Impeachment Astrology – in real time

I’m posting all the charts that I have deemed helpful in understanding what is going on in this impeachment on an energetic level. There are a number of very interesting aspects in not just the transit charts but also in the solar arc charts and the progressed day for a year charts. I am going to focus only on the solar arc progressions with the transits, for sake of simplicity. They also are more dramatic in their movement and add a different kind of layer.  I’m posting all of the charts with interpretation below them. I will go over them on an upcoming Youtube video.

I posted both the natal and solar chart of Rudy Giuliani because it is unlikely that his time of birth is correct. So we are looking more at the transits and how they interact with the natal planets. The solar chart will be more reliable in looking at the area of life where this collision occurs. As we can see RG’s progressed Neptune is being lit up by Venus today 11/13/2019, the first day of the impeachment. In his natal chart it’s happening in the 3rd house and in his solar it’s happening in his 7th house. It is also being squared by transiting Neptune in Pisces, which is going through his solar

10th house and in the 6th house of his natal.  Focusing here on the solar chart rather than the natal chart which we don’t know the accuracy of, we see Neptune in the 10th square the progressed Neptune in the 7th triggered by the transiting Venus. Here we see the issues very clearly laid out. Neptune being confusion, delusion, trickery, deceit, lying, illusion, dissolution and the 10th house of reputation and the 7th house of law. Neptune (strengthened in Pisces and reiterated in that energy) is the natural ruler of the 12th house of hidden enemies, hospitals, mental institutions and prisons. Neptune is the ruler of con-men, tricksters, liars, manipulators, criminals, robbers – on the flip side it is the ruler of religious fanatics, spirituality, visions, psychic ability, confusion, the imagination, oil, music, the other side. It’s interesting that the Evangelical Christians, particularly those steeped in the Pentecostal tradition, are the base of supporters for all things Trump.

We know that Trump got a large chunk of the religious right on board with him through bribery. But why do the Evangelic church goers fall in line behind their religious leaders? There are a number of answers to that, but for the purpose of understanding the larger context of Neptune in Pisces, suffice it to say they have very entrenched beliefs that are Piscean in nature, hearkening back to the Piscean age. They have felt the shift of ages as the period when the world is to end and the Messiah is to return and save the true believers, damning the rest of humanity to eternal hell. For them, the feeling of Neptune in Pisces, is that of the world around them dissolving – which on many levels it is. They read that through the lens of their religious belief system. Of course, so does everyone else which is the very crux of the problem we are currently finding ourselves in. While everyone is busy doubling down on their belief systems, others are confused and all of this leaves a giant hole in the collective consciousness to be filled with someone adept at exploiting all of that energy.

Currently  Jupiter is in Sagittarius creating a square by sign (not degree) to Neptune in Pisces. Trump is a Gemini again another square (by sign, not currently by degree). So lets look now at Trump’s chart. The other major factor to Neptune in Pisces is Pluto in Capricorn. The outer planets in general describe broader periods of time and define generations and collective consciousness. Capricorn rules time, karma, enforcement of law, structure, the law, ambition, corporations, management, heads of state, heads of corporations, CEOs, business people. In the tarot it is represented by the Devil card. Capricorn/Saturn and Pluto/Scorpio are associated with the shadow side of humanity. This is not to say people who have those signs and of course (we all have the planets) in their chart are any more negative or even dark than anyone else, although they can be. Human beings have free will and can use that energy to transcend. However in the collective consciousness (this is an unconscious energy) will bring out issues that we could consider dark.

