This Song was the Making of The Monkees

Posted on August 27, 2024 by cdsmiller17

Last Train to Clarksville (July 25, 1966)

It was intended to be a subtle anti war protest song, and it managed to get away with it, because no one noticed what it was about. Evidently, there was an air force base near Clarksville, Tennessee.

I set an event chart for 9 pm that day, as Micky Dolenz performed the vocals after recording that day’s filming of The Monkees television program.

There is one inconjunct.

Venus Inconjunct Midheaven

You have a strong need to be loved and to love others as well, but this may create some problems in your life. You are afraid that if you appear to others as you really are, they won’t accept you. This problem can be corrected only by the most careful upbringing, such that your parents correct your behavior in ways that help you feel self-confident rather than underserving and unworthy.

You are very likely to feel that there is a conflict between what you ought to do in a particular situation and what would be acceptable to the people around you.

Planets in Youth (Page 212) by Robert Hand (1977)

Well, how’s about that, then?

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“I’m The Doctor”

Posted on August 27, 2024 by cdsmiller17

Doctor Who (Season 1 – 2024)

I’ve watched the previous iterations of this character over the years, but this is the first time that the statement listed above was realistically delivered in such a way that I totally believe it to be true.

In this day and age, we need a Doctor Who can heal what’s wrong with humankind.

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Trump’s Implied Threat for the 2024 Election

Posted on August 26, 2024 by cdsmiller17

Mussolini’s Blackshirts

There is a saying that goes along the lines of: “If you don’t learn from the past, you’ll end up repeating it.” (That’s paraphrased, but I’m sure you’ll get what I’m saying.) One of the tactics that Mussolini got his followers to do was to ‘supervise’ local elections, and if someone voted to elect the ‘enemy’ they were instructed to kill them on the spot. Soon, by rumour and other wildfire responses, people soon started voting for the ‘right’ party candidates, and that’s how Mussolini Fascist party came into power in Italy.

Need I say anything more?

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Victory Doesn’t Happen Overnight, It Takes Time

Posted on August 25, 2024 by cdsmiller17
Liberation of Paris, August 25, 1944

When you consider that Operation Overlord started the process on June 6, 1944, it took 80 days to finally achieve its objective of liberating Paris. That’s the equivalent of circumnavigating the world in a Jules Verne story. It would take another eight months to finally defeat the Nazis and end WWII in the European arena. It’s now been 80 years since this happened.

This chart is the exact moment that the Germans surrendered that day. Notice that all the planets and lights are above the horizon. Also notice that there is only one inconjunct.

Moon Inconjunct Uranus

With this aspect you must learn to control sudden outbursts of emotion that occur at difficult times when you least expect it. Also your present home life may not be a stable situation in which you can grow up emotionally secure and confident. A particular incident when you were very young may have given you the feeling that you can’t count on anything or anyone for support. Later in life, you may try very hard to get away from anything that reminds you of your earliest childhood, even if your childhood has not been difficult. You just feel that you have to get away and go somewhere else.

Planets in Youth (page 130) by Robert Hand (1977)

The “City of Light’ was in the dark since almost from the beginning of the war. The German occupation was not a pleasant experience by anyone’s standards. The French Resistance was instrumental in keeping the French from giving in and giving up, but no one likes being under an oppressor’s thumb.

Paris was also the focus of the Allies’ attention from the very beginning, really.

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Injustice: This is the Story of “Hurricane”

Posted on August 25, 2024 by cdsmiller17

Rubin Carter (May 6, 1937 – April 20, 2014)

I suppose that most of us would be completely in the dark about this man if it weren’t for Bob Dylan’s song, “Hurricane”.

What drives a man to take up boxing as a career? What made him a target of police persecution?

In the grand scheme of things, the Jupiter opposition Pluto at the time of his birth may have been the whole reason for his existence: to highlight the injustice of the wrongful arrest and conviction of a black man in the late 1960’s/early 1970’s. There are no hidden agendas here.

This looks to be a case of “Wrong Person in the Wrong Place at the Wrong Time”. But cosmically, I suspect that the Universe had a larger purpose to Hurricane’s legal troubles. (My fellow astrologers will have something to say about this, too, I’m sure.)

Suffice it to say, Rubin Carter took on the justice system and won his biggest fight, eventually.

Carter in 1956

It’s very telling what he is quoted as saying:

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This Site Used to be Called “Kibble”

Posted on August 23, 2024 by cdsmiller17

Netflix (April 14, 1998)

For a company that was originally created to compete with Blockbusters, Netflix has conquered the world and then some.

This time is the recorded moment that Netflix was launched, so this is an accurate chart for our purposes.

Sun Inconjunct Moon

This aspect suggests that there is a subtle conflict going on inside you that may sometimes create emotional problems. The Sun signifies your conscious personality, the way in which you act and the kinds of activities that you like to get involved in. The Moon signifies the emotional and less conscious side of you. It indicates the habits that take over when you are not acting consciously and feelings that come up from deep within you. It is as if you are divided in two, so that whenever you have to make an important decision, especially one that involves your feelings, the different sides of your personality want to go in opposite directions. You sometimes find it difficult to decide if you like something or if you want to take part in some activity.

Planets in Youth (pages 76-77) by Robert Hand (1977)

Moon Inconjunct Saturn

This aspect usually means that your need for emotional security conflicts with your need to live with the world’s demands. Each of us needs to be accepted and loved for what we are, in order to have enough self-confidence to deal with the world. But we also have to learn to live with our own life situations in order to survive. In other words, we have to realize that we can’t have everything we want. With this aspect, these two needs are working against each other. Probably you will satisfy one of them at the expense of the other.

