Perhaps this is due to a flaw in my skills as an internet user; I just try combinations of words and phrases in the 'google' search engine …things like Astrology + "Patriot Act"…and whatever permutations on these themes I can summon to my increasingly dumbfounded brain.

But no matter what I've tried, I've found nothing; zero, zilch! Nothing on Lois Rodden's site, nothing on Michael Meyer's site, nothing on Mountain Astrologer, or Star IQ (god, what a ghastly handle that is…who among us hasn't seen through IQ tests ! Is StarIQ attempting to 'test' the intelligence of the stars, or are its creators trying to plug their own intelligence ?)…but I did find the chart itself on StarCats.com along with the comment provided by the hostess of this site that she literally 'saw' George W. Bush sign HR 3162 into law LIVE on MSNBC TV at precisely 10:56 AM on October 26, 2001 and that she (Claudia D. Dikinis) will be posting her comments about it ! * ( As of a few days ago Claudia has done it, posted her pithy, direct commentary-analysis right here:) http://starcats.com/newsmakers.html

This means that it's been over a year since this staggering LAW was passed and still the public, 'Big-Guns' astrological community has nothing or very little to say about it. Why, I wonder?

Perhaps it has to do with what I call "Astrology in the Grip of Saturn"…a certain fixation within contemporary astrology to place far too much emphasis upon 'facts', 'details', and 'data'; a certain desire on the part of astrologers to feel themselves to be 'scientifically objective' !

Well, folks, it just so happens that this very same Saturn symbol plays a prominent role in the horoscope of the 'Patriot Act', -the new US LAW signed by G.W, Bush as HR 3162. So, without further ado, let's plunge into a study of the chart.

PART ONE: That Old Red White And Blue Magic Has Me In Its Spell;
Pluto Opposed by Saturn.

Here we go again, it's the opposition of Saturn in Gemini to Pluto in Sagittarius showing up right on cue across the Ascendant-Descendant line of the horoscope for the 'Patriot Act' !

It's a strange ballroom dance resembling a kind of Tango replete with costly black attire, full orchestra, and the hot and heavy passion of Garcia Lorca's Duende! Authority (Saturn) and Power (Pluto) are dancing on the edge of Death, provoking extreme responses from each other as they beat their feet to the rhythm of their dance -that unique Flamenco style of public prancing.

It's a confrontation. It's the hybrid Tango-Flamenco version of a dialogue between the Centaur and the Twins.

The need to deal with issues of courts (Sagittarius) and daily communication (Gemini), to deal with the basis of philosophy and law, as well as the daily functioning of communication tools like newspapers, telephones, and the internet.

Power, Persuasiveness, and Laws slam-dancing in opposition with each other. Struggles to find objective solutions to issues of daily and long-distance travel by way of planes, trains, and cars. Who gets to say what and go where ?

What Saturn-Authority figures will 'objectively' define and structure the Power-Wealth of the Pluto Collective Unconscious ?

What hidden forces informing which Shadow Government will define the limits of human laws, travel, and communications?

How will Saturn in Gemini dance with Pluto in Sagittarius to attempt to legislate the tempo of everyday life and thought?

Make no mistake about it, Pluto and Saturn are 'heavy' astrological symbols engaged in intensely hidden activities -each with its own kind of powerful charisma. Think Marlon Brando and Bernardo Bertolucci facing-off in a film, think of that film's operatic soundtrack, think Last Tango in America!

This legislation is really all about hiding from the Public (through the Pluto Mask of Invisibility) a serious financial crisis engulfing the US.

That's indicated by the fact that Pluto, symbol of Ultimate Wealth and the Rule of the Wealthy (Plutocracy) is right up-front on the Law's Ascendant and opposing Saturn which controls Capricorn, the sign of the zodiac focusing the approach this Law will take toward 2nd house issues concerning the very long list of: - the nation's wealth, its Treasury, taxation revenues, stocks & bonds, exports, investors & investing, (gulp!) currency, the entire purchasing power of the nation.

