Pluto and its moons: Charon, Hydra and Nix.

When astrology reads history’s inclination through the stars, the planet Uranus, ruler of the 20-century long Aquarian Age in which we are gradually entering, stands for individual and/or collective revolutionary change if favorably aspected with other signs and planetary configurations. Uranus defines an era’s zeitgeist of freedom and responsibility or licentiousness and false entitlement if negatively aspected. Uranus represents either change toward reform or a descent into chaos. While Uranus and other planets perform their influential roles, they do so underpinned by astrology’s farthest flung planet with Astrology’s farthest perspective, its largest overview. Spring unexpectedly as it might out of Uranian slogans that guided Barack Obama into the White House, Change we can Believe in will become changes that are permanent according to Pluto’s transit of the sign Capricorn, defining a generational era depending on how they are colored by the ruler of human collective transformation.

Shakespeare wrote, “All the world is a stage and we are but the players.” If the bard of Stratford on Avon had been an astrologer, he might say instead, “All the planetary players over stand and often overstep to their own peril a stage that Pluto designs.” The “stage,” or better, the “age” is the thing. Today we stand upon Pluto’s “age” of Capricorn design, one of 12 ages made by the 12-to-30 year transit of Pluto through the 12 signs of the Zodiac.

Let us review the last 71 years of astrology-staged activity under Pluto.

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If our performing planets bombed during Pluto’s sojourn through Leo (1939-1957), they bombed atomically when Pluto made the Leo “sun” split its atom on the earth. If they got “bonged” during Pluto’s transit through Virgo (1957-1972), they did so psychedelically, as Virgo’s mass interests in mind-body health and discernment sought to expand mass consciousness in the 1960s and early 1970s. Pluto in Virgo gave birth to a collective awareness as well that health of the planet should be considered. A sense of collective ecological responsibility emerged for the first time across the world in green movements, green parties, conceiving at its closing curtain eco-message movies like Soylent Green, and rock operas like Olias of Sunhillow.

Pluto in Libra (1972-1983) put all planets on a razor’s edge egging on nations pitted in a Cold War nuclear arms race to find pause and reflection. Thus humanity moved collectively towards Détente and nuclear disarmament treaties. China made the first jump of its great leap forward out of ruinous Maoist cultural revolutionary chaos to an ordered, breathtaking, free-market transformation we see culminating today.

Pluto got dangerously Scorpionic (1983-1995). Regenerate or die, my world. Have that Cold War go hot or die with a whimper and a Berlin Wall falling.

Pluto shot its arrow of Sagittarius (1995-2008) and we all saw its prey falling down in boiling debris clouds as mass mind moved by Pluto to the darker side of Sagittarius potential: religious extremism, Moral Majorities, al-Qaeda shooting World Trade Center towers with hijacked jet arrows. God talking to presidents of the US and Iran. The Middle East leaders wax eschatological while unilateral American Crusaders in Iraq dodged the IEDs, because God told Bush to invade and he invaded. God told Ahmadinejad of Iran to ponder rubbing out Israel from the map of history. God told Netanyahu to pass along the message to Iran: Think Amalek, boobie. An allusion to divinely inspired genocide that bade the Hebrews unleash one of history’s most successful holocausts killing every last man, woman, child, chicken, cow and goat of the Amalekites. Well, as those of you who read your Bible know, Saul took the animals as reward, angering Yehovah, but that is another story.

Pluto had Doomsday postponed when it entered Capricorn in late 2008 a short time after Barack Obama was elected president of the United States on a Pluto-in-Sagittarian platform of sweeping change we can believe. (Uranus just digs that to no end!). However, belief needs the “meat” in Capricorn, sign of the Goat. The first thing Pluto did to get a planet’s goat was cast new mass moods to play with Uranus’ head, Saturn’s limits and funk up Jupiter’s avuncular.

Barack Obama’s popular call for Uranian change pitted itself against the ruler of the status quo (Saturn) in opposition. This Uranus (in mutable and dreamy we can “believy” Pisces) opposing Saturn (in mutable and sometimes fickle Virgo, the harvester of sweet or bitter lessons) is the astrological aspect defining Obama’s first term in office. The opposition was active in the final weeks of his campaign and glittering in night skies above the floodlights of Chicago’s Grant Park victory rally on the globally warmed autumnal election night on which he won the dream presidency (4 November).

The Uranus-Saturn opposition later re-engaged its bout of change wrestling opposition on Obama’s Inauguration Day, 20 January 2009, that at least on the surface and despite Saturn’s grapple, brought to America one of its greatest changes: an African American sworn in as President. Add to that a complete break with Saturnian status quo, breaking the East of the Rockies US birth bias. Obama is the first native-born US Westerner since Nixon; moreover, a native as far West as you can go and remain in a US state unless you were an Aleut hailing from Kiska, AK.

Say “HI” to the African American surfer dude from Honolulu Hawaii. What could be more Uranian “blow your mind” than that?

Yes, yes, I anticipate emails from Birthers in my Internet community who claim Obama waves a bogus Hawaiian birth certificate. Some distinctly racist John Bircher birthers wave their own spurious Internet-manufactured CGI induced evidence of Kenyan certificates with attachments of same soon to flood my inbox once again. Either way, Obama in office is a change in electing the usual Caucasian Wasps East-of-the-Rockies habit, is it not?

