Astrology Chart of the United States
The ³High 5´ Chart! by
Richard Houck
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Thoughts on POLITICAL FORECASTING & THE CHART OF THE UNITED STATES
Richard Houck May 1995
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Table of Contents Rick¶s US US Chart ± Tropical, Tropical, Placidus w/ declinations declinations ............ ...... ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ ........ 5 Rick¶s US Chart Chart ± Sidereal, Sign=House Sign=House w/ declinations............ ...... ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ ........ .. 6 INTRODUCTO INTRODUCTORY RY REMARKS ON FORECASTIN FORECASTING G............ ...... ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ ........... ..... 7 SOME COMMEN COMMENTS TS ON METHOD METHOD..................................................................................... 10 DEVELOPMENT OF A UNITED STATES CHART........................................................... 13 HOW DID I START THE DEVELOPMEN DEVELOPMENT T OF MY US CHART? CHART?............ ...... ............ ............ ............ ........... ..... 15 THE RICK HOUCK ³HIGH FIVE´ CHART ...................................................................... 20 IS THIS CHART REALLY REALLY CORRECT? CORRECT? CONSIDER CONSIDER THIS. THIS. . . ............... ......... ............ ............ ............ ............ ........ .. 28 RECORD OF POLITICAL FORECASTS ............................................................................ 29 PEROT PEROT ³TAKES ³TAKES A DIVE´ DIVE´ .................................................................................................... .................................................................................................... 30 DEATH DEATH OF A NATIONAL NATIONAL POLITICAL POLITICAL PARTY LEADER LEADER ............ ...... ............ ............ ............ ............ ............ .......... .... 30 DONALD TRUMP GOES BANKRUPT ............................................................................... 31 THE WAR IN IRAQ............................................................................................................... IRAQ............................................................................................................... 32 GEORGE BUSH VOMITING EPISODE ............................................................................. 32 BILL CLINTON WINS THE PRIMARY ............................................................................. 33 BILL BILL CLINTO CLINTON¶S N¶S BIRTH BIRTH TIME ......................................................................................... 33 THE PRESIDE PRESIDENT NT OF BRAZIL BRAZIL ............................................................................................ 34 WHITE WHITE HOUSE HOUSE ³FLOOD ³FLOODING ING´ ´ ............................................................................................ 34 UNITED UNITED STATES STATES ³AT WAR´ WAR´ .............................................................................................. 35 CHELSE CHELSEA A CLINTO CLINTON N ............................................................................................................ 35 YELTSI YELTSIN N SURVIVE SURVIVES S CHALLE CHALLENGE NGE .................................................................................. 36 JACK JACK KEMP ± NO CHANCE CHANCE ............................................................................................... 37 37 BORIS YELTSIN AGAINST THE WALL ........................................................................... 37 GEORGE GEO RGE BUSH AT RISK RISK .................................................................................................... 38 BILL BILL CLINTO CLINTON¶S N¶S ³UGLY ³UGLY STUFF´ STUFF´..................................................................................... 39 NORTH NORTH KOREA KOREA .................................................................................................................... 40 EXACT EXACT STO STOCK CK MARKET MARKET DROP DROP ....................................................................................... 40 RUSH RUSH LIMBAUG LIMBAUGH H ................................................................................................................ 41
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BORIS BORIS YELTSI YELTSIN N ................................................................................................................... 42 MEXICO MEXICO................................................................................................................................. 42 NORTH NORTH KOREA KOREA .................................................................................................................... 43 BILL BILL CLINTO CLINTON N ..................................................................................................................... 43 THE MEXICAN MEXICAN BAILOUT BAILOUT................................................................................................... 44 ROSS ROSS PEROT PEROT ......................................................................................................................... 45 CLOSIN CLOSING G COMMENT COMMENTS S ....................................................................................................... 47
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Rick¶s US Chart ± Tropical, Placidus w/ declinations June 19, 1776 11:54:46AM LMT Philadelphia, PA 075W09¶51´ 39N57¶08´
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Rick¶s US Chart ± S idereal, Sign=House w/ declinations June 19, 1776 11:54:46AM LMT Philadelphia, PA 075W09¶51´ 39N57¶08´
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INTRODUCTORY
REMARKS ON FORECASTING
The problem of determining the correct US chart is a fascinating one and astrologers have been arguing about it for many decades. It confronts us almost immediately with the philosophical problem of ³proof´ and what astrologers consider ³proof´ is amazingly varied. Clearly, I¶m going to have to present some arguments and ³proofs´. So how do we penetrate this problem of arbitrariness? Let me begin with some crabby remarks. We first must face the fact that there is so much vacuousness that passes for modern astrology that many of its practitioners should be wallowing in embarrassment. It¶s not a good sign they don¶t seem much capable of it. Many Western astrologers seem perfectly happy wandering around inside their little Rorschach symbol machine while wearing their Tropical Sun Sign T-shirt and psychically inhaling the latest ³consciousness´ enhancer. What
defines embarrassment in this field? Wrong forecasts? Yes, but only somewhat, because at least that shows someone in testing against the real world. Vastly worse is: y
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Not being able to recognize clearly wrong charts (among other reasons for having worked with so many wrong ones), Agreeing to make unqualified public forecasts based upon non-validated or partial data, Making sporadic forecasts in obscure one-time-only publications so that if you are wrong, you can quietly bury it, but if you are right you can drag it on stage and The greatest sin: making no forecasts at all.
A certain strata of astrologer now argue against forecasting altogether, but they are only too happy to point out when one of their obscure remarks allegedly comes true and they still play with electional astrology (picking best times to take various actions) and the like. They don¶t seem to realize that such hypocrisy is actually driven by fear based upon techniques that may only perform at the level of randomness. I¶ll never forget one well-known astrologer whose wrong political election forecast he addressed by concluding that he had accurately selected the person who should have won! Perhaps this is what the evolving field of Virtual Astrology is all about. Actually, informal studies have shown that Western astrologers tend to do a little worse in forecasting elections than if they had just followed the popular polls and various odds makers. I don¶t known about the
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performance of Eastern astrologers in this matter, but I have definitely seen failed forecasts in major publications. The value of specific and documented event forecasting from a speculative chart is that it gives immediate reality feedback that even a fairly hard-core Neptunian can¶t ignore. There is an objective referent: a happening or a non-happening. You can play all day with your ³personal myth´, thousands of points in space or whatever other astrological window fascinates you and leaves you gasping in retroactive wonder at the symbolic revelations of your favorite psyche grabber. But until you regularly submit y our techniques to the cold water discipline of documented event forecasting, there is simply no way for an objective observer to determine if what you are doing is anything other than playing inside your own head. Notice I said ³regularly´. Anyone should hit the coin flip once in a while and this is simply not adequate grounds for puffing our one¶s tiny little chest. I¶m often bemused, for example when certain astrologers lecture on their ³five greatest client forecasts´ (or a near variation on that concept) without any evidence as to whether they missed 25 cases during the same period and/or whether they didn¶t even deceive themselves with some subtle re-engineering of the though processes and statements that were alleged to occur at the original moment of comment. The point is absolutely not to belittle any particular technique or practitioner, who may, in face, be excellent. The point is that there is rarely any objective knowledge of this and therefore there is a need to develop visible criteria for validating techniques. A precursor to this should be a training focus aimed at developing the ability to publicly answer ³will he or won¶t he´ questions before ³should he or shouldn¶t he?´ Another way of stating this is: first demonstrate demonstrate your ability to eliminate ³ancient´ considerations of fate before presuming to advise on the more residual ³modern´ considerations of free will. Horary training is actually pretty good for this. For those ³modern´ astrologers who find this politically incorrect, I would advise your meditation upon the fun comment of Isaac B. Singer that, ³we must believe in free will; we have no choice!´ When
you add in the vague smiley-faced commentary usually associated with modern Western astrology, who is to say anymore that the whole thing in not the random result of self-attribution, selective perception and so forth? Transferring this to the mundane sphere, here are typical variant on brave forecasts I often see: ³I predict the economy (the President, etc) will have major problems next year´, or ³There will be major scientific breakthroughs in biotechnology next summer´, etc.
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You can say things like that almost any time and then subsequently pull daily extracts from The Wall Street Journal to buttress your contention. I remember one author who became quite indignant when I panned his book in a review quite a number of years back. He was convinced he had explained all major events in U.S. history basically through the transit of one planet. I told him I could have performed the same ³proofs´ with any other planet ± or even a hypothetical planet with an orbit of his choice. All this reminded me of a philosophy professor I had in college who used to enjoy ³proving´ to his very frustrated students the sophistry that they did not exist. Suffice it to say that if tycoons listened to most astrologers, they would be as broke as most astrologers, because most astrologers I hear have predicted imminent stock market declines for as long as I can recall ± even though the market has gone up for years and years. One of these years, these astrologers will actually be ³right´. Ego plays in here also since people love to hear themselves make non-accountable forecasts even in arenas where they have no practical experience. In stating this, I hope it is clear that I am specifically excluding specialized financial astrologers who put out their own newsletters on a regular basis. They would clearly crash in the marketplace if they were unrelenting bears. I know about selective perception; for over ten years I used the tropical zodiac, but quite a number of years back, I switched to the sidereal. The rationale could fill a book, but suffice it to say that the immediate implication was that roughly 7 5% of the Sun and Moon signs I had formerly attributed to others were now in the prior sign ± as was their ascendant which was also not likely to have a different ruler. Triplicities, quadruplicities, whether a planet was exalted, fallen or in a mutual reception were all now also likely to be changed. Void-of-course moons, those super-subjective ³interceptions´ and so forth, were also generally trashed. Since going sidereal and making a few other major adjustments in thinking, I¶m now happy to forecast regularly and publicly ± although of course there is much more to it than just the zodiac. My promotional material now offers qualified money back guarantees and under proper circumstances, a double guarantee. guarantee. Be willing to put money (leveraged against you) on objective tests of your techniques and you will find more client respect. Several years ago, I ³terrorized´ some research physician at the National Institute of Health with the leverage this posture provides. Needless to say, you don¶t have to be perfect - just statistically impressive over time.
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Comment: Although I fundamentally work in the sidereal zodiac, I assume that the most likely readers of this booklet will be Western astrologers. Consequently, I will continue to express all data in tropical terms so that they may reference it in any standard ephemeris. For example, when I make future reference to 0 4-AR-19, this is a reference to four degrees and 19 minutes of tropical Aries.
