Churchill's bloodthirsty Lusitania LIE!!

With Pluto (0CP33) peripartile conjunct Mercury(0CP25) in 0 degrees of Capricorn in the lunation chart of 12th Dec 08, dirty little secrets are bound to emerge. The probing beneath the surface (Pluto) of knowledge (Mercury) inevitably reveals hidden information (Pluto cj Mercury) of a political nature (Capricorn).

In the last week or so, the salvage team diving on the wreck of the Lusitania off the coast of Ireland has demonstrably proven what the Germans have claimed all along ... the ship was carrying arms from New York to Liverpool, specifically FOUR MILLION rounds of .303 ammo. As such it was a legitimate military target. The Lusitania sank in 1915, within minutes of a U-Boat torpedo strike, killing 1200 victims, a hundred children included.

The anti-German spluttering on both sides of the Atlantic exploded as people loudly condemned this slaughter of innocents. As a direct result of this civilian massacre, the USA entered the war in 1917 and tens of thousands of Americans swarmed to enlist. Germany lost the war.

As it turns out, Churchill (then first Lord of the Admiralty) was aware of the Lusitania's provocative cargo and was in fact hoping for just such an incident to bring America into the war.

Now, thanks to the Pluto-Mercury contact, with Mercury way out of bounds in an extreme southern declination (-25:27), those who bear true responsibility for this outrage are coming to light for the first time in nearly a century.

Let's start with Churchill for setting up the sting. Then there are the functionaries of the US military industrial complex (Remington has been mentioned) who cynically participated in Churchill's scam by shipping arms on a civilian liner. I daresay more of these greedy bloodthirsty pigs will come to light before the salvage is over.

Note from the astromap below, how the Pluto-Mercury conjunction is tightly angular across Dublin, the political capital of Ireland, where the salvage is taking place.

Click the map to enlarge.

2012 Series - Part 1 - How it works ...

This series of posts (of which this is the first) deals with important celestial configurations shaping up in the skies over the next 8 years. These patterns have been associated in certain circles with apocalyptic scenarios relating to the end of the Mayan long count around the December solstice in 2012 ... along with all the other WW III end-of-the-world nightmare scenarios that people have been expecting since 1988.

By the way, 1988 was fingered thanks to Alsacian prophet Alois Irlmaier whose prophecies mention a date with "two 8's and a 9". Since this ambiguous piece of crap can mean anything from 1988 to any day in August 1998 to 8th August 2009, cult heroes and their zombies have been periodically holding onto their hats waiting for nukes to start flying.

21st century astrologers have an advantage over idiot gurus and their zombie acolytes because we have access to high precision astronomical ephemerides, Pentium processors, and all of recorded history delivered to the desktop via broadband. This is how it works ... Step 1: look at what is coming up in the sky; Step 2: search back in time to find the same or similar configurations; Step 3: research history for what happened on the previous occasions these same celestial patterns shaped up in the heavens; Step 4: based on this, draw appropriate and sensible conclusions about what might be coming up in the future.

The world is already experiencing some 2012 configs. The 8 year series kicked off in January 2008 with Pluto's ingress into Capricorn, followed by the Uranus-Saturn opposition which came into 1 degree orb round about the same time the markets crashed. Funny that.

This is not the forum to discuss the future of the markets and the SA economy as this information has been bought and paid for by my corporate subscribers. But it makes for very interesting reading, I can assure you.

I will be featuring all the other significant 2012 transits. So, if you're worried about what might be happening to the world, keep checking the blog.

UPDATE: Uranus sq Mars strikes KZN

Accident 11 Dec 08:

At least 40 people were injured on Thursday when an SA Roadlink bus crashed on the N3 freeway in the KwaZulu-Natal midlands, paramedics said. Paramedics said the bus collided with another private bus, while police said the bus in question had hit three vehicles. Police spokesperson Inspector Joey Jeevan said the SA Roadlink bus collided with three vehicles in Lions River in the midlands. "We don't know the extent of the accident or if there were any injuries or fatalities. Our police officers are on their way to the scene," she said. ER24 spokesperson Derrick Banks said both buses were fully laden and that the Roadlink bus was a double-decker. "Over 40 people have been injured, but at this time we don't have an exact figure. The driver of the SA Roadlink bus was trapped and he is being extricated." Netcare 911 spokesperson Chris Botha said paramedics were presently heading to the scene. "All we know right now is that there are a lot of patients with injuries... we don't know how
many." No fatalities have been reported thus far. Nonkululeko Mbatha, spokesperson for the provincial transport department, was not immediately available for comment. Health department spokesprson Chris Maxon was also not available for comment.

