The Astrologer's Roundtable

On-Line Astrology Courses & Comments by Professional Astrologers

2015-02-20T09:53:00.001-08:00

This is an open invitation to lovers of Astrology, as well as professional Astrologers to enjoy courses presented by Astrologers round the world and to comment on them.

Online Lectures, Workshops, Seminars
A New Educational Offering to the Community

On behalf of NCGR, I am proud to announce three more presentations in our ongoing program of lectures, workshops and seminars online with some of the finest astrologers in our community.

Our intention is to bring quality astrology to members-at-large who do not have a local chapter, as well as to chapters who do not have an active education program. And to those chapters with established education programs, such as in my own hometown, we hope to complement what you already so effectively provide.

Most of all, however, our main intention is to create a more interactive community within NCGR and satisfy your need for quality astrological education, which was an original initiative at the start of NCGR, way back in the pre-cyber age, when the word "email" was a typo.

John Marchesella
Three Astrologers from the NCGR Community Saturday, February 21, 2015. See Description of Each Separate Talk Below. Purchase the full Webinar - all three talks, a full 4 1/2 hours of learning.

10:00 AM – 11:30 AM EST The Duality of the Planets, with Kirk Kahn

12:00 PM – 1:30 PM EST The Expansion of Western Ideals Beginning in 2015, with David Cochrane

2:00 PM – 3:30 PM EST The Zodiac's Many Faces: Images of the Decans, with Austin Coppock

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Three Astrologers from the NCGR Community
Saturday, February 21, 2015
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Glenn Perry Deconstructing the current Cardinal Grand Cross

2014-04-24T10:07:00.003-07:00

This very insightful article is a must read for the the thinking astrologer! Glenn Perry has done it again with his masterful grasp of psychology, astrology & mythology!

http://www.astropsychology.org/deconstructing-the-grand-cross?&utm_source=Copy+of+Vol+VI%2C+No+3%2C+April+23+2014&utm_campaign=Vol+VI%2C+No.+3b%2C+April+23+2014&utm_medium=email

2012-09-14T10:05:00.001-07:00

Hello fellow astrologers, both professional and just interested!!!

I would like to start a conversation about world events, both political, social & financial and how our current PLUTO in CAPRICORN squaring URANUS in ARIES is indicating that these radical social changes are indeed "written in the stars" and creating a new world vision and awareness of the need for our planetary evolvement....changes in consciousness which can change our whole world order.

I am a strong advocate for the idea that the only wars worth fighting is the war on ignorance and poverty..both states of consciousness which lead people to dissent and unrest. Greed, lack of integrity, deception and unfairness is currently controlling the outcome for the majority of the people on our planet to live lives of self-empowerment, peace and happiness.

"Economic Mud" Robert Gover Financial Astrologer

2011-07-18T08:18:00.000-07:00

An Astrological Look at the World's Current Financial Issues... Will we have some real solutions by March, 2015??

"The sidereal v. tropical debate matters, of course, but if we are to apply astrology to real life, planetary angles within our solar system are far more indicative.

In an attempt to make astrology relevant to real life, I put the emphasis on social problems in need of solutions and planetary angles which, based on past history, promise major changes and/or solutions to such problems.

Right now, as most astrologers are well aware, we are under a Uranus-Pluto square that hasn't formed since the great depression of the 1930s. The most vexing social problems in need of solutions are economically based, and arise out of our privatized central banking system.

The Uranus-Pluto square of the 1930s found Uranus in Aries and Pluto in Cancer. Uranus is again in Aries, but Pluto this time is in Cancer's opposite sign, Capricorn. History shows that planetary angles and transit-to-natal angles matter much more than the signs the planets occupy.

What is also needed is an accurate analysis of the problems to be solved. If you have a hidden short in your home's wiring, you may band-aid your obvious electrical problems temporarily, but you won't have a sustainable solution till you find and fix the hidden short.

The hidden economic problem we now have nationally is interest on the money the federal government has borrowed from the banks of the Federal Reserve. The Fed is privately owned and operated. It's no more "federal" than Federal Express. The government is charged interest the same as individuals and companies when they make loans.

Paying interest on federal government loans now eats up almost half of the federal budget. Cutting federal spending puts a band aid on that fiscal cancer, but does not cure it.

