Robert Phoenix

From Archons To Arch Androids

That cutaway illustrated below is an actual model of Dick Cheney’s heart or lack thereof. You see, Dr. Strange Love has no heart. While this might not come as a surprise to many, having an actual look-see as to what keeps Dick ticking is kind of a dark revelation to say the least. This is a pump that actually circulates the blood through the body. With no heart, he has no heartbeat. It’s just the mechanized woosh of plasma that’s roiling through his system. If it weren’t for technology and a few million bucks, he would be a dead Dick.

But in a strangely ironic twist, this is the dream of the trans-human-fetishists, albeit saddled with a bulky version of an AI interface. Cheney, an Aquarius, would theoretically be receptive to the deepening of his silicon connection. While this is a functional version of a cyborg’s delight, Cheney is far from alone.

Lady Gaga has been flashing her hybrid style for the past three years, getting ever closer to the woman-machine synthesis. Gaga might be the most overt example of the programming that is taking place on a number of levels but as we will soon find out, she is not alone. Her haircut mimics the same style of Daryl Hannah/Pris in Blade Runner. It’s not a coincidence. I’ll steer clear of the obvious illuminist symbols and stick as close to the ummmm, facts as possible.

The Cloning Of Pris’ Bangs Is A Cipher Repeating Itself Through Time

Are ideas like this latched upon by canny dream weavers or does the Hannah/Gaga continuum evolve out of a pre-set archetype that modulates image and function accordingly? There are a number of sites that track illuminist symbolism and imagery in art. From Alan Watt, to Esoteric Kitten, to Pseudo Occult Media, you can find enough mind numbing examples of overt symbolic manipulation, much of it revolving around pop stars like Gaga. The Evidence Is overwhelming. We are programmed to the point where our drives and desires are rarely our own. Even our most sacred values, such as patriotism and God are the wallpaper of our sub-conscious. No doubt, there are men and women highly skilled in the art of psychic manipulation through esoteric symbols that evoke the mimetic tableau of our times. Many of them have been steeped in magic of darker hues. They might even meet in halls, lodges and wooded groves. They would certainly match the layman’s description of a conspiracy, but what if they themselves were being acted upon and like the unwitting public that they trance with their animatronic eye candy, are just as oblivious?

True Hallucinations

The late Terrence McKenna dove with abandon into the strange world of DMT, where self-replicating machine elves create psychedelic ovules of papier-mâché, giving birth to them in realms we cannot imagine. What if a similar process was behind all of creation and Gaga and her robot masters were nothing more than creations of some larger force living out it’s own archetypal imperative? In essence, does Lady Gaga or GW Bush have any choice in the matter of who or what they are to become and have the forces that we have fed for millennia simply taken on a life of their own, enormous entities that nearly rival God in the accumulated manifestation of our beliefs and practices? What if all of this is just phantasms of our own imaginations, fears and perverse desires, co-mingling with forces from other realms? As always, like an ancient script of numeric representation, there is the astrological codec, an overhead projection of this realm through time and space. Let’s have a look shall we?

Gaga is an Aries (of course) and not just any Aries. Born on March 28, 1986, she has Aries at 7 degrees. Most people know that we are shifting from Pisces to Aries via Uranus, full time, next year. Jupiter is already there, but it too will retreat briefly, only to move fully into Aries in 2011. I will go out on a limb and predict enormous success for Gaga in 2011 (much to the consternation of many). It’s not simply her as an artist that will be successful, but the idea of transhumanist deviation, will stamp her image on the fore brain of the collective mind. Uranus in Aries is an explosive dance of destruction and conflict, it is the electric fire of individual inspiration and personal genius, and it also foreshadows the scientific manipulation of form and a as a result, the very essence of will itself.

The Third Reich came of age during the last run of Uranus in Aries and out of the Third Reich we have “Eugenics” the search not just for the perfect form in flesh, but perhaps even more importantly, it represents man’s ability to create such a perfect form, one that places him on the same celestial stage as God. That is the real golden ring. Transhumanism isn’t just a less loaded term for Eugenics, it’s code for the creation of a new species entirely and as a result, the end of the human as we know it.