The so-called Patriot Act arises from Plutocratic Forces and threatens to be the complete undoing of the people of the United States, because Pluto is ruling the Scorpio 12th house of this chart (the House of Bondage and Self-Undoing) which concerns labor disturbances, plagues and epidemics, jails, prisons, workhouses, houses of detention, involuntary services ordered by Law, and conditions that militate against the public welfare.

Things are definitely NOT looking good here. Remember the scene in Last Tango when Brando uses the stick of butter ? That's the picture !

Saturn on the Descendant of the Patriot Act (now become official LAW) is expressing itself through the sign of Daily Communications (Gemini) and in the 7th house of 'openly declared enemies'.

HR 3162 was signed into Law immediately following the 'terrorist' attack on the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

The people of the US were told by the Gemini Media (all Corporately owned and controlled) that the 'enemy' was a group of Sagittarian foreigners -Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban.

And the Saturn (Authoritarian) control of the media continued to operate in the Invisible Underworld (Pluto) as delays in printing HR 3162, so that at the time of passage through the Congress few -if any- representatives of the People had a chance to read the 1016 Sections constituting the new LAW.

That's how useful a stick of butter can be, folks. Mike Ruppert, one of the investigative journalists currently belittled by the Corporate Media wrote:

" On October 26th - a date which will live in infamy - the President signed the USA/PATRIOT act, officially known as HR 3162. And you should well note that, according to Representative Ron Paul ® of Texas - as reported on November 9th by Kelly O'Meara of the Washington Times' Insight Magazine - the bill had not even been printed and members of the House could not read it before they were compelled to vote on it. O'Meara wrote, 'Meanwhile, efforts to obtain copies of the new bill were stonewalled even by the committee that wrote it.' Most of its provisions have nothing to do with fighting terrorism. "

This is precisely what we might expect from Saturn in Gemini opposing Pluto in Sagittarius, is it not ?

Delays in communication, Authoritarian clamp-downs on all forms of communication and travel. Of course, it's all because of those nasty foreign terrorists. But is it ? Astrologically speaking, I think not.

While the Sagittarius Ascendant of this 'Patriot Act' does refer to foreigners and foreign ideas and travel, the planet-force which rules it, good old Jupiter, is found in the sign of the American Homeland itself, in Born-On-The-Fourth-Of-July CANCER !

Wave those Flags, kids, beat those War drums, we are being attacked by Terrorists.

Only these terrorists are home-grown politicians and court officials backed by Hidden-Invisible Plutonian businessmen; that's why Jupiter is in quincunx (stressful-excessive) aspect to both Pluto and the Ascendant of the Patriot Act.

Very powerful financiers are using the Saturn to Pluto opposition and hiding behind their moves; Saturn is controlling the Treasury of HR 3162 because Capricorn in this chart is that Treasury. This is a grim and scary reality. Last Tango in America, anyone care to dance ?

Now it might be argued that I am failing to consider a more positive interpretation of these astrological symbols.

Isn't the 12th house of a chart, for instance, the House Of Initiation and Transformation ? Yes, that's true; but 12th house transformation only becomes possible after confronting the hidden nature of that which needs to be transformed, and in the birth chart of the Patriot Act what needs to be transformed is the use of Scorpio energy.

That energy is by nature involved with secrecy, and the power derived from secrecy. And the planet contained within that 12th house is the very planet symbolic of the raw power of secret and invisible wealth, Pluto.

We can't transform anything if we don't see its original form. The message of the Patriot Act to Americans, for whom it has now become National Law, is that we as a people must penetrate the shield of the 'helmet of invisibility' worn by Pluto as he sits in Jupiter ruled Sagittarius exercising his Power through the highest court of the land, the United States Supreme Court which illegally (unconstitutionally) terminated the count of votes in the people's state of Florida to declare George W. Bush the new President.

