I note that TODAY (April 30, 2008) as transiting URANUS makes its first of three SQUARE/CHALLENGE
aspects to Natal USA MARS (God of War) in Gemini the following headlines occur:
 

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"Hostile" Iran Sparks U.S. Attack Plan
Pentagon Wary Of Tehran's Expanding Nuclear Program And Support Of Iraqi Insurgents

WASHINGTON, April 30, 2008

 

(CBS) A second American aircraft carrier steamed into the Persian Gulf on Tuesday as the Pentagon ordered military commanders to develop new options for attacking Iran. CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports that the planning is being driven by what one officer called the "increasingly hostile role" Iran is playing in Iraq - smuggling weapons into Iraq for use against American troops.

"What the Iranians are doing is killing American servicemen and -women inside Iraq," said Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.

U.S. officials are also concerned by Iranian harassment of U.S. ships in the Persian Gulf as well as Iran's still growing nuclear program. New pictures of Iran's uranium enrichment plant show the country's defense minister in the background, as if deliberately mocking a recent finding by U.S. intelligence that Iran had ceased work on a nuclear weapon.

No attacks are imminent and the last thing the Pentagon wants is another war, but Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mike Mullen has warned Iran not to assume the U.S. military can't strike.

"I have reserve capability, in particular our Navy and our Air Force so it would be a mistake to think that we are out of combat capability," Mullen said.

Targets would include everything from the plants where weapons are made to the headquarters of the organization known as the Quds Force which directs operations in Iraq. Later this week Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is expected to confront the Iranians with evidence of their meddling and demand a halt.

If that doesn't produce results, the State Department has begun drafting an ultimatum that would tell the Iranians to knock it off - or else.
 

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I think it's perfectly clear that the USA Military/Industrial/Government has NOT learned anything from its illegal/immoral invasion of both Afghanistan and Iraq and is planning to attack Iran. The nature of the way they'll do it is URANUS like .... that means SUDDENLY & SHOCKINGLY without informing either the House or the Senate
(let alone, "we the people") until the attack is either underway or just completed.  This is the nature of the beast we face as American citizens.

URANUS rules Uranium and it's the "enriching" of Uranium in reactors for peaceful purposes which Iran is claiming its legal right to pursue.  Unfortunately, the USA is likely
to deploy "bunker busting" radioactive bombs in its planned attack.

Please note the warlike/bellicose TALK our Official Government is using via the Gemini Media.  Then consider that this transiting SQUARE/CHALLENGE which URANUS is making to USA MARS in Gemini will repeat again on August 25, 2008 and finally on February 19, 2009.  We have, I'm afraid, entered the build-up phase to justifying yet another illegal/immoral ATTACK OF WAR against another sovereign Nation, IRAN.  Our MARS IN GEMINI MEDIA will be used to trumpet increasingly greater "terror alerts" about IRAN'S supposed "threat to peace"!!! 

The question is: Why would our government be doing this again in an election year?  What is the real agenda hidden behind our increasingly warlike propaganda against Iran? 

Well, note that at the birth of this USA MARS in Gemini is in very tight SQUARE/CHALLENGE aspect to natal USA NEPTUNE in Virgo indicating that we use Neptunian intrigue and evasiveness (the fogs & mists of NEPTUNE) to hide/conceal/mask our MARS aggressiveness.  Given that this Natal Neptune is in the 9th House of America's birth chart it's the 9th house COURTS and OFFICIAL PRESSES (PUBLISHERS) which are cleverly used to "justify" our violence.

This being the case, consider that this year and next, each time transiting URANUS in Pisces SQUARES the USA MARS it rapidly OPPOSES Natal USA NEPTUNE as well about a month later. So here are the 3 OPPOSITIONS URANUS makes to USA NEPTUNE:  June 2, 2008, July 21, 2008, March 9, 2009.

Clearly, we citizens of the USA are in for a year during which our already FASCIST MEDIA (defined as 7 or even only 5 CORPORATIONS owning ALL media whether tv, radio, newspapers or major book publishers in the Nation) will increasingly persuade, urge, and propagandize us toward accepting, supporting, and justifying yet another illegal/immoral WAR. Our Government will employ every NEPTUNE means of masking and deceiving the TRUTH from us even going so far as to employ (as it does already via Homeland Security) various RELIGIOUS NEPTUNIAN CLERGY to justify its sins.  It's pretty clear to ANY thinking person in America that CORPORATIONS are running and ruining our Nation in order to achieve the ROCKEFELLER-CFR-IMF goal of a ONE WORLD CORPORATE ORDER OF GLOBAL CORPORATE CONTROL.