When Uranus conjuncts Gaga’s Sun, I would not be the least surprised to begin to see real and not costumed augmentation to her physiognomy. The Sabian Symbol for 7 Degrees Aries is A MAN SUCCEEDS IN EXPRESSING HIMSELF SIMULTANEOUSLY IN TWO REALMS. This is clearly a celebration of the dual life, and in her case, part woman, part machine. Not only is her Sun in Aries but so is her Venus, though placed significantly further away at 23 degrees. Jupiter in Aries will kiss her natal Venus in 2011 and might even portend a marriage. The bride of Frankenstein? Pluto is also deeply informing her collective might as well. It is conjuncting her natal Neptune in Cap at five degrees and sextiling her natal Pluto at 6 degrees Scorpio, augmenting her androidal sexuality. Pluto in Cap is being distributed through the spiritual function of her generation. Neptune is filmic and illusory, it offers up gloss and sheen, it’s seductive in an etheric sense and when it is conjoined with Pluto/Capricorn, the individuals of her generation act as channels for power in an earthly sense. In it’s initial stages, not tempered by experience and time, it is the naked adulation of power as a God.

It’s All About The Baphometrics

Again, there is little coincidence in images of skulls, esoteric talismans and occult symbolism on tees, hoodies and caps. When Jay-Z recruits Kanye and Rhianna to “Run This Town” he is speaking directly to this generation that worships power. This is amplified with Pluto in Scorpio. While the ideal of power is worshiped, the act of sex as a conduit to power is this generation’s calling card and in many ways, Gaga has become a symbol for all of the above. She is an augmented sex-kitten, robotically responding to your wishes and desires, willing to do anything, rubbing your face in esoteric nose candy. She is morphing towards a synthetic version of Babylon’s greatest whore. But she is far from alone.

Aries in Your Anus?

While Gaga manages to sell loads of inane music with beats that are likely laced with mind-numbing embeds, the aforementioned Rhianna is undergoing her own transmogrification, from innocent teen, to violated and initiated, to giving her body and soul over to the deus sex machina.

Chrisitina Aguilera was not content with motherhood. Nope, she had to get in on the game as well, sporting her own version of cybervixen, 2010. However, Janelle Monae might just be taking all of this to another level.

Discovered by Big Boi (Aquarius again), half of Outkast, Monae was signed to Diddy’s Bad Boy label. She left no doubt as to where she was going with 2009’s Metropolis referencing of course the Fritz Lang classic. But have a look at the album cover. She is not only part human and part android, but even the android part of her is broken and torn apart. However, she’s remedied that with her latest release, ArchAndroid which is about her alter-ego Cindy, who discovers her super powers and realizes that she is the “Arch Android” here to save the other hapless androids from their life of androidal enslavement.

I find the city of gold head dress (see image at the top of the post) totally fascinating, especially the golden phallus rising from her crown chakra like a spear of destiny, pointing towards the heavens. Metropolis, robots, a golden cock growing out of her mind, it all smacks of some new Reichian zeitgeist and I’m not talking about Wilhelm Reich.

Now some may say that this is some sort of market trend or a Grace Jones/Nona Hendryx redux, or even a semi-psychotic and dissociative projection of the human condition that has lost the ability to feel, but with Uranus in Aries, this is more likely a presage to the Eugenic drive to convert humanity into a transgenic species. But what happens to the soul? Where does the humanity go? Or are we already so degraded that it’s a moot point? Is this just the unnatural progression of things? Are we that numbed out and unfeeling that we have to create alters to explore the realms of non-emotive states? I am not enthusiastic about the trend, no matter how funky the beats and cool grooves are.

