ARTICLE #1

2002-VR130*,
which exits Virgo to enter Leo
on January 27, 2026,
continues to transit Leo in Retrograde Motion@
until May 7, 2026.

Which billionaire did not attend the wedding of Jeff Bezos & Lauren Sanchez in Venice, Italy? Bezos’ ex-wife, Mackenzie Bezos, now Mackenzie Scott. Is this a surprise? Why would Mackenzie Scott attend a wedding between her ex-husband & some other woman? Besides, the only wedding guest with whom Mackenzie Scott, an extremely prolific philanthropist, shared anything in common at all would be Oprah Winfrey, who gave a brand-new Pontiac G-6 sedan, worth $28,500, to each member of her TV studio audience on September 13, 2004. (Of course, Pontiac donated all 276 cars to Oprah as a promotional stunt, while Mackenzie Scott donates her own money directly. But whatever.)

Another billionaire who did not attend the Bezos wedding in Venice: Elon Musk. Elon Musk has been very hostile publicly towards Mackenzie Scott; in “Elon Musk Calls Jeff Bezos' Ex-Wife MacKenzie Scott's $19 Billion Charitable Donations 'Concerning,'” Benzinga’s Kaustubh Bagalkote reports that Musk “suggested in a now-deleted post that ‘super rich ex-wives who hate their former spouse’ could contribute to the decline of Western civilization.” Well, it’s Mackenzie Scott’s party & she can cry if she wants to. Besides, Mackenzie Scott is not killing anybody in Minnesota.

Speaking of parties, why didn’t Musk attend the Bezos wedding in Venice? Simple: He wasn’t invited.  

ARIES – Thank God your affiliation with all sorts of people who spend money that they don’t have is now coming to an end. “Jesus!” Retrograde 2002-VR130 in late Leo exclaims. “What a slippery slope.” Well, not so fast – these same people all around you continue to do stupid things with money & encourage you to do the same. Remain aloof & vaguely interested. Take photos on your cell phone. Don’t get involved.  

TAURUS – Parents, especially fathers: Children expect you to lose your temper as you punish them. Retrograde 2002-VR130 in late Leo asks, “Really – do you need that?” Confuse them. Maintain your cool. Do & demand something totally unexpected that will make your children respect your strategic intelligence.  

GEMINI – Somebody you considered a friend amongst your group of friends makes a snide comment about your lack of money, ugly fashion or weight. With friends like that, who needs enemies? That being said, Retrograde 2002-VR130 in late Leo advises you to do nothing rash. This false friend is connected to other true friends. Remove what offends without destroying your relationship with other individuals in, and, the group.  

CANCER – Retrograde 2002-VR130 in late Leo warns that a political or professional enemy will try to hurt you financially by financially hurting one of your colleagues & allies. An enemy who cannot target you individually can & will target members of your team. Watch your colleagues’ & allies’ backs.  

LEO – Are you hiding within your professional work cohort? If your professional work cohort hiding behind you? Retrograde 2002-VR130 in late Leo confirms that these are not idle questions. Bosses target dead wood. Align yourself with those who represent the solutions of the future, not the problems of the past.  

VIRGO – One of the group of saboteurs who have been spying upon & slandering you for the past several years have been caught in their deceit & have brought renewed scrutiny upon all those in that group who harassed you. Yes, the harassment will continue, but Retrograde 2002-VR130 in late Leo promises that their public reputation & influence is eroding. Walk tall. Hold your head high. Rebuke lies with truth.  

LIBRA – Do not succumb to political pressure from any & all sources. Retrograde 2002-VR130 in late Leo denotes that blackmail is the last resort of an aggressor who has already lost. Withstand without engaging.  

SCORPIO – Law enforcement & dictatorial professional superiors will continue to harass you, but do not react or respond. Believe it or not, Retrograde 2002-VR130 in late Leo declares that staunch partners have your back – and they will force rogue law enforcement & bosses to retreat using shrewd non-confrontational tactics which will surprise & impress you. Brute force will fail your aggressors – a wise deployment of law will defeat them.  

SAGITTARIUS – A certain loud-mouthed, unhinged colleague or employee in your workplace will create multiple dockets of legal cases against you – if, as Retrograde 2002-VR130 in late Leo confirms, you let them. Isolate, so as to alienate, trouble.  

CAPRICORN – You carry much less debt – but that is not good enough. Retrograde 2002-VR130 in late Leo warns that creditors will go out of their way to hammer you if it appears that you are living beyond your means. Clear your slate once & for all.  

AQUARIUS – Parents of teenagers: The complaints that teenagers have about other cliques within their high school is yet another rite of passage they must endure on their way to the real world. As long as everybody plays nice in the sandbox, Retrograde 2002-VR130 in late Leo states that there is no reason to do anything or to comment. However, certain words & actions are not normal or acceptable. Just be ready to offer reproach – or, in worst-case scenarios, to report to school authorities – when necessary.  

PISCES – You meet all sorts of people at work, in school or at the gym, and, of course, it is a pleasure to be so popular. However, to remain popular – and, more importantly, to remain sovereign – Retrograde 2002-VR130 in late Leo advises you neither to lend nor to borrow money.

* 2002-VR130 is an unnamed centaur planet discovered on November 7, 2002. The orbit of 2002-VR130 commences beyond the orbit of Saturn as it crosses over the orbit of Uranus & Neptune.

A great resource for ephemeris data on 2002-VR130 and over 3000 minor planets, asteroids & centaurs, is on
Jonathan Dunn's website “True Node” at
http://true-node.com/eph0/
or
http://true-node.com/eph1/

Research on the above footnotes generously provided to the general public by
The IAU: Minor Planet Center
at
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/mpc.html

@ Planets either move forward, in which case they orbit in Direct Motion, or move backward, in which case they orbit in Retrograde Motion. Planets in Direct Motion seek to make progress, while Planets in Retrograde Motion seek to redress past imbalances.

ARTICLE #2

2003-WL7* transits Virgo from July 16, 2023 to July 30, 2030. During the post-COVID-19 economy, The National Health Institute (NIH) issued a news release entitled “Marijuana and Hallucinogen Use, Binge Drinking Reached Historic Highs Among Adults 35 to 50.” Is this binge drinking, marijuana use & hallucinogen use occurring at work? Unlikely – the currently permissive tones surrounding decriminalization & the need to restrain municipal law enforcement undermines the need for any surreptitious behavior or outright rebellious confrontation. But does such permissiveness set the stage for increased productivity? Equally unlikely – especially given the fact that bosses have no idea who will be working in the office or at home on any given day & what resources are or will be available where. Of course, this is only a phase – and this phase will only last until such time that those serious about achieving their goals, a profit & an equitable income simply won’t tolerate any lame-ass crap anymore. Then, heads will roll – first, because bosses fire people, and then, quite unfortunately & violently, literally, as some anti-robot, overachieving activist gets much more zealous than security will tolerate, which will bring everybody to yet another “new order” where a large majority of the collective work force will have forgotten the lassitude that they endured when they started this cycle – as the most aware amongst the collective will openly question for what reasons must we continue to stall taking the current agenda to a much more hyperefficient level.  

ARIES – Many return to the workplace – not the computer in the home office, but the actual workplace – annoyed that nobody, let alone bosses, seem to exert any control over the overall environment towards a salient, practical, materialistic purpose, such as productivity, profit & agenda. Eventually, 2003-WL7 in Virgo promises, somebody will look up the word “synergy” in the dictionary, inducing many to realize that one cannot create “synergy” by one’s self. Bosses will then get rid of those employees & facilities which do not create these synergies & nuance those employees & facilities to accelerate clear successes. Before everybody starts sliding on its own grease, however, Aries the Ram must use clear judgment to determine when to speak up, when to intensify discipline, when to accelerate & when to release. Go very slow in the beginning until it is clear that the enhanced collective is on the same page & acting in concert.  

TAURUS – You worry that you have your skills & muscle memory alone in a vacuum. You do – but 2003-WL7 in Virgo reassures you, nature also hates a vacuum even more than you do. Of course, in the beginning, you must be satisfied with acquiring minimal progress; start by acquiring a partner or a client. Learn to cooperate & to create a rhythm. Once all of you are working in tandem, look for a bassist or a drummer, or a third baseman & a shortstop. Distinguish those here for the long term & those who got lost after exiting the bus, airport or highway exit. Finally, avoid peaking before it is really time to compete.  

GEMINI – 2003-WL7 in Virgo connotes that you must let employees prove that they do not belong in the workplace before you fire them. After all, it is not as if your company has put together a Super Bowl dynasty. If your prospects for immediate improvement do not exist, wait. Natural rhythm with employees & with the larger market will return – progress is inexorable. It lies innate withing the engine of commerce itself.  

CANCER – Cancer the Crab becomes the most valuable employee of the zodiac under the current influence of 2003-WL7 in Virgo. Why? Because of the lessons of the Moon. Nothing lasts forever – most things do not even last very long. Whatever happens today will reach the point where it becomes its opposite. The same for tomorrow. The same for the next day. By the time that Friday happens, everybody forgets about what happened on Monday as they celebrate the weekend. You don’t – you can’t. You fathom the trap of the inexorable cycle. You know when & when not to tolerate some lazy, shiftless, low-rent, underemployment-addicted Sisyphus complain about some little boulder.  

LEO – Bosses, managers, coaches: Don’t bring out your best people, your best equipment or your genius master plan until you have a working opportunity, a difficult goal & something significant to gain. 2003-WL7 in Virgo references the classic sociological tract of pool hustling, Hustlers, Beats and Others by Ned Polsky, “Never show your true speed.” Furthermore, only play games where self-evidently worthwhile goals command your best talent.  

VIRGO – Your personage under the current influence of 2003-WL7 in Virgo communicates & reinforces to those around you your inherent worth – which remains true even if such individuals are worthless. You need do nothing except what needs to be done at the moment – which may be nothing. In which case, you conserve your energy. At rest, you exude the attitude, “We are all here for the same reason – and if you are not here for that reason, why are you here?”  

LIBRA – Quiet does not always mean peace. 2003-WL7 in Virgo warns, “Beware the unconscious – your own & other peoples.” With the balance of amicable & hostile relations forever at a tipping point, one wrong word from anybody’s mouth becomes a declaration of war. Learn how to defuse tension by the deployment of appropriate humor.  

SCORPIO – The right personage entering the environment at the right time can spell the difference between oblivion & championship for your working group. First, however, 2003-WL7 in Virgo declares that you must identify & purge those who have no place on your team at all. Think long-term. Gauge., before you bring on the natural leader, if you have all the right puzzle pieces already in place.  

SAGITTARIUS – Bosses know what they want from you & your working group – and they demand it. 2003-WL7 in Virgo guarantees that if you don’t deliver, bosses will find somebody who will. However, if you do deliver, the trajectory of your career will be phenomenally steeper almost immediately. Believe it.  

CAPRICORN – Travel breeds more travel. Publication spawns more publication. And, finally, 2003-WL7 in Virgo says, “Let former President Donald J. Trump be a lesson to Capricorn the Goat, both positive & negative: Criminal proceedings breed even more, and even more significant, criminal proceedings.”

AQUARIUS – Convoys of motorcyclists create chaos in cities across the American northeast, promoting criminal dare-deviling & dangerous recklessness. At the same time, computer hackers & dark web purveyors lurk like spiders in seclusion, testing boundaries to promote depraved criminal activity & corruption. 2003-WL7 in Virgo is not just suggesting that you join law enforcement of any specific federal agency if you are not so inclined – it only asserts that if you see somebody you know submerged in such a realm that you take whatever steps are necessary to pull them out of the mud.  

PISCES – The key to a useful dialogue with a spouse’s, partner’s or lover’s mercurial & erratic behavior under the current influence of 2003-WL7 in Virgo is simple, “Does what you or they do now serve the greater good amongst all of you & all of society, or does it deviate from it – or even destroy it?” Act accordingly.

* 2003-WL7 is an unnamed centaur planet discovered on November 16, 2003. The orbit of 2003-WL7 crosses over the orbit of Uranus.