Most people have the impression that the federal government operates on money raised from taxes. From a limited perspective, this is true. But almost every dollar in circulation originates as loans made by the bankers of the Fed, and interest must be paid on all this loaned money. That creates an economy increasingly mired in the repayment of interest. As time goes on, more money must be borrowed from the bankers of the Fed to repay this ever-accumulating interest, which compounds ad infinitum.

Thus, the economy eventually becomes like a car stuck in mud. Revving the engine only sinks the wheels deeper into the mud. For an accurate analysis of the economic problem that is the mud we are revving the economic engine to pull us out of, see www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXt1cayx0hs .

Most people assume that if the mass media don't inform them about this monetary problem, it doesn't exist and/or is another conspiracy theory. But the people who own and operate our mass media benefit from the system and are thus not about to assign reporters to research it and write about it. In that sense, it is a conspiracy.

But there is plenty of information about it online. Google "debt based money" and you'll find some. Google "privatized central banks" and you find more. And there are movements to change the system afoot in Congress, led by Dennis Kucinich (D Ohio) and Ron Paul ® Texas). The problem is that only a small minority of people know what the system actually is, how and why it is tremendously harmful, and why it is unsustainable.

Assuming President Obama and the Republicans arrive at some agreement to keep the federal government operating and not defaulting on its debts, this doomed system will be perpetuated. Eventually it will self-destruct, for it cannot go on sinking the government into the ever-deepening mud of interest owed.

The solution is to have government issue our money debt free, pay off all the existing Treasury bonds and bills, and henceforth relieve taxpayers of further enriching already rich bankers. The government will then be free to work for the governed.

But the planets do not make our decisions for us, and by the March Full Moon 2015, no matter who is in the White House and no matter which time you use for the July 4, 1776 birth of the USA, Pluto will be at 15 Capricorn opposition the US Sun at 13 Cancer and square the US Saturn at 15 Libra, while Uranus, flanked by Mars and Venus, will complete a grand cross at 14 Aries. The Full Moon and Chiron will hit the US Mars-Neptune square (indicating another financial crash) and Saturn will oppose the US Uranus in Gemini.

Barack Obama now appears to have put himself in an impossible bind (see http://nymag.com/news/frank-rich/obama-economy/presidents-failure ) and Congress is now stocked with ignorant, big-money manipulated tea partiers. It's hard to see how we get out of the mess the Fed's debt-based money system has put us in without a massive revolution, and/or an unprecedented Uranus-opposite-Saturn surprise.

Though negative predictions win no popularity contests, I believe we astrologers can make ourselves more valuable by sounding warnings now, rather than allow our fellow humans to be unprepared for 2015. "

Astrologer Deborah Smith Parker on Pluto in Capricorn

2011-02-19T03:54:00.000-08:00

This is an excellent article on what we can all expect while Pluto is in Capricorn..til 2024!! Thank you Deborah!!
Here is the link:
http://www.astrologicuspress.com/pluto-in-capricorn%E2%80%94upheavals-in-corporations-governments/

