The Loss Of Primordial Integrity

The problem with our present Age is that it has lost all bearings. Our Machine Age, aka the fag end of the Kali Yuga, is so infatuated with the idea of Progress that it has obliterated all reference to what we can call primordial integrity.

The four Ages in both Greek and Indian cosmological thought reference a progressive degradation of spiritual possibility. The Golden Age degrades into the Silver, then the Bronze and finally the Iron Age. We are now in the late Iron Age, and have no cogent  memory of the previous Ages. It’s as if they never existed. In fact, according to the perverted logic of the Iron Age, things have never been better. The late Iron Age or the Machine Age has defined itself as the Age of Progress, which is the absolute inversion of  spiritual fact.

People commonly think that the present age represents the climax of development over many thousands of years. This has everything to do with the exaltation of technology, which represents power. People commonly think that power represents development. People commonly think that the telephone, for example, represents an advancement over previous means of communication.  Early man, it is stated, could only grunt his thoughts- let alone articulate them. But modern man can not only articulate his thoughts, but he can transmit them over vast distances via the power of technology. Modern man is thus an obviously superior being.

This framing of the evolution of man as a progressive development over time has been completely seductive. Practically everyone believes it. Only crazy people believe that the past represents anything other than an anticipation of our present development: man has never been so smart and never so capable as he is today.

Science has become the religion of the Machine Age. Science is defined as the continuously advanced investigation of the universe; we know more and more over time about who and what we are. But in fact, we know less and less. Human understanding develops a more and more abstracted knowledge of the universe  which is illustrated by the advancing power of technology. The power of technology comes to define an increasingly impoverished knowledge of man as spirit.

We live in a time in which the advancement of analytical thought as illustrated in science and technology defines the supreme development of man. This very development of science and technology which defines Progress is of course destroying the planet. Our exalted God, the idol of Progress, is strangulating us. But none can believe that this is really happening. Most people believe we will invent a solution to outwit impending catastrophe. Most people believe we are way too smart to commit global ecocide and suicide. Most people believe that Progress will not fail us.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Inflection Point for Free Fall Into Fascism

There comes a point of no return in the development of zeitgeist. The US has long since devolved into corporate state fascism. Eisenhower in 1961 warned the nation of this eventuality; Dr. MLK Jr. in 1967 prophesized that the nation would lose its soul if it did not abdicate greed, racism and militarism as represented in the War Against Vietnam. Many others have vigorously protested the same, but none so dramatically and eloquently as the greatest American, Dr. King.

Dr. King was a real Christian, a genuine activist, and a stellar prophet of the American tragedy. He accurately grokked the diabolical forces animating America. His vision of what was to come had nothing to do with identity politics or some ridiculous and pathetic bid for diversity. He did not speak merely as a Black seeking improved opportunity to cash in on corporatism and militarism: he rejected the entire American project for economic and political supremacy as racism. He saw it exactly for what it was.

The last twenty years represent a free fall into the Pit of virulent racism, greed and carnage. The ME and Islam have been configured as the devil to justify the uncontrollable greed and anger that animates corporate America and the deep state it has engendered. The corporation has no soul. E. F. Schumacher defined Wall Street as the “socialization of greed”; this was entirely prescient as he passed away many decades before the advent of the corporate sponsored  “Terror Wars”. What we now witness is many, many times more catastrophic in its implications than even the War Against Vietnam.

We have plunged off the cliff of polite viciousness into raging unapologetic carnage. We don’t need to explain anything. We don’t need to apologize  for anything. We are absolved of all crimes before they are committed. We are the most exceptional mother fuckers of all time who don’t answer to anyone; except, that is, the Zionist lobbies.

Israel is the tail that wags the rabid American dog. There is no nation that exerts anything like the influence of Israel on US politics. The pro Israel lobbies have an unparalleled influence in Washington. They are like Moses delivering the Tablets from on high. Their word is sacrosanct. Now, this would be a racist trope were it not true; but it is true, and every single member of Congress knows it is true.

The American free fall into fascism is effected, more than any other reason, by the endorsement of Zionism. It is the supreme triumph of identity politics over American democracy. It is the supreme triumph of Orwellian kitsch to have America believe and support, as an eternal pledge, the triumph of religious and racial absolutism.

 

 

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A Sick and Dying America

All the war
All the hate
But a hymn to
Thanatos and his servants.

The corporatists
Flourish in our
Devotion to death.