SOME COMMENTS ON METHOD For political forecasting work, I use techniques that I will refer to as ³massing´ and ³triangulation´. M a ssing just means that I will labor to accumulate a large volume of factors for or against a position until the dominant tendency becomes highly obvious. I most like to guarantee an answer to a well-defined near term ³yes or no´ question (Will I win the election?, etc.), i.e., close to what horary astrologers like to do, but I do it out of the natal chart. st
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To meet the objective, I stick just with the old classic 1 , 2 and 4 harmonics with a maximum one degree orb ± which I consider huge ± although on occasion, I th will extend out to the 8 harmonic (octiles and trioctiles sometimes referred as semisquares and sesquisquares) provided the orb is nearly exact to the minute. My position is that any final ³proof´ rests in repeatedly demonstrable precision of the angles within these harmonics. These harmonics will explain both ³good´ and ³bad´ events. I have eliminated trines and sextiles ± except for trines from Jupiter which is actually the only planet with the power to cast a trine. A few other very tight trine situations may be useful, but the rationale is too arcane to discuss here. Triangulation is a means of leveraging perspective on an issue. For example, in the past, I have had the opportunity to do some work for a Latin American presidential candidate. To do this, I insisted on getting the chart not only of the presidential candidate, but also his wife and campaign manager. If his chart was erroneous or had weak indicators, the final answer could be consolidated elsewhere. They eventually provided me with the full chart data even of his opponent (although it was defective). Fortunately, everyone on this particular project had a close relation who had been shot and this helped a lot to perfect my assertions.
I assume all charts are wrong and rectify them all using only angular events that were our of the person¶s control. I do this because 1) I hate being wrong, 2) wrong chart would have me internalizing bad logic and therefore wrong instincts and 3) my work relies heavily on the progressed angles and some sensitive sub-charts.
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As an example, my sidereal/Hindu chart for former Secretary of Defense, Casper Weinberger, who was pardoned by George Bush several years ago, has a TOB only two minutes earlier than that shown in Gauquelin¶s research work. But it looks totally different from Gauquelin¶s ± as well it should. For how do you otherwise reconcile his excellent career with its current curre nt natal mediocrity? I generally ignore intermediate house cusps, since none of the many competitors seem to work with any demonstrable consistency. The fundamental method of progression I use is tertiary since, among other things, secondaries are pretty sluggish), although I should add, not so much after 220 years!). As noted in my book on death, I have hundreds of excellent cases which prove the enormous usefulness of tertiaries. In this method, every line in the ephemeris stands for a month in the life. Most people live their lives from month to month and not year to year. Tertiaries support this since they are based upon the sidereal lunar month of 27.321661 days (don¶t worry: the tropical lunar month calculation is extremely close to this same value). What
you do is progress the midheaven (MC) by solar arc and derive the rest of the chart normally. For further information, Mark Pottenger, whose technical integrity I admire, discusses this more refined implementation of this within his CCRS 292 software manual. Other software vendors may have a similarly more refined algorithm. For purposes of this article, a key thought you might keep in mind is that tertiary planets and angles ³run´ about 1 2-13 times faster than secondary ones. For example, the tertiary Sun moves about as fast as the secondary Moon.
For further triangulation, another key tool I use is the Hindu dasa/bhukti system. This wonderful tool is the Indian version of progression, but it is much more valid and informative. It always has two planets fundamentally ³on stage´ at any particular moment (one in the background and one in the foreground) ± but in their original natal location. This, along with the sidereal chart, truly describes a person¶s fundamental cyclic karma. But you also have to apply their associated thought processes ± as intended in ancient texts but not necessarily as described in current Indian publications whose articles often tend more towards the obscurely peripheral rather than the fundamentally centripetal. The Hindu system itself clearly suffers some basic weakness in not using the MC, not using the three outer planets, not using western progression and direction techniques and a few other things. As a result of this and as a result of having a much more enriched system, I¶ve noted that their capacity to rationalize wrong
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charts greatly exceeds even our own. By the way, the MC I use is very often not th even in the 10 house, which is okay since I use it as an indicator of the ³aspirational ego´ and not as a ³career´ indicator. I use the ancient full-sign fullhouse system and by this method, it is very often the case that some planets currently in the standard 1 2th and 9th will actually end up in the 1 st and 10th. So Gauquelin was definitely right. A fundamental error in Western astrology has been the inability to recognize how planets and houses develop strength or weakness. A large related error is the increased symbolic confusion of planets with signs and houses. It¶s all quite tied to the wrong zodiac problem, the arbitrary forcing of simple-minded symmetries and the consequent deterioration of Western astrology into an increasingly imaginary and therefore arbitrary system. The few paragraphs above only briefly orient you to a couple of my methods. The issues are discussed in quite a bit more detail in my critically acclaimed book, The A strology of Death . By the way, Groundswell Press used to publish a current event and forecasting newsletter called The Clock . At the end of this monograph are examples of some forecasts that have been made just since the late 80¶s. Almost all of these were postmarked and the remainders were fully documented (in advance, of course) in comparable journals and/or taped audience (or TV) lectures. All went to large audiences and in the vast majority of cases, on a regular basis. Parenthetically, WHY do we want to become invincible political forecasters? Because my fellow Americans, while it is not legal to bet on elections in the United States, it IS legal to bet on US elections in England! Based upon my guarantee of a Clinton win in 199 2, several of my associates tried to place a large pooled bet at the Ladbrokes betting parlor ± although they couldn¶t get their money together and transferred to London in time before the odds became uninteresting. By the way, there were also formal odds at Ladbrokes for a long time about whether former President Nixon would, or would not, be impeached. Americans never fully realized how this issue had roiled the rest of the world. As I recall, world jitters were reflected in a massive six-point spread between T bills and Eurodollar CD¶s, and it has never returned to anything near that (it¶s now well under half a point). Since huge profits can be made in such spreads, it¶s yet another reason to study political charts! As a further aside, there is a subset of quite competent astrologers who really are convinced of a CIA disinformation campaign to reduce confidence in astrology.
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Now you realize it may just be rich gamblers doing the alleged disinforming, in order to boost their odds at Ladbrokes! Actually, we all better hope that the validity of real astrology never does begin to dawn on the mass consciousness because you would see disinformation on a scale like you¶ve never seen before. As it is, the fact that even now, many politicians, when asked, will not release their TOB¶s gives quietly eloquent testimony to their increased awareness on this issue. If there have been multiple ³birth certificates´ of Elvis Presley, it won¶t take long for politicians and others to follow suit. At that point, only real astrologers will be able to maneuver through the haze (by the way, for the upcoming 1996 election, the reader may wish to make note that Bob Dole¶s alleged time of birth, from his own mouth, does not match up with the information given in his autobiography). Well I could go on and on; indeed I already have! After all this foaming and flaming, let¶s move directly to a discussion of the U.S. chart.
DEVELOPMENT OF A UNITED STATES CHART CGR Almost nine years ago, the issue of ³the´ U.S. chart was addressed in the N CGR Journal and this has actually been going on as long as I can recall. I¶ve always considered it possible that multiple multiple U.S. charts charts may be appropriate for various specialized purposes (the chart for the signing of the Constitution for constitutional crisis, the chart of the Federal Reserve Board for monetary activity, etc.), but I¶ll not get into that. Anyway, staying with the 7/ 4/1776 charts, I always vaguely favored an early Sag ± rising chart (as did Sibley, Rudhyar, Moore, etc.) since, by my own reasoning, it would really be sidereal Scorpio (ruled by Mars) and the volume of private gun ownership combined with the amazing statistical evidence of daily mayhem has always been one of the United States¶ most clearly defining national characteristics.
Some years ago, I had become charmed by the Barry Lynes chart (7-SAG- 33 rising) for anther reason. My George Bush chart (with a TOB of 3:45:30 PM) has a 3-LEO MC and a 28-LIB Asc. When the United States invaded Kuwait to liberate it from Iraq, the tertiary progressed angles of Lynes¶ U.S. chart were all absolutely identical to Bush¶s natal ones. Quite the coincidence. Then the month Clinton (with his Sun at 26-LEO) won the U.S. election, this chart¶s MC had tertiary progressed to 26-LEO; this is also Bush¶s nodal axis. Quite another coincidence. The progressed Asc. was right on Hillary Clinton¶s Venus, Al Gores¶ nodal axis,
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etc. Well anyway, to make a long study short, I still think it¶s a coincidence. They do happen; that¶s what makes them coincidences. At this time, among the various 7/ 4/1776 contenders, I am really the most favorably impressed by Laurie Efrein¶s 17-GEM- 38 rising chart with the MC at 23-AQU. She makes a 125 page argument for it in her industrious ³Common Sense´ book published almost 10 years ago. I like her approach and admire her thought processes, so I took a grid and laid down ten fairly ³random´ 20th century events for the United States: y y y y y y y y y y
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on Germany 1929 Crash Pearl Harbor Troops into Korea Eisenhower heart attack Cuban Missile crisis JFK killed Reagan shot Challenger Disaster The 509-point stock drop
Next to these events I put the transit position of Mars, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto and the immediately prior eclipses hoping to pick up some degree themes that could suggest clues to a natal angle. Since none of these astrologers have ever made their arguments using my tertiary progression tool, I also applied it against all the events. I won¶t go into it all, but this chart did indeed perform quite well even against criteria which Efrein didn¶t use. I also liked the fact that Mars would be only three degrees away from her U.S. Asc (the violence thing again), although sidereally, this actually puts Mars exactly at the cusp of its 2nd house (which also contains the sidereal ruler of her 1 st-Venuswhich is conjunct Jupiter). For readers literate in Hindu techniques, the Ayanamsha was 20-38-48 for that month using my 5 minute and 10 second reduction from Lahiri and mine is only very fractionally different (by second of arc) from st Krishnamurti. That¶s why this would be a sidereal Taurus 1 house. Therefore, with this chart, I suppose one could try to make the ³breadbasket and wealth´ argument.
