They are really annoying and pretty lame. They don’t take the reigns, they blather around, seem to try to bend to too many voices and don’t have the passion it takes to convince others to get on board. This has been their problem now for over 30 years and I totally understand why they upset people who want things to be dealt with cleanly. Democrats don’t do this. For those (and this is the majority of Americans) who want decisive, clear leadership the Democrats don’t always know how to provide this. The Republicans have a huge advantage here, they have a common goal that binds them together which the Democrats don’t have. Democrats go into public service for all kinds of different reasons with all kinds of different agendas and are forced to compromise and work together in a quilt work fashion.

The Republicans have the binding passion of greed which they found a way to sell (ironically) to average Americans as Christian morality. However their policies and private lives show nothing of them living up to their supposed morality.  I’m going to refer you to an earlier post here about the shadow self as it applies to the split that Republicans utilize to sell their advocacy for the wealthiest taking not only the share they already have but more of yours too so that the money can “trickle down.” Or so they want you to believe.

So far I haven’t been to any developing nation or as Jeff aptly stated, communist country, where the money ever managed to trickle down. Once those on top have anything their heart could ever desire at their fingertips why would they randomly want to share it with strangers? This goes against human nature. We are naturally selfish creatures which is why we have laws, moral codes, and religions that teach us how to be more than just self-absorbed, self-satisfying, opportunistic, uncompassionate beasts.

Let me just say here as an example I’ve known many very famous people (through my work). They can have anything they want whenever they want it, no one ever says “no” to them. They often surround themselves with adoring admirers (not all but many do this) and see themselves as better than everyone else. They often get sucked into a weird cartoonish state of being where they are living entirely a life of the ego. They may have started out as good people and are not necessarily bad people, but they loose percpective and do horrible things to others because they  no longer see other people as human beings anymore. And how could they? They are not participating in real relationships anymore, just the ego heroine of fame feeding their insatiable insecurity and making them more and more pathologically narcissistic. 

My point is, we all need to be held accountable. And we live in a very narcissistic culture where value has been placed on being special, famous and wealthy to the exclusion of common sense and common decency. It seems anything goes if you can get rich or famous from it.  I don’t believe in that. I believe in personal integrity and spiritual growth both of those values are almost impossible to hold onto once a person becomes famous or insanely wealthy (I’m not talking comfortable or even rich but in that one percent club wealthy.)

Spiritual growth requires honest mirroring by loved ones and the world around you which the obscenely rich and famous don’t get from others anymore because that person becomes objectified and identified as a symbol, no longer allowing others to have real exchanges. While this is great for the ego, no one ever disagrees with you, you are always the greatest genius and everyone stops to listen to what you have to say, you actually, eventually become something of a persona, an empty shell, and often this can lead to great feelings of isolation, depression and obsessive behavior. Which is why so many celebrities have drug problems.

And of course in the case of the insanely wealthy, everyone wants a piece of their pie, and they can’t trust anyone around them. They never really know if people love or care about them for who they are or for the money they have. You think this problem sounds easy, but it’s actually very messy and dark and leads to behavior like Bernie Madoff who so desperately needed to stay in that special billionare club that he started ripping people off when the market started going down and he realized it was easier to con people than to actually invest their money. This is the sickness that can happen with outrageous overabundance as Christ said, “it’s easier for a camel to fit through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into heaven.” Because the disassociation that happens with that sort of wealth leads to callousness, and  bad behavior.

Average people like my in-laws, who are Republicans, make the mistake of believing that heads of corporations and the super wealthy have the same values they do. Let me tell you, they don’t. Their values are so far a flung from ordinary Americans that they may as well be Martians. There are of course good people who are exceptions and do amazing humanitarian work with the money they have made, but really they are probably less than one percent of the ubber rich.

While we all fantasize that our problems would go away and life would be perfect if we were just rich and famous, the opposite is actually true. Being in the spotlight only magnifies problems and immense wealth creates an emotional telescoping phenomena where your ability to relate to people who are struggling financially disappears and instead of feeling compassion for those people the wealthy find a bizarre righteous anger toward the unfortunate so they can stave off their guilt at not doing anything to help.

So what I want to say is that I don’t believe we can leave people’s lives, health and education up to the potential good graces of the wealthy one percent. I’ll leave everyone with this weird random example. The first time I went to London, when I was in my early 20s I met a guy who was a monarchist. I actually didn’t even know they still existed. He believed that the best form of government was what he called a “benevolent monarchy.” He explained that in that system things got done quickly and the benevolent king to good care of all of his subjects, sort of like a good dad takes care of all of his kids. But then I said, “But what happens if the monarch is not benevolent, like King Henry or Caligula.” 

