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Things are not what they seem. There is saber rattling in the Persian Gulf (or what Nostradamus called in his predictions about a future war with Iran, the “Arabian” Gulf). Your corporately funded and controlled mainstream news outlets like to prey on the childishness of the masses. They play our overlording parent waving a saber baby rattle to attract a child’s wondering attention as the nurse, as it were, prepares the painful butt shot.

Watch the rattling saber, my fellow babies. Coo your concern and fatal attraction to a war being pushed upon you with Iran by a military industrial complex that needs to find another market in the highly profitable big business of war armaments and deterrents in the Middle East. The war business lost the Iraq market with the pullout of the US military occupation. Pakistan’s radicalization will soon pinch off the war market in Afghanistan, much sooner than the deadline of 2014, by the way.

The public’s infantile attention is directed elsewhere, away from real dangers lurking in the highly unstable and Islamist-bound regime along the Indus River. Pakistan with its crash program to triple its nuclear weapons stockpile is adding 200 more 25 to 35 kiloton nuclear warheads to its current arsenal of 100 nukes by 2021. The press obsesses on Iran maybe someday building an atomic bomb. Terrorist cells train in Pakistan in the vicinity of 100-plus nuclear warhead stockpiles TODAY. A Pakistani military and government already heavily infiltrated by jihadist sympathizers guard these Islamic A-bombs. The same military and government that often give Afghani Taliban logistical and intelligence support when they attack US and NATO forces occupying Afghanistan.

Iran is years away from having the ability to build atomic weapons. At any moment now, a Pakistani warhead or radioactive materials stockpiled to build hundreds more could be smuggled to the Taliban or what is left of al-Qaeda. The tools of nuclear terrorism can at any moment be smuggled out of Pakistani military bases and handed over to emerging and strengthening organizations like Lashkar-e-Taiba. This Pakistani based jihadist network effectively shot up downtown Mumbai India in November 2008.

Iran may soon become a danger, but Pakistan, right now, IS a danger and its growing instability becomes a more clear and present threat to human peace and stability than what the Iranians may or may not be doing with their nuclear civilian program at this time. I predict it will be proven that Iran is only learning how to make an atomic bomb. They will not actually build them. Israel introduced these awful weapons of mass atomic destruction into the Middle East in the 1960s. They now have an arms race lead of an estimated 80 to 300 warheads. It is impossible to catch up given the scrutiny and economic sanctions placed on Iran.

Rattle, rattle, rattle goes the sword of war in its scabbard, daily and nightly on the 24-hour news cycles of corporately left-leaning CNN to corporately right-leaning Fox News propaganda organs of the politically two-faced aristocracy of our times. The elites do not cite bloodlines as their reason for being the alpha male and female class. They cite bottom lines of immense hoards of corporate wealth and influence over totalitarian and democratic government politicians of our day.

They have an agenda. They want to “inject” something into the backside of the Middle East to control the juice of their affluence, the black blood that runs our civilization: the last location of easy-to-drill petroleum that happens to lie underneath volatile Arab and Persian states. Since 2006 and in my book about war with Iran, I have been writing about a movement masquerading behind the US and Israeli governments that is neo-Imperialist, Neo-Conservative. It has the former deputy Secretary of Defense, Paul Wolfowitz and the former Vice President Dick Cheney as its earliest author and editor of a manifesto first introduced shortly after the end of the Cold War, that strategically planned a new way for American superpower to remain relevant after the Soviet Union’s collapse. In short, America with help or unilaterally must take down the rogue regimes of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq and the Islamic Revolutionary regime of Iran so that oil can run free and fully under the sphere of influence of the United States. If war and occupation must happen in Iraq and Iran, then so be it. As I listed in a recent article Israel Iran Strike, the Wolf, his Dick and many other leading figures in the Neo-Conservative movement crowded the G.W. Bush administration’s cabinet. They successfully pushed the US Congress in October of 2002 to grant war powers to the president based on a lot of saber rattling and no solid evidence that Saddam Hussein had a stockpile of weapons of mass destruction that was an imminent threat to the United States. All complete and hyperbolic BS, as it turned out, but it got the Neo-Conservatives half way to their goal, even though it did not get them the oil because the Bush administration proved to be a bungling gaggle of faux Imperialists. Saddam’s Iraq went down. Iran, you are next.

I have also been at pains to forewarn my readers that this cabal of Neo-Cons marries right wing corporate interests in the US to Zionist supremacists in Israel, which would have the US expend its treasure and its blood to fulfill the foreign policies of Israel. This has become an absurdist turn of events where the proxies control the superpower. I understand why Israel might seek to manipulate a friend and military giant to wage its wars and aggressive foreign policies in a region hostile to its existence. I understand why Iran might want to know how to build an atomic bomb when hundreds of Israeli warheads are pointed at its people, which an any point might be unleashed.

What you, my readers, need to understand is that Iran’s oil reserves are dwindling. Teheran plans in the next few decades to build 15 nuclear plants because the next generation of Iranians will need a new industry beyond the fading oil export industry, and a new source of electricity and power to generate it. Iran MUST go ahead with its nuclear program for its economic survival and the only way it can pay for it is to export oil while there is still oil to ship out through the Strait of Hormuz.

Cut its ability to export and you have cut Iran’s economic future below the knees. When you shut a country’s economy down and stop talking to them, you leave that country only a military option. More on that a little later.

Know this also, that Iran seeks like any other signatory of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the knowledge to build atomic weapons.

Did we sanction Taiwan, South Korea, or Japan decades before when they tested and acquired the know-how to build atomic weapons, just in case a nuclear power like Communist China might threaten?

The saber rattles and rattles your attention away from the hypocrisies and big business oil and big business military players behind the facades of President Bush, President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu.

The war market is in a crisis. The infernal shop of conflict is closing for the moment in Iraq and in Afghanistan soon. There is ever less reason out there for US taxpayers to bankroll this capitalist welfare program that fields a Cold War sized Imperial US armed force after strategic threats requiring such a behemoth had vanished with the Cold War over 20 years ago. Global economic pressures also push America to downsize its stupendous military might. It is ten times more powerful than any armed force that could vaguely threaten. Now that Saddam is gone, the big boots of a Soviet sized bogeyman look even more ridiculous if you try to shove them on little, rat faced Iranian President Ahmadinejad’s feet.

A resumption of a global cold war with the Soviet replacement, the Russian Federation, is unlikely for now, so big war businessmen must seek a regional cold war business model. Iran is perfect for this. The military industrialists would prefer containing Iran for decades rather than a short sharp and messy conflict. The Cold War between the US and Soviet Union cost relatively few American lives, compared to the First and Second World Wars but made contractors in the Military Industrial Complex insanely rich off taxpayer’s dollars just preparing for, but not actually waging, doomsday. The same set up is happening in the Persian Gulf Cold War starting in 2012. Huge defense spending contracts and orders are already going through, soon to rebuild and reboot the air forces and missile defense systems of Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States with the most modern and most pricey US weaponry on the market.

The more moderate puppet masters competing to pull the strings of the current US president and Israeli Prime Minister would seek to postpone a major war with Iran. Building and sustaining military deterrents is much more war profitable. At least postpone until the middle of the decade at the earliest because fantastic profits are theirs for the taking in a ramp up of Saudi and Gulf State rearmament for the next four years.

