Sarah Palin is being paid $11 million dollars to (co-)write a book about her life.
And the world just keeps getting more twisted...
I think the idea goes like this: Sarah knows she can bank on her (extremely disturbing) celebrity and build her power up that way, one delusional, Neptunian-Kool-Aid-sippin' American at a time. She can also "fundraise" this way with paid appearances around the country.
And this is much easier than actually, you know, performing a real role of public service like Governor.
My feeling is that this is the "effecting change from outside government" she's talking about.
Showing posts with label sarah palin. Show all posts
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Sunday, July 5, 2009
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Oh, Synchronicity
Vanity Fair article on Sarah Palin - August 2009 issue
In light of my recent posts (on Palin and the George Tiller murder)...
This link is to an article which opens with Sarah Palin speaking at a anti-abortion banquet in Evansville, Indiana.
From the article:
"It is the story of a political novice with an intuitive feel for the temper of her times, a woman who saw her opportunities and coolly seized them. In every job, she surrounded herself with an insular coterie of trusted friends, took disagreements personally, discarded people who were no longer useful, and swiftly dealt vengeance on enemies, real or perceived."
An interesting thing the Vanity Fair article outlines is how many people were once enamoured of Palin, supported her advancement professionally, and then found themselves bitterly disillusioned.
Oh, the power of the Neptunian special Kool-Aid! It'll glaze your eyes over with adoration and oneness and glamour...until you realize that you've been hoodwinked. It sucks you in and gets you feeling the love and the promise and the "larger purpose." It gives you a sultry "we're all on the same team here" wink. This is how the fervour gets its legs.
And when you pass over the details of reality in favour of the promise being sold to you of what could be, it'll screw you.
I can see exactly how this could go on with Palin's Chiron in Pisces opposite Pluto-Uranus in Virgo/Neptune in Scorpio combo.
In light of my recent posts (on Palin and the George Tiller murder)...
This link is to an article which opens with Sarah Palin speaking at a anti-abortion banquet in Evansville, Indiana.
From the article:
"It is the story of a political novice with an intuitive feel for the temper of her times, a woman who saw her opportunities and coolly seized them. In every job, she surrounded herself with an insular coterie of trusted friends, took disagreements personally, discarded people who were no longer useful, and swiftly dealt vengeance on enemies, real or perceived."
An interesting thing the Vanity Fair article outlines is how many people were once enamoured of Palin, supported her advancement professionally, and then found themselves bitterly disillusioned.
Oh, the power of the Neptunian special Kool-Aid! It'll glaze your eyes over with adoration and oneness and glamour...until you realize that you've been hoodwinked. It sucks you in and gets you feeling the love and the promise and the "larger purpose." It gives you a sultry "we're all on the same team here" wink. This is how the fervour gets its legs.
And when you pass over the details of reality in favour of the promise being sold to you of what could be, it'll screw you.
I can see exactly how this could go on with Palin's Chiron in Pisces opposite Pluto-Uranus in Virgo/Neptune in Scorpio combo.
Something in the Milk Ain't Clean
From Sarah Palin at her press conference:
"We know we can effect change outside government at this moment in time on another scale and actually make a difference for our priorities, so we will. For Alaskans and for Americans."
Also (misattributing the quote, apparently):
"Take the words of General MacArthur. He said, 'We're not retreating, we're just advancing in a different direction.'"
Advancing in a different direction? Outside government?
I'm really not sure what to make of this press conference speech. Palin seemed to have an underlying edge of panic about her. She was rambling and making conflicting statements. It's hard to say what her real agenda is at the moment. There's a sense that she is struggling with the interplay of her personal responsibilities (home, state, family) and her long-term political ambitions. Possibly her North Node in Cancer emotional faculty has broken through here for a moment with the recent involvement of her children in the media...but probably not for long.
There is also a sense that Sarah Palin's individualistic ambitions won't allow her to go through the usual political channels. That she is looking for a quantum leap in power and will try self-declared unconventional methods to get there.
The eclipses combined with the retrograde station of the Aquarius triple conjunction have definitely pushed an unstable situation to the edge...
At the same time, there are Internet rumours that Palin is facing a criminal investigation related to the building of the $12.5 million Wasilla Sports Complex and that she is pre-emptively stepping down.
From Bradblog.com and an article cited from the Village Voice:
"THE $12.5 MILLION sports complex and hockey rink that is the lasting monument to Palin's two terms as Wasilla mayor is also a monument to the kind of insider politics that dismays Americans of both parties. Six months before Palin stepped down as mayor in October 2002, the city awarded nearly a half-million-dollar contract to design the biggest project in Wasilla history to Kumin Associates. Blase Burkhart was the Kumin architect on the job-the son of Roy Burkhart, who is frequently described as a "mentor" of Palin and was head of the local Republican Party (his wife, June, who also advised Palin, is the national committeewoman). Asked if the contract was a favor, Roy Burkhart, who contributed to her campaign in the same time frame that his son got the contract, said: "I really don't know." Palin then named Blase Burkhart to a seven-member builder-selection committee that picked Howdie Inc., a mostly residential contractor owned at the time by Howard Nugent. Formally awarded the contract a couple of weeks after Palin left office, Nugent has donated $4,000 to Palin campaigns. Two competitors protested the process that led to Nugent's contract.
A list of subcontractors on the job, obtained by the Voice, includes many with Palin ties. One was Spenard Builders Supply, the state's leading supplier of wood, floor, roof, and other "pre-engineered components." In addition to being a sponsor of Todd Palin's snow-machine team that has earned tens of thousands for the Palin family, Spenard hired Sarah Palin to do a statewide television commercial in 2004. When the Palins began building a new family home off Lake Lucille in 2002—at the same time that Palin was running for lieutenant governor and in her final months as mayor—Spenard supplied the materials, according to Antoine Bricks, who works in its Wasilla office.
Todd Palin told Fox News that he built the two-story, 3,450-square-foot, four-bedroom, four-bath, wood house himself, with the help of contractors he described as "buddies." As mayor, Sarah Palin blocked an effort to require the filing of building permits in the wide-open city, and there is no public record of who the "buddies" were."
The idea being the possible awarding of the lucrative contract to build the sports complex in exchange for gifts like the construction of/supplies for the Palin's home on Lake Lucille in 2002 (photo).
Anyway, these are just rumours, as I said. I'll remove this info if it should prove to be baseless.
But a scandal including dirty dealings related to home (Cancer) and business (Capricorn) would certainly fit the bill for the current astro-events...and also the imbalance in Palin's Cancer-Capricorn nodal axis. A little Pluto-induced realignment there?
I would guess that we won't know exactly what's up Palin's sleeve until the third Saturn-Uranus opposition on September 15...
"We know we can effect change outside government at this moment in time on another scale and actually make a difference for our priorities, so we will. For Alaskans and for Americans."
Also (misattributing the quote, apparently):
"Take the words of General MacArthur. He said, 'We're not retreating, we're just advancing in a different direction.'"
Advancing in a different direction? Outside government?
I'm really not sure what to make of this press conference speech. Palin seemed to have an underlying edge of panic about her. She was rambling and making conflicting statements. It's hard to say what her real agenda is at the moment. There's a sense that she is struggling with the interplay of her personal responsibilities (home, state, family) and her long-term political ambitions. Possibly her North Node in Cancer emotional faculty has broken through here for a moment with the recent involvement of her children in the media...but probably not for long.
There is also a sense that Sarah Palin's individualistic ambitions won't allow her to go through the usual political channels. That she is looking for a quantum leap in power and will try self-declared unconventional methods to get there.
The eclipses combined with the retrograde station of the Aquarius triple conjunction have definitely pushed an unstable situation to the edge...
At the same time, there are Internet rumours that Palin is facing a criminal investigation related to the building of the $12.5 million Wasilla Sports Complex and that she is pre-emptively stepping down.
