World Economic Collapse…

If nothing proves else proves that we live in 2 Americas the wealthiest one percent and everyone else then this should: How is it possible that we have double digit unemployment – the worst since the Great Depression, inflation, people continue to lose their homes, businesses, jobs and the majority of the middle class has slipped down from upper to middle, or middle to lower, yet Wall Street remains in a bubble of its own?

How is this possible?

The wealthiest one percent aren’t directly effected by the down turn. But they eventually will be. The market, which is in some sort of fantasy driven bubble, will eventually get hit when no one can buy things anymore. I don’t know about you guys, but I end up at Target a lot because I have a toddler. I’ve noticed everything I normally buy for her is at least a dollar more per item. That’s some serious inflation! And only about ten percent of the people are shopping there compared to just a year or two ago. I’m not an economist, but that doesn’t bode well for the economy.

Slobbadon wrote a post which I skimmed over, but according to an astrologer he’s been following the crash is due next winter. Frankly, I keep feeling the labor pains and then they disappear. I feel the Oh, No, energy and then it recedes and the economy seems to stay afloat through the sheer will of investors and a lot of lying which I’m sure will come out later.

But whenever the next crash comes, and it will come, we are still in trouble. There’s talk of unemployment being high for a very long time. Reason being is most jobs have been shipped overseas. What I don’t understand is why our government doesn’t make it financially impractical for this to happen. Whatever happened to regulating this with tariffs and import/export duties? If if cost company A more money to manufacture their flashlights in China due to taxation and an international wage law that required Company A to pay a universal minimum wage (based on Europe or the US standards) and on top of that they had to pay shipping and exporting and importing taxes, chances are pretty good they’d just take those jobs back to the US.

There have to be solutions. It’s not right that our corporations exploit people in other countries (in old timey Dickensian fashion) and it’s not right that laws don’t seem to apply to companies. People died here in the 30s trying to get rights for unions and fair wages only to have it be pissed away and thrown out with the bath water during the Reagan years. Thanks Reagan for setting us on the course of economic ruination of the middle-class, you know the trickle down economics where the lack of cash trickles down to the point of starvation and we become akin to a developing nation.

Sometimes I wonder if we can change our trajectory, the one I envisioned in the novel Americhrist (published on this site). It feels all too real, all too inevitable which is why Obama really needs to push back. He’s a wonderful man, but so was Carter, and if he’s not careful his presidency could go the way Carter’s did. It seems there is enough of a majority of mentally challenged people in our country who not only can’t relate to an erudite, intelligent, thoughtful, peaceful, diplomat, but who actually hate people like that. It seems there are Americans who just love the sound of a big fat bully bellowing. Sad.

Get involved.

Bug your congresspeople and Obama to put the public option back on the table and pass it!

Best wishes all you kind, intelligent and gracious people,

Denise

And seriously read the book Americhrist it will make the hair on your neck stand up. I wrote it in 2000, the first draft was finished shortly after Bush took office the first time around.

Answering Readers & The Great Stock Market Crashes……

From Grace:

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This is a totally unrelated topic, but since you’re also a mom, I thought it might interest you, too. My family is just getting over a bad case of rotavirus. As you know, there is no vaccination or treatment for rotavirus (except for those under one year) or norovirus. These are what we commonly call stomach flus.

The only treatment for these ailments is rest and fluids. As I have sadly learned, other than IVs for rehydration and anti-nausea drugs, the medical community does very little for the sick with these illnesses, because they are considered a part of life and self limiting. Most drug companies refuse to invest in developing a cure or a vaccine, because the stomach flu is not considered fatal.

However, according to the CDC, it was the leading cause of death among the elderly in England and Wales from 2001-2006. Another source I can’t find right now, stated around 600,000 children die worldwide from stomach flu every year.

So much for it not causing death!

Only one drug company is attempting a vaccine -LigoCyte . This vaccine is currently in human trials.

My question is will we see a vaccine anytime soon for these dreadful diseases? Even if they usually do not kill, they are incredibly unpleasant and cause thousands of ER trips and hospitializations every year.