“Well, I’m talking about a benevolent monarchy,” he firmly stated again.

“Yes, but that’s the problem if its a monarchy the people can’t do anything to get rid of the next in line and what if they’re crazy or a horrible person. In a democracy you can vote a nut jobber out of office. There are checks and balances in place that help eliminate the possibility of someone terrible taking over.” 

 And again his answer was, ”Well, I’m talking about a benevolent monarchy.”

What we do in our Democracy with checks and balances, laws and amendments had its counter part in the world of business as regulations and the notion that corporations being led by the best people would perform the best and therefore those leaders would continue to move skyward. But instead with deregulation came easy money through scams, the ability to lie about your company, to cheat your shareholders and to fail upwards based on lies and fudging numbers. 

Our country is as much about capitalism as it is about democracy. And in order for capitalism to survive it needs to have enforceable rules to play by or no one on the world stage is going to want to play with us anymore. Those toxic loans we bought up that have been helping the stock market, are helping because by our government standing behind our corporations we are saying to the world, we screwed up and we won’t let everyone fall down, we stand behind our system and we want to continue playing ball with everyone. If we didn’t do this the entire world economy would fall apart due to lack of confidence in us the champions of capitalism.

Anyway, enough blabbing.

Best wishes to all and many blessings,

Denise

The Economy and The Worm…

I’m going to search the site for the post I made back during the automotive bail out. Before we gave them the money I posted we would do it, but ultimately those companies would fail. I was going on their astrological charts. Sad to say these companies have been making terrible decisions for a long time. But they aren’t the only ones, as we all know.

Perhaps my idea of spending the money on retraining programs for the auto workers isn’t such a bad idea as it seems the heads of US auto makers seem incapable of thinking outside the box. I really wish they would have gotten it together. This is the other economic punch I mentioned coming a few weeks ago in passing. Hopefully it won’t be as bad as last fall, but my pendulum seemed to think it’s going to be much worse than most people expect it to be. 

However, I do feel this will ultimately be the bottom and we will find our way out once we hit the other side of this wall. So don’t freak out if the market starts to really drop over the next few weeks, just ride it out, unless of course you have any American auto companies in your portfolio. In that case, it’s already too late. 

I wish the auto companies would have used their resources and talent to find a workable solution, a plan to push technology further so they could again become important in the field. It’s interesting that it was an American who invented the car (Henry Ford) and for years the car companies were like the computer companies always pushing themselves to come out with better and more beautiful models. And then, they got fat, lazy and indifferent. They seemed to rely on the good faith of the American consumer and their desire to buy American products instead of putting out the very best as they once had. This is what happens when corporations get too big, bloated and conservative. If they would have continued to innovate instead of trying to control the market place they wouldn’t be in this mess.

It reminds me a lot of the record industry which championed the move to digital from analogue. Everyone rushed out to replace all their favorite records on CD. It was supposed to be so much better and the record companies enjoyed enormous profits. Not only was the new format so much cheaper to produce, a matter of pennies per unit for major labels (not including marketing and touring costs for bands which they always had) but they were selling the new recordings, and their back catalogue like wild fire.

And when it was brought to their attention that copying digital music was perhaps a problem because there was no sonic degradation, they buried their heads in the sand. And then the next step when the MP3 format came out, instead of finding a way to embrace it, and incorporate the technology so that they could profit from it, they started suing kids who were file sharing.

Once the genie is unleashed you can’t put it back in the bottle. If an industry is built on technology, it doesn’t have the luxury of sitting back, it must always be pushing the edges and developing new ideas, new visions, new aesthetics or the fuel keeping its financial sun collapses into a white dwarf until its profits are so tight it cannibalizes itself and becomes a black hole. It seems that a lot of corporations after they have amazing super nova like success collapse in on themselves because instead of taking risks they fall prey to insatiable greed and ineptitude. 

Also there has been a lot of information coming out about this new computer worm which supposedly has infected at least 10,000,000 computers world wide. Be careful, especially on April 1 as there is supposed to be some sort of command given that day.

About 10 years ago I had a creepy premonition there would be a cyber attack on the world’s banking system meant to throw the world into a frenzy in an attempt to collapse the world economy. I hadn’t really thought about it in awhile as the stories about Bin Laden living in a cave hardly seemed the place a network of hackers would set up shop. But recruiting sociopaths and freaks around the globe with the spoils of looting the world’s cookie jar could be a very unholy alliance that I am beginning to wonder about in the case of this worm. I have a feeling this thing is meant to do something big, a sort of 9/11 on the internet and now that we have all the banking trouble, well, it could be an opportune time for someone of that ilk to do something very bad, so watch yourself and don’t do any on-line banking, especially if you have a PC until you are absolutely positive you are not infected.