From Bradblog.com and an article cited from the Village Voice:
"THE $12.5 MILLION sports complex and hockey rink that is the lasting monument to Palin's two terms as Wasilla mayor is also a monument to the kind of insider politics that dismays Americans of both parties. Six months before Palin stepped down as mayor in October 2002, the city awarded nearly a half-million-dollar contract to design the biggest project in Wasilla history to Kumin Associates. Blase Burkhart was the Kumin architect on the job-the son of Roy Burkhart, who is frequently described as a "mentor" of Palin and was head of the local Republican Party (his wife, June, who also advised Palin, is the national committeewoman). Asked if the contract was a favor, Roy Burkhart, who contributed to her campaign in the same time frame that his son got the contract, said: "I really don't know." Palin then named Blase Burkhart to a seven-member builder-selection committee that picked Howdie Inc., a mostly residential contractor owned at the time by Howard Nugent. Formally awarded the contract a couple of weeks after Palin left office, Nugent has donated $4,000 to Palin campaigns. Two competitors protested the process that led to Nugent's contract.
A list of subcontractors on the job, obtained by the Voice, includes many with Palin ties. One was Spenard Builders Supply, the state's leading supplier of wood, floor, roof, and other "pre-engineered components." In addition to being a sponsor of Todd Palin's snow-machine team that has earned tens of thousands for the Palin family, Spenard hired Sarah Palin to do a statewide television commercial in 2004. When the Palins began building a new family home off Lake Lucille in 2002—at the same time that Palin was running for lieutenant governor and in her final months as mayor—Spenard supplied the materials, according to Antoine Bricks, who works in its Wasilla office.
Todd Palin told Fox News that he built the two-story, 3,450-square-foot, four-bedroom, four-bath, wood house himself, with the help of contractors he described as "buddies." As mayor, Sarah Palin blocked an effort to require the filing of building permits in the wide-open city, and there is no public record of who the "buddies" were."
The idea being the possible awarding of the lucrative contract to build the sports complex in exchange for gifts like the construction of/supplies for the Palin's home on Lake Lucille in 2002 (photo).
Anyway, these are just rumours, as I said. I'll remove this info if it should prove to be baseless.
But a scandal including dirty dealings related to home (Cancer) and business (Capricorn) would certainly fit the bill for the current astro-events...and also the imbalance in Palin's Cancer-Capricorn nodal axis. A little Pluto-induced realignment there?
I would guess that we won't know exactly what's up Palin's sleeve until the third Saturn-Uranus opposition on September 15...
Friday, July 3, 2009
Creepy, Creepy Sarah Palin Has Something Up Her Sleeve
Sarah Palin announced today that she is stepping down as Governor of Alaska in a rambling, unscripted, thrown-together press conference. Yeah, sounds like Sarah Palin.
Just in time for the Mercury in Cancer opposition to Pluto in Capricorn tomorrow morning. Using the media to further somewhat murky strategic agendas. This goes much deeper than the surface appearance, of course. Palin is being groomed for a run for Pres in 2012...Dear God, help us.
Palin's lunar nodal axis is Cancer-Capricorn, I must add, so the New Moons in Cancer/eclipses in Cancer, Capricorn and Aquarius are all affecting her in a big way. Two New Moons (one a total solar eclipse) on her North Node with a Full Moon lunar eclipse in Capricorn coming up on Tuesday on her South Node.
This woman in power terrifies the crap out of me. I've said it before and I'll keep saying it. I think she's pretty much batshit crazy and a very unbalanced, unwise person. I strongly believe she lacks perspective and experience, not to mention having wounded extremist tendencies.
This is a woman who wasn't sure which countries belonged to NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) or if Africa was a continent.
She also belonged, until recently, to an Armageddonist church in Alaska that believes we are in the "End Times" and that Alaska is to become a "refuge state" for people fleeing the Armageddon.
Yep. She's someone I want with her finger on the nuke button! Someone who thinks we're heading to the prophesied end of the world and would consider it her honour to do God's will by helping it along.
The fact that, as a Time article declares, Palin is "the woman who tops most G.O.P. 2012 shortlists to challenge Barack Obama" shows me just how out of touch with reality the U.S. Republican Party really is. It's scary that they are advancing this woman.
I pray that this is not the start of a run for President in 2012, but I don't think Palin's ambitions will allow her not to run now that she's gotten a taste of the big time. Designer labels! Limos! Secret Service! Oh, that Cappie South Node is just salivating.
Palin has an incredibly unbalanced birth chart, and the way she embodies it is, again, disturbing to me. (Note - it's not the birth chart, but the way a person embodies/lives it that is the real issue.) Five planets in Aquarius (this decision to step down/reorient her quest for power being triggered - along with the Cancer-Capricorn eclipses - by that Aquarius triple conjunction going retrograde), two in Aries. North Node in Cancer, South Node in Capricorn - so her quest for power and public recognition is stemming from the karmic South Node - not a stable thing.
No personal planets in earth or water (feminine, receptive, intuitive, grounded, realistic) to balance the Uranian erraticness or the Arien headstrong impulsiveness, which I think is very visible in her personality and actions. Very unpredictable, fire first, ask questions later, random, scattered, hot and cold, very little depth...but with a blistering belief that she's in the right, led by God and prayer. (*cough* Chiron in Pisces delusions *cough* Armageddonist *cough*)
Palin is hell-bent on following her own individualistic right-wing fundamentalist agenda, come hell or high water, and lacks receptivity to other points-of-view. She is prone to abuses of power and refuses most forms of direction - as has been backed up by numerous Republican insiders who attempted to advise and coach her (to no avail) during the 2008 Presidential campaign.
Forcing rape victims to pay for their own rape kits (collection of forensic evidence), which happened under Palin's watch as mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, is a perfect example of this exertion of her own personal beliefs as a public official. This policy continued under Palin as mayor despite it being legislated by the then-Governor of Alaska that the counties would pay for this. Her way is the right way, after all. Why let a little something like a law get in your way?
Palin's chart is extremely heavy on the masculine/yang...with very little feminine/yin to balance.
Here is a previous article I wrote on Palin in September called: Why Sarah Palin in Power Scares the Crap Out of Me - the Wounded Extremist.
And another on Palin's particular Chiron in Pisces wound...
And another on the Scorpionic vibe of her Chiron in Pisces wound...
Yes, I've written a lot about this lady. The Neptunian bullshit that surrounds this woman is absolutely amazing to me. How little substance there really is, but the media (and Republican Party supporters) eats her up with a spoon.
I thought this quote was also bang-on from Anchorage talk show host, Michael Carey:
"This is classic Sarah Palin, the mixture of the personal and political...It's all done ad hoc. There's no strategic plan. It's, 'This is what I'm going to do, baby. Here we go.'"
A woman driven by South Node ambitions, trying to juggle the ever-increasing demands of the North Node (five kids, one a baby with Down's Syndrome, one a teenager with a kid of her own). This creates a massive imbalance, and again is not someone I want to see in any position of power - not even the PTA.
The transitting Aquarius triple conjunction basically stationed retrograde right on her natal Sun-Mars-Saturn in Aquarius. And you can see this all-encompassing drive here (Mars), this belief that it is her responsibility (Saturn) to lead people into the future (Aquarius). Her personal version of the future, of course (Aries influence). And the fight for this personal future vision, the responsibility she believes she has to lead the planet there, is her very identity, who she believes she is.
But again, her version of the future is not one I wish to be led into. What I get from this woman is nothing but delusion, distortion and dystopia. The Three Ds. haha
But all the better to pull the wool over your eyes with, my dear. You can see why the powers-that-be get all hot and bothered over this one, can't you?
With all that Aquarius and a Chiron in Pisces exactly opposite her natal Pluto in Virgo, she is a person who is trying to lead into the Aquarian future without a solid grasp of or an ability to apply true Piscean understanding. And a mastery of that understanding is an absolute must these days in the tail-end Piscean Era.
So Palin has a wounded Piscean energy directly opposite her natal Pluto. 13 Pisces/13 Virgo. (Her natal Pluto in Virgo is also conjunct Uranus in Virgo - which is the dispositor of all that Aquarius, and you can see how this Chiron-Pluto dynamic takes centre stage.) And this is what I was talking about previously regarding not seeing the forest for the trees. This woman is setting up an old (and wounded) Piscean paradigm (Armageddon, End Times, prophesies, Jesus returning, etc.) as the balancing point for the power of her natal Pluto in Virgo. It has disaster written all over it because instead of this imbalance working itself out in her personal life, it will be working its way out on the global, nuclear-armed stage.
This is just not a woman with the universal wisdom to lead (or even comprehend) people as a whole.
