Robert Phoenix

“Halo”, my name is Newt and I’ll take you to the Moon.

How about that wild Pisces/Chiron conjunction the other day? Talk about lunacy. Newt Gingrich vowed to have a full-time lunar base by the end of his SECOND term. Whoa Newty. Aren’t we getting a little ahead of ourselves here? You need to win that first fake election this go round. Now I know that occasionally you know things other people don’t like the development of “Homeland Security” well in advance of 911, but a base on the Moon? Oh wait, since you already knew about DHS, well maybe, just maybe you might already know something about the Moon, like perhaps that bases are already there. Maybe it was those bourbons you threw back with Dick Hoagland, one bleary night in Buckhead. Or maybe, you’ve already been there. In any case, I thought it was quite fitting that we’d get the wackiest campaign promise I’ve heard in my lifetime on the Pisces Moon/Chiron conjunction.

If you haven’t noticed, Newt’s win has magically catapulted him back into the race and now all I see are pictures of Newt vs. Obama. Last time I checked, they had a few more primaries to go, even if they continued to bake the results, let’s go through those motions. The Onion did a great send up of faked elections back in 2008. If it weren’t so real, I would have laughed a lot more.

One troubling aspect of this upcoming election is that a foreign company, the Barcelona based, SCYTL is now in charge through Clarityelections.com. Not surprising, they sent the results from South Carolina to SCTYL, who in turn spit the results out, anointing Commander Moon Base the winner. People are getting all hot and bothered that some “foreign” company is counting our votes. They wonder why can’t we have a trusted American company like say Diebold count the votes. Right.

Mars is retrograde in Virgo a prime energy for a re-count or at the very least a deep expose of the system at large. Maybe this is I’m moved to write about it as Mars is now conjunct my Sun. Speaking of which . . .

The other day on my show, I had a caller on the line, a regular and she told me that her blood pressure was through the roof–very unlike her. She doesn’t smoke or drink. Why would she have high blood pressure? I’ll give you two words; “heavy metal.” The skies have been filled with obscene amounts of aluminum, barium, iron oxide, manganese and other unsavory elements. All of these will push your blood pressure right through the roof, even if you exercise and eat well. We’ve had at the very least 15 years of weather modification going down. Just think about that for a moment. Monsanto hasn’t missed a beat. They’ve patented seeds that are a-l-u-m-i-n-u-m resistant. Maybe they’ve been hanging out with the prophet “Newt” and his people.

Mars in Virgo retrograde, while not overly sexy is a very good time to check in with your body. How is it? Are you doing all the things you need in order to stay healthy? Mars in Virgo MR, should be motivating you to get your blood checked, especially the metal count. I have a good friend in NYC who has been showing up with levels of metals that are through the roof. She had all of her mercury fillings removed and has been down in the trenches with heavy chelation. She seems to be turning a corner now, but the most curious piece is that her husband did not show the same stratospheric levels. So the question becomes, do metals bind easier to particular blood types, genetic carriers or even particular Haplogroups?

The effects of high blood pressure are devastating. Some of the deadly side effects include; stroke, kidney scarring, kidney failure and kidney aneurysms. Heart failure, enlarged heart and dementia can all be traced to HBP. The good news is, is that you don’t have to spend huge amounts of money on OTC drugs to get your blood pressure under control. One of the first things that you must do is get a metals count. There are services out there that will examine your hair follicles for roughly $100 and supply you with your metal count.

If you happen to have HBP, here are a few things that might be able to help you.

An Australian study recently found “Black Tea” to have BP lowering qualities. Now its not epic, like they’ve just stumbled across interferon, but put together with a few other remedies, you can begin to take more control via diet.

Another natural fighter against HBP is the wonder vitamin, Vitamin D. It promotes vascular health, while minting cleaner arteries.

Coconut water is yet another ally. In a recent study, 71% of the people that consumed coconut water saw their blood pressure lower.

Lastly, beets have been known to beat back HBP for many years now. Juicing organic beets and adding a little purified water to the mix can stretch out your beet supply and provide you with yet another tool to lower HBP naturally.

Somewhere along the way, you might also want to explore chelation. There are a number of methods that are used to strip the body of heavy metals.

To find out more about chelation, go HERE.

Rounding off our little journey into Mars/Virgo Retrograde, I’ll be joined by Dr. Janettte Sherman, who was part of an editorial team that wrote a stunning work about Chernobyl, titled; “Chernobyl Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and Nature.” She’s also the author of “Life’s Delicate Balance Causes and Prevention of Breast Cancer.” She’ll be joined by research partner, Joe Mangano. Recently, the two released a controversial peer reviewed paper that chronicled 14,000 child deaths this past year, they claim, due to Fukushima. Its called, “AN UNEXPECTED MORTALITY INCREASE IN THE UNITED STATES FOLLOWS ARRIVAL OF THE RADIOACTIVE PLUME FROM FUKUSHIMA: IS THERE A CORRELATION?”.

The two of them will be on FAR FRIDAY, tomorrow at 10:10 PST.

Also, for more deep background on Fukushima, please read Prof. Michel Chossudovsky’s latest, chilling piece on Fukushima over at Global Research.

Have you had your minimum daily requirements of Mars in Virgo retrograde opposing Venus in Pisces yet? Well open your mouth dammit, pinch your nose and swallow. Its bitter but essential. Just do it!

Here’s a little salacious Nazi Moon Base video distraction for entertainment purposes only.

Can you name all the people in this pic?

The Sun moved into Aquarius yesterday. Around me, the winds blowing off the Pacific cut through layers of clothing like blades of ice. Its finally raining here. It rains just like the weathermen predict nearly all the time now. The days of being 50% right are over. They all get their doppler scripts from NOAA and the weather’s always easier to predict when someone is controlling it. Who knows how much cesium and hot particles are being flung around like mutant sprites in search of fatty tissues and essential organs. Do we want to know?

Inside my warm little split level, I’ve been fighting a strange flu that comes and goes. Its on the run now, but tomorrow, who knows?

But this post isn’t about that. Its not about pulling the dark curtain back again and again and again. The Aquarian Sun has delivered a beam of light straight to my third eye, even through a dark and clouded moonless night.

It all started two days ago when I did a reading for Molly Hall, one of my favorite people, astrologer or not. I pulled “The Star” for her and it started a trigger effect. (Just moments after typing those words, the power went out. Now its not just the skies that are dark. I wonder about its significance. I remind myself to get an analog line, just for moments like this, but then I remember that just about everyone I know is either cellular or voiped into the grid. Who would I talk to?)

Yesterday on the show, I spoke with Jay Weidner who is just wrapping up his newest film, a feature called “Kalki.” Kalki is the male counterpart of Kali. Its also the name of a Gore Vidal novel, a slightly tongue-in-cheekish affair about a world savior/anti-christ figure. Jay’s movie has nothing to do with it.

I love Jay. He agreed to come on at the last minute. We talked about 2012, Ron Paul, liberals, Tim Tebow, God, the end of the criminal cabal that’s been running the planet in archonic fashion since the beginning of what we call, “time.” Its really worth a listen.

Speaking with Jay was really uplifting. It was a suitable chat for the first day of Aquarius in 2012. It dovetailed nicely with my work/time with Molly and really caused me to re-think my work.