Who are we,
But zombies
Saluting the flag
Of nullity?

Why, why so hard
to wake up? Why
this necrotic love
Of anguish?

Who are we?
How to wake
out of this
march to death?

 

 

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Connecting The Dots, and Redemption

Connecting the racist and imperial dots is perhaps the most difficult thing for America; it has a memory like a sieve. The settlement of America required the genocide of the Native American and the enslavement of the African American. American foreign policy has consistently replicated this pattern of settler colonialism based on chauvinism and jingoism.
The “eternal support” of Jewish fascism is but an extension of the same devotion to racial and cultural militarism which was abundantly demonstrated in the war against Vietnam and many other instances, especially in the Terror Wars of the last twenty plus years.
But can Americans connect the dots of colonial/ imperial hubris and genocide- and ecocide? Evidently not.
The incessant war mongering of America is perhaps its single most distinguishing feature. It is devoted to the energy of Ares, the god of war and technology, wonderfully depicted in the film Superwoman.
America’s redemption lies through the repudiation of machismo, the false masculinity of aggression. Its redemption lies through eros, that is, genuine relationship. Superwoman found her strength and power in the love of another- and this allowed her to slay Ares. America will no doubt be saved by women. Women are devoted to relationship and the continuance of life infinitely more than the machismo of conquest and profit. The energy of America will be redirected away from competition and toward love when the shakti of America is awakened.
The awakening of this shakti is assured. It is an accomplished fact in the sacrifice of Mehera for her beloved, Avatar Meher Baba. On this day in 1952 she, Meher Baba and others were in a horrible car accident in Prague, Oklahoma. Her skull was crushed, but she survived, as did Baba and the others. For the rest of her life she bore the scar of sacrifice on her forehead to the Avatar, her eternal beloved.
Meher Baba years before had said, “America is crying out for my blood.” And on May 24th, 1952 his and Mehera’s blood flowed on American soil. He also said, “the machine broke my bones  that the backbone of the machine age be broken”.
Thus will the Avatar and his shakti bring an end to the Kali Yuga, the Machine Age.
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Israel is the tail that wags the rabid American dog

Israel is the tail that wags the rabid American dog;
O my God, we have plunged into Jewish fascist fog.

Where is the light, the love that renounces hate;
O my God, where is the courage to change our fate?

O my God, where are you, our citadel of pure Zion?
We are lost in the wilderness of racist oblivion.

Help us, guide us, to the Sanctuary of pure love;
Help us to renounce the white supremacist shove.

The one pure state of racial and religious zeal
will never be forged, but only as hate anneal.

Israel is history clamoring for exile to end
in a stolen land where time and trauma blend.

Darvish says America is devoted to a finality
in which race and religion become banality.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Insurrection On 1/6/2021 @ 12:15pm, Capitol Building

This is the chart for the moment Donald Trump, the president of the USA at the time, addressed a rally protesting the alleged fraudulent election of Joe Biden to the presidency, a crowd estimated at close to 200,000, with the following words:

“I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.” The president also declared that he would join the march, but instead got in his limousine and left the rally. This rally culminated a two month long verbal and legal assertion that the election was stolen.

The chart has Aries rising with Mars, ruler of Aries, exactly on the rising degree, the 6th degree. Uranus is several degrees away at the 13th degree. Mars also rules Scorpio the 8th house, and at once suggests that 8th house issues are also at play. The 8th house rules public calamity. Ketu, the south node of the Moon, is in the 8th house, and is aspected by Mars from the ascendant.

Ares and Mars rule the protest rally, and the president himself. He initiated the march on the Capitol, and so he is represented by Mars. It is a powerful Mars as it is in its own sign and rising on the ascendant degree- and rendered even more volatile and unpredictable by the proximity of Uranus.  This signifies an event that would almost certainly “blow up.”

What, in the chart, represents the object of protest?

This is an event chart for a riot- and by context can be called an insurrection; what is the energy of the protagonist, Mars, directed at? Mars aspects the 4th, 7th, and 8th houses from itself. The 4th is ruled by Cancer, and in a political chart represents the homeland, the seat of patriotism and national identity. It also rules the opposition party.

The Moon, ruler of the 4th, is in Virgo the 6th; this is the house of public health and crisis, and at once suggests vulnerability. The Moon is in a lunar sign, Chitra, ruled by Mars, which further indicates a crisis is at hand, and quickly developing, because Mars is on the ascendant. Both the homeland and the ruler and chief symbol of the homeland and the opposition party are implicated.

