Some astro insights - what democracy is about - the people

Excerpt from Merriman

http://www.mmacycles.com/weekly-preview/mma-comments-for-the-week/mma-weekly-comments-for-the-week-beginning-novembere-17,-2008/

Short-Term Geocosmics

Markets are likely to continue their wild price swings for the next few weeks, as Mars transits through Sagittarius November 16-December 27. As mentioned above, Sagittarius is the ruling sign for Jupiter. Both Jupiter and Sagittarius have in common the principles of exaggeration and expansion. Mars is a planet that stimulates or excites. Thus Mars in Sagittarius can be a “wild time” in many aspects of human activity, such as financial markets. It would not be surprising to see very big moves resume. In fact, there are a number of other geocosmic signatures involving Jupiter and Sagittarian factors in effect through the rest of this month and even beyond. The Sun will be in Sagittarius November 21-December 21. Geocentric Mercury will follow November 23-December 12, and heliocentric Mercury starts its two-week trek through Sagittarius November 24. In addition, Jupiter will form its last of five trine aspects to Saturn on November 21, and Venus will form a conjunction to Jupiter on December 1. That is a lot of Jupiter and Sagittarius energy. That means there is likely to be a lot of exaggeration and excessive emotion in the world.

Usually Jupiter an Sagittarius corresponds to optimism and hope, even to the point of “irrational exuberance,” as Alan Greenspan used to say when describing the never-ending bull market in stocks between 2003-2007. But it can also correspond with hysteria and panic if prices start to fall hard too. What will it be this time? Certainly there is a sense of great optimism and hope about the changes a new leadership in the United States will bring to the world. But at the same time, everyone recognizes the danger of the current economic times, and the threat of falling steeply into a severe recession if the trend of the world economy is not altered quickly.

It is also interesting to note how the great bailout plan to rescue the American economy changed gears last week. You may remember how Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson rang the panic button in September with Mercury retrograde, demanding that Congress act quickly (immediately, or else risk economic catastrophe) to approve his bailout plan. Our comment at the time was that this idea was not well-thought out and changes would have to be made, based solely on forcing the issue under Mercury retrograde. Not enough information or understanding was yet available for Congress to make an educated and considered vote. This week, in another dreadfully awful televised press conference, Paulson outlined how the program now has to be changed in order to get the monies from the government directly to the consumer. The stock markets immediately collapsed – again – on his words. Paulson is quickly rising to the status of a very reliable technical sell indicator. Let’s hope that during Mars in Sagittarius – a time when either hope or panic will dictate the direction of equity prices – that Paulson refrains from the need to address us again with his shifting ideas and near-impossible-to-understand explanations. It’s bad enough that our Congressional leaders and President have granted him $700B of taxpayer’s monies to lead the rescue mission with very questionable oversight and accountability. To have him publically speak out and demonstrate once again that he doesn’t have a real solid, well-thought out plan for a successful rescue mission doesn’t give investors a great sense of confidence in what he is doing. The election of Obama and a new leadership in the White House may be creating a sense of great hope that could carry the stock markets higher into the end of the year. But the sudden switching of plans on how to execute the economic rescue mission is exactly the kind of stuff that could lead to panic and hysteria in the markets.

What democracy is about

First of all, we should ask Mr. Paulson to pay the $150-200 mil. in taxes back, since his service to the country was not even worth the salary he received. Bush, Bernanke and Paulson should not make any press conferences until January 20th but as Obama's team gets slowly to the daylight, I do not have high hopes that anything will get better - but we need to give them credit for the first 100 days and if they do not perform as change requires, they should get to hear from the people what he promised on a daily basis. Democracy is not about voting once in 4 years and let the guys play, after all they are humans as everybody else. They do not posses more wisdom or intelligence as the people, nor has any ever run a country successfully so we can leave them alone with the job. Always remember the President serves the people not the other way round. The people can ask him to do what they want and he ought to do it. Remember how the whole thing started:

'No taxation without representation' - Mr. Bush did not work for the people - he worked for his sponsors- that attitude has to stop. Make sure Obama understands his promise and walks the talk - that is democracy.