I started my radio show on the 12th of February, 2010. This year will mark two whole years of broadcasts. I started the blog in earnest, in September of 2008. My first astrological post on Sarah Palin caught fire and I never looked back.

I’ve used astrology to untangle knots and divine meaning in the maelstrom. Its been an outstanding tool to that end and I am not sure anyone else was doing what I was doing then. But it struck me today, that we need a new language, new symbols and new art to navigate through the next part of the journey, well at least I do.

If you managed to wind your way through the catacombs of this site, you could find keys to many things. I laid out the melting economy and the attendant gravity of Pluto in Capricorn before it morphed into the iron fist of Sauron. Well guess what? I am done with it or at least this variant. Its time to move onto something new. I won’t be abandoning astrology. Quite to the contrary. I’ll be using it for something different.

One of the contributing factors was watching Michael Hoffman’s brilliant, “Revelation Of The Method” video. In it, he breaks down how the arch-symbol makers are allowing us to decode their mysteries as it were. Why do you think films like National Treasure and The DaVinci Code are made? Its to indoctrinate us into their version of hermeticism. As a result, we empower them, their symbolic import and influence in our lives. That’s why its so bloody blatant now. High school kids wear illuminist images from the 14th century on their hoodies.

Prior to the insertion of Bush II in the White House, the Neocons drew up their playbook at places like Brookings and AEI. They drafted the “Project For The New American Century” also known as P.N.A.C. Their keystone document was titled, “A Clear Break.” This was the model for pre-emptive war and other machinations, well thought out to retro-fit the White House, particularly the Executive Branch. It was at both diabolical and masterful. It was the end-game accelerator, forcing us to wake from the slumber of our illusion.

Its uncomfortable and even unclear what to do in the midst of the nightmare, but one thing is certain; There is no turning back now. The only way out, is through.

So I have decided to launch my own version of P.N.A.C., “Project For A New Astrological Consciousness.” I have no idea how it will look or evolve, but that’s a lot like my life in general.

So what does that mean? Well, unless I can’t help it, naming the evil is over and done. We need new models that can assist us in turning the ship towards brighter shores and new continents of the heart.

When I write sometimes, I can feel you out there, lives flickering in a brief moment of eternity, shared and longing for the same things. Life without fear, without judgment, without shame, filled with nothing but love.

SATURN’S GRAVITY

I’ve been thinking about Saturn today as well. Its squatting on my Venus in the 11th, forcing me to deal on so many levels. Back in July, I gave up drinking. I crossed a chemical line in the sand and don’t feel the need to drink anymore. I had wine at Thanksgiving, but only one glass. I could have one right now, and have just one. The diyonsian pull to descend into the hazy fugue states in no longer there. I have crossed over into temple of Apollo. So I began to ponder the meaning of “no” and the attendant limits that go along with it. I thought about how I used to think that it was my divine right to fuck who I wanted, when I wanted, drink, smoke, trip, you name it. It was all grist for the fleshy mill . . . or so I thought. You must understand that I have Jupiter in Sag in the first and it trines Uranus in Leo in the 9th. Anything worth doing is worth over doing or to quote another famous Sag, “The roads of excess lead to the palace of wisdom.” I may not be there yet, but I am hot on its trail.

I began to think about how as a society, we have been seduced to allow ourselves everything and anything. If we do hold onto some moral center, we can be mocked, derided and cajoled into enabling our lower selves to join the party, where sadness and separation are cloaked in the grand costumery of ego and getting just one more fix of experience.

I’m not judging it. I can just see the distortion its created in my life over the years and how as a society, and as a planet, we have been entrained to accept everything, no matter how un-natural it might be. If we don’t, we’re white and uptight. We’re squares. We’re conservatives. Our cool cards will no doubt be revoked and then we’ll have to hang out with the Christians or the other conservatives, who might profess to know something about restraint, but usually sacrificing compassion at some point along the way.

Morality almost feels like a dirty word at times. Its become so tainted and leaden with the dross of the world’s judgement. And yet, as we look at five-year-old beauty pageant contestants do pole dances for their moms, we say nothing, do nothing about the horror of that spectacle.

We’ve lost our ability to be outraged and that’s because we’ve been entrained over and over again to say “yes” to just about anything. Saying “no” just isn’t cool.

Last week, I was at a bar watching Tim Tebow play. There was a woman next to me and we chatted a bit about the game, about Tebow, etc. She said, “I can’t stand him.” I asked her why? She said he and his mom were obnoxious, particularly for the commercial they made for last year’s Super Bowl. In essence, Tim’s mom talked about when she was at a place in her pregnancy with numerous complications and the doctors recommended aborting him. She declined and had him. That commercial was not about Tim Tebow’s mother holding up a jar with a fetus in it, waving it at America, shoving its death cult totem right back into its sour visage. No. She was simply celebrating the life of her son, which “she chose.”

The screwed up contempt in this woman’s face was almost comical. Then I thought to myself, how upside down is our world when embracing and celebrating a life saved would be viewed as vile and obnoxious? No matter what your position on abortion, just think about that for a minute. Having a baby and sharing it with the world was viewed as despicable. This is what happens when you don’t drink. Things look a little different.

So Saturn has me thinking more and more about limits. The Aquarian Sun tugs me towards a version of oneness–not the synthetic variety of mandatory and strictly imposed Borg mind.

When the new moon hits come Moonday, we’ll be entering the year of the Water Dragon, but perhaps even more importantly, we’ll be presented with yet another opportunity to expand our awareness and move into this year, with an open heart and a deeply discerning mind.

We are magical beings and the divine cosmos, that which we feebly call God is our consciousness. We are swimming in it like fish in an ocean who don’t realize that they are indeed immersed in a medium that grants them the gift of life.

Open your heart. The time for waking up has passed. Its time inhabit your life with the courage of a lion and the gentleness of a lamb. Ride the Aquarian wave know that the future, the world you wish to create is here, right now.

Here’s yesterdays show with Jay. Hope you enjoy it.

Lastly, a little Aquarian inspiration from Ulrich Schnauss and “Stars.”

A titanic mess.

Well it didn’t take long for 2012 to run aground and beach itself on our consciousness. The Costa Concordia rang in the new year, the year of the 100th anniversary of the Titanic, on Friday the 13th nonetheless. 2012 is here. How many of you have looked at the pictures of that ship and have had an experience of utter befuddlement, as in WTF? It has that kind of visceral response. This is no mere day cruiser, but an honest to goodness cruise ship. The largest in Italy.

I hate cruise ships.

The one and only cruise I was ever on was called, “The Booze Cruise.” It departed out of Long Beach and took its sweet ass time plowing through the familiar waters of the Pacific, to arrive at the coastal village of Ensenada. It was my honeymoon cruise. I will never forget how people gorged on shitty prime rib and lobster, having two and three helpings, only because they could. It was a drunken ship of fools and there was the specter of foul play overshadowing our return journey home.

A young woman had gone missing and it was serious enough to warrant about half-a-dozen announcements imploring people to report this young woman’s whereabouts. Apparently this is fairly common on cruise ships. Women/people go missing at sea.

Getting off the ship was like a circle of Dante’s hell off the coast of California. “Disembarking” as they call it consists of getting out of your room early and being herded into the ships mezzanine with everyone else, grimly, anxiously waiting to get the hell off. The bathrooms are limited, so you’re stuck with about four hours of non-stop gastric group trauma and the unrelenting release of bad food that was cleverly disguised as something remotely edible, just day and hours before.