As a People and a Nation we are being 'initiated' into the secret machinations of a 12th house character taking place within our own Shadow Government's alphabetic intelligence agencies (CIA, FBI, NSA, CFR, DOD etc.) so that by seeing them in action we can transform them.

This confrontation with our own collectively hidden thoughts, fears, and communications is rooted in the birth chart of America and blatantly announces itself through the Mercury to Pluto opposition operative at the moment of the Nation's founding through the Declaration Of Independence.

The people of a Nation cannot absent themselves from the doings of their government and their government's leaders without indulging in acute denial and risking the loss of their freedom.

Particularly so in the United States, which declares itself to be a government of the People, by the People, and for the People… 'lest it perish from the face of the Earth. The duly elected leaders of the people, the senators and representatives never read nor debated upon this Plutonian piece of legislation before it was signed into Law. The Patriot Act is now a Law which undermines the freedom of every citizen of this country whether we choose to be aware of it or not.

As Mr. Mike Ruppert has concisely explained:

" Any federal law enforcement agency may enter your home or business when you are not there, collect evidence, not tell you about it, and then use that evidence to convict you of a crime; (This nullifies the 4th Amendment to the Constitution). And, says the ACLU, it doesn't even have to be a terrorism investigation, just a criminal investigation. [Section 213 - The Sneak and Peek provision].

Any federal law enforcement agency may, if they suspect that you are committing a crime, monitor all of your internet traffic and read your emails. They may also intercept all of your cell phone calls as well. No warrant is required. (This violates the Fourth and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution) [Section 202 and 216] [See From The Wilderness on Carnivore, Vol. IV, No.2 - April 30, 2001]. http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/112001_f_word.html

The FBI or any other federal law enforcement agency may come to your business and seize any of your business records - if they claim it is connected with a terrorist investigation - and they can arrest you if you tell anyone that they were there. (this violates the First and the Fourth Amendments to the Constitution) [Title II, Section 501]

The CIA can now operate inside the U.S. and spy on American citizens. And, as directed by AG Ashcroft on November 13, it is also permitted to share its intelligence files with local law enforcement agencies (and vice versa). The CIA has spied on Americans for decades, but the fruits of that spying have never been admissible in court. Now law enforcement will have the ability to rewrite the intelligence as a probable cause statement, conduct an investigation and introduce it as evidence. This, from material that was collected outside the rules of search and seizure. (There goes the Exclusionary rule of the Fourth Amendment). [Titles 2 & 9].

The foundation for an international secret political police agency is laid by allowing the CIA to receive wiretap information from any local agency and then share it with the intelligence services of any foreign country. [Section 203] "

This heinous piece of legislation was passed by congress persons and representatives who are predominantly 'on-the-take' from Multinational Corporations. These people receive from us outrageously high yearly wages and often life-long retirement 'packages' guaranteeing them access to medical benefits most Americans will NEVER have. They dance to the hidden and macabre tune of the Corporate Piper, -hence, the Patriot Act, the Last Tango In America. How many sticks of butter fit inside a one pound box ?

Alright then, forget about the damn butter, what other greasy oils might the 12th house Scorpio sign refer to ?

It couldn't be that notorious pipeline through Uzbekistan and Afghanistan, could it ?

Might Scorpio be referring to its own basic and essential involvement with Corporations and Corporate investments ?

Are these the areas Americans must look into if they wish to transform themselves rather than submit to bondage and self-undoing by a corrupt Supreme Court and a phony 'President' appointed after rigged elections ? I think so. I think each and every one of us must do some very ruthless self-examination to discover all the many, tiny ways in which we collaborate with the game of secrecy and silence at work and in our private lives.

As we wait in line at our airports and watch fellow citizens being singled out for what are often rude and violating searches of their persons do we speak up for them, or are we looking the other way while counting our blessings that it was THEM and not us who were probed ?