Man, the Neptunian special Kool-Aid is pretty fucking powerful these days, isn't it?
This chick's gotta be an alien. :)
Just in time for the Mercury in Cancer opposition to Pluto in Capricorn tomorrow morning. Using the media to further somewhat murky strategic agendas. This goes much deeper than the surface appearance, of course. Palin is being groomed for a run for Pres in 2012...Dear God, help us.
Palin's lunar nodal axis is Cancer-Capricorn, I must add, so the New Moons in Cancer/eclipses in Cancer, Capricorn and Aquarius are all affecting her in a big way. Two New Moons (one a total solar eclipse) on her North Node with a Full Moon lunar eclipse in Capricorn coming up on Tuesday on her South Node.
This woman in power terrifies the crap out of me. I've said it before and I'll keep saying it. I think she's pretty much batshit crazy and a very unbalanced, unwise person. I strongly believe she lacks perspective and experience, not to mention having wounded extremist tendencies.
This is a woman who wasn't sure which countries belonged to NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) or if Africa was a continent.
She also belonged, until recently, to an Armageddonist church in Alaska that believes we are in the "End Times" and that Alaska is to become a "refuge state" for people fleeing the Armageddon.
Yep. She's someone I want with her finger on the nuke button! Someone who thinks we're heading to the prophesied end of the world and would consider it her honour to do God's will by helping it along.
The fact that, as a Time article declares, Palin is "the woman who tops most G.O.P. 2012 shortlists to challenge Barack Obama" shows me just how out of touch with reality the U.S. Republican Party really is. It's scary that they are advancing this woman.
I pray that this is not the start of a run for President in 2012, but I don't think Palin's ambitions will allow her not to run now that she's gotten a taste of the big time. Designer labels! Limos! Secret Service! Oh, that Cappie South Node is just salivating.
Palin has an incredibly unbalanced birth chart, and the way she embodies it is, again, disturbing to me. (Note - it's not the birth chart, but the way a person embodies/lives it that is the real issue.) Five planets in Aquarius (this decision to step down/reorient her quest for power being triggered - along with the Cancer-Capricorn eclipses - by that Aquarius triple conjunction going retrograde), two in Aries. North Node in Cancer, South Node in Capricorn - so her quest for power and public recognition is stemming from the karmic South Node - not a stable thing.
No personal planets in earth or water (feminine, receptive, intuitive, grounded, realistic) to balance the Uranian erraticness or the Arien headstrong impulsiveness, which I think is very visible in her personality and actions. Very unpredictable, fire first, ask questions later, random, scattered, hot and cold, very little depth...but with a blistering belief that she's in the right, led by God and prayer. (*cough* Chiron in Pisces delusions *cough* Armageddonist *cough*)
Palin is hell-bent on following her own individualistic right-wing fundamentalist agenda, come hell or high water, and lacks receptivity to other points-of-view. She is prone to abuses of power and refuses most forms of direction - as has been backed up by numerous Republican insiders who attempted to advise and coach her (to no avail) during the 2008 Presidential campaign.
Forcing rape victims to pay for their own rape kits (collection of forensic evidence), which happened under Palin's watch as mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, is a perfect example of this exertion of her own personal beliefs as a public official. This policy continued under Palin as mayor despite it being legislated by the then-Governor of Alaska that the counties would pay for this. Her way is the right way, after all. Why let a little something like a law get in your way?
Palin's chart is extremely heavy on the masculine/yang...with very little feminine/yin to balance.
Here is a previous article I wrote on Palin in September called: Why Sarah Palin in Power Scares the Crap Out of Me - the Wounded Extremist.
And another on Palin's particular Chiron in Pisces wound...
And another on the Scorpionic vibe of her Chiron in Pisces wound...
Yes, I've written a lot about this lady. The Neptunian bullshit that surrounds this woman is absolutely amazing to me. How little substance there really is, but the media (and Republican Party supporters) eats her up with a spoon.
I thought this quote was also bang-on from Anchorage talk show host, Michael Carey:
"This is classic Sarah Palin, the mixture of the personal and political...It's all done ad hoc. There's no strategic plan. It's, 'This is what I'm going to do, baby. Here we go.'"
A woman driven by South Node ambitions, trying to juggle the ever-increasing demands of the North Node (five kids, one a baby with Down's Syndrome, one a teenager with a kid of her own). This creates a massive imbalance, and again is not someone I want to see in any position of power - not even the PTA.
The transitting Aquarius triple conjunction basically stationed retrograde right on her natal Sun-Mars-Saturn in Aquarius. And you can see this all-encompassing drive here (Mars), this belief that it is her responsibility (Saturn) to lead people into the future (Aquarius). Her personal version of the future, of course (Aries influence). And the fight for this personal future vision, the responsibility she believes she has to lead the planet there, is her very identity, who she believes she is.
But again, her version of the future is not one I wish to be led into. What I get from this woman is nothing but delusion, distortion and dystopia. The Three Ds. haha
But all the better to pull the wool over your eyes with, my dear. You can see why the powers-that-be get all hot and bothered over this one, can't you?
With all that Aquarius and a Chiron in Pisces exactly opposite her natal Pluto in Virgo, she is a person who is trying to lead into the Aquarian future without a solid grasp of or an ability to apply true Piscean understanding. And a mastery of that understanding is an absolute must these days in the tail-end Piscean Era.
So Palin has a wounded Piscean energy directly opposite her natal Pluto. 13 Pisces/13 Virgo. (Her natal Pluto in Virgo is also conjunct Uranus in Virgo - which is the dispositor of all that Aquarius, and you can see how this Chiron-Pluto dynamic takes centre stage.) And this is what I was talking about previously regarding not seeing the forest for the trees. This woman is setting up an old (and wounded) Piscean paradigm (Armageddon, End Times, prophesies, Jesus returning, etc.) as the balancing point for the power of her natal Pluto in Virgo. It has disaster written all over it because instead of this imbalance working itself out in her personal life, it will be working its way out on the global, nuclear-armed stage.
This is just not a woman with the universal wisdom to lead (or even comprehend) people as a whole.
Man, the Neptunian special Kool-Aid is pretty fucking powerful these days, isn't it?
This chick's gotta be an alien. :)
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Come on, Pluto! Keep Digging...
So here are a few more tidbits dug up by Pluto's last months in Sagittarius (related, again, to getting to the core of personal beliefs, digging it all up, leaving nothing hidden):
Sarah Palin grew up and spent most of her adult life going to Wasilla Assemblies of God church in Wasilla, Alaska. She said she was "saved" at this church in a speech she made recently to high school kids there.
This church preaches the Armageddon. It believes that Alaska will become a "refuge state" for people as they flock there during "these End Times." (Direct quotes from the pastor, as Palin stood by his side.)
The congregation of the church speaks in tongues and the pastor preaches that the only way to salvation is through Jesus.
The video of this visit was on YouTube until it was mysteriously pulled. All clips of this visit and of the church's promotional Armageddon video seem to no longer be available, but I did find a watered down version in a story on CNN.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBuPgYn1oFY&feature=related
So all these "Christians" are lining everything up for the end of the world. They're ready for it.
What they don't seem to understand is that they are making their own prophecy come true. It doesn't have anything to do with "God" leading them into the apocalypse. It has to do with greedy and blind people unable to overcome the desires of their lower natures, bringing us ever-closer to a nuclear World War III.
They want "these End Times." They seem ravenous for them...so their prophesies will come true and they will be proven to be the chosen ones who knew all along. They're ready for it. They're ready for the destruction of humanity on this planet.
Well, I'm not.
And again it brings me back to a strong feeling that Sarah Palin is just a pawn in this scenario. She is playing out her role because she is being told to - not by God, but by men who think their ludicrious actions are guided by God.
Take a look at these Iraqui babies born deformed from exposure to depleted uranium ammunition dust, and tell me that the war in Iraq is all just part of "God's plan," out of our hands. Looks like something out of a science fiction horror movie, but it's not. This is the result of U.S. foreign policy/the war in Iraq...led by men, not God.
http://www.mindfully.org/Nucs/2003/DU-Baby2003.htm
Skipping along, tra-la-la! Doing God's work committing crimes against humanity!
