Left of the Edge

Looks like this is a “Drop and Roll” week.  We all need to go  out and get a massage.

With the announcement, of the escalation of troops to be announced, by President Obama , on
Tuesday, December 1, we have to wonder, “where did the peace talks  go”?  I heard,  during the 2008 campaingn, that we would  place more efforts in negotiating.  with other countries.
Perhaps, I should change my hearing specialist doctor?  Obama’s decision will plague him through 2011, and lose him many original  supporters.  The continuing squares, oppositions and conjunctions, of the U.S. natal chart’s planets of Cancer, Libra, Capricorn and Aquarius,
will cause the U.S. more havoc.  And drastic decisions, like this will cause the U.S. more peril.

> Venus enters Sagittarius late in the day on the 1st and brings us  some good
> luck and good fortune for the next few weeks, even with the  square from
> Saturn to Pluto.  This  Venus change by Jupiter ruled Saggiatrius, will give us some light and hopeful spirit until December 26, 2009.  Let’s enjoy, what the Universe  gives us,  for this short period of time….
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 Relax now but prepare for a disruptive December.
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December 1, Uranus will turn direct, which will cause a disruption of the status quo.  And we still are going throught the fall out of the Saturn/Pluto square.  The global ecomomic market should go into turmoil, as well as political disruptions

Look for upheavel in Pakistan.  It is time to turn the Christman Carol Music, up very loud.
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Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to
work and to play and to look at the stars.
-  Henry Van Dyke

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~ The date was not changed yesterday, because I wanted to savor our Thanksgiving Day.  With mounting tensions, I hope we find gratitude and peace in  all the small fortunes, that life gives us.  Breath in, our wonderous gifts of nature.  Meditate and listen to our favorite  music, relax with our friends and families.   Make life a Thanksgiving Party,  everyday.   ”Cheers”

I started thinking how each sign might spend Thanksgiving?  All give thanks to Universal guidance, love their country and families, and wish love and peace for everyone, but each have their own quirks, in my opinion.

Aries          Have a turkey sandwich, while target practicing at the rifle range

Taurus        Have their own turkey, from the Turkey farm, they bought last 

                       year, for a good deal, so they would always have turkey.

Gemini        Spend the whole day on their cell phone, while wearing a t-shirt,  

                       with the entire dictionary printed on it.

Cancer        Enjoying all the food, from cooking grandma’s and old family

                       recipes.

Leo             Rent a band, that plays “Hail to the Chief” as they enter the room,

                     wearing all the gold and “bling” they own.

Virgo           They do not eat, because they are cleaning up , and serving all the

                       the other guests.

Libra            Could not decide what to wear, where to go, whom to invite,  and 

                        missed the whole day.

Scorpio        Throw the turkey in the floor and have sex on the table.

Saggitarius    Reading Travel and Leisure magazines, while having a packed

                           suitcase by their chair

Capricorn      Organized the dinner, for 100 of their Corporate, Banking and

                            Business friends.

Aquarius       Left their families home alone, to serve food at the Salvation

                          Army Mission, for the homeless.

Pisces          Watched the “Food channel” and had dreams of a big dinner.

I think we have to keep our sense of humor during these frustrating times, and give thanks for our smallest blessings. 
Meditate, pray, and follow the path of the “Light”, keep ourselves centered and balanced, and thorougly enjoy life and nature.

Venus rules love, money and values.  Transiting Pluto is  closing in on the opposition of the U.S. Venus at 3 degrees/6 minutes of Cancer and Saturn squaring in Libra, is causing frustration, depression, oppression throughout the country.  We can feel it through our regular gossip, media and the internet.  The stories are growing about the failing economy, unemployment, and wanting Sec. Treasury Tim Geithner to be replaced.  Saturn is at 3 degrees of Libra, the first two weeks of December and Pluto moves into 3 degress the final few days of December.  Saturn moves retrograde (backwards) in February 2, 2010, and we get another conjunction the middle of February 2010.   The populace, will feel this “strangle”, all during this time and the anger and frustrtion will build.  Obama will be under duress, all of this time too, and his popularity will fade.  The American people will feel the reality of the great divide between the elite and those in poverty.  This stark realization, is one we are not accustomed to, and we will feel great agitation.
Obama will announce in a public venue, the troop increase to Afghanistan, on December 1, and there will be more problems for him.  Where does this money come from? for the escalation.?  Bad timing on his part, he really needs a good astrologer !

