By Joseph Kishore | WSWS.org
In the aftermath of the final presidential debate on Wednesday, the US media is in an uproar over statements made by Republican candidate Donald Trump that he might not recognize the result of the November 8 election.
Woman of the Future; oil and acrylic painting by Geoffrey Greene.
Venus in Sagittarius is one of that planet’s most interesting placements. She seems like the woman from the future, or the woman from some exotic galaxy who is showing us how a woman can be a person rather than a social construction. As such she may not feel very female; that, however, is a matter of conditioning.
Your average modern woman of today would not have seemed very female to someone 100 years ago. Yet when we consider the plight of women today, and society’s seeming obsession with making women into slaves, we have some distance to cover. Here is the thing that’s non-negotiable, for anyone who wants to make progress toward being a person: cultivating self-esteem. And this must be done despite the worst conditions, or under the most favorable ones. It matters not.
Self-esteem is internally mediated, no matter what is going on in your environment. Your relationship to yourself comes first. It may not seem that way — though the “discovery” of self-esteem often happens in the seemingly worst places, times and situations.
Heather from Book of Blue; photo by Eric Francis.
Venus is now in Sagittarius. This may be a welcome relief after spending these recent weeks in Scorpio, though this seems to be about preparation for a meeting. Venus is semi-square (45 degree, hot angle, possible clash) to Mars and Pluto. We might ask hypothetically: how might a woman (represented by Venus) meet and even confront the male-dominated power structure?
The answer would be: by accessing all of her spiritual resources. This is not about “doing good” or “being ethical.” It’s about getting something necessary done as effectively as possible. Whoever Venus represents might find herself actually challenged, on the level of power. Her task would be to rise above that challenge; to see the scenario on a new level and from a different angle.
Said another way, once you figure out where people are coming from emotionally, you will have most of the advantage. You get it. Now use what you know.
Dear Friend and Reader:
With the world in its state of seeming madness, you may be feeling stressed to the point of being pulled apart. So much in the world seems scattered, fragmented and like it makes no sense at all. Everything is changing so fast, it’s actually impossible to keep up. There seems to be little rest for the weary.
The events of the current world would make the head of even the most balanced, even-keeled person spin.
Your astrologer, Eric Francis Coppolino.
Astrology has one special quality revealing its profound benefit for spiritual growth and inner development.
Its seemingly wild complexity transforms into an elegance that can weave together the many threads of life into a cohesive narrative. It’s the perfect tool for seeing the order in the chaos.
Properly used, astrology can reveal the connections between seemingly unrelated events.
It can weave together personal assets that seem to have no connection into a personal gift: a talent, a way to heal your relationships, an idea and action plan to make an important change in your life. Astrology reveals the “cosmic order” yet in the most distinctly personal way.
Thanks very much to everyone who participated in this call-in. We’ll have the recording up soon.
This is certainly an interesting time — very few moments in modern American political history stand out like what we’re now seeing. We can name a few in league: the impeachment, the stolen election, the events of Sept. 11, the Iran-Contra scandal, and those strange days of August 1974 when Pres. Nixon resigned.
For those who have been watching with dismay as these travesties have gone down over the decades, what’s now happening is a culmination point: the total unraveling of a fraudulent candidacy, of the candidate himself, and of his entire political party, which is now lying in tatters.
I would remind you that what’s happening is much, much larger than it seems. It represents something going on not just in the foreground, but in the wide and deep and invisible background.
This is going to be an interesting week politically, and also socially. I would say it’ll be the most unusual week since August 1974, when Republicans pressured Nixon to quit rather than to face an impeachment, which was imminent.
Nixon during his debate with Kennedy, 1960.
In our time, the tipping point is that the presidential candidate for the Morality and Purity Party has admitted proudly to committing serial sexual assault.
This is twisting Republicans and the party into knots as they deal with a candidate who does not actually represent any of their purported values (on ordinary issues like trade).
Recent polling is reported to have about 75% of his partisans still in favor of him.
I think that this look into the background is revealing. It’s an actual revelation of the values and boundaries of a large and powerful segment of the population. This population is what’s called the Republican base, which includes its core of fundamentalist Christians, and many people who have secularized that agenda and put it into schools.
Are these the same people we expect to teach their sons to treat women appropriately, and to honor the integrity of their bodies and intentions?
Here’s the chart for the second presidential debate, tonight in Monsantoville: St Louis, MO. The Moon will be void of course (v/c, meaning no longer making aspects to major planets while in its current sign). It will also be opposite Vesta, however, which modifies usual thoughts on Moon v/c.
Chart for tonight’s debate. Click image for larger version.
Moon v/c has two main effects: one is that we can’t predict what will happen (it may be bigger or smaller than expected), and the second is that what happens may drop down the memory hole.
These are the two distinct effects that I’ve seen from the void Moon: things go away, or they blow up unexpectedly huge.
If that happens, it will be in the spirit of Vesta: of holding space, of service, and of bringing to the surface some core elements of sexual shame.
Bringing this into human terms, what we are seeing is a catharsis of shame in the events of this weekend; and a man who has been on top of the world, in his “Tower,” has been struck by lightning.
