Politics creates strange dancing partners in the upcoming 112th US Congress that will end in the year 12 of the 21st century, otherwise known as the Mayan Calendar year 2012. Woooo wooooo! But seriously, who is producing this "dance"-capade for the voters to cast their ballot on the best dancing team. Who is funding this real "Dancing (with the Left and Right-wing) stars"? ANSWER: Politicorp. Read about them in my upcoming e-Book "Predictions for 2011."

Friends,
I haven’t had much gas left in the word tank to pump you up with part two of my midterm election predictions assessment since my last blog posting back on 8 November. Eight days passed. In them I typed 30,000 words into a rough draft of Predictions for 2011.

I want to post this blog before birthing this book takes me away again. Now here is part two of my midterm prediction assessment.

If you like, you can review all the midterm prophecies by clicking on 2010 midterm election predictions).

Here we go. First in bold font the predictions, followed by my assessments:

Just under five months ago, I expanded upon my midterm election prophecy in the blog article Uranus Retrograde: Chaos we can believe in? In the following passage I spoke of the key astrological influence of Uranus (the ruler of change) retreating while the ruler of status quo limitations and conservative reality checks advanced towards the midterms:

“Starting 7 July [the day of this blog's posting] and intensifying by 21 July, Uranus retreats to its place in a very powerful grand T square with Pluto in Capricorn opposing Saturn in Libra (status quo and reality checks). Pluto in Capricorn defines a generational age, an era of systemic crisis leading either to global civil disorder and fascism or democracy’s renewal between now and the first months of 2024.

“We will be feeling the influence of this powerful T square throughout the summer in extreme heat waves, floods, violent weather, hurricanes, cyclones and typhoons. I would be pleasantly surprised if the world does not endure a major seismic disaster or two between now and Halloween — metaphorical earthquakes that are political, economic and literally seismic.

“A thread of destiny pulls backwards out of the T Square in the guise of Uranus in retrograde, starting mid August, retreating into the spacey sign of Pisces. Expect to see civilization’s rug pulled underfoot starting in mid-August, shaking things up when hidden enemies to change — our collective conditioned reflexes against it — pop out from the undercurrent of mass unconscious from August through to the Christmas Holiday Season. Then Uranus goes direct course on 6 December 2010.”

I then added this assessment on November 1 about the above:

The summer [of 2010] certainly had its share of lingering triple-digit heat waves, tornadoes, hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones. Christchurch, New Zealand was hit by a 7-magnitude temblor. Another 7.7 magnitude quake off Sumatra pushed a tsunami washing away many villages yet as significant as these are, they are not the kind of large scale seismic events seen earlier this year in Chile and Haiti. The year 2010 during the Uranus retrograde did endure a historic natural disaster of another kind. A lingering monsoon deluge flooded a fourth of Pakistan displacing 25 million people.

ASSESSMENT (Note: all of these come from 17 November 2010)
The summer of 2010 did endure triple-digit heat waves in North America. Monsoon floods inundated a quarter of Pakistan displacing upwards of 25 million people. Typhoons, such as Megi were severe. The North American tornado season continued late into the summer. America from coast to coast endured in October the strongest nationwide wave of non-tropical, low-pressured storm fury yet recorded. What also began in July with the retrograde was momentum lost by Obama and the Democrats as the Tea Party rebellion and Tea Party candidates began their surge that shook the House of Representatives out of Democratic control of the full US Congress.

A Tea Party interpreter would say the hidden enemy to change is president and Democrat majorities in Congress who only talked of change but didn’t do enough to turn the country around in the short space of two years. The Democratic interpretation would counter that forces of a no-saying, status quo elements worked to undermine progressive forward progress. There was ever a bureaucratic resistance on the one hand and billions poured into right wing candidate coffers on the other by big business to fund a propaganda campaign that effectively twisted Obama’s successes.

This issue is examined in great detail in three of my twelve chapters in Predictions for 2011. I will say this today; the estimated 4 billion dollars flooding this midterm election from corporations only slightly favored the Republican/Tea Party candidates over the Democratic. The hidden enemy of democracy is set to manipulate the fears of both the left and the right for their own ends, which is to usurp citizen power.

There is a corporate takeover of the United States ongoing since special interests managed to hide their huge investments in 2008 into Barack Obama’s run for president. They work again, with the Supreme Court’s blessing, to hide whole corporations behind the definition of being equal “citizens” apposed to citizens of little to no means to influence elections beyond their single ballot cast, such as you or me.

What about that forecast of a political earthquake by Halloween? It will come 2 November — a day after the original date celebrating Halloween, All Soul’s Day, 1 November.

ASSESSMENT:
The political earthquake shaking up Washington in 2011 is not what it seems to simple left, center or right wing progressives. It is a generational struggle not experienced since Pluto transited Capricorn over 248 years ago. A new global power elite tries to influence both sides of the political spectrum to suppress emergent passions for freedom we see in growing middle classes of Asia and a stagnating middle class hollowing out in America.

Let us examine the astrological makeup of tomorrow’s election day [2 November 2010] — the most significant US election since the year 2000 saw Al Gore win the popular vote but lose the Electoral College vote to G.W. Bush. Perhaps a basic explanation of tomorrow’s planetary aspects might consciously rather than unconsciously influence your vote.

On Election Day, the Sun (ruler of the ego) will be in Scorpio, the sign of fundamental transformations, death and rebirth. The American world will be greatly changed after 2 November.

ASSESSMENT:
That is certainly the case. The country is going to slide to a progressively right-leaning revolution counter to Obama’s “Change we can believe in.” The liberal voters might call it a counterrevolution. I call it the Obamabacklash. He lost the thread of his narrative of change. Now he pays for it.

Mercury is also in Scorpio and it is sextiled (positively aspecting) the Moon (ruler of emotions) in Virgo. The minds of voters might be moderated by the Moon’s discernment to temper sharp and harsh language, such as what one sees on the placards against Obama in Tea Party rallies or in the angry rancor of leftists and rightists grappling for sound bytes and scratches on Cable TV talking “head job” shows.

ASSESSMENT:
Election night was surprisingly free of rancorous acceptance and concession speeches. The rancor would begin in the following days, once everyone waiting to exhale watching the returns.

Mercury in Scorpio can also motivate mistrust. There will be a number of ballot fraud claims because of this.

ASSESSMENT:
Tea Party candidate Joe Miller threatened to legally dispute write-in ballots for incumbent Republican Alaskan Senator Murkowski. Sarah Palin’s endorsed Miller. She has had a lot of success with her endorsements of late, except in her own state where she quit the post of Alaskan governor to play Fox News pundit and reality show star (Sarah Palin’s Alaska on TLC). As of today, Miller has officially lost against Murkowski’s write-in candidacy.

There will be new excuses, some warranted and mostly not, to create new conspiracy theories on both sides of the political spectrum. The mood of mistrust will not bode well for incumbents whether it is earned or unearned. Change for change’s sake is the reasoning of Mercury tomorrow. Damn the consequences.