Here is the article: By Deborah Smith Parker
"In astrology the planet Pluto works at a global level. His intent isn’t to kill us individually although it can sure feel like it—and at times we wish he would. Instead he reveals what is killing us, specifically through collective thought and action. He specifically exposes the malignant and destructive concentrations of power relative to the sign he is in and then provides opportunities to clean the whole mess up.
Pluto locks everyone in a long slow roll tumbling us over and over so we can’t escape experiencing just how bad things have become. His work starts out real messy and always involves massive body counts—usually more figurative than literal, although there are exceptions which I’ll detail in future posts.
In 2008 Pluto entered Capricorn, the sign ruling corporations, business environments, governments, authority in general and the patriarchy. So what has happened since then? Oh, not much—just the collapse of the housing bubble, the exposure of unprecedented, unregulated greed and scandal by banks and their Wall Street partners, and both the reluctance and impotence of our government to effectively deal with the resulting precipitous economic crash we will be struggling with for many years.
Pluto has 14 more years in Capricorn so he’s just getting started. Pretty big stuff for such a little guy demoted from his planetary status by astronomers. Well, they didn’t consult with us astrologers.
We can clearly see Pluto’s work not just in the U.S. but across the globe. But this country was founded with Pluto in Capricorn so we’re getting a big hit. What’s going to happen in the U.S. during his remaining time in that sign?
In astrology you look forward while also looking backward.Pluto’s orbit is 248 years and this is his first return to that sign since then. A planet’s “return” to its original position in an astrological chart is a powerful time relative to that planet’s energies in that particular sign.
With Pluto what happens is:
• Everything that’s working well for the masses is strengthened and rewarded
• Everything that isn’t is pretty much torn up
By the time Pluto leaves Capricorn for good in 2024, he will leave in his wake in this country a very changed system of authority of governments and corporations. Remember, he starts out real messy. Everyone has a role. It takes a while for the messages of the brilliant prophets, the whack jobs, the defenders of status quo and the casualties of the struggle to sort out the issues to forge new ameliorative policies and power dynamics.
Our nation was founded in a revolution by a rag tag army to throw off the oppressive government of King George III. See any similarities between our issues with that regime and the political and economic climate we’re in today? Our current struggle just got a lot closer to home—closer than hands and feet, as the ancient aphorism goes.
Pluto has lots of time and uses it. However, he doesn’t leave us bleeding in the streets forever. The way out is eventually revealed but it isn’t served up on the proverbial silver platter. We have to become involved to clean up the mess. And Pluto doesn’t just motivate us to do so, he drives us to do it.
In my next few posts I’m going to help you all become astrologers, examining Pluto’s astrological positions from the Great Depression to present times. We’ll see how each placement has contributed positively and negatively to today’s dilemmas and potential solutions. Stay tuned."

Pluto in Capricorn and the US National Debt Scam

2010-12-13T08:20:00.000-08:00

Pluto in Capricorn and National Debt Scam

Robert Gover, USA

Privatized central banks have been sucking up the wealth created by common people and transferring it to the super wealthy since 1694 when the Bank of England was established so the King could borrow money to mount wars. The national debt it heaped upon the American colonies was the primary reason for the American Revolution, which kicked into high gear when Pluto last sojourned through Capricorn. Now, as Pluto returns to Capricorn, the scent of revolution again pervades the air.

Our privatized, debt-based, Federal Reserve-run money system has created a national debt that's now close to $14 Trillion. Annual interest on that debt during the first 11 months of this year: $395.7 Billion. That's what we the people owe for money borrowed by our government from the bankers of the Fed.

The media blitz about the national debt assumes it is an unchangeable fact of life. You can give yourself a terrible headache by contemplating these numbers and what they are likely to mean to you personally: Higher taxes, lower wages, reduced Social Security and Medicare forevermore.

But the idea that it's unchangeable is really one gigantic con job perpetrated by the few who operate it, and their minions who knowingly or unknowingly bamboozle we the people about it. Most of us glaze over at the enormity of it. The numbers are just too huge a headache to think about.

Since our nation's beginning, our most civic-minded politicians have resisted it or tried to change it. They include Ben Franklin, Andrew Jackson, Abe Lincoln, John F. Kennedy and, in our time, Congressmen Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich. When poet Ezra Pound objected to it, he was vilified and locked in an insane asylum.

It, our monetary system, is not a left-right or capitalist-communist issue, so the media doesn't cover it; it won't sell commercials. It is couched in such arcane lingo that the guys who profit from it have been able to confuse the vast majority about it. Until now.

With Pluto now transiting conjunct the Fed's Sun, opposite its natal Pluto, the system has arrived at a changing time. The habitual way of dealing with the national debt it creates is by punishing the victims, middle class taxpayers. But now the national debt is so huge, sucking repayment out of the middle class isn't likely to work as it has worked before, without bankrupting the whole country.

For lucid explanations of how it's eating us alive, check out these web sites:
prosperityuk.com/the-negative-consequences-of-the-debt-based-money-system/
groups.yahoo.com/group/LegacyofColonialism/message/710?l=1
Bankrupting the middle class to repay the national debt would eventually erode the fortunes of the privileged. Those fortunes depend on the wealth-creating work done by the middle class.

Meanwhile, counties like China, India, Brazil and Russia have more recently established debt-free public banks. As the debt-based privatized monetary system destroys the economies of the European Union and the USA, these other countries thrive.