So back to talking about how all these things effect what we are currently undergoing on the impeachment front. Pluto in Capricorn is asking us – what are the boundaries? This is why there is a rise in nationalism around the globe. The flip side of this was when Pluto was in its opposite of Cancer during WWII. It was another form of nationalism. When Neptune was in Capricorn we saw a rise in issues with skinheads surface around the world. Capricorn asks us what are the rules, and whose going to be at the top of the pyramid? It is a very hierarchical and controlling sign which is why it is considered competitive, ambitious and is represented by the Devil. Capricorn wants to be the best, the head honcho, the boss, the guy in charge. If the energy is positively directed this can create order, strict adherence to the rules, control (in a positive way) and is pro-business and getting ahead. When it was in Neptune we had a dissolving of corporations – all the layoffs of the 1990s and the shipping of jobs overseas. As soon as Neptune hit Capricorn we had the S & L scandals of the late 1980s, and a slow down in the economy. Neptune=loss + Capricorn=Career. Now that Pluto is in Capricorn we have a digging up and exposure of those in power, those who have been in control. We also have those in power trying to gain greater control – the rich getting richer, kleptocracic Russians trying take over other countries for their own gain.  Pluto is also transformation. It’s important to note that this is the key word for this planet. It exposes and with its power, it transforms.  While many may feel confused and even hopeless – Neptune in Pisces, the underlying energy of Pluto in Capricorn is about transformation of the rules, of law, of the way we go about our business which is exactly what this impeachment is about. In the case of Donald Trump’s chart we can see that Pluto in Capricorn is exactly inconjunct the mid-point of his North Node in Gemini and his natal Sun in Gemini right now, from the 5th to the 10th.  At the same time transiting Saturn in Capricorn is starting to inconjunct his natal Uranus in Gemini in the 10th. So what does that mean? Saturn in Capricorn is a doubling down of tradition, the rule of law, it is conjoining Pluto which tells us that this transformation of power we have seen occurring is being pushed to conform to societal norms, traditions and the rule of law. This inconjunction is almost exact as his natal Uranus is almost at 17 degrees and transiting Saturn is at early 17 degrees in Capricorn.  Uranus is television, electricity, rebellion, change, the sudden and unexpected. The fact that it is conjunct Trump’s natal Sun indicates that he has an unstable sense of self.  The energy of an inconjunction is best described by the metaphor of putting two magnets wrong sides toward each other. The two magnets repel each other, this is what an inconjunction does, it is a pushing apart a separating aspect. It is the most common and consistent aspect seen when people transition – they literally separate from their bodies. IN the case of Trump’s chart we see the rule of law – Saturn in Capricorn – pushing against his natal Uranus in Gemini in the 10th – a televised start of holding him accountable, attempting to change his career (10th) and reputation.

Now lets look at what’s going on in the 2 political parties. There are several charts for both the Republicans and the Democrats but for the sake of ease and simplicity I’m just using these. Astrology is a fractal art and in this case divination system so I went with the first charts that came up. The thing that jumped out at me immediately was the transiting Uranus in the 7th house conjunct the natal Pluto. As you can see there is a theme of Uranus and Pluto emerging among all the different players. The 7th house is of course legal issues, the law, court and Pluto is power. Uranus conjuncting this is a change in the power structure which causes a sudden change of power. This does not bode well for the case they are making nor does it bode well for the future of their party. If is part of the aspect I saw happening when I predicted it could be the end of their party. The other major issue is the Republican party is in the process of a Neptune return. This is not a return possible for a human to experience as it happens every 130+ years. So it isn’t something we as astrologers can speak to from experience – we can only use astro-logic to determine what this means. I read this as an opportunity to deepen the belief systems of the party. As you will see though the progressed Mars is also in the mix, adding aggression, arguing and a splitting effect. The Republican party started as a very spiritual and Christian orientated party. The nature of what that meant back in the mid 19th century was quite different. It was Christianity born out of the enlightenment and the belief in a Christian doctrine opposed to slavery and oppression. The early Republican party believed in the mission of our forefathers for each individual person to the entitlements of freedom, free will and personal responsibility. The return of Neptune to its place in Pisces in the chart comes with the morality of a different kind of Christianity, a Christianity in decline and in fear of obliteration. A shift from priests and abbots who held degrees in theosophy and embraced the reason of their age in balance with what they saw as the poetry of the message of Christ. Currently, Christianity has been remade in a new image, co-opted by the south and its historical marriage to slavery and pushed forward by televangelists, evangelic Christians and Pentecostals, all who emerged in the last century and all with a tradition of lay priests and an emphasis on hell, fire, brimstone, fear and dogma. Here we see the re-imagining of the Republican party through the lens of the far, far Christian right as they have emerged as the most steadfast of Republicans. In a world shifting out of the Piscean age with a weakening of Christianity around the globe, the extreme arm of Christianity that relies on fear and complete immersion in its self-made culture is at the heart of what is currently happening in the Republican party.

