Election 2008 Be in the Know Better than the TV Pundits!

Election 2008 is absolutely and totally different from anything we have experienced before. You may have noticed how each week brings a totally changed landscape from both the prior week and the official pronouncements of the official talking heads and TV pundits.

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This summer has a more sinister timing dynamic. Everything Below the Waist twisted (retrograde) and overall a Framed Portrait nailed at all corners with a gnawing emptiness at Personal Core. With July holding some nasty surprises too. Sign up for my Ezine to hear more.

The X-Ray Eye analysis is called the Tao [Dao] Smithy Absolute (in contrast to the Dow Jones Average) offering analysis that has proved considerably more accurate than the national polls and TV pundits who do not realize what causes public opinion to change or motivate voters when they go to the polls.

The X-Ray Eye chart describes how it feels in its timing. It describes individuals in terms of the timing at the time they were born and took over that hunk of molecules as themselves. President Bush43 has nothing below the waist in X-Ray Eye jargon.

Each day also has a feel, which describes the mood of voters on election day--such as the punch in the gut reaction to the news that turned the 1980 election from dead even candidate preference to a landslide Reagan victory--just from Iran-Contra tricks.

The prime mover for the unique situation of election 2008 this year in our election is that the Planet Pluto (still a major factor in astrology) is returning to Capricorn, the tenth sign, for the first time since the founding of American Independence.

Pluto is on vacation back into Sagittarius through Election Day--then the surprises begin and hit hard for the new President.Those who only react a bit late to what they feel in the air or hear in the mainstream media may find themselves in for a totally rude awakening come Inauguration Day.

Election 2008!! A return to the good old days when the singular World Power was Great Britain under its King George III, the decider who was bound and determined to exercise Firm Control over his global empire and American Colonies now that he had clearly defeated his adversary and taken over French lands.

The tenth planet in the tenth sign--The Ultimate Commitment to Firm Control which created insurgents and motivated American independence (with the support of the rest of the world is a different election campaign than the world has ever seen. Will this be the beginning of a military campaign opposed by local people everywhere or the start of a new Pax Americana offering freedom and prosperity again?

Election 2008:
The Campaign for the Presidential Inauguration
of 20 Jan 2009

Election 2008: the ultimate Power Play with many pair of 5-dot or quincunx (5th of 12 in Latin) details: 10th house event with Pluto(Planet 10) about to enter the 10th Zodiac sign Capricorn.Election 2008 will be a major event in U.S. history and the plight of the World.

May not seem like all that much in the abstract; however, everyone will feel it intensely. Either the War on Terror expands to fill every village upon the globe including the American homeland or finally justice returns and the simmering pleas of the downtrodden are heard, respected and answered from the lower 9th ward of New Orleans to the hot spots and forgotten corners of the entire globe.

Pluto in Capricorn in the 10th house Ultimate Commitment to Firm Control of the Whole Community or the Demand for the public policy where every detail must know its place and stay in its place. This set of 10 dots in the famous quincunx pattern taken three times is the hallmark of the next inauguration of the President of the United States.

Election 2008 could be the ultimate triumph of a conservative Republican reactionary rebellion against the unseen opponents through endless preemptive war creating terrorists of simple folk everywhere.

Election 2008 could be a Revolution to make the world safe for little children, bring justice and respect for the rule of law back to the U.S., and a new economy with vast new jobs and benefits to end global warming and replace the prior millennium and its fossil fuel powers with a world community of local renewable energy self-reliance.

The partisans on each side of Election 2008 see themselves as the bright future and the other side as a vision from Hell. What is clear is that this election will be of far more import and vast implications than the partisans on either side imagine. They use the same old Socratic methods to avoid open free-speech consideration of what is the best decision for us all.

Election 2008 The campaign and election of the next U.S. President is a major concern worldwide. The tensions and demands of so many people roil the news reports, but make only the most minor headlines. The longer explosive forces are kept contained, the more they react and build up their destructive power.

The issues involved in the election of 2008 jump to a somewhat higher level when we notice the change of Pluto sign. Each change of sign for Pluto is marked with a major Revolution or World War. Some are violent, like World War I (Pluto enters Cancer) and World War II (Pluto enters Leo). Some are just upheavals in public consciousness (Sputnik and Watergate as Pluto entered Virgo then Libra).