Mars also aspects the 7th house which suggests an aggressive relation to the public and partners, which are ruled by the 7th. The 7th also rules competitors and open enemies, and describes Joe Biden as the primary object of Trump’s ire. Venus as ruler of the 7th would then represent Biden, who is safe in the 9th house of law with the Sun, ruler of the 5th of luck and merit. Mars aspects the 8th of Scorpio as well, which strengthens the house, for better or worse, but it aspects Ketu, the south node of the Moon; the combination of Mars and Ketu in the 8th is very problematic as both are fiery planets and can become explosive when influencing each other. Ketu very significantly rules the lunar sign of Ashwini where the ascendant, Mars and Uranus are placed. This means the event itself, the riot and insurrection, by lunar symbolism, is ruled from the 8th of calamity.

The 10th house in a political chart represents the president; Saturn is here in this house in the sign Capricorn, which it rules. There are three other planets here: Jupiter, Mercury and Pluto. Jupiter is weak as it is in Saturn’s sign and conjunct Saturn. It is an ally of Saturn by circumstance- but it is weak. Jupiter rules the 12th house of Pisces, which represents loss and debility; it also signifies the intelligence services in a political chart. It shows the president has an ally, a weak ally, offering secret intelligence and support, collaborating with him. This is confirmed and amplified by Mercury, also in the 10th, as the ruler of the 6th, which represents the military and police. Members of the intelligence services, the military and police, are all collaborating. Finally, Pluto in the 10th underscores that dark, secret and powerful forces are involved.

 

 

 

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Rahu And The American Cult of Exceptionalism

Rahu is the name for the north node of the Moon in Indian astrology. It signifies the astronomical point where the orbit of the Moon around the Earth going north crosses the ecliptic – the apparent path of the Sun around the Earth. Ketu, the south node of the Moon, represents the Moon’s crossing the ecliptic when traveling south. The nodes represent where eclipses occur when the Sun and Moon are aligned with them. A solar eclipse occurs when both Sun and Moon are conjunct one of the nodes, and a lunar eclipse occurs when the Sun and Moon are on opposite sides of the Earth, each conjunct one of the nodes. They simply represent the astronomical relationship when the Earth, Sun and Moon are  aligned in a straight line. In the case of a solar eclipse, the Moon blocks the Sun’s light, and in the case of a lunar eclipse, the Earth blocks the Sun’s light. Eclipses are only possible because the relative size of the Sun and Moon, from the perspective of the Earth, are the same.

Rahu and Ketu, before creation, were a single serpent-rakshasa (demon). The trouble started when all the planetary gods gathered at a celestial banquet to receive amrita, the celestial wine of immortality, on the day of creation (they were to be created for all time). They were all seated at the banquet table, Sun and Moon beside each other, when Vishnu poured the amrita into their mouths but the rakshasa interposed itself between the two luminaries, opened his mouth- and became immortal. The Sun and Moon were horrified, and immediately exclaimed to Vishnu the folly of what he had done, and Vishnu at once threw his discus at the now divine rakshasa, cutting it in half. Rahu became the head and Ketu became the tail of the serpent who, in revenge, forever chases the luminaries and regularly eats them and eclipses their light.

Rahu and Ketu are the most fascinating of all the planets in Indian astrology because of their ability to change and even transform the nature of the other planets. The Sun hates Ketu in particular and the Moon hates Rahu in particular for their capacity to occlude their light and render them invisible.

The Sun represents the mental body, the Moon the subtle body and the Earth (ascendant) the physical, or gross body, in a horoscope. Ketu is moksha karaka- indicator of liberation, because of its capacity to occlude the Sun, or mental body, the repository of all karma. Rahu signifies worldy ambition- intense desire, because of its capacity to occlude the Moon, or subtle body, and thereby release unchecked appetite. There is no planetary deity like Rahu that represents such insanely intense craving. Even Mars, planetary lord of desire and energy, can not compare with Rahu. Rahu is the power to completely “lose one’s mind” because of desire.