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[Related parenthetical aside: I should note that some Western astrologers who use Hindu techniques still think that current President Clinton¶s 8: 51 AM chart is wrong because it doesn¶t show enough of what they would expect it to show in absolute terms. I don¶t quite agree and would remind them that, in any case, ³all´ he had to do to win the 199 2 election was to have a better chart than his opponents. Perot was eclipsed out and Bush¶s true chart was totally in a ditch. At the election, while in a Jupiter dasa (with Jupiter aspecting his 10 th house), Clinton had transiting Jupiter right on his Asc. of LIB-0 5 and you¶ll recall that all these July 4th U.S. charts have Jupiter at CAN-0 5. This is not only Perot¶s Sun; it is also Clinton¶s MC if you can believe his mother (who probably was handed a birth certificate doctored by the CIA, no?). Well I won¶t go into it all, but as I recall, it was actually Al and Tipper Gore¶s charts that really nailed my 199 2 election forecast (triangulation and massing) since at the time, I couldn¶t totally trust Bill Clinton¶s chart. In fact, I¶m still testing it since, to my my knowledge, nobody has yet seen even an alleged copy of his birth certificate.] I have another side remark on the issue of sensitive degrees. What showed up in my grid of ten U.S. events was a fair number of 22¶s, 23¶s and 24¶s. Sidereally, these are actually zeroes, i.e., beginning sign (and therefore house) positions for various parts of the 20th century and this can skewer some conclusions. For example, when Congress declared war on Germany (0 4/06/17), sidereal Uranus was changing signs (and therefore houses in everyone¶s charts) exactly on that day. At the 509-Meltdown (10/19/87), Uranus had done the same thing ± again, exactly to the day. The prior eclipse had also been on a sidereal zero (i.e., house cusp in everyone¶s chart). Once again, I could easily write an entire article on this alone using other planets. Uranus did it again on 0 2/05/94 and you will see my related forecast about this at the end of this booklet.
HOW DID I START THE DEVELOPMENT OF MY US CHART? Let¶s pause here a moment and comment theoretically upon the selection of events appropriate to rectification. I mentioned above ten ³random´ events that I had selected, but these really weren¶t quite so random. All profoundly shocked the nation and most had a very personal impact upon much of the citizenry. When trying to prove something fundamental, it starts to get more tricky distinguishing these events from what might be considered ³second tier´ events.
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For example, on May 13, 1985, a government satchel bomb destroyed an entire city block of 61 homes in Philadelphia as the government attempted to rout an anarchic group that went by the acronym of MOVE. Another example is that ten years later, on April 19, 199 5, a 4,800 lb. terrorist bomb destroyed a nine story building in Oklahoma City, thereby qualifying, on a statistical basis, as the terrorist event that caused the most civilian loss of life in U.S. history. These two events received a lot of pumped up media attention, but deep down they were more regional in nature, and in any case, would not compare, for example, to the Los Angeles earthquake (which, by my own criteria, I could have easily used for this rectification). The two martial events might qualify to confirm a rectification, but should be given a lesser attention as far as e stabli shing it. In fact, I would be much more inclined to use the June 1 2, 1994 O.J. Simpson double murder saga in any fundamental proof, since this event actually stunned the nation at many symbolically profound levels, thus generating at least a year of pervasive media coverage. Indeed, if one were to measure press copy, I¶m pretty certain it would exceed the amount of space given to national assassinations. In fact, it might be speculated that the Simpson case absorbed significant national death karma that might otherwise have been directed at a national political, rather than ³cultural´ leader. This event should also have been included in this review. But since this review was completed before this event and since a variety of other events could also have qualified (but would have unnecessarily lengthened this study which does not claim to be exhaustive), it has not been included. Anyway, this is briefly how I think about the selection of any proof events. Certainly, I could have selected 10 more. But you are going to see an amazing clue that will surface here just among these 10 events. Note, by the way, that I will also be making reference to former President Nixon¶s pressurized departure from office, which also alarmed the nation and a few other similar events not in the original list of ten. To see how much mud would stick to the wall, I arbitrarily took one of the two favored charts noted above and threw the ten events at it using tertiary progressions. As just stated, this produced quite a shock that I will describe a few paragraphs below. But note now that one of the amazing things about tertiaries is that when something really significant is happening in a person¶s life, a planet is very often going stationary by tertiary progression (hereinafter referred to by the briefer notation of ³P3´, secondaries will be ³P 2´) on that day/month. A fairly
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recent political example is that Dan Quayle was selected from ³out of the sky´ for Vice President and elected when his Jupiter was exactly stationary by P 3 (and for that matter, George Bush was also elected Vice President the year his Jupiter was stationary by P2). Although I have never seen it documented anywhere, this Western method has an excellent correlation with shifts in the Eastern dasa/bhukti system, although there is no known connection between the two and indeed the entire underlying mathematical rationale for the dasa/bhukti system is itself said to be completely unknown. There is a wonderful mystery hidden here waiting to be revealed. I¶ll also note in passing that major life shifts are also identified by certain tertiary progressed eclipses and sidereal sign (i.e., house) changes for certain planets. But, let me now state explicitly that this proof or argument, for a U.S. chart will in fact, be fundamentally based upon the distribution of exact progressed stations at major events in the history of the United States. This will provide the final distinguishing rationale, or fundamental clue, that smashes through the weaker (i.e. solely aspect-based) arguments for other U.S. charts. [Parenthetically, to reinforce this idea of progressed tertiary stations, one of the factors that allowed me to write with confidence that nothing would happen to Saddam Hussein (who TOB is unknown) until January of 1991, after his invasion of Kuwait in August of 1990, was the fact that, at the invasion, his P 3 Mercury was only five progressed days (i.e. five ³real´ months) from station. This would be a definite reversal of direction typically brought about by new information ± in this case, U.S. bombs. This is especially so for someone, such as Ross Perot or Bill Clinton, who has a sidereal Gemini or Virgo Ascendant (and possibly MC). These people will get literally dozens of progressed Mercury stations in a normal lifetime and on that month they WILL change direction. As a further aside, one of the key reasons it¶s so hard to dislodge Saddam is that he was born when Jupiter was at its single most fallen degree in the Hindu system. This means that the house opposite from the one wherever his Jupiter is located, is powerfully reinforced. This could be his 10th. The American actor Jack Nicholson, who has increasingly specialized in playing maniacs and sinister characters (one of his former directors said he is not acting), was born the same exact month, day and year as Saddam. Nicholson has this same deeply fallen Jupiter in his 7 th thus giving incredible box office strength to his 1 st ± especially during the long Jupiter dasa period he continues to be in. A further variation on this idea is found in Boris Yeltsin¶s chart. He has sidereal Sag rising and Jupiter in the sidereal 7 th thus
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strengthening the 1st which it both fully aspects and rules. He was elected president of Russia when T. Jupiter returned to its natal position to the minute.] Coming back to The Shock: What I found was that, in almost all the cases I checked, the P3 planetary station for a U.S. birth date of 7/ 4/1776 occurred 14-15 th days prior (depending upon whether you were using an AM or PM July 4 chart) to the date that it ³should´ have! Let me make that clear with five ( 5) examples: 1. The P3 date for declaring war on Germany based upon 7/ 4/1776, showed as 8/28/181, but Mars (war) was stationary by P3 on 8/14/1781. 2. The P3 date for Pearl Harbor (based upon 7/4/1776) showed as 7/24/1782, but a Mercury station (realization) was on 7/10/178 2. 3. President Eisenhower¶s heart attack P 3 date showed as 1/ 25/1783 based upon 7/4/1776, but Neptune (national confusion) was stationary on 1/11/178 3. 4. The Watergate issue reached climax when President Nixon was squeezed out of office on 8/9/1974 (corresponding to 10/4/1783 by P 3). But there was a P 3 Jupiter station (U.S. happiness and success) 1 5 days earlier on 9/19/1783. 5. When the stock market had its 509 point drop, once again there was an exact tertiary progressed Uranus station (see 3/14/1784 equivalent) ± but again, this was only true if you used a U.S. chart that was set up 1 4-15 days prior to the standard th July 4 date.
Important to reinforce: these were all exact station dates. [As a parenthetical side comment on Nixon, the last prior transiting solar eclipse before he was expelled was exactly conjunct the new U.S. Sun of 28-GEM (head of state) which I will be revealing to you shortly. It is also true that 28-GEM is Nixon¶s Pluto ± which is perhaps why the U.S. felt so threatened by him and thought that his staff reminded them of Nazis. And once again, to reinforce the idea of progressed stations and working purely from Nixon¶s chart, when he resigned on 8/8/74, his P2 Pluto was also exactly stationary (see 3/12/13).] Anyway, based upon my experience and if you understand the distribution of stations (and the fundamental symbolic meaning of the planets), this argued
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powerfully for testing a U.S. chart with a birth date 14-15 days earlier than the standard date! One odd thing that interested me was the fact that when the U.S. began the liberation of Kuwait (1/17/1991), there was no 14-day discrepancy. That is, on the P3 date for the invasion, Pluto was indeed stationary that day based upon a U.S. birth date of 7/4/1776 (P3 date=5/11/178 4). But: I have noticed over the years that information I received from an old friend of mine at the naval Observatory often showed a different Pluto station date (sometimes by a week or more) from that which is listed by the best astrological ephemerides (and this is only true for Pluto). I doubt that either party is ³wrong´; I expect it just comes down to the probably very arguable issue of when you can consider stationary a planet at the distance and with the apparent velocity, of Pluto. So that is why the five examples illustrated above use five different planets other than Pluto. So, even though Saddam attacked Kuwait the exact date of his own P 3 Pluto station (as identified by a standard astrological ephemeris), I decided not to get too excited if a Pluto station did not always register exactly. But this was not a problem with the more inner planets which were quite consistently off by the 1 4-15 days. Here I should also add another tremendously strong argument from a secondary progressed station. If you back up the 7/ 4/1776 U.S. chart by 14 days and secondary progress it, you will find that Neptune was exactly stationary for the year equivalent of 1968 (the P2 date was 1 2/28/1776). Since this is a secondary station, Neptune really had almost no velocity for ³years´ before and after 1968. In late 1967, we had the worst race riots in U.S. history and a rather large group effort to levitate the Pentagon (by the way, the government permit only allowed it to be levitated by 10 inches). We had the ³Summer of Free Love´ in San Francisco, the development of serious miniskirts supplemented by the disencumberance of undergarments and ³flower power´. Ya¶ hadda¶ be there and I was. The year 1968 also had unexpected Tet Offensive (the turning point in our loss of the Vietnam War), a sitting president (Lyndon Johnson) declaring himself a lame duck, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King were assassinated, Richard Nixon was elected and the sheer volume of shabby ³hippies´ peaked. In mid 1969, we had Woodstock (400,000 marginally dressed amateur anarchists flaunting illegal drugs) and Ted Kennedy drove M.J. Kopechne into the river. This is just a partial
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list! Without a doubt, 1968 was an absolute zoo and certainly one of the most th chaotic (i.e. Neptunian) years for the U.S. in the 20 century. And if that¶s not enough, just wait until I tell you where I think the P 2 Neptune station wa s in the U.S. chart. Anyway, if you instead use any 7/14/1776 chart, the P 2 Neptune station would correlate with 198 2 ± a relatively bland year which had absolutely nothing comparable unless you count the mere presence of a former actor in the White House ± although in all fairness, I will say that it wa s on 7/23/1981 that the government agreed to implement an array of tax cuts that directly eroded the federal revenue base over the next decade by over two trillion dollars with profound future economic implications. This did involve a lot of ³make believe´ (as David Stockman, who engineered I, later admitted). But it is still nothing compared to the infamous 1968.