Conflict & Accident

11 - 13 December 2008 (next few days) are dominated by the mutable Uranus-Mars square. This is a quarrelsome, accident-prone kind of vibe. Expect religious conflicts, spectacular car accidents due to high speed and negligence, leg injuries.

Hotspots (inter alia) are Cape Town, Gauteng, Durban, Katanga (DRC), Toledo, Stockholm, Budapest, Sarajevo, Denver, New York, Adelaide (Australia), Dunedin (NZ).

People with active planets in 18,19 degrees of mutable signs will be affected. For starters, the following birthdays puts the Sun in 18-19 degrees mutable: 8-10 May, 10-12 Sept, 10-11 Dec, 8-10 March.

Other birth dates that might run into trouble in the next few days are:

• Oct 22 1965 - Mar 3 1966
• Aug 7 1966 - Oct 25 1966
• Feb 20 1967 - Aug 29 1967
• Aug 8 1972 - Nov 29 1972
• Apr 24 1973 - May 13 1973
• Feb 7 1978 - May 1 1978
• Dec 3 1978 - Dec 5 1979 ... a big group!

That's enough for now. There are some birth dates for kids born 1995 and 2002 - 2003 which could be tricky but I need to sleep now.

Tension between the signs Sagittarius (Mars) and Pisces (Uranus) usually points to conflicts over matters of philosophy and belief, mainly in the religious domain. However, strongly held political dogmas sometimes also fall into the category of "blind faith". In this context, the next few days could bring heightened political tensions in the hotspots mentioned.

If your birthday falls into one of the above mentioned periods don't assume anything will necessarily happen - a whole lot of factors need to line up before the potential collapses into reality. Just take it easy and be careful - especially if you're driving in one of the hotspots listed. The only way to be sure about these things is for me to pore over your chart.

If you want to be checked out contact me.

Mugabe - will he last beyond first week Feb 2009?

Enough of the explosions & fires.

Let us turn our attention to the solstice chart for December 2008. Unlike the rest of astrologers in the world, I maintain and always will that the solstice represents the midpoint of the period over which the ingress chart has jurisdiction. The Capricorn ingress therefore rules the 6 odd weeks prior to the solstice and the 6 weeks after - ie. from around 7th November to 3rd or 4th February. (Traditionally, the Capricorn ingress chart would rule the period between the December solstice and March equinox, ie. from 21 Dec to 20 March.)

The Capricorn ingress for 2008 has a very interesting feature: a Pluto-Sun conjunction ... not unexpected since slow moving Pluto entered the sign of Capricorn scant weeks ago.

The Sun in a mundane chart represents the ruling political authority, cabinet ministers, and the president in particular. When the Sun conjoins Pluto, the planet of power and transformation, in a sensitive degree (solstice point) which is 90 degrees to the vernal point fiducial (0 Aries), in the sign of Capricorn - the zodiacal segment with jurisdiction over government and political authority - THEN we are looking at some pretty powerful political forces at work. The phrase "regime change" comes to mind.

Pluto's modus operandi takes many forms. Leaders can drop dead. Or they can be deposed. Or they can resign. Or they can be voted out. Whatever the case, the old one departs and a new one takes his place.

The question is, where in the world will these regime changes take place? A more appropriate question is: where in the world will incumbent leaders and administrations experience enormous pressures from the currents of destiny that prompt them to get the hell out?

The Pluto-Sun complex in the solstice chart will make itself felt in locations where it interacts with an angle. ESPECIALLY those locations where Pluto-Sun is aspecting both axes. Astromapping makes it a simple matter to identify affected countries: Canada, Ukraine and ... not surprisingly, Zimbabwe.

Canada is a vast landmass and has three different locations which meet the criterion of interaction between the Pluto-Sun conjunction and both axes simultaneously. However, none of these locations fall anywhere near major political centres such as Ottowa. Still, it is interesting to note that the conservative Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper avoided losing a no-confidence vote by suspending parliament until 27 January. The liberal-progressive forces are howling in indignation. Can he keep his minority government intact, come the new year? Time will tell. But these moves to get rid of him and his administration are typical of an active Pluto-Sun conjunction. It is quite possible that a no-confidence motion will be tabled and passed before the expiry of the Capricorn ingress jurisdiction in first week Feb.