For the Democratic party, Neptune has been transiting the 10th house and conjunct the native Sun and Uranus in recent years and is now starting to conjunct the progressed Mars, giving them a bit more fight. The public perception (10th house) has been that of weakness, and instability. Transiting Pluto and Saturn in Capricorn are in the 7th house of open enemies and legal proceedings. Saturn is exactly square the natal Pluto in Aries in the 11th house and tightly square natal Jupiter in Libra in the 5th. This creates a Grand Cross which is both difficult and a manifesting aspect. This tells us they can prove their case if they lay it out soberly and deliberately. It will not be easy and it is precarious but Pluto and Saturn are calling them to confront the laws and norms despite their desire not to.

Many blessings to all of you!

Denise

 

Hope Hicks – a passage that didn’t make it into the book

Writing the Trump book was like taking a ride through a rabbit hole. I had written about Hope Hicks but since she’s no longer part of the administration I cut this out of the book and just went into Trump only. So I figured I’d release this here and other pieces that don’t make it into the next book which will look into Russia, North Korea and the players around Trump. So here’s what I wrote about Hicks:

Hope Hicks is a bit of a mystery – her relationship with the president, how she came to power and what her role is exactly. Other than steaming Trump’s pants, while he’s wearing them, and fielding media stories, putting spin on them so they are to the liking of 45, what is her relationship with Trump and how much does she know? The two themes I see with people surrounding Trump are heavy Uranian influence and Neptune, diffuse energy, porous boundaries and unusual thinking processes. They seem to fall into two categories – those who wish to break the system apart and are using Trump to do this, or those whose boundaries are easily penetrated, co-opted and one might say gullible. Hope Hicks fits into the later description. If I were a clinical psychologist (which I’m not) I would suspect this young woman of a personality disorder. Her Moon in Pisces, which makes one compassionate, sensitive and can indicate strong intuition can also mean gullibility, lack of boundaries and an overwhelming emotionality. In her case it squares her natal Jupiter in Gemini which indicates she is easily swayed by what other people tell her. Her Sun at 28 Libra tells us that she doesn’t like to argue, fight or be near any kind of discord. Perhaps this is why she feels the need to be a professional softener. It’s not surprising her career would have been in fashion related Libra which is highly aesthetic and her Pisces Moon would love glamour and photography. Her Uranus is tightly conjunct Saturn in Sag at 27/28 conjunct Trump’s Moon and opposing his Sun/Uranus conjunction. This is also a theme – Trump surrounds himself with people in this generation – clearly he loves the trigger of their Uranus on his Moon triggering his internal opposition. Because Hicks’ Uranus/Saturn fall on Trump’s Moon the strange twist in her career was activated when she met him. It’s built into her chart to have an unstable career Uranus conjunct Saturn. Why someone would want to tie their fate to Donald Trump is a mystery, but in Hicks’ case her opportunistic instincts and ability to shape shift into whatever best suits her desire for allusive career success (Neptune in Capricorn) was enough to seize the bizarre opportunity. While we can put this on her age, I certainly would not have taken the job at 28.

Hope’s natal Mercury in Libra trines her Jupiter in Gemini – she’s very bright, but the square to Neptune from her Mercury reiterates problems with boundaries and problems making decisions. Her thought process can be easily distorted – her ambition can cloud her ability to think or put her into situations that are difficult. The other difficult aspect is her Neptune is inconjunction her natal Jupiter in Gemini – this is an aspect of taking her off her natural course of subversion that could put her in difficult waters. Her natal Mars also opposes her natal Mercury, she has a temper and it comes out with her partners. She is strong willed and a fighter which likely takes her partners by surprise as she appears docile and malleable in so many other areas of her life. This configuration would likely cause relationship difficulties for her in partnerships. Her Mars sextile Jupiter would give her athletic ability, agility and her self determination would open doors for her. Her Venus in Virgo gives her a love of fashion and rules her Sun – again not a surprise she would be drawn to the fashion industry and likely should have stayed in it. It also squares her Uranus/Saturn – what she loves is at odds with the turn in her career. Taking advantage of unexpected twists in her career leads her off her path and what she is passionate about. Her Pluto in Scorpio inconjuncts Jupiter, what seemed like power turns out to be bad luck.