This is a woman who is not in touch with her own spirituality or her own personal, soul connection with the divine/other human beings. She would rather give her responsibility away to something or someone outside herself - an organized religion, an idea of God as something she can blindly follow. She chooses not to think for herself, and by giving away responsibility for her actions to "God," she won't have to. She just gets swept along in the mass-delusion of End Times. Then, all actions that bring us closer to Armageddon are "God's will," "God's prophecy." "It's all coming truuuuuuue!!"
Again...tail-end Piscean pitfall.
I read on another astrology blog today an astrologer say Palin is a "born leader" and that the "Left's attacks" are uncalled for.
(For the record, I'm not right or left. I'm about common sense and common human decency - which are not so common these days.)
But again, I ask...do we want to go where Palin and the current Republican regime are leading? Does it matter if Palin is a "born leader" if her direction is not one we wish to follow?
Again, I ask...do we really want the Vice President of the nuclear-armed-to-the-teeth United States of America ready and willing to bring about the destruction of humanity and feeling she is in the right for doing so? Do we want to follow a person who believes this is "God's will?" Will we follow these people to our demise like lemmings off a cliff?
This is not what Jesus taught. This is not what Jesus wanted for humanity.
He taught "to thine own self be true" (while understanding our connection to and context within the whole) because he knew there is nothing "out there" leading us...it's about being guided by our own personal connection to the divine. The relationship there. And with a functioning relationship there, one would see the connection between human actions and the absolute abominations against humanity that are going on.
I'm not sure what brand of spirituality is running through the White House these days, but it has nothing to do with the God I know.
Human's actions are what will bring about the destruction of humanity on this planet...not God's will.
Sarah Palin grew up and spent most of her adult life going to Wasilla Assemblies of God church in Wasilla, Alaska. She said she was "saved" at this church in a speech she made recently to high school kids there.
This church preaches the Armageddon. It believes that Alaska will become a "refuge state" for people as they flock there during "these End Times." (Direct quotes from the pastor, as Palin stood by his side.)
The congregation of the church speaks in tongues and the pastor preaches that the only way to salvation is through Jesus.
The video of this visit was on YouTube until it was mysteriously pulled. All clips of this visit and of the church's promotional Armageddon video seem to no longer be available, but I did find a watered down version in a story on CNN.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBuPgYn1oFY&feature=related
So all these "Christians" are lining everything up for the end of the world. They're ready for it.
What they don't seem to understand is that they are making their own prophecy come true. It doesn't have anything to do with "God" leading them into the apocalypse. It has to do with greedy and blind people unable to overcome the desires of their lower natures, bringing us ever-closer to a nuclear World War III.
They want "these End Times." They seem ravenous for them...so their prophesies will come true and they will be proven to be the chosen ones who knew all along. They're ready for it. They're ready for the destruction of humanity on this planet.
Well, I'm not.
And again it brings me back to a strong feeling that Sarah Palin is just a pawn in this scenario. She is playing out her role because she is being told to - not by God, but by men who think their ludicrious actions are guided by God.
Take a look at these Iraqui babies born deformed from exposure to depleted uranium ammunition dust, and tell me that the war in Iraq is all just part of "God's plan," out of our hands. Looks like something out of a science fiction horror movie, but it's not. This is the result of U.S. foreign policy/the war in Iraq...led by men, not God.
http://www.mindfully.org/Nucs/2003/DU-Baby2003.htm
Skipping along, tra-la-la! Doing God's work committing crimes against humanity!
This is a woman who is not in touch with her own spirituality or her own personal, soul connection with the divine/other human beings. She would rather give her responsibility away to something or someone outside herself - an organized religion, an idea of God as something she can blindly follow. She chooses not to think for herself, and by giving away responsibility for her actions to "God," she won't have to. She just gets swept along in the mass-delusion of End Times. Then, all actions that bring us closer to Armageddon are "God's will," "God's prophecy." "It's all coming truuuuuuue!!"
Again...tail-end Piscean pitfall.
I read on another astrology blog today an astrologer say Palin is a "born leader" and that the "Left's attacks" are uncalled for.
(For the record, I'm not right or left. I'm about common sense and common human decency - which are not so common these days.)
But again, I ask...do we want to go where Palin and the current Republican regime are leading? Does it matter if Palin is a "born leader" if her direction is not one we wish to follow?
Again, I ask...do we really want the Vice President of the nuclear-armed-to-the-teeth United States of America ready and willing to bring about the destruction of humanity and feeling she is in the right for doing so? Do we want to follow a person who believes this is "God's will?" Will we follow these people to our demise like lemmings off a cliff?
This is not what Jesus taught. This is not what Jesus wanted for humanity.
He taught "to thine own self be true" (while understanding our connection to and context within the whole) because he knew there is nothing "out there" leading us...it's about being guided by our own personal connection to the divine. The relationship there. And with a functioning relationship there, one would see the connection between human actions and the absolute abominations against humanity that are going on.
I'm not sure what brand of spirituality is running through the White House these days, but it has nothing to do with the God I know.
Human's actions are what will bring about the destruction of humanity on this planet...not God's will.
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
I'm Analyzing Sarah Palin - Not You.
There seems to be some confusion over the fact that generational placements (like Chiron in Pisces and Neptune in Scorpio, for example) are expressed differently in different people. There are infinite possibilities for how something like, for example, Chiron in Pisces, will show up in a person's life/being.
So just to make things clear here: I am not making blanket statements about everyone with the same generational placements as Sarah Palin. I am analyzing Sarah Palin's chart and her's alone. I'm talking about HER Chiron in Pisces ruled by HER Neptune in Scorpio, etc. in context with her personal planets. She has four or five planets in Aquarius, two in Aries. North Node in Cancer. South Node in Capricorn. Etc.
So within that specific context, I am looking at how her generational planets interact with her personal planets and vice versa. I'm also taking into consideration her personal beliefs and her way of governing...what is known about her and her methods.
I'm getting some flak from people saying, well, I have these placements, and I'M not like that.
Again...I'm analyzing one chart here...the whole chart...how all the placements interact within the context of what is known about Palin and her personal/political beliefs.
Generational planets are planets that stay in one sign for years...meaning, entire groups of people have the placements.
Chiron, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto are examples.
So yes, many people have Chiron in Pisces ruled by Neptune in Scorpio...but very few would have the same chart as Sarah Palin. Very few would have the exact combination of personal and transpersonal (generational) planets. And even those who did could express them in a different way, depending on evolutionary orientation and such.
Nothing in an astrological chart exists in a vacuum. It's inter-related. So there is no single way that any placement will be expressed...no blanket statements can be made...or are being made here.
I hope this clears things up on that front.
So just to make things clear here: I am not making blanket statements about everyone with the same generational placements as Sarah Palin. I am analyzing Sarah Palin's chart and her's alone. I'm talking about HER Chiron in Pisces ruled by HER Neptune in Scorpio, etc. in context with her personal planets. She has four or five planets in Aquarius, two in Aries. North Node in Cancer. South Node in Capricorn. Etc.
So within that specific context, I am looking at how her generational planets interact with her personal planets and vice versa. I'm also taking into consideration her personal beliefs and her way of governing...what is known about her and her methods.
I'm getting some flak from people saying, well, I have these placements, and I'M not like that.
Again...I'm analyzing one chart here...the whole chart...how all the placements interact within the context of what is known about Palin and her personal/political beliefs.
Generational planets are planets that stay in one sign for years...meaning, entire groups of people have the placements.
Chiron, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto are examples.
So yes, many people have Chiron in Pisces ruled by Neptune in Scorpio...but very few would have the same chart as Sarah Palin. Very few would have the exact combination of personal and transpersonal (generational) planets. And even those who did could express them in a different way, depending on evolutionary orientation and such.
Nothing in an astrological chart exists in a vacuum. It's inter-related. So there is no single way that any placement will be expressed...no blanket statements can be made...or are being made here.
I hope this clears things up on that front.
The Scorpionic Flavour of Palin's Chiron in Pisces Wound
And it just keeps coming, folks!!
Word is that when Palin was mayor of Wasilla (1996 - 2002), the city made rape victims pay for collecting the forensic evidence (rape kits) for their own criminal cases. It was billed to either the victim or the victim's insurance company.
