The London FTSE stock exchange took quite a hit as 60 billion GBP vanished from sight, and as I write this blog US futures today are at a very ominious -560.  Basically the world is having pre-shivers on the state of the global economy and its current world reserve currency, the US dollar.

There is very little confidence in the Bush plan unveiled last Friday giving tax rebates to US consumers, is mainly seen as an act of desparation. As this is all hitting the collective consciousness, it is not surprising that the stars are reflecting the sharp pangs of fear throughout the global economy.  There is a unique line-up of malefic planets: the Sun is exactly bisecting Mars and Saturn in the sky today. 

One of my favorite astrology books, The Combination of Stellar Influences , refers to this particular combination of planets as "...weak vitality, the inability to meet all demands or to master all situations."

Tomorrow, when the US stock market opens after its Martin Luther King Day holiday, it will be afflicted by the conjunction of Mercury and Neptune. This will most certainly have the effect of producing false, misleading, or abjectly delusory perceptions of the state of affairs.  The US stock market of course has its Plunge Protection Team as its ace in the whole, which either massively sells off stocks or buys them up to maintain the perception that all is well in the American economic scene.

The Astrology of The US-Iran War, Part I

The rhetoric of the US against the regime in Iran has continued to escalate to a slow, but steady burn.  It seems the latest trip of President Bush to the Middle East was solely to ramp up more the perception of the "need" to deal with the "threat" from Iran.

A hypothetical strategy may be involved: a US attack may occur sometime this year but before the elections or at least the next inauguration.  This way the supposed new “anointed” candidate, Hillary Clinton, will benefit.  She can be seen as one who didn’t start the Iran war but now can manage it; she could get two terms mileage out of it.  Bush steps out in a blaze of glory, as it were; but this gives Hillary....

Breaking News: Mars Station on US Natal Mars  

In this wild system we have over here in the States called the presidential elections, there is endless opportunity to speculate on the ups and downs of the various candidates.  Personally I find them nothing more than straw-men, of little personal substance but definitely tied to more covert and monied interests that already own the world. 

Guliani's Vedic cycles (Rahu dasa) are fairly good, but may also have some fatal undermining qualities to it, since its ruler is the Moon in the malefic twelfth house.  Mike Huckabee, a pretty typical governor from Arkansas, is on the rise. He, of course, caters to the Republican religious right; who like that good old Bible thumping Christian zealotry that stirs the heart so, but may put the mind to rest a little too easily. 

Ron Paul of course is a complete wildcard, not playing anyone's game but his own....