Here we see Hicks’ Uranus/Saturn conjunct Trump’s Moon/South Node and opposing his Sun/North Node. She is likely not part of his insurgence, but rather a support to it. She supports all of his Uranian feelings of rebellion, deflection, raging against the system, breaking apart structures and embrace of foreign cultures – namely Russia. Her Sun trines his, making him comfortable and unchanging. He feels at ease with her and supported. Her Mercury sits between his Neptune and Jupiter reiterating a lack of boundaries between them. He projects onto her and she feeds him the information he needs to keep him in his bubble. Her Pluto is inconjunct his Uranus  and squares his Pluto in Leo in the 12th indicating that saving herself will endanger his power and turn his fate. Her Mars trines his Pluto – the way she operates in the world feeds his sense of power. Her South Node and Venus in his first house make him feel like she is almost part of him – again showing the boundaries that are blurred. Her Venus sextiles his, there is an opportunity for a relationship here that is more than just work. Her Moon sits right in his 7th indicating a partnership and it inconjuncts his Neptune and her Mercury, loss and irreconcilable relationship. One has to wonder if they are involved in an affair which would certainly make sense with this chart between an older married man and a young woman who works for him. Her Jupiter in Gemini sits at the top of his chart close to his Mid-heaven – her words (Gemini) and ability to spin media coverage benefit his career. It makes sense that she would be his Director of Communications.

One thing to keep in mind is that Neptune has been going through Pisces and would have been conjunct her Moon when she took her position in the White House – there would have been a lot of emotional confusion at that time for her. Her naturally porous emotional boundaries would have been made far more extreme by this transit. I think it’s likely that there was an emotional attachment that was a big part of why she made the decision to shift her life so extremely.

Her Moon in Pisces trines his Mercury, her sensitivity makes him comfortable to talk to her even though (his perceived) passivity also annoys him = Hicks’ Moon in Pisces inconjunct Trump’s Pluto and Neptune forming a Yod to her. He will change her life drastically in ways she did not see coming.

So as time moves on Saturn will hit her Neptune in March of 2018 – forcing her to see the reality of the situation she is in. This could be a period when Mueller talks to her or things heat up and fear sets in about her career choice.

After Saturn hits her Neptune exactly in March transiting Uranus will be in direct opposition to her Sun. It will also be trine her Uranus/Saturn which suggests to me that if she changes her stance and cooperates with the investigation she will be spared the worst of the investigation. Built into their interactive charts Trump/Hicks is this shift that she could be the lightening rod for. Her Saturn conjunct his 4th house cusp means that when Uranus gets to that point there change is triggered. Uranus will hit this point back and forth over the next year for both Hicks and Trump – usually with aspects the first hit is a knock, the second a pound and the last an explosion. In 2019 Uranus will still be stationed at this point as Pluto moves closer to a square with her Sun. Saturn will also begin to conjunct transiting Pluto.

Since we don’t know exactly where these transits play out in the houses of her natal chart, due to an unknown time of birth, we can see that Pluto will be next to approaching Saturn – restriction of power. For Hicks Jupiter will be conjunct her Uranus/Saturn and a stellium in Pisces will be opposing her Venus in Virgo – transiting Uranus will start to get into an opposition to her natal Pluto and an inconjunction to her natal Mercury.  This seems to spell the end of her career in this position, leaving her head spinning and her life redirected in ways hard to rectify.

So I wrote the above part of this book in January and had to put this project aside for a bit. Some of what I have stated in the text above has already come to pass. The question now is whether Hicks will be indicted herself or whether she will choose to help out the investigation and save herself. So let’s look at the aspects and see if there is any possibility of prison ahead for her. Analyzing the chart for 2019 when I think the indictment for Trump is likely, we see that she has transiting Jupiter hitting her natal Uranus and Saturn in Sagittarius in the 2nd house and Mars in Gemini hitting her natal Jupiter in Gemini in the 8th – these are protective aspects and suggest she will cooperate and find protection through that. Uranus stationed in the 7th opposing her rising shows a sudden turn in a partnership – she switches sides. Transiting Pluto/South Node/Saturn in the 3rd square (loose) her natal Sun in Libra (solar chart in the 1st) show an uncomfortable position where she is made to communicate secrets (Pluto) and decisions made while she was in a leadership role (Saturn) that do not reflect well on her choices and the people she was associated with – this same set of transiting bodies trine her natal Venus in Virgo in the 11th, which again reiterates protection through being of service for the greater good. So it looks to me like she will cooperate and it will be very uncomfortable for her, but she herself will likely escape prison although Neptune in Pisces will be opposite her Venus in Virgo (Venus rules her Sun and in her solar chart her chart) and this could land her in jail if she gets cold feet. It seems like she will make a deal that will be precarious, one wrong step and she could loose her freedom. I hope for her sake she remains 100% truthful and gives herself over completely to the benefit of the Mueller investigation – any resistance on her part could result in a revoking of the deal she makes and with that opposition – there is a chance she could blow it.