A great resource for ephemeris data on 2003-WL7 and over 3000 minor planets, asteroids & centaurs, is on
Jonathan Dunn's website "Ephemeral Info" at
http://ephemeral.info/

Research on the above footnotes generously provided to the general public by
The IAU: Minor Planet Center
at
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/mpc.html

ARTICLE #3

1998-BU48* transits Libra
from August 25, 2022 to August 31, 2047.

Much has been made of Senate Majority Leader, Republican Senator from Kentucky Mitch McConnell, and his efforts to direct the role of jurisprudence amongst the American system of governance – first by obstructing the attempts by President Barack Obama to nominate Merrick Garland to the U.S. Supreme Court, and, secondly, to stack the federal judiciary throughout the United States, by appointing federal judges almost exclusively, neglecting all other legislation & professional duties, during the last two years of President Donald J. Trump’s Administration. Many shouted & insisted, “I told you so,” when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade via Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization during 2022. Many such citizens objecting now feel that the politicization of the judiciary in the U.S.A. is now complete.

Given, however, the observation by astrologer Mark Lerner how the U.S.A.’s secondary progressed Mars in Libra will transit Retrograde from 2007 to 2087, those proclaiming such doom do so prematurely. Truth be told, those trained in the law, whether law enforcement, lawyer or judge, are, by definition, taught to disregard political orientation. Political considerations regarding the judiciary have been prevalent since Republican Kentucky Senator McConnell played his waiting game against Merrick Garland & President Obama, and such political considerations will likely continue for some time – as long as there is advantage to be gained by it. Eventually, however, political factions within the judiciary will balance out, there will be no more to be gained by attempting to pack the courts with partisan judges and the judiciary will return to its most basic business – blind justice.  

ARIES – Yes, it is a song by the Rolling Stones, but that is not what 1998-BU48 in Libra is singing, but telling you, Aries the Ram, straight out: You can’t always get what you want. Practically, politics will take you far – but opposing politics intervene. Horse-trading may get you what you want – but nobody may be willing to sell you the horse you want. Deceit is always the option for the dishonorable – but aren’t you honorable? A better question an enlightened spouse, partner or retained counsel will ask: Why do you want what you want? Do you feel threatened because you discovered that you are not limitlessly entitled?  

TAURUS – Knowing the written law & obeying it is more than half the battle. 1998-BU48 in Libra quotes the inscription written in stone on top of the courthouse of Jersey City, New Jersey, “Precedent makes law – if you stand well, stand still.” Everybody making moves is a moving target. Offers to make deals are tricks – don’t be fooled. When they are all after you, you are winning. Rock on.  

GEMINI – Hugs, kisses & cooing one’s boo’s ear – that seems, in the early stages, as the whole of love. If you are so engaged at the moment, 1998-BU48 in Libra will not disturb you. But, truth be told, you & yours may be forced, over time, to do some disturbingly contradictory things, including, but not anywhere near limited to, disciplining children, because you love, whom you love. (Does that mean that (Ali MacGraw as Jennifer Cavalleri) (Ryan O'Neal as Oliver Barrett) in Love Story was correct when (s)he said, “Love means never having to say you’re sorry?” No comment. Consult counsel.) Do what you have to do.  

CANCER – The Rockefeller family all bear their names proudly & humbly with all modesty & not a hint of scandal. Liz Cheney is proud of her dad Dick Cheney, and Dick is proud of his daughter Liz. 1998-BU48 in Libra reinforces that, despite (sometimes because of) the fact that their enemies heat them, they can pride from whence they came – and they call all look at themselves in the eye in the mirror every morning without flinching. The Kennedys? The Trumps? The Kushners? Not so much. The difference? Who are the honorable people? Do these people maintain their virtue? Do these people execute their duty? Noblesse oblige!  

LEO – Leo the Lion drives a hard bargain, but only with honorable business partners & adversaries with whom they choose to negotiate. 1998-BU48 in Libra emphasizes that Leon the Lion does not negotiate with the dishonorable. Never compromise with evil. To that end, you must be very clear about your sense of right & wrong – which many will try to obfuscate. Shun rationalizers & prevaricators. To lazy intellects who proclaim the worthless slang, “It is what it is,” to justify what is unjustifiable, you should upgrade the dialogue to symbolic logic & Ayn Rand, “You mean A is A – an axiomatic tautology. But what you assert when you invoke this axiomatic tautology is not an axiomatic tautology at all, but an unconscionable more evasion.” Clarify, so as to dispel, all vapor spewed in bad faith.  

VIRGO – Professionally, your word is your bond. If employers & business partners want your word in a written contract, fine, you can do that, too. And 1998-BU48 in Libra confirms that you will fulfill your spoken & written word even when it becomes clear that your original promise transferred into a much broader & larger obligation. However, if you will be giving 1,000%, you expect 1,000% from your partners as well. This is not a master/slave dynamic. Keep all original considerations in mind so as to forestall bad faith.  

LIBRA – Librans deeply fathom that disputes are inevitable. However, what is under dispute, the nature of the dispute & the individuals within the dispute, all differ – one might argue that this is why lawyers exist. The more that you realize the variety & the depth of the different factors which comprise such dispute, the better businessperson, lawyer, parent, politician, citizen & lover that 1998-BU48 in Libra will empower you to be.  

SCORPIO – Read Sagittarius & Capricorn. Like streetcar titan Charles Yerkes in the city of Chicago, fictionalized as Frank Copperwood in Theodore Dreiser’s The Titan, the second novel of his Trilogy of Desire, or like President Bill Clinton in Nineties’ America, 1998-BU48 in Libra warns that lawyers target you. Why? Some regard you as a moral reprobate – but the fact is that they are guilty of the same moral peccadillos. Some regard you as a business threat. Others just envy you. The only way to defeat such adversaries: Take it on the surface. Pitchers try to strike batters out – that is how the game is played.  

SAGITTARIUS – Read Scorpio & Capricorn. In The Trilogy of Desire, composed of The Financer, The Titan and The Stoic, Theodore Dreiser paints the portrait of Philadelphia financier, Chicago streetcar baron & developer of the London Underground Charles Yerkes, fictionalized as Frank Copperwood, a brilliant & cagey businessman who refuses to let the written law, its enforcement or anybody else’s conventional morality to get in the way of his overweening ambition. Whether investing money (borrowed) (usurped) from the city treasury, financially maintaining wives, ex-wives & mistresses openly & covertly, sometimes with business partners’ wives or borderline underage young daughters, or trading on inside information with those who provided it, Copperwood pursues the object of his hunt with the undeterred focus of a highly intelligent human animal. 1998-BU48 in Libra appropriately smirks, “Is it any wonder the man has extremely self-righteous enemies?  

CAPRICORN – Read Scorpio & Sagittarius. 1998-BU48 in Libra denotes that your reputation has preceded you. Your personage threatens bosses & professional superiors, but in a strictly Machiavellian sense – that is, not as one who questions authority, but as one destined & poised to take over. You know this; because you believe yourself to be the best, that you take over, in your own opinion, is an inexorably truism & destiny. In the meantime, you are allowed to work to pursue the interests of bosses & professional superiors, but you are not allowed to be. That’s fine – until your time comes, you will know what you can get away with, when, In the meantime, demand, “You pay me what I am worth.” Just this once, there is no reason for you to be nice about it. Business is business!  

AQUARIUS – 1998-BU48 in Libra empowers the Waterbearer profoundly, and for many years. Depending upon your worldly position, you can champion & achieve justice, freedom & opportunity for all the people more than most people who ever lived. To that end, read about former Democratic Louisiana Governor Huey Long, fictionalized as Willie Stark, in Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men. Stark rose to power because of a profound injustice – corrupt politicians validated corrupt construction contractors to build a schoolhouse with inferior materials so as to pocket the difference . . . then the schoolhouse collapsed with the children inside it. Unfortunately, despite his rise to powers as righteous populist, Louisiana Governor Stark succumbed to corruption. All the good he did became tainted & eventually died with him. Take heed of your implied moral duty.  

PISCES – 1998-BU48 in Libra rejects that apparent legitimacy of the statement, “I buy real estate as an investment.” Why? For the same reason that the American public rejected Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli for increasing the price of the AIDS drug Daraprim (pyrimethamine) by a multiple of 56. Houses, apartment buildings, condominiums & commercial real estate exist to serve the community which seeks to raise & to educate its children, who can them move onto work then raise & educate children of their own. Everything else is satanic, naked greed.

@ 1998-BU48 is an unnamed transneptunian object (TNO) discovered on January 22, 1998. The orbit of 1998-BU48 traverses from the orbit of Uranus out past the orbit of Pluto. For information on how to interpret 1998-BU48, note reference too Philip Sedgwick below.

Juan Antonio Revilla
(http://www.expreso.co.cr/centaurs/posts/naming.html)
postulates that 1998-BU48 should be named Alastor, after one of the four demon-steeds of Pluto's chariot.

A great source online for how to interpret 1998-BU48 and many other centaurs, asteroids & minor planets, in an individual's chart & in transit, is
Zane Stein's website "Chiron and Friends” at
http://www.zanestein.com/chiron_a.htm

Read seminal astrological analysis on 1998-BU48 and other named & unnamed minor planets, asteroids, centaurs, transneptunians, plutinos and damacloids on
Juan Antonio Revilla's website "Astrology of the New Centaurs" at
http://www.expreso.co.cr/centaurs/index.html

The only source online for how to interpret 1998-BU48, and many other unnamed centaurs and transneptunians, as well as an excellent source for how to interpret Pholus and all named centaurs, is
Philip Sedgwick's webpage "Riders in the Sky – The Centaurs"
on Zane Stein's website "Chiron and Friends" at
http://www.zanestein.com/phil.htm

A great resource for ephemeris data on 1998-BU48 and over 3000 minor planets, asteroids & centaurs, is on
Jonathan Dunn's website "Ephemeral Info" at
http://ephemeral.info

An indispensable resource for mythologies from all five continents, including but not limited to African, Native American, Inuit, Mayan, Aztec, Incan, Voodoo, Asian, Norse, Celtic, Oceanic, Greek & Roman mythologies is Encyclopedia Mythica
at
www.pantheon.org

Research on the above footnotes generously provided to the general public by
The IAU: Minor Planet Center
at
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/mpc.html

* Planets either move forward, in which case they orbit inn Direct Motion, or move backward, in which case they orbit inn Retrograde Motion. Planets in Direct Motion seek to make progress, while Planets in Retrograde Motion seek to redress past imbalances.

ARTICLE #4

2002-CR46 transits Sagittarius
from December 16, 2025 to May 30, 2026.

Professional “gatekeepers” – power brokers who can use their connections so that a person near the curb next to the gutter on the street skyrockets to the penthouse in record time – attract moths like a flame. Perhaps the most spectacular example is depicted in Oliver Stone’s film from the Eighties, Wall Street, where Charlie Sheen as Bud Fox, junior stockbroker, shares inside information to the massively wealthy & powerful reptilian financier, Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko. Importantly, what Fox does not realize is that the connections which led him to the top also conspire to bring him back to the bottom – for instance, his “girlfriend,” former mistress to Gekko, and “art consultant” and “interior designer,” Darryl Hannah as Darien Taylor.

But other examples need not be so spectacular. “Gatekeepers” appear in every large-scale institution – as do acolytes seeking a shortcut to the fast track. But Wall Street illustrates the dynamic very well: You get what you pay for, but you pay for what you get. You may get far fast, but the time will come, sooner rather than later, when personal betrayals by those same connections will cause you to hit rock bottom. (It is not the fall from the heights which hurts, but, in fact, the sudden stop.) Furthermore, when a gatekeeper opens that gate for you, you do not move forward independently & at will. You inherit affiliations which you cannot sever. You become an inextricable part of the spider web.  

ARIES – Certain professional or academic connections can help you move forward, especially if you seek publication. But 2002-CR46 in Sagittarius demands that you ask, “Is there a potential downside?” It is critical that you acknowledge, and strategize based upon such acknowledgement, that you do not know anybody else’s interests, as well as unseen personal connections, as well as you think you do.  