Ibid (page 127)

Have they succeeded?

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In the Present Climate, It’s Good to Remember This:

Posted on August 22, 2024 by cdsmiller17

13 If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

NIV

Our father asked me to memorize this whole chapter when I was in my mid-teens. I reluctantly did, but now I realize that his intension for me was that I could lean on the truth of these words for my whole life. And, in today’s world, this chapter on Love is the greatest lesson of all.

Amen.

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The Internet was Originally a Government Project

Posted on August 20, 2024 by cdsmiller17
Image courtesy of Facebook

Advanced Research Project Agency Network (January 1, 1983)

The title says it all, really. The progenitor of the World Wide Web was officially launched as ARPANET.

I randomly set the time for its launch to occur just after lunch. It could have happened any time that day, but I wanted to see what turned up. Saturn and Pluto conjunct in the 7th House (of Open Enemies)? That’ll do nicely. (And because Saturn and Pluto are so closely aligned, I decided to see when they were exactly conjunct @ 37° Libra 35′: November 8, 1982. Something must have been in the air.)

A consistent theme of Saturn-Pluto alignment periods was that of wide-spread conservative, reactionary, or repressive empowerment, in precise agreement with the archetypal principles associated with these two planets – the Platonic empowering and intensifying of the Saturn impulse towards conservative reaction or repression. For example, the most recent Saturn-Pluto conjunction during the 1981-84 period coincided with both the first Reagan administration and the last years of the old regime of the Soviet Union under Brezhnev, Andropov, and Chernenko. These specific years brought a nearly universal ascendancy of conservatism, in distinctly different forms yet nevertheless showing clear commonalities. This took place not only in the United States and the Soviet Union (visible, for example, in the Kremlin’s imprisonment of dissidents like Sakharov and Sharansky at this time) but also in Britain under Margaret Thatcher and, in more extreme dictatorial forms, in Poland under General Jaruzelski (bringing martial law and the repression of the Solidarity movement), in Chile under General Pinochet, in Panama under Manuel Noriega, in Iraq under Saddam Hussein, and in the Philippines under Ferdinand Marcos, among many others.

Cosmos and Psyche (page 219) by Richard Tarnas (2006)

For the time I (randomly) selected for this chart above, there is one inconjunct, but it’s a doozy.

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.

Planets in Youth (page 142) by Robert Hand (1977)

Hmm.

And what did this juvenile system want to be when it grew up? Social Media.

July/Aug_2014 Craig Parshall_Dark Innovation:The Role of Technology in Revelation 13_pg 18

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Did Someone Consult an Astrologer for This Event?

Posted on August 19, 2024 by cdsmiller17

Democratic National Convention (August 19, 2024)

OK. I fell asleep at the wheel with this one: the August Full Moon in Aquarius happens today @ 2:25 pm EDT (based in Washington, DC, for ease of handling). It’s a very dynamic chart, as you can see:

Other astrologers have highlighted the two T-squares (focused on the Mars/Jupiter conjunction, and Uranus, on it’s own) , but no one has noticed the Yod pointing at the Sun, formed by inconjuncts to Neptune and Pluto. Neptune and Pluto have returned to their previous 20th century sextile aspect.

Sun Inconjunct Neptune

You are very sensitive to your environment and to the people around you. On one level of your being, you feel what is going on very acutely. Unfortunately your understanding often comes in terms that are very difficult to communicate to others, because their meaning is not clear in your own mind. Your greatest danger is in being exposed to negative people who are full of anger or depression or who act very harshly toward you and undermine your self-confidence.

Planets in Youth (page 92) by Robert Hand (1977)

Sun Inconjunct Pluto

You have a very strong will and can be quite stubborn, even when you don’t have any particular reason to be. It is as if you automatically resist any pressure to act in a particular way, even if you know it is good for you. This may arise from a fear of being controlled, helpless or manipulated by anyone else.

Ibid (page 95)

Those Pro-Palestinian protestors are bound to make it as uncomfortable as is reasonably possible.

Because this effect is being triggered by a full Moon in Aquarius, the resulting DNC is going to be more emotional than usual. I suppose that’s why Joe Biden is speaking tonight, in order to pass the political baton in public.

Comparison of the DNC Chart with Kamala Harris’ and the USA’s

First, here’s the Full Moon chart with the other two charts:

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There are a lot of ‘hot’ links between them.

Then, the DNC chart with the other two:

Only the Moon has moved on by almost 3°. And there appears to be four fifths of a pentagram in the centre. Hmm, that’s interesting.

A Star is Born moment, eh?

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“From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads” (Life on Mars?)

Posted on August 19, 2024 by cdsmiller17

Escape to the Country (2002 – present)

You could call it one of our (not so) guilty pleasures: four nights a week we watch this series from the BBC on CTV Life channel. It’s in its 24th season in the UK, but we’re still in season 23, here in Canada.

But what’s the point of our watching this program? It’s not as if (at our time of life) we’re going to move to the UK. Well, maybe not, but it’s necessary to still dream a little, no matter what our ages might be.

The Norfolk Broads, as name-checked by David Bowie in his song, is an area of the UK I never visited when I lived there for 22 years. Susan, on the other hand, visited it with her family in the early 1960’s.

That’s one heck of a lot of waterways. If we go back for a visit, some day, I should like to go there.

That would be my Escape to the Country.

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