Stars Over Washington: January 3, 2025: 119th Congress opens

Stars Over Washington: January 3, 2025: 119th Congress opens: If All Goes Well on Capitol Hill by Jude Cowell Will the clownish, do-nothing , stunt-prone atmosphere of the current 118th Congress --

Here's the unmarked Horoscope of the 119th Congress for 'noon' on January 3, 2025. Follow the above link for details:

Can The Jan 6th Attack Happen Again? (w/ Dr. Steven Chermak): Thom Hartmann; + Eclipse info

According to yours truly, the fasc*st coup is ongoing and is part of a global neo-n*zi movement which uses violence as a major part of their take-over tactics. In fact, Herr Tr*mp's Jan 6, 2021 assault upon the US Congress was an opening salvo of a vicious Republican campaign against Democracy and the US Constitution, determined to reform America's form of government from a Republic into a dictatorship:

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Historical Cycles Can Be Seen via Eclipse Cycles

Since history tends to rhyme in similar ways - often seen via eclipse cycles for those who look - when will the 6 South 'Nazis Rise to Power' Solar Eclipse of 1932 (@8Virgo) repeat in our day?

All too soon!

For prominent authoritarian forces in society will manifest and march again as signaled by the Solar Eclipse of October 25, 2022 @2Scorpio conjunct envious Venus, and with power-craving Pluto conjunct the IC of 6 South's Washington DC Horoscope. Now as you know, Scorpio eclipses bring intense passion and strength of purpose, and although karmic progress can be made under them, the negative traits of Mars-Pluto-ruled Scorpio can also be used by unscrupulous people who harbor vengeance, hatred, and cruelty in their hearts. Obviously, evil acts may be a result. And if unscrupulous people are aware of Eclipse Astrology, they know this and can use intense cosmic energies as a timing device for their activities, vengeful and otherwise.

Coming in October 2022

So notably disturbing and soon to repeat influentially as the Prenatal Eclipse of Midterms 2022 are 6 South themes of: 'being forceful, taking power; manic energy, with great force or strength expressing in relationships; sudden events; huge efforts in group activities' (paraphrasing Brady's Predictive Astrology #ad).

Now as an additional factor, we know that Pluto in Saturn-ruled Capricorn is known as "the dictator' placement according to Reinhold Ebertin, and all through 2022, transit Pluto returns to his July 1776 position three times (from February to December). However, none of these cosmic conditions carve in stone the certainty of a naz*-style dictatorship being forced upon the majority of people who firmly reject such an implementation in the US, and anywhere else.

Because actually, a benevolent leader, even one with dictatorial tendencies, is much preferred any day by decent folk instead of stinkin' anti-humanity, death-cult fasc*sts or nazi* degenerates. After all, in the 1930s under a 6 South Eclipse, Germany got Herr Adolf while America got FDR whose style of leadership was a vast improvement over little Adolf's, I'd have to say.

Meanwhile, the worst thing freedom-loving Americans can do about it all is to turn away from these dire issues and monsters rather than squarely facing and vanquishing them. But you, dear reader, won't turn away. Will you?

Senile Old Man Walks Right Past His Own Car for No Reason, Film at 11

Here's a July 5, 2017 segment from Thom Hartmann the beginning of which is heart-breakingly hilarious yet chilling:

His tiny 71-year-old finger is on The Button, folks. It's on The Button.

So which dumblehead in charge let that happen?

A Sunlight-Dappled Kitty Cat! (+ Politics)

Zounds! It's hard to believe it's been four (busy) months since my last 2 Hours post so here is a sunlight-dappled Zasha lookin' mighty fine and a little snoozy!



Photo snapped by my fiberista yarn-loving daughter Maya Henderson.

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So where have I been blogging in the last four months?

Mainly at my Political Astrology website Stars Over Washington where you don't have to speak Astrologese to read what the stars have to say about Politics and politicians! Today's update: the natal horoscope (shown) of the GOP's anti-tax-hike political strategist Grover Norquist which will be 'hit' by the December 10, 2011 Lunar Eclipse in chatty, news-reporting Gemini--near US natal Mars.

As you know, all eclipses are considered 'wild cards' of the Universe and have the option to uncover secrets and scandals so stay tuned for that!

All Political Astrology is Mundane Astrology but not all Mundane Astrology is Political Astrology.