TAURUS – You sit down at a poker player with five other men, and you think you have five individual opponents – but 2002-CR46 in Sagittarius smirks, “Think again.” Witness card games of “tegwar” (that exciting game without any rules) played by the New York Mammoth’s baseball team in order to scam starstruck members of the general public in hotel lobbies in the film Bang the Drum Slowly. Consider, further, more positively, and not necessarily involving poker, the Nash equilibrium to the governing dynamics of economics, depicted brilliantly as five Princeton undergraduates try to pick up hot women in bars within the film A Beautiful Mind, “Adam Smith said the best outcome for the group comes from everyone trying to do what's best for himself. He was wrong. The best outcome comes from everyone trying to do what's best for himself and the group.”  

GEMINI – The Twin respects a convoy, a phalanx of trucks or motorcycles dominating the roadway in a cocky demonstration of overwhelming power. The Twin does not respect a cartel, a shadow network of secret alliances who attack, and sometimes maim or kill, other people, based not upon confrontation but upon stealth. That being said, 2002-CR46 in Sagittarius advises the Twin to watch, and to wait. When the phalanx passes, the Twin pumps their fist up & down in the air to induce the truck driver to sound the horn. As for the cartel: Show no loyalty & no respect to those who show no loyalty & no respect to you . . . or to anybody else.  

CANCER – Colleagues & employees will, first individually, and then, collectively, take workplace-sanctioned shortcuts to pad productivity numbers to bosses reliant upon positive, albeit misleading, statistics. 2002-CR46 in Sagittarius denotes that such workplace-sanctioned shortcuts can easily, and will eventually, be, interpreted as illegal business practices. Therefore, avoid these gravy train treadmills. Stay on the straight & narrow so as to avoid the inevitable “correction” which will afflict those colleagues & employees addicted to such “shortcuts.”  

LEO – You are very tempted to allow your self-interest to merge with a shared collective interest because the fulfillment of that shared collective interest can, should, may help manifest your own self-interest. However, 2002-CR46 in Sagittarius smiles: This is & always has been the downfall of the United States of America. Shared collective interest, especially in regard to publishing, educational institutions & business in foreign countries is always limited in scope – at which point, chaotic self-interest reasserts itself & takes over. Go it alone for as far as you can.  

VIRGO – The more readily that power brokers & real estate developers can recognize your most immediate allies, the less influence you & your allies will have in important local & real estate disputes. 2002-CR46 in Sagittarius reminds you that big money & big resources are at stake. Stealth is necessary. Be collectively & strategically discreet.  

LIBRA – Bang-bang, rock ‘em sock ‘em, hard & fast new romantic & professional alliances can get you far, fast – but, as 2002-CR46 in Sagittarius warns, at a high price & with a high tax down the line. What is new becomes old fast – and there may be many friends of your new friends who will not be your friend when you are no longer the new kid on the block. Don’t make the mistake of believing it is only you who is doing the choosing. Relationships not based on pure love never come for free. If there is quid, there is a pro quo. Don’t deceive yourself.  

SCORPIO – Hot-shot new employees & colleagues require nuanced mentoring – blessed with initiative, they need somebody more experienced to tell them when to use the brakes. 2002-CR46 in Sagittarius advises you not to do such mentoring yourself. Deploy a savvy intermediary who knows how to handle youth – and to communicate back to you clearly & completely.  

SAGITTARIUS – Filmmakers, writers: You have developed some ideas which excite you & are very eager to share them with a whole host of professional connections. Even so, don’t be impatient. 2002-CR46 in Sagittarius strongly recommends that you contact real professionals only when you have completed a polished & thoroughly vetted proposal or manuscript. Let such professional connections know that you truly respect their valuable time.  

CAPRICORN – Family members & teenagers can be extremely naïve about how sneaky other people can be – particularly, 2002-CR46 in Sagittarius comments, their “friends.” You are worried that such “friends” are spying on them & your family for their friends & members of their family who are your family’s enemies. Monitor who these “friends” are. Restrict their access to naïve family members. Remember: These naïve family members will call you paranoid – but you are paranoid because you are realistic.  

AQUARIUS – You feel empowered because you have a whole host of open & hidden political & professional allies. 2002-CR46 in Sagittarius warns the oftentimes arrogant & devil-may-care Aquarian not to blow their clear advantage by overplaying even their own generous & lucky hand. If you succumb to hubris by believing you can do or say anything to anybody, you will lose many of those allies – and pay a high price. Stay humble.  

PISCES – Bosses, and allies of bosses, will provide you with a string of offers for side-work or lucrative overtime. Because such offers will be ongoing if you do a good job, 2002-CR46 in Sagittarius strongly urges you to save that money. Your time & your energy, readily available now, will become more limited. Put yourself in a position to pick & to choose plum professional opportunities.

$ 2002-CR46, officially named “Typhon”,  is an unnamed transneptunian object (TNO) discovered on February 2, 2002. The orbit of 2002-CR46 traverses between the orbit of Uranus out past the orbit of Pluto.

A great source online for how to interpret 2002-CR46 and many other centaurs, asteroids & minor planets, in an individual's chart & in transit, is
Zane Stein's website "Chiron and Friends” at
http://www.zanestein.com/chiron_a.htm

A great resource for ephemeris data on 2002-CR46 and over 3000 minor planets, asteroids & centaurs, is on
Jonathan Dunn's website "Ephemeral Info" at
http://ephemeral.info

Research on the above footnotes generously provided to the general public by
The IAU: Minor Planet Center
at
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/mpc.html 

ARTICLE #5

1996-GQ21@ transits Sagittarius
from October 29, 2018 to November 22, 2043.

Immigration across the U.S. Mexican border, from Brownsville, Texas & Matamoros, Tamaulipas, through El Paso Texas & La Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, through Nogales, Arizona & Nogales, Sonora, through Calexico, California & Mexicali, Baja California, and, finally to San Diego, California & Tijuana, Baja California, has been a geopolitical obsession between the United States & Mexico since the days when Texas, amongst other states originally from Mexico, resided in the Union. More specifically, immigration has been that political obsession since two months before the defeat if the Mexican Army at the Battle of San Jacinto, on April 21, 1836, when Mexican President General Antonio López de Santa Anna ruthless annihilated the Texian Army to reclaim the Alamo near San Antonio de Béxar, Texas. Mexican President General López de Santa Anna killed most of the Alamo’s occupants, taking no prisoners, leading, in the current day, contemporary geographical geopolitical sociologist Joel Garreau to cite this event in Edge City: Life on the New Frontier as one version of a fearful Texan’s “ultimate situation: Five Thousand Mexicans Knocking on the Door of the Alamo.”

From the American perspective, everything was bright & rosy in 1910 between the two countries led by Mexican President Porfirio Diaz & American President William Howard Taft in 1910, given that the American Dollar & Mexican Peso were at par. Of course, American financial interests dominated the Mexican economy more & more as Mexican President Diaz controlled Mexico more & more from the days of U.S. Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant, so why wouldn’t everybody be happy? It was only the interminable Mexican Revolution & the cultural changes that came along with that that American looked askance at its southern neighbor with an attitude of economic, and, on occasion, military, trepidation.

A lot of water had to go under that bridge – including the establishment of PEMEX, the nationalization of Mexico’s oil industry under Lazaro Cardenes – for there to be a more stable shared view of the U.S. Mexican border, from Brownsville & Matamoros to San Diego & Tijuana. Even so, in contemporary 21st century, that water under the bridge proved pretty damned turbulent – particularly during the Administration of U.S. President George W. Bush, who aligned with Mexican President Vincente Fox to open up the U.S. Mexican border for increased North American commerce from Mexico. The major opponent to this shared policy between the U.S & Mexico under the W. Bush & Fox Administrations was CNN broadcaster Lou Dobbs, who held a nightly television show demonstrating the excesses & foibles of Mexican immigrants throughout the United States while demanding an immediate redress to the policy.

The tenor of the ongoing crisis along the U.S. Mexican border changed during the Obama Administration, not because of anything that President Barack Obama did or said. Instead, arguably, the successor to Mexican President Fox changed the direction of U.S.-Mexican relations when, ten days after the beginning of the Administration of the Mexican President Felipe Calderon in December 2006, Mexican President Calderon declared war against the drug cartels. (U.S. President Obama could not help Mexican President Calderon with either funds or troops in the Mexican drug war as the United States suffered its worst recession since the Great Depression as President Obama worked hard to push through his major, and extremely expensive, policy agenda of universal health care for all Americans.) The insurgent rebellion of the Mexican drug cartels that ensued across the country, particularly in the north, which shared the border with the United States, forced U.S. law enforcement to key upon border crossings & the U.S. Mexican border, not as a political policy, but as a law enforcement necessity. Mexicans who wished to cross the U.S. Mexican border now also had to contend with the extremely vicious Mexican drug cartels in border towns & thoroughfares to border towns like Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, La Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Culiacán, Sinaloa & Tijuana, Baja California.

Truth be told, after all of this – and after the spectacular arrest of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán in early January 2016 – the relationship between the U.S. & Mexico as a result of illegal immigration to the U.S. has stabilized tremendously. What induced former President Donald J. Trump to begin his candidacy for President in June 2015, by saying:  

“When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”  

is the collective memory of television viewers watching Lou Dobbs disparage Mexican immigrants on CNN (before Dobbs moved to Fox News) with ongoing horrific news of the Mexican drug war.

At the onset of the Biden Administration in 2021, the majority of those immigrants seeking to cross over the U.S.-Mexican border, previous to the surge of Venezuelans enduring political exile from their own economically devastated & politically repressive country, involved those from Central America. In “Central American Immigrants in the United States,” Nicole Ward and Jeanne Batalova of www.migrationpolicy.org stated, “U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) encountered nationals of the four largest Central American sending countries (El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua) at the U.S.-Mexico border 109,100 times in fiscal year (FY) 2020, a number that increased to about 705,500 in FY 2022. In the first six months of FY 2023, there were about 287,300 border encounters of these nationals. Between October 2019 and March 2023, nationals of these four countries accounted for nearly one-third of all 5.8 million migrant encounters at the southern border.”

Do all these Central American migrants seek to enter the United States in order to live within the confines of our land mass as “citizens?” Not exactly. These Central American migrants seek to enter the United States in order to partake of the strong American greenback. Working for the American greenback will improve their lives wherever they live.

Migrants from Central America were not the only people who wanted access to the American greenback. Chinese immigration skyrocketed during the second Obama Administration – and these Chinese immigrants were not poor. Millionaire & billionaire parents hunted for available condominiums across North America, not only in New York, Miami, San Francisco & Seattle but in Toronto & Montreal as they replicated a formula that they have perfected to immigrate to North America since World Expo 86 in Vancouver, British Columbia. Simultaneously, economists within the Chinese government, eager to keep some of the intellectual braintrust that put China in a direct competition with the United States as a world power, unpegged the Yuan from the Dollar in 2005 so that world governments would consider making the Yuan the official international currency. Even so, in “What is Holding the Yuan Back? Xi Is,” Daniel McDowell from SFS: Georgetown Journal of International Affairs made a statement that:  

Though the yuan is no longer pegged against the dollar, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) carefully manages the currency’s value, allowing it to float within a narrow range or “band.” This exchange rate management regularly exposes China to charges of currency manipulation from critics, especially those from the United States.  

But a degree of predictability in the yuan’s value may actually appeal to investors. Many other emerging market currencies are prone to significant price swings. Thus, knowing that the PBOC will intervene to prevent the yuan’s value from becoming too hot or too cold could reassure otherwise wary official investors about diversifying into a new reserve currency.  

shows that the process is neither automatic nor easy.

Long story short, what this suggests is quite simple: If the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) had been, is or becomes able to displace the American Dollar with the Chinese Yuan, migrants will stop trying to cross the U.S. Mexican border, from Matamoros to Brownsville, from La Ciudad Juárez to El Paso, from Nogales to Nogales, from Mexicali to Calexico, or Tijuana to San Diego. At that point, of course, the four largest Central American countries sending immigrants over the U.S.-Mexican border, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua would spend a lot more of its time & money soliciting Chinese business, the Monroe Doctrine be damned.

But that is all business for the big boys. The fact that “trade is just warfare by alternative means” is a policy one can adopt on a microeconomic level in the comfort of one’s own home, in whatever country that may reside, as well as amongst the heads of state throughout the world.  