Janelle Monae AKA Cindy Mayweather In Many Moons

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Head on

Finally getting back into the swing of things after my Hejira to the mountain of most high magic. The Gulf still bleeds. I get emails from folks, that if true, are nightmarish. Everything from terribly sick clean-up crews, sans respirators, to dead whales being blown up because they are too big to move. Somewhere in The Gulf are dolphins I once swam with. The rupture in the crust of the Earth’s surface is also a rupture in our psyches, our etheric bodies and we are leaking out into the metallic skies ourselves. But in the wounding we are vulnerable and we are closer than ever before. In spite of scalar waves that emanate from non-space, bombarding us daily, we are primal bodies that exist out of time as well. Those bodies are on high alert, our senses attuned to the danger in the winds. If you don’t feel alive now, then simply pop another Xanax, chase it with a Mike’s and pull down the shades.

We are primordial. We are muck. We are ooze. We are slime. We are Starseed. We are the muddy waters of creation and we feel the deep ache of our body as we glide through darkness of space.

Like our ancestors who lived in synchrony with the stars and the seasons, before methane clouds and illuminated fluorescence, we can sense something very wrong in the air. And like the members of those tribes, we are talking, sharing, speaking of signs, affirming the imbalance, even though those around us, tasked with reporting the truth, have long abandoned their posts. It is up to us now to verify that there are some mighty powerful things going on.

As we enter the vacuum tube of the big cross in the sky, wheeling our way, with the eclipsed shadow of the goat moon in it’s wake, I cannot tell you how many people send me emails or notes on FB, complete strangers that are wiping the ancient sleep from their eyes. The gash in the heart of the world has shook us from our slumber. We don’t need CNN or MSNBC or David Brooks or Thomas Friedman to confirm this. You know it and I know it and if you don’t, you will. If you are reading these words, you’re part of the wake up party. It doesn’t matter if Google or your so-called superior brought you here, you are opening and your soul could care less if your personality has issues with it.

Uranus In Aries–Early Returns

So far, Uranus in Aries has wasted little time in butting it’s head into our reality. Remember that list of bullet point items of inventions from “The Age Of Genius” that I posted? Jet travel? Nuclear energy? The rise of fascism? Well straight out of the chute, we’ve got some phantoms from that time marching straight at us, into the present. If you have listened to my show, you’ll know that they are picking up high levels of radioactivity in The Gulf. Very high. Dangerously high. What does that tell us about oil? Is oil a radioactive/carcinogenic substance by nature? At the end of this post, you’ll be able to see the work of Wade Smith, a safety officer walk through the abandoned oil fields of Martha, Kentucky, getting radioactive readings that are through the roof. This is a field that has been abandoned for quite a while and the meters on the geiger counters peak. What does this say about oil in general?

Do a Google search for “Is Oil Radioactive” and you’ll get 10,400,000 results. One of the top results is a patent for removing radioactive waste from oil. It’s getting clear that the answer is likely “yes.” The very nature of oil itself is radioactive. So here we are, Uranus in Aries, uncovering another iteration of it’s essence. Throw in a little Neptune (Oil) in Aquarius (Uranus/Uranium) and someone or something is trying to get our attention. Is there a correlation between the rise of cancer in the 20th century with the rise of oil and petroleum based products? Chiron in Pisces is demanding that we discover and uncover the nature or all things viscous and fluid, from heroin to heaven itself and everything in between. Oil, our dark God, is not immune to our examination of it’s properties.

BP bought over thirty of Kevin Costner’s machines. Hooray! That’s Uranus in Aries, with a pinch of Jupiter to boot. Let’s hope they actually deploy them and that it’s not too late for them to make some, even small difference.

Buried underneath the rubble of the 24-hour-news-cycle was the story of Tyson Larson, a 28 year-old inventor that was working with a water based fuel system. He was refining his version of compressing hydroxy gas in his workshop, in business park in Simi Valley. The name of his company was “Realm Industries.” Something exploded and Tyson was blown through the back of his workspace. Coincidentally, a SWAT Team was just down the street doing some sort of training drill. Coincidentally a disaster clean-up company, Serv-Pro, was right next door. Nothing happened to them. On a side note, forget getting a Subway, get a Serv-Pro franchise. Disaster is going to be a booming industry in the months to come.

