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ARTICLE #1: The current influence of
transiting Cyllarus conjunct
transiting 2001-SQ73 in Leo
ARTICLE #2: The current influence of
transiting 2001-SQ73 in Leo
ARTICLE #3: The current influence of
transiting 2002-VR130 in Leo
ARTICLE #4: The current influence of
transiting 2003-WL7 in Virgo
ARTICLE #5: The current influence of
transiting 1998-BU48 in Libra
ARTICLE #6: The current influence of
transiting 2002-CR46 in Scorpio
ARTICLE #7: The current influence of
transiting 1996-GQ21 in Sagittarius
ARTICLE #8: The current influence of
transiting 2002-GZ32 in Capricorn
ARTICLE #9: The current influence of
transiting 2003-CO1 in Aquarius
ARTICLE #10: The current influence of
 transiting 2001-KF77 in Aquarius
ARTICLE #11: The current influence of
 transiting 2001-BL41 in Pisces
ARTICLE #12: The current influence of
transiting 2000-QB243 in Aries
ARTICLE #13: The current influence of
transiting 1999-OX3 in Taurus
ARTICLE #14: The current influence of
transiting 2002-PN34 in Taurus
ARTICLE #15: The current influence of
transiting 1996-TL66 in Gemini

ARTICLE #1

Cyllarus< conjuncts* 2001-SQ73> in Leo from June 10, 2024 to July 19, 2027. To procure for one’s self a high-paying professional position, one must of course make one’s self available to an interview process – first with a recruiter (or, as is more & more the case these days, a generative AI interface), second with the group, third with each direct report – to determine one’s social suitability for the position. As all this Q&A is ping-ponging back & forth, the head recruiter often mentions the background check – not to ask permission, but, more often than not, stating, “We’re not sure when it is going to be finished.” This makes sense to most people – most people have only the vaguest idea of what a background check might entail. Most people presume a background check involves the collection of official records to determine whether or not the candidate is an excellent worker, a convicted felon or an excellent worker & convicted felon, which would include employee reviews & official records of law enforcement. However, while those who did background checks most likely kept checklists of documents from which to draw for every single profile, truth be told, in an idiosyncratic world, those pursuing the oftentimes hard to reach “last word” may fail to realize that the efforts to collect all that paperwork may have been completed before your actual interview: What you all wait for now is for the potential employer to contact all private investigators, professional adversaries acting as vendors, law enforcement & government officials to get in touch with you personally, to talk to you directly under guise of cover story or false pretense, to find out your attitudes about specific controversial topics that they could only discern as circumstances where one has at stake, absolutely anything significant to win or to lose.  

ARIES – Read Leo. Whether in the sports arena, as the Atlanta Falcons Eugene Robinson, on film, TV or theater, as comedian Bill Cosby, in the music industry, as Sean “Diddy” or “Puffy” Combs, the star wants the public to think well of them as they represent themselves for somebody whom they are not. For the moment, the motivation of the performer does not concern you. Cyllarus conjunct 2001-SQ73 denotes that it is in the public’s interest to see people for who they really are.  

TAURUS – Younger family members will have you believe they are doing fabulously well professionally when they in fact trade upon what you don’t know. No matter – Cyllarus conjunct 2001-SQ73 declares that the world provides a fixed limit to all sorts of deceit. The ugly truth scrapes off the veneer of glossy paint with a potency that painfully strips the stain. Let this be a lesson to those not to misrepresent themselves to the tolerant but underinformed.  

GEMINI – The best way to discern whether an individual is telling the truth under the current influence of Cyllarus conjunct 2001-SQ73 is to ask an extremely penetrating question. Just because one does not answer the question does not mean that they are lying – just the opposite. Conversely, because the answer chronically shocks.  

CANCER – Your net worth is represented by the accumulated aggregation of your assets. Cyllarus conjunct 2001-SQ73 asks, “How can you be sure that the value that you placed on each one of these assets is truly accurate?” Be much more discriminating.  

LEO – Read Aries. You are on the precipice of not only fame, but immortality. Cyllarus conjunct 2001-SQ73 will test you to determine if you are who you say you are. More than half of America at the time who had witnessed the ascent to fame & power from the late Sixties to the early Nineties were prepared to witness O.J. Simpson’s fall from grace. Once bitten, twice shy. Prove that you walk your talk.  

VIRGO – As far as you are concerned, even Michael Jordan had to prove himself – again & again & again. Cyllarus conjunct 2001-SQ73 now agrees, “Enough talk – let’s get to it.”  

LIBRA – The irony of the candidacy of Democrat John F. Kerry in the 2004 Presidential Election is that he acted as if the Presidency & his campaigning for it fell below his elite character – and, watching Kerry’s biography unfold for the last twenty years, it may indeed be true. Keeping former Democratic Senator from Massachusetts in mind, Cyllarus conjunct 2001-SQ73 suggests that you will soon come into direct contact with professional superiors & clients whose personages resemble this elitist attribute. Penetrating questions will indeed be forthcoming. Answer succinctly, referencing without fully articulating deeper backgrounds. Demonstrate high respect not only for your audience but the gravity of the issues you now discuss.  

SCORPIO – To work as a motorcycle police patrolman requires bravery. The detective’s penetrating gaze cracks the air. You are not foolish enough to play one against the other – but Cyllarus conjunct 2001-SQ73 denotes that somebody else is. (You all contend with a profoundly elite integrated team.) As Mr. T. would lament, “Pity the fool.”  

SAGITTARIUS – The ending of Stephen Soderbergh’s Ocean’s Eleven, with the pathos of a classic Hollywood love triangle & Claude Debussy soundtrack, pales wanly in comparison to the pathos of the greatest film of all time, Casablanca, both of which take place at casinos. Why? Cyllarus conjunct 2001-SQ73 replies, “The life circumstances surrounding Casablanca demanded pronounced personal character, not street-smart chutzpah.” There is a meaning to life.  

CAPRICORN – Cyllarus conjunct 2001-SQ73 asserts that a strategic use of balance transfers in conjunction with bank loans can tame your debt quickly. The key: Be way ahead of whatever instrument has a deadline which rewards early payment.  

AQUARIUS – You don’t want to reveal how much you admire your new companion because you are too busy competing with them. Cyllarus conjunct 2001-SQ73 declares that your attitude only aggravates this new partner – and with good reason. Expect this companion to issue a challenge to your personal character designed to dispel your juvenile egoism once & for all.  

PISCES – Weightlifters, gym rats: Sure, your routine will build you up – but something makes you wonder if the results you now see are as ephemeral as sugar. Cyllarus conjunct 2001-SQ73 surmises that they might be. Scale down from heavy bulk weights. Increase repetitions with conspicuously lighter weights. Fool your muscles with concentration as you go through your routine. .

< Cyllarus, a centaur planet that traverses between Uranus & Pluto, was discovered in October 1998 & named in June 2003. Cyllarus, the noble husband of Hylonome, was killed by a random spear from an unknown hand in the battle between the Centaurs & the Lapiths. Upon witnessing the death of Cyllarus, Hylonome committed suicide by jumping on the spear that killed her husband in order to die with him. For further information on how to interpret Cyllarus, formerly 1998-TF35, note reference to Philip Sedgwick below.  

> 2001-SQ73 is an unnamed centaur planet discovered on September 19, 2001. The orbit of 2003-SQ73 crosses over the orbit of Uranus. For information on how to interpret 2001-SQ73, note reference too Philip Sedgwick below.

A great source online for how to interpret Cyllarus 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 Cyllarus 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 2001-SQ73 and many other unnamed centaurs and transneptunians, as well as an excellent source for how to interpret Cyllarus 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 Cyllarus, 2001-SQ73 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
 

* A Conjunction is a harmonious aspect wherein two or more planets meet as they transit the same sign.

ARTICLE #2

2001-SQ73* transits Leo from May 9, 2024 to June 26, 2032. Whether scientist or technician, “experts” are not “rule by authority” types. If the “expert” is a physicist, there is your answer. If the “expert” is a computer-coding software engineer, there is your answer. There is your answer as well ff the expert in question engages in logical positivism with no inductive practical knowledge, which makes you understand why certain types of Marxists hate the Hegelian dialectic. With all that being said, whatever now confronts those with specific tasks to do, the quick & dirty approach of the bovine authoritarian will not work. Indeed, the content of the task involves an inventory of material objects & and inventory of ethics & morality, as well as a timeline wherein input becomes output via method. How did the substance which resided in A become the substance which now resides in B? This is not a function of anybody’s opinion or the arbitrary declaration of an esteemed personage. The devil is in the details. The devil corroborates with the devil via axiomatic tautology. The truth will zero out.  

ARIES – In whatever discipline you now work, 2001-SQ73 in Leo counsel you to demonstrate less eagerness to prove what you believe. Whether symbolic logic or mathematical theorem, a step-by-step approach of what you posit & what you conclude could lead you to confirm or to negate that which you posit. You are best served not to have an opinion upon such hypotheses. Follow the expert system where it is supposed to lead.  

TAURUS – High eternal honor forever bestowed upon the exemplary Texan lawyer James A. Baker and son of a founder of an antecedent version of the prestigious law firm Baker & Botts, who went far out of his way to investigate the suspicious death of his friend William Marsh Rice, to determine the signature on the will changing the beneficiary of his estate had been forged & that he had not died of natural causes but had been murdered by his butler. And, if that name sounds familiar, 2001-SQ73 in Leo will direct you to the biography of his grandson, James A. Baker III, Secretary of State under President Ronald Reagen and Chief of Staff under President George H.W. Bush. The honor of the heroism of the ancestor impregnates the bloodline itself.  

GEMINI – If you are not the expert conducting the analysis, then you will neither know nor intuit the solution to the problem. However, if the expert conducting the analysis explains to you the general parameters of the procedures which they use, 2001-SQ73 in Leo will empower the highly flexible intellect of the Twin to their minds upon questions which intuitively cut to the heart of the matter. Just remember that those taking a position against the expert in question will deeply resent the inherent genius of your beginner’s mind with its concomitant lack of any real responsibility.  

CANCER – You cannot deny that your financial interests lie with these experts charged with coming to the solution of a convoluted, cryptic conundrum. However, those whose interests oppose yours may vocally express their interests because they simply may not be ethical on their face. In such instances, 2001-SQ73 in Leo empower you to disparage your adversaries’ ethics & scruples while refusing to address with your own or their own interests. Emphasize such distinctions when such adversaries invariably object, “My interests my require science but are really no mystery – I am an open book!”  