ARIES – If Solomon Gursky did not steal the savings accrued from the family bank account of their rural Saskatchewan hardware store in order to bet it all in a local poker game to win the deed of the local hotel, there would be no subsequent legendary peccadillos, dalliances & felonies from coast to coast across Canada, from Vancouver to Halifax, and as far north as Yellowknife, Mackenzie, as the Gursky family pursued a liquor empire before, during & after Prohibition – and Mordecai Richler would have no content upon which to build what is known as his most ambitious & perhaps greatest novel, Solomon Gursky Was Here. 1996-GQ21 in Sagittarius recalls Richler’s latter day masterpiece to emphasize that, in order to get anywhere in “empire building,” one must “bet the farm.” Note that this does not suggest that one must bet “one’s farm” – somebody else’s farm will do. Does this connote that empire building is a de facto sin against God & man, if not a federally legislated, felony? No se. Je ne sais pas. Do what you have to do.  

TAURUS – It seems strange to those who did not live through the transition of the artistic pinnacle of the music industry in the early Eighties to the era of social media commencing sometime around 2005, but the controversy of cultural imperialism of the indigenous music of the Caribbean & Africa, with bands like the Police appropriating Jamaican reggae & Paul Simon appropriating of African music could & did pique some extremely harsh personal insults. In “Pushing the Musical Envelope”, the Tampa Bay Times’ Fernando Gonzalez recalls one such incident, as well as the phenomenon itself, when Puerto Rican singer Willie Colón, who collaborated with Byrne on his salsa-influenced Rei Momo, later laments & repents, in truly insulting fashion, how indigenous musicians are "willingly giving up their juice to some pale, spastic, soulless hack." Yes, cultural imperialism aside, Colón’s insult is unfair to Byrne, unpopular not only in Colón’s Puerto Rican circles but also amongst his original band Talking Heads, because although Byrne does have some unique talent, he also reportedly indulges some truly high-handed, unspeakable arrogance. But 1996-GQ21 in Sagittarius now wonders how deeply this role of cultural imperialism will alter the engines of creativity when one reflects upon The New York Times’ Emily Flitter and Katherine Rosman news item, “The Blurred Lines Between Goldman C.E.O.’s Day Job and His D.J. Gig,” which describes negotiations between Goldman Sachs C.E.O., David “DJ Sol” Solomon with Larry Mestel, a financier & Goldman client who owns the rights to Whitney Houston’s “I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me).” The perspective of one critic, Jonathan Macey, a professor of corporate and securities law at Yale Law School, involves Solomon’s role as Goldman CEO, “The question is: What is best for Goldman Sachs? Does Goldman Sachs deserve this guy’s undivided attention?” Then again, there are a lot of people out there who do not think that that is “the question” at all, because they care much more about Whitney Houston, and could care less about whether or not Goldman Sachs or David Solomon even exist. To those people, “the question” is: What is the simpatico here between this financier DJ & the late Whitney Houston – especially given that the music industry is investing exponentially less & less money & resources in new talent all the time? Does, did, would Whitney Houston want to dance with this DJ Sol? Yes, this transaction is legal – and, given Solomon’s financial instincts, lucrative. But is it not soulless?

GEMINI – You have nothing against local politicians discussing & negotiating local commercial & residential zoning issues, about the number of cops who need to show up in any one or another specific neighborhood & everything that happens where all of you live in your city. But 1996-GQ21 in Sagittarius does not emphasize that at all. What this planet emphasizes that what you & the many of you who do business together where you live need to do is to sell your wares not just in the region where you live, and not just in the country where you vote, but far, far away. The best example is when Henry Ford began to sell the Model T throughout the United States & then the world over from Detroit & Dearborn, Michigan in the early part of the 20th century. One reason that both Detroit & Dearborn are the best examples is fairly obvious: Look what happened to Detroit & Dearborn when Ford, as well as General Motors, did not do as well selling their cars after World War II. Indeed, it is enough to keep Microsoft improving its products at a rate more rapid than Google so that its stock price begins to approach, and one day to exceed, $400 per share, “Seattle is not just about the Mariners, the Seahawks & the Kraken! Just like Boeing, Starbucks & Amazon, we have to carry our fair share.”

CANCER – Sure, you are a BMW engineer who has worked at manufacturing plants in Shenyang, Liaoning, China; Spartanburg, South Carolina, U.S.A.; and San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, Mexico – but that doesn’t mean that you have forgotten your German! Indeed, you may have acquired enough Mandarin, English (complete with South Carolinian drawl, “Well, bless your heart!”) & Spanish to be able to speak locally with fellow employees at your various manufacturing facilities – but 1996-GQ21 in Sagittarius implores you to keep up your German so that you will be able to translate from that Mandarin, English & Spanish auf Deutsch mit keiner Hindernisse upon immediate command to your bosses from Munich, Bavaria, Germany without delay, “Jawohl, mein Herr!”  

LEO – Fiction writers, novelists: 1996-GQ21 in Sagittarius denotes that you will either be writing literary fiction, which means that you will be writing one distinct novel with one distinct set of characters & one distinct plot at a time, or you will be creating a factory of product: A set of multi-volume tomes of genre pieces with the same set of characters, one plot in several movements, not unlike the movements of Wagner’s The Ring, with staggered annual releases that guarantee that whoever buys in the first one in 2027 buys the last one in 2034, and each one in-between. Critics, like critics of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight will have differing opinions of their quality & literary merit – but, ultimately, they will sell much better than even the fiercest literary minds of our generation, whether Jeffrey Eugenides, Rawi Hage or Colson Whitehead. Why? Because the genre pieces that Rowling & Meyer wrote helped sell the books themselves – which is never the case for Eugenides, Hage or Whitehead, none of whose literary challenges put them in a position to write one book every year from an audience who knows exactly what they can expect.  

VIRGO – Read Libra. The ancestors of most local citizens gave up their European citizenship at Ellis Island one hundred years ago, and three generations ago, in your family, while some local Jewish worshippers, Indian Hindus & Sikhs, latter-day Mexicans & even Italians and Greeks who have thrived in America for over 100 years, all live in the same diaspora generation after generation after generation. Many have land in other countries, including in countries from where they originated, and whose loyalty to the United States ends with the American Greenback currency that they send back home to relatives via Western Union. Do you have an opinion about any of this? If you say, “No,” then good – get back to what you were doing. If you say, “Yes, I do have an opinion about this!” – then 1996-GQ21 in Sagittarius warns that you will be making no friends, yesterday, today, tomorrow, never! Your objections will only cause trouble, and the people who will be suffering that trouble the most will be you & your family. Believe it!  

LIBRA – Read Virgo. Lawyers: Whether you represent foreign merchants in local American markets or Americans in foreign local markets, understanding & explaining the law to those who do business with you is not enough.1996-GQ21 in Sagittarius states that what you must explain to your clients is much more ineffable: You must explain & explicate all sorts of attitudes. You must describe the attitudes of how local people do business with other local people locally. You must plot the range & gauge the tolerance or intolerance of local businesspeople when dealing with foreign business people. You must explain, when it crops up, “the appearances of impropriety” to those who have done nothing legally wrong – as well as “the appearances of propriety” to those who clearly have no respect for the law. None of these things fall under the realm of what you learned in law school – but all of these things will have an influence at what may or may not happen when applying for licenses or when your client must show up in court, whether as plaintiff . . . or as defendant. Be as clear as possible without crossing the line of truthful but unseemly vulgarity.

SCORPIO – Read Gemini. Doing international business interests you because you have done the research, and you firmly, deeply believe you can make killing after killing after killing in the foreign market of your choice. Conversely, your interest in local businesses & laws begins & ends with understanding how the laws of where your business is domiciled accelerate or impede your international business interests, and to find a way to change the laws when it suits that purpose. 1996-GQ21 in Sagittarius only instructs you to keep these underlying principles ruthlessly organized as you work your plan to get what you want for your international business interests. No more, no less.  

SAGITTARIUS – “There's good points! There’s bad points! But it all works out – sometimes I'm a little freaked out,” David Byrne sings “Cities” off Fear of Music. “I will find a city, find myself a city to live in.” And the next song off Fear of Music, “Heard about Houston? Heard about Detroit? Heard about Pittsburgh PA?” David Byrne sings “Life During Wartime.” That was the late Seventies – 1979, to be exact. National travel skyrocketed twenty years later. Forty years later, plus a couple, COVID-19 employees allergic to their hometown office began to work from a coffee shop two blocks away from their urban rental in another country. Thereupon, 1996-GQ21 in Sagittarius sings, “I will find a country, find myself a country to conquer.” Whoa, there, Old Nelson – you are not George Washington of Mount Vernon, and certainly not Alexander the Great of Macedonia. Ask your doctor to refill your prescription to restore reality to your overexuberant consciousness – according to the health care plan in the country where you . . . are employed.

CAPRICORN – Homeowners, landlords, property managers: You were complaining about the entrenchment of Section 8, low rent housing for years before the flood of migrants crossed over the border & started to fill space around you in different cities across the nation. Frankly, 1996-GQ21 in Sagittarius declares that, if you have the means to own & to buy more property (and you probably will not until you clear the formidable debt represented by the sign Leo in your 8th house of joint finances), then you would treat this national crisis as a business opportunity. You need not buy these buildings, then apply to be a Section 8 slumlord. You need not accept Section 8 tenants. You could buy & provide affordable housing & find worthwhile business partners amongst those new tenants emigrating to their new country. Not every single one of them is a gang member or drug dealer – or the parent of a gang member or drug dealer. One of them may even become the future Senators Robert Menendez or Marco Rubio – but who may not be corrupt & may not be a total ingrate, but may indeed remember the American benevolence of a tortured ancestry or past. There are souls to be saved & money to be made!  

AQUARIUS – The brain of a brilliant late teenager or recent college graduate can easily become obsessed about a very specific niche type of knowledge, illustrated well by the prepubescent boy who alphabetizes baseball cards or the college junior who (used to) cross-reference then alphabetizes albums by genre. No matter what your age, 1996-GQ21 in Sagittarius suggests that this potentially delightfully disease will once again befall you: A very specific niche type of knowledge will now gobble up your brain & all of its memories. What will the subject of this specific niche type of knowledge be? Herein lies the rub. Herein lies whether or not this obsession is a potentially delightfully disease or the very scourge of your soul. To use broad signposts, focus upon an obsession which requires you to buy books, albums or any type of product of the intellectual marketplace – a study of French philosophy, whether Simondon, Stiegler or Foucault; a personal favorite of John Delaney’s Astroscope, centaur astrology; the migration of American Indian or First Nations Tribes across North America or the municipal history of your favorite Canadian, American or Mexican city. Avoid, if at all possible, Facebook, social media & the Internet (Which will not always be possible – the Internet is where you will find John Delaney’s Astroscope!).  

PISCES – Pisces gets nowhere without a deadline. What makes Pisces suffer is a deadline without a passion. Yes, earning one’s daily bread by working every day adds regimen to the existential dread of a modern society that appears godless, meaningless & interminable – but 1996-GQ21 in Sagittarius confirms that that is why you save your money. The austerity of a loaf of bread, a jug of water & enough money for the daily commute allows you to save money for the more profound & meaningful deadlines, best exemplified by airline travel internationally – you can’t be late because the plane has already left for Western Australia! Guess you are going to have to spend the night at the Comfort Inn or Best Western near the airport until the next plane for Western Australia leaves – or maybe just get a seven-dollar loaf of bread at the bakery next to where you buy your four-dollar Starbucks to sleep in the airport waiting area where your next plan will arrive. Just another metaphorical contrast to highlight the meaninglessness & meaningfulness not only of different deadlines, but also the importance of making each & every one of them – because earning one’s daily bread by working every day is what will get you on that plane to Western Australia.

@ 1996-GQ21 is an unnamed scattered-disk object (SDO) transneptunian object (TNO) discovered on April 12, 1996. SDOs are far more remote in space than even Varuna or Pluto, the outermost planets in our current solar system; 1996-GQ21, an SDO, is also a TNO because, at perihelion, it hovers around the orbit of Neptune.