Recent photograph of a US amphibious assault carrier stationed in the Strait of Hormuz. (Source: U.S. Navy Imagery/Flickr.)

There is at the moment a more impatient set of polemical puppet masters of the Neo-Con-cum-Zionist faction of the military industrial complex that want to give Iran what I would call the “Japanese Ultimatum” – the no choice but war option. They know they cannot stop Iran from exploring nuclear weapons unless they can somehow push Teheran out of its passive aggressive foreign policy game into some precipitous action. All the last attempts during the Bush administration since 2005 through 2008 to create a military incident in the Strait of Hormuz in which most of the oil shipped by sea to the world passes failed because the Iranians did not take the provocative bait. They have not taken the bait in a clandestine war the US started waging inside Iran since 2005. Terrorists the US supports are available for weapons and bomb training in a number of non-Persian ethnic populations in Iran. The CIA and Israeli Mossad secret services have trained these to blow up hundreds of people in bombed planes, squares and mosques across Iran since 2005.

Your corporate Western media does not want you to know that.

A funeral procession in Teheran carrying the coffin of the recently assassinated Iranian scientist. An assasin on a motorbike drove up to his car, applied a magnetic mine, then drove off allowing a radio signal to detonate the bomb. Is that not also an act of terrorism? Why is one man's terror another man's righteous kill?

The serial assassination of nearly a half dozen nuclear physicists and scientists of late is just an escalation of this secret war of terrorism waged against Iranians by Israeli and CIA operatives.

Oh! I’m sorry. These roadside bombers aren’t terrorists. If the good guys blow women and children up with car bombs in crowded streets of Iran, they are “freedom fighters.”

Now, to be fair, Iran’s government is getting its own back. They wage clandestine war against Israel ever since this secret war started, using the proxies of Hezbollah and have sent military trainers by the hundreds to teach Hezbollah terrorists how to launch imported Iranian rockets falling on innocent Israeli civilians. A large part of the 5,000 US and Coalition soldiers killed in Iraq and to some extent Afghanistan were fatally maimed by an ever more deadly evolution of Iranian manufactured roadside bombs.

The Iranian-US-Israeli regional Cold War has been on since 2005, yet in 2012, it could go potentially hot, like the global cold war between the US and the Soviet Union almost did during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Especially now that the Neo-Cons are doing everything they can through the media and through political pressure in the US to push upon Obama the “Japanese Ultimatum” against Iran.

In late 2011, the US Senate voted unanimously to enact a regimen of sanctions handed to President Obama that would cripple Iran’s one economic lifeline, its oil exports. Obama would prefer to push the Iranians in increments, but forces pulling the strings and holding the financial purses of Democratic and Republican puppets in the Senate have pressed for an escalation that will, if successful, end all political support for a negotiated solution in Iran.

General Hideki Tojo became Japan's Prime Minister in 1941 when US ultimatums and a US embargo of steel and petroleum exports silenced doves and diplomats in the Japanese cabinet. Tojo sanctioned the surprise attack on the US Pacific Fleet at Peal Harbor.

It is kind of a reverse image of what happened to Imperial Japan just before they went to war with the US in 1941. The expansion, indeed the survival, of the Japanese Empire depended on foreign exports of steel and oil to fuel and arm its military. Most of these exports came from America. When President Franklin D. Roosevelt put an embargo on all oil and steel exports to Japan, he forced the diplomats out of power in Tokyo. War hawk officers filled the void in the Japanese Cabinet of Emperor Hirohito. Negotiations had turned to ultimatums from America to get out of Indo-China and China. In less than a year, Japan’s military machine would cease to work. No country with a war machine and Imperial intentions, be they Japan in the 1940s or Neo-Conned America in the 21st century, will let their forces run out of steel and fuel. War was the only option Japan had. They attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941 to destroy the US Pacific Fleet so their own fleet and army could conquer the oil fields of Indonesia without US threat.

History past becomes history future, relatively easy to forecast, because people keep conditioning their new generations to repeat the same stupid mistakes. All the elements of the Japan Ultimatum are in this Iran Ultimatum passed by the US Senate. Oil is again the catalyst for war, only this time it is not oil denied to Iran’s domestic industries and military forces. Iranian oil exports will be severely restrained “from” Iran.

Rather than aid a negotiated settlement, like with Japan, the cynical intention of these sanctions is to flush out any remaining doves from the Iranian government, which has already become more militarized and dominated by its own General Hideki Tojos, the officers of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. If you want to force the hand of war, push sanctions that are impossible to economically survive. Threaten a nation’s economic existence.

There is another objective, more cynical and dreadful happening here and Iran is only the bait, not the target. The target is a slow but fragile recovery of the US economy during a presidential election year. There are well-financially-healed oligarchic forces in the world influencing American politics that could easily absorb a temporary financial hit in 2012 if it takes down the Obama administration and what is left of the toe hold the Democrats have in the US Senate.

The creeping coup of a corporate aristocracy had already conquered the US Supreme Court in 2010 and received their “equal citizen status” allowing an empowered plutocracy to flood money and influence to decide the US elections according to what their money can buy and what you human citizens of America cannot lobby and possibly match fund.

The real reason why a push for war with Iran goes on whilst the real danger of nuclear terrorist proliferation remains unaddressed in Pakistan, is to create a false flag crisis in the Persian Gulf that disrupts oil flow out of the Strait of Hormuz. Pakistan needs to go radical so the same Neo-Cons who looked the other way to let 9-11 terror attacks on America happen, can yet again resurrect a jihadist bogeyman that will require decades of deterrent military spending.

But I get ahead of myself. First, false flag a conflict with Iran in 2012. The Strait of Hormuz is closed to oil traffic. The skyrocketing oil prices will then temporarily push the US economy back into a recession. The economic downturn will be blamed on President Obama. A little war of gunboats in the Strait of Hormuz might just tip the economy back into 10 percent unemployment and convince enough voters that Obama and the Democrats controlling the Senate need to be flushed out with their votes in November 2012. A far more big business friendly Republican president and Congress in Washington would lead to a speedier dismantling of the US democracy in the name of smaller government.

Nevertheless, I believe this attempt by corporate forces will not be successful. The president will use his discretion in 2012 to attempt measured application of the Iranian sanctions. There may be a military incident in the Strait of Hormuz no later than June through August 2012. Even if there was a brief naval skirmish in 2012, it is only preliminary to the ultimate military showdown Nostradamus’ astrology seems to frame for the years 2015 and 2016.

Babies are easily distracted. The saber’s rattle of corporate interests might backfire when a baby’s attention catches upon something else that is bright and shiny, like a diplomatic breakthrough that only the threat of war might propel in the 11th hour concession from Teheran. Iran may take the enemy away from the military industrial complex pushers and surrender their nuclear weapon aspirations in 2012; or, at least achieve gaining some time in that tried and true Iranian tradition of diplomatic stalling.

Iran is a country that knows how to buy time. It has lasted for 3,000 years. However, if real diplomatic breakthroughs are not forthcoming in 2012, Iran is only buying time up to 2015 or 2016 when a terrible war showdown will come out of its skies and melt its fleets of motorboats in the Persian Gulf. Another fleet might be melted and sunk as well. Nostradamus leaves that potential open.

