Sometimes, when I get halfway through a book, I just have to stop, mainly because the subject matter doesn’t hold my interest, or I just don’t wanted it to end badly, as so many novels do. This one is no different.
I stopped reading this one more than a month ago. But last night, I had a dream about a series of tort cases (10 in total) that were being processed quite quickly, except for one: this one involved 10 people and should also have been an open-and-shut case, but was dragging on a bit. Why was it not going through the usual processes? The more I looked into it, the more flimsy the case seemed, so that made me wonder: what’s behind this one? At the base, discrimination may have played an unconscious motive .
I woke up at 3:33 am, with a sharp stabbing pain in my left armpit. It felt like a spider had bitten me, but when I looked at it in the bathroom mirror, there was no identifying puncture mark. Was it just my imagination? No, it couldn’t be, because it hurt too much, physically. I rubbed some Voltaren on the spot, and then went back to sleep. By morning the pain was gone. What was that all about?
Sometimes, astrology can give us a clue: in this instance there are two interactive Yods, one pointing at the Venus/Ascendant conjunction and one pointing at Neptune. There are other inconjuncts, so this is a very complicated mystery. When I compared this chart with my own birth chart, nothing stood out as a message for me personally. So, does this hint at some form of breast cancer for someone that I love (Venus)? I’ll have to wait and see, I guess.
At the very beginning of “Extraordinary: The Stan Romanek Story”, Stan filmed an attempt to capture a UFO sighting. Because the details are so exact, I thought that I should chart the event for a look at what happened. I will then compare that chart with Stan’s birth chart and see what comes up.
I wasn’t expecting to see anything so significant, but there are two interactive Yods, one pointing at Mars, the other at Jupiter. Hmm. These Yods only exist for the exact time of the sighting, because two of the inconjuncts feature the Ascendant and the Midheaven. Otherwise, the other inconjunct between Mars and Jupiter would have been all that occurred that day.
When these two charts are combined, the interactive Yods switch to the event Ascendant and Stan’s Uranus. In other words, this sighting could not have happened without Stan’s involvement. Do you see that? The common inconjunct links those two places. The event Ascendant’s other inconjunct is Stan’s Midheaven, and Stan’s Uranus other inconjunct is pointing at the event Neptune. That says so much.
So, my opinion is that this event is ‘real’, at least to Stan. No one can dispute his involvement.
Officially, Stan Romanek has been labeled a fraudster. Because of child pornography found on his computer, he is also been listed as a sex offender. But is he only guilty of being stalked and abducted by aliens? We need to look at his birth chart in order to evaluate the truth behind these lurid headlines.
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His birth time is unreported, so I have randomized his chart. There are several stress points in this chart: Moon conjunct Saturn; Venus conjunct Neptune; Uranus conjunct Pluto. Those alone could make a person question their sanity. But the biggest clue is the only inconjunct between Saturn and Uranus.
Saturn Inconjunct Uranus
This aspect indicates a serious tension in your life between freedom and restriction. Many people have this conflict, but in your case the tensions may be so severe that you express them physically as muscle tension and possibly nervousness. You feel that somehow you must keep everything in your life under tight control, that if you let go, the whole structure will fall apart. In a very real and direct sense, even while you are young, you must learn to relax.
Your parents should understand that sometimes you have to let go and act in an undisciplined manner. Otherwise you will go through periods of great turmoil when you become extremely nervous and tense, so that you have to suddenly release all the built-up emotional tension. This can be quite a difficult experience. And if this pattern of sudden disruptive emotional release continues into adulthood, it could be very disruptive in your career as well as in your personal life. If you have a problem, try to express it and talk to others about it instead of being stoical and keeping it to yourself. You can do this very well, but there are times when you need other people. Learning to handle people and the tensions that arise in relationships is important.
(If any relationship creates and sustains a fear of the ‘other’, this tension may be too much to bear and something is bound to snap.)
Arthur Edward Waite (October 2, 1857 – May 10, 1942)
Yes, we are all familiar with his name, but I’ll wager very few have read his books. He is the man behind the scenes who helped define the Major Arcana of the Tarot for Pamela Colman Smith.
The timing for this chart comes from a biographical source. Otherwise, I cannot attest to its accuracy except to say that the three inconjuncts seem to tell the story of a man who reveals esoteric truths.
Moon Inconjunct Midheaven
Work very hard to develop an objective awareness of what you are doing and where you are going. You will need this understanding to guide your emotions, which might otherwise lead you astray and make it difficult for you to focus on your goals. Even though you won’t have to choose a career or a purpose in life for many years, you can learn now to have good perception, which will make it easier to choose later on. Learn to see others’ points of view, even if you cannot accept them. Learn to make logical decisions, and do not let passing moods color your attitudes about yourself and your life too much.
Mercury Inconjunct Pluto
You have a rather complicated and sometimes tricky mind. You usually prefer to do things in roundabout and involved ways instead of being simple and direct.
On the positive side, this means that you enjoy solving puzzles, tracking down mysteries and finding out about hidden matters. You have a natural ability to understand how people’s minds work, what makes them act as they do, and what they are thinking, which is quite amazing for someone of your age.