A great resource for ephemeris data on 1996-GQ21 and over 3000 minor planets, asteroids & centaurs, is on
Jonathan Dunn's website "Ephemeral Info" at
http://ephemeral.info

Research on the above footnotes generously provided to the general public by
The IAU: Minor Planet Center
at
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ARTICLE #6

2002-GZ32* transits Capricorn
from December 13, 2020 to January 15, 2027.

As he sat at his table at Sanborn’s with fellow revolutionary Emiliano Zapata on La Avenida Madero inn Historico Centro in Mexico City, Pancho Villa well understood the irony, the obtuseness, the logistic conundrum of the seemingly endless trail of his revolutionaries, filthy from the battlefield & from marching in a war which deliberately reflected the now anachronistic American Civil War, in order to sit down for some café con leche and churros – because he created it!!

Villa caused chaos at Sanborn’s, as deliberately as Alabama Governor George Wallace stood in front of the University of Alabama to block two black students from entering that building in an attempt to defy desegregation, as deliberately as Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith shot civil rights leader Medgar Evers in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi, as deliberately as Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc lit himself on fire with gasoline in the middle of the city of Saigon to protest the lack of religious freedom in South Vietnam.

But all of these other vested political figures did what they did “over my dead body” – which was not Villa’s style. Nor was extremely dangerous, unwieldy, obtuse & thankless hard work his style, such as the task of future Veracruz State Governor & future Mexican President Adolfo Ruiz Cortinez, who returned, to Mexico City, all the gold which President Venustiano Carranza had removed from the Mexican treasury in Mexico City to the city of Veracruz.

No, Pancho Villa was a charmer. Villa knew that Martín Luis Guzmán, the journalist who wrote an extensive profile about him inn The Eagle and the Serpent, represented a less spectacular forerunner of Hunter S. Thompson – why not dazzle him instead of steamrolling him? Villa had a contract with the Mutual Film Company because he needed the money for his battles & because it would immortalize his place in the Mexican Revolution for the ages – can’t we wait just another fifteen minutes so that the cameramen can cross the border before we slaughter los Federalists in the Battle of Ojinaga?

The Mexicans weren’t interested in daring military & government logistics – they wanted charisma, drama & backstory in the face of bizarre, absurd & crazy obstacles that reflected & transformed the misery of their quotidian existence. There are no rooms available at the Hotel Geneve – and we’re all too damn dirty anyway? Fine! We’ll stay right here & discuss our options. Camarera – ¡más chorros y cafes con leche por todos mi amigos! 

ARIES – After former talk show host & comedian Jon Stewart spoke before Congress about the urgency of passing legislation to secure funding for first responders at the World Trade Center terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, he saw Senate Majority Leader Republican Senator from Kentucky Mitch McConnell walking down the hallway to the Capitol – who outright ignored him. As a political crusader for liberal causes & an entertainment figurehead representing the primacy of the left wing during the Obama Administration, Stewart thinks very highly of himself – but Senator McConnell did not notice that Stewart even existed. 2002-GZ32 in Capricorn specifically recalls Stewart looking down the hall at McConnell in order to remind those who invest their personality & ego in their political opinion that power brokers have all sorts of resources to put you at the most inconvenient physical & bureaucratic distance from them possible. Much wiser to cooperate upon specific issues which effect both of you than to dig in your heels in an adversarial stand against windmills – or skyscrapers. 

TAURUS – Establishing professional & amicable relations with remote & extremely unwieldy power brokers, professionally, socially & politically, serves Taurus the Bull well as their needs & agendas evolve. 2002-GZ32 in Capricorn remind both power brokers & you, Taurus the Bull, that logistical complications abound & multiply – logistical complications dealing with such power brokers, logistical complications dealing with you, the logistical complications needs & agendas and, moreover, the logistical complications of your past dealings with each other. Realize: This is all a freak show! Make sure everybody keeps their sense of humor. 

GEMINI – 2002-GZ32 in Capricorn almost forces you to use your own money to secure the loan of an equivalent amount of money from a bank, credit union, credit card company or the government – precisely because your credit rating may be better than the credit rating of all of these financial institutions, many of them more than one century old. Furthermore, if absolutely everybody moves as a result of the increasing property taxes, then municipal, state provincial & federal governments must, absolutely must, find new ways to tax everybody else – despite the satanic hypnotizing glaze of Jeff Bezos’ evil eye. (Get it?) Find a way in every possible deal to pay upfront. 

CANCER – Recent news articles report that nobody has seen former Olympic winning Russian gymnast Alina Kabaeva in public since she was two months pregnant with twins in April 2019 because the reputed father, Russian President Vladimir Putin, banished her with new IDs in the same way that Russian President Putin banished his two adult children. 2002-GZ32 in Capricorn marks a profound escalation to those days when, “Love meant never having to say you’re sorry.” Which question is being answered? A) What wouldn’t you do for the one you loved? B) What can I do for my country? (Really, sounds like somebody needs to watch & to hear Jessica Simpson’s song & video for The Dukes of Hazard, “These boots are made for walking, that’s just what they’ll do, one of these days they’re going to walk all over you.”) 

LEO – The managing partner or managing director of your 300-lawyer or 1000-financial analyst or 750-software engineer firm should be remote, should be inaccessible, should require hoops through which one must jump in order to meet, to talk or to pitch – but some shmuck with grandiose delusions within your 14-person working group does not deserve that same royal treatment. Your working group should communicate & congregate & integrate & argue & discuss – nobody in your working group should alienate or high-hand or disregard or disassociate. And, furthermore, 2002-GZ32 in Capricorn denotes that all in your working group should have the same status. Nobody is more equal than anybody else in that workgroup, despite all ambitions. Unequal members of such groups of equals should do where they are unequal or superior so that you can ignore them like they ignore you. End of story. 

VIRGO – No NFL team drafted one of the greatest quarterbacks in the history of the University of Washington Huskies, Warren Moon – so Warren Moon went to play quarterback for the Canadian Football League’s Edmonton Eskimos. Why didn’t any team in the NFL draft Moon? Most likely, because the NFL still held huge hang-ups about African-American quarterbacks, like the NBA now holds huge hang-ups about African-American head coaches. The Edmonton Eskimos had no such hang-ups, so Moon played quarterback & won five consecutive Grey Cup Championships – reminiscent, in the latter day, of when Mark Messier from St. Albert, Alberta led the Edmonton Oilers to five Stanley Cup Championships later in the Eighties. After his fifth consecutive Grey Cup Championship, Moon set off a bidding war by announcing that he would now pursue an NFL career – a bidding war which the Houston Oilers won after announcing that they were also hiring Moon’s former head coach, Hugh Campbell. All of which goes to show, according to the influence of 2002-GZ32 in Capricorn, that sometimes it is only possible, but oftentimes more desirable, to come in from the top. 

LIBRA – Many American cities, including Minneapolis, New York, Seattle, Portland & Richmond, endured enormous economic destruction during the George Floyd protests & riots during the COVID-19 summer of 2020, as many of the protesters & rioters demanded a defunding of their local municipal police departments while the Federal Government sent in agents of its own to further complicate already hopelessly complex law enforcement problems. Unfortunately, 2002-GZ32 in Capricorn does not promise that repairing the damage will be either easy or painless. The first step lies in changing & promoting leadership that will influence the municipal tax base to pay for what must be financed, as New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg had done post-September 11, long before future moronic New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio paid $175 per night per homeless person to house the homeless in vacant New York City hotels during the height of the pandemic. The second step lies in ensuring that the leader can silence the extremely counterproductive expostulations of unbearably impractical protesters – not through force, but through quiet logic. 

SCORPIO – You cannot fix enormously unwieldy problems within your business by relying upon your employees – paid employees will not be committed to the over-the-top effort necessary to tackle such enormously unwieldy problems & they will only intend to impede you. 2002-GZ32 in Capricorn denotes that you need partners who see your enormously unwieldy problems as a miniature visual matrix that demonstrates a rare & very welcome opportunity to innovate. These would be management consultants who live for opportunities to witness & then to solve the logistic nightmares of their generation. Rubric’s cube to the sixteenth power on steroids on crack on acid! 

SAGITTARIUS – Really, it does not matter how much money you have – 2002-GZ32 in Capricorn insists that the only way that you can create problems for yourself financially will occur if you refuse to live within a budget. Furthermore, realize that the budget itself may make no common sense. The budget for Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s film Cleopatra, $40 million in 1963 dollars, about $370 million today, included a suit of armor in pure gold, costing $1 million in 1963 dollars, about $8.45 million today. Plus, consider your spending habits – rumor has it that Philadelphia 76er Allen Iverson used to throw about $1,000 a night at strippers who “danced” to entertain him. Seriously? Finally, the market, and, in fact, the law, may refuse to tolerate your extravagance, regardless of your prestige, fame or wealth – the New York State Court of Appeals held that her landlord could evict Bianca Jagger from her rent-controlled apartment at $4,614 a month in 2008 given that she was not a citizen of New York State or the United States of America. Ahem! 

CAPRICORN – Authors infrequently introduce historical figures into their literary fiction. When some of them do – such as how E.L. Doctorow wrote about a fictional encounter (?) between J.P. Morgan & Henry Ford, or about the obsessions & spontaneously insane actions of Harry Houdini, inn Ragtime, or how Don DeLillo depicted J. Edgar Hoover, Frank Sinatra & Jackie Gleason watching Bobby Thompson hit “the shot heard around the world” inn Underworld– many of these characters, at that time, reflected about their time at that time in history. 2002-GZ32 in Capricorn recalls these & other novels as Capricorn the Goat feels alienated from human contact because of their self-evident awesome responsibilities. The best & smartest way to get close to such power brokers, because you will more than appreciate not only sensibility but also the raw insights, is to reflect about yourself & such power brokers during your & their time at this time in history – not only as Jack Burden does for Willie Stark in Robert Penn Warren's All the King’s Men, and not only as Elvis Presley did for Richard Nixon in Jonathan Lowy's Elvis and Nixon, but also as Richard Nixon did for Mao Tse-Tung in John Adams’ opera Nixon in China. Great leaders respect anybody with the scope & vision of those charged with making the changes for the masses for the ages! 

AQUARIUS – How often did civil rights leader & former President of South Africa Nelson Mandela dream of prison, thinking of the 27 years he spent there, while serving as South African President in Pretoria? Talk about an afterimage! But 2002-GZ32 in Capricorn insists – that one thing, prison, led to another, the South African Presidency. On one side, the prison (Six-time Mexican President Benito Juarez also spent time in Mexico’s most notorious prison, San Juan de Ulúa) – on the other side, the Presidential Palace. What’s on both sides of your “coin”? 

PISCES – Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani & former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie spent an inordinate amount of their own personal time advising President Donald Trump about logistics & political affairs as President Donald Trump spent an inordinate amount of time associating with & trying to influence Russian President Vladimir Putin & Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Long before he got any of his six championship rings, Chicago Bull Michael Jordan did all that he could, but could not possibly break through to defeat the aggressive physical bullying of Chuck Daly’s Detroit Pistons – but once Michael did finally defeat the Pistons, Michael & loyal Kemosabe Scottie Pippin, did their damnedest, successfully, to keep their main & primary Detroit Piston nemesis Isiah Thomas off the 1988 Olympic Team. 2002-GZ32 in Capricorn declares that power breeds power as power nurtures power because power rejects power so that power rejects the rejection of power.

* 2002-GZ32 is an unnamed centaur planet discovered on April 13, 2002. The orbit of 2002-GZ32 traverses across the orbit of Uranus and just before the orbit of Neptune. For information on how to interpret 2002-GZ32, note reference too Philip Sedgwick below.

The only source online for how to interpret 2002-GZ32 and many other unnamed centaurs and transneptunians, as well as an excellent source for how to interpret all named centaurs, is
Philip Sedgwick's webpage "A Summary of The Centaurs"
on Jonathan Dunn's website "Ephemeral Info" at http://ephemeral.info/qot/galastro.shtml

A great resource for ephemeris data on 2002-GZ32 and over 3000 minor planets, asteroids & centaurs, is on
Jonathan Dunn's website "Ephemeral Info" at
http://ephemeral.info

Research on the above footnotes generously provided to the general public by
The IAU: Minor Planet Center
at
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/mpc.html

ARTICLE #7

2003-CO1* transits Aquarius
from October 27, 2020 to January 6, 2030.

