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October 25, 2004
The October Surprise, Part 2
Fulfilling the stock market's tendency to collapse during the
month of October, last week the Dow fell to its lowest point in
eleven months as the price of oil hit a record high of $55 a barrel.
In the political realm, the October surprise took the form of
a slow motion train wreck, as partisan lawyers began filing lawsuits
over voter fraud issues.
The way the planets are
lining up, a contested
result is certainly possible,
even probable*. The main
astrological culprit is
Saturn, which is turning
retrograde just after the
election while in an extremely
close opposition to Pluto,
the nation's ruling planet.
Transiting Saturn opposite
Pluto has been called a "crisis
of authority", and
represents a structural
challenge to the status
quo, the way things are
done.
Adding fire to the brewing
tempest is Mars, currently
traveling through the U.S.
twelfth house of secrets
and conspiracies. On election
day Mars will be exactly
squaring the U.S. Mercury,
and heading for a square
to the U.S. Pluto. The
Mercury-Pluto axis refers
to the legal minutia upon
which the national justice
system is based. Mars squaring
this polarity is a legal
fight.
Transiting Mars and Saturn
square each other on November
7 as they simultaneously
hit the U.S. Pluto. The
days leading up to the
celestial fireworks is
bound to be filled with
intense political jousting.
Currently, pundits are
saying that the only way
to avoid such a systemic
challenge is if one candidate
achieves a decisive victory.
One correspondent penned
the pervasive sentiment: "God
help the country if this
election is close."
The Curse of the Bambino
Last week the Boston Red Sox took game seven of the American
League Championship against the Yankees, and now face the St.
Louis Cardinals in the World Series. If they win, it will be the
first time since 1918 that they've won the World Series. Before
1918 they were the base team around, and won the Series in 1903,
1912, 1915, and 1916.
Baseball fans call it the
Curse of the Bambino**,
which began when Boston's
owner traded the rising
star Babe Ruth to the Yankees
on December 26, 1919. A
chart for this trade date
(set for noon, Boston)
reveals the Sun in Capricorn
opposite Pluto, reflecting
the owner's Faustian bargain
involving its powerhouse
hitter. The Capricorn Sun
was concerned about the
business, and sold Ruth
for $100,000.
When the Red Sox won game
seven on October 20 transiting
Jupiter was squaring the
Curse's Sun-Pluto axis,
bringing tremendous enthusiasm
and a great opportunity
to finally win the World
Series. The Red Sox have
made it to the World Series
four times since 1918,
and each time they lost
in the seventh game. This
year, the seventh game
will be on October 31,
but transiting Jupiter
will be out of range.
The Curse chart features
a Jupiter-Neptune conjunction
which fosters a belief
in superstition. By secondary
progression, this Jupiter-Neptune
is now exactly squared
by progressed Mars (and
activated by the transiting
Sun on Halloween). Progressed
Mars is further weakened
by being retrograde. This
combination suggests that
in all likelihood Boston
will once again find a
dramatic way to lose.
Wynton Marsalis and the House of Swing
Last
Tuesday evening Wynton Marsalis presided over the opening ceremony
for Rose Hall, a $128 million architectural wonder designed to
honor jazz. Ever since 1983 when Marsalis won Grammy Awards for
both classical and jazz in 1983, he's taken the lead in dignifying
and ushering jazz into mainstream American culture through his
performances, educational efforts and as artistic director for
Jazz at Lincoln Center.
Wynton Marsalis was born with
his Sun in the fine arts sign
of Libra (October 18, 1961;
New Orleans; time unknown).
The year of his birth – 1961,
features an influential Jupiter-Saturn
conjunction, a planetary duo
that signals great possibilities
to be realized by hard work.
Marsalis's personality is strongly
shaped by this Jupiter-Saturn
since his Libra Sun squares
it, giving him opportunity
and ambition.
His musical talent can be seen
in his Mars-Neptune-Moon configuration.
Neptune brings imagination,
creativity, and a sensitivity
to vibrations, while Mars manifests
the intuitive imagery through
action. His Mars-Neptune conjunction
knows how to turn fantasies
and visions into reality, and
with the square to the Moon,
the entire musical process
feeds the soul, which in turn
add emotional depth to the
music.
Wynton Marsalis seems destined
to shape the American landscape
with the wonders of jazz since
his Lunar Nodes are exactly
aligned with the U.S. Moon.
The Lunar Nodes can describe
karmic or fateful connections,
and with his South Node (25AQ24)
exactly conjunct the U.S. Moon
(25AQ28), he was meant to open
the magnificent Rose Hall with
the words "Welcome to
the House of Swing."
* You read about it here first on September
27, 2004, with additional details on
October 4. Advance astrologers will
note that the U.S. progressed Mercury
is retrograde, accounting for numerous
voter irregularities, and is in the
same degree as the U.S. Pluto, and transiting
Mars and Saturn.
** For more on the Curse,
visit http://www.soxsuck.com/curse.html
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