The gnarlies are picking up. Jupiter in Sagittarius is nearing a square to Uranus in Pisces; Jupiter rules both Signs. We seldom have this kind of alignment where Jupiter would be squaring an outer planet while it and the other planet are in the Signs that it rules. I've been talking with you some about what this is bringing up. It has to do with beliefs and dreams and the projections therein. This is coming to light and is not easy for people. Whatever once got you through the night, may no longer be doing that. Then it seems like there's more night. There is not more night. You are just coming off of the projections. You are fine and you'll see that you didn't need those beliefs anyway. I can't reiterate it enough. You are fine. Just old shitty stories are coming up densely. They are not you. Let them go.

Mars is nearing conjunction with Pluto which it does every two years, but this one is at the Galactic Center. No telling what this is bringing up. It's never happened before; we've never known of Pluto and the Galactic Center when they've been conjunct. We shall see. I'm still awaiting the little green men or some super evident interdimensional bleed through. What I have seen is that it is now a brand new world. Do you notice? It's strange way down underneath in the fabric. We are now galactic rather than solar. It will take thousands of years for this to be more evident, but it is a done deal.

It's very expansive now after a very contractive time. This makes whatever intense contractions that are in your life seem much more contracted than they are. It's very easy to be depressed now. It's easy to be suicidal now. It's natural to be quite pissed now. Let it out so that it doesn't damage you or whoever, but let it be. As you come out of layers of depression, anger expresses. You are fine.

Judgment is massive in Capricorn. Judgments are congealed feeling bits that go into some kind of belief and then someone or thing goes contrary to the belief and then up come the judgments. So much of the New Age/Spiritual conditioning is that judgment is bad. They judge judgment as bad and completely ignore the judgment of judgment. These are projections. Can you see them? Judging just comes with the territory. Let it be. Just don't believe it! Everybody's got judgments. So what? The worst kind are the internalized ones. Often we externalize them just to avoid temporarily the anxiety of our own. You don't have to beat yourself up anymore. You are not a bad that has to be G'od/good.

All the moralists are so bound in the crap and foist it so readily on to everyone else. That's how you get the catatonia of dogma. Unleash them. Throw out their litter pans and food dishes. Just be yourself and do what you want to. You'll do waaaaay less damage than the do gooders and bad pointers. Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke.

Death is always up in Capricorn. Jerry Ford, James Brown and Saddam Hussein all laying in state so to speak at the same time. Bizarre. More to come. Jerry is quite interesting despite his appearance. He and I have the same birthday. I grew up in later childhood in Michigan near him and also went to the U of M. I can grok him to a degree. His birth name was Leslie Lynch King, Jr.. Interesting how he was involved with the lynching of one king/president (JFK's assassination; Jerry was on the Warren Commission). And he de-lynched Nixon by the pardon. The day after he died, they released details of an interview he had given some time ago which he had requested to be released after his death. He came out boldly saying that Bushie's war is a sham and should never have taken place. I think he just lynched W for good with all those Ford like, middle Americans. Thanks Jerry. Notice though that he never said it out loud when it could have affected policy before the fact.

At first I generally agreed with the historical conclusion that Jerry needed to pardon Nixon; I hated it at the time. I've been watching and reading about him. I think in the longer run historically, he blew it. The country needed to exorcise the poison of the Nixon clan. I agree that it would have taken up a couple years of his presidency and that we were in a precarious place at the time, but we needed to purge those elements out of our government and we failed. What came out of his administration?: Cheney and Rumsfeld and more. He set them up. They got empowered in a big way with Reagan (Raygun, who took war to outer space). This lead to more of the same through Bush the First. Then they got bitter during Clinton and set up their think tank evil doin's that they have been playing out with Bush2. Jerry was the All American football center at the University of Michigan. He represented the center politically. And he was the center - ring leader - of this nasty future fascist bunch. Jerry is clearly not a fascist, but I see him having unconsciously enabled the lot of them.

Here's a quote from Wikipedia: "1963, Republican members of the House elected him Minority Leader. During his tenure, President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Ford to the Warren Commission, a special task force set up to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. In 1997 the Assassination Records Review Board released a document that revealed that Ford had altered the first draft of the report to read: 'A bullet had entered the base of the back of his neck slightly to the right of the spine.' Ford had elevated the location of the wound from its true location in the back to the neck to support the single bullet theory. The original first draft of the Warren Commission Report stated that a bullet had entered Kennedy's 'back at a point slightly above the shoulder and to the right of the spine.'" I think he was a big part in the cover up. He'd have had good intentions: save the Republic in hard times. But all he saved was more of the crap to fester up later on. The truth will not set you free, but lies will entrap you. I think he was colluded in the cover up of the JFK assassination and I think he buried the worst of the Nixon crap. I don't call that saving the Republic. It's just the usual covering up of the power game. He was never elected to the office of the president; he had no business pardoning Nixon because we did not empower him by electing him. I think we should have had a special election for the president/vice president and a complete investigation into the entire Nixon administration and not just Watergate.