THE RICK HOUCK ³HIGH FIVE´ CHART So, working from what I¶ve known for years to be true (how P3 stations function), I¶ve just given provisional birth to quite a different U.S. chart. Its birth date is: 6/19/1776 @ 11:54:46 AM LMT in Philadelphia, PA (see the front of this booklet where it is shown both tropically and sidereally). In the interests of brevity, I won¶t go into how I thrashed out the time, but it was through event-driven deduction. Tropically, the ascendant is 27-VIR-44, and the MC is 27-GEM-24 (in D.C. that¶s 26-VIR-12 and 25-GEM-41 respectively). The Sun is 28-GEM-49, the Moon is 10-LEO-40 and the Part of Fortune is 09-SCO-35. For the record, if this day means anything historically, it¶s news to me because I¶ve checked! Consequently, I originally thought that this chart might turn out to be a fun joke, where I could ³prove´ its validity while not believing it myself. But after spending quite a bit of time with it, I¶ve now become a ³believer´. Before giving further technical rationale, let¶s stop a moment and just look at this chart while keeping at least one exotic fact in mind. Benjamin Franklin was the oor Richard¶ s Almanac and was said to have elected the moment for publisher of P oor George Washington¶s inauguration. All you have to do is look at the back of a U.S. dollar bill to see that he and his associates had a clear interest in occult symbolism (Masonic or otherwise). Suppose Franklin wanted to elect a U.S. chart. As you
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look at the tropical chart, block out Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, all of which were unknown at the time. What
do you see? Five of the seven planets all clustered high at the top two houses of the chart. Assuming he was a tropical astrologer, Franklin would have st th thought that both Saturn in the 1 and Jupiter in the 10 were both exalted (sidereally they are not, therefore they are not ± although the sidereal moon becomes stronger in its own sign). It further turns out that on that exact day (June 19, 1776), both Jupiter and the Sun combined at the single highest degree and minute of northern declination that would be possible for decade s to come. Including the MC, all three were conjunct by declination within 8 minutes of orb! This would be a very observable and auspicious phenomena. Venus and Mars were also exactly conjunct by northern declination (with Mercury only one degree from them) and this cluster of three was only one degree from the other three. Only Saturn was hidden and at southern declination and it was only two days beyond a prior station thereby guaranteeing that the country could not progress into a Saturn station during its infancy. Clever. Also, both the Sun and MC would secondary progress (solar arc) to Jupiter within three to four years ( 3 to nd 4 months by tertiary) - also very clever. Along with the Part of Fortune in the 2 house, it could be considered quite a potent chart for world leadership. Yet I only noticed this after I did the rectification! So what was June 19th? Well, Jefferson had already been tasked to write the Declaration of Independence. Perhaps he and a bunch of the major guys were just sitting around drinking beer after he had just finished a draft (the other kind of draft). Maybe he started reading them some soaring rhetoric and they all leaped up, did a gang high-five and yelled ³ALL RIIIGHT! Take that George!´ and that was the first moment of the U.S. Now just listen up here. Current thinking about electional charts, as frequently executed, should really render you quite weepy. Let¶s suppose a bunch of astrologers are just sitting around and they all of a sudden coalesce into a spontaneous group decision to form, let¶s say, an NCGR chapter. The energy in that moment will yield the true information about any subsequent chapter formation. Most astrologers continue to believe they can instead submit a resolution to the national organization to have their chapter¶s charter adopted at a certain moment in time. But that is so ridiculous that it argues for mandatory drug testing before any astrologer can practice.
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Those pseudo-alchemists who think they can manipulate their fate with these types of legalistic elections after the horse is already out of the barn (i.e., the commitment or decision energy had already crystallized) are usually the last to notice that this never works. These same people also think they can undecide and redecide at will. All this is such a gross abuse of the electional concept that its practitioners need to be counter-abused almost immediately (and they will thank you for preempting the accretion of any more delayed reflex karma). Do Wiccan rituals if you must, but please keep your secondary incense to yourself. Where was I? Oh yes. . . . Let¶s look briefly at a main argument of the Formalists. These saturnine ³I´ dotters and ³t´ crossers believed that the U.S. could not exist as an independent entity until the Declaration of Independence was signed. Silly them. For here is some other formal data to load into their clue box. First, on 9/ 5/1774, the 1st Continental Congress convened and this included 56 delegates from all colonies but one. Do you think these guys didn¶t look around and notice that, in fact, they already did exist as an independent group who merely had certain political objectives in mind? It¶s the old ³what am I, chopped liver?´ question. Just because King George said they didn¶t exist, didn¶t mean they believed it. Second, on 10/14/1774, they adopted a number of resolutions on liberty, raising taxes and the like. The concept of being an American became clear and was quite explicitly recognized on this date. Who was taking these actions? They were, not King George. ³They?´ Third, a Resolution for Independence was introduced on 6/7/1776 by the Continental Congress (an already existing and voting political entity) and it was passed on 7/2/1776. It was noted in the newspaper that ³on this date, the Continental Congress declared the United Colonies free and independent states´. Before that, on 6/1 2/1776, the Virginia Declaration of Rights was adopted; it was very similar to the ultimate Declaration of Independence and was widely copied by the other states. The key Virginia constitution was also adopted on 6/ 29/1776. If all this is not enough, as a final shot across the bow to the Formalists, note that the Declaration of Independence was itself not signed by all members of Congress until 8/2/1776! We could take this whole thing all the way back to the Boston Tea Party on 12/16/1883 which was quite a declaration itself. Shoot, some entity was even issuing an independent currency in June of 16 52 even though Britain had forbidden it.
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At one of these and many other moments, the Colonies certainly already knew that they had an independent destiny. The Declaration of Independence was just paperwork for the benefit of King George. Actually, I¶m partially leading you on since U.S. Pluto has to be at 17-CAP as is made very abundantly clear in the chapter on U.S. assassinations in my book, so that does narrow it down quite a bit. Having now somewhat scorched the historical trail for basically any U.S. chart, let me begin the astrological argument for my High-Five Chart. The first thing that had repelled me from all prior U.S. charts was the absence of natal planets or angles at 27-29 degrees of the tropical mutable where there often seems to be significant activity, including prior eclipses, at major national events. I remember years ago hearing astrologer Herb Lubitz complain about this in a lecture. Although I don¶t remember his examples, I remember being impressed to the point of deciding to lock this fact into my otherwise Teflon-coated memory cells. As you can see, my new chart certainly disposes of that particular concern. Let¶s look at some of the events while using the following notations: P3 stands for Tertiary progression while a P2 stands for Secondary progression. An ³ X´ means an aspect is exact to the same degree. Actually everything will be exact and often much less. ³ TTM´ means it¶s exact ³to the minute´ (although sometimes it may actually be off by up to 5 minutes of orb). ³ T´ means transiting, ³ S´ means stationary, and ³ N´ means the natal chart of the US (not of any President being discussed). When discussing the nodes (NN and SN), ³t´ represents true and ³ m´ means node (note that since there is a 2 degree difference, I like to show both types; the north is arbitrarily shown as true and the south as mean). Note further that when I discuss the SN, my implied concept is that it does not promote material ambition and success (such as that of politicians.) 1. Congress Declares War on Germany (4/6/17)
a) b) c) d) e) f) g) h) i)
Exact date of a sidereal Uranus sign ingress. P3 Mars station (X on that date) (8/1 4/1781) P3 Mars square N. Saturn (X) P3 Saturn 3 days from station (8/17/1781) P3 Moon square N. Neptune (X) P3 t.Nodes square N. Pluto (TTM) P2 Mars-square N. Mars (X) P2 Mars square P2 Uranus (X) T.Pluto conj. N. Jupiter (TTM)
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2. ³Black Tuesday´ Stock Market Crash (10/24/29)
a) b) c) d) e) f) g) h)
P3 Mercury & P3 MC both conj. N. m.SN (AQU-08) (X) P3 Saturn conj. The N.IC (TTM) w/T.Saturn conj. The same P3 Uranus conj. The N.Sun (X) P3 Pluto conj. The N. t.SN (X) P2 Saturn square P2 Pluto (X) P2 Asc Conj. N. t.SN T.Pluto square P3 Nodal Axis (X) T.Uranus to S. on P3 Venus (X)
3. Pearl Harbor (12/07/41)
a) b) c) d) e)
P3 Mercury station (X on that date) Prior eclipse conj./square all angles (X) P3 Asc conj N. Saturn (X) P2 Saturn trioctile N. Venus (TTM) T. Neptune square N. Sun (X)
4. Troops Ordered Into Korea (6/27/50)
a) b) c) d) e) f) g) h) i) j)
Prior eclipse conj./square all angles (X) P3 Moon conj N. Neptune (X) P3 Asc square N. Saturn (X) P3 Saturn conj IC and square N. Asc (TTM) P3 Saturn conj N. Jupiter (X) P3 MC square m.Nodes (TTM) P2 Mars conj P2 Neptune (X) P2 Mars square N. MC (TTM) T. Neptune conj N. Saturn (TTM) T. Saturn square N. Venus (X)
5. Eisenhower Heart Attack (9/23/55)
(Also the worst stock market day in U.S. history to that date) a) b) c) d)
Prior eclipses conj N. Sun (X) and N. Venus (X) P3 Neptune station (X on tat date) T. Uranus conj cusp of the Placidus 11 th (X) P3 Mercury conj P3 Sun (X)
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e) P2 Neptune (27-VIR-03) conj Asc and square MC (X) (see Reagan below for exact repeat of this) 6. Cuban Missile Crisis (which