So why has Obama’s staged change drama often found itself awkwardly stumbling and progressing with difficulty on History’s odeum? Because history has redesigned the floorboards and moved the floodlights since Obama won his presidential audition. Pluto’s set design is no longer the Sagittarian one he was first familiar with during the campaign and for most of the years of his ambitious rise to prominence since November 1995. The play’s the thing on Pluto’s new stage and it ain’t set up no more for Sagittarian flights of aspiration. Shot your bolt, booby, when it comes to the ambitious can-thinking they can do the president and make the dream so. Why?

Because Pluto, history’s stage manager of civilization’s twelve step transformation plan through the signs of the Zodiac in every 248-year-long orbit, redesigned History’s stage after a 13-year transit of Sagittarius ending 28 November 2008, a few weeks after Obama’s election victory. Pluto’s collective unconscious powers to degenerate or regenerate civilization will henceforth direct history’s show in the theater marquee of Capricorn. The Capricorn season will last far longer than Obama’s standup political show of 4 to 8 years. It will not be over from the time of this blog’s posting in June 2010 for another 14 years. Pluto in 2024 will renovate history’s Bijou from down-to-business Capricorn to the electric blue colors of avant guard-yourself-everybody Aquarius.

The last time Pluto stage-managed History in a Capricorn theater was 1762 through 1777. Most notably running the “show” called the secular Enlightenment, also known as the Age of Reason. The closing act opened the American Revolution. The birth of America, and its Declaration of Independence is a “To Thee I Sing” musical comedy that inspired the direction of history coming full cycle at the end of the era of modern democracy as we knew it! Now we are back again on Capricorn’s Plutonian stage 248 years later. Are we ready to wager a new power shifting age?

What is listed on the program for this new generation-lasting epic?

An urgent need for a new age of Reason. A profound need for a new American Revolution.

Pluto guides Capricorn mass movements towards redefining political and economic structures. The power brokers are no longer politicians as 248 years ago but the captains of ambition and the kings of corporate industry. The “status” in status quo will pit the world’s people against a new aristocracy.

The new king George’s that do not hear the will of the people come to America not as royalty of blood but rich in profit royalty from the blood line of buck. The English “king” who is not listening to an angry American populace is a person like Tony Hayward, the British CEO of a multi-billion-dollar global conglomerate, British Petroleum. And if mad King George this time around is played by Tony Haywire and does not put a cork in his hole, the American people and president just might rise up in arms once again.

Power elites, like the last Pluto-in-Capricorn transit, will try to control an emergent desire for freedom, independence and popular democracy with suppressive conservatism. Only this time the struggle has taken on a global context. The challenge for democracy of nations this Pluto-in-Capricorn cycle will be a struggle for a workable global model for an emerging global civilization. It can degenerate into a global police state or between now and 2024 we may witness and directly engage in a regeneration of the American dream of democracy on a global scale.

Global government, like it or not, is an irresistible destiny pushed by Pluto in the era of its Capricorn transit. It will happen. Try then to drop your horse-and-buggy brained illusions that the car of this future can run out of gas. Train your genius, your guts and perhaps even risk your lives to be a part of a global and hopefully peaceful revolution against a gathering CEOlygarchy that wants to King George you all under its corporate global empire.

You need a world government. Oh, yes you do! One for, of and by the people, not Korporate Kings.

A world parliament is your destiny. Postpone it, sabotage it, and hand your world to a corporate global dictatorship therefore. Then watch the relatively mild bloodshed of the American Revolution turn into the blood bath and chaos of Pluto’s return to Aquarius in 2024, where it once sharpened guillotine blades in the terror of the French Revolution.

Upon this Plutonian Capricorn stage comes blonde Uranus prancing out of the wings in its transit of Aries starting at the end of last month. The astrological “hero” of our play, performs impetuous Siegfried pitted against a status quo Fafner dragon for the bulk of a decade. Uranus launches rebellion, new thinking and very likely, very soon, will upset systemic norms in political, social and economic structures. Uranus in Aries storms the lair of Pluto in Capricorn. Pluto can consort with conservative dragons hoarding tradition and habitual dysfunction like a greedy treasure piled and padlocked in a cave of dogma against change.

Siegfried-Uranus will have at you with sudden and surprising slices and stabs with needful sword. The dragon of old-style capitalism will be wounded. There will be economic meltdowns, as soon as autumn this year as forecasted in detail in Predictions for 2010. The dragon will bleed the red russet blood of Gulf of Mexican oil.

Uranus will rebel and Pluto in Capricorn will first suppress then later in the near decade battle with change, submit to transform the architecture of politics and commerce on a collective level bringing death and rebirth to civilization’s many systems of power. The dragons fall. There will happen a death of nation states reborn into the global village.

Pluto wrestling with Uranian rebellion throughout the coming decade can be seismic. The planet is interconnected with the will, collective mind and unconscious, massed psychic forces of humanity.

The shifting of great cycles of time such as we are enduring years before 2012 — and far beyond it into the 2020s — will not only cathart upheavals in human consciousness but un-hinge in great paroxysms the sky’s climate in storms and earth’s lands and oceans in temblors.