In 2000, the then-Governor of Alaska Tony Knowles signed a bill making it mandatory that the municipalities pick up the tab for collecting this police evidence. All other locations in Alaska already paid for this, but not Wasilla! It was complaints about the practise in Wasilla that prompted Knowles to pass the bill.
This bill was opposed by the Wasilla Chief of Police (appointed by Palin), Charlie Fannon, who claimed he didn't want to "burden taxpayers" with the cost.
The rape kits cost $300 - $1,200 each. In a town of 8,000 people...well, you do the math. Not exactly going to break the bank. (Even taking into account that Alaska has the highest rate of rape in the U.S.)
But there's that free-market-at-all-cost governing again. Dollars and cents over any form of compassionate humanity or responsibility to hurting citizens. Aquarius without Pisces.
Here, again, we see this fanatical individualism and rational detachment from feeling in Sarah Palin's form of governing (unchecked Aquarius/Aries).
You can see the Scorpionic flavour of her Chiron in Pisces wound very clearly in this case, which is ruled by Neptune in Scorpio.
With Scorpio involved, the wound is connected to sexuality and power...or lack thereof. The powerlessness of a rape victim lying on a table in a hospital and a distinct lack of compassion from those in power. Not only a lack of compassion, but an exertion of state control, making them pay for being the victims of crime. Victimizing them again with the system.
Palin is also anti-abortion, even in the case of incest or rape. Another show of wounded Scorpionic ruthlessness and lack of compassionate understanding. Another show of the state's control over women's bodies and sexual reproduction. Her Capricorn South Node coming into play...
In Palin's perfect Neptunian dystopic world, not only do you have to pay for the collection of forensic evidence after you've been raped, you will be forced to carry any child that is the product of that rape - even if it's your Daddy's!
Sure, we're going to have (and are already hearing) the obligatory denials that Palin knew this was going on.
But let's look at the situation and use our own analytical skills here, shall we?
This was going on for four years under Palin's mayoral tenure...until a bill was passed by the Governor of Alaska with her town, alone, in mind. She fired the previous Chief of Police (who supported closing bars at 2 a.m. and cracking down on concealed handguns) and appointed Fannon herself. Fannon spoke out about his opposition to the bill in the media - not something a hand-picked Chief of Police would generally do if his boss were not of the same mind. In a town of 8,000 or so people, is it possible Palin did not know what was going on? Is it possible she did not know before Governor Knowles passed the bill in response to complaints specifically about Wasilla?
I would actually go so far as to say that Palin is embodying the underlying collective hatred for the feminine. The subconscious (and not-so subconscious) collective desire to punish the feminine.
With Pisces and Scorpio involved, she is definitely bringing something deep out of the collective, something hidden.
Word is that when Palin was mayor of Wasilla (1996 - 2002), the city made rape victims pay for collecting the forensic evidence (rape kits) for their own criminal cases. It was billed to either the victim or the victim's insurance company.
In 2000, the then-Governor of Alaska Tony Knowles signed a bill making it mandatory that the municipalities pick up the tab for collecting this police evidence. All other locations in Alaska already paid for this, but not Wasilla! It was complaints about the practise in Wasilla that prompted Knowles to pass the bill.
This bill was opposed by the Wasilla Chief of Police (appointed by Palin), Charlie Fannon, who claimed he didn't want to "burden taxpayers" with the cost.
The rape kits cost $300 - $1,200 each. In a town of 8,000 people...well, you do the math. Not exactly going to break the bank. (Even taking into account that Alaska has the highest rate of rape in the U.S.)
But there's that free-market-at-all-cost governing again. Dollars and cents over any form of compassionate humanity or responsibility to hurting citizens. Aquarius without Pisces.
Here, again, we see this fanatical individualism and rational detachment from feeling in Sarah Palin's form of governing (unchecked Aquarius/Aries).
You can see the Scorpionic flavour of her Chiron in Pisces wound very clearly in this case, which is ruled by Neptune in Scorpio.
With Scorpio involved, the wound is connected to sexuality and power...or lack thereof. The powerlessness of a rape victim lying on a table in a hospital and a distinct lack of compassion from those in power. Not only a lack of compassion, but an exertion of state control, making them pay for being the victims of crime. Victimizing them again with the system.
Palin is also anti-abortion, even in the case of incest or rape. Another show of wounded Scorpionic ruthlessness and lack of compassionate understanding. Another show of the state's control over women's bodies and sexual reproduction. Her Capricorn South Node coming into play...
In Palin's perfect Neptunian dystopic world, not only do you have to pay for the collection of forensic evidence after you've been raped, you will be forced to carry any child that is the product of that rape - even if it's your Daddy's!
Sure, we're going to have (and are already hearing) the obligatory denials that Palin knew this was going on.
But let's look at the situation and use our own analytical skills here, shall we?
This was going on for four years under Palin's mayoral tenure...until a bill was passed by the Governor of Alaska with her town, alone, in mind. She fired the previous Chief of Police (who supported closing bars at 2 a.m. and cracking down on concealed handguns) and appointed Fannon herself. Fannon spoke out about his opposition to the bill in the media - not something a hand-picked Chief of Police would generally do if his boss were not of the same mind. In a town of 8,000 or so people, is it possible Palin did not know what was going on? Is it possible she did not know before Governor Knowles passed the bill in response to complaints specifically about Wasilla?
I would actually go so far as to say that Palin is embodying the underlying collective hatred for the feminine. The subconscious (and not-so subconscious) collective desire to punish the feminine.
With Pisces and Scorpio involved, she is definitely bringing something deep out of the collective, something hidden.
Monday, September 15, 2008
Sarah Palin's Chiron in Pisces
I’d like to talk a bit about a topic coming to the forefront these days as we hurtle ever-closer to the official start of the Aquarian Age. And that is, the importance of first learning and integrating the lessons of the Piscean Age. We can’t truly move forward in any sort of progressive way until this is mastered.
And I know she has been talked about ad nauseum lately, but an example that keeps slapping me in the face is Sarah Palin with her stellium of planets in Aquarius, North Node in Cancer and a Pluto - Uranus conjunction in Virgo opposite Chiron in Pisces.
See, Pisces is the sign related to Jesus (as a figure) and the spread of Christianity. And as an evangelical Christian attempting to become the Republican Vice President of the United States of America, I see Sarah Palin as a prime example of the danger of jumping headlong into Aquarian leadership without first mastering the finer points of Pisces.
Now, I’m not holding Jesus responsible for everything that has been done in his name, but with Pluto moving forward over the last degrees of Sagittarius, I think it’s pertinent to point out the differences between what Jesus is reported to have said and what the Christian right wing is doing under the banner of Christianity.
Jesus understood that we are energetically connected on this planet. In effect, what is done to one person affects all people, and we are responsible for our actions toward others and toward our surroundings, in general. Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. Treat each other like brothers and sisters. Thou shalt not kill. You know, don’t destroy, terrorize and hurt each other because, in effect, it is destroying, terrorizing and hurting yourself. Have compassion for each other. Have compassion for the pain of another because it’s the universal pain of human existence. Help and love, don’t harm.
When you look at what George Bush Jr. and Sr. (and Co.) have done over the course of their regimes, I really have to wonder: What Would Jesus Say??
The actions of this so-called Christian right wing are so far removed from actual Christian tenets that they are unrecognizable. And this is the party with which Sarah Palin is now aligning herself.
Many estimates of over a million Iraquis dead (and counting) since the first Gulf War. Soldiers from the first war dead and dying of Gulf War Syndrome while their government denies it even exists. Four thousand (and counting) dead U.S. soldiers from the current war alone. Thirty thousand (and counting) completely disabled from injuries. Ninety-seven dead Canadian soldiers. Many others I do not know about. An epidemic of cancers and other radiation-related diseases in the populations of Iraq and Afghanistan (not to mention the former Yugoslavia) as a result of the (continued) use of depleted uranium ammunition and bombs. An epidemic of hideous radiation-related birth defects in babies in Iraq.
Absolute crimes against humanity that will affect generations of people. And all for control of oil and monetary gain. What has been done cannot be underestimated or explained away.
This is the administration touting itself as good Christians. This is the track record Sarah Palin is now aligning herself with in her quest for political power and prestige.