LEO – Leo the Lion gets the rap for indulging their self-esteem – which is true, but only, truth be told, to generate some laughter to create some liveliness. The fact is that, when the issue at hand requires expertise, 2001-SQ73 in Leo insists all that vainglorious self-esteem is thrown out the passenger side window. You go through the protocol of your professional or vocational expertise, whether you are a scientist, forensic analyst, engineer or computer coder. It does not matter our position, or your adversary’s position, on the issue, and your personage will not influence the outcome. Winnow the effluvium of your brain & psychology to facts only.  

VIRGO – It doesn’t matter who is investigating the situation at your job, and you are not even particularly concerned whether that investigator, whether scientist, forensic analyst, engineer or computer coder, finds what they seek. What worries you, according to 2001-SQ73 in Leo, is whether or not this investigator, whether scientist, forensic analyst, engineer or computer coder, finds issues that they did not seek – whether or not you are in any way legally responsible. You do not need interminable simultaneous overlapping investigations! You need control over your workplace & your people so that you can all make progress – period!  

LIBRA – One will take a position based upon science & math while their adversary will take a position upon politics. 2001-SQ73 in Leo confirms that you cannot change this. Know with whom you are dealing.  

SCORPIO – It does not matter whether the authority figure investigating you is a you are a scientist, forensic analyst, engineer, computer coder or law enforcement official – 2001-SQ73 in Leo asks, “Do you really need this punitive devil crawling in & out of every orifice of your work product & body?” Give these authority figures every opportunity to ignore you completely.  

SAGITTARIUS – As successful as Christopher Nolan film Oppenheimer has been in our contemporary culture, much of its popularity stems from the gravity emitting “the cult of personality.” 2001-SQ73 in Leo suggests that the most powerful creative message in the contemporary era would be a historical yet narrative treatment of the development of the scientific method. The film should not be about who you are – it should be about how you are doing what you are doing – and why you are doing it.  

CAPRICORN – Too many people for your comfort already know that you owe a lot of money. Even so, continue to pay your debt down faithfully – 2001-SQ73 in Leo states that you don’t want all of those same people to learn how it was that you accumulated such debt over time in the first place.  

AQUARIUS – Unless you have some specialized scientific or forensic knowledge of your own, such as whether you are a scientist, forensic analyst, engineer or computer coder, 2001-SQ73 in Leo advises you strongly not to challenge those who have years of experience upon any specific subject which is relevant fact. This is not the type of debate where you will gain points for arguing your rhetorical position well – far from it. You either know the math, the science, the protocol or the practice, or you don’t. Don’t swim over your head. Concede the territory.  

PISCES – Whether lab technician, forensics, accountant, paralegal, actuary, detective or what have you, you have more work than you can handle. What makes the work that much more difficult is the rigid methodology you have to execute to complete certain tasks. That being said, 2001-SQ73 in Leo denotes that you cannot execute more than is physically possible. Just because you did not get a chance to finish something does not mean that it will not get done – it just may not get done by you. Don’t sweat it. Do the best you can – then let go. ”

@ 2001-SQ73 is an unnamed centaur planet discovered on September 19, 2001. The orbit of 2003-SQ73 crosses over the orbit of Uranus. For information on how to interpret 2001-SQ73, note reference too Philip Sedgwick below.

The only source online for how to interpret 2001-SQ73 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-SQ73 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 #3

2002-VR130* transits Leo
from June 28, 2018 to August 7, 2026.

Although reviews for Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean’s Thirteen were generally positive, the Chicago Sun-Times'’ Roger Ebert indifferently shrugged, ““Ocean’s Thirteen proceeds with insouciant dialogue, studied casualness, and a lotta stuff happening, none of which I cared much about because the movie doesn’t pause to develop the characters, who are forced to make do with their movie-star personas.” Ebert’s indifferent shrug regarding Ocean’s Thirteen serves as a covert indictment of the fact that The Ocean’s Trilogy's powerhouse cast, including George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt & Matt Damon, truly existed as a seed project to fund their own personal pet film projects, making the “theft of the casino” a metaphor for their own ability to hijack Hollywood. Making this reality even more distasteful, The Ocean's crew told their inside joke after appropriating the inside joke of the Rat Pack, led by a one Frank Sinatra, who, when told the plot of the original Ocean’s Eleven, thought it more interesting to actually “do the job” rather than doing a film about actors acting like they are “doing the job.””

Everybody involved in all these projects are just way too cool for school. In the end, neither The Ocean’s Trilogy of the latter day or Ocean’s Eleven way back in the day can hold a candle to the greatest heist film of all-time, Stanley Kramer's It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, with the greatest ensemble cast of all-time, “Everybody who's ever been funny is in it!!” Why It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World shines where The Ocean’s Trilogy and Ocean’s Eleven thuds is because Kramer psychologically developed many of the comedians as caricatures wearing costumes as characters within It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World so that the audience could appreciate them as people – people willing to ruin their lives, many of whom are also willing to break every bone in their body, in order to score easy money – instilling within each member of the audience that pathos which invariably causes every laugh . . . to hurt.   

ARIES – The temptation to lose one’s self amongst one’s friends, cronies or “the cool crowd” pops up when you lack a purpose within your self that drives your identity forward into the world. 2002-VR130 in Leo will remind you again & again that there is no reason whatsoever for you to sell your soul in order to get into somebody else’s cellphone photograph. That activity, agenda or deadline which imbues you with that purpose is not hunting you – you must actively seek out & find it. When you do find it, you will discover that you are no longer trying to fit into another group of people – new people will now fight each other for the chance to hang out with you. 

TAURUS – It pays you in the long run to behave more conservatively than family members or local citizens who pride themselves on setting trends. While these family members or local citizens are more interested in being seen in each other’s company amongst your extended family or other local citizens, 2002-VR130 in Leo advises that you stand apart from all these joiners to communicate to everybody who looks at you that you are an individual committed to thinking for yourself. 

GEMINI – Sometimes it works & sometimes it doesn’t, but, in this instance, 2002-VR130 in Leo declares that, in order to entertain other people, you must first entertain your friends. Your friends know what makes you captivating, your friends know what makes you funny, your friends know what makes you boring. On top of all that, if you really do entertain your friends, totally blow their minds, they will want to get into the act & to convince you to take your act & their act on the road. Don’t pay attention to self-appointed tastemakers who complain that you are acting in a self-absorbed & juvenile manner – there may indeed be millions of people out there who love exactly what you are doing right now. 

CANCER – While you benefit financially & professionally by associating with flamboyant friends, 2002-VR130 in Leo does not encourage you to become flamboyant yourself. Professional associates & power brokers get quite skittish when dealing with such flamboyant types – how will such associates & power brokers know that such flamboyant types are reliable? If they are so flamboyant, it is most likely that some of them are erratic – exciting, but unreliable. In the end, “wear” such flamboyant types like a debutante wears a startling pair of earrings on the red carpet – so as to highlight your core value.

LEO – More than ever before, 2002-VR130 in Leo denotes that other people will judge you by the company you keep. The criteria of those judging you will involve: 1) Whether you & the company you keep have both substance & style; 2) Whether you or, or you and, the company you keep, place style over substance; and 3) Whether you or, or you and, the company you keep, use style to communicate substance. Don’t be afraid to change direction & personnel as you maintain very high standards. 

VIRGO – Read Scorpio. Cops, like bosses, teachers & other authority figures, do not always travel together – often you may see only one of them at a time. However, when cops, like bosses, teachers & other authority figures, do travel together, they talk – and 2002-VR130 in Leo will remind you that a cop, boss, teacher or other authority figure who likes you personally will nevertheless listen to that cop, boss, teacher or other authority figure who does not. They will – and you should – listen . . . and take heed. 

LIBRA – As you enter a new job or new type of enterprise, long-term professional colleagues & political associates who now interview you individually ask you the same exact questions from polar opposite points of the professional or political spectrum in order to hone in on what you really believe. 2002-VR130 in Leo does not recommend that you tailor your response to mirror the bias of the interrogator. If possible, and if you have time, openly strip the rhetoric of the interrogator – then give that interrogator the exact same answer that you gave to the previous one. If you mimic the interface now, you will get lost in a crowd later. Recede from projecting your marketable countenance when it is necessary to express your self. 

SCORPIO – Read Virgo. A (cop) (boss) (teacher) who is the friend of another (cop) (boss) (teacher), who is in turn the friend of several other (cops) (bosses) (teachers), are well aware not only of you, but of you & your group of friends, & the alliances that you & your group of friends make with other groups of friends. If this sounds like “espionage,” to you, 2002-VR130 in Leo qualifies that it is, at the same time, both more overt & more covert. Everybody wants to know who is involved in what. Nobody is even really sure who is on who’s roster. Don’t presume that everybody, or even anybody, is on the same page at all – serious miscalculations could occur as a result. 

SAGITTARIUS – Athletes, entertainers, writers: You may be the most talented prospect of the (year) (decade) (century). However, rest assured, 2002-VR130 in Leo declares that you will always have peers. Michael Jordan may have beaten everybody (except the Detroit Pistons) – but Patrick Ewing, Charles Barkley, Karl Malone & Reggie Miller were still his peers. Michael Jordan stood out from all of them – but, at the right moment, for the right reason, Michael Jordan also stood with them. Distinguish when either competition or solidarity is important – and why. 

CAPRICORN – Either too many people who do not have the money owe you money or you owe other people too much money which you simply do not have. In the first instance, use the courts to go after people who have the money to pay you before going after bigger debtors who may need to go into bankruptcy. However, in the latter instance, 2002-VR130 in Leo implore you to pay off the smaller creditors completely as soon as you can, lest somebody buy all the debt against you & attempt to force you into bankruptcy so that they can make a play for your assets. 

AQUARIUS – When you lend your presence to a group, you validate it politically, and, because you do, you should make a point of standing in front of, and standing out from, the people to whom you lend support. However, when you oppose a group, 2002-VR130 in Leo urges you to stand alone against the group that is gathered against you, physically & in public. Whether your support or opposition falls under the categories of politics or entertainment or science or business, people will know “where you stand” if they see, with their own eyes, with whom you do, and with whom you do not, stand. You are creating a picture which requires no words in the caption – “speak” clearly! 

PISCES – Gym rats: Exercise at as many different gyms as you can. Collect not only groupies but also personal trainers who want to discuss what you do, why you do it & how you can do it better. 2002-VR130 in Leo denotes that so many of your fellow gym rats want to talk with you that these gym rats will talk to each other about you, about what you think & espouse, as they seek to get to conclusions about their own gym routine. The more people that know you & know of you will make for the best of all possible worlds. Circulate widely. It is impossible for you & all your people to fit within the cellphone frame of a selfie!