Most Americans would never have known who Dr. Tony Fauci was or what he did if President Donald J. Trump chose not to hold daily televised updates regarding the status of the coronavirus pandemic in the presence, and with the input, of his coronavirus task force – which, of course, included Dr. Fauci. While this role involving public speaking with the media was not totally foreign to Dr. Fauci – Dr. Fauci did considerable community & media relations during the height of the AIDS epidemic during the Eighties – Dr. Fauci does not see such public relations & political functions as what he really does.

Other doctors do not narrow their purview as strictly as Dr. Fauci – Dr. Mehmet Oz, launched publicly into the spotlight from TV's The Oprah Winfrey Show, who would use his fame not only to promote anti-aging supplements, but also to write several New York Times self-help best sellers, is one such example.

Dr. Fauci may be savvy about media relations after working for decades in Washington, D.C. but he clearly never valued them as his top priority.

Regis High School, Dr. Fauci’s high school alma mater in New York City’s Upper East Side, is not a media savvy educational environment. There are no video cameras or audio soundboards upon which students are encouraged to learn. Public speaking is a required class for all students for one-third of their freshman year, but, although Regis boasts an acclaimed debate team, there are no acting or drama classes or the like. Regis, a school run & ruled by the Jesuit Catholic Order, emphasizes a classical education – Latin, Greek, science, math, modern languages, history, literature and theology. Under such a classical curriculum, a relatively large percentage of Regis’s unusually small student body goes on to complete college & medical school to become skilled, albeit not necessarily famous, doctors.

Holy Cross, Dr. Fauci’s undergraduate alma mater, is, similarly, run & ruled by the Jesuit Catholic Order, which emphasizes “a liberal arts education.” Holy Cross, also similarly, is not a media savvy educational environment. Given, moreover, that, according to Holy Cross’s Office of Public Affairs, Holy Cross students who apply to medical school have a 91% acceptance rate, a relatively large percentage of Holy Cross’s student body, like a relatively large percentage of Regis High School’s unusually small student body, goes on to complete medical school to become skilled, albeit not necessarily famous, doctors.

A lack of fame reflects much less upon the skill of such doctors but upon the role of fame in medicine. Within the medical infrastructure, a doctor gains more attention publicly and, dare one say, fame, as a result of a doctor’s specialty within a hospital which focuses upon that specialty. The doctor achieves some nebulous type of hierarchical rank based upon that specialty. The doctor works above, with and for certain doctors working on the same specialty for those hospitals which focus upon those & similar specialties. The doctor becomes “well known” or, dare one say, famous, amongst a group of similarly situated doctors.

This is because the medical infrastructure seeks to promulgate the advanced medical techniques within the specialty & not “star practitioners.””

An alternative way a doctor or scientist can gain renown, but not fame, would be to develop new types of medicine for the prescription drug market. When Dr. Fauci discusses the possibility of a vaccine being released sometime by the end of October, the end of 2020 or early in 2021, he is talking about established pharmaceutical companies, such as Johnson & Johnson, Merck or Pfizer, or venture capital pharmaceutical start-ups who recently released an IPO, working on a specific product that they hope to bring through three stages of trial testing by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA). A successful third trial allows the pharmaceutical company to begin manufacturing & distributing the newly approved drug in the open marketplace.

While such doctors or scientists can become stars within the recondite glamor of their professional universe, what, really, except a dearth of opportunity, prevents some rebel doctor or scientist to go it alone, to become a free agent or to do the extremely unthinkable, as Dr. Martin Arrowsmith did in Sinclair Lewis’s 1926 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Aerosmith, traveling to St. Hubert, a fictional Caribbean island, in order to treat its population inundated with the bacillus plague with appropriate applications of Dr. Arrowsmith’s anti-bacterial principle, the bacteriophage? Quite simply, in appropriate Pfizer jargon, “the golden handcuffs.” Companies within the pharmaceutical industry with high market capitalization buy such ambitious doctors & scientists out.

But, then again, a dollar is a dollar. Unlike the pharmaceutical industry regulated by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA), arenas exist whereby medical doctors can seek to build name recognition based upon academic & publishing credentials to further, not necessarily their medical careers, but their businesses – specifically, as the designer, manufacturer or distributor of supplements, mainly over the Internet. Two such doctors, Dr. Stephen Gundry & Dr. Rand McClain, have both bought a significant amount of advertising space on the Internet to promote different supplements which aid weight loss.

Dr. Gundry’s practice argues that a cause of unwanted weight gain occurs as the result of a lack of probiotics deep in the intestinal tract as well as in the stomach. Amongst other things, Dr. Gundry highly recommends the introduction of more uncooked sauerkraut, uncooked kim chi & pickled vegetables into one’s diet.

Dr. McClain’s practice argues that a person has the same number of fat cells at fifty as they do at twenty. However, what a person loses between twenty & fifty is an enzyme, AMPK, which induces these fat cells to release fat. Sometime after twenty, as a result of the lack of AMPK, fat cells never release fat, but only store it. Dr. McClain claims he has developed & sells his own proprietary supplement, an AMPK activator, some of whose ingredients include Berberine, Gynostema & Quercetin, for those who lack this AMPK enzyme.

Both Dr. Gundry & Dr. McClain cite different studies of science departments of acclaimed universities to communicate the veracity of their findings.

This sounds like what a doctor should do – which makes it all the more remarkable, given some of Dr. Gundry’s & Dr. McClain’s competition in the marketplace.

Such as personal trainer Vincent Sant. A twenty-six year-old Los Angeles personal trainer, Sant has bought just as much, or even much more, advertising space on the Internet & on social media as Dr. Gundry & Dr. McClain. However, unlike Dr. Gundry & Dr. McClain, who both stick to formal presentations, Sant begins much of his advertising, intended to drive the viewer to his website, vshred.com, with extemporaneous expostulations videotaped by Sant’s fellow gym rat on a grainy, low-res cellphone, “Cardio burns fat, right? No! Cardio burns calories, usually in the form of carbs in the bloodstream which will be replaced by your very next meal.””

Sant’s expertise underlying the promotion of his supplements has nothing to do with the expertise boasted by Dr. Gundry & Dr. McClain, citing the science departments of various prestigious universities in their impatience or indifference regarding the U.S. FDA clinical trials. Sant instead cites Hollywood actor Hugh Jackman, and specifically Jackman’s workout regimen previous to the film The Wolverine, as well as the workout regimens of Hollywood actors Chris Pratt & Christian Bale. Otherwise, Sant talks about what he has done for himself & for others, the “thousands of clients” whom he has helped with the expertise which he has accumulated which underwrites the integrity of his supplements.

Again, Sant is not a doctor. Sant is a personal trainer. However, just as Dr. Gundry & Dr. McClain service their patients, Sant services personal training clients. Dr. Gundry & Dr. McClain maintain clientele as patients as they counsel & support weight loss. Sant maintains clientele as he counsels & supports weight loss. What does Sant practice as a personal trainer in regard to the supplements that he sells?

Sant’s practice maintains that a large percentage of men who suffer from symptoms of low testosterone don’t actually have low testosterone, but actually have high levels of a different hormone, cortisol, which counteracts testosterone’s benefits. Sant argues that such men should seek to decrease cortisol levels first before trying to increase testosterone levels.

The relative merits of the supplements & counsel of Dr. Gundry, Dr. McClain & Sant – or, for that matter, Dr. Oz – notwithstanding: The affiliation of Dr. Gundry & Dr. McClain with Sant, regardless of the integrity of any or all three, demonstrates the wisdom of the American medical profession & the American pharmaceutical industry in attempting to segregate, and to maintain relative anonymity for, doctors & scientists within its employ.

Sant feels absolutely no constraint from the censure of prestigious academic universities & any regulatory arm of the U.S. FDA regarding the medical profession or the pharmaceutical industry. Sant addresses his audience from an entirely different media platform which acknowledges & rewards media savvy. In this context, without casting aspersions or implying hidden praise, the first thirty seconds of the cell phone video of Vincent Sant at the commencement of his paid video advertising on the Internet or on social media recalls the acting techniques of Brad Pitt within the low-resolution spontaneity of social media star Logan Paul.

Logan Paul once videotaped a proprietary 90-second cell phone video in one take in Central Park for Dunkin’ Donuts for a one-time payment of $200,000 to distribute exclusively through his social media network. When asked if he was worth $200,000 for ninety seconds worth of work, Paul replied, “I’m worth much more than that.””

As for Brad Pitt – many Brad Pitt fans get warm & fuzzy feelings when they remember how Pitt “honored” Dr. Fauci by impersonating him on Saturday Night Live. However, what less sentimental viewers of TV, video, film & the extremely advanced acting skills of the undoubtedly brilliant Pitt recall, many of them less charitably, is how Pitt described complex, recondite & difficult to fathom financial industry knowledge from a jacuzzi in Director Adam McKay’s treatment of financial writer Michael Lewis’s book The Big Short.

None of these comparisons in & of themselves disparage the work, efforts & opinions of Los Angeles personal trainer Vincent Sant, which stand on their own merits.

Moreover, none of this is to say that doctors should be locked in a cage to focus exclusively & indefinitely on their well-defined & highly secret proprietary agenda away from any & all interaction with the media. A graduate of Regis High School much younger than Dr. Anthony Fauci, optometrist Dr. Joseph Pizzimenti – Italian-American, like Dr. Fauci; Brooklynite, like Dr. Fauci; sporting a mean jump shot, like Dr. Fauci – had at one point described some of his advances in optometry for the benefit off Reader’s Digest, previous to relocating his optometry practice to Davie in Florida’s Broward County. However, Dr. Pizzimenti, a dedicated academic who teaches optometry at the University of the Incarnate Word’s Rosenberg School of Optometry in San Antonio, Texas, unlike Dr. Gundry & Dr. McClain, and certainly unlike Dr. Oz, did not write that Reader’s Digest article to sell products based upon his name & expertise, but instead sought to advance new trends & innovations in the medical practice of optometry.

The emergence of Dr. Anthony Fauci to the forefront of your television screen represented an anomaly in the history of medicine & television – and may not have happened if not for the leadership of U.S. President Donald J. Trump. Therefore, as scientific & healthcare workers around the globe work hard to bring the coronavirus pandemic under control, Dr. Fauci & Dr. Deborah Birx will recede from the forefront back behind the scenes. Concurrently, many doctors seeking to advance within their specialty of medicine will continue to seek opportunities, either through time-tested, bureaucratically approved & highly regulated channels, or through alternative channels beyond such regulation, mixing it up with ambitious individuals of many other unrelated professions. 

ARIES – Regarding certain professional endeavors – science, politics, aviation, television broadcasting – it is impossible to “sell” your benefactor. You cannot “fake it until you make it.” Those who know already know what you can & cannot do. You are assigned your role, your direct reports & your peer group, your committee assignments, your extremely idiosyncratic schedule. 2003-CO1 in Aquarius fixes everything in that life so that both tangibles & intangibles serve at a transparently practical level. The specialization – and the prestige – reflect the personage. The ruthless eradication of choice from the life, originally a shock, becomes a distinct comfort – such individuals need not explain themselves. And, if they are lucky, they will get an opportunity to take their professional light years beyond where they received it precisely because such extraneous lifestyle issues have been denied to them. 

TAURUS – Certain types of extremely skilled high-level professionals, such as chemists & pilots, refuse to trade in conflict – the very second that they discern that the data is out of line, they cancel extremely large-scale processes enough to prevent explosions, crashes & certain death. Other types of publicly prominent professionals, including television personalities & politicians, absolutely trade in conflict – in fact, frequently, conflict without true knowledge. 2003-CO1 in Aquarius states that confusing one type of person with another would be annoyingly laughable if it were not so potentially tragic. Nobody would think to ask Chesley Sullenberger his political opinion. Conversely, you wouldn’t want Tucker Carlson – or worse yet, Joy Behar – to land your airplane. Know your people by their skill. Don’t expect an apple to talk like a jalapeno pepper. 