a) b) c) d) e) f) g)
was
defused) (10/22/62)
T. Pluto square N. Mars (X) P3 Mercury square P3 Neptune (X) P3 Asc opposite P3 Mars (TTM) and conj the N. NN P3 t.SN conj N. Asc (TTM) T. Mars conj P2 Asc (X) T. Saturn conj P2 Desc (X) E&F above were both one degree from U.S. true nodal axis
7. JFK Assassinated (1/11/63)
a) b) c) d) e) f)
Prior eclipse conj N. Pluto (X) P2 Pluto conj P2 t.SN (TTM) Prior eclipse square N. Saturn (X) T.Saturn and P3 Mars conj P3 Desc. P2 Mars conj P2 Desc (X) P3 t.SN conj N. Asc (and P3 m.SN in on D.C. Asc) (X)
8. Reagan Shot (but was quickly OK) (3/30/81) nd
a) T.Pluto changing signs and conj 2 Placidus cusp (X) (note: the 2nd and 7th rule death) b) T.Uranus square N. Sun (X) c) Prior eclipse conj N. 11 th (X) d) T.Mars conj P3 Moon (X) e) P3 Moon square P3 Uranus (TTM) f) P3 MC conj S.T. Neptune (just changed signs SA- 24) (X) g) P3 Pluto conj m.SN (TTM) and P 2 Pluto conj P 2 m.SN (X) h) P3 Mars opposite N. Saturn (TTM) i) T.Mars conj P2 Mars (X) j) P2 Neptune (27-VIR-03) conj N. Asc (X) (see Eisenhower) 9. Challenger Explosion (1/28/86)
a) P3 Venus conj P3 Saturn (X) b) T. Pluto in 2nd square N. nodes (X)
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c) A P3 eclipse date on 6/1 2 Placidus cusps (2/20/1784) nd th d) Prior transiting eclipses in 2 and 8 e) T.Saturn opposite P2 Uranus (X) 10. 509 NYSEX Meltdown (market quickly recovered) (10/16 -19/ 1987)
a) b) c) d) e) f) g) h) i)
Exact month of P3 Uranus station (X) T.Uranus changed signs that exact weekend (X) Last lunar eclipse squared P3 Asc (TTM) Last T.solar eclipse squared the Sun (X) P3 Asc squared N. Saturn (X) P2 MC trioctile N. Mars (TTM) P3 Part of Fortune opposite N. Saturn (TTM) P3 IC conjunct N. Neptune (X) P2 Neptune square the N. MC (X)
11. When Lincoln Was Assassinated (4/14/1865)
a) b) c) d) e) f) g)
P3 Asc opposite N. Uranus (TTM) P2 Uranus conj N. Mars (TTM) T.Uranus conj DC Asc (TTM) P2 Sun conj P2 Neptune (X) P2 MC conj N. Neptune (X) Prior eclipse was conj P 2 Saturn (X) T.Saturn square N. Pluto (X)
As far as I¶m concerned, a lot of these aspects should makes your eyes pop out of your head. It certainly did mine. At this point, if this chart is valid via my use of P 3 stations, then it should further th be possible to back into another major 20 Century natal event from an interesting P3 date. For example, looking at an 18 th century ephemeris, I notice that on 6/12/1781, Mars and Neptune were both exactly stationary by P 3. That really should have represented quite an aggressive month, yet very Neptunian also. I kept trying various combinations (using my 6/19/1776 chart) until eventually an event date of mid-July in 1912 generated the P3 date identified above. Nothing much happened in mid-July, BUT: the Titanic hit an iceberg and sank on April 1 5 of 1912 killing over 1.500 passengers! As you may recall, despite a gash, the length of a football field, this also occurred while the band knowingly kept playing.
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This is outstanding symbolism for a combined Mars and Neptune station, but the strict 14-15 day progressed deviation from the standard 7/ 4/1776 U.S. birth date had at last deviated to 17-18 days. But I decided I can live with this this for three reasons: 1) both planets essentially had had no geocentric velocity (esp. from a progressed point of view), 2) the station was applying, and 3) the modest deviation did not lean towards a birth date of July 4 but rather away from it (i.e. towards the June 19 date). And in my U.S. chart for April 15, 1912, the P3 moon was conjunct P 3 Pluto (X). This is only true for about 2+ days every few years and it is typically associated with an emotional ³Iron Lady´ was weeping on an exactly similar personal progression the day she resigned her office under pressure. This helps validate my U.S. moon. The last transiting solar eclipse ( 27-LIB) before the Titanic sank was exactly square natal Pluto (and so was the one two days after the event at 27-AR). P3 Pluto was conjunct the U.S. t.SN (X) and P3 Uranus was conjunct the new U.S. Sun (X). Transiting Pluto was also conjunct the new Sun within about a degree. For angularity, note that the P 3 IC was conjunct P3 Saturn (X), and that¶s pretty deadly (and unique to that month). Excluding the stations, the July 1 5, 1912 period was still very interesting since the P3 Asc was conjunct natal Neptune (X) that month while the natal Sun was exactly conjunct with P3 Mercury and P3 Uranus. It may be the case that, due to much slower communications, the newspapers were filled with articles concerning this distant tragedy for months afterwards, so that the full story really started registering by July. Let¶s do just one more blind retroactive ³proof´ test working from a late 18 th th century ephemeris. Can we back into another major 20 century event for the U.S.? The date 09/ 25/1783 caught my eye because not only was Saturn stationary on that date; there was al so a progressed eclipse at 18-PIS on the same day! There should certainly be some kind of clear blockage (Saturn) or slowdown possibly with an intercept (eclipse) of some sort. I flogged my CCRS9 2 software program until this date (being used as a P 3 date for the U.S.) yielded a corresponding calendar date. Finally, it came up with late November 197 3. This was the month Nixon gave his ³I am not a crook´ speech, his Vice President was forced out for income tax evasion and this was the exact month that America almost ground to a halt, with people waiting in gas lines for hours, due to the OPEC Arab oil embargo that had
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been imposed the month before. President Nixon gave a TV speech declaring this ³the worse energy crisis since WWII´. Again: this was the exact month of a progressed Saturn station and a progressed eclipse. The se types of dates are real events to typical Americans and should not be confused with Contragate and similar nonsense which will barely register by progression and certainly not by station, since it typically incites only The Wa shington P o st and its Beltway crowd. As a final observation, note that my High-Five Chart has had that very slow P 2 Neptune right on it s A sc going back for decades (the technical peak of the applying aspect was 1968 at the P 2 station). And upon relocating the chart by the one degree from Philadelphia to Washington D.C., it will continue to have P 2 Neptune on its Asc for many decades to come. Not only did we just elect President Clinton with Neptune right on his own Asc (and the prior President had Neptune in his sidereal 10th and the prior one was an actor, etc.), but the insatiable U.S. demand for narcotics is the locomotive engine behind the world narcotics problem. The U.S. has a very slow (i.e. strong) countervailing Saturn in the 1 st (weird Puritanism amidst all the Neptunian licentiousness), so we had Jimmy Carter there for a while with a strong Saturn in his own 1 st, but we couldn¶t take the shadow reflection for long. And we threw out the prior elected guy for his lying involvement with burglars (his VP also quit under a cloud), and we are far and away the dominant exporter of films to the rest of the world (Neptune, Neptune, Neptune) . . . So whaddya¶ say, eh? All of the above commentary on the U.S. chart should really just be considered preliminary observation in the context of my desire to demonstrate the function of a part of the tool kit I use, in this case tertiary progressed stations. I never had a chance to go into how good planets go bad and bad planets go good, (I¶m so retro; I love the dreaded ³G´ and ³B´ words!) nor how they can become dominated by the energy of their neighbors and numerous other very interesting but arcane points. I also have not brought in any Hindu astrology tools or logic. IS We
THIS CHART REALLY CORRECT? CONSIDER THIS. . .
have been focusing upon angles and pointing out a lot of appropriate, exact and to-the-minute hits to their natal and progressed positions. We¶ve also seen how the new U.S. Sun also becomes very active. But let¶s not forget the Moon. The Moon is the home is most charts and in this proposed U.S. chart, it is at 10-LEO- 40. You may recall that on 10/ 29/94, several dozen shots were fired at the White House.
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Firing a gun is a simple Mars activity. When we look simply at transiting Mars on that day, it it was three three degrees beyond this natal Moon. However, the United States is over 200 years old. So when you expunge considerations of precession, you find that, in fact, transiting Mars was within less than ½ of one applying degree to conjunct this natal Moon! Do you know other charts that work that plainly and simply?
RECORD OF POLITICAL FORECASTS As already stated, it has been my repeated written position that astrologers need to validate their craft and personal skills by documenting: 1) 2) 3) 4) 5)
Public forecasts on a regular basis via a scheduled, postmarked, peer-reviewed medium under circumstances that could not be buried and would cause embarrassment if they were wrong.
Against this criteria, I had for many years put most of my regular documented forecasts primarily into a monthly Washington, DC-based newsletter called P lanetary lanetary Focu s. This newsletter went out to over 100 astrologers in the metro area and was also distributed nationwide. Located where I am, the focus has been pretty political. The assertation below will soon be validated by a CPA who will issue a notarized statement. This statement will also be validated in writing by the president of the local group and the newsletter¶s editors. I don¶t do a high volume of forecasting and for periods of time in the past, I was frequently involved in other large projects. But these selected remarks, going back only to about 1988, should provide enough ³food for thought´ for the determined reader/researcher to verify that astrology can do things that no other discipline can. Of course, some allowance should be made for occasional simply human error on the part of any astrologer and for his/her own ³down cycles´ that will affect the quality of his/her forecasts. Forecasts are now being made on a more regular basis in The Clock . Most of these forecasts have had the related technical jargon removed since they have been packaged separately for promotional purposes. I have enclosed them in this booklet for those political astrologers who may nevertheless be interested.