 

The Russia Mess

So I’ve been working on this book about all the players, all the moving parts in the Russia scandal and looking at historical patterns through the lens of astrology, and I have some interesting news to impart.

I think this is going to be weird – something we haven’t seen before!

I’m currently employing horary astrology to hone in on the answer, but for now I’ll say I’m not sure about impeachment, but I am sure about indictment for Trump. That leaves a strange situation – what happens if he’s indicted while still president? I say this because as I went through in detail all the impeachment charts of the US – the Trump situation really looked different. I’m going to stick with my original time period as the real beginning of the end happening next spring 2019. According to horary charts I’ve done – this could be the period when the 25th amendment is invoked and the fall of 2019 when indictments could happen (yes multiple)against Trump. Good news here is that there is nothing  Trump can do to change the trajectory now of his karma – so sit tight and be at peace during the storm.  It will be inexpensive and I’ll go over it in YouTube videos for those of you who prefer that.

This is a Uranian (unprdictable) presidency with a lot of moving parts, so it’s been kind of crazy digging into the weeds!

Best to all and blessings,

Denise

Syrian Air Strike Astrology

I was down with the flu. I had hoped to blog and make more videos closer together, but what can you do? Life gets in the way of or our plans. I went over this quad wheel on my You Tube channel. Here it is for you to look at. I plan on doing a counterpoint from the Russian perspective on the next batch of charts and analysis.

 

Update Syrian Air Strike Astrology

I was down with the flu so I had hoped to blog and make more videos closer together but what can you do? Life gets in the way or our plans. I went over this quad wheel on my You Tube channel. Here it is for you to look at. I plan on doing a counterpoint from the Russian perspective on the next batch of charts and analysis.

I made a video but messed it all up. It was funky so I took it down. I plan to redo it either tonight or tomorrow. But here’s the gist of it. Looking at Trump’s chart in regards to Syria, everything is primarily easy and there isn’t a lot of conflict with it – that being said, on the day of the bombing there was a Mars aspect that looked very reactive. My first instinct when I heard about the bombing was to freak out that this was the start of WWIII. I have long been feeling the march of the drum on that issue.

My second thought was the more cynical idea that perhaps it was a cover to make him look less in bed with the Russians. My instinct and the charts I looked at lead me to believe it was more reactive than a clever diversion.

As I have been combing through charts trying to make sense of what’s happening I stumbled on something that I think is more revealing than anything else I have found so far. It is Trump’s chart juxtaposed against the Russian stock market. I wouldn’t have thought of it except by strange happenstance but I’m glad I ran it. I think it helps clarify the relationship he has with Russia. I also ran Putin’s chart and I’ll post that here as well. I tried to muster a chart for Kim Jung Un but he has two different birthdays – this is common for Koreans as they follow both the solar/western calendar and the lunar/Chinese one. But the problem here is the western birthday is usually wrong. I ran it anyway. I’m going to post a bunch of these charts for people to probe and then go into more detail in the next video.
 

California has a Super Majority of Dems in Both our State House and Assembly

Californians have elected a 2/3 majority in the Senate and a super majority in the state assembly. And as we’ve all heard, “as California goes so does the nation.” I think this, as much or more than the presidential election show that people are waking up to the fact that the Republicans are double talking southern strategists who protect the interest of the 1 percent and the 1 percent only. It is heartening. I believe this is what spirit was referring to in the summer when it gave me such high numbers for the assembly and senate in CA and maybe referring to the mid-term election. CA will be a petri dish for the nation. It has always been “conventional wisdom” to split the house and senate in order to, I guess, keep balance? But this strategy I think we are already seeing has been a stupid one with the new radical right wing Republican party. It may have worked when rational thought was still in vogue but alas now days it’s passe’ among Republicans as there are no longer any moderate ones.