Rahu is the bad guy in Indian astrology. Saturn is also a bad guy, but for different reasons. Rahu has the capacity to affect the mind (Moon) in a dramatic manner because it specifically releases cravings from the unconscious. Rahu rules mediums, the capacity to access the astral body, but also the vulnerability to possession by demonic entities. Rahu rules hypnosis, the power to put the mind into a state in which the will is occluded. Rahu thus has a powerful relation to the astral body- the body that connects the physical body to the subtle body, the body of energy. Rahu releases energy, specifically desire, which is embodied energy- but without the guidance of spirit, or the higher mind. For these reasons, Rahu is the most feared of the planetary gods.

Now, Rahu has a good side- believe it or not, after having said all of the above. Rahu signifies imagination, visualization, the capacity to momentarily and partially become detached from the restraints of the body. It signifies everything “foreign”, and release from habitual restraint and conditioning. It rules “mind expanding” drugs and alcohol. It rules altered states of consciousness- but not truly higher states of consciousness, which are ruled by Ketu. Rahu rules the dream state. Rahu also rules the capacity to influence the public by way of charisma, the sensuous and the erotic, and the capacity to project and market desire. Rahu represents change and innovation.

Now we come to our main subject of discussion: Rahu rules cults, political and religious, because it gives the capacity to suspend judgement. Rahu occludes the capacity for critical thinking- whereas Ketu heightens the capacity for critical thinking. Rahu represents the capacity for loss of identity due to being ungrounded and disassociated, whereas  Ketu represents the capacity for loss of identity due to spiritual discrimination, i.e. “I am not this, I am not that” (which has its own perils relative to physical and mental health.)

Individuals (and nations) who markedly project charisma and authority on the basis of desire for power and fame are under the influence of Rahu, as are those who believe in such people. This is usually when Rahu (and Ketu) are associated with the Sun and Moon by conjunction aspect. Because Rahu and Ketu are an axis, when one is conjunct a planet, the other is necessarily opposite that planet. Rahu and Ketu have other ways of projecting their influence, but the conjunction aspect is the most powerful.

In the natal chart for the US, born on July 4th 1776 at 6:30 pm at Philadelphia, the US has Sagittarius rising which makes Jupiter the chart ruler. Jupiter is in Gemini, in the lunar sign (nakshatra) Ardra, which is ruled by Rahu. The Moon is placed in Aquarius in the lunar sign Shatabisha, which is also ruled by Rahu. The two most important indicators of the nation’s personality and collective karma- its moods, likes and dislikes and destiny, are thus influenced by Rahu.

Jupiter as the ascendant ruler strongly promotes growth and development, and an abiding interest in law and religion. Indeed, America is famous for its devotion to the Constitution and to myriad religious denominations and cults. That Jupiter is in Gemini, the sign of information and communication, and in the 7th house, the domain of trade, diplomacy and international conflict, all strongly promote this inherent obsession with law, morality and God- to the world.

The Moon is in Aquarius the 3rd house, the domain of media, which gives an obsession with all forms of media and communication, including the internet. The Moon rules Cancer the 8th house, where Rahu and Mercury are placed. The Moon thus broadcasts what Rahu and Mercury signify as the controlling planets in the US chart: Rahu, because it rules the lunar signs in which the Moon and Jupiter are placed, and Mercury, because it  rules Gemini, the 7th house and Virgo, the 10th house, the two most powerful angles of the US chart (because of the four planets in the 7th, and the 10th ruling the nation’s presidency).

This emphasis on Cancer the 8th house in the US chart signifies many important things about US karma. First and foremost, a compulsive sentimentality. Both Mercury and Rahu are badly placed in Cancer as it is the sign of feelings; Mercury, the capacity to think rationally, is at sea in Cancer. Rahu and the Moon are bitter enemies; Rahu is specifically the capacity to subvert the mind, and here it is in the Moon’s domicile conjunct Mercury-  the mind’s rational faculties!  This promotes an exceptional capacity for rationalization, which is applied to its essential identity as a God-fearing nation devoted to law and order, signified by Sagittarius the ascendant, and Jupiter, the ruler of the ascendant. America can do no wrong. This is the astrological signature explaining both “Manifest Destiny” and “American exceptionalism”.

What does Cancer the 8th house signify? The 8th house rules the national debt, interest rates, the stock market, i.e. the capitalization behind corporations, government bonds (publicly issued debt), the death rate as reflected in public calamities such as pandemics, disaster relief debt, insurance claims, foreign financial relations and foreign debt (balance of trade). Basically, the 8th rules debt- all kinds of debt, incurred by or related to, the public. And – let’s not forget the category of taxation as the capacity of a nation to fund the national budget.

