WHAT IS PATRIOTIC ASTROLOGY ? 

              
Chapter One: 

           
As The World Turns.

Why do people consult astrologers and ask questions about what the planets are doing in the skies and in their personal birth-charts ? Is it because they think that what goes on in the skies with the planets affects them in personal ways ? Is it because they subscribe to the ancient hermetic saying: ‘As Above; So Below’ ? Do they give credence to Carl Jung’s comment that everything born at a given ‘moment’ in Time carries the significance of that Moment in its very cells ? Or is Astrology merely a faddish toy like a cell phone, the latest T-shirt, the most recent ‘hit’ movie in the theatres, the smash song playing on the air waves, or the new break-through book at the top of the New York Times best-seller lists ?

Do people consult astrologers and the ‘stars’ in an effort to better understand themselves and the patterns in their lives ? Why did Nancy Regan ‘use’ her own personal astrologer during the years her husband was President of the United States ? Why did Hitler, Churchill, and the Intelligence gathering networks of the Allied Nations in World War II consult astrologers ? Was it for spiritual reasons, for reasons of inner growth and understanding, or was it because they felt that their understanding of the basic ‘moods’ occurring among the public might be enhanced by using such ‘information’ as astrology/astrologers could give them ?

But if a friend tells you astrologers are ‘predicting’ that during the next 8 weeks all dogs are inclined toward accidents while walking with their owners, and that an eclipse of the Moon during that same period of time does not bode well for the safety of dogs ...you might well become over-concerned. Your concern might easily pass on to actual anxiety and fear as you consider the astrological ‘prediction’ that dogs are inclined to accidents for these next 8 weeks and that something mysteriously linked somehow to the eclipse of the Moon might actually result in the death of dogs at this time. Your concern might escalate into a fear-based tension for the safety and well-being of your dog, and while you are out walking him he might feel that tension being transmitted to him the way dogs so often do. Your daily walk with your dog might become increasingly wrought with such tension transmitted and shared, and this could easily lead to ‘creating’ just such an accident resulting in his death. If you live in a city it might happen as you wait on a corner for a traffic light to change; your own astrologically rooted ‘anticipation’ of ‘dog problems’ could reach sudden high levels as the busy traffic rushes by, and your dog -sensing your nervous apprehension- could suddenly dash into the street. Of course, he gets hit by an on-coming car driven by a person talking on a cell phone to an astrologer warning of the dangers inherent in the current period of Mercury being ‘retrograde’ and coupled with an eclipse of the Moon in the sign of ‘small animals’ ! Voila: problem, reaction, solution! You have a dead dog on your hands, and a sacred animal friend physically missing from your life. Does this mean that astrology ‘works’ ? And if you conclude that it does ‘work’ is that because of impersonal fact or because of personal programming ?

Currently, the planet Saturn is moving in the sky against the backdrop of a cluster of stars called the sign of Gemini, and the planet Pluto is orbiting against the backdrop of another cluster of stars called the sign of Sagittarius. These two planets are in astrological opposition meaning that they are moving in opposite areas of the sky from the point of view of the Earth. We astrologers attribute to such an opposite movement the quality of tension, and based upon personal predisposition, experience, and a long line of tradition we interpret this ‘tension’ to be a force demanding conscious integration in peoples’ lives. We go further and claim that Gemini is a star cluster associated with dualistic thought and communication while Sagittarius is a star cluster associated with the fiery enthusiasm arising from a desire within us all to resolve such dualistic thought and communication into purposeful intentions, truths, or beliefs in goals. We claim that the over-all ‘mood’ of the global public is one of tension demanding expression and resolution through language and communication. We say that the tension of this opposition is both affecting us by arousing our feelings, and effecting us by way of changes it is introducing into our lives through a combination of personal and public writing, speaking, publishing, radio, television, the electronic internet of mutually gossiping computers, and the ever dizzying proliferation of all kinds of electronic broadcasts pouring in on us from satellites spinning around the Earth relaying these electronic pulses.