This July will see visited over our skies one of the most powerful astrological configurations in many decades. Jupiter (ruler of higher minded expansion or self-indulgent, self-righteousness) continues to magnify with either-or influence, Uranus (change or chaos) to which it is conjoined in the early degrees of the sign of Aries (new beginnings, enterprises, or hasty rushes to disaster, war).

Saturn enters our stage on wings of Virgo to tarry for a two-year transit of Libra — the sign of balance or what is out of balance exposed. Saturn is in a cardinal sign now, like Uranus and Jupiter. Read therefore a dramatic test of leadership or lack thereof in history’s pending summer of crises and challenges.

Saturn (ruler of limits and reality checks) in July will return to its Obama-Administration-defining opposition with Uranus (Change versus Status Quo resistance). This time they no longer tug at each other in the theoretical, abstract, mutable signs of the Obama regime’s birth, Pisces and Virgo. Progressed to Cardinal signs Aries and Libra, they demand an end to dreaming and talking. Time to LEAD. This goes for all leadership cliques and aristocracies — political, business or religious.

LEAD. Otherwise suffer Pluto’s Capri-cornering the world into a trap of structural degeneration into Uranian chaos and Saturnian stalemates when the blows of crises come falling, starting in July, and pummel the world with economic, natural and seismic thrusts and rolls through the autumn of 2010.

Starting this summer we will see what mettle our leaders and the peoples of entire nations have. The tables in Pluto’s drama are turned for now against progress. They tilt to leaders and nations applying old-think and past solutions that do not solve our future’s unique and global problems. In early July, Uranus goes retrograde, retreating backwards from progressive change whilst Saturn’s status quo forces have advantage. Uranus will be retreating from change back in mid-August into the retrograde illusions where words trump action in the dreaminess of Pisces until December. Then collective urges for change move forward once again and keep moving forward out of Pisces back into enterprising Aries in March 2011, and will not look back, staying in Aries for nearly a decade hence until it enters Taurus for good in 2019.

Why does Pluto decide the summer, which way the rope tugs in the Uranian-Saturnian pull? Because it will be hovering in Capricorn EXACTLY 90 degrees above the Uranus-Saturn opposition through August. It will point its sword of Damocles hanging down from heaven as the vertical line of a grand inverted T Square of the Uranus and Saturn opposition.

Earthquakes are coming to the polity and the economy. They will ultimately expose systemic cancers in the structures that can no longer sustain our advancing civilization towards its new global model. We are already seeing the influence of this grand square in the bungling of national and corporate response to the ongoing and what could readily become the largest oil spill disaster in history.

We await hurricanes in the Gulf. So far, the hurricane season follows what I predicted for 2010: Hot but dry weather and generally without tropical storms in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico. No storms so far at the time of this writing but that could change. A pulse of thunderstorms out of Western Africa crosses the tropical waters of the Atlantic two months early. Will they congeal and become the first major hurricane?

The season is young and it may harbor fewer hurricanes as I predicted last year. I foresaw only one dire supterstorm hitting land in the 2010 Hurricane Season. It would only take one “Hurricane Andrew” to bring hydrocarbon rains and oil-clogged storm surges on shore. May it not hit the Gulf; however, I think the storm I foresee will track to a landfall somewhere on the Eastern Texas-Western Louisiana coast. That might miss the oil slick even though it would devastate the thickest population of refineries and oil storage areas in North America; ergo, a possible cause for triple-digit a barrel costs this autumn subsequently ushering another world economic crisis.

Catch my 3-hour interview with George Noory on Coast to Coast AM, Wednesday, starting 11 pm Pacific time. This blog is but a taste of what we will cover about the upcoming and volatile summer of 2010.

Link to Coast to Coast AM for more details.

There will be earthquakes this summer, perhaps some of the greatest recorded by modern instruments. Prepare for them in Southern California, off the Oregon Coast. Brace for them in China and along the Himalayan mountain fringes and continental shelves of the Indian subcontinent. See a revolution suppressed in Iran coming up earthquakes. Watch for the continued creep of major temblors northward on the eastern half of the Pacific Ring of Fire from Chile all the way to Los Angeles.

Also, note the activity of planets. It is with shocking regularity that great earthquakes and tsunamis happen when Uranus is in square or opposition to other major planets and often in earth signs (signs of earthquakes). Observe the following list of great and devastating quakes of the 20th and 21st centuries. They are evidence that the ways of Uranus conjoining Jupiter, opposing Saturn while in its Grand T Square with Pluto are to be carefully watched and thus all should be prepared for seismic fireworks beginning sometime not long after the firework shows of the American Fourth of July Holiday:

Great Kanto (Tokyo) Quake, 1 September 1923, Magnitude 7.9
The Sun was in Virgo (Earth Sign, earthquakes) opposed Uranus in Pisces.

Honshu, Japan, 2 March 1933, Magnitude 8.4
Uranus was in Aries, as it is again.

Great Chilean Quake, 22 May 1960, magnitude 9.5
The most powerful quake ever recorded by instruments happened when the Sun just transited out of Taurus (earth sign, quakes) with a near square of Uranus in Leo.

Great Alaskan Quake, 27 March 1964 magnitude 9.3
Second largest quake ever seismically recorded happened when Uranus and Saturn were in opposing signs. This time switched from the present opposition with Saturn in Pisces and Uranus in Virgo (earth sign equals quakes!).