Young Tyson Larson’s life was ended as he searched for an alternative to petroleum. This is not uncommon when it comes to challenging the status quo regarding energy. Now I am not saying that Larson was the victim of foul play, but based on the history of inventors getting threatened or even murdered, we cannot rule out the possibility. Whether it’s dealing with unstable elements or edgy competition, being an inventor in the realm of alternative energy is not for the faint-of-heart.

My pal, Molly Hall chimed in with this about Larson, “That does illustrate the Uranus-Pluto sq. Major explosion, wanting to expand the ‘realm’ – also such a young inventor (Aries) meeting death suspiciously. Yep.

They’re probably not showing you this on your local news, but The US and Israel have quietly moved 12 ships past The Suez Canal, despite the protests of Egyptians at a clear sign of advancing aggression on the seas towards Iran, where Harvard educated, Mahmoud Ahadminejad flashes devils horns and prances around as the new Snidely Whiplash. The dark shadow of Uranus in Aries.

So what does it all mean? It means that you have to get very real, very quickly and you need to know who your neighbors are, where your water is and that you are not alone. Far from it. It’s perhaps the greatest conspiracy of our time; We are far more connected and self-assembling than we know. Welcome to the wake up party.

Find the center

I asked some of my favorite astrologers for their thoughts on the upcoming grand cross and the subsequent full lunar eclipse on the back end of the cross. I received insights from Molly Hall, Twilight Starsong, Willow and Emily Trinkhaus. It’s a good mix and an eclectic perspective. You should check out their individual websites when you get a chance.

My personal take is that what is happening in the pre-text of the event, is going to significantly add to the dynamic tension and stress that this alignment bears out. Of course, the continued saga of the Gulf cannot be dismissed. I have been chronicling what’s happening in the Gulf to the best of my ability and my sense is, is that something very troubling will develop in the Gulf during this time. We can expect to see anything from relocation to a critical worsening of the environmental situation. BP will likely blowout it’s net worth, with claims and expenses exceeding it’s $12 billion in reserves.

This is what Texaco did when they were levied with an $8 billion fine for the damages they accrued in Ecuador. Texaco defaulted and went into bankruptcy. Their assets (what was left) was purchased by Chevron, who have been defending their liability and challenging the settlement figure as a result. BP is now approaching a level of debt toxicity. I have little doubt that this will come about in the run up to the grand cross and will culminate during it’s time in our skies. Of course, the key elements here are Pluto in Cap/Moon in Cap eclipsed vs Sun in Cancer and the US stellium in Cancer. The Corporatocracy shows their hand during this time.

While we have that scenario playing out, the war scenario looks like it’s going to be played out as well. Iran has just gone on record saying they will launch their own peace flotilla and try to land goods in Gaza/Palestine. Israel, which has been pushing The Obama Admin for months to strike Iran might use this opportunity to launch a pre-emptive attack against Iran or simply wait for Iran to move this ships into international waters and take action. They have already cleared airspace withe Saudi Arabia in case they go this route. Here we see Aries (war) in Uranus/Jupiter, opposing Saturn in Virgo almost Libra, the crossing between service and equality in relationships across all levels.

These two situations are extreme hot points during the upcoming cross. The full moon eclipse speaks to the strain of the economy, buckling beneath these titanic trends. There is little doubt that this alignment will augur one of the most pivotal periods in recent memory.

Frankly, I would be thrilled if nothing happened and all the predictions and speculation fizzled like a bad firecracker on the 4th, but somehow, with this much back story already swelling and near burst, that it will be difficult to contain what’s already taking place during that time.

Each individual will of course have their own relationship with this energy, in conjunction with the collective energy as well. Late Virgos, early Capricorns, Libras and Aries should feel this energy intensely as will their opposite signs, such as Cancer and Pisces.

Be very gentle and kind during this period. Stay healthy, hydrated and cool. Bear witness to this series of moments and respond the best you can. Society and culture are made of individual responses and perceptions, which ripple into the overall pattern. In essence, you have a choice and an option to respond in a creative fashion, even if under duress.