The other case in the news at the moment is President Yushchenko in Kiev. As of today, the Ukranians have put together a new coalition government after a deadlock of some months. The emergence of the new government is also typical of the kind of political transformations wrought by the Pluto-Sun conjunction. One wonders whether the coalition will survive the balance of the ingress jurisdiction, given that powerful "regime change" forces remain operational in the region.

The most glaring activity of the Pluto-Sun complex appears in the ingress chart erected for Harare, Zimbabwe. Click images below to enlarge chart and astromap. The Pluto-Moon contact trines the Asc, inconjuncts IC. This is a text book case of a country ripe for regime change. Indeed, you will note that the cholera crisis entered the international headspace in the 2nd week of November, precisely when the Capricorn ingress chart kicked off its jurisdiction. It is this same cholera outbreak which is fomenting unprecedented challenges to the Mugabe regime. In the Harare chart, note how the Pluto-Sun complex is hugging the 9th house cusp - inter alia significating churches and legal environments. In this context, we observe that some of Mugabe's most strident critics of late have been church leaders. There are also moves afoot to have Mugabe indicted by the ICC in the Hague.

If ever there was a time to unseat Mugabe this is it. Once the Aries 2009 ingress assumes jurisdiction around first week in Feb 2009, the regime change momentum tails off and Mugabe regains his foothold. Any intervention to turf out Mugabe, whether foreign or internal, will be harmonising with natural cycles and should enjoy a high level of success. This is a window of opportunity during which Mugabe has never been weaker or more compromised.

Mars cj Sun = explosions: UPDATE #9

Explosion in San Diego, Monday 8th, caused by fighter jet crash.

A fighter jet returning to a Marine base after a training exercise crashed in flames in a San Diego neighborhood Monday, killing three people on the ground, leaving one missing and destroying two homes.

The pilot of the F/A-18D Hornet jet ejected safely just before the crash around noon at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar. Explosions rocked a neighborhood of half-million-dollar homes, sending flames and plumes of smoke skyward.

"The house shook; the ground shook. It was like I was frozen in my place," said Steve Krasner, who lives a few blocks from the crash. "It was bigger than any earthquake I ever felt."

Three people were killed in a house where two children, a mother and a grandmother were believed to be at the time of the crash, but fire officials did not immediately know who died. Another person remained missing, and officials said the search was suspended until Tuesday morning.

Pluto90MC (1:08) in sunrise. That makes 4 out of 11 incidents reported so far where Pluto is complicit.

Mars cj Sun = explosions: UPDATE #8

Huge fire in Mount Hua National Park, Shaanxi, China - apparently flared up 1:30pm Monday 8th, still burning 20 hours later.

A mountain forest in northwest China's Shaanxi Province has been ablaze for nearly 20 hours and at least 100 forestry workers are still working all-out Tuesday to extinguish the fire. The fire started in the weeds and bushes near the Huangfu Valley in the renowned Mount Hua at 1:30 p.m. Monday, said a clerk with the mountain's management committee. She said the committee and the local government sent a fire fighting team to the site shortly after smokes and flames were detected. "But it was impossible to put out the fire right away because the place was extremely steep," the clerk said on condition of anonymity. A second team was sent to the fire site at 5 a.m. Tuesday, she said. "Until now, I can still see thick smokes through the windows of my office." She said no casualties had been reported so far and the cause of the fire was being investigated. Mount Hua, in the Qinling Mountain Range, is about 100 kilometers east of Xi'an, the provincial capital. It is one of China's five renowned Taoist mountains and has several influential Taoist temples.

Pluto90MC in sunrise chart. Interestingly, the orb of this aspect in sunrise for 8th is 1:35. The orb on 7th is 0:19. Therefore, we conclude the fire started in the period of jurisdiction held by the sunrise chart on the 7th ... ie. before sunset on the 7th. So reports of the fire starting 1:30pm on 8th may be inaccurate.

Mars cj Sun = explosions: UPDATE #7

Mountain fire, Gordons Bay, Cape Town, Dec 8th.

A raging mountain fire in Gordon's Bay on Monday has resulted in dozens of people being evacuated, fire officials and police said.