Do we secretly think that if we are 'well-behaved' we won't be harassed ? Are we willing to play the 12th house game of Secret Scorpio fear and repression ? Do we ever dare to assert our personal rights and viewpoints ?
see: http://www.ccops.org/alert20011020.html

Self-assertion is the realm of Mars, and in the birth chart of the Patriot Act Mars is found in the final degree of Law & Order, business-as-usual Capricorn.

From that sign and degree it forms a restless half-square (45 degree aspect) to Pluto and a stressful sesqui-square (135 degree aspect) to Saturn.

But Saturn is in that tug-of-war opposition with Pluto, and so Mars adds its personal force to the tension of that opposition; the self-assertion and personal thrust of Mars exacerbates an already difficult situation.

Who gets to assert what in such circumstances ? Well, considering that Mars rests on the final degree of Mastery in Capricorn, my guess is that the privileged Masters of Business, of Law & Order are those who stand to benefit most by this arrangement.

All that tension focused on Mars in Capricorn urges folks to act most guardedly in a conservative Capricorn fashion. Rudhyar has called this particular waning phase of sesqui-square an aspect which frequently produces Frustration.

He indicates that " others in the environment feel or sense a push coming from the person with this aspect." In this case, however, the 'person' in question is the 'Patriot Act', and the frustrated push is coming by way of Saturn Authority as it 'frustrates' or totally defines and even contracts the ACTIONS of Mars. Eager and ambitious as Mars in Capricorn always is it will tend to make of petty bureaucrats given minor positions of power by HR 3162 (think airport guards and screeners) eager and ambitious lackeys willing to carry out the instructions of their equally bureaucratic bosses…and so on up the chain of command till we arrive at the likes of the director of 'Homeland Security' or that outrageous White House clone, Ari Fleischer, who had the temerity to 'suggest' that All Americans better be careful about what they say. Or else !

Or else what ? Mars 'rules' pointy weapons like rifles and knives and …I'm sure I don't know, pass the butter; Last Tango In America.

America and Americans are engaged in a battle of nerves. You can feel the tension cutting the air. It pervades the populace.

Who dares to assert his or her personal political or philosophical viewpoints in a Nation where a Law has been passed which is designed to intimidate and harass the citizenry ?

If some pesky Jehovah's Witness or Born Again Christian comes knocking at your door proclaiming the 'good news' of the Gospel of the right-wing, flag-waving 'Patriot Act' do you dare tell such a person to get lost, to peddle that zealous 'god' and that equally zealous 'patriotic' flag-waving elsewhere ?

Might not this person 'report' you on a 'tips' line to Homeland Security as a suspiciously un-christian, non-patriotic potential 'terrorist' ?

Do note that this Mars-Saturn-Pluto configuration of maximized tension is focused right on the religious-philosophical sign of Sagittarius marking the Ascendant of the Law known as HR 3162.

Zealots and zealotry are traditionally associated with Sagittarius whenever that sign of the zodiac suffers under too much tension. The great 'test' which the Mars ruled sign of Scorpio [ okay, it's 'controversial'; among themselves astrologers debate whether Mars or Pluto rules Scorpio.

But most agree Pluto is the 'higher octave' of Mars, so we can say that together Mars and Pluto co-rule Scorpio. There, now 'get off my back' you Saturn-Bound, bureaucratic, fact-finding astrologers! ] occupying the beginning of the 12th house of this new national LAW signifies is the test of personal courage in the face of secrecy, lies, disinformation, and spying; the so-called Patriot Act is a secretly treacherous piece of jerry-rigged legislation which needs to be repealed at once.

The sooner the better. It totally stifles individual self-assertiveness by stealthily spying upon the actions, conversations, and writings of all American citizens. It is designed to inculcate fear, distrust, and psychological terror in the People. It undermines principles of due-process in law courts. It is a 'Law' designed by cowards for cowards, a law intended to shaft (Mars) the people. Pass the butter; Last Tango In America.