Which, to me, is a very solid example of Chiron in Pisces combined with her large amount of Aquarius and Aries planets. Wounded sense of faith. Spiritual disconnect from what Jesus was really talking about. Intellectual detachment from humanity and the suffering of others. Incomplete understanding of the energetic connection of human beings. Inability to really connect compassion with actions. Or conversely, actions with painful and harmful consequences.
It’s all just blistering individualism for her.
With a North Node in Cancer (which I see her ignoring for the more prestigious spoils of the Capricorn South Node), Palin is being asked to develop her own personal soul connection. Not to just hand over her power and responsibility to an organized religion and what its structure tells her to believe and do, but to develop her own emotional/soul self, to develop a rock-solid anchor there as a guidance mechanism. And THAT will help heal her Chiron wound. That will start to bridge the disconnect, to help her tap into the emotional, soul-level part of her own spirituality.
Making the connection between feeling the pain of an Iraqui mother watching her baby die from radiation-related birth defects and discontinuing the policies and actions creating and causing that pain.
I have to believe this is a deeply conflicted woman.
Palin has a son fighting in Iraq. She claims she hates war.
But she keeps talking about “God’s plan” for the war there. She keeps taking those “good Christians’” words for it, that there is a plan, that it is divinely inspired. She keeps handing over her own responsibility to "God."
And here is a big misstep in these tail-end Pisces days. Taking anyone’s word for it over your own. Being guided by anything other than your own personal connection, your own moral code, your own emotional anchor. And thinking that the sins being committed against humanity right now will have no consequences for us all.
Until she stops doing that, I’m afraid Mrs. Palin will just be along for the ride, taking all those good Christians’ words for it. And that’s one ride I don’t care to take.
And I know she has been talked about ad nauseum lately, but an example that keeps slapping me in the face is Sarah Palin with her stellium of planets in Aquarius, North Node in Cancer and a Pluto - Uranus conjunction in Virgo opposite Chiron in Pisces.
See, Pisces is the sign related to Jesus (as a figure) and the spread of Christianity. And as an evangelical Christian attempting to become the Republican Vice President of the United States of America, I see Sarah Palin as a prime example of the danger of jumping headlong into Aquarian leadership without first mastering the finer points of Pisces.
Now, I’m not holding Jesus responsible for everything that has been done in his name, but with Pluto moving forward over the last degrees of Sagittarius, I think it’s pertinent to point out the differences between what Jesus is reported to have said and what the Christian right wing is doing under the banner of Christianity.
Jesus understood that we are energetically connected on this planet. In effect, what is done to one person affects all people, and we are responsible for our actions toward others and toward our surroundings, in general. Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. Treat each other like brothers and sisters. Thou shalt not kill. You know, don’t destroy, terrorize and hurt each other because, in effect, it is destroying, terrorizing and hurting yourself. Have compassion for each other. Have compassion for the pain of another because it’s the universal pain of human existence. Help and love, don’t harm.
When you look at what George Bush Jr. and Sr. (and Co.) have done over the course of their regimes, I really have to wonder: What Would Jesus Say??
The actions of this so-called Christian right wing are so far removed from actual Christian tenets that they are unrecognizable. And this is the party with which Sarah Palin is now aligning herself.
Many estimates of over a million Iraquis dead (and counting) since the first Gulf War. Soldiers from the first war dead and dying of Gulf War Syndrome while their government denies it even exists. Four thousand (and counting) dead U.S. soldiers from the current war alone. Thirty thousand (and counting) completely disabled from injuries. Ninety-seven dead Canadian soldiers. Many others I do not know about. An epidemic of cancers and other radiation-related diseases in the populations of Iraq and Afghanistan (not to mention the former Yugoslavia) as a result of the (continued) use of depleted uranium ammunition and bombs. An epidemic of hideous radiation-related birth defects in babies in Iraq.
Absolute crimes against humanity that will affect generations of people. And all for control of oil and monetary gain. What has been done cannot be underestimated or explained away.
This is the administration touting itself as good Christians. This is the track record Sarah Palin is now aligning herself with in her quest for political power and prestige.
Which, to me, is a very solid example of Chiron in Pisces combined with her large amount of Aquarius and Aries planets. Wounded sense of faith. Spiritual disconnect from what Jesus was really talking about. Intellectual detachment from humanity and the suffering of others. Incomplete understanding of the energetic connection of human beings. Inability to really connect compassion with actions. Or conversely, actions with painful and harmful consequences.
It’s all just blistering individualism for her.
With a North Node in Cancer (which I see her ignoring for the more prestigious spoils of the Capricorn South Node), Palin is being asked to develop her own personal soul connection. Not to just hand over her power and responsibility to an organized religion and what its structure tells her to believe and do, but to develop her own emotional/soul self, to develop a rock-solid anchor there as a guidance mechanism. And THAT will help heal her Chiron wound. That will start to bridge the disconnect, to help her tap into the emotional, soul-level part of her own spirituality.
Making the connection between feeling the pain of an Iraqui mother watching her baby die from radiation-related birth defects and discontinuing the policies and actions creating and causing that pain.
I have to believe this is a deeply conflicted woman.
Palin has a son fighting in Iraq. She claims she hates war.
But she keeps talking about “God’s plan” for the war there. She keeps taking those “good Christians’” words for it, that there is a plan, that it is divinely inspired. She keeps handing over her own responsibility to "God."
And here is a big misstep in these tail-end Pisces days. Taking anyone’s word for it over your own. Being guided by anything other than your own personal connection, your own moral code, your own emotional anchor. And thinking that the sins being committed against humanity right now will have no consequences for us all.
Until she stops doing that, I’m afraid Mrs. Palin will just be along for the ride, taking all those good Christians’ words for it. And that’s one ride I don’t care to take.
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
All right, all right...
Disclaimer: There is a possibility that Sarah Palin has a Capricorn Moon. As far as I know, there is no birth time for her at the moment...so if she were born in the morning, her Moon sign would be Cap.
This WOULD change things a bit. It would add an Earth sign to her personal planets...albeit one that was tied to her South Node. A Moon near the South Node would indicate to me someone emotionally attached to her own past achievements and past ways of getting to those achievements. So this doesn't necessarily change my analysis of her and my suggestion that she is letting her career ambition and quest for power to bring about her future vision (a vision I do not care to live through) drive her...rather than the concerns and emotional needs of her family and herself.
With a Capricorn Moon ruling her Cancer North Node, her nodal axis would be related to the balance of home and career, emotion and ambition. Blending the two - but doing the emotional work she needs to do would still be priority number one.
And still I would hazard a guess that maintaining that balance would be next to impossible as the VP of a nation hell-bent on war and imperialism...which, under McCain, would likely continue...
This WOULD change things a bit. It would add an Earth sign to her personal planets...albeit one that was tied to her South Node. A Moon near the South Node would indicate to me someone emotionally attached to her own past achievements and past ways of getting to those achievements. So this doesn't necessarily change my analysis of her and my suggestion that she is letting her career ambition and quest for power to bring about her future vision (a vision I do not care to live through) drive her...rather than the concerns and emotional needs of her family and herself.
With a Capricorn Moon ruling her Cancer North Node, her nodal axis would be related to the balance of home and career, emotion and ambition. Blending the two - but doing the emotional work she needs to do would still be priority number one.
And still I would hazard a guess that maintaining that balance would be next to impossible as the VP of a nation hell-bent on war and imperialism...which, under McCain, would likely continue...
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Why Sarah Palin in Power Scares the Crap Out of Me - The Wounded Extremist
In addition to the fact that she is, as someone I know put it, an “anti-gay, anti-abortion, member of the NRA, evangelically-backed, oil lovin,' hockey mom of five,” her chart shows a level of extremism and wounded extremism at that. A person with a strong vision for the future, but a partial and fragmented vision. Not the kind of person I would want with her finger (or influence) near the nuke button, so to speak.
