Rick DiClemente’s

Astrology Newsletter

Volume 51, April 2010

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nce upon a time, a very, very long time ago…

Planets crashed into one another

And left behind a debris field between Saturn and Uranus

Known now as asteroids

(These are not the same as the ones we are familiar with

that lie between Mars and Jupiter)

This field is actually called the Centaurs

And the very first Centaur in mythology was known as “Chiron”

He was also the first astrologer

It was not until 1977

That humanity was ready to see it through a telescope

It was not that the telescope was now powerful enough

WE were the ones that were READY to see Chiron

That means that we were ready to see the Chiron part of ourselves

Chiron revealed that he was all about wounds and healing

On a large scale

And we were ready to look directly at our own wounds

And address them

For the first time in human history

About a month or two after its discovery

I became an astrologer

A book had jumped off of a shelf in a bookstore and landed in my hands

And it told me

“This is what you are supposed to do”

And I knew it instantly (Uranus) that it was right

So that’s what I did

The name of the book was “The Compleat Astrologer”

That’s how it was spelled

The country was going through a rough time

Because Saturn was returning to the same spot that it started from in 1776

As it had done every 28 years since we were “born”

It represented a hard fiscal time

And Americans were being held hostage in the Middle East

It was the end of a chapter

And the beginning of a new one

Along about late 1979 I constructed a natal chart

For a man who had just been elected to be our new president

And I became worried

Because a president’s chart represents the whole country

While he or she is in office

Yes, he was an Aquarian - good enough

But, I saw great delusion in the chart because he had problems with Neptune

The chart had a very confused and distorted viewpoint of money and finances - and glory

It said

Charts can be hard to read

But, they never, ever lie

He could be convincing and some thought he could really communicate

But, to me, it was not communication

I did hear a very convincing tone

Covering a very dubious ability to see and manage reality

He was trying to turn back the hands of time

Back to the “good ole days”

And he went on to stress that government itself was the problem in the U.S.

This is just one way that the seeds of polarization came to be planted

Government was not to be trusted from then on

And he was very popular

He gave a Cancerian country a much needed sense of warm fuzzies

And they responded

He was the New Papa

He would shoot the bad guys

And even had space-ray guns

He scared the Soviets away

As he huffed and puffed and helped to blow down their Big Wall

And it was good

In the meantime, he unleashed businesses

So that they would not be regulated or confined

You see, Aquarians don’t like being confined

So, we all put our Blind Faith into a Wall Street den of thieves

Surely, they would do the right thing

That was exactly what we wanted and needed to see

Certainly, the market would self-rectify and stay on an even keel

All by itself

After all, in their $2,000 suits, they appeared to be so, well, professional

And upstanding

This man went on to be known as a great “conservative”

When in actuality, he was treating businessmen very liberally

And lo led to behold and he created the big “L” word

And things were about to become ugly

“Liberal” became polarized from “Conservative”

“Conservative” became polarized from “Liberal”

“Liberalism” was now the new dirty word

As was Socialism

And Communism

As and all other “ism’s”