Last time Pluto entered Capricorn, King George III won the first Anglo-French World War (Seven Years' War) and celebrated by imposing taxes on his colonies to pay for his military expenses.Now again Pluto moves from Sagittarius to Capricorn in this last week of January 2008 for a few months and again after the November U.S. elections on Christmas Day 2008 and carrying on in Capricorn from then on until 2023.

The whiplash of rapid changes, reverses and instability of what used to be bedrock opinion and established conventional wisdom is already upon us, and it will only increase its intensity and bewilderment as the months and planetary changes progress.

Pluto was in the last degrees of Capricorn when the U.S. issued its Declaration of Independence marking the birth of this new nation and its new Democracy. Pluto is still decades away from returning to that position in the Zodiac. Where it will be on the next Inauguration Day is the beginning of the sign of Capricorn.

The attempt to attain Firm Control and keep everything in its place as you decide its place is a recipe for passionate controversy. The last time Pluto was in the earliest degrees of Capricorn was more than a decade before the U.S. Revolutionary War. Election 2008 is a contest for all the marbles, far too important to be just about the specific campaigns of specific puny candidates.

It was, from Barbara Tuchman's the March of Folly when King George III of Great Britain, the mightiest superpower of its day claimed victory over the French in the first global war, called in U.S. history The French and Indian War.

The victory brought with it a huge national debt for Britain and the need for taxes to garrison the troops to occupy the newly conquered territories in North America. The folly of King George III was manifest in his demands to get what he wanted from his occupied lands by taxing the colonists.

"In the end Britain made rebels where there had been none." (First page of "The British Lose America section")

INSURGENTS--LIKE OUR FOUNDING FATHERS
ARISE FROM SUPERPOWER ARROGANCE AND OCCUPATION
NOTHING ELSE!!

In Election 2008 a major issue must be the difficult situation already in our Iraq war and domestic issues. With Pluto in Capricorn it will either be an extension of the worst of what is going terribly wrong now--or the beginning of the even tougher battle to make things all different.

Pluto is the slowest moving solar system planet in astrology with the longest cycle. I takes nearly 250 for Pluto to return again to the same zodiac spot.

Pluto is the 10th planet, its slogan is Ultimate Commitment and its image is the volcano erupting powerful fire and molten rock from the innermost core.

When the U.S. was born July 4th 1776 Pluto was in the last few degrees of Capricorn (Ultimate Commitment to Firm Control). Peace did come until Pluto was well into Aquarius (Ultimate Commitment to Objective Understanding).

Will the campaign to focus upon solving Global Warming or the War against Muslim terrorism be the effort calling forth the next President's Ultimate Commitment to Firm Control as Community Policy?

To fully appreciate what is at stake in Election 2008 it is necessary to look back at what the change of Pluto sign has meant in the past. In the 250 years or so since last Pluto entered Capricorn. Pluto Sign Changes
New Years Day 1762 to 12/31/08

Then there is the general difficulties of inner workings of Pres. George W. Bush 43 whose sad, strange life is being put under a microscope by his elevation unbridled position as self-appointed Decider in league with his supportive VP Cheney. Their inner problems feeding upon each other and exaggerating each other's limitations.

The Unfortunate Bundle of Spin that is Bush 43's horoscope

Traditionally the Republican party in the U.S. supported less government and more individual freedom and responsibility. This fit well with the party supporters of businessmen and professionals. It was the Democrats who squabbled and fought for their Presidential nomination. Republicans used to follow an orderly course of clear succession.

Lately, the need to find a powerful voting block that could be relied upon to respond to campaign goads and attack ads drove the Bush Campaign folks to set their aims to the evangelical fundamentalists. Their faith based orientation and general acceptance of leadership as their shepherds seemed easy picking for Rove.

Unfortunately, the price for this change in fundamental Republican orientation was to bring a general instability. The general incompetence and corruption of the Bushie regime upset the moral demands of their evangelical supporters. The support for Scripture and ordained leaders only partially could be turned to a personal loyalty to Bush43 no matter what he decided to do.