* 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 "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 #4

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 #5

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 #6

2002-CR46$ transits Scorpio
from September 20, 2017 to October 15, 2026.

After she fled from the South to relocate in Sill’s Crossing, Kansas, before moving & moving & moving to many a bump upon the open prairie, Amantha Starr could look back, during her middle age & at the end of Robert Penn Warren's Band of Angels, to untangle her irrational & unfounded feelings of guilt & betrayal.

Amantha certainly could not blame her father, who did his damnedest to send her to Oberlin College just before his untimely death, so that she would associate & affiliate with the most elite white females not only of the Southern states but also from such northern cities as Cincinnati, Cleveland, Pittsburgh & Philadelphia. Of course, he might have told her that her mother was a slave on his plantation, which would mitigate the ultimate shock of being sold into slavery after a rival to whom he owed money after her death liquidated the assets of the plantation – but that is the truth that he had resolved to withhold from her to transform her from black slave into white heiress.

Amantha certainly did blame Hamish Bond, the slave owner who bought her at the slave market in New Orleans after the liquidation of the plantation, looking for a woman to love more than a sow into which to breed – a lot of slave owners bred like a stud to a sow without but a thought – but Amantha, in many ways, blamed herself more. After all, when Hamish Bond first placed at $2000 bid on her while she stood upon the slave auction block in New Orleans, Bond protected Amantha from a low-life bidder (“ too much of a dandy, rawness showing through the veneer, too much elbow in the swagger, toes turned out too much – all the marks of the back-country, somewhere in Mississippi, two-jumps-and-a-spit-from-the-canebreak, fifth-crop cotton-snob, complete with shirt-frills, diamond ring and a mortgage on every nigger”) who demanded a personal “inspection” of the “property” with a cordial yet veiled threat, “I suggest that the gentleman refrain from the inspection unless he’s prepared to top my bid.” Bond, moreover, followed through on his veiled threat, given that the dandy had no intention of refraining from such inspection, by breaking the dandy’s wrist.

What exactly did that dandy intend to “inspect”? Would that dandy treat Amantha Starr with as much dignity as he would a peep show whore in New York City’s Times Square circa 1977 – or even less? Regardless – Hamish Bond reminded Amantha Starr of a home truth that had already learned the hard way: Some slave owners regarded slaves as subhuman chattel while other slave owners, despite their complicity with an immoral system, sought to protect slaves’ dignity, honor and, in fact, humanity. Even so, it took Amantha a very long time, after absorbing the shock of her personal debasement, to realize that the beauty that made her a debutante while she attended Oberlin College as the freshman white daughter of a plantation owner marked her as pornographic contraband as a black slave within a slave owner’s stable.

Amantha absolutely became even more confused in her mind & in her emotions when she encountered a sequence of former male slaves from Hamish Bond’s properties who had enlisted as soldiers in the Forty-Second Tennessee to take her to visit their superior officer, the former overseer of Bond’s upriver plantation. Just as Amantha knew this overseer by his slave name, Rau-Ra, and not by his military name of Lieutenant Oliver Cromwell Jones, Amantha knew these former slaves by their slave names, Shaddy & Jimmy, and expected them to be the same obsequious Negro caricatures with whom she had become familiar on Hamish Bond’s plantation. However, when Shaddy & Jimmy in their military roles of the Forty-Second Tennessee gave her instructions which it was mandatory that she follow, hiking through the nighttime swampland, Amantha began to realize that she now dealt with sovereign men participating in a hierarchy with which she had no affiliation.

Finally, when Amantha encountered Lieutenant Oliver Cromwell Jones to ask how he felt as he endured his war injury, Lieutenant Oliver Cromwell Jones told her to shine the light that she carried on her face so that he could see her. Lieutenant Oliver Cromwell Jones then clarified Amantha’s epiphany about the former slaves’ transformation into soldiers with acute didactic malice::

“How does it feel?” he demanded, almost whispering. “How does it feel with the light on your face, and not seeing anything but the light and the dark around the light, and knowing that I’m over here, in the dark, and you can’t see me, and I’m looking at you, I am looking at you all the time?””

So Amantha Starr had much to consider after all was said & done as she bumped around the state of Kansas after relocating to Sill’s Crossing. Still, she vacillated between blaming herself & making excuses for her father & for Hamish Bond & for Lieutenant Oliver Cromwell Jones & a whole lot of other people, until she finally asked herself: 

But if they were good, if they were good,
I cried out, why hadn’t they set me free? 

To which she answered: 

Nobody can set you free, I thought.
My lips were whispering the words::
except yourself. 

ARIES – As far as you are concerned, as long as the ongoing business dealings that you have with specific other individuals are aboveboard & legal, you will cultivate no concern about the legitimacy of those specific other individuals and their ways of making money or doing business. Disturbingly, 2002-CR46 in Scorpio denotes that other third parties will not allow you to maintain such a neutral, detached attitude. Law enforcement asks direct questions. Mutual friends attempt to extract what you know via gossip. Banks from whom you seek loans seek names, addressed, social security numbers, bank account information, wire transfer numbers. Of course, provide all data legally expected of you – but nobody is hiring you, without pay, to conduct your surveillance for them. You have no reason to be suspicious – unless, of course those specific other individuals provide you with that reason. Otherwise, protect your own interests first – then let others fend for themselves. 

TAURUS – 2002-CR46 in Scorpio forces you to discover & to reveal, via mutual interrogation, the associations, friendship & enemies of your spouse & close business partners. Associates, allies & enemies, to say nothing of professional superiors, authority figures & law enforcement, will hold you responsible for your spouse’s & close business partners’ affiliations. If your spouse or close business partner does not know the status or personal details of some of those associations, friendship & enemies because those associations, friendship & enemies simply will not reveal them, then at least you & your spouse or close business partner both know that & what you don’t know – in case bosses, authority figures & the police ask. If you will be punished for that which you do not see, there is no benefit is being blind. Remember: You are not prying into another individual’s personal affairs – you are ensuring that you are doing due diligence when power brokers who can hurt you & your spouse or partner question whether or not you have been maintaining such due diligence over time. 

GEMINI – When you suspect an employee of the company of crime, within or outside the workplace, it becomes necessary to hire private investigators to determine their actions & associates – but at least you can do it. When, however, you suspect that a fellow employee is breaking the law, 2002-CR46 in Scorpio signifies that there is little action you can take – except, of course, defensive action. Disassociate? If at all possible, absolutely. More importantly, avoid all gossip – some loose talk it actually calculated to ferret out those who are suspicious. You do not need to “know” – but you must rely upon your sense of “smell.” 

CANCER – Married? Well, as long as your spouse doesn’t talk, it’s all good. But . . . single? Had a lot of lovers? Well, all that bedroom talk adds up. Don’t get the wrong idea – 2002-CR46 in Scorpio is not passing judgment on you because a lot of hot babes or big studs have wanted, and have had, a piece of you between the sheets. But how many friends of a friend of a friend of those hot babes or big studs know about your life, your family, your predilection for kink, your finances or your business because those hot babes or big studs talked with others privately about what you shared, and what you wanted to keep, private? Do you really want so many people whom you do not know to become so familiar with you? Maintain more decorum so that you will not need to maintain so much discretion. 

LEO – Bosses & colleagues alike laud your professional performance. Friends think you are both brilliant & hilarious. And you never, ever lack high quality, adoring attention. That being said, 2002-CR46 in Scorpio notices how all of that disintegrates to nothing when the friend of a sibling or a classmate whom you admired in high school meets you in the street & shares with you a memory of how & who you were all those years ago. This is what makes you get out of bed after banging the alarm clock silent every morning – or this is what you rue more than the Devil in Hell. This is both your secret weapon & your Achilles’ heel – and this is also how other people can manipulate you if they knew how important it is to you. Shield yourself from those who erode & destroy. Honor those who make you glow with sartori. 

VIRGO – Do you know who your friends are? Most likely – Virgos are savvy judges of character. Do your friends know who their friends are? Most do – but, then again, you do tolerate some dizzy types for their entertainment value. Now, we hit pay-dirt & the moral of the story: 2002-CR46 in Scorpio doubts that the friends of your friends’ friends know who their friends are – and, if some of you are engaging in criminal vice, whatever criminal vice you fancy, then all of you will get in trouble. Because one of your friends’ friends is nobody’s friend – that is their job. 

LIBRA – Your ability to hold professional secrets earns you money – as 2002-CR46 in Scorpio notes, secrets about specific people, secrets held by specific people and the specific people who enforce that these specific people keep those secrets secret. What earns you bigger money: When such confidentiality begins to unravel – and you have to discover why . . . and who.

SCORPIO – You have a lot of allies whom you can deploy to do your bidding. However, adversaries defending their territory can match you ally for ally in a war of attrition. What you really need, therefore, is some independent force who can take unilateral action of your behalf without your approval when absolutely necessary. Do such people exist? 2002-CR46 in Scorpio replies, “Perhaps such a person exists, perhaps – and because they are so rare they are worth their weight in platinum.” Take nobody for granted. 

SAGITTARIUS – 2002-CR46 in Scorpio in your 12th house of self-undoing signifies that you are beholden to a criminal for information, merchandise or, perhaps, contraband, that you can acquire no other way. Needless to say, your reliance upon this source is precarious & treacherous. This individual may be loyal to you – but are their associates loyal to them? Don’t kid yourself – unless you put an end to this relationship yourself, proactively, this relationship will come to a bad end. 

CAPRICORN – Regarding both political & professional matters, hear each individual out at least once, thoroughly – but take no immediate action. 2002-CR46 in Scorpio recommends that you want to see if you & who follows up which agendas, requests & opinions. Show neither explicit approval nor acute disapproval. Distinguish isolated individuals from organized coalitions with veiled public relations, marketing & communication strategies. 

AQUARIUS – One remote power broker to which you, and to which your employer, is financially & professionally beholden, is not one mere person but the apex of an infrastructure of people & a node of a network of equally powerful remote individual apices of other infrastructures with whom they are affiliated. 2002-CR46 in Scorpio reminds you that that individual need not key upon you or any other individual underneath its vast Traveler’s umbrella for that infrastructure or network to take coordinated action – these people in that infrastructure & network take such coordinated action as a matter of course. In such instances, do not expect individual employees to act against “the interests” – “the interests” are their interests.