I do want to go into some darker things about visions I have had about the backlash. As all my readers can see there are some seriously psychotic, nasty, delusional people who populate the far right. They seized control of the Republican party and in essence have dismantled it ,because lets face it, most people are not psychotic, nasty, delusional people who want to see others starve while the upper crust pick the bones of the dead from the rotting corpses after the self induced Rapture. 

Most people are reasonable – and it used to be that the Republican party (many years ago in a long lost time) were reasonable, normal people. They even did some amazing things like Lincoln who freed the slaves. They used to be a moderate party who just had different ideas on how to get things done but alas they have been highjacked by the birthers, tea-baggers, plutocrats and religious zealots who have EVERYTHING in COMMON with the Muslims zealots they are so “afraid” of, yet they believe exactly the same things – that women should be chattel, have no rights to their own bodies, and government should be a theocracy.

Yet somehow they don’t see the irony, or similarity between their desire to merge State with Church as those zealots in the Middle-East who started a similar movement back in the 70s and turned countries like Iran from moderate western leaning countries into theocracies that we now are horrified by. I ask these people why they believe merging Christianity with State business would be any better – that experiement was tried during the middle-ages and was an abysmal failure similar to what we have seen in the middle-east. Or the merger of the  made up, bizarre Nazi religion that was merged with their government.

THEOCRACY really DOESN’T WORK. Seriously, just look at the history.

Problem is most people who support a theocracy think that theocracy will be a theocracy that looks like their religion – but what if it isn’t? What if you were a Christian and had to convert to Buddhism – would that be OK?

Yeah, no, we all know the answer…

This is why the founding fathers seperated church and state. And those who say they were “Christian” should do a little digging into what those of us who read call “history” as it turns out most of them were occultists.

Yes, they believed in God (used as a general term for a higher being) but they weren’t all Christians – Ben Frankly I’m pretty sure was an atheist.

Controlling religious belief is what the COMMUNISTS did to their people. They would NOT ALLOW ANY RELIGION. They REQUIRED a belief in ATHEISM because of the statement by Marx that “Religion was the Opiate of the masses.” What the extreme right are proposing is in essence no different than what the Chinese do to their people (but on the other side of the same coin) by disallowing personal freedom to choose how many children to have. This is the same thing the right-wing Christians want to do – they just want to take the choice away on the opposite side. Ironically, both the far right’s ideas truly mirror the very things they are terrified of.

Government – at least in a DEMOCRACY – has no right to invade people’s bedrooms, privacy or lifestyle. I have a ministerial credential and have married Gay couples many times because I believe that being GAY IS COMPLETELY NATURAL and people shouldn’t be punished or disallowed rights that other people have because they fall in love differently than the majority. Just as being Wiccan, Buddhist, Mormon, a Spiritualist or whatever religious or non-religious persuasion one has – should not be discriminated against – nor should it be the business of the public or the government.

It states plainly in our BILL OF RIGHTS. We have the right to:  Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. 

So unless those rights impinge on the welfare of others than case closed. THE END. NO more discussion should be had – it is not the business of those who are straight to decide the fate of gay people anymore than it is the right of men to decide what women do with their bodies or for women to decide that male pattern baldness should be punishable by law. It’s all ABSOLUTELY ABSURD. There is NO MORAL arguement to be made – sorry folks on the right. Give me one actual MORAL arguement not the lame “God made Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve,” crap. Actually God did make Adam and Steve because 10 percent of all animals on this planet are homosexual. My beloved cat Geb was gay and lucky for him he wasn’t born human or he would have been made to feel like crap about himself for the way GOD made him.

You can’t have it both ways – God = all powerful and loving and God = makes mistakes and creates horrible suffering and evil. (And don’t try making the Devil argument he’s a later invention.) He’s an amalgamation of many other demonic figures, old Gods/Goddess and even the word Hell comes from the Ancient Goddess of the Hell Fires up in Scandinavia where souls crossed over into the next world. Maybe that was like heaven to them – it is REALLY REALLY COLD there. 

All I ask from the far right wingers is they stop watching their daily zombie diet of FOX News and just do some actual research using BOOKS and CREDIBLE sources. It’s not a coincidence that the more educated one is in the bible the more one sees inconsistencies and questions their religious beliefs. In fact many great theological scholars end up Agnostics and all the priests I knew back when I was quickly converted to Catholicism after my father’s death were openly so. 