Best wishes and many blessings to all,

Denise

The Worm

Hey everyone,

Supposedly if you have a Mac you are safe unless you run virtual PC which of course I do because the best astrology software is only made for PCs.  In answer to Grace, I heard that there was evidence Amazon was infected but of course we’ll have to see what happens. I’m hoping that with all the spotlight on this worm, nothing will happen as the element of surprise will be gone. On the negative side, it could still happen at anytime if this thing is a form of cyber terrorism and is laying in wait for the right time. 

I have often wondered about the symbolism of 9/11 of course there is 911, the number we call when there is an emergency (besides it being a master number 11 and 9 +1+1= 11). And of course now April 1st is April fools day. It seems odd that Al Queda would use our own symbols against us, but it does seem there are always bizarre numerological elements to their choice of attacks. Often they pick master numbers or numbers that happen to be double digits, why? I don’t know enough about their  ideology to know if there is some significance  from their end or if this is just a weird coincidence.  Or perhaps they have chosen these numbers as some sort of coded message. If anyone has any theories about this or knows anything about radical Islamic esoteric philosophy I’d love for you to write in so I could post it on the readers/writers page and we could all learn a little more. Perhaps we could help stave off any future attacks if we can make out some pattern. 

Just a thought.

Hopefully you are not reading this on April 1st because you’ve stayed off the internet until you know you’re clear.

Best wishes to all you good people,

Denise

In Memory of Duane Jarvis & Our Broken Health Care System

On April 1^st we learned a 51 year old friend, Duane Jarvis, died of colon cancer. I knew him for years before his girlfriend told me he had a terrible, painful case of scoliosis and had spent much of his life in bad health and in pain. Yet, he was a gentle and sweet spirit who relished life and took every opportunity to be and do what his heart dictated. About eighteen months ago he was diagnosed with colon cancer. We found this out because his ex-wife in an effort to help him sent out e-mails to all his friends to help him with his mounting medical bills.

Now this man was no slouch. He worked all his life as a professional musician. But of course being a musician is not like working at Starbucks, there are no 401k plans with health and dental added. Yet, he contributed to the lineage of art so many of us love. He was Lucinda Williams guitar player and co-wrote some songs with her, played with Frank Black, Dwight Yoakam, Dave Alvin, John Prine, Michelle Shocked and many more. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2009/03/duane-jarvis-in.html  http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2009/04/duane-jarvis-dies-at-51-la-roots-music-singersongwriter-and-guitarist.html  One could say he made his mark in the music world and on all who knew him. Yet because the life of an artist is feast or famine, up, down and a hustle, he did not have adequate health care. And I’m sure with his medical history even if he wanted to purchase it, it would have been out of his ability to pay for it.

His friends pitched in to help save his life. But he lost his battle at 1:30 in the morning at a hospice with an ocean view, with a smile on his face. He never complained about his pain, his disease or his troubles.

Not only was this poor man fighting a horrible, painful, aggressive form of cancer, he had to worry about the financial cost to him and the loved ones he knew he would leave behind. It has been proven that cancer is made worse by stress and chances are good that if he had good medical care to begin with his colon cancer never would have gotten so out of control, claiming his life at the early age of 51.

For all out there who still believe each one of us should think only of ourselves, and not come together as a nation and take care of each other through a universal healthcare system, I ask do you listen to music? Do you read books, enjoy art, read magazines, watch movies or enjoy any form of art as a release, a way to wind down to reflect on your life in a different way? If you answered yes to any of those questions, then I’d like to burst your illusion that those in the arts, even the people you on the outside would deem successful, have the financial stability to pay for their healthcare. Yet we all enjoy the fruits of their work. Art attunes us with our soul, the universe, God, our spirit and each other. It aides compassion, encourages self-reflection and produces self-discovery. It is actually one of the only things we as Americans still make and export. Yet for more than 90% of professional artists of all kinds there is no safety net in this country (unlike other democratic, civilized places.)

Republicans will belly ache about personal responsibility, yet it costs more for us to foot the bill for radical treatment that could have been avoided due to prevention then footing the bill for radical treatment when someone cannot afford their care. And is it fair that after years of giving to the world these individuals and their families should be punished with outrageous bills because they don’t work for a corporation that gives them health insurance?

Our health care system is absurd. There is no reason corporations should pay for our health care and there is no reason people who are self-employed, whether in the arts or otherwise, should be punished with outrageous costs they often opt to avoid.

More than half of all Americans walk this tight rope every day, hoping and praying they don’t get sick because they can’t afford a trip to the doctor’s office let alone several hundred dollars a month to an insurance company who will then, often fight to make sure they pay as little as possible.

