We know now that it was a meteor shower, but at the time they presumed it was the end of the world.
The time was ‘just before dawn’. So, I have chosen 6:30 am local time in Pittsburgh because the Gazette wrote about it. The Mars conjunct Scorpio Rising seems appropriate, doesn’t it? There are two inconjuncts.
Moon Inconjunct Jupiter
You like to think big, and you have great ambitions, but you don’t always make sure that your thinking is clear or careful. When you make any kind of plan, be careful. Don’t try to take on more than you can handle and make sure not to overlook details, for that could hurt what you are trying to do. Careful planning will help you develop disciplined habits in other areas as well. This aspect can mean that you are sloppy in your personal appearance and in your work habits.
Neptune Inconjunct Midheaven
You are very impressionable, in that you pick up the energies around you very quickly. Therefore it is very important that you are surrounded by wholesome influences in your early years, because negative influences will weaken your self-esteem and make it much more difficult to accomplish anything when you are older. On the other hand, your impressionableness may give rise to some psychic ability, or at least a very sharp intuition when you are older.
I always presumed Mike Pence was Donald Trump’s yes-man. After yesterday’s January 6 Select Committee hearing, aired live on CNN for three hours, I have come to appreciate the man himself.
The timing of this chart is totally randomized. I didn’t know what I was expecting, but then that Venus/Mars conjunction in the early degrees of Leo (and possibly conjunct a late degrees Cancer Ascendant) reminded me that this man is capable of a love/hate relationship with the world.
Mars Inconjunct Saturn
This can be a difficult aspect because it signifies a conflict between your sense of responsibility and your desire to fulfill your own needs and do what you want. This leads to a struggle within you that may keep you from acting decisively. Instead of deciding what you will do, you feel caught between these two forces, wondering whether you have the right to do what you want. You may feel that others are trying to frustrate you, but it is only your own indecisiveness that is causing the trouble. Sometimes this conflict makes you very irritable and resentful about nothing in particular. Then, when someone happens to act in a way that is obviously annoying, you focus all your built-up anger on that person.
Sometimes with this aspect there really is someone in your life who discourages you and makes you feel that your efforts are futile. You must learn to avoid negative people who make you feel bad about yourself.
On the positive side, this aspect can mean that you control your aggressions and energies so that they work out constructively. But make sure that you do work our your aggression instead of keeping it hidden, because that can result in sudden bursts of temper, which may work against you. Also, if you repress these energies, they may turn against you and be expressed as illness or accidents.
What About THAT Phone Call on the Morning of January 6th, 2021?
It would have been interesting to be the one whose job was listening in on this call (but didn’t). The Trump family members witnessed his side of the discussion, but no one got to hear what Pence said to his President. Did his temper finally flare? Ivanka said that her father was speaking to Pence in tones and terms that Trump had never used before with Pence. My guess is that Trump miscalculated the effectiveness of pushing Pence a bit too much. And that is why the additions (and ad-libs) to his Ellipse speech in the afternoon were directed at his (up-until-then) compliant vice-president.
Maybe the chart comparison between Trump and Pence will help some of us make sense of their relationship. I now see why Trump chose him as his running-mate: he ‘ticked’ all the right boxes. But Pence’s Saturn @ 5° Capricorn was the final brake (break) to the group combination of energies.
An election worker sorts vote-by-mail ballots for Washington state’s presidential primary on March 10 in Renton, a suburb of Seattle.
It’s a situation that is being exploited by one side over the other. (Or so each side thinks…)
The panic seems to be the erroneous thought that only Republicans vote in person, on the day of elections. Democrats, it seems, prefer to mail their ballots in, or vote in advance polls. It might be the same in Canada, because there are always plenty of reasons for not being able to attend on election day.
But is it justified to tighten the rules as to who can mail their vote in?
In the old days, when I was younger, the electorate took their responsibilities seriously. Then, as now, if you couldn’t be bothered to get out and vote for your favourite candidate, you went about your day as usual. That’s why it was rare to have more than half the eligible voters turn up. 2020 was an experiment, mainly because COVID-19 has suppressed many peoples’ impulse to ‘damn the torpedoes and full speed ahead.’ But this year’s American mid-term elections should be ‘safer’. Therefore, mail-in ballots won’t be absolutely necessary, like they were in 2020.
But Is There a Hidden Colour Divide?
NBC News asked:
A white person and a Black person vote by mail in the same state. Whose ballot is more likely to be rejected?