ASSESSMENT:
Change came undefined and as vague in the 2010 midterms, for its own sake as it did when the same mass minded energy carried Obama and the Democrats into power in 2008. The American people flailed about to the left in 2008, now they swiping and flail to the right in 2010. Prepare for a riotous congress in 2011 as the consequence.

Change for change’s sake is the reasoning of Mercury tomorrow. Damn the consequences. That’s why I think Democrat Senator’s Barbara Boxer of California and Patty Murray of Washington State are likely to lose. So is Democrat Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin.

ASSESSMENT:
I got Feingold right but my prediction of a loss for Murray and Boxer were wrong, though Murray won by a small margin against Rossi. Barbara Boxer’s run against Fiorina wasn’t close at all. Perhaps if I had thought less and let the Oracle I use do the talking, it would have written a more accurate observation.

Venus, (ruler of relationships) on Election Day is also in retrograde, wanting to retreating from past relationships, such as with the president who wooed her so well in 2008.

“You are not the president I married!” cries Venus in Scorpio, while under the sign of passionate yet karmic love relationships. Venus in Scorpio is in its detriment. In a political context, Venus lets passion rule reason in the American Vox Populi.

In short, Obama suffers a lover’s breakup coming on 2 November. His jilted “lover” is the American electorate. They passionately embraced the alluring if vague dream of his 2008 troubadour love song of change they could believe in. Venus in Scorpio when under such affliction can be the catalyst of a love-hate relation-abandon-ship in the works. If there is a perception of being unheard by the lover, or neglected, love can turn to hate and cold indifference. Obama’s independent swing voters followed him to the left in 08. Now watch many of the same voters, mute and indifferent to Obama’s last minute political rallies vote against his party. The thrill is gone. They lurch to the right on Election Day 2010

ASSESSMENT:
One might say Obama was served a referendum by the voting public he wooed and swept off its feet in 2008. The flighty girlish electorate has come down to earth. The relationship after the presidential inauguration’s honeymoon was not the one to which she intended to merge. Two years later, she has sent Obama a notice of separation by ballot. Obama is now suffering a marriage crisis, as it were, with the American people. Whether he will or even can resurrect himself as the great changer they can believe in is the subject of one of the longest chapters in Predictions for 2011.

There will be some Democratic Party gains in state governor elections: Cuomo in New York, geriatric Jerry Brown in California. A senate victory in Connecticut…

ASSESSMENT:
All correct predictions.

…yet Republican Pat Toomey will be a new US Senator from Pennsylvania

ASSESSMENT:
Correct. Toomey won against Democrat contender Joe Sestak.

The Republican Mark Kirk will win Obama’s Illinois Senate seat as well.

ASSESSMENT:

Correct. Mark Kirk got 48.4 % to Democrat Alexi Giannoulias’ 46.1%Tea Party candidate Rubio and Rand Paul will win a Florida and Kentucky Senate seat respectively

ASSESSMENT:
Both correct predictions.

…and I do not rule out significant roles for these Tea Party leaders, rubbing the Republican establishment raw in Washington DC.

ASSESSMENT:
I think we’ve already seen some of that role of behind the scenes influence with Senate elect Rubio and Paul twisting the arm behind closed doors of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to about-face on his stance not to support a moratorium on earmarks in legislation passed in 2011.

Impetuous Mars is in Sagittarius on Election Day. The God of war and new beginnings seeks to be carried off by the enthusiasm of the crusade of disgruntled voters. Watch their exit poll interviews. The voters will be Marian in their directness, in their Sagittarian arrow shots at Obama and the Democrats.

ASSESSMENT:
That happened.

The martial slogan, “Take back America!” will out trump the old “Change we can believe in!”

ASSESSMENT:

That happened in the House of Representatives, certainly! But the GOP-Tea Party tsunami could not manage to flood a majority back into the Senate, though the Democrat majority is slightly treading above water with 51 seats including 2 leftist-leaning independent Senators against 46 Republican-Tea Partiers. Where the Republican tsunami did drown Democrats was in 19 state legislatures switching from Dem-Blue to deep Republican red. They also made gains in state governor seats.

The new slogan ["Take back America!"] is just as vague-faith based and irrational as the old. The next two years will repeat the last two. These mantras lose their mojo exhausting themselves in their own too often uttered chant, sound and fury, signifying no significant change and definitely no America returned to normal, whatever that ill-defined, chest beaten “normal” might actually be.

ASSESSMENT:
Remember this prediction in 24 months. I will prompt it up for review after the 2012 elections in that far off future November.

Jupiter (the planet of higher expansion) on Election Day is in Pisces in retrograde conjunct wacko Uranus, also in retreat. This configuration of planets in magnified combination and retrograde can give an a more conscious individual the capacity to feel compassion and deep feeling for others, but in politics, the lowest potentials of a mob-ocracy mindset can make the voting public undisciplined, impatient, irascible, expecting too much change to come too soon. They brusquely seek to burn the bridges over from where change might finally arrive.

ASSESSMENT:
Another prediction that time will judge. I will elaborate on this vision with a detailed account in Chapter 2 of Predictions for 2011 about what we might expect in the first and second halves of the new year in a riotous US Capital.

Saturn in Libra rules the paradigm of accomplishing good through cooperation with others. When afflicted it can help a Supreme Court warp the letter of constitutional law deeming that a corporation is a human being, a citizen with equal First Amendment free speech rights like you or me who do not generally have an army of lobbyists and lawyers, or billions of dollars available to influence campaign advertisements.

ASSESSMENT:
A coup by corporations masquerading as regular citizens is underway.

These new citizens are more “equal” than you or I during this midterm election. These corporations-cum-citizens can dig deep into their deep transnational company pockets to spend a record breaking half-billion dollars on political campaigns, left-wing or right, without revealing the money bag’s location, even if the cash comes from other nations, like China, trying to influence American elections.

ASSESSMENT:
The number is in the billions of dollars actually. Unprecedented influence of multi-national “citizen” corps is now influencing your votes from 2010 onwards. It is the most significant threat to American civil and constitutional rights in my lifetime of 55 years and counting.

Without such “citizens” the Tea Party, movement would not have been taken for a ride by the Washington DC Republican establishment into the halls of power when the new US Congress convenes in early 2011.

ASSESSMENT:
One of the greatest Washington scandals in 2011 will be a revelation to what extent foreign money financed both sides in the 2010 elections but especially what flushed the Tea Party movement with multinational cash. Remember you read a heads up here.

Uranus on election day is also in dreamy, politically delusional Pisces and it will influence a collective subconscious and impractical idealism of those who would replace the vacuous Democrat mantra, “Yes we Can,” with their own simplistic mantra: “Take America back!”

ASSESSMENT:
That is what is happening. The coming six months will vindicate that contention, I’m sorry to say.