We are quite literally submerged in our programming, and some of this programming is intentionally covert or hidden from us. We all know that the Intelligence Agencies of technologically advanced governments are employing secret devices and techniques in their mutual spying activities, and many of these devices and techniques employ electronic signals carrying information on what they have called Extra Low Frequency or ELF bands of the electro-magnetic spectrum. So the current opposition of the planets Saturn and Pluto in the astrological signs of Gemini and Sagittarius is effecting not only visible-audible communications, but these invisible and impossible to hear ELF communications as well. Very interesting, -says the bemused astrologer, twisting his fingers through his gray beard- and what might be going on here ? Exactly what do all these communications both visible and invisible, audible and inaudible convey by way of instructional programming ? And how did the Elfs get involved with this work ? Oh, of course, this is the year of the blockbuster film called The Lord Of The Rings coming to theatres near you! Gandalf, Galadriel, and Gollum are parading across international movie screens in their Quest to keep the ONE RING from the hands of the Dark Lord in the Land of Mordor. Let’s see now, how does the tale go ?

Chapter Two:

 Where the Shadows Lie.

To cut off light from; to put in shade; to shade; to throw a shadow upon; to overspread with obscurity. The warlike elf much wondered at this tree, So fair and great, that shadowed all the ground.-Spenser.

To conceal; to hide; to screen. [R.] Let every soldier hew him down a bough. And bear’t before him; thereby shall we shadow The numbers of our host.-Shakespeare.

To protect; to shelter from danger; to shroud. Shadowing their right under your wings of war.-Shak.

To mark with gradations of light or color; to shade.

To represent faintly or imperfectly; to adumbrate; hence, to represent typically. Augustus is shadowed in the person of [AE]neas.-Dryden.

To cloud; to darken; to cast a gloom over. The shadowed livery of the burnished sun.-Shak. Why sad? I must not see the face O love thus shadowed.-Beau. & Fl.

To attend as closely as a shadow; to follow and watch closely, especially in a secret or unobserved manner ; as, a detective shadows a criminal.

Aha, so we can see from the generous Mr. Webster that ‘shadow’ is a word full of subtle meanings and textures, and astrology would add to what he has told us the fact that the planet Pluto is associated with the shadow -for he is the Dark Lord of the Underworld who rules over the Realm of Shadows, the Land of the Dead. Everything of a shady nature is second nature to Pluto. He’s a bit like the ‘Lone Ranger’ of the Heavens, something of a ‘Masked Man’. His ‘Tonto’ partner is a fellow known as Charon, the Dark Saint Christopher among the gods who assists his Lord by playing Cosmic Ferryman carrying the souls of the dead over the river Styx to Hades, the home of Pluto. Hades, with its sulphurous fumes and fiery rivers has the feel of Tolkien’s Mordor.

Shadow Ring

Now I realize your average Joe don’t like to know this kinda stuff! Hey, it smells of heathenism and dirty, filthy things. If he’s a bona-fide Christian, this average Joe catches a whiff of bad things here, -like maybe Devils and evil, and other unwholesome crud. Hey, says he, astrology is the work of the Devil; I know cause my minister or the Bible done told me so. And, guess what, O gentle and dear reader…I am the average Joe, and I like the average Joe and, furthermore, you do, too…Hobbits, all of us, happy in our habits! So we have to give Joe his due here and say he’s damn right. There be Devils in these here words, but hey Joe…grab your six-pack and come along for the ride, have some fun, we’re just gonna be a bunch of raunchy intellectual rednecks and kick some mythological butt! Pluto is calling us from out there in Sagittarius, and he won’t take ‘no’ for an answer.

When the Lord of Shadows calls from the starry sagittarian heights of our philosophical and religious beliefs he does so in his usual shady ways: he makes us a forbidden, absolutely taboo offer we can’t refuse. To refuse the Dark Godfather is to receive the Kiss of Death, and the kiss of death for a believer is the loss of his faith. Without his faith the believer is doomed -as he damn well knows- because that’s one of the tenets of his faith! Well, shucks folks, what can I say? Don’t mistake the messenger for the message! I’m just doing my job as an astrologer, like any other flunky bureaucrat working for any other business of belief. Sorry, if what I have to report here bums you out or causes you to wet your pants in public, but as Pluto in Sagittarius would tell it: the Truth will out, -especially the dirty, filthy, hidden Truth! Grab a bucket, and sit yourself

Ring Wraiths

down for a spell, we got some really filthy-hot-shit to talk! Oh, you say, such foul language, you say! And I reply: we are facing ‘hell’ itself, this is no time to be ‘tasteful’ or ‘politically correct’. Just watchout for the FCC and all the other Censors ‘cause the Gates of Hell are opening! (see: http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/theFword.html )