"The fire jumped across a dam on the Cape Town side and has now gone down the mountain," said Reinard Geldenhuis of Cape Nature Conservation Fire management.

An inspector at the Steenbrass Forest station said it was suspected that the fire was started on a farm and spread quickly due to "strong wind conditions".

He said no fatalities had been reported but that firefighters had been battling to contain the flames.

Said Geldenhuis: "We are still fighting the fire on our side and trying to prevent it from going towards the residential area."

BML120MC in sunrise chart.

Pics below taken on evening of Dec 8th.

Mars cj Sun = explosions: UPDATE #6

Fire guts Russian naval ship in Baltic port, Dec 8th.

One naval officer died in a fire on Russia's Baltic Fleet frigate the Neukrotimy (Indomitable) on Monday, a senior Navy official said. "The body of an officer was discovered during a thorough search of the ship," Captain 1st Rank Igor Dygalo, an aide to the Russian Navy commander, said. Earlier reports said no one had been hurt in the fire that broke out early on Monday on the frigate anchored at Baltiisk, the Baltic Fleet's main base. A regional emergencies official said the fire was put out at 14:00 Moscow time (11:00 a.m. GMT). He said five firefighting teams, including a special firefighting boat, had been involved in extinguishing the fire. The Baltic Fleet press service said only insignificant damage had been caused to the vessel, while the cause of the fire had yet to be established by a special investigations commission. Dygalo said the frigate, at the end of its operational life span, was due to be taken out of service, adding there had been no weapons on board the ship when the fire started.

Merc 60 MC, Jup 90 MC in sunrise chart. Note similarity to UPDATE #5.

Mars cj Sun = explosion: UPDATE #5

Seven dead in methane explosion in Vietnam mine, Monday Dec 8th.

A blast Monday at a coal mine in northern Vietnam killed at least seven workers and injured 15, a company executive said. Rescue workers pulled their bodies from a 750-foot-deep 230-meter-deep) tunnel in Quang Ninh province and were still searching for another victim following the methane explosion early Monday morning, said Nguyen Van Thuan of the Khe Cham Coal company. Fifteen miners were being treated for burns, while 103 others escaped unhurt, he said. Authorities believe the miners died from severe burns. Investigators were trying to determine what started the blast, Thuan said. Quang Ninh, about 120 miles (190 kilometers) east of capital Hanoi, is Vietnam's main coal mining region.

In sunrise chart we have Merc90MC, Jup120MC. Mars 0 Sun 0:33 separating.

Mars cj Sun = explosions: UPDATE #4

Peshawar again - 62 NATO trucks go up in smoke on Dec 7th.

Pakistani police say suspected militants have killed a policeman and torched 62 trucks at a terminal used to supply Nato and US troops in Afghanistan. Police official Kashif Alam says about 30 assailants attacked the terminal near the northwestern city of Peshawar with rockets and guns early on Sunday. Alam says fire engulfed 62 trucks and containers likely carrying supplies to foreign forces in Afghanistan.

Pluto90MC in sunrise chart. Sun cj Mars (0:20 separating)

Sun cj Mars = explosions: UPDATE #3

Bomb blast in Peshawar Pakistan Dec 5th 2008:

At least 20 persons have been killed and over 80 others injured in a high intensity explosion in Koocha Risaldar located behind Qisa Khawani Bazar in Peshawar on Friday. Police sources confirmed the above casualties which resulted after a powerful blast in a narrow and congested ally where a market is situated. The injured including women and children are being shifted to different hospitals of the city including Lady Reading Hospital where emergency has been declared. Power went off in the area after the explosion, plunging the area into darkness. Ambulances and rescue teams headed towards the blast site - a congested area which has been cordoned off by the police. Windowpanes of the nearby buildings were shattered by the blast which also damaged many shops and vehicles. The blast also triggered fire which is being extinguished by the fire fighters. IG NWFP, Malik Naveed Khan talking to Geo News said about 20 to 25 kilograms of explosives were used in the blast which was planted in a vehicle. He said the explosion has left a crater on the ground which indicates the blast was not a suicide attack.

BML90MC in sunrise chart. Sun cj Mars (=Asc) (0:14). The conjunction is slowly separating now but remains lethal.

Sun cj Mars = explosions: UPDATE #2

Just in from Kamiros, Rhodes ...