Uranus (ruler of change) retreating will influence a majority of voters to pass a mandate of anger that brings into power legislators that will avoid unpleasant challenges and realities for two years. They may keep planning for the short term, deregulate the banks, avoid the issue of establishing a functioning Health Care system, let the housing bubbles bloom, cut taxes whilst the debt bomb, buried around the corner of America’s near future like a hidden IED is waiting.

ASSESSMENT:
When all is said an done, when all the chest thumping and talking pundit head pumping is over in 24 months, little progress will have happened. We’re heading for a split Congress, for gridlock. It will lead to the most fractured presidential election since 1860. I speak at length about the future scenarios of entangling candidacies for 2012 in Predictions for 2011.

Uranus in retrograde will, “Drill baby, drill!” past oil’s peak. There will be no talk of real sacrifice to gain America’s energy independence. The world’s weather will keep changing. Mother Nature’s fevers will rise but denial of global warming will reach even higher temperature levels. America will waste two years it and the world can ill afford to lose. It will not be a leader in the defense against increasing Climate Change unless the President finds that voice as well and leads us there with a public pressuring for congressional support.

The people tomorrow [2 November 2010] will vote in a historic two years of political gridlock on pressing global issues, such as climate change just as the tipping points of our civilization’s unsustainable consumption of Earth’s resources approach.

ASSESSMENT:
Climate change is the great game changer on all levels of human life and hopes of or fears about the future. Obama must turn the tide of the man I predicted that came to his destiny too soon. Change comes unripe. The year 2011 is critical. Obama must “change” and grow up, or fail as I detail in Predictions for 2011.

Neptune retrograde in Aquarius is like a fog on Election Day, throwing caution and reason aside. The irrational vote is king and crazy talk is the language, paranoia and conspiracies the projection.

Speaking of the heroically crazy, Delaware Tea Party candidate Christine O’Donnell the reformed masturbating witch of Bill Maher’s 1990s show Politically Incorrect will lose her Senate election bid but gain a seat at Maher’s TV panel table.

ASSESSMENT:
Correct. She lost big time in the election as one of the Tea Party embarrassments. We’ll see if she appears on Bill Maher. That’s a real prophetic long shot.

However, there is another contestant running for the unofficial title of weirdest candidate most likely to embarrass herself in the hallowed halls of the US Senate. Yes folks, Sharron Angle, will defeat incumbent Democrat Majority Leader, Harry Reid tomorrow unless Las Vegas can rig the election in his favor.

ASSESSMENT:
Wrong. She lost receiving 44.6 % to Reid’s 50.2. It was a margin of 40,000 votes. I would say though that Harry Reid “did” get his political machine high rolling in the capital of casinos that the mafia built. There was the million-dollar last-minute media blitz. We will find what IOU’s Reid got politically paid and to what extent he had to pay politically karmic IOU’s to corporate interests to retain his seat. There’s a scandal waiting for him in 2011. The Republican opposition will exploit it to deflect attention to their own corporate whoredom.

Last but not least to explain what is the astrological background on election day. This is year two of an era starting in 2008 setting the stage for a history show that won’t exhaust its run until 2024. I speak of the transit of Pluto through the sign of Capricorn. Pluto last passed through Capricorn just shy of 250 years ago. It enjoyed the theater of another Tea Party movement consisting just as the modern day variant did of predominantly white folk, faces painted, clad in exotic costumes, causing a ruckus.

The first Tea Party dressed like American Indians, hatcheting and flinging wooden boxes of tea off British ships in Boston harbor to protest taxation without representation. They also tarred and feathered folk who didn’t agree with them or supported English trade.

The new Tea Party isn’t drop-kicking tea boxes but it will help the Republican party pitch over the side a historic number of incumbents.

ASSESSMENT:
The Democrats lost 67 seats in the House of Representatives in the largest sweep since the Democrats added 75 seats in 1948. The GOP won 6 seats in the Senate dramatically shrinking the Democrat majority there. The GOP took 5 state governor seats from the Democrats. More than 100 new freshman House Representatives are coming to the Capital next year. The election was an incumbent turkey shoot.

THE FINAL ASSESSMENT:
This was my first try at mid-term election forecasting. My oracular strong suit is presidential elections, based on victory by popular vote. So far, after 11 tries since 1968, I have had 11 successes.

So let’s review how I did for Midterm election forecasts:

WHAT I GOT WRONG
1. Republicans win both houses of Congress.
2. Democrat Senator Barbara Boxer loses California Seat
3. Republican Sharron Angle takes Democrat Harry Reid’s Nevada Senate seat.
4. Democrat US Senator of Washington Patty Murray loses to Republican Dino Rossi.

WHAT I GOT RIGHT

1. Republicans sweep the House of Representatives.
2. There will be a historic sweep of incumbents out of office.
3. Democrat Cuomo wins New York governor’s seat.
4. Republican Toomey beats Sestak in Pennsylvania’s US Senate bid.
5. Tea Party candidate Rand Paul wins US Senate Kentucky seat.
6. Tea Party candidate Rubio wins US Senate Florida seat.
7. Republican Christine O’Donnell loses bid to win Delaware’s US Senate set.
8. Republican Kirk wins Obama’s old Illinois US Senate seat.
9. Jerry Brown will be California’s new governor.
10. Russ Feingold loses his Wisconsin US Senate seat.
11. The midterm elections will be a referendum on President Obama.
12. Democrats win the US Senate seat in Connecticut.

I would say there were a number of other prophetic successes that time will bare out, but if we just look at the most objectively verifiable 16 predictions, I got 4 wrong and 12 correct. I scored a 75-percent accuracy for my first oracular stab at a US mid-term election forecast.

John Hogue

(17 November 2010)

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There are rogue elephants jostling the GOP elephant cage excited about uprooting the Republican and Democratic Party’s hold on the House of Representatives “and” the Senate in the midterms. “Rove-ing” patriarchs of the herd have let slip the renegade cows and bulls on the Donkey-crats a bit worried about seeing themselves thrown upon the pointed scimitar ivory of their stampede. The Republican brand has gone “Rand” app-Paul-ing. Rand Paul, son of Ron, might win a US Senate seat for Republicans in name only. Can a Rogue Elephant be tamed in the Washington political zookeepers? Could Faust out FOX NEWS Mephistopheles?

Elephant herds are run by a matriarch so it behooves those full of bull elephant selves in Washington DC not to take former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin for granted. Many of her endorsed Tea Party politicos have stomped old-guard GOP candidates into her political pay dirt. Especially Tea Party female candidates she calls “Pink Elephants”, such as, Christian creationist and reformed masturbating Wiccan dabbler, Christi O’Donnell, who trunk whipped former Republican Governor and longest serving Delaware US Congressman, Mike Castle, for a run at the Democrat held US Senate seat once occupied by Vice President Joe Biden.

Left to right: Christi O'Donnell and Sharron Angle, Harry Reid.