The result is a new strange mixture of traditional Republican themes with new strains and tensions. The result is a collapse of the traditional Republican agenda into the morass of contradictions and peculiarities cobbled together by the Bushies.

The collapse of the real Republican agenda

The true Conservative coalition of PTSD politics

End Global Warming or lower Taxes
while fighting those who resist our occupation?

Election 2008-- The campaign for U.S. President in terms of the charts of the major candidates in both the Republican and Democratic Parties.

Several candidates, such as Barack H. Obama (Democrat)and Rudy Giuliani (Republican) have close planetary connection to the horoscope of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. This gives them an immediate advantage in terms of American popular support and recognition.

For a full year the primary was assumed to be the contest between the "mayor hero of 9/11" and the inevitable successor to the Clinton legacy. The analysis of their horoscopes show why Rudy faded to black as his assumptions he was the anti-terror winner and why Hillary continues on and on as Dorothy on the Yellow Brick Road to the Emerald City of Washington, D.C.

At this point the primary campaign has become an illustration of the events happening in the world which will be impressing upon us all that this is the first year of a whole new Pluto event. Super Tuesday came and went leaving the campaigns stuck in place with McCain vs. Huckabee and Hillary vs. Barack as stable statements of what the conflicts are and won't be resolved by primary results.

The Horoscope Analysis of the Election Duel of Hillary and Rudy

Election 2008 The big news of Super Tuesday were the spate of global warming tornadoes in February that killed more than 50 over 7 states, several holding primaries that day. That was the change point as news events met political events as equals. The media focused upon the minor details of the elections, ignored the major changes of the weather news, but that is the old inertia at work.

The major media issues are all being manufactured by the coverage without any hard content in the reality of the campaign. A fear fleeting in the mind of pundits or an accurate comment twisted by those looking for a chink in the armor of a candidate becomes the news of the day. All very much like the campaign attacks of Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee. br>

The issue of drivers licenses for all drivers on the roads became the trick question in Election 2008 phrased as: "Do you support giving official document drivers licenses to illegal aliens?" Hillary took the bait and tried to speak to the thorny question involved.

Everyone pounced upon her reply saying it was taking both sides at once. Generally, any major issue has at least two reasonable alternatives that can only be weighed and decided in terms of what are the final terms that make a reasonable compromise. Trick questions are made for snap judgments that come down no matter what answer is given.

By the next debate, the issue of any form of drivers licenses for undocumented drivers in the state of New York had been driven off the table. Hillary just answered "No" she did not support the idea. Barack Obama only needed to have a clear answer himself; however, despite seeing the problem he loosed on Hillary just that week, he couldn't do it.

Similarly, Bill Clinton's simple factual statement that Jesse Jackson had won the SC primary twice became a vicious play of the race card that brought forth all sorts of personal attacks against Bill though it also cemented Hillary's hold upon Latino voters so essential to win CA.The big news of Super Tuesday were the spate of global warming tornadoes in February that killed more than 50 over 7 states, several holding primaries that day. That was the change point as news events met political events as equals. The media focused upon the minor details of the elections, ignored the major changes of the weather news, but that is the old inertia at work.

The gap between the real Barack and the image of Hope incarnate that has buoyed his candidacy is coming to the fore. For pundits he is the futuristic alternative to the old days of Clintons and Bushs no the ballot. This is all nonsense, but Republicans prefer to foist both Bush presidencies together with Bill Clinton's peace, prosperity, balanced budgets and surpluses rather than face reality.

While Barack is the new HOPE of election 2008 and McCain the presumed front runner, Huckabee and Ron Paul continue to dog his steps to easy Republican victory in Election 2008. So far there is nothing to make for much concern for any of these candidates in this unique election cycle. They all represent important hold over fascinations of the prior and now obsolete concerns in this Election 2008 lcycle.

Barack and Ron Paul are the odd couple of NOW politics both Quixotic figures of the antique notions of their parties. Barack the simple mantra of hope and change without the ability to carry out such a change of interia. The demand for historical purity to have been against giving Bush43 authority to use the threat of force to demand international inspection--essential for all presidents to persue peaceful diplomacy in a dangerous world. Ron Paul is just antique Republican isolationism and 18th century purity.