Firefighters struggled in their attempts Thursday [4 Dec 08] to contain a blaze that started a day earlier in the Kamiros region of Greece, authorities said. Fire crews have been battling the fire on the island of Rhodes since Wednesday, but firefighting aircraft have been limited in their efforts by strong winds in the area. The area is under a state of emergency ordered by the civil protection general secretariat. Authorities told the news agency the fire had already consumed nearly 6 square miles of brushland and forest.

BML90MC in sunrise chart of Dec 3rd. Not an explosion, per se, but intense fire.

Sun 0 Mars has now moved beyond the nodal degree. The conjunction remains in 1 degree orb until Dec 10th. It is still an explosive, fiery force, and perhaps becomes more so as Mars applies to square Uranus, partiling on the 12th.

Sun cj Mars = explosions: UPDATE #1

The following report has just come in at 04:44 UTC (6:44am SA).

Montserrat's Soufriere Hills Volcano has erupted, hurling hot rocks more than half a mile in the air, and setting buildings ablaze in the abandoned capital Plymouth. Roderick Stewart Director of the volcano observatory in Montserrat, said buildings burned for several hours but no one was injured or evacuated. According to Mr. Stewart, the blast was smaller than the July explosion which spewed ash some 40,000 feet into the air. "It generally happen without any warning ... the first thing I heard was the explosion which alerted me that something was going on ... I went outside and there was a lot of ash in the atmosphere. Mr. Stewart added that there were lightening strikes associated with the ash clouds and glowing rocks could be seen on the side of the volcano that had been thrown out from the lava dome. "We could also see that a lava flow had gone down into Plymouth which had been abandoned a long time ago and there were actually some building burning several miles from the volcano," he added.

In the sunrise chart erected for Montserrat, we have Mercury90MC, Chiron150MC, Uranus0IC.

As an aside, you would be surprised at how often Chiron is complicit in extreme natural phenomena. The recent floods in Santa Catarina province in Brazil had Chiron written all over them. This wounded healer does a lot more wounding than healing, I think. It was also involved in the collapse of those two schools in Haiti towards end October.

Sun cj Mars = explosions

Traditionally in astrology, in return charts and lunations one is supposed to pay attention to planets in the degree of the Node as they are thought to be significant players in the forecast. I have not found this to be so. Planets that interact with angles of return charts, in tight orb (<1 degree) are far more important.

Occasionally, you get a blockbuster scenario where planets interact with angles AND tenant a degree of the Node. Such a case occurred today (3/12/08) in the sunrise chart. The rising Sun conjoins Mars both of which trine the South Node in 12 degrees of the fire triplicity. An even tighter orb of conjunction occurs in the sunrise chart tomorrow (4th).

This is an explosive combination. Already, an apartment complex has blown up in Gava, south west of Barcelona, in the early hours of the morning. And a fertilizer plant in southern Norway blew its lid later in the day. People have died and been horribly burnt in both cases. There will be other incidents before the setting of the Sun tomorrow evening (4th).

The question is where? How does one locate where these explosions are to take place? Sun cj Mars cj Asc in the degree of the Node applies across the globe in all the sunrise charts. The key to nailing down location is to look at aspects to the MC in the sunrise chart. In Gava, Pluto90MC. In Heroya (south), Jupiter90MC. Both within 1 degree orb.

With the current level of technology in astromapping, searching for such locations is like looking for the proverbial needle in the haystack.

Vote yourself into a love and sex fest in 2009 - the Obama way!!

Barack Hussein Obama - from less than zero to President in 2 years. HOW???


Mr Obama's rise to power has been prodigious. Starting as a rank outsider, he trounced establishment favourite Hillary Clinton to win the democratic nomination, and then annihiliated John McCain in the elections on November 4th.

To achieve this, as a "black" man, he had to overcome the innate racism of the American electorate. His time spent at a madrassa in Indonesia and a middle name of Hussein by all accounts should have wiped him out from get go. He also had to side-step a wave of homophobia associated with one time casual lover Larry Sinclair. (Fortunately, the main stream media never pushed this one.) Also, it seems he has got away with being elected without ever having to prove he was a natural born citizen. (The latter might just trip him up at the last minute - court cases demanding he show his original birth certificate have mushroomed all of the the USA, including one that is before the supreme court at the moment.)

For astrologers, by far his most challenging obstacle was the moment of the official launch of his presidential campaign; the moment he announced to the world that he was in the market to be president. February 10th 2007, 10:13am, Springfield, Illinois.