But I digress.

The Costa Concordia (Costal Union) ran aground just off the coast of Tuscany, near the island of “Giglio” at 9:42PM, local time.

At the time, Uranus in Aries (Radical Disruption) was opposing Mars in Virgo (Service/Attention To Detail). The two energies do not mesh well together, particularly since Mars was on the ascendent, conjuncting the Moon at that time, Uranus in the 7th.

The story as we’re hearing it now is that the ship’s head waiter, Antonello Tievolli (Mars in Virgo) was from Giglio, where his sister (The Moon in Virgo) lives. Tievolli apparently told the ship’s captain, Francesco Schettino (Uranus in Aries) that his sister would be on land. Schettino thought it would be really cool if they could get close enough to have a kodak moment. What they got was Fellini in Hell. But don’t you think its a little odd that despite it being totally dark, Schettino thought that brother and sister would actually have a meaningful moment?

Something’s not right here.

So theoretically, we have the forces of opposition in play Brother/Sister, Mars/Moon and the Captain, Uranus. But the real diamond bullet to the third eye is the True Node, the destiny of the Costa Concordia at the time of its crash was at 13 degrees Sagittarius, right at the bottom of the chart in the IC. Its destiny in that moment, on that day was to sink to the bottom. Sag of course is travel and adventure.

Orcus was discovered on 2/17/04. It was discovered by the same group of astronomer that also discovered Sedna and Quaoar. Orcus has an orbit that is similar to Pluto’s and its 248 year tour around the Sun.

Being that its related to Pluto from an orbital perspective, it has been classified as another manifestation of the underworld, since Orcus, like Pluto was a deity of the underworld to the Romans. Orcus was named on 11/22/04. 11/22 or 33 is significant for all of you illuminist scorekeepers at home.

The shadowy dimension of Orcus has yet to be plumbed in some ways. I mean how much more underworld can you get than Pluto? Deeper, darker descent into regions of Hell beyond Hell? Maybe Pluto has become like the Bhutan of the Zodiac, where all the celebs go to not be noticed without the hassle of sneaking into Tibet. You want real darkness? Now there’s Orcus.

In the chart for the Costa Concordia, Orcus is in Virgo at 3 degrees, hiding out in the Azoic Zones of the 12th House. Its there, opposing Chiron and Neptune in Pisces in the 6th House of service and work. Down, deeper, and deeper into the cold dark waters of the mediterranean.

There seems to be some rumblings of profit motive involved here as well, like sinking the ship for insurance purposes. I mean let’s face it, there isn’t a whole lot of money to float around for continual cruise line voyages and the ship ports in Italy, which has just been hit with brutal austerity measures. Likely, there’s less government money available to bail out a sinking industry like cruise liners.

So the insurance motive doesn’t sink to the bottom of possibility.

When we look at the chart, we can see Jupiter in a wide opposition with Saturn. Jupiter in House 8, Scorpio, water, death, other peoples money and resources, dark motives, hidden agendas, drink and drugs. In the other corner/quadrant of the chart, there’s Saturn in House 2. Saturn in the second is challenging. It adds something beyond gravitas when it comes to resources. Its more like the gravitational force of Saturn itself being pressed down upon finances and resources. Saturn in the second house is AUSTERE. It conjures images of monks and mendicants and its very important to keep these images in mind as we progress.

So here we have Jupiter in Taurus (largesse) hiding out in House 8, opposing Saturn in the sign of balance, anchored in House 2. Yes, the insurance aspect makes some sense when it comes to these things. Just ask Larry Silverstein.

But perhaps there’s more.

Put on your deep sea diving gear, we’re going down.

First off, there were a large number of Russians on the ship. Have you been following what’s going on with Russia? Russia and Syria?

Let’s look at the name of the ship itself; “The Costa Concordia.” What does it mean?

Well there’s a lot of buzz on the Net right now that the Rothschild’s coat of arms is “Concordia.” That’s only partially correct. It also has “Industria” and “Integras” in its crest. Concordia essentially means, “harmony” and “union.” 72.5% of Rothschild Continuation Holdings is controlled by the Dutch-registered Concordia BV. Concordia is wholly controlled by the English and French Rothschilds.

The antonyms of concord are; conflict, discord and dissension. When the ship runs aground on the “costa” or coast, it becomes an antonym, it thus represents discord and what we have heard from how Schettino and the crew, handled the crash, we can certainly factor dissension into the mix.

But just as the Twin Towers collapsed and made Larry Silverstein a whole lot of cash, it also signified the violent end of dualism in the occult sense, where there was once, two, there is now one soon to be in its place.

While the connection between the Rothschild’s and Concordia was interesting, let’s not stop there.

One of the interesting synches that I uncovered was that there is a place in Italy called, get this; “Concordia Sagittaria.” Where was the True Node in the chart at the time of the disaster? In Sagittarius, at the very bottom of the chart, at 13 degrees, on the Friday the 13th.

Another strange synche, manifests in the game, Final Fantasy, Concordia is a place that is dominated by a Queen Mother.

“The Kingdom of Concordia (コンコルディア王国, Konkorudia Ōkoku?) is a nation that holds the Sōryū Crystal in Final Fantasy Type-0, with its capital being Mahamayuri The Concordian people use the crystal to communicate with dragons and monsters, and use them for daily life and to strengthen their military.

Top posts in the Concordia government, save for the Concordian King, are held by women; Andoria serves as the queen and is the only one who can communicate with the Queen Dragon, the physical representation of the crystal. There are five Orders of elite knights who protect Sōryū Peristylium. One of them is known as the Akatoki under Celestia with Yuzuki among its members.”(Source)

And yet, there’s more!

This coat of arms belongs to one of Montreal’s centers of higher, “Concordia University” a Jesuit school. Like all of the Jesuit universities, they were founded by the holy command of Ignatius of Loyola, the thirteenth and youngest son of a Spanish family. They’ve had two coat of arms since they were originally known as “Sir George Williams College.” Sir George was the founder of the YMCA and the board of governors approved the original coat of arms based on Williams’ own on, December thirteenth 1937. Here is what the original coat of arms portrayed;

“Gules, a dove, wings elevated or, encircled around the breast with an olive branch proper, a chief or, thereon an open book or on a triangle gules between two roses of the field, barbed and seeded of the third. The book represents education, the triangle was symbolic of the YMCA concern with the whole personality – body, mind, and spirit. The rose is the heraldic symbol of the seventh son.” (Source)

In 1974, George Williams College changed their name to “Concordia” and with it, a new coat of arms. This one decidedly more different than the first. Again, the board of governors approved the new crest on the thirteenth, this time on February, 1975.

Here is where an interesting element and one that I think is key to the meta-cognition of this event comes into play.

“In 1974, with the approval of the Board of Governors, Professor David McKeen of the SGW English Department began negotiations with the College of Arms about the armorial bearings of the new university. The armorial bearings were designed by Professor McKeen to reflect the founding institutions, and included both the “Sun in his splendour,” long recognized in heraldry as a mark of Jesuit institutions, and the YMCA triangle, the whole intended to embody the spirit of Concordia.” (Source).