Palin was born Feb 11, 1964. These are her planets:
Sun 22 Aquarius
Moon 1 Aquarius
Mercury 1 Aquarius
Venus 1 Aries
Mars 23 Aquarius
Jupiter 16 Aries
Saturn 25 Aquarius
Uranus 8 Virgo
Neptune 17 Scorpio
Pluto 13 Virgo
True Node 10 Cancer
Chiron 13 Pisces
The first thing that stands out to me is five Aquarius planets (a stellium) and two Aries planets. No earth (groundedness, in touch with reality) or water (emotion, compassion, intuition) in the personal planets. All yang, little yin. Extremely masculine/outer and individualistic. The Aquarius air feeds the impulsivity, aggressiveness and leap-before-you-look Aries planets. So let’s not be fooled by the fact that she is a woman. She has very little yin receptivity - despite the fact that our structures, especially business/political structures, are crying out for that energy to balance the extreme masculine. And the water planets that are represented in her chart are tied into her wound and her dharma - a dharma she seems to be eschewing to a certain extent.
This is a woman with a Cancer North Node, meaning her dharma (life path/what she is required to develop and take on in this incarnation) is to focus her energy in the direction of nurturing familial growth and development and creating a cohesive and secure emotional environment. Not to mention, developing her own inner world, emotional nature and soul connection. Learning to use her emotional responses and connection to the feminine as a guide for her actions. Creating a connection to the Earth and making it just as important as fiscal considerations. A lot of development needs to happen here.
It looks to me as if the ambition of her Capricorn South Node is what is driving her actions right now. Capricorn strives for ever-increasing power, recognition and status in the public/business world. But with a South Node Capricorn, this direction of energy is not going to be successful on a soul level. It may be what society thinks is successful and what Palin herself thinks is successful, but the South Node relates to an area that we’ve already mastered to a certain extent. We’ve pretty much gone as far as we can go there and have to direct ourselves to the North Node in order to stay healthy and balanced. Insisting on staying in the South Node creates karmic experiences that happen in an effort to force us onto the North Node path.
Karmic experiences like, well, giving birth to a baby with Down’s Syndrome. A baby with Down's syndrome needs more care and attention than a baby without, more care and attention than a nanny can provide or from being passed around from sibling to sibling.
Or a karmic experience like, well, a 17-year-old daughter becoming pregnant and choosing to give birth to the baby, which will occur about a month before Palin would be (heaven forbid! Seriously, please - forbid!) inaugurated into office.
Both these children require an intensive amount of support and care from their mother.
How much intensive support and care will Palin be able to provide her family as Vice President of a nation that would be heading ever-closer to World War III? To me, this is a job that requires 100% commitment of time and energy. I would hazard to suggest that it would be impossible for Palin to fulfill the requirements of her North Node in this position. A mother choosing to work 35 hours a week at the local K-Mart often finds it difficult to have the time and energy to properly nurture and be there for her family. How will a woman with five children, one with special needs and one who’s having a baby of her own, who is Vice President of the nation manage this successfully?
Now, I’m not suggesting all women need to give up careers and be the little Mama at home. But someone with a Cancer North Node who is the mother to five children really does need to direct her energy there, taking on the more difficult challenges of the North Node rather than falling back on the familiar ground of the South. This is a woman who has already developed the ability to rise to the top in the public world. What is being asked of her is to develop as an emotional being, as a woman and a mother, in combination with her professional pursuits. The extreme focus on career ambition and quest for power in the big boys club of U.S. national Republican politics are South Node pursuits for her and will lead to further karmic over-extension.
Another thing that unnerves me about her chart is the extreme amount of Aquarius combined with Chiron in Pisces. To me, this indicates a problem I've been talking about in the past - diving head-first into Aquarian leadership without having first learned and integrated Pisces lessons. Recipe for disaster.
From a previous post:
“The main thing Pisces teaches us is that we're connected. What affects one affects all. We're part of a whole, an energy that has no real separation. A slight against one is a slight against all. There is no escaping the connections to each other or to the planet.
Aquarius without Pisces is science run amok, detached to the point of dehumanizing. Think Nazi scientific experiments done on captive people. There is no emotion, no compassion, no understanding of the importance of human life. It is science used only to control, manipulate and enslave the masses. Instead of using science as a tool to improve conditions for all human beings, using it as a tool for the wealthy and powerful so that they can maintain/increase their wealth and power by any means necessary.
Science has the power to completely destroy life on this planet if it is controlled by those without an understanding of Piscean concepts. The nuclear war games currently being played around with are a good example. Which is why it is crucially important for the people who haven't grasped the Pisces lessons to do so now.”
Without the understanding of energetic connection, compassion and “what affects one affects all,” the amount of Aquarius emphasis in her chart is downright scary. And this leads to her Chiron wound in Pisces.
Chiron in Pisces is a wound related to faith - the ways our faith has let us down, especially faith in the spiritual goodness of people and in the connected nature of energetic reality. This person has been hurt by her own spiritual idealism and then the bubble bursts when it is discovered that reality is much different from the rosy Piscean dream. Thinking the best of people, helping them, and then being let down, being bitten in the ass. Being hurt by one's own naively open and loving nature. Being damaged by trusting divine guidance or faith or by being spiritually naïve to unpleasant realities.
Her Chiron in Pisces is disposited by Neptune in Scorpio, so spiritual betrayal on the deepest levels. Scorpio is a sign of extremes, and I think this points to the possibility of an individual acting in extreme ways out of the personal wound she carries. This could involve vengeance, violence, spite, us versus them, black and white-type thinking (U.S. as the Good Guy, anyone standing in its way as the Bad Guy). Wounded Scorpio tendencies. Pisces and Neptune relate to the subconscious, so this is stuff she would not necessarily be consciously aware of, and it would not be clearly visible to the mainstream public who do not yet have the ability to see through these veiled behaviours. But again, not someone I necessarily think needs to have her finger (or influence) anywhere near the nuke button, so to speak.
With this Chiron wound and related pain, combined with the other placements, I can see someone completely turning his/her back on Piscean principles and focusing purely on Aquarian/Aries individualism and detachment from humanity.
I think nuclear war could be more likely rationalized by someone with these placements. Depending on the level of emotional disconnect, any kind of atrocities could be rationalized. This is a woman who sued George Bush for putting polar bears on the endangered species list because it would interfere with oil drilling in certain areas. Again, not understanding the connection humans have to each other and to the environment/animals, especially on a spiritual or soul level. Not understanding that what we do to the environment will eventually cycle through human systems, as well.
Palin’s Uranus and Pluto are in Virgo, so the abundance of Aquarius in her chart is ruled by Uranus in Virgo. The co-ruler of Virgo is Chiron, so there is the woundedness at the forefront again. It all comes back to that Chiron in Pisces wound, ruled by Neptune in Scorpio.
Virgo without the balancing effect of it’s opposite sign, Pisces, can be dangerous - as can any sign without a tempering polarity point. Remember, Virgo is related to purifying. Aquarius is related to humanity. Purifying humanity - according to whose ideals?
Without understanding the nature of the whole, Virgo can become obsessive about the way things should be, the right or proper way of living and doing things. I think we can see this in her personal beliefs about gay people, abortion, religion - pretty much everything. To her, there is a right way to live and a wrong way to live. Virgo can dissect and reject anything it considers dirty or unnecessary. In order to fulfill its function in a balanced way, Virgo needs to be tempered with Pisces - compassion, understanding, connection, love, faith. Without integration of these Piscean concepts (or with a wounded sense of them), it is far too easy to have a futuristic vision (Aquarius) that does not benefit people.
The Sabian Symbol for her Uranus in Virgo is: An Expressionistic Painter Making a Futuristic Drawing.
So we see a person here who is driven by her vision for the future. But is it a vision we all want to live and take part in? Is it a vision that will benefit the planet/humanity as a whole…or just the select few already in power?
The caution for this symbol involves, among other things: Not seeing the complete picture. Being unrealistic. Losing touch with the real world. Thinking the worst will happen. Being stuck on one version of the future.
I see that this is a distinct possibility, considering the rest of her chart. As I said, extreme yang/masculine with little yin/feminine, and what yin is there is wounded or related to a dharma she seems to be shrugging off to a certain extent. Little earth and what is there opposes her Chiron in Pisces - so a wounded polarity prone to wounded application of its energies.
Palin's Aquarian vision for the future is definitely not a vision I want to live out.