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PEROT ³TAKE AKES A DIVE´ Forecast: (Lecture date: 3/88): At a conference in Ocean City, MD, I gave a taped lecture on Business Astrology. In that lecture, I stated that the (then) seemingly invincible businessman, Ross Perot, ³would be taking an unexpected dive (in business terms) in the next year or so.´ Background: Source of comment: taped public lecture recounted in Planetary Focus newsletter of 01/01/89 (many people at the lecture also received the newsletter). Result: On 05/27/88, Perot signed a $500,000 contract with the Postal Service. It was ultimately suspended against his will on 07/08/08 and it was finally scrapped on 12/16/88 due to extensive protests and lawsuits. Comment: I have a pretty good track record with Mr. Perot. In a later article that was published 01/90, I had a column that was featured twice on the cover of a restricted, very upscale periodical called Leader s magazine (Paul Harvey has called it ³the world¶s most exclusive magazine´). In this particular issue, I discussed Perot¶s chart and concluded by noting that he was now coming out of a difficult cycle. Directly addressing Perot (who receives the magazine), I wrote that he ³should not be afraid to go for it because you can get it!´ A year or two later, he suddenly ran for President and for a while shot to the top of the popularity polls. I had actually meant bu sine ss success, not political success, but politicians sure were terrorized by him for a while ± until he politically shot himself in the foot!
DEATH OF A NATIONAL POLITICAL PART Y LEADER Forecast (postmark ± none): This is an ³undocumented´ story that may hold some interest. In September of 1989, I think more as a joke, I was approached by the staff of a man who used to be a very senior person in one of the major political parties. They had run across his time of birth and wanted to know if he would support their personal advancement. We joked around about that, but then I told them he was very likely to get quite sick in about a year.
Exactly a year later, they came back to me in shock. He had taken very ill, but they didn¶t know what was wrong with him. I told them it would take about six weeks for it to be uncovered, but I thought he had cancer. The diagnosis did take about six weeks and cancer was the diagnosis. When he got out of the hospital, the se
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individuals (who had become fascinated by what they originally thought was a joke) asked for a prognosis. I said he would have to go back into the hospital soon for repairs. In fact, he did and this was never publicly announced. In January of 1991, as he was seemingly improving and back to work, I gave a final prognosis to these individuals. The diplomatic way I put it was: if he can make I past the end of July 1991, he would probably be okay. Background: Sources of full verification: the man¶s former secretary, administrative assistant and one of his best friends ( a former world regional managing partner of a ³Big 6´ accounting firm who knows all these facts in detail and still talks about it with disbelief!). I will refer serious queries to any of these individuals as necessary. Result: I was called in the late Spring and told he was continuing to improve and was doing well. I was called again in July and told he had suddenly taken a bad turn for the worse. He died on August 3, 1991.
DONALD TRUMP GOES BANKRUPT Forecast (postmark: 08/09/90): ³Is Donald Trump really fading? My best estimate is that his lights really are going out. His problems will resurface in 12/90 and the gong will keep clanging all the way through 4/91.´ Background: Source of comment: my Leader s magazine column. Result: Here is what was written on the front page of the Washington Post on 04/26/91: ³Many of the crown jewels of real estate developer Donald Trump¶s nearly $4 billion in hotel, casino and airline holdings will be surrendered today to banks that financed his holdings.´ Comment: At the forecast date, I didn¶t have any time of birth on Trump, but in any case, I was able to hit this just right. The context of the forecast period is that nobody had any idea about the true status of Trump¶s finances. He was having some problems, but considering his ³golden´ reputation at the time, the chance that he could turn them around was considered just as likely.
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THE WAR IN IRAQ Forecast (postmark: 08/09/90): ³Saddam Hussein should be in a critical state of crisis from mid-January to mid-February of 1991 regardless of intermediate circumstances.´ Background: Saddam Hussein had just invaded Kuwait only a week earlier on 08/02/90. At that time, the average person was barely aware of the implication of this incursion. At this early moment, the overwhelming consensus was that the matter would be quickly resolved within a matter of weeks, either like Grenada or via negotiation. Source of comment: my Leader s magazine column.
[My article material was faxed to them on 8/9/90. For various complex reasons (involving the extensive distribution of this magazine to the top levels of Middle Eastern governments), they decided not to use this remark, but they did mail back a copy of the fax along with a covering letter from the Executive Editor noting that what I wrote was true and that the date I sent s ent it was indeed 8/9/90]. Result: To the ultimate amazement of everyone, the issue dragged on for many months and only very late, did it become certain that Saddam Hussein would not, in fact, relent or withdraw. The date of counter-attack was a subject of intense media speculation by 1991. The U.N. forces ultimately counter-attacked on 01/17/91 ± right in the target zone I had selected 5-6 month s earlier as the key crisis period for Saddam ± and the was continued into this zone including the capitulation (³critical state of crisis´). Comment: I repeat that there was not an indicator in the world, other than astrology, to target this time period only one week after the invasion. In the popular media, even inadequate theories were yet to be formulated.
GEORGE
BUSH VOMITING EPISODE
Forecast (postmark: 12/10/91): ³It is at least safe to say that something critically personal will happen to George Bush during the period of 01/04/92 - 02/24/92 that will have an impact upon the country as a whole (and) this (pattern) reminds me of a cerebral hemorrhage or something spasmodic.´
lanetary Focu s Newsletter. Background: Source of comment: P lanetary
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Result: At a state dinner in Japan, he vomited and blacked out for three minutes on 01/08/92. Comment: Dead on. I love these kinds of ³dangerous´ forecasts that put it on the line. It really helps to separate the rare real astrology from the bulk of the blathery and amorphous astrobabble.
[Parenthetically, when Michael Dukakis was ahead in the presidential race of 1988, I was quoted in the Fairfax Journal as indicating unequivocally that George Bush would win. Most astrologers were on record as having concluded that the polls were correct and Dukakis would win. This just proves what should be obvious to the standard media, but isn¶t: just because someone decides to call himself an astrologer, it doesn¶t mean that he i s one.]
BILL CLINTON WINS THE PRIMARY Forecast (postmark: 03/07/92): With at least five people still in the presidential primaries, I wrote unequivocally (in bold letters, at the end of an extended technical analysis); ³Clinton will win!´ Background: source of comment: P lanetary lanetary Focu s Newsletter. Result: Clinton won the primary nomination. Comment: Honest research will show that none of the self-important Washington political ³gurus´, ³talking heads´ and ³insiders´ would dare take such an unequivocal public stand at that time. I knew I did not yet have a validated time of birth on Clinton, so I did a ³workaround,´ and it held up.
BILL CLINTON¶S BIRTH TIME Forecast (postmark: 10/01/92, 06/01/92 and others): A major astrology magazine published a chart with a time of birth of 3:44 am for presidential candidate Bill Clinton. With a letter of protest, I immediately canceled my subscription to that magazine, ridiculed that time of birth at length in several
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subsequent issues of Planetary Focus and stated emphatically that it would ultimately prove to be incorrect. lanetary Focu s Newsletter. Background: Source of comment: P lanetary Result: Bill Clinton¶s time of birth was eventually given by his mother as 8:51am. The tentative and speculative chart I had been using for him in various documented articles proved to be approximately correct. Thus, in a videotaped panel debate before a live audience in Virginia in October of 1992 regarding who would win the election, I passed out a handout (to a roomful of attendees) titled ³75 Rea son s Why Bill Clinton Will Certainly Win The Election .´ Comment: This erroneous birth time continued to float around the world, even years past election day, thus causing many astrologers to conclude that Clinton would not be elected President. Bad data is the nightmare of any good astrologer. But any astrologer who cannot spot such a wrong chart deserves his reputation.
THE PRESIDENT OF BRAZ RAZIL Forecast (postmark: 09/01/92): ³Will President Ferdinand Collor de Mello of Brazil be impeached? How do you say, µHasta la vista´ in Portuguese?´ Background: Source of comment: P lanetary lanetary Focu s Newsletter. Result: A number of months later, he was impeached. Comment: I had access to an accurate chart on the president. This was by no means a foregone conclusion at the time.
WHITE HOUSE ³FLOODING´ Forecast (postmark: 02/01/93): ³As you may know, Bill Clinton has his relocated IC at 21 degrees of Capricorn. Uranus/Neptune will hit there first in 03/93 (and for the second and final time in 12/93).´ Does this mean that we can anticipate a surfboard-suitable tsunami in the White House basement?´ Background: This was just intended as a joking remark based upon the way certain birth chart factors (affecting the current location of a person) tend to reflect
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certain current planetary patterns through home flooding. Source of comment: P lanetary lanetary Focu s Newsletter. Result: Amazingly, on 12/25/93, a 48-inch water main burst in Washington, D.C. cutting off water to 1/3 of the city including most of Capitol Hill. This sent water 30 feet into the air - a tsunami! In addition, on 01/02/94 over 100 water mains broke all over Washington, D.C. Comment: As far as the ³ White House basement´ was concerned, it was a type of reverse tsunami. The White House would not comment about the status of their water systems. But this shows how even playful comments can come quite close to the mark (if only by inversion).
UNITED STATES ³ AT WAR´ Forecast (postmark: 02/01/93): ³For the United States, there is the chance of some kind of minor war or symbolically equivalent tragedy from mid-February through the end of March.´
lanetary Focu s Newsletter. Background: Source of comment: P lanetary Result: On 02/28/93 the BATF division of the Justice Department assaulted the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas. This involved an exchange of over 20,000 rounds of ammunition and military tanks (³minor war´) were eventually on the scene. The matter was not resolved until about six weeks later on 4/19/93. Comment: This was the first martial event in decades that involved this level of internal firepower from the federal government.
CHELSEA CLINTON Forecast (postmark: 04/08/93): ³A new biography on Hillary Clinton says that she went into labor at 7:45 pm and that a Cesarean section was performed almost four hours later. Given that comment, given Chelsea¶s relocation, given that I recall that she broke her ankle on 10/10/9 2 and that her father was elected President on 11/03/92, I¶m currently favoring a time of birth for Chelsea Clinton of either 11:24pm or 11:50pm.