Aye, there’s the rub. Because it is assumed that a ‘Black person’ would vote Democrat, the question is moot.
And while Black voters no longer must guess the number of jelly beans in a jar to cast a ballot, inequality persists. States have put in place voter ID requirements and restrictive voting laws that disproportionately make it harder for people of color to vote, while persistent gerrymandering dilutes the power of voters.
Ibid
It seems a silly question, but what are they afraid of: a woman of colour in the highest position of power? That seems to be it. Two stereotypes suppressed at the same time. This will boomerang on them.
I don’t know about you, but having three liars in the White House over different times during Trump’s presidency shows that, like Nixon, there was a ‘cancer’ growing that would some day kill the President.
Rudy Giuliani (May 28, 1944)
Of the three individuals, this chart is the only one with an ‘excellent’ timing. Notice the fact that Neptune (@ 1° Libra) is conjunct the Virgo Ascendant (in its last degrees). That’s the two faces of Giuliani. There are no inconjuncts, so no hidden agenda. Mars is conjunct Pluto in the Leo 11th House: not a good sign of ‘benign’ associations. And the Sun and Uranus are conjunct in Gemini. What you see is what you get: two faces…
Rudy Giuliani was born about a week before D-Day. Doesn’t that just tell you everything you need to know?
William Barr (May 23, 1950)
I randomized the timing of this chart. I wasn’t sure what I’d get, but wasn’t surprised to see the Moon, Pluto and the Ascendant conjunct in Leo. That’s a pretty powerful combination in anyone’s chart. Here is a man who decided, while Attorney General, to protect the President from prosecution when Robert Mueller acted as Special Counsel during the investigation of collusion with Russia. William Barr‘s analysis of Mueller’s findings was a whitewash, in my opinion. But now the shoe is on the other foot, and Barr is the ‘star’ witness to Trump’s ‘disconnect’ from reality when it came to losing the 2020 election. Oops. But, telling the truth, as one committee member said of Barr, ‘doesn’t make you a hero.”
Steve Bannon (November 27, 1953)
Wouldn’t you know it: Steve Bannon‘s birth time is unknown, too. All astrology sites set it to 12 noon, which in this case brings an interesting dynamic into focus: the Moon and Pluto in Leo (conjunct the Descendant) are opposed to his Aquarius Rising. Bombastic and opinionated, Bannon was the architect of Trump’s 2016 presidential win over Hillary Clinton. So his strategic planning is without peer. But he has one inconjunct (which might be bogus, due to the unknown birth time).
Uranus Inconjunct Ascendant
Your need to be free and do what you want is often in conflict with what others require of you and even with what you feel you ought to do. Sometimes this conflict can cause considerable physical and emotional trauma. The task you face is to organize your life in a disciplined way that will enable you to satisfy your need for freedom through your everyday activities. One way to accomplish this is by figuring out your own methods for doing your work. Or you may choose to do the most interesting and exciting tasks, which are often the most difficult, so that others shy away from them. You need to be challenged by puzzles and problems in all your activities. You are not good at routines and repetitious tasks.
Here are there three charts combined:
Three Moons in Leo, two of which are conjunct Pluto. There you go: lies, damned lies and statistics.
I missed something about Roger Stone. It took a comment from my astrology friend, Ellie, to open my eyes to an obvious association. Stone has an tattoo of Richard Nixon on his back. What’s that about?
If Nixon is your idol, then you must have a very messed up sense of right and wrong.
This timing is 100% randomized. But there are a couple of interesting points that I want to share. If the time of Stone’s birth is anytime other than this, the Moon and Mars will be conjunct (using the 10° arc, before and after). Therefore, the accidental inconjunct between Mars and the Midheaven may be applicable, here. The other inconjunct linking Jupiter and Neptune is not dependent on an exact timing. Also, note that Jupiter seems to be pivotal to most of the aspects, while Saturn and Neptune are in Stone’s Libra 1st House. This might explain why he is a conspiracy theorist.
Moon Conjunct Mars (definitely)
You are likely to have quite a temper and fly off the handle easily. However, if you are allowed to express your anger completely, you get over it very soon. You can be very angry at one minute, but as soon as your mood has passed, you are quite calm. However, if you get into the habit of holding in your angry feelings, they can build up to quite a fierce level and even become destructive in your life later on. Suppressed anger can be a source of many nervous disorders and mental problems when you are an adult.