Palin was born Feb 11, 1964. These are her planets:
Sun 22 Aquarius
Moon 1 Aquarius
Mercury 1 Aquarius
Venus 1 Aries
Mars 23 Aquarius
Jupiter 16 Aries
Saturn 25 Aquarius
Uranus 8 Virgo
Neptune 17 Scorpio
Pluto 13 Virgo
True Node 10 Cancer
Chiron 13 Pisces
The first thing that stands out to me is five Aquarius planets (a stellium) and two Aries planets. No earth (groundedness, in touch with reality) or water (emotion, compassion, intuition) in the personal planets. All yang, little yin. Extremely masculine/outer and individualistic. The Aquarius air feeds the impulsivity, aggressiveness and leap-before-you-look Aries planets. So let’s not be fooled by the fact that she is a woman. She has very little yin receptivity - despite the fact that our structures, especially business/political structures, are crying out for that energy to balance the extreme masculine. And the water planets that are represented in her chart are tied into her wound and her dharma - a dharma she seems to be eschewing to a certain extent.
This is a woman with a Cancer North Node, meaning her dharma (life path/what she is required to develop and take on in this incarnation) is to focus her energy in the direction of nurturing familial growth and development and creating a cohesive and secure emotional environment. Not to mention, developing her own inner world, emotional nature and soul connection. Learning to use her emotional responses and connection to the feminine as a guide for her actions. Creating a connection to the Earth and making it just as important as fiscal considerations. A lot of development needs to happen here.
It looks to me as if the ambition of her Capricorn South Node is what is driving her actions right now. Capricorn strives for ever-increasing power, recognition and status in the public/business world. But with a South Node Capricorn, this direction of energy is not going to be successful on a soul level. It may be what society thinks is successful and what Palin herself thinks is successful, but the South Node relates to an area that we’ve already mastered to a certain extent. We’ve pretty much gone as far as we can go there and have to direct ourselves to the North Node in order to stay healthy and balanced. Insisting on staying in the South Node creates karmic experiences that happen in an effort to force us onto the North Node path.
Karmic experiences like, well, giving birth to a baby with Down’s Syndrome. A baby with Down's syndrome needs more care and attention than a baby without, more care and attention than a nanny can provide or from being passed around from sibling to sibling.
Or a karmic experience like, well, a 17-year-old daughter becoming pregnant and choosing to give birth to the baby, which will occur about a month before Palin would be (heaven forbid! Seriously, please - forbid!) inaugurated into office.
Both these children require an intensive amount of support and care from their mother.
How much intensive support and care will Palin be able to provide her family as Vice President of a nation that would be heading ever-closer to World War III? To me, this is a job that requires 100% commitment of time and energy. I would hazard to suggest that it would be impossible for Palin to fulfill the requirements of her North Node in this position. A mother choosing to work 35 hours a week at the local K-Mart often finds it difficult to have the time and energy to properly nurture and be there for her family. How will a woman with five children, one with special needs and one who’s having a baby of her own, who is Vice President of the nation manage this successfully?
Now, I’m not suggesting all women need to give up careers and be the little Mama at home. But someone with a Cancer North Node who is the mother to five children really does need to direct her energy there, taking on the more difficult challenges of the North Node rather than falling back on the familiar ground of the South. This is a woman who has already developed the ability to rise to the top in the public world. What is being asked of her is to develop as an emotional being, as a woman and a mother, in combination with her professional pursuits. The extreme focus on career ambition and quest for power in the big boys club of U.S. national Republican politics are South Node pursuits for her and will lead to further karmic over-extension.
Another thing that unnerves me about her chart is the extreme amount of Aquarius combined with Chiron in Pisces. To me, this indicates a problem I've been talking about in the past - diving head-first into Aquarian leadership without having first learned and integrated Pisces lessons. Recipe for disaster.
From a previous post:
“The main thing Pisces teaches us is that we're connected. What affects one affects all. We're part of a whole, an energy that has no real separation. A slight against one is a slight against all. There is no escaping the connections to each other or to the planet.
Aquarius without Pisces is science run amok, detached to the point of dehumanizing. Think Nazi scientific experiments done on captive people. There is no emotion, no compassion, no understanding of the importance of human life. It is science used only to control, manipulate and enslave the masses. Instead of using science as a tool to improve conditions for all human beings, using it as a tool for the wealthy and powerful so that they can maintain/increase their wealth and power by any means necessary.
Science has the power to completely destroy life on this planet if it is controlled by those without an understanding of Piscean concepts. The nuclear war games currently being played around with are a good example. Which is why it is crucially important for the people who haven't grasped the Pisces lessons to do so now.”
Without the understanding of energetic connection, compassion and “what affects one affects all,” the amount of Aquarius emphasis in her chart is downright scary. And this leads to her Chiron wound in Pisces.
Chiron in Pisces is a wound related to faith - the ways our faith has let us down, especially faith in the spiritual goodness of people and in the connected nature of energetic reality. This person has been hurt by her own spiritual idealism and then the bubble bursts when it is discovered that reality is much different from the rosy Piscean dream. Thinking the best of people, helping them, and then being let down, being bitten in the ass. Being hurt by one's own naively open and loving nature. Being damaged by trusting divine guidance or faith or by being spiritually naïve to unpleasant realities.
Her Chiron in Pisces is disposited by Neptune in Scorpio, so spiritual betrayal on the deepest levels. Scorpio is a sign of extremes, and I think this points to the possibility of an individual acting in extreme ways out of the personal wound she carries. This could involve vengeance, violence, spite, us versus them, black and white-type thinking (U.S. as the Good Guy, anyone standing in its way as the Bad Guy). Wounded Scorpio tendencies. Pisces and Neptune relate to the subconscious, so this is stuff she would not necessarily be consciously aware of, and it would not be clearly visible to the mainstream public who do not yet have the ability to see through these veiled behaviours. But again, not someone I necessarily think needs to have her finger (or influence) anywhere near the nuke button, so to speak.
With this Chiron wound and related pain, combined with the other placements, I can see someone completely turning his/her back on Piscean principles and focusing purely on Aquarian/Aries individualism and detachment from humanity.
I think nuclear war could be more likely rationalized by someone with these placements. Depending on the level of emotional disconnect, any kind of atrocities could be rationalized. This is a woman who sued George Bush for putting polar bears on the endangered species list because it would interfere with oil drilling in certain areas. Again, not understanding the connection humans have to each other and to the environment/animals, especially on a spiritual or soul level. Not understanding that what we do to the environment will eventually cycle through human systems, as well.
Palin’s Uranus and Pluto are in Virgo, so the abundance of Aquarius in her chart is ruled by Uranus in Virgo. The co-ruler of Virgo is Chiron, so there is the woundedness at the forefront again. It all comes back to that Chiron in Pisces wound, ruled by Neptune in Scorpio.
Virgo without the balancing effect of it’s opposite sign, Pisces, can be dangerous - as can any sign without a tempering polarity point. Remember, Virgo is related to purifying. Aquarius is related to humanity. Purifying humanity - according to whose ideals?
Without understanding the nature of the whole, Virgo can become obsessive about the way things should be, the right or proper way of living and doing things. I think we can see this in her personal beliefs about gay people, abortion, religion - pretty much everything. To her, there is a right way to live and a wrong way to live. Virgo can dissect and reject anything it considers dirty or unnecessary. In order to fulfill its function in a balanced way, Virgo needs to be tempered with Pisces - compassion, understanding, connection, love, faith. Without integration of these Piscean concepts (or with a wounded sense of them), it is far too easy to have a futuristic vision (Aquarius) that does not benefit people.
The Sabian Symbol for her Uranus in Virgo is: An Expressionistic Painter Making a Futuristic Drawing.
So we see a person here who is driven by her vision for the future. But is it a vision we all want to live and take part in? Is it a vision that will benefit the planet/humanity as a whole…or just the select few already in power?
The caution for this symbol involves, among other things: Not seeing the complete picture. Being unrealistic. Losing touch with the real world. Thinking the worst will happen. Being stuck on one version of the future.
I see that this is a distinct possibility, considering the rest of her chart. As I said, extreme yang/masculine with little yin/feminine, and what yin is there is wounded or related to a dharma she seems to be shrugging off to a certain extent. Little earth and what is there opposes her Chiron in Pisces - so a wounded polarity prone to wounded application of its energies.
Palin's Aquarian vision for the future is definitely not a vision I want to live out.
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