Pluto in Sagittarius is challenging Saturn in Gemini at the Dawn of the Age of Aquarius, aren’t you lucky to be alive in such interesting times ? As the Francoise Villon of the old counter-culture sang it back there in the 60’s: ‘Something’s going on, but you don’t know what it is. Do you, Mister Jones?’ ( for a poem from the ‘King’ of the Court Of Miracles, the Bob Dylan of Medieval France, see: http://www.glaced.digitalspace.net/cgi-bin/villon/ballade.html  )

Well, here’s a hint, -‘those icy fingers running up & down your spine…round and round you go, down and down you go…You’re in a spin, loving that spin that you’re in, under that old Black Magick called…’. And, I wouldn’t exactly call it Love since Pluto is known (by every card-carrying paternalist) to have raped Persephone, but there’s definitely some kind of obsession going on for us all. We are being lured into the shadows, down into the depths by a ‘force’ that has no face to it, an invisible, secret, obsessive and possessive ‘force’ which each of us personalizes through our own ‘Jungian’ Shadow. ‘Getting to know you, getting to know all about you’…isn’t always a peppy-cheery little tune sung by Anna to the King of Siam and his movie progeny, but it is a tune likely to be operative these days between our conscious ego selves and our unconscious shadows. Like it or not we are meeting or about to be meeting the Devil, and as Pogo long ago suggested -he’s us! Agh, you say, don’t project your weirdness onto me, Osama Bin Grabau, own up to your own perversity; and if you aren’t saying that (thank you) -you can be sure your friends will be pointing the finger at you the minute you open yourself to them confessing that you want nothing so much as to rape, murder, and pillage their ‘precious’. Oh, you say, not me, you say, and that filthy language yet again! Well, like Gollum, my friends once you make contact with the One Ring of the Dark Lord Pluto you’ll be obsessing over it, yearning to hold it, wanting to slink off into some slimy hole where you can sit alone in the dark with your precious and feel its throbbing power. Yes, kids, the ‘Force’ is with us, all hail The Force!!! But, for the moment, the force is veiled by the overspreading shadows of obscurity…de profundo lacu.

 

Balrog Shadow

 

That’s just Latin, take it seriously because Saturn in Gemini urges us right now to take all language seriously. Does Latin scare you, does Arabic ? What of Al Qaeda, Taliban, and Haarp ? Gemini, my friends, is the sign of languages and with Saturn in the sign of languages words can become seriously sinister, -sinestra, the left hand, the left hand path of Sauron, Saruman, Secrecy. What are the Gemini media showing us, what are they telling us ? You can be sure that the status-quo of Saturn is focused in the media, and Saturn in the media means that the authoritarian owners of the media are structuring the ‘news’ to serve their own ends. Saturn in Gemini combines the themes of authority and business in the realm of language, and it structures that language to exclusively reflect its own serious concerns; those concerns can be summed-up as ‘business-as-usual’. Enron. (see: http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/911inquiry.html  )

But with Pluto opposing Saturn the theme of shadows enters the public realm of media-words, and a struggle ensues centered upon the belief in these shadowed words, in the need for secrecy.

What is secrecy ? Who does not keep secrets ? Let him among you who is without secrets throw the first stone. Nobody moves. A hush falls over the mob. The TV audience is stunned by the patriotic music and the absolute, clarion ring of censorship. The secret of guilt has rendered everyone motionless because everybody feels secretly guilty. The White House and the Pentagon issue ‘suggestions’ to the media that they not show us pictures of the dying Afghanistan people ‘we’ are bombing into submission, that they not play for us videotapes made by Osama Bin Laden, that they not harp on the fact that final investigations have revealed Al Gore to be the winner of the recent ‘democratic’ elections -just a technicality there, for sure, no real qualitative difference. This is the Authority of Saturn controlling and focusing the language of Gemini; but Pluto, the Inscrutable One is opposed to this language and biding his time. He suggests to us that we look for the hidden and veiled implications of the language used by the media, that we probe such language deeply if we wish to resist the pull of the One Ring seeking its owner, the One Ring of the Gnostic Demiurge with but one desire: to pull the wool over our eyes and ears, to lure us into the Land of Mordor where the Shadows Lie! Doublespeak. Disinformation. We must all pledge allegiance to the One Ring, we must wave our flags and be Patriotic. Secrecy is the handmaiden of guilt, and what we don’t say can kill us. Yes, O Great Osama Bin Grabau, all this is well, but what has it to do with Patriotic Astrology ? Well, like the joke we told as kids insisted: Be patient little jack-ass! Who said that ?

‘ A Elbereth Gilthoniel! ’

 

‘ Come, Tom Bombadil, for our need is near Us.’