Our country has the highest infant mortality rate of any industrialized nations. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2091rank.html

And our life expectancy is at #50 of all countries in the world, ranking well below all western European countries, Canada, Hong Kong, South Korea and Bosnia for God’s sake.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2102rank.html

How could it possibly be that we are the wealthiest country in the world and yet we let ten percent of our population control about 70 percent of the wealth? How can anyone who is not in that top echelon actually abide this? Why is it that any rational human being who works and pays taxes is not absolutely outraged by this? And how is it that the Republicans have managed to sell us on the idea that our system is fine?

Oh, yeah, the amplified fear of communism (aka more aptly dictatorship) which is actually just faked for the benefit of those who don’t understand why there would literally have to be a civil war in our country for a dictatorship to occur although we did get just about as close as we could with the Bush administration with their tactic of not counting the votes. According to the Limbaugh’s of the world it appears going back to the tax code of 1993 which was a 36 percent tax for the wealthy 10 percent to a 3 percent increase at 39 percent is a communist plot and of course so is universal health care. Hmm, I wonder who benefits most from that position. Oh, yeah the rich like Limbaugh. So he’s basically arguing from an entirely selfish point of view but trying to sell it as some sort of great American ideal when it’s nothing but more money for his private planes, which by the way he has, I know someone who was picked up and taken to his mansion in Florida by one of them. (Yes, I do have all kinds of friends.)

As I pointed out in an earlier post, communism is not the same as democratic socialism. In communist countries where they took Marx & Lennon’s ideas and ran with them they all ultimately turned into dictatorships because there was no accountability written into their ideology. The notion that a group of people would take everyone’s stuff and then divide it up among all the people evenly is insane and of course was an open invitation for graft, power hungry dictators, and greedy buerocrats. This was beyond psychologically naive, it was ideologically irrational, unsound and irresponsible. No checks and balances, no elections, hell, with all of Marx’s good intentions of lifting up the poor, he may as well have slapped a “rape the people of this country here” sticker on whatever flag adopted those ideas.

As out of whack as the US has gotten with capitalism swallowing our Democracy through corporate lobbyists and special tax laws and loopholes for the wealthy who could pay their way into the halls of power, we still have the power to pull back the reigns on this out of control buggy. And as a people we obviously have started yelling, “whoa!” by ousting the Republicans who have for the past 30 years aligned themselves with corporations, big money and lobbyists in a much more extreme way than Democrats. 

But Democrats have to start really pulling the reigns back before we leap off the mountain here. And let’s get real; they aren’t all that much better than Republicans. They take money from special interests, lobbyists and play all the same games. There is just a bigger percentage of people who identify with the working/middle class in the Democratic party but that’s been drifting away over the past 20 years as well. Which is why Obama was and is such a breath of fresh air. He actually seems like he has, can you believe it, IDEALS! It’s been a long time since we’ve seen that in a politician.

In my humble opinion this form of out of control corporate capitalism is at odds with Democracy at this point in our history. There are laws that need to be put into place, such as, if you are an American company, your product should have to be made in America. As a private citizen if I wanted to go live in France I couldn’t because I’m not French. I’m American. So why is it that corporations started by Americans and incorporated here, can make their crap in China, and then put an office in Guam and avoid paying American taxes? If you ask me this behavior is anti-American and one of the big dark roots of the economic disaster America is finding itself in. All that talk about how unemployment wasn’t that bad during the Bush administration was B.S. Besides changing the rules on how unemployment statistics were reported to only reporting people on the unemployment rolls in the unemployed statistics and cutting unemployment benefits back to 6 months, I hardly think working part-time at Wal-Mart for the minimum wage while being taught how to get food stamps and welfare by the corporate douche bags at Wal-Mart qualifies as the kind of good manufacturing jobs we shipped overseas. You know, the ones where people actually got paid a living wage, one they could feed and clothe their families on.

Another point I’d like to make here is the big mistake of the 1970s when women entered the work force and ERA was not passed. What people didn’t get was paying women 70 cents to the dollar a man would make for the same job drove down wages to the point where now both parents have to work in order to support a family.

It’s the very same principle Lou Dobbs complains about with the Mexicans driving down wages and taking away jobs because they are willing to work for less. Well, guess who relaxed the boarder laws for this very reason? The Reagan administration. Yes, that’s right folks. Allowing illegal people to stream across the boarders was a way to modernize indentured servitude. Again the goal was to make the rich, richer without any consideration of the other 90% of Americans. I’m in no way blaming the Mexican people who have come here in search of a better life. Our country is a hodge-podge of people from all over the world who came here for the very same reason. As a matter of fact the way the Mexican people have been exploited and then demonized is very much akin to what happened to the Irish who came here as indentured servants. Their pay was a ticket on a ship to America and they spent years as slaves until working this off only to find there was tremendous animosity for them because they were poor, and often in desperate straights.

