[Mb-hair] Fwd: Hard Facts Make the Best Foundations

[Reute Butler]

Good news.
Love and Light, Reute
>> Hard Facts Make the Best Foundations
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>> The Tenor of the Times, January 2005
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>> The Great Reining In ~ In 2006 the seemingly open-ended series of  
>> confusing and disruptive events to which the world has been  
>> subject will continue to dominate world news. But as 2006  
>> progresses, news of a noticeably new, significantly different and  
>> better world will begin to attract our attention.
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>> Energy from the Galactic Center, emerging into our collective  
>> consciousness through Pluto, will inspire and motivate people to  
>> remake the world in a positive, constructive way.
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>> The conjunction of Pluto and the Galactic Center will have special  
>> significance for the United States. The last conjunction occurred  
>> several decades before the birth of the United States. It might be  
>> argued that the United States is an embodiment of the energy  
>> released during that last conjunction in the middle of the 18th  
>> century. The upcoming conjunction will undoubtedly mark a major  
>> threshold in the historical maturation of the US.
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>> The ‘tipping point’ of 2006, the point at which people in general  
>> can see that change is inevitable and permanent, will come in  
>> August. However, it will become clear long before August that  
>> something is in the offing.
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>> It will occur when Saturn completes its first opposition to  
>> Neptune, effectively putting an end to Neptune’s deceptive  
>> influence over world affairs.
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>> Saturn’s sobering leverage over world events, already noticeable,  
>> will take hold in August. Saturn will pass the mid-point of Leo,  
>> in mid-August. At the end of August, the Saturn will oppose  
>> Neptune for the first time, solidifying its dominant influence on  
>> the world’s vibe.
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>> ‘Faith’-Based Facts vs. Fact-Based Facts ~ An ardent profession of  
>> faith will no longer sound to the world’s ear like a guarantee of  
>> truth. Even George W. Bush, a veteran practitioner fervent, faith- 
>> based rhetoric is already showing a newfound, respect for the facts.
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>> With the tide of Neptunian illusion ebbing, much of the damage  
>> caused by deceptive political rhetoric will become more painfully  
>> apparent than it already is. People will be in the mood to ask  
>> penetrating and embarrassing questions and wait patiently for the  
>> answers.
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>> Saturn’s ascendancy over Neptune will probably also weaken the  
>> hold that ideological and religious zealots, including demagogues,  
>> tyrants and terrorists, have over the mind’s of their adherents.
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>> The Pendulum Swings Back ~ In recent years, the quality of civic  
>> and commercial life has deteriorated markedly.
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>> Telemarketing, loud cell phone conversations, 20 minutes of  
>> annoying advertising before a movie, intrusive public address  
>> systems to trumpet special sale items at Walmart, aggressive sales  
>> pitches while on you’re on hold … such irritating, exploitative  
>> and offensive practices have become the norm. In 2006, the  
>> reaction against such things will intensify.
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>> Perhaps more serious, business practices that put the customers  
>> and employees at serious risk have flourished. Risky mortgages,  
>> shaky pension plans, dwindling health insurance coverage,  
>> neglected safety, poor and unreliable service … In the coming  
>> decade, with Saturn in the ascendancy, we can expect to see a  
>> broad-based movement against these and other wildly irresponsible  
>> business and employment practices.
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>> George W. Bush in the Shadows ~ T-squares dominate composite  
>> charts for Bush’s birthdate and New Years Day 2006 and other  
>> important dates in January, just as they dominated the composite  
>> chart for Bush and the 2005 Inauguration.
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>> The way the world actually works, these T-squares mean that Bush  
>> will have another very, very difficult year with strong resistance  
>> or outright opposition to his policies.
>> Political Progress in Iraq ~ Virtually all of the charts for Iraq,  
>> even those charts with a Grand Trine, are marred by indications of  
>> widespread deception, manipulation, intense power struggles,  
>> factional violence and general skullduggery.
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>> It is unclear from the charts what exactly might bring an end to  
>> the current state of affairs. I believe that some as yet  
>> unforeseen event or some as yet unknown person, country, group or  
>> agency must eventually emerge and intervene to bring this conflict  
>> to an end.
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>> Something—a law mandating US withdrawal, a UN resolution, the  
>> massive intervention of another country or all of the above-- 
>> something must establish a new starting point in Iraq, a new point  
>> of departure because, from the astrological perspective, the  
>> elements currently at play offer no solutions.
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>> American Involvement in Iraq ~ Pluto will leave the US first house  
>> early in 2010. Additionally, the US Solar Arc Uranus will be past  
>> its conjunction with US natal Pluto. Hence, the US inclination to  
>> impose its will on other nations through the machineries of war  
>> will persist at some level until the end of this decade.