Let’s see what the other viziers have to say about this: Read the rest of this entry »

Dances with dolphins?

Since the Gulf became more than an inky Rorschach blot upon our collective unconscious, we, as humans do, scramble to rise to the occasion. Left to our own devices, we can be pretty crafty and innovative. When struck with a sense of imminent peril, we can be inspired and lightning quick with our response. Since Uranus has flipped into Aries, we have seen two, fairly innovative solutions to the Gulf stain, rise to the surface. We’re talking some highly developed, Uranian/Aries ingenuity. The following are just two solutions.

I always find it fascinating how life imitates art and occasionally, vice/versa. Take Kevin Costner for instance. Costner’s peak, was not “Dances With Wolves.” Costner’s peak, was “Water World.” “Dances” afforded him the budget and the studio’s patience for essentially morphing Mad Max with The Sub-Mariner. They could have easily titled it, “Wave Warrior.”

In “WW” he spent a huge amount of cash, rigging up a “flotilla” of barges and derricks off the coast of Hawaii. It’s the type of movie making you would not see now. Half of what they did would be CGI, the other would have been shot in Baja, closer to LA and cheaper. By the way, you will not see many blockbuster films this summer. Hollywood’s production schedule is finally catching up to the marinas trench of the economy.

In “WW” Costner plays a hybrid human, who can breath underwater, that comes to the rescue (reluctantly) of a mildly anarchic and unrefined community, who have made their aqueous stand on an old rigging and refinery outpost, which still works, pumps and refines oil. They’re there because some great cataclysm has covered the world in water. Follow me? However, there is a woman, played by Jeanne Tripplehorn, who has a tattoo that is also a map of land. They want Costner, ultimately, to be their Moses and deliver them onto said promise land. He eventually does, but not before he vanquishes a wild, seafaring bunch of S&M attired pirates on jet skis called, “Smokers” who lust after oil/gas to power their jet skies and marauding and pillaging lifestyle. Read the rest of this entry »

Just your average Joe Cell

Twenty-years-ago, I sat in the conference room of a hotel, in downtown Olympia. I was going through my quickening. The Gulf War triggered new pathways in my genetic library. Tapes of past lives unspooled across the monitor of dreams and waking life. There was a before and an after The Gulf War for me.

I’ve written about my encounter with George Green before. He talked about clones and robotoids, but he also told us a story about how he went to Detroit to meet with the “The Big Three,” he and his buddy, who had built an engine that ran solely on water. The demoed it to decision makers at Chrysler, GM, and Ford. They loved the idea, asked where they were staying in town and would get a hold of them. They returned to their hotel room, whereupon George went out to get pizza and beer. When he returned, he found his inventor buddy, dead, personal belongings, gone. George didn’t waste much time. He called the police and left for his own safety. I’m not sure what to believe, but I don’t doubt for a minute that this sort of thing could and does happen with regularity. Read the rest of this entry »

Deux Ex Machina

Prescience. It’s a quality that we should all aspire to cultivate by any means necessary. Whether it involves the simple act of sharpening your instincts or more elaborate schema involving remote viewing or crunching massive amounts of spider search results that predict once ing trends, it seems critical that we develop these states as quickly as possible. Case in point.

Clif High’s report on Half Past Human from March, 2010. Clif has been criticized in the past for fear mongering and filtering the data through his own lens of perception, thus skewing towards a narrative that he is philosophically invested in. I’ve only exchanged emails with Clif to see if I can get him on my show, but he returned them and politely declined due to too many other commitments. I respect the work that he and George Ure have done and think it’s a vital cog in understanding how future in this realm is evolving or in this case, de-evolving. Here are excerpts from HPH’s March, 2010 report that reflect the type of prescience I am speaking about; Read the rest of this entry »

Take me to your spiritual leaders.

