Combat Ends in Iraq… The astrology

I’m posting the chart for the end of the war in Iraq or at least this phase, the combat phase. For some reason I can not get the stupid chart to load. But anyway I’ll just delineate it for everyone and give a link to a place one can go to get the chart for free if you want it.

Interesting to note that there was a grand fire trine with Sun in the chart’s 1st house, Moon in the 5th and Eris is completing it in the 9th. Positive energy for us pulling out and restoring some faith abroad about our intentions and helping to heal our image, and good will (5th house). If one looks at this chart (which I calculated for about 3:51 AM Baghdad, Iraq time) at first glance (and without Eris) it doesn’t really look monumental. But I believe this chart actually confirms the idea of Eris being the ruler of martial strategy and the sign of Libra. The fact that is the most elevated heavenly body in the chart at the top of the chart going from the 9th (foreign cultures and countries) and approaching the 10th indicates exactly the way we decided to get out of the country, under the cover of night without huge fanfare.

The fact that Mars, Venus and Saturn in the 3rd house all in Libra (Venus and Mars in tight conjunction with Saturn part of the stellium in a looser way) also a main feature of this chart, tell the story of us exiting in a non-confrontational way again under the cover of night and in the most harmonious way possible, in a very rational, orderly and sneaky way. Again showing the power of Eris – her ability to use psychology, the element of surprise and rational planning to win against her enemies or competitors. She doesn’t let them see her coming, like a great strategist she evaluates the situation uses everything she has and attacks in an unsuspected way using surprise to her advantage.

I did look at this chart as compared to the US signing of the constitution chart as well to see what impact this will have at home, especially in the financial sector.  Pluto has again (irregardless of us pulling out in Iraq) returned to 2 degrees Capricorn, a bad sign for our economy.

As Capricorn continues to hit this point over the next couple of years either business will be reformed, including banking – or I should say especially banking, and we will rise out of the ashes to a new economic paradigm for the better or if nothing is done and we continue down the path we have been on for the past 25 or more years and we will find ourselves waking not just to this new form of a Depression, but in a country that has more in common with those countries we would call “developing” than with our European cousins. I hope we can be brave enough, inventive enough and wise enough to reinvent ourselves. In general America and people in general are remarkably resilient and often have to get a lesson several times before it sinks in and something is done. So take heart any of you who have unique and inventive approaches to business, commerce, banking, technology for you shall rule the new world.

Best wishes to all,

Denise

Oh and to see the chart of Iraq go onto http://www.astro.com under the extended chart selection, put in the time I gave of 3:51 AM August 19, 2010 Baghdad, Iraq and highlight all the extra celestial objects.

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

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

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:

javahaaa

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.