This is a still from a video taken by a US naval war vessel last week stationed in the Strait of Hormuz of an Iranian gunboat. The Iranians taunt US warships by speeding very close, causing US crews to put fingers on gun triggers. No shots as of yet have been fired.

A conflict between Iranians and Western forces was certainly foretold in one of Nostradamus’ prophecies where he named the Strait of Hormuz outright by the name it held during the 16th century. We will examine the prophecy in my next article.

In the meantime, I direct you to get a copy of my newest e-Book Predictions for 2012. Read Chapter 3: Hot Crises in a Cold Depression. What I have presented above is just a taste of the full report accounting in detail a potential military crisis with Iran in 2012, when it could happen, who is behind it and how it will be avoided.

John Hogue
(14 January 2012)

George Gurdjieff (c. 1866-1949) proposed the human conditioning and mechanical behavior was “food for the Moon”. What did he mean?

There will be tsunamis in the Pacific and Indian Ocean in 2011.

Predictions for 2011

(Documented on 21 December 2010)

The second in the sequence of three close flybys of the Full Moon happens next Saturday, 19 March. Did the waxing of the moon towards this event already trigger the Great Japanese Quake and Tsunami of 3/11/11?

PROPHECY ALERT (19 March 2011): Libyan No Fly Zone and the fall of Gaddafi foreseen by Nostradamus. I am putting together an article for posting later today. If you are on my free e-news bulletin list you will be the first to know when the blog is online. If you are not yet a member of the e-news bulletin, you can join by clicking on newsletter. In the meantime, there is a large segment on the future of the Libyan Rebellion in this blog posted 15 March 2011.

Friends,
All the people across Japan will remember where they were at 2:46 pm Japanese Time on 3/11/11 when the fifth largest quake in recorded history, magnitude 9.0, hit the northeastern coast of the main Japanese island of Honshu near the port city of Sendai. Most of us living across the Pacific Ocean on the eastern side of the Ring of Fire, the most seismically active fault lines on the planet, will not remember where we were unless we remember our dreams and nightmares impressing brains within sleepy skulls in wee hours of the morning, Pacific Time.

I was one of the few on the West Coast of America who could remember where I was about 30 minutes after the quake struck. I had just helped my mother from the bathroom back to bed. She is in her 84th year and was enduring a third difficult night healing from a fall and concussion in the garden. I had stepped out of her bedroom to switch off the bathroom and hall lights. When I returned the television was on. That might be a mundane event in modern TV addicted times, but for my mother to have put the television on in the middle of the night was odd — perhaps a sign of post-concussion weirdness?

She told me later that she had a very strong impulse to turn it on.

So, as I walked into the bedroom the wide screen blazed in photons and electrons before my gaping, gasping face the great black wave shoving a whole city off its foundations.

The Pacific Ocean unslipped its earthen coastal boundaries along Japan running rampant, spilling over farms, plastic covered greenhouses and crop fields. The roiling surge was almost completely obscured, edged by black earth, topped thick with debris as if the detritus of neighborhoods sprinkled with metallic kernels of breaching, rolling fishing trawlers and bobbing cars were some “rubble of human ruin” cereal, riding a great wall of filthy milk, flooding out of Satan’s spilled Cheerios bowl from Hell.

Then the TV picture changed to a vision captured by the cyclopean eye of a cell phone gripped tightly by horror, pointing at a coastal residential foreshortened skyline of beautiful tiled oriental flanged roofs.

The houses came alive.

A host of them, tightly packed, started retreating back from the sea. Those farther away rushed and pushed along the nearer ones, as if the neighborhood of tiled roofs was a stampeding herd. The cyclops cell camera caught the great tiled rout carried on a frothing white and sweeping wing of a tsunami, undercutting and carrying away hundreds of houses from their earth-moored foundations! It was as if the world had tipped towards the cell phone camera spilling the sea and houses towards the person holding it on high ground.

Overwhelming as it was I began to cry at the humbling yet terrible beauty of the great wave’s power as cleanser of all human plans and follies. I understood in that tear-stained, heart-heaving moment why the ancients worshipped the sea as a great goddess for it seemed the works and day-to-day habitual rhythms — the taken for granted artificial environments constructed by man — were suddenly cast down, drowned, swept away by a divinely raging hand of goddess nature.

Another Jungian feminine archetype goddess may have influenced that invisible hand: the Moon, the starlit queen of tides.

She not only contributes her invisible force behind high and low ocean tides each day through her gravitational pull, but this heavenly body, heaving gravity as she speeds around us every month, may also cause the Earth’s tectonic plates to wax and wane.

It often has happened that great earthquakes take place a few days or a fortnight before or after the New or the Full Moon. Back in June 2010, I posted in the article Pluto and Uranus Squared Saturn a list of the great killer quakes of the 20th and 21st centuries focusing on how often and with shocking regularity the great temblors and tsunamis in modern history occur when Uranus is in square or opposition to the Earth or other major planets. The danger intensifies when Mars is also in 90-degree square or opposition to Earth or Jupiter.

Here is that list again, with one significant astrological addition. Notice in red how often the quakes happen exactly on a first and last quarter aspect when the Earth and Moon are squared at 90 degrees. What is more significant is plotting how close significant earthquakes episodes happen within a week of a New Moon or a Full Moon aspect:

Great Kanto (Tokyo) Quake, 1 September 1923, Magnitude 7.9
The Sun was in Virgo (an earth sign, meaning earthquakes) opposed Uranus in Pisces shaking and burning down Tokyo five days after the Full Moon on August 27.

Honshu, Japan, 2 March 1933, Magnitude 8.4
Uranus was in Aries, at that time, which was six days past New Moon.

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 (an earth sign, quakes) with a near square of Uranus in Leo three days before New Moon.

Great Alaskan Quake, 27 March 1964 magnitude 9.3
Second largest quake ever seismically recorded happened when Uranus and Saturn were in opposing signs with Saturn in Pisces and Uranus in Virgo (an earth sign equals quakes!) one day before Full Moon!

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. Uranus was in Scorpio in an approximate square of Mars, Saturn and the Sun in Leo on a New Moon day!

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). One week after the New Moon was in first quarter aspect, 90 degrees square the Earth.

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. The quake did happen exactly on a Full Moon day!

(To see my article about Nostradamus foretelling the Great Indian Ocean quake: click on Nostradamus.)

Haitian Quake, 12 January 2010, magnitude 7.0
Three days before New Moon on 15 January.

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. The Moon was in Virgo squared Jupiter in Pisces. Uranus was also 23 degrees Pisces, one day before Full Moon on 28 February.

Now let us look at the astrological aspects of the most recent historic quake in Japan:

The Great Japanese Quake and Tsunami, 11 March 2011, magnitude 8.9, upgraded to 9.0.
Uranus (ruler of sudden surprises, upheaval) was in the last most intense degree of Pisces (ruler of oceans, tsunamis) before it passed into the combustible fire sign of Aries on 13 March with a flourish. Reactor 2 at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant had a hydrogen explosion and suffered a partial meltdown on the last day of Uranus in Pisces. Then Reactor 3 also blew up its outer building around the nuclear reactor’s containment vessel harboring a possible meltdown within the reactor core on the first day of Uranus transiting Aries (an astrological marriage of nasty surprises). This happened less than six days from New Moon and one day before a First Quarter Moon squared Earth 90 degrees.