Tangshan, China, 27 July 1976, magnitude 7.5
Perhaps the greatest killer quake recorded in modern times with an unofficial death toll exceeding 600,000 souls. Earthquakes often happen around Full or New Moons. It was New Moon on the 27July 1976. Uranus was in Scorpio in an approximate square of Mars, Saturn and the Sun in Leo.

Sichuan, China, 12 May 2008, magnitude 7.9

Vast earth waves and mountain landslides leveled cities carrying off over 80,000 in Central China when Uranus and Saturn were in opposite signs (Pisces and Virgo).

Sumatran Quake and Indian Ocean Tsunami, 26 December 2004, magnitude 9.1 to 9.3

The second largest quake in history recorded by seismograph caused a death toll mostly from its generated tsunami that unofficially killed over 300,000 people. Uranus and Pluto were at work again in a near grand T Square of a near Uranus in Pisces opposition with Mars in Virgo and Pluto in Sagittarius. It would seem that quakes do not always happen exactly on grand T-squares but within the approximate time and location of these.

Chilean Quake, 27 February 2010, magnitude 8.8
The seventh largest earthquake ever measured shook the coastline off Concepción unleashing a killer tsunami into four Chilean fishing ports. A more moderate tsunami raced across the Pacific Ocean requiring millions of people around the Pacific Rim to evacuate their shores. It happened the day before a Full Moon in Virgo squared Jupiter in Pisces. Uranus was also 23 degrees Pisces.

The 2010 Volcano Eruption Swarm
Significant volcanic eruptions have already hit this year in Cost Rica, Equator, and the South Pacific Vanuatu Island chain. The most notable eruption belched weeks of ash from an Icelandic volcano in April that grounded air traffic across Europe for weeks. Uranus and Saturn were in near opposition at that time.

Man-made Volcanic Eruptions of 2010
On the 121st anniversary of Hitler’s birthday the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded and burned causing a human-induced and ongoing volcanic eruption of oil poisoning the Gulf of Mexico. Guess what Uranus and Saturn were up to on Hitler’s birthday? They were within on degree of an EXACT opposition: Uranus 28 degrees Pisces. Saturn 29 degrees Virgo (an earth sign, as in volcanic).

I am sorry that my message today must be so long and so terrifying, but time is too short to parse these predictions out in the coming weeks. We must watch carefully and brace for Uranus in opposition to Saturn, for they are poised to up heave our summer hanging on Pluto’s grand square as catalyst.

The world of nature and climate must go to war against us because it cannot longer tolerate our locust-like growing host of wasteful consumers, progressing into the deepening mental static of global unconsciousness.

We are fast asleep and Mother Nature must shake us hard so that we can look anew beyond dreams and nightmares that define our sleep. The sleeper must mass awaken, demands Pluto, and perceive what it is to be human.

Death and resurrection is coming to what we once thought and habitually believed is truly of economic, social and spiritual value.

This summer begins a process that will last decades. We begin encountering what does not work and crumbles before our expectations of our leaders, our politics, our economic paradigms, and our social interactions. Our icons of belief stand on clay feet and come cracking down beginning this summer and throughout the 2020s and 2030s.

Putting it another way, humanity has been wearing masks of civilization and humanity at the cost of discovering their authentic humanity and civility of the heart. The coming times will suddenly knock our masks off many times. We will keep putting them back on again, and have them slapped off harder and harder until we wear naked our original face of true and otherwise hidden selves.

Let Uranus opposed Saturn Squared Pluto help you lose your mask so that you can see your “original face” — the one you had before you were born. The one you have now but have forgotten, even though there are meditation techniques I can share with you that could help you re-member, unite, with that original face you have ever-now and forever yours eternal.

Seek the original truth, solve the world’s problems with original genius and give birth to a new human civilization. The signs of summer will launch us.

The truth is that which works.

Gautama Buddha

Get to work! And Celebrate the human adventure.

John Hogue

(15 June 2010)

We are nearly half way through 2010 and as my eBooks posted from last year will detail, a more wild and transformative ride is coming for everyone in the latter half of 2010.

A computer model released 3 June 2010 by the University Corporation of Atmospheric Research projects the extent of oil spread from the Gulf spill in the coming months. The Gulf's loop current would carry it up the Gulf Stream current polluting waters and beaches with hydrocarbon sheens and tar along the Atlantic coasts of Florida, the Carolinas, then across the Northern Atlantic towards England. (AP Photo/University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Tim Scheitlin and Rick Brownrigg, National Center for Atmospheric Research).

Friends,
Today, 7 June 2010, Jupiter will join Uranus in an exact 0 degree conjunction. This is a convergence and magnification of energies astrologers believe Jupiter and Uranus possess when united. It can fuel energy in the world for breaththrough or breakdowns. It can summon within the collective hearts of nations a call to reform or a spasm of reaction. Uranus melded with Jupiter can be the sign of advocacy for new thought against fossilized and habituated traditions. Let it be the conjoining of a new away of doing business. Let it un-slip a force of momentum put behind a new idea in opposition to the status quo. The exciting unknown spirit of change is ever pitted against familiar and limiting habit.

This conjunction for change has more than mere opposition against it. It has a square with Pluto in Capricorn rubbing it the wrong, fractious way.