So, let's take a brief look at what NEPTUNE is all about as distinct from how it's currently being used by our government.  Neptune correlates to the faculty of CREATIVE IMAGINATION in the human person.  It's a DYNAMIC force, but a force for UNITY and UNION and ONENESS and on a personal, individual, ego level it's always an EGO-DENYING or EGO-TRANSCENDING FORCE.  It is traditionally the UNIVERSAL SOLVENT of ALCHEMY so its action is DISSOLVING ... it "rules" the seas, oceans, rivers ... its force is FLOW.  Oceans, when seen from a distance on a calm, sunny day can seem very peaceful and still, but BENEATH THE SURFACE the currents and tides are running relentlessly and they are extremely POWERFUL.  NEPTUNE is the POWER OF OCEANS, the power of the universal solvent -alkahest- aqua regia embodying and demonstrating the power of SPIRIT to permeate and pass through all boundaries. 

In the human being the positive force of NEPTUNE is the SPIRIT OF CREATIVE IMAGINATION and always strives toward mutual collaboration, fulfillment, and the harmony of PEACE.  Some, who are religious call it GOD.  Others, who are not religious but are, nevertheless, spiritual call it the LIFE-FORCE, MOTHER NATURE, or CREATOR SPIRIT.  "IT" resides within us as well as all around us and unless our ego borders are relaxed and we know the joy of RECEPTIVITY-GRACE-SURRENDER we cannot fully access this NEPTUNE. It is the TAO. 

Now here's the currently important thing, my fellow Americans, NEPTUNE is the FORCE informing the zodiacal sign of PISCES which, otself, is the ENERGY-FIELD most conducive to the free flow of its ease and grace.  Back in time a few years ago during the NOVEMBER 2004 ELECTIONS I pointed out that the PROGRESSED USA SUN was just then moving for a long 25+ year stay in this ENERGY-FIELD OF PISCES RULED BY NEPTUNE.  And this tells us that we as Americans have (one & all) come under the rule of NEPTUNE.  Like it or not, ready or not, Americans as a People must tune themselves to the pulse of NEPTUNE.  Everything depends on just HOW we do so; negatively or positively or (in keeping with Neptune's urge to dissolve boundaries) BOTH NEGATIVELY AND POSITIVELY.  What does that mean, "both negatively and positively" ?  It means precisely what Barack Obama will not do, it means sticking up for the TRUTH even when that truth hurts, it means what Mister Obama's pastor, Jeremiah Wright,  called "SELF-EXAMINATION".  Ruthlessly examining ourselves in the light of truth makes us humble and we learn compassion. 

Note that Neptune-Compassion is NOT a bloodless thing; the very word 'compassion' means FEELING WITH.  With what?  With passion, intensity, from the Latin root passio meaning to undergo or endure. Compassion is a passionately intense experience frequently not felt at all by those who think it means being 'nice' and/or being 'kind' and what they like to call 'considerate'.  It's precisely because Jeremiah Wright is being compassionate rather than 'kind' when he speaks of our need for "self-exanmination" as a People that American Media accuses him of being "inconsiderate" or "offensive" to the "feelings" of Americans!  Jeremiah looks at and speaks to the American practice of Nation-Building by GENOCIDE against the red man and SLAVERY for the black man and then he has the courage to CONDEMN America for its immoral/illegal WARS.  He adds to that the accusation of the (fully documented) Federal Government's involvement in bio-warfare against its own citizens via the creation of mycoplasms genetically engineered as AIDS, EBOLA, and MARBURG VIRUSES.  'Nice' people don't say such things, but compassionate people do!  To be compassionate in the true Neptune sense is to be passionate and to undergo feelings of suffering as a mother suffers when her child is sick or hurt.  G.W.Bush tries to be nice, Jeremiah Wright is ruthlessly compassionate and that is precisely what NEPTUNE requires of Americans these days as we and our Progressed Sun undergo the experience of PISCES.  Mister Wright simply and truthfully explained the 'karma' of PISCES when he spoke of "America's chickens coming home to roost!" 

It befits us all as Americans to realize that NEPTUNE rules drugs, and infectious diseases as well as deceit, obfuscation, addiction, and ESCAPISM.  It is URGENT that we realize that our Nation born with aggressive MARS in challenging square aspect to fluid NEPTUNE predisposes us to escape into lies when confronting our own aggression rather than to surrender our egos to self-examination.  Indulging each other in fantasy and escapism rather than using our inherently creative imaginations to confront each other through compassion is an easy out.  We are an immoral Nation practicing torture on innocent others.  Our President is a proven LIAR and we work for and gladly tolerate among ourselves the misnamed 'free trade' of Corrupt Corporations intent on destroying us, our land, our economy and our fancied freedoms.  We are the most thoroughly drugged Nation on earth, and even our drinking water and food supplies are contaminated with FDA approved poisons. 

God does not have to DAMN America. We Americans are damning ourselves.

It's time, as Jeremiah suggests, for self-examination. Compassion starts with oneself in the presence of truth. 
Don't have a 'nice' day at all, have a compassionate life.

Bubba Don