Astrologers everywhere, me included, scratched their heads about this. Clearly. Mr Obama was NOT using an astrologer to elect important events in the campaign, especially the announcement of his run. The Moon of this chart is most greviously voided, fallen in Scorpio, and losing light to boot. Three primary rules of classical electional astrology broken in a single moment. If the traditional approach to electing slots for success holds any water, Obama should not have been elected and will never be president of the USA.

Clearly, something has gone wrong with the astrology?

Or has it?

After studying Obama Announcement chart, I detected a unique geometry which appears to have upended some of astrology's dearly held assumptions and axioms. Sure, it is better to start important projects in a waxing phase, with a strong lunar dignity, the Moon in her joy and good aspect development. BUT!!! ... this Obama geometry is SO POWERFUL it cares not a fig for the classical rules. Obama rampaged to victory, notwithstanding the waning, voided, fallen Moon of the announcement chart.

I have changed my mind. This Barack Hussein Obama has a BRILLIANT astrologer on the payroll!

Anyone can take advantage of the Obama technique. For example, today, there is a beautiful Venus-Jupiter conjunction in the sky. Using the Obama geometry it is possible to leverage this config for maximum success in the field of love. Here's how.

Step 1: Choose your mark and get his/her phone number.
Step 2: Decide when you want the project to pay off ... in 2 months, 5 months, 18 months?
Step 3: Consult moi for the right time to call and invite the chosen one on a date.
Step 4: Make the call.
Step 5: Pursue success in this project with single-minded focus as though you were trying to achieve something really important like become the president.

It is probably a bit late to take advantage of today's conjunction. But there is a sextile coming up around Valentine's day in February '09, another one in June, and a trine in July. Any of these patterns can be leveraged to initiate love/sex fests which you are hoping will bear fruit later on in 2009.

Actually, the Obama geometry can be used for success in just about anything. And one does not need to wait for benefic aspects to shape up between Venus and Jupiter.

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Go for it. You know you want to! If you're lonely like my ex friend who accused me of poisoning him with psychoactive entheogens, and spend too much time doing bad things in front of your 500Gb porn collection, you really need to get out and try something new.

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Ha Ha - Pierre's Blog scores its first success - unbeknownst to Pierre

In reading back over one of the earlier blog posts this morning ... entitled 1994 inauguration chart is radix ... I see that I inadvertantly made another prediction which has already materialised in fact.

In this post, date stamped 23rd September 2008, 3:32pm, I made the following statement:

By the time this progression plays out (March 2009), the face of "opposition politics" will have been completely transformed.

As you have no doubt noticed, October and November witnessed the birth of the new opposition party COPE.

Workshop 2004 - Zuma loses

On perusing my notes from the 2004 workshop, I see there was a prediction that Cde J Zuma loses a bruising fight in 2008/2009. At the time, I speculated this fight could be related to the succession battle. Clearly, the events of the Polokwane conference have proven otherwise. Then, again, in the light of the Nicholson judgement, it appeared that Mr Zuma was unstoppable in his quest to assume the presidency of the country. Apart from the appeal before the Supreme Court (judgement due January 2009), he seems pretty much on track to take the cake.

Still, for what it is worth, here is the pertinent paragraph taken from the 2004 workshop notes:

2008/2009 … here is the big story. Mars-p cj Pluto … there’s a fight he is not going to win. It probably has to do with the succession battle. It’s tough. It’s bruising. It’s dirty. He loses. It is unlikely his political career will survive. Already starting in 2008 Uranus and Saturn squares natal Mars. There is a lot of anger. Let’s just hope that a political battlefield does not spill over into something more serious. With his Piscean Moon, Jacob doesn’t really have the stomach for a protracted bruising conflict.

In light of recent history, I was perhaps a bit hasty in drawing the conclusion that JZ will lose. After all, I do not have a chart with a rectified birth time. I think at this juncture we should not attempt any further predictions until we have a birth time for the honorable comrade. Watch this space.

Workshop Nov 2004 - Outlook for South Africa

Notes from November 2004 Workshop. Three charts were used in this compilation: Inauguration 1994, Inauguration 1999, Thabo Mbeki's natal horoscope.

