Commentary

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

Confusion (Neptune) over Constitutional limits is reflected in the Constitution's Solar Arc Directed Neptune at 23 Taurus [chart not shown]. This conjoins Bush Inauguration Saturn; creates a T-square between Constitution Saturn and T-Venus; and "releases" in the Constitution's third house. The Constitution's Directed Neptune joins the Inauguration chart's T-square: Saturn square Uranus; Mars opposite Saturn in square to Uranus. Note that the USA's Solar Return Moon at 14 Taurus will oppose Inauguration Mars in just over a month by progression and will land on Caput Algol, the position of Venus for the USA's 2001 Solar Return very close thereafter. It was the position of Venus in last year's USA Solar Return that was the harbinger of September 11, 2001.

[Solar Arc Neptune will move to 26 Taurus (Caput Algol) in three years' time. This is the harbinger of grave constitutional battles to come, particularly at the time when new Justices of the Supreme Court will be appointed. (Rehnquist will soon retire, leaving us wide open to Scalia and Thomas, as well as the potential for more extreme justices to be appointed to the Court)].

I suspect that any terrorist activity, if it is to occur again on U.S. soil, will do so around this time frame (August-September 2002), as the Solar Return Moon progressing to 26 Taurus is in orb of the Declaration of Independence's Solar Arc Saturn: 29 Taurus, or Alcyone, the Star of Great Grief.

The Solar Return Moon reaching "Alcyone" may not indicate an attack so much as the grief that will re-emerge the closer we get to the one year anniversary of the WTC attacks. The sign Taurus (earth), so prominent at the USA's Solar Return, is associated with physicality; environment; opulence; big money; wildlife; campaign funds; and nature. All this takes center stage, as the Declaration of Independence's progressed Midheaven is at 15 Taurus and takes the conjunction from the Solar Return chart Moon. Conservation (Conservatism), safety; pleasure; and prosperity are at issue.

The wildfires raging out of control in Arizona and Colorado are significant environmental testimonies, as is the Bush Kremlin's refusal to finance the Superfund clean-up of 33 toxic waste sites across the USA.

In a Reversal, E.P.A. Paying for Cleanup of Some Sites

New York Times.

The Stock market ails. WorldCrime's (WorldCom) stock was selling at 6 cents a share on July 1. Martha Stewart may be in line for obstruction of justice charges.

The manner in which disclosure of corporate crimes impacts the Bush Kremlin is, perhaps, a large part of what is hinted at in June 10's Solar Eclipse at 19 Gemini (conjoined to Bush's natal and progressed Uranus -- alteration of his political destiny). Although the administration continues to receive high marks for its prosecution on the war against terror, public perceptions of Bush haven't changed in connection with big business. Halliburton Oil is under SEC investigation for similar erroneous financial disclosures from 1999-2000. Veep Cheney was CEO of the corporation during that time. The SEC's inquiries dovetail with inquiries into Cheney's "secret energy meetings" where Enron was a key player.

U.S. Constitution

The Constitution chart is under great stress drawing in the Bush Kremlin. (I call this administration "Kremlin" due to the secrecy surrounding it). The Constitution's progressed Mars and Uranus at 26 Cancer conjoin Bush's natal Saturn in his 12th house of secret matters.

The aforementioned planets are in opposition to the Declaration of Independence's natal Pluto at 27 Capricorn in its second house of big money: the plutocracy. The Constitution's Progressed Mars, Uranus and Bush's natal Saturn are still within orb of conjunction of the Declaration's of Independence's 8th house Mercury (24 Cancer). This Mercurial "articulation" results in continued disclosures of business practices that more closely resemble rackets rather than legitimate enterprise.

Bush himself is not the architect of the current corporate collapse. However, Bush does have a "perception problem." Probes into Bush's past dealings with his own oil companies, such as Harken Energy, reveal that he himself engaged in the very same "insider trading" practices as those of Martha Stewart. (See George Bush's Early Years).

The Constitution Chart's progressed Lunar Nodes are 17 Gemini (South) and 17 Sagittarius (North) -- or, a "nodal reversal" phase. The current transiting Lunar Nodes are the "reverse" of the Constitution's progressed nodes, signifying "a reversal of fortune" and "conditions which are at great odds with each other." The Constitution's natal Lunar Nodes (1 Capricorn North/1 Cancer/South) were also smacked by the Lunar Eclipse of June 24, 2002! The aforementioned progressed lunar nodes have been greatly stressed by the three Saturn-Pluto oppositions of 2001-2002.

Worthy of note is the Constitution's progressed Chiron at 10 Gemini (the pain of truthful disclosure) which is conjoined the the Republican Party's natal Saturn! Note that the GOP's natal Uranus at 15 Taurus is conjoined to the Declaration of Independence's progressed Midheaven; The USA's Solar Return Moon; quincunx Bush's progressed Chiron (15 Libra); the USA's natal Saturn (14 Libra); and quincunx T-Pluto (15 Sagittarius).

The Declaration of Independence's progressed Moon at 11 Gemini has just crossed over the GOP's natal Saturn and the Constitution's progressed Chiron. Issues of how much freedom vs. how much control (Uranus/Saturn/Chiron) the nation is afforded are squarely in the forefront. Whether the Constitution prevails or authoritarianism supplants it will be under strict examination for at least the next three years. There is more at stake this 4th of July than whether Americans decide to congregate in public places. It gets down to whether, in three years, we'll be allowed to peacefully assemble at all.

GOP Natal Chart