Every great story needs a conflict to transcend. Squares in astrology define friction points where evolution grows. Pluto in Capricorn, the sign of systems and world order is squared the planets of expansion in change. Because this square involves three major outer planets, the consequences affect the collective human race.

When Pluto squares Uranus read that you are living in times of drastic upheaval. Those of you reaching 20 years old today are members of an “Upheaval Generation” The last time this happened was during the Great Depression of the early 1930s, an era of social and military conflict, wars, civil strife, economic collapse and revolutions. It saw the birth of the New Deal in the US, Social Security and a National Socialist (Nazi) Party dictatorship in Germany. The Red revolution of Communism as well as the Swastika revolution of Fascism rapidly spread, born out of systemic collapses of monarchies and democracies unable to govern or lead.

When Pluto also squares Jupiter magnified by union with Uranus, the Uranian call to reform can become dogmatic, reactionary to all established and traditional forms. One feels a wave-like temptation rising to tear up the old and burn everything down. A spasm, an explosion of rebellion with little reflection about consequences. You just gotta have that dumping moment in public. The rudeness of Tea Party demonstrations and outbursts, the bombast of Glen Beck on the right and the effulgent nightly catharsis of Keith Olbermann on the left is a Pluto square of Jupiter thang. Dig? Crusades to overthrow and reform dogmas past can replace them with equally dysfunctional dogmas-future.

Slow down, good revolution. Breathe. Think. See your greatest challenge to reform. It is not from without but from unconscious forces unleashed within by Pluto’s square of this new and dawning era of a fine revolutionary mess we have gotten ourselves into.

Uranus is the ruler of: “surprise!”

Around the end of May, upheaval-fomenting Uranus began its transit through the sign of sometimes impetuous and hasty Aries. US President Obama and the rest of us got the bad surprise that the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico had become twice as large as the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska.

Uranus, the ruler of the unexpected hand of truth slapping our sleepy faces, knocked home a real estimate about how much oil was poisoning the Gulf. US Geological Survey Director Marcia McNutt announced a daily flood of 12,000 to 19,000 barrels, not BP’s 5,000 barrel-a-day crude wet dream since fireboats flooded and mistakenly sank the burning rig, rupturing the line back in April. McNutt’s estimates are conservative. Thus we learned in late May, around the first day of the Uranus-in-Aries transit, that Deepwater Horizon transcended the last great Gulf oil spill, the Ixtoc I gusher of 1979, achieving the unenviable distinction of becoming the greatest spill in US history.

On the very day Uranus entered Aries the top kill procedure to pump tens of thousands of gallons of mud to smother the oil geyser failed. BP since then tried a LMRP (Lower Marine Riser Procedure) to capture as much of the gusher up a funnel as it can. We saw giant sea saws off the seashores of Louisiana and about a mile under water on undersea cameras. Robots then extracted the busted saws and with scissors reached into the boiling brown goo gloom plume to destroy a pipe to save it.

The scissors eventually cut through a pipe leaving a much larger, wide-open flood of oil in a jet 22 inches wide. When you looked at that doom laden iconic live feed of a exposed pipe, you were seeing a ragged round opening just two inches smaller in width than a standard US oil drum. The jet plume is pushing up 500 to 791 barrels-an-hour out that 22-inch clear-cut pipe. The world was watching a near-oil barrel width jet of crude flying out of that pipe at 8 to 13 barrels of oil per minute! That is the conservative estimate give or take a few dozen barrels if one calculates the flow of 12,000 to 19,000 barrels every 24 hours.

If I am wrong in my calculations, Great Greek God Uranus of screw-ups correct me. Enlighten me though with a caveat. At the time of this writing the conclusions of the final group of three investigations into just how much oil is escaping the sea bed is still out. The unofficial scuttlebutt hints that the barrel-per-day flood is far higher than 19,000 barrels and could be as much as 25,000 to even 70,000 barrels a day. If true that nasty Uranian surprise has had us glued to the tube for 49 days watching a goo geyser hurling 1,041 to 2,916 barrels an hour; 23 to nearly 50 barrels a minute!

At the time of this writing, it is unknown how much oil will continue leaking into waters after the LMRP experiment. The pressure vents atop the funnel are slowly being closed. Initial BP bulletins yesterday declared a capture of a piddling 5,000 barrels a day. Today we are told that half of a now estimated 20,000 barrels a day are captured, prompting a BP publicist promise that up to 90 percent will be retrieved each day, soon.

This is the seventh week of the spill. Can we hope that the surge will become a relative trickle of only 2,000 barrels a day until the well is capped in 90 days or less? Will a “trickle” of 180,000 barrels in three months actually be 630,000 barrels times 90 days at 7,000 a day? My sense it BP may not be able to close the valves completely otherwise the force of the oil jet may blow the hood off the exposed pipe. It will be later understood that the LMRP procedure exposed the gulf to more oil poisoning it waters, not less.

BP, make my prediction wrong. Please.

Uranus rules encounters with the unique and unknown. Uranus takes us to a place we have never been before. The clouds of hurricane season are looming over the horizon. To what extent the vast semi-submerged oil clouds underwater can be cast ashore in storm surges is unknown. To what extent torrential tropical storm downpours will fall tainted with hydrocarbons is unknown. Will they come down in reddened rains as some macabre fulfillment of Nostradamus’ prophecies of blood-soaked red rains in his prophecy of the Third Antichrist in Century 8 Quatrain 77? (See Third Antichrist for the full prophecy and all of its possible interpretations.)