§ Major theme#1: economy … huge amounts of foreign direct investment, strong, bouyant, subject of national focus, energetic, largely due to the efforts and insights of the president as mentioned before. (A:Sun tr Jup EBP, B:Merc sx Mars, B:Sun cj Merc). Applies to rest of 2004 and 2005. The political focus on the economy shifts in 2006 as progressed Moon moves from 2nd into 3rd house … attention now turns to education, universities, transport infrastructure, etc.
§ Major theme#2: crime rate … notwithstanding assurances to the contrary, 2005 hosts and unprecedented rise in corruption and violent crime. (A:Pl opp Mars, B:Nep sq Moon). Sadly, the focus is so much on the economy and the rich getting richer, that any sympathy for ordinary people suffering from this malaise is drowned by the clanging of Kruger rands. The other factor to consider is the differential between rich and poor magnifies, which only exacerbates the crime situation.
§ Major theme#3: First quarter 2006 … tough time for the government and Mbeki in particular. There is frustration. Heavy burdens of state. Nothing seems to be working out. The cabinet is not achieving anything. A: Moon is void of course and B:enters via combusta. No crisis. Just difficulties.
§ Major theme#4: 2nd to 4th quarter 2006 sweetness and light. A very gentle, peaceful vibe. The calm before the storm. Parliament is operating well, strong approval ratings from the people. It appears that nothing much can go wrong. If SA was a person, she’d be falling in love. (Nep tr Venus, 11th house ref)
§ Major theme #5: There seems to be a political crisis of some sort that strikes towards end 2006 and dominates 2007 and 2008. It is in the making for quite some time before this but no-one realises the depth of the threat until it is too late. The pressure on Mbeki is enormous. He gets it from all sides. Internally, within the ANC there are moves to dilute his authority (B:Nep sq Sun). Externally, the political opposition puts the boot in. (ASC-p sq Pl). He is exhausted. It seems to be connected to a major crisis in foreign policy/foreign relations. The whole mess intrudes quite deeply into 2008. There definitely appears to be a leadership crisis, within the cabinet, within parliament. The chart for 1999 inauguration which also serves as Mbeki’s personal odyssey as president, has the Moon going void from Oct 5 2007 through to November 2008, barely 4 months or so before his term would have ended anyway. We have to ask ourselves the question, given all the above, given the adverse indicators in Mbeki’s own natal chart, will this president complete his term in office? Or will this political crisis intervene to force his resignation or retirement in some way?
§ Whatever happens, SA has been served by a very talented man who can take personal credit for the excellent state of the economy, as much as Mboweni and Manuel might be the direct recipients of the accolades.
§ Interesting quirk: constitutional chart for Feb 3 1997, Moon-p void end 2009 and remains so through to April 2011.

Workshop Nov 2004 - Mbeki's Outlook

Notes from November 2004 workshop dealing with what the next 5 years had in store for President Mbeki. These prognostications were based on a solar chart, in the absence of a rectified birth time.