However the urge to be ONE WITH GOD is absolutely and totally human and noble. I absolutely get the need to merge with this mysterious and beautiful force that is so beyond our understanding that we have hundreds of different interpretations of the same religion in each organized religion and in older religions like Hinduism there are thousands not to mention how abstract and esoteric the ideas get. 

I totally applaud the desire to be close to God/Creator/Goddess/Great Spirit/Life Force/Universe/Multivesre whatever you want to call it. I get it. I have it in excess. This is exactly why no one way works and why we should never NEVER judge or associate right/wrong or hatred with this SACRED FORCE.  We have to allow each soul to find his/her way to the Great One. 

As Rodney King said, “Can’t we all just get along.” I mean really. God has a plan for everyone and the truth is if you are judgmental and nasty for sure you don’t know it. In fact you are lost yourself. God doesn’t work through fear because fear is the opposite of love not hate. I say this because love brings compassion and understanding and fear brings intolerance, hatred and disconnection and the source of all love is GOD/SPIRIT/UNIVERSE/CREATOR/MULTIVERSE/PLACE YOUR WORD FOR IT HERE. 

I am heartened today by the fact that the stars (which reflect the Great Spirit’s plans for us) have been abided.

I however am not naive to the very strong and powerful forces of greed, selfishness and shortsightedness which fuel the motives of those who must feed their need to feel important by lording over other human beings – aka plutocrats (think of Trump as the inadvertent spokesman for their subconscious thoughts as he appears to be a walking Id.) These dark forces will rear their ugly heads again and we have a long way to go to correct the many years they’ve had to game the system. 

One must always be vigiliant against these forces everywhere. Lets not forget Germany was a Democracy before Hitler was elected.

And for those who said it couldn’t happen here (those I argued with as far back as HS) take heed – ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE.

Many blessings and peace be with all of you,

Denise

War is here… now

Here’s my answer to a reader about Donald Trump and all that he represents:

Besides Donald Trump being a dangerous horrible idiot he’s also a narcissistic egomaniac. I think he really believes he could win the presidency because he’s a dangerously delusion person. Of course he would completely ruin this country if he were elected into office because he is about as diplomatic as a live grenade. Do I think he could win? Well all I have to say is Arnold Schwarzenegger. People seem to be in love with celebrity – we have replaced the pantheon of Gods and Goddesses with morons, narcissists and idiots. Perhaps we need the old religion which had more examples and pathways to the Great Spirit. Perhaps we yearn for connection through those who mirror us. Unfortunately if this is true we are in a very sad state.

We are currently in a class war – one that dates back to the blowing open of the gates – the Watergate era, followed by the first truly corporate president Ronald Reagan. I’m not sure Reagan knew the damage he was doing. I like to believe that he was hoodwinked by the right to be the spokesman of their (internal in terms of doing it inside the government) coo without really knowing he was. His son, whom I greatly respect, is primarily the reason I believe Ronald senior was most likely a descent man used (as so many middle and lower-income people are being used now) by the wealthy to advance a truly amoral agenda.

I always scoffed at the notion of “trickle down economics” firstly because I grew up in a very affluent neighborhood (that we didn’t belong in – we lived in a townhouse on social security checks and life insurance my father had bought years before his passing when I was 10). I knew the hearts and minds of the very wealthy in ways very few are privileged to know. I knew their children who espoused their values without the crust of age and experience to keep their real feelings and philosophies covered. I heard some of the most unimaginably amoral, immoral and hideous things said as common truths – social Darwinism was a given in the most extreme sense of that statement. There was no empathy for the underprivileged, only a social club that went into the ghetto to teach illiterate children as a sort of bait and switch to their true value system which was the belief that the wealthy are better – they deserve more, they are supreme and the poor are lazy, stupid and deserve what they get even if that means suffering and death. Hideous but absolutely true – many probably won’t believe me. In fact I know people won’t believe me because I’ve been telling people, friends, descent human beings this since I was entrenched in this bizarre world where people went to church on Sunday and then sucked the earth dry of every resource in order to hoard it for themselves. Yes, it is easier to fit a camel through the eye of a needle than a wealthy man into heaven. I saw this first hand.