There’s another Palin pick, American East Indian GOP elephant, Nikki Haley, who stomped Republican Gresham Barrett for a November run for South Carolina’s governor seat against Democrat Vincent Sheheen. Californian Palinista Carly Fiorina tusked and pitched Chuck DeVore out of the way for US Senate to give Democrat US California Senator Barbara Boxer a serious challenge. Let us not forget Palinesque Nevada’s anti-Darwin, chicken bartering economist — the avenging Sharron Angle angel of Demo-death — has a real chance to unseat the Dimpy dogged Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

At the time of this writing, there’s six weeks and two days left before the midterm elections. I will be up to my own elephantine ears in forecasts attached to the seven or eight blogs planned.

It might be time to ruffle the fragile belief systems of Dumbopublicans and Donkeycrats and Tea Baggers alike by reprising a prophetic satire posted exactly one year and five months ago on 18 and 22 April 2009. I review today my naughty and nebulous ersatz biblical predictions, cast as a jiving-prescient joke-in-earnest. It has a lot more forbearing bang for its bucks and kicks delivered to the asinine Left, and rogue elephant Right, right now. It also forecast Sarah Palin ascendant. She has become a real king and queen maker and perhaps a president grizzly running in 2012.

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This week [18 April 2009] Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin made her intentions clear that she aims to unseat President Obama in the Mayan Calendar end-time year of the 2012 presidential elections.

She felt it politically expedient for her future ambitions to risk a political setback in Alaska by attending Vanderburgh County Right to Life banquet in Indiana where she wowed a sell out conservative audience packed with key fundraising Pro-lifers. Her absence from Juneau may have cost her. The Alaskan legislators voted down her choice for Attorney General in a close vote that her presence on the job as governor might have carried.

I now wonder what a Palin run would do for the Republican Party. Divining an answer requires something completely different in today’s blog entry.

I’m only joking, and, as usual, I’m joking in earnest. So, I’m sure to push as many buttons as I poke funny bones with…this prophecy from a great, yet little known, Elephant-headed sage of the Grand Old Party.

Thus spake Willie Horton Heares A. Hooey, in Chapter 11, verse 86-ed of the Book of GOPre-gurgelation:

“Friends, Rednecks, countrymen! Lend me your Grand Old Party Elephant ears!”

The crowd settled in a hush-Rush of Limbau-awe, for that old Elephant had a long memory of all things wise and Republican that went all the way back to Abe Lincoln, who in the Civil War put their party on the political map by pretending to be the return of Barack Obama.

“I have not come to praise Sarah Palin’s political aspirations,” said Willie Horton H.A.H., “but to bury them, for the sake of our party’s future.

“Take this not as a dagger in the breast from someone ‘et tu Brutish,’ for she is an honorable, righteously evangelical, Gabriel-blowing-her-apocalyptical-horn right-winging daughter of our base Republican platform for many a moon, since Moses parted the Ralph Sea of Reeds and our Grand Old Party of fair conservative values was Lynchburg Virginia-ed by a new Moral Majority in the 1980s when the Gingrich stole Democrat Christmas in 1994 midterm elections.

“Take not our daughter from Wasilla Mooselands to Carl Rove the nether lands of Washington AC DC! For I fear she shall make such an end of the Party of Lincoln, in a bid to unseat the new Lincoln from Illinois in 2012 if we doth boost her head large and insufferably full with the AIGues of attack politics and girdle her loins with a big fat Bible Belt.

“I hear the braying prayers of Donkeycrats in the lower, nether, 48 states, that we should be so ill advised to pander to our Republican base beliefs of straight and narrow ‘e pluribus polarity Unum’ of faith based presidencies over fact based policies.

“Well! Burn my flag and go gay in the military, ladies and gentlemen of our Grand Old Party, we must return to our fundamentals.

“The Union is Bushed and tired of the apocalyptic path that got us into power unto now. To believe we can drag this dead cat canon around will only aid in our land becoming completely Donkeycratatonic.

“That is just what they want us to do, those blue Brutus hoof-in-mouth meanies of liberal mushiness.

“It is time to stop Nixing our Nixons. Let’s eak out our Ikes. Yes, folks! You can pat the Buchanans but heed the call to a new Republican Apostle Paul, (Ron Paul, that is) and drive forward in eco-hybrid Humvee shining, with eyes forward, cast on the rear view mirror back into that good Goldwater future.

“Let us return to the virtues of actually being conservatives, defenders of individual freedoms, and fiscally responsible government that worked. Keep your faith unto God, not flash, and wave it around unto legislation. Let God judge — not us –who is going to abortion hell in a hand plastic basket bag.

“We have gone all Donkeycratic in our nation building, heart bleeding and deficit spending and have felt the sting of the voter that giveth and thus taketh away the House, Senate and that shining White House on a hill.

“These are the times to try a Dumbopublican tail. We must for a presidential cycle or two, walk through the valley in the shadow of the Left, but we shall fear no evil, unless we should stumble in tundra and tear out our hair in strident Caribou-hoos!

“Let not the Donkeycrat’s choice for Republican candidate in 2012 be riding a Palin horse of political apocalypse. May not this rider destroy a third of the Republican skies, a third of the Republican waters and a third of the Republican seats in House and Senate, because only our baser party stalwarts voted in 2012 and we got only a third of the popular vote against Obama who thus won his second term.

“The Mayan Calendar says doomsday is off 12 years. Not 2000 but in 2012 it falls, on the Winter Solstice: 21 December.

“But Lo! My friends. Lend a Dumbopublican ear. Doomsday comes a little over a month earlier for our Grand Old Party on the first Tuesday of that November 2012!

“I have seen a vision of four horsemen of Republican apocalypse!!”

The assembled convention leaned forward. It was so quiet that you could hear a “Bush Sucks” political pin drop…The silence in heaven and on earth lasted [for four days when I then posted part two on 22 April 2009]:

Thus continued the great Elephant-headed prophet of the GOP, Willie Horton Heares A. Hooey, in Chapter 11, verse 86-ed in the deep 6-tenths of the Book of GOPre-gurgelation:

“I have seen a vision of four horsemen of Republican apocalypse in the election to come in 2012!!

“And there before my eyes was a white horse and its rider was a Hollywood cowboy hero who had been upstaged by a chimpanzee in the movie ‘Bedtime for Bonzo’.

“The monkey lay clasped hard upon his shoulders and back and the cowboy skedaddled forth to great fame and myth in the greatest performance of a president by an actor in 2,000 years.

“And there before my eyes a second horse came forth, all red whose lean rider had in his hand a great sword that could slash a quarter of our taxes, but he cried ‘read my lips! No new taxes!!’ and was no more, for he taxed us, hard, and fell in 1992 to that great New Bubba-lon and his scarlet Hillary-harlot for two terms until they were cast out.

“And there then before my eyes came a third and black horse. Its rider was Bonzo, choking on a pretzel.