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Background: Source of comment: P lanetary lanetary Focu s Newsletter. Result: Two months later, a birth announcement for Chelsea Clinton was reprinted from a Little Rock newspaper. It showed a time of birth of 11:24 pm. Comment: This is a process called ³rectification´ that all competent astrologers should be able to perform. I have to ³fix´ or adjust times of birth for many clients because they are so often wrong. Indeed, this task probably occupies a third of all my professional time. The reason is because if the time of birth is wrong, the results of chart cycles cannot be accurately predicted. In this case, it is important to have this child¶s chart correct since nothing of great significance can happen to a father without it reflecting in the child¶s chart. So it is a nationally important confirming indicator.
YELTSIN SURVIVES CHALLENGE Forecast (postmark: 04/08/93): ³Yeltsin is probably fine until this late Fall or early Winter.´ Background: The context of this remark is that on 04/25/93, Yeltsin was going to be holding a nationwide vote, or popular referendum, on his reform program. Almost all ³experts´ quoted in the media expected it to be rejected (typical of the ³conventional wisdom´) and the State Department was reported to be vigorously lobbying President Clinton to distance himself from President Yeltsin. Source of comment: P lanetary lanetary Focu s Newsletter. Result: The referendum passed easily. Comment: This period of time had lawmakers in Moscow expressing ³shock at Yeltsin¶s labored speech and haggard state.´ It¶s too bad they didn¶t realize this would have nothing to do with his success at the polls!
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JACK
KEMP ± NO CHANCE
Forecast (postmark: 07/01/93): ³Currently being touted as a likely presidential candidate, Jack Kemp will not be president in 1997.´ Background: Source of comment: The NCGR Journal (Col.1 3 #4). They had asked me to write an extensive forecasting article. Result: A year and a half later, on January 30, 1995, Jack Kemp withdrew himself from further presidential consideration. Comment: Even toward the end of 1994, Jack Kemp was still being spoken of as one of the most viable candidates. For example, the Wa shingtonian magazine polled Republican state chairmen and asked for their ³dream candidate´ in 1996. Kemp was clearly ranked as the #1 choice. cho ice.
BORIS YELTSIN AGAINST THE WALL Forecast (postmark 07/01/93): ³As of late June 199 3, Yeltsin is on a roll. He seems quite well in control of his circumstances, relatively speaking of course and is currently in the process of trying to ram a new constitution through the residual communist legislature. Current indications are that he has consolidated enough political mass to make success possible in this matter.
³However, in late July 1993, he will begin to unravel and lose effectiveness in terms of his customary ability to wield power. Further, in late September 1993, he will find himself in a quagmire. He is not going to be allowed to sit around and watch the paint peel in his dacha. Yet as he attempts to pull the levers of power, he will find that the strings are no longer attached too much. The odds run very high that the wolves at the door will be in a very good position to knock the props out from under Yeltsin.´ Background: Source of comment: The NCGR Journal (Vol.1 3 #4). They had asked me to write an extensive forecasting article. Result: Here is what the Wa shington P o st wrote on 08/13/93 : ³Yeltsin, after winning a nationwide vote of confidence in April, seemed to have the upper hand in May and June while his conservative opponents were in disarray. But Yeltsin
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seemed to lose the initiative, going on vacation in (late) July while his opponents regrouped and took the initiative.´ On 09/21/93 (my quote: ³late September´), Yeltsin was suddenly impeached by the Russian parliament and was technically out of power (the ³unattached strings´). By 10/03/93, he was barricaded in the Kremlin (the ³quagmire´) and the media noted that only deals with the military saved him on 10/04/93. Follow-up articles noted that he was within hours of being overthrown, thus raising the real potential of civil war. Comment: Again, these amazingly exact hits reflected not only the ability to project out the trends in Yeltsin¶s chart. Even more important was the fact that it reaffirmed that I had actually derived the correct Yeltsin chart. And, of course, it again left the standard experts in the dust. GEORGE
BUSH AT RISK
Forecast (postmark: 07/01/93): ³George Bush¶s next significant risk point is around 09/12/93.´ Background: Source of Comment: The NCGR Journal (Vol.1 3 #4). They had asked me to write an extensive forecasting article. Please note that George Bush was already out of office and retired in Texas. So it was especially odd to be discussing a ³state ³s tate of risk´ for him. Result: The Wa shington P o st , in a front page article in their 09/13/93 edition, wrote that ³Area law enforcement agencies scrambled yesterday to set up protection for scores of current and former world leaders expected in Washington for today¶s signing of a historic peace pact. Police were tight-lipped on how they will cope with one of the biggest security challenges in recent memory ± partly because they fear tipping off would-be assassins.´ The article then went on to make specific reference to former President Bush. Comment: This hit was right to to the day! It was not reasonable to to get it that close for even a non-retired president. You may recall that the Palestinian-Israeli peace accord was a shock to the world. Negotiations occurred in complete secrecy and the accord was not revealed until about two weeks before it was signed.
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BILL CLINTON¶S ³UGLY STUFF´ Forecast (postmark: 11/05/93): I titled this dedicated article, ³The Clinton¶s Cruise for Trouble´. It was an extended technical recitation of the factors surrounding what I concluded was an extremely difficult time coming up shortly for the Clintons. I stated that this was ³really ugly stuff.´ In my next article dated 12/01/93 (with a title reference to ³The Clinton Eclipses´), I added a reaffirming paragraph stating that ³there just had to be a significant happening out of all of this.´ Background: I had reviewed the Clintons¶ charts some time earlier and made a note to highlight this period. This was one of the very few times I had written this type of thing since I¶ve written at length about how astrologers need to see beyond the fog of ³standard´ crises that, in fact, presidents experience every month. Source of Comment: two Planetary Focus Newsletters (plus see James Braha ³comment´ below). Results: On 12/24/93, Bill Clinton¶s lawyer was served with the first subpoena on the Whitewater investigation. In mid-December his Secretary of Defense quit and a proposed candidate withdrew under weird circumstances. As the U.S. delegation in Russia, including the Vice President, had champagne in hand waiting to toast the triumph of ³Yeltsin¶s´ new parliament at the election of 12/12/93, they were instead left ³speechless´ (per the Wa shington P o st ) by the vastly popular election of a xenophobic nationalist (Zhirinovsky) to a key parliamentary position. On 12/19/93 CNN broadcast the content of a startling article in The American Spectator concerning an allegation that Bill Clinton used state troopers to procure women when he was Governor of Arkansas. During this same brief period, the president also clashed with North Korea and actually issued a threat of war. On 01/06/94, his mother died. Comment: In his Foreword to my first book, well-known author James Braha, confirmed that I had spoken to him in detail about this period and had hit it accurately ³within days.´
[As a parenthetical comment on the vast waste of intelligence money, it is amazing to me that the CIA, which undoubtedly had access to Vladimir Zhirinovsky¶s birth date, could not have predicted his huge triumph at the polls on 12/12/93. After all, he was born 04/26/46. This was 49 days before the birth of the extremely successful entrepreneur Donald Trump (06/14/46 ). At his election, Zhirinovsky
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was 47 years old. Via a very common method of symbolic substitution that astrologers use (day=year), at his election Zhirinovsky would be sitting almost right on Donald Trump¶s date of birth. Thus, he would assume one of the key success characteristics that is extremely strong in Trump¶s basic birth date (a completely stationary Jupiter).]
NORTH
KOREA
Forecast (postmark: 12/01/93): ³In seven months (July, 1994), North Korea is going to experience a tertiary progressed Saturn station. Background: This is generally the only time in this forecast listing that you will see astrological terminology. This was an occasion when I unfortunately neglected to translate the ³Astrologese´ into ³English´. Almost any competent astrologer would understand this remark to mean that something within North Korea was either going to hit rock bottom, or alternatively, come to a halt. I began studying this chart after a review of the chart of Japan. Source of Comment: P lanetary lanetary Focu s Newsletter. Result: Seven months later, Kim II Sung dropped dead and this produced the spectacle of over two million people weeping in the streets on 7/19/94. Comment: This was right to the month. And in this same article, I forecast the ³the U.S. should brace itself for really major problems involving Japan into early 1995.´ January 1995 brought the Tokyo Earthquake, March had the subway gas attack that injured over 5,000 people and the head of the national police force was also murdered that month, in April, a top scientist was killed and in May, a chemically-fired bomb was found in the national airport. The United States was also threatening to impose tariffs of 100 % on Japanese luxury cars.
EXACT STOCK MARKET DROP Forecast (postmark: 01/01/94): ³The date of 02/05/94 is an important event date, so you better listen up! The last time we hit hit an event date with these characteristics ( 10/16/87), the New York Stock Exchange dropped over 500 points. The pattern suggests the possibility of an implosive collapse and it should drive you to an immediate study of market charts.´
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Background: I had just noticed an obscure technical correlation with the 10/16/87 event via a customized Special Sidereal Ephemeris that I have developed and sell ($10 with postage paid). [My article also had compared it to the period in 1910 when people were taking comet pills as an antidote to Halley¶s Comet!] Source of lanetary Focu s Newsletter. Comment: P lanetary Result: I hadn¶t noticed that this forecast target date was a Saturday when the markets were closed. So instead, on the day just before ( 02/02/94), the stock market had its 8 th biggest drop in history. This was also the biggest drop in over two years and it was in response to the unexpected shock by the Fed which raised interest rates for the first time ti me in five years. Comment: I very rarely make financial forecasts (maybe one a year?) since it has never held much interest to me. This would be necessary since financial work is a specialized area of astrological research. And I don¶t personally relate to lurching in and out of investments. So this forecast was definitely special.
RUSH LIMBAUGH Forecast (postmark: 04/01/94): ³Rush Limbaugh¶s chart will be peaking in terms of popularity around May of 1996, i.e. about six months before the election. Limbaugh will be disappointed at the November 1996 election results.´
lanetary Focu s Newsletter. Background: Source of comment: P lanetary Result: Not yet known. Comment: Just from a review of Limbaugh¶s chart.
