Why Mitt Romney Won’t Show His Tax Returns…

As I talked about in the last post the two most common things one sees in the charts of psychopaths and/or sociopaths is the Grand Fire or Air Trine. I was curious why Mitt Romney has refused to show his tax returns. His own father was very open with that aspect of his life. And because of this people took him to be a credible and a decent man despite what otherwise might have looked odd – his birth in Mexico due to his father’s fleeing the US due to multiple marriages. I have no problem with people having multiple co-existing marriages. If twenty women want to marry the same guy for whatever reason – go for it. If twenty men want to marry one woman – who cares? I think however it is very ironic that the Mormons spent so much money across the country defeating gay marriage when they themselves were called a sex cult at their inception. But perhaps this has to do with the fact that they believe when you die and go to heaven your purpose is to have sex constantly and make spirit babies who then come down and inhabit earthly bodies. Really? Because I thought in every other religion God created the spirit. And If you’re a super excellent mormon you get to rule your own solar system, too. No joke. I’m dead serious here – it’s like an earlier more sexual version of Scientology with a lot more Masionic stuff thrown into it like the magic underwear we’ve all heard about. Not to be too snarky about the Mormons, if you look at any organized religion it’s pretty nutty and it’s beginings are often suspect. However when the Mormons say they are Christian this is sort of like saying that Christians are Jews or that Jews are Muslims because they don’t just believe in the bible they have an extra addendum like the Muslims and the Christians – it’s called the book of Mormon which 2 very sweet young men trying to save my soul gave me recently. I read some of it and it tries to mimic the voice of the bible, but doesn’t really have the feel down.

Anyway, enough of my rant against organized religion. I’m against it if you push it down my throat. I have no problem with it if it’s kept to oneself and people don’t come knocking on my door trying to tell me what I should be or how my relationship with God should go. I don’t do that. Maybe I should? Maybe all of us who are under the general label of “Agnostic” should go around and question people about their faiths until they are so confused they give up and realize that there’s no way any one religion has all the answers to the multi-dimentional, infinite multi-verse created by an energy so far beyond our understanding that all we can do is pray for connection to it (which I do believe is hardwired into most people’s brains.) That being said I will now put up Mitt Romney’s chart and this time you will notice a very conspicuous Grant Trine in Air.

 

In this chart I included Ceres. She had been the ruler of Virgo for many years but then was downgraded (sort of like Pluto) and has been recently upgraded again to a minor planet – whatever that means. Of course she represents grain, daily bread, how we make our living – she was a very important Goddess to the ancient people and I think has become important again as we see the global climate changing and something like 70+ percent of the “Bread Basket” in serious drought – drought that could become a 1930s sort of problem.

Back to Senior Romney – when looking at his chart to figure out why in the world he wouldn’t release his tax returns I found a huge surprise. Yes, he was born into tremendous wealth and privilege and married a woman of the same class. But those years he won’t release will will show losses in his business. Yes, that’s right folks. All that money stashed away in foreign bank accounts and overseas and he somehow LOST money.

So he was a crappy Governor who did nothing for the economy of Massachusetts and his big claim to why he deserves to be president is a house of cards – if exposed would show a series of bad decisions, major corporate losses and God knows how many jobs shipped overseas. Yes, he did all that and still claimed he personally lost money on his tax returns – now whether that was real or some way to dodge paying his fair share? We won’t know. But it looks like he has seriously misrepresented his achievements for that company. Something I truly did not expect to see.

You maybe asking yourself, “where the hell did she come up with this?” I’ll tell you – from his chart. Now let’s explain the technicality – shall we. Here’s a man with NO EARTH in his chart WHATSOEVER! Woah! Meaning he is a kite flying in the wind without a string to hold him to the earth. He has a Grant Air Trine making his thought process nearly impenetrable to new ideas. He may pretend to change his mind or say the right things (this is typical of a lot of air in one’s chart) he may even have trouble making decisions but once he does his mind – his brain is like a dog with a bone – and no matter what – it can’t be changed. And if you think he feels and seems really slick – like he’s hiding smoething – like some sort of creepy used car salesman or that creepy politician in Steven King’s seminal novel Dead Zone – that’s because he is. All that water in his chart means he lives a secret life, it may not be anything evil or bad but he hides things even from those closest to him – even if it’s just buying shoes when he is suppose to be going golfing. It’s in his nature to be secretive, clandestine and this is why most people feel uncomfortable with him – even Republicans – any one with the slightest degree of intuition (and that pretty much covers 99.99% of humanity) will feel this tug of “something seems wrong,” or “I don’t really trust him.”

Now here’s where the money is. It is represented by Venus and is part of his Grand Trine showing the majority of his money was gifted to him, like my Grand Water Trine I was born with the “gift” of psychic ability, creativity, compassion. He was born with the gift of a big inheritance and a sharp mind. He’s no dummy. He for sure has an above average IQ (unlike some candidates we’ve seen from the Republican party in the past) however in his case the emphasis of his Grand Air Trine isn’t in Mercury or the mind, it’s actually in Venus which trines Uranus and then Neptune. He would come into sudden wealth many times in his life due to other people’s sudden misfortune – hmm, sounds a lot like what he did for a living.

However with Saturn and Pluto opposing his money maker Venus, it’s not money he worked for, it’s money he got through death, through destruction and through loss. He managed to make a career of this but it’s not a constructive sort of money making ability. His Saturn (career) conjuncts (Pluto) death/sex/the occult. He makes money by destroying not by creating.

According to Wikipedia he was Bain Capital’s founder in 1984 when “greed was good,” it was somewhere between 1999-2002 that the site claims he exited although it’s not clear like so many mysteries surrounding the man who want’s to be president. So when did he really leave? Let’s figure it out with astrology…. According to the news Mitt Romney was still recieving money from Bain Capital a “bizarre” practice unheard of until about 2010-2011 which is the only tax return he will show. So let’s find out if he ever really left or if the media suspicion is right; that he’s just trying to hide money in offshore accounts (I think that’s just a given so I’m not going to bother looking into that – it’s pretty well established he has money everywhere in the world in Swiss banks and the Cayman Islands – everywhere the world has a tax shelter to offer.)

His chart shows that he would have had Pluto starting to make a square to his Mars in 1999 and from there things would only continue to progress as Pluto would have squared his Mercury in 2002. Someone very powerful within the corporate structure didn’t like him and made it known. But my guess is since he was the founding member of the company he was paid to go away and perhaps received a dividend or stipend or some negotiated financial compensation that ended in one final lump sum windfall scheduled for sometime between Jan-Feb of 2011 but perhaps asked that it be put in a fund overseas or was put in his wife’s name (the aspect is between the Moon and Uranus.) I would venture a guess that he wasn’t seen as the best and brightest and the company went on to do much better once he was out of the decision making chair starting back in 1999 when I believe he started to come up against powerful forces within the company who felt his strategies were wrong and he wasn’t turning enough of a profit and like I said in some cases even losing money for the company.

So folks this is the big reveal. Mitt Romney isn’t even a great business man and unless he shows his tax returns to us – all we have to go on is the astrology.

Many blessings to all those who are trying their best during this difficult time,

Denise

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.

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.