“In Bonzo’s hand was a book called ‘My pet Goat’ and there was much shock and awe, and bailouts, and most-un-Republican behavior, sins of stock market gambling, nation building, money throwing at lobbyists and many other unconservative sins of that naughty monkey that the hero on the white horse had released upon the land.

“Now hear ye well fellow GOPs for three horses have passed and one final and fourth horse of the Republican apocalypse is yet to ride.

“And then in my vision I saw the fourth creature, more skinned moose than pale horse, ridden by a rider with larger Baals than mere men.

“The creature wore proudly her $10,000 dress in times of economic troubles, with Gucci mittens, and those nice Ugg boots and, eoooow! Like, even, a parka from Rodeo Drive too, gosh darn it!

“And in a wink or two coming from the Palin rider, I knew that with her rode political death for our party if Satan’s Donkeycrats should get their baying prayer fulfilled lest we forget our GOP-glories past and pick her to run for president in 2012.”

Willie Horton Heares A. Hooey, The Great Dumbopubican Sage

To be fair, we will hear from that Donkeycratic seer Jack Asser bin-Winning in due time, to rant apocalyptic on the Left when stimuli are numb and Obama bailouts bust.

Taken from 2012 – Doomsday for the GOP, Verse 1 and Verse 2

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Consult also the Holy Book of Jerrymander to divine further details about the future of Sarah Palin.

John Hogue

(19 September 2010)

PS—Further forecasts of Donkeycratic nasty surprises and Dumbopublican resurrections can be found HERE.

JAMES
Perhaps it is time to wipe the dust from that old family bible & see what God has in mind for the future of mankind since we have made such a mess of this world; and we have. John the revelator says he was ‘in spirit’ when he was shown a vision of man’s future while exiled on Patmos. Revelation 21 shows a whole new world that God will create at some future moment. I find that as something to look forward to.

HOGUE
The feeling or deep desire for a new start runs in many religious traditions. It is a prophetic will to power a house clean.

Roman Emperor Domitian exiled St. John the little Aegean Island of Patmos in A.D. 95. Holed up in his cave, John composed the most famous prophetic housecleaning (house-rub-outing) of the Earth. A fundamental question must be asked. What was St. John’s state of sanity when he wrote the Book of Revelation?

The Siege and Destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans Under the Command of Titus, A.D. 70'', Oil on canvas, 1850.

The last time someone tried to give John of Patmos a thorough psychological examination was in Apocalypse and the writings on Revelation by D. H. Lawrence. He penned this small book just before he died in Provence, France, of tuberculosis at the age of 44. I too share Lawrence’s view that much of John of Patmos’ macabre vision is coming from his suppressed frustrations at being exiled by Rome. I would add that his all-time end-time grump set to parchment arose from a scarred mind of someone with post-traumatic disorder. Who really knows? Maybe he was a survivor of the Roman sack and slaughter of Jerusalem in 69 C.E.

The message passed through a broken medium. The Hebrew Prophet Daniel’s end-time revelation in the Nevi’im is the language of a mystic. John’s second-rate and hyperbolic rehash of Daniel is written in the language of an angry mad man. Daniel’s book is psychic. John’s is Psychotic. Also, there are fundamental points in his narrative that clearly show he intended his prophecy for his own immediate future and not for our times. (See 666). So, if what I’m saying is true, then to summon up desire of God or anybody else to end this world is a mistake. It’s lust for ending life from one who gave up on the world.

It is an anti-life religious disorder overtaking its victims in two phases. I first described them in detail as Prophaganda (a desire to foresee the end of a world one does not understand or hates) followed by Armageddonomics (the economics of doom). Prophaganda is the hypnotic suggestion the mafia of priests and reverends use to condition believers to abuse and make the destruction of the world happen as a self-fulfilling prophecy. Read the full details of this disorder by clicking here: Messiah.

The usual habit is to put all that is wrong about the mess of the world on man not following God’s will. I think the future will see it differently. The blame is on God making a stupid world construct.

Why create duality?

Why create sin?

God is ultimately responsible for sin. He will have to punish us shirking our responsibilities but not punish Himself when he is the father of response-ability. He’s the creator. Thus, he has created all and everything, right? Before there was the word and God created heaven and earth, before all of that, was there any good or evil? Did God not also create these when he created the context of duality?

Back in 1980, before I left America to see India and meet Osho for the first time, I used to work at a head and occult supply shop in Ports of Call, San Pedro, California. The owner of the establishment, in my opinion, pandered to the cliché sensationalism of the occult by calling the establishment “The Prophet.” No picture of Kahil Gibran but a sign at the bottom of the stairway leading into the second floor shop with a stereotypical image of a black cat and a cauldron. If ever there was a rancid meat mirage to attract flies of evangelical attention, this sign did the trick. They came up our stairs daily to save us. The owner didn’t have to deal with them daily, but her employers did.

"For Madmen Only: Price of Admission, Your Mind" was my first read of Osho's one-on-one counseling of devotees. Pay with your mind sounds like brainwashing? I hope so. Since I read this book back in 1980 I've been trying to wash my brain each moment of all the identity, conditioning and crap society has put there with Osho's meditations. It's good to be clean.

For today’s blog, I recall two finely dressed male saviors who begged to remind me that Satan created sin in the world. I thought I’d try to test their theology with a question inspired by something I’d just read in For Madmen Only, my first book of Osho’s spiritually iconoclastic writings.

I said, “OK, I get it, Satan created sin but who created Satan?”

That question took them aback and one replied after thinking it over, saying, “God created Lucifer the angel who then decided to become ‘Satan.’ That was his free choice given by God to be evil rather than devote himself to God’s good.”

“Good,” I said. “Quite right. But who is responsible for creating Lucifer? Had Lucifer not been created, had God not given Lucifer the power to go astray… Golly, if God hadn’t even created the notion of ‘going astray’, would we have ‘Satan’ this evangel of ‘sin’?”

The evangelical duo went silent. Neither could give me an answer.

I pressed my point, “The source of evil was Satan, who was Lucifer, who was created by God. Thus, God is ultimately responsible for evil, is he not?”

One of the two faith-fettered fellows to his credit saw the logic and had to say yes. They departed quickly from The Prophet with a desire to tell further biblical “tales” tucked between their legs.

Osho, formerly known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. If something deep inside is stirred by looking into this face. If it reflects back to you a truth already nestled deep inside the being, once forgotten. Now remembered. There are meditations of Osho I would be happy to freely share with you. These meditations have helped me rediscover that light behind eyes, in ego mind-bind, forgotten. If you have a feeling to explore these meditations, just ask by email and information and links will be freely given.

Thus if God is the creator of all, therefore even evil is his responsibility. He need not give people a choice to do good or evil. He could have just created a universe of bliss and peace.

Why did God create disharmony? The Bible in all its evolutions lead to the psychotic prophecies of St. John as its penultimate accomplishment. Even Steven King couldn’t “right” a more vengeful and censuring horror story about the ultimate criminal punishing his creations. Upon reflecting on St. John’s final psychotic book punctuating as last word the “good news” of the Bible, there’s only one revelation worth keeping. God couldn’t have channeled the bible. Men channeled it.