PISCES – Teams of lawyers & law enforcement officials mirror your affiliations, whether deep & protracted or casual & cursory, with real estate brokers, insurance agents and, even, yes, criminals. 2002-CR46 in Scorpio therefore reminds you that these affiliations, which you consider to be isolated individuals separate from your self-interest, is viewed by those lawyers & law enforcement officials as your shared collective interests with your “teammates.” It really is incumbent upon you to demonstrate that you are not “a party to the action” – especially since it benefits your “teammates” to perpetuate that illusion. Dispel misunderstandings – lest lawyers & law enforcement officials misunderstand you.

$ 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 #7

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
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/mpc.html
 

ARTICLE #8

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 #9

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 #10

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 #11

2001-BL41* transits Pisces
from Valentine’s Day 2024 to February 8, 2026.

“I’m not a Christian theologian, and I don’t do comparative religion,” the professor asserted. “I do economics with a strong background in political theory. So, you tell me bread is the symbol of Jesus Christ. One who knows the manifest anthropomorphized yet risen Christ will receive the bread of life all the days of one’s life. So, you tell me fish is also the symbol of Jesus Christ. Like Jesus, one who tries to save one’s own life will lose it but one who gives up one’s life for Jesus Christ will save it for all eternity.

“So, the feeding of the multitude,” the professor changes the subject. “4,000 groupies follow the twelve. Jesus has five loaves & two fish. Jesus & the twelve feed the 4,000 enough food to fill twelve baskets with leftovers – not seven, with one loaf and one fish in each. Twelve.

“Food in the belly is not a metaphor,” the professor concludes. “One does not defecate the waste of metaphors. This is not about ‘the spirit.’ The body requires nourishment. This is a very tangible, mundane example of, ‘Each according to his ability to each according to his need.’

“The Catholic Church is almost dead, but Catholics are not,” the professor asserts. “A specter will rise, but not just over Europe. Nature abhors a vacuum.”  

ARIES – Read Libra. When dealing with the public, the government, its concomitant agencies, large-scale institutions in the private sector, their concomitant agencies: All have their policies. The problem at the U.S.-Mexican border is one place where various governments, such as the U.S.A. and Mexico, the American states of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California, and the Mexican states of Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon, Coahuila, Chihuahua, Sonora and Baja California Norte, converge. Because these policies influence everybody subject to them, 2001-BL41 in Pisces declares that those in change of such entities, including but not limited to President Joe Biden, have a moral responsibility for the consequences of these strategies. Those moral responsibilities reside in the subconscious of each individual as those in the world do their duties – but, the more people affected, the more that the subconscious bulges into consciousness, like a boil that needs to be lanced.  

TAURUS – Try not to be so outspoken about particular political issues, especially at bars & restaurants. Writers: Be more careful about the severity with which you express such political opinions. 2001-BL41 in Pisces states that, the more, and the more forcefully you express such opinions, the more people will know that you hold such opinions. Of course, if it is notoriety or fame you seek, such an attribute helps you on CNN, Fox News or MSNBC – but, eventually, even on cable news networks, such plethora becomes more than that one individual and their public relations team can handle.  

GEMINI – 2001-BL41 in Pisces denotes that your workload will increase to unmanageable proportions during & throughout the end of this transit. (The bitter end of such transit? Not if you did the right thing all along. Read Aries.) Even so, you will need to develop professional protocol to maximize the effect of labor-saving devices, &, thereupon, overall efficiency. The acceleration of the increase in volume, correspondingly, will demand adjustments to the protocol. All in a day’s work – but just do the right thing.  

CANCER – Neptune at the end of its transit of Pisces is a Neptune Return of the Administration of U.S. President James Buchanan just previous to the Civil War. While many upcoming stories will shock, dazzle & depress all Americans as these last days of the Neptune wind down, 2001-BL41 in Pisces challenges the erudite Crab to read more about what happened in the 1850s, particularly during the Buchanan Administration – long after, of course, the publication of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter.

LEO – While many Americans focus upon the arrests & convictions of those participants in the January 6, 2021 Insurrection upon the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., the truth be told, the assault on state & federal jurisprudence by organized political forces in the United States has induced many so-called “respectable” Americans to break laws that they do not respect. Until it outright breaks permanently, 2001-BL41 in Pisces declares that the law will continue to hold sway, and those who break the law because of their own haughty, misguided & self-serving self-righteousness will be made to pay – and there are many, many more of such people than we currently realize.  

VIRGO – You possess skills that service the masses that the masses do not possess. 2001-BL41 in Pisces denotes that, by the law of numbers, one of your industry sectors will transgress the law which protects those masses. Those masses will hold everybody who did the same job as that guilty party, including you, liable. Shake yourself loose from your throne of privilege to take note of such potentially lethal responsibilities.  

LIBRA – Read Aries. All those people crossing the U.S.-Mexican border wind up somewhere, and somebody at that somewhere must service them. 2001-BL41 in Pisces nods its head: Not any different to a first-grade school teacher, to an Army sergeant assigning supplies & location, to the airline rep at check-in. Everybody is entitled to X; some will need, want or demand more than X; some will or will not cooperate. Brad Pitt as Tyler Durden in Fight Club, ““You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.”  

SCORPIO – Single men: You want lots of lovers, lots of hot women whom you date, with whom you go to bed to have sex? 2001-BL41 in Pisces instructs, “Be warned: You get what you pay for – and you pay for what you get (including those ‘gifts . . . . that keep on giving.’”)  

SAGITTARIUS – Your family: A wedding three years ago & a funeral now. Oh, well, But, at the wake, you ask, “Who are all these kids?” To which an in-law replies, “One pair of twins & two girls.” 2001-BL41 in Pisces signifies that this is but a harbinger & a prelude.  

CAPRICORN – You give good advice to a neighbor’s son or daughter – but hundreds of boys & girls need the exact same advice. 2001-BL41 in Pisces denotes that this would endow you with the qualifications of a counselor or a priest. What good can you do without necessarily changing your lifestyle for no good reason?  

AQUARIUS – Whatever you do, however you do it, you earn money per customer – in algebra, “X.” Financially, 2001-BL41 in Pisces calculates, 10,000X is much more money than X. Given. 1) How does one attract 10,000 customers? 2) How does one service 10,000 customers? What are the goods? How do you intend to deliver?  

PISCES – The amazing life of former Philadelphia Eagle & current Kansas City Chief Head Coach Andy Reid! One son a dead drug dealer, one son on trial for DUI manslaughter, and a team whose most famous fan is the most famous singer in the history of the world, Taylor Swift, dating perhaps the greatest tight end in NFL history, Travis Kelce, while putting the great Egyptian national icon, Umm Kulthum, firmly in the shade. (The great Quebecoise national icon Céline Dion? “Pas commentaire.”) And he doesn’t even particularly liked being photographed. 2001-BL41 in Pisces asks, “What gives?” The hard truth: Andy Reid had to work very hard for a very long time to earn his astounding success. Andy Reid must concentrate. Now that he is achieving that astounding success, amidst tragic, epic & simultaneous distractions, Andy Reid just puts his head down . . . and works even harder.

* 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
 

ARTICLE #12

2000-QB243* transits Aries
from February 27, 2015 to February 8, 2035.

United States President Barack Obama’s request in mid-February 2015 to declare war on ISIL, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, is a formal attempt to take action against a self-evidently amorphous non-entity which what radical Muslim extremists prefer to term, as an ideological signifier which they hope to concretize as manifest reality, a “caliphate” – a theocratic, Muslim-only, one-world, government. Of course, those focusing on federal Washingtonian politics view this within a political context. Policy.mic’s Sophie Kleeman, for instance, in “President Obama Has Officially Asked Congress to Declare War on the Islamic State,” asserts, “The U.S. began bombing the Islamic State group in August 2014. The difference now is that Obama is asking Congress for formal permission to do so rather than leaning on his presidential authority.” However, the first person who would qualify that to view this issue from the perspective of federal politics, or even international geo-politics, is inherently problematic, would be, not really that ironically, an ordinary citizen of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, who just happened to grab some takeout from Shawarma’s King on Bank Street before noticing, on the way back to Parliament, a city-wide ruckus the closer that that citizen approaches the Sparks Street Pedestrian Mall, on the day in mid-October 2014 that Michael Zehaf-Bibeau unloaded gunshots within the halls of Parliament after killing Corporal Nathan Cirillo at the National War Memorial.

After high school, Zehaf-Bibeau, a first-generation native born Canadian citizen of a father who immigrated from Libya & a French-Quebecoise mother, floundered conspicuously. Zehaf-Bibeau earned a criminal record as a habitual offender not only for drug possession but in fact for larceny & drunk driving while drifting all across Canadian North America, taking up residence in Montreal, Vancouver & Calgary before checking himself into a homeless shelter in downtown Ottawa. But at his high school alma mater, École Secondaire Saint-Maximeein the Montreal suburb of Laval, Quebec, Zehaf-Bibeau was known fondly as “Mike.””

While nobody can accuse Canadian authorities of lack of vigilance regarding Zehaf-Bibeau previous to the Ottawa shootings, one should note that Zehaf-Bibeau negotiated not only bureaucratic ambiguities, but, in fact, any & all loopholes, benign or criminal, aggressively. In his prepared statement to the House of Commons Public Safety Committee, the Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Bob Paulson highlighted that, after receiving notice, in response to his August 2014 application, that the issuance of his Canadian passport was being delayed & was under further review, Zehaf-Bibeau alternately hitchhiked and took Greyhound buses to Ottawa, where, within two hours of his arrival, Zehaf-Bibeau, a dual citizen of Canada & Libya, approached the Libyan Embassy to renew his Libyan passport.

According to “Ottawa Gunman Sought Libyan Passport Three Weeks Before Attack,”” the Toronto Globe & Mail's Robyn Doolittle and Patrick White reported that the Libyan Embassy in Ottawa had reason to be suspicious of Zehaf-Bibeau: 

“His general demeanor was not appropriate just judging from the way he was dressed, the way he was behaving, his body language was not appropriate. That led … them to doubt his character – his motivations,” said first secretary Yousef Furgani through a translator. “Whenever people come to the embassy they try to dress their best. He was dressed very casual.””

These red flags described by Libyan Embassy First Secretary Furgani were immediately underwritten & underscored by the fact that both the first names within, and the photographs of, Zehaf-Bibeau’s Canadian driver’s license and Libyan passport differed. As a result, Libyan Embassy First Secretary Furgani informed Zehaf-Bibeau that, similar to what the Canadian government had told him regarding the renewal of his Canadian passport, that renewal of Zehaf-Bibeau’s Libyan passport would be delayed.