Uranus Inconjunct Midheaven
You need to express your thoughts and feelings, but you often upset the people around you with your words. You seem to enjoy creating a stir every time you say something, but this can get you into quite a bit of trouble with parents, teachers and other authority figures. The underlying principle of this aspect is the need to balance your individual self-expression and manner of communicating with you need to learn and grow under the guidance of older people.
The Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot Deck (published December 1909)
It occurred to me, today, that I could chart the publication of this original pack of Tarot cards. Unfortunately, the only information available states that the pack was first published in December 1909 after Pamela Colman Smith produced the drawings for it between April and September of that year.
As the exact date is unknown, I’ve set the date for December 15, 1909 and the timing is randomized.
There is but one inconjunct and it ties together two of the original inconjuncts from Waite’s birth chart. Hmm,
Moon Inconjunct Pluto
You probably enjoy exploring the mysterious and probing hidden secrets. Even while you are young, you will understand human nature better than most people, but to use this ability positively, you must be reasonably calm about your feelings.
(That sounds like excellent advice for any Tarot readers out there.)
So, Who had the Most Influence on this Tarot Pack’s Production?
I knew it was going to be Pixie long before I combined these charts. But, Waite’s Mercury is (albeit, accidentally) conjunct the Tarot’s Ascendant, so he is the thinker behind the work, for sure.
There’s a lesson here, if you’ve a mind to go beyond the headlines.
According to several astrology websites, this is an accurate time of birth, based on his birth certificate. I don’t doubt that, since Pluto shows up at age 22, when he graduated from MIT and start FTX, his cryptocurrency company. Pluto in Scorpio is a very “interesting” (and suspicious) placement.
But is it true for everyone in that generation, or just a few individuals whose bigger picture dreams take them too far down the rabbit hole? The 6th House placement may give us a clue:
Sixth House in Scorpio – alternative healing techniques, physical resilience, good immunity, tenacity, giving to specific causes that align with personal passions, leadership skills, dealing with complex or difficult tasks and services
One could blame Alameda Research, but then that would be too simple. Behind both companies is Sam.
This timing is randomized. And yet, there’s a ‘oops’ element with a double Yod pointing at the Moon/Mars conjunction, formed by inconjuncts to Venus and Pluto. This is not good news for anyone.
When you put the two charts together, Pluto’s role in Sam’s birth chart is the focus of attention. That Moon/Mars conjunction in the FTX collapse chart is highlighted by an inconjunct to his natal Pluto.
Any bets how this will turn out for him in the courts?
On this day in 1957, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) launches Sputnik, the world’s first artificial satellite.
To read about this momentous event, click on the relevant Wikipedia page here.
It isn’t often that I get to correct a chart that’s already on my Kepler 7.0 computer program. The original timing was 12 noon Moscow time on the 4th. In fact, it would have been 19:28:28 UTC, which is actually 12:28:24 AM (AOTT) on the 5th. As a result, a short-term inconjunct appears miraculously.
Moon Inconjunct Mercury
It may be hard for you to put your feelings into words, because your emotions are so different from your intellect. Of course, there is nothing really strange about your feelings, but that part of your mind is quite different from the reasoning part. In fact it would be very unfortunate if you decided to listen only to your reason, because your intuition and imagination, both of which are more related to the Moon, can be of great assistance to you. They can tell you much about the world that your reasoning mind cannot.
At the time, the launching of Sputnik I made a lot of people nervous.
Notice one man suggested a conspiracy theory being that the event didn’t really happen. That’s not new…
Just when you thought it couldn’t happen in the States, a rightwing thinktank group has decided that the Republic needs a Dictator to rule an updated Roman Empire version of America. Haven’t they seen how that turned out?
Though on the surface this discussion might seem esoteric, experts who track extremism in the US say that due to their influence on the Republican party, the rightwing intellectuals who espouse these ideas about the attractions of autocracy present a profound threat to American democracy.
Their calls for a “red Caesar” are now only growing louder as Donald Trump, whose supporters attempted to violently halt the election of Joe Biden in 2020, has assumed dominant frontrunner status in the 2024 Republican nomination race. Trump, who also faces multiple criminal indictments, has spoken openly of attacking the free press in the US and having little regard for American constitutional norms should he win the White House again.
The idea that the US might be redeemed by a Caesar – an authoritarian, rightwing leader – was first broached explicitly by Michael Anton, a Claremont senior fellow and Trump presidential adviser.
Anton has been an influential rightwing intellectual since in 2016 penning The Flight 93 Election, a rightwing essay in which he told conservatives who were squeamish about Trump “charge the cockpit or you die”, referencing one of the hijacked flights of 9/11.
He gave Caesarism a passing mention in that essay, but developed it further in his 2020 book, The Stakes, defining it as a “form of one-man rule: halfway … between monarchy and tyranny”.
It’s no Palace of Versailles, but in the modern day, a golden penthouse suite in downtown Manhattan is the closest equivalent that Trump could muster. Make no mistake, this person is not a man of the people.