What they call “god” is just the message of their subconscious minds, trying to understand the miraculous mystery of divine existence. Men personified this mystery. They made God their ultimate imaginary friend, like children do. He’s bigger than life, just like a child’s immoderate worship of a hero. God judges his world, breaking his toys and creations just like a child having a temper tantrum.

It’s a new era. Time to stop being childish.

That is why Nietzsche was right to provoke the mindset of people by saying, “God is dead!”

Do you know the whole statement of Nietzsche? Here it is:

“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we, murderers of all murderers, console ourselves? That which was the holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet possessed has bled to death under our knives. Who will wipe this blood off us? With what water could we purify ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we need to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we not ourselves become gods simply to be worthy of it? There has never been a greater deed; and whosoever shall be born after us — for the sake of this deed he shall be part of a higher history than all history hitherto.” (The Gay Science)

Humanity now is free of imaginary friends. Now we can be godliness itself, sharing divine freedom and the compassionate response-ability that goes on with divine freedom from our imaginary friends. That is our golden future. We are destined to recreate a “new heaven” of inner enlightenment and a “new earth” restored to ecological harmony.

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More Fulfilled

Predictions for 2010

–Plus further predictions for the US Mid-Term Elections–

I documented the prediction (below) on 1 November 2009. It comes from the Chapter Finding your Groove of Greatness. Barack Obama does have the potential as well as the karma to be another Abraham Lincoln. Many of you might not believe it. Like Lincoln, he is making generally a mess of his first few years in office. Lincoln chose the wrong generals. Obama chooses the wrong economic advisors. Still there is progress, albeit a year late. Obama has advanced his Health Care Reform as I predicted he would, despite great resistance in the Congress. The reform is a work in progress. Congress has passed Obama’s Bank and Wall Street Reform. Like Health Care, these economic reforms will take many years of struggle and regeneration to mature. When I wrote the following, Obama was still enjoying an extended honeymoon with the American People. Here is its future foretold followed by today’s assessment:

“The honeymoon of change arriving without the luggage is over by the end of 2009. This perpetual arrival era of Obama’s presidency also ends. The promise of change must ripen into real change starting in 2010 and though Obama has not a civil war to fight [like Lincoln], he has to drag the status quo over the water, and end this tug of war match with real reform destroying the systemically dysfunctional culture of our body politic and body economic. The defeats in battles of bear market runs in Wall Street are waiting, but like Lincoln, Obama must revive the battle hymn of anti-trust laws, and responsible regulation and redouble the attack once more. Mine eyes have seen the monopolies destroying all the jobs. He must fight his battles not pitting blue against gray but a moderately liberal blue opposed to a new and radical red posing as conservative philosophy.”

Assessment
Rumblings of a Euro crisis over Greece overshadow Europe. A Tory led coalition in Britain leads a movement across the Euro-zone promoting austerity measures to bring down national debts. This is in direct conflict with Obama’s philosophy of spend now to stimulate economic growth, then pay down the debt later. Obama’s forward economic progress to recovery has hit an oil slick disaster in the Gulf of Mexico that may later goo up the newest economic bubble. Unemployment check payments are running out for millions. The Gulf’s fishing and tourist industries take a slick slamming. Obama’s mistake (as I foresee it) of a six-month deep drill moratorium slams the last Gulf industry standing. Millions more across a five state region are losing their jobs. A bear market and a new recession loom after the autumn leaves have fallen in 2010.

Sarah Palin goes Grizzly Adams Bear market on the President. She plays Obama’s change game with her own “yes we Ameri-can-ism” charismatic attacks on his administration. Palin is full of hyperbole and fury yet makes that fatal GOP mistake in the mid-terms pontificating that real solutions to our economic problems with a litany of Bushism dogma, such as cutting taxes stimulates growth.

“Where have these people been in the eight years of Sarah Palin’s G.W. Bush-whacking?” say the liberals.

A great leap backwards will not win the Republicans the House and the Senate in November. Beyond the potential pitchforking of incumbents and the potential for tearing the Washington establishment all down at the ballot, the mid-term elections can be a battle of progressively conservative versus progressively liberal ideas.

An extreme right-wing red colors much of the core Tea Party movement, even though many who flock to its mostly incoherent cause are members of what I’ve called in previous books and blogs the “Invisible Majority” of American voters grown disenchanted and feeling politically disenfranchised by the Democrat-Republican duopoly running the Federal and State governments.

These independent voters are not generally extremists but they are politically homeless. As the majority of Americans are a bit right of center in their politics it is understandable that many try out the Tea Party scene, or that they might chose to vote in Tea Party candidates as a kind of protest vote.

If I have read my oracle right the aggregate swing of votes will do more to dilute the Republican Brand than throw the Democrat bums out of House of Reps. and Washington DC homes. Successful primary Tea Party candidates like Rand Paul running for the US Senate seat in Kentucky bumped a mainstream Republican hopeful for the chance. However, like many a Tea Party candidate, his extreme views might alienate the moderate mainstream voters in November.

The Democrats may read the signs better than the Republicans this fall, and gain back momentum. Obama “has” revived a battle hymn of banking and Wall Street reform in 2010 that was missing in 2009. Talk of dismantling banking monopolies to shrink “banks too big to fail” into smaller banks is finding Obama’s political push now. He has also had to listen and learn from blue dog democrats what they demand in legislation to pass Health Care in March without a radicalizing Republican Caucus in Congress. Read more…

John Hogue

(20 July 2010)

“When making my occult enquiries to the oracle I received this message. The road to a second term [for President Obama] is successfully ventured despite what the contentious Democrat legislators and president promise but do not deliver. It has far more to do with the Republican Party losing further seats to Democrats in 2010 because the GOP (the Grand Old Party) devolves farther to the right. The GOP wants to go rogue elephant led by its most ideologically dogmatic core followers marching to the pied piper tunes of the likes of former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, right-wing radio rishi Rush Limbaugh and television’s new Mormon messenger Angel Moron-ee, Glen Beck.”

Many of you have been writing me, asking if I would change this prediction.

Let me make this clear, I do not take back this prophecy.

Time and events catching up to my oracle’s cryptic prediction make clear to me what the message of that prophecy was.

The Republicans WILL lose seats in tomorrow’s midterm election. Seats that they will in time surrender to the Democrats two years hence.

The Republicans are not going to win both the House of Representatives “and” the US Senate by one or two seats tomorrow on midterm election day.

The help of candidates of the Tea Party movement will win these seats. They will carry the Republicans on their backs to a breathtaking protest referendum victory against Barack Obama’s first two years in office.

Obama is perceived as being big on wooing and lofty talk about change, but has presented little in “do” and accomplishments.

This is not actually true but truth in politics is irrelevant.

Perception is truth in politics.