There is an American saying, “nothing is more certain than death and taxes”, which the US chart most beautifully and exceptionally illustrates. The chart ruler, Jupiter, is placed in the 7th house, which rules foreign trade and foreign wars, is disposited by Mercury, ruler of Gemini, placed in the 8th; And Rahu disposits Jupiter’s placement in Ardra, and is in the 8th. It is the US’s exceptional destiny to fund foreign wars and corporate gain through massive public debt and taxation- by completely losing its mind!

The United States of America is a cult devoted to corporatism and militarism!

It is no surprise the King Baby Trump as a cult leader extraordinaire was born under a total lunar eclipse known as a “blood red (orange) Moon”. He was born with a red/ orange halo to lead America into insurrection.

And it is no surprise that he did so shortly after the US entered a planetary cycle of 16 years ruled by Rahu, some 12 years of which remain to highlight the US 8th house of debt and calamity!

An exceptional destiny awaits the US over the next decade (as it continues to lose its mind).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Collapse of American Exceptionalism

The last twenty years in American history are among the most shameful, the most disgusting, in its entire history. And this is saying a lot, given the legacy of genocide and slavery.
America has completely gone to the dark side; it has supported corporatism and militarism to the shameless benefit of an oligarchy and has rationalized this depravity on the basis of fear and greed. It has gone full-Orwellian in its machinations. It has turned language and meaning upside down to legitimize monstrous injustice, here and abroad.
We would do well to reflect on the pain and suffering inflicted on millions in the Middle East, North Africa and Latin America in the name of the Terror Wars, and a rapacious perverted democracy.
Why is America so clueless? This is the question.
The answer must lie in the complete failure of American idealism to prevail against the satanic power of greed and violence, what is most unironically referred to as American exceptionalism.
Americans by and large remain unconscious of this most unholy self righteousness, i.e. that it avers a compact with God that excuses everything. That America does not have to apologize for anything.
What other country in the world avers such a claim? That it is spotless before God? The answer is none, no other country makes such a preposterous and insane claim.
We should all pray for the collapse of such a demonic self regard.
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The USA Presidential Inauguration Chart of 2021

This event chart is for 1/20/2021 at 12:00 noon at Washington DC. I am using the Lahiri sidereal zodiac. This chart helps set the themes for national politics for the next four years.

Joe Biden will be inaugurated according to long established custom on January 20th at 12:00 noon. It is unlikely that another time and place will be selected for this event as maintaining continuity of tradition will be paramount.

I should point out that because the date, time and place for the inauguration doesn’t vary, this chart always has Aries rising and Capricorn representing the 10th house, and that the Sun is always in the 10th. The other planets’ zodiacal positions vary, of course. Midday is always the preferred time for a coronation as the Sun, which represents the sovereign, is at its strongest and brightest.

The chart has the 20th degree of Aries rising with Mars, ruler of Aries, in Aries at the 13th degree. It is exactly conjunct Uranus. The Moon is also in Aries at 5 degrees. The chart thus has a double Aries ascendant as the Moon functions as a secondary ascendant. This fact reinforces the natural ascendant, i.e. makes it more powerful.  There are three planets in this double Aries ascendant.

The most important house in this event chart- after the ascendant, is the 10th house, which represents the president assuming the office of the presidency. There are 5 planets in this house: Pluto, Sun, Saturn, Jupiter and Mercury. Saturn, ruler of Capricorn, is strongly placed here.

The ascendant- the sign rising on the eastern horizon at the time of an event chart, represents the occasion itself, i.e. the electorate or public inaugurating the president. It represents the mood of the nation.

The Aries ascendant with Mars exactly conjunct Uranus and also conjunct the Moon, which represents the public and homeland, is explosive- to say the least. It indicates a tremendously edgy and ambivalent electorate. The three planets are in the lunar constellation of Ashvini which is disposited by Ketu, placed in Scorpio, the 8th house of calamity. Mars aspects Ketu from the ascendant, and rules Scorpio. This further describes the public as disturbed and volatile.

The 10th house planets signify a powerful concentration of energies. The Sun rules the fifth house of cabinet, Saturn rules the 10th of the presidency and the 11th of Congress while Jupiter rules the 9th of the courts and the 12th of intelligence services. Mercury rules the 3rd of media and the 6th of the police and army. Pluto is also in the 10th, having just entered the sign Capricorn and will for the next four years- until the next general election, be approaching its natal placement in the July 4th, 1776 birthday chart. This is a “Pluto return” to its natal placement at 6 degrees Capricorn, the exact degree placement of the Sun in the inauguration chart. Both the Sun and Saturn here in the 10th house refer to the president: Saturn by rulership of the 10th, and the Sun as symbol for the ruling sovereign.