§ Emphasise the difficulty of obtaining accurate results without a birth time
§ Having said that, it is possible to get some idea of the stresses and influences, and potential events, operating in the life of the president. The timing of these is necessarily fuzzy.
§ Explain progressions
§ Venus-p activating Pluto-Mars complex: his personal style of slave driving and bending everyone to his will is in extremely sharp focus at the moment … this continues well into 2006. A lot of people are going to bite the dust. This could take the form of cabinet reshuffles, changing his advisers, changing his circle of friends, and even on an international scale he may revise his circle of preferred partners. This theme is reinforced by the Neptune sq Venus transit during 2006 … disappointments in relationships. People he thought were on side and okay turn out to be the wrong choices. And Saturn sq Venus … definitely the ending of certain important relationships over the years.
§ Merc-p sq Merc-r: circa 2008, 2009. When an intellectual like Mbeki experiences a progression like this, it portends a serious intellectual challenge to this ideas and thinking. He will become even more of a controversial figure … very similar to the situation with his HIV/AIDS position.
§ Merc-p tr Venus: At same time his thinking and intellectual life is harmoniously received by his milieu, by the people he surrounds himself with, by the people he enjoys relating to … we see a very similar situation arising to the HIV debate where his yes-men all took the same position.
§ The transits of Mercury reinforce this theme. 2007/2008 Mercury comes under fire from Uranus (sq Merc) – revolutionary conflicts in the realm of ideas and there is jarring intellectual controversy. He starts to communicate more and more erratically. And 2008/2009 sees Mercury under attack by Saturn – his intellectual excesses are curbed … such as when he was forced into a climb down on the AIDS things. And he was forced to stop sounding off on the whole thing.
§ Sun-p ingress Virgo: Around the same time. The last 30 years has seen Mbeki’s sun moving through Leo, the sign of the king, the leader, the creator, the risk-taker, the proud one, the desire to be looked up to, be adored, be seen and recognised. In 2008/2009 he transitions into Virgo, the sign of the servant, the sign of practicality, the sign of the perfectionist, where he sands off the rough edges of the last three decades and puts the finishing touches on his life’s work.
§ August 2005: He looks to be having a huge clash. A fundamental and bitter disagreement that occasions much anger.
§ Pluto opp Sun: this is the story for 2006 and 2007. A very difficult transit. The universe starts assaulting his basic identity. It is a very threatening and challenging transit. For a world leader like Mbeki, this kind of pressure could easily occasion a bit of paranoia. It portends an unprecedented challenge to his power and authority. It also holds the possibility that his power and authority may be abused or mishandled in some way. Whatever happens, Thabo Mbeki the man will never be he same again. No-one emerges from a transit like this unchanged.
§ Neptune tr Merc: 2006 … a soft, gentle Neptunian hit to Mbeki’s important Mercury. Dare we say that the intellectual Mbeki experiences moments of intuition and compassion, and he’s quite comfortable with it.
§ 2009: Uranus sq Sun: uncomfortable turbulence; change that comes out of the blue – coincides with the next election. Given this aspect and the difficulties he has as a person during the next five years, it is unlikely that he will go for a third term (which will involve a constitutional amendment); it is unlikely that he would even want to. These are mostly not happy times for President Mbeki.

1994 Inauguration Chart is Radix

Mandela took the oath of office at 12:20pm, May 10th 1994, Pretoria (Tshwane).

The tumultuous events in SA politics of the last 12 months - Polokwane conference, recharging of Zuma, Nicholson judgement, culminating in the resignation of Mbeki & some of his cabinet - have occurred under the pAsc sq nPluto progression in this inauguration chart, which has been in orb since September 2007.

The primary aphorism in Ronald Davison's Technique of Prediction states "No important event in the life ever comes to pass unless a direction involving an angle of the horoscope is in force at the time." We can assume therefore that this inauguration chart is radix as it tells the story of the remaking of the SA political scene.

[Note also the solar arc Saturn in octile to radix Asc-Dsc axis, further confirmation of the chart's radicality.]

Pluto in the inauguration chart tenants the 4th house and is the modern ruler of the 4th. It is therefore a very powerful significator of the "political opposition" to the ruling authority (10th house). This has two implications for the short term future of the political landscape.

1. The putsch that unseated Mbeki originated in structures which equivalenced a "political opposition". In other words, even though the ANC post-Polokwane were ostensibly still the governing party, for all intents and purposes they operated as a political opposition to the Mbeki cabinet.

2. By the time this progression plays out (March 2009), the face of "opposition politics" will have been completely transformed.

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Birth of New South Africa

Progressed Ephemeris 1995-2015

Mbeki's 2008 Resignation Predicted in 2004

In November 2004, I delivered an astrological workshop to about 70 people on the subject of South Africa's political future. One of the prognostications derived from the Mbeki 1999 inauguration chart was as follows:

"There seems to be a political crisis of some sort that strikes towards end 2006 and dominates 2007 and 2008. It is in the making for quite some time before this but no-one realises the depth of the threat until it is too late. The pressure on Mbeki is enormous. He gets it from all sides. Internally, within the ANC there are moves to dilute his authority (B:Nep sq Sun). Externally, the political opposition puts the boot in. (ASC-p sq Pl). He is exhausted. It seems to be connected to a major crisis in foreign policy/foreign relations. The whole mess intrudes quite deeply into 2008. There definitely appears to be a leadership crisis, within the cabinet, within parliament. The chart for 1999 inauguration which also serves as Mbeki’s personal odyssey as president, has the Moon going void from Oct 5 2007 through to November 2008, barely 4 months or so before his term would have ended anyway. We have to ask ourselves the question, given all the above, given the adverse indicators in Mbeki’s own natal chart, will this president complete his term in office? Or will this political crisis intervene to force his resignation or retirement in some way?"

Mbeki resigned in a public address to the nation at 19:30 (GMT+2), Pretoria, 21st September 2008.