I never expected the New and Full Moon aspects in my review today would be so close or exact. And on two occasions when they were nearly a week off, the Earth-Lunar Square of the waxing First Quarter Moon played a serial factor in large earthquakes, if not a square of Mars or Uranus.

It is important to understand that the subtle forces of the stars and moon begin exerting pressure on planets and people days before the waxing and a few days after the waning of an aspect. Depending on the vulnerability of what is being pushed, be it psychic or seismic, movements and changes can happen in the early influence of an approaching aspect. It can happen right on the aspect, as was the case in the great killer quakes of Tangshan, China (1976) and the Great Indian Ocean quake of 2004; or once the aspect’s influence is lifting, the pressures exerted before the let-up cause a collapse into mood changes or earth changes. For instance, I can press upon a brick wall, harder and harder, until I tire and step back. The damage I did is a factor in the wall’s sudden collapse moments, days or weeks later.

The more powerful the aspect, the longer the pressure of cosmic influence. This is important to understand with what is coming in the guise of next Saturday’s Full Moon on 19 March 2011. On that day the Moon will approach Earth in a lunar perigee. In other words, when you look at the moon on Saturday, you will be seeing it coming to its closest approach in 18 years! What a joy to marvel at moonrise and moonset when distortions caused by looking at it through the thick atmosphere over the horizon will make the Moon appear even larger.

Astrologer Richard Nolle defines such a Full or New Moon at 90 percent or greater of its closest perigee to Earth a “Super Moon”. The last Full Moon on 18 February, the upcoming one on 19 March and 17 April’s Full Moon all qualify as Super Moons within Nolle’s calculations.

Beyond skeptical suspicion of astrological influence in our lives, few open-minded scientists can deny the measurable impact the Moon has on ocean tides. Looking at the list of great quakes above, perhaps the Full Moon’s monthly close presses and the dark New Moon pulling away have a tidal affect on the tectonic plates. Sometimes this cosmic breath in and out causes quakes and volcanic eruptions.

Ask anyone working in hospitals, law enforcement, firefighters or EMS medics and they will tell you that more murders, injuries, basic wacky “loony” behavior happens on a Full Moon night.

The term “you’re a loony” made famous by Monty Python comedians got its origin from the word “lunar” for Moon madness. Imagine then, what pressing yet subtle tidal pressures on the waters of Earth and the waters of the brain and body might kick loose during a Super Moon Looney time? Add also to that mix a near Jupiter-Pluto square; with the Super Moon transiting the earth sign Virgo (earth signs equal earthquakes).

In lieu of what regularity Uranus and Mars push and pull in squares or opposition during heightened seismic activity, consider the aspects on Super Full Moon day 19 March 2011 (all shown here in Pacific Time). The Full Moon opposes the Sun at 11:10 am. The Moon opposes Uranus 1:45 pm.

The Sun on Saturday approaches full conjunction with Uranus on 21 March, within the 2-degree orb of influence (that means Earth may be under the magnification of a Sun-Uranus cosmic pull on Saturday even if the conjunction is not exact).

The Sun is in the last degrees of ocean-tipping Pisces (28.32 degrees) conjunct Uranus (revolutions and sudden upheaval), which is just a quarter of a degree into Aries. The first and last degrees of transits into signs are most powerful.

Sun and Uranus are conjunct in southern declination (be watchful of wavy waters and trembling earth in the equatorial or the Southern Hemisphere).

The Super Moon is in opposition to the Sun and Uranus conjunction. If the Asian side of the Ring of Fire endures another major quake, my oracle predicts the danger would be moving south of Honshu Island into the equatorial or southern hemispheric areas. Be prepared in Kyushu Island (Japan), Okinawa (Japan), the Philippines, Indonesia, all the way south to Christchurch for more strong aftershocks in New Zealand after that devastating quake several weeks ago. The danger of a powerful aftershock and tsunami around the devastated northeastern coast of Honshu is also high. Cosmic influences magnifying a nuclear disaster in many damaged Japanese reactors on the 19th is also: high.

One of several Hydrogen gas explosions caught on camera on the last day of the Uranus transit of Pisces. Explosions continue as the planet ruling sudden surprises enters impulsive, fiery, Aries.

We had Super Moons in 1955, 1974, 1992 and 2005. The last was on 10 January 2005, a New Moon, roughly two weeks after the Indian Ocean quake and tsunami on the Full Moon of 26 December 2004. The great Japanese quake of 11 March 2011 happened just a little more than a week before the Super Full Moon on the 19th. I certainly hope this temblor and tsunami is the worst the current Super Moon may deal us and all that is left after an uneventful Saturday under big moonlight is the shouting between debunkers and astrologers on blogs.

That is my hope but not, I sense, going to be fulfilled during the Full Monty of the Moon.

There will be a violent shift of record winter storms into record spring storms and tornadoes in North America. Prepare for spring floods across America and Western Europe. The sudden swing of seasonal climate change from globally snowed under winter to globally warmed spring will hinge on the next full moon date.

There will be another major quake or volcanic eruption in the next 20 days of 7.5 or above 8 magnitude. Some Sun watchers who divine earthquakes by watching solar flare activity worry for the southern Japanese island of Kyushu being the next Japanese target.

In my case, my oracle keeps prompting the Philippines up in my mind as of more seismic or volcanic concern. What is far more pressing the psychic intuition is the constant oracular sense mounting that the northeastern quarter of the Pacific Rim’s Ring of Fire is going to be active this year like it has not been for many decades.

In Predictions for 2008, 2009 and 2010, I accurately forecasted quakes in the Cascadian Subduction Zone off the coast of Central Oregon. This vulnerable coast and Southwest Washington’s flat and sprawling beaches are ever my concern for a Sumatran-style unzipping of the Cascadian S.Z., which is almost geologically identical to the Sumatran fault that pushed monster waves across the Indian Ocean in late 2004.

I have already forecast in Predictions for 2011 a magnitude 5-to-6 magnitude quake for the Western Washington region over which I sit, typing this on my sandy and quake resonant island north of Seattle on the Puget Sound. However, left last but not least in my forecast in my e-books is an area along the US coast of most concerned to me. The region that may be influenced either by the big mooning of 19 March; or, other aspects of astrological power coming around the next Super Full Moon in April.

Be mindful and well prepared, those of you living in San Diego and Los Angeles for a major quake along the San Andreas or its tributary fault lines this year, perhaps sooner in spring than later. I have documented already in Predictions for 2009 and 2010 some accurate preliminary quakes with epicenters east of San Diego along the US-Mexican border.

There also is Bardarbunga, the large volcano in central Iceland. It might bardar-bee, bardar-BOOM because of March or April Super Moons, blowing ash across Europe. Bardarbunga is capable of vomiting twice as much ash fall than that which fell last year from its smaller neighbor with the unpronounceable Viking name: Eyjafjallajokull. (Gesunheit!)

There will be seismic, loony events in the mass unconscious mob mind of humans too.

Twentieth-Century mystic, G.I. Gurdjieff gave an esoteric slant to the mood tide-swinging influences the Moon upon us. He explained that planets evolve like people. The moon being the newer earth-born part of a binary planet relationship feeds upon the energy of the older for nourishment — A mother’s milk of human and animal unconsciousness.

It feeds upon and influences of our subconscious, mechanical behaviors. The moon makes us “nutty” bonkers, bouffants, as the source of its mysterious extraterrestrial buffet.