Both the Sun at the top of the crest and the one located between the solar plexus/heart have open books, which represent knowledge, wisdom, reason and they both sit atop an inverted pyramid. In the inverted position, the pyramid becomes a water pyramid and represents the feminine. As it sits at the heart of the Sun, here we have the masculine and feminine, or the alchemical marriage in the hermetic tradition. It is replicated also in the crown, so it is mirrored or doubled. We must take note of the presence of the Jesuit influence here. Concordia was mirroring Montreal’s own relationship with the notion of “concord” or “concord.” The motto of Montreal is, “Concordia Salus.”

Salus is the Roman Goddess of health. So in essence, she is the archetypal/hermetic presence ruling over Montreal. A Roman deity.

That’s not the only link to Italy through Montreal. Montreal was the first place staked out by the notorious Cosa Nostra, in particular the “Cuntera-Caruana” clan of Sicily. “The Italian press baptized the clan as ‘The Rothschilds of the Mafia’ or ‘the bankers of Cosa Nostra’.” This according to Wikipedia;

“In the 1920s the village of Siculiana counted 8,000 inhabitants, now less than 5,000. In the 1950s many inhabitants emigrated for work and opportunities. Many moved to Germany and Belgium or crossed the ocean to go to the United States, Canada, Venezuela or Brazil. Among them was Alfonso Gagliano, who in Canada became a cabinet minister in the government of Jean Chrétien. Among the migrants were mafiosi as well. Montreal is the first base outside Sicily for the Cuntrera-Caruana clan. Canadian immigration-records show Pasquale and Liborio Cuntrera arrived in 1951 and acquired Canadian nationality in 1957. They moved up and down between Sicily and Montreal setting up base at both sides of the Atlantic.” (Source).

While we’ve determined the meaning of concordia or concord, we haven’t really fleshed out the etymology of “costa.” On the surface, it means, “coast.” But it also has another meaning. Costa is short for “Constantine.” Constantine was the first Roman Emperor to accept and embrace Christianity along with Licinius, issuing the “Edict Of Milan” in 313, which proclaimed tolerance of all religions throughout the empire. In many ways, the Piscean Age begins with Constantine, a Pisces (2/27/272 or 11/11).

Constantine is also the name of the character played by Keanu Reeves, a character who dies and goes to the underworld to fight demons and. In essence, Constantine goes to hell.

In addition to Constantine, we also have the ships captain, the frenetic Francesco Schettino (Frances or Francis/St. Francis of Assisi) and his deckside squeeze, Dominica Cermotan (Dominican order).

Constantine, the bearer of the age of Pisces, Franciscans and Dominicans, all run aground, crashed upon the shore of tiny fishing village. Symbolically, what we’re looking at is the end of religion, the shipwrecking of faith.

This is a significant event at the outset of 2012, the 100th year anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. That event becomes an epoch this year, a significant cycle in and of itself. An occult century within a linear century. Many have speculated that the sinking of the titanic was not some randomly tragic event due to shoddy workmanship, but rather a staged spectacle that ushered in the dread of 1913 (22), where we witnessed the start of WWI, the creation of federal income tax and of course, the Federal Reserve.

Does the grounding of the Concordia portend the death of the Euro and the start of a new, global monetary system? Will it be joined by yet another world war to accompany the destruction of one age and the birth of another?

Rumors are swirling that the crew heard explosions and that is why they were in such a hurry to leave.

Was the Concordia sabotaged? If so, who would do it and why?

Was it a case of insurance fraud? Is it part mega-ritual, part meta-meme for the end of the Piscean Age and religion? Or is it to remind us of the terror that lies ahead in 2012. Remember this heart tugging scene of the ocean liner in the movie 2012? This folks is a nice little exercise in “predictive programming.”

One final interesting side note, the sister ship of the Costa Concordia, Costa Deliziosa destroyed 150 ft of Norway’s Bergen Skoltegrunnskaien pier, May 22, 2011. Yes, that’s right, 11/22 or 33. Add in May (5) and you get 38 or 11.

Join me at 10AM PST, 1/20 on The Friday Farcast, I’ll be discussing this topic more at length and I’ll be joined in the second hour by Jay Weidner. We’ll hear what Jay has to say about 2012, Ron Paul and More.

Hi, we’d like to buy your country, err company.

The Leo Moon had a positively incendiary effect on Ron Paul. If the rectified chart is indeed correct, then the Moon, transiting through his 12th House illumined his Leo Sun to the point where we finally got a taste of what Ron Paul would be like after chugging a couple of Red Bulls. In this video, you can see him at his most animated.

As I mentioned on my show, they’re bringing Jon Huntsman along slowly, sort of like drag net fishing for the likes of defecting Gingrich and Santorum voters. Speaking of Santorum, has anyone taken such a nose dive from one caucus to a primary like Santorum? He went from a very dubious second place finish, to sucking the top three’s fumes, while being connected to one of Italy most notorious communist gangs, through his family.

As I noted earlier, the Taurus Moon would impact Santorum (Taurus) favorably in Iowa, but it was the Leo Moon that shined on Paul in New Hampshire. Then there’s Mitt Romney.

My education of Mitt Romney is growing with each passing day–growing like a bad case of mold.

Romney might look the most presidential of the lot. Every hair in place, jaw square, gaze direct and firm. He’s also pretty glib. We can see the glib nature highly aspected by his grand air trine; Venus (Aquarius 8-MC), Neptune (Libra 9-House 5) and Uranus (Gemini 17-House 1). Venus in Aquarius on the mid-heaven might be his calling card. One of Romney’s go to phrases from his economic lexicon is called, “creative destruction.” Its a page right out of the luciferian playbook; “Ordo Ab Chao” (Out Of Chaos Order). This is what Romney shared at Emory College in 2010.

Venus in Aquarius conjunct the MC to a large extent typifies this attitude, especially if we marry it to Uranus in Gemini in the first.

When dealing with psychopaths, the amazing thing is how their soul grinding belief systems are not just justified, but completely integrated aspects of their clinically insane psyches. There is no cognitive dissonance in the true psychopath. Is it his Mormon faith that encourages him towards godhood on some distant world that has endowed him with a sub-zero disposition coldly emanating from that detached Venus hovering above the rest of humanity? Perhaps its some other secret sect that has abolished his ability to care. Whatever it is, he’s clearly not suffering from any pangs of guilt from the human wreckage he’s left behind.

You see Bain capital has specialized in buying companies (they say distressed) then selling off assets, gutting jobs, stripping down production and either forcing the companies into bankruptcy (KB Toys) or selling them off to the next pack of jackals (UniMac). Bain is like a horde of mongols that has practiced the art of “creative destruction” faithfully over the past two decades.

Now Venus in Aquarius isn’t always this cool and clinically detached aspect. In fact, one would think that Neptune would add some much needed humanity here, softening the uber cool Venus. Does it add humanity or does it convey and somehow legitimize Romney’s duplicity? Because that erratic Uranus in Gemini in the first house gives Venus a biting edge, adding yet more Aquarian chill via the ruling planet. To get a clear understanding of Romney’s Grand Air Trine, just watch this video below. Its stunning. In the video Romney speaks with a sufferer of muscular dystrophy in a wheel chair. At first, Romney seems concerned and hears him out. The man needs medicinal marijuana, and tells Romney that six doctors have advocated that he get medicinal marijuana. Romney immediately asks him if he can use synthetic marijuana. This is significant. Why? Because “corporations” can “make” synthetic marijuana. Which means that there is an inherent business opportunity versus simply growing it, which ANYONE can do.