Yet we still needed to base our lives around our own Society

We still needed to Commune together as Christ had suggested

These very precepts belong to the sign of Aquarius

Aquarians like Lincoln and FDR

We were intended to work together

And accomplish in the joy of our fellow Man

As a group

A United States

It was etched into our national DNA

Instead, we adopted this ridiculously sophomoric attitude

Now, no matter whichever party had your allegiance

It was completely right in all ways

On every issue

While the other party had it all wrong

And we bought this Bill of Goods

And we no longer had a need to think for ourselves

As we dared to give lip service

To Adams and Madison and Jefferson

The conservatives grew to hate the liberals

And the liberals grew to hate the conservatives

And yet still, some belonged to the right team

While many others wanted free hand-outs of everything

Which surely had to come to an end

And others were simply to be abandoned to the Original Sin of

Wrong party-identification

So we went on and on

While Wall Street lawyers found more and more loop-holes

And shafted the American public

Behind a false mask of good intentions

And the rich grew richer

And the poor grew poorer

And the divide between all of Us swelled

The Great Divider had planted his seeds

This tender Cancerian country opted for deafness over the facts

Burying its collective head under the rocks

Like a good Crab

Stock dividends went forth and multiplied

And complacency became the norm

But at least now, our captives were back home

And it was safe…

We thought

The heavyweight, Pluto, slowly inched closer and closer to

The sign of Capricorn

The sign of government, institutions, and the very fabric of our society

The last time it was there

America had separated from the British

It was a revolution

And we had a Tea Party

Then, one day the president was shot by a would-be assassin

Which actually happened exactly 29 years ago to the day of this writing

And it really scared His over-protective Cancerian wife

As it should have

And we discovered out that she had secretly been using an astrologer all along

Of all things

This woman, who called herself an astrologer

“Guided” his and her moves

But somehow, the bullets didn’t show up in her charts

When the political waves got high and rocky

They would be snuggly tucked away

Safe at their sprawling ranch

And when the waves subsided

He would make his great speeches

But was never touched

It was so Aquarian

Which led to him becoming known as being made of Teflon

In actuality (astrologically) he was doing everything

Bass-ackwards

Instead of orating when the waves were powerfully behind him

And resting when they were doldrums

He had assuaged his worried wife

And a worried nation

While beyond the human melodrama, Pluto kept on the move

Through Libra and Scorpio and on into Sagittarius

Into the year of 1995

And all was good

After all, Wall Street and Washington, D.C. had everything in hand

Literally

And the coffers were full

The divide divided and widened and widened

Now, the Liberals were the enemies

While the Conservatives belonged to the right team

The latter was now the “party of the family” and all things good and proper

Things like conserving our water and our earth

Became known as a liberal attitude

And when groups of folks battled to protect unfortunate families

They also became to be known as being liberal

By now, we had new cable TV programs

Numbering literally into the hundreds of channels

And the “L”-word had spread

But now became confused with another “L”-word too

You could actually be a Liberal Lesbian if you so chose

Truth no longer mattered

If you labeled something long enough and repetitively enough as being bad

The public bought it

It was easier than thinking for yourself

And much easier than differing with your workmates at the water cooler

After all, they had seen what they needed to see on TV

And it was no longer good

On the other hand…

The “Left” perched atop the dogma of political correctness

Which quickly bent all of us out of shape

Teachers dared not to touch our children

The losers became winners and the winners became losers

And all games ended in a tie

Even though they insisted that their policies were liberal

Confusion abounded in the land

But it didn’t matter anymore

Because the schism had chasms

And the chasms had schisms

Meanwhile the folks with the big bucks were getting big tax breaks

And they would take care of everything

As the profits kept rolling in

People now needed someone to blame for the expanding rupture

Our children grew confused and disillusioned and

No longer had heroes

Or someone to look up to

But it didn’t matter anymore

Because we had plenty of distractions and electronic devices

To keep our minds busy

And our Ballplayers became our Gods

And we watched these gladiators bring us victory

And we learned that our bodies just weren’t shaped exactly right

But could be easily fixed by a scalpel or two

As Pluto inched even closer to the sign of the Goat

And Chiron remained on course

And astrologers learned that this was no mere asteroid or Centaur

Meanwhile Pluto in Sagittarius was giving us a neat new world

That we paid for easily with cheap pieces of plastic ad nauseum

From, according to some, companies who had their arms twisted

They mailed billions of new credit-card applications

Every day, stuffing our mailboxes

While worthless paper trails of Wall Street’s derivatives

Helped us accumulate more and more junk from China

With our bottomless pit of imaginary vapor-money

No one could tell

No one could see an end in sight

It would go on forever

Well, as long as we were collectively in the sign of Sagittarius

And we would drive by all the Monopoly houses

One after another

And wonder how the cars and mobile homes

And motorcycles and boats were being paid for

We said to ourselves, “Where are they getting all the money?”

“They don’t make that much money, do they?”

But it was OK, it would all be paid for

By their $1,000 tax break

Alfred E. Neuman assured us that it would be OK

As ADHD became the norm for our stressed-out offspring

Google-eyed, as they glued their retinas to the photon tubes

On one of the family’s 5 television sets

Or 8 computer or game monitors

And we wondered

And sighed

And showed great concern

About all the things around us

And as the veil started to lift (Pluto)

We started to see that we were really…

Up shit-creek without a GPS

Not only were we without a paddle

It didn’t even matter

Because we had drug prescriptions aplenty

So we numbed ourselves

And promised each time that the ball would touch down on Time’s Square

That next year would be better

And before you knew it

The Century as well as the Millennium was over

It was 2001

And surely that would change everything

For the better

Just as it does when you get married

It no longer mattered if were the “United” States or not

Because now

We had someone to blame

Before he even did anything

Onto this stage and into the top office ascends this bold African-American man

Memories of not-too-long-ago Selma and water-cannons resurrected

We had seen the other side

This man too had a dream

And many European-Americans just couldn’t digest this new scenario

In my mind

No matter what he did

He was in for it

And Pluto grew closer

And Chiron picked up speed

And then one day…

Chiron caught up with massive Jupiter

And mystical, spirituality-minded Neptune

This had never happened before

And this country

The only one in the free world that dared

To call itself free

Even though it couldn’t or wouldn’t

Take care of its own

But now…

Even so, many of the people whined and screamed and complained and bitched

While still, little ones went without

As the elders chose between their food or their medications

And we stubbornly crossed our arms and

Refused to work together

Fast-forward over the next 7 years

And then one day in 2008

Saturn returned again

And Pluto left the gala behind in Sagittarius

And entered the sign of Capricorn

And the bills became due

It was getting too late

But the people had grown tired

And we came to find that the unregulated financiers

Had not used the money as they said they would

But instead bought islands for their girlfriends

And suddenly credit card offers stopped

And the wealthy holding mortgages went without

While we watched our legislators

Grow more and more corrupt

Right in front of our noses

You could mortgage your mortgage

Many mortgaged their mortgages to other mortgage companies

And the whole house of cards came cascading down

Pluto had caught up with all of us

And wanted to see what was really inside this entity

Called the United States of America

What had we truly done since 1762 when we started this cycle?