Day thirty-five and The Gulf is still bleeding. Oil and methane are now co-mingling with other substances, perhaps sulfur, iron oxide. These are not elements of a deep sea oil field, but an undersea volcano. The spew is beyond toxic–it’s flat out poisonous. The Earth’s blood is running from a gashed artery that apparently cannot be tied off. Birds, fish, coral, brine, plankton, plants, people all feel the stain of BP’s egregious malfeasance as it washes upon the shores of their lives, with no end in sight for their hell. Meanwhile, Barack Obama will be in San Francisco tomorrow night, ironically, with Barbara Boxer, the head of the “Environment and Utilities” committee. San Francisco is not kind to progressives that have turned. I’m sure there will be a significant turnout, vociferously reminding the president of his progressive roots. Should be very interesting to say the least.

Did you hear what visionary leader Barbara Marx Hubbard had to say about “The Gulf” while the administration is stalling and hand wringing and stomping their feet at BP? What about Deepak Chopra’s deep and penetrating deconstruction of the events unfolding down in Louisiana? Manage to catch Marianne Williamson’s fiery and inspired sermon she gave the other day regarding the degradation of the environment and loss of not just jobs, but an entire culture? Well, if you happened to miss all of that great wisdom and profound examination of corporate arrogance, greed and complicity flowing down from the font of their exalted perch as our spiritual leaders, don’t feel bad, it’s because they haven’t uttered a single word on the subject. Yep. They’re mum. As usual. Just like the silence they indulged in when the economy went down in a heap and the banksters were bailed out by you and me. Not a single, solitary word, because that was our reality and not theirs. When it comes to the big ticket items of our time, they are mute witnesses to the greatest crimes of the century.

Why?

As we move deeper in the chironic swirl of Pisces, the whirlpool that sucks the illusion right out the spiritual leader paradigm, we leave behind the concept of enlightened beings thinking, acting and speaking for us. It’s the end of an era people. We’ve reached far too much critical mass and the tipping point of awareness is about to go quantum. Their days and usefulness are numbered. Oh sure, they may lead a few thousand people on a cosmic karaoke night to ascension, wherever that ascended plane might be, but in actuality, many of us are awakening due to the deep pain our planet is suffering and when something is wounded, our natural inclination as a species/pisces is to reach out and help, to assist and comfort. There is a blood pact we have with life and crisis awakens a priori experience in the chambers of our DNA; an alarm, a cry, a plea, a blast of a trumpet from an angel within. This is the true activation of Chiron in Pisces; spiritual crisis.

However, the clarion call is not enough. No, we must have the courage and fortitude to be able to make a stand for this blue and white pearl, whirling through space and that energy is coming.

With Jupiter and Uranus shifting into Aries at month’s end, the activation of will, will take place. The ability to spontaneously respond to a situation, without permission or the enlightened direction of spiritual leaders can spontaneously manifest in all of our lives. As Uranus/Jupiter moves into Aries, it will signal the great awakening and even greater accountability on our part. Do you need to know what to do? Nope. The time will come and the urge to act/be will arise for each of us. Just do your very best to stay healthy and stay in love. You’ll know, when the knowing is ripe.

The Shadow Of Uranus In Aries

While the will of the individual is stirred, not shaken, the intensity of Uranus in Aries is already starting to reverberate. Tensions are mounting in Korea and Ill Kim is rattling sabers at South Korea. Looks like they might be going to war. Not good. Not good at all. Apart from the fact that there will be a lot of damage, destruction, death, more horror, it will also impact the economy in a huge way if this goes down the way it’s looking. South Korea is a major manufacturing hub and provides The US with not just goods like TV’s and cars, but the distribution chain for those products, here in The US will be deeply affected. Trucks, ships, stores, you name it. They’ll take a massive blow if this escalates and the economy will as well.