If, back in 1694, the King had his crown on straight, he could have created the currency he needed instead of ordering the Bank of England to create it, then borrowing from the bank and socking his subjects with a national debt.

At the heart of our national debt angst lurks this simple question: How should we create the medium-of-exchange money needed by government? By having government borrow from banks and sock taxpayers with the debt, or by having banks borrow from government debt-free?

The private sector works the same under either system. The only difference is the lack of a national debt. With the vast majority relieved of that burden, more money flows into consumer goods and capital investments in tangible goods.

Jupiter/Uranus Awakening and Wikileaks by Robert Gover,

2010-12-06T07:47:00.000-08:00

Jupiter/Uranus Awakening and Wikileaks

Robert Gover, USA

For the past decade I've been writing about what I believe is the world war of the future-between the minions of oligarchy and the forces of democracy.

Now it's here: 213.251.145.96/about.html *

No doubt Wikileaks is more astounding to an old geezer like me who grew up during the Great Depression and World War II when a spirit of cooperation possessed the USA. Anyone born since the mid-seventies missed that America and knows only this one: Socialism for the rich, laissez faire for everyone else.

There have been times when I despaired because the multinationals and big banks seemed to possess overwhelming power, and thus appeared to be the dominant force in our future. Astrology enabled me to realize that somehow events would conspire to upset their band wagon.

And now as the Uranus-Pluto square tightens above us, Wikileaks rises from the ashes of the free press that once made American society the envy of the world. Transiting Pluto moving opposite the USA's natal planets in Cancer (Venus, Jupiter, Sun and Mercury) promises to expose corruption, and Uranus promises to clean it up.

Wikileaks is Dorothy flinging open the curtain to find that the Wizard is a deranged con artist playing with lights that enchant the masses.

How dare the people of a democracy learn what their public servants are up to. Those doings are Officially Classified Secret. Your duty, John Q. and Susie Q Citizen, is to work your asses off and pay your taxes to support the Wizard. You are not permitted to know what the Wizard does with all that money. That information is way above your pay grade.

"Terrorist!" cry the Wiz's trolls pointing to Wikileaks creator Julian Assange. "He's a traitor! We shoot traitors!"

Wikileaks, our corporate-owned media is telling us, is a threat to lives. Whose lives? The Wizard and his minions, of course. Revealing what the Wiz and his trolls are actually up to is a dire threat to their lives. If everyone learns how they use our money to enrich themselves and mount wars to enrich the trolls of the military-industrial complex, there'd be hell to pay.

Writer Matt Taibbi of the Rolling Stone has peeked over Dorothy's shoulder as she flung open the Wizard's curtain and has had the courage to write about it, with hair-raising candor and laser effectiveness. He explores the nuts and bolts of our most successful financial corporation, Goldman Sachs, in his latest book "Griftopia: The Great Derangement, Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That is Breaking America." Summing up what he discovered about the Goldman Wizard, he wrote:

"Goldman is not a company of geniuses, it is company of criminals. And far from being the best fruit of a democratic, capitalist society, it's the apotheosis of the Grifter Era, a private enterprise that has attached itself to the American government and taxpayer and shamelessly engorged itself on us all."

The word "grifter" is an old slang term. Webster's says it means someone who acquires money illicitly as in a confidence game. It's probably a play on the word "graft," which doesn't precisely describe what the New World Order's Wizard does. There's more con game grift than graft involved.

The last time Uranus and Pluto squared was back in the 1930s for the Great Depression. When the Smoot-Hawley Act was passed in 1930, Saturn was opposite the USA's natal Sun to boost the Uranus-Pluto square's effects. As I write this, the USA's money planets Venus and Jupiter are opposed by Pluto, the North Node, Mercury and Mars, which are all square a conjunction of Uranus and Jupiter. Wikileaks rocks.

[* editor: due to the website many moves; this is the address to be used]

"The Pig Through the Python Nodes and Pluto"

2010-11-05T14:22:00.000-07:00

Thank you Robert Gover, USA for your wonderful insight!!!

"Get this pig through the python" is a metaphor that is catching on among big bankers and financiers who are losing money because of the present foreclosure crisis.