Fundamentally, both the Canadian & Libyan governmental authorities in Ottawa did their jobs correctly in response to Zehaf-Bibeau previous to his one-man terrorist attack on downtown Ottawa & Canadian Parliament. And, for those who would choose to criticize that neither the Canadian nor Libyan governmental authorities in Ottawa did enough to prevent Zehaf-Bibeau’s terrorist attack, it behooves such critics to recall the case of Jared Lee Loughner, who killed six people, including 9-year-old bystander Christina-Taylor Green, and injured thirteen, during his assassination attempt of U.S. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (Democrat from Arizona) while holding a constituent meeting called “Congress on Your Corner” at the Safeway supermarket in La Toscana Village mall north of Tucson, Arizona.

Unlike Zehaf-Bibeau, whose educational institutions reported nothing significant or spectacular about his time in secondary, or high, school (In “Details Of Michael Zehaf-Bibeau’s Life Paint A Picture Of A Man Troubled By Drugs And Crime,”” The National Post reports that Michel Baillargeon, principal off Collège Lavall, a private high school which Zehaf-Bibeau, attended from 1995 to 1998 before being pulled out by his parents, asserted about Zehaf-Bibeau, “He did not stand out – he was an everyday student like we have hundreds of –”), educational institutions which Loughner attended after the U.S. Army rejected Loughner for service during 2008, but previous to his assassination attempt on Arizona Congresswoman Giffords, took legal action against Loughner. Pima Community College in Tucson, when they chose to suspend Loughner from attending their institution, sent Loughner & his parents a letter, requesting a joint meeting, during which Pima Community College informed Loughner that, if he wished to reapply to Pima Community College, Loughner would need to submit mental health clearance from a mental health professional stating that, in the opinion of that professional, Loughner did not represent a danger to himself or to others if Loughner chose to attend Pima Community College.

Further, truly distressing, even more acute red flags signaling immediate & present danger popped up regarding Loughner mere hours before the attack. Three hours before Arizona Congresswoman Giffords’ “Congress on Your Corner, a Walmart store in the Foothills Mall in northwest Tucson refused to see Loughner ammunition based upon his appearance & behavior; undaunted, Loughner bought that ammunition at a different Walmart store at the Arizona Pavilions Shopping Center, also in Tucson, about a half hour later. Immediately after purchasing that ammunition from the Arizona Pavilions Shopping Center Walmart, a Arizona Game and Fish Department police officer stopped Loughner for running a red light. After running a background check Arizona Game and Fish Department police officer let Loughner go.

In the end, nobody can accuse any Arizona authorities of lack of vigilance regarding Loughner previous to the Tucson shootings. All of vested Federal & Arizona authorities, including the U.S. Army, Pima Community College, Walmart’s at the Foothills Mall & Arizona Game and Fish Department took all appropriate steps to keep Loughner within the boundaries of the law. At the same time, many who remember Loughner from Mountain View High School in Tucson, including not only his fellow students but the managers of the local Quiznos & animal shelter who both employed Loughner briefly, all spoke of a clear “personality change” within Loughner which ultimately alienated him, and prevented both of his previous employers from continuing to employ him.

However, even though, ultimately, Loughner’s descent from normal, peaceful human being to violent psychopath – even though such descent contained a political element to it as Loughner psychologically fixated all malice against Arizona Congresswoman Giffords – nevertheless did not involve any terrorist-inclined political radicalization. ABC News’’ Ashleigh Banfield, Jessica Hopper, Josey Crews and Emily Friedman, in “Tucson Shooting: Jared Loughner Stopped for Traffic Violation Hours Before Shooting,” broadly & implicitly pointed to drug & alcohol use as a prime reason for Loughner’s decline when they quoted Zach Osler, a friend of Loughner from Mountain View High School:

As a teenager, Loughner turned to heavy drinking and drugs, such as the legal hallucinogen salvia, Osler said.

“He would say he was using it, and he would talk about it and say what [it] would do to him and I was like, ‘Dude, that’s screwed up.’“ 

Even so, with all the warning signs available & visible for all to see, nobody could do anything to prevent Loughner from executing his agenda of a shootout at “Congress on Your Corner” at the Safeway supermarket in La Toscana Village mall north of Tucson, Arizona until Loughner actually fired the first shot – just as nobody could stop Zehaf-Bibeau until Zehaf-Bibeau actually shot Corporal Nathan Cirillo at the National War Memorial.

Which could indeed change if Congress allows United States President Barack Obama’s to declare war, formally, on ISIL, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. The New York Times’’ Marc Santora and Nate Schweberfeb, in “In Brooklyn, Eager to Join ISIS, if Only His Mother Would Return His Passport,” reporting on an amorphous & vague plot of Uzbekistan & Kazakhstan nationals & immigrants Akhror Saidakhmetov, Abdurasul Hasanovich Juraboev & Abror Habibov to join Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant or to commit an act of terrorism on United States soil, stated:

The case is the first time terrorism charges have publicly been brought against someone in New York City for plotting to travel overseas to fight for the terrorist group, and it intensified concerns about the global threat posed by the organization. 

Indeed, while it would be extreme in the utmost to expect any implementation by U.S. President Obama of the Bush Doctrine, originally codified in thee National Security Strategy of the United States, published on September 17, 2002, on the level of international nation states: 

The security environment confronting the United States today is radically different from what we have faced before. Yet the first duty of the United States Government remains what it always has been: to protect the American people and American interests. It is an enduring American principle that this duty obligates the government to anticipate and counter threats, using all elements of national power, before the threats can do grave damage. The greater the threat, the greater is the risk of inaction – and the more compelling the case for taking anticipatory action to defend ourselves, even if uncertainty remains as to the time and place of the enemy’s attack. There are few greater threats than a terrorist attack with WMD. 

To forestall or prevent such hostile acts by our adversaries, the United States will, if necessary, act preemptively in exercising our inherent right of self-defense. The United States will not resort to force in all cases to preempt emerging threats. Our preference is that nonmilitary actions succeed. And no country should ever use preemption as a pretext for aggression. 

the arrests of Saidakhmetov, Juraboev & Habibov in Brooklyn represent the implementation of the Bush Doctrine, not on the level of nation state against nation state, but on the level of nation state against individual naturalized & immigrant citizens.

Disturbingly, even citing the need to maintain a certain level of civil liberties for all citizens of a democracy, the recent crimes perpetrated by Zehaf-Bibeau & Loughner in Canada & the United States, as well as the crimes perpetrated by Man Haron Monis at the Lindt Chocolate Shop in Sydney, Australia in December 2014, present disturbingly cogent arguments of the further curtailment of civil liberties by such implementation of the Bush Doctrine against individual citizens. And, if Congress allows United States President Barack Obama’s to declare war, formally, on ISIL, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, it may indeed provide benchmark criteria against which law enforcement & the judicial system can use clear discretion when dealing with those like Zehaf-Bibeau who are looking for an excuse to escape their troubles by choosing to adopt the cloak of the Phineas Priesthood in the name of the most high Allah as they then make their brag, as Zehaf-Bibeau made his brag, in his cellphone suicide video, “So, just aiming to hit some soldiers just to show that you’re not even safe in your own land.”

ARIES – If anybody now suggests that they are waiting to hear your analysis or opinion before taking action on a specific issue, inform them, “You take full responsibility for that.” Indeed, 2000-QB243 in Aries confirms that not only is it only natural for you not to have a fixed opinion about a lot of phenomenon “out there,” but, in fact, objectively, your absence of a fixed opinion is correct. Moreover, if you do not feel compelled to have a fixed agenda, goal or even fundamental identify for yourself right now, it is also natural – and correct. If you are not sure, then the answer may not be clear – so why would you voluntarily put yourself on a limb by committing yourself prematurely. Allow nobody to project their agenda onto you. Explain, “If you really want me to make a commitment on this issue, you must fulfill certain criteria first.”   

TAURUS – An individual who refuses either to make peace, to come to settlement terms, with you, after you have made explicit overtures either to make peace or to come to settlement terms, tacitly reserves the right either to start war or to protract ongoing disputes on whatever pretext that individual chooses. 2000-QB243 in Aries therefore demands that you aggressively & tenaciously limit the ability of such individuals to initiate an unprovoked attack or to expand their list of grievances as you simply refuse to leave such individuals alone to plot their next move against you. Keep your friends close but keep your enemies closer – and always within your range of vision. 

GEMINI – Do not be intimidated by political or professional associates who refuse to declare their loyalties for or against. Truth be told, 2000-QB243 in Aries calls such associates “pragmatists,” not “idealists.” Presume that such associates act according to “what’s in it for them.” Moreover, if you misjudge whether such associates will be for or against any specific initiative or individual, you still must that such pragmatists are acting according to “what’s in it for them” – even if you don’t know what it is that such associates will ultimately gain. Stay limber. Stay balanced. Keep yourself ethically & morally free & clear to prepare for sudden changes in direction. 

CANCER – You’ve heard, no doubt, of the Taoism of Lao-Tzu – “The Tao that one can Tao is not the Tao?” 2000-QB243 in Aries says, “Let’s start from here.” The boss whom you can please is not your immediate professional superior. The ultimate goal which you hope to achieve will not prove to be the pinnacle of your career but the downfall of your entire industry sector. Winston Churchill may not have aspired to become Prime Minister of England to oversee the downfall of the British Empire, but Mikhail Gorbachev was, as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the eighth, and last, leader of the Soviet Union. People, and stupid television commercials, love to brag about “gamechangers” – but when you unwittingly change the game in the middle of the contest with your unanticipated innovation, while you still have control of the ball, everybody ready, willing & able to bend, if not to break, all the rules, will be coming after you. Once they do, refer to your mercantile Machiavelli – the whole point of being in control lies in remaining in control! 

LEO – Presuming that policy makers, authority figures, law enforcements & agents will use the discretion vested in their professional status or position to make interpretations of, or decisions concerning, ambiguities in the law, in your personal favor, is unwise. 2000-QB243 in Aries denotes that such ambiguities exist to account for extenuating circumstances that are distinctly impersonal which facilitate or impede the immediate & ongoing flow of public order. If you benefit once from such extenuating circumstances, then lucky you – but such extenuating circumstances do not exist to benefit individuals. Know when your self-interest does not apply – and why. 

VIRGO – Working with machinery or equipment where the words contained in labels & signs have deteriorated, where the operator of the machinery or equipment no longer owns the instruction or operator’s manual or where the parts no longer work but can also no longer be replaced because those parts have become obsolete, all spell potential imminent physical danger. While it is one thing to say, “I can lose all my data because Windows no longer supports XP,” (Why exactly haven’t you already invested in a cloud?), 2000-QB243 in Aries confirms that it is an entirely more urgent state of affairs to continue to operate real property, where people live or work, with machinery or equipment that cannot be fixed without some fast & loose, quick & dirty, untested & insecure desperate measure. Rely only upon state regulated industry standard when other peoples’ livelihoods & physical safety are at risk. 