GEMINI – The difference between astronomers & astrologers, in the current day, transcends a philosophical approach to data. Astronomers gather data via observation through telescopes at observatories, which data astronomers analyze using extremely advanced & capacious computer networks, all underwritten by university donors & endowments as both astronomers & astrologers use & interpret such data for different purposes. However, gone are the days when a member of the general public could build an alternative telescope or observatory easily or affordably, as amateur music teacher Sir William Herschel had built a telescope with which had discovered Uranus in 1781. However, unless a private billionaire like Jeff Bezos, MacKenzie Scott, Larry Ellison, Michael Bloomberg or Carlos Slim builds an alternative telescope or observatory as an alternative to the university system, 2003-CO1 in Aquarius guarantees that an elite cadre of astronomers will not only be more inclined to keep much of the information that they learn to themselves – if only because it is expensive & time-consuming to distribute it – but will also continue to promulgate their opinion about planets in our & other solar systems, as CalTech astronomer Mike Brown did in “demoting” Pluto which he did in his book How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming, without meaningful discourse from not only the general public but in fact an informed professional media. Therefore, astronomers, astrologers & stargazers of all stripes & intentions: Keep up to date & abreast of that which you know in the hope that the range of intellectual, scientific, astronomical, astrological & philosophical discourse exponentially expands. 

CANCER – 2003-CO1 in Aquarius augurs the necessary meeting & dialogue of the sexual identity politician with the doctrinaire Marxist. What you do in bed for thrills one summer can put a smile on your face anytime that you have sex, whether with your lifelong partner or with Joe or Jane Whoever, the rest of your life. However, the memories of your past are what the Marxist’s call “the superstructure” which springs from the economic security & identity of your nuclear family’s bloodline. However, the nuclear family is not the natural economic outgrowth of the homosexual lifestyle & everybody knows it. What economic model emerges as a natural outgrowth of the homosexual lifestyle? What political model emerges as a natural outgrowth of the homosexual lifestyle? Are such economic & political models complimentary with other political & economic models still in widespread use? Homosexuals may consider themselves daring but a true doctrinaire Marxist will push anybody beyond their comfort zone because they do not base their findings on predilection. Temperatures are rising! 

LEO – 2003-CO1 in Aquarius denotes that the first time that you meet the most brilliant mind of your personal & professional future will be the most important. After that, for years to come, both of you will be too busy upon divergent but linked agendas. Dispense with your natural skepticism & immediately accept this individual as a profound ally. This ally impresses you now, and their strength of character will impress you even more – but, down the line, their discoveries & accomplishments will outright dazzle you. Keep this door firmly open. 

VIRGO – You are lucky that your company has hired a professional colleague or employee for your department or for you specifically with an accelerated specialty or prestigious pedigree. Take note that you are not supposed to compete with this individual. Indeed, 2003-CO1 in Aquarius suggests that what professional superiors want you to do is mentor them, be mentored by them, and, ideally, for you two to collaborate on extremely ambitious projects after you have learned each other’s extremely evolved & singular ways. 

LIBRA – If the local political party intends to place you in a political fast track, then 2003-CO1 in Aquarius promises that the mentor or mentors of your dreams will all of a sudden find themselves transformed to the district where you live & work. Great! How quickly will that happen? Maybe never – maybe you are not destined for the political fast track – or maybe conditions for any type of political fast track will be on hold for three or four years. Which means what? Network. Identify who that mentor or mentors of your dreams may actually be. Do homework for yourself so that your bosses can do their homework for & upon you. 

SCORPIO – Whoever may have hired them for whatever sinecure they occupy wherever they may be locally, 2003-CO1 in Aquarius puts you in close proximity to an elder statesman of your city, state, province or country who changed the direction of where you live profoundly for the better for decades after they left their duly elected or appointed position. Much of what that elder statesman achieved cannot be taught via a textbook but only by anecdotes that life, politics & governing is truly a collaborative venture. This elder statesman is not at all interested in promulgating a lifelong agenda – they are interested in leading equally high-minded peers of subsequent generations to cooperate. Stop being a loner. Start to become a disciple. 

SAGITTARIUS – Remember Max Headroom? The artificial intelligence celebrity of the Eighties penetrating a full twenty minutes into the future? ““What I want to know is, don't eskimos ever get tired of hearing the exact same weather report?” That actor, Matt Frewer, playing Max Headroom, was insanely busy! So what happened? 2003-CO1 in Aquarius surmises (and Sag the Archer should take heed) that flying extremely high ahead of the curve expending so much energy will cause even those with the most endurance total burn out. And what should one do when one burns out? Stay out of the public eye & rest – and avoid toxic behavior. But, hey! Remember when Max Headroom said, “Remememememember . . . Boy George? Heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh – me neither.” Boy, that was hilarious! Take heed. 

CAPRICORN – Placing current historical events within the context of a long-standing political tradition does not strike the average citizen as particularly ambitious. However, 2003-CO1 in Aquarius declares that this is exactly what purist ideologues do in think tanks when their party is out of favor locally or nationally. One does not want to start at the top & to maintain one’s position – this is totally an impossibility. One must grow in popularity, stature & number of supporters by usurping momentum as times change. The more prestigious your academic, professional or political backgrounds are, the more that you will attract hostile, vocal opposition – but only in the beginning. Be pleased that you intimidate. 

AQUARIUS –Your personage represents the exact individual your most ardent admirers wish to oppose in the most transcendent act of spiritual & personal liberation that they can imagine. Your personage represents the exact individual your most loyal opposition anthropomorphizes as the single most intellectual, political & logistic obstruction to progress alive today. Fortunately, all these admirers & adversaries have enough will & ingenuity to do what they need to do –– despite you!! – and then, after a time, they all notice that you are still around, doing work & acquiring insights that all will admit seem somewhat supernatural. What exactly happened? 2003-CO1 in Aquarius responds that you know that admirers & adversaries allowed their perceptions to interfere with their observation of facts. You would never be so rude as to dismiss the veracity of such perceptions – people must choose how they see or hear what they see & hear as part of their choices for their own individual lives. But didn’t you succumb to your perception the same way that admirers & adversaries did? Because you kept your ultimate goal firmly in mind. 

PISCES – Your inability to come up to speed in the midst of very fast things means nothing in the long run. The speed of all the runners running the marathon all submit that everybody from the winner to the turtle ran 26 miles. If pure speed in the midst of very fast things is what those judging “the event” are measuring, the judges & the spectators will turn their attention to all those whom they know possess such speed, as those who possess such speed are known well because of it. When other criteria are involved, however, involving retention of facts, abilities to negotiate, capacities to integrate all available facts & positions at the very end of a presentation or a deal, these prestigious extremely fast individuals in the midst of very fast things which 2003-CO1 in Aquarius represents will seek at all odds to cooperate with you – because those prestigious extremely fast individuals know well the difference between a head start & quick, dirty, shoddy finished products.

* 2003-CO1 is an unnamed centaur planet discovered on February 1, 2003. The orbit of 2003-CO1 commences just beyond the orbit of Saturn as it crosses over the orbit of Uranus & Neptune. 

A great resource for ephemeris data on 2003-CO1 and over 3000 minor planets, asteroids & centaurs, is on
Jonathan Dunn's website “Ephemeral Info” at
http://ephemeral.info

Research on the above footnotes generously provided to the general public by
The IAU: Minor Planet Center
at
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/mpc.html

ARTICLE #8

2001-KF77* transits Aquarius
from December 13, 2021 to January 7, 2029.

Former Republican Governor from the State of New Jersey Chris Christie on The View on November 17, 2021? Promoting his new book, Republican Rescue: Saving the Party from Truth Deniers, Conspiracy Theorists, and the Dangerous Policies of Joe Biden? Huh? Wasn’t this the guy that closed the New Jersey public beaches on the Fourth of July – then proceeded to spend that same Fourth of July holiday on a private beach at Island Beach State Park as part of the New Jersey Governor’s Mansion with his family . . . and nobody else? Miles & miles of empty beaches with not one voter. And didn’t two members of his cabinet in Trenton (That bad-ass backwoods slum is the capitol of New Jersey?) go to prison because they orchestrated an enormous traffic jam in Fort Lee along the George Washington Bridge because Democratic Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich would not support his run for re-election? This was the guy that Joy Behar & Whoopie Goldberg invited to appear on The View?

Yup, same guy. Same guy who got the State of New Jersey through Hurricane Sandy just before Election Day 2012, spending 72 hours straight on TV to warn every arrogant, selfish jerk in a state with more than its share of them, “Listen, you may think that I am a fat, loud & arrogant slob, but every single one of you knows that I can kick your ass – but this Hurricane Sandy is going to kick your ass much worse than I ever could, so just shut up, listen and do what I say.” And, love him or hate him, New Jersey Governor Christie did a great job preparing New Jersey for Hurricane Sandy. New Jersey Governor Christie got as much credit preparing New Jersey for Hurricane Sandy as New York Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo did for leading both New York & the United States of America through COVID-19 in 2020 – before the irate “MeToo” Movement and criminal sexual harassment charges forced New York Governor Cuomo to resign. New Jersey Governor Christie even got a key moment of bipartisanship memorialized on videocamera as he met with Democratic President Barack Obama to ask for disaster funding for Hurricane Sandy within forty-eight hours before the 2012 U.S. Presidential Election.

Just goes to show: Politics is all about timing – and former Republican New Jersey Governor Christie knows what time it is.  

ARIES – The status quo, the tried & true, the natural default choice – all washed away by the tsunami of the high-tech modern age. Since what had always worked no longer works at all, change is imperative – but only change which works. Those who become leaders, in whatever field, solve the problems that arise now – but 2001-KF77 in Aquarius states that competitors to those leaders will not yield to their practices & agendas. Will the extreme practices of those competitors work? Sometimes, sometimes partially – but the ultimate, real leader will demonstrate whether or not those practices still work under duress as they explore such solutions’ flaws. Bottom line: The leader will solve the problems with unusual troubleshooting – competitors to these leaders will be contrarians in order to usurp the followers which the leader has already earned. As for yourself: Be as pragmatic & conservative as possible.  

TAURUS – In the days of network television with three stations – CBS, NBC, ABC – there was no room for televised political discourse for David Duke of the Ku Klux Klan. Only after the continued, established, entrenched success of both CNN and Fox News did media outlets like Breitbart News bring the extreme right-wing into mainstream political discourse. Because of this, like it or not, 2001-KF77 in Aquarius observes that Breitbart News and Newsmax put Fox News along with CNN truly within the mainstream center. Therefore, as a result of such developments, within Fox News, a viewer must now distinguish what Geraldo Rivera says from what Sean Hannity says from what Tucker Carlson says. It is incumbent upon you, the viewer, therefore, to identify & to set your path along, your own personal “true north.”  

GEMINI – An astrology column is not a creative decoration. An astrology column is the transliteration of astronomical data, then a layman’s interpretation of that transliteration, often & preferably accompanied by didactic exhortations based upon moral & ethical principles, and, occasionally, Machiavellian strategy. While many “astrologers” will debase the form of the astrology column for the sake of humor, or, more perfidiously, to imply that astrology is like that card game in the film Bang the Drum Slowly named “tegwar” (“That Exciting Game Without Any Rules”), 2001-KF77 in Aquarius warns that those who read such fake astrology columns for humor or advice will at some point wish they had taken astrology much more seriously – and that they knew how, in fact, to do so. (How will one know a fake from an honest astrologer? Quite simply: The astrologer will mention what planets they discuss. The Full Moon. Jupiter. Pluto. Things like that.)  

CANCER – Bayard Rustin, a homosexual behind-the-scenes organizer for the Civil Rights Movement in the late Fifties & early Sixties, knew that his homosexuality would become a heavy distraction if he spent too much time in the public eye. However, Rustin, like many African-American radicals in the early Civil Rights Movement, dressed & behaved extremely conservatively – because, again, he didn’t want his personal attire & conduct to distract from his mission. Now, as lesbian, gay & transgender rights have made enormous strides during the Obama Twenty Teens, 2001-KF77 in Aquarius connotes that, unless lesbian, gay & transgender rights activists scale down the unbridled public bacchanalia which they exhibit in national Pride Day parades, not only on Pride Day, but in their daily lifestyle, they might experience rather harsh backlash from more than just frustrated QAnon Trumpistas.  