The 18.6 year cycle of the Moon's North Node has correlated with the real estate cycle when charted over centuries. During the 20th Century this correlation was distorted by the Fed's ability to impose interest rates rather than allowing the "free market" to do so.

On November 27 this year, at 8:59 AM, the North Node will precisely conjoin Pluto at 4 Capricorn 07. With the North Node's role in real estate prices and Pluto's role in major transformations, the current foreclosure crisis appears to be headed for some kind of resolution. It may not happen on November 27, though, for Pluto's effects are notorious for manifesting like births months after conceptions. But this coincidence tempts me to suggest Pluto is the python and the North Node is the pig.

The cause of the foreclosure crisis is that the financial sector python swallowed a pig that was way too big. The pig grew too big when mortgages were sliced and diced into securities and sold all over the world-without due diligence to the deeds to each property thus sold. In other words, in Wall Street's enthusiasm to reap big profits from this python, the pig got stuck in the python's throat.

Millions of foreclosures across the country are stalled as the Wall Street python appeals to government to help it digest this pig. Caught between the devil (big campaign contributors) and the deep blue sea (voter reaction) politicians are stumped. Temporarily, at least. Legal precedent going back to the invention of the printing press calls for written deeds to prove ownership of properties. Without a deed, a bank cannot foreclose on a property-you cannot take back something you cannot prove you own.

Another interesting astrological fact is that, as the North Node and Pluto make their exact conjunction, Saturn will be conjunct within 1 degree of the USA's natal Saturn at 14 Libra, square the USA's Sun. The Pluto-Node conjunction will be opposite the USA's money planets Venus and Jupiter in Cancer, and applying to an opposition to the USA's Sun.

What we may be moving into is a change in the present makeup of our government, from "of, by and for big banks and corporations" to of, by and for the voters-a return of the democracy we like to believe we have. I'm not suggesting we hold our breaths till this change manifests in our daily lives, though, for where billions of profits are concerned, wealthy campaign contributors and their political beneficiaries get panicky.

Judges across the land who are involved in foreclosure cases have tended to side with the foreclosure industry. If a distressed homeowner was legally savvy enough, he or she could throw sand in the foreclosure machinery by hiring a lawyer to demand the bank involved show title to the property. Since so many titles have been put into the mortgage backed securities blender, there is no longer any way to un-blend and retrieve them. That Humpty Dumpy had a great fall.

What's to be done?

A Legal Aid attorney in Jacksonville, Florida, April Chamey, pioneered saving homeowners from foreclosure back in 2004 by demanding banks prove ownership by producing titles. She then filed "quiet title" actions on behalf of her homeowner clients. A quiet title action quiets all other claims, giving homeowners a fresh new title to their properties.

Thus may the python of justice digest both the Wall Street python and its pig."

Anyone interested in giving an astrological twist to this article on current financial news???

2010-07-28T17:17:00.000-07:00

I found this article to be quite insightful. Transiting Pluto in Capricorn squaring transiting Jupiter & Uranus in Aries is sure to bring lots of changes to the established world order & big business.

Fed Up with the Fed and the Welfare State??

"When we have a look at markets today, well...it's depressing. Day after day we all have to put up with the fraud of serious looking men and women in suits making a complete mockery of common sense, reason, and good judgment. As exhibit A in the case against the absurdists running our money and our economy into the ground, we offer the remarks this week of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.

Bernanke spooked investors in New York when he fronted a group of empty headed Senators in Washington and told them that the future of the U.S. economy was "unusually uncertain." But in a real boon to those of us looking forward to the inflationary effects of trillions of dollars more in quantitative easing, Bernanke assured the Senators that, "We remain prepared to take further policy actions as needed to foster a return to full utilization of our nation's productive potential in a context of price stability."

Can this sort of nonsense really be taken seriously? Unfortunately, we have to take it seriously because it has serious investment consequences.

But how long will it be before most people understand that the Fed, the regulators, and the monetary authorities have no credibility when it comes to: a) understanding what is going on, b) fixing it, c) confessing to their culpability in causing the misallocation of capital and the zombification of large chunks of the global banking sector and generally forcing all of us contemplate their moronic and opaque pablum?