LIBRA – Because many people will behave like they are partners to you under the current influence of 2000-QB243 in Aries, you must remember, for your own personal happiness, professional success & clarity of mind, that true partnerships require explicit commitments between two individuals or entities for a stated purpose. Do not fool yourself into thinking that a partnership exists if you & your “partner” have not already made that commitment which consummates that partnership in the first place. 

SCORPIO –In both functional & dysfunctional workplaces, there are employees who seem to do nothing, employees who assume the responsibilities of those who hold much more important job positions, bosses who never supervise employees, bosses who never even show up. How can one therefore distinguish a functional from a dysfunctional workplace? 2000-QB243 in Aries smirks, then replies, “In a functional workplace, the big bosses let everything go for as long as they possibly can to see if, and when dysfunctional employees finally get the message, while, in dysfunctional workplace, the shadow tyrant at the bottom of the totem pole gains so much power that the police arrest the bosses who are legally & professionally liable for the shadow tyrant’s crimes.” 

SAGITTARIUS – Writers, artists: Implementing ambiguity into a narrative or image can consist of a one-off flourish, like the ending of the television series off The Sopranos or Frank Stockton’s open-ended device in the short story “The Lady or the Tiger,” or an artistic modality, such as the morphing of entities from one species to another within Ovid's Metamorphoses or David Salle’s amalgam, or mosaic, of distinct & various paintings, frequently dominated by pornographic images, juxtaposed together in strategic composite with cryptic, evocative, mysterious titles, such ass My Subjectivity, Demonic Roland, What is the Reason for Your Visit to Germany?, Muscular Paper or Old Bottles. (Or, in moments of intense clarity & brilliance, such as Stephen Crane’s poem, “A Man Feared That He Might Find An Assassin,” the ambiguity is the message itself.) 2000-QB243 in Aries lists these possibilities in the spirit of a television announcer doing a voice-over, warning, “Do not try this at home.” Furthermore, in trying to create such ambiguities, somebody must be reading or reviewing those ambiguities which you are trying to create – if only to tell you about other ambiguities which you also unwittingly generated in the process. Don’t be afraid to take a long hard look at William Epson's Seven Types of Ambiguities. And, in the beginning, start small – do not overcomplicate your intellectual mechanisms. 

CAPRICORN – One of the more provocative core concepts which American Quaker and conscientious objector Staughton Lynd expressed in his early academic work Intellectual Origins of American Radicalism lies in understanding “the revolutionary tradition” within American government – that is, it is not only a historical tradition that America established a government in contradistinction to, and against, its colonial imperialist overlord, Great Britain, but, more importantly, that revolution itself is part of the process used in determining that original government, and every government within the United States which follows that original, distinct, non-English government. 2000-QB243 in Aries tips its hat to former Yale Professor Lynd as it reminds Capricorn the Goat that, even within your own family, hometown, university, city, state or province, there exists not only dominant intellectual & political traditions, but, in fact, very explicit cross-currents. For best results, in making decisions, conversations, arguments & legislation, incorporate those cross-currents within your mainstream ideas in a most genuine, respectful & authentic way. 

AQUARIUS – 2000-QB243 in Aries augurs an upcoming deceitful strategy which others will use against you until you find a way to stop it: Somebody who wants to fight you does not want to start a fight with you, but wants to aggravate, harass & insult you so deeply so that you will start a fight with them. Disturbingly, in many instances, your most attractive response is to make a disarmingly, ostensibly innocent question or comment which reveals the stupidity or bad faith of your opponent, induces groups of people to laugh, and impels this bad faith opponent . . . to start a fight with you. Which, in the end, you don’t want to do – after all, what’s in it for you to throw punches against some jerk who simply is not as smart as you? Can’t you find a much more impersonal way of disregarding the existence of such troublemakers altogether? 

PISCES – Pisces, the sign of the Fish, rules the subjunctive mood. However, in Pisces’s natal horoscope, the second house of its natal horoscope, which rules money, is ruled by Aries. Interpretation? Pisces may rule the subjunctive mood – but Pisces makes money when Pisces knows what Pisces wants & likes. 2000-QB243 in Aries, which will reside in Pisces’s natal second house of money in its natal horoscope for the next twenty years, will prevent Pisces from knowing what it wants & what it likes – and a mixed signal may undermine your cash flow. Because there is no maybe to a yes or no answer, you must come up with a clear & consistent policy when you simply do not know, “I don’t know – so, my answer is (Yes) (No).” Do not “reserve your right” to change your mind – when you know what you want & what you like, simply assert it. But don’t sit on fences – people who sit on fences lose their balance & fall off. Make clear decisions, damn all the consequences, and just keep moving forward!!

* 2000-QB243 is an unnamed transneptunian object (TNO) discovered on August 25, 2000. The orbit of 2000-QB243 traverses from within the orbit of Uranus out past the orbit of Pluto.

A great resource for ephemeris data on 2000-QB243 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 #13

1999-OX3@ transits Taurus
from March 1, 2022 to April 14, 2027.

Business is inexorable – we all must transact commerce in order to survive. Because, therefore, business is central to one’s core survival, the philosophy with which one conducts business reflects the civilization within which humanity resides. One philosophy states that the best business deals are those where everybody transacting gets what they want – an unhappy face, with or without a vocalized complaint, signals a failed business deal. Another philosophy (Jeff Bezos comes to mind) is “zero sum scorched earth” – winner take all. In either case, where there is neither violence nor coercion, business remains civilized. However, the phrase, “War is trade carried on by other means,” exists in truth, because those forced into zero sum scorched earth negotiations refuse to participate, leading, ultimately, to the ruthless subjugation of the supplicant via violent law enforcement or outright barbaric military aggression.

Keeping this model in mind, the underlying business philosophy of any individual, company, city, state, province or country will become self-evidently manifest as 1999-OX3@ in Taurus approaches its perihelion between 12 & 13 degrees Taurus on November 4, 2023 for the first time since the last perihelion of 1999-OX3@ between 14 & 15 degrees Taurus on November 6, 1843.  

ARIES – By definition, Aries likes to be first – being first comes naturally to the Ram. Staying in first place, however, demands that the Ram repeat a winning protocol – nothing succeeds like success. And those who do & get business like you will agree, “Those are the rules of the game that you & I are winning.” But not everyone will agree – including politicians inclined to regulate. So, what do you do? 1999-OX3 in Taurus replies that nobody expects you to act unnaturally, against your instincts – especially if your natural instincts work for you. But not until the bitter end. Red flags & octagons mean, “Stop!” At that crossroads, cooperate – do not steamroll.  

TAURUS – In the Howard Hawks film Red River, when Ivan Parry as Bunk Kenneally, a wrangler on Tom Dunson’s ranch, caused a loud ruckus at night by bumping into pots & pans on the campsite kitchen, the entire run of cattle which John Wayne as Tom Dunson was leading to Abilene, Kansas stampeded – and those bulls flew faster than a flock of ravenous eagles. Recalling this classic American western, you, as a Bull, know that, when running with the herd, you stand to make gains – hence, a Bull Market. Then again, bulls, like lemmings, can also run off cliffs. To that end, 1999-OX3 in Taurus suggests that you develop a very specific psychological mechanism which induces you to reset & to reestablish your own individual identity from the inexorable biological muscle memory of the herd.  

GEMINI – Certain investors & investments are not interested in the constraints of regulatory agents because they believe that they should be able to do whatever they like whenever they want. And, indeed, 1999-OX3 in Taurus signifies that this is why such regulators & regulations exist. If you champion enforcement, then many such investors, especially involving cryptocurrency, will resort to the dark web, which will offer all the treacheries of crime for the professional criminologist or law enforcement official investigating it. But, really, the dark web is “foul territory” – it exists because those who can’t get what they want in the city center must make that dark dangerous rogue pilgrimage to “the other side of the tracks.” Enforce the rules within the rest of the baseball diamond – but don’t step on the first base line!  

CANCER – You & those with whom you share an economic interest may not only act, speak & behave exclusively but may also take a competitive stance towards those who oppose your economic interests. While a certain degree of competitive expression is healthy, 1999-OX3 in Taurus worries that too many people take a zero-sum, scorched earth approach to those who do not share their economic interests. Particularly worrisome are those champions of cryptocurrency who would like nothing better than to topple the primacy of the American dollar & leave hundreds of thousands of Americans without any retirement income. In this context, whether you are legacy economic individuals, middle-of-the-road high-tech investors or far-left crypto anarchists, everybody has a right to earn a dollar. If you treat trade as war by other means, do not be surprised when others conspire to make you bankrupt.

LEO – As CEO of General Electric during their glorious high-finance peak, Jack Welch annually fired ten percent of the traders within the company based upon least amount of investment income earned. Will your bosses be so draconian under the current influence of1999-OX3 in Taurus? Not necessarily. However, there is no way such bosses will tolerate financial losses based upon ineptitude & negligence. Furthermore, such bosses will be seriously allergic to expenditures of firm capital to satisfy some political agenda. No, no, no – the business of business is business. Really – making money is hard enough. Building infrastructure within your company in order to make money can be a logistic nightmare. If your heart bleeds, then check into the emergency room – but make sure that you have the money in your HSA to pay for it. Exude & champion practicality.  

VIRGO – “I like to make a good living but I also know how to break even,” Reach Out International Records (ROIR) owner Neil Cooper said in “Speaking with Neil Cooper,” in my interview with my former boss when I wrote articles as a music writer & art critic, as well as an astrologer, for The Manhattan Mirror in the mid-Nineties. “I have to feel that it should be out there for one reason or another.” Indeed, the goal of a true publisher committed to the dissemination of meaningful writing or music is not to make an enormous profit, but to be able to afford publishing where writing or music merits dissemination despite the fact that not everybody will understand, and therefore buy & read it. Of course, many people, especially politicians, see book publishing as a form of fundraising – and that trend certainly will continue under the current influence of 1999-OX3 in Taurus. Conversely, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie actually used the medium of book publishing to disseminate real ideas with his recent non-fiction book Republican Rescue – but that is not really the focus of the current transit. What matters now: How does a writer whose voice should be heard go about getting their novel or non-fiction tome distributed? Of course, Herman Melville just got a job & turned his back on writing after Moby Dick failed – but John Kennedy Toole had to commit suicide before an editor at a major publisher would read his now classic New Orleans satirical farce A Confederacy of Dunces. (Partially, because, unlike Nigerian Chinua Achebe, author of Things Fall Apart, Toole was an American who should be able to promote & to defend his economic self.) It is more than just one author, and like Barney Rosset at Grove Press & Evergreen Review, there must be a mission. Clarify your intent.