The war in Iraq is the elephant in the parlor for the Republican party in Election 2008. No one likes the war, Bush43 is committed to it as his personal Crusade. Only Ron Paul is willing to say NO! as a Republican candidate. All others have adapted to the new Bush43 mantra of the new War to replace the old perpetual Cold War.

He is a throwback to the traditional Republican positions of truly limited government, no foreign wars or troop commitments. He has some intriguing astrological connections to both the U.S. National horoscope and the current planetary positions of the Election 2008 pre-primary horse race 2008 in this final weeks of 2007.

Barack Obama Democratic contender and Ron Paul Republican maverick are the new odd couple of the horse race 2008 in the emerging media spotlight of Election 2008.

The Odd Couple of Horse Race 2008
Barack Obama (D) and Ron Paul (R)

Election 2008-- How will the chart of the United States play out with the election on 4 Nov 2008 is becoming a major issue in the campaign. Many of the candidates have planets in their birth chart that are within 1 degree of planets in the horoscope of the Declaration of Independence. For Jimmy Carter back in 1976 that was decisive, what will be the effect in this upcoming election?

This raises questions about the appropriate Horoscope for the United States. Marc E. Jones rectified the U.S. Chart to his birth time for The Declaration of Independence. 1:52 a.m. 4th of July, 1776 by the various events in U.S. history in his book Mundane Perspective in Astrology

This is quite different from the 5 pm chart time used by Rudhyar and many others. It is notable particularly as this birth time for the United States by the Declaration of Independence takes place during the middle of the night of the 3rd of July, well before dawn of the day when the Continental Congress took up the final discussion of the text to be approved.

Few birth time discussions are more passionately and intensely debated than that for the Declaration of Independence. For American astrologers, this is the argument over their own national nativity and the chart of their own personal independence.

However, using the Marc E. Jones Sabian Symbols for the Sun sign degree, the Moon sign degree and the Rising Sign degree, this birth time with the Moon near the M.C in the 10th house fits very well with Thomas Jefferson's intent.

The placement of Uranus rising in the first house, just a few degrees from the Ascendant speaks to us of the sense of American Democracy, although that planet was not yet discovered in 1776. The complete discussion of this chart and the nature of Thomas Jefferson's personal invention of American Democracy in the middle of the night before the discussion by the Continental Congress is part of his Paradigm stardom.

This also explains the inherent conflict on the question of race which continues to bedevil American Society. Thomas Jefferson wrote into the Declaration of Independence an accusation against King George III for kidnapping Africans and subjecting them to the brutality of the slave trade.

The Continental Congress removed that clause as being hypocritical as Jefferson himself and many delegates were slave owners. However, by the time the Congress acted, Thomas Jefferson had already issued the founding Declaration with that clause in it. Thus, from the first day of the new nation, the issue of race was divisive and churning although outwardly suppressed.

The horoscope interpretation for the
U.S. Declaration of Independence

Election 2008-- also will depend upon the particular astrological indications for election day. Standard horoscopes require an exact birth time and place which is difficult for election day which takes place all over the country with various opening poll times. And does not become complete or decided until various ending times.

The X-ray Eye variation to the Marc E. Jones ladder technique does not require such specificity, being able to give meaning to just a date. The date of all U.S. Federal elections are precisely determined in the U.S. Constitution as the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. This formula is to assure that no election would be held on the All Saint's Day holiday after Halloween.

The result has been to set U.S. Presidential elections on specific days, many of which lately have been exceptional days whose peculiarities have affected the outcome strongly. Election 2008 is just another of those dates designated in the U.S. Constitution, but it won't be like anything anyone living today has ever seen before.

The X-Ray Eye indications for various election days from 1980-2008
What will be the real issue of Election 2008? How will the personal opinions and political activities of You or me become the selection of our next President to be inaugurated into the beginning of an unknown future where any excess or injustice will bring forth devastating insurgency and Great Power Humiliation?

Fortunately, as one watches the interplay of human efforts and world events with the inevitable gears of the Cosmic mechanics it is clear that things are being moved along with exquisite finesse and delightful irony. Things will develop as they should though few will notice or believe the process without a new perspective based in ancient wisdom (not just medieval superstition of the academics or the Christian fundamentalists).

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