You are a fighter, and once you have made up your mind about something, you fight very hard to get your way. Others have to prove that they are stronger than you are, or you won’t give in to them. At least you fight out in the open and reasonably fairly, so no one can complain that you are sneaky and underhanded.
The major problem to watch out for is that you may fight for ideas or causes that you haven’t thought out at all carefully. You may react to threats that are more imagined than real if an innocent remark or actions triggers off any reaction in your mind. You tend to be angry without really knowing why. When that happens, try to see if the reasons justify your anger. A tendency to get angry for no reason or to act without thinking is the greatest problem with this aspect.
Mars Inconjunct Midheaven (maybe)
This aspect can mean that you have mixed feelings about all authority figures, including your parents. You may feel that you have to violate the rules laid down by your parents in order to get your way. This is a significant problem, because if it continues into adulthood, you will have great difficulties with employers. Therefore it is very important that your parents teach you how to express your self-assertive drives without going against their teachings. Unfortunately it is impossible to state how that should be done, because the conflict between self-will, on one hand, and self-denial and work, on the other, is different for each person.
Jupiter Inconjunct Neptune (for sure)
You are an idealist with very vivid dreams about how you want your life to be, and at certain times in your life you will follow those dreams with all your energy. But sometimes these idealistic dreams will let you down, because you are not concerned enough with what is real and possible. Yet learning to handle the real world is a very important part of your development, because it is the only way you can avoid becoming bitter and disillusioned when your more practical ideas have led you into disappointment.
By itself, this aspect does not guarantee that you will have such problems, but if it is reinforced by other, similar aspect in your chart, you should certainly be careful of a tendency toward escapism. It is always easier to create an ideal reality within your mind than in the world, but the world is where you must work. Escapism can include using drugs or alcohol or following strange and delusive religious beliefs. As you get older, you may fall into the trap of guru worship and deny your own identity.
Your idealism can be the source of much creative imagination, leading to profound insights and realizations, but only if you remain connected with the actual day-to-day universe in which the rest of the human race lives.
When I asked myself the question, “Who does Alex Jones remind you of?” I immediately thought of Joseph McCarthy. Not because of his loud voice, or his dramatic performances, but because of his belief that Communists were hiding in plain sight in America. And he felt it was his job to root them out.
This birth time is considered excellent because it’s based on birth records. (That makes a change, eh?) Aries Rising and Mars (in Libra) conjunct the Descendant makes for an interesting dynamic. There’s a Cosmic Cross, too, involving (strictly speaking) Venus, Uranus, the Ascendant and Neptune. Hmm.
Moon Inconjunct Ascendant
You tend to put your own emotional needs and wants second to whatever you feel has to be done. In other words, you are likely to be more disciplined emotionally than most people. But this is not good if you feel that your emotional needs are not important. Your needs must be fulfilled as much as anyone else’s, particularly because your feelings are really very powerful within yourself.
Mercury Inconjunct Saturn
This aspect can have several different meanings. First of all, you may have hidden fears that are difficult to express, but they cause you to do things that others can’t understand. These may include fear of the dark or of certain places or people. Or this aspect can mean that you often feel depressed and sad for no apparent reason. You tend to see the serious side of life, and it weighs on you more than on most people.
It is possible that your thinking will become unnaturally rigid for someone of your age. You may get into routines or habits that you are afraid to break, for you prefer familiar paths of life and known ways of doing things.
(This may be what carried over into his next life, for sure.)
I have reduced the number of times that I have made karmic connections between people over time. But in this case, I think it’s justified, because the Nodes are aligned but reversed, a clear indication of reincarnation. And Joe’s ‘fatal’ Sun being exactly conjunct Alex’s Ascendant may be a coincidence (or not). The other links are interesting and widely arrayed. I definitely think we are on solid ground.
Maybe this picture will bring the issue into clear focus:
He seems pleased with the publicity, even though it is making him out to be a traitor of some sort. Hmm
Love him or hate him, Alex Jones‘ voice has been he(a)rd by millions of Americans in a cattle call to bring ‘truth’ to the masses. In his eyes, there are literally millions of conspiracy theories, and this makes him ‘mad as hell’ and ‘he’s not going to take it anymore.’ (Shades of “Network“, I think.)
OK. No one knows what time of day Jones was born. Most set the clock for noon, local time. One person decided to settle on 1:41:31 CDT. This may have been randomized, it may have been rectified, but the issue remains: Central Daylight Time in winter? No, Central Standard Time in 1974. But surprise, surprise! Dallas must have been on daylight savings because even my computer program set the time for that. Hmm.