When you and your beloved look at the moon on the 19th, just say, “eat me” to that glowing orb. The baby planet Moon will invisibly comply. Gurdjieff says we are all unmindfully “food for the Moon.”

Now, I can almost see the question marks flying out of the reader’s brain. What in loony goodness is Mr. Gurdjieff mooning on about here? Moreover, what meaning, provocation, or a mystic’s inscrutable device in a figure of speech was intended when he blamed his disciple’s mechanical, idiotic conditioning as a lunar food source?

Maybe the moon, being a newer and primitive heavenly body pulling its gravitational weight inside and around us is a physical channel of a force of unprogressive unconsciousness. We are trying to emerge from it, snap out of its gravitational drag back to being habitually primitive. Gurdjieff would propose we cultivate a countermanding soul awareness to sense a cosmically unconscious lunar influence and rise above it.

Scientists might guffaw at all of this as subjective clap trap, but then, scientists do well to make us food for wars, climate changes, atomic bombs when they invent their machines without the wisdom to think through the consequences. Even Einstein saw his mistake when encouraging the creation of atomic weapons, mooning that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the American scientists would never be irresponsible, like an Adolf Hitler might, with weapons of mass destruction. When the Hitler threat was over in 1945, and after a few test fires on non-nuclear Japan, the United States started building atomic bombs by the hundreds before the Soviet Union lit off their first A-blast in 1949.

Einstein by that time began soul searching the unforeseen consequences of his scientific flight of atomic fancy lobbying FDR when the “good guys” started threatening civilization’s “good byes” by initiating a nuclear arms race with a head start of 250 US A-Bombs to 1 Russian device in 1949.

Food for thought, or food for the moon because of thoughtlessness…? We shall see.

Let us visit Libya’s future:

A Libyan rebel posing for the cable news cameras, mounting his rusted quadruple-A antiaircraft gun mounted on a truck. Cycles of time move from masculine dominant to feminine dominant periods lasting 36 years. We passed into a 36-year “feminine” influential period in 2008. When consciously understood, feminine forces inside all of us can be used to nurture a better future. However, when unconsciously applied, the same forces promote mass hysteria. Mob emotion trumps individual reason. Emotion becomes a drug, an opiate. I call this phenomenon of mass emotive unconsciousness: pheminin.

When the times of Cosmic Night grasp for the opiate of pheminin politics this tsunami can brush away regimes on a whim of impatient mass hysteria.

Predictions for 2011

Speaking of something Moon-looney is a Libyan Revolution without coherent leadership or a plan to defend itself against a modern, well armed, disciplined Libyan Army. The heart and bravery of the rebels is not in question. Their military “intelligence” however…?

It is guided by a hysteric mob psychology — military moon madness. You see untrained men thronging about the coastal road lifeline of Libya, without leaders, knowledge of tactics, a plan. But as the Libyan rebel I saw on TV, ducking from Gaddafi’s artillery barrage said with a grin as he fumbled with stripping and fixing his jammed rocket propelled grenade he planned to use for the first time: “We’ve got God on our side!”

Many of those men are now food for the desert flies. Food for the Moon. Regimes like Egypt could be overthrown by mass emotive demonstrations but mobs cannot govern a country, least of all themselves. I would add mobs in popular revolutions, if they do not find their leaders, discipline or focus, are food for Cadafi Luna (the decoding of Adaluncatif), the famous anagram Nostradamus used to describe the Libyan dictator in his prophecies.

Before Japanese catastrophes turned the one-dimensional attention span of CNN and other networks away from the Civil War in Libya, I could see camera footage of the East Libyan militias, if one could call them that, taking a desert road trip, packing their buddies with guns in the truck bed.

Hi ho! Hi Ho! Allah willing they go, fighting westward down a lost highway to Gaddafi’s stronghold, the city of Tripoli. The rebellion took al-Brega and other coastal towns. Their little victories against small Libyan regular army units in the first skirmishing phase of the civil war were touted by gushing news anchors in the West as “great victories” against the nut-job dictator.

I watched that armed rabble, spending precious ammunition blasting away at the air for the news cameras with their secondhand and rusty guns, mobs of them thronging their antique T-54 tanks like third world buses. No commanders, no order and no supplies except for surplus military hardware ransacked from Gaddafi’s depots in Benghazi.

I saw college students getting a crash course on which way to point their RPGs while under bombardment from Gaddafi’s freshly painted and armored APCs mounted with 50 caliber machine guns and 20mm cannons. I watched Men in street clothes pose a brave front on sand blasted and weather beaten triple-A antiaircraft guns mounted on pickup trucks. They just fired straight up in the air when jet engines thundered overhead, unseen, the gunners hoping to hit something other than their own helmetless heads when that entire spewing ordinance came falling back out of the sky.

I warned back on 3 March 2011 in Climate Change, Libya, and Living Free from the Future what was going to soon happen to the rebellion against Gaddafi if it remained a rout of heroic warrior clowns without ring masters in Benghazi, or officers to train and guide them:

“I said it at the beginning of the Libyan Revolution and I say it again, as a compassionate warning to the revolutionaries in the eastern coastal cities of Libya, such as Benghazi: Gaddafi will launch an offensive on you. It will happen this month, and you people of Benghazi will need to get yourself organized or by April, you will have Gaddafi’s tanks shooting you pointblank in your streets. You will have your oceanside demonstrations strafed by Gaddafi’s Tripolian and Algerian pilots in jets and attack helicopters.

“Listen well; there will be no No Fly Zone organized by the US Navy or the NATO air forces flying across the Mediterranean from Italy. That simply will not happen as long as you continue to be a leaderless circus in the streets, playing with your rusting, second hand tanks, and shooting off into the air magazine after wasted magazine of your secondhand anti-aircraft guns for the entertainment of brave Ben Wederman’s CNN cameras.

“You need to organize.

“Undisciplined revolutions of leaderless masses never succeed. And many an organized revolution can also succumb to a tyrannical state, initially caught off guard, but soon finding its savage footing and take aim, putting fire and chemical weapons on the cities and towns of rebels.”

Gaddafi’s daffy antics before the camera, his rambling incoherent speeches should not be the news media’s sole gauge of what he is capable of. He is daffy but not dumb. He has controlled the most tribal of Arab-North African countries for 42 years. He always had a contingency plan to suppress a rebellion of the tribes of Cyrenaica (Eastern Libya), never a friend of his clan or his tribal allies. He made sure the militias there had little training, bad command structures. He threw them the remains of lousy, defunct-Soviet weapons while the Tipolian Western Libyan tribes, revolutionary militias, his blood and allies, procured the most modern Russian-made weapons, jets, artillery and T-72 tanks.

Back in early March, the rabble-lion rebellion forces against Gaddafi came down the coastal road from Cyrenaica high on courage and cockiness, but lo on heavy armament or logistical supply or support, boasting they were going to drive on to Tripoli and take Gaddafi out. In the meantime, Gaddafi’s forces took their time to regroup, consolidate their alliances militarily and politically. They then systematically liquidated rebellions in Western Libya while letting the rabble from Cyrenaica overextend themselves from their base in Benghazi. Now the counter offensive I predicted back in a 22nd-February blog (click on Nostradamus predictions), is on course for a march on Benghazi:

Gaddafi will try to take [the old refineries and fields] back, promise reward of the rich oil industry to those western tribes and sub-tribes leaders who support the crackdown.