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>> As Pluto completes its transit of the US 1st House, the passion  
>> will simply go out of the Iraq war effort. But I don’t think we  
>> can expect a decisive rejection of the war until Pluto leaves the  
>> US 1st House entirely at the end of the decade.
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>> Rosie Scenario, Start Packing ~ Add it all up.
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>> 1)          Bush’s already serious political difficulties,
>> 2)          Growing impatience with Iraq,
>> 3)          Lingering resentment about how Bush got us into Iraq,
>> 4)          Grave doubts about the conduct of the war,
>> 5)          Growing political unease over the use of torture by US  
>> interrogators,
>> 6)          Growing legal difficulties for the Bush administration  
>> and prominent Republican leaders,
>> 7)          The looming confrontation with Congress over Bush- 
>> approved domestic spying by the NSA,
>> 8)          Growing unease over the infringement of civil rights  
>> in the name of the war on terror,
>> 9)           A fight over renewal of the so-called Patriot Act,  
>> prominent,
>> 10)     Congresspeople from both parties promising new  
>> investigative hearings in 2006,
>> 11)     The seemingly all-encompassing corruption scandal  
>> surrounding the work of “disgraced Congressional lobbyist” Jack  
>> Abramoff,
>> 12)     The historic failure of the government before, during and  
>> after hurricane Katrina a possible battle over a key Supreme Court  
>> nomination,
>> 13)     A mid-term Congressional election in November 2006,
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>> … In the context of all of the above and so much more, the US  
>> seems headed directly for a major political crisis pitting the  
>> neoconservative faction of the Republican party against just about  
>> everyone else.
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>> Given all of the above, an effort to impeach Bush does not seem  
>> out of the question to me.
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>> The Law’s Delay ~ With Saturn newly retrograde, the legal gears  
>> will be grinding very slowly and ‘painstakingly.’ This is a  
>> painful prospect for Congressman Tom Delay of Texas who is looking  
>> for a quick and favorable resolution of the case against him. In  
>> fact, Court decisions that might have led to an early trial and a  
>> quick return to his position of power in Congress are going  
>> against him.
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>> Saturn, as noted, is slowly but surely gaining ground on Neptune.  
>> But it is also in broad trine to Pluto. The trine to Pluto  
>> intensifies and underwrites, or leverages, all of the trends and  
>> processes set in motion by Saturn’s coming dominance of Neptune.  
>> This will enable and strongly incline Americans (and many others  
>> in the world) to finally get at the truth of important issues and  
>> perhaps find justice.
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>> Saturn retrograde, trine Pluto and opposite Neptune will do  
>> nothing to hasten progress or final resolution to any of the  
>> difficult legal or Congressional processes already under way or  
>> soon to get under way. Quite the contrary.
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>> Jupiter in the Economic Trenches ~ One of the most interesting and  
>> expressive charts for January 2006 is the Jupiter persona chart  
>> for New Years Day. It includes a Grand Square that entrains the  
>> energy of all of the planets except Pluto and Uranus. Uranus forms  
>> a trine to the main stellium, or group, of planets. Pluto forms a  
>> trine with Saturn.
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>> So, in Jupiter’s own Persona Chart, its individual astrological  
>> portrait for New Years Day 2006, Jupiter’s energies are highly  
>> impaired. But the flow of Saturnian and Uranian energies is  
>> enhanced and facilitated.
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>> People will have tighter budgets. However, those who find new,  
>> ingenious ways of doing things (Uranus) that are, at the same  
>> time, true to old, tried and true values (Saturn), will prosper.  
>> Ingenious new products that are also dependable, durable and  
>> affordable will still find an enthusiastic market. While the old  
>> economy gets itself straightened out, new markets for new things  
>> will take off on their own.
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>> Chiron’s Toll A Cautionary Note ~ The difficult relation between  
>> Chiron and Saturn has been reestablished. This ensures that  
>> disasters that take place now are likely to take a heavy toll.  
>> This worrisome relationship will persist until September 2007 when  
>> Saturn enters Virgo leaving Chiron in Aquarius and breaking up the  
>> Saturn/Chiron opposition.
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>> At midnight on New Years Day, 2006, the various Saturn/Chiron  
>> lines bracket Washington, DC, and come very close to New York  
>> City. On the other side of the world, Saturn/Chiron lines run  
>> through Indonesia and the Philippines, grazing the southwest coast  
>> of China, bracketing North and South Korea, and parts of southern  
>> Japan.
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