Two BP slant drill operations are underway to cap the well a few thousand feet below the ocean surface but that might take three more months if nary a single hurricane does not upset the best laid schemes of nice and untested men like that whining Pommie BP CEO wanting his life back when 11 of his employees lost theirs. Untested presidents too, can see their best laid bucks stopping here at the threshold of a Uranian crisis into the unknown.

Pluto and Charon. (Source: Hubble Space Telescope.)

President Obama in March 2010 announced deep drilling was safe and expansion of drilling off the Atlantic coast and into the polar seas above Alaska was a necessary stopgap in his long-term plan to make the United States green energy independent. Then came the Uranus-Pluto Square. Under its influence, President Obama made a sudden about-face on future drilling. He put a six-month freeze on exploration of the remote waters of the Arctic and pushed the off button on 33 deepwater wells pumping in the Gulf of Mexico. Leases for new rigs off the coast of Virginia and the western Gulf? Surprise! Cancelled…

It is a highly risky political move. Uranus seeks to uncover the truth behind a culture of government watchdogs too cozy with the big oil industry, not doing their job catching safety abuses. Uranus conjoined with Jupiter going forwards and backwards in the skies through September, will further expand shocking revelations of government-business corruption, and lay bare brazen claims of deep well backup systems for disaster that are fantasies, not fact. Pluto in square of this Uranian effort will expose the hypocrisy of the watchdogs as well. Thus the credibility of both sides of this reformist coin will be made of fool’s gold.

President Obama will have a difficult time separating himself from his own government’s mediocrity and culpability to mismanage Big Oil’s systemic failure to successfully follow their deep drill safely. The square hamstrings him further because he is, as I have warned for a few years now, a man come to his destiny too soon. He has not the executive experience and skills to judge what expert opinions are right. Once again he has made a mistake, buying into a 6-month timeline, not looking at other options that may take each rig under safety inspections one at a time rather than taken collectively. He is a bureaucrat taking the blanket bureaucratic approach: keep all deep drills down until all have been inspected. This leader needs to put on a hard shoe of office and kick more butts — a hard challenge for a Leo born man who had to become a man on his own without proper parental guidance from his missing father. This hen pecked and cerebral Leo needs to be loved. Kicking butt and sometimes putting the fear of God into underlings is an executive skill Obama has not yet learned.

Did Franklin Roosevelt take six months to study what went wrong when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor before he went to war?

This gulf spill is an ecological Pearl Harbor, Mr. President! Up-tempo your basketball game, blood.

Start pushing your people out of peacetime complacency. Drive them into emergency speed mode to get the review of deep drilling safety finished in SIX WEEKS rather than six months. If you do not, you could have sudden and unforeseen consequences waiting to ambush your future, Mr. President.

Stop and consider Uranus malevolently aspected is a harbinger of nasty surprises. Not only will the Gulf States take a severe economic hit in its tourist and fishery industries but also Obama’s moratorium of deep drilling will send economic shockwaves through its other chief employer, the oil industry, taken off-line for six months. That is “well” into and beyond the mid-term election season, Mr. President.

Monthly national unemployment reports for the summer will reach new highs as you and your party’s popularity polls reach new lows. Can you retain control of the House and Senate in this picture? Can you pursue your agenda of change without them? Great leadership is tested by Uranus squares of Pluto to moderate the risks with rushes to fix things. Uranus demands we think in new ways. Rather than blanket check the deepwater rigs, create an inspection regimen that can check one to five wells at a time. If they are safe, charge them up. Put their crews back to work. Lower you economic shock and save your party’s midterm election.

Obama is getting his hard education at our future’s expense, but that is how we semi-consciously pick our leaders. It is unfair of voters who scarcely understand their own constitutional rights to expect a political organizer — and an ivory towering professor of constitutional law to boot — will suddenly become a savvy executive decider overnight. The President of the United States cannot be a president of BP, knowing how to fix the company just because impatient Uranus-Jupiter conjunctions make leaders, flushed with urgency, grab at the horns of a Plutonic four-astrologically-squared disaster and pull the plug on all deep drilling for half a year.

The coming months of this square will further reveal that this president has come to his destiny early without the prerequisite maturity and experience to be the next Abraham Lincoln he secretly believes himself to be.

He actually could be, if he survives his first term.

Obama is learning to be a president. After squandering his first year, he is becoming more engaged in his second. It is possible that he will see his mistake making a six-month moratorium and allow deepwater rigs to rapidly pass inspection.

It would be a prudent thing to do before the next astrological chip chafes this great square of planets later in July, when Saturn enters the cardinal (leadership) sign of Libra the Balancer and once again pulls at Uranus in direct opposition while Pluto squares them both.

I said last year in Predictions for 2010 that the next global economic crisis looming in the latter half of 2010 will be triggered by the oil industry. We would return to a barrel of oil soaring beyond the $100.00 range.