People inside Libya phone the outside world about Gaddafi’s acts of genocide. Believe it. This civil war could descend into a battle between Libya’s tribes to control oil resources.

At the time of this writing (22 February 2011), Gaddafi and his tribal allies in the secret police and armed forces are ruthlessly liquidating rebels in Tripoli while air strikes on Benghazi continue.

I predict Gaddafi intends to launch his heavily armored forces against Benghazi, the heart of the revolution.

Nostradamus on the Fate of Gaddafi
(HogueProphecyBulletin 22 February 2011)

On 14 March 2011, the Libyan army retook al-Brega in Eastern Libya. Al-Brega is a main petrol and natural gas refining port that powers electricity to Eastern Libya cities such as Benghazi. Rag tag and tacky armed rebel forces were pounded by air, artillery and tank fire and sent fleeing down the road to Benghazi, scattering their weapons along the same sand scoured thoroughfare Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps chased the routed British in 1941.

A rebel spokesman defended the rapid retreat with what authority to speak to the media I do not know, and neither does the media, since there does not seem to be a real revolutionary government in Benghazi, just hope and expectation of one. Anyway, he spokesman explained the rebel fighters were not routed but had chosen to leave al-Brega as a “tactical maneuver.”

Tactics are always trumped by strategic maneuvers, such as that achieved by Gaddafi’s armed forces who by taking al-Brega. Gaddafi now can pull the plug on power in the rebel capital of Benghazi. Libyan tanks now begin their advance on that second largest city of Libya, which is only a two-hour drive up the road. On the Ides of March (15 March 2011), they fight pitched battles in Ajdabia on the approaches of Benghazi. By next Saturday, Gaddafi will be closing an iron ring around blacked out Benghazi under the light of the Super Full Moon.

Now to other deadly arenas of Arab Revolution.

Since the waxing moon has a pull on mass mob moods, one sees demonstrations in Yemen become bloodier last weekend with police firing live ammunition into demonstrators.

More significant than this is what is brewing for the Full Moon weekend to come in Saudi Arabia.

On Thursday (10 March 2011) a day before the Japanese Quake, Sunni Saudi Arabian police fired tear gas and rubber bullets into a crowd of hundreds of Shia protesters in the city of al-Qatif in oil rich northeastern province, the source of nearly all of its oil. There has been a surge in activity on Facebook to organize “Day of Rage” demonstrations for after Friday Prayers on 11 March. It fizzled. Most of the users are educated young (and mostly majority Sunni) human rights activists and intellectuals living in the main urban centers of Riyadh and Jeddah.

I would expect the worst disturbances coming next Friday through Saturday under the Super Full Moon will be sectarian in nature, in al-Qatif and other oil drilling and refining towns and ports along the northeastern corner of the Saudi kingdom with a sizable Shia minority of 15 percent of the population.

Next door in the Shia principality ruled by a handful of Sunni princelings called Bahrain, watch sectarian tempers under lunar influences intensify too. The Bahrainian monarch on 15 March declared emergency rule for three months and called on Sunni monarchs of Arabia and other Gulf states to send their solders into Bahrain to suppress all protest. Push has led to the people shoving back. Bahrain will become a sectarian battlefield when the Moon is super full on the 19th.

Egypt’s revolution may also suffer mood swings towards the sectarian with further burnings of Egyptian Coptic churches by the Moonstruck Muslim majority in the Nile Delta cities and towns.

Moon moody influences the subjectivity of economic speculation.

Look for the stock markets to feel the pain of the Japanese Quake, the uncertainty of tech market stocks because so much of our technical products are manufactured from a now-fractured Japan for the next few weeks if no meltdown of nuclear power plants happens (it will happen).

Global economic recovery will suffer a huge setback if nuclear meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiich Plant breach their containment vessels like radioactive effluent lava fuel rods ooze from the butt end of containment theory.

The Dow Jones plummeted -228.48 points back on 10 March because of a number of bad economic reports, including an increase this month US unemployment. I guess it takes no Nostradamus to predict that a Day of Raging Shias in the oil producing cities of Saudi Arabia and Bahrain will make next Friday’s stocks plummet some more as oil could climb higher beyond the new $100 per barrel daily averages. But then, who can easily predict these Gaddafi Looneytoon times, what with the Moon’s ramp up to perigee on 19 March. For all I know the stock will gain hundreds of points by the end of next week on speculation of all the reconstruction investment in Japan to come (not!).

In my forecasts for 2011, I often drew readers’ attention to the months of March and April, two of the most potentially problematic months in a half-year of crises in political leadership resulting in an economic relapse to deep recession.

It starts with the Super Full Moon but the volatility does not end there. A fury of a political kind erupts next Friday just a day before Full Moon madness with a potential shutdown of the US Federal government because of budget gridlock between Donkeycrats verses a coalition of Dumbo-Publican-Mad Hatter Tea Party pols. Thus will begin a six month period of “Wattsington” DC riotous politics on the floors of US Congress that I described in detail in the Predictions for 2011 chapter “Wattsington DC”.

I would like to close with an interpretation of a prophecy written for that book’s final chapter, Alarm Bells Sound the Unsustainable:

A tectonic rock thrown into a huge Pacific pond. This NOAA satellite image of the Pacific Ocean shows the tsunami wave height as it rolled across to the Americas.

Neptune (the planet named after a Greek sea god) moves into Pisces come April. It will be a year of great sea storms and flooding La Niña rains for the whole world.

Nature is turning up the volume of her screaming gales. Her thundering quakes and waves mount until the alarm bells of an unsustainable abuse of the ecosystem begin their first ringing sound.

2010 was the year of the temperature tsunami. The tsunami I foresaw in the Pacific for 2011 has happened this week. It will not be the last great wave mounting the shores made of dry earth and more etheric shores of our unconsciousness. There will be events that are more tsunami-like in 2011. Political tsunamis that wash away regimes, political movements, presidential hopefuls, like tea flooding out of a party cup. Arab waves of revolution sweep some regimes away, yet some dictatorial regimes will sweep the undisciplined and hysterical popular revolutions aside in a tsunami of bloodshed.

The earthquake and an ocean flooding over Japan, the Libyan civil war turning civil rout are all food for Neptune in its final degrees of transit out of revolutionary Aquarius. On 5 April 2011, the great ruler of subconscious mind and spiritual transformation, the ocean God-engine of our weather and waves, moves into its home sign of oceanic Pisces.

Deep waters wait to be plumbed by the potential human awareness of each of you; or let the force of conditioned habit stamp “eat me” on the backside of your soul illuminated in the moonlight.

Never was there a time in history when human existence needed the IN-significance of individual transformation. It is time to be empowered by awareness we ignore and toss like pearls to the swine of our conditioned, programmed ego-minds.

Unconscious habit is ever the food of negative futures.

It is time to meditate.

I can share my meditations with you, if you but ask. Contact me.

Meditation is the only bridge to a future golden age of a new humanity.

John Hogue

(15 March 2011)

Uranus.