Obama has not yet learned how to sustain political momentum and thus his presidency suffers a major midterm setback. I have said since early 2007 that Barack Obama if elected in 2008 will come to his destiny too soon without enough seasoning and maturity. It is better to come to your destiny too soon rather than too late, but coming too soon can see you stumble greatly rather than become a great president.

On 2 November 2010, watch Obama stumble. Greatly!

Obama has the audacity if not yet the reality to hope that he is a great communicator. The cerebral President “Spock” missed an opportunity in his first year in office to gather emotional capital from the American people. The kind of capital of emotional engagement that could have carried him through setbacks in his agenda and found an American people more patient and forgiving by the midterms. Franklin Roosevelt during the last great economic crisis had made that connection. Despite the scandals, the unfulfilled political promises to get America beyond the Great Depression, the equally cerebral Roosevelt learned early on to cultivate an emotional bond with his suffering people in his fireside radio chats. A majority of the people were with him and willing to share his struggles to bring change and better times. Obama, once in office seemed to lose interest or lose focus in that emotional connection.

I remember Obama in 2008 famously criticizing Republican candidate Senator John McCain for not being able to multitask. Desperate to capture the youth vote, he recently appeared on Jon Stewart’s fake news show for Comedy Central giving a rather lame excuse for losing public engagement as if it sounded to me like it was low in priority and the president and his very busy administration were to busy pushing their legislation forward and just didn’t have time.

Obama does not feel our pain in these economically dire times nor has he yet found his voice or figured out how to use this crisis to galvanize citizens to action. That doesn’t mean he won’t learn his lesson after tomorrow’s historic shocker.

In tomorrow’s midterm election, he will lose the House and by the slightest of margins, lose the Senate too.

Make no mistake, though. The Republicans have not “gained” these two houses of Congress.

The Tea Party Caucus will tip the balance for them and the Republican establishment riding rough-shod on the backs of Tea Party anger will take back the gavels of House and Senate halls at the high price of making a Faustian deal with a third party rebellion that will not be tamed.

The Republican establishment rides a mandate of anger. It is a negative and destructive political force if it stays angry. I predict now, as I did exactly one year ago in the following from Predictions for 2010 that an opposition party divided against itself paves the way for a two-term Obama administration. To prevent this happening the GOP has to learn how to adapt its platform to these irrational times.

“The [oracle's] message…is this: we’ve entered for better and worse a more politically socialist era. US Conservatism has a future in this new era. Accessing that future will depend on how long conservatives wish to hold on to the last era’s fundamentally religious and economically Reaganite dogmas keeping them out of power and influence. Depending on the choices made in the 2010 and 2012 elections, conservatives who still identify with the Republican Party could be out of power for two to three presidential four-year cycles.

“The conservative movement in America will eventually morph into something more English and Tory-like in this new socialist era. The Republican Party may not remain the bastion of conservative ideas but a cult of the sharply right wing fringe. A new conservatism will reject many of the great givens of the past, such as President Reagan becoming the head of a government that was the problem, not the answer. Why become head of that which is not the answer? Anyway, seeking to become anti-government government presidents and legislators is an oxymoronic idea about to be oxy-cleaned from the future as an anachronism. In a new century of deepening chaos, a fresh conservatism could defend social and economic order with rationality and logic. Change is the catchword for our times now. Conservatives will someday contribute a new idea of Change that’s more than hoped for and believed.”

Just under five months ago, I expanded upon my midterm election prophecy in the blog article Uranus Retrograde: Chaos we can believe in? In the following passage I spoke of the key astrological influence of Uranus (the ruler of change) retreating while the ruler of status quo limitations and conservative reality checks advanced towards the midterms:

“Starting 7 July [the day of this blog's posting] and intensifying by 21 July, Uranus retreats to its place in a very powerful grand T square with Pluto in Capricorn opposing Saturn in Libra (status quo and reality checks). Pluto in Capricorn defines a generational age, an era of systemic crisis leading either to global civil disorder and fascism or democracy’s renewal between now and the first months of 2024.

“We will be feeling the influence of this powerful T square throughout the summer in extreme heat waves, floods, violent weather, hurricanes, cyclones and typhoons. I would be pleasantly surprised if the world does not endure a major seismic disaster or two between now and Halloween — metaphorical earthquakes that are political, economic and literally seismic.

“A thread of destiny pulls backwards out of the T Square in the guise of Uranus in retrograde, starting mid August, retreating into the spacey sign of Pisces. Expect to see civilization’s rug pulled underfoot starting in mid-August, shaking things up when hidden enemies to change — our collective conditioned reflexes against it — pop out from the undercurrent of mass unconscious from August through to the Christmas Holiday Season. Then Uranus goes direct course on 6 December 2010.”

The summer certainly had its share of lingering triple-digit heat waves, tornadoes, hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones. Christchurch, New Zealand was hit by a 7 magnitude temblor. Another 7.7 magnitude quake off Sumatra pushed a tsunami washing away many villages yet as significant as these are, they are not the kind of large scale seismic events seen earlier this year in Chile and Haiti. The year 2010 during the Uranus retrograde did endure a historic natural disaster of another kind. A lingering monsoon deluge flooded a fourth of Pakistan displacing 25 million people.

What about that forecast of a political earthquake by Halloween?

It will come 2 November — a day after the original date celebrating Halloween, All Soul’s Day, 1 November.

Let us examine the astrological makeup of tomorrow’s election day — the most significant US election since the year 2000 saw Al Gore win the popular vote but lose the Electoral College vote to G.W. Bush. Perhaps a basic explanation of tomorrow’s planetary aspects might consciously rather than unconsciously influence your vote.

On Election Day, the Sun (ruler of the ego) will be in Scorpio, the sign of fundamental transformations, death and rebirth. The American world will be greatly changed after 2 November.

Mercury is also in Scorpio and it is sextiled (positively aspecting) the Moon (ruler of emotions) in Virgo. The minds of voters might be moderated by the Moon’s discernment to temper sharp and harsh language, such as what one sees on the placards against Obama in Tea Party rallies or in the angry rancor of leftists and rightists grappling for sound bytes and scratches on Cable TV talking “head job” shows. Mercury in Scorpio can also motivate mistrust. There will be a number of ballot fraud claims because of this. There will be new excuses, some warranted and mostly not, to create new conspiracy theories on both sides of the political spectrum. The mood of mistrust will not bode well for incumbents whether it is earned or unearned. Change for change’s sake is the reasoning of Mercury tomorrow. Damn the consequences. That’s why I think Democrat Senator’s Barbara Boxer of California and Patty Murray of Washington State are likely to lose. So is Democrat Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin.

Venus, (ruler of relationships) on Election Day is also in retrograde, wanting to retreating from past relationships, such as with the president who wooed her so well in 2008.

“You are not the president I married!” cries Venus in Scorpio, while under the sign of passionate yet karmic love relationships. Venus in Scorpio is in its detriment. In a political context, Venus lets passion rule reason in the American Vox Populi.