BTW, the rotavirus going around this year is especially bad. Alchol based hand santizers will not kill it. Only clorine or soap kill it. It is really awful. Use clorine based hand sanitizer. You do not want this. Trust me.

 

Hi Grace,

Stomach flu is horrible and is extremely dangerous to the elderly and young children. I’m sure dehydration plays a huge factor in why some people survive this and others do not. I do get the feeling that there will be a vaccine for rotavirus in the next 5-7 years. Whether it is commercially available at that time I’m not sure. The time frame maybe when the vaccine goes into the trial phase of testing. So I guess that company you mentioned might be a good place to invest if anyone is looking to get back into the financial markets. Which personally, I would wait until after next year to do, but that being said this is a common virus and if they can make a vaccine to protect people from it then I’m sure it will be very popular.

 

Now onto other things….

 

I hadn’t much thought about the economy, the housing bubble or thought about the stock market in awhile. So when I took a look at it based on a little premonition I had while talking to a client. First of all I’ve been predicting this crash as a bookend event for awhile with another major crash to come. But although there have been some big downward falls, the really big other side of this has not hit. Here’s an interesting blog that has info on all the major crash dates of the market. I’m going to put the ephemeris pages up and see if we can find some patterns here. Here’s the url where I am getting my crash dates from:

http://leatherheadblog.com/2008/09/30/top-10-market-crashes/

 

OOk, here I’ve re-published the Dow Jones chart and the ephemeris for the start and end date of the market free fall that started the Great Depression. Also the first of this wave of hits in September 2008 and then again in Feb/March of 09 which I predicted (as did many other astrologers at this point) the Dow would again fall. I was hoping that would be the other side of the punch and it would be done but it has been my feeling since the beginning which I mentioned, that this is about a two year process. I was hoping it was going to be over by this spring and the recovery would be in starting this summer. While I have a feeling certain aspects of the economy will go that direction, I think we will see more instability. 

I’m going to let you guys look at the chart and the transits and see if any of you can come up with some patterns. I’m also going to meditate on this and continue this discussion in the next post because it’s late and I need some sleep.

Best wishes and many blessings,

Denise

Saving the Economy…

As I said in an earlier post we are seeing the tip of the iceberg in terms of the financial crisis. I was heartened to hear that congress was working in bipartisan fashion to solve this problem. Obviously, the Bush administrations plan of no oversight is not a good idea, but we do need to do something about this impending disaster.

But my panic light went on today when talks broke down after McCain showed up, not that he was solely responsible, but he did use the crisis to try to look like a hero when he clearly doesn’t have any answers or even knowledge of what’s going on. As I said in an earlier post McCain would plunge this country and the world into the worst depression ever (based on his aspects to the Dow Jones, and of course now that the world is interlinked all the markets would crash) and this couldn’t be more illuminated in just his slightest touch of involvement unraveling the talks. According to reports coming out McCain had nothing to say at the meeting, but obviously tried to use it politically.

And by the way the Republicans have caused this mess — a free market without rules isn’t free. Deregulation is what caused this. Deregulation or no regulation is China’s case has doesn’t work. We put regulations in place for formula after babies started dying when formula companies watered milk down. Babies died of malnutrition in this country, the US. This is exactly what happened in China just recently, but instead of water they used melamine to try to falsely boost the protein levels in tests.

Regulations are laws — like us the normal everyday citizens have to abide by, such as you can’t kill, steal or rape someone. No regulation is akin to abolishing punishment for criminals. Companies policing themselves has never worked, because it is not in their best interest, as we are seeing in this banking debacle.

So all of you who think the market will correct itself, that deregulation is good for the economy — here’s the result: global DEPRESSION! It may have worked in the short term for companys to be able to gobble each other up. We’ve seen the melt down of the music industry partially from this cannibalistic approach. That’s a whole other story and another article if anyone is interested.

But its safe to say cutting off all the arteries to your heart will eventually kill you.