You see, that’s what Pluto does

It exposes hypocrites

Even the Boy scouts and the churches were hiding their abuses

After all, it was Us that brought this on

Was it not?

And we continue to war and argue and build TV empires

To manufacture facts and statistics in order to support our positions

Because you can easily dial 1-900-makeupapollforme

Just as astrology had unveiled to me

My 1979 vision of delusional financial pies-in-the-sky

All went kerpluiee

While all of our hard earned money trickled down

And gushed into the pockets of just a few

And they madoff with our 401Ks and our pensions

Right in front of our noses

It’s been 28 years since those days and Saturn has shown us

The tab for all theses reckless excesses

And while it’s now sobering and scary and all of those things

The split within our nation

Is the worst result of all

Ironically, Jupiter left Neptune and Chiron to be on their own

Just as Teddy’s mission was completed

These cheerleaders were no longer needed

For our land had finally become READY

To find compassion for the health and well-being of its own people

We in the know could thank Jupiter and Chiron and Neptune

Major symbols of Manna and Grace from on High

They put new thoughts into our minds

And for once…

Neptune had landed

And that’s not an easy thing to do

As Neptune is much much bigger than we are

So, at the same time that we were being lifted spiritually

Pluto was actively busy tearing away the façade to show us our rotting beams

It was not happening to just the masses and the institutions

More importantly

We were getting our report cards on how we’d been acting individually

Now, we are left in pieces

Yet many of us still want someone or something to blame

As if that ever helps

And still, no one is coming forth

With the lessons from the Wise One

The One we symbolize on our car bumpers with signs of the Fish

But still do not heed

But we say that we do

We say we belong to his team

But most of us don’t

While Pluto knows who is who

We think of His days

As somehow belonging to some other time long long ago

In some dusty old volume

Some ancient secret tome

A foreign, unreachable place

From a time of seasoned wisdom

Which is barely kept alive and poignant on Sunday mornings

As we fill ourselves with the toxic and hate and divisive rhetoric

We see on TV and hear on talk-radio

On the other 6 days of the week

As we look for “others” amongst our One single family

To ironically be the scapeGoats, of all things

Yet we still look for solutions

And haven’t learn from the past

We think, perhaps if we bombed just the right country…

While we fear just the same

And fail to see that the two are connected

And the insanity continues

Party-left and Party-right are two sides of One thing

When we truly pull back to see

What is there

Beyond the fear

Of separateness

We have truly been our own worst enemy

And now are faced with a brand New World

Because we need new solutions

The old just won’t do

Says Pluto

Amidst all of this storm

There’s a New Day coming soon

If we’re wise enough to set sail

To pick up the New Winds

From Jupiter, Chiron and Neptune

And Uranus in New Aries

As our voices are needed

Everywhere

To speak up

And spread the Word

His Word

Which is Our Word

The Only Word

Not as a manual of behavior modification

But as a guide to navigating the Only Reality That Exists

That this place is Ours

And by seeing what’s really there

We can heal Ourselves

And We can heal this place yet

Because the logical conclusion is that

We truly are Him

P.S. Oh, by the way. There’s no need to look for answers. We already know all the answers

4/6 Pluto goes Retrograde – More Pluto stuff, what’s new

4/7 Saturn backs up into Virgo 2:55a – Just when you thought you were done with Saturn in Virgo, here it comes again. No problem, time to tidy up fighting between the Right and the Left

4/14 New Moon 24°^ 27’ 8:29a – Put a Spring into your step – major new beginnings. It’s time to launch yourself into your future. Aries is all about adventure. Not on the TV. Real adventure.

4/18 Mercury goes Retrograde 12:06a – Here goes again, take your time, don’t worry, it’s not so bad. Slow down. Take your time.

4/20 Sun enters Taurus 12:30a – A much needed repose. We won’t notice it much as the new Revolution comes to us in late May. Much more on that topic in the next issue.

4/26 Saturn opposes Uranus 7:27p – More fighting between the Left and the Right. The 4^th of 5 passes.

4/28 Full Moon 8°e 07’ 8:18a – This will Tsquare to Mars in Leo. Watch sexual urges getting out of hand. Time to go after what you want. Directly. Be reasonable too. A typical Capricorn restraint.