Enough of my blabbing. I just want to point out that history repeats itself. It mutates and grows new claws, but there are patterns. Unfortunately, these facts are not pointed out or even noted for people to consider. I hope to at least try to illuminate those who have been seeing things through the lens of FOX news. By the way I want to note here that numerologicaly FOX = 666 for those who are of the Christian faith.

Here’s how that works:

1    2  3  4   5  6   7  8  9

A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I

J  K  L  M  N  O  P  Q  R

S  T  U  V  W  X  Y  Z

This is standard western numerology. As you can see FOX is spelled out under the number 6. Each letter has the value of 6.

I always wondered if Rupert Murdoch knew that and thought it was ironic or funny or if he saw himself as being in league with Mr. Satan. Or perhaps it’s all of the above. All I know is it’s dang ironic.

Best wishes and many blessings,

Denise

il Missiles

It’s been my feeling that North Korea’s dear leader has been dead for awhile. So I asked myself why the crazy missile launch? Why provoke the world if the crazy dude is dead. And then it came to me. Perhaps these tests are not to incite problems with the rest of the world , but rather to make the North Korean people feel incapable of defeating the North Korean military. 

If the people in power (all the people surrounding lil Kim) were afraid of a civil uprising, civil war or take over of the government upon announcement of lil Kim’s death — where would it leave them? Certainly not in the halls of power, and worse probably dead. 

And perhaps these people know there missile is about as sophisticated as an m-80 (a common illegal firework) they know are government feels no real threat and doesn’t really care and also our military is stretched way to thin to do anything but shake a fist at them , so they send off a lame rocket knowing full well how truly useless it is. But it really is a veiled threat to their own people and as an added bonus helps move them forward with their missile technology, but mostly it’s  like shaking a loaded gun at their own people to keep them in line.

Best wishes and blessings to all the good  people out there,

Denise

Answering Readers…

Hey everyone,

I’m sorry I haven’t been blogging as much as I should. Marlene had a question about a case and I want to answer that but I don’t have time to look into it right now but will tomorrow.

I wanted to say that Cori Desmond’s killer has still not been found. And as I said to police and her family, I felt it was a stranger, a serial rapist/killer who was responsible. There have now been another 2 attempts to kidnap women from the area where Cori was taken. One of the victims I believe had a run in with Cori’s killer. From the composite police sketch the guy looked almost exactly how I pictured him. I feel her killer has a long criminal history. I am getting worried that the killer knows the system well enough to use it against the police. That’s all I’m going to say about this for  now. But again if you live in the area of Redondo/Hermosa Beach don’t take anything for granted. If you have a strange encounter with a stocky middle aged guy with blondish brown hair, report it. Even if it seems stupid to do so. Trust your instincts. I have a feeling this guy wanders a lot, perhaps he might live in his car or have been homeless off and on. He also has the ability to blend in, almost become invisible. He’s a serious predator and the police really need to start putting Cori’s case together with some other things they are working on, and they will find patterns. I have  the feeling they don’t want to think of this as a serial situation because it makes things a lot more complicated, will cost more, take more resources and put a lot of public pressure on them to catch the guy. 

Also anyone who was friends with Cori or knew Cori, you may have seen this guy around the bar she worked at or had some cursory exchange with him. Rack your brains. He’s not the kind of guy who any of you would be friends with and didn’t know Cori other than seeing her at work. I think the guy left the area for awhile but I feel he’s back near the beach and has been for awhile now. So keep an eye out.

Best wishes to all you good people out there,

Denise

P.S. I know Cori’s situation was different in terms of her death then most of this man’s victims. He probably started as a serial rapist. But I don’t think he had the chance to do that to Cori. This maybe one of the reasons the police are having trouble figuring out motive. I’d be happy to try and help them if they want to contact me.

It’s my feeling that the group of Hispanic guys in the white van are not related to the Cori Desmond case but the other dude is.

My Computer Has A Boo-Boo

My computer literally will not even turn on! I think the worm infected my apple! Because I run virtual PC and don’t go onto the net via Virtual PC I hadn’t thought about the virus/worm thing because I’m a spoiled Mac user. But alas, I can now empathize with everyone out there who is the victim of idiot hackers. Why they want to destroy people’s computers for no apparent reason is beyond me but all I can say is I hope their karma comes back to them 3 fold. Jerks. I’m going to try and get my life line fixed.

RIght now I have stolen my husband’s laptop while he is away for the an hour or so. As his computer has become an extra appendage and he really doesn’t like me using it, I doubt I’ll be able to post much, except perhaps when he is sleeping or out. Hopefully my situation will improve by next week and I will get back to blabbing and answering questions.