The first State dinner is tonight with P.M. Singh of India, and ( more of our jobs going out the back door?)  Interesting, his birthday is September 26, 1932 and Saturn is conjunct his Sun at this time.  He is under suppressed/restricted feeings too.  I hope someone has some alka-seltzer for him !   Last week, he was wined and dined by the Queen of England !  She pulled no stops with the lavish meeting.   All of this high profiling of India, is no accident.  Our dinner  guest list has increased to 400, and a tent has been erected, to accomodate all of them.
I wonder if the Protocal Office has consulted with Gadaffi?   Our new Director of Protocal is from the Clinton Administration again.  Bill Clinton, did not make the guest list, as to not up-stage his wife, Hillary!   Bobby Jindal, Gov. of Louisiana,  (Indian heritage), is on the guest list. I assume also, for another bi-partisian plunge into another abyss.  But given, we just gave Senator Mary Landrieau, three hundred million dollars for her vote “yes” on the health care bill, Louisiana is  “the” state, “front and center”
  this week,    C-span will have the live coverage starting at 9 p.m. est. time, tonight, for the arrival of guests, and the “toast”.
I always watch these ceremonies, because I want to know who, the administration deems “important”  to our lives.  I am always surprised !   

Last night, I went to a new movie about 911, and the new evidence that has been found concerning  that fateful day.  That event, got us into all the chaos, we are in.  We need a new investigation.!
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 Ah, the Sun sign has now changed to Saggitarius and leaving the
morose Scorpio.  Saggitarius is uplifting, and optimistic, a fire
sign, ruled by Jupiter.
Jupiter has the ability to bring us good fortune and expand our
 conciousness,  It can be the drive, that influences cultural and
 social issues for expansion and improvement.
It is interesting that President Obama, has planned his first State
dinner with Prime Minister  Singh, of India, during this time.
Saggitarians, love to reach out to foreigners.

We can maintain our own persanal optimism, during this time, while all
the world is falling around us.  Just wear a “hard hat”……

Leisure

 What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.

No time to stand beneath the boughs
And stare as long as sheep or cows.

No time to see, when woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass.

No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night.

No time to turn at Beauty’s glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance.

No time to wait till her mouth can
Enrich that smile her eyes began.

A poor life this is if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.

William Henry Davies

 
 The U.S. Senate will have no leisure today, as they prepare to
 vote/debate  on the Health care Reform/Deform Bill.
 Is is good for the American people?, I do not think we know yet.  It
 is still too complicated, and has taken too long to come to conclude.
 It will not go into effect, until  2013/2014?  It still benefits the
 Insurance companies, and the Drug companies, too much.
 We still need a single-payer system, for all Americans.  “Take the
 time” to stare, enjoy life, to keep healthy, in “body, mind, and
spirit and we will not need any of their Health Care Reform.

Everyday there is a new fiasco, and challenge for us to meet. There are countries that
we have not heard of and then the same old countries, causing
the same old difficulties, and problems.    With continued Saturn square Pluto, we can expect this to be the norm.
Keep life simple, have a sense of humor, send love and energy to the world, and keep our personal lives focused on the path of light and  positive energy.  Have that bowl of cherries nearby, for that is what life is, and “we can do anything” ! we set our hearts and  minds to.
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– In this season of thanksgiving, know that even if you’re facing
difficult times or loss, you are stronger than you know. You are
connected to the field of all possibilities; your essential nature is
limitless, unbounded spirit; and the universe is always ready to
conspire in your favor.

The Chopra Center