Where are the astrologers now, in our time of need? What are they saying about the events of September 11, 2001, about the new ‘Office of Homeland Security’, ‘The U.S. Patriot Act’, the ‘War On Terror’ ? Indeed, how has the presence of Saturn in Gemini effected the communications of astrologers with their ‘clients’ ? Who among them stresses the importance of social protest ? Are they pointing out that traditional Plutonian secrecy is being amplified in the media ? Are they calling attention to that invisible-inaudible spectrum of broadcasted electro-magnetic radio waves ? Do they mention Haarp or ELF technology ? (see: http://www.trufax.org/menu/elect.html ) Well, this astrologer can’t say as he’s seen much in the way of such discussion on the web pages of astrologers, with the exception of Caroline Casey (see: http://www.spiritualintrigue.com/radioshow.htm ) and -in an implied way- with less social and greater theosophical overtones Michael Myers (see: http://www.khaldea.com/articles/ct1.shtml ). Why do so many astrologers fail to emphasize that during this current opposition of Saturn in Gemini to Pluto in Sagittarius we are in need of examining all forms of secret, covert, Plutonian communication ? Doesn’t the symbology speak for itself ? Or are they simply and collectively unaware of the deliberate employment of such ‘black ops’ technology on the part of the Global Corporate Government ? Does Saturn’s passage through the Gemini field of words and information opposing Pluto’s passage through the Sagittarius field of beliefs and belief systems not WARN us all to beware, to examine the darkest and most hidden roots of our beliefs and our language ? Could there be such a thing as the ‘status-quo’ in the magical-mystical realm of Astrology itself ? And if so, what might that ‘status-quo’ look like ? How does it ‘read’ ? Smell ? Taste ? Sound ? Could it be that Astrology is held tight in the grip of Saturn ? Could it be that astrologers are only human after all, and some of them may be unconsciously assisting the Corporate One World Government in its current efforts to hypnotize the general public, to put us all in an electronically induced ‘state of mind’ that unquestioningly follows its monetary-psychological instructions ? Don’t they realize that this euphemistically labeled ‘Non-Lethal Weapons’ system was already lethally employed in the previous Gulf War ?

 

The Old Wise Wizard among Gnostic Astrologers, the Gandalf of the Guild had this to say about modern astrologers (and their plethora of ‘scientific techniques’) regarding their possible use by the established ‘powers that be’:

“ The use of modern technology in the hands of military men of all nations -men whose consciousness is still operating in terms of tribal warfare and the extermination or enslavement of souls if not bodies- has proven how terrible the combination can be. Astrologers obviously do not handle such power weapons, but the widespread use of certain quasi-mechanical or statistical techniques of analysis could, I believe, create an intellectual ambiance which could have definitely negative psychological results -more so than the superficial yearning for having one’s fortune told. A legalization of astrology, and its being officially taught in universities, could well produce very unpleasant results. The U.S. Navy has already used the lure of popular astrology in a T.V. program promoting enlistments.

We are in an age when brain-washing of one type or another is given great scientific credit and credibility. The prediction business in terms of political polls can have very harmful results, because it creates an atmosphere in which tentative decisions are made without any sense of responsibility. Statistical statements are excellent means to avoid responsibility and to manipulate the opinion of the unwary. ”

( Dane Rudhyar: My Stand On Astrology; published & distributed by The Seed Center, Palo Alto, California; 1972. pg.25)

Schools and Universities are the domain of Sagittarius wherein Pluto currently moves, while statistics, information, and data -as well as techniques of communication in general- are the realm of Gemini wherein Saturn currently moves. Saturn is opposing Pluto, and this symbolizes that Authority-Focus-Form (Saturn) operating in daily communications and media (Gemini) is directly engaged in an astrophysical, astrological, and psychological ‘tug-of-war’ (the opposition aspect) with the Collective Unconscious (Pluto) of mankind operating in potentially Covert or Plutonian ways on the beliefs and aspirations (Sagittarius) of every one of us. That’s a mouthful of words; go back and read it again, and then think about it! If ever there is a time when collectively as humans in society we are asked to consider the secret and hidden agendas operative among the authorities ( Bush, the C.I.A., the N.S.C., the F.B.I. and now the new ‘Office of Homeland Security’ etc.) that time is NOW! The national, commercial, main-stream media in America is peopled by so-called ‘news casters’ and ‘reporters’ who stare out of the tube at us concerned solely with their appearance while reading pre-written and scripted news like third-rate actors seeking jobs in the wasteland of make-believe. There is no news, there is merely blatant and very one-sided propaganda pouring out of our televisions and into our minds.