Also for anyone who wants a reading or who e-mails me over the next week, please be patient as I probably won’t be consistent in getting back to you due to this problem.

Hope everyone has a great Holiday (except for you evil hackers who I hope have a very unfun, miserable holiday).

Best wishes and many blessings to all the good, kind and considerate people out there,
Denise

P.S. Does anyone know a good cheap place to buy a new mac laptop?

I’m Working On It!!

Hey everyone,

I’m sorry my computer died and I ordered a new one. It should be here in the next day or so. I’m sorry I haven’t posted in awhile because of this. Anyone wanting a reading, I have to get my set-up with the astrology software so next week should be OK. If I don’t have it all loaded there is a back up plan but anyway. It would be best to use the program I have. 

Hope everyone had a great holiday.

Best to all you good people,

Denise

My New Computer Is On It’s Way!

Long story short, my old laptop died and I had to order another one. I thought it would be here by today but it is sadly not. I must admit I’m having withdrawals. I have stolen my husband’s computer while he’s out running errands. According to the tracking status it will be here on the 21st of April. 

So again if you want a reading or are trying to contact me, I’ll get back to you next week and we will schedule something then. 

So sorry for the inconvenience. I think it’s something in my chart as all the electronics in my home have been freaking out. Our DVD player turned on full blast at 2 in the morning. My husband nearly had a heart attack, poor guy. You’d think after being married to a freak like me for 20 years he’d be used to it. But he still gets scared when weird stuff happens (and it happens a lot). He got up and checked the house several times just to make sure no one had snuck in and hit the DVD player remote? I guess. Luckily this sort of thing doesn’t bother me, hasn’t since I was a kid and made peace with it. It’s just how it will always be, no use getting worked up over it.

Hope everyone has a great weekend. I will try to post. I’m so annoyed at the “tea baggers” don’t they use google? Really, you’d think they would have checked that before they flew their freak flag. I mean it’s almost too perfect. Sucking the proverbial balls of the wealthy, I guess that’s what it was about. Do you think the people at FOX knew this and thought it would be funny to humiliate the “peasants,” who do their bidding? Hmm, probably. It seems like some weird passive aggressive humiliation toward their minions. I mean, seriously, they had to know the slang, right? Someone at FOX news had to know. Or do all of them have their heads so far up their own butts that they were truly innocent of the reference? I think not. 

I feel bad for all those people who actually buy into the FOX news script. Clearly FOX news keeps moving the goal post so the Republicans can win at any cost no matter how much they damage the people they are using to do their dirty work. And those who actually believe in the paranoid, warped view of reality that they peddle are not bad or stupid people, they’ve just been seriously misguided. It’s my observation that FOX appeals to an older rural demographic, people who are often isolated and fearful (at least this is the demo in my husband’s family) they are genuinely good people, but their minds have been so inundated with BS for so long they don’t have any clear reference point to judge reality on.

It’s like calling white black for all of ones life and then expecting those people who believe black is white to look at a swatch of white paint and call it for what it is. Impossible.

I’ll go more into some observations when I have a chance. My husband is home and needs his computer back.

Best wishes and many blessings to all you good people,

Denise

I’m Back!

I finally got a new computer. It arrived today. I briefly looked at my e-mail just to get a sense of how many I had received and got a bit overwhelmed. 

Give me a little time and I will get to everyone who has e-mailed for a reading. You should hear something back this week or at least by the start of next week.

I’m so sorry for the inconvenience.

So much has happened since I’ve been gone, so much to talk about. I’ll get to some of that tomorrow. Today was spent setting up my computer.

Wishing all you good people well,

Denise

E-mail

If anyone e-mailed me in the last 2 weeks and you don’t hear from me by the end of this week, please e-mail me again. It seems when I originally checked my account I had hundreds of new e-mails and then later there were only a few dozen. I have no idea what happened to them. I think this may have been caused by the computer problems I was having.

I am now on a new laptop and all should be fine. Also if you are a returning client, sadly my old computer is deader than a door nail so the data base is gone for now. I’m hoping to retrieve it at some point if I can. But for now it means I don’t have any ones birth info anymore sorry about that.

Please start posting questions.

Interesting the turn that the Obama administration has taken on the torture issue. I understand his reluctance to prosecute a good percentage of the CIA, those who carried out the Bush administration orders. It would not only be structurally difficult (if not impossible) but it could potentially put our country in a very dangerous situation, not just because of the animosity those who worked for the CIA would harbor against his administration and him, but it would create huge gaps of intelligence. It’s not easy to replace experts in Islamic terrorist groups, Middle-Eastern languages and culture. The loss of a large group of these experts through trials and potential incarceration would leave us vulnerable to another terrorist attack. 