The first stage of the war against the poor and middle class was to dismantle the unions. Sure some were bloated, some were corrupt but lest we forget what life was like before they existed – just pick up a book by Dickens and you’ll see clearly the way the rich like it. The civil war – a rich man’s war to keep their slaves, using the poor southerners via their racism and pride as a tool against their interest (living) to fight a war that only the wealthy truly had a stake in and only the wealthy benefited from – this is a perfect example of the way many of the wealthiest one percent would like to see our country go – if they could have slaves again, they’d do it in a heartbeat, hence the dismantling of the minimum wage, next it will be age restrictions for working if they get momentum on the wage issue.

There are two kinds of rich – old money or the idle rich as I like to call them, who do nothing but live off the achievement of some great, great, great, great, grandparent who actually contributed something to the world during their time and then invested the family money for generations to inherit. These idle rich hate the “Nuevo riche” the people who newly acquire money – meaning the people who actually earned the money they became wealthy from, the Bill Gates and the Steve Jobs of this world. You know the people who actually really produce jobs for regular folks, not the people who live off the fat left over from their (once common low to middle-class) ancestors. Those “old money” people spend their days taking care of themselves and their money, buying influence, protecting their interests and making sure they can make more money in the market. It’s interesting that they are usually the very same people who accuse poor people of being lazy when truly they have no purpose on this planet and are more akin to tics than human beings. They live off all of us who actually work and keep their world moving forward. The biggest way they contribute to the economy is through buying things, fancy furniture, fine art, clothing, etc.

Now here’s the thing. The 1960s was a very scary time for them, coming off the heels of the most financial growth of anytime during American history. The middle class grew to enormous proportions, the rich got richer as did everyone. You’d think that the wealthy would look upon the economy booming and love it because it means more money in their coffers. But with more money, more education came and people started asking questions. Why do we have to fight the communists in Vietnam? Isn’t that a sovereign nation with the right to decide its own fate? Riots took place, the left became extremely radicalized and the wealthy started to become the target of the growing understanding that a capitalist culture is antithetical to democracy as it stood. Money buys influence and effects legislation. The tying together of corporate interests with the government is fascism and as we all know corporate interests are generally not in line with what’s good for the average person, such as toxic dumping, air pollution, and endless problems associated with industry. Not to mention the corporate bottom line is biggest when they have low overhead, cheap labor and don’t have to pay taxes. Break up the unions, you break up people’s collective bargaining power, work on the congress – lobby for tax breaks for corporations and pay less taxes you get the idea.

All of this has been going on – this war began after FDR put in place regulations to control monopolies (the original source of the world financial crisis that plunged us into the Great Depression as well as Europe, especially Germany). It was those regulations or laws, which were based on the same sort of laws we as ordinary citizens would have to follow (in principle) that kept capitalism on a relatively even playing field. The breakdown of which over the past 30 years we are now seeing the results of.

Forget the history lesson above, here’s the point I want to make invention, intellectual leaps, progress and solutions don’t come from the rich, even jobs don’t, only a very small minority of jobs come directly from those newly rich people who actually are contributing members of society. Invention and intellectual leaps come from the middle-class, the class of people educated enough to want to reach upward and grab the golden ring not people sipping Manhattans while tanning themselves in Tahiti. The wealthiest one percent don’t have an incentive to solve anything, for them everything is solved, they are taken care of. Sure there are those rare individuals who want to contribute and who I salute like the young documentary film maker who exposed his world in “The One Percent,” an excellent entrance into the way people are indoctrinated into this bizarre entitled ideology and also a revelation on many other fronts.

If we lose the middle-class we become a third world country. And we also lose any chance we have of solving Global Warming, of advancing civilization or developing space travel. The rich will own us (as they wish to) and we will eventually be pushed into fighting or dying or both. They have successfully used racism/sexism/homophobia and fear to divide us. They have so confused the average person that he/she often votes against their own interest.

It is not a coincidence that the world is literally being flooded, deluged with tornadoes, earthquakes and soon hurricanes at unprecedented levels. It’s a wake up call: we must come together and fix what is broken.

I ask those who have the power and money to actually make a difference in this world these simple questions: What will it be worth when you have everything and there is nothing and no one left to lord it over or give it to? Are you that insecure you need to feel better than other people, is that what blinds you to the suffering and pain surrounding you? Do you love your family? If you answered yes to that, then what the hell are you doing to preserve this world for them?

Many blessings to the good and may the greedy find the world as wicked as they are,

Denise