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BORIS YELTSIN Forecast (postmark: 03/01/94 and 10/01/94): ³In February of 1995, there is quite a decent likelihood of Boris Yeltsin leaving office.´
lanetary Focu s Newsletter. Note: A similar Background: Source of comment: P lanetary comment had also been made earlier in an extensive political article published in CGR Journal (Vol. 13 #1), a substantial international magazine that goes the N CGR worldwide to about 2,000 astrologers. This July 1993 article stated that ³Yeltsin should also be taking a big hit in February of 1995.´ The comment was again repeated as noted above. Result: Yeltsin, in fact, staggered through February 199 5, but with quite a bit of very bad press suggesting that he might lose his office. Comment: Any honest review of the standard media at the time will reveal that there was no suggestion that this was at all likely, let alone that it could be timed. By January 1995, all of it suddenly seemed very possible. For the record, here is what the Wa shington P o st was writing in an officially designated ³news analysis´ column on 01/08/95 : ³For the time time being, Yeltsin¶s Yeltsin¶s grip on his job seems to be holding. Most analysts consider the likelihood of a successful coup to be remote. . . Moreover, there is no obvious popular figure who could lead such a putsch and hope for much popular support.´ This commentary was next to a picture of Yeltsin with the caption, ³The specter of Yeltsin¶s possible downfall took Washington largely by surprise.´
MEXICO Forecast (postmark 10/01/94): ³In December and January, Mexico will also be having some big problems and the period around 01/18/95 could be quite violent.´ Background: None. I had just been doing some analysis to validate the true charts of several countries. Source of comment: P lanetary lanetary Focu s Newsletter (same issue). Result: On December 20, Mexico shocked the world financial community with a huge devaluation of the Peso. This caused weeks of very worried front-page commentary. Violence was not particularly noteworthy in Mexico on the date I
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identified, but the quake in Japan that killed over 3,000 people did happen on January 17, 1995. Off by one day. Comment: I don¶t like making comments of this type about vague upcoming ³problems´ for various countries, since countries constantly have problems. So I do it very sparingly and when I do state it, the problems are usually profound enough to galvanize the sustained attention of the world¶s dominant media outlets. Subsequent issues of The Clock will give the month when I think Mexico will hit rock bottom. NORTH
KOREA
Forecast (postmark 12/01/94): ³Yeltsin is very likely to soon either leave office or go to war.´ Background: Source of Comment: This was sent as a ³Special Alert´ to Dr. Paul Farrell, a former Morgan-Stanley Vice President and now Publisher of the weekly Future N ews Index. In a book he wrote a year earlier, Dr. Farrell had referred to Richard Houck as ³one of the nation¶s leading political astrologers.´ Result: Boris Yeltsin, without any warning whatsoever, suddenly attacked Chechnya ten days later on 12/11/94. Comment: This was technically a high risk forecast since it required an extremely accurate birth time for Mr. Yeltsin. His chart had to be tediously reconstructed from life events since his place of birth, time of birth and time zone of birth are all undocumented and disputed.
BILL CLINTON Forecast (postmark: 12/29/94): I went way out on a limb and stated that ³President Clinton will either be assaulted or the United States will be dragged into a war. The only third possibility is that we may be watching the evolution of war (or something very symbolically equivalent involving the disintegration of governments), but the impact upon the U.S. should still be quite strong. This is the only time I have ever issued a definite alert of this type for President Clinton. The energy for this event seems most focused upon the period from 1/30/95 ± 02/02 95.
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There should therefore be a period of time within just a few close weeks of this period that should prove to be quite shocking and confusing to the country.´ Background: Just an analysis using some personally-favored techniques. Source of comment: P lanetary lanetary Focu s Newsletter. Result: On January 25, 1995, the Secret Service thwarted an attempt upon the life of President Clinton. They arrested a man at a UPS office who was in the process of mailing a box of live explosives to the President. The Secret Service detonated the explosives.
Second, on February 2, 1995, contents of a new biography of President Clinton were highlighted on the cover of many national publications. It revealed how his then Chief-of-Staff talked him out of running for president in 1988 after reviewing a list of his various girlfriends. This was not a physical assault, but it was a further blow to his reputation during the selected week. Finally, on February 4, 1995, the United States slapped China with the largest trade sanctions in U.S. history. Within one hour, China retaliated. This was characterized within the media as the beginning of a ³ trade war´. Comment: This was much less intense that I had expected, but in fact there were elements of personal risk and assault and the U.S. did get involved in a new ³war´ of sorts. The timing was excellent.
THE MEXICAN BAILOUT Forecast (postmark: 01/20/95): ³IF the Mexican bailout issue ends up coming to a vote during the week of January 30 ± February 3, THEN it WILL FAIL and unleash the whirlwind both in the U.S. and Mexico.´ Background: Just an analysis using a variety of charts (including Mexico¶s). Source of comment: The Clock (newsletter). Result: Despite the fact that all four congressional leaders supported the bailout package and despite the fact that even the Republican rank and file were being quoted in the media as saying that, in the end, we are probably going to have to hold our noses and vote vote for it.´ In fact, the President President was unable to rally Congress
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and the date of the vote kept being postponed. Then, during the week I selected, President Clinton realized two things: first, that he would never get enough votes and second, that the international financial situation was becoming extremely fragile. Therefore, on January 31, 1995, he withdrew his original plan and submitted a new plan (dubbed ³MEXICO II´ by the media) which would not require congressional approval. Comment: I had additionally remarked upon the explosive energy I saw building up in Mexico during that week. On my (false) assumption that the matter would be forced to a vote, I associated that dynamic with a forecast of a necessary ³noteworthy increase in violence in Mexico during that week.´ Instead, when the new plan was announced, the media noted an ³explosion´ of energy within the Mexican financial markets. This was an excellent save-and-redirect by President Clinton since the astrological patterns were really bad!
ROSS PEROT ANALYSIS OF HIS CHANCES FOR THE PRESIDENCY (1996) Here we have kind of a flip on Yeltsin since Perot has Pluto in the 1 st (conj the Moon) and Saturn right on the Descendant. I assume his correct data is June 27, 1930 at 5:34am CST at 33 N26 and 94W06. Perot was knocked out in 199 2 by the last pre-election eclipse at 8-CAN- 57 that was right on his Saturn (Desc). In a Venus dasa since late 198 3, Perot has been in a Rahu bhukti since Sept of nd 1990. Venus is in his 2 , so the cash has really flowed since 198 4 when he sold EDS to GM. In his Navamsha (9 th harmonic chart), Venus is in the 10 th house along with Jupiter in its own sign of Sagittarius whose powerful leadership energy Venus invokes. As of this writing, he is reasonably popular, but people seem to be tiring of his negativity, carping and sniping. However, in September of 199 3, he will move out of the Rahu bhukti and into Jupiter. Jupiter, ruler of his 10 th, is in the 1 st in his main natal chart along with the Sun, Moon and Pluto which are also all in Gemini. As mentioned, Jupiter is actually in the 10 th along with Venus (i.e., the dasa planet) in his Navamsha.
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Therefore expect his popularity to increase at this time. I believe the best use of this pattern would be as a ³kingmaker´ promoting other candidates of his choice since Jupiter strengthens the 7 th which it both fully aspects and rules. But Perot¶s st power 1 house may very well have him pushing himself forward again. Perot likes to enter races later so that he does not have to put up with the media¶s intense interrogations. However, if he commits to running for President before May of 1996, then he will find that late in that month circumstances will turn powerfully against him. This is because he will be moving out of his Jupiter bhukti and into a Saturn bhukti with Saturn fully positioned natally to oppose his efforts. That very same month, P3 Mercury, the ruler of his 1 st, will reverse itself while T.Saturn will be square his natal Sun. Mr. Perot will therefore also reverse his intentions and/or strategies. I do notice for example, that there will be an eclipse in th March of 1996 on his 10 house Uranus and in late April, there will be another exactly on his Placidus 5th house cusp (within a degree of his own nodal axis). It had already been demonstrated that his children are a point of political vulnerability to him. However, if his reversal in late May is to decide to run for President and if he does not wilt under the onslaught, then he could hold up quite well. Here I should note two things: 1) some Hindu astrologers argue that Perot¶s shift into a Saturn bhukti will actually strengthen his position and 2) in his Navamsha, Saturn is in a mutual reception with his Sun. Although I wouldn¶t think so, there is a possible case for this point of view in that it is certainly interesting that after May of 1996, T.Jupiter (strong in its own sign in Perot¶s 7th during this period thus helping his 1st) will be conjunct his N. Saturn and Descendant. Multiple times between then and the election, but I would tend to take that as a strengthening of his opponent or those th he supports. It will also square (i.e. activate) his 10 house Uranus that had already been eclipsed. His final real transiting aspect before the election will be a square from Jupiter (at CAP-13) to his relocated D.C. MC (AR-1 2 ± perhaps 13?) while his P3 Jupiter (CAN-13) is itself square to his relocated MC. It rarely hurts to get a gang bang from Jupiter. In the U.S. chart, P 3 Uranus will also be a CAN -1 3. CAN -13 is also the Sun of the July 4th U.S. chart; if that chart is right, all this would argue powerfully for a Perot win if he hangs in there. T.Uranus will be exactly conjunct Perot¶s P3 Saturn and the last T.eclipse is exactly square Perot¶s 1 st house Pluto.
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While
this is all a very interesting set of stimulation, if you can believe his natal th angles ( as opposed to his relocated angles) and if you reject the July 4 chart (as I have), then I do not think Perot will end up as President of the U.S. There is really not much going on to or from his natal angles on Election Day except that his P2 Asc (sextile to N. Jupiter for those who pay attention to such things) will be within one applying degree of N. Neptune and that is not a ³dream come true.´
CLOSING COMMENTS In conclusion, I have given you just a partial compendium of postmarked public forecasts, but I do want to make it very clear that I have a variety of clients who can verify similarly precise forecasts (almost all of them were taped). Of course, precise forecasts are only possible when the indicators are, in fact, precise. I remember getting a burst of referrals from one client. When I asked one of the referred individuals what was going on, she said that I had told my client that she should go to Atlantic City and gamble on two particular days in the upcoming year because multiple indicators had suggested that these days looked very financially fortunate for her. Well
she did not go to Atlantic City. But instead, on that same exact day, she opened up her mail and was shocked to find a check for $ 4,000. This was a distribution from winning a class action suit pertaining to a legal pension plan dispute from several jobs back. She did not even know that this suit was going on. I had the feeling that the referrals wanted to know when they were going to get their $4.000, but alas, it doesn¶t work like that!