A few weeks back, my pal, Dennis Whitney sent me some info about the TransOceanic rig being attacked by a North Korean min-sub as payback for the sinking of a North Korean ship by South Korea. The TransOceanic rig was built by Hyundai. It came through Sorcha Faal, who is not deemed a trustworthy source by many in the exo-political world, and yet, here we are, seemingly on the brink of war with North and South Korea ready to go at it. It’s interesting to note that we are in Gemini, the sign of the twins and The Sun is squaring Chiron just moving into a four degree orb. The twins are North and South Korea and they are squaring off, potentially over a deeply chronic event. If they can stem the tide with these two countries over the next few days, both the square and the tension will lessen to a degree, until we get closer to the mega-cross at the end of June. Hold on kids, as we approach the shift of Uranus and Jupiter, we’ll be experiencing a bit of turbulence. This could get a little bumpy.

Is Kim Jong Ill really alive?

Get caught up.

Some of you might be aware of the whip-smart Willow, from Willow’s web. She’s indicative of the new astrologer, one not tied to convention or any of the other New Age trappings that astrology has been saddled with over the last 50 years. There is a new genre of astrology emerging and it’s astrology with an edge (Just wait till Uranus lands in Aries) and she is right at the forefront. No fluff, polite cushioning, just potent, undiluted observations and keen analysis on her end–she’s also a helluva writer. I was blown away when I discovered her blog–a kindred soul indeed. Once a month, I have her on my radio show, it’s called, “Wednesday With Willow” and on it we discuss what’s happening astrologically as it relates to the culture at large, taking a scalpel to our examination of the greater milieu. In the second hour, I’ll fly solo and will be giving free, mini-readings. Please join us live, tomorrow, on FAR.

BP’s new corporate symbol.

As of 12:03 PM, PST, on May 16th, the undersea volcano of methane and crude oil continues to gush into the gulf. BP is falling far short of any sort of solution or strategy in capping the worst eco-disaster of our time. With Chiron’s immediate arrival into the sign of Pisces, our relationship with water and fluids on all levels is brought directly to the surface of our conscious awareness as Neptune rules not just over water, but oil as well. Together, the two co-mingle at sea, the light and the dark, an elemental miscegenation that crosses the brain/blood barrier of the planet itself. Chiron in Pisces, 0 degrees. Ground Zero.

What has been the response of our leadership? Well, Mr. Obama has done what he does better than anyone in recent memory and that is inject lots of concern. I’ve never seen a president offer up concern and studied gravitas quite like Obama. By the way, doesn’t anyone else think it’s interesting that our last three presidents have all been Leo’s, sign of actors and kings? So, as he scans from teleprompter-to-teleprompter and the sincerity is ratcheted up a few degrees, his utter lack of cognitive dissonance should be enough to sway us–it is not.

We spent eight years forming new, complex pathways in our collective brain under the spell of George Bush. Well, at least some of us have. That eight year stretch was a daily struggle to reassemble reality from the surreal deconstruction that was going on around us. From 9/11 to Lyndie England and Abu Grhaib. From Pat Tillman getting shot by guys in his own company, to Dick Cheney shooting a guy in the face and the guy profusely apologizing, we had to re-wire our connections in order to maintain some semblance of sanity. When Obama came along, some of us had unplugged enough to not fall prey to the hope and change exchange, the three-card-monty for not just our votes, but the last few ounces of hope left in our nearly bankrupted psyches. We got off that train when Bushco came roaring through town. Jaundiced and cynical, we were chided by our progressive friends. No, not just chided, derided. In a stunning display of group think, many Obama supporters turned on the few of us that said the emperor is wearing the same clothes, which are no clothes at all.

Of course, here in Lemuria-by-the-bay, people like SF Gate columnist, Mark Morford blew their holy horns, trumpeting the arrival of “The One.” Morford’s now infamous column about how his friends, people that really know a thing or two about this, told him that Obama was special, not just a new presidential model, but a new model period. That “he was the one we had been waiting for.” It was this kind of mass psychology (Neptune in Aquarius) that entrained so many, right up through his historic acceptance speech in Denver, the highest city in the US, the one closest to heaven, where he addressed the dazed and panting masses. Yes, they would not tolerate anyone saying anything negative about their destined redeemer. Read the rest of this entry »