Oh, you say, I am being 'negative' -I am feeding (through these words I write) the very distrust, the fear and paranoia which I claim the 'Patriot Act' is intended to instill in the Public.

Perhaps you think I should consult Buddhist teachings, put my trust in god, think positive thoughts and then this LAW will just 'go away' somewhere never to be put into increasingly restrictive practice.

Well, I beg your pardon but it is said that god helps those who help themselves; it is said that laying down one's life for one's neighbors is a genuinely selfless act; it is said that cowards wrap themselves in silence and declare it to be golden. I say all that, and I assure you that silence in the face of treachery is cowardice.

We must all speak out against this HR 3162 and force its repeal. It will not otherwise go away. We will go away; we will be dragged off to secret military tribunals, we will be incarcerated in work camps, we will be beaten into submission by the Shadow One World Corporate Government and in due time all personal freedoms will become a thing of the past.

We are dealing here with a vast and secretive hierarchical scheme. All hierarchies descend by definition from a Sole and Single ONE…call it god, the monad, the president, or the delusion of grandeur. Don't pull a Ghandi, a Jesus or an Alice-Bailey-Says on yourself or me.

And don't wait for a promised benign intervention by some 'Galactic Federation' or other because you and I are the only folks right here right now and this treacherous legislation has been passed, is active, threatens all of us.

It comes with its own 'Clingon' cloaking device, it comes wrapped in the numinous haze of Neptune. You won't believe it's not butter. Enter the shaft; Last Tango In America.

Mars arrives via the Patriot Act under the veils of Neptune as it moves into conjunction with that planetary force-field. The two are separated by a flimsy six degrees.

Right, now the Saturn-Bound Astrologers amongst us will argue the technical distance of this conjunction; but we may point out to them that the very important Sun of the horoscope of this Law is in stressful, challenging square aspect to BOTH of them.

Observe that. The Sun is separating from its square to Mars by four degrees while it is applying to its square with Neptune by less than three degrees.

The Mars-Neptune Midpoint is within one degree of being perfectly square to the Sun. This is a complex weave, a cloaking device of many colors, but a definite cloaking device all the same! Oily, greasy butter. But what is being cloaked ?

The SHAFT, of course, the ambitious-assertive Mars function in service to the Law's Scorpio Sun.

That Scorpio Sun of the 'Patriot Act' resides in the 11th House of the Legislative Branches of Government in bed with the Scorpio Oil and Drug dealers of the Corporate Shadow Government. Stay with me here, I'm no conspiracy theorist, it is the US Government which has officially announced that it harbors within its bosom a 'Shadow Government'…not me! Let's take them at their word and astrologically examine their own statement. Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men ? The SHADOW knows !

In the game of Astrology Pluto is the Lord Of Shadows, Lord of the Hidden Realms and Keeper of the Gates To The Underworld.

He is the Lord Of DEATH. The Patriot Act, brothers and sisters, wears Pluto on its Ascendant.

The Patriot Act is all about death and shadows. Its central core essence, the Sun, is found in the Death-Rebirth Hell Realm of Scorpio.

It's a catabolic realm, and Pluto tears away relentlessly at the 'body' of whatever it contacts; it denudes us, strips us bare, strips us down to the bone.

Bones are 'ruled' by Saturn (in Astrological thought) and Pluto is in tight opposition with Saturn in this chart.

Saturn rests in Gemini on the chart's Descendant, the Western Point of the chart, the point symbolic of the daily 'death' of the Sun, the point where the Shadow resides.

There's no way we're going to avoid this one, boys and girls, the Patriot Act is 'meant' to lead us personally and collectively into the hidden realm of Shadows and Death. It will not rest until each and every one of us has had a taste of this realm. Taste, did I say ? No, sorry, this is a big bite, a full-course dinner of Death. A total immersion in the raw power of our personal and collective SHADOW.