Barack Obama vs. Abraham Lincoln

Their career paths have been compared, and almost parallel in their meteoric rise from being state legislators to Presidents (in Obama’s case potential president). But what do their charts say. Are they similar? And if so how? Let’s take a look at the man who helped start the Republican party and the current lead Democrat.

 

 Despite the unknown time of Lincoln’s actual birth we can still compare the basics so here goes:

Although Lincoln was an Aquarian he had a lot of water in his chart, specifically Pisces which gave him great compassion for the down trodden. Pisces is opposite of Virgo and the two have a lot in common, as Leo is opposite of Aquarius. Again both signs share similarities, this is because if you have the sun in Leo like Barack Obama your earth is in Aquarius, meaning the earth is actually traveling through the constellation of Aquarius. So in a sense opposites are not really opposites in astrology but rather two sides of a see-saw.

WIth so his sun and moon in Aquarius Lincoln definitely thought outside the box and was ruled by his principles but unlike Sarah Palin who is utterly lacking in compassionate or sensitivity in her chart, Lincoln had oodles of it. He was a visionary, literally and extremely intuitive, eccentric, odd looking as we know and a revolutionary for the greater good. His chart is heavy on trines like Barack’s making it easy to communicate, rise to the head of the class and understand others on a very gut level, very similar to Barack Obama’s abilities. Barack shows great aptitude for communication and shows intellectual brilliance in his chart, Lincoln shows immense genius with Uranus making a trine to his mercury both in water signs he was probably spooky (if you knew him personally) in his ability to read things others couldn’t see and size up situations in a glance. His chart is the stuff of legends. He also had Mars in Libra trining his sun, making fairness a huge issue for him much like Obama. The civil war probably pained Lincoln greatly on a personal level as he wasn’t a hawk but would have preferred to work things out through debate, alas this was not his fate. Saturn and Neptune conjunct in Sagittarius gave him charisma and uncannily good luck in his career. But it also gave him trouble as evidenced by his assassination (square to Mercury with Neptune there — Neptune bringing loss.) This was not helped by his Uranus, ruler of his sun and moon in Scorpio (can mean sudden death) square his moon. His Venus inconjunct Uranus also brought turmoil to his relationships with women and his love life which he probably didn’t see until he was smack in the middle of it and it was too late to bail out.

Obama’s chart is more stable, grounded and service oriented rather than sacrifice oriented like Lincoln’s but there are some real similarities between these two men. Obama however is a more dramatic orator, (supposedly Lincoln had a strange high pitched voice and of course Obama has a deep melidious one) and his passion is more on a gut level than Lincoln’s which was more intellectual in nature. Neither are/or where hawkish in their world view but rather keen to diplomacy first. Obama is more of a fighter with so much Leo in his chart, some would say a bit more bombastic but also much warmer. It’s doubtful that a man like Lincoln could be president during our age of TV and the internet, as his looks and personality would have been very eccentric and off putting at close inspection. Obama on the other hand has the charm and charisma needed to win the office in contemporary culture with good looks and personality playing such a key role in elections. 

Obama is about as close to the likes of Lincoln as we could concievably see in contemporary America. There are some real parallels not just in their careers but in their personalities. Obama’s main focus is the working person however, and of course Lincoln’s was a bigger more pervasive assumption that he tackled. Lincoln’s chart reflects his ability to truly shake up the statis quo, Obama’s is not really set up like that, it is focused primarily on serving the everyday American trying to get by and the economy which if Obama wins we’ll be able to dig ourselves out of the rabbit hole. If not, if McCain wins look for a major global Depression where the rich get richer and less and less fit into that one percent. Our nation will look like a bad day in Tijuana. We will see the end of the middle class if McCain wins at least until someone else takes the reigns but by then it maybe too late. 

MAKE SURE TO VOTE NOVEMBER 2.