This is a rather heavy symbolism for the well-being, longevity and ruling powers of the president. The Sun- the president, is sandwiched between Pluto and Saturn which indicates a “rebirth” of the presidency and government: Pluto is catabolic, it breaks down and releases energy; Saturn and Capricorn refer to government and administration.  Mercury rules the lunar constellation in which Ketu is placed, and thus connects the explosive energy of the ascendant (the public) and the 8th house (calamity) to the 10th house of the president. The Biden presidency (the Sun) will have to also endure the oppression of Congress (Saturn), and Jupiter is debilitated and thus offers diminished support.

The ongoing Pluto return in the US chart promises the death and rebirth of the national identity as this degree placement is the degree of the 12/21/2020 conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn (which sets the broader social agenda for the next 20 years) and is the degree placement of the Sun (the president) in the inauguration chart.  This process will be at its most acute for the coming four years. In the US chart, Pluto by transit is aspecting Mercury in the 8th house of transformation; Mercury rules the 7th and 10th houses, and thus this will portend enormous changes in how the US relates to foreign nations, international trade and armed conflict abroad- all relative to the executive branch.

There is one more factor to consider: The US chart is in a planetary period in which Rahu  will dominate the US chart for the coming decade. Rahu- along with Mercury, is in the 8th house, the house of calamity and transformation, and like Mercury is activated by the transiting conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn, and by Pluto as well.

 

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The Great Jupiter/ Saturn Conjunction of December 21, 2020

Jupiter and Saturn have been close together for some months, visible in the evening sky as a pair of bright wandering stars. Both planets are now in early Capricorn of the Lahiri sidereal zodiac- not the tropical zodiac familiar to the West, and will attain exact conjunction on the Winter Solstice, December 21st at 6 degrees Capricorn.

Jupiter, according to Indian astrology, is at its maximum debility at 5 degrees Capricorn. That it is also conjunct Saturn in Saturn’s own sign- where it is most powerful, is a double blow to its significations. Jupiter represents, in one word, dharma, or righteousness- individual and social, and this conjunction thus signifies a striking low point in terrestrial affairs.

Jupiter and Saturn conjunct every 20 years, so the conjunction is itself not unusual. What makes this conjunction unusual is that it happens with Jupiter at maximum debility, with Saturn being extremely strong, and that it also happens on the darkest day of the year (in the northern hemisphere). Jupiter and Saturn are the two most important social planets in astrology. They represent opposing and complementary forces or karmas, and represent how individual karmas relates to the wider world.

Jupiter rules religion, philosophy, education, travel, law, the courts, finance and the professions (as opposed to the trades).

Saturn rules government, hierarchy, consolidated power- anything and everything that imposes limits and finality. It rules the trades, labor, disease and suffering. It also rules democracy- rule by the people, but also rule by the mob. It rules corporations because corporations are legally owned by shareholders. It rules administration and bureaucracy.

This transiting conjunction at 6 degrees Capricorn falls in the 2nd house of the USA chart of July 4th, 1776 at Philadelphia at 6:30 pm, known as the Kelleher chart. The 2nd and 8th houses form an axis that is referred to as the financial axis of a chart. The conjunction will aspect Rahu and Mercury in the 8th house; Mercury rules houses 7 and 10, which rule foreign affairs and conflicts, and the presidency, respectively. This transiting conjunction will thus directly affect the presidency, foreign affairs and since Rahu is the ruling planet of the US chart at this time according to the Vimshotarri dasha cycle, it will activate Rahu and 8th house significations in an especially unpredictable manner. Moreover, this transiting conjunction falls exactly on top of the US natal Pluto placement; Pluto by transit has just entered Capricorn as well, and over the next 4 years is making a “Pluto return” to its natal placement at 6 degrees Capricorn.

The karmas that are activated in this month of December will be dramatic and continue for years. The US will experience trauma signified by Jupiter and Saturn transiting over natal Pluto, directly affecting the presidency and promoting martial conflict and financial chaos.

Something unexpected is about to happen- apart from the pandemic, which may climax in the coming months. The pandemic is only the opening act.

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