LIBRA – Russian President Vladimir Putin has spent his adult working life working in some form of government service, whether in the KGB, in the St. Petersburg municipal government, as an attaché of President Boris Yeltsin, and as both President & Prime Minister of Russia. So how did he amass, according to “How Rich is Putin? Mystery of Russian President’s Net Worth Complicates Biden’s Decision to Sanction Him,” by Fortune’s Nicholas Gordon, US$70 billion as of in 2012? (Fortune’s Gordon cites Stanislav Belkovsky, a Russian political analyst and Putin critic for The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, for the US$70 billion figure, while adding that Anders Aslund, Swedish economist and author of Russia’s Crony Capitalism: The Path from Market Economy to Kleptocracy, estimates that Putin’s assets are worth somewhere between 100 and 150 billion U.S. Dollars.) Indeed, while it is a popular trend to discuss “The Russian Kleptocracy,” 1999-OX3 in Taurus is nevertheless suspicious. A Libra who values money for its own sake? Keeping company with billionaires who flaunt their superyacht wealth? What ever happened to the Libran ideal of impersonal justice for all?  

SCORPIO – You either like the changes going on in your city, state, province or country or you don’t. The aggression with which you imbue the mission you adopt under the current influence of 1999-OX3 in Taurus is but a first step in manifesting change which champions or negates those changes. You intend to inculcate the current direction or to thwart it permanently. You don’t anticipate the year 2030 but the year 2060. Write it all down on five sheets of paper to start. Proceed.  

SAGITTARIUS – You love getting up onstage to sign your song or to tell your jokes. You love hanging with friends walking down the street riffing on something stupid somebody said while riffing on something stupid somebody else said riffing upon something smart & funny that yet another person said. What a creative process life can be! But that is all fun, that is what you do when you do not work. 1999-OX3 in Taurus emphasizes work – and you buy your free time, and you buy your time to be creative, by the amount of skilled work that you do. Improve your skills, increase your hours, increase your rate of pay, increase the amount of money you earn, enhance your net worth – purchase your freedom.  

CAPRICORN – While most people know that Pablo Picasso was perhaps the greatest artist of the 20th century, rumor also has it that Pablo was a bit of a money freak. One anecdote about Pablo recounts that he never paid for a meal – Pablo would pay the bill by writing to the bar or restaurant a personal check with his own conspicuous “Pablo Picasso” signature, which the proprietor would never cash, but, instead, frame & hang in the front of his or her bar or restaurant. That being said – and not to discuss his relationship with multiple women leading to many children out of wedlock discussed in the film Surviving Picasso – this all begs the question, “Would Pablo Picasso be as prolific a painter if he was not as rich, or, rather, if he was not such a money freak?” Hard to say – 1999-OX3 in Taurus does recall that, after a fallout with his painter father, Pablo lived in a Parisian whorehouse. That neither here nor there, and that is all speculation. On that note, painters, artists, sculptors, playwrights: What about you?

AQUARIUS – Widespread new real estate development has transformed where you live, but has not transformed the attitudes of all the citizens who live there. In this context, 1999-OX3 in Taurus denote that one local business strategically placed can create all sorts of synergies for many other types of business which create an atmosphere of confluence, culture & comfort. Not the fancy steak restaurant or a specialty tailor – those types of enterprise come down the road. Start small & simple where people of all classes, from CEO to the homeless, pay small sums of money to gather amongst dense foot traffic. The Starbucks, Saxbys, Gregorys or Second Cup at the train station. The bagel shop on the street corner of the main intersection. Decent local Chinese, Indian & Greek takeout at ten dollars or less. All where people meet & share different observations.  

PISCES – People don’t see it coming from you. You appear diplomatic because you wish to remain optimistic, mainly because you really cannot afford to get depressed. Then, out of your mouth, comes some blunt, absurd, scathing observation – and people howl with laughter. You then try to justify it – your mother told you that if you have nothing nice to say, don’t say anything! – but 1999-OX3 in Taurus stands firmly with you. What you have observed really needs to be verbalized. Refer to Timothy Findley’s novel The Telling of Lies, where he depicts an entire small village of high society Canadians on summer vacation in northern Maine who all try “to keep up appearances.’ The elephant is in the room. The emperor has no clothes.

* 1999-OX3 is an unnamed transneptunian (TNO) discovered on July 21, 1999. The orbit of 1999-OX3 traverses between the orbits of Uranus & Pluto. For information on how to interpret 1999-OX33, note reference too Philip Sedgwick below.

Juan Antonio Revilla
(http://www.expreso.co.cr/centaurs/posts/naming.html))

postulates that 1999-OX3 should be named Aethon, after one of the four demon-steeds of Pluto's chariot.

Read seminal astrological analysis on 1999-OX3 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 1999-OX3 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 "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 1999-OX3 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 #14

2002-PN34* transits Taurus from April 5, 2016 to March 11, 2028. Some endeavors – banking, agriculture, architecture, sculpture, painting, novel writing – cannot be done fast. One must take care. Every detail either reinforces, when done correctly, or will undermine, when done incorrectly, the entire structure. Shortcuts & quick fixes may hold up for awhile – sometimes even a long while. Then, when shortcuts & quick fixes fall apart, the entire infrastructure will flame out & collapse with alarming rapidity. Therefore, one must take care. Despite any & all pressure by those who are panicking to speed up the process & to produce a result as soon as possible, one must take all the time that is necessary to do each & every individual step correctly, so that, as a result of mastering a craft involving a series of small steps year after year after year, one can actually begin to innovate & to pick up speed, through one’s mastery of the internal rhythms which each individual step contributes to the entire process as one symphonic whole. 

ARIES – Whatever you do that may involve lasting value – investing money, writing a novel, forging a sculpture, painting a painting maintaining the accounts containing other peoples’ money – 2002-PN34 in Taurus reminds you that, in the end, there must be a clear & transparent record of what happened on the surface wherein anybody at all, whether privy to the process or not, can discern, immediately, everything that happened. Ultimately, if you are in too much of a hurry to get it done correctly, for whatever reason, it will show on the surface – and, for those who look hard enough, the reason why will appear on the surface as well. Anything worth doing is worth doing correctly. Demonstrate punctilious attention to the proper spirit of the endeavor as you take your time executing it with reverence. 

TAURUS – 2002-PN34 in Taurus appoints you has a role model to which to refer to learn what the right thing to do & to say is, in various realms of endeavor, including banking, currency exchange, artwork & literature – whether you do or say the right thing or not. Whether you become a rich & pungent varnish or a caustic & toxic stain is up to you. A steady pace or fearful haste will communicate much, or even more, than your actual words. Demonstrate conspicuously that you are taking all necessary care to do the right thing. Follow, then communicate explicitly, that code that you & others must live by. 

GEMINI – Accountants, bookkeepers: Upgrade your software so that the transparency of your spreadsheets & ledgers morphs into a self-evident, high pitch clarity that automatically zeroes out on first sight. Writers: Copyedit much more ruthlessly. Painters: Study the still lifes & cityscapes of Wayne Thiebaud to analyze the meaning of the highly accurate realistic painterly gesture. 2002-PN34 in Taurus denotes that the intent itself appears on the surface. Redress the purity of your protocol so that you can imbue your intent with every action you make consciously so that an even deeper unconscious intent ultimately surprises even you. 

CANCER – Policy makers, ideologues, ombudsmen: A ruling intellectual paradigm evolves not only as the result of its application to changing conditions but also as a result of direct challenges to it by both disgruntled devotees & outright opponents. Even so, 2002-PN34 in Taurus denotes that the best & most reliable way to determine the strength of any ruling intellectual paradigm lies in peoples’ fierce loyalty for & against its core precepts. Nobody with intelligence challenges the ineffectual. Seek, gauge & qualify the relative merits & deficiencies of “bedrock.” 

LEO – Whether anybody admits it or not, a big part of doing business in North America lies in presenting the appearance that one is keeping up with the affluence & the gadgetry of the Joneses. Certain publicly traded companies like Amazon, Google & Facebook look for & receive sustenance from this mythos by not paying dividends, by living large on market capitalization of their publicly traded stocks, and by eschewing the pre-high tech grit of iron-fisted retail profit. 2002-PN34 in Taurus therefore empathizes with the legal yet animalistic Lion, who seeks to blow through all affectation to arrive at core truth. The best way to do this? When buying large-ticket items or paying travel, convention or client development expenses in the presence of peers, potential clients or existing clients . . . pay cash conspicuously, “Do you take hundreds?” 

VIRGO – Read Capricorn. You will need more literature, and appreciate literature more, and you will view more artwork which you will appreciate much more, if, as 2002-PN34 in Taurus recommends, you first read about historical movements in literature & art, as well as prominent literary & art critics of these movements whose writing helped define them. Of course, you might have ideas of your own, but that is not the point. Discover what other prominent people think so that you might be able to appraise not only their own work on their own terms, but also whether you condone or reject these terms per se, based upon the work it produces, and how such acceptance or rejection informs your own choices based upon your own ideas. 

LIBRA – When you put money in the bank, that money, in addition to all other assets the bank holds, allows the bank to loan that money, at interest, to those who wish to use it for their own purposes. 2002-PN34 in Taurus here reminds you that this is why your bank enacts security measures to prevent doing business with those who launder money from criminal proceeds so as to use their assets to buy tools & resources for further criminal activity. (Think “cocaine for weapons” as per the Iran-Contra scandal.) Therefore, not only should you comply with such security measures – you should champion them.

SCORPIO – Businesspeople: 2002-PN34 in Taurus denotes that if you cannot state what you intend to do, or what you actually do, in very straightforward & explicit terms to anybody who asks, then you are hiding something – and you must then alter both your intentions & actual actions so that you will then be able to act & to speak straightforwardly & transparently.

SAGITTARIUS – Keep a journal, workout log & nutrition log in one three-subject notebook wherein you take notes about books you read about proper nutrition, gym workouts, lifestyle habits & training results. 2002-PN34 in Taurus confirms that there are many theories about the proper work/life/nutrition/exercise balance, all of which suggest that each specific pet theory addresses a certain type with a specific type of goal. Because each individual is a subset of different types within different types, it helps for each individual, including you, to assess, to apply & to assimilate what works for all those different types, what works for the different type & sub-type that it is, and to integrate all those different theories into one synergistic theory which addresses what works for you, then why. Then: Apply what you have discovered, refine it, absorb it on an unconscious level – and become alert for long-term changes, permutations & evolution. 