Friends,
Cosmic influences take their leisurely, eternal time in a universe that is 13.5 billion years old after God or an indescribable “godliness” Big Banged a dark and unfathomable beauty called “existence” who then instantaneously gave birth to all and everything. Astronomers since then try to unlock the mystery of cosmic forces and phenomena with the prose of fact and objective science. Astrologers play their part as cosmic poets trying to grasp the subjective mythos in a language using planets and stars as subject and their aspects transiting constellations as predicate.

Life is also poetry. Astronomers measure cosmic facts, astrologers “meter” out an understanding of cosmic influence on us. Even a cop will tell you that when a full moon is afoot people act stranger than normal. Mystics recount that more people, such as Buddha, become enlightened on a full moon night than at any other time. What is released or induced by other more distant heavenly bodies is far subtler, so claim the astrologers.

Since 2008, we have experienced a number of instances where a collective desire for change has hit an often-intractable wall of status quo. An African American for the first time became president of the United States waxing messianic about change having come. Yet Barack Obama’s presidency tested in reality beyond seductive fantasy has often collided will immovable fact in the first year and four months of his presidency. Many of his ambitious pledges of change have not happened and those that have, such as Health Care Reform passed successfully through the legislative process mutilated to no one’s complete satisfaction. Once in office, promised immigration reform was postponed for a year. Banking reform too. Much talk of change but little “do” has happened in the face of a lot of “do nots” assembled in opposition. Now it seems the forces of change are swinging in all directions without a coherent course to take. The pitchfork primaries wildly throw out good incumbents with the bad simply because they are incumbents. A third party movement I have long forecast coming is currently a grab bag chaos wherein everybody bellows and protests their own agenda. The Tea Party movement is the first whining baby spanked at birth. Today an incoherent political catharsis may later gain focus and maturity. Perhaps…

Astronomers will simply take note of several oppositions of the planet Saturn with Uranus as mere occurrences. The astrologer will use these oppositions to explain all the above gridlock and confounded hopes of change as being directly influenced by Saturn (the status quo and ruler of reality checks) in a tug of war with Uranus (ruler of the new Aquarian age and ruler of revolutionary change and chaos). In short, the past is in gridlock with the future.

The first two times these planets pulled in opposition happened the night Barack Obama won his election in November 2008 and again on Inauguration Day when he officially became the president of the United States. The bottom line in layman’s terms is this: Obama’s first term in office has and will continue to be defined by this grappling cosmic scrum of a Saturn-Uranus opposition. Change promised will be hard to earn because the forces of “past think” will try sabotage.

Back in 2007 when I posted Obama Nation a year before Obama even ran for office, I predicted though his destiny to become a president was certain if he should push impatiently to become one in 2008 he would arrive too soon to that destiny without prerequisite maturity and experience.

Oh what an avalanche of angry emails did that prophecy spawn from Obama supporters throughout 2008. Yet, since then I have taken note 16 months into Obama’s presidency that the silence from those quarters is now deafening. I hold the hope that your champion of messianic change will take the rest of his Saturn-Uranus deadlocked presidential term to mature and perhaps live up to his ambitions in a second term.

Yes, Obama will have a second term in office. Now all of you on the right can send your angry letters my way and I will patiently wait for the deafening silence from that quarter coming after the November elections of 2012.

One of the reasons why Obama will survive the end of his political honeymoon with the American people into a second term starts in a few days from the time of this writing. Uranus passes into the sign of Aries on 27-28 May 2010, depending on which side of longitudinal GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) you live on. The ruler of “Change” meets the “Sign” of “new beginnings and new enterprise.” Following this the Saturn-Uranus opposition will return only this time it will move out of the mutable (read politically wishy-washy and unfocused) signs of Virgo and politically foggy-fishy Pisces into Cardinal (leadership) signs. First with Uranus in Aries, then a little later Saturn enters Libra (the balancer) in June.

Obama should see some slight improvement in passing his change agenda from now deep into July. Then the exact opposition clicks in again with Saturn and Uranus both in 0 degrees of Libra and Aries respectively. Uranus at that time will be moving backwards in retrograde. That means change will once again be effectively stalled. Retrogrades also represent times when we need to review our systemic faults. Since Uranus is in retrograde that means Obama and all those embarked on changing the world for better — whether that change is engaged individually as political, social or spiritually inward change — must “go back to the drawing board” as it were. Each of us must become aware of fundamental structural flaws in our change agenda, expose these hidden illusions so we can transcend their impairment of soul-given genius and make our dream of a better world a success.

Saturn.

Saturn in Libra during the upcoming months will exert its other practical influences: not only status quo intransigence but also Saturn’s other astrological dominion: the realm of reality checks. Real revolution will not be found in the world of human beings by lunging reactively to Uranian extremes. Saturn will stubbornly keep reminding us: React-illusion is not real Revolution. Change for its own sake does not always equate to good.

Case in point, the last time Uranus transited Aries (1928-1934) was also a time of economic, social upheaval and revolutionary change. The Great Depression was a monster child of that transit as was US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s positive and peaceful Jeffersonian revolution of the New Deal in America, which included successful bank reform and social security for all Americans. Change equating to good. However, 1928 through 1934 also brought the world revolutionary change in the Soviet Union, which miraculously caught up with other industrial giants in a few short years at a dreadful cost in lives enslaved and lost. The forced collective farm system generated starvation that carried off 3 to 7 million Ukrainians in 1932-33. Privatization was also pretty much liquidated in other sectors. Those who stood against Communist changes were shot or sent to concentration camps in Siberia or pressed into chain gangs to build the vast canal system to the White Sea or the huge Dnieper River hydroelectric dams.

The last Uranus in Aries transit had New Deals and people 'dealt with' for the sake of change, such as millions dying of starvation from Soviet collectivization.

Change in America’s Uranus-in-Aries inspired New Deal put the nation back to work on public projects whereas it put the lash of change against the emaciated backs of millions of slave laborers in the Soviet Union. Change arrived with great force and it was breathtaking! An agrarian, illiterate, backward society became in the few short years of the Uranus-Aries transit a literate, modern industrial giant often at the cost of snuffing the breath out of millions.

The last Uranus-in-Aries transit brought incredible change to Germany too. In those days many around the world initially believed it was good change. It ended economic chaos. It silenced social upheaval and riots in the streets between extreme left and right wing gangs. It brought back employment, ended famines and restored law, order and peace. The people supported its leader who did more than promise change. He gave it to them. They had food; restored national pride and jobs.

This successful German revolution went mainstream politically just a few months after Uranus began its several-year transit through Aries in January 1928. From May 1928 through 1933, the movement kept winning more seats in national elections, swelling their numbers in the German Reichstag (parliament) becoming the largest minority. This gave their leader the power to form a coalition government placing himself as head of state on 30 January 1933. In the final days of Uranus transiting Aries, the Chancellor of Germany passed the Reichstag Fire Decree and the Enabling Act. He abolished opposition parties and became Fuehrer of Germany.

The Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler with the help of Uranus in Aries brought to the German people “change” they could believe in.

Be mindful of this. What is good about change must be anchored in consciousness and love. Revolutionary times like the one we are entering do bring positive objective changes as much as they do mass mob movements. Uranus rules change. It also rules chaos. Aries is the ruler of new beginnings, but Aries also rules mad, hot tempered and ill-thought out rushes into war, hysteria and mass insanity.