I randomized this chart, and it happens to be (almost) exactly at 12 noon. This creates three inconjuncts, but they are all dependent on a correct birth time, and therefore might not apply. That Mars in the Taurus 1st House is significant; hence a ‘bullhorn’ expression of his self-interests. The Grand Trine of the Sun/ Jupiter conjunction, the Moon/ Uranus conjunction and Saturn/ South Node conjunction strengthens the way Jones feels about the world and his uncle.
I think he might have done this before in a previous life.
Venus Inconjunct Saturn (definitely)
You need and want love, but you may not be able to get it easily. You may feel that your parents, teachers or other persons in authority make demands on you that you must fulfill before they will give you any love and support. If that is true, it is unfortunate, because you deserve respect and love as much as anyone. Although everyone must fulfill certain social demands, this should not be the condition for being loved. If this demand is carried to an extreme in your case, you will become cold-hearted and unable to love others even when you want to. You may also feel that you cannot indulge yourself in any pleasure or even love. When you are older, you may feel that duty and ambition must come before love and human relationships. Unfortunately, if you follow that path, you will become lonely, and when you realize that you belong to no one and nothing, you will go through a spiritual crisis.
Saturn Inconjunct Midheaven (possibly)
This aspect indicates that you very much need a positive relationship with your parents, especially your father. You should not be disciplined sternly unless you are given lots of love at the same time. Otherwise, giving and receiving love from others will be a real problem for the rest of your life. Unless you are truly supported by your family and friends, you will begin to feel lonely and isolated from others and inferior to them. Also you are likely to have very serious difficulties with authority figures, because you are afraid of how they will treat you, not expecting that anyone will ever give you the loving guidance you need. You will see all authorities only as potential threats to your freedom and as sources of pain and trouble.
Neptune Inconjunct Ascendant (perhaps)
This aspect can be a sign that you feel you must give way to others in order to get along with them. This can take two forms, both of which will be difficult to handle while you are young. The less positive form is simply yielding to all outside pressure and always giving in to others’ desires. This will produce unconscious feelings of resentment that you can’t express, but that make your relationships with others rather difficult. And as you get older, if you do not learn to stand up for your rights, this problem will get worse, because you express your unconscious resentment as a martyred attitude, which makes it impossible for others to appreciate or use anything they get from you. Thus the results of your sacrifice are totally negative, because you are not happy with giving and they are not happy with receiving.
According to a CNN Report, Alex Jones Lies “All the Time”
I remember the Watergate hearings from 1973. They weren’t on all the Canadian TV channels, like they were in the United States, but the evening newscasts picked up the interesting details and sound bites. This is one brave man to take on and then take down the President off the United States. But he had no choice, really, because the White House staff were obviously going to make a scapegoat out of him.
As you might expect this was already on my computer program. The time is ‘excellent’, quoted from a birth record. Jupiter as a 1st House Aquarius is going to be about justice, and the inconjuncts to it, from a Mars/Neptune conjunction, seem to confirm this. But that Venus/ Midheaven conjunction, both inconjunct the Moon makes this about love: his wife, Maureen. He did it for her.
Moon Inconjunct Venus
You need to be loved, even more than most people, particularly by your mother or another woman who takes the place of your mother. This need for love will be the force behind many of your actions. If you don’t find the love you are looking for, you will develop an insecure hunger from love from everyone you meet. However, you may express this in very strange ways, such as a desire for food, especially sweets, which unconsciously represent love to you.
Moon Inconjunct Midheaven
With this aspect you must learn to make your emotional needs and desires for pleasure fit in with your growth and development in the world. It is possible that these problems could make it difficult for you to choose a profession or a course that would give your life a sense of purpose. Or you may be unable to follow one path consistently. In other words, your emotional needs may be in conflict with your long-range goals. You may know what you have to do, but not feel much like doing it. Or your feelings may actually color your perception so much that you really do not see what has to be done. Try not to form bad habits, because they are especially likely to create difficulties of this sort.
Mars Inconjunct Jupiter
With this aspect you probably are quite active, with abundant energy for anything you want to do. But you must learn to control your energies rather than have them control you. You may be inclined to take excessive risks, to try out things that you are not sure you can do. But be careful, because with this aspect the energies of Mars and Jupiter do not work very smoothly together. If you overextend yourself and try to do more than you are physically capable of, you may have an accident. And you may be clumsy when you take up a new activity until you have control over your physical body better.