CAPRICORN – Read Virgo. Your temperament is correct when it induces you to disregard what the intelligentsia regards as “literature” or “art.” After all, 2002-PN34 in Taurus impels you to determine, for yourself, what constitutes “literature” & “art.” However, once you, personally, identify, codify & define what constitutes “literature” & “art” for yourself, somebody may say to you, “That sounds an awful like this book I read awhile back.” At that point, don’t disregard what that somebody asserts. Follow up those authors who confirm what you think. 

AQUARIUS – Your family, city, state, province or country stands upon, acts in accord with & champions certain inviolable principles. What 2002-PN34 in Taurus now finds disturbing, however, is that, over time, the interpretation of what those certain inviolable principles have changed so significantly over time that people have completely forgotten what those certain inviolable principles originally were. Such depreciation of collective memory bespeaks the need for historical research into true sources – sources dating from before anybody living today was born & written by learned authors long dead & forgotten. You, for your own part, can wait for a sophisticated intellectual opportunist to write that revisionist history based upon their own hard-won research – or you can go to the library, do your own research, and think for yourself. 

PISCES – A vacation to a foreign country where that country’s currency is appreciably different than your home country can shake up your ideas, not only on the inherent value of money, in whatever currency you choose to think about it, but about the definition & purpose of money itself. What you consider inexpensive where you live may be obscenely overpriced in many other foreign cities; what you appraise as overvalued & way too expensive where you live now may be non-existent in some entire other continent – to that other continent’s detriment. Of course, you could always read one or seven or fifty-eight books on economics to engender a much more sophisticated worldview about money – but, for now, 2002-PN34 in Taurus states that so called “baby steps” wherein you compare what your coin can buy either in a rich nation or in a poor nation will prove enough to jolt you from extremely entrenched preconceived notions about money which, frankly, no longer serve you.

* 2002-PN34 is an unnamed transneptunian object (TNO) discovered on August 6, 2002. The orbit of 2002-PN34 traverses from within the orbit of Uranus out past the orbit of Pluto. For information on how to interpret 2002-PN34, note reference too Philip Sedgwick below.

The only source online for how to interpret 2002-PN34 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.shtmll

A great resource for ephemeris data on 2002-PN34 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 #15

1996-TL66* transits Gemini from March 12, 2011 to April 18, 2027. Decisions which cause irrevocable consequences throughout entire local regions emerge out of clear blue skies. The enormous complexity of all that happens everywhere else except here impinges too acutely upon what happens here (wherever here may be) much more than anybody here really wants. The aggravation amongst people here generated by all that happens out there leads to impulsive reactions rather intuitive responses. Walls go up; integration leads to disengagement, then to disassociation; confluences which had dovetailed become segregated & parallel; merged entities which offered continuity & flow become atomized, isolated & secluded; vision, formerly broad & far-seeing, becomes fragmented & myopic; the cards which all carry so close to their much tighter vests make even the simplest act of cooperation an extremely big “deal or no deal,” . . . buddy. 

ARIES – 1996-TL66 in Gemini denotes that personal & professional partnerships of all types must now develop the capacity to withstand constant disruption & pressure. The flow, the momentum, the protocol, the logistics, all require cooperation; chaos, deliberate or coincidental yet ultimately turbulent, invasive & insidious, seek to disrupt that cooperation. Discontinuity will create frustration – but do not allow mistrust to cause severed relationships. Commit & recommit to important friendships & partnerships. Overcome entropic miasma. 

TAURUS – Simply put, in a capitalist society, people do business with whom they want to do business – that is a right that nobody with a dollar in their pocket will sacrifice to anybody. If you give value, whether in product or in labor, for your customer’s money, then 1996-TL66 in Gemini agrees that you should be doing good business – great business. If you do great business – then good for you! If, however, you are not getting the business that you expect based upon the value you deliver, then you must identify, and solve, the problem of the “intangible” which is thwarting you. 

GEMINI – Everybody has an opinion. However, you need not agree with, honor or even respect every opinion. 1996-TL66 in Gemini agrees that to communicate not only the complexity of certain phenomena & news per se, but also the complexity of the public opinion about that phenomena & that news, will exhaust you. However, your sentence of ten words or less can unify then catalyze all new different interpretations & actions based upon the undeniable clarity of your informed & researched perception. Herein lies the secret to public relations; herein lies “the power of news.” 

CANCER – Litigation discovery & law enforcement investigations are complex & vexing; however, determining whether or not one did or did not mail a letter can be quite simple. Therefore, 1996-TL66 in Gemini will force you to think much more strategically about the legal & moral consequences of all types of mail, whether e-mail, U.S. First Class Mail, United Parcel Service or overnight delivery by any of a number of private delivery agencies. Who sent it? When? Did it get there? Did it get there on time? Why not? When do they "pick up?" When is last “pickup?” (And – in worst-case scenarios: who is opening my mail – and why?) How do I know that the recipient got what I sent – and can I prove that the recipient did get what I sent either to my boss or in a court of law? Heed Kurt Cobain’s little toss-off lyric – “The black sheep got blackmailed again – Forgot to put on the zip code” – within the excruciatingly painful confessional “On a Plain.” Don’t make yourself a scapegoat at the mercy of those looking for easy solutions to extremely complex battles between good & evil. 

LEO – One of the most difficult accounts in the advertising business is also the most lucrative: The Burger King account, which has hired 12 different large-scale advertising agencies to handle their general market advertising account in the past 60 years. 1996-TL66 in Gemini points to the Burger King account to remind ambitious Leos that lucrative & powerful clients may not necessarily be those clients who will facilitate your ultimate professional success. Forget about who is blaming & praising who; forget about industry politics. Find some client for whom you can work who can, through your professional relationship, bring you to the ultimate in professional success. 

VIRGO – Of course, in the professional workplace you must honor any “Chinese Walls” that accompany all proprietary & confidential work & work product. However, 1996-TL66 in Gemini further remind you that bosses, some of whom you trust & some of whom you mistrust, whether correctly or incorrectly, create “blind spots” for you that induce you to respond to circumstances & people like a Pavlovian dog – that is, should you take the bait. (Um . . . isn’t Ashton Kutchner’s show on MTV called Punk’d?) Do not let anybody manipulate you into succumbing to “the wrong conclusion.” 

LIBRA – Lawyers: 1996-TL66 in Gemini demands that you now tell partners & clients the potential overwhelming & crushing severity that they face as they now seek to initiate, without proper, or, in fact, any contemplation, action which is either extralegal or explicitly illegal – particularly if such partners & clients seek to enter into commerce into local markets far outside their current region. Explicate, "No amount of logistic complexity, no strategic string of loopholes, will serve to exonerate you at all – in fact, such devices will only serve to damn you . . . permanently." Tolerate no cocky bravado. Assert, “You must comply with these regulations, or – and this will be your best case scenario – you will fail miserably & will most likely declare bankruptcy.” Offer your sincere handshake if you need to issue this veiled ultimatum as your last resort, "Do whatever you like – it's been great having you as a client." 

SCORPIO – For the Scorpion, life under the current influence of 1996-TL66 in Gemini will prove quite simple. Partnerships, no matter what type, demand loyalty; there is nothing you will not do for a partner; disloyal partners obliterate working partnerships, then become enemies; enemies merit no consideration as you oppose enemies unconditionally within the clear boundaries of the written law. This is “wheat from chaff” – do not, under any circumstances, cave into uncharacteristic sentimentality. And, if the situation warrants . . . add insult to injury, "As far as I'm concerned: better you than me." 

SAGITTARIUS – Life-long partners of all types respect you deeply for telling the unvarnished, naked truth at painful but mission-critical moments at the toughest times of their lives. These partners will return these many favors under the current influence of 1996-TL66 in Gemini as they now begin to wield enormous, seemingly otherworldly power. Why will such partners refuse to forget you? Because you taught that partner a lesson they will never forget: Mankind must demonstrate infinite reverence for the invisible hand of God. 

CAPRICORN – Retail merchants, business owners of all kinds: 1996-TL66 in Gemini warns that thieves, especially burglars & embezzlers, can destroy not only your business but also your own personal finances & worldly reputation. You must punish all thieves to the fullest extent of the law. To counterbalance ruthlessness, exude generosity & kindness – but only after you have finished punishing criminals. 

AQUARIUS – Yes, 1996-TL66 in Gemini agrees, a successful classic pop song generates an enormous amount of income on a seemingly eternal basis. For that reason, intellectual property thieves would not hesitate stealing a new song which may become, in their estimation, their meal ticket unto & beyond death. Moreover, recall the legal battle between the Chiffons & George Harrison inn Bright Tunes Music v. Harrisongs Music about the musical similarities between "He's So Fine" & "My Sweet Lord" to see how much you potentially have to lose over what might be a very slight & unintended mix-up. “Well, that’s that – yes, sure, I’d love to hear your song.”  

PISCES – You alone have the strength to lead your family, the citizens of your city or the collective merchants of your entire business region out of emotional fallout of a personal or financial catastrophe under the current influence of 1996-TL66 in Gemini. The only reason that you feel more pain than everybody else is because you are a Pisces: Pisces can withstand pain that would kill everybody else. However, this is not an excuse for you to waddle around like the walking wounded. Demonstrate how bold, powerful & confident you can be – because dozens, hundreds or thousands of people now desperately need to feed off of your strength.

* 1996-TL66 is an unnamed scattered-disk object (SDO) transneptunian object (TNO) discovered on October 9, 1996. SDOs are far more remote in space than even Varuna or Pluto, the outermost planets in our current solar system; 1996-TL66, an SDO, is also a TNO because, at perihelion, it hovers around the orbits of Neptune. For information on how to interpret 1996-TL66, note reference too Jonathan Dunn below.

Jonathan Dunn
(http://ephemeral.info)
postulates that 1996-TL66 should be named Nero, after the emperor who presided over the fall of Rome.

Read seminal astrological analysis on 1996-TL66 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.htmll

Read about 1996-TL66 and select low eccentricity transneptunian objects (TNOs) and scattered disc object (SDO) centaurs on Italian geologist & astrologer
Francesco Schiavinotto's website "AstroGeoData" at
http://www.astrogeodata.it/index.him

A great resource for ephemeris data on 1996-TL66 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