LEO – Unless you treat the more dignified, erudite & honorable of your intellectual adversaries with overt & complete respect during the course of your discussions, dialogues & negotiations, 2001-KF77 in Aquarius warns that you will inevitably attract intellectual adversaries much more cruel, crude, vulgar & willing to bait your formidable temper in order to undermine & to harm your stellar public reputation.  

VIRGO – Software engineers, tech industry employees: As it becomes more & more clear that the market need for your industry’s sector goods & services are not infinite, the more that dishonest, criminal practitioners will infiltrate & proliferate into previously pristine, impeccably honorable businesses. No matter how optimistically some millennials view their current & future career prospects, 2001-KF77 in Aquarius insists that there is only so much gold to mine in any gold rush – and, when the gold runs out, the cannibalism commences. Depending upon your age, consider returning to graduate school to get your M.B.A. or J.D. Diversify your skill set far beyond that secretary’s keyboard.  

LIBRA – Politicians: Dishonorable political adversaries will not care if their speeches, policies or proposals are too irrational, stupid & extreme to get the backing of legitimate colleagues – they only champion such bad ideas to siphon off the most ignorant voters who currently support you. Complain all that you want that this represents not leadership but exploitation – 2001-KF77 in Aquarius reminds you that, in the minds of cynics without scruples, the vote of a genius equals the vote of a moron, the vote of a saint equals the owner of the strip club. Indeed, an inability to keep the devil trapped bespeaks a lack of sophistication in your political strategy. Keep your public message & transparent clear as you align yourself with exactly those personages skilled at keeping such willful, destructive, anarchistic anti-heroes under involuntary control.  

SCORPIO – At an exhibit of the Cuban painter Wilfredo Lam at Pace Gallery on West 25th Street in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City in late 2021, wall text under the heading La Femme Cheval reveals a quote by the artist, “I wanted with all my heart to paint the drama of my country, but by thoroughly expressing the black spirit, the beauty of the plastic art of the Blacks. In this way I could act as a Trojan Horse that would spew forth hallucinating images with the power to surprise, to disturb the dreams of the exploiters.” Indeed, the issue to which Lam, a loyal opponent of the regime of Fulgencio Batista as well as a loyal supporter of Fidel Castro, was not the foreign money but the corruption of the Cuban national spirit which accompanied that foreign money. 2001-KF77 in Aquarius now exhorts the Scorpio to become much more familiar with the motivation behind the artwork as you view the changes in your local area as a reflection of the financial interests of carpetbaggers. What the intrinsic attributes of your own city, state or province which you now must shelter from the corruption of moneyed outside influence?  

SAGITTARIUS – While many American historians consider the shooting of four students by the Ohio National Guard on May 4, 1970 to mark the end of the Sixties, the arrest of Jim Morrison for indecent exposure at a Doors concert at Dinner Key in the Coconut Grove on March 1, 1969 commenced the long-term conservative counter-revolution in a Miami neighborhood which had helped launch Joni Mitchell & David Crosby into the international limelight. 2001-KF77 in Aquarius urges you to study the life & times, as well as this incident in the career, of your fellow Archer as you ponder the question, “What is it that Jim Morrison did to turn personal, professional & political associates from loyal allies to loyal enemies?” Interpret the answers to these questions as a lesson on everything that you must now scrupulously avoid.  

CAPRICORN – Read Pisces. As New York Giants Head Coach in the late Eighties, Bill Parcells earned a reputation of one who relied upon defense, yet played counterproductively conservatively on offense. So how does one explain when Giants Head Coach Parcells called a fake punt in the third quarter of Super Bowl XXI against the Denver Broncos at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California while down 10-9, getting a first down on a quarterback sneak by backup QB Jeff Rutledge, before marching down field to take the lead at the end of that drive & for the rest of the game? How does one explain, four years later in the 1990 NFC Championship Game against the San Francisco 49ers in San Francisco’s Candlestick Park, with about seven minutes left if the fourth quarter, when Giants Head Coach Parcells called another fake punt, long-snapped not to punter Sean Landeta but to linebacker Gary Reasons, who ran for thirty yards and a first down on route to the first of two winning Giant scores? 2001-KF77 in Aquarius confirms that, in “Giant Gamblers: They Know When to Fool 'em,” South Florida Sun-Sentinel’s Jeff Sarni turns a phrase, “The Giants don't have more tricks in their bag than other teams, but they know when to pull one out.” (“’Bill has the stomach for it,’ said tackle Tom Rehder. ‘He'll go for it when it counts. A lot of coaches won't.’")  

AQUARIUS – 2001-KF77 in Aquarius now repeats a historical lesson which is a truism of our modern era: Legend has it that Head Coach Dean Smith did not allow future basketball übermensch Michael Jordan to start on his University of North Carolina Tar Heels until Jordan learned Coach Smith’s Tar Heel system. Because Tar Heel Head Coach Smith demanded that Jordan toe the line to participate in a team game rather than an individual showcase, University of North Carolina Tar Heel Jordan evolved into His Airness of the six-time NBA Champion Chicago Bulls to become the greatest basketball player in the history of the world. (Further counterpoint from Michael Jordan himself, “There is no ‘I’ in team – but there is in win.”)  

PISCES – Read Capricorn. Many associates, but almost all of your enemies, treat you in a specific, fixed & unchanging way because they believe that they can, unerringly, predict what you are going to say & to do. This may aggravate you, but 2001-KF77 in Aquarius advises, “Let them think that until you make them believe. You will know when the time is right.” Just make sure that, when that happens, you are playing for all the money.

* 2001-KF77 is an unnamed centaur planet discovered on May 22, 2001. The orbit of 2001-KF77 traverses from just beyond the orbit of Uranus out past the orbit of Neptune. For information on how to interpret 2001-KF77, note reference to Philip Sedgwick below.

The only source online for how to interpret 2001-KF77 and many other unnamed centaurs and transneptunians, as well as an excellent source for how to interpret all named centaurs, is
Philip Sedgwick’s webpage “A Summary of The Centaurs”
on Jonathan Dunn’s website "Ephemeral Info” at
http://ephemeral.info/qot/galastro.shtml

A great resource for ephemeris data on 2001-KF77 and over 3000 minor planets, asteroids & centaurs, is on
Jonathan Dunn's website "Ephemeral Info" at
http://ephemeral.info

An indispensable resource for mythologies from all five continents, including but not limited to African, Native American, Inuit, Mayan, Aztec, Incan, Voodoo, Asian, Norse, Celtic, Oceanic, Greek & Roman mythologies is
Encyclopedia Mythica
at
www.pantheon.org

Research on the above footnotes generously provided to the general public by
The IAU: Minor Planet Center
at
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/mpc.html 

ARTICLE #9

Saturn, which turns to Direct Motion@ on November 28, 2025, completes its transit of Pisces on Valentine’s Day 2026 while 2001-BL41*, which turns to Direct Motion@ on November 22, 2025, completes its transit of Pisces on February 8, 2026. Even more so than usual, each one of us has struggled to complete a great number of deeply irritating and at times expensive tasks which should have been finished many months ago, but have failed, as a result of not only a lack of cooperation but in fact coordinated resistance every step of the way. Now, the authorities have determined all those tasks where you are in the right, and where you are entitled to completing what is outstanding and getting what you rightfully demand, and those authorities have instructed those impeding you to cooperate. But those impeding you still refuse to cooperate. There is no further reason to play nice. There is every reason to enlist the cooperation of more powerful & lawfully vested authorities to coerce & to compel, not cooperation, but, in fact, immediate, and criminally belated, compliance.

ARIES – You’ve already distinguished family & friends from traitors – but traitors won’t leave. Saturn & 2001-BL41, both in Direct Motion in late Pisces, now demand that you put into place conditions, obstacles & people so that traitors will never return, and will never want to return, again.

TAURUS – Political enemies who talked smack against you were already shown that they were wrong, and they were publicly humiliated as a result of it – but they still talk smack against you. You tried to take the high road & it did not work. Therefore, Saturn & 2001-BL41, both in Direct Motion in late Pisces, can only quote the great daily astrologer Sally Brompton, “Revenge is a dish best served cold.” Show no mercy to those who brought it all upon themselves.  

GEMINI – While the downfall of an untold number of unkind, unjust, inept & corrupt bosses is foreordained & imminent, such bosses refuse to leave. As long as your business with them is finished, Saturn & 2001-BL41, both in Direct Motion in late Pisces, implore you to turn your attention elsewhere. This will be ugly until this is finished, and you have nothing else to learn from the episode. If you have nothing else to do, count paper clips & shred paper. Wait for the stink to clear out of all enclosed spaces.  

CANCER – You travelled to some other city to atone for your sins. Now that you have atoned, Saturn & 2001-BL41, both in Direct Motion in late Pisces, advise you to get the next flight & to leave. Return when your conscience is completely clear.  

LEO – That crew who did the wrong thing in the wrong way, over & over again, as they thumbed their noses at God, day after day, year after year, now get their just punishment. As for you, you say, “Good – but so what?” Saturn & 2001-BL41, both in Direct Motion in late Pisces, agree, “Good – but so what?” Turn your attention to the right direction, then move forward.  

VIRGO – You already knew: You will forgive your spouse or you won’t. Your spouse will forgive you or your spouse won’t. You can quit or your employer can fire you. Even so, there comes a time to fish or to cut bait – and Saturn & 2001-BL41, both in Direct Motion in late Pisces, announce that that time is here. Execute your decision. Do not look back.

LIBRA – The time has come for bosses to separate wheat from chaff amongst personnel at your job – and Saturn & 2001-BL41, both in Direct Motion in late Pisces, confirm that all employees or colleagues already know it. As long as you are in good standing, give not a thought to it. Do, however, act & speak very conservatively.  

SCORPIO – One was given an inch but then took a mile, and one got away with it – once. Saturn & 2001-BL41, both in Direct Motion in late Pisces, now confirm that one’s quota is now full. Execute punishment. No second chances.  

SAGITTARIUS – As far as you are concerned, family must do the right thing. Strangers who make their own decisions about their “morality”’ can say, “I did what I had to do” – frankly, that is their problem. As for your family, Saturn & 2001-BL41, both in Direct Motion in late Pisces, insist & emphasize: Family must do the right thing. No ifs, ands or buts.

CAPRICORN – The judge did not throw the book at any of the defendants the first time the judge sentenced them – but Saturn & 2001-BL41, both in Direct Motion in late Pisces, now emphasize that this is not the first time that the judge will have sentenced any of them. Make no presumptions.  

AQUARIUS – It really does not matter how long you have been contending with accusations of unpaid debt from doctors & medical providers. Saturn & 2001-BL41, both in Direct Motion in late Pisces, remind you that certain doctors & medical providers strategize exhausting those it opposes by applying overwhelming resources to harass & to threaten you. Do not respond to despair or fatigue. Punch much harder than they punch you. Give as good as you get & do not back down.  

PISCES – You can only turn your attention to so much. Frankly, Saturn & 2001-BL41, both in Direct Motion in late Pisces, declare that you have so much to consider, that you must summarily eliminate whatever is not worthy of your time. This will not please everybody – sometimes it will not please anybody. This makes no difference. You can only handle what you can handle.

* 2001-BL41 is an unnamed centaur planet discovered on January 19, 2001. The orbit of 2001-BL41 traverses between the orbits of Jupiter & out past Saturn. For information on how to interpret 2001-BL41, note reference to Philip Sedgwick below.

The only source online for how to interpret 2001-BL41 and many other unnamed centaurs and transneptunians, as well as an excellent source for how to interpret Chariko and all named centaurs, is
Philip Sedgwick’s webpage “A Summary of The Centaurs”
on Jonathan Dunn’s website "Ephemeral Info” at
http://ephemeral.info/qot/galastro.shtml

A great resource for ephemeris data on 2001-BL41 and over 3000 minor planets, asteroids & centaurs, is on
Jonathan Dunn's website "Ephemeral Info" at
http://ephemeral.info

Research on the above footnotes generously provided to the general public by
The IAU: Minor Planet Center
at
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/mpc.html 

@ Planets either move forward, in which case they orbit in Direct Motion, or move backward, in which case they orbit in Retrograde Motion. Planets in Direct Motion seek to make progress, while Planets in Retrograde Motion seek to redress past imbalances.