But the Scorpio Sun of the Patriot Act which carries the CORE messasge of this LAW is centered squarely in the 11th house of the chart which deals with America's Legislated National Aims, legislated desires, legislated purposes, and projects and alliances.

I repeat that this is the house wherein the Legislative Branches of the Government reside.

I'm quoting here, pretty directly, the Encylopedia of Astrology by Nicolas Devore because I'm trying to be 'objective'.

But the message is rather clear for anyone who has eyes open to look or ears unplugged to hear: the Patriot Act is a radical act of Plutonian Legislation wearing DEATH up-front on its sleeve.

The United States Federal Government has declared to all the World that it alone is going to decide what a Terrorist is and who the Terrorists are and, indeed, which entire Nations it shall declare to be Terrorist Nations which it must attack, destroy, and subsume.

This is the absolutist, ruthless manifestation of Pluto. No subtlety here, no 'ifs, ands, or buts', no discussion possible at all; you're either with US or your against US !

Uncle Sam has bared his red, white, and blue teeth grinning for all the World to see the carnivorous mouth of Doctor Death. If he diagnoses you you can be sure you're a Terrorist unless you agree to every word he speaks, every belief he espouses, every action he dictates. Dictatorship.

And this is a Scorpio Sun wedded to a Pluto on the Sagittarius Ascendant form of Legislative Dictatorship -the kind that shakes its fist in your face with all the zealous bigotry and righteous religious frenzy which only Sagittarius can muster.

The Inquisition was nothing compared to this, I kid you not!

To listen calmly to George W. Bush, Tom Ridge, John Ashcroft, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell or any other crony in this administration is to listen to the voice of fatuous righteousness fired with fear, distrust, and paranoia.

Privileged, zealous bigots declaring unilaterally the rights of the wealthy and powerful over all the rest of the citizens of the globe. Mouthpieces for International Corporations who just as zealously manufacture every bomb, virus, and weapon of war in the Earth's considerable arsenal.

This is the violent, death-oriented, cloaked and evil force behind the Patriot Act. Evil, yes I said evil.

There is such a thing as evil despite every programmed White New Ager's distaste for the term (not to mention its REALITY) !

And the Patriot Act and its Global War Legislators are pulling out all the stops in their patriotic rhetoric to make sure that the whole World understands GOD is on their side.

This is that righteous, wrathful God of the Political Christians. Pluto in Sagittarius 'ruled' by Jupiter in Born-On-The-Fourth-Of-July Cancer. AMERICA has become a righteous cancer infecting the globe, and you and I (brothers and sisters) are Americans.

How many of us shall truly say 'NOT IN OUR NAME' ? How many of us will personally, privately, and individually ACT on that slogan ? This is what I mean by our collective confrontation with our SHADOW. And what is the nature of that Shadow, according to the chart of HR 3162 ? Why, it's all in the DETAILS.

Saturn in Gemini is our detailed Shadow.

Saturn tells us what we take seriously, what we focus on, how we see Authority.

In Gemini, Saturn inclines us to find or to define the limits of Authority in our everyday speech and communication.

But Gemini is the 'Trickster's' sign wherein speech, messages, facts, data and travels come at us like so many balls we must juggle twenty-four hours a day ! Whoop-dee-do! Catch this, catch that...lookout, here comes a curve ball ! Did you take out the trash, did you pay your phone bill, did you remember to order that wholesome, organically fed, free-from-hormone-injections turkey for the holidays ? Ooops, was that right...what I just heard there... out of the radio, the tv, what I glimpsed on the front page of that newspaper ?

Is HENRY KISSINGER REALLY being hired by Bush to oversee the 'investigation' into the events of 9/11 that triggered this legislation ? You gotta be kidding ! Oh, shit, where'd I put those car keys ? Gotta hurry and pick up that Turkey. Life is what happens while we're busy making plans...just IMAGINE that, thank you John Lennon !