It has always been my psychic impression that the Bush administration would be tried by the international community for war crimes. Logistically this makes the most sense as the treaties that were broken were international and any sitting president would have a nearly impossible time going after the administration that came before it due to politics, especially now when our country is hugely divided and Obama is the first African American to become president. The situation is a fireball for him. His best option is to declassify everything the Bush administration did and hand over everything to an international tribunal where there would be a feeling of neutrality as well as justice.

At first I was very disappointed in some of the statements he made about the issue of the Bush administration especially in light of the fact that they knowingly encouraged and ordered torture. I was angry, felt he didn’t have enough of the fighter in him which had been my fear early on when choosing between him and Hillary. I felt Hillary would have gone after the Bush administration with a vengeance. However the more I thought about it, the more I realized Obama released the information and was allowing it to float to the surface first and reality would make it impossible for him to get anything positive done for this country if he just went after the Bush administration on this issue when there are so many other things he needs to fix as well and he wouldn’t be able to attend or get anything important passed like health care reform or new packages to save our economy or education, you name it. His heart would be ripped out by the Republicans and eaten in some freaky Aztec ritual if he attempted to prosecute Bush or any of the cells (administration) that made up his collective brain. Or the Republicans would sic bipolar Glenn Beck on Obama with a .22 gage rifle. Obama has to be as careful/pragmatic as he is idealistic and this is a difficult if not impossible line to walk. But if anyone can do it, the fact that he’s a member of the Pluto in Virgo generation gives him a great chance.

Best wishes and many blessings to all you fine people,

Denise

E-mail and Alien Abduction

As there is all kinds of bizarre activity happening in regards to my electronics, please e-mail me again if you are interested in a reading. 

I am now on a brand new mac and am having strange things happen on it as well as the nightly ritual of the DVD player turning itself on and off. It is really beginning to upset my husband. He’s been having difficulty sleeping with so many strange things happening. 

But enough of that, just e-mail me again if you want to set up an appointment or need help and if for some reason you don’t get a response in the next few days, post a comment.

I’ve been doing a lot of research on alien abduction lately and have ran across several groups who are trying different techniques to rid themselves and teach others how to avoid abduction. Again, my suggestion is the Lesser Pentagram Ritual which works like a charm. In my case with the friendly ghost it doesn’t do that much good as the spirit who is haunting me is benevolent, he’s just freaking out my husband. I believe he is trying to give me a message and I’m working on fitting the pieces of symbology together to figure it out.

Hope everyone is well. I’ll post more later tonight.

Best wishes,

Denise

Starchild

I’ve told everyone about the research I’ve been doing about alien abductions. Well, years ago I went to a MUFON meeting here in LA and held a replica of the Starchild Skull. This skull was found in a cave in Mexico and carbon dated to 900 years ago. Various tests had been done on the skull which was abnormally tough, actually it was sent to a lab and found to be impossible to break down. DNA tests were performed in the 1990s and they were inconclusive because only the mitochondrial DNA was retrievable. However the nuclear DNA which would have come from the father was unrecoverable at the time. 

Recently an episode of UFO Hunters tackled the Starchild Skull mystery. But having seen and felt the exact replica I don’t think they did a good enough job of conveying how convincing this skull is. It really looks like a hybrid, or a cross between a gray and a human being. It has been my feeling now after a lot of research that the most common type of alien known as the grays, have been interbreeding themselves with us for thousands of years. And in some cases they are accelerating the process by picking on particular familial lines. They seem to abduct several generations. Why? Well, it’s my intuition they are trying to change or tweak the overall human race, make us evolve in some direction either for pure scientific experiment or for a variety of other reasons, some sinister, some neutral and some benevolent. 

I would very much like to try to get information about certain commonalities between abductees. So far most of this research has been about psychologizing those involved in the phenomena. What I’m interested in are possible physical differences between abductees and everyday people. The Starchild Skull had no sinuses perhaps abductees would be more apt to have sinus trouble as it is my belief that they are potentially hybrid’s themselves, just much more watered down versions. If anyone is or knows someone who is an abductee please have them post or e-mail me some basic stats. Here is the info I’d like to collect:

1) Their basic IQ score.

2) Any other paranormal abilities, telepathy, telekenisis, premonitions, etc.

3) Any physical troubles, please don’t edit there maybe patterns here that no one has thought about.

4) Strange paranormal stories that have been passed down about the family, no matter what context they are put in either religious or otherwise.

5) Any gut feelings about the mission and/or purpose of the abductions.

6) Whether the experience was seen as negative or positive by the abductee.