The second piece here is that Venus in Aquarius is “scientific” and synthetic marijuana is not only patentable but created in a lab. Then watch as Romney shifts from concerned to cruel, shutting the man down, shifting into the grinning and hand shaking shuck and jive, like a well oiled shapeshifter. That’s Gemini kicking in. Check it out.

Gemini is a trickster, dual to the core. Ever date a Gemini? Ever watch the movie Sybil? Anyway, I’m being a little rough on Gemini here and I apologize, but Uranus in Gemini is truly unstable. Uranus in Gemini is highlighted or low lighted, depending on your perspective by the bomb (Uranus/Uranium) drops on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (two cities). It also heralded Project Paperclip, the great brain drain from NAzi Germany.

So Mitt has Uranus in Gem in his first house, along with his True Node. Unfortunately, he’s going to get a major boost from Jupiter’s pass through Gemini as it will conjunct his TN right around July 4th.

Heaven help us.

On election night, Romney will have Jupiter two degrees off his Uranus and locked into that grand air trine. From an astrological perspective, this looks almost unbeatable.

Romney also has a Yod in his chart; Saturn and Pluto in Leo opposing his Venus in Aquarius. Venus wants to act as an unfettered and free agent, launching itself outward from the heavy gravity of Saturn and Pluto. Saturn in Leo is restraint on the rule of kings. Its karmic law meets divine right. Pluto in a wide conjunction with Saturn is all about power and the ability to live like a king, developing the patience and fortitude in concert with Saturn in order to get what it wants. Its also the representation of power in the home. Autocratic power.

Romney’s dad was in the car business as the old Mittster puts it. Yep, his dad owned American Motors, who gave us such memorable cars as the Pacer and the Gremlin. Here is where the pre-fab man runs into trouble as the Summer progresses.

Saturn.

On 10/6 Saturn moves into Scorpio, squaring his natal Saturn in Leo, conjuncting (wide) his Chiron in Scorpio. The unflappable snatcher of pensions and thousands of jobs is going to have a karmic moment. A deeply karmic moment. Saturn suffers no fools. It brings all things into proportion. It raises the humble and lowers the mighty. Its in the fixed sign of Scorpio and its going to go after Romney’s Saturn in Leo hard. His unchecked power is going to get a wake-up call.

You see, the sixth house is the little guy. Its the day-to-day grunt work of service, assembly lines and unglamorous gigs. These are the people that worked at companies like K.B. and UniMac and Saturn is going to remind Mitt Romney all about them and the lives that got atomized when Bain came to town, stripping assets and selling the shell of a company for obscene profits with no care whatsoever for the broken families left behind.

You see Mitt Romney would laugh at the type of sentimentality displayed in a statement like that. For the economy to thrive, some people have to suffer or something like that or so sayeth Mitt. Well the bell is going to ringeth for this man as Saturn moves towards conjuncting his Chiron in Scorpio while squaring natal Saturn.

There’s this movies called “Freaks.” When I was in high school, I was slightly obsessed by it and the characters in the film, people like the pinheads, and “The Human Torso” a guy with no arms and legs who rolled cigarettes as a part of his act. They are all part of a movie set in a carny. The basic plot is that there is a blonde beauty named “Cleopatra” who joins the circus and seduces a midget named “Hans” but only for his money. While she’s fooling Hans, she’s screwing the strongman, “Hercules.” Cleo eventually starts poisoning Hans so that she can get his inheritance after they marry.

The “freaks” find out about her plot and come after her and Hercules with all manner of sharp objects, turning Herc into a falsetto and mutilating Cleo into a “duck woman.”

This is what Mitt Romney has to look forward to (metaphorically of course).

If I were Mitt Romney, I’d start making some big mea culpas right now. But he wouldn’t or wont ever admit to what he’s done. Nothing wrong by him. Just living out the American dream, while others thrash in its nightmare. Transiting Chiron will also be hitting his Mars in the 11th House at the same time. Its in Pisces and I hate to say it, but it will expose the Mittman as not being very strong. If his chart and his history isn’t enough, he’s a cousin of George Bush and he’s got the strangest ears I’ve ever seen.

Okay, enough about him and the surreal pageantry of phony elections. Let’s talk real shit. Shit that matters. Yeah, I’m talking playoffs, NFL, football, mytho-poetic psycho-drama. I cannot do a column without a little Tebowizing.

Tomorrow, the New England Patriots (Romney’s stomping grounds) take on the Denver Broncos for the 2nd time this season. The last time the two teams clashed in Gillette stadium, Leo Tom Brady outdueled Leo Tim Tebow. Word on the street is that Brady has been agitated and edgy. Leos don’t like to share the spotlight and this week, it was announced that Tim Tebow is America’s most popular warrior, outpacing Tom “Captain America” Brady and his supermodel wife. But this is more than just a big cat vs big cat rumble. Its BIBLICAL!

Last week, the Broncos “miraculously” defeated the Steelers and their Rasputinesque QB, Ben Roethlisberger. They did it in amazing fashion. In overtime, with one, quick strike, Tebow found Demaryius Thomas on a slant for 80 yards and a score. Game over. That pass gave Tebow 316 yards in the game. The same number as his favorite passage from the Bible; John 3:16. Tebow’s coach? John Fox? His GM? John Elway. Two Johns (The Baptist and Patmos).

Just last week, Tebow’s former coach, the guy that brought him to Denver, Josh McDaniels just got hired by the Patriots to coach their offense. McDaniels is a Taurus. Can you say silver? Forty pieces? Can you say Judas? The Patriots coach is Bill Bellichek, an Aries. Can you say war? Roman? Centurion? Pilate? The owner of the Patriots? Bob Kraft, a Gemini. Duality. Can you say Nicodemus? I predict something strangely, well miraculous. If I were the Patriots, I’d be more than just a little nervous. They might win, but grand cosmic forces are at play here. Moon in Virgo rewards conservative play calling, which favors not only Denver, but also the Forty-Niners against the high flying Saints.

Check out this powerful video, which exposes Mitt Romney for the cold-hearted corporate assassin that likes to “fire people.”

It all starts here.

On yesterdays show, I riffed on the “Hunger Games” which is dominating youth lit and is being made into a feature film. “Hunger Games” is set in the future in a post-apocalyptic U.S. which is named “Panem.” Panem is divided up into 13 districts. Thirteen is the Death card in the major arcana. Death and sacrifice and is exactly what the Hunger Games are–ritual sacrifice. Before we get into the Hunger Games, let’s look at how generations are influenced and even programmed via Pluto.

On yesterdays show, I explored generational programming via modern fairy tales, myth, TV and cinema. Each generation has psychic driving memes that deeply influence their thinking, attitudes and cultural ingress.

I started with the Pluto in Leo generation (1938 to 1956) and their cultural myth-matrix; “The Wizard of Oz.” Frank Baum’s tale of displacement, discovery, exploration, self-actualization and ultimately dis-enchantment is the collective narrative for the boomers, a generation in search of itself, navigating through a surreal landscape in place of the once familiar heartland they had been used to.