Country, you had me; but I never had you. Saturn in Gemini is the trick the media are using as they rapidly flash past us one piece of 'information' after another.

Gotta keep us folks dancing! Shoot 'em this, shoot 'em that. Factoid after factoid, -rapidly fired in the Duende Death Dance of Saturn opposed to Pluto within the zodiacal signs of communication. Instill in the American 'masses' (we are not people to Corporations, we are statistics, profit and gain, markets and quotas and masses of data to be Enronically managed) a sense of panic...'The Terrorists Are Coming, The Terrorists Are Coming'(thank you, Dave McGowan)...are you prepared ? They're going to get you with Anthrax, so submit to your infected vaccination now as ordered by your Governor, your President, FEMA.

Hey, our anthrax is laced with AIDS, it's better than theirs! (See: Cantwell, Horowitz, et.al.)

Step right up like a good, patriotic American and bare your arm, your ass to the needle. Be good, you brave little Christian Soldiers, we must all fight these terrorists. Put your pay check in the Bank where its safe and WE can get at it. Profits and quotas. Data and details. The business of everyday life is where Saturn resides in the chart of HR 3162 operating as our SHADOW. We can't see it. We're too busy trying to survive. That's why Mars is conjunct Neptune, and that's why they're BOTH square to the Sun; our ambitious business VEILS from us our own gullability. And that, in a nutshell, is the PROGRAM.

I repeat, because it bears repeating, that Saturn rules the 2nd house of this chart, the house which defines the VALUES implicit in the 'Patriot Act'.

Capricorn is on the cusp-beginning of that house and within the house and the sign resides MARS loosely masked by Neptune.

Keep all the 'consumer-buyers' (that's us, remember -the people) actively working hard to make money.

Make sure that VALUES are reduced to MONEY and DEFINE them AUTHORITATIVELY as such. Pluto is the Dark Lord of WEALTH and Saturn is opposing him -so as long as people see VALUES as MONEY we got 'em in our pockets! MASK the materialistic greed of this procedure with Neptune in Aquarius, with mystical-spiritual 'high ideals'. Draw the mist of religious glamour over the entire gift-wrapped package, sprinkle it with Neptunian Glitter, tie it up with that Pluto in Sagittarius ribbon !

Yep, those 'terrorists' from Afghanistan-Iraq-Where-Ever are attacking us because we shop in Malls,
we are WEALTHY,
we are 'free'...
we are AMERICANS...

they bombed those towers and that pentagon because they don't have organic, hormone-free turkeys for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Shit, folks, them HEATHENS don't even believe in the RED PURITAN (HO-Ho-HO) SANTA CLAUS.

In America we know that God is on our side cause we're a Christian Country and God has manifestly shown the WORLD how 'he' favors us by giving us cheap gas, billions of cars, stacks of computers, and pure white skin. Heck, Cleanliness is next to Godliness. Let's have another round of smashed potatoes and Turkey. We gotta fatten up so we can go out there, like our President says, and buy, buy, buy!
We'll show those terrorists!

Weave the Neptune light fantastic over a lighter shade of pale. Hide the real causes which brought down the towers, the o.k.corral, the Waco compound.

And as you read these explosive words, my friend, don't dare let yourself off the hook by calling me cynical because that's what Patriot-Act-America is, that's what Mister Bush is: cynical, and smiling, and smirking for all the world to see in his shirt and tie and suitcoat.

Standing there with that convicted Watergate criminal Poindexter, with leacherous Ashcroft, with that prim and purt brat of a Condoleezza Rice, with Colonel [ pawn ] (Black-Hawk-Down) Powell. Yes, the one who so smugly announced the 'courageous' US violation of any shred of moral decency in the last Gulf War when we deliberately 'took-out' ( we don't bomb, you understand, we don't kill and slaughter turkeys for the holidays either) Iraq's only two Nuclear Reactors releasing poisonous radiation into the air and deep into the country's soil and water:

" On December 4, 1990, the General Assembly of the United Nations, meeting just a few hundred yards from here and apparently having decided that the United States was determined to attack Iraq and that it was powerless to prevent the attack, resolved that no attack should be made on any nuclear reactor—an inherently dangerous facility. The vote on this resolution was 144 to 1; only the U.S. voted against.