7) Any residual effects noticed after an abduction experience or dream of an abduction experience.

8) Whether means were tried to rid the abductee of being taken against their will.

9) Any emotional problems the abductee feels maybe related to their experiences of abduction.

10) Any other info that seems pertinent to the abductee.

I’d like to compile as much information as possible and then try to find patterns. This is completely anonymous and no one’s name will ever been given out to anyone. Once I finish the research I’ll publish the findings on the blog and give an analysis. I have some strong feelings about these events but I don’t want to jump to conclusions. I would like to be more empirical in my process here due to the subject matter. I don’t want to just give some channelled answer or theory a whirl as this has already been done countless times without any real quantifiable effect or solid answer.

Thanks for your participation in advance.

Best to all you good people out there,

Denise

IQs and Freakiness…

In the last post a smiley face appears but I didn’t put it there. Very odd.

Any way, I wonder how many of you have taken IQ tests and what your opinions are about them. It seems that the results vary wildly from test to test for lots of people depending on a variety of factors, some emotional, some motivational.

I’m going to put up a survey about the IQ’s so please take part in it.

Best wishes to all,

Denise

IQ, Starchild Skull & 8+) & Twit(ter)

Chris mentioned that if you type 8 + ) you get that smiley face dude, but I had no reason to do that and did not. Also my computer, the new one, is still doing the crazy type thing where it blows itself up for no reason while I’m writing. This happens to the point of the type becoming so large and illegible that I have to demagnify it. It’s odd, the lights are flickering right now, the DVD turns itself on and off all night. My daughter had the worst nightmare of her life, it took almost 2 hours to calm her down. Something is going on. I remember being a little kid and having so much scary crazy psychic phenomena happen it was ridiculous. The TV would turn itself off and on all day long, the garage door would go up and down, the radio dial in the car and at home would turn itself from station to station, this was when there were big giant knobs and stuff, light bulbs would blow out all the time, I’d go to tape something (with those early giant home tape recorders) and there would be creepy voices when I played back the tape. And that was before it got really bad. I hope my kid doesn’t have to deal with that. It was terrifying! I couldn’t sleep at night, it’s a long story I’ll dole out. I didn’t think being psychic was a gift at all, just a horrible curse. I really didn’t have a choice but learn to control it or I’d be calling the Ghost Hunters from an insane asylum. Seriously, not fun. 

Wei: Thanks for the tip about the “test” regarding the Starchild Skull. It sounds interesting. 

The weather here in LA has been so insane. It was in the triple digits one day and then in the 60s the next, windy and dry to overcast and humid. It triggered the migraine problem which is why I was absent for a couple of days on the blog. I’m a human barometer. I have one other friend with this problem and when both of us get migraine symptoms we know its going to rain. Thank God I don’t live in Chicago anymore, I’d always be sick.

IQ is interesting and I have read that men score higher on those tests than women. But this could be because the male brain is structured to be able to completely focus on something to the exclusion of all other things which is why they often can’t multi-task. Women are also genius’s when it comes to picking up subtle cues on people’s faces and can read very complex emotions quickly, have more color cones in their eyes and generally have trouble with spatial relationships. Perhaps this is why women don’t score as high, the things tested for on IQ tests are generally more male brain orientated and perhaps why people with Asberger’s do well on IQ tests. They have what some scientists have called extremely male brains.

A man invented the IQ test so it has the bias of what he thought mattered in intelligence. I’m not complaining, I have always done well on those tests but I have often thought them inadequate at truly getting to the root of intelligence in a comprehensive way. And depending on how the test is structured (if it is biased toward “general knowledge,” or logic or whatever) a person’s score can vary quite a bit. Believe it or not (and this is ironic since I’m a psychic) I always score highest in logic by miles. If you just tested me on logic alone my IQ is kind of outrageous, but throw in some general knowledge about who won the world cup or something I could care less about and I will not do as well (also I missed a lot of school, I mean a lot, actually an entire year once due to health problems as a kid.) I think that the more an IQ test relies on general knowledge the less it has to do with intrinsic intellegence or the ability to discern patterns, use logic to figure out things and extrapolate answers. In my opinion those tests are culturally biased and the better educated a person is, the better their score will be. In my opinion that sort of test is not only flawed but relatively worthless in a world where a person can google anything and get an immediate answer. I read an article in Discover magazine about the mind no longer being located just in the brain, that the access to information is so prevalant a person no longer needs to store everything and memorize it thereby leaving room for the brain to process things in new ways. As we develop and evolve, we might find that memory becomes less and less important in our evaluation of intelligence as information is codified in everything around us and serves little purpose taking up space in our gray matter.  It maybe more important to utilize precious brain space with remembering where to access any and all information and how to use syste