I did not at the time understand how oil could be the culprit. So many other systemic ailments could pull the Uranian rug out from under a fragile economic recovery. A pathway becomes clearer now with each rash decision and each belching cloud of oil out a pipe. The path to oil surging into the triple digits per barrel approaches into view later in the autumn potentially paved through the hot summer on a path of economically undermining BP, sending shockwaves through other oil conglomerates when Gulf of Mexico deep water rigs stand idle. When oil flow stops, fuel prices will rise. Add to that cost the burden of a new wave of regional unemployment and see the US economic recovery slammed from the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of Alaska.

Lincoln was also inexperienced. In year two of his presidency, most believed he would go down in history as a failure; yet, Lincoln survived many mistaken decisions and a string of military disasters, such as the Battles of the First and Second Bull Run in his first term whilst waging a Civil War against the Confederate States. I have foreseen Obama’s disasters will be more in the social and economic arena rather than military (except for Vietnamistan). He too may recover and learn.

Does Obama have that inner Lincoln to guide him through his economic disasters?

Only Saturn knows.

Saturn is coming to share its reality check in part three of this series after Obama’s first and oncoming second Battle of Bull Run into to bear markets.

John Hogue

(07 June 2010)

I like to parse out my astrologically bad news one blow at a time. The bad news for those who wish to hold onto the moribund past at all costs is good fortune for others of you who take these times as a challenge from existence to redefine and recreate yourself and then join others of like courage and celebration to recreate a better human civilization in harmony with nature. That is Uranus’ positive creed and gauntlet.

Uranus (either ruler of revolutionary change, or chaos and upheaval) is dipping into the sign of Aries (new beginnings and actions either innovative or hasty, launching either new enterprise or war). The transit will move in retrograde-reverse and leave Aries in mid-August this year, returning in 2011. I suspect we will be grateful for a breather to pause, prepare ourselves and reflect on what must be transformed inside and outside of us. Uranus’ passage through Aries will resume in March 2011 and keep goading and pushing us headlong through revolutionary times until May 2018. Then it gives us a five-month break before delivering one more kick in the pants forward beginning in the month marking the centennial anniversary of the end of the First World War — November 2018. Uranus finally exits Aries for good in March of 2019.

Jupiter photo from Pioneer 10 pass in 1973. The current white-out of the southern hemispheric brown cloud band is more wide spread. There are little to no streams of brown in it.

Starting 7 June 2010, Jupiter joins Uranus in exact conjunction, 0 degrees Aries. Conjunctions magnify the two planets’ potentials, especially when initially entering a new sign. You thus have the Change/Chaos giver joining forces with Jupiter, the expander of higher mindedness. Vast yet subtle forces are at play. By coincidence, this conjunction happens after the planet Jupiter has undergone a great change. These days we might rename the gas giant, “spot”. The southern brownish cloud band has faded to white, making the red spot of Jupiter, a storm the diameter of Earth, a lonely hurricane floating in a sea of white cloud roiling across Jupiter’s southern hemisphere. The last time this happened was in the early 1990s and when Pioneer 10 made a flyby of Jupiter in 1973.

Many of you can feel the Jupiter-Uranus effect coming on. Do you feel the past has somehow betrayed the future? Something’s got to give — got to breakthrough the dogmatic platitudes of priests, politicians, pundits, parents and smiley presidents? Do you feel like a butterfly desperate to expand, grow, fly free beyond the carapace conditioning within which the past-oriented society has imprisoned you? Do you want to become a force of change rather than talk about it? Do you see a world going unhinged if people don’t stop talking and start doing change, now?

If you do feel this pull to reform the self and the world, you may also feel frustration and get downright angry at another force that seems to inhibit breakthroughs and reform. Pluto is in Capricorn and it defines an era not seen in roughly 289 years when last the planet ruling collective transformation or degeneration of the human race transited the sign of business, executive power, utility and the creation of new kinds of political and religious order. An age of secular enlightenment leading to the American Revolution was born in the last Pluto-Capricorn transit.

New world religions are also born during such times. Two thousand years ago, Yeshua preached his sermons at the end of Pluto’s transit of Sagittarius. It was left to the apostles and St. Paul to get on with Capricorn business, fashioning an organized world religion out of what Yeshua had to share. They even changed his Hebrew name to better market the product in the Gentile world as that Greco-Roman brand, Jesus Christos.

As the conjunction of Jupiter and Uranus remains exact through June and into July the 90-degree friction they have with Pluto in Capricorn will bring on an irresistible force of change clashing with an immovable force of establishment power. It must be remembered that these rare Pluto-in-Capricorn transits see the status quo test their strength to suppress a rising collective desire for reform. They do this either openly, as King George III of the British Empire ventured against his American subjects in the Thirteen Colonies; or, establishment powers do so as passive aggressives by simply disconnecting with their people, whilst going on habitually promising change but abusing power in the same old way, feeling your pain one moment and forgetting you the next.

You see this happening now in Iraq. The people voted for a new parliament three months ago. Parliament appointees argue and debate what kind of government to form in the comfort and security of Baghdad’s Green Zone. They have running water. Their electricity is on 24/7. They do not go hungry, but on the streets of Baghdad and the rest of Iraq, all government systems are in limbo until the elected government governs. People feel that they are not heard and wonder why they voted after all. The car bombs and despair is coming back. Uranus squared Pluto is ripe for domestic and international acts of terrorism not seen since 9/11. The kind of frustration that happens in Iraq can happen in America this summer.