But ultimately, the goal is to arrive at Nirvana, aka The Emerald Kingdom, and once they arrive there, they pull the curtain back on the emperor and have achieved completion . . . sort of. The unmasking of the emperor is the core of the boomer’s fairy tale. The emperor is “the man,” “the system,” and authority in general. The emperor is parents, the dean of the campus, the president. Leo is the sign of monarchs (Project Monarch/Leo anyone?) and dictators. Pluto is the relentless force of transformation that wears down the opposition to change with power.

During the turbulence of the sixties, especially from 61 to 64 when Saturn in Aquarius was in opposition to their Pluto, we see the social turbulence of the decade kicked off by the death/ritual assassination of the Sun King, America’s Apollo/Arthur, JFK, quickly followed by the rapid rise of Rockefeller funded feminism and the civil rights movement which would yield another sacrificial lamb, the death of a literal and figurative King (Martin Luther).

The death of Kennedy and the rise of the Vietnam war were the psychic accelerants for the boomers to take Oz by storm and pull back the curtain on the man over and over and over again, finally culminating in the impeachment of the Capricornian sacrificial goat, Richard Nixon.

Once Nixon was de-throned, in a symbolic victory, the boomers retreated to the soft contours of the human potential movement, free sex, and buying real estate, firmly entrenched in their anointed golden status as the generation that had the most wealth at its disposal, maybe ever. They even managed to hoist their own emperor onto the throne in the guise of Leo/Sun King, Bill Clinton.

Its “The Wizard of Oz” that drives their legacy and tale.

The Pluto in Virgo generation from 1957 to 1971 are the far less glamorous second sib to the children of the sun. Their astro-mythos? Its really two stories/movies that have in some ways, the same underlying themes. The first is Mary Poppins.

Here we see an average woman that dwells in the realm of service/servants as the nurse maid to children. Its a very non-glamorous job (Virgo) and yet, lo and behold, beneath the surface, Mary Poppins is no mere nanny. Oh no. She’s magical! She’s a freaking witch! And just in case the boys don’t get it, well there’s a chimney sweep (again Virgo, doing all that dirty work) who is a warlock! Menial jobs aren’t drudgery. Oh nooooo, they’re magical! A spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down. Yep. Open wide and swallow.

Just in case the late Pluto in Virgo kids, circa 1968 to 1971 missed it, Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory tells a similar tale in some ways. Here again, we see a boy of humble means say and do the right things, while his peers gorge on media, sweets and instant gratification. Charlie’s a good boy and is rewarded by inheriting the chocolate factory, getting to manage all that slave Oompa labor, making him wealthy beyond his status and dreams.

Willy Wonka is a bridge work between the Pluto Virgo/Pluto Libra generations as Charlie demonstrates Libran courtesy and manners, every step of the way. Charlie is charmed.

Pluto in Virgo have been hypnotized and indoctrinated into the lesser octave of their outer planet assignation; be okay with more is less and find a way to be of service, because service is the most noble thing imaginable. Just ask Pluto in Leo.

Pluto in Libra’s cultural ciphers are not as literary but much more cinematic and television driven. This generation suffered from the greatest divorce rate in history and much of their “programming” can be seen in shows like “Different Strokes” where kids that aren’t even related wind up with a new parent and wouldn’t you know it, a better way of life.

My ex-wife and her sister, both born during Pluto in Libra are very drawn to “The Sound Of Music” made in 1965, which finds a group of children with no mother, finding a new mom and re-stitching the family unit. Guess who plays their future mom? Julie Andrews, who also played Mary Poppins.

But the real cultural meme, the psychic driver, the matrix mind implanted archetypal template for Pluto in Libra is Star Wars.

You might ask yourself the following; How does Star Wars fit into a generation that has had the family separated and cleaved like the swipe of a light saber right through its nuclear core? Well here it is.

Luke and his twin Leia represent the balance of the male/female polarity that is Libra. That’s for starters. Then we have to reconcile the light and the dark. Again, Libra. Social justice is a big theme in Star Wars. Again, Libran. But Luke and Leia are without parents. Or shall I say, they are without birth parents. Now this wasn’t your normal, Kramer vs Kramer style break up, and in fact people won’t know about Anakin and Padme for well over another decade, but their parents were in essence separated and divorced.

Luke plays the Moses motif raised down river by his aunt and uncle. Leia, raised by royalty. Luke is in search of his father. Let’s face it. Luke Skywalker is from a broken home. And the irony upon irony is that the woman he falls in love with is actually his sister!

I know that Lucas read Campbell, aped Kurosawa, etc, but Star Wars is it, straight down to the relationship fail of Luke and Leia to parents that are lost. The best relationship sinks, even if its due to not wanting to indulge in incest. But keep looking. Keep searching. Fight the right fight, the good cause, bring polarity into balance and voila!

Star Wars is also the departure into space, both physical and transpersonal. Libra is the gateway to the archetypal, transpersonal houses and signs; from cupid to psyche. Which brings us to the next station on our way to the Hunger Games. Harry Potter.

Pluto in Scorpio has two, very dominant works driving its collective identity and programming; Harry Potter and Twilight. Harry Potter was released in June of 1987. By that time, the oldest of the Pluto in Scorp generation would have been around 12-13 years, perhaps slightly older than the young Harry Potter, but not by too much. Potter would wind up influencing the bulk of Pluto in Scorp and even some Pluto in Sag kids. The scorpionic themes in Potter are hardly hidden. Its filled to the sorcerers brim with occult magic, dark spells, demons, life and death. Potter even takes his place amongst “The Order of The Phoenix” in the fifth book, the phoenix being symbolic of Scorpio.

The Potter books are the codex magica for Pluto in Scorpio. They initiated them into the temples of their dark imaginations and now they’re wearing the eye of Horus on baseball caps thanks to Jay-Z.

“Twilight” the other book that I associate most with Pluto in Scorp was released in 2005. By this time, the millenials were in their teens and needed something saltier than Potter and his sexless escapades in other realms. “Twilight” took care of all that, providing romance tales that exalted the taboo and dangerous realms of love and sex with the dead. Right on time for those kickin’ hormones.

“Twilight” also serves as a cipher for the Pluto in Libra generation, Relationships, traditional relationships, are dead. Get over it. Twilight paves the way for any type of relationship. Between Potter and Twilight, the occult formula is complete. A generation can now go gaga over the lurid, despised and debased. If you can love the dead, you can love anything.

Staying with the literary theme here, the final chapter on this group is far from written, but they are about to be asked to step aside for the next installment in the shaping of collective imagination. The Hunger Games.

Katniss Everdeen, the heroine of the Hunger Games trilogy lives in District 12 (The Hanged Man), Panem’s poorest district out of the 13. Panem, the former U.S. is ruled by a sadistic dictator named “Snow.” Each year, every district must pay tribute to Panem by sending a boy and a girl as they engage one another in a fight to the death in the “Hunger Games.” These games are broadcast throughout Panem and everyone is forced to watch. This is done as a form of social trauma and sacrifice, keeping the disparate factions of Panem psychically wounded and disempowered.

The games take part in nature and the bow and arrow is one of the main weapons. In fact the arrow is a key symbol on the cover of the first book in the Hunger Games trilogy. The arrow of course is symbolic of the archer and speaks directly to the Pluto in Sag generation. The message of the Hunger Games is brutal. Its a coming of age novel in a post U.S. totalitarian state. In essence, the bad guys won and are now taking it out on the populace, year-in, year-out.