I loved it that old Jerry loved and honored his wife like he did. That was huge in cracking things open in the collective. Betty is a powerhouse on her own and he got out of the way and let her be. Good on ya Jerry and Betty. He also took the funning about him, which probably cost him the election along with the pardon, like a real man. He let it roll off of him.

James Brown was a hoot. I never had the pleasure of seeing him in person. He used to come through Benton Harbor, Michigan across the river from where I grew up. I could feel the excitement when he was around. He did show up on Bandstand on TV and I was amazed by his shamanic like whirlwind performances. He always had the best bands. Lots of folks turned on him in the 70's when he sucked up to Nixon. Funny that he and Jerry checked out at the same time.

They hung Saddam right when Pluto was at the Galactic Center, which happens every 250 years. Not bad. I guess Saddam wanted that one way pass right back to the underworld. Cell phones are making history left and right. The videoing through a cell phone of his hanging got right out on the Web and all hell broke loose. Maybe the underworld burped. What could have been the ending of an old and nasty era, a burying of some of the hatchet........ well it may have exacerbated the Sunni/Shia split more than we can comprehend. He Saddamized them even on the way out so that they could Go morrah.

In case you may have forgotten, the US sold many billions of dollars of weapons to him over the years. There is the famous picture of him shaking hands with Rumsfeld in Baghdad when they were doing business. I think he was a secret US government stooge and was kept in place for a long time because of our policies. Then he went more feral than we liked in Kuwait. What got squelched in the news way back when was that Saddam invaded Kuwait in part because the Kuwaitis were greedily curving their oil well pipes underneath the border into Iraqi territory. We all know that finally the whole deal was about the oil from way back when anyways.

Also, while on this theme, remember that we used to totally support the efforts of Osama bin Laden and all that for years. Enron was going to do a pipeline deal with the Taliban; they trotted through Washington, DC and such. We invaded after that deal fell through. In the Economist a few weeks ago, there was a lovely graph of opium production in Afghanistan. The Taliban had brought production to zero the year before we invaded. Now production is way higher than ever before. A couple of days ago in the NY Times, there was a report of Afghani heroin hitting the US and killing lots of addicts because of its potency/purity. In my opinion, the real reason we invaded Afghanistan was to get control of the dope. The secret dark government in the US runs on drug money from Colombia and such, the Golden Triangle of SE Asia and now Afghanistan. That income stream allows them to do all kinds of mayhem that doesn't even have to land in the dark budget. It all cranked up in the CIA shenanigans during the Viet Nam war. The French had it before and they for a long time had entertained the global heroin trade through Marseilles. The obscene profits in these plagues is just too tempting for these power mongers.

These are the sort of issues that are very Capricornian. Much more will be uncovered in the days and years ahead. Oh, one more that I just remembered. I think that the Da Vinci Code hubbub is a cover for the Templars. I see that a faction in the Templars went real nasty on the power that they accrued during the Crusades. They were much more powerful than the Papacy or the royal houses. When they were crushed, perhaps in collusion with the Papacy, the faction that had the dough went underground. It's called Switzerland: banking, secret, "neutral", same red cross, Swiss Guards that guard the Vatican. There are layers of power that can't be seen from long ago. This Templar rooted cartel owns things that you didn't know could be owned. (aside: Anderson Cooper of CNN is a Vanderbilt; one day when he was little, Grandpa Vanderbilt took him to Grand Central Station in NYC and said to the boy: "We own this."). So the whole Templar spiritual thing obscures the power base that still exists and doesn't want to be seen. The Templar model is antecedent to our modern corporations that can do anything they want, but shirk any responsibility. The phrase for corporations is: Capitalize the profits and socialize the costs. Example: the Nuclear Industry. They get the profits; we're taxed to clean up their mess. All the biggies do it. It's obscene. When is the collective going to wake up?

Now that I've ranted Capricornily, let me rave. Capricorn is the most sensitive Sign in the Zodiac. This is why it is the most defended in its patterns. It carries the Divine. It's only about power in its crushed and conditioned state. It's much about sovereignty rather than the Sovereign. It's more about autonomy rather than autocracy. Be yourself. Claim your own consciousness and clear your own karma. It has nothing to do with the loops of powerful and powerless. Abdicate whatever thrones you sit upon and come out and play.

Happy New You,
Mark