If you read the comments of my European readers at the PIIGGS blog page, you will hear a common grievance that the EU government is acting like a new aristocracy passing rules and regulations beyond what people say they want or need. There is a feeling of powerlessness in the face of this growing state of disconnect. If European aristocracies of the past are a cautionary tale, stray a little further and popular revolution follows. I do not see revolution yet, but Europe will have a hotter than normal summer of strikes and riots this summer.

Just when this Jupiter-Uranus square with Pluto began, President Obama walked an empty beach in Louisiana, devoid of holiday sunbathers, the ocean horizon empty of crab and shrimp boats. He wore immaculately clean dress slacks, polished shoes and a white shirt. Tie-less, surrounded by bureaucrats and brass (no unemployed fishermen or folk employed by tourism industry in sight) he beach combed for signs of the oil disaster. There was an iconic moment that I predict will haunt the president in the future. He turned his back to the sea where a slick larger than the state of Pennsylvania keeps spreading unabated to stoop down taking a gander at a recently swept beach to press a finger against a small dime-sized bit of tar that his bureaucrat and military brass handlers brought to his attention.

Hmmm. There it is! The oil slick, Mr. President.

Source: AP.

The forces of Uranus declare: You were not out in the wetlands where you might really smell it, get your nice white shirt dirty with rotting blood-colored goo, or see your nattily attired shoulder stained with a tear or two from people that you might hold and comfort. They may lose their livelihoods and culture. You won’t. Uranus conjoined with Jupiter demands this June and July that cerebral “President Spock” be a little less Vulcan and more like the decisive Captain James T. Kirk. Change your Star Trek personal metaphor this summer, Mr. President. Stop being the “President Spoke” and become the President “do”.

During the summer of this square, governments become even more disconnected with their people and more full of talk about being otherwise disengaged. The people will become outright angry about it. When Uranus squares Pluto a climate of upheaval spreads across all walks of life. Outbursts will be seismic and sudden. Governments and leaders in an instant can fall from political earthquakes. Popes can fall to religious temblors of protest. A financial European Union may shrink or collapse from national mutinies.

In Predictions for 2010, I foresaw in detail how oil prices would be the source of the next economic global crisis approaching in October. I add here that an oil industry can plunge into economic crisis either from the growing natural disaster of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill or from a more active hurricane season than expected sending oil-festered tidal surges over the coasts of Louisiana and Eastern Texas. Most US oil refineries are in its path.

What existence is first trying to teach us this summer with a Jupiter/Uranus square of Pluto is to confront reality. Our spiritual, social, economic and ecological systems are heading for systemic failure. Time to sound the alarm, to bring together genius, to “under-stand” and see what is the source to all of our problems so they can be transcended.

The word systemic is defined in the American Heritage Dictionary as: 1. Of or pertaining to a system or systems. 2. Of, pertaining to, or affecting the entire body. The word system comes from the Greek susteema, a composite whole, from sunistanai, to bring together, combine: sun-, together + histanai, to cause to stand.

The Uranus square Pluto will shake us hard and long. Wake up and smell the real Aquarian Age, not this airy-fairy, twenty-twelvie kindergarten claptrap fomented for a quarter century by Pollyanna pundits of the New Age. There are problems that crystals and positive thinking alone cannot alter. They need a new consciousness and intelligence coming from a space of enlightenment even the New Age messengers have never plumbed.

The fabric of our consciousness to bring change is sabotaged by a hidden darkness. A blind spot is placed on our IN-sight. Dysfunctional education dulls us from birth onwards making us unaware of this invisible trap of mind.

Most prophecy watchers seek to find Nostradamus’ third and final Antichrist in his version of the apocalypse. What if he is not really a personification of any world leader or anyone else other than an imposed state of mind imprinted in each of us caught unawares every moment by this hidden blindness to the dark? We are jacked into this Matrix of ego-mind that is Antichrist. Uranus in Aries for the better part of this decade plays Morpheus inviting Neo behind the mask of “Mr. Anderson” to be free of this Matrix. Uranus can show us just how far down the rabbit whole of human id goes the invisible shadow of the Antichrist Unconscious. We can then “unjack” ourselves once we know its nature.

The choice is yours. You can take the blue pill and keep living in a dream world of the Antichrist Unconscious, pretending it is anything but a dream, or…

Take the red pill of meditation. I found my Morpheus. I have taken it. It is in my hand and only an email away from being in yours.

Revolution rather than react-illusion is the way of Uranus. The god of change can be a holy chaos if we do not listen, or he can be a radical catalyst in ways we can scarcely imagine.

There is nothing more radical than remaking a world where Christ conscious Buddhas see they are Buddhas, pretending not to be and stop the pretense with blissful understanding.

A new humanity will create a new civilization that will mark the summer of 2010 as one of the earliest violent contractions towards its birth. They will live something radical that we have never dreamed but only lip sync with empty words and idle minds: Living in balance and in harmony fulfilled is the only true revolution.

Meditation opens the doorway to that future for nobody else but you.

John Hogue

(31 May 2010)

PS–In part two we will look at the next great Uranus square of 2010. It happens at the end of July. Saturn (status quo and reality checks) renews its opposition with Uranus (change and chaos) in a grand cross square with Pluto (collective transformation) in Capricorn (the establishment). It will rock your world.