These people really are vandals and thieves. We are encouraged to take them seriously and cede micromanagement of the economy and public life to people who don't have an entrepreneurial bone in their body. What a big con.

In any event, don't be fooled by the results of the stress test. Those so-called stress tests for European banks are just as much a whitewash of the real capital inadequacy issues as were the American stress tests. In fact, the whole exercise is perfect pretext for another round of central bank quantitative easing/outright support of asset prices.

After all, American and European banks are stuffed full of housing- backed securities and sovereign debt. The credit boom manifested itself in many assets. Much of the fiscal and monetary policy since 2000 has been designed to keep those assets from deflating. It can't work.

We reckon this latest and largest round of quantitative easing will come sooner than most people are expecting and be a lot less effective than some people are hoping. It's time to get ready for it now. Crank up the fan...here comes the merde.
.....We would instead make a high-handed, ivory tower, abstract kind of comment that the people of a nation can't all get rich by buying and selling houses from one another. For one, it's a singularly unambitious national goal. But that's not the biggest argument against it.

Creating a profit is hard. In some ways, it's unnatural. Profit is surplus value. Human beings improve their living standards by increasing productivity and efficiency through innovation and constant adaptation. The free market is a great mechanism for producing surplus, as long as risk taker and small businesspeople and crack pot inventors and dreamers and builders have access to capital. Of course the banks are under no obligation to take bad risks (unless you're talking about U.S. banks compelled to make loans to bad credit risks during the American housing boom.)

As for the aforementioned impending (we believe) quantitative easing round two, how should you prepare? Well, in the fashion that you find most fit naturally. But we'd suggest that asset markets are going to cop it good and hard in the second half of this year. We're expecting a one-two combination of big falls in stock markets and then wild, irresponsible, unprecedented and unconventional attempts to reflate by central banks."

Regards,

Dan Denning, The Daily Reckoning Australia

A friend asked me today about what was happening with Uranus the end of this month

2010-05-05T13:33:00.000-07:00

ACTUALLY A LOT OF THINGS ARE GOING TO BE HAPPENING THE END OF MAY and for SEVERAL MONTHS TO COME!:

The planet URANUS is now in the sign of PISCES (a water sign) (planet of revolutions, inventiveness, unpredictable) and it moves into the sign of ARIES ON THE 27TH (at which time then, URANUS is in opposition to SATURN and when it goes into LIBRA (JULY 21) it squares (can be a difficult aspect which creates tension and requires action) PLUTO (planet of big changes & power)
The planet SATURN (stability, order, planet of responsibility) GOES DIRECT on the 3OTH of May, 2010 @ 27' Virgo (sign of health & service work) and then moves into the sign of LIBRA (sign of balance, fairness & harmony) JULY 21. At this time, it forms a tight squared aspect to PLUTO in CAPRICORN (the world order, big business, politics) and an OPPOSITION to URANUS in ARIES.
NEPTUNE (planet of forgiveness, illusion & psychic energies) GOES RX on the 31ST of May @ 28' AQUARIUS (sign of humanitarianism)
JUPITER (planet of expansion, our belief systems) GOES INTO ARIES (sign of leaders, new beginnings, action) ON JUNE 5TH, adding more energy to the Cardinal PLUTO-URANUS-SATURN T-SQUARE.

Saturn & Uranus represent the present order & stability and Uranus represents upsets, changes & the breaking down of old outworn habits & structures. BOTH OF THESE PLANETS WILL BE IN OPPOSITION TO EACH OTHER AND IN A SQUARED ASPECT TO PLUTO...for many months. We are going to start seeing more and more PROACTIVE PEOPLE taking to the streets, the internet, wherever their voices can be heard and demanding FAIRNESS, ORDER & STABILITY in a NEW WAY that works for the MASSES (look at Greece and the people on the streets who are angry with their leaders as it pertains to their money & jobs, the people in Thailand who have been demanding their leaders do more for the masses)

Here is where I see where changes will be made:

THE Euro Dollar & The Federal Reserve system & The International Monetary Fund
Countries whose leaders are not in touch with the PEOPLE
POLITICS & POLITICIANS in general (people will want changes made so that the system works better for ALL, not just for those in power)
BIB BUSINESS who have no concern for the masses..only for their "$$$ bottom line"