Uranus will only dip into Aries briefly through the summer months of 2010. Then it will return to Aries in March 2011. It will finally leave Aries eight years later in March of 2019. We will finish this summer with a taste of what will astrologically define the decade of the 2010s: a decade of upheaval, the writing of many systemic problems and fossilized ways of fixing them on the wall for changes good and evil.

React-illusions woven into the fabric of revolution are coming in all levels of life. Each individual must learn a way of awareness that distinguishes between the two. For that, I offer meditation techniques that have helped me see the difference far better and live accordingly in celebration of this gathering, inner light.

Let meditation help you rediscover how to be wise to the ways the winds of change may blow in the coming decade. Let us learn from the successes and mistakes to come this summer how to make our Aries-Uranus transit a “new Deal” for the future, rather than an enabling act for chaos, collectivization and systemic breakdowns of the political-economic, social, spiritual and ecological systems.

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John Hogue

(26 May 2010)

Friends,
Busy times! I spent most of the OO (uh! Oh!) decade with body mostly sedentary and oracle light traveling the temporal-fantastic of the future. The new and terrible-teenage twenty-teens decade has begun. A decade of adolescent human evolution is before us and this time I’m on the road again. I have no sooner launched Predictions for 2010 when calls to travel came in. I do expect this new decade will see me making many journeys around the world to see, to seer and directly share my insights into prophecies about tomorrow flying into many regions of the world in this last chance decade before the prophetic “shift” its the fan in what I’ve called “The Roaring Twenty-Twenties.”

First stop: Mexico City. I’m going to be away starting early tomorrow and won’t be blogging back until around the 15th of January after doing several days of press interviews for the release of History Channel’s new series “The Nostradamus Effect” across the 100 million and muliplying Latin American Television market this month. The poster above is the invitation History Channel sent out to the press corps of Latin America. It is a nice shot of my old “furry-owl” look. As I grow older I look more like Johannes Brahms every decade. (And “not” that “other guy” from the 16th century who has tried so hard to look like “John Hogue.”) Chuckle…

All seriousness aside. Since many of you will be suffering Hogue blog deprivation for most of next week, I have this article, written back in November and sitting in my stock of blogs that is pertinent to rumors of a rising Tea Party tide of Third Party movements. What with Sarah Palin going rogue and joining the Tea Party soon — indeed I foresee this former member of Alaskan secession parties is planning to take the Tea Party Movement clear out of the Republican Party — I thought it would be nice to talk this week about the prophetic significance of the first Rogue pioneer, Texas Congressman Ron Paul. The third pary rebellion against the duopoly of Donkeycrats and DumboRepublicans is coming. If they were the flint, Ron Paul was the first spark.

Back to the Future with Ron Paul

Obi-Ron Paul-nobi.

Texas Congressman Ron Paul is both ahead of his time and behind his time. He is the kind of candidate who will run and most likely become the president of the United States 100 years from now, when the voting public will, in a way, more resemble the times of the founding fathers when they wrote the US Constitution Congressman Paul promotes and defends. It could be argued, and certainly would be argued by members of the Libertarian Party, that our founding fathers never intended the United States federal government to be so powerful and ponderously invasive in the lives of private citizens.

Ron Paul ran as a Republican for president in 2008. For a time his passionate supporters cyber networked and collected more money than any other Libertarian in Republican disguise but Paul could not galvanize the Republican base. He and his supporters were muzzled during one of the two traditionally weeklong political advertisements better known as a national political party convention for presidential candidates. Obama got his advertisement held by Democrats a few weeks earlier in Denver, Colorado. In Paul’s case, the Republican National Convention convened in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was meant to pitch the GOProduct — Arizona Senator John McCain. Paul was officially and legally by party rules, still running against McCain and had a right to demonstrate his opposition and state his case, but freedom of speech and a dissenting voice was apparently not part of the Republican Convention rules. Paste on that political happy face of party unity at all costs or truth. Paul’s followers were frisked for placards and buttons at the auditorium doors before allowed in.

After the snub, some followers wanted him to run as an independent, but as I predicted, all attempts to draft him to lead the rebellion of young, fanatical Ron Saint Paul true believers and disgruntled independent voters went bust.

Paul must have known what his zealots would not face. The lurid light shone upon him in a presidential election campaign would soon expose his true Libertarian virtues to national scrutiny and a heretic running alone from the GOP elephant herd would lose like any other marginalized third party candidate sent to the back of the political bus by a Dem.-GOP duopoly controlling the media and money.

Despite all its many merits, his Libertarian philosophy has too much of a little something everyone can chose if politically left, center or right, but not enough unifying ideas to find common ground and attract a majority of voters. For instance, those leaning towards the red meat-right spectrum support Paul’s small government and fiscal independent stance. Blue weed smoked lefties hate his anti-socialist-social program stances but love a fiscal conservative who supports the individual right to do just about anything, such as smoking pot a lot if he or she so chooses. Paul would make marijuana legal, bless his heart.

A Libertarian candidate for president has never swayed a majority of the American voting public and never will. Ron Paul’s 2008 campaign was significant though because it heralded what in a several presidential cycles will mark the decline and fall of the current two-party Republican-Democrat duopoly in America.

Neither party will exist 36 years from 2008. Something new will arise, but it will not be Libertarian. It will be a three party system with a new party of the right and the left moderated by a moderate party from the middle.

Ron Paul, the Libertarian, by his own action, shows that he does not think the country is ready for a Libertarian in the White House, otherwise why wear the mask of a Republican and rely on its financial resources and connections to be heard? His campaign was a small nudge towards a new political era a century hence.

He believes self-responsibility should govern the individual American more than have responsibility legislated by a generally bungling bureaucracy. This is a purist vision presented at the wrong time in history. We are at the beginning of a new political prophetic cycle. Americans have rejected Neo-Conservatism and elected a neo-Franklin D. Roosevelt — Barack Obama — into the White House. Smaller government, personal responsibility, companies and banks cleaning up their act by filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy? That is not in touch with the times, Congressman Paul. Social engineering and big government bailouts of industry and the banking system are making a comeback.

Ron Paul is right, from a prophetic perspective. In a century or so, the current Mobocracy will go through a dalliance with socialism, then painfully collapse into an era of emergency rule (i.e. the new name for fascism). Then, by the end of the 21st century perhaps at last humanity will be mature enough to sustain a real democracy of responsible and engaged citizens who uphold equally a citizen’s individual freedom in balance with the golden rule of doing unto others in community what you would have the community of individuals do unto you.

Eventually, Ron Paul’s core values of Libertarianism will hold and not the current Libertine-Aryanism we see today. The current model believes freedom is something synonymous with licentiousness; in other words freedom is expressed in vox populi popular political baby talk that goes something like this: “I’m free to do what I like, any time I like and I don’t care what you think about it or how it impacts you. I have a right to be free, period. Now come here and clean my diaper.”

When America was born, people living in a new frontier had a better sense of balance between personal responsibility and community with their neighbors. Individual freedom “and” communal responsibility were equal in value then. The process of growing from a small backwater country of thirteen loosely-united states of 3 million into the uber-federal, 50-state superpower of 300 million has strayed us away from those core values. Thus, our current state of democratic awareness generally makes Ron Paul’s noble Libertarian concept equally a past oriented anachronism and something anticipating the future. The vision of a “President Ron Paul” is something waiting for us in “past-future” tense.

John Hogue

(10 January 2010)

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