The resolution should not have been necessary—such attacks have been war crimes since Protocol 1 Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 1977. Article 56 of the Protocol prohibits what would obviously be catastrophic to life, any "attack (that) may cause the release of dangerous forces... and consequent severe losses among the civilian population." The article protects works and installations from an attack which can endanger thousands and thousands of people in the immediate vicinity and beyond and perhaps in ways we don't know.

On January 23 of 1991—the end of the first week of the assault on Iraq—General Colin Powell announced—and the international media were all there—that Iraq's "two operating reactors... are both gone. They're down. They're finished." (New York Times, January 24, 1991, p. A11.) He said it proudly and no member nation of the UN, no member of the U.S. Congress, no international leader, none of the media said a mumbling word in protest. "

(Developed from a talk given by Ramsey Clark, former US Attorney General; September 12, 1996 at the UN Church Center in New York.)

But that's 'okay'...it just assists the plutonium-contaminated-uranium-depleted casings of all those 'smart' bombs we dropped. Gotta get 'em off the shelves, manufacture the next batch, fill those supermarkets full of American-Made 'Goods'.

SMART, that's what Saturn in Gemini is: serious, scientific, and smart.

And that's our collective SHADOW.

Combined with Pluto in Sagittarius it makes us religiously smart, technologically intelligent, absolutely righteous.

God is on our side, we are the fortunate chosen folks of the planet wallowing in our goods and services, in our consumer luxury which Dark Pluto labels as invisible DEATH! In America, as we can see now through the 'Patriot Act', our only GOD is the GOD of SMART MONEY. Greenbacks, One Dollar bills, see, it says so right there: IN GOD WE TRUST ! IT'S GOD'S MONEY.
SCIENTIFICALLY GAINED MONEY. TECHNOLOGICALLY PURE MONEY. $ $ $
see: http://starcats.com/wealth_and_democracy.html

But we are broke, busted on ALL levels. Morally degenerate. Ethically vacuous.

The VICE president is not the only one among us using a pace-maker for a heart.
We are a people standing in the rubble of a once striving nation, a nation which (once upon a time) contained the glimmer of a hope for the common man. That was our Fairy Tale. We have become the people of the Corporate Marketplace, dysfunctional as we flash back and forth in jaloppies and SUVs jabbering mindlessly on our cancerous cell phones making futile deals with each other. We will not live happily ever after.

We will ride off into the Saturn Sunset on the descending SHADOW of HR 3162.

Americans have an overdue appointment with PLUTO, KEEPER OF THE DARK GATES.

Death is the Duende in our bones.

Beer, sex, the NFL; Perrier, sex, those organic turkeys;

forget the butter...just get out there and buy, buy, buy

a Harry Potter T-shirt, a can of Ocean Spray cranberries, a jar of Mince-Meat for the pies; then can you please just shut up and pass the gravy;

Last Tango In A God Bless America.

For PART 2, clich here Astrology of the US Patriot Act Part 2)

Francis D. Grabau is a poet, writer, and practising astrologer who has been steeped in the stars since 1968. He welcomes the opportunity to interpret your birthchart through writing and tapes as well as by phone call. He can be reached via Internet at: www.starpathvisions.com as well as www.astrologyforthepeople.com; his personal email address is: starpath3@earthlink.net. He currently lives on the Hawaian Island of Kauai. He can be contacted via telephone in the USA on (808) 821 0710, or write to: Francis D. Grabau, 5359 Kumole St, Kapa’a, Hawaii 96746, USA.