Rick DiClemente's Starself Astrology Newsletter for November

[ricochetastroman]

Welcome to November. I’m not even sure I want to talk about this month. Things are heavy. Election Tuesday
sees transiting Uranus exactly opposite transiting Saturn. Left vs. Right. May we keep cooler heads and see it as
Left and Right. Then, El Pluto makes its final ingress into Capricorn on Thanksgiving Eve. There it will stay for
16 years. You can easily see the effects of turbulent Pluto shaking us to our very foundations. They need shaken,
but hopefully, not too hard - and that the rebuilding phase will be effective and prompt.
Dealing with Pluto is hard, never easy, but usually easy to understand: “Sweeping changes are needed - real ones,
with no BS.” It’s that simple. If we think that we’re going to get away with just patching things, such as Wall
Street, it won’t work.

WASHINGTON, AP, Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said 10/23/08
the current financial crisis is a “once-in-a-century credit tsunami” which will have
a severe impact on the U.S. economy, driving unemployment higher”…“Our regu-
lators became enablers rather than enforcers. Their trust in the wisdom of the mar-
kets was infinite. The mantra became that government regulation is wrong. The
market is infallible.” In his testimony, Greenspan put the blame for the sub-prime
collapse on over-eager investors who did not properly take into account the threats
that would be posed once home prices stopped surging upward.”

“Flippant”, “over-eager” - all the down-side of Pluto in Sagittarius. So many people
have called to ask me what I think will happen with Pluto going into
Capricorn the day before Thanksgiving. I don’t know. I, like most
people, don’t like what I see. Like Capricorn, we have to pick
ourselves up by the bootstraps, see what is really in front of us
(instead of what we want to see), and go to work fixing
things. However, it’s more like 2 and a half centuries.

May we find lighter moments all throughout November too and may you have a great Turkey Day.
And SINCE things are so intense right now, I’ve decided to write about NOTHING BUT FUN STUFF!
(Of course this is all done in harmless fun.)

Time to Fill the Cabinet

I decided to pick my own Astrological Cabinet since it’s election time.
You may have other ideas, but here are a few to chew on (some positions are doubled):

Aries: Dept. of Defense, or better yet, Dept. of Offense
Taurus: Agriculture, Interior, Labor, Treasury, Dept. of Cash
Gemini: Transportation, Commerce, Dept. of Alterations
Cancer: Homeland Security, HUD, Dept. of Family Values
Leo: State, President, King or Queen
Virgo: Bureau of ATF, Labor, Veteran Affairs, Chastity Records
Libra: State Dept., Commerce, Justice, White House Beauty Salon
Scorpio: CIA, NSA, FBI, Dept. of We-Don’t-Really-Exist-Department
Sagittarius: Transportation, Education, Dept. of Credit (Temporarily closed)
Capricorn: President, Supreme Court Justice, Dept. of Real Old Stuff
Aquarius: State, DOE, Dept. of Redundancy Department
Pisces: Dept. of Peace, Health and Human Services, Dept. of Retired Hippies

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[BlueIris]

1. 'Since things suck, let's have some FUN.' Snerk.

I did okay on those quizzes, but apparently we have different ideas about the essence of Leo/Aquarius.

[ricochetastroman]

5. Well of course.

we all have hundreds of different ideas on all the signs,... the signs are very complex.

If you were going to do tongue-in-cheek, how would joke about Leo-Aquarius?

Please don't misquote me as you did.

[I Have A Dream]

2. That was FUN!!

:bounce:

Thanks, Rick! :hi:

[ricochetastroman]

6. Thanks IHAD

I laffed so hard myself. I just got so overwhelmed with this Saturn/Uranus thing forming now and Pluto, etc.
I'm so glad you had FUN with it as it was intended.

[LaurenG]

3. I had fun. I enjoyed your newsletter

Thanks! :hi:

[ricochetastroman]

7. OB

Glad you had fun with it too. I liked finding all the goofy pictures.

[Why Syzygy]

4. When you say,

"left vs. right", which is Saturn and which Uranus? I saw a thought provoking post in the science forum. The Large Hadron Collider was cranked up on September 10th. I used your site for reference, and found that Sun opposed Uranus on 9/11 and 9/12. The Collider was officially inaugurated on October 21, 2008. You write that when the Sun entered Scorpio on the 22nd, ..."Now we really start to feel the opposition of Saturn and Uranus ...". The LHC, as I understand it, has the purpose of separating and identifying anti-matter (particles). The left/right. Fantasy takes flight.

You know the limitations in my astro knowledge. There is MUCH MUCH I can't even begin to grasp. You do a wonderful job of explaining. I am rather convinced that the planets mark the passings on the earth. We are part of the dance, being earthlings. I wonder what astrology on Venus would be like? What planets would the Earth make issues with? Another fantasy.

Are science and astrology about to track the same event using different measures? Are we going to discover the secret of anti-matter/anti-gravity, etc. The "dark".

[ricochetastroman]

8. Well, generally...

Saturn is RIGHT, Uranus is LEFT in a way of speaking. VEry good pt you made about the particle accelerator. Uranus's JOB is to obliterate the "status quo" giving way to a new "mutation" that hopefully reveals something new and fresh. How awesome a finding you came up with! Also, if Uranus had hit Pluto, it could have been similar since Pluto rules Plutonium.

I often wonder also if we were born on Venus, etc. I'm SURE it would work. Or born on the Moon, or halfway back from a trip to the moon. And now I AM CONVINCED that Taurus is ruled by the EARTH. But I don't know what to do with it since there is no "earth" on a standard geocentric chart. Hopefully someday I'll figure it out.

"tracking the same event"? Probably, hell, I can barely keep up now, and now we have Eris too.

good stuff VSM

[Why Syzygy]

9. The LHC

is on hibernation until spring 2009. I haven't looked at star forecasts for that time period yet. It is interesting, very exciting times!

Earth ruling Taurus makes sense to me. My son is very earthy. Maybe you'll say more about that sometime.

Thanks for all you do.

[ricochetastroman]

10. yw

Youre welcome VSm... All tauruses I know WANT THEIR HANDS IN THE DIRT. They're earthy, hearty, sensual.
We can do a HELIOCENTRIC chart which omits the Sun and replaces it with the Earth at the opp. pt, but then, there are no houses or aspects! So, what to do? I'm no longer convinced Venus rules Taurus. NOw, with Venus= LIbra, Earth=Taurus, Chiron=Virgo and Mercury=Gemini, we have 12 for 12.

We'll see.

[BlueIris]

11. I want to get behind the idea that Chiron rules Virgo, but I can't.

I have tried and tried, but the nature of too many Virgos I have known is just. so. Mercurial, especially WRT matters of analysis.

But your Taurus is ruled by the Earth theory intrigues me.

[ricochetastroman]

12. I know what you mean

I am working hard to integrate it too.
Mercury just doesn't make sense to URGE these Virgos to such perfectionism
However, the eccentricity of Chiron doesn't fit Virgo either.
It clearly is vividly represented in charts of healers - that's Virgoan.
I am convinced that only Gemini is ruled by Mercury.

I have much work to do on why and how Chiron rules Virgo, Virgo is really a rather mysterious sign if you think deeply about it.
Let's all put some brainpower into it?

Mutable-Earth doesn't explain Virgo's urge to care so much - I believe it can only come from Chiron. Much is to be learned.