The Big One

So from what I can tell, what starts in December, the plummet is finished around the end of January. Pluto will be officially conjuncting the DOW’s first house and will be lit by a bunch of other things. From what I can see this crash will be different than the 1929 crash in that it won’t just happen in a day but rather will be a domino type of effect happening over the course of a couple of months. This will continue for awhile. There will probably be bail outs and efforts to save the market with some positive Aquarian aspects going on (I won’t bore you with the details) but ultimately there will be such a fundamental transformation in the way the market works that it will be highly unstable for a long time to come. The period I’m pointing to will be the worst of the hits but it will remain highly volatile for the next couple of decades! I would say that it will really never be the same because once Pluto passes through the first it will go into the second house of money also causing problems. Whatever this storm is it will not only reek havoc in the short term it will change the face of the DOW. 

Being that nothing like this has happened in the history of the DOW I can’t point to history and tell you exactly how it will play out other than to say the balance of power will shift, there will be tremendous instability and losses. Perhaps it will be akin to what has happened in the US with the rich getting richer and the middle class slipping into the category of the poor — we maybe on the brink of a feudal style form of Capitalism or perhaps if the Democrats win they can turn that energy around and use the transformation to shift the power back toward the middle class. There has never been a more important time to vote your interest. If you are middle class or struggling have no sympathy for the wealthy, they are in the process of shoring up the boat so you can’t get in.

Interpretation of the 1929 Stock Market Crash and Our Current Mess

Here goes, there will be more on this later as well since I’m in the middle of a bunch of stuff right now. But anyway, you will notice that the stock market crash of 1929 has a 16 degree Capricorn rising, you will also notice that the chart of the recent crash had venus close to this sensitive point at 17 degrees. Also you will notice that the 29 crash has a mirror of the Dow in its chart, Uranus opposite the first, in the seventh. What this means is that in general the Dow is subject to unexpected fluctuation and change, the fact that the 29 crash mirrored this, reinforced the unexpected upheaval inherit in the Dow’s natal chart and was about to hit the natal north node. 

At the time of the 29 crash Uranus was at 8 degrees Aries making a square to the Dow’s natal Uranus… more on this in a bit, I have to go. I’ll post soon…

Stock Market Crash 1929, The Dow & Our Constitution

Black Monday, The Great Depression and the 08 Candidates

Looking at the chart of the 1929 stock market crash there are some striking similarities between it and this past black Monday. First a stellium in the same degree of Libra with the some of the same planets, mercury and Venus. During the 29 crash the moon was involved giving it much more emotion and fluctuation, this past Monday it was Mars playing an active role.

 

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, at least most certainly in the US. The charts confirm this. Notice how J.McCain’s rising activates that 19 degree Libra stellium in both the 29 crash and 08’s Black Monday. Uranus played a major role in the 29 crash by opposing that stellium; this time around Uranus played a major role inconjuncting that stellium. Notice also that the 29 crash had Saturn in Sag and Pluto has just hit that point. There are a lot of returns that seemed to happen this past Monday. I’m not going to go into all the astrological stuff here other than to give you all a chance to look at the interactions between the crashes and the two presidential candidates.

 

I have a couple of other feelings that may seem a bit more out on a limb. One is that the GOP is not really behind McCain; they are subtly undermining McCain while pretending to support him. They know that we’re headed for an economic disaster that even the greatest genius couldn’t completely solve over night. I think they want a Democrat in office to try to clean it up so they can not only blame the Democrat for the mess and then control the next eight to God knows how many years. And also they know the Democrats will tidy up enough to save their lame butts. Serving a diabolic, Machiavellian duel purpose, which is why Karl Rove recently stated that McCain had gone to far with his lies?!? I thought hell had frozen over.

 

 At the very least Mrs. Palin’s family experience is a prime example of how important sex education is, you can tell kids abstinence is the only 100% way to not get pregnant but kids need to know what sex is or they’ll discover it on their own, as evidence by the entire animal kingdom figuring this out without any kind of health or sex ed class! Fancy that!

 

More revelations as they come. If you have a question. Add a comment or if you want me to look at your chart leave info and I’ll see what I can do. I will answer you however via the blog so if you don’t want people looking at your chart don’t give me your info.