White House/Arts 'scandal' revealed by FoxNews

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Since the actual report in question is publicly available there's not much of a lid to blow off, but Media Matters does it anyway on the current story behind Fox News' pot-stirring of a possible White House/artists/NEA scandal concerning the May 12 meeting with 60 artists and Obama administration officials next door to the White House, and a controversial conference call on August 11 which seems to have led to the subsequent resignation of NEA communications director Yosi Sargant.

Fox News rather scantily charges that the White House is 'politicizing the NEA' and wanting to use artists - rappers, writers, and others, which I assume include visual artists as well - to "push the president's domestic agenda." Later in its online expose, Fox relates info that counters its own claims.

Apparently a US president "pushing his domestic agenda" is unheard of over at the Fox News website! How ironic since with Bush-Cheney they never complained, they promoted. But according to Fox News, artists are not allowed to participate even when they agree with the president - the Fox News Rules of Artistic Decorum.

But for US artists, shouldn't it depend in large part on what the president's domestic agenda is?

Well, as a bit of an artist myself, I can say that if this agenda includes promoting life over violence and death, and decent principles of living over debased lifestyles, I'm all for it...push away, for the creative atmosphere in this country has been a world leader in lowering moral fiber and discourse for too long.

The destruction of society itself, I've read, has been an Illuminati goal for a couple of centuries now, and quotes to that effect are to be found online with little searching effort, if you wish. This goes back to its Bavarian founder, Adam Weishaupt, and his stated goals to undermine every level of civilization - and even earlier to Satan himself, if one prefers to look and consider what lies underneath the modern brou-ha-ha.

Actually, this Fox News kerfluffle attempts to 'politicize' the entire Arts issue especially since it was the artists themselves who asked for the W-H meeting! Guess they already agreed with the president's domestic agenda (to the extent that they know it in full under the maskings of the NWO - or perhaps the particular artists who attended the May meeting and participated in the August conference call agree with a NWO agenda. Shall we 'all join hands' and merge for global totalitarianism??)

Art in Modern Society

It took an artist friend of mine two years+ to convince me to set up Cosmic Persona Designs as an online gallery of Chiffonery Art and Boudoir Blossoms drawings and portraits that may be considered by a few people to be a little on the saucy side. The images are meant for a 17+ age group, so an Adult Content warning must be clicked through to reach the gallery, yet I still have qualms about its availability to a younger crowd...and it's only mild, though somewhat erotic, Art images!

Of course, this is where parents must monitor their kids online, for I certainly can't do it for every net surfer, and adults need content, too.

And when it comes to Hollywood's and other films and TV shows, I've always felt that it isn't so much their degraded content - violence, horror, sex, whatever - that presents problems in society, for you and I might choose to watch such things and never suffer an afterthought, much less an obsession issue with the dark side.

It's our impressionable youth, plus, the mentally challenged or emotionally stunted individuals - such as those who are thinking of committing psychopathic acts already - who in watching such content over and over and over again - are inspired by creative demon-drenched ideas (and possibly feeling themselves to be 'programmed') to commit what might have remained mere fantasies had not Hollywood given its hand or claw of inspiration.

And thus, society and its innocents pay the violent price while filmmakers, actors, and other industry workers and CEOs profit from the degradation of society. Yet if every audience member were healthy, watching such things wouldn't be nearly such a dicey proposition for the common good.

Hmm. Maybe I should apply to participate in a more uplifting presidential initiative on and yes, through, the Arts.

After all, don't we want better options for our children through their 'entertainment' choices rather than the sort of Arts that continue to only bring them 'down'?

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Here's a mild example of a CPD image, a brand new drawing-in-progress of Philyra whose character portrait shan't end up too scanty for your tender eyes, promise!



Update Oct 8, 2009: you may wish to see a full frame of Philyra Farnsworthy on display at my Zazzle Art Store, but Philyra hasn't arrived there yet...she's running late.

Do meet her on Friday evening, for then you won't miss Philyra Farnsworthy's entrance into Zazzle and her portraiture debut there! Or, perhaps she'll pop over to Jude Cowell Art Shop at Cafe Press.

Well, I guess I'm not sure where precisely Philyra will turn up first. I do know that she'll turn up as an Art Poster, Greeting Card, or perhaps a Mousepad for your desk if you use one. A desk. Or a mousepad.

But maybe you two have met before...danced together on the terrace under the dappled moonlight while an orchestra played, Stardust...

Thomas Paine on punishment and oppression

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"An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws. He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."

Thomas Paine

You know that June 8th of this year was the 200th anniversary of Thomas Paine's death, so click the article's link where you'll be hooked up to the text of Common Sense, in case you'd like to refresh yourself

There's a smidge of Astrology, too.