Jupiter Inconjunct Neptune
You are an idealist with very vivid dreams about how you want your life to be, and at certain times in your life you will follow those dreams with all your energy. But sometimes these idealistic dreams will let you down, because you are not concerned enough with what is real and possible. Yet learning to handle the real world is a very important part of your development, because it is the only way you can avoid becoming bitter and disillusioned when your more impractical ideas have led you into disappointment.
Almost 50 years later
Nixon lived to regret his choice of White House counsel, since he wouldn’t listen to reason.
Richard M Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994)
I have a rather jaundiced view of this time period in American history. I was still young enough to be an idealist, and I had a decidedly (small ‘l’) liberal approach to politics in general. I did not like Richard Nixon, and this was way before the scandal of Watergate. There was something not quite right about him.
This chart was on my computer already, and the place of birth is incorrectly listed, but it’s the nearest town and it’s where Nixon grew up. He was a Quaker. The Mercury/ Mars/ Jupiter opposition to Pluto is enough to explain his frame of mind when it came to his ‘enemies’, which he saw everywhere. But two of those planets (Mercury and Mars) are also inconjunct to Saturn. The kicker, for me, is the Moon also being inconjunct to his Ascendant @ 17° Virgo. Hmm. So, a ‘puritan’ in name only, I would suggest.
Moon Inconjunct Ascendant
You tend to put your own emotional needs and wants second to whatever you feel has to be done. In other words, you are likely to be more disciplined emotionally than most people your age. But this is not good if you feel that your emotional needs are not important. Your needs must be fulfilled as much as anyone else’s, particularly because your feelings are really very powerful within yourself.
This aspect also ties together in you a Moon sign and a rising sign that are very different. This indicates that the image you project to other people does not reveal very much about your real feelings. When you are upset, you surprise people by showing a totally different side of your personality.
It is very likely that while you are young you will attract people who are emotionally difficult to handle. This will continue until you learn to show your emotional side as well as the surface personality that you allow others to see. It is all right for people to see all the energies that make up your personality. Only by accepting yourself completely can you overcome this conflict.
Mercury Inconjunct Saturn
This aspect can have several different meanings. First of all, you may have hidden fears that are difficult to express, but they cause you to do things that others can’t understand. These may include fear of the dark or of certain places or people. Or this aspect can mean that you often feel depressed and sad for no apparent reason. You tend to see tthe serious side of life, and it weighs on you more than on most people.
A particularly serious problem can be feeling suspicious of others, which later in life will turn into a cynical attitude about people’s behavior. You need to be surrounded by positive and optimistic people, and your parents should try not to be too negative around you and to make sure that you experience the best and most cheerful aspects of life. You will learn soon enough what to expect of the world without having your nose rubbed in its less desirable features.
On the plus side, this aspect can make you a very careful thinker. You may not attempt anything beyond your abilities as you see them, but whatever you do attempt will be done very well. You are a neat and careful worker.
Mars Inconjunct Saturn
This can be a difficult aspect because it signifies a conflict between your sense of responsibility and your desire to fulfill your own needs and do what you want. This leads to a struggle within you that may keep you from acting decisively. Instead of deciding what you will do, you feel caught between these two forces, wondering whether you have the right to do what you want. You may feel that others are trying to frustrate you, but it is only your own indecisiveness that is causing the trouble. Sometimes this conflict makes you very irritable and resentful about nothing in particular. Then, when someone happens to act in a way that is obviously annoying, you focus all your built-up anger on that person.
Sometimes with this aspect there really is someone in your life who discourages you and makes you feel that your efforts are futile. You must learn to avoid negative people who make you feel bad about yourself.
On the positive side, this aspect can mean that you control your aggressions and energies so that they work out constructively. But make sure that you do work out your aggression instead of keeping it hidden, because that can result in sudden bursts of temper, which may work against you. Also, if you repress these energies, they may turn against you and be expressed as illness or accidents.
We’ve been watching this limited CNN series for the past week. None of it is new, except for linking Donald Trump’s actions to those of Richard Nixon in 1972. The common denominator is insecurity.
More later?
WATERGATE SCANDAL, 1973.
English cartoon by Michael Cummings, 1973, on the damage to the administration of U.S. President Richard Nixon resulting from the Watergate scandal.
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