 

Propaganda is one of the lowest manifestations of the Sagittarian quest for a ‘Truth’ that can inspire us; Sagittarius produces some of our most visionary philosophers and poets (William Blake was a Sagittarius), but it is also the hotbed of righteous crusades (the Inquisition) and the home of all the best Used-Car Dealers in the world! Jupiter, the very planet that informs the energy-field of Sagittarius is associated with the metal tin as well as brass and musical largesse. The trumpeting of patriotic music - ‘God Bless America’, as well as the thoroughly unmusical anthem known as the ‘Star Spangled Banner’ - underlying America’s ‘War On Terror’ is certainly brassy! If the fundamentalists had their way we’d surely be hearing ‘Onward Christian Soldiers’ at the introduction to each day’s updated war news on radio and television. The Authority of Saturn is being used in an all-out way to imprint on the Collective Unconscious of Pluto (that’s us) the idea that questioning the facts and data being fed to us is tantamount to being a ‘traitor’. Astrologers should be pointing this out daily. Are they ? No, they are not, and we must ask ourselves why.

In the print media the situation is much the same. Consider, for instance, that Vanity Fair recently refused to publish the article it solicited from Gore Vidal ( see: http://www.pitt.edu/~kloman/vidalframe.html ) because that article was thoroughly ‘unpatriotic’ in its viewpoint which deeply questioned the accepted truths concerning the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Earlier last year, Gore had the gall to question the official truth concerning the Oklahoma City bombing attributed solely to Timothy McVeigh, and even asked if he was not set-up as a ‘Manchurian Candidate’ by others hidden behind the scenes. Vanity Fair published that article in its September issue, but then came the ‘War On Terror’ and the ‘Patriot Games’ and they dropped Vidal’s work in the midst of the campaign of disinformation with which our currently jerry-rigged government is desperately attempting to veil our minds in shadows. Mister Vidal has also written about the government’s propaganda techniques which led us into W.W.II, pointing out that Roosevelt had to have deliberately allowed Pearl Harbor to be bombed (and all those servicemen murdered) since he knew the Japanese were on their way that December 7^{th day in 1941 with bombs aplenty! Gore rightly mocks America and attempts to wake us up by constantly referring to this country as ‘The United States Of Amnesia’. Okay, so forget it!}

But then there is the case of Aaron McGruder, the cartoonist creator of the comic strip called “The Boondocks” whose work is being looked at questioningly these days by syndicated newspapers which carry it. Here’s an example of his work:

[In an interview McGruder gave with somebody named Stephen Lemons for Salon (internet magazine) the following notions come to light:]

“A number of the 250 publications that carry “The Boondocks” have taken exception to the sardonic sedition of McGruder’s characters. The New York Daily News dropped the strip for about a month and a half, Newsday in Long Island chose not to run Sept. 11-inspired strips the first week they started coming out and the Dallas Morning News has moved the strip to a separate section altogether from other comics. None of this fazed McGruder. In response, he temporarily “replaced” the strip with “The Adventures of Flagee and Ribbon,” where the two symbols sing the National Anthem and talk tough about the U.S. ‘kicking tail’.”

These are but the signs of the times, but keep in mind that the ‘times’ are the Pluto-Saturn Times. We all need to be alert to hidden control of the media by the authorities who constitute the ‘status-quo’. McGruder is a refreshingly fine example of one among us who is doing just that:

“Why did you decide to target the post-Sept.11 displays of patriotism in the strip, and essentially mock them with those two characters Flagee and Ribbon?

Because it wasn’t genuine. I thought it was very faddish, and there was no real weight behind it. You know, we just came off an election that was a mess. We still don’t know if the president won the election. We do know that he got less votes nationwide. There’s no question about that. And he may not even have won, legitimately, the electoral contest. There were reports of the massive disenfranchisement of African-Americans in Florida, which went totally unreported in this country, but was covered widely by the foreign press. There were black people in Florida yelling and screaming, trying to get somebody to pay attention to them. They were saying that they had their rights taken away from them, and they were not allowed to vote. And nobody in this country cared. Where was the flag then? Where was this embracing of American ideals when people had their rights ripped from them so unjustly? We have a president who was appointed by the Supreme Court, and there was none of this talk about freedom and love of country at that time.

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