Hunger Games author, Suzanne Collins was raised in an air force family and moved a lot according to her bio page. She worked for Scholastic Books, which publishes “The Hunger Games” and is funneling it directly into schools. She also worked for Nickelodeon which is notoriously famous for its illuminating childrens programming. Here we see a direct access into the hearts and minds of an athletically inclined, nature loving, philosophical generation that hasn’t even graduated from high school yet. The grab for their mindshare is on.

You can listen to more on this topic and hear me do “live” readings for callers on yesterdays show below.

Ron Paul isn’t so black and white.

I keep going back and forth on Ron Paul. Four years ago I gave Ron about $300 to run. When I found out he was in the mix, I was elated. I had been a Paul fan for years as he always seemed to vote on the right side of the issues. His takes on the Patriot Act, Pre-emptive strikes and The Fed were in alignment with mine. He was the only candidate that addressed not only the physical but the fiscal toll wars without end were taking on us. In essence he didn’t blithely mouth the company line when it came to the “Project For The New American Century” aka PNAC, in fact just listen to Paul’s blistering broadside against the Neocon culture that’s infested Washington, from a speech he delivered to congress in 2003. Paul came out and declared the NDAA to be nothing short of martial law in America. There’s a lot to like about Paul based on those positions. He wants to audit and end The Fed. He’s a constitutionalist which thanks in due part to the post-911 zeitgeist has been labeled regressive and even radical.

People scream about his foreign policy. When asked about this, they say very little other than the fact that he won’t agree to bomb or invade invisible infidels who “hate us.” He’s labeled an isolationist and a racist, though neither can really be attributed to him. There is an issue with a newsletter that Lew Rockwell had years ago that Paul was part of that is controversial but its certainly not clear that Paul contributed to it in the way that is attributed to him by the MSM. In the wake of the claims that Paul is racist, the African American community has rallied with videos supporting him. So if he’s not a racist and his foreign policy is one that is not invested in supporting corporate wars for the likes of Bechtel, Raytheon, Halliburton, Lockheed, and the Seven Sisters, then what’s the issue with Paul? Why in so many words is he not electable?

In the exo-political community where everyone is a spook or a gatekeeper, Paul is either a Mason (likely) or he is playing the role of the steam valve for the mostly white middle class that’s not falling for the cut of Mitt Romney’s jawline. He’s out there, the last buoy of freedom and personal liberty floating in sea of sharks with cctv cams attached to their dorsal fins, watching and then devouring everyone in sight, feasting on the chum of the American dream. That’s Ron Paul, the last hope on the way to Totalitarian Town. When Paul goes down, its over (theoretically). That’s the thinking in the terminally depressed nether regions of the conspiracy void.

In essence, Paul is just another shill. I have to admit, I’ve gone there. But if that’s the case, then why the elaborate effort to exclude him from debates? Is it so well thought out that they parse out his three minutes or so because Stephen Spielberg said that its the best way to legitimize his outsider status? Or is the status quo truly afraid of him? There’s even talk that he’s on a hit list if he gets too popular. So what’s the deal with Ron Paul? Who is he? Is he trustworthy?

Its a pretty complex question actually, because to understand Ron Paul, you’ve got to know just a little about the Austrian school of economics. Paul is a student of Ludwig von Mises, one of the founders of the Austrian school. But before we get into von Mises, let’s take a peek at Paul’s aspects to look beneath the starry cloak of his celestial DNA.

There is no known birth time for paul, but Granny Miller seems to have rectified his chart and has him as a Virgo rising (7:45 AM, 8/20/35). Astrology aside, its important to note that Paul was raised by depression era parents. This group has Pluto in Cancer. It was through their hard work that the bulk of the 20th century was built. Fueled by the protestant work ethic and the fumes of hard times, they busted their ass to transform the United States (Cancer). Paul was an obstetrician before he was a congressman so he specialized in dealing with mothers, again Cancer. Pluto in Cancer is what Paul brings to the table. In fact, his Pluto stands in direct opposition to the USA astrological chart’s Pluto which is at 28 degrees Capricorn. So Paul in essence is in opposition with the current assemblage of the Plutocracy simply based on his natal Pluto. We’re talking direct opposition here.

Paul has his True Node in the sign of the Goat, which opposes his natal Pluto. Its one of the few planets aspecting his Pluto. It does semi-square his ascendant which might account for why some people have such a severe reaction to his persona. But the opposition between Pluto and the True Node is a fascinating one, because in many ways, it is the geopolitical intersection between Paul’s populist pull and the true manifestation of von Mises free market libertarianism. The arrival of the True Node in Capricorn in Paul’s chart might be a good time to explore the Austrian school of economics without going into a huge amount of detail. Let’s see if we can break this down into some digestible chunks of text.

PRAXEOLOGY AKA HUMANS IN ACTION

The fundamental concept at the core of von Mises system is that economy cannot be separated from human action. Here is where Paul is inspired to remove the Fed from its money printing capacity, mostly because it does nothing. Mises rejected the empirical model, because he believed that only actionable volition in relation to mostly dissatisfied conditions is what motivates the human in real time. There’s a primacy in his philosophy that does not allow for economic abstraction. Humans are agents of action. Systems must reflect that agency as well and be tied to something directly, not speculatively. Here is where Paul ties the gold standard into his economic policies. The gold standard provides some metrics of real and quantitative measure versus inflationary and deflationary cycles of economic abstraction. The gold standard also relates to Paul’s Leo Sun from a symbolic perspective.

The philosophical dictum of the Austrian school springs from Mises’ inquiry into the human as an actionable agent that can actualize will to respond to the needs of the moment. Entrepreneurs are exalted in the Austrian school, as they are the innovators and able risk assessors/takers where their mettle is tested against the marketplace in actionable, quantifiable, real time terms. For Mises and Paul, the individual is the center of not just the economy, but the cosmos in general, hence the relationship to free and unfettered markets. Where else can the man of action truly make a difference? For the Austrian schoolers, governments are completely antithetical to this notion and should have no place in determining the marketplace. Governments according to them should not be in the business of being a business. This is in many ways a completely different model than the current ramp up to a super governance ala Pluto in Capricorn, where government and big business mutate and merge into one, enormous, Plutocratic beast. But the Austrian school does not eschew corporations or even big business and in fact wants to do all it can in order to greater facilitate its powers in the marketplace. Here we see the shadow of libertarianism. Individuals must be accorded true freedom, but that freedom extends outwards into the realm of the marketplace, where its not always clear that the sanctity of the individual is as well preserved as its freedoms.

In a recent position paper that Paul has drawn up, we can see what he would do immediately as a president. Keep in mind that action is at the center of Praxeology. He would immediately cut the military budget by 15% and then he would take a scythe to WIC (a government food program for mothers), Medicare and other social services to the tune of 35% and upwards. He would also work to abolish states rights to work, which essentially ends unions in states. According to Webster Tarpley, in the early days of Paul’s political career, he was funded by the Koch Brothers through their think tank, The Cato Institute. What Ron Paul would do to the short term of the economy would be the equivalent of a fiery clear cut, setting a good portion of social programs ablaze. He would also cut the corporate tax to 15% and give all corporations abroad tax amnesty and allow them to bring home their profits at a 15% rate as well.