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Max Baucus, Health Care Reform's public option, and Pisces

With Plutocracy on the March it's doubtful that a 'public option' will be included in the president's Health Care Reform bill.

Yet without it, what have the millions of uninsured and under-insured gained if the legislation passes? Max Baucus is tainted with conflict of interest issues so who can trust him to act on behalf of those who need the reform most of all?

Also, I've been posting this morning at Stars Over Washington and on my other tapestry blog, Jude's Threshold, a blog whose name is an astrological reference to Saturn as the Guardian of the Threshold.

For me personally this describes having restrictive Saturn in the 12th house of the Unconscious where Mr. Control applies himself to thoughts that swim up from the Collective Unconscious, and from my own unawareness, into consciousness.

Maybe that's the origin of Dreamyfish Art, an online Art Gallery which I began in 2005 to display (Neptunian) fish drawn as botanically correct (Saturn) as I can make them but within scenarios of their private dreams (Neptune) under the sea (Neptune) - as you know, Neptune rules the oceans.

This echoes having natal Sun ruled by Saturn (Capricorn) and Moon ruled by Jupiter/Neptune (Pisces.) Pisces is a very creative sign, and drawing is my preferred outlet. And I like to write sometimes, too.

Cosmic Persona Designs was created to show the racier elements of my artwork with a bow to the 'cosmic persona' of any Astrology chart, the Ascendant, which is the sign and degree that rises as a person - or thing or event - are born. The Ascendant represents the mask/s from ancient Greek tragi-comedies, and in Astrology we 'speak through the mask' of the Ascendant as did Greek actors centuries ago.

The Ascendant's sign shows how we view the world and how the world views us, and along with our Sun and Moon positions, is considered one of the three most important points in a horoscope.

And I suppose that Secret Moon Art describes itself as a gallery for Children's, Fairy, Moon, Cosmic, and Botanical drawings, so it needs no further explanation!

Then there's Lim's Limericks, a typing arrangement I got myself into by way of my cat, Lim, and his excellent if elusive friend, Mr. A. Cat, whose precise whereabouts continue to remain a mystery.

Who knew cats could be so political? I didn't, did you?



Image: a fanciful illustration of the two fishes of Pisces, by jude cowell 2009+

Update 2:15 m edt: Astrology of Health Care Reform 1994 vs 2009 is now available for reading by both of you. Will history repeat? jc

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Atlanta News Alert at Noon: local TV stations are reporting that a 'suspicious package' has been delivered to a MARTA station in Buckhead and the area is shut down between Peachtree Street and Lenox Square Mall (where I once worked while attending art school.)

Memorial Day 2009: restore May 30 as its observance date?

On Stars Over Washington I've now published a post concerning Memorial Day 2009, its changing forms of observance through the years, the drive to restore solemn observance to its original May 30 date, plus, a few personal notes on my family links to the Civil War, an oxymoronic phrase if there ever was one.

If you're civil, why war?

Two Hours You'll Never Get Back's first post

Spend two hours reading and viewing here if you wish, but you do know they're totally non-refundable, right?

Yes, it would be impossible to spend a full two hours on one inconsequential blog such as this, but when was the last time you heard, 'one minute you'll never get back'?

So you see my dilemma: my choices were quite limited. And when you have only one choice, you have no choice at all.

Just so you know: this blog will be a tapestry of whatever for any reason. Don't expect anything but the best of what one lone blogger can manage, Dear Reader, typos and all. You shall occasionally be addressed as Dear Reader whether such a term of affection applies to you or not.

Comments and queries are welcome if you'll stay on topic for the post you're complai...I mean, commenting on. Comment moderation shall occur; link trades are most welcome so don't stint yourself on that score.

Art, Astrology, Politics, Cultural and Social Issues, Poetry, Ecological concerns, Spiritual and Futuristic subjects including Space, Cosmic, and Astronomy topics will be presented when inspiration lights on my shoulder and doesn't get brushed off by mistake.

Out of the corner of your eye you may notice that Fairy Art appears from time to time but please don't be alarmed: they won't harm you. It's the politicians you should be worried about.


jc 5.5.09 1:11 am edt

New Blog idea occurred: 5.5.09 at 12:03 am edt, Pluto 3Cap24 Rx and rising (uh oh) with Mercury 1Gem34 about to station retrograde (1Gem44)...oh dear. At least Fixed Star Arcturus ('a different approach') was shining at Midheaven.

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