In short, Obama suffers a lover’s breakup coming on 2 November. His jilted “lover” is the American electorate. They passionately embraced the alluring if vague dream of his 2008 troubadour love song of change they could believe in. Venus in Scorpio when under such affliction can be the catalyst of a love-hate relation-abandon-ship in the works. If there is a perception of being unheard by the lover, or neglected, love can turn to hate and cold indifference. Obama’s independent swing voters followed him to the left in 08. Now watch many of the same voters, mute and indifferent to Obama’s last minute political rallies vote against his party. The thrill is gone. They lurch to the right on Election Day 2010.

There will be some Democratic Party gains in state governor elections: Cuomo in New York, geriatric Jerry Brown in California. A senate victory in Connecticut, yet Republican Pat Toomey will be a new US Senator from Pennsylvania. The Republican Mark Kirk will win Obama’s Illinois Senate seat as well. Tea Party candidate Rubio and Rand Paul will win a Florida and Kentucky Senate seat respectively and I do not rule out significant roles for these Tea Party leaders, rubbing the Republican establishment raw in Washington DC.

Impetuous Mars is in Sagittarius on Election Day. The God of war and new beginnings seeks to be carried off by the enthusiasm of the crusade of disgruntled voters. Watch their exit poll interviews. The voters will be Marian in their directness, in their Sagittarian arrow shots at Obama and the Democrats.

The martial slogan, “Take back America!” will out trump the old “Change we can believe in! “

The new slogan is just as vague-faith based and irrational as the old. The next two years will repeat the last two. These mantras lose their mojo exhausting themselves in their own too often uttered chant, sound and fury, signifying no significant change and definitely no America returned to normal, whatever that ill-defined, chest beaten “normal” might actually be.

Jupiter (the planet of higher expansion) on Election Day is in Pisces in retrograde conjunct wacko Uranus, also in retreat. This configuration of planets in magnified combination and retrograde can give an a more conscious individual the capacity to feel compassion and deep feeling for others, but in politics, the lowest potentials of a mob-ocracy mindset can make the voting public undisciplined, impatient, irascible, expecting too much change to come too soon. They brusquely seek to burn the bridges over from where change might finally arrive.

Saturn in Libra rules the paradigm of accomplishing good through cooperation with others. When afflicted it can help a Supreme Court warp the letter of constitutional law deeming that a corporation is a human being, a citizen with equal First Amendment free speech rights like you or me who do not generally have an army of lobbyists and lawyers, or billions of dollars available to influence campaign advertisements.

These new citizens are more “equal” than you or I during this midterm election. These corporations-cum-citizens can dig deep into their deep transnational company pockets to spend a record breaking half-billion dollars on political campaigns, left-wing or right, without revealing the money bag’s location, even if the cash comes from other nations, like China, trying to influence American elections.

Without such “citizens” the Tea Party, movement would not have been taken for a ride by the Washington DC Republican establishment into the halls of power when the new US Congress convenes in early 2011.

Uranus on election day is also in dreamy, politically delusional Pisces and it will influence a collective subconscious and impractical idealism of those who would replace the vacuous Democrat mantra, “Yes we Can,” with their own simplistic mantra: “Take America back!”

Uranus (ruler of change) retreating will influence a majority of voters to pass a mandate of anger that brings into power legislators that will avoid unpleasant challenges and realities for two years. They may keep planning for the short term, deregulate the banks, avoid the issue of establishing a functioning Health Care system, let the housing bubbles bloom, cut taxes whilst the debt bomb, buried around the corner of America’s near future like a hidden IED is waiting.

Uranus in retrograde will, “Drill baby, drill!” past oil’s peak. There will be no talk of real sacrifice to gain America’s energy independence. The world’s weather will keep changing. Mother Nature’s fevers will rise but denial of global warming will reach even higher temperature levels. America will waste two years it and the world can ill afford to lose. It will not be a leader in the defense against increasing Climate Change unless the President finds that voice as well and leads us there with a public pressuring for congressional support.

The people tomorrow will vote in a historic two years of political gridlock on pressing global issues, such as climate change just as the tipping points of our civilization’s unsustainable consumption of Earth’s resources approach.

Neptune retrograde in Aquarius is like a fog on Election Day, throwing caution and reason aside. The irrational vote is king and crazy talk is the language, paranoia and conspiracies the projection.

Speaking of the heroically crazy, Delaware Tea Party candidate Christine O’Donnell the reformed masturbating witch of Bill Maher’s 1990s show Politically Incorrect will lose her Senate election bid but gain a seat at Maher’s TV panel table. However, there is another contestant running for the unofficial title of weirdest candidate most likely to embarrass herself in the hallowed halls of the US Senate. Yes folks, Sharron Angle, will defeat incumbent Democrat Majority Leader, Harry Reid tomorrow unless Las Vegas can rig the election in his favor.

Last but not least to explain what is the astrological background on election day. This is year two of an era starting in 2008 setting the stage for a history show that won’t exhaust its run until 2024. I speak of the transit of Pluto through the sign of Capricorn. Pluto last passed through Capricorn just shy of 250 years ago. It enjoyed the theater of another Tea Party movement consisting just as the modern day variant did of predominantly white folk, faces painted, clad in exotic costumes, causing a ruckus.

The first Tea Party dressed like American Indians, hatcheting and flinging wooden boxes of tea off British ships in Boston harbor to protest taxation without representation. They also tarred and feathered folk who didn’t agree with them or supported English trade.

The new Tea Party isn’t drop-kicking tea boxes but it will help the Republican party pitch over the side a historic number of incumbents.

It is possible that this new Tea Party movement, like the older one will rapidly move out of its punk rock, feathered and fussing tear-it-all-down phase and let more rational, intelligent and moderate revolutionaries be the founding fathers and mothers of the next Pluto-in-Capricorn American Revolution.

In the 2010 elections and for at least a year further on, the third party movement in America continues its cranky “baby” phase. Like a baby it is impatient, thinking the problems of the land can be fixed by pie-in-the-sky Obamagoguery in 08, yet in two short years starts crying, screaming and throwing tantrums.

It seems to me that baby talk slogans and baby mindedness dominates this first chewed toy block wedge thrust between the Republican-Democrat duopoly. The new political babies with their loud shrieks and crying have stifled a more mature majority who are just like parents who sometimes withdraw into mute and nervous exhaustion trying to comfort a bawling, spoiled child who will not be comforted.

“I want my change I can believe in!!! Boo hoo hoo!”

“I want to take back America!!! Waaah!”

Pre-school politics dominate the opening years of what could eventually become a movement that unites rather than divides Americans. On the other hand, if this tantrum continues in the Congress-turned-political daycare after 2 November 2010 and the silent majority of more moderate parental voices do not hush the crybaby movement’s bawling, the future of America’s political discourse will be an orphan.

John Hogue

(01 November 2010)