The ideas are radical. Unlike the arctic thaw of dismantling the current system at the hands of the Keynsian economists, Paul would take a blowtorch to the system. These would be austerity measures enacted from within, without the arch hand of the IMF or World Bank pointing their scaly index fingers in the direction of the USA.

So here we see the pivot between the populist position of Pluto in Cancer in Paul’s rectified 11th House (the good of all) and the true manifestation of its intent, lying (no pun intended) in opposition to his True Node in Capricorn, which is the manifestation of the emergent identity and purpose in service to the highest aspiration of the human will, allowed to ascend to heights unfettered by any system. This is congruent in many respects with the Luciferian philosophy of the individual as the adept of action and will.

What’s fascinating though and what separates Paul from say the neocons, who are inspired by the likes of Leo Strauss, Irving Kristol and to some extent Saul Alinsky is that for them, the ends justify the means. So they will dabble in radical abstraction, whether its propaganda and subliminal subversion to outright lies, to distorting economic systems that trade on cancerous debts. Paul’s philosophies and those of the Austrian school are tied to real assessment of risk, resource and reward. In essence a loss is a loss and not something to be negatively amortized.

The moral conscience is tempered by what is achievable in quote-un-quote “real terms.” Real terms translates into real goods, real transactions, real economies, not credit based speculation. Thus some form of moral integrity is achieved by adhering to real time values, born out of material considerations.

One of the aspects in this rectified chart that might give us an indication as to why people have a hard time seeing the real Ron Paul, or attributing unreal aspects to him is his Sun in the 12th House. Mercury is there as well, straddling the ascendant with Neptune on the other side in house one. They form the back end of Paul’s yod to Saturn in Pisces at the end of the sixth into the seventh. In real terms, Paul is tasked with translating the idealism of the Neptune/Merc conjunction into quantifiable terms vis-a-vis Saturn. Fascinating that Saturn in Pisces is tasked with carrying out what begins as rational thought seeds in the Virgoan mindsphere. To achieve this end, there must be some sort of spiritual actualization as well. The transit of Chiron and then Neptune could be problematic for Paul. It makes him quite vulnerable actually, especially as Chiron opposes his Mercury in March of 2102. There is a great deal of speculation that if he does not get the Republican nod, that he will run as an independent. That this is his time. His last go round. If he does, the likes of Mitt Romney will not be well disposed towards Paul’s possibility of splitting the vote. Keep in mind that Mitt is a Pisces and his Mars at 5 degrees Pisces sits one degree off Paul’s Saturn. His Mercury in Pisces opposes Paul’s Neptune, so be prepared for an ideological tug-of-war between the two.

If Ron Paul can make it through the gauntlet in the next few weeks, and emerge from New Hampshire close on Romney, he’ll have a major boost on Super Tuesday in March, when Jupiter will be conjunct his natal Moon in Taurus 21/20. If the rectified chart is close to correct, that would lead to a Jupiter transit into Paul’s 10th House, which will conjunct his natal Chiron on election night.

Based on his chart, does he have a good shot at unseating Obama, even if he runs as an independent? My answer is “yes.” Based on his chart, can we trust Ron Paul to divest us of the corruption that’s plagued our financial system ever since Reagan began to de-regulate? Well, he might, but only by finishing the job that Reagan started and deregulate everything. In a free market, there’s no corruption because the governor on the marketplace has been removed. So in that sense, yes. Based on his chart does Ron Paul look out for the common man? Yes, but not to the exclusion of exalting the congregation of the men of action in the realm of business ie corporations. In Ron Paul’s world, the strong survive and the weak better get smart or strong pretty damned fast. The Austrian schoolers are about responding through crisis and Paul’s immediate actions would spawn a crisis of sorts in the marketplace. Those that are wealthy and have resources could weather the Paul economic firestorm, which would be manna for the likes of the Rothshchilds in the short term, but in the long term, their fractional reserve ponzi scheme would no longer function. In essence, the game will have changed. Would Ron Paul usher in the end of our system as we know it? Likely. With Uranus in Taurus (radically traditional values) opposing Mars in Scorpio, he could do it very quickly. Is he trustworthy? A shill? A gatekeeper? With his Sun in the 12th of the rectified chart, I am still not sure. The true Ron Paul is hidden from the world to see.

Here’s what I do know about him. He’s not Barack Obama. He wouldn’t have signed the NDAA. He’s not Mitt Romney, a dyed-in-the wool bloodline insider, related to the Bushes, doing business with them through the Carlyle Group. He’s not Rick Santorum who believes in intelligent design and yet has avowed that he would bomb Iran if given half the chance. In a field of old paradigm politics and so-called leaders that mouth platitudes which suit their handlers, Paul stands out as a true wild card. He might be the guy that places the capstone on the pyramid and we’ll all be fooled again, but at this point, does it really matter? You want real change America? For better or worse, Ron Paul might be your best and last shot. As of this typing, Paul, Romney and Santorum lead in the Iowa caucus.

“Santorum” sounds like an Eli Roth flick.

Just a quick post as a lead in to the caucuses. I’ve been very busy with the holidays and getting my shit together for 2012. Lots to write about and lot more coming. If you haven’t noticed it yet, nearly all of the top shows from the past two years on FAR have been posted at the FAR youtube channel. Plenty of great interviews with the likes of Bruce Lipton, Jay Weidner, Andrew Harvey, Patricia Cori, George Green and many more.

BULL REIGNS SUPREME

In the surreal carny sideshow known as the GOP primaries, Iowa stands out more than ever this election cycle. In the middle of the country, rows of corn and pastures of cow, human grit, and all that, bullshit fills the air, which is fitting as the Moon is in Taurus, just coming off a conjunction with Jupiter. The one candidate that this impacts the most is Taurus, Rick Santorum, who’s been schlumping around the bottom of the pack. Well the MSM in a desperate attempt to distract people away from the Ron Paul show is fanning Santorum’s flame in the past 72 hours. The Moon will be close to conjunct with his Sun tonight in Iowa. Even Rupert Murdoch has publicly come out in support of him. If I’m Santorum, I’m not sure if this is a good thing, but he needs the press in more ways than one.

Even though the former senator from Pennsylvania who couldn’t even bail water in his own state when it came to being re-elected is a Taurus, his chart is anything but passive. With Moon in Aquarius, Mercury and Venus in Aries, he’s far more hawk than dove and has been telling everyone who’ll listen that he’ll bomb Iran if given half a chance, the same line that Aries Michelle Bachman has been spouting. By the way, Bachman reminds me of my ex-wife in some ways, also an Aries in that there is no quit in her. Despite the fact that she lost a key campaign aide to Ron Paul, she presses on. That’s the embodiment of Aries–ram ahead.

So I fear that Iowa will boost Rick Santorum much higher in the public eye. I still say that Romney will be the GOP’s candidate based on his bloodlines and deep connections to the Bush family, Carlyle Group etc., but Santorum will likely be shoved past Ron Paul, who has been catching fire and the mainstream media, Romney, Gingrich and even Obama are terrified of. The Taurus Moon will be squaring Paul’s Leo Sun, which will not help him embrace a not so convincing finish in Iowa. If I had to predict the outcome, it would be, Romney, Santorum and Paul tonight.

Editor’s note. As of 10:20 PST, Romney and Santorum are neck and neck, Paul is a close third.